"It's a request," Octavia said, watching him. Trying not to suddenly feel like this should make her nervous to do. (Trying not to feel like it was making her nervous.) "That you don't sleep with him before we do. I mean, before we all do. Together."
Tiny shrug.
Vulnerable.
"Just feels like... a step we should take together, if we're going to."
"I was a little hurt when you talked to him without telling me first. Did you really think I wouldn't understand wanting to wait until the three of us are together to have sex again?"
"It's not that I didn't think you'd understand," Octavia said, as her eyes opened again. "I'm just figuring out how to stay on the same page with you."
"Several," Duke said. "Four Fs are nice and easy to remember, though." He held up his hand and counted off on his fingers. "French, feel, finger, fuck."
Octavia hadn't thought of it like that. So now she was assuming he was just talking about himself and Lucifer.
Communication was hard.
"Probably the second one?" she offered after a second of faintly hesitant chewing on her lip. "Though I don't know how much feeling there is for you to even do."
"We want to start this on even footing, right?" Duke asked. "Really be the three of us, and not just us as a couple asking him to be an occasional third?"
As someone who'd been that 'occasional third' for people over the years, Duke had fairly strong opinions about that role.
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Tiny shrug.
Vulnerable.
"Just feels like... a step we should take together, if we're going to."
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"Okay. I won't."
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Seemed like something to be honest and open about.
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"I'm sorry I didn't tell you."
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Sorry, she was going to get distracted by that for a second.
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"Okay, those make more sense than the bases."
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He was assuming that he and Octavia would refrain without Lucifer for a bit, as well.
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Communication was hard.
"Probably the second one?" she offered after a second of faintly hesitant chewing on her lip. "Though I don't know how much feeling there is for you to even do."
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. . . Maybe that was a hint of what he'd been thinking, yeah.
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Yeah, no hints taken.
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“Ah,” he said. “Right. I guess that makes sense.”
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She looked confused.
"What?"
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That wasn't her objecting. She just genuinely had not thought of it that way.
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As someone who'd been that 'occasional third' for people over the years, Duke had fairly strong opinions about that role.
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But she didn't have a reason not to go with what he was actually proposing. "Oh," she said. "Well, okay."
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