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No. But I did get a contract. Just someone who wants out of the Down. He's staying with me and we mostly keep out of each other's way. Kind of an insomniac too, though.
I'm just going to remind you that if you do want to keep giving me shit about my boytoys I can and will just start talking to you about them in detail.
[ and he's pretty sure south would feel worse hearing about them than he would talking about 'em! ]
I'm just going to remind you that if you do want to keep giving me shit about my boytoys I can and will just start talking to you about them in detail.
[ and he's pretty sure south would feel worse hearing about them than he would talking about 'em! ]
Ragging on your type doesn't actually discourage you from anything, that's just us having fun. This is me actually discouraging you from something.
[ except not really, because he'd just tell her no and know she would listen if it really did mean anything to him. he's still just playing, and having some fun of his own at her expense, since she's so much more squeamish about this than he tends to be. ]
I'm picking up doritos as a part of an actual test to check if your girlfriend is in a coma, we left normal behind a bit ago.
[ except not really, because he'd just tell her no and know she would listen if it really did mean anything to him. he's still just playing, and having some fun of his own at her expense, since she's so much more squeamish about this than he tends to be. ]
I'm picking up doritos as a part of an actual test to check if your girlfriend is in a coma, we left normal behind a bit ago.
[ it's a good question, one wash doesn't blame him for having. even if his attitude is petulant and frustrating, and wash understands that pietro doesn't really mean it as a question as much as he means it as a self-important gotcha. he's going to answer was if it was a question, anyway, with the kind of infinite patience that only comes from a man who's spent far too much of his life grappling with self-important little bastards just like pietro. ]
It's a tool. Like many tools, it's imperfect, but not using any is worse. Its not just a way to get me to stop. The fact that it exists might make it easier for you to let go, to trust me, to give into instinct just a little more.
[ a shrug. ]
There's no shortcuts. If you're brand new, or even if you aren't, some things are just going to be messy. [ he gestures between them. ] If that's what you want, then that's fine. Safewords don't work for everyone, and I've had worse than you.
[ much worse. but clearly pietro is inexperienced enough that wash feels the need to at least make sure the tools and options are known to him. so that at least he has the option to consider them and dismiss them rather than just barreling staight ahead with nothing in sight.
he keeps watching pietro play with the rope -- partly interest, just to keep learning the way he moves, he fidgets, committing all of it to memory. partly to make sure that he doesn't start fraying the rope. another part just because when he knows that pietro is clearly uncertain about being restrained at all, letting him handle it more might be one way to help ease his mind into it, on some slight, subconscious level. ]
It's a tool. Like many tools, it's imperfect, but not using any is worse. Its not just a way to get me to stop. The fact that it exists might make it easier for you to let go, to trust me, to give into instinct just a little more.
[ a shrug. ]
There's no shortcuts. If you're brand new, or even if you aren't, some things are just going to be messy. [ he gestures between them. ] If that's what you want, then that's fine. Safewords don't work for everyone, and I've had worse than you.
[ much worse. but clearly pietro is inexperienced enough that wash feels the need to at least make sure the tools and options are known to him. so that at least he has the option to consider them and dismiss them rather than just barreling staight ahead with nothing in sight.
he keeps watching pietro play with the rope -- partly interest, just to keep learning the way he moves, he fidgets, committing all of it to memory. partly to make sure that he doesn't start fraying the rope. another part just because when he knows that pietro is clearly uncertain about being restrained at all, letting him handle it more might be one way to help ease his mind into it, on some slight, subconscious level. ]
[Wash's explanation doesn't initially sink in for Pietro, and he doesn't understand it, how having a word would help him let go or ensure more trust. They're concepts that seem too oppositional for him to make sense of, not without taking the time to think it through, which he's disinclined to do. Twisting the rope through his fingers more tightly, what he does consider is choosing simply because he thinks it would be pointless. That he wouldn't use that word until he's too far gone to remember it as he's said, and then there wouldn't be a stopping point, if they establish "no" and "stop" don't mean that. And maybe that's what Wash wants him to get out of this, maybe it's something completely different, but it's what Pietro latches on to, fingers starting to shake more.]
