The Apartment Above Luke's, Sunday Night

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So, Anders had graduated and he and Dante were leaving for a two-week trip tomorrow. Kathy felt that was enough of a reason to splurge on a fancy dinner-date, so after putting in a ridiculous order for tapas downstairs (with enough to feed Raven, too, of course), she set about making her room into a romantic little evening hideaway. Her desk with a cloth over it made for a lovely table for two, candles scattered about gave the whole area a nice kind of ambiance, and while a pitcher of sangria wasn't the most romantic drink in the world, it was fruity and delicious and that was really what mattered. She turned her ipod on low and, confident that everything was ready, sent Anders a text:

Hey graduate. Shift almost up? Dinner's ready whenever you are. <3

[For the one named and SP!]

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"Of course," Anders said, and undid and discarded her bra so he could cup the other breast as well. He could play with them for a long time, especially when she was grinding against his lower body so nicely.

He would have said more, but his breath was catching in his throat. Hopefully his pleased gasps got the point across.

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She was picking up what he was putting down, those noises delightfully familiar and doing their own bit to stoke the fires in her belly. As soon as she got his pants open, she abandoned them in favor of easing her underwear off, though she didn't bother removing her skirt. Not yet. That wasn't impeding access to anything important, the way her panties had been.

She'd figure out what to do with the rest of their clothes in a moment, but that could come after she ground against him again, the sensations that much more acute with nothing in the way.

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Anders whimpered. The smallest move of his hands and his hips, and he'd be home inside her.

"You feel so wet," he cooed as the writhed together. "So ready. And I want you so much,"

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Kathy reached between her legs and slicked up her fingers, then slid her hands into his pants and wrapped her fist around his cock, using her own wetness to ease her strokes. "I'm soaked," she said in a dark whisper, lips brushing against the sensitive skin just behind his ear. "See what you do to me? Just some naughty words and a tug on my nipples and look how you get me."

She was tempted to tell him about her implant, to just take the plunge (as it were) and truly feel him. But they hadn't really had a chance to talk about it and right now when they were wrapped in a fog of desire was probably the worst time to mention it--

Kathy kissed him, just to keep herself from blurting anything out, increasing the pressure of her hand as she did.

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Anders kissed her back, moaning a little into her mouth as their lips moved together.

"I like your nipples," he babbled. "I like all of you, but the way they turn into hard little raspberries every time I touch them is just amazing. And, dear Maker, we're so close I feel like I might just slip into you without meaning to any second. You don't make it easy to have restraint."

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Kathy, playing with fire, moved her hand and pulled him out from his pants, then slid her cunt along his length. She gasped as her clit slid over the velvet firmness of his erection, feeling the uneven surface of the vein against the swollen bud.

"We...we..." she panted. Again, this conversation would be easier to have if she wasn't torturing the both of them. "Implant," she said raggedly, not even sure if he'd understand what that meant. "Arm. But we're not--we haven't agreed--"

They weren't exclusive. Not even counting Dante, of course, but they'd deliberately kept the option of sleeping with other people open and Kathy wasn't going to risk the possibility of catching something from an open loop.

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Anders gasped and shut his eyes. His groin wanted one thing and his head wanted another, and it took real effort to go with what his head new was right.

"Maybe get off me for a second," he suggested reluctantly, sliding his cock along her slit slowly even as he spoke. "We need either a condom or a talk, and we aren't going to manage either when all I want is to feel your cunt swallow me up."

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With a needy whimper, Kathy leveraged herself up and off of him, feeling obscurely like she'd let him down. After all, Dante wouldn't have had to hesitate--

She shut down that line of thinking before it could send her mind reeling down ugly paths and lay on the bed, arm slung over her eyes and legs trembling.

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"Sorry," Anders said, and let his hand rest low on her belly as he tried to focus. He felt like he'd disappointed her by asking her to stop, but this was the kind of thing where he needed to be absolutely sure what she wanted -- not just what would feel good in the moment. "I couldn't follow what you were saying about the implant. Can you -- maybe just try it again?"

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Both of them ridiculous children, each worried about having disappointed the other.

"You're apologizing?" Kathy asked, pushing herself up onto her elbows to look at him. "Why would you--don't apologize. You didn't--there's nothing for you to apologize for," she said and on that, her voice was firm. "You're right, we should talk. And I'm sorry that we still need to talk, rather than just being able to...get right to it, I guess."

But that wasn't what he'd asked about, so she pushed herself further up, then scooted around to be curled up against him again. "Birth control implants," she said, extending her arm towards him. "If you touch me here--" she brushed a finger lightly over the inside of her elbow, "--you can feel them. They're more effective than condoms when it comes to preventing pregnancy and they last for four, five years. I've had them for a few months now."

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Anders reached his fingertips over, tracing the bumps. "Those are clever," he said idly, as he thought about what to tell Kathy. He understood this was about more than her choice of birth control.

