[ He laughs at her response, and it follows her words down, lost to the abyss. Without her to hold his attention, he might have been tempted to reach after it, to chase it down until he - but she’s there, so unlike the other connections he’s made that came slow, one choice at a time until he was in so deep he couldn’t come back out.
Annie’d rushed in all at once, grabbing and sinking in and the clash of teeth, coming together into a desperate intimacy - then because she’d needed something, someone, to cope with Nyx, and he needs the same to cope with Bucky.
There’s a sadness in that somewhere, twisted through all the other sadnesses in Sam at the moment, a dull stab in an already mangled heart. Annie deserves better.
But this is no place for sadness like that, not in the shared mind space they’ve created and he guards fiercely. ]
(Uninterested. Too private.) [ He understands enough to respect it, not to push, believes that physical sex is a hell of a lot different than this - less intimate in a lot of ways, more in others. But this is no place for that, either.
He lets his mind flow over hers and back again, the flash of two bodies rolling in the sheets, hot wind rushing in to tug and tease before he opens up more for her, pulling her in deeper. ]
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Annie’d rushed in all at once, grabbing and sinking in and the clash of teeth, coming together into a desperate intimacy - then because she’d needed something, someone, to cope with Nyx, and he needs the same to cope with Bucky.
There’s a sadness in that somewhere, twisted through all the other sadnesses in Sam at the moment, a dull stab in an already mangled heart. Annie deserves better.
But this is no place for sadness like that, not in the shared mind space they’ve created and he guards fiercely. ]
( Uninterested. Too private. ) [ He understands enough to respect it, not to push, believes that physical sex is a hell of a lot different than this - less intimate in a lot of ways, more in others. But this is no place for that, either.
He lets his mind flow over hers and back again, the flash of two bodies rolling in the sheets, hot wind rushing in to tug and tease before he opens up more for her, pulling her in deeper. ]