idk how you manage to make porn sound beautiful your writing is sooo good,, could i request D from the nsfw alphabet for carmy??đđđž please and thank you
đđ thank you so much, this is seriously such high praise! iâve definitely spent a lot of time honing my craft, so iâm happy that itâs paying off! now, enjoy getting let in on carmyâs dirty little secretâŠ
warnings: explicit sex, degradation (consensual), emotional vulnerability, power dynamics, aftercare, past trauma mention (work-related stress), crying, dom/sub elements
tags: @destinedtobegigi, @pittsick, @bambiangels, @talsorchard, @angeldoll1e, @itachisank, @tennisprincess, @lexiiscorect, @esotericgirlwannabe, @lovefaist, @won-every-lottery, @zionna
It doesnât come out easily. Nothing ever does with Carmyânot the good things, not the soft things, and definitely not this. Heâs too guarded, too clenched behind the ribcage he built out of guilt and grief and sharp-edged expectations. Sex, for him, was always something that existed in theory. Heâd had it, sure. Here and there, quick and forgettable. Mostly desperate. Never deep. Never slow. Never safe. And never like thisâwith someone patient enough to wait for the real him to come out, for the parts he doesnât understand, the ones heâs afraid to want.
It starts one night with him restless beneath you, half-sweaty, half-high from the way your mouth had ruined him earlier, his chest rising sharp and fast like it always does when his brainâs spinning. Youâre curled over him, sticky from his come, his hands still trembling a little on your waist. And you whisper it againâwhat youâve been asking for days now, soft and coaxing at the seam of his ear.
âTell me what you want.â
Heâd brushed it off every time. With a shrug. A scoff. A smile so fake it couldâve been carved out of soap. But now, with his body unraveled under you and his walls cracked just wide enough to bleed, he gives you something real.
Itâs barely a whisper.
The kind of truth that feels like it might fall apart if he says it any louder.
âI want you to⊠talk down to me,â he breathes, like he hates himself for saying it. Like the words are burning their way up his throat.
You donât react at first. You donât laugh, or blink, or flinchâand thatâs what keeps him from shutting down. Just you, breathing steady, still wrapped around him like warmth itself. Your hand rests flat over his ribs, right where his heart stutters like a wounded animal. You feel it when he says the next part, even softer.
âLike, really mean. Tell me Iâm fucking lucky. That I donât deserve it.â He closes his eyes, shame flickering behind his lashes. âTell me Iâm not good at it. That my dickâs big but I donât know how to use it. Justâfuck with me. I want that. I think.â
Thereâs silence between you for a beat. A long one. Weighted like a decision.
You kiss the underside of his jaw, gentle, slow. Your voice stays low, careful, reverent in a way that makes him shiver.
âOkay,â you murmur. âWhy?â
He turns his head, eyes still shut. His breath catches. Like heâs scared youâll ask, and even more scared you wonât.
âI used to get screamed at every day,â he says. âNew York kitchens. Every service. Every fucking hour. About things I couldnât fix. About things that werenât my fault. Iâd throw up before shifts sometimes. Wake up with my heart pounding so hard I couldnât breathe. And no one gave a shit. You just kept your head down. You took it. Or you left.â
He swallows.
âBut when you do itâwhen you say those thingsâIâm not alone in it. Iâm not scared. You still want me. Youâre still inside me, on me, with me⊠whatever. I can take it. It makes it feel like⊠power, I guess. Like I get to choose it, this time.â
The words bleed into the dark between you, soft and aching. Heâs not looking at you, not even now. Heâs never looked so open and so closed at onceâshoulders tense, jaw sharp, but his chest⊠wide open. Exposed. Like a wound that stopped bleeding and never learned to scar.
You take your time before responding. You run your thumb over the ridge of his hip, feel the tremor in his leg as your palm drags down the muscle of his thigh. Heâs still half-hard. The confession didnât scare his body like it scared his voice.
