[Schneider's lips curve up slowly, as she traces her fingertips against Vertin's lips]
Oh? Mmm, I certainly hope so. I don't know if I can always help myself, you know.
[She might push too quickly, as is her usual manner. Chase after what she wants, what she needs without looking back; mask her passion with calculating glib words, guard her heart fiercely while desperately reaching out for that warmth. Ah...but Vertin could see right through her, couldn't she? She had at a glance.]
(vertin finds she did not mind that part of schneider. her fingertips against her lips met with a soft kiss against them, her flushed cheeks betray her for a change about what she's feeling like earlier. it's hard not to be when vertin takes hold of schneider's hand to kiss the back of it first, along her fingers, her palm, slowly. the warmth in her given freely because she knows. vertin's always seen through her as their time together went onward.
as much as schneider has seen through her, her impassive expression and how she would keep others at arms length. not for her own sake, but for theirs. the timekeeper has lost, has felt, pain beyond what most would believe a child should ever feel and yet she carries on. all upon a quiet, lonely, and sorrowful path that most would be destroyed by. and yet....she's seen through with such ease, by someone who seems to understand that ache and the way vertin does not willingly let others so close.
her beating heart pounds and there's almost life in her, life which is met by schneider's touch and this warmth vertin spreads. a reward for that chase while she thinks quietly and....)
That's fine, I wouldn't want you to feel as if you must hold back.
(spoken after another kiss to her wrist, this is something new to her and yet vertin tries no matter how foreign it feels.)
[ Schneider chuckles softly, rubbing her thumb over Vertin's lip]
You are so bold, my lord. Even after so much time apart...
[ Schneider's breath hitches as Vertin's lips trail over her wrist and tilts Vertin's chin upwards. The warmth spreads through her, chasing away the chill of the storm that had reduced her to dust]
(bold or quiet, reckless or cautious, both were pieces of vertin that were there and not difficult to drag out for certain people. or in this case, schneider, who could bring out the more "lively" parts from vertin's personality. such as this part of her; bold in being affectionate as a means of not allowing that chance to think about that night. about their closeness for vertin though that went out the window on that kiss she gave schneider.
boldness is something she could embrace as tried and trued in how often vertin would put herself in harms way. the way schneider's breathing hitched didn't go unnoticed to vertin's lips treating her far more kindly than what they've both received in points of their lives. vertin's own had only been varied until recent days where things were different no matter her keeping others away. out of need, necessity. her heart and her warmth are not something she gives with ease as it's held out with care to schneider's own hands.
insistence, yes. vertin did insist knowing greed runs deep within them; she knows that's not something she can take back. vertin only finds herself eye to eye by the chin with schneider, the memory of that night fading from vertin's young mind for now. she'll still have the nightmares and there's no changing that, but vertin would take whatever she can get on that matter.
her head tilts so their noses don't bump, the kiss in it's depth catches her off guard enough for vertin's lips to part slightly. reciprocation didn't take long before those clumsy lips of hers did let loose passion while vertin melts. eyes closing and mind for now letting go again as vertin had done earlier.)
[Schneider takes that moment to deepen the kiss further, licking her way into Vertin's mouth with slow, teasing strokes of her tongue. The kiss warms her up, awakens her with heat spreading through every part of her body.
She's insistent. Greedy. She'll swallow Vertin up, take everything Vertin had to offer and give everything she had in turn. That was Schneider through and through. The often neglected youngest daughter no one looked out for, but gave her life to the those she loved in turn. Who would have thought Schneider's passion for people was often so unmatched?
Except now, with Vertin. Never before had she felt this anchored, and it's a strange feeling that pulses through her, her heart fluttering with a mixture of emotions she couldn't name. Did not want to name.
Instead, she'll chase all of that away by tugging in question at Vertin's shirt, a silent request that could be easily denied if Vertin didn't want it]
ur fine btw, sucks its been eating things lately x.x
(vertin almost wonders if she's in a trance, a daze, with how easy this comes. following what feels right, her tongues strokes is clumsy in response to schneider's own though vertin would get used to it. eventually. tonight is not that time for her and that's no problem knowing how starved they both seem.
schneider's insistence is met with vertin offering much more. her lips, her kindness, her warmth, everything. nobody would have expected such things from vertin no matter that kindness and the way she'd give affection to others freely. because they did not bother to look past that, not even to breach within vertin who refused to let others in. much less get that far. pain was something that existed in memories that vertin would always replay about her mind.
