Light In The Mirror

The Lion's Mouth

Fandom: CSI

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: G/S

Summary: For the 
Geekfiction Summer Sizzler Ficathon

Disclaimer: The characters and situations in this story belong to Alliance Atlantis, CBS, Anthony Zuicker and other entities, and I do not have permission to borrow them. No infringement is intended in any way, and this story is not for profit. Any errors are mine, all mine, no you can't have any.

Spoilers: general sixth season  




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He wasn’t usually like this.


I mean, one of the things that attracted me to Gil from the very beginning was his inherent gentleness. It was part of him, his personality--not something learned, but something innate. I’d grown up watching my father turn my mother into a punching bag, but I knew almost instantly that Gil would never raise a hand to someone he loved.


So feeling the cloth tighten over my eyes, cutting off the light...feeling his breath hit the back of my neck...knowing that I had deliberately put myself into his oh-so-capable hands...well, I wasn’t afraid. But I could say I was nervous. Certainly something was curling in the pit of my stomach, making my pulse faster and putting all my nerves on alert.


Those big warm hands curved over my shoulders, thumbs stroking down. “You okay?” he asked softly in my ear.


And I swallowed, and nodded.


Normally we’re pretty egalitarian when it comes to sex. Once we got past the first awkward moments--it may be like riding a bicycle, but without practice you can get a little rusty--we realized that we had pretty similar tastes, and Gil’s as willing to let me take the lead as he is to do it himself. I have to say, I appreciate that; I know I can be aggressive, and some guys find that a turn-off, but not him.


But every so often, he gets into a mood where he wants to be in total control. Nothing really kinky, just wanting me to go along with him without asking questions. I don’t mind at all; it’s not my usual style to be passive, but do I ever reap the benefits.


You see, Gil’s a man of amazing concentration. It’s one of his strengths as a forensic scientist--he can, and has, focused on a case for two or three days straight. I do the same thing, so I know how much that can cost him emotionally; sometimes trying to forget about a case feels like trying to scrub off a decomp, or something equally sticky and nasty.


Sometimes, the best way to forget is to concentrate, just as hard, on something else. It took me a little while to make the connection. To pull himself away from the case, he focuses on me.


And I have to admit, I love it when he does.


All right.” I felt Gil’s hands drop to the hem of my shirt. He bunched it up, helping me pull it off so it didn’t disturb the blindfold. Hearing it fall to the floor made me that much more aware of my surroundings, magnifying sound.


One finger slowly traced the line of my spine from my neck to my tailbone, and I shivered. Gil chuckled behind me, and then his arms went around me to undo the button on my jeans. It takes a certain amount of skill to strip a woman from behind without knocking her over, but he didn’t have any problems; within a minute or two I was free of clothing entirely.


It felt a little unfair, but I didn’t argue. Besides, I figured his pants would be coming off eventually anyway.


Gil took my hand in his, lacing our fingers together, and started guiding me out of the kitchen and into the living room; I could feel the tile change to carpet under my bare feet. It was a slightly alarming sensation, to be led by Gil--I trusted him, sure, but that didn’t really reassure my sense of balance. But he moved slowly, giving me time to place my feet, and I hung onto him and tried not to think about walking into something.


Then I heard the scrape of the sliding door opening.


Fresh warm air poured in past us, smelling of desert wind and the green grass and weeds of the lawn. We’d had rain last week and the stuff had busted out all over.


I didn’t resist when Gil led me outside. It wouldn’t be the first time we’d made love outdoors, though previously it had been dark; but our new place had a high fence and no one nearby to peek over it. It was fascinating how much more input I was noticing from my senses given that I couldn’t see; scents were richer, and the rough feel of sun-hot wood under my feet was acute.


Rather than helping me down the two steps to the ground, Gil let go of my hand and put his on my waist. The sudden swoop as he lifted me made me gasp, and I grabbed his arms, but a second later I was standing on the lawn and he was taking my hand again.