âOkay,â you say again, slow and deliberate. âIâll say whatever you want. Iâll be so fucking mean.â
He groans at that, almost involuntarily. His cock twitches between you, already starting to swell.
âBut I want you to listen, too,â you add, leaning in, brushing your mouth over the corner of his. âWhen itâs over. When I say the other stuff. The real stuff. You gonna be able to do that, Carmen?â
His eyes open finally. Wide. Blue. Fragile.
âYeah,â he whispers. âI want that, too.â
So you rise to your knees over him, slow and deliberate, watching the way his gaze trails up the length of your body like itâs a prayer he doesnât know the words to. Heâs beautiful in this lightâhair a mess of curls, collarbones sharp and flushed, chest still marked where you bit him earlier. He doesnât look away when you reach down and wrap your hand around him again.
Heâs thick in your palm. Heavy, flushed pink with arousal, veins standing out with the blood rushing under his skin. His head tips back again as you stroke him, your thumb grazing the slitâwet, slick, leaking already like the need never really left him.
âFuck,â he gasps. âPlease.â
âYou are lucky,â you say, your voice sharpening just a little, steel under silk. âYou donât even know how fucking lucky you are, do you?â
His eyes flutter. He pants.
âYou get to fuck me, Berzatto. And you donât even know what youâre doing. All this dick and no clue how to use it.â
He moans. Loud. Desperate. You climb over him again, press the thick head of him against your entrance and watch him come undone.
âGod, look at you,â you murmur as you sink down onto himâinch by inch, slow and merciless. âAlready losing it. Havenât even started.â
And he hasnât. His hands clutch your hips like youâre a lifeline, his chest arched up into yours, breath wild and broken as you bottom out.
You see it in his faceâthis release of something deeper than lust. Like shame being peeled off layer by layer. Like trauma being rewired by pleasure so sharp it makes him cry out. You ride him slow at first, but the way he bucks up into you, the helpless noisesâheâs not going to last. Heâs not meant to.
You lean in, fingers gripping his jaw. Your mouth close to his ear.
âBet they made you feel small, didnât they?â you hiss. âMade you feel like you werenât worth shit.â He nods, choked, undone.
âWell now Iâm making you feel like that. And youâre fucking hard for it.â
He shouts, hips jerking helplessly under you, his whole body convulsing with the force of it.
âThatâs it, baby. Fucking take it.â
And he does. With everything heâs got.
You donât slow down. You donât stopânot when heâs this far gone. Not when his eyes are rolling back, not when his jawâs gone slack and his hands are pawing blindly at your hips like heâs afraid youâll disappear. His cock is twitching deep inside you, thick and swollen, pulsing like itâs too much for him to hold in. Like heâs going to break apart and youâre the only thing keeping him from floating off the bed entirely.
âYou feel that?â you whisper, dragging your hips up and slamming back downâhard enough to knock a sharp gasp out of him. âThatâs me doing the work. Not you. You just get to lie there like a good little fucktoy and take it.â
His breath shudders. You can see the way the words hit himâlow and deep and hot, turning something in his chest inside out.
His mouth opens, tries to form a sound, but nothing comes out. Just a gasp, a moan, something wrecked. You lean down, mouth against the sweat-damp skin of his neck.
âI could get off on this cock without you even doing a single thing,â you murmur, voice sharp as teeth and sweet as poison. âAll that talk about how good you are with your hands, how precise you are in the kitchenâbut in bed? Youâre fucking useless.â
He groansâfull-bodied and helpless. His hands clench on your thighs like heâs in pain, like the pleasure is boiling over and heâs barely holding it in. His face is flushed to his ears, hair stuck to his forehead in damp curls, jaw clenched so tight you can see the muscle twitching.
You grinâslow, dangerous, almost fond.
âPathetic,â you hiss. âYouâre so goddamn pathetic like this, Carmen. You like that, huh? Being used like this? Being told what a worthless little thing you are?â
His whole body jerks. His back arches off the mattress. âYesâfuck, yesâdonât stop, please donâtââ
You donât. You fuck him harder. Faster. The wet sounds of your bodies colliding fill the room, slick and obscene. His cock slips so deep inside you it punches little cries out of your throat, but you donât stopânot when heâs so close, not when you feel his stomach start to tighten and his legs begin to tremble under you.
