Unintended Consequence

TITLE: Unintended Consequence
AUTHOR: WotanAnubis
DISCLAIMER: I don't own these characters and am not making a profit.
RATING: NC-17
PAIRING: Lucia/Elincia
NOTE: I actually wanted my first Radiant Dawn fic to be an Elincia/Nailah one, but after seeing Lucia's ending, I just had to do something with this pairing.


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Lucia gratefully let herself sink into the hot water. She usually didn't have a lot of time for bathing since her duties wouldn't allow it, but after the recent... situation... Queen Crimea had temporarily relieved her of her duties so she could rest and recuperate. Of course, what had really happened was that Elincia had taken away her duties in an effort to keep her safe. She'd have to talk to her about that eventually.

For now, however, she was just going to enjoy her bath and relax for a little while.

She looked up when she heard the door open and tensed up when she saw Queen Elincia step into the bright bathroom.

"I hope I'm not disturbing you," Elincia said.

Lucia made an effort to keep her face completely passive. "No," she replied as she started to wash her arm for the look of things. "Though this is somewhat inappropriate."

"Sorry," Elincia said, closing the door, "but I just wanted to talk to you for a while."

Lucia felt her heart beginning to beat loudly inside her chest, which was no help at all. "Does this have to be in private?" she asked.

"Please don't pretend you don't know why I'm here," Elincia said as she approached the bathtub.

Lucia sighed. "It's my duty to pretend, my Queen."

A look of pain flashed across Elincia's face. "I relieved you of all duties."

"Not this one."

Elincia knelt next to the tub. Lucia found it hard to look at her. It wasn't because of the fact that she was naked and Elincia wasn't. It was simply that, right now, she wasn't the Queen's Bodyguard and Elincia wasn't exactly Queen Crimea. It was very tempting to forget those roles even existed, if only for a while.

"May I join you?" Elincia asked.

Lucia knew the proper response would have been to get out of the bath, dry herself off and get dressed. Failing that, she should simply deny the Queen's request. But she made the mistake of looking at Elincia before replying.

"If you like," Lucia said.

Elincia stood up and undressed. Lucia would have been impressed with the speed with which the Queen undid her dress if she hadn't had other things on her mind. She'd never been much of a fashion expert, choosing clothes mostly based on how little they would hinder her swordplay. The dress Elincia wore today had apparently been chosen for the ease with which she could take it off. The fact that she wore absolutely nothing underneath only reinforced that notion.

Lucia looked away when Elincia slipped into the bath and sat opposite of her, facing her.

"This feels nice," Elincia said.

Lucia nodded. It was a bit stupid to keep looking away, especially since the sight of Elincia's naked body had already carved itself into her mind, but she made the effort anyway.

She felt Elincia take her hand and lift it above the water. Then she felt her Queen's lips on her skin.

"There's nothing I can say, is there?" Lucia asked, slowly facing Elincia.

"No," Elincia replied. "I love you."

Lucia closed her eyes, trying to ignore the way her whole body sang with joy on hearing those words. "I know," she said.

"And I know you love me," Elincia continued.

"And that I can't," Lucia said.

"Can't?" Elincia said with a vague smile. "You have such control over your feelings?"

"You know what I meant," Lucia said.

"I do and I disagree. I will not cower before the opinions of nobles, so why should you?"

"There are... other... practical considerations," Lucia said.

"They can be overcome," said Elincia. "And if not, they can be dealt with."

"You really are set on this, aren't you?" Lucia said.

Elincia moved closer and reached out to brush her cheek. "I nearly lost you."

"And if you hadn't?" Lucia asked in an attempt not to let the raw pain in her Queen's voice get to her.

"Who knows?" Elincia said. "Perhaps I would have remained quiet. Or perhaps Leanne's visit would have brought things out into the open anyway. But I'm not here to talk about what might have been."

"I know. You came here to proclaim... what we both already knew. Now you have."

"And now I'm waiting for a reply," Elincia said.

Lucia looked away. "I've already given it."

"No. You have dodged, but not replied."

Lucia faced Elincia again, saw her brown eyes and felt the words welling up in her lungs. She pushed them down.

"I can't," she said. "Not yet. However, let me... let me say..."

"Yes?" Elincia said.

Lucia gave up. She had nothing left to say, except the one thing she couldn't. So she said nothing.

And kissed Elincia instead.

Lucia had expected Elincia to freeze up in surprise, yet her Queen accepted her kiss almost graciously and responded in kind. As they kissed, Elincia leaned in until Lucia's back rested against the edge of the tub. Without thinking, or perhaps deciding that since she had gone too far already she might as well go further, Lucia embraced her Queen, though Elincia resisted closing the space between their two naked bodies completely. The reason for this soon became clear as Lucia felt Elincia's hand sliding across her body towards her breasts.

Lucia's soft gasp was lost in her kiss as Elincia's slender fingers began exploring her breasts. The effect her Queen had on her body was amazing. Every little touch and every gentle caress left a trail of flame across her skin, slowly but surely awakening her arousal. The practical part of Lucia's mind that was usually in control of things noted how the Queen's hand was far too skilled. Even taking into account the years of yearning, Elincia simply should not have been so very good at arousing her. Part of Lucia got the distinct impression that she was being toyed with, or at least getting manipulated. The rest of her didn't care, simply enjoying Elincia's attentions for their own sake and allowing lust to rise in her body just this once.

