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layla (reira) serizawa ♡ 芹澤レイラ ([personal profile] dilettante) wrote2025-07-06 11:26 am
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[personal profile] luckyroll 2025-07-09 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
What I'm truly like?

[ It makes Reeve think about the cat-shaped secret he's still keeping from her. He’ll have to find the right time to tell Layla, maybe in the morning, or the next time Cait Sith crosses her path on his own. His thumb taps against the steering wheel, the motion light and almost absent-minded. ]

I'm curious what you think I'm like behind the scenes, Layla. Care to enlighten me on that? Do you mean you'll be scoping out my place? I hardly find time to live in it, lately.
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[personal profile] luckyroll 2025-07-12 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Reeve unlocks the door and nudges it open with his shoulder, letting them in. His arm shifts just slightly to support Layla as she clings to it, and he presses the panel on the wall to light the room. The apartment welcomes them with a quiet elegance: polished wood floors, warm lighting, and neatly arranged furniture. It's expensive, yes, but understated. Tasteful. Lived in without being cluttered, thanks to a discreet housekeeping service he rarely thinks about unless he's expecting guests. Which he usually isn't.

He's aware of the subtle stiffness in his movements as he steps out of his shoes. Hosting someone over like this isn't second nature to him. Not for this kind of company. He's out of practice and he knows it, but Layla's question is still hanging in the air, soft and hopeful. Reeve glances toward her, then smiles, receptive and unhesitant. ]


Of course you can stay. I was hoping you'd want to.

[ He says it without pause, then clears his throat, subtly flustered by how naturally it came out. She's still holding onto him and he hasn't even made it to the living room or kitchen yet. He's not sure which to bring her to. ]

Can I get you something to drink first? Tea, water, wine, whatever you want. —Though I have a feeling we're not going to be worrying too much about hydration tonight.

[ Reeve casts Layla an affectionate side glance, before leading her further in. They aren't in a rush if she's staying the night, after all. ]
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[personal profile] luckyroll 2025-07-14 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Reeve leads Layla through the apartment. He doesn't want to let go of her hand, so he doesn't. Only when they step into the kitchen does he glance down at their linked fingers with a quiet laugh and have to let go. ]

You know, it’s a little embarrassing that I might not remember how to use half the appliances in here, but I can at least manage wine.

[ The kitchen is sleek, with marble and brushed steel. There's more than enough counter space for meal prep, though it's clear he rarely does. There are no signs of earlier mess, no dirty glasses or dishes. Just a pristine space waiting to be made properly lived in. Reeve reaches toward a recessed cabinet and pulls free a bottle of unopened red, letting his thumb run along the edge of the foil before reaching for the corkscrew nearby.

Before uncorking, he flips on a small, in-wall speaker, filling the quiet with a soft hum of classic rock— something mellow with guitars that drift like the industrial haze beyond his high-rise windows. He talks while he works, his tone easy and a little distracted by the thought of what'll be happening between them next. ]


I bought this on impulse a while ago. I was told it was good, but it felt like too much to enjoy on my own. Good thing you're here to help me with it.

[ He levers the cork free with a satisfying pop and pours two glasses, color blooming against crystal. Turning back to Layla, he hands one off carefully to her then gently clinks glasses. ]

To us, then.

[ His arm comes to sweep around her waist, drawing her in until their bodies nestle a little closer. He smells like faded cologne and fabric mist, tension coiled beneath the collar. ]

—And our happiness, as a couple.
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[personal profile] luckyroll 2025-07-15 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It happens now. Reeve hadn’t expected her to take the lead. When Layla’s thumb presses into the tongue of his tie, it disarms him in a quiet but devastating way. He sets his wine glass beside hers on the counter, sparing only the quickest glance to ensure it meets a surface safely.

Then he leans in, tongue lightly brushing the seam of her mouth, soft and unhurried, stealing her breath into his own. His hand finds the back of her hair, fingers threading through the impossible length of it. Cascades of pink silk, as long as that of goddesses in oil paintings, of muses carved into marble by hands long since turned to dust. She fits perfectly against him. Layla herself is art.

He follows the fall of her hair with a touch that memorizes as it moves, already mapping the layout of his home behind his closed eyes as he steps her backward, guiding without pressure, until her hips meet the edge of the kitchen island.
Fine— for now. A place for her to sit.

Without a word and lost to the hush of want blooming inside him, Reeve eases her carefully onto the cool marble ledge. His mouth slips from hers to trail down the delicate line of her neck. When it finds the pearls settled at her collar, he draws them gently between his teeth, lips brushing her skin, before he unclasps the necklace and lets it fall into his waiting palm.

