Date: 2022-09-27 12:56 am (UTC)
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[ She meets him halfway and that helps in a way he wasn't expecting. Makes it feel more mutual, less like a chore they've both been set and need to complete before they can go their separate ways and never think about it again. She reaches out and Carver ducks his head so she can touch his hair. She doesn't wrench it, doesn't try to get him off balance or shove a knife in his throat, so he figures that's a good start and so he puts his hands on her hips, squeezing faintly, and kisses her back. He matches her pace.

It's been a while, aside from a few drugged moments here, but he's not bad at kissing. ]

Date: 2022-09-27 03:05 am (UTC)
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[ It helps that she doesn’t hesitate, either. Just goes for it, tugs him back and puts his hand on her breast so it’s easy to follow suit. They’ve still got all their clothes on, Carver far more than her, and it turns out he does like kissing sober. Who knew?

He drags his free hand over her ribs and then curls it around her hip. Good, steady pressure. Not enough to bruise—he’s good at that part, remembering the rules. And she kisses him back harder so he does as well, dragging his teeth against her lip.

It’s okay, he thinks. Maybe. ]

Date: 2022-09-28 02:02 am (UTC)
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[ This whole thing could have been awkward and rough, a chore to be completed. He'd thought it might be, when it started. But then it shifted. She makes that noise and he presses against her, slipping a hand under her shirt to drag against bare skin. To feel if she has scars like his.

He leans back just enough to unclip his hood, shrug out of his coat and let it fall. He likes layers, armor. Even with the heat back home, he needed that. Pope gave them the closest thing to uniforms and he's held to that in the aftermath. And then he shrugs out of his shirt, because there's really no point in being coy. He takes a moment to watch her, take her in the same way she's taking him in. Under all his layers, Carver knows he's strong. He keeps fighting fit because he has to, and they were eating good at Meridian before all the bullshit went down. Enough rations to go around, no flirting with starvation. But he's got scars too, and she's probably smart enough to know what caused them. A dappling of old, pocked scars from an IED over his belly, a slash from a knife over his collarbone. And, of course, the deeper scar over his heart from the kid's scythe, with his pendant hanging over it.

These things happen.

Carver shrugs, and leans in to kiss her again. Hard, this time. ]

Date: 2022-09-29 02:02 am (UTC)
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[ She doesn't hesitate to touch his scars, to run her fingers over the surface of them like she's trying to learn him like topography. Before this place, not many people had. He had Riley before the world ended and any number of drunken hookups he barely remembers. And then there was after, and that was just that. He closed ranks with his family. He doubled down. There were a few people on the road, but not many, and not for a few years now.

Then, this place. And now, her.

She doesn't bother being coy, or holding back. She just wants, and reaches for him, and she's breathing hard when she breaks the kiss. Carver cants his head, watching her.

He's breathing a little harder too. Caught up in it, despite himself. He doesn't even care about the mirror anymore. ]


Ride me.

[ He didn't plan this out at the start. Not really. If it just happened, then it wasn't anyone's fault. But this -

This, he wants. ]

Date: 2022-09-30 12:19 am (UTC)
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[ She pushes him back and Carver lets her with a grunt, hissing out a breath as she takes him in hand. This is happening. They decided, didn't they? It's not something he would have done back home, even if by some miracle they'd managed to meet. They just would have killed each other. ]

Mhmm.

[ He doesn't jump the gun as she teases him, just reaches up to cup a hand to the back of her neck and the other to her breast, squeezing. Holding her close as she decides what she's going to do, how long she's going to drag it out. He holds, his eyes bright - and utterly focused on her. ]

Date: 2022-09-30 01:16 pm (UTC)
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[ There’s no hesitation from her, no delay. She knows what she wants and she reaches for it. Puts her hands on his chest, against his scars, and rides him just like he asked. She’s wet, and hot around him, and her thighs are strong. He hisses out another strangled breath, leaning forward to drag his mouth against her shoulder. Muffling the noise he might have made otherwise. You have to be quiet back home or the dead will hear. ]

Fuck.

