Me seeing a bunch of people saying Sinners doesn't deserve the large amount of Oscar Nominations it has because it's apparently “Mid” or “Not good” or they haven't heard of it despite the crazy marketing:
Edit: Reblogs are turned off now because a bunch of butthurt people felt called out and felt the need to reblog stupid shit while engagement farming off of MY post.
Because they think the post is saying “If you don’t like this movie you’re racist.” Even though people who can actually fucking read know that’s not what the post says.
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an. literally took me forever to make this just for it to just be 2k words lolll... well this was originally supposed to be a Drabble but uh.. yeah
cw. modern au! southern! reader and smoke, chubby! reader, reader and smoke are married, okay onto the smut stuff.... I got a little freaky y'all. Im exploring. daddy kink, smoke lowkey has a foot fetish, but it's really not much, like a little toe sucking and it's at the end, oral: male receiving, it was my first time writing this so uh hope it's not bad, pinv, unprotected sex, but like they're married so it don't matter, squirting, but again very minor, creampie, not proofread or anything so if there are mistakes... no there isn't. also reader and smoke are switches... I think smoke has a sub side idk fight me about it, jk don't fight me im not bout that life.
Elijah “Smoke” Moore was a man of his word. Anything he promised to you, he would bend over backwards to make sure you got it. Years ago, when the two of you first met, he promised you that one day you’d be his wife. You laughed, but he was serious. No smile in sight even as you giggled and drawled a “Boy, you stupid,” You had only had one, singular conversation. How could he make a promise like that? Only three years later, he got down on one knee and proposed and well… he followed through with his promise. The day of your wedding, during the exchanging of vows, he promised to love you unconditionally, to only be yours and to give you everything your heart desired. He followed through with those promises as well. So now, with six years of marriage under your belt. You asked for a date night because you missed your husband. You knew if he made a promise and he’d keep it.
“I’ll hit the farm real early for you, Baby. That way you’ll have me all night,” He said. All serious and sturdy, like his words were made of stone. Solid and Immovable. You had looked up at him wrapping your arms around his waist.
“And we’ll have a date night here. I’ll make a nice dinner,” You reply, like it’s law. He nods with an affirmative hum. Then, you hit him with the question. The one that makes him buckle down on any task you give him. “You promise?”
“Do I look like some shady ass nigga?” He questions back. You purse your lips and tilt your head to the side. Not having to say anything for your expression does it for you. He sighs before kissing your temple. “I promise, baby,” He says, his tone a little softer. You grin ear to ear, grabbing him and kissing all over his face.
The next day, Smoke is up before the sun is. Making sure the animals are fed and taken care of and doing any work that needs to be done. Quick and efficient. By early evening, everything is done. He comes inside, sweaty, covered in mud and yet still full of energy saved just for you.
“Would’ve been done had them chickens not dug they way out the coop,” He huffs, wiping sweat off of his brow. You giggle from the kitchen.
“Them damn chickens,” You reply, busy trying to finish dinner. A small smirk tugs at the corner of his mouth.
“Them damn chickens,” He repeats back with a huff of laughter. You can hear heavy steps coming towards the kitchen.
“I know you didn’t wear them dirty ass boots in my house, Elijah?” You question, though it sounds more like a statement.
“No, Ma’am. I took them off on the porch,” He says, like he knows better. He stands in the doorway, his eyes scanning your frame from head to toe. Your boho knotless braids long enough that the ends brush against your lower back, you’re wearing one of his favorite dresses. A creamy tan, flowy, yet it still hugs your waist and wide hips. Your breasts sit heavy, fabric practically straining to stretch and contain such an abundant bosom. You wear a surplus of jewelry, all gold, crystals and beads. They compliment the radiance of your brown skin. Sometimes, Smoke just likes to look at you in all your glory. Completely blown away by your effortless beauty. As if feeling his stare, you turn around and smile.
“Can I help you, Mister?” You inquire, country twang heavy on your tongue. A smile tugs at the corner of his lips. You grin and place a hand on your hip.
“You just real pretty,” He says, slow and easy like he has all the time in the world. You hum, an appreciative sound and he knows you're flattered by the dimples in your cheeks as you fight the huge smile that wants to take over your face. He shifts from foot to foot before speaking again. “Imma shower. Get ready ready for dinner,” He announces, you hum again this time slightly distractedly, focused on finishing dinner. You hear him head up the stairs then a few minutes later, the shower running. About an hour passes, you’ve finished setting the table. Smoke comes down the stairs, the wood creaking ever so quietly, worn from the routine of going up and down them for quite some time. You turn once you hear him enter the kitchen. There he stands, tall, strong, and effortlessly handsome. You smile at his attire, a crisp white t-shirt practically painted onto sculpted muscle, his nicest pair of jeans that hug his thighs a little, looking all fresh and relaxed after his shower. Smelling like soap, steam, and your favorite cologne of his.
“Hi, baby,” You practically purr. He smirks. Something subtle but definitely there.
“Hey, ma,” Opening up his arms, you don’t hesitate to walk right into them. His embrace is warm, tender, and secure. You sigh softly, having really missed your husband. Sometimes with him tending to the farm he gets lost in the work. Only coming inside once he’s absolutely sure everything is going as it should. Late nights when you're fast asleep and he climbs in then, the very bright morning after he’s out again. So, this hug feels so special when he hasn’t had the time to. He feels it, which is why he murmurs a soft yet gruff “I know, baby,” and kisses the top of your head. After a few moments, you pull away to look at him again.
“You look real nice,” You giggle, smoothing a hand down the front of his shirt. His smirk widens at that before a heavy hand swiftly makes contact with your ass with a resounding smack. You yelp, a stinging sensation left behind from the slap.
“Cut it out, girl. You know I’m easy,” He chuckles, pulling away to have a seat at the table.
“Like Sunday morning,” You hum, taking your own seat. He shakes his head though he knows it’s true.
Dinner is easy. Smooth conversation and playful banter is shared between bites. It’s good, it’s everything you’ve missed so much. It’s everything he promised it would be. After dinner, dishes are washed together with soft neo soul playing in the background and it’s how you end up dancing together in the kitchen. His hands on your hips, occasionally squeezing as if worried you’ll slip out of his grasp. Your arms looped around his neck, bodies pressed together like there is no tomorrow. He sways you gently to the slow rhythm of the music, your eyes closed and your cheek pressed against his chest. You hum softly along with the song.
“Thanks for tonight. I really appreciate you going out your way for this,” You say softly, craning your head up to look at him. His eyebrows furrow slightly, as if mildly offended.
“Why you always thanking me for the bare minimum? Make me feel like I’m not shit or sum,” He grumbles. You laugh, full and warm, and oh so genuine. It makes him soften a little bit. He loves your laugh. He loves you. “I’m serious, woman. I promised you, didn’t I? So, I got it done,” He says it like it’s the most juvenile idea to practice. You only smile wider.
“Elijah, you’ve been keeping your promises since I met you. I’m allowed to be grateful,” You chuckle. He kisses his teeth before tilting your head up by tapping your chin lightly. His lips press firm against yours. The kiss, smooth and sure. It almost deepens but he pulls away before it can. He’s such a tease.
“You my ole lady, my wife. That’s how this shit supposed to go,” He mutters, capturing your lips again in another teasing kiss that only leaves you aching for more. A familiar warmth building in your lower tummy. It only makes you wonder. When was the last time you had sex with your husband? You can’t quite remember. Then, it’s definitely been too long. You hum, Your eyes going lidded and glossing over subtly. He notices the shift when he pulls back just enough to look you in the eyes again. And you're giving him that look, the one he can’t resist. Undeniably seductive and persuasive without you having to say anything at all. It has him chubbing up so fast, it should be embarrassing. He feels no shame though. “Supposed to take care of you… anyway I can,” He murmurs, so close his lips brush against yours with every word he forms. As if perfectly queued up, the slow groove of Brown Skin by India.Arie starts to fill the air. The tension only thickens, that magnetic pull growing stronger, and arousal spikes between the two of you. Then before you can blink his lips are on yours for the third time. No longer teasing, instead full of deep hunger. Your hands slide under his shirt, feeling smooth skin and the ridges of his abs. His lips part in a huff and you steal the chance to glide your tongue into his mouth. He grunts quietly, suckling on the soft wet muscle. You whimper into the kiss, licking deeper into his mouth. You both part with a wet smack, already plump lips starting to swell even more. He quickly tugs his shirt off and your back on him. You kiss up his jawline, a hand wrapping around his throat to keep him in place as you lick and nip at the shell of his ear. You feel his Adam’s Apple bob against your palm, swallowing down the pathetic sound that wants to escape him. You grin, playful, conniving.
“You like that, daddy?” You purr, his knees almost buckle from the tone of your voice alone. Dick twitching in his now painfully tight jeans. You giggle at his reaction.
“Don’t do me like that, mama,” He groans, his hands snaking down to grip the plumpness of your ass. Then, he give your left cheek a firm slap. You gasp, and his hands slide back up to the straps of your dress. He tugs them down, taking his time getting the fabric off of you. Your lips find his neck slowly kissing lower and lower as he gets you out of the dress. You have half a mind to kick the fabric away once it pools at your ankles. You kiss your way down his abs maintaining eye contact during your descent. He stares back, his plush bottom lip tucked between his teeth. He watches as you slowly undo his jeans, tugging them down just enough that his black Calvin Klein’s are the only barrier between you and the stiff thickness that awaits you. Your tongue drags up his bulge, he tosses his head back and whines. He can’t stop the sound you pull out of him so easily. He twitches against your warm wet tongue and you decide to stop teasing him. You tug his boxers down until eight and a half inches of girthy length bobs just millimeters away from your mouth. Your mouth waters, at the sight of it. Toasted mauve colored tip leaking translucent pearly white precum, dark chocolate brown shaft decorated with thick veins. You wrap a hand around the base of him, he’s heavy and warm in your grip. You place wet open-mouthed kisses from his crown all the way down to his base before flattening your tongue and dragging your way back to his tip to pop him into your mouth. He hisses, quads slightly flexing, face scrunched like he’s in pain. You smile smugly as you pull back.
“I barely started, Daddy,” You whisper, he kisses his teeth and runs his hands through your braids before gripping them tightly to tug your head back. Even the inherently rough action is so very gentle in your husband's hands. A giggle bubbles up that you have to swallow down.
“It’s been a minute,” He huffs, though you know him like the back of your hand. He’s always like this. Soon enough he guides himself back into your mouth, you take him with ease. Gentle suction and wet bobs of your head enough to make his toes curl as he grunts and groans with pleasure. Watching his fall apart has you soaking your panties with arousal. You keep a steady rhythm until his legs slightly tremble and he tugs at your hair. You pull off with a pop. His chest heaves with heavy breaths. “Almost nutted,” He chuckles breathlessly, you giggle softly before kissing your way back up his body and standing to your feet. He pulls you into what feels like the nth kiss, though you could never get sick of it. His hands grab your waist, squeezing the soft fat there. It doesn’t take long for you both to end up in the bedroom.
