05. Potatoes - You were just bending down to pick up the potatoes that rolled off the kitchen counter but instead you learn fairly quickly how to turn him on.
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They stood side by side in the tiny kitchen of their apartment – John peeling potatoes at the sink, Rogue chopping the peeled potatoes on a cutting board. They worked in companionable silence.
He was about to grab the last of the potatoes to peel when they decided to make a run for it and rolled off the counter in every which direction. He managed to catch a few before they fell to the floor but others had escaped his grasp.
"Damnit…" he muttered, getting on his hands and knees to look for the runaway vegetables that were hiding under the table.
She sighed heavily and looked around herself, finding a few near her feet. She bent down and picked up the potatoes – not thinking about how exactly short her dress really was, not realizing just how much he enjoyed seeing her girly pink polka-dot cotton underwear.
The next thing she knew, she was being picked up herself, the potatoes in her hands dropping again onto the floor. She was being carried out of the kitchen and toward the bedroom. "John…what about…?"
"Fuck it…" he said, in a tone of voice she knew all too well. And she knew the only thing to do now was to hold on and enjoy the ride.
Which she always did.
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He collapsed on top of her, panting heavily into the crook of her neck. Her hands were busy roaming up and down his back, slippery with sweat, trying to catch her own breath. She untangled her legs from around his hips but only so far as to twine them around his own. She rubbed the back of one of his legs with her foot contentedly, purring with satisfaction.
"We have to be at Kitty's in half an hour," she murmured, threading her fingers in his hair as he lifted his head to look down at her. "You know how she gets when her dinner party is ruined. What are we going to bring now?"
He grinned, holding her tighter against him. "There's a Kentucky Fried Chicken around the corner. We'll just buy some mashed potatoes there…"
