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POSTED ON Aug 9, 2022 20:41:27 GMT

She gave him a look. “A bar?” she asked, trying to put together the image of Isaac-- her Isaac, all five-foot-four of him-- standing behind a big old-fashioned bar with a wall of booze towering behind him.

That wasn’t entirely fair. She needed to not infantilize him, confusing feelings notwithstanding.

“I want the friends and family discount,” she said, smiling.

Her hand felt heavy when he took it in his, trying to assuage her fears. “I think it’s very… compassionate, of you,” she said, struggling to find the words. “It’s a very good idea, and I think you’ll do great. I’m just… worried about the powers that be.” If word got out about an underground group of anti-League individuals…

Like always, he found a way to chase the shadows out of her thoughts. She allowed him this victory, sliding to lay down beside him and rest her head on his chest, one arm thrown over his stomach.

“There’s a lot more to you than I first realized,” she said, voice soft, not quite knowing what she, herself, meant.

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[attr="class","skullbody"]Isaac rolled his eyes at Cygne's snap reaction, but the fond smile on his face went nowhere. "Yeah, yeah, laugh it up while you can," Isaac said. "But just think. With a face this fresh, once everyone else starts feeling their 30s I'm gonna look hot. So, you can look forward to that." A cheeky wink sent that tease off in style.

After her original surprise wore off, Cygne seemed all in on Isaac's new line of work. "Aw, you think all you'll get is a discount," Isaac said, smirking. "Please, drinks'd totally be on me. Thooooough if you give a big tip to make me look impressive, I'll totally take that win." The collusion! How sinister! Truly, Isaac was one of Rocket's most diabolical masterminds.[break][break]

He pondered on Cygne's woes and worries as she nestled her head onto his chest. "I've got my ways of trying to keep it on the DL," Isaac said. "And the League's got tons of bigger Goldeen to grill, as is. Rocket, the meteor, literally aliens and travelers from other dimensions. Some rinky-dink little smuggler's cove is, like, nothing in comparison. Especially if we all keep our heads down instead of raising any hell."[break][break]

That was his case made. Now, with a gentle kiss on Cygne forehead, he made his peace as well. "But if it ever gets too risky, or I get in over my head, I'll pull out," he told her. "I'm not worrying you like that. Not again. I promise."[break][break]

Something about Cygne's statement stuck in Isaac's head. He sighed, his chest rising and falling against Cygne's head ever so slightly. His voice trailed off slightly as he tried to find the way to sum up his thoughts. "Heh . . ."[break][break]

"Y'know, it's funny. There's more to me than I realized, too."

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POSTED ON Aug 16, 2022 21:36:47 GMT

She was tracing a line down the crux of his chest with one finger, letting her eyes fall closed and listen to the beating of his heart. “Mmm, I’m going to have to beat drunk people off you with a stick,” she said, the joke lost in the drowsy, saccharine cadence of her voice. She had a different idea on tips but she kept this bit to herself, for now.

“I suppose,” she allowed, wanting desperately to believe he was right, “but that means you actually have to keep your head down.” She was torn between trusting Isaac to take care of himself-- which she did, she totally did-- while also being at odds with the world in general. It had little mercy for people who did good things.

His lips pressed to her forehead like a soothing balm over her thoughts, and he promised to be safe. And it was a heavy moment, his words like an oath, but she couldn’t help herself, this time,

“You’ll pull out, huh?”

She snickered unapologetically into his chest.

