Zero has experienced varied and uncommon forms of pain and withstood things that would make the most seasoned solider bawl like a child— but this particular brand of pain ranked fairly high (she'd discussed it once with Zo who'd agreed— they had decided it was because of where it was and the emotions involved). She tries at first to shoulder it and give Aloy the cold shoulder, hurt and frustrated by all of this.
She does not get very far however. Zero presses down against the base of her breast with her hand in an effort to draw the liquid out, but the pressure is too much and she bites down a whimper of pain, groaning and pulling her hand away like she had been electrocuted. Moisture pools in the corner of her eyes and it makes Zero drop the insulated bag, rushing to wipe at her eyes.
"Fucking swamp— it's all this shit in the air." She's saving face, it's the pollen and pain both. Eyes dry Zero drops her hands to her sides, beside herself. She'd instinctively turned away slightly when Aloy approached. She had never been so self conscious in her life until she's gotten pregnant; Aloy saw very little of her unless she was nursing.
Zero takes a shaky breath and shifts so Aloy can see her. Her tunic is pulled down to her waist, breasts pulled out over the top of her brassier (they were uncommon in this place, she'd had Teb design it specially for her to combat her discomfort with her body). They are more swollen than usual from the stored liquid, areola enlarged from nursing.
"They.. haven't been dealt with since we left." It's strange for Zero to struggle with words being as crass as she is. It's a testament to how uncomfortable she has been since giving birth. "I can't do it myself, it hurts more that way and I keep pussying out."
She’s accustomed to Zero’s shyness around her body and the changes that had occurred both during and after her pregnancy. The reticence in voicing anything around the process of breastfeeding is new, however, enough to make Aloy’s brow crinkle. It’s the tears that alarm her the most, however, making her feel guilt and discomfort in equal measure. “I didn’t know it was this painful for you.” Her voice is soft, sympathetic. It is akin to the voice she uses when she is trying her best to soothe their child, calm and reassuring for all that she’s often frazzled and out of her depth. Not much different from how she feels now. “Tell me, next time.” It’s a request, not a demand. “I shouldn’t have pushed you so hard.”
Carefully, she cups Zero’s breasts in her hands. The weight of them is different even from the scarce moments they’d had during her pregnancy, heavy and flushed. It looks like it hurts, and her gaze flickers up to Zero’s face, as if searching for something.
“Uh…” she starts, and then, a little abashed: “I’m not sure what to do. Do I just… press down?” The obvious answer is there, sits uncomfortably in the back of her head. She doesn’t know why that is; there was nothing inherently sexual about the process. But it’s…boy. It’s a little weird.
"Yeah, you shouldn't have." In classic Zero fashion because she has offered up vulnerability and put herself in a vulnerable spot, she can now only respond with blame and subdued anger. "You scream when I touch yours while you're pmsing- multiply that by a thousand and one."
But the bite muffled by her apparent misery. She winces, anticipating pain when Aloy lifts her breasts- her hands are warm, even moreso than usual. Leave it to Aloy to be obtuse about all of this. How one person could be a fucking genius and an idiot at the same time was beyond her.
"I'm not actually a cow. Just.. put them in your mouth and suck. You've done that before." Zero looks away, uncomfortable. "Don't make this worse than it needs to be. It'll be faster this way- it'll hurt, but I'll feel better way sooner."
Aloy is still not entirely over their argument, and deadpans, “In my defense, you hide your pain like a dying animal. Just talk to me.”
It’s in reference to more than this, it seemed.
She colors at both the realization and at Zero’s tone. The, “I can’t believe you’re making me say this, stupid,” tone. “I,” she sputters, “I knew that. I only wanted to be sure.” She’d been hoping in some small way that it wasn’t that, and again she tries to separate the concept of it in her head from the act, which was simply to relieve Zero’s pain and discomfort.
And… something is jangling in the back of her head, not discomfort but restlessness, of a variety she doesn’t care to examine in the moment.
It’s been a while. She’s been pent up; they’ve barely interacted without the baby around. The birth itself had been nerve wracking. The circumstances around that birth had been frightening. It’s just energy without anywhere to go. It doesn’t mean anything. She had to focus on the result, not the things in between.
Aloy lowers her head and takes Zero’s breast into her mouth. Her skin is warm, almost feverish, the areola almost puffy, swollen and sensitive. Zero’s skin has that powdery airy smell she associates with her in the moments she was with the baby, fussing over a bath or humming her to sleep. It’s different from what she remembers, but not unpleasant, and the mingling of it with her sweat and exertion from today, and has the undertones of milk sweetness. That mixed with the pollen turns it unbearably heady, and she feels herself flush with the realization of it.
This could not possibly be turning her on. She felt insane. What the hell was wrong with her? This sudden awareness doesn’t stop her, though she allows her eyes to close and tilts her head downward so that Zero won’t see the proof of it written all over her face.