He sets the jewelry aside, face up, ever attentive. The rose-colored crystals catch the kitchen light and throw it back in faint reflective sparkles. Reeve’s hand travels up the slope of Layla’s thigh, pushing her skirt to mid-length until white nylon greets him; two thigh-high stockings, delicate and sheer. Something hidden, but selected.

He pauses there when he sees them, fingers curling softly against the curve of her leg, and he wonders— these, maybe, he’d like her to keep on. He plucks at the elastic gently, a flirtatious snap against her skin, and watches her for a reaction. His gaze lingers, not just in desire, but in admiration. ]
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[personal profile] luckyroll 2025-07-18 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
We're alone.

[ And he means it, truly means it. For the first time in what feels like a lifetime, Reeve's mind isn't split down the center or tethered. There are no flickering fragments of Avalanche chatter tugging at the periphery of his awareness to distract him— his thoughts don't have to wander, or steer responses out of an electronic vessel. Cait Sith is offline. The puppetry is paused.

All of him is here with Layla now; in this room, in this moment, just with her.

Realizing it makes something melt inside him and his hand drifts instinctively, reverently, up the softness of her thigh. He traces the edge of her dress, just at the hem. ]


And we can do anything. Anywhere in the apartment.

[ He hasn't let himself fantasize. Not really. To know her heart before she'd chosen to speak it would've felt dishonest. Wrong. Reeve had made himself wait. Out of respect. Out of care. He hadn't wanted to be greedy with expectations, to steal ahead of the moment and take more than he'd been given. Now that it's here, she's here...

He studies her, fingers brushing her cheek. His stance shifts slightly forward, knees nudging hers apart with the subtle encouragement of someone who still seeks permission. Both hands then come to brace against the edge of the marble island, hemming her in without caging her. The way he looks at her is steady and unshaken. There's heat there, yes, but not one that sees her just for the sex. ]


But I want you comfortable. This should be different, if it's us two.

[ He leans in to kiss her again. And then, with a slight shift of his weight, he steps between her knees, his hips meeting the inner cradle of her thighs, silently inviting her legs to wrap around him. Her necklace, still resting safely nearby, feels like a keepsake in the quiet. ]
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[personal profile] luckyroll 2025-07-21 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ As her legs wind around him, the sweetness of her kiss deepens into something molten. It almost stuns Reeve, the way her body molds so easily to his own, how natural this all feels despite the gravity and newness of it. Longing that’s gone unanswered. Layla’s mouth is a fever dream against Reeve’s. Her fingers thread through his hair like she’s memorizing the way he feels beneath her hands.

She tells him he’s kind. His arms slip beneath her without hesitation— one at her lower back, the other beneath her thighs— and he lifts her from the island. She fits against his chest like a princess made to be carried. Reeve doesn’t break the kiss as he walks, doesn't dare let her go, guiding them with distracted steps through the soft golden hush of his apartment.

His bedroom door is nudged open to receive them, dimly lit, serene, linen and shadows. When he deposits Layla, it’s as though he's placed something sacred upon the altar of his sheets. She falls back with her hair splaying out beneath her, the hem of her dress riding high over her thighs, and the look she gives him, hazel eyes glassy with affection, pupils blown wide with want, make his mouth go dry.

She’s beautiful.

Her skin almost glows under the lamps, kissed by gold, and for a moment Reeve stands there, tongue running over the back of his teeth. Then, he kneels at the edge of the bed, both palms caressing up her legs. He leans in, kissing the inside of her thigh, first gently, then with lips that linger. A soft exhale follows, his breath brushing higher and near her panties. ]
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[personal profile] luckyroll 2025-07-25 02:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Reeve accepts Layla regardless— removed from whoever she’d loved, however she’d been with them, and however she’d presented herself to them in the past. It doesn’t matter, if she’s really his now. Without knowing those other faces of her, she’s simply the Layla she’d shown him since that night on the deck. Through the tears, her dates, her talks with Cait... that’s all Reeve needs from her. They’re to fill the rest of the story in together as a couple.

Staying quiet, he runs his fingers up the front of her panties, the warmth that comes off them fogging his mind. He feels her outline. Where her thighs tuck together, the tips of his fingers slip into the fabric and lightly pull her underwear not off, but instead to the side. As it sags just slightly lower, caught in the crease of her leg, he drops his head to kiss her knee. White nylon under his lips. ]


Just tell me if I’m moving too quickly.

[ But he doesn’t think he is. Layla’s body drinks in his touch, and he feels her cunt go wet as he slides his fingers against the pink of it, lazily spreading. Drawing strokes from front to back, back to front with them, his brown eyes flicker up. ]

Or too slowly. You can also just ask for more.

[ His usual humor returns, though fond. ]