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You had been shown to your room over an hour ago and since then, nerves had taken over. This place gave you the creeps; you weren’t even sure what this place was. The people who lived here were…unusual to say the least. The two servants, Magenta and Riff Raff gave you odd looks and mostly kept to themselves. The other girl, Columbia, had tried to befriend you the best she could. It seemed that this place had taken some kind of toll on her, leaving her more standoffish than anything, but she still seemed to like you enough to want to be friends.
And the master of the castle, oh he was quite unusual himself…quite unusual indeed. Dr. Frank-N-Furter. Frank. He was something out of your wildest fantasies and yet you couldn’t quite put your finger on what drew you to him. In fact, you were a bit frightened of him because of it. It had taken days of working up the courage to even come visit the castle. You’d never seen it before tonight, and it wasn’t that you didn’t want to, but Frank’s presence left you winded and made you slightly uneasy.
You weren’t ready to relax around him just yet. It was going to take you some time to get used to him. Frank had a very powerful and commanding personality. Whenever he came into a room it demanded everyone’s attention to be focused on him front and center. You’d never seen such confidence before, especially in such an odd specimen.
You just needed to rest. You would feel better if you could just fall asleep and stop thinking about him for a while. Frank was hard to figure out and you decided it was best to just stop trying to for the time being.
There was a knock at the door and you jumped straight up in bed, eyes wide in fright, “who’s there?”
Seconds passed before a richly accented voice replied, “Its only me, my darling.”
Despite his calming words, you tensed beneath the blankets. Uncertainty creased your features when you heard the door click open and shut as Frank came into the room. You watched Frank’s silhouette through the thin fabric draped from the top of the canopy bed. He was moving closer and finally reached the bed, drawing back the curtains and met you face to face. He smiled comfortingly and, despite your unease, you smiled back.
He sunk down onto the side of the bed, his fingers absently toying with the edge of the sheets, “shouldn’t you be asleep by now?” His green gaze met yours as the question rolled smoothly off his tongue.
You shrugged, “I couldn’t fall asleep.” Then the thought hit you: if he thought you would be asleep, why was he coming in here? You protectively drew your legs up to your chest and rested your arms on your knees.
Frank could sense your unease, like he could most things, and reached out to stroke your cheek with the pad of his thumb. His hands were warm against your cool skin. It was fairly cold in the castle and you pulled the sheets up around yourself even more closely to keep warm. You sighed as you allowed yourself to give in to his touches and relax with him here with you. You hadn’t thought of it before, but his presence was beginning to relax you with him simply sitting there. You were beginning to not let your nervousness get to you.
You snapped out of your thoughts to Frank crawling on all fours up the side of the bed and coming to rest at your side. He wiggled closer and tossed an arm across your middle. He pressed his face into the crook of your neck, drinking in your scent as he relaxed against you.
In spite of yourself, you soon found yourself relaxing as well. It was comforting, nonetheless, having him here with you like this. Intimate.
He was giving your neck soft little kisses while he held you tight against him. He must’ve known how nervous you were; you weren’t expecting him to be so sweet. He couldn’t be anything less than this. He didn’t want to frighten you.
He drew back and tapped your shoulder for you to scoot over so that he could join you under the covers. You shifted slightly and he pulled the covers back, sliding up next to you. His hands blindly reached for you and found your body with ease, gathering you up in his arms and snuggling you up facing his chest. He curled himself around you protectively, his hands rubbing soothing circles on your bare back.
You realized, in utter embarrassment, that you’d chosen to sleep naked, but that seemed to be the least of Frank’s concerns as of late. He was too busy comforting you to pay much notice of whether you were wearing clothes or not. He himself wore a pink satin robe which hung loosely from his shoulders.
He un-clung himself from you long enough to push your arms inside his robe, having you lock them around his middle. He had noticed how cold your hands were from the lack of heat in the building and besides, he felt that to be touching skin to skin was one of the most comforting things of all.
You held onto Frank tighter than you would’ve ever thought you would want to. He was actually extremely endearing and you liked being here with him like this. You had always been a shy person and you knew that you couldn’t get away with that anymore around Frank and that was the reason you were wary of him. You didn’t want to be taken out of your comfort zone, but you were finding now that it might not be as bad as you’d thought.
Frank could tell all of this though your body language and way of speaking to him. He wasn’t naïve; he picked up on this sort of thing easily. That just served him to better understand you. He could learn a lot by just observing.
He didn’t speak for quite some time. Perhaps a half an hour had passed before he asked, “better now, love?”
You nodded and pressed your face into his chest. You twined your legs up with his, interlocking your bodies in a tangle of limbs. You could get used to this. Having Frank so close brought you a sense of security and you could feel yourself beginning to drift off. You blinked and struggled to keep your eyes open, but Frank was still rubbing your back and nuzzling your neck, and it was difficult to stay awake with him cuddling you like that.
You yawned and stretched out in his grasp. He released you, allowing you to shift to a more comfortable position before putting his arms back around you. With one of his hands stroking your hair while the other gently rubbed your back, you drifted off to sleep, completely rid of your feelings of uncertainty which had been replaced by pure confidence and certainty.