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Jan. 21st, 2015 11:52 pmWHO: Korra and Hei
WHAT: Two crazy kids catch a movie. This thread is about a millimeter deep.
[ A new Mover. Faster Nuktuk! Kill! Kill! The title alone doesn't bear thinking of. Scorpions crawling around in his boxers sound more fun. Hei has no idea why he agreed to go. But Korra assured him it wasn't a four-hour epic, and that if he got too bored they could slip away. With reluctance, but aware of certain unpaid debts of boyfriendly attention, he agreed. ]
[ Since Yin's return, he knows he hasn't been spending as much time with her as he ought to. Too busy setting up living arrangements for his friend, trying without words to bridge the gap of three inexplicable years, to make sure she's safe and -- yes, happy. Because she's wasted eerily away since they've been apart, a dull-eyed washed-out husk of herself. Too Doll-like to fill him with anything but dread. ]
[ The past few weeks, he's compensated by paying her steady attention. Until she understands that he's not going anywhere, until she feels entitled to his time as a friend should. He encourages her to listen to radio broadcasts for events, so she'll be prepared with suggestions about what they might do. He gets her audio books in cassettes, a small, ornately-carved zither to play tunes on, practices his increasingly-spotty German on her, gently coaxes her out to eat all sorts of unthinkable things: arctic hen testicles, jelly of turtleduck, thousand year old eggs. He's not sure the outings make a lick of a difference. But last week, Yin was actually the one to initiate their always-brief, one-sentence conversations, rather than the other way around. Hei takes that as a good sign. ]
[ Tonight, the air carries a chill, and Korra is sunshine temperature, a little waft of summer walking at his side. Hei lets his hand curl around hers, tucking them both with a habitual air into his coat pocket. Also with a habitual air, he scans the street as they drift through the crowd, checking ambush positions, logging exits and hideaways, with the practiced nonchalance of an ex-Syndicate op. Everything looks fine. ]
[ By degrees, he allows his tension to thaw, until it is no more than a small shard lodged in his guts. The theater lies ahead, its marquee of lights boxing in the words Nuktuk like the moral of a Sunday sermon on a church sign. A knot of people wait outside; families jawing amiably, children squealing, teenagers boiling over with hormone-driven energy, giggling and jostling one another. Surrounded on all sides by normal, Hei feels wariness tugging his brows like needle with a thread. But Korra's scent is a sweet tickle in his nose, her fingers delicate, yet comfortingly strong in his, and her soft prattle laps richly at his ear, grounding his scattershot senses. ]
[ Squeezing her hand, he edges in closer. His voice is wary, interest hidden under a hard shell. ]
Is this the theater where they use real butter for the popcorn?
WHAT: Two crazy kids catch a movie. This thread is about a millimeter deep.
[ A new Mover. Faster Nuktuk! Kill! Kill! The title alone doesn't bear thinking of. Scorpions crawling around in his boxers sound more fun. Hei has no idea why he agreed to go. But Korra assured him it wasn't a four-hour epic, and that if he got too bored they could slip away. With reluctance, but aware of certain unpaid debts of boyfriendly attention, he agreed. ]
[ Since Yin's return, he knows he hasn't been spending as much time with her as he ought to. Too busy setting up living arrangements for his friend, trying without words to bridge the gap of three inexplicable years, to make sure she's safe and -- yes, happy. Because she's wasted eerily away since they've been apart, a dull-eyed washed-out husk of herself. Too Doll-like to fill him with anything but dread. ]
[ The past few weeks, he's compensated by paying her steady attention. Until she understands that he's not going anywhere, until she feels entitled to his time as a friend should. He encourages her to listen to radio broadcasts for events, so she'll be prepared with suggestions about what they might do. He gets her audio books in cassettes, a small, ornately-carved zither to play tunes on, practices his increasingly-spotty German on her, gently coaxes her out to eat all sorts of unthinkable things: arctic hen testicles, jelly of turtleduck, thousand year old eggs. He's not sure the outings make a lick of a difference. But last week, Yin was actually the one to initiate their always-brief, one-sentence conversations, rather than the other way around. Hei takes that as a good sign. ]
[ Tonight, the air carries a chill, and Korra is sunshine temperature, a little waft of summer walking at his side. Hei lets his hand curl around hers, tucking them both with a habitual air into his coat pocket. Also with a habitual air, he scans the street as they drift through the crowd, checking ambush positions, logging exits and hideaways, with the practiced nonchalance of an ex-Syndicate op. Everything looks fine. ]
[ By degrees, he allows his tension to thaw, until it is no more than a small shard lodged in his guts. The theater lies ahead, its marquee of lights boxing in the words Nuktuk like the moral of a Sunday sermon on a church sign. A knot of people wait outside; families jawing amiably, children squealing, teenagers boiling over with hormone-driven energy, giggling and jostling one another. Surrounded on all sides by normal, Hei feels wariness tugging his brows like needle with a thread. But Korra's scent is a sweet tickle in his nose, her fingers delicate, yet comfortingly strong in his, and her soft prattle laps richly at his ear, grounding his scattershot senses. ]
[ Squeezing her hand, he edges in closer. His voice is wary, interest hidden under a hard shell. ]
Is this the theater where they use real butter for the popcorn?
