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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 22, 2014 0:12:28 GMT -5
When he returned, he made good on his hint of more kisses. Loki then rested his head beside hers and played with her hair for another moment, but his hand gradually stilled.
"…Teja?" he said softly.
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Post by Teja on Sept 22, 2014 0:14:00 GMT -5
She turned her head so that her forehead touched his for a moment.
"Yes?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 22, 2014 0:22:04 GMT -5
"Do you need me to look like this right now?"
By now he assumed that she probably had a strong association between his real shape and the number of times she'd found him collapsed on the sofa panting from the heat, and he didn't want to spoil the moment any further than their moments seemed fully inclined to spoil themselves, but it was worth at least asking rather than assuming after everything that had happened these last few days.
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Post by Teja on Sept 22, 2014 0:24:17 GMT -5
"Uh, no?"
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 22, 2014 0:33:32 GMT -5
He kissed her again- tenderly, gratefully- as he dropped his glamour, and stayed with his face to hers and his eyes closed for a long moment afterward.
"I only just realized," he said, a little ruefully. "I'll never be able to do this when I've ascended to the throne…"
He began kissing down the side of her throat.
"Touch me... please…"
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Post by Teja on Sept 22, 2014 2:58:02 GMT -5
Perhaps it was having just made love, but she seemed more open and alive at his touch than was usual. She gasped, throwing her head back and pulling him down closer to her.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 22, 2014 23:23:25 GMT -5
He reverently kissed the hollow between her breasts, reaching for her hands and bringing them to the base of his horns, one on either mismatched side of his head.
"Before too much time has passed, I'll never have this again..."
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Post by Teja on Sept 22, 2014 23:29:46 GMT -5
"Oh, Loki." Her chest tightened; she felt the inevitable pull toward him, the feeling of guilt at the prospect of abandoning him, the feeling that he needed her and that was too big a need for her to consider anything else.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 22, 2014 23:35:00 GMT -5
"I love you," he said, leaning into her touch. "If I am to be trapped in my own past desires and forced to remain a king... if I succeed in that prison of false need, it will only be because you once loved me in return..."
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Post by Teja on Sept 22, 2014 23:43:01 GMT -5
"Why do you make everything the end of the world," she said, a little frustrated. Tears had come to her eyes.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 22, 2014 23:47:10 GMT -5
"I'm only speaking the truth," he said. "Please don't cry, darling..."
He pulled himself up alongside her and took her into his arms against his body.
"You've seen what I would have been without you. Whatever else may happen... you have saved me."
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Post by Teja on Sept 23, 2014 0:00:19 GMT -5
"Well, this is a bad thank you-"
She'd normally have pushed him away, but given the subject matter, she felt that might not be a good idea.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 23, 2014 9:04:04 GMT -5
"Mm? And how would you prefer to be thanked?"
His effusive, rather gloomy gratitude was going to drive things off the path if he wasn't careful, so Loki made a quick grab at the reins before things got out of hand and they ended up miserable as ever.
"Or do I get to pick an alternative?"
She was so small, so soft and gently scented from her bath, against the ridges of his skin. He felt things differently in his natural shape than he did glamoured, and he needed the sense-memory of her on his body to last him a lifetime.
He cut off any reference to the real situation at hand by lifting her little hand to his lips and taking a fingertip between them, giving her an inquisitive look with a lifted eyebrow to match.
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Post by Teja on Sept 23, 2014 16:20:21 GMT -5
"Well, you could let me get some sleep," she said, but her gentle, won-over smile was expressing a different attitude.
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Post by Loki Odinsson on Sept 25, 2014 23:09:15 GMT -5
"Oh, but that's so dull-"
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