[ Yes, she breathes, and then her mouth is crashing into his again and he lets go of her hand to skate metal fingers over her shoulder, her arm, around to her back, pulling her in as much as she's pushing herself. Little flickers of electricity sputter between them, sharpening the kisses he presses to her mouth more than the edge of his teeth that run lightly over her bottom lip do. He can feel it gathering between them, the looming promise of a storm about to break. ]
I'm here.
[ He twists his shoulders to give her room, letting go of her only long enough to reach up and shove the straps of his backpack off himself, followed by the jacket Sophie and his apprentices had worked so hard on.
That thought yawns in front of him like a deep, jagged ravine, and he shies from it in the next second. He can't think about Sophie, about his apprentices, about how proud they all were to wear their uniforms together for the first time —
Her fingers work loose the buttons of his waistcoat, and he shucks that off, too, before reaching for the fastenings of her own uniform, fingers shaking with urgency even as he leans in to kiss her again, deep and drowning. ]
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Date: 2025-05-21 06:10 pm (UTC)I'm here.
[ He twists his shoulders to give her room, letting go of her only long enough to reach up and shove the straps of his backpack off himself, followed by the jacket Sophie and his apprentices had worked so hard on.
That thought yawns in front of him like a deep, jagged ravine, and he shies from it in the next second. He can't think about Sophie, about his apprentices, about how proud they all were to wear their uniforms together for the first time —
Her fingers work loose the buttons of his waistcoat, and he shucks that off, too, before reaching for the fastenings of her own uniform, fingers shaking with urgency even as he leans in to kiss her again, deep and drowning. ]
I'm here.