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Date: 2015-01-23 04:14 am (UTC)[ I am a dumb man-child, he thinks acidly, following her into the black gloom of the theater, specks floating in his vision, obscuring his view of the back of her shiny head. Popcorn flings itself like pudgy butter-slathered suicides from his bag as he weaves between narrow aisles and treads carelessly on peoples' feet. They shuffle into seats near enough to the rear wall that his ears won't bleed, and he settles warily, stretching out, working his long legs into a soft pretzel of approximate comfort. ]
[ In the dark, previews flash across the screen. A miasma of awful effects and wooden dialogue, low on quality acting and high on cheese. Hei pays half a mind to it, tossing kernels in his mouth and chewing slowly, He'll never admit he finds these schlocky movers more palatable than the state-of-the-art, ultra-HD and surroundsound of his world. He doesn't miss the way they'd magnify explosions and gunfire and gore. In the early days, it meant hours of sitting on his hands so no one could see them shaking. Hours of gnawing on the inside of his cheek to try and keep himself grounded because It's not real. He'd learnt, with a bit of geeky research, that IMDb was his friend -- and learnt to skip premiers where he knew the content would feed triggers. ]
[ This isn't triggering. It's pitiful -- all hokey dialogue and tinny sound-effects. ]
[ It doesn't matter. The popcorn is delicious, the angle of their seats is near-perfect for repetitive scans, and Korra is close enough that if he wants, he can lift a hand to curl his palm around her delicate nape, to feel the warm beat of her blood. He doesn't. But he can feel his prickliness seeping away, bit by bit. ]
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Date: 2015-01-23 04:32 am (UTC)The one thing Korra hates about movers - and she goes to them so infrequently that she always forgets - is the expectation that you'll keep still. Pro-bending matches are all about jumping out of your seat and cheering wildly, but you're not supposed to do that in the theater. As interesting as she finds the (okay, yes, EXTREMELY hokey) previews, she can't help jittering her leg. Then the mover starts and Bolin appears.]
There's Bolin! [She whispers this excitedly to Hei... And is promptly shushed by the woman sitting next to her. Oops.]
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Date: 2015-01-23 04:58 am (UTC)[ A dryness tugs at his lips -- more ironical than cutting. He's not sure what he finds more amusing. The way Korra gets shushed -- or the energy rising in gleeful bubbles from her skin like uncorked champagne. An energy that reminds him of the teenaged girl he'd met in the City. All vibrant and sprightly, full of an almost kittenish charm, an innocent curiosity fed in equal parts by playfulness and boredom -- yet he'd felt the charge of her maturing sexuality and been both intrigued and disturbed by it. ]
[ The movie begins. Feeding himself handfuls of popcorn, Hei gives himself over to the narcotic of entertainment. Or whatever its equivalent is. The storyline is bad. So bad it's almost good -- at least once, he surprises himself with a fleeting smile. For nearly an hour he is diverted, only tangentially aware of Korra next to him, his eyes unblinking with the focus of someone whose sense of satire is tickled more than his boyhood funny-bone. But as the movie goes on, relocating to a painted backdrop of Laghima's Peak, the balance changes. ]
[ He remembers Korra's battle with Zaheer. Her poisoning, the dark weight of her illness that nothing could lift. He grows more detached from the events onscreen, considering the details with a critical and interested eye, glad that nothing he sees resembles the events of real life. The action on the screen disturbs the edges of his mind, but doesn't draw him in at all. ]
[ Yet, after a beat, almost unthinkingly, he reaches out to touch Korra's wrist, the curve of his fingers a soft question mark. ]
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Date: 2015-01-23 09:23 pm (UTC)Even if, yes, okay, he's not very good at the actually art part. Regardless, she's happy for her friend, and the popcorn is good, and Hei is a warm, solid presence at her side.
The touch on her wrist makes her glance at him, curious and bordering on concerned. In the dark, it's hard to get a read on his mood and whether there's anything more behind the touch than simple whim. She leans over to whisper in his ear.] What?
