UNITED IN BLOOD
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE !

Smut warning in the second part;
read at your own discretion.

DANIELLE OFTEN WONDERED, GOING against everything inside of her that screamed to just forget it, she wondered how Abby was doing. The two had once been friends, or perhaps acquaintances was a better word as it hadn't been very difficult for the blonde to leave Danielle for dead.

Twice.

   But despite her best efforts, she still found herself curious as to how her former friend was getting on. Was she still alive? Was she still travelling with that Seraphite kid? Did they make it safely to wherever they were going? So many questions ran through her mind.

As she stood in the kitchen, watching as the pot that was filled with carrots, potatoes and peas bubbled, she once again found herself wondering about the Anderson girl. She missed their conversations about the latest novel they had read, discussing the characters and the flaws of the storyline. Danielle had always appreciated the camaraderie that existed between her and Abby.

It was just gone now. She wondered if Abby thought about her as much as she thought about Abby. Probably not.

   "Hey." The sound of her lover's voice caused the brunette to spin around, leaning her body against the countertop as she looked over at the redhead.

   Ellie, who was dressed in her usual attire of a pair of jeans, a plaid shirt and a pair of white socks that would inevitably become stained, held up a box, which looked dusty and extremely old, lightly shaking it to introduce the collection of parts that tumbled about inside. "Found this game earlier and was wondering if you wanted to play it after dinner."

   Danielle's hands came up to rub at her face, massaging her temples and forehead attempting to ease some of the tension that had no doubt built up along her brow line. She forced out a, "Yeah sure." in reply.

   The unenthusiastic response from the Linden girl caused a frown to form on Ellie's face. Her eyebrows furrowed as she asked, "You okay?"

   "I'm fine. I think I'm just a little down today." Danielle admitted with a shrug before she used her upper arm strength to lift herself up onto the free space upon the countertop, sitting down and bringing her to a taller height.

   The auburn-haired Williams girl set aside the game box, leaving it for another time, before slowing walking further into the kitchen until she stood just before Danielle. "Anything I can do?"

   "Hold me?" Danielle reached out to grab hold of the soft cotton fabric of Ellie's shirt, tugging on the redhead until she moved to stand right in between Danielle's open legs. "Never leave me."

A smirk appeared on Ellie's lips as her hands fell to Danielle's hips. "I think I can do that."

   "Then I'll be a very happy woman." The Linden girl cheekily grinned while leaning forward to press a quick kiss upon Ellie's cheek, her lips simply brushing over the surface of the redheads skin.

   The two remained in silence for the next few seconds, just enjoying each other's company. As the pot on the stovetop next to them continued to simmer, Danielle decided to breach a topic that had gone unspoken in their home for quite some time.

"I went to visit Tommy earlier." The brunette announced, immediately sensing the shift in atmosphere. The room grew slightly colder as Ellie took in Danielle's words.

The auburn-haired girl unknowingly began to tighten her grip on Danielle's hips, the flesh of the brunettes hips becoming pinched between Ellie's fingers. "How's he doing?"

   Danielle knew how difficult a topic Tommy was to Ellie. She loved him and viewed him like family but the redhead found herself constantly blaming herself for how things went down in Seattle. She blamed herself for Abby getting away, for all of the injuries everyone had suffered. In Ellie's eyes, Seattle was a failure because of her impulsive need for revenge. Instead of taking everything and everyone into account before jumping into action, Ellie had been blinded by her need for blood, which explained her inability to even look Tommy in the eyes when they returned to Jackson.

She believed she had failed him. Failed Joel.

Danielle simply shrugged her shoulders, her frown lines becoming creased. "He's coping, I guess. He's isolating himself away in that house and it's not healthy. I'm worried about him."

   Ellie couldn't help the sigh that escaped her as she tilted forward until her forehead rested against Danielle's left shoulder. "Dani, Tommy's a big boy. I'm sure he can take care of himself. We all deal with things in different ways."

As Ellie spoke, Danielle brought her hands up the nape of the redheads neck, absentmindedly playing with the hair that rested along Ellie's neck. "I know, I know. But you and I have each other and Tommy doesn't really have anyone. It's sad."

Danielle knew that Ellie was right. In reality the only person who could help Tommy was Tommy himself, but that didn't stop the Linden girl from feeling as though she was letting him down. He had helped her in her time of need, so was it right of her to just let him wallow all on his lonesome?

Tommy was a good man. Troubled but good. When push comes to shove, Danielle knew that should she ever need him, Tommy would be there to lend a helping hand. Tommy had never once blamed her for Joel's death and for that very reason, no matter what, Danielle would stick by the Miller man.