yet vertin could have never felt so at ease with just anyone else doing that, the thrum of unknown emotions. the warmth which overflows within her that vertin was unable to say what it might be. she has a vague idea, but vertin wouldn't label it for a desire to not lose this feeling next. what might be the first time she's felt something and longed so utterly hopeless for another.
her hands are shaky, there are vague thoughts and worries about vertin's back being exposed. vertin finds it easier to take that request; to remember it's schneider who had been there when arcana pointed out so gleefully that vertin's back was carved into almost ritualistic. the moon, the lines, the eye, and everything taking up the entirety of it when vertin's reaching to unbutton her shirt.
if nobody else ever again saw it, vertin would not mind. if schneider kept seeing it then....that was fine too.)
[From here, it is not something Schneider can see. But she slides her hand up over Vertin's bare stomach as Vertin unbuttons her shirt. Slow. Not slow at all. She's showing a remarkable amount of restraint; she's used to dalliances with older women who enjoy having a young woman in their bed. They didn't have affection in their hearts for and nor she them. This was different.
Vertin was someone to be treasured and she wanted every touch, every moment to reflect that.]
(vertin only pauses when her shirt is completely undone, the body exposed beneath it though not entirely is androgynous but still feminine. nothing noticeable in it's entirety while she breathes out slowly to schneider's hand slipping the rest of this button up she wore open. for someone her build there's muscle to her; nothing that her clothes would bring out. vertin doesn't have toned abs and the like, but it's evident that she takes better care of herself than most might among arcanists.
physically, anyway in maintaining what she thought best for herself. something such as learning better ways to fight without arcanum. her back, the scars there, feels the cool breeze from the environment of vertin's suitcase against it with what part had been exposed while she thinks this over. is she nervous? yes, vertin can admit it. this is....something new. a first, another first that hadn't been taken. something that she's giving and it's something precious.)
Yes, although it's because I'm not used to this, I haven't done this before and....
(vertin is....a little hellion, rebellious and mischievous when someone brings it out of her. things that often went unseen though it does nothing to change that she did want to carry on. with schneider. giving her this part of herself next even if vertin had the feeling schneider was showing restraint. restraint that she's thankful for from her. perhaps vertin knows and can see it without words when she reaches next to cup schneider's cheek again softly.
she wouldn't hate her if schneider found herself overcome by raw passion and desire, hunger for the one she wants most throughout the night. because, to vertin, she feels the same way even if she is shy in such a moment with the way her cheeks flush. nervous, but wanting.)
....even with that I wouldn't want anyone else to touch me.
(not like this, not with tender care and slowness. something meant to treasure her, vertin would do the same when given chance. like worshipping one another's bodies as they try not to rush, try not to give in to the greater need of wanting each other.)
[Schneider cocks her head to the side, her smile growing. She pushes Vertin back against the bed, straddling her as her borrowed shirt slides up her thighs]
Oh. Good. Because I'm very bad at sharing you know.
[She leans down to nuzzle at Vertin's neck, cupping her breast just so. Desire throbs in her, but Schneider is patient. They can take their time, indulge in the moment so it could extend well beyond the late hours of the night. This was sacred in its own way. She thinks she could spend her time endlessly pouring over Vertin's body, and map out her scars and the planes of her body, both feminine and androgynous all at once.
In comparison, Schneider is thinner, more petite. But still unmistakably feminine and she had always known what her strengths were once she had become old enough]
(somehow, it didn't surprise vertin to learn that. that schneider doesn't share, not in this way and how they're both stepping further. further past a line that they had crossed not long ago. the memory fresh as vertin lays beneath schneider from that push back, her cheeks flushed pink again upon being straddled. the softness of vertin's expression is a change to her usual; how she could often look as though her life is comprised of tragedy and sorrow only to have that comfort to let down those burdens.
if only for a little while to warm breath against her neck, her chin nuzzling into schneider's head while beneath her. it didn't take long for vertin to near sharply exhale. though this was new, she did reach eventually to unbutton the shirt she had given her. vertin's hands weren't as shaky as earlier but....she could agree with that. that something about this is considerably sacred for the two of them. that time spent no matter their thirst, their desire, would be spent in passion that simmers.
if tonight becomes longer than most vertin's ever experienced, then it shall be in her arms. her body surrendered and a silent whisper from it to schneider with a plea; to make her into hers no matter what may or may not be brought upon them from the future. no matter what happens whenever vertin slowly, surely, reaches to remove that shirt from her.
to memorize herself, every part of her as they lay together. every scar, every soft part of vertin's body would be something for schneider's own hands just as vertin would touch her tenderly in kind.
that's a promise no matter her not speaking it aloud.)