"I haven't been with anybody but Dante in a few months," he said in the end, serious tone at odds with their all but removed clothing and reddened flesh. "And I've no reason to think I'm sick. So I'd love to trust the implant and throw out the condoms. But you're taking more of a chance than I am, so it has to be up to you."

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"Well, the reason I haven't mentioned them up till now is because I didn't want to push you into making a decision you weren't ready for," Kathy said slowly. "Or like I was holding the possibility of getting rid of condoms over your head in exchange for you agreeing to close our relationship. That wouldn't be fair to either of us and it's not what I want to do now. But I'm not Dante and I'm not a healing mage, so I can--catch stuff. So if we're not ready to close the loop to just the three of us, I'm not going to get rid of the condoms."

She couldn't put limits on what (or whom) Dante did, but if he couldn't be an infection vector to pass along to Anders, it was kind of moot.

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Huh. Quasi-monogamy wasn't something Anders had thought about much since their last conversation, but when Anders considered it, it made sense. The only reason he could imagine wanting to sleep with somebody else was if it was a unique opportunity -- something along the lines of Dante's dalliance with Isabela-as-a-boy, or the orgy they'd once had on a trip to Baltimore. And as far as that went, passing up one or two special experiences a year hardly seemed like much of a sacrifice compared to what Kathy was offering.

But there were other considerations.

"I don't have a problem closing the loop, but what if the island has other ideas?" Anders asked, resting his head on a palm. "I'd plan to be faithful, but I can't control if we all wake up some morning with amnesia and Mara Jade and I decide to run away together."

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"Oh, well, that's just Fandom," Kathy said, waving her hand. "I'd be an asshole if I held you accountable for Fandom being Fandom. I mean, we'd probably go back to condoms for awhile until we knew that everything was copacetic or you did some kind of healing mage stuff that made sure you were clean, but that would hold true for that kind of thing happening for me too."

Because, again, Fandom did as Fandom wanted.

She offered him a small smile. "This is a two-way street. I don't want to give you something either."

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"And I appreciate that," Anders said sincerely. He turned to kiss Kathy's temple. "If you're ready and I'm ready, should we just take the plunge? And I promise it's not just about condoms for me. I like the idea of us being serious that way."

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Kathy smiled at him--he knew just what to say to answer her questions and make her feel confident in his answers. "I dunno," she said, though her fingers curling in his hair suggested otherwise. "You still up for teasing me until I have to beg for it?"

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"Dear Maker, yes," Anders said, feeling a familiar twinge in his groin. He rolled onto his side and slid a hand between Kathy's legs, stroking his way slowly up her thighs as his mouth sought hers out for a kiss.

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She was still quite wet as his fingers discovered shortly thereafter, still warm and inviting as she opened her mouth and arms and legs for him. Her tongue eased into his mouth. stroking over his, leisurely exploring as if they had all the time in the world to play. Her hands told a different story, pawing and grasping at him with mute need.

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Oh, that was lovely. Anders' finger slipped inside without effort, and he added a second before twisting them as he worked them slowly in and out of her. He ignored the needy way she was grasping him even as his own desire rose. She wasn't begging yet, after all.

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"Sweet Jesus," Kathy groaned, her whole body flushed and sweetly aching. Her inner walls clung to his fingers, trying to keep them deep inside where they felt amazing and filled her with a hungry longing. He was hot and heavy against her side and just feeling him made her moan a bit more. "Only problem with you teasing me is that I can't get on my knees for you," she told him. "I love listening to the noises you make when I get you in my mouth."

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Anders whimpered, grinding against her hip in a way that showed exactly how hard he'd gotten.

"Tell me," he whispered. "Tell me again how much you want to put your mouth on me, and maybe I'll put my mouth on you."

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"I love sucking you off," she told him, not even for the promise of his mouth on her but just because she did. "Swallowing you down, having you fill my mouth and my throat." Her hips bucked, whether because of his hand or her description, she couldn't say. "My lips wrapped around you, my tongue licking up that vein and around the head, your hands in my hair as I decide that I want you to come in my mouth more than I want to feel you inside me..."

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"Oh Maker I need that," Anders said, words garbled by his need."The way your lips close around me, your tongue teasing when you pull away..."

His fingers withdrew as he repositioned himself, sliding in between her legs, and kissed at her inner thighs.

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"And just think," Kathy said, desperate to say as much as she could before Anders tore the ability to even think away from her, "when you've made me come and I'm lying on the bed, you can decide whether you want my mouth or my cunt more and just slide in, knowing I want it however you feel like giving it to me..."

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"Fuck, it's going to be hard to decide," Anders groaned. "You're so good with your mouth but I love being inside you."

He lowered his head to flick is tongue over her clit, rubbing it in rough circles.