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   "YOU KNOW, WE NEVER played that game?" Later that evening as the moon began to appear through the dark, nightly clouds, after the two girls had long since finished eating and had begun to wind down for the night, Danielle suddenly remembered that the game box, which had so creatively been named Candy Land, was still sitting atop the kitchen counter.

Just as she pulled her pyjama top over her head, her hair slightly in disarray, she glanced down at Ellie, who was already washed, clad in her own version of pyjamas and snuggled up in bed. "We can play it now, if you'd like."

Now the idea of actually playing a game at this point of the evening, when all she really wanted was to get under the covers with the redhead, wasn't exactly appealing but she'd do it for Ellie. It was the least she could do after the Williams girl had set aside the game and comforted her earlier in the day.

"I have something else in mind that we could do." Ellie cheekily stated with a grin. The redhead allowed her eyes to trail over Danielle's figure as she climbed into their shared bed.

A playful scoff filled the room as Danielle squinted her eyes over at the Williams girl. "How is it possible that you are this sexually riled up?"

"So you don't want to?"

   "I never said that." The brunette coyly stated as she shimmered closer under the covers until she was pressed up against Ellie's side, practically skin to skin.

A slight joyous laugh fell from her lips as she then pushed herself up and swung her leg over Ellie's lap, until she sat comfortably upon Ellie's upper thighs. "Your way of asking is just laughable though."

   "And yet you're sitting on my lap, so who's laughing now?" Ellie cockily stated with a smirk, holding the brunette in place with a firm grip of her hips.

The Linden girls expression turned deadpanned. "I can still get up, you know."

   "No, please. Stay." Ellie looked up at the brunette fondly as she pleaded, her gaze filled with such warmth. At one point in her life, Ellie had been certain that she would never find anyone that would ever make her feel the way her past love Riley had, how Cat had made her feel, but she had been wrong.

   Both Riley and Cat had simply been her previous loves, each an important part of her life at one point, moments that had impacted her life in so many ways but Danielle? Danielle was the one person she could ever imagine sharing the rest of her life with. In her eyes, no one could ever surpass how the brunette made her feel.

   Danielle made her feel loved, made her feel wanted and needed. The brunette had stated to her so many times over, that the one moment in her life that had changed herself for the worse, when Joel had saved her from that hospital and subsequently made her immunity mean nothing, that nothing could have created a cure. That she would have died for nothing.

While Ellie didn't truly believe the words that passed the brunettes lips, she appreciated the sentiment none the less.

   Danielle released a gentle, breathy laugh as she began to card her fingers through the freshly washed and soft locks of auburn hair. "You're so cute."

   "Babe, please stop talking." Was all Ellie said before she leaned up, capturing Danielle's lips with her own into a kiss. Her slender fingers held firmly to Danielle's thighs, not tight enough to bruise but strong enough to help her confirm that it was actually happening. That Danielle was actually there.

   Ellie Williams. The girl who acted so tough. Who could take down an entire city of enemies with ease. Who willingly took on extra patrols that Maria had struggled to find people to take, solely because Ellie was tough enough to handle herself better than anyone else in Jackson.

   This girl was just so tough and yet, she was putty in Danielle's hands. With each gasp of her name, every little pleasure end her whimper that fell from her girlfriends lips had the redheads knees buckling. Her right hand released it's hold from Danielle's hip and instead travelled round to splay flat against the brunettes lower back, allowing Ellie enough ease to switch their positions round.

Danielle's head hit the pillow as her body turned in the air, the girl now staring up at the redhead. The brunette let out little gasps of air, her gaze now filled with lust, only to find out that ellie was shamelessly gawking down at her body, drinking in her every curve. Ellie's hunter green eyes scanned ever little perfect imperfection that graced Danielle's face, slowly leaning down until her lips just barely grazed over Danielle's.

   With one hand holding herself up, the other traveled down the brunettes torso until they trailed along the hem of Danielle's pyjama top, gently tugging on the fabric. Taking the hint, Danielle quickly reached down and swiftly pulled the top off, tossing the articles of clothing to the floor. Not wanting to be exposed all alone, Danielle grabbed hold of Ellie's own top and removed it with ease.

   A soft laugh reverberated off of the walls, a giggle that warmed Ellie's heart, as Danielle looked back up at the redhead who now looked completely disheveled.

"This is funny to you?"

   "Yeah, kinda." The brunette playfully shrugged her shoulders, leaning her upper body up until her face was right in front of Ellie's. Her hazy, lust filled eyes couldn't be removed from the sight of Ellie's bottom lip that was trapped between her teeth. "What are you gonna do about it?"

   Before Ellie could answer her question, Danielle moved forward, quickly grabbing hold of the nape of the redheads neck and pulled the girl into her another passion filled kiss.