He has you on your back, your undergarments long gone. Neither of you talk, too wrapped up in pleasure to even speak. Your moans have been trapped in the back of your throat. His dick so deep, it feels as if he’s rearranging your guts. Your legs are bracketed over his shoulders, his body folded over yours only practically folding you in half. His thrusts are deep and slow, his hips roll and undulate in the most mind melting rhythm, his tip dragging against that spongey spot inside of you with every long stroke. Your nails scratch at his back, eyes rolling back from pleasure. Elijah never looks away from you though, his eyes watching your every reaction. For a moment, he even forgets his own pleasure. Too amazed by your expressions. He keeps methodically working you up and up, slowly working you to your peak. All until, “Daddy,” You whine, breaking the silence and you clench around him. He shudders before pulling back finally seeing the creamy mess you’ve made and his cock. He moans before rubbing his thumb through the sticky slickness then rubbing your swollen clit while his free hand grabs your ankle. He kisses from the inside of your ankle up to the sole of your foot. You gasp. Your toes curl from the slightly ticklish sensation and the pleasure of him working your pussy.
“Come on, baby… cum on daddy’s dick,” He mumbles, he sucks on her big toe and his thrusts speed up. You clench hard around him, your back arching, feeling that coil tighten in your lower belly. You shy away from it scooting back slightly but he only tugs you right back where he wants you. “Nuh uh, you gone cum on this dick. I wasn’t asking,” He demands. Your legs tremble and his thumb only circles your clit faster.
“Ouuu, daddy,” You moan, and he nods.
“Yeah, I know, baby,” He coos back, and you flutter around him before your big crescendo. You hit your peak like waves crashing against rocks. “Oh fuck, You squirtin’ for me?” He questions between moans as your walls hug and milk him like no tomorrow. It’s enough to have him following right after you. His dick twitching and throbbing as he fills you with his hot sticky seed. He makes a sound, something between a groan and a whine, then collapses on top of you. You both lay together in silence for a few moments. It’s comfortable, and though quiet fills the room the love between you two is still loud and fierce. The silence is broken by him. He lifts his head and kisses your forehead. “You okay?” He asks, you nod.
“I’m a little more than okay,” You sigh out, content and satisfied. “I probably should clean up. I forgot to finish putting away those left overs,” You mutter, he presses and kisses your lips before carefully pulling out.
“Don’t worry about it. I’ll run a bath and take care of it,” He replies, not even having to think about it. You smile fixing your mouth to say thank you and he stops you before your lips even part. “Bare minimum, woman,” He says, flatly. And though you disagree, you don’t argue.
“Okay, Elijah,” you chuckle softly.
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╰┈➤ "what?" smoke called out to you as he turned around. "you heard me" you tried your best not to seem intimidated by his sudden drop of tone as you stood in the middle of the room with your arm folded over your plump chest. "mama, don't start wit me" he replied chuckling as he walked passed you to the bedroom door, walking out and heading towards the bathroom. "i'm tired, okay? nigga been at work at since 6 this morning i don't have time to fight with you right now" he sighed.
"this the shit i be talking about" you "sneered" as you followed him into the bathroom. "what "shit" baby? i swear you always trying to argue cause you bored as fuck in this house, go get a hobby or sum" he huffed. "YOU! you're always walking away from everything like why can't you just handle the problem at hand?" you snapped, almost laughing as he looked at you like you were crazy.
" i know good in well you ain't just yell at me y/n....you getting beside yourself" he pointed a finger at you with a bitter chuckle. "i've always been like this babes, you just late to the party" you rolled your eyes.
he continued to stare at you as you can visibly see his patience for you is wearing thin as time passes. your words are finally breaking him and it's quite exciting as you felt moisture start to form downwards. you tried crossing your legs subtly but smoke caught onto it quick as he smirked before turning towards the shower and twisting the nob.
he did everything so silently after that and it honestly made you even more wet with a bit of nervousness as well. every time he does quiet like this, you know your legs aren't gonna be usable.
"you know what," he finally announced after the deadly silence. "i got something for you" he simply stated with no further explanation. you gulped as you built up the courage to point at him some more. "well, it's the least you can with that LITTLE dick of yours" you made sure to empathize the one word that would get him irritated.
your heart began to speed up as you anticipated for his reaction. smoke stopped what he was doing and turned towards you with furrowed eyebrows. "matter fact, stay in here and take off them clothes" he sternly asked as his jaw clenched.
you stood there stuck for a moment not knowing if you should listen to him or keep playing the game that you started. to be honest you were terrified for what treatment you're about to receive from your "attitude" towards him. "did you not hear what i just said woman? am i muted? are you deaf?" he questioned as he marched up towards you. "n-no" you shamelessly stuttered.
"then get yo ass out of them clothes and get in the shower wit me, aight?" he stared deep in your soul before huffing, turning around and started to take his clothes off one by one. you nervously shook as you reached for your top and slowly lifted it off your body.
soon, your bra was next, then your shorts, then your underwear went you were hesitant to take off due to your wetness making itself known as the slimy substance clung onto the fabric and your perfectly shaved pussy.
you subconsciously crossed your arms over your body as you watched him get into the shower. his manly back muscles were making themselves known. you took a deep breath before getting in after him. he didn't say anything to you as he used the body wash and loofa to clean his body.
you grabbed your own loofa and started to shower as well. a few minutes passed by and you were still nervous. him standing here with his back turned towards you under the shower as the water dripped down from his hair down to his brown skin.
he soon turned towards you, grabbed ahold of your waist with force as you slightly yelped in shock from the sudden aggression. "babe, my hair will get wet" you silently told him. "you think i care?" he rebutted, trailing his hands down from your waist to your hips before stopping at your ass to give you a harsh slap and soon turned you around forcefully.
you held onto the wall for support, you figured he wanted to fuck you in a certain position so you intentionally backed your ass up on him. "look at you, waiting to be fucked like the ho you is" he slapped your ass again watching as it jiggled from the force causing you to moan at the feeling. you can feel your slick trickle down your thighs.
"elijah, baby put it in" you whined backing your ass up on him again. "stop" he held onto your hips, forcing an arch in your back. "wasn't you just mad at me? huh? now you want this dick?" he grabbed his dick and slowly rubbed the tip up and down between your folds.
you moaned quite loudly as he dipped it into your hole a bit. his other hand kept an iron grip on your hip as he continued his torture. his dick getting wetter and wetter from your slick coating it. "wasn't you just saying how small my dick and now you aching for it?" he said in disbelief.
"i-i was joking baby please put it in, i need you" you cried out. "oh you was joking? yea let's see if it's a joke now" he remarked, plunging his dick into your hole using the hand that once held it towards your neck and began thrusting at a fast pace. your body jolted at each thrust. your eyes rolled to the back of your head as you moaned out his name.
"elijah~ you feel so good daddy" you whimpered as tried to keep your balance from his harsh thrusts. "yeah? i thought my dick was small though, you sure is taking it like a good ass slut" he grunted watching his dick disappear in and out of your hole. you bit your lip, pushing your ass onto him to meet his thrusts. soon your stomach began to tighten as you felt like you were about to cum.
"i-im about t-to cum~" you whimpered out. "yeah? do it slut" he slapped your ass and held tighter on your neck as tears began to pour down your cheeks from the overwhelming feeling. with a few more of his thrust you're fluids soon coated his dick as he continued to thrust into you making the substance form a ring around his veiny dick.
he pulled out just as he was about to cum as well. you tried catching your breath from the intense act that was taking place. "nah, we ain't done yet....get on them knees" he ordered. you weakly got onto your knees infront of him. "go ahead and suck it" you stared up at him before using both your hands to grab his dick.
you gave kitty licks to the tip before twirling your tongue around the slit, tasting his pre cum. he moaned as you finally placed his dick into your mouth. the warmth of you mouth caused him to roll his head back as he grabbed ahold of the back of your neck.
you bobbed your head up and down whilst using your hands to stroke the rest of his inches that didn't fit in your mouth. "fuck, keep sucking it like that" he moaned biting his lip. you looked at him through hooded eyes as you hallowed your cheeks and attempting to deep throat him.
he placed his hand that wasn't behind your neck onto ye wall to balance him as he felt light headed from the pleasure he was receiving. "i fucking love you, girl" you rolled his head back down to look at you. you fluttered your eyelashes as your slob coated his dick causing it to drip down your chin and his shaft. "you love me?" he questioned, his grip on your next tightening. you hummed.
"i want a verbal answer" he pulled you off. "yes, baby i love you so fucking much, you fuck me so good" you whined out as he only smirked before forcing you back onto his dick, throat fucking you. "that's what i like to hear" he grunted. you can feel his dick soon swelling up as his abused your throat. "shit, im boutta cum" he sped up his pace as your eyes squeezed shut as tears began to trickle down your face. your hands held onto his thighs for support.
a few more throats and his cum was soon shooting down your esophagus. the warm substance filled your mouth as you tried your best to swallow all of it. half it dripping down the sides of your mouth and onto the showers floor.
smoke chest heaved up and down heavily as he tried catching his breath. you pulled away from his dick and wiped your mouth before standing up with your weakened legs as if they weren't already weak from the last sex session.
"come here" he softly spoked. you leaned towards him as he gripped your chin and kissed you sloppily, adding tongue to taste you. you moaned into his mouth wrapping your arms around his neck, pulling him closer.
smoke was the first to pull back as long strip of saliva connected between you two began to thin the more he backed up. "let's get cleaned up, yeah?" he asked as he grabbed his loaf again. you only nodded unable to speak, too scared that your voice would be gone.
after taking your second bath, you both laid down in bed with smoke massaging your feet as you two watched tv. "so, what was all that attitude about huh? you just wanted some dick or?" he broker the relaxing silence. "no, babe it was supposed to be a prank that i decided to play on you" you tried to laugh but your throat hurting wouldn't let you. now it was time for smoke to laugh.
"see? that's what you get for playing with me mama" he laughed as you squinted your eyes at him. "it's not funny, nobody told you to literally abuse my throat" you rolled your eyes. "man, you had it coming you know you liked it" he scoffed.
"so what if i didn't? what you gon do" you pushed your finger into the side of his temple. he only shook his head. "you know, you just can't stop huh? you like to get ruined" he smiled. his gold grills making themselves known. "yea but seeing you angry gets my wet so i can get whatever i want from you" you smugly replied.
“yea, you and my momma the only women i'll ever let get on my nerves" he stated. "yea, we better the only ones until we get a little me running around here" you smiled sweetly before kissing his lips slowly but passionately, biting his bottom lip.
"ouuuu girl what you tryna get into" he joked as he grabbed your waist, wrapping his arms sound around it before placing his head into your neck and started kissing your neck. you giggled as you tried pushing him off of you you wrapped your leg around his hip as you enjoyed the affection.
Summary: It all started that hot-ass Mississippi afternoon you walked into Bo Chow’s grocery shop.
Pairing: Elijah “Smoke” Moore x Black f!reader
Warnings: smutty smut, explicit language, breeding kink, creampie, use of the n-word, praise, biting
Word count: 2.3k
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The day had baked the road until it shimmered, but by sundown the heat had softened to something bearable. The stalls at Bo Chow's market were half empty now, with the fish smell dissipating and the last peaches wrapped in paper that had once been brown.
You were helping Grace stack crates when Smoke came to return a shovel he had borrowed. The man was the same color as the earth he worked, shoulders broad, hands still dusted with clay. He nodded to Bo and said little, the way men do when they spend most of their words on the wind.
Bo chuckled. “This one don’t talk much, miss. But he’ll haul a wagon in the rain without complaint.”
Smoke chuckled quietly. “Rain don’t bother me much.”
That was how it started: small errands, shared silence, and the smell of tobacco curling between you like a promise.
A couple of months down the line, you were sitting on his porch after dinner, in the dark and warm air, thick with honeysuckle and smoke. He'd taken off his boots, feet resting on the railing, and his button-up shirt was half undone from a long day's work. You could still see the dirt at the cuffs of his sleeves and the muscles in his forearms as he rolled a cigarette.
