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Will likes you sleeping in his clothes â this way, he feels like you have an added layer of protection even when his body isnât wrapped around yours. He likes you bathing in his heat, his scent, the softness his clothes have that he canât always give you from his heart or his mouth. With you in his clothes, heâs doused you in himself; he can stand behind you as the shower heats up, slip his shirt off over your head, and have your shoulder smell just like him even though he hadnât touched you all night.
He can round to the front of your body, sink to his knees and pull down his boxers from your hips until they pool at your ankles and brush against his knees that are stationed in worship there. He can lick at you hungrily, eyes skirted by his sleep-mussed bangs, as his tongue parts your folds and his lips seal around your clit and suck hungrily, with need, and he can allow himself to drunkenly stare up at his salvation. Like if he doesnât have a strong drink of you this morning then heâll die by noon or, worse, his mind will fall into a torturous crevice where his pure empathy will weep as the shadowed monsters bring a smile to his face. The heady scent of you can fill his head like a drug, warm and fleshy and sweet, but heâs there, too. Sweat, musk, come, all unmistakably male, all unmistakably him. The storm in his bedsheets thatâs followed him since he became a man finally isnât alone. He can grip the backs of your thighs to make sure you donât squirm away as he takes your cunt for a ride on his tongue.Â
He gives you the pairs of boxers that are tattered; he has to save the intact ones for work. Shot elastic in the waistband and fraying hems to blown out crotches and asses â What can he say? Bending over and squatting down a million times at work to look under cars, to clear fences and fallen trees with his muscular ass was bound to wear the fabric thin. You donât mind, theyâre the softest and the most comfortable to sleep in, anyway; the ones that have shared the most life with him.
In the mornings, Will will stare at the curve of your ass through the tear as you sleep on your stomach and heâll squeeze along the length of his cock that woke up hard. Heâll force down a groan when he sits up, seeing the hair peppering your mound and where your skin transitions to something softer, more vulnerable. Raw slick against plush velvet. Where the threads that once held him together have found a new purpose.Â
Heâll roll you over by your hips, onto your back. Heâll lean over you, kissing you just enough to wake you up. His hands will be busy fighting with his own pajama pants, tearing them down and kicking them away to the edge of the bed, before heâll descend down your body.
Heâll splay his hands on your inner thighs and spread you open, your wet already glistening for him â as it always is. Heâll angle his mouth just right and drip his spit onto your pussy, watching it run down through your folds. Heâll eat your cunt, his chin will roll through your cheeks in time with his tongue along your entrance and rub your tender skin raw with his stubble. As you seep into his mouth, your heart hammering harder against your lungs with each second closer to your climax, youâll finally break when you hear his grateful moans, feel them vibrate against your opening â and when you arch your back and tug on his hair to keep him there, right there, youâll tumble straight into another orgasm at the sight of Will humping the mattress.Â
Heâll get up on his knees, bunch his boxers in his hands, pull them taut at your hips and use them as handles to spear your pussy over and over onto his cock. Heâll be quick to get rough, always is because it just feels so fucking good to be with you. He wrestles with enough tumultuous emotions; he feels safe giving into this one, knows that heâll only get closer to himself the deeper into your maze he goes. He'll rake in breaths that scrape against his voice box, that make his chest tremble as sweat bleeds through his shirt and outlines the quivering muscles beneath.Â
Heâll roll his head back, eyes fluttering closed before he lolls forward and his hair, fringed with sweat, falls into his eyes. His gaze will be tired, half asleep and the other half drunk on pleasure, but itâll find yours with a near glower. Itâll make you feel like you shouldnât be whimpering, like heâll punish you for it, but you canât keep quiet even if you wanted to. Will pulls the most ragged, desperate sounds from you, things youâve never heard out of your mouth before and that sound foreign to your own ears. Itâs raw, sounds that should only come out when youâre on the brink of your life fighting pain â but Will is searing; your sounds are beyond fire, only smoke left in thin whistles, but he blows them away with one quick breath. Snuffed.Â
His hips will not have let up since he sheathed himself inside, pounding away at your plushness and making your cunt clench around him â you're so close. One of his hands will come to paw at your breast, splay across the soft mound before dragging his fingers inward. His shorn nails will prick at your hard nipple, make you gasp, and heâll adapt; heâll curl three of his fingers into his palm, holding the pert bud between his thumb and the second knuckle of his forefinger, and pluck at you until you sing for him.Â
When you come, heâll pin your neck to the bed with his hand wrapped around your throat. He wonât squeeze but rather hold you still; heâs not going to let you get away from this, even with your screaming and the pained, pinched look to your sweaty brow and your thighs that canât make up their mind on how to get him away; do you clam up, or do you kick him away? Either way, heâll just push his cock deeper inside. You invite him both ways, either squeezing him close or opening yourself up more for him. It feels like one of those wooden snake toys you had when you were a kid; your spine will arch off the bed then the pleasure will trill down your vertebrae like dominoes. Itâll snap into place at your neck, glittering behind your eyes, and your abdomen will convulse with the aftershocks.Â
His climax will follow not long after. Heâll pull out, your cunt will emit a wet sound of loss. He wonât have to tug on his cock, itâll suffer phantom jerks and spurt with come all on its own. Itâll drip onto the boxers heâs laid claim to you, darkening the blue plaid in spots at the waistband. The rest will spill across your belly, dancing with your erratic breaths as you chase to catch it.Â
Will will let go of you, reluctantly, to bend down and lick his spend up. Heâll gather one pool of his cum, his tongue brushing through those invisible hairs that cover your body like heâs parting reeds to a warm lake that heâs about to take a naked lap in under the summer sun, both blistering heat and sobering sunshine. Youâll pet through his hair as he swallows the first taste of himself down, his ragged breath telling you how much he likes it.Â
Heâll gather more and crawl back up to you. Heâll kiss you first, closed lips in a tender press to yours. Youâll part for him to share, with your tongue resting gently against the curve of your bottom lip. Heâll stamp the tip of his tongue to yours and the salty, musky taste of him will flood your senses. Heâll give a gentle flick of his tongue, spreading his seed along your palette. Itâll be sticky and messy, strings of his come and both your saliva will be suspended in a web, connecting you deeper than when he was inside you. Heâll seal his lips around your tongue, stealing his taste back, before heâll give his best effort of reaching the back of your throat. Heâll shove his tongue in your mouth, plunging you in ecstasy all over again and chasing the mixture of your tastes up until its final moments before you swallow it down, nestling it for safe keeping in your stomach.Â
If they ever split you apart, like the victims in Willâs pictures, you want them to find a part of him everywhere inside you. His come in your stomach, bruises from where the tip of his cock got too greedy in its kisses against your cervix, memories of him etched in the grooves of your brain. Would he like to finger your brain, could only he feel the memories he implanted there?Â
Youâll wrap your arms around his neck and heâll take you with him, sitting in his lap. You could never give him enough kisses, thereâs not enough breath you could take in to sustain you for as long as you want to keep your lips on his.Â
Heâll knock his forehead against yours, nuzzling there while he looks into your eyes. The sunshine will glitter in gentle rainbows through the curtains, through the raindrops left on the windows from the storm last night, across his face. His blue eyes will look like the surface of water on a bright summer day, like the lake he wanted to dive in to you.Â
Heâll be called away too soon. His phone vibrating on the nightstand and receiver crackling to life on his uniform, itâll all be over too soon.
