[There isn't the slightest shift in Isaac's expression when Hector turns his attention to one of the many stinging barbs he's left under his skin. It was cruelty for cruelty's sake, to a large extent -- and he makes no effort to suggest it was anything else, to pretend he did Hector a favour punching holes through whatever wishful thought he might have had of them as more than travel companions. They may be forgemasters, but as the hours pass between them, he suspects it's among the few things they share in common. It's one reason why Hector chose the woman, he thinks. And maybe it's just as well. He never knew him like she had. And maybe, it had been the fanciful idea of what and who Hector could be to him and not Hector himself that he had lost sleep and lusted over, wanting him that much more when he was taken away because he was taken away. Like an old toy wrenched from a child's hand.
Isaac isn't sure. But when he looks at Hector with a sudden, fresh awareness, he thinks it may be something Hector is guilty of, too.]
An escape.
[No sly-faced smile, no crude answer rolling off his tongue.]
[Hector considers it for a long moment. The pain and ecstasy and relief they'd given each other on the mountain pass... this kiss he'd pressed against Isaac's lips in the cave... their constant back and forth, hostility and companionship swirling together into a tumultuous current.]
Let me kiss you again, and I'll let you fuck me again.
[For once, Hector is the crude one. He has no illusion that Isaac will be any gentler the second time around, so any tenderness he wants, he will have to bargain for.
He finally takes one of the slices of slanina to nibble on while he waits for his answer. If they end up coupling, Hector doesn't want to be so weak and hungry that he passes out partway through it.]
[Bold of Hector to made demands of his own and expect to negotiate. But not surprising at all. He doesn't resent him for it.
Isaac looks him up and down, coolly, weighing the offer long enough to make it seem as though he has another option to fall back on. But there is nothing better. His choices are either having something or nothing at all; and as hard as it can be to bend, to expose himself as vulnerable and deeply needy, saying no this time is harder still. So he finally spreads his hands, like he's smugly baiting an enemy into attacking him, and not actually inviting someone into his personal space. It feels the same, somehow, either way.]
[Hector has spent enough time with Isaac to expect a certain amount of posturing. He waits while Isaac makes a show of weighing his options, and takes another bite of his meat. Showing annoyance or impatience will only encourage Isaac.
Hector isn’t in the mood for sex; he’s tired and still healing from Isaac’s blade. But he waves his fairy over to receive a little more magical healing from it, then forces himself out of bed.
Dealing with Isaac is like training an animal made stubborn and wary by past abuses. Passing up an opportunity like this will set back whatever progress they’ve made.
Besides, Isaac knows how to press his buttons. His body isn’t craving touch right now, but Hector has faith that it will, very quickly, once he and Isaac begin.]
It would be more comfortable if we waited for real lodgings.
[He points out, even as he slides over into Isaac’s space.
Hector lifts a hand to Isaac’s cheek and tilts his head to the side so they don’t bump noses when he leans in to kiss him.]
[Isaac makes no effort to meet him halfway, waiting for Hector to come to him, and he isn't disappointed. But he's not made of stone - and when Hector's mouth finds his, there is give to his jaw, lips sliding open, even while he remembers the man who tried to broker peace with slanina is the same man who could've strangled him with his fishing line giving half the chance. He can only wonder how much of that murderous intent festering inside Hector was real, in that moment. The hand that has touched down gently over his cheek would say little, if any. But people lie all the time.
Hector tastes like rust and meat. Tastes like a predator, though he's anything but, the way he's kissing him now. And neither is Isaac, his hand dipping between them to palm himself, to work up a proper interest, willing his still-cold body to let him have this.]
[The last kiss was a tender, chaste joining of lips. This one now is different. Hector takes control of it, exploring Isaac’s mouth by feel and by taste. His advance is not violent, but it is thorough.
It’s the type of kiss that states intent, a kiss to herald a more complete joining of bodies. Hector leans into it, and feels himself beginning to awaken.
Isaac gropes a hand between them—impatient— but Hector doesn’t mirror him. He draws back, adjusts his angle, and leans back in to press a number of kisses to Isaac’s lips in quick and teasing succession.]
