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[notabricklayer]

The lights of their apartment come up in the way he is used to lights coming on the way he is used to lights coming on - smoothing increasing from dark to light with barely a hitch inbetween. The apartment is the same as before - a naturally quirky Victorian that's slightly stark thanks to the driven surgeon who had made this his home once upon a time.

He always meant to take time off, decorate the place a little more elaborately, set it up to be more of a home than a place to collapse after long shifts. Maybe now's time.

But right now he can do something about these damned boots. Some day he is going to both fund and write a paper outlining the evils of these boots, and he'll stuff it down the throats of every lazy ass on the Starfleet Surgeon General's board.

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[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

He has to keep reminding himself what she told him - he's not going to be called on to heal these sorts of wounds on her. He would do it, no doubt about it, but he might have to drink himself into oblivion afterward to keep his imagination from going into overdrive.

He chooses to focus on this instead - he's never seen her so relaxed, and considering the taste of what she's shown him of what she can do, it is a compliment. He's made a running list in his head of where she seems to accumulate stress, in case she allows this again.

He finishes as he starts, his hands sliding over her back, erasing the last lines of tension with a confident touch. Finally he lets her go, quietly rising to his feet to find the blanket he knows he used to store around here somewhere.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

She feels him leave, and rolls to her side, her head pillowed on her arm.

"Your turn," she murmurs, her voice drowsy and low.

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

"Shush, darlin'. You let that set in for a bit first." He drawls good-naturedly, finding the loose knit tucked away underneath the couch and carrying it back to her, to have if she needs it. He settles in beside her, sprawled against the coffee table, idly working out the tension on his hands. It's been a while since he was called on to do that.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

Well, if he doesn't want payment in kind, who is she to argue? She does reach out a hand to touch his foot, the pad of her thumb drawing a firm line down the arch.

"Thank you."

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

He doesn't exactly want to say no to payment like that, but he doesn't want good work going to waste. Let those abused muscles get used to being relaxed for a while, before they have to back to work.

"You're welcome, Olya. Any time." He assures her quietly.

And if that touch is an indicator of how she would intend to continue, he imagines that there's considerable talent there.

Somehow, he's not surprised.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

If there's any talent there, it'd be pure instinct guiding her hands. She's never really had occasion to be so intimate with anyone, yes, including what's his name.

She watches him with grey green eyes, half-lidded with contentment.

After a long moment, she draws herself up, the movement self-contained, almost predatory. She moves to her hands and knees, and stalks up his front, nuzzling along the line of his jaw.

"You are wearing too many clothes, Lyonya."

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

He's watching her fixedly, his eyes dark and hooded, his heart rate and breathing accelerating because that?

Is hot.

"I'm beginning to agree with you, darlin'." He nods, grabbing the edges of tunic and underlying bodysuit and pulling both up and over his head, tossing them somewhere couch-wards.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

She doesn't touch himm, not yet. Even though she really wants to. No, she hovers nearby as he strips out of his shirt, and then returns, her breath shimmering over the peak of his shoulder. She keeps that distance, bare inches from his skin, tracking up to the hollow of his throat, up his neck to the shell of his ear.

"More," she whispers, one hand plucking lightly at the fabric of his trousers.

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

He swallows, convulsively, his mouth suddenly too dry and the room suddenly too warm. But he plays by her rules as he understands them, not reaching out for her, despite a longing to do just that.

Instead he nods, and obeys, shifting awkwardly to pull the remainder of the clothing off. And while this is fractionally more comfortable... it is also decidedly not, with more room for her to play.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

"Better," she purrs, one hand ghosting over his skin, hovering so close he can feel the heat of her palm radiating against his chest. Slow as molasses in January, she paints an invisible stripe down his center, veering at the last moment to continue down his thigh, her lips still near his cheek.

A wicked smile blossoms on her features.

"May I?"

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

He shifts, slightly, but with effort manages to stay put for the most part.

With a lot of effort. His almost whimpering groan is practically involuntary at this point. There's another nod, while he tries to remember words.

"Yes. Yes please."

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

She pulls away, crooking a finger at him, gesturing for him to take her place on the pad. The heat of her hand remains, a phantom caress that seems to keep moving of it's own accord, down the front of his shin, along his insole, and back up the inside of his knee and thigh.

She rests on her knees, hands between her legs, smirking at him like a kitten in cream. Her expression softens a bit. "If it is too much, you will tell me, and I will stop."

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

He nods, appreciating the gesture as much as the teasing - it is good to know he has an out, even if he desperately hopes he won't need it. He doesn't want to let her down.

He shifts as she commands, though at least part of his attention is still captured by that ghostly caress. When he reaches the mat, he pauses, smiling back at her warmly.

"Where do you want me, Olya?" He echos her earlier question, his voice gone husky thanks to her teasing.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

"In your body," she murmurs, smiling down at him. She kneels over him, weight on one hand, urging him to lie on his back, still keeping that last little bit of distance as a gift and a gentle tease.

