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Happy pride month specifically to caitlyn kiramman. To have a fandom in shambles because youre a multi-dimensional woman and because you had sex with two other women? Powerful. I love her so much and i appreciate her serving (ay) as a litmus test for this shithole of a fandom
#caitlyn kiramman#arcane#caitvi#âb-but the crimes!!â#girl yall watched jayce and jinx murder children without saying a fuckin word#and jinx and silco both gassed the undercity multiple times#bull fuckin shit yall âcareâ about morality. if you truly did then youd hate everyone in that goddamn show!!#âbut the se-â yall didnt say shit about jayce and mel when that was mutually manipulative!!#they rawdogged while jayces bestie was having an embolism in the next room over!#but yeah no my condolences that two characters that were horrifically abused by a person didnt weep when she abandoned them#forgot everyone else in the show owes jinx their entire life#jinx the child murderer terrorist mass shooter etc#and yes your reactions to different things do mean something. people are calling you biased#same fuckin way you test measurement bias lmao. but no one in this fandom knows fuck shit about. anything evidently
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You could not tell me that rainwings wouldnât have the strangest (and somewhat unethical) pets. Like bro look at this huge ass cat I found I fed it some watermelon and it purrs I think it likes me. Dude I found this humongous snake just saw it eat a crocodile but itâs yellow so I think Iâll name it cornbread. I like to imagine theyâre like the white woman of Pyrrhia, yes this cat ate 20 babies and is called Universe Destroyer but listen we all have bad days sometimes Iâm sure they didnât mean it
Btw based the color pallet off the random generator at coolors.co
#had too more sketches to this post (including a rainwing with the above mentioned Burmese python) but I ended up not liking them#*two#sorry maybe Iâll post them later idk#the python one was fine except I didnât really like how the colors fit with the rainwing and the 3rd ones head was way too fucking big#idk what I was thinking it was so disproportionate#i sometimes do my sketches in my bed (because bed oh so comfy) and I mustâve drawn it at a angle cuz no way đ#wof#wings of fire#watercolor#artists on tumblr#wof rainwing#rainwing#already have to write a essay for a class next year in order to test in#astrix how will we do this#watercolour#see look at that forgin spelling I can appeal to the masses#traditional art#didnât get to go to my usual Tuesday night yoga⊠was to busy art#Yk colour is kinda more fun to say#itâs like coloer#Iâm saying this with a mean accent rn btw#itâs probably closer to a Australian accent then anything since I seem to be unable to do a British one#Iâm sorry Australians for being mean#if it helps everytime I go somewhere far from my state people make me say bag#yes I say it a bieg keep on laughing#uhh my did I have to be born in the upper Midwest with this goofy ahh accent đ#shout out to all the Australians out there#Hatsune Miku probably likes you guys more then the British#uh oh goose is ranting in the tags again#my art
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tested deltarune yesterday and experienced my first dog check!!! it was cool before i figured out that this is what toby fox is looking for and celebration should Cease
#yes i did my civic duty and reported it#maybe the closest i'll ever get to helping the masses in a real way#thanks for all your diligence mr. fox!!#deltarune#utdr#safeutdr#deltarune testing
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what's a really unfortunate discovery in my life in the last two years is that my boss told me i was racing against my beeper counting seconds last year and confiscated it (secret skill unlocked: can count to fifteen seconds in your head with extreme accuracy) and i'm like he cannot be for real with this, how do you Race Time. and then i play guitar against a metronome and You'll Never Fucking Guess What My Fatal Flaw Is
#'roo are you subconciously racing the metronome' YES I AM AND I'M BAFFLED#HOW did this man watch a horse gallop through a pair of binoculars and know that i am locked in mortal combat with the passage of time#truly insane#anyway we're uh. gonna get better at yknow. letting beats pass.#i think as with horse riding i play music more accurately without the metronome#or possibly i just do whatever i like#i distinctly remember my violin teacher never being able to change the way the uhhhhhh what do you call ems#the one concerto i had i just decided how it sounded and that's how it was and were my notes all a consistent length? pfff no#it sounds good though#oh that's the other thing i never got to do like level testing or whatever for any instrument ever?#but i randomly found out last year that i was at least like intermediate like halfway through the levels or whatever for violin?#false advertising i keep telling people i learnt nothing in eight years#but also can i technically pull off a 3 page concerto? yes. do my hands shake so much my bow sometimes jumps on the strings? yes.#anyway this seemed like a funny story for the masses#get to know you time with roo
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cheesecake & creme caramel today đ
#personal#baking#yooo#school is so much work but look at the outcome!#i also get a discount (yes. i actually have to buy my product unless its mass production baking then u can take 1 like that flan)#the cheesecake was only $7.88CAD. dude#THATS SO CHEAP FOR CHEESECAKE RN#And we used super high quality ingredients#ok brb. gotta go do my pie test#its a crossword LMAO#im just struggling with friendships and stuff at school
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Work sucks but you know what I have? That's right baby... splatoon ocs and Google docs
#miles mumbles#testing out some stuff with this too Ive never done a format of like. compiled entries#probaly have some stuff to fix but w/e#yes i made it so pokemon survived through a mass extinction. i think it's funny.
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You know what I know I'm usually pretty silent but I need you all to understand the horrible impact SpaceX and Starship has had on South Texas.
Yes, fuck those ugly ass cyber trucks but FUCK that Space Center.
Starship genuine danger to the people who live here. It's to the point many of the people here when they heard the explosion joked that it was probably another one of Elon's rockets.
This is a horrifying pattern we are becoming numb to, we hear about a planned test launch and brace ourselves for more debris.
Several of Musk's attempts at rockets, especially after the deregulation, have resulted in catastrophic explosions. Want the list? Here are a few!!
December 9th, 2020- Starship serial No. 8, or SN8. Exploded upon landing.
February 2, 2021- Starship SN9. Exploded upon landing.

March 3rd. 2021- Starship SN10. Landed in one piece. Fire at the skirt caused an explosion.


April 20, 2023- Starship. Exploded once more. Debris scattered in Port Isabell.

March 6, 2025- Flight 8. Spun out of control and exploded in a mass of fireballs. Planes had to be grounded due to the mass explosion and the debris are stills scattered in the ocean.
And now we have the most recent and the worse one yet.
June 18-19, 2025- Starship 36 during a GROUND test caused a mass explosion, the looming mushroom cloud causing locals in Cameron to believed they had been bombed.
The loser describes this it as a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" instead of what they are: fiery failures locals have to deal with as a result.
Pretty much everyone locally knows Elon Musk and his negative impact on our home, people who have had the unfortunate curse to have worked with him and the center call it Cultish, 8 members of his staff who spoke out against his behavior and sexual harassment were all fired.
Its a well known fact he hates the people here, and he goes out of his way to find employees who are not from this area and move them down here.
Musk has tried to encourage even more white people to come down to South Texas and live in his "Starship City". An attempt to gentrify and push out local citizens.
Rebekah Hinojosa, a local Activist with Another Gulf Is Possible, even had her home unlawfully entered by police after an alleged graffiti on a mural he commisioned (which didn't even obscure the mural).
This article is a good read on everything Musk has done to South Texas
I am TIRED of this going unnoticed and unheard of the People of The Valley. I need you to stop laughing and start taking this seriously.
If you want to read more on all the insane shit this man has done to South Texas here are a few more Articles I would Recommend
South Texas groups sue Texas for letting Elon Musk's SpaceX dump wastewater without permit, SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, which Musk calls a 'minor setback', What Is Starbase? Elon Musk Builds a SpaceX City With Shops, Worker Housing and Its Own Mayor â But Texas Locals Aren't Happy
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Supersonic
Pairing: CollegeAU!Bob Floyd x Fem!Reader!
Summary: When you ask Bob Floyd to tutor you after not doing so well on your first Advanced Theoretical Physics test, you never expected him to say yes, nor did you expect him to be so enthusiastic to teach you the material either.
Warnings: 18+ Minors DNI! Smut and Fluff, Reader is an Engineering Major who is just trying to take a required elective that doesnât tank their average, Bob is a Physics Major who is an overachiever and is top of his class. We love a good tutor trope yâall, and technically itâs friends to lovers hehehehe
Smut Warnings: Unprotected P in V Sex (yâall, wrap it up), Bobâs a certified munchâŠWhat Can I Say? Itâs in the holy scripture lol, Oral Sex (fem! Receiving), Fingering, Dirty Talk, Teasing, Hair Pulling, Face Grinding, Bobâs got a bit of performance anxiety (and loves praise, but the man also likes worshipping hehehe), Breast Play, Bobâs giving sub vibes in this, Handjob (I donât think Iâm missing anything)
Authorâs Note: Alright. Alright. I heard the crowd lol. I heard the masses, and I finally got around to writing for THE Bob Floyd....And I came out guns blazing on this one. I hope itâs not a let down, I know yâall have been waiting for something from me regarding this cutie patootie, so Iâm glad I can please the masses đEnjoy!!! (Side note: Iâm not a physics major but I took a few courses here and there, donât strike me down if I donât get certain things right about the questions please! lol) This was also a request by @shewhocallstothestars but I did modify it a bit (hopefully that's okay.) đ
P.S: Evil stuff dropping this so casually on a Wednesday afternoon! Lol Surprise tho!
Word Count: 19,626 (HA!)
The first time Bob Floyd saw you, you were late for Advanced Theoretical Physics.
Not embarrassingly lateâbut just enough for the heavy lecture hall door to groan open and click shut behind you with a sound that echoed far too loudly in the cavernous space. Just enough to make the professor falter mid-sentence, his marker hovering above the whiteboard as heads turned in your direction like a wave.
Your chin stayed tucked, gaze low as you moved up the steps with a quick, purposeful stride that practically whispered âplease for the love of god donât look at me.â Still, it was a walk that carried weight. Not flustered or apologeticâjust sharp. Like you were used to showing up in the middle of things and moving through rooms without needing to explain why.
But even if you didnât owe anyone an apology, you didnât want the attention.
Especially not in the outfit you were wearing.
You didnât mean to put on anything eye-catching, but laundry day had come and gone without mercy. Between leading three straight days of exhausting freshman orientationâclipboard, whistle, and allâand trying to get your textbooks, syllabi, and housing situation in order before classes began, your options had run out. So youâd thrown on a slightly-too-tight zip-up hoodie, your collegeâs emblem half-hidden under the worn zipper, and the only clean bottom you had left: a black skirt you hadnât touched since the first day of summer.
It rode a little higher than you remembered, and paired with your bare legs and sneakers, it was far from inappropriate, but in a room where everyone else was in jeans and sweats, it made you feel seen. And not in a way you liked.
You spotted a half-empty row about midway up the lecture hall, three seats in from the aisle, and made a beeline for it, holding your skirt down as you made quick strides towards the spot that had your name written all over it. The weight of dozens of eyes prickled against your skin, but you kept moving, zeroed in on that opening like it might swallow you whole and hide you from the ogling stares.
Bob was seated near the end of that row.
His notebook was open, half a page of densely packed notes already filled in with that small, impossibly neat handwriting of his. A mechanical pencil twitched in his right hand as you approachedâstill mid-spin from the distraction you had caused. He looked like someone who took school seriously, but not obnoxiously so. His light brown hair was cropped short and a little mussed on the top, as though he hadnât quite decided whether to tame it or notâor the wind got to it and messed it up on the way to class.
He was wearing a white t-shirtâsimple, fitted just enough to hint at the softness of muscle underneath, but crisp in that way cotton gets when itâs been folded with care. Not stiff, but starched just slightly from the wash, like maybe he had just done his laundry the night before. His jeans were a classic blueânot faded or overly worn, but comfortably lived-in. No rips or frays.
His glasses were perched low on the bridge of his nose, the thin metal frames glinting faintly beneath the harsh overhead lightsâalmost silver against the warm tones of his skin. They sat just crooked enough to suggest heâd pushed them up one-handed without really thinking about it. Lenses wide and clear, catching reflections of the whiteboard, but not enough to shield the way his eyes flicked toward you the moment your footsteps slowed beside him.
He looked sun-kissed from the dying summerâlike August had clung to him a little longer than it should have. His skin was a shade deeper than it would be in a few weeksâ time, golden along his forearms and the high points of his face, like heâd spent the end of break outsideâon rooftops, maybe, or walking alone down sidewalks still radiating heat. His lips were a touch dry, his knuckles faintly rough. But he looked steady. Bright-eyed and well-rested. Like he wanted to start the semester with good intentions and achievable goals.
You stopped just beside himâhovering for half a second, your bag shifting on your shoulder as you nodded toward the empty seat a few spots in.
âSorry, just gotta get by,â You murmured, voice low and unassuming.
Bob looked up fully then and immediately shifted forward, pulling his legs in without hesitation. His knee brushed the underside of the desk as he tucked himself close to make room for you, the motion smooth but stiff like he hadnât quite expected you to speak to him. Or maybe he hadnât expected you to sound like thatâsoft, a little breathless from the walk up the gauntlet of steps, but still sharp.
You moved past him in one fluid step whispering a thanks, then your scent hit him.
It wasnât overpowering. It wasnât the cloying kind of perfume that lingered too long in a hallway. It was justâŠYou. Soft and sweet, but groundedâlike vanilla left to steep in warm skin, the subtle warmth of almond or cream trailing just behind it. Lotion maybe. Something gentle. Something worn, not sprayed on. Like it had been absorbed into your hoodie, your neck, the backs of your knees in the early September heat.
But then there was something brighter, just beneath itâlike sugar and citrus had melted into the mix. Not sharp. Not tart. Just the idea of lemon. A barely-there twist of brightness that reminded him of the first sip of a drink on a hot day. Cool. Balanced. Memorable.
It made Bob lose all his grip on the pencil in his hand, and made him straighten slightly, as his eyes glanced over to you slipping into the seat three down from his, holding your skirt against yourself so it didnât ride up when you settled. When you shiftedâonce, just enough to adjust your bag or maybe smooth your hoodieâhis eyes dropped quickly to your legs.
Bare and warm-looking in the stale lecture hall light. The skin smooth, catching little glints of reflection in a way that made him stare too long before he realized what he was doing.
His gaze jerked back up, and his pencil fell out of his hands. He fumbled to catch it before it rolled off the desk and clattered to the floor, and somehow he barely managed to do it. He cleared his throat so quietly that it didnât even echo under the dome of the lecture hall. And then he exhaled once, trying to shake off the heat that creeped up his neck, fingers curling tight around the side of his notebook.
You didnât look at him. Not once.
Not even when you pulled out your pen and your fresh, untouched notebook and started scribbling quick, efficient notes in handwriting he couldnât quite see. Not even when your fingers fidgeted once at the hem of your hoodie like you werenât sure if it was covering enough. Not even when you tilted your head slightly to the left, exposing the faint shape of your jaw and that one stubborn wisp of hair behind your ear.
You didnât look back.
But he couldnât stop glancing.
Every time there was a lull in the lectureâevery time the professor turned toward the whiteboard or paused to answer a question from across the roomâBobâs eyes slid sideways. Just for a second. Just to check.
He told himself it was just curiosity. That he hadnât seen you around before, and that this class wasnât usually the kind that brought in new faces. Not Advanced Theoretical Physics. Not on day one. And especially not someone like you.
You didnât fit the moldânot in the way you moved, not in the way you sat. There was a presence to you, even when you were quiet. Like you werenât just taking spaceâyou owned it. It made him curious. It made him distracted.
It made the last half of his notes nearly unreadable.
Heâd rewrite them later. He always did.
But heâd still remember the scent you left behind when you passed him. The subtle trace of sweetness and skin-warmed citrus that had settled in the air like something meant to haunt him.
And heâd remember that you never once looked back.
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You didnât speak to Bob until the third week of classes, when you got your first âminiâ test back and got hit with the harsh realities of the choice you had made in picking Advanced Theoretical Physics for your upper elective.
You got a 68. You had never got a 68 in your life.
Not in high school, not in your other college courses, not in anything that involved formulas or numbers or mental gymnastics you were usually proud to be good at. Being an engineering student was supposed to make classes like this feel natural. Calculation, logic, technical problem solvingâit was your bread and butter.
But this? This was humbling.
You stared down at the note the professor had written in red just beneath the grade:
âRevisit your derivationsâconceptual understanding needs tightening.â You didnât even know what the hell that meant. You had studied everything possible to prepare yourself, you knew you had been on the right track, there was no possible way this was the right grade. Your jaw flexed, and you tapped your pen once against the corner of your desk before you forced yourself to still.
You tried to breathe through the sting crawling up the back of your neck, the tightness that formed just under your ribs. This wasnât even a midtermâit wasnât supposed to matter. But to you, it did. You prided yourself on being able to handle anything. Being the kind of student professors leaned on. A leader. Someone who could run orientation like a sergeant and still ace quantum mechanics in the same week.
And here you were. With a 68 circled at the top of your page like a slap.
You let the paper fall face-down across your notebook and sighed hard through your nose.
Then you glanced over.
Three seats down, Bob was sitting quietly, glasses low on his nose again, flipping his test booklet over to the back like he wanted to get one more long look at it before class officially started.
You caught a glimpse of the front page as he didâand there it was. Written in the same red your grade was given in, unmistakable in the overhead light.
97.
Clean, confident. Circled big enough to make a statement.
He didnât look smug about it. Not exactly. But there was something in the way he stared at that number, his brows lifting faintly as if confirming to himself, Yeah, that sounds right. His lips were pressed together in a close-lipped smile, the kind people wear when theyâve worked hard and know it paid off. He tapped the eraser end of his pencil against the bottom of the page once. Then again.
Pleased as punch.
You didnât mean to keep staringâbut it was hard to look away.
His black t-shirt was tucked just barely into the waistband of his jeans today, like heâd rushed to get dressed but still managed to look clean and composed. His hair looked softer, freshly washed maybe, curling a little more than normal without any product in his hair. The sun-kissed flush along his cheekbones hadnât faded just yet, but it was slowly revealing little patches of paleness beneath it. The silver frames of his glasses caught the light again as he leaned slightly forward, flipping to a fresh page in his notebook to take pre-class notes even though nothing had started yet.
He wasâŠPrepared. Calm, and clearly good at this.
And you were not evidently.
You sat back slowly in your seat, gaze flicking toward the whiteboard, but your mind was still racing. Not with formulas. Not with panic. But with something slower, more deliberate.
You needed help. That much was obvious.
And unfortunatelyâor maybe fortunatelyâthe only person who hadnât fumbled through the last three weeks with shaky handwriting and unsure eyes was sitting just three seats away.
ThenâŠYou made a decision you never thought you would be making in a class you expected to be good in.
You were going to ask him for help.
It went against every fibre in your beingâthe pride you carried like a shield, the belief that if you just studied harder, dug deeper, figured it out on your own, youâd make it through. Thatâs how it had always worked before. You didnât need tutors. You didnât ask for things.
But your test score was still burning a hole through your notebook, and Bob Floyd was still sitting three seats down, calmly annotating equations while half the class looked like they were on the verge of weeping. He definitely had the highest mark and there was no denying that, and you had to pick his brain to see if you could emulate the same genius level thinking. Maybe there was a secret to it all, and he would somehow share it with you so you could make a quick recovery and still grasp honours at the end of the semesterâŠAt this point youâd take even the craziest solutions to save yourself from another embarrassing mark.
SoâŠYou waited until the end of the lecture.
It took everything in you not to bolt out the second the professor dismissed the room. You always left quicklyâefficientlyâavoiding the post-class shuffle of students with questions or headphones already in. But today you stayed seated, even as the sound of backpacks zipping and notebooks slamming shut rose around you like thunder. You didnât move, just flicked your pen closed and kept your eyes on the spiral binding of your notes until most of the room had emptied.
You packed up faster than usual, sweeping your things into your bag in quiet, practiced movementsâbut you left your test out, folded once, red ink still just barely visible beneath the crease. Your hands felt warm. A little clammy. The kind of nervous energy you hadnât felt since your very first midterm in undergrad. But you stood anyway.
Bob was still at his desk, leaning forward, transcribing the last few formulas the professor had scribbled across the bottom corner of the board. His notebook looked the same as alwaysâclean lines, small print, mechanical pencil pressed tight to the paper like he didnât know how to be imprecise.
You made your way down the row, test in hand, and stopped just short of his space. The words were already forming in your mouth, even before he noticed you.
You cleared your throat. âHey⊠Sorry to bother you. Youâre Bob, right?â
His head snapped up fast, and his eyes locked onto yours like he hadnât expected you to actually exist this close.
âUhâyeah,â He replied, âYeah. Bob Floyd.â
Youâd caught him off guard. You could tell by the way he blinked, like he had to reset. His mouth parted slightly, lips soft and chapped in the middle, and thenâalmost as if he remembered he was supposed to be someone in this momentâhe cleared his throat and sat up straighter.
âYouâreâŠY/N? Right?â
You nodded. âYeah.â
He held out his hand, a little unsure. âNice to meet you.â
You hesitated for a beatâbecause it wasnât every day someone in a physics class offered a handshakeâbut you took it. His palm was warm and dry, his grip a little firm at first, like he hadnât meant for it to feel that strong.
His fingers were long. His nails clean, almost manicured in a way that surprised you. His thumb brushed yours briefly, and for a second, the contact lingered just a little too long.
You let go, and Bob rubbed his hand on the knee of his jeans as you both sat in the pause that followed, air slightly charged.
You werenât wearing anything special todayâjust an old cropped t-shirt that rode up when you lifted your arms and a pair of low-slung sweatpants that had long since given up trying to cling to your hips. A hoodie hung open over it all, soft with wear. It wasnât much. Just lazy comfort. But something in the way Bobâs eyes dropped for half a secondâjust below the hem to a flicker of skin at your waistâtold you it wasnât invisible either.
He gulped again, trying to recover from being caught.
You cleared your throat. âSo, uh⊠I was wondering if you offer tutoring or something. I kinda bombed that first mini quiz.â His brows lifted over the rim of his glassesâan expression halfway between surprise and amusement.
âIâŠI donât offer it or anything,â He said, already fumbling a little, âBut I can help, if thatâs what youâre looking forâŠHow bad did you do?â He asked, trying not to assume the worst, but knowing there was a possibility he was going to see a fairly bad mark, judging by the conversations that happened behind him when the tests were handed out at the beginning of class. You flipped the test open toward him, and he stared at the 68, a smirk drawing up on his lips. He let out a short, soft laugh through his nose, more of a warm exhale than anything mean.
âI meanâŠItâs not great, but Iâve seen worse.â You raised your eyebrows at him and smirked faintly.
âHow comforting.â You mumbled. He shifted in his seat, thumb rubbing across the corner of his notebook like he wasnât sure what to do with his hands. His gaze didnât meet yours directly; it just hovered somewhere around your shoulder, your mouth, and your hair. He was still absorbing the fact you were in front of him asking to be tutored.
âI can definitely help you bring your grade up. Itâs early enough in the semester to get it back on track.â He explained. Something in his voice steadiedâlike the gears in his brain had finally clicked into place. Like this was territory he knew how to navigate. Structure. Process. Solutions. A small smile tugged at your lips. A breath of relief rushed through you before you could stop it.
âThank you so much,â You replied. And then, already leaning in with eagerness, âWhen can we get started?â Bob paused, chewing on the inside of his cheek as his eyes flicked slightly upwardâthinking, scanning the mental file cabinet of his day.
âWe could do todayâŠYou could meet me at the library,â He suggested, after a second, âI'm free after four.â You wrinkled your nose a little, already shaking your head.
âThe libraryâs kind of a distraction for me,â You admitted. âItâs always too loudâsomeoneâs always coughing or typing like theyâre in a race. Even the reserved study roomsâŠI donât know, it never really works for me.â
Bob tilted his head a little, listening closely, waiting for you to present a different option.
