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#the way people will pounce at the opportunity to unload on someone the second they have perceived A Wrongdoing
luthienne · 1 year
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anyway literally everyone is going through something all the time!!! everyone is wounded!!! everyone is human & no one makes it out of this life unscathed!! maybe try approaching people in good faith instead of always defaulting to the worst possible interpretations of each other
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butgilinsky · 4 years
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hold this // rc
warning; language, underage drinking, violence, ig it talks about sex? it says pussy like once i think, protective/soft rafe(((: 
summary; a touron hits on the wrong girl at the boneyard one night
word count; 1.6k+
here i go with the ‘mamas’ again. i’m sorry it just sends me
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rafe used to swear up, down and backwards that he wasn’t a jealous person. he always said he never had a reason to be jealous. he was the kook prince, he got just about everything he wanted in life. and his girlfriend was no different. 
y/n had seen something in rafe that nobody else took the time to see. it was one of the things he adored about her, and one reason he seemed to freak out every time there was reason for him to believe his relationship was put in jeopardy. 
though, y/n wanted to be with rafe. she wanted rafe as much as rafe wanted her, and that’s one of the reasons the two worked so well together. rafe cameron was no angel, and y/n made it a point to tell him that every time he messed up, though he never seemed to mess up with her. 
everyone on the island knew that y/n was off limits. after the incident at kelce’s house, when patrick mccarthy put his hand a little too low on y/n’s back and rafe had broken his nose, nobody made a pass at the girl. some people were too scared to even talk to her, afraid that rafe would misread the situation. 
but that was a year ago. and no matter how common knowledge their relationship was to every kook and pogue on the island, the information was unknown to tourons. 
she’d seen the boy’s gaze on her all night long, though she tried to ignore it. it made her slightly uncomfortable, her every move under somebody’s eyes, but telling rafe meant starting a scene at the boneyard, and that wasn’t something she wanted to deal with right now. 
for a while she thought he might just keep his distance all night, but that proved to be a wrong assumption when she found herself at the keg, exchanging a few words with john b when the touron popped up over her shoulder. 
“hey gorgeous.” she swallowed the groan that bubbled in her throat and took a large gulp of her beer. 
john b almost laughed at the guy’s oblivion. he wasn’t going to be the one to tell him to back off though, not wanting to insert himself in any situation that was between rafe and one of y/n’s many admirers. 
“hi.” she responded dryly, flashing him a quick smile before waving to john b and walking back towards where she had left rafe not too long ago.
“i’m liam.” she sighed to herself when the boy started following after her, all wishes and hopes of shrugging him off being rudely denied by the universe. 
“y/n.” she raised her cup to her lips, hoping her dry and slightly rude nature would send a message.
“you here alone?” she stopped at that, turning to the boy with a heavy sigh. 
“no, i’m not. listen, i don’t mean to be that girl, but i have a boyfriend.” the boy hummed softly, giving her a once over before he smirked widely. 
“not a thing to me if it’s not to you.” he shrugged easily, not finding it much of an issue for him. 
“you’re gonna regret you said that, buddy.” topper’s arm hooked around her shoulder, making her slightly relieved that she might’ve found an escape with the opportunity to avoid a scene. 
“there’s no way you’re her boyfriend.” the guy easily dismissed topper, not buying the act for a second. 
“i’m not, but i have the ability to save you from ever meeting him. i suggest you take the opportunity and run.” y/n clicked her tongue at the threat, knowing that topper would pounce on this guy if he felt the need to. 
“look, i’m just trying to get to know a beautiful lady, no harm no foul.” she felt another hand on her back, turning over her shoulder to find kelce giving her a quick glance before giving the boy across from her a stern look.
“is there a problem here?” the guy glared at kelce, glancing down to y/n for a moment before scoffing the same way he did with topper just a second ago. 
“you seem to have a lot of boys at your side, honey.” she cringed at the pet name, hating the way it dripped from his tongue. “seems like that boyfriend of yours is just a myth, huh?”
“what about her boyfriend?” y/n sighed heavily, head dropping to topper’s shoulder before a hand sneaked its way around to her stomach. 
“jesus christ, how many guys do you juggle princess? seems to me like you have room for one more.” 
y/n’s eyes went wide at the guy’s words, thinking she was going to have to stop all three of them from jumping him at this point. 
“what the fuck did you just say?” she turned quickly to face rafe, the boy not even glancing at her as he glared harshly at the guy behind her. 
“baby, please don’t do this right now.” she mumbled softly, hands pressed firmly to his sides. she squeezed softly in an attempt to have him look at her, but he couldn’t tear his eyes away from the touron. 
