Light and Dark

It was early in the morning when both Nico and Karolina eventually came to. The sunlight blinding them through the curtains as Karolina was the first one to wake up. Nico leaning up towards the blonde to place a kiss on her lips.

“Good morning, baby!” Nico whispered only loud enough for Karolina to hear it.

“Mmm, is it now?” Karolina smirked as Nico moved to straddle the blonde.

Nico subconsciously started grinding down into Karolina’s hips, friction much needed as the shorter girl moaned out due to the action, the blonde placing her hands on Nico’s hips assisting her in the movement.

Karolina knew that this happened some mornings, Nico would get herself wound up and reliant on Karolina to help her out, the blonde was only too happy to assist in such.

The blonde sat up a little, her hands still planted firmly on Nico’s hips, pushing in gently, then there was the feeling of Karolina’s lips on Nico’s neck, causing the shorter woman to arch into the blonde, small moans slipping out.

They could both feel Karolina’s slight bulge growing bigger as Nico continued her ministrations. This caused Nico to take both of Karolina’s hands in hers, planting them back against the bed as she leaned in to kiss the blonde hard and deep and heated.

It was Karolina’s turn to moan this time as Nico removed the sleep shorts from Karolina, the blonde lifting up in attempt to help the darker skinned girl take them off, the action caused Karolina to knock her hips into Nico’s.

Nico had always thought that Karolina was scary and sexy as hell and beautiful and the fact that she was all those things mashed into one made Nico overwhelmed with nothing but love and excitement every time the other woman simply smiled at her.

“Nico, what do you need?” Karolina spoke directly into Nico’s ear, the shorter girl whimpering and letting out a breath.

“I need you inside, please, I can’t...I can’t hold on any longer.” Nico would have thought it was pathetic the way she stuttered her words, becoming a needy mess that Karolina could do nothing but adore.

That was when Karolina placed her hands across Nico’s back and legs, switching their positions, the blonde back in her rightful place on top. She managed to remove Nico’s pajama bottoms, throwing them across the room in the same direction in which Nico had thrown Karolina’s.

Slipping a finger through Nico’s folds, Karolina could feel how desperate the shorter woman had become, she was soaked through and the inner wolf within Karolina couldn’t help let out a small growl at the feeling that it had been the blonde that made Nico feel this way.

So Karolina had fulfilled Nico’s wish by lining their hips up together by slotting herself slowly and smoothly into Nico. Nico could only moan in response followed by “yes, that’s it” as she met Karolina’s thrusts with her own hips.

Nico was shuddering against Karolina in the best way possible, the blonde was happy that Nico was enjoying herself, internally patting her wolf on the back for pleasuring Nico the way she should be, Nico leaned up to take the blonde’s lips in hers causing Karolina’s lips to falter for just a moment, another moan coming from both Nico and Karolina at how deep the blonde was inside Nico.

“Baby, I need more, I’m close…” Nico needn’t say more as Karolina continued her thrusts, a hand wedging itself in between their bodies, finding Nico’s sensitive bundle of nerves as the blonde placed a thumb against it and began to rub up and down on her clit gently.

“Karolina...don’t stop, please GOD, don’t stop.” Nico moaned out, trying her best to keep quiet as she remembered the others still sleeping in this building.
The blonde could only smirk as she continued with her thrusts. “You’re so beautiful, Nico, always.” Nico honestly forgot where she was when Karolina whispered such things into her ear, especially at the moment when she was inches deep within her, her words a contrast to what their bodies were doing.

Nico managed to wrap her legs around Karolina’s hips, pushing the blonde in further, Karolina knew it wouldn’t be long, it never was as far as Nico was involved.

“You’re close, I can feel it, Nico, you’re so tight.” Karolina whispered, a tongue finding its way around her ear as her lips wrapped around her earlobe, tugging and sucking it gently.

“I’m not gonna last long...oh...KAROLINA.” With that, Karolina’s thumb pressed down rapidly and securely on Nico’s bundle of nerves, swiveling her hips the way she knew Nico loved and Nico was pushed off the edge, reaching a high Nico was thankful only Karolina had ever been able to bring her to.

