paradisalogs | Lets (not) talk about sex

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church,
tex

Lets (not) talk about sex

Who: Church and Tex
What: the long avoided conversation about awkward happenings during The Gentlemen plot
When: Tuesday night
Where: Church's room.
Rating: R for language at least.

Mason was off the leash and running, he'd been nosing through the halls with some sort of purpose until he found a door and ran inside, tail wagging like crazy.

"God dammed dog, I've shot people for less than this." The black armored form muttered and tromped after the canine. It wasn't until she crossed the threshold that she realized whose room she'd stepped into.

Fuck

Yeah, Church's room and of course the dog was running right up to him, eager to lick his face and give all the affection in the world like it was no big deal. She hadn't been back to his room since the silence and violence of the Gentlemen. She'd been human and for once she'd been really and truly scared for her life.

Church had helped her adjust, and protected her. Hell he'd even stayed up all night to make sure she slept and...as they say one thing lead to another, and it kept leading there an awful lot.

But that had been the fear and the situation right? Things were different, or rather back to normal now. It seemed stupid that she'd avoided him, no not avoided. She'd just been busy, anywhere he wasn't and doing anything not involving him. Totally not avoiding him. Right.

So she just stood there in the doorway, not quite stepping fully inside and not saying anything, just sort of holding the leash in her hand as if that was all that needed to be said.

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"Hey Mason," Church ruffled the dogs fur and tried to keep him from slobbering all over. He hadn't exactly been fond of the dog at first, but over the week he'd kind of grown to like the overly friendly mutt.

Yeah, he'd been trying not to think too much about that week. What happened, happened and that was that... no need to dwell on it, right? Besides, he had other things that he needed to do since then. Busy, busy that was him.

He glanced from Mason to Tex who was back to her old self, and back to the dog. "Looks like play time is over."

"I got my voice and body back, if that's what you mean." She stood there awkwardly bulky in the doorway for another moment before she stepped slightly inside.

Only to stand awkwardly next to the door for a quiet minute.

"Sorry about the dog, he gets off the leash and just runs sometimes. I guess he remembered getting food here or something."

Not like he might remember laying on the bed with them and getting his belly rubbed and ears scratched by two very relaxed people.

"Huh, uh oh... No, I meant he was going back on the leash actually." Well, this was going to be all kinds of awkward wasn't it. Ok, so that could have been taken as a comment on her being back in her old body.

"It's fine, you know how dogs are... probably left a bag of treats in here somewhere." Yeah, not like this had been his home for a week or anything. Or that he'd been spoiled rotten by them in that time.

Of course the dog hadn't been the only one... "You wanna' sit down or something?" Other than hover there awkwardly.

"Oh..right." Sure he meant the dog.

"Yeah, something...food." She couldn't fault the dog for that, actually eating and tasting real food had been the one thing she would miss the most.

Ok, maybe it was the thing she would miss second most. The other things had been amazing, knowing that she was missing out on that fucking sucked.

"I was just gonna.." She gestured with a hooked thumb to the hall but had no follow up for it. "Ok, sure." She walked, no rush, just a stroll and super casual seat. N big deal.

And that was the worst part about going back. Stuck back in a walking suit of armor, knowing what you were missing.

"Right, you probably want to finish taking him for his walk or something." You anything but hang around... Except that she's actually going to sit down. Hey no big deal, just hanging out. They can do that.

"Oh, well ok... cool." Mason jumps up on the bed and makes himself comfortable, tail thumping happily against the mattress.

Tex took a seat and sat there quietly, watching Mason do that things happy dogs did when they felt like they were going to get attention.

"We were coming back in from his walk, he just ran right in here." By way of further explanation, not like she hadn't been wandering in this general direction or anything.

"So...about what happened." Yeah that sounded great. She snorted and shook her head. "You looked after me, thanks." Her over simplification skills were awesome.

"Right, sure..." Not like his room was a floor above hers and totally out of the way, unless she was walking Mason on the roof.

He ran a hand through his hair and shrugged. "That's just what you do for your team... uh, the looking out for each other thing." The rest of what happened, not so much.

"I know you Freelancers aren't too good at the whole teamwork thing, guess that's just one thing we Sim Idiots have in our favor." He gives her a teasing smirk.

Her head snapped up sharply and she leaned just a bit, but she eased back quickly, her hands resting on her knees. "Right, the team." Sure he meant looking out for her not..the other things. Sure, that's what he meant..right?

"We're great with the teamwork thing, just only with Freelancers and only when the objective is clear from the start. There's only a couple of us that tend to be loners." Pretty much all the females, go figure.

"Just a couple, like nearly every single one I've met." He chuckled.

He's quiet for a moment before clearing his throat, or simulating it anyway. He'd been meaning to ask her this for a while, but it seemed like a fight or some bullshit always got in the way. It didn't help that the last time he tried to talk about it, it triggered a huge argument.

"So uh... I know you just finished walking him, but I was um, you know... I was thinking that maybe, if you had the time... that we could finally go to Stark Tower and uh, get your body taken care of..." It wouldn't be quite finished but she'd be a step closer to having a body like his, a body that could... he tried to push that thought aside. What happened, happened and he shouldn't read into it. She made it clear she broke up with him. It was just sex. She had a body again and he was lucky enough to be the guy around.

