Incubus Dreams - October 16th-18th

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Since their discussion with Anita, Asher and Nathaniel haven't really discussed much. They've simply been enjoying the freedom without guilt Anita's acceptance has allowed them. But Nathaniel knows there is something they really do need to talk about. As reluctant as he is to break the comfortable joy Asher and he have been savoring, he knows better than to let something fester.

Nathaniel climbs into bed with Asher, sitting beside the dead form of his lover, and waits for the sun to set enough for Asher to wake. He smiles faintly, brushing his fingers through beautiful golden hair, his heart tightening with how much he feels for Asher. It never lessens, that gut-turning need to be close to Asher and never let go, and Nathaniel never wants it to become less intense.

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Asher presses close, biting gently at Nathaniel's lip, his hand still pressing against Nathaniel's thigh. He's more awake now, in every way, rubbing against Nathaniel's thigh. He is in the mood to hurt Nathaniel tonight, and once he can bear to tear himself away from Nathaniel's mouth, it will be made obvious.

[nathaniel_kitten]

Whatever Asher's mood, Nathaniel flows easily with it. A leaf on the river's surface. When he feels as if he's suffocating, Nathaniel pulls back enough to gasp in several breaths, his head light with arousal, lack of oxygen, and blood loss. He stares into Asher's eyes, and then licks slowly at Asher's lower lip, tempting him with breath and tongue.

"Good evening," he murmurs, a slight upward curve to his lips.

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"Bon nuit, mon chat," Asher purrs, pulling up, rising easily to sit up, covers pooled around his waist.

"I hope you have no plans tonight, cher," he murmurs. "I thought we could spend it here."

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"I'm all yours," Nathaniel breathes, watching Asher move.

Fascinated by the play of muscle under pale skin.

"We can do whatever you'd like," he says, eyes still moving over Asher's body. "And afterwards, we can talk."

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"Talk?" Asher asks, even as he leans over the edge of the bed, drawing a box out from underneath; one Nathaniel should recognise instantly, by now.

"About what, cher?" He asks, being a little cruel and teasing Nathaniel by stroking the wooden lid of the box, not opening it, not yet.

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Nathaniel's heart picks up in speed when he sees that box.

His eyes are bright as he stares at Asher's hand, stroking that lid.

"After," he whispers, practically vibrating with excitement.

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"After?" Asher asks, his face perfectly blank, even as he's inwardly chuckling. Teasing Nathaniel never fails to amuse him, and especially when Nathaniel looks so very distracted, so very eager.

"Are you sure, mon chat? If it is important, I am happy to discuss it now."

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"I'm sure."

Nathaniel's eyes continue to stare at that hand, almost willing it to open the damn lid and pull out the toys they'll play with.

"After."

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Asher smirks as he slowly opens the lid, watching Nathaniel's eyes follow the movement, listening as his lover holds his breath.

"How hard, cher?" He asks softly. "Blood or bruises?"

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Nathaniel's eyes slowly, dazedly, move to look at Asher.

"Which do you want, Asher?" he whispers. "Do you want to see bruises or blood?"

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Asher runs his finger along the blade of a knife, tilting his head, considering.

"Blood," he says at last, picking up the knife by the hilt, turning it slowly in his hand, letting it glint in the light.

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A shudder wracks his body, and Nathaniel looks away, almost ashamed by how badly he wants what Asher is about to give him.

"Yes," he practically pants, painfully aroused already. "Blood."

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Asher nods, firmly, setting the box aside for now. He looks at Nathaniel consideringly, trying to decide just how he wants Nathaniel restrained. Kneeling, or lying down? Front, or back?

So many ways, so little time...

"Lie down, mon chat," he says at last, already reaching for leather cuffs from the box, buckling them around Nathaniel's wrists quickly and efficiently.

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Nathaniel shivers as he lays back, the minute trembling of his muscles almost constant as he tries to calm down. He hasn't pushed Asher for a rough session between them since the mess with Anita had begun. While he had craved it at times, he'd clung to the intimacy and quiet lovemaking rather than blood and screams and pain.

But now... now that he is about to be given exactly that, he absolutely craves it like one being given a hit from their addiction of choice.

