The way that it should have been

Chapter 48

A thought occurred to me suddenly, "fight for our children milaya moya. Fight for the lives and the future of our children, lyubov' moya." (my dearest, my love)

With my words I felt her start to calm, but only a fraction. But I could see that she was fighting even harder against the darkness.

"That's it detka, fight for our family." (baby)

I again heard Zoya's words in my head, 'kiss her.'

I thought, 'well it worked that time. So maybe it will help calm her even just a little bit more this time.'

So, I kissed her, I kissed her with everything that I was worth. I kissed her with all my love, need, passion and desire. I poured out all of my feelings of love, need, desire, longing, possessiveness, and protectiveness into that kiss. As well as all of the other feelings that I had always tried to keep hidden from her and everyone else. Even from myself until just recently. I poured it all into that kiss and prayed that it would be enough to bring her back to me.

With that kiss I let her know that I would always be there for and with her. I tried to show her that I love her more than life itself. That being on this Earth meant absolutely nothing whatsoever to me without her in my life and arms to share it with.

I sat straddle her hips as she lay on the sofa. The longer and more passionately that I kissed her the calmer she became. Until she stopped fighting me and locked me in her embrace. We got so lost in each other that we actually forgot that we weren't actually alone in the room. Nothing new there.

We continued to kiss until we were just about to start ripping each other's clothes off. That is when Abe cleared his throat and we both froze. I pulled back a little, but she didn't let me get too far.

I brought our foreheads together and stared into her loving smiling passion filled milk chocolate brown eyes. Those were the eyes that I had fallen in love with. I was so glade that the black eyes with the shards of red were finally gone. I hated those eyes so much more than I could ever even explain. And I hated them because the cause of them hurt lyubov' moya sooo deeply. (my love)

"Are you all right now dorogaya moya." (my darling)

"Yes, it's mostly gone. It has been building for days but then when I took Lissa's darkness, that Kirova caused, it overwhelmed me. I am sorry Mitya, did I hurt you?"

"No, angel moya, I am just fine I promise. I will be a little sore tomorrow, but no more so than what you were those first few days back." (my)

We smiled at each other, both knowing full well what I was talking about. She had been extremely sore her first few days back at the academy. Simply because she had been unable to keep up her training regimen as rigorously and vigorously, as she had been doing in the past, since they had gotten to Portland. As opposed to the rest of the time that they had been away.

Again, Abe cleared his throat. That's when we realized that I was still on top of her, only I had lay down by now.

"Sorry."

"Don't apologize to me mladenets I was quite enjoying it. That was the most fun that I've had in over a week." (babe)

Now I laughed.

"Later detka." (baby)

"Draznit'." (tease)

"Hey, you tease me far more than I tease you."

"Yes, and you love it when I tease you."

"Yes, I do. I especially love it when you..." Now Alberta was clearing her throat, very loudly.