Paloma must thank them for fetching like good boys. Careful to avoid Hyde's mouth, she expresses her gratitude with a tip-toe kiss to each man's jaw. (They would have to lean down for a normal peck on the cheek.)
"Henry! Do you ever spike your tea...? For nerves." She has decency enough to look embarrassed, thumb-twiddling before them.
Jekyll especially appreciates the kiss. He's still having a bit of a hard time, that doesn't just go away immediately... But something nice and chaste and sweet is good!
"Me?" He laughs, him, the shy one who has to pretend he's terribly outgoing all the time? "Don't tell anyone..."
He will certainly have some tea, but first he'll add even more booze in it. "Why should I do that? Bugging him's like my second favourite thing ever." The first being sex.
Meanwhile Jekyll is plenty happy with the amount of alcohol in his tea, just enough to calm the nerves a little, help him pretend like they didn't tell her an awful secret. He gives Paloma a smile, "Thank you. I apologise for my rude brother." Hyde scowls, but doesn't actually do anything about it.
Things have cooled. Everyone's sipping or slurping their tea out of elegant cups and keeping the peace. The bits of liquor in her throat is a welcome anxiety aid.
"I think," Paloma says with extreme caution, "we should talk about ground rules."
Jekyll nods immediately, being of course, the more level-headed one. "Yes, I think that's a very good idea. That's the only way something rather unorthodox will work."
Hyde just shrugs. He might not necessarily follow them, but whatever, they can think they're doing good work. "Like what?"
Clearly they'll have to work on the troublemaker, but she nods decisively in return at Jekyll. They'll have their combined willpower and be unstoppable! No more forced blowjobs or...!!
"Well! A safe word. Mine is, umm..." She stares into the black abyss of her tea. "Charcoal. If I use it, we-we stop."
She doesn't know the half of it, for how useful a safe word will be with him. She hasn't seen him cry during or after sex but still want to keep going! He nods. "Perfect. Anything else...?" Rules for Hyde, in particular? Or in regard to their, um, extracurricular activities?
Here Paloma buys more time with more booze-infused tea, darting her eyes between the twins. One is attentive while other just looks laconic. "Right, umm. Your safe words... but I, I can't tell anyone what we're up to as the three of us. I wish I could be open and not have to lie to anyone, but it'll destroy my career before it's ever taken off."
"I think it's easiest to use the same one, personally." And he looks at Hyde expectantly. Jekyll asked her out first, so he should get to be the public one, right? So Hyde better not mess it up.
"Yeah, whatever, that's fine. You're not gonna hurt my feelings or whatever." And he really, really doesn't need a safe word.
Paloma believes his feelings might be more complicated than he claims, but she leaves the subject alone while in the company of his brother. Getting him on his own and interrogating him gently might do the trick.
She scrubs her face, overwhelmed by this problem's newness. "Thank you. God, I have no idea what else to say about... us. Privacy? Privacy and safety? I'm not on the pill, so even if he's gotten snipped..."
While Hyde's contribution is appreciated and puts to rest her fear after they had VERY unsafe sex, Jekyll's silence is louder than he perhaps intends.
Paloma flaps a dismissive hand at bailey's boy, downing her 'tea' and pouring another one promptly. They need this. "So, yeah. Condoms. You can... secure those. And I'll look into birth control..." Count two of them for blushing angry colors. "Umm. How do we sleep-- or I can call Veronica to pick me up, I don't want to assume!"
She falls silent herself, caught between practicality and a romantic picture of the three piled together in bed like a litter of puppies. If two of the puppies were incestuous twin brothers and the other was no blood relation.
Her tea lifts to her lips but lowers listlessly without a single sip taken to its tray. "It'd be nice not to sleep alone," she mumbles in her tiniest voice yet.
Oh- he almost suggested giving her a room of her own for the night... "I won't be offended if you want to stay with Edward." And being a weenie, it wouldn't be any trouble at all. "Or we...could all share, with you in the middle..."
Sleeping alone after a nice round of sex is her least favorite part of one night stands, closely followed by the dull expressions of someone who'd expected her to leave by morning. Paloma wants badly, badly to experience something new.
She's cringing until he makes his second offer, and she stuffs her trembling hands into her lap to disguise them.
"Could we?" The embroidery on her dress is just fascinating.
"Yes, of course, I wouldn't offer otherwise." For something less intimate and all he would, but being as he thinks it's wrong to even sleep in the same bed, he wouldn't give that as an empty offer.