[Schneider shrugs off her shirt again, with a soft little sigh. How odd is it to be treated so gently, so lovingly. She leans down to capture Vertin's lips into a kiss again, hands tracing over Vertin's back reverently. It's difficult, to move so gently, with affection and care and receive it in turn.
Life had never been easy, and intimacy with others had never been in question. Only the most primal of impulses had been followed in the past but with Vertin...
Well, as gently as Vertin had held her in her last moments, she wanted to do the same. Take this love and cradle it close without chasing it away]
(the softness of schneider's skin is something else vertin memorizes, her hands tender as ever whilst resting along schneider's hips for the time being. this is new. nothing that vertin had done before and there was little freedom's she had from her lot in life, normally that is, due to expectations and the weight placed upon her young shoulders.
similarly, life was not easy and what pleasures vertin had was by being sneaky for someone as young as her. there was no intimacy or more primal impulses, but perhaps something rebellious with sneaking liqueur and other smaller things that would have certainly gotten in trouble over. the thoughts cut off with ease to schneider's lips against hers again.
the tension in her back eases to schneider's fingers roaming along scars, along what soft patches of skin existed. there was plenty of those twisted spots in the former's case; carved almost ritualistically into her. like something or someone intended to mark her for some manner of desires they had for poor young vertin. vertin who may not ever have the answers with the softest of sounds made into their kiss at the way they almost seem sensitive to the touch of her.
it's like torture, but something she wants to cradle and care for. something she never would let go of.)
[Tenderness is still foreign to Schneider. But she learns through touch and experience and thinks she can learn to like this too. She sighs softly as Vertin's hands trail over her skin and she moves closer, nuzzling at Vertin's throat with a few kisses here and there. There's a scar on the left side of her chest - a bullet wound. But that was a reminder she was now alive and breathing.]
(for a moment, vertin breathes in a bit sharply again. her throat must be sensitive from this new discovery between them; although it's not as if vertin knows her own weaknesses in such ways. as new as this experience is, she's using their slow pace to adjust. a soft sigh, a nuzzle against schneider's crown again with her chin before her eyes do soften further at the sight of a familiar scar. she knew it too well. vertin was the one that left it, although she wasn't wanting to do such a thing whenever her hand does move upward.
to rest it upon that scar where schneider's heart would have been, the touch is soft and almost sad at the memory. vertin truly did worry she killed her at that part of the night. someone that had left a deeper impression on her and understood her too well whenever vertin's fingers are slow to trace the scar. a tenderness in that and almost thoughtful in how she looks at it.
melancholy aside, it's only fitting they memorize such things from one another just as vertin allowed her to run her soft hands along the planes of her back. the skin both carved into and what few soft spots remained along it knowing even vertin's spine had been covered in those viciously violent markings that were given to her.)
....I still feel terrible for this you know, Schneider, for shooting you.
(even though she wasn't in her right mind originally, even when her senses returned after as arcana seemed gleeful and laughing. whilst vertin stared in horror no less at the damage she had done.)
(she knew they wouldn't get away cleanly, it was obvious from the start. vertin can say that about plenty things she's dealt with pertaining to her life and the way that the world is always stacking more against her. her hand is tender and soft in the way it traces along that scar. familiarity, a quiet hope that she won't have to commit to such a thing again were she able to help that as she listens to schneider. she isn't wrong. she did remember and vertin always would no matter how everything reaches to rip apart what would be those she cherishes. or in this case, the one she cherished most and longed for in that heart of hers.
at first she opens her mouth, as if to say something only for the words to die on her tongue. her hand rests beneath schneider's own over the scar and their kiss brings her away from such thoughts. there were many things vertin thought about, from questions on how she could have fallen so fast, so hard, and so beautifully to almost wondering if such a thing as soulmates could exist. whatever the answer is; vertin cannot say that she would label it either for now out of that fear this could one day be stripped away from her again.)
....and I promise no matter it, I would have never forgotten.
(to carry such painful memories is always part of her life and the way everything desires to rip asunder this young girl more. the words are spoken softly against schneider's lips before vertin leans in for another kiss. some of that desire to take initiative is there even if it's in baby steps for her. schneider does have the most experience between them and vertin never was one to rush anything. it seems that also applies toward her feelings, how her hand stays well in place against that bullet scar.
or how vertin finds it easier to bit by bit even to let down those walls; something for when they're alone, truly alone. there would be no other who may get such things from the warmth of her lips to the most tender of touches.)
