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derrica. ([personal profile] tender) wrote2019-08-02 02:35 pm

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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-23 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
Loxley puts his hand in her hair, simply for the sake of it. A careful working through of loose waves, gentle strokes of his hand. She can feel, then, him lift his head to nudge a kiss against the crown of her skull, a lingering kind of nuzzle that seems less absent-minded or whimsical than it might usually be.

Relaxes again. Contemplates sleep, as an idea, as a concept. The lingering apprehension that somehow he might again slip through to another world, experience perhaps worse things, ebbs a little as his oblivious body's natural desire to sleep begins to override it.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-24 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
There's a mumbled, inarticulate answer, and then silence. Eyes closed.

Dreams, then. Just the normal kind, fragmented and disorienting, as if intangible memory were still settling into the matter of his brain. A storm-filled sky, and a barren landscape littered with cracked masks. A long, clawed hand reaching out between the bars of a cage. A hooded figure, turning.

And it all kind of ebbs away, smearing aside as dreams should, ink dispersing into water, into blank unconsciousness. Loxley is normally a light sleeper, normally stirs against Derrica's still sleeping form with the intent either to avoid rousing her, or rousing her on purpose. This time, when she wakes, it is later-than-usual morning light pressing against the window, and Loxley is still and sleeping deeply beneath and around her.
Edited (clarity) 2022-08-24 00:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-24 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Fortunately, it does not take much. The initial stirring of her waking, and then that shift of the bed as she pulls herself up enough to kiss him, that soft point of contact itself. The brighter sunlight. She feels the shift of his breathing, a deeper breath in, and a moment where perhaps he will simply settle again before the gentle weight of his hand finds a place on her back.

Smooths up her spine, into her hair.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-25 09:38 am (UTC)(link)
"Mm."

Not the sharpest answer, but then comes movement. A leg drawing up a little, his body shifting towards hers where she lays against him. Lifting his head enough to kiss her again, the hand in her hair now sliding his fingers against the back of her neck, her head, while his other hand finds a place on her back.

Still here. Apparently, no further days or weeks or months of knowledge coming to the surface, in those last few hours of sleep. Loxley manifests this relief in this: lazy touches and kisses, as if there'd been no discussion of merely talking to wile away the morning hours.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-26 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
He believes her.

Even before being pressed back into his bed, although now his body believes her right back in a slow, lazy redirecting of warmth and blood and tension. Unguarded, a sound hitches in his chest as she settles her weight, and he looks up at her properly, where she is more sharply rendered with more distance, time for his eyes to focus. The hard slant of sunlight sets her hair on golden fire, and it is tempting to reach for it.

He slides his fingers between hers instead, lacing their hands together, encouraging her to rest her weight down against his palms for the moment as he arches just subtly beneath her.

How nice, to fall asleep somewhere dark, and wake up to this instead.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-27 10:43 am (UTC)(link)
She kisses into the trailing edge of a sound in response to her moving against him. Fingers squeezing but without protest, chin lifting to meet her. Kissing back, rather than only being kissed. Feels the urgency of it, or—if not urgency, that edge of meaning. The ache of it. Meets it in kind.

"I want you," murmured, as soon as there is space for murmuring.
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slaps down that nsfw tag.

[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-27 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
There's an impulse is to wrap around her, slide his hands out from under hers, do as he had voiced, as she had permitted. To act impatiently. The even greater impulse is to do none of these things, giving a quiet breath out at that feeling of soft heat as she presses in closely, as she kisses him. The fingers laced between hers splay, briefly, then relax.

He doesn't do nothing, underneath her. Tilts his hips ever so to press against her, registering his own need in the quiet slide and shift. She kisses him and he kisses her back, eyes closed, shrinking the world into this space, the sink of the mattress and the warm weight of her on him.

Happy to be here, to bask in her presence, arousal like a slow simmer and also something else, an ache, higher in his heart.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-28 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
There's a breath out that seems like it's going to form a sentence, kind of does, a quiet you are, but she moves against him and it trails off into more of a sound than words. Heels digging into the mattress behind her do something to relieve a little tension, aimed downwards out of sight, although the fine flexes of muscle through thigh, abdomen, shoulders, fingers, all observable.

