CONCEPTS: slow, sweet, gentle intercrural done on a day with nothing to do in a place that is safter than safe. we were bored and we were lazy and we were happy. for the first time in our lives there was absolutely nothing we had to do.
omfg i made a novel wtf also assumed some more shit + tsv verse bc WHERE ELSE ARE THEY HAPPY 8((
[ for a long while, maybe twenty minutes maybe an hour, at what feels like it would've been the crack of dawn, in another world, andyr is utterly obsessed with the smooth curve of Val's shoulder, eyes following the angle of them as he drifts in and out of half-sleep. pale, unmarred skin the stretches over light muscle - more generated in a test tube than worked into him. someone dreamed him up, and built him into this boy, but they didn't know anything about the soul they'd get. for a while, that lazy morning, with Alva off in the medbay and the room otherwise quiet, save for the hum of the ship, that's what Andyr rolls around in his head. This boy, plugged into this body, with this soul. how does God or whoever controls this decide who gets what frame? maybe he's just angry at humanity for creating their own life, now. considering what they do with it, Andyr can't blame him, or her, or whatever.
they know each other's awake, and have been, for a longer amount of time than would've been awkward, if they'd acknowledged it. thankfully, they don't, and andyr simply lets val's back rest against his chest, feeling the vague rise of ports through the soft cotton of his sleep shirt. eventually, the urge to touch becomes too obnoxious to ignore, and he traces a finger along the angle of his shoulder, from bicep, to the dip of bone, to collar and neck, and down again, catching here and there at the fabric of his shirt. Eventually, his attention moves to along his arm, circling over Val's forearm, adjusting him to touch at the inside of an elbow, where the faint yet familiar pinprick marks from too many IVs and too much blood drawn linger, if you look for them. It's the same on him - marks too small for the Houses to worry about prettying up. Down to his wrist, Andyr's fingers curling over bone that feels too delicate (he wasn't made to endure, like Andyr and Alva and Posie), to his hand, even thinner bones making him think of birds, or kittens. Small, vulnerable, breakable. And yet, he's known more torture than most normal humans will in a lifetime.
can i? Andyr'd asked, the first words of the day, whispered with sleep still touching the edges, low and a bit rough, as fingers tugged at the hem of his shirt. i've seen it before, and i don't care, so unless you have another reason, can i?
you called it gross yesterday.
well, i'm full of shit. plied with a kiss against the corner of his jaw, and another, just behind his ear, the last at the base of his neck, enough to buy a sigh and 'i guess', his hands freed from the light grip that'd landed on them. he's careful, tugging the fabric up, making sure it doesn't snag on the ports, that it doesn't come off too quickly, and that the comforter's pulled snug around them to make up for the lost warmth. to make it even, his own shirt follows, tucked somewhere between the top of the mattress and the headboard, out of the way but not out of reach.
Val's shoulder span is slighter than his, which seems odd to him, because they stuff so much extra into him. you'd think they'd make his body bigger. but like this, he fits between the spaces where Andyr's shoulders round forward, with his arms lazily looped over him, like hugging him to his chest with form alone. fingertips trail over the side of his back, over his shoulder blade, his side, his hip. arm slipped against Val's chest, he thumbs the line of his throat, feels the bob of Val's adam's apple, the dip before his collar bones, and traces down the cool flat of glass plating that is his chest, feeling the thrum of hearts pressed close to the surface, watching over the edge of Valarie's shoulder while his hand smooths lower, to his stomach. soft. more concave than he probably should be, but andyr knows why that is too.
curious, he starts to shift, moves out from behind him, and eases Val to lay down on his back, pushing his arms out to the side when they move to cross over his chest. stop that. and for the moment, the comforter is shuffled back as well, hung over Andyr's shoulders like a mantle, as he scoots down Val's body, to touch his nose just above his navel, then lips.
what're you doing?
looking. with my face.
what do you usually look with?
shut up.
if it were Alva, anyone else other than Val, he might've nipped at the edge of his stomach. but Andyr knows the events he'd been taken to, the parties his brain dead clones are sent to. what he watches, because he's been paid for. what he swallows back. what nightmares scream through his mind later. not even for all the death threats he'd made back home, has he ever threatened to put teeth on him, let alone attempted.
instead, he blows a raspberry.
they waste an hour or so away, rolling around in bed, chatting here and there, while Andyr turns Valarie's body this way and that, running his hands along smooth thighs, down the muscle of a calf, tickle at the soles of his feet and earn a pillow to the side of his head. it's as if that short twenty to thirty minutes of the morning, when Andyr's actually just Andyr, had been extended to fit in the rest of morning, and with the clock somewhere on the wall reaching towards twelve, probably the afternoon as well. it's hardly even sexual, really, despite the two of them in boxer briefs alone, and andyr lingering to kiss here and there. sexuality is such an odd thing for them, these days, and it's half mixed up in just whatever this thing is they do - holding together tight and mimicking affection and comfort. he doesn't really start to get hard, not until he moves between Val's thighs, and kisses gradually upward, feet kicking idly, where they're bent upwards and poking out the opposite end of the comforter, and andyr feels a soft tap at the top of his head.
val looks fragile. all of him does, from the glass plate, to the softness in his eyes, to the slightness of his fingers, to the set of his hipbones. he looks young. he looks temporary, andyr's mind reminds him, and he immediately wants to curl in on him, bleed some of his excess of durability, of healing, into him. KNs were supposed to be the evolutionary future, but they'd spliced and contorted and bent his bones into a painful mold. maybe this is why he kisses him so freely, all over. for the want to heal the body in his arms, to maintain the soul within it.
it's okay. i know. i know you, i know your body. i know what's there, i know what isn't there, i know why you're terrified. it's still okay. nothing changes.
with lips pressing against his neck, his cheek, his eyes, andyr whispers softly, can i try something? i'll be careful. brushes fingers through his hair and an arm slipping under him, fingers tugging at the waistband of his briefs. he waits for the nod of assent, and kisses him soft, and sweet, and achingly kind, as a fingertip brushes between his cheeks. he holds Val tight to his chest, as he takes time working a slicked digit into his body, light pressing and soft circles, and pushing in only so far as he'll take him, before abating. it takes time to get to the spot deeper inside Andyr's been searching for (maybe he paid a little too much attention to all of Alva's medical books), but it's worth it for the way Val's breathing hitches, and his fingers curl into Andyr's shoulders, and the soft moans and gasps as he tenderly works at the cluster of nerves, finger curling inside him to massage and circle and vary pressure, as he slides shallowly in and out of him. apparently Val's capable of orgasm, at least in this sense, as Andyr learns, smiling against his cheek as he shakes against him beautifully.
of course, it leaves andyr hard as a rock, unconsciously grinding against Val's hip, but they get inventive about that too. it's a good day for experimentation. ]
Here, like this. It'll work, okay? [ he definitely sounds very reassuring, as he goes around shuffling Val's legs, crossing one ankle over the other to lock them together, with Val laid on his back, the two of them hidden away in the weird little egg-shaped beds on this deck of the Moira. he'd like to say this isn't the strangest place he's fooled around, but considering his significant lack of fooling around experience... yeah. yeah it is.
moving back to drape over him, there's some kind of lotion used for the sake of slickness, and andyr mutters something about being sure Alva would be mad about it, before settling against him, a hand running soft over Val's side, and his hip, over the swell of thigh to touch light and careful between his legs. the majority of his weight rests on an elbow to the side of Val's ribs, certain the glass can't support all 214 pounds of him, and fingertips brush against the sensitive path of skin between his thighs, up to smooth over the soft rise of tissue where he would've developed more, had his formula not written it out. it doesn't feel strange, same sort of sensitive texture, same warmth, same feeling of intimacy. Andyr's lips find his again, a sort of nervous, almost teenage like shake to them, but broken into a smile, as teeth tug at Val's, while his hips align and his length presses down into the smooth, warm pocket between Val's thighs, breathing out a stuttered sigh. For a moment, he stills, enough to adjust his arms, one wrapped beneath his waist and the other framed behind his shoulders, and his head bows to touch Val's, with a brush of bangs, as he pulls up, and slides back between his legs again, a moan breathed out against his cheek. ]
[ They shouldn't be sleeping in the same bed for all of the arguing they do.
