Christmas Eve (for Henri)
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For a short while Sybil had wondered if she'd even be able to leave her apartment on the Christmas Eve, the snow coming in droves the day before. But it had tapered off through the night, and on the 24th the roads and footpaths were all clear of it. She'd bundled up to meet Henri at the Soup Kitchen, their time there passing quickly. A few hours of ladeling soup, serving up rolls, and handing over baskets of canned goods and gifts for the children, and she honestly felt as if she'd done something to help those who needed it. It wasn't enough, the simple giving of food only a bandage on the wound. But it was what they could manage today, though she finds herself more determined to contribute more to Darrow in the coming year.
It's perhaps an appropriate mood for going to mass. She's never been to a Catholic Church before, and it seems rather disappointing in the end. In English just as any service she was used to, but with a dreadful number of candles it seems to her. Overall she finds lttle different, refusing communion as the entire idea of transubstantiation seems suspect, but enjoyable nontheless. It's nicer to have Henri to share it with, even if he seems somber at some points of the night.
When they leave it's nearly one in the morning, truly Christmas day. It's snowing again and as she slips her arm through his offered one, Sybil looks up to him contentedly. "Happy Christmas."
It's perhaps an appropriate mood for going to mass. She's never been to a Catholic Church before, and it seems rather disappointing in the end. In English just as any service she was used to, but with a dreadful number of candles it seems to her. Overall she finds lttle different, refusing communion as the entire idea of transubstantiation seems suspect, but enjoyable nontheless. It's nicer to have Henri to share it with, even if he seems somber at some points of the night.
When they leave it's nearly one in the morning, truly Christmas day. It's snowing again and as she slips her arm through his offered one, Sybil looks up to him contentedly. "Happy Christmas."
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Date: 2014-01-04 03:47 am (UTC)Though he dared not remove her clothing, not yet, his own hands on her body became more purposeful, more sure. One hand he pressed flat to her back with gentle pressure, while the other roamed absently over her side, her waist, her hip.
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Date: 2014-01-04 03:55 am (UTC)"I should say that about you," she mumbles when she can. The kiss, the movements of his hands, they cause her own hands to tense against his skin. She's not sure how much further this can go tonight, but Sybil knows that she's not yet ready to stop,
She lets one of her hands cover his, moving it purposely up her side, to the exposed akin above her chest. Her cheeks burn from it, but she wants to know how it feels to have his skin against hers.
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Date: 2014-01-04 04:35 am (UTC)“You know I do not expect- What I mean to say is-“ He took a breath, and smiled, and brushed his thumb lightly against her lip. “Whatever you want, Sybil. Truly."
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Date: 2014-01-04 04:44 am (UTC)"I want you here. I don't wish to stop. But I don't think we should-" her cheeks are flushed pink from the beating of her heart, as well as from what she's about to say to him. "I shouldn't think we should go too far."
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Date: 2014-01-04 04:59 am (UTC)"I would like you to kiss me," she says with flushing determination, "and perhaps to take this off?"
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Date: 2014-01-04 10:34 am (UTC)"I think that you shouldn't," she says softly, her other hand reaching behind to tug at her zipper, loosening the top of her dress.
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Date: 2014-01-04 09:36 pm (UTC)Sybil nods in response, letting her hand come away to instead cup his cheek. She feels bold, kissing the corner of his mouth, his cheek and his ear, nipping at the lobe as he did her lip.
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Date: 2014-01-04 10:42 pm (UTC)But he took a breath, and ran his fingers over the dip of her collarbone, and smiled at her. “Ma belle,” he whispered, dropping a kiss to the base of her neck where it met her shoulder.
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Date: 2014-01-05 02:09 am (UTC)She does wonder if it will be an evening filled with her gasping breath, unable to stop herself at his kiss. Sybil pulls to him, his skin warm and electric where it touches, her hands moving slowly up his back.
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Date: 2014-01-05 02:52 am (UTC)Her fingers curl in his hair when he kisses her again. Sybil matches his passion, feeling electric, alive. There's no shame in this, she thinks, in loving someone so very much as to wish to know all of them. How can there be?
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Date: 2014-01-05 03:44 am (UTC)Her nod is slow, but it comes after a moment of consideration and steadying her breathing. Her kiss needs no consideration, and she pulls them both til they're laying on the bed instead of sitting perched on its edge. Still half dressed, it's another decision made, another realisation that she wants this, him, and more.
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