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ᴛɪɢʜɴᴀʀɪ ([personal profile] veardant) wrote2022-12-03 09:53 pm

i'm swimming in a mirror;



[ tighnari plans most things in his life vary carefully, and his heat is no exception.

past years he has dealt with it alone, but past years he has also lived quite far from civilization, so the all-consuming desire to seek out a mate was easily quelled by the fact that there was simply no one suitable within a reasonable distance. it was maddeningly frustrating, but it worked. since moving to the city, however.. things have been more difficult. the first two years he'd managed to control himself, but as he ages his heats grow in strength and intensity, and the year previous he'd very nearly done something he knows he would have regretted - it started via a text, progressed to phone sex, and ended with tighnari at the foot of a stranger's door, so eager and hungry that he'd been prepared to throw himself at some nameless, faceless body he'd found on the internet in order to slake his impossible thirst. thankfully, once they'd answered the door, he'd gotten ahold of himself and declined, but it was a very narrow thing. casual sex simply isn't something that tighnari does. not with strangers.

which is exactly why he has a different plan, this year. he'd considered taking a vacation to somewhere distant again, to tough it out alone, but unfortunately that's simply not financially feasible at this juncture, so he'd had to give up on that idea. the next best thing, he'd thought, would be to simply.. find someone he trusts enough to spend his heat with, someone he knows well enough to admit his needs to, but not so well that it'd potentially ruin a long-standing relationship. collei was out of the question, she's always felt more like a sister to him. he'd considered cyno for awhile, but they've been so close for so long that tighnari couldn't bring himself to risk their relationship for something so fleeting. everyone else that he knows is a colleague, and that's entirely out of the question, he'd never be able to show his face in the akademiya again.

but aki.. aki fit the bill perfectly. he's certainly good looking. they don't work together, they're not as intimately close as he is with cyno, but close enough that tighnari trusts him, that he thinks that aki won't find it particularly weird or off-putting. this is a biological imperative, after all, it's not something that tighnari can control. even still, he'd been incredibly nervous to extend the offer.. having prepared for the worst, but finding himself instead surprised by the acceptance.

after that, all that was left was to take paid leave from work, and preparation. he'd spent two days cleaning his apartment and tending to his plants, as well as stocking up on plenty of snacks and sports drinks, fruits and granola bars and things that are easy to grab, that also provide good energy. he's premade his meals for the week and stocked them in the freezer, finished all of his laundry, and rearranged the living space, pushing the furniture toward the walls to build a comfortable nest of cushions and blankets in the middle of the room. finally, the night before he'd taken a long, luxurious bath to calm his nerves, and gone to sleep.

when he wakes, it's late into the night, moonlight streaming through the gauzy curtains pulled before the common room windows, and across the glass doors. he's hot all over, deeply uncomfortable, and so slick between the thighs that he's dampened his boxer briefs and sleeping shorts both. tighnari groans, rubbing both hands over his face. it's too early. aki isn't here yet, he's probably still asleep, but tighnari's body is positively aching all over, deep frustration setting into his bones. his scent is thick and cloying, sweet like honey and crisp like morning dew, and it permeates the space, making him dizzy. he thrusts a hand down the front of his shorts, rubbing his clit and fucking himself hard on his fingers, but it isn't enough, gods, it isn't enough. two unfulfilling orgasms later he's rolling onto his side and grabbing for his phone, typing out a hasty text, deleting it, typing it again. ]


Are you awake? Started early. Please.
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-01 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ It doesn't even begin to cover how good it is, but Aki shudders at the way that word sounds on Tighnari's breath as he comes, wound up with pleasure as hot and intense as his own. Even as he finishes, he still continues to fuck up into Tighnari as he comes, granting them both every ounce of pleasure that they seek. It's warm and wonderful and sexy, and even if this is far from the first time Aki has felt the pressure of Tighnari's cunt around his length, it still feels as good as the first time. Perhaps even better, for all their experience together learning one another now.

As Tighnari kisses him, Aki exhales long and deep against his mouth, tongue grazing and tasting his partner's. ]


Mm...sure you're not sore yet?

[ They've been at this a lot today...even more than the day before, and the day before that. Aki doesn't question whether each of these encounters are necessary for Tighnari's wellbeing. He doesn't need to know the answer, when he's enjoying himself this much. When they both are.

He gathers Tighnari up in his arms, holding his close against him as the pleasure begins to ebb from them both. This, too, has gotten easier, craving contact in the afterglow. ]
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-01 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Not a chance.

[ At the end of the day, Aki is only a man - there's only so much he can deny the pleasure of sex. But even if that's all there was to it, he wouldn't be enjoying himself this week nearly as much as he is. He and Tighnari just seem well matched as partners. He realized it from the first, and he can no longer deny the chemistry they have, physically and emotionally.

What he does with that realization is another matter, but he isn't thinking about that right now either. How could he, when it feels so good to hold Tighnari in his arms like this, the both of them spent and sticky with sweat and sex? Few things have reminded him how alive and real he is before this week. ]


Just wanted to make sure you can keep up.

