OOM: The Morning After With Oswin Oswald

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Tahno wakes refreshed, his arm around someone who smells absolutely delicious. He glances down to see whose hair he'd buried his nose in, whose soft body he'd curled around for the evening. He lifts the downy, black bedspread to look at his bedmate, and remembers with a start that her name is Oswin, and that she is indeed a total screamin' genius.

He looks over her body again, running his hand down her ribs to rest on her bare hip. She's so short, he thinks.

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[hot_water]

"I can keep it up," Tahno says, waggling his brows. "You know that." He scoops her up bridal style, and carries her off to the bath--a black, clawfoot bathtub with silver filigree etched in the side. One whole wall of the bathroom is mirrors, and the shower looks like it can take five.

[souffle_girlek]

She snickers into his shoulder, before going back to nipping at his ear.
"There enough mirrors in here, benderboy?" Though, it does let her get a very nice view of his ass from here, which is lovely.

[hot_water]

"Nope, never," Tahno drawls, gently setting her down by the bath. He turns the faucet to just below steaming hot, and then starts flexing at his reflection.

[souffle_girlek]

She laughs at his antics, but before too long she's joining him, snugging up behind him, her hands wandering over his chest, and lower.

The mirrors are there to appreciate the view, right? Oswin appreciates this one.

[hot_water]

Tahno appreciates wandering hands. A bit later, he's leaning against the bath with one hand and clinging to her with the other, boneless.

"We... we might wanna take that bath now," Tahno gasps, his lips kiss swollen and his pupils dilated.

[souffle_girlek]

"Agreed." She laughs, pressing another kiss to those deliciously inviting lips, before stepping away and stretching. Oswin carefully steps into the tub, because falling on her ass on water-slick porcelain would just be embarrassing.

[hot_water]

And Tahno follows her, snagging her foot again. After settling himself in the tub, he presses a kiss to her ankle, and then rubs his thumbs along the arch. He stretches her toes and works his way to the pads.

[souffle_girlek]

She hums with pleasure, sinking down into the water. She'll happily sit here and stew for a while.

"So what does the best waterbender do when he's not picking up strange girls in bars and pampering them?"

[hot_water]

"You ain't strange," Tahno drawls, circling one of his thumb along the pad of her foot. "Kinky maybe, which I appreciate, but you ain't strange."

Still holding her foot, he stretches, puffing out his chest. "The best waterbender does probending. It's a sport which makes use of our abilities. There's a raised platform and you try to push the other team--also an earthbender, waterbender, and firebender--offa it."

He presses another kiss to her ankle. "What about you? What do total screamin' geniuses get up to while not in the bath with the best waterbenders?"

[souffle_girlek]

"That sounds exciting." She sounds... wistful, more than anything. "It must be quite the show. I've certainly never seen anything like it."

"I... don't get up to much, these days. Hang around the bar, mostly, work on my little robots."

[hot_water]

Tahno switches to the other foot, giving this one--and her Achilles tendons--just as much pampering as the other. "Well, lemme take you back to my world, and you could watch one," he drawls, grinning. "Maybe the championship match this year."

He tilts his head. "Whatsa ro-bot?"

[souffle_girlek]

She grins at him, taken by the idea even though she knows she ought to learn more about the people (and the person in a tub with her) first. It's one thing to have a (ridiculously amazing) one night stand... it's quite another to go world-hopping on a whim.

"I'd like that. Though you'd have to tell me the rules ahead of time so I can cheer at the appropriate spots." She will never, ever admit it (because he might stop, and he has missed his calling as a masseuse) but she finds it kind of hilarious that she is deliciously sore in all the right places and ridiculously pain free elsewhere and Tanho's to blame for all of it.

"If you want to find out, just look outside your front door - there's probably a couple watching the place. They get antsy when I don't come home at night."

[hot_water]

"Rules! Pfft, rules can be broken," Tahno drawls, and kisses her ankle again. "And why would I wanna get out of the tub to check the front door, when I've got a gorgeous gal right here under me?"

Before she can protest that she's not under him, he crawls over her in the tub, and shows her exactly what a waterbender can do.

[souffle_girlek]

She laughs and pushes at his shoulder once she recovers her breath (and she was right - bathing is not the most common activity when in a tub with a water bender).

"I remember hearing something about breakfast - a busy girl needs calories, mister."

[hot_water]

"Awright, awright," Tahno drawls, chuckling as he nudges her shoulder back. "Let's get cleaned up. My hair needs pampering too, y'know?"

After washing and blow drying his hair, styling it and applying his eyeliner perfectly, Tahno turns to Oswin. "So, breakfast. Shall we?" he drawls, and offers his arm, prepared to cook scrambled eggs in the buff.

[souffle_girlek]

She raises an eyebrow at him, now used to being warm and not-gooseflesh-y.

"Robe, proper clothes, or breakfast in bed, your choice - some of us have put a high premium on being warm, benderboy." She bargains, even though her position is not one of tactical strength.

[hot_water]

Tahno sighs. Must she make his life so difficult? Her and her demands--first food, and now this. It's almost like he signed up for this shit.

He scoops her up again and carries her to the bed, tucking her in with a kiss on her forehead. Then he saunters off to the kitchen and makes a ton of noise drumming up some scrambled eggs and sausage. "You ain't a vegetarian, are you?" he says, carrying the tray with their two plates, forks, and a small vase with a lily in it.

[souffle_girlek]

"Mmm, yummy animal bits." She replies cheerfully, sitting up from her quite content huddle under the blankets. So she's a heat seeker after a year on a hellish ice planet. She feels she's earned the right.

"He cooks, he bends, is there anything he can't do?"

[hot_water]

"I can only cook breakfasts," Tahno says honestly, shrugging. He sets the tray on the end of the bed and slides into the covers with her, shivering.

"Mmph," he grunts, and pulls her close, his own personal bedwarmer.

[souffle_girlek]

She squeaks, because he's positively icy (he's not, but she was awfully toasty warm).

"I can make killer pancakes." She offers, "But most desserts are still a mystery."

[hot_water]

"Killer pancakes," Tahno says, cursing his misfortune. He splays a hand across her belly, snuggling up to her. "I shoulda made you make breakfast. What kinda desserts are you good at?"

[souffle_girlek]

"I make a pretty good souffle." There's... an odd emotion that there she goes on to bury under words and scrambled egg. "And I'm told I make a pretty good croissant too, but those take much more time and effort and are a bit more readily available from other sources."

[hot_water]

"Hey, soufflés are hard," Tahno says, shrugging. He sits up to dig into his eggs. "And so are croissants. I think I picked the right bedmate, if you can make those. So you like cookin' then, or is it just something to pass the time?"

[souffle_girlek]

"I like baking... sometimes it doesn't like me, and sometimes the rats cut me off, but that doesn't make it less fun." And sometimes she makes something complicated and new and it feels like she's accomplishing something.

That's important, when the view rarely changes.

[hot_water]

Tahno swallows his bite, nodding. "I'll hafta try yer bakin' sometime. And get a look at your robots."

Which reminds him. He sets his empty plate down on the tray and hops out of bed, opening the front door. "What 'm I supposed ta be lookin' for?"