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The kettle had been just over halfway to boiling when Pearl’s text came through, and was whistling steam by the time Rose could calm her laughter over the phone.

She looks halfway freezerburnt in the pic she had sent: Pearl, already layered in the muss of a long day and the sweat of dance practice, red-nosed and miserable and bundled up to her chin with the snow-caked doors of the rec center behind her. A sign in one of them reads “NO WATER -- PIPES BURST”

The caption, though, is the clincher: “My dorm’s plumbing is out, too. I hate to ask, but would it be okay if I showered at yours?”

First of all, that picture was going to be Rose’s new home screen. But the real punchline, here -- which she tried to articulate to Pearl over the phone, through her doubled-over gigglefit -- is that Pearl would think twice about asking to come over. That she would 'hate to ask'! She’s been doing so for months. And with all other possible showers on the opposite end of campus, and Rose’s apartment hardly a couple blocks from the rec center, it just hits her as a uniquely Pearlish blend of pitiful-funny that she would even feel the need to ask permission.

To use her shower, especially. (Well. She left that a bit more implicit, over the phone.)

Rose grins to herself, still, watching the tea steep. She isn’t exactly dolled up -- it’s a healthy piece of late in the evening, and she had just planned to read until bed -- but Pearl has a way of shyly eyeing Rose in even her most kickaround outfits.

(Gold-good things flutter in her chest, there. Sweeten soft.)

Instead of changing, she’s piled a stack of towels and her bathrobe next to the door -- a couple mugs of hot, cheery chamomile on the coffee table, too. So when the door sounds off with a tangle of tender knocks (oh, oh, her knuckles must be numb), Rose is quick to whisk it open with one towel over her shoulder, making little effort to hide the bubble of laughter in her voice: “Poor thing, oh no! Come on, come on -- oof, goodness, it is cold out --”

Hopefully her smile doesn’t look too pleased.

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"Yes, yes!" Flustered in several ways, Pearl fumbles the bottles before managing to set them down on the sink. She darts a guilty look at Rose's feet, hearing the squelch of soaked socks on tile. "Nothing serious -- you don't have to get wet for me!" Oh, no. Worse and worse.

Honestly, sometimes Pearl feels as if all she's done since she met Rose is make ridiculous messes in front of her. If her skin wasn't already flushed thoroughly pink from the shower, her creeping blush would be visible. Shying out of Rose's grasp, she kneels again to gather up the pumice stone and a razor, head bowed.

Rose can't help it. She wants to laugh. Pretty, poised, hyper-competent Pearl, with her discerning looks down an aristocrat nose and manicured outfits set to match down to her class notes is just... kind of a disaster, really, when it comes down to it, and not just when Rose is around.

(Though. She does boost the odds an awful lot.)

Rose's mouth opens to reply. But as she watches Pearl double over again, it becomes brightly difficult to ignore how beautifully biddable she looks this way. Bent as if to kneel. The just-pinked skin of lower back curving: her shoulder blades framing eaves above the tender Braille of backbone: freckled fretboard ribs --

"Let me get them." Low, kind, dulcet. Hearing her speak, one would never believe Rose's mouth has gone a bit dry. Gently -- gently -- her hand rests on Pearl's shoulder for attention. She's warm, and Rose can feel the static pop of her nerves, and a fondness tugs alongside hunger on the little pulleys in her chest. "Finish your shower, sweetness."

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Pearl looks back up at her, hesitates. There's something about Rose's tone that brooks no argument. The endearment, the way Rose's mouth wraps around the word, sends a little tremor through Pearl-- or perhaps it's the intent way Rose is looking at her-- she's suddenly aware of how very naked she is, the faint caress of air against her cooling skin--

Pearl's mouth is dry too.

"O-okay." Snatching up a bottle of body wash from the sink counter, she backs into the shower. "I'll just! Finish up in here. Thank you."

"Atta girl," she offers to Pearl's retreating back. It comes across less charmingly flip than intended -- lower -- snagging to a richer register that sounds... warm. Rose hadn't meant for that. Rose had meant to pepper some teases in before retreating to the room. She's pressing too much. Too aggressive. Part of Pearl is enjoying it, along with most of Rose, but that doesn't mean this is appropriate for their arrangement.

Pearl's entitled to breathing room, and right now Rose is removing that option.

