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Summary: The one where you were the one filming the BTS video, and Harry JUST had to get his greedy hands on the editing process.

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Warnings: 18+, a little plot with a lot of SMUT, pure and filthy. Dom!Harry x Sub!Reader.

“Alright—hold still for a second. No, don’t look at me. Look at her. Actually, forget it, just do whatever you were doing before…”

That was the gig—you behind the handheld, two steps to the left of Laura Jane Coulson and her Leica, catching everything the still frames couldn’t—the in-between frames, the exhales, the moments when Harry forgot anyone was watching and just existed inside whatever weird, beautiful, sexy thing his body was doing on that desert highway that day.

Harry’s team had hired you to produce a behind-the-scenes video: a short, fly-on-the-wall reel that would run on their socials with no set date, and while it wasn’t the cover shoot, of course—that was Laura’s domain—it was yours in a different way, something more real than a two-second snap of a camera lens. You were the one crouched low, getting the ice bath from below, the metal stock trough catching the last of the afternoon light while Harry gripped the sides with white knuckles, making a face like the cold was assaulting all his senses.

You were the one who caught the Great Britain tracksuit moment— him glancing over his shoulder with “HARRY” printed across his ass, grinning like a kid with a secret. You filmed the infamous pink shorts, soaking wet, water dripping from his lean, muscular body. And god, how could you forget the shot with his arms wide, silhouetted as golden hour set in the dark sky, the night opening up with stars, the pink and orange vibing with the melody playing through the loudspeaker in the background, while he danced on the asphalt like nobody on Earth was watching.

Everyone was looking. You were all watching. But with your luck, the camera gave you the coveted excuse to never look away.

On the first morning, before the crew had fully set up, you had pulled him aside near the equipment trailer. You remember his hair was still messy from the drive out, sunglasses pushed up on his forehead, and he was holding a coffee. He was there early, ready to start the workday, and that surprised you.

“I want to capture things that are going to drive the fans absolutely wild,” you told him, not a hint of shame in the pitch. “All of it… like strong, sexy, charming, you know, silly—give the full range. Home video energy. I want it to feel like they’re standing right next to you...”

He had laughed at that and pointed at you with the hand holding the coffee. “I like that—Yeah—Let’s do that. I’m game for anything. I like your vision. I’m the one who suggested you. I’ve creeped all of your stuff on Instagram… like not in a creepy way. I just like really liked your style.”

All you could do was smile, and that was it, and then he was letting you in, treating you like a team player, like your role was just as vital as the photographers. That was the thing about Harry that caught you off guard. The fact that he didn’t perform for your lens the way he did for Laura’s. With her, he was a professional—hitting marks, shifting angles, following direction. With you, it was like he forgot you were there. Or maybe he didn’t forget. Maybe he just didn’t mind, and there was something about that cool confidence that kept you captivated.

Either way, your footage had something the photographs didn’t. You had the version of him that existed in the gaps, completely unguarded, and, if you were being honest, it was the version that had already become a problem before the first day even ended. Because for you it was when he had pulled himself out of the ice bath, drenched, ice water pouring down his hard body, and you were forced to keep the camera steady on his torso, standing there pretending like your hands weren’t trembling…then he looked up. Staring at the camera with one of those clever smiles, and it was like he fucking knew, like he knew the exact shot you wanted. His eyes flicked from the camera lens to yours, water still dripping, and he smiled, flexing his tight abs, the camera catching every perfect second. When you smiled back and said cut, he stood there for a beat longer, letting your eyes rake down his soaked body.

That was three weeks ago.

Now you were standing in the foyer of his NYC apartment in the West Village, laptop bag over one shoulder, hard drive in your hand, sifting through a mental library of reasons why this was strictly going to be a professional visit, and nothing more.

The edit was your only job. That’s why you were here. Harry had asked—over text, directly to you, not through Jeff, not through the magazine—wondering if he could sit in on the final cut. “I had some time free up. I just want to make sure it feels right. I’m feeling very particular this round with my image. Hope you don’t mind if it’s just the two of us,” he had written. “You’ve got stuff no one else has. Want to make sure we use the best of it.”

