he will be talking about his plans for a scene with you—the story, what the characters are feeling in the moment, what he wants the scene to convey and you’re there to help execute it. you two talk scenes all of the time, and he cherishes it because it means he can stand just a littttttle too close to you. every time you talk he stares at you like you’re an angel on earth, a godsend for his film, clings to every little syllable like he will die if he doesn’t. sometimes his hand will graze your shoulder while you guys are watching a scene you just shot, he’s telling you what he likes about it—“the angle here is perfect! amazing work as always, you’re wonderful.”—but also commenting on what could be changed to really get the shot he’s looking for. the entire time his hand is just resting in your shoulder, sometimes it’ll move to the back of your neck while you’re talking, he has to try not to grin when he sees the way you shudder a little at the touch. he is all too giddy.

annnnnd thinking about being able to work kinda close with driver, too. he’s very quiet, very good at what he does, too. you’ll go to talk with him about stunts and what it’ll be like—how fast you want the scene to be, how slow, what exactly you need from him. he just nods along, quietly listening, staring at you similarly to how colt did just a little more intense and a lot less expressive on the features (but you see it in his eyes. and the way he actually looks at you and not somewhere near you while you talk.)

and sometimes you’ll help guide driver through a scene. you’ll absentmindedly grab ahold of his bicep when explaining or guiding him to where he’ll be for the stunt and he’s actually just having the time of his life. queue colt being a little jealous because HE used to be the big shot stunt guy, that could’ve been HIS bicep you’re grabbing. but also he does agree that driver is kinda fine and does not blame you for grabbing said bicep. he lowkey doesn’t know who he wants to be in that scenerio #conflicted

and after each stunt you always tell driver what an amazing job he did, partly because you feel bad, you know being a stuntman can’t be easy, even if it’s a lot of car scenes. you really do worry about him. he thinks it’s the sweetest thing on the planet, he gets butterflies because he’s just thinking about how a very handsome guy is stressing about HIM at work. he feels like he won the lottery.

maybe one time you’re able to convince some higher ups to let ryland come on set for a day. you’re excited. you get to show him what you do in real time and not just watch the movies you helped film. he’s excited. he gets to see you in your element and also yay! spend time with you!! he’s so freaking estactic!!!!! but THEN HE GETS THERE and suddenly he sees how colt and driver act around you and suddenly he’s realizing they’re making moves on his man! and while he doesn’t blame them, grace mate bad as hell statement, he does NAWT wanna share.

and then it leads into a little rivalry between all of them except colt is lowkey really really into it (so are you).

Professor!Ryland Grace who decides to wine and dine you when summer break hits. You finished the year off with a near perfect score in his class and he thought you deserved a reward for all of your hard work. He tells you to dress nice, maybe even sends you some money to buy something to wear if you don’t have anything. (he loves the thought of you spending his money. He already takes care of you during class as your professor to make sure you’re doing your best, why not do it a little more outside the classroom too?)

but you’re so nervous because neither of you had done something like this before. All of your time together was spent in his office or when he invited you to his house to help go over lecture notes and “study” so when you assisted him in cleaning the lab room after class like you usually do and he asked if you were busy tomorrow night, you assumed it was for something less intimate. But then he tells you to dress nicely and says he’ll pick you up that evening you're not quite sure what to expect.

Suddenly you’re tearing apart your closet in search of something that qualifies as nice—what does he mean by nice? What color do you wear? What shoes to get?

But then he sends a couple hundred to your phone and a link to the restaurant he made a reservation at and it somehow soothes everything over a little. And you do use his money! You go to a shop that has exactly what you’re looking for, getting something that makes you look classy but also reveals just enough to tease a little, but publicly unacceptable. You spend hours getting ready, checking yourself over time and time again because Professor Grace is incredibly handsome and you’re anxious about looking good for him.

When he pulls out in front of your apartment in an unfamiliar car—you assume he’s probably renting it since the only wheels you’ve ever seen him on are the ones attached to his bicycle—in a black striped suit, slightly unbuttoned red shirt beneath it, you pause to fan yourself. He looks really fucking good. Part of you wonders if there’s enough time before your reservation to take him in the backseat of the car.

Yet all those thoughts melt away when he opens your car door, hand pressed against your back when he greets you. “Hi, sweetheart. You use my money on this? It’s gorgeous on you—you look gorgeous in it. No, wait, you’re gorgeous all the time.”

The feeling of his fingers tracing along the fabric of your outfit sends goosebumps across your skin. But you laugh when he cuts off his ramble by kissing your temple, something he’s only ever done when he was fucking you into the mattress and making you tell him about your previous research project.

“You don’t look half bad yourself, Dr. Grace.”

“Ryland. Call me Ryland. Please.”

You can’t help the way you grin when he corrects you. He’s letting you call him Ryland. None of your peers call him that, you’ve only ever heard it from other professors when they talked during office hours or in the halls. “Ryland.” You amend, finally climbing into the car and letting him close the door for you.

He’s a complete gentleman the rest of the night. A little nervous, awkward quips coming from him while you eat and share a bottle of wine that sounds like it costs more than your monthly phone bill. You’ve never seen him like this. Shy, you mean. He is always so self-assured in the lecture rooms, especially when he lets some of his sass slip. It makes this feel incredibly intimate, like you’re special for being able to see this side of him. Like he’s trying to impress you even though he has a Phd and numerous published papers.

