Post by Kit on Feb 15, 2010 0:10:45 GMT 10
Title: Sorrowless Field (II)
Rating: PG-13
Length: 403
Competitor: Neal
Round: 1/C
Summary: Neal finds himself caught.
“Neal?”
The words were strange, spaces dissolving in his mind until he had odd backformations and leaps of line. He tasted shapes, heard colours, felt the ridge and swell of harveststore against his hands like a blind man’s letters. Foolish notion—
“Nealan!”
He was clearly up too late. “Yes, Yukimi?”
She laughed, softly. “You know, it is still impossible to address you by your full name with a straight face.”
“So says the Yamani—”
“—Bad jokes make me tired, and I want to stay awake.”
Neal turned at the feel of her hands on his shoulders, then slow and warm in his hair. Yuki tugged slightly as he faced her.
“What are you doing?”
“Writing.”
He strained to kiss her, her hands tightened, then relaxed. “Uh-oh.”
“What sort of delightful, supportive wife are you?”
Another kiss. “Yours.”
“Good.” Another kiss. “A very good—uh—point.”
“What were you writing?”
“You really want to know?”
Yuki shifted, easing into his chair across his legs, her light cotton nightdress sneaking up her thighs in a way that made Neal think upon a very different kind of poetry, generally locked up.
“I want to know if I should kiss you again, or hit you.”
Neal laughed, hands moving to her hips. “You know I’m amenable to both.”
“I am a delightful, supportive wife.”
Neal cleared his throat. “It’s…it’s nothing, really. At least, I’m too stupid for it to anything except nothing. Kel just said something to me, today, about life here—”
“—this ramshackle outpost—”
“—this very ramshackle outpost, and it made me think”
“Uh-oh.”
“I’m serious, Yuki!”
She kissed him. Kissed him slow, and rich, and deep. “I know. You’re just easy to tease.”
“She said something…” he cupped Yuki’s face gently, searching. “Sometimes I wonder about our Kel,” he said. “My friend and yours, oldest and best, and yet—”
“—there is no knowing another person.”
This. This, another reason to add to the endless list of why he loved her. “Exactly.”
He swallowed. “But it’s still a little unsettling to see her taking healing, finally, that I didn’t know she needed.”
Rating: PG-13
Length: 403
Competitor: Neal
Round: 1/C
Summary: Neal finds himself caught.
“Neal?”
The words were strange, spaces dissolving in his mind until he had odd backformations and leaps of line. He tasted shapes, heard colours, felt the ridge and swell of harveststore against his hands like a blind man’s letters. Foolish notion—
“Nealan!”
He was clearly up too late. “Yes, Yukimi?”
She laughed, softly. “You know, it is still impossible to address you by your full name with a straight face.”
“So says the Yamani—”
“—Bad jokes make me tired, and I want to stay awake.”
Neal turned at the feel of her hands on his shoulders, then slow and warm in his hair. Yuki tugged slightly as he faced her.
“What are you doing?”
“Writing.”
He strained to kiss her, her hands tightened, then relaxed. “Uh-oh.”
“What sort of delightful, supportive wife are you?”
Another kiss. “Yours.”
“Good.” Another kiss. “A very good—uh—point.”
“What were you writing?”
“You really want to know?”
Yuki shifted, easing into his chair across his legs, her light cotton nightdress sneaking up her thighs in a way that made Neal think upon a very different kind of poetry, generally locked up.
“I want to know if I should kiss you again, or hit you.”
Neal laughed, hands moving to her hips. “You know I’m amenable to both.”
“I am a delightful, supportive wife.”
Neal cleared his throat. “It’s…it’s nothing, really. At least, I’m too stupid for it to anything except nothing. Kel just said something to me, today, about life here—”
“—this ramshackle outpost—”
“—this very ramshackle outpost, and it made me think”
“Uh-oh.”
“I’m serious, Yuki!”
She kissed him. Kissed him slow, and rich, and deep. “I know. You’re just easy to tease.”
“She said something…” he cupped Yuki’s face gently, searching. “Sometimes I wonder about our Kel,” he said. “My friend and yours, oldest and best, and yet—”
“—there is no knowing another person.”
This. This, another reason to add to the endless list of why he loved her. “Exactly.”
He swallowed. “But it’s still a little unsettling to see her taking healing, finally, that I didn’t know she needed.”