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Date: 2015-01-23 10:03 pm (UTC)[ But then, she's had three years to heal from the piling disasters of the past. For him, it's been closer to one. ]
[ He doesn't say anything, On impulse, liberated by the darkness, he leans in. Kisses the concern reshaping her sweet little face -- brow and then mouth. A silent It's nothing. Or at least, nothing worth dampening that fizzy excitement of hers. ]
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Date: 2015-01-24 12:04 am (UTC)She leans into the kiss, taking his bottom lip between her teeth. Sorry, Bolin, this is much more interesting than your mover.]
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Date: 2015-01-24 12:28 am (UTC)[ He keeps his hands to himself. But he doesn't stop the kiss until he's tuned in in that familiar, excessively sensitive way, until he can feel Korra's breathing and heartbeat alter, in sync with his own stiff attentiveness. Only then does he draw back on a soft inhale. He's lost a few moments of incomprehensible dialogue in the lull. He doesn't care. Moving his hand off hers, he slips it around her ribcage, up under her arm, fingers spidering her breast. Tugging her closer. ]
[ His gaze returns to the movie. He feeds popcorn into his mouth with the other hand -- but his concentration forks between the B-Grade drama unfolding onscreen and the warm, delicious clasp of his and Korra's bridged bodies. ]
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Date: 2015-01-24 01:07 am (UTC)It's not something they've done here, furtive public displays of physical intimacy. In the City they'd done it all the time, everything from enthusiastic public make outs to fucking on the table at his cafe to fingering her while strangers all but watched. They only got away with all of that because they were nobodies in the City; just two horny people who couldn't keep their hands off each other. Korra's body ripples a little against him... She's not really paying attention to the movie anymore. She's a little distracted by his hand and memories of the kinky things they haven't been able to do since leaving the City.
She should push his hand down to a more appropriate place. Instead she rests her own hand on his thigh, almost high enough to be level with his crotch.]
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Date: 2015-01-24 01:36 am (UTC)[ No prizes for guessing which side wins. ]
[ He pays attention to little of what is playing out in front of him. Finishes his two bags of popcorn, and his drink, while his fingers tickle under her breast, weigh it in his hand, squeeze it lazily and rhythmically. Full and soft and warm, the nipple a hard little Hello across his palm. He tugs it, tweaks it in that way she likes, as he dips his head to kiss her again, letting it take shape from languid impulse into something greedier, his tongue a lewd delicate delving into her mouth. ]
[ His other hand, now unencumbered by snacks, rests on her lap. He traces nonsense shapes across her thigh, fingertips climbing with an idle purpose between her legs. What a pity she never wears skirts; it's too easy to picture the material riding up, exposing her calf, her knee, and a smoothness of thigh. But this is better, the obliqueness making them both simmer and stew. His palm splays across her leg, thumb skimming the line where her thigh meets her groin. Teasing the plump shape of her sex beneath the material of her pants in idle whorls, just the barest sweeps of pressure and friction. ]
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Date: 2015-01-24 10:09 pm (UTC)This is crazy, she tells herself, even as she feels him getting hard beneath her palm. Anyone could recognize you! The press would have a field day if they caught her getting freaky in public. But that's the thrill.]
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Date: 2015-01-24 10:37 pm (UTC)[ He ignores it, feeding on Korra's giddy excitement, transmitted through her wicked little hand, her body seeming to unroll in one long heat-flush, his lips kissed by the warmth of her skin. He nips delicately at her plump lower-lip. Gnaws her jawline, sucks in the earlobe, then bites it. He worries at the skin, the way he might her nipples, while below his hand drifts higher, tracing her waistband, then knuckling into her trousers. He wedges it between cloth and skin, cupping her mound, feeling the coarse curls and soft flesh through her underwear, a fingertip skating across, through the wetness seeping down her center-line. ]
[ It's cramped, and awkward, and the maneuvering room leaves much to be desired. But this isn't about finesse. It's about testing how much she'll let him get away with. ]
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Date: 2015-01-24 11:47 pm (UTC)Go slow.
[Don't tease, or do anything that will make her noisy. She's resisting the temptation to unzip his pants and jerk him off here in retaliation, so really, he should be considerate.