And fuck, yeah, that would have been fine. That would have been a completely normal request from a client who cared about the work, except for the texts that followed in the days after. The ones that came at midnight, then later, then even later. None of them crossed a line per se, not technically, easy questions—a question about a certain shot, a voice note about the pacing of the edit, a photo of his running route along the Hudson with no caption—but they quickly accumulated into something that felt like its own kind of footage. A reel of intent, played back at a frequency just below what you could call out directly.

On some days, you would catch yourself rereading them in bed, scrolling up to map the shift. Scrolling to early messages. The professional, clipped ones. The ones signed off with a “cheers” or a thumbs-up emoji. But then somehow the tone loosened. He started asking about your day—not the footage—but your actual day. At one point, he sent you a song at one in the morning with “I think this is the vibe I’m going for, and the song I want to use for the edit,” and you listened to it three times, analyzing the song, before you even thought about what it meant that he was thinking about your footage at one in the morning. By the final week, the pretense had thinned to almost nothing, and the last message before you booked your flight was just: “Can’t wait to see you.”

Not “can’t wait to see the edit.” It was can’t wait to see “you”.

But here’s the thing—you still weren’t one hundred percent sure, and that was the maddening part. Because everything he said could still fit within a professional frame if you wanted one. Every message could have been a director talking to his editor. Every late-night text could have been a guy who kept weird hours and cared about his projects. You had built your entire career on reading rooms, reading people, knowing exactly where a moment was headed before it landed—but with Harry, you couldn’t find the cut point. You couldn’t find the frame where friendly became something else, and that uncertainty was doing more to you than any of the certainty you had in the past ever could have. It was like you were standing at a parallel, and maybe you wanted the latter more than you thought.

“Hey—come in, come in.” He greeted, opening the door wider when you knocked. He stepped aside, feet bare in grey sweatpants, a tight white tee clinging to his frame, complementing his fit body beneath, hair damp. The apartment smelled like coffee and sandalwood, like maybe he lit a candle before you arrived, the earthy smell ghosting through the threshold as you stepped in.

“Thanks for making the trip,” he said, closing the door behind you, and there it was again—that voice. The same one from the desert, that low rasp that had narrated the quiet moments when he peered over your shoulder during the shoot, except now it was in a quiet apartment instead of an open highway, and the intimacy of this setting made it land completely different.

“Of course. It was a nice flight actually…” You told him, taking in the cozy setting. “I brought the full cut and the raw selects if you want to go through both…wasn’t sure how hands-on you wanted to be.” Harry laughed, eyes cutting to the floor, smiling to himself, and you had to look away so he couldn’t see the heat blooming in your cheeks as your pulse drummed at the base of your throat.

If he noticed, he didn’t react, because he continued on, leading you through to the dining room to a long oak table near the windows that overlooked a tree-lined street. NYC was beautiful in the mid-afternoon light, the way it cast in clean slats across the surfaces of Harry’s open loft. You wasted no time setting up your laptop, easily connecting the hard drive, while trying not to think about the fact that he pulled his chair close enough to yours that you could smell his shampoo when he leaned forward to watch the screen the second you hit play.

For a while, it was just work. And the work was good, genuinely good, easy as the two of you moved through the cut together. He had a sharp eye for detail, adding pacing comments that were better than those from most clients you worked with. He even pointed to a transition and said, “That’s too fast, let’s let it breathe, yeah?—like stay on the wide shot one more beat maybe… for the effect,” and he was right—every time. When the ice bath sequence came up, he laughed so hard he tipped his chair back, and you couldn’t help but laugh with him because the face he made when the cold hit was, objectively, the funniest thing you guys had captured that day.

“You know what I love about your footage?” he said, pausing the playback on a frame of himself mid-stride, the golden hour light spilling across the road behind him. “None of this feels directed. It feels like you just... caught it…”

“Well, that’s the idea,” you answered. “If it feels directed, I didn’t do my job.”

“No, but you did direct some of it. Like the ice bath, when you told me to grip the sides.”

“I told you to grip the sides to play into the sexy…remember we needed that aspect…strong hands and such…you know how your fans work by now, I’m sure. I did a little research beforehand, wanted to nail it.”

He grinned, that same easy grin from the desert, and turned back to the screen, pinching his bottom lip between his thumb and index finger. Through it all, though, he didn’t move his chair away, and after a while his knee was touching yours under the table, and you both let it stay there, comfortable as his shoulder fell against yours.