[In the moment they slide apart with a soft, spit-slick sound, Isaac's eyes drift open to look at him, the whites streaked with blood. They both seem too worn around the edges, too tired for this. But he has committed to what they're doing to and with each other and to leaving the night behind, letting Hector drug him on his taste with every little kiss he steals until his head swims a little. He falls into the rhythm of their slow-burning desire easily enough, pushing back, his nose pressing, sharp and unyielding, into Hector's cheek. Still joined by grasping, hungry mouths when shucking off his gauntlets and pushing his bare hands up Hector's tunic, smoothing up his sides and bracing his ribs. The strength in his grip and the magic pulsing through his arms, hard and ropey, is an ever-present reminder of the brutality he's capable of. But he doesn't squeeze, not hard enough to really hurt. Just enough to keep Hector on edge, wanting to hear his breath stutter in his throat.]
[Isaac's touch skirts the edge of pain, and Hector's body responds to it, blood pumping faster. He breaths out a pant of breath that mingles with Isaac's.
He doesn't start to strip. With a lover, he would want to bear every inch of skin to touch and be touched, both of them open and vulnerable to the other. With Isaac... he expects his pants to be shoved down like before, quick and utilitarian, and everything else left in its place. If Isaac chooses to initiate more, Hector will follow his cues, but otherwise, he is choosing his battles.
His lips move from Isaac's lips, kissing his cheek, his jaw, the pale skin of his throat not covered by his collar. He licks and tastes, teasing with tongue and teeth but never quite biting down. Isaac will be rough, but Hector wants at least this piece of their coupling to be gentle. The angle bears his own neck to Isaac.]
Shall I prepare myself for you?
[Neither of them have the energy for extended foreplay. The hunters they had killed on the mountain had carried some basic supplies with them, including cooking oil that could be put to other use.]
[While unreserved in the taking of pleasure, always, wanting to burn his fingerprints into Hector's skin and wander the landscape of his body, all his planes and valleys and ridges of bone, mapping everything he missed the first time around, what that pleasure does to him and undoes is something he doesn't readily show. Bitten-off moans, muscles working in his jaw, his throat -- he doesn't give Hector much more than what he offered succubi, incubi, who had often taken it as a challenge. His eyes stay closed, his pulse leaping behind the skim of Hector's teeth at his neck. His skin has already pinked.]
'twould be in your best interest...
[There's a velvety growl in his voice and it becomes clear he won't dismiss Crimson for Abel, not this time. But even as he says it he's easing Hector back over the rough cave floor, hitching his blood-stiff tunic up and up to lay his mouth over him, hot and wet and open over all the places where bones lie closest to skin he's broken and bruised.]
[Isaac shows no intention of letting Hector up to fetch the oil, and Hector stays where he has been positioned. He too is trying to curb his reactions, but the quickened rise and fall of his chest and the pebble-hardness of his nipples, as well as the sharp hiss of his breathing in the otherwise silent cave give him away.
Hector gives his fairy a silent order, and the tiny hands fumble through his bag and deliver the bottle to him.
The hot mouth pressing near his tender, healing skin has him flinching involuntarily, breath hitching. Isaac moves lower, tracing the path of his blade the night before. Once he's out of range for Hector to kiss and suck, Hector lets his head drop back and his eyes screw shut. He feels dizzy from sensation and from weariness.
He reaches down to blindly fumble his belt open. His other hand brushes through Isaac's hair, caressing but not seizing. He has a sickly suspicion of the memories such a gesture could dredge up for Isaac.]
[Isaac comes up for air, licking his lip and snapping a rope of spit off a stiffened nipple. The muscles around and between his shoulderblades have knotted, aching, from bending over Hector's body, but he doesn't give himself long to rest his jaw and roll the kinks out of his shoulders before ducking his head again. Diving back into a dreamy place where nothing matters but this, this expanse of scabbed skin and beautifully wrought bones.
Ridiculous as he realizes it is, he half expected Hector's flesh to wear the smell of hers, the taste of hers, after all these years and a cold dip in the pond. Yet Hector is as he was that night in the woods at the base of the mountain, sprawled in the grass, the yeastiness of his skin mingling with the tang of sweat and iron, his scent and all making Isaac throb through no effort of Hector's own - and there's the truth of it. Hector, even belly up and throat bared like it's begging for the knife, wields a fierce power over him that it seems neither time nor violence can break. A power that would pull him and keep pulling them, helplessly, into the sandtrap of each others' lives no matter how deeply they could dig in their heels.