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POSTED ON Aug 17, 2022 1:51:12 GMT

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[attr="class","skullbody"]"Oh, c'mon. You don't think I'm that irresistible, do you?" Isaac asked, winking at Cygne as he flashed her a winning smile. He was definitely teasing her now. Her body language, her vocal tone, the sheer longing in her eyes made it all too clear how he felt. But maybe, just maybe, Isaac wanted to her it in her own voice.[break][break]

Such irresistibility could be a blessing and a curse alike. She seemed to be worried that Isaac would get swept up in the community he'd created, or perhaps his community would get swept up in him. Maybe they'd mutually egg each other on with no clear culprit. Or a bad actor could steer the whole ship in a direction Isaac never intended. The emphasis on keeping his head down was clear, a noted departure in tone from the flirts they were throwing around before and after.[break][break]

Despite this, his promise seemed to resonate with her. She looked up at him, the smile on her face something he wanted nothing more than to cherish and protect. And then she hit him with a hell of an innuendo before snickering directly into his chest. The smirk on her face was like the cat that just caught the canary, a perfect match for the blush that spread across Isaac's own.[break][break]

He sat there for a moment as if stunned, his only movement a single hand running through Cygne's hair. And then he leaned towards her, so close that his lips could brush against her ear as he whispered. "I could choose not to, if you wanted," he teased, voice low and breathy.[break][break]

Perhaps, with her head nestled against his chest, Cygne would notice how Isaac's own heart skipped a beat at such a daring taunt. But the smirk on his face and the mischievous twinkle in his eye were the perfect smokescreens. Two could play at this game, and when it came to Cygne, each and every type of game on the table.[break][break]

God, it was nice having some alone time.

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POSTED ON Aug 20, 2022 1:26:00 GMT

He looked, for a second, like a deer caught in the headlights; and for all that she thought he was going to turn red and dissolve into laughter with her, he shocked her even more by doubling down. Then it was her turn to freeze, his breath on the shell of her ear making goosebumps rise along her neck and shoulders.

She made a sound halfway between a gasp and a growl as she pushes him fully onto his back, astride his hips once more-- not a half-hearted tackle, this time, but something with intent as she kisses him with a little less grace and a lot more heat than before. She’s got his hands pinned up above his head, and she’d love to keep them there, but it’s counterproductive to taking his, her, their clothes off, which desperately needs to happen.

She settles for releasing one so she can slip a thumb in the band of her bikini bottoms and, inelegantly but efficiently, shuck them down her legs, leaving them coiled around one ankle as she moves her lips from Isaac’s mouth to the line of his jaw, his neck, the thrum of his pulse in his throat.

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POSTED ON Aug 20, 2022 3:32:25 GMT

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[attr="class","skullbody"]Isaac's eyes widened in shock as Cygne pushed him down into the sand. He asked her a question, and oh boy did she choose an answer. Her graceful, elegant kisses had given way to what could only be described as pure need. Every sound she made and twist of her body was heavy with intent. The atmosphere between the two would have been electric, but there was barely any space between the two within which atmosphere could exist. Her hands were on his wrists and her body was pressed so tightly against his and her lips, well, was there any space on his face where her lips weren't visiting?[break][break]

Their pulses had practically blended into one. Isaac could feel Cygne's need- no, her craving, in the pressure of her fingertips against his wrists. He could feel it in the way her thighs squeezed his hips together, as if holding on for dear life. He could feel it in the soft growling sounds that tickled his ears between every kiss, each one hotter and heavier than the last.[break][break]

Then her intent magnified itself sevenfold. Isaac's eyes watched Cygne's hand, hypnotized, as it dropped down to the curve of her hips. He could only stare in awe as she hooked a thumb around the band of her bikini bottoms, and then-[break][break]

It was Isaac's first day helping out behind the bar at Howling at the Moon. The usual bar guy was out, and, well, by this point Isaac had already proven himself a capable pair of hands. Besides, how hard could it be? House recipes were right there on the menu, and the classics? Oh, everybody'd picked up the classics by osmosis at this point. Why, here came one now![break][break]

One part vodka.[break]
One part peach schnapps.[break]
One part orange juice.[break]
One part cranberry juice.[break][break]

Huh. What was that one called again?

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2022 13:45:49 GMT

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She was slightly out of breath (out of practice) and sore in a good way (again, out of practice) and suddenly very warm and sleepy (from being human, baby.)

Nuzzling into the crook of his neck, their legs tangled together, she had one arm crossed over Isaac’s chest and was drawing lazy circles in the palm of his right hand with one fingertip.

