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[gallowseyes]

He discovers it by accident, tucked down a side street, hidden behind dark windows. When he steps inside, he's taken aback by the sheer variety and, almost immediately, his head is full of possibilities. He texts Lee, suggesting that they meet for drinks later in the evening, giving him a place to meet and a time.

Later finds George leaning against a wall, waiting for Lee, scrolling through his phone. He's dressed in a button down shirts, sleeves rolled up, and he uses the camera on his phone to preen a little, undoing another button before he snaps a photo and sends it to Lee.

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[gallowseyes]

"Showing off?" says George, stepping in. "I don't know what you mean."

His hand finds Lee's hip, pad of his thumb skimming against the bare skin over Lee's hipbone. He tugs him in for a kiss. "Hi."

[atehimrightup]

“Right.” He chuckles softly and watches George’s face as he moves in closer, touching him and pulling him in. Lee lets himself be moved, shivering slightly as George traces his hipbone. He’s given a kiss and he hums his approval, leaning in to chase George’s mouth a bit as he pulls away.

Something has shifted in their dynamic. It started the night after he got into that fight, and really after that night in the woods. He didn’t used to get kisses on the street, or such casual affection. He’s not entirely sure what it all means, but he likes it.

“Hello,” he says with a soft, slow smile. “What do you have planned for us tonight?”

[gallowseyes]

"I thought," says George, his voice pitched low and conspiratorial, his thumb still stroking against Lee's skin, "that we could go shopping."

They hadn't spent the night together and George had found himself missing the body in his bed. He'd never really noticed when he was sleeping alone before.

[atehimrightup]

Lee never really imagined that a posh British accent would do it for him but man, George sure knows how to wield that particular weapon. His eyes fall shut as George speaks, stroking at his hip in a way that soothes him and fires him up all at once. Honestly, George could suggest just about anything in that moment and Lee would be more than willing.

That said, his eyes still pop open in surprise at what he does suggest, and he pulls back to give George a look of vague disbelief. “You want to go shopping?”

[gallowseyes]

"I do," says George, taking his hand away from Lee's hip but only so that he can take him by the hand instead, threading their fingers together. "I found this place by accident this afternoon and, well. I thought it might be relevant to our...shared interests."

George has spent a lot of time thinking about the way he'd felt that night in the woods -- the way Lee had treated him, the way things had shifted between them. He thinks that, maybe, there's more to explore.

[atehimrightup]

George takes him by the hand and Lee can’t help the way that he glances around a little on instinct before he remembers that it’s okay here. He’s a step behind George as he’s led away and Lee looks down at their entwined hands as they walk. Lee’s is covered in dumb tattoos and there are remnants of chipped black polish on his thumbnail, which has been bitten down to the quick. George’s hand is soft and clean and beautiful. It’s them in a snapshot, and Lee can’t help but to wonder all over again what George is thinking.

Thankfully, what George says distracts him enough that he doesn’t spiral over it, instead closing the distance between them and lifting an eyebrow. “You’ve captured my attention. Lead the way, baby.”

[gallowseyes]

Lee says it so casually, even though he absolutely knows the effect that it has on George, and George squeezes his fingers in response.

"Your wish, my command, darling," he says, looking steadfastly ahead as he leads Lee to the store and steps inside. It's not big, not really, but it is absolutely chock full of merchandise, items designed for every filthy or perverted thing that could possibly occur. He turns to glance at Lee. The possibilities are dizzying.

"Like I said," he says. "Shopping."

[atehimrightup]

The store he’s being led to looks vague and nondescript, or maybe he’s just too busy staring at the delicate nape of George’s neck to pay any attention to his surroundings.

It’s not until they’re actually inside the building that Lee looks around, eyes widening as he’s overwhelmed by so much all at once. He takes an instinctive step backward but the door is closed so he just sort of awkwardly bangs against it.

He clears his throat and stands up straight, smoothing the hem of his shirt against his hips as he looks around again.

“Well, this is a first,” Lee admits in an amused voice. He’d known that places like this existed, but he has never been inside of one before. He didn’t seem the point in it, because it’s not like he had the time or money, not to mention a partner to explore with. He didn’t need toys to jerk off or fuck someone behind a dive bar. “Why am I not surprised that you sniffed this place out?”

[gallowseyes]

"It genuinely was a happy accident," says George conversationally, nodding to the tattooed and pierced girl behind the counter. "I thought we could..." He glances back at Lee, eyebrows slightly raised. "Explore some possibilities?"