So when Queen Elincia's hand ceased tracing the curves of her breasts or playing with her hardening nipples and slipped underneath the waterline, Lucia spread her legs with her without a second thought. Her knees hit the sides of the bath soon enough, but there was more than enough room for Elincia's hand to glide inbetween her legs and arrive at her folds.

Lucia moaned, her lips torn away from Elincia's, as her Queen's hand caressed her slit. It was a simple, unsophisticated motion, yet with it Elincia still managed to get a pleasured fire spreading through her body. Apparantly deciding that this wasn't quite stimulating enough, Elincia started exploring her, her fingers moving and spreading to find wherever she was particularly sensitive, sending lances of pleasure surging through her body and forcing more and more lustful moans from her lips.

Even as gripped with lust and pleasure as she was, Lucia managed to open her eyes to look at her Queen's face. Elincia watched her with eyes dark with lust, but her smile particularly caught her attention. She was clearly pleased at seeing the pleasure on her face, in the shaking of her naked body and hearing it in her moans. Yet there was something else there as well, something she couldn't quite quantify. She was certain she could figure it out if only she were allowed a moment's thought, but her Queen's nimble fingers made such a thing absolutely impossible.

Lucia's eyes closed and she groaned with pleasure. The idle curiosity about what lay behind her Queen's smile completely fled her mind as Elincia's fingers found her clit. Lucia felt her whole body centring around that tiny little part of it even as intense pleasure suffused every square inch of her pale flesh. Elincia circled her clit quickly, slowly, nearby, far away, pushing her own flesh against it or pulling it away to expose it to stimulation even further. There was no rhyme or reason to her Queen's attentions, no way for Lucia to react and allow her body to move in response to her fingers. Instead she could do nothing but allow Elincia to pleasure her in whatever way she saw fit. Even as she shook helplessly with lust, Lucia found she didn't really mind Elincia had made her body her plaything. Provided, of course, she would be allowed the opportunity to one day to repay her Queen in kind.

There was, however, one thing she had to do. Panting with the effort of fighting against her own burning body, Lucia forced her eyes open and once again saw the naked lust on Elincia's face. Summoning all her willpower, Lucia grabbed the back of Elincia head and pulled her into a kiss. She felt a perverse little thrill of pleasure when she heard her Queen squeal with surprise, but that was nothing to the curious euphoria she felt at kissing her and pouring into that kiss all the feelings she had for her Elincia.

Lucia let go, smiling. Elincia, who in her surprise had briefly stopped toying with body, smiled warmly in repsonse. Her fingers began moving again, but this time she made no effort to keep her off balance. She circled and stimulated her clit quickly, with only one goal in mind. Moaning, eyes fluttering shut again, Lucia leaned her bucking body into Elincia's hand. Under her rapid ministrations, the pleasure that filled her so completely soon reached its tipping point.

Lucia came.

In that moment, when her pleasure first overcame her, she thought she could feel the future and the past stretching away infinitely from this single perfect moment. Less than a second later a groan escaped from her throat as her pleasure took her physically. It tore through her in great waves of cool heat, aided in no small way by Elincia's fingers frantically stimulating her throughout her orgasm.

Eventually it passed, leaving contentment within and a lot of mess without. It dawned on Lucia that a lot of the bathwater was no longer actually in the bath and has spread out across the floor on all sides, leaving both her and Elincia's clothes completely drenched. But, for some reason, that didn't really seem all that important right now.

Elincia took her hand and kissed the palm. "Thank you," she whispered.

"Shouldn't I be the one to say that?" Lucia asked.

"When you kissed me, I... I felt..." Elincia paused, her words seemingly choking somewhere between her lungs and her lips. "Thank you."

"There was..." Lucia shook her head. "There was no way I couldn't."

Lucia felt Elincia stroke her cheek. "My Lucia..." she whispered.

Lucia cleared her throat. "I must say, I was surprised at your... skill."

"Oh. Uhm. That," Elincia stammered.

Lucia grinned. "Perhaps you would care to enlighten me how you learned all that."

A blush spread across Elincia's face. "Well, I had... I had hoped that this day or one very much like it would one day... so I... I suppose you could say I prepared."

"Prepared?"

"Well... do you remember Heather?"

"Of course," Lucia said. "She was very helpful."

"Yes," Elincia agreed. "And very open in her... preferences. So I asked her for some... advice."

Lucia smiled. "The lengths you'll go," she said.

"For you," Elincia added.

Lucia coughed. "In any case, I think it would be best if we cleaned up here."

"Of course," Elincia said. "We should go to my room after that, I should think."

Lucia gave her a look.

"For dry clothes," she continued. "I will not have you walk through my castle in wet clothes. Especially since yours tend to become transparant."

"You're right," Lucia said. "Forgive me."

"No need," Elincia said. "After all, one day I will invite you into my bedroom to share my bed."

"And..." Lucia sighed. "One day I will accept." She smiled faintly. "But not today."

"Not today," Elincia agreed. She kissed her softly. "But, I'd wager, sooner than you would think."