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"I’m... Sorry if that made you at all uncomfortable"
Who: Ace and Azelma Thénardier, with tiny, tiny appearances from Éponine and Scoot
What: Azelma wants to talk.
When: 13th June, after these texts
Where: That massive pile of crazy that is the Thénardier/Tenoh residence.
Rating: NC-17 for sexings. TW for talk of abuse, forced prostitution, miscarriages... basic Thénardier warnings.
Status: Complete.

With her sister doing... things with Scoot, she was left to grab another snack and a drink, along with one for Ace because she remembered what she liked and head to her room. She sent a return text and got onto her laptop so she could update her iPod with the new music she purchased. The clothes she had on were too restricting of her stomach, so she changed into plaid pyjama bottoms with hearts on them, and just a baggy t-shirt. Might not be the most attractive of things but she didn’t care and she hoped Ace wouldn’t either.

Her comfort came first, dammit. She did run a brush through her hair and made her bed before sighing and just waiting. When she heard the door knocked on, thanks to Gav being told to let her in, she got up to open it.

When it came to things like this, Ace was never sure quite what to expect. Sure, there’d been people back in Perivale, but... nothing like this. Nothing and nobody even remotely like Azelma. Was that a good thing? She kind of hoped it was...

“Hey.” And, really, she didn’t mind what Azelma was wearing. Comfort was important, she knew that - hence why her jacket was practical, awesome and comfortable. “I think I heard something. Kinda scared.”

“So sorry! They do it a lot.” She took her hand and shut the door before leading her to the bed. Once there she sat and put the pillow behind her lower back to be comfortable before speaking. “If I’m to do this I really need to just go into before I wuss out.” Azelma took in a deep breath before letting it out. “When I was just little there was a girl who lived with us, and she was treated terribly... She was adopted and the poor treatment went to my sister and my brothers. And to myself. Our mother and father would... Beat us, make us steal, and do pretty much anything to bring money into a shithole of a business. And some of that included having to earn our meals, as well as doing anything and making up things to get out of giving us any. We were starved.”

She did her best to control her breathing, this isn’t an easy thing to admit to someone you like! “That anything being that we had clients... Some regular that picked favourites between my sister and I. Some just off the street who needed fun.” Swallowed hard before sitting up and digging her nails into her knees. “My sister took the brunt of the physical abuse because I just did as I was told, whatever I was told. Punch a window, go down on anyone who demanded it. When I was allowed to leave, my father demanded I continue sending six hundred to them under the guise that it would keep my siblings fed.” She may very well be crying. “I was very good at keeping protected, keeping myself safe from STDs or other things but one night I was so hungry because... All I did was sleep around because I couldn’t find any other work. One night I was cold and hungry and tired. That I let him without protection. He paid double so I was able to finish the total to my father, rent a cheap motel, and get my first meal in a week.”

Sucked in her breath, tears streaming down her face and unable to look at her. “Three months later, after being late... I took a test and when the little pink plus sign showed I broke down and didn’t know what I was going to do. I just knew I wanted to keep it because there had been times where I had been pregnant that our father would beat my stomach in to the point I miscarried. So you can probably understand why at so young still I’d want...” Rested her hands on her stomach. Azelma sighed and chose to finish off the story. “I traveled by foot, and car, and bus when I could till I got here to find my sister and... Now I’m trying to recover alongside my other siblings to get to a better state both physically and mentally from what our parents put us through.” Swallowing again and wiping her eyes she chose then to look up to Ace, bracing herself.

That... was a longer and more involved story than Ace had expected. Thankfully, she’d always been a pretty damn good listener, so... she was pretty sure she’d gotten all of that. How could people like that get away with living? Wasn’t fair to the universe, or to people in general.

“...I ever meet your dad, might need to be held back from trying to kill him.” Totally reasonable reaction, even if Ace could hear the Professor, in the back of her mind, scolding her for resorting to violence - never mind that it could sometimes work on Daleks! “Absolute bastard.”

