NFB & NWS: Afternoon Delight at Nell's

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Nell and Gladio made their way back to Nell's in one of the brightly lit rickshaws. They required less thought and ample opportunity for kissing, though Gladio had joked that they could have just strung him up in lights and let him carry Nell. To which Nell had responded that she'd rather he save his energy for other things.

She'd set out honeyed rum for the squirrels before she headed to class in anticipation of Gladio's response - not that there'd been much guess work needed there - so, once the rickshaw had dropped them off, all that was left to do was break off their latest kiss, unlock the door and lead him upstairs.

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[sword_chocobro]

There was, really, no delicate way to put this, and Gladio would definitely not be ashamed to admit that this was something he'd thought about often. After all, he was a very red-blooded male who was ardently in love for the first time in a way that he never thought would be in the cards for him, so it would be stranger if he hadn't. But he'd dedicated himself to patience, a patience that would stretch all the way to the end, if need be, deeply aware of and sensitive to all the trauma Nell had around sex and intimacy, even when she herself wasn't. Especially because of that. And all or his usual confidence and bravado was shoved to the side out of concern, that she might only be doing this because she thought she should, because she thought it was what he wanted, and that they'd be in for nothing but a whole lot of regret and pain and a whole slew of other things that he didm't even want to give a name to.

But all it took was one look into Nell's eyes for all those concerns to be completely obliterated, their annihilation reinforced with the decisive heat and determination of her kisses.

Kisses returned with as much heat and determination, especially once they were up in the familiar comfort of her own home, where Gladio gave that leading arm a gentle little pull to bring her back to him and wrap her in his arms. And when he pulled away again eventually for breath, he was grinning.

"I am carrying you the rest of the way from here, though," he declared. "Non-negotiable."

And, to prove he planned on putting that money where his mouth was, promptly went to sweep her up.

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Nell had never in her whole life expected this or even dreamed about it, and certainly the last seventeen years of her life hadn't led her to expect much. In fact, until she'd become involved with Gladio she'd really thought that all that love and joy and pleasure around relationships and sex was only found in books and other types of fiction - at least for women - except for maybe a scant handful of outliers. And the idea that she would find someone who loved her the way Gladio did was still fairly unbelievable.

She wasn't surprised by how deeply she loved him, just that she'd found him - or rather had him just show up in her life.


Ths kissing and touching and just playing were all such revelations to her. Beautiful amazing revelations. She'd known for a while that she wanted to make love to him, and calling it that rather than sex or her wifely duties had made a huge difference. She'd thought about asking him to make love to her when they were away at their treehouse vacation, but ultimately decided that she wanted their first time to be at home, in her own bed. After that, well, she bet he knew lots of variations.

She wasn't worried or nervous about her decision at all. She knew that Gladio would make it beautiful for her and take all the time she might need for that to happen. Her only bit of nerves was that she might not make him happy or do things right, but then that was what second and third and fourth times with a good teacher were for, right?

So once they were upstairs and he'd scooped her up in his arms she'd just smiled up at him with all the love and certainty and determination and heat that she felt. "I think you know the way," she murmured. "Clean sheets on the bed and all turned down and waiting for us."

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"You know, if I didn't know any better," Gladio pointed out, grinning at Nell as he got her comfortable in his arms, even if she wouldn't be there very long at all, "I'd almost think you had this planned all along or something."

Which was sort of a thrill in its own right, really, and that kind of foresight and planning made it pretty clear this was not just some knee-jerk or obligatory decision.

But he did know the way, exceptionally well, which was a very good thing because that just meant he could start kissing Nell again and keep it up all the way over to her bedroom, and not even stop once they were there and he was gently setting her down on the bed and joining her there.

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"You think?" Nell said with a breathless smile. She had, obviously, and would have been deeply disappointed if he'd said no. But she also knew her audience and had been pretty certain that he'd been waiting for this moment even much longer than she had been.

Her breath caught as he lowered her to the bed and followed her down. They'd spent many nights together and had kissed and played, but this was a whole new level. She wanted it desperately, but there were still some nerves mixed in with her excitement. "You might have to help me here,"she murmured against his lips.

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If he had said no, it would have been borne entirely from a sort of self-doubt mixed doubt about what Nell really wanted. But Gladio didn't even know the meaning of some of those words, and he trusted Nell implicitly to be honest with him in these things.

Which was to say that no hadn't even crossed his mind even a little.

