Big news, big night: The morning (is it?) after

[newredmuses]

Did he sleep at all last night? He may have tried, long after he and Kate had exhausted themselves with talking and crying and laughing. It's hard to say too, when he first noticed that he was lying awake, watching the light in the room change. (Of course, he'd been told, that there isn't sunlight here, as such, but the facsimile is fine enough.)

The scar in his side tells him he is dead, but in faith, lying here beside his wife, his own Kate, he feels nothing of the sort.

Now, is she sleeping still? He slides closer, and plants a kiss just so on her bare shoulder.

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[valiantrebel]

"A well-established fact." He wags his eyebrows. "Though you do drive and parry passing well."

[tiltingwithlips]

"'Tis nothing that I fight with, sir, nothing."

[valiantrebel]

"Oh, you lie, woman." He sits up and sets his hands on her hips. "I will see thee proven so."

Which involves kissing, for a start.

[tiltingwithlips]

"Only in my lord's bed," she sighs.

Now did someone say something about kissing?

[valiantrebel]

There is so much a man can do while occupied thusly. If his hands are on his lady love's hips, they can work upward to heaven, or downward, also heaven.

If the lady is too celestial, he is, by the grace of God, compelled to tumble her back into the bed and attend to his affections from above.

[tiltingwithlips]

Oh, do not think so, or think so at your peril. For surely it's a sin to place oneself above the angels?

So it's purely out of concern for Harry's immortal soul that Kate, laughing, takes him by the shoulders and attempts to flip him over.

[valiantrebel]

She half succeeds! Harry lands sitting up and back against the headboard, all splayed and twisted in the sheets. A very easy target, for those who would come and get it.

[tiltingwithlips]

Kate pounces, albeit a little slowly since she's still waking up; she straddles his lap and pins his shoulders against the headboard.

"Well, sir? What say you now?"

This is more by way of being a courtesy question, apparently, since she leans in to kiss him before he can answer.

[valiantrebel]

When she gives him the space to speak, he grins, though he does not move far off. "I will call thee a liar from here until doomsday if you will renounce it so, and more."

He pushes against her and winds one arm around her waist. With the other hand, he runs his fingers over the nape of her neck, and then pulls her in to stop her mouth again.

[tiltingwithlips]

She groans, stroking her thumb over his collarbone.

"Thou slanderer," she breathes, "you put your tongue to wicked use."

[valiantrebel]

And there's his hand at her inner thigh. "Come, come, there's good work it can do yet."

[tiltingwithlips]

"Tut, tut, but words." She trails her own fingers along his chest. "The proof is in the action."

[valiantrebel]

"Is it?"

And his hand slides between her legs.

"Then Harry Percy is your man, my lady."

His fingers start in a slow circle.

[tiltingwithlips]

"Ha."

She nuzzles, then nibbles, his neck.

"And well I know it."

To the very end of the universe, he's hers.

[valiantrebel]

His eyes slip shut, and he bows his head. A deep inhalation, hold, and let it out. His hand, that speeds up a little, and seeks a little lower still.

[tiltingwithlips]

The sound that slips out from her throat is a little less controlled than she might have liked. She presses her fingers -- the pads, then the nails -- against his chest.

[valiantrebel]

His lips find his way to her throat, at the hinge of her jaw. He nips where the skin thrums, and leans into her. Again, at the joint of her shoulder and neck; again, at the hollow between her collarbones.

One finger he slips inside her. Patiently, patiently.

[tiltingwithlips]

"You are a villain," she sighs, tipping her head back and sliding her hands to his biceps, "and a rogue, and a right scoundrel to bait a lady so."

[valiantrebel]

He chuckles. "Peace! Unless you'd rather I go charging in." He nips her lower lip. "I am a craftsman at work at present."

[tiltingwithlips]

Kate snorts and leans in to trade him nip for nip.

[valiantrebel]

Ah, but now he will unclasp a secret book. He leans against her, and with one hand at the small of her back presses her down to the mattress. Now he turns his attention to her breasts, her stomach, the small bone of her hips. "Tell me again, Kate -- how wicked did you say was my tongue?"

[tiltingwithlips]

She laughs breathlessly, and she would pull him into her arms if she didn't like where he was going so much. She makes do with her hands in his hair, following his movements.

"Wicked as the serpent's, love."

[valiantrebel]

He bites, just lightly, at her inner thigh. "Why, you had better sing for angels, then." But will they come when you do call for them?

He meets her eye, grins and takes her in his mouth.

[tiltingwithlips]

"Cry -- amen, to that," she says, breath hitching.

She's not going to give him the satisfaction of being loud about enjoying this. Not until he earns it.

[valiantrebel]

Will not she? Very well; he will not use his words, for the proof is in sucking, biting, teasing, building.