[even when she can't see it, just feel it, his smile has an instant effect on her; it's like it transfers from his lips to hers. or maybe they share it, because in some ways, it's hard to tell what separates them when they're pressed so closely — and that distinction doesn't really matter, anyway. no, what matters is that, honestly, she would be content just to stay like this.
but that's not what he has in mind.
and — she's certainly more than content with that, too.
it's not a sense of urgency that comes to her, exactly, as he works intently, because she's learning the value of time, and it's not want, because of course that had never left — but it's heat. it's her senses steadily becoming overwhelmed, eyes sliding closed so she can focus on that, surrender to it. it's her own pounding heart and breaths becoming harder to catch, and her hands, empty, tightly grabbing fistfuls of sheets. it's being brought to a place she'd tried to seek out with others in his absence, and while most of that had been fine, done what it'd needed to do, it —
hadn't been this fucking good.
something in her, one last bit of sense, maybe, tries to say something to that effect, but in the end, it's a gasp she's able to manage, and a half-formation of his name.]
no subject
but that's not what he has in mind.
and — she's certainly more than content with that, too.
it's not a sense of urgency that comes to her, exactly, as he works intently, because she's learning the value of time, and it's not want, because of course that had never left — but it's heat. it's her senses steadily becoming overwhelmed, eyes sliding closed so she can focus on that, surrender to it. it's her own pounding heart and breaths becoming harder to catch, and her hands, empty, tightly grabbing fistfuls of sheets. it's being brought to a place she'd tried to seek out with others in his absence, and while most of that had been fine, done what it'd needed to do, it —
hadn't been this fucking good.
something in her, one last bit of sense, maybe, tries to say something to that effect, but in the end, it's a gasp she's able to manage, and a half-formation of his name.]