Give me steam, and how you feel can make it real

“Hey, Nick, remember how we agreed that we wanted to have a nice, normal date today?” Dawn asked as she and Nick left the DomSubway.

“Yeah, I remember,” Nick evenly replied.

“Well… explain to me what’s normal about you biting another girl on the ass. I’m not quite sure I get it.”

Dawn’s tone of voice implied that she was teasing, and Nick definitely appreciated that. But he could understand why she was a little miffed. As far as intrusions onto their date went, that certainly was a bizarre one.

“Well… hopefully we won’t have to deal with any interruptions like that again,” he said, hoping he could conjure that into being.

Dawn looked at him, not really buying it.

“…Yeah,” she mumbled, nodding. “Hopefully…”

Nick winced.

“Dawn…”

“Hey, hey, it’s fine,” she said, holding up her hands. “Not upset. Really. Not upset.” She shook her head, and smiled gently. “Nick… it was really sweet of you, offering to help Ella out like that.”

“And Rose,” Nick reminded her.

“Yeah, that one was less sweet, since Rose was being Rose,” she pointed out.

A valid point.

“But Ella still ran off in the end… and what was that about her other spell? Turning her on, or whatever it was?” Nick didn’t want to think about it, but he couldn’t help himself.

Dawn shook her head. She skipped in front of him and planted herself firmly in his path, her hands on her hips and her face shifted into a defiant expression.

“Nick!”

“Y-yes?!” Nick stammered, nearly falling over. “What is it? What’s up?”

“Don’t give me that look, that’s what’s up,” Dawn said firmly. “You know where we are right now, and what we’re dealing with. We’re on a date! And while I understand fussing and worrying over Ella… you shouldn’t baby her. She doesn’t need your protection. She’s her own person, and she made her own choice.”

Dawn didn’t agree with that choice- she thought it would have been smarter for Ella to actually get some help, instead of running away.

But Ella’s choices were not her concern right now. For once, Dawn was putting herself and her own needs first.

And one of those needs was having the boy she liked actually paying attention to her on her date! After all, she’d gone and improved herself and everything for him!

Then, Dawn’s brain lighted upon an idea. Certainly not one of her better ones, but not one of the worst, either.

She flashed a coy smile, and grabbed Nick’s wrist, bringing her hand up to her breast and pulling him into her.

Nick’s eyes widened as he felt the soft springiness of her newly-enhanced chest.

“There, that’s more like it, don’t you think?” Dawn purred, feeling a mild bit of pleasure shoot through her body. So that’s what it was like to have your breasts played with by a guy? It was a feeling she could get used to. “Paying attention now, hmm?”

Nick blushed. “I… you’re right, I’m sorry,” he said, trying to let go. But Dawn held him there.

“Sorry for?”

“For not giving you the attention you deserve,” he stated outright. “You’re right, Dawn. It’s not fair to you for me to be thinking about other girls on my date. And certainly not fair for me to be… biting them on the ass. I’m sorry.”

Dawn’s tail flicked back and forth behind her. Satisfied, she let his wrist go, but she was slightly disappointed when he did in fact remove his hand from her breast.

“Well, as long as you realize it,” she replied, turning on her heel and heading down the street, hiding the blush on her cheeks from him. “And like I said, it was a sweet thing you did. Now, how about showing me some of that sweet side, hmm?”

Nick caught up to her. “Are you saying you want me to bite you down there…?” He asked playfully, knowing that she would never ask him for something like that. And indeed, the elbow he received in the ribs confirmed that was the case.

“No, you dork,” Dawn huffed, looking at him with a grin. “Just… you know. Sweet. The way I know you always are.”

She was pretty light on specifics, but that was because she didn’t really know what she was looking for. In spite of her time on the show, she had very few traditional dates with Nick, so she didn’t have the strongest idea in her head.

Part of her was hoping that Nick would take the initiative for her, and come up with something sweet on his own.

“Well… I did have something in mind,” he said, and her ears twitched. She looked at him with curious hope. “Oh, you do?”

Dawn had not expected to be brought here, of all places.

“The spa?” She looked at Nick with a suspicious eye. “You’re not suggesting we go into the hot springs, are you?”

If he was, that would be the lightest of suggestions he could make about this place. The other services it recommended were a little…

“It’s our date,” Nick pointed out. “And since it’s our date, I thought that you should be pampered and spoiled, like you deserve. So I wanted to get the full service for you. Massages, a mud bath, manicure, whatever you want.”

“I don’t think mud baths and tails go along well together,” Dawn pointed out. “And you know what those massages are like! Are you suggesting you want me to be rubbed down with aphrodisiac lotion?! You know what’s going to happen, right?”

Nick blushed. “Well… yeah,” he admitted. “That’s why I wanted to talk it out with you first. To see if you’d be up for it.”

That came as a surprise. Dawn needed a second to refocus her thoughts. She adjusted her glasses and stared curiously at Nick, trying to process his suggestion.

“So let me get this right… you want the two of us to go to the spa together, and get massages, even knowing they’ll get us both really aroused. And then, what, a nice dip in the sauna? Just to really turn up the temperature?” Her tone was meant to be accusing. But passing her lips, it almost sounded like she was daring him.

