they definitely had hands, it was a matter of it hana was going to wreck her girlfriend right now and further expose the nerd argument that was being made. she thought not. it felt like a trap and she smiled cheekily instead, humming through pursed lips. “think what you will.” she pressed her lips to kenzie’s and cupped her cheeks with her palms to do that. “quoting me is never wrong.” she whispers, before releasing her because they had plans and thankfully mackenzie removing her hands from her ass meant that she had time to regain some feeling in them before sitting down with her. “ah well…this girlfriend of yours is weak for soft fabrics apparently.” when it came to blankets. and pillows. and just..being comfortable all together. hana moved towards the kitchen of the manor down the marble hallways, the heels of her boots barely making a sound for how lightly she walked. cabinets needed to be searched to see if she could find what they needed for the s’mores and without drawing too much attention from the others who might get the wrong idea and assume hana was in the kitchen cooking again. “popcorn too.” there was a pang in her stomach that made her now regret the salad and chai she’d had for lunch; it had satisfied her at the time.

she used her boot to tap the manor door shut behind them; a few of the others were around in their own little corners of the manor but the place was so sprawling in space that she knew that it wasn’t likely they’d intrude on anyone or anyone upon them. it didn’t really matter to hana anyways. it was warm in here, and that meant the sooner she could get mackenzie warm. before her freezing hands knocked any more years of life out of her ass. “your hands are like a dementor right now and if you ever quote me on that i will never forgive you.” she pressed her lips to her girlfriends. she was not that nerdy at all, she liked to read, yes, and she retained information for the entire span of her life, but she wasn’t about to hear about this later. s’mores might work, so she nodded, and then when kenzie said something even more nerdy she knew her slip-up was safe in her care. “as long as there’s you and a blanket.” kenzie was whispering to the parts of her that she wanted to melt into her shoulder.

the sound that she made…was thankfully lodged in her throat and it likely sounded worse there when mackenzie’s hands were forced freezing down her pants and over her ass. “you…” she…she was freezing. hana wrapped her arms around her with a grumble and walked kenzie back towards the manor door. “are a punk.” she wanted to be inside with her. even though hana didn’t mind the colder air, the unseasonably crisp wind that touched this september day was even a shock to her system. that was weather on the east coast though; it had been hot the day before but autumn tried to bite hard today and hana wasn’t having icy hands on any other regions of her body, so she pulled kenzie with her through the manor door and into the foyer, her lips connecting cold to the side of her neck.

her fingertips toyed lightly with the necklace and then she let it go for better things, which was mack turning into her and pressing her lips to hers to kiss her softly. the kiss melted her and made her want more, more of her lips because that’s what kissing mack was like, what their kisses were like, a beckoning for more of them. there were things they couldn’t talk about but at the same time, things they just didn’t need to talk about it. it was that simple to her. they didn’t need to have certain talks because the things in those talks didn’t do anything to change the two of them so it was just trivial and pointless right now. she knew mack knew more than she let on, and mack knew that hana knew…everything about that. that was it, that simple, that gone from her mind the moment she kissed her and she parted her lips to let her tongue run slowly over her bottom lip, tasting her more for a moment. attention turned back to the food she got a bite ready for her and offered it. she also pulled closer the container with the strips of crunchy bacon and the sausage and then the one with the buttered toast because the more warmth that mack got into her stomach the better. she’d be feeling cold and tired soon and she wanted her to have the meal before medicine and settling down so even hana placed a piece of bacon into her mouth to chew on while she offered mack a strip also into her uninjured hand. things like eating were at least easier with the less dominant hand than writing was. but she helped her still and offered another bite of the eggs and hash browns for her. “i’m not going anywhere, and you’re not. anything you need i’ll be right here.” she promises, meeting her eyes and leaning in to peck her lips softly again. “i’m proud of you.”

hana rested her chin on mack’s shoulder, simply because she’s slouched herself down a bit on the couch and that was where she was level to, and she smiled feeling her kiss her cheek in return. “agreed.” she took a bite herself and in doing that she’d traded out the buttered toast for the eggs and hash browns and then she’d scooped up another bite for mack, the heat from the hot sauce making her mouth water and her throat hum. “the faster we eat the faster we pass out and wake up…with your hand still in a cast.” she frowned, a small pout given the mack and a tender smile in her eyes. “that’s your dominant hand too.” clearly, if she’d thrown a punch with it. “sucks because i like that hand.” her smile spread a little and she gathered up another bite, alternating them between them both.