Come on,” he said, tugging me gently along, and I tried to visualize the back yard, finding it surprisingly difficult to place myself in it as the grass tickled my soles. High weathered board fence, some rather tangled flower beds along it, a large cottonwood tree against the back--


The sun’s heat on my skin lessened, and I deduced that we had passed into the tree’s shade. Gil halted, and I heard the slide of fabric and the faint pop his knee sometimes made when he crouched.


Then he straightened again, and put one arm behind my back and the other under my knees. I bit my lip as he lifted me--I didn’t think he’d drop me, but I didn’t want him to pull a muscle, either--but a moment later he was laying me down on my back.


He’d put down something, maybe a sheet; the prickle of the grass against my skin was muted. Gil took my wrists gently and raised them over my head, so that they were pressed to the cloth, palms up and fingers just touching. “Don’t move,” he instructed me quietly, and laid a kiss in the hollow of my throat. I could feel goosebumps coming up, and he chuckled again.


I knew it would be hard, lying still when I couldn’t see, but that was part of the thrill. His hands drifted down my body, touching lightly, teasing a little; when he reached my hips he slid his fingers in between my thighs and parted them a little. I could picture myself--not quite sprawled on the sheet, but open and...vulnerable. It made me shiver a little, but not with fear.


He sighed, and his exhale brushed across my skin. “You are forever breathtaking,” he said, his voice still low, and at that moment I believed him.


I heard him settle into the grass beside me, and for a little while he was silent and still, leaving me to anticipate. I wanted to relax in the warm air, to yawn maybe and roll over, but he’d told me not to move, and instead I felt myself growing tauter with each passing minute. It was hard to believe how turned on I was getting even though Gil wasn’t even touching me.


He was watching me, though. I knew that; I could feel his gaze on my skin even though I couldn’t see it. It was as weightless as sunlight, and as hot; Gil never could keep from looking at me, even in the worst times. Sometimes I thought he felt like he’d never get his fill of watching me, touching me, being close to me. As though he thought I’d just take it all away from him someday.


We were still working on the “get it through your head, I’m not leaving” part.


Finally, just when I felt like my skin was about to start twitching from nerves, I heard Gil move. The rustle of cloth, the faint scratchiness of grass blades, a slight snapping noise that I didn’t recognize.


Don’t move,” he said again, and then I felt a smaller breeze across my thighs, and the slightest tease and prickle as something danced along my skin. I jerked a little, startled, and the sensation came again--something brushing past, hardly more substantial than air.


It tickled and slid and was gone, and I squinted behind the blindfold, trying to figure out what he was doing. Another rustle, and it happened once more, across my abdomen this time. Like tiny little feet. My shoulders tensed. “That had better not be spiders, Gil.”


He laughed. “No, it’s not. Nothing with feet. Relax.” One warm finger touched my lips, a signal for silence, and I acquiesced, relaxing a little now that I knew he wasn’t using me as an insect racecourse. I mean, I didn’t mind having the terrariums in the house, but there are limits--


Another breeze, another tickle. He was blowing something over me, I figured; not bubbles, they weren’t wet, but something light. Feathers maybe?


It was an incredible sensation. Barely there, and yet it was surprisingly erotic, making my skin itch for another touch. I kept myself from wriggling, but it took effort. This time the wave of...whatever...washed over my breasts and throat, and I felt my breath rate increasing.


Three times more he dusted me with this mystery substance, to the point where I really was twitching. It was turning him on; I could smell him from where I lay, and in a moment of mischief I shifted a little, arching my spine a bit and parting my legs just a fraction more.


Gil made a low sound. “Hold still,” he warned, and I shivered at that dark voice. After years of uncertainty, it was great to know I was tempting him, and I grinned, knowing I could tease him just as he was teasing me.


I heard him shifting again, and then something was stroking lightly over my toes. It felt almost like a brush of some kind, but the shape was wrong; it was as soft as a puff of smoke and I frowned a little at this new puzzle.


But as Gil worked it up my legs, I kind of lost track of the puzzle part. It was a maddening sensation, and he knew just how to use it, how to taunt me with the faintest touches until all my concentration was taken up by keeping still.