They shouldn't be this close for all the fire back and forth they trade, between Andyr being naturally combative and Valarie being given this newly found sense of agency (with his check-ups, with his food, with the clothing he wants to wear, with who he decides he wants to associate). But here they are, back to front, and Valarie has never felt more safe, more sound, and more utterly complacent than right this moment.
Andyr is tracing a finger up along his skin, over each spread rib and down where the pit of his stomach gives less than it usually does--freshly taken from so that he feels lighter, emptier, but he sleeps so soundly, it should be a crime. He sleeps without having to sit at a strange angle, he sleeps without dreams or without the sudden need to heave. He just sleeps, a good, black sleep that he never knew he deserved. Andyr deserves that kind of sleep as well and he's tempted to stop his hands and hush him. Kiss his cheek softly and roll over to try and blanket him even if he's often told not to sleep on his stomach.
When he's stirred up in the "morning" he has half a mind to fumble out of bed and go somewhere else. Sleep was good, he could do it for a few more hours. He wakes up lethargic, heavy-limbed, but is treated to warm, little kisses spreading over his skin, enough to make him compliant in staying there instead of acting on his original, hypothetical plans, body spread out and open for him once he takes his shirt off, leaves the both of them bared to each other. Val is hyperaware of every port molding to the mattress, of every breath causing his chest to rise and fall as Andyr's lips trail along his navel and he blows stupidly against him and makes him shout, nearly slamming his head with his knees. Hey! he half-hisses and half-whispers, a little overcome by the reaction but overcome even more with the sudden barrage of touches that smooth down along his skin, tickling the joint of his knees and the arch of his foot and his everything responds--alive and bright like fire, accompanied by laughter and reaching forward to pull at Andyr's hair, to tug his face closer for a slow, warm kiss on the mouth.
(He decides: it's too cold to leave the bed anyways, and Andyr knows--he knows to keep the teeth to himself, knows never to palm or grab like an appraisal, knows that open palms and feather light touches and careful adjustments are key to getting him to move without a sudden stiffness in his joints.)
He's instantly darting forward for another when Andyr's mouth leaves to trail down his throat again, only to ask if he can. If it's okay. And for a moment, Valarie's everything sinks down into the springs of the mattress, a heat forming in the pit of his gut and surging up like a sickness he doesn't want to be rid of, a pleasant, longing sort of nausea that dissipates the moment Andyr slicks his fingers and parts him, pressing up against that little sweet spot and making him croon aloud.
The touch is gentle, gentler than he thought Andyr was ever capable of, but his fingers are diligent and he's still stunned to wide-eyed and open-mouthed as he gets fucked on warm, careful fingers. He can feel Andyr's arousal on his thigh, leaking pre and smearing it against his skin and he reaches down with a hand to softly cover the head with his palm, giving it a fraction of the friction it really wants.
He's trying to catch his breath when he looks Andyr in the eye, focusing on the curve of his jaw, on the fact that he's talking to him so gently through this. He remembers
It's the suggestion that comes next that leaves him guessing, with hands slicking up the space between his thighs, with his ankles crossed and his entire body poised with fully awake interest now as Andyr presses himself there between the narrow gap of his thighs, making him shiver at the skin-to-skin contact. He feels like hot velvet, pressing between the sensitive skin of Val's thighs, making him "ohhhhh" with a realization that this is good. This is what good feels like--making his hearts leap up into his throat. ] You can do it more. Faster. If you want...
[ He offers it up quietly into the dark, thighs pressing together a little tighter against Andyr's cock, biting his lip as he lets him slip in again, draws his thighs tight together and then flexes softly, a fluctuation of sensation for him between the slick lotion and Andyr rolling up against him, sounding off against his cheek in a way he's sure he's never heard him before: enjoying himself. He leans into the soft touch of foreheads, reaching up hands to press against the defined muscles in Andyr's shoulders, sinking soft fingers against the creases where muscle meets bone and works to continue the motion.
Kissing him against the mouth is a surreal sort of dream while he presses in the soft gap of his thighs, pre staining the sensitive skin. Andyr's mouth is soft, despite his words, warm and open to him and they kiss, and Val's mouth is greedy for him, open and hungry, little tongue darting over precisely cut teeth, smoothing over their tops, their edges, glancing off the even sharper blade of a tongue he has before eventually stopping, ] It's okay, [ he murmurs, sliding cool, slender fingers through Andyr's hair, pushing it back, lifting his hips a little and digging his heels in for leverage. ] It's ok, I won't break, I'm good. I'm good, I promise... that's it...
correction: 80% of your personality consists of anger management issues while going overboard is only 15% and that 15% only exists because it's in direct correlation with the 80%.
[ The walls of the cell block are nigh vibrating from excitement. New prisoners. New cellmates. Tex can feel the energy rattling behind his teeth. It's time for new picks, and he's already got an eye on a sweet candy-assed brunet. ]
Hey, sweetheart, where's the million dollar smile?
[ makes sense, he'd be sold here. after hapsburg found the death toll too expensive, why not have him indited for all those horrible, horrible murders against such very innocent men of science? because who's going to listen to the psycho who filed his teeth into fangs and bit peoples' faces off when he tells them he was kidnapped? not the courts, and certainly not this tool calling him sweetheart, as he comes rattling at his cell bars.
all he gets for his question is Andyr's lips pulling back, and those too sharp teeth being bared, more a snarl than a smile. but hey, asshole, you asked. ]
[ This is supposed to be the simplest part of the objective, but Steve isn't too sure it's going to end that way by the time they decide it'll be quicker if they split up. He takes the upper most floor of the building while Andyr takes the one below, and nearly fifteen minutes passes before he decides to check in with him. He's almost swept the entirety of each room, which means Andyr shouldn't be too far behind. ]
[ Simple it was, until Andyr pushed through that last set of double doors, into what he immediately knows is a medical lab. He's seen them enough, knows that smell of antiseptic that always has his stomach turning. Sees straps attached to the sides of tables, and just knows. He'd known this was a research building, just not what kind. He's been standing here, in the middle of the room, with his heart pounding in his ears, by the time Steve texts. ]
Found a lab. [ were it anyone else, there would be a 'fine' attached to that, but he's made a habit of not lying to steve. ]
[ it isn't like the houses here - he's allowed to go where he likes when he likes, wear what he pleases, eat what he pleases, say anything. just so long as he doesn't leave the premises without an attendant. that's what makes all of the rest irrelevant. he's watched, so so closely, like he's a bomb about to explode, even more closely than Hapsburg, where they just wanted him to sit in his room and be invisible until his body was needed again. he understands why. when natasha had first liberated the house, after all the questions and legal red tape, when he was set up with a hotel and allowed to go free into the city, he'd completely lost it. two hours, and he'd found himself in the middle of a crowded sidewalk, screaming. three paramedics injured, five police men put in the hospital, and a taser later, and he was stuck here.