All Azelma could do was nod in agreement before breaking down into sobs again, pushing her face into her hands and bending forward slightly, to Valerie’s quick protest of course at being suddenly squished. She’s not even had the nerve to tell Astra all of it, so this is the first time she’s ever properly told anyone what happened. Huge show of trust if you asked anyone who knew her properly.

“Hey... careful.” From what little Ace knew about babies - they were a mystery to her, seriously, largely because she’d skipped most of the lessons that related to them - she knew that Valerie couldn’t have been enjoying that all too much.

So, she took the only logical step she could think of, and pulled Azelma into her arms. She was careful to be gentle, naturally, just in case she was feeling more fragile than usual... really, she would’ve been more surprised if she wasn’t.

Try as she might against it, Azelma flinched away for a brief second before reminding herself by force who was actually doing this. She breathed out and tucked herself closer, still crying. “I’m... Sorry if that made you at all uncomfortable. You... You just deserved to know if we’re going to take this any further. I... Don’t want something to happen and me freak out and for you to take it wrong because you know know what is wrong.” It was the best thing to do for her because the baby had stopped flailing around the moment she was no longer forced into an even tinier space than she already was in.

“Really, it just made me want to deck the bastards.” Subtle as ever. Not that Ace had ever claimed she was anything of the sort... sure, it’d been an experience to hear, but it’d actually explained a lot too. “Thanks. For trusting me enough to tell me.”

“You don’t have to thank me, really.” Azelma bit her lip as she pulled away and looked up to her. “There’s also something I need to ask... If Valerie is going to be something that is going to make you not want to be with me.. Please tell me so I can avoid heartbreak down the road.”

Considering Ace had obviously already known about Valerie, it wasn’t like finding out a little more changed things. Except, you know, her urges to punch people. “Not gonna change anything. Promise.”

Azelma smiled and wiped her eyes of tears before brushing her hair behind her ear. “So... I guess I should say it in person.” Took her hand. “I love you, Ace.” Leaned up and just kissed her cheek.

Now, in Ace’s personal opinion, the word ‘love’ was a bit naff. Too girly for her to really say herself... she liked the sentiment and all! The word was just crap... although, much as she was trying to avoid girly, she may well’ve ended up blushing. A little.

Definitely not a lot. “Not all down to the accent, right? ‘Cause I know some people...”

“No...” Giggled. “But it helps.” She teased and looked around nervously, unsure of what to do next. She’d never really been in an actual relationship before that got to this point. “So...” Looked back to her and just dragged her bottom lip under her top teeth.

“So...” Well. No time like the present to take a risk. Ace gently tugged her into a kiss, completely aware that she’d probably have to keep this really, really brief.

To hell with brief! She wrapped her arms around her neck and kissed back as deeply as she could muster, pushing her body as close as her stomach would allow. To finally actually do this to her was nothing short of amazing!

Well, that was a surprise! Not that Ace could even remotely bring herself to complain... it’d been a while since she’d last actually kissed someone, okay? Probably before she’d even come out to America... for all she said about the accent, it really didn’t attract all that many people!

When she pulled away she just went to hugging around her neck, more than a little excited and happy for this. “Heeee!” She giggled and pulled back and grabbed her jacket to pull her in for another kiss, this time tipping her head to make it easier.

Being pulled back into it by her jacket was a new one! Honestly, Ace kind of liked it... and, just to try and show that, she dared to try and make the kiss that tiniest bit more passionate.

And that passion made her moan and push close,if only because no one else has ever treated her like this or even come close to kissing her gently. She shifted to straddle her hips a little and moved to tangle one hand on her hair, keeping a good grip of the jacket to make sure she didn’t move away. Azelma took a bit of a dare herself to bite at her lip a little before pushing to run her tongue along the woman’s lips.

