Slowly but surely, the blood and guts came off her body, and her skin looked as good as new.
“What are you waiting for?” Natalie questioned as she cocked an eyebrow at me. “Don’t you want to get clean, too? Don’t tell me you’re one of those weirdos who gets off on violence?”
“What?” I shook my head. “No way. I just don’t want to get my clothes all wet.”
“Hunter,” the blonde woman laughed as she cleaned her neck, “that fire over there is made from Radon’s Root. Do you have any idea how hot that stuff burns? As long as we sleep next to the flames, our clothes will be dried by morning.”
I guess I could use a little bit of freshening up.
So, I pulled my boots off my feet, threw them up on the shore, and then stepped into the water of Lake Michigan. A chill shot through my entire being as I waded out into the frigid depths of the lake, and soon I found myself right next to the blonde Scavenger.
“It’s freaking freezing out here.” I shivered as I began to splash the water up onto my body.
“You don’t have to stay out here long,” Natalie chuckled. “Just get clean, and then you can go take a nap by the fire and get warm again. I’ll even offer to take the first watch.”
“Really?” I mused, and then Natalie poured some baking soda into my hands.
I rubbed them together to get them sudded up, and then I ran the natural soap over the stains on my clothing. Once that was done, I grabbed some more and got to work on my filthy skin.
“Of course.” The blonde woman shrugged. “It’s the least I can do after you saved my ass back there.”
“Natalie… ” I sighed. “You don’t owe me any sort of life debt or anything like that. I just did what I thought was right. In fact, if anything we’re even now, since you saved me back in the Fallen Lands.”
“I suppose you’re right,” she said nonchalantly as she turned around. “Could you get my back for me, please?”
My heart began to flutter as her words sunk into my brain.
“Huh?” I gulped.
“My back,” Natalie repeated as she glanced over her shoulder. “It’s still covered with bug guts, right? I can’t reach it, so scrub it for me.”
“O-Oh,” I muttered and feigned ignorance. “Right.”
I rubbed my hands together and placed them firmly on Natalie’s backside. Then I began to massage her gently as I worked the faux soap into the fabric of her jacket.
“Hold on… ” the woman grumbled, and then she pulled her jacket off her body and then tossed it up onto the sandy shore. “There. I know some of it got onto my actual back. Now, it should be easier to get to it.”
Without the cover of her jacket, Natalie’s garment left her back completely exposed, save for two long strips of leather that traveled from her pants up over her shoulders.
My heart was now thumping intensely as I marveled at the blonde woman’s exposed skin, and when I actually reached out and touched her soft skin, I thought I was going to have a freaking heart attack.
I scrubbed Natalie’s back tenderly, and she let out a brief coo of excitement.
Was she intending for this to be so sensual? Because it sure as hell felt that way to me.
Not that I was complaining.
“That’s the spot… ” Natalie moaned. “You’re really good at giving back massages. Your girlfriend is a lucky woman.”
“I’m single,” I chuckled. “Currently my relationship status is me, myself, and I.”
“Wait.” The blonde woman spun around and raised her eyebrows curiously. “Then who is that woman you’re always talking to? The one in your head?”
“Karla and me?” I scoffed. “Together? If she ever heard you say that, she’d probably tell me to take you back to the bugs.”
Suddenly, Natalie had a twinkle in her eyes that wasn’t there before.
“I just thought you two were mates,” she admitted. “I mean… how could a man like you possibly be single?”
“I haven’t found that special somebody yet.” I shrugged. “And if I’m going to be jumping back and forth between the different dimensions, I doubt I’m going to have one anytime soon.”
“Don’t be so sure about that,” Natalie reassured me. “I’m sure there’s somebody out there for you. You’ve got thousands of dimensions to choose from, after all… ”
“Knowing my luck,” I joked darkly, “my soulmate’s already dead in all of them.”
We finished up washing in the lake and then slowly made our way back to shore. As we got out of the water, my body temperature instantly shot down a few degrees.
“You look like you’re freezing,” Natalie gasped. “I’m sorry, Hunter. I should have realized you aren’t as used to this climate as I am… ”
“I-I-It’s fine.” I shuddered. “Just let me sit down by the fire, and I’ll be back to normal in no time.”
I walked over to my bed, plopped down onto it, and then scooted as close to the roaring flames as I possibly could.
However, Natalie did not go to her bed. Instead, she sauntered over and sat down behind me.
“Here,” she offered as she began to rub my back, “this should help to warm you up faster. Consider it payback for the great massage you gave me out there in the water.”
Natalie’s hands were so soft against my back, and her gentle motions seemed to be releasing all the tension I’d been building up for the last decade.
“Wow.” I whistled as I leaned my head back. “You’ve got the magic touch there, Natalie.”
“I wouldn’t know,” she chuckled. “Still pure, remember?”
Suddenly, she fell silent.
“You alright back there?” I questioned. “You just got really—”
“I don’t know why I said that,” the Scavenger sighed. “That has nothing to do with the situation at hand.”
“Sure, it does,” I reassured her. “You’re sitting here, out in the middle of the wilderness, all alone with the man who just saved your life. And, to make matters worse, you’re rubbing him down. It’s only natural for those sorts of thoughts to bubble up into your head.”
“Are they bubbling up in yours?” Natalie cooed softly into my ear.
Well, if they hadn’t been before, they certainly were now.
“I don’t know,” I flirted, “do you want them to be?”
I glanced back over my shoulder and saw Natalie’s face was completely red, and she had her bottom lip tucked firmly underneath her teeth. Then I felt her hands slowly drift to the bottom of my shirt.
“I guess we’re both about to find out now, aren’t we?” she purred.
The blonde woman lifted my shirt off over my head, tossed it to the side, and then began to tenderly kiss my back.
My cock throbbed inside of my pants at the sensation as her tender lips kissed up and down my naked torso. Then I finally reached my breaking point.
In one motion, I turned around, wrapped my hand around Natalie’s lower back, and pressed my lips against hers.
She let out a gasp of surprise as our mouths touched, and then her tongue slipped inside. We played tonsil hockey for a few seconds before Natalie finally went for the goods.
Her hand slowly ran down my abs until they found my waistband. Then the Scavenger’s fingers traveled down into my pants and wrapped around my growing manhood.
“Oh, my god,” Natalie gasped as she pulled back from my kiss. “Is— Are they all this big?”
That’s right. She’d never had one in her hands before.
“I’m not sure,” I admitted, “I guess everyone just thinks they are average.”
“I don’t think this is average...” the blonde woman trailed off, and then her face grew into a large grin. “Lucky me. But… This is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this. I-I don’t know if I’m going to be any good at it.”