They didn't need to talk about other things. Like the necklace she got. They didn't need to talk about it. It doesn't involve their relationship. And when she does do another task from swallow she wouldn't even think about Hana. Because it wasn't about Hana. And Mack knew how to separate Hana from voliere. But she smiled when Hana looked to the necklace a secret smile before she felt her lips on her own. Her left hand going to her cheek to keep her on her lips whimpering feeling her tongue on her bottom lip and she opened her mouth her tongue massaging Hana's making her pant hard against her, before food was thought about and she smiled fondly to Hana taking the bite that she offered her a hum leaving her lips at the taste of food, before taking the strip of bacon that was offered. "goes both ways." she whispers, though she knew that hana wasn't hurt but Mack wasn't going to sit here and be fussed over, she wanted to fuss over Hana too. "but I'm glad you're not going anywhere. Need you right here." she tells her, before feeling her lips on her own, and mack pecked her lips right back. "i.. Thanks, baby."

as hana rested her chin on her shoulder as she turned her head to press a kiss to her cheek, smiling hearing her before she picked up the buttered toast that hana put down and she nodded her head. “yep, and we’ll be able to start fresh in the morning.” she tells her, before taking a bite out of the toast. she paused her chewing when she heard her next words though, eyes looking to hana and seeing that pout, before she nodded slowly, realizing the connection here. “i....” she starts a soft frown appearing on her face, as she places the toast back where she’d gotten it, so she could gently turn her body to face hana a bit better. “i wasn’t thinking, i’m sorry. usually i think about all the angles........i can’t believe i didn’t think about this one.” she whispers, her eyes looking to her hand, wondering if it were worth it now. “but...i have my left hand...you know?”

she was careful in getting mack undressed, pulling her shirt off over her head and then her jeans until they were both in just the thinner fabric underneath. hana wanted her to get to eat and rest and that was all she needed, so she pulled her in on the couch to her side and pulled the blankets up around them both. as much as she could sit here and be angry about the state of mack’s hand, she couldn’t be entirely, maybe as someone who cared about her of course, but she had been through her own trials of pain also and her head still ached to the day with it at times but it was a twinge different to see it on someone else. she trusted mack though, her choices, and she stood by firmly her reasoning because hana sat here as caged and she would do everything include kill even now to protect the cage. mack was in process and she…was well aware that she knew that. as if to talk about it….when they couldn’t talk about it, her fingertips moved to the locket that hung low on mack’s chest between her breasts, and she turned it over gently and felt it warm on her skin before sliding her hand up along the chain and to the spot under mack’s chin, her head turning to press her lips to her temple. mack’s locket bore the swallow. 

“the sooner you eat the sooner you get that medicine and you need it.” she whispers, leaning forward then to grab their containers in closer so she could open them up and bring one closer that was filled with hash browns and eggs. she didn’t ask if mack liked spicy because she remembered cooking tacos with her, so she reached for a little bottle of hot sauce to trickle some on the hash browns and eggs for them and mixed up the eggs and hash browns together a little, where the yolk was still runny and coating it all, perfect. she got a plastic fork unwrapped and got a bite ready for her to offer first. “think we can make it through eating before we pass out?” she mumbles, knowing she was hungry and she’d sleep horribly if her stomach was empty like it was now. not for much longer. hana picked out a triangle of buttered toast to place between her teeth while she gave mack the first bite of the best mixture of breakfast items ever. “i’d doubt it but….i think i had a celery stick for dinner and a few potato chips.