   Their naked up bodies pressed against one another's, their body temperatures growing incredibly hot as Ellie began to grind her still shorts clad hips against Danielle's. The motion of her hips pulled a sudden and guttural moan from the brunettes throat into the kiss which Ellie swallowed with ease with each brush of her tongue against Danielle's.

Not wanting to be the only one receiving attention, Danielle trailed her fingers down the bare flesh of Ellie's back, sending shudders up the redheads spine. With nimble fingertips, Danielle began to gently tug on the fabric of Ellie's shorts, manoeuvring the clothing away from her hips. Despite Ellie straddling her, she wasn't pinning her down instead helping to move herself allowing Danielle to complete her task.

   Legs now free, Danielle played with the band of Ellie's underwear before making her way down to the redheads clothed centre, causing Ellie's hips to jolt in response. From their spread position on either side of Danielle's legs, Ellie's thighs tightened, a soft, almost inaudible whimper escaping from the redhead.

   Ellie's little whimpers sounded like music to Danielle's ears, something she wished to hear for the rest of her days. No matter how many times she had heard the sweet, breathy moans as Ellie began to move her hips in pleasure, Danielle still felt so proud in knowing it was her who was causing it. That it was her who would get to hear them over and over.

"You sound so pretty." Danielle muttered into the kiss causing Ellie to release a breathy laugh which almost immediately shifted into yet another lascivious moan as the Linden girl suddenly began to apply pressure on Ellie's fabric covered bundle of nerves.

   The sudden friction that the redhead had been yearning for caused her pelvis to begin to more frequently grind down on Danielle's, the pressure creating a sense of motion that aided the ached that had long since bloomed between Danielle's legs.

As Danielle's thumb continued its assault on Ellie's clit as well as occasionally dipping her fingers lower to brush over on the redheads growing wet centre. The arousal of the two girls was becoming almost palpable, the bedroom's atmosphere reaching high temperatures while her hips matched the pace of Danielle's fingers.

   Ellie's lips pulled back from their kiss, a trail of spit between them as she backed away leaving Danielle to whine from the loss of contact. Not even five seconds later did Ellie suddenly dipped back down and attached her now swollen and cherry red lips to the brunettes neck. Her hips continued to gyrate sending a rush of pleasure through Danielle's core as her teeth began to nip at the supple flesh of the Linden girls throat.

   Hues of purple and blue appeared on Danielle's neck within minutes as the Williams girl continued to suck and bite. Her tongue would lightly run over the wound, saliva spreading over the teeth marks on Danielle's unbroken skin to help sooth the nipping ache.

   The redheads idle hand, the one not being used to balance her weight so she didn't fly face first into her girlfriend, traced small patterns along Danielle's torso, successfully sending goosebumps along the hot flesh.

   Their breathing was growing heavier, their gasps for air growing desperate as they began to reach their metaphorical precipice. Danielle's free hand sought out the messy, red strands of hair at the back of Ellie's head, pulling her back before drawing her in to kiss her once again, their tongue's intrinsically dancing.

   Their release was rapidly approaching. The feeling of her underwear becoming soaked from her arousal dripped core caused random words of the expletive nature to begin falling from her lips, though they got lost in the clash of her lips upon Ellie's.

   "Come on, fall apart for me baby." Danielle weakly muttered against Ellie's spit soaked lips, her voice raspy as she begged for the redhead to let herself go. "I've got you."

   Ellie eyes suddenly shut tight, her eyebrows furrowed while the sweetest of whimpers escaped her as her orgasm rolled over her. Danielle continued to rub in a circular motion on the redheads small bundle of nerves, helping Ellie through the pleasure that traversed through her veins.

   The final few quick paced snaps of Ellie's hips brought Danielle to the brink, sending the brunette over the edge. The once stretching band of pleasure deep within her, had snapped. A rush of endorphins rushed through her as she and Ellie panted, seeking a steady inhale of oxygen.

It was dizzying.

Ellie finally removed herself from Danielle's lap, falling on the other side of the brunette, still breathing hard as her head hit the pillow.

"You were right." Danielle gleefully stated, still short of breath. Her chest rose up and down in such a fast pace as the redhead beside her turned to look over at her with a endearing look of post orgasm haze. "That was better than the game."

Breathy giggles filled the air as both girls broke out into fits of laughter. Ellie couldn't help the grin that broke upon her lips as she replied, "You're such a dumbass."

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author's thoughts.
chapter twenty three. not proofread. lads sex scene! I'm quite proud of this not gonna lie. I'm not a big smut writer as I stated in chapter twenty one so this is probably all of the smut I will write for this fic. anyway hope you enjoyed :)