Itâs hard not to think of the people, the beings in person suits, that he comes across every day and not fear them as obstacles to the little sanctuary youâve found in each other. But youâve learned a long time ago to stop worrying about building walls that are susceptible to being climbed by those clever enough. Itâs easier to anticipate what your enemies want when theyâre knocking at your front door after youâve let them sit at your dinner table.Â
You and Will have been through enough, and you two are enough just the way you are.
i havenât even seen this movie yet because i canât find it ANYWHERE (please drop a link if you have one) đ BUT iâve seen LOTS of edits âïžđ€ SO
Will likes you sleeping in his clothes â this way, he feels like you have an added layer of protection even when his body isnât wrapped around yours. He likes you bathing in his heat, his scent, the softness his clothes have that he canât always give you from his heart or his mouth. With you in his clothes, heâs doused you in himself; he can stand behind you as the shower heats up, slip his shirt off over your head, and have your shoulder smell just like him even though he hadnât touched you all night.
He can round to the front of your body, sink to his knees and pull down his boxers from your hips until they pool at your ankles and brush against his knees that are stationed in worship there. He can lick at you hungrily, eyes skirted by his sleep-mussed bangs, as his tongue parts your folds and his lips seal around your clit and suck hungrily, with need, and he can allow himself to drunkenly stare up at his salvation. Like if he doesnât have a strong drink of you this morning then heâll die by noon or, worse, his mind will fall into a torturous crevice where his pure empathy will weep as the shadowed monsters bring a smile to his face. The heady scent of you can fill his head like a drug, warm and fleshy and sweet, but heâs there, too. Sweat, musk, come, all unmistakably male, all unmistakably him. The storm in his bedsheets thatâs followed him since he became a man finally isnât alone. He can grip the backs of your thighs to make sure you donât squirm away as he takes your cunt for a ride on his tongue.Â
He gives you the pairs of boxers that are tattered; he has to save the intact ones for work. Shot elastic in the waistband and fraying hems to blown out crotches and asses â What can he say? Bending over and squatting down a million times at work to look under cars, to clear fences and fallen trees with his muscular ass was bound to wear the fabric thin. You donât mind, theyâre the softest and the most comfortable to sleep in, anyway; the ones that have shared the most life with him.
In the mornings, Will will stare at the curve of your ass through the tear as you sleep on your stomach and heâll squeeze along the length of his cock that woke up hard. Heâll force down a groan when he sits up, seeing the hair peppering your mound and where your skin transitions to something softer, more vulnerable. Raw slick against plush velvet. Where the threads that once held him together have found a new purpose.Â
Heâll roll you over by your hips, onto your back. Heâll lean over you, kissing you just enough to wake you up. His hands will be busy fighting with his own pajama pants, tearing them down and kicking them away to the edge of the bed, before heâll descend down your body.
Heâll splay his hands on your inner thighs and spread you open, your wet already glistening for him â as it always is. Heâll angle his mouth just right and drip his spit onto your pussy, watching it run down through your folds. Heâll eat your cunt, his chin will roll through your cheeks in time with his tongue along your entrance and rub your tender skin raw with his stubble. As you seep into his mouth, your heart hammering harder against your lungs with each second closer to your climax, youâll finally break when you hear his grateful moans, feel them vibrate against your opening â and when you arch your back and tug on his hair to keep him there, right there, youâll tumble straight into another orgasm at the sight of Will humping the mattress.Â
Heâll get up on his knees, bunch his boxers in his hands, pull them taut at your hips and use them as handles to spear your pussy over and over onto his cock. Heâll be quick to get rough, always is because it just feels so fucking good to be with you. He wrestles with enough tumultuous emotions; he feels safe giving into this one, knows that heâll only get closer to himself the deeper into your maze he goes. He'll rake in breaths that scrape against his voice box, that make his chest tremble as sweat bleeds through his shirt and outlines the quivering muscles beneath.Â
Heâll roll his head back, eyes fluttering closed before he lolls forward and his hair, fringed with sweat, falls into his eyes. His gaze will be tired, half asleep and the other half drunk on pleasure, but itâll find yours with a near glower. Itâll make you feel like you shouldnât be whimpering, like heâll punish you for it, but you canât keep quiet even if you wanted to. Will pulls the most ragged, desperate sounds from you, things youâve never heard out of your mouth before and that sound foreign to your own ears. Itâs raw, sounds that should only come out when youâre on the brink of your life fighting pain â but Will is searing; your sounds are beyond fire, only smoke left in thin whistles, but he blows them away with one quick breath. Snuffed.Â
His hips will not have let up since he sheathed himself inside, pounding away at your plushness and making your cunt clench around him â you're so close. One of his hands will come to paw at your breast, splay across the soft mound before dragging his fingers inward. His shorn nails will prick at your hard nipple, make you gasp, and heâll adapt; heâll curl three of his fingers into his palm, holding the pert bud between his thumb and the second knuckle of his forefinger, and pluck at you until you sing for him.Â
When you come, heâll pin your neck to the bed with his hand wrapped around your throat. He wonât squeeze but rather hold you still; heâs not going to let you get away from this, even with your screaming and the pained, pinched look to your sweaty brow and your thighs that canât make up their mind on how to get him away; do you clam up, or do you kick him away? Either way, heâll just push his cock deeper inside. You invite him both ways, either squeezing him close or opening yourself up more for him. It feels like one of those wooden snake toys you had when you were a kid; your spine will arch off the bed then the pleasure will trill down your vertebrae like dominoes. Itâll snap into place at your neck, glittering behind your eyes, and your abdomen will convulse with the aftershocks.Â
His climax will follow not long after. Heâll pull out, your cunt will emit a wet sound of loss. He wonât have to tug on his cock, itâll suffer phantom jerks and spurt with come all on its own. Itâll drip onto the boxers heâs laid claim to you, darkening the blue plaid in spots at the waistband. The rest will spill across your belly, dancing with your erratic breaths as you chase to catch it.Â
Will will let go of you, reluctantly, to bend down and lick his spend up. Heâll gather one pool of his cum, his tongue brushing through those invisible hairs that cover your body like heâs parting reeds to a warm lake that heâs about to take a naked lap in under the summer sun, both blistering heat and sobering sunshine. Youâll pet through his hair as he swallows the first taste of himself down, his ragged breath telling you how much he likes it.Â
Heâll gather more and crawl back up to you. Heâll kiss you first, closed lips in a tender press to yours. Youâll part for him to share, with your tongue resting gently against the curve of your bottom lip. Heâll stamp the tip of his tongue to yours and the salty, musky taste of him will flood your senses. Heâll give a gentle flick of his tongue, spreading his seed along your palette. Itâll be sticky and messy, strings of his come and both your saliva will be suspended in a web, connecting you deeper than when he was inside you. Heâll seal his lips around your tongue, stealing his taste back, before heâll give his best effort of reaching the back of your throat. Heâll shove his tongue in your mouth, plunging you in ecstasy all over again and chasing the mixture of your tastes up until its final moments before you swallow it down, nestling it for safe keeping in your stomach.Â
If they ever split you apart, like the victims in Willâs pictures, you want them to find a part of him everywhere inside you. His come in your stomach, bruises from where the tip of his cock got too greedy in its kisses against your cervix, memories of him etched in the grooves of your brain. Would he like to finger your brain, could only he feel the memories he implanted there?Â
Youâll wrap your arms around his neck and heâll take you with him, sitting in his lap. You could never give him enough kisses, thereâs not enough breath you could take in to sustain you for as long as you want to keep your lips on his.Â
Heâll knock his forehead against yours, nuzzling there while he looks into your eyes. The sunshine will glitter in gentle rainbows through the curtains, through the raindrops left on the windows from the storm last night, across his face. His blue eyes will look like the surface of water on a bright summer day, like the lake he wanted to dive in to you.Â
Heâll be called away too soon. His phone vibrating on the nightstand and receiver crackling to life on his uniform, itâll all be over too soon.
