open roleplay post.

[neveryourmask]

open roleplay post; consult active cast list (pending update). shipping and nc-17 content is fine. i also like action, genre aus, canon compliant and canon divergent things, and pretend tdms. feel free to plurk me if you want to bounce an idea. leave me prompts, starters, blank comments, whatever your dark heart desires. current links to meme starters/blank comments can be found here. i am periodically slow to tag due to prioritising games and life things.

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[lie]

[ He looks at her, and by now her own breathing is already schooled into something level. Maybe not entirely effective, considering. Everything. Natasha's hand has been gently smoothing the back of his neck, short sweeps up and down, but it stills now. ]

Hi.

[ Quietly. Then there's a smile on her face-- a little wry, by most standards. ]

We should have done this in a bed.

[ Regret after sex is probably not very sexy. Natasha might be the type to despair about the status of having had sex on Italian countertops if she gave a shit about Italian countertops. It's mostly uncomfortable, but in the post-coital way that means she can ignore that for a little while longer, so she does. Her thighs press lightly into his hips, not insistent or inviting, but not strictly falling away either. ]

That was fun.

[propulsion]

Yeah. I mean, room for improvement, given the--

[ He wants to kiss her again. He would like to be on a bed too, actually, but not in a regrets way and more in a seeing if he could pursue a round two kind of way. More excuse to linger so she can do that nice thing she was doing to his neck-- way. ]

--bed, uh, circumstance.

[ He lands a kiss kind of off-centre on her mouth before reluctantly extricating himself before she has to urge him backwards. Hands helping her resteady herself before he attends to his own half-pantsed situation, still working on gaining back his breath, blood flow normalising, and so on. Reality eking back in.

He ducks down and picks her clothes back up and hands them off to her, underwear first, because he is a Gentleman, eyes guileless of any inherent comedy that may or may not present. ]

That was fun, [ he echoes, on delay. ] I'm glad we didn't do it in Berlin. Now I am, anyway.

[lie]

[ She takes the clothes, puts them on. Gives him a quick Look through the thick of her red hair when she's shimmying back into her underwear of the Don't say anything variety. There's a small face as she shifts her legs. The realities of gravity after sex are, you know, substantially less fun, so she zips up her jeans and says mildly, ]

Me too.

[ The 4am of Berlin: notoriously ill-timed. Something a little tender still flares in her chest when she looks at him. It's better, now that she knows what to do with it -- she doesn't reach for him, hands pressed behind her at the countertop's edge, but she looks at him openly.

Natasha does that now. Because she likes him, as a person. ]

We should do it again sometime.

[ She says it a little like it's funny, because it sort of is. It feels rote. Natasha says it anyway, because the benefit of intimacy is, occasionally, saying things that are true for the sake of meaning them. ]

[propulsion]

You turning me out, Romanoff?

[ --but rote as it may feel, she can probably catch that he'd been looking for that cue. Thinking about it, at least.

A musical tap of his fingers against the countertop. ]

I get it. International bootycalls are best when they got jet repulsors on their feet.

[lie]

[ There's a look that passes over her face. Mostly, it's some strain of surprise, which gets clamped down and filed away before it can go anywhere. Some of it looks like annoyance. Some of it is neither of those two things. Natasha deftly chooses to ignore those. ]

Sure.

[ Mildly. There's a little pause, and Natasha's head dips for a second as she looks down at her feet. Looks back up, and she arches an eyebrow at him. ]

I'd say you could stay for lunch, but.

[ But that would involve the kitchen. And, you know. ]

[propulsion]

[ Oh hey, annoyance, from her to him. Good to know sex hasn't changed that fundamental. ]

Sure, [ he echoes back at her. ] And I guess if I took you down to that quaint little place on the corner for something by candlelight, your cover's liable to take a hit, huh.

Think they deliver?

[ Because that didn't sound like a hard yes on getting him to leave. Still. He's ready for a signal, more attuned to it than he'd ordinarily be when it comes to. This stuff. ]

[lie]

[ If Natasha were someone else, she might stare at him like he has two heads. Because she is Natasha, she stares at him like he has one head. So, you know. Like normal. ]

We could find out.

[ That is an invite. Natasha pauses, adds, ]

And check if the shower works.

[ To really round out the deal, here. She's open to addendums. ]

[propulsion]

[ Someone's gotta blink eventually. A betting man would put his money on Natasha, but aside from the odd jaunt to Vegas, that was never Tony's vice. ]

Uh huh, [ he agrees, quickly on the back of her suggestion. ] I'm pretty good with my hands.

[ You know. In case it doesn't. Sex again, lunch, and shower is a hell of an agenda, so he suggests-- ]

Shower first.