“she’s got an ass on her man, you guys pick ‘em well, i’ve gotta say.” 
“say one more thing about her and i’ll break your jaw.” rafe’s voice was low, and to anybody else on the island it would’ve been the end of the conversation, but this guy couldn’t pick up a hint if it was put in the palm of his hand directly, it seems. 
“c’mon, if you all share her what’s the issue, man?” 
“baby, please.” rafe glanced down at her then, jaw clenched tightly and steam pouring out of his ears. 
“hold this.” he raised his cup to her, waiting for her to grab it but she shook her head. “y/n, hold this or i’m going to throw it in that prick’s face.”
“whatever, man. she seems to have all of you on a tight leash anyway. no pussy’s that good.” 
rafe lost it then. he took the cup in his hand and chucked it over y/n’s head, clocking the guy in the face. he was covered in beer now, and the cup bounced off the side of his face. 
the touron’s face grew red, and though y/n tried to keep rafe away from him, rafe’s quick glance to kelce was loud enough for kelce to wrap an arm around the girl’s waist and lift her out of her spot. 
“tell me about it, man? how’s it feel when she’s on her knees? i bet it’s-” 
he never got to finish his statement, seeing as it’s difficult to talk when someone’s fist collides with your face. y/n winced at the sight, shying into kelce’s chest while rafe unloaded every ounce of frustration into the touron’s face. though, unfortunately for him, seemed to be a lot at the moment. 
the guy didn’t stand a chance. he had fallen onto his back after the second punch, a cracking sound coming after the third or forth. y/n’s pleas for rafe to stop never registered with rafe, ignoring everybody that had gathered to watch the fight. 
the guy was sputtering out apologies, gasping for breath and trying to beg rafe to let up on him, but it was no use until topper pried his best friend off of the boy. topper was yelling that the guy had had enough, and rafe growled under his breath while he shoved topper away from him, clearly not letting out all of his frustration quite yet. 
y/n watched rafe walk away from the spot, fighting the urge to kick sand up at the guy when he stormed off. he pushed past people that were staring up at him with various expressions, not having seen rafe get into a fight like that in a few months. 
y/n ran after him, trying to call out to him but was ultimately ignored as rafe’s anger took over. she followed as quickly as she could, though her shorter legs and the sand around her feet slowed her down a bit. 
“rafe, please!” he finally stopped when he seemed to be miles away from anyone, spinning around and glaring gently at the girl. “rafe.” 
“i don’t need a lecture. i went too far, i get it.” his voice was low and rough, though he wasn’t angry at the girl before him. he was angry at the situation that had just ensued, and the idea of her lecturing him made him want to punch something else. 
“i’m not going to lecture you.” she sighed softly, her shoulders slumping as she stepped forward. 
she wrapped her arms around the boy’s back, leaning her head against his chest and sighing gently. it only took rafe a few seconds for him to wrap his arms back around the girl.
“i’m sorry, he just wouldn’t shut the fuck up and he ticked all of the boxes.” y/n sighed gently, not wanting to forgive him right away, since he knew how much she hated him getting into fights over her, but she couldn’t be angry at the boy. 
“i know. i’m sorry.” rafe moved a hand up to her chin, tilting her head back to force her to look at him. 
“hey, don’t apologize. you didn’t do anything wrong.” his voice lowered to a whisper, the look in his eyes filled with remorse and love for the girl in his arms. he hated upsetting her, but all it took was one wrong word about her to make send him into a trance like that. 
“can we just go home?” rafe smiled softly at her and nodded, pressing a soft kiss to her forehead before letting the hand on her back drop to her ass and squeezing it softly. 
“rafe!” she squealed softly, hearing the boy laugh when she shoved him playfully. 
“sorry, mamas. let’s go.” he kissed her quickly and grabbed her hand, practically dragging her to where his truck was parked. 
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Smut?? *sigh* Oh how i've missed it. Also, how do I choose just one? Okay, how about no. 33 “I’m gonna fuck you so hard that you forget you ever even met that asshole.” (Don't mind me, I'm just too fond of jealousy fics)
Your time is now, friend! You picked a good one. It went… places I didn’t expect. I hope you enjoy it!
Best Man (and a Friend of the Bride)
Pairing: Peter Parker x Michelle Jones (Spideychelle)Rating: E/NSFWWord count: 5717
33. “I’m gonna fuck you so hard that you forget you ever even met that asshole.”
