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mortemscintilla: ∅ Babe it must be art (Hei - Playing Sudoku)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-19 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ He isn't sure Romantic Geometry is the word he'd use for his own life. Sex and emotions rarely go hand-in-hand for him. It's more a matter of keeping his options open. Having one outlet to haul his ashes, when the other is out of order. While it's true that he has a phobia for commitments -- with his profession, that has more to do with pragmatic self-defense than a presumptive inevitability of suffering betrayal. ]

[ None of these are issues Korra is jaded enough to grasp. ]


Exclusivity creates frustrations. [ Straightforward, but not cruel. His gaze stays steady on hers. ] I don't know if this will last one month, let alone if I'll be in the City tomorrow. Or if you will. But there's no reason for suspicion and secrets to build between us in meantime, because you couldn't keep a promise I never asked you to make. We're at each others' throats often. That's not going to change overnight. There might be an evening when you find you want to be on your own. Or with someone else. The same goes for me. You don't have to be an immoral monster to want to be with other people. You just have to be human.

[ A few moments of silence tick over. Reaching out, he picks up her hand. Hesitates, then presses the palm against his mouth. His lips are cool, but warm gradually in contact with her skin. ] If you don't like this idea, I can behave myself. [ As much as he's capable of, anyway. ] But it's better right now if you don't mix yourself up about what I think.
mortemscintilla: ∅ Oh, there ain't no rest for the wicked (Hei - Bluest Of Blues)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-19 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hei already knows it's a compromise that spells future disaster. Like the arrangement itself. Nothing about this is normal. But normal's not something he subscribes to anyway, and it's enough that he grasps the value of her choice. Awkward, painful, surreal -- the conversation is all those things. But it's also the closest he can approach to being honest. He knows himself -- his limits and depths (on a good day). And he knows that he'll do his best not to hurt her. (Hurt her more? Hurt her again?). Fidelity isn't something he's trained for. But that's not the same as loyalty. Not the same as protection and comfort. And he can offer all three. ]

[ This feels like a workable, if not joyous, scheme. ]

[ From the window, the sunlight burns a darker orange. Equidistant between two shafts of light, Hei's face and hands are a pale gold. He kisses her fingers -- almost chaste -- and murmurs, ]
I'm glad you came here. [ Another kiss to her palm. Less chaste, but with no pressure to go further. ] I'll try to make you glad too.
mortemscintilla: ∅  Honey you'd be surprised (Hei - Yin/Closer)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-19 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hei is smiling now too, faint but genuine. In the end, both he and Korra are tactile people. While it's as routine to fake physicality as it is to fake words in Hei's experience, he doesn't have to do that here. That's what makes it easier to just slip off the stool and make his way toward her, to gather her into a tight hug, then to pick his every last feeling apart. A dizzying sense of relief gusts through him, blowing everything loose. He presses his face into her hair. Not holding her like she's fragile -- none of those cliches of china and glass and spun sugar. She's the complete opposite of those things. Resilient. Spirited. A fighter. ]

[ But he does hold her like she's something precious. Because... ]

[ Hell. For better or worse, she is. ]
mortemscintilla: ∅ You just know you want out (Hei - Seducing You)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-19 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's strange. ]

[ Usually Hei has a mental blueprint of how to take advantage of this proximity. Step A to Step B. Nothing is done without a purpose, after all. But right now, it feels as though the usual rules -- such as they are -- are on 'Pause.' It's quiet, and good -- there's a strange, almost-serenity to the moment, with the dustmotes glittering and the windows darkening for evening. He hitches her in closer, holds her for a long moment, with an aching tightness that might hurt any ordinary person. Hums a little, at the impress of her lips -- such a stupid little thing, but it's tailed by a pervasive gratitude, because it means she's been stirred out of her tense reserve. That she's not afraid. ]

[ Eventually, he loosens his hold by a fraction. Draws back to study her face, as if gauging it for any sign of reluctance or anxiety, before he moves in -- slow, careful. The kiss isn't innocent, but it's fleeting -- a warm press of his lips against hers -- but with the space closed between them, she carries the taste of the fruitsicles she was eating, and beneath, that flavor that is purely Korra. ]
mortemscintilla: ∅ You're a star (Hei - Profile/Underlit)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-19 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Her laugh sends a slow heat bubbling up through Hei. Even if sentimentality isn't imprinted in the same patterns in his psyche, he'd agree. He's missed this. It's these tiny details that he savors the most. Ones where both of them are relaxed enough to let go, sensations coalescing together to push out restraint, so there's no constant tick-tick-tick of mental grenades -- Where will this go? How is this different to what it was before? ]

