Room 334, Copacabana Palace, Rio, Sunday Morning

[whenshewasnice]

Despite some major bumps along the way, this Spring Break week had righted itself eventually, even if it hadn't been without a lot of painful past things discussed. Natalie supposed that was something you did when you wanted your relationship to be about more than just hanging out.

Not that that made it any easier.

But waking up seemed to be easy today, at least in the sense that coming into consciousness wasn't immediately followed by being metaphorically hit in the face with the mistakes of days past. With a sigh, she covered the arm around her with her own, and slid her fingers between Sam's. This morning was already better than the previous one had been.

[ooc: For one, and inna separate post to not break the trip one (again, sorry about that)!]

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[whenshewasnice]

"Mmhmm. And what would you like me to read to you? The morning paper?" She sighed again, smiling a bit at the ceiling. "You're pretty bossy this morning, Samhain."

[necroslacker]

"I'm sure you've got a book or two with you that I'd be interested in," he murmured, pressing a line of kisses against her neck and jaw. "Besides, I bet you'd actually like reading to me."

[whenshewasnice]

"Oh?" she asked, tilting her head backwards a bit. More skin exposed, as if there wasn't enough already. "Why do you think that?"

He was probably not wrong.

[necroslacker]

"You love reading and you like me," he explained, moving to kiss her chin and the underside of her throat. "If you can combine two things like that, why wouldn't you?"

[whenshewasnice]

"Guess that makes sense," she murmured, even if it wasn't something she'd ever considered before. "Guess that could be fun. But I doubt that would be your first choice."

[necroslacker]

"Would it be yours?" he asked, pushing himself up to look down at her now. "We can do things you wanna do, you know. I don't mind."

[whenshewasnice]

"Eh, maybe later," Natalie replied, and she would've shrugged if the circumstances had allowed for it. There was a little smile on her on lips. "We're not in a hurry to leave, are we?"

[necroslacker]

Sam leaned down and kissed that smile, letting himself linger there. "We're not in a hurry, nope. There's still time to...well, we still have to decide what to do with that time."

[whenshewasnice]

"So, something where we don't have to leave the bed," Natalie murmured, pretending to give that some serious thought. "Hmm. I'm drawing a blank."

No, she wasn't.

[necroslacker]

"Are you?" He didn't think she was drawing a blank either. He kissed her again anyway. "I doubt that. You're the woman with big ideas this morning."

[whenshewasnice]

"Maybe I used up all my big ideas already," she suggested, reaching up to better respond to his kisses. "It was a major one, after all."

[necroslacker]

"I'm a slacker," he mumbled against her lips. "You shouldn't expect me to have big ideas at all. It's major enough that I'm awake and active right now."

[whenshewasnice]

"You're also a teenaged guy," she murmured, amused. "And all over me. I think some ideas should come pretty naturally. I know from experience they have before."

[necroslacker]

"Past experience?" Sam asked, feigning confusion. "And just what past experience are you referring to?"

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie rolled her eyes at him. "You know what I'm talking about," she said. "Skin to skin like in your dreams."

Yeah, she was going to make it known that she remembered him admitting that.

[necroslacker]

"Hey, I told you that in confidence, not so you could use it against me," he said and nipped at her chin. "Besides, we're skin to skin right now."

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie resisted the urge to point out that anything said in confidence inherently included the risk of it getting used against you later.

"There was something about heavy breathing too," she replied instead. "None of that right now."

[necroslacker]

"I could touch the back of your knee," Sam teased, moving his leg against hers because he could. "I bet that'd get you breathing heavily."

[whenshewasnice]

"I told you that in confidence," Natalie parroted at him. Just to be bratty. Or playful. "But you're not wrong."

[necroslacker]

"So, you want me to give the back of your knee some attention?" Sam asked, looking down at where his leg was moving against hers. "I could."

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie shifted her leg against his, just a bit. "That's such a weird question." Even though it was her body, she could still acknowledge that much. "And doesn't sound very fulfilling for you."

Oh, look at her, being the concerned lover.

[necroslacker]

Sam snickered and shook his head lightly, amused. "So, you wanna do it the old fashioned way, hmm?"

He could get behind that. Or behind her. Wait no, that was a dirty thought and he tried to shake it away for a second.

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie snickered. It might have been for noticing he was probably trying not to think something. "Yeah," she nodded up at him, "I guess I do."

She definitely did.

[necroslacker]

Sam pretended to think about it for...two seconds before he said, "Okay," and swooped down to capture her mouth in a deep, hard kiss.

See, he definitely wanted to do things the old fashioned way as well.

[whenshewasnice]

Natalie could tell. It could be inferred from that pretty aggressive kiss which she was responding to with about as much eagerness. Last morning in Brazil, make it count, all that.

She even slid her leg along his again for some little movement.