Leather And Lace Part 13

"Relax, Kris." Granny smiled. "It doesn't bother me that the two of you openly show affection for one another." She rea.s.sured her.

The anxiety Kris felt left at the sincerity of their friend's voice and words. "Beef stroganoff." She answered and leaned back into the solidness of the body firmly holding her.

"Just make sure you keep it at a PG-13 rating. Getting overly excited at my age is detrimental to my well being." She shook her finger at the two lovebirds.

"Guess that means you'll be canceling the Playboy Channel then." Raven kidded her.

Granny turned several shades of red. "How'd you know about that?"

Raven chuckled. "Remember I watered your plants and borrowed your washer and dryer while you were gone a couple of months ago?" Granny nodded. "I watched television while I waited on the clothes. I can't believe how many channels that satellite dish gets."

"I guess trying to deny watching it wouldn't work?" The grey-haired woman tried for a sound of innocence in her voice. Kris had leaned against the counter with her arms crossed in front of her chest, getting a kick out of someone else being embarra.s.sed for a change and Raven raised an eyebrow. "Guess that would be a no." Granny said.

Last night over dinner, the two women found out that Granny wouldn't be at all opposed to moving. She was very flattered that the new couple would want her under foot, but she made it very clear that she would not accept a free ride. She had even agreed to go on some of the house hunting trips next week.

Kris finished her shower deep in thought. She and Raven were meeting Colonel Albright for lunch, Kris had insisted on the meeting after learning that the Captain had gotten her a.s.s chewed for removing her from the protection of the Secret Service. She was going to make it perfectly clear that it was her idea to leave with Raven and that she would have followed on her own if she had been left behind.

"We need to get going if we're going by the computer store before lunch." Raven opened the door and stuck her head in the bathroom to see her naked mate stepping out of the shower.

Kris tossed the towel she was drying her hair with in the hamper. "Bout ready. Give me five more minutes." She turned back towards the mirror only to find herself trapped by strong arms. "If you don't stop that, we won't make it to the store before lunch." She nevertheless abandoned herself to the feelings Raven's lips created in her neck, which sent sparks to points south.

Raven relented and released her prey after a few more nips. "You got five minutes, Sagira." She left the bathroom, but not before delivering a swift pat to the rear end of her lover.

"Ow!" Kris rubbed her b.u.t.t. "Retribution's a b.i.t.c.h." She yelled out to her laughing companion.

"Oh, I'm counting on it." She replied in a low throaty growl that sent s.h.i.+vers down and back up the young woman's spine.

The computer store offered a variety of machines and printers in a variety of prices. They not only bought Kris a brand new laptop; Raven also sprung for a new more powerful desktop model for herself. Of course that meant that she could also run the new games that had been too much for her old system to handle. Kris spent the next 30 minutes talking to the young salesman while Raven pondered and finally selected two games. They left the store, instructing them to deliver their purchases later that afternoon and headed for their lunch date with the Colonel.

Walking into the restaurant, Raven spotted her boss sitting at a back booth and guided her companion in that direction. "Kris, this is Colonel Albright."

"Pleasure to meet you." He stood and lightly shook her hand. "Please have a seat."

"Thank you, Colonel." Kris said politely but stiffly as she slid into the vinyl-covered bench, moving against the wall to allow Raven room to sit next to her.

"Call me Sam." He insisted as the waitress handed menus to the new comers.

They quickly glanced over the selections and placed their order. Kris barely gave the waitress time to get out of earshot before she opened fire on the unfortunate man sitting across the table from her. "I'd like to make a few things clear, Colonel." She hurried on before he could correct her. "One, I was not removed, I'm here because I choose to be. Two, I feel safer with the Captain than I would with anybody else. Three, I'm an adult and I'm not going to be sent back like some runaway child. So don't you dare blame any of this on Raven." She stared defiantly at the Colonel.

Sam looked at his Captain, noticing the stunned expression on her face that confirmed his belief that she had no prior knowledge of this little outburst. He slowly and deliberately wiped his mouth with his napkin before neatly folding it and placing it on the table. "Are you quite through?" He questioned in a subdued tone.

Kris swallowed audibly and held Raven's hand that was resting on the bench between them, intertwining their fingers. "Yes." She answered, hoping her voice was steady and not revealing the fact that she was scared she might have gone too far.

"Give me a little credit, I can see that you wish to be here. And if I needed protection, my first choice would also be the Captain here, I can't think of anyone better. And I have no intention of trying to force you to return, as you said, you're an adult. As for any disciplinary action against her." He paused, cleared his throat and turned his attention towards Raven. "I've a.s.signed you as her," he pointed towards Kris and grinned, "personal bodyguard. I think that's punishment enough." He sat back with a playful smirk on his face.