in the first few weeks, the psych ward doctors learned better than to try medicating him or coming near him with any kind of needles or wires. it had all been yoga classes and guided meditation and counseling sessions he was either silent or profane for, with wardens following him around, standing just far enough away to feel like they aren't being suffocating, but still watching him closely any time another person passed by.
natasha showed up halfway through the fourth week, having come back from a mission and heard he wasn't out yet. refusing to cooperate, oddly silent outside of outbursts, unstable and violent. and yet, she'd sat across the table from him, and it'd only take about ten minutes of quietly prodding at him to get him talking again. just something familiar about her, after knowing her in Hapsburg, chats in sign language through the soundproof glass wall of his room, seeing her in the halls on his way to or from the labs. he knows she isn't who she told him she was, but she'd gone in regardless, into that hell, to get him and the others out. when no one else cared enough to so much as lift a finger.
she'd started coming regularly, first once a week, then twice, soon every other day. they'd talk, or watch what sitcoms were on the commons area TV, walk around the grounds. sometimes she'd bring a laptop and try to catch him up on pop culture. eventually, natasha gave him a cell phone, told him to text or call whenever her wanted, her personal number the only one programmed in. he knows they put a wire on her, sometimes, and a device in her ear to tell her what question to ask - the only way the shrinks have found to get anything real out of him, but he doesn't fault her for it. knows she's just trying to help. maybe someday he'll go into those too homey rooms with them and talk. not yet. for know, he's just doing what feels comfortable, and that's spending time with her.
like this, in one of the large gym rooms, with mats set out on the floor. for a long time, he'd insisted on training alone, wouldn't spar with her for fear of losing it and hurting her. turns out his strength isn't so much an issue when she's not only on par with him in terms of skill, but beyond. and the stray hits that have a bit too much force behind them? she's had worse, it seems. she's a normal girl fighting in a world threatened by titans, and god she seems so unreal. incredible, really. it becomes something regular, and when she has to leave for a few weeks on mission, Andyr spends the time texting her, bored with his days otherwise, but trying to cooperate better, for the fact she wants him to. by the time she comes back, he's missing her like hell, and they go straight to the mats again.
about halfway through the first fight, he catches her in a lock, and natasha gets herself free by kissing him, out of the blue. for a second he's stunned, and that's really all she needs to elbow him in the stomach and throw him on his ass, Andyr watching her, upside down, with a tilt to his head.
huh.
round two, and they go to the ground with a quick sweep, turning it into a grappling match, which always means being an awkward kind of close to another body, but isn't something andyr's ever felt self-conscious of, until now, with her legs wrapped around his hips, his arms gripping at her shirt, or her shoulder, or a forearm as they shift and struggle. it distracts him enough that his technique is completely off, and he's out shortly after, tapping his surrender against the mat and she arm bars him. natasha's grinning at him like there's some joke he's missing, and he's trying to figure out if she's doing this just for fun, or something else.
round three, and andyr's determined to play this game as well, too competitive to just accept the sabotage. at the first punch, he's slipping past, pushing flush to her, and kissing her full on the lips, a hand on her waist and another on her shoulder, as he lingers, tugs at a lip, and sweep a foot behind her ankles. a push at that shoulder, and she goes down, but not without taking him with, her shin kicking out the back of his knees, as they both dissolve into a fit of struggles for dominance, all groping hands and too close grinding, until she's straddling his hips, bright red hair falling in a curtain around them, with teeth pulling at andyr's lower lip, as she grinds a rhythm against the too prominent form of his hard length, easy to find through the thin pants he wears in the psych ward. the purpose of this was lost somewhere down the road to this point, and all he knows now is the sweet, slow friction she'd rolling out against him, the soft, smooth texture of her lips, the taste of peach chapstick, and his hands curling into the fabric of her shirt.
until a rip sounds out.
ah. oops. that would be natasha's collar. ]
Shit. [ he hisses out, cursing himself for letting his mind go that far, while he has her in his hands. ] Sorry.
[ of all the places he could've been sent by the Ingress flipping out - the death matches, the slaves kept as servants, left with the others to carry out a rescue - it had to be this. someone had to look him over, see that he's young and pretty, look at exotically covered eyes and full lips, strip him down and view the tone of his body, the bizarre metal drilled into his back, and deem him a object for lust. a shock collar around his neck and a man with a rifle at his back had led him into a room like an opium den turned harem, where hands strayed all across his naked body and Andyr had to bit into the inside of his cheek to keep his arms under control, as his mind screamed and lashed against the inside of his skull.
he'd had to wait, until the man with the rifle's eyes strayed to a woman splayed out over three men, sick desire blinding him for just an instant - all he'd needed to shove the butt of the rifle into his throat, hard enough for a snap to ring out, shortly followed by the sizzle of electrocution. screaming at the agony of electric fire in his veins, he'd launched himself at the one holding the remote, punching and punching and punching until the guard's face was unrecognizable. the device crushed into useless pieces, and Andyr's vision went red. what happened after was a wash of screams and violence, andyr remembering the feeling of flesh ripping underneath his fingers, the crack of bone, the gurgle of a man trying to whimper through blood flooding his throat.
by the time bucky'd showed up, having cleared the halls beyond this one room, it was something out of a grotesque horror film, andyr sitting in the middle of it, washed in blood, still wearing that collar, every inch of him with a pulse of tremor. seeing him, knowing him, he'd raised up, and paced over, to place himself directly into bucky's arms, a hand going to the metal appendage, like it was a solid reminder of who he is, and what he is to andyr - the proof of it. "Take me home", he'd told him simply.
refusing the medbay, he'd gone straight to a shower, feeling dirty inside and out, scrubbing at his skin until it left rashes (which quickly healed, but happened all the same), never again, he'd sworn to himself two years ago. never again, never again, never again. and yet, here he was. they hadn't even needed the drugs and restraints. just a gun to his head, and he'd bowed to it. sobs like screams ripped from the nomo deck showers, as andyr punched at the tile lining the stall, underneath the showerhead, until it cracked and fell away, leaving a dent in the metal behind it.
eyes still rimmed red, he'd marched back to bucky's private room, hand curled in the towel around his hips. he can't do this. not again. he can't feel like his body is his own again, like there aren't fingerprints staining his bones, can't forget the 'property of' disclaimer drilled into his spine, but perhaps if he can't be his own, he can be bucky's.
his hand reaches out for barnes' metal wrist, and andyr turns, to push his back against bucky's chest, silently, leaning back against him in a way that feels like surrender, but without any ounce of shame or defeat in it. simply letting go. his hand moving to cover the back of bucky's mechanical one, he pulls him to slide against his naked, damp stomach, fingers splayed. downward, slowly, until he's urging him to touch beneath the towel wrapped loose and low on his hips. ]
Please. [ he whispers, into the side of Bucky's throat. he needs this. ]
[ It's two years to the day since they've made this arrangement official -- they don't quite put a name to it because it defies the trappings of labels, and Natasha's never been impressed with the whole traditional relationship paradigm.
