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Janet Pluchinsky ([personal profile] sorrowandsorrow) wrote2023-11-29 05:35 pm

Closed Post: #SelfCare

Eat your heart out, Castle Whitespire. Eat your heart out, Eliot Waugh. Janet doesn't need any of you, because she found this stupid mansion's stupid Jacuzzi all by herself. In the aftermath of the zombie uprising (by the way: what the fuck?), she must have been putting out some kind of extra desperation, caked in sweat and zombie dust and the dirt of the mansion's grounds, because as she stomped down the hallway to her bedroom, something told her to open a door. And she did. And there it was.

It was fucking glorious, and she was too selfish to wait that time, but she has a date to set up. Susan will find a neon orange Post-It stuck to the door of her room this morning that says: Found it. Meet me at seven o'clock tonight, third door on the right when you hang a left past that ugly chandelier with the swans. --J

She even doodled a little crown symbol over the letter to make her point clear.

When Susan does make her way to the room with the hot tub, she'll see Janet in a black bikini with a glass of prosecco in one hand, another frosty glass sitting on the tiles next to her hand. With that hand, she's propping herself up as she takes a sip. Her legs are dangling into the Jacuzzi already, but she hasn't switched on the jets yet.
quote_gentle_unquote: (23. i am weak and i need you)

[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-10 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Susan tilts her head, giving Janet another once-over. "This was a good idea," she says, and then smirks. "I like these bathing costumes of the future."
quote_gentle_unquote: (05. easy they go)

[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-10 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Amused - and blatantly letting her gaze catch on the lines of Janet's body as she stretches - Susan says, "Yes, chlorine has been around my entire life." She flicks her focus to Janet's face. "I was anticipating the shower." A ghost of a smirk. "I'm not afraid of getting a little wet."
quote_gentle_unquote: (23. i am weak and i need you)

[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-10 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's because I'm more charming than any man," Susan says, primly and yet blatantly smug. "Perks of being a Queen, I suppose." Then she laughs. "What if I'd simply been referencing The Wizard of Oz?"
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[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-11 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Susan hums. "That does sound rather awkward," she says, drawing her other leg out of the Jacuzzi, too. "I'd probably have to make even worse jokes to lighten the tone afterward."
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[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-11 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Then I shall refrain," Susan says, with mock solemnity. "It would have been a dreadful joke. I should hate to lose your esteem by asking if this-" (Here, she reaches out and touches the edge of Janet's lips.) "-was the 'bonbon' part of the promised Jacuzzi experience."
quote_gentle_unquote: (23. i am weak and i need you)

[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-11 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Only fellow heads of state familiar with the operation and management of fantastical worlds, I'm afraid," Susan says, cocking her head to one side. "Do you happen to know of any who might want to join me?"
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[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-11 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
"In that case..." Susan raises an eyebrow. "My shower is your shower, Queen Janet."
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[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-11 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Susan's robe is more sleek than it is fluffy; it clings to her as she ties her belt. "Agreed," she says, though she doesn't mind drawing attention. "They might hurt themselves, tripping over their feet. We might as well be benevolent queens, and spare them the embarrassment." She offers her hand to Janet.
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[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-11 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
So Susan leads Janet to her room, and then into her bathroom. (If Janet looks around as they walk through Susan's room, she might find organized clutter: a towering stack of books next to an armchair by a window; an empty food basket on the table; a spare bikini hanging from her closet doorknob.) Her shower here is delightfully large, like no other that she's seen in her life. She starts it, and then uses her grip on Janet's hand to tug her in for a kiss.
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[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-11 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Susan smiles into the kiss as her robe falls loose. She disentangles her hand from Janet's, unknotting Janet's robe as well, then pushing the robe from her shoulders. She can feel that the water is hot now, so she shrugs off her own robe, letting it puddle on the floor, and steps backward into the shower, beckoning Janet to follow.
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[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-11 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Susan doesn't bother pretending like she hasn't been watching Janet this whole time. Janet is gorgeous, and the water of the shower obscures her figure much less than the water of the hot tub. She's tall, taller even than Susan, and fierce in a way Susan finds tremendously appealing.

If Janet were any of Susan's girlfriends back home, Susan would already be stripping off her bathing costume and letting the water run over her naked body; her friends would be doing the same. It wouldn't necessarily be for salacious reasons - in fact, unless the 'girlfriends' in question were simply just Miriam, the reasons would be innocent indeed. But Susan feels the chasm between her world and Janet's acutely in this moment. She knows how to flirt, and how to communicate intent, but not whether Janet would read a removal of Susan's top as being equally a no-pressure invitation and a casual progression of a shower the way that Susan's friends back home might.

So instead - because Susan does know how to communicate intent - she rests one hand at the dip of Janet's waist.
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[personal profile] quote_gentle_unquote 2023-12-11 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Susan hesitates for the barest of seconds, and then steps away to pull off her own bikini; Janet can choose for herself. "This needn't go further than what we have already done," she says busily, as she hangs her top over a bit of railing. "It can. I would like it to." She likes sex, and she likes Janet, and -- crucially -- she's having fun. "But it needn't be right away."

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