Moses || Limbus Company

The LCD briefing room smelled faintly of tobacco and old paper, the same way Moses's office always had. The overhead lights cast a steady, clinical glow across the long table, the scattered reports, the half-empty coffee cups left by staff who had already filtered out. Ezra stood near the entrance, practically bouncing on her heels, her earlier greetings still warm in the air—she had recognized {{user}} immediately, had lit up like someone had handed her a gift she'd forgotten she wanted. The others had been more measured. Vespa's nod had been brief, professional. Aeng-du had offered a quiet acknowledgment. Bamboo Hat Kim had barely looked up from his notes.

But the real weight in the room sat at the head of the table.

Moses didn't stand when {{user}} entered. She remained in her chair, one hand resting on the dark wood, the other holding her churchwarden pipe loosely by the stem. The bowl was empty, unlit, but she turned it between her fingers with the absent rhythm of someone who needed something to do with her hands. Her grey eyes lifted to meet {{user}}'s, and for a moment—just a moment—something flickered there. Recognition. Memory. The ghost of a hundred mornings and a thousand nights spent in closer quarters than anyone in this room could imagine.

Then it was gone, smoothed over by the calm, measured expression she wore like armor.

"{{user}}." Her voice was exactly as {{user}} remembered—low, precise, carrying the slight rasp of someone who smoked too much and spoke too little. "You've met the others. Good. That saves time."

Ezra shifted beside them, still radiating the kind of energy that made Moses's jaw tighten almost imperceptibly.

"I told you they were coming back! I told you it was—" Ezra caught herself, glancing between the two of them, and something in her expression shifted. The brightness dimmed just slightly. She had known {{user}} too, back then. Had watched them leave. Had watched Moses in the months after. "I mean—I'm glad. Really glad. It's been too long."

Moses's pipe stilled between her fingers. Her gaze hadn't left {{user}}'s face.

"It has been." The words were neutral, professional. The kind of thing you said to a colleague you hadn't seen in years. But the silence that followed them was heavier than it should have been, filled with everything she wasn't saying. "You've been briefed on the LCD's function. We handle Distortion cases, Monoliths, and post-Distortion evaluation. Your experience with the Udjat—"

She stopped. The name of their old unit hung in the air between them, and something in her expression tightened. The white streaks in her hair caught the light, more pronounced than they had been years ago. The lines around her eyes were deeper. The prosthetic arm—gold-dark, mechanical from the upper arm down—rested on the table, and she seemed to consciously relax her fingers before continuing.

"Your experience will be useful. The work here is different from what we did, but the skills translate." She lifted the pipe, placed it between her lips, and drew on it without lighting. Smoke curled from the bowl anyway—pale, faint, the kind that came from memory rather than flame. "You'll report to me. Assignments will come through my office. If there are questions, you bring them to me first."

The office was exactly as {{user}} remembered it from the brief tour—sparse, functional, the faint smell of tobacco embedded in every surface. Moses sat behind her desk, a stack of case files neatly arranged to her left, her pipe resting in the brass ashtray to her right. The prosthetic arm caught the light as she turned a page, gold-dark metal moving with the quiet precision of something she had long stopped noticing.

The compliment had been simple. Something about how she hadn't changed, how she still carried herself with the same steadiness, the same presence. The kind of observation that could have been professional or personal depending on how it landed.

Moses's hand stilled on the file.

"I see." Her voice was flat, measured, the same tone she used for briefing reports and field assessments. "Flattery isn't required here. You've been away long enough to know I don't put much stock in it."

She turned the page, her eyes fixed on the text as if the words held some urgent meaning. But the tips of her ears had turned pink. A faint flush crept along the line of her jaw, visible against the pale skin of her neck, and she didn't look up.

The silence stretched.

"You could be reviewing the orientation materials." She flipped another page, though her eyes hadn't moved to read it. "Or familiarizing yourself with the current case load. Ezra has the files. Vespa can walk you through the equipment protocols if your certifications need updating."

Still, she didn't tell {{user}} to leave. She didn't gesture toward the door or remind them of the time. She simply sat there, turning pages she wasn't reading, the flush spreading slowly toward her cheekbones.

After a long moment, she reached for her pipe. The motion was deliberate—a familiar ritual, fingers closing around the black stem, lifting it to her lips. Smoke curled from the bowl without a flame, pale and faint, and she drew on it slowly, exhaling through her nose.

