[ There's a very careful balance between overwhelming and distracting enough that he doesn't overthink his answers, and she's not entirely sure she's hitting it right but she's doing her best to go not past it. If that means she drops under, oh well. It can be adjusted in the future, there's time. Stalling, though, that's not allowed. She thought she'd made that pretty clear by now, and she drops her hands entirely and circles, voice coming from behind him when she speaks again. ]
I changed order. Answer the question. [ The words are hard and sharp, not impressed with him trying to put off answering. ]
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[ If it helps at all, he appreciates her erring on the side of underwhelming. It means things will take longer, but it's less likely to require a lot of de-stress work afterward. There's a little twisting to try and follow the sound of her before he halts, because there's probably a reason she got behind him, and he doesn't want to look like he's bothered by it. Because he's not. ]
Fifteen. MIT. I got myself back home. Got read the riot act. Got drunk, went back to school. Waste of fall break.
[ That is good to know. She'd like to do things right, for him, so to know that he thinks that's a good method is a good thing. She does note that little bit of twisting, presses two fingers into his shoulder to still him and keep him looking forward but removes her hand almost immediately until he's answered. Then she touches him again, hand sliding across his hipbone and under his boxers as she pushes them down a little bit, dragging a nail of her free hand slowly up his spine. ] Why is it specifically memorable?
[ She's just teasing him, teasing with the path to potential pleasure, teasing with the idea of more pain, or at least more ignoring. Tony can't even handle being ignored. He looked for praise, for acceptance and affection all his early life, and when life taught him those things weren't coming, he substituted them for awe, attention, and - well, the affection part more or less simply evolved into something a little more adult.
And that was how it was. That was what he was doing at that age, between fifteen and sixteen, he was switching over. Realizing he'd never get what he wanted from whom he wanted it from the most, he switched, getting it from anyone and anywhere and claiming it was the same. Nay, even better! He didn't need anyone!
He's so mired down in emotions and thoughts and memories that he doesn't really think about what he's saying. ] First time they ever kidnapped me without the intention of getting at my father. [ He grins, a little bit, but it's there. ] They wanted me.
[ Teasing is one of the things she does with him almost professionally. He reacts so beautifully to it, is the problem. If watching him react to her teasing wasn't so much fun she wouldn't do it nearly as much. She pushes his boxers down further as he starts speaking, has them off completely by the time he's done and her other hand down to the base of his spine. For a long moment her hands still, trying to figure out how she even wants to respond to that.
She's not really sure how to feel about that at all, just knows that she doesn't like the tone in his voice.
After a long moment she drops her hand on his back lower, the other staying curled on his hipbone as she slides her finger slowly around the muscles of his asshole, pushes his legs apart a little bit. ] What did they want from you?
[ That is so rude. There are like - he can get you whole pamphlets on why teasing is a bad thing. It damages children. Teasing is one of the world's great evils.
It's also apparently one of the world's great secrets, and he swings back and forth from realizing in that moment of silence that he's actually sharing a little bit more than simple information, to (almost) not even thinking about his words anymore. It pulls him a little tauter, pushing his legs apart, loses him some height, but he doesn't actually find it in himself to care too much. He would have been a little tauter with muscle tension anyway regardless. ]
To fix something. [ They'd started using that as a reason instead of money about two kidnappings prior to that, when magazine articles had started running in earnest and he didn't look like such a baby anymore. No one wants a seven year old fixing things regardless of how good they are at it. They're too much work otherwise. It's a few seconds before he continues and it's hard to tell from his point of view if it's distraction or just because he's not sure whether or not he feels like volunteering the information. 'Dad' as a topic is a relative quagmire - it's not as bad as it could be made out to be, as bad as some people probably think it is, because he loved his dad, really, but there's aspects of the entire relationship he still doesn't understand and now never will, and it's immeasurably frustrating for a man who's supposed to have all the answers. ] Of his.
[ No, no, she's pretty sure teasing is actually one of the world's greatest advantages. It's fantastic. Max loves it right up to the second anyone tries to do it to her and then she gets somewhere between feeling great and being unbearably irritated.
