"Zulu," she echoes, ending up shrugging off her outermost shirt. It's a lightweight buttondown, well worn, and she spends a moment folding it over and over itself with the long sleeves like tails in her hands, but pauses to focus on him for one more moment.
She cups the side of his face, fingertips holding his jaw gently but firmly so their eyes can meet, thumb stroking his cheek.
"Any time, for any reason, no questions asked and no foul. Yeah?" she says seriously, dark eyes searching his.
The blindfold goes over his eyes and he doesn't pull away, but stiffens immediately until he takes a breath.
"I'm alright," he says in the same tone he had used with Astarion when they first tried switching. He's alert but not nervous, relaxed without being entirely comfortable just yet.
"And uh...no." He looks around, but the blindfold is efficient enough.
She did worry, a little; she doesn't know a lot of Jacob's history, and what she does know means she wouldn't be surprised if he had some negative associations with this.
But the trust has to go both ways, so she watches carefully when he stiffens and when he says he's okay, she murmurs, "Good," and steps back.
She pulls a chair out into the center of enough space for her to be able to walk around it, and then returns to him, taking his hand. "Follow me," she bids him, tugging him to his feet and guiding him to sit in it.
"You can talk, and ask questions. You can react, but your hands stay where I put them. Alright?"
He takes her hand and stands, picking his way across the floor until he meets the chair. Sitting gives him a little more grounding, and he's able to laugh a bit at the command.
"Yes ma'am." The nerves are still there, but this sounds like a game he really wants to play. And that excitement supercedes worry.
"You're a natural," she purrs, voice warm as she considers him. She ends up staying in front of him, reaching to guide his hands up to settle, for now, on her hips.
Her own reach back up to card through his hair, a familiar enough touch for them both, giving him time to settle and be able to be more curious than anxious. She keeps the motion smooth, repetitive and predictable, deviating only to brush his jaw or the side of his neck idly, watching his face closely for cues in these early moments.
"Doing alright?" she asks, quiet, encouraging, after a few lazy minutes.
He's settling more and more with each movement of her fingers through his hair, and he lets out a breath. He's happy enough to keep his hands still, brushing this thumb along the bump of her hip bone.
"I'm alright. Feels - weird. Not bad. Just - like I'm not doing enough. For you."
Jacob is most comfortable being in the background. Helping and supporting. The attention focused on him makes him antsy, but the blindfold actually does wonders.
"You're doing plenty for me," she assures him, smiling. He has his hands on her so he'll feel her bend forward a bit, but she doesn't give him time to guess much before she's letting the ends of her hair tickle against his cheek, her voice low and velvet, her breath hot right in his ear when she says, "You gave me all of you to do whatever I want with. Didn't you?"
She reaches up to scoop his hands up then, setting them on his own thighs before stepping back and starting a slow circuit clockwise around him.
She doesn't touch him at all, nothing more than the sound or shadow of her passing for two, three revolutions.
On the fourth she trails her arm extended behind her, so the tracing of her fingertips across the line of his shoulders comes right to left when she's almost back in front of him already.
"I've dabbled a little," she offers, almost idly; also, by this point, probably unnecessarily. She's toying with the top button on his shirt, tossing the tails of her makeshift blindfold out of her way, but doesn't undo anything. She hooks a finger under his belt at the front of his hip, tugs up lightly, drops away.
"Enough to know a few things I like. Not enough to be bored."
She doesn't reprimand him when he moves his hand, but she does stop moving herself entirely until he's replaced it.
"Good," she praises, affectionate, and goes back to tugging the bottom of his shirt free.
"I like this. Getting to call the shots, the challenge of making it good." She indulges in tracing the muscles of his arms, follows one all the way down to put his left hand back up on her hip again.
"But I've got a sub streak, too," she admits, sliding one of her legs over his, front to front.
It is criminal the way he responds to that praise. She says 'good' and he's absolute putty in her hands. He wasn't comfortable before; now he's loose and alert, eager to please.
He squeezes her hip gently in response, leaning back in quiet and delightful agony.
"Somewhere safe," she breathes, pleased by what she sees. Pleased that her hunch was right, and knowing she has to be so, so careful here.
She slides the inside of her thigh right down the outside of his, changing her mind from her original thought to straddle his lap, letting his hand trail where it will as she sinks down to her knees between his feet.