Raven started laughing and Kris looked from her companion to the Colonel and back. "I think I've been had." She chuckled.

"Not by me." Raven a.s.sured her. "I can safely say that I'm totally ignorant in regards to this entire conversation."

"I didn't decide on this until last night." Sam explained. "And as far as The Division's concerned, you're on vacation." He told Raven. "The fewer people that know of Kris' whereabouts, the better."

After they ate they stood outside the restaurant and talked a few more minutes while the Colonel waited on his car and driver, which appeared at the curb along with honking horns and squealing tires. The driver had darted across several lanes of traffic and into the restricted lane, cutting off a Metro bus in the process.

"I think I'd get a new driver if I were you." Kris commented.

"He is new." The Colonel looked skyward and shook his head.

Raven leaned over and looked into the pa.s.senger window to gaze at the driver. "Sergeant Hardly." She mumbled and straightened as he hurried around to open the door for the Colonel.

The Sergeant quickly removed the silly grin that had appeared on his face at seeing Kris and stood at attention as he opened the car door. He slammed the door and tipped his hat at the two women before he rushed back around the car and resumed his position behind the wheel. He pulled back into traffic with more horns and a few shouts from irate drivers at the blue sedan that cut them off.

"You think they'll make it back in one piece?" Kris asked as she watched the red taillights disappear down the street.

"They'll be okay but I'm not so sure about everybody else. I'm glad we're headed in the opposite direction." They turned as one and started walking. "You up for a little exercise since its stopped raining?" Raven tilted her head down to look at her companion.

"Sure." Kris nodded her head and they continued past the bus stop heading north along Fifth Avenue.

Kris buzzed in the delivery people from the computer store and instructed them to take the elevator to the fifth floor. She had waited for them while Raven had gone down to help Granny re-hang a fallen curtain. She opened the door to the apartment when she heard the elevator and was surprised to see the salesman accompanying them.

"h.e.l.lo, Kris. I thought you might need some help setting up the system." He explained while she signed the invoice. The brown coverall clad men finished stacking the boxes, retrieved their clipboard and headed down the hall towards the stairs.

"Thanks...Mark." Kris hesitated a second before she came up with the young man's name. "But I'm sure we'll be able to handle it."

"Oh...okay. But you can call if you or your sister have any questions or anything." He looked down at his feet nervously. "Would you, ah, be interested in going out to dinner or maybe a movie with me?" He glanced back up hopefully.

"Uh, Mark that's nice of you, but she's not my sister, she's my..." Raven entering interrupted Kris.

"Oh good." She leaned over and lightly kissed Kris on the lips before continuing towards the stacked cartons. "The goodies are here." She ignored the blus.h.i.+ng young man as she started opening boxes.

As soon as she closed the door behind Mark, Kris walked over to where Raven sat cross-legged on the floor surrounded by cables, packaging and computer parts. She knelt down behind her companion and put her arms around her neck. "It was nice of you to let him bow out gracefully." She kissed her on the cheek. "You, ah, do know what you're doing, don't you?" Kris asked as she regarded the mess that was scattered out on the floor. "I could probably catch Mark before he got too far."

"Ha, ha, very funny." Raven tried to look hurt. "I'll have you know that I can read the instruction manual just as well as anybody." She stuck her tongue out at her companion and was surprised when Kris caught it lightly between her teeth. "Don't damage that." Raven said when Kris let go of her prisoner. "I've got plans for it later tonight." She wiggled her eyebrows.

Fingers kept a steady rhythm, lightly drumming on the desktop. 'So, she's back and she brought the girl with her. How considerate of her.' A vengeful smile spread across a surly face. 'I'll have to completely rework my plan, but I think I can use this to my advantage. Bring down The Division and get rid of a certain Captain along the way.'

The following Wednesday found Granny visiting her friend in the hospital and Raven and Kris meeting the real-estate agent at her office. She called just after breakfast telling them of a brand new listing that she thought might fit their requirements. The property located just north of Woodinville on a private drive accessed off a dead end street was seventy acres of mostly woodland with a small lake. The house was located on a small rise of land and was a rambling two-story grey stone structure with a three-car single-story garage built of the same grey stone connected to the eastside of the house. Several hundred yards behind and to the east of the garage was what sold them before they even saw the inside of the house, a small one level two bedroom cottage that would be perfect for Granny.