[Schneider smiles, closing her eyes as she melts into the kiss. There are a lot of things unsaid hanging in the moment. Her heart is broken. Her past has been erased and the future now hangs in question. But in this moment, she can forget about all of that.
She deepens the kiss again, pushing Vertin back into bed as she cups her breast, teasing her gently. Let them go back to more carnal pleasures to lose themselves in distraction]
(between them both, there's plenty more they could have said. more than they ever could know, vertin allows herself to stop thinking. the kiss does wonders. joined lips and her arms going back around schneider in a tender embrace once she's pushed back down against the mattress. her sheets tickle sensitive skin along the scars and not that were along her back. vertin deepens the kiss further with the one she found herself longing for most in this short life she's lived. the memories stayed, both blessed and cursed as they never once left her mind.
how she makes the softest of sounds into their kiss, one hand rests itself upon the small of schneider's back and the other makes it way upward to find a more comfortable spot along her shoulders. vertin is more than happy to fall into something more carnal whenever it's her. nobody else would ever see such a sight or hear her sweetest of sighs beneath schneider.
that's something she would like to stay that way, even as her lips part slightly for schneider. thoughts are hazy, her instincts a guide and vertin finds it too easy to let herself fall to their mutual desire and craving of one another. that tonight would be long in many ways whenever they're alone.
[Schneider has always been a flame burning bright and fast, taking everything down with her in her wake. It was how she lived her life, knowing her time had been limited, long before the storm had come to her doorstep.
She thinks, she'd like to see what Vertin would do, if she tried to have Vertin burn up with her. Would she let Schneider consume her wholly? Would she try to put a hold, keep the fires at bay to extend the moment they have together?
Schneider is a little curious to see what Vertin would do. So she lets Vertin touch her with tenderness, as she deepens their kiss, her hands moving over Vertin's body, tracing over the strong, slender planes of her body, as she slips her thigh between Vertin's and presses close. Every scar, every mark she'd burn into her memory. This is all she has. She'll take everything she can]
(if given that choice, perhaps vertin would have gone with her heart. the way that it chases, the way that it longs. perhaps she would have kept it at bay, or let herself be consumed if it meant in the end they never part again. if it would mean that their lonesome souls could always stay with the one that gave them peace. her body, this affection is all that she has to give though she knows not how deep it goes and how much more deeper it'd only grow. it won't ever stop growing knowing the way such greed can be endless; vertin's own could even shape up to be similar in such wants and needs. it already is as she's learning piece by piece.
someone that's burned bright, consuming and taking it all. the fabric of her pajama bottoms rides up around her legs slightly when she parts them for schneider to have better room depending on what she wants to do. her tender hands are exploring, though one rubs into the small of schneider's back as the other reaches finally to cup one of her breasts. exploration, memorizing of her own along her own curves and more. though vertin likes to think schneider's lips is her favorite part of her.
in how often they're kissing, how breathless she is between them with swollen lips, all plush from the kiss stained bruises. her body doesn't need another to take it; it could only ever desire one and maybe in the end she would allow herself to burn with this woman. offering it all, every part of herself that she might ever have with each kiss and each soft moan and sigh to schneider's own hands memorizing her body in a similar way.
her freckled cheeks are flushed red, eyes dark with need. how handsome she looks with such need more than lust. it would never only be lust from vertin in her own needs and how she might touch schneider in the future. no matter the way her affections can be physical toward others; there's only one that would get the greater part of such things when her hand squeezes gently schneider's breast as if to mimic what had been done to her.
[Skin against skin, the heat of their mouths against each other's skin, hands touching and leaving impressions in their wake. It's a moment of heat, pleasure and love. A moment, they'll blink, and it'll be gone. It's unusual for Schneider to lose track of the time. But this time, she surrenders herself to everything else - the passion, the heat.
All of it.
When they're done, their skin is damp with sweat, and Schneider thinks she might be able to sleep with ease for once, curled up against Vertin like this.]