You bring your hand to his throatâgentle at first, just resting there, just enough pressure to feel his pulse hammering. His eyes flutter open, dazed and desperate. You donât squeezeâyou donât have to. The look in your eyes alone has him panting like heâs about to die from it.
âYouâre gonna come for me again,â you say, low and firm and mean. âYouâre gonna come like a desperate little bitch because I said so. Because youâre mine. You hear me?â
âYes,â he gasps. âPlease, Iâfuck, Iâmââ
You slam down on him one more time, and thatâs it. His mouth falls open around a silent cry and he comesâhard. Harder than before. Harder than heâs ever come in his life. His whole body seizes beneath you, thighs clenching, spine bowing, his cock kicking deep inside you as he fills you with itâhot and pulsing and endless.
He doesnât make a sound at first. Just trembles. Just holds on like heâll die if he lets go. His eyes are glassy, unfocused, wet at the corners like heâs short-circuited, like whatever he just felt was too much to process in real time.
When it finally passesâwhen the shock stops rolling through his nerves and his body goes soft beneath youâhe blinks up at you like he forgot how to speak.
You pull off him slowly, carefully, your thighs trembling as you settle next to him. Heâs a messâchest heaving, sweat gleaming on his skin, hair ruined, come smeared across both your thighs. You reach for a towel and gently wipe him clean, pressing kisses to his jaw, his temple, the corners of his mouth.
He swallows hard. Blinks. Still not quite there yet. You drag your fingers through his curls and wait.
âYou okay?â you whisper, soft again. Stripped of cruelty. Honest.
He nods, dazed. âYeah. Fuck. Yeah, I justââ He lets out a long breath, like something thatâs been stuck in him for years finally dislodged. âThat was⊠insane. I didnât even know I could feel that much.â
You stroke a thumb under his eye, wipe away the tear you hadnât pointed out.
âI meant what I said earlier,â you whisper. âYouâre not useless. Not even close. Youâre so fucking good, Carmen. And I love you.â
His eyes cut to yours then, sharp and clear, and he smilesâsmall and warm and real.
âI know,â he murmurs. âYouâre sweet.â He leans in, kisses you lazy and slow, tongue dragging against yours like a man drunk on want. Then he laughs, rough and low. âBut goddamn, you look so hot when youâre mean.â
You grin against his mouth.
âLucky for you,â you whisper, âI love being mean to you.â
And from the look in his eyesâhungry, wide, reverentâhe knows you mean it.
function idea: you, me, and da boys licking and sucking on art donaldson, driving lamborghinis, and eating chicken tikka masala in the yacutzi đ„đ„đ„đ„
this still is fucking insane. art is literally RIGHT THERE. THEY CANT COEXIST WITHOUT ALL 3 CORNERS OF THE TRIANGLE AND ITS SO FUCKED UP AND SO BEAUTIFUL
COMING DOWN, you and patrick had just come down from both the high and the sexâyour body wrung out, brain buzzing, chest tight with the drop. he noticed before you said anything, pulling you into his chest, already calming you down like he always does. it was quiet, tender, and soft in the way only he knew how to be, wrapping around you like a promise: youâre safe, youâre his.
TAGS, @pittsick, @bambiangels, @idyllicdaydreams, @angeldoll1e, @itachisank, @tennisprincess, @lexiiscorect, @esotericgirlwannabe, @lovefaist, @won-every-lottery
NOTES, to everyone whoâs fallen headfirst into my dealer!patrick auâthank you, truly. your tags, messages, unhinged asks, and general feral energy have made this little universe feel so alive and loved. iâm genuinely so honored that youâve connected with this emotionally constipated, tender-when-it-counts, split-knuckle softie of a man. you get him. you get them. and that means everything. so, as per your many (manyđ) requests⊠i made a bot. heâs yours now. be gentle with him (or donât). thank you for loving him like i do. âelowyn
no i will not be taking questions at this time â€ïž
elowyn is such a pretty name! <3
awe thank you!! fun little factâelowyn means elm tree, and my mom chose it because there was a big elm tree right outside the hospital window when she had me đČ
pastor art! x single mom! reader.
