Winds of Connection Chapter 1

A/N: As promised, here is the first chapter of Winds of Connection as posted publicly elsewhere. And as a reminder, if characters are boinking, consider them being of age as a given. I'll post chapter 2 tomorrow.

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“Are you here to train with us? Where are you from? Who was that man with you? You good with a keyblade?”

“Ah... AHHHHHHHHH!”

If Aqua had to be honest about their conduct, maybe pestering the strange boy who was clearly struggling with a string of questions was a mistake. It wasn't fair to blame Terra. He couldn't have known. What this boy Ventus must have gone through to be in the state he was when they met him...

When Terra and Aqua had first started their training to wield the keyblade, they had been warned of the danger they would face. Even in training, it would not be an easy path for them to walk. It had proven true, not a week would go by without Master Eraqus warning Terra about the darkness held in his heart. Aqua faced less difficulty by comparison, but she knew if Terra could overcome his hardships, he would be even stronger for it.

What then, did that say about the boy Ventus? That during his training he had seemingly broken, becoming a shell of who he once was, with no memory of what came before. Master Xehanort, the man who brought him, he had said it was his own failure that led to Ventus' current condition. He had asked Master Eraqus to care for the boy, deeming himself unqualified to call himself Master after what happened to his student. Whether that was true, or if the man was being too hard on himself, Aqua didn't know. She just saw it as a tragedy and the important thing was to help the boy now. Help him recover, whatever that may take.

That isn't to say it would be easy. Ventus, whatever he was like before, he had become a shadow. He would say very little. Any questions about his past were of course avoided, but even simpler questions would get very little response, often just one word answers if he even gave an answer at all. And to say he was a shadow wasn't just figurative. Whenever he would see someone he would just start... following them. Wherever they would go he would be right behind them, watching whatever they did. Terra had found it creepy. Aqua thought it sad. It was like Ventus was trying to connect with people but didn't remember how. So he just... followed people, hoping something might happen.

Terra had heard her out on that theory and ran with it.

One day when Ventus inevitably followed them into the training hall, Terra had abandoned his routine half-finished, inviting Ventus to join them, even offering the boy the old practice keyblade Terra had carved himself.

“Train...?” Ventus asked, languidly looking from the crude wooden weapon in his hands to the older boy giving it to him.

“Yeah! We're training to be keyblade wielders, I thought maybe you'd want to join us!”

The boy stared at the wooden keyblade, brushing his fingers over Terra's name carved into the hilt. “... Okay.”

“Great!”

The two elder students watched over Ventus as he slowly got to grips with holding the keyblade, as he practiced his swings doing his best to imitate Terra and Aqua's movements. He seemed to grow frustrated and Aqua already knew why, approaching him as he grunted to punctuate his angry swings. It was the most emotion he'd shown since he'd arrived but even so, “Ventus?” she said as she gently placed a hand on his shoulder. He startled and backed away from her, eyes flicking back and forth. “It's okay, it's okay!” she soothed. “Can I help?”

“... Wrong,” he muttered.

She almost took it as a no. “You mean it feels wrong?” He nodded slowly, unsurely. “That makes sense. The keyblade, it's a weapon wielded from the heart, not the body. Terra's heart tells him to smash things as hard as he can–“

“Hey!”

She grinned as she continued, ignoring the protests of her fellow student. “My heart tells me to be more elegant. Master Eraqus is really rigid. Everybody's different! You see?” Her smile became more gentle as she asked, “So what's your heart telling you?”

“My... Heart...” he murmured, placing a hand on his chest. The wooden keyblade fell out of his hands as something stirred. With sparkling light, a keyblade appeared in his right hand. Aqua immediately understood why what he had been doing had felt wrong. Holding his keyblade in a reverse grip was a massive departure from what he had been trying. The keyblade itself was certainly odd too. The grip was misaligned from the blade, which itself had teeth that flared outward almost in the shape of a wing.

Aqua smiled, proud of his accomplishment. “See? Doesn't that feel– Woah!” She hopped out of the way as Ventus suddenly went on a tear, running a routine they had never seen before. He was fast, making wide, arcing swings with his blade. Well practiced, but also with a fear and frenzy that neither of the students had been expecting. He looked terrified, like he was experiencing something only he could see. Aqua wanted to help him, to calm him down but she couldn't get close! “Ventus! Ventus, it's okay!”

