[ There were nights, after Rey had disappeared the first time, after Kendra had gone, where he'd just slept here instead, unable to find solace in anything but the familiar surroundings of a place that felt as close to home as he'd ever been since his initial arrival — so he knows the discomfort of sleeping on the cot in the office, tossing and turning restlessly as a dormant BB-8 quietly charged his internal reserves nearby.
But this feels like the first time he's even been able to have a semblance of home that he can hold on to, solid and real beneath his hands, all three of them back together again, and as far as he's concerned, the creaky, unsupportive bed they're headed to is just perfect for what both of them seem to have in mind for the near future.
He breaks the kiss after a moment, only for a look of surprise to shift across his face in the wake of that statement, and after a beat of silence he nods in understanding, his own hand spanning palm and fingers wide across the warmth of Poe's chest beneath his shirt, feeling the warmth of his skin. ]
Okay. [ It'll be a separate conversation he'll have to have, he thinks, with Raven, but theirs had only been a last-minute arrangement to help her avoid consequences for an approaching deadline and she'll have some more time to find someone else once theirs ends; theirs has only ever been a contract in name only and somehow, when Poe offers the same now, it feels like it means more than that. There's a moment when he briefly considers asking Poe if he wants to make it a permanent one right from the jump, but maybe it's not the right time to broach that subject. ] Okay, we can. if you want to, we... I'll do it. Of course I will.
[ It's not anything he even has to deeply consider or weigh over; there's just a rightness to it that makes sense like so much of this already has, and his other hand is sliding up to cup over the nape of Poe's neck until he can lift himself in for another kiss that feels like it seals this too, slow and promising before steadily approaching a new heat. ]
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But this feels like the first time he's even been able to have a semblance of home that he can hold on to, solid and real beneath his hands, all three of them back together again, and as far as he's concerned, the creaky, unsupportive bed they're headed to is just perfect for what both of them seem to have in mind for the near future.
He breaks the kiss after a moment, only for a look of surprise to shift across his face in the wake of that statement, and after a beat of silence he nods in understanding, his own hand spanning palm and fingers wide across the warmth of Poe's chest beneath his shirt, feeling the warmth of his skin. ]
Okay. [ It'll be a separate conversation he'll have to have, he thinks, with Raven, but theirs had only been a last-minute arrangement to help her avoid consequences for an approaching deadline and she'll have some more time to find someone else once theirs ends; theirs has only ever been a contract in name only and somehow, when Poe offers the same now, it feels like it means more than that. There's a moment when he briefly considers asking Poe if he wants to make it a permanent one right from the jump, but maybe it's not the right time to broach that subject. ] Okay, we can. if you want to, we... I'll do it. Of course I will.
[ It's not anything he even has to deeply consider or weigh over; there's just a rightness to it that makes sense like so much of this already has, and his other hand is sliding up to cup over the nape of Poe's neck until he can lift himself in for another kiss that feels like it seals this too, slow and promising before steadily approaching a new heat. ]