No. it's not technically new, I'm just breaking up the first chapter a bit because I personally think all of this can be a second chapter in itself....

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Everyone else was supposedly sleeping.

Ru gasped as Gambit had her pinned on her bunk and they finished their moment with a physical bang.

He pressed his palms on the mattress and pushed himself up and off once it was over. Dipping his head he pressed his mouth to her collarbone and made a low, guttural noise in his throat before sitting up. As bare as the day he came into the world, his body riddled with new cuts from Simon’s surgery, aqua eyes watching her as they were two slits. Predator gaze observing the pale chest heave as she caught her breath, noting the thin film of sweat on her soft hide that outlined her lean muscles with the soft glow of her lamp light, the way her chocolate eyes still were readjusting as they had dilated towards the end.

So helpless, so lovely.

A part of him wanted to lie next to her, but as always, his desires for something deeper than just what they were doing were quickly killed when she opened her mouth.

“Thanks, I needed that.”

The golden head nodded as he reached down the side of the bed and picked up a strip of leather, gathering his hair up and tying it back with it before getting up and retrieving his pants. “So did I.” It was the truth, when he tended to get riled up and in a killing mood, he had two non-violent ways of decompressing. Either to go away by himself and just brood for a few hours, or this alternative. As he tied the laced up front of his buckskins and slid on his shirt, he watched her get up and dress herself to sleep like it was nothing. It was ritualistic that they were so quiet afterwards, they always were. Tense, not wanting to talk about what had happened, not wanting to address it and make it an actual event. Gambit simply buttoned and tucked in his shirt, buckled his belt, gave a head nod and left.

There was to be nothing more.

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