And despite her own urging being the reason behind it, the snick of the shower door sounds awfully close to the snap-shut of a cookie jar.

The bottles try to slip out of her grip as she stands them on the sink -- they can always be stashed later -- while Rose collects her thoughts. Weighs options. It's only when Rose is just beginning to mop up the spilled water with a spare towel that she realizes the shower hasn't been running. She blinks; twice.

"... did you belatedly freeze stiff in there?"

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"Rose..." Pearl's voice from behind the door is pained. "I think I broke the showerhead, maybe." She's been standing there for long, increasingly uncomfortable minutes, unsuccessfully trying to turn the water back on. Beginning to shiver as the heat fades from her body. Trying to figure out what the hell to do. Of course this would happen, and after Rose was so kind, letting her shower here, and making her tea, and everything. Was this showerhead expensive? Rose has fairly lavish taste; it must have been.

She swallows apprehensively. "Can you take a look?"

“Goodness,” she says, making room for a few ‘tsk’s. “At this rate we’ll just have to find you a garden hose.” Still smiling, though. Despite that Pearl’s making it awfully damn hard to be decent.

She reaches down to roll off her soggy socks -- they can wait in the sink, a moment -- before padding the half-step needed to the shower door. Normally the collection of steam on the glass would be enough to obfuscate anyone inside, but the room has cooled, and Pearl is plain to see: long and lovely and needing Rose.

(It’s delicious. Having her boxed in like this. Want tugs, quick and slight and bright as a struck match.)

Considering a playful little knock on the glass -- but discarding the idea -- Rose tugs the door open and neatly plucks the showerhead from Pearl’s hands. She can see right away that it isn’t broken. Pearl must have been squeezing the nozzle too tightly from nerves, and thought she’d jammed it.

But Rose takes a few long, long seconds studying it closely. Her head shakes gravely, and her mouth hums with significant thinking sounds. “Oh, my… I don’t know… hmm…”

(Pearl shivering in her peripheral is a little too sweet to pass up.)

“I’m sorry, Pearl…” She sighs. “Maybe it just --” The showerhead springs to life in her hand and she laughs, “-- works just fine after all!”

The spray is on a gentle setting, but that doesn’t make hosing down her beleaguered houseguest from head to hip any less fun.

Pearl begins to droop as Rose's countenance falls, a dejected slump creeping into her shoulders. But she looks up as an irrepressible giggle fills the shower, and --

"Ah!"

The spray hits her right in the face, as warm and exuberant as Rose's laughter, and she instinctively throws up her arms to ward it off. Not that it does any good, of course. Then she's half-sputtering, half-laughing along -- almost rushing forward to give Rose a relieved hug, but mindful of her drenched state at the last moment. She's already gotten Rose wet enough tonight, surely.

"I was really worried for a minute, there!"

The spray dips down -- she can afford a drop of mercy -- as Rose glows at the reassured grin on Pearl’s face: a little shy, a little sheepish. And anemic in love.

It makes Rose feel a little godless, that thrill of power. And on top of her so bare and open, and cornered in Rose’s home... Oh, she just wants to put Pearl in her pocket.

“Never worry, sweet thing,” she hums. The shower is small enough that she can lean in, easily -- can drop a double-peck, quick and laughing, on Pearl’s damp cheek. “You’re worth a thousand fancy showerheads.”

Though. She still hasn’t handed it back to her. The water continues to flow down along Pearl’s feet and shins as Rose pauses; quiet and steam fill the shower with heated weight.

“Although.” Rose watches a rivulet of water start from her collar -- down her proud tilt of breastbone -- along her navel -- “This one is quite nice.”

Her eyes have gone soft. Sweet. She leans in, again: close enough to kiss. “I’d like to show you how.”

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Pearl's abruptly aware of every inch of distance between them as it narrows and narrows again. She can't help but crane her neck a little, wanting to be closer, drawn inexorably in by Rose's gravity. Those eyes, fixed all on her; lips, faintly parted with promise. The stream of water, still spilling across her skin in little prickles and curls of heat, pattering against the tile with a soft and constant noise that's entirely at odds with the way Pearl's pulse is suddenly thudding in her ears.

She was going to ask Rose if they could maybe...after her shower, but...now. Now's not a bad time, either.