“Hah! Hah! Huh-hah!” he grunted as he swung away at some unseen enemy, eyes darting to and fro, switching directions as though fending off a whole group of enemies at once.

And then... “Huh... Huh... Huh...” he panted, dropping to his knees as his keyblade vanished, before fully succumbing to unconsciousness.

“Terra, go get Master Eraqus!” Aqua said as she ran over to the fallen boy.

“Got it!”

She flipped the blond over onto his back, saw his grimacing face even in his insensate state. She ran a hand over the boy's cheek. “It's okay... It's okay... Ventus, everything is going to be fine.” His expression eased a little, but it was clear he was still experiencing some torment she couldn't fathom.

As Master Eraqus arrived and took Ventus somewhere to rest, she couldn't stop herself wondering just what he had gone through before he arrived. But whatever it was, she reaffirmed her desire to help him through it!

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It had been a week since the incident. Aqua had hoped that once Ventus recovered he would have somehow regained some of his... Well, whatever he had lost. Sadly not. Whatever had happened, simply reclaiming his keyblade wasn't enough to overcome it. Ventus wasn't allowed to watch their personal training anymore. Master Eraqus had congratulated them on helping Ventus, said that what they had done would help the boy greatly in time. But he insisted on overseeing Ventus personally for the near future. Aqua understood. She certainly trusted her Master to help. She just wished she could do more.

But that was something to worry about tomorrow. For tonight, her only concern was getting to her special place where she could relax and wash away her stress.

She couldn't explain why she felt so drawn to the waterfall down the hill. There were perfectly serviceable showers in the castle. Perhaps it had something to do with how peaceful it was out here, closer to nature. Here it wasn't about the utility of getting clean, it was about relaxing, letting her stress flow away with the stream. She sighed peacefully as she let the cool water flow down her nude form, ignoring how her nipples stiffened in reaction to the cold as she swept her hands through her hair–

“A...qua...”

“Ah!” she squealed at the voice, hurrying to cover her most intimate places from the view of whoever said... that... “Ventus, what are you doing here?!”

The blond boy didn't respond, just cocking his head to the side, as though asking what she meant. Which, her thoughts reminded her as she curled up a bit to cover as much as she could, was a fair point. He followed her. It was what Ventus did. He followed people. “Ventus, you need to leave. You can't be here.”

Aqua wished she imagined it, the flicker of hurt that crossed his face at her dismissal. The rejection. She hadn't meant it that way but for a boy who followed people around, hoping to make connections – bonds – with people. It's what it would sound like. He would understand. One day, when he's better he'll–

Help him recover. Whatever that may take.

Darn it! “Ventus, wait!” she called out before the boy could leave. “You... You can stay, but, but promise you'll stay turned around, okay?!”

He gave her a serious look, which is to say, he looked at her like he always did, and nodded, turning his back to her.

Aqua sighed. This was not what she had in mind when she promised to help him. But it was fine. It wasn't like Ventus actively came down to watch her bathe. He just saw someone and wanted to bond with them. Heck, even while he was seeing her naked he didn't once break eye contact. It's more than she could expect from Terra if he'd caught her in this same compromising position.

Even so, Ventus' presence wasn't exactly helpful when she came down here to relax. Not when she felt the need to glance his way to make sure he wasn't peeking. She hated to phrase it like this but it wasn't like he was even all there to consider peeking. That didn't assuage her paranoia over washing with a boy present though. Her relaxation session ended early.

She towelled off, got dressed, and put a hand on Ventus' shoulder and turned him to face her. She crouched a little to lower herself to his level. “Ventus, you can't tell anyone about this, okay?”

He nodded, and the two of them walked back to the castle together.

A week later, she regretted that she had neglected to tell him not to follow her down again. “Ventus, why are you down here again?” she asked impatiently, one arm crossed over her breasts, the other covering her privates.

“Followed you.” His answer was... less than ideal. That he answered at all showed he was making progress. But that it was still overly literal and that he very much missed what bothered her about it said he still had a long way to go.

“Just... You shouldn't spy on naked girls, Ven.”

He looked perplexed for a moment, before he turned his back to her again, just like he had last time.

