new york wolves } { of feelings and space heaters

[wildkingdom]

Jeremy: You know, I never need a blanket when we're together. You're like a little compact space heater.

Malia: [smirks a bit as she snuggles closer] Shifters run warmer. High metabolism.

Jeremy: Well, now I know where all that pizza fuel gets burned. [grins]

Malia: [grins back at him, letting her finger trail lazily against his chest] Yep. Pretty much.

Jeremy: [his arm is wrapped around her, rubbing along her spine gently] Well, it'll come in handy on long, winter nights in the future.

Malia: Then we should probably have blankets, though. [because she runs a little hot but not that hot]

Jeremy: Oh, yeah we will. But I like this too.

Malia: [nods a bit] Me too.

Jeremy: [he reached up to caress her cheek a bit. The words are on the tip of his tongue, but he isn't sure he should say them. But it has been there since she got back and he realized how much she did mean to him]

Malia: [is mostly oblivious to those words, not really sure how to express them properly even if she did understand it. But she likes being here, with Jeremy, better than she likes being anywhere else with anyone else and that's good enough for her]

Jeremy: So um... you okay coming to the beach house with us all?

Malia: [nods] Yeah. The full moon's not until the next week so I should be fine. [practically minded, always. Because that's what he was asking, wasn't it?]

Jeremy: Still having problems?

Malia: [makes a face] Not as bad as it was, but not perfect yet.

Jeremy: [leans in to kiss her] You'll get it back. Just takes time, right?

Malia: [closes her eyes and sighs into the kiss] Yeah. I just want to make sure I get it right.

Jeremy: Well, when you do feel you have, we'll celebrate or something.

Malia: [smirks softly at that] Are you going to get me a cake?

Jeremy: Yup. One with the words "You kick the Full Moon's Ass" in little letters.

Malia: [laughs] Perfect.

Jeremy: And then lots of sex. Like a weekend of sex. We can get a little hotel room so we don't have to worry about offending delicate sensibilities. [aka Peter and Matt]

Malia: [smirks as she pushes herself up a bit so that she's leaning over him more] That sounds even better.

Jeremy: [grins] You know, I don't think I've wanted to have sex with anyone else since we met. And that's saying a lot.

Malia: [blinks once, surprised] Really?

Jeremy: Yeah. I mean, we've got this down pretty good. Why screw it up?

Malia: [part of her is actually really pleased to hear that, that he's only been with her. the other part, however, worries, wonders why he doesn't find someone safer. Malia's life isn't exactly quiet] Yeah. Seems smart.

Jeremy: What about you? I mean, not that we said we were monogamous or anything...

Malia: [shrugs before shaking her head] Not really. [Landon may have been in there once or twice but Landon is ... well, Landon. She pauses for a moment before raking her teeth over her bottom lip] Do you want to be?

Jeremy: [there's a small smile, then nods] Actually... yeah. Yeah I think I kinda do.

Malia: [there's a pause as she considers] I might not be good at it. [she means being a girlfriend more than being monogamous. Jeremy's more than enough to keep her interested]

Jeremy: I mean, we don't if you don't want to... [he's confused]

Malia: [she shakes her head] No, I do, I just ... I don't want to mess it up.

Jeremy: Why would you think you'd mess it up. I mean, we've been pretty good so far?

Malia: [her brow furrows a little] So it doesn't have to be different?

Jeremy: No reason for it to be. I mean, I like what we got. We make a pretty damn good team.

Malia: [nods absently] I've just never done it before. Being monogamous.

Jeremy: I did once. It was nice. I mean, you know that you're the only person that they're into.

Malia: I've never really been into someone enough. Or they haven't been into me. [mostly because Malia is Malia and she doesn't handle things the way normal people do]

Jeremy: [sits up a bit] Well, are you into me?

Malia: [shifts a bit so that she's sitting up with him and she nods]

Jeremy: Okay, well I'm really into you. So I think that makes it easy. We don't have to do anything different. We just... we're exclusive to each other.

Malia: [nods] Okay. [a beat] Just ... tell me if I do something wrong?

Jeremy: I will, and same with me. [he cups her cheek again.] You know I love you, right? [and he said the word. yes, yes he did]

Malia: [that has her heart pounding a little fast and her feeling warm and fuzzy at the same time, because she wouldn't have considered it, honestly] Now I do?

Jeremy: Crap, I have to work on my silent signals about that better. [grinning]

Malia: [laughs softly] I'm not very good with subtle.

Jeremy: Yeah, I’ve learned that. [smirks] Kinda like that about you.

Malia: [smiles a big] Good, because I probably won't be getting better at it anytime soon.

Jeremy: That's fine. I love you just the way you are. I'd never change that.

Malia: Me either. [a beat] About you.

Jeremy: [thinks a second] Do you love me, Malia?

Malia: [it shouldn't be a hard question but it is. She knows how to quantify love in terms of family - she knows what that feeling means. The way she feels about Jeremy is different, but it's still good, in it's own way] I don't know. Maybe?

Jeremy: [it's a good thing he knows her well enough.] Well, what do you feel when you think about me?

Malia: [she's quiet for a minute as she shifts back to stare up at the ceiling as she tries to get her words right] Warm. Safe.

Jeremy: [and he's going to playfully shift and straddle her, leaning over her to kiss her] Anything else?

Malia: [smiles a bit into the kiss as she returns it] Happy.

Jeremy: I like that word. [kisses her again]

Malia: Happy?

Jeremy: Yeah. I like knowing that I make you happy.

Malia: [smiles more] You do. Really happy.

Jeremy: I wonder what other words I can kiss out of you, Stitch. [kisses her again.]

Malia: [laughs softly as she leans into the kiss, mostly wanting to focus on that for the moment because it's easier than trying to come up with words. Especially if he's kissing her, that's distracting]

Jeremy: [oh, he will keep kissing her, and probably go through a lot of NSFW stuff since he is totally ready again, so they will have a lot of time before she needs to word again]

Malia: [yep, definitely, lots of that and then possibly some time after that because words are hard if he's doing his job right]

Jeremy: [and thank you, he knows how to do this job VERY well.]

Malia: [yep. They wouldn't have gotten this far if he didn't]

Jeremy: [and once they are done, back to snuggling]

Malia: [hums softly as she curls in closer letting her finger trace against his chest again before coming up with another word] Mine.

Jeremy: [he smiles at that] And I really like that.

Malia: [smiles] Good.

Jeremy: [and he's just going to give her a soft, gentle kiss. Yeah, he really likes this. Her. Them. Happy Gilbert is happy.]

Malia: [WHICH IS AS IT SHOULD BE and Malia will just sink into the kiss and snuggles and completely ignore the outside world]

Jeremy: [and eventually they will get to sleep because he is there for the night]