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“Emma Marie, you give that remote back right now!” Regina laughed as her wife held the remote for the tv away. The blonde just stuck out her tongue and tried to roll away but Regina was faster and grabbed her around the waist, pulling her back down onto the mattress.
“If you wanted me on top, Regina, all you had to do was ask,” Emma’s husky voice purred as she tossed the remote across the bed and lowered her lips to Regina’s neck. Regina let out one of her rare giggles before a gasp took her breath away. They had gotten married about two months earlier and though they had been together for five three years prior things never felt like they were leaving the honeymoon stage of their relationship. Emma’s hand creeped under Regina’s camisole, teasing olive skin on her abdomen. Emma’s lips had just found the hollow at the base of her throat when a phone started buzzing.
“Leave it,” Regina gasped as Emma started to pull away. She felt the smirk against her skin as lips reattached and the buzzing stopped, then started up again. “I said leave it,” Regina repeated, running her hand into long blonde locks.
“What if it’s Chief though?” Emma asked, her lips trailing up her neck as her hand crept up and caressed the underside of Regina’s breast.
“He can call your-mmmm-your work phone.” Regina arched into the ministrations as the buzzing stopped. She let out a long moan before Emma’s work phone started ringing shrilly. Emma hastily pulled away and reached over to answer it, much to Regina’s displeasure. She watched her young wife’s face go from annoyed to concerned to serious all in a matter of seconds, and she knew their play time on a weekend that they both were supposed to have off was done for.
“Babe, I gotta go,” Emma said as she hung up from the call, turning to look at Regina. She could see the regret in Emma’s green eyes as she explained. “The wild fires are getting out of hand and everyone around is being called in to help.” Regina gave her a sad smile. She knew what being with Emma had entailed before she even married her. Emma’s job as a firefighter meant she had to rescue kittens from trees and put out raging wild fires like the one she was getting called to now. Regina climbed from the bed and helped Emma grab a change of clothes to pack in her go bag as well as made sure she had her fire gear.
“I’ll call you with updates if I get the chance,” Emma said as she and Regina hugged on the front porch of their little country house. It had been a simple prefabricated house, but It was what the couple had decided to buy a year earlier to call their own. It sat on about an acre of land, perfect for if they decided to start a family. All around them were sparse trees and fields, and about a mile to the south and wrapping towards the east was a river. It was towards the southeast that the fires raged, and though they were a good thirty miles or so away you could still smell the smoke in the air. It had been started by some teenagers playing with fireworks in the dry woodland that had started it nearly two weeks earlier.
“Be safe, please,” Regina pleaded. “Come back to me.”
“Always,” Emma said, giving her a smile before kissing her soundly. It was a promise Emma and Regina knew she may have to break one day, but if it could temporarily set Regina’s mind at ease she was more than willing to feed into it. The sound of tires crunching on the gravel as the black pickup truck pulled into the horseshoe-shaped driveway pulled the young lovers apart. “I love you Regina,” Emma said before giving her wife another chaste kiss, then bent down and grabbed her bag.
As she turned to go, Regina grabbed the heavy fire jacket and turned her to give her another crushing kiss. Something in the brunette told her that she might not see her for a while. The beeping of the horn finally broke them and Emma, eyes full of sadness for leaving her wife, cupped her cheek for the last time in a while. “I love you too,” Regina said as Emma pulled away and jogged to the truck, tossing her bag into the bed and hopping into the cab where her squad mate David sat behind the wheel. Regina stood watching as the truck pulled away, gravel flying behind it as they sped off. Her heart thudded heavily as she turned the gold wedding band on her finger, eyes lingering after the vanished truck.