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Randall Flagg ([personal profile] hardcase) wrote2020-12-12 03:08 pm
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nadine_he_loves: (pre vegas default)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-06-28 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Nothing happens.

There's no sudden pain, no shift in the man bound before her, just his surprisingly normal hand around hers. Aside from it's size, inhuman and unnerving, it feels much like any other hand. There's no hint of claw against her skin, only his palm and broad fingers.]


You're welcome.

[It's eerie, how mundane and normal this really is. Even his grip is startlingly gentle. And so very warm and smooth...she hadn't expected the smoothness. It's not as though she's in the habit of holding men's hands - honestly can't remember the last time she had - but she's always had the impression that their hands were coarse and roughened.]

What...what do you want to be called?
nadine_he_loves: (not so sure)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-01 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Randall?

[It's such an ordinary and unassuming name. The sort any man in the village might have. Nadine doesn't know what she expected, but it wasn't 'Randall'. She's beginning to realize there's a great deal about him that's unexpected. Maybe he was telling the truth, about the fact he was human once.

She can believe it, right now.

Her hand withdraws when he lets go, and she frowns slightly, shaking her head. What's even the point to this? Even if she feels some sympathy or compassion for his plight...]


You know...there's nothing I can do to help you. I don't have any authority here, I'm just the school teacher. There isn't anything more I can do for you.
nadine_he_loves: (tough choices)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-02 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Why does an affectionate term on his lips make something twist inside of her? And not wholly unpleasantly.

But she shakes her head, ignoring it, pushing it away. She's too old for girlish flights of fancy because a powerful, dangerous man said something sweet to her.]


Rulers who work alongside their people, sure, I'll believe that when I see it. That's how the world works. Nobody becomes the mayor to do work, they do it so they don't have to do any work.

[Nadine has no love for local authority, but it's just part of life she accepts. Like everything else. It's the way things are, and she's in no position to change that.]

But it doesn't matter. I just mean that you can be nice and flatter me all you want, and I can feel badly for you and disagree with treating you this way but it doesn't matter.
nadine_he_loves: (tough choices)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-05 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Nadine follows his gaze.

She doesn't believe him. Not entirely. The risks are many and great. If someone hears, investigates...she isn't sure what would happen to her. Bad enough she's talked to him at length, bad enough she let him touch her, loosening his chains would likely end her in a similar position. Or worse.

And she isn't so sure he wouldn't escape. He's bound this way for a reason. What then? She supposes, if she survived, there likely wouldn't be anyone left to punish her anyway. The thought doesn't bother her as much as it should. There's no great love for most of the people here. Only the children, really. The rest don't matter, there's no one she's close to, no one she cares for or who cares for her. There never really has been.

But she does feel for him, locked up in a manner that would be cruel to do even to an animal. Despite all the fearsome stories and all she knows, there's a person in there. An intelligent one.

With a sigh, Nadine looks back to Flagg, indecision clear on her face.]


I don't know. The trouble I could get in... And I'm not entirely convinced you won't break loose and take your revenge on the people who did this to you. Then what would I do? Even if you just...disappeared into the night, they'd know it was because of me. Look at what they're doing to you, what do you think they'd do to me?
nadine_he_loves: (holding back a laugh)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-06 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Nadine can't help the sudden laugh that bubbles up out of her, but she claps her hand over her mouth to try. She isn't laughing at him, but at the picture he paints with his words. It's...ridiculous.

Appealing, yes, of course it is. Whatever he is, he's powerful and magical and the idea of capturing his attention is darkly thrilling. As is the way his eyes seem to bore into her.

But also ridiculous. Who is she? No one important, no one with anything to offer him. She's boring and mundane and has barely been beyond the edges of this place in her entire thirty eight years.]


Why would you do that? I'm nobody. You don't even know me.

[But she's moving towards the crank as she speaks.]
nadine_he_loves: (tough choices)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-06 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure if I believe in all of that.

[She casts a look to the door as she reaches the crank, weighing the risk. She's given no alarm, no reason for anyone to investigate. Even if she's taking a while, who's keeping track? As long as she's quiet...]

Sometimes I think life is just...things happening. There's no meaning in it, there's no real guiding force to existence.

[Much as she'd like to believe otherwise, she isn't sure. Good things happen, bad things happen, Nadine has never seen any real evidence there's anything much deeper. Still...she's lived the way they say is the right way, and lived in fear of some divine retribution she's never witnessed in all her years.

The crank turns slowly, as she tries to be as quiet as possible.]


Maybe I'm not really so different. Maybe I'm just tired and bored and willing to risk my skin for a little thrill.
nadine_he_loves: (conflicted)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-06 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's no preparing for the true size of him.

Bound and bent, it's clear he's large, but it only offers a vague impression. Nadine can't help but shrink back some as he rises, unfolding to a height that shocks her.

She really is being a fool. He could take her in both his hands and break her in two with hardly any effort.]


You're welcome.

[The words come out small and quiet, half swallowed by the thread of primal fear his true height inspires in her.]
nadine_he_loves: (tough choices)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-08 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[That, Nadine believes. He's had opportunity to kill her already and he hasn't.