(vertin could say many things about her heart, the way that she feels. the words are something that's found themselves rooted deep in her; that love and tenderness that vertin could only ever express towards one other woman. the time spent in one another's arms, surrendering what of herself she wished most to give schneider be it her body or this affection. she gives it, so willingly as they worshiped each other in a sense with skin to skin and the heat of their mouths marking down in places without so much a second thought.
her lengthy hair sticks to her face and there is a tired thought on vertin's end that a bath would be due whenever they wake up. as well as anything else that might need washing, but that isn't her focus to the warmth curled into her side. her arm is around schneider as her eyes start to grow heavier. a part of her almost longs to stay awake a little longer in all it's greed, for all her stamina and how it almost seems endless that felt impossible. for once, in a much more good way when sleep coaxes her away into more restful dreams over those nightmares that plagued her young mind. a comfort that only schneider could give vertin and beyond it knowing the way her heart would always long for her.
by the time it's morning, around eight am, vertin's eyes struggle to keep themselves closed. too comfortable to move, too indulgent in giving this warmth to her one and only. her beloved that curses and blesses her to never forget both at once that she existed....and that those feelings were very real no matter it all being the course of a single night together. a night tense and full of excitement; dangers that not many could ever live through if they weren't as clever or bold as they both were. as sly no less in their methods.
after a few minutes longer, vertin's eyes gradually open and blink themselves into focus. slow and catlike. a peaceful morning as the sound of water falling ties the quiet ambience together; the timekeeper doesn't move yet to get up. she is a punctual girl, always on time no matter the way others may or may not treat her. there was no work to do at the moment which causes vertin to be in no hurry to bathe, to start her day with what would be a pleasant breakfast for a young girl like her that is still growing.
....it can wait, a little longer. she won't always have these opportunities and they both know that.)
[ Despite Schneider's penchant for nighttime forays, she wakes bright and early, listening to the sound of water and Vertin's breaths against her neck. She would like to move. She would like to feel water over her skin, pull herself together so her mask fell into place just so. But she doesn't]
Good morning, my lord. Did you sleep well?
[ She hums with contentment as she sorts her thoughts. Ah, so this was reality.]
(soft breaths and vertin perhaps nuzzling closely into schneider might say enough on how well she slept. her arm is still draped over schneider and tracing gentle patterns into her ribs; the motion is thoughtful as if attempting to articulate knowing vertin's penchant for keeping quiet. another sign of affection, another moment of it given and granted freely while they lay together. it isn't a dream as they both had thought. it is in fact, their new reality while those normally tired eyes of hers seems relieved.
normally vertin would hide it better, try to that is. knowing how much she's lost there's never been any other way but to accept she might never be allowed this closeness. this tender care that she carries underneath the tragedies and her own suffering. the skin-ship which she gives whenever vertin after this brief pause sighs softly. she's content, she did sleep well surprisingly.)
....I did, for once I did.
(she slept in full and that was the biggest surprise. she did have night owl tendencies; a result of her almost unending stamina and her pushing herself well past whenever she ought to as a child her age. though that comes as no surprise in both instances knowing vertin was always that sort of girl whenever it comes to such matters.
and whenever it came to schneider now. now vertin might use her late night habits as an excuse for more quieter time between them when some manner of problem doesn't require the timekeeper's attention. or whenever she doesn't need to do paperwork, again.)
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Oh? Mmm, I certainly hope so. I don't know if I can always help myself, you know.
[She might push too quickly, as is her usual manner. Chase after what she wants, what she needs without looking back; mask her passion with calculating glib words, guard her heart fiercely while desperately reaching out for that warmth. Ah...but Vertin could see right through her, couldn't she? She had at a glance.]
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as much as schneider has seen through her, her impassive expression and how she would keep others at arms length. not for her own sake, but for theirs. the timekeeper has lost, has felt, pain beyond what most would believe a child should ever feel and yet she carries on. all upon a quiet, lonely, and sorrowful path that most would be destroyed by. and yet....she's seen through with such ease, by someone who seems to understand that ache and the way vertin does not willingly let others so close.
her beating heart pounds and there's almost life in her, life which is met by schneider's touch and this warmth vertin spreads. a reward for that chase while she thinks quietly and....)
That's fine, I wouldn't want you to feel as if you must hold back.
(spoken after another kiss to her wrist, this is something new to her and yet vertin tries no matter how foreign it feels.)
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You are so bold, my lord. Even after so much time apart...
[ Schneider's breath hitches as Vertin's lips trail over her wrist and tilts Vertin's chin upwards. The warmth spreads through her, chasing away the chill of the storm that had reduced her to dust]
Then, if you insist.