So they are what they are, close and knitted together, her and her precious boy (he still gets feisty when she says this, but she knows he enjoys it), and they're currently celebrating their anniversary in one hell of an expensive hotel suite in the middle of the deep blue sea, with a massive glass dome above their heads where they could see all the sea creatures that swim past and over them. And oh, there are many; shimmering fish of all shapes and sizes, eels and squid and octopuses with a few rays here and there.
But what's most breathtaking, she thinks, is looking up at the belly of a great white shark as it lazily swims overhead, a much smaller shark -- its offspring -- swimming along. ]
That's beautiful. [ Witnessing the wonder and majesty of nature right here is a culmination of all the things that they had worked on together; getting Andyr acclimatised to society, to the extent that he could go to the other side of the world with her without a problem. That had taken a long time, baby steps and regressions and everything in between, but it's all worth it. She's curled up against him, her head tucked in the crook of his shoulder, his arm around her. ] Didn't you tell me before that shark babies ate each other in the womb?
[ andyr had practically lost his shit at the announcement of where they'd be going for their anniversary, hit with it just after she'd let him come after an hour worth of edging. mind still spinning, he hadn't believed her at first, until she pulled up the laptop to show him pictures of the hotel they'd be going to. after about a minute to let it sink in, he'd exploded. first, picking her up and spinning her around on the mattress, then doing a backflip off the edge of the bed, then ran a circuit around the apartment bare-assed, until he came back to press her into the mattress and kiss her like she's his entire universe.
which, really, she sort of is. she set him free, worked with him to reenter the world, brought him into her house, loved him, cared for him, bought him a damn fish tank. maybe it isn't the healthiest of attachments, but andyr'd never believed, during his time in hapsburg, that he'd ever be able to walk down a city street and feel like anything but a time bomb wrapped up in razor wire. now, he's here. after a long flight, lounged out under a glass dome in the middle of the sea, smiling up at the belly of a great white, as his fingers play at locks of bright red hair, natasha's warmth snug and cozy against him. ]
Yep, all but one other. It's a struggle for paternity, because sharks get knocked up by more than one father usually. [ yeah, sharks are metal as fuck. turning his eyes from the ceiling to her, he kisses at her forehead, soft and sweet and adoring. ]
I love this place. Thank you, seriously. [ things he'd never even dreamed of. natasha makes reality out of what he'd only ever thought impossible. she's unrelenting and indomitable in that, and god he loves that about her. ]
[Ronan's spine curves in reaction to the fingernails dragging across his back, his body sliding against Andyr's. He feels pleasantly helpless at the mercy of Andyr's desire, and if he was better at lying to himself, he might have been able to argue that he's absolved of the responsibility for this. Because, oh, how could he resist this? Andyr's mouth on his mouth and Andyr's hands running over his skin. A boy can only handle so much temptation.
But Ronan's not so delusional, and guilt nags at him for the heaviness between his legs and every moment spent in anticipation of Andyr's next touch. His lips part as he pants against Andyr's mouth, whispering a half-formed prayer before his tongue slides back in to savor the taste of him.
Ronan's hands find Andyr's nipples and he feels fleetingly scandalized, like he's discovered something forbidden, before his thumbs begin to rub experimental circles over them and he begins to consider that he might actually be capable of giving Andyr not just attention but pleasure.]
[ Andyr's lips part, about to ask about the whispered words, having a good guess what they are but more wanting to check that Ronan's alright with this. That's abruptly derailed when Ronan's roaming hands find his nipples, and shocks of tingling pleasure shoot through him, heat racing along his spine, and pooling at the pit of his stomach, as there's a somewhat involuntary roll of his hips against his friend's. A quiet, sharp groan is lost in between their lips, but Andyr's had something spike in him, head ducking to suck at the side of Ronan's throat, pulling up a red mark there that he'll perhaps feel like apologizing for later.
Ronan isn't just a good friend, and a great man with a noble soul. He's utter gorgeous, in the sharp angles of his features, the brightness of his eyes, and the solid build of his body. The art spanning his back seems so perfect to him, as if it just floated up to the top of his skin on its own, and Andyr can't stop thinking of just how fucking hot it is.
A hand eases at Ronan's shoulders, a light push that doesn't force him to lay his back to the floor of the tent, but more guides. Andyr's been in a place of no choice with this before, and it's the deepest violation he's ever known. Never would he allow the same to happen to Ronan, who's so giving and so loving and so kind. With that in his mind, as he kisses down Ronan's neck and shoulders, lips brush against the bud of a nipple, he pauses, glancing back to him, before everything's carried away. ] Good?
[ huffed out, breathless. he's clearly wanting more of him, but like hell he'd take without permission. ]
[When he was seven, a waitress gave him a candy cane and a coloring book. When he was fourteen, he stole one of those little red kettles right out from under a bell ringer's nose - it had just over seventeen dollars and a stick of gum in it, and it took him the better part of a day to get at it.
And that's pretty much the totality of Nick's experience with Christmas. Holidays are for families, people who have other people to celebrate with, not ones who are on the run. It's not like he's the grinch - he doesn't really have any hard feelings towards the people who do have trees and a ham on the table. That just hasn't been his life, and right now he wouldn't trade with them.
Hawaii was a spur of the moment idea, the kind that Nick excels at. But hey, it's warm, beautiful, and there's plenty of beaches which means plenty of fish for Andyr to bust a nut over. And of all those beautiful beaches on the island, they just happen to find one that's "clothing optional." Of course, Nick chose the naked option (because you always go with the naked option) and is now watching him from under the white faux fur brim of his Santa hat, comfortably sprawled on the sand.
The hat doesn't count, and neither would something else that Nick can think of.]
A bow. [Nick says the word like it's been on the tip of his tongue or elusively at the edge of his mind.] That's what you need. One well placed ribbon and Christmas really would come early.
[ a beautiful beach, full of beautiful people, beautifully naked, and andyr, of course, kept his dumb board shorts on, because that's the kind of five year old that he is. that, and, much as he loves nick's eyes racking over his naked body, he's always been incredibly adverse to anyone else's doing the same. but he hardly has any objection to nick going fully into the theme, almost with his festive head gear. the man's both gorgeous as hell, and ridiculous as fuck, and andyr adores him for it.
he's padding back up the beach, water still clinging to him, with a snorkel and mask dangling from one hand (yes, he'd been busting a nut over the fish, what did you expect). hearing nick's new decision on how to improve his celebrating, andyr snorts a laugh, grinning wide, with a certain fondness that he can't quite hide, as he tosses the mask and snorkel on a towel nearby. ]
Ha ha ha. [ such a sarcastic laugh is this, you don't even know. andyr flops down to sit cross legged on the towel next to him, leaning forward to run ocean-cooled fingers along the naked path of nick's spine, head dipping to press a few kisses to his broad, sun speckled shoulders. ] Yeah, well, don't come too early, 'cause you aren't a teenager anymore, and I'd like to come too.