You hesitated for just a second before offering, more carefully now, âIf you feel okay with itâŠWe could study at my dorm? Itâs definitely quieter. And thereâs not much to get distracted by.â
You didnât say it with any kind of tone. No flirt, no implication. Just facts. Just a space.
But Bobâs throat tightened anyway.
His mind, helpful as ever, immediately conjured the imageâyour dorm. What it looked like. What it might smell like. You curled up in your desk chair, with your hair pushed out of your face, sleeves rolled, and a half-empty mug of tea or coffee next to an open binder. Maybe your bed was still unmade. Maybe there was a bottle of lotion on your nightstand in the same scent that clung to you now, soft and sweet and skin-warmed.
He swallowed.
Hard.
Not because he had any ulterior motives. Not because he thought anything would happen. But because it had been a long time since heâd been invited into someoneâs space like that. A womanâs space. A woman like youâall sharp eyes and soft smiles, casual comfort and effortless pull.
âYeah,â He agreed, clearing his throat and nodding. âYeah, thatâs totally fine. If youâre comfortable with it.â
âI wouldnât have offered it if I wasnât,â You said easily, and the way you said itâso certain, so casualâmade something tighten low in his stomach again.
âOkay,â He replied, and he finally looked at you. His blue eyes were steady behind his glasses, a little glassy from the fluorescents, but locked on yours. âJust email me your dorm number. Iâll bring the notes, you bring the test, and weâll make a plan.â
You grinned, and god, it hit him like a sucker punch. Like something he hadnât braced for.
âDeal.â
And then you turned, backpack swinging over one shoulder, hoodie hem swaying against your hips as you made your way back up the aisle.
Bob sat still for a moment. Longer than he meant to.
He hadnât even packed up yet.
It took him another ten seconds before he finally exhaled, shoved his pencil into the spiral of his notebook, and muttered to himself under his breathâ
ââŠWay to make this hard for yourselfâŠYou dummy.â
ââââââââ
Your dorm wasnât anything glamorousâbut it was yours, and that made all the difference.
When you unlocked the door and pushed it open after class, you were immediately met with the familiar scent of fabric softener and the faint citrus-vanilla from the reed diffuser you kept on the dresser. The room was small, technically a single dorm, but it was just enough space for you to carve out your version of comfort. Still, as you stood in the doorway, backpack slipping off one shoulder, you looked around and immediately thought that there was no way in hell it was going to stay like this, especially with a guest coming over.
You dropped your bag near the door, and got to work immediately.
The bed was first. You hadnât made it this morningâjust rolled out with your alarm still going, one arm flung across your eyes as you reached blindly for your phone, groggy and unwilling to admit the day had started. The sheets were still tangled, your navy-blue comforter half-slid to the floor, the corner twisted around your foot in your sleep. You tugged it all back with quick, practiced tugs, smoothing the fitted sheet until the last of the sleep wrinkles vanished under your palm.
Your comforter had a faint rip in the seam on the left side near your hipâstitched up once, badly, with mismatched thread. Youâd done it the second week of your freshman year, the night youâd fallen asleep sobbing after a brutal call with your high school boyfriend, and woken up the next morning tangled so tightly in the blanket that it tore when you got up. You never fixed it properly. You kind of liked the scar.
You fluffed the single throw pillow you used for your headâan old one, pillowcase faded with soft clouds printed across pale blue fabric. Not the prettiest, but it felt like home. And the long body pillow you always fell asleep huggingâcream-colored, with one end slightly more smushed than the otherâwent right in its usual spot against the wall. A comfort thing. You didnât sleep well without it.
Then you moved to your desk.
It was more shelf than desk, sureâbut it held your brain in neat, tiny pieces. Notes, sticky tabs, a single battered wire basket for loose paper, and a coffee mug you never drank out of that just held highlighters, lip balm, and the same pair of scissors youâd had since high school. You stacked your textbooks neatlyâphysics, mechanics, one painfully dry thermodynamics manualâand slid your notebook on top, flipping it to the most recent page so Bob wouldnât see your chaotic post-lab scrawl from earlier in the week.
There was a Polaroid pinned to the corkboard just above the workspaceâone of you and your best friend from home, taken in your kitchen during winter break. You were both in pajamas, mid-laugh, a sliver of frosting from a baking experiment smeared across your nose. You paused for a moment, fixing the pin to straighten it, and sighed.
Your reed diffuser sat on the corner of the dresserâthree pale wooden sticks soaked in a warm citrus-vanilla scent that reminded you of summer mornings and freshly folded laundry. The bottle was nearly empty now. You shouldâve replaced it weeks ago, but you kept putting it off. There was something comforting about the familiar scent, even as it faded.
Near it sat a tiny glass tray shaped like a shell, where you kept rings you barely wore and two hair ties you always reached for. One had stretched out completely, the elastic barely holding togetherâbut you refused to throw it away. It had survived too many late-night study sessions, too many chaotic mornings before class. It had history.
You lit your desk lampâthe one with the soft yellow bulb, not the bright blue-white you hated. It cast a glow across the room that made it look gentler, less like a dorm and more like a nook carved from a novel. Cozy. Private. You turned off the overhead light and stood there for a second, letting yourself just look. The soft shadows, the freshly made bed, the diffuserâs scent hanging lightly in the air.
You sigh, satisfied with your work, eyes scanning over the room once more. Everything was in its place. Not perfect, maybeâbut it looked lived in, cared for, warm. It looked like you.
With that final breath of approval, you turned toward the door tucked just beside your dresserâthe greatest stroke of luck youâd had all year.
An attached bathroom.
Single dorms were hard enough to land as a second-year, but a single with a private bathroom? That was near mythic. Your RA had called it the âhousing lottery jackpot,â and you hadnât argued. No communal showers meant no mildew smell clinging to your towel, no forgotten flip-flops, andâbest of allâno awkward small talk with girls brushing their teeth beside you at midnight.
You stepped inside, shutting the door behind you with a soft click, and reached for your phone on the counter. 3:30 PM. Forty-five minutes, give or take.
Bob said âafter four,â but something told you he wasnât the type to be late. You werenât sure if that meant heâd be earlyâbut either way, you werenât risking being caught in your towel when he showed up at your door.
Without much thought, you tugged your clothes off in a few quick motions and tossed them into the hamper tucked beside the sink. The hoodie fell in a heap, the fabric heavy with the dayâs wear. Your cropped t-shirt was damp at the neckline, your waistband creased from sitting through the afternoon lecture. It all smelled faintly of the campus and the late-summer airâsun-warmed concrete, paper, and the barest hint of classroom chalk.
You flicked on the fan and twisted the shower knob until the water reached the right balance of hotâjust shy of scalding.
Steam bloomed in the narrow space like it had been waiting, curling along the top of the curtain and fogging the mirror in soft, slow layers. You stepped in, letting the heat rush over your shoulders in a way that made your muscles go slack and your eyelids flutter briefly closed. You werenât indulging, not really. You just needed to rinse the day awayâstrip it off like a second skin, let the tension from your shoulders drain down the tiles and vanish with the suds.
While the water beat down over the back of your neck, your thoughts began to drift.
Even though this was just a tutoring sessionâjust notes, formulas, and a second chance at a first impressionâit felt bigger than that.
You hadnât brought a guy into your room in months.
Not since youâd drawn that invisible line in the sandâthe one that said: this space is mine and mine only. Not since you started guarding your time, your energy, and your peace. You werenât a prudeâfar from it. You werenât closed off either. You justâŠStopped inviting chaos into your life. And sometimes, chaos looked like someone elseâs backpack thrown on your floor, someone elseâs hand on your thigh or under the waistband of your sweatpants, or someone elseâs voice asking, âDo you mind if I crash here tonight?â
You didnât miss it.
But stillâwhen you looked Bob Floyd in the eyes and suggested your dorm like it was no big deal, like it didnât mean anythingâsomething in your chest had fluttered. Not panic. Not excitement. Just a shift.
A crack in the routine.
Now, standing under the steaming pulse of your shower, with the scent of citrus shampoo rising like vapor and the water cascading down your spine, you realized you hadnât really prepared yourself for that part.
Bob Floyd. In your dorm. Sitting on your bed, or at your deskâŠBreathing in your space.
You didnât think it would be weird. He didnât seem like the type to make things uncomfortable. If anything, he seemed like the kind of guy whoâd knock twice even after you told him the door was open. He was polite. Mild-mannered. A little tightly wound in a way that made you think he probably alphabetized his class folders.
But you didnât know him.
And it was dawning on you, as you tilted your face into the stream and let it blur your vision with heat, that this was only the second conversation youâd had with him. Two conversations, and now you were inviting him into the most intimate space a student could haveâyour dorm. Your bedroom. Your sanctuary. A place where your throw blanket still held the scent of last weekâs laundry, and where your pillowcase had that faint stretch of mascara from the night you fell asleep before washing your face.
What if he thought it was messy?
What if he thought you were messy?
What if he saw the tangled cords beside your bed or the half-finished cup of coffee on your nightstand and assumed you were the kind of person who couldnât get it togetherâeven when your whole reputation said otherwise?
What if he looked at your 68 again, and thought you were dumb suddenly?
You hated that thought most of all.
You werenât dumb. You knew you werenât. You were sharp, resilient, calculated when it matteredâand still, you wondered if heâd already made up his mind about you. Academic ego like hisâ97s without breaking a sweatâprobably came with an equally inflated sense of who could keep up. Maybe he was too polite to say it, but what if he thought you were just another pretty girl in a hard class, grasping for help she hadnât earned?
You scrubbed your hands over your scalp trying to shake the thought loose, because it didnât matter what he thought.
Right?
Youâd asked for help. That was the whole point. And heâd agreed. Heâd said yes without hesitationâwell, after a small nervous stammer, but still. Heâd seemed open. Kind, even. And if you were being honest with yourselfâand not just stewing in self-preservationâyou didnât think he saw you that way. Not as dense. Not as helpless. If anything, he seemed genuinely surprised that youâd asked him at all. Like he hadnât expected someone like you to even talk to someone like him.
You rinsed the last remnants of soap and shampoo off your body, letting the moment pass.
You werenât going to overthink this.
He was coming over, he was going to sit down. You were going to go through your test and try and work through the incorrect answers, maybe laugh once or twice, and youâd be one step closer to not failing this class.
That was it.
You shut off the water, the sudden silence deafening in the tiny bathroom.
Steam clung to every surface. You wiped your hand across the mirror, catching your own reflection looking back at youâa few beads of water dripping from your hair, over your collarbones, down over your breasts, the light reflecting off of them like little glowing orbs.
You wrapped yourself in a towel, padded out onto the tile, and toweled your hair dry with slow, deliberate motions. Youâd keep things light. Professional. Youâd study. Youâd ask questions. Youâd nod along when he explained something that made sense. And thenâ
You paused.
Then maybeâŠMaybe youâd ask what his secret was. The 97. The sharp notes. The calm in his hands. The look in his eyes when he first saw you walking up those lecture hall stairs. Not because you wanted anything from it.
But because part of you was justâŠCurious.
You stepped out of the bathroom wrapped in the last traces of damp heat, the steam still clinging faintly to your skin like a second breath. The scent of your shampoo followed you into the roomâlight citrus, clean warmth, a kind of quiet comfortâand you padded barefoot across the tile, leaving soft marks on the floor that vanished almost as soon as they appeared.
Your eyes flicked to the digital clock on your nightstand.
3:55 PM.
Of course it was. Right on the edge of too early, which meant Bob would probably be here right on timeâmaybe even five minutes ahead, just to be polite. Just to prove he meant it when he said he took this seriously.
You crossed the room in quick, practiced steps, flipping through your clothes without ceremony. You didnât want to overthink it. You couldnât overthink it. You were still a little warm from the shower, your skin flushed and hair damp, and the last thing you needed was to feel sweat pooling under a too-thick hoodie while trying to understand whatever theoretical mind game was about to come your way.
So you grabbed a soft t-shirtâa light heather grey, already worn thin in spots from too many washesâand a pair of black workout shorts that hit mid-thigh. Functional. Comfortable. No-nonsense. You pulled them on in a few quick motions, not bothering with makeup or overthinking how the shorts made your legs look in the soft afternoon light that filtered through the slits of your blinds. It wasnât about that.
You hung up your towels quickly on the hook by the door, turned to your desk, and yanked open the middle drawer with a quiet clatter. Your whiteboard markers were all crammed into a cup at the backâcaps loose, labels fading. You pulled out four of themâblue, green, red, and blackâand lined them up on your desk next to your notebook like youâd planned it that way all along. Some kind of subconscious need for control, maybe. Or maybe you just didnât want Bob to see you fumbling for supplies mid-conversation.
Then you reached for the test. The test. The damn 68, still folded and creased and red-inked like a bruise on paper. You slapped it onto the desk with a sigh, the sound small but sharp in the quiet of the room. Your hands slid to your hips. You stared at it for a long second.
This was where it would start. Hopefully where it would turn around.
And thenâjust as your breath settled and you were about to pull your chair outâ
Knock knock.
Two firm taps.
Not tentative. Not obnoxious. JustâŠPrecisely delivered. Like heâd rehearsed it.
You sighed. Not from dreadâbut from inevitability. From the knowledge that this, right here, was the moment it would all shift. You rolled your shoulders once, exhaled through your nose, and crossed the room in five brisk steps.
You pulled the door open.
And there he was.
Bob Floyd stood just outside, backpack slung over one shoulder, a black three-ring binder hugged awkwardly to his chest like he didnât quite know what to do with it. He had changed. He was wearing a navy t-shirt that clung just enough to his chest to remind you that he was broader than he looked seated in a lecture hall. His jeans were dark againâclean, cuffed slightly at the ankle because they were a little too long for his legsâand his sneakers looked freshly wiped down, as if heâd paused just outside the dorm building to rub them clean against the concrete.
His glasses were perched on his nose again, slightly fogged at the corners from the outside humidity. His hair was still a little mussed, like the wind had gotten to himâor maybe heâd run his hand through it on the walk over. His eyes met yours instantly, wide and a little unsure, like he was trying to memorize the moment.
âHey,â He said, and it came out just a little too soft.
You leaned against the doorframe, one hand curled around the edge of it, the other still resting lightly on your hip. You didnât mean to look casualâbut you did. Warm skin. Damp hair. Legs bare in your shorts. You were dressed like comfort, like late afternoon, like a version of home he wasnât expecting to see.
âHey,â You returned. A small smile tugged at your lips. âRight on time.â
âIâuh, yeah.â Bob adjusted the strap on his backpack like it gave him something to do. âDidnât wanna be early. Or, you know, too early. But also didnât wanna be late.â
You stepped aside. âYouâre good. Come on in.â
He hesitated just slightly before crossing the threshold, like he was stepping into a space that demanded a kind of reverence. And maybe, in a way, he was. His eyes swept the room instinctively, slow and deliberateânot nosey, just observant. His gaze skimmed over the bed, the desk, the glow of the warm lamp light, the closed bathroom door. Then back to you.
You watched him take it all in. The details. The neatness. The quiet hum of your diffuser still at work in the corner.
âThis isâŠNice,â He said finally. And he meant it. âLike, really nice. Kinda cozy.â
You smirked like you hadnât been panic cleaning for the past hour or two, âI try.âHe nodded once, still a little awestruck, like he wasnât entirely sure how heâd ended up here.
âSmells good tooâŠLike you baked something.â You raised an eyebrow at him and gave a small laugh, motioning behind him.
âItâs just my diffuser.â Bobâs gaze drifted toward the thin plume of steam rising from your dresser, his face going slightly blush.
âOhâŠâ He blinked. âDidnât notice that.â
The corners of his mouth twitched upward in a sheepish little smile, soft and crooked. He ran his palm over the front of his jeans like it might smooth over the awkward pause that followed.
You glanced over your shoulder at him, brow arched.
âWell,â You started, already moving toward your desk, âYou can sit anywhere youâd like. Iâm just gonna pull my whiteboard out so we have somewhere to work.â
He opened his mouthâmaybe to respond, maybe to stallâbut you cut in before the silence could return. âDo you want anything to drink? Iâve got water, Sprite, orâŠâ you paused with a shrug, âan emergency stash of energy drinks if youâre into heart palpitations.â
Bob let out a short laugh, ducking his head as his fingers scratched the back of his neck. âWaterâs good, thank you. Do you⊠need any help with anything?â
You shook your head with a quiet chuckle, already crouching to slide the whiteboard from behind your desk. âItâs all good, I got it.â
âYou sure?â
âIâm sure,â you replied with a grin. âJust get comfortable.â
Bob hesitated for a beatâthen nodded once and toed off his shoes with quiet care, tucking them neatly beside the frame of your bed. The soft creak of your mattress followed as he eased himself up onto it, adjusting his binder across his lap. He settled back against your pillows like someone trying not to disturb a shrine. His back met the wall in a slow, deliberate lean, shoulders squaring before his legs stretched out in front of him, one knee bent just slightly.
You were still crouched in front of your desk, tugging the whiteboard forward and flipping the eraser out of the marker tray with practiced ease. When you stood and propped the board upright against the far wallâangled so you could sit beside the bed and still reach itâBobâs gaze caught on you again.
He wasnât proud of it. But he couldnât help it.
The soft sheen on your legs caught the warm light from your desk lamp, the moisture from your shower still clinging in subtle streaks across your skin. Your shorts were tightâthey were the kind that followed the natural dip of your thighs when you bent forward, holding you in all the right places. Every angle pulled his attention. The curve where your hip met your waist, the shadow along the back of your knee when you adjusted your weight. You were only wearing a t-shirt and shorts, nothing scandalous, nothing remotely calculatedâbut Bob felt like he was seeing something private.
Like youâd invited him into something sacred and forgot to mention just how much of you lived here.
He cleared his throat and glanced out the window beside your bed, the blinds slatted just enough to let in the softest touch of late afternoon sun. The light was golden. Low. Hazy in the kind of way that made everything look suspended in time.
He told himself to focus. On the equations. On the test in your hand. On the notes in his binder.
Not on the way your legs moved when you crossed the room again, not on the lotion-sweet smell of you that lingered now even stronger than it had that first day in class, and not on the sight of youârelaxed and warm and totally unguardedâin a way he hadnât seen before.
You crossed the room with a bottle of water and handed it to him without fuss, and when your fingers brushed, he felt the jolt of it deep in his chest.
âThanks,â He said quietly, cradling the bottle like a peace offering.
You gave him a smile. Not teasing, not knowing. Just kind. Grounded. Unbothered.
And that made it worse somehow. Made it harder not to stare. Harder not to wonder what this was becoming, and how much trouble he was in already.
Because he could memorize equations. He could build models, ace problem sets, and calculate theoretical orbital mechanics in his sleep.
But none of that had prepared him for you.
You didnât sit right away.
Instead, you hovered just beside the whiteboard for a moment longer, the test clutched in your hand, thumb brushing over the red mark like maybe you could fade it out with friction alone. But Bob waited patientlyâquiet, composed, the bottle of water still nestled in his lap like he didnât quite know what to do with his hands yet.
You held the test out toward him. âAlright, letâs see how bad it really is.â
Bob offered a faint, crooked smile as he took the folded packet, careful not to smudge the corners with condensation from the bottle. He flipped it open to the first page, eyes scanning the first problem set. His gaze moved quicklyâbut not dismissively. He was reading, really reading, lips parting slightly as he traced your work with his eyes.
Then his brows lifted, just a touchânot surprise, but curiosity.
âCan youâŠâ He glanced up at you, the glint of his glasses catching the light again, âshow me how you got this answer? Go through it with meâŠI just want to pick your brain first. See your logic a bit.â
You hesitated, just for a beat.
Not because you didnât remember how you got the answer. You did. You remembered every painful minute of trying to pull it out of thin air, piecing together old lecture notes and half-remembered formulas from late-night readings. But the thought of speaking it out loud? Of saying it in front of him?
That part feltâŠVulnerable.
You bit the inside of your lip for a second, eyes flicking from the board to his face, then back again. Then, without a word, you bent down and picked up the black marker.
Bob leaned forward just slightly, shifting the binder onto the mattress beside him as you uncapped it with your teeth and started writing on the board. The soft squeak of dry erase on the surface filled the room.
âOkay,â You said finally, your voice steadier than you expected, âSo the question was asking about particle behavior in a non-inertial reference frame, right? So I assumed we were supposed to use the rotating frame model the prof showed us last week. The one with the centrifugal and Coriolis corrections?â Bob nodded slowly, eyes locked on the board, on your hand.
You started to drawâcarefully, neatly, the way you always did when trying to make sense of something. A circle. A line to represent the radius. Arrows for velocity, angular acceleration. You wrote out the base equation next to it, then began working through your substitutions.
âI plugged in the knowns here,â you continued, underlining as you spoke, âand then tried to isolate the pseudo-forcesâŠbut I think I misapplied the coordinate system. I used polar, but I think the solution assumed Cartesian.â
Bob made a small hum in the back of his throatâsoft, thoughtful. You glanced back at him.
He was watching you. Focused, engaged. Almost the look a professor would give when they saw potential flickering just beneath a studentâs mistake, and that made your throat tighten from the nerves that began to bubble over in your stomach.
Bob shifted again, the mattress dipping softly beneath his weight as he leaned forward, one hand braced on the bed beside his binder. âNo, thatâs good,â He murmured. âThatâs actually really good. You werenât wrong to try it that way. I think the issueâs just hereââHe reached for the red marker from your stack, uncapping it with a soft click.
âSee how you treated this term?â He pointed gently toward a partial derivative in your equation, careful not to touch the board. âYou factored it like it was independent, but because itâs nested in the rotating frame, it still has angular dependence. Thatâs what threw the rest off.â
You blinked at the board, then at him.
âWaitâŠSo if Iâd just accounted for the cross-product instead of canceling itâŠâ
âYou wouldâve landed within the margin of error,â He finished, smiling softly. âEasily a B. Maybe even B+ depending on how much partial credit he gave.â You stared at your own math like it had betrayed you and then slowly dropped your hand to your side, still holding the marker.
âThatâŠMakes so much more sense,â You said, voice a little quieter now. Not embarrassed. Just a little humbled.
Bob stood up slowly, the mattress giving a soft groan beneath him as he rose. His steps were quiet but sure as he moved to stand beside you at the whiteboard, marker still poised in his hand like a baton he didnât quite realize heâd taken control of. You stepped slightly to the side to give him space, though your shoulders still nearly brushed.
His voice came low, steady, as he started to rewrite the middle portion of your equation. His handwriting was sharp and balancedâblocky print with just a hint of slant, the kind of penmanship that spoke of hours spent copying down formula after formula with care.
âYour approach wasnât bad,â He started, glancing at you just briefly before continuing, âSeriously. You just went too fast on the middle step, thatâs allâŠAnd honestly?â He let out a breathy, half-laugh. âThatâs the part that gets everyone.â You let out a quiet, half-aware chuckleâmore breath than voice.
âWellâŠEvidently it doesnât get you. Youâre the one that got a 97.â
Bob flushed immediately. The back of his neck went pink first, then the tips of his ears. He ducked his head as he kept writing, though his next words carried a little laugh of their own.
âIâm a physics major,â He said. âSo I better be getting that mark or else Iâd be needing a refund from the school.â
You let out a real laugh at thatâlight, short, amusedâand crossed your arms loosely over your chest, watching him scribble through the rest of the correction with a kind of practiced rhythm.
âNo wonder youâre so good at thisâŠâ You muttered, more to yourself than him, but loud enough for him to catch.
