A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel(Rhi)

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"I am not nearly drunk enough to get into all of that," Neo said, quickly deflecting his attempt to get the subject back onto her.
"So are you saying you had the perfect childhood but you decided to be a pirating sex fiend?"

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"Ahhh, pirating sex fiend..." Ari grinned widely and downed some more drink. He was starting to feel it now; he hadn't really eaten today, and though he was by no means a lightweight, all that booze on an empty stomach was having its effect.

He leaned back in his chair and propped his feet up on the table, swirling the ice in his drink. "Yeah, why not? Sounds pretty damned glamorous to me. Ya know, some people do that professionally? Porn stars. Pretty sure I've seen pirate porn. It's all inaccurate, of course."

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Neo filled up her glass, much more vodka than cranberry juice.
"You say that, but I don't think that was what you aspired to be when you were young. Most little boys want to be the space cowboys, not the pirates. Just like I didn't aspire to be a hacker or a pickpocket, it was something I picked up for survival."

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Ari's head was starting to buzz. Drinking all that close together meant it all decided to hit at roughly the same time. At Neo's question, he stared at her a moment, and then shrugged and looked away.

"My sister's the space cowboy," he said at last, and finished off his glass.

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Neo looked at him for a moment frowning. Was that emotion she saw? Did the grand ass-hole of a man Ari actually have a heart, and emotions?

"Well why aren't you?" She asked as she refilled his glass.

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"'Cause sometimes, life don't even lube up before it fucks ya over," Ari said, taking up the glass she'd refilled and chugging it down. He probably should stop. His alcohol level was probably sky high, and he just knew there was no way he was getting out of this without a massive hangover and a lot of vomiting.

But he was officially drunk, and officially past caring.

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Neo let out a heart laugh, "You are tell me, hell, life didn't even wait until I was legal," She spoke, her laughter growing dark. She gulped her drink down, the more she drank the less she would feel and she needed that momentary comfort.

She looked up at Ari from under her thick blonde lashes, "So what is your dark past captain?"

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Ari gave a bitter laugh. "Tchyeah. I was sixteen. Guess that's legal some parts!" He tipped back in his chair, balancing on the back legs--probably another bad decision in this state.

"So yeah. Was sixteen when the pirates came. Me and my friends? Snatched right from a fuckin' burger joint. Can ya believe that? They just wanted the kids. They shot the adults that were around, any that tried to help. Then they took us on their fuckin' ship and told us to kiss our lives goodbye."

He took another gulp, his words slurring a bit. "Never saw my buddies again. They all got dropped off on some planet, given to slavers to be sold off. Never did find out what happened to 'em. Probably never will. And me? Heh." Another long gulp.

"Our captain had a thing for white hair."

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"Men do usually get drawn to oddities," Neo slurred as she motioned to her mismatched eyes. She had attracted the attention of many of her mothers customers from a very young age. Neo killed another drink, knowing that she shouldn't, she knew she was drunk off her ass. She doubted that she would even be able to make it back to her room unless she crawled.
Then she felt another ping in her gut, the craving for comfort, and not really caring if it was something healthy or not.

She leaned forward without thinking, pressing her lips against his.

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There was a brief flash of surprise when Neo kissed him, for deep down he still remembered all her deflecting, but the surprise quickly faded. Ari was the last person to say no to this, and Neo wasn't the only one feeling off balance and a little extra emotional with the booze pumping through his veins and the bad memories clouding his drink-addled mind.

And Ari had learned from an early age that the best way to drown out emotional pain was physical pleasure.

Or, in his case, physical pain, too.

...Which he soon got his share of then.

For as he reached for her, a hand sliding up her neck and into her hair as he pulled her in for a deeper kiss, tasting the alcohol on her lips and tongue, he forgot that he was sort of tipping his chair--and the chair rocked from the movement, and the next thing he knew, the world was spinning for a different reason as he went toppling backwards onto the floor.

Sprawled on his back with his legs hanging over the chair, he blinked in surprise, and then burst out laughing. "Fuck," he said, gasping for air between laughter. "Well, I ain't goin' back up there, so you better get down here!"

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Neo couldn't help herself as she laughed at Ari. For a moment the emotional pain muddled.
"How about we go to your bedroom, it would be so much more fun," Neo said as she raised an eyebrow.

