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RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

;WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW; OH JON. I LOVE YOU SO.

And I love his relationship with Brady omg.

And I love how you write these scenarios it's so perfect and jkdnekwjdnwkednkwe

I WANT MORE D: MORE SNOW MORE
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

Hotwheels
( I was commanded to write more :x
Short and sweet with the cheesiest possible ending TBH. )



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When Robb first meets Brady he hates him as much as a six-year-old boy can hate anyone. He hates him because for as long as he can remember Jon has been his best friend, better than his best friend because they were brothers. And even though he has lots of other friends at school they don’t count in the same way.

But then Jon met Brady and next thing he knows all his brother talks about is his new best friend. Jon says that they’re still best friends too but Robb thinks that it’s not the same anymore because Jon used to just talk about him. It isn’t that he has a problem with sharing; he can share his things just fine. But sharing people is different and he already has to split his parent’s affection with Sansa and the new baby Arya, and sharing Jon is just entirely too much. Besides, Brady looks like a girl and Robb’s decided that the only thing worse than sharing people are girls.

So when he has to spend an entire Saturday shut in the playroom with Jon and Brady because his parents are gone for the weekend and old Nan is taking care of Sansa and baby Arya, he thinks he might just go crazy. Jon and Brady have decided to build the biggest Hotwheels track in the entire world and that’s just fine with him. Everyone knows that cars are stupid anyway, so he sits as far away from them as he can get to play with his horse and knight figurines.

He imagines that his favourite knight, who has red hair and blue eyes just like him, leads all of the forces of good in battle against an evil wizard. The wizard is blonde and he has captured and imprisoned the knight with black hair, the one that Jon would always play. Robb is unusually quiet as he moves the horses around the play table that serves as the wizard’s fortress, and he pretends he doesn’t notice the way that Jon and Brady keep whispering to one another. They learned in kindergarten last year that it’s rude to whisper and not include someone, so that just cements in Robb’s mind that Brady is the worst kid in the world. Worse than the fourth graders that stole Jon’s Ninja Turtles lunchbox, and they were really bad.

Robb is so engrossed in the battle between the brave knight and the evil wizard that he doesn’t notice at first that Jon has sat down next to him. When he does notice, he hotly tells his brother that he is busy and that Jon should go back to play with his new friend. He is pleased that he has managed to say the words ‘new friend’ with the same amount of revulsion that he uses to talk about green beans, the third worst thing in world after girls and Brady.

There is hurt in Jon’s grey eyes, and the traces the pattern of hockey sticks on his socks with one finger before he tries to speak. “Okay. But Brady was wonnerin’ if you wanna come play too. I said no ‘cuz you’re mad at me but he said I should ask anyway.”

The six-year-old boy regards first his brother and then the blonde who still sat on the other side of the room surrounded by a pile of Hotwheels tracks with a mixture of surprise and skepticism. Robb considers the offer for several minutes before finally agreeing.

He trails slightly behind Jon as they walk across the room, and he approaches Brady with the level of caution he usually reserves for strange dogs. The blonde boy gives him only a friendly smile in greeting and before long he is relaxed enough to sit beside them and slide the orange plastic Hotwheels tracks together. Robb is quick to take over the direction of the construction of the track, and after an hour they have built what they are sure is the longest Hotwheels track in the world.

There are four loop-de-loops and plenty of curves, and watching their little metal cars speed down it is probably the greatest thing that’s ever happened. But eventually that gets boring, and then they all pretend to be giant dinosaurs as they tear the track up while roaring loudly. Even though Brady is a year younger than them, he knows the real names to all the dinosaurs, and he teaches the brothers how to say ‘tyrannosaurus rex’ properly.

By the time Brady’s foster mother comes to pick him up, they are all best friends and Robb is the one who comes up with the idea of helping the blonde boy hide under his bed so he can stay forever. Old Nan finds him in about three minutes, however, but she does promise that Brady can come back to play any time he wants to.

They don’t get along perfectly after that, even a friendship as strong as the one the three of them share is never exists in perfect harmony, they all know it’s the day that they became friends and as the years pass all three boys remember it perfectly.
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

High
( one day I will learn how to write these without the cheesy ending. )



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Jon meets Ygritte the summer before he turns 16 at a summer camp for sports geeks. He still secretly wants to be an NHL player but he’s realistic enough to know that’s unlikely so he’s starting to think about a career in sports medicine. So when Robb and Theon get sent off to baseball camp he has to find something too, even though he’d rather just chill at home with Brady, because Catelyn is a big believer in getting all of the kids out of the house for a month.

It isn’t really a camp because they sleep in empty dorm rooms at the University and instead of hiking and making shitty crafts they learn about physiology and how to wrap a sprained ankle properly. Ygritte is a year older than him but she’s shorter, so that’s okay. She isn’t pretty like Jeyne or Theon’s girlfriends but she has this crazy red hair that’s so fiery that it looks fake but it isn’t, and Jon doesn’t know why he finds that so attractive.

Ygritte was homeschooled by her crazy hippie parents, and she’s so wild and outspoken that he can’t stop staring at her. On the second day of the month long camp she asks him to make out with her in an empty classroom but he says no because not only are they not supposed to be in empty classrooms, but there are strict rules about fraternization. He gives in the next night when she crawls in through his dorm room window, and they spend the next four weeks attached at the mouth when no one is looking. By the second week he’s going down on her, and trying to ignore the fact that she rolls her eyes every time he tells her he doesn’t want to have sex.

There’s a payphone, but it’s in a common room and he can’t exactly talk to Brady or Robb about whether or not he should give in with a bunch of other kids his age milling around. He ends up giving in on their last week there, and he spends the next seven days worrying one of the councilors are going to notice the fact that his back is covered with her nail tracks and his neck is a mess of hickeys and bite-marks. He wanted to be gentle and slow, but Ygritte always wanted everything harder and faster, and he did his best to oblige.

After school started he saw her chiefly on the weekends, and by mid-November the fact that she feels the need to tell him how little he knows about fucking every time they have sex is starting to grate on his nerves. But she was his first, and he thinks that means he’s supposed to love her. Brady and Robb are always polite to her, but Theon doesn’t bother. The thing that Jon knows he loves is that Ygritte doesn’t really give a shit about that, and she just tells Theon to go and lick his own ass for a change.

They have a party mid-November when Ned and Catelyn take a trip to California for some corporate thing. Ygritte can’t come because her parents are making her do some pagan shit in the woods, and Jon feels guilty that he’s relieved. Last weekend she actually screamed out that he knew nothing when she came and just thinking about it makes him want to crawl into a hole and die. He’s been sixteen for about two weeks, and Brady won’t be turning fifteen until December so Theon keeps making stupid jokes about how Brady’s jailbait.

Jon hates it when Theon hits on Brady like he does, but he doesn’t quite get why. He tells himself it’s because it’s changing the dynamic of the group (even though it isn’t really) and the fact that Theon spends about half his time talking shit about gay people. Like Satin, Brady’s kind-of-friend whom he’s started to bring to parties with the rest of his stoner crew. Satin’s a little bit older than all of them, and Jon’s kind of surprised every time he notices how pretty Satin is. And how he kind of likes it. What he chooses to ignore is the fact that Satin’s prettiness reminds him of someone else he knows.

As the party winds down, he and Brady are laying on the floor of his room, listening to Ned’s old records. They’re on David Bowie’s Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust when Jon notices Brady rolling a joint. He’s pretty drunk, but not so drunk that he doesn’t remember the thing that’s been nagging at the back of his mind for the last year or so.

“You get high a lot.” Jon’s voice is slightly slurred, and Brady’s response is muffled laughter. “I mean it.” His friend is laughing harder now, and Jon can see him rolling about. He pouts a little and moves so he can crawl to sit beside the blonde. Jon doesn’t understand what Brady’s doing with the papers, but when he lights the joint he tells his best friend he wants to try it.

“You can’t, you gotta piss clean for hockey, Jonny.”

It wasn’t the answer he was anticipating, and Jon must consider this for a few moments before offering his defense. “It’s only once, Brady. Plus they’re mostly testing for steroids. And also Theon does it and he’s gotta be clean for baseball. And shit.”

Brady shrugs, but after he exhales he gives Jon the joint. Jon puffs the first hit like he’s smoking a cigarette, barely taking it into his lungs before blowing out the smoke, and he ends up coughing like mad. He blushes when Brady laughs at him, but listens when the younger teen tells him how to do it right.

“Inhale… More… More… Okay, now take it in your lungs. Hold it… Hold it…” Jon’s eyes are watering like crazy when Brady finally tells him to exhale and he ends up coughing hard again. He and Brady each take a few more hits, and the joint is done. Jon tells Brady he doesn’t feel anything, and the blonde shrugs and works on rolling a second joint. “Give it time, Jon.”

The high hits him hard after the second joint, and he sits with his legs crossed and his head buried in his hands as ‘Lady Stardust’ makes the room spin. Things feel slow in a way he can’t fully articulate, and it worries him so without thinking Jon curls onto his side and puts his head in Brady’s lap.

He’s too busy concentrating on the importance of breathing to notice the way the skinny blonde tenses up and too inebriated to object to his friend running his fingers through his thick, curly hair. Normally he’s the only one that’s allowed to touch it but something about Brady is making him feel soft and warm so he doesn’t really have any objections.

“Ygritte… Ygritte is kind of a cunt.” His voice is definitely slurring now, and the fact that he uses the word ‘cunt’ at all is a pretty good indicator that he’s beyond intoxicated.

“So dump her.” He doesn’t hear the softly hopeful note in Brady’s voice, and he closes his eyes while Bowie sings about the Suffragette City.

“Maybe.” It seems like hours are passing between each of his words, but Jon doesn’t mind. It’s just him and Brady and that means things are good. “But I shouldn’t. Robb’s going to marry Jeyne.”

It’s one of those leaps of drunken logic, and for a moment Jon feels bad about spilling Robb’s secret. But Brady isn’t Theon, and so long as Theon doesn’t find out things will be okay.

“What does that have to do with Ygritte?”

“Robb’s going to marry her. … No, not her. Jeyne. Jeyney. Pretty Jeyney with the little tits and nice hair. Because he was her first so he’s going to do it.”

From somewhere far above he can hear Brady snort, and he wants to tell the blonde to stop stroking his hair or he’ll fall asleep, but the words don’t come. “You weren’t Ygritte’s first, Jonny-boy.”

He’s quiet for a while, and Jon actually thinks he might have fallen asleep until he finds himself responding to Brady’s statement. “No. That isn’t… That’s not the point, is it?”

Jon can hear Brady laugh again, and he’s suddenly aware of the fact that his mouth is dry as fuck. His tongue feels like sandpaper, and it almost hurts to push it against the ridges along the top of his mouth. “Brady…” With a mouth so dry, the teen isn’t quite sure how he can speak but he does. “Brady, I’m like… I’m really thirsty. I have to… It’s important.”

Thankfully, the blonde stoner knows what he means, and he is grateful that his friend carefully sets his head on the floor before standing up. “And music.” ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide’ is playing, and normally it’s one of Jon’s favourite songs but at the moment it’s kind of freaking him out. Fortunately, Brady also understands this and Jon can feel his entire body relax when his room goes quiet before ‘Rocks Off’ starts playing. It is good to have someone else who understands the importance of the Rolling Stones to everyday living.

Brady is gone for maybe ten minutes but to Jon it feels like a year, and he is certain he is about to die of thirst when someone pulls him into a sitting position and passes him something cold. He’s delighted that when he opens his eyes it’s a glass of orange juice, and the fact that he doesn’t spill any down his front when he swallows almost the entire thing on one go is a small miracle.

His grey eyes are glassy when he looks up at Brady, and the blonde blurs and sharpens in his eyes as he tries to focus his swimming vision. “You’re like… An angel.” Brady laughs and shakes his head, and Jon thinks he might be blushing but he isn’t sure. “For real. All the way real.” Brady just shakes his head again and tells Jon to go the hell to bed.

Jon wants to comply but standing up is a near impossibility so Brady has to help him. Well, he doesn’t have to help him but he does because they’re best friends and that’s what best friends means.

The next morning Jon remembers next to nothing but his head feels like it’s about to explode. He remembers very little of the night before and Brady shrugs off the details. The blonde tells him that there weren’t any big revelations and Jon trusts him because he knows he can trust Brady more than anyone.

Still, it isn’t until February that he dumps Ygritte, and even though she says she doesn’t believe in the modern version of Valentine’s Day he waits until the seventeenth. He tries to tell her that it’s him that’s the problem, and that he just wants something different. It’s true but it sounds like it isn’t, and she completely looses her shit. Jon doesn’t really mind when she tries to hit him, he expected that, but when she starts screaming that he doesn’t know anything he wants to grab her and scream in her face that she’s a psycho bitch and f.y.i. she only had sex three times before they started and that doesn't make her the sexual goddess she thinks she is.

But that isn’t how Ned Stark raised him, so instead Jon just walks away and thanks the Gods he had the foresight to dump her in the park instead of his house or something equally stupid.

He isn’t sure exactly what it is that he wants, but Satin seems close, and he tells Brady that on the phone later on. The blonde had been laughing when he told him about Ygritte’s meltdown, but when Jon confesses what he feels about Satin he can hear Brady cover the receiver. The teen is kind of pissed off because he’s trying to share his feelings and admit that he’s questioning his sexuality and of course his first thought is that Brady is laughing at him.

After a few minutes Brady’s voice comes back on the line and he tells Jon he’s really sorry but one of his foster sisters needs the phone and he has to go. Jon’s disappointed, so he doesn’t argue and he spends a miserable week keeping everything to himself until he sees Brady during the weekend. They talk then, and the teen is unbelievably relieved to find out that Brady’s not laughing at him, and more importantly, he’s going to keep it a secret.

Jon tells himself that he’s just going to experiment with Satin, and for a month that’s okay. But he’s not wired for casual sex, and before long he’s doing his best to turn Satin and himself into a couple. Satin doesn’t give in until the early summer, and even then he seems wary. Jon’s surprised that the addition of monogamy to his relationship doesn’t fill the yearning for whatever the fuck it is he wants in his heart, but he keeps that quiet… Even from Brady.

Satin is committed though, and it’s only then that Jon comes out. Not entirely, only to Robb and Theon, plus Jeyne because they all know if Robb knows it Jeyne’s going to know it, and a few of his closest friends from school. What really surprises him is the fact that none of them spread it around, and the worst thing he has to deal with is Theon’s derision. And even that doesn’t last long, after Robb reminds Theon he’s been trying to fuck Brady for the past four years Greyjoy keeps his mouth shut.

If school was in session, Jon’s sure there’d be rumors but it’s summer and no one’s really around. For months he tries to force himself to feel something for Satin because Satin’s the one he came out with and Jon isn’t the type to just let things be. But there’s nothing, and when Satin tells him it’s over at the beginning of September Jon isn’t sure if he feels more relieved or sad. Around other people it’s sad because he knows he should be… But when he’s alone he feels nothing, and instead he concentrates on going for a long run every morning because hockey’s going to start up soon and that’s the one constant in his life.

Early October everything changes. Brady kisses him at a party and they fuck and suddenly everything seems to burn a little brighter. For a second the next morning he wants to blame it on the drugs or alcohol or that hole in his heart that’s making him desperate… Until he realizes the hole is gone.

He’s still scared and nervous, more so than he’s ever been about anything in his life, but there’s something underneath that. When he thinks hard and he gets past all of his misgivings, there’s this deep level of certainty that this is exactly what he wants. More than that, it’s what he needs and he needs it more than he’s needed anything before. It’s Brady, it’s always been Brady and that thought overwhelms him so thoroughly he actually has to lie down.

In the following weeks he wants to move gently and slowly, but every time he and Brady touch it’s electric and he can’t help himself. He tells himself it’ll be just kissing until he gives in to the groping, groping until the clothes come off, and then… It doesn’t help anything that every time seems perfect, and there’s even a degree of beauty to the moments where they fumble or things are awkward.

They keep things quiet because what they have is so indescribably perfect that sharing it with the world seems wrong. For the first time in his life Jon feels one hundred percent stupidly in love with another person, and he starts to understand exactly what it is that Robb and Jeyne share… Even though it’s incredibly obvious (to him) that they can’t hold a candle to what it is between he and Brady. Slowly, his fear about what they have melts away and it’s replaced by this sense of perfect wholeness that he doesn’t quite know how to deal with.

For Jon’s seventeenth birthday on October 30th, they go to see a movie with the group but afterwards he can barely remember any of it. He knows it was something scary because he and Brady secretly held hands under the armrest and every time something scary happened his boyfriend (and what a secret thrill it was to use that particular word) would squeeze his hand and Jon would run his thumb gently along Brady’s knuckles to comfort him.

In November, even though it’s bitterly cold and Brady hates getting up early, he agrees to come with Jon to his high school every morning so he can time Jon as he runs laps on the track. The blonde wears more layers than usual and huddles inside three flannel blankets with a thermos of tea that Jon never forgets to make as he calls out Jon’s numbers every time he passes him. At the end of his run, they always walk two laps together, never afraid to hold hands or kiss because it feels like the fall mornings before the sun rises were made just for them.

Brady turns sixteen in December, and although there’s the traditional dinner-and-a-movie thing with Theon and Robb (the party is planned for a week later when school lets out for winter break) Jon shows up later that night with Ned’s SUV and a pizza from Brady’s favourite place. Because under all of the layers of cotton and denim his boyfriend is almost too thin and Jon’s so head over heels for his best friend that he doesn’t want to fight the compulsion to take care of him.

They drive to the secluded road near the old cemetery and after they eat they crawl into the back seat. Jon spends well over an hour doing everything he can possibly think of to make Brady feel good because there’s something about reducing the blonde to a well-satisfied puddle that makes him feel like a man. And also it’s Brady’s birthday and it seems appropriate to do something like that. Afterwards, they hold one another and Jon promises that what they have is a forever thing, and he doesn’t find out for years exactly how much that stability meant to Brady.

Even though they do occasionally argue and disagree and even fight (there’s a particularly big one when Jon finds out that Brady’s does drugs harder than pot) they always make up and never really seem to come out of their honeymoon phase. As they grow out of being teenagers the overwhelming need to touch one another every second of the day fades, but the spark that they both feel when they do doesn’t.

When they get married everyone says it’s way too young, but they don’t defend it because both Brady and Jon know they don’t need to. And when Jon looks back over the years, his only regret is that they didn’t find their way to one another sooner.
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

I can't put into words how perfect these two are for each other. D: I swear they reduce me to tears. ;_____; They make me laugh and cry and sigh like a girly girl. I can't believe I'm gonna say this but I think they might be better than Drady. DDDDDDDDD: They're just so perfect. They're totally made for each other. Like two sides of the same coin. They're like meant to be. T^T And I love it and I love them and I love you for writing them so well. kwjednwejdnwekjwek ;O; My babies are so in love. <333333333

This is perfect. ;w;

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RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

Little Red Riding Hood
( NOT ENTIRELY PLEASED WITH THIS ONE BUT IT IS A GIFT. OF WRITING. FOR JUNO. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THIS IS WHAT YOU HAD IN MIND LOL )



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Little Red Riding Hood
You sure are looking good.​
You're everything that a big bad wolf could want.​

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There was something in his woods.

As the years passed, the people in the towns on either side had cut down the outer forest, and made paths that cut through the edges of his home but they dared not try to tame the dark heart of it. This was wise of them, as those who passed directly through his territory never seemed to emerge from the other side. Still, a few did try and he was thus provided with easy meals. And when no one came, he had his choice of other animals, or the few who tempted him by building their homes right along the edge of his own.

But this scent was different; it was not the smell of some foolhardy man trying to impress his village by passing through the dark heart of his forest. It was innocent and young, something warm and summery that cut through the cold blackness of his home like a knife. Whatever it was, it had no business being there, so he would find it and rid his home of it. Such was the way of the world.

He drew close to the creature that dared to invade his home by nightfall, and he was not surprised to find it was human. It was always human, but that was good as they made the best meals. It was a man, but not one like he had ever seen; he was thin and willowy and his golden hair ran down his shoulders. He smelt young, not a child by far but not yet old enough to have a family of his own. The man carried no weapon, only a basket, and his red jacket and pale skin stood out against the dark path like a beacon.

The smell of fear seeped from the human when he drew close, but not as much as there should have been. He wondered if perhaps that was because no one had told this one the stories of the monster that walked as a man. That was unfortunate, but one man’s folly is another man’s reward, even if he wasn’t a man in the least. The monster was about to take its meal when the blonde stopped and turned, blue eyes widening in the fast growing dark as the human took in his form.

Not for the first time in his seemingly unending life, he wondered what he looked like. He had simple clothes to use when he chose to walk as a man, made from the hides of other animals, and he knew they didn’t compare to the much finer things the human wore. The finest of all being the red jacket; it was as bright as fresh spilled blood and he had never seen anything like it, or like the man who wore it.

“I didn’t think I would see anyone else along this path.” It surprised him when the human spoke, and he found himself struggling to answer. There wasn’t much use for language here.

“Nor did I.”

Silence fell between them, and he could feel the human studying him before he spoke again. It made him uncomfortable, no one had looked at him in a very long time.

“My name is Brady, what’s yours?”

He had to think very hard to remember. The monster had been called a great many things in his time but he hadn’t heard his name for many years.

“I am called Jon.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Jon.”

Jon had nothing to say to that, and again he wondered how one could be so innocent. “What are you doing in my woods, Brady?”

A blush grew upon the human’s cheeks, and he could smell the way his blood ran hotly through his body. “My grandmother lives on the other side. No one has heard from her for weeks, so I’ve been sent to check on her. I wanted to cut through the woods so I’d be there by dark, but…” The human shrugged helplessly.

“It’s dangerous to be in here alone, especially at nightfall.”

“Then what are you doing here?”

He had nothing to say to this either, and instead he would take a few steps closer to the other. Jon was shorter, though not by much, but that didn’t matter. It meant he was at a good height to smell the human’s neck. Leaning in, he sniffed deeply; tasting the other’s fear and innocence, and surprisingly a thin thread of lust that trailed down to his guts and pulled something inside him that he had not felt in a very long time. The blonde trembled, and Jon was very tempted to have him then and there.

“Where does your grandmother live, Brady?”

The human pointed in the direction he had been heading, surprising the monster with his sense of trust. “She – she’s in the white house, the one that comes before the mill.”

“I see.” Jon stepped back from the blonde, and began to walk back off into the darkness. “Hurry along, Brady. It’s not safe for you here.”

And then he was gone. The monster could be fast when he wanted to be, and he would make his way to the white house that stood further in to his territory than any other. What he found did not surprise him. The wooden door hung open, and the scent of death and dried blood sat heavily in the interior. There was no body, but he didn’t expect there to be. Jon couldn’t remember if he had been the one to end the old woman; he killed in his other form and those memories all ran together. Besides, he was not the only thing in the woods that grew hungry. So he would sit down on the bed to wait.

The moon was full and high in the night’s sky by the time the human arrived, filling the almost empty house with an eerie glow, but Jon hadn’t minded the waiting. Patience was an essential hunting skill and he had developed it well. He heard the blonde call out but didn’t reply, choosing instead to stare silently as the human walked into the cold bedroom.

