Epilogue

Blake walks into another patient's room at the urgent care. She just has to deliver the news that this patient has strep throat. It's pretty easy, and she prescribes antibiotics for him. He's an older man and doesn't seem surprised by the news.

"I told that nurse it was strep," he says, "and she still made me take all these tests. I hate the flu test, and I knew I didn't need it."

Blake laughs. "That's kind of her job."

"Well it's nonsense," he argues.

Blake just shakes her head and goes over to her computer. "Well," she says, "at least we made sure you didn't have anything else."

"I suppose so," he says, and then crosses his arms. "Still annoying, though."

Blake laughs again and types some on her computer. "Okay," she says, "so I just sent your prescription to your pharmacy, so you should be good to go."

"Great, thank you," the man says and then leaves. Blake stays in the room and sighs to herself.

It's been over a year, but Blake misses her time in Zambia. Just like all of her other trips abroad, she thinks about it often. Zambia was special, however; it's where she reconciled and found the love of her life. She misses all the time that she had in the cabin with Amory, she misses being so close to her all the time. Now, Amory works at a different clinic across town and she leaves for work in the morning before Blake even wakes up.

She doesn't know how she does it and manages to keep her sanity, but she supposes that Amory is just a morning person. For Blake, waking up at eight in the morning is still too much for her. She should have gotten used to it years ago, but just because she should have done something doesn't mean that she has.

Blake rubs her tired eyes before she leaves the room and goes back to work. There's another patient in the next room that she needs to see who has come in about a UTI, so Blake goes there to treat that.

She still misses Amory while she works. The sort of silver lining to their differing work schedules, though, is that Amory gets off before Blake, and when Blake does finally get off work, she sees Amory sitting in the waiting room, reading a magazine. Amory is as beautiful as ever. Her lovely honey blonde ponytail looks freshly washed and her beautiful face is deep in concentration. Blake walks over to where Amory is sitting and puts a hand on her head.

Amory looks up and gives Blake a wide smile, putting the magazine down.

"Are you ready to go?" Amory asks.

"Yep," Blake says, giving her a soft smile in return.

The two of them walk out of the doctor's office and head to Amory's car. Blake usually takes the bus to work in the morning so that the two of them can drive home together in the evening when she's done with work.

As they walk through the parking lot together, Blake notices that Amory is fiddling with the ring on her finger. It's new and she expects that she will continue to play with it until she gets used to the feeling.

Blake doesn't have a ring because she was the one to propose, but she supposes that when she gets a wedding band, she'll be the same as Amory at first.

Blake moves closer to Amory and takes her hand in her own, squeezing lightly. Amory's hand is warm and Blake smiles at her as they walk.

Blake plays with the ring on her finger, so glad that she gets to call this woman her fiancée.

When they get to Amory's white SUV, Blake lets go of her hand so that she can get into the driver's seat and Blake opens the door to the passenger's. Amory turns on the car, but before she can start driving, Blake reaches over, grabs her by the hair, and kisses her.

"Okay," Blake says, when she's done kissing her fiancée, "we can go now."

Amory laughs and then reaches over to Blake, planting a firm kiss on her lips before she starts to back out of her parking spot.

"Okay," she says, laughing.

They head home and Blake looks out the window, a little anxious. Amory is a good driver, with all the caution of a doctor, but it still doesn't help the fact that Blake always gets a little nervous when someone else is driving. She tenses a little bit at every turn and every time another driver gets just a little too close to them. She doesn't say anything, however, and they get home without incident.

When Blake opens the door, she immediately sees Millie on the couch, lounging lazily. Blake smiles at her cat, grateful that she has been acclimating well to their new house. They only moved in here three months ago, and her cat had a hard time with the adjustment at first. Now, Millie seems to be doing great. She meows when she sees Blake and Amory enter and jumps off the couch and to the food bowl that sits in their kitchen.