Karolina collapsed on the other side of Nico, the two of them completely spent, Nico rolling onto her side so that she could rest her head on Karolina’s chest, her fingers slowly stroking a pattern into the exposed skin that the t-shirt hadn’t covered up, her leg pushing its way between Karolina’s.

“Damn, you’re more than just good at that.” Nico breathed out as Karolina chuckled out, Nico joining her in the laughter.

They allowed themselves to simply be just in this moment for a few seconds longer, forgetting that they were runaways for five minutes, forgetting that their parents had killed innocent kids that were their age, forgetting that they each had something a little extra to bring to the table.

However their silence and contentment was disrupted from the sound of footsteps inching their way towards their room. A soft knocking on the door woke Karolina from her thoughts as Nico pressed a kiss to the blonde’s lips.

“Karolina, Nico, you better not be banging, breakfast in five minutes and then we’re having a meeting.”

Nico laughed as Karolina sarcastically rolled her eyes. The two of them getting up in synchrony as they began to get dressed, Karolina in black fitting jeans that Nico had always thought did her ass a tonne of justice and a white blouse that hung loosely off her shoulders but enough to hide the marks that Nico had left from the previous night.

Nico however wasn’t quite lucky enough in the whole dressing situation as she found a small pair of tights to wear under a black skirt that she had found from a dollar store a few weeks ago and one of the blonde’s hoodies that she had worn the first week they’d spent in the mansion.

Making their way hand in hand down the stairs as the rest of their group had popped their heads out of their doors, Gert’s purple flash heading down the stairs almost synched speed with Old Lace, Molly stumbled off the couch with a blanket wrapped tightly around her as she cocooned herself in the kitchen on a chair and Chase managing his best not to hit Alex in the face with his loud interruption this morning.

They all sat down in their allocated seats, Karolina making her way around the kitchen grabbing plates and food in order to put food in front of each of the hungry eyes and rumbling stomachs, Nico however looking at her with more than just hunger for food.

Karolina just smirked and laughed to herself as she turned around to face Alex who brought in three bags of food. They both helped the other in placing the food on the plates and handing them out, eventually grabbing enough for themselves and sitting down in their spaces, the blonde pulling Nico’s legs on top of her own.

“Okay, now that you all have food in your mouths, I have something to tell you all. I have a way to destroy the time machine and thankfully due to Karolina’s late night mission yesterday I have the perfect plan as to how, but on the downside...they have an addition to their team, something dangerous.”

Gert and Chase looked at each other before Gert smiled at Alex. “I mean this in the best way possible...we have Karolina.”

The blonde’s eyes widened as she looked at the food in the bowl. Nico glanced at Karolina even though she never looked up, Nico smirked, she knew better than anyone else than the taller woman could be dangerous when she wanted to be, that side of Karolina was something that Nico was constantly in awe of and the odd rare times that she had seen that side of her girlfriend, Nico was completely at the mercy of her, it was a sight that Nico loved to see, but it wasn’t a side that Karolina enjoyed having.

“Thanks Gert. I get that I’m the big bad wolf but come on, whatever they have is worse than me.” Molly and Nico both laughing at the fact that Karolina had called herself the big bad wolf.

“Anyways…” Alex tried to bring them back to their much more integral reality, “this isn’t going to be easy, it’s gonna hurt like hell. The things they have in there….they are beyond murderous parents and mystical stubborn witches, they are worse than an alien who gives no shits and a werewolf who thinks the rules don’t apply to him.” Karolina looked up at that.

It hadn’t felt that long since Karolina had turned for the first time on a full moon in the basement of her mothers church, Nico looking at her through the cage that was holding her wolf at bay and keeping her from attacking the person she loved the most.

It hadn’t been that long since she had been terrified of the word “rebellion” and what that had meant for everyone. And here they were sitting around a table, her found family, eating breakfast away from parents who thought that they were protecting kids who had always been more than capable of looking after themselves.

“Karolina, you are a part of the plan, but we all have a part to play. Karolina and Chase have the strength in this team, Nico has the power of the staff and I have the tech skills and Gert...you have so many distraction techniques than Charlie’s Angels could know what to do with. If we are going to do this we have to do it together.” Alex looked at them whilst he explained the plan.