"Bo said you were askin' about me," he drawled without looking over.
"Maybe I was."
"What for?"
"I like the way you work so hard, and you look mighty fine doin’ it."
He laughed then, a low rumble that curled across to you and settled somewhere deep in your chest.
"You flirtin' with a nigga?"
"I have been this whole damn month, but I guess you don't catch on to subtlety."
The cicadas filled the pause, and he took a slow drag off the cigarette, finally meeting your eyes through the smoke.
"You keep talkin' like that," he said quietly, "AndI ’m 'gon forget how to be polite."
“I ain’t askin’ for polite, Smoke. I just need twenty minutes of uninterrupted fuckin’.”
“Well, shit,” he stood and ashed his cigar. “Let’s go then.”
Little did you know, those twenty minutes weren’t going to be nowhere near enough for you.
So, a lot could definitely change in a year.
Smoke’s wagon was parked behind your place most evenings now, tools stacked neatly, shirt hung over the railing. Folks in town stopped asking whether or not he was coming by. Now they just nod whenever they see the two of you together.
You were in the front yard shelling peas when he came up from the road, sweat darkening his undershirt, tobacco smoke trailing behind him. He didn’t speak right away; he just tipped his hat, his eyes soft the way they got when he’d been gone too long.
“You eat yet?” he asked.
“Been waitin’ on you,” you replied.
He grinned, settling beside you, taking over half the bowl of peas without being asked. His knees bumped yours as you both shared a comfortable silence.
“Stack say you got me spoiled,” he muttered after a while.
“He jealous or complainin’?”
“Both.”
You laughed, and that’s all it took for the air to thicken. The kind of laugh that turned into a hum when he brushed your wrist, the kind that said we been doin’ this long enough to know where it’s headed.
He leaned back on his hands, watching you. He’s been watching you a lot more lately. You knew by now to wait for him to initiate the conversation, but you were getting kind of antsy.
Finally, he asked, “You ever think we done tied ourselves too tight?”
“If we have,” you said, “I don’t hear either of us hollerin’ to be free.”
You had a feeling that wasn’t all on his mind. Maybe he’d just come out with it after a nice meal.
Your plates were nearly empty now; the oil lamp threw soft light across the table. Smoke went quiet again, spoon idle in his hand. It wasn’t the tired kind of quiet; it was the kind that carried a question he’s nervous to ask.
You glanced up, anxiety getting the best of you. “Why you keep starin’ at me like that?”
He looked down once, then met your eyes. “Ain’t nothin’, Y/N. Just thinkin’.”
“You been ‘just thinkin’’ all week, Smoke.”
The screen door rattled in the wind. He set his spoon aside and folded his hands on the table. “Guess I been watchin’ you and…wonderin’ what comes next,” he says slowly. “A man works, eats, sleeps. But I look at you, and I start picturin’ more than that. Somethin’ that’s ours.”
You study him, the flicker of the lamp painting his features in gold and shadow. “That what’s been eatin’ at you?”
He nodded slowly, reaching one hand across the table and placing it firmly on your stomach. That’s when it finally hit you. That is what he’d been thinking all this week while staring a hole through your head.
“Elijah Moore,” Your smile appeared slowly. “You tryin’ to tell me you want to fill me up with your all your babies?”
The look he gave you was something so sharp and dark you didn’t know if you should be a little scared or excited.
He nodded, a rough thumb tracing the grain of the table. “I ain’t talkin’ outta pride, I swear. I just—every time I see you laugh, I think about how the world oughta keep that sound somehow. Maybe through me. Maybe through you.”
The words hung there, heavier than the August air. You placed your hands on top of his on your belly; it was still warm from the day’s work.
“You always think too far ahead,” you teased, but your voice was softer than the joke deserved.
“Ain’t some things worth plannin’ for?” he murmured. “Like our legacy.”
“You mean lineage?” you quipped.
“Well, yeah, but legacy too. The Moores will make our name in the world. Believe ‘dat.”
Outside, the crickets started their night song. He squeezed your hand once, slow and certain, the way a man seals a promise without needing to say more.
You smirked, and before you could think more on it, you blurted. “Want to start practicin’ tonight?”
His brown eyes widened in surprise. “Huh?”
You rolled your eyes and giggled, “You heard me, nigga. You want to put a baby in me tonight or you too tired from workin’ all day?”
He couldn't suppress a grin. “I ain’t never too tired to fill you up.”
You stood, his hand dropping back onto the table. “Well, let’s go then.”
He didn't respond. He just watched your retreating back. Thoughts racing a mile a minute.
Eventually, he slowly rose to his feet, trying to act calm, cool, and collected, but you knew he was a jumble of anxiousness and excitement…and honestly, so were you.
You glanced over your shoulder at him, raising an eyebrow in challenge.
Apparently one heated look from you was enough for his restraint to snap. In two long strides he was in front of you, scooping you up in his arms without a warning and stomping towards the bedroom.
“Wait!” You squeaked, smacking his shoulder. “Elijah!”
He put you down gently after stepping into the room. You made quick work of removing your dress and undergarments. He kicked his shoes off while taking his clothes off. The fading light from the oil lamp on the dresser cast both your eager shadows on the wall.
He laid you down on the bed gently before joining you, cursing softly, hypnotized by the delectable folds before him, wet and juicy and all just for him. He spread his calloused hands across your inner thighs, a stark contrast with your soft skin.
He bent over until his face was right above your spread thighs, inhaling your scent. “Tonight’s all about you,” he said softly, placing his hand over your pubic bone, your soft dewy curls teasing his palm as his thumb taps rhythmically over your clit. “I need you as relaxed as possible so it’ll take.”
He was always careful with you, but tonight you could feel his deliberateness with every glance, touch, and grip.
He flattened his tongue against you, lapping up her slick. You whined as he flicked his tongue over your bundle of nerves.
“Mmm,” he hummed against you. “You probably ‘gon taste even better once you’re pregnant with my baby.”
You moaned loudly as he continued teasing your lips with strong licks, jerking beneath him as he confidently closed his lips around your clit.
It didn’t take long for you to come. His tongue was too good. Still, his head stayed buried between your thighs, and his lips were still locked around your clit.
“Elijah, pleaseeee.” You whined, not sure if you were begging him to stop or keep going.
Smoke kissed your sensitive clit one last time before trailing his tongue back up your stomach, stopping at your breasts, sucking on your dark nipples before continuing his ascent of tender kisses up your body, stopping just under your ear. He nipped at your neck, causing you to gasp his name. "Elijah!”
He chuckled softly before pressing his mouth onto yours. “You make a nigga crazy with them pretty ass noises, you know that?”
"Please fuck me." You managed to whisper against his lips.
He pressed one final kiss on your lips before lining the cock of his erection up with your entrance. He glanced down into your eyes, lifting his eyebrow in question. "You ready for me?"
You nodded vigorously, wanting nothing more than to feel him inside of you.
He pushed inside you, groaning as he sank all the way inside of you and bottomed out. "Shit—always so fuckin’ tight."
Smoke rocked into you with deep, slow strokes, waiting patiently for your walls to stretch just a little more around his girth. All you could do was moan. He always felt good, but tonight was different. The air felt charged as if it knew the two of you were in the process of creating something.
You grabbed his face, pulling him down closer into a heated kiss, your fingers messing with his curls at the nape of his neck as he slipped his tongue past your lips and into your mouth.
“Please fuck me harder.” You gasped against his lips. “And don’t stop until you put a baby in me.”
He paused, inhaling sharply, brown eyes damn near black with lust. He pulled all the way out of you before slamming his full length back inside of you, damn near knocking the wind out of you.
“Ohh fuck!” you yelped, eyes fluttering closed as he set a relentless pace, drawing all kinds of obscene noises from you.
“Uh-uh, open them pretty eyes while I’m deep in this pussy.” He panted, thick fingers gripping your chin.
Your eyes shot open, locking onto his lust-filled ones, holding on to his shoulders as he slammed you into oblivion. He threw one of your legs over his shoulder, the new angle causing him to hit that sweet spot that resided deep inside of you.
He grunted as you tightened around him. “I’m ’bout to make you a Mama. You ready for that?”
The way he said it made your head spin and thighs shake. “Fuuuck, I’m cumming!”
“Hmph. I'll take that as a yes then.” He groaned deeply, “Give me all of that shit.”
Your orgasm ripped through you, and you hollered so loudly that Fantasia and Jennifer Hudson would be so proud of you.
He kissed the side of your leg, sinking his teeth into the meaty calf as he fucked you through your orgasm and chased after his own.
“Please cum for me,” you begged in between whimpers. “Fill me up. I want it to leak outta me.”
“Shit—baby, I’m about to cum,” he warned, his thrusts sloppy and erratic, his grip tight on your knee. “You want this cum?”
“Yessss,” you squeaked, tears of bliss running down your cheeks. “I want to make you a Daddy! Don’t stop until my belly is swollen with your baby!”
He damn near howled at the moon. Exhaling so sharply you thought he was choking. He came with a shout, spilling so deep inside you a chill ran across your skin and your stomach fluttered.
Every nerve in your body felt like it was on fire, but in the most pleasurable way. Your body felt like it was preparing for a meet and greet with the ancestors.
He pulled out, catching a glimpse of his seed seeping out of you before flopping beside you, completely spent. Smoke turned on his side and pulled you against his chest. You kissed his chest, still turned on. You wouldn’t mind a round two even if his come was still dripping down your thighs. To be completely honest, you didn’t want to be able to walk straight tomorrow.
He drew small circles on your back with his index finger, while his other hand rested on your belly. “You think it took?”
You giggled, “If not, we get to try again.”
His spent dick was already hardening against your thigh.
You both were about to be the most insufferable couple for the next few weeks.
Nawl but yall …. Did yall see how smoke turned Annie around !! How he pushed her !? ( I couldn’t find the gif/ reel 😭) And idk if it was my ears only but I thought I heard him say “ turn ya ass around “ lawwwwwddd my stomach tingled !! Cause Annie was vulnerable in that moment probably the most vulnerable we’ve seen her throughout the movie .. & that push was the most dominant we’ve seen smoke be with her .. like girl stop playing with me and take this .. well you know .. then my girl facial expression huh!? The pleasure and the pain , the stretch and the fullness of not being intimate with somebody for seven years bihhh I went 3 wks one time and I was like slow down lol.. & smoke was like “Nawl you got it !! Wheewww .. I been on tik tok looking at edits so don’t mind me yall but yea !! Annie and smoke forever !
⋆.ೃ࿔ 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄 ᝰ It’s 1932. Seven years after Smoke ran to Chicago. He returns to the Delta, knowing he’ll have to face what he left behind. He expected to see you around town, just not with a baby girl on your hip. Jealousy simmers, bitterness rises, and the memories of every failed attempt at a family. At first, there are only sharp words and heated exchanges—but as you break down each other’s walls, the fire between you reignites, and you resume right where you left off all those years ago, trying for a baby.
𝑭𝑬𝑨𝑻𝑼𝑹𝑰𝑵𝑮… Elijah ‘Smoke’ Moore
𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑻… SFW & NSFW ᝰ All Genres [fluff, angst, smut, hurt/comfort], non-canon/canon, fem!reader, envisioned as black!reader while writing, established relationship [not specified], infertility issues, emotional, crying, vulnerability, second chances, arguing, cursing, pregnancy, soft!Smoke… sexual intercourse [p in v, oral, and handjob], missionary, kissing, heavy dirty talk, mention of belly bulge, implied breeding kink, sub/dom undertones… southern/country dialect used. implied southern/country accent. 1930’s time period.
