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Claire Bennet ([personal profile] infinite1ups) wrote2023-03-11 03:11 pm

Dinner (@americanass)

It was a good thing Claire didn't have any work to do that was terribly important, because she'd spent most of the day distracted thinking about the night before. Confessing her feelings for Steve had been on her mind for weeks, and she could never figure out the right time to go there. Maybe it had been her vulnerability after the nightmare, maybe not, but last night apparently was the time. Whether it was the right time, she still wasn't sure.

Neither could she gauge how Steve seemed to feel about the whole thing, as she hadn't had much opportunity to see him, much less talk to him. They both seemed to be busy, though she hadn't forgotten his offer of dinner that night. Just dinner, no mention of a date, not that she'd really expected that. They both needed time to sort this out, maybe sitting down to talk over dinner would help, especially after each took their time to think it over privately that day. She imagined he was thinking it over now, even if he hadn't considered it before.

As the afternoon inched closer to evening, she considered dinner plans. Claire knew her impulsive nature was influencing her now, but she couldn't help wanting to do something nice. Not a date. She wasn't going to go all out, just prepare a little something for the two of them. It was easy enough see him in passing, to request that he meet her in the dining room around six. And then she got to work.

Claire held herself to some semblance of playing it cool, of not trying to prepare anything too extravagant or that might give the impression that it was a date. No, it was just dinner. A simple pasta dish, a salad. No wine, that would... imply things, and it wouldn't do either of them much good anyway. At least, she thought she recalled that Steve's alcohol tolerance was on a level with hers.

Once the table was set, all she had left do was, well. Wait. He'd probably be on time, she guessed, but she was growing too nervous to check the time. Of course he'd show up, right?
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[personal profile] americanass 2023-08-05 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Every encouragement, every sign to let him know what she liked, meant a lot to Steve. He appreciated hearing it all, no matter how quiet or how much a jumble the thoughts became. If anything, he liked that all the more. It was like she couldn’t stop the words tumbling out of her mouth.

And that felt good in its own way. That was like telling him whatever he was doing felt so good she couldn't control herself, and that was exactly what Steve was looking for. He didn't want her to control herself; not with him.

His hands flexed on her skin, half holding her to him, half encouraging that tiny movement. In this, he’d follow her cues. If she wanted to move beneath his touch, he wanted her to move; she said just like that, and Steve was going to keep doing just that. He was mindful not to vary the rhythm or pressure of his tongue on her.

He might not know much, but if he knew anything it was not to add variation when a woman was telling him she was close.
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[personal profile] americanass 2023-08-06 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Every response he drew from her reignited his own excitement, had his cock starting to rise again against the bed. Steve ignored it, though, as best as he was able to do, focused instead on Claire. On giving her exactly what she needed to come for him. 

And was it ever sweet when she did. She writhed and gripped him and he just groaned appreciatively, kept licking her through the high, easing her down with gentle swipes until she slumped down again and even then, Steve stayed right where he was between her thighs. He liked it there. 

There, he could just turn his head and press gentle kisses against her inner thighs, he could release his grip on her hips and slide his hands lightly over her waist and across her stomach. He could just keep touching her as he lifted his gaze to her again, unable to stop himself smiling as he took her in. 

Flushed with ecstasy and panting, he could look at her like that forever. 

“Good?” It was pretty clear the answer was yes, but he wanted her to say it. He wanted her to tell him everything she liked and everything she wanted. And he wanted to give it to her until not even their abilities could keep up anymore. 
Edited 2023-08-06 20:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] americanass 2023-08-06 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Her enthusiastic praise made him chuckle, had him pressing another kiss against her skin before he was moving to do as she asked. If she wanted him to kiss her even when his lips were still wet with her, who was he to object? He'd been just as willing to kiss her after coming in her mouth anyway.

He obliged, but he took his time about it, sliding up her body with brushes of his lips against her soft skin the whole way. "No notes at all?" he teased as he moved. "I don't know if I believe that."

It felt good, though, to know he'd done that good a job of getting her off. To know that somehow in every scenario he'd imagined, he'd figured out all the right tricks.

Making his way to her lips, he kissed her slowly, his tongue sliding between her lips to tease hers. He wasn't a man known for his patience, but for Claire, he had all the time in the world.
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[personal profile] americanass 2023-08-06 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
The sense of safety was something Steve felt, too, but he recognized it wasn't a physical thing. His heart was safe, and that was something Steve was very rarely willing to risk in the first place. He didn't let himself get close to people like this. He didn't let himself be close to people in any way that had always been so easy to do with Claire. She was different. Always had been.

He moved easily with her as she leaned back again, settling his weight against her, leaned on one elbow to keep from crushing her completely, not so much that she couldn't feel the press of him against her. That she wouldn't feel his renewed erection trapped between them.

