Outside Xan's Apartment Building, Manhattan, NY, Saturday

[sampippy]

Xanthippe was having a panic attack.

Okay, no she wasn't. But it felt like the brink of one? Because she was on the sidewalk outside the building she lived in now, waiting for Hyacinthe, and up - way, way up - in her apartment she had stuff ready for his visit and a couple of gifts because maybe this'd be the last time before he finally went home, and what if he didn't like anything and what if she was a huge loser and what if --

Anyway. Outwardly, she was mostly cool? Just... standing there, beanie on her head and a coat on over her dress, fidgeting with her phone for lack of a better thing to do with her hands. She looked fine.

But she was going to internally flail herself to death if he didn't get here soon.

[ooc: NFB and for the one mentioned!]

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[vrajna_kralis]

And so he did, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her in. He dropped a kiss on her nose first, since 'twas adorable, before leaning down in an attempt to catch her lips.

He'd devour her mouth did she let him.

[sampippy]

Xanthippe kissed him back like she was more than willing to be devoured. There was zero reason for her not to let him. He was pretty much getting a general free pass to all of her on this visit, anyway.

One of her arms wound its way around his neck, but the other continued in a valiant effort of slowly and lightly mapping the expanse of his chest and down over his stomach.

It was perhaps a little more halting and haphazard than before, but still a valiant effort.

[vrajna_kralis]

He was quite willing to grade on a curve.

Or just grade her curves, all of which were A pluses, soft and lush and inviting. "If Blessed Elua were truly kind," Hya murmured, "he'd find a way that I might sup sustenance from your lips and need nothing more to keep me going. Though perhaps he realizes that would simply make me a glutton, for there's be naught to keep me from you then."

[sampippy]

"You're ridiculous," Xanthippe murmured, not for the first time. But that didn't make her mean it any less! Nor did it make it sound like any more of a genuine complaint. "You're so ridiculous."

Neither did the repetition.

If anything, it sounded like she was saying something else.

[vrajna_kralis]

He smiled at her - smiling at what she was really saying and not the words she was using to do so. "Mayhaps," he agreed. "But I find it serves me well, regardless."

[sampippy]

"Of course you do," Xanthippe replied with a quiet snort. And then kissed him, because he wasn't the only one here with a kind of a devour-y streak. Though maybe hers was just pure greed, in all honesty. Just trying to get as much of him while she still could.

"So," she breathed against his lips, once she broke the kiss again, "did you wanna hear about... what I didn't tell you about before?"

About the restraints, and the not-a-room.

[vrajna_kralis]

"Cherie," Hyacinthe said, looking up at her with a gleam in his dark eyes. He kissed her briefly before adding, "There is no world in which I could ever not wish to hear about those things were alluding to before."

[sampippy]

Oh, how Xanthippe had missed hearing him call her cherie. Not just over the phone, but like this, when he was here and looking at her like that.

She pressed her forehead against his, both of her arms wrapping around his shoulders, now. "I have this, like... big walk-in closet," she murmured. "With rods for the hangers on both sides? And I made sure those were installed, like, super secure."

A beat.

"I told them I own some heavy clothes. And not that I was trying to, like, make sure you can't immediately yank them off the walls if I cuff you to them."

[vrajna_kralis]

He'd missed calling her that, with her skin beneath his hands and the way her face lit up when he whispered the endearment.

"I am a fair bit stronger than you may be expecting," Hyacinthe warned, but his eyes were hot and expression intrigued. "Especially do you give me reason to want to come after you."

[sampippy]

Xanthippe snorted, and looked... vaguely smug, actually.

"Pretty sure I'd be giving you reason to come before me."

[vrajna_kralis]

Hyacinthe burst out laughing. "And yet you say that I am ridiculous," he said. He pulled her down for another loud, smacking kiss. "You are a treasure and I am the luckiest of men to get to enjoy you as this."

[sampippy]

Xanthippe tried to feign an offended look at his laughing and the insinuation that she could ever be ridiculous. She was not at all successful, not with the pleased, genuine grin forcing its way out at the same time.

And that was even before the kiss, and her eager response to that. "Well, I learned from the best," she murmured. Meaning the ridiculousness and dirtiness both.

[vrajna_kralis]

And he was just going to preen because he was the best, yes. At ridiculousness, at dirtiness, at whatever he set his mind to.

"So we shall eat first, yes?" Hyacinthe asked. "And then you'll start the tour? Are we beginning in this closet first or ending there?"

[sampippy]

"Food first, yeah," Xanthippe confirmed. "'Cause, otherwise we're gonna be right in the middle of something good when the food gets here." And no one needed that kind of a distraction. "And, I was thinking closet last? But I also meant to not, like... even bring it up before we got to the bedroom in the first place."

It'd been one of those 'oh god what if he's not into it and I am making a fool of myself?' thoughts.

In hindsight, it was pretty ridiculous.