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Assistant: Title: I Would Bring You the Stars and the Moon
        Author: GutterWitch GutterWitch 
        Chapter: 9/9 
        Summary: “Houston, do you copy?”Caitlyn panicked, feeling extraordinarily unprepared having been thrust into her new position without so much as even a handbook to consult. What were the formalities? What was she supposed to respond with? Where was the d@mn push to talk button…“Hellooo? I said Houston, do you copy?”Caitlyn fiddled with her headset, having finally found the green button on the side and hastily letting out a rather breathless reply. “Um, yes. Hello? This is Houston. I copy.”There was a long pause in which Caitlyn sat twiddling her thumbs, anxiety pushing the frantic pulse of her heartbeat through her eardrums. Was that wrong? Did she already f@ck up? She took a steady deep breath, finger hovering over the talk button until the familiar voice of the astronaut came through her headset once more.“D@mn, Houston. I didn’t expect you to sound so sexy.”ORCaitlyn has been assigned as the personal capcom to one of the astronauts currently on a year long expedition at the international space station. Cue long months of pining and desperate longing.
        Contents: Chapter 9: Touched
    

    

        
          
          
            “Do you have any idea how long I waited for this?”
          
        

      
        
          I ain’t got nothing to say. You know what’s coming.Enjoy your filth.Playlist for this fic  here.See ya. <3
            
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    Caitlyn watched as Vi made her way around the cubicle, her fingertips dragging against the wood surface and over the various knick-knacks on display. There was something almost tantalizing about the way her astronaut’s fingers moved, languidly and fluidly grazing over each object in a way that should not have had such a profound effect on Caitlyn and yet the heat brewing in her gut was undeniable. Caitlyn was hopelessly gay, but even she had to admit she’d never been so attracted to a woman’s hands before.God, was this really all it took to rile her up? Or was she simply that touch starved?Vi stopped suddenly to pick up the framed photo that Caitlyn had spent countless days pining over. Caitlyn fidgeted a bit. She had never told Vi about the photos. She wasn’t embarrassed per se, but it almost felt like a confession, an acknowledgement of the magnitude of Caitlyn’s pining.Vi’s face was unreadable for a moment before she smirked at the photo, proceeding to gingerly place it back on the desk. It was unbelievably surreal and strangely intimate seeing Vi in this space. The place where Caitlyn had spent all those months hopelessly falling for her.Now there she was, right in front of Caitlyn’s eyes and yet no matter how many times Caitlyn had stared longingly at that photo, nothing could have prepared her for this intense aura radiating from her astronaut. She wasn’t surprised that Vi was somehow more beautiful in person, but there was something else about her that practically consumed all of Caitlyn’s senses. She was overwhelming in the best way, her presence somehow dominating and yet soothing all at once.“So, this is where the magic happened, huh?”Caitlyn rolled her eyes fondly. For someone who didn’t like puns, Vi certainly regurgitated a lot of cliché one-liners. Caitlyn herself, well, she hadn’t said anything in the last five minutes. She was simply in a state of shock, left practically trembling by the frantic beat of her heart.Caitlyn shifted against the edge of the cubicle wall she had been leaning against with her palms braced along her forearms. “If by ‘magic’ you mean this is where I sat for eight months while you tormented me with your innuendos then yes, I suppose.” The retort was supposed to be witty, tinged with sass as their usual encounters went but instead Caitlyn’s voice came out timid, fragile.F@ck, she was so nervous.Despite the lack of bite in Caitlyn’s tone, Vi grinned, stealing Caitlyn’s breath away not for the first time that day.“Well I must have done something right.” She rounded Caitlyn’s swivel chair, casually draping her arm across the back and leaning on it, glancing around the space. “This is where we met. Where we spent nine hours together on that first spacewalk.” Caitlyn’s brow furrowed. She wasn’t sure where Vi was going with this, but her tone held implications, softening into something fond as she continued. “Where I told you about my mother, and you told me about Cambridge.” Her gaze suddenly narrowed, zeroing in on Caitlyn. “Where we talked each other through that one night.”A shiver made its way up Caitlyn’s body. The intensity in her astronaut’s eyes was truly something to behold. Caitlyn felt put under a microscope, like Vi was dissecting every miniscule movement she made, every rise of her chest and flutter of her eyelashes.Vi’s voice was suddenly so soft, laced with a gentle timbre of devotion. “Where you said you’d wait for me.”Caitlyn swallowed her nerves as best she could, somehow managing to keep the tremor in her voice at bay this time. “Yes.” She whispered shyly.Vi was staring at her hungrily, like she was on the verge of leaving no holds barred and devouring Caitlyn in the middle of the comm center. She straightened up and took a step toward Caitlyn, crowding her space. Vi was slightly shorter than Caitlyn, but in that moment she felt so small in contrast to this woman’s dominating presence. “Eight months  of nothing but talking and now you’re tight-lipped?“Caitlyn’s eyes darted all over Vi’s face, unsure of what to focus on. She found it nearly impossible to raise her voice over that of a timid whisper. “What- what do you want me to say?”“Say you’ll have dinner with me tonight.”Caitlyn hesitated. “I- um…” God, she wanted to say yes. Desperately wanted to throw herself into her astronaut’s arms, but there was one thing nagging at the back of her mind. Something that, in the rush of seeing Vi for the first time, was momentarily left on the back burner.Vi blinked, surprised at Caitlyn’s reluctance. “What is it? What’s wrong?” There was a slight quickening of Vi’s breath, an insecurity swimming in her gaze. It was as if she was terrified that Caitlyn had changed her mind about what they had. Caitlyn hadn’t, of course not, but she wasn’t about to just let Vi’s radio silence over the last five weeks go unaddressed.She rubbed at her upper arms, eyes averting to the far wall of her cubicle. “You… you didn’t call.”Memories of the intense quiet over the last few weeks came flooding back to her, along with the heartache and confusion she felt among the silence. Vi was finally here, and Caitlyn was elated, but she simply couldn’t ignore that nagging doubt plaguing her heart any longer.Vi’s expression suddenly broke. She reached forward and cradled Caitlyn’s cheek in her rough palm once more, turning Caitlyn’s hurt-filled eyes back toward her own.“I’m so sorry, Cait.” There was such heartfelt care in Vi’s tone, a desperate pleading that nearly instantly washed away Caitlyn’s insecurities. “I wanted to, you have to believe me. I just- my only priority was getting through recovery as quickly as I could so I could get to you. I pushed myself harder than I ever have to get it done quickly and if I had heard your voice I just know I would have dropped everything and come here to find you.”Caitlyn let out a small, exasperated breath. So Powder was right, Vi really was just being dramatic. She found herself smiling softly, amazed at just how fond she could feel toward her astronaut even when she was being a downright fool. “That’s such a terrible excuse.”“I know, but it’s true. I mean… I also just- I couldn’t.” She stroked Caitlyn’s cheek with the utmost care, grazing the soft skin there as if brushing the petals of a flower. “Hearing your voice up there for eight months and then coming back down to Earth, it felt like a bucket of cold water. Suddenly it wasn’t just dreams and stargazing, it was real. I couldn’t settle for just your voice anymore, I needed to see you, to feel you…” Her palm slid down to caress the side of Caitlyn’s neck, directly under her ear. Caitlyn had to resist the urge to crane her head to the side and give Vi more. “I know it doesn't make any sense. I’m just so sorry, cupcake. You deserved better than that.”Caitlyn sighed, finally feeling as though the embers of her anxieties had been smothered. “It’s okay. I understand. I just… I was frightened. That you would return and realize this… me, wasn’t what you wanted.”There was so much intensity in Vi’s gaze. A steadfastness in her clear determination to prove her devotion. “There hasn’t been a second back here on Earth or among the stars that I didn’t want you, Caitlyn.”Caitlyn could feel the sting of tears behind her eyes. She quickly blinked them away, not wanting to give Vi the wrong impression. Those weeks without hearing Vi’s voice were hard, yes, but Vi had washed away any residual doubt that Caitlyn had once felt with just a few words. Leaving behind nothing but a soothing sort of elation. “I believe you.” She whispered, the corners of her lips quirking into a gentle smile.“Do you forgive me?”Caitlyn shrugged. “Well it wouldn’t be the first time I had to deal with your drama.” Vi chuckled sheepishly. “Besides, I did say I’d always wait for you. Didn’t I?”Vi stepped even closer into Caitlyn’s space, their bodies mere inches apart as her thumb continued to stroke along Caitlyn’s jawline. “You won’t have to anymore. I promise.”“I know…” Caitlyn let out a shuddering breath, the proximity starting to get to her. “I forgive you.”“So you’ll have dinner with me, then?”She bit her lip, not missing the way Vi’s eyes flickered to it for a moment. “On one condition.”“Anything.”