[A pause— and then drifting up from the pages, Leto moans.
It's muffled by the way he bites at his wrist, but there nonetheless: a pent-up response to every sentence, every word, one hand muffling himself as the other wraps around his neglected cock, breaking every promise they made without caring for the consequences— gods, he can't even remember what they are right now. They play so many games together, you-win-I-lose, and it barely matters, for it always ends the same: the two of them a tangle of scrambling limbs and bucking hips, orgasmic pleasure so searingly hot that it twists into pain and then eclipses out the other side, blinding him, drowning him in the kind of euphoria mortals never once reach—
No one will ever claim you like this. No one will make you want the way I make you want me. You're going to spend the rest of your life drooling every time you think about this, so addicted you'll slip into a side street to fuck your own hand and whimper out my name with your fingers in your mouth, shallow and just. Not. Enough . . .
Oh, Astarion had warned him, hadn't he? (His hand strokes faster, his hips undulating into every desperate snap of his wrist, precome slick in his palm and his breathing heavy and hot and fast). Back in Thedas, his voice thick with arrogance and his grin sinfully dark, he must have known even then how this would all end. We corrupt, he'd taunted later. Slipping further and further into debauchery until there's nothing left, and it blurs together, every stark fantasy that Astarion put in his hand playing out in his mind's eye. The way it'll feel to be held so helplessly as he's fucked into at a brutal pace; the way Astarion will look poised between tanned thighs, his mouth full and his eyes watering with pleasure as he suckles at his treat; the way they'll fight and fuck, tearing into each other with kisses smeared with blood and tender words on their lips, I love you breathed out between the cruelest of torments—]
Amatus, quaeso, nimis longe es—
[Two more days. Two more days, and then whatever other time they'll have to take in order to find a sliver of privacy in their overcrowded abode. It's far too long to wait, but for the kind of reunion they'll have, oh, they'll need every bit of privacy possible. A silencing spell is well and good, but not when he'll have his legs pinned back and his body bounced atop Astarion's cock for hours on end, every inch of him splayed out and on display for anyone to see . . . gods, how had they ever thought they'd last a week?]
Astarion, Astarion, quaeso—
[As if it matters whether his guttural whispers are in Tevene or Common, for either the girls are asleep or they aren't— but maybe he does it for them. For the sake of having something solely theirs as he trembles and bucks and whines his way into his finish. Too quick, too fast, but all the more intense for how long he's fought to hold it back. Leto mewls into his hand as he finishes, a jagged, wracked sound that skips with every thundering pulse from his cock, muffled and only for Astarion to hear.
Leto's voice slithering across the line with sudden, anhelous intensity. Echoing within the fastened confines of their coffin, but clearly such a choice for the elf that's barely smothering his own exhales. More than anyone, Astarion can comprehend how little would it take for someone else to hear him moaning out his lover's name when all that separates is tentwork and open air. He'd been the one to welter it all, once. Those lost days when Astarion had been the epitome of that, in fact, barely two brittle rooms away from Fenris' sleeping form, catching himself by the heel of his palm, swearing fealty to silence— to the promise that he wouldn't ruin the only kindness ever shown to him by marking it with sharp teeth. With desire too intense for what's been given (for when is longing anything but a blade in Cazador Szarr's court?) Every groan transmuted to an exhale; every thought of Fenris swallowed down with gulps of air, taking nothing but his longing with him, shaped half like fantasy and half like what he'd gladly offer up without a word if asked. Begged. How deep he'd sink into those thighs. Into him. However he'd like to be taken. (Is he into men? No— likely not with his talk of Isabela. So perhaps not forwardly, then. Not in the way those who are at ease with being bent back, but with a place to warm himself instead. Maybe his cock pinned to a silk-soft thigh, squeezed and riding up against him to completion. Maybe sliding it along his tongue instead, Astarion's head craned demurely down to hide the measure of his shoulders, letting him call him whatever name he likes.) The shiftlessness that welled up at the sight of Fenris as he fought. As he slept. The handsome outline of his face, lit by firelight. The trail of pale azure-silver making his limbs look longer. Long enough that Astarion could stretch out languidly between them— invoking a bracket of tanned skin around his scars, around muscle and sloped curves. His lips to a tipped-back throat, kissing and caressing in equal measure. Whispering antiphons full of filth....
Maybe Astarion—
—wouldn't do that to the man he loves.
Is in love with.
So then: anything.
Anything to keep it locked away, anything to stay near him. Adore him. Protect him with a chasteness that the Chantry would exalt.
And now here they are.
Sharing all the things he used to fight fang and nail to hide.
Quaeso— plays him like a struck chord, reverberating deep under his tensed lungs, his pulseless heart. Nimis longe es— and it's true, he thinks, wincing as his fingers splay across his own chest, the prick he may-or-may-not have been conceptually coaxing suddenly jolting in his grasp, straining at the bit for what it can't have—]
What it feels like is a violent whip of movement meeting magic. A careless blur filled to the brim with nothing but anticipation, void of any sense or sense of preservation. What he knows is Leto's still laid there by the time the front flap of his tent whips open, ceding to the scuff of dry dust against his knees— ceding to the kneeling way he falls across his consort, his beating heart, his one and only love— palms pressed to either side of his strong shoulders, his mouth craned down and his legs slid between Leto's own to hike them up at a sharp angle in the second he bites down, greeting him as only a monster ever would.
Teeth-first.
Starving.
Amorous as death itself in every marble-cut depiction: lover and subjugator both.
What he knows is that it isn't dawn. And that the way he'd scent-marked Leto to him drew him to him like a thread across the broadest distance tested yet.]
[His lips wrapping around the breathless shape of his beloved's name as he gasps— that's all Leto manages in those breathless half-seconds between the tent opening and Astarion storming through. There's no time for shock, no time for bafflement, no time for anything except melting into this wonderment that feels like every fantasy his lonely heart ever conjured suddenly come true. In a moment he's spread wide, his thighs straining and his hips raised up, all of him arched as he feels that familiar intoxicant pump through his blood—
And Leto comes.