[The next kiss is deeper, more insistent ]
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boldness is something she could embrace as tried and trued in how often vertin would put herself in harms way. the way schneider's breathing hitched didn't go unnoticed to vertin's lips treating her far more kindly than what they've both received in points of their lives. vertin's own had only been varied until recent days where things were different no matter her keeping others away. out of need, necessity. her heart and her warmth are not something she gives with ease as it's held out with care to schneider's own hands.
insistence, yes. vertin did insist knowing greed runs deep within them; she knows that's not something she can take back. vertin only finds herself eye to eye by the chin with schneider, the memory of that night fading from vertin's young mind for now. she'll still have the nightmares and there's no changing that, but vertin would take whatever she can get on that matter.
her head tilts so their noses don't bump, the kiss in it's depth catches her off guard enough for vertin's lips to part slightly. reciprocation didn't take long before those clumsy lips of hers did let loose passion while vertin melts. eyes closing and mind for now letting go again as vertin had done earlier.)
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She's insistent. Greedy. She'll swallow Vertin up, take everything Vertin had to offer and give everything she had in turn. That was Schneider through and through. The often neglected youngest daughter no one looked out for, but gave her life to the those she loved in turn. Who would have thought Schneider's passion for people was often so unmatched?
Except now, with Vertin. Never before had she felt this anchored, and it's a strange feeling that pulses through her, her heart fluttering with a mixture of emotions she couldn't name. Did not want to name.
Instead, she'll chase all of that away by tugging in question at Vertin's shirt, a silent request that could be easily denied if Vertin didn't want it]
ur fine btw, sucks its been eating things lately x.x
schneider's insistence is met with vertin offering much more. her lips, her kindness, her warmth, everything. nobody would have expected such things from vertin no matter that kindness and the way she'd give affection to others freely. because they did not bother to look past that, not even to breach within vertin who refused to let others in. much less get that far. pain was something that existed in memories that vertin would always replay about her mind.
yet vertin could have never felt so at ease with just anyone else doing that, the thrum of unknown emotions. the warmth which overflows within her that vertin was unable to say what it might be. she has a vague idea, but vertin wouldn't label it for a desire to not lose this feeling next. what might be the first time she's felt something and longed so utterly hopeless for another.
her hands are shaky, there are vague thoughts and worries about vertin's back being exposed. vertin finds it easier to take that request; to remember it's schneider who had been there when arcana pointed out so gleefully that vertin's back was carved into almost ritualistic. the moon, the lines, the eye, and everything taking up the entirety of it when vertin's reaching to unbutton her shirt.
if nobody else ever again saw it, vertin would not mind. if schneider kept seeing it then....that was fine too.)
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[From here, it is not something Schneider can see. But she slides her hand up over Vertin's bare stomach as Vertin unbuttons her shirt. Slow. Not slow at all. She's showing a remarkable amount of restraint; she's used to dalliances with older women who enjoy having a young woman in their bed. They didn't have affection in their hearts for and nor she them. This was different.
Vertin was someone to be treasured and she wanted every touch, every moment to reflect that.]
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physically, anyway in maintaining what she thought best for herself. something such as learning better ways to fight without arcanum. her back, the scars there, feels the cool breeze from the environment of vertin's suitcase against it with what part had been exposed while she thinks this over. is she nervous? yes, vertin can admit it. this is....something new. a first, another first that hadn't been taken. something that she's giving and it's something precious.)
Yes, although it's because I'm not used to this, I haven't done this before and....
(vertin is....a little hellion, rebellious and mischievous when someone brings it out of her. things that often went unseen though it does nothing to change that she did want to carry on. with schneider. giving her this part of herself next even if vertin had the feeling schneider was showing restraint. restraint that she's thankful for from her. perhaps vertin knows and can see it without words when she reaches next to cup schneider's cheek again softly.
she wouldn't hate her if schneider found herself overcome by raw passion and desire, hunger for the one she wants most throughout the night. because, to vertin, she feels the same way even if she is shy in such a moment with the way her cheeks flush. nervous, but wanting.)
....even with that I wouldn't want anyone else to touch me.
(not like this, not with tender care and slowness. something meant to treasure her, vertin would do the same when given chance. like worshipping one another's bodies as they try not to rush, try not to give in to the greater need of wanting each other.)
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Oh. Good. Because I'm very bad at sharing you know.
[She leans down to nuzzle at Vertin's neck, cupping her breast just so. Desire throbs in her, but Schneider is patient. They can take their time, indulge in the moment so it could extend well beyond the late hours of the night. This was sacred in its own way. She thinks she could spend her time endlessly pouring over Vertin's body, and map out her scars and the planes of her body, both feminine and androgynous all at once.