[ Right now, it doesn't matter. Every fiber of his body feels sun-drenched and warm, and he kisses her again like he's hungry for it, but also like he has time. Slowly, with purpose, like she'll dissipate among the dustmotes if his hands don't splay across her hips and leave their marks, fingers pressing into the curve of her skin through the denim. Hei rarely has the patience to be gentle for long. Especially not when he's pressed against her like this, feeling her warmth seeping into him. His kisses are hot and quick and hungry -- to her mouth and her throat and her collarbone; he tastes salt and the sweet tartness of fruitsicles, and decides it's a combination that suits her. ]

[ Eventually, lips set against the curve of her neck and shoulder, ]
Will you stay? [ For a few hours. For the night. However long she wants -- as long as it's Yes. ]
mortemscintilla: ∅  She looked at me and this is what she said (Hei - Bleeding)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-19 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The bite of her nails is sharp and exquisite for it. Hei lets off a hum of his own, feeding the vibrations along her neck before he opens his mouth to suck the skin there. The palm at her lower-back moves in slow sweeps, down the curve of her spine into the swell of backside, then back up, under the fabric of her blouse. The other hand cups the round of her skull, thumb coasting along the jawline as he lifts his head and kisses her again. It's fierce and biting but there's a thread of softness somewhere in there too, like this isn't about control. Like he just wants to leave her breathless; wants to snatch as much of the air from her lungs as he can get. ]

[ Finally -- half a sharp inhale, half a murmured word -- and he breaks away. This close, with her breasts pressing against him, he imagines he can feel every detail of them through her bra cups, through the fabric of her shirt. His fingers find the knotted swathes at her midriff, and undo them. He coaxes her to let go of him so he can drag the shirt off. As her arms slip free of the fabric, he kisses them -- fleeting goodbye kisses, as if she'll never reach for him again: bicep, the inside of her elbow, forearm, wrist, palm and a final slow kiss on her fingertips. ]

[ The granny bra doesn't even register. By now, he's too focused on getting to the skin beneath (greed, adrenaline or just her: more than likely, all three at once.) ]
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mortemscintilla: ∅ There ain't nothing in this world for free (Hei - Contemplative)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-19 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That fact that she doesn't immediately slip those bindings off -- the fact that she doesn't immediately scrabble at his own clothes -- is telling. Brash and feisty as she is, there are undercurrents of doubt below the surface. Because she doesn't believe the sincerity of this. Doesn't believe him, maybe. He's not sure, but he's anxious to soothe her. Slow and steady isn't a pace Hei prescribes to. Not where sex is concerned. But he thinks, in a dim way, that Korra deserves at least that much. Nevermind a little more consideration. Nevermind this. ]

[ This? ]

[ He's been simmering toward a boil, but now he tamps that urgency down. Passing his arms around her, he gathers her in tight. His fingers skim along her spine, feeling warm skin and scratchy fabric of bandages, before one hand settles at the jut of hipbone, thumb fitted into the dimple of her lower-back. The other hand smoothes her hair, lulling, languid, his lips coaxing hers apart so he can lick past them, chasing the faded traces of fruit in her mouth. He breaks away only when they're both breathless, printing kisses across her face -- closed eyelids, cheeks, nose, forehead. ]

[ When he speaks, it's quiet and slurred against her hair, ]
I won't hurt you. [ Not physically, anyway. But he knows, even as his brain buzzes with wanting her, that in the end something like this is always going to hurt. ]
mortemscintilla: ∅ But if you make a move I won't think twice. (Hei - Emo)

Sunday! \^^/

[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-20 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hei's eyelids flutter half-shut. He absorbs those kisses, the way she tugs his hair, as a barometer for what she wants. Hardness and softness, the two ends of the pleasure spectrum. His lips quirk in an almost-smile as her lips skim his neck, right beneath the ear in that sensitive place that goes straight to his groin. He shivers, angling his throat to grant her better access. All they've done is kiss so far, yet there's a need so intense that he can't feel his arms and legs; his body seems to be one big thubbing heart. ]

[ At her request, he obliges, both hands sliding down the curve of her rear before her hauls her up, not without warning but not with any particular delicacy either, letting her legs sling around his waist as he carries her toward the cooler shade of his bedroom. The unmade bed, zebra-striped by the light and shadows of the blinds, smells of faded detergent and sleep and little else. He spills Korra across the edge to a creak of bedsprings, and, with his arms still pinned under her, pitches forward to press his mouth to hers in hard breathless kisses. ]
mortemscintilla: ∅♫ All these icons are keyworded to hooker songs :D (Hei - A Moment To Grieve)

Re: Sunday! \^^/

[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-20 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[ Adrenaline hums in his bones as Hei trades kisses back and forth that fringe on devouring but never quite reach there, like he's trying to focus on not being drowned out by the larger waves of impulse, to find that delicate strand of restraint again. When she presses against him, a note of want escapes with his next breath, sticky and rough around the edges. ]

[ She tugs at his shirt, and he draws back just a little, enough to shuck the material off, leaving it lying on the floor somewhere while he leans in again, licking a long stripe across the skin above Korra's chest-bindings. His hands, meanwhile, skim up her sides, focusing on finding the knot or clasp or whatever-it-is that undoes the swathes. But there's no haste or clumsiness to it. While the endgame is always his top priority, there's something almost roundabout -- affectionate? -- in the way he touches her. Mouth dusting kisses across her throat, the rounds of her shoulders, her arms; an almost tactile reassurance that he's pinning her down, but not boxing her in. ]
mortemscintilla: ∅ But then you'll do whatever I like (Hei - We're Bros)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-20 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
You should be. [ There's a heavier pitch to his voice, his breath raspy in the space between them. But there's no annoyance in his expression. If anything his arms are languid, loose-jointed as they wrap around her. His weight settles back to his knees as he sits up, taking her with him in what might be a makeshift hug. Hooking his chin on the curve of her neck and shoulder, he plucks the ties at her back. When the fabric gapes, he lets it unravel, puddling down around her hips while the pads of his fingers trace the bumps of Korra's spine. ]

[ In the same spirit, he lifts one hand to her hair, undoing that sloppy bun. Lets it tumble down around her face, against his face, releasing a warm burst of her scent. He spreads his fingers through the heavy tangle of it, smoothing it back from her cheeks, his gaze heavy-lidded and intent on her before he leans in to bite another kiss. ]
mortemscintilla: ∅ And then he sweeps up from behind (Hei - Don't Believe You)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-20 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hei's absorbed enough in the kiss that it takes him by surprise when she jerks up. Everything in him stills and cools when that Shoot! jangles in the air. His grip goes lax, his shoulders straighten and he glances at her, eyebrows raised, ]

What? [ With a trace of wryness, ] Late for another date?
mortemscintilla: ∅ Just like I've turned on you (Hei - Under My Umbrella~ Ella~)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-20 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hei lets her butt her head against his shoulder, keeping any frustration or amusement off his face. It's these moments that remind him of what Korra is. A teenager. Governed by hot reactions and impulse, rather than the heavy slog of responsibilities. She's only just eased into that sphere, and she's still stumbling and trying to get into the swing of it. ]

Do you want to reschedule this? [ He doesn't sound irritated, just matter-of-fact. If it's a question of ill-matched timetables, he's never been one to sulk and fume. He's done this very thing to enough flings back home. Granted, in his case the work was of a riskier nature. A failure to show up would result in termination of a rather permanent sort. ]
mortemscintilla: ∅ Who looks so all alone (Hei - At A Glance)

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[personal profile] mortemscintilla 2013-05-20 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ Hei pauses a moment, then shrugs in lieu of Okay. Drawing away, he slides over to the bedside drawer and fishes that stupid device out, passing it over to her. Reaches, after a moment, to uncoil the length of the bandages around her hips, before coaxing her legs into his lap and tugging the boots off, left then right. ]

[ Apparently he has enough layers of clothing to busy himself with, while she contacts her workplace. ]

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