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Blade ([personal profile] daywalkingblade) wrote2012-08-17 12:57 pm

First Date (Tag M-)

The black muscle car rumbled into the gravel parking lot of what looked to be a bar/saloon in the middle of nowhere, upstate New York. The place was south of Rochester by about forty miles. Above the entrance, a tacky red neon sign read "The Roadhouse". There was no one hanging around outside, but thee were several cars and motorcycles. It was pretty quiet for what one might expect of a bar, at least from the outside. As the car pulled to a stop, Blade glanced at his passenger. This was going to be...interesting. She was too pretty and far to classy for a place like this. Hell, she was probably too stunningly beautiful to be in this car with someone as rough around the edges as Blade. But here they were. People would notice as they went into the bar, but nobody would say anything. Of that fact at least, Blade was certain.

"We're here. Stay close, and order whatever you want. The food's actually pretty good, and the drinks are better. Once I get some information on where to find some suckheads, we'll be out." He flashed a little bit of a toothy grin. "Guess you could say this is the closest to a "date" portion of this outing as we'll get."

They both pushed their doors open and stood up out of the car. The parking lot remained silent. Hunters and mercenaries were probably inside drinking quietly, enjoying a bit of peace. There were the occasional loud, rowdy drinkers - usually the mercs - but most just wanted a place to rest and get information before the next big job. Also, most didn't trust the night enough to be drunk out in it. Blade knew the bartender inside. A good woman by the name of Ellen who really knew her shit. It was why he liked coming here. Of course, he knew the bartenders in most of the Roadhouses around the country. It was a bit of a chain, but not in the corporate sense. When a place was named "The Roadhouse" in some back country nowhere, it was a kind of secret sign to all hunters and some mercenaries that this was a safe haven and a good place to exchange information and get jobs. They were also neutral zones. Any who dared cause any trouble in these kinds of places was blacklisted, and that was as good as being fired in this line of work. In some cases, it was a death sentence because it also meant no assistance in any job ever again.

"You ready?"
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-08-27 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
What M- sees in Blade's eyes eases an ache that both does and doesn't belong to her. How deep are injuries that chase a person from one life to the next? So lasting she doesn't even realize it was there until the tension eases. The hunter may only have this moment to give, but this moment is exactly what she needs. It lights up her eyes that catch the moonlight even when he should shadow them. Love may be a long and complicated thing, but the affection here is real and sweet in its simplicity.

"All right," she answers, savoring his smile and trusting his instincts.

The hint of the sharpness of his teeth, the warm and wet of his mouth have her moaning with gentle urgency long before her makes his way down between her legs. Her inherited body is responsive, and she is grateful that he is willing to explore it. Glad for the moments when she can reach and touch him until he pauses to catch her gaze. Her breath catches in her throat for a moment before coming out in a low moan.

At first she can hardly move or speak, then her body tenses and relaxes, soft murmurs of his name on her tongue to encourage him when the touch is just right. His earlier touch help him in the pursuit of her pleasure, making it something that she feels build like waves until she almost drowns in the pleasure in gasps and moans.
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-08-28 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
The first thing M- truly registers as she starts focusing on the world outside of her own body is the little flicker of Blade's tongue over his lips. It sends a pleasant thrill through her that's a much subtler echo of the feeling that still sends gentle ripples through her. The next is the faintest glimmer a of a rime already melting in a ring around the edge of the clearing. Oh. Well. That was something to remember in the future.

She focuses on his face for now, the smile where he is so obviously pleased with himself but also honestly pleased. Desire stirs immediately, as if she weren't still panting gently to catch her breath. Of course, that hunger is every bit as much about wanting to see him in such a state as getting more satisfaction for herself.

She shifts her weight forward so she can slick over to him, looking for all the world like a cat about to pounce. "It was exquisite. And I find that I am a greedy thing. My own pleasure is not enough to slow me for long. Not when I still want yours."

She installs herself in his lap, arms draping over his shoulders so she can take her time. M- claims his mouth with utter confidence and tenderness. Entirely aware of how their bare bodies fit, the kiss is both tease and entirely designed to serve it's own purpose.
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-08-28 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Fast enough."

It would be impossible for her to doubt exactly what those moans mean, and she has no intention of ignoring them. Only reveling in his closeness first. His need pressed against her continues to ask rather than demand as his hands cause her to arch into their path, hair falling back away from her face. Yes, she needs him, too. Just a little more. The right trigger. Like his question.