𝑫𝑼𝑹𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵… 12.6k words
𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑫𝑺 𝑭𝑹𝑶𝑴 𝑾𝑹𝑰𝑻𝑬𝑹… This fic is inspired and taken from this idea by @starliis [click post & read to get more details about the story below! Spoilers are included so beware!] I had a really good time writing this story because this is my first time writing a oneshot this emotionally complex, using all genres, and with a word count this large. @starliis when I read the post I loved the idea so I really hope you like my interpretation of it!
As always feel free to comment and reblog, I love reading y’all reactions! I hope you guys enjoy!!
The sun is beating down on the Delta like it’s holding a grudge against the south. High noon on a Saturday in Clarksdale means the heat is scorching, children are running around sticky with ice cream from the downtown ice cream shop, and the market is swarming with folks trading gossip faster than groceries.
Smoke hasn’t been back in the Delta for a full day. Chicago is still clinging to him, you can see it in the way he dresses but he still has that southern twang to him that couldn’t leave him if he tried.
He split off from Stack a while back, saying they could get more done if they parted ways. Now he’s on the way downtown to see Bo Chow, needing to talk to him about some business he needs taken care of before tonight.
He knew that coming back here would bring up some past memories, hurt, things he tried to forget when he ran up north, but he thought he at least had a few days before those things made an appearance, he didn’t expect things to crumble in less than twenty-four hours.
When he gets out his truck and starts walking down the market strip to Bo’s store, his eyes land on you, standing near a produce stand, dressed in a faded yellow dress that’s hugging your curves just like he remembered.
Smoke hasn’t seen you since he left for Chicago. He didn’t expect to see you here but since the opportunity to talk to you has introduced itself, he’s going to take it.
Right when he’s about to make his presence known, greet you in a respectful manner, one that would make it seem like he’s happy to see you, you turn in another direction, giving him a full view of yourself.
There’s a baby girl on your hip, can’t be any older than two years old. She has big, bright eyes, curls wild across her head, and she’s gnawing on some candy like she didn’t eat breakfast this morning.
Smoke stops walking. He doesn’t say a word. He can’t even blink because then he’ll feel like his eyes are playing tricks on him. He just stands there, like his whole body has forgotten how to move.
You’re digging through a crate full of plums, slow and careful, talking soft to the baby. Something about the sweetness of the fruit and how you have to smell the bottom to know if it was ripe.
You look around, glancing at your surroundings and that’s when your eyes lock with Smoke’s, making your heart skip beat. Time doesn’t just slow down, for you it completely stops. You never thought you would see Smoke again, not after how he left you high and dry, not even leaving you any type of explanation about his sudden disappearance.
Your lips part, like you want to say his name but no words come out. After staring each other down, Smoke finally approaches you but not the way a gentleman should. He just stares at the child, then at you with a face expression cold as ice. “That baby yours?”
Your arms tense around the girl, adjusting her on your hip before acknowledging Smoke’s presence. You blink at him once, tilting your head to the side, your attitude coming to the forefront while your lips curl with bitterness. “You ain’t seen me in almost a decade and that’s how you approach me? Don’t even ask how I been?”
Smoke’s jaw flexes, his hand twitching where it hangs by his side. He glances back at the little girl, eyes narrowing just enough to show the storm brewing behind them. “Is she yours?” he asks again, completely ignoring your previous words, voice much sharper than before, like he ain’t got time for you to give him the run around.
You press your lips together, not answering him right away. Instead, you sway the baby gently, rubbing her back like you didn’t feel his question hit you in the gut.
You wipe the sweat from your brows with the crook of your arm, letting his question hang in the air like smoke from a low-burning fire. “She eat like she mine. Sleep like she mine. Cry like she mine.” you say with an annoyed tone, looking at him as if he’s asking the dumbest question on Earth. “Now, what that tell ya’?”
Smoke let out a breath through his nose, sharp and quick, trying to push down the smart remark that’s burning his throat, not wanting to get smart with you. “She looks too young to be yours… sure as hell ain’t mine.” He mutters, averting his eyes from you and looking at the little girl who’s resting her head on your shoulder, ready for her afternoon nap. “So whose is she?”
“Ain’t none of your concern, Smoke.”
“The hell it ain’t.”
“I ain’t yo’ woman no more, not since you left. You don’t get to ask me questions like that.” Your walls are up, that much is clear. Smoke’s looking right into your pretty brown eyes but he can only see a coldness in them, he doesn’t see that shimmer you always carried inside them before he left.
“Whatchu want wit’ me, Smoke? Why did you come ova’ here?” You ask, tired of standing in this smoldering heat talking to him when the only thing he cares about is if this child was your daughter, not even asking about your well being since he ran off in the middle of the night for Chicago.
Smoke doesn’t immediately respond, he just stands there, jaw so tight it looks like he’s gonna break it. His eyes flicker from the baby to your face, trying to piece together parts of your life that aren't none of his business anymore.
He knows he doesn’t deserve to ask you things like this anymore, doesn’t deserve to know what's transpired in the last seven years since he left but that doesn't end his curiosity, it doesn’t make him not care about you.
He shifts his weight, looking down before taking off his blue scalley cap, his eyes becoming a tad bit softer than before, looking as if your previous words hit a nerve. “Me and Stack openin’ up a juke joint. Down at the old sawmill.”
You don’t say anything. Just raise an eyebrow, bouncing the girl on your hip slowly, still swaying like the heat itself is keeping time with your movements. You hum softly, clearly unimpressed by this voluntary piece of information. “And you tellin’ me this ‘cause…?”
“Figured you’d wanna come, check out the place.”
You let out a breathy laugh, one with no joy in it, one that’s not in the mood to dance or drink in the same room with Smoke and act as if everything is alright between the two of you. “Well, you figured wrong.”
A silence between you and him, both of you just looking into each other’s eyes before Smoke breaks the quietness. “I ain’t know if I’d see ya’ again. Thought you woulda left the Delta by now.”
“Well, you done seen me. Reckon you can go on ‘bout your business now.” The little girl shifts against your shoulder, her candy-sticky fingers curling into the fabric of your dress. You stroke her back soothingly, but your eyes don’t leave his. You want him to see what he ran from and how you haven’t let it break you.
Smoke swallows hard, not trying to be vulnerable in such a public place but not wanting you to think he’s just stone walling you. You can see him struggling, like he has a million things he wants to say but can’t find the right words. “Jus’ come by.” he murmurs. “That’s all I’m askin’. Nothin’ mo’.”
You stare at him a moment longer, letting out a puff of air before nodding once, not giving him a definitive answer. “We’ll see. Ain’t makin’ no promises.”
You don’t give him a goodbye, just turn on your heels and walk away, the hem of your dress swishing behind you, dust curling around your ankles. Smoke watches you go, not saying anything to try and keep you here, his hand still gripping the brim of his hat, heart caught somewhere in the hollow space behind his ribs.
He doesn’t know if you’re going to show up tonight and if he’ll ever have the chance to apologize but he wants to make things right with you, even if you're going to chew him up in the process.
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The juke is currently thriving and alive. Sweat dripping down walls and everyone’s backs. Men clapping dominoes on tables, Sammie’s guitar slicing through the cigarette haze, Delta Slim playing the hell out of the piano, and Pearline sings a song that has the crowd dancing across the wooden floor.
Smoke’s leaned up against the wall, cigarette between his lips, watching the door like a soldier watching the tree line. He’s been eyeing the door ever since they opened, hoping that he’ll see you walking inside. He’s been trying to keep hope alive, but it’s been a few hours and he hasn’t seen you yet, making him agitated.
“She comin’?” Stack asks, sliding beside his brother, making sure he’s alright. Smoke doesn’t answer at first. He just takes a slow pull, eyes trained on the open door like if he stares hard enough, he might conjure you up outta thin air.
Stack follows his gaze, then huffs a little, shaking his head. “Man, we got a whole club full’a pretty women and you worried about her. Ones that ain’t cussin’ yo’ ass out in the middle of the market, too.” Stack jokes, elbowing him lightly, trying to make Smoke feel better but it ain’t working. Smoke gives him a look, stone cold and sharp, one that speaks for him, a look that says ‘don’t play with me right now’.
“Aight, Aight.” Stack mutters, hands raised in surrender, not wanting to make his brother feel any worse than he already does. “Just sayin’. Don’t burn a hole in the floor waitin’ on somebody who might not show, ‘specially after you fucked up.”
Smoke doesn’t respond, he just sucks his teeth and turns back toward the door, lips pressed tight, taking another puff, trying to keep himself from wringing someone’s neck… and deep down trying to hold himself together.
He doesn't care about other women, never did, even when he was in Chicago. Not when his mind still played memories of the time he’s spent with you. Memories of you laughing in the kitchen barefoot without a care in the world, or riding with him around town, hugged up in each other's arms, acting as if the world only revolved around the other.
Seeing that baby on your hip today really shook him, even if he doesn’t want to admit it out loud. He's been standing around wondering if your her mother, if you were able to finally conceive a baby without him. Just the thought of it makes a pain strike his chest. It makes him feel sick to his stomach because that baby should be his, not some other man.
Smoke has gotten to the point where he’s ready to give up, to leave his post and make sure Club Juke is running smoothly, thinking that his little brother is right, but right when he’s about to go and find Stack, that’s when it happens.
The door creaks open, loud enough to cut through the swell of music. There you are, standing in the doorway, talking to Cornbread at the door, looking like heaven on Earth. You’re in a soft colored satin dress, clinging to your figure like a second skin, lips painted a soft berry shade, hair done up real pretty, with your earrings catching the low light as you assess the scenery.
As your eyes dance around the room, that’s when you find Smoke, standing a few feet from the bar. You take a few steps inside, slow and deliberate, hips swaying easily beneath the satin material, like you aren't in a rush, like you know he’s been watching the door all night just hoping you’d show. Cornbread tips his hat at you as you pass, and a couple heads turn too, the men whistling as you pass by but you ain’t paying them no mind.
Smoke straightens off the wall, putting out his cigarette in a nearby ash tray, while his eyes boring into you like a wolf watching if it’s prey is brave enough to run. He doesn't move toward you right away, doesn’t want to seem too eager, but he damn sure ain’t letting you walk in without sparking up a conversation.
You cut across the room slow, graceful, while Smoke is already making an effort to meet you halfway, the heat between y’all thick as molasses. Folks move out the way without even thinking about it, sensing something in the air, like some drama is stirring up.
Once Smoke is in front of you he takes in a small whiff of your scent, the smell of gardenias and honey filling his nostrils, making his heart settle at the familiarity of it. His eyes drag over your face, pausing at your lips, then finally settling in your eyes. “Ain’t think you was gon’ come.”
“Ain’t think I was either, but my sister convinced me to show my face. Thought it would be good fuh’ me.”
You both stand there a moment, just taking in each other's presence, both of you secretly happy to see the other, even if your trying not to show it. “You look good,” his voice comes out rough like sandpaper but soft at the edges, his eyes gazing over each curve of your hips and the deep cut in your dress, accentuating the plumpness of your breasts. “Real good.”
You hum, trying to repress the smile that’s trying to creep onto your lips from the compliment, not wanting to let him off the hook so easily. “Ain’t gotta butter me up, Elijah. I’m here now but me showin’ up doesn't mean I forgot how we got here in the first place, how you jus’ up and left.”
His jaw ticks at the sound of his birth name in your mouth again, he ain’t heard it sound that pretty in years. And hearing it now, even with the sharpness behind it, it still makes his heart flutter.
