Manchaghast Cabin on The Siren, Tuesday Afternoon

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Victor had spent the morning out and about, but after lunch he came back to the cabin and flopped back on his bed. He meant to just change into a swimsuit and head for the beach, but he found his eyes wandering toward Olive's side of the cabin and stayed where he was just to think for a minute.

He liked sharing the space with her. He'd been a little nervous that the whole experience would be awkward, but it hadn't been: It was like hanging out on the trips they'd taken together before, except at the end of the day they went to sleep in the same room. It was just they'd been dating a while now, and he'd thought maybe ...

Never mind what he thought. Things were good, and he wasn't about to wreck the relationship by pushing for more than they had. Even if some part of him wanted to.

[OOC: For the girl, and headed into the land of NSFW.]

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"Totally," Olive agreed, skimming her hand back to the base of his neck to fan lightly through his hair. Her brain had sort of checked out a little, because there were fingers playing with the knot on the thing that was doing most of her covering-up duty. She thought about going ahead and just untying it for him, but that seemed pushy. Right? She had no idea. "I mean, they're very busy, anyway, what with being French and like, wearing berets and saying their whole language through their noses. Totally too busy and arrogant to stare at some guy in a bikini."

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"Especially with their time-consuming eating cheese and surrendering hobbies," Victor told her, and made a low, nervous chuckling sound. "It ... feels kind of different to be doing this when we don't have to worry about Alec or Karolina wandering in."

Different good, as his body language was probably telling her. But different!

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"Uh huh." Olive's voice was lower than it usually was, though she guessed that was better than being weirdly high-pitched out of nowhere. "No risk of embarrassment, or getting interrupted...or whatever."

Yep. Olive's nerves were even worse, now that she'd vocalized that, but she did manage to smile a little up at him. "So...hi."

Smooth, Penderghast.

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"Hey," Victor returned awkwardly. "And right. Privacy is good. So ...."

He was failing at the words part. They just weren't coming; he lost ever train of thought he found. It was almost sudden when he moved in to kiss her.

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Olive arched up to meet the kiss, exhaling sharply through her nose. It wasn't like she was surprised -- if he hadn't, she would've within a few seconds anyway, just to do something about the awkwardness. (And because she wanted to. She really, really wanted to.) Her free arm slid around his waist, her fingertips skimming up under his shirt experimentally.

He got all this access to her skin at the moment. It made her a little bold.

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Olive's lips seemed to have the slightest tingle of salt, even if it was just the ocean in the air. Victor's tongue darted out to experience it a little more.

He felt her hands on his back and was damn certain he was about to melt. It was sillyb-- it wasn't like she'd never seen him with his shirt off -- but being in their own room made the whole thing seem extra intense. He squirmed and shifted, trying to just get the shirt off.

"This okay?" he asked. "It seems more -- fair."

[OOC: Night!]

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"It's totally okay," Olive said, kind of embarrassed by how breathy her voice came out. Shirtless boyfriend was always awesome. Shirtless boyfriend who was basically a couple inches of just being on her, while she was also barely wearing clothes? Beyond awesome. Brain-breakingly awesome. "I'm very impressed with your sense of fairness," she added, inanely, replacing her hand on his lower back and marveling inwardly at how warm he was. Was she that warm? Probably. She felt like she was probably, like, purple from blushing at this point.

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"It's one of the best things about me," Victor said, equally inanely, because for all the computerized brain power he had, it wasn't really functioning right now. It had gone off to happily calculate pi or alphabetize things or do whatever databases did when they weren't needed. "How fair I am."

Her skin was warm and soft against his, and she felt both delicate and strong. The rhythm of their heartbeats thudded in his ears.

All there was to do was to kiss her again.

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Olive was pretty sure that was the best course of action ever. She couldn't think straight right now, though her brain was trying its hardest with its insistence on wondering things like, I hope I'm not making a weird face, and Holy shit, how would anyone even know I'm making a weird face right now, shut up.

Olive's brain, unfortunately, refused to wander off to calculate pi. If only.

She sighed softly into the kiss, a little self-conscious once she realized how needy it sounded, and skimmed her hand up his back. And then her free hand was reaching down to her sarong to undo it, because what was the harm in that? It wasn't really doing anything, anyway. It was like a scarf. Totally decorative. It wasn't like she was taking her pants off or something.