It was clear what they had to do and that Alex had timed it perfectly so that no one could argue whilst eating, a smart move Nico had thought, but eventually the team had caved in and since there were no better options to follow through with it meant that this was the only choice.

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They’d gotten themselves ready and prepared, some taking longer than others as additions had to made, Nico had to find a bag big enough to hold her staff and Chase was setting up his fistagons so that they didn’t accidentally go off by a simple maneuver.

Karolina, Alex and Gert had been sitting in the car waiting, Molly made sure that Old Lace had been put somewhere she could run around but wouldn’t attract too much attention and Chase had run out in time sitting himself in the back wedging himself between Alex and Gert and Molly joined them.

“Jeez, your girlfriend sure does take her time getting ready.” Gert laughed as Nico sat in the passenger seat beside Karolina who was driving.

With the two of them rolling their eyes at the statement, Karolina pushed the key into the ignition and placed her foot on the accelerator, her right hand coming to rest on the gear stick.

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They knew how important this was, they knew what they were risking and what had to be done, the second Karolina got back into the ripoff uniform purchased by Alex, Nico couldn’t help but suddenly realize that this had to go to plan, she couldn’t lose Karolina, she didn’t want to see her hurt like she had the other night, her ribs still red this morning from light swelling that had fully recovered.

She might be a werewolf immune to the cold, but she wasn’t immune to pain or fear, so Nico had prepared a spell, making sure that it was subtly done, she knew that Karolina would say she didn’t need it but that wouldn’t stop her from wanting to protect the person she loved as the blonde had done so many times for her.

So as Karolina walked back up to the ID gate, the man letting her in once he gave her the okay, Nico felt so much more pressure to make sure that this time machine was destroyed and that the threat in which Alex had identified was also rid of.

To say the team was scared was an understatement. Everyone was equally terrified. Molly had managed to break two of the generators by sneaking in, an idea that Gert hadn’t been too happy about when they had been suggesting it, Gert and Chase knocking out two of the guards, working effortlessly as a team.

Nico and Alex stood by the exit where Karolina would be leaving the place as Alex opened his laptop and got to work giving Karolina instructions on how to dismantle the time machine safely. After a couple of minutes Alex had looked up towards Nico and seeing the expression on his face, she knew the two of them were to join Karolina and give the help she needed.

Grabbing the staff out of the heavy duty satchel she carried around, they made their way into the main building, both their eyes on the room in which Karolina had been in, they heard thuds and smashing glass, metal on metal and cracking of bones breaking.

Nico was already dreading what those sounds would lead to, she hated seeing Karolina hurt, especially when it sounded so painful that Karolina would wice whenever she moved, the blonde worked harder than most people Nico had ever met, she was constantly making sure that everyone was okay before she even considered herself, she was so selfless that Nico couldn’t help but smile, but it also meant that the blonde was ridiculously stubborn, she would always say she was fine, even when she was in pain, she would always help others before helping herself.

Sometimes people would argue that Karolina was too nice, but the blonde only ever wanted to do the right thing, Nico only ever loved her twice as much for it.
Karolina had managed to stop the main guy at the front of the room, he had clearly tried to restart a generator that Molly had managed to break, how the guy thought he stood a chance, Nico would never know, but Karolina had stopped him and the man was currently unconscious on the floor.

Alex moved along to find the computer that had the access codes for the time machine, finding the blueprints for the access panel, Karolina running and jumping through a set of windows to get into another room with such grace that Nico was completely stumped.

“Nico, a little help…” Karolina’s voice could be heard from the next room along and Nico only ran to her girlfriend’s aid.

Nico ran into the next room, the staff at the ready, uttering the words for the staff to do her bidding, three of the guards were sent flying backwards as Karolina stood at the end of the room.

They both looked to the main control panel in the middle of the room, Alex nodding his approval to Nico silently telling her “you know what to do” and Nico nodding back in understanding, Karolina looking between the both of them before her blue eyes settled on the control panel in front of her.

“Alex told me how to destroy it, but you might have to go full wolfy mode to smash into it, the only way to stop it is to destroy it, I can put a spell in order to flick the killswitch but the rest is for you.”