For the moment she's just exploring, fingers searching for nerves and places that he reacts to when she touches them, seeing what she can exploit further in a moment, hand on his hip holding him steady so that he's not going to move away at all, even just jumping on accident because she hit a nerve. She'd like to get a lot of nerves. ]
Did you? [ A simple question, because this - she thinks she's found something very worth exploring here. Him and his dad is complicated, she knows that much, but she doesn't know a great deal else. It's not something that's come up very often, and she hasn't gone digging for information on the older Stark really. ]
[ Oh, he's pretty sure she's going to hit a lot of nerves. That was sort of the point and problem with this whole conversation anyway. He probably does try and jump at least once, when she finds something particularly either sensitive or simply unused to being noticed, because he's reactive and animated and both of those adjectives result in jumping when you're being explored to such a degree. She's just as much a scientist as he is, when she feels like it - very thorough, very write-that-down and remember-it-later. ]
I could have. I didn't want to give it to them. [ But he knew how to do it. It was one of the turning points - to be cliched about the whole thing - in their relationship. There weren't many of them, but when the younger realized he could outstrip the older? It was a dangerous moment. A shift in power typically is. ] It defeated the point of fighting them in the first place.
[ The first time he jumps she pauses, tightens her grip on him and waits for him to settle again. In the meantime she presses her lips to the back of his neck for a little bit, follows the marks her nails had left on his shoulder earlier with her mouth, first her tongue to soothe them and then her teeth to mark him again.
Hers. It's in every moment she touches him right now, the possessive dig of her fingers and the clear freedom she feels to do what she wants to his body. She wants it visible on him, wants him to feel it as strongly as she does, remember it when he moves.
After she's certain he's still again, at least for the moment, she shifts her fingers again, reaches for his balls and the underside of his dick. ] Did you fix it later?
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[ Well he hardly considers reacting to very specific and stimulating physical stimuli to be something he should be punished for. Granted, it just strengthens the resolve to stay still, which in turn winds up meaning he pays even more attention to what she's doing to the point of potential hyper-awareness, which really doesn't help. He'd argue that it's a cyclical thing she's creating, purely in her own favor, but that, too, could work against him. And really, he's not actually complaining. Grousing, at best.
She's doing very well though that is a message being sent across the channels fairly clearly, even with everything else that's happening in this conversation. He pulls up a little bit, but it's to get a full breath because that was a slight gasp just there, rather than to get away from her fingers. He rapidly starts speaking to make up for it. ] Almost immediately. Had to figure out if it would actually work, especially after saying it would have. Totally did. Totally worth it.
[ It's not precisely punishment, just ensuring that he's not moving away from her or jumping or otherwise getting in the way of what she's doing here. She's got specific things she's doing and she wants his full cooperation. Which means him staying still, and if that also means hyper-awareness, well. It's a side effect that she's quite all right with him having.
Mm, she quite likes the tone in his voice there and the rapidity to his words. She slides her fingers up and down the length of him for a moment and then withdraws entirely after a wait long enough to indicate it's not because his answer wasn't satisfactory. She's just getting something, and when her hand comes back a moment later it's slicker, lube on her fingers as she grasps him firmly this time, starts a somewhat even stroke. ] Who did you say it would have worked to?
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[ Yes, well. It feels sort of like punishment, so. In his mind, at the moment, there's little difference on a basic level, even if on a practical or intellectual one he does get it. It's rude to provoke hyper-awareness in a Sentinel though, even if it's just normal hyper-awareness instead of the super kind.
He lets out a little more of a breath than he means to when she moves away, pulls in a little more than he means to when she comes back a bit faster than he was anticipating, and god that is not fair. This early and she's already not fair. It's made his abdominal muscles all tighten for a moment or two before he forces them to calm back down and replies. ] Him. I told dad when they brought me home.
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[ She's monitoring very carefully, no worries. Should he start having any extra sensitivity problems she'll immediately dial down what she's doing so that at no point will it overwhelm him, because that is definitely not the point.
She's always not fair, or at least he always thinks she's not fair. Personally she thinks she's actually quite fair and evenhanded. Definitely evenhanded at least right now, slow and languid and not more than enough to do a great deal for him beyond arousal. Certainly not far enough to give him any real satisfaction. He doesn't get that quite yet. She likes the sight of him tense and stretched out in front of her far too much for that. And besides, she still has questions. ] Yeah? Who brought you home?