Peter escaped the banquet hall at a near-run while the guests were still applauding Betty and Ned’s first dance. After the newlyweds had burst into the room not long before, Ned had broken away to give Peter an important heads-up: that Ned’s mom had informed all of his cousins that the Best Man was single and they were just waiting until the dancing to pounce. It freaked Peter out to know that a bunch of strangers had been checking him out while he stood at the head of the aisle, clapping his best friend supportively on the shoulder as the music cued Betty’s entrance.
Even in the face of matrimony (and it had been right in Peter’s face for the better part of two years as he fulfilled his role as Best Man), it wasn’t that Peter was a commitment-phobe, some sort of serial one-night-stand-er. He simply wasn’t in a rush to marry young. Plus, he was trying to keep his wits about him today of all days; May had warned that people could get a little nuts at weddings, what with the atmosphere of romantic gravitas thicker than the icing on the big white cake. She was probably back there right now, trying to intercept Ned’s eager cousins to give Peter a head start.
As he moved away down the corridor towards the front of the hotel, the thud of pop-y bass transitioned into the tones of two people attempting to keep an argument quiet. Up ahead, a dark-haired man crossed out of a room and pushed angrily through the front doors. They didn’t slam, which took some of the effect out of it.
Peter wondered if he should turn back, but if the other arguer came this way, it would look like he was trying to slink away after eavesdropping. He would just… be casual and slip right past.
Except, when he was passing the room the fight had occurred in, the other person, a woman his age, walked out. He grabbed her shoulders instinctively before she could run into him.
“I didn’t mean to scare you,” Peter told her surprised expression, belatedly releasing her.
“Oh, this?” she asked, circling her face with a finger. “It’s not fear, it’s relief. I thought you were Brad storming back in for round two.”
He could guess, but it would be better to ask.
“Brad?”
“My…” The woman paused. “…ex-boyfriend.”
Peter noticed a few tears overflowing her brimming eyes and patted his pants for a Kleenex, coming up empty. Damn, he remembered feeling one when he stuffed his tie into the same pocket after the ceremony.
“Sorry,” he said, meaning it, “I think I had a tissue in my jacket, but I left it in the… in the room.”
‘Banquet hall’ was not coming to him as she gave an unconcerned shrug and tossed her loosely braided hair over her shoulder before catching him head-on with brown eyes that were even more brilliant for their shininess. She made do by swiping away the fullest tears and patting beneath her eyes with her thumbs.
“I’m fine,” she said and he felt bad for not asking.
While she sniffled and angled her head back to keep any remaining tears at bay, Peter glanced down, taking in the length of her dark copper dress. It would probably photograph stunningly outside, against all those red and gold leaves on the trees lining the hotel’s drive. Damn Ned for dragging him into the wedding photographer conversation. Everywhere Peter looked at this place, he saw lighting opportunities and reflections of the couple’s autumnal colour scheme. Stupid scenic, postcard-town venue. He looked quickly back up to the woman’s face, which was now more composed.
“I’m Peter.” He cleared his throat. “By the way.”
She nodded and said, “MJ. Betty’s mentioned you.”
“So you’re… bride’s side?” That term came to him.
“Oh yeah, she and I go way back, or as far as you can go back when people get married in their early twenties.”
“Right.” Peter laughed. “Me and Ned too.” But the small talk was bothering him. He met MJ’s eyes seriously. “I’m sorry, but I really need to know what the fuck that guy’s problem was.”
She laughed in what looked like surprise.
“How do you know I didn’t cause the problem?”
“Did you?” he asked to humour her.
MJ shrugged, appearing genuinely thoughtful.
“Sort of. You want details?”
“Nah, it’s none of my business.” He was just quietly pissed off that some dick could breeze out and leave this woman crying. At a wedding. This was, like, the exact opposite of what May had warned him about. No romance in sight.
She leaned sideways into the wall, crossed her arms, and sighed. He copied her, minus the sigh.
“First, I want to note that someone’s ability to cite George Orwell is not a strong enough reason to stay in a relationship with them. You got that, Peter?”
“Noted.”
She sighed again and rubbed more aggressively at the tear tracks drying on her cheeks.
“Would you believe the fight started with a proposal?”
Peter was usually more of a listener, but he could tell MJ needed him to contribute. Maybe she wasn’t a natural conversation-hog either.
“Isn’t proposing at somebody else’s wedding, like, bad manners?”
“Really bad,” she agreed with such vehemence that he understood why she and Betty were good friends. “It’s rude as fuck to take attention away from the bride and groom, but Brad’s a self-centered shithead like that, so I probably should have seen this coming.”
“That’s the problem with the Brads of the world,” Peter observed with sarcastic faux-wisdom. “You’re so focused on how self-centered they are and how much of a shithead they’re being that you forget the unpredictability factor. That’s the killer.”