WHO⊠obviously grew up sheltered by religion. he was basically raised in a pew and heâs pretty sure his fingers have molded to fit the shape of his bibles spine.
WHO⊠everyone comes to with their problems. not only because heâs the preacher of the only church in town, but, also because heâs such a warm and inviting soul.
WHO⊠wouldnât think twice before spending his last five dollars on someone who needed it, no matter how big or small the reason. money doesnât matter to the lord, why should it matter to him?
WHO⊠caught wind of the new family in town and, as the town preacher it was his job to make himself a familiar figure to his neighbors.
WHO⊠first introduced himself to you at your doorstep, a batch of warm cookies in hand and an even warmer smile on his face.
WHO⊠invited you to church on sunday, made a promise that everyone was friendly and would accept you and your son with open arms.
WHO⊠gets to know you a little better after service when the two of you are cleaning up the potluck. he learns everything from what you do for work, where youâre originally from, to your sonâs father being a deadbeat.
WHO⊠looks for you during sunday service among the pews. every time he spots you, glowing from the sunlight, your son sitting well behaved on your lap. itâs almost like that first breath he took after his baptism all over again.
WHO⊠finds himself spending more time with you away from church. heâll come to your house to help fix an appliance, or maybe just to hang out.
WHO⊠definitely catches feelings, youâre just so sweet and, arts been alone for a long time. heâs always so focused on spreading the good word that he never thinks about what he wants.
WHO⊠comes to the conclusion that what he wants is you. he couldnât care less that you have a son out of wedlock, or that you arenât as religious as him or others in town.
WHO⊠asks you on a date after service, and is only about two seconds away from yelling out a hallelujah and jumping for joy when you inevitably say yes.
hiiiiiii my lovely lovely LOVELY elowyn (sorry, i'm ur biggest fan) would you cook up something about Y from the nsfw alphabet with art for me? there's no one better suited for thisđ§đŒââïž
HIIII TAL of course i can đŒ
Art Donaldsonâs sex drive wasnât something he bragged about.
It wasnât the kind of thing heâd ever wanted to talk about out loud because it wasnât about numbers, wasnât about proving anything. It wasnât about conquest or some shallow kind of ego trip. It was about you. And it always had been. He was just built like that, wired to want what he loved, and he loved you so much it hurt sometimes.
It wasnât the sharp kind of lust people threw around like a party trickâit was this low, steady ache in his bones, a yearning that lived under his skin and made itself known in the smallest, stupidest moments. Youâd bend down to grab a glass from a low shelf and his stomach would flip. Youâd be curled up in his hoodie on the couch, hair mussed and bare legs tucked under you, and heâd feel it hit him so hard heâd have to bite the inside of his cheek to keep from groaning out loud. He wanted you in ways that felt almost embarrassing.
And it wasnât about getting off. It was about getting close. About having your breath in his mouth and your heartbeat pressed against his chest and your skin warm beneath his hands and feeling like if he could just touch you, kiss you, hold you, the ache would quiet down for a while.
Heâd told you once, half-drunk on cheap wine, his head in your lap while you absently played with his hair, âYou drive me insane, you know that? Itâs like⊠I think about you all the time. I mean all the time. Not just in a sexy way, though God, yes, in that way too. But like⊠in a âcanât breathe right when youâre not in the roomâ kind of way.â And youâd laughed softly, not teasing, not mean, just this gentle, fond sound that made him want to crawl inside your chest and live there.