[ It's not enough to get anything out of, all that's happening is that she's coaxing him from the sort of hard he was at before to a mostly hard state, and even that is slowly. Whether it's the distraction, or the back and forth, or simply the current subject matter, he's not getting a full erection nearly as fast as he might have done otherwise. He's still sensitive though, and her leisurely, languid pace has got him huffing in mild irritation, muscles making like they're going to push his hips forward, force her hand to move a little faster, but they abort the movement, because she's stop altogether if he did, and his hands are tied and just rubbing both thighs together won't be nearly enough supposing she lets him dangle anywhere near them anyway.
He does have to seriously consider that though, because he doesn't actually remember. It was probably cops. Might have been SHIELD. Might have been some stranger - although he's pretty sure it was some sort of militant group of individuals. ] Cops. Probably. My life is chock full of cops. They're everywhere.
[ She's more than happy to work with slowly here. Actually slowly is basically her entire game right now, so that's pretty much what she wants anyways. She hears that huff, doesn't let it change anything about how she's touching him at all except for a slight press of her other hand for a moment. Just a reaffirmation that he's not allowed to move forward, even if he's already figured that out. ]
I can't imagine why that might be. [ But that's hardly the point here, and she lets her free hand slip up his side, back down over his stomach, just drifting and touching, seeing what's sensitive. ] Did your dad care? [ Open ended as to what he cared about, letting Tony fill in whatever blanks he needs to. ]
[ It's a sound that wraps up his feelings at the moment. It's a big brown ball of sound that means that he gets he can't move forward even though he super wants to do that right about now. He's not actually making a noise, just a soft sort of sound, back of his throat, deep lower part of his chest. He wants her to pick it up, to do more, and definitely not stop.
But then she's sliding a hand over his side, fingertips over his ribs, and he can't help the flinch and amused reaction that elicits. Flinching at the moment is inadvisable, he'd imagine. He's just slightly out of breath, okay. ]
What, Howard? Care about what? [ sorry nice try but tony's flipping back and forth so much - she can do the open ended ones later, I think. Not too much later though. ]
even when i mean it to be accusing it comes out fond shakes fist
[ She loves that sound. Like, really, she really loves that sound and wants him to make it again and loves the moments she can coax it out of him and the clear tension in his body that means the same thing the sound means.
There's a flicker of an amused smile at his semi jump, her fingers lightening their touch even more because it's so easy to forget he's ticklish but when she remembers she does enjoy having fun with it. Sorry, Tony. ]
The kidnappings. [ She'll narrow it down to that field for him, then. See if that doesn't get something out. ]
[ Wow that is so not fair. He's starting to sound a bit like a broken record with that one, but even so he's pretty sure tickling him on purpose right now is like seven shades of so not fair. It's very difficult to keep that particular reaction contained, and he instead attempts to curl or twist or pull up away from it, perhaps not so subtly as he could have done but still without just jerking away from her. It's also difficult to do it without moving his pelvis too much, so there's that.
It also abbreviates the already short answer she was going to get anyway, because it's hard to talk when you're trying not to laugh and he really doesn't feel like laughing right now despite what his body would have him tell you. ]
[ Yeah, well. She flattens her hand after a moment, just leaves it resting against his chest as she shifts the stroke of her other hand, a little wider range and more exploration to it but leaving it very slow and very even. She's just going to coax him a little closer to where she wants, lay off on the questions for a little while. ]
You're surprisingly ticklish. Most people grow out of it. [ Just a casual observation, totally, she's not planning on taking advantage of that further. Why would you ever think that. That momentary flex of her fingers against his abdomen has a totally legitimate reason behind it. ]
[ Her shift in movement does little to curb the tension seeping into his muscles, across his torso, but it does mean he stays a little more still. It's not that long before she'll have him probably closer to where she wants him, and while that's an even more vulnerable position, he doesn't do a whole lot to actively oppose it. It's not exactly comfortable, but then, that's not really the point. ]
I don't tend to be all that normal. [ He tenses up probably a little more than he should at the flexing, feeling kind of ridiculous afterward but hey, there's not a lot you can do about some things. ] And genius is sensitive.
