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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"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.

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Declan takes what she's offering, lips ghosting down her throat, and threads his fingers deep into her hair. She is beautiful but he doesn't say it again, doesn't want to make her bolt on him.

His hands slide under her shirt, spanning across her lower back.

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Even though she's had her hands on him already tonight and his balls are probably turning blue, Kate follows his cues. Works under him, in a way. If she'd rather be doing that with a little more aggression and a little less worship, it's still hot as fuck to trust him enough to let him lead.

A long, slow shiver rolls up her spine, and instead of fishing for dick, she uses his open jeans to get her hands under his shirt, mirroring, and pushes them up his chest.

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"Love when you have your hands on me," Declan says, pushing her shirt up slightly. He's asking if he can take it off with the tilt of his head and the movement of his hands and he likes how they are when they're not verbal. Words just muck it up.

When they're like this, though, and it's just his mouth on hers and their hands across one another's skin, it's perfect and he doesn't say the wrong thing.

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A smile flickers just at the corners of her mouth in response. They're better without words, even if a lot of really fucking hot words are what got them here tonight. And one hard-to-give promise.

She flips her hand and drags the back of her knuckles down his six-pack into the open v of his jeans to say she loves having her hands on him, then lifts her arms over her head, slow and sexy, to let him take her shirt.

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Declan slides her shirt off slowly and lowers his mouth to her breasts, laying kisses along the edge of her bra and in her cleavage. He's more about her legs and her ass than breasts, true, but he wants to love her from head to toe.

He loves touching her. More than that, he wants her to know it's more than burying his cock in her.

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With a shuddery sigh, Kate feathers her fingers through the short, but really super soft ends of his hair. He's way too sweet to her. It's a long way for him to lean down, is her first thought. It'd be easier if she climbed him like a tree is her second. Or they could just get in bed.

Hard to think, hard to choose with his mouth on her like that. She pushes at him a little to lift off his shirt, finally, instinct telling her getting clothes off before they're horizontal is a good thing.

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Declan lifts his head and helps her get his shirt off before sliding his hands down to her hips and ass and lifts her, hoping she'll wrap her legs around his waist.

It doesn't do much to help get them naked, no, but he loves holding her like this.

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Heat flashes over her, arms and face and chest, when he lifts her. Wrapping her legs around him's automatic. She loves it, loves being eye to eye with nothing but him supporting her. It's...yeah, kind of fucked up but she likes it, knowing he's got this.

As soon as he's balanced, she threads one hand into his hair and drags her mouth over his neck. She's mirroring, but where he was tender, she's just greedy for the taste of his heat and his skin.

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He's hungry too, actually, and as she kisses him, he works his hand around to start unhooking her bra. She's always a tiger in bed with him and even though he wants tender, he's glad that's still holding true.

"Bed, now?"