But He Stopped Pt 2

My Heart Skipped a Beat

"That was beautiful." I rasped, blinking. "I can see why you cry at the end."

"Hancock you sap." She sighed, I could hear her stretch.

"What would you like for Christmas?" I asked, immediately kicking myself.

"I don't know, John."

Heat flooded through me. Fucking Hell. Say it again.

"I want a lot of things. I want old creature comforts, I want my son, I want my- I wanted my husband. Now..." Her silence was heavy, my brain grasped at the implications. "Now I think I just don't want to be alone anymore. I'm glad I have you Hancock. I really, truly am. But I just... the chemistry, the sexual stuff... It feels like I'm cheating on Nate." She laughed, "We didn't know the end of the world was coming. We heard about it on the television, radios, the drills at work and schools and grocery stores even. But it always just seemed like it was far away, we were untouchable. We had just won the war for fucks sake. If we had known what would happen Nate and I probably would have been together at least once more before everything but... as it stands, it had been nearly a month since we had been intimate. Between me healing and the baby and his job we just never made time for us. Not in that way."

I heard the water splashing, I heard her feet slapping against the cement. Her head poked out from the door way.

"What about you?"

My mouth was cotton dry. Her hair was wet and long, sticking to her shoulders and chest in dripping tendrils, plastered to her head in odds lumps. Her skin looked so fresh and soft, her lips were plump and she was a little pink from the waters heat. I watched a drip trail down her cheek, her chin, her neck, her collar bones and end at the towel she had wrapped around herself. I met her eyes, saw the knowing in them. She knew she was teasing me, she knew I wanted her. She liked it. Whether she admitted it, whether she knew it - she liked me wanting her.

"That's a good look for you."

She blushed, her chest growing pink before it spread up and settled on her cheeks and ears. But she didn't move.

"It's been a long time, Sister." I closed my eyes reminiscing. "Five years at least, nearly six."

When I looked back at her she looked away quickly, more red than before. I checked to make sure the towel I had draped over my lower half was still there. It was. And I wasn't hard or anything. I looked back at her, her eyes were wide and she was scarlet. I grinned.

"Want a preview?" I moved my hand to the corner of the towel and began lifting it slowly.

"NO!" She screamed, ducking back into the room and closing the door. "Just... what about your 'tours'? I thought you were... popular."

I laughed at the whole scenario. "Are you jealous, Sister?"

"No!" She wailed, I heard her getting back into the tub, "Just let me be! I'll be out soon."

"Alright, I guess I'll have to figure something out for you then."

"What?"

I shrugged, "I don't know. But you'll like it."

~*~*~

She emerged from the bathhouse looking stunning. I'd snuck a dark blue sequined dress into her locker, removing her armor and traveling clothes. Her teeth were chattering as she approached me.

"H-Hancock, What i-is this?"

I was dressed in a simple pair of jeans and a white shirt. Codsworth and some of the other settlers had helped me put up lights for Christmas. We'd even decorated a tree and put it up in the middle of town for her. Music played softly throughout the town, radios all turned on and tuned to the same station. It echoed throughout the small town.