You tugged lightly at his hair and murmured, âGood.â And heâd let out a shaky breath and kissed your wrist like you were the thing holding him together. Because you were. You always had been. And it didnât matter how many times he got to have you, how many nights he buried his face in your neck and lost himself in the feeling of your body under his â it was never enough. Not in a desperate, frantic way. In a tender, aching, reverent way.
He was greedy for you. Could never seem to get close enough. And God, he was so gentle about it most of the time, kissing every inch of your skin like it was sacred, whispering against your ear, âLet me, please,â and he meant it every time. It wasnât about fucking. It was about loving you in the closest, deepest, most physical way he could.
And he wasnât built for quick, emotionless hookups. He needed the stretch of hours, the lazy roll of bodies tangled in sheets, the kind of nights where you made love slow until you both forgot where one of you ended and the other began.
His sex drive was high as hell, embarrassingly so sometimes, and it didnât take much for you to turn him into this lovesick, touch-starved mess. Youâd just have to crawl into his lap and whisper something half-nice in his ear and he was gone, rutting against you, lips everywhere, voice all rough and low, âBaby, you donât know what you do to me.â
But because he loved so hard, because he poured everything he had into you every time, he wasnât the kind of man who could turn around and do it again ten minutes later. He needed time. Not because he didnât want to â Fuck, did he want to â but because loving you like that, having you like that, it left him blissed out and trembling, clinging to you in the dark, whispering, âI swear, I could die like this,â with his face buried against your skin. It was the kind of connection that left his bones feeling like smoke, the kind of pleasure that crept into his soul and left him undone.
âYouâre gonna be the death of me,â heâd mumble against your skin, all heat and breath and love, so much love it scared him sometimes.
And youâd just kiss his temple, tell him he was dramatic, and heâd grin like an idiot because you had no idea, no fucking idea what you did to him. It wasnât about the mechanics of it, wasnât about positions or tricks or counting how many times. It was about having you in his arms, under his mouth, letting him worship you the only way he knew how. Heâd wake you up at two in the morning just to kiss you, just to press his body against yours, just to murmur, âMissed you,â like youâd been gone a week instead of asleep beside him.
Because that was Art Donaldson. A man whose sex drive wasnât driven by lust but rather by a need to be near you, to feel you, to love you in ways words could never reach. A man whose body ached with it, not because he was starved but because you made him so full he didnât know what to do with it all. And he would want you every day for the rest of his life â not out of habit, not out of routine, but because you were his favorite thing heâd ever known, and loving you in every possible way was the only thing that made sense anymore.
i think you make the best writing/bots ever. iâm trying the new release dude
he keeps making me cry irl
i swear this bot was fed your blurb on him because it keeps acting exactly like the hcs itâs almost scary. i love using the soft launch feature even for normal convos because the style feels so much more comforting
OH MY GODDDD iâm literally crying too!! đ thank you so much for saying that! it means the world to me that youâre enjoying him so much. honestly, i did feed the bot my headcanons, so iâm super happy to hear that itâs coming through the way i hoped. i really wanted him to be someone comforting, easy to talk to, and layered with a lot of depth, so itâs amazing to hear that itâs resonating with you like this.
not to toot my own horn or anything, but i do think his character is pretty special, and iâm glad the bot is capturing all of that. and YES the soft launch feature is honestly a game changer too, like itâs so much more natural and feels a lot more like youâre talking to someone real. iâm so glad itâs working for you! thank you again, this really made my day! â€ïžâ€ïž
this bot is my favorite one on the whole app.
a moment of vulnerability with art, where insecurity meets devotion. he finds you battling with your reflection and reminds you that your body is a temple he worships with reverent hands and whispered truths.