Ace couldn’t help a very, very slight moan at that, her hands instinctively coming to rest on Azelma’s waist. This was really, really nice...

Azelma pulled away and bit her lip before leaned back enough to take Ace’s hands and set them up to the hem of her shirt and lifted her arms slightly above and over her head. Maybe she can take a hint? Maybe!

Thankfully, Ace was pretty much the master of taking hints! She gently tugged Azelma’s shirt up and off, doing what she could to not stare.

The staring is a bit unnerving actually. She bit her lip, self conscious of her stomach at this point. “I’m sorry I... Am not what you expect?” Tried to pull away starting to feel nervous because being pregnant with clothes on is one thing, having no clothes is another thing entirely.

“Hey...” Ace wasn’t letting that happen. Not now. Not with Azelma. “Y’know, in a way, you’re right, but not in the way you’d think - you’re really, really gorgeous. Pregnancy and all.”

Azelma bit her bottom lip while smiling from ear to ear and may have made a little squee type noise of happiness. She reached her hands out to try and signal for Ace to strip her coat and shirt off. Only fair!

Definitely only fair! As such, Ace was quick to slip her jacket off, dropping it to one side. “You want to deal with the shirt, or...?”

The woman giggled and moved to make quick work of her shirt. The very moment she was able to properly look it took all her strength not to drop her jaw. Instead she just moved to kiss her again, pushing their now nude selves close together.

That was definitely a good reaction, right? It wasn’t like Ace made a point of doing things like this, so... she did what she could to focus on the kiss, trying to keep things as good as humanly possible.

When Azelma broke the kiss it was just to run her hands down Ace’s neck and chest before gently cupping her breasts in her hands. She bit her lip and ran her thumbs gently around and over her nipples before leaning in to kiss her neck. This was already better than she expected it to be and they had barely started.

This was certainly becoming something... definitely a good thing, though, because hey, it felt good! Ace couldn’t help a little moan, more at the neck-kissing than anything else... was there a person on earth who didn’t have that kind of weakness?

She kind of doubted it.

Azelma moved her hands away and leaned back onto the bed and made quick work of pulling her pyjama pants and panties down. Kind of feeling awkward about down there. She always has been since she first had sex with one of the clients. “Can you... take a little control, Ace?”

And whilst Ace was doing her best not to stare, she couldn’t help but take a sneaky glance... and, uh, yeah. Definite, definite approval right there. “I, uh, guess... been a while, y’know? Kinda naff at getting to this stage, usually.”

“Just start slow... I’ve not done much for three years that actually felt good so... anything you do will probably be great.” She tried to give a reassuring smile.

Well. That was probably kind of a good thing, because Ace hadn’t had the chance to do much lately. Pushing aside the worst of her nervousness, she moved to kiss her again, hands moving to cup her breasts lightly.

If anything, Ace had a lot of this easy. The pregnancy meant a lot of her more sensitive areas were even more so. She groaned and arched her back trying to return the kiss as best she could. This was already amazing and perfect and everything she thought sex was meant to be. Between two people who actually wanted to be with the other.

That was definitely have sex was meant to be. Nothing forced, everything awesome... or, you know, maybe that was just how Ace saw things. She lightly brushed her thumbs over her nipples, daring to try and deepen the kiss just a little bit.

Azelma breathed in for a moment her body tensing, but the good tensing! She reached up to tangle a hand in her hair while they kissed, slipping her tongue in to gently toy with the other woman’s. This was awesome and she could flail at her sister about it tomorrow. For now she was getting rather aware at how wet she was getting because she’d pushed her legs together and now was regretting it. Her inner thighs slick. Damn the baby and making her more aroused than would be normal.

That was something that Ace probably wasn’t going to notice for quite some time, considering she had no intentions of rushing. She shifted to lightly pinch at her nipples, just to see what kind of reaction that got.

The reaction she would receive was the most feminine of moans, her back arching against her touch. She broke the kiss to moan louder. “Ah.... Ace...” Whimpered and tried to keep her hips still. Never before had her hips actually done that.

