Hailey and I made love to each other for an eternity.

We explored each other's bodies and Hailey got to experience first hand all of the things she had heard about, both from intentionally peeking and listening to things. Our minds were completely open to each other and Hailey learned about all the dangers of that from my own experience and the things I had intentionally done to several assassins. She understood how easy it was to mess someone else up if you didn't have the proper intentions and also mess yourself up from the backlash if you didn't have enough control.

Hailey loved me all the more for protecting her from that danger for as long as I had and I loved her for not forcing the issue when she easily could have. Our understanding of each other grew by the nanosecond and we both used Presence on each other to enhance our bodies and our responses to being touched by each other.

I could almost physically feel my long lifespan decrease as we kept sharing everything with each other and Hailey's lifespan increased in equal proportion. I used my extensive knowledge to increase her body's reinforcement to be on par with mine and our lovemaking increased in both speed and ferocity. She could handle me at my best now and I had no worries about losing control.

You would think sharing so much would make you lose your sense of self or your personal identity... but, it wasn't like that. I had been worried about that when this whole thing started and I didn't have to. We were still two different people and our minds worked differently. Even though our Presences had synchronized and we could share everything we were, no matter where we were, we were still us.

That reassured our minds and we became frantic in both Presence use and using our bodies to please each other. We didn't tire, or weaken in either Presence or our resolve, as we did our best to give each other the embodiment of our love for each other... which made us love each other that much more.

On and on we went, regardless of time and space, and then Hailey started to falter. I felt her body start to override her desire and she needed to finish. I didn't want to disappoint her unconscious mind, so I somehow quadrupled my efforts to get ready myself.

“H-Hunter.... I'm... oh, god! Hunter! HUNTER!” Hailey yelled as she felt a world shattering orgasm approach, then I orgasmed and finished inside of her.

“AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!” Hailey screamed as I filled her up and she held onto me as the pleasure threatened to tear her heart and her mind apart, because she wanted to hold onto that pleasure for as long as she could.

The glowing blue energy around our crotches faded and the intensity of the moment reduced. She stared into my eyes and she couldn't believe what just happened.

“Hunter.” Hailey spoke barely above a whisper. “Is it always like this?”

“Only with you.” I whispered back. “I've never felt anything like that before.”

Hailey had a worried look on her face for a second. “Was... is this... will it be the only time it's like this?”

“My beloved, there's only one way to find out.” I said and beamed a smile at her. Hailey gave me an award winning smile back. We both felt that we had the rest of an eternity together, so we started over.

*

After several loud crashes, all of the people in the surrounding town had to avert their eyes as something like a miniature white star appeared in the bridal suite on the top floor of the hotel. This lasted for nearly a full minute and it cast shadows all over the place as its bright light dwarfed that of their actual sun in the sky. The light wasn't blinding and those hit by it felt a warmth unlike anything they had felt before.

An elderly couple nearly a mile away sat in their small kitchen and looked out at the flash of light. A beam hit them and they both took in deep breaths as their arthritic pain faded away. The old woman turned her head and looked at her husband. She always saw him as his younger self, because she loved him so, and then her eyes dropped to his lap.

“Harold!” She exclaimed.

“You're so beautiful, Harriet.” Harold said and stood up. His old bones didn't creak like they had that morning when he got out of bed and his wife stared at him as he walked around the table without hobbling. He took her hand and led her to their bedroom and shut the door.

“Oh, Harold!” Harriet exclaimed barely a minute later.

*

Scenes like that were repeated all over with people that loved each other. It wasn't a random effect that made everyone horny and they had to have sex with whoever was nearby, though. It was all couples and it affected them in a similar way.

The light hit a lot of people and only gave them minor healing. Some couples were hit and they weren't affected. The reasons they were unaffected varied, like they didn't love each other, only one of them was actually in love, or they were only in it for the sex. The secondary effect wouldn't work for things like that. They needed to actually love each other for them to receive what a lot of people would later call 'the gift'.

*

“Whatever they're doing, it's shaking the whole hotel.” One of the female workers said as they cleaned up the mess in the lobby.

“What do you mean whatever they're doing? It's their honeymoon. They're not in there playing hide and seek.” The female clerk behind the counter said.