"I want you here, with me. Completely."

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

"I can do that." The mat molds against his back, but his attention is focused on her, the warmth of her, on just how much he wants to close that gap.
"I can definitely do that." He assures her, fervently.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

"Can you?"

She stretches out along his side, resting her head on one hand, the other still caressing the air around him.

"Can you do that? For me?"

That warmth becomes a palpable touch, but not on his skin. It is as if she is touching nerves he didn't know he had, the part of his awareness that knows without knowing how. Featherlight, she caresses the part of him that is just beneath the skin, the part that moves the bone and tendon, the part that sends his cock throbbing, and makes his spine tingle.

"Close your eyes," she murmurs.

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

A sudden intake of breath, a start, fear? Perhaps, but only of the unknown, and easily dismissed. Not unknown, just not experienced. Olya. He trusts her, so he lets his eyelids fall shut. That's one less sense to anchor him to the world he knows, the one he's studied for years and has learned how to predict to some degree.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

She pulls back for a moment, until he settles again.

"There," she soothes. He closes his eyes and the sensation of being touched becomes deeper, more pervasive. As if she were brushing soft, open mouthed kisses over every erogenous zone in his body, all at once. A ripple here, a flicker there, tasting him, savouring him in small mouthfuls.

"How does that feel?"

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

His body responds without waiting for his brain's permission, a soft groan escaping him, muscles shifting to try, vainly, to encourage that contact.

"Good. Marvelo... good God." He interrupts himself as a twitch sends a brief, bright lick of fire up his spine. "Marvelous."

Coherency, evidently, has already left this party.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

He feels her smile. Not against his skin, but in every place that she is touching him. It feels like warm velvet and delight. A decidedly sensuous delight.

She keeps her touch light, shifting the focus of her thoughts to certain areas, letting the pressure build. Places on his body light up with pleasure, places he'd never thought of in an erotic context. The soles of his feet, the backs of his knees, the hollows of his hips, the length of his sternum. Each part echoes, resonates, sending waves of sensation to the nerves that are built for pleasure.

Her fingertips graze down his centreline again, trailing cool shimmers of light, and she doesn't bypass his cock this time. It seems to be so eager to join in the proceedings, it would be such a shame to neglect it.

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

His body is at once utterly unfamiliar and completely aroused, a bizarre combination that has him wanting more. He knows, somewhere in the slowly functioning recesses of his mind that he should not be breathlessly begging for further touches along elbows, kneecaps, scalp, but knowing doesn't seem to have a thing to do with reality, at the moment, casting the entire experience in an unreal light. She seems to be everywhere and nowhere and oh.

He shouts, hoarse and wordless, his hips arching up off the mat in response.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

She leans against his side, one leg draped over his thigh, holding him down and crooning softly against his jaw. Her voice is liquid heat against his ear drum, turning the very act of speaking and hearing into something incredibly intimate and erotic. Her hand continues down, a firmer touch now, but intent on awakening other nerves.

"Just breathe, go slowly and breathe."

She's so close to opening the floodgates and letting him into her completely, and she doesn't want to retreat now. She's so close it aches.

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

Breathing hie can do... just. Slowly, shakily, broken by gasps and tightly hissed nonsense curses when his body knows it should respond, it has to respond, but the things she is doing to him have no ingrained response. A caress along his ribs should not send pleasure flooding into his brain and pulsing through his groin, the touch of her hand should not be just as real as the joy sliding along the curves of his calves, her diction should not make him shiver helplessly. And he is helpless in this maelstrom, only (and just barely) able to control his own lungs.

The rest of his body seems to have gone into rebellion already. And it is a bit frightening, but he isn't sure which would actually cause him to lose his mind - if she continues, or if she stops. Oddest of all is how in odd moments, it almost makes sense. That of course the not-quite touch of a hand should trail other forms of energy than heat, or that the swell of rising panic at an unexpected and uncontrolled response should lap at his nerves like a dark sea tide. But then it's gone, sliding away again out of reach.

[olyabird.livejournal.com]

She knows she shouldn't rush this, she knows it could cause him harm. Humans are so fragile in some things, and this is one of them.

She rests her temple against his and presses a soft kiss to his cheek, withdrawing back into herself in gentle waves, lingering in the outer limits of his senses, savouring the essence of his thoughts.

She shifts to capture his mouth, stealing gentle kisses as she rises over him in a purely physical touch, straddling his lap. The body will have to be enough for now, and it is not a consolation prize, no. No it is a rich and wondrous thing to slip and slide against him, teasing and tormenting him in the usual way.

[notabricklayer.livejournal.com]

"Olya?" Utterly indefinably he feels unsettled, his equilibrium shifted and he can't easily set it right again. But now his confidence and the surety of his body's movements return, because this is a familiar fire that she sets burning in his flesh. After all of that, the ache to get closer is almost painful in its driving intensity.