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Date: 2015-01-25 12:07 am (UTC)[ Even so, he doesn't go further. Just gives her a friendly wolf of a smile, a flickering curve against her lips. For a long moment he just makes out with her, kisses butterflying hungrily yet sweetly through soft palate and curling tongue, his erection a tight ache in his jeans, his body feeling the press of Korra's skin-warmed clothes more profoundly than nakedness. Meanwhile his fingers lick the edges of her panties, the fabric moist and warm. Carefully avoiding brushing her clit, pushing the soaked gusset against her with two fingers, letting her feel her own slickness and the almost frictionless pressure. ]
[ The darkness of the theater is its own freedom and trap. He wants something like this, but more, better. Not much better, though, because this is damn good, so close to perfect, in its imperfect way; they are close, the smell of buttery popcorn and Korra's flowing heat, her small movements that waft her scent to him, heavy forests and rain and the more complex delicacy of her arousal. ]
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Date: 2015-01-25 02:18 am (UTC)And he is behaving himself. As hot as this is, as good as it feels, it's not building up to anything or filling her with (much of) an aching need. She could go like this for hours.
BOOM! Korra jumps as something explodes — on screen, fortunately, but ow, fuck.]
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Date: 2015-01-25 02:35 am (UTC)Want to get out of here?
[ Face it. The movie isn't that engrossing. Not as much as Korra, who sparks a fire that begins as a prickling at his nape and is slowly sweeping through the rest of his body. A few bright memories from the City begin to resurge, and he sifts through them like a dragon hoarding its shiniest trinkets. How would she react, if he coaxed her for a knee-trembler in the back-alley of the theater, or in one of the bathrooms? ]
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Date: 2015-01-25 03:16 am (UTC)Let's go.
[She'll tell Bolin she had to go to the bathroom. Grabbing his hand, fingers sticky with her, she gets up and squeezes past the other people in the row, ignoring their protests that she's ruining the BEST PART OF THE MOVIE!!!1!]
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Date: 2015-01-25 03:49 am (UTC)[ It's too far a walk to the alleyway. Besides, he'd scoped it out earlier in anticipation of their visit. Overflowing with fetid trash, rotting crates and buzzing flies. Not the sort of venue that will brighten Korra's love-light any. Instead, gaze skating around the periphery to ensure no-one sees them, he tugs her toward the restrooms. Part of President Raiko's re-campaign has been to sign deals with Future Industries for the construction of handicap-accessible exits and entrances, special parking and modified restrooms. ]
[ He tugs her into the closest one, with its deep shallow sink sticking out of the wall. Marginally clean -- apple-green paint on concrete walls, dull white tile, the overripe aroma of lemon cleaning solution. He ignores all that, too busy locking the door, then chivvying into Korra until she is scrambling her bottom onto the sink, nudging his own body between her thighs so she parts them. ]
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Date: 2015-01-25 11:57 pm (UTC)This is crazy. [She just wants to make sure he knows this. They aren't hormone-addled kids anymore; they should be too old for fucking each other silly in a public bathroom. And yet here she is, wrapping her hand around him and coaching him to full hardness, her only excuse being they haven't had sex in a couple of days. (You realize most couples DON’T have sex every night, right? Asami had asked her once, and Korra had been surprised. They didn't do several-hour, multi-orgasm marathon sessions every night, but they both got off at least once before going to sleep, usually. Except when Hei was distracted by Yin, and Korra distracted by Asami.)]
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Date: 2015-01-26 12:58 am (UTC)[ The idea that they're absolute degenerates with no self-control, though? Completely inaccurate. Oh, sure, when they first got together, they went through that phase every couple goes through where they couldn't keep their hands (or other parts) off each other. But these days? Between Korra's Avatar duties, helping Yin settle in, carving out a space for Asami, Hei's day jobs and his more illicit late-afternoon-shading-into-evening jobs, they're lucky to get five straight hours of sleep, much less five straight hours of anything else. The fact that they still manage, on such crunching schedules, to sneak in a late-night nookie, is just a reminder that their physical life ranks pretty high, and that they're determined to keep it flourishing. ]
[ Is that so wrong? ]
[ Hei doesn't think about it. His breath sings low and jittery in his lungs as she closes her hand on his unzipped erection, the thick column of flesh straining upright as she strokes it to a red-flushed hardness. Dizzy, a grateful rasping coming from his throat, he gathers her in past his heavy coat to curl around his body, to inhale that warm scent that is always leaking from her pores, sweet and spicy like dewy earth, to coax her lips apart and taste her slipping tongue, to mouth at the honey-dark smoothness of her skin. ]
[ Gnawing at her thrumming pulsepoint, a playful vampirism, he breathes, ]
Not as crazy as that time at Cafe Satine...
[ He still, in moments of wry satire, likes to tease her about how crazily she'd come that time -- a gorgeous neuromuscular meltdown, a muffled shriek that he was half-sure the whole building would hear. ]
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Date: 2015-01-26 01:17 am (UTC)I can't believe we didn't get caught. [She rubs her palm around the head of his erection, smearing precum all over as lubricant.] Remember that time I blew you outside the bar, while my boss was looking for me?
