Although they were continuing to speak, Tarin was no looking up at her. Not at all. Part of Lee very much wanted Tarin to look at her.

The other part was grinning because Lee could only assume that Tarin wasn't looking at her he couldn't without risking what Kevin had caught them doing on the couch earlier.

'All of this'? Tarin was talking about an almost finished children's puzzle that they had only started working on in an attempt to behave while Kevin was awake as being productive?

Well, they had, mostly, behaved since sitting at the table. Kevin had even been out sitting with them for a while without being grossed out.

Lee wouldn't call it productive, but the puzzle had done its job.

When Lee suggested that they just head to bed then, Tarin finally glanced up at her. Only to drop his eyes back to the puzzle a moment later.

"God yes, please…”

Almost before the words were out of his mouth, Lee was up out of her chair, starting to move around the room to shut things off for the night. Which really didn't take long; they had gotten quite quick at this, especially since Kevin had gotten home from Texas.

Finished, Lee turned to Tarin. "Ready?"

The moment Tarin answered Lee, she was up out of her seat and it took pretty much every ounce of Tarin’s willpower to not just get up and head towards his room. Surely if he did that Lee would follow, right? He didn’t really trust himself to actually go that direction and not go to her though, and they needed to at least get out of the living room.

To that end, Tarin stayed where he was and watched as Lee was moving around the living room, shutting things off, getting things ready for the night. It was such a simple thing and it didn’t take very long, but Tarin couldn’t pull his eyes from Lee the whole time she was going through the motions. They’d kind of gotten all of this down to a science since Kevin came home from Texas, but it still took just a minute and then Lee was asking if he was ready.

”Uh huh…” Tarin said, smiling as he got up from his chair and moving to where Lee was, grabbing her hand and heading down the hallway towards his room, pulling her gently along as they went.

Quickly enough they were in the room and Tarin stopped, gently shutting the door before pulling Lee to him and kissing her as intensely and thoroughly as he’d been wanting to kiss her for the last couple of hours.

When eventually they needed air or whatever, Tarin pulled back and rested his forehead on Lee’s, arms wrapped around her waist as he smiled down and said, very softly, ”Still tense?”

Tarin wasn't moving as she moved around the room and sitting things off for the night. Glancing over when she was about half finished, Lee saw Tarin sitting there still, just staring at her.

Blushing slightly at the look in his eyes, Lee bit her lip as she turned to finish what she was doing..

Only once she was finished and asked Tarin if he was ready did he stand. Immediately grabbing her hand and pulling her with him out of the room. Toward his bedroom.

This is what would have happened that night regardless of whether they had been able to keep their hands off of each other. Maybe not Tarin actually pulling her along the hallway, but they would have ended up going to bed together, most likely doing the same things once they got there.

Doing things. In her eagerness, Lee had almost forgotten. Again. And that wouldn't work very well for the actual 'going to bed' part of the night. So as Tarin closed the door behind him, Lee paused and shut her siphoning off.

Just in time for Tarin to pull her close for a kiss.

Lee didn't know how long they stood there kissing. It could have been a minute, could have been an hour. It didn't matter, because all Lee could feel were Tarin's lips on hers, his arms around her waist holding her close, his body pressed against hers. And that was all that was important at that moment.

When Tarin finally broke the kiss, Lee smiled up at him, her arms wrapped around his neck. "If it gets me more of that, then yes…" Lee murmured.

By the time they’d gotten back to his room, that kiss had needed to happen. And happen it had, for a long time. After all the tension that had been building throughout the night, it just felt so good for Tarin to stand there with his arms wrapped around Lee, holding her close, feeling her body pressed against his as she stood with her arms wrapped around his neck.

Tarin loved it when they stood like this, forehead to forehead, and as Lee spoke he smiled and leaned back down for another long kiss, this time letting his hands slide up under the back of Lee’s shirt, fingers trailing over her skin as he sighed into the kiss.

Lee had asked earlier if this thing between them was bad, if it was a problem that sometimes the two of them couldn’t seem to stay away from each other. Tarin had been sincere when he said he couldn’t see a way it could be bad. Right now he hoped it stayed this way always. It could be inconvinient, and the last few hours had been…difficult, but it was all just so good. The way they connected, the way that none of this ever seemed to get the least bit old.

This time Tarin didn’t even really break the kiss, simply mumbling against Lee’s lips as he spoke, ”More is good…” he had planned on maybe taking the whole tension thing a little further, but now that they were in here…this was plenty, and more of this was very good

Now that they were touching, kissing, Lee wasn't sure she could stop even if she wanted to.

Not that she wanted to.

Even standing there, with Tarin leaning his forehead down against hers, almost felt like there was too much space between them. There really wasn't, their bodies were pressed close against each other.

