Getting that softer smile out of Bakura would probably always be a joy for her. She didn't mind the knife-edged ones, but it was nice to know she could draw this out of him.
The pink blush was apparently taking up permanent residence in her cheeks, but Pepper was noticeably lacking in her usual flailing and squirming. It hadn't entirely evaporated, but it was more uncertainty than embarrassment. Now was possibly a good time to explain why.
"So," Pepper began, gently marking out the edges of the prominent scars at his waist, perhaps trying to overwrite something pleasant there, too. Just spit it out. "I know you said you didn't care, but I've visited the Lantern a few times. For-- I guess you could call it training. Lessons. Whatever. Anyway, I just-- I didn't want you to have to teach me everything or keep being weird even just talking about sex. I didn't want to be completely awkward - for both of us - when we get to that point. I'm not gonna say I'm, like, an expert or anything, definitely not, but-- I'm more comfortable. With myself, and with this," she said quietly, rubbing a thumb along the flat plane of muscle at his hip.
cw: intimacy between consenting adults in a relationship, implied nudity
The pink blush was apparently taking up permanent residence in her cheeks, but Pepper was noticeably lacking in her usual flailing and squirming. It hadn't entirely evaporated, but it was more uncertainty than embarrassment. Now was possibly a good time to explain why.
"So," Pepper began, gently marking out the edges of the prominent scars at his waist, perhaps trying to overwrite something pleasant there, too. Just spit it out. "I know you said you didn't care, but I've visited the Lantern a few times. For-- I guess you could call it training. Lessons. Whatever. Anyway, I just-- I didn't want you to have to teach me everything or keep being weird even just talking about sex. I didn't want to be completely awkward - for both of us - when we get to that point. I'm not gonna say I'm, like, an expert or anything, definitely not, but-- I'm more comfortable. With myself, and with this," she said quietly, rubbing a thumb along the flat plane of muscle at his hip.