"Are you kidding?" Natalie whispered, more than a little distracted by the change that had come over her love. "I just grew a penis - a Superman's penis - and fucked my beautiful wife so hard she almost fainted. That's the second time tonight I've felt like an absolute goddess..."
As Natalie continued to stroke her face Katie felt more and more self-conscious. When she spoke again, she found herself babbling; something she'd suffered from quite badly as a teenager but which she'd been able to conquer as her confidence had increased with her size. "Well, even so, I'm gonna have to do some more work on it, cos if it's gonna wipe out any other changes we make to ourselves, then - "
Natalie silenced her with a kiss, and Katie began to feel a little more comfortable in her old body. Because her adoptive mother's work had moved them all over the world Katie had been very lonely when she was younger, and had been so desperate to make friends that the words just came tumbling out of her mouth in completely the wrong order whenever she met new people. It was still a problem by the time she'd started college, but once she'd met Natalie and they'd become friends it had begun to disappear a little, particularly once they'd fallen in love.
"It's only cos your brain is working faster than your mouth can keep up.", Natalie used to tell her. "I'd much rather have a really smart and intelligent girlfriend, like you, who stumbles over her words occasionally than some brainless airhead who nevers shuts the fuck up."
That support, plus Katie's newfound ability to control her own appearance and shape, ended her problems with her confidence. When you were the tallest (and often the most glamorous) person in any room, and you were married to the most powerful woman in the world, people tended to treat you with a lot more respect. Only now she was a lot smaller than she was used to, and it just felt wrong.
"Shall I change back?" she asked, once they'd finished kissing.
Natalie shook her head. "No...no, stay like this for a while, will you?"
Katie smiled her acknowledgement, and allowed her wife to lift her off the sand and carry her back into their beach house. As they passed through on their way to the bedroom Katie asked "Any special reason, or are you just feeling nostalgic?"
"Honestly? A bit of both."
As Natalie put her down on the bed, Katie suggested "That isn't your way of saying you prefer me like this, is it?"
Natalie climbed onto their bed with her, and looked over at Katie adoringly. "Absolutely not!" she insisted. "No, it's just that right now, seeing you like this, I'm thinking about the early days. The night when we first met, our first kiss...the Valentines dance..."
Katie smiled. "Well since we are apparently heading down memory lane here, do I get the chance to see you the way you used to look?" she asked. "Whatever happened to that skinny spikey-haired grumpy-looking girl I used to know? Y'remember, the one who saved my life?"
Natalie suddenly looked very serious. "Would you like to see me the way I used to be?" she asked. "Is it important to you, I mean?"
"Oh no, darling, I was only joking. I loved the old you, of course I did, but I wouldn't want you to go back." She snuggled a little closer to Nat and rested her head on her shoulder. "Why mess with perfection?"
For a moment Natalie was about to object to the use of the dreaded 'p' word, but she let it slide just this once. Tonight wasn't a night to be having that particular conversation. Instead she just said "You haven't noticed yet."
"Noticed what?"
"The sheets! The bed's got silk sheets..."
"Has it?" A quick check confirmed to Katie that their bed did indeed have silk sheets. "Oh." she said. Then, as Nat continued to stare at her with an incredulous look on her face, she asked "Sorry, did I miss something?"
"Only that the last time we were here - I mean, y'know, when we went on our vacation to Crystal Cove - we both agreed that if we ever went there again we should get silk sheets for the bed."
"Did we?"
"You really don't remember?"
"Nat, it was five years ago!"
Natalie pouted, pretending to look hurt. "I remember it like it was yesterday."
"Of course you do, because you would have been naked at the time and you have a super-memory. You remember everything."
"Seems to me like you don't remember anything about that vacation!" Natalie fake-complained.
Katie grinned. "Not true. I remember lots of things about it. I remember making love to you in bed. I remember making love to you on the sofa. I remember making love to you in the shower. I even remember us slipping out on the last night to make love on the beach. I remember lots of romantic meals and hugs and kisses and me being happier than I'd ever been in my whole life before. And I remember seeing the look on your face every time you developed a new superpower." Now Natalie was smiling too. "But silk sheets? I can't say they were high on my list of priorities for if we ever went back there..."
Natalie shrugged. "I thought it was a nice touch."
"Oh, it was. Only..." Taking hold of Natalie's arm with one hand, Katie reached out with the other and grabbed hold of the silk, bringing it to within an inch of Natalie's arm and then letting it fall. As was the case with all fabrics that came near her naked form, the sheets were instantly repelled by the otherworldly forces that gave her her superpowers. "Well, maybe not." Nat admitted.
"Maybe it's just a case of right idea, wrong material?" Katie suggested, and with that she leapt out of bed and scurried away, returning a few moments later with Superwoman's long red cape in her hands. Getting back into bed she snuggled up close to Natalie and then wrapped it around both of them. "There." she said. "That's more like it."
