@damagedsmile | continued
At first he stiffened slightly, unsure if he should trust his senses. A light pressing of soft lips, a tingling shiver that travelled down his spine like a spark; the way you see a flame taking to a fuse of a firework... first a bright sizzle then a rapid arc.
For all his past teasing and (half) joking, now that there was a kiss happening between them, he didn’t really know what to do. KiKi was always capable of surprising him, but this was a new bar she had set... and the joke was on him.
His brain had one logical thought to offer amidst his confusion (What if she BITES?... yanno, not in the way yer used to... the way she does in order to...) but J tossed it away. He didn’t care. If this was truly some feminine ploy to satisfy a more sanguine need, let it happen. It was something new to feel... something to offer her that meant more than jokes and smiles and money; he might even enjoy it.
He once told her, not the right reason, just a good reason. Well, she stayed for one more project and then another, and now Harvey's enterprise would have to contend with the wolves as she made chaos her champion and let herself get carried away, kissing him in jubilation.
Success was bittersweet. She was already an elusive murderess. Then, a high profile antihero. Now, a talented saboteur, and a thief. But never a liar, never. Tension did not live long unbroken, and Kira returned once the night had died down, bleeding into the early hours of the day, but not to bite him.
She slipped beside him and pulled at the nape of his neck, avoiding his carotid, obsessed with returning color to his skin even if it was a forming hickey than melanin. She carried her kisses generously up his flesh to gaze upon him feverishly. Within his arms, her fingertips crawled up the buttons of his shirt, barely touching him.
"If I gave you--" Well, all sorts of things were on the table right now. Her mind, her heart, her body. "--forever, could you remain this sharp knife?" She doesn't speak of her origins, and often can't except for one reason. "Could you be King…and Jester…and Prince for this Princess?"