[They're kissing kind of hard. Ryou's trying to distract him, and Atem's remembering how important it is that Ryou is here, and between Ryou's determination and the desperate edge to the way Atem's kissing open-mouthed, it's not particularly restrained.
The mood shifts again, though, when Ryou makes that small, pleased sound. Having a hand in his snake-hair is nice, but hearing a groan like that from Ryou makes Atem's stomach drop, like the winch at the top of the elevator-shaft just broke and he's falling. It's a nice feeling, but a new one -- butterflies? Butterflies in his stomach? Is this what people call that? -- and he sighs his feelings about it, and some of the tension from a moment ago, out. Atem lets himself feel less worried, lets himself float a little. Be in his body, for a moment.
He breaks the kiss, kisses the corner of Ryou's mouth, then presses a third kiss under Ryou's ear. The grip he has on Ryou's hair, his fingers wound in it, helps him tilt Ryou's head to the side, to make room. It is really, really nice, to be holding Ryou with his entire body while they kiss. All the snakes who can reach Ryou are wrapped around his hand or nuzzling his face and hair with their chins, and Atem's breathing is deepening. He is focusing on the present, on everything his senses are telling him, on how very warm he is, nothing's wrong, nothing is possibly going to go wrong--]
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The mood shifts again, though, when Ryou makes that small, pleased sound. Having a hand in his snake-hair is nice, but hearing a groan like that from Ryou makes Atem's stomach drop, like the winch at the top of the elevator-shaft just broke and he's falling. It's a nice feeling, but a new one -- butterflies? Butterflies in his stomach? Is this what people call that? -- and he sighs his feelings about it, and some of the tension from a moment ago, out. Atem lets himself feel less worried, lets himself float a little. Be in his body, for a moment.
He breaks the kiss, kisses the corner of Ryou's mouth, then presses a third kiss under Ryou's ear. The grip he has on Ryou's hair, his fingers wound in it, helps him tilt Ryou's head to the side, to make room. It is really, really nice, to be holding Ryou with his entire body while they kiss. All the snakes who can reach Ryou are wrapped around his hand or nuzzling his face and hair with their chins, and Atem's breathing is deepening. He is focusing on the present, on everything his senses are telling him, on how very warm he is, nothing's wrong, nothing is possibly going to go wrong--]