At that moment, Lee didn't want to even move, unless it was closer to Tarin. And, Lee thought with a smile, she wouldn't have to until the morning.

They had the entire night, even if they should sleep for some of that time.

When Tarin leaned down further to kiss her again, Lee eagerly returned it, her arms tightening around his neck. Just moments later, Lee's hand had slipped up into Tarin's hair, holding his head close to hers.

Lee didn't even realize at first when Tarin mumbled against her lips. She just tightened her hand in her hair. A moment later it clicked in what he had said. Well attempted to say.

Lee tried to nod even as she deepened the kiss again. More was good.

And so, they stood there and kissed. Nothing else for the moment, and Tarin was absolutely content to stay just like that for the time being, especially as Lee’s hand slipped up into his hair. By now she had to know what she was doing with that…

They couldn’t get any closer with how they were standing, with how Lee was holding his head to hers and Tarin was more than happy to oblige, his heart starting to pound in his chest as his hands slid back down her back to her hips.

Lee’s hand tightened in his hair and Tarin melted a little against Lee as she further deepened the kiss, his breath catching slightly as a slightly strangled little sound escaped him.

They had all night, but hadn’t they just decided by mutual decision that more was good? They’d barely made it through the door before they started kissing, but the room wasn’t all that big. The bed was really only a few feet away and despite the fact that his last functioning brain cell and short-circuited the moment Lee’s fingers had tightened in his hair, Tarin started moving them in that direction.

Lee shivered as she felt Tarin's hands running along her skin. Even though it had been months, months that they had been together, months since she had actually realized that she could shut her siphoning off at times like this and still be able to fall asleep with Tarin that night, it was still such a strange sensation to fell him touching her without feeling herself siphoning as well.

She never jumped or flinched when they were together like this as she sometimes did in other situations when she wasn't siphoning; he better be touching her right now.

But it was still strange, and goosebumps rose on Lee's skin after the shiver.

Then she heard that sound, quiet though it was, escape from Tarin and she shuddered. She loved making Tarin make that sound.

What Lee wasn't expecting was for Tarin to start moving while they were still wrapped up in each other and kissing. In her surprise to suddenly being off balance, Lee clung to Tarin tighter, her hand tugging his hair slightly as she moved.

Though, if her brain had been actually working, Lee should have expected Tarin to move at some point. When things were like this between them, when simply breaking the kiss felt like too much space was between them, they generally did move toward the bed without warning or looking.

Maybe moving hadn’t been the right idea. Lee stumbled and Tarin stumbled when she stumbled and for a second there was the potential that they might end up on the floor again. They didn’t though and Lee managed to get her balance by clinging to Tarin tighter and that was only good things.

He did stop moving for a minute though, there wasn’t really any hurry after all. Sleep was vastly overrated, it was still relatively early, and Tarin didn’t want to risk a fall…even knowing how much fun the last one had been.

This was almost too much in the very best way though, even if they were just kissing. Once he was sure they were steady again, Tarin let one hand make its way back up and into Lee’s hair, tangling lightly there as they kissed, his other moving from her hip back under her shirt to trail up her back, moving slowly up and down, enjoying the feel of her goosebumps and little shivers.

They’d eventually make it to the bed, and when they did there’d be plenty of time and other things to keep them distracted, but Tarin decided he’d wait for Lee to take the lead, he didn’t want to startle her agai and he’d be happy to stay like this for as long as she wanted.

Tarin stopped moving and Lee regained her balance after a moment. But the kiss didn't end and Lee didn't really loosen her grip on Tarin as they continued to stand there.

Then Lee felt Tarin's hand in her hair as his other hand slipped back under her shirt. Lee moaned softly into the kiss as goosebumps rose almost instantly over most of her body.

Even without the normal, extra sensations from siphoning, it was almost too much. Lee's skin suddenly felt almost hypersensitive. And though it had been hard to keep their hands off of each other all night, now Lee needed Tarin. And she needed him even closer than he currently was.

Finally letting go of her grip in Tarin's hair, Lee dropped both hands down to his waist, slipping under the hem of his shirt to pull it up even as she continued to shiver at his touch.

Now it was Lee’s turn to make a soft little sound and it sent a shiver down Tarin’s whole body. Knowing that it wasn’t just him that felt this way took things to a whole other level, the fact that they were both virtually helpless when things got to this point.

Was that normal or were they just different? Tarin knew for a fact that he’d never felt anything remotely this intense before in his life, but that wasn’t just the physical aspects of his relationship with Lee. She’d busted through every carefully constructed emotional wall that Tarin possessed and he’d been utterly helpless against the tidal wave of feelings that had surged forth. After so much time trying so hard to not feel anything deeply it was like with Lee everything was enhanced ten-fold.