Karolina nodded, taking a few seconds to slowly turn into her wolf self, Nico heard the bones crunching as Karolina adjusted herself and by the time Nico looked at the blonde, she was met with a golden blonde wolf, head held high, legs and paws in position as she prepared herself to smash into the control panel.

Nico stabbed the staff into the ground, uttering those magic words, a few sparks shooting off in various directions, all missing Karolina, the golden majestic wolf ran head first into the control panel, the set smashing into pieces, with as much grace as a tower of forks crashing to the ground.

Just as the team thought they had done all they had to do, several more men came for them, Molly, Gert, Alex and Chase joining both Nico and Karolina, who was still in wolf mode.

Molly and Gert began working effortlessly as a team, punching and throwing several of the men out of the way and through a window, Gert’s eyebrow shooting up impressed with Molly’s strength even to this day.

Chase and Alex somehow coming to an agreement as they bashed their way through two men, working as a team despite their usually acknowledged differences.
Nico was about to run towards one of the men, Karolina had an idea, still unsure of if it would work, she ran head first towards Nico, pushing the shorter girl onto her back with her nose, Nico smiling as she grabbed the staff and aimed it towards the group of men headed towards them, Karolina skidding across the floor as the spell sends the men flying against several walls and lights sparking up around them.

With a hand stroking through Karolina’s fur, Nico managed to steer Karolina out of the room, the other running after them as the whole place was about to blow, one by one they jumped in the car, Karolina settling for the trunk of the car as Nico climbed in the passenger side whilst Gert started up the car speeding them all off back to the mansion.

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Karolina hopped out of the trunk in all of her wolf glory since she hadn’t had a chance to change, the others also jumping out returning to their rooms to get themselves cleaned up, Nico walking beside Karolina, the only time Nico would ever be taller than her.

“I think you need to shower, you stink of sweat and blood, normally that’s comforting but given what we just went through...come on, let’s get you cleaned.” The two of them began running up the stairs in sync, Karolina eventually changing back into her human self.

“There, that’s better. Sorry I did that without asking you.” Karolina looked down for a second, remembering the feeling of Nico being on her wolf’s back.

“It’s fine, if it’s any constellation, you were pretty badass back there.”

“I think you’re the badass one in this relationship, I’m just the strong giant dog.” Karolina laughed towards herself, a sound that Nico was always more than happy to hear, it was becoming her favorite sound.

“A hot one at that.” Nico smirked as she began getting the shower water ready.

Karolina began taking her shirt off, throwing it on the side of the bed before she was about to undo her belt Nico stopped her, placing a hand on her cheek as she leaned in to kiss her, the kiss was so powerful that Karolina almost forgot how to breathe.

Karolina’s hands found Nico’s waist, pulling her in closer as the kiss got heavier and heated, Nico’s hands slipped down to Karolina’s belt, undoing it for the blonde before stepping backwards and stripping herself in front of Karolina, first her shirt, then the skirt dungarees and the tights before she was stood completely naked in front of the blonde. Karolina tripping over herself as she took off her final items of clothing before joining Nico inside the shower. Pressing against each other, Karolina’s front pressed tightly into Nico’s back as Nico hands spread out on the tiled wall as the steam and hot water flowed and sprayed down around them.

The blonde’s arms coming to wrap around Nico’s waist, stroking gentle patterns into the shorter girls hips as Nico breathed out contently, Karolina pressing kisses into her neck and shoulder and collarbones, Nico’s hands clenching in and out of fists against the wall.

“If you keep doing that….” she managed to breathe out, “I won’t be able to keep my hands off of you.”
Nico punctuating her sentence by turning around in her arms, pressing a kiss to the corner of her lips.

“Who says your hands will be on me.” Karolina chuckled to herself before lifting Nico up allowing the shorter girl to wrap her legs around the blonde, Karolina pressing her back against the tiles as she began to kiss down Nico’s neck.

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It was late when Alex called a house meeting, everyone stumbling their way down the stairs to join him in the kitchen, Karolina making several drinks before plonking herself gracefully in the chair next to Nico, leg bending over the arm of the chair, Nico resting her back against Karolina’s side, the blonde wrapping an arm around the shorter girl.