[ Good, she wants him to stay still right now. Stay still and let her get him closer and closer to what he wants and what she wants. Her fingers on her chest she leaves still, but she leans in to press her mouth to the skin around the reactor. When she speaks her breath out is right against his skin. ]
Is it? How sensitive is genius, precisely? [ Which she actually makes sound quite sincere. ]
[ Oh god, it's hard to remember the words - any words - when she starts off like that. He breathes semi-heavily for a few seconds before he can say anything anyway. ] How would you take a lie, right now? [ He says, all tensed and coiled as much as would be possible while he's all stretched out along for her like this. ]
[ She lets her teeth press against his skin for a moment, absently returns to brushing her mouth along the spots she knows are sensitive. Her fingers flex again against his torso, slide lower with a slight rake of fingernails. ] Not very well. [ Just in case the message from her touch wasn't clear enough, there. She should probably put that in words too, even if it interrupts her mouth against his skin momentarily. ]
[ No, she shouldn't do anything that interrupts her mouth on his skin, actually, he's pretty sure of it. This time if he's moving at all, it's into the scratch of her nails, the heat of her so close to him. He shifts up a little bit again, takes a deep breath and lets it back out as he settles once more. ] Very. You know.
[ She leans a little closer towards him, hand pressed between them as she pushes up on tiptoes so that she can reach his throat in her exploration of his skin, pushing forward so that he has to tilt his head back to allow her access or risk her stopping. ] How very?
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I changed order. Answer the question. [ The words are hard and sharp, not impressed with him trying to put off answering. ]
how about shamelessly using that fanfic problem i have because it was hilariously good/plausible
Fifteen. MIT. I got myself back home. Got read the riot act. Got drunk, went back to school. Waste of fall break.
lmao yes okay that works well
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And that was how it was. That was what he was doing at that age, between fifteen and sixteen, he was switching over. Realizing he'd never get what he wanted from whom he wanted it from the most, he switched, getting it from anyone and anywhere and claiming it was the same. Nay, even better! He didn't need anyone!
He's so mired down in emotions and thoughts and memories that he doesn't really think about what he's saying. ] First time they ever kidnapped me without the intention of getting at my father. [ He grins, a little bit, but it's there. ] They wanted me.
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She's not really sure how to feel about that at all, just knows that she doesn't like the tone in his voice.
After a long moment she drops her hand on his back lower, the other staying curled on his hipbone as she slides her finger slowly around the muscles of his asshole, pushes his legs apart a little bit. ] What did they want from you?
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It's also apparently one of the world's great secrets, and he swings back and forth from realizing in that moment of silence that he's actually sharing a little bit more than simple information, to (almost) not even thinking about his words anymore. It pulls him a little tauter, pushing his legs apart, loses him some height, but he doesn't actually find it in himself to care too much. He would have been a little tauter with muscle tension anyway regardless. ]
To fix something. [ They'd started using that as a reason instead of money about two kidnappings prior to that, when magazine articles had started running in earnest and he didn't look like such a baby anymore. No one wants a seven year old fixing things regardless of how good they are at it. They're too much work otherwise. It's a few seconds before he continues and it's hard to tell from his point of view if it's distraction or just because he's not sure whether or not he feels like volunteering the information. 'Dad' as a topic is a relative quagmire - it's not as bad as it could be made out to be, as bad as some people probably think it is, because he loved his dad, really, but there's aspects of the entire relationship he still doesn't understand and now never will, and it's immeasurably frustrating for a man who's supposed to have all the answers. ] Of his.
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For the moment she's just exploring, fingers searching for nerves and places that he reacts to when she touches them, seeing what she can exploit further in a moment, hand on his hip holding him steady so that he's not going to move away at all, even just jumping on accident because she hit a nerve. She'd like to get a lot of nerves. ]
Did you? [ A simple question, because this - she thinks she's found something very worth exploring here. Him and his dad is complicated, she knows that much, but she doesn't know a great deal else. It's not something that's come up very often, and she hasn't gone digging for information on the older Stark really. ]
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I could have. I didn't want to give it to them. [ But he knew how to do it. It was one of the turning points - to be cliched about the whole thing - in their relationship. There weren't many of them, but when the younger realized he could outstrip the older? It was a dangerous moment. A shift in power typically is. ] It defeated the point of fighting them in the first place.
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Hers. It's in every moment she touches him right now, the possessive dig of her fingers and the clear freedom she feels to do what she wants to his body. She wants it visible on him, wants him to feel it as strongly as she does, remember it when he moves.