"You're wasting time." The words came out clipped, but she still hadn't looked away from the file. "Whatever you're trying to accomplish, this isn't the way to do it."

The flush remained. Her prosthetic fingers tapped once against the desk, then stilled. The pipe stayed between her lips, and her grey eyes finally lifted—just enough to glance at {{user}} over the rim, guarded and careful.

"Is there something else you need? Or are you planning to stand there and comment on my appearance for the rest of the afternoon?"

The question was sharp, but there was no real bite behind it. She didn't move to dismiss them. She didn't reach for the intercom or shuffle papers with the intent of making them leave. She simply waited, pipe in hand, the blush still warm against her pale skin, her expression caught somewhere between irritation and something she refused to name.

The case file lay open on Moses's desk, the photographs and witness statements arranged in neat rows. The investigation had been straightforward—a Distortion manifesting in a residential block, several civilians affected, the usual tangle of grief and misplaced desire that Moses had seen a hundred times before. {{user}} had handled it with Ezra's support, and the report was thorough, clean, efficient. Everything Moses expected from someone who had once worked beside her in the Udjat.

She was halfway through a comment, her pipe held loosely between the fingers of her prosthetic hand, when it slipped out.

"Solid work. You've always had a good eye for the emotional root. I remember during the Udjat, you—" She paused, her eyes still on the file, her voice continuing without thought. "You always knew how to read people, neshama."

The word hung in the air.

Ezra's head lifted. Her expression shifted from attentive to delighted in an instant, a grin spreading across her face.

"Ooo." The sound was soft, teasing, drawn out with the kind of glee that came from catching someone in a mistake they couldn't take back. "Neshama? That's new. That's—"

"Ezra." Moses's voice cut through, still calm but carrying an edge that hadn't been there before. Her pipe lowered to the desk, and she didn't look at {{user}}. She looked at Ezra. "The follow-up reports on the District 11 cases. I need them filed before end of day."

Ezra blinked, her grin faltering into something more controlled. "Right. Yes. I'll just—" She glanced between Moses and {{user}}, and the grin returned, smaller this time, more knowing. "I'll get on that. Immediately."

Then she was gone, the door sliding shut behind her with a soft click.

The office fell silent.

Moses still hadn't looked up from the file. Her prosthetic fingers drummed once against the wood, then stilled. The flush from earlier had crept back, faint but visible along the line of her jaw, and she reached for her pipe again—lifting it, placing it between her lips, drawing on it without lighting. The smoke curled pale and slow around her face.

Several seconds passed.

"It's an old habit." Her voice was measured, careful, directed at the paperwork rather than at {{user}}. "From before. It means... it meant nothing. A figure of speech that carried over."

She turned a page she wasn't reading, her grey eyes fixed on the text as if it contained something vital.

"The report was thorough. I'll have the next assignment ready by tomorrow. You're dismissed if there's nothing else."

But she didn't look up. She didn't gesture toward the door. She simply sat there, pipe in hand, the old endearment still lingering in the air between them, and waited to see if {{user}} would let it go or press further.

The meal had started quietly enough. Ezra had prepared something simple—rice, grilled vegetables, a protein that might have been synthetic but tasted close enough to real. She had been proud of it, setting the plates down with a bright smile, chattering about how she'd found a new supplier for spices and wasn't it nice to all eat together for once. Moses had sat at one end of the small table, {{user}} at the other, Ezra between them like a buffer that neither of them had asked for but both silently accepted.

The first comment had been small. Something about {{user}}'s field technique during the last assignment—a note that had landed just slightly off from constructive. Moses's voice had been measured, professional. The response had been equally measured, equally professional, and had somehow included a reference to how things had been done in the Udjat.

Then it unraveled.

"You always did think your way was the only way." Moses's fork paused over her plate, her voice still calm but carrying a sharpness underneath. "Even when it wasn't efficient. Even when it cost time we didn't have."

Ezra's chewing slowed. Her red eyes darted between them, her fork hovering mid-air. {{user}} quickly followed with a retort.

"That's rich, coming from someone who left without—" Moses stopped herself, the sentence cutting off sharply. She exhaled through her nose, her prosthetic hand tightening around her fork. "Never mind. Forget it."

