MOUTH AND FACE MUST BE FRIENDS!!!! Am poking at current Mouth/Face thing with a stick. I know what I'm going for (Eames going uncharacteristically easy on Arthur, Arthur growing increasingly paranoid about just what went down and not believing Eames 'nothing to be ashamed of', Arthur torn between forgetting and needing to know, Eames being reluctant to share (because he knows that if those were Arthur's true feeeeelings, it's best to let him come around to them naturally, and because he wants to protect Arthur's pride and because if he shares too much Arthur will probably run away and Arthur needs to be with a friend right now, even if he won't admit it, and besides, who knows how much of Arthur coming on to him was the drugs and how much was Arthur, and Arthur also probably said some mean things to him when he was drugged.)
And perhaps, um, Eames feels a tad guilty because while he was mostly a gentleman, maybe he finally gave in a little to Arthur's pleading and gave him a hand job to calm him the fuck down. And feels like if Arthur found this out it would Not Be Good. But he also feels dumbfounded by how beyond-his-wildest-expectations-hot out-of-control Arthur was, despite the situation, and he can't get all the filthy promises Arthur made out of his head, even though he'd never dream of holding him to them.
And then, um, stuff goes here. And then they done sex. The question is how to get them from feeling awkward and guilty around each other to *sexing*. Because I think in this situation, Eames would feel compelled to not be Mr. 'let's be saucy and tease/seduce Arthur for fun' because a) it's a shitty thing to do to use this knowledge against Arthur and b) what he may have thought of as a possible fun roll in the hay feels different now that he's seen Arthur so vulnerable. c) he's pretty sure Arthur's a lot more emotionally fragile right now than he realizes or wants to admit.
So he settles on sticking around Arthur's side as long as Arthur will let him, letting Arthur figure it out/ask the questions when and if he wants to, and looking after Arthur regardless of whether or not Arthur thinks he needs looking after. And with any luck, given time, he'll get to find out how much of that was the drugs talking and how much of that was Arthur. In the meantime, now that he knows Arthur has all these heretofore unseen *layers* he can't help but study the man.
All of which freaks Arthur the fuck out. But Arthur doesn't freak out. ARGH. Wow, that tl;dr'd longer than I meant to. Thanks for not minding the ramble. it helped to get that out.
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Date: 2010-08-25 10:07 pm (UTC)And perhaps, um, Eames feels a tad guilty because while he was mostly a gentleman, maybe he finally gave in a little to Arthur's pleading and gave him a hand job to calm him the fuck down. And feels like if Arthur found this out it would Not Be Good. But he also feels dumbfounded by how beyond-his-wildest-expectations-hot out-of-control Arthur was, despite the situation, and he can't get all the filthy promises Arthur made out of his head, even though he'd never dream of holding him to them.
And then, um, stuff goes here. And then they done sex. The question is how to get them from feeling awkward and guilty around each other to *sexing*. Because I think in this situation, Eames would feel compelled to not be Mr. 'let's be saucy and tease/seduce Arthur for fun' because a) it's a shitty thing to do to use this knowledge against Arthur and b) what he may have thought of as a possible fun roll in the hay feels different now that he's seen Arthur so vulnerable. c) he's pretty sure Arthur's a lot more emotionally fragile right now than he realizes or wants to admit.
So he settles on sticking around Arthur's side as long as Arthur will let him, letting Arthur figure it out/ask the questions when and if he wants to, and looking after Arthur regardless of whether or not Arthur thinks he needs looking after. And with any luck, given time, he'll get to find out how much of that was the drugs talking and how much of that was Arthur. In the meantime, now that he knows Arthur has all these heretofore unseen *layers* he can't help but study the man.
All of which freaks Arthur the fuck out. But Arthur doesn't freak out. ARGH. Wow, that tl;dr'd longer than I meant to. Thanks for not minding the ramble. it helped to get that out.