His blood did burn around Poe. Just for an entirely different reason. His skin crawled, not in fear of Poe but disgust of himself, just wanting to leap right off his body.

Some of him wanted to find a compromise, to keep doing what they were doing with rules he knew Poe would break. The rest of him... just wanted to stay away from sex until he could at least stand the thought of it again.

"I want you, too," he answered simply enough, letting all the air in his lungs and looking down at the floor between them. "I want to touch you and comfort you and be next to you but I- After-..." He didn't know how to say it. It should be easier to admit to the person who did this to him. "I don't want more than that. Not right now."