The woman worker gave her a knowing look.

“Okay, maybe they are.” The female clerk laughed.

The front doors opened and a group of workers came in with a large wooden pallet with six replacement doors on them and the mechanisms used to open and close them. The hotel shook again and several pictures fell from the wall and smashed on the floor.

“They are going to have one hell of a bill by the end of the week.” The female clerk said and reached over her counter to grab a vase before it toppled over. The communications console lit up for an incoming call and she tucked the vase under her arm and answered it. “Good morning! Thank you for calling the Bogorim Hotel. What can I help you with?”

“You can turn off that damned light!” The irate man said with his hand over his eyes.

“Sir, I suggest you close your window protectors to...”

“They ARE closed!” He said. “If you don't turn off that light right now...”

“Sir, I don't know what you mean.” The clerk said, then her console beeped... and beeped... and then made a solid monotone noise as hundreds of call requests were made. “Um... sir... please hold!” She said and clicked him off. “What's going on?” She asked.

“There's a giant search light coming out of the back of the hotel.” One of the repair men said as he took one of the doors from the pallet. “It's lighting up most of the town on that side.”

“Wh-what?” The clerk asked, confused. “We don't have anything like that in this hotel.”

“Go have look for yourself.” He said and shrugged as he held the door in place and one of the other workers popped open the mechanism that held the old broken door.

The clerk had to check it out so she could tell people that they weren't responsible, so she had someone else watch the counter and walked through the hotel and stepped out the back door.

“Ryan? What are you looking at?” The clerk asked the waiter from the restaurant next door. He didn't respond and she walked over to him. As soon as she stepped into the beam Ryan was in, she gasped at how handsome he was. “R-Ryan?”

“Look at that.” Ryan said and put his arms around her and turned her around. She looked up and saw the sun-like glow coming from the bridal suite.

“It's them!”

Ryan hugged her from behind. “Sweetheart, I love you and we should get married.”

“We... we...” The clerk wanted to say that they couldn't. Neither of them had any money saved up for something like that and they both lived in tiny apartments that barely had enough living space for them, let alone the two of them together. “I really want to.” She said instead. “We can't afford that or buy a bigger apartment.”

Ryan turned her back around and looked deep into her eyes. “We can get the certificate for now. We can save up and get that nice place down on the corner, especially if we rent out what we have now.”

The clerk looked deep into his eyes. “This is a huge mistake.”

“I don't care.” Ryan said. “If I'm going to fail at life, I want to do it by your side.”

The clerk thought about it for only a moment, then she nodded. Ryan beamed a smile at her, one she hadn't seen on his face before, and then he kissed her. Before she knew what was happening, they were in the back room of the restaurant and making love like they never had before. He was attentive and made her feel things she thought were only heard of in fairy tales.

The calls to get the hotel to turn off the light were completely forgotten.

*

Two eternities later, both Hailey and I were exhausted and energized at the same time as we floated in the middle of the Presence Barrier we had made, then it faded away and we looked around the room... that wasn't there anymore. The bed, part of the floor, the ceiling, and two of the walls were missing. They had suffered the same fate that our clothes had and dissolved into nothingness as their component atoms were scattered.

“Wow.” Hailey said.

“That was... a definite wow.” I said to repeat the words we said after our wedding kiss.

Hailey laughed and shook her head. “Hand me something to wear.”

I took out her suitcase and helped her dress, then I did the same for myself. We floated over to the door of the suite... or what should have been the door and was only a gaping hole... and we landed in the hallway. We walked towards the stairs and I laughed at the destruction I had left in our wake.

“I think I was a little eager to be with you, Beloved.” I said.

Hailey nodded as she looked down through the various floors and all of the doors we had blown through. “I think it was me that dissolved them instead of letting you just run through them or making them explode into shards and splinters.”

I nodded this time. “That reminds me. Should I ask how expensive that dress was?”

“No.” Hailey said with a grin and I laughed.

We walked down the stairs and took our time getting back down to the ground floor.

“How long were we actually... you know.” Hailey asked.

I looked at the closest clock. “About twenty minutes.”

