Well he was definitely not going anywhere then even one of the snakes looked a bit miffed he had even suggested it. Now she was getting all serious and talking about herself and sounding flattering and he smiled at her and nodded. "It is fine. I don't think anyone is really good at these sorts of things. I know I am not." He felt honored she was taking a chance.. at least that is what it sounded like on him. "They are amazing kisses."

Ah that certainly explained the horrible date with whomever it was. Then he laughed with her. "In a really sideways way I guess it did." Eyeing her carefully and musing with a little hum. "Though.. it also sounds like the sort of friend that is going to grill you for details on how the date went. Won't that be fun?" Grinning like the Chesire Cat suddenly even if he didn't have the slightest education on Lewis Carol. Watching her face carefully to see how she was going to react to that news.

Amazing kisses.

She fidgeted and cupped one blushing cheek with her free hand. "I'm sorry, I fear I am shameless with kissing. I enjoy it probably far too much." That was a painful truth to admit, if only because of how flustered it made her.

"I don't know.. I think you do just fine. Enough to get me all giggly."

She mused about Carol herself and all thoughts led in horrible directions. The woman was as relentless as a bloodhound when she caught a scent. Spilling all of the little details of what had transpired over the night was a nightmarish thought. She caught sight of his cheeky grin and squeezed his hand.

"If you are not careful I will wait until the next time I see you at a function to tell her all of the little details!" It was an empty threat and he probably knew it, but at the very least it allowed her enough humor to grin right back at him.

His face leaned into her hand slightly even if it was gloved, he wanted to make it a point to be comfortable with either. "Oh? Well I enjoy your kisses too." Shameless. She used the word shameless.. Just what was he getting himself into? Lots and lots of kissing if he was a betting man.

"Your opinion may be currently biased, but still thoughtful all the same." A chuckle escaping him and he leaned his face into her hand more. He returned the squeeze and flushed hotly before grinning back at her. "I would then be forced in very exacting detail recount how you attempted a backflip and the um, extraordinary pleasant sight of your flattering lingerie." Two could play at that game! Even if it was all in casual fun. 

This.. Carol sounded like a dangerous woman. Someone to be avoided like the Black Plague if he had any say over it whatsoever. "I do hope that whatever you tell her is more flattering in regards to myself then what actually happened. I kind of feel like I broke even overall." He admitted as guilessly as ever. Not that he doubted Andrea and her ability to be nice one bit. He wanted to make a good impression on Andrea's friends given his own pool of such was drier than the Mojave. "

"You wouldn't dare!" His threat brought out a burst of laughter, which was enough to distract her from the thought that he had seen that set of under wear twice now.

Before she could think too much on it she found herself getting distracted by him nuzzling her hand like he was. It was getting her all bothered again. She took a sip of her cold water.

"I will absolutely only tell her the worst of all the things that happened." She giggled, as she reached to steal back her hand from him, and his as well. If he was allowed to nuzzle, then so would she! She pressed a soft kiss to his knuckles, propped up her elbows on the counter and pressed his hand to her cheek.

"Everyone will know what your under wear look like as well!" She stuck her tongue out at him for good measure.

He laughed with her and nodded in agreement with her assessment. "I wouldn't, but it won't stop me from remembering the moment fondly. Both of them." That was certainly no lie! If he ever forgot he wouldn't be able to live with himself probably.

"You wouldn't dare!" He replied emphatically as he laughed.  An eyebrow quirked as she stole away the source of affection so she could kiss his hand. Smelling of whatever soap she had present in the shower, he hadn't been particularly picky at the time. Fingers rubbed her cheek lighty and his thumb stroked aolong the soft flesh softly. 

"Oh?" Well she went there and he wasn't one to lose out on any kind of a fight! "Would you be describing the underwear or the lack thereof?" Sticking his tongue out rat back at her like the brats they were both apparently pretending to be. He leaned forward and gently pressed his forehead to hers and closed his eyes a moment before lifting his chin and kissing it. 

This was cute. They were cute. He most certainly was cute, and it would be her undoing.

"Both." She spit back sassily, leaning into him rubbing her cheek. Then he leaned in further and her breath caught in her throat. A head bump, and a kiss. Her cheeks still felt hot.

"If you are not careful, I will start kissing you again." Did that count as a threat? She wasn't sure, but it was certainly something she could do. He was well within kissing distance and she had only just warned him about how much she liked it.

Her snakes were trying their hardest to wriggle around to the front, curling down the arm of his she still had trapped. She ignored them for the most part, too busy staring into his eyes and imagining exactly what kind of brown they were.

She was absolutely gorgeous and it was as perfect a moment as he could think of. It was comfortable and warm and intimate and words he really didn't know the true meaning of. All of that and he still couldn't help, but banter. The live wire of nervousness still causing some discord and venting itself as humor. "Oh so you did see something then?" Regretting it almost as fast as he said it with the fires that renewed in his face. It appeared they wouldn't be going away completely so long as he was near her. The intensity of her gaze sending a tremor along his spine. Embarrassed he pressed his hot cheek to hers and nuzzled into her. His fingers caressing what skin was allowed as she kept him close.

