Coming Back

Disclaimer: I wrote it, I've posted it - therefore it's mine, I tell you.

A/N: If you’ve read my fic, “Promises, Promises” then you’ll recognize these characters. If you haven’t, well there’s no real need to as this is neither a prequel nor a sequel. However it is dedicated to the same guy hence the use of the same characters. Hope you enjoy.

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They had said their goodbyes at the terminal gate when his flight was called. With a final hug and kiss to his brief lover, Colin made his way towards the cue line.

Kari stood there away from the crowd, watching him move closer to the gate and waved back to him one final time just before he boarded the plane.

They’d had a week together, getting to know one another better, growing closer to one another, doing what they could to make the most of their week.

Neither had wanted him to go back home, but he had said that he’d had to. And now he was on his way back and both lovers were trying to fight their tears.

“How are you holdin’ up?” Kari’s best friend Brandi asked when she heard her friend’s saddened voice answer the phone.

Trying to keep her voice from shaking and cracking as she cried, Kari answered, “He left. I got back from the airport about two hours ago and within nine hours he’ll be back home.”

“Well at least you got to meet him.” Brandi tried.

“I knew it’d end like this. I knew it could only end in pain and tears, but I still miss him. I still wish he could’ve stayed,” she sobbed. She was thankful for the memories, she just hated they were memories and that Colin wasn’t still in her bed or on her patio smoking another cigarette. She still expected to see him appear any second.

Kari had wanted to pay attention to what her friend had gone on to say about what she had missed during the week she had been with Colin, but as her thoughts continued drifting back to him it was proving impossible.

How he had held her, how he had kissed her, how she could still smell his cologne throughout her apartment. It was a wonder she could form any words at all.

Brandi and their mutual friend Jack tried for hours to try to help their friend but there was nothing they could say or do.

“Anything I can do to cheer you up?” Jack had asked.

“Not unless you can get them to turn the plane around or somehow get me onto his,” Kari had replied while harshly wiping away another falling tear.

They had talked about their wishes for time machines a lot over the last several months they had known each other, but only now did Kari truly wish Jack had one that she could use.

Kari finally made it off of her phone and into bed around 1 A.M. As she laid down in the bed she and Colin had shared that week all she could think was how his plane would be landing in about three hours.

She wished him well even still, hoping she would hear from him soon and hear that things were going as they had hoped. Though she knew better than to anticipate a call the next day. Or even the day after that, especially given their time difference.

She woke up late the next morning. It was Sunday, it didn’t matter. He wasn’t there, she was allowed to be miserable. She didn’t really feel much like talking to anyone, anyone that wasn’t Colin at least. But even then she didn’t know what she would say to him.

Kari wanted to tell him that she missed him, but she knew that he knew that. After all she had said it to him at least three times while they were at the airport. She wanted to tell him how much she wished he was still there, but their goodbye had been hard enough as it was.

For most of the day all she could do was look to her clock, trying to imagine where he was and what he was doing then.

3P.M., he’s likely off the train by now, she thought to herself. It would be 9P.M. where he was and she still wondered just what he was going back to. Would he be staying with a friend? Would his ex take him back? Would he have his job? She couldn’t know and the uncertainty was only nauseating her.

How, she couldn’t know, but Kari made it through the rest of the day with minimal tears. Her friends had still tried to help her, but without meaning to were somewhat making it worse.

Night had fallen and she was wandering aimlessly through her apartment, remembering everywhere he had been, almost retracing his steps in a sense.

The DVD’s they had rented remained by her player, the candy he had left behind remained on her dresser, the leftovers from their most recent dinner together was still in the fridge. Everything seemed to be waiting for him to come back just as she was.

An empty hope, she knew, but she needed him. Why, not even she knew. She couldn’t even fathom a guess.

Finally a sound shook her from her ever-saddening thoughts. A knock at her door. Though what had shaken her was that the knocking wasn’t at her front door.

Carefully, fighting her emerging fear of a possible attacker, she made her way towards her bedroom patio door where the soft knocking had come to a brief stop.