Bobâs head tilted slightly toward you. âWhatâre you majoring in?â
You scratched the back of your neck, mildly self-conscious. âEngineering.â
He pausedâjust long enough to let the silence feel deliberateâand then let out a short, knowing laugh. âAhh. Now it makes sense.â
You raised a brow, narrowing your eyes in mock warning. âWhatâs that supposed to mean?â
âYou guys are chronic overthinkers,â He stated, like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
You scoffed, uncrossing your arms. âAnd you guys arenât? Please. Look at all the work you need to do just to get a simple solution. Two extra diagrams and four substitutions just to prove a particle moves left.â
He rolled his eyes, the kind of eye roll that had barely any edgeâjust enough sass to keep the playfulness alive. âLeast if I took an engineering course, Iâd still hit an 80 on the tests.â
You blinked at him. âWow. Bold of you to assume youâd survive statics.â
Bob turned toward you a little more, raising an eyebrow, eyes glittering behind the faint reflection on his glasses. âIâd thrive in statics.â
âOh, really?â you said, grinning now. âYou think you would have a handle on it?â He cleared his throat lightly and gave you a soft smirk, the corner of his mouth curling.
âMaybe if I had the right tutor.â You blinked once. And thenâŠSmiled.
He turned back to the board and finished the last line of the solution with a soft swipe of the marker.
âThere,â He said, voice quieter again. âThatâs how I did it.â
You stared at the board, then at him. The space between your shoulders eased a little. The knot in your chest began to loosen.
âWellâŠThatâs one question downâŠAt least I know where I went wrongâŠâ Bob nodded, tapping the cap of the red marker softly against his palm.
âLetâs go to the next one.â
You reached over to flip the test packet to the next problem set, fingers skimming over the thin paper before tugging the top page aside. The math was already crowding your visionâvariables stacked in tight lines, subscripts nestled between integrals and force vectorsâand you let out a breath as you raised the black marker again.
He stepped back slightly to give you room, standing just behind and to your left. You could feel the warmth of him, the quiet energy he held so close to his chest, just skimming your shoulder. You swiped the board clean with the eraser in a few broad, practiced strokes until nothing remained but the faint sheen of leftover marker ghosting the surface.
âIâm gonna admit,â You started, glancing at him from the corner of your eye, âI winged this one. So Iâm definitely not gonna have an explanation for it.â
Bob shrugged, unbothered. âThen solve it,â He said casually. âOr attempt to. Iâll guide if you need it.â
There was a subtle shift in his toneâsomething a little less guarded, a little more drawled than usual. A slight southern cadence that lilted through the last few words, soft but present, like a warm hush pulled from somewhere deeper than lecture hall confidence. You felt your cheeks heat slightly at the sound.
Still, you nodded. âAlright.â
You started from scratchâno notes, no copying, just your best attempt. The marker glided smoothly under your hand as you worked through the logic piece by piece, pausing every few steps to reassess. You murmured quietly to yourself as you went, instinctively talking through the math aloud, and Bob said nothingâjust watched. You could feel his eyes trace the path your gaze took, from the top of your diagram down through the first few steps of your math. Thenâ
âNope. Wrong,â He interrupted, it came gently but firmly.
You blinked at the board, your hand frozen mid-step, and let out a quiet sigh. âWhy?â
He stepped forward again, lifting the red marker. He didnât correct it for youâjust circled one specific term, the ink smooth and patient.
âThis,â He pointed out, âYou forgot to convert the mass into angular components. You treated it like a point mass.â
Your stomach sank just slightly. Not out of shame, but frustration. You dipped your head and started erasing that line.
âSorry,â You murmured, almost under your breath.
âNo need to apologize,â Bob said immediately, softer now. âThough Iâm hopinâ this stuff sinks inâŠâ
Your eyebrows knit, and you turned your head a little toward him. âDo you think it wonât?â
He shrugged, the barest lift of his shoulders. âIt takes a while to apply the theory. Knowing it in your headâs one thingâŠApplying it to a random question is something elseâŠBut being able to fix your own mistakes is the first step to understanding things a little better to apply things properly.â You nodded once, pressing your lips together. Then you went back to work, quieter now, more deliberate. He watched you fall into the rhythm of the solution again, only stepping back when you didnât seem to need his guidance. You could feel his eyes flicking down toward the test for a second before he moved behind you.
You heard the soft scrape of his hand over the textbook as he grabbed it from your desk, flipping it open with a practiced flick of his thumb. Pages whispered past each other as he navigated straight to the chapter youâd been tested onâlike heâd memorized the structure without even meaning to. His eyes scanned the problems, fingers tapping the margin of the page as he skimmed.
By the time he turned back around, you were capping the black marker with a little sigh of effort. âI think I got it?â
Bob came closer again and tilted his head to read your work. His gaze moved from line to line, his mouth twitching just slightly before he nodded.
âYeah. Yeah, you got it.â You caught the smile as it crept over his faceâunfiltered this time, soft and a little proud. He adjusted his glasses with one hand, pushing them up the bridge of his nose before holding out the textbook toward you, with his thumb slipped between the pages.
âTry number twelve,â He said, the corner of his mouth still lifted. âNew problem. Same concept. Letâs see what you remember.â Your eyes scanned the paragraph of setupâclassic physics problem: rotating frame, non-uniform mass distribution, some sly attempt to catch overconfident students slipping past the conversion factor. You clicked your tongue once and let your focus shift back to the whiteboard, grabbing the green marker this time.
He watched you moveâquiet, efficient, no hesitation as you picked apart the language of the question, breaking it into manageable parts. You leaned your hip against the desk just slightly, skin catching the late-afternoon light in the softest gleam. Your fingers danced over your phone screen, pulling up the calculator, thumb tapping with precise rhythm as your eyes flicked between the numbers and the formulas.
Bob didnât even try to pretend he wasnât staring anymore.
There was a faint shimmer along your shoulder from where the light met your skin, a dewy glow from the shower that hadnât fully faded. You were chewing softly on the inside of your cheek, eyes narrowed in concentration, and he thoughtâbriefly, helplesslyâthat he could watch you solve problems forever if it meant watching you like this.
You didnât say anything. Not for the full ten minutes it took you to work it through.
You just calculated, and wrote, and thought. You whispered a few fragments to yourself as you filled in a diagram at the top right corner of the board, then traced your logic through in smooth, deliberate steps. You stepped back finally, the marker hanging loosely from your fingers, your other hand planted lightly on your hip.
You turned slightly toward him.
âWell?â You asked. âWhatâs the verdict?â
Bob blinkedâonce, hard. Then blinked again.
âRight,â He replied quickly, moving forward, the textbook now tucked under one arm. He studied your work for a moment, leaning in just enough to squint at one portion of your substitutions. His lips pressed together.
âYou did most of it right,â He murmured, pointing to a midsection of your math. âThis partâs goodâŠBut you forgot to apply the correction hereââ He tapped gently on a bracketed term near the top. âThat throws the coefficient off. Stillâpartial credit would be earned. Itâs not like youâd lose all the points.â
You let out a breath and nodded. âGot it.â
Bob uncapped the red marker again and leaned forward, elbow bent as he carefully scribbled a correction in the margin beside your step. His handwriting was still annoyingly neat, even in red, even when rushed. He talked you through it slowly, the pace gentle but firm, breaking down the terms like a translation instead of a reprimand.
Your arms crossed as you leaned against the edge of the desk, chin tilted toward him slightly. He didnât rush, didnât sound superiorâhe justâŠTaught. Like he wanted you to understand it, not just memorize it.
You smirked.
âYou should become a professor with the way you teach.â
Bob glanced over his shoulder at you, an amused little tilt to his head. âWhy? Am I boring you?â
You let out a real laugh this time, low and warm and amused. âNo. Not yet, at least.â
He turned a little more to face you, one hand still holding the red marker.
âDonât speak too soon,â He warned, the corners of his mouth pulling into a slow, boyish grin. âIâm sure Iâve got a lot more opportunities to do that.â
And even though the whiteboard still glowed behind him, filled with formulas and diagrams and half-solved questions, all you could see was the quiet crinkle at the corner of his eyes, and the way his voiceâsoft, sincereâalmost sounded like a promise.
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Bobâs elbows rested on his knees, fingers loosely laced, binder long forgotten beside him on the bed.
You were pacing.
Again.
Back and forth in front of your desk, your physics textbook open in your hands like it might suddenly say something different if you glared hard enough at the chapter title.
âI donât understand,â You huffed, fingers tightening around the spine of the book. âWeâve been working through these questions almost every night for the past two weeks. Iâm getting them very close to right when I do them here. I know what Iâm doing on the whiteboard, Iâm getting partial credit in classâbut then I sit down during the quiz and itâs likeâŠLike my brain just decides to take a smoke break.â
Bob watched you quietly from the bed, his gaze flicking down briefly as your shirt lifted with your movements. The hem rose just enough to show the waistband of the boxer shorts youâd thrown on after your shower, the edge of soft cotton skimming the top of your thighs as you turned in another sharp step.
He didnât say anything. Not at first. Just watched. Like he always did when you got worked upâlike his stillness might balance out your storm.
You dropped the book onto your desk with a soft thud, dragging both hands through your hair before planting them on your hips in frustration.
âI mean, itâs ridiculous,â You muttered. âI can do it here. Iâve done it. Youâve seen me do it. What the hell happens between here and the classroom?â Bob leaned back slightly, hands now braced behind him against the bedspread, one leg bent, the other stretched long.
âDo you feel anxious when youâre writing the test?â He asked, tilting his head just a little.
You turned to look at him, brow furrowed.
âItâs a normal amount of anxiety,â You said flatly. âWhat, are you about to tell me thatâs why Iâm still not doing well on quizzes? A little test stress?â
He shrugged, his lips quirking upward like he knew he was about to toe the line. âCould be,â He replied simply. âOrâŠMaybe you just need some kind ofâŠPositive reinforcement.â
You narrowed your eyes. âPositive reinforcement?â You repeated slowly, curious and suspicious of how he was bringing up the topic.
He nodded, straight-faced. âAffirmations. Encouragement. Rewards. You know. Psychology stuff.â You crossed your arms, the motion slow and deliberate, as you turned fully to face him. Your hips settled just to one side, weight shifting into that slightly challenging postureâthe kind that said you werenât going to let this slide, but not in the way he should be afraid of. Your head tilted a little, eyes narrowed like you were sizing him up. Watching.
Noticing.
And God, was he blushing.
Not a violent flush, but that creeping kindâthe kind that started at the tips of his ears and crawled slowly down the sides of his neck like embarrassment blooming from the inside out. He wasnât meeting your gaze now. Just staring down at the binder on his lap, his thumbs rubbing over the edge of the plastic like it had something important to say.
You didnât say anything at first. Just stared. Took him in.
The soft slope of his shoulders where they leaned back into the pillow. The subtle indent his jaw made when he clenched it without meaning to. The flush of red creeping into his cheeks, all while trying to keep that composed, helpful toneâlike he was still just your tutor and not someone who thought about kissing you when you leaned too close during derivatives.
The silence held for a beat too long.
Then you spoke.
âSo youâre trying to condition me?â
Bobâs head snapped up, and his eyes met yoursâwide, startled, and already bracing for the tease he knew was coming. But then, to your surprise, he laughed. A real laugh. Short and soft and so genuine that it made the tips of his ears go even redder.
âN-No!â he said quickly, shaking his head, that lopsided smile overtaking his face. âJesusâno, I wasnâtâconditioning you?â
You smirked, keeping your arms crossed like a challenge. âIt kinda sounds like youâre conditioning me.â
He laughed againâthis time accompanied by a quiet snort he couldnât quite swallow down fast enough. It made your grin widen.
âIâm not trying to train you like a dog,â He commented, wiping a hand down his face with mock-exhaustion. âI just meantâŠIf you associate physics with something good, maybe your brain will stop freaking out every time youâre handed a test.â
You blinked at him once. Raised an eyebrow.
âSoâŠâ You started, slowly, carefully, âYouâre trying to open my third eye for physics?â
Bob looked at you. Deadpan. âThatâs not what I said.â
You stepped closer, a teasing lilt curling into your voice now as you gestured with one hand. âNo, no, I think thatâs exactly what you said. You want me to transcend. Find academic Nirvana through external praise.â He rolled his eyes.
âOkay. Now youâre just twisting my words.â You raised your eyebrows.
âAm I?â You grinned. He gave you a look. A very Bob look. One part fond, one part I walked into this with my eyes wide open and itâs too late to leave now. But the pink still hadnât faded from his cheeks.
You leaned your hip against the edge of the desk again, bare thighs catching the warm glow of your desk lamp, watching the way Bobâs eyes flicked toward your legs and then immediately back up again.
âAlright, Professor Floyd,â You said lightly, âIâll bite. What kind of positive reinforcement are we talking about here? You handing out gold stars? Stickers? Should I bring a report card for you to sign?â Bob cleared his throat. It was soft but unmistakable. A nervous reflex that made him sit up a little straighter on your bed, one hand rising to push his glasses up the bridge of his nose even though they hadnât really slipped.
âI meanâŠâ He trailed off, eyes fixed on some distant point above your shoulder. âI was thinking more likeâŠA kiss.â Your entire body stilled, hands still loosely clasped in front of you from your teasing posture, your weight half-shifted against the desk. A beat passedâjust long enough to wonder if youâd misheard him. But then his eyes flicked back to yours, just for a second, and the heat in his gaze made it impossible to pretend he hadnât said exactly what you thought he did.
You could feel your cheeks warmâinstantly, helplesslyâheat blooming beneath your skin like it had been waiting for the right moment to spill forward. But you masked it with a slow raise of your eyebrows and a smirk, playful but laced with that sharp new curiosity curling low in your gut.
âYeah?â You said, voice softer now. You shifted your weight and tilted your head. âA kiss? Thatâs what you had in mind?â
Bobâs throat bobbed as he swallowed. Hard. His eyes flicked to the space beside your head before dropping to the floorâthen back up to you, like he was trying not to look too long but couldnât help it. He shifted on the mattress, fingers brushing over the edge of the binder like he needed something to hold onto. âI-I meanâŠIt was just an idea. One ofâŠSeveral.â
You stepped closer.
âIs that what youâve had in mind this entire time?â You questioned, voice low, the smile on your lips laced with something sweeter nowâteasing, but sincere. âKissing me?â
Bob let out a nervous little laugh, breath catching as he tried to string together a reply. His knuckles were pale where they gripped the binder now, eyes flicking toward your legs again before jerking back up to your face.
âIâno, I mean, not⊠I never really got that idea till today,â He muttered, rubbing the back of his neck. âI just thoughtâI donât know. It might help.â
You took another step forward.
âYou sure about that?â you asked, the words curling in your throat like heat, low and just a little amused. Now you were standing directly in front of him, and the change in height made it impossible not to notice how he looked up at youâhead tilted back slightly, wide blue eyes tracking your every move. His glasses slid a fraction down his nose, but he didnât dare lift a hand to fix them.
His mouth opened and closed once before he found his voice. âI personallyâŠThink it might work,â He murmured.
Your eyes flicked down to his lipsâsoft, parted slightly, flushedâand then back to his eyes. He was blinking slow now, like your presence this close was physically slowing his thoughts.
You bit your lip. Slowly. Purposefully.
âSo youâre telling me,â You said, almost whispering now, âThat you want to reward me with kissesâŠWhenever I get a question right?â
Bob exhaled through his nose. His legs had parted slightly where he sat, not intentionallyâbut enough to suggest his body was reacting faster than his brain. He nodded once, tentative but clear. His voice dropped lower, barely above a whisper.
âI couldâŠDo a whole lot more than kisses,â He said.
The second the words left his mouth, his eyes widened slightly, like he hadnât meant to say that out loud. Like he hadnât even known he was capable of it. His fingers fidgeted with the edge of the binder, his spine curving slightly forward as if he could fold himself up to hide from the boldness that had just escaped him.
Your breath caughtâjust barelyâand something about the way he said it, almost reverent, almost pleading, sent a shiver down your spine. You watched his throat work, his chest rising and falling in subtle, shaky breaths.
He wasnât cocky. He wasnât teasing you back with confidence.
He wanted you.
Desperately.
You leaned in, closing that last bit of space between your knees and the edge of the bed until your thighs brushed his. The binder slid from his lap onto the comforter with a soft thud, forgotten.
âYeah?â You murmured, voice warm, velvety, almost indulgent. âYou think you could do more?â Bob nodded, slowlyâeyes wide, lips parted, breath coming a little uneven now, fanning over your face.
âIf youâd let me,â He said quietly, âIâd do anything.â
The words landed between you like a weight, heavy with longing, trembling with truth.
And you believed him.
Because Bob Floyd didnât say things he didnât mean.
He didnât play games. He didnât flirt to win. He offered, quietly, completelyâlike giving a piece of himself to someone felt holy.
Your hands moved before your mind fully caught up, instinct carrying you as you lifted them slowlyâdeliberatelyâand rested them against the sides of his neck.
He was warm.
The kind of warmth that radiated from beneath the skin, the kind that felt like it could seep into your palms and settle somewhere inside your chest if you let it. His skin was soft under your thumbs, his pulse fluttering just beneath one, and when your fingers brushed lightly over the edge of his jaw, you felt the tiniest hitch in his breath.
Bob stilled.
Completely.
The kind of stillness that only came when something sacred was happeningâlike he didnât want to risk breaking the moment by breathing too loud.
And then you leaned in.
Not rushed. Not hungry. Just slowâmeasured. Confident in the space heâd given you. Confident in the way his knees shifted to make room for you between them, in the way his lips had parted already, waiting, hoping.
Your nose brushed his cheek softly. His glasses tilted just slightly from the nudge, slipping down the bridge of his nose in a slow, unbothered drift. You felt the ghost of his breath over your mouth, shaky and warm, and thenâ
You kissed him.
Gently. Just once. Lips pressed to his like the start of a sentence that would take its time to finish.
Bob breathed into itâexhaled a soft, shuddering hum from the back of his throat that vibrated against your mouth. His hands came up slow, tentative, like he didnât want to assume. But then they settledâone sliding to your lower back, warm and careful, the other ghosting over your hip before stilling there.
And then he kissed you back.
Really kissed you.
Slow at first. So slow it made your knees weak.
He lingered on your upper lip, plush and steady, then pulled back half an inch and tiltedâjust enough to brush your bottom lip between his with soft, seeking pressure. His lips moved with purpose, not urgency. Thoughtful. Intent. Like he wanted to memorize you in pieces, to map the shape of your mouth one breath at a time.
You made a soft, involuntary sound into himâa quiet, pleased little âmmmââand he kissed you again like he needed to drink it in. His thumb pressed lightly against the small of your back, grounding him, grounding you. Every motion of his mouth was reverent, restrained, and dripping with a kind of intimacy that made your skin burn.
You pulled back just an inchâlips brushing his, breath warm between you.
His eyes fluttered open slowly, lashes sweeping against flushed cheeks. His pupils were blown wide behind his fogged glasses, lips pink and slightly parted, his chest rising and falling with careful, controlled breaths. He looked dazed. Unmoored.
You smiled.
A quiet, knowing smile, and let your thumbs brush the sides of his jaw.
âBetter go get the next question right, huh?â You whispered, teasing but breathless. âGotta meet my end of the bargain.â
And just as you started to pull back, maybe to reach for the marker again, maybe to hide the way your heart was slamming against your ribs like a drumâ
Bobâs hand on your lower back pressed just slightly.
âWait,â He murmured, voice low and husky now. âHow about we suspend the studying for now?â
The words came quiet. Careful. But you could hear the edge beneath themâthat hunger heâd tried so hard to suppress now curling softly around the syllables.
You arched an eyebrow at him, still close enough that your noses brushed.
âHmmâŠâ You started, a smirk pulling at your lips. âNow youâre just going to end up distracting me.â
His eyes flicked down to your mouth. Then back up.
You ran a finger gently down the side of his neck, your voice warm and teasing.
âLetâs stick to the planâŠâ Bob exhaled slowly. Like it took everything in him not to pull you back in.
His hands didnât move. But he nodded.
Barely.
And when you stepped away and turned toward the whiteboard again, you could feel the heat of his gaze trailing after youâlike he was trying to sear every inch of the moment into memory.
âââââââ
By the second correct answer, you were setting a timer for yourselves.
Ten minutes. That was the new rule.
Ten minutes per problem, per kiss. No exceptions. No shortcuts.
Because the last time youâd leaned in for oneâintended to be short, controlled, just enough to make good on the dealâyouâd ended up in his lap. His hands had slipped under your shirt almost instinctively, like they knew where to go before he consciously gave them permission. And when his palms flattened against the small of your back, warm and strong and bare, your breath had hitched in a way that surprised you.
Not because it was too much.
But because it was exactly what you hadnât realized youâd been needing.
His fingers pressed into your skinânot harshly, not possessively, just enough to ground you. Like he couldnât believe he was touching you and needed to memorize the shape of your body with his hands before you slipped away again. Youâd gasped into his mouth, not even meaning to, and felt him inhale like the sound had gone straight to his chest.
And then you kissed him harder.
Your fingers tangled in his hair, wrecking the neatness of it with the kind of carelessness that only came when heat outweighed hesitation. You pulled, just a littleâtesting, exploringâand he moaned softly against your lips like it cracked him open. His glasses were crooked by then, fogged from your shared breaths, and neither of you bothered fixing them. The world could stay blurry if it meant this stayed sharp.
Somewhere in the haze, Bobâs shirt had come off. You hadnât meant for it to escalate. It had justâŠHappened. One minute your hands were sliding beneath the hem, feeling the heat of him, the tension in his abdomen, the ridges of muscle that lined his stomach, and the next, the shirt was gone. Flung off to the side without a single graceful motion. You hadnât even looked where it landed.
He was solid beneath you. Not chiseled in a gym-rat kind of way, but strong in that natural, everyday way. Like he was built for work. His skin was sun-warmed with just a pinch of colour, a faint line of tan cutting across the middle of his arms where T-shirts always stopped. You touched him like he might disappear. He held you like he never wanted you to.
And GodâŠHe was good.
Surprisingly good.
Not in the way of someone who practiced, but someone who paid attention. Someone who kissed with focus. With reverence. Like your mouth was an answer heâd been solving toward for weeks. He kissed like he studiedâslow, thorough, intentional. His tongue was gentle at first, coaxing. His teeth grazed your lip once, barely, and you swore you could feel it in your spine. When he kissed you the second timeâafter the next problem, when your timer dinged againâyou already knew it wasnât going to stay brief.
And it didnât.
He pulled you in with hands that were just slightly rough from calluses and pencil grooves, fingers curling tight around your waist, your ribs, like he needed to feel you under his hands. And when he slipped those same fingers under the hem of your shirt againâthis time slower, surerâyou let him. You wanted him to. His touch wasnât greedy. It was searching. Savoring. Like he was learning every inch of you the way he learned his formulas.
And you didnât realize how touch-starved youâd been until then.
Until the heat of his hand met the curve of your spine, and you arched into him like your body had been waiting for permission. Until he kissed down the side of your jaw, slowly, reverently, and you felt the hum of it in your chest. Until your own hand traced the broad slope of his shoulder, down over the rise and fall of his ribs, and found nothing but steady strength and gentle restraint.
You didnât say it out loudâbut he could feel it.
The hunger in the way you kissed him. The gratitude in the way your hands explored him. The desperate edge that slipped into your breath every time you whispered his name between kisses like it wasnât something youâd meant to do.
And maybe it wasnât about physics anymore.
Maybe it never really was.
Because as Bob pulled back, breathless and flushed, his glasses still askew and hair mussed into soft waves from your fingers pulling and tightening, he looked at you like youâd changed something fundamental inside him. Like youâd opened a door he didnât know was locked. Like he couldnât stop even if he tried.