"I...okay. Yes." After a moment she adds, with a little hitch in her voice, "Please."

The way Rose smiles, one would think there was never any question of how she planned to proceed: pleased, but unsurprised. She almost looks as though she’d orchestrated it to the moment.

“Such manners.” Still holding Pearl’s eyes with her own (shuttered low, crinkling warm), she reaches with her free hand. A slight adjustment to the nozzle, and the water begins to thrum at a new pace. “How can I refuse.”

Pleasant luck, the shower dimensions. The floor is already wet, and pajamas can always be washed, so Rose has no qualms about lifting the nozzle to wash over Pearl’s chest, a moment -- warm, unhurried. “This is one of the gentler settings,” she murmurs, just as she dips in for a chaste press of lips. She wants to feel the sound Pearl makes as she suddenly angles the nozzle directly over her nipple: the stream a hot, pouring purr.

Not unlike Rose's own. "Isn't that nice?"

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Gentler? Really?

Pearl's so sensitive from the cold air earlier and the closeness and just being around Rose, she almost hunches over. Instead she gasps into Rose's mouth, her own lips moving wordlessly. This setting's significantly stronger than the one she was showering with before; the pressure of it strokes sweetly, relentlessly against her nipple.

"God-- yes."

She's about to lift her hands to brace herself against Rose's hips, but no, she's soaked, soaking wet, she can't bring herself to sully Rose's clothes even if Rose herself doesn't seem to care at all. All she can do is curl her fingers into her palms.

So agreeable. So earnest. Rose hums her approval as her free hand wanders: reaches, tangling in the wet hair along the back of Pearl’s head. So agreeable, and so earnest in fact, that Rose decides to reward her with a little massage along her neck as she guides her into a kiss.

Deeper, this time. Rose’s taffy-soft mouth folds full, settling easy: familiar: warm brush of tongue along Pearl’s lower lip.

“You’ve made an awful lot of messes tonight, sweetness.” She still massages the taut cords of sinew in Pearl’s neck, even as the nozzle lazes over to rush against her other nipple. “You’ll behave from now on, won’t you?”

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Pearl kisses back openmouthed; sweet, easy, yearning. It's the most natural thing: Rose leads, and she yields. Her world of sensation narrows to the heat of mouths pressed against each other, the caress of the water, Rose's hand on her neck. Soothing, gentle, but also almost -- proprietary. Pearl tilts her head into it with a whimper.

"I'm sorry," she breathes. "I'll do better."

“That’s my girl.” Another kiss to partner the praise: purring, too, in her obedient mouth. Rose forgets sometimes how well Pearl can kiss. She could drink her in all night. Leave it to a dancer to read another’s skin. “That’s my good girl.”

It’s already a challenge to tolerate her clothes. Damn. Damn. She’ll have to wait, at least a little bit. Rose caps off another kiss with a teasing nip of teeth -- quick lave of tongue to soothe the spot -- before pulling away. Her hand drifts from her nape: down, down -- “You’re so sweet, Pearl. So sweet… so sensitive.” -- over a tender nipple, and tweaks.

The kisses, so soft, with the faintest hint of an edge, are making Pearl's knees weak. Those, and Rose's voice, so sure and compelling that Pearl can never be certain if she's describing, or commanding. Coaxing Pearl into becoming exactly what she wants. Sweet: yes, her limbs heavy with the warm liquid honey of Rose's approval, soaking through her from the crown of her head to the tips of her toes. And -- sensitive: the touch catches her by surprise, a bright electric twitch of pleasure-pain, and without thinking she puts out a hand to steady herself, her damp fingers brushing against the fabric of Rose's clothing.

"Oh..."

For a moment, Rose nearly tolerates it. She nearly ignores the touch -- the grab -- in favor of unpiecing Pearl gently.

But inspiration strikes. And in a sense, so does Rose.

“Pearl.” Rose’s rancor is feigned but rings harsh against the tile, eyes tar-dark as she snatches Pearl’s wrist away. “Another mess? You aren’t even listening, are you.” The hand on the showerhead thumbs the nozzle up: a heavier pound of water thrums over Pearl’s already-tender chest.

“Do you want me to spend the rest of the night cleaning up after you?”

"Sorry!"