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Asher lifts Nathaniel's arms above his head one by one, attaching the cuffs to the headboard. He runs his hands down Nathaniel's arms from wrist to shoulder, trying to soothe the light trembling, hoping it's from anticipation rather than fear.

He picks up the knife, letting the flat of the blade rest against Nathaniel's chest, the tip just pricking his throat.

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When Nathaniel's eyes meet Asher's, there is no fear in them. His quivering is from the need, the rising excitement in him. When he feels the prick of the blade near such a tender place... the overwhelming trust he has in Asher calms him. The trembling stops at the first, sharp, momentary flash of pain, and Nathaniel just sinks into the bed.

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Asher draws the knife slowly down Nathaniel's chest, stopping just above his belly button. He presses hard enough to score a red mark against Nathaniel's skin, but not enough to draw blood, not yet.

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The muscles shift under the blade, the skin reddening just a bit in its wake. It's a light sting, one Nathaniel welcomes, and his eyes never leave Asher's face.

And his arousal never wilts.

He almost expects, once the blade comes to rest there on his stomach, that Asher will move with the quickness vampires have -- a quickness faster than even a lycanthrope -- and sink the blade into his gut, just to hear him scream.

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He wishes to hear Nathaniel scream, yes, but not like that. He slowly draws the knife back up, biting deeper into pale skin, watching hungrily as blood beads appear on the surface. He bends his head, pressing the flat of his tongue to the wound, following it from navel to throat.

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Not a scream yet, but Nathaniel knows Asher's just getting started.

He hisses when the blade just bites into flesh, and then moans when Asher's tongue presses to it. Nathaniel's eyes close, the wet heat of Asher's tongue moving up his body that much more vibrant with sight gone. His cock twitches, his toes curl, and his nipples tighten around the silver piercing them.

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Asher hums softly, savouring the taste of Nathaniel's blood on his tongue as one would fine wine.

He circles Nathaniel's nipple with the tip of the knife, again not breaking skin.

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The soft sound of metal teasing metal while that blade circles makes Nathaniel whimper softly. Slowly, he opens his eyes, hips squirming on the bed, and watches Asher while he tries not to pull too much as his restraints. There is something in Asher's actions that make Nathaniel wonder how many times this erotic torture had been performed as true torture -- both by and to Asher -- because no one inherently knows how to build this rhythm.

How to lull the victim into giving themselves up into the tender mercies of one who would have their blood and their screams and their submission. It's an odd train of thought, and Nathaniel is quick to banish it, arching his chest just a little, his hands tightening into fists.

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Asher laughs softly at Nathaniel's soft shudder, the arch of his body, puuling the knife away even as Nathaniel tries to drive it deeper.

"Patience, mon chat," he murmurs thickly. He scores two shallow cuts just above Nat's collarbones, little trickles of blood pooling in the hollows of his shoulders, Asher dipping his head to drink. He will take Nathaniel apart peice by peice, cut by cut, a far slower torture than any Gabriel could have devised.

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His breath catches with each cut, each swipe of Asher's tongue.

No, Gabriel was never so gentle in his pain. As much as he'd loved Gabriel, what they had done together, what Nathaniel had been taught through those endless nights, it had never been like this. It never could have been. It is like comparing a pre-schooler's finger paintings with a polished, classical artist's work. Night and day.

Nathaniel is not stupid. He will never be stupid. The wereleopard knows what Asher does in these moments, what he does when they simply make love quietly, slowly. It is a relearning of intimacy, of trust, of pain, of pleasure.

Asher will find his weaknesses, what makes him weep, beg, shudder, arch for his vampire, and he will carefully tend them instead of exploiting them.

A shuddering breath leaves Nathaniel's lips as he tilts his head back, offering his throat. "I had control until I met you," he whispers.

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"And outside of this room, you still do," he murmurs. "But here, for now..." He smirks, lips bloody. "Your control is mine, cher."

He rests the knife over Nathaniel's heart, voice quiet. "Your body," he whispers, twirling the knife expertly, carving a spiral into the thin flesh of Nathaniel's chest, dragging the knife up to the right. A second line mirrors the first as Asher continues, "your heart," He draws a horizontal line across the two marks, carving his initial into Nathaniel's chest.