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Her smile only grows as he kisses her palm, soapy though it is, then her wrist. The thought of staying here forever is a nice one, she has to admit, and she hums softly, tilting her head so she can plant a kiss on the side of his jaw.

"We'd get very pruney. But I'm not entirely against the idea in theory." She curls her hand back to press against his neck, kissing his jaw again. "Though it would mean we'd never have sex again. Considering it didn't go so well the last time we tried it in here."

"Mm. Pruney might be bad." He lets out a hum of contentment, worrying his bottom lip and closing his eyes against the feeling of her mouth on his jaw. "We'll just have to figure out how to make us both fit in this tub without it being awkward."

He smiles to himself, his free hand dipping beneath the water to rub circles against her stomach. He liked feeling her laying against him in the tub, his limbs cocooning her against him beneath the water. At least this way she wasn't on the other side of the tub and they could both stretch their legs if they wanted to.

"We fit right now and it isn't awkward," she points out, smiling as she leans her head back against his chest as he rubs her stomach. There's something soothing in the gesture, but then so many of the ways they touch each other seem to be soothing. Even from the first trembling touch of their fingertips, that had felt like a balm. The first time Rey had found someone else in any world as lost and alone as her.

Her hand slides around to anchor itself on the back of his neck and she tilts her head to the side, looking up at him.

"This is actually really nice. You're like the perfect size for me to lean on."

"No, definitely not awkward. It helps that we're not both built like a tree." He makes a noncommittal sound, scrubbing a line of suds along her opposite shoulder from the one he'd been working on earlier, pushing her hair back out of the way. At the implication of trying again to have sex in the tub, he gives pause.

"We don't have to try again unless you want to...?" His eyes meet hers when she looks up at him and he licks his lips absently, turning his thoughts over in his head.

Rey blinks, before her eyebrows shoot up and she quickly shakes her head.

"Oh no- I just meant... this isn't uncomfortable. I'm enjoying just being together like this." She looks a little embarrassed, she had mentioned the sex and then she'd moved on from her own joke. She slides her hand down from his neck, running her knuckles up under his chin.

"I don't really think it was the position we were in that was the problem, it was the water."

"Oh. No, of course." Excuse him while he wills the universe to just swallow him whole now. Even so, he likes how they are right now. Her hands on him are soothing.

"I'm enjoying this too." He kisses her temple, letting his earlier embarrassment leave him as much as possible. He didn't always get it right but she never made him feel bad for getting it wrong either. That seemed to make all the difference.

"Are your toes pruney yet?" He smiles, reaching forward to run his fingers along her leg beneath the water.

She feels bad that she's embarrassed him, but he's relatively good-natured about it, which is something that she appreciates. Her hand gently cups his cheek as he kisses her temple and her smile is less embarrassed, more content. At his question she lets out a small laugh, lifting her foot up out of the water and giving it a scrutinizing look.

"Not pruney yet. Maybe getting there."

"Mm. We should finish washing up eventually." Eventually yet he makes no moves to grab the loofah again, or the soap. His hands follow her thighs down to her knees and back again. He was entirely too comfortable just snuggled up with her in the tub.

"The dogs might worry we've drowned." He's joking, obviously.

She smirks a little at his joke as well as his wandering hands, her own sliding beneath the water to mimic his actions, running her own fingertips along his thighs resting alongside hers.

"I'm sure that if they were really worried they'd come to check on us. Though we don't want to let it get too late. The bed still needs to be remade." She's really not hurrying, though. Though it's not uncommon for them to be curled around each other in bed it's less frequent for them to sit the way they are, now. Clearly something that will be changing, now that Rey has discovered what a comfortable back board Ben makes.

"True. We did make a bit of a mess of it." He runs a hand through his hair, pushing wet strands back from his face, before dropping it back down into the water again.

"Comfortable? Or did you want to finish up before the water gets cold." He felt almost disappointed at the idea of leaving the tub, but knew once they were dry and the bed was clean they could always migrate there again.

Her eyes follow the movement of his hand, back through his hair and then into the water again. She exhales a little at his question, her hand seeking his in the water, lacing their fingers together.

"I am very comfortable." She knows she just said they shouldn't take too long, but she's content pressed against him with the cooling water wrapped around her like a cocoon. "We're doing this more often."

"Mm. Taking baths together, sleeping together, training together... I do like spending time with you." He presses a kiss to whatever bare skin he can reach - probably her shoulder - and squeezes her fingers lightly between his. The size of her hands was drastically different. His everything dwarfed her in comparison but he liked that about the two of them. He could lift her like nothing, hold her in his arms in a perfect fit, and sit in a tub together.

"The bright side of remaking the bed is we could also mess it up again." His fingers stretch to tease along her outer thigh beneath the water, drifting inward to tease the skin of her inner thigh too.

Rey tilts her head to lean against his as he kisses her shoulder, a soft smile playing across her lips as she closes her eyes for a moment. They'd both been on their own for such a long time, it's nice to be within the constant orbit of another person.

As his hand wanders she draws in a breath, her smile widening into a smirk as she opens her eyes to look at him.

"Then we'll just have to remake it again," she replies with a quiet laugh, her free hand seeking his wandering one to hold onto that, too as she presses a kiss against his temple. "We don't have an unlimited supply of sheets, love."

"Mm. True." He wrinkles his nose, smiling a bit as she kisses him and touches him. His arms fold against her waist again, stilling his attempts to touch her and settling himself for just sitting in their tub.

"I will say living with you has never been boring. Whether we do things like this or nothing at all. That's not something I've ever had before." He knows it's the same for her. They're happy here, despite the thought that lingers in his mind that they don't belong here and that the natives don't want to accept them. He wants this home to be the place where they belong - no wars, not a single person could keep them apart.

"It's nice, isn't it?" Rey smiles, settling her hands over his arms, leaning back against him more fully again. She has never experienced this, either, such a content existence. She'd survived, but for the first time she truly feels like she's living.

"I'm grateful for this. Moments like this... I never thought I'd have them."

"Me too." He smiles a bit, dipping his head and lifting her chin with his fingers to kiss her. "Maybe when we have a minute we can go on another date - go somewhere, just the two of us."

He knew there was only so far they could go, but they would think of something. He would go anywhere with her.

While they spend most of their down time together, just the two of them, the idea of going somewhere specifically to enjoy one-another's company warms her. That this is her life now seems surreal often, but it's one she's happy with.

"I'd like that. Maybe go out of the city for the day." She may not hate Kirkwall like many of those who ended up living here, but she does find it a little restricting, at times.

"Exactly. There's still things we could do without straying too far." He knew that the further they got from other Rifters, the more painful it would be for them. He wanted to just be able to go places and see things with her without feeling like they were only doing those things because they were ordered to go to those places.

"We could practice your swimming, maybe go for a hike and just see somewhere new for a while." He stretches his arms a bit, before wrapping them behind his head, completely relaxed in their tub.

She turns her head to the side to look up at him as he relaxes, a soft smile on her lips as she turns away again, reaching for the loofah. Humming she submerges it to scrub down her legs and clear away any stickiness that hasn't dissolved in the water.

"Sounds like a plan. It'd be nice to just... go somewhere. Because we want to. Not because we have to, or... some unknown force is pushing us there." She realizes there have been very few places in her life that she's gone just because she wanted to go.

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