H&M: After a Long Day (locked to Gabrielle) (NC-17)

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Who knew that repairing and sanding floorboards could hurt more than fighting a hydra?

Iolaus had been on his knees most of the day, hard at work on the flooring to the derelict building that would house Herculaneum. Almost a third of the surface had to be replaced with new wood, which required measuring, cutting, fitting, then more sanding until not a single threat of splinters remained. The sun had already set by the time he looked up from his work and realized it was too dark to continue.

It wasn't until he started walking back to the hotel that he began to understand exactly how stiff and sore he was. He'd used muscles today he hadn't used in a long while (especially his bruised knees). His chest ached as bruised ribs only recently healed protested a day's worth of stretching and bending with little respite.

Reaching the door to his room, he fumbled the key from his belt pouch. Gods, he was tired! And he'd glady fight a dozen hydras for a long hot soak inthe bathing tub.

Taking a deep breath, he forced himself to stand a bit straighter as he opened the door. No sense worrying Gabrielle.

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Her small fingers curled around his manhood, squeezing gently before sliding up to the head and teasing the bundle of nerves hidden there.

Iolaus' name escaped on a breath and a moan at the feel of his mouth and teeth on the swell of her upper breast, combined with his fingers stroking her heat. She was on fire and Gabrielle was surprised the water around her wasn't boiling from the heat.

"Gods, that feels good." Her fingers that held Iolaus' head tightened automatically as her back arched in need.

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"Oh gods!" he moaned as her fingers curled around him, sending liquid fire raging through every nerve. "Gabrielle!" Pleading.

Moving his left hand down to the small of her back as she arched, he lowered his mouth over a breast and brushed the rosy nipple with his teeth before drawing it in, suckling greedily. His fingers probed deeper into her heat, tickling the core of her even as he wished it could be the most intimate part of himself sheathed there instead.

Oh, gods! Gods, how he needed her!

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Gabrielle whimpered her need as her hips rocked, wanting more, but knowing not this time. "Iolaus!" His name a moan on her lips, needing him.

Her hand slid up this hardened length until she reached the top and teased his head. In her mind's eye she saw the drop of liquid that would have been there and every part of her wanted to bring that liquid to her lips. Next time, she promised herself.

"I'm just making mental notes of all the things I'm going to do to you when we're both more agile." Her voice was husky with desire, pleasure and love.

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"More agile?" he breathed, his heart hammering like a drum in his chest. He was going to explode into a million heated fragments unless he did something, and did it soon. "I'll show you agile!"

To Hades with bruises and nursing his pains. This was going to be a relapse worth having.

Caressing her core with a wiggle of his fingers, he slowly pulled them free and then slid his hands beneath her firm buttocks.

"I love you," he said in a voice thick with emotion. "And I need you. I need you right now!" Water sloshed over the tub edge as he flexed his muscles and lifted her a few inches off of the tub bottom and over his straining organ.

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Gabrielle gave a shout of surprise as Iolaus raised her off the bottom of the tub. She wanted to protest, to say that he'll hurt himself, but the words died in her throat. "Iolaus!" There was laughter in her voice along with the desire.

Guiding his erection to her core, Gabrielle sunk down and shivered at the sensation. His fingers had been a tease for this and she finally felt complete. "I love you." She lowered her head and nipped at his lips teasing him, before kissing him deeply.

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As Gabrielle sheathed herself around him, his laughter mingled with hers in a joy of completion and the ecstacy of joining with her. Pain and desire and surging release all mingled into one cohesive whole he filled her and held her close. Her kiss fanned the fire in his loins and his heart and he returned her passion in kind, as if he would drink her down like an elixir.

Water sloshed and undulated as he helped her to settle over and around him, drawing out a shivering moan deep in his chest. He was an explosion waiting to happen, hovering on the brink of release.

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Gabrielle fell into his kiss, loving his taste and the outward expression of their love. She put all of her emotions into it, hoping he knew the love and joy that he brought to her soul.

The friction between their bodies and the water surrounding them, was pushing Gabrielle ever closer to the edge of bliss. But the man in her arms and deep within her body, was the true reason she was feeling this way. Iolaus held her heart and her soul.

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More than the desire and the heat of passion, he felt as if his heart was filling to bursting. This woman -- this goddess -- in his arms, who more than gave of herself but was equal to him in so many ways, made him feel emotions he'd thought long buried and dead. She made him feel alive and loved.

Tasting her lips, feeling her surround him, sharing their breath and their touch, how could he believe that they were anything but two halves of a whole. Perfect and complete when together.

Moving his hips slightly, helping her with the support of his hands beneath her, their motion created waves of water that washed over them. He was close, oh so close to release . . . hoping that he could bring her with him.

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Gabrielle whimpered in need, her body was so very close to completion, causing her arms to tighten around Iolaus' body. The kiss continued to be a combination of erotic desire and heart swelling love. Everything that she felt for Iolaus. His look and his touch heated her blood, and it also caused her heart to fill that someone like him could return her emotions.

"Iolaus." His name was spoken like a prayer, their breath intermingling as her lips caressed his when she spoke. As if his name was all she needed, her body exploded into pure sensation and her inner muscles clamped hard on his length.

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Iolaus cried out her name as she brought him along for the ride, throwing him over the edge on a wave of pleasure and sweet agony that made him buck beneath her as he came and filled her. He nearly lost his hold on her as every nerve ending cried out and his body spasmed with pleasure. She was all around him, on him, in him . . .

"Gabrielle!" he gasped, and hungrily captured her lips with his, desparate to convey his passion, his adoration, and his love.

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Her heart threatened to beat out of her chest at all the emotions overwhelming her. She broke the kiss and just stared into his eyes, the look of love mirrored in her own. "How did I get so lucky?"

Gabrielle didn't know what she'd done to deserve Iolaus and Xena in her life, but she was very glad that they were. Even after Dahak and Hope, she had this time with Iolaus. A time she never thought that she'd have. His journey was with Hercules and hers with Xena.

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"You?" he breathed, overwhelmed by emotion. He rested his forehead against hers, meeting her gaze with open adoration. "How did I get so lucky? What did I do to deserve even a second of time with you in my arms?" He laughed. "And how do I do it again so I can guarantee more time with you?"

He lightly kissed her nose then brushed her lips with his.

And how will I ever find the strength to let you go when the time comes?, he thought.

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Gabrielle moved her hands to cup the sides of his face, holding him and loving him, before reluctantly breaking the soft kiss. Her thumbs caressed his cheekbones as she rested her forehead against his.

"Just being Iolaus guarantees that you'll have more time with me." She smiled softly. "You and Xena are the best things that ever happened to me and no matter what happens after this, you'll always be the best things in my life. I met a Darsham in India, one that can see our karmic lives. She said that Xena and I are forever connected and I'd like to think that this isn't our only time together either. That some time, some life our lives will be connected again. I know my soul would recognize yours again just as mine did when it recognized Xena again."

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"I don't know much about karma," he admitted. And he hadn't a clue what a darsham was, but it sounded like some kind of soothsayer. "But I know I'd recognise you no matter what. No matter where. And if my eyes didn't, my heart would."

He suddenly frowned, clearly puzzled. "Wait. What do you mean, when you recognized Xena again? Did you lose your memory?"