These were shockingly deep thoughts for a brain that was otherwise struggling to do much of anything and Tarin was pulled from those deep thoughts when Lee’s hand released his hair. That was less than ideal, Tarin thought until he realized that both of Lee’s hands had moved to his shirt and were pushing it up by the hem like she wanted it gone. Well, Tarin had decided he was going to let Lee take the lead.

Moving back just slightly, still not breaking the kiss, Tarin dropped his hands and then did take a quick step back to quickly pull his shirt over his head before getting back to kissing, his hands tugging at Lee’s shirt. He’d never admit this out loud a single time, but maybe there were advantages to buttons sometimes because you didn’t have to stop kissing to remove the garment if you could just undo it all the way down the front. They’d have to make do with what they had though.

The very first night, at the bar and once they had finally managed to get home, it had somewhat made sense; the sheer desire and need to touch Tarin, to kiss him, to be close to him…

It had been overwhelming and amazing, but at the time Lee had assumed it had been because of the tension that had been building between them the entire weekend combined with just how long it had been for her.

But that same absolute need kept happening. Not every time, but it happened again, and again, and again.

Just as it was now.

Which made the slight bit that Tarin moved back to help remove his shirt, along with the breaking of the kiss, make Lee not so happy because of the space it put between them, despite how necessary both were to get what she wanted: The shirt removed.

At least it was done quickly, and Lee's hands were already running up Tarin's chest, to his shoulders, as she stepped close to him once again.

As they started kissing again, Lee felt Tarin's hands brushing against the skin of her sides as he started lifting her shirt, and she shivered again.

The kissing was amazing, holding Lee was amazing, feeling her against him as they stood there, taking their time with each other…was amazing.

There was a subtle shift now though and when Tarin had pulled away to get rid of the shirt, Lee had been the one to close the very small distance that had opened up between them.

His shirt was gone now and Tarin thought that his heart might beat right out of his chest as Lee’s hands made their way up to his shoulders, leaving their own trail of goosebumps in their wake. The two of them might have all night, but they’d already been so very patient for so very long. Enough.

A goal in mind, this time it was a bit easier to break the kiss, and breathing heavily, Tarin finished what he had started with Lee’s shirt before pulling her towards and eventually down into the bed.

Hands on Tarin's shoulders, Lee was leaning up to kiss him, goosebumps still spreading out from where his hands were touching.

At least Lee was leaning up to kiss Tarin until he pulled back again. At first, Lee tried to follow him, to continue the kiss. Until she realized he had only done so to pull her shirt the rest of the way off, over her head.

Which also meant that she had to pull her hands away from his shoulders.

Still, Lee did that, letting Tarin pull her shirt up over her head. And as her hair fell around her shoulders once free of the shirt, Lee looked up at Tarin for a moment, her lip between her teeth. "God, you're handsome," Lee murmured even as Tarin was reaching for her again, starting to pull her toward the bed. Down onto the bed. And Lee easily and eagerly went with him.

Lee didn't even give herself time to get settled or comfortable on the bed before she was leaning in to kiss Tarin again. "I love you," she whispered just as her lips met his.

Tarin was so distracted by the way Lee’s hair was falling around her shoulders as he tossed her shirt away that he almost didn’t notice when she looked up at him. He did notice though, and she was biting her lip again and then calling him handsome and it made heat spread through Tarin from the top of his head to the tips of his toes. Thank god she’d waited until now to look at him like that or say what she’d said.

Tarin couldn’t make words form as he looked at her, and as they finally made it to the bed and down into it, it took almost no time before Lee was leaning into kiss him and this time when she spoke, Tarin knew exactly what to say, whispered against her lips, ”I love you too.” he said, his hand lifting to cup Lee’s face, his thumb brushing across her cheek before his hand slid back into her hair, holding her to him once again as his other arm slipped around her to pull her close. That accomplished, Tarin leaned back, pulling Lee with him so they were now laying.

A few minutes before, Tarin would have said that there was nothing better than standing there in the room kissing…but this, he thought as the higher functioning parts of his brain started shutting down again…this was perfect.

And there was much more to come.

Lee had just been saying out loud what she had been saying, but the look on Tarin's face when she'd murmured that he was handsome made Lee grin. She'd told him that before, but maybe not enough if that was his reaction

That thought didn't last for very long. Mainly because virtually no thoughts lasted much longer when Tarin whispered against her lips and his hand came up to cup her cheek as they started kissing again.

Then Tarin's hand slid into her hair as he pulled her close against him and back onto the bed, and Lee moaned again softly as she felt the heat from his bare chest.

This was better. Still not close enough, Lee felt as she pressed herself closer against Tarin, but better. Running her hands up Tarin's sides, they came to rest against his shoulders, clinging to him, as she deepened the kiss even more.