"If you want to."

She'd probably find some other guy to date once she had a body like his. That's really the only thing holding her back. That and maybe the whole psycho-bitch thing, but that's never stopped South.

"You didn't see us back in the program days. Some of the ops that ran were all about team work and not leaving someone behind." Not that she had always been part of the team or anything.

"Taken care of? Is there a problem?" She knew it! She knew something would happen and it wouldn't work. After she had the chance to be in a real body, to really experience life she just knew something would go wrong to stop her from having the next best thing.

"Yeah, if you're not doing anything." She shrugged casually. Sure no big deal, just the chance to have a life outside the armor. A chance to feel things again, to... yeah. He already said he just did what he would have done for anyone. No need to read more into it than that.

"No, no problem. You just have to tell JARVIS what you want to look like." He stood and looked around before shrugging. "Nothing that can't wait."

Not like he had a lot going on. Not like she would always be his first priority.

"Jarvis? I thought your girlfriend was building it." That could have, and usually would have been said was far more sting to it. This came out oddly questioning instead, which she covered by looking down to hook the lead onto the dog's collar.

"No, look I told you I'm just using her workshop. JARVIS is the building's AI, he's the one running all the machinery." He sighs and folds his arms across his chest defensively. God he didn't want to get into this again.

"She's not my girlfriend... ok."

"Ok, jesus." So this Jarvis was an AI, that should be fun. She wondered if he knew what Church was if he'd know what Tex was. How would Church take that kind of news? Apparently it hadn't been enough of an issue to stop Church from spending time there. Not that she was jealous or anything. Of course not.

"No? Good." Note of satisfaction at his response and she was already in motion before he could call her on it. "So I'll put the mutt away and we can head out, unless there's a place to keep him while we're there."

"Uh, we could put him in my room I guess." There's a hint of confusion in his voice, was she just jealous to be jealous or...?

He scrawled a quick note to Nat letting her know they were on the way and tossed his journal aside to follow her.

Just leave it at or, Church. "Sure, your room." Yeah, maybe the dog would mess the place up a little too, bonus.

Tex knew the way, she'd found out what she could about it after he'd mentioned it but never gone inside. She told herself that it was because she didn't care, but the truth was she didn't want to wind up doing something impulsive..like shooting someone. It happened from time to time.

It wasn't exactly hard to find, the largest most ostentatious building aside from the castle and maybe the cathedral. He'd appreciate her restraint if he knew. Frankly it was kind of stressful thinking about the chance that something like that could happen.

The walk was at least pretty an autumn stroll through the forested part of the road. Lots of things for Mason to sniff at along the way. Yup, just a casual walk... one that not long ago they may have made hand in hand.

Ah yes, they've reached a companionable sort of silence as they walked, pausing now and again while Mason nosed into this or that. It was friendly more or less.

"So...we fucked." Yeah, that was Tex and subtlety; like oil and water except the oil is on fire.

Church stopped with the suddenness of having walked into an invisible wall. Ok so the subject wasn't going to be ignored forever. Leave it to Tex to just throw it out there.

"Uh yeah, yeah we did."

I mean what else can he say about it when it's just presented as a statement of fact? Was she ok with it, was she going to kick his ass and leave him in the woods? Granted she didn't seem upset, she didn't seem particularly thrilled about it either.

"I mean it was good and all." It had been fucking amazing, but she didn't need to say that. "But I don't expect anything, not reading into it or anything."

Yep, she'd been human and things had been emotional and they had spent a week having really fucking mind blowing sex to help her get through the fear. Sure, that was it..hell it was probably therapeutic or something.

"Oh, yeah no... of course not. Pfft. God, I mean why would you read anything into it?"

It had just been a week of holding hands, cuddling her to sleep and oh yeah, amazing fucking sex every time she happened to get bored. And she was bored a lot he might add.

"But uh, if you were going to read into it...?"

"Yeah, right?"

A week of having something that resembled a normal life, with death threats around every corner. But a week spent with a level of intimacy unknown to her outside of memory templates.

"Look, I get it. You were looking after me like you would for anybody. You said it yourself. I'm not going to think this means we're involved or something or that you want to be. You've made it clear since I got here how you feel about things."

"How I feel? What exactly do you think I've 'made clear'?"

If she knew, he'd love to hear it because he wasn't sure how he felt... except that as much as he tried to deny it, he loved her. Ok yeah, he said he'd look out for anyone on the team, but if she thought that meant he'd cuddle Tucker to sleep she's fuckin' crazy.

Really? Really gonna question that? She sighed and stopped, tugging Mason back from his excited dash toward a tree.

"You don't want my help, you practically begged that fucking T-rex to go after you rather than letting me deal with it. You weren't even going to tell me about the body thing and you've been acting like you don't want me here from day one."

What was she supposed to think? They had always been antagonistic but this had been set aside for survival since she arrived, hell they'd had their problems since day one this place jut gave him more options, better options than her.

"I didn't want you get hurt! You didn't have a spare body, I did and I didn't have time to explain it to you.

He pinched the bridge of his nose briefly before running his hands through his hair. Why did she always have to make everything so difficult!

"I didn't tell you about the body right off because I wanted to know I could get you one too. Because I didn't want to upset you... I admit it, I fucked that up!"

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