pcrepazaak ] ;; ATTON

       his head hangs stiff , stuck in a kind of PURGATORY between her lips and the ground . hell , he wants nothing more than to pull her back in , to run his hands along her sides and taste her mouth until he sees kriffing stars . temptation has never really stood as any kind of MORAL BARRIER in the smuggler’s life . desires come easily and way too frequently to refuse , born of base emotions like vengeance , greed , and lust  —  so when he sees something he wants , he goes after it . consequences be damned in the heat of the moment , something for his future self to sort out (  more often than not aided by the old RELIABLE asset of alcohol  ) . he charges , he takes , and whatever happens , happens .
        but with her , he’s always maintained a surprising degree of RESTRAINT . he flirts , sure , gives her all kinds of hell with remarks and pointed looks , an occasional touch to her wrist , a hand on her spine . every so now and then he’d pressed the barrier FURTHER , almost kissed , almost said something , almost gave in completely . but his lack of self control has , without fail , corrupted every aspect of his life until now . he doesn’t want it to ruin the parts of her he loves the most , the parts of her she has that he’s missing  —  so painstaking want is replaced by a fierce desire to PROTECT her . even from himself , and at first sign of resistance , he swallows hard and lets her go , drops his hands from her waist and eases his head back to the floor . 

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       ❝  right . ‘course not .  ❞     he smiles , even if it’s FORCED and half miserable , quietly damning the jedi drivel that’s likely stopping her from giving into baser needs . he loses a bit of grip on his control , lets his hand follow hers to tuck a lose strand of hair behind her ear before realizing it’d been a touch too soft , a touch that had revealed TOO MUCH . he resettles it to the curve of her thigh — safer ground — patting it hastily before he loses this battle completely .     ❝  up you go then . galaxy’s not gonna save itself while we’re here lounging around on the floor .  ❞

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             There was WAR in each other’s heads, a gut feeling told all as well as the way she KNEW she had to compose herself — to pull from the very magnetization that they’d offered each other. Vibrant green hues trace and followed the lines of his face – every curve, every sharp edge warding her off. Such roses adorned THORNS, guarding, protecting themselves — even if from each other. Being said, her gaze was soft, obtaining the beauty that was the way the thorns had cleared, their defenses had raised so quickly as they had recklessly lowered. Desire still PULLED & PULLED at her, wanting to let the former strangers of their lips meet once again — to find HOME within his touch. 
             This was BAD, this was FORBIDDEN —— how could she? Teeth pulled her lip, restraining herself from falling deeper into the LUST she was once so terrific at concealing, ignoring, PUSHING from. She felt her stomach turn from the way the thought of crashing her lips into his again, melting into his hold — STOP. STOP. STOP. Her head turned, and the very strands of hair she’d pushed from her face had fallen back into place. Once parallel figures soon became just as PERPENDICULAR. “ —————————- Sorry.” She felt she needed to, needed to apologize for falling for the very tone of his voice, how his fingertips felt like a electricity to stimulate an exhilaration —- for her losing that control she was once so proud over. CONTROL MEANT SAFETY. Safety meant she wouldn’t lose him. Safety meant it wouldn’t be her fault. “I don’t.. I don’t know what I was thinking.” She WASN’T. She FELT. And he felt RIGHT.
              The petite form raised to settle back, sitting on her feet, as if she’d fallen back to being the same reckless and thoughtless child she once was. A final taste of the residue he left, her tongue slid over her lip, as if trying to make certain it was REAL. “ – To be fair.. I don’t – uh – think we’re going to be saving the galaxy anytime soon if you go down that EASILY.” Went her stammering attempt to just keep moving – DON’T LOSE HIM.