Aggressive Negotiations [4/14]

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Title: Aggressive Negotiations
Author: enochiansigils and not_from_stars
Fandom: X-Men
Pairing/Characters: Dani Moonstar/Mikhail Sorokin
Rating/Category: R
Warnings: One scene of consensual sex between a minor who is older than her years and a an adult.
Summary: Danielle Moonstar was raised by Magneto and his Brotherhood and became a member of the MLF at a young age. She met and fell in love with Mikhail Sorokin. But the course of true love never does run smooth and when Dani dies as the result of a mission gone wrong, Mikhail is left to pick up the pieces of his life. Five years pass and Mikhail learns that things are not as they have always seemed.
Words: 31,122
Notes: Written for au_bigbang 2011. Thank you very much to queenmidalah for the wonderful art and fanvideo she made for us! We've loved writing this story and have very much enjoyed taking part in the challenge this year.








She turned her face to him so that she could enjoy the kiss.

"It wasn't too skeevy having your first time be with a guy ten years older than you, was it?" He just wanted to make sure.

"No," she said firmly. "It was perfect."

"Good." He kissed her again. "Because I don't like the idea of weirding you out." He wasn't quite sure when his feelings towards her had shifted from annoyance and dislike to bemused tolerance and then from that to whatever he felt now... but they had.

"Nothing about what just happened between us was weird at all."

"No, it wasn't," he agreed. "It was amazing. And really fucking hot."

She nodded and then reached her hand to run it lightly against his back. "I loved it."

He shivered. "I'm glad it wasn't hate sex, though," he said. "Because then it'd be hot but we'd feel miserable later."

"Hate sex? Why would you have sex with someone you hated?"

"It's about passion and control and getting lost in the moment. I didn't say it was a good thing."

She wrinkled her nose at him. "Why can't you do that with someone you like instead?"

"It's better that way, yeah."

"Because even with someone you like or love, it could still be about control and passion and losing yourself in the moment with them."

"Like it was with us."

"Yes, exactly."

"It'll be even better next time," he promised.

"It gets better than what just happened?"

"Oh, it gets much better." He grinned at her.

"I am so looking forward to it."

"Me, too. Oh, yes. Me, too."

She grinned, rolling over so that she could look at him. "That was my first time."

"I figured as much," he said gently.

She sighed, gliding her hand along his chest idly. "That obvious, huh?"

"The inhalation when I entered you, the way you bit my shoulder... yeah, kinda clued me in."

"Damn it," she muttered, flopping down onto her back. "I was hoping that you wouldn't notice."

"Hey, did it really seem like I minded?" he asked gently.

"No..." She said slowly. "I just didn't want to come off as some idiot who didn't know anything."

"Oh, you knew plenty," he said with a grin.

"The way you made me feel, Mikhail... it was like everything was exploding around me and I was part of the explosions."

"I'm just glad I didn't lose control and break the bed or something," he said, laughing softly. "Which has happened. Explaining why you've broken a bed with a concussive blast is not nearly as funny as it sounds."

She was too busy giggling to respond at first. "I bet it was fun until then."

"Yeah, that was a pretty good time."

"Then it is a good story if you had a good time."

"I had a great time." He kissed her lightly. "But I had an even better time now."

"I'm glad that you weren't disappointed."

"I don't think you could ever disappoint me."

"I'll keep that in mind."

He deepened the kiss slightly. "You're amazing, Danielle. That's only going to develop the more we're together."

"So, you do want to be with me again after this?"

"Damn right I do."

"Good." She was quiet and thoughtful for a moment. "We have to keep it secret, don't we, because I'm legally underage and the team would give you shit." Not to mention that she might get reassigned.

"We do. At least until you're old enough. If we last that long, that is."

"Yeah, I could end up dying tomorrow."

"No, I meant if you and I last as two people who are having really great sex and as friends."

"Well, even without the sex, I'd like us to be friends."

"I'd like that, too," he said, kissing her gently. "But I can't lie, I'm liking the sexual aspect of things."

"I'm liking it a lot, too."

"Thank God, otherwise I'd be a dead man."

"Why?"

"If you didn't like it, or if I'd hurt you, I ran the risk of you telling your father. And you can't tell me he wouldn't kill someone who hurt his daughter."

"Do think that I'd tell my father if I had bad sex?"

"No, but you might tell him that the man who deflowered you hurt you."

"NO."

He looked at her, startled.

"It's not my father's business."

There was no denying the relief on his face.

