Apartment Above Needful Things; Tuesday Late Morning

[totalwildcard]

Harley had spent most of the weekend on the mainland. Not just Baltimore, either - she'd taken the kid out on a little road trip. Yanno, for life lessons! Most of them criminal, of course, but that was sort of how their mentorship worked, so someone else could handle the boring stuff. Anyway, they'd had fun!

So much of it, in fact, that Harley had only landed back on the island late on Monday evening. Technically probably Tuesday? Which meant that after she'd passed out and slept her fill, the day was already well on its way. She rolled groggily out of bed, shambled her way into the living room --

And groaned when she saw the glitter bomb still waiting on the coffee table, and not downstairs attached to the front door ready to explode on Frenchie if he showed up again this week. Whether he'd already shown up or not, Harley was not in a state to go set it up now.

She shuffled around some more, in search of her phone, which she found discarded on the kitchen counter. No calls, no messages apart from Cass informing her she'd ordered breakfast delivery on Harley's account. Harley looked at the phone for a long moment more anyway, tapping her thumb against the side of it in thought. Groggy, still sleepy, not yet caffeinated thought.

And pulled up a number she'd had for a while but never actually texted before.

(Successfully, anyway. There was that time on her birthday.)

You awake yet?

(expecting one but can be open for other stuff as well!)

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[hasaknightjob]

Marc figured the protest was more about the pause. Which he wasn't gonna say wasn't valid. So he kissed her deeper to make up for it, trying to see if he could take her breath away.

[totalwildcard]

Was it still considered taking if Harley was practically giving it away to him? He could have it, her breath. He could have a lot of things.

Not that she didn't continue to also give as good as she got, too.

[hasaknightjob]

The giving as good as she got was, well, good. Passivity wasn't something Marc had ever been into. And right now there was a kind of conversation going on even without words. A question and answer about how alone they were - or weren't - in this. So Harley speaking up in her own way calmed something inside of Marc's chest. It was an echo back he needed to hear.

Of course for Marc calm wasn't necessarily the opposite of intense. But it was motivation to continue in its own way as he kissed her near bruising.

[totalwildcard]

He wasn't alone.

Harley wasn't, either.

Harley's hand left the back of his head, but only so it could find his at the back of hers, and cover it, at least for the moment. Like she just needed to be touching both his hands with hers, right now.

[hasaknightjob]

Marc eased his hold, pressing up into her touch so that it was clear if she wanted to move his hand somewhere she could.

[totalwildcard]

So Harley took his hand, and squeezed it, and brought their hands down to echo what their other set of joined hands was doing on the other side. Connection.

She laced her fingers with his on this side, too.

[hasaknightjob]

Marc sort of smiled against Harley's mouth when she did that. Not a huge grin, but something that showed he got what she was doing and was good with it - in case him going along with it didn't make that clear.

He laced his fingers back, his thumb rubbing against hers.

[totalwildcard]

Harley didn't smile, but she sighed. It sounded dreamy.

Happy? Happy.

Which was not as uncomplicated as it seemed in the moment.

[hasaknightjob]

Okay, the sigh got more of a smile out of him.

What? It was cute.

[totalwildcard]

Harley felt it on his lips. She was also very deliberate about kissing his smile - though whether that intent was at all discernible from all the other kissing to anyone but her was debatable.

His smiles were getting to be kind of important to her, was all.

[hasaknightjob]

It was maybe just different enough to get more of a smile out of him. Or maybe Marc was smiling for some other reason. As he was so known to do.

[totalwildcard]

Absolutely known for smiling at many things as he was!

Whatever the cause, Harley noticed. Harley also licked one corner of the smile because why not? Worked to draw attention to it, like a tease with no words.

[hasaknightjob]

Marc moved to nip back, but it was a deliberate feint. More... the word couldn't possibly be playful but not serious, certainly.

[totalwildcard]

Harley certainly snickered like it was playful! That meant it counted!

When she went ahead and made a similar move, it was absolutely playful.

[hasaknightjob]

When she did that, Marc went to take advantage with a kiss. A quick one though. In and out like he was stealing something.

[totalwildcard]

Harley huffed out a chuckle that sounded delighted. "Tricky," she breathed, with a sing-songy note to it - and tried chasing him for another.

[hasaknightjob]

"Keeping you on your toes," Marc replied. He gave her a little bit of a challenge, but mainly for show. There was no fighting the kiss when they connected.

[totalwildcard]

"On my toes? Thought I was on my --"

Whoops, the rest of that got abandoned in favor of the kiss. What a shame. What, she'd hunted it down, she ought to enjoy the spoils.

[hasaknightjob]

The spoils was going to include a light bite, which is what she got for being a wise ass in her reply.

Though Marc had possibly anticipated that she would be and hadn't changed what he'd said at all for some reason.

[totalwildcard]

Almost as if he liked it when she was a wise ass. And her unfiltered self.

"Come on," Harley purred like a great big tease, after the bite, "that all ya got?"

Never mind that even a light bite sure felt like something when her lips were already all tingly from a lot of the rougher kissing.

[hasaknightjob]

"Maybe now it is," Marc said, while keeping his mouth close to hers. Because he could be a pain too sometimes.

[totalwildcard]

Well, Harley had no problem trying to bite his lip a little harder.

So she went ahead and tried that right now.

[hasaknightjob]

She succeeded. And got another kiss for her troubles. One which felt like it came with a smile.

[totalwildcard]

So it did.

Funny, it seemed that way from Harley's side, too, actually. Might've been more of a smirk, but still.

[hasaknightjob]

Smile, smirk, either way it got more of an appreciative kiss out of Marc. Almost as if he liked the expressions on her just as she did on him.