Strange Love (Series maybe - PT2)
Rose's frustrations on attempting to do couple things with strange like playing jenga, watching a movie or drawing...he always make things sexual.
Yes, so WARNINGS : NON-CON, Maybe Age Gap, Erotic? What the hell just read at your own risk, um i suck at english so please be lenient (my mom tries her best to help correct wrong sentences) I only scored b4 for English.
The Sanctum’s library smelled of old parchment and candle wax, the kind of quiet that should have felt safe. Rose had dragged a small wooden table into the corner by the fireplace, set up a battered Jenga tower she’d found in a box marked Avengers Game Night – Do Not Touch. She’d worn her softest sweater, the one that didn’t cling, and tied her hair back in a messy bun—practical, innocent, normal.
“Stephen,” she’d said that morning, voice light, “just one game. No magic. No portals. Just… us.”
He’d smiled, the one that made her stomach flip even now, and agreed.
The tower wobbled on its twenty-third block. Rose’s tongue poked between her teeth in concentration. Stephen sat opposite, legs stretched, one hand lazily spinning a coffee mug that refilled itself with dark roast. His eyes never left her face.
“Your turn,” she whispered, nudging the block toward him.
He plucked it free with two fingers, slow, deliberate. The tower swayed. Rose held her breath. Stephen leaned in, breath warm against her ear. “If this falls, you owe me a kiss.”
“It’s Jenga, not strip poker.”
“Everything’s strip poker if you’re patient.”
The tower crashed. Blocks scattered like startled birds. Rose laughed—startled, genuine—then caught herself. Stephen was already moving, chair scraping back, knees hitting the rug. His mouth found hers before she could protest, hands sliding under the sweater, thumbs brushing the lace edge of her bra. The game forgotten, the fireplace crackling too loud, her back against the table’s edge as he lifted her onto it. Wood dug into her spine. The Jenga blocks crunched beneath them.
“Stephen, we didn’t even finish—”
“We will,” he murmured, teeth grazing her throat. “Later.”
Two nights later, she tried again. Movie night. Spirited Away—something gentle, nostalgic. She’d made popcorn with real butter, dimmed the lights, curled into the couch with a blanket big enough for two. Stephen joined her, cloak discarded, wearing grey sweatpants and that half-smirk that promised trouble.
Ten minutes in, Chihiro’s parents turned into pigs. Rose sniffled, reached for a tissue. Stephen’s hand intercepted hers, guiding it to his thigh instead.
“Focus on the film,” she tried, voice small.
“I am.” His fingers traced lazy circles on her wrist. “You’re crying. Let me fix it.”
He kissed the tears from her cheeks, slow, reverent—then not slow at all. The blanket tangled around her ankles. Popcorn spilled across the cushions. The movie played on, forgotten, subtitles flickering over their skin as he pressed her into the couch, one hand muffling her gasps against his palm.
The art room was her last sanctuary. Skylights, canvases, the faint smell of turpentine. Rose had set up two easels side by side, squeezed cadmium red onto a palette like a peace offering.
“Couples paint night,” she’d announced, cheeks pink. “No touching the brushes with anything but paint.”
Stephen raised an eyebrow but obeyed—for twelve minutes.
She was blocking in a sunset, tongue between teeth again, when his shadow fell over her canvas. His brush dipped into cerulean, then trailed—not on his paper, but down the inside of her forearm, cool and wet.
“Shading,” he said innocently. The brush moved lower, circling her wrist, then the hollow of her elbow. Paint smeared across her skin like bruises.
She stepped back. “I just wanted to make something. Together. Not… this.”
His eyes darkened. “You are making something. You’re making me insane.”
The easels toppled. Paint splattered—red across his cheek, blue streaking her collarbone. He pinned her to the drop-cloth, mouths clashing, hands slick with color. She tasted turpentine and him. Her sundress hiked to her waist, his belt clinking open. The canvas beneath them soaked up their heat, colors bleeding into a abstract mess neither of them would frame.
The escape attempt came after the art room.
She waited until he portaled to Kamar-Taj for a “briefing.” Three hours, maybe four. She packed light: passport, a hoodie, the emergency cash she’d hidden in a hollowed-out book (Herbology for Beginners). Wong was in the courtyard, pruning bonsai.
“Wong, I—I need to visit my aunt in Queens. Stephen said it’s fine.”
Wong didn’t look up. “Portal’s faster. I’ll open one.”
“No!” Too sharp. She softened. “I want the train. Normal. Please.”
He frowned, shears pausing. “You okay, kid?”
She almost broke then. Almost spilled everything—the prophecy, the nights she woke sore and trembling, the way Stephen’s love felt like drowning. But the Sanctum’s walls had ears. She saw it in Wong’s eyes: trust in Stephen, blind and ancient.
“Fine,” she lied. “Just homesick.”
Wong nodded, resumed trimming.
She made it to Grand Central. Heart hammering, ticket to anywhere-but-here clutched in sweaty fingers. The train hissed, doors opening—
Passengers froze mid-step. A child’s balloon hung suspended. Rose’s legs locked. Stephen stepped out of a portal that hadn’t been there a second ago, cloak billowing like judgment. His expression was calm. Terrifyingly calm.
She couldn’t speak. Couldn’t move. He walked the length of the platform, boots echoing in the silence, until he stood before her. His fingers brushed her cheek, smearing a streak of cadmium red she hadn’t noticed was still there.
“You left your easel,” he said softly. “We weren’t finished.”
The portal swallowed them both.
Back in the Sanctum, he didn’t yell. Didn’t punish with pain. He simply laid her on their bed, stripped her with reverent hands, and made love to her until she was sobbing—not from hurt, but from the cruel gentleness of it. Until her body arched into his despite her mind screaming no. Until she whispered his name like a prayer she hated herself for knowing.
After, he held her, stroking her hair. “You’ll try again,” he murmured, “and I’ll always bring you home. That’s the real prophecy, Rose. You and me. Forever.”
She stared at the ceiling, paint still under her nails, and felt the last piece of fight drain out of her.
Tomorrow, she thought dully, maybe she’d suggest Scrabble.
He’d probably fuck her on the tiles.