“We’ll do it at my place. I’ll cook for us.”Vi stiffened. “Uh, I dunno. I already had one near death experience. Two may be pushing it…”“Excuse me?” Caitlyn mock gasped, ignoring Vi’s cackling and thumping the side of her fist on the exposed skin of Vi’s collarbones. “I will have you know that I have worked very hard to improve my cooking skills and I will not have you put my efforts to shame.”Vi’s soft laughter died down, her free hand coming to snake around Caitlyn’s waist and pressing lightly at her lower back. Caitlyn had to suppress a genuine gasp this time. “I would never, baby.”The steady thrum of Caitlyn’s heart began to quicken.They were so close like this. Caitlyn could count the freckles on Vi’s cheeks, see the strokes of the small ink along her cheekbone, feel Vi’s breath puff against her lips. Her fist was still placed against the upper part of Vi’s chest, flattening out to instead rest against the warm patch of skin there. It was the first time Caitlyn had touched Vi. She couldn’t help but stare, marveling at how soft and warm her astronaut was as her fingertips gently brushed against Vi’s collarbone.She met Vi’s eye level once again, the intensity and heat she found there sparking into something overwhelming and thick with tension. Their surroundings faded away into a quiet murmur that left Caitlyn nearly breathless, the thrum of her heart picking up speed in tempo with the shudder of her breath.Vi seemed to share this sudden desperation that Caitlyn felt. Her eyes flickered to Caitlyn’s lips and back up. She looked at Caitlyn with a question in her eyes, a hesitancy that Caitlyn could only confirm by glancing at Vi’s own lips.The astronaut’s breath caught, her eyelids drooping slightly and head tilting as she leaned in slowly.Caitlyn’s own gaze hooded, a small desperate whimper suppressed within her throat.She was finally going to feel it, what she had craved all these months. She’d finally feel how soft Vi’s lips would be against her own-The door to Vander’s office banged open, startling Caitlyn backwards out of Vi’s grasp and shattering the tense moment between them.Frantically blinking herself out of her l@st filled haze, Caitlyn awkwardly adjusted the few loose strands of hair framing her flaming cheeks. Vi didn’t seem nearly as bewildered although she was just as flushed. Her brow furrowed for a split second of frustration and annoyance before turning toward where Powder was running down the steps from Vander’s office.“Vi!” Powder called out enthusiastically as she practically jumped over the stair railing.A huge smile broke out on Vi’s face, stealing Caitlyn’s breath from her lungs. The astronaut made to move past Caitlyn, giving her forearm a gentle squeeze of reassurance, a promise to return as she made her way over to meet her sister.Powder full on launched herself into Vi’s arms with a startling force that should knock any normal person flat on their ass but Vi caught her with ease in her muscular arms. Powder’s legs wrapped around Vi’s waist in a koala-like hug and Vi laughed into her sister's shoulder as they embraced. A warmth settled over Caitlyn’s heart as she watched the scene before her. Vi deserved this, she deserved a loving family and all the happiness in the world.“Jesus, Pow. I’m still recovering, you know.”“Please, I know you’re hopped up on Viktor’s bone juice.”Vi groaned and made a disgusted face. “Do you have to call it that?”Caitlyn also made a face. NASA’s top scientists had run countless tests and experiments on Viktor at his own request to prevent future cosmonauts from experiencing the same deterioration he had suffered from his years of space travel. The results were magnanimous, bringing forth several vaccines and treatments that allowed the current astronauts to maintain their bone density while in space. Viktor himself could not be cured as the new technology was a preventative measure as opposed to a cure, but the man claimed he never minded so long as he was able to assist future space explorers in their recovery.“I calls it like I sees it, sis.” Powder jumped out of Vi’s arms, leaving the astronaut staggering slightly until she gripped the edge of a nearby desk. Caitlyn frowned, watching closely as Vi took a steadying breath and straightened out. Her bones and muscles had been maintained via treatment and exercise on the ISS, but it seemed her sense of balance was still slightly off kilter.Claggor and Mylo emerged from Vander’s office, blinding smiles on their faces as they rushed toward their sister and crushed her into a joint hug. Caitlyn felt a resurgence of tears welling in her eyes. She couldn’t help but recall how terrified Vi’s family had been during the satellite incident, the palpable fear in their eyes at the prospect of losing her. To see them all together embracing in a tender moment of reunion was unfathomably heartwarming. Vi’s family was truly beautiful and finally whole.“Sure, let’s crush the astronaut to death.” Vi grumbled between her brothers. “Not like she was stuck in a confined metal tube for a year.”The boys laughed as they released her, Claggor clapping her on the shoulder. “You look great, Vi. How’d you make it out of recovery so quickly?”Vi’s eyes flickered over to Caitlyn for a second before she shrugged. “What can I say? I was determined.”Caitlyn wasn’t sure why the comment made her heart flutter, but it did.“Well, c’mon. Dad ordered a bunch of sh@t from Jericho’s for breakfast. Ekko’s waiting in the break room.” Mylo said, waving Vi on as he headed in the direction of the break room. Powder grabbed Vi’s forearm and began tugging her along enthusiastically.Caitlyn hesitated, unsure if she should follow them, wondering if she should give the family their space despite her desperate ache to remain close to Vi.Vi glanced over her shoulder as she was tugged along by Powder, offering Caitlyn a soft smile and tilting her head in an invitation to follow.Caitlyn mirrored the smile, giving a shy nod toward Vi, a silent communication that she would be there in a moment. Vi kept her eyes on Caitlyn until she disappeared out the door, leaving Caitlyn a moment to collapse back against the back wall of the comms room and catch her breath.There was so much for her to process. When she awoke that morning she hadn’t mentally prepared herself to even entertain the notion that she might see Vi. She would have put on a different perfume, maybe a little more makeup, some nicer panties…She shook the thought from her mind. There wasn’t time to dwell on it. Not when she was significantly more panicked at the fact that her and Vi had almost kissed. Caitlyn thought she would be ready for it, that she would crush her lips to Vi’s the second she was united with her astronaut.The reality was that she was woefully unprepared. Discussing and creating hypotheticals of intimacy over the communication line was one thing, doing another. It’s not like Caitlyn hadn’t kissed anyone before, but this was Vi.Caitlyn took a moment to shake out the nerves from her arms, steadying herself with a determination to push past the jitters. She had waited far too long to compromise their reunion because of something as silly as gay panic. She could handle Vi.But with each shaky step of her heels against the carpeted floor as she headed back toward the breakroom, Caitlyn began to doubt herself more and more. ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ Now seeing her in person, Caitlyn was learning all sorts of new things about Vi.The first was that Vi was a bit of a messy eater. Everyone was gathered in the break room, each with varying paper plates of pancakes, eggs and breakfast meats courtesy of Jericho’s paid for by Vander to celebrate Vi and Ekko’s return. Vi’s own plate had a stack of pancakes coated in strawberry syrup, which had subsequently been smudged all over the astronaut’s lips as she ate. Surprisingly, Caitlyn found it rather adorable.She may have also been fighting thoughts of her desperate desire to lick the syrup from Vi’s lips.Caitlyn quickly shook the thought from her mind, trying her best to pay attention to the conversation the group was having. They were all squeezed around the round table, Powder sat on Ekko’s lap next to Vi, Claggor and Mylo across from them and Caitlyn-She was leaning against the wall a few feet away, shyly observing as the group interacted with a cup of coffee in hand. She didn’t have much of an appetite, the butterflies filling her gut far too preoccupied with aggressively flapping their wings every time she and Vi made eye contact.Which was happening quite a lot because, well, Vi simply would not take her eyes off Caitlyn.Ekko leaned over to Vi, glancing down at her wrist with a frown. Vi was too busy ogling Caitlyn to notice. “You good bro?”Vi’s head snapped in his direction, her brow furrowing in confusion. “What?”“Your heart rate is nuts. Your monitor should be going crazy. Did you mute it?” He reached over and clicked the button on the side of the watch-sized monitor on Vi’s wrist before she seemingly had time to process his actions. Sure enough, the beeping that rang out was absolutely frantic, shockingly so.Vi hurriedly scrambled to mute her monitor once more and glared daggers at Ekko, who was sharing a rather knowing smirk with Powder.“Gee, wonder what that’s all about.” Powder teased.Caitlyn felt every eye in the room shift to her and suddenly she was very interested in the steam coming off the mug of her coffee. She sipped at the warm liquid shyly, ignoring the absolute flaming state of her cheeks and the sudden twitch in her fingers.Vi picked up a piece of bacon and flung it at Ekko’s face. “You’re such a sh@t.”Powder gasped, wrapping her arms around Ekko’s head and crushing it against her chest. “How dare you fling highly saturated pork products at my man.”“Get him to mind his own d@mn business then.” Vi grumbled, turning her attention back to her pancakes.The second thing Caitlyn noticed about Vi, is that her ears turned red when she was embarrassed or shy. Caitlyn wanted to nibble on them.“There’s my hearty crew.” Vander said enthusiastically as he sauntered in. “Enjoying breakfast?”“Some more than others.” Mylo teased, wiggling his eyebrows at Vi.“You know what? I’m going back into space.”