Still unlocked, she noticed. She hadn’t even been able to bring herself to lock it again since Colin had used that patio to go out to have his cigarettes. It was then Kari felt herself overtaken by sheer hope. Anyone she didn’t know may have used the unlocked door to their advantage, this person hadn’t.

“Told you I could hop,” the tall, curly-haired brunette smiled to the nearly sobbing young woman before him.

Her patio had a sort of white wooden railing around it, one only someone over five feet tall could climb over. Colin was 5’10 and they had joked that first night about what if they were caught together in her room overnight. They had thought of letting him hop the rail and come in through the front door as their way out of a potentially uncomfortable situation.

Kari was crying too hard to even respond. She had tried to say his name, but failed. Instead she settled for locking him another tight hug while sobbing into his shoulder.

“I missed you, too,” Colin told her as he held her, trying to comfort her. He had known this would be a shock for her, but he hadn’t imagined she had missed him this much already.

He had gone back to the home he had known for most of his life and he had followed up on the possibilities he’d had. He also knew Kari’s offer for him to come back if things didn’t work out and or if he simply wanted to come back still stood.

He hadn’t wanted to leave her any more than she had wanted him to leave. And while he was extremely jet-lagged from having just spent twenty-two hours in the air and another hour in a cab to her apartment he couldn’t deny her this. Not when she was one of the few people he could be certain truly cared about him.

“Are you really here?” Kari breathed the next morning at the sight of Colin beside her in her bed. It was obvious they had spent the night there together, but given that he only had his shirt off and she still had on the clothes she usually slept in, it was obvious they had only slept. Truthfully that comforted her, she doubted she could’ve handled having had another intimate night with him and being unable to remember it. But it was also that fact that had her wondering if all of this wasn’t another dream.

He smiled and curled an arm around her slim frame. “I decided to take you up on your invitation.”

Without a word the petite brunette pressed forward and gave him a hard, passionate kiss of relief.

Smiling inwardly, Colin knew what she wanted. She had told him nights ago that she had wished they could have been together every night during that week and despite neither of them having had quite enough sleep, he knew she was quickly and all too easily persuading him to push past that.

Turning onto his side, he let his left hand trail down her side, enjoying her soft moan as they let their tongues twine.

He took her eager moan as his hand firmly grasped a round cheek as he pressed her closer to his solid frame, once again enjoying the feel of her slender hand soon coming up and combing through his curls.

A moment later his hand was moving up her side again, taking the time to enjoy the feel of her soft skin against his own once more before continuing to finally grasp her right breast beneath her bra.

Part of him silently cursed the well-fitting material as he lifted it up enough to give his mouth complete access to her soft, full breast.

A deep, involuntary moan immediately came up from Kari’s throat as she felt his lips surround her taut bud and suckle hard at it.

Her sensitivity was only heightened by the fact he had left his mark on her the other night. Each moan only spurred him on for which she was more thankful than she could currently even think to voice.

There was still part of Colin that hated was Kari could do to him. How easily she could talk him into this, how much she cared for him, how she could change his mind with a less than subtle touch. Still this was where he knew he was both wanted and needed.

Switching from her right to left breast, bringing a hand to the small of her back and holding her seemingly impossibly closer, he heard another moan escape her throat and despite how much more he wanted to tease her, he knew they were both getting too worked up to wait much longer.

“I think we’re still wearing too many clothes,” he finally told her, enjoying the smile she was returning.

Glancing to his jeans, Kari replied, “I think you’re right.” With that she lifted off her shirt and bra in a single movement, watching as Colin moved low and took her pants down and let them drop to the floor before ridding himself of his own.

The last time he had touched her like this she’d feared him never speaking to her again afterwards. Now nearly all of her fear was gone, he was back in her room, back in her bed and within seconds back atop her.

Her slim body was already arching towards him as he kissed her again, but she knew his love of teasing her. Her need for him was growing rapidly again, still she only felt his skilled fingers moving up her thigh, his bitten-down nails raking down her smooth skin, once again claiming her for his own.