“Why, grandmother… What big arms you have.” The human licked his soft pink lips as he spoke, and Jon responded without thinking.

“The better to embrace you with, my dear.”

“Grandmother, what big legs you have!”

Jon stood. “The better to chase you with, my dear.”

“What big ears you have…”

“The better to hear you with, my dear.” And as he took a few steps towards the blonde, he found he could hear the other’s heart pounding.

“Your eyes…”

“The better to find you in the dark with, my dear.” Their bodies were close they were almost touching, and Jon reached out to trace Brady’s delicate jaw in the dark.

“Y-your nose-“

“The better to find your scent with, my dear.” Brady’s fear was still strong, as was the sweet smell of innocence that came from him in a way Jon had never smelt before. But over them both was the scent of lust, and it was so strong that he almost choked on it.

“And your mouth is-“

“All the better to taste you with.”

And with that he captured the human’s mouth with his own in a rough and bruising kiss. Even monsters could grow hungry for more, and tonight he would enjoy a very different kind of meal.

As he pulled Brady to the floor beneath him Jon would tear at the human’s clothing. Their mouths would stay together, kissing desperately and hungrily as he tore away the blonde’s beautiful red jacket and the clothing he found under it. The other’s pants would follow the same fate, and only then would the monster allow his prey to tug off his own top.

The human’s body was different than his own, thin, pale, and unblemished… Save for the bumps that rose as he ran his rough hands down Brady’s boney sides. His own body was slightly darker, thick with muscle, and marred with the scars living in the deep woods had left on him. They continued to kiss, and he would feel the blonde whimper and grasp his shoulders pathetically when he tore away the strange coverings he wore over his nipples. No inch of the human’s body would be denied to him.

When he moved his head back they were both breathing hard, and Jon would run his tongue up the side of Brady’s face, growling deeply when he found the blonde tasted of summer. The thin leather of his pants was all that was left between them, and Jon would grind his hardening length up and into the blonde’s hips as he moved his head down to the human’s neck.

Jon breathed in his prey’s scent again, the combination of his fear and innocence and that overpowering smell of lust making him feel quite lightheaded. He can hear Brady cry out when he bites down, and he can feel the sting of pain on his back as the blonde drags his nails downwards. His bite is hard, and there is a thin trail of blood left behind which he laps up eagerly. The taste of the blonde is sweeter than his scent, and he growls deeply when he feels it make him grow even harder.

He works his mouth down Brady’s body; oblivious to the way the blonde pulls roughly at his dark curls and pleads for more. Jon has his prey screaming in a mix of pain and pleasure when he uses his tongue on his nipples, and the part of his mind not dominated by his animal lust is glad there are no other homes nearby. He does not wish to be interrupted.

The monster leaves a trail of bite marks on the human’s chest, none of which drew blood, and he stops to lap at Brady’s navel before moving downwards. He finds the way the blonde’s hipbones are so clearly visible to be strangely beautiful as well, and Jon stops to leave his bite marks there as well. The human is bucking his hips with need, and so he decides to finally move to those sensitive parts of him.

The small noises of pleasure that vibrate from his throat as his long tongue begins to move up the other’s cock are drowned out by Brady’s moaning, and his cold eyes watch carefully as the blonde writhes from the way he swirls his tongue around the human’s length. Before long his mouth has moved lower, and he takes his time tasting the other’s balls. His tongue laps roughly at his sack, tracing patterns and exploring every fold. He even goes so far as to suck on them before he wraps his strong arms under the blonde’s thighs and lifts his hips from the ground.

Brady releases his firm hold on Jon’s hair, and he notices the human drop his arms to the ground for balance as he uses his rough hands to part Brady’s cheeks. The monster licks at his prey’s crack until it is dripping wet and he is begging for release. It is only then he pushes his long tongue into the blonde; twisting and vibrating it with his growling as he moves it in and out of the other’s body.

He can feel the blonde wrap his long legs around his shoulders, trying to pull him closer as he whines and cries and begs for more. One of Jon’s hands strokes against Brady’s throbbing cock, and he is amazed at how quickly and completely the human loses control. He can feel his hips buck wildly as the other spills his seed, and the sound of Brady shrieking his name over and over fills the empty house.

When Brady has finished Jon drops his hips unceremoniously, crouching over him like the predator he is as he leans in to lick every drop of come from the blonde’s lithe and still heaving body. He can feel the blonde’s blue eyes on him, and he is unafraid to meet them with his own cold eyes as he laps up the other’s seed.

After the human is clean, the monster rolls him to his front, pulling his hips upwards so he is offering his tight hole to him. It is only then that Jon removes his pants, and he wraps his arms around Brady’s lithe body, holding him possessively as he pushes his fat cockhead against the blonde’s entrance, which is still quite slick with his saliva.

Jon bites down on the back of Brady’s neck as he pushes into him, the groans that come unbidden from the depths of him at how tight the other is drowned out by the human’s moans of pain and pleasure. He laps at the few droplets of blood that rise from his biting, barely giving the human any time to adjust to his size before he begins to fuck him. It has been years since he last rutted, and Brady’s sweet mewls of pain as he continues to cry for more only spur the monster on.

Time is lost to him as they move together, and as the smell of death and dried blood in the house mixes with the smell of their sex Jon wants very badly to eat the man beneath him. But he wants this more, and soon he is stroking the human’s cock to hardness again as he snarls out his pleasure in Brady’s ear.

They come together; both the human and the monster rocking with orgasm as Jon tilts his head back to howl his release. The sound is cold and primal, and the can feel Brady shiver under him at the sound. When he has finished, he presses their hot and sweating bodies together as he captures Brady’s mouth in another bruising kiss. They are both panting hard as Jon pulls his softening cock out of Brady’s ass, and he nuzzles into the human’s ear before pulling away to gather his clothing.

He does not dress, and instead crouches at the human’s side to brush his pink lips with one rough thumb as he speaks. “The woods are dangerous, Brady. Stay out of them or I might find you again.” Even Jon is unsure if this is a threat or an invitation, and he silently moves out of the room.

It is a large white wolf that leaves the house, carrying a bundle of clothing in its mouth as it disappears into the darkness.
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

Something I'm trying idk.


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Louis Ford was good at running away.

That was why he could take the Texas assignment. A year ago, when his wife had found out that the pain in her abdomen wasn’t stress, but cancer, he had kissed her and held her, and then taken the three week long assignment on the protests in New York.

New York wasn’t that far away from Portland Maine, where they lived with their three-year-old son, but it was far enough to hurt her and protect himself. When he was interviewing protesters and working furiously to get eight thousand words for Time in before the deadline there wasn’t room to think about the words ‘Inoperable’, ‘Survival rate’, or ‘alternative options’. All there was to think about was work and how much he could drink and still get up the next day.

In the six months that followed his return home, he had watched Emily slowly die. There was nothing else they could do, the cancer ripped through her like wildfire, leaving nothing but boney, broken flesh in its wake. A few days before the light in her sharp green eyes went dull forever, she finally told him about what she had planned for their son, Logan’s future.

When he had gone to New York, she had met with their lawyers and she had seen to it that her parents would gain custody when she died. She told him he could fight it and probably win too, but they both knew that at twenty eight, even after four years of marriage and three years of fatherhood, standing his ground wasn’t what he was good at. And she didn’t want to think about the possibility of him leaving Logan like he left her when things got hard.

It wasn’t so bad, Emily’s parents lived only a few streets away from them, and they had promised that he could visit or take Logan for a few days whenever he wanted. They never broke their promise, not once in the six months that followed her death, but when the boy that looked so much like his late wife studied him in his living room, Louis had to wonder if perhaps Grandma and Grandpa didn’t give him the most glowing reviews. Not that he blamed them.

His editor had approached him cautiously with the assignment. An extremely prolific serial killer that had been working in Texas for the better part of five years had finally been caught, and it was shaping up to be the story of the decade. They wanted the rest of the case covered, and then the trial and sentencing as well. They wanted full features on the guy’s past, and interviews with the victim’s families. It would be a long job.

“I’m only offering because you’re one of the best investigative reporters we have that’s willing to travel, Louis. And Dan and Christine are in D.C. right now… You don’t have to take it. I know you want to be home with your son-“

“I’ll take it.” He didn’t have to think twice. Three months away from the pity of his friends and family and the aching loneliness of an empty bed sounded like heaven. And for just one second, he saw that look cross his editor’s face.

Everyone had assumed he didn’t know Emily was sick, and it wasn’t an assumption he had bothered to correct, but he knew they were beginning to wonder. Louis didn’t want to think about what would happen when everyone figured out he was a coward, and a few months in Texas sounded like a godsend at the moment.

So that was how he ended up in the small town south of Austin (where the trial would take place) that Marques Elias had been born in. The magazine had provided him with some assistant, some third year photojournalism student who was supposed to take the pictures, spellcheck, and whatever the hell else he wanted him to do, and currently the kid was trying to find him a cup of coffee before his 9AM appointment with the Elias’s neighbors.

It was going to be a long day.
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

The weather was miserable. Summer had finally turned to fall, and the change of the seasons brought a good deal of rain. Then again, in San Francisco, that was hardly unusual. However, that didn’t make the weather any less miserable for Jon, and on days like this he really started to miss New York.

But he couldn’t have stayed, there was too much guilt and pain after Ned died and Robb had asked him to take a position in Stark’s legal department. He wanted to very badly, and that was the problem. He had already been working for the DA’s office for a year when his father died, and he couldn’t move to the private sector after that. It was obvious to him that his calling was to prosecute, to serve what he saw as the greater good.

So he took the job that was clear across the country; away from the Starks, the Lannisters, and the oppressive memory of Ned’s legacy and Catelyn’s disapproving stare. It was away from his family and friends too, and that was where the only real regret came in. San Francisco was lonely for Jon, even though he did make friends with some of the other ADAs in the office. He ended up getting a dog, some gigantic white mutt that followed him home after jogging one morning and never made a sound that Jon found himself getting particularly fond of.

There was a plus side, however. He had only been in the new city for a year and he was already moving up the chain, the DA had seen fit to give him his own legal assistant, to help with the legwork on his cases. This was his last interview after a week of them, though Jon didn’t see this one ending that well.

The kid claimed to be twenty-two, but Jon thought he was a good deal younger. It wasn’t his eyes; they were dark and filled with experience that made him look older than Jon. The dark-haired youth was thin and tall, and his hair actually curled in ringlets (which Jon could only assume was natural) that framed a surprisingly pretty face. He had his name listed only as ‘Satin’, and he wore dark jeans and a button-up shirt that had obviously seen better days. And to top it all off, a cursory background check had revealed that Satin had never been to college, much less graduated as a legal assistant.

But the kid was trying, and Jon didn’t have it in him to throw him out on the street. For the first time in his life he was seeing the people that were not part of the society he grew up in. Five years ago Satin would have been a one-dimensional person to Jon, just a hooker from Polk Street trying to pull some scam. And if he ever saw him again he wouldn’t have really seen him, Satin would have just blended into the streets like the other lost people used to.

It was his pride that impressed Jon the most; he held his chin high and never shied away from making eye contact. He stayed calm and his voice never wavered, even when it was clear that he didn’t know how to answer Jon’s questions. Snow couldn’t give him the job in the end, but he couldn’t just let him walk out either. Collecting strays was a passion of his, and something about Satin called to him.

And where would he go if Jon just let him walk away? Would the kid keep trying to get out of the life or would he just go back to Polk Street to pick up a habit, or worse, a pimp? Ned Stark’s bastard always had trouble with the concept of people surviving without his help or interference.

Jon didn’t miss the flash of distrust in the kid’s eyes when he invited him to dinner, and he shrugged off his decline of the invitation with a soft smile. “If you change your mind, I’ll be at the diner that’s two blocks south from here from five to say… Seven?”

Satin didn’t show up until seven-thirty. He approached Jon warily, like a dog that had been kicked too many times. He knew that he was being sized up, so the lawyer did his best to appear completely non-threatening.

“I thought you said you were only staying until seven.”

Jon shrugged, “Service is always slow here.” He wouldn’t say that he would have waited all night if he had to; the point was not to spook the kid. He also managed to resist the urge to order him something more substantial than the grilled cheese, and to keep his mouth shut while Satin ate. When he finished, Jon would do his best to coax some more information out of him.

“Satin, why did you apply for that job?”

“You’ve already asked me that.” His tone was calm and almost cold, and Jon knew he was being assessed once more.

“I know, but I’m not asking you as an interviewer now.”

“What are you asking me as, then?”

He would consider this for a few moments before answering with a shrug. “A concerned citizen, I guess.”

It was Satin’s turn to consider things before answering. “Why does anyone apply for a job? I need a job; I looked in the classifieds and saw that one. It looked like something I could do, so I applied.”

“I see.”

They were both quiet then; Jon sipping at his coffee while Satin traced the bottom of his own glass with one well-chewed fingernail.

“I can’t give you the legal assistant job,” his tone was entirely apologetic, “But I do want to help. Where are you living now?”

“Does it matter?”

“No, I suppose not. I live near Pacific Heights,” Jon ignored Satin’s eye roll (Pacific Heights was a neighborhood known for its affluence), “And I’ve been thinking of getting a… Live in assistant.” That was a lie, but if he talked his boss into giving him a raise instead of an assistant he could probably swing it. He knew how it sounded the second he said it, but he also knew that trying to explain himself would just make it sound worse.

Satin did not respond immediately, and instead chose to study Jon through narrowed eyes. He knew that the kid was trying to figure out what his angle was, but the dark-haired young lawyer didn’t really have an answer for him. He wasn’t even sure what he was trying to accomplish.

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It took a few weeks, but eventually the kid settled on the futon in his spare room. Things were going well, Satin took care of the house and dog during the day, and Jon could usually count on him to have something to eat ready when he came home. The other man also took care of the other meaningless tasks that Jon hated, like grocery shopping and going to the dry cleaners. All in all, it meant he had more time to spend at the office, and that had been the point.

Eventually he fond out more about Satin, like that the kid was barely twenty instead of twenty-two, and that he hadn’t finished high school. He had run away from his parents’ house when he was sixteen, though he refused to talk about where that had been or why he had left. The only other things he refused to discuss were his real name (he had been Satin since leaving home, and he had told Jon he could guess where he had gotten it from, which made the older man blush), and any of the specifics about why he wanted to stop whoring.

And in return, Jon did his best to answer every question Satin asked him. He told him about growing up as Ned Stark’s bastard, and in his brother Robb’s shadow. They talked about law school, and why he had decided to move out to the West Coast when Ned died.

That evening, they had talked about getting Satin his GED, and Jon was relieved to notice that some of the distrust that the younger man had used to show when Jon tried to help him was leaving. It seemed he was accepting that Jon just wanted to help, and nothing else, or so Snow thought. The lawyer also that he was successfully hiding his attraction to the other man. It didn’t bother him that he was attracted to a man (especially one as pretty as Satin), he had known for a while that he preferred men. That just wasn’t what he wanted from the kid, sex for room and board. Satin had wanted out of that life, and in Jon’s mind having a relationship with him could only be that sort of relationship.

He had gone to bed early, he had to be in court in the morning. Jon had been at the point that was half way between asleep and awake when he heard his door creak open. Bleary with sleep, he rolled over to face the door, surprised to see Satin standing there naked. Doing his best to ignore that, Jon would attempt to focus his eyes on the younger man’s.

“Hey, did you need something?”

“No.” With that, the younger man was crawling into Jon’s bed, moving under the covers and pressing his lanky body to the lawyer’s. Satin pulled his arms around his body, and before Jon could think to protest they were kissing. It was only when he felt the younger man pulling at his pajama pants that he had the presence of mind to put a stop to it.

He pulled his hands down to Satin’s, grasping them firmly before pulling them away. “Satin, no.” Jon regretted his tone the moment he heard it, it was entirely condescending, and he sounded as if he were scolding the dog.

The younger man froze, and then pulled away completely and left the room quickly. Jon couldn’t read his expression, but he could take a guess at Satin’s feelings about the manner when he heard him storm out of the house a few minutes later.

Sighing when Ghost trotted into his room to see what all the fuss had been about, Jon would hold out a hand for the mutt to lick. “You still like me, don’t you?” Ghost’s only response would be to huff once before jumping up on Jon’s bed to sleep.

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Jon didn’t know if Satin came back home during the day over the following few days, the next time he saw him was the evening three days after the incident. He was there when Jon got home from the office, sullenly poking at pasta in the kitchen. They greeted each other as if nothing had happened, Jon didn’t really want to talk about it and he certainly didn’t want to know where the boy had gone. He had a sneaking suspicion that particular piece of information would make his skin crawl.

They continued in that stasis for a few days, tiptoeing around one another and pretending there was nothing to say. Jon didn’t mind that either, he had grown up not talking about anything in a family that didn’t talk about anything, and he found the repression oddly comforting.

It was Satin who broke it, of course. The younger man came to sit on the couch with him while he was watching the eleven o’clock news. He was quiet and still for the top two stories, but when they moved on to sports Satin moved to straddle Jon in one fluid movement, grabbing his dark hair quite firmly before kissing him. The younger man was more insistent than he had been several nights ago, his kisses were passionate and rough, and he moved his hips in Jon’s lap in a purposeful way that had the grey-eyed older man grasping at the other’s hips.

He told himself that he wanted to pull away but couldn’t, Satin was pushing him quite firmly into the back of the couch and there was nowhere for him to pull to. It wasn’t until the younger man moved back slightly so he could shove his hands up Jon’s plain black shirt that he told himself it was time to get a handle on the situation. Trying to ignore the way that Satin’s fingers and jagged nails ran up his abdomen, Jon would move his hands to the black-haired young man’s shoulders, pushing him back enough so he could speak.

“Satin, stop. I don’t want to-hngh-“ The dark haired young man cut him off with a vicious pinch to one of Jon’s nipples that had him bucking his hips involuntarily.

“Yes you do, Snow.”

But he remained strong, and kept his arms on the other’s thin shoulders. “No, I mean, you don’t want to-“

“Yes I do.” Again Satin managed to cut Jon off, this time emphasizing his point with a well-practiced roll of his hips that had the older man painfully and achingly aware that they were both very aroused.

“Gods damn you Satin, listen to me.” His voice was hoarse enough for him to be embarrassed about it, but he couldn’t let that bother him. This was so important. “We can’t. We can’t. You’re trying to get out of… I pay you to help me, and you don’t want to do that again.” It was funny how he lost his ability to form competent sentences when he was hard.

He had been expecting a negative reaction, after all the last time he had rejected Satin the other man had left his house for days… But he hadn’t expected this. The normally calm man went from zero to furious in a few seconds, his dark eyes narrowing to slits as he pulled his hands out from under Jon’s shirt.

“You… Insensitive… Asshole!” Every word was punctuated with a slam of Satin’s fists to Jon’s shoulders, and Jon could do nothing but stare up at the younger man helplessly. “What, because I used to turn tricks I can’t want to fuck someone I like? Do you know how insulting that is? I’m not some helpless… Fucking… Boy you have to save. I… Am not… Fucking… Damaged.”

Satin finished with a final furious smack before standing, and stomping off to his room. Jon thought he was being spared, and he was still trying to compose himself when Satin stormed back in, something clutched in his right hand and dark eyes flashing dangerously.

“It’s about money? Fine- Here-“ Satin had been holding folded bills, and he angrily shoved them into Jon’s hand. “Money. Now we’re even. Now you can look at me like a person and not some kind of project.” His normally pale skin was flushed with anger, and his dark eyes were glassy with tears. “Now look at me.” It was with great effort that Jon brought his eyes to meet Satin’s, but once they made contact he did not advert them.

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The first few months of their relationship did not go smoothly. They lived together, and that did place a strain on things. But in the end it did not break them, their personalities were simply too compatible. Jon wanted the acceptance and the intimacy; he wanted these things as desperately as Satin wanted the respect, and the opportunity to be viewed as an equal rather than someone to be pitied or scorned.

And they both wanted the love. It grew between them easily, despite the fact that the ease with which it came confused (and frightened) them both. But it fit, they fit, and neither man saw any sense in attempting to fight it once they had worked out the specifics of their relationship. Jon helped Satin find a different job as a receptionist, and soon they settled into a comfortable routine.

At first they often slept apart, it was a good three months before Satin started staying in Jon’s bed when they had finished, and another before he started to move his own things into Jon’s bedroom, and it became their bedroom.

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“Oh Gods, Jon, harder-“ They were tangled in the bed sheets, Jon on top with his arms wrapped protectively around Satin, who was dragging his nails in familiar tracks down the lawyer’s back. He wanted to comply with Satin’s demands, but he could not, it was not in his nature. Even when he was passionate Jon was a tender lover who moved slowly and with purpose.

It had surprised him that Satin was his opposite, the younger man was always quite calm and collected, and he had not heard him so much as raise his voice in anger since that argument five months ago. But in bed he was demanding and loud, and knew how to make expert use of his teeth and nails, and how to pull and pinch with his fingers just so. Not that Jon was complaining, not only did it feel unspeakably good, but it left a litany of marks along his previously flawless skin that were exciting in their own right. He couldn’t help but remember how he had gotten each of the bruises, scratches, and bite marks every time he dressed. And he couldn’t help but wonder what his colleagues would think of him if they could see the state of his skin under his expensive suits.

“Harder, fuck me faster- Please-“ His response was to nuzzle lovingly into the younger man’s neck, and that was certainly not enough for Satin, who responded by sharply tugging on Jon’s dark curls, “Gods damn you Snow, are you even listening to me?” He would give a half-hearted squeeze of the younger man’s shoulders in response, barely digging his nails in, which had his lover huffing and rolling out form under him to turn on the light on the nightstand. Because Jon hadn’t finished, he whined a little when the other left him, reaching for him only to have his hands smacked away.

They were both breathing hard, and Satin sat with his arms crossed in front of his thin chest while Jon rested his head on his boyfriend’s knee. The other man’s lightly annoyed expression did not change, even when Jon gave him his best ‘puppy dog’ look.

“Jon, I love you. I love you and I love how you are with me, but you don’t know how to fuck.”

“Yes I do.” His response was automatic, and his tone was slightly hurt, “What do you call what we’ve been doing then?”

“Making love.”

He would consider this quietly for a few moments, nuzzling into Satin’s knee before responding. “Well that’s good, isn’t it? I mean, that’s the end goal when you love someone, to make love to them.”

Jon watched Satin roll his dark eyes before reaching out to pet his dark hair affectionately. “Yes, but not every time. It gets boring when it’s the same all of the time, doesn’t it? You can be rough with me, you know. Not only will it not break me, but I like it.”

Jon muttered to himself that it wasn’t the same every time, but shut up when his lover pulled on his hair. “But what if I hurt you?” His voice was low, and betrayed a little of his concern about the matter. He was stronger than his boyfriend, and the thought of actually hurting him was enough to send a chill down his spine.

“Jesus, Jon. Then I’ll tell you to stop. I promise you won’t though, not in a way I don’t like, anyway.”

He considered this quietly for a few moments before giving in. “Fine then, Mr. Sexpert, show me how to fuck.”