MJ snorted.
“Right? Anyway, so I pulled him out here, because he started fucking whipping out that ring box while Betty and Ned were still dancing―” Peter shook his head in disgust. “―and while we were getting into it, I had this moment where I just stared at him and felt zero desire to keep talking, or hearing him talk. And, I guess, if I felt like that right after he tried to propose… I mean, that should be one of the emotional highlights of my life. Like, forget that his timing was shitty and selfish, I still should’ve been thrilled, on some level, that this guy I’d been with for the past two and a half years wanted to marry me. And I wasn’t. I think that’s why I started crying.”
She breathed deeply and Peter was staggered that he’d heard someone exorcise their feelings so well and so wastelessly. He admired her. Abruptly, MJ laughed.
“So that was a lot to unload on a stranger.”
“I’m not a stranger, I’m your friend’s husband’s best friend!” he joked. “And I’m glad you explained. Otherwise, my plan was to assume that you were crying for Brad, because he doesn’t get to spend any more time with you.”
“You know, I’m impressed that you picked that up so quickly.”
“Well,” Peter shrugged, referencing Ned’s recent vows, “I’ve heard that sometimes you just know.”
They laughed until the front doors opening (not Brad―they both turned to look) shoved a wave of chilly air into the hotel. Peter wished he had his jacket to give her. He felt a little unbalanced, accidentally pairing up with this stranger after actively running away from the potential for that same thing down the hall. Instead of wading in, testing the waters, he’d shot down into a sinkhole. That wasn’t exactly what he’d been hoping to find either. Because he hadn’t been hoping to find anything. Yet he really wanted to be around her; attraction wasn’t something he’d closed himself off to.
“We should get out of this hallway,” MJ suggested.
“Do you want to…” Peter jerked his thumb back towards the banquet hall. “…dance?” He winced. “Or is that a terrible thing to ask because, shithead or not, you were just almost engaged?”
She tilted her head side to side, considering.
“Pretty terrible. On a related note, do you want to come hang out in my room?”
His mouth fell open slowly and he straightened up. Saying ‘yes’ too fast… that would be another example of bad manners, wouldn’t it? If she asked though, he’d be lying to say that wondering how the fabric of her dress would feel sliding through his hands as he removed it hadn’t been taking up half his brain power since the second he saw her.
“We’ll go back to the reception in a bit,” MJ assured him. “I just need to take my shoes off and be blissfully alone for a few minutes.”
“I’m flattered that you can already feel alone when I’m in a room with you,” he said sarcastically, smiling to take the edge off. “This conversation is way better for my ego than dancing with one of Ned’s cousins.”
She laughed, easy, and reached out to grab Peter’s forearm. It shot a tingle through him probably even less appropriate than contemplating going back to MJ’s room with her. Unconsciously, he pushed his tongue against the inside of his lip as he watched her mouth.
“Dude, they were talking about your thighs through the whole ceremony. I was sitting in front of them.”
“You probably started it,” he teased, brushing a strand of hair away from her face like he was also a casual toucher. It was tough to tell whether she was blushing or just flushed from her argument.
“Nah, I was too busy looking at your arms. That jacket could only hide so much.” Her gaze dropped pointedly to one of his biceps. With his arms crossed, his dress shirt strained.
They were joking around, right? People flirted at weddings. All people. Including determined bachelors and brand-new singletons.
“Look who’s talking,” Peter countered, sweeping his eyes down her silky dress. The hug and drape of it.
Harmless flirting. Totally harmless. MJ gave him a thorough once-over.
“So… yes or no?”
Her hotel room had only her things in it and he wondered how he would’ve felt to encounter the heavily ridiculed Brad’s luggage.
“He left his bag in the car,” MJ explained, tossing the key card onto a table with an elegant flick. She flung her small purse to land at the head of the bed on a pillow. “He didn’t want us to stay overnight. Figured we could make the drive back into the city when things were winding down.”
“At what time? Three in the morning? Not a great plan.” Peter was puffing himself up every time he cut a slice off the absent Brad. He was aware of it, but he also couldn’t stop himself.
She sat on the edge of the queen-size bed, then changed her mind, crouching down at the mini-fridge and extracting a teeny bottle. Peter stood by as she unscrewed and sniffed it.
“No,” she gasped, quickly returning it to the fridge.
“You’re ok, right?” he asked tentatively.
MJ sat back and turned her head to look at him.
“I wasn’t going to drink myself into a stupor, I’m just curious. I like to explore my surroundings.”
Not quite an answer, but whatever.
She stood and glanced at the blank screen of the TV.
“You want to watch something?”
