[ Life's too short to put up with that shit, and she's spent most of her life understanding how the inside of people's heads work. At some point you reach the stage the understanding becomes instinctual, even without empathy.
She keeps glancing up for tiny moments to catch the expressions on his face because whether he intends it or not his face is fairly telling right now, gives her a frame of reference to keep working from. So far, so good, she thinks, and besides even that she's cataloguing his feelings in this moment, keeping them for future consideration. Her grip on his hand is firm as she keeps on, offering an anchor against everything else she's doing to him, her hand and it's purposefully slow trail, her mouth looking for nerve she knows to exploit, her knee sliding between his and nudging his legs open further. She's going for reactions, now, for whatever she can do to tip him over that edge of balanced control. ]
Just let it go, Tony. [ A quiet warm murmur against the edge of his jaw for a moment. ] Just let go. [ Her hand finishes it's trail, touches raw nerves as her mind reiterates the message. Just let go. ]
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She keeps glancing up for tiny moments to catch the expressions on his face because whether he intends it or not his face is fairly telling right now, gives her a frame of reference to keep working from. So far, so good, she thinks, and besides even that she's cataloguing his feelings in this moment, keeping them for future consideration. Her grip on his hand is firm as she keeps on, offering an anchor against everything else she's doing to him, her hand and it's purposefully slow trail, her mouth looking for nerve she knows to exploit, her knee sliding between his and nudging his legs open further. She's going for reactions, now, for whatever she can do to tip him over that edge of balanced control. ]
Just let it go, Tony. [ A quiet warm murmur against the edge of his jaw for a moment. ] Just let go. [ Her hand finishes it's trail, touches raw nerves as her mind reiterates the message. Just let go. ]