Mad as it is, she's inclined to believe most of what he's said is true. That he doesn't mean her any harm, that he has...an interest in her. There's no doubting he's as dangerous as she's been told, but maybe not to her.

She stays where she is a moment, watching him, weighing her options. She's been close to him before but there's an implication in this invitation. It sparks a blossom of fear deep in the pit of her, born predominantly of inexperience. Nadine's life hasn't had much room for men, never had any suitors, and never dared step out of line to dally with anyone. That sort of thing is frowned upon for unmarried women. It's something she'd accepted wasn't a part of her life, resigned herself to spinsterhood.]


I've never....

[She trails off, embarrassed, looking down as she shuffles a few steps closer.]
nadine_he_loves: (started pre vegas)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-09 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Nadine's insistence to herself that she's too old for idle fantasy doesn't mean she's never had any. But not once, in all of her wildest or darkest imaginings, had this particular scenario ever occurred to her.

There's that little thrill of excitement again. A primal tug that draws her to him. She shouldn't. She knows she shouldn't, but it's just another little thing in a rapidly growing list of 'shouldn'ts'.

So what if she did? Is it really any more of a risk than any she's already taken? And she's curious. Would he be rough and harsh? Surprisingly gentle? Those teeth... but that's part of the appeal. The idea of this cruel, ruthless nightmare of a man wanting her...being sweet to her...

Nadine's eyes dart to the door once again, as though reassuring herself it's closed and there's no activity beyond. They've likely forgotten she's even in here. Another few steps closer.]


I shouldn't stay much longer.

[Another shouldn't. It's only a token protest, though, to assure herself that she did protest. She hesitated and didn't throw herself at him like some easily bought goodtime girl.

But she goes to him. Cautious and vaguely horrified with herself, she reaches for his extended hand.]
nadine_he_loves: (started pre vegas)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-09 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[There's no point in saying 'no' now.

The size of him is almost overwhelming. Nadine finds herself flush against him, enveloped entirely. She trembles against him, hands against his chest, and feels the strength going out of her. What is she doing? What's the matter with her?

It probably doesn't matter, the whys. Not when she's here, in his embrace, when she's reaching up with pale and shaking hands to unclasp the muzzle that shield's Flagg's mouth. That great and terrible mouth....

Reality hits her as her fingertips touch the metal and leather of the muzzle. There's no going back now. Maybe there never was. Nadine feels like a woman in a trance as she works the straps to remove it and let it fall to the floor.]
nadine_he_loves: (tough choices)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-09 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Nadine shudders at the first touch of his mouth against her. She'd thought maybe he'd kiss her but somehow this is more intimate. She can feel the hint of his teeth, those wicked long teeth, and the touch of them doesn't frighten her as much as it should. It barely frightens her at all.

Nothing has prepared her for this. No scandalous dreams, not even her own furtive self explorations compared to the heat and weakness Flagg's mouth draws up in her. Her hands clutch at him as her breath goes out of her and the world feels like it's spinning. She barely comprehends what he tells her, looking at him in wonder and confusion as she struggles to offer some sort of response.

Nothing comes, and it feels as though time blinks - one moment staring up at him, the next settling herself awkwardly on his shoulders. There's a tightness in the pit of her stomach that pulses and aches, desires that have been repressed for decades springing to life. This is wrong, this is perverse, whatever he has in mind is sinful and shameful but she doesn't want to stop him.]
nadine_he_loves: (scared)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-10 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh.]

[Nadine goes tense, biting her lower lip fiercely to keep from crying out. One hand grips one of the heavy chains running down to his bonds and the other presses against her mouth to stifle any sounds. She'd known, of course, what was coming, but knowing and experiencing it are entirely different.]

[Already she feels warm all over, heat spiraling out from her loins and coursing through her body, pulsing with every motion of his tongue. Her breasts ache and she can feel her palms growing slick with sweat. And her thighs slick with something else entirely.]

[She doesn't understand why he's doing this - this particular act, she assumes he has the wants and needs of any male - but now isn't the time to wonder at it. As his mouth works over her she gasps and jerks, eyes squeezed shut and legs gripping at him tightly. Is this what she's been missing all of this time?]
nadine_he_loves: (determined)

[personal profile] nadine_he_loves 2021-07-11 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Ina way, Nadine does need the permission to lose herself. A part of her has remained resistant even as she writhes on top of him. In her youth she'd been taught shame - shame for her body, its wants, the idea of taking pleasure. Good girls didn't do that.]

[Nadine doesn't think she's a good girl anymore.]

[It doesn't take her long to reach that edge. With so little experience her body is easy to manipulate and tease to the heights of pleasure, even if a part of her mind rebelled against it all. It felt good, better than she'd ever imagined something could feel, and Flagg's words flip some switch inside of her.]

[She's allowed this. It may be wrong and she may regret it later but she can seize a fragment of pleasure in her unremarkable little life. What resistance she'd maintained shattered, her body arching with one hand still gripping the chain and the heel of the other wedged between her teeth so tightly she feels the skin protest. It doesn't matter. That wave of pleasure is cresting and overpowering her and all thought, rational or otherwise, is pushed from her mind as she finds her peak.]

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