[ ai understands the lie he hasn't even voiced, and their lips meet.

he almost freezes again, for a moment - and then he kisses back, hungry and needy and utterly, utterly terrified. always listen to me. never hear me. always see through me. never look at me. as your servant, i forbid you from leaving. a hundred little contradictions in one. fitting, for something like him.

he's not sure when he pulls her away from the wall, down onto the floor of the apartment. probably sometime after he bites her lower lip and she whimpers, teary and submissive and just as needy for him as he feels for her. he's not sure when his stole and shirt came undone - when his sunken, skinny chest finally became visible for the first time - or when hers came off either, come to think of it.

it doesn't matter. none of this matters. all that matters is that her lips are against his and her tongue brushes his and that he's finally, finally found her. ]

You stupid- stupid, stupid bitch, [ he whispers into the untouched part of her neck, his shoulders shuddering and his voice quaking beneath the weight. ] You can never go back from something like this. You'll be tainted. Defiled, even more than you already are.

[ she's so pure. so fragile. so beautiful, so perfect, so full of kindness and mischief and desire and lies. the thought of staining his titania's lily white dress - it hurts, even like this. ]

Beg if you have regrets. Maybe I'll listen.

[ even he's no longer sure where lie begins and ends. ]