The Crown

Are You Ready?

Antonia was woken up a few hours later by the light of the sun, shining brightly on her face. She cracked open one eye and groaned softly, she sunk deeper into Victoria's embrace, who was still fast asleep. Antonia smiled and kissed Victoria's forehead lightly. "Mornin' Vic." Was the last thing the dark haired woman whispered before finally untangling herself from the other's everlasting warmth.

The woman let out a quiet giggle as she searched around for her black dress. After strapping it on gently, (and making sure her hair looked at least half-decent) she finally turned and looked at Victoria. Antonia's eyes darted around, looking for something to cover her lover with. A deep purple blanket stood on a plastic chair, near one of the rose bushes.

She made sure Victoria was tightly wrapped in the purple cocoon before carefully picking her up, starting her way to the master bedroom.

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Antonia smiled as she finally started to see movement within Victoria's resting place. She moved to help Vic out, realizing she herself was floating, again. A soft sigh escaped her as Antonia untied the other woman's cocoon.

"I'm warm." Whined Victoria. Antonia giggled without meaning to.

"I'm assuming you'd want this, dear Torie." Said the dark haired of the two, somewhat teasingly, as she tilted towards Victoria a glass of cold water. The blonde nodded wordlessly. Antonia held the glass closer to her as Vic's lips parted, to let the soothing water flow in. They both were holding the glass by now, hands touching. This made Victoria's cheeks have a slight pink coloring.

When the water was drunk, Antonia simply threw the cup over her shoulder, making it shatter against the hard floor. "You are always so careless" Said the shorter of the two fondly. The response was immediate: "Oh? But you like a little thrill once in a while, don't ya?" Victoria leaned in to kiss the smirk off her partner's face, but before she could, the woman was gone.

The blonde yelped as her world was suddenly thrown into darkness. Her hands hurried to take the offending object off her face. By the feel of it, it was some sort of fabric, she threw it to the side before opening her eyes. The first thing she saw was her lover's happy grin. "Put it on, Torie!" Said an gleeful Antonia. "We're going on an adventure!"

Victoria laughed as she was pulled by the hand towards her car. When Antonia asked her to go to Richard's for a short visit, she just... couldn't deny those puppy dog eyes anything.

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"Ok Torie. I'll handle this one on my own." Victoria started to protest, but Antonia hushed her with a soft kiss. "Please Torie, I need time alone with... him." Victoria finally nodded her agreement.

Antonia waited until Victoria's car was fully gone before stepping on the pebble covered path, heading towards her old summer house.