[ He kneads her breast again, running his free hand along the planes of her back. She’s strong, and solid, and that feels better than he thought it ever could. It’s simple and so little is in this place. There are no drugs, but he wants her. The honesty of it nearly floors him and he hisses out another wordless curse as he jerks his hips up, matching her rhythm. ]

Date: 2022-10-01 10:53 pm (UTC)
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[ Like before, she just goes for what she wants. No hesitation, no game. She wants, and so she takes, and there's something so honest and joyful in it that Carver can't help but get swept up in her wake. He braces his hand against her back to steady her, hissing out a curse. Goddamn, half-muffled into her shoulder.

Goddamn.

He works her breast as they move together, pressing his thumb against her nipple and working it stiff. It's been a while since he's done this sober, or done this with someone he chose, but turns out it come back quick. Turns out it comes back just fine. ]

Date: 2022-10-02 11:18 pm (UTC)
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[ She sets a pattern, changes it, settles or speeds it up, and Carver just rides with her. He thinks of river tides and what it feels like to get swept up in someone else's wake - a sensation he hasn't felt with another person for a long time, or at least not without drugs to speed it all along. But there's something raw in the way she moves, honest, and Carver can admire that even as he drags his mouth against her shoulder and shudders under her. Falling away to the physical. He can feel her speeding up, the way her thighs clench. Proof that it's getting to her, that he's not the only one fighting for control.

Riley was like that, he thinks absently. Always reaching for something real, committing fully. Carver was always the one who held back. Afraid of losing control - ironic, really, when that's all he ever did out in the world. But that's not a good thought for right now and it slips away before it can become something, slips away into nothing and Carver squeezes her breast again before shifting to catch her chin in his hand and pulling her in for a rough kiss.

He's close, is the thing. But he'll hold. He'll hold as long as he can. ]

Date: 2022-10-11 05:42 pm (UTC)
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[ There’s no hesitation in what she does, in how she moves. She runs her nails down his chest, catching against old scars, and Carver makes a strangled noise as he grabs her hips to match her. He can feel her tense up, the control and then the moment it slips, and still she keeps going. She holds the pace and what can he do except follow suit? Earlier he might have balked at what she says, worried about the practicals, but condoms don’t seem to be a thing around here and she feels good around him in a way that very little does these days.

Carver runs his hands up and down her sides, bracing himself, bracing her, and just lets go. He’s quiet when he comes, muffing the sound against her shoulder. He runs his fingers along her back, tracing out the ridges of ink and scars alike, and just breathes.

For a moment, there are no words. No words at all. ]

Date: 2022-10-13 12:15 am (UTC)
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[ It slows. It steadies, moment by moment, and Carver gets his breath back. He rests his head against her shoulder just to steady himself, running his fingers along her back. Finding and tracing tattoos in an absent sort of way, wondering vaguely whether they mean anything or if she just liked the shape of them. Wondering how she earned her scars. Some of them echo his own, a familiar toll of violence, and he wonders about that too. Her life and the shape it took before she ended up here, all the things he hasn't had a chance to ask or even wonder at.

She's strange. An enigma, in many ways. But she feels good right now and he likes how she feels on top of him, how she traces out the shape of a scar on his chest.

These things happen.

He squeezes her hip briefly, a fond gesture he wouldn't have made except for the endorphins, and lifts his head to watch her. She's relaxed now. They both are. And he feels settled in a way he very rarely does these days. ]

Date: 2022-10-19 11:05 pm (UTC)
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[ He puts a hand on her hip almost without thinking about, rubbing vaguely. It feels like the thing to do, even if he doesn't move to lie down next to her. He can't do that, can't let his guard down more than he already has. But for a moment, he just exhales and leaves his hand on her hip. Just for a moment.

Just for a moment, as the adrenaline fades.

It felt good. They didn't hurt each other.

Then he shakes himself. ]


I need to go.

Date: 2022-10-20 12:16 pm (UTC)
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[ He watches her for a moment, giving her hip a final squeeze, and then reaches for his clothes. It was a business transaction, to start. He's not certain what it is now, if anything. A moment, certainly. But she has a nice smile and she's relaxed, seemingly content and with no reason to be wary of him.

That's nice. It won't last, but it's nice. So it goes. ]

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