They kissed on his couch. It was good, better without the nervousness.

"I have a thought."

"... Uh oh. Or, yaaaay? I'm not sure with you yet," Myrtus' tone was sly.

Veronic just grinned.

"Just wondering. You knew about blow jobs. How does that happen?"

"Gossip."

"Gossip and... porn," Veronica prodded his keel with emphasis.

"And porn."

"You've watched human porn."

"Ah. No. I haven't watched human porn on purpose, actually."

He could just about see the theories that were zipping through her head.

"Okay. So what kind of porn blowjobs have you seen? And can I watch it too?"

"Well..."

"It's turian cultural questions time, Myrtus. And it's about porn. That's the best kind of questions!"

"Okay," Myrtus moved to activate his omnitool and went to a site, while Veronica shifted so that she could see.

"Wow," Veronica's eyebrows quirked as the extranet site loaded. "You're going to have to explain what I'm looking at already."

"You're going to have to ask actual questions."

She reached out to scroll down, quickly scanning the teaser images.

"Why are all of their heads covered? That's a C-Sec flack helmet!"

"Keeps things anonymous."

He didn't have to explain to her as famous as Shepard and Vakarian were as a couple, being with a human wasn't considered quite aboveboard among turians at large. Especially those who haven't even been to the Citadel. That was why every single one of the turians on the site were shown unclothed except for their obscured faces.

"... Oh, okay. Yeah, they're really working the transgressive angle in the copy," Veronica was reading the clip descriptions. "Fresh Third Tier. What's that mean?"

"The guy's young and on first duty tour out of boot camp."

"Barely legal, you mean. Total blowjob virgin."

"Yeah."

"This one, then. If the site's actually honest about the virginity-ness of the people," Veronica clicked on that particular vid.

"It's turian porn, Veronica. We are a very scrupulously honest species," Myrtus replied loftily. "Especially about porn."

Veronica giggled again and the vid began.

"... Why are they tying him up? Is bondage a normal thing?" she whispered.

"No. Total blowjob virgin. Nobody wants any accidents."

The turian in the vid was guided to a chair. There, his spurs were secured to the chair legs, keeping his knees apart and his wrists were secured to the arms of the chair. He was nervous; his claws were clenched on the armrests. Veronica suppressed a snicker at the sight of the human woman who entered the room. She was fully clothed and not at all porn-y in an expected way. She looked downright irreproachably respectable. There weren't any preliminaries, no questions asked, no lines said. She walked forward, the camera changed angles, and she knelt, putting her hands on that turian's waist and firmly kneading.

His voice was different, Veronica distantly noted, young sounding from the first moans. He emerged and the first touches on it caused him to make rasping gasps. The first licks had him trembling and when she put her mouth on him, it took no more than a few good bobs of her head before he came.

"Oh, that's familiar," Veronica murmured.

Myrtus chuckled ruefully.

The vid continued and that woman was toying with him, gradually pulling back, giving but not quite enough, until he was a straining arc off of the chair, mindlessly humping the air, begging, all dignity lost. She played with him, fleeting little swirling licks on the head, working her thumbs on his waist as he cursed and pleaded for more. When she finally sucked him all down, he thrashed his head and came again, legs and arms straining against the restraints. He collapsed back into the chair, breathing hard. The woman smiled, wiping at her mouth with her hand, before beginning again.

"So it's all blowjobs, all the time?" Veronica finally said.

Myrtus closed the vid.

"Yes. At least, for this site. Why?"

"Oh, I don't know... Just wondering about... reciprocation."

Myrtus coughed, flushing again at the neck.

"Don't take this the wrong way. But that wasn't something I was curious about before knowing you."

"That's fair," Veronica smiled and nodded. "The interspecies porn I have saved was because it was funny."

Myrtus' mandibles worked.

"Funny... how?" he finally asked.

tbc