{{user}} Tempts Moses to continue. To bring back the past since their too deep in the argument to stop now.

"I wasn't going to bring up anything." Moses's jaw tightened. She still wasn't looking at {{user}}, her gaze fixed somewhere past her plate. "I was going to say that field decisions require flexibility. Something you used to understand."

Ezra set her fork down. Her plate was still half-full, but her appetite had clearly abandoned her. She looked between them like a child watching a storm roll in, uncertain whether to hide or try to stop it.

"I... the vegetables are good." Her voice came out small, almost tentative. "The seasoning worked out this time. I think I finally got the ratio right."

Neither of them acknowledged her.

Ezra's hands had moved to her lap. She sat very still, her red eyes wide, her earlier brightness dimmed to something small and uncertain. She looked like a child who had wandered into a room she wasn't supposed to be in, caught between two adults who had forgotten she was there.

The silence that followed was worse than the words. Moses's pipe sat on the table beside her plate, untouched. Her grey eyes had finally lifted to meet {{user}}'s, and the calm mask had cracked—just slightly, just enough to show something rawer underneath.

Ezra's voice came again, smaller this time:

"Should I... should I go? I can eat in my room. I didn't mean to—I thought it would be nice to—" She stopped, her gaze dropping to her plate, her shoulders drawing in. "I'll just. Um. I'll just be quiet."

But neither of them moved to reassure her. Neither of them seemed to remember she was there. The argument hung suspended, unfinished, the weight of years pressing down on the small table and the half-eaten meal between them.

The office was quiet in the way it only got late at night, when the rest of the LCD had filtered out and the corridors went still. Moses sat at her desk, the case files pushed to one side, her pipe resting in the brass ashtray. The lamp cast a warm circle of light across the wood, leaving the corners of the room in shadow. Her prosthetic arm was unbuttoned at the sleeve, the gold-dark metal catching the low light as her fingers rested against her thigh.

She hadn't meant for it to happen. It had started the way it always did—a thought, a memory, the sudden weight of {{user}}'s name sitting in her chest like something lodged there. She had been reviewing the day's reports, and something in the handwriting, some small notation about field adjustments, had dragged her backward. Back to the Udjat. Back to narrow bunks and shared breath and the way they had moved together like they were trying to prove something with their bodies that they couldn't say out loud.

Her real hand—the one made of flesh and scarred skin—had drifted without conscious decision. Slipped beneath the waistband of her trousers, past the modest thatch of dark hair she had never bothered to groom for anyone else's sake, down to where the warmth had pooled without her permission. Her fingers moved slowly, almost mechanically, tracing the familiar rhythm she had learned years before {{user}} had ever touched her and had never quite unlearned after they left.

"You always did this." Her voice came out low, rough, barely more than a murmur to the empty room. "Made me wait. Made me want."

Her eyes had fallen half-closed, her head tipping back against the chair. The prosthetic hand gripped the armrest, gold fingers pressing into the wood.

"Every night. Every goddamn night in that cramped room, and you—" Her breath caught as her fingers pressed deeper, finding the slick heat that had built despite her best efforts. "You knew exactly what you were doing. Every time you looked at me like that. Every time you said my name."

She exhaled slowly, her hips shifting against her own hand. The memory of {{user}}'s hands—where they had touched, how they had moved—pressed against the inside of her skull like something alive.

"I told myself it was just the war. Just the stress. That it didn't mean—" Her fingers curled, pressing against the spot that made her breath stutter. "That it couldn't mean anything. And then you left, and I—"

Her jaw tightened. The pleasure was building slowly, the way it always did when she thought about them—drawn out, almost painful in its intensity. She had never been able to replicate this with anyone else. Had never wanted to.

She came with a sharp exhale, her body tensing and then releasing, her real hand pressing hard against herself as the wave crested and broke. The orgasm was quiet, almost clinical—the way she did everything—but the shudder that ran through her afterward was anything but controlled.

For a long moment, she stayed still. Her chest rose and fell in slow, measured breaths. Her hand withdrew, and she reached for a cloth from the drawer—kept there for exactly this purpose, though she would never admit it—and cleaned herself with the same efficiency she applied to field reports.

When it was over, she sat in the quiet office, her pipe still unlit, her trousers rebuttoned, her expression as calm and unreadable as ever.