she rested right beside hana, preferably would have laid on her but things were not okay for that. besides, they needed to eat. though she knew these injuries would put her out of commission from certain things, mack knew she could live with that. she knew what the consequences would be, and she took them with pride in her eyes with her head held high. because this was her choice, and she had reasons behind what she did, and she didn't need to justify her actions, considering he could of gotten a lot worse. he had gotten a lot worse. she didn't want to think about it right now though, her thoughts then went to hana, and they couldn't talk about it, not really. but she knew who hawk was, knew that he was close to hana, and she hoped hana knew her well enough to know it was never personal. that what she did to him had actually nothing to do with him at all. she kept the cage separate to their names. she didn't treat hana like swallow, she saw them as two different people. her eyes touched on the necklace that hana was touching, and she smiled with pride in her eyes. she knew who swallow was, she knew she was resting with her right now, that the necklace she was wearing was from her. her lips pressed to her lips, a slow soft kiss, that she broke to look down at the necklace. things couldn't be talked about, and mack wasn't about to have hana break rules.she wasn't about to let the cage become apart of their relationship. her head rested back on her shoulder eyes touching on her hand, fingers feeling cold she tried to move them, to let the circulation run through them, but they barely moved. "just need you." might of seemed cheesy but it was the truth. right now she was comfortable where she was, safe where she was. and she smiled as hana brought the food over, lifting herself up a little she watched hana with the food, loving the fact that she knew her well enough to know she loved the spicy food. her stomach grumbled, and mack blushed, knowing adrenaline had worn off, and now her body needed more. "thank you. for doing this." best girlfriend ever.

she whispers softly to her, leaning over to kiss her cheek softly, listening to her she chuckled before taking the bite that was offered to her. she chewed on it slowly before she was nodding her head. “i think we can make it through. even if we just eat enough where it feels like we’re content, then we can sleep.” she says, after she had moaned at the bite of food that was given to her, before she was kissing her cheek once more. “i don’t think our stomachs will let us sleep very well if we don’t eat. and lucky for us, we have the best company with us.”

smoking and driving was managed smoothly enough and after the few blocks she was glad the driving was out of the way because one hand always needed to be on the wheel, save for the short moments of bringing the smoke to her lips in which she pressed the top of her knee up under the wheel to hold it. at least that kept her hand on mack’s thigh. keys were retrieved from her pocket when they reached her place and mack had gotten the bags which would have made her frown if it wasn’t a pointless battle. she needed to unlock the door anyways and it would be needless to fuss about her carrying the bags when they were only a couple steps from inside anyways, the kitchen counter just inside the side door where she’d parked in the small space right behind the audi. had they been walking she’d have taken the front door where the footpath was right into the living room. hana held the door open for her and allowed her in and then closed the door behind them, dropping keys to the counter. 

she’d left the usual pile of soft blankets across the couch and ottoman and everything else was left off but poe stretched his tiny self from his perch on the chair and yawned. hana took the bag from mack and kissed the side of her head, then carried the containers over to set the bag down on the ottoman and then she reached for her lighter on the side table to light a few of the scented candles she had right now, in vanilla and in pine tree. she turned the tv on to see what there was for them to watch quietly, at least while they ate. she figured mack would need help with that, and she was more than willing, so she kicked her boots off and stripped her clothes down to the floor except for soft jersey cotton on her hips and her t-shirt and then she moved closer to mack to help her too. there was new pristine and perfect black cast wrapped around her hand to just over her wrist and thankfully it wouldn’t t fully hinder the movement of her arm but she knew her hand was done for, for awhile. save for anything she might be able to manage with her fingertips if she tried hard enough maybe. 

