4th floor bathrooms, early evening Thursday

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Liir had agreed to wash Amber's clothes for her, or what she had left of her clothes (stupid machines), so that is what they were going to do. It was just too cute how he carried her up the stairs and into the bathroom. Amber was loathe to be put down, but she was carrying her small bag of clothes, while he carried her, so she assumed the weight could be stressing.

Laughing, he gently placed her on her feet and she was almost tempted to lock the door so she could have fun in the tub with him. But... not yet.

"So. I hope you won't mind looking at my panties," she said, lacking the modesty to not say what she was thinking.


[OOC: For Liir, who was modded with permission. But it's a bathroom, so can be open to others!]

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"They're clothes, aren't they?"

Laundry was laundry, after all. Andrew had had the same sort of misgivings and Liir had been just as unaffected by the awkwardness.

Then he ducked his head with a grin.

"Besides, I believe I've seen them before."

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"Maaaaybe these are new ones," she teased.

"I just want them clean and dried so I can put them back on."

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"I believe that was the thought," he said as he looked at her clothes.

"Now, we'll be separating them," he told her as he started pulling the bag over, "light and dark. You can do white and light and dark, but I've never found that necessary, really."

He only HAD white and dark, for the most part.

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"Seperating is easy," she said. "Just... I hope they get clean enough in a sink. Is that where you wash them?"

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He shook his head and pointed to one of the tubs.

"I usually use the tubs, but since you don't have much, a sink would probably work. Whatever you'd prefer."

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"The tub. That way we can swish them around really good with lots of bubbles," she decided and headed over to one of them where she bent and began to run hot water. "Hot, right?"

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He shook his head and twisted the other tap on as well.

"Warm. Hot's really unnecessary and does more damage than good. For anything dark, on the colder side of warm, and for the light, just warm."

He started separating the clothes, entirely unmindful of what he was touching.

"Most of the work gets done by the soap and the brush."

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Amber watched him and felt her cheeks turn really really warm. Her panties, her bra, her one and only silk nightie.

But then she had jeans and a couple t-shirts.

She made a small, incoherent noise. There was just something about Liir touching her panties when they weren't on her.

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He blinked and looked up at her curiously.

"Amber?"

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"Huh?" she mumbled, blinking at him.

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He held up the soap and the scrub brush.

"Would you like to get this lathered up?"

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"Yah, sure, you betcha," she said. Would be bad to jump him here, wouldn't it? Like, just totally jump him and have her way with him and... stuff.

She took the soap and brush and started lathering it up.

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He smiled and stopped the taps, pulling the plug up to keep the water trapped.

Then he pulled up one of the white shirts.

"The scrub brush is for any spots that would require it. Places where you perspire, stains, any of that."

He put the shirt over the edge of the tub.

"Make sure to get it a little wet first then scrub the right spots. It's easier to do it against the edge."

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Amber took her shirt from where he placed it and dunked it in the water, and then she put it back over the edge of the tub where she started scrubbing with the brush.

"Huh. You wash your clothes like this all the time?"

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He nodded.

"It's... comforting, sometimes," he admitted.

He leaned over and watched her for a moment.

"It doesn't have to be hard. You've got it about right. Try a few different angles. If you look at the way cloth is, it's easy to get at all the dirt by scrubbing in a few different directions."

He tipped his chin down to kiss her cheek before leaning back.

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Comfort in washing clothes? She supposed maaaaybe it could be. It would obviously give her time to be thinky.

Biting her lip, she tried a few different angles, but after his kiss she grinned, casting him a sideways glance. "Liir, you're laundry skills amaze me," she teased and flicked bubbles at him.

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He popped the bubble with his nose before smirking.

"They're well-earned. I've been doing it since I was six or so."

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"Six?" she exclaimed. "Six year olds should be playing with play-doh, not having to do laundry."

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"I'd help Sister Linen sometimes. None of the others would come to the laundry room much. And then when we got to Kiamo Ko, it was somewhere to hide to keep away from Manek. The Witch'd gotten used to it then and didn't want Sarima's sisters meddling in her things, so I just... kept on doing it."

He shrugged.

"It was nicer than most of my chores except in the winter when the water was terribly cold."

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"Oh, Liir," she said, his explanation prompting her to drop the brush and wrap her arms around him for a tight hug.

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He blinked but was happy to accept the hug from Amber.

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He didn't have to get it but she had to hug him. His childhood was far from normal. Okay far from normal compared to hers.

After a moment, she went back to scrubbing.

"This is back breaking work," she said, bending over her shirt. She might have been exaggerating just a tad.

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He rolled his eyes a little.

"It's not, really. And once you learn a rhythm, you'll hardly feel it."

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"I feel it already," she said. "I might need a massage or something later."

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"I'll give you one after," he promised her.