He feels the muscles loosening under his hands, feels Tom relaxing and he smiles to himself. It's perfect, the way he's responding, almost as if he's already been trained. And yet he knows that no one has ever done this to him before. It's a first, another in a long string of firsts for them, and it's a pattern that he's getting to like.

Time to move it along a little, maybe.

"This is gonna hurt," he says quietly, his hands soothing on Tom's back. "I'm warning you because it's the first time. I won't always do that." If there is another time. Another chance for him to warn, or not, as he wishes. Because if there's a point at which it'll be too much...

He reaches over to the table and picks up the belt.