“Twenty?” Hailey shook her head. “Beloved, we spent a lot more time together than that!”

“You know the same things that I do now.” I said when we were halfway down to the ground floor. “Tell me what happened.”

Hailey had to think about it and everything we had experienced over our lifetimes, then she gasped. “If we were at the epicenter of a gravitational anomaly, we could have warped both space and time, depending on the intensity of the energy we concentrated together.”

“That's my brilliant beloved.” I said and gave her a kiss. “Now remember how much Presence we were channelling.”

That took Hailey a few moments to recall, then she stared at me. “Oh, my god.”

“Yeah.” I said. “We spent all that time together in a space-time limbo and only twenty minutes actually passed.”

“But... what about...” Hailey reached down and touched her belly.

“Time is relative.” I said. “If my guess is right, by the time our honeymoon is over and we go back home, Hen will be able to tell us that you're pregnant.” I chuckled. “Heaven knows we tried.”

Hailey laughed. “Mom's going to kill me for getting pregnant after my very first time having sex.”

“Are you kidding?” I asked. “She's going to be ecstatic that my promise to her is going to be fulfilled so soon.”

“Hunter.” Hailey said when we reached the bottom of the stairs and the work crew there had just finished installing the replacement door. “Thank you so much for changing that vow.”

“I didn't buy her a mother of the bride gift, so I had to give her something.” I joked and Hailey giggled.

“I love you.” Hailey said.

“I love you, too.” I said and opened the door for her. We stepped out and walked over to the front desk just as a female clerk came out of a back door. Her hair was slightly messy and she straightened it out and pulled her uniform straight.

Both Hailey and I immediately caught her thoughts about making love in the back of the restaurant with the man she deeply loved and couldn't be with because they were on the verge of poverty. A moment later, we both saw the image of the sun-like thing coming from our room. We exchanged looks at the visual component of what we had thought was only a local phenomena we had caused, then I looked at the clerk.

“Yes, if you're wondering. That was us.” I said and held out a credit chip to her. “Please accept this as a token of our apology to you.”

The clerk looked at the credit chip and was tempted to take it. “You can tip us at the...”

“No, this isn't a tip. I'm giving it to you personally.” I said. “I'll pay for the damages and the hassle we've caused later, since it will take you a while to assess the total cost of everything we've wrecked besides the bridal suite.”

“You wrecked it?” The clerk asked and I nodded. “So, this is for me and no one else?”

“Well, you can use it for whatever you want.” I clarified for her and put it in her hand. Don't be shocked at how much it is. I said to her mentally.

The clerk blinked her eyes at me for a moment, then she looked at the hundred thousand credit chip in her hand. “Sir, this...” To her surprise, she wasn't shocked at the total. “...you are too generous.”

“You're only saying that because you don't know how much our bill is going to be.” I said with a chuckle. “Beloved, how much do you estimate it will be?”

“Oh, a million and a half at least.” Hailey said and waved at the smashed pictures on the floor. “Not counting the incidentals.”

The clerk just stared at us without saying a word.

“Make sure you put that money to good use, like that nice house down on the corner.” I said and the clerk gasped. “Beloved.” I said to Hailey. “I think we need to take a walk around the town to see... ah... what else we may have affected.”

Hailey nodded and we left the hotel and started the town tour that we hadn't intended to do for another few days. We were lucky we did, because as we did walk around, we caught the thoughts from hundreds of people that had made love to each other after seeing the light from the hotel.

You don't think they shared in everything, do you? Hailey asked me mentally.

They didn't feel what we felt, if that's what you mean. I thought to her. If you mean getting pregnant... well... we won't find that out for a couple of weeks.

Hunter, we need to help them. Hailey thought to me.

We'll make discrete donations to the couples, just like we did for the clerk. I thought back. Ten to fifty thousand credits, depending on how young they are and the chances they'll conceive.

We'll have to monitor them, too. Hailey thought. We may even have to station Adona here to make sure these people get proper medical care.

Hailey, that's a brilliant idea. I thought. It will give Hen lots of practical experience with working with other species, too.

Hailey smiled and we continued our tour, gave out discrete donations, and obtained people's contact information for follow-up check-ups after the honeymoon.