[atehimrightup]

“Oh, I’m sure,” Lee says with playful sarcasm, glancing over at the woman who is barely pretending not to be enthralled by them. “He ran in here sniffing the air, didn’t he?”

She laughs and Lee gives George a knowing look, smirking as he steps forward to hook his fingers almost possessively in the waistband of George’s pants.

“Sure,” he says easily, leading him deeper into the store. “Let’s hear all your freaky little ideas.”

[gallowseyes]

Lee is putting on a little show, trying to fluster him, but George has enough experience of performing that he doesn't bat an eye. He follows Lee, leaning back slightly to cant his hips forwards.

"From what I remember of that night in the woods, it wasn't me with all the filthy ideas," he murmurs.

[atehimrightup]

“Some of them were yours,” Lee reminds him, slinging his arm almost casually around George’s waist as he looks around. The front of the store is tamer stuff, lingerie and bachelorette party shit, and Lee reaches out to trail his fingers along a lacy black garter belt as they pass.

They go down a step into another room and ate immediately faced with an entire wall of bondage material. It’s a lot of leather, cuffs and chains and blindfolds, and Lee hums as he moves in closer, sliding his hand down George’s hip and into the pocket of his pants.

“We can start here,” Lee purrs out, hooking his chin over George’s shoulder.

[gallowseyes]

"You're right. Some of them were." Lee touches him in that casual, proprietary way that has been driving him wild of late, and George ducks his head.

"I do remember saying you could put me in a collar if you wanted to."

[atehimrightup]

“Simply for my benefit, huh?” Lee smirks and turns his head to bite at George’s shoulder through his shirt, not hard enough for it to hurt. He’s aware of the woman at the counter, but a quick glance over his shoulder confirms that she’s keeping to herself.

He can get into this, he thinks. He could get George so worked up that by the time they make it anywhere near a bed, he’s ready to explode.

“If I get a collar, I have to get a leash, too,” Lee says in a low voice, quiet but confident. “You’d look good on your hands and knees, at the end of my chain. Waiting for instructions.”

Most of the collars look too cheap for someone as spectacular as George, but Lee finds one higher up on the wall made of real leather, black and polished. What really catches Lee’s attention that rather than a standard clasp, there’s a small silver padlock. He reaches up to remove it from the hook and holds it out on the end of his finger in front of them, keeping his chin on George’s shoulder awhile slowly stroking the cut of his hip through the pocket of his pants. “This one is nice.”

[gallowseyes]

"Oh entirely."

Lee selects the collar from the hook, padlock and all, and George knows that Lee is close enough that he was to feel the shiver that goes through him at the thought of it slipping around his throat.

"It is," he says. "Nice. A good place to start, anyway."

[atehimrightup]

“I felt that, you slut,” Lee says against his ear, in a voice that’s biting and fond all at once. “Pace yourself, baby.”

He nips at George’s jaw at the same moment he cops a quick feel of his cock through his pocket, then pulls away from him entirely and stands in front of the display with the collar looped around his palm while he strokes his chin thoughtfully.

“Hm, what else? Ah.” He steps forward and snatches up a pair of leather wrist cuffs attached by a thin silver chain. He rubs at one of the cuffs with his thumb, feeling the buttery leather. “My headboard has those slats. Seems like kismet.”

[gallowseyes]

"Meant to be, surely,".says George, and he tries extremely hard not to think too long about how it had felt to be fucked with his hands tied behind his back that night in the woods. He wanders over to a display of phalluses of different sizes and shapes. He'd owned similar in England so here, at least, he's on more familiar ground.

"Something like this might come in useful?" He says. "Keep that clever mouth busy?"

[atehimrightup]

Lee can’t help but to laugh at his shamelessness, but it’s a warm sound. He’s never met anyone who loves sex so unabashedly. George doesn’t just love it; he’s hungry for it. And, well, if anyone can relate to having a hunger that can never be fully satisfied, it’s Lee.

“Mm, maybe,” he replies, amused as he drifts closer. He passes a display of blindfolds, but quickly shakes his head. “I always want to see your eyes. You have the best eyes.”

Lee’s attention is caught by a sign reading Anal Play, and for some reason it’s so jarring to see, even here in Darrow. Still, he wanders over and lifts his eyebrows at a display of butt plugs. One of them has a button on the base and when Lee reaches out to turn it on, it buzzes loudly against the glass shelf. Laughing, he snatches it up and turns it off, setting it down to pick up the box instead.