“Uh, no, that’s ok. We can just talk,” Peter said. Talk about how people hooked up at weddings. Right.
“Talk.” MJ nodded and sat beside him. “Sure. That’s a good idea. I think we skipped some of the general stuff when I dove straight into my drama. We could cover something a little less personal.”
“For sure.”
He caught her looking at him from the corner of her eye, just like he was doing to her. In a second, they were kissing fiercely, his hands on her shoulder and the back of her neck, hers clutching the front of his shirt. They twisted towards each other and her far knee nudged his thigh.
“Are impulsive decisions ever right?” MJ wondered, eyes closed, as he nipped her lip and kissed messily over to her ear.
“Don’t ask me that,” Peter mumbled into her ear. His hand played with the strap of her dress, dragging it over her shoulder and back up. Suspending himself in that place of temptation.
“What would Brad think―”
“Don’t ask me that either,” he requested before she could finish the question.
He felt for her knee and tucked his fingers behind it, wrinkling the fabric of her dress between his warm hand and the hot place at the back of her knee. Such a little tug, he thought as they kissed again, to bring her right into his lap. Peter gripped the back of her neck and stroked his tongue into her mouth. MJ’s head was practically lolling, she was so turned on. Ok, he could concede that this was something he missed during his careful state of singlehood. But it wouldn’t have been like this with a Leeds cousin, hadn’t been like this in Peter’s last actual relationship (sorry, Liz) or his handful of Tinder nights.
This wasn’t supposed to happen―his cock thickening in his black suit trousers, MJ’s long fingers undoing the tiny buttons of his shirt―but it could. They’d collided while fleeing in two different directions and now, maybe, they could run parallel for a while. If…
“Actually,” Peter continued, their noses bumping as he shook his head, “could you not say that name again?”
“I could do that.”
His fingers flexed and she swung onto his lap, dress slipping and sliding under his hand. He pressed a palm to the small of her back until she lowered her hips to his, then, as soon as they touched, Peter grew restless and flipped them, hauling MJ up the bed on her back. Her heart was racing, he could see. Her hands were hungry as they roamed his chest where his shirt hung open. She shuffled her dress until she was able to bend her knees on either side of his hips, kicking her high heels to the floor. They (Peter and MJ) had probably damaged her braid.
Propped over her, Peter pushed the delicate straps from her shoulders, one at a time, while she watched him. He peeled the front of her loose dress down with the slight dampness of his palm, caressing along her sternum. No bra underneath. There was a zipper at the side that he hadn’t noticed; she undid it for him.
He dipped his face to kiss the center of her chest, then lifted his head again, looking seriously into MJ’s receptive, unswerving stare.
“I’m gonna fuck you so hard that you forget you ever even met that asshole. You realize that, right?”
Slowly, he felt her hook her feet securely behind his calves, neck lifting gracefully from the bed as she did so. Always watching his eyes.
“Works for me,” MJ said. “Though that is going to make it a lot more difficult to feel like I’m alone in this hotel room.”
She grinned and he dove into it, kissing her enthusiastically and rocking his hips into hers. Peter shoved his shiny black shoes off with the toes of his opposite feet while using his hands to wriggle the top of her dress down to her waist. With a tremulous breath he hoped wasn’t the beginnings of regret, MJ helped him out of his dress shirt and tossed it unceremoniously aside. He didn’t look away to see if the article even made it over the edge of the bed.
And that was as far as they got, the both of them topless, when MJ felt around for her clutch and extracted a condom that had been intended for another guy’s erection. His excitement was momentarily quelled. As she passed it to him, chucking her purse away, Peter glanced at the wrapper before tearing it open. Good news: it wasn’t some inferiority-complex-inducing jumbo size. He exhaled slowly through his nose in relief and gazed at the peaked nipples of her bare breasts as he unzipped himself, pushed his boxers out of the way, and rolled the condom on. MJ hiked the hem of her dress up her thighs, the entire swishy length now just a fold of fabric around her hips, shimmering softly in the yellow light of the hotel room.
Peter dug his nose beneath her jaw and felt between her thighs with an eager hand. The room was snugly still around them, the sound of his own breathing in his ears. MJ gave a little gasp and dropped her legs wider at his touch. Her underwear felt lacy and―more germane―wet. He groaned and hauled the lingerie down her legs, stretching and wrenching instead of patiently asking for her to lift her hips, unbend her knees.
His fingers returned to her, dipping into her wetness and rubbing it up over her clit until her thighs gave a tremble. He kissed gradually down her throat. Laying her hands on his shoulders, MJ ran them across to the back of his neck. Peter traced a teasing circle around her entrance with the tip of his middle finger and, abruptly, her hand was gripping his hair.
