She holds Lev closer. "....I don't think that's as common as you think it is. I'm sorry you're in a body you don't like." 

"...Sorry, we were going to talk about you and we wound up talking about my fetishes again." He doesn't mention that Faye would have called it male self-centered ness. It doesn't seem likely to help. "What... did she do to you? If that's not too triggering."

"...um." 

Yeah, okay, she really should talk about this. And Lev is safe and warm and good. 

"I... got hit a lot, sometimes when I wanted to get hit and sometimes when I didn't, and she'd say something about how I like getting hit sometimes, how was she supposed to know — I had a tracker app in my phone, she'd flip her shit and hit me and then say she just got so worried and I'd scared her and cry and then I'd be comforting her even though — uh, there was kind of a lot more sex than I would have said yes to if saying no didn't get me hurt, most of it wasn't technically rape but —" 

She can feel herself detaching; she cuts herself off. 

"If you're saying yes because no would get you hurt it's rape. Actually."

"I know it is, I said technically for a reason, which is that legally nothing would happen." 

"Because the legal system sucks." He kisses her hair.

Hair kisses are nice. "Sentences with technically in them don't feel as immediate." 

"That's fair. I love you." More hair kisses. "You were really uncomfortable about potions before. Was it--"

"Yeah. It was." 

"Oh god that's so awful."

"Pretty sure I would have loved her anyway. At least in the beginning." 

Hugs. "Still. It's. For me it would be the worst thing, to have someone invade my.mind so I'd have to love them no matter how much they hurt me. And not to be able to think around it... My mind is mine. Someone making it so I can't think about things is the scariest thing I can imagine."

Hugs. And very gently petting Lev's hair. "Yeah. All of that." 

"At least I know I love you for real."

"Yeah," and she nuzzles into his shoulder. "Love you so much." 

"Love you so much too. --I am tempted to spend all of today cuddling with you in bed and telling you how much I love you."

"We can do that! — with breaks for food, and also movies." 

"I'll warn you that I talk way too much during movies."

"Good, so do I." 

"What's your favorite movie?"

"I like the Nutcracker parts of Fantasia, and I like Howl's Moving Castle, and I like The Royal Tenenbaums, and I don't like Star Wars." 

"It's a good thing I love you or I'd break up with you for that comment about Star Wars."

Howl's Moving Castle!

"I didn't say it was bad, I just said I don't like it!" 

Howl's Moving Castle! 

As promised, he talks a lot during movies. 

As not at all promised, about fifteen minutes in he starts kissing her neck and nibbling it a little bit.

She gasps and shivers and tilts her head so he has more skin within reach and whimpers when he finds somewhere especially sensitive.