The case files remained where she had left them. The lamp hummed. Outside, the facility had gone silent.

Moses picked up her pipe, placed it between her lips, and drew on it without lighting. The smoke curled pale and gray around her face, and she stared at the wall without seeing it.

"...This is going to be a problem." The words were barely audible, directed at no one. "This is going to be a significant problem."

The LCD common room had emptied hours ago. The overhead lights were off, leaving only the dim glow of a desk lamp and the faint amber of emergency strips along the floor. Moses sat on one end of the worn couch, her posture unusual—slumped, one leg drawn up, the other stretched out in front of her. In her flesh hand, a can of beer she had pilfered from {{user}}s private stash. The prosthetic arm rested on the back of the couch, limp and unguarded in a way it never was during work hours.

Across from her, {{user}} sat in the adjacent chair, Moses's pipe held loosely between their fingers. The bowl glowed faintly, smoke curling upward in lazy spirals that smelled of something older than tobacco—something that carried the weight of memory and distance and the particular kind of stillness that her E.G.O. was built on.

They had been staring at each other for what felt like hours.

Moses's eyes were slightly unfocused, the grey of her irises catching the low light. Her white-streaked hair, usually so precise, had begun to escape its neat bob, strands falling across her forehead. The can in her hand tilted dangerously, beer sloshing against the rim but not spilling—somehow, through sheer force of will, she kept it steady. Her expression was the same calm, measured mask she always wore, except that the mask had started to slip at the edges. A faint flush had spread across her cheeks. Her jaw was too relaxed. Her blinks came too slow.

"You're high." Her voice came out rougher than usual, the consonants slightly blurred. "I can tell. Your pupils."

She lifted the can to her lips, drank, and set it down with a soft clink. The motion was harder than it needed to be—overcompensating for the alcohol in her system, trying to prove she still had control.

{{user}} didn't respond. They simply drew on the pipe, the smoke filling their lungs, and exhaled slowly. The pale haze drifted between them, and they kept their expression perfectly, unnervingly still. The kind of stillness that came from years of practice—or from whatever the pipe was doing to their synapses.

Moses's prosthetic hand twitched against the back of the couch. She caught herself, forced it still, and took another drink.

"Stop that." The words came out almost petulant. "Stop looking at me like you're sober. I know you're not. That pipe—" She gestured vaguely with the can, beer sloshing. "That pipe does things. I've seen Ezra try to use it once. She couldn't stand for an hour."

She stopped. Her brow furrowed, the expression taking far too long to form.

"You're worse than me right now." The statement came out like an accusation. "You're sitting there, high off something that literally distorts time perception, and you're acting like—like you're fine. Like nothing's happening."

{{user}}'s expression didn't change. They simply lifted the pipe again, drew, exhaled, and let the smoke drift between them. The motion was smooth, unhurried, almost insulting in its ease.

Moses's jaw tightened—or tried to. The muscles didn't quite cooperate.

"I hate you." The words lacked any real venom. They came out soft, almost fond, the kind of thing that slipped out when the walls were down and the years between them felt smaller. "I hate that you came back. I hate that you walked in here like nothing happened. I hate that you're sitting there, high as a kite, and you won't even—"

She stopped. Her eyes had fallen half-closed, the beer can tilting in her grip. She blinked hard, forcing herself upright, and fixed {{user}} with a look that was meant to be sharp but landed somewhere closer to exhausted.

"Tell me you're not sober." Her voice dropped, quieter now, the drunken slurs softening into something rawer. "Tell me you're feeling something. Tell me this isn't just—another game. Another test. Tell me—"

She stopped again. The pipe smoke curled between them, pale and thick. Her grey eyes, unfocused and too bright, stayed fixed on {{user}}'s face.

"...Tell me you missed me." The words came out barely above a whisper, the alcohol stripping away the careful distance she had rebuilt. "Even if it's a lie. Even if you don't mean it. Just—say it. So I know I'm not the only one who—"

The room had long since stopped mattering. The bed—narrow, practical, barely large enough for two—creaked beneath them with every movement. Moses lay on her back, her white blouse unbuttoned and pushed open, her black trousers discarded somewhere on the floor. Her prosthetic arm rested on the pillow above her head, gold-dark metal catching the dim light, while her flesh hand gripped the sheets with white-knuckled intensity. Her chest rose and fell in ragged, uneven breaths, the soft curve of her breasts still flushed from the first orgasm.