[ A soft tease on his voice - he's gotten far more comfortable with that this week as well. It takes a lot for his guard to come down, but in a situation as unique as this, it was inevitable, wasn't it?

His palms smooth gently over Tighnari's shoulders in apology of the welts he left their earlier. ]


That was good.
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-02 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ When Tighnari pulls away, Aki's lips chase his for just a moment, before he is leaning back and gazing up into his teal eyes, arms locking solidly around his waist, one hand palming at the base of his tail. ]

Is that such a surprise?

[ Aki likes to take charge, but so does Tighnari. They're both excellent switches, which has done great things to keep things fresh and interesting while they've been together this week. Never a dull moment when neither of them can be sure which position they will end up taking when they come together. ]

I've been told I'm a pushover at heart.

[ Underneath it all, he's still too soft, for better or for worse. It's why he can't deny himself the feelings he's having, even though he should. Even though it could be risking everything to allow himself to indulge in this easy affection. And it is so easy, to touch and kiss Tighnari like this. He doesn't even have to think about what he's doing anymore. ]
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-02 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Perhaps it's simply that he's been in danger every day of his life for as long as he remembers that that same fear doesn't grip him. Death has been ever in his shadow for so long, waiting for him to slip up so it can claim him at last, after missing its chance when it took the rest of his family. Every day Aki wakes up knowing full well that it may be his last, but it's never held him back. He has long known what he had to do.

Whether or not he'll need to reevaluate that is something that simply hasn't entered his mind yet, but there is a reason he can barely admit to himself that he might have feelings for Tighnari that extend beyond platonic, and have nothing to do with this week of incredible sex.

(Though the week of incredible sex certainly hasn't hurt.)

Leaning his head into Tighnari's touch, Aki's eyes flutter shut, a long exhale escaping him. His touch is wonderful, tender. It offers Aki a gentleness he scarcely knows. ]


You don't think so?

[ There's something soft and vulnerable in his voice. He has come to care about Tighnari's thoughts and opinions a lot, and though it surprises him too, this is something that Aki would like to hear his thoughts on. Is it...alright to feel as much as he does, in the line of work he's in? ]
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-02 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ I think the world could absolutely use more people like you.

Damn Tighnari's unapologetic honesty, because Aki knows he means that, completely and fully. It isn't often that Aki worries about things like his own confidence or self-esteem - for so long, he's focused only on his needs and his mission, his heart a terribly tender thing that attaches whether he likes it or not. His lifestyle cut down on those risks, minimized the likelihood that he might hurt someone, but there's only so much of that he can do. He still gets attached, and he winds up getting hurt instead.

Is it better that he is this way, than someone with a harder edge? Is it better that he feels so much, even if it means it might someday break him?

He suddenly feels very tired, weary, and tips his head forward against the crook of Tighnari's neck, breathing out soft and low. ]


...Glad you think so.

[ He's not sure he can agree, but it means a lot that Tighnari would say so. ]
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-02 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ In the back of his mind, Aki can't help but cotton on to this fact - that Tighnari doesn't usually need to be satisfied again so soon after climaxing, and this kiss doesn't seem to be building to another fuck or really anything else at all. It's a kiss for the sake of the kiss, deep and sensual and intimate in a way that makes his heart flutter in his chest, Tighnari filling his mouth and his mind with only the taste of him. There is room for nothing else.

It shouldn't mean anything - can't mean anything. And yet in that moment, Aki finds, unexpectedly, that he so desperately wants it to, that his heart cries out for this intimacy to be real and meaningful. Maybe it already is. He doesn't know, but it shouldn't be.

A soft sound moves in his throat, tears stinging in the corners of his eyes as he lifts his hands to cradle Tighnari's face. His thumbs crest over his cheekbones, gentle and adoring.

This is not the same thing as it was when they began only a few days ago. ]


Nari, I-I...

[ He isn't even sure what he wants to say. What he should say. So instead, he continues to kiss his lover, tasting his mouth and exploring his lips, the taste of him all around him. ]
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-03 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[ They should talk about it. They'll have to, soon enough, and Aki knows Tighnari is sharp enough himself to have realized that. They're both responsible adults who are too mature and emotionally responsive to ignore what is building between them. But Tighnari doesn't press the subject now, and so neither will Aki. Not when Tighnari's mouth feels so good, his touch so warm, his voice gentle and reassuring. He's never felt this way about anyone before.

What a terrifying, yet wonderful realization to have.

Tighnari stays where he is, seated fully in his lap, even though Aki has gone soft inside of him, neither of them want to break that contact, that physical connection. Is there anything else that even needs to be said?

No, not right now. Instead, Aki continues to simply hold him and kiss him until he is breathless and senseless, until his lips have swollen and begin to tingle, and he can no longer distinguish the brush of Tighnari's tongue from his own. By the time that point comes, he has spent his silent tears, and let them dry without bringing further attention to them. ]
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-03 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Perhaps it should wait. They both knew full well that this encounter would bring intense feelings along with it - how could it not? They were good friends before, Tighnari being one of the few people in his life that Aki can rely on and seek guidance from, rather than being the one being relied upon. He's always found him attractive, even if it was easy to push aside that pull until Tighnari asked him to be a part of this. Their feelings aren't surprising, though it's the intensity of them that takes him by surprise.