(She wasn't even wearing pants, though. Oh god.)

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Victor stopped moving as the sarong slipped away. True, it hadn't actually done all that much concealing, but with it gone he realized a bikini was basically the same as underwear. So he had Olive just about in her underwear in a room that nobody else was going to walk into, and while his shorts were baggy they were not exactly made of chain mail.

It all felt amazing.

He heard that needy sigh and matched it with one of his own as, with one shaky hand, he started edging down a strap on her bikini top.

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Okay, Olive needed to stop freaking out internally. They had been going out for months, this was Victor -- who she actually kind of really cared about, which maybe was why she was freaking out, more than anything else -- and this was no big deal. Like, come on, it was totally normal to just wander around topless in certain parts of the world. Having one's boyfriend removing one's bikini top? Totally no big deal.

Olive was not really convincing herself.

The upshot was that this mental flailing was totally being ignored in favor of Olive helping him out with the other strap, and reaching behind her back to just undo the stupid thing entirely.

And then...there she was, unable to say anything intelligent as she gazed up at him, her eyes wide and more pupil than green. "So hi. Um."

Beautiful and articulate as always, Olive. Shut up.

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Victor would have agreed with the beautiful part, anyhow. He brought his eyes up to her face.

"Hi," he agreed, noting her nerves and feeling his own run through him like a tiny shock of static. "Look, this might be a dumb question but are you okay with this? Because I don't want to -- you know. Be a creep."

Olive had dealt with enough creeps in her life.

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Olive was already shaking her head before he'd even finished. "You could never be a creep," she promised softly. "No, no, no -- I'm okay. Seriously. I'm like -- " she huffed out a breath, nervously, and smiled. "I'm better than okay. It's just...you know. New."

Not totally new, but they were sort of playing jump rope with the threshold of stuff she'd done before versus totally uncharted territory.

"Are you okay?" Dumb question -- she was pretty aware of how he was doing -- but she felt like she had to ask, anyway.

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"Completely and totally," Victor told her, even though he knew the way he felt was pretty evident. "'Specially now I know you are. I just -- it's kind of new here, too."

Not new to him the same way it was to Olive, maybe. But the freedom, the relatively uncomplicated happiness of it all -- that was new. And how intensely he was into Olive on every level -- that was new, too.

He moved so he could play his fingertips over her breasts. It felt like the thing to do, if they were both okay.

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It was so weird, how something that simple could feel that good. Just for a second, Olive forgot to be self-conscious, or nervous, or worried that her freckles looked stupid or that she was too skinny or anything, because Victor was touching her and that was roughly four thousand times more important than anything else. She arched up to kiss him, pressing her breasts (whose size she really could not care less about at the moment) up into his hands eagerly.

Working off the principle of, "This feels good, so I should do it," she slid her hand from his back to press lightly against his abdomen. One fingertip idly played with his waistband -- in the back of her mind, she sort of hoped he'd brought condoms, because she was an idiot who hadn't thought of a freaking cruise where they were sharing a room as being the ideal place to maybe need one. Stupid Olive.

(Though now she was sort of marveling at how fast that had started to seem like the best idea ever. Whatever. Olive wasn't arguing -- she'd seen way too many Molly Ringwald movies to not realize that when it felt right, you should probably just go for it.)

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She wasn't too skinny, her freckles were perfect -- someday Victor was going to kiss every one of them. Maybe give them names, too. But right now there were breasts being pressed into his hands and Olive was arching against him, fingers under his waistband, and he wasn't really thinking about skin blemishes anyhow.

He was very glad he'd been optimistic enough to stash a pack of condoms at the back of his suitcase just in case.

Victor brought down a hand, started to wriggle out of his shorts. He was feeling like he was wearing too many clothes again.

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Oh god, now clothes were really coming off, and Olive had a momentary battle of nerves because she was probably going to be naked in front of Victor pretty quick here, and he was going to be naked in front of her, and while she very much wanted to see and touch and experience all of that, it was still sort of just sending off little exclamation marks in her brain. (No, not coherent, flaily thoughts. She was really just managing punctuation at this point.)