Chase and Gert looking as if they were about to drop off at any moment, Chase dressed in pajama bottoms and Gert dressed in the pajama shirt that went with Chase’s bottoms and some baggy joggers that she’d found in order to keep warm because two blankets was not enough to survive this place.

Molly had Old Lace’s head perked in her lap, the tail flicking left and right quite happily as the youngest member of the group stroked up and down her snout.

“You’re probably all wondering why I called you down here so late…”

“No, more like wondering why you disrupted my recommended 9 hours of sleep for whatever this is.” Gert perked up from Chase’s shoulder, still zombified from the previous activities, they all were.

“Because there’s something else in that building that they’ve created, something far more dangerous than any of us have ever fought before.” Alex looked down with almost a complete look of despair in his eyes.
They’d fought so much together, overcome so much and it was scary to think how far they’d all come from being runaways, to people that others called heros.

So upon hearing this it was easy to understand why everyone had suddenly felt unsettled. What could be worse than the things they had already faced. What could be worse than running away from home and not knowing where your next meal was coming from or the next time you would have a shower would be.

Within the first week of being runaways they’d all learned never to take anything for granted again. The smell of soap, new clothes, electricity, food, they had learned to earn it. And sitting here with Alex looking so downtrodden gave Karolina’s wolf the feeling of fear and despair, almost as if she could sense Alex’s emotions.

“They’ve created something, someone, no emotions, no feelings, no memories. Only a combination of powers...our powers. Rolled into one person. The equivalent of all of us rolled into one person.”

Molly’s hand dropped from Old Lace’s snout, thudding against the chair, Gert jerking up at the sudden sound and Nico looking at the two of them before looking anywhere but Alex.

This was beyond dangerous, something like this was so much harder than they had ever thought possible, this was something that they had never planned for. Someone, one person, now had the capability to destroy all of them.

“How do we beat it this time? Surely we can’t just go Power Rangers on his ass and just merge into a bigger version.” Chase muttered out, causing Alex and Karolina’s eyes to widen at the idea.

“No, but if we’re gonna win this, we have to go bigger and better than we have before. Turn it up a notch. The powers we have now...will have to be amplified.” Karolina looked at each of them individually.

Nico couldn’t imagine turning her magic up a notch, she couldn’t even imagine Karolina as anymore of a badass than she already was and she didn’t think that Chase could make the gauntlets anymore dangerous if he had tried.

How on earth was this going to work, how could they double their powers, how were they going to take someone down that was every one of them mashed up into one. But that’s when it hit Nico, they had something this person didn’t. They had memories, they had each other, they had things to fight for. But that meant that they may have to be more reckless than they ever were.

“Technically that’s not a bad idea, however, how are we going to do that?” Nico looked at Alex as if he somehow held the answer, but it was Karolina who gave her the answer.

“We gain some extras along the way, it’s unexpected they won’t see it coming, we find a way to make our powers stronger, for Nico that could mean using the staff differently, making more of it, for Chase it could mean turning the fistagons into a full body suit, Molly could use her whole body with strength alongside Old Lace. But it might mean talking to some of our parents.” Karolina looked down with the final sentence knowing that talking to their parents was always a last resort.

Alex looked down before deciding this was the best idea they had. Teaming up with their parents once more, whoever thought this was going to be a recurring thing. Suddenly everyone had gotten a little closer to sleep, they needed rest, a chance to recharge their batteries before putting any more thought into this.

Gert was the first one to stand, pulling Chase along with her and giving a playful rub to Old Lace’s snout, they then began moving towards the staircase and up to their room.

Everyone else had eventually drifted their way to their rooms, leaving Karolina, Nico and Alex at the table. Finishing their drinks slowly as they were trying to decide what else was left to say.

“I know that talking to our parents is usually a last resort but this is dangerous, this could quite literally be life risking to so many people, I don’t think I have it in me to watch anyone else get hurt.”