"Whatever help you need," he murmured back, situating himself so that, despite being above her, his weight was elsewhere, and one of his hand was drifting down her side, "whatever help you want. But you gotta do the same for me, yeah? If it's too much, or you change your mind, or just want something else."

He kissed her again and pulled back enough to catch her eyes and grin.

"You know I like you bossy."

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Nell laughed up at him. "I'm good at bossy," she said. "But the rest is pretty new to me."

Her eyes closed for a moment as his hand stroked down her side, then opened again. "Shirt off. And more touching."

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"Yours or mine?" Gladio asked, but as soon as the words left his mouth, he huffed a laugh of his own and shook his head. "Doesn't matter."

Because the correct answer was clearly both.

He pulled himself up again to at least take care or his own, removed so quickly and expertly that it barely needed to be mentioned, and before it even landed on the floor after discarding it, his hands were back on Nell. At her hips, this this time, where they could then move upward, much more slowly and deliberately, to slip his fingers underneath the hem of her shirt so that they could touch her warm skin instead of fabric, and as they brushed their way upward, bringing the shirt up with them, he shifted down, so that the next kiss he gave her landed there on the exposed part of her stomach.

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She shivered with delight as he started to remove her shirt, making a soft pleased noise as he kissed her. One of her hands went into his hair to hold on, while the other slid down his face and neck to his bare shoulder. "Much better," she murmured.

She wanted to kiss him, but she also didn't want him to stop what he was doing. "Love your hands on me."

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Could Nell feel the way Glaido's slow, almost languid kisses paused for a smile against her skin as her hand found its way into his hair? What about the soft breath of air when the other hand drifted down his neck, just before he started kissing her again? He knew she had to have felt that brief flick of his tongue in direct response to that shiver before all of it, each of them an eager answer to her responses to his machinations. Fingers spreading a little bit more at her words, with a bit of a grunt, and not just because he'd made his way up now to her breasts where they had more to spread themselves over. But he pulled away, letting his hands linger a little bit longer as he pulled himself up to kiss her lips again before taking care of pulling her shirt over her head, out of the way, just a brief, necessary interruption before he went right back to where he was, mouth back to hers, hand on her shoulder, her breast, back to her stomach, as if taking full advantage of its newfound lack of obstruction.

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She felt everything. Every touch, every breath, every slide of his hand or flick of his tongue. "Bra," she gasped. "Let me take off my bra."

Her hands slid away from him as she struggled to sit up enough to reach her bra and unclasp it. "Want to feel you everywhere."

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Unable to help himself from grinning faintly, Gladio felt this was probably a good moment for him to catch his own breath as well. As Nell moved to sit up, he slid his hand behind her to her back, spreading out his fingers for a good, solid base to support her. He figured that would be far more helpful than getting in her way. Plus, it just gave him the chance to just sort of take in the sight of her, her flushed face, her bared skin, and feel a newfound surge of emotion...as well as other things...for the moment.

"Everywhere," he murmured in response, "huh?"

Well, he hadn't gotten her neck yet, so he was just going to duck his head and go there next, with that one hand still there to support her back in this new position, while the other drifted to her shoulder to gently brush away the straps of her bra and help clear it away and drag it off to better feel the skin there there now.

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"Everywhere - ohhh...." No fair. How was she supposed to focus on taking off her bra when he was doing that with his mouth? She rallied and finished unhooking it in time for him to move the straps and then she just let her head fall back, hands both going up to twine in his hair and keep him closer to her. "Everywhere, everywhere."

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Gladio would probably point out that him kissing Nell's neck when she explicitly told him everywhere was not nearly as unfair as that sound she made when he did, although he clearly reveled in it, grinning against her neck for a moment before continuing those kisses, slowly moving them up toward her ear. All the while, his large hand easily cupped her breast and started to gentle massage its perfect softness. It wasn't long at all, though, before his lips left her neck to join his hand.

She wanted to feel him everywhere, he wanted to kiss her everywhere, but he only had the one mouth and two hands. For now, and he let out a slightly shuddering breath of the anticipation for what he was working up to. Soon. But not yet. He really didn't want to rush this.

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Her body arched into his hand and lips without her conscious volition as she made another of those unfair sounds. One of her hands left his hair and slid over his shoulder and down across his back, fingers fluttering over the feathers there. "So good," she gasped. "More, I want more."

She wanted it all actually. Everything he could give her, everywhere he could touch her, every feeling he could draw from her. She shivered delightedly under his touch and hoped that her touch was half as pleasurable to him.