Kari’s soft moans and shallow breaths kept her from being able to keep up with Colin’s pace of their heated kiss as she again felt him slip two of his fingers into her eager cunt.

Noticing her slight distraction, as well as her gently pumping hips and how her head was canting back into her pillow, he pulled back slightly and asked, “Do you want me to stop kissing you?”

“No,” she sighed out. She felt she had never been more honest with him than she had been in that moment. If she had it her way he would never have to stop kissing her, she only wished she could form the words to tell him that just then.

Still it seemed Colin knew as his lips returned to hers. Feeling her slender hands run down his back, feeling her nails occasionally raking down and digging in, feeling how ready she was for him.

Kari’s hips instinctively rose again as Colin withdrew his fingers from her. She wanted to feel him again and by now there was no way for her or her body to deny it.

Colin moved to enter her slowly at first, taking his time at the incredible sensations of her walls accepting him as he moved deeper into her warm, wet core.

The younger woman still couldn’t believe how much she had missed this, how much she had missed the feeling of him moving deep within her, feeling his warm hands roaming over her, hearing him moan and know that it was because of her, feeling his breath against her skin, everything it seemed.

It wasn’t just how nearly perfectly he fit within her, it wasn’t just how they moved together or even how it felt when their bodies met completely, but just knowing that it was truly him inside her again aroused and thrilled her to no end.

Fully sheathing himself within her tight warmth and grinding into her a final time, Colin knew that if he didn’t stop here he was sure to lose what control he had left and knew for himself ho much trouble that could lead to.

Though he couldn’t deny at least part of him enjoyed hearing her discontented groan as he slid out of her. Wordlessly he moved beside her, bringing her to his side as they once again deepened their kiss before he broke it slowly.

Kari brought a leg over him, preparing to climb atop him, but Colin stopped her.

“You want me to be nice and wet for the next part, don’t you?” he smirked.

The petite brunette couldn’t help but laugh slightly. She should have known he would want to feel his cock in her mouth again. He hadn’t turned down a blowjob from her once in the last week. Then again in retrospect she did wish she had offered him more than the few he had gotten then. Though as he had teased her almost mercilessly before, she decided to repay the favor as she curled a hand around his hard dick and almost painfully slowly began to stroke him and give him a final kiss before shimmying down his lean, mostly smooth body.

It was Colin to sigh out then as he felt his lover’s plush lips slip over the head of his cock and slowly move down his solid stalk.

Kari let his sighs and soft moans be her guides as to what he enjoyed most of her oral exploration. Looking up at him occasionally she could see how his eyes had closed, how his head was canting into the mattress and still she was bringing more of him passed her lips.

Colin fought to hold on, not wanting to lose the fire-hot sensations that were filling him as Kari bobbed faster at his cock. But he knew this wasn’t where he wanted to cum, especially not when there was more they not only had promised each other but actually enjoyed.

“I doubt I’ll last another minute if you keep that up,” he finally managed to tell her a moment later, hoping she would release him in time for them both to still enjoy what would follow.

Smiling to herself, Kari sat back up and playfully asked, “So what now?”

“Smart ass,” Colin shot back as he laid her down again and almost instantly flipped her onto her flat stomach.

Kari couldn’t fight the giggle that followed. She was the first woman in apparently some time who had admitted her love of this to him and he was more than willing to take her up on that offer.

She was giggling now, Colin thought, but he knew soon those giggles would change to needful moans. With her back arched, her resting on her knees and arms and her round ass just in front of him, he knew the next move was his.

Kari felt his strong hands running over her again and his hard, wet cock teasing her just a little more and it was then she began to relax enough to let him in.

Pushing in slowly so as not to hurt her more than she enjoyed, Colin kept his pace steady at first. Still he feared he was already to his edge and that the second he sank into her completely she would push him over it.