There's some hypocrisy in that dying animal comment, but she tables that for later - her chest is on fire from the every building pressure. Zero braces for pain, which does come as soon as Aloy takes her breast into her mouth, but slow building relief is just as instantaneous. Zero surprises herself with how pleasant it feels, pain still present but intertwined with the satisfaction of being relieved as well. She is so beside herself she doesn't bother to censor the whimper and pleased sigh that follow one after the other, like she usually would out of pride.
Zero throws her head back, holding herself up with her palms; her eyes close, lips pursing and unpursing as Aloy sucks.
"Mm, just like that- god that feels better." An adult has greater suction than a child after all, it is as efficient as it is satisfying (though she chalks the former up to finally being put out of her misery). The little sounds don't stop, as Aloy continues the aching and then almost instant relief continue in tandem, making Zero vocalize and writhe against Aloy's mouth.
She is trying very hard to not be into this. Her fingernails dig into one of her palms in an attempt to cause enough pain to distract her from how... overwhelming this is. How warm she feels. She switches from one sensitive, aching breast to the other in turn, and the noises and encouragement Zero gives causes a jolt in the pit of her stomach.
Definitely turned on then, by this. Great.
She leans in closer, all but burying her head in Zero's chest, her mouth latched around her swollen breast, and sucks harder, her teeth grazing gently over her nipple. She can't help the little noises she makes in response either, or the glazed-over look in her eyes when she finally allows herself to stare up at Zero, wanting to see her face. The dazed thought that manages to peek through the haze filling her senses is that this was good, perfect, she could do this all evening. Zero needed her like this. She was being useful again, at last.
What makes her pull away at last is the inevitable trickle of warm liquid in her mouth, coating her tongue. Milk, obviously. The taste is... not bad, no, but it startles her enough to almost jerk away, quickly turning from Zero in order to swallow without being seen.
Her hand trembles as it moves to swipe at her mouth. Her shoulders are locked tight, and even with her back turned, it's clear that her breathing is fast and heavy. She shivers like she's cold.
"Sorry, I," her voice is hoarse, and she finishes quietly, "swallowed a little of it. That's, uh, that should help you along."
Meanwhile, she looks around for a possible escape. She needed to... to fight a machine or jump in a cold river, or anything to let off steam. Anything that wasn't thinking about... about it.
Zero comes to belatedly, look up at Aloy in surprise- too fixated on her reprieve and pain. It takes her a moment to realize Aloy has relieved herself of her duties, leaving her sitting there with liquid seeping from her breasts, nipples hard from her tongue and mouth.
"What? Oh, I don't give a fuck." Her mind rushes to catch up with the conversation, she looks at Aloy and then their surroundings wondering if she's missed something. Zero frowns, whatever emotion she'd been previously overcome with replaced with the same surly annoyance from before.
"That's it? Huh." Zero is quiet, eyes narrowed in scrutiny as if trying to decipher some secret in Aloy's countenance. "Grossed out already? Well, figures. Fine- go do whatever, I'll milk myself." Whatever methodical system she'd created in the name of saving it is forgotten in the face of her anger; Zero takes her breast in her hand and begins the process of massaging out what remains. It's messy like this, the milk gets all over her fingers and covers her skin in a wet sheen.
She's so fixated on trying to get her breathing under control, feeling as if she was on the verge of throwing herself at Zero like some kind of slavering animal, that it takes her a moment to catch up with what direction the conversation is going in... which seems to be "very badly," by her estimation. She glances up, then looks over her shoulder to take in the sight of Zero, skin wet with milk, frustrated and angry with her as she massages her own breasts. Aloy feels something in her brain short-circuit, and is only half-aware that she's shaking her head.
"What?" Oh no. "Wait, no, I'm not grossed out." She reaches for Zero by reflex, pulling her hands away. "It... it isn't that, alright? I," she finally blurts out, frustrated, "I'm so turned on that I can't see straight. I just didn't want to be weird about it!"
In the quiet that follows this exclamation, Aloy seems to return to her senses. She pulls back, a hand to her forehead. "I'm sorry — it's been a while since we...and I'm clearly losing my mind. I've screwed up this entire trip already though, right? What's one more disaster to top it off?"
She's surprised by this information, sure- but really its the breeze that passes through, bringing with it a light dusting of pollen that gets Zero to subdue her anger. She hears Aloy only distantly after being told that her assumptions were wrong. Her blood pounds in her ears, face going hot in embarrassment from how self-conscious she is suddenly and a little something else.
Disgusted and disconnected with her own body and in so much pain at that it overwhelms her to the point of being in audible.
"You.. are you..? I-" The words are cut off by another hiss, the ducts in her breasts clogged yet again. She grows redder still, her embarrassment uncharacteristic and somehow reaching further depths. She gets up hastily, trying in vain to pull her tunic back up.
"It's fine, okay? You don't have to say shit just to make me feel better." She's turned away and fiddling with her tunic, trying to hide from Aloy's gaze. There's no anger in her voice this time- shame, maybe, something watery at the end of her words.
