let me step a little bolder

Isla

one bright morning goes so easy

"I'm sure," Isla whispers, pressing a sweet kiss to the corner of Ever's mouth even as his expression twists into uncertainty. Smoothing her hands through his damp curls, her eyebrow raises to hear of the things he'd tried at the House of Midnight, and gods the sight of him flustered has her wanting to pepper kisses all across the bridge of his nose. "That's my favourite kind of sex," she admits with a crooked smile, leaning her forehead against the aviator's and letting her arms loop gently around his neck.

"Don't ever feel selfish, or too much - not with me. There's nothing that could make me feel more wanted by you." Laughing softly, because there's probably a lot to unpack there (in therapy, yeah), the Remedy eventually lets out a long, satisfied sigh and tilts her head out at the surface of the hotsprings. "I don't think I'm ever going to see the rest of my bikini again," she whispers to him.

darkness always finds you either way

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!

EVEREST

"Is it?" Looking quietly delighted at that, Ever swallows as his brain slowly processes the information. Rationality is still at arm's length, but quickly there's a warm smile spread across his lips. "Well if it's your favourite I hope you won't mind me practicing?" Brushing his nose softly against hers, the aviator lets the back of his fingernails brush up and down the length of Isla's thighs before he smoothes away the invisible lines of pressure with his palms.

"Ah...that." Clearing his throat as he glances over his shoulder as if her bottoms might suddenly appear next to them wholly intact, Everest chuckles apologetically as he returns his gaze to Isla. "I don't...ever think I've used my claws like that before.' He admits, sounding a touch self-conscious. There had never been a time in his life where things seemed so urgent that careless destruction was what he'd opted for rather than a bit of patience, but gods if the need to feel Isla right then and there hadn't been so overwhelming as to swallow up everything else.

"I'll bring you over a towel once you're ready to get out." He promises before drawing her mouth against his once more.

They say the odds are stacked against us, babe
We're a cactus waiting for our desert rain

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!

Isla

one bright morning goes so easy

"Mmmmhm," Isla hums back to him, her breath hitching slightly to feel his nails skate along the back of her thighs, and though she knows there won't be a repeat performance any time soon, she can't help but arch against him in delight. "I insist on it, in fact," she says of Ever's practicing. "I know you'd never want to disappoint, so we'll have to practice a lot, don't you think?" Unable to keep a straight face, Isla's laughter is swallowed up by the kisses she presses to Ever's cheeks. (She doubts either one of them is entirely joking, though).

Following his gaze out into the steam of the hotsprings, Isla can't see any hint of her bottoms drifting anywhere nearby, and she's not at all keen to spend the rest of their time searching for them. "I liked it," she assures him, and there's just a whisper of dark heat in her words as her nose brushes against his jaw. "I'll just make sure to bring a spare swimsuit next time."

For now, though, his compromise of the towel suits her just fine, the Remedy's agreement silenced by a kiss she sinks into completely. Wishing someone might be able to freeze time but knowing better than to waste the moment on such a wish, it's with a girlish smile that she parts from Ever, the words I love you already back on her lips, even if unspoken for now.

darkness always finds you either way

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!

EVEREST

Grinning at that, Everest runs his tongue across his teeth in order to school his expression into something sufficiently serious. "Just long as we're on the same page." He says, nodding emphatically. "I don't plan to rush a single lesson." So saying he leans forward, his lips pressing against hers as his tongue encourages them to part. Deepening the kiss with a hum that seems to come from the back of his throat rather than his mouth, his hands tighten around her waist and thighs before slowly releasing her.

"A spare change of clothes is always a wise decision." He chuckles under his breath, still feeling a touch guilty not only for having torn Isla's bathing suit but also littering. The feeling was swamped by the warmth of her smile and the way his fingertips had buzzed with a reckless desire to have and take the likes of which he'd never experienced before. Despite how uncharacteristic it was, that Isla had liked it served only to reinforce the behaviour such that the pair would never go anywhere together again without Everest packing an entire change of clothes for the Remedy.

"You are the most wonderful person I've ever known." The aviator whispers softly as he drifts deeper into the springs, not at all ready to part from the Remedy despite how his fingertips were already starting to wrinkle. "I love you." He adds far more gently though at no point has he slackened his grasp of her body.

Only when being hungry began to compete in their minds with being in love did the pair depart, with Everest handing Isla a towel while using his own to help keep her exit from the springs somewhat modest.


~FIN

They say the odds are stacked against us, babe
We're a cactus waiting for our desert rain

Code blatently stolen from queen of codes, Sky!