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[personal profile] tender 2021-08-28 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
In the moment, all of these things come together in harmony.

It is as much about his mouth on her hand as it is about the way he is touching her as it is about the way his body shifts to brace her. The deep ache in her that had wanted more had wanted all of these things. Not so much his hand but the way Loxley responds to her with his entire body, every part of him.

Derrica bows her own body down to meet him, palm on his cheek steering his face back to her to be kissed. Or to be leaned against, forehead to forehead, while her composure slips away from her and her breath comes in hitching gasps. One hand finds its way down alongside his elbow to take her weight, the other falls back to Loxley's shoulder to cling on to him once more. If her nails embed crescents there, she'll apologize after.

She tells him more or deeper or there, stay there. After a point, she doesn't need to tell him anything.

How much time passes? Impossible to say. Only that time must pass while her attention narrows to his breath and his body beneath her and what he is drawing out of her, that she braces herself against it, wavering until she can't do anything but comes juddering apart over him.

She says his name after, a little absent, as if it's the first that that comes to mind as she kisses the corner of his mouth.
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[personal profile] tender 2021-08-28 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
The answering laugh is still unsteady, Derrica's breathing coming unevenly as she settles into his arms. She's aware her thighs are still trembling, and there's nothing to be done about it even if she wanted to. All the tension he'd wound up into her body is gone, and she is, for the moment, pliant where she's draped against him while she catches her breath.

"You'll have to tell me what else you've imagined someday," comes as her hand cedes its grip on his shoulder to catch briefly at the nape of his neck before sliding up into his hair. Her tone is only slightly muzzy around the edges, focus sharpening as she catches her breath. Derrica's nails draw along his scalp, encouraging Loxley to hold his place for the moment while she gathers herself. "Maybe sometime when neither of us can sleep."

Not to suggest sleep as a possibility in this exact moment. This is some invitation for the future, a door being propped open for his benefit should he find himself interested.

Steadier, the drag of her nails along his scalp continues unbroken as she asks, "After I've gotten your trousers off, have you thought about what you might like to do for the rest of the night?"

Equal parts sincere and teasing, the kind of statement that might well be followed with I have suggestions because she certainly does.
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[personal profile] tender 2021-08-28 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, I certainly can't get you off first now," is mock-admonishment, the effect of which is dispelled immediately by the brightness of her smile. "But we could still—"

A break, words tapering off to be replaced by the movement of her body, the suggestive downward roll of her hips against him while her hands come back to his shoulders. It's not a difficult thing to pick up on, this telegraphed offer. Surely something easy to divine from the insistent way she'd insinuated herself into his lap.

"If you like," follows after, her head tipping as she looks back at him. It matters, what Loxley might like from this. There's no hesitation; the idea of being indulgent with him comes easy to her.
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[personal profile] tender 2021-08-29 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
When she kisses him again, it's an affirmation. Alright telegraphed in the openness of their kiss, before she draws back with a sigh.

Where she's stayed tucked in so close before, now she sits all the way back with a rueful smile. Her hands draw down from his shoulders, over his chest, down his stomach once more, but gather his laces rather than taking him in hand.

"Next time, we'll undress in better order," she tells him, serious right up until the point that she laughs, and rolls off him, disrupting his hands. She lands to one side, stretching out on her back beside him. All parts of her seem oversensitized, that lingering tremor at the exertion remaining even as she lifts her hips to skin off her trousers and kick them off the side of the bed.
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[personal profile] tender 2021-08-30 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Boots first," Derrica corrects. "Then pants."

There's such a gloriously lack of urgency in this. There's nothing in the warmth of his hand but the pleasure of contact. She rolls onto her side, body curving in towards him.

"You're beautiful," she tells him, as her fingers tap at his chest. Her eyes flick down, then back up. It almost feels like too small a thing to say. Loxley is beautiful, but he's so many other things.

She'll find occasion to tell him about those qualities too. It doesn't all have to fit into this one night.
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[personal profile] tender 2021-08-30 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
There have been others who have said variations of such a sentiment to her in the past. Derrica isn't unaware of herself, how she looks, the effect she might have. But because of that, she knows the difference between the ways such a compliment might be said. There are ways to say a thing like that and concealed behind it is some grasping, covetous thing. It's a type of admiration containing the kind of desire that comes with hooks meant to tether.

