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It's not much later, in Isabella's room, that she asks:

"So... is Alex really a dom?"

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From:

mrmage

"Yeah," he sighs.

From:

eclipsi

"Can you live with it if he wants you home and girl-shaped and perpetually subby for the holidays, if you can go to school?"

From:

mrmage

"...probably. I think. I- I could do it, for long stretches of time. It just, eventually I'd slip, some days I'm just really not a girl, it'd build up, and I'd do something he didn't approve of." Shiver.

From:

eclipsi

"What if I tell you to? What if every time you're about to go to his house I remind you that you are to protect what is mine while I can't."

From:

mrmage

Pause. "That- y- m- I think it- yeah. It might- it might work." Snuggle.

From:

eclipsi

Snuggle. "This relies on him being willing to send you back to a school that has me in it at all, of course."

From:

mrmage

"Yeah." Sigh. "I honestly don't know what he'll do, he's never been challenged like that."

From:

eclipsi

"I was trying to tone it down until it actually came down to who you were leaving with."

From:

mrmage

"It's not anything you did then, really. It's just, doing at least part of what he's been trying and failing to do for years in, what, a month and a half."

From:

eclipsi

"My secret is not being an abusive shit."

From:

mrmage

"Your secret is being you," he says, smiling for the first time since seeing Tobias. "You're smart and great and ambitious and gorgeous and hot and nice and curious and you know how your mind works and I love you."

From:

eclipsi

Kiss. Just a little peck.

From:

mrmage

He sighs again, not altogether unhappily. "Okay, we can work through this, it won't be awful, holidays are short, it won't be hell again."

From:

eclipsi

Nod. Pet pet pet.

From:

mrmage

Snuggle.

From:

catalexis

And eventually Alex drives into a residential neighborhood and pulls into a garage.

From:

mrmage

And Sadde manages to disentangle from Isabella to get out of the car.

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eclipsi

She takes his hand as soon as they've gone from car to house. "Home sweet home," she says.

From:

mrmage

He looks around and nods. "Hi, Isabella's home," he says a bit lamely.

From:

eclipsi

She laughs softly and squeezes his hand. "We didn't wind up eating anything. Alex, what've we got in the fridge that's fast?"

From:

catalexis

"Tuna salad with pasta in it, but like one and a half people's worth. Frozen leftover pizza. Uuuum." He goes and checks. "Oh yeah, there's meatball soup, it came out sort of weird. I could make eggs or something?"