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Hector ([personal profile] petcromancer) wrote2019-08-07 09:36 pm

Musebox

A home for PSLs.
relictusdeus: (Solemn; speaking over shoulder)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-12 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Isaac scoffs, having nothing to say to that. Pretty - he's heard that before. Pretty ink, pretty mouth, pretty hole. Not a word he'd have ever chosen for himself. It's too delicate, too often sharpened with a mocking edge.

He steps over the rim and smoothly dips a foot into the bath, never needing to ease himself in. Near-scalding is a comfortable temperature for him; it's holy water that burns.
]

Remind me... [He begins, sliding the rest of himself into this tea-like brew and leaning back with a weary sigh, water lapping his collarbones] ...what is it you enjoy in tending to my whims?

[Lazily slinging an arm over the tub, he slants Hector a look as if this exchange is and has always been their normal.]

I had thought you above acts of servitude when you fled the castle.
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relictusdeus: (Bedroom eye)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-12 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[From the way Hector frames his answer, Isaac finds himself understanding it better than he wants to. A desire to be useful to someone had fed into his fierce loyalty to Dracula; if he couldn't find any love in the world for him, he had told himself, then he'd settle for being needed, grasping desperately for and surviving on pity-scraps of acknowledgement. There's nothing to show for the years wasted on a soulless vampire, years of self-sacrifice and stringing himself along with hopeful delusions, but bitterness, and bruises to his ego that still ache as freshly as they day they were laid.

It's almost too raw still, even now.

He lets Hector's answer sit with him a while, scraping his nails lightly over stone.
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...And this you would do for the Belmont? [He drawls, skeptical, planting a foot up on the rim. Steam rolls off his unflushed skin.]
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relictusdeus: (Shadowed look; eye gleaming)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-13 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Ha. [He laughs dryly. Playing along, if barely. Hector's touch is purposeful, sexless, and Isaac, in turn, isn't basking in pleasure like a spoiled prince. He's calm - as calm as can be expected of him - but attentive, heavy-lidded eyes still watching through the steam.]

...you could try, although I don't imagine his woman would suffer your presence for very long.

[He slips his foot back in. Soap foam sizzles, dissolves.]

And what matter of alliance would this be? [He asks, tonelessly, as if he's only making conversation, and nothing said between them is of any real interest.] One of convenience?
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relictusdeus: (Bedroom eye)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-13 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Truthfully, Isaac had been asking of them and not of Hector and the Belmont, but he's not uninterested in the glimpse he's offered of the nature of their relationship. It's all business. Which while being more or less what was expected, is also reassuring, more than it should be. After all, this is a Belmont who struck a truce, maybe even formed a camaraderie, with a half-breed, the Dark Lord's son of all things; willing to shake hands - so to speak - where others would've easily lumped him with the other castle-dwelling creatures. Desperation, he thinks, can make for strange alliances and stranger bedfellows.

Oh, Trevor, Trevor, Trevor.

Isaac can admit to liking him a little, in his own way. The man had put up a decent fight, at least, when he was paying attention. And lord knows he'd have fucked the Belmont if time had permitted; the desire had been there, peaking, while he choked on air and blood-spattered half-threats, writhing on his knife. It'd have been like breaking a wild colt, Isaac thinks. Needing a little time, a firm, steady hand, persistence. But it'd have been inevitable. The human spirit is only so strong.

Dracula's spirit, on the other hand --
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It won't. [He sits himself straighter, muscles rippling up through his arms and in his back as he sits himself up straighter, water churning around him.] Not forever. Should he but stir, however, I would think you and I among the first to know it.

[It seems unlikely that a vengeful spirit reaching for potential vessels could go unfelt.]
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relictusdeus: (Shadowed look; eye gleaming)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-13 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[He does go still, his brow knitting while he strums his roughened knuckles with his fingertips, a cold, distant look settling into his eyes.]

His magic courses through our veins yet; I have found myself wondering if we too shall be longer-lived than most. [Wryly:] ...Assuming we aren't put out of our misery first, one way or another.

[A forgemaster outlasting the violence in Wallachia to die when he is old and grey and limp-dicked strikes him as about as likely to happen as the Belmont turning whip and will against God. A sword through the heart could also be considered death by natural causes, he thinks. Not only more realistic, but a preferable exit.

He glances at Hector after a while, motioning him over with a lazy curl of his fingers. Might as well put him to work.
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relictusdeus: (Dead to me; resentful sidelong look)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-14 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
['That remains for every man to decide,' he nearly says. But tonight, it's easier to say nothing at all. His bad days are never too far away, and when they're there and lying heavy on top of him, smothering him, there's reason enough to save what little hope he has left for death. But for now, since turning his efforts back to forging, he still surges with motivation, just enough to thrash and keep his head above the water. His hands would've turned against himself long ago, he thinks, if they had no power to create.

It's a fairly smooth part of his leg that Hector has gotten to scrubbing now. Isaac lets him, wordlessly. It's neither keenly pleasurable or unpleasant, though the motions he's making are calming in their sureness, their steadiness. But at the press of fingers into skin he slides free of that grip, easy, sinking back into the bath.
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No. [He says, coolly.

