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"Hey, you ok?"<br />
Julie stretched and shook her head, wearily trying to find a more comfortable position in her seat.<br />
Strong hands began to slowly massage her shoulders, and she nearly purred in approval as those<br />
fingers found the tension spots.<br />
"You can stop that in a few years."<br />
A low laugh next to her ear brought a different sort of tension to her body, and Julie craned her<br />
neck around to look up at the First Guardian. Emily was standing behind the chair she had<br />
collapsed in as soon as she had arrived, smiling fondly down at her.<br />
"How goes the hunt?"<br />
Julie glared, or tried to anyway, at the taller woman then let her head fall forward as Emily's<br />
hands worked their magic.<br />
"We've got a lead, a good one. Don't know what we'll find when we get to New York though."<br />
"How long are you staying here?"<br />
"Hmmmm… oh that's good, what? Oh, we're here just for the night, the Major wanted to talk to a<br />
few of his contacts and see if they knew anything."<br />
Emily pressed her thumbs into a particularly tense muscle and began trying to get the tension to<br />
leave. Guessing <strong>by</strong> Julie's groans, she would say she was doing a good job. Which rather<br />
surprised the First Guardian, since she hadn't thought of massages being high on her list of skills.<br />
"You think the Bak'ra had something to do with the Human Genome Project?"<br />
Emily could feel her friends half-hearted shrug in response.<br />
"I don't know, Emie, but Betty sent some pretty strong evidence to suggest that the Bak'ra on<br />
Earth had spent a lot on it. I don't know why either, but we're talking billions of dollars here."<br />
The First Guardian's mind was trying to sort through the possibilities of what that could mean,<br />
but she kept on getting distracted <strong>by</strong> the smooth skin under her fingers.<br />
"They're probably trying to develop another viral weapon, like the one they deployed against us<br />
on Tiri Prime."<br />
Emily slid her hands further down the smaller woman's shoulders, marveling at the feeling of<br />
touching. The skin under her hands was warm and pliant, and she leaned forward to place a kiss<br />
on the nape of Julie's neck.
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