In comparison, Schneider is thinner, more petite. But still unmistakably feminine and she had always known what her strengths were once she had become old enough]
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if only for a little while to warm breath against her neck, her chin nuzzling into schneider's head while beneath her. it didn't take long for vertin to near sharply exhale. though this was new, she did reach eventually to unbutton the shirt she had given her. vertin's hands weren't as shaky as earlier but....she could agree with that. that something about this is considerably sacred for the two of them. that time spent no matter their thirst, their desire, would be spent in passion that simmers.
if tonight becomes longer than most vertin's ever experienced, then it shall be in her arms. her body surrendered and a silent whisper from it to schneider with a plea; to make her into hers no matter what may or may not be brought upon them from the future. no matter what happens whenever vertin slowly, surely, reaches to remove that shirt from her.
to memorize herself, every part of her as they lay together. every scar, every soft part of vertin's body would be something for schneider's own hands just as vertin would touch her tenderly in kind.
that's a promise no matter her not speaking it aloud.)
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Life had never been easy, and intimacy with others had never been in question. Only the most primal of impulses had been followed in the past but with Vertin...
Well, as gently as Vertin had held her in her last moments, she wanted to do the same. Take this love and cradle it close without chasing it away]
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similarly, life was not easy and what pleasures vertin had was by being sneaky for someone as young as her. there was no intimacy or more primal impulses, but perhaps something rebellious with sneaking liqueur and other smaller things that would have certainly gotten in trouble over. the thoughts cut off with ease to schneider's lips against hers again.
the tension in her back eases to schneider's fingers roaming along scars, along what soft patches of skin existed. there was plenty of those twisted spots in the former's case; carved almost ritualistically into her. like something or someone intended to mark her for some manner of desires they had for poor young vertin. vertin who may not ever have the answers with the softest of sounds made into their kiss at the way they almost seem sensitive to the touch of her.
it's like torture, but something she wants to cradle and care for. something she never would let go of.)
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to rest it upon that scar where schneider's heart would have been, the touch is soft and almost sad at the memory. vertin truly did worry she killed her at that part of the night. someone that had left a deeper impression on her and understood her too well whenever vertin's fingers are slow to trace the scar. a tenderness in that and almost thoughtful in how she looks at it.
melancholy aside, it's only fitting they memorize such things from one another just as vertin allowed her to run her soft hands along the planes of her back. the skin both carved into and what few soft spots remained along it knowing even vertin's spine had been covered in those viciously violent markings that were given to her.)
....I still feel terrible for this you know, Schneider, for shooting you.
(even though she wasn't in her right mind originally, even when her senses returned after as arcana seemed gleeful and laughing. whilst vertin stared in horror no less at the damage she had done.)
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My lord, this is nothing.
[She pauses for a moment to steady Vertin's hand there, even as she leans back down to kiss Vertin deeply]
You remembered. You remembered my heart beat on the right.
[A necessary evil, a necessary sacrifice. Schneider had known from the beginning they would never get away from this cleanly]
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at first she opens her mouth, as if to say something only for the words to die on her tongue. her hand rests beneath schneider's own over the scar and their kiss brings her away from such thoughts. there were many things vertin thought about, from questions on how she could have fallen so fast, so hard, and so beautifully to almost wondering if such a thing as soulmates could exist. whatever the answer is; vertin cannot say that she would label it either for now out of that fear this could one day be stripped away from her again.)
....and I promise no matter it, I would have never forgotten.
(to carry such painful memories is always part of her life and the way everything desires to rip asunder this young girl more. the words are spoken softly against schneider's lips before vertin leans in for another kiss. some of that desire to take initiative is there even if it's in baby steps for her. schneider does have the most experience between them and vertin never was one to rush anything. it seems that also applies toward her feelings, how her hand stays well in place against that bullet scar.
or how vertin finds it easier to bit by bit even to let down those walls; something for when they're alone, truly alone. there would be no other who may get such things from the warmth of her lips to the most tender of touches.)
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[Schneider smiles, closing her eyes as she melts into the kiss. There are a lot of things unsaid hanging in the moment. Her heart is broken. Her past has been erased and the future now hangs in question. But in this moment, she can forget about all of that.
She deepens the kiss again, pushing Vertin back into bed as she cups her breast, teasing her gently. Let them go back to more carnal pleasures to lose themselves in distraction]
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how she makes the softest of sounds into their kiss, one hand rests itself upon the small of schneider's back and the other makes it way upward to find a more comfortable spot along her shoulders. vertin is more than happy to fall into something more carnal whenever it's her. nobody else would ever see such a sight or hear her sweetest of sighs beneath schneider.
that's something she would like to stay that way, even as her lips part slightly for schneider. thoughts are hazy, her instincts a guide and vertin finds it too easy to let herself fall to their mutual desire and craving of one another. that tonight would be long in many ways whenever they're alone.
that nobody else may have them.)
