The games he'd been playing with her in exchange for the books she wanted had been working well. The mere suggestion that they might be going to his office had her filled with happy anticipation, her tail wagging even more furiously than before.
That all disappeared into mortified anxiety once they entered his bedroom, near panic in the sink. The poor dear didn't know what to do with herself without giving the game away. It might be in-character for a dog to try to escape, but she surely knew it would never work, and would only make the ignoble end a more humiliating affair.
Coat neatly folded and set off to the side, he unbuttoned his waistcoat, folded that as well. Loosened his tie, slipped it out of his collar. Then he rolled his sleeves up to his elbows, revealed the dusting of dark hair on well-sculpted forearms.
He had fine wrists, and long fingers, and nice forearms. It wasn't vanity to be aware of the facts.
"Do not be frightened," he said as soothingly as he could, able now to run his hands all down her head and back. He scritched her head. "It will be nice, I assure you."
He ran the hot water first, knowing that it would initially run warm, giving him time to turn on the cold water and adjust it to what he assumed would be a comfortable temperature. Then he stopped up the sink and let it fill, petting her all the while.
It was not that he was obsessive about hygiene. It was only that he had spent quite enough of his life in filth, enough for ten lifetimes or more. He liked for things to be tidy, to feel nice against his skin, to be pleasing to the eye with a lovely fragrance. Didn't everyone? And if in this particular instance, it allowed him to touch someone who had not seemed aware that touch could be a marvelous thing – well. That was an additional benefit.
"There," he said, turning the water off. He smoothed water over her back, tried to wet the fur of her ears without getting it in her eyes. "It is not so bad, yes?" He hummed again, rubbed grit from the fur around her paws. "Go on Blue you good dog you – perhaps you would like another song better?" He chuckled as he grabbed a little jewel-colored handsoap full of flower petals, rubbing soap onto his hands so that he could massage it into her fur. "You are a pup of refinement, accustomed to only the finest things. You bathe in champagne, and your treats are caviar. Do you like the opera? Turandot, for you, I think."
"Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma! Tu pure, o, Principessa – that is you, if you did not know it." He switched between a full-throated tenor and his ordinary speaking voice with ease, no proper transition whatsoever. "Would you like to sing with me, Blue?" He laughed, rubbing under her chest and at her paws, rinsing them just as quickly. "Awoo – like that, yes? Can you sing?"
That all disappeared into mortified anxiety once they entered his bedroom, near panic in the sink. The poor dear didn't know what to do with herself without giving the game away. It might be in-character for a dog to try to escape, but she surely knew it would never work, and would only make the ignoble end a more humiliating affair.
Coat neatly folded and set off to the side, he unbuttoned his waistcoat, folded that as well. Loosened his tie, slipped it out of his collar. Then he rolled his sleeves up to his elbows, revealed the dusting of dark hair on well-sculpted forearms.
He had fine wrists, and long fingers, and nice forearms. It wasn't vanity to be aware of the facts.
"Do not be frightened," he said as soothingly as he could, able now to run his hands all down her head and back. He scritched her head. "It will be nice, I assure you."
He ran the hot water first, knowing that it would initially run warm, giving him time to turn on the cold water and adjust it to what he assumed would be a comfortable temperature. Then he stopped up the sink and let it fill, petting her all the while.
It was not that he was obsessive about hygiene. It was only that he had spent quite enough of his life in filth, enough for ten lifetimes or more. He liked for things to be tidy, to feel nice against his skin, to be pleasing to the eye with a lovely fragrance. Didn't everyone? And if in this particular instance, it allowed him to touch someone who had not seemed aware that touch could be a marvelous thing – well. That was an additional benefit.
"There," he said, turning the water off. He smoothed water over her back, tried to wet the fur of her ears without getting it in her eyes. "It is not so bad, yes?" He hummed again, rubbed grit from the fur around her paws. "Go on Blue you good dog you – perhaps you would like another song better?" He chuckled as he grabbed a little jewel-colored handsoap full of flower petals, rubbing soap onto his hands so that he could massage it into her fur. "You are a pup of refinement, accustomed to only the finest things. You bathe in champagne, and your treats are caviar. Do you like the opera? Turandot, for you, I think."
"Nessun dorma! Nessun dorma! Tu pure, o, Principessa – that is you, if you did not know it." He switched between a full-throated tenor and his ordinary speaking voice with ease, no proper transition whatsoever. "Would you like to sing with me, Blue?" He laughed, rubbing under her chest and at her paws, rinsing them just as quickly. "Awoo – like that, yes? Can you sing?"
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