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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-21 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ sure, a part of her fantasy had involved her eating every single one of these fries, but reality doesn’t have to look like that. in other words, she’d be more than willing to share. but she’ll keep that container covered for the brief trip they make through the lower level of the house, closing the front door behind him and then jerking her head slightly in the direction of the living room that opens up off the foyer. ] In here.

[ safer, somewhat more neutral territory, with the bottle and those two glasses sitting on the small table in front of the sofa, one of which has clearly already held some whiskey although it’s mostly empty at this stage. she rounds around the furniture and then eases down to sit on one of the cushions, drawing one leg up underneath herself and leaving enough space for him to take up, and the fries are deposited on the table as she grabs for the whiskey bottle, screwing open the cap and tilting it over the clean glass. ]

Say β€œwhen” or I’m just gonna keep pouring. [ fat chance of that; she’s hardly one to waste valuable liquor, and her lips curve in a smile that make the tease more than evident. ]
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-21 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Little at a time. [ she echoes it, careful not to give him more than a couple fingers before pouring herself the same amount, and then she folds herself in on her end of the couch, swiping another fry with one hand while she keeps her glass cradled in the other, resting it against the edge of her knee. ]

Yeah? Never would’ve guessed. [ it’s a gentle dig, one mostly prompted by the fact that she never does see him in a position much like this one, primarily about leisure, without any kind of responsibility tugging him in a different direction. honestly, it had taken him sustaining a serious stab wound to even get any rest; if she had to venture a guess, she’d say he rarely sleeps otherwise. she bites into one end of the fry, polishing it off before taking a sip of her drink. ]

I can’t exactly say this is my first bottle or anything, but β€” [ sitting here, late at night, with this particular company. ] Been a minute for me, too.
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-21 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it speaks to her own tolerance at this stage that she barely winces anymore, when the whiskey flows past her lips β€” there's just that overall warmth that settles in the pit of her stomach and then slowly works its way outward along her limbs, using her bloodstream to heat her extremities until the flush in her cheeks signals that it might be having more of an effect, something she'll aim to tamper down with the occasional french fry.

but when he talks, she listens, and maybe some of that's carry-over from the bar, the conversations she's been on the receiving end of since she started working there, stopping in front of people who want an open ear and getting used to the idea of giving it to them.

she listens, and she watches, studies him in profile, the way he talks about being in the service β€” the marines, she remembers, because in the middle of that yellow-tinted pollen haze that had driven them to share what they had, that part had come out already. she hadn't exactly had her theories as to why he drinks that much coffee, why he sleeps those few hours, why it almost feels counterintuitive for him to stay completely still (even sitting here with her, his finger taps idly against the side of the glass), but like before, with the torn photograph, he's filling in the gaps for her a little at a time. ]


Yeah. I get it, you know? It's β€” sitting here like this, feeling like I should be back in the fight somehow, like I was at home, gearing up for whatever kind of shitstorm that was on the horizon, and now β€” [ she drops her gaze to the contents of her glass, considers it for a second and then takes another sip, down the hatch. ] Not really knowing what's coming, but still having that sense that I should be doing more than what I am. It's... it's hard to turn that off.

[ she draws in a breath, the admission leaving her on her exhale. ] Even if part of me wants to, just for a little while.
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-22 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's true that the time of night probably factors into some of this, the emotional defenses she'd be more prepared to equip lowered with the promise of alcohol and quiet conversation β€” that, and the fact that given all they've shared, she knows they've reached something of an understanding with each other, the kind that two people who have seen their fair share of shit and managed to emerge out the other side mostly intact can achieve.

she shrugs one shoulder, managing a mirthless chuckle β€” because that's been her experience too, more often than not. ]
What's that law again? Murphy's something or other? [ anything that can go wrong, will.

but she looks up at him, eyes rising without the tilt of her chin, lower lip drawn in below the upper for her to wet it quickly with a sweep of her tongue. ]


Some people would say you should try and make the most of it. For however long it pans out.
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-22 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ it calls back to a moment similar to this one, when their gazes had met and held over a different kind of drink; he'd shifted into her space then, however unconsciously, and she hadn't realized until later that she'd practically been holding her breath.

the same holds true for right now, when he leans forward to relinquish his glass, and her knee gently jostles against the outside of his thigh.

he'd made her a promise to stay β€” not dedicating that to her specifically, but voicing that assurance that he'd be around in some form, to have her back with whatever ugliness reared its head afterward. and she won't pretend that whatever this is between them has shifted beyond that agreement, but it is grounded differently in the trust they now have for one another. ]


Yeah, I guess it hasn't all been awful. [ a tugging at the edges of her mouth follows, a soft smile, and then she's the one tilting forward to free her hands, setting her glass down, before her gaze finds his, briefly drops to his lips. ] There have definitely been some highlights.
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-22 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ before, she might have had excuses to point to, outside factors that had all too easily manipulated the foundations of what was already there.

right now, though? she's got nothing but a handful of fries and three-quarters of a glass of whiskey in her belly to blame for what comes next, even if it doesn't happen all at once.