You paid it no mind and kept editing, or at least you tried. He was skilled at keeping the conversation going—asking about your process as he moved closer, his hand reaching over to pause the video and ask about the gear you used. He wanted your full attention, and when he asked where you had shot before this, he nudged your knee under the table, a subtle gesture saying, “I know we’re touching.”

Now, it was your turn not to react as you told him about the documentary work you did in Morocco, playfully nudging his knee back while describing the music video that got you noticed. As you continued telling your story, he listened intently, eyes trained with a focus that made you feel as if you were the one being filmed. Every so often, his eyes would drop to your moving mouth, and you’d hold your breath for a half-second too long, pretending you hadn’t noticed as he smoothed his heart-shaped lips together.

By the time you reached the final shot—the wide shot of him with his arms outstretched against the mountains, the sky burning pink and orange behind him—the sun outside the apartment windows had dipped low, casting warm, amber shadows through the large bay windows. That’s when you realized that somewhere in the last hour, the energy in the room had shifted from collaborative to something heavy, something burning through your body and rising to your cheeks as he bit his lip, eyes locked on yours, the room around you darkening with the setting sun.

He was watching you more than the screen now. You could feel it without turning your head. You could sense the weight of his attention, the way it pressed against the side of your face. When you hit play on the final frame, neither of you said anything for a long moment as the clip ended and the screen went dark, and a quiet settled over the apartment.

“You’re really good at this,” he finally said, his voice closer than you expected.

And when you turned, he was right there—chair angled toward you, elbow on the table, chin resting on his hand, studying you with that intentional gaze, green eyes inches away in the low golden light of his dining room.

“Thank you,” you told him, clearing your throat.

“I mean it. You see things that other people miss. The way you move around a set—it’s like you know exactly where to be before the moment happens. I was in awe the whole time.”

“Um… I don’t know. That’s directing, I guess, like learning to anticipate…”

“Must be a fun job,” he stated, and you watched the corner of his mouth pull up. “Getting to tell people what to do all day.”

That’s when something in his tone made your stomach tighten. Not with what he said, but how he said it. Like the sentence was the door opening up, and now, he was just waiting to see if you would walk through it.

The truth was, you had been careful this whole time. For three weeks, you had been sitting back, analyzing, not acting—reading his texts with one eye closed, refusing to let yourself project an idea that you couldn’t be sure of. Staying inside the lines. But fuck, here you were, and the room was warm, and his knee was still touching yours, and his eyes hadn’t left your face—and suddenly you were so tired of being the one who always had to keep the frame steady.

“Sometimes…” you whispered, looking him dead in the eyes, “I want to be the one being directed.”

And that was all he needed; the shift was quick—your words acting as the permission he needed to change the tide of this work-balance outcome. With a curious eye, you watched it move through him. Watching the enticing flicker of hope move behind his eyes, his jaw setting, something primal unlocking in his posture that made him seem bigger in the chair, more calculated, like every casual thing about the last hour had been a costume he would shed in the seconds to come.

For a long breath, you sat there in anticipation, wondering what the next move would be. He didn’t rush. That was the part that killed you. He only held your gaze, letting the silence do its work, letting the weight of what you had just divulged settle between you like a tight wire stretching taut. Then he stood, slowly, pushing the chair back as the sound scraped and echoed through the room, and he reached down to close your laptop.

“Stand up,” he said, voice dropping.

This wasn’t a request, and you stood, swallowing the giddy rush filling your chest as you sank your teeth into your bottom lip to suppress the smile.

He stepped closer, close enough that he had to tilt your chin up to hold your eye. His hand moved to your jaw, then slid to your chin, pressing his thumb and index finger into your skin to grip. Not rough or gentle, just certain, turning your face slightly, as if he were finding the angle, as if you were the subject now and he was the one behind the lens.

“Turn and face the table, ” He forced, making your breath catch, and you turned. The edge of the dining table pressed against your front as Harry moved behind you, and when he pushed his body into you, he slowly guided you forward with the press of his growing bulge to the curve of your ass.

For a second, you allowed the weight of your body to fall into his, let your eyes drift shut as his mouth moved to the shell of your ear, hands grazing down your arms with the tips of his fingers. “Maybe you can let me call the shots for a little while, sound good?”

