"For These Gifts" {Pendragon} (MF rom cons wl)

                         For These Gifts
                       by  Uther Pendragon
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                         For These Gifts
                       by  Uther Pendragon
                    nogardneprethu@gmail.com


Jeanette Brennan turned from the stove as Bob came staggering in 
with the laundry bag over his shoulder.  "Wrong holiday, Santa.  
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving."

     "Funny."  He dropped the bag on the couch before meeting her 
at the doorway.  "I'm getting out of shape.  Maybe I'll go back 
to working road construction next summer instead of office 
stuff."

     They kissed.  "Tired of me already?" she asked.  He kissed 
her again and reached for her breasts.  "Pot's boiling," she 
said.  He followed her into the kitchen and watched her dump the 
macaroni into the water.

     "You have a point.  I couldn't go two days without you, much 
less a season."

     "Bag would be lighter if you washed every week."

     "Time would be almost twice as much, and the cost would be 
greater."  She wasn't sure that the inconvenience was worth it.

     "Well, you let me manage my side of the household chores.  I 
guess I can't fight about your managing the laundry part."

     "I love you, Mrs. Brennan."

     "All you want is my body."

     "Not *all*."

     "Speaking of the other one percent, go away!  Dinner is 
coming together."  He took no offense at her wanting space to 
work.  While she cooked and served, he remade the bed with new-
washed sheets.  

     The dinner conversation was mostly about Jeanette's 
supervisor who expected a normal week's output in four days.  
"You have a four day weekend, though.  What do you want to do?"  
she asked.  The smile spreading across his face turned into a 
leer before she continued.  "Well you can't.  *I* have to work 
Friday.  Anyway, your professors expect a little studying.  Do 
you want the games tonight, though?  It is the end of your week."

     "This week is your choice.  Is that what you want?"  Bob 
felt that he was walking on eggs.  Jeanette often asked for 
something by offering it.  On the other hand, she occasionally 
convinced herself that her disliking something was proof that he 
wanted it.  Then she might be a martyr giving him something when 
he could easily wait until Friday.

     "I think it is.  Do the dishes first, though.  I'll need a 
clean kitchen tomorrow.  Thanksgiving dinner as a late lunch 
okay?"

     "Great.  Fixing a treat?"

     "Turkey slices.  We're living high on the bird."

     She was appreciating the smell and feel of new-washed sheets 
when he came in.  The "games" were choices of sexual behavior, 
new positions on the Fridays when he chose, mostly old ones on 
her weeks.  "Game?" he asked.

     "Do you think that you could be very gentle with your wife?"  
She wanted to curl up in a ball and have him hug her.  She 
thought that she might just scream if he touched her.  Why had 
she asked for games on a night when she didn't know what she 
wanted?

     "Do you mean let you alone?"  He thought that was carrying 
"games" a little far even for Jeanette, who called her first game 
"Missionary."

     "No.  I mean be gentle."  

     Jeanette seldom showed emotion.  Her style was to take it 
all until she exploded.  Tonight, however, she was visibly 
frazzled.  After lighting the candle and turning off the overhead 
light, he got in bed beside her and petted her far side.  His 
hand didn't even pass near her breasts.  He had, perversely, a 
raging erection.  Her most seductive advances had seldom had the 
effect on Junior that this request for gentleness did.  He 
ignored it as best he could and concentrated on her.

     His mind searched for a subject interesting enough to gain 
her attention yet far enough from them to relax her tension.  
"Have I ever told you how the Battenbergs became the ruling house 
of Europe?"

     "No.  Didn't know that they had."  So he droned on the story 
of how Prince Albert's branch of minor royalty had come to 
genetically dominate the royal house of England, then those of 
Russia and Greece.  It was a splendid choice.  These were people 
of whom Jeanette had heard, but about whom she didn't care.  She 
let the day become the past.  The next day was a glory, not a 
worry.  She hadn't planned enough fancy dinners to see one as 
a chore.

     He shifted on to his back with her head on his shoulder.  He 
kissed the top of her head.  His caresses began to include her 
breasts.  Under his slow seduction, her relaxation moved to a 
different sort of tension.  He rolled her onto her back and 
scattered tiny kisses over her forehead and cheeks.  Her legs 
spread for his hand as her mouth opened for his tongue.  