With a gasp, with a moan, both hands clawing at Astarion's back as he shoves his mouth against his shoulder, muffling himself desperately. Not just for modesty's sake, but selfishly, greedily, he does not want to share. He cannot have anything interrupt this, not here, not now, not when every orgasmic pulse hits him so heavily, blindingly, his body thrashing beneath Astarion's own in rhythmic, vulgar patterns. His eyes roll back, his desperation palpable, fuck me take me please please please, the need so urgent that he can almost taste it. Anything, anything, so long as Astarion doesn't leave. The scent of him fills his nostrils, cool and familiar and his; he turns his head, desperately kissing any bit of Astarion he can reach, cheek or ear or lips (the tang of iron so familiar to his tongue, just like the scrape of sharp teeth and hungry, demanding thrusts of his tongue, his vampire determined not to lose a drop).
And when he's done— when his come drips down the flat plane of his belly and his hips finally stop their frantic rut— it still doesn't feel like the end. Not when his mind has been wiped clean from sheer pleasure alone; not when there's still Astarion above him, his cock swollen and hard and begging to be taken.]
Astarion— [another kiss, another desperate attempt to touch and taste and feel all at once, his eyes darting about his vampire's face as if to make sure he's here. He's real. But he is, and he is no trick, for what desire demon could imitate the way Astarion touches him? Fingers instinctively slotting between pale tattoos even now, careful in how he handles his consort. What fey could ever hope to imitate the way he looks right now, needy and vulnerable and ravenous all at once?
You're here, I missed you, I love you, and he whispers the words out against his lips before adding:]
Fuck me.
[A rumbled statement, permission and longing all stitched into one, come take me, I know what you want, beloved, come mount me like you promised you would, and he squirms, rubbing up against his clothed cock in blatant temptation. Look what you can have, please, please, as he pants up at him.
Once they're done he'll ask his questions, but right now his lovesore heart doesn't care about why or when or how. You're here, you're here, confirmation renewed over and over as he buries his face in the crook of his neck, fingertips skimming over his back as his thighs clench around his hips. Don't go, and he half-wonders for a dazed moment if he's dreaming— but no. No, Astarion feels too real for that.]
Dream or reality or some tangled mixture of the two (ah, no, Astarion is here, all right. Gods know he has to be, there's too much bite to the rocky earth digging into him through a plush bedroll and tent canvas alike, too much life bursting through the enriched flavor slicked across his tongue and open mouth— ) there's nothing that would alter the path of his determination anymore: his mate half-dressed in all the ways that work towards obscenity rather than anything as trite as function, his picturesque tanned legs pinned up at wanton angles, none of them something that lithe form could manage without crude support or the sheer vulgarity of demand. A hand holding him here, a leg pushed up against him there. An arched back and a ragged set of breaths and the lay of his spent cock across his belly, begging to be filled instead of merely fed.
Bliss isn't enough anymore.
Not these days, not when Leto is— as he'd insisted on at the start of this exchange— so deeply accustomed to the intensity they enact night after night after night. The point was to break that cycle for a time. To drive a thrill back into the act of feeling Astarion's thick measure buried in full between his thighs, teaching tightness how to cede itself to sweet obeisance. Because being shuttered in an inn for their protection didn't make them cautious, it made them prone to indulgence, a habit they indulged more fervently than sleep, than dining or socializing in the confines of that inn suite. Too often invitations came and went with Leto holding his own breath against the coffin borders, speared snug and squirming whilst his toes curled— his own prick squeezed by his trapped weight— and Astarion calling out 'no, but thank you' over the rigid outline of hunched shoulders.
His exhale now is a prelude to untying coarse laces.
It comes before the razored catch of teeth up high, clamped down around soft skin for a second, languid taste.
It comes before he nudges with a slick-edged knuckle, just to find his mark— and pump his prick across that aligned inform till it plunges past resistance— any and all tensity turned to friction's little plaything. An accessory to the way he thrusts in shallow, daggered rhythms— lunging by an inch or two each time, teasing his dear pup with what he wants too dearly to deny. Once— twice— shallow, keep it shallow— a stuttering catch along the rim and he slips out—
—then back again.
Out, and back— out, and back— pale fingers pressed into lover's pretty lips to keep them silent in the moment, his fangs still tethered just to hold him still. Caught prey. Caught heart.
Don't squirm in growing hunger. Don't raise your hips up in fretful petition to fucked into overstimulated bliss. Don't shake yourself to pieces beneath your husband's grip, no matter how each slow, deliberate dip of Astarion's cock leaves him shivering with want. Don't move, little rabbit, for animal instincts insist that a single wrong movement would spell disaster. The clamp of razor-sharp teeth around his throat keep him still more readily than any bar or tie; soft fingers pressing firm against his tongue keep him hushed and pliant. There's just the sound of his own ragged breathing (and beneath that, the slick noises of their bodies slowly meeting, oil dripping off Astarion's cock and glossing his rim). There's just—
In (swollen heat coaxing him into sweetly spreading open, thick enough to make him taste it without ever once fucking in too deep) and out (a slick exhale as his tongue slides against Astarion's fingers, desperate to do something as he copes with the loss). In (he trembles over every slow, taunting dip; every millimeter, every bump and ridge and catch against his rim amplified until arousal echoes through him in dizzying waves and he has to fight not to groan) and out (he squeezes, clenches, fights to keep his prize, and all of it for naught, for he's left so achingly empty, the air bursting out of his lungs and his body crying for the loss).
Over and over and over, and every pass builds on the last until Leto feels as though he's going to lose his godsdamned mind. Again and again and again, out and back, out and back, the slow rhythm teasing him without ever once sating him. Saliva pools in the back of his mouth as something deep in the pit of his belly jerks for every pass; between them, his cock stiffens and swells, refractory period nigh-nonexistant in this adolescent body.