"Zero," Aloy starts, scrambling to her feet to catch her by the arm and make her face her. Aloy's knees feel like jelly, liable to give out under her. "Zero, wait. I don't lie to you, remember?" Her tone is urgent, on the verge of desperate, and the next breeze that sends pollen swirling around them almost makes her knees buckle. "I'm serious. Let me... let me take care of you."
She takes Zero's breasts into her hands again, calloused thumbs brushing over her hardened nipples, paying no mind, this time, to the wetness gathered there. "I need to take care of you. They still hurt, don't they?" Her voice is almost too soft to be heard. "I stopped too soon. Don't worry — I've got you."
She keeps her gaze on Zero now when she brings her mouth to her breast again, sucking hard. A shuddery groan escapes her; her lashes flutter against her cheeks briefly, as if she's nearly overwhelmed. She doubles her efforts until milk begins to flow again, and doesn't pull back this time, an arm hooking around Zero's waist to pull her in closer instead.
"I know you don't." It's mumbled, just barely audible to even Aloy. But her head is too full of too many things: pain, her embarrassment, her paranoia and she is too acutely aware of every sensation in her body from the breeze against her neck to Aloy's hands hovering too close.
Enclosed by foliage, trees, and the fast approaching night it feels like she has no where to run and hide from Aloy's hands and worry. Her brain wants both in equal measure: to hide her shame and to fall into the warm pleasure of her hands. Aloy's hands are already on her while she short circuits and she makes a surprised sounds when her thumbs graze sensitive skin.
Zero looks away, biting down on her finger- thought it doesn't fully quiet the sounds she makes when Aloy's mouth begins to move. It feels good, it feels bad; the more Aloy sucks the more her body wordlessly urges her to continue even though she can't bear to be fully present in this moment lest the shame eat her alive.
Aloy keeps her mouth busy, the frenzied heat in her building with each moment. She’s gentle with Zero despite her eagerness, cognizant of sensitivity and how quickly it could edge into real pain, but relentless. She sucks and kisses her breasts, licks them clean of the moisture gathered there, nuzzles into the valley between them to breathe in the scent of her. It takes her a while to realize that Zero has her face turned away, her face flushed and her eyes closed. Aloy presses a kiss on her sternum, then brings slightly damp fingers to her chin, coaxing her to face her. It’s gentle, this gesture, more an invitation than a demand.
“Hey. Let me see your face.”
She’s out of breath. By now she’s backed them both up against the tree, her arm still wrapped tight around Zero’s waist. She stares up at her, her mouth bruised and wet and her eyes bright in the growing dark. She’s a little out of breath when she speaks. “Tell me what’s wrong.” Everything in her is urging her to continue, and she places gentle kisses against Zero’s chest to quell the urge. “I want you to talk to me.”
It's not uncommon for Aloy to seek out service or to take the lead but this is different. Suddenly, after all their missed signals and unspoken frustrations, Aloy seems to know exactly what she wants - or at least, is unabashedly open about it. This gives Zero pause, she is almost docile as Aloy guides her to look forward and down at her.
She listens to the request but is no less bashful.
The hands around her waist feel heavier than they are and she cranes her head, not realizing until it has happened that Aloy has backed her against a wall. She has no where to go, her shame center stage as she struggles with an answer (its hard to muster one, between the warm wet kisses and the still lingering aches in her breasts - she misses Aloy's lips in more ways than one).
"It's just-" She tilts her head away again, does a full sweep up down and around, and when her gaze comes back to where Aloy had positioned it she stares at a point just past Aloy's face. "- hormones, and shit. I don't know! My tits hurt and I don't know what I want and I miss my fucking baby!"
Again, Aloy tips Zero’s chin in her direction, her hand loosening its grip from her waist. She runs that hand up Zero’s side, then down again with gentle possessiveness.
“Let me take your mind off it.” Her thumb brushes Zero’s lower lip, and she leans forward to kiss her cheek, the line of her jaw, her forehead. “I miss her too.” A pause, and she admits, “But I’ve missed you, so much. I wanted us to come out here together because I missed you.” There’s something tender in Aloy’s expression, something a little hurt too.
“Do you not want this? For me to touch you anymore?” Even with this question, she places a kiss on Zero’s throat. “I know you hate the trip, but I thought… I don’t know. I’ve missed touching you, and it’s as if you hate for me to even look at you now.”
The eggshells Zero knows Aloy has been treading on (and that she hasn't bothered dispelling herself, preoccupied with other things) are forgotten and this is the thing that surprises her the most.
"I never said any of that shit." Instinctively, she turns her head both to give Aloy's mouth more room and to hide again.
"It doesn't have anything to do with you.." the words are spoken in between the shivers that Aloy's touches elicit. "I had a lot of issues before I met you. Popping a kid out and everything else, it just made everything worse."
