Tales of the Legendary
[A Hero Sandwich Production]
Smouldering Decay: Staking a Claim (pt 3)
[And now, from the other side of the fence]
[behold the wonders of drunk-decay-logic]
The night was not turning out to be one I wanted to remember any time soon. It had started off with yet another failure to get Terrence Knight's interests in any sort of physical fashion, or at least a physical fashion that I got any use out of. I had retreated back to my apartment after that crash and burn to change into some slightly more comfortable clothing. And then headed out to forget my sorrows in the bottom of a bottle. I was well on my way there when the last person I ever expected to see in a bar sat down across from me and passed me a beer. The local me, Gamma Emission, had bought me a beer. A rather large beer.
At first I was confused and suspicious. If she had shown up and threatened to tan my hide, I would have understood. It would have been just one more round of territorial marking. Granted I never really understood what her objection was in the first place. She was in an obviously open relationship with the medic, Emerald something. And from the way I had heard them talk on the com sometimes, I knew she swung both ways. It would have been fun at least. And four people can keep each other occupied better than three, at least according to what little research I was able to dig up.
And yet there she was, sitting across the table from me, and giving me a peace offering. There was the token 'Stay away from Terrence' which just made the whole thing more confusing. At least until she scooted around the booth to sit next to me and spouted some line about Hero Corps being able to help, and how I needed to find people that were safe to be around.
Then it all clicked into place, she wasn't pissed that I was going after Terrence, she was mad I was ignoring her. Well Gamma is a little more narcissistic than I first thought. But if I read between the lines of her proposal correctly, she wanted to vet me first before bringing me into her little group. I could live with that. In fact I could probably excel at that, I knew what spots made me shutter and moan, it would be fun seeing how many matched.
While I was still processing this, Gamma went and paid my tab. That was a pleasant surprise, she obviously didn't want to waste any time. I wasn't going to complain, it had been far too long since I had anything without batteries between my legs. I got warm fuzzies just thinking about what her tongue could do.
Once we got outside the uneven pavement joined forces with the beer I had already drunk to spill me on the ground. Gamma took the edge of my beer buzz, and ratcheted the warm fuzzies to warm NEEDies. I had to reciprocate, even if made me want to stick a hand down my panties, coming across as someone who can't even walk home would not be a good start to the evening. I distracted myself by half-heartedly trying to stick a hand down Gamma's panties, but she wanted to wait until we got back to my apartment.
When we finally did get to my apartment Gamma was a little surprised by the door, and it wasn't my finest moment when I couldn't open it right away. But I'm sure I made up for that little slip by showing her that she could open it too. The fact that the door recognized her magical core as my own is proof enough that she really is me. I know she was impressed, even if she hid it well, because she murmured a 'wow' under her breath when it opened for her. Well that might have been due to the fact that I was molding myself to her back and playing with the waistband to her shorts. I'm happy with either being the cause.
I didn't waste any time pulling her inside. Intent on having her moaning our name as soon as possible. Once we got inside I lit the candles in the hall with a little gesture. I felt the wards settle into place and I relaxed the tight control over my powers. Gamma was impressed with my ward work around the door, I had to draw her attention back to what was important; me, her, and the soon to be steamy shower.
I pinned her to the wall with a kiss and made sure to rub the spot on her lower back that drove me crazy. I knew I got it right when she moaned into my kiss and I felt her emit across a far wider spectrum that I could manage. Her output tweaked something in me, and I felt my skin temperature jump a degree or two. Ooh, this was going to be fun.
I had to pull back from the kiss for a second to get a good look at her top, it was coming off next and I didn't want to damage it. Her breathless "wait" made me want to drag her into the shower then and there. But a good partner listens, so pulled my hand out of her pants and smiled at her "Don't worry about the heat, I found this neat trick with the shower and cold water that I'm dying to show you."
When she didn't respond right away I moved back in to nibble on her lower lip, but before I could get there I had two firm hands on my shoulders and was roughly shoved away. That surprised me enough to look at her for a second. Her gaze was darting around the room, taking in all the warding that was softly glowing in response to the radiation we were both leaking. Oh, now her earlier interest made sense. "Don't worry about irritating the neighbors, I did all the warding myself." I said with no small amount of pride. Still no response, it was like she was trying to categorize them all or something.
I figured I'd put her at ease. "Carving all those into the drywall wasn't fun, but they are all inset with brass and rated up to 50 Exaherts at 5,000 Rems a minute." I said. Going into the technical details wasn't really what I had planned, but as long she was comfortable we could get back to the shower. And after this long I could put my libido on hold for a few minutes, maybe five.
Gamma didn't look reassured. "What, So you go higher than that? All this is on top of the standard lead. Nothing to worry about." I said, figuring that would finally put her at ease.