“Happy end of the world,” she murmured against his throat, feeling like it could end, right now, and she’d still be happier than maybe ever before. "Do you want to spend the night at my place tonight?"

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POSTED ON Aug 21, 2022 20:39:56 GMT

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[attr="class","skullbody"]Isaac's breaths were soft yet heavy. There was a dreamy look in his eyes and a permanent smile etched on his face. One of his arms was lazily draped around Cygne's shoulders, softly stroking the curve of her shoulder. The other he had completely ceded to her, letting her draw those soft, gentle circles on his palm for a last lingering bit of physical stimulation.[break][break]

At her offer, he softly pressed a kiss against her forehead. "Nowhere I'd rather spend it," he admitted, still so close to her that his lips tickled her forehead.[break][break]

His hand moved from her shoulder to her back, tracing little, feather-light touches across it. This picnic had been perfect. Okay, so the picnic barely got started before it had been . . . well, interrupted. But there was no chance in hell Isaac was going to complain about an interruption like that.[break][break]

He looked to the sky, a soft sigh escaping his lips. Wait. Right. Sky. It was dark. The sun had gone down long ago (not that it was the only thing going down that day, but Isaac digressed). There wasn't a cloud in sight. It was perfect. Perfect for what? Was there something else he'd planned today?[break][break]

Right! There was! Isaac could still barely feel his body, but his eyes snapped open in a state of half-awareness. "Fireworks . . ." he half mumbled, half sighed. Okay, so he was still so KO'd from that amazing night that he could barely get his thoughts strung together. But surely Cygne would realize what he meant!

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POSTED ON Aug 24, 2022 21:28:26 GMT

She felt the idea roll through Isaac like a stormfront. In his post-coital, slightly fuzzy state his expression puzzled like an infant with technology-- his brow furrowed and she could almost see the little hamster running on his wheel, again.

She did not understand what he was talking about.

“Fireworks?” she parroted, grinning.

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[attr="class","skullbody"]"Yeah! Fireworks," he repeated, a bit of excitement creeping into his voice as he remembered his own schemes. "Like. Literal fireworks. Not the other kind. For you. I got them. Plenty of them."[break][break]

There we go, Isaac. Now you were starting to use your people words, and not your fuzzy brained, I just had my world rocked semi-words. He looked down at the tangle of limbs, knowing that in almost any other context he would have rather just remained swept up in it at least until morning. "Mind if I slip out real quick?" he asked, giving Cygne a warm kiss just for good measure. "Don't worry, I'll be right back."[break][break]

Not only would this be a much needed chance for him to cover up, but it would also mean he could finally unveil his special surprise. He headed over to the large tarp he'd set up in the middle of the beach. He was frankly amazed Cygne didn't ask any questions about it before, but to say the two had tunnel vision for each other that evening would've been an understatement. Like, massively so.[break][break]

With a flourish, he whipped the tarp off, revealing an impressive spread of firework boxes. See? When he said literal fireworks, he meant it! "Who needs the main stage?" he asked, the grin on his face downright triumphant. "When you've got your own personal firework show right here?"[break][break]

And all it took was a deal with a smuggler and a high-speed chase with Julia Davis. Easy.

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POSTED ON Aug 28, 2022 13:17:29 GMT

Cyg grinned at him, following the theme of his words if not the meaning. He was clearly excited about something and it wasn’t just the sex. “Yeah, go ahead,” she said, somehow extrapolating herself from him long enough for him to get up.

Yeah, the tunnel vision thing was real. That or she was just used to people leaving trash at the beach. Not her monkeys, not her circus.

She sat up more, squinting in the lingering dark to try and see what the hell he was talking about and-- “Holy shit.”

Pushing herself to her feet (and remembering to reclothe) she crossed the beach to look at his treasure trove of explosives.

“Wow, Isaac, that’s a lot of ordinance you’re packing,” she said, hands on her hips, grin starlight bright. “Don’t tell me you bought those for me?”

