MHA #6, The Wee Hours of Tuesday Morning

[firstofitskind]

Liam- the smaller one- had gone to sleep on the couch on Monday night, same as he'd done the last two nights. At some point during the night, Fandom magic struck again, and the correct Liam took his place. His dreams were the smaller Liam's memories, his own, Ha'gel's, all blending in to each other in a confusing jumble.

It was the one about the volcano that finally startled him awake; his eyes flew open with a shout on his lips and the smell, the memory of burning flesh clinging to his nostrils.

Stumbling in to the bedroom, he crawled underneath the covers and wrapped his arms around Verity, burying his head in her shoulder and just... waiting for his heartbeat to return to normal.

[ooc: for she who is mentioned, if she'd like.]

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[arboreal_priestess]

"You're just lucky I'm not insisting you call me 'Captain' in the bedroom now," she said, winking at him.

[firstofitskind]

“Mmm, thinking of pulling rank on me, are you?” Liam asked, as if he didn’t absolutely fucking love it when she called the shots in the bedroom.

[arboreal_priestess]

Right? The amused look she shot him said as much.

"Only because you'd like it," she smirked.

[firstofitskind]

"Shut up," he muttered, resting his forehead against her shoulder. Not denying it, though.

[arboreal_priestess]

"You wanna hold my hand and try to tell me otherwise?" she teased.

See, two could play at the Sharing game.

[firstofitskind]

Damnit, Verity, that was supposed to be his trick!

Still, his hand found hers, and although she probably already had a pretty good idea, well. Now she knew exactly how desire thrummed through him every time she told him what she wanted him to do.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Liam," Verity whispered, not letting go of his hand. "Kiss me like you've been gone for three days and missed me more each one."

[firstofitskind]

Liam's free hand cupped Verity's cheek as he leaned in to kiss her fiercely, his tongue seeking hers.

[arboreal_priestess]

Verity wrapped her arms - and legs - around him, holding him close and kissed him until she could almost forget how long this past weekend was.

[firstofitskind]

It hadn't been nearly as long for Liam. Sure, he had the memories of his other-self's weekend, but that seemed more like a dream than anything that had really happened. It felt more like he'd gone to sleep Friday night, and the next thing he knew, it was the nightmare about the volcano again and then he was awake.

Still, it wasn't hard at all to imagine what he would've felt had he been aware of the time that had passed.

I'm home, now. The thought thrummed through the both of them; and he didn't just mean in this apartment, in this bed that was now theirs (though thinking of that still made him giddy, to be honest). It was more than that. He'd meant what he'd said that day at the Nest, back before the shit had really started to hit the fan: his home was where she was, wherever that may be.

[arboreal_priestess]

Stay.

Verity wasn't clingy. The women of her family prided themselves on being strong and independent, standing tall all on their own. But all that didn't mean that she didn't ache, fiercely, when Liam was gone, and miss him, and wish for him back almost every minute he'd been gone.

[firstofitskind]

Not going anywhere.

Craving for physical affection aside, ‘clingy’ was something Liam couldn’t afford to be either, not when Fandom whimsy or the work they did might see them apart for days at a time. Which meant it would be nearly impossible to keep that promise to the letter. The spirit of it, however, would be upheld in that he would always come back.

[arboreal_priestess]

She finally broke for air, looking up at him with tired eyes. It had been a long weekend, after all. Little Liam needed barely anymore sleep than his adult counterpart, which was still a lot less than Verity needed. "Damn right you're not," she told him, yawning. "You have a lot of snuggling to make up for."

[firstofitskind]

"That's a tall order," Liam said (a blatant lie, it absolutely was no hardship whatsoever), one hand trailing lazily up and down her back. "But I'm happy to do it."

[arboreal_priestess]

"You think that's rough, just wait till you hear what else you've gotta make up for," Verity said with a smile.

[firstofitskind]

"Mmm?" Liam made a questioning noise. She'd already brought up how difficult the muffin thing had been, after all.

[arboreal_priestess]

"You think I've had an orgasm since Friday?" Verity asked with a sleepy chuckle. She slid a leg over his and pressed her hips against him "Better clear your plans for tomorrow, you've got a lot of 'pleasuring your girlfriend' to catch up with."

[firstofitskind]

"Coincidentally, those were my plans for the next couple of days," Liam practically purred. "Funny how that works."

[arboreal_priestess]

"Glad to see that you're scheduling it properly," Verity breathed. "Cause there's also interest."

That was a nice double entendre, if she did say so herself.

[firstofitskind]

"Are we talking simple or compound interest, here?"

Liam, you fucking nerd.

[arboreal_priestess]

Verity groaned and covered her face with a pillow. It helped hide her amusement. "Way to ruin my sexy talk," she complained. "With math."

[firstofitskind]

Liam reached over to try and tug that pillow away. "You just don't appreciate my amazing sense of humor," he complained.

[arboreal_priestess]

"Can't appreciate what you don't have," Verity grumbled, ignoring the roughly nine million times he'd made her laugh throughout their relationship. "Math jokes. In our bed."

She said it like she'd caught him teaching puppies to smoke crack under the covers or something.

[firstofitskind]

"It's more likely than you'd think," Liam deadpanned.

Proving that he did, in fact, have the capacity to reference memes. Even if they weren't exactly current ones.

[arboreal_priestess]

She was very proud. You know, under all the very sincere horror and all that.

"Mmhmm, yeah I'm gonna say it's back to the couch for you," Verity declared, not moving in any way that would let him get up and do that. "Until you've learned your lesson."