With a grin that was about a mile wide, Satin would use his grip on Jon’s hair to yank him upwards, forcing him to crawl upwards on the bed between his long legs. Taking his cock in one hand, the younger man would push his lover’s head downwards with the other, moaning happily when Jon eagerly swallowed him down. His lover only released his hair when he tried to move his hands downwards, so he could stroke himself off while using his mouth on Satin.

In a move that had the younger man grinning and Jon pouting around the cock in his mouth, Satin firmly took hold of Jon’s arms, and then his hands.

“Not a chance, lover.” He’d hold the lawyer’s hands firmly while Jon continued to suck obediently, bobbing his head easily up and down Satin’s firm length. After a few moments, he would move one of Jon’s hands to his balls, and as Jon stroked them he would again feel Satin tangle his fingers in his thick hair. He would allow the other to take control of the way he moved his head then, managing not to gag as his ringlet-haired lover pushed him further and further down.

Soon the pouty look in Jon’s storm-grey eyes was replaced by one of lust, and the lewd sounds of him slurping and whimpering around the other filled the bedroom. It wasn’t long before Satin’s low moans joined the litany of noises, and soon after that his boyfriend was telling him he was going to cum.

“Swallow it,” he cried out, biting his full bottom lip, “Swallow every fucking drop.”

Jon was only too happy to oblige. He’d barely had a moment to catch his breath before Satin was pulling on his hair again, wrapping his thin arms around Jon’s broad shoulders so that they could kiss. Their mouths clashed hungrily, bruising one another as their tongues danced, Jon groaning loudly with need when he tasted the lingering traces of his lover’s cum mix with his saliva. Satin always tasted as sweet as he smelled.

He tried to grind his hips against the younger man’s, but was again denied by a quick movement of one of his boyfriend’s legs. Satin pushed his knee against Jon’s chest, and his foot against the older man’s hips so that he could not move against him, or into him, the way that he wanted too. Jon could feel him smile at the little noises of frustration he made, followed by a low moan when one of his toes brushed delicately against Jon’s aching cock.

They continued to kiss until Jon was desperate, pulling on Satin’s bottom lip with his teeth to signify his need. But his lover continued to tease him, running his jagged nails lightly down Jon’s back and occasionally giving his cock a teasing stroke with his toes. Finally Jon could take no more, and he grabbed roughly at Satin’s curls, yanking his head back.

“That’s enough.” His grey eyes were dark and churning with his want, and the way that Satin bit his bottom lip and dug his nails into Jon’s back when he pulled on his hair hand him understanding exactly what his boyfriend meant about wanting to be fucked. “I want you. Now.”

He moved back to settle on his knees, grabbing his lover’s thin sides firmly so he could roll him onto his front. Pulling Satin’s hips upwards so the other man settled on his knees, Jon would smack his perky ass firmly once before positioning himself behind the younger man. His boyfriend yelped but Jon thought it was fair payback, he always let Satin cum when he wanted to.

There was enough lube left from earlier for him to push in, and he did so quickly, whimpering along with Satin’s moans at the rough treatment. He would tangle one of his hands in the other’s hair to pull him upwards, so his thin back rested along Jon’s strong chest. After wrapping his other arm around Satin’s chest to keep him in place, he would push their bodies forwards enough so he could grasp the headboard for support while he began to thrust in and out of his lover.

When Satin dug his nails into Jon’s arm, he rewarded him with a vicious pinch to the nipple his fingers rested against, smiling when he heard the younger man begin to whimper and beg for more. Leaning in to nip at Satin’s shoulder, Jon would then turn his head to murmur into Satin’s ear.

“Is this what you meant, darling?” He would give a particularly forceful thrust that had his lover gibbering nonsense before continuing, “Is this how you like to be fucked?”

“Oh Gods, Oh Gods Jon, yesss-“ He would interrupt Satin’s words with his own moaning as his lover began to clutch at his cock with his ass, rewarding him by again digging his nails into the younger man’s nipple. “More, don’t stop, please- Oh Gods Jon please-“

Once more, he was only too happy to fulfill his lover’s requests, and Jon continued to use him as roughly as he was able. When he knew he was getting close, Jon would shift so that he could move Satin’s arms to clutch the headboard. He would keep one arm wrapped around the other’s chest, but his other hand would reach down to take hold of Satin’s cock, which was hard and throbbing once more.

“Going to cum,“ He grunted into his lover’s ear, “But not you. Don’t you dare-“

Soon after that, Jon’s orgasm overtook him, and he bit Satin’s shoulder again to muffle his screaming as he filled his lover’s ass. Panting desperately, he would pull out, ignoring Satin’s gibbering pleas to be allowed to do the same. Jon raked his teeth down the younger man’s thin back, grabbing his hips firmly. Without so much as a word, he would part his full cheeks and move his head in to lick roughly at what lay between them.

The taste of his come had him moaning right along with Satin, and Jon would work to swallow every drop his tongue could reach before beginning to bugger the other man with it. He had his lover screaming for release before Jon moved one of his hands to again grasp Satin’s cock firmly. He had barely stroked him once before Jon felt his boyfriend’s hips buck hard and his hot cum filling his hand.

Wiping his hand on the sheets, Jon would tenderly kiss his way back up Satin’s thin back before taking the trembling man into his arms. They laid close together, legs entwined as they kissed slowly. He had been surprised to find a few tears staining his lover’s cheeks, and Jon wiped them away when they broke for air.

“Did I hurt you?” Jon smiled when Satin weakly smacked his back, and then nuzzled into his lover’s neck. “I love you, Satin.”

“I love you too.”
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

It was December fifteenth. That meant it was ten days until Christmas, ten days until they’d all be gathered under one roof and forced to face one another for the first time in two months. Her family would have to sit together and acknowledge that Ned wasn’t there, and he would not be there ever again.

It had been ninety-seven days since their father had died. But that wasn’t correct, was it? To say that he had died was to imply that there had been peace in his passing, that somehow his end had been simple and calm. No, Ned had been murdered. Sansa had watched him die at the hands of the man she had loved, the man that she had been meant to marry since she was twelve.

Joffrey had been jailed soon after that, but she had heard that his grandfather had put up the bail to get him home for the holidays. There would be a trial some time in the New Year, but she wasn’t sure when.

The new unspoken rule in the Stark household was that nothing related to Ned’s death was to be discussed. It was strange, her mother had insisted on keeping her children quite close, even Robb who was old enough to be away from home and on his own. Her older brother had moved back home from his college dorms, and Catelyn had permitted Jon to come with him. But they never spoke about what had happened, after the funeral (ninety-two days ago, an occasion she had marked on her calendar with a black x) her father’s name left no one’s lips.

Sansa had meant to start college herself in September, but she had withdrawn for the semester after Ned’s death. She had become a ghost in the house, moving quietly from room to room and shrinking away from her family’s eyes and ears as much as she was able. Though she understood that no one blamed her, and even the most rational part of her mind told her firmly that she was not at fault, a sort of guilt had taken hold of her. For two months, it had felt good, in a sick sort of way, to allow the less rational part of her mind to fill her body with regret so fully that it often spilled out in sobs that shook her so hard that a few times she had thrown up.

But it was December then, and she was tired. Sansa was tired of crying, tired of blaming herself, and most of all tired of the silence that lay between her and her family so thickly that she sometimes wondered if she would choke on it. By eleven that night everyone was asleep. Or rather, everyone had retreated to their own rooms and shut the doors tightly behind them.

She had decided to go for a walk, movement would perhaps dissipate the emotion that laid so heavily inside of her, but light spilled out from under her brother Robb’s door, and all at once she had become determined to break the silence instead. There would be no need to treat the symptoms of her sadness if she could instead stab at what she thought to be the root of the problem.

Anxiety gripped her when she raised her hand to knock, asking permission invited the possibility of refusal, and she was determined not to be denied her opportunity. So instead Sansa pushed open the door, relieved to find the eldest of her siblings sitting up in bed with a book on his lap. His dog, Greywind, slept on a round bed near his window, and raised his head to look at her blankly a moment before settling back in to sleep.

“Sansa? Is everything alright?”

Even a simple question felt like a comfort, and after allowing her brother’s strong voice to wash over her, she would nod before entering the room fully, shutting the door behind her.

“I want…” But that wasn’t right, the desperation she felt told her that it was more than that, so the teen would correct herself. “I need to talk to someone.”

Robb’s only response to that would be a nod, and he would set his book aside before patting the spot on the bed beside him. “About what?”

As she approached the bed, kicking off the shoes she had put on to go walking before settling on it, Sansa realized that what she craved wasn’t a dialogue. She had been hearing her own voice in her head for months on end, and she wanted someone else’s voice to fill her now, and push out every one of the bad emotions that had gathered within her.

“Dad.” Her older brother actually winced slightly, as if she had sworn at him, but Sansa would ignore this as she curled up on the bed beside him, settling her head on her hands in his lap and allowing a smile to pick at the corners of her mouth when his hands moved rest on her long red hair. It was comforting, to be this close to another person after months of self imposed loneliness, and she would allow her eyes to drift shut as she spoke once more. “Tell me your favorite memory of him.”

She loved that he didn’t ask why, and only hesitated a moment before telling about the time he was seven, and Ned had given him and Jon skates for Christmas, and had spent the afternoon teaching them on the pond that was near the back of their property. Sansa can see everything as he describes it, and as he describes how good he had felt after doing his first lap around the ice without falling she can feel herself beginning to drift.

His voice is perfect, and as she half-heartedly fights the way her mind wants to slip unconscious she wonders why she hadn’t noticed that before. She thinks that he can perhaps sense the way his words put her at ease, and he begins drawing out the story, describing the rest of the day the best he can remember it.

When Sansa wakes up, she is in her own bed and light is streaming through her thin curtains. She is at first confused, not only because of where she is but because she feels more rested then she remembers being in a long time, and the sensation is almost alien to her. Pulling her legs up to her chest, the teen reflects on the night previous, and she finds the last thing she remembers is Robb describing the family settling down for dinner.

She finds him sitting in the living room later on that day, and this time he moves to rest his head in her lap, and she wonders which instinct it is that draws her hands to his thick curls. It’s her turn to talk then, and while she describes the father-daughter dance at her high school graduation, Sansa is surprised to find that she’s smiling.
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

He had three names.


He had been called Snow when he was born because he had come to his parents in the middle of a fierce storm. Snow had always thought he would be a farmer. He had married a farmer’s daughter seventeen years and five days after he had been born. Her name had been Ygritte, and she had fire red hair and a spirit to match. They had lived in a small house on his father’s land, and Snow had continued to work his father’s fields.

Life had been simple for a year, and good. Ygritte’s belly had yet to swell, but that was not for a lack of trying. The spring after his eighteenth year, news came from the south. The Romans were invading, clearing through the larger tribes that lived in the south as if they were nothing, and moving north like an all-consuming swarm of locusts.

There was a call to fight, for all able-bodied men to come and drive the Roman invaders back. Snow went, it was his duty and he was young enough to believe those with heart could beat the large army that came.

They did not win, it was a massacre.

Snow saw the lands of his father and his father’s friends burned to the ground, scorched and salted to assure that they never had the means or the mind to rise again. He saw the eldest and the youngest members of his family slaughtered, the ones who would be too weak to survive the march back to Rome. He had watched his elder brother’s body fall on the field, and his sisters taken to be captives of the conquering generals.

But what hurt his heart the most was when his wife Ygritte was killed as if she were nothing. Her spirit was too high to allow her to bend, and though Snow had screamed for her to do as she was told, she had spat in the face of the man who had tried to overpower her, and slashed her hand down to tear at his eyes.

Snow’s scream of agony as she was run through the sword was the last sound he would make, and he was aware of little as he was pulled into formation, and he was aware of little for the next few days. He was forced to come to reality when he was pushed into a river, a man shouting crudely in his language that they should all bathe and drink, for it would be their last opportunity to do so for many days. It was there he made his vow, they might take his body, and bend it to their will, but his mind and heart would remain his own. And as long as his mind and heart were his, he’d not speak, for the mouth was a tool of the inner self.

Because of this, in the following two months it took to return to Rome, Snow became known as Ghost. He supposed his silence was unsettling, and that was the reason that they beat him with such severity. But he endured, and though he couldn’t stop the occasional cry from escaping his throat, his mouth never formed words, not even to cry for mercy.

They never hurt him too badly, and after a while Ghost understood that was because he had value. He was young, and his body was strong and unbroken. Rumors spread about being sent to the gladiator pits, but most were convinced that they would be auctioned off in private sales. After all, that was where the most money was to be made.

He had watched the moon carefully as they travelled south, and Ghost had counted two full cycles since the day that he had seen hell. He was thinner, eating wasn’t as good as it had been at this home, but he was stronger, and his muscle had grown from all of their walking. Ghost hadn’t been able to sleep much at first, his mind had filled with nightmarish images every time he closed his eyes, but after several weeks of movement his body had screamed for sleep and he hadn’t been able to keep his eyes open. Thankfully, his sheer exhaustion kept his mind clear of dreams, and slowly Ghost allowed himself to slip away from the man he used to be.

Rome was unlike anything he had ever seen. There had only been small farming settlements where he had grown up, and though he had heard tales of cities that stretched off into the horizon he had never seen one himself. They had passed through large cities on their way to the capital, and though Ghost had thought they were big, they were nothing compared to Rome.

They were not marched to the center of the city, as soon as they were inside of the walls they were lead along to buildings that were lined with cages and people. Guards began to pull people out of the line, dragging them in front of older men in crisp white togas who poked and prodded and examined. Ghost thought he should have perhaps been afraid, but how could one be afraid of this when they had been through hell?

After the man passed judgment on him, Ghost was pushed along to a cold, dank room in which they dumped water on him several times. Before he could begin to enjoy the dirt and dust of the road being washed from his body, Ghost was pushed again, and given a cloth to dry his body with and then a simple white linen that could be wrapped around his waist.

He waited in the cage for hours, pressed against the other men around him and wondering why they were made to clean themselves if they were to be made to stand and sweat in the dust of the building. He could just barely see the sun beginning to set in the sky when the guards finally came to open the doors of the cage. They were lead through corridors that he couldn’t even count and past so many people the faces blurred in his mind before having their arms tied tightly in front of them and being lead up onto a wooden stage.

The roof was open, so the natural light of the sun filtered the room, but there were many torch stands lining the stage as well, and Ghost found he didn’t have to strain to catch sight of the audience that was slowly filtering into the stone benches that lined the rest of the room. They were all dressed as Romans, in togas and sandals, but they looked much different than the guards and soldiers that he was used to seeing. There was a mix of men and women, and they ranged in age from teens to elders, and precious few looked to have the strength of, or carried themselves as, soldiers did.

Ghost stood silently, ignoring the people that came to the front of the stage to get a closer look at the men that stood there. He tried to keep his eyes focused on the back wall, allowing a quiet buzz to fill his head and push out any thoughts he had.

It was an entrance that distracted him from that task. Two guards entered first, and that caught his interest, but what captivated him was the person who entered after them, flanked by another two guards. Ghost couldn’t immediately tell if the person was a man or a woman, but he could tell that they weren’t older than sixteen summers. He thought he was perhaps dressed more finely than any of the others, in fabrics that billowed beautifully instead of hanging limply at his side. Jewelry flashed around their wrists and neck, and long brunette hair shone in the sunlight in a way that Ghost had never seen before.

His face coloured when he realized that he had been staring, and Ghost forced himself to once more fix his eyes on the back wall. The room fell silent not long after that, and soon there was a man calling out on stage in a language he didn’t understand, but recognized as being the language of the Romans. One by one, the men who had stood with him were pushed ahead, put on display, and then led away after a fierce bit of yelling.

As the sun set, Ghost was pushed ahead and he couldn’t help but let his eyes fall on the brunette that lounged on one of the front most benches. After this he would belong to someone, and he found that knowledge so incredibly strange that he could barely grasp it with his mind. Ghost allowed his arms to be raised, turning his body obediently when he was pushed to do so. He would remind himself as the shouting started that they would use his body as they willed, but his mind and heart would forever be his own.

The brunette lazily raised his hand again and again, and that filled Ghost with an emotion he couldn’t identify. As a rope with large symbols painted on it was placed around his neck, he would be led away, off the stage and to a far roomier cage than he had been in before. They didn’t need to wait as long as they had before, and before long the men were collected one by one.

He was collected by the guards who he had seen come in with the brunette, and they lead him along to the outside of the building. They were not as rough as the other guards had been, but they were quite firm. Ghost almost wanted to speak, to tell them that he had no desire to run. But even if he could break his vow, Ghost knew that the guards wouldn’t understand his language, and it was strange that that specific knowledge filled him with a sense of dread.

Outside, Ghost saw something else that he’d never seen before, and he was left wondering how many more things a person could experience in a day before their mind cried for no more. Four men almost as large as himself were carrying what looked like a cloth tent on slats, and the brunette lounged on pillows in the middle of it. Ghost was tied to the back of the tent, and the brunette shifted on the pillows so they could face one another.

Now that he was so close, he could see that the brunette was male, prettier than any man he had seen before, but a man all the same. Ghost could also see that his eyes were a piercing blue, and he stared at him so intently that the man who had once been called Snow felt small under his gaze. He was tempted to turn away, but he’d remind himself that wasn’t an option. Ghost would stand strong if nothing else.

His resolve crumbled when the younger man reached for him. Instinct that had been sharpened by the last two horrible months of his life had Ghost flinching away sharply, curling his body down and away as trembles ran down his bare back. He heard someone bark something short, and before he knew what was happening there was a hand in his dark curls, pulling his head up and holding him steady. He had no choice but to let the other touch his face then, and Ghost would shut his eyes tightly as if that would shut out his terror.

The brunette’s touch was far gentler than he had expected it would be, and Ghost could almost feel himself relaxing as he felt fingers move softly against the scruff on his jaw, moving up to stroke the deep circles under his eyes, and higher still to press against the worry winkles that had collected on his forehead. He was only aware that the hand in his hair had released him when the brunette’s hands slid down to his neck and finally moved away from his head.

They started moving then, and every time Ghost lifted his head up to look ahead of him, his eyes would almost immediately meet the brunette’s. It confused him that such an obviously important person would prefer to look at him, a slave, instead of the large city around them, but he knew it wasn’t his place to question anything. The streets were dark by the time the procession stopped moving, but Ghost noticed that torches lit the cobbled streets well enough for them to be able to see.

He almost mistook the villa they stopped in front of for another small village, the buildings and pillars rising above walls that stood taller than he did. The heavy gate opened slowly, and Ghost would have been embarrassed over how he stared with wonder, craning his head from side to side like a child if he had been aware that he was doing it. But as it was, his general exhaustion and hunger and fear were too high to allow him to be aware of much else.

In the courtyard, their procession would come to a halt, and men who Ghost assumed to be servants from their plain dress in comparison to the brunette that sat in the tent rushed forwards to help the younger man down. Once he was on his feet, he pointed towards Ghost, speaking sharply. The guards came to untie his hands from the wooden slats, but they did not fully release him, leaving his hands tied in front of him. He was lead towards the brunette, and he would smile at him warmly before wrapping one of his small hands around the rope that kept Ghost’s hands tied.

Ghost was pulled forwards, led along by the smaller brunette through many corridors and open rooms until they stopped in one with a large basin in the middle. There were many other people standing in the room, but the brunette paid little attention to them. Instead he turned to Ghost, continuing to smile as he carefully untied his hands, rubbing his much smaller ones up and down his wrists quickly to ease some of the bruising and red marks left by the rope.

The brunette spoke to him as he worked on his wrists, but Ghost understood none of it so he kept his head down. It seemed, however, that displeased the brunette, and the younger man’s hands would move upwards, tilting his head upwards so his grey eyes met the other’s piercing blues. He continued to speak, his voice changing until words came from him that Ghost recognized.

That startled him badly, and Ghost would have flinched away from the younger man again if he had not placed his hands in his thick hair. “Shh, calm yourself Northman. You’ll not be harmed here, so long as you behave correctly.” The brunette’s tone was soothing, and Ghost understood him clearly although his accent was quite thick. He would continue to hush him quietly until he stood straight once more, his eyes meeting the other’s eyes.

“Good. Now, tell me your name.” Ghost said nothing, he had not spoken in so long that speaking seemed like an impossible thing, and even if he could speak, he was determined not to break his vow. The child in front of him may own his body, but his mind and heart were still his own, and he was determined to keep it that way. The brunette waited for a while before his mouth turned into a frown, and he gripped his thick black curls tightly, giving his head a rough shake.

“Do not defy me, Northman. I will not tolerate disobedience, so if you value your life, then speak and tell me your name.” Ghost whimpered and cringed slightly, and slowly, the younger man’s expression would soften. “Can you not speak then? Well, I wish they had told us that at the auction, but no matter. No voice means that you have one less opportunity to defy me, doesn’t it? But you still need a name. Get in the bath and let us think on it.”

As the brunette went to settle on a pile of large pillows away from the edge of the bath, guards would step forwards to take away Jon’s simple linen covering and quickly help him down into the tub. Servants stepped forwards, and under the brunette’s instruction they would begin to cut his curls shorter, and shave the beard he had grown down into fine stubble.

“You will be my new bodyguard. That means that your life means nothing without mine, Northman. Do you understand this? If you fail in your duty to protect me, then you will die as well, and I think you still value your life, do you not?” The brunette paused, “Then I guess you should know my name. You don’t speak, so you’ll call me nothing, but you are to think of me as Master Satin. And you… I think we’ll call you Jon. A simple name for a simple man… Yes, it fits.”
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

Louis Ford was good at running away.

That was why he could take the Texas assignment. A year ago, when his wife had found out that the pain in her abdomen wasn’t stress, but cancer, he had kissed her and held her, and then taken the three week long assignment on the protests in New York.

New York wasn’t that far away from Portland, Maine, where they lived with their three-year-old son, but it was far enough to hurt her and protect himself. When he was interviewing protesters and working furiously to get eight thousand words for Time in before the deadline there wasn’t room to think about the words ‘Inoperable’, ‘Survival rate’, or ‘alternative options’. All there was to think about was work and how much he could drink and still get up the next day.

In the six months that followed his return home, he had watched Emily slowly die. There was nothing else they could do, the cancer ripped through her like wildfire, leaving nothing but boney, broken flesh in its wake. A few days before the light in her sharp green eyes went dull forever, she finally told him about what she had planned for their son, Logan’s future.

When he had gone to New York, she had met with their lawyers and she had seen to it that her parents would gain custody when she died. She told him he could fight it and probably win too, but they both knew that at twenty eight, even after four years of marriage and three years of fatherhood, standing his ground wasn’t what he was good at. And she didn’t want to think about the possibility of him leaving Logan like he left her when things got hard.

It wasn’t so bad, Emily’s parents lived only a few streets away from them, and they had promised that he could visit or take Logan for a few days whenever he wanted. They never broke their promise, not once in the six months that followed her death, but when the boy that looked so much like his late wife studied him in his living room, Louis had to wonder if perhaps Grandma and Grandpa didn’t give him the most glowing reviews… Not that he blamed them.

His editor had approached him cautiously with the assignment. An extremely prolific serial killer that had been working in Texas for the better part of five years had finally been caught, and it was shaping up to be the story of the decade. They wanted the rest of the case covered, and then the trial and sentencing as well. They wanted full features on the guy’s past, and interviews with the victim’s families. It would be a long job.