     He clasped her entire vulva when they first kissed.  Slowly, 
two fingers parted her outer labia and traced the line of her 
inner ones.  He parted these as well, entering into her warm, 
moist valley.  Slowly, and as lightly as possible, he stroked 
that moisture upward.  Her tongue pressed against his, following 
it as it retreated to his mouth.  He sucked it while reminding 
himself "Gentle, be gentle."

     She forgot even the morrow as the present moment became 
sweeter.  He resumed lip kisses when her tongue retreated.  She 
spread her legs wider, her leg brushing his phallus as she did 
so.  

     He responded by easing one finger into her tunnel, then 
widening that opening by pressing down.  He withdrew that finger 
to spread the juices it had found up to her clitoral area.  He 
had long experience being gentle there.  He smoothed the moisture 
into the surrounding folds, just missing the clitoris itself.  
Then he returned for more lubrication before he stroked, ever so 
lightly, over the bud itself.  She gasped in his mouth and tensed 
under his arm.  His tongue returned to explore her mouth as his 
finger repeated its journey.  

     Soon, she tugged at his shoulders in silent signal.  He 
clambered between her legs as she spread them further and raised 
her knees. 

     His hand returned to spread her labia.  He held his torso 
above her as he eased himself into her.  Rooted in her, nestled 
into the cradle of pelvis and thighs, he shifted his arms so that 
his elbows held him up while his hands cupped her breasts.  When 
he began his slow movements, she matched them.  He brushed her 
nipples with his thumbs while he stroked within her warmth.  She 
tensed and started to speed their tempo.  He drove in and out 
forgetting all about gentleness.  His culmination came an instant 
before hers.  He was already pulsing as he buried himself fully 
into her clasping depths.

     She felt him fill her, throb in her.  She felt the sweet 
pulse of his seed hit her before her own tension peaked.  Her 
hands clutched his shoulders as her center clutched his.  She was 
all tension, and then she collapsed.

     He held himself above her as they both gasped for air.  He 
was ready with tissues when she squeezed him out.  Then they lay 
side by side.  He carefully patted her on the shoulder.  Avoiding 
the sensitive areas seemed part of being gentle.

     She knew he cared for her.  She loved him, and felt much 
better about the rest of the universe, too.  The relaxation, 
however, was only partial.  She wished that she could have more.  
She reached for the patting hand and moved it from her shoulder 
to her groin.

     "I'm sorry," he said.  "I thought you had."  He used to ask.  
When she said that his asking bothered her, he tried to pay 
special attention.  He'd done so, and it certainly had *felt* 
like she'd had an orgasm.

     "I did."  She immediately regretted asking.  He had done 
what she asked.  Now she knew he was spent.  She wondered if he 
felt inadequate.  He shouldn't.  Would he feel annoyed at this 
demand when he wanted to drift off?  

     He finally understood that she wanted more of him.  The 
darling!  He knew that he could arouse her passion, but it was a 
rare treat to be asked for his.   "Oh love," he said.  It was 
much too soon for Junior to be engaged in this one, but it 
stirred at this evidence of Jeanette's sexiness.   "Wonderful 
woman, should I still be gentle?" 

     "Please."  

     "Tell me when anything isn't."  He rolled so that he could 
kiss her again.  He played with her outer labia while engaging in 
short, separate kisses in her mouth.  He had hardly kissed her 
breasts tonight, and remedying that oversight would be a pleasant 
task.  He kissed a spiral up the far breast.  Before he reached 
the nipple, he parted her labia.  He realized that the plenteous 
moisture wasn't all hers.  He spread it upward, managing to brush 
her clitoris and suck her nipple at the same instant.

     The twin touches sent a shiver through her.  She felt 
herself start on the familiar journey.  As she slipped deeper 
into her passion, she relaxed more into trust of her husband's 
comforting guidance.  Her relaxation freed her passion.  The 
spiral sped toward the inevitable conclusion.  "I love you," she 
heard.  Then the suction was on her other breast.  She passed 
from shuddering tautness, through undulating pleasure, to 
blissful repletion.