She finally looked at me instead of the walls, and there was something in her gaze that I couldn't nail down. "Please tell me it's not the incest thing. If anything this is going to be the best masturbation you've ever had." I said trying to inject some humor, I hoped, into the situation. When that didn't get a response either I took a step towards her.
She actually flinched at my approach! But she found her voice, however small it turned out to be "Make it stop."
This whole situation was going sideways and I had no idea what had caused it. "Make what stop?" I asked, praying it wasn't me.
"Make it STOP!" Gamma shouted, throwing an angry gesture at the walls. I had no idea what freaked her out about the wards so much, but I could hear the fear in her voice.
"The wards?" I asked in confusion. "They glow as long as we do, you know that." And before I even finished my sentence she stopped. One second glowing like a stoked nuclear pile, the next she may have well as been a bar of lead.
"Make it stop." She repeated again, staring at me. No longer screaming, but her voice was tight with emotion.
I stared dumbly at her for a second before realizing that the wards were still glowing in response to me. It took me about thirty seconds to accomplish what Gamma had done in a fraction of one. But eventually the wards flickered out, their metal surfaces lost against the dark walls in the dim lighting provided by the candles.
Only then did Gamma collapse with a choked sob. Sitting on the floor with her back against the wall and knees pulled up to her chest. I stayed were I was, stuck between wanting to help and wanting to give her some privacy. "You ok?" I finally asked, knowing the answer was definitely not. But hoping to get some measure on the damage.
After a few shaky breaths Gamma wiped her eyes and looked up at me. "No." she said, her tone of voice warning me not to ask any more stupid questions.
"Are you going to leave?" I asked, fearing that her answer was going to be just as obvious.
Gamma took another shaky breath and then stared a me for a full minute. I got the message. Two steps towards the door I got an answer I didn't expect. "No."
I turned around to look at her in confusion, not daring to hope that things could resume.
"I'm going to tell you a story you have no right to hear. And then perhaps you will treat the relationship I have with more respect than you have shown tonight." She said, her voice just as tightly controlled as before.
I nodded and sank down to the floor, not sure what I was going to hear, but knowing that it was important.
"I spent the first five days after getting my abilities staring at walls very much like these, putting out enough radiation to kill a normal human in under three hours. Terrified out of my wits and convinced I was going to die. It was two weeks before I saw someone that wasn't in a hazmat suit..."
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This is not the end.
ETA: fixed minor niggle
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy
[A Hero Sandwich Production]
Smouldering Decay: Staking a Claim (pt 3)
[And now, from the other side of the fence]
[behold the wonders of drunk-decay-logic]
The night was not turning out to be one I wanted to remember any time soon. It had started off with yet another failure to get Terrence Knight's interests in any sort of physical fashion, or at least a physical fashion that I got any use out of. I had retreated back to my apartment after that crash and burn to change into some slightly more comfortable clothing. And then headed out to forget my sorrows in the bottom of a bottle. I was well on my way there when the last person I ever expected to see in a bar sat down across from me and passed me a beer. The local me, Gamma Emission, had bought me a beer. A rather large beer.
At first I was confused and suspicious. If she had shown up and threatened to tan my hide, I would have understood. It would have been just one more round of territorial marking. Granted I never really understood what her objection was in the first place. She was in an obviously open relationship with the medic, Emerald something. And from the way I had heard them talk on the com sometimes, I knew she swung both ways. It would have been fun at least. And four people can keep each other occupied better than three, at least according to what little research I was able to dig up.
And yet there she was, sitting across the table from me, and giving me a peace offering. There was the token 'Stay away from Terrence' which just made the whole thing more confusing. At least until she scooted around the booth to sit next to me and spouted some line about Hero Corps being able to help, and how I needed to find people that were safe to be around.
Then it all clicked into place, she wasn't pissed that I was going after Terrence, she was mad I was ignoring her. Well Gamma is a little more narcissistic than I first thought. But if I read between the lines of her proposal correctly, she wanted to vet me first before bringing me into her little group. I could live with that. In fact I could probably excel at that, I knew what spots made me shutter and moan, it would be fun seeing how many matched.
While I was still processing this, Gamma went and paid my tab. That was a pleasant surprise, she obviously didn't want to waste any time. I wasn't going to complain, it had been far too long since I had anything without batteries between my legs. I got warm fuzzies just thinking about what her tongue could do.
Once we got outside the uneven pavement joined forces with the beer I had already drunk to spill me on the ground. Gamma took the edge of my beer buzz, and ratcheted the warm fuzzies to warm NEEDies. I had to reciprocate, even if made me want to stick a hand down my panties, coming across as someone who can't even walk home would not be a good start to the evening. I distracted myself by half-heartedly trying to stick a hand down Gamma's panties, but she wanted to wait until we got back to my apartment.