"Hell yes we can." Naturally Hyde is enthusiastic. "What else is a king size bed for, right?"
Her mouth tugs up st the corners in what might dare to be a smile, or blossom into one given time. The knots in her gut don't pull so taut.
Paloma enjoys a more moderate sip of her hot toddy now that the dilemma of where and how to sleep is resolved. Hyde's almost too enthusiastic... "I do literally mean sleep. The other part... we should take baby steps, you know?" A severe look at the snake charmer who's already been in her panties.
"I know, I know." He'd like it to be a sex pile though.
"You need to learn at least a little self-restraint, it should be a good exercise for you." He says it with a little smile, warming up enough to poke fun at his brother.
The jab is intended for Edward but applies just as well to Paloma, who ramps up the ladylike table manners in an effort to appear above reproach. Restraint? Like how she and Jekyll nearabout fucked at the hotel?
"Yes," she chimes in, avoiding their eyes. "Well! We can figure out more rules as we go, right? Let's eat those leftovers and turn in!"
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"Henry! Do you ever spike your tea...? For nerves." She has decency enough to look embarrassed, thumb-twiddling before them.
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"Me?" He laughs, him, the shy one who has to pretend he's terribly outgoing all the time? "Don't tell anyone..."
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"Me?" A play on his own phrasing, coyly offered. "I'm not like Loose Lips over here."
Who could she possibly refer to!
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Hyde just shrugs, "It'll always get out eventually. But that's not all that's loose." He's a loose slut. And so is Jekyll.
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"Excuse me?" Did he just cast aspersions on the youthful tightness of her vag?
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Blowing on the tea, "Oh. Give him a break, Edward." He's tormented the boy plenty tonight and Jekyll doing nothing to deserve it. "Have a drink."
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Meanwhile Jekyll is plenty happy with the amount of alcohol in his tea, just enough to calm the nerves a little, help him pretend like they didn't tell her an awful secret. He gives Paloma a smile, "Thank you. I apologise for my rude brother." Hyde scowls, but doesn't actually do anything about it.
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"I think," Paloma says with extreme caution, "we should talk about ground rules."
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Hyde just shrugs. He might not necessarily follow them, but whatever, they can think they're doing good work. "Like what?"
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"Well! A safe word. Mine is, umm..." She stares into the black abyss of her tea. "Charcoal. If I use it, we-we stop."
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Here Paloma buys more time with more booze-infused tea, darting her eyes between the twins. One is attentive while other just looks laconic. "Right, umm. Your safe words... but I, I can't tell anyone what we're up to as the three of us. I wish I could be open and not have to lie to anyone, but it'll destroy my career before it's ever taken off."
She's begging Hyde.
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"Yeah, whatever, that's fine. You're not gonna hurt my feelings or whatever." And he really, really doesn't need a safe word.
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She scrubs her face, overwhelmed by this problem's newness. "Thank you. God, I have no idea what else to say about... us. Privacy? Privacy and safety? I'm not on the pill, so even if he's gotten snipped..."
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Jekyll just sits there blushing profusely. He didn't intend to have to talk about things like condom usage because he didn't plan for sex!!
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Paloma flaps a dismissive hand at bailey's boy, downing her 'tea' and pouring another one promptly. They need this. "So, yeah. Condoms. You can... secure those. And I'll look into birth control..." Count two of them for blushing angry colors. "Umm. How do we sleep-- or I can call Veronica to pick me up, I don't want to assume!"
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Her tea lifts to her lips but lowers listlessly without a single sip taken to its tray. "It'd be nice not to sleep alone," she mumbles in her tiniest voice yet.
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She's cringing until he makes his second offer, and she stuffs her trembling hands into her lap to disguise them.
"Could we?" The embroidery on her dress is just fascinating.
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"Hell yes we can." Naturally Hyde is enthusiastic. "What else is a king size bed for, right?"
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Paloma enjoys a more moderate sip of her hot toddy now that the dilemma of where and how to sleep is resolved. Hyde's almost too enthusiastic... "I do literally mean sleep. The other part... we should take baby steps, you know?" A severe look at the snake charmer who's already been in her panties.
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"You need to learn at least a little self-restraint, it should be a good exercise for you." He says it with a little smile, warming up enough to poke fun at his brother.
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"Yes," she chimes in, avoiding their eyes. "Well! We can figure out more rules as we go, right? Let's eat those leftovers and turn in!"