i want to live where soul meets body; (open log)

[overdraws]

CHARACTERS: Allison Argent and you!
LOCATION: Open starters at SEC HQ, the gardens, the kitchens, misc
WARNINGS: N/A (will update if necessary)
SUMMARY: an open log for most of march.
NOTES: Let me know if you want a specific starter for you, or leave one of your own! Feel free to interrupt the prompts at any time, too, they're not set in stone.


SEC HQ
[ She's a hard worker, this one. When she's on shift, if she's not out actively patrolling, she's here, doing her best to keep her own 'paper'work filed, and maybe working on some of the backlog, too. Edgeworth's desk is still piled up and it grows every day. It's the least she can do, right? Sometimes she's just here on break, leafing through a book she's found in the library (although most of it goes right over her head, considering it all references things she has no idea about) or she's watching an episode of All My Universes on her comm. Isadora is crazy, isn't she!? ]


Oxygen Gardens/9th floor Kitchens
[ Running helps her keep her mind clear. It was one of the things she did back home when she was having a rough time with things, and here it provides her with a strange sense of comfort. A forest is a forest, even if the terrain is completely different. She does her best to stick to the main paths while she jogs, trying not to get in the way of anyone working or otherwise out. When she's done, she heads to the kitchens for a bottle of water, sitting on the counter and drinking it with her eyes closed. She needs to go to the showers next, but the breather is nice. So she's savoring it. ]

Comments

[doggedly]

No.

[He lets his eyebrows slide a little higher, like it's a challenge. Wanna make something of it, Argent?]

Truth or dare?

[overdraws]

[ Challenge accepted, Black. ] Dare.

[doggedly]

[Good.]

I dare you to kiss me. Right now. And for the record, quick kisses are cheating.



[remember how they're technically on duty ha ha awesome]

[overdraws]

[ Dammit. ] Sirius, we're on duty, we can't.

[ Nevermind the fact that they're playing Truth or Dare while on duty. Shh. ]

[doggedly]

[His mouth curls up in a smirk.]

Using work to get out of a dare? Argent.

[His eyes slide shut for a moment, brief and scandalised, and he presses a hand to his chest as if to steady his heart.]

That's lame.

[overdraws]

[ She sighs at him, and she's actually torn (ten points to Gryffindor for that, Sirius). She'd like to kiss him again-- just to see if she really could like him. And also because she doesn't want to back down from this challenge. But. What if someone came in? What if something happened? ] Sirius, if Tyke or anyone were to walk in—

[doggedly]

She'll be happy for us.

[She won't be. But he leans closer--not invasively so, just closer, bridging the gap between them on the sofa.]

And anyway, it's a dare, isn't it. Tyke has to respect the sacred bounds of dares. Everyone has to respect those sacred bounds. Especially you.

[And also:]

Come on. What's one more time, after you already enjoyed it once, eh?

[overdraws]

She won't be, she'll be mad we're goofing off. [ But it's not a no, and when he gets closer, Allison doesn't move away. She takes a breath. ] How quick is too quick?

[doggedly]

[He nods, at her assessment of Tyke's reaction--no use arguing--but no use in trying to convince him that it isn't worth it, either.

So.]

Count to twenty.

[Reasonable number. If this were any other circumstance, he would have leaned in long before now and just kissed her himself--but this is a dare. That means initiative, and not from him.

So. Patient but expectant, too, he ticks his eyebrows up.]

[overdraws]

[ She looks, and feels, for a moment like she's going to protest. And then she leans in and kisses him, It's a proper one, too—she's not trying to be chaste about it at all. If she's counting to twenty pretty slowly, Sirius probably won't notice, right? ]

[doggedly]

[Of course Sirius doesn't notice.

Just kidding: he notices, and he likes it. Twenty seconds, stretching out past twenty--a good and proper kiss--what's not to like? Carefully, he touches her cheek, the fingertips of his left hand just barely a press against her skin. Not enough to scare her off or break the kiss, but still present.

If she's not going to be chaste in this kiss, then neither is he, and he returns it with just a hint of force.]

[overdraws]

[ She brings her own hand up to his face, putting a little more pressure than he's using on her, a tacit approval of his touch. Allison returns his force with her own, pressing her body closer to his.

It's good. It's not amazing, by any means, but it's nice, and Allison is enjoying herself (despite still worrying in the back of her mind that they were going to get caught and in so much trouble). She pulls away when the count is up, although she doesn't go far, licking her lips and watching his face. ] Truth or Dare.

[doggedly]

[He doesn't chase her, when she pulls out of the kiss. Instead, he smiles at her. They're still quite close, close enough that he could lean back in if he wanted to.

Not his style. Instead he glances down, to where her tongue swipes at her lip. And then back at her eyes.]

You choose for me.

[overdraws]

Isn't that cheating? [ She's teasing a little, maybe stalling while she tries to calm her heart down from how it's pounding. ] What if I just dare you to do it again?

[doggedly]

Then I s'ppose I'd have to do it again.

[Oh, tragedy.]

Or risk punishment. I dunno. It's really up to you.

[overdraws]

I think you should pick. [ She finally sits back a little bit, resisting the urge to sit on her hands because that would make it obvious she'd like to touch him again. ]

Or we could stop playing and get back to work.

[doggedly]

That's my alternative?

[Pick Truth or Dare for himself, or get back to work: Allison has left him little choice. And an easy choice. He's not yet leaned away from her yet, still quite close, the cushions of the sofa bowing inwards to help tilt them toward one another.]

Dare.