Aloy keeps her mouth busy, her attention half-split between what Zero says, and the reactions she's causing. Her own thoughts are cloudy and indistinct, muddled. It's a feeling a million times more powerful than any Oseram ale she's ever been given — something stuck between adrenaline and desire. She kisses Zero as if she's afraid that she'll lose her chance if she does. She works her way down Zero's neck, leaving bruises in the shape of her teeth. She lowers her mouth to Zero's breasts again, gazing up at her. Her tongue traces over one of her nipples, and for a moment, it seems as if she might choose not to answer.
"I get it," she says, her voice ragged but, all things considered, oddly calm. "I do. I know you didn't say that, and it's selfish of me to be hurt by it, but I... I can't help it."
It's a rarely admitted thing. Somewhere, distantly, the side of her still cognizant of embarrassment rails against this. However, she continues, the words mumbled now into Zero's skin. "I don't want you to hide from me."
She takes Zero's breast into her mouth to suck again, one hand teasing the other. Her other hand impatiently moves to fumble with her own clothing — she's too warm, and all of her nerves buzz with eagerness.
It's instinct and an unknowing need that keeps her in step with Aloy. She parts her lips wide, as if feeding off of what Aloy has given her, lips and tongue readily offering themselves to her in hopes of receiving something in return. She's dizzy when Aloy has moved on, she'll blame that on the lack of oxygen— so much of it siphoned away when they were feeding off each other in the form of wet kisses.
Each bite, suck and flick of Aloy's tongue makes her shudder. She's drunk on this, mind slowly becoming somewhat sober when Aloy admits to something she never did.
"Better admitting to being a little brat than pretending you're not." She mumbles, pushing hair away from her face. The humidity and everything else have already made her sticky with perspiration— her fingers get tangled in her hair when she startles from Aloy's breast on her mouth again.
Something about this admission makes her blush.
"What the hells gotten into you? Here—" She doesn't push Aloy away but pays no mind in potentially disturbing her as she helps loosen the ties and straps of her clothing. Zero stops intermittently to hiss and whine, toes curling in her boots at how Aloy teases her. She herself always exists in a state of some kind of want between the warped nature of her brain and post pregnant hormones, so she has yet to actualize how the pollen may have caused this in the both of them.
For a while, the only thing that Aloy focuses on is undoing her armor and what remained of Zero's own, ignoring the question. Mingled with the harsh sound of their breathing is the clatter of armor and creak of leather, the rustling of cloth as it flutters to the ground below.
Aloy pulls back long enough to admire the sight of Zero, her skin flushed red, marred with blossoming bruises and the greedy imprint of her teeth, her nipples puffy, swollen and wet with saliva and milk. It's... intoxicating, she thinks, and she says the first thing that comes to mind, too excited to be sheepish.
"Nothing's gotten into me — just decided to stop beating around the bush. Wasn't working out." She bunches Zero's clothing up around her waist, lifting her easily as she kneels, throwing her legs over her shoulders. She speaks up again, almost amused. "Is that threat about not screwing anything still in effect? 'Cause I've got some ideas."
She's not fully conscious of what the endgame here is, somehow- her body moves faster than she thinks, caught in the frenzy, some insatiable itchy burning across her skin satisfied only by constant movement and friction. Zero doesn't realize just how all-consuming this sensation is until Aloy pulls away; it's like the onset of some severe allergy, more incessant but not totally miserable.
She is never as conscious of Aloy's gaze as she is now. Zero turns her head, somehow able to even in the face of her desire for friction. This is perhaps, the truest testament to her shyness (in some way it feels good to know she's still capable of it).
"You made this shit harder for yourself by being a pussy. I already had your stupid baby, you don't need to build a case for it.."
Normally, this commentary would make her withdraw. She's always a little sensitive to Zero's bluntness, despite her best efforts, though this time it's met with a raised eyebrow. This time, she takes in Zero's body language, the way she refuses to make eye contact, and a thought occurs to her.
"Is that so? So that's it?" Her hand works up Zero's thigh, impatient and eager both, toying with her without her fingers slipping inside. "You want me to, what? Just bend you over whenever I feel like it?" It's a question she doesn't wait for an answer for before she demands, "Look at me."
Even embarrassment and shame cannot rival or win against Zero's anger. The guiding force that it is makes her head snap in Aloy's direction, all of her very clearly caught between two extremes. She tries to pretend she has no idea what Aloy's hand is doing.
"Look who's feeling brave now!" Her eyes sting, some unseen powder sticking to her eyelashes and making every movement heavier than the last. It makes it more difficult to focus, which only serves to irritate her more- all she wanted was to be properly angry, and instead she finds herself torn between variously infuriating distractions.
"Fine, you have my fucking attention. What do you want to hear Aloy?" Very rarely does she say her name. A Zero sort of habit that seemed to extend further than Mikhail (she is still too afraid of loss). She'd noticed it was an especially powerful thing, even though she never consciously intended it to be.