Your timer buzzed again in the background. Neither of you moved.
ââŠYou got that one right,â He whispered, lips brushing your cheek âThink you deserveâŠA break.â You let out a breathless little laugh, your chest still rising and falling with the aftermath of the last kiss. Your hair was a bit mussed from his hands, your lips slightly swollen from the soft, reverent press of his mouthâand you were dizzy, absolutely dizzy with the way he looked at you.
âBobâŠâ You murmured, voice playful, warm, âIf I didnât know any better, Iâd say youâve got some sort of ulterior motive.â Bob, still slightly breathless, hand still planted firm and reverent on your thigh, sat back just a little. Enough to give you a look. One of those boyish, guilty-but-not-really guilty grins that curled slow at the edges and made your heart skip.
He pressed a hand flat to his bare chest, wide-eyed in mock innocence.
âMe?â He said, lips twitching. âNoâŠDefinitely no ulterior motives here. Iâm justâŠâ He leaned in again, close enough for his breath to dance against your jaw, âTrying to do something Iâve been thinking about for a long time.â Your brows lifted, pulse tripping.
âOh?â You murmured, teasing but curious. âAnd whatâs that?â He pressed a kiss to your jawâso gentle it nearly didnât register as a kiss at all. Just warmth. Just intent. Then another, lower, slower, right beneath the curve of your ear. And then:
âGoing down on you,â He whispered.
The words landed hot, like theyâd been spoken directly into your bloodstream.
Your breath hitched audibly. You swore you could feel your pulse flutter in places you didnât think could react to words alone. Heat pooled low in your stomach like syrup spilling into something hollow. Still, you managed a quiet, almost incredulous laugh, voice tightening as you tilted your head to look at him again.
âNow I need to know,â You said, fingers threading back into his hair, âHow long youâve been thinking about that.â Bob let out a soft laugh, one hand splaying open against your hip, the other bracing himself still, like he needed to keep steady before he admitted anything to you. He kissed down your neck again, slower this timeâeach inch of skin passed over with the kind of devotion that said this wasnât some spur-of-the-moment confession.
And when he reached the collar of your shirt, where the fabric hung loose from earlier tugging, he nosed at it gently. Not greedy. Just wanting more.
You tugged lightly on his hair, not to stop him, but to coax him to pauseâjust enough to get him to look up.
âHey,â You said softly, a smile tugging at the corner of your lips. âHow long have you been thinking about doing that?â
Bobâs eyes flicked up to yoursâblue and wide and already glassy with the weight of how badly he wanted you. And then his face turned a shade deeper, that telltale blush painting up his cheeks and crawling behind his ears.
âSinceâŠâ He paused, like the words were too embarrassing to say. âSince the first day of class. When you came in lateâŠDressed in that skirt.â
You blinked, lips parting slowly.
âThe black one?â
He nodded, eyes darting to your mouth like it might give him the courage to keep talking.
âIt rode up just a little when you walked past. And you sat a few seats down and didnât look at me once. And Iââ He broke off for a second, laughing nervously. âI dropped my pencil because of how you smelled and how your legs looked and because you didnât even notice me looking.â
You stared at him.
Then grinned, slow and wicked.
âWell,â You murmured, leaning in again until your lips were just barely brushing his, âGuess itâs a good thing youâre getting your chance now.â Bob exhaled a shaky breathâone of awe, of disbelief, of absolutely overwhelmed want.
And then he kissed you again.
The kiss that followed was nothing like the first.
It was deeper. Hungrier. Your lips opened beneath his without hesitation this time, and he drank in the permission like it was oxygenâhis hands curling tighter around the backs of your thighs before lifting you effortlessly into his lap. You gasped softly against his mouth as your knees bent around him, your weight settling against the solid warmth of his thighs, your hands sliding up the broad slope of his bare shoulders.
He kissed you like heâd waited for this.
Like every moment youâd spent leaning over equations, brushing fingertips, trading teasing words had led to this exact pointâand now he had you here, soft and open in his lap, your legs bare and warm against denim, your breath stuttering into his mouth every time he tugged you closer.
His hands slid beneath the hem of your t-shirt again, palms hot against your back, and this time he didnât hesitate. The fabric peeled upward in one smooth motionâup, over your ribs, brushing your chestâuntil you lifted your arms and let him tug it off completely. He tossed it somewhere behind you, neither of you looking to see where it landed.
His eyes dropped.
The moment he saw what you were wearing underneath, his breath hitchedâand for a second, he didnât move. A soft cotton sports bra in a worn, dusky pinkâsimple, comfortable, a little faded from wash after washâbut the way it hugged you? The way it molded to the curve of your breasts, straps digging gently into your warm skin?
Bob Floyd looked like heâd forgotten how to speak.
He swallowed once. Then again. His glasses had slipped slightly lower on his nose, giving him that boyish, dazed expression he got whenever something completely wrecked his train of thought. You watched his eyes trail over you, caught between reverence and want, and thenâ
He hummed. A soft, breathy sound from deep in his chest. Something unfiltered. Something warm.
Then he looked back up at you.
And kissed you again.
His hands gripped your hips now, anchoring you down in his lap like he didnât want you to shift an inch. He kissed you harderâopen-mouthed, deep, letting out a quiet groan as your hips rocked forward ever so slightly. He didnât say anything. Just let the noise fall between you, ragged and raw, swallowing your gasp as he shifted his grip and guided you until your back hit the mattress.
The room spun gently with the motion, soft yellow light from the lamp catching in the lenses of his glasses as he leaned over you. His body followedâbroad shoulders, warm bare chest pressing down as he settled between your legs. He braced his hands on either side of your ribcage, framing you like a question he couldnât stop asking. His eyes searched your face for just a second, but you noddedâsoftly, wordlesslyâalready reaching for him again.
He dipped his head.
Kissed your throat.
Then lower.
And lower still.
He took his time.
Every press of his lips trailed down the line of your collarbone, across the top swell of your breasts where the fabric cut gently across your skin. His glasses slipped again, nearly falling offâbut he didnât stop. Didnât even lift a hand to adjust them. He kissed you through the blur, lips brushing the tops of your breasts like they were something sacred.
You let out a quiet soundâhalf gasp, half moanâand threaded your fingers into his hair again. His tongue flicked out, tasting the salt of your skin as he groaned softly against you.
âAre you always this sensual?â you whispered, voice thick, dazed, breathless.
Bob let out a quiet sigh, like your question made something in him ease and deepen at the same time.
âLetâs just say I love givingâŠâ He murmured, kissing the center of your chest. ââŠA lot.â
The way he said itâlow, quiet, honestâmade your legs clench involuntarily around his waist. Your mind flooded with images far too filthy for someone as sweet as Bob Floyd to inspire.
But then again, the way he looked right nowâglasses fogging, lips red and glistening, his chest moving in slow, hungry waves with every breathâmaybe he wasnât that sweet after all.
His fingers reached for the thin straps of your bra.
âHope you donât mind,â He whispered against your skin, lips still pressing hot kisses between every word.
You shook your head quickly. âI donât mind at allâŠâ
With a reverent kind of care, he slipped the straps off your shoulders. One. Then the other. His fingers brushed your arms on the way down, the backs of his knuckles ghosting over your skin like he was memorizing it. Thenâslowly, carefullyâhe tugged the fabric down, baring you to him inch by inch.
His breath hitched.
Your breasts, soft and flushed from heat and touch, rose with every breath you took. Bob didnât reach for you right away. He justâŠLooked. Let himself take it in. His hands slid up your sides againârougher now, purposefulâand when they cupped the curve beneath your breasts, his thumbs brushed upward, stroking slowly until your nipples tightened under the attention.
His glasses fogged completely.
Still, he didnât take them off.
He leaned in and kissed the soft mound of your left breast, then your right, each kiss dragging slower than the last. His lips were gentle, his hands firm, and when he finally brushed the tip of his tongue over your nipple, your hips bucked without warning.
âGod,â You whispered, your hands fisting in the sheets beside you. Bob just smiled. Quietly. Like he knew exactly what he was doing.
âSensitive?â he murmured, lips hovering just over your nipple again, breath warm and teasing.
You shook your head slowly, fingers curling into the sheets. âI call it anticipation.â
His low laugh rumbled against your skin. âDidnât know we were calling it that now⊠but okay.â
Then he kissed you againâthis time firmer, lips wrapping around your nipple with a slow, aching pull that made your hips twitch beneath him. His tongue was wet and warm, lapping slow circles around the soft peak before closing over it again, sucking just a little deeper nowâjust enough to make you moan quietly, enough to send a thrum straight between your thighs.
His hands didnât stop, eitherâbroad palms sliding up and down the sides of your ribcage, thumbs sweeping in careful, reverent passes. He alternated between breasts with the same kind of concentration youâd seen in study sessions: deliberate, measured, like he was solving you.
And when he finally pulled away, lips red and glistening from worship, he blew a soft, chilled stream of air across your saliva-slick nippleâthen the other.
Your entire body arched. He watched it happen with wide eyes, completely entranced.
Thenâwithout a wordâyou sat up.
He blinked in surprise, hands still resting on your sides as you reached behind yourself and unhooked your bra the rest of the way, slipping the fabric down your arms and flinging it off the bed. The second it landed somewhere behind you, you laid back downâbare, flushed, and completely open.
Bobâs breath hitched hard. His glasses had slipped lower again, fogged beyond all reason now, and he still hadnât touched them. He didnât even seem aware of the state he was inâjust that you were laid out beneath him, chest rising in unsteady waves, eyes soft but daring.
He exhaled shakily.
And then he moved lower.
He kissed the center of your sternum once, then again, trailing down past your navel with slow, reverent care. When he reached the waistband of your boxer shorts, he paused. His hands came to rest just above your hips, fingers curling slightly under the band.
He looked up at you, eyes glassy and dark behind the silver frames.
You noddedâslow, sure.
That was all he needed.
He pulled the fabric down just an inch. Then another. Just enough to reveal the top of your hips, the soft line of your lower stomach. His lips followedâkissing each inch as it was exposed, trailing warmth into places that had never felt this kind of attention before. The contrast between the heat of his mouth and the cool air made your thighs twitch, and he hummed softly against your skin.
âGod, youâre beautiful,â He whispered. âYou donât even know, do youâŠâ
You didnât respond. Couldnât, really. Your fingers were tangled in the sheets again, breath catching every time his lips brushed lower, every time he said something in that breathless, reverent voice that made you feel like he was seeing you for the first time.
When he reached the base of your hips, he gave the waistband a firmer tug, and you lifted your hips to help himâknees bending slightly, thighs parting as he pulled the shorts down your legs. He slid them off with practiced care, and you watched as he tossed them aside with the same nonchalance heâd flung his shirtâlike every barrier between you was one more step toward something sacred.
He paused there.
Just knelt between your legs for a second, hands resting on your thighs, eyes locked on yours like he needed to anchor himself before continuing. Thenâwithout saying anythingâhe pushed your thighs up gently, spreading you open just enough.
His mouth pressed to the inside of your knee.
You gasped.
It wasnât just a kiss. It was a claim. A promise. His lips lingered there for a second, and then they movedâtrailing up the inside of your thigh in slow, wet presses, each one firmer than the last.
âYouâve got no idea,â He murmured against your skin. âHow long Iâve wanted to do this⊠How many times Iâve imagined being between your thighs just like thisâŠâ
His teeth grazed the sensitive skin just above your inner thigh, and your hips jerked slightly at the contact. He didnât move away. Just kissed the spot heâd grazed. Then again. Higher this time.
âWanted to take my time with you,â He whispered, voice low, breath hot. âMake sure you know what it feels like when someone actually wants to do thisâŠâ Your hands gripped the comforter.
âI want to hear the way you sound when itâs good. When itâs real. When itâs slowâŠâ
He kissed the top of your inner thighâright at the edge of where you needed him most.
Then, finally, he glanced upâhis glasses slightly crooked, cheeks flushed, mouth slick with his saliva and swollen.
âIâm gonna take such good care of you,â He said softly. âYouâll never forget it.â
His tongue moved with devastating precisionâslow, savoring, like he had all the time in the world and wasnât about to waste a single second.
He started with a kiss-low, just at the edge of your folds, then dragged his tongue up in one long, warm stripe that made your legs twitch. You gasped, hands flying instinctively to his hair as he groaned into you, deep and low, like heâd been starving for this.
âJesusâBobââ You whispered, voice cracking on the edge of a moan.
He didnât answer. Just licked you again, slower this time, tongue flattening against you with such gentleness it made your stomach tighten. Then he did it again. And again. Until the room dissolved into heat and breath and the wet, obscene sound of him eating you like you were the only thing heâd ever wanted.
And maybe you were.
He used his mouth like a worshipperâlike this wasnât about getting you off, but about tasting everything heâd been dreaming of for weeks. He kissed your clit softly at first, then circled it with his tongueâjust enough pressure to make you cry out, just enough to leave you chasing more. Your hips rocked against his mouth before you could stop them, and instead of pulling back, he moaned again, deeper this time, and grabbed your thighsâholding you open like a man possessed.
His fingers dug gently into your hips as he sucked on you now, lips wrapped around your clit with wet, deliberate pulls. His glasses were fogged beyond saving, the lenses glinting in the dorm light as they slipped further down his nose. He didnât stop. Didnât lift his head once. Just kept tasting and kissing and groaning like your body was the only thing he needed to study for the rest of his life.
You whimpered.
âF-Fuck, Bobâtoo goodââ
That finally earned a reaction. He groaned again, louder, like your words were gasoline, and thenâGodâhe slipped two fingers between your thighs, slick with your arousal, and pushed them in with a slow, practiced ease.
Your back arched.
The stretch was perfect. His fingers curled immediately, searching for that spotâand finding it like heâd mapped it out ahead of time. His mouth never left your clit, tongue flicking faster now, suction intensifying just slightly, just enough to send a full-body tremor through you.
âCâmon,â He murmured between strokes, voice ragged, lips brushing against you with every syllable. âThatâs it⊠Just like that. Let me hear you.â
You did.
You let go of any remaining shred of restraint and moanedâloud, broken, lost to the rhythm of his fingers and the warmth of his mouth. Your thighs shook, your body tightening, unraveling. The dorm room felt like it might dissolve around you.
âG-Gonnaââ
âI know,â he whispered, breath hot, eyes glassy as he looked up at you from between your thighs. âGo ahead. I got you.â
And then he did something devastating.
He sucked harder.
Curled his fingers deeper.
And moaned into you like your orgasm was his reward.
You shattered.
Your hands clutched his hair, your legs tensed around his head, and your breath broke into a stuttering cry as he licked you through itânever stopping, never letting up. He worshipped you all the way through your high, his mouth messy, eager, lips slick with you as he kept kissing, kept groaning, like your pleasure was the only thing that mattered.
When you finally slumped back, shaking, panting, spentâhe didnât move right away.
He kissed your inner thigh.
Then again. And again.
Then trailed up your body with soft, slow presses of his mouth, leaving a trail of your own taste on his lips as he made his way back up. His chest hovered over yours, his weight warm and solid, and when he finally kissed your mouth againâfull and deepâyou could taste yourself on his tongue.
And he let you.
Let you feel it.
Let you know exactly what heâd just done to you.
He pulled back from the kiss, hovering above you, mouth swollen from all the work he had done, lips slightly parted. He looked wrecked in the most beautiful wayâhair mussed from your fingers, flushed cheeks, chest rising with the weight of restraint.
Then, like a flicker of light through the haze, he let out a breathy laugh. Quiet. Disbelieving. Joyful.
You laughed tooâsoft, breathless, dazedâyour palm dragging slowly down his bare chest before reaching up to push his glasses back up his nose. The lenses had slipped almost entirely off his face, smudged and misted at the edges. You caught the little fingerprints and streaks near the bottom and smiled, chest still heaving slightly as you murmured:
âWhereâŠThe hell did you learn that?â
Bobâs laugh deepened this time, short and warm, his entire face flushing deeper crimson. He covered his face with one hand for a second, then dropped it to your waist, eyes shining with both amusement and bashfulness.
âFromâŠMy past partners?â He said, half like a question, half like a confession. âI told you Iâm a giver. I may look timid butâŠAs you can tell, I know my stuff.â
You grinned, your heart skipping at how proudâbut still modestâhe sounded. You leaned up, catching his mouth in another kiss, slower now, languid. He hummed against your lips, eyes fluttering shut as his hands pulled you just a little closer.
âBit surprising,â you whispered against his mouth.
He nodded, kissing you again, hands smoothing down your sides. âI know.â
And it wouldâve stayed gentle, dreamy, lazy like thatâuntil your hand drifted between your bodies.
You hadnât been trying to tease. Not really. But when your palm brushed over the thick bulge in his jeans, the way his breath hitched immediately had you curling your fingers lightly around him, just enough to feel the weight of him. The heat. The hardness pressing insistently behind the denim.
You smiled, eyes soft but mischievous. âYour turn?â
But to your surprise, Bob flinchedâbarely, but it was there. His hand caught your wrist gently, not to push you away, but to pause.
âItâs okay,â he said softly.
You blinked, your palm still resting against him. âWhat?â You tilted your head. âYou donât⊠even want to have sex?â
âItâs not that,â he said quickly, eyes darting to yours before lowering again. âI justâŠItâs really okay. You donât have to.â
You sat up slightly, just enough to bring your faces closer again, concern slipping behind your smile.
âAre youâŠâ Your voice gentle. âAre you nervous?â
His lashes fluttered. A breath stalled in his throat. And that was all the answer you needed.
You reached for his cheek, thumb brushing gently beneath his eye. His skin was hot, his jaw tight, but he leaned into your touch like he needed it.
âBob,â You said softly, a smile curling into your voice. âHow can you be nervous after you just gave me the best orgasm of my life?â
That made his eyes shoot openâjust a little. You watched his expression shift. Like heâd heard something he hadnât expected. Like praise landed harder than touch ever could.
âSeriously,â you continued, your voice warm and slow, âThat was unreal. No oneâs ever touched me like that. Not like they wanted to. Not like they wereâŠMemorizing it.â
His mouth parted. You didnât miss the way his breath trembled now. His hips shifted slightly against yours, and when you glanced down, you could see he was getting harder from your words alone.
You kissed the corner of his jaw. âYouâre incredible, Bob.â
A sound left himâbarely a sound, more of a low exhale, like it physically knocked something loose in him. His hand tightened slightly on your waist.
âYou made me feel so good,â You whispered. âSafe. Wanted. Perfect.â
His eyes closed, lips parting with a shaky breath, and his hips rolled the tiniest bit into your palm. You could feel how much he wanted it now. How much he wanted you. He just hadnât known if he was allowed.
And God, the way he responded to praiseâit made something ache inside you.
Your foreheads rested together, breath shared in the quiet space between words, between heartbeats.
âLetâs do it together, hm?â You murmured, your voice warm and coaxingâsoftened with affection, laced with intent.
Bob let out the tiniest breath of a laugh, and his lips brushed yours as he smiled. âOkay.â
The word was nearly a whisper, but it carried weightâan unspoken trust folding itself into the syllables.
You leaned back just enough to reach between your bodies, your fingers brushing against the button of his jeans. He inhaled, shaky and quiet, watching you as you popped it open, then tugged the zipper down. The sound broke the hush of the room, loud in the stillness.
Bob shifted, lifting himself up just enough to hook his thumbs into the waistband. He wriggled out of his jeans with a little bit of awkwardness, and when the denim bunched at his ankles, he kicked them off with a grunt.
You both laughed. Low and breathless, the kind of laughter that came when something was too intimate not to be a little bit funny.
His glasses slid further down his nose.
âSexy,â You teased, bumping your knee gently against his side.
He rolled his eyesâblushing, flustered, but grinningâand settled back between your thighs, his hands bracing himself on either side of your hips now. The closeness allowed you a better view of him, and you didnât waste the opportunity.
Your gaze drifted downward. His boxer briefs were tentedâstraining. You could see the thick outline of him pressed against the fabric, the darkened patch of wetness at the tip where he was already leaking.
Your hand slid slowly down the middle of his torsoâover the soft rise and fall of his stomach, the faint ridges of muscle, the trail of hair beneath his navel. Bob held perfectly still, his breath shallow, watching you.
When your fingers ghosted along the inside of his waistband, just above the swell of him, he sucked in a breath through his teeth.
âTease,â He muttered, voice tight.
You didnât deny it.
Instead, you slid your fingers a little deeper. Tugged the fabric down just enough to expose him.
He sprang free with a soft, needy sound escaping his throat.
Your eyes widened slightly.
He wasâŠBig. Thick, flushed, already glistening with precum. The head was ruddy and swollen, shiny with need, and your stomach fluttered at the realization that heâd gotten like this just from pleasuring you.
He looked desperate.
You wrapped your fingers around him slowly, your palm sliding up his length with soft pressure. His breath hitched immediately, head tilting back slightly. His glasses slid another fraction down his nose, but he didnât move to fix themâjust closed his eyes for a moment, his chest lifting in a shallow, shivering inhale.
You stroked him againâlong, slow, deliberate. Your grip was just firm enough to make him twitch, your thumb swiping over the slick bead at his tip.
His hips bucked. He gasped, and then let out a shaky laugh.
âSensitive?â you murmured, lips tugging into a knowing smirk.
Bobâs head dropped forward a bit, cheeks flushed to hell. His voice cracked slightly.
âN-noâŠAnticipation.â He corrected jokingly, using your own words against you.
You laughed softly. So did he.
But you didnât stop.
You kept stroking him, slow and sensual, your hand gliding up and down the length of him, savoring every tremble in his thighs, every shift in his breath, every twitch of his fingers against the mattress beside you. He was fully braced now, arms trembling slightly as he rocked into your touch.
His voice came out thin, frayed at the edges.
âIâm reallyâŠReally not gonna last if you keep doing that, andâŠâ He swallowed hard, voice dropping to a whisper, âAnd I really do want to have sex with youâŠâ
His eyes met yours. Wide. Pleading. Vulnerable.
Like he wanted to say more but couldnât figure out how.
You leaned up slowly, hand still wrapped around him, lips brushing his ear.
âNo need to begâŠâ You whispered, voice thick with heat. âBut if you want to come inside me, BobâŠThen you better hurry up and get these off.â
His whole body jolted.
A groanâlow, raw, helplessâescaped him.
His boxer briefs were gone a second later. Pushed down and kicked away without a single thought, like he couldnât bear another second of distance.
He came back over you with reverent slownessâclimbing the length of your body like he was rediscovering it inch by inch.
His bare chest skimmed yours, warm and solid. His hips dipped low, the hard length of him brushing against the inside of your thigh, and your breath hitched at the contact.
âGod,â he whispered, voice raw as his lips brushed against your neck. âYou feel so good already.â
You arched into him just slightly, your hands finding his shouldersâbroad and warm beneath your palms, still trembling faintly from restraint. His glasses were fogging again, slipping lower, but he didnât seem to notice. Didnât care.
He kissed the side of your neck.
Then your jaw.
Then your cheekâlingering there with a kind of gentleness that made your stomach twist.
And then he kissed your mouth again. Slow. Sweet. Deep.
You moaned softly into him.
The tops of his thighs pressed flush to the backs of yours now, his cock resting heavily between your legsâleaking precum that smeared slightly against your inner thigh as he shifted to fit himself against you perfectly.
His hand rose to your cheek, cradling it, thumb stroking lightly against your skin as he pulled back just enough to speak.
âYou sure?â He asked softly, voice shaking with the weight of everything he was holding in. His eyes searched yours, pupils blown, cheeks flushed.
You nodded. Slow. Certain.