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"M'working on it," Gladio assured her, with another grin, lips brushing against her skin as he said it, and he moved his next kiss over, to the middle of Nell's chest, in between her breasts, before moving over to the other one. Balance, after all, was a good thing, and it also gave him the chance to adjust a little as their bodies responded to each other, pulling her into his lap, where she'd no doubt have the chance to feel exactly how pleasurable he was finding it to be.

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"Ohhh..." she breathed, moving against him and leaning in to kiss whatever parts of him she could reach even as her brain and breath stuttered a little at the pleasure. SHe shifted down against him deliberately. It was exhilerating to feel the effect she had on him, but heavens, she was glad he knew what he was doing and that she trusted him.

"Mine," she said firmly. Just before he made her catch her breath again.

[sword_chocobro]

That very deliberate and point shift again him pulled a deep, guttural groan out of Gladio, although not at first. It was on a slight delay, as he was so used to having to hold himself back and rein himself in that it took a moment to remember that this time? He might not have to. And that also gave the groan that much more of a longing, hungry quality to it, as his mouth sought out hers again, and his hands well away along her sides to wrap around her. One slid down her back, fingers slipping in between it and her waistband.

"Bossy and greedy," he observed in a murmur. "I like it. Especially since I'm feeling a little greedy myself right about now."

And, to prove it, his hand easily found the curve of her butt to hold onto to pull her in, while giving his own deliberate shift of his hips up against her.

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That pulled a soft moan from her after the quick breath in. She wrapped herself around him, wanting to be even closer. "M'very greedy. I want more."

Every shift against him brought her more pleasure, more need, more wanting.

She gasped again as his hand slid further down and she nuzzled into his neck to nip and kiss there. "You know," she murmured. "I could - ohhhh - get used to this."

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And it was in that moment, when Nell wrapped herself around him and buried her kisses onto his neck and making him tilt back his head to give her even more to work with, that Gladio realized that he actually was still holding back, reining himself in. He had to be, or else he wouldn't have this insatiable urge to just burst through everything and finally put an end to all that patience...

But he also liked this, too, Nell in his lap and the shiver that coarse through him when her hand brushed against the scar across his chest, of trying to being her as close as possible to him with only the layers of their remaining clothes as a barrier between them and that moment he'd been craving to share with her for a while now, but couldn't even let himself acknowledge it.

"And here we..." he breathed out, part groan, part sigh, his words all rumble, "haven't even gotten to the real good stuff yet."

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She managed half a laugh between another gasp and a long drawn out sigh. "Might just kill me if it gets much better than this."

That was not quite right. Or rather it was, but at the same time she had a wanting and yearning so powerful that she didn't even think she'd care if it did kill her.

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"I really hope that's not the case," Gladio said, with a bit of laugh in it, a laugh that sort of managed to break through some of the weight and the tension of it all and made him wonder...why was he still holding back, when he didn't have to? Maybe it was time to stop being so damn precious about it and just get on with it, and show Nell just how good it could be and how much he wanted to be the one to show her...

So his hands were on her back again, his lips were searching for hers again, and he was leaning forward, forward, until he was back over her again, laying her back down on the bed. Pulling away from her with his hands trailing across her chest and down her sides again until they could also start pulling away the last of the clothes she was wearing.

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Nell was eager to help him get her skirts and underwear off, and if there were some nerves, and there were, they were far surpassed by her need. "Yours too," she managed, pushing at the top of his pants. She wanted nothing between them.

She laughed a little against his lips, breathlessly, as her skirts got a bit tangled in the removal, finally shifting to kick them the rest of the way off and to the floor. SHe laughed again and wrapped her arms so tightly around him that a lesser man might have found it hard to breathe. "I love this. I love that we can laugh and I love that I'm here with you and I love you."

She kissed him again hard, then pushed him away the tiniest bit. "Off. I want it all off. I want you, Gladio. Only you."

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Yeah, it was going to take a lot more than that to manage to squeeze the breath out of Gladio, but Nell's fervor did manage to get a chuckle out of him. And when her arms went around him, his did the same to her, but the exact opposite: light, gentle, supportive but leaving all the clinging to her, while he just smiled into her hair and nuzzled another kiss into her neck.

"I love you, too."

And then he was being gently shoved away and given a task, and he was going to take care of his pants with alacrity, but not before just take a moment to appreciate the view that moving away to do so afforded him. But fair was fair, and he'd definitely give Nell a moment to enjoy his fully undressed state after kicking his own pants aside before he returned her. A moment made just a slight bit longer in the indecision of how exactly he wanted to get there.