Which he knew he should ignore, that he should do more with their night together than just keep living out his own fantasies. Knowing and doing were two very different things, though, and Steve couldn't have ignored his desire for her if he tried. He didn't want to.

She'd realize sooner or later that she could do better than him, and he was selfish enough to want to get every bit of her that he could before that.
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[personal profile] americanass 2023-08-07 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Steve had spent too much of his life not taking what he wanted because he thought it was the right thing to do. Too many years saying he didn’t need anything for himself and acting like he didn’t deserve a slice of happiness of his own. He wasn’t doing that anymore.

Not with this, anyway.

Especially not when she was pulling his lip between her teeth and smiling up at him like that, wiggling beneath him in that way that promised exactly what he wanted, what he craved every second they were together but all the more strongly tonight. All the more fiercely because she seemed to be as eager and anxious to push the limits of what they could give and take as he was.

“Oh yeah.” It was an easy agreement that came with an even easier smile before he sank in to kiss her again, slow and deep. The smile was still in place as he pulled back again, nose brushing against hers. “At least one more.”

Should dos hardly seemed important when what they both wanted felt so good.
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[personal profile] americanass 2023-08-08 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Any way he wanted her was opening the door for a lot. Steve had spent a lot of nights thinking of her, imagining her, and he'd thought about her in just about every way that could come to his mind. Which, admittedly, wasn't many. Steve didn't consider himself a creative man when it came to sex.

But it was easy to imagine all the angles he wanted to see her from.

"What if I want you every way?" he countered teasingly, and caught her lip lightly between his teeth, giving a gentle tug in time with a very deliberate grind of his hips. Their heights were different enough that it meant hunching his back a little so that his movements could rub his cock against her slick folds, but it was more than worth it to feel her against him, to press against her clit.

"What if I've been wanting to fuck you every way I can think of and plenty more I can't? Are you going to be able to handle that?" Or really, did she want it. Because Steve knew Claire could more than take everything he had, that he didn't have to be careful or cautious with her body.

Just with everything other part of her.
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[personal profile] americanass 2023-08-09 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
That was all he really needed to hear in the moment. Later, when the newness and the excitement of just having her there and the rush of need all settled, he might need more. He might need soft words and reassurance but for the moment, he just needed her to be on board. 

He turned to kiss her wrist, angled his head to press another against her jaw. The second more lingering and full of simmering heat than the simple affectionate brush of lips. 

“Maybe more than just one more then,” he murmured. Maybe if they didn’t actually need the rest there was no reason to take it. 

His weight shifted slightly, movement making his hips press to hers again as one hand slipped beneath her, drawing her close. And in one smooth movement, he was turning onto his back, pulling Claire along with him so she was on top of him again. 

“Like this.” It was an easy decision to make. “I want to watch you.” And he wanted her to show him exactly what she liked. One bit at a time.  
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[personal profile] americanass 2023-08-11 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Steve let out a hard breath with the way she teased against him. That alone might be enough, eventually. The slide of her against him had sparks shooting through him, had the tingles of pleasure already started getting stronger. If he was less eager to have her, to be inside her again, he might just let her grind against him until they both came. 

That wasn’t what he wanted this time, though. There would be chances to come and plenty of opportunity to get sidetracked by what felt good in the right then, like that. 

For the moment, though, Steve was more than happy to let her be in control. To tease him and coat him in her wetness. To let his hands roam over her body, slow brushes of his palms around her hips and waist, to skim over her breasts. 

“I like watching you do anything,” he said on a breath of laughter, a needy tightness beneath it. “But if you want to do a little more than tease?” He could hardly blame her for doing it though; he’d taken his sweet time teasing and tormenting before going down on her. He’d earned a little payback. 
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[personal profile] americanass 2023-09-16 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
He said he liked watching her do anything and he meant anything. Steve just liked watching her. Liked looking at her. Since the day she’d come to join the team, his gaze had gone to her no matter how hard he’d tried to tear it away. To make his attraction less obvious. 

But to anyone who cared to see, it was probably obvious that he watched her most closely during training, that it was always her he was correcting, and that he’d always done it more kindly than he’d done the others. 

His attention now was of a much better sort, though. 

Steve’s hands drifted to cover hers on his chest, loosely holding them to his skin as she moved, as she kissed him, and he arched up to return that. It was easy for him to flex the muscles to hold him just a little lifted, to meet her partway, and to let her keep the lead for the moment. 

Giving up control of any situation wasn’t something that came naturally to him, and it spoke volumes of how much Steve trusted her that he was able to let go and let her do whatever she wanted with him. To him. That he could give in and just feel with her too. 

And that he didn’t even try to stop the soft moan that rose in his chest. Even if hard and frantic would feel good, so did the slow and leisurely. Every stroke of her body around him like a thread of pleasure wrapping around him.