It's a faint pulse of a thought, that it would be nice to feel Flint's hands on him when it can be differently appreciated, not just in these white-hot moments of twisting arousal. To give it in return. In the slow simmer towards a thing, perhaps, or even removed from it entirely. He thinks it because it's nice, here, the width of a palm against his back, the stroke of fingers, showing it just a little in the subtle arcing after it. And then he doesn't think much about that at all.
When that grip secures, and Flint begins fucking him in that quick-hard manner, Marcus' hand grips tight over the one it is holding, eyes closed and breath coming faster. Without attention to his cock, the prospect of coming from that alone feels remote, abstract, if not strictly impossible, but then the climb towards it slows down, the loosening of that grip and the loss of that friction getting a half-growled sound out of him that is both relief and complaint.
The change of pace comes with a low, hazy glance backwards down the length of him, shuddering after the feeling of that longer stroke, the moment of loss only to be filled again. On the second, third stroke, he pulls a knee slightly forward, giving himself some leverage to push back against Flint. This does all feel easier than it has felt before, and there's some luxuriating in it, a slow but restless fucking back against him for a few long pulls of breath.
That hand on Flint sures up, aligning angle with a brief press of fingertips in the grooves of knuckles before finding a grasp somewhere high where wrist meets hand. A forceful tug with the intent to bring that hand up under him, to the warm, rigid, leaking curve of his cock.
He puts up little in the way of resistance, following the tug at his wrist to snake his hand around Marcus. Lays his fingers about him, and collects the taut shape of him into his palm. That the angle of wrist and hand necessary is less than agreeable to the lay of elbow seems for the moment a negligible point, though is renders the touch more groping than strictly productive. It's a relief to feel him between the fingers. To squeeze and pull in no particular rhythm just for the sake of touching him while Marcus fucks himself back, or while he presses in close, or some combination of the two that's become too mixed up to parse.
The thought of that illegible want, gone blurred and crooked between them, makes him shiver. Prompts the hand left at Marcus' hip to draw him tight in, greedy enough for the sensation of being knit flush that he's willing to forgo more these shallow, grinding strokes in and across each other. Watching, gaze heavy and wandering and trying to observe too many points at once, until his attention settles at the twist of Marcus' shoulder. The curve of his neck and the lay of his cheek. The hot flush of color in him.
With a low, murmuring noise of complaint, Flint reaches for him. Slips the hand from Marcus' waist to grasp after his shoulder again—
"I want to look at you." Shift over, says the squeeze of his fingers at Marcus' cock. Let him touch him better.
It's a relief to be touched, even semi-uselessly. For Flint to feel him like this, to know with the vivid press of his cock to palm the state he is in. The firm grip Marcus has on Flint's wrist gentles as he's fondled, running palm up to his elbow, resting back into that tugging in until they are pressed tightly together, lifting up some on straight arm to help it. That knife-edge place of his body craving resolution, release, and the desire to put it off, to stay caught right here.
He glances back. Abdominal muscles tensing, flexing into that squeeze. Nods, a murmur of sound that doesn't resolve into words.
Which doesn't convey the immediate fiery pulse of want. He wants to look. He wants to be looked at. Shifts as urged, folding a leg down to lay his hip and shoulder onto the bed and then twist around, a slow and careful rearrangement of limbs, hand dipping down to reflexively handle himself, a loose grasp at the base of his erection once on his back.
Staying close, brushing the inside of his leg against Flint's outer, anticipating the other man's own rearrangement in the tangle they want between them.
He's going to do that—rearrange. Work back into him, settle between Marcus' legs and bury himself back in that promising heat. But before he gets to catching up Marcus' knee or hauling him by the crook of hip and thigh up into his lap and onto his throbbing cock, Flint leans down to him.
In that remote tent where what they'd done has been intended for easy dismissal, there had been biting and scratching. The tang on blood on the air from Marcus' side. The desperate grasp of fingers. Here when Flint indolently stretches in over him, trapping their cocks together between them in the effort to find Marcus' mouth and steer him into a kiss with the press of a thumb at the bristly plane of his unshaven jaw, the whole arrangement has the tenor of a well worked muscle being stretched to avoid strain. Sloy. Relieved to be kissing him, and already growing impatient for the kiss that follows after this one.
A hand works between them. With some aching pull, Flint gathers their cocks together so as to rut softly once, twice, against Marcus through the loose circle of his fingers with a low pant of satisfaction. He's meant to be looking and this isn't that. Only give him a moment, and he'll remember his intent to spread Marcus open and watch how he comes undone on him.
Marcus' hands raise on instinct as Flint pushes into his space, both of them coming to lay on either side of Flint's face by the time he is kissed. Warmly receptive to it with a breathed out sound of approval, as if it's been as many weeks as he's been away since the last kiss as opposed to a minutes. Head lifting a little to keenly meet the next, hands then migrating to shoulder, to back of the neck.
Chin tipping up with a groan at the direct contact of hand and cock against him. Chases another kiss with a hungry rasp of sound, if not quite backed up by bite and aggression, more soft and warm, loose and overworked.
"I want you," murmured against auburn bristle. "Fuck, I want you."