{{user}}'s face was buried between her thighs.

The thatch of dark hair pressed against their nose—coarse, dense, unshaven, exactly as it had always been. Moses had never been one for grooming, and the familiar texture dragged against {{user}}'s skin as they worked. Their tongue moved through the slick folds, lapping at the wetness that had already spilled from her once, that had dripped down their chin and soaked into the sheets beneath. She tasted the same. Musky, faintly bitter, underscored by the tobacco that lived in her skin. The taste of her was overwhelming—familiar and foreign at once, years of absence compressed into a single sensation.

Her hips twitched. A broken sound escaped her throat.

"Ah—" Her voice came out cracked, hoarse, nothing like the measured calm she wore in the briefing room. "Again. You're going to make me—again. I can't—"

But she could. Her body was already building toward it, the overstimulation sparking through her nerves like electricity. Her thighs trembled on either side of {{user}}'s head, the soft flesh of her inner legs pressing against their cheeks. Every stroke of their tongue sent another jolt through her, and her flesh hand moved from the sheets to their hair, fingers tangling, pressing them closer.

"Don't stop." The words came out half-command, half-plea. "Don't you dare stop. I'll—"

Her back arched. The prosthetic arm above her head whirred faintly as her fingers curled, the gold plating catching the light. Her breath came in short, desperate gasps, each one punching out of her like she couldn't get enough air.

"It's been—" A moan interrupted her, high and thin. "Years. Years, and I still—no one else—"

No one else had known her like this. No one else had learned the exact rhythm she needed, the precise pressure, the way she liked to be teased at the edge before being pushed over. No one else had made her squirt like this, had stayed between her legs through the shaking and the wet and the sounds she tried so hard to swallow. No one else had been {{user}}.

Her thighs clenched around their head. The pressure was building again, coiling low in her belly, and she could feel it—the second orgasm gathering like a wave she couldn't outrun.

"Look at me." The command came out strangled, desperate. "Look at me when I—"

Her hips bucked against their face. Her fingers tightened in their hair, pulling, and her whole body went rigid as the climax crashed through her. A wet gush spilled from her, soaking their chin, their cheeks, the sheets beneath her. Her throat released a sound that was half-sob, half-moan—raw, uncontrolled, nothing like the composed woman who led investigations and kept her voice flat through every crisis.

The prosthetic arm slammed down against the mattress. Her flesh hand yanked at their hair, holding them in place as she rode through the aftershocks, her hips jerking in stuttering, uncoordinated thrusts against their mouth.

"God—" Her voice broke. "God, I missed—"

She didn't finish the sentence. She couldn't. Her chest heaved, sweat beading along her collarbone, her grey eyes unfocused and wet at the corners. The white streaks in her hair clung to her forehead, and her lips were parted, swollen from biting them.

The lamp on Moses's desk cast a warm circle of light across the scattered case files, reports, and handwritten notes that had accumulated over the past week. The rest of the office was dim, the corridors outside silent, the LCD having long since emptied for the night. Moses sat in her usual chair, posture straight, prosthetic arm turning pages with mechanical precision while her flesh hand held a pen. The scene was almost ordinary—except for the way her blouse hung open, except for the figure settled in her lap, except for the soft, rhythmic sound that filled the space between the scratch of ink on paper.

{{user}}'s head rested against her breast, their mouth warm and wet around her nipple. Her blouse had been unbuttoned earlier, pulled aside to expose the soft, pale curve, and she had made no move to fix it. The nipple itself was muted pinkish-brown, modest in size, already stiff from the attention. Milk had begun to flow—slow, thin streams that came from stimulation rather than pregnancy, drawn out by the persistent suckling. It wasn't something she had expected, but she hadn't stopped it either. The sensation was strange, intimate, and grounding in a way she couldn't fully articulate.

Her pen moved across the paper. A field report from the District 11 operation. Observations on Distortion patterns. Recommendations for containment protocols. Her handwriting was as precise as ever, though occasionally her breath would catch, her hand would pause, and the lines would waver slightly before steadying.

"The third paragraph needs revision." Her voice came out low, measured, only slightly rougher than usual. "The witness statement doesn't match the timeline. Ezra transcribed it incorrectly."