“This isn’t a slow dance, Peter,” she told him, chin tipped up to unconsciously mirror how she’d pulled his head back. Her other hand wove down and found Peter’s wrist, forcing his finger inside her. “We aren’t making memories.”
He laughed, appreciating her bluntness, and raked a hand through his dishevelled hair the second she released it.
“I guess I just normally―”
“I don’t care.” MJ smiled. “Just be the hot Best Man and I’ll be a friend of the bride, ‘cause that’s what it seems like we both need. If you can’t do that, then get on your back and I’ll do it for you.”
Peter laughed again and bit at her neck―lightly, then harder as he felt her sink into the plush comforter they hadn’t bothered to turn down. When she moaned and bucked slightly to get his finger (positioned by her) moving, Peter curled it inside her and kissed her mouth to swallow some of the sound that was making his blood so hot.
“No, you’re definitely staying on your back,” he muttered against her lips.
MJ just nodded lazily, eyes shut, when he added another finger and pumped them faster. Her grip twisted gently around his wrist and Peter’s eyes nearly rolled back imagining the same motion on his dick. He didn’t know her―not ‘that well,’ but know her, period―but he was sure it was exactly what she wanted him to imagine.
He watched her stretch a hand over her head and grasp the edge of the mattress, fingers sneaking between it and the headboard. Kissing her hard, Peter hooked his fingers into her twice more, then withdrew his hand (she moved hers to the back of his neck). Arousal smeared her thigh as he clutched it and nudged his cock against her entrance, pressing inside when the angle felt right.
A little while for him and, for her, the first time in years with a new partner. They both had something to get used to and they both started off gasping, quickly rearranging their limbs to hold each other closer as Peter sunk deeper. A quick squeeze from MJ’s legs tangling around the back of his jerked him all the way inside her and she immediately bore down with her hips like she could pin him there from underneath. The forcefulness of it was hot. Liz had never been very… but no, they weren’t bringing their exes into this. Not into this hotel room, not into this bed.
Peter wrapped his arm all the way around MJ, stretching beneath her back to grasp her ribcage with firm fingers. He resisted slipping his other hand into her hair because it would demolish whatever remained of the braid that suited her so well; instead, he braced his forearm on the bed and cupped her bare shoulder in his palm. The heat and friction of the two of them moving against each other was raising the scent of whatever MJ had massaged into her skin to make it so soft. He inhaled deeply, tracing his lips down to her collarbone to leave a lingering kiss. With his arms bound up by her body and his legs increasingly swayed by the guiding action of hers, Peter went to rapid work with his hips.
Panting and groaning, MJ was as collaborative as she was combative―dragging him in with her legs and rocking her hips fiercely in pursuit of pleasure―and he wasn’t sure at all that she’d really surrendered, despite remaining on her back. But that wasn’t really what he wanted, was it? Wedding hookups, by whatever definition of them existed, were supposed to be easy, and yet Peter wanted a second go-round. Wanted to see her lotion lined up with her hair products and her makeup by the sink in the en suite when he brushed his teeth.
He inhaled and gave his head a small shake. This wasn’t his hotel room and MJ wasn’t his girlfriend. She wasn’t looking for that. He wasn’t looking for that. Ugh, he couldn’t think about this anymore.
Peter struggled to find a good moment to change positions and ended up just flipping them while she continued to writhe. He thought it was reluctance to put too much space between their groins, but, on his back and tossing a curl of hair off his forehead, he was staggered when MJ progressed to torturously drawn-out rises and falls of her hips. Obviously unembarrassed to be suddenly astride a near-stranger, she’d pressed her palms to his chest for leverage as she eased herself up and down.
“Not a slow dance,” he groaned, hips bucking pleadingly each time she withdrew. But it felt deliriously good and Peter smoothed his hands somewhat possessively up her thighs.
“What,” she panted, tugging the pooling skirt of her dress out of the way as she rode him, “do you have to give a speech or something?”
Peter laughed, just once―it was all he could spare the oxygen for, huffing to thrust up into her.
“I do, actually. But Betty scheduled everything to the minute. The speeches don’t start until nine.”
“Lots of time,” MJ decided, jerking forward and back on his lap, so incredibly tight around him after months of his fingers and palm.
“Mmm,” Peter agreed. He slid his hands a little higher and started trying to intertwine their fingers.
She shook him off, returning her hands to his chest, and glanced briefly down and away.
“Not that we’re going to take long.”
“No.”
