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“Lucy, that’s huge! It’s never going to fit.”
“Heh, that’s what she said,” Lucy snickered. She straightened up, leaning against the Christmas tree she’d been trying to force through the apartment door. “And you, of all people, know I am amazing at getting big things in tight spaces.”
“How did you even get it up here?” Kate absently stroked her fingers over the tree as she peered out the blocked doorway, trying to picture Lucy getting it from the top of the car into the elevator.
“It was not easy, let me tell you.” Lucy waved her arms around, before pulling a hair tie off her wrist to pull her dark curls back into a ponytail, so they’d stop getting in the way. “I did the training, to learn how to carry things a lot bigger and heavier than me, even fireman carried Jesse through the bullpen, just to prove that I could, but Jesse was at least somewhat foldable, this tree…not so much.”
Kate studied the situation carefully. “I’m going to move anything breakable out of the path of the tree, then we’ll see if we can sort of force the branches down a bit at a time, and slide it in, inch by inch.”
Lucy cackled at the look on Kate’s face when she realized what she’d said. “That’s what she said!”
“You know what, you and the tree can just live out in the hall now.”
“But babe,” Lucy smirked at Kate before breaking into a full grin, “if I’m living in the hall, how will I be able to slide it in. Inch. By. Inch.”
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Snuggled on the couch, they admired the tree now situated in the pot that Kate had gone downstairs to get from Lucy’s car, after Lucy declared that her arms might fall off if she had to carry anything else up to the apartment. The side with the smushed branches was hidden against the wall.
“Where are your Christmas decorations?” Lucy asked, tilting her head back to look at Kate, pressing a kiss to the underside of her jaw. “I’ve been all over this apartment, and I’ve never seen a single box labelled ‘Christmas’. Oh, do you have some kind of secret storage locker, where you hide everything you don’t want me to see?”
“All the apartments have one,” Kate said. “I’m pretty sure I told you about it when you moved in. They’re down in sub-basement level two. It’s not a secret Lucy, you can go in my storage locker anytime.”
Kate slapped her hand over Lucy’s mouth before her budding smirk had finished forming. “No. You’re not saying anything right now. It’s not even good innuendo.”
Lucy kissed the palm of Kate’s hand, before pulling it away from her mouth and holding it in both of her own. “So that’s where the decorations are?”
Kate shrugged, a sad look flitting across her face. “I don’t actually have any. When I was kid, we never got to decorate our own trees. My parents paid for someone to bring them in and set them up. All the ornaments were silver and pale blue, in a matte finish, so they didn’t even shine. I remember one year, I think I was eight, we were out shopping, and there was a stall selling ornaments with names on them. There was one, dark green and so shiny, that said ‘Kate’ in sparkly red letters. As soon as I saw it, I had never wanted anything more. My mother must have noticed me looking, because she just said ‘things like that don’t belong on our trees Katherine’, and led me away.” Kate slipped her free arm around Lucy’s shoulders, pulling her closer. “I always told myself that when I was a grown-up, I would get a tree and put anything I wanted on it, but it just never happened. This is the first Christmas tree I’ve had since I moved out of my parents’ house.”
“We had people decorate most of our trees too.” Lucy said. “But we had one in the playroom that was ours to do whatever we wanted. Way too much tinsel, the thick fuzzy kind, and that silver stuff in the individual strands. Ornaments everywhere until the tree was almost tipping over. My sister used to make us do those popcorn garlands, where you’d string that coloured candy popcorn with a needle and thread. And every year, we’d get in a fight because I’d be eatin’ the popcorn instead of making my garland. Then, when we’d reached the point where we’d be tryin’ to stab each other with our popcorn needles while our brothers cheered us on, my mom would come in with mugs of hot chocolate. It was so good, she made it the Filipino way, where you get tabliya, these little tablets of pure ground cacao, and stir it into hot milk. I don’t think you could get them in Texas back then, but she had some family still in the Philippines, and they’d bring it over when they came to visit.”
Lucy grabbed her phone, bringing up Google. “I haven’t had it in over ten years, but I can still remember the taste. I bet you can buy authentic tabliya online now, I’m gonna see if I can get some delivered before Christmas.”
Lucy finished her online order, plugged her phone into the charger by the couch, and climbed into Kate’s lap. “I was chatting with Hina the other day, and she told me there’s a pop-up Christmas market in Pearl City this weekend. We should go, get some ornaments, drink holiday themed drinks, pretend we’re in a big gay Hallmark Christmas movie. But right now, I’m going to take a shower, if you would like to join me, and when we’re done, I’m going to lay you out on the bed, and remind you just how good I am at getting things in tight spaces, inch by inch.”