The main house was bigger than they needed. Four bedrooms and two baths upstairs, the downstairs contained a dining room, a huge kitchen, a study, a small room with built-in floor to ceiling bookcases, a half bath and a living room with a stone fireplace that took up practically an entire wall. A finished bas.e.m.e.nt the size of half the ground floor of the house was located at the bottom of a staircase accessed by a door in the kitchen. At the back of the house was a wooden deck, accessed from the breakfast nook in the kitchen. It was large enough to hold a table, a gas grill and several deck chairs. A set of wooden stairs led up to a smaller deck area that was also accessed from a set of French doors located in the master bedroom.

"We'll take it." Raven announced after the tour was complete.

Kris stared at her companion but spoke to the agent. "Excuse us a minute." She pulled Raven into the corner of the deck. "Are you crazy?"

"What? You don't like it?" The Captain drew her eyebrows together. She thought Kris had been just as taken with the house as she had been.

"I love it. But did you even look at the price? It's too much."

"I thought you did, yes I did and no it's not." She turned and walked over to the agent. "How long before we can move in?"

"Well, you'll need to make an offer and I'll need to take it back to the seller, then get back to you."

Raven interrupted. "I'll pay what they're asking."

"Oh, okay. Well then, a month or two should do it. That will depend on the credit check and whether or not you finance through a bank or Mortgage Company." The agent was about to continue her explanation when she was interrupted again.

"What if I give you a cas.h.i.+ers check?" She wrapped her arm around Kris' shoulders as she joined them.

"Excuse me?" The agency that Sue worked for always made it a point to run a check on prospective buyers before sending their agents out to meet them, just to make sure that they weren't meeting weirdoes in lonely empty places. Sue wondered if they might have missed something on these two. "For the entire amount?" She knew her eyes were about to pop out of their sockets but there was no way she could hide her shock.

"Yes." Raven glanced at Kris who was trying hard not to laugh at the startled, confused and wary expression that was on the agent's face.

"I, ah, don't know. I've never heard of anyone paying cash for a house. I'll need to talk to my boss." She explained as she unconsciously backed away from them and dug in her briefcase for her cell phone.

After a short conversation with her boss, in which she was a.s.sured that Ms Chandler was not some kind of wacko, she hung up and smiled sheepishly at the two women. "The boss said as soon as the papers are signed and the seller has the check, it's yours."

They had taken Granny out and given her a tour of the house a few days after they signed the papers. She had been speechless upon seeing the house that was to be hers. Several days later they were still arguing over how much she was going to pay for rent. Raven didn't want her to pay anything; Granny wanted to pay more than she was paying now. They were both being incredibly stubborn and Kris didn't know whether to give them boxing gloves or try to mediate a settlement.

The three women ended up spending a pleasant Thanksgiving at the apartment even after the phone call Kris placed to her family. An upbeat cheerful conversation with her father and sister, with a promise from Viv to visit soon, but the refusal by her mother and brother to even talk to her, upset her more than she cared to admit.

The following week they would start moving into their new place, which meant Kris was dragging Raven to every furniture store in town. Raven had told her that she could decorate the house anyway she wanted, but Kris knew her companion just didn't want to go.

"So if I put orange s.h.a.g carpet with red beanbag chairs in the living room, you won't complain?" Kris had innocently asked one afternoon when Raven tried to back out of going. "You wouldn't?" Raven had countered, but had ended up going even though they were heading across the lake to Bellevue. The traffic on 520 always put Raven in a bad mood but she gritted her teeth and refused to take her foul temper out on Kris. She actually surprised herself and her companion by contributing to the selections bought that day. Several days and furniture stores later, they had just one room left to fill, the library. Raven told Kris that she could fill it with anything from first editions to romance or comic books to erotica. The young woman accepted the challenge on one condition; they would sit in the living room in front of a roaring fire every night and take turns reading to one another until they finished every book on every shelf. Raven promised and told her to buy enough books to last the next 60 or 70 years.

Kris still wondered if she would have had the courage to buy such hideous looking furnis.h.i.+ng.

Two weeks before Christmas, the minor inside re-modeling was finished, the new furniture had been delivered and the three women had settled into their new homes.

Raven surprised Kris with an eight-foot Christmas tree and box after box of decorations for the house and tree. It took an entire afternoon but by the time the sun dipped below the tree line, Kris leaned back into the tall warm body behind her as Raven's arms circled her stomach and shoulders. Both stood in silence as they admired the multi-colored lights twinkling and reflecting off the many different sized and colored b.a.l.l.s that hung from the branches of their first Christmas tree.