“Not really what I meant,” she muttered quietly, shaking her head as she returned to her bathing. Much as she was still twitchy about a boy being in close proximity during her personal time, she found herself actually trusting Ventus not to look this time. She even gave herself a little time to soak in the stream before going back.

Even so, as she walked him back to the castle she resolved to make it very clear what he was doing was bad. “Ventus, we need to talk about you following me down here.”

“Ven.”

“Huh?”

He looked up at her as they walked. “Call me Ven.”

Aqua was... very confused. “Uh, okay... Ven?”

He smiled.

… He smiled!

Somehow, seeing a smile on the boy's face for the very first time, Aqua forgot what she wanted to talk to him about.
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As the weeks went by, he situation only continued to evolve from there.

“So how are you feeling?”

At first innocent. Just trying to get Ven to open up more. Engaging him in conversation while she bathed.

“Okay, fine. It's weird talking to your back so I guess you can look. Not like it's anything you haven't seen anyway.”

Then she became more permissive with his behaviour. Rationalisations putting aside her hangups in the hopes that being more open would lead to him being more open.

Until finally...

“Hey, Ven, why don't you join me?” Aqua asked as she stood under the waterfall, utterly unconcerned, completely inured to her own nudity.

“Are you sure?” Ventus asked cautiously. While these trips to the waterfall were the highlight of his week for reasons he wasn't entirely clear on himself, he had also become aware that there were supposed to be boundaries. That those boundaries seemed to be falling away with every visit only served to confuse him more.

“Sure! It's not really fair that you're just standing around over there on your own. Come on in!”

The boy shrugged. “Okay!” and started removing and putting aside his clothes before joining his friend under the waterfall.

“Wow,” Aqua uttered despite herself, “You're gonna make a lucky girl very happy someday, Ven.”

“You're not happy?” Ventus asked with confusion as he began washing himself.

Aqua felt her face heat up. “That's not... I didn't... Never mind,” she turned away as she dismissed that line of conversation to hide her embarrassment. Did she really just make such a suggestive comment? What was she doing?! This was supposed to be about helping him recover, not ogling him!

“Okay,” he said with a shrug as he continued washing himself. Though for some reason he felt his eyes drawn in Aqua's direction. He didn't know what had changed recently but he liked looking at her, especially during moments like this where she wasn't wearing any clothes. He had become more aware of her recently, of the shape of her body. As she stood on the edge of the waterfall, he tracked a droplet of water running down her shoulderblade, following the contours of her back and down over the lovely curve of her butt.

Lovely. Why was it lovely? He didn't know. But he very much liked it. He wanted to touch it–

And so he found it a very pleasant surprise when it touched him, and he noticed another unexpected change in himself this time.

Huh. That was new. It wasn't usually that hard.

Aqua, meanwhile was turning to face him again, mouth open to ask a question. When as she turned, she felt her buttocks brush against something. Something long, warm and very hard. “Ahh?!” she gasped as she felt it, her eyes instinctively flicking down to see–

… Yup. That was his thing. His very hard and much bigger thing. His thing that had probably risen to the occasion thanks to her presence and nudity. A part of her mind used to treating this as a sort of therapy for Ventus noted that his getting an erection was probably a very good sign! And as outwardly she maintained a fragile smile, inwardly every other part of her was screaming in that first part's face.

“Okay, I think I'm done for today!” she said faux cheerily as she marched her way out of the stream and towards her clothes.

“Huh? Don't you want to relax and soak like usual?” Ventus asked.

“Nnnnnope! One-hundred percent relaxed right now! Yup! Toootally stress-free!” she lied through her teeth as she gathered up her clothes.

“Aren't you going to towel off first?”

“Nope! Bye Ventus! See you in training!”

The very confused boy watched her as she went, even more confused when she only bothered to dress when she was halfway up the hill. “Huh. Weird.” Curiously, he poked at the now hard protrusion just below his abdomen, wondering what it was about. It did feel really good when she brushed against it...
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“Ven...” Aqua greeted, grimacing as he met her outside the stream. This time she hadn't collected him like she had started doing recently. Even so, he had gone back to old habits.

And followed her.

“Hey, Aqua! You ready?” he asked cheerfully.

No. No she was not. She was confused and she didn't know how to handle being around Ventus, let alone in the kind of charged situation they were about to enter. She needed to... “Ven, we should talk.”