âIâm sure,â You whispered. He let out a shaky breath, then he reached down between the both of you, eyes never leaving yours.
You felt the warm glide of his knuckles against your folds first, then the soft, slick drag of his cock as he slowly ran the tip of himself through your arousal.
Your breath caught.
He swirled it over your clit once, twiceâjust enough to make your thighs twitch.
And God, the way he looked at you while he did it.
Eyes locked. Lips parted. Worship written into every line of his face, made you feel dizzy.
âYouâre so wet,â He murmured. âYou feelâŠUnreal.â You whimpered, your nails digging lightly into his shoulder as your other hand wrapped tighter around his bicep.
âBobâŠâ You whispered, voice already trembling. âPlease.â
He leaned down, pressing a kiss to your lipsâsoft and slow and steady.
Thenâfinallyâhe began to push in.
You both moaned.
The stretch hit immediately, slow and burning, a delicious ache that made your spine arch and your mouth fall open.
âF-fuck,â Bob gasped, his forehead dropping briefly to yours as he sank in inch by inch. âGod, youâreâyouâre so tight. So warm. You feel so goodâŠWowâŠâ Your hips shifted, trying to take more, and his hands immediately gripped your thighs, grounding you.
âEasy,â He said, kissing the corner of your mouth. âI got you. Just breathe.â
You nodded, your head swimming.
He pushed deeper.
You could feel every inchâevery throb of him, every shudder in his breath as your walls stretched around him.
âJust like that,â He murmured. âDoing so good. Taking me so well.â You whimpered, and the sound cracked open something in him.
âYou like that?â He whispered, kissing your cheek again, his hips rolling just the slightest bit deeper. âYou like hearing how perfect you feel around me?â
âYes,â you gasped. âGod, yes, Bobâkeep talkingâpleaseââ
âFuck,â He breathed, his voice breaking again. âYouâre gonna kill me.â
He rocked forward the last inch with a soft, helpless moan. Your body trembled beneath his as you adjusted, your thighs hugging his hips, your hands gripping him tightly. Bob groaned into your neck, voice ragged.
âGodâŠYouâre perfect. I swear, youâreâJesus, I donât even know how to describe thisââ You turned your head, catching his mouth again in a deep, desperate kiss. You could feel him trembling above you, his muscles taut, breath stuttering with the effort of staying still.
âYou feel so fucking good, Bobâso fullâso deepââ His breath hitched.
âSay that again,â He whimpered, âPlease.â
You kissed his neck, your voice thick with heat.
âYou fill me up so goodâŠGod it feels amazing.â Bob let out a deep moan.
Then he began to move.
Just a tiny thrust at firstâbarely pulling out before pressing back in, the friction slow and hot and devastating.
Your mouth fell open.
His lips ghosted over your cheek as he whispered, âGonna make you come on me just like thisâŠâ Your back arched at the words, your cheek bumping against his glasses. âYou like the sound of that?â He added. Your fingers curled into his shoulder blades, nails dragging softly over warm skin as you nodded, breath catching on a moan.
âYesâŠYes, please.â
The quiet plea cracked something open in him.
He kissed you againâmouth hot, searching, needier this timeâand his hips began to move.
Slow at first.
A deep roll forward, dragging his length out almost completely before easing back in, the friction molten, smooth, aching. You gasped into his mouth, your body lifting slightly to meet the next thrust. Bob groanedâlow and huskyâand pulled back just enough to look at you.
His pupils were blown wide, sweat dampening the hair at his temples, glasses fogging up again from your breath. Still, he didnât take them off. He looked wrecked. Gorgeous. Reverent.
âGod, you feelâŠâ He whispered, voice thick and ruined as he rocked into you again, a little harder this time, âSo goodâŠSo tight around me, babyâoh god.â Your breath stuttered. The nickname, unintentional or not, hit low and warm and made you clench involuntarily around him.
He felt it.
He swore softlyââJesusââand dropped his head to your shoulder, the next thrust coming sharper, more instinctual.
Your hands roamedâup his back, over the rise of his shoulders, down to his hips where your fingers dug in just slightly. He kissed your neck between thrusts, then bit gently just beneath your ear, and the second his teeth grazed your skin, you gasped.
Your body clenched again.
Bob moaned, full and broken.
âFuck, thatâYou like that?â He murmured, voice hot and desperate against your ear. âYou like when I do that?â
âY-Yeah,â You whispered, trembling, lips brushing the shell of his ear. âYou feel so good, BobâŠYouâre hitting every part of me.â
He groanedâlong, low, filthy in how soft it sounded. His hips began to move faster now, deeper, each thrust dragging a moan from your throat, and his hands slid beneath your thighs, hiking them higher around his waist so he could sink in even further.
âGod, youâre perfect,â He praised. âYouâre so perfect for me. Every inch of youâI swearâfuckââ
Your head fell back against the pillow. You were gasping now, barely able to respond, but you tried. You wanted him to hear it. You wanted him to know.
âYouâre so good at this,â You panted, voice trembling. âSo good at making me feel goodâGod, youâre incredible, Bobââ
His whole body stilled for half a second, as if praise struck something too deep.
Then he moved faster.
A rougher thrustâstill controlled, still measured, but heavier now, thicker with want. He let out a moan against your neck, raw and hot, and your back arched at the sound.
You could feel him everywhereâhis chest brushing yours, his lips at your throat, his hands gripping you tight like he needed to feel every part of you at once.
You cried out, hips lifting into his, clenching around him with every thick, slick stroke. He felt it. Groaned again. Slid one hand up your body to cradle the side of your face.
âLook at me,â he breathed, voice hoarse.
You did.
And the second your eyes locked, his pace stutteredâjust for a heartbeatâlike the sight of you, soft and dazed and open beneath him, was enough to make him lose rhythm.
Then he started thrusting again. Deep. Steady. Hot.
âI want you to come on me,â He whispered, voice cracking with the weight of it. âI want to feel you come againâwant to hear how good it feels.â
Your lips parted. Your thighs trembled.
âBob,â You gasped, desperate now. âYouâre so goodâplease donât stopâpleaseââ
He kissed you again. Deep. Desperate. All tongue and breath and heat. His thrusts got heavier, faster, until you could feel your climax curling up your spine like a fuse.
âYouâre close, arenât you?â He murmured, hips stuttering with restraint. âI can feel it, baby⊠Youâre so tightâso fucking wetâcome for meâpleaseââ
You shattered.
With a cry that broke in the middle, your walls clenched around him, waves of heat and release rolling through you so hard your vision blurred. Bob moaned your nameâragged, reverentâthrusting into you a few more times before he groaned loud against your shoulder and came with a shuddering, broken gasp. Bobâs entire body tensed as he cameâhis cock pulsing deep inside you, hips stuttering against yours in involuntary thrusts as thick, hot ropes of cum filled you.
You felt everything.
The way his muscles tensed above you, taut and trembling. The low, broken sound he made as he buried his face in your neck. The way his arms curled tighter around your waist like he needed to hold onto something to stay connected to consciousness
âF-Fuck,â He choked out, hips giving one more weak, slow push. His release was hot and endless, spreading warmth low in your belly as his body finally started to give in. His breathing was ragged, the heat of it ghosting over your skin. He didnât pull out right away.
Didnât move at all for a long moment.
Just slumped forward, his bare chest sticky against yours, the last tremors of orgasm still rolling through him. His forehead pressed into your shoulder, and you felt him exhale with all the weight of a man undone.
Even the frames of his glasses were warm.
You let your arms slide around his back, hands splayed wide across the muscles there, sticky with sweat, anchoring you both. The only sounds in the room were your shallow, echoing breaths, and the soft hum of a distant hallway light buzzing just outside your dorm door.
Bobâs weight against you felt right. Heavy in the best way. Settled. Natural.
Your fingertips traced slow, thoughtless patterns over his back as you both lay tangled together, letting the afterglow settle around your limbs like warm syrup. Your heartbeats synced slowlyâyours still fluttering, his gradually calming.
And thenâ
He shifted.
Lifted himself slightly on one trembling arm, the other brushing your hair back from your forehead. His cheeks were flushed, his lips pink, and his glasses crooked beyond saving. His smile was dazed. Soft. Glowing.
He leaned in and kissed you again. A soft kiss. Lingering. The kind of kiss that said thank you, and also more, and also stay.
When he pulled back, still breathless, still inside you, he murmured:
âWeâre gonna have to start going to the library to study.â
You blinked. Confused. Flushed and blinking at him through the haze, your breath still catching a little in your throat.
ââŠWhy?â You asked, voice hoarse but amused, one hand reaching up to gently smooth the short, light brown strands of his hair that were now sticking out in every direction.
His smile widenedâlopsided and boyish, just a little cocky.
âBecause weâre never going to get any studying done if weâre near a bedâŠâ He murmured, pressing a kiss to your jaw. âThe temptation will be too strong.â
You laughedâlight, breathless, your chest shaking under his with the sound.
âWell,â You teased, trailing your fingertips down the curve of his back, âThere goes that positive reinforcement idea, then.â
Bob leaned in and kissed your cheek. Then the tip of your nose.
âIâm sure we can figure out a replacement,â He replied, âSomething that can be done in public spaces.â
You burst out laughing.
He did too.
And you stayed like thatâwrapped up in each other, laughter echoing soft and breathless into the quiet room.
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.·:*šàŒș   cupid's girl.   Ⱡ  bob reynoldsÂ Â àŒ»Âš*:·.
SUMMARY:Â in which a failed assassination attempt turns into something more
SHIP: afab!reader x Robert Reynolds WARNINGS: explicit content (minors stay out), unprotected p n v, and f receiving oral, sub!reader, bob can't pick between being a soft or hard dom, spittingggg??? also you hate bob's guts before he rearranges yours! #enemiestoloversfinalboss. random storytelling/porn with a plot. is this a self insert? i wish I knew. also btw you're from florida now :D!! TW FOR:Â mentions of murder/violence/self inflicted harm, grief, recovery/healing, ptsd related topics, mass violence mention.
WORD COUNT:Â 7K
SONG: cupid's girl by MARINA "Don't panic when it hits âŽshoot my arrow right into your back!"
A/N:Â well well well shawties... I've returned. This plot is a lil crazy but it made sense in my head so i wrote it. Â I haven't written smut in so long but i have been treated well since then so maybe this is better than my previous work ;) I'm having such a weird regression into my old fandoms so I might publish more work soon! as always, reblogs, comments, likes, and shares are greatly appreciated!
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Quiet steps lingered down the hall as you got a handle on your bow, you knew your mission was only complete if he was taken down, and the last thing you wanted to do was betray Valentina. You were her favoriteâŠwhich only started to click for you now. Of course you were. Thereâs no Valentines without cupid shooting arrows and manipulating the background. You were the baseline for The Sentry Project; a test dummy. And similar to the Sentry, you were the only one to survive. Valentinaâs secret weapon. You were agile, quick, and seemingly docile and sweet.Â
To quote Valentina, directly; âsheâs like if Sabrina Carpenter and Natasha Romanoff had passionate sex and scissored out their love childâŠthatâs you, by the way.âÂ
Of course, you didnât harbor the same powers as Sentry, in fact, you were almost sure you were created to be the Eve in this situation. Some sidekick with the cute gift of emotionally manipulating the emotions of others, while also being a ruthless killer. You donât emotionally manipulate others the way most people think off; sure, you bat your pretty lashes and you talk lightly and yes, occasionally, you play devil's advocate. However, you could feel and change the way others feel just by touching them. You know your hand to hand combat, but what's the point if you can just shake someoneâs hand, hunt them, seduce them, and control someone so well that they do the job for you?Â
No bruises, busted lips, or bloody noses if you will someone toâŠwell, you know.Â
Itâs what made you so dangerous, and maybe, just as powerful as Valentinaâs trophy. Itâs also what made him such a good target for you. No need to take him down if you just shake his hand. You could feel the calmness around the room he stayed in, it was almost too calm. It was expected; Valentina just paraded him around and called him and his ragtime team of circle jerkers the âNew Avengersâ? New Avengers? The sentiment alone made you gag on envy. You hated that they got their flowers while you stayed put, while you obeyed, while you kept sweet. Sentry was just a glorified military weapon. You were the will of Eros and Sigmund Freudâs worst nightmare.Â
It shouldâve been you.Â
And the fact that Valentina still wanted him gone, despite everything, made this operation all the more vital; promising you his spot, promising you everything you initially signed up for when you decided to go through the test trials for the Venus project; a better life. Not a life of suffering.Â
It was easy sneaking into where the Thunderbolts were staying at, in fact, you already ran into two members already; that fat oaf Red Guardian and the family dollar (and slightly closeted) Captain America, John Walker. It was easy to get them out of your way, the same way you got men to move out of your way your entire life. Staring up at them with your big eyes and pretending that you were doing the opposite of what you were actually doing; And maybe you did pat a couple shoulders here and made them lessâŠon guard.Â
It didnât matter, you werenât here for them, youâre here for the poor manâs Homelander. Or whomever he really is. Despite having the same background, being from the same lab, you never once met him, or knew him beyond his project name. You knocked on the door, laying your weapon against the frame of the door as you straightened up. It was your time to shine. Your time to prove everyone wrong; dressed in a white blouse, a black skirt that was way above your knee, and knee high boots with tights underneath.Â
The door slightly opened, a small crack of light entering the room as curious, doe eyes peaked out behind the slab of wood that separated you from your most treasured victim. The plan was simple; fill him with the doubt, the rage, the sadness that he had before, and then some. Let him do the rest. It wouldnât surprise anyone considering his history. You were a character assassin. However, the awkwardness filled the air with its stiffness. You could smell how anxious he got as it sept through every pore. Once he opened the door, you realized he was a lot more timid than previously mentioned. You almost thought you had the wrong guy.
âUmâŠcan I help you?â He stammered.Â
Biting the inside of your cheek, you smiled. âYes.â a soft hum leaves you. âAre you Robert Reynolds? I-I got sent here by Mel to do a room check.â you lied, even dropping a slight stutter to convey just how nervous the idea of this made you; even if it didnât bug you at all. âI already checked in with the others, you were last on my list.âÂ
He raised an eyebrow. â...Why couldnât Mel do it?â he asked earnestly.Â
He already had you stumped, but you just shrugged. âShe got promoted, so I'm the assistantâs assistant nowâŠfunny how life works, right?â you stared up into his eyes, you could practically hear his heart beating faster and faster the longer he made eye contact with you. Anxiety mixing in with curiosity, and a hint of attraction; oh, he was in for a rude awakening. He didnât need to know that just yet. âSo, are you gonna let me in?â you ask kindly.Â
He hesitated, you could see his jaw clenchingâwas that irritation? You didnât care. The minute he stepped aside, you sauntered in, looking around at the bare room as your eyes went towards the nightstand. You slowly walk over as you open the drawers and rummaged through what was inside with only your eyes. âHow come Iâve never seen you before?â
You snap over to him. âWhat do you mean?â
âWell, I would have recognized you if you worked for Mel.. or Valentina, for that matter.â he leaned against the wall, looking down at the ground until his eyes met yours. You brushed it off with ease. âWas always more of a background actor.â you hummed as your fingers went to the other drawer. âBesides, I was away while everything was happening, just got back from a trip the minute you strolled in. I can't say I'm terribly inconvenienced by the suddenness of everything.â it was a white lie, you were inconvenienced.Â
he just nodded. âI meanâŠyouâre a government worker.âÂ
Yeah, and so are you; 1/4th of the military spending. Â
You clenched your jaw, releasing it as you turned your head, flashing a fake smile as you shut the drawers behind you. âYou can say that, yeah.â weâll agree to disagree for now. You sigh softly and look around. There wasnât much else to check for your fake assignment, it was time to move onto the real one. You approached him. âYou should hit up an Ikea or something, and soon, itâs kind of sad in here.â you joke lightly, feeling him slightly relax.
âEh, I guessâŠI could fill it up with some things like a bean bag or a nice rug, maybe a couple of posters like a SlowDive one or maybe even an FSU one-â
General disgust hit your face, and you werenât too keen on hiding it, and he noticed it right away. He furrowed his eyebrows, laughing nervously. â...what?âÂ
âAn FSU poster?â your voice winced softly.
Then it hits him, he takes a step back, and a smug look on his face replaces the timid one. âAreâŠare you from Florida too?â he questioned, and you shook your head, not to say no, that youâre not from Florida, but to say; âThe Gators are so much better-â â-Ew, no.â he combated. âLet me guess, Orlando?â he joked softly. God, we really are in a sassy man apocalypse.Â
You scoffed. âGross, Iâm from Tampa.âÂ
âShouldâve seen that coming.â he smiled softly. âYouâreâŠa lot nicer than Mel and Valentina, despite your bad taste in college sports-â â-Iâll have you know, that the Gators have won multiple national championships, and I also root for the Bulls.â you cut off, then blush slightly. âSorryâŠand thank you, Robert.â you stare up at him, and there it is again; Anxiety mixing in with curiosity, and a hint of attraction; a shot of attraction now, there might as well be a pint of it the next go around. The man looked down at her.Â
âIâmâŠBob, by the way. No one calls me Robert.â He sticks his hand out.Â
The golden opportunity, you practically water at the mouth to get your hand over his. You didnât want to make yourself look desperate to touch him; thatâs always a little awkward. You wanted to give it such a good shake that you were able to send him on that spiral, without having to use that weapon you brought and stashed in his blindspot. So you grin, your manicured fingers slowly slithering over and interconnecting with his fingers, as power surged through you. It felt like a runners high, better than sex, better than taking back whatâs yours. âY/Nâ
You could see it actively working, the uncertainty that lingered on his face, yet, something else started to swallow you whole. You felt it run through you as everything turned black, and for a second, Bob was gone. He was the Sentry, after all, maybe you were the delusional one for thinking you could be as powerful as him. However, Valentina didnât mention this. She didnât mention this unwavering ability he had that made you feel utterly alone.
You felt yourself shift to a new plane of existence, your body now sitting as slight murmuring grew louder and more coherent. The smell of coffee and old books hit your senses like a gut punch, and fluorescent lights peaked through your thin eyelids and lashes. Your clothes were the same, yet everything was different. When your eyes opened, you noticed yourself sitting in a group with people you wouldn't believe you were seeing. Because they were your classmates. Because itâs been years. Because..theyâre all dead. The monotone voice was your teacher. She was dead. The clock struck 2:15, and stayed that way after that day. You were strapped to your seat, an adult, seeing your teenage pupils panic to news over the intercom.Â
Stuck to your seat, you watched them scramble to barricade doors. Stuck to your seat, you watch them arm themselves with textbooks and chairs. Stuck to your seat, you watched as everything failed, and each life got ripped away from you, the way you couldnât have seen back then when you played dead. This was what you were escaping. This is the promise Valentina failed at keeping; having to see it play out over and over again; until you realized you could move. You could always move.Â
You try to run to the door, swinging it open and seeing yourself and Valentina going over your own project. Before you could run to your salvation, you see Bob on the other side of the classroom, staring at you in horror.Â
You snap back to reality, stumbling back as tears reach the rims of your eyes. You were on the verge of hyperventilating as your legs shook, holding onto the edge of the bed frame. Your knees cowering as you look down at the floor. Bob puts his hands up, almost as shocked as you are. As your mind racks with the idea of how your powers failed you here, Bob stares at you.Â
âI know what you areâŠâ he says sternly, his jaw tensing up as he keeps his gaze. âProject Venus?â he asked.Â
You try to calm down, your breaths slowing down slowly as your eyes finally meet him. You neither confirm or deny. â...Project Sentry.â you grit. You see him slowly put his hands down. âValentina told me that everyone from Project Venus diedâŠâ you watch as he connects the dots as to why you were kept in the dark for so long. Before he had time to process the possible failed assaination by proxy attempt, you ran to hit, backhanding him, distracting him, before kneeing him in the stomach.
He groaned, annoyed, and before you could land another punch, he grabbed your wrist; holding it tightly as you tried to snatch it away. âIâm not gonna fight you-â â-bullshit, if you know me, and what I can do, then you know why Iâm here-â â-it doesnât work, and thatâs why you were scrapped, now stop before you sprain something-robâ you didnât listen, you kicked him and pushed him out of the way, running to the door and grabbing the bow, and aiming it at him.Â
âGod, what the fuck, Stop!â He holds his hands up.Â
âWhat did you do to me?â you barked. âHow did you-â your voice shook as Bob shook his head. âLook, itâs clear that Valentina fucked us both. Okay? You-You have every reason to be upset! She didnât care about you then and doesn't now either. She probably sent you here to be killed just-just-put the fucking bow down, please!â he pleaded. âPlease donât make me hurt you more than I already have-âÂ
âOh shut up!â you raised your voice over his. âI was supposed to be you! I signed over my entire life to be as great as you and you stole that from me, you stole my lifeâŠâ your tears ran down your cheeks. âYou stole my life, and I'm gonna get it back!âÂ
âI didnât steal your life.â he snapped. âValentina did. That man who did that to your friends back in high school did.â he huffed out as he dropped his hands. âGod, Y/N, what was the plan here? You âinfectâ me with depression until I kill myself? Do you know anything about me outside of me being the Sentry?â he stared in bewilderment. âValentina used just about everyone in this building, youâre not alone.âÂ
Your hands shake as you hold the bow, and you start to realize that you never shot the bow before, and that youâve always cruised simply by using your powers. Bob saunters over, his hands reaching towards her bow and lowering it. âThereâsâŠnothing you can do that I haven't already done to myself.â he admits. âPlease stop, before you hurt yourself.âÂ
Youâre enraged, and you want to do everything you can to regain control, but thereâs no use. You throw your weapon on the ground, drying up your own tears as you sniffle softly. âDid you learn all that after singing kumbaya with Red Room Barbie and her fucking friends?!â you spat. Bob just nods. âI donât know, have you ever considered that maybe you could use your powers to help people? Instead of hurting them?â he barked back. âYou know how much time you could save if you healed people instead of, I donât know, inducing suicideâCan you stop fighting with me for a second.âÂ
You hate that heâs right. âIf i started with you, weâd be here all night. You have enough personalities to keep me completely occupied.âÂ
âNow thatâs a low blow.âÂ
You both just stare at each other, staying silent for a second as you sigh. âWhy didnât my powers work on you?â you were dying to know, even if it meant knowing that you were a failure, and you were meant to be scrapped.Â
Bob shrugged. âI donât know. I wish I could tell you.â he sincerely said. âMaybe instead of filling aâŠwhatever I am with depressive thoughts, have you considered filling me up with happy thoughts? Let me live like that for a bit and then come back to take it from me? Maybe I'll do what you want then.â he muttered that last part under his breath.Â
âAre you seriously giving me tips on how to kill you more efficiently?âÂ
âI donât know anymore, Y/N. This is awkwardâIâm feeling awkward, in case you canât tell.â he stared into your eyes. âYou know why your trial was called Project Venus, Y/N? Itâs because Valentina wanted to make a-a seductress who was an assassin. A wholeâŠKilling Eve situation.â he critiqued. âYou put the super serum in Steve Rodgers, you get Captain America. You put the super serum in me, you-you get a clusterfuck of problems. But if you give it to a people pleaser? you get an emotional manipulatorâŠâÂ
You had enough. âYou know what? Fuck you, Sentry.â you pick up your bow, not drawing anything, but holding it, just ready to leave this all in the past. âIf thereâs nothing I can do that you âhavenât already done to yourselfâ then my work here is done. Youâre the ticking time bomb. Not me.â you spat, only to feel what you felt earlier again; the anxiousness, now masked with annoyance and anger, the curiosity, the attraction skipped the pint size, and the pitcher, and the gallon, it jumped two gallons three. Four. Five. You didnât care, though. He kept pissing you off.Â
âYou arenât gonna try?â he asked.