     He watched her accept him, then forget him as she sensed 
only herself.  He made a mental note that he had to do something 
especially nice for Jeanette as gratitude for her expression of 
desire and trust.  He felt her belly tighten and then her hips 
buck.  He felt and saw her utter relaxation.  He'd had dried cum 
on his penis, he did *not* want it on her clitoris.  He slipped 
out of bed and returned with a wet handkerchief.  "Do you want me 
to wipe you, or do you want to do it yourself?"

     "Me."

     "You want more?"

     "I want to be hugged."  He blew out the candle and complied.

     "Am I pushing the idea of games too far?"

     "No.  You may be seeking relief under the wrong statute."

     "You sure that you don't want to be a lawyer?  You lost me 
on that one."

     "'I, Robert, take thee, Jeanette,' something, something, 
'Wilt thou love her, cherish her, comfort her and keep her, as 
long as you both shall live?' When you need comfort, I'm supposed 
to be here.  Not a matter of what day it is, who chooses the 
game.  When you need cherishing, I've sworn to cherish you."

     For a moment, she thought that he had mixed up the wedding 
formula.  Then she knew that he had the spirit of the vows 
engraved on his heart.  She snuggled harder against him, and 
pulled his arm where she could hug it as he hugged her.

     "I suppose you want a song too," he said.  He wondered what 
he would do if she said "no."

     "The whole nine yards."  She was luxuriating.  She knew that 
she was taking more than her share that night.  She made a note 
to find something nice to do for Bob. She knew that he was 
keeping his promise, not making an exchange; but she had taken 
the same vows.

     "Bob loves Jeanette," he droned.  "Bob loves Jeanette,  Bob 
loves Jeanette, and I love you."  When he started the second 
verse, Jeanette kissed each of his fingers once. 

     . . .

     Bob kissed his sleeping-in wife and started his morning.  
While he showered and ate, he struggled with a problem.  Jeanette 
had only meant to tease a few weeks ago.  "I'm captured by a sex 
maniac," she had said, "and he pretends to be such a Christian, 
too."  He'd ignored "sex maniac."  He should have ignored the 
second part as well.

     Instead, he had said, "Ah, but Christians believe that sex 
within marriage is *right*."

     "You don't pray that way" was all she'd said.  Three things 
had been clear to him immediately.  Jeanette was right; Jeanette 
didn't care, she was only teasing; he did care.  He wanted to be 
the adult whose faith was founded on scripture, reason, 
tradition, and experience.  He was still mostly the adolescent 
whose God was a projection of his snickering peers.

     He was still elated because Jeanette had *asked* for his 
petting.  Would he give thanks for the meal, fine as it would be, 
and not for the greater pleasure?

     The coffee maker gurgled its readiness.  Jeanette had had 
her extra hour.  More brooding would take him nowhere.  He poured 
a mug and took it to the bedroom.

     "Coffee," she said.  "I knew there was a reason I married 
him."  She gulped the mug and then headed for the bathroom.  
Benefited by the extra sleep, she realized that this was a 
special day by her second cup.  She shooed Bob out of the kitchen 
and began to work.  Jeanette had been planning this feast since 
Bob had turned a birthday bonanza over to the household accounts.  
It featured plenitude; they would have peas *and* corn on the 
cob, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, *and* (Stovetop) stuffing, 
turkey to make it Thanksgiving, and mince pie to make Bob really 
thankful.  (Remembering his cherishing of her the night before 
made her extra happy about that touch.)  She made her own 
coleslaw and her own gravy.  Jeanette gloried in being a 
housewife when she had the materials.  When she fetched Bob, he 
looked truly impressed.  He seated her, and she waited for grace.

     "Look," Bob began.  "Pastor Jim warned us about this, but 
I've done it anyway.  My family goes around on Thanksgiving and 
everybody says what they're grateful for from the past year.  Not 
one thing, but sort of a list.  

     "Brennan Senior rules aren't our rules, and it's not fair to 
spring it on you, but I'd still like it if we did that."

     "It's not exactly the weirdest thing that your family does.  
Do you want me to go first?"

     "Please.  I'll sort of put my list into the prayer."

     "The year?  Well I've been planning on being married to you 
for years, and this year I am.  I'm grateful for Greg's gift.  
All the disasters which *didn't* happen.  Finding a job.  And I'm 
grateful for your cold.  Now you'll know that when I'm negative 
about messy sex it isn't rejection of you."