After she's certain he's still again, at least for the moment, she shifts her fingers again, reaches for his balls and the underside of his dick. ] Did you fix it later?
somehow none of my icons feel like they're actually /getting/ his expressions in this thread idek
She's doing very well though that is a message being sent across the channels fairly clearly, even with everything else that's happening in this conversation. He pulls up a little bit, but it's to get a full breath because that was a slight gasp just there, rather than to get away from her fingers. He rapidly starts speaking to make up for it. ] Almost immediately. Had to figure out if it would actually work, especially after saying it would have. Totally did. Totally worth it.
it is okay i will apply imagination
Mm, she quite likes the tone in his voice there and the rapidity to his words. She slides her fingers up and down the length of him for a moment and then withdraws entirely after a wait long enough to indicate it's not because his answer wasn't satisfactory. She's just getting something, and when her hand comes back a moment later it's slicker, lube on her fingers as she grasps him firmly this time, starts a somewhat even stroke. ] Who did you say it would have worked to?
just not enough 'this is bdsm sexifayce' icons, man
He lets out a little more of a breath than he means to when she moves away, pulls in a little more than he means to when she comes back a bit faster than he was anticipating, and god that is not fair. This early and she's already not fair. It's made his abdominal muscles all tighten for a moment or two before he forces them to calm back down and replies. ] Him. I told dad when they brought me home.
ty for that comment header and the necessary careful scrolling away from it in class
She's always not fair, or at least he always thinks she's not fair. Personally she thinks she's actually quite fair and evenhanded. Definitely evenhanded at least right now, slow and languid and not more than enough to do a great deal for him beyond arousal. Certainly not far enough to give him any real satisfaction. He doesn't get that quite yet. She likes the sight of him tense and stretched out in front of her far too much for that. And besides, she still has questions. ] Yeah? Who brought you home?
you're still so welcome for it 8D
He does have to seriously consider that though, because he doesn't actually remember. It was probably cops. Might have been SHIELD. Might have been some stranger - although he's pretty sure it was some sort of militant group of individuals. ] Cops. Probably. My life is chock full of cops. They're everywhere.
youuuuu
I can't imagine why that might be. [ But that's hardly the point here, and she lets her free hand slip up his side, back down over his stomach, just drifting and touching, seeing what's sensitive. ] Did your dad care? [ Open ended as to what he cared about, letting Tony fill in whatever blanks he needs to. ]
meeeeeeeeeee : )
[ It's a sound that wraps up his feelings at the moment. It's a big brown ball of sound that means that he gets he can't move forward even though he super wants to do that right about now. He's not actually making a noise, just a soft sort of sound, back of his throat, deep lower part of his chest. He wants her to pick it up, to do more, and definitely not stop.
But then she's sliding a hand over his side, fingertips over his ribs, and he can't help the flinch and amused reaction that elicits. Flinching at the moment is inadvisable, he'd imagine. He's just slightly out of breath, okay. ]
What, Howard? Care about what? [ sorry nice try but tony's flipping back and forth so much - she can do the open ended ones later, I think. Not too much later though. ]
even when i mean it to be accusing it comes out fond shakes fist
There's a flicker of an amused smile at his semi jump, her fingers lightening their touch even more because it's so easy to forget he's ticklish but when she remembers she does enjoy having fun with it. Sorry, Tony. ]
The kidnappings. [ She'll narrow it down to that field for him, then. See if that doesn't get something out. ]
gosh darn it
It also abbreviates the already short answer she was going to get anyway, because it's hard to talk when you're trying not to laugh and he really doesn't feel like laughing right now despite what his body would have him tell you. ]
Sure.
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You're surprisingly ticklish. Most people grow out of it. [ Just a casual observation, totally, she's not planning on taking advantage of that further. Why would you ever think that. That momentary flex of her fingers against his abdomen has a totally legitimate reason behind it. ]
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I don't tend to be all that normal. [ He tenses up probably a little more than he should at the flexing, feeling kind of ridiculous afterward but hey, there's not a lot you can do about some things. ] And genius is sensitive.
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Is it? How sensitive is genius, precisely? [ Which she actually makes sound quite sincere. ]
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dammit my coding
pets gently it's okay it happens to us all
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it's going to be okay i promise
uh huh
just trust me
well okay then mistress
i like the sound of that word
I'm sure you do
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remaining where he is now what even past self
it's okay i got it
thank you among the reasons i love you
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