For now, the frustration in that is gone, squeezed out of his awareness by pleasure and need, always need. His lips skim the edges of the wounds he's laid, lovingly suckling at the smattering of scars along the way. Not all of them are his work, but Isaac's mouth takes full responsibility all the same while he smothers Hector's neck and chest in kisses, paying tribute to his body in the way he's never cared to do for the demons he's lain with. Hector is and never was just a piece of flesh, a warm hole, a throwaway.
He stops at Hector's heaving belly, half to make room for his fumbling and half at the hand smoothing over his hair. There's a twitch of his shoulderblades at his touch, but Isaac doesn't toss his head and shake him off. Doesn't need to, that hand sliding off him, naturally, when he straightens up. He hasn't a finger on either hand that wouldn't cause undue pain, and without the means or the will to trim a few nails, he assumes that Hector really meant it when he offered to prepare himself.]
[One thing Isaac refuses to be is predictable. Hector expects rough, possessive groping, but is instead lavished with hot kisses that have him hard and vibrating with pent-up need. Isaac could devour him like this, and Hector would let him.
When Isaac pulls away, Hector opens his eyes and meets his gaze, dazed and flushed. He stops fumbling and shucks off his clothing in earnest, tunic, pants, and all. If Isaac is going to suck and worship the skin Hector bares, he's going to bare as much as he can, to get his fill of this strange affection while it can be had.
Naked, he spreads his legs and slides oil-slick fingers into the crevice of his ass. He's not usually inclined to put on a show- Hector's focus is usually on his partner not himself- but Isaac is waiting and Hector doesn't want to let the fires burning between them cool.
He bends his knees and lifts his hips as he traces his finger around the ring of muscles barring his entrance. The finger slips in, and he moves, but doesn't seek out his own pleasure from the motion. A second finger, and he lets out a sigh as he stretches his muscles. He works himself open, makes himself wet for Isaac's cock.
He takes up the bottle again and pours a little more oil into his cupped palm.]
Come here. [He bids, and makes ready to anoint Isaac's cock.]
Had anyone had ever told him Hector would one day strip down and cant his hips, presenting himself like a gift to be opened, Isaac would've thrown back his head and laughed. But there's no laughter now, not a single word, as he watches, mesmerized, a slippery finger and then a second sink inside Hector, disappearing past his middle knuckles. Making room for him.
Isaac doesn't rebel. Spit sticks in his throat when he finally swallows, his chest going tight as he approaches like a siren-sung man to shipwreck. Every inch of his own bare skin prickles, eager.]
...from whom did you learn this pretty trick? [He questions Hector with a sideways look, a smile almost teasing the corner of his mouth, while plunging a hand down the front of his leather trousers. He carelessly pulls himself free, throbbing in his fist and already dripping precome.]
[Hector frowns, all that heat in his eyes going cold.]
It's no concern of yours.
[The memory of Rosaly, spread on their shared bed, yielding up her soft body to him, is for Hector alone. If Isaac tries to take that and sully it...
He reaches for Isaac's cock and grips it with unneeded strength as he glides the slicked hand along the heated length.]
Why are you talking? I thought you wanted to fuck me.
[Hector craves tenderness and teasing whispers back and forth during lovemaking, but if Isaac can't do that without invoking Rosaly's ghost, Hector would rather be fucked like an animal. He withdraws, physically with his hand and emotionally with his heart.]
[The shift in Hector's mood is almost felt, like a changing wind - but in place of fascination and amusement and the urge to poke and prod at this unsought aggression he has dredged up, there's a retreat of his own, a shadow flickering over his face. His jaw clenches, unclenches.]
Of course. [He snorts mirthlessly, lips thinning when he looses Hector's grasp - one that feels like it could be anyone else's - and reaches to pour oil into his own palm. He smooths it over himself in a few long, efficient strokes. It's only a means to an end. But that's all this was from the start, he reminds himself.] Do forgive me.
[For once, Isaac doesn’t dig his fingers into the wound he finds on Hector. In the awkwardness of their mutual retreat, he’s grateful for that.
Isaac takes charge over his cock and Hector lets him, leaning back against the stone, legs still splayed open.]
Do you want me like before?
[On his knees, ass up, like a dog in heat. He’s too flushed and hard to be ashamed by the memory of it.
He makes to shift his legs around Isaac so he can turn over. Better for both of them that way, not to fool themselves into thinking of any future in this.]