Ventus shrugged. “Okay,” he agreed as he pulled his shirt up–

“No no, I mean talk first,” she insisted, pulling his shirt back down. “We need to talk about what happened last time.”

“What do you mean?” he asked, honestly not knowing what she was referring to.

“When your... thing got hard and I touched it.”

He stared at her blankly before realisation set in. “Oh! That! Yeah, that felt really good. Can we do that again?”

“Ah! Ven! You can't just–!” Aqua was scandalised. But then... A worrying thought crept to the forefront of her mind. “Ven, you... do know what your thing is for, right?”

“Obviously,” he answered, rolling his eyes and unknowingly setting aside Aqua's fears. “It's for going to the bathroom.”

And like the tide, those fears rolled right back in. “Ven, do you know what sex is?”

In response to the seriousness of her tone, Ven decided that, “Uh, yeah! I mean... Of course I know what that is.”

As she held her forehead in her hands, the blue-haired girl lamented that promise she made herself all those months ago. Well, in for a penny, and she'd put a whole lot more than pennies into this already. “Okay, get undressed. I have to teach you some things.” It was strange, perhaps, that she never considered someone else, like Master Eraqus, might be more willing or better suited to this. The thought honestly never occurred to her, even after it all went far further than she expected.

What followed was very much a departure from what these nights usually consisted of. Aqua gave Ventus a crash course on a woman's body and how it worked, what the different parts did, and yes, what his parts did.

Over the course of the lecture, Ventus drew three conclusions.

One. He didn't care breasts were there for babies. He really liked them. Especially Aqua's.

Two. Aqua didn't like it when he tried to touch her lady parts without permission.

Three. He did like it when she touched his penis. And his balls.

“So do you have any questions?” Aqua asked. At first she had been nervous but once she slapped away his wandering hands she had become more confident. Once again, he was just kind of ignorant about things and she was fixing that.

“So sex is supposed to feel really good,” he repeated to clarify.

“So I'm told.”

“And you're supposed to do it with people you really care about.”

“... That's right.”

“So... Can we?”

… She had known it was coming. That he would ask something like that. Even so, she wished she were more prepared with a good answer. She knew he found her attractive. And if she were being entirely honest with herself, the first time she saw him naked she knew she felt the same about him. Even so... He was still recovering, wasn't he? It would be taking advantage of him. She didn't want to hurt him like that.

“I don't know.” It wasn't a good answer. It also felt like an irresponsible answer.

Ventus frowned as he took it in, but then smiled. “Okay.” She didn't know so she hadn't decided yet! He would wait for her to figure it out!

“Thank you, Ven,” she kissed him on the forehead. “So, let's relax now, okay?” As she sat herself down in the stream she tilted her head back. Yes. Relax. After the past half hour, she needed to.

“Mm!” Ventus grunt wasn't of agreement. And if the way he was clutching at himself, it seemed to be one of pain.

Aqua was up in an instant. “Ven, are you okay?!” she asked, worried.

“Mm... Mm-hm!” he grunted out, “This happened before. Last time. It hurt for a while but it went away.”

Oh. Oh shoot, Aqua had heard of this. How it was painful for some boys if they got excited but didn't finish. So Ventus went through that a week before and was going through it again right there in front of her?

Well... If... If it were to relieve pain... That wasn't bad, right? That would be okay. “Ven, come over here, sit on this rock, okay?” She led him over and lowered him down on the boulder and sat herself down behind him, legs splayed out to either side of his. “Don't worry, I'm going to take care of it,” she promised as she wrapped a hand firmly around his shaft.

“Ah, Aqua!” Ventus gasped as he felt her breasts, her firm nipples press into his back, the slight warmth emanating from her core, and her hand slowly working its way up and down his penis.

“Sh-sh-sh!” she shushed him, “Don't worry, I'm going to take care of you,” she whispered softly in his ear.

Ventus panted as her hand continued to work. He had nothing to compare it to, no way to know how inexperienced Aqua was with things like this. All he knew was the feeling of bliss she was giving him as she touched him in ways he had never been touched before. His own inexperience meant he was quickly feeling a new pleasant pressure, that something was coming. As her other hand came around to caress his balls, as she pressed herself further into him so he could feel the fullness of her breasts, he felt that pressure release.