“Well…” Nick shrugged. “I wanted to run it by you, at least. If you’d rather not, that’s totally fine. But it’s not gonna be like what happened with me and Dani, because you and I…”

“…We already have that kind of relationship,” Dawn finished his sentence. “You know, maybe part of me was hoping for something a little more romantic?”

“I also had Dakota set up a reservation for a romantic restaurant we could go to for dinner,” Nick added. “This would just be to get us ready for that.”

Dawn smirked. “You want to get me all oiled-up and horny and then take me out for a night on the town? That’s a little dirty, don’t you think?” She teased him. “Trying to make me into another Holly, eh? All pent-up and frustrated?”

Nick blushed again. “I mean… I was thinking we might fool around… before that,” he clarified. “If you want to, I mean. I didn’t just bring you here for sex, to be clear, but I thought you might want some time to relax, so…”

“Nick, it’s fine, I’m not upset,” Dawn said, cutting him off before he could start freaking out.

“Oh good… you’re not?” Nick sighed in relief. It felt like a massive burden had been lifted from his shoulders, hearing that.

Dawn shook her head. “I spent all last night and all of this morning lugging around a couple of boobs the size of boulders,” she reminded him, rubbing her shoulder. “I could use a good massage. Plus, I’ve been dealing with Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin as my roommate the past few days. That hasn’t exactly been great for my stress levels, you know?”

He could definitely see where she was coming from with that.

“And what was it the other me said? I should stop being afraid of pampering and spoiling myself, and just do what I want to do for once?” Dawn added. She adjusted her glasses and gave Nick a look that was shiny with desire.

Nick’s eyes widened with anticipation. “So you mean you’re… okay with it?” He asked hopefully. “You’re not worried about… you know, all that stuff?” Nick really had been hoping to pamper Dawn today. The fact that doing so would turn them both on and get them excited to have sex was just a nice little bonus feature.

Dawn smiled at him. “I think a spa day is just what the doctor ordered,” she declared, turning and heading inside. Her tail danced excitedly behind her. “And I would know, since I’m a doctor.”

“I can certainly get behind that reasoning,” Nick said with a laugh as he followed her inside. Maybe mud baths were off the table, but he was definitely looking forward to what was in store.

“Mm, yeah, that’s the stuff, right there…” Dawn’s moans were sounding a lot like purrs as the faeries kneaded her shoulders. It wasn’t often that she felt stiff and sore- certainly not since she’d gotten her Poser transformation. But those massive boobs had really done a number on her back.

“Your muscles are so limber!” The faerie rubbing her down complimented. “You must live a very active lifestyle!”

“You know it,” Nick said. “She’s been a gymnast ever since she was little.”

“She’s still little,” the faerie working on him noted, earning her a glare from the cat girl. Dawn could barely see her due to removing her glasses, but that didn’t matter.

“Just shut up and lather him with some more aphrodisiac,” she snapped, flopping her face back down on the pillow. “He was the one who wanted me to come here, he can handle the consequences.”

“I can think of one ‘consequence’ he’ll have a lot of fun handling,” the blue-haired faerie working on Dawn said with a hum. “It’s not every day we get guests who know what they’re signing up for.”

“Yeah,” the green faerie working with Nick agreed. “I thought that the master would never come here again, after what happened last time.”

“It was a surprise,” Nick said, feeling the warmth on his back as the faerie’s tiny hands rubbed him all over. The pleasure wasn’t purely sexual- the sensual nature of the massage was doing wonders to reduce his stress, and he enjoyed himself quite a lot. “I don’t think we would have gone if we’d known.”

“But I’m open-minded,” Dawn said, her tail twitching. She almost sounded like she was trying to convince herself. “He and I, we’ve had our fun together enough times for me to be okay with… something like this. Oh!”

“Sorry, was that too much?” The faerie apologized. She’d worked her way from Dawn’s back down to her butt, and was currently massaging around her tail. “I know your tail is very sensitive.”

“Just… keep the lotion away from it,” Dawn said, lightly twisting her tail to bat playfully at the fluttering pixie. “I don’t want it getting all sticky.”

“It’s nice to see you letting your hair down like this, Dawn,” Nick said, propping himself up on his arms and turning to look at her. “I didn’t expect you to be so… open, I guess.”

“Like you said, we’ve already done quite a lot together,” Dawn pointed out, glancing up at him. “It seemed like a fun way to relax and unwind, you know?”

Nick nodded. He couldn’t agree more- that’s why he’d requested this for their date in the first place.

If Dawn was open to sex with him, even under the influence of aphrodisiacs, then that was a definite plus. He knew he could count on her to at least maintain some degree of rationality as well, given their past dalliances.

It was a bit like a prelude for this evening. A nice little romp to get everything out of their systems. And Dawn sure needed a cleansing.

The massage continued, and the couple made small talk with the faeries. It was rather curious how open and straightforward they were. Nick knew that they had been created by Dakota, and they were made to not be fully alive. They were missing the spark, it felt. They could communicate, but it wasn’t exactly like talking with another person.