Itâs hard not to think of the people, the beings in person suits, that he comes across every day and not fear them as obstacles to the little sanctuary youâve found in each other. But youâve learned a long time ago to stop worrying about building walls that are susceptible to being climbed by those clever enough. Itâs easier to anticipate what your enemies want when theyâre knocking at your front door after youâve let them sit at your dinner table.Â
You and Will have been through enough, and you two are enough just the way you are.
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Thinking about how you and young cop Will Graham are both so touch starved and have finally found someone that feels safe to touch so youâre painfully hungry for each other that whenever he comes home after a shift he finds you right away and lays you down on the nearest surface (couch, floor, stairs, he really doesnât care) and only wastes enough time to unzip his pants and impatiently shoves them down around his hips and all he has to do is pull your panties to the side because youâve learned to just wear one of his t-shirts around the house since your pants are constantly being torn off your body and heâs already achingly hard because heâs been thinking about you all day like a fever and he pushes his cock inside your warm pussy that feels more like a home than he has ever had in his life and he does it in one slow stroke to let you adjust even though heâs so thick heâs already making your thighs quiver and thereâs too much lingering on his mind from work to take it slow and the only thing that chases his dark thoughts away is moments like these with you where a different kind of instinct takes over so desperately that he has no choice but to feed it so he sets a rough pace straight away and just ruts into you and heâs panting like he does when he wakes you in the night when heâs having nightmares but this time his gaze is far away in a different kind of haze and you watch the way his neck strains as he tips his head back and his Adamâs apple bobs as he swallows hard trying to last longer than thirty seconds but he canât stop, canât slow down, not with the way youâre fisting his soft hair and whimpering raggedly in his ear and every other sound out of your mouth is a sweet gasp as he punches deep inside you, brushing your cervix with the weeping tip of his cock, and the equipment he didnât bother to take off of his belt or on his shirt rustles with his movements and his heavy balls are already pulled tight and ready to pump his cum deep inside you but theyâre still big enough that they slap against your hole on every thrust because heâs got you spread so wide and his thighs smack against the meat of your ass because heâs got you bent just right underneath him so his cock can reach as deep as he possibly can and heâs done for when you press your cheek against his and your lips are right at his ear and your breath is so warm and your sounds are so pure compared to all of the other screams heâd heard that day and he comes with a choked sound, knotting his fingers in your hair but then cradling the back of your head and crushing you to his body as he rocks out those last few thrusts and he empties himself inside you, his hips rocking slower than before but just as deep as he sows his seed inside your womb, he canât even think about kids because heâs been trying to make a life for himself this whole time but he comes inside anyways because he needs a home inside you and then he rests his lips to your temple and you just stay there for a while in a haze as you both regain your breath shakily and he kisses your temple lightly before he helps you get to your feet and he goes and gets a warm, wet cloth to clean his mess that is leaking out of you and sticking to your inner thighs and on the way back from the sink he passes a pile of cloths just like the one heâs holding because you two have been rabid and itâll only be about an hour or so before you do it all over again. đ
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i picked âooga boogaâ because saying it out loud always makes me laugh. it also reminds me of how cavemen sounded -> the spongebob episode where squidward goes back in time and meets caveman versions of spongebob and patrick is one of my favorite episodes
i tacked âsphincterâ onto that because, well⊠i love fart/poop jokes. simple as that!
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pairing: Hannibal Lecter x f!reader
genre: psychological horror âą smut âą hunger
notes: winner of my recent poll!
Your lovely evening activities with your beloved Hannibal are not exactly what 'regular' people indulge in.
You enjoy running, as a hobby, and Hannibal enjoys chasing you.
warnings: smut!, unprotected pinv, begging, praise, pet names, oral (m receiving), fingering, pet play (?)
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Hannibal had always possessed a peculiar understanding of affection.
For him, affection was observation. Fascination.Â
Possession.
And, eventually, pursuit.
It had begun innocently enough.
You enjoyed running.
Not on treadmills or city sidewalks, but through forest trails. The woods offered freedom and silence. A place where the restless energy beneath your skin could finally dissolve into movement.
That was where you first met him.
A man who looked impossibly out of place among the trees.
While you stood catching your breath at a fork in the trail, he had emerged from the trees in a pristine coat.
You remembered staring at him.
âI hunt,â he had told you when you asked what brought him so far into the forest.
You had laughed gently at that.
âI run.â you had answered him.
Something had shifted between the two of you then.
A spark of curiosity that didnât leave you for a while.
Weeks later he found you again.
Then again.
Until eventually there was dinner.
Then another.
Then countless evenings spent beneath warm lighting and expensive wine, listening to that velvet voice discuss art, philosophy, music.
And somehow, without realizing it, you had wandered willingly into the beautiful trap Hannibal built around himself.
A trap lined with silk.
And tonight, as the moon hung pale above the forest, you found yourself once again playing your role.
His little rabbit.
The forest stretched endlessly in every direction.
Somewhere nearby an owl called.
Then silence.
Then the distant sound of your footsteps.
Hannibal moved carefully through the darkness.
His polished boots barely disturbed the leaves beneath them, he did not rush.
To anyone watching, he might have seemed leisurely.
Yet there was something unmistakably predatory in the way he walked.
The moonlight caught briefly on his face as he tilted his head.
Listening, waiting, carefully.
Then he heard it.
The snap of a twig.
A hurried footfall.
A breath.
A smile tugged gently at the corner of his mouth.
"There you are."
His voice drifted softly between the trees.
"Oh, bunny."
The sound sent a thrill through you.
You were already running before his words fully formed.
The narrow trail vanished beneath your feet as you darted deeper into the woods.
Leaves scattered.
Branches clawed at your sleeves.
The cold night air burned your lungs.
Your heartbeat hammered so loudly you were certain it could be heard from miles away.
Left.
Right.
Forward.
Every direction looked identical.
The forest had become a maze.
You stumbled over an exposed root and barely caught yourself before falling.
A curse escaped your lips.
Keep moving.
Keep moving.
You pushed onward.
Behind you, nothing.
No footsteps.
No voice.
That made uncertainty gnaw at you.
Where was he?
How close had he gotten?
You veered off the trail entirely, pushing through dense patches of bush.
Thin branches snagged your hair.
Leaves tangled in the fabric of your dress.
Your breathing grew ragged.
Finally, spotting a massive oak, you ducked behind it.
Your back pressed against rough bark.
Your hands covered your mouth.
Listen.
Nothing.
Only wind.
Only the frantic pounding of your own heart.
You squeezed your eyes shut.
Maybe you had lost him.
MaybeâŠ
Crunch.
Your eyes snapped open.
A footstep.
Not far away.
Another.
Slow.
Measured.
Coming closer.
Hannibal emerged from the darkness, calmly stepping ahead as moonlight cast a pale shine across him.
A shiver raced down your spine.
You held your breath.
One second.
Two.
Three.
Then his head turned.
Directly toward your hiding place.
The smile that followed was subtle.
Almost affectionate.
âI can hear your heart.â he spoke, voice carrying easily.
âAnd youâre breathing much too quickly.â
You didnât wait.
The moment he stepped closer, you burst from behind the tree.
You sprinted.
Branches whipped across your arms.
The forest became a blur of shadows and silver light.
Behind you came a low chuckle.
Warm.
Amused.
Dangerous.
The sound only drove you faster.
You darted between two fallen trees.
For a brief moment you dared glance behind you.
A mistake.