“I know, I also know that you’re right, we need help more than ever, if this is correct, if there’s someone out there with a little piece of everyone then we need all the help we can get, your mom knows more about the whole werewolf thing than you currently do, talking to her might help, Chase parents can help with the fistagons and Nico...your mom had the staff before you did, there’s certain things about our powers that only our parents currently know, we need as much knowledge as we can get in order for this to work.” Alex nodded and carefully explained causing Nico to smile at the fact that her girlfriend was once again correct.

Soon Alex had also left to go to his sectioned off area of the building, leaving Nico to thread their hands together and intertwining their fingers, pulling Karolina’s hand to her lips placing a chaste kiss against the knuckles.

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There were some days where training with powers could wait, when breakfast and family were the more important things and stress and worry could be forgotten for the day and this was one of those days, where Nico snuggled in closer to Karolina, not ready to leave the warmth in which had enveloped the both of them.

Where Nico pressed a small kiss against Karolina’s neck causing the blonde to stir slightly at the action. The blonde pulling the shorter woman closer into her, but that didn’t stop Nico from pulling the strong, tall, blonde and gorgeous wolf on top of her.

“Nico, it’s early.” Karolina mumbled out but Nico didn’t stop her movements as her hands found Karolina’s back and the base of neck where her fingers tangled in the short hair she found there.

“That gives us plenty of time.” Nico mumbled more than likely to herself than anyone else before she then wrapped her lips around Karolina’s giving her the power to hopefully wake up and do something about how insatiable she had become for the blonde.

“You are relentless, you know that, insatiable and badass, not to mention beautiful...think I’ve mentioned that a few times.” Karolina kissed her way down Nico’s neck, before finding Nico’s pulse point and sucking rather harshly on it, Nico’s hips bucking into Karolina as a result.

“You’ve mentioned it a few times but I’m not opposed to hearing it more.” Nico managed to moan out before Karolina’s hands found Nico’s sleep shorts and looked up in question to take them off.

Not only did Nico say it was okay but she also took them off herself, essentially stripping for Karolina, and if the growl in which she produced was anything to go by, she knew that her actions were paying off as the blonde continued to grow more and more turned on every movement in which Nico dared to make.

Nico made the better decision to tease Karolina, grinding herself down on the blonde’s slightly bulging crotch, causing the blonde to whimper as she began to get harder, her hands finding Nico’s hips.

“God, Nico, you know how to tease...are you sure you wanna do this? Sure you wanna do this now?” Karolina’s eyes wide open looking into Nico’s very soul, asking if she was okay with this, Nico loved that part of Karolina, the side that could be so strong and sexy and bold and daring and yet, with one look into Nico’s eyes asking her if she was certain this was what she wanted, Karolina ever the gentlemen as far as Nico was concerned.
“I’m certain I want you, this, now. So come on, show me what you got.” Karolina moving down Nico’s chest at the challenge.

Sucking gently on a nipple that was ready and awaiting Karolina, stroking a soft thumb over the other attended one before licking and sucking a trail right down her stomach and navel before finding her hips and thighs, pressing gentle, slow and soft kisses to each area of skin she could find.

Then the blonde’s mouth found the heated intoxicating core that was awaiting her, a tongue slipping its way through the folds, parting Nico, before sliding in dangerously, showing Nico who was boss here.

Nico loved to relinquish control as far as Karolina was concerned, letting the blonde have her way with her, the times they had stumbled into their houses, before running away was the only thing they knew, knocking over pieces of furniture, throwing clothing wherever their strength had chosen, Nico being pinned against a wall, a door, a table, a desk before eventually finding a bed.

The shorter woman’s hands always scratched the blonde’s scalp in the best way possible, always clawing down her back just the way she liked and by god did Nico use those to her advantage every second she got the chance.

The feeling of the blonde on top of her was a feeling in which Nico would never tire of. It was moments like this when Karolina was tongue deep inside Nico, the shorter woman’s hands tugging the short blonde locks keeping her in place as Nico’s moans erupted and surrounded them bouncing off the walls, Karolina would never tire of hearing those.

“Karo, I need more, I need it harder, p-please.” Nico stumbled out in which Karolina was all the more obliged to do so.

Karolina always wanted to make sure that it was a pleasurable moment for Nico, wanted to make sure that she got what she wanted, she found it beyond hot when Nico especially asked loud and proud for what she wanted, allowing the blonde to give her what she so desperately needed.

