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I released my hold on the plants around me, and they responded to the urgency in my thoughts by pulling back as fast as they could. As soon as I was free I ran forward a few steps before I turned back to Kelli.

"Sorry. I forget you just can't run as fast as I can sometimes," I apologized while waiting for her to follow me.

"Just go sweetie," she said. "You can get home and be through a shower and dressed by the time I get back to the house and then we can head back to the apartment."

I ran back the few steps and laid a soul scorching kiss on Kelli that left her out of breath before I took off at full speed back towards the house, crying out a heartfelt I love you over my shoulder as I ran while Kelli's feelings of love continued to flow over our bond.

Luckily I was able to get back to the house and down into the bathroom that attached to the basement bedroom without our parents catching me running through the house with nothing on but my collar and my piercings. As comfortable as I had become running around outdoors with little to no clothing on, the thought of any of our parents catching me naked had me shivering in embarrassment. I didn't let those thoughts distract me from getting ready to go, however.

I blazed through the shower with feline grace and speed, letting the remnants of the rich soil that still clung to my skin wash down the drain as I stood under the warm spray. I trembled some as the water flowed over my body and stimulated my most sensitive parts, and I could feel Kelli's slight distraction at my gentle arousal. If I had had more time I would have fingered myself to a slow and methodical climax while I opened every miniscule feeling I would have so she could share my languorous bliss. I didn't have the time for that so I contented myself with the occasional brush of my swollen and sensitive labia which caused her to stumble once or twice on the way back.

Kelli was right in that the extra time I had before she returned was just enough for me to be ready to go, and we stopped into the living room to say good bye to our parents.

"Hey guys," I said to them as I grabbed her hand. "We have to take off because I have to be at the dojo in about thirty minutes for my test."

"Really," Steve, Kelli's dad, asked in surprise. "Another one? What are you testing for tonight?"

"And how the hell are you going to make the three hour drive in less than thirty minutes," was my dad's question, though he had to face palm when Kelli giggled as she waggled her fingers at him in response.

"My god Dan," mom chided him as the rest of us were shaking our heads in disbelief. "After all that we have seen and learned, you are still surprised enough to ask that kind of question? I thought you were smart."

We all had a good laugh at my dad's expense, but the overwhelming feelings of love and loyalty that I could sense among our family softened the painful sting of humiliation.

"Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up," dad replied as he shook his head. "I will never get used to all of the amazing things that our daughters can do, so sue me if I forget all that is possible once in a while."

"Really though," Kelli's dad continued. "I am curious how exactly you are going to go from here to there so quickly. Can you tell us, or is it one of those things you can't talk about?"

"After all that you have experienced and talked with Millicent about," Kelli replied. "I don't think that it's a problem to talk about the improved transport spell I came up with."

"Improved," dad asked.

"Oh yeah! Big time improved," I said with an ear to ear grin. "Kelli is just that good. See most witches know how to move from one place to another via teleportation magic, but the range has always been around a hundred miles or so no matter how powerful the witch. Kelli figured out a way to rework the magic so that you can pretty much go to any place on Earth that you have been before, instantly."

"Yes, or to someone that you know very well," Kelli added. "Basically I inscribed a permanent magic circle in our bedroom downstairs, and a matching circle in the second room in our apartment. Now, with just a simple activation word, I can transport us between the circles whenever I want."

"Could you take someone other than you and Myka with this transport thing," Kelli's dad asked.

"Sure. It doesn't matter who goes between the circles, just as long as I activate the magic correctly."

"Could you give me a minute or two and let me come along? I haven't seen Myka test yet, and I would love to say hi to Rick as well."

"I'd love to come too," dad said, as excited as a little kid. "Do you think you could bring Lilly and Amanda also?"

"Oh no," mom retorted. "We girls have too much to do to get ready for the party tomorrow."

"That's right," continued Kelli's mom who then turned a withering stare onto the two of us. "And you two better make sure this magic still works tomorrow when you have to get here, ON TIME."

"Why do I have to have a big party," I whined. "It's not like I'm getting some major award or something."

"Oh Myka," my mom sighed in mock frustration. "You are graduating from college soon, tomorrow is your twenty second birthday, and since we weren't able to be there, for obvious reasons, we are also going to celebrate what amounts to your "marriage" to Kelli two years ago."

"And, we've already invited your friends and the McAlisters," Kelli's mom added. "So you don't have a choice, unless you really want to piss us off."

