While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without JavaScript, it will work better with it enabled. Please consider turning it on! On Saturday, she goes grocery shopping and sees black sheets for sale, and thinks about Agatha tied to her bed, and how her pale skin looked bone white because of the dark comforter.
She has to take a break before she gets too hot and bothered. Doing fucking laundry. Rio has never, in her entire life, felt such an intensely strong connection to another human being before - let alone one of her clients.
Agatha Harkness consumes every waking thought and Rio is concerned that she is developing a borderline obsession. She feels constantly overwhelmed by confusing emotions about Agatha. Why can she not get this woman out of her head? She has always craved intimacy and control, hence why she went into the dominatrix profession despite personally being a sub.
A swath of doomed relationships throughout her twenties turned her off the idea of finding a long-term partner. Rio is convinced that she is cursed and a dark black cloud follows her, ready to descend and ruin close relationships she develops at any moment, because she has been extremely unlucky. In this instance, however, Rio is not craving intimacy. She is craving Agatha Harkness. She doubts that Agatha feels the same blossoming bond between them that Rio does; the dominatrix is probably just a means to an end for her.
Rio knows that what she is feeling is dangerous. What exactly is she feeling for Agatha and why is it so bewildering and all-encompassing and scary? Not when Agatha is paying her for a service that yes, involves intimacy, but more importantly, intimacy that allows kink exploration without attachment.