Amory laughs and grabs the cat food from the designated cat cabinet. At the sound of the food bag ruffling, their kitten, Scrabbles, comes running into the kitchen. Unlike Mille, Scrabbles is a scrawny little thing. According to the animal shelter, she was the runt of her litter, but Blake and Amory are hoping that with some love and lots of food she'll fatten up. They've only had her for a month and she's already filled out a lot.

Blake reaches down toward Scrabbles and scoops her up, petting her while Amory fills the cat food and water bowl. When the bowl is filled, she lets the kitten down so that she can eat her fill. Amory and Blake stand in the kitchen for a moment, watching their cats.

Amory turns to Blake. "Have you gotten your flu shot yet?" she asks.

Blake laughs. "Yes," she says, "I got it done during my lunch break."

"Good," Amory says, hugging Blake.

Two flu seasons have passed since returning from Zambia, and each time Amory has hounded Blake about making sure that she gets her shot. Even though when she got the flu that one time it was out of the flu season.

She hasn't gotten the flu again since, though, so she can't complain too much. Besides, it's kind of cute to see Amory care about her that much. Blake smiles to herself.

Blake pets Millie as she eats and Amory pets Scrabbles. Blake smiles at Amory and falls more in love with her. It feels like she falls more in love with her each day, just watching her. She's adorable, and Blake loves her.

"Come on," Blake suggests, "let's change out of our work clothes." While Blake may make it a point to dress as professional as possible for work, the moment she's home, she prefers sweatpants and pajamas.

"Are you wanting to get changed," Amory teases, "or are you just looking for an excuse to see me naked?"

"I mean," Blake teases back, "that is definitely a plus."

Amory laughs and walks to the bedroom, Blake trailing behind her.

The two of them get undressed, but before Amory can open their dresser to get redressed, Blake walks over to where she is standing. She wraps her arms around Amory's waist and inches a hand toward her underwear.

"You should take these off," Blake says.

Amory laughs and turns around, facing Blake. "And you should be less horny."

"That's never going to happen," Blake says.

Amory laughs and gives an overdramatic sigh. "I know," she says, looking Blake up and down. She bites her lip. "And, I mean, I can't say much."

Blake laughs and steps out of her own underwear. Amory follows suit

"God," Blake says, "you're so hot."

Amory laughs, but she blushes as Blake stares her down. And she blushes harder when Blake gently runs her fingers down her chest and belly and to her wet pussy.

Amory struggles to stay standing when Blake pushes two fingers inside of her and she moans.

Blake laughs and finger fucks her partner for a few minutes until Amory's legs begin to shake so violently that she's worried she'll collapse.

Blake removes her fingers and looks around their top dresser drawer for her wand vibrator. When she takes it out, Amory's eyes light up in excitement, and Blake pushes Amory onto the bed. Amory lies flat on her back and Blake hovers over her, holding the vibrator in her hand. She kisses Amory on the forehead before she moves toward her lips.

The two of them make out for a few minutes, Blake allowing Amory to recover for a moment while she gets heated up again.

Blake turns on the vibrator and runs it across Amory's inner thighs, teasing her. Amory gasps and moans and Blake loves how sensitive she is. She loves hearing the way Amory gasps anytime Blake touches her thighs. And she especially loves the way Amory nearly screams when Blake finally touches the vibrator to her clit.

"Oh god," Amory gasps and moans. "Please," she says, reaching toward Blake's hands and trying to push the vibrator down harder. It's not enough and she needs more.

Blake laughs, loving how desperate she makes the other woman. "No. Patience, sweetheart, just enjoy it."

Amory groans, definitely not being a patient person, especially when Blake is torturing her.

Blake decides not to torture her any further and she climbs herself on top of Amory, carefully adjusting her position so she is straddling Amory and the wand and her own clitoris can feel the wand while the weight of her body presses the vibrating wand down tightly against Amory's clitoris.

"Ahhhhh," Amory moans loudly and Blake knows she has it exactly right. It feels exquisite on her own clitoris and she can see from Amory's reaction that it is just the same for her.

Blake grinds herself against it, with every press giving more and more pleasure to them both.