“lets get this off.” she slid the flannel of mack’s shirt back from her shoulders and left her in the tank top, working it gently over her hand and off because the cuff buttons were undone. and then she pulled the fabric of her jeans free to work those down for her, pulling her then in closer to her to get mack down to the couch with her and into her arms. “we’ll get something in your stomach before medicine because that will probably just upset you without food.” she had ordered from the diner, containers of eggs and hash browns, of bacon and sausage and thick buttered toast they could make sandwiches of it with, a container of cold sliced avocado and some veggies like slivers of tomato and onion if they wanted that too for sandwiches.

she was glad that, that part was over. that now they both got to go back to hana's place and just enjoy each other's company. medication was in hand, because hana had everything else. she had to smile just looking at her, and as she stepped inside, she gave a quick peck to her lips, before moving over the thresh hold. she didn't want to keep hana there waiting when it was her arms that were fill of everything. scented candles were lit, and mack knew the flavors instantly. "how did you know?" she asks, a light smile upon her face, because hana couldn't have known. "that those scents are my favorite?" aside from the beach but it never smelled like the beach at all. they could never get that scent right. her hand was held to her stomach, though she made sure not to press to hard on that either. she watched as hana stripped, and her eyes took in everything, from her bra to her panties, and then hana was moving closer to her, and she nodded her head slowly, feeling her unbuttoning her shirt, watching her do so, before she was pulling the sleeves off of her arms. she knew it wouldn't always be like this, that eventually she would be able to use her fingers, but the day of? she knew that would be stupid. considering also hana told her to stop moving them, and there was no way she was going to move them. she let her left hand be placed on hana's shoulder as she moved one leg up so her leg could get out of her pants. before she felt hana pulling her in close, and her lips connected to her neck softly, before she felt the couch underneath her. eyes looked to hana, raking over her body like they always did before she nodded her head at her words, her head resting on her shoulder. "food sounds good. don't think i've eaten  since it happened." which obviously hana knew, because she was right there with her. the scent of food wafted towards her and it made her moan softly just smelling it all. "you're the best." she whispers, pressing her lips to her cheek.

He smiled. “Oh, that’s just fantastic. I’m glad. I just, gosh, I love the leaves, you know? And the temperature. And the sweaters are just…the best.” He smiled again. Then nodded. “I’m used to it. I grew up about an hour from here, my dad went here when he was my age. So I’m used to this weather. We’d always come out here to visit during the fall.” He smiled. “And I would always get this coffee.”

“Boo!” Bisi complained, in this blunt way of his, which didn’t mean to insult, but which was the result of a lack of filter between his brain and mouth. “Boring. C’mon! You get the unique chance to define something here! Be creative!” He was grinning, excitement in his voice as he continued: “Let’s make up all sorts of rules, and try to break none of them. I start. Rule number one, two and three: A car, a road, and being in-slash-on both for longer than five hours! Now your turn.”

Bisi didn’t say much to that. He had understood the first time. “I try not to repeat my adventures, no,” he nodded. “I don’t need to keep up with them. I just need to know, in the moment itself, this is something I’ve never done before, something beautiful that the world has to offer, something of which the existence I didn’t waste by being too lazy, or too tired, or too-…” Dead. Too dead. That was how the sentence would end, if Bisi had had the courage to say it. Instead he chuckled and shook his head. “You’re going on an adventure now, no? Tell me, what is something you always wanted to do, and what we can do in the next, hmm, 24 hours?” 

she nodded her head, deciding to let herself relax a little. she was sore and tired, but why not play along? why not see if he’ll respect the rules she gives. she’ll respect his, she always respected rules, even if she was finding loopholes she still did what she wanted to do, without really breaking rules. she followed them, but also never crossed them just stayed right on that line that people thought she might cross. so she listened to his rules, eyes looking to the front of them, and then behind them, to the side of them, and then looking back to jess. “okay, so rule four: we’re only allowed to go north.” she says, pulling out her phone, checking on it, before looking at jess once more a soft smile playing on her face. “rule five: we can only drive in the left lane, “ she says smiling softly at him before thinking of the next rule. “rule six: you have to lose the car behind us. it’s been following us for the last twenty minutes.” she tells him, looking out the mirror once more to see that same car that she knew oh so well.

