Out of nerves, Artemis grasped at any chance to catch her breath, calm her speeding heart, and control her livewire nerves before she made a fool of herself in the guise of requesting they remove their own clothes. 'Less fumbling with crazy clasps, buttons, and zippers,' she had said, coming up with the first excuse off the top of her head when, in all actuality, she was more than a bit anxious of his reaction when they were finally bare before each other.
She shamelessly admits - inwardly - that she has done her own perusals into turian 'anatomy', so she has at least an idea of what to expect, albeit much less disproportional than what Fornax claims male turians are packing beneath their plates. Lilihierax, however? She has no idea what grand ideas media has filled his head with, but she knows he's in for a surprise. What with her small - almost flat - breasts, lack of any curves to speak of, and taller than average height for a human female. Before tonight, her appearance was nothing more than what she looked like as she never saw herself in the body of another. She wasn't 'too skinny', 'flat chested', or 'boyish' as so many said because, as she saw it, she was just herself, just Artemis. What about what Li's seen, however? If he - dare she say it - did his own exploring into the world of interspecies pornography, she's damn sure he never found a woman like her. She's suddenly very aware of all the little differences.
Well, now or never. Get ready for disappointment.
Taking in a long breath, she closes her eyes and turns to face him when she hears the soft shuffle of his clothing hitting the floor. Like prying them open, her lids lift ever so slowly until she's looking directly into his eyes with an admission that what lies behind her shy hands - one crossed over her chest and the other between her legs - is the best she can offer.
Instead of finding confusion or the obvious realization of a let down, Artemis finds only a warm smile and low thrumming coming from the man she's carried a torch for longer than she can remember. He comes to her and gently guides his hands from her shoulders down, easing her hands from their steeled grip on her most intimate and - to her - embarrassing areas. Her mind panics and demands she at least present a minute amount of struggle against being revealed, against her security being peeled away, but that sound of his vocals sends sparks of electricity down her spine to collect in a warm pool of arousal.
The buzzing of her previous orgasm builds again into need and she sighs against him. His touch no longer stays at her arms and hands, instead moving up her shoulders to caress her neck and collar bones. By his earlier actions stringing pleasure from her body, she feels he knows more about her body than he's letting on - just as much as she is damn sure to know more than the average human woman about turian male erogenous zones - but it's almost too devious of him to imagine. The mere thought of Li looking up pornography with human women in order to know how to touch one, even if it's realistically not her, makes her close her eyes as need flows through her and adding to the ever growing moisture between her thighs.
"Li," she whispers as he steps closer to purr against her jaw, his plated chest pressing against her own. Where she thought it'd bring pain, the contact only spreads a sense of comfort and strength that his slim, long limbs belie.
She loops her arms around his neck and inside the rim of his cowl as she steps closer, pressing their hips together to unconsciously seek out any kind of friction or intimate contact. Lilihierax groans softly and she starts to feel a shifting - like relaxing a flexed and taut muscle - against their flush hips. She knows, from her 'research', what's happening, but the idea still surprises her and she moans softly, turning her head to kiss him.
Warm hands finally gain enough assurance of her acquiescence and Li moves to caress her breasts, thumbing her nipples. It's in those knowledgeable, yet inexperienced, actions that she's proven right about his own personal forms of entertainment and she decides to show that she's learned and searches under his fringe for the supposed sweet spot. In her determination, she almost forgets what he's doing to her - something her body is certainly not ignoring - and only gasps when he pinches one hardened nipple as if in reprimand.
She gets him back, however, when she finds a spot directly under his fringe where the plates are smoother and have more give than the majority of his body. Li practically moans and presses his head back against her fingers, and it's all she needs to feel him release down below. A wet and hot weight slides against her, pressing insistently against her thighs as if with a mind of its own. The thought of that length pressing into her, shaping her to him, pulls a needy whine from her lips and she bites them to silence herself.
"You don't need to be quiet." There's humor and a warmness in his voice as he lifts his mouth to press against her withdrawn lips. His tongue laves hers and he growls when her hands slide from his neck to waist and she opens her mouth to him.
Tongues dancing, Li drops his hands to her waist and shifts his weight in silent heads up of his plans. Still, the warning does nothing to tamp down her yelp of surprise as he hefts her up. Arms snapping around his neck and legs around his waist, Artemis chuckles at his proud smirk and is too far gone to think of any sort of revenge. Instead, she lets him carry her wherever he pleases as she kissing and sucks along the warm hide of his neck to elicit another growling groan from his plated lips.