     He waited, then raised an eyebrow.  She nodded.  "Almighty 
Father," he began.  That was the easy part.  "You have given us 
so many gifts that I *should* be grateful for, health, sight, a 
roof over our heads and food on our table.  But You, who know 
everything, know that all my real gratitude this year is for the 
woman who shares my life.

     "And most of all ..."  Here he took a breath, started to go 
on, and then exhaled and took another breath.  "I am most 
grateful for her passion and her acceptance of mine.  I know that 
she said no with no help from me for years when that was a 
virtue.  I know that this trained her to say 'no,' and that this 
is mostly my fault.  I know that her first impulse is to say 
'no.'  But her mind and her love for me have overcome that.

     "I thank You for that mind and for the body which says 'yes' 
so often and so well.  I thank You, as I thank her, for her 
cheerful acceptance of an unfair share of the pressure that money 
brings on our house.  In the category of things I'm not grateful 
enough for, I thank You for all the housework that she does.

     "I thank You for my father's continuing life and health, for 
the gifts that Jeanette has mentioned, and for the feast which is 
before us and the cook who put it there.  In Jesus' name, amen."

     "Amen," said Jeanette, but she reached for his hand rather 
than a fork.  They looked at each other for a minute, but 
everything seemed to have been said. "I love you," she finally 
said.  It seemed inadequate, but it was the truth.

     "I love you, too," he replied.  She knew that.  He'd even 
told his God so.  They dug into their feast.

     They ate to repletion and went for a walk.  What good the 
exercise did for their digestion was undone by a late supper of 
the leftovers.  A few slices of turkey held over for sandwiches, 
two sweet potatoes, and a third of a pie were all that the 
refrigerator saw of the great feast.

     They went to bed late.  Their lovemaking, although 
restricted by both torpor and bloat, added one more comfortable 
satiation to the holiday.

     . . .

     Bob's torpor continued through most of Friday.  He read the 
assigned material for two classes and produced a fair amount of 
note cards for an upcoming paper, but he did all that lying in 
bed.  It was mid-afternoon before he finished putting away the 
laundry which he had washed Wednesday.  At this point, he felt a 
twinge of conscience; he'd not been acting as grateful as he'd 
said he was.  He neatened the apartment according to his lights, 
if not up to Jeanette's standard.

     At work, Jeanette did her usual job.  She burst six-ply 
forms of vile-smelling carbonless copies, and put each copy in a 
separate place, four of them file folders which changed from one 
form to the next.  Her enjoyment of the previous day hadn't 
outlived the alarm clock's ringing.  She glowered through the day 
with a temper not improved by a co-worker's calling in sick.  The 
longest day, however, ends, as does the longest sulk.

     Bob greeted her with a kiss and a hug.  The dishes from last 
night had been put away, and the cooking utensils were washed and 
on the drainboard.  The table was set.  Life was looking better 
already.  "Anything else I can do?"  he asked.

     "Ramen tonight.  Can you crush the bricks."

     "I appreciate your trust in my incredible strength, but 
crushing bricks is beyond even *me*."  He pulled out three 
packages and started kneading them, though.

     "What are those things in the package called, then?"

     "Du-jours.  What else?"   She gave him her most parental 
look, and he returned his most unrepentant one.

     After dinner, Bob pulled his chair back and gestured toward 
his lap.  She sat there and cuddled.  

     "You have two days ahead of you," he said, "and not even 
games this evening."

     "I don't dislike the games."  He looked awfully doubtful.  
"I don't *always* dislike the games.  Look, what is your agenda?"

     "Moi?"  He tried to look innocent.  It was not one of his 
successful faces.

     "I remember when the first summer of road-building was first 
offered to you.  You came to me and said something like, 'Do you 
want to get married?' ..."

     "It was more like, 'Have you ever thought that sometime we 
might get married?'"

     "I thought you were talking about eloping that night.  
Instead you were planning that high wages in four months would 
make this more affordable in four years."

     "More like three.  I liked what we had, I wanted it to 
continue in the summer -- which it couldn't if I were in another 
state; but I figured that (if it were to continue indefinitely) 
that the money would eventually be more important than that 
time."

     "So I finally figured out then.  But I know that you have 
long-range plans.  What are they?"