"Why don't I go warm up the leftovers, you go get Granny and we can have dinner. Then we can sit in front of the tree with some eggnog and tell each other our most embarra.s.sing Christmas stories." She peered up and over her shoulder.

Raven leaned down and kissed the grinning lips. "I talked to her earlier, she said she was going to make it an early night. I think she's still p.o.o.ped after all the unpacking." She wiggled her eyebrows. "Or she's being polite and trying to give us some time alone." She turned Kris in her arms and rested them across the shorter woman's shoulders. "You fix the food and I'll bring the presents in and put them under the tree."

Kris put her hands on her hips as she backed away and gave Raven a severe scowl. "You promised me you wouldn't get me anything. Not with all this." She held out her arms and turned in a circle meant to include the house, car, computer, furniture and everything else.

"All of this." Raven moved closer to her upset companion. "Is ours." She placed her palms against Kris' cheeks and tilted her face up. "I promise I didn't go overboard. I just wanted you to have a few things under the tree." She kissed Kris' forehead and pulled her into a hug. "Besides, I never had much of a Christmas when I was growing up, mother always had to work and we didn't have much money for presents and things. And lately, except for Granny and John, I haven't been close enough to anybody to buy presents for or spend time with, so indulge me. Please?" Raven thought about the one gift she had for Kris that she hadn't bought, a ring that her father's mother had given her before she died. Being the oldest girl she had meant that it should automatically pa.s.s to her by way of her mother. But her grandmother hadn't trusted Raven's mother to give her the ring, so she had called an eight-year-old into the hospital when the old woman had known she was dying and presented it to her. She had explained to the wide-eyed child that it had been pa.s.sed down from mother to daughter or daughter-in-law for so long that no one remembered where it had come from or how old it was.

"Oh all right." 'Makes me feel better about the few things I got her.' Kris looked up and rested her chin above her companion's breast and lost herself in the sparkling blue eyes for a long minute. "I can't deny you anything when you plead with me like that."

"Glad to know that. It might come in handy some time." Like the next time Kris was teasing her with a promise of a climax then backing off and denying her the release she so desperately needed. Which brought thoughts of the night before to mind. Which in-turn reminded her of one of the gifts she had picked up today from a little store on 2nd Avenue, which she still had to wrap. 'Mm, maybe I'll make that an early present.'

"What are you thinking about? You've got the strangest smile on your face." Kris asked with a wary tone.

Raven ignored the question. "I thought you where going to get dinner? I happen to be starving." She squeezed Kris' b.u.t.t and crushed her companion's hips to her thigh while leaning down and capturing an earlobe with her mouth. After several minutes of very stimulating attention she abruptly let go and turned the smaller body around. With a pat to her b.u.t.t she gently pushed the young woman towards the kitchen and whispered to a very aroused Kris. "Dinner."

Raven chuckled and headed upstairs to retrieve the wrapped presents. After a couple of trips she had them arranged under the tree then headed back upstairs and into their bedroom to prepare the gift she had bought today that was as much for her as it was for Kris. She had just finished arranging it when her partner called her down to eat. Raven decided that Kris would 'unwrap' the gift after dinner while they relaxed on the floor in the living room in front of a roaring fire.

Every once-in-awhile Kris would catch Raven with a self-satisfied grin on her face and by the time the relatively quick dinner was over she had to find out what was going on. "Okay spill-it, Taz. You've been grinning like the Ches.h.i.+re Cat through the entire meal and twitching in your chair like you've got ants or something in your pants." She stated as she sat down behind Raven who was kneeling in front of the fire she had just started and handed her friend the cup of eggnog that she had promised earlier.

Raven took the cup and drained half of it before she looked over her shoulder at her lover and raised an eyebrow. "Or something." She replied then turned back to face the fire.

"What do you mean, 'or something'?" Her brow furrowed with confusion as Raven finished the remainder of the eggnog, put her cup down, stood up and slowly turned around.

The blinking lights on the tree and the fire that was consuming the logs provided the only illumination in the room so that when Raven turned from the fire and closed the small distance between them she was shrouded in shadows. She stopped less than a foot in front of where Kris sat cross-legged on the floor. "You said ants or something, it's or something." She said in a quiet, controlled voice.

Kris' face still showed confusion as she looked up at the tall figure that stood so close to her she could smell her partner's unique scent. Comprehension quickly dawned on her as she also recognized the smell of desire that radiated from Raven. Her eyes tracked down the body of her lover and stopped at her crotch that was just about at eye level and saw the bulge that pushed against the b.u.t.tons of her jeans. Kris unconsciously licked her lips and grinned. "What do we have here?" She ran her hands slowly up Raven's thighs. "Is this for me?" She asked as she got to her knees and leaned her b.u.t.t back on her heels.