You groaned and turned around. âJesus christ, Bob. What would make you happy, huh?â you bellowed. âA puppy? A girl? FSU actually winning something?âÂ
Bob sighed. âAll I know is that we came from the same lab, and weâre both the only survivors. Itâs not a fluke. If you truly want to know why your powers didnât work on me, then I'm telling you that youâre using them wrong.â he looked down at your hand. âPut it on my chest, make me think of something good. Valentina sent you here to dieâŠprove her wrong.â he earnestly suggested. âI was able to prove her wrong, so were the Thunderbolts.âÂ
You hated that this might be the reason why it didnât work on him. Maybe he was already filled with such darkness, that filling him with more, oversaturating the inevitable, it was never going to work. The public knew about Project Sentry, but not Project Venus. It made sense as to why youâd never be in the picture. It was a losing game. It was always a losing game. Reluctantly, yet, willingly, you dropped your bow and placed your hand on his chest. Oh⊠there had to be a rock underneath his sweatshirtâŠwas it always this tight? Didnât matter, you tried to focus on something that would make anyone feel good. Chocolate, a good cry, ten hours of sleep. Something.Â
Bob looks at your hand, then down at your face, studying every feature. Your hand glows a soft pink, your eyes moving underneath your eyelids as you try to change his demeanor. You just sigh and pull away. âThis is stupid-â â-maybe.â he muttered. Looking up at him, you realized how close you two were to each other. âAll I can feel is how much I annoy you and stress you out.â his heart beats faster, the blood rushes to his face, and you felt all of that too, you just didnât want to entertain that possibility. âCan also feel how bad you want me.âÂ
Bobâs cheeks turned a dark shade of pink, he furrowed his eyebrows. âWell, Cupidâs Girl. at least you didnât force me to feel that.â he looked down.Â
Your breath hitches slightly, but you shake your head at the idea of it. âIâm not dealing with this-âÂ
âIâm just trying to help you see that you donât have to follow her orders anymore.â He gulped softly, staring into your eyes. âNone of us do. Actually, the last thing I want is to see another person like me be under her thumb-âÂ
â-Iâm nothing like you.â
âBullshit.â he said softly. âTraumatized Floridian escapes pain by signing up for a trial, instead of going to therapy, they become the sole survivor of said trial and, under Valentina De Fontaineâs thumb, they become her own personal weaponâŠSounds familiar?â you couldnât escape from the similarities after he put it into words. You just sigh, opening up your mouth to say something, but Bob cuts you off. âI mean, we own her. Donât you want that? It doesnât drain you to do her bidding every now and again?âÂ
Damn it. You just look down, but feel his hand slowly raise to your cheek. He was right. Part of you hated how something as beautiful as being an empath, emotionally attuned, as turned into some cheap party trick to make top scientists and government officials leave the world behind without a single thought. There was a time you wanted to help others. You figured after you learned what you could do, you could help yourself. It doesnât work on you, but you wished it did. You felt Bobâs thumb run across your cheek, feeling his anxiety tremble once the both of you locked eyes. â...youâll never have to force anyone to do anything awful ever again, you wonât even have to force them to love you.âÂ
âWhat makes you so sure?âÂ
Bob just gazed into your eyes, trailing along your soft features as his eyes fluttered down to your lips. Oh, because I didnât have to force you to want to help me. I didnât have to force you to see me as more than just a potential enemy. His eyes flicker back up to yours. He wants to say more, maybe even show you exactly what he means. Heâs too anxious, too awkward, too nice, while also flooding with some sick desire to have his way with you. The air between the two of you gets thick. The same way it did when he first opened the door, except now the playing field has flipped itself on its head. You stare down at your hands, and so does he, before his eyes find yours again. Itâs almost like heâs signaling you on what to do.Â
Your hand slowly reached his chest, but before you could make him feel anything, he mustered up the courage and grabbed your chin, slowly bringing it over to him as he kissed you softly. Maybe he just wanted you to touch him, not to make him feel anything he doesnât already feel, but to reassure him that he wanted to feel you and only you. You feel him relax into you, all the anxiety and curiosity quieting down as you gently kiss back, bumping noses and heavy breaths as the kiss deepens. One hand shakily goes to your waist as he uses the other to slowly shut the door behind him.Â
You werenât expecting this, and part of you wasnât sure if this is something that should happen, but once you both pulled away, your lips chased each other again; like magnets trying to find their polar opposite. You felt his grip on your waist slowly tighten, almost scared heâd break you if he grabbed too roughly too soon. Your arms find themselves around his neck as you feel your body get warm with need, way too soon to be feeling like that until your tongues accidentally brush past each other; then it was game on for the both of you.Â
He feverishly kissed you as his grip on you strengthened, a small huff leaving him as you felt yourself gravitate to him. Feeling his knee slowly slip between your thighs, it was all too convenient. His hand grappling to the back of your neck as he pulled you in more; like he was some needy vampire and you were a blood bag with his name written all over it. His hand on your waist slid over to your lower back as he pulled you more into him, as if you could fade into him, as if he wanted you all to himself. And who were you to deny him of that? Especially if you just started to feel yourself dampen, and wanting nothing more than to get rid of the chaste feeling of not knowing what to do, and wanting something more so bad.Â
Alchemizing the hate into passion was something you never thought you could do for yourself. Your hate for Sentry turned into wanting nothing more than to show him just how deeply you felt about him, how deeply you felt for him. The kissing picked up more and more, until teeth started clashing and the both of you started running out of breath. You pull away, breathing heavily and almost mumbling against his lips. âBob-â oh god, you canât believe you were getting hot and heavy over someone who willingly goes by the name âBobâ.Â
He whines softly after he stops chasing your lips for more kisses, you can feel the heat radiating off of him like a space heater. His fingers run through your hair, as he huffs gently. âSweetheartâŠâ he hoarsely said, his voice dripping in desperation as his thumb slowly ran across your bottom lip. He couldnât believe that youâd let him get this far with you. âYou stress me out.â he chuckles softly. And it turns you on. you think to yourself as he leaves soft kisses on the corners of your mouth. âPicking a fight with me just toâŠâ his mind lingers on the idea of having you in his arms the way he has you now. He loves hearing your heartbeat speed up with such a slight or sudden move, and you realize youâre not the only one who can hear hearts too.Â
He softly kisses you for a split second, before leaning his forehead against yours. âPlease?â he asked tenderly against your lips. You nearly squeeze your thighs around his knee at the idea of him touching you without it whisking you away to some twilight zone. This could be a sweet dream instead of some awful nightmare, one you deprived yourself of since the trial. âPlease I wa-wantâŠâ he chokes up, before you nod your head and reciprocate the kiss from earlier; short and sweet. You felt him smirk against your lips as he gently pushed you back up against the bed.Â
The bed is plush, and soft; itâs a stark contrast compared to the surprising pair of abs underneath Bobâs shirt. He eagerly attaches his lips to your neck, taking a deep breath and smelling the sultry perfume and the vanilla shampoo that you lather your hair in each night. Your skin is the softest thing heâs ever touched, and he misses it more and more each time he pulls away from you. âSo..fucking pretty.â he mumbles to himself as his lips trail down to your collarbone, your blouse getting in the way of everything he wants.Â
Your breathing speeds up softly as his hands fidget with the buttons of your blouse, you can feel him have some semblance of self control, and how close he was with throwing it out the window just to have you. God, you can feel the self constraint. He was strong enough to rip your clothes off with one tug, but the last thing he wanted was for this to be shorter than he wanted it to be, even if he wanted nothing more than to dive into you. The more buttons he unclasps, and the more skin he sees underneath, the harder you feel him get. It was right up against your thigh, and all you wanted was to feel it break you in.Â
He breathes out a soft âfuckâ as his eyes wander onto yours, almost pleading for permission to strip you from the rest; please let me undress you, let me tear this off of you, let me have you. You could feel yourself getting more and more wet with each passing second. The way his hands slowly went over to your inner thigh and softly stroke his thumb closer and closer to your core was just the tip of the iceberg. He slowly leans forward, leaving another kiss on your plump and chapped lips. He stares down at you. âI need to taste youâŠplease?â his voice becomes rash, strained, restricting himself so he doesn't go crazy needing you.Â
âYou wanna taste me?â your voice is tainted with the desire to assume control, because he sounded so pathetic for you. He nods like a puppy, nearly salivating from the mouth like one too. âYou wanna taste how fucking sweet I am for you?â you reiterate, feeling his thumb slowly slide between your clothed crotch, feeling how damp your tights were, knowing your panties had been lined with how sweet and wet you are.Â
He blushes at your words. âThatâŠmouth of yours.â he raspily voiced, and before you knew it, the self restraint he could have prided himself on melted away. He pulls your hips down, taking your black miniskirt with you and unzipping your boots in the process as well. You canât help but let out a soft laugh. âSomeoneâs eager-â you hum before a gasp leaves you, because before you knew it, he had ripped your stockings; tears lining down your leg as he leaned down. God your panties were cute, and you weren't even planning on this happening. Lucky you.Â
He leaned down and gently kissed your clothed clit, a shiver went down your spine as tender whines left your parted lips, and the more noise you made, the more Bob kissed and rubbed and sucked on your panties. The friction makes you more and more desperate. You then felt Bob slowly slide that strip of soaked fabric to the side, spitting on your clit before ravenously lapping his tongue over your sensitive, throbbing nub.Â
A moan rips from your throat as you toss your head back, feeling your back start to sweat with anticipation as he buries himself more into your cunt. His arms wrapping around your thighs as he forces you down on his tongue. If there was a heaven, this was it; getting endlessly eaten out by someone you tried fist fighting with earlier. You feel your stomach churn with excitement as he drinks out of you, instantly getting drunk off of you, and muttering helplessly against your clit; âgod so sweetâso fuckinâ sweetâsound so prettyâ intercutting with a few moans and swear words. You relished in how weak he was for you. âFuck, Bob!âÂ
Just the single mention of his name made him speed up, sucking on you as his tongue gently continued to savor every last drop of you. Youâd squeeze your thighs around his head, and he forced them back open. If you wanted, he could stay like that for hours; tongue deep into you while prying your shaky legs open. He wanted to stay like that, until your moans became higher in pitch, and more airy in tone.Â
His eyes searched for yours, and the way he was looking up at you made it impossible for you to look away or not beg for more. Before you had the chance to, his fingers slowly slid into you, causing your back to arch since there was no sign of him ever slowing down his tongue. Moans spilled out of you as your wetness leaked all over your ripped stockings; dribbling down Bobâs chin and making him even more privy to what you liked, what you wanted, what you needed.Â
If he was drunk on your juices, then you were equally as drunk as him on his motions. You became a bumbling mess, and he hasnât even stuck himself in you just yet. âOhmygod.â you mumbled as more moans got caught up in your throat. You felt the urge in your stomach, blood rushing more and more to your groin as you whimpered. âJustâŠbreakingâŠyouâŠinâ he muttered against your clit, a low hum escaping him as his fingers rapidly entered you, leaving you, entering again, and feeling it overwhelm you.Â
âGod-so close!â you whined as he sped up. He huffed out a small laugh, continuing to work on your clit as his fingers curled inside of you, pressing into that soft spot none of your past partners could reach. A small squeal left you as your legs shook with desire. Grabbing a pillow and holding it to your mouth, you came all over his tongue, and you watched as he licked up everything he could get out of you. Your muffled moans were music to his ears, as he pulled himself up, grabbing the pillow from you and engulfing you in another kiss.Â
Tasting how sweet you were, how tart it was on his tongue, and how it ran down his neck; you grabbed his face and pulled him away from your lips. He kept on wanting to kiss you, pouting when he couldnât. You tried to catch your breath before feeling him slide off his sweatpants, exposing his boxers and the giant bulge he was sporting. You could see it throb as he looked into your eyes. âPlease SweetheartâŠâ he begged. âI wanna feel how soft and warm you are for me please.â his voice strained as he looked into your eyes.Â
You nod, eagerly pulling off his underwear with him and staring at his cock. Your cheeks, as if they werenât red already, turned crimson at the idea of him splitting you in half with his member, already dripping in precum. Your hand slowly goes over and wraps around him delicately, seeing a shiver run through him as he grabs a chunk of your hair and pulls you up just to kiss you, then softly letting go and slowly going back down with your lips still attached to each other. A soft moan passes his lips, which are red and plump from the excessive kissing. He teases your entrance. âSweet thingâŠâ he whispers before placing a soft kiss next to your lips. âGood girlâ he hums as he slowly slips himself in you; whimpering the deeper he went
A gasp leaves you as you try to adjust to his length; you werenât expecting it to make you feel so stuffed already, and it wasnât even fully in you just yet. âOh fuckâŠfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck-â it all spills out you as Bob chuckles weakly, trying to keep himself together under the amount of pleasure he was feeling. He almost couldnât think straight with how tight you were around him. How perfectly your cunt sucked him in; like you were both designed for each other. âSo-so fuckinâ pretty when you swear-makinâ pretty noises for me.â he musters out before his hips finally react, finally slamming into you in a repeated fashion thatâs justâŠperfect.Â
A loud squeal left you, and his hand flies to your mouth as he keeps you quiet; clasping so hard around your jaw that the pain alone makes you cry out for him. Yet, it was overwhelmed by the feeling of him fucking you the way you were meant to be fucked. Your body jolts with each movement as cries spill out from the crevices of his hands. âMy sweet fuckinâ girlâŠâ he nearly growls, loving the way you were getting worked up for him; but also getting worked up over you himself. He moves his hand away from your mouth and kisses you softly; god, he had to be addicted to your lips.Â
You took this opportunity to express just how good he was making you feel. You knew others were going to hear you anyway. âGod-fuck you fit so well in me i-it-s just perfect for you!â your voice wavered, coated in pleasure, feeling him pick up the pace. âI fucking-love-it when you fuck me like this I deserve to get fucked out-â you cry, looking into his eyes.
He slows down, almost to get back at you for all the trouble you put him through earlier. âNever expected something so nasty to come out of those pretty lips of yoursâŠâ
âOh yeah? What are you gonna do about it, Sentry?â You challenged.Â
You could see his eyes bristle with power as he grabs you and flips you over, forcing your head down into a pillow and holding your hips up as he slams into you; not caring about how rough he was being. You scream with pleasure as your arms try to hold you up, but the pressure of taking him in this position forces your face back down on the pillow. You whine and swear and cry out, but itâs muffled underneath all the pillows. His grip on your thighs holds you in place; you couldâve almost collapsed with how bad your legs were shaking.Â
âYeah?â he grunted. âThatâs what I'm gonna do.â He murmured hoarsely, trying to keep his control for just a second longer so he could enjoy you, but heâs been close to cuming the minute you put your hands on him. He grabs your hair and pulls your head up; forcing you to take his cock deeper and deeper as he tries to whisper in your ear; âshut you up, sweetheart.â he declared as he let you flop back onto the pillow. He stops thinking about being gentlemanly, and more about how to make you cum for him a second time. He could fuck you for hours until you came if it came down to it.Â
Your screams and cries and coherent thoughts turned into a jumbled up pile of words, as you drooled onto the pillow; hair sticking to your face as Bob continued to unapologetically thrust against your cervix. It didnât matter how nervous he was at the beginning, you had him right where you wanted him; helplessly plunging into you and whimpering with each jab. Feeling him rub against your clit with the speed he was going was sending you into a frenzy, causing your thighs to tremble more and more. âWhat was that, sweetheart?â he slightly smirked as more and more of your muddled moans sept through the fabric of the pillow.Â
âYouâŠyesâŠfuckâŠsoâŠgood.â you cried out aimlessly.Â
Bobâs breath shook as he sped up. âSweet, dumb, thing.â he groaned with each lunge into your cunt. âGoodâŠhandsomeâŠboyâŠfuck!!â you whimpered out as Bob felt his stomach churn with excitement. He didnât care to slow down, the last thing he wanted was to ruin the moment just to catch his breath. Why do that, when he can finally release the tension heâs felt since laying eyes on you? He groans at the idea of cuming in you, filling you up and making you his. God, he wanted you to be his so badly. He doubted it, but he wanted you every day of the week.Â
Sooner rather than later, he felt his own thighs shake. His hands climbed from your hips to your waist, pulling you deeper and closer as he groaned loudly. âHoly fuckâŠâ you felt his cock seize inside of you, twitching every time you squeeze your walls around his member, and every time you did, heâd suck his breath and try to move. He couldnât take it anymore, he quickly pulled out and pressed his tip against your raw and sensitive clit. He came on your clit, watching his semen roll down your cunt and veer off onto your inner thighs as your hips finally lower themselves.
Bob flops onto the bed and tries to catch his breath. His eyes still glowing as he huffs out in exhaustion, he looks over at you and smiles weakly. âYou lookâŠso cute when youâre tired.â he joked lightly.
You face him, blowing a piece of hair away from your face and blushing at the thought of Bob being one of the only people whoâs ever seen you this tired. You kept to yourself up until now, and now knowing that someone has seen you all dazed and fucked out turned from an insecurity to something to be celebrated. You reciprocate the same smile. âWellâŠitâs not every day I get dicked down by someone I was supposed toâŠâ you cringe at the thought of why you came here earlier. âSo..this team youâre a part ofâŠâ
âThe Thunderbolts?â
You nodded. âTheyâŠdidnât judge you? Like, at all?â
Bob stops for a second, then shakes his head. âNoâŠyou donât even have to fight, Y/N, I justâŠdonât want Valentina to hurt you the way sheâs hurt me or the others. No one deserves to feel that alone.â he looks into her eyes. âYou have something that canâŠchange the world. You always took care of Valentinaâs problems, always took care of her. But..who takes care of you?â he asked with genuine concern.Â
He was right. No one did. But maybe here there could be companionship, support, trust, everything you ran away from before Valentina, because you thought it was no help to you; and only got worse with Valentina sending you on pointless missions. Maybe you were done being under her thumb just like how Bob was, and the others were as well. Maybe it was time for you to forge your own pathâtalk about some serious post-nut clarity, but at least you have it now and not down the line when it eventually gets worse. If you wanted there to finally be someone who cared for youâŠwhy not have it be Bob? If he wanted to hurt you, he would have already.Â
Your eyes stay on his, as his hand slithered to yours; no ominous black shadows included, or horrible memories that already plagued your mind; just a true alliance, an unadulterated connection (despite how smudged your makeup is and how red Bob was) and all the mess that came with it. âWhat do you say, Cupidâs girl?â and with a soft breath, you nod, giving him a resounding yes. He nearly leans in to kiss you, but you stop him. He pulls away and raises an eyebrow. âWhat? Weâre team members now so we canât kiss?â he asked, but you shake your head. He furrowed his eyebrows. âThen what is it?â
ââŠCupidâs girl is not my hero name.â
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[â°] ⊠TOJI FUSHIGURO TAKES A LIE DETECTOR TEST⊠9.6M VIEWS
ê© actor!toji (& implied actor toji x actress/actor reader)
‷ synopsis: toji thought this lie detector test was going to be a breeze. he was a little mistaken.
sfw, fluff, crack, ooc toji, toji & reader are secretly together, toji lying!
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âi ainât nervous,â toji claims, cracking his neck and smirking as the crew members attach the needed equipment to his body, âi ainât no liar either. so i got nothing to worry about here.â
âi sure hope thatâs true, mr.fushiguro.â the polygraph examiner replies slyly.
âare you ready, toji fushiguro?â the interviewer asks.
âyeah, i am,â toji claps, âhurry up and get started.â
âis your name toji fushiguro?â
âyes my name is toji fushiguro.â he looks to the polygraph examiner. âit is, right?â
the woman simply stares at him.
â..alright thenâŠâ
the interviews asks another question. âare you about to take a polygraph exam?â
âyes, yes and yes, now give me the real questions!â
TOJI FUSHIGURO TELLS THE TRUTH
YOUR CAREER
âweâre going to start with the category of your career.â
toji nods and looks to the examiner. âhow âm i doing?â
âyouâre very calm, nothing unusual yet.â
âhm.â
the interview begins to speak. âone of your most popular roles as an actor was when you played Frank Castle in the Netflix series, âThe Punisherâ. some would say this is when you became a heartthrob. do you think is this true?â
toji sighs and shakes his head. ânah-â
âLIE.â the polygraph examiner calls out.
toji raises his hand. ââŠbecause, i was already a heartthrob before alla that.â he smiles, looking proud of himself. his answer is met with silence.
âok.â says the interviewer and goes onto the next question. âdo you face a lot of pressure being a heartthrob?â
ânope.â toji answers easily. âiâm just that kinda guy. i ainât gotta try too hard for much, especially not âbeing hotâ.â
he looks at the examiner.
âheâs telling the truth.â she states. she almost seems disappointed by the fact.
âsee?â toji says, folding his arms, âas i said, âgot nothinâ to lie about.â
âin the punisher,â the interviewer starts, ignoring tojiâs cocky replies, âdo you wear a muscle suit to look bigger than you actually are?â
toji throws his back, cackles echoing around the small room. âfuck no!â he gestures toâŠhis whole body, ââit look like i need a muscle suit? âdidnât even know that shit was a thing⊠iâm big enough without any of that stuff.â he shrugs, looking into the camera. âi think we can all see that.â
the examiner nods curtly. â..he is telling the truth.â
âdo you workout often?â asks the interviewer.
toji scoffs. âi thought iâd get good questions..but yeah, yeah i do workout.â
âwould you consider yourself fit?â
âyep. âhundred percent.â
âwould you consider yourself fitter than,â the interviewer slides a photo of the actor gojo satoru towards toji, âthis man?â
âpfft-â toji chortles. âoh, ohh yeah. easily. heâs like..â he looks for the correct words, âa little boy. are we kidding?â
he looks to the examiner and then to the interviewer.
âhe is being truthful..again.â
toji smirks at the camera, tapping the side of his nose with his finger. âtoji never lies.â
POP CULTURE
âthis year, you were named âThe Most Sexiest Man Aliveâ by People Magazine. do you believe youâre sexier than this man, 2022âs sexiest man, nanami kento?â the interviewer slides another photo, this time of the actor nanami kento.
toji looks at the photo for a second, before scoffing a little. âoh yeah. definitely. âguy just has a permanent frown on his face. he ainât ugly but he could smile a little, yâknow?â
âwhat about this âguyâ, 2021âs most sexiest man alive, ryomen sukuna?â the interviewer also slides a picture of him to toji.
toji strokes his chin. âheh..yeah..yeah i would say so..this guy..he ainât ugly either but..theres this energy about him..â
âwhat energy would that be, toji fushiguro?â
âthe energy of a fuckinâ mass murderer thatâs what!â he laughs at his own joke, looking at the picture of this âryomen sukunaâ, who is glaring into his soul through the image. âyeahh, iâd say iâm more attractive than him. just.. just a little.â he holds two fingers close together emphasis. âjesus christ, thatâs one scary looking fuck.â
the examiner inspects the polygraph and looks towards toji and the interviewer. âhe has been telling the truth.â
âyeah.â toji nods, exhaling through his mouth and sliding the pictures away from himself. ââcourse i am.â
LOVE LIFE
toji had been doing well so far, but the category of âlove lifeâ would be his downfall.
âdo you want to get married in the future?â
âyeah, yeah i do.â
the examiner nods.
âhave you ever been in love?â
â..yes.â toji responds, thinking about his past for a second.
the examiner nods again.
âare you in love right now?â
toji pauses for the first time in the whole test. he takes a deep breath. âno. yeah, no. âm not.â
the examiner raises an eyebrow at the results. âquestionable.â
âoh, câmon.â toji groans, rolling his eyes.