As his warm breath hit your ear, you sucked in a sharp breath, silently nodding your head as Harry grabbed hold of your wrists, and he closed his body around you as he bent you forward. With the weight of his body, he forced your arms out in front of you, forcing you to catch yourself as you fell forward. He was rougher this time, his pelvis pressing harder into your ass. When your hands hit the table, your palms went flat, thudding into the cool oak surface.

“Tell me you want it,” he demanded, leaning up enough to run his hands over the curve of your waist. When his hands found your hips, he gripped hard, pulling your ass back fast to meet his erect cock. Then he pulled back and slammed into you hard, pressing until you were pinned, teasing you again as your gasp filled the lofty space.

“Please,” you pleaded, voice ragged, half-swallowed by the last of your nerves. “Harry, I want you to. Just—do whatever you want. I can take it.” But even as you said it, you knew how you sounded, every bit the director whose only directive left was surrender. You braced yourself on the table, nails pressing little indents into the wood, feeling the realness of the moment pulse between your thighs as the shift from concept to action crackled across your skin.

He didn’t answer right away. He let his hands do the talking first, moving with a new intent as they pressed into your hips, thumbs digging so hard you hoped they would bruise. The pain was welcome, and as he let the weight of his body fall against you, he reached around to the front of your pants and popped the button of your jeans open, while the other hand stayed at your hip, keeping you pressed to him.

He tugged the zipper down, and with one harsh motion, he dragged your jeans low, dragging your underwear along, too. The denim caught at your knees, then your ankles, rubbing rough against your skin and exposing you with a single, skilful yank. There was a brief pause where you felt the chill of the open air on the backs of your thighs, and then his hands were back—one splaying across your ass, the other threading into your hair at the nape of your neck, twisting just enough to make your scalp burn.

For a moment, he only touched you, the act rough enough to pinch at your nerves, yet gentle enough to tease. His fingers pressed into your flesh, mapping the soft curve from your hip to your thigh, while his hard-on branded your ass through the flimsy cotton of his sweatpants. You tried to push back, desperate for more, but he didn’t give you the satisfaction; instead, he restrained you with a single hand braced to the table. You could sense the roles switching with every breath, a role you had been dying to shed for a while, and the idea of that already had you so wet, so turned on that it scared you—because what were you even doing?

Then Harry’s hands were moving lower, dragging his palm down the backs of your thighs before kneeling abruptly behind you, and you held your breath, feeling all the blood in your body beat hot through your skin. Your heart was pounding, the pulse landing somewhere between your ears and your cunt. That’s when you felt him easing the denim and cotton from your ankles fully, hands sure, the metal button of your jeans clattering softly to the hardwood as he peeled them away. “Stay,” he said, and his voice was dark, but patient. “Don’t move.”

You didn’t dare move a muscle—you stayed, legs pressed closed, knees trembling, as the cold air hit the slick between your thighs. He gripped your right ankle, spreading you wider, then nudged the other aside. You heard more than saw him, heard the inhale of his breath as he crouched behind. He pressed his mouth to the inside of your knee, running his lips up your thigh as the faintest scrape of stubble tickled across your skin, as the pressure of his hands held you steady; it was vulgar how much you craved the next second, the next inch.

He worked his way up, kissing and licking the inside edge of your thigh, until his breath was so close you could feel it cooling the shine of anticipation slicking your skin. “Lie flat against the table for me,” he rasped. You did what you were told, leaning forward until your shoulders and chest hit the wood. Your cheek was squished to the surface, hair tangled, eyes half-closed, the edge of the table biting into your hip bones.

He kept you there, bent and split, spreading you with deft, confident hands, silently examining you. When you heard him exhale, a quiet note of approval, you were still holding your breath, waiting there with the heat of his mouth on your skin. Then there was no more hesitation—not even for another breath—before he was licking straight up the seam of your pussy, tongue wide and greedy, like this had been his mission all along, getting you just like this. You gasped, arching against the cold table, the sudden intensity rolling through your body in waves. All at once, he had you open and exposed, hands spreading your ass cheeks as he devoured you from behind, mouth filthy and ruthless, hungry, taking exactly what he wanted.