"Perfect." Natalie agreed. It had been a long time since they had snuggled together under the same sheet. "Except...could you change back now?"
"Bored with the old me already, huh?"
"No!...it's just that this...this is the girl I used to date, not my wife. My wife is a 7ft 2 glamazon with boobs bigger than my head and the longest legs in the whole world - and I want her beside me tonight. And every night for the rest of my life."
Katie smiled - and then, after only a few seconds to concentrate on the change, she suddenly reverted back to her usual appearance. The waiflike Katie Kennedy had been replaced by Kate-Lee Nightingale; glamorous, busty, curvy and extremely tall. In fact, Natalie noticed with some interest, Katie was even taller now than she had been before she'd reverted to her old form - only an inch taller, true, but Nat noticed it straight away.
I wonder if she's done that on purpose?, she thought to herself. Did she just make a rough guess and grew herself back a little taller by accident...or is she testing my powers of observation?
"Better?" Katie asked, her voice now returned to its usual deeper silky-smooth tone that made Natalie's heart sing every time she heard it.
"Kate..." Natalie floundered for a few moments, unable to find the right words to express what she was feeling. "I love you. All 7ft 3'' of you."
Katie grinned. "You noticed!" she giggled. "Can this be my regular size now? Pleeeease?"
"Yes, I suppose so." Natalie agreed wearily. "Although I'm starting to get the feeling that by the time we hit our tenth anniversary your 'regular' size'll be about fifty feet tall and I'll have had to hollow out the mountain to fit you in."
"Don't be silly." Katie giggled. "Being fifty feet all the time'd be great, sure, but I couldn't live my whole life like that."
"Thank Goddess..."
"No. Ten feet's going to be big enough, I think."
Natalie didn't say anything, she just rolled her eyes. Katie, trying her best to look as adorable as possible, rolled over and looked up at Natalie. "You'll still love me when I'm that tall though, right?" she asked.
"Sure I will." Natalie agreed. "Although I gotta say, ten feet's nothing special. I was five hundred feet tall just ten minutes ago, y'know."
"Were you really? How did it feel?"
"Un-fucking-believable."
The two girls laughed, but as Katie rested her head on Nat's shoulder her eyelids were beginning to feel heavy. "Tired?" Nat asked.
"Yeah. It's been a long hectic day. Do you mind if we call it a night?"
"Yeah, I do, actually." Katie looked up at Nat in alarm, but the heroine just smiled at her. "I'd much rather call this the best night of my whole entire life."
Katie smiled back. "Mine too. And it's up against a lot of competition."
A little more kissing followed, but soon it became obvious that Katie was tiring and Natalie knew their wedding night had come to an end. She turned out the lights and watched as Katie made herself comfy for the night before slipping her arms around her wife and pulling her in close. "I know I should have something deep and meaningful to say right now," Natalie began, "but I just can't think of anything. Except that I love you, but I hope you know that anyway."
Katie nodded. "I do. There's no need for a speech, Nat. Just...just let me hear you call me your wife one more time."
Natalie was only too keen to oblige - she still loved the way that word sounded. "Good night - my wife. My wonderful, amazing, beautiful wife. Sleep well, dear."
"Good night, darling. Don't get bored."
Natalie laughed. "I never get bored when I'm with you, honey. Not even when you're asleep."
But Katie didn't hear her; as soon as her head had hit the pillow her tiredness had almost completely overwhelmed her. As Natalie watched her wife beginning to slip into a deep sleep, she suddenly blurted out "Kate-Lee?"
Katie was halfway to slumberland by now, but managed a vague "Mmm?" in reply.
Suddenly Natalie realised that she had no idea what she wanted to say. Actually that wasn't quite true; there was so much stuff she wanted to say that she could have gone on for hours, but she only had a second or two to come up with something before Katie was out like a light.
But what?
She's so very beautiful., Natalie thought to herself as she watched Katie drift off. Goddess, where would I be without her?...
Yeah, where would I be? If she hadn't come into my life, the last five years would have been totally different - and there's no way things could have turned out any better than they have. Nothing could be better than the life I've had with her. And when we first started going out together I so wanted to impress her, to be everything she wanted me to be because I didn't want to go back to the way I was before we met. But I guess...no, I know...I would have just slipped back to my old ways if she hadn't come along...
Would I have started drinking again? Or gone back to drugs, or...oh Goddess, no...would I still be going out with men? Would I have spent the rest of my life thinking I was straight, and never ever known true love?
Would I have tried to kill myself again?
I don't know. Maybe. But I do know that everything I am now is down to Kate. Absolutely everything. Sure, I saved her life...but she saved my life and my soul. She gave me a reason to go on living when I had none, and a purpose to my life that I never had before. She's never going to understand that she's done so much more for me than I've ever done for her, and I can never thank her enough for being everything I needed to help get me out of the darkness.