So the blonde slipped off the boxers she had been wearing the previous night and helped herself slip into the whimpering mess of Nico in which she had created. Nico only tightened around Karolina the more she pressed herself in and out. Giving the blonde pleasure in return, that was the greatest thing about their relationship, they were both givers in the best way possible.

“Oh god, Karo, right there, don’t-don’t stop.” Karolina only pushed herself in further, revelling in the sounds that Nico was making under her, pressing a thumb against the sensitive bundle of nerves, however Karolina was the first to let go, pulling herself out as Nico had thrown her over the edge.

“God, Nico, you’re incredible, you okay?” Nico nodded but she was still so close, she now more desperately than ever needed Karolina to give her that push off the end in which she was craving and seeing the blonde already cum so hotly, Nico was now painfully close.

So Karolina had returned to her previous position, on top of Nico, pressing themselves together, thrusting in and out, giving Nico the high she so desperately chased after, and with a few more thrusts and rubs on her clit, Nico was screaming into the empty air of their shared bedroom.

“God, Karolina, I’m...ugh, wow, you’re...you’re better than incredible, I just can’t find the word for it.”

“Maybe that thesaurus would come in handy now, eh?” Karolina laughed with a slight smirk as Nico slapped her arm playfully.

“There’s still many words I could use...none would do you any justice though, how about breakfast?” Nico’s eyebrow lifted in question towards the blonde.

“You’re offering me breakfast when the only thing you could fix would be cereal? Come on, I’ll get some proper food in you.”

“Oh believe me, I’m looking at the food that was in me, you’re a whole damn meal.” Karolina chuckled at the statement as they both walked around their room in efforts of finding their thrown around clothing before heading downstairs.

“Smooth, real smooth. Bacon sandwich?” Nico was practically in heaven, how could someone so perfect be stood in front of her like a freaking goddess.

“Damn, I love it when you talk food to me.” Nico winked, causing Karolina to laugh once more before placing a pan on the stove.

Peaceful silence fell upon them and lasted for another five minutes as Alex walked in to see Nico with a knee bent up on the chair, her hand on a book she had been reading and Karolina stood at the oven, a phone in hand, reading articles online as she was keeping a watchful eye on food.

Alex had always hated that he always seemed to disrupt their peacefulness. Some horrible news that he had or some plan he was about to give them or some bad guy they now had to defeat. So for once in their lives he allowed them to all have this moment of peaceful happiness that they so desperately needed as well as to cling on to.

He had decided that fighting another villain could wait for one more day and they could use the time to get their thoughts in order, to recharge their batteries and live their teenage lives for once, instead of battling aliens and monsters and murderers.

Slowly, each of them came down for breakfast, for once not being woken by an alarm clock or someone pounding on the door to notify them of the day they had yet to prepare for. But that didn’t mean that no one looked like complete hell.

Gert had somehow managed to gain a bruise above her right eye, Chase kept trying to rub cream on it to allow it to heal although he seemed to have a few cuts and scrapes himself, Molly looked as if she hadn’t slept for a year even though she always seemed to be the one that got the most sleep and Alex looked as if he’d literally come back from hell as he sat down with his hair sticking up in various areas and his glasses laying on the table in front of him as he rubbed at his eyes.

Karolina turned around to place food in front of each of them before receiving a text from her mother about something and walked outside after muttering that she was fine to both Alex and Nico.

“You came, thank you!”

“Of course I came, wasn’t going to turn down an offer to see my daughter again.” Leslie spoke softly.

“I need your help with something. I need whatever information on the wolf curse that we have, whether its about dad or me. I need to know who I am and I need to know what I’m capable of.” Karolina explained as Leslie nodded.

“There’s a few books we have, I mean literally a few, I don’t know how much use they’ll be to you but you can have them, I’ll arrange for them to be brought to you. But, Karolina, I need to know that you’re safe, that you’re okay!”

“I’m fine, mom, I swear, we look after each other. I know that you’re my mom and it’s your job to care but I promise you...we’re okay...I’m okay.”

