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[flatfeet]

Thank you.

[ he's the best roommate. but there's only so much she can promise him, so she considers what he's asking of her and the most reasonable, sincere promise she can make.]

I promise not to volunteer to help you if I think it would hurt our partnership. Is that fair?

[ she won't do anything she'd regret, or anything that would make her feel differently about Clark. but the truth is, there's a lot she'd do with him willingly. he doesn't need to protect her from that.]

[mansuit]

[ Protecting her is why he signed with her in the first place, so not being able to will always be something difficult for him to do. ]

That's fair. [ He doesn't see any loopholes in it. For now. ]

Well, they thought it'd be a fun punishment for me to edge a Submissive five times without coming. [ He can't believe he just typed that and sent it to Barbie, but life in this fucked up city is always a surprise. ]

[flatfeet]

I'm sure that's fun for them. They know how generous you are.

[ Clark cares about whether or not his partner comes. although she can see the appeal in being brought to the edge so many times, too.]

Let me guess, in Realignment?

[mansuit]

[ Generous and someone who won't purposefully deny someone their release. Five times. ]

Exactly. If I don't do it, I'm forced to go to Realignment everyday until I do. Which I won't mind doing. [ But who knows what they might do to him there with their power nullification on. ]

[flatfeet]

Somehow, I think they'd just make Realignment worse every day until you did it.

[ and she hates the idea of them even trying to wear him down. he doesn't deserve that.]

You and I could take care of this on the first day, Clark.

[mansuit]

[ That's honestly a solid point. He wouldn't put it past their captors to do that, admittedly. But her last message definitely makes him frown. ]

I thought you promised not to volunteer to help.

[flatfeet]

I promised not to volunteer if it would hurt us. We can handle this.

[mansuit]

[ There's some delay on Clark's end because he's just sighing and running his hand through his hair and rubbing the back of his neck while pacing about. He really, really doesn't want to put her through this but he also knows Barbie's both stubborn and capable of her own choices.

So after what seemed like half an hour - ]

Are you sure?

[flatfeet]

Yes, I'm sure.
If this was something you asked me to do because you wanted to try it, I wouldn't hesitate. I know it's not like that - but I'll focus on you, and you focus on me.

[ because honestly, why give them the satisfaction of making him feel bad about it? having sex with Clark is something she enjoys. the hard part will be making sure she doesn't come.]

[mansuit]

[ Which is what he'll actually address now - ]

I understand where you're coming from, Barbie. Believe me, I do.

But this requires you not being able to finish for five times. That's too much.

[flatfeet]

I went sixty-five years without having an orgasm. This is nothing.

[ she's teasing, but she's also not wrong...]

If I didn't think I could handle it, I wouldn't offer to go with you.

[mansuit]

[ Sometimes he forgets Barbie's actually older than she looks, and it's only through these conversations that he's reminded once again.

But that's not the most pressing matter here, clearly. ]

You do know yourself better than anyone, so I shouldn't claim to do so even when I'm trying to protect you. [ Because people have free will, Superman. ]

So if you're sure about this, I can't stop you. [ And she did raise a good point earlier, about focusing on each other and enjoying it for what it is, so he'll keep that in mind through all this. ]

[flatfeet]

You can, though. If you really feel like you can't do this with me, I'm not going to force you to.

[ and that's important to her, making sure they hold on to consent when they can. if he'd rather do this with someone else, or if he's determined to make a point by refusing to participate, she's not going to go against what he feels he needs to do for himself. ]

You're really good at protecting me, and that means more than I think you realize. But you don't have to protect me from this. If you'll let me come with you, we can take care of the citation together and it'll only make our partnership stronger.

[ besides, who's to say the city won't demand some aphro-induced edging in the future? she'd much rather her first experience of it be with Clark than anyone else.]

[mansuit]

[ Barbie had him with strengthening their partnership, to be fair. He re-reads her message for a good number of times, before he responds. ]

Alright. You've raised very good points there, Barbie.

I'll let you help.

[ Followed up with - ] But I'm also going to make sure you feel good afterwards.

[flatfeet]

Deal.

Let's make each other feel good afterwards.

[ because she realizes that for Clark, it might take a little more than just sex for him to feel okay about all of this.]

[mansuit]

[ Barbie, of course, is right. ]

Okay, good.

That helps lessen my anger and frustration towards all this.

[flatfeet]

Your anger is completely justified, but I assume that's what they were going for.

So anything I can do to lessen it is probably going to annoy them, and I like that better.

[mansuit]

When you put it that way, you're starting to lessen it now.

I'd like for that to be the goal here.