Because Hannibal was closer now.
Much closer.
Despite your best efforts to run, he seemingly kept pace without struggle.
As though he had known exactly where you would go.
As though every turn you made was merely another step in a route he had already mapped out.
Your pulse thundered.
You swerved left.
Then right.
Then doubled back through a patch of dense undergrowth.
Surely that would slow him.
SurelyâŠ
A branch snapped somewhere behind you.
Followed by another.
The forest stretched endlessly ahead.
Every attempt you made to lose him only sharpened his focus.
His will to catch his prey.
âWhere do you think youâre going, my little rabbit?â he called.
His voice carried easily between the trees.
You didnât answer.
Your legs burned.
Every step sent fresh aches through your feet as you pushed yourself harder.Â
You took a sharp right turn.
Then another.
Certain you were finally putting distance between the two of you.
But moments later you froze.
The massive oak.
You knew that tree.
You had passed it minutes ago.
A chill crawled down your spine.
No.
No, that wasnât possible.
You spun around and ran again.
Faster.
Desperation pushed you onward until the trees suddenly thinned.
You stumbled through a wall of bushes and emerged into a small clearing bathed in pale moonlight.
The grass shimmered with dew.
Mist hovered low above the ground.
For the first time in what felt like forever, you stopped.
Your chest rose and fell violently.
Your lungs screamed for air.
Sweat clung to your skin despite the cold night.
For several precious seconds, there was nothing.
No footsteps.
No voice.
No sign of him.
Then he emerged from between the trees again.
His coat was immaculate despite the chase.
But his expression mirrored something wild that you held as well.
A faint smile tugged at his lips.
âYouâve led me on quite the chase, little bunny.â
His voice was warm, almost conversational.
âBut it appears youâve finally exhausted yourself.â
He approached slowly.
The wet grass barely stirred beneath his shoes.
Moonlight caught in his eyes as he studied you.
Your tangled hair.
Your flushed cheeks.
The rise and fall of your chest.
The evidence of just how hard you had fought to stay free.
Something about that seemed to please him.
You swallowed another breath and straightened.
âYou havenât caught me yet.â you managed between breaths.
Before he could respond, you lunged sideways.
One final burst of energy.
For a brief second, it almost worked.
Then Hannibal moved.
His hand closed around your arm with startling speed.
Firm.
Certain.
You stumbled as he pulled you back.
As though he had anticipated the attempt from the moment the thought crossed your mind.
A soft chuckle escaped him.
âMy little rabbit.â
The words carried equal parts amusement and admiration.
âStill trying.â
You twisted against his hold.
Refusing to surrender.
But your body had reached its limits.
Your legs trembled beneath you.
Your lungs still burned.
Every muscle protested.
ButâŠ, you slipped free from his grasp.
You couldnât tell if he let you or if you managed to.
Victory lasted less than a second as your foot caught in wet grass.
The world tilted.
Then suddenly you were falling.
The damp earth met you hard.
Cold grass flattened beneath you as you landed, leaves clinging to your clothes.
Hannibal laughed, the sound low and genuine.
He stepped forward until his shadow swallowed yours.
Towering above you in the moonlight.
âIt seems,â he said softly, âthe game is coming to an end.â
You stared up at him for only a moment before scrambling backward.
You planted a hand against the ground and pushed yourself upright.
Every part of your body protested.
One moment you were forcing your exhausted legs forward, determined to disappear into the forest once more.
The next, a strong arm wrapped around your waist.
A startled gasp escaped you as the world tilted.
Wet grass rushed up to meet you again.
The impact knocked the breath from your lungs.
Leaves scattered around you as you landed on the forest floor once more.
You panted, trying to twist away.
Your body refused to cooperate.
Every muscle ached.
Your lungs still burned from the chase.
Yet instinct drove you to struggle anyway.
To keep moving.
To keep running.
Hannibal knelt above you before gently but firmly preventing your escape.
His hands settled on your hips, holding you in place.
âYou really do love running.â he mused.
Admiring.
As though your determination fascinated him.
You pushed against him again.
Another futile attempt.
The forest spun slightly around you from exhaustion.
A low chuckle escaped him.
His dark eyes studied you carefully.
Only your breathing filled the silence.
Rapid.
Uneven.
His gaze moved across your face.
Taking everything in.
The dirt smudged along your cheek.
The stubborn determination still shining in your eyes despite your obvious exhaustion.
You swallowed hard, chest rising and falling as you finally met his eyes.
Hannibalâs expression softened slightly as he watched you settle.
A small smile touched his lips.
"Good little bunny."
You breathed heavily under him, staring up with wild eyes.
âBeautiful and exhausted.â he murmured, watching you with a satisfied smile, his gaze roving over your disheveled state.
His hands shifted, still holding you in place.
Thumb tracing slow circles against the soft skin of your hip.
With a last attempt you struggled and squirmed under him but the growing heat between your thighs made it hard to think about running when there was something completely different on your mind now.
He leaned forward, one hand lifting to brush tangled locks of hair from your face.Â
His eyes were dark.Â
Predatory.
âYou're trembling.â he hummed.
âIs it the exhaustion? Or the thrill of the chase?â
You stayed quiet, eyes focusing in on him now as he pinned you down.
His gaze roved over you once more.
The rise and fall of your chest, the flush on your cheeks, the slight catch in your breathing.
âNo fight left in you, little rabbit?â he mocked gently, his fingers continuing to trace small circles on your hip.Â
You couldnât help but gently arch into his touch.
He noticed the subtle movement, and a small smirk curved his lips.
âSuch a sweet little bunny.â
He shifted slightly, his body pressing closer against yours, trapping you beneath him completely.
âIs that why youâve gone so quiet? Are you finally surrendering to the inevitable?â
You couldn't help the embarrassment rise hot in your cheeks.
Flushing your skin as you looked away slightly, your nose twitching as you let out a sharp breath.
âHanniâŠâ
The sound of your nickname on your lips made that smirk deepen.
âYes, darling?â he replied, his tone teasingly innocent.
âYou suddenly seem a bit...flushed.â
You let your head sink back into the high grass, dew wet against your skin as his hand moved under your dress and up your stomach.
A soft whine escaped you, you wriggled and squirmed beneath him, âHmâ pleaseâŠâ
âPlease what?â he purred, his tone dripping with mock concern.
âUse your words, little rabbit.â
His hand continued its slow glide up the soft skin of your stomach, his touch leaving a trail of heat.
âPleaseâ take your preyââ you let out.
He knew he had you now, his little prey finally caught.
âSo eager all of a sudden, darling?â he teased.
His hand brushed over the swell of your breast, your breath hitching in your throat.
You nodded, eagerly, making it clear that this was what you wanted.
âSuch an impatient little rabbitâŠâ he murmured.
âYou truly want me to take you right here in this cold forest, donât you, love?â
You nodded again.
Hannibal sat up gently, giving you a subtle tap.
You sat up, hand gently traveling up his clothed chest.
He responded with a kiss, finally, his hand shifting to the back of your head to pull you closer.Â
His other arm snaked around your waist, holding you tight against him.
His tongue slipped past your lips, tangling with yours in a possessive, hungry kiss.
You almost moaned into it, thatâs how hot the knot in your stomach already was.
You were almost drunk on the adrenaline and want.Â
Slowly he let off you and within moments he was hovering above you, standing at his full height as you cowered meekly in the damp dirt.Â
Your eyes traveled up to him, half lidded with want as you already nuzzled your head against his clothed crotch.
He grunted softly at the sensation, his hand moving to thread through your hair.
âEager little bunny.â he mused, his voice thick with arousal.