he pivots outward, letting one arm trail along the tops of the couch cushions, and she shrugs one shoulder as if she hasn't really given much thought to those deeper considerations, everything that happened leading up to the afternoon she curled into bed beside him and after that. the problem is that her face gives away more, the slow drag of teeth across her lower lip as she tries to subdue the fullness of that grin, ducking her head somewhat.

she's already got one knee bent beneath her, enabling her to tilt forward; the fingers of one hand find a small grip in the unbuttoned portion of his shirt, and she brings their faces level with a small tug. ]
They were all like this. [ he won't get a chance to answer before her mouth finds his, soft and warm, different than the others but somehow bearing shades of the same. ]
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-22 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[ right up until she kisses him, the one thought she never stops having is about what a bad idea this is β€” and then she kisses him.

and she remembers all of it, the memory of his mouth against hers, past kisses she's tried to forget, to stifle down in her awareness so she doesn't waste her time thinking about what it feels like to do this, to have his hands trailing over her, the warmth of his skin emanating out from his touch β€” seriously, how he is always so warm β€” but it all comes flooding back to her anyway, in a rush. the way his fingers had swept soaking wet hair back from her face while she'd stood there, cold and shivering, only to tremble differently when he'd given her the heat of his lips. his arm wrapped across her middle to haul her over and atop him as they'd lain tangled together in his bed, those kisses defined by mounting passion until she'd inadvertently aggravated that still-healing wound.

they'd always encountered interruptions in those moments, something to force them to pump the brakes and rethink all of this, and a part of her is still waiting for that to happen, but it doesn't.

instead, she gets the slide of his hand, palm and lightly calloused fingers sweeping across the side of her face and she tilts into it, effectively deepening the kiss as a result; her mouth moves against his with a soft urgency, tender but not racing, because she's still not completely convinced this is real and she doesn't want to rush it if it is. ]
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-22 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she'd been able to find her excuses for the other kisses before β€” she'd been unexpectedly vulnerable, reeling from her own misplaced emotions about doc and kate and looking for someone to lose herself in, and the addition of a little recreational drug use had desensitized her to the concept of judgment. or the pollen, making her sneeze shortly before she'd curled herself into him in that bed, woken up to find him ready to kiss her again and again, prepared to let the moment take them even further than it had the first time.

but she doesn't have anything directing her forward now apart from the tension that's been hovering between them since that first meeting of mouths, curiosity and want coaxing her to find out now if those kisses were just a fluke, a result of influence, and this won't hold any of the same heat that makes desire unfurl low in her belly.

turns out third time might really be the charm after all.

with one knee bent beneath her she drifts forward at that tug on her shirt, the brief tightness of fabric drawing her nearer to him; she stops with one leg crooked across his thighs, just shy of actually seating herself in his lap yet definitely closer than where they started, and her hand comes up to cup the side of his face, his growing beard tickling the top of her lip when the kiss persists. she chuckles, withdraws just long enough to whisper against his mouth. ]
Feels different. [ her fingers trail over the edge of his jaw, that longer facial hair surprisingly soft to the touch. ] With this.
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-22 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ once her fingers alight on his jaw, she almost doesn't want to stop touching him, that impulse to caress over the unshaven portions of his face increasing the longer she maintains a contact there, nails raking lightly along his cheek, the harder angles of his features. she slides her hand back and along the nape of his neck as he ducks down, grins as he looks to her again. his finger traces the indent in her cheek, made all the more drastic when she smiles this broadly, and she shakes her head. ]

No. [ her other hand shifts to fall along his chest, fingers deliberately tucking in and under the open sides of his shirt to find the skin there, the warm firmness of muscle, briefly nudging across the chain he wears around his neck, though the ring that she already knows dangles from its lowest point is still hidden beneath the buttoned portion. ]

Not bad. [ the fingers at the back of his neck comb over the longer strands there, too, run through the thickness of it, and she wonders how much he'll let it grow before he starts thinking about a haircut.

her eyes are drawn in, again, as his teeth find purchase in his bottom lip β€” and she doesn't have to refrain from kissing him again so she won't, leaning in to lightly urge her mouth to his with a slow breath, a rising nudge of her body along his side, chest to his and hand slipping further beneath his shirt to roam over that smooth plane. she's seconds away from letting herself melt fully, like she did when they were in his bed, and it scares her more than she's willing to admit. ]
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-22 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it might go without saying, but the longer strands under her fingertips, the growing fullness of a more defined beard on his face β€” it all works together to soften his harder edges, to leave her more willing to incline towards him, and maybe she'd felt that pull before when he'd been clean-shaven, shorn down nearly smooth against his scalp, but it's even stronger now that she has something more to hold onto, to lightly grip while their lips meet.

she feels the vibration in his chest when he groans, incapable of stifling that low noise even with her mouth there to cover his, and she's emboldened by it, desire spiking hot at the base of her spine when his hand trails beneath the hem of her shirt.

