Taking Care Of Triggers

taking care of triggers

THIS WORK IS 18+ ! MINORS DO NOT INTERACT!

Summary:

You offer a cold shower for aftercare and Rafe is triggered but you are there for him. This is set at the beginning of your relationship, before you are fully committed.

Warnings: domme/sub dynamics, domme!reader, sub!rafe, trigger during after care

You have worked up Rafe a lot during a scene, he is hot all over and not coming down after the scene.

"Hey Rafe?" You ask softly.

"Mh?"

"You're body is still heating up, would you be up for a cold shower as part of aftercare?"

Rafe's eyes fly open and he sits up straight so quickly he nearly blacks out. "Yellow," he mutters.

You immediately take your hands off of him and kneel on the bed so that you have a better view at him.

All of a sudden, Rafe's breaths are ragged for all the wrong reasons.

"No," Rafe gasps, "Red."

You get out of bed and crouch down next to it, "We're not in a scene anymore, Rafe," you say calmly despite your own inner panic rising. Apparently you said the wrong thing and you really need to get this right because you have never seen Rafe like this. "We're not doing anything, you're free to go. You're not tied up or anything." Rafe nods, desperately trying to get his breathing under control. "You're also not in a shower," you try again. This time Rafe looks at you. Apparently that was the right thing to say. "You're not in a shower, you're here in bed. I won’t do anything you don’t consent to. Never."

"Yeah..." Rafe whispers, the look in his eyes shattered.

It takes a while until you're both comfortable again. Rafe was clearly shaken up but so were you. Even the thought of crossing Rafe's boundaries and triggering him like that, makes you sick to your stomach.

-

"Well, that was an effective way to bring me down," Rafe tries to joke once you're both lying on your bed again, the atmostphere between the two of you easy after having talked about everything.

"Don’t joke about things like that," You order immediately, a frown evident on your face.

Rafe's face reddens. "Sorry."

"You're good," you say and press a soft kiss to the side of his head. "I just want you to take yourself seriously."

"Okay."

Rafe nestles up against you.

"In the end it's up to you, but I don’t feel comfortable leaving you alone right now. Do you want to stay here for the night?"

Rafe looks at you surprised at the offer. Then he frowns. "And you'd be okay with that?"

"I wouldn’t offer otherwise. You can always take my word for what it is."

"Okay, yeah... I would love to, actually, but I don’t want to be needy," Rafe says.

"You're not being needy, Rafe!" You say, willing your voice to still be calm, not letting your exasperation shine through. Since when is Rafe this insecure? It has to be connected to the cold shower. You don't even want to start thinking about what could possibly trigger this kind of reaction. "You're my sub, my responsibility. I want you to feel good."

It's the first time you sleep next to each other at night.

sub!rafe all tied up x

sub!rafe kinktober 2024

is there anyone interested in doing a very spontaneous sub!rafe kinktober? I will be posting anyway but i just that that it would be way more fun to do it together. if enough people are interested, I'd be down putting up a kinktober concept.

let me know :)

oh that's a model face.

one of the ways i want rafe

not gonna say it. but he popped into your head didn’t he