She laughed. "I'll fuck who I want and Magneto won't care."

"Hopefully that's mostly just me." He didn't like the idea of sharing her.

"Just you."

"Just me, as often as you want and wherever you want."

"Here or on a road trip would be safest for awhile. Though, I do have a fake license that says I'm eighteen."

"I like the idea of a road trip," he admitted.

"Could be used as a scouting mission for work."

"So really, everybody would win in that case." His locic was oh so special sometimes.

"And it would give us privacy, too." There was a reason that Dani had been put in charge of more and more of the planning since she was recruited.

"Which would give us more time together than if we had to steal a moment or two." Though if they used it as a scouting mission, obviously that took priority. But still, like he wasn't going to spend at least several hours keeping Dani busy?

"Exactly. We could be able to comfortably blend business with pleasure."

"And oh, there'd be a lot of it. Pleasure, that is." He smirked.

She laughed. "Good thing. All work and no play makes Dani a little volatile."

"And not the good kind of volatile, either."

"Oh no. I have a dangerous temper."

"I know," he said dryly.

"Hey, I haven't gone completely off on you," she protested.

"No, but I've seen you go off on other people," he pointed out.

"But not you."

"Always wondered why that was. Guess now I know."

"That and Reaper is just incredibly stupid."

Mikhail snorted. "Yeah, can't argue there."

She grinned.

"You are easily one of the smartest people on my team."

"I know."

"And not at all modest, either -- my kind of girl."

She laughed. "I was raised by the least modest man I've ever known."

"Yeah, he isn't exactly the kind of guy prone to keeping quiet if you're good at something."

"Not at all," she said with a smile.

"Which isn't necessarily a bad quality."

"No, it's not -- if you can back it up."

"Unfortunately, I think half my team can't. How did I get stuck with the idiots? Even if they are good at their jobs."

"Because they're good at their jobs. I'm here now to help with planning strategies."

"Thank God. Maybe now we'll stop looking like bumbling idiots half the time." Because God, did it frustrate him.

Dani laughed softly. "Well, you will. The others may not."

"No setting them up to look like failures, though. They can do that well enough on their own." All right, his team wasn't quite that bad, but some days it was close.

"I would never think about doing that." Okay, she would, but she wouldn't implement it unless it was necessary.

"Uh-huh, right," he said skeptically.

"I'm here to help your team, Mikhail, not hinder you or it."

"You'd so think about it, though," he countered. "I didn't say you'd do it."

"If they pissed me off or endangered an operation enough, I might think about it," she admitted. "If they did something that was going to be a hazard to the organization as a whole? I might implement it."

"That's what I like about you," he said. "You know when it's time for revenge and when it's time for just a little plotting instead."

She laughed. "I won't do anything that would make you and I look bad, of course."

"Oh, but of course."

She leaned forward to kiss him. "Make us look good and brilliant, on the other hand..."

"I could go for that." He returned the kiss, deepening it just a little bit.

"I have many talents."

"Mm, I just bet you do."

"I read a lot, too," she teased. "And I know Yoga..."

His response was to simply groan quietly.

"And gymnastics. I'm very... flexible." She was also being evil.

"How flexible?" he asked curiously.

She gave him a wicked grin. "Would you really like to know?"

"I don't ask if I don't mean it."

She laughed. "Let me put it this way, I could be giving you a blow job and still be able to wrap my legs around your neck."

Mikhail just groaned at the mental image.

"You did ask."

"I did," he agreed. "Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting the answer to get me hard as a rock."

She ran her hand down to his waist. "Oh I see..."

"Kind of unfortunate, really. And distracting."

"So telling you that I can do very stretchy back bends doesn't help?"

He whimpered softly. "Nope."

"And the splits in two ways?"

He groaned. "You're killing me here."

She leaned in to kiss him lightly. "If I apologize you won't believe me."

"No, I won't," he said, returning the kiss. "Not in the least."

"So, I have a question for you," she said when they took a break in kissing.

"What's that?"

Dani didn't get a chance to respond, because that was when both of their cellphones went off, paging them to the main prep office.

"Damn it," she cursed, rolling away from him and reaching for her clothing.

Mikhail was letting out a stream of Russian epithets as he got dressed. "Ask me anyway?" he asked as they hurriedly fixed their clothing.

"Oh, no. That wouldn't be fair to you," she said. She smiled, slipping out of his room and disappearing down the hall quickly.

Okay, now he was going to be wondering. Damn her.

Shaking his head, he raked his fingers through his hair and left the room.





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