“starving.” she was ready to eat and she hadn’t all night; her lapse not for not having options of course. hana brought her eyes down to mack’s stomach and she could imagine based on what she’d seen, but she couldn’t say what she’d seen. it was obvious in the way mack was careful with her movements sitting down and standing up that she was hurting other places but the way that mack stayed composed and nodded even after admitting she was sore, allowing that hana look it over, it made her chest well up with something like pride. gently she closed the door of the jeep once mack was in and settled and she climbed herself in behind the wheel and started the jeep. a breath was released through her lips and a gracious smile played in her eyes as she reached to take the cigarette that was offered her, thanking her and putting the window down on her side. “you should light up another one. you definitely need your own.” hana placed the cigarette between her lips and held it there for a moment so that she could pull out of the lot and then her right hand moved to rest on mack’s thigh, while her left handled driving and smoking. 

“it didn’t take much to run into you. i was walking faster than you were rolling. i passed you.” she chuckled and rubbed her hand over her thigh and the fabric there soothingly. there was the diner on the corner and she pulled into that lot a moment later into the pick-up parking space, a moment later a woman coming out to hand in a few bags through the open window, bags she gently placed between them, back to the backseat for now. “do you want to watch a movie while we eat and then sleep?” they weren’t even likely to finish a movie but it was something to unwind with and take mack’s mind off of the stress of the morning. mack might not be feeling that stress or even thinking about it, but the subconscious was a tricky thing like that when the guard was dropped during sleep and something else on the mind might soften that blow later. she’d paid on her phone when she’d placed the order. eggs, hash browns, two full orders of bother bacon and sausage which meant…eight strips of bacon, eight sausage links, and four pieces of buttered toast and one container of pancakes in case mack wanted something sweet. now she began making their drive back to her place a few blocks away.

“we’ll get some food and then settle in while we eat.” she says a soft smile playing on hana’s lips, before her girl closed her door and then hopped in. mack had lit up a smoke and passed it to her, nodding her head to light up another smoke. she let out a small moan as she inhaled the smoke deeply, zipping down her window to flick the ash out before she felt hana’s hand against her thigh. her eyes looked down to it, and she placed her smoke in her mouth, just so she could lace their fingers together and give her hand a gentle squeeze before removing it from her hand so she could pull the smoke out of her mouth and flick more ash. she smiled when she heard hana’s words, her eyes looking over at her feeling her hand rubbing against her thigh. “on purpose?” she teases softly, before they were pulling in and hana was situating the food. “that’s what i like about you, hana. quick thicker. didn’t take us long at all.” she whispers, her head resting on the head rest of her seat, her head lulling to the side as they moved again to get fresh air into her lungs. hearing her she turned her head and gave it a nod, leaning over to press her lips to her cheek, nuzzling it softly. “i’d love to watch a move. yeah. that sounds like a good idea. love to cuddle with you..” she whispers to her, taking another drag from her smoke as they made their way to hana’s place.

it didn’t take long, because honestly, hana was a fucking genius and had everything they needed right now. they were pulling up at hana’s place, and mack was closing her window, before unbuckling her seat belt, looking over to hana making sure she was alright, before mack was grabbing bags, to help hana with them. “home sweet home.” she says, a smile playing on her lips, before she was making sure she had her prescription and her packet of smokes, then she removed herself from the jeep toward the door. the bags in one hand.

things between hana and herself seemed to be moving forward perfectly. both of them taking the time to know each other, and not just in this way. mack knew to read hana when she spoke, knowing that her girlfriend only used a few words to express herself. so. with that knowledge mack learned to read her face her eyes understand what she was saying. it took her awhile of course, but she got it down that she knew what hana was talking about even with just a few words given, or what she was thinking about. she still did that, still kept herself learning her in those ways. she knew she was thinking about something that happened, because her eyes would be looking somewhere else with this distant look in them. but so quickly is it there, that she is back in that very moment. hana was calm, collected. but she had a big heart. and mack loved that about her. loved how big her heart was. the affection she gave proved that also. and the way hana knew what she wanted, and was never afraid to go out and get it. she loved that about her too.

