Ashley would have never thought she'd be able to re-adjust to civilian life post-Reapers. She was a soldier, descended from a long line of soldiers, practically born and raised to march with rifle in hand into the heat of battle. And yet, this new life of hers, a life that a younger Ashley would have been bored to tears having, was just something she couldn't imagine going without. It was just so blissful, coming home at the end of the day from a job well done and not having to worry about any ongoing war, Reaper or otherwise, not having to worry whether or not she wouldn't come back when she left tomorrow for another day on the field. She almost felt spoiled, and the lazy afternoons spent with Aeian over a home-cooked meal certainly helped.
Aeian in fact fit in so perfectly into the new routine that you'd think she had been here for years. With her loving girlfriend's support, she had made good progress with her therapy, even getting a big promotion at the medical center. Sadly this meant longer hours and a little less time spent together every night, but it gave Ashley the chance to surprise Aeian with a home-cooked meal of her own when her Asari lover came home after a rough day. This ended in predictable disaster since Ashley's culinary experience mostly boiled down to making an MRE edible, but after ordering out Aeian told her how much she appreciated the gesture and promised they could learn to cook together. And they did, finding their mutual interest in the culinary arts to be a wonderful thing to bond over and just strengthened their bond even further.
In short, Ashley loved everything about her life, especially the wonderful woman she dreamed about before waking up every morning. This particular morning, Ashley had a wonderful vision of the two of them together on a beach underneath two setting suns when the actual sunlight stirred her. Yawning, Ashley's first conscious observation was the other side of the bed being empty. It was the weekend so neither of them had work today, though the distant sound of the shower and the steam floating out from under the bathroom door frame hinted at where she was. Her second observation is that it was rather chilly today; shivering slightly, she heaved herself to her feet and shouldered into the steam-heated bathroom, immediately starting to sweat.
"Woof, it's like a sauna in here!" Ashley called out, fanning herself.
"Good morning to you too," Aeian teased from inside the source of the steam, her hair tendrils just visible over the top of the shower wall. "It is rather cold out today though, maybe something warm for breakfast?"
"You can't go wrong with a nice big bowl of porridge on a cold day," Ashley recounted, waving away steam as she made her way to the sink.
"That's the grain mixed with milk and water, right?"
"The very same. Mix it with some sugar and strawberries and a hot cocoa on the side, it's just the thing for a start on a cold day."
"Oh that sounds heavenly," Aeian swooned.
"Tell me about it," Ashley sighed wistfully, rubbing mist of the mirror with the palm of her hand. They talked about food a lot nowadays, and looking at her own reflection, Ashley could sort of see why.
The boy shorts and tank top she slept it were practically skintight and left nothing to the imagination for all the wrong reasons now. A belly that could fill a salad bow perpetually hung over her waist, accompanied by nice thick love handles that flowed down to her flabby thighs. Sighing, Ashley pressed a hand underneath her formerly angular chin, now rounder and a little puffy to match her waistline as the shower turned off, the volume in the room dropping considerably. Sidestepping onto the electronic scale set up in the corner, she stretched her neck slightly so she could just about see the magic numbers.
"Two freakin' forty..." Ashley grumbled. "Hell, I really got fat."
Bare feet padded across the tiled floor and Ashley felt a hand on her shoulder as Aeian looked down at the number too.
"Oh, no. What an utter tragedy," Aeian said dramatically, leaning into her girlfriend so their guts pressed together. "I can't ever imagine what that's like...being so rotund like you are."
The two of them shared a laugh that made them jiggle ever so slightly, treating Ashley to a similar display of adipose on her girlfriend. They shared a gut hanging in front of them, though Aeian's was a bit wider and while she had a towel wrapped around her top, her upper body had clearly swollen a bit from her sudden growth, her thick chin even doubling ever so slightly when she turned her head in the right direction, to say nothing of the twins hanging below it. Ashley had mentioned before that people in love tended to gain weight, and if that was indeed true, this HAD to be true love at this point. It would explain why it didn't seem to bother either of them that they were really starting to balloon.
"Well, I'm going to go bundle up and get started on breakfast," Aeian decided. "Unless you want to take a shower."
"Nah, I showered last night, I think I'm..." Ashley started to say, before she became tongue tied at the sight of Aeian's towels lying on the ground around her legs. "Oh. OH!"
"It's nice and warm in here, too," the Asari grinned. "I'm sure it'll...wake you up."
Oh god, that pushed every button Ashley had. "Really, right now?"
"Well, to be blunt, if this keeps going," Aeian pointed out, hefting one of her love-handles. "I think it'll be a tight squeeze."
Ashley had to be cherry red at this point. For whatever reason, the idea of the shower being too small for their...ahem...purposes was...very interesting. Not that Ashley gave too much thought as she was taken by the hand and led back to the shower.
Blissful. Just blissful. Before descending into ecstasy, as you do, Ashley wondered what life would bring her next.
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