“Like hell you are.” Ekko chuckled. “You guys should have heard all the whining. ‘I can’t wait to see her. This is killing me. I’m so d@mn pent up and horn-’”This time Vi picked up an entire pancake and smothered it over Ekko’s face. Powder squealed, nearly toppling off Ekko’s lap in the chaos.More teasing and wasting of breakfast food occurred, leaving Caitlyn giggling shyly where she stood. Vander sighed and gave her a fond smile. “Not joining in on the fun?”Caitlyn shook her head. “I quite like this blouse, I would prefer not to get syrup all over it.” Vander chuckled and Caitlyn hugged her mug to her chest. “Besides, I thought I’d give them some family time.”Vander hummed. “Well, you're part of the family now. So don’t feel the need to hold back, aye?”A warmth bloomed in Caitlyn’s chest. She blinked, completely bewildered up at Vander. All of her anxieties and worries of alienation doused completely by the man’s words. She looked back to the messy scene at the table, suddenly overwhelmed with fondness and a sense of belonging.“Alright that’s enough.” Vander stepped in, grabbing the bottle of syrup from Mylo’s hands that he had been about to dump onto Ekko’s head. “Back to work with you all. I’m not paying you to make a mess out of the break room.”Everyone grumbled in submission, each getting up from the table and clearing away any residual mess from the food war. Vi walked over to Caitlyn, stopping wordlessly next to where she was draped against the wall.The two stared at each other for a tense moment. Caitlyn thought back to Vi’s quip from earlier. She was right, after talking nearly every day for eight months straight, Caitlyn was suddenly left without a clue what to say. All she could do was marvel at this stunning woman, completely lost in the haze of her overwhelming desire to just melt into Vi.Caitlyn cleared her throat, blinking rapidly as she pushed off the wall and made her way out of the break room, knowing Vi would follow close behind.Caitlyn could feel Vi’s hungry gaze firm on the back of her neck as they walked. She couldn’t help but swallow anxiously, rubbing at her neck and willing the heat creeping up her flesh there to subside.They rounded the corner of her cubicle once more and Caitlyn immediately busied herself with retrieving the doc@mentation Vander had given her earlier. She may have spent a second longer than necessary digging through the file, using it to take a deep, calming breath to steady out the erratic beating of her heart. She hadn’t anticipated being this nervous, this on edge around Vi, but she also hadn’t anticipated Vi being so utterly breathtaking and dominating in her presence alone.Caitlyn turned from her desk and Vi was right there. Standing far too close for Caitlyn’s sanity. She jumped slightly with a surprised squeak, quickly clearing her throat and ignoring the smug look on Vi’s face.“You can- um, grab that chair there and we’ll fill these out. Yes?”Vi didn’t say anything. She stared Caitlyn down for a second before turning on her heel to retrieve the folding chair leaning against the wall outside of Caitlyn’s cubicle. Caitlyn quickly took her own seat and shook her head, attempting to get a d@mn hold on herself. It was a bit frustrating, really. She had been able to smoothly match Vi’s banter all these months and yet now her spine was practically made of jelly.Vi pulled the chair up and slouched back into it, her hands in her jumpsuit pockets and legs spread in a casual yet tantalizing manner. Caitlyn refused to let her gaze linger there, electing to focus on her doc@ments instead.They were all out of order due to Caitlyn’s earlier panic. Her brow furrowed as she focused on rearranging them, trying desperately not to notice the way Vi was watching her from her peripheral.After a minute or two of tense shuffling and getting practically nowhere with her task, Caitlyn breathed out a shaky exhale. “You’re staring.”Vi nodded slowly. “I’m staring.”God this atmosphere was intense.Caitlyn steeled herself with an awkward chuckle and tried her best to throw a flirtatious smirk at Vi, quoting her astronaut from their very first day together. “Like what you see?”Caitlyn could swear she saw Vi’s pupils dilate slightly. She expected a witty retort, something fun and light hearted that went along with their usual banter but no. Instead there was an intensity to Vi’s gaze that made Caitlyn’s mouth go dry.“Yes.” Vi murmured, her eyes scanning down and back up Caitlyn’s body slowly. “I do.” Caitlyn’s breath caught, a familiar warmth creeping up her skin and forcing her knees together. Vi caught the movement, her eyes narrowing on Caitlyn’s stocking-clad legs. “I like it so much, in fact, that it’s taking every ounce of my self control not to pull you out of that chair and pin you against this desk.”Caitlyn sputtered, glancing around anxiously and shifting uncomfortably in her chair. “We’re at work.”“That’s never stopped you before.” Her eyes flickered to the sleep bunk under Caitlyn’s desk.This woman was not good for Caitlyn’s sanity.“Shouldn’t we- I don’t know, start with holding hands or something?” Realistically, if Caitlyn had what she truly desired then Vi would be two fingers deep in her right there in the middle of the cubicle. However, considering how Caitlyn had almost collapsed earlier from just a small amount of proximity, she figured it best to cover the basics first lest her heart explode within her chest.Wordlessly and without hesitation, Vi extended her arm, palm upright in a gesture of offering toward Caitlyn.Oh. Caitlyn wasn’t really expecting Vi to just offer it up like that. She hesitated for a moment, staring blankly at Vi’s extended hand. If Vi felt any sort of impatience toward Caitlyn’s anxious reluctance, she didn’t show it in her stoic facade.Caitlyn tentatively placed her own hand within Vi’s. The contrast and size difference between them was doing things to her. Where Caitlyn’s hands were delicate with long slender fingers, Vi’s were strong, slightly rough from all her exercise and yet still so gentle.Unthinkingly, Caitlyn pulled Vi’s hand toward herself, the astronaut sitting up to brace the elbow of her free arm atop her knee to lean in closer. Caitlyn became lost for a moment, cradling the underside of Vi’s upturned hand while the fingers of her free one traced the lines on her astronaut’s palm. She slowly dragged her fingertips up, mapping out the veins on Vi’s wrist and turning her arm over to follow the dark lines of ink etched into her skin.Caitlyn knew she could spend hours there, completely enraptured by the softness and the warmth of Vi’s skin, what she had desperately desired to feel over those long months. She chanced a look up at Vi’s expression, and nearly gasped at what she saw there.Vi was looking at her as if Caitlyn had hung the moon in the sky herself, like she was some sort of ethereal being that belonged amongst the stars.“Do you know what the overview effect is?”Caitlyn shook her head, bewildered. “No.”“It’s something astronauts experience when viewing the Earth from space.” There was a soft sense of awe in Vi’s voice as she spoke, taking in every detail of Caitlyn’s expression. “It’s a psychological effect, a cognitive shift in our minds that leaves us so awestruck by the view that we can’t help but develop a new sense of connection to the planet and its beauty. I’ve experienced it many times… but it pales miserably in comparison to how it feels to look at you.”Caitlyn’s sucked in a shaky gasp, completely at a loss to come up with any sort of words that could match such a heartfelt confession. There was nothing but a buzzing static in her head and an inevitable heat in her cheeks. Vi was just too all consuming, too overwhelming in her fidelity-“Too much…”“What’s too much?”“You.” Caitlyn whispered, lost in the soft blue of Vi’s gaze. “You’re too much.”Vi let out a soft, breathy laugh, turning her palm over to properly hold Caitlyn’s hand. “I’ll be whatever you want me to be.”Caitlyn shook her head again, her eyes averted down to their joined hands. “You already are.”It was unclear to Caitlyn how long they remained there, lost in this small amount of touch they shared. Caitlyn was glad she suggested this. It was the best place they could have started, a pleasant easing into what she knew was to come. As eager as she was to be absolutely devoured by Vi, they had all the time in the world for that later. For now, this was enough. Enough to quell the ache in her heart and the flicker of nerves in her gut.“We should probably get those filled out so we can get out of here for that date, yeah?” Vi grinned, nodding toward the scattered doc@ments on Caitlyn’s desk.“Yes.” Caitlyn breathed out. She slowly slipped her hands away from Vi’s arm, already missing the warmth there. She’d had it for only a few minutes and yet Caitlyn could easily say she was addicted, drawn into everything that Vi was.With her nerves settled slightly, Caitlyn began to shuffle through the papers with a newfound vigor, eagerly motivated to get them done so that she could have her time with Vi later. A warmth of realization draped over her, an understanding that Vi was truly there, with Caitlyn, home.And now they would have all the time in the world together. ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ Caitlyn took several, deep steadying breaths as she stared down her reflection in the full length mirror. How many times had she looked in this mirror after readying herself for work, for speaking to Vi? Far too many.Now Vi would be arriving any minute to Caitlyn’s apartment. It all felt surreal, dreamlike, even.The two had finished their work and left the control center around four PM with the promise of later. Caitlyn had insisted she needed at least three hours to prepare their meal and ready herself and her apartment. Dinner had been ready and left to simmer, Caitlyn’s apartment without a speck of dust, and her outfit chosen. Yet she still did not feel ready. She wasn’t sure she ever truly would.Her outfit of choice was relatively simple. A short, silk black dress with thin straps along with additional ruffled sleeves that fluttered down past her shoulders. It had a dipped sweetheart neckline and gathered slightly at the waist before fanning out and stopping about mid thigh. She elected for a simple pair of pearl earrings tucked away behind her cobalt locks, left down in wavy brushed out ringlets after a good thirty minutes with her curling iron.Dinner was a simple pasta recipe. Nothing fancy. In all honesty, Caitlyn didn’t care about the food itself or felt any particular desire to make something extraordinary. She had an alternative reason for wanting Vi to come over.And no, it wasn’t s@x. Although she wouldn’t be opposed to that either.She began to pace back and forth as she awaited Vi’s arrival, adjusting any small knick knacks and throw pillows as she went. Chowder gave her an unimpressed look from where he was laying on the couch. She ignored him, in no mood to receive judgement from her cat when the woman of her dreams was moments away from arriving.The three soft knocks on the door had Caitlyn freeze in her step, a cold feeling of nerves filling out her chest. She took several deep breaths before padding over to her door, palm shaking slightly against the doorknob as she turned it to finally face her doom on the other side.Caitlyn had already seen Vi in person that day, yet she still wasn’t prepared for this. Vi was dressed in the infamous leather jacket from the photo on Caitlyn’s desk, a simple heather grey ribbed tank top underneath with some low cut black washed jeans. Truth be told, it didn’t matter what Vi wore, Caitlyn was sure she’d look divine in anything.Vi seemed stunned as she stood in Caitlyn’s doorway, her wide eyes flickering up and down Caitlyn’s body. She let out an exasperated breath and Caitlyn was beginning to feel a heat creeping up on her from how her astronaut was staring. It felt extraordinarily similar to this morning, from the first moment Vi had seen her. Only this time, Vi seemed significantly more fl@stered.“Hi.” Caitlyn was the one to break the silence this time, snapping Vi out of her daze.“Hey.” Vi’s voice sounded a bit raw, like she was parched. She quickly cleared it away, that same red from earlier tinging the edges of her pierced ears.Caitlyn bit her lip to hold back a smile, stepping aside to offer Vi space to enter. “Do you want to come in or would you prefer to have dinner in the hallway?”Vi scoffed with an eye roll before stepping inside. “She puts on a s@xy dress and suddenly finds her voice.”Caitlyn giggled as she shut the door behind her. “My mother always did say dressing for success builds confidence.”“Mm. Your mother sounds wise.” Vi continued to openly stare down the expanse of Caitlyn’s body until she glanced suddenly at where Chowder had begun to rub against her own leg . “Oh, hey. If it isn’t the infamous Clam Chowder.”“Yes, my ever so loving furry gargoyle.” Caitlyn rolled her eyes watching as Vi reached down to scratch at the base of Chowder’s neck. “I wouldn’t bother, I’m afraid he only likes… men…”Caitlyn’s words died in her mouth as she watched Vi scoop Chowder up in her arm as if he weighed nothing, cradling him like a baby and proceeding to scratch underneath his furry chin. Chowder stretched pleasantly in her arms, soft purrs resounding from his throat.“Unbelievable.” Caitlyn was completely dumbfounded and slightly betrayed. “He never lets me hold him like that.”Vi smirked, offering a sly shrug. “What can I say? I’m good with-”“Please, spare me.”Vi cackled maniacally, releasing the cat to then shrug off her jacket. Caitlyn sucked in a breath at the sight of Vi’s exposed arms. It took her all the way back to that night she had watched the fitness video, sputtering like a fool and fidgeting with her own fingers as she ogled.Vi tossed her jacket onto the back of a chair at Caitlyn’s kitchen table, smirking to herself but otherwise leaving Caitlyn’s obvious panic unacknowledged. She began to look curiously around Caitlyn’s apartment, taking slow steps as she went about. She suddenly stopped short at the kitchen counter, a curious brow raised as she inspected the metal cloche set upon it. “This looks fancy. What’s under here?”Caitlyn shuffled up to the counter, shyly biting her lip. “It’s a surprise for you.”“A surprise, huh?” Vi eyed the dome suspiciously. “You didn’t have to do anything special for me.”“I wanted to. You’ve worked so hard, you deserve something special and, well, to be honest I’ve had this planned for a long time.”“Well now I’m curious.” She flashed a charming smirk, her fingertips brushing the metal dome. “You gonna keep me waiting in suspense?”Caitlyn hummed, the butterflies in her stomach wildly flapping their wings. “Well it’s supposed to be for later but… I see no harm in showing you now.” Quite the contrary, actually. Caitlyn didn’t think she could wait until later.“Well don’t keep edging me, let’s see it.” Her astronaut leaned casually against the counter, grinning widely at Caitlyn. She looked so effortless and natural in Caitlyn’s apartment that it seemed like she belonged there. It made Caitlyn feel strangely fuzzy and comfortable.Caitlyn steadied her breath and pinched the small knob atop the cloche, pulling it up and out of the way dramatically for the reveal. She watched with bated breath as Vi’s smile slowly fell from her lips, replaced with a stunned look of shocked awe.“Cait… are these-”“They’re probably not exactly the same.” Caitlyn said shyly.  She placed the lid aside, watching as Vi picked up one of the white frosted cupcakes decorated with a caramel swirl and brown sugar crystals.It took Vi a moment to speak, leaving Caitlyn in a frenzied state of anxiety. She twisted her thumbs awkwardly, but allowed Vi to take her time absorbing what she saw before her.“You made my mother’s cupcakes.” Her voice was so soft and awed, an unspoken depth of gratitude and something else Caitlyn couldn’t place present in her eyes.“Well, I tried my best.” She tucked a long wave of hair behind her ear and shrugged. “It took a lot of trial and error. Vander said he was going to bill me for his gym membership because of all the test ones I had him try.”Vi seemed absolutely stunned as she inspected the treat. Her eyes found Caitlyn’s once more and Caitlyn could swear she saw moisture gathering in Vi’s waterline.“Can I try one?”Caitlyn nodded. “Of course. They’re for you, silly.”Vi chuckled softly, Caitlyn watching eagerly as she peeled back the paper along the base and took a bite. Her eyes blew wide, staring disbelievingly at the cupcake as she chewed.Caitlyn fidgeted. “Not too bad?”Vi placed the cupcake back on the platter, shaking her head disbelievingly. “I don’t know how you did it but… they taste exactly like I remember.”“Oh posh, you’re just saying that.”“No. No, I promise I’m not.” Caitlyn was inclined to believe her. There was such raw honesty and gratitude in Vi’s expression, it was hard not to trust her words. “I can’t believe you did this for me…”Caitlyn shrugged with nonchalance. “Like I said, you deserve it.”There was an unreadable expression on Vi’s face, a deep furrow to her brow in focus as she looked at Caitlyn.Caitlyn let out a small giggle, unable to take Vi seriously with icing stuck to her face. “You have frosting-” She reached over and swiped the white smudge from the tip of Vi’s nose, unthinkingly bringing it to her mouth and wrapping her lips around her sugar coated finger.Vi sucked in a sharp breath.Caitlyn froze, immediately able to feel the palpable static of arousal that sparked to life in the short distance between them. Caitlyn’s cerulean gaze bore into Vi’s hungry eyes, and it was then that she made a decision.F@ck her nerves. F@ck starting slow. F@ck the dinner.She’d waited long enough.Caitlyn very deliberately, slowly pulled the finger from her mouth, pursing her lips around it as she went and leveling Vi with the most seductive look she could muster.And then, something in Vi seemed to snap.A strong palm found Caitlyn’s hip, the other sliding around to the back of her neck as she was spun to press her lower back up against the countertop. A shocked expression crossed Caitlyn’s features before it was quickly doused away by Vi leaning into her and pressing their lips together hard.Caitlyn’s brain short circuited for all of half a second before she gasped into the kiss, her own palms immediately reaching for either side of Vi’s face to pull her in further.Caitlyn always thought her first kiss with Vi would be soft, delicate and shy. A slow build up similar to what it had almost been earlier that day at the comm center. But this-This was frantic. Desperate, hungry, and consuming.Caitlyn couldn’t help but whimper as Vi f@ck@ng devoured her lips like a woman starved. Vi’s lips felt and tasted like Caitlyn had always dreamed, better even. Like the sweetness of the cupcake. She found herself completely lost in the way they molded against one another, a shudder snaking up her spine from how Vi gripped at Caitlyn’s hip like she was afraid someone would steal her away.More. Caitlyn needed more.She tilted her head to the side, her fingers tangling into the long magenta strands at the back of Vi’s neck, grunting softly as she pushed back against Vi’s aggression. A sinful moan was pulled from her astronaut’s throat, a curse whispered on her breath in between the chaotic smacking of their lips. Caitlyn gasped in a shaky breath of her own and Vi used the opportunity to lick into her mouth.And suddenly a boundary had been crossed between hungry and frantic, to downright filthy and sinful.The wet sound of their tongues tangling had mixed together with a myriad of shaky huffs of breath and soft whimpers, creating a borderline unholy cacophony of lust. Caitlyn felt herself getting d@mn near drunk off of it, completely lost in the dance of their lips and the push and pull of their flush bodies against one another. She felt a burst of heat below that had her clenching around nothing but the dampness quickly spreading there. All just from the glide of their lips and press of their bodies.Caitlyn could feel all the curves of Vi’s muscles pressing against her, the warmth of her body that Caitlyn had craved for all those months finally enveloping her own. She felt greedy in the ways she wanted more, desperate pleas echoing in her head for Vi to touch her more, devour her more.Vi suddenly broke the kiss and dragged her lips down Caitlyn’s jawline, pressing hard pecks against the skin there as she went. Caitlyn angled her head to the side with an exasperated exhale to give her astronaut full access, her arms tightening around Vi’s neck with an unspoken desperation to be closer.Soft lips began to pull and suck at Caitlyn’s pulse point, soliciting a high pitched and downright needy whine that she didn’t even think possible from her own lips. She could feel Vi shudder in her grasp before moving back up to Caitlyn’s lips, pressing one last hard kiss there but then suddenly breaking it off.