"One of the most wonderful punishments I could conceive. Though I am not sure I could handle any more of your kisses right this moment." It was all far too raw, too real for him to endure. His usual emotional and mental defenses having long since worn out and been destroyed. He was sure once life got in the way of their togetherness and he had a moment to himself he would spend it quietly secluded away in his home for awhile.

Feeling her snakes try to get in on the cuddling action he chuckled softly into her ear, whispering in a muted tone. "Your snakes do seem to enjoy attention." He was rather fond of them himself.

Oh, he was such a tease! His breath tickled her ear while his fingers danced across her skin. It was too much. Every restraint was being tested. He was nuzzling in past her boundaries, and she was at a loss for what to do. She didn't want to cause him undue stress from jumping straight back into frenzied kisses, and yet she didn't want it to be over so soon. She was attention starved and only now just realizing in.

Perhaps a bit selfishly, she snaked her arms around his shoulders and buried her nose in his neck in return. Flashes of the previous night sprang up and she giggled against his hot skin. "They like you as much as I do... we share feelings."

Her lips found a pulse point and she kissed it, waiting to see his reaction.

His eyes fluttered in a surprised blink at her reaction. Now even more physically in her clutches. Emotionally there had only been the slightest doubt. "Hmph, think it would be more since I spent a few hours cuddling them, all of them." Chuckling as she giggled since it hadn't bothered him inn the slightest. He found it rather cute actually. Granted he had given the snakes as much of a benefit of the doubt since they had been as buzzed as her. 

He let out a laugh as she kissed his neck and he shivered at how pleasant, but not overwhelming it felt. Goosebumps spreads across his skin and a smile formed. Of course the position also meant his face was easy access for the snakes and he found himself laughing at the rubbing and licking they assaulted his face with before he gently pet them with his hands to calm them down and give them the attention they craved. "It appears I am surrounded. Is it too early to surrender?" The fact she could probably feel the steady thrum of his elevated heart rate through his pulse didn't do wonders for well anything, in this situation.  

 

"Far too late to surrender. I have you in my clutches now and I refuse to let go."

Feeling bold, she pressed her lips back to his neck again, but this time she introduced the warm, wet texture of her tongue. She had never tried to give someone a mark before, received a few sure.. but never tried. She didn't even really think it would leave a mark on him due to his healing ability. She was still going to try though because she could distinctly remember how nice it had felt.

If she recalled correctly in the books it had said that one was supposed to use equal amounts of sucking, lips, tongue, and teeth. She tried to follow along as close to the instructions as she could.

Eventually she relented and sat back a little to look at him, with her arms still draped over his shoulders.

"Was that alright?"

Those words spoken in another context would have probably been terrifying. They still were with the effect it had on his heart. She probably hadn't intended for them to sound so nice, but they had. There wasn't anywhere else he would rather be. In her 'clutches' indeed!

Then she bypassed his request in a most wonderful fashion. The ever present free spirit that rang in his soul was proud of her even as she wrecked a delightful path of destruction on his nerves. A little twitch in his arm, an odd muscle spasms in his back momentarily. It was a delightful dreadfulness of wonder in those precious few moments. Afraid after a moment hurting her snakes his hands attempted to rub her back instead, not that they got far with the tangle of needy snakes attacking his hands.

She pulled back to look at him and ask them those silly words his first reaction through all the flushed pleasure was to laugh with the oddest smile on his face and give a nod. Hugging her to him he held his face to hers again for a moment. Nuzzling his soft flesh to hers. He was a bit terrified of how strong his attraction to this wonderful woman was. As he reeled to consider it words he had spoken earlier to someone in need surged to the surface and he internally laughed 'Enjoy the Moment.' A chunk of his tension wilted instantly and he nuzzled his cheek into hers. Words filtered through the hazy patches of his mind. Finally the only words to fit the moment came and he uttered them in a whisper. "Vy moi mechty.. You are my dreams."  

The shiver that raced down her spine momentarily led her to believe Zeus had spontaneously appeared in order to strike her down where she sat. His dreams? She hugged him tighter, not wanting him to see the moisture that had collected in her eyes.

That was the sweetest thing.... It bypassed everything else and went right to her heart strings. The man didn't sleep for crying out loud! She was his waking dream?

Struck mute for the moment, she set about disentangling herself from him and the snakes from him, before taking his hands and trying to gently corral him back to the couch with her.

Once sat, she would work to get them both comfy, then squirrel herself in under one of his arms and wrap her own comfortably around his waist. She'd lay her head on his chest, ear tucked in just so, so that she could hear his heart beating. "If I am your dream, I will always endeavor to be good one."

She snuggled in, wrapped around him in a comfortable embrace.




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