“I’m only offering because you’re one of the best investigative reporters we have that’s willing to travel, Louis. And Dan and Christine are in D.C. right now… You don’t have to take it. I know you want to be home with your son-“

“I’ll take it.” He didn’t have to think twice. Three months away from the pity of his friends and family and the aching loneliness of an empty bed sounded like heaven. And for just one second, he saw that look cross his editor’s face.

Everyone had assumed he didn’t know Emily was sick, and it wasn’t an assumption he had bothered to correct, but he knew they were beginning to wonder. Louis didn’t want to think about what would happen when everyone figured out he was a coward, and a few months in Texas sounded like a godsend at the moment.

So that was how he ended up in the small town south of Austin (where the trial would take place) that Marques Elias had been born in. The magazine had provided him with some assistant, some third year photojournalism student who was supposed to take the pictures, spellcheck, and whatever the hell else he wanted him to do, and currently the kid was trying to find him a cup of coffee before his 9AM appointment with the Elias’s neighbors.

It was going to be a long day.
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

Loras believed in raising the bar. He believed that seduction should be an art form, a careful dance that took time and culminated in a session of if not lengthy, at least creative fucking. Fucking didn’t have to be your end game; seduction for the sake of advancement was perfectly acceptable, but ten minutes bent over (or under) a desk was hardly memorable and not the kind of thing one should base future plans upon.

So he had little compassion for his female coworkers at Baratheon Electronics Inc. who complained when simply wearing a low cut blouse and allowing the head of the company to crawl up their (dated) skirts wasn’t enough to pull them out of the intern pool and grant them a steady job. Not that a job at B.E.I. was some prize to be coveted, the most basic research would reveal that the company was in a downward spiral, and their key investors (the Lannister family and their various enterprises) were simply biding their time and sharpening their teeth until it would be possible to sink them into the bloated carcass of B.E.I.’s once great empire.

The problem was that Robert (the head of the company) cared more about what was up an intern’s skirt than he did about the state of his company’s stock, and he left major decisions to his board of directors. So it was there that Loras turned his attention, evaluating the members until he found Renly, Robert’s younger brother.

If Loras could have chosen a picture to put in the dictionary under ‘handsome’ he would have selected one of Renly in one of the navy blue suits he was so fond of, smiling that charismatic smile that the intern was sure got him laid often.

It was clear Renly cared little for the way Robert ran his company, but he lacked either the ambition or the confidence to make a power play of his own. And it was there that Loras saw an opportunity. Well, perhaps that was a lie because the first time he saw an opportunity was when he caught Renly staring at him during a shareholder meeting. The younger Baratheon hadn’t looked away, but had instead quirked an eyebrow as if he were asking the intern what he intended to do about the attention.

And so began a two-week long period of flirtation that grew progressively more bold, though both men were careful to be discreet. At the staff Christmas party, Loras decided to up the ante and caught Renly alone in the hallway that lead to the bathrooms, pushing him in to an empty meeting room.

Renly seemed content to let him take charge and he enjoyed that, all too often sex with a higher up meant that you were in for an evening of being bossed around and that got terrifically boring after a while. Though their kissing began against the door, Loras soon had the other man on his back on the table in the middle of the room, his hands placed firmly on his hips as the intern busied himself with the removal of his partner’s suit jacket and dress shirt.

Ever the planner, he had placed a few condoms in his own suit jacket’s pockets, and he approves of the way Renly asks if he’s brought protections while his hands move from simply resting on his hips to undo his belt. The Baratheon man clearly means business, and Loras barely has to assist him with pulling down the boxer-briefs he wears with his pants.

Soon they are both naked, and the intern slides off the table to kneel in front of Renly. He has a neat little trick where he uses his mouth to roll the condom down the other man’s cock, and he feels the excited way that Renly pulls his long blonde hair out of the simple elastic he uses to keep it back is a good indication of his approval.

Loras kisses his way back up his partner’s body as he crawls back onto the table, and before long he’s riding Renly, his hair falling off of his shoulders and behind him as he arches his back prettily and grips the other man’s knees for support. Their shared moans drown out the faint sounds of music and laughter from the party down the hall, and the intern enjoys the way his boss’s nails dig into his hips as they increase their tempo.

The way that Renly makes sure he reaches orgasm first impresses Loras as well (though his boss follows him over the edge quickly enough afterwards), and he reflects on this as he presses his body into the side of his partner’s when they are finished. They are both quiet for a while, Renly with an arm draped around his shoulders and he tracing patterns into the other man’s chest as they both catch their breath.

He had intended to bring up the state of the company after their first fuck, but it had been much nicer than he had been expecting, and Loras decides that can wait, and he will spend his time basking in the afterglow instead. After all, he is sure this would not be a one-night-only performance, and there will be plenty of time later to plot Renly Baratheon’s rise to power.
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

Jon Snow liked angel cake.

Satin had first discovered the pink and yellow confection in a plain white box in their fridge, which he had opened in a fit of curiosity. He had expected cannoli (the agent had a passion for the ones made in a small Italian bakery not too far from their apartment), or even possibly red velvet cupcakes from Satin’s own preferred bakery. Instead he found an incredibly spongey cake that he thought might have looked more at home at a little girl’s tea party than in two grown men’s fridge.

He couldn’t help but wonder if the other agents in the Seattle office of the FBI knew about it. It seemed ludicrous to him that such a small bit of brightly coloured cake could cause any trouble, but then again he’d never claimed to understand much about people.

One of the people he had thought he had understood was Jon. They had dated briefly in New York, a million years ago when Jon was still a beat cop and Satin had still been pushing at the fine line between ‘escort’ and ‘hooker’. He was younger than the man by a few years but Satin remembered feeling so much older when they were together. Jon was like a puppy with the way he loved too much and too fast and eagerly followed you around waiting for scraps of your affection. He had always liked Jon, but the first time around the way Jon had wanted them to be halfway to married after a few weeks had been simply to much for them and they had broken things off.

They kept in contact in the years that followed that; nothing official but every once in a while Jon would text, or he would write the agent an email and then they’d meet for coffee and catch up. At some point the previous year Jon had stopped texting, and Satin simply assumed that he’d been busy. So it was a complete surprise when he heard from him a month before they moved to Seattle together.

He still looked like a puppy when they met for coffee, but more like one that’d been kicked one too many times than the happy, hopeful thing he’d once known. Satin had assumed that it had been Ygritte at first; many of Jon Snow’s troubles seemed to trace back to the fiery red-head and she had this neat trick of understanding exactly how to make the man self-destruct.

It wasn’t until much later that he understood that it had been someone else all together, but in that moment he didn’t worry about it. Jon had wanted to tell him that he’d accepted a transfer to the Seattle office, and without really thinking about it Satin offered to go with him. It seemed to him that one could be an unemployed writer on the west coast just as well as one could on the east, and before he knew it they had their things packed in a U-Haul and they were driving across the country with the agent’s massive beast of a dog sandwiched between them.

Satin had been itching to ask exactly what it was that could make a man move clear across the country from a family that he had an almost symbiotic relationship with, but after a week or two of studying Jon he’d decided against asking about it.

And that was the point where he realized that he didn’t understand the agent as well as he once had. As oppressive as Jon’s love had been, it had been something he could understand and trace back to his home life. But this new Jon who brooded and stalked as quietly around their apartment as that damn dog of his did was an entirely different kind of beast.

He fucked Satin as well as he ever did (Gods help him, Jon had even gotten better) but there was a certain cold distance to the man that hadn’t been there before. Jon was English so naturally it was a very polite cold distance, but it was there all the same. And it left Satin wondering exactly where he stood. Sure, you could move clear across the country with a guy and let him fuck you every night until you were a screaming, gibbering wreck but the social code that everyone imposed on themselves meant that you weren’t allowed to ask about someone else’s mental anguish. No, that shit was private.

So he put the angel cake back in the fridge, where he intended to ignore it politely, as if it were some deep, terrible secret and not a bit of egg and flour that had been baked until spongey.

Their weeks spent living together weren’t easy ones, and by the third Satin was certain he would have preferred screaming fights to the silence and the way they seemed to quietly withdraw to different parts of the apartment to stare listlessly at the wall, or at one another.

But there had been progress too. Jon had started wrapping his arms around him in the night, after Satin was sure that the agent thought he was sleeping. He had come home one night with a new laptop for him to write on, and though he hadn’t actually presented it to him he had marked his name on it neatly and stuck one of those shiny red bows you could buy at the drugstore for a buck on it and left it on his half of the bed. Which was sweet, in a really repressed sort of way.

Still, the cake and everything it represented nagged at him. He could feel it sitting there, in its little white box in the fridge as if it were emitting a beacon of light. If the cake could talk (at this point he had given up trying to tell himself he wasn’t being reasonable and had instead chosen to indulge the feeling) Satin was sure it would do so very snidely. It would smirk like a first year university student who thought they understood everything about the world after one semester and ask him if this wasn’t really what he wanted. After all, he’d spent the entirety of their relationship before pushing the agent away, so shouldn’t he be pleased that the hulking giant finally knew his place? He wouldn’t even tell Jon his real name so what right did he have to know about what had happened to him in their years apart.

Twenty minutes before Jon was due home Satin finally decided he could take the bastard cake’s taunting no more. He yanked the box as violently from the fridge as one could yank a box that weighed next to nothing and he slammed the door shut as if the appliance had been a part of the whole thing.

When Jon came home, he was greeted by the sight of the cake arranged neatly on a plate on their kitchen table. Before he could ask about it Satin would wrap his arms around the agent’s neck, burying his fingers in the man’s thick curls as he gently tugged on Jon’s hair so the man would look him in the eye.

“Hello. My name is Shane Wirth and I’d like to get to know you better.” Fuck secrets. He was ready to start writing their story.
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

The weather was miserable. Summer had finally turned to fall, and the change of the seasons brought a good deal of rain. Then again, in San Francisco, that was hardly unusual. However, that didn’t make the weather any less miserable for Jon, and on days like this he really started to miss New York.

But he couldn’t have stayed, there was too much guilt and pain after Ned died and Robb had asked him to take a position in Stark’s legal department. He wanted to very badly, and that was the problem. He had already been working for the DA’s office for a year when his father died, and he couldn’t move to the private sector after that. It was obvious to him that his calling was to prosecute, to serve what he saw as the greater good.

So he took the job that was clear across the country; away from the Starks, the Lannisters, and the oppressive memory of Ned’s legacy and Catelyn’s disapproving stare. It was away from his family and friends too, and that was where the only real regret came in. San Francisco was lonely for Jon, even though he did make friends with some of the other ADAs in the office. He ended up getting a dog, some gigantic white mutt that followed him home after jogging one morning and never made a sound that Jon found himself getting particularly fond of.

There was a plus side, however. He had only been in the new city for a year and he was already moving up the chain, the DA had seen fit to give him his own legal assistant, to help with the legwork on his cases. This was his last interview after a week of them, though Jon didn’t see this one ending that well.

The kid claimed to be twenty-two, but Jon thought he was a good deal younger. It wasn’t his eyes; they were dark and filled with experience that made him look older than Jon. The dark-haired youth was thin and tall, and his hair actually curled in ringlets (which Jon could only assume was natural) that framed a surprisingly pretty face. He had his name listed only as ‘Satin’, and he wore dark jeans and a button-up shirt that had obviously seen better days. And to top it all off, a cursory background check had revealed that Satin had never been to college, much less graduated as a legal assistant.

But the kid was trying, and Jon didn’t have it in him to throw him out on the street. For the first time in his life he was seeing the people that were not part of the society he grew up in. Five years ago Satin would have been a one-dimensional person to Jon, just a hooker from Polk Street trying to pull some scam. And if he ever saw him again he wouldn’t have really seen him, Satin would have just blended into the streets like the other lost people used to.

It was his pride that impressed Jon the most; he held his chin high and never shied away from making eye contact. He stayed calm and his voice never wavered, even when it was clear that he didn’t know how to answer Jon’s questions. Snow couldn’t give him the job in the end, but he couldn’t just let him walk out either. Collecting strays was a passion of his, and something about Satin called to him.

And where would he go if Jon just let him walk away? Would the kid keep trying to get out of the life or would he just go back to Polk Street to pick up a habit, or worse, a pimp? Ned Stark’s bastard always had trouble with the concept of people surviving without his help or interference.

Jon didn’t miss the flash of distrust in the kid’s eyes when he invited him to dinner, and he shrugged off his decline of the invitation with a soft smile. “If you change your mind, I’ll be at the diner that’s two blocks south from here from five to say… Seven?”

Satin didn’t show up until seven-thirty. He approached Jon warily, like a dog that had been kicked too many times. He knew that he was being sized up, so the lawyer did his best to appear completely non-threatening.

“I thought you said you were only staying until seven.”

Jon shrugged, “Service is always slow here.” He wouldn’t say that he would have waited all night if he had to; the point was not to spook the kid. He also managed to resist the urge to order him something more substantial than the grilled cheese, and to keep his mouth shut while Satin ate. When he finished, Jon would do his best to coax some more information out of him.

“Satin, why did you apply for that job?”

“You’ve already asked me that.” His tone was calm and almost cold, and Jon knew he was being assessed once more.

“I know, but I’m not asking you as an interviewer now.”

“What are you asking me as, then?”

He would consider this for a few moments before answering with a shrug. “A concerned citizen, I guess.”

It was Satin’s turn to consider things before answering. “Why does anyone apply for a job? I need a job; I looked in the classifieds and saw that one. It looked like something I could do, so I applied.”

“I see.”

They were both quiet then; Jon sipping at his coffee while Satin traced the bottom of his own glass with one well-chewed fingernail.

“I can’t give you the legal assistant job,” his tone was entirely apologetic, “But I do want to help. Where are you living now?”

“Does it matter?”

“No, I suppose not. I live near Pacific Heights,” Jon ignored Satin’s eye roll (Pacific Heights was a neighborhood known for its affluence), “And I’ve been thinking of getting a… Live in assistant.” That was a lie, but if he talked his boss into giving him a raise instead of an assistant he could probably swing it. He knew how it sounded the second he said it, but he also knew that trying to explain himself would just make it sound worse.

Satin did not respond immediately, and instead chose to study Jon through narrowed eyes. He knew that the kid was trying to figure out what his angle was, but the dark-haired young lawyer didn’t really have an answer for him. He wasn’t even sure what he was trying to accomplish.




It took a few weeks, but eventually the kid settled on the futon in his spare room. Things were going well, Satin took care of the house and dog during the day, and Jon could usually count on him to have something to eat ready when he came home. The other man also took care of the other meaningless tasks that Jon hated, like grocery shopping and going to the dry cleaners. All in all, it meant he had more time to spend at the office, and that had been the point.

Eventually he fond out more about Satin, like that the kid was barely twenty instead of twenty-two, and that he hadn’t finished high school. He had run away from his parents’ house when he was sixteen, though he refused to talk about where that had been or why he had left. The only other things he refused to discuss were his real name (he had been Satin since leaving home, and he had told Jon he could guess where he had gotten it from, which made the older man blush), and any of the specifics about why he wanted to stop whoring.

And in return, Jon did his best to answer every question Satin asked him. He told him about growing up as Ned Stark’s bastard, and in his brother Robb’s shadow. They talked about law school, and why he had decided to move out to the West Coast when Ned died.

That evening, they had talked about getting Satin his GED, and Jon was relieved to notice that some of the distrust that the younger man had used to show when Jon tried to help him was leaving. It seemed he was accepting that Jon just wanted to help, and nothing else, or so Snow thought. The lawyer also that he was successfully hiding his attraction to the other man. It didn’t bother him that he was attracted to a man (especially one as pretty as Satin), he had known for a while that he preferred men. That just wasn’t what he wanted from the kid, sex for room and board. Satin had wanted out of that life, and in Jon’s mind having a relationship with him could only be that sort of relationship.

He had gone to bed early, he had to be in court in the morning. Jon had been at the point that was half way between asleep and awake when he heard his door creak open. Bleary with sleep, he rolled over to face the door, surprised to see Satin standing there naked. Doing his best to ignore that, Jon would attempt to focus his eyes on the younger man’s.

“Hey, did you need something?”

“No.” With that, the younger man was crawling into Jon’s bed, moving under the covers and pressing his lanky body to the lawyer’s. Satin pulled his arms around his body, and before Jon could think to protest they were kissing. It was only when he felt the younger man pulling at his pajama pants that he had the presence of mind to put a stop to it.

He pulled his hands down to Satin’s, grasping them firmly before pulling them away. “Satin, no.” Jon regretted his tone the moment he heard it, it was entirely condescending, and he sounded as if he were scolding the dog.

The younger man froze, and then pulled away completely and left the room quickly. Jon couldn’t read his expression, but he could take a guess at Satin’s feelings about the manner when he heard him storm out of the house a few minutes later.

Sighing when Ghost trotted into his room to see what all the fuss had been about, Jon would hold out a hand for the mutt to lick. “You still like me, don’t you?” Ghost’s only response would be to huff once before jumping up on Jon’s bed to sleep.


Jon didn’t know if Satin came back home during the day over the following few days, the next time he saw him was the evening three days after the incident. He was there when Jon got home from the office, sullenly poking at pasta in the kitchen. They greeted each other as if nothing had happened, Jon didn’t really want to talk about it and he certainly didn’t want to know where the boy had gone. He had a sneaking suspicion that particular piece of information would make his skin crawl.

They continued in that stasis for a few days, tiptoeing around one another and pretending there was nothing to say. Jon didn’t mind that either, he had grown up not talking about anything in a family that didn’t talk about anything, and he found the repression oddly comforting.

It was Satin who broke it, of course. The younger man came to sit on the couch with him while he was watching the eleven o’clock news. He was quiet and still for the top two stories, but when they moved on to sports Satin moved to straddle Jon in one fluid movement, grabbing his dark hair quite firmly before kissing him. The younger man was more insistent than he had been several nights ago, his kisses were passionate and rough, and he moved his hips in Jon’s lap in a purposeful way that had the grey-eyed older man grasping at the other’s hips.

He told himself that he wanted to pull away but couldn’t, Satin was pushing him quite firmly into the back of the couch and there was nowhere for him to pull to. It wasn’t until the younger man moved back slightly so he could shove his hands up Jon’s plain black shirt that he told himself it was time to get a handle on the situation. Trying to ignore the way that Satin’s fingers and jagged nails ran up his abdomen, Jon would move his hands to the black-haired young man’s shoulders, pushing him back enough so he could speak.

“Satin, stop. I don’t want to-hngh-“ The dark haired young man cut him off with a vicious pinch to one of Jon’s nipples that had him bucking his hips involuntarily.

“Yes you do, Snow.”

But he remained strong, and kept his arms on the other’s thin shoulders. “No, I mean, you don’t want to-“

“Yes I do.” Again Satin managed to cut Jon off, this time emphasizing his point with a well-practiced roll of his hips that had the older man painfully and achingly aware that they were both very aroused.

“Gods damn you Satin, listen to me.” His voice was hoarse enough for him to be embarrassed about it, but he couldn’t let that bother him. This was so important. “We can’t. We can’t. You’re trying to get out of… I pay you to help me, and you don’t want to do that again.” It was funny how he lost his ability to form competent sentences when he was hard.

He had been expecting a negative reaction, after all the last time he had rejected Satin the other man had left his house for days… But he hadn’t expected this. The normally calm man went from zero to furious in a few seconds, his dark eyes narrowing to slits as he pulled his hands out from under Jon’s shirt.

“You… Insensitive… Asshole!” Every word was punctuated with a slam of Satin’s fists to Jon’s shoulders, and Jon could do nothing but stare up at the younger man helplessly. “What, because I used to turn tricks I can’t want to fuck someone I like? Do you know how insulting that is? I’m not some helpless… Fucking… Boy you have to save. I… Am not… Fucking… Damaged.”

Satin finished with a final furious smack before standing, and stomping off to his room. Jon thought he was being spared, and he was still trying to compose himself when Satin stormed back in, something clutched in his right hand and dark eyes flashing dangerously.

“It’s about money? Fine- Here-“ Satin had been holding folded bills, and he angrily shoved them into Jon’s hand. “Money. Now we’re even. Now you can look at me like a person and not some kind of project.” His normally pale skin was flushed with anger, and his dark eyes were glassy with tears. “Now look at me.” It was with great effort that Jon brought his eyes to meet Satin’s, but once they made contact he did not advert them.


The first few months of their relationship did not go smoothly. They lived together, and that did place a strain on things. But in the end it did not break them, their personalities were simply too compatible. Jon wanted the acceptance and the intimacy; he wanted these things as desperately as Satin wanted the respect, and the opportunity to be viewed as an equal rather than someone to be pitied or scorned.

And they both wanted the love. It grew between them easily, despite the fact that the ease with which it came confused (and frightened) them both. But it fit, they fit, and neither man saw any sense in attempting to fight it once they had worked out the specifics of their relationship. Jon helped Satin find a different job as a receptionist, and soon they settled into a comfortable routine.

At first they often slept apart, it was a good three months before Satin started staying in Jon’s bed when they had finished, and another before he started to move his own things into Jon’s bedroom, and it became their bedroom.



“Oh Gods, Jon, harder-“ They were tangled in the bed sheets, Jon on top with his arms wrapped protectively around Satin, who was dragging his nails in familiar tracks down the lawyer’s back. He wanted to comply with Satin’s demands, but he could not, it was not in his nature. Even when he was passionate Jon was a tender lover who moved slowly and with purpose.

It had surprised him that Satin was his opposite, the younger man was always quite calm and collected, and he had not heard him so much as raise his voice in anger since that argument five months ago. But in bed he was demanding and loud, and knew how to make expert use of his teeth and nails, and how to pull and pinch with his fingers just so. Not that Jon was complaining, not only did it feel unspeakably good, but it left a litany of marks along his previously flawless skin that were exciting in their own right. He couldn’t help but remember how he had gotten each of the bruises, scratches, and bite marks every time he dressed. And he couldn’t help but wonder what his colleagues would think of him if they could see the state of his skin under his expensive suits.

“Harder, fuck me faster- Please-“ His response was to nuzzle lovingly into the younger man’s neck, and that was certainly not enough for Satin, who responded by sharply tugging on Jon’s dark curls, “Gods damn you Snow, are you even listening to me?” He would give a half-hearted squeeze of the younger man’s shoulders in response, barely digging his nails in, which had his lover huffing and rolling out form under him to turn on the light on the nightstand. Because Jon hadn’t finished, he whined a little when the other left him, reaching for him only to have his hands smacked away.

They were both breathing hard, and Satin sat with his arms crossed in front of his thin chest while Jon rested his head on his boyfriend’s knee. The other man’s lightly annoyed expression did not change, even when Jon gave him his best ‘puppy dog’ look.

“Jon, I love you. I love you and I love how you are with me, but you don’t know how to fuck.”

“Yes I do.” His response was automatic, and his tone was slightly hurt, “What do you call what we’ve been doing then?”

“Making love.”

He would consider this quietly for a few moments, nuzzling into Satin’s knee before responding. “Well that’s good, isn’t it? I mean, that’s the end goal when you love someone, to make love to them.”

Jon watched Satin roll his dark eyes before reaching out to pet his dark hair affectionately. “Yes, but not every time. It gets boring when it’s the same all of the time, doesn’t it? You can be rough with me, you know. Not only will it not break me, but I like it.”

