Dated September 19th, 2014

[memoryisthekey]

Okay, let's try this flower thing again. Granted I'm not in the best shape after my, well, Omega's fight, but I look good enough for this. And I feel pretty good. Everyone's been quiet, I think their night out burnt them out on the idea of being in charge for any length of time. Which works for me because I don't need to police them as much. Seriously, that shit gets old.

Besides, I feel like I owe her something nice after all of that. It's a hell of a way to find out your boyfriend has voices in his head. So I've got flowers - nicer than the last bouquet - and a bottle of a wine that I know she likes. I can do this. For her, I can do this. Shit, I even put on a nice shirt and jacket thing. Hell, I can't even remember the last time the Director wore anything other than a uniform.

Smoothing things down and hiding the bruises on my knuckles with the flowers, I reach out to knock on her door.

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[jianhuo]

Before sitting down with him, Saffron takes a quick detour to turn the music on, choosing something mellow. When she joins Church on the sofa she curls herself up beside him, close enough so that she's half on his lap. "Oh, I almost forgot with the commotion before, there was something I needed to tell you," she says with a look of realization, remembering now that she's not quite so preoccupied with worry over him fighting that she'd meant to give him a heads up about Leonard.

[memoryisthekey]

Yeah, that's never a good sing, right? What the fuck did I do now? But I play it cool, or, you know, cool for me I guess. "Oh, really? What?"

It's kind of lame, but what else am I going to say while I'm putting my arm around her. Not really anyplace else I can go with it. Or would since she's practically on top of me, a position she knows I'm more or less helpless in when it comes to the things she wants.

[jianhuo]

"Remember the guy I told you about?" she says. "The friend I had on the island whose name is also Leonard and who looks just like you? He's here in Darrow. Been here a couple weeks, apparently. I ran into him today."

[memoryisthekey]

"Shit, you, too?" I must have just missed Helen if she was at the coffee shop, too. Man, what a mind-fuck. "I gotta say, I'm used to weird shit, but that's weirder shit than usual." My face, my voice, well, kind of, but seriously, dude's even got my name, not that I go by Leonard here, but it's still... weird.

"He seemed... nice, I guess. In a freaking weird kind of way."

[jianhuo]

Her eyebrows raise slightly. "So you've seen him already?" Saffron says. That must have been strange for both of them, though at least Leonard had been prepared for it since Saffron had warned him. "He can be pretty crusty, but he's a sweetheart underneath it all. Even if he wouldn't necessarily want to admit that."

[memoryisthekey]

"Ran into him today, actually." Not that it's something I'm thinking about a lot because, dude, it's so weird. "Not really such a big deal, I mean, he's not me." I've got enough splinter mes running around already, he's just... a weird Halloween costume of a person.

[jianhuo]

"He is definitely not you," Saffron replies with a fairly adoring grin. She considers Leonard a good friend, and is really glad he's in Darrow, but Church is a whole other story.

She cups his cheek with one hand. "I sure as hell wouldn't do this with him, for one thing," she murmurs against his lips before kissing him.

[memoryisthekey]

Dear God, I hope not because that's a boner-kill if I've ever heard one. Not that I have one right now, but it totally would be. It's just so freaky to think about, someone with my face, maybe some of my tastes? Shit, I don't want to think about that, I'll never stop and that's sure as hell not a way to spend a night. I came here for something different, after all.

And honestly, she keeps kissing me like this, I might get what I wanted. Well part of it, I'm not a total jerk, I do like spending time with her without clothes on. But you know what? fuck it, I keep kissing her as I slowly back her up against the nearest wall, working my way down her neck and finding the places I know she likes as my hands work their way over the gorgeous curves of her ass.

"Feel like working up an appetite before we get to the wine?"

[jianhuo]

Just being near him is enough to make her want him, but the attention Saffron's getting from Church right now is definitely getting her motor running. She tugs at him, trying to get him even closer. "I like that idea," she murmurs, cupping his face to gently guide it so she can kiss him again.

[memoryisthekey]

I take my time with this kiss, going slow as I finally get her up against the wall, pulling her hips close against mine as I slide my hands up under her dress. I cup that perfect ass of hers as I break to breathe, smiling against her lips, "Glad we're on the same page."

Kissing her again, harder maybe, trying to get her motor running as hot as mine's starting to. I run a hand up her back until I read her hair, running my fingers into it so I can gently pull her head back to give me more access to her neck. All I focus on is her, how she smells, how she tastes, and those little sounds she makes when I find something she likes. I can't even explain what she does to me, how glad I am that she didn't completely freak out when she heard about everything.

[jianhuo]

The more she gets of him, the more she wants, to the point Saffron knows she'll never be able to get enough. She can't imagine a time could ever come when his touch doesn't thrill her, his kiss doesn't make her weak in the knees, his very presence doesn't make her want to pull him close and feel him pressed against her. She's got everything she needs right here, and she's going to show Church just how much she enjoys and appreciates having him as a boyfriend for as long as he'll let her.

Words seem like too much of an effort, so she just hums softly as he presses her back against the wall, his lips on hers before they travel down to her neck again. Saffron pushes forward against him with her hips, her hands sliding up beneath his shirt as his find their way under her dress.

