[He notices a few things right off the bat — one, that she’s left her hair wet after exiting the refresher. Two, she has no pants on. He gets hung up on two for a while, accompanied with the feeling that he’s made a terrible mistake. They skipped up the scale of intimacy far faster than he had meant to.
Really, it was just the thought that she would leave the room and that he’d have to remember that she’d left him after promsiing she wouldn’t. That’s next a level unhealthy coping mechanism, but there it is — self reflection. He’d asked her to stay not because he’d wanted more intimate interactions, he’d asked her to stay to keep what they’d suddenly established between them alive. Now that he thinks about it more deeply, the Force probably would have done it for them.
The lingering doesn’t help. He struggles to find something to say to her now. In the absence of things to say, she climbs under the covers and instantly he feels the cold that comes with her. Did people from desert backwaters only take cold showers? That almost makes sensw. It causes him to grip the pillow tighter in an effort to hold onto his warmth while he considers her presence in his sleeping space.
He is probably not sleeping tonight. This was definitely a mistake.]
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Really, it was just the thought that she would leave the room and that he’d have to remember that she’d left him after promsiing she wouldn’t. That’s next a level unhealthy coping mechanism, but there it is — self reflection. He’d asked her to stay not because he’d wanted more intimate interactions, he’d asked her to stay to keep what they’d suddenly established between them alive. Now that he thinks about it more deeply, the Force probably would have done it for them.
The lingering doesn’t help. He struggles to find something to say to her now. In the absence of things to say, she climbs under the covers and instantly he feels the cold that comes with her. Did people from desert backwaters only take cold showers? That almost makes sensw. It causes him to grip the pillow tighter in an effort to hold onto his warmth while he considers her presence in his sleeping space.
He is probably not sleeping tonight. This was definitely a mistake.]
There’s a hair dryer. Under the sink.
[Smoothly half-mumbled into the pillow.]