“Sh@t-” Vi breathed out against Caitlyn’s lips, exasperated. “I’m so sorry.”Caitlyn blinked, still very much drunk on her arousal but slightly taken aback as her laboured breath came out in heavy puffs. “Sorry? For- for what?”The grip on Caitlyn’s waist tightened, she gasped and arched further into it, pulling a frustrated groan from Vi’s throat. “I was going to wine and dine you first, really I was but- f@ck, how can I possibly hold back when you look at me like that?”Caitlyn swallowed, her arms sliding down to hold either side of Vi’s neck, her thumb brushing against the ink embedded there. “I don’t want you to hold back.”Vi stared deeply into Caitlyn’s eyes. There was a tantalizing intensity swimming in her greyish hues as her nose scrunched cutely with frustration. “Don’t tell me that.” She reconnected their lips again, this time slow, as if she were trying to restrain herself. Caitlyn was beginning to get antsy, impatient as Vi pulled back once more to press their foreheads together instead.“Do you have any idea how long I waited for this?”Despite her growing neediness, Caitlyn smiled softly, now twirling her fingers around the longer strands of Vi’s hair. “Around eight months or so, I’d wager.”“No.” Vi shook her head, her eyes closing and brow furrowing with a newfound sense of focus. “No, it was longer than that. I think… I think I’ve spent my whole life waiting for you.”Caitlyn’s heart ached, that flame of arousal now tinged with a fondness that had her itching to pour her own heart out for Vi. She placed a delicate kiss to the corner of Vi’s lips, her voice laced with a genuine vow of devotion. “You have me now.”Vi swallowed, her resolve seemingly crumbling before Caitlyn’s eyes. “Can I?” She whispered, her eyes searching Caitlyn’s face. “Can I have you now?”Caitlyn licked her lips, her breath a pleading whisper. “Yes.”“And you’re sure it’s not too fast? I know we talked a big game but I don’t want to rush you. Are you sure you want-”“Violet.”Vi blinked. “Yeah?”“I have done nothing but listen to you speak for the last eight months.” Caitlyn’s grip tightened in Vi’s hair, practically clawing at the back of her neck. Vi sucked in a shocked breath. “So now I need you to shut up and f@ck me.”“Sh@t-” Vi practically f@ck@ng growled in response, surging forward to capture Caitlyn’s lips eagerly once more. Caitlyn whimpered, her legs parting and back arching into Vi as an invitation that her astronaut took instantaneously. She slid her rough palms down and behind Caitlyn’s thighs, lifting her effortlessly onto the countertop and slotting herself in between Caitlyn’s legs where she was growing hotter and wetter by the second.Vi’s hands and lips were everywhere, bunching up Caitlyn’s dress on her hips, devouring her lips and down her neck. Caitlyn’s breath fanned out in labored huffs as she tilted her head back, eyes closing and allowing herself to become completely lost in the way her astronaut grabbed at her hungrily like she was downright starved.Vi’s fingers slid beneath the thin straps on Caitlyn’s shoulders, letting the silk fall down as she kissed and sucked down the column of Caitlyn’s throat, no doubt leaving angry dark spots in her wake. Caitlyn slipped her arms from the sleeves, her dress falling easily due to the slippery fabric and gathering around her waist.“F@ck, you’re so beautiful.” Vi murmured. Her strong arm looped behind Caitlyn’s lower back, her palm spreading there in support as she pushed Caitlyn into arching backward. One of Caitlyn’s arms fell back to brace against the countertop so that she wouldn’t fall over while the other held on tight to her astronaut’s shoulder.Vi groaned softly as she began to suck hard at the base of Caitlyn’s neck, slowly dragging her lips down toward Caitlyn’s chest.  God, the anticipation was insane. Caitlyn lifted her hips off the counter, a desperate whine emanating from her throat. She needed Vi between her legs, needed to clench around her fingers, her tongue, f@ck@ng anything.Vi’s free hand met Caitlyn’s hipbone, pushing her back down against the counter. “Behave, Caitlyn.”Caitlyn groaned in frustration. “Please, this is- this is cruel.““So f@ck@ng needy.” Vi breathed out against Caitlyn’s chest, her palm sliding up from Caitlyn’s hip to cup the lace covered plush of her bra. “And here I was gonna take my time with you.”Caitlyn shuddered, relishing in the feeling of Vi’s thumb teasingly grazing along the top edge of her bra, dipping under slightly. Vi smirked. “What was it that you said all those months ago, huh?” She made her way back up to the hollow below Caitlyn’s ear, a sinful whisper on her lips. “That you’d be a good little sl@t for me?”There was a third thing that Caitlyn then discovered about Vi at that moment. Something she probably should have picked up from their intimacy over the comm line, but had chalked it up to the necessities of phone sex at the time.Vi liked to talk dirty.“I-um…” A spark shot down Caitlyn’s spine and gathered in her groin, her thighs squeezing together around Vi but unable to get the friction she needed below.“Well?” Vi’s breath was hot against Caitlyn’s neck. “You gonna be good for me, cupcake?”“Yes.” Caitlyn breathed out, biting her lip and making a show of just how desperately she ached for Vi’s touch.“Wanna hear you say it.”“I’ll- I’ll be good for you.”“Yeah I know you will.“She deftly reached around and unhooked Caitlyn strapless bra with a flick of her wrist, pulling the fabric from Caitlyn’s body and tossing it aside elsewhere.Vi then leaned back to just look.Caitlyn felt so exposed, so spread open and bare for Vi. Her nipples perked up in the cool air they were now exposed to, chest heaving with the frantic breaths she was pulling into her lungs. It would be a lie to say this didn’t heighten Caitlyn’s arousal. She loved feeling exposed but being this way for Vi? Becoming lost once more in the intensity of her astronaut's gaze? It had her practically dripping below.Vi’s arm flexed behind Caitlyn’s back, the other finding its way to the back of her head before lacing into the cobalt strands there. She combed her fingers backward through Caitlyn’s hair, stopping as she got to the base to then twist the locks around her palm and pull.“Ah!” Caitlyn gasped out a cry at the sudden force, her head falling backward at the strength of Vi’s tug, making her back arch sinfully and pushing her chest out further.Vi dove in and closed her lips around Caitlyn’s left nipple, sucking softly for a moment before popping off and flicking her tongue lightly against the reddening peak. A broken cry slipped from Caitlyn’s throat as she stared up at the ceiling with wide eyes. Her fingers dug into Vi’s shoulders for dear life, unable to move or do much else as she was locked in her astronaut’s grasp.Vi’s lips dragged along Caitlyn’s chest to tease and suck at the other peak of her breast with a hungry moan. Caitlyn’s body felt so tight, pulled taut like the strings of a violin for Vi to play. She trembled at the notion, the idea that she was to be toyed with, used by her astronaut.The tension in Caitlyn’s neck snapped once Vi released her hair in favor of gripping Caitlyn’s hip. She bit down gently against Caitlyn’s nipple, ever so slowly gliding her palm along the top of her thigh and slipping under the bunched fabric of Caitlyn’s dress.Caitlyn sucked in a breath once she felt Vi’s fingertips graze the inside of her thigh, moving further up toward where Caitlyn was already f@ck@ng soaked and ready.Caitlyn could feel the dampness that clung to her inner thighs. Once Vi sucked in a sharp gasp from where she was still bent over Caitlyn’s chest, it was obvious she had discovered this as well. “God, you’re so f@ck@ng wet.”“Yes-” Caitlyn spread her legs further apart, resisting the urge to push down against Vi’s fingers. She gave Vi’s shoulder a little tug, pulling her back up to eye level so she could lean in and whisper against her lips. “I’m so wet for you, Violet.”“F@ck.” Violet groaned, gripping at Caitlyn’s inner thigh.  “I’m gonna taste you now, yeah?”“Yes.” Caitlyn whined. “Yes please.”“Let go and lay back, baby. I got you.”Caitlyn trusted the strength in Vi’s arm enough to release her shoulder, falling back slowly until her back hit the cool countertop and arching against it.“Good girl.” Vi breathed out, placing a soft kiss between Caitlyn’s br@@sts and slowly trailing downward. Caitlyn’s body began to tremble the closer and closer Vi got to between her legs. She dropped another soft kiss just below Caitlyn’s belly button, wrapping her fingers around the crumpled fabric of Caitlyn’s dress to pull it down over her legs before spreading them once more.Vi then promptly froze, eyes widening at the sight before her. “Oh my god.” Vi breathed out. “Are these-?”“The ones I told you about, yes.”“Sh@t.” Vi traced her fingers over the blue butterfly shaped lace of Caitlyn’s panties, dragging her thumb down to where the fabric spread to completely expose Caitlyn’s <PRESIDIO_ANONYMIZED_EMAIL_ADDRESS>’s breath became laboured as she experimentally dipped her thumb between the wet folds. Caitlyn gasped, her fingers clawing against the marble beneath her. Vi was taking this at a torturously slow pace but despite Caitlyn’s desperation, she couldn’t fault her for it. This was a lot for them, a culmination of months worth of desperation and desire. It only made sense that her astronaut was a bit wonderstruck.“Vi?”Vi glanced up, her eyes darting all over Caitlyn’s flushed features.“Please.” Caitlyn whispered.And that’s all it took.Vi dragged her middle finger up the center of Caitlyn’s p@ssy, gathering some of the slick there before slipping inside. Caitlyn’s eyes rolled back into her head, unable to hold back the sinful moan she let out or resist the urge to grind her hips down any longer.“That’s it, baby. Taking it so well.” Vi bent down to drop a kiss to the center of the lace butterfly. She slid her free hand underneath Caitlyn’s knee, hiking it up to place her foot on the edge of the countertop. “Stay spread like this for me, yeah?”