[ he needs that dick hard, okay, don't go wasting it for the sake of holiday cheer. ]
Where're we gonna put this bow of yours? Any thoughts?
[ His handlers explain to him in a semi-drugged haze that they want a good show tonight.
They get a show, just not the kind they want.
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Konstantin doesn't remember the last time he had real blood on his teeth.
This is real blood. The fearful kind, flowing thick and warm into his mouth as he clutches fast onto one body, halting and jerking in his grip. It feels good, the fight, he can feel it churning and twisting in his gut. He wants to take his time, make him hurt, but there's no time. He can feel the prickle of Andyr's own adrenaline rush, so he bites down, severs the jugular, takes one last taste before dropping the body.
He's smeared blood all over the clothing they've forced him into--some kind of exhibitionist get up that was once a beautiful blue color, cut out at the spine and on the sides, gauzy and exotic-looking. It's dark, almost black now with blood, he realizes, casually sliding his tongue over his palm to lap up where a thick streak of the stuff has stayed fast to his skin.
Another man is lying on the ground, spared the agony with a broken neck, gouged out eyes.
He looks good to Konstantin's starved stomach.
Move. Move. Move.
He's tasted blood.
It's more than enough. Andyr is fumbling with the door panel and there are alarms. Here. Four doors down. Five floors up. He can hear a group of armed guards heading their way and by the cant of their boots, there are four of them, carrying rifles--whether they're loaded with tranquilizers or actual live rounds is anyone's guess, they all rattle the same in their casings.
The man at his feet is drowning on his own blood still somehow.
He moves forward to meet Andyr at the doorway, reaching forward with his fingers and gripping fast at where the metal is soldered to metal.
Normally, one might put in a passcode to open the chamber.
But this is not normal and Konstantin is full of all kinds of rage, gripping the sides of the panel with Andyr and giving it a hard tug so that it tears from the wall with a sickening sound of metal twisting and warping and crumbling. ]
There are four, I can hear them-- [ he says, the footsteps coming louder still. ] We could take them.
[ They don't really have a choice, the door is opening. ]
[ it was a mistake, putting the two of them together. the handlers really should've known that, but perhaps they either didn't know kon well enough, or didn't know andyr well enough.
the two, put together, drag this building into hell with them.
between andyr's durability and kon's viciousness, adding to the reckless depravity they both give in to, making them fearless, they cut through the halls and defenses like a hot knife through butter. shooting fish in a barrel.
the metal of the door makes an eerie, whining cry, as the two super humans rip at it, prying it open, more like them trying to get to the guards on the other side, than the guards trying to get to them. andyr's mind is soaked red and consumed in bloodlust. there's no real hope to making it out of the building - he knows hapsburg will find him eventually - but more to make the most devastating massacre he can. if kon can escape in the wreckage of it, great, but the two of them know better than to consider it a done deal. ]
Good. [ andyr snarls, the first glimpse of the men on the other side caught through the crack in the door. ] Stay hungry.
[ because the second he makes it through, Andyr's charging into the first guard, a hand with jagged nails going straight for his throat, as the other smacks the gun to the side, using the man's body as a meat shield against the others (tranqs, of course), until they pause for reload. his fingers curl in mercilessly, sinking into the man's throat, and he rips.
with a gaping wound where his wind pipe used to be, the fading guard is toss back, to Kon behind to finish. onward - the gun pulled free from the first man thuds against one's head, jabs into another's neck, the barrel stabbed into the last's eye socket. ]
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they know each other's awake, and have been, for a longer amount of time than would've been awkward, if they'd acknowledged it. thankfully, they don't, and andyr simply lets val's back rest against his chest, feeling the vague rise of ports through the soft cotton of his sleep shirt. eventually, the urge to touch becomes too obnoxious to ignore, and he traces a finger along the angle of his shoulder, from bicep, to the dip of bone, to collar and neck, and down again, catching here and there at the fabric of his shirt. Eventually, his attention moves to along his arm, circling over Val's forearm, adjusting him to touch at the inside of an elbow, where the faint yet familiar pinprick marks from too many IVs and too much blood drawn linger, if you look for them. It's the same on him - marks too small for the Houses to worry about prettying up. Down to his wrist, Andyr's fingers curling over bone that feels too delicate (he wasn't made to endure, like Andyr and Alva and Posie), to his hand, even thinner bones making him think of birds, or kittens. Small, vulnerable, breakable. And yet, he's known more torture than most normal humans will in a lifetime.
can i? Andyr'd asked, the first words of the day, whispered with sleep still touching the edges, low and a bit rough, as fingers tugged at the hem of his shirt. i've seen it before, and i don't care, so unless you have another reason, can i?
you called it gross yesterday.
well, i'm full of shit. plied with a kiss against the corner of his jaw, and another, just behind his ear, the last at the base of his neck, enough to buy a sigh and 'i guess', his hands freed from the light grip that'd landed on them. he's careful, tugging the fabric up, making sure it doesn't snag on the ports, that it doesn't come off too quickly, and that the comforter's pulled snug around them to make up for the lost warmth. to make it even, his own shirt follows, tucked somewhere between the top of the mattress and the headboard, out of the way but not out of reach.
Val's shoulder span is slighter than his, which seems odd to him, because they stuff so much extra into him. you'd think they'd make his body bigger. but like this, he fits between the spaces where Andyr's shoulders round forward, with his arms lazily looped over him, like hugging him to his chest with form alone. fingertips trail over the side of his back, over his shoulder blade, his side, his hip. arm slipped against Val's chest, he thumbs the line of his throat, feels the bob of Val's adam's apple, the dip before his collar bones, and traces down the cool flat of glass plating that is his chest, feeling the thrum of hearts pressed close to the surface, watching over the edge of Valarie's shoulder while his hand smooths lower, to his stomach. soft. more concave than he probably should be, but andyr knows why that is too.
curious, he starts to shift, moves out from behind him, and eases Val to lay down on his back, pushing his arms out to the side when they move to cross over his chest. stop that. and for the moment, the comforter is shuffled back as well, hung over Andyr's shoulders like a mantle, as he scoots down Val's body, to touch his nose just above his navel, then lips.
what're you doing?
looking. with my face.
what do you usually look with?
shut up.
if it were Alva, anyone else other than Val, he might've nipped at the edge of his stomach. but Andyr knows the events he'd been taken to, the parties his brain dead clones are sent to. what he watches, because he's been paid for. what he swallows back. what nightmares scream through his mind later. not even for all the death threats he'd made back home, has he ever threatened to put teeth on him, let alone attempted.
instead, he blows a raspberry.
they waste an hour or so away, rolling around in bed, chatting here and there, while Andyr turns Valarie's body this way and that, running his hands along smooth thighs, down the muscle of a calf, tickle at the soles of his feet and earn a pillow to the side of his head. it's as if that short twenty to thirty minutes of the morning, when Andyr's actually just Andyr, had been extended to fit in the rest of morning, and with the clock somewhere on the wall reaching towards twelve, probably the afternoon as well. it's hardly even sexual, really, despite the two of them in boxer briefs alone, and andyr lingering to kiss here and there. sexuality is such an odd thing for them, these days, and it's half mixed up in just whatever this thing is they do - holding together tight and mimicking affection and comfort. he doesn't really start to get hard, not until he moves between Val's thighs, and kisses gradually upward, feet kicking idly, where they're bent upwards and poking out the opposite end of the comforter, and andyr feels a soft tap at the top of his head.