     "I plan to be married to you for fifty or sixty years.  Long 
enough for you?"  She just looked at him.  "Okay.  In this arena, 
I'd like us to do it seated, standing, and doggie style.  There 
is a position which has you lying on your back with your knees 
raised and me lying on my side sort of under those knees.  Call 
it a T.  And there is karezza, which means get a real comfortable 
position and move as little as possible.  There are variations of 
some of these."

     "First of all, 'doggie style' is horrible."

     "Now Jeanette...."

     "If you want to do anything like that, you'll have to find a 
*much* nicer name."

     "Well, you are fox, not a dog."

     "You're starting to think.  You have a while."

     "But you're immune to my wiles."  

     "You want to try something tonight?"

     "Do you mean that?"

     "What is this 'seated' business?"

     "I love you dearly."

     "I'm just too comfortable to get up."

     "Well, you'll have to, but only briefly,"  he said, 
completely forgetting about contraception.

     When she finally went to take care of that detail, he moved 
a chair into the bedroom and stripped.  Petting had brought back 
fond memories, but he preferred it when it didn't end in lonely 
frustration.  Jeanette came in wearing a robe, but flared it open 
to hug him.  Their kiss lasted until Junior rose between them.

     "So what do I do?" she asked.  He sat on the edge of the 
chair.

     "Come towards me 'till I'm between your legs....  Four more 
inches.  Now sit down."

     "Aren't we awfully far apart?"

     "We'll change that in a minute.  Give me another kiss."  As 
she leaned forward to do that, her breasts brushed his skin.  She 
shivered slightly.  He parted his legs and, with them, hers.  She 
had to grip him more tightly to keep from falling back.  He 
turned his nails backward and stroked them up her thigh.  When he 
reached her folds, he played with the outer lips for a minute 
before passing two fingers between them.  He reached moisture 
immediately.  He stroked this up her valley until she gasped in 
his mouth.  His hand made two more journeys before she broke the 
kiss.

     "Now what?" she asked.

     He leaned back and took hold of himself with the hand that 
wasn't stroking her.  "Now you come forward and sit on me as you 
do when I'm lying down."  It was a little clumsier than that, but 
she reached the critical point where he was poised at her 
entrance.  "Very slowly," he said.  She lowered herself as slowly 
as possible.  Finally, she was resting on his legs again and he 
was totally engulfed.  He pulled her hips to him and began 
rocking back and forth.  After a minute or two, he sat straighter 
and changed to a rolling side-to-side motion.

     She brushed his hair back to kiss first his forehead and 
then the tops of his ears.  He looked up and she bent enough to 
kiss him.  "Are you feeling adventurous?" he asked as that kiss 
broke.

     "Ihm hihm," she replied.  She felt that this was adventurous 
indeed and was certainly not expecting any more.  He stood!  She 
gasped and held on tighter.  She crossed her legs behind his 
hips, while he pulled her against him.  He took a couple of steps 
to the bed and then stood swaying back and forth with his toes 
under it.  All their hands were engaged in holding them together; 
none were available for caresses.  The motion not only moved him 
in and out of her but also rubbed their groins together at every 
stage.

     Jeanette always felt a giddy rush when Bob lifted her.  That 
added emotion to the more specifically genital stimulation.  She 
was right on the edge.  Bob's muscle tension and steady, single-
gaited, pistonning drove him over first.  His twitching organ and 
spurting seed took her with him.  Her fingers clawed into his 
shoulders, her legs tightened around his hips, and her vagina 
clasped his phallus.

     Embraced everywhere, Bob swayed, throbbing in the rivet 
which joined them.  He was also trembling below that point, and 
his over-stressed muscles collapsed when his orgasm was over.  
He'd considered that risk back when his mind had been 
functioning, and he was poised so that they would fall on the 
bed.

     Jeanette had often felt like she was soaring during her 
climax.  Occasionally the end felt like a drop to the bed but 
never had it felt like such a tumble as this.  She bounced a 
little on the mattress.  Then Bob was collapsed with his face on 
her belly and his knees on the floor.  She recovered her breath 
long before he did.  When he began kissing her above the navel, 
she laughed.

     "That was fun," she said, "but I don't think that I'd like 
it every night."

     It was a minute before he answered.  "You'd probably like it 
as often as I could do it.  That was fun, as you say, but also 
work."