[He makes no move to keep Hector from turning, considering the tight jiggle of thighs and ass with a more muted interest. Half of him is coolly grateful for Hector keeping things focused, in perspective, while the other half wrestles with the impulse to step back and leave him aching and unfulfilled. The pettiness to see that end through is there, of course - but Isaac's strength of will is not. He needs this, and more, he suspects, bitterly now, than Hector does. Not that it tempers his tone or his tongue.]
If that is what comes naturally to you. [He drawls while waiting for Hector to settle, strumming the studs along his shaft and wringing out a few more drops of precome with a rougher, meaner hand than Hector's ever was.]
[Isaac looks on, his expression closing, as Hector vies for some semblance of control. It doesn't matter how long Hector may have entertained this fantasy, if at all, or that the suggestion is new to Isaac; today, he doesn't want any part in it. Doesn't want to lie back under his weight, trading fuller range of motion and power for pleasure he could find any other way.]
No. [He says, too quickly, firmly. Nothing else follows for a long moment. He looks away from Hector's face and back to his hand, stilling around himself. His breath weighs heavy in his chest, the back of his throat.
He squeezes.]
On the ground - now.
[It's a demand, but not a threat; he doesn't make to grab Hector by the back of his skull and push him down, make a whore of him like he accused him of being only a week ago. It's too cruel, even for him.]
[Isaac's tone brokers no debate. There is no hint that Hector could tease or cajole him into indulging him in this. It is another brick wall, and Hector, as always, has to be the one to move around it so they don't stay stuck here forever.
He turns away from Isaac, the muscles of his back tense. He positions his knees on his discarded tunic to give him at least a little padding in the hopes he doesn't scrape them raw. If he wasn't so hard he is sure he would pass out if he stood up too quickly, he might entertain the thought of walking away and leaving Isaac to his own devices.
But no, he promised this, has partaken in the kisses he bargained for, and can't back out now. Hector's word still means something to him.
Neither of them can grant the other what he truly needs, but this semblance of closeness and relief, he can provide.]
[Hector's words simmer with something Isaac can only interpret as resentment. He's resigning himself to being fucked out of principle more than anything else, he supposes. But so be it; he's earned this. It's his turn to collect - and his body is as recklessly determined as it has ever been, lightening trembling under his skin as he settles behind Hector, wanting him with the same primal, voltaic rush of need as he did first time. He guides the knob of his cock to him, lets his eyes slip shut as he makes to push inside him.
In that darkness, he sees teeth. A steely flash of teeth and blood and a clawed arm thrusting out for his neck, his knife jerking up and down through the air. A log splits in the fire and he snaps back to awareness, flinching and angry, sinking the nails of one hand into Hector's hip and bracing him harder than he needs to.]
[Hector feels the prod of Isaac’s cock against his hole, heated and throbbing, but Isaac hesitates before shoving in.
It’s not out of concern for Hector, he’s sure of that. The nails clawing into his hip and leaving beads of blood are proof of that.
Teasing? The playful mood from their kissing is gone beyond recall, evaporated into dark cold of the cave.
Once more, Hector wants to turn and see Isaac’s face. He doesn’t. Isaac wants him bent for mounting like a dog.
He bucks backwards, nudging Issac to action. Hector’s angry with both of them about how this has turned out, but damned if he’s not going to at least date his darker urges now that he’s here.]
[Hector rocks into him, demanding. He feels it from half-outside his own body, feels his cock twitch in his hand with all the screaming impatience in the world while the rest of him slowly goes hollow, staring and staring at the slow trickle of blood he's drawn. Like he had, frozenly, powerless, at her torn dress, her bare legs, too late.
Not real, he insists, fiercely. She was never there, looking up at him with drowning eyes. But it had felt real enough to make his stomach swoop then and now, pushing bile up into his throat.)
He sucks down a breath. He doesn't know when the darkness around him and Hector grew cold, when it became intimately threatening. But there's an understanding that if he doesn't break through this moment pressing in on him, locking him in, it might just quietly break him instead.
Brute force isn't always the answer to everything, but it's often the quickest. And he remembers that neither him nor Hector expect anything less or better of him than for him to bullishly push through whatever wall he's hit. Anger is bigger than fear, because it has to be - and he clings to it as he doubles down and plunges into Hector, into the hot grip of tight, flexing muscle, chasing pleasure with everything he has.]