"That your beating around the bush got us lost and gave you blue balls?" She hasn't fully caught on to the fact that this may be something effecting her as well. There is a part of her that they have never truly discussed (and part of her is afraid to ask if Aloy already knows) that craves physical intimacy incessantly and also despises it. Some days it felt as necessary as a balm or medicine.
So she always exists in this state, to some degree.
"If you need things ask for them, Aloy. Otherwise we end up like this- milking me in the goddamn woods."
Zero saying her name makes her startle, her hands tensing. Then she's frustrated all over again, her own emotions a tumult. She laughs hoarsely, her gaze not breaking from Zero's even as she slides her fingers inside of her.
"That's interesting," she breathes out, still calm, "because I can't have been the only one with blue balls, with the state you're in." Her thrusts start off slow, careful — it's been a while. Too long. And part of her is drunk on the feeling of Zero's undivided attention, wants to bring out more of it. "You're already this wet."
Her heart is beating so hard that she can hear it in her head, feel it in the back of her throat. It's an adrenaline rush akin to what she feels during a battle — that odd mixture of heat and exhilaration mingled with danger. Not an unusual feeling, but not one she usually feels so strongly, especially not during sex.
It's not a thought she lingers on for long. She presses herself against Zero instead, trapping her hand between them and driving her fingers deeper. "You're a hypocrite, Zero." She gasps the words out, burying her face into the crook of Zero's neck. "You don't tell me what you need, either."
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The gasp Zero releases is quiet and sharp, but her mouth parts wide— jaw flung open as if she's been knifed in the side. It is sudden, and it is not enough.
Their equally half-dressed states only add to her frustration. What remains of their armor and clothes is too heavy and almost itchy, depriving her skin of the silky heat of Aloy's skin, which feels like the only possible balm for the way all of her feels (like some kind of invisible, irritation rash has been peppered over her body).
Zero groans and presses her head back against the tree she's been backed into. Her thighs press against Aloy's hand, locking them together like some horny latch and key.
"Shut up—" Aloy's goading only adds to her frustration; she can hardly focus on a comeback in between it all. "It's different- I'm not an attention whore like you. It's cute actually.. the thought of you pouting because you wanted to fuck me so bad."
"Oh, it's different?" Zero's annoyance seems to energize her, making her eyes overbright and her grin sharp. "Big talk, for someone squirming all over my hand. And what if I did, huh?" The rhythm of her thrusts picks up, and she puts her weight into it now, doing her best to ignore the crawling, desperate feeling rolling over her to focus on Zero’s reactions and the slickness between her legs, coating her fingers now.
"Is that so strange, to want the mother of my child?" It takes some work, with how tightly her hand is squeezed between Zero's thighs, but her thumb moves over her clit, finding a pattern between strokes of her fingers. "Especially when you've been hiding from me for months— you think I haven't noticed?"
The sounds she makes are more erratic, unsteady with how Aloy teases her. It's almost painful to want like this and not be fully soothed. However, all of that does not stop Zero from glowering in embarrassment. Zero throws her hands back against the trunk of the tree to steady herself, unintentionally making herself more vulnerable in the process.
"Don't say it like that—" it is strange to be claimed like this, especially by Aloy who sometimes felt like an island even now after everything. But it is not unpleasant.
Zero has to dig the heels of her boots into the lush ground to maintain her balance.
"I knew you noticed, stupid. I just.. didn't know it mattered." For a variety of reasons: the first being her singular and all consuming focus on their child, whose existence filled her with love and fear in equal amounts. The secondary reasons being how she had changed: baby weight that had not left her and might not ever, the stretch marks and disastrous effects of breastfeeding. She'd felt far away from her body until Aloy's hands came to remind her that she was still very much inside of it.
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She does not get very far however. Zero presses down against the base of her breast with her hand in an effort to draw the liquid out, but the pressure is too much and she bites down a whimper of pain, groaning and pulling her hand away like she had been electrocuted. Moisture pools in the corner of her eyes and it makes Zero drop the insulated bag, rushing to wipe at her eyes.
"Fucking swamp— it's all this shit in the air." She's saving face, it's the pollen and pain both. Eyes dry Zero drops her hands to her sides, beside herself. She'd instinctively turned away slightly when Aloy approached. She had never been so self conscious in her life until she's gotten pregnant; Aloy saw very little of her unless she was nursing.
Zero takes a shaky breath and shifts so Aloy can see her. Her tunic is pulled down to her waist, breasts pulled out over the top of her brassier (they were uncommon in this place, she'd had Teb design it specially for her to combat her discomfort with her body). They are more swollen than usual from the stored liquid, areola enlarged from nursing.
"They.. haven't been dealt with since we left." It's strange for Zero to struggle with words being as crass as she is. It's a testament to how uncomfortable she has been since giving birth. "I can't do it myself, it hurts more that way and I keep pussying out."