What could he do but agree? He exhaled, chest falling beneath her hands, wanting to tumble MJ down on top of him. She gave him a look and he thought it might’ve been because he wasn’t totally convincing (spending the night with her would be nice!) and he held her gaze until her eyes appeared panicked. Too intense, he told himself. Then Peter elbowed her wrists aside to collapse her onto his body, rolling them to land on top of her again.
“You’ve got good form,” he joked, slamming his hips forward so he struck deep, making her mouth open in a silent scream, “but you just take too goddamn long.”
“Show me how it’s done then, Best Man,” MJ shot back when she could get the words out.
With an eager grin, Peter pounded into her like he’d warned her he would. She didn’t try to trade places, or even voice a request to do so, too busy sucking in air each time he drove forward. Keeping himself on his elbows, he groped her breasts. Pinching her nipples made MJ speak his name in a high whine―“Peter”― that exhilarated him into a faster pace with his hips. He slid easily in and out of her slick channel, beginning to tremble with the feeling.
Meeting his wild thrusts, MJ reached up again, planting her palm against the headboard. Peter had to move one hand off her chest just to stroke down the underside of her arm. Her mouth quirked up in an unfamiliar expression; he realized what he’d done tickled her. To distract himself from wanting things he couldn’t, shouldn’t, have, Peter dropped his mouth to the center of her chest. He kissed her sternum before tracing his tongue over to her nipple and sucking it into his mouth. She let out a small scream and clenched fleetingly around his dick.
“Can you get off like this?” he mumbled, barely lifting his mouth from her, hips hastening.
MJ just nodded rapidly and closed her eyes. Maybe Peter watched her expression a second too long, because the question of whether she was imagining that he was Brad right now entered his mind. He still moved his hips, but he was numb until her free hand suddenly gripped his hair (fair, for her to wreck his carefully gelled down hair after his actions had made a mess of her braid). He almost laughed in relief and lowered his head to bite her nipple. He’d only seen the jerk for a few seconds, but Peter remembered Brad’s straight hair, shorter than his own. MJ could only be thinking of him, Peter, as her fingers loosened the curls he’d flattened with product to look more… what? Sophisticated or something, for the bridal party.
For these seconds, as her back arched, trapping his hand between them (not that he minded in the slightest), and MJ called out Peter’s name, she’d forgotten. Like he’d promised her. Fulfilling that promise was so monumental in his mind as his thrusts turned sloppy and he lost himself in her, that he nearly repeated the thought aloud. Luckily, he managed to turn it into a gravelly grunt, delivering forceful final thrusts that shook her beneath him; MJ’s arm had gone limp in her bliss, no longer bracing her against the headboard. Those arms folded around the back of his neck as he slowed to a stop and let himself―just for a minute―rest on top of her.
“My hair is totally fucked,” she murmured against his forehead.
Peter laughed weakly and kissed MJ’s neck, then, with a crease between his eyebrows, drew himself out of her.
“Not to mention my dress,” she sighed as he stumbled a bit on jellified legs into the bathroom to toss the condom.
He fumbled with hitching his boxers and dress pants up and swung the door partly shut for a minute to splash cool water on his face before confronting his expression. Dazed. But would the guests―would Ned and Betty―suspect sex dazed? His gaze shifted up to his hair. Oh right. Yeah, that was probably a giveaway. Peter gave fixing his hair a half-hearted attempt, then left the bathroom, stretching his arms back and his chest forward.
MJ’s gaze was waiting for him. Probably not waiting for the proudly (if accidentally) displayed flex of his stomach and arms, but it seemed like it went over well; her mouth fell open. It had to be retaliation when she raised her hips from the mattress and pushed her bunched up dress down her legs to lie there totally nude. Then, she sat up, stood, and strode past him into the bathroom, wearing nothing more than a I know exactly what I’m doing to you smirk. She shut the door and Peter had to mentally get a hold of himself so he wouldn’t walk straight into it like a lovesick idiot and break his nose.
He found his shirt on the floor, looking like a used tissue―it was riddled with an impossible number of creases. Peter sighed and went to the hall closet where hotels always tucked the iron and ironing board. The wrinkles came out easily and he hung it on the back of the chair at the neat, untouched desk, pacing unhurriedly as he waited for MJ to emerge from the bathroom. She was probably trying to salvage her braid. No point in throwing his shirt on until they were ready to go. Assuming she’d want to head back at the same time. Shit, he was overthinking this again.
Peter caught sight of MJ’s crumpled ball of an outfit as he turned and figured he might as well iron her dress while he had the stuff out. His gaze also fell on her lacy black underwear, which he did not approach, for fear of sneaking them into his pants pocket (she’d know―one look and she’d know). He assessed the fabric, letting it slip sweetly between his fingers, then laid it across the ironing board and draped a clean towel (also in the hall closet) on top to protect it from the iron.