[Hector is better prepared for Isaac's entry this time around, both in knowing what to expect and having been prepped. Isaac shoves in, and Hector groans and ducks his head down between his arms. The pressure and relief and shame and anger have his eyes watering, and that's not something to let Isaac catch sight of.]
Yes, do it! [He grunts. His ass, slick and worked open, is ready, and he's greedy for it now. He can lose his thoughts of Rosaly and his aching heart in the pure animal rushing of blood to his cock.
He braces himself on one arm, muscles flexing with the strain of supporting his weight against Isaac's force, so that he can get a hand between his legs to frantically stroke. There's a steady breathy pant of 'yes'es streaming from his lips.]
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I offered you my companionship before, and you called me clingy and sentimental.
[It's not a 'no'...]
If I grant you your unfettered access, what do you offer in return?
[Hector is prodding to try to establish what it is Isaac wants for the two of them. He wonders if Isaac himself even knows.]
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Isaac isn't sure. But when he looks at Hector with a sudden, fresh awareness, he thinks it may be something Hector is guilty of, too.]
An escape.
[No sly-faced smile, no crude answer rolling off his tongue.]
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Let me kiss you again, and I'll let you fuck me again.
[For once, Hector is the crude one. He has no illusion that Isaac will be any gentler the second time around, so any tenderness he wants, he will have to bargain for.
He finally takes one of the slices of slanina to nibble on while he waits for his answer. If they end up coupling, Hector doesn't want to be so weak and hungry that he passes out partway through it.]
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Isaac looks him up and down, coolly, weighing the offer long enough to make it seem as though he has another option to fall back on. But there is nothing better. His choices are either having something or nothing at all; and as hard as it can be to bend, to expose himself as vulnerable and deeply needy, saying no this time is harder still. So he finally spreads his hands, like he's smugly baiting an enemy into attacking him, and not actually inviting someone into his personal space. It feels the same, somehow, either way.]
I submit. [Comes his wry answer.]
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Hector isn’t in the mood for sex; he’s tired and still healing from Isaac’s blade. But he waves his fairy over to receive a little more magical healing from it, then forces himself out of bed.
Dealing with Isaac is like training an animal made stubborn and wary by past abuses. Passing up an opportunity like this will set back whatever progress they’ve made.
Besides, Isaac knows how to press his buttons. His body isn’t craving touch right now, but Hector has faith that it will, very quickly, once he and Isaac begin.]
It would be more comfortable if we waited for real lodgings.
[He points out, even as he slides over into Isaac’s space.
Hector lifts a hand to Isaac’s cheek and tilts his head to the side so they don’t bump noses when he leans in to kiss him.]
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Hector tastes like rust and meat. Tastes like a predator, though he's anything but, the way he's kissing him now. And neither is Isaac, his hand dipping between them to palm himself, to work up a proper interest, willing his still-cold body to let him have this.]
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It’s the type of kiss that states intent, a kiss to herald a more complete joining of bodies. Hector leans into it, and feels himself beginning to awaken.
Isaac gropes a hand between them—impatient— but Hector doesn’t mirror him. He draws back, adjusts his angle, and leans back in to press a number of kisses to Isaac’s lips in quick and teasing succession.]
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He doesn't start to strip. With a lover, he would want to bear every inch of skin to touch and be touched, both of them open and vulnerable to the other. With Isaac... he expects his pants to be shoved down like before, quick and utilitarian, and everything else left in its place. If Isaac chooses to initiate more, Hector will follow his cues, but otherwise, he is choosing his battles.
His lips move from Isaac's lips, kissing his cheek, his jaw, the pale skin of his throat not covered by his collar. He licks and tastes, teasing with tongue and teeth but never quite biting down. Isaac will be rough, but Hector wants at least this piece of their coupling to be gentle. The angle bears his own neck to Isaac.]
Shall I prepare myself for you?
[Neither of them have the energy for extended foreplay. The hunters they had killed on the mountain had carried some basic supplies with them, including cooking oil that could be put to other use.]
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'twould be in your best interest...
[There's a velvety growl in his voice and it becomes clear he won't dismiss Crimson for Abel, not this time. But even as he says it he's easing Hector back over the rough cave floor, hitching his blood-stiff tunic up and up to lay his mouth over him, hot and wet and open over all the places where bones lie closest to skin he's broken and bruised.]