What is a name if it cannot be given or taken or used? Nothing and everything. A name, then, for him and for her. She brushes her lips against his ear gently. "Maeve." A deep shudder runs through her after she says the word. There is no telltale little flare that says she's lying when she gives him the name. Only the knowledge that it is true.
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-08-29 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Each time he says her name it's like being touched. No, touched is the wrong word. It isn't intimate enough and too physical. This is different, raw with the newness, but utterly necessary because of that. Is this what everyone feels when their name is spoken? No, of course not. Names have power, yes, but whatever she is makes them so much more. How else would she find that word, that name, fit so well? M- may be what she uses for others for the moment, but Maeve is hers as much as Mab belonged to the woman she was before. New but still the same.

"Blade," she answers, so close to him it is almost a kiss. The power is there in the name he gave her, lesser than before, but she is sure that for a moment he will feel something like that stroking.

With very little effort and shift of her weight, she offers him entrance. There is so little to be afraid of in the increased intimacy provided by the slow roll of her hips that has him inside of her compared to the naming, it seems only natural. There is perhaps a mercy in the difference between the body and the mind, for the action is entirely pleasurable and without pain.

"Blade," she breathes with the next roll of her hips, going slow as he suggested. The fact they are both built so clearly to be capable of a more athletic performance is clear, but she left the need to show off in the farmhouse. They'll have more time to try to find out what else her body remembers soon enough.
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-08-29 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
There are moments and ways to set magic. Rituals for the people who function under the need, and acts for those with a wilder magic. Sex is one of those acts, and while the list is long, it's one of the least destructive when used with good intent. Tonight, with the naming, there's no doubt that is a part of making it real. Her name will stick, and they will both be able to walk away no more bound by the magic of the naming than by what their emotions leave them to. She is not a succubus, nor is she any of the fae equivalents. Freely given, freely taken.

The sense of coiled muscle and barely contained control is far more intoxicating than the scrape of his fangs against her skin ever could be. Tonight is not a night for blood,and it is his choice to be careful and slow that is so sharply sweet she can't help but gasp like laughter, a very different sound from what she made during the fight. Every movement of her hips in his hands, her legs curled around him for leverage, her hand that range over his skin, invites him in and welcomes him to the next touch. She offers no threat to him.

The very fact of her head falling back, drawing all their hair over her shoulders and exposing all the skin from her throat to her breasts to him as he kisses down is an act of trust. The way he rewards her skin has her moving more deeply against him with just he barest hint of increased speed. Enough to make the friction where their bodies join sing along her nerves. Muscles she's never quite had cause to use before play over his body, tightening and responding to her instincts, surprising her with the ease of response.
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-08-30 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
She doesn't quite make the sound again, detouring as she finds line of his shoulder with her mouth, kissing and nibbling in equal measure until she reaches his neck. There, she simple nuzzles, letting her chilled breath caress his skin. She might have stayed there, but he says her name, and gets another gasping laugh as it sends a sprawling bolt of sensation through parts of her that are anything but physical and all too real. Her hands tighten against his skin, pressing her chest to his so that her might almost feel the rapid beat of her heart beneath her breasts.

"Blade!" Soft and carrying, her exclamation is about all she can manage before the kiss. The repetition of her name is utterly dizzying and narcotic. His lips, the taste of him on her tongue, his smell and touch all hep to steady her so she can offer him all she has to give for the moment. Her name, affection, and desire range through the light brushes of her hands over his chest to the every careful movement below.
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-08-31 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
The increasing rhythm of his hips does wonders for her. Maeve would be scrambling for more of him if he weren't so good at giving it to her on his own. It would be so easy to call what comes over her an animal abandon, but it's the most human thing in the world to give over to the need and want of the flesh with someone you care for. Perhaps human is the wrong word, but it will have to try encompasses that shared drive for inhuman and variously human things to feel connection and satisfaction.

She draws him into herself over and over again as his mouth offers her skin so many sensation, before she feels that beautiful moment of culmination. She can't gather enough to yell his name, but "Blade" tumbles breathlessly from her mouth with a depth of power that she couldn't manage if she tried to. Only here, only now, lost in a moment where her conscious mind can't interfere can she spend it and the burst of power that has them surrounded by a fairy ring of ice as Maeve collapses against him, holding him tightly through the shuddering waves that was through her.
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-08-31 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
She wraps herself around him for just a little bit longer, nuzzling him softly when he is unable to finish his sentence. She knows as much as she can from the other side of the equation. He found something in her she didn't know she had, and she won't forget that anytime soon. There's something about the man in her arms that says the same thing happened to him, and he's unexpectedly vulnerable for it.