He grinned at, feeling an almost maddening swell in his chest as well as his loins, and he moved back in to kiss Nell. Not on her lips this time, though, or even her chest or her stomach, but even lower, pulling back to better angle himself to tenderly land that kiss and several more to follow on the inside of her thigh.

She had said everywhere. There was still a lot of unchartered area here to cover.

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Nell's eyes had gone huge when she finally saw him in all his glory. "Ohhhh..." she breathed and just let herself have a moment to take him in. And another moment to wonder if she could take all of him in, so to speak. It's not that she'd never seen a naked man before. She'd had to wash John when he was old and sick, but she'd, when they'd... She'd never seen him like this. Not that he could compare to Gladio in any way.

And Gladio... he just straight up took her breath away.

She didn't have much time to ponder before he was back and kissing her - oh my!

She gasped and sat up a little. "What are you - are you allowed - what - ?" But then she didn't care if it was right or allowed or anything else, because a shiver of pleasure was flooding over her. "Ohhhh....."

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Allowed? Allowed. In the moment, it surprised Gladio enough to stop and look up at Nell, but immediately after, knew he shouldn't have been. But it reminded him that maybe going back to reining it in a little again wouldn't be the worst idea. They would already be dealing with some pretty big (heh) stuff already. No need to overwhelm her. But gods...the things he could do...

"Well, you did say everywhere, right?" he pointed out, sending a grin up her way, taking a moment to rub the scruff of his beard on that spot before kissing her inner thigh on the other side before working his way back up her stomach, saving that for another time.

Eyes on the prize, Amicitia. Lips on hers again, hand back to her breast, and a chance to check in.

"How're you feeling?"

He hadn't really meant for it to be just a little rumble in her ear, but her neck looked so enticing that he couldn't help going for it after he asked.

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"I'm feeling wonderful," she said, "Even better when you were doing the other thing. It just startled me for a moment, but it felt so good. I just..."

It was hard to put into words what she 'just' since she'd never felt anything like it before. "I... My body just... wants, almost like an ache. I just want you to keep going, because I feel like I'm almost, like I'm on the edge of something."

Get her through this first time, Gladio, and she'll happily do pretty much anything you suggest.

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"Good," Gladio murmured, and there was little doubt that Nell could hear the grin on his lips, maybe even feel it, as he nuzzled into her neck, as he kissed just below her ear. "That," she'd probably feel the grin growing even more as his hand lifted to lightly brush against the spot where he'd kissed her inner thigh, "is something to look forward to for another time, then..."

And if she thought it felt so good with just a kiss...

"For now, though," he said, and his fingers drifted up to the warmth between her legs, "are you ready?"

An answer those fingers were already seeking out, gently curling, probing into her, while listening closely to both Nell's body and her words.

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She swallowed hard, breath taken away by the intensity of her feeling. "I am," she whispered, meeting his eyes confidently. "I, ohhhhh, Gladio..."

Her body surged under his touch, everything inside her softening and heating up. "I am," she said again firmly. "Make love to me, Gladio , please. I want you to. I want this."

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Nell's reaction pulled out from Gladio's core a deep, rumbling sound, more grunt than groan, though it was definitely both, with a small bit of a sigh, and he kissed her again, a good long, hard kiss, to make up for the fact that she was going to have to wait just a little longer. Because as much as he wanted to answer that demand immediately, it was more important that she was as ready physically as she was spiritually, emotionally, mentally. His fingers dug in a little deeper, to help ease out as much potential discomfort as he could. He was a pretty big guy, after all...

And it was always important to warm up and stretch first...

But there was only so much of those small breaths and surging reactions that he could take before he withdrew his hand, and he pulled away, just enough to shift his position again, to adjust, so that the next time his lips met Nell's, he was also sliding, easing into her, slowly until the point where couldn't anymore, and his hips thrust forward with another sound, this time more groan than grunt, although just as decidedly both.

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Her breath caught again as he slid into her and she clutched at him. It had been a very long time since she had last submitted to doing her wifely duties with John, and while this was worlds - universes! - different, bodies were bodies. She was wet and ready for him, but it still took a moment for her body to adjust. He was, as mentioned, a pretty big guy.

But after that moment she began to move with him, twining her fingers into his hair as she kissed him, and everything else in the world went away.