You made quick work of his button, unzipping the fly of his pants before your eyes looked up asking for permission as you still nuzzled your head against his leg.
His gaze darkened, his fingers tightening in your hair as he looked down at you with a predatory expression.
âGo ahead, darling.â
He watched you carefully as your fingers worked, his body tense with anticipation.
âShow me how much you want it.â
You freed his length from his slacks, your mouth eagerly falling open, lips pressing against his flushed tip.
Your tongue darted out to lick over his tip.
Hannibal let out a sharp intake of breath, your tongue teasing him in such a sinful way.
Your eyes never wavered from his, filled with a wanton desire.
Eagerly you lapped at his tip before letting your jaw fall slack.
His length passed your lips into your warm mouth, you let him sink deep until he hit the back of your throat.
Hannibal's breath caught in his chest, a low groan escaping him as you did so.
He stroked your hair in an almost gentle gesture, his eyes never leaving yours.
âThatâs it, darling.â he breathed, his free hand reaching down to grip your chin, his thumb tracing over your lips as they stretched around his length.
Spit drooled at the side of your mouth as you let him sit in your throat, your tongue licking at the underside of his cock, flicking over a thick vein.
He grunted, the noise half growl, half groan, as you looked up at him, your eyes watery from the strain.
âYou look so perfect like this.â he said gruffly.
You tried to really let him rest there for longer but you had to pull your head back before you began to gag on his length. You sucked in a sharp breath as his tip rested in the front of your mouth now.
Your hand came up to wrap around the base of his length, a string spit connecting your lip and his tip as you pulled him free.
He hissed at the sensation, but the visual aspect of you on your knees for him almost brought him just as much pleasure.
You let his length sink into your mouth again, your nose almost brushing his pelvis.Â
He growled softly, his hand tightening in your hair, guiding you back just enough to let you breathe before you almost sputtered and gagged around his cock again.
He could feel the tension in your body, the way your fingers tightened on his hip.
âIs that what you want, darling? To make me happy?â he groaned.
You almost moaned around his length at the words coming from his lips.Â
His hand gently guided you now, up and down his length as you let him enjoy your mouth like he pleased.
Your eyes began to water slightly at the sheer lack of air and force of his thrusts.
He watched as you gagged around his length, your eyes tearing up, your body shaking.Â
But you loved it, you loved being on your knees for him, even as you struggled to breathe.
He ran a gentle hand through your hair, withdrawing for a moment, letting you gasp for air.
You sucked in a cruel breath of air, sputtering and almost coughing on saliva as he already pushed your head back down before you even had the chance to catch your breath.
Your eyes rolled back just a bit, wetness and heat in your stomach growing hotter at the sheer dominance he had over you.Â
âIâm close, love,âhe told you, his voice low and rough. âCan you take it? Can you be a good bunny and take it for me?â
You let out a whiny sound around his length, drool collecting at the corner of your mouth as you let him thrust into your mouth, hitting the back of your throat each time.
He let out a low, ragged growl as he watched the drool run down your chin, your neck, the sight and sensations almost driving him mad.
âJust a little more.â he reassured you.
Your head felt dizzy, the world spinning around you.
You looked up at him as he suddenly pushed himself deep into your mouth.
With a groan he released himself into your mouth, the sticky warmth filling your mouth.
He looked down at you, his eyes dark, his chest heaving with ragged breaths as he watched you swallow his release.
You pulled back enough to catch your breath, his now twitching length resting against your lips for a moment until you pulled back completely.Â
Your tongue gathered the rest of drool and fluids from your lips, swallowing before your eyes caught his again, clearly drunk on pleasing him.
The sight of you like that, so eager to please, stirred something animalistic in him, something needy and greedy.
âCome here.â he hummed, his voice a low command.Â
He crouched down, reaching for you and gently pulling you to him.
You immediately did as you were told, basically launching at him, pushing at his coat, hands grabbing greedily at him as you couldnât help but let your lips lock with his.
He groaned against your lips, tasting himself on your tongue as you kissed him hungrily, your hands roving over his body.
He nipped at your bottom lip lightly, âGreedy little thing..â
You felt him give you an almost patronising pat. You knew what that meant.
You whined, gently flipping over, stomach now in the tall wet grass as you lifted your ass and hips towards him, back arched in near perfection.
He chuckled again, the sound low and rumbling in his chest as you presented yourself to him in such a perfect way.Â
Oh, he loved when you were like this, needy and desperate for him.
His hands roamed your thighs, tracing at the lace with a large wet stain, your heat eager underneath it.
Your hand aimlessly held onto nothing but the dirt and grass in front of you, the uncertainty of not seeing what he was doing there behind you only made you feel more in heat.
His hands continued to roam, slowly, teasingly, tracing patterns on your bare thighs.
Your hips ground back at him into nothing until his fingertip danced along your lace covered slit, you let out a needy sound at that, a whiny moan.
âSo desperate, darling.â he teased.Â
His finger continued to tease, tracing over your wet lace, feeling you writhe and squirm beneath him.
âSuch a needy little thing, my bunny.â
You let the sounds just tumble from your lips now, your eyes falling shut.
His finger easily hooked into your panties, pulling aside the lace to expose your glistening cunt.Â
A gasp left your lips as his fingers pushed into you, two at once, making you squirm.Â
âFuckââ you let out immediately, hips rocking back against his fingers like in mindless heat.
He chuckled lowly as he felt you gasp and squirm against his fingers.
He could feel how wet you were, how much you needed this, how much you wanted him.
âNeedy little thing.â he teased again.
He increased the pace of his fingers, the movement steady and rhythmical.
âYou are mine, arenât you? My lovely bunny to do with what I please.â
You nodded and moaned, your cunt drooling with slick a his fingers pumped into you.
âIâm all yours..â
He groaned as he heard the words leave your mouth, his fingers pumping into you at a steady pace.Â
âThatâs right.â he growled. âMine to hunt, mine to catch, mine to have.â
You let out a whiny moan as his fingers thrust into you, curling to hit the spot that made you see stars.
His fingers continued their pace, his thumb flicking over your clit as he felt how swollen and sensitive it was.
âOh, love.â he murmured, his voice rough.
âYouâre so sensitive. I could easily make you come just like this, with just my fingers. But I donât think I want to give you that release just yet. No. I like hearing you whine and beg for it, my little bunny. I like seeing how desperate you get for me.â
He chuckled darkly as he withdrew his fingers, watching as you let out a pathetic whine, lifting your head off the ground.
There was a slight smudge of dirt on your flushed cheek, as you let out a whiny, âPleaseâ Hanniââ
He leaned in close, gently running his thumb over the smudge of dirt on your cheek.Â
âPlease what, love? Tell me what you want.â
Your heat twitched and clenched uselessly around nothing as you let out another whimper,Â
âPleaseâ ahâ please fuck meâŠâ
He growled softly at your words, âIs that what you want, my little bunny? To take care of that heat, that ache between your thighs?â
You nodded, hips wiggling a bit in the air as your back arched even more.
He chuckled softly, his hands moving to your hips, holding you in place.
You must have looked pathetic, back arched with your ass up, face half in the dirt and wet grass, your dress half shoved up your body.
âPleaseâ Hannibal, please I need you, pleaseâ pleaseââ your words became increasingly more needy and whiny.
He let out a low, growled laugh.Â
You felt his hand on your ass as he ran his hot tip through your folds, making you squirm even more.
âPleaseâ fuck meâ fuck me until I... I can't think of anything... pleaseâŠâ you whined.
He groaned at your words, hearing the desperation in your voice, the needy pleading, the want in your tone.