Jon muttered to himself that it wasn’t the same every time, but shut up when his lover pulled on his hair. “But what if I hurt you?” His voice was low, and betrayed a little of his concern about the matter. He was stronger than his boyfriend, and the thought of actually hurting him was enough to send a chill down his spine.

“Jesus, Jon. Then I’ll tell you to stop. I promise you won’t though, not in a way I don’t like, anyway.”

He considered this quietly for a few moments before giving in. “Fine then, Mr. Sexpert, show me how to fuck.”

With a grin that was about a mile wide, Satin would use his grip on Jon’s hair to yank him upwards, forcing him to crawl upwards on the bed between his long legs. Taking his cock in one hand, the younger man would push his lover’s head downwards with the other, moaning happily when Jon eagerly swallowed him down. His lover only released his hair when he tried to move his hands downwards, so he could stroke himself off while using his mouth on Satin.

In a move that had the younger man grinning and Jon pouting around the cock in his mouth, Satin firmly took hold of Jon’s arms, and then his hands.

“Not a chance, lover.” He’d hold the lawyer’s hands firmly while Jon continued to suck obediently, bobbing his head easily up and down Satin’s firm length. After a few moments, he would move one of Jon’s hands to his balls, and as Jon stroked them he would again feel Satin tangle his fingers in his thick hair. He would allow the other to take control of the way he moved his head then, managing not to gag as his ringlet-haired lover pushed him further and further down.

Soon the pouty look in Jon’s storm-grey eyes was replaced by one of lust, and the lewd sounds of him slurping and whimpering around the other filled the bedroom. It wasn’t long before Satin’s low moans joined the litany of noises, and soon after that his boyfriend was telling him he was going to cum.

“Swallow it,” he cried out, biting his full bottom lip, “Swallow every fucking drop.”

Jon was only too happy to oblige. He’d barely had a moment to catch his breath before Satin was pulling on his hair again, wrapping his thin arms around Jon’s broad shoulders so that they could kiss. Their mouths clashed hungrily, bruising one another as their tongues danced, Jon groaning loudly with need when he tasted the lingering traces of his lover’s cum mix with his saliva. Satin always tasted as sweet as he smelled.

He tried to grind his hips against the younger man’s, but was again denied by a quick movement of one of his boyfriend’s legs. Satin pushed his knee against Jon’s chest, and his foot against the older man’s hips so that he could not move against him, or into him, the way that he wanted too. Jon could feel him smile at the little noises of frustration he made, followed by a low moan when one of his toes brushed delicately against Jon’s aching cock.

They continued to kiss until Jon was desperate, pulling on Satin’s bottom lip with his teeth to signify his need. But his lover continued to tease him, running his jagged nails lightly down Jon’s back and occasionally giving his cock a teasing stroke with his toes. Finally Jon could take no more, and he grabbed roughly at Satin’s curls, yanking his head back.

“That’s enough.” His grey eyes were dark and churning with his want, and the way that Satin bit his bottom lip and dug his nails into Jon’s back when he pulled on his hair hand him understanding exactly what his boyfriend meant about wanting to be fucked. “I want you. Now.”

He moved back to settle on his knees, grabbing his lover’s thin sides firmly so he could roll him onto his front. Pulling Satin’s hips upwards so the other man settled on his knees, Jon would smack his perky ass firmly once before positioning himself behind the younger man. His boyfriend yelped but Jon thought it was fair payback, he always let Satin cum when he wanted to.

There was enough lube left from earlier for him to push in, and he did so quickly, whimpering along with Satin’s moans at the rough treatment. He would tangle one of his hands in the other’s hair to pull him upwards, so his thin back rested along Jon’s strong chest. After wrapping his other arm around Satin’s chest to keep him in place, he would push their bodies forwards enough so he could grasp the headboard for support while he began to thrust in and out of his lover.

When Satin dug his nails into Jon’s arm, he rewarded him with a vicious pinch to the nipple his fingers rested against, smiling when he heard the younger man begin to whimper and beg for more. Leaning in to nip at Satin’s shoulder, Jon would then turn his head to murmur into Satin’s ear.

“Is this what you meant, darling?” He would give a particularly forceful thrust that had his lover gibbering nonsense before continuing, “Is this how you like to be fucked?”

“Oh Gods, Oh Gods Jon, yesss-“ He would interrupt Satin’s words with his own moaning as his lover began to clutch at his cock with his ass, rewarding him by again digging his nails into the younger man’s nipple. “More, don’t stop, please- Oh Gods Jon please-“

Once more, he was only too happy to fulfill his lover’s requests, and Jon continued to use him as roughly as he was able. When he knew he was getting close, Jon would shift so that he could move Satin’s arms to clutch the headboard. He would keep one arm wrapped around the other’s chest, but his other hand would reach down to take hold of Satin’s cock, which was hard and throbbing once more.

“Going to cum,“ He grunted into his lover’s ear, “But not you. Don’t you dare-“

Soon after that, Jon’s orgasm overtook him, and he bit Satin’s shoulder again to muffle his screaming as he filled his lover’s ass. Panting desperately, he would pull out, ignoring Satin’s gibbering pleas to be allowed to do the same. Jon raked his teeth down the younger man’s thin back, grabbing his hips firmly. Without so much as a word, he would part his full cheeks and move his head in to lick roughly at what lay between them.

The taste of his come had him moaning right along with Satin, and Jon would work to swallow every drop his tongue could reach before beginning to bugger the other man with it. He had his lover screaming for release before Jon moved one of his hands to again grasp Satin’s cock firmly. He had barely stroked him once before Jon felt his boyfriend’s hips buck hard and his hot cum filling his hand.

Wiping his hand on the sheets, Jon would tenderly kiss his way back up Satin’s thin back before taking the trembling man into his arms. They laid close together, legs entwined as they kissed slowly. He had been surprised to find a few tears staining his lover’s cheeks, and Jon wiped them away when they broke for air.

“Did I hurt you?” Jon smiled when Satin weakly smacked his back, and then nuzzled into his lover’s neck. “I love you, Satin.”

“I love you too.”


“Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been a week since my last confession.”

Jon said nothing; he didn’t have to because he recognized the voice. You weren’t supposed to remember, but he did. The man said he was nineteen, and he claimed to work as a whore in town. For three months, he had been coming to confess every Friday evening, when the church was emptiest and Jon held private confessions. At first the young priest had tried to help the young man, asked him to come in for counseling and tried to assign penance that would help him. After a month, it had become clear that wasn’t why Satin came.

He began to tell Jon a story about a young priest he was attracted to, a young priest with dark, curly hair and grey eyes. Satin spoke about coming to mass only to watch the priest, and how he fantasized, even when he was with a client, about what it would be like to make love to him. At first Jon had tried to stop Satin from speaking about it, but the young man was persistent and soon he could do nothing but sit and listen, and try to stop his body from responding.

“I continue to sell my body to make my living… But it’s easier now that I can think of him,” Satin’s voice was smooth and wicked, but with that faux varnish of innocence that could almost make you love him. “When they hit me, or they’re rough, I can just close my eyes and think of Father Snow, and how different he would be. He’s such a passionate man in mass, but I think he’d be very tender.” He paused, and Jon could almost hear the smile that played along the whore’s lips, “Do you think he’d be tender, Father?”

Jon said nothing, balling his fists on his robe and trying to ignore the way that sweat was running down his back even though it was late November and the church ran cold. “… I guess you’re not supposed to think about that sort of thing, are you? I wonder, though. I wonder if Father Snow thinks about me. That’s wicked, isn’t it? But I know he’s seen me. When he gave mass last Sunday I felt his eyes fall on me when he held up the bread and I could tell, there was this faint glimmer of recognition…”

His neck felt tight, and unthinking, Jon reached up to tug at the white collar, the piece of cloth that was meant to remind him he was no longer part of the secular world. Satin was a good six years younger than he, and the young man should not have been able to twist him this way. But he did, and even worse, he knew what he did to Jon and seemed to enjoy it too. God help him.

“I thought about going to him after the mass.” Satin was speaking again, and Jon could do nothing but listen. “After everyone else had gone while he put away the tools of his trade. He’d take me on the altar, as tenderly as good man can-“ The whore’s narration was broken by the sound of a lighter flicking, and soon the confessional was filled with the inexplicably comforting smell of cigarette smoke. This too was something Jon had begged him not to do, but had eventually given up resisting. At least this vice calmed his nerves a little. “Right in front of God, while Jesus watched us from that cross he hangs on up high.”

Then sound of Satin exhaling loudly, and then Jon would be able to see the cigarette smoke drift through the wooden lattice that divided the rooms of the confessional, curling towards him like Satin’s voice often did when he was alone. “We’d make love facing one another, and I’d watch his doubt slowly fade from those perfect grey eyes, and be replaced by the passion he has when he speaks about God’s love.”

The other man was never more explicit with him than that, but the images of what he described came as they always did. Jon could see them on the altar, see the way the heavy cloth that sat on it bunched up under the other’s back as they moved as one. He could almost feel what Satin’s skin would be like against his arms as they held one another, and the pain of the man’s nails scraping into his back. God help them both.

Satin’s thin, pale fingers would curl through the holes of the lattice, and Jon’s eyes would be drawn to the chipped and torn black polish on the nails. “And we’d both know that God didn’t mind because God loves sinners… And Father Snow is holy enough to know how to save us both.” There was the sound of something rustling, and Jon knew that the other man was putting out his cigarette. He didn’t know how the whore did it, but he’d never found a single butt or burn in the confessional.

This was usually where Satin asked for penance, and Jon stuttered as he attempted to assign rosaries and readings. But there was only silence this time, a full five minutes of it before Satin’s fingers disappeared and there was the sound of the heavy velvet curtain being drawn back. The priest thought that perhaps he had been spared, and he sat back in his seat almost panting as he tried to collect himself.

The young priest’s relief was broken with surprise and fear when the curtain on his side of the confessional drew open, and Satin stood before him. He felt his heart might hammer out of his chest as he got his first close-up look at the one who had been torturing him so elegantly for the past three months, and his lips parted uselessly as Satin drew the curtain closed behind him.

“You… You can’t be in here.” Desperate protests from a man who already knew what was going to happen.

“Shhh…” He was more beautiful than Jon had thought another man could be, a thin face framed by messy dark hair that curled loosely to his shoulders. Satin’s blue eyes were cold and piercing, but they filled with a sort of softness when they traced over Jon’s body. The whore’s lips were as thick as his own, and Jon couldn’t stop his eyes from being drawn to them when the young man spoke.

“I’ve sinned so terribly Father, the only way for you to say me is to lay your hands upon me,” with that he was straddling the priest, and Jon would later be ashamed to admit he was shaking. “So then, see if you can drive my demons out.”

There was no time to respond, no opportunity to resist. Satin pressed his lips to Jon’s and the holy man was lost. The calm that followed in his heart reminded him of when he prayed alone in the gardens, and before long he was kissing back the best he was able. The priest’s lips would be gentle and unsure, and he would be all too willing to let the whore guide him. He was able to do little more than whimper desperately when Satin’s hips moved down into his, and Jon’s hands flew not to push the young man away, but to tug on his pants and beg for more.

Satin kept the kissing slow, even though Jon attempted to rush it with his need, trying to take more and more. Eventually, the priest would be able to move his lips the way that the other man wanted him to, and only then would he be rewarded with the feeling of Satin’s hot tongue sliding into his desperate mouth. Their tongues danced, twisting and stroking until Jon thought he would not be able to stand it anymore. Devotion and lust outweighed the doubt in his storm-grey eyes when Satin slid away from him, hands reaching for the man but not attempting to stop his movements.

“And now, I eat of the body.” He had Jon’s robes up and slacks down around his knees with a few quick and obviously practiced movements, and the priest shuddered with anticipation when the other took his hard length in his soft hands. The man’s mouth was smooth and soft, and he had some insight into where Satin had gotten his name before he was able to think nothing at all.

Instinct guided his hands to Satin’s hair, but he was too shy to pull roughly… Like he wanted to. The young man was teasing him again, but the torture was so sweet Jon would have borne it for an eternity. It seemed that would not be his fate, however, because before he could release in the way that his body was begging him to Satin’s warm mouth was gone, and replaced by the cool air of the church.

The priest moaned as loudly as he dared, eyes searching helplessly for the whore’s. No explanation was given, but there was again the sound of plastic crinkling and then the feel of something being rolled down the length of his cock. It’s a condom, the priest’s mind told him, thoughts barely able to make their way through the cloud of lust that occupied him. Jon knew what was coming then, and he almost hated the way he wished for it instead of resisting it.

Greedily, he watched the young man pull down his own pants to the knees, and Jon would have to bite the back of his hand to keep from crying out when Satin settled in his lap and pushed his body back on to Jon’s. It was good, better than he thought it would be, and his arms wrapped tightly around the other’s chest when he laid his back along Jon’s body.

The sharp tug Satin gave his hair only excited him more, and soon their lips pressed together again as the whore began to move his hips, rising and falling ever so slightly along Jon’s length. His mouth greedily swallowed every sound of pleasure the priest made, and his other hand reached for one of the holy man’s, guiding it down to his own stiff cock.

What followed was the kind of ecstasy Jon had thought would only be possible in heaven. He didn’t know how long they were lost in one another, and the priest was only vaguely aware of the feeling of Satin’s cum spilling in his hand soon after his own orgasm. They held each other tightly for a while after that, Jon’s arms tight around Satin’s chest, and Satin’s wrapped more languidly around Jon’s neck as they continued to kiss softly.

Every inch the younger man moved away from him after that was torture, because it allowed his shame and doubt to creep back in, and the priest would panic slightly as he tried to think of the best way to clear a confessional of the smell of cigarette smoke and sex.

Jon’s mind cleared again as Satin kissed him one last time after pulling his pants up. “Thank-you, Father Snow.” His voice was soft, teasing, and almost shy, and the priest knew it would haunt him until the day he died. The young man would stop after he parted the curtain again, smiling back at the man who sat still panting and trying to compose himself. “I’ll see you Sunday, at mass.”
 
RE: Lights in the North {Nova's drabble}

They said that lions weren't made for winter, and she guessed that must be true. They liked to live in the warm places of the world, where they could sit and overlook their wealth and be comforted by the fact that all their eyes touched belonged to them. Certainly, the one she had in her company had not stopped his shivering since they all came home. Perhaps it was cruel to keep him there, but he was Lord Commander of her Kingsguard (Or perhaps, to put it more aptly, her Queensguard) and so where the wolf went, the lion must follow.

The rest of them did not want him in her midst, and all day the bears and wolves and fish and all the others tried to whisper to her, telling her of his great failings and evil acts. She thought they were shortsighted, these other animals of the forest. If a lion was not your friend, you shouldn't send him off to the warm plains where he could build an army and you'd never know until they were upon you. Besides, if the lion turned out to be your friend it would smart to have him close.

Sansa tried to tell herself that daily, every time she caught a glimpse of the handsome face under the helmet he wore. Jaime was like the handsome knight from all the stories and songs that she'd liked best when she was young, and even the ladies in waiting sighed over him when they thought she wasn't listening. She knew that Jaime might have once preened under all of the attention, but the cold took the lion's bite away worse than the past did, and now he simply carried on with his business.

Winterfell had it's secrets, and on a night when there had been too much wine at supper and not enough bread, she found herself stepping out from the secret passageway that led to his chambers and staring at him in all his golden haired beauty with her fists balled at her sides as if she meant to fight him. He made some pun about her being the maiden queen, some bit of snark she didn't care to listen to because her eyes were fixed on his and she was too busy thinking of all the things she could take from him. Lions weren't made for winter, but wolves were.

She hadn't expected him to let her take all the power, and for a moment she was lost in it, unsure of what to do. But Jaime yielded to her lips and hands, and showed her how to kiss without taking her control. Sansa was giddy when his hands loosened her robes to find her breasts, and she thought she might be flying higher than a raven when his mouth joined them.

Her hands tangled in his hair when she pushed his mouth lower, demanding all things from him until his lips found the prize between her legs and she could lose herself in the taking of her own pleasure. Far to many of the men that had come before him had been concerned with their ability to plunder and steal, she would see to it that Jaime would worship.

There were stars behind her eyes when she reached the prize that was promised, and her whole body felt like it had been dipped in wildfire. She felt a kind of laziness spread through her as the lion sat back, licking the taste of her clean off his lips. He was smiling for the first time in a long time, and after a moment so was she.

Lions weren't made for winter, but with a wolf's help one might endure it.
 
RE: Arrows Fics

The weather was miserable. Summer had finally turned to fall, and the change of the seasons brought a good deal of rain. Then again, in San Francisco, that was hardly unusual. However, that didn’t make the weather any less miserable for Jon, and on days like this he really started to miss New York.

But he couldn’t have stayed, there was too much guilt and pain after Ned died and Robb had asked him to take a position in Stark’s legal department. He wanted to very badly, and that was the problem. He had already been working for the DA’s office for a year when his father died, and he couldn’t move to the private sector after that. It was obvious to him that his calling was to prosecute, to serve what he saw as the greater good.

So he took the job that was clear across the country; away from the Starks, the Lannisters, and the oppressive memory of Ned’s legacy and Catelyn’s disapproving stare. It was away from his family and friends too, and that was where the only real regret came in. San Francisco was lonely for Jon, even though he did make friends with some of the other ADAs in the office. He ended up getting a dog, some gigantic white mutt that followed him home after jogging one morning and never made a sound that Jon found himself getting particularly fond of.

There was a plus side, however. He had only been in the new city for a year and he was already moving up the chain, the DA had seen fit to give him his own legal assistant, to help with the legwork on his cases. This was his last interview after a week of them, though Jon didn’t see this one ending that well.

The kid claimed to be twenty-two, but Jon thought he was a good deal younger. It wasn’t his eyes; they were dark and filled with experience that made him look older than Jon. The dark-haired youth was thin and tall, and his hair actually curled in ringlets (which Jon could only assume was natural) that framed a surprisingly pretty face. He had his name listed only as ‘Satin’, and he wore dark jeans and a button-up shirt that had obviously seen better days. And to top it all off, a cursory background check had revealed that Satin had never been to college, much less graduated as a legal assistant.

But the kid was trying, and Jon didn’t have it in him to throw him out on the street. For the first time in his life he was seeing the people that were not part of the society he grew up in. Five years ago Satin would have been a one-dimensional person to Jon, just a hooker from Polk Street trying to pull some scam. And if he ever saw him again he wouldn’t have really seen him, Satin would have just blended into the streets like the other lost people used to.

It was his pride that impressed Jon the most; he held his chin high and never shied away from making eye contact. He stayed calm and his voice never wavered, even when it was clear that he didn’t know how to answer Jon’s questions. Snow couldn’t give him the job in the end, but he couldn’t just let him walk out either. Collecting strays was a passion of his, and something about Satin called to him.

And where would he go if Jon just let him walk away? Would the kid keep trying to get out of the life or would he just go back to Polk Street to pick up a habit, or worse, a pimp? Ned Stark’s bastard always had trouble with the concept of people surviving without his help or interference.

Jon didn’t miss the flash of distrust in the kid’s eyes when he invited him to dinner, and he shrugged off his decline of the invitation with a soft smile. “If you change your mind, I’ll be at the diner that’s two blocks south from here from five to say… Seven?”

Satin didn’t show up until seven-thirty. He approached Jon warily, like a dog that had been kicked too many times. He knew that he was being sized up, so the lawyer did his best to appear completely non-threatening.

“I thought you said you were only staying until seven.”

Jon shrugged, “Service is always slow here.” He wouldn’t say that he would have waited all night if he had to; the point was not to spook the kid. He also managed to resist the urge to order him something more substantial than the grilled cheese, and to keep his mouth shut while Satin ate. When he finished, Jon would do his best to coax some more information out of him.

“Satin, why did you apply for that job?”

“You’ve already asked me that.” His tone was calm and almost cold, and Jon knew he was being assessed once more.

“I know, but I’m not asking you as an interviewer now.”

“What are you asking me as, then?”

He would consider this for a few moments before answering with a shrug. “A concerned citizen, I guess.”

It was Satin’s turn to consider things before answering. “Why does anyone apply for a job? I need a job; I looked in the classifieds and saw that one. It looked like something I could do, so I applied.”

“I see.”

They were both quiet then; Jon sipping at his coffee while Satin traced the bottom of his own glass with one well-chewed fingernail.

“I can’t give you the legal assistant job,” his tone was entirely apologetic, “But I do want to help. Where are you living now?”

“Does it matter?”

“No, I suppose not. I live near Pacific Heights,” Jon ignored Satin’s eye roll (Pacific Heights was a neighborhood known for its affluence), “And I’ve been thinking of getting a… Live in assistant.” That was a lie, but if he talked his boss into giving him a raise instead of an assistant he could probably swing it. He knew how it sounded the second he said it, but he also knew that trying to explain himself would just make it sound worse.

Satin did not respond immediately, and instead chose to study Jon through narrowed eyes. He knew that the kid was trying to figure out what his angle was, but the dark-haired young lawyer didn’t really have an answer for him. He wasn’t even sure what he was trying to accomplish.




It took a few weeks, but eventually the kid settled on the futon in his spare room. Things were going well, Satin took care of the house and dog during the day, and Jon could usually count on him to have something to eat ready when he came home. The other man also took care of the other meaningless tasks that Jon hated, like grocery shopping and going to the dry cleaners. All in all, it meant he had more time to spend at the office, and that had been the point.

Eventually he fond out more about Satin, like that the kid was barely twenty instead of twenty-two, and that he hadn’t finished high school. He had run away from his parents’ house when he was sixteen, though he refused to talk about where that had been or why he had left. The only other things he refused to discuss were his real name (he had been Satin since leaving home, and he had told Jon he could guess where he had gotten it from, which made the older man blush), and any of the specifics about why he wanted to stop whoring.

And in return, Jon did his best to answer every question Satin asked him. He told him about growing up as Ned Stark’s bastard, and in his brother Robb’s shadow. They talked about law school, and why he had decided to move out to the West Coast when Ned died.

That evening, they had talked about getting Satin his GED, and Jon was relieved to notice that some of the distrust that the younger man had used to show when Jon tried to help him was leaving. It seemed he was accepting that Jon just wanted to help, and nothing else, or so Snow thought. The lawyer also that he was successfully hiding his attraction to the other man. It didn’t bother him that he was attracted to a man (especially one as pretty as Satin), he had known for a while that he preferred men. That just wasn’t what he wanted from the kid, sex for room and board. Satin had wanted out of that life, and in Jon’s mind having a relationship with him could only be that sort of relationship.

He had gone to bed early, he had to be in court in the morning. Jon had been at the point that was half way between asleep and awake when he heard his door creak open. Bleary with sleep, he rolled over to face the door, surprised to see Satin standing there naked. Doing his best to ignore that, Jon would attempt to focus his eyes on the younger man’s.

“Hey, did you need something?”

“No.” With that, the younger man was crawling into Jon’s bed, moving under the covers and pressing his lanky body to the lawyer’s. Satin pulled his arms around his body, and before Jon could think to protest they were kissing. It was only when he felt the younger man pulling at his pajama pants that he had the presence of mind to put a stop to it.