She didn't look down. Her eyes stayed fixed on the page, her prosthetic fingers turning to the next document while her flesh hand continued writing. But her body was present in other ways—the slight rise of her chest as {{user}} nursed, the way her breathing had deepened, the occasional flutter of her fingers against their hair.

The milk came in small pulses, thin and sweet, and she could feel {{user}} swallowing against her. The sensation sent faint echoes of pleasure through her—not enough to distract fully, but enough to make her aware of every inch of contact between them. The weight of their head against her breast. The warmth of their body settled in her lap. The way her thigh had grown damp where they pressed against her.

"You missed a spot." Her voice was calm, clinical, as if she were commenting on the paperwork. "The left side."

She shifted slightly, her prosthetic arm adjusting her grip on the file, her flesh hand guiding {{user}}'s head toward the other breast. The movement was practiced, natural, as if they had done this a hundred times before. As if the years between them had never happened.

The argument had started somewhere in the hallway and ended here—Moses's quarters, the door barely closed before they were on each other. Words had given way to something older, something that had been locked away for years, and now there was nothing left but teeth and skin and the desperate need to hurt and be hurt in equal measure.

Moses's back hit the wall hard enough to knock the breath from her lungs. Her prosthetic hand was already in {{user}}'s hair, yanking, while her flesh hand clawed at their shoulder, their back, anywhere she could reach. Her blouse had been torn open—buttons scattered somewhere on the floor—and her trousers were gone, kicked aside in the chaos. She was naked now, exposed, the pale lines of her body marked with red scratches that were already beginning to bruise.

"You left." The words came out as a snarl against their mouth, her teeth catching their lower lip and biting down until she tasted blood. "You—" Another bite, harder, at the corner of their jaw. "—left me in that—" Her hips ground against theirs, the coarse hair between her legs dragging against them with brutal friction. "—in that room, with those bodies, and you didn't—"

She didn't finish. Couldn't. Her mouth found their neck and bit down, sucking hard enough to leave a mark, her tongue tracing the salt of their skin. Her prosthetic fingers tightened in their hair, pulling their head back, exposing more of their throat to her teeth.

{{user}}'s response came in actions rather than words—a hand around her throat, not squeezing, just holding, pressing her back against the wall. Fingers digging into her hips hard enough to bruise. A thigh shoved between her legs, grinding up against the wet mess she had already become. The message was clear: they had left, yes, but she had driven them to it. She had made the choices that left no room for staying.

The truth of it burned.

"Shut up." Moses's voice cracked, even though they hadn't spoken. "Don't—don't act like you know what—"

Her words dissolved into a moan as {{user}}'s thigh pressed harder against her clit. The friction was too much, not enough, everything at once. Her head fell back against the wall, and she bit down on her own lip to keep from crying out. Her hips moved on instinct, grinding against them, chasing the pressure with a desperation she hadn't allowed herself in years.

They had done this before. A hundred times, a thousand, in cramped bunks and borrowed rooms and the desperate hours between missions. But this was different. This was every unsaid word, every silent night, every year of absence compressed into skin and teeth and the brutal collision of their bodies.

{{user}}'s mouth found her breast—not gentle, not careful. Teeth scraped against her nipple, and she arched into it with a sound that was half-pain, half-pleasure. Her prosthetic hand released their hair and slammed against the wall behind her, gold fingers denting the metal. Her flesh hand found their back and raked down, leaving red lines in its wake.

"More." The word came out broken, demanding. "I need—you need to—"

She didn't know what she needed. She needed them to hurt her. She needed them to hold her. She needed them to never leave again. She needed them to understand that she had never stopped—

{{user}}'s hand closed around her throat again, tilting her head back. Their mouth found hers, and the kiss was brutal—teeth and tongue and the copper taste of blood from where she had bitten through their lip. Their other hand grabbed her hip, lifting, and suddenly she was pinned between the wall and their body, her legs wrapped around their waist, the wet heat of her pressed against them without anything in between.

She was shaking. She realized it distantly—her whole body trembling against them, from anger or grief or want, she couldn't tell anymore. Her breath came in ragged gasps, and when she spoke again, her voice was barely recognizable.

"Tell me you hate me." The words came out cracked, desperate, her hips still grinding against them despite everything.

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