âis there someone youâre in love with?â
ânope. nobody at all.â he interlinks his fingers, tapping them against each other. â..nobody at all..â
âquestionable. again.â the examiner states, pointedly looking at toji.
toji sighs. âoh, brotherâŠâ
âdid you happen to meet this person..on set?â
âno, âcause there is no person?â toji says firmly.
âagain.â the examiner says. âquestionable.â
âchristâŠâ
the interviewer asks another question. âdo you believe in love at first sight?â
toji huffs. âno, thatâs just two people who wanna fuck.â
âi see. then,â the interviewer takes out three pictures, all of them being people who he has worked with on set, including you.
âare you in love with any of these people?â
toji gulps, hesitating for a split second, his eyes focused on your picture. ânope. not oneeee bit.â
âLIE.â the examiner shouts excitedly, happy to have finally caught toji out on lying. she rings the negative buzzer repeatedly. âlie!â
ââyou serious?â he asks incredulously, looking between the interviewer and the examiner. âlisten, maybe it was just my heart murmur or somethinâ like that,â he looks to side, cheeks rosy and shifts in his seat a little, âi-i donât-â
âthose are the last of our questions.â the interviewer says to toji, smiling knowingly. âthank you for taking part in our lie detector test.â
toji grumbles.
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JASON IS A LOVEY DOVEY TEENAGE-CRINGEY KINDA LOVER DO NOT TEST MEEEEEE
So am I 100% meant to be in bed or studying for an exam but procrastinating on tumblr to avoid my problems? Yes. Absolutely. But I must SPEAK OUT THIS INJUSTICE TOWARDS JASON PETER TODD! I'm SICK, SICCCCKKKKKK of HC's where Jason is some nonchalant, cool boy who pretends his partner isn't even real until he needs sexual favours or "When they are in danger and he regrets everything!!!" STOP IT! YOU SLANDER MY SON!!! Here's an EXACT and (in my professional hopeless romance genre objectively correct) Headcanoned timeline of how Jason fares as a partner: - Starting point/he just caught the feels: Okay THIS is the only time he can be nonchalant. No matter how hard he falls, that boy is traumatised and has never seen a healthy love between two people. Of course he's kinda standoffish and cold, like coaxing a mistreated cat out of the hiding spot. HOWEVER, he isn't a POS- just kinda awkward. You/Oc need to do the reaching out first. - Something changes/OMG this is real love: YES, there are TWO phases to the crush. One when he can acknowledge it as just attraction and one where he skydives into his feelings and realises this is SOMETHING MUCH REALER THAN FLIRTY BANTER! This is where I pose, "He crushes like a teen girl" HC. Giggles like a maniac at every text, kinda dazes off a little too much when he catches a song, smell or food that reminds him of said crush- if he journals which I think he does, there's entries about you/Oc. A LOT OF ENTRIES. - First dates: He's a Jane Austen/classical romance reader, he's pulling a Romeo and mentally already jumping hoops on how you were destined to be together and stars smiled upon such pure love, blah blah blah. However he is still semi-closed off. Fear is a natural killjoy/heartbreaker, however AGAIN he is NAWT a POS to his date, it's just a little awkward and he looks like he's held at gunpoint whenever you ask about HIS wants and needs. (Let the man grow some self confidence gradually) -Dating/It's offical: In the sense that his partner loves him, truly and honestly, Robin/Red Hood/Outlaw/Jason Todd ect? THAT MAN IS NEVER LEAVINGGGGG!!!! Frankly having something THAT GOOD in his pretty shitty life would somewhat drive him crazy protective and clingy. Yes, he's basically moved in by now and sleeps beside you in bed, like you guys are some married couple. Hell, you wanna push it? Probably has the ring picked out and only by the power of common sense is making him wait for a good amount of time to pass before proposing. He is a darling and almost never lost the romantic in him. Flowers from the first date up until he has to pluck them from the side of the road before crashing through a window into your home, because "What's a concussion and possible internal bleeding to getting my love flowers to match their beauty?". Also fuck off if you believe he doesn't spend 99.9% of his time at 'home' crushing his partner as they hold his mass of a 6 foot build as he rambles about anything and everything. From what books he's reading to "Did you know I saw a pigeon lay eggs on patrol?" Again, married couple behaviour. Has to relearn the concept of personal space because he loves so deeply and whole it works akin to an antidepressant, except it's not because his love is so much more than that. He needs to be weened off you/oc before going on far away missions otherwise his poor team (and enemies) has to deal with his withdrawal from his partner. HE IS CLINGY, PROTECTIVE AND A LITTLE CHILDISH- I LOVE HIM RAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
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Request đđŒđđŒ ? Black widow!reader and winter soldier!Bucky! He was her teacher in the red room, where they eventually fell in love and started a secret relationship, until Hydra and Dreykov found out and separated them. Fast forward several years, Buckyâs out of recovery, reunited with Steve, and living a better life when Tony brings in a new team member. And everyoneâs excited but Buckyâs on edge and kinda wary until he learns who it is.
Itâs his lil widow, the love of his life, his soulmate. the one Hydra and the red room stole from him, the girl he kept dreaming about no matter how many times his handlers tried to wipe his memories. Just complete fluffy, smutty, love sick shit with him being a massive simp for his deadly girl. maybe building a family, getting married, drabbles of him drooling over her skills or her in the widow suit, like oh yea, I taught her that. I can imagine him being so overly protective, constantly holding her close to his chest because she was stolen away from him once, he wonât survive if that happens again.
YESSSSS God this is so cute and smutty and angsty and FLUFFY it makes my chest itch in the best way. Pls ignore what google translate may have botched. Bucky is the cutest, horny, most deadly simp here, so proud of his girl, absolutely yes.
"ne proyavlyay miloserdiya, soldat" [Show no mercy, soldier], Dreykov hissed, letting the soldier enter the red room with a single widow standing before him, not an ounce of fear in her eyes. The soldier grunted, hitting the button that locked the door that kept her from escaping before lunging forward, testing her agility after personally training her himself.
She leapt over him with ease, bracing her hands on his wide shoulders and landing swiftly behind him and swiping her leg under him to knock him to the floor, straddling him immediately after. He grasped her hands in his, rolling over till she was pinned under his large mass with her wrists held together above her head in his metal hand.
"You've learned well kotenok" His voice was husky behind the mask, blue eyes sparkling while she huffed, rolling her eyes.
"Nespravedlivo, kogda ty takoy bol'shoy, soldat" [Not fair when you're so large, soldier]. She gasped feeling him harden on top of her, his rough uniform doing nothing to hide what he was feeling for her, slotted between her thighs.
"Nespravedlivo, kogda ty takoy krasivyy, kotonok" [Not fair when you're so pretty, kitten]. He climbed off her, allowing her to get into position before attacking again, relentlessly throwing punches and blocking them till she nearly collapsed. They retreated to stand at attention at the sound of the doors hissing open, indicating training was over. The soldier grunted a nod as Dreykov walked in, assessing the widow, a sinister smile plastered on his face seeing both of his assets worn but still at their strongest.
He sent them off to their cells, confident that the fear he'd instilled in his captives would be enough to ensure they stayed in line, not realizing his punishments would only go so far.
It wasn't enough to stop the charming young man from Brooklyn who still lived in his most feared asset.
"Did I hurt you baby" The soldier whispered, kissing her bruised knuckles softly after sneaking into her cell, pulling her into his arms.
"You could never" She smiled, melting into his embrace. She never intended on falling in love with the soldier but here she was, feeling his gentle hands wander, leaning up to kiss his soft, pink lips. They were playing a dangerous game but it was to stop now.
He loved her.
She loved him.
-
"Wipe him" The hydra agent ordered while the soldier gripped onto the chair, gritting his teeth while sharp burning spread through his body, frying his brain. The widow dug her nails into her palms, resolve slowly crumbling seeing the love of her life tortured, unable to hold back anymore.
"Stop!" She finally broke, unable to watch any longer, gasping at the sinister smile Dreykov gave her, ordering his men to grab her before increasing the voltage.
"My, my, does it hurt you when we hurt him" Dreykov sneered, turning up the dial, Bucky's screams tearing her apart on the inside.
"Don't-AH-JAMES" A hydra soldier gripped her hair, yanking her back before she could go to him, shackles binding her hands together, dragging her away.
"kotenok" [kitten] The soldier sadly whispered, unheard by her, her kicking and screaming form blurry from his unshed tears. He screamed in pain as another shock ripped through his veins before the world went black.
He never saw her again.
-
Bucky gasped, sucking in a deep breath of air, his chest heaving from the dream he'd just had, sweat covering his chest, dripping from his forehead.
It was the same thing almost every night.
His mind replaying the same thing over and over again; training with her in the red room, the way she felt under him, the way he'd cuddle and make love to her afterwards without a soul knowing. He didn't plan on falling for the woman he had to train to be a killer but he didn't stand a chance the day she'd knocked him down with a knife pressed to his neck seconds later. He could have married her then and there.
He slumped back against his pillow, running a hand over his face, groaning in frustration.
In the several years, he'd slowly managed to get his life back together. He was apart of the team and living at the compound with Steve and the others. He was no longer controlled by trigger words, he had been forgiven by the government, he was starting to recover from all the trauma he'd endured. His nightmares were less frequent, slowly learning to forgive himself for the things he'd been forced to do under Hydras control.
The only thing he never got over was her.
She still lived in his dreams. Still owned his heart. That was his girl and she was torn away by the very people that had taken everything else from him too. No amount of wiping or torture took her away. His handler tried his hardest, shocking him till his nose bled and his veins nearly burnt to bits but her name would fall from his lips as he lay nearly unconscious.
His sweet widow.
Bucky glanced at the faint light starting to stream through the curtains, swinging his legs over the edge of his bed to get up instead of attempting to sleep for 5 more minutes. He threw on a hoodie and some joggers, making his way to the gym to punch his feelings away as usual. He didn't stop till his knuckles split, ignoring the sting, instead thinking about how he'd kiss her soft hands after he'd train her, bandaging them up when no one was looking.
The hot water from the shower did little to ease the tension in his muscles as he made his way to the kitchen next, plopping onto a stool with a cup of coffee. He was just about to try and relax with his coffee until Steve popped his head in with a grin.
"There you are! Tony was looking for you, we're all heading up now!" Bucky frowned in confusion while Steve grabbed his own mug, filling his cup.
"Why are we having a meeting" Bucky questioned, not willing to get up from his seat, his mind still preoccupied.
"He told you he scouted someone to join the team"
"I remember Tony going on about some new member" Bucky mumbled, not in the mood to meet new people, his anxiety only growing further. "That's today?"
Steve nodded, finishing up the last of his coffee while the brunette stayed glued to the stool.
"Buck, you coming?" Steve turned back to see a frowning Bucky, reluctantly trudging behind the captain while the others excitedly also made their way upstairs to the conference area.
"I heard Tony saying the new agent is scary as shit. Apparently he got his ass handed to him when he tried to test her and he was wearing his suit" Sam snorted while Nat smiled with excitement.
"Finally someone worth sparring with" The redhead nudged him while he shook his head.
"I'm serious! She's deadly deadly. I looked over her file, she's killed more people than you and Clint combined and half of those were hand to hand combat"
"What was the other half"
"Sniper. Like Barnes" Sam nodded to Bucky who was still disconnected from the others, his knee bouncing impatiently.
"We're lucky she's on our side" Steve mused, taking a glance of the file that sat on the table. There was no name or picture to go with it but it had a skillset record nearly put his to shame. "Jesus"
"You good?" Sam whispered to Bucky, noticing he was more closed off than usual, getting a tightlipped grimace like smile in return. Steve sat near the front, straightening himself up while the rest quietened down, hearing the sound of Tony speaking to someone as they approached the room. The billionaire opened the door, letting in the new team member first before entering himself with a large smile on his face.
"Everyone, this is-
"Y/n?" Bucky gasped, shoot up from his seat before Tony could finish, the other sharing confused glances between each other, watching the new team member and Bucky freeze.
"Wait, Barnes, you know-
"Malyshka, eto pravda ty?" [Babygirl, is it really you?] Bucky gasped, his heart hammering against his chest, tears already threatening to spill out. "kotenok, skazhi mne, pozhaluysta, chto eto ty" [kitten, please tell me its you]
"Hold up, he can still speak Russian?" Sam hissed to Steve who hadn't moved, mouth gaping, eyes wide.
"James!" You darted across the room to meet Bucky half way, his strong arms catching and lifting you up with ease as your legs wrapped tightly around his waist. "moy soldat. YA zdes', moy malysh" [my soldier. I'm here my babyboy]
"It's really you" He whispered against your hair, breathing in your soft scent, eyes squeezed shut with tears streaming down his face, "My baby" He cradled you tightly, refusing to set you down while you buried your face into the crook of his neck, drowning out the rest of the world. After you were torn apart from him, you had been locked up in an isolated cell, only let out for select missions Dreykov send you on. You wanted to find your soldier, your James, but you never did with Hydra keeping him under their control.
Now you finally had him again.
"Ahem, as I was saying- This is y/n" Tony addressed the rest of the team, just as surprised as the rest of them with all eyes on Bucky especially. "She'll be joining us once Barnes puts her down"
"Never" Bucky finally pulled away, still holding onto you, his nose nudging against yours, "M'never putting her down, never, you hear me babygirl?" He pressed his lips onto yours, shamelessly kissing you hard, ignoring the whistles that filled the room, only pulling away for air. You let out a shy giggle as he set you back on your feet, his hand wrapped around your waist.
"I'd continue to introduce her but I think tinman knows her better" Tony snorted, throwing his hands up before taking a seat, all eyes now watching two of you while Bucky blushed, unable to wipe the smile of his face, cupping your face to press another kiss to your lips.
"This is y/n" Bucky finally let you go, taking you to the front of the conference room, now proudly showing you off to the other, "She was a widow with Hyrda, handpicked by Dreykov" Bucky sucked in a breath before continuing, giving your hand a squeeze "I trained her in the red room myself when I was still the winter soldier. That's when I fell in love with her" The last part was a whisper, not missed by the team with how lovesick Bucky looked.
"I'm sorry, you trained her? Jesus, no wonder she's deadly" Sam shook his head, now understanding why your file was so impressive. You were already gifted when you were picked, coupled with the fact that you were trained and conditioned by the soldier himself.
"She's fuckin' deadly, alright" Bucky's voice was nearly breathless, his baby blues intently gazing into your eyes. "You should see her with a knife"
That's when I fell in love with you.
"So what happened with you two" Nat prodded, looking at you two with heart eyes which was a rare sight but her heart melted at how soft Bucky was, struggling to keep his hands to himself. He constantly nuzzled into your neck, his large form practically swallowing you whole as he clung onto you like a child.
"They found out we were together so they took me from him" You gave her a sad smile, feeling Bucky hug you tighter; you could have sworn you heard him whimper. "I tried to find him for years but I couldn't"
"Hydra tried to wipe my memories but it never worked. Couldn't forget her" Bucky kissed the top of your head, not realizing his bestfriend was trying to subtly wipe his eyes.
"I was going to have everyone introduce themselves but I think these two have some catching up to do so let's move this meeting over" Tony clapped his hands while everyone else nodded in agreement, leaving you and Bucky alone for some privacy.
"I missed you so much, you have no idea, I-I tried to find you but I just- I could barely function, I'm sorry doll-" Your lips cut off Bucky's rambling, cupping his scruffy face firmly in your hands.
"You have nothing to be sorry about baby, it's not your fault"
"I-I know you just got here and-sweets I don't want to rush anything but-" Bucky's hand gripped your waist while he tried to compose himself, he didn't want to pressure you into anything. "I need you closer baby"
"Take me, soldat" You whispered, not giving him any room to second guess as he hauled you up in his arms, taking you straight to his room. Clothes were off in an instant between frantic and desperate kisses. Bucky didn't rush a thing as soon as he had you naked in his bed, pulling the sheets over you both, rolling over to cuddle instead.
"This is all I wanted" He whispered against your shoulder, kissing your skin, "To have my girl with me again"
"I love you Jamie" You kissed his bare chest, hitching your leg over his waist, his hard length pressing against your soaked cunt. He could feel his tip weeping feeling your soft body pressed against his, still looking just as beautiful, if not more now, from when he'd first met you.
"Prettiest widow" He growled, his wandering hands becoming less wholesome as they moved to your hips, pulling you to press against his erection harder. You moaned feeling him starting to hump your pussy while innocently kisses down your neck, smirking at how he was both sweet and sinful at the same time, just as before. "kotenok, ty mne nuzhen" [Kitten, I need you]
You remembered all the times he'd snuck into your cell for a few cuddles, which always ended up with his hand slammed over your mouth while he railed you with his cock.
"You feel how hard I am for you baby? Mmph, this is all for you, doll" He bit his lip, eyes locked with yours, rolling on top of you, slotting his wide body between your legs, still rutting his hips. "Can I make love to you baby, please" He sounded desperate, dropping his forehead to press against yours, hands coming to pin you against the bed.
"M'yours Jamie" You nodded, spreading your legs wider, not bothering with having prep you, needing him inside you more than anything else. You gasped feeling his thick cockhead rub through your folds before he breeched your hole, stretching you.
"Soldat!" You moaned, your back arching off the bed, the name rolling of your tongue as it had so many times before, your nails digging into his shoulders as he buried himself to the hilt.
"Take your soldat's cock, kotenok" Bucky growled, only giving you a second to adjust before he started to move with slow, deep strokes. "Lemme make love to my babygirl, ya tak sil'no tebya lyublyu" [I love you so much]
After Bucky had been rescued, he had no reason to speak Russian, letting the others think it'd been wiped away just like the words that controlled him. Around you, it rolled off his tongue with ease, your pussy dripping each time he whispered in your ear. Your eyes rolled back feeling him hit that spongy spot deep in your pussy, crying out with the powerful, deliberate snaps of his hips.
"M'I making you feel good baby?" He asked, kissing you sweetly, alternating between the sweetheart and heartbreaker he was, looking at you with soft puppy eyes while his cock grew harder watching your face twist with pleasure. His jaw was slack, thrusting with purpose, moving his hips to roll and let you feel every inch of him filling you up, "You look gorgeous with my cock in you angel, wish you could see how pretty you are, so beautiful like this"
"Oh god James! P-please-m'so close-dont-don-t stop" Your moans grew more salacious, unable to say much else, eyes shutting out of pleasure feeling his hand coming down to rub your swollen clit.
"I know baby, I know, you need me to rub this pretty button, Remember the first time I touched you there pretty girl? How badly you wanted to scream, how much you squirted all over me? Remember when we first made love? First time I tasted you? Remember how shy you were when I spread your legs open and nursed off that little button. How you turned into a slutty kitten, riding and humping my face after? Know your needy little clit loves it, m'gonna rub you till you're screaming"
"Buckyyy" You whined, your face feeling hot at the memory, remembering his growls from under you, turning around to find him jerking his cock faster while he licked and sucked your pussy, cum already painting his abs from cumming once, working to a second orgasm. He'd sealed his lips around your clit, stuffing his mask in your mouth to keep you from alerting the guards.
"Baby, c'mon open your eyes, look at me" Bucky nipped your jaw, his cold hand coming to grasp your cheeks, blue eyes staring into your soul as you opened your eyes, "Don't you dare close them baby, keep em' open when I'm fuckin' you, shit, m'gonna cum for you doll"
"B-Bucky!" You cried, struggling to hold off any longer, your juices soaked him as you started to clench and squeeze his cock, tears nearly streaming down your face.
"Scream all you want baby, don't have to hide those pretty moans ever again" He fucked you through your orgasm, his own balls getting tighter with each thrust, precum mixing with your arousal, dripping onto the sheets, "Thats-that-s it baby, m'gonna cum so hard for you, fill you up, you're mine doll, you're fuckin' MINE"
Bucky's hand flew to the headboard, pounding you into the mattress, moaning loudly, letting the wood splinter under his grip as he came, pumping you full of his seed.
"FUCK y/n" He gasped, collapsing on you, panting, burying his face into your breasts as he always did, turning into a needy baby as if he didn't rail your soul. You giggled, tracing your hand down his spine making his shiver, whining when you clenched around his sensitive, soft cock.
"My soldat" You whispered, carding your fingers through his hair, letting him latch onto your nipple, needily sucking for comfort. No matter how big, bad and scary he was, he always melted into a puddle for you, closing his eyes at the feeling of your sweet peaked nipple against his tongue.
"Never letting you go again" He whispered before falling asleep on your chest, arms wrapped tightly around you. "ty moya rodstvennaya dusha, malyshka" [you're my soul mate, babygirl]
"YA by proshel cherez vse eto snova tol'ko radi tebya, malysh" [I'd go through it all again just for you baby boy] you whispered, closing your eyes in the safety of his hold, meaning each of your words. You'd go through everything a thousand times over if it meant you'd have your Bucky back in your arms. Bucky sniffled, curling up with you, spending the rest of the day alternating between speaking sweet words and making you moan and cry over his cock until you couldn't move any longer. For the first time, he slept peacefully, not stirring once.
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Ever since you'd come back, Bucky had turned into the biggest simp, alternating between acting like a menace and a complete lovesick puppy with no in between. It was worse when you were on the field, almost leading to Tony refusing to let you both go on missions at the same time.
"Oh god" Bucky groaned, seeing you step out in your sleek suit, the dark material clinging to your body, weapons strapped along your hips. You threw him a wink before running off to kick ass, his focus solely on you.
"Jesus Christ" He nearly moaned seeing you land a kick to an attacker before throwing you knife across the room, the blade landing perfectly between your targets eyebrows. "Baby, you're sexy"
"For fucks Sake Barnes, did you forget we can all hear you" Tony's exasperated voice crackled through, this not being the first time the soldier was distracted watching you fight. Sam and Steve snickered through the coms while Bucky shameless shrugged, still biting his lip, watching you move with ease.
"Have you seen my girl, Stark" Bucky sassed back, walking over bodies to grab you by your ass, squeezing it and smashing his lips against yours.
"Are you two fucking kissing?!" Tony sighed, hearing the sound of soft moans and smacking, "I'm putting you on a fucking leash, I'm getting you fixed Barnes"
"My naughty soldat" You giggled, pulling away, nipping your boyfriends pouty lip while he shook his head.
"Gonna be the death of me, pretty girl"
"You're both gonna be the death of all of us" Tony deadpanned, unable to understand how there was a man out there that was more horny and flirty than him. "I'm having Barnes neutered, for fucks sake I can see you drooling from over here"
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Bucky was even worse watching you display your skills, his workout long forgotten while you sparred with Steve.
"Where the fuck did you learn that" Steve groaned while you giggled, holding your hand out to help him up while Bucky watched from the side with a cocky smirk.
"I taught her that" He threw you a wink, not so subtly adjusting his sweats.
"Of course you did" Steve huffed, surprised to find bruises on his body from where you'd hit him. "Jesus punk" He blushed heavily seeing his bestfriends raging hard on, scrambling away from the gym, knowing exactly what would come next.
The loud moans he heard moments later made him shake his head, happy he got out of there unlike the last time he saw the warning signs of a feral Bucky.
Aside from being more in love with you than ever, Bucky was also equally protective over you. He'd hug you with such care, always holding your head to his chest, his large arms covering you from the rest of the world, constantly fearing that even if he had you now, someone would come and take you away.
When he finally asked you to marry him, he paused several times, blinking through tears while down on one knee, your hand wiping his cheek, saying yes before he could even finish. The compound was transformed with flowers, candles with a small intimate wedding in the garden.
Steve and Sam stood by Bucky's side while Nat walked with you, your sweet soon to be husband biting back tears seeing his dream girl in her dress, the life he'd always imagine finally becoming a reality. When Tony pronounced you husband and wife, Bucky didn't stop kissing you till he nearly passed out, not a single dry eye surrounding you as he whisked you up in his arms.