I am not... ready for that.
[He looks away as he says it, like admitting to some other limitation he hadn't thought about. He can't give up that much control, not now, not yet.]
I am not... ready for that.
[He looks away as he says it, like admitting to some other limitation he hadn't thought about. He can't give up that much control, not now, not yet.]
And then you started it again by bringing it up with me. Its what you get.
I can literally tell you the exact address of any taco place we've been to in the past year. Which is many of them. But I think Sombra just likes having a taco finder that isn't my brain.
I can literally tell you the exact address of any taco place we've been to in the past year. Which is many of them. But I think Sombra just likes having a taco finder that isn't my brain.
[ wash watches him, analytical as always, his eyes moving up from his fingers twisting and working and fidgeting with the rope and up to pietro's face. there's a discomfort and uncertainty there, and wash isn't quite sure if pietro understood everything that he's trying to communicate to him about this, but he is thinking about it. maybe not in depth, but he is hearing him, listening, thinking about it, enough to admit that they may have brushed up against something else he's not ready for, and that's still good.
he makes some quiet sound, reaching out to cover pietro's shaking hand with his own, though his grip quickly slips down to his wrist. he doesn't stop him from fidgeting with the rope, pietro's other hand is still free to do so. its meant to be steadying, grounding, but he's already come to expect that pietro doesn't seem to appreciate those gestures in themselves -- so he couches it in something else, leaning in, drawing pietro's hand up to his mouth so he can bite at the pad of his index finger, watching him through lidded eyes as he tongues against it. ]
Alright.
Then we can keep doing this. Messy as it might be. [ a quiet rumbling purr against his fingers, his tongue lazily wrapping around his index finger for a moment before pulling his head back. ] I gather you might like it better that way.
[ and like wash said before, he's dealt with worse. stubborn, uncommunicative little shitheads. pietro may not know what he wants but he understands he wants something, willing to even ask a question about what a safe word might do, to listen, to give an honest answer. there's more than enough here for wash to work with, to see just how far they can get. ]
he makes some quiet sound, reaching out to cover pietro's shaking hand with his own, though his grip quickly slips down to his wrist. he doesn't stop him from fidgeting with the rope, pietro's other hand is still free to do so. its meant to be steadying, grounding, but he's already come to expect that pietro doesn't seem to appreciate those gestures in themselves -- so he couches it in something else, leaning in, drawing pietro's hand up to his mouth so he can bite at the pad of his index finger, watching him through lidded eyes as he tongues against it. ]
Alright.
Then we can keep doing this. Messy as it might be. [ a quiet rumbling purr against his fingers, his tongue lazily wrapping around his index finger for a moment before pulling his head back. ] I gather you might like it better that way.
[ and like wash said before, he's dealt with worse. stubborn, uncommunicative little shitheads. pietro may not know what he wants but he understands he wants something, willing to even ask a question about what a safe word might do, to listen, to give an honest answer. there's more than enough here for wash to work with, to see just how far they can get. ]
Mostly, yeah?
[ perfect memory, likes learning shit to occupy his brain, likes to do things with his hands. it however, used to living off of rations, so its not like he makes anything fancy for himself past his protein shakes and whatever else he might need to maintain his bulk, but he's an entirely capable and functional cook, surprise. much like he can braid hair, embroider, and a bunch of random assorted skills. ]
[ perfect memory, likes learning shit to occupy his brain, likes to do things with his hands. it however, used to living off of rations, so its not like he makes anything fancy for himself past his protein shakes and whatever else he might need to maintain his bulk, but he's an entirely capable and functional cook, surprise. much like he can braid hair, embroider, and a bunch of random assorted skills. ]
How do you think Felix actually got decent food in him when he was all fucked up. Not that he'd actually eat anything I would give him, it was mostly a matter of having strategic leftovers so that he could eat them while feeling like he was stealing them from me.
[ felix sure was interesting for wash to learn to manage. ]
Do you two even have groceries in your place?
[ felix sure was interesting for wash to learn to manage. ]
Do you two even have groceries in your place?
Edited 2023-08-03 20:32 (UTC)
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