She was so tight and meeting his thrusts almost perfectly. One hand was holding him up and the other was beneath her, further teasing her still stiff and incredibly sensitive nipples. She was moaning softly, her body reacting to his with each movement and still neither could know how much more they could take.

Kari knew she needed just a little more and given how her lover had chosen to busy his hands instead, she lowered her arms, laid down flat and spread her legs a little more, allowing his thrusts to move her just enough so that her burning clit would grind against the mattress.

Soon there was nothing filling the room but the sounds of their deepening moans and wet flesh meeting and reacting to the other’s.

Colin was still fighting to hang on even just a little longer and he furiously slammed into her again and again, but by now just the idea of this was enough to send him spiraling into orgasmic bliss. The fire that had been building within him showed no sign of being extinguished until now and at feeling her tighten again, he knew he was gone.

Sensing that, Kari pushed back all the way against him, nearly imprisoning her lover within her and let out her sated groan as she came with him a moment later. Between the sheet giving her clit just enough friction and feeling Colin’s cum shoot deep into her as well as the tremors that still shook his lean body, she knew she couldn’t hang on any longer herself.

“How do you do this to me?” Colin panted as his body collapsed atop hers.

“Just lucky, I guess,” Kari replied equally breathlessly. Though in truth it wasn’t just her orgasm that had her sounding so breathless. She enjoyed the feel of Colin drained of his strength atop her, as long as it was thanks to her at least, but he was also slightly beginning to crush her to the bed.

“Lucky,” he chuckled. He couldn’t understand it. What she evoked in him, how deeply she had come to care for him, how willing she was to give him all she could and then some, sexually and otherwise. He still didn’t feel he deserved her or all she had offered him and it showed each time he went back to the other woman in his life. But still Kari cared for him and still she was there for him.

She would never admit it to his face, at least not consciously, but she did love him. She knew it even before they had met face to face. He had gotten her to admit it two nights before that, but their emotions had been running so high then they would have said almost anything. Still that didn’t change what Kari felt, even if Colin would never know it.

“I should go wash up,” he said finally as he carefully slid out of her.

Kari nodded and rolled back over as her modesty began to return to her. While her lover showered she looked around her room for her clothes and quickly put a few of them back on, knowing he wouldn’t be returning to her bed completely nude either. Though she had to admit she wouldn’t have minded if he did.

“Are you really okay with me being back?” he asked as he laid down beside her again just minutes later.

Comforted in the new found familiarity of the scent of his cologne filling her senses and bedroom again, she replied, “You do realize you’re asking the girl you accused of crushing you in a hug at the airport this question?” A slightly nervous laugh followed, but still she listened for his own reply.

Colin laughed in response. She was right, she hadn’t wanted to let him go in really any sense and for the first true time he had seen it and felt it. He’d hated hurting her, but he had felt it was for the best. Still that hadn’t stopped him from turning right back around and going back to her.

“How about you? Are you glad you’re back?” It pained her to ask, thinking for sure she would hear him sigh and try to make his “No” sound better for her benefit.

“Seeing how happy you were last night made it worth it.”

“I was crying!” she laughed in disbelief.

“Because you were happy!” he laughed in response. “Plus, having all the anal sex here I could want is a bonus.” A poor-timed joke, perhaps, but he hadn’t been kidding with his first statement.

“Oh, gee, thanks,” she replied with a sigh and shake of her head. “I’m serious though, I am glad you’re back. It really is hard for me when you disappear. I know you and a number of others want to believe that I get over it eventually, but it didn‘t happen last time and that was for almost a year.”

He nodded and opened his arms to her again. There was still nothing wrong with a hug, they silently decided. He still hated upsetting her and yet despite that seemingly being what he did best with her most of the time, she still couldn’t walk away from him. Something he was both thankful for and confused by.

They both knew that if there was any real possibility of him being able to stay this time he would have to figure a lot of things out and both of them would have to be willing to make some changes, but in that moment none of that seemed to matter. In that moment they were savoring as much of their afterglow that they could and hoping that it never had to end.

The End