A flash of frustration passes through his eyes, he already can tell where this conversation is headed. You showed up looking like sin wrapped in silk, just to remind him of all the ways he failed you and your relationship and ready to rip him a new one.
He doesn’t wanna do this down here, not with all these nosy folks watching and trying to catch a whisper of y’all business, wanting to have something they can gossip about come tomorrow morning. He steps in closer, close enough that his voice dips into something just above a growl. “Come upstairs.” It’s not in the form of a question or a plea, just a demand.
And you blink, slightly taken aback since you haven’t heard him use that tone with you in years, the one that’s sprinkled with dominance. It’s the boldness, that edge in his voice, it’s what cuts through your self proclaimed armor.
Still, you aren’t about to make it easy for Smoke, not after what he’s put you through. You tilt your chin up, squaring your shoulders like you’re thinking about telling him no, wanting him to sweat a little bit. After a few moments you nod slightly, lips parting as you murmur, “Lead the way.”
He doesn’t respond, just turns and walks, weaving through the crowd without looking back, knowing you’re going to trail right behind him. While you’re walking you feel holes burning into your skull, knowing people are watching. You just ignore the eyes that follow y’all path, ignoring the hum of whispers and curious glances. Folks always did love a good reunion, especially a messy one like this.
You follow him up the creaky stairs, heart hammering louder with every step. The music fades behind you, replaced by the low thump of your own pulse and the sound of your heels clicking against the old wood. The second-floor hallway is dim and hot, lit only by a single bulb hanging from the ceiling.
He leads you down the hall and opens the door to a small room. It’s private, clean, and it’s far enough away so your voices won’t be heard downstairs. The room is just a table, chair by the window, a trunk full of the twins' guns and ammo, and a safe for their valuables. A fan clicks lazily overhead, doing little to fight off the heat but it does help.
Once you both are inside, he shuts the door and leans against it for a beat, while you stand in the middle of the room, arms crossed tight over your chest. He watches you. Watches the way you shift your weight from one hip to the other, your expression trying to stay hard but your fingers twitching like you aren’t as composed as you pretend to be. “Why now, Elijah?” you ask softly, wanting some answers from him. “Why you come back here, after all this time?”
Smoke’s never been the type to show much emotion. But right now, the weight behind his eyes is heavier than you’ve ever seen it. When you talk to him in that tone, look at him with those hypnotizing eyes, he can’t help but become vulnerable, allowing you to break down his walls and get him to open up. “I ain’t know how to stay,” he says, pushing off the door and coming towards you. “I ain’t know how to look at you every night, wantin’ somethin’ I couldn’t give you.”
“You think leavin’ fixed that?” you ask, voice cracking in the process. “You think disappearin’ made the ache go away?”
“I ain’t know how to handle it. Felt like I failed you. Watchin’ you in that bed cryin’ and couldn’t do nothin’ but hold your hand. I felt like shit, like I was less of a man.”
The time y’all were together before he left for Chicago, your days were filled with doctor visits, herbs, prayers, and tears soaked into your cotton sheets. You cried yourself hoarse each time you found out you weren’t pregnant.
You and him were trying to conceive for a long time, trying to fill your womb with a child, wanting to bring a life into the world that was a mixture of you and him, but for some reason it never happened.
Any method you learned about in books or from talking to the neighborhood midwives who delivered more babies than you can count, you and Smoke tried and yet you could never become pregnant. You and Smoke tried to keep each other lifted up, tried to keep hope alive but after months turned into years it started weighing on both of you.
You both were at your breaking point so when Smoke had the opportunity to leave for Chicago, he was gone on the first train smoking, leaving you to deal with the pain of not being able to conceive alone.
“You was my man, Elijah.” you snap, your voice sharp and trembling, not being able to hold back the storm of emotions that’s been brewing inside you all these years. “I never wanted perfect. I never wanted you to fix the problem, I just wanted you but you ran. Like it was easier to vanish than stay and hurt wit’ me.”
Smoke swallows thick, chest rising with a breath, like he doesn't know how to hold right. “I didn’t know how to sit in that pain, not with you lookin’ at me with that hurt in your eyes. I felt useless to ya’.”
“You think I felt useful?” you spit, stepping toward him now, eyes flashing with anger. “Every month, bleedin’, gettin’ another reminder that I ain’t having your baby. Every time somebody else in town got pregnant and I had to smile like it didn’t feel like I was dyin’ inside? Having to see my friends take care of their kids and pretend I wasn’t jealous. All those times I needed you here, not runnin’ around Chicago like you ain’t got a woman at home.”
The silence between you crackles, heavy with grief, fury, and years of love stretched too thin because of sorrow. You’re both breathing hard now, standing in the middle of the room like two hurricanes about to collide. He doesn’t speak, not because he doesn’t have anything to say, it’s because you’re right.
After watching Smoke just stand there in silence, seeing the hurt in his eyes and feeling the sting of his actions in your own heart, that’s when you break.
You try not to, try to stay hard and proud, but the pain rips through you anyway. “You left me with nothin’ but an empty bed. You ain’t send me a letter, try to get a call to me, nothin’. I ain’t hear from you in seven years, Smoke. Seven damn years.” you whisper, voice raw and tired, tears starting to spill freely down your cheeks. “I hated you for it. I hated you so much, but I couldn’t stop lovin’ you either.”
At this point in your life, your tired of crying over Smoke, tired of the pain you just can’t shake no matter how much you try, but that’s what happens when you truly love someone. No matter how hard you try, you just can’t let them go, even if what they did is unforgivable.
He doesn’t ask permission, just crosses the room in large strides and pulls you into his chest like he’s been dying to touch you since the moment he saw you at the market.
His arms wrap around you tight, and your fists beat against his chest once, then twice, then a third. You try to fight his embrace, not wanting to weaken under his touch but after a few moments your arms fall limp, clutching his vest, resting your head against his shoulder while your tears soak his clothing.
Silence stretches like wire strung too tight before your voice cracks just enough to show the emotional bruise on your heart, showing the true wound that’s been hurting you for years, the thought that’s been plaguing your mind since he left. “I thought I wasn’t enough for you anymore. That without being able to give you a baby I was less of a woman, that I couldn’t make you happy anymore.”
Smoke’s breath stutters against your temple, your words splitting him clean down the middle. His voice is so low you barely hear it over the creak of the fan above but you catch every single word. “Don’t you ever say that, aight? You always been enough fuh’ me.”
He pulls back just enough to look you in the eye, tilting your head up at him and then pressing his fingers into your waist like he’s trying to make you feel every word before it even can leaves his lips. “You the only thang in this world that makes me feel whole. I left ‘cause I felt like I wasn’t enough for you, not ‘cause you ain’t.”
“Then why you aint jus’ say that? Why you ain’t tell me you was hurtin’ too?”
His jaw flexes again, and you can see it, shame, writing all over his face. It rolls off him in waves, thick as Mississippi fog. You can tell he’s ashamed of how he left things, how he practically abandoned you just because things were overwhelming. “I ain’t know how,” he confesses, his voice soft and vulnerable, a side of him you don’t see often but when you do it makes butterflies flutter around your stomach.
His way of being open, honest, and raw has always had that affect on you, even when you were kids. “Wasn’t raised to talk ‘bout no feelings. Wasn’t raised to sit in pain. All I know is how to survive, and I thought leavin’ was survivin’, tryin’ to find another way to provide for us. Tryin’ to forget the pain.”
And that’s when your breath catches, because you can tell he means every word. You can see it in his eyes. All the self-loathing, all the love, wrapped up in one tortured look. Your lips part, but nothing comes out, lost for words at the moment.
He lowers his forehead against yours, the heat of his breath brushing your face, making your skin prickle. And for a second, it’s just the two of you, truly seeing each other past the masks you put on for other people. You see the pain brewing inside, the hurt of your past, and the ache of your love, weighing on both of you like a stone.
For a while Smoke just holds you. His arms don’t shake, no tremble in his hands, but his breath does, hitching in his chest as he leans into you, a single tear rolling down his cheek, another expression of his vulnerability and how apologetic he is about the whole situation, filling in the gaps where his words couldn’t.
The fan creaks overhead, spinning slow and lazy, the outside noise muffled through thick walls and heavy heat, but none of it matters. In this room, it’s just him and you, buried under years of silence and heartbreak, finally getting things off your chest.
“I’m sorry,” he says, voice full of conviction and thick with regret. “sorry fuh’ how I left ya’. I’m sorry I made you carry all that weight alone. I ain’t askin’ for your forgiveness ‘cause I don't deserve it. But I wanna make things right, get back in your good graces.”
You stare at him, your hands still clutching his clothing, feeling the rise and fall of his chest. You’re quiet for a moment, like you’re testing the truth of his words by the rhythm of his breath. It’s clear to you that he means what he says, that he isn’t just telling you what he assumes you want to hear so you decide to give him some truth as well.
You pull back to look him in the eye, telling him the thing that’s been burning him up inside since he first saw you. “That baby you saw me with earlier…” you begin softly, brushing a tear from your cheek before wiping the one that’s cascading down his. “She ain’t mine. She’s my sister’s little girl.” you explain. “I was jus’ babysittin’ her cause she had to run some errands, is all.”
You didn’t tell him your true connection to the baby at the market because you wanted to see him hurt, wanted him to think you could just move on and sleep with another man, wanted his blood to run hot with jealousy. You had to give him a reality check, make him realize that the world doesn’t revolve around Smoke, that what he does hurts people, hurts you.
Smoke blinks slowly, shoulders drop in the kind of relief that’s so heavy it almost knocks the wind out of him. “Shit,” he murmurs, running his hand down his face, wiping the beads of sweat that’s surrounding his brows. “I thought—” he shakes his head, letting out a thankful sigh. “thought you moved on. Thought I came back too late.”
You shake your head, lips curling into something too tender to call a smile, followed by a bitter laugh coming from your lips. “I ain’t moved on, Elijah. Been stuck right where you left me.” Your voice cracks just a little, but this time with something softer. “I tried to forget you but no matter what I did, I still wanted you. Still do, even with all we been through.”
That does something to him. Smoke’s whole frame seems to shift, like his heart just lifted back into place within his chest. His jaw unclenches, his brow eases, and the way he’s looking at you now, like he would fall to his knees and beg for your forgiveness if you asked.
He cups your face with one calloused hand, thumb dragging slow across your cheek, wiping away the last wet trace of tears staining your skin. “I was a damn fool.” he says quietly, voice thick with grief, his tone apologetic. “But I ain’t finna be one no more. I’m gon’ spend every day tryin’ to prove to you that I still know how to love you right. That I’m worthy enough to be with ya’.”
You exhale softly, the heat in the room no longer stemming from the Mississippi heat or from Club Juke being packed from wall to wall with people. It’s the air between you, charged with years of everything unsaid, thick with all the thirst and longing for the others touch. Your fingers tighten around the front of his shirt, playing with the buttons. “Then show me, ‘lijah. Prove that you mean what you say.”
You barely finish the sentence before his lips are pressed against yours. It’s not gentle, at least not at first. It’s desperate, seven years of silence, hurt, desire, and love pouring out into a single kiss. His mouth claims yours like he’s scared you’ll slip through his fingers again if he waits too long, and you don’t resist. You part your lips leaning into him like your body remembers this rhythm, this man, the one it’s been waiting on all this time.