Pearl takes an instinctive step back, then stops herself, lest Rose think she's trying to escape. With the grip on her wrist, she's fairly trapped -- and there's nowhere to run in the shower, anyway. She's hemmed in. At Rose's mercy. It's the game that they play, of course, but the feeling is still real: something heavy in the bottom of her stomach, dropping like a stone. Wide-eyed, she cringes, shoulders rising as her chin dips. And at the same time...it's a thrill of excitement that's jittering its way up her spine.

Rose is majestic like this: her curls, even slightly damp, falling about her face, framing the intensity of her glare. Her look, usually so gentle, playfulness curving up the corners of her eyes -- now sharp enough to shred.

It makes something in Pearl want to roll over in that ageless gesture of deference. Shut her eyes and bare her throat deliciously for it.

"S-sorry," she repeats, and it's not just the sensation of the stream against her chest that's making her voice tremble.

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“Hmmm.” Rose’s lips pucker in a frown, the picture of unconvinced. She watches the poor thing trapped in her shower (so slight, so sweet: strings of muscle already jumping in the sliver of her waist). “Not yet, you aren’t.”

Her hand around her wrist tugs, steering it to the top of Pearl’s head. Rose wonders if she even got the chance to shampoo. “Both hands on top of your head… if either of them moves,” Her eyes glint, full of bite and flinty promise, “I’ll give you something to be sorry about.”

And her hand is moving, again: pulling her closer. Rose obviously takes no issue without moisture on her clothing, as long as Pearl isn’t the one putting it there. She lets the water rush over her chest a moment longer before lowering the spray: letting the heat play along the frail divots of her ribs. Her free hand joins, too -- claiming -- after a final parting pinch over Pearl's nipple.

"Turn around." The command in her voice could make rope stand upright. "Legs spread."

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Pearl leaps to obey. Her other hand's on top of the first in an instant, fingers lacing together, the thumbnail of one hand digging into the flesh of the other. It's a humiliating position, deliberate in its performativity. A position for bad girls who can't keep their hands to themselves. But she straightens her back, raising her chin -- she can do this, show Rose how good she wants to be. How good she can be.

Even if the promise of punishment sends a flash of heat straight down her centre.

You're so fucked, Pearl.

The way Rose handles her is firm but deft, almost casual. It makes her nerves quiver. She turns, and spreads, obedient.

Rose almost regrets how neatly Pearl moves to comply… had she waited a bit longer, maybe she could wring some stumbling and fumbling from the dancer. God, that would be cute.

But Pearl obeys, and she has to croon approval. Tugs her closer, even, until her damp back is brushing the front of Rose’s shirt. Her flesh is warm enough to send a shiver through the cloth, sticking humid and wishful as August, and hunger stirs heavy in Rose.

“Better.” Pearl’s hands over her head -- sometimes by order, sometimes by ties -- is always a lovely sight. Toothsome symmetry of latissimi and shoulder and pectoral and breast. But especially now, when Rose can reach from behind… can toy with the slight softness of her slim chest, can stroke the tremble of sinew in her belly. “Not perfect, but better.”

Can nibble her fill along the creamy curve of her neck.

“And so pretty...” Rose lets the pads of her fingers tease along Pearl’s navel, curious to see how strong her conviction is to keep her hands still. Her other hand, in the meantime, thumbs the nozzle to a softer setting again: brings the water to play over her waist. Lowering by dizzying inches. “Shame that such a pretty girl is so messy."

The water dips -- abrupt and stark as vertigo -- below the tender notch of navel, just grazing between her thighs. "You want to be good, though. Don't you, sweet thing?"

Turned like this, she can't see what Rose is doing. Can't see her face or her smile, and somehow that makes it worse, because her runaway brain fills it right in. Rose's lips, curved in a sharp smirk, pressed against the side of neck. Teeth, nipping at the tender, sensitive skin beneath which her pulse leaps and trembles. Sometimes Rose leaves marks -- a reminder for every time she unwinds her winter scarf.

(God, Pearl hopes she leaves marks.)

Messy, Rose says, and the characterization slices straight to her core -- she works so hard, to be so put together, all the time. Classes, grades, test prep, dance practice, colour-matching her outfits. But here she is, stripped of all that and trapped in Rose's shower. Making messes: herself a mess. Falling apart piece by wretched piece. Pearl whines in her throat -- fingers twitching atop her head. Unlacing and then lacing back together, not quite breaking position yet. But if Rose keeps pushing...the hint of a tease of sensation between her legs sends her up on her toes for a second, before she rocks back onto the balls of her feet.

