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They can’t stop kissing. Jason’s voice fades away completely sometime after Bernie snaps the blinds shut – Serena isn’t even sure she knows what he said, but if it’s important, let the fire alarm go off. They are devouring each other, water for a dying woman, the air they need to breathe, the air they aren’t getting: Serena wrenches herself away from Bernie’s lips only to gasp, to lick at the long, perfect column of her neck before Bernie lets out a sound – was that a growl? Whatever it was, it was hot – and crashes their mouths together again. Bernie, sly thing that she is, has manoeuvred them over to the other wall and reaches over to shut the other set of blinds, enveloping them in a cocoon of semi-darkness, and she gasps again as Bernie traps her between the wall and her heated body and runs her hands down Serena’s sides, slides a hand up under Serena’s shirt.
Serena gasps at the relief of the contact, at the feeling of skin against skin, finally, and Bernie is murmuring things into her ear she can barely hear for the rush of her blood. She makes an effort to tune in, starving for Bernie’s words, for her voice, for the impossible quenching of this, the unquenchable thirst.
“…amazing,” Bernie is panting, breath warm on the shell of Serena’s ear, fingers caressing, maddening, in a way that makes Serena arch into her wantonly in an effort to press their breasts together. “I’m mad,” Bernie hisses, “I’m mad, I must be mad.” Kisses her again, tongue hot and talented and insistent and breathtaking, as breathtaking as she always knew it would be. “To leave you … I’m sorry, so … so sorry. So…” Kisses her way down Serena’s throat, the hand that was toying at the nape of her neck drawing down to brush gently across her breast. It’s so gentle, in fact, that if Serena didn’t know better, couldn’t read Bernie’s energy better, the motion could almost be mistaken for an accident – but she does know better, and she manages to grit out, “It’s all right, Bernie, just touch me,” before she slides her own hands up into Bernie’s hair and tugs off that pesky hair tie, tosses it somewhere across the room.
Bernie pauses where she’s nipping at Serena’s collarbones to laugh, and Serena tugs a little on her hair, grins fiercely. “I missed your hair,” she mutters, before can think twice about it.
“I missed yours,” Bernie says. “I missed your skin.” She pushes the collar of Serena’s blouse aside and kisses her shoulder, sloppy and open-mouthed. “Love this blouse, by the way, you look gorgeous.” She is caressing Serena’s breast in earnest, now, through the blouse, the other hand still dancing across the skin of her back, over and under her bra strap, and the teasing makes Serena want to scream. “I missed your hands,” Bernie says, and turns her head to kiss the one at her neck, the one that Serena is scratching through Bernie’s hair, not gently, just to mess it up. “I missed your eyes. Your … your whole beautiful face.”
She pulls away to look at Serena, eyes glazed over with want in a way that makes Serena’s heart stop; lips swollen and pink, face open and honest and oh, if that isn’t the sexiest part of it all. Bernie being honest. Oh. “I missed you so much, Serena. I … I missed your voice and, and working with you, seeing you every day…” she swallows, emotion creeping into her already-unsteady voice. “I missed you so much and I know I, I have no right to say that, I know this is all my fault, but I … please know I’m sorry.” She shakes her head. “I am. I know I can never say it enough.”
Serena kisses her softly, a thank you, an acceptance, and gives her a smile. All is not forgotten; all is not even forgiven, but there will be time to deal with all of that later – Serena will make time. She owes it to herself, and Bernie owes it to her. But for now, she’s got a locked office, two closed sets of blinds, and a gorgeous woman willing to ravish her in the time it will take her nephew to either call security or pick the lock. As said gorgeous woman dives in to kiss her again, brushing her fingers over the lacy fabric of Serena’s coincidentally-sexy bra, Serena determines to make the most of it.