He worked you fast, tongue teasing your clit, then lapping back to fuck inside you, making a mess of you, dragging your hips back as if to keep you in place so he could get more. You felt his jaw working, the hard scratch of his stubble against your delicate skin, the wet sounds of him eating you out so loud in the cavernous room you almost couldn’t take it. He moaned into you, a vibration that traveled all the way up your spine and left your knees threatening to buckle.

He was desperate, not even letting up for air. He pressed his thumbs hard into the tops of your ass cheeks, spreading you wider, like a fucking book as his mouth got rougher, more possessive. Your vision blurred white, your hands gripping at the flat table for a tether, unsure whether to push away or pull him closer, no longer even trying to make sense of what surrender actually meant. You were already soaked, already pulsing, but he didn’t stop—not even when your hips started to shake, or when your breath hitched, your first orgasm threatening in your guts already.

He kept at you until you were bursting, until your legs gave out and your voice rose shrill and high—begging him not to stop, your own voice echoing back at you off the glass, off the exposed brick—the sound humiliating and revelatory at the same time. And maybe it was sick, but fuck it, you wanted it, was breaking for it even now as an orgasm began to rise.

Still, he didn’t stop. Not even when you told him you were coming. He just kept feasting, devouring, sucking, and lapping and grinding his mouth into you as tears spring to your eyes. When you came, you were loud enough to scare yourself, face smashed to the table, breath caught in your lungs. You tried to clamp your legs, but he kept you open, hands digging, tongue insistent, working you through every aftershock until you were sagging, your body useless, nearly slipping off the slick surface of the table.

That’s when he let you go, just for a second. You heard the scrape of the chair as it was ripped aside to open up space. His large palm was on your spine as he stood and pressed his thick cock against your ass, and when you forced your gaze over your shoulder, he shoved the front of his pants down. With one hand, he painted up the line of your thigh. With the other, he hauled you upright by the scruff of your t-shirt, then bent you again, forcing you to feel the heft of him rubbing gradual, menacing strokes between your cheeks as he pressed your body to the wood with his palm now flat at the center of your back.

You had never been so desperate, felt so empty, needy, aching to be filled. You reached blindly back for him, needing to touch. You heard him tsking his tongue, then pinned your wrist flat to the table as a warning rumbled through his throat, then he hooked his fingers around your jaw and tilted your head, so you had to look at him in the glass of the darkened window—the two of you staring at one another, the reflection a call out for every dirty thought you had collected since you met.

And now you knew, neither one of you was innocent.

“Is this how you want it?” he asked, and you could only nod, breathless. “You want me to fuck you right here in my dining room?”

“Yes—” and just as the words left your mouth, the answer was punched out of you by the blunt, onslaught force of his cock as he split you open without a single ounce of grace. It was another brutal feat—the way he shoved his dick all the way in, filling you with a thickness that made your muscles spasm with the effort of taking it. He yanked your hips back to impale you fully, the hand at your throat tightening just enough to let you know he owned you now, all of you. Every morsel of sting and stretch was his. Because suddenly your mind was mush, and that sudden savage drive was so intense you didn’t know if you were whining or howling or just sucking air through gritted teeth.

“Fuck, you’re taking me so well, love—was ready for me weren’t you? Got you nice and wet—tasted so fucking good,” he grunted, as the wet slap of flesh echoed in the room. His huge hands were greedy at your waist, dragging you into him with every brutal thrust, like making it hurt was the promise he had been working toward since the start. Each movement was punctuated, exact, the table shuddering beneath your ribs as he used it—and you—for leverage.

You braced your palms against the smooth surface as best as you could, splays of sweat blooming out under your hands as you tried, stupidly, to keep some sense of dignity while he fucked you into submission. But there was no use, because every time you thought you had gravity on your side, your hands would slide, and he would grip you hard to keep you right where he wanted you. Because he was taking you harder, deeper and deeper. Thrusting in and out of you until the thickness of him pressed right up against the delicate edge of bearable, and still he kept going, the rhythm so captivating it seemed to be fucking away everything smart or clever in your head until only the crude want of need was left.

“Like that,” you choked, and instantly his hand went to your hair, twisting and pulling, crushing you harder into the table as he leaned into your back, letting his weight press into you.