“Yes.” Caitlyn whimpered, her gut clenching in anticipation for what was to come next.Vi twisted and pulled her finger in and out slowly, her intense gaze locked onto Caitlyn’s as she bent down to press a soft kiss against the hood of Caitlyn’s cl@t before wrapping her lips around the small bud and pulling it gently into her mouth.“Oh my god-” Caitlyn’s body shook, her hips twitching wantonly as Vi sucked at her cl@t and curled her rough finger in deep. She pulled the single digit out for a moment in favor of flattening her tongue and dragging up the entire expanse of Caitlyn’s wet core. She repeated this motion a few times, slowly building Caitlyn up to becoming a whimpering mess right in the middle of her kitchen.Vi moaned hungrily, the vibrations of it buzzing softly into Caitlyn’s warmth. She stared Caitlyn down and suddenly flexed her tongue, pressing it inside of Caitlyn to straight up f@ck her with it.Caitlyn cried out Vi’s name, an echo of it on her lips as if it were something holy. Her shaky palm reached down to lace into Vi’s hair, needing to hold on as she began to move her hips in tempo with her astronaut's ministrations.Vi pulled her tongue out to return her attention to Caitlyn’s cl@t. She brought her fingers back to Caitlyn’s entrance, two this time, and twisted them inside while she sucked, steadily dragging them in a curling motion directly into Caitlyn’s g-spot.“Vi-Violet I can’t-” Her voice broke on a whine, a warmth building below and sending her body into a shaking frenzy as she inched closer to her climax.“Come on.” Vi breathed out in between licking and sucking at where Caitlyn was most sensitive. “C@m on my tongue, baby.”Caitlyn did just that. Her walls clenching down hard around Vi’s fingers as she shook with the magnitude of her @rg@sm. She lay there trembling, back bowed against the countertop as the sparks lit up her abdomen, clenching and pulling her so tight while she trembled with her high. Vi gently stroked her through it with a soothing palm running up the underside of Caitlyn’s bent thigh, humming appreciatively between her legs.There were white spots in Caitlyn’s vision that she blinked rapidly to clear, an astounding wave of relief washing over her like a warm tide. She felt weightless, euphoric with embers of arousal still flickering below.Vi gently slipped her fingers out to straighten up, wiping her mouth off on the back of her hand and bending down over Caitlyn with a soft care and concern in her gaze. She laid her palm against Caitlyn’s cheek, careful to keep the wet fingers from touching Caitlyn’s skin.“Hey, you good?”Caitlyn hummed happily with a soft nod. “Mm, read you loud and clear.”Vi snorted. “Oh my god, stop.”“Comms good and stable. Beginning post @rg@sm phase.”Vi burst in a breathy fit of hysterics, leaning in to capture Caitlyn’s lips in a soft kiss as she shook with her laughter. “You’re so silly after you cum.”“And whose fault is that?” Caitlyn teased. She reached up to grasp Vi’s hand from her cheek, bringing the two fingers Vi had just used to pull blinding pleasure out of her to Caitlyn’s lips.Vi sucked in a gasp as Caitlyn wrapped her lips around the damp fingers, tasting the tanginess of her own juices on them and sucking them off with an appreciative moan.“Holy sh@t.” Vi breathed out, completely mesmerized. She pushed her fingers in further, her hungry gaze narrowing whilst Caitlyn swirled her tongue around the two appendages.Vi swallowed, her brow furrowed in concentration. She pulled her fingers from Caitlyn’s mouth to kiss her instead, immediately pressing her tongue past Caitlyn’s lips. Caitlyn could taste herself on Vi’s lips, surprised to find it was having quite an astounding affect on her. The heat began to build back up slowly, Caitlyn lacing her arms around Vi’s neck and grinding up into her with the greedy desire for more.Vi cursed against Caitlyn’s lips. “How many times can you cum?”“Oh.” Caitlyn fidgeted. “I- I dunno. I’ve never tried more than once before.”“Well we’re gonna fix that.” She suddenly yanked Caitlyn forward by her hips, scooping her up off the counter as if she weighed nothing. Caitlyn squealed, wrapping her legs around Vi’s waist and holding on tightly as her astronaut gripped below her thighs to walk them further into the apartment.“Violet! You shouldn’t be doing this, you’re still recovering.”Vi ignored her, adjusting Caitlyn slightly in her arms. “Bedroom?”Caitlyn gripped Vi’s shoulders tightly, tilting her head in the direction of the doorway to their right.Vi strolled into Caitlyn’s room like it was a walk in the park and gingerly laid her down across the silk sheets. Caitlyn let herself fall backwards, arms spread above her head and a warm glow to her cheeks. Vi positioned herself on the bed on all fours over Caitlyn, gazing down at the expanse of her body with stunned wonder.“I can’t believe you’ve been this gorgeous the whole time.” She placed her palm against Caitlyn’s collarbones, gently dragging it down the center of Caitlyn’s abdomen and then back up to cup her breast, grazing a thumb over her nipple. Caitlyn bit her lip, beginning to squirm underneath Vi as she lit the sparks of arousal once more. “Three ducks in a trench coat my ass.”Caitlyn giggled shyly, reaching up to brush her fingertips along Vi’s cheek. Vi grabbed Caitlyn’s hand and brought it to her lips, pressing a kiss to her palm and then once more to the pulse point on Caitlyn’s wrist. There was something so intimate in the action, like Vi was placing a vow onto Caitlyn’s skin. She ached to do the same in return.Caitlyn’s free hand gripped at the fabric of Vi’s shirt at her waist, tugging twice. “Off.” She pouted. She couldn’t believe Vi was still fully clothed. A downright crime.Vi chuckled and sat back on her heels, gripping the bottom of her shirt but pausing momentarily to glance around the room. Caitlyn frowned.“Sorry, just checking to make sure there’s no flower vases at risk.”Caitlyn groaned and smacked her palms over her face. “Oh my god please.”Vi chuckled, finally pulling her tank top up and away to then follow it up with her sports bra. Caitlyn’s breath caught, her brain short circuiting while trying to process the stunning expanse of Vi’s muscular torso. She reached her fingers out and brushed the tips of them down Vi’s abs, marveling at the way they flexed as she did so.“Beautiful…” Caitlyn murmured, completely in awe.Vi’s ears reddened slightly, her brow furrowing as she sat back and allowed Caitlyn to just feel her. After a moment of quiet filled only with their awestruck breath, Caitlyn found Vi’s gaze once more. Vi was concentrating hard on something, Caitlyn could practically see the gears turning in her mind.“Tell me what you’re thinking?” She asked softly.Vi took the hand Caitlyn had been brushing across her stomach, bringing it up to place a delicate kiss on her knuckles before falling forward to cage Caitlyn beneath her once more.“I’m thinking that with a view like this, I’ll never need to go into space again.”It was just talk. It had to be. Just romantic jargon in the heat of the moment. Caitlyn wouldn’t allow herself to believe Vi would give up her dreams for something as silly as… well, her.She wouldn’t acknowledge it now. She’d chalk it up to the heat of the moment and brush past it.Caitlyn twisted her arms around Vi’s neck to pull her down for another heated kiss. God, she could get lost in the way Vi’s lips moved against hers. Spend hours twirling her tongue around Vi’s and swallowing her moans.An idea suddenly came to Caitlyn, a downright bratty one but amusing to her nonetheless. She reached back to graze her fingertips along Vi’s forearm where it was braced against the bed by Caitlyn’s head, stroking downward until she reached the monitor on her astronaut’s wrist. She pressed the button on the side, a devastatingly frantic beeping resounding through the air.Vi tensed, pulling back from Caitlyn slightly to glare at where Caitlyn’s fingers were wrapped around the monitor. “You little brat.”Caitlyn giggled and pressed the button once more to stop the beeping. “I just wanted to hear it again is all.”Vi sighed, lifting a palm off the bed to brush her thumb against Caitlyn’s cheekbone. “It’s all for you.”The butterflies in Caitlyn’s gut had returned, fluttering softly around with a gentle feeling of love. It was incredible how affected she could be by Vi’s words of devotion, how much she ached to speak her feelings in return.Vi bent down to press soft kisses down the side of Caitlyn’s neck. Where earlier it had been frantic and starved, it was now soft and unbelievably tender, but riling Caitlyn up just the same.“Sh@t.” Vi suddenly cursed, her arms shaking slightly with the effort of holding herself up.“What’s wrong?” Caitlyn grasped Vi’s face in her palms, searching her suddenly paled expression.“I just- I might have overdone it a bit.” Vi breathed out.Caitlyn panicked slightly, shimmying underneath Vi and pushing lightly on her shoulder. “Come on, lay down. You shouldn’t push yourself.”Vi groaned and flopped unceremoniously over onto her back. “F@ck. This vertigo sh@t is so annoying.”“You were in space for a year without gravity. Of course you’re going to be off kilter for a while.”“Still annoying.” Vi turned to look at where Caitlyn had propped herself up next to her. She lifted her arm to stroke the back of her fingers up Caitlyn’s side. “I wasn’t done with you.”Caitlyn bit her lip, eyeing the expanse of Vi’s bare torso. She gingerly returned her palm to Vi’s abs, not missing the way the muscles clenched under her touch. She slowly dragged her fingers up, ghosting them over Vi’s breast with a tantalizingly light touch. Vi let out a shuddering breath and Caitlyn took it as an invitation, slowly grazing over Vi’s nipple and pinching down to roll it between her fingers.