Lucy laughed as Kate groaned at her words, kissing her quickly, before hopping down and sauntering toward the bathroom, slowly removing her t-shirt as she went.
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Kate settled back on the bed, propped up against a couple of pillows, blonde hair splayed out across them. A smile, slow and soft, spread across her face, as she watched Lucy, sitting at the end of the bed, looking down at her naked body like it was a wonder she was seeing for the first time, not something she saw every day. She knew she still looked at Lucy the same way.
Spreading her legs, she raised a single eyebrow in invitation. (“I’ve always had a thing for a single eyebrow raise,” Lucy had once confessed to Kate. “Started with Scully on The X-Files. I used to get a little bit flustered whenever Tennant did it.”)
Lucy grinned, crawling toward Kate, pushing her legs further apart as she got comfortable between them. She nipped lightly at the skin just below Kate’s bellybutton, then shuffled back a little, until she was right where she wanted to be. Hooking Kate’s legs over her shoulders she licked over her slit, softly teasing, until a breathy ‘Lucy’ had her parting Kate’s lips with her tongue, swiping from her entrance to her clit. Wrapping her lips around Kate’s swollen clit, she sucked and licked at it, until Kate was breathless and moaning, legs tightening around Lucy’s shoulders.
Knowing Kate was on the verge of cumming, Lucy wiggled out from under Kate’s legs, and rolled off the edge of the bed, grabbing the harness and sparkly red dildo she’d put aside earlier. (“It’s festive, Kate. ‘Tis the season”). Strapping in, she slicked a bit of lube over the dildo, and climbed back on the bed, hovering over Kate, who leaned up for a kiss as Lucy nudged the dildo against her pussy, pushing in the tip, withdrawing, pushing back in a little further. “Hey, Kate,” Lucy whispered, in her best seductive voice, as she pulled out and pushed back in, “inch by inch.”
Kate snorted out a surprised laugh against Lucy’s mouth, smacking her ass, urging her to go faster. Lucy pushed forward as Kate raised her hips to meet her, burying the full length of the dildo in Kate’s pussy. Kate slung a leg over the small of Lucy’s back, opening herself to Lucy’s thrusts.
“Faster, Lucy,” Kate pleaded, voice catching as she clenched around Lucy, hips jerking in small frantic movements.
Lucy fucked into Kate harder and faster, the flush starting to cover Kate’s skin a sign she was about to cum.
Kate pressed open mouthed kisses along Lucy’s neck, panting Lucy’s name as came, collapsing back against the pillows. Lucy shared a few lazy kisses with Kate before pulling out, and sliding onto the bed beside her.
“Take that off,” Kate said, gesturing toward the dildo, “then come up here”, gesturing toward her face. “I want to eat you out.”
Lucy rushed to the bathroom to take off the strap, putting it in the sink to be cleaned later. Hurrying back, she straddled Kate with a teasing grin, rubbing against Kate’s abs, until she grabbed Lucy’s ass and started tugging her forward. Lucy laughed, lowering herself over Kate’s mouth, as Kate wrapped her arms around Lucy’s thighs, pulling her closer, running her tongue through Lucy’s folds, licking at her clit.
Lucy bucked her hips forward, twining her hands in Kate’s hair, tugging lightly, knowing Kate knew what she wanted. Kate teased Lucy’s entrance with her tongue, pushing inside. Lucy started grinding against her, riding Kate’s tongue, Kate reaching a hand up to slide her fingers over Lucy’s clit. It wasn’t long before Lucy was cumming in Kate’s mouth, Kate lapping at her wetness, leading her though a couple of smaller orgasms.
After a quick bathroom break to clean up, they cuddled up together in bed, falling asleep quickly, Lucy curled around Kate’s back.
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Lucy and Kate wandered around the pop-up Christmas market, reusable canvas bags already half-filled with new decorations and gifts for the team.
Kate followed Lucy to a stall selling gingerbread milkshakes in Christmas themed glasses, the rims of the glasses coated with crushed ginger biscuits, and decorated with little gingerbread people. “It’s still so weird to me, to be Christmas shopping in sunglasses and shorts,” she said as they waited in line.
“I’m certainly not complainin’,” Lucy said, leering at Kate’s long tanned legs, and taking a quick peek at the way her shorts hugged her ass.