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Bucky felt a strong wave of emotion watching you flit around the kitchen, making his way over and wrapping his arms from behind, tucking his face into your neck. You blinked, feeling tears wet your skin, pulling away to find your husband sniffling.
"Baby, what's gotten into you" You cooed with concern, wiping away the tears that collected along his lashes, kissing his reddened nose. "Is everything okay?"
"Just-m'scared to lose you again" Bucky whispered, his hand coming to protectively wrap around your growing belly; you weren't showing much yet but he could still feel the little baby bump. "I can't loose you again angel, I can't go through that again"
"It won't happen Jamie" You wrapped your arms around his shoulders while he picked you up, setting you onto the counter before hiding against your neck again, hugging you tightly. "What's wrong baby, what's gotten you so scared"
"Can't believe I got you back. I got to marry my dream girl. We're starting a family, you're giving me a baby, I-it feels unreal. M'scared I'm gonna wake up and you'll-" He bit his lip, shuddering at the very thought, "You'll be gone"
"Baby boy look at me" You held his face again, making him look at you, "Would you ever let anyone take me from you again?"
Bucky looked horrifying, francially shaking his head, he'd burn the world to ashes before he let that happen.
"Never. Never angel, no one is taking you or our baby from me" He stated firmly while you hummed.
"See? I'll be just fine. I have my soldat" You whispered, melting against his chest. "No one can hurt me when I have my soldat"
Bucky finally relaxed, carrying you off to bed, his metal arm protecting your belly as he pulled the covers over you both. No one would ever take his little widow away again.
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DOWN UNDERâ A Robert Irwin Fanfiction

Summary: You came to Australia Zoo for a fresh startâart, koalas, and maybe a little courage. You didnât plan on breaking down behind the exhibit on day one. And you definitely didnât plan on Robert Irwin finding you there. A soft slow-burn about healing, overstimulation, and the boy who sees you anyway.
Cover: @meximex090
PART ONEââ ⥠Ëđ± Ì
You had promised your therapist you'd take it easy. And really, you tried. But after the last school year took EVERYTHING out of you, and you had to take a break, you decided you didn't wanna keep going like this. How would you get more resilient if you didn't test yourself?
You were hypersensitive. That meant you were basically living on full volume without an off button. Emotions, smells, textures and tastes overwhelmed you like quantum physics would a third grader. It sucked, but you felt it made your art betterâ more real, maybe. That's why your therapist suggested you go to Paris for your gap year. Or a quiet place in the Highlands, or a little village in Italy. And yes, that sounded good. Really good, in fact, you almost decided to do exactly that.
But then you got that gut feeling. That little tingle telling you to finally dare something. To risk something. And, even though you were the epitome of a scared little mouse, you'd promised yourself to finally start living.
That's what led you to the Australia Zooâ the place for weather that literally melted off your shoes, masses of people trying to squeeze through the roads all at the same time and noises that made you bite your lip and cover your ears in frustration. It was truly ironic. A person like you in the land down under. But it wasn't all bad. It would be a great opportunity for your art. You could finally draw with live models. Drawing wildlife was your favorite thing to do, and in one of the biggest zoos in the world, there was plenty of it. Especially Koalas. The sleepy little marsupials had captured your heart ever since you watched Crickey! with your dad when you were a kid.
And, let's be honestâ Robert Irwin was the other, secret reason for your bold choice. You'd always had a sort of parasocial crush on the conservationist, how could you not? He was gorgeous. Especially his ways of treating animals. Like they were breakable. Not in a bad way, never, but he made their fragility seem like it was something beautiful. That spoke to you. And how he didn't scare away from bigger animals like crocodiles or pythons made your heart flutterâ he had this way of appreciating life with a passion not many people got to feel. But you guessed it was an Irwin thing. His sister, Bindi, and his mother also had this sort of sunshiney aura, and you didn't even have to mention Steveâ you felt like Robert and his dad shared a lot of resemblances.
So, there you were. Standing in the middle of the Australia Zoo, crowded by screaming kids and their parents who tried to get them under control. It was then you really began to question your decision. A person like you in a place like this? What made you think this was a good idea?
But now it was too late for regret. You tried to shrug it off. When a worker approached you, offering you a tour of the place after she found out you were new, you gladly took her up on the offer. It was a necessary distraction.
"And here," she pointed to a big eucalyptus tree within a fenced area, "are the Koalas. We check on them every day, the little guys are quite clumsy."
I know, you wanted to say. That's why I love them. Instead, you gave a small smile. She asked if you had any questions, but you barely registered it, because you heard a familiar voice from afar. Robert Irwin. He was probably doing a crocodile show, like the ones you'd seen on videos and blushed like an idiot around. A part of you hoped that he'd be there. But the other really just shut down. This was a bad idea, you thought.
Apparently, the worker noticed you were zoned out. "Oh, that's the croc show. Happens everyday at about 1.30 pm, it's a bit loud, but you get used to it. You wanna see?" She smiled. You panicked a bit. Honestly, as much as you'd like an opportunity to ogle Robert like you were no better than a man, the crocoseum was really overfilledâ especially since he did the show. You didn't think you could take that right now.
So you shook your head. "No, thank you." The worker nodded and kept explaining things about the zoo. You tried to listen, and somehow managed to register most of the information she gave you, even though your mind wandered throughout the conversation. Hopefully, this would go alright.
ââ ⥠Ëđ± Ì
It did, in fact, not go alright.
You shouldâve known it would be like this. Youâd been warnedâ by travel blogs, by Reddit threads, even by your aunt who did a yoga retreat here in the 90s. Australia is intense, they all said. The sun, the bugs, the colors. The way the air hums at a different frequency.
But you still werenât prepared for the noise.
And now, on your first real day volunteering at the zoo, (yesterday's introduction didn't count) you sat curled up behind the Koala exhibition, pressing your hands to your ears and trying to shut off that damn manual breathing that was just a little too fast to be comfortable. It was like your lungs didn't fill up properly, like you were starved for air even though you were breathing just fine. Your stupid khaki clothes felt a little too tight, too restraining, and you felt hot. Kids were screaming, the adults didn't have a concept of personal space and somehow always seemed to wanna walk by when there was no room to let them. Animal noises, that weird zoo smell, the sun burning your skin. Everything overflowed. And what made it worse is that you thought you could handle it. You thought you'd gotten strong enough to surviveâ yet here you were, getting overstimulated on your first day of the job.
It was frustrating, you wanted to bite your tongue really hard or punch something, but instead, you cried. You didn't want to, but it was like your brain saw it as the only way to calm down again. Though it just made everything worse, because now there was no way out. You always felt intensely. Sometimes it was nice, but most of the time, it made you end up like thisâ crying, with no way to stop.
You tried to think of something to distract yourself. Koalas, the way they sleepily waddled from tree to tree. It almost worked. Almost. But of course, your feelings were too big. That made you cry more. And thenâ
"Hey, you alright there?"
No. No, no, no, no, no. Please. Not now, not him. You didn't have to look up to know who that voice belonged to. Yet you did, anyway. And there he was.
The Robert Irwin.
This was just too cliché to be true, you almost scoffed. The sun was setting, painting the Australia Zoo a golden hue. It smelled like that indescribable smell of those summer evenings spent sitting outside with friends. You were at your literal dream destination, and Robert Irwin actually talked to you like he was a damn saint. For some reason, that made you feel worse. The man who made kindness look effortless, the man who cared about the smallest of beings, was taking time out of his day to talk to you, and you were sitting there, unable to do literally anything. Well, it wasn't like he came here just for you. He was probably going to check in with the Koalas or something.
You couldn't bring yourself to reply.
However, instead of laughing, scoffing, or telling you to suck it up, he silently sat down next to you, seemingly not afraid of getting dirty sitting on the ground. Well, he did wrestle crocodiles for a living, a little dirt wouldn't stop him.
And then, he started talking.
"You're new, yeah? For your gap year? Heard Zoey talk about an artist who took a break from uni to come here."
He kept going.
"I've always admired people who can draw. While photography is kinda my thing, I've got two left hands when it comes to art like that," he chuckled, and it sounded heavenly. You sniffled, trying to pull yourself together. You finally managed to form a reply.
"My art's still a work in progress.." You huffed out a soft, watery laugh.
"But that doesn't make it bad," he said, turning to look at you. "Not at all, actually. Art doesn't have to look good, it just has to be, y'know? You got all your life to practice. What's your favorite thing to draw?"
After a moment, you replied.
"Koalas."
You couldn't believe it. You were just barely holding it together, and now you talked to Robert Irwin about Koalas. Meanwhile, he just nodded.
"Ah. I get it. Marsupials are the best for calming down. Well, Koalas are. Kangoroos can be pretty wild, almost had one fight me once. Can't recommend that. But Koalas are chill." He smiled. "Did you know that they sleep about 20 hours a day?"
You chuckled softly. "Yeah, cause eucalyptus leaves aren't exactly the most nutritious. They're honestly a mood."
"True. You should really meet Marley. She's one of our Koalas here, and she's a diva. Gets real pissed when you wake her up at the wrong time." He huffed out a laugh. "It's understandable, though." He paused.
"âŠyou feeling better now?"
You hesitated, before nodding. "Yeah, I⊠thank you. I'm justâ my stupid brain shuts down at every bit of stimulation. Maybe I shouldn't have gone here for my gap year.." It was kind of humiliating, admitting this to your⊠who even was he to you? Technically, a stranger. Why were you telling this a stranger? What was going on with you? Shit. Before you could spiral further, he spoke up again.
"That's just not true. You know, it's not a bad thing to feel. My dad always admired people who are passionate. And you know what I think? I think this is the place for you. Yeah, I get that the crowds can be overwhelming, but you got the Koalas, don't ya? And the Cassowaries and Wombats and Sugar Gliders⊠You get the point. Not every human will get you, but the animals do."
You looked at him.
"Why are you doing this?"
He blinked. "What?"
"Why are you so patient with me? You barely know me."
"So?"
That simple question rewired your brain. So? He didn't have to know you to understand you. After a moment, you gave him a small smile.
"Thank you."
He gave your shoulder a light pat and got up. "No biggie. Now, c'mon. I gotta show you Marley."
Robert didn't even give you time to think. Possibly because he knew that sometimes, thinking was not good for you. And so you followed him. Maybe this wasn't gonna be so bad. You had your art, you had the animals and friendly coworkers and him. He was, you couldn't pretend, the best thing that happened to you that evening. You still didn't understand why he took that time for youâ he was really busy most of the day, after all. But for some reason, he did. And you were incredibly thankful for that.
Now, the only thing you had to watch out for was falling for him. Like, actually falling in love. That had always been a stupid idea for you. But after that evening, the numbers were not looking good for you at all. Fate, if there was such a thing, didn't seem to be on your side. You bit back a sigh.
As if reading your mind, he looked over at you.
"Hey. You're gonna be alright."
Like hell you were.
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Kinktober Day 4 Sounding (TFO Orion and D16)
Word Count: 1,511
TFO Orion and D16 X Cybertronian GN Reader
18+ tags: Rough sex, teasing, sounding, and light voyeurism.
(Yes I am planning a second part, the original plan was to make it 3,000 words. That backfired so expect a part 2!!)
Read more below the cut!
During the day, you were all miners working hard in the mines to keep Iacon running. At night, you and your two mechs were lovers who couldn't get enough of one another. The three of you retreated to your respective stations and waited until every bot was in recharge when you all snuck off to enjoy each other's company.
Which brings you to now.
The muffled sounds of Orion were erotic, his hip struts bucked as the vibrating rod within his spike made him a complete mess for D16. You watched the arousing scene before you unfolded as D moved behind your shared lover and grabbed his neck cables with a rough yet calculated gentle hold. It was firm, pulling his helm back so he could kiss the whimpering mech's cheeks as he sobbed behind the gag and blindfold.
âYou are doing so well Orion, you have no idea how beautiful you look right now. The way you squirm, begging for release. It's intoxicating, I feel so lucky to see you like this.â D16 purrs in the sinfully deep voice of his he used when he was aroused. It sent shivers down your spinal strut.
To bear witness to such an intimate display, your partners taking part in this little fantasy you thought up was such an honor to you. Your spike was pressing hard against its housing. It was becoming unbearable, but you stayed closed while D took care of Orion.
His servos traced down his front, focusing on the sensitive cables lining just under the edge of his bulky chassis. His digits explore Orion's heated frame, feeling up every inch with eager optics. Hungering for any reaction he could get out of your shared partner, his golden yellow optics were dark with desire, and his intake was drawn back in a smirk that showed just how much he was enjoying being in charge of the both of you.
His optics focused back on you, and your frame stiffened under the heated stare. His frame rumbled as his servo moved to the blindfold and removed it to allow him sight once again. Orion's optics flickered and adjusted to the light before he focused on the two of you. D16 leaned down to kiss Orion's helm before he stalked over to your kneeled position.
He looked over to Orion and barked an order. âDon't look away and don't overload. You must keep your optics on us at all times.â He slowly walked around your form, his servo grabbing a hold of your helm with a low, dark chuckle as he pushed you down.
Faceplate on the ground, aft up. His servo pinned you down with ease while the other rubbed along your panel, feeling for the sensitive wires to trigger that would open your valve. His thick digits ardently sought for that wire until it was pressed upon and the covering of your valve popped open. D rumbled his growl, not quite a chuckle. No, this was primal. It was low and vibrated through your chassis as the mech mounted you without hesitance.
His larger frame slotted against your own, fitting together like two pieces to a puzzle. Your frame shuddered at the impending thrill, his digits teasing your valve entrance. Smearing the lubricant around, testing your eager hole for the next step. His knees dropped one after the other as he pressed your frame into the floor, his hips pressed flush to your aft while one arm wrapped around your middle and the other went to your intake. His digits covered in your fluids pushed past your dermas, and you whined against the blunt object as he urged your glossa to clean it off.
Solvent soaked his digit, the writhing mass in your intake covered it until it was cleaned to his liking, and without warning, his digit was joined by another before the third was shoved inside. Your intake stretched wide and and the three large intrusions thrust inside to cover them in your solvent.
âGet them all nice and wet for me. Make sure they are throughly lubricated.â He purred, admiring the way your optics flickered as your frame started to whirr with the fans trying to cool your heated frame. His digits pushed further into your open intake, coating them with the fluids pooling as you drooled from the intrusion. Your glossa dragged along them to soak them as requested. He hummed approvingly as his hips grind against your rear excitedly at the feeling of your moist orifice preparing them for whatever he had planned.
He pulls his servo away, his digits throughly coated in solvent, he reaches down between your frames, and you hear a hiss, then something hard pressed against you. The slick sounds of something moist is heard from just behind you, curious, you lean your helm down and look under your frame to see that D is stroking his erect spike. It's absolutely weeping with trans fluids. His servo that was in your intake is stroking it. A chuckle vibrates youcatxck, you pull your helm back up to see that D is watching you.
You flush at the fact you got caught watching him lube his spike up. He doesn't push the subject. Instead, he pushes your helm down against the ground once again as he aligns himself with your valve and pushes inside your hole with little resistance. You gasp as he bottoms out with ease inside of you, his servo runs down your front until he reaches the buldge where his spike rests within your clenching walls. A low moan leaves him, a playful nip to your audial with a low rumble of his chassis as a growl passes through him
A whine from Orion has you glancing at him, but D quickly snatches your chin up and makes you look away from the needy bot.
âEyes forward, he has to watch as I ravage your body all night long~â He purrs before his hips start moving. His spike is thrusting slowly at first, building to a speed that is carnal and rough. The speed takes you by surprise as each thrust leaves you breathless as he rearranges your insides with a pace so fast and hard you can't think. The noises you are making are lewd, solvent drools past your dermas, knees weak, and a valve pulsing with a building charge that has you begging for him to finish inside of you.
Orion is watching from his spot. His spike is aching with the need to release. His transfluids chamber aches to purge the building fluid, but the obstruction inside his spikes channel prevents him from doing so. He watches D ravage your frame, fragging you with a relentless pace. He's jealous that he isn't the one pulling the noises from you. He wants nothing more than to break from his binds and sample that tight valve he knew would suck him inside without hesitance.
Orion shifts his leg struts to sit just under him and starts to grind himself against his metal, groaning in relief as the aching need to be touched is achieved. It wasn't the touch he wanted, but it would do. He watched as D chased his building charge. The snarls and growls of his pleasure were hot. Fueling his grinding to get faster, his valve clenching around nothing as his node drags along his leg and with a roll of his hips he starts to grind roughly at a pace that starts to push him to the edge of his building overload. His hips rock desperately, humping with huffs of pleasure leaving him as he feels his charge building tight within his frame. It hurts so bad. He just wants to let go!
Your towards your own end, the savage rocking of his hips against your own is mind numbing. You are lost to the world around you as the rolling heat is close to snapping. A servo is between your spread thighs and rubs at your node as a low, sultry voice whispers a command.
âOverload for me.â D whispers, and you listen.
Your frame stiffened and shook as the hot flash of pleasure spreads through your body and shakes you to your very core. You cry out as your valve snaps down and D follows suit. His spike pumps you full with his transfluids as he fills your chamber with his hot fluids. You feel your body go limp, falling back against his as the euphoria floods your system, and D holds you close to his body to kiss your face and helm with his own exhaustion curling around his processor. He does pause to see that Orion is heaving, he grows worried that something happened until his optics land in the sounding rod on the floor,a limp spike, and transfluids covering the front of his frame.
He clicks his glossa with a hum of disappointment âThat wasn't very smart of you, Orion. I have to punish you now. Only good boys get to overload. And you are far from being a good boy~â
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tw - unhealthy relationships, mentions of gore/human experimentation, forced marriage. written for a very lovely anonymous commissioner.
Recently, all your mornings had started the same way: ten or so feet below the ground, buried under the satin sheets of an otherwise empty bed in a stone chamber decorated with all the love and tenderness of a hospital room, freshly cleaned after the death of its last occupant.
Blearily, you stumbled out of bed, grimacing at the feeling of the cold, rough floor against your bare feet. Temperatures in Snezhnaya rarely rose above freezing, and while your husband didnât seem to mind the cold, you werenât so resilient â shrugging on your heaviest robe before so much as opening your eyes. A mug of coffee was clumsily assembled in your minimalistic kitchenette (a feature you insisted on, after being forced to share a communal ice chest with one of his more dissection-focused segments), then a cup of tea; herbal and rich, a blend from Sumeru he had imported every few months. For as many years as youâd been with Zandik, youâd never been able to make sense of what he considered worth his time and what he disregarded as frivolous wastes of effort and mora. You supposed you could only be thankful you fell into the former group, lest your body be the next to adorn his vivisection table.
Once youâd managed to shake the chill and bring yourself to a state of near-consciousness, you stumbled out of your bedroom and into the corridor, ignoring the curious looks of young researchers and patrolling soldiers and shrugging open the steel door at the end of the hall. The smell of rot and preservatives hit you as soon as you stepped into Zandikâs personal laboratory, but your eyes only glazed over the dark puddles splattered across the floor, the amorphous mass covered with a white sheet and laid across a metal table before landing on your husband â slumped over his desk, his face buried in his arms and ink staining his fingertips, his left cheek. With a sigh, you made your way to his side, placing both mugs on the edge of his desk and resting your hands on his shoulders. Letting your eyes fall shut, you lowered yourself to his height, resting your lips against the top of his head and only pulling away when he began to stir.
He'd always been a light sleeper (in comparison to you, at least), and itâd never taken much to rouse him. You straightened your back and as if on cue, he bolted upward, gaze darting to the door, then his operation table, then you â where it would stay. A slight grin pulled at the corner of his lips as he pushed his chair away from his desk and tapped his leg, and without protest, you climbed into his lap; straddling his thighs and burying your face in the crook of his neck. One of his hands found its way to your hip while the other took to rubbing small, slow circles into your back. You waited for him to settle underneath you before breaking the silence. âI want to go home.â
Home, meaning the gothic, looming mansion you usually resided in when he wasnât working out of one of the Fatuiâs countless underground facilities or traveling abroad. It was also dark and drafty and a far cry from your previous home, the home heâd taken you away from the day he married you, but youâd been able to decorate it to your preferences and you didnât need to go through ten of his soldiers just to step outside. He hummed, the sound passive and dismissive, and you frowned into his shoulder, nudging gently at his chest. âIâm serious, Zandik. Everything smells like blood and you havenât come to bed in days. Being around all these chemicals is going to be the death of me â that is, if boredom doesnât do the job first.â
Another hum, this one slightly more thoughtful. âYou know I would pluck the stars from the sky for you,â he started, his voice still low and coarse with sleep. âBut I am here on the Tsaritsaâs orders. Are you sure youâd have me test the good will of an archon for something so mundane?â
âYes.â Youâd seen him butcher orphans and burn villages to the ground. If he was still in his goddessâ good graces after so many centuries of relentless carnage, you were sure she wouldnât mind a sudden relocation. âThereâs nothing you do here that you couldnât do in your own laboratory.â You thought for a moment, then added, âUnless youâve decided that you love your archon more than you love me.â
His smile faltered, something possessive and pointed catching in his eyes. His grip on you tightened, but he recovered quickly, letting out an airy chuckle as he bowed his head and nuzzled mindlessly into the dip of your shoulder. âTwo more weeks,â he promised. âThen, Iâll send you home â one way or another.â
âOne more week.â You sat up, cupping his face and forcing him to meet your eyes. âOr I start spitting in your tea.â
âOne more week if you start spitting in my tea.â
âYouâre a vile, repugnant little man.â You leaned forward, kissing his cheek. âDeal.â
You spend the rest of that day lounging across the velvet-cushioned loveseat in the corner of his lab, skimming through your dozenth pulpy romance novel and watching your husband dismember corpses with a vigor you hadnât seen since the first days of your marriage.
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i will say that, while i agree with most of my circles' musings and opinions (such as the posts i've reblogged) on the current discussion matter of "you have to read more than just marxist views, both to get broader perspectives and apply your own developing dialectical analytical skills", i find the framing specifically from many non-marxists in "the left" a little disengenious.
the phenomenon of trying to seek out exclusively pre-written, "ideologically sanctioned" marxist texts, stems from the growing desire for understanding things through a dialectical materialist lense, as more people become curious about and comfortable with the ideology. this is a very common impulse, far beyond marxism! whenever one becomes aware and wants to internalize a framework, one seeks to understand said framework through examples, both of theory and of practice. yes, even anarchists do this, and liberals specially fall into this trapping too, by virtue of having control over most (if not all) mass-distributed discussion channels.
i would in fact argue that marxism, thanks to the scientific angle of dialectical analysis, its historical background, and even due to its taboo as a discussion topic on the west, is the framework most primed to give anyone who chooses to internalize it a path towards applying it to analyze texts that might be "foreign" to it as an ideology (marxism) through its method (dialectical materialism).
obviously, it's a priority to encourage this habit on our comrades, especially those who, due to perceived unfamiliarity, might hesitate to use these analytical skills out of fear, or due to being used to having an idealist framework hand them their opinions. and i think that anyone who brings that encouragement and speaks on this topic is doing a great service!
but i see a lot of people who insist that this is an issue supposedly unique to marxism, ostensibly stemming from that pesky dogmatic faith in ideology that marxist-leninists suffer from. and when faced with rhetoric like this, one has to take a moment and consider (just like we must do with everything else) what the underlying subtext of these comments by orbiters and detractors from across "the left" is, and what these sorts of ideas seek to perpetuate when talking about ideology. which i think, is a wonderful time to put that developing analytical framework to the test.
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