He pulled his hands down to Satin’s, grasping them firmly before pulling them away. “Satin, no.” Jon regretted his tone the moment he heard it, it was entirely condescending, and he sounded as if he were scolding the dog.

The younger man froze, and then pulled away completely and left the room quickly. Jon couldn’t read his expression, but he could take a guess at Satin’s feelings about the manner when he heard him storm out of the house a few minutes later.

Sighing when Ghost trotted into his room to see what all the fuss had been about, Jon would hold out a hand for the mutt to lick. “You still like me, don’t you?” Ghost’s only response would be to huff once before jumping up on Jon’s bed to sleep.


Jon didn’t know if Satin came back home during the day over the following few days, the next time he saw him was the evening three days after the incident. He was there when Jon got home from the office, sullenly poking at pasta in the kitchen. They greeted each other as if nothing had happened, Jon didn’t really want to talk about it and he certainly didn’t want to know where the boy had gone. He had a sneaking suspicion that particular piece of information would make his skin crawl.

They continued in that stasis for a few days, tiptoeing around one another and pretending there was nothing to say. Jon didn’t mind that either, he had grown up not talking about anything in a family that didn’t talk about anything, and he found the repression oddly comforting.

It was Satin who broke it, of course. The younger man came to sit on the couch with him while he was watching the eleven o’clock news. He was quiet and still for the top two stories, but when they moved on to sports Satin moved to straddle Jon in one fluid movement, grabbing his dark hair quite firmly before kissing him. The younger man was more insistent than he had been several nights ago, his kisses were passionate and rough, and he moved his hips in Jon’s lap in a purposeful way that had the grey-eyed older man grasping at the other’s hips.

He told himself that he wanted to pull away but couldn’t, Satin was pushing him quite firmly into the back of the couch and there was nowhere for him to pull to. It wasn’t until the younger man moved back slightly so he could shove his hands up Jon’s plain black shirt that he told himself it was time to get a handle on the situation. Trying to ignore the way that Satin’s fingers and jagged nails ran up his abdomen, Jon would move his hands to the black-haired young man’s shoulders, pushing him back enough so he could speak.

“Satin, stop. I don’t want to-hngh-“ The dark haired young man cut him off with a vicious pinch to one of Jon’s nipples that had him bucking his hips involuntarily.

“Yes you do, Snow.”

But he remained strong, and kept his arms on the other’s thin shoulders. “No, I mean, you don’t want to-“

“Yes I do.” Again Satin managed to cut Jon off, this time emphasizing his point with a well-practiced roll of his hips that had the older man painfully and achingly aware that they were both very aroused.

“Gods damn you Satin, listen to me.” His voice was hoarse enough for him to be embarrassed about it, but he couldn’t let that bother him. This was so important. “We can’t. We can’t. You’re trying to get out of… I pay you to help me, and you don’t want to do that again.” It was funny how he lost his ability to form competent sentences when he was hard.

He had been expecting a negative reaction, after all the last time he had rejected Satin the other man had left his house for days… But he hadn’t expected this. The normally calm man went from zero to furious in a few seconds, his dark eyes narrowing to slits as he pulled his hands out from under Jon’s shirt.

“You… Insensitive… Asshole!” Every word was punctuated with a slam of Satin’s fists to Jon’s shoulders, and Jon could do nothing but stare up at the younger man helplessly. “What, because I used to turn tricks I can’t want to fuck someone I like? Do you know how insulting that is? I’m not some helpless… Fucking… Boy you have to save. I… Am not… Fucking… Damaged.”

Satin finished with a final furious smack before standing, and stomping off to his room. Jon thought he was being spared, and he was still trying to compose himself when Satin stormed back in, something clutched in his right hand and dark eyes flashing dangerously.

“It’s about money? Fine- Here-“ Satin had been holding folded bills, and he angrily shoved them into Jon’s hand. “Money. Now we’re even. Now you can look at me like a person and not some kind of project.” His normally pale skin was flushed with anger, and his dark eyes were glassy with tears. “Now look at me.” It was with great effort that Jon brought his eyes to meet Satin’s, but once they made contact he did not advert them.


The first few months of their relationship did not go smoothly. They lived together, and that did place a strain on things. But in the end it did not break them, their personalities were simply too compatible. Jon wanted the acceptance and the intimacy; he wanted these things as desperately as Satin wanted the respect, and the opportunity to be viewed as an equal rather than someone to be pitied or scorned.

And they both wanted the love. It grew between them easily, despite the fact that the ease with which it came confused (and frightened) them both. But it fit, they fit, and neither man saw any sense in attempting to fight it once they had worked out the specifics of their relationship. Jon helped Satin find a different job as a receptionist, and soon they settled into a comfortable routine.

At first they often slept apart, it was a good three months before Satin started staying in Jon’s bed when they had finished, and another before he started to move his own things into Jon’s bedroom, and it became their bedroom.



“Oh Gods, Jon, harder-“ They were tangled in the bed sheets, Jon on top with his arms wrapped protectively around Satin, who was dragging his nails in familiar tracks down the lawyer’s back. He wanted to comply with Satin’s demands, but he could not, it was not in his nature. Even when he was passionate Jon was a tender lover who moved slowly and with purpose.

It had surprised him that Satin was his opposite, the younger man was always quite calm and collected, and he had not heard him so much as raise his voice in anger since that argument five months ago. But in bed he was demanding and loud, and knew how to make expert use of his teeth and nails, and how to pull and pinch with his fingers just so. Not that Jon was complaining, not only did it feel unspeakably good, but it left a litany of marks along his previously flawless skin that were exciting in their own right. He couldn’t help but remember how he had gotten each of the bruises, scratches, and bite marks every time he dressed. And he couldn’t help but wonder what his colleagues would think of him if they could see the state of his skin under his expensive suits.

“Harder, fuck me faster- Please-“ His response was to nuzzle lovingly into the younger man’s neck, and that was certainly not enough for Satin, who responded by sharply tugging on Jon’s dark curls, “Gods damn you Snow, are you even listening to me?” He would give a half-hearted squeeze of the younger man’s shoulders in response, barely digging his nails in, which had his lover huffing and rolling out form under him to turn on the light on the nightstand. Because Jon hadn’t finished, he whined a little when the other left him, reaching for him only to have his hands smacked away.

They were both breathing hard, and Satin sat with his arms crossed in front of his thin chest while Jon rested his head on his boyfriend’s knee. The other man’s lightly annoyed expression did not change, even when Jon gave him his best ‘puppy dog’ look.

“Jon, I love you. I love you and I love how you are with me, but you don’t know how to fuck.”

“Yes I do.” His response was automatic, and his tone was slightly hurt, “What do you call what we’ve been doing then?”

“Making love.”

He would consider this quietly for a few moments, nuzzling into Satin’s knee before responding. “Well that’s good, isn’t it? I mean, that’s the end goal when you love someone, to make love to them.”

Jon watched Satin roll his dark eyes before reaching out to pet his dark hair affectionately. “Yes, but not every time. It gets boring when it’s the same all of the time, doesn’t it? You can be rough with me, you know. Not only will it not break me, but I like it.”

Jon muttered to himself that it wasn’t the same every time, but shut up when his lover pulled on his hair. “But what if I hurt you?” His voice was low, and betrayed a little of his concern about the matter. He was stronger than his boyfriend, and the thought of actually hurting him was enough to send a chill down his spine.

“Jesus, Jon. Then I’ll tell you to stop. I promise you won’t though, not in a way I don’t like, anyway.”

He considered this quietly for a few moments before giving in. “Fine then, Mr. Sexpert, show me how to fuck.”

With a grin that was about a mile wide, Satin would use his grip on Jon’s hair to yank him upwards, forcing him to crawl upwards on the bed between his long legs. Taking his cock in one hand, the younger man would push his lover’s head downwards with the other, moaning happily when Jon eagerly swallowed him down. His lover only released his hair when he tried to move his hands downwards, so he could stroke himself off while using his mouth on Satin.

In a move that had the younger man grinning and Jon pouting around the cock in his mouth, Satin firmly took hold of Jon’s arms, and then his hands.

“Not a chance, lover.” He’d hold the lawyer’s hands firmly while Jon continued to suck obediently, bobbing his head easily up and down Satin’s firm length. After a few moments, he would move one of Jon’s hands to his balls, and as Jon stroked them he would again feel Satin tangle his fingers in his thick hair. He would allow the other to take control of the way he moved his head then, managing not to gag as his ringlet-haired lover pushed him further and further down.

Soon the pouty look in Jon’s storm-grey eyes was replaced by one of lust, and the lewd sounds of him slurping and whimpering around the other filled the bedroom. It wasn’t long before Satin’s low moans joined the litany of noises, and soon after that his boyfriend was telling him he was going to come.

“Swallow it,” he cried out, biting his full bottom lip, “Swallow every fucking drop.”

Jon was only too happy to oblige. He’d barely had a moment to catch his breath before Satin was pulling on his hair again, wrapping his thin arms around Jon’s broad shoulders so that they could kiss. Their mouths clashed hungrily, bruising one another as their tongues danced, Jon groaning loudly with need when he tasted the lingering traces of his lover’s come mix with his saliva. Satin always tasted as sweet as he smelled.

He tried to grind his hips against the younger man’s, but was again denied by a quick movement of one of his boyfriend’s legs. Satin pushed his knee against Jon’s chest, and his foot against the older man’s hips so that he could not move against him, or into him, the way that he wanted too. Jon could feel him smile at the little noises of frustration he made, followed by a low moan when one of his toes brushed delicately against Jon’s aching cock.

They continued to kiss until Jon was desperate, pulling on Satin’s bottom lip with his teeth to signify his need. But his lover continued to tease him, running his jagged nails lightly down Jon’s back and occasionally giving his cock a teasing stroke with his toes. Finally Jon could take no more, and he grabbed roughly at Satin’s curls, yanking his head back.

“That’s enough.” His grey eyes were dark and churning with his want, and the way that Satin bit his bottom lip and dug his nails into Jon’s back when he pulled on his hair hand him understanding exactly what his boyfriend meant about wanting to be fucked. “I want you. Now.”

He moved back to settle on his knees, grabbing his lover’s thin sides firmly so he could roll him onto his front. Pulling Satin’s hips upwards so the other man settled on his knees, Jon would smack his perky ass firmly once before positioning himself behind the younger man. His boyfriend yelped but Jon thought it was fair payback, he always let Satin come when he wanted to.

There was enough lube left from earlier for him to push in, and he did so quickly, whimpering along with Satin’s moans at the rough treatment. He would tangle one of his hands in the other’s hair to pull him upwards, so his thin back rested along Jon’s strong chest. After wrapping his other arm around Satin’s chest to keep him in place, he would push their bodies forwards enough so he could grasp the headboard for support while he began to thrust in and out of his lover.

When Satin dug his nails into Jon’s arm, he rewarded him with a vicious pinch to the nipple his fingers rested against, smiling when he heard the younger man begin to whimper and beg for more. Leaning in to nip at Satin’s shoulder, Jon would then turn his head to murmur into Satin’s ear.

“Is this what you meant, darling?” He would give a particularly forceful thrust that had his lover gibbering nonsense before continuing, “Is this how you like to be fucked?”

“Oh Gods, Oh Gods Jon, yesss-“ He would interrupt Satin’s words with his own moaning as his lover began to clutch at his cock with his ass, rewarding him by again digging his nails into the younger man’s nipple. “More, don’t stop, please- Oh Gods Jon please-“

Once more, he was only too happy to fulfill his lover’s requests, and Jon continued to use him as roughly as he was able. When he knew he was getting close, Jon would shift so that he could move Satin’s arms to clutch the headboard. He would keep one arm wrapped around the other’s chest, but his other hand would reach down to take hold of Satin’s cock, which was hard and throbbing once more.

“Going to come,“ He grunted into his lover’s ear, “But not you. Don’t you dare-“

Soon after that, Jon’s orgasm overtook him, and he bit Satin’s shoulder again to muffle his screaming as he filled his lover’s ass. Panting desperately, he would pull out, ignoring Satin’s gibbering pleas to be allowed to do the same. Jon raked his teeth down the younger man’s thin back, grabbing his hips firmly. Without so much as a word, he would part his full cheeks and move his head in to lick roughly at what lay between them.

The taste of his come had him moaning right along with Satin, and Jon would work to swallow every drop his tongue could reach before beginning to bugger the other man with it. He had his lover screaming for release before Jon moved one of his hands to again grasp Satin’s cock firmly. He had barely stroked him once before Jon felt his boyfriend’s hips buck hard and his hot come filling his hand.

Wiping his hand on the sheets, Jon would tenderly kiss his way back up Satin’s thin back before taking the trembling man into his arms. They laid close together, legs entwined as they kissed slowly. He had been surprised to find a few tears staining his lover’s cheeks, and Jon wiped them away when they broke for air.

“Did I hurt you?” Jon smiled when Satin weakly smacked his back, and then nuzzled into his lover’s neck. “I love you, Satin.”

“I love you too.”
 
RE: Arrows Fics

Jon Snow liked angel cake.

Satin had first discovered the pink and yellow confection in a plain white box in their fridge, which he had opened in a fit of curiosity. He had expected cannoli (the agent had a passion for the ones made in a small Italian bakery not too far from their apartment), or even possibly red velvet cupcakes from Satin’s own preferred bakery. Instead he found an incredibly spongey cake that he thought might have looked more at home at a little girl’s tea party than in two grown men’s fridge.

He couldn’t help but wonder if the other agents in the Seattle office of the FBI knew about it. It seemed ludicrous to him that such a small bit of brightly coloured cake could cause any trouble, but then again he’d never claimed to understand much about people.

One of the people he had thought he had understood was Jon. They had dated briefly in New York, a million years ago when Jon was still a beat cop and Satin had still been pushing at the fine line between ‘escort’ and ‘hooker’. He was younger than the man by a few years but Satin remembered feeling so much older when they were together. Jon was like a puppy with the way he loved too much and too fast and eagerly followed you around waiting for scraps of your affection. He had always liked Jon, but the first time around the way Jon had wanted them to be halfway to married after a few weeks had been simply to much for them and they had broken things off.

They kept in contact in the years that followed that; nothing official but every once in a while Jon would text, or he would write the agent an email and then they’d meet for coffee and catch up. At some point the previous year Jon had stopped texting, and Satin simply assumed that he’d been busy. So it was a complete surprise when he heard from him a month before they moved to Seattle together.

He still looked like a puppy when they met for coffee, but more like one that’d been kicked one too many times than the happy, hopeful thing he’d once known. Satin had assumed that it had been Ygritte at first; many of Jon Snow’s troubles seemed to trace back to the fiery red-head and she had this neat trick of understanding exactly how to make the man self-destruct.

It wasn’t until much later that he understood that it had been someone else all together, but in that moment he didn’t worry about it. Jon had wanted to tell him that he’d accepted a transfer to the Seattle office, and without really thinking about it Satin offered to go with him. It seemed to him that one could be an unemployed writer on the west coast just as well as one could on the east, and before he knew it they had their things packed in a U-Haul and they were driving across the country with the agent’s massive beast of a dog sandwiched between them.

Satin had been itching to ask exactly what it was that could make a man move clear across the country from a family that he had an almost symbiotic relationship with, but after a week or two of studying Jon he’d decided against asking about it.

And that was the point where he realized that he didn’t understand the agent as well as he once had. As oppressive as Jon’s love had been, it had been something he could understand and trace back to his home life. But this new Jon who brooded and stalked as quietly around their apartment as that damn dog of his did was an entirely different kind of beast.

He fucked Satin as well as he ever did (Gods help him, Jon had even gotten better) but there was a certain cold distance to the man that hadn’t been there before. Jon was English so naturally it was a very polite cold distance, but it was there all the same. And it left Satin wondering exactly where he stood. Sure, you could move clear across the country with a guy and let him fuck you every night until you were a screaming, gibbering wreck but the social code that everyone imposed on themselves meant that you weren’t allowed to ask about someone else’s mental anguish. No, that shit was private.

So he put the angel cake back in the fridge, where he intended to ignore it politely, as if it were some deep, terrible secret and not a bit of egg and flour that had been baked until spongey.

Their weeks spent living together weren’t easy ones, and by the third Satin was certain he would have preferred screaming fights to the silence and the way they seemed to quietly withdraw to different parts of the apartment to stare listlessly at the wall, or at one another.

But there had been progress too. Jon had started wrapping his arms around him in the night, after Satin was sure that the agent thought he was sleeping. He had come home one night with a new laptop for him to write on, and though he hadn’t actually presented it to him he had marked his name on it neatly and stuck one of those shiny red bows you could buy at the drugstore for a buck on it and left it on his half of the bed. Which was sweet, in a really repressed sort of way.

Still, the cake and everything it represented nagged at him. He could feel it sitting there, in its little white box in the fridge as if it were emitting a beacon of light. If the cake could talk (at this point he had given up trying to tell himself he wasn’t being reasonable and had instead chosen to indulge the feeling) Satin was sure it would do so very snidely. It would smirk like a first year university student who thought they understood everything about the world after one semester and ask him if this wasn’t really what he wanted. After all, he’d spent the entirety of their relationship before pushing the agent away, so shouldn’t he be pleased that the hulking giant finally knew his place? He wouldn’t even tell Jon his real name so what right did he have to know about what had happened to him in their years apart.

Twenty minutes before Jon was due home Satin finally decided he could take the bastard cake’s taunting no more. He yanked the box as violently from the fridge as one could yank a box that weighed next to nothing and he slammed the door shut as if the appliance had been a part of the whole thing.

When Jon came home, he was greeted by the sight of the cake arranged neatly on a plate on their kitchen table. Before he could ask about it Satin would wrap his arms around the agent’s neck, burying his fingers in the man’s thick curls as he gently tugged on Jon’s hair so the man would look him in the eye.

“Hello. My name is Shane Wirth and I’d like to get to know you better.” Fuck secrets. He was ready to start writing their story.
 
RE: Arrow's Fics

“Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been a week since my last confession.”

Jon said nothing; he didn’t have to because he recognized the voice. You weren’t supposed to remember, but he did. The man said he was nineteen, and he claimed to work as a whore in town. For three months, he had been coming to confess every Friday evening, when the church was emptiest and Jon held private confessions. At first the young priest had tried to help the young man, asked him to come in for counseling and tried to assign penance that would help him. After a month, it had become clear that wasn’t why Satin came.

He began to tell Jon a story about a young priest he was attracted to, a young priest with dark, curly hair and grey eyes. Satin spoke about coming to mass only to watch the priest, and how he fantasized, even when he was with a client, about what it would be like to make love to him. At first Jon had tried to stop Satin from speaking about it, but the young man was persistent and soon he could do nothing but sit and listen, and try to stop his body from responding.

“I continue to sell my body to make my living… But it’s easier now that I can think of him,” Satin’s voice was smooth and wicked, but with that faux varnish of innocence that could almost make you love him. “When they hit me, or they’re rough, I can just close my eyes and think of Father Snow, and how different he would be. He’s such a passionate man in mass, but I think he’d be very tender.” He paused, and Jon could almost hear the smile that played along the whore’s lips, “Do you think he’d be tender, Father?”

Jon said nothing, balling his fists on his robe and trying to ignore the way that sweat was running down his back even though it was late November and the church ran cold. “… I guess you’re not supposed to think about that sort of thing, are you? I wonder, though. I wonder if Father Snow thinks about me. That’s wicked, isn’t it? But I know he’s seen me. When he gave mass last Sunday I felt his eyes fall on me when he held up the bread and I could tell, there was this faint glimmer of recognition…”

His neck felt tight, and unthinking, Jon reached up to tug at the white collar, the piece of cloth that was meant to remind him he was no longer part of the secular world. Satin was a good six years younger than he, and the young man should not have been able to twist him this way. But he did, and even worse, he knew what he did to Jon and seemed to enjoy it too. God help him.

“I thought about going to him after the mass.” Satin was speaking again, and Jon could do nothing but listen. “After everyone else had gone while he put away the tools of his trade. He’d take me on the altar, as tenderly as good man can-“ The whore’s narration was broken by the sound of a lighter flicking, and soon the confessional was filled with the inexplicably comforting smell of cigarette smoke. This too was something Jon had begged him not to do, but had eventually given up resisting. At least this vice calmed his nerves a little. “Right in front of God, while Jesus watched us from that cross he hangs on up high.”

Then sound of Satin exhaling loudly, and then Jon would be able to see the cigarette smoke drift through the wooden lattice that divided the rooms of the confessional, curling towards him like Satin’s voice often did when he was alone. “We’d make love facing one another, and I’d watch his doubt slowly fade from those perfect grey eyes, and be replaced by the passion he has when he speaks about God’s love.”

The other man was never more explicit with him than that, but the images of what he described came as they always did. Jon could see them on the altar, see the way the heavy cloth that sat on it bunched up under the other’s back as they moved as one. He could almost feel what Satin’s skin would be like against his arms as they held one another, and the pain of the man’s nails scraping into his back. God help them both.

Satin’s thin, pale fingers would curl through the holes of the lattice, and Jon’s eyes would be drawn to the chipped and torn black polish on the nails. “And we’d both know that God didn’t mind because God loves sinners… And Father Snow is holy enough to know how to save us both.” There was the sound of something rustling, and Jon knew that the other man was putting out his cigarette. He didn’t know how the whore did it, but he’d never found a single butt or burn in the confessional.

This was usually where Satin asked for penance, and Jon stuttered as he attempted to assign rosaries and readings. But there was only silence this time, a full five minutes of it before Satin’s fingers disappeared and there was the sound of the heavy velvet curtain being drawn back. The priest thought that perhaps he had been spared, and he sat back in his seat almost panting as he tried to collect himself.

The young priest’s relief was broken with surprise and fear when the curtain on his side of the confessional drew open, and Satin stood before him. He felt his heart might hammer out of his chest as he got his first close-up look at the one who had been torturing him so elegantly for the past three months, and his lips parted uselessly as Satin drew the curtain closed behind him.

“You… You can’t be in here.” Desperate protests from a man who already knew what was going to happen.

“Shhh…” He was more beautiful than Jon had thought another man could be, a thin face framed by messy dark hair that curled loosely to his shoulders. Satin’s blue eyes were cold and piercing, but they filled with a sort of softness when they traced over Jon’s body. The whore’s lips were as thick as his own, and Jon couldn’t stop his eyes from being drawn to them when the young man spoke.

“I’ve sinned so terribly Father, the only way for you to say me is to lay your hands upon me,” with that he was straddling the priest, and Jon would later be ashamed to admit he was shaking. “So then, see if you can drive my demons out.”

There was no time to respond, no opportunity to resist. Satin pressed his lips to Jon’s and the holy man was lost. The calm that followed in his heart reminded him of when he prayed alone in the gardens, and before long he was kissing back the best he was able. The priest’s lips would be gentle and unsure, and he would be all too willing to let the whore guide him. He was able to do little more than whimper desperately when Satin’s hips moved down into his, and Jon’s hands flew not to push the young man away, but to tug on his pants and beg for more.