“Hngh!” he grunted as jets of white sprayed out of his penis, splattering into the water of the stream to be washed away. “Ha... ha... ha...”

“Wow, that was a lot!” Aqua noted. Not that she had much frame of reference but it certainly looked like a lot. “Are you feeling better?”

“Yeah...” Ventus sighed out. “Thanks, Aqua. That felt amazing...”

As she pulled her hand away from him, she inspected the sticky, white fluid on her hands. For some reason she felt tempted to taste it but shook the thought away. “Don't mention it.”

Yes. This was fine. Nothing had changed. She was just helping him. That was all.

Nothing had changed.
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Everything had changed.

It was as though that one act of caring for a friend had opened the floodgates. Every time Aqua and Ventus went down to the waterfall they would end up engaging in some sexual act. At first it was simple. Ventus would become aroused and Aqua would convince herself she should take care of it so he wouldn't suffer any pain. Never considering he could easily take care of it himself.

Then it occurred to her that she should ask him to return the favour. After all, it was only polite that if she gave him pleasure, he should give her pleasure. And so Ventus was given the privilege of touching her. Running his hands over her legs, teasing her breasts, suckling on her nipples. Finally sliding his fingers over her slick lower lips, then sliding them in and feeling the wonderful heat of a woman. As a result, he got hard again and so began an evening of mutual stimulation.

Another night, Aqua would finally give in to the temptations of that one unruly part of her mind and taste Ventus' seed. Finding it not unpleasant, she let him play with her body until he got hard again, and decided to try something new.

“Aqua, what are you doing?” Ventus asked as the beautiful girl knelt between his legs.

“I just want to try something.” she said as her hand slowly stroked him. Taking a breath to steady herself, she lowered her lips over the head...

Ventus eyes rolled back in his head as he seemed to collapse backwards with a groan.

Aqua decided to take that as approval, smiling around his pole as she tried to work it with her mouth the same way she did with her hand, sliding her lips up and down.

“Ah!” Ventus suddenly yelped.

“What?!” she asked, worried she had done something wrong.

“T-Teeth,” he stammered out.

Oh. “Sorry,” she apologised contritely, getting back into it, doing her best to watch what she did with her teeth. Aside from that one little misstep she found doing this wasn't so bad. Better than using her hand alone. With it in her mouth she could feel every twitch, every reaction to every bit of stimulus. How his hips would try to thrust upwards when she stopped moving. Feel the blood pumping furiously through his member. How it stiffened even further as it prepared to release–

… Uh-oh.

“Hngh!” His hips thrust upward, pushing his member deeper into her mouth than she had ever taken it, all while his hand came up on top of her head and tried to pull her down! “Glrk! Glrk! Glrk!” she choked as the head prodded the back of her throat!

“Hnnnnn!” Ventus groaned as his release finally took him, pressing her down into his crotch, forcing her to take all of his seed into her mouth. Trails of white dribbled out of the corners even as the majority of the load left her throat backed up, forcing some to explode out of her nose.

As his release came to an end, Ventus relaxed with a sigh, releasing Aqua's head and flopping bonelessly to the floor. Or he did until his penis was released from Aqua's mouth and she coughed and spluttered out a wad of semen. “Oh, man! Aqua are you okay?! I'm so, so sorry!”

She waved him away even as she snorted like a bull to clear her sinuses of spunk. “I'm fine,” she croaked out. He really lost control there! She must be too good at blowjobs she decided. Best to be cautious with doing that in future.
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“In your hand, take this key. So long as you have the makings, then through this act of taking–“ Aqua recited in an attempt at a deep voice.

“I thought it was cool, okay?!” Ventus pouted as he held the wooden keyblade Terra had officially given him, along with a mock inheritance ceremony.

“It was super corny, Ven,” Aqua denied, giggling to herself which did wonderful things to her naked breasts, working wonders for dousing Ventus' irritation. “Still, it was a nice gesture. Hey, you remember way back when, when he lent it to you to practice with?”

“Not really...” he admitted. A lot of things from back then were fuzzy. Especially that day. He only knew what happened because Master Eraqus told him after he woke up.