His other hand slips around your waist, pulling you flush against him, allowing you to feel the bulge growing in his slacks. The second your mouth parts and your tongue brushes his, everything changes. The kiss grows hotter, deeper, like you both just realized how much you missed this. You break the kiss long enough to whisper against his lips, “Lock the door.”
Smoke’s already two steps ahead of you. He pulls you backwards with him and he reaches behind blindly and turns the lock, the soft click making your pulse stutter with anticipation. Once it’s locked he’s back on your body, kissing you like he’s been starving for years, because he in fact has.
You start taking off his vest, taking loose the few buttons before taking it off him and starting the whole process over with his dress shirt. After fidgeting with one that’s giving you trouble, you just rip the shirt open and throw it on the floor once his arms are free, along with his gun holster.
Smoke doesn’t even flinch when you rip open his shirt, he doesn’t care about the buttons scattering across the floor like dice, he just lets it happen and allows you to take the lead.
You pull up his white t-shirt, breaking the kiss long enough to pull it over his head, and once you see his body glistening before you, a small smirk curls at your lips.
His body is just as you remember, broad chest, taut muscles beneath his brown skin, a few faded scars and wounds carved into his skin, a reminder of everything he’s endured over his thirty-ish years of walking this Earth. You press your palms flat against his pecs, like you’re trying to memorize the feeling of him again after all this time.
You trace your fingers down the slope of his shoulder, down to the scar that runs over his ribs, a scar you remember from a fight with some hotheads back in 1923, a fight he got into because the men were catcalling you, saying some filthy things he ain’t appreciate being spoken about you.
Smoke watches your hand move, eyes half-lidded with heat and memory, like the feel of your fingers on his skin brings him back to every piece of who he used to be when he was with you. Your touch is gentle but there’s a certain fire behind it, a look in your eye that tells him you want to swallow him alive.
“Ain’t nothin’ changed,” you murmur, dragging your hand back up to his jaw, tracing the stubble that has grown thick and rough around his lip and chin. Your hands trail down his chest, fingers grazing the faint trail of hair leading into his slacks.
His breath hitches when you reach the waistband, your nails scraping against his skin, sending a shiver across his skin. “I still know every inch of you.” you whisper, lips trailing his neck, moving up his to his ear and swirling your tongue around his lobe, making him close his eyes and let out a groan.
“Goddamn.” Smoke’s eyes flutter closed for just a second, jaw tightening as your tongue teases his ear, that sweet, warm breath of yours sending a bolt straight down his spine. He lets out a low grunt, deep, guttural, the kind of sound that vibrates from somewhere low in his belly, a sound he hasn’t let out in years, a sound only you can pull out of him.
Your fingers keep tracing slow paths across his skin, like you’re relearning him, mapping out all the places you used to kiss, used to bite, used to hold when the nights got too heavy. His breath hitches with every pass of your hands, his body coiled tight like he’s only hanging on by a thread.
You pull back just a little, your lips still brushing his throat, your voice coming out sounding like honey but your tone stern like you mean business. Asking him a question that’s been burning a hole in your mind since you heard through the grapevine he was living it up with Al Capone. “You let any women touch you while you was up there in Chicago?”
Smoke opens his eyes slow, looking down at you, holding your gaze steady like it’s the only thing that’s ever mattered. “No.” He says smooth as butter, without a stutter or crack in his voice. “Ain’t nobody touched me but myself. Ain’t want nobody else.”
You stare at him for a second with a raised brow before allowing a pleased smile to dance across your lips. “Good,” you mutter, dragging your nails lightly down his stomach again, teasing the waistband of his pants before pulling the loops out of his belt. “’Cause if you did, I woulda cut yo’ ass too thin to fry.”
That pulls a small smirk out of him, half amusement, half awe, but full of lust. “Shit, I believe ya’.” he murmurs, voice thick with heat, eyeing your full hips and pretty physique, licking his lips while he looks you up and down, feeling you pull his belt from around his waist and opening his fly, leaving only one more step before you see the part of him you missed the most.
In one swift motion, he grabs the back of your thighs and lifts you without warning, walking over and laying you down flat on the wooden table towards the back of the room.
Your breath leaves your lungs in a soft gasp, the wood cool against your back, your dress bunched up around your hips, thighs parted just enough for his body to slide between them. His hands slide down your waist, rough palms catching on the satin of your dress.
You slip the straps of your dress off your shoulders, letting them fall before pulling the dress over your head, with some assistance from Smoke, helping you avoid messing up your hair even though he’s about to sweat it out.
Your body is now on full display, your full breasts sitting pretty in your brassiere, plump against your chest while your sex is being covered by your cotton panties, keeping the part of you Smoke desires the most hidden.
Smoke takes his time admiring your body, especially since he hasn’t seen it in years. His eyes move slowly, as if he’s savoring the moment, like every inch of you is a hymn he forgot the words to but still knows the rhythm of. He runs his tongue across his bottom lip, chest rising and falling with something too heavy to simply be called desire.
What Smoke currently feels is hunger. Not the kind that lives in his stomach, but the kind that’s rooted in his veins. The kind that started the moment he walked away all them years ago and never died. Just sat there. Festering. Waiting for this very moment.
He leans over you, big hands dragging up your thighs, prying them open as he lowers his mouth to your belly, pressing slow and purposeful kisses against your skin. One kiss. Then another. Then one more just above the waistband of your panties. “You still the prettiest thang I eva’ seen.” he murmurs against your skin, voice raspy and raw, like it burns his throat as the words pass through.
Your breath hitches as you feel his hand reach up, thumb grazing the swell of your breasts, his lips trailing higher, brushing the valley between them. He doesn’t unclasp your bra just yet, he cusps them like he’s trying to mold a piece of clay, reminding himself what it’s like to have his hands on a woman’s body after having no intimacy for seven years.
You tilt his chin up, forcing him to look in your pretty eyes. “Then come get what’s yours.” And those words are all it takes for Smoke to finally unclasp your bra and toss it to the floor with all the other clothing that no longer matters.
Your nipples harden under the air and his harsh gaze, and he leans down to wrap his lips around one, sucking slow and precise, his tongue swirling while his hand kneads the other, making you moan softly as your back arches off the desk. “Missed this mouth.” you whimper, running your hands along his arms, gripping onto his muscular arms.
He hums against your breast, switching his attention to the other side without missing a beat. “Missed you.” He mumbles while his hand slides down your belly, fingers hooking into the waistband of your panties and dragging them down your thick thighs, the same thighs he loves putting his head between whenever he gets the opportunity.
He watches your body the whole way down like it’s some kind of sacred text he’s not worthy of reading but refuses to look away from. He lets out a sharp breath when he sees you bare. When his eyes fall into your wet core, seeing how your is slick smeared across your sex and how it makes your puffy folds glisten in the warm lighting, he can’t help but curse. “Damn, this pussy sexy.”
You grin through your blush, biting your lip while looking at him with darkened eyes, enjoying the feeling of having him worshiping your body again like the way he used to but also missing the feeling of his lips wrapped around your clitoris until you see stars. “Stop starin’ at it an’ do somethin’ then.”
And that he does. Smoke sinks to his knees, spreading your legs wider and planting wet kisses to the inside of your thigh that makes your breath stutter. Within a few minutes his mouth is attached to your pussy, tongue moving meticulously, licking long, lazy stripes up your slit before wrapping his lips around your clit and sucking it soft and steady.
Your fingers run across his coarse hair as your head falls back, a whimper escaping your throat. His hands grip your thighs tight, keeping you in place while he eats you like he’s been starving for years. He moans into your heat, like tasting you is the first time he’s been able to breathe since he crossed state lines out of Mississippi.
You grind your hips up into his face, one hand tugging his hair, and the other gripping the edge of the table, your chest heaving as your mind starts to become fuzzy. “Shit, Elijah…” you breathe. “Don’t stop.”
“Baby, I wasn’t plannin’ on it.” He says as he comes up for air before diving back into your heat. He sucks harder, tongue circling and flicking your shining pearl until your thighs begin to twitch. His nose presses into the mound of your pussy, his warm breath causing your skin to prickle.
The more he devours your sex, the more your whimpers and moans bounce off the wooden walls of the room. Smoke wants to warm you up as best as possible for what’s to come, so he places his fingers at your folds, scissoring them open and allowing your slick to collect on his digits and once there’s a good amount he slowly pushes them into your pussy, making you gasp from the sudden insertion.
You arch off the table, thighs tightening around his head like your body’s trying to trap him there, and honestly, he doesn’t mind one bit. You could be suffocating him and he would still be happy, knowing that he has the opportunity to taste your sweetness on his tongue.
Smoke grunts low in his throat, the sound vibrating through your wetness as he pumps his fingers in and out of you, slow at first, but picking up rhythm with every moan that spills from your lips.
His mouth never stops showing your clit attention, tongue flicking simultaneously with the curl of his fingers, still remembering how you like your body caressed and touched after all these years you’ve been apart.
You’re singing for him now: soft gasps, whispered curses, the kind of sounds that echo with the ghost of every lonely night you spent wishing his mouth was between your legs instead of your own fingers. Your voice comes out broken, barely hanging on, like the coil in your stomach is only a few moments, or a few kitten licks from snapping. “I’m so close, baby…”
That “baby” unravels something in Smoke. It makes him groan deep and double down in your heat, making a sharp gasp spill from your lips. He adds a third finger, stretching you nice and wide, thumb rubbing circles where his mouth used to be so he can look into your pretty eyes while you fall apart from his touch.
“That’s it, baby.” he murmurs, looking down at you with those deep brown eyes that always make you buckle and listen to his every command when he speaks. “Gon’ ‘head and give it to me, mama. Let me see that pretty face when you cum.”
And you do just that. Your back bows off the table, legs quivering as they rest on his shoulders, a cry ripping from your throat so sharp it could make a mirror shatter. Your pussy clenches around his fingers like it’s trying to keep him inside, slick gushing down his hand and past his wrist as your orgasm rolls through you like a Delta heatwave.
Smoke doesn’t stop massaging the sweet spot inside you until your body jerks from the sensitivity, and your hand weakly pushes at his head, telling him you can’t take it anymore. He obeys this time, deciding not to push you past your limit just yet.
He pulls away, pulling his fingers out of you slowly, making you whimper once you feel him exit. “Tastes better than I remembered.” He states, his voice thick with heat while he licks your juices off his digits. “Sweeter, too.” His lips curl into a soft smile, something he doesn’t flash often but when he does it warms your heart… and your pussy.
You blink up at him, chest still heaving, a lazy smile spreading across your lips. “That’s ‘cause I been waitin’ on you.”
Smoke’s gaze lingers on your face, soft now, as he leans over you, pressing a long, lingering kiss to your lips, allowing you to taste yourself on his tongue, making your toes curl at the sensation. “I ain’t ever gon’ make you wait like that no mo’.” he murmurs against your mouth.
“You better not, not after all this time.” you breathe, placing your hands around the base of his neck.
He chuckles low in his throat, the sound vibrating against your lips. “You gon’ punish me if I do?” Smoke has never been the type of man who would openly admit he likes a woman who’ll dominate him, but there've been multiple moments in your relationship where you had Smoke right under your finger, submitting to your every move so you punishing him sounds like music to his ears.
You smirk, dragging your nails lightly down his chest. “Damn right I will.” Your hands move down his body, running down his chiseled frame until you reach his slacks, pulling them down towards the floor, removing the last piece of clothing keeping him from being close to you as humanly possible.
Once his pants are at his ankles, you take him in your hand, watching his brows knit when your palm wraps around his heavy length. His breath catches, head tilting back as you stroke him slow, feeling his thick, aching dick throb against your palm as his pre-cum leaks down your fingers.
