[For Declan] There might've been a time when I would give myself away

[girlsolo]

Even hiked up in her gloved hands, Kate's dark skirts swish under her full buttoned and belted leather coat. Her boots clack on wet pavement. The curls in her hair are falling from being wet and dry and wet again. She wishes for the fiftieth time today, she'd taken the time yesterday to finish lining the breeches she'd pulled from the box.

It's after midnight when she clomps up the steps to Declan's house. She could just come in, maybe, but it's late and it's not his hut and...and and and. And she wants him to come down and get her and be glad to see her and kiss her hello and let her in because he wants her there. She shouldn't be in this mood. It hasn't been a bad day. She just...

Fuck if she knows. Maybe it's the Children's Office and her other-world son. Maybe she's just been away from her boyfriend too long and she wants him.

Whatever.

She raps on the door with the brass door-knocker and wishes the sting of her gloved knuckles against the door weren't the most honest thing she's felt all day.

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Title lyric from Adam Lambert's What Do You Want From Me?

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[girlsolo]

He probably doesn't mean to make her self-conscious but he kind of does. She knows she uses sex as a distraction a lot, but she thought he was okay with it. "Sorry," Kate starts to say, but then he's kissing her and she's coming apart under his mouth.

Not like fuck me now coming apart either. Like I need you and her fingers are curling into his shirt. So maybe she's having trouble shifting too.

[duerespectguv]

He feels it when she starts coming apart for him and Declan pursues that, hands sliding up into her hair to work his fingers through the waves.

He'll want more later, he's certain of that, but for right now this is all he needs.