The night moves from the restaurant—where he paid the bill and gave you a look when you offered to split it—to his house. You’ve had sex before, many times actually, but this was different. You could feel it in the way he lets you press him against his front door, his hands gliding along your body like he’s trying to commit the shape of you to memory, kisses all slow and tender. It makes your heart hammer beneath your sternum. You can feel his matching the pace of yours beneath the palms you’re resting against his chest.

He guides you gently to his bedroom with sensual kisses. Letting his lips meet yours before slowly traveling along your jaw, his hand moving to cup your cheek so he can tilt your head to the side. He’s murmuring sweet things as he does it. All kinds of compliments that make an overly giddy smile bloom on your face.

He takes his time with you tonight. He undresses you and leaves kisses on each area of you he opens to himself. It’s an intense contradiction to your usual nights spent together. He’s worshipping you, and he looks good doing it. He hasn’t bothered to remove any article of his suit—much to your enjoyment—even when he has you sprawled on his mattress, bottoms gone and thighs pushed apart to make room for his face between them.

He lets his hands caress up and down your legs, his lips tracing where his fingers don’t reach. His glasses dangle from his ears in a way that is simultaneously attractive and amusing. You want to run your fingers through his hair that’s a little overgrown, something he stopped caring for so close to the end of semester. His kisses slowly trail down to your core in a way that has you almost whining from impatience. He must seem to notice because his tongue takes a long drag through your folds, pulling a quiet sound from you. He lets one hand travel down to rest on the spot where your hips meet your thighs, using it to keep your body in place when you try to squirm away. “No, baby, hold still. I skipped dessert for this.” The other one squeezes your other thigh like he’s trying to ground himself to you. He spends a long time there, slowly pulling more and more sounds from you, moaning into your slick when he feels you tug on his hair.

His lips glisten when he finally pulls away, his swiping along them in an attempt to catch the remains of your taste on his tongue as he stands. His hands move to his blazer but you stop him quickly, sitting up with a vigorous shake of your head. “No! Leave it on. Please. You look good. Really good. I like it.”

He laughs at you. Not in a mean way, the sound is laced with something incredibly sweet, like the whole idea of you liking the suit so much has him completely charmed. And it does.. He’s enamoured with you.

“I can wear it another time. It won’t be leaving my closet anytime soon.” His reasoning is sound, but the huff you let out tells him you don’t really care for a reasonable argument. And the idea makes him pulse. The ever present fact that you’re so attracted to him you want him to keep it on. “Is that it, then? You want me to fuck you like this?”

He leans closer to you as he says it, voice low as he plants his hands on your waist. You nod so quickly he wonders if you even heard what he said. “Yes.”

He guides you further back on his bed until you meet his headboard, where he gives you a kiss that lets you taste yourself on him. It’s sensual, his tongue sliding between your lips as he kneels in front of you, one of your legs trapped between his knees, using his headboard to keep him upright while he keeps your face pressed to his.

You’ve come to learn that you thoroughly enjoy his slightly overgrown hair. You lace the strands at the nape of his neck between your fingers, slightly pulling on them until he whimpers into your mouth. It’s like the sound alone breaks him from his trance, a pink tint blooming along his cheeks like he’s embarrassed to have made the sound at all.

You pout a little when he pulls away, but it’s immediately replaced after you hear him shuffle around in his dresser drawer. You don’t have a chance to peek at what he’s doing before a familiar packaged square is held by two of his fingers in front of your face. “Show me what you know.”

You nod and snatch it from his fingers. He laughs at you again, amused and a little (very) turned on by your excitement. He leans back just enough that he can undo his belt and unzip his slacks before your hands are on him. He almost moans when you guide his cock out of his underwear, his body tensing at the feeling of your hands on it before you roll the condom down his length.

Suddenly he’s the impatient one. He leans forward again, guiding you into your back, resting your head on his pillows until he’s laying over you. His hand clings to your hip as he starts kissing you senseless, swallowing down your moan when he pushes inside of you. Your hands grasp onto the back of his blazer.

You didn’t know someone could be so fucking hot—especially a man at least ten years your senior, wearing an all too appealing suit, pants and underwear undone just enough so he can fuck you in it.

“Fu—fudge, sweetheart. Always such a good listener for me. My best student,” he cuts himself off with a moan, grabbing ahold of your arm to press it against the mattress, hand sliding up until he can interlock his fingers with yours, holding your hand while he pounds into you with a new vigor. He uses his other forearm to hold himself up, resting it right beside your head. “God, you’re an angel. Perfect scores on all your work, always so helpful after class. Now look at you, taking me so well.”

“Dr. Grace!” You moan it loud when he hits a certain spot, his words sinking into your brain all nice and slow until his pace falters, slows down, and you huff. When you open your eyes, there’s less pressure from above you, your eyes barely managing to meet his piercing blue ones.

His glasses are askew, barely holding on when he speaks. “Nuh uh. What’d I tell you earlier, hm? Use that brain of yours and think back. You’ve always been good at remembering stuff for me.”

At first you’re confused. He’s said a lot of things earlier—Dr. Ryland Grace is a rambler. He talks and talks and talks, which you suppose is good for being a professor, but it’s less good now when you’re so drunk off of him.

“Wh—“ You speak, trying to blink away the fog before he rolls his hips into yours, slow and deep, like he’s trying to give you incentive.

“When I picked you up. What was it I told you?”

It’s a hint that you grab onto like a life line, because god you just want him to move, and you really, really try to think.

Ryland. Call me Ryland. Please.

“Ryland, please fuck me.”