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[allgotrabies]

Hey, it's Annie, you know what to do.

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[allgotrabies]

She's aware of his hesitation even if she doesn't understand it. She starts to ask but he goes on and earns a little grin.

She leans forward to bite an unmarked space on his shoulder. "Can't help it," she laughs, bites him again. "You smell so good, I just-" Biting him again on his chest near the collarbone.

[madaboutit]

Sweeney winces, in surprise more than pain, and his smile gets wider. He leans over her a bit more and nips at her lips.

"Careful, luv," he purrs in suggestive warning.

"Gonna hav'ta get back ta those Irish lessons."

[allgotrabies]

"I'm a real hands-on learner," her own hands running over his chest, fingers tracing all the bruises she's leaving. She resolves here to spend the week in the library, to have phrases to surprise him with. She'll turn up at the knoll, offer him a cigarette, say something clever. Cliste.

"Teach me more. Le do thoil."

[madaboutit]

The Gaelic cap on her request pulls the breath back over his tongue, and he leans to kiss her, his hand supporting the back of her head. Sweeney breaks it just enough to whisper the words against the moisture on her mouth.

"Cad ba mhaith leat?"

He flicks the tip of his tongue up the center of her lip.

"What do you want?"

[allgotrabies]

"Téigh i dteagmháil liom anseo." She thinks the accent is a little better, but admittedly she's a bit distracted from it since as she says it she strokes her finger along the Mark.

[madaboutit]

Oh, yeah. That's hot as fuck.

Sweeney moves his hand from his shoulder to hers, cradling the back of her neck so he can draw a soft circle around the Mark's edges.

"Mar seo?"

[allgotrabies]

Her head tilts to offer more of her neck, her eyes flutter closed. "What's the word for 'more' or 'harder'?"

[madaboutit]

He draws a feather-light path along her jaw with his tongue, from her chin towards her ear before dipping it to the dark patch of skin.

"Níos mó." The pattern of his hand's touch becomes continuous.

"Go crua." He pushes his thumb firmly in the center. "Hard."

Sweeney's hand curls around the back of her neck so he can dig with the full grip of it as he leans in with a low growl.

"Níos crua." He swallows. "Harder."

[allgotrabies]

She cries out, soft and short, ending in a breathless giggle. The pressure of his fingers creates a warm, electric line all the way down her body and she murmurs, "Níos crua, mar seo, le do thoil..."

Hands on learner, as promised.

[madaboutit]

Sweeney shifts to lean over her a bit more, though he doesn't climb on top of her. Instead he bites at the other purpling marks running down her shoulder. He's rough with her, but not urgent. Quite to the contrary. Each is taken with clear intent.

"Cá?" he purrs against her.

"Where?"

[allgotrabies]

She touches a space on her ribs, just above where they stop. "Anseo."

He's bruised her up and down already, but she's ticklish there, which makes her extra sensitive.

[madaboutit]

He nips at it for only a moment, but something occurs to him, and he draws back enough to give them more weight.

"Ya ne'er hav'ta say it in Gaelic, English is just fine, but I want ya ta know a few important ones." He tips his head between each, giving her the chance to repeat them back to him.

"Sea. Yes.
Níl. No
Moilliú le do thoil. Slow down please.
éirigh as. Stop it."

He is very serious about each of them, and is prepared to stop where they are if she's not comfortable with any of them.

[allgotrabies]

It's funny, really, how having a different language makes it easier to imagine saying them. Then again, English requests were frequently ignored when she was human, but so far one hundred percent of the things she's said in Gaelic have been responded to.

"Sea," she says, after she's whispered the words to commit them to memory. "I'll say what I need. If you do too."

[madaboutit]

Sweeney's eyes meet her in solemn gentleness.

"Beidh mé." It's accented with a small nod. "I will."

[allgotrabies]

She touches his cheek, swallows hard. "Sometimes when I'm with you I think I'm not really dead."

Which is, she knows, an odd thing for someone to say. It's less odd than the things she thinks when she's alone.

[madaboutit]

He catches her hand without any roughness, just that he might pull it to his chest. Sweeney urges it flat against, right below his sternum.

"Can ya feel my heart beat?" he asks with a supportive fix of his eyes on hers.

[allgotrabies]

She doesn't take her eyes from his, but she concentrates on how warm he is, on how his chest rises when he breathes. Underneath it the flutter of his pulse, like a small bird. "Yeah."

[madaboutit]

"This is where I died." His eyes lower to where their skin meets. "The last time, at least."

Sweeney looks back up to her. "We're both here. Together. Livin' our dead lives." Like Dead Wife. At least this has less rotting.

"It's a'right if ya only get ta feel it some of the time. I'm glad ya can feel it with me."

[allgotrabies]

She keeps her hand there. "You remember how alive your daemon was, though?" Barrog had suited him so well, besides being so much more talkative than he was.

[madaboutit]

"I do."

His chest aches at the reminder. Sometimes when he wakes up, he still looks for her under the bed.

[allgotrabies]

"Mine wasn't." And the implications are so terrifying that as soon as she says it she has to mentally veer from it.

"Barrog really didn't like me," she laughs. "Does some part of you just really want to bite me or something?"

[madaboutit]

Sweeney shifts, pushing up a bit more so he can look down at her, and she can see the soberness in his expression. He takes the time with his words, and they are a sincere confession.

"You remember when we were in the grass an' talked 'bout fear? An' ya asked me if I was afraid of ya?"

[allgotrabies]

She doesn't answer right away. She takes a moment to study him, his expression, the line of his mouth. "Yeah."

[madaboutit]

"An' what did I tell ya?"

Sweeney's gentle; he needs her to understand all of the parts so she can accept the whole.

[allgotrabies]

"You were afraid of wanting too much." Though she wishes she had asked him to explain further. She hadn't because she'd been afraid of putting too much pressure on what trust they had.