Leslie nodded in understanding, she should have knowledge by now that if Karolina needed her she would contact her just as she had done now, but something she had perhaps always lacked was having faith in others.

Karolina began walking back to the mansion, stepping inside she was greeted by Gert who looked at her as Old Lace walked past.

“What was all that about?” Gert nodded towards where she and her mother had been talking.

“I asked my mom if we had any books or information on my whole wolf curse thing, knowing more about it can only make things better, especially if this thing they’ve created is true, it’d also be nice to know exactly what I’m capable of. It’s terrifying not knowing whether something is happening because of wolf instincts and what...what if I hurt someone...what if I hurt Nico? I can’t risk hurting her or anyone simply because there’s something about my abilities that I don’t know.” Karolina’s head dropped in sadness.

It hurt to see Nico in pain, all the times they would come back from battles and Nico’s hand had been broken, or a sprained wrist, or bruised arms and even though Nico would never say anything the blonde could clearly see that she was in pain, but Karolina wouldn’t be able to forgive herself or live with herself if she was the one that had caused Nico pain.

Gert’s hand found Karolina’s shoulder and rubbed comfortingly, knowing that that was all she could do, Gert knew that Karolina cared a lot about Nico, it was in everything the blonde did whether it was making her food when she was ill or carrying fresh towels to the bathroom or patchy her up when she was in pain or holding her close on movie nights.

“You won’t hurt her and I can understand that you wanted to know more, we all want to know more, you won’t hurt her because you love her the most, you wouldn’t dare hurt a fly if you had anything to do about it. You’re one of the most caring people I know, you’ll get through this, we all will, because we have each other. Wow, I should really start making motivational speeches, I’m great at it.” Gert laughed at herself causing a smile to break loose on Karolina’s face.

Karolina knew she could always count on her friends to give her the advice she needed to hear, so on that note, the two of them walked back into the main room of the mansion finding some old movies that Karolina and Gert had found out they both loved to watch.

They found old films like Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Pretty Woman and began to slowly make their way through it, most of the time it was nights in which they both couldn’t sleep but didn’t want to wake their respective partners, so they would find themselves in the living room area, a coffee and a tea on the coffee table as the two of them would sit opposite ends of the huge couch that sat directly in front of the mansions sorry excuse for a tv, which was a run down projector that Chase had managed to fix on his free time and bored hours. Eventually Old Lace would join them, sensing Gert’s comfort and relaxed aura, she would perch her snout on Gert’s lap as a hand stoked it lovingly so.

This time however, it wasn’t only Old Lace joining them, but a worn out looking Nico wrapping her arms around Karolina’s shoulders and clasping them against her chest, her mouth pressing a gentle kiss to the top of the blondes head before sitting next to her and allowing Karolina to wrap an arm around her.

“You’re tense, you feeling okay?” Nico mumbled into the blonde’s shoulder, not expecting an answer for at least five minutes.

“Yeah, I will be, give it a minute.”

But Nico didn’t need to give it a minute as she could already see that Karolina had deeply exhaled and was already starting to feel calmer, she didn’t know she ever had such a calming effect on the blonde, even after being told by her girlfriend, Nico hadn’t believed that she could make Karolina feel better in an instant, so seeing the blonde relax simply by sitting next to her was always a sight to behold.

Karolina had always been the strong one, whether it was physically or mentally, whether it was lifting boxes or getting kidnapped by her own father, she always made it out alive, always seemed fine, a smile plastered brightly across her face as if letting it go would show everything she had spent so long trying to hide.

So with a hand in hers, Nico allowed Karolina to slowly relax into her, knowing that she needed her more than anything in that moment, whatever Karolina was worried or stressed about she would tell Nico when she was ready, Nico just had to wait and when it came to Karolina, patience was something she had spares and more to give.

And one by one, the others had started joining also, Alex coming to sit on the floor, his back propped up against the couch beside Old Lace, Molly curling beside Karolina and Nico like one of those family portraits you see in old movies and Chase sitting on the floor, propped up against the couch seat in which Gert was sitting on as his hand found hers. And for a small perfect moment, everything was peaceful and perfect and happy. It was easy to forget the problem they would all soon be faced with.