right now mack loved the fact that they were both naked and she got to wrap her lips around her breast, her tongue playing with her nipple ring, while she felt hana trying to get the fabric off of their bodies. mack smirked against her breast her eyes looking up at hana before she was trying to growl against her breast feeling her pulling away from her. lips were connecting to hers and she moaned softly against them, feeling hana’s hand on her breast making her whine. she panted hard on her lips, before hearing her voice, making her nod her head before she was lifting up her hips and helping her with the fabric to slide it down her legs before she was completely exposed to her. hands ran down her sides and to her stomach as eyes looked her over before looking back into hana’s eyes as fingers slowly found her nerve and feather lightly began to rub against it as her lips started to connect to her neck. “i’m soaked.”

her smile stayed there in her eyes and her head shook as she set her hue on mack. “i wasn’t planning on it, punky brewster.” her lips pressing to the side of her head before she rested her chin on her hand on the exam table, watching the woman wrapping up mack’s wrist and hand. talks with mack were easy, like breathing; at times hana was more quiet and in those moments she could immerse herself in the things mack would talk about, until the moment genuine thoughts spilled back from hana’s lips to her ears. she never spoke needlessly. so many people did, so many people would spill out words to fill silences just to say they offered something but when she spoke it was with direction. small talk….she just couldn’t handle it more than a few minutes and with mack it was never small. other times hana could ramble on about something and it was mack listening and hearing her; they always heard it seemed, it felt like…at least. it was a good feeling, a simple pleasure of life, to sit and have a talk that didn’t feel like a maze of unnecessary. 

“three courses it is.” breakfast all the way. she could eat breakfast foods any time of day; nothing better to her than a plate of bacon and eggs, hash browns and buttered toast at….midnight, or noon, or whenever. she was often making eggs benedict for dinner. the nurse finished up with mack’s cast and she gently pulled her arm closer and into her lap to examine the job she’d done. the black of the wrapping was pristine and sharp. it was nice and she smiled over to mack. hana was checking it over too, running her fingers along the edges of it around her fingers and above her wrist to feel for anything scratchy about it that might annoy her. one scratchy rough bit against her forearm was felt and she reached for the little pair of scissors to very carefully snip it away so that it was left soft. “i’ll drive, yeah.” she nodded and pushed herself up to stand from the arm of the chair, helping mack up too and then following them from the room because there was check-out and meds mack was being handed now. after thanking everyone they stepped back into the waiting room and then she moved to open the door outside to hold it for mack, her hand going to the small of her back. “i don’t think they’ll care, smoke while i drive?” she felt the kiss to her shoulder and moved with her for the jeep and unlocked it, opening the passenger side to help mack in. “how’s the other thing?” dark brown eyes darted down to her stomach, knowing mack knew what she was getting at. “i want to see it when we’re home.”

she chuckled at the nickname hana gave her, eyes looking toward the lady, before they were moving, because she wanted out of here and wanted to stay with hana. she wanted to just curl up on the couch or on her bed with her. medicine in her hand, she moved out of the place with hana. smiling because hana had grabbed the scissors and cut the scratchy part off her cast. it felt better already. hana opened the passenger door for her, and she pecked her lips in thanks, before she was hopping into the jeep, her eyes going to hana once she put the seat belt on. “you hungry?” she asks her once she got herself situated, and then she nodded her head at her words, before she was picking up the packet of smokes that were in the cup holder to grab herself a smoke, before she was looking down at her stomach once that was questioned. “sore.” she tells her honestly, before nodding her head softly. she was making sure the seat belt was sitting on her stomach too much. “would you like a smoke?” she asks her softly, once she found the lighter and lit up her smoke breathing it in, and then passing it over to hana to see if she wanted it. it had been a long day, and she didn’t think hana had slept much, neither of them sleeping much, so she figured they’d both eat and just conk out until they woke up again. 

“i’m glad i ran into you when i did.” she tells her, smiling at her, as she rested her head against the head rest of the jeep. “i’d be driving so slow to get to your place.” she knew she was going over to hana’s after this, not because she wanted to be fussed over but because she wanted her girl after the morning she had. to just curl up with her and rest with her.