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Hector gives his fairy a silent order, and the tiny hands fumble through his bag and deliver the bottle to him.
The hot mouth pressing near his tender, healing skin has him flinching involuntarily, breath hitching. Isaac moves lower, tracing the path of his blade the night before. Once he's out of range for Hector to kiss and suck, Hector lets his head drop back and his eyes screw shut. He feels dizzy from sensation and from weariness.
He reaches down to blindly fumble his belt open. His other hand brushes through Isaac's hair, caressing but not seizing. He has a sickly suspicion of the memories such a gesture could dredge up for Isaac.]
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Ridiculous as he realizes it is, he half expected Hector's flesh to wear the smell of hers, the taste of hers, after all these years and a cold dip in the pond. Yet Hector is as he was that night in the woods at the base of the mountain, sprawled in the grass, the yeastiness of his skin mingling with the tang of sweat and iron, his scent and all making Isaac throb through no effort of Hector's own - and there's the truth of it. Hector, even belly up and throat bared like it's begging for the knife, wields a fierce power over him that it seems neither time nor violence can break. A power that would pull him and keep pulling them, helplessly, into the sandtrap of each others' lives no matter how deeply they could dig in their heels.
For now, the frustration in that is gone, squeezed out of his awareness by pleasure and need, always need. His lips skim the edges of the wounds he's laid, lovingly suckling at the smattering of scars along the way. Not all of them are his work, but Isaac's mouth takes full responsibility all the same while he smothers Hector's neck and chest in kisses, paying tribute to his body in the way he's never cared to do for the demons he's lain with. Hector is and never was just a piece of flesh, a warm hole, a throwaway.
He stops at Hector's heaving belly, half to make room for his fumbling and half at the hand smoothing over his hair. There's a twitch of his shoulderblades at his touch, but Isaac doesn't toss his head and shake him off. Doesn't need to, that hand sliding off him, naturally, when he straightens up. He hasn't a finger on either hand that wouldn't cause undue pain, and without the means or the will to trim a few nails, he assumes that Hector really meant it when he offered to prepare himself.]
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When Isaac pulls away, Hector opens his eyes and meets his gaze, dazed and flushed. He stops fumbling and shucks off his clothing in earnest, tunic, pants, and all. If Isaac is going to suck and worship the skin Hector bares, he's going to bare as much as he can, to get his fill of this strange affection while it can be had.
Naked, he spreads his legs and slides oil-slick fingers into the crevice of his ass. He's not usually inclined to put on a show- Hector's focus is usually on his partner not himself- but Isaac is waiting and Hector doesn't want to let the fires burning between them cool.
He bends his knees and lifts his hips as he traces his finger around the ring of muscles barring his entrance. The finger slips in, and he moves, but doesn't seek out his own pleasure from the motion. A second finger, and he lets out a sigh as he stretches his muscles. He works himself open, makes himself wet for Isaac's cock.
He takes up the bottle again and pours a little more oil into his cupped palm.]
Come here. [He bids, and makes ready to anoint Isaac's cock.]
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Had anyone had ever told him Hector would one day strip down and cant his hips, presenting himself like a gift to be opened, Isaac would've thrown back his head and laughed. But there's no laughter now, not a single word, as he watches, mesmerized, a slippery finger and then a second sink inside Hector, disappearing past his middle knuckles. Making room for him.
Isaac doesn't rebel. Spit sticks in his throat when he finally swallows, his chest going tight as he approaches like a siren-sung man to shipwreck. Every inch of his own bare skin prickles, eager.]
...from whom did you learn this pretty trick? [He questions Hector with a sideways look, a smile almost teasing the corner of his mouth, while plunging a hand down the front of his leather trousers. He carelessly pulls himself free, throbbing in his fist and already dripping precome.]
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It's no concern of yours.
[The memory of Rosaly, spread on their shared bed, yielding up her soft body to him, is for Hector alone. If Isaac tries to take that and sully it...
He reaches for Isaac's cock and grips it with unneeded strength as he glides the slicked hand along the heated length.]
Why are you talking? I thought you wanted to fuck me.
[Hector craves tenderness and teasing whispers back and forth during lovemaking, but if Isaac can't do that without invoking Rosaly's ghost, Hector would rather be fucked like an animal. He withdraws, physically with his hand and emotionally with his heart.]