"Yes!"

Her little jump nearly jostles Rose back from the shower door, and her reward is a sharp swat: underhanded, and stinging-swift, right on the curve of Pearl’s taut little ass. The harsh sound echoes thin and pink in the confines of the shower, and darling warmth nestles neatly in Rose’s palm: in the bowl of her hips.

Oh, it’s lovely. That’s lovely. And not nearly enough. Rose rears back again with her hand -- careful with the showerhead -- and marvels at her own rolling urge to just drop all pretense and stuff her fingers into Pearl now. Fuck her up against the tile, here: have her coming and crying thick nonsense in under a minute.

But Rose is patient. And disciplined, and creative. And none of those things are quite as fun as being vengeful.

“No!” Swat. “Moving!” Swat. Stinging heat glows from the skin she’s popped thrice, now -- the same tiny, localized spot, just the way it bites worst -- and Rose rakes her teeth over the pale curve of shoulder before her. Leaves a hard, reddening kiss. “You’ve lost your talking privileges, now! The ‘tell me’ rule is in effect until you can learn some self-control.”

Rose never quite growls, but her voice is all menace: liquid-black and hot and sinking. Her hand strokes over the flesh: firm from dance and nervous pacing, but still soft enough to massage. The drizzle of water returns, lower, letting the threat of pleasure thrum only against Pearl’s lower thighs. “Tell me, do you understand?”

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Pearl gasps as Rose hits her -- and again, and again. She hangs her head, shaking. Spanked, like a child: shame clenches in her chest, racing tense and hot up her arms to where her knuckles whiten on her head. Fingers twisting around each other as she fights the urge to drop her hands and rub the sting from her ass.

That would be so very bad. Would most certainly merit a worse punishment. God. Rose is hungry tonight, isn't she? She's going to keep -- giving Pearl just enough rope to hang herself with. And she's setting the pace slow. So, so slow.

"Y-yes," Pearl chokes out in guilty assent. She follows it with a quiet moan, her hips jerking fruitlessly although her feet stay firmly in place.

A low sound blooms in Rose’s throat. It’s a blend of approving and skeptical. “See that you do.” Her lips move to smooth over she skin of Pearl’s shoulder -- ringed red from a harsh kiss. Rose’s mouth forms a gentle seal over the flesh, and she sucks, just lightly. “You’ve been sloppy all evening. I’d like to be kind, if you could only straighten up.”

She might go on fondling Pearl’s cute little butt all night (with swats, when appropriate), but Rose’s left hand sets to drifting once again. Fingertips branch: savoring the slight swell and fall of Pearl’s belly from her quickening breaths.

As her hand pets down along the slender waist, the stream of water begins to creep higher along Pearl’s thighs.

It’s a cruel move, she knows. But Rose is growing impatient. Wants Pearl to crumble, and quickly -- wants to prize ripe whimpers and tender pleas.

As hand and water move to meet (goddamn these clothes), Rose nuzzles closer against Pearl’s fevered neck: sets to teasing the soft shell of ear between her teeth.

The stream of hot water dips upwards, brushing against the neat thatch of peach-colored hair, just as fingertips feather to meet it.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if you’ve left a mess for me here, too.”

Pearl opens her mouth and then shuts it, remembering just in time, thank god. What could she have said, anyway? Yes -- I'm filthy-- she is a mess, slick and heavy and hot. No -- an outright lie, given that she can feel her own arousal with every shift of her thighs, even untouched, with her legs spread like this.

Her hips want to thrust -- to grind against Rose's hand, seeking sweet relief, but she holds herself back: no moving, Rose said. Still, she can't help but sway back and forth in minute little jerks. She bites her lip, teeth digging into quivering flesh as Rose's hand and the water inch closer to each other. Caught beneath the two, she sucks in air in frantic little gulps, and holds it.

And when they finally meet...! Rose is giving her so little, still, but the feeling of it sears through her body anyway, making her limbs heavy and sluggish. Knees buckling slightly, she turns her head away from Rose's teeth with a moan: reflexive, as if she can hide, or escape.

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