     "Dunno.  You were impressive for a guy who was complaining 
about the weight of a laundry bag recently."

     "Motivation."  They busied themselves wiping, arranging, 
returning the chair (Bob could picture crashing into it in the 
night), turning off lights, removing a robe, and all the other 
burdens which impetuous lust lays on tired repletion.

     Finally, they snuggled together under smoothed bed clothes.

     "I love you desperately," Bob said when he was comfortable.

     "V'you too."  She was already dropping off.

     "But I really messed up the wedding vows."

     "Does that mean we aren't married?"

     "Messed them up the other night.  Looked them up later.  
They go like this:

     "I, Robert, take thee, Jeanette, to be my wedded wife, to 
have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, 
for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to 
cherish, till death us do part, and thereto I plight thee my 
faith.

     "'Comfort' comes in an entirely different part of the 
service."

     "I'll forgive you this time.  But I want something."

     "A song?"

     "Nope!"  He was disappointed.  He knew he couldn't sing, but 
he thought that she liked that particular song.  "Instead I want 
you to say the vow again."

     He repeated it until her breath signaled her sleep.  He 
dropped off soon after.

     . . .

     Saturday, Bob waited until 8:30 to even start the coffee.  
Jeanette wandered through the kitchen on the way to the bathroom 
before it was done.  She downed one mug before her shower.  Two 
mugs later, she was awake.

     "Have I ever mentioned that you look beautiful?"

     "What do you want from me this morning?"  She was smiling, 
but he thought the accusation totally unjust.  He was responding 
to the past night rather than seeking any future benefit.

     "Absolutely nothing.  Indeed, I have to hit the library 
today.  Do you want anything from me before I cut out?"  

     "Want me to pack your lunch?"

     "Already did."  And felt overflowing with virtue thereby.

     She glanced in the refrigerator.  The turkey was untouched.  
The bread supply was diminished.  "PBJ and...?"

     "What's with the 'and'?"

     "Take an apple."  She handed him one.

     "Grape jelly is fruit."  But he added the apple to his bag.  
"This evening okay for FRC?"

     "Sure."  

     Their kiss was more passionate than was sensible for a 
parting.  She giggled when he readjusted his trousers before 
leaving.  

     They each spent solid hours working, he filling note cards, 
she filling a vacuum-cleaner bag.  If thoughts of the previous 
night occurred more often to her, they interfered more with his 
work.   He checked out two mysteries for her before he took his 
lunch break.

     He stayed in the library until it closed, but Jeanette had 
expected that. Dinner was ready soon after he got back.  They ate 
and he washed dishes.  Jeanette was scanning FRC when he got to 
the bedroom.

     This section covered times just within their horizon.  
Jeanette's grandfather had told her stories of the Pacific 
Theater.  The talk began on new information and perspectives, and 
finally ended on whether it made sense for Jeanette to continue 
trying to follow one of Bob's courses.

     "I don't know if I'd have put in the effort you have without 
expecting credit," he said.

     "I'll get credit.  Someday I'll be Professor Brennan's wife 
and the History Department is never going to look at my 
transcript.  They'll talk to me, though.  I don't want to sound 
like an ignoramus."

     "You're not an ignoramus."

     "Compared to you, I am.  That's okay.  I just want to be a 
secret ignoramus."

     He laughed, then he kissed her deeply.  "Your mind is so 
twisty.  I love it, too,"  he said before kissing her again.

     She responded wholeheartedly to the kiss, pulling his head 
to her and thrusting her tongue at his.  The last hour of 
discussion had been accompanied by his light caresses and a few 
hugs.  She was ready to take this show on the road.  Bob, 
however, had another road in mind.  He slipped down the bed and 
reached for the pad that they kept nearby.  "The light," she 
said.  He doused it.  In the sudden dark, he slipped the pad 
against her hip.  She raised herself and then squirmed to get 
squarely on the pad.

     He slipped under the sheet and between her legs.  He started 
kissing her a little above her left knee and trailed kisses up 
her thigh.  He continued on past the sweet junction and over her 
delta and belly.  He kissed the path up her breast to find a 
nubbly areola and a nipple reaching out to him.  There he licked 
and sucked as his pleasure briefly overrode his dedication to 
hers.  On recovery, he kissed his way down the breast, across the 
valley, and up her right breast.  There he feasted again.