val looks fragile. all of him does, from the glass plate, to the softness in his eyes, to the slightness of his fingers, to the set of his hipbones. he looks young. he looks temporary, andyr's mind reminds him, and he immediately wants to curl in on him, bleed some of his excess of durability, of healing, into him. KNs were supposed to be the evolutionary future, but they'd spliced and contorted and bent his bones into a painful mold. maybe this is why he kisses him so freely, all over. for the want to heal the body in his arms, to maintain the soul within it.
it's okay. i know. i know you, i know your body. i know what's there, i know what isn't there, i know why you're terrified. it's still okay. nothing changes.
with lips pressing against his neck, his cheek, his eyes, andyr whispers softly, can i try something? i'll be careful. brushes fingers through his hair and an arm slipping under him, fingers tugging at the waistband of his briefs. he waits for the nod of assent, and kisses him soft, and sweet, and achingly kind, as a fingertip brushes between his cheeks. he holds Val tight to his chest, as he takes time working a slicked digit into his body, light pressing and soft circles, and pushing in only so far as he'll take him, before abating. it takes time to get to the spot deeper inside Andyr's been searching for (maybe he paid a little too much attention to all of Alva's medical books), but it's worth it for the way Val's breathing hitches, and his fingers curl into Andyr's shoulders, and the soft moans and gasps as he tenderly works at the cluster of nerves, finger curling inside him to massage and circle and vary pressure, as he slides shallowly in and out of him. apparently Val's capable of orgasm, at least in this sense, as Andyr learns, smiling against his cheek as he shakes against him beautifully.
of course, it leaves andyr hard as a rock, unconsciously grinding against Val's hip, but they get inventive about that too. it's a good day for experimentation. ]
Here, like this. It'll work, okay? [ he definitely sounds very reassuring, as he goes around shuffling Val's legs, crossing one ankle over the other to lock them together, with Val laid on his back, the two of them hidden away in the weird little egg-shaped beds on this deck of the Moira. he'd like to say this isn't the strangest place he's fooled around, but considering his significant lack of fooling around experience... yeah. yeah it is.
moving back to drape over him, there's some kind of lotion used for the sake of slickness, and andyr mutters something about being sure Alva would be mad about it, before settling against him, a hand running soft over Val's side, and his hip, over the swell of thigh to touch light and careful between his legs. the majority of his weight rests on an elbow to the side of Val's ribs, certain the glass can't support all 214 pounds of him, and fingertips brush against the sensitive path of skin between his thighs, up to smooth over the soft rise of tissue where he would've developed more, had his formula not written it out. it doesn't feel strange, same sort of sensitive texture, same warmth, same feeling of intimacy. Andyr's lips find his again, a sort of nervous, almost teenage like shake to them, but broken into a smile, as teeth tug at Val's, while his hips align and his length presses down into the smooth, warm pocket between Val's thighs, breathing out a stuttered sigh. For a moment, he stills, enough to adjust his arms, one wrapped beneath his waist and the other framed behind his shoulders, and his head bows to touch Val's, with a brush of bangs, as he pulls up, and slides back between his legs again, a moan breathed out against his cheek. ]
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They shouldn't be this close for all the fire back and forth they trade, between Andyr being naturally combative and Valarie being given this newly found sense of agency (with his check-ups, with his food, with the clothing he wants to wear, with who he decides he wants to associate). But here they are, back to front, and Valarie has never felt more safe, more sound, and more utterly complacent than right this moment.
Andyr is tracing a finger up along his skin, over each spread rib and down where the pit of his stomach gives less than it usually does--freshly taken from so that he feels lighter, emptier, but he sleeps so soundly, it should be a crime. He sleeps without having to sit at a strange angle, he sleeps without dreams or without the sudden need to heave. He just sleeps, a good, black sleep that he never knew he deserved. Andyr deserves that kind of sleep as well and he's tempted to stop his hands and hush him. Kiss his cheek softly and roll over to try and blanket him even if he's often told not to sleep on his stomach.
When he's stirred up in the "morning" he has half a mind to fumble out of bed and go somewhere else. Sleep was good, he could do it for a few more hours. He wakes up lethargic, heavy-limbed, but is treated to warm, little kisses spreading over his skin, enough to make him compliant in staying there instead of acting on his original, hypothetical plans, body spread out and open for him once he takes his shirt off, leaves the both of them bared to each other. Val is hyperaware of every port molding to the mattress, of every breath causing his chest to rise and fall as Andyr's lips trail along his navel and he blows stupidly against him and makes him shout, nearly slamming his head with his knees. Hey! he half-hisses and half-whispers, a little overcome by the reaction but overcome even more with the sudden barrage of touches that smooth down along his skin, tickling the joint of his knees and the arch of his foot and his everything responds--alive and bright like fire, accompanied by laughter and reaching forward to pull at Andyr's hair, to tug his face closer for a slow, warm kiss on the mouth.
(He decides: it's too cold to leave the bed anyways, and Andyr knows--he knows to keep the teeth to himself, knows never to palm or grab like an appraisal, knows that open palms and feather light touches and careful adjustments are key to getting him to move without a sudden stiffness in his joints.)
He's instantly darting forward for another when Andyr's mouth leaves to trail down his throat again, only to ask if he can. If it's okay. And for a moment, Valarie's everything sinks down into the springs of the mattress, a heat forming in the pit of his gut and surging up like a sickness he doesn't want to be rid of, a pleasant, longing sort of nausea that dissipates the moment Andyr slicks his fingers and parts him, pressing up against that little sweet spot and making him croon aloud.
The touch is gentle, gentler than he thought Andyr was ever capable of, but his fingers are diligent and he's still stunned to wide-eyed and open-mouthed as he gets fucked on warm, careful fingers. He can feel Andyr's arousal on his thigh, leaking pre and smearing it against his skin and he reaches down with a hand to softly cover the head with his palm, giving it a fraction of the friction it really wants.
He's trying to catch his breath when he looks Andyr in the eye, focusing on the curve of his jaw, on the fact that he's talking to him so gently through this. He remembers
It's the suggestion that comes next that leaves him guessing, with hands slicking up the space between his thighs, with his ankles crossed and his entire body poised with fully awake interest now as Andyr presses himself there between the narrow gap of his thighs, making him shiver at the skin-to-skin contact. He feels like hot velvet, pressing between the sensitive skin of Val's thighs, making him "ohhhhh" with a realization that this is good. This is what good feels like--making his hearts leap up into his throat. ] You can do it more. Faster. If you want...
[ He offers it up quietly into the dark, thighs pressing together a little tighter against Andyr's cock, biting his lip as he lets him slip in again, draws his thighs tight together and then flexes softly, a fluctuation of sensation for him between the slick lotion and Andyr rolling up against him, sounding off against his cheek in a way he's sure he's never heard him before: enjoying himself. He leans into the soft touch of foreheads, reaching up hands to press against the defined muscles in Andyr's shoulders, sinking soft fingers against the creases where muscle meets bone and works to continue the motion.
