Elliot's Apartment, Dallas, 1963 | Early, early morning

[defenderofdesmoines]

Was it a good thing that Annie now had so much experience cauterizing wounds that it hadn't taken her much time at all to get the skin on Diego's abdomen fused back together? For right now, it felt like good thing, at least. To her surprise and concern, he hadn't woken up in the process -- he'd stayed completely out (though breathing), all throughout the removal of his clothes (and when she was less worried, those institution-issued tighty whities were getting some commentary), and cleaning and dressing and briefly burning the wound.

Eventually, Annie had fallen into a restless doze at his side, though the slightest movement had her waking up and reaching to check on Diego every few minutes. And good thing, too, since this most recent time when Annie woke with a start as Diego shifted on the mattress, she noticed immediately that his wound had reopened.

"Shit." She should have gone back over that once she'd established he wasn't badly hurt anywhere else, really. Guess she'd have to do it now.

She moved to press a hand into Diego's chest, prepared to hold him steady in case this time he actually did wake up when she burned him, and moved her other hand low to his abdomen. The lamp in the room gave a soft hum, and Annie's hand illuminated, white-hot enough to re-seal that wound for good this time.

Sorry, Diego. Hopefully he stayed out for a little bit longer.

[for the stabbed guy who is, unfortunately for him, not staying out a little bit longer.]

Comments

[knife_bender]

Yeah there had definitely been some awkward growing out time. Only Lila was there to laugh at him.

"I missed this," he murmured. "I missed you so much."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I can't imagine what it was like," Annie replied softly, moving her hands away only because she had to deal with her stupid pants. But at least she'd remembered them early! And Diego's had been dispatched hours ago! And she was going to try to keep kissing him while she got these off, as best she could. "I don't know what I'd do if I lost you for that long."

And considering he hadn't known what had happened to her, or to Five, and he still hadn't found his other siblings when he'd ended up here -- Annie's heart kind of broke for how Diego must have felt in those first few days. And it made her just want to try to make up for her absence by being extra clingy, now. (But in a gentle way.)

[knife_bender]

It was extremely useful he was already pretty much naked. One upside of being stabbed!

"Helped I couldn't physically escape," Diego said lightly. "I'm glad you didn't go through the same thing."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Me too. But we're going to make up for lost time like I did," Annie assured him with a light little smile, shimmying out of her (similarly-paradox-inducing) underwear while she was at it before leaning back in to kiss him with more focus.

[knife_bender]

"Am I allowed to get completely naked too or is that too much movement?" He was so bad at the keeping still thing.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I think it's maybe just enough movement," Annie decided with a little laugh. "Especially if I help."

And she was very willing to do that -- even if it did mean pulling away from kissing him temporarily so she could shift position to straddle his legs and hook her fingers in the top of his underwear. Purely so he wouldn't move too much, of course, and not at all because she thought he deserved the pleasure of actually getting to watch her undress him after three months.

(Okay, but it was mostly the moving thing, though.)

[knife_bender]

"Well I'm not gonna complain about that," he said, lifting his hips up. Carefully. "I'm not moving to tighty whities permanently, for the record."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"That's fine, but they're cute," Annie assured him, carefully peeling said tighty whities down and biting her lower lip appreciatively. "You look good in white. Also in nothing."

Look at her appreciate all that nothing right now, in fact, as she wasted no time in discarding his underwear and climbing back up to straddle his thighs.

[knife_bender]

"Don't get used to it," he said, leaning up on an elbow to kiss her again. "The white, not the nudity. You can get used to that."

[defenderofdesmoines]

Annie leaned in to meet him halfway, pressing her body against his -- gently -- as she smiled into the kiss. "The nudity's even better than the white," she promised, her hand finding its way back up into his hair.

She kind of couldn't get enough, and this was an area where maybe she didn't have to be so gentle? She gave an experimental little tug, just to see if Diego liked it.

(She had a prediction.)

[knife_bender]

Diego let out a surprised (but not unhappy) noise, that tapered off into a soft moan. "Do that again."

[defenderofdesmoines]

Oh, that reaction was hot, and pretty much exactly what she'd hoped for.

Annie did as requested, tugging a little harder on his hair as she slid her opposite hand up along his arm with an appreciative sigh. "Like that?"

[knife_bender]

"Yeah," he said, nodding his head. Which had the added benefit of pulling his hair a little bit more in her hold. "I didn't realize--"

Didn't realize that was an added benefit of long hair. He now completely understood why older Diego had kept it that way.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"You didn't realize you'd like having your hair pulled during sex?" Annie supplied, mostly just to say it. Which, in turn, made her blush a little, but his reactions right now were kind of doing a lot for her.

She shifted a little closer, sliding her other hand up into his hair so she could pull on it with both hands as she leaned down to kiss his neck.

[knife_bender]

"Never had long hair before," he murmured, tilting his neck towards her. "Do you like pulling on it?"

He already knew the answer.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"I like that you like it," Annie replied, biting where his neck met his shoulder. Another spot where she didn't feel like she had to be too gentle. "So, yeah. It's kind of doing a lot for me."

Which meant she was just going to give another sharp little tug on his hair. For everyone's benefit.

[knife_bender]

"Fuck," he murmured, arching his hips up against hers. There was another little twinge of pain, but he was feeling so many other things at the moment he barely noticed it. "I'm going to need you to do that all the time now."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"My pleasure," Annie mumbled, distracted by that hip movement. Part of her wanted to caution him to be careful, but she also knew perfectly well that Diego knew his own pain tolerance, and if he wasn't okay, he'd say so.

Also, she was honestly kind of impressed he was up for this at all after being stabbed like...hours ago. Amazing. She was so fucking lucky in so many ways.

She rolled her hips down against his, teasing and light for now. "I'm kinda curious about your beard," she admitted softly, one hand leaving his hair in favor of threading lightly through said beard again.

[knife_bender]

"I've been thinking about it myself," he admitted, tilting his head to nip at her fingers. "Especially in the last ten minutes."

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Hot." Not something she'd meant to say aloud, but true nonetheless.

Annie shifted her hips again, this time ostensibly to get more comfortable in his lap while minding his injury, and slid her hand down so she could drape her arm around his neck.

If that brought her breasts closer to Diego's face -- well, good, because that had been entirely on purpose.

[knife_bender]

Diego made a pleased noise under his breath because, yes, that had been one of the things he had thought about. He leaned in, nuzzling his face against for a moment before brushing his mouth over one of her nipples.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Fuck." Annie shifted against him a little in response, unprepared for how much she'd like that. She'd suspected, but -- "Do that again," she breathed, and now the hand in his hair was pulling in what was definitely an encouraging way. Not quite bossy, but definitely flirting with it.

The long hair had lots of benefits!

[knife_bender]

He was definitely all about that, judging from the way he was moaning against Annie's skin. Diego repeated the movement against her other breast, nuzzling for a moment before soothing the area over with his tongue.

[defenderofdesmoines]

"Yes," Annie sighed, squirming a little against his face for more of that amazing, amazing sensation. "Fuck, I love you."

She rolled her hips against his again, letting out a needy little noise and tightening her hand in his hair.

[knife_bender]

God, he had missed this. Diego slid his hands over Annie's thighs, lightly dragging his nails across her skin.

"I love you too," he murmured, closing his eyes and trying to recommit this to memory. Safe to say he was not going to take this for granted after what had happened.