When we finally did get to my apartment Gamma was a little surprised by the door, and it wasn't my finest moment when I couldn't open it right away. But I'm sure I made up for that little slip by showing her that she could open it too. The fact that the door recognized her magical core as my own is proof enough that she really is me. I know she was impressed, even if she hid it well, because she murmured a 'wow' under her breath when it opened for her. Well that might have been due to the fact that I was molding myself to her back and playing with the waistband to her shorts. I'm happy with either being the cause.
I didn't waste any time pulling her inside. Intent on having her moaning our name as soon as possible. Once we got inside I lit the candles in the hall with a little gesture. I felt the wards settle into place and I relaxed the tight control over my powers. Gamma was impressed with my ward work around the door, I had to draw her attention back to what was important; me, her, and the soon to be steamy shower.
I pinned her to the wall with a kiss and made sure to rub the spot on her lower back that drove me crazy. I knew I got it right when she moaned into my kiss and I felt her emit across a far wider spectrum that I could manage. Her output tweaked something in me, and I felt my skin temperature jump a degree or two. Ooh, this was going to be fun.
I had to pull back from the kiss for a second to get a good look at her top, it was coming off next and I didn't want to damage it. Her breathless "wait" made me want to drag her into the shower then and there. But a good partner listens, so pulled my hand out of her pants and smiled at her "Don't worry about the heat, I found this neat trick with the shower and cold water that I'm dying to show you."
When she didn't respond right away I moved back in to nibble on her lower lip, but before I could get there I had two firm hands on my shoulders and was roughly shoved away. That surprised me enough to look at her for a second. Her gaze was darting around the room, taking in all the warding that was softly glowing in response to the radiation we were both leaking. Oh, now her earlier interest made sense. "Don't worry about irritating the neighbors, I did all the warding myself." I said with no small amount of pride. Still no response, it was like she was trying to categorize them all or something.
I figured I'd put her at ease. "Carving all those into the drywall wasn't fun, but they are all inset with brass and rated up to 50 Exaherts at 5,000 Rems a minute." I said. Going into the technical details wasn't really what I had planned, but as long she was comfortable we could get back to the shower. And after this long I could put my libido on hold for a few minutes, maybe five.
Gamma didn't look reassured. "What, So you go higher than that? All this is on top of the standard lead. Nothing to worry about." I said, figuring that would finally put her at ease.
She finally looked at me instead of the walls, and there was something in her gaze that I couldn't nail down. "Please tell me it's not the incest thing. If anything this is going to be the best masturbation you've ever had." I said trying to inject some humor, I hoped, into the situation. When that didn't get a response either I took a step towards her.
She actually flinched at my approach! But she found her voice, however small it turned out to be "Make it stop."
This whole situation was going sideways and I had no idea what had caused it. "Make what stop?" I asked, praying it wasn't me.
"Make it STOP!" Gamma shouted, throwing an angry gesture at the walls. I had no idea what freaked her out about the wards so much, but I could hear the fear in her voice.
"The wards?" I asked in confusion. "They glow as long as we do, you know that." And before I even finished my sentence she stopped. One second glowing like a stoked nuclear pile, the next she may have well as been a bar of lead.
"Make it stop." She repeated again, staring at me. No longer screaming, but her voice was tight with emotion.
I stared dumbly at her for a second before realizing that the wards were still glowing in response to me. It took me about thirty seconds to accomplish what Gamma had done in a fraction of one. But eventually the wards flickered out, their metal surfaces lost against the dark walls in the dim lighting provided by the candles.
Only then did Gamma collapse with a choked sob. Sitting on the floor with her back against the wall and knees pulled up to her chest. I stayed were I was, stuck between wanting to help and wanting to give her some privacy. "You ok?" I finally asked, knowing the answer was definitely not. But hoping to get some measure on the damage.
After a few shaky breaths Gamma wiped her eyes and looked up at me. "No." she said, her tone of voice warning me not to ask any more stupid questions.
"Are you going to leave?" I asked, fearing that her answer was going to be just as obvious.
Gamma took another shaky breath and then stared a me for a full minute. I got the message. Two steps towards the door I got an answer I didn't expect. "No."
I turned around to look at her in confusion, not daring to hope that things could resume.
"I'm going to tell you a story you have no right to hear. And then perhaps you will treat the relationship I have with more respect than you have shown tonight." She said, her voice just as tightly controlled as before.
I nodded and sank down to the floor, not sure what I was going to hear, but knowing that it was important.
"I spent the first five days after getting my abilities staring at walls very much like these, putting out enough radiation to kill a normal human in under three hours. Terrified out of my wits and convinced I was going to die. It was two weeks before I saw someone that wasn't in a hazmat suit..."
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This is not the end.
ETA: fixed minor niggle
-Terry
-----
"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy