“Oh fuck that was good…” Weiss quietly groaned, her whole body clenching again. It was nearly enough of a thrill to drive her to bite Val again, but all of the energy that had suddenly seized her when they’d neared the bed was now entirely spent. Distantly she knew that they’d started their day in such a way that she’d need to get herself a shower at some point, but no part of her body felt capable of that. Not yet.

This moment was about savoring.

“Uh… uh-huh…” Val quietly laughed, every breath slow, and heavy. “You just… attacked me… You’ve never been like that before… Must’ve put on some show during that walk, huh?”

“It must’ve been… some kind of… that thing… those things that you get when you move a lot…” Weiss murmured, very gently kissing at Val’s still very-marked neck. “I don’t… really do that kind of thing. Takes too much effort, and I get my kicks from… other things… usually…”

“Usually…” Val echoed Weiss’s word with greater emphasis, before she shifted enough to slide her fingers through Val’s short, white hair. “You were so wild… You were less like my Hypnotist and more like… my Beast…”

A loud whine came from deep in Weiss’s throat as she buried her face even more against her lover’s neck. “Your beast…” Her cheeks were burning so hot that if there were any nearby loose leaves of paper they might very well have caught fire. “I… I’m sorry that was… I’ve never felt like that before, not with anyone, I… I didn’t hurt you too much, did I…?”

Val very quietly hummed as she shook her head. Her caresses of Weiss’s hair became lower, gentler, and her other arm squeezed so tightly around her. “No, you didn’t… You did break the skin—” Weiss whimpered in a very small, shy apology. “—but it’s okay. You Didn’t really hurt me… even so… animal… you were still watching out for me. It’s all okay.

“I promise.”

Weiss let out a sigh of relief, and commenced slowly, softly, kissing at each and every spot that she could tell her mouth had met in less tender ways. Her cheeks weren’t burning any less red, but if she’d gone too far there was one person she trusted to draw her back.

If she promised that it was okay?

It was okay.

Even if I’m going to be extra gentle to your neck for at least a week…

“Okay… Okay. I’m glad…” Weiss let out a sigh of relief. Val laughed as Weiss began to kiss at the other side of her neck. “I have no idea how I’m ever going to stand again. Going rawr on you like that… I feel like I need to sleep for at least a year.”

“Well… good news!” Val shifted slowly, until Weiss found herself again on top of her lover who smiled sweetly up at her. “It’s early, and you don’t have anywhere you need to be today. I can cuddle with you until you fall asleep, and then the shower should be ready when you wake up again.”

Val gently booped Weiss’s nose with a single fingertip, causing the white-haired woman to scrunch up her face and quietly whine. “But that means I’ll miss out on shower time with you…”

“Is that a trigger that I don’t remember getting?” Val was only half serious, but that was still enough to make Weiss whine.

“No, no… I’m just being selfish. I don’t want to let you go, or to let you do anything without me. Lift your back.” Weiss slid her arms under Val’s arched back to pull her into a tight embrace. It was a lot less powerful than it would have been before their ferocious love making, but its warmth, and the intensity of the attempt, were perfectly clear. She nuzzled her way down into Val’s chest, and let her eyes fall shut. “Wanna hold you forever, and be with you forever, and… maybe bite you again forever if you enjoyed it…”

“Oh…” Val laughed quietly. “I enjoyed it… I enjoyed it a lot.”

Weiss peeked up at Val’s face with a single eye. “You sure…? It was… a lot of fun for me to let loose like that. I don’t know if I could… I don’t think I could make that happen on command, but…”

“But if we can figure out how then I’ll be pressing that button every week.” Val’s smile deepened. Weiss’s cheeks turned a deeper shade of red. “It was ferocious and… if you did go too far, I could have flipped you onto your back.”

Weiss huffed, and nuzzled a little more into Val’s chest. “Could noooooot…”

Val parted her lips, but silenced herself before whatever words might have escaped were let even half free. Instead, she leaned down and bent herself up enough to kiss Weiss’s hair. “You can let go like that, because we can trust each other. If I told you that I really needed you to stop, or that you were hurting me, you would. If it’s a scene we can use safewords, but when it’s just sex that comes out of nowhere… I don’t even think you’d need something dramatic as a safeword to bring you back to the moment.

“You were riding a runner’s high. You weren’t transformed into some sort of sexual werewolf.”

Weiss met Val’s eyes.

The moment held.

“Not this time, anyway. If that happens, we’ll need to talk.”

In perfect unison, both women began to laugh. It wasn’t a simple, light, fleeting little laugh either. It was a deep laugh of relief, of bliss, and of understanding. Weiss could feel accepted even for a part of herself that she hadn’t been aware was there. Val could feel how simple it was to communicate such deep, important emotions to a woman who meant so much to her and regularly brought her to earth shattering orgasms.

The two feelings were, roughly speaking, fairly equivalent.

“Do you need to do anything today?” Weiss’s voice was already a half-pout, ready to object.

Not that it stopped Val from giving her the honest answer.

“I do, I do… but nothing that means I need to leave until you fall asleep. Unless it takes another round of beast-sex, because I think I’d need another nap after that, too.” Val couldn’t help but smile a little more when Weiss whined and nuzzled into her breast. “You really are easy to embarrass about this. I don’t need to bring this up with anyone else, but I wonder what our friends would have to say about the fact that getting exercise turns you into an uncontrollable sex beast.”

“Nooooo…!” Weiss whined, and bit at Val’s breast.

Val gasped, and moaned as she collapsed back into the bed. Her body was still so hyper sensitive from being put through its paces, and such an intense touch, even if it wasn’t as raw as some of Weiss’s earlier bites, was still enough to send shudders of pleasure up and down her spine.

Weiss’s thighs clenched.

Her cheeks turned redder.

“Well at least I have a new way to win arguments in bed.”

Val’s reply was breathless, but with amusement instead of exasperation. “Like you needed one of those.”

Lips met lips as Weiss crawled her way up to kiss Val again, this time much deeper, and more soundly than before. It was the kind of kiss that went until one of them would need to go up for air, but instead they both shifted to breathing through their noses.

What eventually broke the kiss was so their lips could meet again for another kiss.

Val was exceedingly late for her plans for the rest of the day.