Last Day Apart

Liz Pov:

It had been too long since I'd had a day like this.

Well this part of it anyway.

I'd had plenty waking up next to a cute girl I was cuddled into.

Even if this level of bondage on my bed mate was more than I prefer, was hard to cuddle the way I like, but it was her place so I couldn't really complain.

Back on track, my morning aside, spending the day catching up with all the others of the group and spending the day on a shopping trip really was what I needed to get my mind off of Kris and Alice.

Abby was right, I really did need to trust my girlfriend more, even one like Kris, she'd be able to handle my Alice alone now, I made sure of it.

It was during this mall trip that I realized how bad I had it for those two.

"Hey Liz you still with us?"

"Huh? Yeah what's up?"

"We were asking when you were going to be by the club, its been a minute. Where was your mind girl, your normally not a space case?"

A slight flush spread across my face as it dawned on me exactly where my brain was, and considering it was Abby and Sam with me? I'd might as well tell them, otherwise they'd make a game out of pestering me about it.

I pointed at the cute sundress in the display on the other side beyond where the food court turned back into normal stores.

"I uh... I was remembering the first time I got Kris to wear one for me and the way their face lite up, it always did when we were shopping for new outfits or I helped them take a step, but something about the pure joy that day, its stuck with me... I was thinking what it would have been like to have Alice in my arms while while I showed her who Kris really was... Instead of how things turned out..."

"Well it all still turned out ok, right? Just some odd turns?"

"Of course it did, have you heard how she talks about them." Abby says to Sam like its as much a fact as gravity, before turning to me, "Girl you got it bad, you trying to make this a perm thing?"

The blunt way she asked it drove home something that I knew in the back of my mind, everything was headed to that, something permanent... Or what, where else could this be going.

I knew I wanted to protect what ever we were building with everything I had, but that question, made me confront the logical conclusion, I never wanted it to end.

I wanted them to be mine for the rest of our lives... I'd never wanted something like that before...

Everything before this was always a nebulous, 'Until we get sick of each other or something changes...'

"Yeah, I think I am... Whatever this is, Its ours and for the first time, home... its these two wonderful weirdos, I need them like I need air."

"Ohh, someone's in love!"

"Of course she is, I've seen Kris on the cross at the club and I still remember last time me and Alice played, I'd be in love too if I could get them in my bed every-night."

"Oh shut it Abby, It more than that, besides you couldn't handle my girls."

"Oh your girls now? Well then does that mean we won't get to see you three at the club, if you're going to claim them like that, keep them for yourself? Remember when you introduced Kris as 'just your new Sub', before we knew who they used to be? Still can't believe it didn't click the first time Seb brought them around. You talked like you'd be done with them before long like all your others, but the way you acted screamed something different."

"Yes mine, and... I don't know maybe. I've never felt this possessive of someone before... but I don't think I could do that to them, keep them to myself? They'd both agree not to go if I asked but I know at least for Kris that would feel like I was punishing her."

"Well it'd definitely feel like you were punishing us if you didn't bring them around, fuck, Kris and a submissive Alice? And you were thinking about not showing that off?"

"Sam, just for you, I'd make her play Top again."

"No need to go that far Liz."

"Speak for yourself Sam, Liz sign me up for that, made to submit by a submissive slave? I'm starting to get heated just thinking about it."

"Of course you would, and we'll see. I need to figure some stuff out first... "

"Well while you figure it out, are you going to finish your cinnamon roll? Cause the icing has been dripping down your hand."

Well shit, she wasn't wrong, my hands were a sticky mess, popping the last bit in my mouth I get a devilish Idea, "~Abbbby~? Clean up this mess for me?"

Just like I knew she would, with a spark in her eye, she slowly moved her mouth to my out stretched hand, eyes locked on mine.

Tongue darting out to lick the tip before moving into engulf my finger in her warmth.

Wrapping around my finger and dragging all the sticky icing off my digit before doing the same to the next one and the next one.

Never breaking eye contact, daring me to look away from what I asked of her.

When she was done, she kissed my hand and asked, in a voice that could damn your soul, "~Anything else ma'am~?"

"No" In my most authoritative voice, "I think you've had enough fun for the day."

"God damn you two, that was hot, Liz If you won't play with her, I will, Abby come." Sam stood and walked away, trusting Abby to follow. They weren't together but we all played together often enough this wasn't abnormal.

Well that was their day sorted, and it gave me time to think again.

What did I want, 'them' well duh me, but how, how would we make this work long term.

Did we even need to label it or did I even want to?

Fuck it, we'd done things our own way this whole time and my girls weren't normal anyway...

I was going to do this my way.

'I've got one day left before I get to see them again, I'll get things sorted for if things go well, if not it can wait until I unfuck what ever is wrong. I really hope Kris doesn't ask me to undo Alice's training, that'd make her a ticking time bomb again. But having it ready is better than not.'

The rest of the time until went home was was passed touching base with other friends and prepping what I wanted to do for Kris and Alice.

All my plans, what to do if things were settled or if they were still bad, everything I had thought to prepare myself for...

They came to a screeching halt when I opened my front door to see Seb holding Kris, tear marks clear as day, on the couch, sleeping.

"Shhh, don't want to wake her, we need to talk." His whisper doesn't seen to disturb her so I match the tone and volume.

"I bet we do, where's Alice?"

"Sarah is keeping an eye on her."

"What?!"

"Yeah, I did what I could but Christ, I feel even more sorry for leaving them both for you to put back together that first time."

"I don't like where this is going..."

"Good means you're still the smart one here. I won't let you have to deal with this alone."

"Again."

"Yeah, I deserve that, but I was here the last time and I'm going to be here."

"How bad is it?"

"I... I don't actually know, I caught them 'pretty quick' according to your 'slave' I don't think it and me have the same Idea of 'pretty quick' if her state is anything to go by." The look he gave me like me know exactly how he was feeling about that, "But, Kris, something is wrong, I don't know how to describe it, she's always been a step away from subspace, but now it's like she's there but she's not."

"Almost like she's more a puppet pretending to be her, all the right movements and responses but there's not light behind her eyes?"

"That is scarily accurate."

"Hand her here." As Seb slowly shifts her to my arms I brush a few stray stands of hair behind her ear and hold her face in my hand.

I hold her to me like she is something precious, because she is, the most precious thing in my life now.

"Oh baby, what did she do to you?" I ask to no one before I kiss her forehead. "We'll make it right, I'll make it right."

'I love you too much to do anything else.'

AN: (Spoilers)

This one took awhile to get out, between running double shifts in this heat wave and being pathologically unable to write the lead up to a happy ending, but trying anyway, it's felt like writer's block has been waterboarding my muse.