[memoryisthekey]

Doesn't take much for me to get the hint and I pull away long enough to unbutton and strip the shirt off. One less thing for me worry about later and as I go back to kissing Helen, my finger find the fastenings to her dress so I can undo them and feel the skin of her back against my palms. Sure I could just leave it on and fuck her against this wall, but where's the fun in that? I want access to every inch of her skin while I fuck her against this wall. Guy's gotta have some standards, right?

[jianhuo]

Her dress is in the way. It's blocking Church's full access to her skin, and therefore it needs to go. He unfastens it and Saffron goes the rest of the way, shucking it off and blindly tossing it aside.

Her hands roam over his bare torso while she drags her lips down his neck to his collarbone. She leaves a little love bite before continuing along, pressing kisses to his chest as her hands move down to the waistband of his pants.

[memoryisthekey]

I groan, placing my palms on the wall behind Helen as she works her way down my chest. Yeah, this night's turning out alright, even though I know she can see the bruises on my chest from the fight earlier tonight. Although I am feeling no pain right now. Nope, pretty sure I don't have the blood flow to feel anything bu those sexy lips on my skin, it's all gone to where she's heading.

[jianhuo]

She loves it when she can get him to do that, when he moans because of her touch. It's not like she's unaware of the effect she has on men, or the skill she's put to good use over the years; far from it. It's different, though, when there's love involved, real love. She may not want to admit it, but she feels it, and it seeps into everything, including the way she aches for him and the way she craves his eager reactions.

She sees the bruises, and for a moment wonders if she shouldn't have added to them just now. But then something possessive rises in her as she continues kissing and licking his skin and she's glad she did. It's like Church said - this is his body, not any of theirs, and he's hers. For as long as she can have him, he's hers.

"Any sore places I should avoid?" she murmurs, her touch feather-light as she skims her fingers across a bruise on his side over his ribs.

[memoryisthekey]

"Huh?" It takes almost a full minute for what she says to penetrate the haze of pleasure she's wrapping around me, but when it does I manage a short grimace. I really should have thought this night through a little better. "Right, just the ribs, everything else is all yours."

Reaching out, I cup her face and draw her close, kissing her long and deep. 'Cause it's true, I know when I'm beat, well, most the time, but I haven't just lost myself with someone else since... Alison. Which technically wasn't - fuck it, close enough. I love her and for a minute I don't know if I'm talking about Alison or Helen.

[jianhuo]

"Got it," she murmurs, and then everything fades away as he kisses her and she melts against him. She hums softly, her hands roaming over his skin, skimming carefully past his ribs on their way down to start unfastening his pants. She wants all his clothes gone, so there's nothing blocking her from full access to his body.

[memoryisthekey]

I have no objections to what she's doing, hell, I even help her pull them down because with them off, my cock doesn't have to push against them. And little Church doesn't like to be stuck when he's excited. And no one gets him excited like she does, but the she knows that in spade by now. Hell, I practically get hard when she walks across a room, much less when we're like this.

"Now you, sweetheart." I reach for her, cupping her ass before I slide my hands inside her underwear, pushing it off over her hips, sliding my fingers between her legs to tease her, see if I can't make her shiver, moan and shake.

[jianhuo]

With the rest of Church's clothing gone, Saffron reaches behind her to unfasten her bra and tosses it aside before going to help him with the removal of her underwear. But she stops, her breath catching as his fingers find their way between her thighs. Her palms curl around his arms as she moans softly, and she's sure he can feel just how badly she wants him.

[memoryisthekey]

I rub her a little, smiling when she moans, feels good to know I can do that to a woman like her. God knows the kind of life she's led, the lovers she's had. I'm not so stupid as to not have noticed the marks when we were first getting together, but now she's with me and I'm pretty damn sure it's just me. I suck at her neck, marking her like she did me before I dip, picking her and pushing her back against the wall and pulling her legs behind my back.

I'm hard as fuck and it's not long before I'm inside of her, groaning from the god-awful pleasure of her, hot, wet and tight. "Fuck you feel good, sweetheart. Gonna make you feel good, too."

[jianhuo]

She wraps her legs around him as he lifts her, moaning soft and needy at the incredible feeling of him pushing into her. "You feel amazing," she breathes, sliding her hands over his shoulders, up the sides of his neck. "And you always make me feel amazing." She wants to return the favor, to get him more turned on by her than he's ever been by anyone, and she pushes her hips down against him, worrying her bottom lip.

[memoryisthekey]

As much as I want to rush this, I won't. Maybe it's a little masochistic, but waiting always works better. I rush into plenty of things, hell, sometimes I feel like I rushed into this relationship, but this I always try to take slow. At least to begin with. So after I remember how to breathe again, I slide my hips slowly, in and almost all the way out before repeating the process, over and over again.

I'm holding her up, hands on her ass, squeezing it a little as we move while my lips find her neck and her chest. "So good, baby."

[jianhuo]

He starts a slow and steady rhythm and she does what she can to reciprocate, her legs tightening a little around him as she lets out the occasional soft moan. He feels incredible, moving in and out of her again and again, and Saffron wants this to last even as she's yearning for more. Times like these, it's easy to lose herself completely in the moment and in the way Church makes her feel instead of worrying about how long she gets to have this man in her life.

She moans again and manages to gasp, "You're gonna make me come so hard," as she feels herself building gradually towards the inevitable.