things done while kissing meme
@definedinsanity said: [ GAZE ] 👀👀👀 - right before the kissing begins, sender gazes at receiver's lips, then back up at their eyes, waiting for them to make a move or give confirmation.
mercy wondered what it was that had gotten her here. logic dictated that she should have handled all of this differently, and yet, when having been faced with the fact that she’d been taken against her will with absolutely no idea of what her fate was to be, the woman was strangely fucking nonchalant about it. but it was hard to care what was going to happen to her when she’d been through something like this multiple times before, and she already didn’t give a fuck about what happened to her at all. maybe that contributed to vaas taking something of a liking to her--at least, she assumed he liked her, seeing as how she hadn’t caught a bullet between the eyes, or that she hadn’t been sold off to some crazy fuck just yet. maybe it had been her behavior that earned her this much attention, seeing as how she was more than happy to hold a conversation with him rather than cry like the other sniveling captives she’d seen. perhaps it had been her humor, or her familiarity with violence, or the fact that she could be useful if afforded a chance to be. mercy didn’t know, but she planned on riding it out as best she could. it was only a matter of time before he grew tired of her and cast her aside. at least, she thought anyway.
funnily enough, though... she’d grown fond of her captor. maybe that was just stockholm syndrome talking, but mercy didn’t particularly give a fuck. vaas listened to her when she spoke, and sometimes that was hard to ask even of her crew back home in new york. and while, at first, her deference and attention she gave back to him had been out of necessity, as time passed, that had changed. he was a lot more intelligent than people seemed to give him credit for, at least from what she saw. most were just terrified of him, did what he said for fear of the consequences, and while that was justified, she still found there was more there than that. then again, mercy had a different perspective on all of this because of the way she’d grown up; most people weren’t introduced to violence like she was at such a young age, nor did most go on to run their very own crime syndicate like she had. so in a way, annoying as it was, she supposed she could understand why people would respond to him with sobs and pleas rather than taking the time to listen to the things that were coming out of his mouth. that was their fucking problem, though.
it was still a hard thing to wrap her head around though, the idea that someone could actually enjoy her presence. most people responded to her less than favorably, but mercy supposed she could understand why. she could be clumsy, awkward, and abrasive. she was rough around the edges with eyes that looked at you hard, having long since traded her softness for sharp edges. her mannerisms were gruff, her mouth off-putting, and her voice sounded like she gargled sand and shards of glass after knocking back a shot of bourbon that she took with a gravel chaser. the sound of it could grate after a while, she’d been told, along with her personality altogether. she was like breathing exhaust and the smell of gasoline; like rush hour traffic when you were two blocks away from home; like singed plastic and spent shell casings; like wet socks when the damp soaked into your sneakers during a rainy day. but with vaas it hadn’t felt like that. she’d made him laugh a few times even with her crass jokes that most others balked at, and hadn’t made her feel like such a monster when she’d talked about the things she’d done in her line of work. perhaps it was her mentioning those things that even bought her the time that she’d gotten so far, so he must have appreciated it or thought it would make her useful. whatever it was, she knew that... she liked it. that she liked him.
god... how fucked up was she?
whatever. mercy would reflect on that some other time. at the moment, she was deep in some monologue about money laundering, since he’d asked what it entailed. and after passing a joint back and forth between them, she was sufficiently loaded enough to explain her process and what it would involve. before she could get too far into it, though, she saw that he wasn’t looking her in the eye anymore.
she must’ve been talking too much again. the woman wondered why he hadn’t told her as such, figuring he wouldn’t let her keep yammering on if he wasn’t interested, but her brows rose ever so slightly when she finally seemed to catch on to his intentions. all right. interesting, and certainly not unwelcomed. probably should have been, considering the circumstances that had brought her to this point and how messy this could all end up, but... ah, fuck it. not like she cared that fucking much anyway.
“somethin’ on yer mind, jefe?”
as much as she wanted to pretend like she could be coy, it just wasn’t mercy. she was too impulsive, too brazen, to behave like anything else. so with that, she reached out and gripped the front of his shirt, and pulled him in to crush her mouth against his. after all, he didn’t seem to be moving too quickly on his own with the way he was eyeing her like that.
maybe she’d look back on this and laugh bitterly at how stupid she was to let her attraction pull her to this point, especially after he’d ransom her off to the highest bidder, or when her mouth would get her into enough trouble that it would get her killed. at the moment, though, the only thing she knew about her mouth was that it was on his, and it felt fucking divine.