bonfire night

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Declan looks around to see if there's anyone close and, realizing there's no impressionable children in their direct earshot, he tips his head down to whisper into her hair. Bloody hell, her shampoo smells amazing and considering it's just island standard, he suspects it's got more to do with it being Kate than any particular product.

"If you'd let me, I'd have those legs of yours wrapped 'round me while I fucked you right out in the water with the tide coming in. It's all I can do to keep from shoving you up against every available surface on this bloody rock."

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Quick glance around tells Kate what she already knows. There are way too many people running around this beach for her to suck him off without getting caught.

"If we were in your office, boss, I'd be on my knees already. Let you use my mouth however you want or do the work for you," she croons at him, giving him the picture if not the reality. "Want to take a walk or want it now?"

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Declan nods, taking a moment to cup her cheek and steal a bit of sweetness before they go back to the fantasy.

"Yeah, let's take a walk. Is there time for that in the schedule?"

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Kate tips forward and kisses him lightly while she tucks him back in. "You're the boss. There's time for whatever you want, babe."

When she zips him up, Kate twines her arms around his neck. "I've got nowhere else to be tonight. All yours."

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"I want to go to your place," Declan murmurs against her ear, not wanting that to be common knowledge or construed as part of their game. That's just Declan, being honest.

"I guess we can push the rest of the meetings back if we run over?"

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"It's closer," Kate agrees and then pushes up to her feet, still standing over him and bent over enough to keep her hands on his shoulders. She won't make him carry her the whole way, but she kind of wants him to pick her up.

Sue her. She loves that he can.

"Screw the meetings, Declan. You need a break. You've been working too hard. I'll clear the schedule and you're spending the rest of the day with me."

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Declan arches a brow. "Someone's a bit bossy today," he murmurs but it's fond and he glances around to see how many people are around before scooping her up into his arms. It's not for anyone else to see, anyway, but if they do, so be it.

"I like it."

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Kate wraps her arms around his neck again. She should hate this. She should really hate this. But it's hot for one thing. For another, she feels good in his arms.

"Don't feel bossy now," she murmurs, low, and wraps herself around him. If she didn't think he'd need the present, she'd promise right now. She's crazy about him and there's not going to be anyone else.

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"Don't feel bossy to me either," Declan teases, carrying her back to her hut. It's a long walk for that, yeah, but she's slight and he's carried much worse much further. He sets her gently on her feet right outside the door.

"You're beautiful, love."

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After the first three times she tries to get down and he won't put her down, Kate gives up and rests her head on his shoulder. It's ridiculous and a long damned walk, but she'll give him a rubdown in the morning.

When he sets her on her feet, she shakes her head at him. "And you're an idiot." Sighing in mock disappointment, she hooks her fingers in his waistband and hauls him into the hut after her. "You still want me on my knees or you wanna take what's yours?" Me.

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"Mine?" Declan echoes, shocked. He's not sure what she means or if it's a promise and he touches her face tenderly. "Are you promising that it's only going to be me, Katie?"

It's so soft and unsure and unlike him but the idea of her being his really appeals in a way he's never felt before. She makes him so damned possessive.

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Head ducking, Kate shrugs and tips her cheek into his hand. It's stupid that that one little touch makes her heart beat so hard it's knocking her off her feet. "Was going to wait for your birthday, babe. But yeah. I guess I am."

It's not just because she wants him so much she's shaking. She's been thinking about it the whole way here in his arms. "Tired of fighting what we both want."

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Declan catches her mouth in the most tender kiss he's ever given, one hand cupping her cheek and sliding up into her hair. When he breaks it, his voice is low and rough with emotion.

"I love you, Kate. If it's all right with you, I'd like to take what's mine now."

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Idiot, she wants to tell him. Stupid, for loving her. She lifts her hand to press her fingers over his mouth and they're shaking, but Kate can't make herself tell him 'don't'.

"Please," she says instead and her chest aches. "No more rules. I suck at rules. I kept them for you. But I suck at rules, Declan. I just want to be with you."