Another pass. Another slow, shallow rut, Astarion's cock inching in (please yes please) before pulling out again (subatomic whimpers vibrating low in his throat, needy and fitful and heard only by a single person. It's harder to resist the urge to squirm and pant and mewl; it comes out in the way his eyes roll back and his fingers spasm as he grips his husband's shirt. Tighten and release, tighten and release, the rhythm timed to the daggering way Astarion fucks him: out and back, out and back, maddening and thrilling all at once.
His fingers rake through silver curls (you're here, and some part of him still can't believe it, marveling at this miracle); the other slips between them, fingers wrapping around his prick. He times his slow tugs to the rhythm Astarion sets, and oh, gods, it doesn't help, but he couldn't stop if he tried. It doesn't stop him from whining for the loss of Astarion's cock each time, but at least the sparks that roil low in his belly are paltry consolation.]
Astarion—
[A moan and a plea all at once, slurred quietly around the swell of Astarion's fingers. His eyes roll back in the next moment, his thighs shaking as he feels him dip in shallowly— and the problem isn't that it doesn't feel good, but that it does. So searingly good (and yet not enough); good enough that little moans start building behind Astarion's fingers, his slit already slick with precome. Please, please, and at this point it isn't even a plea for more— just not to stop.]
[There's nothing said between them. Nothing but the closing of his teeth— albeit gentle— round that pretty, twitching tongue as it whispers out his name in lowered whine. It hardly matters if they're seen or overheard; Astarion merely toys with the notion of discretion near the others in their den, like passive courtesy it doesn't truly carry any measure of concern beyond rote formality itself. They disappear for hours at a time. They are inseparable and inexorably flush with marks of decadent exposure each and every time they return from isolation. The rest of their allies here don't make jokes from supposition, they're not dense enough to think it anything but fact. And they're right.
(So what if they're overheard now?
So what if they're caught?)
It's just for Leto that he's modest in unfettered, guttural desire. For Leto, whom he offers a bit by way of one slow, contrasting kiss compared to the shallower tease of his hips— and if Leto chooses to shunt silence for the secondary presence that it is, Astarion will happily abide.
Because he doesn't need to be asked. The shivers are enough. The way Leto's narrow little entry snaps down hungrily across the prick that drives him open, greedy and voracious to a fault— it's just the plunges when he slicks open like a flower's velvet flesh— just the retreat back outwards when he tightens, fighting to hold onto being claimed by any narrow stretch. The whole of his slim body sings with his desires, and as Astarion's grip hooks beneath each cheek to spread them wider, he indulges in his own beastly response.
Not stopping.
That's where the line is drawn, because to fuck his lover low into the ground like the animal he's said to be in overly alluring superstition would equate to ending this right here, right now. A mounting, breeding game of cat and mouse that lasts as long as the real thing: for feline reflexes are far, far faster than its prey, and snatching it from midair is a simple little thing when all is said and done, and it's been days already since they'd last rut. A whole night's foreplay underneath them won't act as cushion against one handsome adolescent's ruin— only the gravity that brings it on that much sooner.
So: steady. Shallow. Constant. Dips and flicks of daggering attention, at times running opposite to the focus of his mouth, at times in concert with it, but always attending to his mate. Always warming him up further from the inside out, letting him taste his own blood across pale lips; letting him feel his belly burn with delving friction weaving back and forth back and forth— he hunts there for the start of rattling flutters. Muscles quaking as they start to lock and heaving lungs hold fast to air. He seeks out the very prelude to the denoument he loves.
So that when it comes, he can square inhuman hips and rut down with merciless brutality.
Slick-mouthed screams and jagged cries fill every corner of camp, and yet Leto can't pay them mind, not when he's fighting not to drown right now. Pleasure burns through every inch of his body, devouring him so thoroughly that he can't do anything save writhe in overwhelmed response. Come splatters over his belly as pulse after pulse of orgasm wracks through him— he isn't even touching himself, not anymore, for the steady plunge of Astarion's cock is all the coaxing his own ever needs. It's too much, it's too much, and every savage thrust only sends him deeper, eking out another gasping wave— and another— and all the while there's no pause. No break. Nothing but the unrelenting, cruel slam of his vampire's prick, every thrust stretching him open and forcing him to cede every inch of himself in open-mouthed supplication.
He's deaf to himself (how easily throaty moans and overwrought whines burst past his lips in vulgar time to pistoning hips). Blind to himself (how pretty he looks as he writhes beneath his vampire, every muscle taut and tense, back arching up and hips bucking wildly while his fingers claw for canvas, fabric, flesh, anything, anything that might give him a handhold as he falls to pieces). There's nothing but this, this this this, heavy pressure that impales him over and over with inhuman speed, rewarding him each time with vulgar, hedonistic pleasure—
And it doesn't stop.
Not even as those cries of pleasure turn into sharp barks of dismayed overstimulation; not when every thrust becomes electrifying, lightning lancing through his body at a rate no mortal was designed to withstand. Not when all his writhing turns frantic and sharp talons have to dig in to keep him right where he is. Not when he sucks in enough air to try and beg for mercy (a break, a breath, please) and instead finds himself hoisted up, his legs pinned back even further so that he can watch his own debasement, a heavy prick pumping in and out of his reddened hole.
One hand clumsily shoves over his mouth (belated, so belated, but it must count for something); the other jerks out, fingers splayed— but even if he could remember the words to the spell (and he can't), silence takes concentration, and he has none of that to spare.]
Please—
[His voice is such a desperate thing, the word slick and spat out between breathless moans. Please please please, there's so many things he could be begging for, more and don't and I can't and make me, but no, focus, focus (despite the unrelenting rock and cruel grind of his hips, despite the toe-curling satisfaction of being speared and pinned and kept, despite despite despite— focus).]
T-take, take— [take me fuck me mount me make me your sheathe please please please] — take control—
[Take control.