“This one has a phone app. Why would this possibly need— oh.” His eyes widen as he reads the back of the box, and he clutches it to his chest. “Oh, we’re getting this.”

[gallowseyes]

"Why do I feel like I should be very worried about whatever idea you just gave yourself?" asks George, reaching out and picking up one of the toys in front of him, curling his fingers around it experimentally. He picks up another, for comparison.

[atehimrightup]

“Because, my darling whore,” Lee begins, reaching out to hook his fingers in the waistband of George’s pants and excitedly drag him in closer.

“This thing does all sorts of tricks,” he says as he holds up the toy. “You could wear it anywhere and no one would know. And it’s controlled by an app that I’d have on my phone. I could control it wherever we are. Anytime I want. And you’d just have to take it.”

[gallowseyes]

Lee's enthusiasm is deeply endearing and George finds himself smiling as Lee tells him all about it. "Well," he says. "That sounds awful, which means we absolutely have to have it."

He also doesn't comment on the fact that Lee keeps dragging him around by his waistband.

"What else?" He asks. "What we did that night. What would have made it better?"

[atehimrightup]

Lee grins and holds the toy and collar against his chest, biting his bottom lip excitedly. He never got many toys growing up. Maybe he’s overcompensating now.

“That night— it was amazing,” Lee assures him, getting sort of a dreamy look on his face. Suddenly he remembers licking the back of George’s neck, tasting that hint of blood, and his cheeks flush a little. That seems— well, unrelated to everything else here. George indulged what he maybe thought was morbid curiosity in the moment, and Lee can’t really find a way to bring it up again.

“Every night with you is the best sex I’ve ever had,” Lee says honestly, shrugging his shoulder because it isn’t much of a secret. His sex life was sort of depressing if he thinks too hard about it. He isn’t expecting George to say the same, because it probably isn’t the truth. He must be good enough to keep George coming back, though. It’s not as if he doesn’t have options.

“What do you think would have made it better?” He asks, genuinely curious and also somewhat distressed. “You think it could have been better?”

[gallowseyes]

"Perhaps 'better' was the wrong word," says George, threading his fingers through the fingers of Lee's free hand and drawing him with him as he wanders over to a display of clamps and slim chains. "Different? I had an incredible time." He turns his head and grazes his lips against Lee's sharp jaw line. "I haven't stopped thinking about it. How good it felt." He flushes faintly. "Even the pain. You enjoyed that, too, though."

[atehimrightup]

Lee feels a bit foolish but it passes quickly enough, especially when George’s lips touch his skin. And then he starts talking, and Lee’s knees almost turn to jelly.

“I did enjoy it,” he confirms, cheeks warm as he turns his head to nudge their noses together. He doesn’t want to hurt George, not really. Not in general. But in an agreed upon setting like that, where they’re both into it, yeah. He liked that a lot.

“I want to play with your nipples so bad,” he admits with a laugh, eyes catching on a delicate silver chain. He reaches out to grab it, and it feels a little like planning for the future. It’ll be months still before George is healed enough for something like this, but Lee still wants to be around when he is. God, he hopes he’s still around.

“I like leaving marks on you,” he says after a moment, sounding a little more confident. “I liked the spanking and— and the biting. I really like to bite.”

He turns his head so that his forehead is resting against George’s jaw, leaning against him. “I like to be bitten. Which probably makes no sense, given—“ he cuts himself off to gesture vaguely toward his cheek. He realizes the picture that he’s painting here and shakes his head a little. His father trying to eat him while in a crazed state was not at all sexual in nature. It sounds ridiculous even in his head, so he certainly can’t say it out loud. “This was— something else. Unfortunately coincidental and I very much did not like it.”

He laughs at the absurdity that is his life and then tips his head back to look George in the eye. “So yeah, it would have been better if you bit me.”

[gallowseyes]

"I can bite you," says George. He's very aware of how much Lee likes biting and, honestly, he's also deeply aware, if not a little surprised, by how much he enjoys it. "We can definitely try that."

He makes a thoughtful sound.

"You like leaving marks." He draws Lee over to a display of implements. He's been spanked with hands, mostly -- his father had used a belt, but that's something entirely separate from this.

"Any of these appeal? Or does it work better because it's hand to skin?"