Kissing him against the mouth is a surreal sort of dream while he presses in the soft gap of his thighs, pre staining the sensitive skin. Andyr's mouth is soft, despite his words, warm and open to him and they kiss, and Val's mouth is greedy for him, open and hungry, little tongue darting over precisely cut teeth, smoothing over their tops, their edges, glancing off the even sharper blade of a tongue he has before eventually stopping, ] It's okay, [ he murmurs, sliding cool, slender fingers through Andyr's hair, pushing it back, lifting his hips a little and digging his heels in for leverage. ] It's ok, I won't break, I'm good. I'm good, I promise... that's it...
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TFLNS
2. Oh, I also stabbed a guy Friday and he still asked me out
3. Going overboard is basically 75% of my personality
4. He has great stamina, he knows how to use his tongue, and he's hung like a goddamn Pegasus. I can overlook the man bun.
5. That's really the only reason I'm dating you, the prospect that I might get bacon
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for ya
Hey, sweetheart, where's the million dollar smile?
ayyyy
all he gets for his question is Andyr's lips pulling back, and those too sharp teeth being bared, more a snarl than a smile. but hey, asshole, you asked. ]
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Almost done here. How's everything down there?
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Found a lab. [ were it anyone else, there would be a 'fine' attached to that, but he's made a habit of not lying to steve. ]
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nsfw: sparring / sex
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in the first few weeks, the psych ward doctors learned better than to try medicating him or coming near him with any kind of needles or wires. it had all been yoga classes and guided meditation and counseling sessions he was either silent or profane for, with wardens following him around, standing just far enough away to feel like they aren't being suffocating, but still watching him closely any time another person passed by.
natasha showed up halfway through the fourth week, having come back from a mission and heard he wasn't out yet. refusing to cooperate, oddly silent outside of outbursts, unstable and violent. and yet, she'd sat across the table from him, and it'd only take about ten minutes of quietly prodding at him to get him talking again. just something familiar about her, after knowing her in Hapsburg, chats in sign language through the soundproof glass wall of his room, seeing her in the halls on his way to or from the labs. he knows she isn't who she told him she was, but she'd gone in regardless, into that hell, to get him and the others out. when no one else cared enough to so much as lift a finger.
she'd started coming regularly, first once a week, then twice, soon every other day. they'd talk, or watch what sitcoms were on the commons area TV, walk around the grounds. sometimes she'd bring a laptop and try to catch him up on pop culture. eventually, natasha gave him a cell phone, told him to text or call whenever her wanted, her personal number the only one programmed in. he knows they put a wire on her, sometimes, and a device in her ear to tell her what question to ask - the only way the shrinks have found to get anything real out of him, but he doesn't fault her for it. knows she's just trying to help. maybe someday he'll go into those too homey rooms with them and talk. not yet. for know, he's just doing what feels comfortable, and that's spending time with her.
like this, in one of the large gym rooms, with mats set out on the floor. for a long time, he'd insisted on training alone, wouldn't spar with her for fear of losing it and hurting her. turns out his strength isn't so much an issue when she's not only on par with him in terms of skill, but beyond. and the stray hits that have a bit too much force behind them? she's had worse, it seems. she's a normal girl fighting in a world threatened by titans, and god she seems so unreal. incredible, really. it becomes something regular, and when she has to leave for a few weeks on mission, Andyr spends the time texting her, bored with his days otherwise, but trying to cooperate better, for the fact she wants him to. by the time she comes back, he's missing her like hell, and they go straight to the mats again.
about halfway through the first fight, he catches her in a lock, and natasha gets herself free by kissing him, out of the blue. for a second he's stunned, and that's really all she needs to elbow him in the stomach and throw him on his ass, Andyr watching her, upside down, with a tilt to his head.
huh.
round two, and they go to the ground with a quick sweep, turning it into a grappling match, which always means being an awkward kind of close to another body, but isn't something andyr's ever felt self-conscious of, until now, with her legs wrapped around his hips, his arms gripping at her shirt, or her shoulder, or a forearm as they shift and struggle. it distracts him enough that his technique is completely off, and he's out shortly after, tapping his surrender against the mat and she arm bars him. natasha's grinning at him like there's some joke he's missing, and he's trying to figure out if she's doing this just for fun, or something else.
round three, and andyr's determined to play this game as well, too competitive to just accept the sabotage. at the first punch, he's slipping past, pushing flush to her, and kissing her full on the lips, a hand on her waist and another on her shoulder, as he lingers, tugs at a lip, and sweep a foot behind her ankles. a push at that shoulder, and she goes down, but not without taking him with, her shin kicking out the back of his knees, as they both dissolve into a fit of struggles for dominance, all groping hands and too close grinding, until she's straddling his hips, bright red hair falling in a curtain around them, with teeth pulling at andyr's lower lip, as she grinds a rhythm against the too prominent form of his hard length, easy to find through the thin pants he wears in the psych ward. the purpose of this was lost somewhere down the road to this point, and all he knows now is the sweet, slow friction she'd rolling out against him, the soft, smooth texture of her lips, the taste of peach chapstick, and his hands curling into the fabric of her shirt.
until a rip sounds out.
ah. oops. that would be natasha's collar. ]
Shit. [ he hisses out, cursing himself for letting his mind go that far, while he has her in his hands. ] Sorry.
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ffffff ho'boy
he'd had to wait, until the man with the rifle's eyes strayed to a woman splayed out over three men, sick desire blinding him for just an instant - all he'd needed to shove the butt of the rifle into his throat, hard enough for a snap to ring out, shortly followed by the sizzle of electrocution. screaming at the agony of electric fire in his veins, he'd launched himself at the one holding the remote, punching and punching and punching until the guard's face was unrecognizable. the device crushed into useless pieces, and Andyr's vision went red. what happened after was a wash of screams and violence, andyr remembering the feeling of flesh ripping underneath his fingers, the crack of bone, the gurgle of a man trying to whimper through blood flooding his throat.
by the time bucky'd showed up, having cleared the halls beyond this one room, it was something out of a grotesque horror film, andyr sitting in the middle of it, washed in blood, still wearing that collar, every inch of him with a pulse of tremor. seeing him, knowing him, he'd raised up, and paced over, to place himself directly into bucky's arms, a hand going to the metal appendage, like it was a solid reminder of who he is, and what he is to andyr - the proof of it. "Take me home", he'd told him simply.
refusing the medbay, he'd gone straight to a shower, feeling dirty inside and out, scrubbing at his skin until it left rashes (which quickly healed, but happened all the same), never again, he'd sworn to himself two years ago. never again, never again, never again. and yet, here he was. they hadn't even needed the drugs and restraints. just a gun to his head, and he'd bowed to it. sobs like screams ripped from the nomo deck showers, as andyr punched at the tile lining the stall, underneath the showerhead, until it cracked and fell away, leaving a dent in the metal behind it.
eyes still rimmed red, he'd marched back to bucky's private room, hand curled in the towel around his hips. he can't do this. not again. he can't feel like his body is his own again, like there aren't fingerprints staining his bones, can't forget the 'property of' disclaimer drilled into his spine, but perhaps if he can't be his own, he can be bucky's.
his hand reaches out for barnes' metal wrist, and andyr turns, to push his back against bucky's chest, silently, leaning back against him in a way that feels like surrender, but without any ounce of shame or defeat in it. simply letting go. his hand moving to cover the back of bucky's mechanical one, he pulls him to slide against his naked, damp stomach, fingers splayed. downward, slowly, until he's urging him to touch beneath the towel wrapped loose and low on his hips. ]
Please. [ he whispers, into the side of Bucky's throat. he needs this. ]
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anniversary.