âYou beg so perfectly for me.â he praised you.
At that you felt the delicious pain of the head of his cock nudging into your slick entrance, he wasn't even fully inside and you already let out a whimpering moan, backing your hips into his, causing him to slide inside much quicker.
He groaned in response, feeling your body move against his, desperate for more.Â
âIs that what you wanted, my little bunny? Is that what you need?â he growled.
You nodded, head resting against your arm on the floor to not completely drag yourself through the mud.Â
Your hips connected with his and he filled you up to the hilt.
âThat feels good, doesn't it, bunny?â he murmured, his voice low and rough.Â
âYesâ yes yesâ you let out in between breathy moans as he began to thrust into you, with the urgency of someone in heat.Â
He groaned at how easily he could slide in and out of you, how desperate your body was for him.
Hannibal fucked into you with enough force to make your head spin with dizziness, your eyes fell shut as the only thing you felt, was his cock stretching your walls.
Your heat clamped down on him, walls fluttering around his cock.Â
You felt too good, the heat pooling in her stomach felt like it was going to overflow any moment now.
He groaned as you tightened around him, the sensation almost too much to bear.Â
He could sense how close you were, your heat and need for him almost overwhelming.
You couldnât help the moans now senselessly tumbling from your lips, eyes heavy lidded as you tried to focus on anything but the burning knot of heat in your stomach.
Your hips pushed back to meet his with each of his thrusts. His cock buried deep inside you, hitting your cervix with every thrust.Â
You let out a few mumbled moans and pleas, urging Hannibal to thrust into you hard enough you were sure he was internally bruising you.
Suddenly your release wrecked through you as you were reduced to a moaning mess, walls fluttering around him.
You were dripping with slick at that point, the knot in your stomach snapping undone.
âSuch a good little bunny,â he groaned, voice filled with a mix of praise and possessive pride.
You let out overstimulated moans and mewls as he kept fucking into you, kept shoving his cock into your spasming pussy and making your head feel hot with heat as he chased his own orgasm.
âYou've made a lovely mess, haven't you, little bunny?â he panted, voice low and rough with approval.
You let him fuck you, use you even after you came as his thrusts made overstimulation blank out your mind.Â
Your moans dissolved into muffled whines and whimpers, your pussy leaking.
âCome on, sweet thing. Let me hear your pretty little noises.âÂ
You let out a soft, âHanniâ 's too muchâŠâ between breathy moans.Â
You felt his cock twitch inside you, with no care for the overstimulation that seemingly made your head spin.
âYou're doing so well,â he encouraged you, hand pressing firm against your hips.
You nodded, you wanted to make him feel good after all.Â
Soft moans kept tumbling from your lips, your heat clenching hard around him until he finally shoved his hips into you in one solid motion and buried himself deep inside you.
He groaned in satisfaction as he spent himself inside you, his hand tightening on your hip as he held you securely against him.Â
You felt your legs trembling, your heat dripping with slick and other fluids.Â
He withdrew from you slowly, taking in the sight of you, trembling and spent.Â
His hand came up to run through your hair, a soft gesture of affection.
âLook at you⊠You're a mess, my little bunny. But you're a beautiful mess.â he hummed.
You slowly sat up halfway, trembling all over as the sudden heat left you and you were reminded that you are in fact on the cold forest floor with Hannibal.Â
You leaned into him immediately seeking his warmth and comfort.
He chuckled softly and wrapped an arm around you.
After, quite formally tucking himself back in, despite his now quite disheveled appearance.
He picked you up, supporting your weight as if you weighed nothing at all.Â
His gaze scanned over you, taking in your mud-streaked body and the glistening wetness between your thighs.
You couldn't help but smile a bit, head nuzzling against his chest.
His hand came up to stroke your hair, a small smile tugging at the corner of his lips.
âYou did very good, my little bunny,â he praised, his voice low and dark with approval.Â
âYou were so good for me. You gave me everything I wanted, took everything I gave you.â
You leaned up to press a soft kiss to his lips, cuddling into him as he held you.
He returned your kiss, his hand running through your hair affectionately.
âAs much as I'd love to stay here with you like this, we should probably head back soon. We don't want you catching a cold, or getting... any dirtier.â
You nodded, holding onto him as he began stepping over branches and leaves back to the path to his house, âI love you, HannibalâŠâ you murmured against his neck.
Foxhunter | Professor!Declan OâHara x Student!f!reader
Chapter 3 ~ âplanning to shoot me out of a cannonâ
chapter summary: You have two plans in the works: one, to forgo your crush on Declan, and two, to resolve your missing textbook problem once and for all. Your unorthodox approach to the latter may or may not undermine the success of the former, to the curious cooperation of your professor. - also available on ao3
authorâs note: The gas is starting to burn hotter, people, I smell something brewing đ€« Me and talking about eyes and using unnecessary commas are like this đ€ Likes, comments, and reblogs are always appreciated! <3
chapter 3 warnings: 3,848 words | talk of alcohol/hangovers, lots and lots of banter i.e., banterchella
Pigeons fly in your wake as you walk under the grand archway that opens up to the heart of campus. Sprawling green lawns covered in morning mist, greystone buildings that hold the secrets of millennia ago etched in climbing moss. A cold front has made the air take a biting turn and you hug your coat tighter to your body when a gust blows past, whistling down the corridor behind you. You have to admit, itâs pretty perfect.Â
You just gave your essay to the courier that will deliver it to Declanâs office. Ever stubborn, your professor was old-fashioned to a fault and required all his students to hand-write their essays. He cited the connection between physical work and improved memory; the natural pauses that handwriting requires which, in turn, stimulate critical thinking rather than just word-vomiting all over the page; and the âintimacy of handwriting styles.â It shouldnât be very difficult for him, then, to figure out exactly where in your essay while writing about Yeats you remembered Declanâs reluctance to get you a replacement textbook, the sexual frustration he left you writhing in, etc., based on the way your pencil nearly ripped through the paper in some spots.Â
But itâs over and done with, checked off your list. You may not have had your book, but you completed the assignment regardless; if anything, you should get some damn bonus points for that.Â
The sun steadily rises from behind the eastern sea walls bracketing the university from the stirring ocean, casting steep shadows across the grass. Itâs going to be a good day.Â
On your way to the dining hall, you pass the football field and your friends wave you over to join them in watching the boys warm up for their first game of the season next week. You wedge in between Lauren and Whitney as they point out their favorite players, giggling behind closed hands.Â
Lauren sighs playfully, âItâs a shame that Patrick OâHara wonât be here next year. Apparently he got a better scholarship in England. Iâll miss watching his ass go up and down this field.âÂ
Whitney quips sarcastically, âIâm sure his parents had nothing to do with that. Theyâre two budding figures of publicity royalty over there, a deal was bound to happen to keep them both in London.âÂ
Sheâs right. Declanâs show has been gaining some popularity, and it wonât be a shock if heâs promoted from editor to host sometime in the near future. Maud has been diligently building her resume, too, bagging plays left and right. You wonder how sheâs able to commute so efficiently between different cities in England, acting at local theaters, and coming back to Ireland every now and then⊠like last night.