Ooh. This was definitely, definitely a good sign... “It feels that good?”

“I.... yeah.” Bit her lip, somewhere in her mind starting to tell her it was wrong. “I’m sorry... Is it not meant to? I can stop moaning...”

“Hey...” Ace pulled her hands away, figuring that contact right now might not be the best sort of thing. Getting her back onto track was more important. “I like it. You do whatever the hell you want, okay? ‘Cause there’s nothing you can or can’t do when you’re with me.”

“I guess... I... I’m not used to being allowed to feel good.” Bit her lip even harder, trying to refocus her mind. “I want it to feel good though... Can you do something no one ever has? It might help me focus better.”

“‘Course I can... I want to help.” Because hey, if they were going to be together like this, Ace was all for making things as good as humanly possible.

“Go down on me...” Ran a hand through her hair. “I’ve never had anyone... You don’t have to but...”

Well, if she definitely wanted it, and nobody’d ever done it? That was enough of a reason for Ace to be completely and utterly convinced. “I can do that, yeah.”

Azelma smiled and pulled her in for a kiss, just to show how thankful she was for it. It was going to be an experience at very least!

Hopefully a good experience, if Ace had anything to do with it! When she pulled away from the kiss, it was to start kissing her way down her body, still rather intent on taking her time.

“Ace...” Sucked in her breath and arched her back against the kissing, moving to rest her hands above her on the pillow. She was anxious, yes, but not in a way that meant she would flinch away.

If she did flinch away, Ace would stop. It was seriously as simple as that. She didn’t want to make her uncomfortable in the slightest.. just wasn’t in her.

The lower down Ace got, the more shallow her breathing would get from excitement. She spread her legs a little and held at the pillow. “Do I look okay...?”

‘Okay’ was kind of an understatement. Ace wasn’t the most fantastic at compliments, but... “You’re gorgeous. Seriously.”

Azelma let out a happy little noise and shifted her hips up just a little so she knew to go on. She was getting just the tiniest bit impatient.

Impatient? Really? Ace couldn’t possibly have known... also, she was a crazy liar. She took the hint quick enough, moving to just lightly flick her tongue over her clit.

“Ah!” The pregnant woman took in a deep breath inward as she gasped, reaching both hands down to hold in her hair. “A-ace...” That was amazing.

Amazing? Really? Just that little thing? Ace wasn’t going to complain, really, because it made this a lot easier on her... hell, on both of them. She was just going to keep focused on her clit for a bit, figuring that whatever hell she’d been through wouldn’t have really bothered with that.

As she kept focus, the jerking and rocking of her hips only got more frequent. “Oh Ace... That feels so good.” Reached to bite the back of her hand because she might need to actually be quiet.

Did she really have to be? Ace had been kind of enjoying that... she pulled away, arching an eyebrow. “You really have to be quiet? I mean...”

“Do you... like the noises I’m making?” She’d always been told to sound like a porn star on purpose, these moans and noises were really hers and she didn’t realise how they sounded.

Ace nodded, taking to just tracing idle patterns across her thighs, just so she wasn’t completely without anything. “You’re really hot. It’s well wicked.”

Azelma smiled from ear to ear and just let herself moan softly at the attention to her thighs. She won’t actually admit the accent was getting to her just as much. That would sound weird.

Ace’s accent was just weird, in her own opinion, and only getting stranger as she dreamt more. She moved to slowly run her tongue down, pressing just lightly against her, before moving back up to focus on her clit again.

“Ace...”Gave a noise of protest when she pulled from against her and jerked her hips. “Oh please, go back to that... Go back to there, please.” Whimpered in a state of safe submission.

Well, as long as it was just safe submission... Ace chuckled softly and ran her tongue back down, delving it into her.