"It's not for everyone, after all." She drapes one arm across his lap, setting her chin on it, and guiding his hand over to kiss his palm before bringing it to her cheek.
He can sense the shape of her based on those touches. He's memorized her face, the way she feels under his touch, and he uses that now to imagine. She slides down and he sits up, brishing his fingers along soft skin when she lets him touch her again.
"No, it ain't. Gotta do it right, I guess. What do you like about it?"
The position itself is, of course, suggestive; so often, sex is the easiest - or perhaps just most common - form of intimacy, but she doesn't reach for his belt buckle, doesn't reach for his zipper even if her fingers do idly trace his inseam from time to time. She leans her face into his touch, and she leans against his leg, and she lets his touch wander uncurbed.
"Submission in this context can't be forced. It can only be gifted, and it can be taken away at a word." Somewhere in her circling outside of his perception, she let her hair down from its ponytail and it hangs loose around her shoulders now. "So if I've given someone that control over me, I feel safe with them. I know they'll take care of me. I trust them not to hurt me."
And those are all things that are markedly absent from her life at present, aren't they?
He can feel her hair by his fingers and he trails idly around the back of her neck, testing boundaries as much as he is simply enjoying the warmth and pressure of her against him.
"There anyone you trust that much?" he asks because he knows the answer is no for the Barge but - he doesn't know who she had at home other than the one asshole she mentioned.
She slides her hand up, underneath his shirt, finding the skin of his abdomen to trace nonsense patterns on with her fingertips.
"There was once," she admits. She reaches back and puts her hand over his, not pulling his away, but halting the forward motion where it is. "Might be again. You applying?"
She smiles, murmurs "Good" again into the heel of his hand when she turns her head to kiss it, and then leans back out of reach on her way back to her feet.
"I think I wouldn't have said anything if I didn't think you would. More? Or did I make my point?"
"You made your point," he says, in a half daze, a little delirious with it. There's nothing in the room now, save her. Nothing in his world matters more right now. "But you can make it as much as you want."
She hums softly, considering. She lets her boots sound on the floor, strolling back around behind him again.
"Close your eyes for me," she decides. She gives him a moment to comply, and then she's reaching for the knot she tied with the blindfold. "Keep them closed until I say. Can you do that?"
She pulls the shirt away, drops it to the floor. Her hands slide down the front of his shoulders from where she's standing, finding their way under his shirt, nails crooking into his skin without digging in at all.
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Date: 2024-12-09 03:46 pm (UTC)"Good," she says, and looks around them in the room before pulling away to stand.
"What's your safeword?" She doubts they'll need it, but she wants to establish the exit strategy early, often, and well.
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Date: 2024-12-09 03:49 pm (UTC)"Uh - Zulu." Easy to remember.
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Date: 2024-12-09 03:55 pm (UTC)She cups the side of his face, fingertips holding his jaw gently but firmly so their eyes can meet, thumb stroking his cheek.
"Any time, for any reason, no questions asked and no foul. Yeah?" she says seriously, dark eyes searching his.
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Date: 2024-12-09 03:57 pm (UTC)"Yeah," he tells her honestly. "I got it."
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Date: 2024-12-09 04:02 pm (UTC)She lingers a moment more, then leans forward the short distance to kiss him, deliberate and slow.
When they break, she straightens up and then lays the makeshift blindfold across his eyes, tying the sleeves securely behind.
"Can you see at all?" she asks, adjusting how an edge here or there lays to make sure it's both comfortable and effective.
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Date: 2024-12-09 04:10 pm (UTC)"I'm alright," he says in the same tone he had used with Astarion when they first tried switching. He's alert but not nervous, relaxed without being entirely comfortable just yet.
"And uh...no." He looks around, but the blindfold is efficient enough.
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Date: 2024-12-09 04:15 pm (UTC)But the trust has to go both ways, so she watches carefully when he stiffens and when he says he's okay, she murmurs, "Good," and steps back.
She pulls a chair out into the center of enough space for her to be able to walk around it, and then returns to him, taking his hand. "Follow me," she bids him, tugging him to his feet and guiding him to sit in it.
"You can talk, and ask questions. You can react, but your hands stay where I put them. Alright?"
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Date: 2024-12-09 04:22 pm (UTC)"Yes ma'am." The nerves are still there, but this sounds like a game he really wants to play. And that excitement supercedes worry.