“Awww…” Kate leaned in for kiss, that was coming very close to being inappropriate for a public event, when they were interrupted by a throat loudly being cleared.
They spun around to see Kai leaning against a Santa sleigh, grinning at them. “Lucy, Whistler. Tell me you’re not about to buy a gingerbread milkshake.”
With an affectionate smile, Kate slung an arm around Lucy’s shoulder, narrowly missing smacking her in the side of the head with one of the bags she was carrying. “Lucy is. I’m going with the choc-mint with Christmas sprinkles.”
Lucy poked her tongue out at them both. “Y’all have no sense of adventure.” Making it to the front of the line, she ordered for herself and Kate, passing a couple of her bags over to Kai to hold until they made their way over to one of the picnic tables scattered around the market.
“Have you seen Hina at her friend’s art stall yet?” Kai asked, settling on the bench next to Lucy. “They’re also selling pie.”
Lucy nodded, ponytail bouncing, “Yeah, we were there about half an hour ago. Kate bought a painting of the ocean to hang in her office.”
“And two of Hina’s guava pies,” Kate added, with a look on her face that was usually reserved for Lucy.
“So you like eating Hina’s pie?” Kai said, nudging Lucy’s shoulder as she choked a little on her milkshake.
“It’s so good,” Kate gushed, “the filling has this amazing tangy sweetness…” she trailed off as Kai and Lucy started giggling, the tips of her ears going red, ducking her head to hide her small smile, more pleased than embarrassed that Kai was now comfortable enough to tease her the way he would Lucy.
She looked back up in time to see Lucy smack Kai on the back of his head. “Ow!” Kai reached up to rub the spot Lucy had hit. “What was that for?”
“You know that’s what Hina would do if she heard you talkin’ like that. I was just doin’ it for her.”
“If you don’t mind me asking,” Kate said, “have you and Hina ever been a thing?”
Kai grimaced. “That’d be weird. It’d be like dating Lucy.”
“I am an awesome girlfriend,” Lucy glared at Kai, “you would be lucky to date someone like me.”
“You know I didn’t mean it like that.” Kai looked back over at Kate. “I love Hina, but she’s like a sister. I could never think of her like that.”
“Awwwwwww, you think of me as a sister….” Lucy leaned into Kai, a bright smile on her face.
“I didn’t say that. I said Hina’s like a sister”
“Yeah, but I think you meant it about me too.”
Kate watched them bicker back and forth, Kai stealing one of the gingerbread people from Lucy’s milkshake glass, Lucy trying steal it back. Basking in her contentment, until her phone rang, disturbing the mood.
She walked away to answer the call, returning a few minutes later, apologizing to Lucy that she’d been called in to work, to deal with new information on case she was working.
“You stay here though,” she told Lucy. “I know there’s some more stalls you want to look at, and food you want to try. And you don’t want to waste your new t-shirt on just a couple of hours.”
Lucy looked down at her shirt, an image of Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Squirtle and Charmander decorating a Christmas tree. “This is a great shirt, and more people should see it. Are you sure?”
“Of course. I’ll just grab my go bag out of the trunk, so I can put on something a little more professional when I get to the office, and I’ll order a car to take me in.”
“I can hang with Luce for a bit, she can ride home with me, if she wants” Kai stood up from the table, ready to help with the bags, Lucy walking around to Kate’s side.
“I’m fine with Kai. Go save the world.” Lucy pulled Kate in for a kiss and some light groping before sending her on her way.
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Lucy and Kate sat on the floor in front of the tree, unpacking bags from the market, Kate pretending not to notice the box that Lucy had snuck under the coffee table.
“I like to start with the thick fuzzy tinsel, because you can tuck it back into the branches leaving room for everything else, and still see it,” Lucy said, picking up the bundles of red, purple and green tinsel she’d pulled from one of the bags. “Then the shiny bauble type things, fill in the gaps with the little wooden and plastic decorations, chuck on some of the silver strand tinsel, then finish with candy canes on the ends of the branches. Easy for eating and replacing. But, if you have any other ideas, we can go with those.”
Kate looked up from the little wooden surfing Santa ornament she was playing with. “Your way sounds good. Let’s get started.”
Two hours later the tree was almost finished. Lucy sat on Kate’s shoulders, making her tall enough to put the star on top of the tree.
When the star was firmly in place, Kate shifted her hands from where they’d been resting just below Lucy’s knees to keep her steady, sliding them up Lucy’s thighs, skimming her fingers just under the bottom of Lucy’s shorts.
“Wait!” Lucy put her hands over Kate’s stopping them from going any further.
“Really?”
“Yep. One more thing to do.” Lucy swung herself down from Kate’s shoulders, and crouched down by the coffee table, to get the box she’d hidden earlier. “I know I said shiny stuff before the other ornaments, buuuuuut….” She flipped open the lid of the box, revealing two shiny, round baubles. One dark green with ‘Kate’ written across it in sparkly red letters, the other bright red, with ‘Lucy’ written on it in sparkly green. “After you left, I saw a stall making these personalized ornaments. I just had to get them for our first Christmas together.”
“Lucy.” Kate’s voice was soft and happy. She teared up, just a little bit, overwhelmed with how loved she felt, and how she loved Lucy so much. Taking the box from Lucy, she put it on the coffee table so she could wrap her in a tight hug.
After they separated, Kate picked up the box, turning back to the tree. “Where should we put these?”
“On the kitchen counter for now.” Lucy took the box back, heading for the counter, placing it carefully in the center when she got there.
“Why?” Kate asked, with that adorable confused look she sometimes got.
“I really want to fuck you under the Christmas tree,” Lucy said with a grin, “and I don’t want to risk these getting broken, if we accidentally knock something too hard.”
“Oh. Yes! I want that too.” Kate started stripping off her clothes, tossing them on the couch, Lucy laughing at how eager she was.
Lucy went to get a towel to put down on the floor in front of the tree, along with her sparkly red strap. Returning, she dumped them on the coffee table, and turned to face a now completely naked Kate, who grabbed the hem of Lucy’s t-shirt, and started lifting it up. “This needs to come off. I feel like Squirtle’s looking at my boobs.”
“Squirtle has good taste.” Lucy raised her arms, letting Kate pull the t-shirt over her head, wiggling out of her shorts and underwear as soon as her shirt and bra were gone.
Kate spread the towel on the floor, motioning for Lucy to lay down on it.
When Lucy had gotten herself comfortable, Kate lowered herself onto Lucy, covering Lucy’s body with her own, kissing her deeply, slipping a leg between Lucy’s thighs, pressing up against her pussy, feeling Lucy’s arousal start spreading.
Kate moved slowly against Lucy, until her hips started twitching up, and she was gasping softly into Kate’s mouth.
Breaking the kiss, Kate nipped, licked and sucked her way down Lucy’s neck, over her collarbone, until she could take one of Lucy’s nipples into her mouth, curling her tongue around the hardened nub, as she slotted her hand between their bodies, finding Lucy wet enough to take three fingers. Rubbing her thumb over Lucy’s clit, she thrust in and out until Lucy was clenching around her, head tipped back, fingernails scratching over Kate’s back.
Kate withdrew her fingers, bringing them to her mouth to suck them clean, cuddling into Lucy’s side while Lucy caught her breath.
When she could breathe properly again, Lucy gently pushed Kate off the side of the towel, standing and dragging it out from under the tree. “I want to watch you ride me,” she explained to Kate, “so you’ll need the space, unless you want to be hitting your head on the branches and getting tinsel in your hair.”
Lucy quickly strapped up, and sat back on the towel, leaning back on one elbow, legs stretched out in front of her, her other hand wrapped around the base of the strap. With a cheeky grin, she looked over at Kate. “Come sit on my lap and tell me what you want for Christmas.”
Kate slowly lowered herself onto the strap, Lucy moving her hand to wrap it around Kate’s hip, thrusting up as Kate ground down against her. Kate slipped her fingers over her clit as she rode the strap, raising up and dropping down harder and faster until she came, collapsing forward against Lucy’s chest.
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Cleaned up, and dressed in shorts and tank tops, Kate and Lucy hung their special ornaments on the tree. “Lucy?”
“Yeah, babe.”
“I know it’s short notice, and we’re already doing the Christmas Eve family dinner and gift exchange at Tennant’s, but do you think the team might come here for a New Year’s Eve gathering?”
“Yeah, I bet they’d love it.” Lucy nodded enthusiastically. “It might get a bit awkward at midnight, when I bend you over the couch and fuck you while the ball drops, ‘cause you know, start the year the way you want to end it and all that, but with enough fancy canapés it’ll be fine.”
Kate laughed. "I love you so much," she said, leaning down to meet Lucy in a kiss.
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