That was the trouble with having a CSI for a lover. Gil’s attention to detail was without flaw, and he noticed and remembered practically every reaction I’d ever had in bed with him. He knew where all my sensitive spots were, how I liked to be touched and when--information he used to very good effect generally. The flip side, of course, was that he could tease without mercy as well.


He trailed the softness over every part of me that he could reach, it seemed; detouring to the crease of my knee, twirling it over my hip, brushing gently down the insides of my thighs, tickling up along my ribs. He spent a lot of time on my nipples, the evil man, to the point where I was biting my lips against the arousing ache.


By the time he was stroking up my throat, my pulse was speeding and I was just this side of panting. Every muscle in my body was tense with the effort of not moving.


How are you feeling, sweetheart?” Gil asked, and I could hear the laughter in his voice.


Bastard,” I said through clenched teeth, holding still. The breeze was cooling the sweat he’d brought out on my skin, and at this point it was just one more stimulant. I wanted to rip off the blindfold and tackle Gil so very badly, but I wasn’t going to break his rule.


Not yet, anyway. If he didn’t do something soon...


He did. Two fingers slid in between my legs, parting the slick flesh, deft and gentle. I sucked in air at the touch, feeling my leg muscles quiver at the sweet, sharp pleasure flooding my nerves. “Not quite,” he said, still amused. “I have it on good authority that my parents were married a full eleven months before I was born.”


I wanted to say something snappy, but I couldn’t concentrate on anything besides the way he was touching me. Gil has incredible hands, and all those years of handling fragile evidence…all that came out of my mouth was a growl as he slowly eased his fingers inside me.


He twisted them slightly, and I barely kept my hips from jerking up. “Don’t move,” he repeated, rubbing lightly with his thumb. I whimpered, squeezing my eyes shut behind the blindfold, feeling my muscles clutching at those slow-moving fingers. “Don’t move…”


It was too much, I was going insane; my pulse was pounding in my ears, and I could feel myself starting to shake. He kept stroking me, teasing me, whispering to make me hold still, but there was no way I could, I--


His free hand dropped onto my wrists, holding them down, and then his mouth was on my nipple, wet and hot and hard. I must have made some kind of sound, but I don’t remember it; everything dropped away but the incredible pleasure burning through me. I was pinned and twisting in his grip, arching so hard I’m surprised my spine didn’t snap, blind and deaf and flying.



It took a while for my head to stop spinning. Gil had taken off the blindfold and held me cuddled in his arms as he sat against the cottonwood trunk, and for a while I just relaxed, enjoying the feel of his solidity. Honestly, the sex is usually great and sometimes amazing, but in the end I think it’s his hugs I need the most.


But finally I sighed and stretched a little, and he tilted his head to look down at me. “All right?”


Mmm,” I agreed. Every knot in my muscles seemed to have been unstrung, and I felt languorous and sated. “I’d tell you to wipe that smug grin off your face, but I have to admit, it’s justified.”


One corner of his mouth climbed higher. “My pleasure.”


His posture was relaxed, but I knew he’d been turned on by his little experiment--I could feel the evidence pressing against my hip. I slid one hand down and smirked as he sucked in a breath. “Guess it’s my turn, then. What do you have in mind?”


He pursed his lips, and for a moment I thought he’d turn me down; every so often he does. But apparently today wasn’t one of those times. “Dealer’s choice,” he offered.


So that was how he ended up wearing the blindfold, his jeans around his knees and his hands in my hair as I played with him. It was definitely a good thing that we don’t have any close neighbors, because I’m sure we were a sight--Gil with his head tipped back against the tree, making odd gasping noises, and a stark naked woman with her face in his lap. I really do enjoy giving Gil head; it’s fun, and he’s always so appreciative.


Eventually I let him come, and for a while we dozed, curled up together on the sheet; fortunately, the heat from the shifting sun woke me before I burned, and we helped each other inside to continue our nap in cooler surroundings. I don’t think Gil really woke up; he sighed as I pulled the sheet up over us both, and I grinned and stroked the softness of his beard. He smiled without opening his eyes.


What was that stuff, anyway?” I asked, yawning.


He pulled me closer and mumbled something about lions. I considered poking him and making him explain, but I was too safe and too drowsy.


We slept.

 
 

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