“You've come a long way since then, Ven,” she told him, smiling warmly. The genuine affection in that look made him feel... strange. In a good way. “I'm glad you're here with us. If you're feeling angry or frustrated, just come to us. We care about you a lot.”

Ventus looked down at his knees. A very particular phrase. And one that had been stuck in his mind for a long time. “I care about you a lot too, Aqua.” This was his moment, he decided. It was time to lay it all out. “Aqua... I've been thinking. We've been doing a lot of stuff these past few weeks and... It's been a lot of fun! So I was wondering, since I care about you and... you care about me... could we–“

He felt her fingertips on his chin as they guided him to look in her direction. And as he did, her eerie, crystal blue eyes were there to meet him, closer than he'd ever seen them. Her lips were on his. He felt her body press into his arm but the only thing he could focus on was the softness of those lips as they molded to his. He felt them smile before she pulled back, just slightly out of reach. “Aren't you going to kiss me back?” she asked in a whisper.

It was all the permission he needed as he fully turned towards her and chased down her soft lips. She giggled at his eagerness, circling her arms around his neck as he picked her up and settled her on his lap. They both knew what was coming. They were both ready, both eager. But the building anticipation of drawing it out was as sweet as expressing their mutual affection with something so simple as a kiss.

Even so, the rush of it, the building passion needed an outlet. “Are you ready?” Aqua asked, getting a shaky nod, in return. “Try to hold on, okay?” She had heard about first times being quick. She wanted this to last, to have time to enjoy it.

The beautiful blue-haired girl raised her hips, her blond lover sliding himself forward to the edge of his perch. She took his length in hand, lining it up to her entrance and, “Mhmmm!” lowering herself slowly onto it.

Aqua caught her lip between her teeth at the intrusion. Her head rolled back while she adjusted to him. To his size. And as he felt her soft, wet tightness enclose around his shaft, he felt overwhelming pleasure. But as he watched Aqua lean back, as he saw the glow of her pale skin under the moonlight, the shimmering blue of her eyes as she smiled back at him... All he could think about was just how beautiful she was. And just how lucky he was.

He leaned up and pulled her in for another kiss as he gave her time to adjust. It was just as well, that first moment was almost enough to overwhelm him. But he wanted this to last, to have time to enjoy it. Her tongue escaped from between her lips and sought out his, another connection between them as Aqua's hips slowly started to move. Not rise. Just shift and gyrate as she catalogued the new sensations she was experiencing.

In the privacy of his own mind, Ventus resolved to let her go at her own pace. He would let her go as fast or as slow as she wanted. Tease him as much as she wanted. Come just to the edge of pleasure as much as she–

Nope.

Grabbing a handful of her rear, he lifted her up, causing her to gasp into his mouth. The other hand went to the small of her back to guide her movements. His lips pulled away from hers and settled on a hardened nipple at the exact right height for him to toy with using his tongue.

It might not have been what she would have chosen but Aqua couldn't argue with the results as she succumbed to the new pleasure she was enjoying. The repeating, stretching fullness of his thrusting into her, his strong hands moving her, guiding her to ecstasy, his lips on her breast, an intimacy she had shared with no one else. “Yes! Ven! It's so good!”

“Aqua!” Ventus cried in turn, picking up his pace, meeting her downward thrusts with his own upward thrusts, the only sounds the waterfall and the wet smack of the two lovers' flesh meeting in a frenzied, passionate lovemaking.

“Ven, I'm close!” Aqua squealed, into his ear, her movements only getting more frantic as her orgasm approached.

“I'm–“ Ventus grunted. No! He'd come too far to falter now! Just a little longer!

“Just a little more!” Aqua panted, her words unknowingly echoing his own thoughts.

In desperation, Ventus flipped their positions, pressing Aqua into the ground and began ramming himself home with everything he had.

“Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!”

“Aqua!”

“Ven! I– Ahhhhh!” she squealed as her release hit her like a freight train, her walls tightening so hard on Ventus that he could no longer move, just let the extra pressure take him over the edge as his own release followed hers. He felt like he was letting out more in that moment than he had in all the times the two of them had been enjoying each other.

As the endorphin high evened out, as the rush of their combined climax ebbed, the two lovers were left just looking at each other. Neither could hold back their smile. Neither of them were quite sure what this was. But it was theirs. No one else's.

They were connected. They shared a bond that nothing would ever break.