"Does that feel good?"
"Yeah... yeah, it does."
Beastboy and Raven are in the shower. They've got it on at an ungodly hour, so a shower was close to nothing. With her boyfriend resting between her strong legs, Raven shampoos his hair. Her back rests on the tile wall, and her legs stretch to the end of the bath.
She gathers fresh scented shampoo and water into her hands, then massages his scalp.
"Your hair is so fluffy." Raven smiles softly.
"Thanks, Rae." his eyes flutter shut.
Her caring touch hypnotized him into a state of peace. His calloused fingers unconsciously track up Raven's smooth legs.
"Gotta wash the three rounds real good out of your hair, so it's nice and ready for the next go." Raven raises her eyebrow, smirks.
"Put those magic hands of yours to work, princess."
"Hehe." she kisses his sudsy hair, washes above his ears.
"Handsome, powerful, adorable. The full package and I have you all to myself."
Raven levitates a bottle of soap her way. She pours the content in her palms, then lathers Beastboy's broad shoulders and chest.
"That, you do. I've got the sarcastic, show-stopping cutie to go with me."
A bubble floats by, and Raven lightly pops it with a dark hex.
"Raven..."
"Hmm?"
"I don't know... I just..."
"What's the matter, Gar?"
He hesitates.
She urges tenderly, "Talk to me, babe."
"I feel... what's the word... not really "weird" but just," he lifts a small puddle of water in his hands, then lets it run through his basil fingers.
"I just let out a whole ton of emotion. Emotion I didn't even know I had. All that I gave you, you took it without question. I dunno, I just wasn't expecting all of that to turn out to what it did."
"Gar, you have no reason to be ashamed. I'm yours. My job is to take care of your needs and desires. Besides, I didn't have a moment where I wasn't enjoying us. If anything made me uncomfortable, I would have told you to stop. You know, you can tell me what you need, too, right?"
"I do, Raven. It's just one of my instincts to be guilty of feeling, and on top of that, showing what I feel." he kisses the inside of her knee.
"I know, I feel the same way, kind of. But, I want to remind you of how strong and caring you are. You always ask me if I'm ready or okay, and everything you do is to please the both of us, not just yourself. It takes a lot of mental fortitude and emotional management to handle your own emotions, and mine."
Beastboy can't find the words, and maybe, he doesn't need to. The sentimental silence, the sound of her calm breathing, and the touch of her skin was more than enough.
"I never expected my animal instincts to overlap into sex. At least, not at the measure that it did."
"That's totally okay," she lovingly rinses his hair.
"I mean, I do like it when you get a little wild."
"I know you do," by the way he talked, she could tell he was smiling.
"But I just... needed to get that out. I needed to get those knots out, and you're the only person that's strong enough to take all of that. More importantly, I have to make sure that you're safe and stable. I know sex isn't easy on your mind and soul-self either."
Sex was pleasurable during the high, but the couple always experienced drawbacks of their own.
Beastboy's food cravings would be thrown out of wack, and he'd have to deal with cooling down his recently revved up inner beast. As for Raven, she would suffer mental drainage for a couple of days, and need more intense meditation and magical charms to align her psyche back to some sort of center.
"It isn't. Being an empath doesn't make anything easy. I have to admit, I felt your emotions really strong this time. Probably, the most strongest out of all the times we have done this. But, that's alright, I promise. We understand each other, we love each other, and we need each other. That is all that matters in the end. If this was really a problem, do you think we'd keep going? Even outside of tonight? All of the times before, and the future ones we want... we don't have the intent to stop."
"Whew, we're so strong. I can't, and I don't want to imagine loving anyone else like this."
Beastboy eases up, faces Raven.
His face nears hers, their breaths are centimeters apart. He studies her eyes, and her eyes knows every pattern in his by heart. Raven's hands caress either sides of his face, she brushes her thumb on the apex of his cheekbone.
"I want the same. I wish my words and actions can express how much I love you, but they never will." she whispers in his lips.
Beastboy slips his hand through her thighs. His proprioception for her body is keen, just as good as his awareness of his own body.
His textured finger tip meets a sore stripe that his teeth etched into her flesh.
Raven makes a fragile sound, but she needed his touch right there.
"It hurts when I touch you, Rae?" he asks gently.
"A- a little. They should heal in no time, I've got an accelerated healing factor."
His gentle digit slides over another cut. He watches Raven's face furrow in a slight discomfort.
He starts to move his hand away, but she puts it right back.
"That one..."
She lets out a sigh as his intimate finger meets the end of the cut.
"I know."
Their eyes meet again for a brief second, then she meshes her lips with his. The kiss is short and chaste, then they breathe each other's air.
"I love you."
She's said it to him millions of times, but every time she said it, she had another reason to love him.
"I love you more."
He loves her more than her flaws, her doubts, and anything concerning her.
"Even more than when I go a little "ga-rowl"?" she smirks, tapping his nose.
"Mhm, yes. Sheesh, you're hella hot, but even more hot when we do the things. I see you, Rae." he gives a smug smile.
"The winking, the arch, the spitting, the moan—"
"Shh." her finger presses against his mouth.
Her voice tones with a tease as she speaks.
"I can say the same, about you, but I ain't tellin' you nothin'."