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Date: 2024-12-09 04:33 pm (UTC)Her own reach back up to card through his hair, a familiar enough touch for them both, giving him time to settle and be able to be more curious than anxious. She keeps the motion smooth, repetitive and predictable, deviating only to brush his jaw or the side of his neck idly, watching his face closely for cues in these early moments.
"Doing alright?" she asks, quiet, encouraging, after a few lazy minutes.
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Date: 2024-12-09 04:38 pm (UTC)"I'm alright. Feels - weird. Not bad. Just - like I'm not doing enough. For you."
Jacob is most comfortable being in the background. Helping and supporting. The attention focused on him makes him antsy, but the blindfold actually does wonders.
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Date: 2024-12-09 04:45 pm (UTC)She reaches up to scoop his hands up then, setting them on his own thighs before stepping back and starting a slow circuit clockwise around him.
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Date: 2024-12-09 04:48 pm (UTC)He keeps his hands down, but he's remarkably alert and attuned to her position, his body anticipating the next touch.
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Date: 2024-12-09 04:52 pm (UTC)On the fourth she trails her arm extended behind her, so the tracing of her fingertips across the line of his shoulders comes right to left when she's almost back in front of him already.
"I've dabbled a little," she offers, almost idly; also, by this point, probably unnecessarily. She's toying with the top button on his shirt, tossing the tails of her makeshift blindfold out of her way, but doesn't undo anything. She hooks a finger under his belt at the front of his hip, tugs up lightly, drops away.
"Enough to know a few things I like. Not enough to be bored."
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Date: 2024-12-09 04:54 pm (UTC)He raises his hand, just slightly, then stops himself before returning it down to its original position.
"Yeah? What do you like?"
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Date: 2024-12-09 05:01 pm (UTC)"Good," she praises, affectionate, and goes back to tugging the bottom of his shirt free.
"I like this. Getting to call the shots, the challenge of making it good." She indulges in tracing the muscles of his arms, follows one all the way down to put his left hand back up on her hip again.
"But I've got a sub streak, too," she admits, sliding one of her legs over his, front to front.
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Date: 2024-12-09 05:12 pm (UTC)He squeezes her hip gently in response, leaning back in quiet and delightful agony.
"Yeah? Where do you hide it?" he teases lightly.
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Date: 2024-12-09 05:29 pm (UTC)She slides the inside of her thigh right down the outside of his, changing her mind from her original thought to straddle his lap, letting his hand trail where it will as she sinks down to her knees between his feet.
"It's not for everyone, after all." She drapes one arm across his lap, setting her chin on it, and guiding his hand over to kiss his palm before bringing it to her cheek.
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Date: 2024-12-09 05:37 pm (UTC)"No, it ain't. Gotta do it right, I guess. What do you like about it?"
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Date: 2024-12-09 05:48 pm (UTC)"Submission in this context can't be forced. It can only be gifted, and it can be taken away at a word." Somewhere in her circling outside of his perception, she let her hair down from its ponytail and it hangs loose around her shoulders now. "So if I've given someone that control over me, I feel safe with them. I know they'll take care of me. I trust them not to hurt me."
And those are all things that are markedly absent from her life at present, aren't they?
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Date: 2024-12-09 06:37 pm (UTC)"There anyone you trust that much?" he asks because he knows the answer is no for the Barge but - he doesn't know who she had at home other than the one asshole she mentioned.
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Date: 2024-12-09 07:12 pm (UTC)"There was once," she admits. She reaches back and puts her hand over his, not pulling his away, but halting the forward motion where it is. "Might be again. You applying?"
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Date: 2024-12-09 07:25 pm (UTC)"I think I wouldn't have said anything if I didn't think you would. More? Or did I make my point?"
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Date: 2024-12-09 07:29 pm (UTC)"You made your point," he says, in a half daze, a little delirious with it. There's nothing in the room now, save her. Nothing in his world matters more right now. "But you can make it as much as you want."
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Date: 2024-12-09 07:34 pm (UTC)"Close your eyes for me," she decides. She gives him a moment to comply, and then she's reaching for the knot she tied with the blindfold. "Keep them closed until I say. Can you do that?"
She pulls the shirt away, drops it to the floor. Her hands slide down the front of his shoulders from where she's standing, finding their way under his shirt, nails crooking into his skin without digging in at all.
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