Loxley says this thing so sweetly. He says this thing and offers up a truth about himself as he does it. It's a bit like being given a gift. Her face glows in response to it. Tucked close against his side with his hand in her hair, she could kiss him again. But she doesn't, not yet. Her fingers trace a nonsense pattern over sternum.

"What dilemma," Derrica says, a little pinch of concern offset by the obvious pleasure in her expression. The flush hasn't left her face, nor cooled from where it spread down her throat. "Because I don't think I want you to stop looking at me."
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[personal profile] tender 2021-08-30 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
All Loxley's languid explorations have their effect. The trailing slide of his fingers turn her breath shallow, begin that slow winding tip towards pulling her entire body taut. It doesn't tickle, but the lightness of it oversensitizes her skin, draws shivers from her as she hooks her knee over his to tangle their legs together.

"I don't want to move," she admits, the dip of humor in her voice betraying that this is the kind of statement that's both true and untrue by turns. She does want more, except that: "This feels good."

Not a means to an end, but a comfortable exchange of contact, enjoyable in it's own right. His hands are very good on her skin. Her fingers have migrated to his bicep, marking out the shape of muscle there as she watches him looking at her.

That is good too. Derrica is not often interested in being admired, but she likes Loxley's expression when he studies her.
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[personal profile] tender 2021-09-01 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
There is some immediate, yielding response from her body; for a moment, every part of her softens, welcoming his hands and his mouth.

Then, just gently, there is a nip of teeth. More pressure than bite, shifting to a smile as she draws back. His hands are allowed to hold their place as she sets her palms at his shoulders and asked, "And if I want you to sit up against the headboard?"

A query that, once spoken, Derrica thinks better of. What are the exact limitations of what Loxley's bed will be able to withstand?
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[personal profile] tender 2021-09-01 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
It's not a loss, only a readjustment, but it still feels a bit wrenching to lose the closeness of him alongside her. That's more than sufficient motivation to follow him up.

Derrica sits up on her heels first alongside Loxley, then mirrors his movement by sweeping the mass of her hair back from her face. A few bits of stray jewelry have yet to be removed, and it might mean tangling later, if she doesn't pull them out after they finish. But she doesn't care to stop for that now.

And then she reclaims her space, closes the distance between them to return to his lap. She touches his face first, retraces the drag of his hand through his hair, while she settles her weight over his thighs, reaches down to take him in hand as she kisses him, tugs lightly at the curls over his nape.
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[personal profile] tender 2021-09-01 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"I missed you," is a nonsensical, silly thing to say, but she says it anyway, smiling into their kiss. She's had him close to her since the moment she crossed the room to his bed, but she can still pretend that the handful of minutes in which they rearranged themselves is a significant amount of time.

There is some temptation to draw this out. Just as there had been temptation to stay tangled side by side, or to have let him wind her up a second time.

A question, posed so softly against his mouth: "How long could I touch you like before it was too much?"
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[personal profile] tender 2021-09-02 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
"I have all night."

Something said like a promise or a proposal, her voice dipping honeyed over all night.

Except she doesn't want to take all night for this. The slow slide and twist of her hand continues on, no break in the rhythm, but the shift of her weight over his thighs as she slides forward by degrees is telling.

"Would you like that?" is a softer question. Not so specifically about the act in question, but a quieter, prompting thing.
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[personal profile] tender 2021-09-02 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Here is something of note: Derrica has stayed longer in Loxley's bed than any other partners' in quite some time, and they are not nearly finished with each other.

And here is something else of note: There is a way of this in which no one shares anything vulnerable. But they're trading something between them. Is the noise Loxley makes akin to how Derrica had shuddered apart over him? Maybe.

Or maybe not. They've only just begun this exercise, after all.

The yes is all there is for some time. It's permissive, so Derrica obliges him without hesitation. She leans in to kiss him, open-mouthed and firm, as her hand draws up and down in smooth, repetitive motions. Her chest meets his as she crowds in against him, hand in his hair tightening and loosening by turns.

"What else would you like?" comes in a murmur, breaking the exchange of gasping breaths between them. Derrica asks this directly against his mouth in an almost-kiss before her lips move farther, find the high point of his throat to kiss there as she touches him, as her thighs flex against the grip of his palms.

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