He was already painfully hard from eating your pussy but feeling your hands wrapped around him, he’s hard as concrete. “Told you I ain’t let nobody else touch me,” he says. “Ain’t want nobody else, ‘cause nobody else makes me this goddamn hard.”
You grin at that, slow and satisfied, eyes flicking up to meet his while your hand keeps moving in smooth, steady strokes. “Good,” you murmur, voice thick with pride that your soul ties so deeply to Smoke that he can’t even look at another woman sexually or romantically. “’Cause I ain’t lettin’ you go now that you back.” You grab him by the chin and pull him closer to you, putting your lips right against his ear, wanting him to hear every word. “ I’m gon’ keep ya’ so deep in this pussy, that you won’t ever wanna leave the Delta again.”
Smoke bites his lip and feeling your fingertips glide over his protruding veins, making him groan. Your words hit him just as hard as your precious touch. He watches you like he’s starving, like every inch of you is something he’s been fighting to survive without.
Smoke’s eyes darken, the sound of you talking filthy tightens something in his gut. He places one hand behind your neck, the other stroking your cheek, his thumb dragging down to rest on your lip. “I’m gon’ fuck this pretty pussy so deep yo’ body ain’t never gon’ forget me, no matter how long I’m gone.”
As he mutters his last words, he takes his dick out of your hands and guides himself to your entrance, the tip of it dragging slowly through your slick-covered folds, making you moan at the feeling.
He doesn’t rush. He teases, rubs, and takes in the way your pussy flutters and twitches for him, how it’s so wet and open, begging for his dick stretch you out.
You whine, nails digging into his arms, tired of him playing around when he sees how much you’re aching for him. “Smoke, don’t play with me—”
He cuts you off with a roll of his hips, pushing into you slowly, creating a delicious burn to spread through your core. Your mouth falls open, back arching as you feel every inch of his cock fill you up. “Oh, fuck!” you exclaim, holding onto him like he’s the only solid thing left in the world.
The stretch burns at first, just like it always did but especially now since it’s been almost a decade since a man has been inside you. But it’s a welcomed pain, one you’ve missed more than you’re willing to admit. Your walls flutter around him, greedy and wet, clinging to every inch as he slowly thrusts inside you.
“Goddamn,” he mutters, brows furrowed, hand gripping your hip hard enough to bruise. “You feel so fuckin’ good.” As he thrusts his dick into your pussy, trying to reach that sweet spot before really doing some damage, he gets a moment of Deja Vu.
The feeling of your walls tightening around him each time he kisses your skin or mutters out compliments that are dripping in pure filth, he remembers when you and him were just teenagers, pressing your bodies against each other for the first time, trying to express your love for each other in the best way possible.
Smoke presses his forehead to yours, his chest heaving as he pushes deeper into your warmth. The sound of your breath catching, the way your mouth hangs open, and the way your walls squeeze around him like you want to stay connected like this forever, edges him closer to his orgasm.
“Been thinkin’ ‘bout this every fuckin’ night since I left.” He grits through a moan, starting to move once he bottoms out, slow at first, dragging his hips back just enough to feel some resistance, then pushing in deeply, making your breath hitch. “Ain’t just ‘cause I missed yo’ pussy… I missed how you sound. Missed how you smelled. Missed everythang ‘bout you.”
You whimper beneath him, legs trembling from the deep drag of his thrusts. One of your hands moves to cradle the back of his head while the other claws lightly down his back, leaving faint trails on his skin, one of your methods to claim him as yours. “Missed you too,” you breathe out, voice catching on a moan as he rocks into you again, deeper this time. “Missed feelin’ you like this...”
“Yeah?” he asks in a growl, jaw tight as he sinks deeper into you, giving you one long hard thrust, while the heat of you squeezing around him like a vice floods his veins. “Missed this dick fillin’ you up?” He presses against your lower body, hand against the bulge his cock makes each time he thrusts inside. “Missed feelin’ me reach yo’ stomach?”
“Yes, missed it so much!” You yell out before crying out his name, tightening your grasp around the back of his neck, holding onto him for dear life as he starts thrusting into you at an agonizing pace.
Smoke grits his teeth at the way you cry out, like your moans and cries are chipping away at his self restraint, like your body is begging him to release all seven years of pent up sexual energy into this very moment.
His mouth presses against your throat, licking and kissing and sucking your soft and supple skin while his hips grind into you deep and slow, thick strokes dragging every sound you can make right out your mouth.
Even through the lust-fueled heat and haze of endorphins, there’s a softness in the way he holds you, a type of gentleness that only comes from your souls being tied to one another. “You want me to stay?” he pants, his voice low and husky in your ears. “Huh? Want me to stay right here… keep ya’ full’a this fat dick?”
You answer him right away, nodding frantically while a fire starts spreading through your body, throwing your legs around his torso, locking him in place, wanting him to stay deep inside. “Yes, Smoke—don’t stop, please—fuck—you strechin’ me out!”
The back and forth between you and him continues, your bodies locked in a rhythm older than memory. You and Smoke match each other in every way: body, rhythm, desire. Smoke touches you like a man who’s been lost, finally made his way back home, and hoping what comes next will make up for the time lost.
His hand slides between your bodies, thumb circling your clit with just enough pressure to make your legs tremble harshly around his waist. “Damn, girl,” he pants in your ear. “You takin’ me so good… like this pussy know exactly who it belong to.”
“It belong to you,” you whimper, leaning more into his body, wrapping your arms around his back to hold him even closer, like you can pull him into your soul, like if you hold him close he’ll become fused with your body. “Always did.”
Hearing that makes his eyes flutter closed for a second. You feel the tremble in his arms, the way he slows his pace just enough to look at you again, to really look into the windows of your soul. He can see everything your feeling, even the things you haven’t voiced yet.
He can feel a yearning in your spirit, not for him, but something else, something you’ve wanted for years, even since you were a little girl and honestly what he’s been wanting since the day he met you.
Smoke opens his mouth and speaks low, almost like it’s a secret between just you, him, and the wet sounds of your bodies colliding. “Still want that baby?” Smoke asks softly, like he’s scared of what your answer will be, like he’s in some type of uncharted territory.
He knows he’s been gone for years, and he knows that trying to have a child is one of things that put a strain on your relationship but he can’t stop thinking about bringing a beautiful baby into the world with you.
The question makes your breath hitch, makes your eyes snap open at the mention of a baby. Even in the midst of his dick continuously pushing against your womb, sweat dripping down your skin, and insides being rearranged, the question still lands heavily in your mind.
It takes you by surprise for sure, you weren’t expecting this conversation so soon, let alone in the middle of sex but you aren’t opposed to talking about it since you know it’s one conversation that has to be discussed.
You blink up at him, eyes glassy with tears you refuse to shed, overwhelmed by the feeling of finally having him in your arms again and what could be if you become pregnant. Your hands cup his face as you repress a moan, your voice a little breathy from all the physical activity but still clear as day. “You still wanna give me a baby? You… you still want that wit’ me after everything?”
Smoke’s eyes searched yours, raw and honest in the dim light, holding every ounce of hope and fear tangled inside the pit of his stomach. “‘Course I do.” he whispers with a strong tone, gliding his thumb across your skin and whiping the tear you finally allowed to roll down your cheek. “I still want that baby. I want our baby. Never wanted anything else.”
You swallow hard, the weight of his words pressing against your chest, flooding you with a mix of longing and cautious hope. You’ve dreamed of this moment many times, but hearing it spoken from his lips and not your imagination makes your heart swell in a way you hadn’t expected.
“I want it too, Elijah. I always did. Ain’t never stopped wantin’ a baby with you.” Your fingers trace slow, delicate circles on his cheek, feeling the roughness of his facial hair beneath your touch. “I wanna get round with yo’ baby. Carryin’ somethin’ of us both inside me.”
Smoke’s eyes soften even more, like a weight lifts off his shoulders once he hears that you and him are on the same page. He leans in, pressing his lips against yours, breath and saliva mingling with yours. Smoke starts thrusting again but this time his hips jerk into you a little harder than before.
“Then I’ma give ya’ one. Gon’ make you a mama jus’ like you want.” he promises, voice shaking as he starts to lose control, his need of wanting to breed you taking over. “Gon’ make sure my seed sittin’ deep. You gon’ walk outta here wit’ it drippin’ out of ya’.”
Before responding to him vocally, you place your hands on the sides of his face, pulling him in for another kiss, sliding your tongue so far down his throat you can taste a mixture of yourself and the beer he was drinking earlier.
The kiss is full of fire, passion, love, and all the above. In the beginning, this escapade was just full of hot passion but now, talking about trying to make a baby, it quickly turns intimate, making both you and him soften up.
Your lips part from his, swollen and slick from the kiss, and you keep your forehead pressed to his, eyes fluttering shut as your hands rest on his shoulders. His weight, his warmth, it’s all wrapped around you, and for the first time in years, it feels like you can finally breathe again.
Smoke rolls his hips into you at a delicious pace, each thrust deeper than the last, but not rushed. It’s slow and sensual, something both of you have been craving since you and him were apart.
His hands slide under your back, holding you delicately like the diamond you are. Your arms wrap around his neck, pressing his body against yours, clinging to him like a lifeline. Your bodies move together in a perfect rhythm, the kind born from years of loving each other, of knowing every scar, every mole, and every inch of skin by heart.
“God, I missed you.” you whisper into the crook of his neck, your voice breaking as you feel the tip of his dick pressing against your cervix.
Smoke groans low, the sound vibrating from deep in his chest. “Missed you too, baby. Gon’ stay right in the Delta with you. I swea’.”
He buries his face into your neck, inhaling the scent of your skin that intoxicates him every time he inhales. His breath is shaky and warm against your throat, causing your skin to prickle. The gentle rocking of his hips turns more deliberate and forceful, and you can feel the difference almost instantly.
Every stroke is intense, every moan and whimper he pulls from you feels like a prayer. Your fingers thread through his hair, nails grazing his scalp, and his arms tighten around you like he is trying to mold your body to his. You whisper against his ear, voice trembling as your words become vocal, “So deep, baby… feel so full.”
Smoke lifts his head just enough to look at you, sweat glistening along his brow, jaw tight from the effort of holding back, not wanting to completely wear you out during the first round. “I love you,” he says in between kisses against various areas of your body. “And this pussy.”
Your eyes fill again, tears catching in your lashes, but you don’t blink them away. You allow him to see it, see how much he still moves you. How much you still love him. He brushes a kiss over each cheek, then your lips, then your chin. His mouth lingers everywhere and each place his lips touch leaves a trail of fire behind.
Soon he starts to tremble. Hips stuttering, breath going ragged, while you feel your own release stirring inside you, slow and consuming your body and soul. It wraps around your spine, makes your toes curl and your walls tighten around him. “I’m close,”
“Me too,” he grits through another surge of pleasure, hands slipping down to hold your hips steady. “ Let it happen, baby. Come wit’ me.” His speed doesn’t lessen, it only rapidly increases, making it feel like his dick is reaching the depths of your soul.
Every drag of his hips feels like he’s trying to make up for every night you cried and every moment you thought he forgot you. And with every moan you make, arch to meet his movements, and whispers of praise, you let him know that never stopped wanting him.
Your second orgasm hits hard: tighter, deeper, it makes your body quiver as your walls convulse around him. Your mouth parts in a moan that sounds like his name, your legs trembling around his waist, as your juices splash against his pelvis and your cream surrounds the rim of his dick.
