Forced Withdrawals [Nox's Building]

[Hayden]

He hadn't meant to go off on her. "It's not your fault. He's just ..." It was a little hard to explain. And he didn't want to talk about it -- not with her anyway. And Nox had stormed out angry. Not at him. Not at anything they could do anything about, but he'd left. He couldn't deal with it and Hayden was glad, until he got snowed in at his house, with his things with his fucking family. "The only way you can give him a chance is to get to know him. There are billion reasons to hate him and any one of them is valid. But hating him for saving a kid's life even if she doesn't understand. No I can't. He's got his flaws. He is far from perfect. But he does nothing but give himself to the fucking cause and you hate him for it." Hayden took a deep breath and grabbed Tatyana's arms and turned around in them and put them back around him wrapping his arms around her. "It's not your fault I lost my shit. Nox is a lot." He didn't want to talk about Nox. Or anything really. "Like him, don't like him. Doesn't really matter. You have a training session with him. Totally your call. He and I have things to work out. They don't affect this. Or him, or the twins. But it's not something I want to talk about. We can talk about anything else."

[Marta]

Marta smiled and took his hands in hers , and put it at her waist. She even moved closer to him as she wrapped her arms around his neck. He kissed her again, still soft, but there was more to it than that. She could feel that this meant something to him as well. She felt a hand move behind his and push gently, a silent permission that this was okay. The panic didn’t rise this time. She felt completely safe.

She didn’t know how long she held the kiss, only that when she was done, she was breathing hard. She kept her hand behind Jackson’s head as they separated, and kept close to him. She was quiet as she processed how she felt. ”Thats what it feels like to kiss someone you want to kiss. I liked it.” she smiled and pressed her lips to his real quick, before separating again. She didn’t want to move. It felt nice.

[Tatyana]

Tatyana just kept holding him. ”I know it’s unfair - that’s why I’m going to try.” She was certain part of it was her trauma even if she didn’t know how to explain it.

But Hayden didn’t want to talk about it. ”Don’t worry about it. I know you weren’t mad at me, but I appreciate the validation.” she meant it too.

She took a deep breath. She understood he didn’t want to talk about it so she wouldn’t. It kind of had to go with the sex stuff. It was a limit for him, so she wouldn’t press. But he had left the room. ”If you need space for a bit, I can go back to the bed, or if you want me to stay here.” she would probably need to sleep sometime, but their activities had given her energy - or at least a restlessness that would make it difficult to fall asleep.

[Legione Sumus]

Jackson Li

Jackson laughed softly. It was sweet. "It must be. I like it too."

He stood there staring at her for a little while before he found his voice again "I think we should get back to the others, maybe we can lay our bedding next to each other and we can sleep next to each other. Nothing else, maybe steal a kiss when no one is looking." He looked down, he wondered if he was being too presumtuious. "Only if you want to."