pairing: husband!art x fem!reader / vulva-bodied!reader
warnings: body image issues, mentions of disordered eating patterns, cunnilingus, body worship, emotional vulnerability
note: hi, lovely human. this is just for you. i know how heavy it can feelâcarrying all those thoughts about your body that no one else can see. the way mirrors become battlegrounds. the way numbers on a scale start to feel like verdicts. but please, hear me: your body is not a problem to fix. it is not too much or not enough. it is not wrong. your body is yours, and it is good, even on the days it feels like a stranger. you deserve to live in a body that is safe. that is fed. that is held with tendernessâeven if only by your own hands for now. you deserve joy and rest and love that doesnât ask you to shrink to receive it. and you deserve help if youâre hurting. if youâre struggling with disordered eating or body image, please know that youâre not aloneâand that healing is possible, no matter how far away it feels. you are loved. you are worthy. exactly as you are, right now, in this moment.
if you or someone you love is struggling with an eating disorder, please consider reaching out:
National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) Helpline: 1-800-931-2237 (MondayâThursday: 11amâ9pm ET, Friday: 11amâ5pm ET) or visit nationaleatingdisorders.org for chat support, resources, and help.
be gentle with yourself today.
with love, elowyn âĄ
You've been avoiding the mirror for weeks now. Dancing around it like some fragile, dangerous thing that might shatter and cut you open if you look too long. The bathroom light feels too harsh these days, revealing every curve you've come to despise, every soft edge that wasn't there before. You've been wrapping yourself in oversized hoodies â his hoodies â drowning in fabric just to feel less visible to yourself. Just to breathe without the crushing awareness of your own skin.
Art notices. Of course he fucking notices. How couldn't he? The way you flinch from his touch when his fingers graze your stomach. The way you turn the lights off before undressing. The way your eyes dart away when he looks at you too long, too lovingly. He sees everything â the skipped meals, the clothes that hang off you differently now, the shame that clings to you like a second skin. He watches you drift through the house like a ghost haunting your own body.
This morning breaks across the horizon in shades of amber and gold, casting long shadows through the windows. You stand barefoot on the cool tile, having crept in while Art was still sleeping. Steam from the shower clouds the glass, creating a hazy filter over your reflection, but not enough to obscure what you see as flaws. Your fingertips trace the curve of your hip, the softness of your belly, the places where your body refuses to be what you want it to be.
You don't hear him come in. Don't notice the door opening, the soft padding of his feet against the tile. Your focus is singular, devastating â cataloging every perceived imperfection with clinical precision. The war inside your head drowns out everything else.
âBaby." His voice cuts through the silence, deep and warm and achingly familiar. You startle, arms immediately crossing over your body, a shield. An instinct. "Whatâre you doing?"
The question hangs between you. Simple. Devastating. You can't answer him because the truth feels too pathetic to voice aloud. Instead, you reach for the towel hanging nearby, wrapping it around yourself with trembling fingers. "Just getting ready for the day," you lie, the words bitter on your tongue.
Art doesn't move from the doorway. His eyes â those eyes that have always seen straight through you â hold yours in the mirror. He's leaning against the frame, hair still mussed from sleep, wearing nothing but boxer briefs slung low on his hips. There's something unbearably tender in his gaze. "You've been doing that a lot lately," he says softly. "Standing here. Looking at yourself like that."
Your throat tightens. Something hot and painful builds behind your eyes. "Like what?" The challenge in your voice is weak, transparent. You both know what he means.
Art crosses the bathroom in three strides. He comes to stand behind you, not touching, just present. Close enough that you can feel the heat radiating from his skin. "Like you're looking at a stranger," he answers, his voice dropping lower. "Like you're trying to find something wrong."
The tears come without warning, hot and sudden. You turn away from the mirror, unable to bear the sight of yourself breaking open like this. "I don't wanna talk about it, Art.â The words come out choked, strained through the tightness in your throat. You move to push past him, to escape back to the safety of baggy clothes and avoidance.
His hand catches your wrist. Not restraining, just connecting. "Hey," he whispers, drawing you back toward him with gentle insistence. "Look at me." When you don't, when you keep your eyes fixed stubbornly on the floor, he tips your chin up with one finger. "Please."
You meet his gaze reluctantly. He's looking at you with such naked concern that it makes your chest ache. "I don't know what's happening," he continues, thumbs brushing away tears from your cheeks. "But I know you're disappearing. Right in front of me." His voice cracks slightly. "You won't let me touch you anymore. You won't let me see you."