“This is what you wanted, right?” he whispered with a mean edge, and as you tried to mutter out the words yes, he tore his cock from inside you and gripped a handful of your shirt, and yanked you up like the dirty little rag doll you were becoming for him. “On your feet—want to turn you around. Want to see that pretty little face when you come for me again.”

And fuck, you could have come with just his words. It was all too much, the room spinning as he maneuvered your fucked out body, legs shaking as he turned you around, and hoisted you onto the table like you weighed nothing, like this was an everyday event—like your body didn’t feel like dead weight under his grasp. Through the haze of movement, you caught his eye, caught sight of his blown-out pupils. Caught the darkness raging within. He wasn’t scary; in fact, you trusted him, trusted that whatever was going to happen would be something that you both just needed to get out of your system.

Then his hand was reaching for the hem of your shirt, lifting it, and for a second, your mind was clear as he began to strip you bare in the open city dusk—the two of you working together with shaky hands to pull it over your head—your hands at work to unhook your bra as Harry tossed it aside. It was his turn next, your eyes raking over him half-crazed with need, and his shirt was off in seconds, leaving you both in a messy mix of breaths as Harry’s mouth went to your nipples—sucking and biting as your head fell back—his mouth giving each one the right amount of attention. The sensation was so good you almost found yourself on the edge of another orgasm.

But Harry must have sensed this, because then his head was pulling away, and his hands were on your hips again, ripping your body to the edge of the table in one swift motion, holding your gaze the entire time. For a long moment, Harry didn’t say a word, the two of you catching your breaths in the silence, smiling at one another in anticipation—a clever conversation had without even saying a word as you smoothed your fingers up the slit of your pussy to get ready for round two.

And maybe you imagined it, the growl you thought you heard as Harry grabbed hold of his cock and nudged your legs open hard. Then he shoved his cock inside again, not wavering, not asking, just sliding into you with a raw hunger that left you scrambling for a handhold on his arms. You didn’t just let him—you needed it, needed the burn, the force, the invasion. You locked eyes with him, and it leveled you, the way he looked at you, that intentional gaze, staring at you as if the rest of the city had fallen away and you were the last two people on earth. You felt yourself melting, your thighs shaking from the effort. You couldn’t hold his gaze and not shiver. It was like he was filming you, memorizing your face, capturing what he wanted for later.

But little did he know you were doing the same.

He thrusted in harder, and your body took it, each time your noises got louder, sounding not like yourself, but some version of you that didn’t have to be cool or careful. Because you were losing it, because it was only a handful of strokes and you were already close again, your body traitorous and greedy, and fucking desperate to milk his big wet cock.

So you clawed at his chest because you needed something to ruin, and he grabbed your wrists, pinning them above your head, holding you in place with just one hand. The other dug under your thigh, pushing your knees apart, lifting until he was splitting you at the exact angle that let him fucking hammer you. The soreness was sheer perfection, the friction rubbing you open, and every time you looked like you might break, he only said “good girl” and kept going, driving you insane.

You gasped, “Harry I—” and he cut you off by slamming deeper, jaw clenched so hard you could see the muscle pop at his temple. “Gonna make you come again,” he grunted, sweat slick along his collarbone, “but you gotta hold it—I want to come with you. Can you be a good girl for me?”

You nodded, delirious, thoughts splitting and blurring. He let go just long enough to palm your jaw and force your eyes to his. Fuck, you wanted to be ruined for him, wanted to be marked and remembered, even if this never happened again, even if you never saw him after the gig, you wanted this to be the part of you that stuck with him. The part he jerked off to in some hotel room and thought, “god, that editor was a fucking menace.” And it was that thought that had you soaked, and you felt a fresh wave drip around his cock as he started fucking you even harder.

It only took a few more strokes, and he gripped you closer, his voice a gravelly whisper in your ear, and he said, “That’s right, look at me, don’t stop, come for me—”

That was it, and you fucking shattered. Fracturing into a million nerve endings of pleasure bursting through your body, from the tips of your toes to the fucking crown of your head, you were a goner. But he didn’t last a second more. As soon as he saw your face twist, as soon as your pulse went insane, he let out a low, desperate sound and buried himself as deep as he could, eyes locked on yours like the act would sear the memory in, brand it into both your brains forever.