Which leads to the question of whether or not Maeve finds herself equally so. She doesn't. If anything whatever she found in the naming and the sex set a part of her free. Nothing she has words for, but the flair of power and the fact the stars seems to literally shine in her eyes for moments afterwords says a lot. It's the name, and the choice. She'll learn that later. Magic for her kind is about choices and words and need and things that teeter between being entirely substantial and ephemeral. Which is what made this perfect.

"I'm glad you wanted me, Blade," her voice is soft, a note or two lower like something had settled in her in this moment. The way she says his name has changed in some unmeasurable way, like she's forgotten how to say it like she doesn't know it's something with power. Maybe she doesn't. It's hard for those new to that kind of power to remember and learn how to put distance there. Especially when they've never been instructed in the need for such a thing.
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-08-31 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
She grins against his shoulder, kissing and nibbling along the line when he says he still wants her. Maeve imagines he'll get to satisfy that want again at some point in the near future. Perhaps neither of them were the kind to assume permanent bindings, but there is something here worth revisiting. She's hardly going to stop talking to him. If nothing else, her social life would be a sad remnant of what it was, but there was more. Of course there was, or she wouldn't have trusted him with this secret or found the name when she did. Blade was stuck with her for a while, at least.

Then he thanks her, and the shiver that runs through her is almost alien. Little tendrils of connection happened with every thoughtless thanks in the city, but that was absolutely sincere and something with meaning. She isn't sure if she's sad or grateful for that moment and connection. Does he feel it or is just something that is for her alone to notice and and keep? Would he gnaw his leg off to get out of that particular trap if he knew? Her eyes are sad for a moment, but then she catches herself and smiles. "You're welcome."
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-09-01 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
"In a few different ways, really. Both the first and the going outside." She smiles slightly glancing over the ice that's much slower to melt than the first frost. Well, it certainly brings an entertaining element to the possibility of fairy rings, didn't? She explains some of it in exchange for the connection he made without knowing. "Though I think being outside is part of why it was possible. It's different here than in the city."

The ease of that moment strains just slightly. Small lies hurt, big lies feel like they can kill. What would answering 'nothing end up being? Take too long and it's clear that there's something bigger she's holding back. Tell a lie that hurts, and he'll notice it this close. She picks her words carefully. "Just a moment when something fell into place. Not all the almost memories and realizations are beautiful. None of them are worth ruining this moment."

There. Not a lie at all.
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-09-01 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
Maeve smiles back at him, considering his thought and offer. She certainly wouldn't mind the escape, but there's a reason she always returns to the city. Something in her wants to stay where there are so many people so close, even with all the risk and toxicity that it exposes her to. She could take his offered house, and stay for a time. She'd enjoy it, and find some answers, but time would call her back. New York called to her.

"As much as I want to agree with you, I think the house is better in your hands. A quiet place for the time between hunts. If you take it, and need someone to check on the place when you disappear into the hunt, I think it could be good for me."

Maeve assumes he trusts her that much instinctively. The moment he let his guard down completely something changed. That isn't why she assumes. Something about the night has reminded her of what it was when she used to have duties. A time when she was trusted because there was no other choice. That may not be the case anymore, but she walks away knowing she is still capable though she is a child compared to the woman she was. That is no small victory.

Her smile is small, but sincere this time. "Complicated still seems to be the forerunner on that particular definition."
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[personal profile] cold_as_snow 2012-09-02 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
It is good that they are who they are for the moment. Too many ties would force her to break them, and the only possible exception to that rule had decided to break the ties himself. Something waits in her, but that something needs time. A day, a week, months, years? A century? It's impossible to tell other than that anyone who expects too much in the meantime is all too likely to be disappointed or hurt.

"I didn't want to assume that I was welcome where I might not be." There's a clear teasing to her voice as she says it, but an honesty, too. She will take the connections that Blade offers, but will not make any unwelcome demands of him.

She looks down at him and presses a line of kisses along his cheek before catching his lips. "Sounds like a good plan to me. We can explore the fun side of complicated when that happens."

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