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Lila discovered her back was blank when she dragged herself from her training warehouse for food. She wandered in a slight daze, after, wondering what to do with herself. She'd locked herself in to practice using her magic and purposefully ignore the curse across her shoulders, and now that it was gone her mind told her to go back to normal, back to routine. Only there was no routine in Darrow. She hated the mere idea of it. In London it had mostly consisted of thieving and sleeping, and in Red it had been better on the Spire. But here? She still didn't know what to do with herself.

Eventually she goes to Kell's. Just to show off her new skill, she tells herself, which she uses to unlock his door when no one answers. She strolls inside and looks around, and realizes why no one answered when she hears the sound his shower running. She could use a shower. Hygiene is so easy here, so convenient, that a few days without leave her skin feeling noticeably itchy.

Lila toes off her boots and slips into the bathroom. She can't see Kell, just the shape of him behind the steamed glass door. "Mind if I join you?" she asks, already pulling her tank top off.

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Her moan catches like a spark in Kell's blood, and he pulls her other hand from his arm to join the first, holding her by both wrists as his hips roll. "I do like you," he says, breathless in her ear. "I like your sharp tongue, and I like your cunt, always so wet for me, Lila." He bends his head and nips at her throat. "I like your lean body and the way it lets me in, I like these sounds you make when I take you faster."

Kell punctuates that with another sharp thrust of his hips. "I wanted this. Every second that you were gone."

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It's almost too much, the way Kell holds her down and lets go. Not just with his body, but his words. His breath along her ear, his teeth on her throat, she shivers and moans and arches her body up toward him, whispering yes, yes.

His hips are relentless, pushing her closer to orgasm, but when he shifts, slams, she lets out a helpless, surprised sound as everything that had been tightening sharpens, her orgasm so intense she writhes underneath Kell's body for the friction of his cock. "Kell," she manages, wanting to sob from how good and how much she feels.

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Her body tightens around him like a vise, and though he wants to do this forever, Kell feels her pleasure tug at him, pulling him as insistently as Lila herself towards the edge. The spark that exists between them grows and burns deep, and Kell gasps, crying out as it races suddenly down his spine.

"Lila," he answers, holding himself taut as he empties himself within her.

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Lila makes a soft sound at the surge of warmth inside and wraps her legs more tightly around Kell to hold him in to his completion. "Kell," she whispers again, freeing her wrists from his hands to cup his face, leaning up to kiss him.

"I said I was going to suck you, stupid," she says without any real anger in her voice, pressing her face to his neck to give her breathing time to even out and calm.

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Kell moans into the kiss, a little dizzy with the suddenness and intensity of his orgasm, and he rests his face likewise in the crook of her throat.

"I couldn't help myself," he says as he catches his breath, "I find you...compelling."

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Lila pets Kell's hair and untangles her legs from around him to relax and give him room to make himself comfortable. He's so warm, and the weight of him above her is somehow a comfort. She trails her fingers down along his back, slowly up and down.

"It's okay, I like it. And who says this has to be the only time?" she says coyly, turning her face to bite lightly at his earlobe.

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Kell smiles and settles down beside her, his arms wrapped around Lila to keep her close. He shivers for the brief pinch of her teeth, closing his eyes to drift for a bit. "It isn't always like that," he confesses sleepily. "There is some connection between us."

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Lila tucks herself in against Kell, allowing herself the intimacy of it beyond the sex itself. Her own eyelids feel heavy, as do her limbs. She could sleep, she thinks, unless Kell would like to do that again.

"What connection?" she asks, though as soon as the words leave her mouth she knows what he means. "Is it because of our magic?"

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"Perhaps," says Kell. "I've not felt anything like it before. But then, I've never lain with another Antari." He opens his eyes and touches her cheek, brushing her hair away from her mismatched eyes. "If that is indeed what you are."

[best_thief]

Lila would make a joke about Holland, but even the thought of that bastard brings her to anger and she doesn't have the energy for it at the moment.

She watches Kell's hand, and then his own eyes, wondering if things had gone differently if she'd have a black eye to mirror his own. "Teach me to make a door. That will decide it. If it works, maybe we can combine our magic to make a door that will take us out of this world completely."

[bloodandflowers]

"I will teach you all that I know," says Kell, "But the blood magic, I will not rush." Kell looks as stern as a man can manage when naked and freshly fucked. "We will make a door, and one day long after, we will try to move between worlds."

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"Kell," Lila says, and it comes out uncomfortably close to a whine. "I don't have time for one day long after. I'm going to rot here. I'm going to waste away to nothing." She flops onto her back, staring up at the ceiling.

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Kell's mouth crooks, and he lifts up on an elbow to watch her toss herself about. "There is much to learn," he tells her, "And all of it interesting. And," he adds, lowering his mouth to the smooth skin of her belly, "I think you have a taste for this now as well. Whatever I'll deny you in magic certainly does not apply to sex."

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Lila's expression of frustration evens out to something slightly more amused, and she ignores the shiver Kell's mouth against her skin elicits. "Jesus, Kell. We can't just fuck all day, every day," she says, and then pauses, leaning on an elbow and raising an eyebrow.

"...Or can we?"

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Kell lifts one shoulder in an elegant shrug. He looks up at her and raises an eyebrow, too, still smiling faintly. "We can make a go of it," he says. "What's the harm?" He turns his head and licks along her hipbone. "The worst we can do is dehydrate each other."

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"Thank god for indoor plumbing?" Lila says, distracted, moving her leg to spread them in hopeful invitation. Kell's face is inches from where she'd like it most. She won't say so, but she's craved his mouth on her cunt ever since the first time he'd done it.

She's only just orgasmed, but already she wants more, another, again.