Jake is so confused right now. "Well I don't really want to hurt you. ...for, like, getting back at you reasons. But if you're into it—actually—do you want to make out while I do it—" He may be confused but there's one thing he's good at and by God he's going to do it.

"I would be uncomplicatedly enthusiastic about you pulling my hair and making out with me right now, except that it might cause me to say that I love you again and apparently this spell does leave me a little room to worry about whether that will upset you given that you haven't told me not to but also have reacted the way you have.  If you want me to elaborate on the feelings involved with a separate hitting incident for later I can of course also do that at length."

Nnnnope, it is makeouts and hairpulling time, please and thank you, this whole talking thing is overrated.

"Mmph—oh, that feels really nice, you can go harder than—ow—oh, wow, wow, I love you—I might continue to be too verbal to reciprocate kissing effectively unless you tell me—"

"No more talking now except to tell me how to please you better," he says.

"That's really hot."  Makeout!  Maaaakinnnng ouuuuut.  "—I want you to scratch me—"

He can so get used to this, he loves it when boys tell him how to make them moan. He'll do as instructed.

"It still feels unwise to go as far as taking off my T-shirt but I expect to really like it if you reach under it and go all the way down my back—ohhhhhhh—I want—even harder—"

Perhaps surprising no one, this has a physiological effect on Jake, but hopefully that won't freak Jeremy out. He'll keep following Jeremy's lead.

This is the first thing that's felt uncomplicatedly right all day.

Jake's not alone in being affected.  Jeremy was already pretty koala-y but now he starts grinding on Jake.  "Oh, now this is definitely unwise," he notes, not stopping.

Jake has done far too many unwise things in his life to stop now. He's matching Jeremy's energy, pulling hair and scratching like he was asked, and also doing some biting because pattern recognition but Jeremy can ask him to stop if he wants to.

"Harderharderharderharder—I love you—"

He'll go harderharderharder, as hard as Jeremy wants, it's so good that he doesn't even need to ask and Jeremy will just tell him, he gets to know exactly what to do and how well he's doing, he's going to get so addicted to this—

"That is intensely painful, wow, wow, I didn't know I could feel like that without a human nervous system—I think we should stop."  (He does not stop grinding on Jake.)

.......mrrrrowwwww.

He stops. Well, he stops biting and scratching and pulling and kissing and grinding but he doesn't unhug. "Okay?"

"Okay," he agrees, slowing and then stopping the movement of his hips only by virtue of wrapping himself more tightly around Jake.  "....I still want you to pet me softly for a while; that seems fine to do."

Roger that. He can pet Jeremy. "Your hair is very soft."

"I'm really soft.  I died with it just on the edge of getting greasy, but I got lucky and there were not another few hours for that to turn into a bad thing.  I'm soft and I'm your pet ghost and you're petting me and I love you.  ....Wow, normally I would be really upset about stopping once I got turned on, maybe this mood is unbreakable.  Or unbreakable as long as I'm being convenient to you, or something."

"...I wonder if experimenting with like. Explicitly not aiming to come would be useful. Like, just doing some stuff where you're there to have a good time regardless of whether anyone has an orgasm at the end."

"That seems very miserable for him to try but maybe also good for us in the long run.  I don't think 'regardless' is the correct framing at least at first, though.  Maybe after several rounds of it he'll benefit in ways not held up by the same attitude that would make him feel better if you beat him."

"...so like you mean he wants to be punished by doing sex things where he's not allowed to come or something?"

"I mean that if you do things where he would like to come and can't he's going to suffer, but you can at least make that suffering feel meaningful by framing it as clearing some of the debt between you and holding him through it and calling him a good boy.  I would really like it if you called me a good boy but maybe this would upset him deeply by contrast to me."

"Okay... I'd find that easier to do if he actually found that hot but maybe I can figure out a way to be okay with it even without that..."

"He will find the holding and affirmations in the face of suffering hot, or, at least cathartic—but also kind of hot; I couldn't have said that if it wasn't true—even if he doesn't find the cause of the suffering hot."

"Would that do anything for the thing where you're neurotic about coming or would it just be for the cathartic thing whatever that is and the debt?"