Normally he'd add to that. Help me be quiet, help me stay silent, for his former magistrate of a husband does so love to find a loophole, especially when the stakes are relatively low. But even those four words were too much; with a spasming jerk he shoves his palm over his mouth once more, muffling the ragged howl that keens in his throat not a moment later.]
Oh, it's kammarth to stagnant veins already glazed with the raw heat of stolen blood. Astarion can't begin to compete with the wracking shudder that runs through him as if it were some new, exotic form of monstrous overstimulation in response to that outcry— the predator beneath his skin shedding him like the vestige of lost mortality he's always been behind the mask of sanity with all its peeling paint. Of he sort of pointless chaff that instinctive prey drive doesn't give a damn about. Or if not prey drive, survival, then. That savage hierarchy built atop the pillars of feeding, breeding, and violence that Astarion can only shackle at his best, and cedes to at his worst—
The angle is unforgiving already. It's worse when Astarion jumps forward to hitch up along his toes and knees to fold his prone amatus inwards, those strong legs already jammed into tanned shoulders by the time that pressure makes them dig. It closes the gap between cock and belly— makes it cock and chest in half a second— cock and almost chin if the pearly gleam of interwoven orgasms pattering against tattoo marks counts itself as measure. They link together like vulgar lines of jewels within his shadow. Encroach upon those parted, gasping lips. Encroach upon his hand, tense fingers splayed and bloodless under pressure— trickling through gaps.
And in their shadow, bright green eyes eyes, upturned. Unblinking. A pornographic panoply of light (or lack thereof) reflecting in their surface the sordid show of his unmaking, pumping to a merciless, unending rhythm. The animal that doesn't tire. The vampire above him. In him. In. Out. In. Out. Over. Against. The scent of metal in the air. The tang of sweat and bittersweet come. The taste of it as his hands are drawn away and pushed flat against both tent tarp and cool earth, and a falsely heated tongue slips in behind his teeth. Closer. Deeper. Relentless and blinding— but the shadow doesn't hide a drop of what lies underneath. The scene is there, racing through Leto's body like it owns him.
(That savage hierarchy built atop the pillars of feeding, breeding, and violence that Astarion can only shackle at his best, and cedes to at his worst—
—But they're a bonded pair, he and Leto.)]
Look at me.
[A murmur. Rough and growling in that torporic shudder. Darker than the point of no return. Not like the red eyes that glitter in the closed expanse of Leto's tent. Twin embers waiting— half-lidded under pitch lined lashes.
They don't blink.]
Look at me, amatus.
[Dirt grits beneath pale thumbs and pinned wrists. Slim features— the sharp jut of Astarion's fine nose, his vaulted cheekbones, his mouth, his daggered teeth— nose Leto this way and that to keep him focused. To vie for slivers of attention as he's taken with all the fervence of a lowered bitch gasping between spread legs. Curled toes. Not yet filled enough, but panting just the same.
All it should take is a handful of seconds....
....if Leto, denied for days already, can keep his own eyes open for that long.]
And somewhere along the way, it all blurs into bliss.
Time becomes an illusion, every second and minute and hour turned into nothing more than vague notions. There's only the here and now; there's only this: cool fingers locked around his wrists and the relentlessly steady pump of a heavy prick determined to remind his lithe body where he belongs. It's hypnotic in its rhythm and electrifying in its inexorability, for it never stops. Not when Leto writhes in teetering desperation, fighting against Astarion's grip so that he might touch himself, only to spill over himself untouched a few minutes later. Not when he barks out silent pleas for mercy, tears streaming down his cheeks and his hips shaking as another orgasm wracks through him. Not even when he falters beneath him, tongue lolled out and obscenity worn like a second skin, panting as he spreads his thighs wider and welcomes another searing gush of come spilled into him.
And dreamy-distant as he is, it's details that stand out the most to him. Little bits of sensation registers as they rise above the electrical current that thunders through his veins. Like: how mouth-wateringly fantastic it feels when Astarion finally opts to slow his hips down, going from bouncing Leto in cruel impalement to something languid. His eyes flutter, his mouth dropping open as he moans in silent approval of the way Astarion languidly shuttles his cock in and out, in and out, letting his husband feel every inch of what he's been missing.
Or: the way it feels to come on himself. The way he burns with humiliation the first time it happens— not just for the way come trickles down his cheek and over the backs of his fingers, but for how it makes his eyes roll back as he writhes in overstimulated climax. And then, later, how he melts for it: bitter droplets dripping to the back of his throat as he pants through open lips, pearl glinting against tanned skin like a pornographic echo of the markings he once bore— though his lyrium was never smeared over the bridge of his nose or splashed carelessly along his cheek.
Or even just: the way it feels to come. Orgasms wracking through his body over and over and over— for all his body can do in this youthswept body is greedily beg for more to gorge himself upon. Somewhere in the midst of all that breeding he loses track of how often he comes— six times? Seven? Ten? A chain of them are strung like beads along a taut wire, and how Astarion loves to pluck it, each sadistic thrum earning another silent scream. He's drooling, saliva slick against his chin; he's crying, pain and pleasure so blinding that he's reduced to nothing but rawest instincts. Twice Astarion manages to pry a chained orgasm from him, scarlet eyes glittering in satisfaction as Leto's eyes roll back and his hips buck wildly, only to howl silently in disappointment a few seconds later— and then scream in overstimulation— and howl once more, over and over and over . . .
It's the nosing he rouses to first.
Insistent nudges of sharp features against his own, and without thought Leto responds: fretfully nosing back against each affectionate push as though he might be lost without it. Stay, stay, and he whines silently as he chases after him, greedy for more of that soothing contact.
But Astarion's voice cuts like a knife through all that.
Look at me, amatus, the words stark neon against a haze of fog, blazing and bright and impossible to ignore. He blinks through a haze of tears, his stare uncertain for a long few seconds before— there. Oh, there, emerald eyes glittering with awareness as they lock on. It doesn't matter how much he's spent or how hungry he is (such a greedy thing at this age, dripping in his own come and yet still needily wringing at his mate's prick); it doesn't matter how wrecked the past few rounds have left him. I'm here, a silent response to that growled command.