It was of course a very safe submission, something Ace should be rather proud of. Azelma gasped and gripped into her hair, her thighs twitching a bit. This was... great. She’d never felt this good in her life.

Ace could feel proud of herself later. She hooked her tongue up slightly, searching out any spots that’d drive her insane.

“Ah.... Ah... Ace. There.” Something inside where her tongue was focused right now was amazing and it was driving her close to insane. Whatever that was, it was something that needed to be remembered.

Good thing that Ace had a pretty decent memory for things like that, then. Keeping focused on that one spot, more often than not, she let herself go a little rougher with things.

Much as she didn’t want to, this alone was bringing her insanely close. “A-ace... You’re going to make me... I’m going to...” Was she even allowed? Why was her mind telling her to ignore it?

Ace purposely pulled away at that, just so she could say something. Something she felt was very, very important. “Good. ‘Cause I’m aiming to make you feel well good... do what your body wants you to do, okay?”

With that, she set right back to it, again just a little rougher with it all.

Azelma gasped, her moans and whimpers growing closer together as she grew closer to climax. She gripped firmly into her hair, willing herself to focus on the fact it was her girlfriend doing things and not some bastard. She shuddered and whimpered several more times before clamping her legs around her head and letting out a little squeak of a shriek as she came, only a screamer when she was told to fake it. This wasn’t faking it, this was fucking amazing and she collapsed back and sighed, tangling a hand in her hair after letting go of Ace’s.

Okay, that? That was actually kind of hot... Ace eased her down, as best she could, before pulling away. Triumphant might’ve been an understatement. “So, uh. Good?”

Instead of giving a verbal response she moved up to tackle and pin her down, kissing her fiercely as she dared. That was amazing and awesome and just wonderful.

That was the best kind of response, really! Ace responded as fiercely as she could, for once totally fine with being pinned - usually, it just wasn’t her thing.

Azelma began rocking her hips down despite Ace still being relatively clothed from the waist down and smirked. “If I said I bought something that both of us could get out of would you be down to try it.” Flicked her thumbs over her nipples and smirked.

Sounded interesting so far. Ace was never one to turn down something that’d work like that. “Sounds pretty good to me...”

“Good! Glad you’re the adventurous type!” Azelma giggled and slipped off her and over to try and bend over to get it from the trunk under her bed. “Would be a good idea to take the rest of your clothes off, babe.” Smirked and pulled the weird strap-on contraption that had ends for both of them.

Adventurous? Understatement of the century! This was Ace, after all... she made short work of slipping her the rest of her clothes off, not wanting to drag this out unnecessarily. “This is gonna be interesting.”

Azelma shoved her back onto the bed again and shifted the thing onto her. She pushed the part meant to go inside Ace into her and smirked. “So... What position should we try. Done them all so...”And she really shouldn’t be focusing on that...

“Hey...” Ace wasn’t having that. This was meant to be about them, right? Not about anything or anyone else. “Don’t focus on that, okay? ‘Cause this is just us. Not anything else.”

“Alright... I’m sorry. How about me on top? Stomach won’t be in the way as much.” Damn this pregnancy right now, damn it good.

“Should work just fine.” Because Ace wasn’t going to make her do anything that was uncomfortable for her. Just wasn’t in her. “If it gets uncomfortable, let me know?”

Azelma let out a little giggled noise before leaning to gently kiss her, biting at her bottom lip before pulling away. “Make sure you watch or I’ll poke you!” Straddled her hips properly and reached down to spread her folds apart as she eased down onto it. She groaned and tipped her head back, eyes rolling with it as she pushed all the way down. She was unable to resist jerking her hips the moment it was all in and Ace should feel a little of what was put into her and the bits against her clit. “Oh...”

Oh, that was hot. Ace’s brain may well have temporarily exploded. She couldn’t help an answering jerk of her hips, a little moan escaping her lips.

