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Pembe Smith ([personal profile] papapink) wrote2016-10-26 03:19 am

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Pembe had had a series of unfortunate happenstances - that had ended up with him rather... homeless, and then taken in by a rather overlarge man. ... While there were several problems Pem could have really had with this arrangement, he'd done his best to take it all in stride. He was used to sudden change - it was how he'd lived his life up 'til now... though he'd hardly interacted with the other man other than polite introductions and a bit of idle chatter after convincing him that him staying there was better than a shelter. It'd only been a day or two since he'd... "moved in" (which was such a stretch of the phrase, considering the most he'd done was bring his clothes, camera, a small box of particularly random junk, and his cat... Assuming Potemkin had no problem with animals, of course. Gren was a fearless little scottish fold, as it were. As irresponsible as he felt moving around so much with a cat in tow, Gren seemed to bear it just fine. Pem generally didn't have much more than that to his name - he'd yet to actually find a job he could settle at, and freelancing had only encouraged his already natural drifter tendencies.)

Of course, Potemkin had... tried to get him to go to a shelter first, but as the cards had laid, it wasn't a particularly good option for Pembe. While he'd considered it, shelters were, for one thing, not a good place for cats (and in spite of it all, he was damn attached to his cat), and two, he was definitely not a fan. It'd taken a bit of convincing; Pembe had had to emphasize that while his things were meager, they were still expensive, and he was willing to assist as a housemate however he could in exchange for a place to stay where he wouldn't have to worry about having someone steal his camera... but he thought it'd gone well, considering that Potemkin had let him stay.

Though he'd promised to assist however he could with Potemkin's daily life... he did feel particularly useless at the moment. His current situation had him on a couch, with Gren bedding in the (now emptied, though it still hadn't had much) aforementioned box of junk. So, instead of giving in to the impulse to continue being useless, Pembe opted to take another option: start trying to do as he promised earlier. Potemkin would soon find himself hunted down by the big ball of pink that was Pembe - hair dye, glasses, and shirt making him... very pink. Pembe was large by most's standards, considering his height of 6'3", but Potemkin sort of outstripped him by leaps and bounds. It was a strange feeling - he rarely had to look up at people. But if he was going to room with Potemkin for long - which he was sort of hoping, given the area was fairly ideal - he'd have to get over it.

"Hey!" He greeted, throwing up a hand in a sort of wave when he caught Potemkin's attention. "I... uh, I was thinking I should get started on that whole business I offered earlier. Chores and all." He suppressed the urge to say he'd felt like a useless lump just because he hadn't started immediately, "You got laundry or... y'know, something I could help out with?" His smile was awkward - living in a house with someone you barely new was always destined to be awkward - but Pembe... was hoping he could at least get to know him, anyway.

Lord only knew if Potemkin's living style was clean and tidy or an utter mess... Judging from the man's bearing, Pem could've bet on either or.
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[personal profile] dreadnaughtfist 2017-01-15 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
Potemkin was expecting to hear something, and he was bracing himself for it. He could tell that Pembe had come to him for comfort, to be a support and foundation when he was in need of something in world that wouldn't distress him further. Potemkin took that as a duty as important as anything he had staked for his country.

So he's surprised to receive an answer that's entirely nonverbal and physical. It's a hard one to decipher, since he's never been...kissed before. It feels nice, between the softness of Pembe's lips felt on his, the caress across his shoulder (it was so rare for his body to be treated this way, like an object of tenderness), and the emotional release of having a want delivered, a want which he never thought of before but seemed so solid to him now. Potemkin's cheeks warmed up under Pembe's face even during the relatively brief period of the kiss, because apparently his body knew more on how to react than his mind did.

Potemkin mostly just reacted, and only the bare minimum of a reaction, purely as a result of how long he stayed stunned. It's over just as it really registered to him what was going on, and the next thing he knew Pembe was standing in front of him, blushing and shifting on the spot. Potemkin couldn't bear seeing Pembe get crushed by that awkwardness. He pulled him from it with his hands, this time lifting him up, up to his level for a second kiss. And this time he's the one pushing, with his square jaw and thick lips going over both of Pembe's.
Edited (unfinished sentence) 2017-01-15 08:51 (UTC)
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[personal profile] dreadnaughtfist 2017-01-19 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
It was bold for Potemkin to scoop up Pembe for a kiss, but the actual movements of his lips were not as brave as what you'd expect to follow. He's comfortable with Pembe, he was beforehand and he was now, but he still moved slowly, only adjusted his mouth gradually and with attention at each step. This was an experimental experience for him, and at the same time he was missing Pembe he was figuring out for the first time what to do, what seemed to work.

He didn't have an idea of when to end the kiss either, but eventually he dropped off, and turned his head into the bowl of his reaching arms. His intense eyes looked up (up, for once, since Pembe is now lifted in his hands and his head above Potemkin's), feeling reminiscent of a begging puppy.

"I don't know how long I've felt this way."
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[personal profile] dreadnaughtfist 2017-01-24 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Mirroring the sliding of Pembe's hands across his neck, Potemkin was such a large man he could move his hands around Pembe's back without having his body shift or drop at all. Some of it was restlessness, trying to find some outlet for the surge of thoughts and emotions going through him, but it's also like he's petting him. His touches are lightly affectionate, and only soft.

Potemkin dropped his gaze from Pembe to mull on that for a moment.