“F@ck, Cait-“ Vi breathed out,“I’ll take care of it now.” Caitlyn leaned in to press a kiss to Vi’s collarbone. “Just relax.”Vi did as she was told, letting her eyes fall shut as Caitlyn’s fingertips traced into the divots and curves of her muscles. Caitlyn felt as though she was tracing the lines of a sculpture, firm and yet so soft all at once. It was as if she was carved especially for Caitlyn, embodying everything she had dreamed Vi would be.Caitlyn took her time to graze over the expanse of Vi’s body, something she had ached to do for countless months. She traced her collarbones, across her shoulders and down her arms, up Vi’s sides and across her br@@sts to offer more soft pinches and pulls at her astronaut’s nipples. Vi was a shuddering mess throughout it all, her breath laced with a shaky desperation.Caitlyn sat up and decided she’d had enough of Vi not being fully nude. She popped open the buttons of Vi’s jeans and tugged them downward along with her briefs, the astronaut lifting her hips for a moment to allow Caitlyn to rid the material. Caitlyn then slid her own undergarments down and tossed them aside, leaving both of them completely exposed for one another.Their encounter in the kitchen had been downright feverish, the culmination of months of pining exploding out of them like a shaken bottle of soda finally releasing its cap. Now it was slow, methodical and intimate. Both lost in a state of awe as they took the time to take each other in completely. They were in their own world, locked into a bubble of desire that had Caitlyn in a bit of a trance.She braced herself over Vi, her back arching like a cat in a sinful manner as she hovered over her astronaut. Her hair fell in such a way that created a dark curtain around them before Vi reached up to tuck one side behind Caitlyn’s ear, letting her palm linger there and stroking against Caitlyn’s jawline.Every touch lit a fire under Caitlyn’s flesh and a spark in her gut. She had never felt such a pull towards someone before. It was as if gravity itself had created taught strings that bound them together.Caitlyn very slowly placed her lips against Vi’s, focusing on the feeling of them shaping around one another. She flicked her tongue against the small scar that slashed through Vi’s upper lip and Vi’s grip tightened against her neck, hot breath puffing out in the miniscule space between them.Her fingertips returned to Vi’s flesh, starting at the center of her chest and sliding down, over the ridges of Vi’s abdomen, through the soft patch of dark pink curls and down between her legs.“Caitlyn…” Vi broke their silence with a broken whisper, her legs parting to give Caitlyn access to what she wanted.Caitlyn shushed Vi gently, her fingers parting to trace the outer edges of Vi’s c@nt and spreading the slick moisture that had gathered there. She teased at Vi’s entrance for a bit, watching her astronaut’s expression morph into something intense, almost anguished in her desire.They weren’t kissing, but their lips were ghosting against one another, bated breath mingling in the intensity of the moment. Caitlyn’s fingers slipped between Vi’s wet folds, tracing up and down for a moment until dipping down into the opening and slipping two fingers inside, knowing Vi could take it.Vi’s lips parted on a shuttered gasp against Caitlyn’s. It sparked something new in Caitlyn, an overwhelming desire to pleasure another person that she had never felt in such magnitude. She twisted her wrist with the motion of dragging her fingers in and out, her breath quickening in pace with the intense focus of making this good for Vi.Her astronaut’s arm flexed as she pulled Caitlyn in to connect their lips together one more. Caitlyn angled her head, allowing Vi to simply devour her lips as her hips flexed up into Caitlyn’s touch. The dance of their tongues became messier and messier in time with the increasing pace of Caitlyn’s movements. She angled her palm down, pressing it against Vi’s cl@t and allowing her astronaut to grind up into it.“F@ck.” Vi whimpered against Caitlyn’s mouth, followed by a low moan as Caitlyn sucked her bottom lip between her teeth. “Sh@t- Wait, Caitlyn-”Caitlyn’s motions slowed, her eyelashes fluttering as she blinked at Vi. “Yes?”Vi wordlessly reached between them, bringing her fingers down the center of  Caitlyn’s drenched p@ssy and languidly dragging them along. Caitlyn moaned softly, her limbs trembling slightly as her body shook with anticipation.“Wanna feel you against me.” Vi whispered as she stroked her fingers in between Caitlyn’s folds. “Wanna cum like that, please.”Caitlyn swallowed, a spark of nerves and excitement lighting her up below. “Yes, okay.”She retracted her fingers from between Vi’s legs, parting her own to straddle one over Vi’s hips and line their centers against one another. Vi bent one of her legs, spreading it further to the side so that Caitlyn could easily fit herself between them.Caitlyn wasn’t sure why her heart was pounding at that moment as she ground her hips down, their wet c@nts gliding against one another in a molten heat that shot a jolt straight up Caitlyn’s body.“Oh my god-” Caitlyn cried out. She hadn’t expected it to feel this good. The pace of her hips picked up speed and became frantic, needy whimpers and whines slipping past her throat and mixing with Vi’s own moans of pleasure.“Yeah, just like that.” Vi reached down to grip Caitlyn’s hips, tracing her hipbones and encouraging the gyration of their hips. “You’re so d@mn good, Cait.”Caitlyn pushed herself upright, arching backwards and gripping onto Vi’s thighs as she ground them together. She clenched at the slick feeling, angling her head to the side as she became completely lost in the spine tingling sensation.Vi’s eyes blew wide as they took Caitlyn in while she rode out the high. She cursed under her breath, one rough palm sliding up to grasp at Caitlyn’s breast as her own hips lifted to move in tandem with Caitlyn’s. The hunger in Vi’s eyes, the twitch of her lips and the sheen of sweat on her skin sent a shiver up Caitlyn’s spine, mixing with that climbing white hot feeling below that put a stutter in her hip’s movement.“I’m so close, Vi.” Caitlyn breathed out, her voice absolutely wrecked.“Yeah.” Vi groaned, her breath laboured and body trembling below. “Me too.”“It- it feels so good.” Caitlyn threw her head back, unable to keep the symphony of moans at bay as she got closer to the edge. “God, Violet, I love feeling how wet you are against me-”“Sh@t.” Vi seemed to have found a newfound sense of vigor. She shot up and in an instant their positions were switched, Caitlyn now on her back with her hair splayed out against the sheets. Vi ground her hips down hard and Caitlyn could see those familiar stars once more.“Yes-” She cried out, reaching up to claw at Vi’s shoulder blades. “Vi-Violet, I can’t hold-”“I know, I’m there with you.” Vi ghosted her lips along Caitlyn’s, her body beginning to tremble above. “C@m with me, baby.”Caitlyn cried out against Vi’s lips, hot tears of overstimulation gathering in her waterline as she shook with a climax somehow much more intense than the first. Vi’s body also trembled with the intensity of her own @rg@sm. There was something so intense and special about them reaching that point in unison. It left a fluttery feeling in Caitlyn’s heart, an overjoyed sense of euphoria unparalleled by anything she had felt before.They stayed like that for a moment, shaking and breathing heavily in one another’s arms until Vi’s limbs gave out on her and she collapsed at Caitlyn’s side, remaining close. She kept her grip on Caitlyn’s hip although it had softened significantly, her thumb stroking in soothing circles against where Caitlyn’s hip bone stuck out.As Caitlyn regained her sense of surrounding, she felt a new sort of neediness, a desperation for proximity. She pulled herself toward Vi, uncaring of the sweat coating both of their skin or the slick drying on their fingers. She buried herself in Vi’s neck, nuzzling against the warm expanse of it while Vi tugged at her hip to pull them closer together. Caitlyn became wrapped in a deep understanding of just how much she had needed this, the aching hole in her heart she had yearned to fill for all of those long months finally filling up and overflowing with the warmth of their bodies pressed together.Vi pressed a kiss to Caitlyn’s forehead, her fingers stroking through the now tangled mess of Caityn’s hair as the two let themselves be lost in the comfort and euphoria of their love making.Caitlyn thought back to that first night of pleasure they had over the comm system, the drop and cold feeling she had felt afterward having not been able to hold her astronaut after. She couldn’t help the joyful tear that streaked down her face, pooling against where her cheek met Vi’s skin. She could finally feel her, feel the thrum of her heart and the warmth of her breath.She could feel that Vi was real.Their blissful silence was suddenly interrupted with the rumble of Vi’s stomach.Caitlyn snorted, turning further into Vi’s neck to muffle her laughter as Vi groaned.“Sorry.” Caitlyn spoke softly, still afraid to break the bubble of ecstasy they had created. “We probably shouldn’t have skipped dinner.”“Well I don’t know about you but I had a wonderful meal in your kitchen already.”“Oh my god.” Caitlyn giggled, stroking her palm up Vi’s side. “Well if you’d like some actual food, it should still be warm on the stove.”“Mm. What’s on the menu? Burnt instant mac n’ cheese?”“On second thought, starve.”Vi’s laugh was absolutely beautiful, like the soft sound of wind chimes on a summer breeze. “I’ll happily eat whatever you make me, cupcake.”“Oh good, because I have a pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream in the freezer-”“Nevermind, starvation sounds divine.”The two lost themselves in a fit of laughter, neither wanting to make the first move to actually get out of bed and part from each other’s touch. Vi’s stomach grumbled again and Caitlyn rolled her eyes, being the first to break contact and sliding off the bed to retrieve some clothes from her dresser.She could feel Vi’s gaze on her as she pulled out a simple grey NASA t-shirt and some sweats, no longer feeling the need to bother with the theatrics of a sexy silk dress. She slipped the t-shirt over her head and turned to look at Vi, who was indeed propped up on her elbows simply watching Caitlyn with an awed reverence.Caitlyn quirked a curious brow at Vi. “Do you intend to eat naked?”