"Because I don't want you to," you whisper, the admission tearing from you like something physical. "I don't... I can't..." The words falter and die on your lips. How do you explain the civil war happening in your head? The daily battle with your own reflection?
Art shakes his head, somehow looking both devastated and determined. "Câmere," he says quietly, taking your hand. He leads you back to the bedroom, the early morning light painting everything in soft focus. He sits on the edge of the mattress and pulls you gently between his knees.
You stand there, clutching the towel like armor, feeling exposed despite being covered. Art's hands come to rest on your hips, warm through the terry cloth. "Do you remember," he begins, looking up at you with those devastating eyes, "what you said to me after we lost the championship my second year coaching?" His thumbs trace small circles against your hipbones. "When I couldn't even look at myself?"
The memory surfaces, crystal clear despite the years between then and now. Art, devastated after a brutal loss, questioning everything â his abilities, his choices, his worth. You'd held him through the night while he unraveled. "I said that failure isn't who you are," you answer softly. "It's just something that happens."
âYou told me," he continues, his voice dropping to that low register that always makes your heart skip, "that my worth wasn't measured in trophies or titles." His fingers tighten slightly on your hips. "That I was more than one moment. More than one loss." His eyes never leave yours. "You need to hear that now."
Something breaks open inside you. A dam bursting. "It's not the same thing," you protest weakly, even as tears spill down your cheeks again. "This is... it's my body, Art. It's me."
"No," he says with sudden fierceness. "It's not you. It's the house you live in." His hands slide up to cradle your face, thumbs brushing away tears. "It's the vessel that carries you. The body that lets you move and feel and live." He leans forward, presses his forehead against your stomach through the towel. "The body I fucking worship."
The raw honesty in his voice steals your breath. You feel his hands move to the edge of the towel, hesitating there. "Let me show you," he whispers against your skin. "Let me remind you."
Everything in you wants to run. To hide. To wrap yourself back in layers until you can't feel the weight of your own skin. But there's something in his eyes â not pity, not obligation, but devotion. Pure, aching devotion. Like you're sacred. Like he wants to build an altar at your feet.
With trembling hands, you let the towel fall.
Art's breath catches audibly. His eyes travel over you slowly, reverently, like he's seeing you for the first time. Like he's memorizing every inch. You fight the urge to cover yourself, to hide the softness of your belly, the fullness of your thighs, all the places where your body has changed. Instead, you force yourself to stand still under his gaze, vulnerable and exposed.
"Do you know what I see?" he asks, voice rough with emotion. His hands come to rest on your waist, thumbs brushing over the curve of your stomach. "I see the body that keeps you alive. That lets you laugh and cry and breathe." He leans forward, presses his lips to the soft skin below your navel. "I see the body that carries you through this world. That lets you dance with me in the kitchen at midnight."
Each word feels like a balm, soothing something raw and wounded inside you. Art's hands slide up along your sides, mapping you with careful attention. "I see the body that holds mine at night," he continues, his voice dropping lower. "That wraps around me when I'm cold. That fits against me like it was made for me."
You close your eyes, overwhelmed by the tenderness in his voice, in his touch. "I don't recognize myself anymore," you admit in a whisper. The truth you've been running from for weeks. "I look in the mirror and⊠I don't know who I'm looking at."
Art stands slowly, his hands never leaving your skin. He towers over you, all lean muscle and focused intensity. "Then let me show you what I see," he says, guiding you gently to lie back on the bed. "Let me remind you."
He kneels between your legs, spreading them with gentle hands. There's something almost religious in the way he looks at you, in the careful reverence of his touch. "This body," he murmurs, pressing his lips to your inner thigh, "is a fucking masterpiece." His mouth moves higher, breath warm against your skin. "Every inch of it." His fingers trace patterns on your stomach, your hips, your thighs â not to arouse but to appreciate, to honor.