Satin kept the kissing slow, even though Jon attempted to rush it with his need, trying to take more and more. Eventually, the priest would be able to move his lips the way that the other man wanted him to, and only then would he be rewarded with the feeling of Satin’s hot tongue sliding into his desperate mouth. Their tongues danced, twisting and stroking until Jon thought he would not be able to stand it anymore. Devotion and lust outweighed the doubt in his storm-grey eyes when Satin slid away from him, hands reaching for the man but not attempting to stop his movements.

“And now, I eat of the body.” He had Jon’s robes up and slacks down around his knees with a few quick and obviously practiced movements, and the priest shuddered with anticipation when the other took his hard length in his soft hands. The man’s mouth was smooth and soft, and he had some insight into where Satin had gotten his name before he was able to think nothing at all.

Instinct guided his hands to Satin’s hair, but he was too shy to pull roughly… Like he wanted to. The young man was teasing him again, but the torture was so sweet Jon would have borne it for an eternity. It seemed that would not be his fate, however, because before he could release in the way that his body was begging him to Satin’s warm mouth was gone, and replaced by the cool air of the church.

The priest moaned as loudly as he dared, eyes searching helplessly for the whore’s. No explanation was given, but there was again the sound of plastic crinkling and then the feel of something being rolled down the length of his cock. It’s a condom, the priest’s mind told him, thoughts barely able to make their way through the cloud of lust that occupied him. Jon knew what was coming then, and he almost hated the way he wished for it instead of resisting it.

Greedily, he watched the young man pull down his own pants to the knees, and Jon would have to bite the back of his hand to keep from crying out when Satin settled in his lap and pushed his body back on to Jon’s. It was good, better than he thought it would be, and his arms wrapped tightly around the other’s chest when he laid his back along Jon’s body.

The sharp tug Satin gave his hair only excited him more, and soon their lips pressed together again as the whore began to move his hips, rising and falling ever so slightly along Jon’s length. His mouth greedily swallowed every sound of pleasure the priest made, and his other hand reached for one of the holy man’s, guiding it down to his own stiff cock.

What followed was the kind of ecstasy Jon had thought would only be possible in heaven. He didn’t know how long they were lost in one another, and the priest was only vaguely aware of the feeling of Satin’s cum spilling in his hand soon after his own orgasm. They held each other tightly for a while after that, Jon’s arms tight around Satin’s chest, and Satin’s wrapped more languidly around Jon’s neck as they continued to kiss softly.

Every inch the younger man moved away from him after that was torture, because it allowed his shame and doubt to creep back in, and the priest would panic slightly as he tried to think of the best way to clear a confessional of the smell of cigarette smoke and sex.

Jon’s mind cleared again as Satin kissed him one last time after pulling his pants up. “Thank-you, Father Snow.” His voice was soft, teasing, and almost shy, and the priest knew it would haunt him until the day he died. The young man would stop after he parted the curtain again, smiling back at the man who sat still panting and trying to compose himself. “I’ll see you Sunday, at mass.”
 
RE: Arrow's Fics

Everyone thinks that Derek Hale is the big bad wolf.

Well, technically he is, what with being the Alpha who was pretty scary even before his eyes flashed red and with the way that he seems to believe that the way to eliminate the distance between him and getting what he wants is to use Derek smash. Which technically Stiles can respect. Because he understands the importance of getting what you want but because he can’t kick through concrete he’s taught himself how to use different techniques over the years.

But still, he’s not bad. Stiles spent some time with the actual big bad wolf and he can confirm, without hesitation, that the similarities between Derek and his uncle are skin deep at best. He is reminded of this when they are together, when he scratches behind one of Derek’s ears and he makes this goofy sound before giving Stiles one of his best glares, or when Derek shows up to take him to school because he’s been complaining about how much gas the Jeep is using. Or after they fuck and Derek doesn’t say anything and he doesn’t have to because being mates means you know when the other person needs to be held.

And God that had been weird at first. Because Stiles had been trying to figure out what wanting Derek so bad even meant in terms of his sexuality (read: Lydia Martin) and Derek Hale had just been one hundred percent calm about the whole thing like he’d known it for ages and he’d just been waiting for Stiles to come around. Which is frustrating because everything would have been a lot easier if his mate had been his Sherpa up the mountain of bisexuality rather than the taunting, all-knowing monk at the top of it. But he’d made the journey all the same and the reward had been Derek and that had made everything worth it.

Stiles had learned quickly that part of being with the big bad wolf meant that everyone had expectations about your relationship. That was worth it too, but still it was a little disconcerting to have everyone up in your business constantly like ‘Does he hurt you’ and ‘is he always this angry’ or ‘do you ever get tired of how protective he is?’

Especially when, in Stiles’ opinion, Derek wasn’t the one who had a lot to feel protective about. Yes, there had been jealousy at first over how close he was with Scott but fortunately he’d finally gotten it through his thick skull that best friends didn’t mean lovers and that Stiles was just as loyal to him. And yes, it was aggravating that Derek was in the habit of paying too much attention to where Stiles was when there was danger instead of, you know, paying attention to the danger… But really, Derek Hale was Derek Hale.

His mate was an Alpha. An Alpha with perfect hair and the perfect jawline and cheekbones and muscles and yes. And even people who thought he was the big bad wolf would (reluctantly) admit that he was attractive.

So the second time that Erica kisses him, Stiles realizes that he needs to stake his claim. It’s not that he doesn’t trust Derek, or even Erica for that matter. Being mates means trusting and he does so without question. And he knows enough about werewolves to understand the difference between a real kiss and a beta testing their alpha’s limits. Still, it feels good when Derek pushes her off again and Stiles comes to the realization that no one who knew who Derek was would dare to mess with him like that.

Because even though there’s so much more to Derek, the first thing everyone thinks of is the big bad wolf and no one wants their arm broken for messing with something that doesn’t belong to them. And that bothers him, because Derek is his too. Their relationship isn’t some one-way street where he’s the helpless human who belongs to the alpha and he’ll just stand aside like he’s a passive character. Because no. That’s not what being mates means.

Stiles works on attacking this problem with his usual level of determination. Obviously, his scent isn’t enough. Because of course Derek smells like him pretty much constantly and that hasn’t been enough to give anyone pause yet. And when your lover heals faster than the goddamn Wolverine it’s not like you can leave your mark on his neck. Of course, this fact isn’t enough to keep him from trying, which is something Derek appreciates, but in the end Derek’s skin is as perfect as it always his and Stiles is left grumbling about healing rates while his mate returns the favour.

A collar is out of the question, so out of the question it had never been one in the first place, and a tattoo wouldn’t exactly get the message across unless Derek got it across his forehead and neither of them are really into that.

It has to come back to smell. Scent is technically unobtrusive, but it’s a huge thing for werewolves and even though it’s not enough right now Stiles has a feeling it could be. Because if Derek can smell things on him like arousal or sadness then part of the scent thing had to be linked to emotions. But Derek knew that he belonged to him. There was no question about that and so Stiles was left trying to think about the problem from another angle.

And then he started to wonder if maybe how he felt about Derek doesn’t have something to do with it. Because yes, he knew that Derek was his, and yes he trusted the alpha when he said that mates means they’re equals… But there’s something almost entirely unbelievable about the whole thing. It’s not a thought he entertains willingly, dwelling on the fact it didn’t made sense that an Alpha like Derek thought of him (spastic, seventeen-year-old, human and decidedly ordinary Stiles) as an equal wasn’t really his style. The thought, however, didn’t care about his style and it remained lurking in the back of his mind like some creature lying in wait to destroy his self-esteem.

So how, exactly, was he supposed to go about convincing himself that Derek Hale actually belonged to him when logically he already knew that he did?
 
RE: Arrow's Fics

Jon loved him. Jon loved him with the same intensity a that a person needs air after a full minute under water. Jon loved him with a depth that the oceans have, where the plates of the earth rub together and cause earthquakes and tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Jon loved him as if he's always loved him, as if he was born loving him and as if it was something so completely ingrained in him that anything other was impossible.

Incomprehensible.

Jon had known him for less than a year. To be precise, he had known him for one year, seven months and three days. During this time they had dated, dealt with each other getting kidnapped and broken, broken up, gotten back together, begun raising their child together, and gotten engaged. Jon had gone deeper into his life than anyone else had been permitted to, and Jon had come to trust him in ways that he'd never trusted another person.

So when he says it's over Jon doesn't understand. Because 'over' wasn't a concept Jon had in his vocabulary. It wasn't one that could enter his vocabulary even though he repeated it to himself again and again as if the meaning of the thing were to magically reveal itself to him. Over.

Oh.

Vuh.

Arh.

Over.

It becomes a non-sensical and pointless word meaning nothing.

It signified everything. It signified that his family was gone. It signified that small piece of safety that the world had offered by him had vanished. It signified a devastating and utter loneliness where something in his heart clawed and writhed, begging for release. But it means nothing. Because if it meant anything, Jon would die. He'd go belly up like a shark that had forgotten how to swim.

He knew this because when he entertained the thought of over he couldn't breathe. It was like the world sparked and then went dark around him, and when he regained his ability to focus on his surroundings everything was in super-tecnhicolour reds, yellows, and blues and he had to close his eyes to keep from being overwhelmed.

But what could he do?

"You're not what I need. I need to be away from you."

To break his love's request was not in his nature.

So suffer.

Sit, simmer, suffer.

Eventually he'd learn how to breathe over the broken glass that lined his throat and to wear dark sunglasses that muted the primaries down to a manageable sepia tone. Eventually he'd go back to work and back to his life and back to being human. Maybe he'd even learn to fall out of love so that he could be away and Jon could still exist on his own.

But not now.

Not today.
 
RE: Arrow's Fics

They said that lions weren't made for winter, and she guessed that must be true. They liked to live in the warm places of the world, where they could sit and overlook their wealth and be comforted by the fact that all their eyes touched belonged to them. Certainly, the one she had in her company had not stopped his shivering since they all came home. Perhaps it was cruel to keep him there, but he was Lord Commander of her Kingsguard (Or perhaps, to put it more aptly, her Queensguard) and so where the wolf went, the lion must follow.

The rest of them did not want him in her midst, and all day the bears and wolves and fish and all the others tried to whisper to her, telling her of his great failings and evil acts. She thought they were shortsighted, these other animals of the forest. If a lion was not your friend, you shouldn't send him off to the warm plains where he could build an army and you'd never know until they were upon you. Besides, if the lion turned out to be your friend it would smart to have him close.

Sansa tried to tell herself that daily, every time she caught a glimpse of the handsome face under the helmet he wore. Jaime was like the handsome knight from all the stories and songs that she'd liked best when she was young, and even the ladies in waiting sighed over him when they thought she wasn't listening. She knew that Jaime might have once preened under all of the attention, but the cold took the lion's bite away worse than the past did, and now he simply carried on with his business.

Winterfell had it's secrets, and on a night when there had been too much wine at supper and not enough bread, she found herself stepping out from the secret passageway that led to his chambers and staring at him in all his golden haired beauty with her fists balled at her sides as if she meant to fight him. He made some pun about her being the maiden queen, some bit of snark she didn't care to listen to because her eyes were fixed on his and she was too busy thinking of all the things she could take from him. Lions weren't made for winter, but wolves were.

She hadn't expected him to let her take all the power, and for a moment she was lost in it, unsure of what to do. But Jaime yielded to her lips and hands, and showed her how to kiss without taking her control. Sansa was giddy when his hands loosened her robes to find her breasts, and she thought she might be flying higher than a raven when his mouth joined them.

Her hands tangled in his hair when she pushed his mouth lower, demanding all things from him until his lips found the prize between her legs and she could lose herself in the taking of her own pleasure. Far to many of the men that had come before him had been concerned with their ability to plunder and steal, she would see to it that Jaime would worship.

There were stars behind her eyes when she reached the prize that was promised, and her whole body felt like it had been dipped in wildfire. She felt a kind of laziness spread through her as the lion sat back, licking the taste of her clean off his lips. He was smiling for the first time in a long time, and after a moment so was she.

Lions weren't made for winter, but with a wolf's help one might endure it.
 
RE: Arrow's Fics

There was something in his woods.

As the years passed, the people in the towns on either side had cut down the outer forest, and made paths that cut through the edges of his home but they dared not try to tame the dark heart of it. This was wise of them, as those who passed directly through his territory never seemed to emerge from the other side. Still, a few did try and he was thus provided with easy meals. And when no one came, he had his choice of other animals, or the few who tempted him by building their homes right along the edge of his own.

But this scent was different; it was not the smell of some foolhardy man trying to impress his village by passing through the dark heart of his forest. It was innocent and young, something warm and summery that cut through the cold blackness of his home like a knife. Whatever it was, it had no business being there, so he would find it and rid his home of it. Such was the way of the world.

He drew close to the creature that dared to invade his home by nightfall, and he was not surprised to find it was human. It was always human, but that was good as they made the best meals. It was a man, but not one like he had ever seen; he was thin and willowy and his golden hair ran down his shoulders. He smelt young, not a child by far but not yet old enough to have a family of his own. The man carried no weapon, only a basket, and his red jacket and pale skin stood out against the dark path like a beacon.

The smell of fear seeped from the human when he drew close, but not as much as there should have been. He wondered if perhaps that was because no one had told this one the stories of the monster that walked as a man. That was unfortunate, but one man’s folly is another man’s reward, even if he wasn’t a man in the least. The monster was about to take its meal when the brunet stopped and turned, blue eyes widening in the fast growing dark as the human took in his form.

Not for the first time in his seemingly unending life, he wondered what he looked like. He had simple clothes to use when he chose to walk as a man, made from the hides of other animals, and he knew they didn’t compare to the much finer things the human wore. The finest of all being the red jacket; it was as bright as fresh spilled blood and he had never seen anything like it, or like the man who wore it.

“I didn’t think I would see anyone else along this path.” It surprised him when the human spoke, and he found himself struggling to answer. There wasn’t much use for language here.

“Nor did I.”

Silence fell between them, and he could feel the human studying him before he spoke again. It made him uncomfortable, no one had looked at him in a very long time.

“My name is Oliver, what’s yours?”

He had to think very hard to remember. The monster had been called a great many things in his time but he hadn’t heard his name for many years.

“I am called Jon.”

“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Jon.”

Jon had nothing to say to that, and again he wondered how one could be so innocent. “What are you doing in my woods, Oliver?”

A blush grew upon the human’s cheeks, and he could smell the way his blood ran hotly through his body. “My grandmother lives on the other side. No one has heard from her for weeks, so I’ve been sent to check on her. I wanted to cut through the woods so I’d be there by dark, but…” The human shrugged helplessly.

“It’s dangerous to be in here alone, especially at nightfall.”

“Then what are you doing here?”

He had nothing to say to this either, and instead he would take a few steps closer to the other. The human was shorter, but that didn’t matter. It meant he wasn’t too far off from being able to smell the human’s neck. Leaning in, he sniffed deeply; tasting the other’s fear and innocence, and surprisingly a thin thread of lust that trailed down to his guts and pulled something inside him that he had not felt in a very long time. The brunet trembled, and Jon was very tempted to have him then and there.

“Where does your grandmother live, Oliver?”

The human pointed in the direction he had been heading, surprising the monster with his sense of trust. “She – she’s in the white house, the one that comes before the mill.”

“I see.” Jon stepped back from the brunet, and began to walk back off into the darkness. “Hurry along, Oliver. It’s not safe for you here.”

And then he was gone. The monster could be fast when he wanted to be, and he would make his way to the white house that stood further in to his territory than any other. What he found did not surprise him. The wooden door hung open, and the scent of death and dried blood sat heavily in the interior. There was no body, but he didn’t expect there to be. Jon couldn’t remember if he had been the one to end the old woman; he killed in his other form and those memories all ran together. Besides, he was not the only thing in the woods that grew hungry. So he would sit down on the bed to wait.

The moon was full and high in the night’s sky by the time the human arrived, filling the almost empty house with an eerie glow, but Jon hadn’t minded the waiting. Patience was an essential hunting skill and he had developed it well. He heard the brunet call out but didn’t reply, choosing instead to stare silently as the human walked into the cold bedroom.

“Why, grandmother… What big arms you have.” The human licked his soft pink lips as he spoke, and Jon responded without thinking.

“The better to embrace you with, my dear.”

“Grandmother, what big legs you have!”

Jon stood. “The better to chase you with, my dear.”

“What big ears you have…”

“The better to hear you with, my dear.” And as he took a few steps towards the brunet, he found he could hear the other’s heart pounding.

“Your eyes…”

“The better to find you in the dark with, my dear.” Their bodies were close they were almost touching, and Jon reached out to trace Oliver’s delicate jaw in the dark.

“Y-your nose-“

“The better to find your scent with, my dear.” Oliver’s fear was still strong, as was the sweet smell of innocence that came from him in a way Jon had never smelt before. But over them both was the scent of lust, and it was so strong that he almost choked on it.

“And your mouth is-“

“All the better to taste you with.”

And with that he captured the human’s mouth with his own in a rough and bruising kiss. Even monsters could grow hungry for more, and tonight he would enjoy a very different kind of meal.

As he pulled Oliver to the floor beneath him Jon would tear at the human’s clothing. Their mouths would stay together, kissing desperately and hungrily as he tore away the brunet’s beautiful red jacket and the clothing he found under it. The other’s pants would follow the same fate, and only then would the monster allow his prey to tug off his own top.

The human’s body was different than his own, thin, pale, and unblemished… Save for the bumps that rose as he ran his rough hands down Oliver’s boney sides. His own body was slightly darker, thick with muscle, and marred with the scars living in the deep woods had left on him.

When he moved his head back they were both breathing hard, and Jon would run his tongue up the side of Oliver’s face, growling deeply when he found the brunet tasted of summer. The thin leather of his pants was all that was left between them, and Jon would grind his hardening length up and into the brunet’s hips as he moved his head down to the human’s neck.

Jon breathed in his prey’s scent again, the combination of his fear and innocence and that overpowering smell of lust making him feel quite lightheaded. He could hear Oliver cry out when he bit down, and he could feel the sting of pain on his back as the brunet dragged his nails downwards. His bite is hard, and there is a thin trail of blood left behind which he laps up eagerly. The taste of the brunet is sweeter than his scent, and he growls deeply when he feels it make him grow even harder.

He works his mouth down Oliver’s body; oblivious to the way the brunet pulls roughly at his dark curls and pleads for more. Jon has his prey screaming in a mix of pain and pleasure when he uses his tongue on his nipples, and the part of his mind not dominated by his animal lust is glad there are no other homes nearby. He does not wish to be interrupted.

The monster leaves a trail of bite marks on the human’s chest, none of which drew blood, and he stops to lap at Oliver’s navel before moving downwards. He finds the way the brunet’s hipbones are so clearly visible to be strangely beautiful as well, and Jon stops to leave his bite marks there as well. The human is bucking his hips with need, and so he decides to finally move to those sensitive parts of him.

The small noises of pleasure that vibrate from his throat as his long tongue begins to move up the other’s cock are drowned out by Oliver’s moaning, and his cold eyes watch carefully as the brunet writhes from the way he swirls his tongue around the human’s length. Before long his mouth has moved lower, and he takes his time tasting the other’s balls. His tongue laps roughly at his sack, tracing patterns and exploring every fold. He even goes so far as to suck on them before he wraps his strong arms under the brunet’s thighs and lifts his hips from the ground.

Oliver releases his firm hold on Jon’s hair, and he notices the human drop his arms to the ground for balance as he uses his rough hands to part Oliver’s cheeks. The monster licks at his prey’s crack until it is dripping wet and he is begging for release. It is only then he pushes his long tongue into the brunet; twisting and vibrating it with his growling as he moves it in and out of the other’s body.

He can feel the brunet wrap his long legs around his shoulders, trying to pull him closer as he whines and cries and begs for more. One of Jon’s hands strokes against Oliver’s throbbing cock, and he is amazed at how quickly and completely the human loses control. He can feel his hips buck wildly as the other spills his seed, and the sound of Oliver shrieking his name over and over fills the empty house.

When Oliver has finished Jon drops his hips unceremoniously, crouching over him like the predator he is as he leans in to lick every drop of come from the brunet’s lithe and still heaving body. He can feel the brunet’s blue eyes on him, and he is unafraid to meet them with his own cold eyes as he laps up the other’s seed.

After the human is clean, the monster rolls him to his front, pulling his hips upwards so he is offering his tight hole to him. It is only then that Jon removes his pants, and he wraps his arms around Oliver’s lithe body, holding him possessively as he pushes his fat cockhead against the brunet’s entrance, which is still quite slick with his saliva.

Jon bites down on the back of Oliver’s neck as he pushes into him, the groans that come unbidden from the depths of him at how tight the other is drowned out by the human’s moans of pain and pleasure. He laps at the few droplets of blood that rise from his biting, barely giving the human any time to adjust to his size before he begins to fuck him. It has been years since he last rutted, and Oliver’s sweet mewls of pain as he continues to cry for more only spur the monster on.

Time is lost to him as they move together, and as the smell of death and dried blood in the house mixes with the smell of their sex Jon wants very badly to eat the man beneath him. But he wants this more, and soon he is stroking the human’s cock to hardness again as he snarls out his pleasure in Oliver’s ear.

They come together; both the human and the monster rocking with orgasm as Jon tilts his head back to howl his release. The sound is cold and primal, and the can feel Oliver shiver under him at the sound. When he has finished, he presses their hot and sweating bodies together as he captures Oliver’s mouth in another bruising kiss. They are both panting hard as Jon pulls his softening cock out of Oliver’s ass, and he nuzzles into the human’s ear before pulling away to gather his clothing.

He does not dress, and instead crouches at the human’s side to brush his pink lips with one rough thumb as he speaks. “The woods are dangerous, Oliver. Stay out of them or I might find you again.” Even Jon is unsure if this is a threat or an invitation, and he silently moves out of the room.

It is a large white wolf that leaves the house, carrying a bundle of clothing in its mouth as it disappears into the darkness.
 
RE: Arrow's Fics

It’s strange being back Stateside after all those years, but Sansa has a job to do so she doesn’t dwell on it. The agency has already put her into contact with Joffrey, and the goal is gathering Intel. She remembered when he was made president of his father Robert’s company after Robert’s untimely death, and it seems the practices she saw him beginning to undertake when they were still together have only worsened.

But his mother didn’t raise a fool (and for all Joffrey was, foolish certainly wasn’t on the list), and he had been careful enough to fly mostly under the radar. Still, everyone had their suspicions and with the recent restructurings in Washington there were plenty of people looking for an opportunity to solidify their new positions. And bringing down Joffrey Baratheon would certainly be an achievement worth noting, and that was where she came in.

The agency had found her in Brazil. She had escaped her relationship with Joffrey and his family with the help of an old friend of her mother’s, and left the country to live under a new identity. But even as far away as the Amazon, she had not felt safe from the Lannisters and the Baratheons and the Freys and every other family that had worked to tear her own apart. So she began to train, teaching herself how to fight and hardening her natural survival instincts to a fine point.

She still wasn’t sure how they had found her, or what the original purpose had been. But they had offered a job, training, and most importantly of all, safety and security. The kind Sansa had known she couldn’t give herself at the time. So she went.

