intimacy 27 for ona and javon (we haven't done anything with them in a hot minute)
intimacy drabbles
27 — drawing/writing on one another:
“shut up! i’m trying to sketch you some new tattoos.” not that it was necessary. but sketching was another of the newer quirks that ona had been taking up to pass the time after a recent hospital visit — she never had any actual aspirations to be an artist, obviously, but it’s just another one of those control-based things that seemed to keep her more at bay during her bad days. or weeks, mostly. he didn’t ask for it and she didn’t ask permission either, just took to grabbing the number of assorted pens she’d picked up and collected from a craft store and went to down on his forearm…and his wrists…and his shoulders…and his fingers…basically, anywhere that his skin had been shown. and they weren’t perfect (ona’s PhD had been in social work, not art, she’d snapped at javon multiple times) nor were they proportional, but in the middle of inking a lotus flower just below the palm of his hand, her focus had been more on the pen scratching along his skin than on javon’s critiques of sarcasm. “you could use some more…tattoos, i mean. plus, it was either me drawing on you, or me adding to the crayon marks on the wall…and while you’re a good dad, you’re not my daddy, and i don’t quite have the stability for you to yell at me just yet.”