I'm here and I'm yours, for he knows what comes next. And there's such a difference, isn't there, between a dog being dragged by his scruff through the open door and one who happily walks through it, knowing what's coming next . . .
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It's muffled by the way he bites at his wrist, but there nonetheless: a pent-up response to every sentence, every word, one hand muffling himself as the other wraps around his neglected cock, breaking every promise they made without caring for the consequences— gods, he can't even remember what they are right now. They play so many games together, you-win-I-lose, and it barely matters, for it always ends the same: the two of them a tangle of scrambling limbs and bucking hips, orgasmic pleasure so searingly hot that it twists into pain and then eclipses out the other side, blinding him, drowning him in the kind of euphoria mortals never once reach—
No one will ever claim you like this. No one will make you want the way I make you want me. You're going to spend the rest of your life drooling every time you think about this, so addicted you'll slip into a side street to fuck your own hand and whimper out my name with your fingers in your mouth, shallow and just. Not. Enough . . .
Oh, Astarion had warned him, hadn't he? (His hand strokes faster, his hips undulating into every desperate snap of his wrist, precome slick in his palm and his breathing heavy and hot and fast). Back in Thedas, his voice thick with arrogance and his grin sinfully dark, he must have known even then how this would all end. We corrupt, he'd taunted later. Slipping further and further into debauchery until there's nothing left, and it blurs together, every stark fantasy that Astarion put in his hand playing out in his mind's eye. The way it'll feel to be held so helplessly as he's fucked into at a brutal pace; the way Astarion will look poised between tanned thighs, his mouth full and his eyes watering with pleasure as he suckles at his treat; the way they'll fight and fuck, tearing into each other with kisses smeared with blood and tender words on their lips, I love you breathed out between the cruelest of torments—]
Amatus, quaeso, nimis longe es—
[Two more days. Two more days, and then whatever other time they'll have to take in order to find a sliver of privacy in their overcrowded abode. It's far too long to wait, but for the kind of reunion they'll have, oh, they'll need every bit of privacy possible. A silencing spell is well and good, but not when he'll have his legs pinned back and his body bounced atop Astarion's cock for hours on end, every inch of him splayed out and on display for anyone to see . . . gods, how had they ever thought they'd last a week?]
Astarion, Astarion, quaeso—
[As if it matters whether his guttural whispers are in Tevene or Common, for either the girls are asleep or they aren't— but maybe he does it for them. For the sake of having something solely theirs as he trembles and bucks and whines his way into his finish. Too quick, too fast, but all the more intense for how long he's fought to hold it back. Leto mewls into his hand as he finishes, a jagged, wracked sound that skips with every thundering pulse from his cock, muffled and only for Astarion to hear.
You win, and losing has never felt so sweet.]
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Leto's voice slithering across the line with sudden, anhelous intensity. Echoing within the fastened confines of their coffin, but clearly such a choice for the elf that's barely smothering his own exhales. More than anyone, Astarion can comprehend how little would it take for someone else to hear him moaning out his lover's name when all that separates is tentwork and open air. He'd been the one to welter it all, once. Those lost days when Astarion had been the epitome of that, in fact, barely two brittle rooms away from Fenris' sleeping form, catching himself by the heel of his palm, swearing fealty to silence— to the promise that he wouldn't ruin the only kindness ever shown to him by marking it with sharp teeth. With desire too intense for what's been given (for when is longing anything but a blade in Cazador Szarr's court?) Every groan transmuted to an exhale; every thought of Fenris swallowed down with gulps of air, taking nothing but his longing with him, shaped half like fantasy and half like what he'd gladly offer up without a word if asked. Begged. How deep he'd sink into those thighs. Into him. However he'd like to be taken. (Is he into men? No— likely not with his talk of Isabela. So perhaps not forwardly, then. Not in the way those who are at ease with being bent back, but with a place to warm himself instead. Maybe his cock pinned to a silk-soft thigh, squeezed and riding up against him to completion. Maybe sliding it along his tongue instead, Astarion's head craned demurely down to hide the measure of his shoulders, letting him call him whatever name he likes.) The shiftlessness that welled up at the sight of Fenris as he fought. As he slept. The handsome outline of his face, lit by firelight. The trail of pale azure-silver making his limbs look longer. Long enough that Astarion could stretch out languidly between them— invoking a bracket of tanned skin around his scars, around muscle and sloped curves. His lips to a tipped-back throat, kissing and caressing in equal measure. Whispering antiphons full of filth....
Maybe Astarion—
—wouldn't do that to the man he loves.
Is in love with.
So then: anything.
Anything to keep it locked away, anything to stay near him. Adore him. Protect him with a chasteness that the Chantry would exalt.
And now here they are.
Sharing all the things he used to fight fang and nail to hide.
Quaeso— plays him like a struck chord, reverberating deep under his tensed lungs, his pulseless heart. Nimis longe es— and it's true, he thinks, wincing as his fingers splay across his own chest, the prick he may-or-may-not have been conceptually coaxing suddenly jolting in his grasp, straining at the bit for what it can't have—]
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He's terrible at telling time.
What it feels like is a violent whip of movement meeting magic. A careless blur filled to the brim with nothing but anticipation, void of any sense or sense of preservation. What he knows is Leto's still laid there by the time the front flap of his tent whips open, ceding to the scuff of dry dust against his knees— ceding to the kneeling way he falls across his consort, his beating heart, his one and only love— palms pressed to either side of his strong shoulders, his mouth craned down and his legs slid between Leto's own to hike them up at a sharp angle in the second he bites down, greeting him as only a monster ever would.
Teeth-first.
Starving.
Amorous as death itself in every marble-cut depiction: lover and subjugator both.