She pulls back, and he opens his eyes, focusing more specifically when she speaks again. He is unguarded, intrigue and anticipation and, well, trust, that too, all easily read. Looking.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-29 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
When Loxley moves his arms, its only to seek a fractionally more comfortable angle or two, allowing that unspoken instruction alone to keep them otherwise pressed to the mattress. Fingers loose, and then curling. Breathes in, holds it there as she takes him in slowly and deeply, and then held there, like that.

Breathes out again once she is settled, and now he shifts, a subtle arcing his back, chin lifting. There, restraint, the potential of movement rather than movement manifesting.

Refocuses, looks at her, all sweeping admiration from where they are joined together, then up her body as she shifts forwards, as her mouth parts to breathe out her tension. Now, a little sharpness in the haze, just the corner of his mouth upticking. Good morning.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-30 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
There's only a quiet 'hm' when she says his name, lazy inquiry, and then a pause. Through the blur of eyelashes and close proximity, Loxley watches the slice of profile he can see of her, waiting to hear the thing she says. When she says it—well, first, a deep breath in at the movement that comes along with it, relishing the unbearable slowness and nearness of it all.

Maybe Thedas is the dream. It's certainly something every Rifter considers at least once, whether in those first panicky moments of rifts and demons and people shouting, or later. Now, for instance, in bed, with a lovely thing happening, with the most beautiful of women.

He doesn't say that. He says, "Right here," agreeably, cheekily, but he lifts his head a little to nuzzle a kiss against her cheek. "I'm right here." In a tone that says he is glad to be.

And Tassia, all its bullshit, can wait.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-08-31 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes," still quiet, still a bedroom murmur, but a broader smile reforming after the edge of her bite, the kiss that soothes it. Pointy canines, good symmetry, it's a nice smile. "So very good."

There will be a tipping point where 'too much' and 'not enough' become a singular circle together, and maybe the next little tilt of his hips in time with the next roll of hers is a signal of that moment. It evokes a sound out of him, more senseless than the last, if still kept trapped behind his teeth and low in his chest.

"I want you here too," with less of a grin in his voice, although not none. "Doing this as long as we can stand it."

It's a little bit testing the waters when he raises a hand off the mattress, just touching her hair, pushing it back to let his palm graze against her cheek. Hard not to touch her. Hard to permit even the remote possibility that she might feel less than desired.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-09-01 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
Loxley nods (silently, a little inverse to instruction) just once, and just subtly. A lot of this is subtle, including the fine-tuned responses of her body when he touches her, but when she does not steer away, he gladly sinks his fingers into her hair properly, while his other hand lifts, lowers, smooths a path up the outside of her thigh.

The next time there's a sound, in response to the slow squeeze and flex of muscle, the gentle shift of their movement, there's less of that silencing tension. In the confines of his room, thick walls and thick flooring doing much to muffle the late morning Lowtown outside, he always feels as though even the littlest noises out of him are loud.

They're not, but there is a rawness to it all, a need.

His hand slides up her side, gentle but firm pressure through the broadside of his palm, following her curves. It's touch for the sake of touch, rather than attempting to manoeuvre.
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[personal profile] charmoffensive 2022-09-06 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
Touching to touch. As much as to enjoy the sensation of her warm skin against his hands as it is to impart something pleasurable. Pleasure begets pleasure, but there is a selfish desire (that never feels selfish, when he is with her) to enjoy her, and touch her, and remap his hands on her body after so much of him had forgotten such a thing entirely. Doing so without demand still feels in spirit of their silent little contract.

And this time, at this promise from her, Loxley feels it like a rush of warmth, a downwards ache, and he lets himself respond with a sound, as she'd asked, a quiet drawn out groan. The next breath out, shakier, in time with the next rise of her hips, the next pushing down.

"Derrica," half-whispered, a signal, of the slow build she's drawing out of him. The real possibility he might ask for more, the usual sort of thing, harder and faster and messier, along with the indecision about whether he'd really want her to give it.

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