Massage is beyond what he's agreed to. At least, for now.
]
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relictusdeus: (I see you)

no real kids for them is probably for the best, lol

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-14 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Every man desperate enough for something rarely thinks of its cost. But he doubts he'd have turned back if he knew from the start what it meant to be a devil forgemaster. He was still a boy when he had decided the end goal would justify all the suffering and frustration and sleepless nights reading by candlelight.

He sighs through his nose, lolling his head back.

No child left alive in that place remained a child for very long, though, he muses.
]

Perhaps there will be others clever enough to master this art in time, even if it takes centuries for them to emerge. Curiosity and a hunger for power is without limit among men, and the dark lord will be wanting of new flesh to groom to his purposes.

[He pauses, thinking.]

...I am rather amazed you never had a part in siring a cambion or two, not even in your sleep. [Said to the ceiling with a touch of grim amusement.] More than a few succubi spoke highly of your vigor. [A beat.] Which was rather suspect, as you had struck me at the time as being a man with all the passion of a plank of wood.
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relictusdeus: (Bedroom eye)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-15 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[It comes as something of a surprise that Hector hadn't wandered in blind like he had. Isaac gives him a look of mock-astonishment, eyebrows going up.]

Clever boy. [He purrs, mimicking their lilting tones with a twitch of amusement on his lips.] ...I had no need to press them, for they were quite fond of wagging their tongues when they weren't putting them to good use.

[Always keen on getting a rise out of him, in all senses. He idly plucks a chamomile bud from his chest, rolling it between the pads of his fingers.]

All their tales of you and your ten inch horse-cock could only ever lead to disappointment.
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relictusdeus: (Shadowed look; eye gleaming)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-15 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Carelessly flicking the bud back into the water:]

There was more to my interest than what lay between your legs.

[He leaves it at that, closing his eyes a moment and fighting the pull of a dark curiosity that dares him to ask what Hector may have heard about him from others' lips. Not all rumours that swirled around the castle and came back to him fell into the realm of amusing nonsense, and in a black fury, his hands had found their way around the throats of a few of those giggling succubi, their laughter ringing in his ears long after he had squeezed and bruised his fingers into their skin, silencing them.]

Oh, an army of little hellions, surely. [Wearing red jasper, he learned, eventually, kept them from draining his strength, which allowed him to fuck with abandon. And he did, for years, seeking them at times as often as they sought him, shoving them down and pumping into them with all his savage frustration.] Although it hardly matters, now least of all.

[He notices Hector's hesitation before long and cants his head at him, unamused.]

...Have you come only to stare?
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relictusdeus: (Bedroom eye)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-15 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
[The first question is left hanging, although his silence is telling. Yes - of course Hector's raw talent had captured his attention like it had the dark lord's, though not in a way entirely the same. Power aside, the sheer novelty of seeing another human in the castle, someone who had looked to be close to his age, had made his pulse quicken with an anxious excitement and a yearning he hadn't felt in a long time.]

They would mean to nothing to me, begotten by a demon-whore.

[The cloth passes along his inner leg and he stirs, fingers tightening around the tub's rim.]
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relictusdeus: (Solemn; speaking over shoulder)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-16 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Isaac snorts softly, a mirthless sound, supposing this is Hector's oh-so-aloof manner of pointing out that he's noticed the company Isaac has kept in the last few months.]

You assume correctly.

[With a cocked brow, he presses Hector on, half-expecting all the while for his touch to lose focus, daring to wander where it hasn't the right to be. But it doesn't - and for the moment, their truce holds.]
relictusdeus: (The sin of wrath)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-16 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[His jaw stiffens, weeks of hard-won progress on the verge of coming undone in an instant.]

Then leave.

[The cloth sweeps over the beginnings of a crisscrossing of scars that extend to his inner elbow, the tendons in his arm flexing and unflexing and his hand one word away from snapping out to grab a fistful of Hector's tunic.]

You would do well to remember that my business is my own, as is this castle in which you sleep. [Crisply.] My purpose here is not to make life more comfortable and convenient for you.
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relictusdeus: (Shadowed look; eye gleaming)

[personal profile] relictusdeus 2019-10-16 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[He looks away to stare sullenly into the bath, at the pale islands of his knees, offering neither a yes or a no to Hector who isn't challenging him, who isn't pushing like he has before. It's this soft-spoken Hector he thinks he trusts the least.

In all the ways he has changed and magic has changed him, he's still human in ways he can't shake. He still yearns for a meaningful place in the world, for a sense of belonging somewhere, even if somewhere only means being welcomed between someone's legs, wanted for just a moment. He still yearns for company: wanting to sweep his hands over skin and raise goosebumps on command and feel his own tingle, alive; wants to pull moans from willing and unwilling throats, wants to bury himself into someone and leave a part of himself inside. The reason demons were here in his tower, where Hector stands now, is because Hector wasn't.

But this he doesn't try to explain. He doesn't know where he'd start if he meant to and doesn't like the way thinking of Hector and the last time they lay together still makes something twists in his gut. When he opens his mouth again, it's easier just to slip around the question and counter with one of his own.

Leveling Hector a look through the gauzy steam:
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Is it jealousy that compels you to judge me?

[It's less a question seeking understanding and more of one seeking confirmation.]

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