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Carefully, she cups Zero’s breasts in her hands. The weight of them is different even from the scarce moments they’d had during her pregnancy, heavy and flushed. It looks like it hurts, and her gaze flickers up to Zero’s face, as if searching for something.
“Uh…” she starts, and then, a little abashed: “I’m not sure what to do. Do I just… press down?” The obvious answer is there, sits uncomfortably in the back of her head. She doesn’t know why that is; there was nothing inherently sexual about the process. But it’s…boy. It’s a little weird.
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But the bite muffled by her apparent misery. She winces, anticipating pain when Aloy lifts her breasts- her hands are warm, even moreso than usual. Leave it to Aloy to be obtuse about all of this. How one person could be a fucking genius and an idiot at the same time was beyond her.
"I'm not actually a cow. Just.. put them in your mouth and suck. You've done that before." Zero looks away, uncomfortable. "Don't make this worse than it needs to be. It'll be faster this way- it'll hurt, but I'll feel better way sooner."
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It’s in reference to more than this, it seemed.
She colors at both the realization and at Zero’s tone. The, “I can’t believe you’re making me say this, stupid,” tone. “I,” she sputters, “I knew that. I only wanted to be sure.” She’d been hoping in some small way that it wasn’t that, and again she tries to separate the concept of it in her head from the act, which was simply to relieve Zero’s pain and discomfort.
And… something is jangling in the back of her head, not discomfort but restlessness, of a variety she doesn’t care to examine in the moment.
It’s been a while. She’s been pent up; they’ve barely interacted without the baby around. The birth itself had been nerve wracking. The circumstances around that birth had been frightening. It’s just energy without anywhere to go. It doesn’t mean anything. She had to focus on the result, not the things in between.
Aloy lowers her head and takes Zero’s breast into her mouth. Her skin is warm, almost feverish, the areola almost puffy, swollen and sensitive. Zero’s skin has that powdery airy smell she associates with her in the moments she was with the baby, fussing over a bath or humming her to sleep. It’s different from what she remembers, but not unpleasant, and the mingling of it with her sweat and exertion from today, and has the undertones of milk sweetness. That mixed with the pollen turns it unbearably heady, and she feels herself flush with the realization of it.
This could not possibly be turning her on. She felt insane. What the hell was wrong with her? This sudden awareness doesn’t stop her, though she allows her eyes to close and tilts her head downward so that Zero won’t see the proof of it written all over her face.
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Zero throws her head back, holding herself up with her palms; her eyes close, lips pursing and unpursing as Aloy sucks.
"Mm, just like that- god that feels better." An adult has greater suction than a child after all, it is as efficient as it is satisfying (though she chalks the former up to finally being put out of her misery). The little sounds don't stop, as Aloy continues the aching and then almost instant relief continue in tandem, making Zero vocalize and writhe against Aloy's mouth.
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Definitely turned on then, by this. Great.
She leans in closer, all but burying her head in Zero's chest, her mouth latched around her swollen breast, and sucks harder, her teeth grazing gently over her nipple. She can't help the little noises she makes in response either, or the glazed-over look in her eyes when she finally allows herself to stare up at Zero, wanting to see her face. The dazed thought that manages to peek through the haze filling her senses is that this was good, perfect, she could do this all evening. Zero needed her like this. She was being useful again, at last.
What makes her pull away at last is the inevitable trickle of warm liquid in her mouth, coating her tongue. Milk, obviously. The taste is... not bad, no, but it startles her enough to almost jerk away, quickly turning from Zero in order to swallow without being seen.
Her hand trembles as it moves to swipe at her mouth. Her shoulders are locked tight, and even with her back turned, it's clear that her breathing is fast and heavy. She shivers like she's cold.
"Sorry, I," her voice is hoarse, and she finishes quietly, "swallowed a little of it. That's, uh, that should help you along."
Meanwhile, she looks around for a possible escape. She needed to... to fight a machine or jump in a cold river, or anything to let off steam. Anything that wasn't thinking about... about it.
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"What? Oh, I don't give a fuck." Her mind rushes to catch up with the conversation, she looks at Aloy and then their surroundings wondering if she's missed something. Zero frowns, whatever emotion she'd been previously overcome with replaced with the same surly annoyance from before.
"That's it? Huh." Zero is quiet, eyes narrowed in scrutiny as if trying to decipher some secret in Aloy's countenance. "Grossed out already? Well, figures. Fine- go do whatever, I'll milk myself." Whatever methodical system she'd created in the name of saving it is forgotten in the face of her anger; Zero takes her breast in her hand and begins the process of massaging out what remains. It's messy like this, the milk gets all over her fingers and covers her skin in a wet sheen.
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"What?" Oh no. "Wait, no, I'm not grossed out." She reaches for Zero by reflex, pulling her hands away. "It... it isn't that, alright? I," she finally blurts out, frustrated, "I'm so turned on that I can't see straight. I just didn't want to be weird about it!"