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She thinks, she'd like to see what Vertin would do, if she tried to have Vertin burn up with her. Would she let Schneider consume her wholly? Would she try to put a hold, keep the fires at bay to extend the moment they have together?
Schneider is a little curious to see what Vertin would do. So she lets Vertin touch her with tenderness, as she deepens their kiss, her hands moving over Vertin's body, tracing over the strong, slender planes of her body, as she slips her thigh between Vertin's and presses close. Every scar, every mark she'd burn into her memory. This is all she has. She'll take everything she can]
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someone that's burned bright, consuming and taking it all. the fabric of her pajama bottoms rides up around her legs slightly when she parts them for schneider to have better room depending on what she wants to do. her tender hands are exploring, though one rubs into the small of schneider's back as the other reaches finally to cup one of her breasts. exploration, memorizing of her own along her own curves and more. though vertin likes to think schneider's lips is her favorite part of her.
in how often they're kissing, how breathless she is between them with swollen lips, all plush from the kiss stained bruises. her body doesn't need another to take it; it could only ever desire one and maybe in the end she would allow herself to burn with this woman. offering it all, every part of herself that she might ever have with each kiss and each soft moan and sigh to schneider's own hands memorizing her body in a similar way.
her freckled cheeks are flushed red, eyes dark with need. how handsome she looks with such need more than lust. it would never only be lust from vertin in her own needs and how she might touch schneider in the future. no matter the way her affections can be physical toward others; there's only one that would get the greater part of such things when her hand squeezes gently schneider's breast as if to mimic what had been done to her.
she'll learn, but that's fine in itself.)
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All of it.
When they're done, their skin is damp with sweat, and Schneider thinks she might be able to sleep with ease for once, curled up against Vertin like this.]
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her lengthy hair sticks to her face and there is a tired thought on vertin's end that a bath would be due whenever they wake up. as well as anything else that might need washing, but that isn't her focus to the warmth curled into her side. her arm is around schneider as her eyes start to grow heavier. a part of her almost longs to stay awake a little longer in all it's greed, for all her stamina and how it almost seems endless that felt impossible. for once, in a much more good way when sleep coaxes her away into more restful dreams over those nightmares that plagued her young mind. a comfort that only schneider could give vertin and beyond it knowing the way her heart would always long for her.
by the time it's morning, around eight am, vertin's eyes struggle to keep themselves closed. too comfortable to move, too indulgent in giving this warmth to her one and only. her beloved that curses and blesses her to never forget both at once that she existed....and that those feelings were very real no matter it all being the course of a single night together. a night tense and full of excitement; dangers that not many could ever live through if they weren't as clever or bold as they both were. as sly no less in their methods.
after a few minutes longer, vertin's eyes gradually open and blink themselves into focus. slow and catlike. a peaceful morning as the sound of water falling ties the quiet ambience together; the timekeeper doesn't move yet to get up. she is a punctual girl, always on time no matter the way others may or may not treat her. there was no work to do at the moment which causes vertin to be in no hurry to bathe, to start her day with what would be a pleasant breakfast for a young girl like her that is still growing.
....it can wait, a little longer. she won't always have these opportunities and they both know that.)
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Good morning, my lord. Did you sleep well?
[ She hums with contentment as she sorts her thoughts. Ah, so this was reality.]
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normally vertin would hide it better, try to that is. knowing how much she's lost there's never been any other way but to accept she might never be allowed this closeness. this tender care that she carries underneath the tragedies and her own suffering. the skin-ship which she gives whenever vertin after this brief pause sighs softly. she's content, she did sleep well surprisingly.)
....I did, for once I did.
(she slept in full and that was the biggest surprise. she did have night owl tendencies; a result of her almost unending stamina and her pushing herself well past whenever she ought to as a child her age. though that comes as no surprise in both instances knowing vertin was always that sort of girl whenever it comes to such matters.
and whenever it came to schneider now. now vertin might use her late night habits as an excuse for more quieter time between them when some manner of problem doesn't require the timekeeper's attention. or whenever she doesn't need to do paperwork, again.)
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Mmm? So it takes me wearing you out all night for you to rest?
[Her lips curve up in amusement]
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