Declan being sequestered to London until you finish your degree sounds like a dream you never thought youâd wish for. Though you vowed to stay away from him, itâd be much easier to keep him out of mind if he was also out of sight.Â
âSpeaking of his father,â Lauren leers at you with a playful smile, nudging your ribs with her elbow gently. âHowâs mission: seduce Dirty Dex going?âÂ
It aggravates you the way you canât hide your flustering, wringing your hands and knees that just canât keep from bouncing. You wonât dare mention the wine, or the AirTag you left on your desk two feet away from anything else like it was a bomb that needed defusing.Â
âEh⊠itâs not looking good. Iâm learning the hard way that men donât really change with age. They stay boys, their hair just gets grayer.âÂ
Your entire squadron of friends laugh. A chorus of lines like, âYouâve got that one right,â and âSay it again so the footie lads hear,â validate you.Â
âThatâs too bad,â Lauren says. âYou two wouldâve been cute together. Lonely professor seeks comfort in his most apt student.â She squeezes your shoulder.Â
You just chuckle. Yeah, it wouldâve been nice. But you wonât fuck up his life, or your own, or those of Taggie, Patrick, Maud, or Caitlin. Like Whitney said, Declan now has roots in two countries. Itâd be an international scandal if the rising star of the BBC was found fondling one of his students back home. At least America wouldnât care. If they valued who Declan was, his intellect plus his charm, heâd already be a millionaire by now. Somehow, if news of you and Declan â rumor or otherwise â spread, then youâd keep your citizenship at the minimum. When they booted you out of Ireland, youâd have somewhere to go.Â
The cold mist of the morning gradually refreshes you out of your hangover. Your friends help, too; they always provide the sense of grounding you need to keep you from spiraling. You wouldnât give them up for the world, especially not for a man. The rest of the semester will be much easier to digest with them by your side, even if you have to deal with Declan.Â
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You get to class a little late â not because of the hangover, you proudly note â but because youâre still harboring mortification about what has unfolded over the past week. The failed attempts at swooning after your professor, your lost textbook, the strange presents youâve received from an inappropriate sender who glances up curiously when you push past the door to his lecture hall.Â
You donât slow to see Declanâs reaction as you breeze past his desk, donât want the slightest hint of his acknowledgement to your presence as you jog up the stairs to your seat. Declan doesnât take attendance but you can feel the pinpricks of tardiness stinging at the back of your neck all the same not from him specifically, but from the punctuality that was driven into you since birth; you hadnât arrived a moment early nor late from the due date they gave your mother.Â
During the lecture, youâre all quiet eyes, chin in hand as you listen but donât bother to raise your hand when Declan poses questions to the class. Irritatingly, he notices the change in your behavior. His eyes linger on you, silently asking you to pick up the slack when all of the other students show reluctance to participate, just like he always relies on you to do. It makes you realize just how much weight you pull for everyone in this room, how little you benefit in relation to how much everyone else does. Itâs been a toll to do all the work to be prepared for them. You reason that the other students could stand to do some work once in a while, and Declan could stand to not rely on his favorites for everything, so you sit back for once and remain silent.Â
Then itâs time for the professor to hand back all of the papers he graded after receiving them from the courier. He always started at the top of the stairs, winding his way down the aisles of students. On the first day of class, you had eagerly reserved a seat at the front of the hall so you could hear every nuance, every intonation in Declanâs voice. Now, itâs the one that heralds the most torture because you have to wait for him make his way around to you.Â
You only look up when his belt appears in your stare into nothing, rudely awakening you back to reality. He doesnât meet your eyes as he slides your paper across the desk but is rather focused on the red writing at the top, like heâs double checking to see if itâs correct. His gaze flickers up at you for a split second, unseen by you, before he turns to go.Â
He pulls his hand away and you nearly knick his finger with the speed of which you snatch your paper up after seeing the 100 circled at the top. You flip it over and stuff it away, possibly the first time you ever put something in your bag without a folder.Â
Declan ceaselessly teased all his classes, especially you, with the coveted grade of 100. Even when your papers had been perfect, heâd only grant you a 97, 95, 99, never 100. If anyone else ever saw that you of all people got the grade, theyâd never live it down. First he jeopardized your academic career with lack of replacement materials, now heâs going after your social life by trying to make a pariah out of you. What is Declan playing at?Â
At the end of the lecture, youâre more than ready to leave and nosedive into something, anything else to distract you from the ironically stressful grade. Lauren mentioned studying at one of the cafes in town, you could text her and meet her halfwayâŠ
Declan comes around his desk, leans back against it with both hands gripping the edge, and crosses his ankles; a picture of nonchalance. He reaches up, calling your name and waving you over without looking at you.Â
Of course.Â
Your stomach drops, churning with the wrong kind of heat. Your hangover rocks hard into the sides of your head with each step down the stairs, and you jump the gun to a startling conclusion: You didnât proofread your paper before you turned it in. In your winedrunk haze, had you given Declan a larger piece of your mind than you intended?Â
He nods at the other kids who pass him, giving them tight-lipped smiles. He stares at you for a few moments as the class files out, waiting for the door to swing closed behind the last student before he speaks.Â
âWhatâs the matter?â Too soft, too gentle. Like heâs trying to calm an animal that he spooked when he was just trying to feed it.Â
You shrug, âNothing.â Too quiet. But if you got any louder, youâre afraid the temptation to start yelling at him would win out.Â
âIâm surprised you showed up at all today. If I saw my professor in his underwear, Iâd be sitting on a shrinkâs couch right about now.âÂ
Thatâs⊠not what you were expecting. You flush fiercely, looking down at your sneakers while he laughs softly. You stick your tongue to your teeth, embarrassed, âI didnât see much.â
âOh?â His questioning tone makes you look up, and the gleam in his eye alerts you to your accidental double entendre. He laughs harder when your eyes widen.Â
âNo, I didnât mean it like that, I promise. Iâm sure youâreâŠâ You gesture to his hips, but then stop yourself short. What the hell are you doing?Hey Professor OâHara, Iâm sure youâre hung like a horse even though I couldnât see much in the dark when you answered your office door in your underwear last night with your wife standing right behind you who you probably had just had sex with. âJesus,â you whisper under your breath to yourself, squeezing your eyes shut.Â
He holds his hand up, âNo harm, no foul.â
Screw him for making you even more uncomfortable about last night than you already were. Your snark snaps back, âWhatâs with the one hundred?âÂ
His voice deepens, challenging, âHow did you write it?â
âWith a pencil and paper?â
âVery funny.â
You settle, âYou werenât too far off about spending my summer in the library. I had enough information to put something together.â
âI figured youâd say that. For that, I thought you deserved the credit,â he explains, like itâs the simplest fact in the world. Declanâs expression falls into something soft, apologetic. Rare. âAnd I didnât mean it like that. I apologize.â He tacks on dryly, âIâm sure you had a very eventful summer.âÂ
You scoff under your breath before you can stop yourself, âYouâre an asshole.â It knocks out of you like a reflex, much like all of the other things he makes you feel.Â
âSeriously, how much did you read? Your work was pretty thorough. I hope you didnât keep yourself locked in there for too long.â
âWould it be so remarkable if I actually paid attention to your lecture on the first day of class? You said everything we needed to know.â
âAccording to the rest of the student body⊠yes.âÂ
Declan just stares at you for a few silent moments. You canât parse his expression, but you know thereâs more than one emotion in there. You know that at least one of them is negative. Then he clears his throat quietly, the first few words coming out strained, âI tried putting in an order to get you another textbook but itâs past the application window for this semester. Youâll just have to use the library. I can give you a list of materials ahead of time, you can check out the corresponding books.â
Bravery glitters in your chest and you take the shot, âYou donât have your own?â
âI do, butâŠâ He shrugs, âProfessorâs secrets and all that. I need it to come up with my lesson plans each week.â
You blink. âYou didnât plan the semester out ahead of time?â
âNo.â
A grin crosses your face that concerns Declan. âWell, then your syllabus must be a crock of shit. It lays out each week as if you had already planned it.â
Declan sighs, dragging his hand down his face, âThatâs because I was just trying to give the illusion of being organized.â He waves his hand in an aggravated, dismissive swoop, âYouâre the only weird fucker who reads those goddamn things, anyway.â
A plan hatches in your mind. Itâs devious, itâs cliche, it will probably only drive a wedge further between you and your favorite professor who is currently hiking up a redemption arc⊠but itâs worth a try.Â
âHow about we share your book?âÂ
Declan contemplates silently.Â
âI can take it on Tuesdays, when you assign homework. Iâll keep it for the week, do my homework with it, and Iâll bring it back to you on Saturdays so you have the weekend to read it and get whatever you need out of it.âÂ
A hot flash of inappropriateness strikes through your body. The plan sounds bad just coming out of your mouth, let alone implementing it. You and Declan have been able to deny favoritism allegations in the past; sharing a book, his book, would blow any alibi out of the water. This is different from all your previous encounters that could be written off as sporadic. This would be establishing a continuous line with him.Â
âI donât know,â he rumbles.Â
You press on, âIâll make sure no one sees it. I wonât look ahead, either. You know I wonât. Iâll bring it back every time and if I donâtâŠâ You ponder, but he answers for you.Â
âWeâll have to agree on some collateral.âÂ
âWeâll figure it out when we get there.âÂ
You smile and he slowly mirrors it. A done deal.Â
Youâve been standing here for too long. Your mind dissociates from your body, knowing clearly that if you saw another student talking to an attractive professor for this long then you would suspect something.Â
âYou can have it now. Iâm going to London to tape some BBC episodes and already have next week planned out.â
You tease, âAnother lie. I thought you planned the weeks as they came? What else are you hiding from me?â Too personal. It makes you cringe, but itâs already out.Â
Declan is unfazed. He doesnât hurry as he reaches over into his shoulder bag on his desk, pulling out a small blue book. Itâs identical to the copy you had except for some multicolored tabs sticking out of the sides. Thereâs a slim brown leather tassel hanging out of the top, no doubt from a bookmark tenderly tucked in between the pages. No, not tenderly tucked. Just put there. You know, like a normal person would use it. Declan is already trouble enough; you donât need to romanticize his reading habits, too. He holds it up to hand it to you, but stops himself short. His eyes get a gleam that you donât like.
