text: Juanita came up from the showers looking refreshed, her honey-brown hair cling wet about her neck and shoulders, and her nut-brown skin seemed to have a lustrous shine now that the sweat and dust had been scrubbed off. She was wearing clothes liberated from the donation box below and walked over to join Hikaru and Rochelle.
  
  Rochelle reached out and took Juanita's hand, delighting in the warmth of her wife's touch. Juanita leaned in and kissed her on the lips then turned and looked sadly at the Angel. Sophia still lay on the altar, her body almost entirely consumed by greenish black. Once the black of the Succuba's Kiss tarnished her entire body, the Angel would die, and Rochelle wasn't about to let that happen.
  
  She wasn't going to strand her Master in Hell! Who else would spank her?
  
  "So we just make love?" Juanita asked, adjusting those cute glasses she wore.
  
  Rochelle smiled, "How else do you take the phrase 'a demonstration of physical love' to mean?"
  
  "It sounds pretty straightforward to me," Hikaru grinned, moving in front of both women and reaching over to take Juanita's and Rochelle's free hands. Rochelle squeezed her hand back. Hikaru leaned in and kissed Rochelle on the lips. Rochelle sighed, opening her mouth and enjoying the thrill that passed through her. Hikaru broke the kiss, turned her head, and planted an equally passionate smooch on Juanita's lips.
  
  "Oh, wow," Juanita breathed when the kiss was broke.
  
  "I think I love you both," Hikaru told them, squeezing Rochelle's hand.
  
  Rochelle's heart sped up as she looked into the dark, slanted eyes of Hikaru. "I feel like I've always loved you."
  
  "I just didn't remember it until Bill awakened me," Juanita finished.
  
  "He's an amazing guy," Hikaru agreed. "How did he put it? He's shaping a future where we all love him and each other."
  
  "Yeah, Master's a great guy like that."
  
  "Well, I think it worked," Hikaru smiled. "And if two people demonstrating their physical love will heal Sophia, wouldn't three people be so much more powerful?"
  
  "She does make a good point," Juanita smiled.
  
  "I couldn't agree more," Rochelle nodded. "I just wish Master was here."
  
  "And Cynthia," Hikaru agreed. "Then we'll be complete."
  
  "Shit!" someone cursed. "We have to turn it. It won't fit through here."
  
  Furrowing her eyebrows, Rochelle looked to see Bev and Reggie manhandling a queen size mattress through the doorway that led to the church office and the stairs to the basement. They had it tilted at an angle and pushed it through the door.
  
  "Thought you'd want something a little softer to make love on," Bev smiled.
  
  "Are they really gonna fuck?" Reggie asked. "I don't see how that helps."
  
  "You're just going to have to trust them," Bev answered. "They need to save Sophia."
  
  "The invisible Angel on the altar."
  
  "Exactly," Juanita nodded. "I couldn't see her until Bill claimed me, but she's there."
  
  "Fine, fine," Reggie sighed. "It's been a messed up day. I guess fucking to save an Angel isn't the craziest thing I've seen today."
  
  "It's got to be a close second though," Rochelle laughed as Bev and Reggie flopped the mattress down before the altar and the sword leaning against it.
  
  "Definitely," Reggie nodded. "So, I guess we should give you two privacy."
  
  "The three of us, actually," Hikaru said.
  
  "I thought you had to demonstrate your true love, or some shit?"
  
  "We all love each other," Juanita explained. "It's complicated, but it all has to do with Bill."
  
  "Boy, I really need to meet the guy that has three women wrapped so tight around his pinky when he ain't even here."
  
  "Four women," Rochelle corrected. "Master also loves Cynthia, but she's in Hell with him."
  
  "Wild."
  
  "Come on, Reggie, let's give the three lovebirds their privacy," Bev said. "We'll be in the kitchen rustling up some grub. I'm sure you'll be hungry when you're finished."
  
  Rochelle squeezed both her lovers' hands. "Oh, I think we're going to work up quite the appetite."
  
  Juanita laughed richly. "I bet we will."
  
  "I'm glad Bill brought us together," Hikaru smiled, then a tear trickled down her cheek.
  
  "It'll be okay," Juanita whispered, letting go of Hikaru's hand to wipe her tear away. "You just need to have faith that it'll all work out."
  
  Rochelle, her heart hammering, pulled both of her lovers to her and they leaned in, their lips meeting, and they shared a three-way kiss.