You felt him jerk, every vein and tremor pulsing, and then he exploded inside you, thrusting deep, pinning your wrists so hard you thought your bones would splinter. Then there was a flash of surrender in his face—almost tender, almost boyish, nothing like the savage control that preceded it—and you realized you had never had someone look at you like this, like you were the only evidence left of something holy, like maybe he too was savoring every second of you.

And maybe he was, because he didn’t pull out, not for a long, lingering second. Not until your bodies had both stopped shaking and the only sound left was your combined breaths, heavy and close, the city buzzing outside while you drifted back down to earth.

Eventually, you felt him soften, the afterglow making your skin hum, sweat sticking the two of you together. He shifted, hands loosening their grip. You wrapped your arms around him, taking him in a delicate embrace, and when you felt his hands wrap around you, you let your body relax into him. Before long, you were laughing into the sticky, salty crook of his shoulder. He smiled and nuzzled you, his lips at your ear, his chest still expanding and contracting, rising and falling against yours in perfect sync.

When he finally pulled back, it was only far enough to see your face. His thumb brushed under your eye, catching something—sweat, maybe a tear you hadn’t noticed—and his expression shifted. The edge was gone. That commanding bite, the jaw-clenched control—all of it was fading into something real again, quieter, almost shy, and that seemed to hurt you more than any of the roughness that had just happened.

“So…” you breathed, voice raw, “you’re a pretty good director.”

He let out a soft laugh, his forehead dropping to yours. “I picked up some tips from the best. She’s very talented… I imagine she’s a little bossy, though.”

“Shut up.”

“See? Bossy.” He chuckled, pressing a kiss to your forehead.

When you laughed, his mouth moved to yours, and he caught it, pressing his mouth to yours mid-sound, and everything seemed to stop, seemed to slow down, and narrow to just this—to the press of his warm mouth to yours, his lips moving in a tender rhythm that was quickly stealing your thoughts again.

It was the first time he kissed you. After everything, after all of it, this was the first time his lips actually met yours with intention, and it wasn’t fast or hungry or desperate. It was slow. So slow it made your chest ache. His hand slid from your jaw to the side of your neck, his thumb resting in the hollow beneath your ear, and he kissed you like he had nowhere else to be, like the city outside could keep going without him.

Your body melted into the kiss, your fingers loosening their grip on his shoulders, softening against his skin. His other hand found the small of your back, resting warm and steady, and he pulled you closer. The touch was gentle this time, not with a speck of urgency, just gravity working with his tender embrace, pressing your body to his, as if he wanted to eliminate every remaining inch between you.

When he pulled away, he didn’t go far. His nose brushed yours, lips still close enough that you could feel the rise of his next breath. His eyes were wide, searching yours with a curious, unguarded gaze, reminiscent—like the man you captured in the desert, in those quiet moments when he was alone with his thoughts—the one who existed in the apertures of light only you got to see.

“I would say that was the director’s cut…” he murmured against your mouth as a smile rose.

“Better than the original?” You asked, pushing a kiss into the corner of his mouth.

“Mm… I’d say we’re not even close to being done with the edit… I think my directing skills could use some perfecting… Maybe you could teach me a few things. I can be a good listener, they say.” Then his thumb traced the line of your jaw, slow, tantalizing you, and you let him—let him tease the curve of your lower lip with the tip of his finger. Let him take his time, the way you had done with your camera when he wasn’t watching. Except now he was watching, and you were letting him, and neither of you was pretending otherwise.

The apartment had gone dark around you, the last of the daylight now just a thin glow along the edges of the windows. Below, a car horn sounded and echoed up, then faded to distant chatter as you stared up at him. His fingers moved through your hair, tucking it behind your ear, the gesture small and ordinary, but you found yourself wanting more than anything else, like what you started here wasn’t finished just yet—

“Hey,” he said quietly. “What are you doing for the rest of the weekend?”

And as he smiled down at you, a playful smile turned up the corner of his mouth, and all you could do was stare at him as you processed the question. Because here was Harry Styles standing in the last light of the sun in his dining room, bare before you, asking you to stay, and for the first time in three weeks, you didn’t need to read between the lines.

“Nothing,” you told him. “I’m not doing anything.”

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