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POSTED ON Aug 28, 2022 23:25:25 GMT

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[attr="class","skullbody"]"Oh, you know it," Isaac said, his own smile equal parts radiant and daring. Okay, so technically he bought the services of a smuggler, who proceeded to acquire those fireworks in fashions Isaac wasn't going to ask about. But the net result was the same; insert money, receive firework. If Julia Davis didn't see it that way, that sounded like a her problem, not an Isaac problem.[break][break]

It was a beautiful set, too. The stack of boxes was a cube half as tall as Isaac (which in some cases wasn't impressive, but in the case of rare fireworks absolutely was). It included everything from little tubes of bottle rockets to the massive monster lightshows illegal anywhere outside of Orre. Different colors, different shapes, different levels of crackle. It was an absolute feast for the senses, and Isaac couldn't be prouder as he started unstacking the display for Cygne.[break][break]

"Now, here's the real question," Isaac said, pacing thoughtfully as he eyed the boxes of fireworks. After their little . . . interruption, the sky had turned a deep, inky black. It was the perfect time to actually set these bad boys off. But how was he going to go about it?[break][break]

"You wanna just sit back and watch the show?" he asked. "Or would you like to do the honors? Figure you'd be good at it. Y'know, with how much you light my life up." He just couldn't resist the pun, no matter how equal parts cheeky and cheesy (cheesky? cheeksy?) it was.[break][break]

But, in general, Cygne made it hard for Isaac to resist much of anything. So it all evened out.

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She arched an eyebrow at him because there was no way in hell he came across all of these explosives legally. But she wasn’t going to pry. Part of inter-criminal dating was that you understood: secrets came with the territory.

It was a beautiful pile of explosives. Cyg was even getting nervous standing next to it-- and she was almost a bona fide pyromaniac.

Then he said the dumbest thing she thought she’d ever heard and her smile could literally not grow bigger. “Oh, my god, you’re such a dork,” she said, high-stepping over a carton of bottle rockets. “Why don’t you do half and I’ll do half, since you did all of the work and it’s a gift for me.” She leaned in and kissed him on the side of the temple (a sentimentally chaste gesture given their recent activities) as she stood clear of the ridiculously large pile of combustibles.

“You go first.”

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POSTED ON Aug 30, 2022 3:23:52 GMT

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[attr="class","skullbody"]"More like a dork that just put the biggest damn smile on your face," Isaac said, a cheeky grin spreading across his face. "So which of us is really the dork here, hm?" As if for emphasis, he leaned that little bit closer into Cygne, their bodies nestled together as she softly kissed his temple.[break][break]

Her idea was teamwork, and that sounded great in Isaac's books. After all, the two had gotten this far as a tag-team. Why not keep a good thing going? "Sounds like a plan to me," he said, taking a few steps forward as Cygne took a few steps back. Alright. He was starting things off. Excellent.[break][break]

Some people might think that, when starting up a fireworks show, you went in order of small to big. Isaac called those people fools. There were peaks and valleys to this kind of thing! Ebbs and flows! If you just built up in a steady line, you were going to start on a wet fart and overwhelm people before the show was over.[break][break]

No, Isaac made sure to grab the third biggest box there. Start strong, then roll through the tamer stuff while people were still impressed. Alternate them with bigger booms to keep people's attention up, and then save the biggest and baddest box for the climax. It was a foolproof routine, and one that Isaac was basically mapping out as he arranged the fireworks along the boxes.[break][break]

Now he just had to hope everyone was too busy watching their own firework shows to complain about this unsanctioned one.[break][break]

He fished a lighter out from his backpack, dragged the third-biggest box forward, and leaned down to light the fuse. Once it was primed and ready, he ran back by Cygne's side, not wanting to get caught in the splash zone when everything started exploding.[break][break]

And explode it did. Isaac watched with a wide, impressed grin on his face as the sky lit up in every color of the rainbow. "Hey. You know how it feels when you made the right choices in your life?" he asked, settling into a dazed, dreamy stupor as his fingers interlaced with Cygne's. "Cause for once, I sure do."

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