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"No more rules," Declan promises, kissing her fingers lightly before finding her hand with his to squeeze it. He leads her over to the bed, still a little overwhelmed that she made the promise to him.

"Just us, together. That's all I want with you, Kate."

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He looks more pistol-whipped than happy, except that he's got that tone and he's kissing her fingers like she's a princess instead of a retrieval artist. Thief. Con. Hired gun.

Oh, holy fuck, what is she thinking? She can't do this. Her pulse is racing so fast she can't hear past it. Except how her panic makes her hear him thinking forevers and weddings and babies and she's remembering her exits.

Take a breath, Freelander.

She exhales once, then again longer. "Don't make more out of it than it is, Declan. It's not a promise to be good at this or to want to be a couple all the time or anything. It's just a promise I'm not doing this whatever it is, with anyone else."

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"I didn't ask you to be good at it. I'm probably not going to be good at it either," Declan admits. "I just want the chance to try with you, if you'll try with me? That's really all I want."

Maybe he shouldn't act so nervous about it but he is; somehow this had become very important.

"I'm no good with words, though, so," he murmurs, leaning in to kiss her instead.

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"Better than me," she tells him, tension bleeding out of her at the feel of his breath against her mouth. She does want this. It's just...new. And huge.

"I'll try. I just." She runs her hand up his arm and back down, affectionate but awkward. "It's a lot of...responsibility?" It's not the right word. "Maybe we should just--" Her fingers relocate from his shoulder to his waistband. "Talk after?"

It's not like her to be so uncertain but she's never done this before, this relationship thing. Getting it wrong has always had stakes too high to make it worth trying to get it right.

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"Talk after," Declan agrees. "But there's no terms or conditions. Just do what feels good, Katie, that's all. It's okay."

It's almost comfort for him as much as he's trying to provide it for her.

"Kiss me?"

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Katie. Fuck, she loves that way too much. She might even miss that feeling more than fucking him when she inevitably screws this up.

"I can do that," she says, quiet, and tugs him toward her by the belt loop. Then she goes up on her toes to kiss him, but before she does, she whispers, "Show me why it mattered, promising. Show me what it means?"

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"I'll do that," Declan promises, sliding his hands down to cup her ass and press her up against him as he kisses her. It's hard to describe it, why it's important that she promised he's the only one, but he hopes showing her comes more naturally.

"Do I need condoms? If I do, want to get them before I get too...enthusiastic."

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It's different, feels different, Declan rolling her up against him. Not fast and greedy and looking for friction, but slow and deliberate like he just wants to feel her. It flips something in her, melty fluttery heat in her gut from more than just the kiss.

Her hand curls around his shoulder to balance her while she's stretched full against him. "Couple of weeks left on my Depo. I'll talk to Magnus after. One of the benefits of not screwing around should be being able to go without with you."

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"That's the first part of how it's different, then," Declan murmurs. "No barriers. Just us. I like that, knowing I'm that close to you."

It's a stupid thing and in a few weeks, he'll have to stop, but for now it's safe enough. He doesn't ask if she's clean and safe because it violates her trust; he trusts Kate used protection with anyone else. He brushes his hand back against her cheek.

"Christ, you're beautiful."

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"Yeah. I like feeling you and not latex," she says, even while her eyes are closing, breathing slowing and softening under his touch. They flick open again, a little wide at the compliment, and then a smile reshapes her mouth into a slow half-curve.

"You know, you don't have to seduce me. I'm kind of a sure thing," she teases and pops the button on his jeans again.

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"Did it ever occur to you that I might just want to seduce you?" Low and soft, then he presses his lips just beneath her ear and whispers.

"And you are beautiful, love. Incredibly beautiful."

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The part of Kate that usually shies from this crap reaches for something crass to say to urge him on. But there's this other part of her - new and unfamiliar and she's so not sure how she feels about it - that really likes him being slow with her. Taking his time and 'loving' her.

"So seduce me," she murmurs and tilts her head to offer her throat, but doesn't stop with unzipping his jeans. He can do anything he wants. As long as she gets skin.