Raven's hips moved forward several inches at the seductive tone and the feel of Kris' hands on her legs. "Guess you'll just have to unwrap it and see." Her voice was thick with desire. The harness was equipped with a smaller d.i.l.d.o that fit into the wearer as well as the larger cylindrical d.i.l.d.o that was intended for one's partner, so Raven had to contend with the teasing movement all through dinner.

Kris roughly grabbed Raven's pants and unb.u.t.toned them, then pulled them down the length of her legs until they pooled around her ankles. She licked her suddenly dry lips and she looked at the medium sized purple d.i.l.d.o that was made from a very pliable rubbery substance. She noticed that this particular one hadn't been made to resemble a man's appendage like the others that she had seen. She had been making use of their recently acquired satellite dish and the adult film channels. Kris ran her fingers up and down the slick shaft before she wrapped her hand around it and continued her stroking. She knew the friction was having an effect on Raven when she heard the moan from her companion. "You like that, uh?" She curiously asked.

"G.o.ds yes." She placed her hands on Kris' shoulders for balance and explained while she still could talk coherently; about the smaller end and that it pleasured both of them at the same time.

"So when I pull and push on it, like this." She exaggerated her stroking. "You feel it inside you?" She grinned at the guttural moan that escaped from Raven. "That answered my question."

"Ugh." Raven's eyes shot open. "Are you trying to kill me?"

Kris ignored the question; correctly a.s.suming it was a rhetorical one. "Take your s.h.i.+rt off, love, I want to see all of you." She commanded as she unb.u.t.toned and removed hers along with her bra. Her eyes never left Raven's chest as the sweats.h.i.+rt her companion was wearing was pulled off. She wasn't wearing a bra much to Kris' delight. She helped Raven step out of her pants that where still pooled around her ankles, then moved her eyes up until she was staring into blue ones that seemed to turn violet. She took the accessory into her mouth and sucked down the length of it before drawing it in again, while her hands traveled up her lover's stomach and occupied themselves with her b.r.e.a.s.t.s.

Raven tossed her s.h.i.+rt to the couch then watched in fascination as her lover's mouth stroked the toy. She let out a sensual moan as she felt the corresponding movement within her from Kris' actions. She rested her hands on Kris' shoulders as she gently rocked her hips in time with Kris' activity. "G.o.ds, Sagira, if you don't stop," she paused and licked dry lips, "I'm gonna come." Her head was thrown back and her hips were starting to move faster and faster.

Kris removed her mouth but continued playing with Raven's nipples. "And that would be a bad thing?" She asked, clearly puzzled by the statement.

Raven's eyes tracked to her companion's. "No, but I want to be inside you when I do, love."

"Ah." Kris slowly raised her body to a standing position. "I can live with that." She kept up her manipulation of Raven's b.r.e.a.s.t.s, kneading them, then pinching nipples between her thumb and forefinger.

Raven decided she needed to regain control of this encounter. She pulled the smaller body into hers and captured Kris' lips. Her tongue demanded entry into her companion's mouth and wasted no time in claiming the area as hers. She released Kris' mouth and quickly lowered her head to seize the young woman's breast. She alternated between the two, first suckling then biting and stretching the nipple out then letting go.

"Oh G.o.d." Kris moaned at the treatment of her b.r.e.a.s.t.s. She shook her head no when Raven asked if she was being to rough. Kris held on to her companion's shoulders when she thought her legs might give out.

Raven lowered herself to her knees as she quickly removed Kris' shoes and pants. She took her time moving back up her lover's body, pausing to lick, kiss or nip each and every inch of exposed skin. She paid particular attention to the places on Kris' thighs, stomach and neck that she knew were the most erotically sensitive.

Kris was breathing hard and heavy by the time Raven had moved from her neck to her ear. "And you thought I...was trying to kill you." She heard the low rumble of a chuckle in the ear that was receiving her companion's undivided attention. "Ah G.o.d...the things you can do to me." She pulled Raven's mouth to hers and tongues dueled for dominance.

As lips met, Raven reached down and grasped Kris' right leg behind her knee, raising it and holding it against her hip. She thrust her hips forward; making sure the d.i.l.d.o came in contact with Kris' folds. She pulled back and pushed forward again and again, running the appendage lightly across Kris' sensitive c.l.i.t until she was driving her companion wild. "Is there something I can do for you, love?" She asked with a slight teasing in her voice after listening to the grunts and moans of her companion.