So they are what they are, close and knitted together, her and her precious boy (he still gets feisty when she says this, but she knows he enjoys it), and they're currently celebrating their anniversary in one hell of an expensive hotel suite in the middle of the deep blue sea, with a massive glass dome above their heads where they could see all the sea creatures that swim past and over them. And oh, there are many; shimmering fish of all shapes and sizes, eels and squid and octopuses with a few rays here and there.
But what's most breathtaking, she thinks, is looking up at the belly of a great white shark as it lazily swims overhead, a much smaller shark -- its offspring -- swimming along. ]
That's beautiful. [ Witnessing the wonder and majesty of nature right here is a culmination of all the things that they had worked on together; getting Andyr acclimatised to society, to the extent that he could go to the other side of the world with her without a problem. That had taken a long time, baby steps and regressions and everything in between, but it's all worth it. She's curled up against him, her head tucked in the crook of his shoulder, his arm around her. ] Didn't you tell me before that shark babies ate each other in the womb?
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which, really, she sort of is. she set him free, worked with him to reenter the world, brought him into her house, loved him, cared for him, bought him a damn fish tank. maybe it isn't the healthiest of attachments, but andyr'd never believed, during his time in hapsburg, that he'd ever be able to walk down a city street and feel like anything but a time bomb wrapped up in razor wire. now, he's here. after a long flight, lounged out under a glass dome in the middle of the sea, smiling up at the belly of a great white, as his fingers play at locks of bright red hair, natasha's warmth snug and cozy against him. ]
Yep, all but one other. It's a struggle for paternity, because sharks get knocked up by more than one father usually. [ yeah, sharks are metal as fuck. turning his eyes from the ceiling to her, he kisses at her forehead, soft and sweet and adoring. ]
I love this place. Thank you, seriously. [ things he'd never even dreamed of. natasha makes reality out of what he'd only ever thought impossible. she's unrelenting and indomitable in that, and god he loves that about her. ]
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[Ronan's spine curves in reaction to the fingernails dragging across his back, his body sliding against Andyr's. He feels pleasantly helpless at the mercy of Andyr's desire, and if he was better at lying to himself, he might have been able to argue that he's absolved of the responsibility for this. Because, oh, how could he resist this? Andyr's mouth on his mouth and Andyr's hands running over his skin. A boy can only handle so much temptation.
But Ronan's not so delusional, and guilt nags at him for the heaviness between his legs and every moment spent in anticipation of Andyr's next touch. His lips part as he pants against Andyr's mouth, whispering a half-formed prayer before his tongue slides back in to savor the taste of him.
Ronan's hands find Andyr's nipples and he feels fleetingly scandalized, like he's discovered something forbidden, before his thumbs begin to rub experimental circles over them and he begins to consider that he might actually be capable of giving Andyr not just attention but pleasure.]
cw: vaaague non con mention?
Ronan isn't just a good friend, and a great man with a noble soul. He's utter gorgeous, in the sharp angles of his features, the brightness of his eyes, and the solid build of his body. The art spanning his back seems so perfect to him, as if it just floated up to the top of his skin on its own, and Andyr can't stop thinking of just how fucking hot it is.
A hand eases at Ronan's shoulders, a light push that doesn't force him to lay his back to the floor of the tent, but more guides. Andyr's been in a place of no choice with this before, and it's the deepest violation he's ever known. Never would he allow the same to happen to Ronan, who's so giving and so loving and so kind. With that in his mind, as he kisses down Ronan's neck and shoulders, lips brush against the bud of a nipple, he pauses, glancing back to him, before everything's carried away. ] Good?
[ huffed out, breathless. he's clearly wanting more of him, but like hell he'd take without permission. ]
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nude hawaiian beaches, merry christmas
And that's pretty much the totality of Nick's experience with Christmas. Holidays are for families, people who have other people to celebrate with, not ones who are on the run. It's not like he's the grinch - he doesn't really have any hard feelings towards the people who do have trees and a ham on the table. That just hasn't been his life, and right now he wouldn't trade with them.
Hawaii was a spur of the moment idea, the kind that Nick excels at. But hey, it's warm, beautiful, and there's plenty of beaches which means plenty of fish for Andyr to bust a nut over. And of all those beautiful beaches on the island, they just happen to find one that's "clothing optional." Of course, Nick chose the naked option (because you always go with the naked option) and is now watching him from under the white faux fur brim of his Santa hat, comfortably sprawled on the sand.
The hat doesn't count, and neither would something else that Nick can think of.]
A bow. [Nick says the word like it's been on the tip of his tongue or elusively at the edge of his mind.] That's what you need. One well placed ribbon and Christmas really would come early.
[Innuendo? You decide, Andyr.]
8'33 bless
he's padding back up the beach, water still clinging to him, with a snorkel and mask dangling from one hand (yes, he'd been busting a nut over the fish, what did you expect). hearing nick's new decision on how to improve his celebrating, andyr snorts a laugh, grinning wide, with a certain fondness that he can't quite hide, as he tosses the mask and snorkel on a towel nearby. ]
Ha ha ha. [ such a sarcastic laugh is this, you don't even know. andyr flops down to sit cross legged on the towel next to him, leaning forward to run ocean-cooled fingers along the naked path of nick's spine, head dipping to press a few kisses to his broad, sun speckled shoulders. ] Yeah, well, don't come too early, 'cause you aren't a teenager anymore, and I'd like to come too.
[ he needs that dick hard, okay, don't go wasting it for the sake of holiday cheer. ]
Where're we gonna put this bow of yours? Any thoughts?
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rage rage against the dying light
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the two, put together, drag this building into hell with them.
between andyr's durability and kon's viciousness, adding to the reckless depravity they both give in to, making them fearless, they cut through the halls and defenses like a hot knife through butter. shooting fish in a barrel.
the metal of the door makes an eerie, whining cry, as the two super humans rip at it, prying it open, more like them trying to get to the guards on the other side, than the guards trying to get to them. andyr's mind is soaked red and consumed in bloodlust. there's no real hope to making it out of the building - he knows hapsburg will find him eventually - but more to make the most devastating massacre he can. if kon can escape in the wreckage of it, great, but the two of them know better than to consider it a done deal. ]
Good. [ andyr snarls, the first glimpse of the men on the other side caught through the crack in the door. ] Stay hungry.
[ because the second he makes it through, Andyr's charging into the first guard, a hand with jagged nails going straight for his throat, as the other smacks the gun to the side, using the man's body as a meat shield against the others (tranqs, of course), until they pause for reload. his fingers curl in mercilessly, sinking into the man's throat, and he rips.
with a gaping wound where his wind pipe used to be, the fading guard is toss back, to Kon behind to finish. onward - the gun pulled free from the first man thuds against one's head, jabs into another's neck, the barrel stabbed into the last's eye socket. ]
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