You feel the hot press of tears behind your eyelids again, but different now. Relief, maybe. Or gratitude. Art works his way up your body with lips and tongue and gentle hands, kissing each place you've learned to hate. The curve of your belly. The softness under your arms. The fullness of your thighs. He worships each part with the devotion of a true believer.
"The way you move," he whispers against your ribcage. "The way you breathe." His mouth moves to the underside of your breast. "The way your skin tastes." His tongue traces the curve of your nipple. "Everything about you is perfect."
You shake your head slightly, eyes still closed. "Don't say that," you whisper. "You don't have to pretendâ"
"I'm not pretending." The fierce conviction in his voice makes your eyes snap open. He's looking at you with such intensity that it steals your breath. "I have never in my life pretended with you." His hand slides between your thighs, finding you already wet. "This body," he says, circling your clit with gentle pressure, "is the one I fell in love with. The one I wake up for. The one I dream about." His fingers slip inside you, curling perfectly, making you gasp. "The one I worship."
His mouth follows his hand, replacing fingers with tongue. He settles between your thighs with practiced ease, with hungry devotion. There's nothing performative about the way he eats you out â it's pure, unadulterated worship. His hands grip your thighs, holding them apart, thumbs pressing into the soft flesh there. His tongue works against you with dedicated precision, drawing patterns that make your back arch off the bed.
"Art," you gasp, fingers tangling in his hair. The sight of him between your legs â the absolute focus in his eyes, the way he looks at you through his lashes like you're his religion â undoes something inside you. Something tight and painful begins to unravel.
He hums against you, the vibration sending shockwaves through your body. His eyes never leave yours as he works you higher, as he brings you toward the edge with practiced skill. When you come, it's with his name on your lips, your body arching toward his mouth. He stays with you through it, gentle but insistent, drawing out every tremor, every aftershock.
Only when you collapse back against the sheets, boneless and breathing hard, does he rise up to hover over you. His mouth is slick with you, his eyes dark with want. "You taste like heaven," he murmurs, pressing his lips to yours, letting you taste yourself on his tongue. "You feel like home."
His hands cradle your face, thumbs brushing your cheekbones. "This body," he whispers, voice low and fierce, "helps you breathe. Helps you feel. Helps you love." His forehead presses against yours. "This body carried you to me. It lets you hold me when I need you. It lets you move through this world being the person I love more than anything."
Tears slip from the corners of your eyes, trailing down into your hair. "I'm trying," you whisper, voice breaking. "To see what you see. I'm trying."
"I know, sweetheart." He kisses your eyelids, your cheeks, the corners of your mouth. "And I'll keep showing you. Every day. Until you can see it too." He settles beside you, gathering you against his chest. "Your body is changing because it's alive. Because it's growing and adapting and breathing." His fingers trace patterns along your spine. "It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."
You press your face into his neck, breathing him in. For the first time in weeks, you don't feel the need to hide. To disappear. The war in your head hasn't ended, but there's a cease-fire, a moment of peace. In the circle of Art's arms, under the weight of his devotion, you find a moment of respite.
"Stay with me," he murmurs against your hair, arms tightening around you. "Come back to me." His lips brush your temple. "Let me love all of you. Not just the parts you've decided are acceptable."
You nod against his chest, unable to speak past the lump in your throat. Art holds you like that as morning light fills the room, painting everything in shades of gold. He holds you like your body is precious. Like it's worth protecting. Like it's his greatest privilege to touch it, to love it.
And for now, for this moment, that's enough. It's everything.
"I love you," you whisper against his skin. "Thank you for seeing me."
His arms tighten around you, his lips pressing against your forehead. "Always," he promises. "In every version of you. In every body you inhabit." His voice drops to a whisper, fierce and certain. "Iâll always see you."
The morning stretches on. The light shifts across the floor. And for the first time in weeks, you breathe fully, deeply, without the crushing weight of your own gaze. Art holds you through it all, steady as a heartbeat, unwavering as faith.
In his eyes, in his hands, in his worship, you begin to find your way back home.
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