[ Hei pauses a moment, then closes his eyes against the water. Bringing his hands up with Korra's caught in them, he shakes out the soap, letting it skitter down to the tiles. Exhales, and looks at her. ]
It's nothing.
[ Not an evasion so much as a shrug-off. He can be notoriously pliant in the hands of a mark, if he has something to gain from it. But off-duty... it's unpredictable, the snake-strike stress response. He never knows when he'll lash out or tense up, or when something will trigger a bad memory, or when he'll feel ... overexposed, if not defenseless. It's not something he can explain to Korra. Instead he guides her hand back to his erection. Shows her how to pull the skin of the shaft tight, first up, then down, with her fingertips, until it fills and hardens again. ]
[ Quietly, both alleviating the mood, and changing the subject, ]
You want to get out? Or --
[ Or we can fuck right here. Shower-sex isn't high on his list of favorites. Too much water, slippery tiles, space shortages ... someone ultimately ends up far from clean, and far from satisfied. But right now he wants Korra too much to care. ]
no subject
It's nothing.
[ Not an evasion so much as a shrug-off. He can be notoriously pliant in the hands of a mark, if he has something to gain from it. But off-duty... it's unpredictable, the snake-strike stress response. He never knows when he'll lash out or tense up, or when something will trigger a bad memory, or when he'll feel ... overexposed, if not defenseless. It's not something he can explain to Korra. Instead he guides her hand back to his erection. Shows her how to pull the skin of the shaft tight, first up, then down, with her fingertips, until it fills and hardens again. ]
[ Quietly, both alleviating the mood, and changing the subject, ]
You want to get out? Or --
[ Or we can fuck right here. Shower-sex isn't high on his list of favorites. Too much water, slippery tiles, space shortages ... someone ultimately ends up far from clean, and far from satisfied. But right now he wants Korra too much to care. ]