“That is my favorite pastime.” She winked at Caitlyn, who rolled her eyes fondly in reply. She scooped up Vi’s clothes off the floor and tossed them at her astronaut. Vi feigned like she had been hit with a bullet and fell back dramatically.“You really are a drama queen.” Caitlyn chuckled as she finished dressing. She found herself smiling like a fool as she walked out into the kitchen, giving her hands a good wash before pulling out two bowls to scoop the pasta into.Vi emerged from her bedroom a few minutes later and Caitlyn had to admit, she did miss the view of Vi being naked. Caitlyn was grating some parmesan over their bowls as Vi came up behind her, holding onto her hips and brushing Caitlyn’s hair aside to place a tender kiss to the back of her neck.Caitlyn had to suppress an aroused tremor. She had just climaxed twice and yet she was certain if Vi kept this up she would be built back up again. She turned her head to the side, their eyes meeting before Vi reached around to cup Caitlyn’s cheek and press a drawn out kiss to her lips.Caitlyn sighed, gaining a sudden understanding that if she didn’t put her foot down Vi would most likely spend the rest of her life touching Caitlyn. “Go wash your hands so you can eat.”“Why? That’s just extra flavor.”Caitlyn made a face. “God you are so crass.”Vi chuckled but turned to wash her hands in the sink, accepting her meal from Caitlyn afterward with a kiss to her cheek and a soft thank you. Caitlyn’s butterflies were practically singing at this point.The two sat on the couch to eat, Caitlyn with her legs spread across Vi’s lap. It felt startlingly domestic and cozy, the two chatting pleasantly as they ate. Vi insisted the meal was actually delicious and as much as Caitlyn wanted to believe her, she was sure Vi was most likely exaggerating a bit.“You up for a little trip?” Vi asked, massaging Caitlyn’s calves after she had put aside her bowl that Chowder was now sticking his curious nose in.Caitlyn blinked. “A trip?”“Yeah, I want to take you somewhere.”“Right now?” Vi nodded. Caitlyn pursed her lips. “Are you?”She chuckled softly. “Yeah, I’m good, Cait. Honest.”“Well, I don’t see why not.”The two tidied up their dishes, Caitlyn packing two of the cupcakes she made into a tupperware container to bring along at Vi’s request before they made their way out to the building’s parking lot. Vi led them to where her car was parked, a simple red SUV that somehow suited her. She held the passenger door open for Caitlyn. “Sorry it’s a little dusty in there, hasn’t been driven in a while.”“That’s alright, a little dust never killed anyone.”Vi turned on the radio to emit a soft indie playlist as she drove with one hand on the wheel. Her other was comfortably laid in Caitlyn’s lap, intertwined with Caitlyn’s fingers as she traced the veins on the back of Vi’s hand.After about ten minutes, they pulled into the parking lot of a rather retro looking diner, the lights were off and there were no cars in the parking lot so Caitlyn could only assume it was closed.“Is this Jericho’s?”“Yeah, you still haven’t been?”Caitlyn shook her head. “No, I know it’s your favorite so… I was waiting for you.”Vi chuckled softly. “Always waiting for me.” She popped open her car door, shaking her head at Caitlyn when she made to do the same. Caitlyn frowned for a second before she noticed Vi walking around the front of the car toward her side.“My lady.” Vi grinned, holding the passenger door open for Caitlyn and extending her palm.Caitlyn rolled her eyes with a smile and took Vi’s outstretched hand. “How very butch of you.”“Why thank you. I try my best.”The two walked hand in hand around toward the back of the building. They stopped at an old looking blue metal door, Vi releasing Caitlyn’s hand for a moment to squat down and retrieve a key from under the doormat.“Are we allowed to be doing this?” Caitlyn asked, eyeing Vi suspiciously as she turned the key in the lock.“Of course. We used to hang out here all the time. Jericho doesn’t mind.” She retrieved Caitlyn's hand once more, tugging her inside and up a rickety staircase toward a second door that led to the roof.Vi brought Caitlyn past several large fans and steam chutes, around a brick maintenance shed to the back corner. A smile lit up Caitlyn’s face at the scene spread out before her. There were several old ornate rugs laid out atop each other in a rustic sort of collage, a worn leather couch against the brick wall of the maintenance room and various chairs and pillows. Vi walked over to the couch to flick a switch that lit up several rows of dim patio lights strung above. It was the most cozy space Caitlyn had ever seen.“This is wonderful.” She walked around the space, placing the cupcake container down on a small side table as she observed the random collection of furniture and stopping at the telescope angled up toward the edge of the roof.“My siblings and I would come here a lot to stargaze and study.” Vi began fidgeting with a record player she’d pulled out of a chest near the couch. “It’s a pretty special place for us.”Caitlyn grazed her fingers along the expanse of the telescope, glancing up to the vast view of the stars stretching above her. She couldn’t help but think back on all the times she had gazed up at the sky longing for Vi, a pleasant warmth blooming in her chest knowing that she would no longer feel such a devastating loneliness in the vast darkness.A soft tune began to play from the record player Vi had set up. Caitlyn turned her attention back to her astronaut, who was watching her with a soft smile. She extended her arm out, palm up toward Caitlyn. “Dance with me?”Caitlyn’s heart fluttered in her chest.She bit her lip shyly and approached Vi, slipping her palm in Vi’s outstretched hand. Vi immediately lifted her arm up to twirl Caitlyn in a circle before pulling her flush against the astronaut’s chest. They swayed softly to the tune of the music, Caitlyn’s cheeks practically aching from the brilliant smile on her lips.“Are you sure you’re okay to be doing this?”Vi chuckled, her gaze flickering down to Caitlyn’s lips and back up. “I’m fine, Cait. Really. I just get a little dizzy from time to time.”Caitlyn pouted. “You know you didn’t have to push yourself through recovery for me.”“Yeah, I did.” There was a firm resolve to Vi’s voice. “I couldn’t wait any longer to see you, it was driving me mad.”Caitlyn hummed, her fingers lacing into the hair at the base of Vi’s neck. The two became lost in each other, wrapped in a bubble of bliss under the stars as they swayed. Caitlyn wasn’t sure if she had ever been as happy for a moment in her life as she was then.“Oh, I brought you something.”Vi stopped to reach into her jacket pocket, pulling out a small silver chain bracelet with alternating star and moon charms dangling off of it. She took Caitlyn's wrist and secured the chain around it, leaving Caitlyn stunned beyond words.She inspected the small charms and the unusual link of the chain. “Did you… make this?”“I did, yeah. Up on the space station.”Caitlyn’s heart jumped into her throat.“How?”Vi quirked a brow at her. “Remember that goo you forced me to make?”Caitlyn blushed at the memory, she still felt a bit guilty about that. Then again, it did finally get Vi to confess to her feelings. “Yes.”“Well the ratio was way off. Way too much water. It turned more into clay than it did cement so I was able to mold a couple of little charms out of it. The chain was from some supplies we had on the station.” She scratched at the shaved side of her head, an action Caitlyn had heard a few times over the communications line but never seen in person until now. “Do you like it?”“It’s perfect.” Vi always left Caitlyn completely bewildered and breathless. Speaking with this woman had quite literally been her job for over half a year and yet now she was rendered speechless. “I love it so much. I can’t believe you made this for me.”“I told you I’d whip something up.” She retrieved Caitlyn’s palm, her free hand coming to rest against Caitlyn’s hip as they began to sway to the music once more.Caitlyn suddenly became overwhelmed with emotion, the events of the day finally crashing down on her like a tidal wave. Much as she tried, she couldn’t help the tears that gathered quietly in her waterline, spilling down her cheeks in thin streaks. Vi’s brow furrowed, concern painting her features. She cupped Caitlyn’s cheek ever so delicately, like she was worried Caitlyn would break at any moment.“Hey, what’s wrong?” Her voice was so soft, like it had been when she first greeted Caitlyn that morning. It only spurred on Caitlyn’s overflow of emotion.“I’ve just… I’ve missed you.” Caitlyn whispered, a gentle smile forming on her tear streaked cheeks. “Before I even knew you… I missed you.”Vi’s shoulders lost their tension, her features relaxing into one of understanding and empathy.“I’m here now.” She said, leaning forward to rest her forehead against Caitlyn’s.Caitlyn closed her eyes, allowing herself to take in this moment, to allow herself to go through the motions of how she had been feeling throughout the day. The cumulation of her anxiety, relief, desire, and love all swirling together in a perfect storm that drove her thunderous heartbeat alight within her chest.She looked into Vi’s eyes for a moment, finding herself unable to say the words she desperately wanted to convey to her astronaut but hoping, praying that Vi could see it in her gaze.The fact that Caitlyn was so desperately, hopelessly in love with her.Vi could see it. Caitlyn could tell by the way her gaze smoldered and her thumb brushed against Caitlyn’s lower lip.They weren’t ready to speak it into existence yet, not with the swirling array of emotions their day had brought forth, but Caitlyn knew Vi wouldn’t keep her waiting long. Not again.And as they swayed to the soft tune upon that rooftop, Caitlyn came to a realization.It didn’t matter that Vi couldn’t bring her the stars and the moon. It would pale in comparison to this moment.For there was nothing in the universe more valuable than the astronaut she finally held in her arms.
  
  

    
      
        
        
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