The compound had been in Panama, and it had reminded her of her childhood home with its high walls and warm floors. She had grown there; learning how to use not only traditional weapons, like guns, but how to play off of her surroundings, and how to use more common objects when no gun was available. They had taught her how to move with a deadly efficiency, and after five years all that was left of the sweet girl who she had once been, who had sang and played in the snow, was locked away deep inside of her. Sansa had earned the nickname ‘Lady Wolf’ from the way she stalked her targets, taking in every angle before making her move.

They had told her that her main strength, even with how efficient she had become with her gun and her hands, was her looks. Despite being trained as a killer, her looks had stayed sweet and the only place her hardness really shone through was her cold, blue eyes. She had kept her red hair long, and when left unattended (as it was on that evening) it would curl delicately around her shoulders. Her figure had grown to curve in all the right places, and that was what she played up now in a tight black dress that left just enough to the imagination to be enticing.

She was meeting Joffrey for dinner at a five star Italian restaurant in a quiet neighborhood. It was pleasantly deserted, save for a few other couples that seemed to be on dates, and her eyes would scan the layout as she followed the hostess to Joffrey’s table. He had gotten them a secluded table in the back, and as she would slip out of her long trench coat as she slid into the round, plush booth beside him. Sitting her purse on the seat beside her, Sansa would smile warmly before beginning to speak.

“Joffrey, it’s been simply ages. You’re looking well.” Her voice was sweet and sincere. She supposed it was true, if one could get past the nastier aspects of the man’s personality, he was quite good-looking.

“And so are you, Sansa. It seems Europe has agreed with you.”

It was all part of her cover story. She had been in the South of Europe for the past six years, staying in villas and fine hotels as she explored everything the Mediterranean had to offer. The agency had seen to it that there was documentation enough to back up her story.

“Yes, well, after things ended so badly between us I just had to get away.” Sansa tilted her head down slightly, moving her shoulders back just enough so her body language was flirty, without being obviously so. Joffrey took the bait, reaching out to make first contact by tilting her head up enough so her eyes would meet his as he answered.

“I must admit I was surprised you called, I thought you’d not want to see me again.”

Her smile widened, though she was careful to keep her teeth back, and her answer was cut off by the waiter arriving to take their drink order. Sansa allowed Joffrey to order for her, giving him the illusion of control as she did her best to sit prettily and wait patiently. When the waiter left to get their wine, she judged by what she had seen of the restaurant’s layout that she had about ten or fifteen minutes before he returned. It would be more than enough.

“I couldn’t stay mad at you forever, darling.” Her voice was honeyed, and she’d flutter her eyelashes at him as she spoke, slowly slipping her hand into her purse.

“You understand then, that what happened with your father was just business?” His eyes studied her face as he tucked a few strands of her red hair behind her ear, but her face betrayed nothing.

It was her hands that did her work, and though the agency’s goal may have been Intel the Lady Wolf had her own agenda. Her mother had once told her that the North remembers, and though she hadn’t understood it at the time, she did then.

There were two pops from under the table, her aim had been his knee and groin and she was sure at least one had hit home because the sharp smell of blood filled the air. Joffrey’s hand fell from her face, his mouth opening soundlessly as he seemed to struggle with processing what had just happened.

“Oh?” Her voice was light and sweet as it had ever been, and she would raise the small gun to his head, careful to angle it so if the bullet passed through it would hit the wall behind them. “Well this is personal, darling.”

Another squeeze of her finger and it was done, his head snapping back with the force of the shot as his body went limp. Sansa’s heart was pounding, but she wouldn’t allow that to rule her actions. If she rushed she might make a mistake, and she didn’t make mistakes anymore.

Calmly, she slid out of the booth, wiping down both the gun and her hands in a well-practiced way as she went. The agency already had her prints on file, but there was no sense in giving them a head start. There was blood on her dress, but that was why she had worn a long coat. She’d leave the gun on the table but take the napkin, a small souvenir.

Tucking it into her purse, she’d pull on her jacket, tying it shut instead of wasting her time with the buttons. Eight minutes had passed, and she would leave the restaurant with her head ducked just enough to hide part of her face. Her gait was slow and purposeful, but entirely unremarkable. Running drew attention, and now she’d have to be careful not to do that.

She could hear the screaming start as she left the restaurant, heading west towards the city’s subway system. A smile would spread across her face as she continued to move, and she’d lift the collar of her coat up against the cool night air.

That’s one down, daddy, Sansa told herself quietly as she reached the stairs of the subway, one down and five to go.


They had arranged a hotel room for her, but to go back would be unwise. That would give them more time to find her, and the key to her success was going to be moving quickly. She had to strike like lightning before those at the agency had time to figure out who it was she was after. Sansa didn’t doubt that they would, even with as close as she had kept her desire for revenge to her chest she knew that once they started to put things together her goals would be obvious. And although she wasn’t exactly moving against the agency, she is well aware that disobedience was tantamount to treason.

Sansa had planned for that though, and everything she really needed was in a storage locker on the other end of the line. The subway car was mostly empty but she wasn’t worried about being spotted down there yet. It was too soon for the word to be out about her going rouge.

After retrieving her bag from the locker, Sansa changed in the subway bathroom. It almost felt like a shame to throw the dress away, but it had been bloodied, and the Lady Wolf can’t afford to weigh herself down with possessions. The clothes she had chosen were simple and dark, and light enough for easy movement, along with a pair of plain black sneakers. She pulled her long hair back into a tight ponytail, needing it to be out of her way. The bag and the purse she had carried were discarded as well; the purse was empty save some cash (which she could carry in her pocket), and the only contents of the bag had been her change of clothing and a second gun (along with a few clips).

She dreads her next task, but tells herself she doesn’t. As Sansa headed to one of the poorer neighborhoods on foot she tried to keep her mind clear. Somewhere in the back of her consciousness, behind the parts of her mind that have been trained and reprogrammed to think not of greys but in black and white, she knew her father might not have approved of the task she had set herself. He lived with honor until the end, and for all of her convictions Sansa understood she didn’t move with honor. Not in the sense that her father had it.

But her father’s honor had gotten him killed, and her family torn to pieces. He had wanted to play a game that was different than the one that his enemies had played; he wanted to abide by rules they didn’t follow. The causes, however, were irrelevant. What had happened was done, and all that was left to do was put things right.

Her next target lived in a poorer part of town, and she wondered if that was because the Lannisters paid their bodyguard little or because the one they called the Hound found little comfort in nicer quarters. Not that anyone had ever called him that to his face; it was a nickname that came from his devotion to the Lannister family, and at seven feet tall and with a large burn covering half of his face, no one had been interested in mocking him. He had not been as unkind as some of the others had been, but he had still played his part, and furthermore Sansa didn’t want to have to worry about the Hound’s presence when she went after her other targets.

His address had not changed since she had last been in the city, and that made things easier. After making sure her gun was tucked safely in the waistband of her pants, she used the dumpster as a boost to the fire escape, which she climbed as quietly as she could. The Hound’s apartment is quiet and dark, and the Lady Wolf assumed he’d gone to sleep. She began to work on gently prying the window open, but was interrupted by two shots ringing out.

Sansa heard them before she felt them, the first shattered the window but missed her entirely, but the second cut deeply into her left bicep, and as she clenched her teeth against the pain, an almost inhuman growl would escape her throat. Her training took over then, and instead of ducking for cover like she wanted to, she would grasp the sill, ignoring the way the glass cut into her palms and catapult her body into the apartment.

“Hello, little bird. Have you finally come to sing for me?” His voice gives his position away, and she can now make out his large figure in the shadows. She doesn’t dwell on his words, even though they made her want to tremble and retreat more than the gunshots had. He moved to fire at her again, but she was already on him, one hand attempting to knock the gun from his grasp as the other drove into his neck.

The Hound’s size meant she must fight smart and fast instead of hard, even though the fear she still regarded the man with told her to lash out like a terrified child. Her hands moved continuously, striking at his pressure points in an attempt to weaken him. Despite her speed, he got his hits in and by the time she finally managed to jam the muzzle of her own gun into the soft flesh under his jaw, half of her face was singing with the kind of pain that told her there would be large bruises later.

She sinks to her knees as he falls to the floor, panting hard and wiping away tears she had not known she had been crying until that point. Her entire body begged for rest but there wasn’t time. Even though the neighborhood was bad and the Hound was the kind of man who struck fear into the hearts of his neighbors, gunshots meant the police would be on their way eventually. Sansa reaches into his pockets, digging for the keys to his truck. She grasped them firmly in one hand, rising shakily to her feet before making her way to the bathroom.

Thankfully, there were clean towels, and she tears one into strips that can be used to bandage her bleeding hands and arm. She left by the front door, not bothering to lock it behind her before making her way down to the building’s parking lot. The Hound’s vehicle was easy enough to find; it was the largest one in the crowded lot.

Adjusting the driver’s seat to a more suitable position, Sansa would pull out slowly, she would be careful to drive to attract as little attention to herself as possible as she headed out of the city. She was headed towards one of the large mansions that lay on the outskirts, a property which she had spent the better part of the last year studying secretly. The Lady Wolf was headed towards Casterly Rock.
 
RE: Arrow's Fics

"I want to marry you." Jon had been seeing his roommate for eight months, and he thought that it was time to broach that particular subject. They were laying curled up in Jon's room, Oliver half on him, and half in the spot that he had designated as his own on Jon's bed.

The younger man would sit up with some alarm, staring at Jon and studying him carefully. "Why, are you displeased with our current arrangement?"

"Quite the opposite, Oliver. I find our current arrangement wholly desirable, and I wish to make it permanent."

"I do not believe that we need a license to make things permanent. Would it not save time and energy to carry on as we are?"

"We can do that, yes." Jon's fingers would stroke against Oliver's arm gently. He had expected resistance and was comfortable with it, living in close quarters with his lover for half a year and then dating him for another eight months had shed a good deal of light onto Oliver's various idiosyncrasies. Patience at the introduction of new ideas was important, as was speaking his lover's language. "I have no objections. I merely wished to express my pleasure with our current situation and my desire to keep it permanent."

"You aren't displeased?"

"Never, Oliver. I am never displeased with you."

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"We would need to change our written and oral agreements."

Jon was in the living room, sitting on the end of the couch opposite from Oliver's spot as he read the latest periodical concerning physiology at his university. He hadn't noticed his roommate enter the room, and he was surprised to see his lover standing in the centre of the room with his hands clenched at his sides. There were darker circles under Oliver's eyes, and Jon could see his concern as plain as day. "Yes, I suppose we would."

"It is the role of the wife to annoy the husband with various demands, and the husband responds with occasional threats of violence and promises of space travel. And I imagine that these promises of space travel are threats as well instead of rewards, as the husband seems to be a man of little means in a time where such expeditions were costly and dangerous."

It took Jon a moment to realize that Oliver was referencing the Honeymooners, and he did his best not to be amused at the idea of the brunet watching the old show and taking notes in an attempt to understand what Jon had asked of him. "True, but as we are both men, we don't need to constrict ourselves to those roles. I believe our contract as equals stands."

"I would not be seen as the wife?"

"No, my love. You would be my husband, and I would be yours."

"I am smaller than you are, and I have some traditionally feminine features. And last night you- You referred to my anus-" It was rare that Oliver could not finish a sentence, and Jon couldn't help but allow himself to smile as his lover attempted to get out the word pussy, as Jon had whispered into his ear over and over as he first tasted the brunet and then fucked him until he could do nothing but mewl and writhe and come.

Jon would stand, putting the magazine aside and pulling Oliver into his arms so the younger man could press his face into his large chest. "I did, darling. But that is something between you and myself, and I don't expect it to affect what love and respect there is between us. I don't want it to."

"The agreements will still need to be changed." Oliver's voice was muffled against him, but he made no attempt to pull away.

"I know, lover. We'll change them together."
 
RE: Arrow's Fics

He had three names.

He had been called Snow when he was born because he had come to his parents in the middle of a fierce storm. Snow had always thought he would be a farmer. He had married a farmer’s daughter seventeen years and five days after he had been born. Her name had been Ygritte, and she had fire red hair and a spirit to match. They had lived in a small house on his father’s land, and Snow had continued to work his father’s fields.

Life had been simple for a year, and good. Ygritte’s belly had yet to swell, but that was not for a lack of trying. The spring after his eighteenth year, news came from the south. The Romans were invading, clearing through the larger tribes that lived in the south as if they were nothing, and moving north like an all-consuming swarm of locusts.

There was a call to fight, for all able-bodied men to come and drive the Roman invaders back. Snow went, it was his duty and he was young enough to believe those with heart could beat the large army that came.

They did not win, it was a massacre.

Snow saw the lands of his father and his father’s friends burned to the ground, scorched and salted to assure that they never had the means or the mind to rise again. He saw the eldest and the youngest members of his family slaughtered, the ones who would be too weak to survive the march back to Rome. He had watched his elder brother’s body fall on the field, and his sisters taken to be captives of the conquering generals.

But what hurt his heart the most was when his wife Ygritte was killed as if she were nothing. Her spirit was too high to allow her to bend, and though Snow had screamed for her to do as she was told, she had spat in the face of the man who had tried to overpower her, and slashed her hand down to tear at his eyes.

Snow’s scream of agony as she was run through the sword was the last sound he would make, and he was aware of little as he was pulled into formation, and he was aware of little for the next few days. He was forced to come to reality when he was pushed into a river, a man shouting crudely in his language that they should all bathe and drink, for it would be their last opportunity to do so for many days. It was there he made his vow, they might take his body, and bend it to their will, but his mind and heart would remain his own. And as long as his mind and heart were his, he’d not speak, for the mouth was a tool of the inner self.

Because of this, in the following two months it took to return to Rome, Snow became known as Ghost. He supposed his silence was unsettling, and that was the reason that they beat him with such severity. But he endured, and though he couldn’t stop the occasional cry from escaping his throat, his mouth never formed words, not even to cry for mercy.

They never hurt him too badly, and after a while Ghost understood that was because he had value. He was young, and his body was strong and unbroken. Rumors spread about being sent to the gladiator pits, but most were convinced that they would be auctioned off in private sales. After all, that was where the most money was to be made.

He had watched the moon carefully as they travelled south, and Ghost had counted two full cycles since the day that he had seen hell. He was thinner, eating wasn’t as good as it had been at this home, but he was stronger, and his muscle had grown from all of their walking. Ghost hadn’t been able to sleep much at first, his mind had filled with nightmarish images every time he closed his eyes, but after several weeks of movement his body had screamed for sleep and he hadn’t been able to keep his eyes open. Thankfully, his sheer exhaustion kept his mind clear of dreams, and slowly Ghost allowed himself to slip away from the man he used to be.

Rome was unlike anything he had ever seen. There had only been small farming settlements where he had grown up, and though he had heard tales of cities that stretched off into the horizon he had never seen one himself. They had passed through large cities on their way to the capital, and though Ghost had thought they were big, they were nothing compared to Rome.

They were not marched to the center of the city, as soon as they were inside of the walls they were lead along to buildings that were lined with cages and people. Guards began to pull people out of the line, dragging them in front of older men in crisp white togas who poked and prodded and examined. Ghost thought he should have perhaps been afraid, but how could one be afraid of this when they had been through hell?

After the man passed judgment on him, Ghost was pushed along to a cold, dank room in which they dumped water on him several times. Before he could begin to enjoy the dirt and dust of the road being washed from his body, Ghost was pushed again, and given a cloth to dry his body with and then a simple white linen that could be wrapped around his waist.

He waited in the cage for hours, pressed against the other men around him and wondering why they were made to clean themselves if they were to be made to stand and sweat in the dust of the building. He could just barely see the sun beginning to set in the sky when the guards finally came to open the doors of the cage. They were lead through corridors that he couldn’t even count and past so many people the faces blurred in his mind before having their arms tied tightly in front of them and being lead up onto a wooden stage.

The roof was open, so the natural light of the sun filtered the room, but there were many torch stands lining the stage as well, and Ghost found he didn’t have to strain to catch sight of the audience that was slowly filtering into the stone benches that lined the rest of the room. They were all dressed as Romans, in togas and sandals, but they looked much different than the guards and soldiers that he was used to seeing. There was a mix of men and women, and they ranged in age from teens to elders, and precious few looked to have the strength of, or carried themselves as, soldiers did.

Ghost stood silently, ignoring the people that came to the front of the stage to get a closer look at the men that stood there. He tried to keep his eyes focused on the back wall, allowing a quiet buzz to fill his head and push out any thoughts he had.

It was an entrance that distracted him from that task. Two guards entered first, and that caught his interest, but what captivated him was the person who entered after them, flanked by another two guards. Ghost couldn’t immediately tell if the person was a man or a woman, but he could tell that they weren’t older than sixteen summers. He thought he was perhaps dressed more finely than any of the others, in fabrics that billowed beautifully instead of hanging limply at his side. Jewelry flashed around their wrists and neck, and long brunette hair shone in the sunlight in a way that Ghost had never seen before.

His face coloured when he realized that he had been staring, and Ghost forced himself to once more fix his eyes on the back wall. The room fell silent not long after that, and soon there was a man calling out on stage in a language he didn’t understand, but recognized as being the language of the Romans. One by one, the men who had stood with him were pushed ahead, put on display, and then led away after a fierce bit of yelling.

As the sun set, Ghost was pushed ahead and he couldn’t help but let his eyes fall on the brunette that lounged on one of the front most benches. After this he would belong to someone, and he found that knowledge so incredibly strange that he could barely grasp it with his mind. Ghost allowed his arms to be raised, turning his body obediently when he was pushed to do so. He would remind himself as the shouting started that they would use his body as they willed, but his mind and heart would forever be his own.

The brunette lazily raised his hand again and again, and that filled Ghost with an emotion he couldn’t identify. As a rope with large symbols painted on it was placed around his neck, he would be led away, off the stage and to a far roomier cage than he had been in before. They didn’t need to wait as long as they had before, and before long the men were collected one by one.

He was collected by the guards who he had seen come in with the brunette, and they lead him along to the outside of the building. They were not as rough as the other guards had been, but they were quite firm. Ghost almost wanted to speak, to tell them that he had no desire to run. But even if he could break his vow, Ghost knew that the guards wouldn’t understand his language, and it was strange that that specific knowledge filled him with a sense of dread.

Outside, Ghost saw something else that he’d never seen before, and he was left wondering how many more things a person could experience in a day before their mind cried for no more. Four men almost as large as himself were carrying what looked like a cloth tent on slats, and the brunette lounged on pillows in the middle of it. Ghost was tied to the back of the tent, and the brunette shifted on the pillows so they could face one another.

Now that he was so close, he could see that the brunette was male, prettier than any man he had seen before, but a man all the same. Ghost could also see that his eyes were a piercing blue, and he stared at him so intently that the man who had once been called Snow felt small under his gaze. He was tempted to turn away, but he’d remind himself that wasn’t an option. Ghost would stand strong if nothing else.

His resolve crumbled when the younger man reached for him. Instinct that had been sharpened by the last two horrible months of his life had Ghost flinching away sharply, curling his body down and away as trembles ran down his bare back. He heard someone bark something short, and before he knew what was happening there was a hand in his dark curls, pulling his head up and holding him steady. He had no choice but to let the other touch his face then, and Ghost would shut his eyes tightly as if that would shut out his terror.

The brunette’s touch was far gentler than he had expected it would be, and Ghost could almost feel himself relaxing as he felt fingers move softly against the scruff on his jaw, moving up to stroke the deep circles under his eyes, and higher still to press against the worry winkles that had collected on his forehead. He was only aware that the hand in his hair had released him when the brunette’s hands slid down to his neck and finally moved away from his head.

They started moving then, and every time Ghost lifted his head up to look ahead of him, his eyes would almost immediately meet the brunette’s. It confused him that such an obviously important person would prefer to look at him, a slave, instead of the large city around them, but he knew it wasn’t his place to question anything. The streets were dark by the time the procession stopped moving, but Ghost noticed that torches lit the cobbled streets well enough for them to be able to see.

He almost mistook the villa they stopped in front of for another small village, the buildings and pillars rising above walls that stood taller than he did. The heavy gate opened slowly, and Ghost would have been embarrassed over how he stared with wonder, craning his head from side to side like a child if he had been aware that he was doing it. But as it was, his general exhaustion and hunger and fear were too high to allow him to be aware of much else.

In the courtyard, their procession would come to a halt, and men who Ghost assumed to be servants from their plain dress in comparison to the brunette that sat in the tent rushed forwards to help the younger man down. Once he was on his feet, he pointed towards Ghost, speaking sharply. The guards came to untie his hands from the wooden slats, but they did not fully release him, leaving his hands tied in front of him. He was lead towards the brunette, and he would smile at him warmly before wrapping one of his small hands around the rope that kept Ghost’s hands tied.

Ghost was pulled forwards, led along by the smaller brunette through many corridors and open rooms until they stopped in one with a large basin in the middle. There were many other people standing in the room, but the brunette paid little attention to them. Instead he turned to Ghost, continuing to smile as he carefully untied his hands, rubbing his much smaller ones up and down his wrists quickly to ease some of the bruising and red marks left by the rope.

The brunette spoke to him as he worked on his wrists, but Ghost understood none of it so he kept his head down. It seemed, however, that displeased the brunette, and the younger man’s hands would move upwards, tilting his head upwards so his grey eyes met the other’s piercing blues. He continued to speak, his voice changing until words came from him that Ghost recognized.

That startled him badly, and Ghost would have flinched away from the younger man again if he had not placed his hands in his thick hair. “Shh, calm yourself Northman. You’ll not be harmed here, so long as you behave correctly.” The brunette’s tone was soothing, and Ghost understood him clearly although his accent was quite thick. He would continue to hush him quietly until he stood straight once more, his eyes meeting the other’s eyes.

“Good. Now, tell me your name.” Ghost said nothing, he had not spoken in so long that speaking seemed like an impossible thing, and even if he could speak, he was determined not to break his vow. The child in front of him may own his body, but his mind and heart were still his own, and he was determined to keep it that way. The brunette waited for a while before his mouth turned into a frown, and he gripped his thick black curls tightly, giving his head a rough shake.

“Do not defy me, Northman. I will not tolerate disobedience, so if you value your life, then speak and tell me your name.” Ghost whimpered and cringed slightly, and slowly, the younger man’s expression would soften. “Can you not speak then? Well, I wish they had told us that at the auction, but no matter. No voice means that you have one less opportunity to defy me, doesn’t it? But you still need a name. Get in the bath and let us think on it.”

As the brunette went to settle on a pile of large pillows away from the edge of the bath, guards would step forwards to take away Jon’s simple linen covering and quickly help him down into the tub. Servants stepped forwards, and under the brunette’s instruction they would begin to cut his curls shorter, and shave the beard he had grown down into fine stubble.

“You will be my new bodyguard. That means that your life means nothing without mine, Northman. Do you understand this? If you fail in your duty to protect me, then you will die as well, and I think you still value your life, do you not?” The brunette paused, “Then I guess you should know my name. You don’t speak, so you’ll call me nothing, but you are to think of me as Master Satin. And you… I think we’ll call you Jon. A simple name for a simple man… Yes, it fits.”

It took time for him to remember his new name, and though for the first month Satin was quite tolerant of Jon, he told him after a few weeks he’d have to learn to speak Satin’s language. “After all, if I carry on talking to you in such a barbaric language people will talk, Northman. And we can’t have that, can we?”
 
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