[Greytris AU]

[priordivergence]

I'm standing there in my kitchen, trying to remind Grey of the drinks we've left cooling on the counter, but I can't quite fish out the words as he reaches up and touches my jaw. For long, painful seconds, all I can think of is the last person who cradled me like this, who watched my face with quiet understanding. I miss Tobias. I miss Christina and Uriah and knowing who I was. Maybe it had been an illusion of understanding, but it had been something.

I stare at Grey now, feeling like I'm on the precipice of something dangerous.

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[silenttrainbaby]

They're both innocent in their own ways. Anything Grey knows he learned from Gilliam and Edgar, or mutual fumbling. There were far too many women on the train. Pulling back just a little, he lets their eyes meet again.

He's never either.

His hand wanders lower, over her shirt, along the swell of a breast.

[priordivergence]

I feel the touches rising up along my skin, leaving trails of of heat that snake along the meager curves of my body. The want bubbles up higher in me, but not high enough to smother the nervousness.

Am I ever going to be certain about this?

"Do you really want to?"

[silenttrainbaby]

Her uncertainty is contagious. It makes Grey pull back. He wants to, yes, but it isn't as if he has to.

[priordivergence]

It still fizzles in my stomach. Instinct tells me to chase back into his arms, to feel his warmth.

"I've only ever kissed one other person," I explain quietly. "And we hadn't ever...We had chances but the time just wasn't right and I..."

[silenttrainbaby]

There was no such thing as a right time on the train.

Grey touches Tris's chin, her cheek. He is, still, a very good listener.

[priordivergence]

I don't know how to say it, how to negotiate between the thoughts racing my brain and the signals coursing just under my skin.

So many times, Tobias and I had come close and then pulled back from uncertainty, from grief. There's nothing holding me back now except myself.

I'm not afraid of Grey. I trust him. I don't trust myself.

And a new thought worries me. "I don't have any protection either..."

[silenttrainbaby]

Protection?

That's something Grey hasn't thought anything about. Ever.

Protection against what? His brows furrow in question.

[priordivergence]

"To prevent..." I gesture vaguely at my stomach before grabbing a hold of myself. I'm a grown adult. I've broken bones and ended life. I'm on the verge of having sex with Grey and I'm going to be brave. Unashamed.

"To prevent pregnancy," I finish, refusing to let my voice shake.

[silenttrainbaby]

Pregnancy.

Being a mother - Tanya to Timmy: that's Grey's reference.

How does one prevent that? Why would one want to?

Grey covers her belly with his hand, unsure of what else to do.

[priordivergence]

The next question surprises me. "...do you still want this?" When we're robbed of spontaneity, held back from acting immediately, will he still want me.

[silenttrainbaby]

What is not to want?

Being roobbed of spontaneity might be the best thing - any moments they had on the train were spontaneous.

The hand on Tris's belly cups her jaw again and he kisses her again.

[priordivergence]

His answer steals some of the fear out of me, lets the heat rise up in me again. Careful of my wrapped hands, I slide my arms around him.

[silenttrainbaby]

His hands slip from her jaw to her neck to along her shoulders and Grey holds her then, liking how she feels in his arms.

The quiet around them amplifies all of this, makes it seem more momentous as he tastes her.

[priordivergence]

Slowly, I straighten up so I'm not backed up against my own couch, turning us around so that he can sit on the couch. So that I can be brave and drape over him.

[silenttrainbaby]

It's a new experience, this. Grey finds himself shivering, just a little. The calm he feels when he fights, when he runs, has deserted him. He watches her avidly as she gets closer and he leans up for another kiss, hands on her hips.

[priordivergence]

I kiss him again, braced above him on my forearms to take the pressure off my injured hands. It dips me lower, closer to Grey, and that heat surges through me again.

I'm going to forget my objections too quickly if I do this much longer.

[silenttrainbaby]

This kind of kiss is new. And Grey likes it a lot. As it seems to deepen, he realizes his hips are rocking, his hands gripping her hips, her ribs.

[priordivergence]

The movement of his hips, the insistence of it, provokes a gasp from me. The clarity of it, of how much he wants, surprises me.

That I want too surprises me even more. I grind my hips down against his, ading to the friction.

[silenttrainbaby]

That elicits the smallest of gasps from the back of Grey's throat. The meat of his palms brush the sides of her breasts again; the softness draws him. He cups his hands around them.

[priordivergence]

The touch, his exploration of me, draws shivers across my skin again. My stomach twists again, practicality warring with desire in me. I can feel his need against me and it spurs me on, making me grab his wrist and hurrying his hand lower, resting against the band of my pants.

[silenttrainbaby]

Grey's breath catches. He blinks to look at her face as he quickly flicks open the button. His fingertips brush her skin. He doesn't undo the zipper, though, pulling at the tie of his sweatpants instead.

[priordivergence]

I sit back for a second, watching him, what he does. Leaning against the backing of the couch, I splay my bandaged hand over his chest, tracing a thumb along the shape of his muscles and bones.

[silenttrainbaby]

The pressure on the excitement in his hips draws another groan. But Grey only shifts a little, caught instead by looking up at her, at feeling her touch. He arches into it, almost instinctively even as he reaches for the hem of her shirt.

Nakedness. Another luxury.

[priordivergence]

I raise my arms, knowing that this will expose the scrapes and bruises all over again. I'm not pretty, I know that, but it's especially true today.

I'll let him decide if he still wants me, even though I'm a mess of bruises.

[silenttrainbaby]

She is pretty, though. What she is inside shows outside.

The shirt is tossed aside and Grey sees scrapes and bruises, sure, but he also sees how strong she is, how good.

His hands cover her breasts, palms warm over the thin scrap of material.