What he knows is that it isn't dawn. And that the way he'd scent-marked Leto to him drew him to him like a thread across the broadest distance tested yet.]
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And Leto comes.
With a gasp, with a moan, both hands clawing at Astarion's back as he shoves his mouth against his shoulder, muffling himself desperately. Not just for modesty's sake, but selfishly, greedily, he does not want to share. He cannot have anything interrupt this, not here, not now, not when every orgasmic pulse hits him so heavily, blindingly, his body thrashing beneath Astarion's own in rhythmic, vulgar patterns. His eyes roll back, his desperation palpable, fuck me take me please please please, the need so urgent that he can almost taste it. Anything, anything, so long as Astarion doesn't leave. The scent of him fills his nostrils, cool and familiar and his; he turns his head, desperately kissing any bit of Astarion he can reach, cheek or ear or lips (the tang of iron so familiar to his tongue, just like the scrape of sharp teeth and hungry, demanding thrusts of his tongue, his vampire determined not to lose a drop).
And when he's done— when his come drips down the flat plane of his belly and his hips finally stop their frantic rut— it still doesn't feel like the end. Not when his mind has been wiped clean from sheer pleasure alone; not when there's still Astarion above him, his cock swollen and hard and begging to be taken.]
Astarion— [another kiss, another desperate attempt to touch and taste and feel all at once, his eyes darting about his vampire's face as if to make sure he's here. He's real. But he is, and he is no trick, for what desire demon could imitate the way Astarion touches him? Fingers instinctively slotting between pale tattoos even now, careful in how he handles his consort. What fey could ever hope to imitate the way he looks right now, needy and vulnerable and ravenous all at once?
You're here, I missed you, I love you, and he whispers the words out against his lips before adding:]
Fuck me.
[A rumbled statement, permission and longing all stitched into one, come take me, I know what you want, beloved, come mount me like you promised you would, and he squirms, rubbing up against his clothed cock in blatant temptation. Look what you can have, please, please, as he pants up at him.
Once they're done he'll ask his questions, but right now his lovesore heart doesn't care about why or when or how. You're here, you're here, confirmation renewed over and over as he buries his face in the crook of his neck, fingertips skimming over his back as his thighs clench around his hips. Don't go, and he half-wonders for a dazed moment if he's dreaming— but no. No, Astarion feels too real for that.]
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Dream or reality or some tangled mixture of the two (ah, no, Astarion is here, all right. Gods know he has to be, there's too much bite to the rocky earth digging into him through a plush bedroll and tent canvas alike, too much life bursting through the enriched flavor slicked across his tongue and open mouth— ) there's nothing that would alter the path of his determination anymore: his mate half-dressed in all the ways that work towards obscenity rather than anything as trite as function, his picturesque tanned legs pinned up at wanton angles, none of them something that lithe form could manage without crude support or the sheer vulgarity of demand. A hand holding him here, a leg pushed up against him there. An arched back and a ragged set of breaths and the lay of his spent cock across his belly, begging to be filled instead of merely fed.
Bliss isn't enough anymore.
Not these days, not when Leto is— as he'd insisted on at the start of this exchange— so deeply accustomed to the intensity they enact night after night after night. The point was to break that cycle for a time. To drive a thrill back into the act of feeling Astarion's thick measure buried in full between his thighs, teaching tightness how to cede itself to sweet obeisance. Because being shuttered in an inn for their protection didn't make them cautious, it made them prone to indulgence, a habit they indulged more fervently than sleep, than dining or socializing in the confines of that inn suite. Too often invitations came and went with Leto holding his own breath against the coffin borders, speared snug and squirming whilst his toes curled— his own prick squeezed by his trapped weight— and Astarion calling out 'no, but thank you' over the rigid outline of hunched shoulders.
His exhale now is a prelude to untying coarse laces.
It comes before the razored catch of teeth up high, clamped down around soft skin for a second, languid taste.
It comes before he nudges with a slick-edged knuckle, just to find his mark— and pump his prick across that aligned inform till it plunges past resistance— any and all tensity turned to friction's little plaything. An accessory to the way he thrusts in shallow, daggered rhythms— lunging by an inch or two each time, teasing his dear pup with what he wants too dearly to deny. Once— twice— shallow, keep it shallow— a stuttering catch along the rim and he slips out—
—then back again.
Out, and back— out, and back— pale fingers pressed into lover's pretty lips to keep them silent in the moment, his fangs still tethered just to hold him still. Caught prey. Caught heart.
Oh, caught.]
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Don't squirm in growing hunger. Don't raise your hips up in fretful petition to fucked into overstimulated bliss. Don't shake yourself to pieces beneath your husband's grip, no matter how each slow, deliberate dip of Astarion's cock leaves him shivering with want. Don't move, little rabbit, for animal instincts insist that a single wrong movement would spell disaster. The clamp of razor-sharp teeth around his throat keep him still more readily than any bar or tie; soft fingers pressing firm against his tongue keep him hushed and pliant. There's just the sound of his own ragged breathing (and beneath that, the slick noises of their bodies slowly meeting, oil dripping off Astarion's cock and glossing his rim). There's just—
In (swollen heat coaxing him into sweetly spreading open, thick enough to make him taste it without ever once fucking in too deep) and out (a slick exhale as his tongue slides against Astarion's fingers, desperate to do something as he copes with the loss). In (he trembles over every slow, taunting dip; every millimeter, every bump and ridge and catch against his rim amplified until arousal echoes through him in dizzying waves and he has to fight not to groan) and out (he squeezes, clenches, fights to keep his prize, and all of it for naught, for he's left so achingly empty, the air bursting out of his lungs and his body crying for the loss).
Over and over and over, and every pass builds on the last until Leto feels as though he's going to lose his godsdamned mind. Again and again and again, out and back, out and back, the slow rhythm teasing him without ever once sating him. Saliva pools in the back of his mouth as something deep in the pit of his belly jerks for every pass; between them, his cock stiffens and swells, refractory period nigh-nonexistant in this adolescent body.