In the quiet that follows this exclamation, Aloy seems to return to her senses. She pulls back, a hand to her forehead. "I'm sorry — it's been a while since we...and I'm clearly losing my mind. I've screwed up this entire trip already though, right? What's one more disaster to top it off?"
This vitriol is directed entirely at herself.
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Disgusted and disconnected with her own body and in so much pain at that it overwhelms her to the point of being in audible.
"You.. are you..? I-" The words are cut off by another hiss, the ducts in her breasts clogged yet again. She grows redder still, her embarrassment uncharacteristic and somehow reaching further depths. She gets up hastily, trying in vain to pull her tunic back up.
"It's fine, okay? You don't have to say shit just to make me feel better." She's turned away and fiddling with her tunic, trying to hide from Aloy's gaze. There's no anger in her voice this time- shame, maybe, something watery at the end of her words.
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She takes Zero's breasts into her hands again, calloused thumbs brushing over her hardened nipples, paying no mind, this time, to the wetness gathered there. "I need to take care of you. They still hurt, don't they?" Her voice is almost too soft to be heard. "I stopped too soon. Don't worry — I've got you."
She keeps her gaze on Zero now when she brings her mouth to her breast again, sucking hard. A shuddery groan escapes her; her lashes flutter against her cheeks briefly, as if she's nearly overwhelmed. She doubles her efforts until milk begins to flow again, and doesn't pull back this time, an arm hooking around Zero's waist to pull her in closer instead.
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Enclosed by foliage, trees, and the fast approaching night it feels like she has no where to run and hide from Aloy's hands and worry. Her brain wants both in equal measure: to hide her shame and to fall into the warm pleasure of her hands. Aloy's hands are already on her while she short circuits and she makes a surprised sounds when her thumbs graze sensitive skin.
Zero looks away, biting down on her finger- thought it doesn't fully quiet the sounds she makes when Aloy's mouth begins to move. It feels good, it feels bad; the more Aloy sucks the more her body wordlessly urges her to continue even though she can't bear to be fully present in this moment lest the shame eat her alive.
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“Hey. Let me see your face.”
She’s out of breath. By now she’s backed them both up against the tree, her arm still wrapped tight around Zero’s waist. She stares up at her, her mouth bruised and wet and her eyes bright in the growing dark. She’s a little out of breath when she speaks. “Tell me what’s wrong.” Everything in her is urging her to continue, and she places gentle kisses against Zero’s chest to quell the urge. “I want you to talk to me.”
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She listens to the request but is no less bashful.
The hands around her waist feel heavier than they are and she cranes her head, not realizing until it has happened that Aloy has backed her against a wall. She has no where to go, her shame center stage as she struggles with an answer (its hard to muster one, between the warm wet kisses and the still lingering aches in her breasts - she misses Aloy's lips in more ways than one).
"It's just-" She tilts her head away again, does a full sweep up down and around, and when her gaze comes back to where Aloy had positioned it she stares at a point just past Aloy's face. "- hormones, and shit. I don't know! My tits hurt and I don't know what I want and I miss my fucking baby!"
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“Let me take your mind off it.” Her thumb brushes Zero’s lower lip, and she leans forward to kiss her cheek, the line of her jaw, her forehead. “I miss her too.” A pause, and she admits, “But I’ve missed you, so much. I wanted us to come out here together because I missed you.” There’s something tender in Aloy’s expression, something a little hurt too.
“Do you not want this? For me to touch you anymore?” Even with this question, she places a kiss on Zero’s throat. “I know you hate the trip, but I thought… I don’t know. I’ve missed touching you, and it’s as if you hate for me to even look at you now.”
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"I never said any of that shit." Instinctively, she turns her head both to give Aloy's mouth more room and to hide again.
"It doesn't have anything to do with you.." the words are spoken in between the shivers that Aloy's touches elicit. "I had a lot of issues before I met you. Popping a kid out and everything else, it just made everything worse."
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"I get it," she says, her voice ragged but, all things considered, oddly calm. "I do. I know you didn't say that, and it's selfish of me to be hurt by it, but I... I can't help it."
It's a rarely admitted thing. Somewhere, distantly, the side of her still cognizant of embarrassment rails against this. However, she continues, the words mumbled now into Zero's skin. "I don't want you to hide from me."
She takes Zero's breast into her mouth to suck again, one hand teasing the other. Her other hand impatiently moves to fumble with her own clothing — she's too warm, and all of her nerves buzz with eagerness.
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Each bite, suck and flick of Aloy's tongue makes her shudder. She's drunk on this, mind slowly becoming somewhat sober when Aloy admits to something she never did.
"Better admitting to being a little brat than pretending you're not." She mumbles, pushing hair away from her face. The humidity and everything else have already made her sticky with perspiration— her fingers get tangled in her hair when she startles from Aloy's breast on her mouth again.
Something about this admission makes her blush.