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Of course. [He snorts mirthlessly, lips thinning when he looses Hector's grasp - one that feels like it could be anyone else's - and reaches to pour oil into his own palm. He smooths it over himself in a few long, efficient strokes. It's only a means to an end. But that's all this was from the start, he reminds himself.] Do forgive me.
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Isaac takes charge over his cock and Hector lets him, leaning back against the stone, legs still splayed open.]
Do you want me like before?
[On his knees, ass up, like a dog in heat. He’s too flushed and hard to be ashamed by the memory of it.
He makes to shift his legs around Isaac so he can turn over. Better for both of them that way, not to fool themselves into thinking of any future in this.]
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If that is what comes naturally to you. [He drawls while waiting for Hector to settle, strumming the studs along his shaft and wringing out a few more drops of precome with a rougher, meaner hand than Hector's ever was.]
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[Hector cuts off his own frustrated protest. What would Isaac know about what ‘comes naturally’ to Hector? He doesn’t want an impersonal mounting.
He turns back around, stubborn now.]
What comes naturally to me is to straddle you and make a seat of your cock.
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No. [He says, too quickly, firmly. Nothing else follows for a long moment. He looks away from Hector's face and back to his hand, stilling around himself. His breath weighs heavy in his chest, the back of his throat.
He squeezes.]
On the ground - now.
[It's a demand, but not a threat; he doesn't make to grab Hector by the back of his skull and push him down, make a whore of him like he accused him of being only a week ago. It's too cruel, even for him.]
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He turns away from Isaac, the muscles of his back tense. He positions his knees on his discarded tunic to give him at least a little padding in the hopes he doesn't scrape them raw. If he wasn't so hard he is sure he would pass out if he stood up too quickly, he might entertain the thought of walking away and leaving Isaac to his own devices.
But no, he promised this, has partaken in the kisses he bargained for, and can't back out now. Hector's word still means something to him.
Neither of them can grant the other what he truly needs, but this semblance of closeness and relief, he can provide.]
Do it. Take what you want.
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In that darkness, he sees teeth. A steely flash of teeth and blood and a clawed arm thrusting out for his neck, his knife jerking up and down through the air. A log splits in the fire and he snaps back to awareness, flinching and angry, sinking the nails of one hand into Hector's hip and bracing him harder than he needs to.]
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It’s not out of concern for Hector, he’s sure of that. The nails clawing into his hip and leaving beads of blood are proof of that.
Teasing? The playful mood from their kissing is gone beyond recall, evaporated into dark cold of the cave.
Once more, Hector wants to turn and see Isaac’s face. He doesn’t. Isaac wants him bent for mounting like a dog.
He bucks backwards, nudging Issac to action. Hector’s angry with both of them about how this has turned out, but damned if he’s not going to at least date his darker urges now that he’s here.]
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Not real, he insists, fiercely. She was never there, looking up at him with drowning eyes. But it had felt real enough to make his stomach swoop then and now, pushing bile up into his throat.)
He sucks down a breath. He doesn't know when the darkness around him and Hector grew cold, when it became intimately threatening. But there's an understanding that if he doesn't break through this moment pressing in on him, locking him in, it might just quietly break him instead.
Brute force isn't always the answer to everything, but it's often the quickest. And he remembers that neither him nor Hector expect anything less or better of him than for him to bullishly push through whatever wall he's hit. Anger is bigger than fear, because it has to be - and he clings to it as he doubles down and plunges into Hector, into the hot grip of tight, flexing muscle, chasing pleasure with everything he has.]
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Yes, do it! [He grunts. His ass, slick and worked open, is ready, and he's greedy for it now. He can lose his thoughts of Rosaly and his aching heart in the pure animal rushing of blood to his cock.
He braces himself on one arm, muscles flexing with the strain of supporting his weight against Isaac's force, so that he can get a hand between his legs to frantically stroke. There's a steady breathy pant of 'yes'es streaming from his lips.]
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imma fudge some travel times here so Isaac doesn't have to wait around for days
LOL fucking pumpkin
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no real kids for them is probably for the best, lol
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HOW DARE HECTOR HAVE NEEDS OF HIS OWN
HE’S NOT SAYING IT SHOULD totally absolutely BE HIM
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hope this timeskippery is okay -- let me know if you wanted anything changed
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