"Kari you can't do this to me!" The princess complained as she stood in front of her wife, arms crossed against her chest. Frustration radiating from her like a bad nuclear cloud. "She hates me!" Seikari, despite being lectured, chuckled from where she sat at the foot of the bed, looking up at her lover with amusement. "Jane, darling, Jay doesn't hate you."
"Yes she does!" The woman cried again, louder than the last. "She has no reason to like a stranger who just so happened to waltz into her life uninvited!"
Seikari frowned at this. It was true that the relationship between her and Jane had been kept silenced. Seikari herself had disappeared after certain family affairs. Her family had not heard from her, not even her own children from a previous marriage had a clue to where she might have been. Until the day she gave out wedding invitations, Seikari Calburn had been incognito.
Slumping next to her, Jane whimpered into the feathered comforter and muttered something that roughly translated to; "I can't do this."
Seikari took her place and laid next to her wife, pushing the rebellious strands of dirty blond from her face, smiling contently while doing so.
"You've fought the front lines of the strongest battalion throughout a foreign country-that you own, by the way- and you're one of the strongest women I know. And you're telling me that you can't go pick up your step daughter from the airport because she 'doesn't like you' ?"
Jane flushed at this and frowned. "You make me sound like a coward," she mumbled as she began to look away, but Kari had caught her by the chin, gently bringing her back.
"You're everything but a coward. You're strong, beautiful, intelligent, elegant, graceful, did I mention gorgeous?"
Jane giggled as she allowed the other blond to place playful kisses all along her jawline. "Beautiful and gorgeous are one in the same, darling."
"No they aren't."
"Oh?" Jane asked, her brow cocked as her lover began to get over her, her lips curved into a sly smirk. "Care to explain?"
"Beautiful," began Seikari, kissing a trail down to Jane's collarbone, "is how you looked ten minutes ago," She then took a hold of Jane's hips and pulled her in close to straddle her, careful not to hurt her. Grinning, she leaned down so their lips barely touched, "Gorgeous is how you look right now."
The smaller woman purred and leaned in for the tempting kiss, but was left pouting as her wife pulled away from her.
"So will you do it?"
Jane pursed her lips together and sighed, defeated. "Fine. But i'm not leaving here without that kiss."
Some time past before the two women got dressed and ventured off on their separate paths.
Jane driving miles out to pick up her step daughter, who had flown down from her college to celebrate her birthday with her family, while Kari had taken the liberty to drive back into her home town to run an errand.
"I really appreciate this, Saber. It means a lot" A deeper, yet playful tone replied through the phone's speaker.
"Yeah yeah, just hurry up. Mom wants to see you."
At the mention of their mother, Kari's stomach suddenly felt queasy and her chest tightened, the hands on the wheel suddenly becoming clammy and unsteady.
"I don't think mom wants to talk to me right now," she muttered, glancing over to the passenger seat where a brown envelope lay unopened. "Not after what happened."
"That's bullshit and you know it. Mom really misses you, Kari. We all do."
The woman said nothing to her brothers plea, her eyes on the road while her mind drifted elsewhere. It wasn't until he began to talk did she snap out of it.