Exiting the bathroom as casually as she’d entered it, MJ went first to the bed; she collected and stepped into her underwear. Which was not really dressed enough for Peter’s dick not to care. His jaw tensed. The moment she spun towards him, the situation (his situation) was diffused. She laughed.
“You’re ironing?”
Peter shrugged, continuing to smooth the iron across the towel.
“You were right about your dress. It was pretty fucked and I wanted you to feel good walking back in there.”
She appeared taken aback, but maybe in a good way, a surprised way, dropping her eyes to the floor and smiling to herself. When she glanced up again, she was trying to conceal the softened expression, rubbing a thumb over her eyebrow. Her hair looked good, he noticed. Not as tidy as it had been, but the escaped strands that waved around her face… they looked… well, then looked… Peter swallowed and quit staring.
“I steamed the dress at home and changed into it here,” she offered, crossing her arms over her naked chest. With her wide stance, she looked way more at ease than he felt. “The material’s kind of delicate, so you have to be caref―”
“I’m being careful,” Peter assured her. “My aunt taught me to iron, like, a decade ago.”
“Oh.”
“You’re surprised,” he noted with a grin.
He watched her back up and sit on the end of the bed.
“I’ve never had a man iron my clothes.” She snorted. “I would’ve been so shocked if Brad had ever…” MJ’s expression fell and her eyes flicked to his. “Is it ok if I say his name?”
Peter gave an awkward shrug and shifted the dress to iron the last foot or so. Too awkward. She sighed heavily.
“Peter, we should talk.”
“Hey,” he interrupted in a cheerful tone, “I’m just the Best Man and you’re a friend of the bride.”
“It’s too soon.” MJ laughed humourlessly. “It’s way too soon. Neither of us needs… this.”
Which instantly made him feel like he needed this. Because he’d forgotten everything with one glimpse of the woman in the dress like melted copper.
“I think this is just about done,” Peter said, shamelessly trying to divert her from speaking any harsher truths by drawing attention back to the dress. He set the iron aside, unplugged it, whisked away the towel. Everything was fine.
“I don’t mean this to be condescending,” she said, gently and absolutely not distracted, “but you might not know what it’s like to end a serious relationship. I don’t regret what you and I just did, but I know that, after ending things with Brad, having time to be by myself is vital, Peter. I don’t want you to feel―”
“I was engaged.”
The room was quiet, apart from the faint hiss of the cooling iron.
“Yeah,” Peter confirmed, though she hadn’t said anything. “I was engaged to my last serious girlfriend. Maybe you know Liz Allan?” He met her eye and MJ didn’t say anything. “She’s friends with Betty too. Obviously RSVPed ‘no’ to this particular occasion. It’s been more than a year since we were together, but… There were a lot of reasons.”
“For me and Brad too.” She sighed and he felt like it had come from his own lungs, releasing some tension. “Though it always feels like just one in the moment you break up.”
He nodded and glanced at the dress, then at her. MJ stood and walked over to him. Peter held her dress out to her, zipping it up along her side with intimate care as she got the straps to lie where she wanted them.
“You did an incredible job,” she said, inspecting the length of fabric once again draping her body. “Thank you.” The strength of his desire to tell her she deserved to be taken care of ached in his chest. “Come here,” MJ insisted. Peter was powerless.
With a wry smile, she lifted her hands to his hair, combing the sides between her fingers and pushing the front off his forehead.
“That’s better.”
He chuckled.
“Well, it couldn’t get any worse.”
They went back to the reception together, MJ holding the door open for him with an, “After you, Best Man.” She looked absolutely stunning and, if there were any Leeds cousins around, Peter didn’t notice them.
The two of them danced once or twice, then more when the less committed wedding guests headed to bed. Somehow, Peter and MJ weren’t among them and, with fewer partners in the room and on the floor, it was easy to drift together over and over. Eventually, they just stayed that way, exchanging calm smiles with Betty and Ned until the happy couple left too.
“I didn’t mean never,” MJ whispered when it was just them in the empty banquet hall.
The DJ was off the clock and they’d switched over to music from their combined playlists. Heart thudding, Peter held her closer.
“I know. I can wait.” After a minute, he added, “I’m pretty sure you’re what I was waiting for anyway.”
MJ leaned her head into his as he swayed them.
“You wanna go back to my room? We might as well sleep together in the less exciting sense and I’ll count today as one big exception.”
Peter grinned, leaning into her in turn and settling in for a little while longer.
“Come on, MJ. Give me one more slow dance.”
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