"I feel foolish now, to have been blind to something right in front of me..."
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[personal profile] dreadnaughtfist 2017-01-30 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
Potemkin's reminiscing on the past was put on pause, because that kiss sneaked in there left him stunned for a second. But he could just as likely been stunned from being called cute. That's something he would never have expected. As his brain started to kick in again, he decided that his feelings on it were good. It's a special sort of compliment, coming from a dear man.

He closed his eyes and gave a small tilt of his head. "Cute? I wonder what else you thought of me as," Potemkin said as he started to take steps while still carrying Pembe. Having a long chat in the middle of the living room wasn't going to do.
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[personal profile] dreadnaughtfist 2017-01-30 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Pembe is such a negligible weight on Potemkin's strength, he carried him without thinking much of it. Instead his attention was on Pembe's words. For the most part those were compliments that sounded more familiar (except for handsome - Potemkin was unused to thinking about his appearance in any way other than how it stood out). But coming from Pembe those words were inherently graced with a sort of significance, and he's a little bashful at all that. "I thought I was honest about how I thought of you, but apologizes if things were unclear. As soon I really knew you, I could recognize that you are a superb person."

Of course, there's a difference and a step between thinking someone is great and making out with them a few times in a row.
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[personal profile] dreadnaughtfist 2017-01-31 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
Potemkin finally reached his destination, and gently put down Pembe on the couch he used as a bed, butt first. Pembe's confused, rambling wording didn't help out Potemkin either at understanding things, and he seemed more confused than when Pembe started. Except for the main point. On its own Potemkin could certainly agree that there was a difference between friendship and attraction, but applying those ideas to his own life put him on the spot in a way he never felt before.

So did bringing up intimacy. Even now the idea made him flustered, and caused him to question himself. "I...really didn't know myself, just until now, what I wanted. It's probably impossible to read what's unknown to the thinker," Potemkin said. Potemkin tentatively reached out with his massive fingers to behind Pembe's back, like both a gesture of longing and to tuck him to bed.
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[personal profile] dreadnaughtfist 2017-02-04 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Potemkin's hand stopped, like he didn't think of that at all. It's nice to feel Pembe press into his hand, but he would have pulled and folded a blanket over Pembe next. Instead he held still.

"Uh, of course!" Potemkin's initial awkward response correcting into eagerness. Potemkin wasn't stammering because he didn't like the idea - in fact he found it amazing, to the point it was hard to believe this was happening. But that's also the reason why it shook him. It's such a new idea for him, it's hard to consider.

There's no point in staying still though. Potemkin stepped away from the couch, and motioned toward the hallway leading to his bedroom.
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"I sleep in boxers," Potemkin answered. Which wasn't much less revealing than what Pembe was imagining, considering how much of him was contained in his top half. Potemkin had never shared his bed with anyone (despite its vast spaciousness), so he needed Pembe to think of that detail for him. Not that he seemed nearly as concerned with it as Pembe. His view on this was completely chaste, as much as he was looking forward to the idea of cuddling.

He already was walking over to the dresser and undressing from his shirt and pants. He only gave a small head toss back in Pembe's direction to say "You can dress whichever way you want."
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It was very considerate that Pembe was giving Potemkin space to lie down, because Potemkin took the majority fraction of the bed even without any sprawling. Potemkin acknowledged Pembe's gesture by getting on the bed methodically and gradually, not causing a single shake across the mattress.

As soon as he was on the bed however Potemkin truly relaxed, his shoulders dropping and muscles being allowed to move with just the ebb of his breathing. He probably never looked more soft and pillow-like than he did now, even if what was mostly facing Pembe were his bulky arms. It was partly because he was to his side that Potemkin didn't go out of his way to analyze Pembe closely. He already saw Pembe like this before, after all, on laundry day. His eyes continued to be drawn away from Pembe when Potemkin reached to the foot of the bed to pull up a blanket.

"Good night, Pembe."
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[personal profile] dreadnaughtfist 2017-02-11 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
Potemkin blushed a little from suddenly feeling skin-to-skin contact from thickest part of his torso to his waist. He just carried him like a doll in his hands, but he had never felt Pembe or anyone else in this way before. He looked down, the surprise easily readable on his face but the heat less so due to his dark complexion. The small smile that was there too answered that he wasn't offended. He moved his arms inward to give Pembe a hug, drawing him closer (and pressing that part of Pembe's anatomy harder against his abs.) He was too tall to bring his face to Pembe's, so he threw his head back into the pillow in satisfaction.
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[personal profile] dreadnaughtfist 2017-02-28 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Potemkin made a tiny jolt in bed when he felt a peck down there, slightly damp and shocking, but he relaxed when he realized what it was. Since he had already leaned back into a settled position, Potemkin didn't move out of it or look further at Pembe, instead continuing to hold Pembe in his hands like he had found the greatest teddy bear, easing into a gentle back and forth along his back.

He could have easily fell asleep doing this, but he made a final squirm against the mattress, and with his eyes closed he asked innocently "Am I bumping into you?"
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Potemkin hummed and questioned despite Pembe not helping him out. He definitely was feeling something sticking out, but it seemed out of place to just be his hipbone or knee. Finally he scooted back to open a crack of space between them, and opened one eye take a look. The shape of what was blacking out that space was then clear, as he looked straight down along their bodies, and it was not far off from his legs.

He flushed. Spent a few moments speechless. Probably brainless too, since Potemkin had no clue what was right to think. But whatever he could have done, he didn't feel it was right to ignore it, not after Pembe had already confessed to being attracted to him. After that period of total silence he tentatively spoke up.

"Do you need help with that?"

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