It was an area of metaphysics he wasn’t sure he wanted to be dwelling in. Just like how he wasn’t sure that “metaphysics” was a good description of what was happening here.

Dawn poked her head up and gave him a look. Their massages were just about finished, and even though she couldn’t fully make him out due to her blurred vision, she didn’t need to. Not to feel the heat in his gaze.

A heat she was no-doubt reflecting right back at him.

Her tail flicked eagerly behind her as she got up off the massage table, clutching her bathrobe to her chest. It was almost comical. They both knew what was going to be coming shortly- and here she was, conserving her modesty?

It made her laugh out loud.

“Something funny?” Nick asked, climbing off the table himself.

She giggled a little and shook her head. “Just thinking. We wanted to have a nice, normal date today… and here we are, slathered in aphrodisiacs and about to step into a hotbox filled with the stuff. You know, like on those nice, normal dates.”

When she put it like that, it did sound a little out of the ordinary.

“Then again…” Dawn tucked a lock of hair behind her ear. She hadn’t bothered tying up her ponytail again or putting on her glasses, given where they were headed. So when her flushed face gazed into Nick’s eyes, he found himself faced with an image of intense desire. “We haven’t had the most normal relationship, have we?”

Nick shook his head. “You can say that again,” he agreed, taking her hand. They both gasped a little as they felt a jolt of electricity run between them. Just a touch was enough to get their motors running, it seemed, and they shared a look of tense anticipation.

Dawn broke the moment with a cracked smile.

“First, we liked each other. Only you liked me a lot more than I liked you back. Then, all that stuff ended up happening, and it drove me even further away from you.”

Nick winced. He didn’t like being reminded of that awkward time in their past. But just like all the other painful moments from his history, it was important that he didn’t run away from it. He had to accept it. Confront it. Acknowledge it as something that had happened… and hopefully try to do better.

“…And now, here we are,” Dawn finished. She looked at Nick again, and burst out laughing. “Whew! I skipped over a bunch of stuff there, didn’t I?” She fanned her face a little with her free hand. “So much for my perfect memory, huh?”

She leaned in, letting the hem of her bathrobe slip just a little to give Nick a tease of the cleavage that she actually had.

“I think we’ve done enough reminiscing on the past,” she decided. “Don’t you? No, I think it would be a much better use of our time… if we just put all that behind us and went on with our lives, living the kind of life we want for each other.”

Nick nodded. He couldn’t agree more.

“So let’s stop beating around the bush.” Dawn tightened her grip on his hand and sidled up to him, curling up into his side like a kitten warming up to its owner. “I’m curious if this sauna is really as grand as I’ve been hearing so much about. I’ve actually been in a real one while I was in Japan, you know, so here’s hoping this one holds up.”

“It’s a pretty stimulating experience,” Nick answered, earning him another throaty laugh from the cat girl.

The two headed into the sauna, and were greeted by a pretty modest sight. Just the same old wooden benches as always, it was exactly like Nick remembered, even though it had been several rounds since he’d last been here.

“So what do we do?” Dawn plopped down on the bench and kicked out her feet playfully. She was really taking advantage of the whole “day of relaxation” thing, enjoying her day off more than Kim could ever hope to. “Just wait?”

“We’ve got to adjust the steam ourselves I think,” Nick said, closing the door behind him. He picked up a ladle and dipped it in the bucket of water, tossing it onto the heated coals. The pit hissed and released steam out into the air, fogging up the room even more. He could already feel his body temperature starting to rise as he did it, and it wasn’t because of the heat.

Dawn squinted through the steam, trying to make out the shape of her lover as best she could. But without her glasses, she was as blind as a bat.

And of course, Nick had done the polite thing and sat across from her.

“You’re not going to sit next to me?” She pouted, stripping off her bathrobe once she realized Nick had left his outside. Cheater! She had completely missed the sign telling her to remove it. Oh well, it was basically their spa anyway. “How rude! I thought this was a romantic date!”

She hopped to her feet and struck what she hoped was a seductive pose, trying to lure him in. “Are you going to turn down the chance to curl up beside this?”

Nick knew that Dawn would be expecting that. But he also enjoyed playing with her a little, just as much as he enjoyed seeing her enjoy herself.

“Who’s turning it down?” He teased. “Maybe I just want you to be all hot and bothered, so you come to me.”

Dawn pouted. But only for a second. Because that sounded quite alright to her! She just needed to hop into his lap like a nice little kitty should! Her body was on fire already, eager to finally get a real bite of what the aphrodisiacs had been teasing her with the taste of for the last hour.

So without hesitation, she threw herself across the sauna, hopping right on top of him. At least, that was her intention anyway.

Without her glasses, it was a little difficult to see where she was going, especially thanks to the damp wood.

So she ended up tripping over the water bucket and face-planting on top of him.

The bucket’s contents sprayed over the hot plate with a brutal “HISSSSSSS!”

Dawn looked up at Nick, stunned, and tried to make out his face. But the sauna flooded with so much steam that she couldn’t even see him right in front of her nose.