it's another callback to the way his touch had skimmed along her back when she'd been resting against his side, one leg thrown over the both of his, and she's halfway there now with them merely lounging back into the sofa cushions, her hands beneath his shirt and in his hair and her lips parting warmly for a kiss that offers more hunger in return. she realizes, with no shortage of surprise, that just like the previous time, she'd be content to simply linger here, exchanging lazy kisses tasting of whiskey and salt and delivering roaming caresses from palms and fingers, without having to urge it along into anything more. but the whimper she voices against him, once they're pressed together more firmly, betrays a deeper intent. ]
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-22 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she probably hadn't given any thought to that comment beyond a brief observation, seeing the scruff that had already started to come in during their unplanned run-in at the mart, her with work-limpened hair and him already showing signs of that willingness to change up his routine here, to let certain habits lapse. of course, some of it had been brought on by not having access to his full range of motion, injured shoulder in the midst of healing, but now that he's fully on the mend and still keeping that look? yeah, she can't say she minds it all that much.

she is reminded of his latest wounds, though, when the touch of her fingers skims closer to that place where an emergency cauterization had seared flesh closed, sensitive to even the slightest press of bandages and she wonders how it looks now. she's curious enough to let her hand slip out from that open gap in his shirt and work open a few more buttons beneath, guiding the sides open with another roaming caress of her palm as the fabric catches on the ridges of her knuckles.

her weight is pressed more definitively against his by the time she breaks the kiss again, backpedals to slow, pursing pecks of her lips to his until she can trust herself enough to maintain more space β€” and then she touches him there, those twin wounds perfectly sized to the claws she'd seen emerge from between laura's knuckles, silent and seamless with only a few drops of blood left where they open up the skin. ]


Do they still hurt? [ her fingers stroke across the scars, darker than the others she's seen on his body, those times he hadn't necessarily shied away from her gaze but hadn't wanted to give her more opportunities to glimpse them β€” and she looks from where her hand rests on him up to his face, the shine of their kisses residing on his mouth, and she wants him all over again. ]
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-22 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ what hurts more than the scars are the memories; if she actually had the ability to bear a more physical reminder of what she's sustained, maybe her skin would be as marred as his is.

but she can't scar, hasn't, not since before she became the heir, the only silver-light marks on her body reminders of an unsupervised childhood growing up on the homestead, getting into trouble. the line across her knee, where she'd ripped it open climbing on the tractor in the barn. the smaller pit at her hairline from where willa had chucked an old doll at her head. everything that hurts her now fades into nothing, and the only things she has left to show from it are her ghosts, her regrets, her list of names.

he doesn't flinch under her touch, doesn't pull away, his hand shifting to cover hers instead β€” and she's mindful of what any kind of pressure might do to an area that's still sensitive, fresher than the others, but her fingers do curve over the firm round of his shoulder then, as he traps them there with that slow sweeping.

and she doesn't answer him out loud β€” because she wouldn't know what to say even if she could β€” his face disappearing from her sight when her eyes flutter shut and her mouth finds his again, a certainty in that kiss now that maybe hasn't been there before, an assurance that isn't propelled forward by pollen wafting through an open window and into their senses. she kisses him as she finally shifts forward, settles herself anew on top of him with her knees pressed into the cushions on either side of his hips, until she can ease her weight down across his lap, fingers sliding into his hair to cup the back of his head. ]
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[personal profile] earps 2019-04-22 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she'd seen the change in him β€” gradually and over time, but still occurring, usually in spite of his attempts to counter it at every turn. and she can't take entire credit for that, she won't, isn't under any illusion that her influence is the primary source of any choice that's his to make, but even in the months they've both spent here, he's had a willingness to make his presence more prominently felt. like a job at the diner, rather than just ducking in for a quick breakfast and all those cups of coffee before leaving.

and they'd continued to bump into one another, either by choice or coincidence, those encounters doing everything to bring them to this moment here, with her chin tipped up against his mouth and his breath ghosting hot across her skin, making her thighs squeeze reflexively on either side of him, her fingers clutching harder at his scalp.

she thinks of the day she'd confronted him at his place, his eyes gently observing her from behind a bear's snout, a pair of fuzzy and rounded ears twitching at the sound of her lecturing him on why he shouldn't have kissed her at the height of chloe's party, drinks and drug zooming through her bloodstream and making her more willing to guide her mouth against his.

and she thinks about the promise they'd made each other while tangled up in his bedsheets β€” that maybe while they're here, they don't need to keep running, can just stop and exist here, and she wonders if this counts at all, that for however long they fall into this warm, wanting embrace it means neither of them has an out in mind. leaving is the furthest thing from her thoughts now when his kisses descend over the curve of her neck and his hands coax up the bottom of her shirt; she lifts her arms slowly, enabling him to roll it further, past her shoulders, her hair tumbling down once freed from the collar.

it's no more uncovered than how he'd seen her at the party, nearly the same amount of skin exposed, but it's different when she anticipates his mouth on her, his gaze roaming, and a more vivid color rises in her cheeks and the top of her chest as she peers to him now, suddenly nervous. ]

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