But that's no reason to stop trying, is it?
Natalie leant in as close as she could, nudging aside with her chin a few stray strands of hair that covered Katie's ear, and whispered "Thank you."
Katie stirred a little, gave a soft murmur of "Hmm...", and then she was asleep. As gently as she could and taking great care not to wake her Natalie put her arms around Katie and pulled her half on top of her, so that Katie's head was resting on Natalie's breasts. It wasn't that difficult. Since becoming Superwoman Natalie had become expert in the seemingly impossible art of slipping in and out of bed without waking Katie - but of course tonight she wasn't going to be going anywhere.
And as she lay there, with her new wife by her side, Natalie was surprised to realised that her feelings towards Katie had changed, just a little. This time last night, they were just two girls who loved each other very much, and while the bonds that held them together were deep and unbreakable they weren't official or anything. Now, tonight, they were married, woman and wife, forever and ever. And that changed everything.
It was the same kind of feeling she'd had one night about five years ago, very early on in their relationship - the night she'd first admitted to herself that she was a lesbian. For a couple of months or so Natalie had treated her relationship with Katie as just an unusually close friendship brought about by Lisa's revenge plot...until that night.
They'd been out to a lesbian bar that evening, and at one point Nat had left Katie so she could go out for a smoke. Once outside she'd been spotted by Kyle, one of her old drinking buddies who she hadn't seen since she'd given up the bottle - and one she'd hoped she'd never see again. He couldn't understand what Natalie of all people was doing standing outside a gay bar; she wasn't a dyke, was she? She couldn't be, not after the long string of boyfriends and all the sleeping around she'd done back when he'd known her. "Did you finally run out of men you hadn't fucked, Nat?" he asked. "Or are you just experimenting; always did like to try new things, didn't you?"
And when Natalie had tactfully said that she really had to go now because she had a friend waiting inside Kyle still hadn't taken the hint, and had proceeded to run off a long list of all the guys that he knew she had slept with - not to mention to all those who she'd given little 'favors' to here and there. There was even, he reminded her, that time where she'd ended up going back to his place to crash for the night, and in her drunken half-conscious state had offered - practically pleaded - to show him just how grateful she was. Natalie did remember that - vaguely - but the only thing she clearly remembered about it was waking up the following morning, and Kyle saying that nothing had happened.
"Yeah, well," he said, "you got really upset when I said no, so I figured what the hell, right? Course, you were out of it by then - maybe if you'd still been awake to enjoy it you wouldn't be batting for the other team these days, huh?"
And that was when Natalie had punched him.
Well, not a proper punch (and nothing compared to what she could do with her clothes off), more of a slap, but he was already so drunk it was enough to knock him off his feet. Without waiting to see if he was alright Natalie had gone straight back inside, found Katie, and given her the biggest hug she'd ever given anybody.
That night the two of them had made love as usual and Katie had fallen asleep in Natalie's arms, but Natalie had stayed awake thinking. Thinking about how this relationship meant more to her than any other she'd had, and why she'd gotten so angry when Kyle had reminded her of the past she was trying so hard to forget and the stupid girl she'd once been...but one thing he'd said kept rolling round in her head. Was she only with Katie now because being with a girl was something new and different, and would she dump her once she got bored? Was she really capable of being that cruel? She'd always had what seemed like a new boyfriend every other week or so, so was this relationship any more likely to last than those had?
But then she had looked down at Katie, and felt an extraordinary sense that this was right. Being with a girl, being with this girl, had made her happier than she had been for a long time, and it explained the long string of failed relationships that littered her past. None of those were ever meant to be, because they required her to be something she was never meant to be - straight. She'd been living a lie all these years, and she hadn't even realised it...but no more. Not with Katie. And in that moment Natalie realised that men held no interest for her anymore. Not when there were girls as beautiful and lovely as this that she could be with instead.
It was the same sort of thing now. Katie wasn't her girlfriend anymore, she was her wife, and Natalie was feeling the same overwhelming sense of rightness as she had that night all those years ago. In fact, this felt more right than any of the other things she was.
Being a demi-goddess? Well, even though technically she was one Natalie still didn't like to even think about what that meant. It just made her too uncomfortable.
Being a superhero? Yes, that felt much better. That was who she was, although she was still trying to take things one day at a time and didn't for a moment believe that she knew all there was to know about it. Things seemed to be going well so far though, she'd saved more than three thousand lives in just over a year and had no intention of stopping. Ever.
Being a mother some day? She'd always wanted to have children, and as Superwoman she got on very well with k1ds, but as for her own suitability as a mother...well, she wouldn't know about that until their first ch1ld was born.
But being a wife to Kate-Lee? Yes. She could do that, no question. Even if she achieved nothing else for the rest of her life, Natalie just knew that she could be the lifelong companion and soulmate that her wife deserved.
After all, she had been that before any of those other things, hadn't she?
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