Crawling onto the bed with her in his arms, Li ducks his head to trace his tongue along her nipples - left before the right. She gasps and pushes against his shoulders, unable to take more of these torturous teasing. "Please… please."
Lilihierax's expression is full of a tenderness she knows so well from their talks together, laughing and trying to outdo the other with their prospective lunches or morning choices of energy. It's just so Li that she can't imagine him any other way, even in these moments as he licks and nibbles up her body before finally settling between her spread legs. His erection is hot with a very alien - yet not unpleasant - heat, and slick with a fluid much like her arousal running down the crease of her thighs and butt cheeks to soak the bed beneath.
"Let me know if I hurt you." His whisper is rough, overcome by the lust in his harmonics and subtle grinding of his cock against her curls. Artemis moans at the friction against her clit and nods, cupping the back of his head to both rub that special spot and drag him down into a sloppy, demanding kiss.
It's all he needs to know she wants him - needs him - with a burning passion that's been building for ages. Growling, Li breaks contact with her long enough to reach down and line himself up. With one look in her eyes, he draws and holds her attention as he slowly pushes into her. The sweet slide of wetness against wetness makes it easier to take his size and alien shape, but it doesn't take from the immediate burst of fireworks that fires off from their growing connection into her belly. More than the psychical pleasure, his never breaking gaze pulls her in and holds her entrapped and unwilling to let him pull away from her.
As her legs wrap around his waist to hold him flush to her body, her hips unconsciously grind to him and she moans shamelessly as the movement causes his length to rub in small thrusts against her walls. She lost in the sensations, in his eyes, and only comes back when she hears his groaning chuckle and feels his warm hand against her cheek.
"It'll feel a lot better if you let me."
She huffs a weak laugh, but relaxes his legs with the touch of his hand shifting to her thigh. "I don't think my heart can take it."
"Your heart?" He chuckles and strokes her thigh, slowly withdrawing to test her readiness. "I'm older than you, Artemis, and I'm doing fine."
"Just 'fine'?" Her indecision of whether to feign hurt or smirk quickly dissipates with a single hard thrust from her partner. She gasps and can't find reason to care about the chuckle that breaks through his heavy purring because she knows he's quickly losing all chance of continuing this conversation with the glorious things he's doing to and within her. "Fuck… Li…"
He merely hums in agreement as he pulls back faster and thrusts in harder, building a speed that has both panting and their sounds of pleasure turning into fast groans or determined grunts. Never, in all her examinations of dirty Fornax issues, did she ever have the imagination to actually come close to how his ridged, tapered length would feel as he slides against her and his slightly rounded head pops in and out of her. She's climbing fast and, still, he moves ever faster, apparently spurred on by the wet noises of their joining or possibly the smells they're creating.
Strangely enough, what undoes her is the way his mouth opens and tongue flicks out like some sort of reptile tasting the air. Truth be told, it should freak her out, cement the reality that they are so alien to the other, but it's Lilihierax, just his way during sex, and she can't find any reason to complain, judge, or be turned off. Instead, she whines as her back arches and her muscles tense and constrict.
He ducks his head into her neck and runs that rough tongue against her throat, and it's all she needs to topple over that edge, crying out for anyone to hear close enough to hear through the apartment walls. The explosion of pleasure is too much and she can't do anything of conscious thought, but her body's oversensitive jerks against him are enough to pull him down with her to drown in ecstasy.
He cums with a loud roar of crashing stones against her sweaty skin, thrusting uncontrollably into her as he stiffens and twitches with each spurt of his seed. Artemis feels the heat of his release and moans under her breath, the feeling like a balm over her sensitive post-orgasmic walls. Li stays within her for a few moments more, perhaps having a longer orgasm than his human counterparts, before finally withdrawing and rolling to lay beside her.
They both gasp for hot breaths of air, grinning stupidly at each other as their hearts slowly come to a more controlled pace. Reaching for her, Li opens himself to her and she instantly takes the invite to slide against his heated body. He rumbles and nuzzles her sweat chilled temple, rubbing her back before speaking.
"I think I have some leave available, if you want to stay."
"I…" She's too exhausted for embarrassment or the awkwardness Li always seems to bring out in her, but she isn't too far gone to miss that unsaid question. Smiling, she lifts her head and kisses him as his answer.