Hello my fellow readers,

This is the last chapter for "Rescue Me". I had a lot of fun writing this and am very grateful of the responses I've gotten so far. I might extend the plot, but for now this is it. Enjoy!

Chapter X: Devotion

-Three months later-

We lay there.

After hours of lovemaking I had been left beyond spent. Mugen's appetites were insatiable more nights than others. Most of the time we wouldn't even eat dinner before he pounced on me when I walked through the door returning from work.

This night was no different.

Sparing me no rest as if this would be the last night he would ever see, touch, or feel me again. It was like his ritual, making sure that I was real to the fingertips…

I wondered why Mugen acted with such haste when I savored the moment taking my time.

Well beyond exhaustion after the third time I knew that he wouldn't be done well into the night. It would take a lifetime to gain the stamina he has.

Turning over, I laid my head on his chest and looked into his slumbering face. Seemingly beyond passed out he barely moved during the nights. Like he was waiting for an unfamiliar sound.

'Always keeping one eye open, aware of his surroundings.'

After nearly three months of marriage I would have thought that he would have become more lax, not relying so much on his samurai senses. But old habits would never truly die now that we were married. Mugen would definitely be like a watchdog protecting our quiet little existence of a life.

I moved again and sighed. Sleep wasn't coming easy this night. I squeezed my eyes shut and tossed again. Shifting again and exhaling I suddenly felt a strong hand on my waist to hold me still.

"Stop movin'." I heard the gruff, sleepy voice bite out from behind me. Wrapping his arms around me he kissed my shoulder and faced me. "Quit squirmin' ya runt."

"I can't sleep." I sighed and hugged his body close.

Mugen popped one eye open and then the other. "Oy…what's up Fuu?" He focused tiredly, his attention now on me.

I averted my gaze and shied away feeling my face begin to heat. I was blushing. He still makes me blush even after all this time.

"Nothing Mugen, just thinking."

His body shifted to sit up. "Spill it."

I bit my lip and held my silence. I wasn't going to ruin this night with my mindless worrying over nothing.

"It's nothing that can't wait 'til morning."

I lay back down and instead following to lay with me, Mugen opted to hover above my face.

"Do I have to force out of you?" I could see him grinning in our semi lit room. "I'll do it."

My hands landed on his chest in anticipation. We both knew what he wanted. Again.

"No." I whined.

Ravenous man.

"No what?" He chuckled into my ear.

Mugen was making it difficult to register anything but the feel of him. His lips and hands. I couldn't breath nor speak.

"Mug-…Mugen…" Giving up, I laid there pulling him close. "You know people get pregnant from this very activity." I smiled. "Especially when it's repeated all the time."

He stopped pulling his head up, eyes meeting mine. "So…you're point?"

Backfire. My plan wasn't working. "Well…I just thought…you know…"

"What's that?" Mugen laughed out. I gasped as he lowered his lips to mine.

Feeling nimble fingers pulling up my already loose yakuta from our activities earlier in the night. Over my head and behind him the material went. He threw it greedily having his way.

"Mugen." I couldn't help but give in.

He chuckled his hands touching the spots he knew would get the most repose out me. I liked it, I loved it and I wanted more of it.

I'm a wife, a lover, a friend to the man I love the most. We teach each other everyday, argue over nothing, and make up like it never may have been more take than give at first on his part, but I love Mugen nonetheless.

Pulled from my thoughts, before I knew it Mugen was ending the night the same way he started it. I felt my body flush from his attentions.

We lost ourselves in the moment; my worrying was lost in the meantime. There would always be another time to tell him because I knew he would be there.

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