âDid you sleep well?â
âYeah. Why?â
He shrugs, âYou look a little tired this morning.â
âIâm getting my period.â Itâs not a lie, even if itâs not the truth either.
âAre you sure you didnât have anything to drink? Say, wine?â
Declan stares at you, Yeats too from the cover that your professor is still dangling in front of you. You refuse to placate Declanâs tone and cross your arms in annoyance.Â
âYou looked pretty tired last night. Are you sure you didnât get into any arguments? Say, with your wife?âÂ
With his tongue jutting into his cheek, a beat passes before Declan flips the book horizontal and slides it to you over the air. You take it and stash it away in your bag, feeling your heart beat a little louder. It was a low blow, you know that, and you hardly believe it came out of your mouth. You hardly believe Declan didnât ask you to never come back yet.Â
âBe here on Tuesday, on time.âÂ
âYes, sir.â You cringe at the way you probably just stroked his ego by accident. Albeit off kilter, and confused, and a little turned on, you canât in good conscience leave without being the bigger person, at least for the last word. You pat the book in your bag, âThank you.âÂ
Declan holds up a finger to correct you, âThank me for nothing. Now scram.âÂ
His fond smirk haunts you long after the door to his office swings shut.Â
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Itâs hard to eat that night. You keep Declanâs book hidden in your bag for a long time, in the same corner where the AirTag and the bottle of wine have been exiled.Â
Sleep evading you, you concede to your intrusive thoughts and take the book with you to bed. Declanâs secrets whisper louder in your hands, the words jittering on the pages inside with excitement as you plop down and turn your reading lamp on. An investigation is in order.Â
The tabs sticking out of the sides are a small rainbow of semi-transparent plastic. Your breath stutters in your chest as you remember the pack of tabs you got Declan as a present at the end of the spring semester, months ago. But these could be anything, not necessarily yours. You donât want to think about his finger smoothing the sticky side down on a line he liked, whether in this book or in your essays, running along all your edges and words⊠No, you definitely donât want to think about that.Â
You should just close it and put it away.
You flip to the section where the leather bookmark is housed. Itâs a light chestnut color, worn smooth from what can be assumed to be years of use. The braided detail lining the edges culminates at the top, spiraling out into the small burst of tassels that stick out of the top of the book. You pick it up just to feel its weight, wanting to keep it right where you found it. Declanâs annotation style may be errant and disorganized but itâs not useless.Â
Your fingers instinctively trace where the leather gives into small curves on the back.
You flip it over. It just says âDeclan,â the name indented in the leather from a black ballpoint pen. Itâs not Declanâs handwriting but instead a cursive-like scrawl you donât recognize. The letters are shaky; if you werenât looking for Declanâs name, you might not have recognized what it spelled.Â
Suddenly it all feels too intimate, but that doesnât stop your nose once you close the book. Thereâs a distinct ghost of tobacco on the edges of the pages but not on the front or back covers. Itâs probably from Declan pinching some into his pipe in between verses. A bad habit betwixt a good one.Â
The ding from your phone makes you jump. A text, make that two, from an unsaved number.
The first reads,
Blame Taggie for giving out your number
The second comes not a minute later,Â
Howâs my book doing?
Your heart jumps into your throat. It pounds there, too hot and too big that it actually makes you cough. After a sip of water and a few laps around your room with your hands distressing your hair, risking glances at your phone like it just sent you a notification of your exact time of death, youâre able to compose yourself enough to read it again.Â
Itâs fine. Just sitting on my desk.
Definitely not curled up in my lap, you think. To make good on your promise, you get up to put it back in your bag, but then another text comes through and you whip back around to your phone.
Iâm going to need proofÂ
You stare blankly for a few minutes at the screen. Heâs not⊠is he? No, he canât be. But if he wasnât, would he say something like that? Would a professor say something like that, text their student something like that, at 10:30pm on a Saturday night, with no ulterior motive? Does he not have a life anymore outside of tormenting you? He either revels in the cruelty of knowing exactly which of your buttons he presses, enjoys making you squirm just because he knows he can, or heâsâŠÂ
A posed picture is the only option. You close the cover over with your thumb wedged between the pages where you had been reading last and point the camera. Your bare legs shine behind the book like fucking meteors in the night sky. You quickly drag a blanket over them, retake the picture, and send it to Declan before your teeth can wear your nails down any further.Â
A full minute passes. You look at the picture, zooming in close and inspecting it like you should have before you ever pushed the send button. Itâs just your blanket, some blurred bits of your dorm in the background. Your wrist is in the corner of the frame, the only part of your body thatâs visible. What is he seeing?Â
Thatâs not your deskÂ
You type out, âSo?â. No, thatâs too flirty; if he wants to play this game, he can do it alone. Delete, delete, delete.
You type, âWhatever,â but thatâs too snarky and also gets deleted.Â
You donât want to let him have the last word, but it looks like thatâs exactly what heâs going to get. He shouldnât even be texting you â you could start building a lawsuit to get him fired right now.Â
If he wants to pursue⊠whatever the hell this is, risk his career and reputation for it⊠heâs going to have to work harder than a few suggestive texts.Â
You turn your phone off and flip it over on your nightstand, leaving Declan OâHara on read.Â
If Declan wants to join this game with you, itâs his turn to go to sleep with blue balls. Thinking about the next four months of being a student in his class feels like watching the terminal disappear outside the plane window.Â