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Ari lifted both his arms and held his hands out to her. "Help me up, then!"

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Neo reached down to him. She didn't trust him, and half expected him to pull her down onto the floor with him. She might have been drunk, but she didn't plan on having sex right in the middle of the public dining room.

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Ari did seriously consider yanking Neo down on top of him, and the only thing that stopped him was the chair digging into his spine. He was all about being spontaneous and had no objections to taking her right there on the table, crew mates be damned, but at the same time...

Why use a hard table when there was a soft bed just down the hall?

Grasping Neo's hands, Ari hauled himself to his feet, and then he grinned, leaned down, and kissed her hard and full on the mouth. "Thanks, butterfly," he said against her lips.

Right before he scooped her up into his arms, bridal style.

It was, yet again, probably not a Good Idea with his balance unsteady, but at the same time, she was tiny and weighed nothing! Adjusting his grip on her, he started down the hall--but slowly.

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Neo squilled lightly as Ari quickly scooped her into his arms, she hadn't expected that, she had half expected him to make her hobble. She quickly wrapped her arms around his neck and deepened the kiss, pressing her lips hard against his. She was sure of one thing, if she was in his bed she wouldn't have time to linger in the emotional pain that often haunted her.

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It was by some sheer miracle that Ari made it to his bedroom without some epic accident, like dropping her, or hitting her bad leg against the wall. It took a few tries before he slid his door open, and then he brought them both inside, and closed the door behind them.

He got them to the bed and set her down onto it, careful of her leg (nothing would be more of a mood ruiner than that!), before he climbed in after her. He playfully straddled her, capturing her wrists and holding them just above her head, before he leaned down and kissed her again, tasting her mouth and hoping she liked pierced tongues, because he knew he did, and he planned on working its magic on her in other places, too.

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Neo let Ari feel like he was in control, she could already tell that was what he liked, it wasn't a hard observation to make. She didn't mind it, though she was never one to relinquish all control to someone, ever.

Neo's tongue wasn't pierced, she never saw the point in giving her mothers customers more reason to seek after her, she didn't mind his though. If anything, it was interesting, it was easy to tell he had a lot of practice with it.

She was enjoying Ari's mouth against hers, his body, just the way he moved. He was so aggressive, his movements so demanding. Then she remembered him calling her a butterfly, and a need to show him that she still could sting crossed over her. She sucked his lip into her mouth gently before biting. Not extremely hard, but hard enough she knew it would hurt.

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Neo bit him, and Ari moaned in response as a little thrill went through him. Maybe not such a butterfly after all; she had a stinger. His own kiss turned fiercer in response, harder, as he nipped at her lip before dragging his mouth down to her neck, lips pressed just beneath her ear and breath hot against her skin.

"Ya can do a lot more of that, darlin'," he told her as he nibbled at her throat. "Be as rough as ya want. I like it."

And then he bit her there, but not hard, as he shifted enough to transfer both her wrists to one hand to free up one to work with. She had too many clothes on, and he reached down to slide his hand under her shirt and up over her belly, caressing her ribs, and dragging her shirt up as he went. Her bra was just another obstacle to clear out fast, and he didn't bother with finding the clasps, instead just grabbing it in the middle and yanking it up and out of the way.

"Much better."

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Neo smiled then laughed, as his lips left hers. He was like reading an open book. If he wanted pain, she could sure as hell give it to him. Then she felt his teeth on her neck,he didn't bite her hard though, it was just enough to make her heart skip a beat and her breath catch in her throat followed by a soft moan as he changed his grip on her wrists. His touch was hot against her cool flesh. He definitely made quick work of getting her bra out of the way to expose her ample chest. She looked up at Ari, "like what you see?" She asked playfully.

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Ari grinned down at her. "Nope," he said as he lowered his mouth to her skin, pressing kisses along the swell of her breast.

"Hate 'em," he said as he flicked his tongue over her nipple before taking it into his mouth, tongue swirling over the flesh as he teased the point with just the barest bit of teeth. He brought his free hand to her other breast, massaging it and rolling the nipple between his fingers as his mouth worked on the other until, finally, he pulled back a little, puffing a warm breath on her wet skin, and brought his mouth to the other.

"It's so, so terrible," he breathed against her skin between teasing licks and nibbles.