She enjoys nothing more than feeling and seeing Amory writhing in ecstasy beneath her.

"Oh fuck, I'm so close…" Amory says.

"Come with me," Blake says and grinds down harder to take her own orgasm, hoping it will bring Amory's at the same time.

Blake feels her whole body tighten as her orgasm crashes through her and she cries out loudly. She feels herself gush and she knows it will flood down over Amory's pussy.

Seconds later she feels Amory orgasm beneath her, as beautifully loud as Amory always is and she smiles to herself.

Their sexual connection is just like the rest of their connection. Perfect.

When the two of them are done having sex and showered, they walk back to the kitchen, wearing pajamas, and Blake walks to the cabinet. She ruffles around until she finds some hot cocoa mix. She puts a kettle full of water on the stove and starts to boil it.

"Is pizza okay for supper tonight?" Blake asks Amory. One of Blake's favorite things about being back in the US is that they don't have to cook supper every single night. It's okay to be lazy sometimes and order pizza.

"That sounds wonderful," Amory answers. "Do you want to watch a movie or something?"

"Perfect," Blake says, and it does sound perfect. It sounds like a perfect way to unwind at the end of a long workday, pizza and a movie. Blake is lucky, she doesn't work tomorrow, but she's bummed because Amory does. Blake's day off work is a Wednesday, while Amory has the weekends off.

Blake is trying really hard to get off work for at least one day on the weekend, but working in urgent care, it's a hard time to get off, and she doesn't know if she'll be able to. But she really wants to so that she can spend more time with Amory. She's hoping that if she works at this urgent care a little longer, she'll gain seniority and be able to get the time that she wants off.

The water is soon boiled and Blake makes cocoa for the two of them, pouring it into mugs and bringing them into the living room.

Amory picks a movie and lets it start while the two of them wait for the pizza. They get about thirty minutes into the movie when there's a knock on the door and Amory pauses the movie so that she can open the door and get the pizza.

Amory comes inside after paying and puts the pizza on the coffee table. Blake's phone buzzes with a new text.

Jenna:Do you want to hang out tomorrow? We can go out to lunch or something. I have some big news to tell you

"Hey, Jenna wants to hang out tomorrow to talk about something."

"Oh," Amory says, "did she tell you what she wanted to talk about?"

"No, only that it's big news."

"You should go if you want," Amory says, "it is your day off, after all, and you two haven't hung out in a while."

It's true. Blake tries to hang out with Jenna often, but after moving into their new house, they have been a little preoccupied with unpacking and making sure that their space is perfect for them.

"Okay," Blake says, giving Amory a kiss on the cheek.

Blake:Yeah, I can hang out tomorrow

Blake:When and where do you want to meet?

Jenna:I can pick you up from your place. Does twelve work?

Blake:Sounds perfect

It also sounds like Blake will be able to sleep in tomorrow. She's able to get up and dress fairly quickly, so she doesn't need to set an alarm until eleven thirty.

Blake is really glad that Amory isn't jealous of her friendship with Jenna. She was a little worried at first, especially with what happened in Zambia with Amory thinking Blake was cheating on Jenna. Blake didn't know how Amory would react to Blake staying friends with someone she used to fuck. But it seems like Amory has been able to work through her fears of Blake cheating, and Blake is so grateful for that.

As much as she loves Amory, Jenna has been her best friend for years and Blake can't imagine giving up that friendship. But, no, Amory seems to love that Blake has a friend, and she gets along with Jenna great, too, which is wonderful to Blake.

Blake smiles at her wonderful girlfriend, not really paying much attention to the rest of the movie as it plays. She leans forward and kisses Amory on the lips, distracting both of them from the ending of the movie. They make out and Blake puts a hand down Amory's pajama pants.

Amory laughs. "You're always horny, aren't you?"

Blake laughs back. "You should know that the answer to that is yes."

Amory kisses Blake again, biting her lip as she touches her. She moans into Blake's mouth.

"I can't wait for the rest of forever with you," she says.