"What the hells gotten into you? Here—" She doesn't push Aloy away but pays no mind in potentially disturbing her as she helps loosen the ties and straps of her clothing. Zero stops intermittently to hiss and whine, toes curling in her boots at how Aloy teases her. She herself always exists in a state of some kind of want between the warped nature of her brain and post pregnant hormones, so she has yet to actualize how the pollen may have caused this in the both of them.
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Aloy pulls back long enough to admire the sight of Zero, her skin flushed red, marred with blossoming bruises and the greedy imprint of her teeth, her nipples puffy, swollen and wet with saliva and milk. It's... intoxicating, she thinks, and she says the first thing that comes to mind, too excited to be sheepish.
"Nothing's gotten into me — just decided to stop beating around the bush. Wasn't working out." She bunches Zero's clothing up around her waist, lifting her easily as she kneels, throwing her legs over her shoulders. She speaks up again, almost amused. "Is that threat about not screwing anything still in effect? 'Cause I've got some ideas."
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She is never as conscious of Aloy's gaze as she is now. Zero turns her head, somehow able to even in the face of her desire for friction. This is perhaps, the truest testament to her shyness (in some way it feels good to know she's still capable of it).
"You made this shit harder for yourself by being a pussy. I already had your stupid baby, you don't need to build a case for it.."
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"Is that so? So that's it?" Her hand works up Zero's thigh, impatient and eager both, toying with her without her fingers slipping inside. "You want me to, what? Just bend you over whenever I feel like it?" It's a question she doesn't wait for an answer for before she demands, "Look at me."
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"Look who's feeling brave now!" Her eyes sting, some unseen powder sticking to her eyelashes and making every movement heavier than the last. It makes it more difficult to focus, which only serves to irritate her more- all she wanted was to be properly angry, and instead she finds herself torn between variously infuriating distractions.
"Fine, you have my fucking attention. What do you want to hear Aloy?" Very rarely does she say her name. A Zero sort of habit that seemed to extend further than Mikhail (she is still too afraid of loss). She'd noticed it was an especially powerful thing, even though she never consciously intended it to be.
"That your beating around the bush got us lost and gave you blue balls?" She hasn't fully caught on to the fact that this may be something effecting her as well. There is a part of her that they have never truly discussed (and part of her is afraid to ask if Aloy already knows) that craves physical intimacy incessantly and also despises it. Some days it felt as necessary as a balm or medicine.
So she always exists in this state, to some degree.
"If you need things ask for them, Aloy. Otherwise we end up like this- milking me in the goddamn woods."
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"That's interesting," she breathes out, still calm, "because I can't have been the only one with blue balls, with the state you're in." Her thrusts start off slow, careful — it's been a while. Too long. And part of her is drunk on the feeling of Zero's undivided attention, wants to bring out more of it. "You're already this wet."
Her heart is beating so hard that she can hear it in her head, feel it in the back of her throat. It's an adrenaline rush akin to what she feels during a battle — that odd mixture of heat and exhilaration mingled with danger. Not an unusual feeling, but not one she usually feels so strongly, especially not during sex.
It's not a thought she lingers on for long. She presses herself against Zero instead, trapping her hand between them and driving her fingers deeper. "You're a hypocrite, Zero." She gasps the words out, burying her face into the crook of Zero's neck. "You don't tell me what you need, either."
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The gasp Zero releases is quiet and sharp, but her mouth parts wide— jaw flung open as if she's been knifed in the side. It is sudden, and it is not enough.
Their equally half-dressed states only add to her frustration. What remains of their armor and clothes is too heavy and almost itchy, depriving her skin of the silky heat of Aloy's skin, which feels like the only possible balm for the way all of her feels (like some kind of invisible, irritation rash has been peppered over her body).
Zero groans and presses her head back against the tree she's been backed into. Her thighs press against Aloy's hand, locking them together like some horny latch and key.
"Shut up—" Aloy's goading only adds to her frustration; she can hardly focus on a comeback in between it all. "It's different- I'm not an attention whore like you. It's cute actually.. the thought of you pouting because you wanted to fuck me so bad."
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"Is that so strange, to want the mother of my child?" It takes some work, with how tightly her hand is squeezed between Zero's thighs, but her thumb moves over her clit, finding a pattern between strokes of her fingers. "Especially when you've been hiding from me for months— you think I haven't noticed?"
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"Don't say it like that—" it is strange to be claimed like this, especially by Aloy who sometimes felt like an island even now after everything. But it is not unpleasant.
Zero has to dig the heels of her boots into the lush ground to maintain her balance.
"I knew you noticed, stupid. I just.. didn't know it mattered." For a variety of reasons: the first being her singular and all consuming focus on their child, whose existence filled her with love and fear in equal amounts. The secondary reasons being how she had changed: baby weight that had not left her and might not ever, the stretch marks and disastrous effects of breastfeeding. She'd felt far away from her body until Aloy's hands came to remind her that she was still very much inside of it.
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