[The ache of those early memories — the emotional whiplash that was Hei post-sex, and in that case in particular how he'd disappeared for a week right after fucking her brains out in that elevator — that all has passed, leaving Korra with only the heated memories of how fucking sexy everything was. Surprising and exciting and new.]
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Date: 2015-01-26 02:13 am (UTC)[ But then, there was something crazy-liberating and good about having no hope and yet making the most of the moment anyhow. The humid intensity of it, a quivering jelly of want and satiation, of being allowed to connect without repurcussion, no agendas or strings or double-dealing, come back to him with specific vividness now. His skin burns with a consuming itch that could be self-consciousness -- or gratitude. ]
I remember. [ His gaze slews across hers, a dreamy blue warmth surrounding ironic black pinpoints. A beat, then, wry and quietly honest, ] You weren't my type, you know. So innocent. Practically a child.
[ He draws in a sharp breath, her palm a delicious friction across his wet cockhead, and as if magnetized, all the heat in his body pours there to meet it. His hips jerk restlessly into her touch, while from waist-up, his movements remain almost languid, palms tracing her up under her blouse, then down into the waistband of her pants, while he rubs his stubble-grained cheek against the side of her face, moving to kiss her ear. ]
[ Softer, almost thankful, ]
I tell myself ... I should've kept away from you. Except if I had, I'd be dead by now.
[ Metaphorically -- but also literally. Which might still happen. But he's fucking lucky he got to carve out a solid decade of borrowed time. A decade full of misery, ambivalence and death -- but also brightness and naughty games and spirits and travels and delicious sex just waiting to be had, whenever he stops taking himself seriously for long enough. ]
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Date: 2015-01-26 02:36 am (UTC)I'm glad. [Murmured against his neck as she keeps stroking him, slowly, almost methodically, like she doesn't want to miss any opportunity to pleasure him]
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Date: 2015-01-26 03:30 am (UTC)[ He doesn't want to. He likes this. Likes being this close, seeing each detail, taste and scent and sight untranslated. You don't need a vocabulary for a woman who creates her own -- a soft and spinning orb, a tangle of glittering drives and desires. ]
[ He wants to say something, but words are stuck in his throat. Korra's breath moves in and out like tide, mingling with his, washing in and out of his ears. Her palm around his erection is exquisite, a gliding stroke of down-and-up that makes him ripple and shudder against her. But good as it feels, he wants more. One-handedly, he scrabbles for the clasp of her trousers, his movements rough and determined. Tugs off her right boot, letting it thud across the tiles, before yanking the right leg of her pant down. He leaves it unrolled inside-out, dangling haplessly, one gorgeously long leg exposed, swathes of fabric clinging to the other, until she's bare-assed on the edge of the sink. ]
[ The fluorescent light is bright and stark, so that her dark skin is almost olive-toned, each hair of her black brows and eyelashes distinct, the tuft of curls between her thighs glinting flat and decorative. With a half-smile, Hei descends back butt-on-heels for a moment. Kisses all over her parted inner-thighs, soft, intent kisses followed by loud, smacking ones -- the kind that usually make her cackle. Meanwhile the fingers of his right hand slide down, combing through her pubic hair, smoothing and spreading them, before he skims the pad of his thumb across the slick tip of her clit, peeking enticingly between her plump lips. ]
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Date: 2015-01-26 03:47 am (UTC)She keeps a tight grip on the sink, and even goes so far as to push herself off it, just a little, shifting some of the weight from her butt to her arms. They did not make the lip of the sink with cunnilingus in mind. The fools.]
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Date: 2015-01-26 04:16 am (UTC)[ Her scent tickles alluringly at his nose, rich and sweet and heady. Much as Hei likes the whole package of her -- eyes-mouth-tits-ass-legs-hands-arms-feet -- he has a feeling he's grown painfully, permanently fixated with what's between her legs, with the way he can make her hot and slippery in minutes, with how she's so sensitive and eager. Idly, he wonders if he can persuade the girl to shave every now and then for variety, extra sensation, and how smooth the skin might feel against his fingertips and tongue. ]
[ But the request has no place here -- not right now. Leaning in, he kisses her there, hungry and openmouthed, wet delving licks from the cleft of her ass to the soft delicate clit, swirling slippery shapes around it with his tongue. Then he gives up on licking, on playfulness in general -- and sucks, popping her clitoris between pursed lips, drawing on that part of her with a gentle yet relentless pressure, like he's trying to give her a hickey there. ]
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