Another pass. Another slow, shallow rut, Astarion's cock inching in (please yes please) before pulling out again (subatomic whimpers vibrating low in his throat, needy and fitful and heard only by a single person. It's harder to resist the urge to squirm and pant and mewl; it comes out in the way his eyes roll back and his fingers spasm as he grips his husband's shirt. Tighten and release, tighten and release, the rhythm timed to the daggering way Astarion fucks him: out and back, out and back, maddening and thrilling all at once.
His fingers rake through silver curls (you're here, and some part of him still can't believe it, marveling at this miracle); the other slips between them, fingers wrapping around his prick. He times his slow tugs to the rhythm Astarion sets, and oh, gods, it doesn't help, but he couldn't stop if he tried. It doesn't stop him from whining for the loss of Astarion's cock each time, but at least the sparks that roil low in his belly are paltry consolation.]
Astarion—
[A moan and a plea all at once, slurred quietly around the swell of Astarion's fingers. His eyes roll back in the next moment, his thighs shaking as he feels him dip in shallowly— and the problem isn't that it doesn't feel good, but that it does. So searingly good (and yet not enough); good enough that little moans start building behind Astarion's fingers, his slit already slick with precome. Please, please, and at this point it isn't even a plea for more— just not to stop.]
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(So what if they're overheard now?
So what if they're caught?)
It's just for Leto that he's modest in unfettered, guttural desire. For Leto, whom he offers a bit by way of one slow, contrasting kiss compared to the shallower tease of his hips— and if Leto chooses to shunt silence for the secondary presence that it is, Astarion will happily abide.
Because he doesn't need to be asked. The shivers are enough. The way Leto's narrow little entry snaps down hungrily across the prick that drives him open, greedy and voracious to a fault— it's just the plunges when he slicks open like a flower's velvet flesh— just the retreat back outwards when he tightens, fighting to hold onto being claimed by any narrow stretch. The whole of his slim body sings with his desires, and as Astarion's grip hooks beneath each cheek to spread them wider, he indulges in his own beastly response.
Not stopping.
That's where the line is drawn, because to fuck his lover low into the ground like the animal he's said to be in overly alluring superstition would equate to ending this right here, right now. A mounting, breeding game of cat and mouse that lasts as long as the real thing: for feline reflexes are far, far faster than its prey, and snatching it from midair is a simple little thing when all is said and done, and it's been days already since they'd last rut. A whole night's foreplay underneath them won't act as cushion against one handsome adolescent's ruin— only the gravity that brings it on that much sooner.
So: steady. Shallow. Constant. Dips and flicks of daggering attention, at times running opposite to the focus of his mouth, at times in concert with it, but always attending to his mate. Always warming him up further from the inside out, letting him taste his own blood across pale lips; letting him feel his belly burn with delving friction weaving back and forth back and forth— he hunts there for the start of rattling flutters. Muscles quaking as they start to lock and heaving lungs hold fast to air. He seeks out the very prelude to the denoument he loves.
So that when it comes, he can square inhuman hips and rut down with merciless brutality.
That of a beast with blackened eyes.]
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Slick-mouthed screams and jagged cries fill every corner of camp, and yet Leto can't pay them mind, not when he's fighting not to drown right now. Pleasure burns through every inch of his body, devouring him so thoroughly that he can't do anything save writhe in overwhelmed response. Come splatters over his belly as pulse after pulse of orgasm wracks through him— he isn't even touching himself, not anymore, for the steady plunge of Astarion's cock is all the coaxing his own ever needs. It's too much, it's too much, and every savage thrust only sends him deeper, eking out another gasping wave— and another— and all the while there's no pause. No break. Nothing but the unrelenting, cruel slam of his vampire's prick, every thrust stretching him open and forcing him to cede every inch of himself in open-mouthed supplication.
He's deaf to himself (how easily throaty moans and overwrought whines burst past his lips in vulgar time to pistoning hips). Blind to himself (how pretty he looks as he writhes beneath his vampire, every muscle taut and tense, back arching up and hips bucking wildly while his fingers claw for canvas, fabric, flesh, anything, anything that might give him a handhold as he falls to pieces). There's nothing but this, this this this, heavy pressure that impales him over and over with inhuman speed, rewarding him each time with vulgar, hedonistic pleasure—
And it doesn't stop.
Not even as those cries of pleasure turn into sharp barks of dismayed overstimulation; not when every thrust becomes electrifying, lightning lancing through his body at a rate no mortal was designed to withstand. Not when all his writhing turns frantic and sharp talons have to dig in to keep him right where he is. Not when he sucks in enough air to try and beg for mercy (a break, a breath, please) and instead finds himself hoisted up, his legs pinned back even further so that he can watch his own debasement, a heavy prick pumping in and out of his reddened hole.
One hand clumsily shoves over his mouth (belated, so belated, but it must count for something); the other jerks out, fingers splayed— but even if he could remember the words to the spell (and he can't), silence takes concentration, and he has none of that to spare.]
Please—
[His voice is such a desperate thing, the word slick and spat out between breathless moans. Please please please, there's so many things he could be begging for, more and don't and I can't and make me, but no, focus, focus (despite the unrelenting rock and cruel grind of his hips, despite the toe-curling satisfaction of being speared and pinned and kept, despite despite despite— focus).]
T-take, take— [take me fuck me mount me make me your sheathe please please please] — take control—
[Take control.
Normally he'd add to that. Help me be quiet, help me stay silent, for his former magistrate of a husband does so love to find a loophole, especially when the stakes are relatively low. But even those four words were too much; with a spasming jerk he shoves his palm over his mouth once more, muffling the ragged howl that keens in his throat not a moment later.]