Her moans grew steadily louder as she moved her hips rather roughly down. She groaned and leaned back to put her hands on the bed and tipped her head down. Azelma really can’t help herself at this point, it’s been far too long since she’s felt this good. “Ah! God, Ace!” Whimpered and let out a louder moan while tipping her head back.

.... Meanwhile for a brief moment Scoot arched an eyebrow. Sure they’d just finished themselves but. “What in the?” Looked to Éponine to see if she had any answers.

Uh. What. Was Éponine hearing things? Sure, Azelma’d mentioned the girl before, but... “...I’m not sure I want to know, Scoot.”

Even if, really, it was good to hear Azelma enjoying sex. At least, that was what she assumed was going on.

Back in that other bedroom, Ace was kind of fascinated. Simply because Jesus Christ, Azelma was really, really hot like this, and how did her brain work again? The most she could do was to try and keep a rhythm with her hips... and try to keep herself even remotely sane.

The raven haired woman pushed herself up enough to lean forward. Somehow she managed to lean enough that there was very little pressure on her stomach, the end for Ace was rubbing and moving perfectly and it got great and deep for her. What she didn’t notice was her chest moving in front of Ace’s view each jerk of her hips down. “Oh fuck!”

Oh, that was too good a thing for Ace to resist. She shifted to capture a nipple in her mouth, only a little rough - it was a little awkward, maybe, but hell, she was enjoying this.

“Oh my god, Ace!” Azelma cried out her name, whimpering as she jerked her hips down. Fuck this woman was great. “Fuck me... Ace, fuck me please...” Bit her lip and pulled a little at the sheets, reaching down to turn the thing on for both of them the highest it could go.

Seriously? It was that good? Ace wasn’t about to complain, but still! She jerked her hips up rougher, unable to help a rough moan when she turned it up so high.

The woman’s moans grew steadily louder, rocking her hips down rougher and cried out her girlfriend’s name. She’s far, far too close again. “A-Ace... Harder please. Just a little harder and you’ll make me come...”

“Kinda what I’m going for...” Because hey, what was the point of sex if they both didn’t enjoy it? Ace tried to go harder, as best she could, trying to keep herself from completely losing it - Azelma’s pleasure, for now at least, came first.

At this point, if Ace did ‘lose it’, it would not be pleasant for either of them. Azelma could only gasp and cry out her name before letting out a little shriek of pleasure as she came hard and jerked madly down against the thing entering her. Mostly because part of her knew Ace hadn’t gone either.

And it didn’t take much longer for Ace to come too, with what was essentially a growl of her name. She’d never been a screamer, except for when, you know, things had to be faked... which wasn’t very common for her.

Azelma looked down at Ace, jaw slightly dropped before she moved to pull her into a kiss. One hand in her hair, the other pulling the strap-on off of her. She kicked it off the side of the bed opposite the door and pushed Ace whilst kissing the whole time into a position of them being on their side and pushed close.

It can’t have been that impressive... the kissing, though, was really, really nice, something that Ace made a point of responding to, even whilst she was still slightly blissed-out. This whole thing in general, to be honest, was pretty damn wicked.

She continued kissing for several more minutes till she felt the last of the spasms of her nether regions. When Azelma pulled away she smiled up to her and ran her fingers through her hair. “That was... wicked.” She teased and poked her nose to hers.

Ace managed a weak chuckle, still not entirely solid on how her body worked. “Yeah... well wicked.”

Azelma smiled and pushed her head onto her chest and reached to pull her blankets over them. She was growing cold, okay? She nuzzled in and rested her eyes, falling asleep not too far after.

Ace wasn’t all that far behind, and if asked, she’d just blame the... somewhat intense physical exertion that Azelma had just put her through. Not that she’d ever complain about it, because... damn.

When all fell quiet, Éponine dared to come to investigate. Gently pushing the door open, she couldn’t help but smile at what she saw - maybe, just maybe, this Ace girl was doing Azelma some good.

At very least? It was fantastic to see her happy again.