Aki keeps his unrelenting gaze locked upon Tighnari's eyes, gazing into them deep, never wanting to break away, for how connected it makes him feel to his lover, like he could crawl into his very heart and curl up there, safe and sound forever.

Safe and sound isn't something he really ever finds himself yearning for, but now...now it's the only thing in the world he wants. To be safe and sound alongside Tighnari. He's been a fool. ]


I know.

[ He murmurs softly, giving himself a moment to collect his thoughts by pressing another lingering kiss to Tighnari's soft, swollen lips. ]

I don't want this to end.

[ How could things possibly go back to the way they were before? It's painful to even consider. ]
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-03 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Aki understands perfectly why Tighnari doesn't answer him, even while he puts his heart on the line, and why it isn't a no or a yes. It's a dangerous line of thinking to even indulge, given the sort of life he leads, and how he puts himself in danger each and every day. Theirs is a terribly cruel world - every time he leaves, he may not return. He has accepted this since the day he joined the Public Division, because it was the only thing that mattered.

...It isn't anymore.

That is a realization that will take a great deal of reckoning, and one he is not willing to fall into right now. Not when Tighnari makes that request of him, kissing him, touching him. Better to give himself over to that impulse, to make love as Tighnari asks him to, instead of grappling with the weight of those realizations in his mind.

Instead, he winds his arms around Tighnari's waist, pressing up and arching into his warm skin, already tacky with sweat, before rolling him onto his back, pinned between Tighnari's slender, milky thighs. ]


Nari...

[ He murmurs, teeth grazing along the length of Tighnari's slender neck, one hand reaching for his ear, thumbing over soft fur that Aki has learned well these past days. ]
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-04 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's so much easier to forget that pain, to push it away behind lock and key when they are touching and kissing like this, wonderfully bare and ready and eager to fuck. By now, Tighnari knows him so well, and Aki can say the same in return. Each encounter is more intense and memorable than the last, and it was already good to begin with. He can lose himself in this fully. He can lose himself in him.

He kisses Tighnari for a moment longer, before his hands slip away from Tighnari's ears, smoothing down the front of Tighnari's body. He has touched and kissed every square inch of his skin at this rate, he must have, and yet Aki still hungers to do it all again, to learn him anew, to fuck him in every possible way he can.

He is a hunter at heart, after all. He enjoys pulling apart his prey.

As his palms move down over Tighnari's chest and abdomen, his mouth moves after them, kissing a hot trail along Tighnari's already smoldering body. At his nipple, at the sensitive skin beneath his sternum. At the rise of his hip, and then the dip of his thigh. Each place he kisses and teases with his teeth, until he has slithered back fully, slinging Tighnari's thigh over his shoulder like a sash.

He won't tease Tighnari too much, but he can't help but do so just a little, as he drags his tongue over the crease of his lover's thigh, pinching skin between his teeth. ]
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-04 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It feels so good to be wanted. It feels so good to be wanted by Tighnari, and to hear his name uttered in a voice gone low and tight with need. Even if he wanted to deny him any longer, Aki wants this too, heat flooding his hardening cock as Tighnari urges him to the lips of his cunt ungently. He sure is still filthy, but Aki doesn't care. For someone who tends to be rather tidy, he loves a good, filthy fuck.

So he doesn't make either of them wait. His lips part in a kiss over Tighnari's clit, his tongue laving over it in a decadent, drawn-out motion, the tangy taste of him flooding into his mouth. It's a flavor he's grown familiar with, grow to love and crave. ]


Hmm...

[ He hums against Tighnari's core, the timbre of his low, needful voice buzzing into his partner's body as his mouth drags down his wet folds with an obscenely wet sound. He can taste himself, too, and while it doesn't taste as sweet as he does to his tongue, it's nevertheless exciting, thrilling, the reminder of how recently he was able to come inside him, and how fucking good it felt to fill Tighnari up with his seed.

He's gotten more into this mating thing than he expected to. ]
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[personal profile] unwinds 2023-01-06 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ It helps that Tighnari is so responsive, that he makes it so clear where he likes to be touched and tasted with each twitch of his hips and the pressure of his fingers. Not that...oral is very hard to get wrong, but Aki still gets no small amount of pleasure from making this especially good for his partner.

Especially with what they were on the precipice of discussing, his heart burgeoning with a terrifying warmth and affection. Being close to people like this is such a rare privilege for him, and who knows when he may lose Tighnari, too? It will come to an end, soon enough. So he'll make this count while he can.

Then, when it's over and down, he can at least remember this kernel of warmth in his chest that Tighnari now occupies, and the way that he felt, the way that he tastes against his tongue.

Drawing his tongue over his clit again, Aki reaches between Tighnari's thighs, one finger sinking fully into his already slick and filthy cunt. The way is so deliriously smooth that his stomach clenches in response, and another groan escapes him against Tighnari's folds. ]


Mm...good?

[ He knows it's good. But still. ]

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