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Oh, it's kammarth to stagnant veins already glazed with the raw heat of stolen blood. Astarion can't begin to compete with the wracking shudder that runs through him as if it were some new, exotic form of monstrous overstimulation in response to that outcry— the predator beneath his skin shedding him like the vestige of lost mortality he's always been behind the mask of sanity with all its peeling paint. Of he sort of pointless chaff that instinctive prey drive doesn't give a damn about. Or if not prey drive, survival, then. That savage hierarchy built atop the pillars of feeding, breeding, and violence that Astarion can only shackle at his best, and cedes to at his worst—
The angle is unforgiving already. It's worse when Astarion jumps forward to hitch up along his toes and knees to fold his prone amatus inwards, those strong legs already jammed into tanned shoulders by the time that pressure makes them dig. It closes the gap between cock and belly— makes it cock and chest in half a second— cock and almost chin if the pearly gleam of interwoven orgasms pattering against tattoo marks counts itself as measure. They link together like vulgar lines of jewels within his shadow. Encroach upon those parted, gasping lips. Encroach upon his hand, tense fingers splayed and bloodless under pressure— trickling through gaps.
And in their shadow, bright green eyes eyes, upturned. Unblinking. A pornographic panoply of light (or lack thereof) reflecting in their surface the sordid show of his unmaking, pumping to a merciless, unending rhythm. The animal that doesn't tire. The vampire above him. In him. In. Out. In. Out. Over. Against. The scent of metal in the air. The tang of sweat and bittersweet come. The taste of it as his hands are drawn away and pushed flat against both tent tarp and cool earth, and a falsely heated tongue slips in behind his teeth. Closer. Deeper. Relentless and blinding— but the shadow doesn't hide a drop of what lies underneath. The scene is there, racing through Leto's body like it owns him.
(That savage hierarchy built atop the pillars of feeding, breeding, and violence that Astarion can only shackle at his best, and cedes to at his worst—
—But they're a bonded pair, he and Leto.)]
Look at me.
[A murmur. Rough and growling in that torporic shudder. Darker than the point of no return. Not like the red eyes that glitter in the closed expanse of Leto's tent. Twin embers waiting— half-lidded under pitch lined lashes.
They don't blink.]
Look at me, amatus.
[Dirt grits beneath pale thumbs and pinned wrists. Slim features— the sharp jut of Astarion's fine nose, his vaulted cheekbones, his mouth, his daggered teeth— nose Leto this way and that to keep him focused. To vie for slivers of attention as he's taken with all the fervence of a lowered bitch gasping between spread legs. Curled toes. Not yet filled enough, but panting just the same.
All it should take is a handful of seconds....
....if Leto, denied for days already, can keep his own eyes open for that long.]
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And somewhere along the way, it all blurs into bliss.
Time becomes an illusion, every second and minute and hour turned into nothing more than vague notions. There's only the here and now; there's only this: cool fingers locked around his wrists and the relentlessly steady pump of a heavy prick determined to remind his lithe body where he belongs. It's hypnotic in its rhythm and electrifying in its inexorability, for it never stops. Not when Leto writhes in teetering desperation, fighting against Astarion's grip so that he might touch himself, only to spill over himself untouched a few minutes later. Not when he barks out silent pleas for mercy, tears streaming down his cheeks and his hips shaking as another orgasm wracks through him. Not even when he falters beneath him, tongue lolled out and obscenity worn like a second skin, panting as he spreads his thighs wider and welcomes another searing gush of come spilled into him.
And dreamy-distant as he is, it's details that stand out the most to him. Little bits of sensation registers as they rise above the electrical current that thunders through his veins. Like: how mouth-wateringly fantastic it feels when Astarion finally opts to slow his hips down, going from bouncing Leto in cruel impalement to something languid. His eyes flutter, his mouth dropping open as he moans in silent approval of the way Astarion languidly shuttles his cock in and out, in and out, letting his husband feel every inch of what he's been missing.
Or: the way it feels to come on himself. The way he burns with humiliation the first time it happens— not just for the way come trickles down his cheek and over the backs of his fingers, but for how it makes his eyes roll back as he writhes in overstimulated climax. And then, later, how he melts for it: bitter droplets dripping to the back of his throat as he pants through open lips, pearl glinting against tanned skin like a pornographic echo of the markings he once bore— though his lyrium was never smeared over the bridge of his nose or splashed carelessly along his cheek.
Or even just: the way it feels to come. Orgasms wracking through his body over and over and over— for all his body can do in this youthswept body is greedily beg for more to gorge himself upon. Somewhere in the midst of all that breeding he loses track of how often he comes— six times? Seven? Ten? A chain of them are strung like beads along a taut wire, and how Astarion loves to pluck it, each sadistic thrum earning another silent scream. He's drooling, saliva slick against his chin; he's crying, pain and pleasure so blinding that he's reduced to nothing but rawest instincts. Twice Astarion manages to pry a chained orgasm from him, scarlet eyes glittering in satisfaction as Leto's eyes roll back and his hips buck wildly, only to howl silently in disappointment a few seconds later— and then scream in overstimulation— and howl once more, over and over and over . . .
It's the nosing he rouses to first.
Insistent nudges of sharp features against his own, and without thought Leto responds: fretfully nosing back against each affectionate push as though he might be lost without it. Stay, stay, and he whines silently as he chases after him, greedy for more of that soothing contact.
But Astarion's voice cuts like a knife through all that.
Look at me, amatus, the words stark neon against a haze of fog, blazing and bright and impossible to ignore. He blinks through a haze of tears, his stare uncertain for a long few seconds before— there. Oh, there, emerald eyes glittering with awareness as they lock on. It doesn't matter how much he's spent or how hungry he is (such a greedy thing at this age, dripping in his own come and yet still needily wringing at his mate's prick); it doesn't matter how wrecked the past few rounds have left him. I'm here, a silent response to that growled command.
I'm here and I'm yours, for he knows what comes next. And there's such a difference, isn't there, between a dog being dragged by his scruff through the open door and one who happily walks through it, knowing what's coming next . . .
Take me, as he trembles beneath his mate.]