I understood that by pissing them off that it meant our moms, because our dads would have never set something like this up in the first place. Now that it was happening, however, they also had no choice but to agree and go along with it. In reality I was happy that our parents cared that much for us, but I just didn't like the fuss. I could also see the joy that this party was bringing to our moms pulsing through the bonds that connected our family, and that was why I would only complain a little.

Of the two of us, Kelli has always been the most diplomatic and she made sure that our moms understood that come hell or high water that we would be there for the party the next afternoon. She also assured them that both of our dads would be back later in the evening without any problems. I made sure to grumble a little bit so that no one would think I was going crazy, but in the end I also made sure to let our moms know that not only would I be there, I would be happy to be there as well.

A few kisses on the cheek later, and when our dads had rejoined us, we made our way down to the basement bedroom. The traveling circle filled up one corner of the room, bathing the space in its dim but ever present light. The purple and orange lines and symbols were almost hypnotic in their placement, and I had enjoyed just looking at the design ever since Kelli had activated it.

"Ok," Kelli said and motioned for them to step into the circle. "Just stand in the center and try not to move."

"This isn't going to hurt is it," her dad asked, barely keeping the concern out of his voice.

"No, it won't hurt at all. At most you will feel a slight tingle, but it's faster and uses a bit less power if you don't move."

"Yeah, it's not really that bad," I added. "Just that your first time can be a little confusing. And once you are in the room in our apartment, step out of the circle and wait for us in the hall. We'll be right behind you."

"Alright little girl, we trust you both. Guess we'll see you in a moment."

Our dads stood there with stoicism written across their faces as Kelli drew upon her magic and gave voice to what she called the activation sequence. To my ears it was a pleasant sound and the lyrical and musical quality it gave her voice always reached into my soul with its gentle caress. It was just another of the ways that I could give a description to the feelings that Kelli made me feel. And just as fast as she started to speak it was over and I watched both of our dads vanish from sight.

"Ok, sweetie," Kelli said as she pulled me into the center of the circle after waiting a few seconds. "Our turn."

We held hands as we stood there in the circle, and I felt the familiar tingle as Kelli activated the magic that would transport us back to our apartment near campus. It only took a few times moving back and forth between the two circles before I was used to the weird way that magical transport played with your senses. I could now deal with the sensation of being in two separate places at once without my stomach doing back flips, and my balance didn't go nuts anymore either. And just like that we shimmered into existence in our apartment's second bedroom.

Both of our dads were on the other side of the room near the door, excitedly talking with each other like young boys who had just discovered their first skin magazine. Kelli and I both couldn't help but laugh at their antics. Apparently their first experience with magic had made them both very excited.

"Ok, you guys are the best dads in the whole world, but we need to get going so that I am not late to my test. I'm going to change and I will meet you in the living room."

Knowing that they had a lot of questions, Kelli did her part by herding them out and into the front of the apartment while I ran to our bedroom to change. I could hear them talking about how she had transported us here, and the non-stop questions about the process and the sensations associated with it affected us, and humans in general. Kelli's dad was very interested in how the power that his daughter now had was able to move us from one room to another more than three hundred miles away, and also in the sensations that he had experienced on the way.

My dad's questions, however, were more about the way that the magic worked. He was asking Kelli about whether it could be interrupted, or rerouted in some way, and if it could, what might happen in that case. He was also curious to know if her spell had any safeguards built into it, or if anyone with the power and knowledge of magic could make use of this swift mode of transport.

To her credit, Kelli was able to answer all of our dads' questions and give them some peace of mind. That they were asking about these sorts of things was pretty normal for them, because it was what they had pretty much done for a living after they both left the military. Kelli's dad had taken his training and skills and used the small amount of inheritance money that he had been given to start a consulting company that focused on the best means and methods for providing physical security to individuals, locations, and even large groups. My dad's job during his active duty had been related to his computer science degree, and he joined up with the company to help his best friend out on the electronic security side of things.

All in all, they had done very well for themselves and Kelli and I had grown up pretty comfortably because of it. Our families had always been close, and listening to our dad's talking to Kelli in the other room warmed my heart. They were interested in our lives, in how we were coping with all that we had been through, and how we planned to cope with things that were surely going to come up in the future. I didn't have to see them to know that the bonds of love that tied all of us together in a web of love were as powerful as ever.