     Meanwhile, his fingers had been teasing what his lips had 
skipped.  She felt the sensations as separate pleasures at first, 
a licked nipple one moment and a slick finger stroking her labia 
the next.  The sensations soon merged into a single wave of 
desire peaking as her nipple was sucked deeply at the same 
instant he brushed lightly across her clitoris.

     He kissed the nipple goodbye and squatted back on his knees.  
One hand returned the covers over her as the other held her labia 
open for his tongue.  The heady odor and sweet taste drove him to 
a tender lingual assault, first on her labia and then on her tiny 
clitoral bud.  Lips met lips at the same time he slipped two 
fingers into her sheath.  He felt the slight bump within her and 
stroked it with the tips of his fingers while he sucked gently 
over the top of her cleft.  She was pressing on his head through 
the covers.  He continued with his fingers as he felt her 
stiffen.  Then he closed his lips until he was sucking the 
clitoris itself.

     Jeanette was floating on sensuous pleasure.  Wave after wave 
of it poured from her genitals, and she reached down to press 
Bob's head to her to keep the waves flowing.  She felt herself 
stiffen in expectation.  Then his lips deserted her.  He rose 
under her arm and the covers until his lips were on her mouth.  
His tongue had just thrust into her mouth when he passed between 
his fingertips at her entrance.  This thrust was slower but 
deeper.  When she was full below, his lips moved from her mouth 
to her hairline.  The changes set her back one beat, but she 
stiffened again at his second stroke.  Then her tension spilled 
over into completion and she was undulating under him and around 
him.  From far away, she felt him roll them to the side.

     He felt her stiffen and shifted his attack.  He moved from 
her mound to her mouth as fast as he could.  While kissing her, 
he was adjusting his hips to enter her body.  He spread the 
entrance of her marvelous cunt with his fingers as Junior passed 
inside.  He pressed between those slippery, clutching walls until 
her mound was supporting him.  Then he straightened and kissed 
her forehead before beginning to move.  He held himself so his 
ribs brushed her nipples as Junior stroked through her inner 
depths.

     She clutched around him almost immediately.  He pressed 
within her and switched to a side-to-side motion that rubbed his 
pubic area over hers.  When she seemed to stop, he rolled her 
sideways and pulled the pad from beneath her.  He rolled back and 
resumed stroking within at the new angle.  She was clutching 
around him again, and he could no longer resist.  He stroked in 
her clasping warmth, then pounded into it, then raised his torso 
on that one pivot as he pulsed and poured into a quivering 
welcome.

     When he rolled her back, Jeanette felt him touch her inside 
and out in a new way.  She pulled his hips to her through the 
quilt.  Her body took her back to joy but she still felt his 
motions.  Then she felt his discharge.  

     Then she felt his weight and her lassitude.

     When they could bring themselves to move, the covers were in 
a tangle over them but mostly off them.  There was a wet mess 
under them but partly on them.  Neither particularly cared.  They 
moved off the mess and dabbed it up.  They adjusted the covers 
and snuggled under them.

     "Love you," he said.

     "Love *you*."  She really meant it.  She looked for a way to 
say it better.  "Anne going to have the baby with her in church 
tomorrow?"

     "Usually does."

     "Wake me in time for church, okay?"

     Briefly, he thought of the two books for her in his 
backpack.  He decided that they would be as pleasant a surprise 
at lunch as they would have been at breakfast.  "Did I mention 
that you are the best wife in the whole world?"

     "Have you been sampling again?"

     "Don't need to.  I have the best."  He placed his arm 
between her breasts and gave her a tight hug.  

     She hugged the arm for a minute and then took his hand in 
hers.  She placed it on her breast.  He cupped it while he sang 
them both to sleep.


     The End
     For These Gifts
     Uther Pendragon
     nogardneprethu@gmail.com
     1996/11/23
     Rev. 1997/01/05
     1997/04/26
     2000/03/19
     2001/11/05
     2010/09/20


This is one of a series of stories about the Brennans.

The next story in the series is:
now.txt "For Now"

The first story in the series is:
forever.txt "Forever" 

The directory to the entire series is:
brennan.txt 


A story of another couple using another technique to deal with 
another stress is:
snarl.txt "Snarl" 

The directory to all my stories can be found at:
index.txt