More than anything else, Olive needed to be touching him, and for him to keep touching her -- she felt like an idiot for not doing this sooner. Her hands skimmed lightly along his hips and up his chest, one palm pressing over his heart just for a moment, just to feel it. She'd move down lower in a moment -- it was her first time. She was going to just sort of explore him.

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Victor murmured in Spanish into Olive's collarbone. He'd imagined this moment, the clothes coming off part, more or less daily for months and now it was here, and her hands were on him, and he wanted to stay like this as long as they possibly could.

His lips curved up in a smile as his hands kept roaming over her upper body, with one occasionally straying to her legs.

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Olive sighed, because language that she barely understood shouldn't sound that sexy. Everything was hot right now, though -- Olive felt like sex personified. She dotted a series of soft kisses to Victor's shoulder and upper chest as her hands left his skin, just for a moment.

She had a pretty good reason, though -- she hooked her thumbs in her bikini bottoms to slide them off, ignoring any twinges of shyness, and no sooner had she kicked them off her foot than her hands were back on Victor. She traced the fingertips of one hand lightly on his abdomen before skimming curiously lower, her touch light and experimental.

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So now nudity had officially arrived, and Victor was almost certain he was the luckiest creature in any universe. He shifted against her hand, biting his lip so he'd hold back at least a little.

"I should get up," he said in a ragged voice with a hint of question to it, realizing the interruption was only going to get more awkward. "Get the -- thing."

Please, Olive, know which thing he means.

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"Okay," Olive said, smiling up at him. Her voice was soft and hesitant -- it wasn't like there was any real reason to be quiet -- no roommates to disturb, after all, and most of their shipmates were probably not pressing their ears to the walls -- but she still felt like she should be quiet, right now. "You, um, brought some?"

Please, please, please say yes, Victor. Olive would sort of die if they had to go door-to-door right now, but she would.

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"Yeah." Victor sounded faintly embarrassed as he rummaged through his suitcase. "I figured we were sharing a room and -- better safe than trying to speak Turkish, right?"

Dammit, he was finding every single thing he'd brought except the condoms. Why did he have so many socks, anyhow? Socks were stupid. Unlike sex, which was definitely and completely not stupid. He finally located the small cardboard box underneath his one dress shirt and threw himself back on the bed with it in hand, kicking his shorts off along the way.

"So...." he said, and smiled at her a little helplessly.

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"If I'd been in charge of bringing them, we'd be scr -- " Beat. "We'd be pretty out of luck."

She heard it too, shut up.

When he'd finally (seriously, guys, patience is a virtue) returned to the bed, Olive found herself at kind of a loss. She knew her health textbook really well, and understood the mechanics, and just from being a teenager who was in the same vicinity as other teenagers she knew all kinds of things to do, but she was sort of...stuck on where to go from here. Why couldn't she just skip ahead to like, when this wasn't awkward and was just totally easy and she'd done it?

For the moment, she was going to take the opportunity to actually get a good look at Victor, because why should he get all the nudity-viewing fun? And since actually whistling or something aloud, while funny, would have probably been mostly a bad idea born out of her nervousness, she pressed closer to kiss him, just needing to be closer. That was probably the best idea, since it was what she wanted to do.

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The whistling would have made Victor laugh, and then he would have gotten horrible performance anxiety, and the whole thing would have spiraled into something almost as hilarious-slash-awful as a Turkish drugstore adventure.

But since that wasn't happening, and since kissing Olive was something Victor absolutely positively knew how to do, he was going to relax and kiss her back, and keep kissing her while his hands grazed over her body. He figured they'd figure the rest of it out as they went.

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Olive slid her arms up around his neck, doing her best to relax, too. She was so keyed up, and -- okay, really, there was no way to argue herself into not being all pleasantly anxious, so she should probably stop trying. This was a big deal, no matter how many different ways she tried to assure herself it wasn't. It was a big deal, and it was with Victor, and she was just herself and he liked her that way, and it was just the two of them and nobody else knew or cared.

And all of that? Meant it was pretty much perfect, already, to Olive. Even if she'd never really get out of her head.

For the moment, though, she pulled him closer against her, easing back on her back again. She was well aware there were other ways to do this, thank you, but...she kind of liked how he felt on her, and it was probably best to start with the basics, right?