[ He checks the message but doesn't send anything back. If he had, it would have been :-), and there is no irony in that like there is most of the time he replies to Andyr with it. And just seeing him does something to that odd anticipation that's settled in his stomach, smile much more relaxed and far more genuine when his hands are in his hair and his mouth is on his. Steve unconsciously presses up into it, letting his own hands rest on Andyr's hips to draw him closer before tilting his head and nudging his nose in the same way he'd greeted him. ]
Hey. [ There's a pause, kissing the corner of his mouth and leaning back enough to look at him. ] Did you shower? [ The amusement is there in his voice, understanding now why he'd taken so much longer to get to the room than Steve had. Then again, he hadn't exactly paced himself either, so there had also been that to take into account. ]
[ the hands on his hips settle familiar on him, so used to how steve touches him or holds him that it's like a security blanket these days, and andyr shuffles up close with the tug steve gives him. fingers card through short, blond strands, combing his hair back, or to one way, and then the other, just liking the feel of it against his hands, nuzzling against steve's cheek with the small kissing he gives him here and there. ]
Sorry, did you want the post work out sweat? [ he snorts a laugh, leaning to press a kiss to his forehead, hands wandering down his neck and over the broad span of his shoulders, and back. ] I can always go run a lap around the deck.
[ It's a soft tease, eyes slipping shut to focus on and enjoy the way he touches him, hardly giving notice to the fact there's something to be said about that. He's sparred with him, knows the extent of the damage Andyr is capable of, and yet, when they're together, when he's pressed against him or wrapped up in him, it's impossible not to feel the softness of his heart and the kindness that's settled deep. Steve reaches for that now, moving into the press of his lips and coaxing him down to be with him. ] Come here.
[ Breathed against his lips, and he tugs until they're both spread out on the mattress of that weirdly shaped bed, Andyr's weight more than welcome atop him. It's different this time, knowing the end-game, and he spreads his legs a little to adjust, letting his hands wander over his sides and to his ass to give it a squeeze. ]
[ it'd felt surreal, for a long time, touching steve so softly, being so tender with him, putting the same hands on him that've dug into flesh, gouged and torn and broken bodies, blood dried under his nails so often. he'd look at his fingers splayed over steve's chest and wonder how they could possibly be the same. he certainly hadn't stopped being that wraith of a person, and yet, here he is, crawling up along steve's body, settling hips against him, tracing the lines of his face with a finger lightly, before dipping to kiss - at the corner of an eye, at a temple, at his jaw, and finally, coming to his lips, with a smooth, satisfied hum, as steve's hands cup his ass and squeeze.
his hips rock some, where he's settled between slightly parted legs, pushing back into steve's hands, and forward, to grind unhurried and self-indulging against him. a foot hooks around one of steve's calves, tangling up their legs, as his hands slide along his arms, until he can find his hands, weaving fingers together, as he holds them lightly over steve's head. not pining, just holding, while sucking tenderly at a lip between deepening kisses. ]
Missed you. [ he murmurs into steve's mouth. he always misses him. steve could be gone five minutes and andyr would still grin and kiss or hug him when he got back, it's hardly news. ]
correction: 80% of your personality consists of anger management issues while going overboard is only 15% and that 15% only exists because it's in direct correlation with the 80%.
[ The walls of the cell block are nigh vibrating from excitement. New prisoners. New cellmates. Tex can feel the energy rattling behind his teeth. It's time for new picks, and he's already got an eye on a sweet candy-assed brunet. ]
Hey, sweetheart, where's the million dollar smile?
[ makes sense, he'd be sold here. after hapsburg found the death toll too expensive, why not have him indited for all those horrible, horrible murders against such very innocent men of science? because who's going to listen to the psycho who filed his teeth into fangs and bit peoples' faces off when he tells them he was kidnapped? not the courts, and certainly not this tool calling him sweetheart, as he comes rattling at his cell bars.
all he gets for his question is Andyr's lips pulling back, and those too sharp teeth being bared, more a snarl than a smile. but hey, asshole, you asked. ]
[ This is supposed to be the simplest part of the objective, but Steve isn't too sure it's going to end that way by the time they decide it'll be quicker if they split up. He takes the upper most floor of the building while Andyr takes the one below, and nearly fifteen minutes passes before he decides to check in with him. He's almost swept the entirety of each room, which means Andyr shouldn't be too far behind. ]
[ Simple it was, until Andyr pushed through that last set of double doors, into what he immediately knows is a medical lab. He's seen them enough, knows that smell of antiseptic that always has his stomach turning. Sees straps attached to the sides of tables, and just knows. He'd known this was a research building, just not what kind. He's been standing here, in the middle of the room, with his heart pounding in his ears, by the time Steve texts. ]
Found a lab. [ were it anyone else, there would be a 'fine' attached to that, but he's made a habit of not lying to steve. ]
[ Because he knows what places like that do to him, and Steve doesn't even hesitate to drop exploring the rest of the floor he's on, making his way towards the staircase and moving down them much faster than he'd walked up. One flight isn't enough to take very long, but he knows what that word means to him, has known since the very first time they'd met. He only wishes he'd known what had been on that particularly level; all Steve had found on his had been a bunch of empty beds, and he would have preferred Andyr finding that instead. ]
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