And that’s all it takes for Smoke to follow, his hips stuttering as he buries himself deep, groaning into your neck as he spills his seed into the depths of your womb, not wanting a drop of it to escape because every droplet counts when trying to have a baby.
Once he releases he doesn't pull out right away. He just stays buried inside you, allowing his seed to travel inside you to its rightful place. Both of you are breathing hard, bodies tangled, skin slick with sweat, and your hearts pounding in sync. He runs his fingers along your jaw and gently kisses you, like a man who’s finally at peace.
You run your fingers along the strong line of his back, the soft curve of his nape, eyes closed and body humming with the aftershock. “I hope it takes.” you whisper, gliding your hand against the back of his head.
Smoke doesn’t respond right away, first he kisses the curve of your shoulder, then soft of your cheek, and lastly he looks in your eyes. “That baby already on the way,” He mumbles, reassuring you while moving a few strands of your hair out of your face. “I can feel it.” He places his hand on your stomach, rubbing your skin like he already feels something growing there.
You laugh softly, feeling a flutter in your chest when you see him acting as if you’re full of his child already. “Don’t play. Once you get me pregnant, you stuck with me fuh’ good.”
Smoke lifts his head, eyes locked on yours with a serious expression on his face. “I wanna be stuck. Wanna have a house full of kids,” he murmurs while his hands still linger against your skin. “Want all of ‘em lookin’ jus’ like you.” You smile when you hear him say that, Smoke has always had a way of saying the words that make you feel all mushy inside.
You pull him in for another kiss, allowing your lips to linger against his before pulling away. After you and him take a few moments to gather yourselves, you find yourself tangled together once again but this time you're on top, you can’t let have Smoke have all the fun of being in control.
For the rest of the night it's just you and him in the little office. Rekindling your love, fucking each other senseless, while the scent of sweat and love lingers in air. For the first time in a long time, both of you are right where you want to be, in each other’s arms.
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ONE MONTH LATER….
The morning started slow, like most have lately. You’re sitting at the small wooden kitchen table, sunlight slipping through the curtains and beaming on the tablecloth your mama gifted you years ago. The smell of frying pork fat still hung in the air, and the biscuits you made sits half-eaten between you and Smoke.
You’re wearing one your many nightgowns, cotton thin and soft against your skin, while your feet are propped on the edge of his chair, knees bent. He’s eating quietly, calm as always, big hands steady as he sopped up syrup with a piece of biscuit.
He doesn’t seem to have a care in the world but your mind has been running wild all week. Something in your body has been feeling off. You’ve been nauseous almost every morning, tired all the time, snapping at Smoke for no good reason, and your breasts have started to to become tender.
There’s a weight to you now that wasn’t there before. A stretch behind your ribs, a mysterious heat low in your belly. You’ve been trying to brush it off. Tell yourself it’s too early to get your hopes up, reminding yourself it will take a while before your in the family way. But this morning you can’t hold it in anymore. “Elijah?”
He glances up, chewing slow, then wiping his fingers on a napkin. “Hm?”
You hesitate at first, fidgeting with the food on your plate, pushing the scrambled eggs around with a fork, before speaking. “I… I think somethin’ goin’ on wit’ me.”
His brow crease as he straightens up in his seat. “What kinda somethin’?”
“I don’t know. I jus’ feel different. Been tired, sick in the mornin’, and my body been achin’. I think i’m comin’ down with somethin’.”
You look up at him for the first time since sitting across from him, searching for any sign of emotion in his face. At first Smoke doesn’t blink. He just stares for a beat, then his face softens just a little, making your heart flutter. “I been watchin’ you.” he says, voice low and still filled with sleep.
Smoke is an attentive man, his eyes are always on you no matter what. So when he noticed you moving slower, how you could no longer stomach certain foods, and how your emotions have been all over the place, his mind started to spin with his own ideas of what could be going on. “Baby, ion think you sick.” He looks down at your belly, then back at you. “I think you pregnant.”
Your heart clenches at the mention of a baby possibly forming in your womb. You set down the fork and rest your hand on your stomach, feeling your nerves begin to get the best of you. “You think so?”
He nods, standing firm in his statement. “Don’t jus’ think it. I feel it.”
“I ain’t wanna get my hopes up. Not after all we been through…” You express to Smoke. With everything you and him went through years ago, all the emotions it brings out of you and the strain it can cause on your relationship, you don’t want to go through that again. You know you won’t be able to handle it a second time and Smoke does too.
“I know.” Smoke says as he takes a deep breath, reaching across the table and lays his palm over your hand that’s tapping nervously against the wood. “But this time feels different. You feel different.”
You sigh sharply, feeling yourself calm down just a little when you see how confident Smoke is about you being pregnant even though there’s a nagging voice in the back of your mind telling you it’s impossible after you’ve only been trying for a month plus all the prior failed attempts. “You think Annie would come by? Check me out?”
“She’ll come,” Smoke reassuringly tightens your hand before standing up, reaching for his tweed jacket thats hanging off the back of his chair. “I’ll go get her myself.” Before he walks out the door, he places a kiss on your temple, making a soft smile come across your lips.
After almost thirty minutes, Smoke shows up with Annie trailing behind him inside the house, basket in hand with all of the supplies she needs for a full exam, her haint blue dress hugging her full figure. Annie is your closest friend, and you trust her to guide you through this journey more than any backwoods doctor or midwife.
She’s caught babies all across the county and laid hands on sick folks so long, folks say her touch can pull a fever right out the skin. Her first love is hoodoo but her second is bringing new life into the world. She sets her basket down with a thud and gives you a look, letting you know that something sassy is about to roll off her tongue. “You gon’ make me dig around or you gon’ tell me what’s goin’ on first?"
“I’m late,” you say quietly, fidgeting with the lace pattern along your dress that you changed into before she arrived. “Been sick, tired. I jus’ wanna see if I’m...”
Annie knows how hard it has been for you and Smoke to conceive, and how long you’ve yearned to become a mother so she understands the weight of this moment, and how its hard for you to allow the word “pregnant” to slip through your lips until you know for sure. She flashes you a soft smile and gives you a comforting hand on your shoulder. “Alright then. Let’s see what’s goin’ on.”
You lead her to the back of your home where your bedroom resides and you lie down on your bed, with Smoke right by your side. Most men don’t want to be around for exams like this, thinking it’s just “womanly work” or gross but Smoke is far from that mindset, he wants to be included in every phase. Plus, you don’t want him far. You’ve separated from each other for far too long and you need him right by your side holding your hand, whether it’s good or bad news.
Annie’s touch is gentle as she presses and prods your body, asking you a series of questions, humming under her breath while her eyes are half-closed like she’s feeling more with her spirit than her fingers. She uses a series of instruments, including a Pinard Horn, searching for a fetal heartbeat to fill her eardrums.
After what feels like hours of long silence and tension so thick it can be sliced with a knife, she completes her routine exam. When she first looks up at you and Smoke, her face is neutral, not really showing any sign of emotion until she flashes a smile. “Honey, you with child.”
Your throat closes and it feels like you can’t breathe for a second. The air leaves your lungs in a rush, chest heaving while tears immediately fill your eyes. You cover your mouth with your hand, trembling all over. “Really? I’m… I’m pregnant?” The word finally emerges from your throat, your tone sounding like you barely believe what Annie despite her many years of expertise.
Annie nods, her smile growing even wider. “Yes, y/n. You pregnant. Belly’s already startin’ to swell. You ain’t too far along. Maybe five, six weeks, but it’s a baby in there, no doubt.” She says, rubbing your belly softly. “Baby strong too. I heard that heartbeat clear as day.”
The tears fall freely now, spilling down your cheeks as you turn your face into Smoke’s shoulder. He’s already there, leaning down, wrapping you up in his arms before you have the opportunity to fall apart. “Breathe, baby,” he murmurs against your temple, voice calm despite his own brewing excitement, soothing you in the moment. “You hear that? You carryin’. We gon’ have a baby.”
“I can’t believe it,” you say, fingers clutching at his jacket, holding on like you might drown in your own of tears and waves of emotion. “we tried for so long. I thought— I thought it would never—”
Smoke tilts your chin, forcing you to look at him. His eyes are wet too, though he hasn’t allowed a single tear to fall. He just looks at you with his usual brooding intensity, but much softer now. “Believe it. I told you. I felt it. From the night I put it in ya’, I knew.”
You choke on a laugh, even through the tears, not believing he said that right in front Annie without a care. “You so sure of yo’self.”
Annie clears her throat gently, gathering up her things, wanting to give you and him some time alone to reflect on the joyful news. “I’ma leave y’all to it. Let her rest, Smoke. Don’t you let her lift nothin’ heavy, and make sure she eat good.” She gives you a wink, letting you know that you and her will be talking later, before slipping out the door, leaving the two of you wrapped in silence.
When she’s gone, you lie back against the pillows, still trembling, your hands covering your belly as if you could already feel something moving inside. Smoke gets in the bed with you, pulling you close to him until your skin presses against his own.
His hand rests on yours, circling his thumb against your very slightly swollen belly while a warmth spreads through him that he’s never felt before. Since that night in Club Juke he believed you would become pregnant, he just didn’t know exactly when but now that the day has come he is the happiest man on Earth.
He can now become a “Papa” to little boy or girl. “Thank you,” he whispers with a vulnerability you haven't heard from him since that long talk you and him in his office. “Thank you for givin’ me a second chance. For givin’ me this baby.”
You run your fingers through his hair, caressing the strong line of his nape, then smoothing over the crown of his head, something you know he loves, something that always makes him melt a little no matter how hard he tries to hide it.
Smoke’s hand never leaves your belly, he just rubs gently against your skin in a way that calms your soul. His head dips towards you, his full lips pressing against your temple, your damp cheek, and then the curve of your jaw. Your tears quickly turn into sniffles, chest still hitching as you let out a trembling laugh while Smoke’s lips continuously press against your skin. “You gon’ smother me, Smoke.”
“I ain’t smotherin’ you. I’m lovin’ on you.” he corrects, wrapping both of his arms around you while giving you one last kiss. “You, me, and this little one. We gon’ be alright.” Despite Smoke’s seven year absence, he’s a good man, you know that. One thing he’s always been is devoted to you, even hundreds of miles away.
Now that Smoke is going to be a family man, his devotion and love for you will only grow stronger, he’ll never cross over state lines without you by his side.
One thing Smoke loves about you is how nurturing and loving you are, how strong you care for the people you love. In his eyes, you have all the qualities to be a perfect mother to your baby boy or girl. “You gon’ be a good mama.”
“And I already know you gon’ be the best papa.” When he hears that he can’t help but smile. With all the trauma he experienced with his own father, he’s always vowed that once he had children he would treat them with love, kindness, and most of all respect.
He leans down and kisses for the millionth time, slow and sweet, like there’s nowhere else he’d rather be than by your side. “We gon’ have a house full of babies. Jus’ like I told you.” The words run off Smoke’s tongue so easily, like he’s already planning future pregnancies before you can even complete your first trimester.
You giggle softly, shaking your head at the seriousness in his tone. “One thing at a time, Smoke. Lemme give birth to this one first before we talk about havin’ more.”
In this moment, with Smoke’s warmth around you and the spark of new life growing inside your womb, you feel like all the trials and tribulations that you and Smoke went through in your relationship is worth it.
Everything you’ve ever wanted in life has now fallen into place. Smoke has come back into your life, your womb has been filled with a child, and your relationship couldn’t be better. In the end, all the pain, crying, longing, and tears were worth it. Your heart is now complete.