It doesn't have the tenor of an impatient spurring, no real implicit get on with it sharp in the middle. More confessional, as if there's more to the thought, like often or all the time or more than I ought, the slight texture of complaint to it. He's not sure there have been many in his life he would even allow to push him to his current state, the desperate ache of it, the open quality of his need.
There haven't been many in his life for all kinds of reasons, of course, but then, Flint should be among the worst of his choices. But it never does feel that way, as soon as the other man puts his hands on him.
It peels something open in him to hear it, a thick ache swelling to lodge against the ribs. Too thick and snarled to slip free, too stitched through all the vital parts in him to live with comfortably. It feels like the sharp stab of homesickness, which no sailor is meant to be partial to but which Flint sometimes recognizes like an errant spirit in the room.
Brow furrowing, he groans "Marcus," at the corner of his mouth. Circumspect, and cautioning, and so very desirous of hearing it or something in its vein again. Don't say that to him, says Flint's mangled low note. They'll leave a hot mark like a bruise bitten into the skin, and he'll have to look at it long after Marcus has snuck away from this room. How is he meant to tolerate that?
He kisses him once more, fever warm and telling on himself in its sluggishness. Breathing there for a moment in that intimate space— and then drawing up, shedding the bracket of Marcus' hands so as to straighten. There is sweat across the back of his shoulders. The palm he runs over the sum of their cocks while his attention roves from the needy stripe painted in Marcus' face to the swollen shape they make together is restless.
Then he does catch Marcus' knee. Coaxing it up, pushing it toward Marcus' chest so as to spread him wide and vulnerable. Smarting from I want you, Flint helps himself back. Bluntly sets his cock, teasing once or twice over the pretense of pushing into him. Hesitating because he knows this is going to be over soon. Morning threatens to cut up fast, and the longer he keeps them here the more likely it seems daylight might be delayed.
But he wants him, and he wants this. So eventually—thumbing the head of his cock back past the clutch of muscle, he sinks into Marcus with a tight groan. One long stroke to settle, nerves jangling and hand returning to stroke tight over the rigid shape of Marcus' cock. A shift, grinding as he finds his leverage. And then heavy and quick, fucking hard enough into the open sprawl to spur the reactive motion of his hand about Marcus.
A hummed sound into that slow kiss, insistent reassertion, and when it breaks and they are just breathing there, Marcus imagines it said back in that close, humid intimacy.
But his hands slip away easily as Flint straightens, and he feels a flush of renewed heat at Flint's palm at his knee, levering it back and fixing him open. Looking down towards where Flint pushes his cock down and against him, teases it, and maybe they're of accord, of wanting to linger here. For his part, arousal and a more abstract ache that had settled in at the sound of his name murmured like that, they snare together through his ribcage, constrict his breathing to a shallow, shivery thing.
Marcus presses his head back against the covers as Flint sinks into him, throat exposed thoughtlessly, a sound kicked out of him at the feeling of Flint's hand on him. Legs closing loosely around, a hand finding Flint's shoulder.
The easy rehitching, the dull pressure of that initial settling. Holding back from his own climax by the fingernails, refusing to let go until this little bit more is had, and then its just a slow slide to that inevitability as Flint begins to fuck him again in earnest, down against the mattress, up into the curl of the other man's hand. Watching that, first, and then Flint, expression somehow tense and open both. The room once again becomes saturated with the sounds he makes, the same breathy hitch on impact, but louder, less able to be helped. As compulsive as the fine tugs and twinges of muscle up through thighs and stomach as he nears.
He'd been watching Flint and now his focus smears aside as he comes in shuddered pulses, a held breath followed by a groan out of him on a delay.
That searching line in Marcus' face—the tilt back of his head rolling back around to look at where Flint's hand is on him and where he drives into him; the scrape of eye contact—is what he'd wanted, and the scattered, pulled open effect of it clenches close and tight. Prompts a tightening of the grip that has moved reflexively around to Marcus's thigh. Spurs the low, encouraging catch of sound that spills out of him to chase after all those breathed free noises.
It's a good vantage from which to watch as it all comes unwound, the sudden stark heat of it motivation to bury himself with a groan. Pressed in taut as he strokes him through it. Grinding against him like a tremble of anticipation. The look of Marcus there, all spasming muscle and sweat and flecked in the hot pulse of come, is rivetingly exposed.
(Fuck, he's close.)
He wrings it out of him, breathing hard. Transpantly needy and winded from some sentiment—(does he have to say what he wants, and how he wants it, or ask how they're meant to fuck in paid room after this?; Flint's face is so legible even when he hasn't been made to sweat like this)—twinging like a sprain in his side. Slowly, sluggish but not gentle, Flint shifts his hand from Marcus' softening cock to grasp at his other thigh. Runs both hands speculatively from hip, to knee, and back again—the precursor to hitching him in marginally closer across the plane of his thighs.
"Where do you want me?" Just the question makes his cock twitch, the hum of near orgasm pulsing through him.
It's not quite like going from drunk to sober in a moment, but it's somewhere on that spectrum. There, the free and heady desire to do anything to meet the harsh edge of the thing and tumble over it, and then he has, and he is here, still, impaled and panting and open. The prickle of Flint's attention all at once sharper as he reorients his focus back to the other man.
And it feels good, Flint's cock in him, the grasp of hands on his thighs, the slight readjustment that sees them locked in closer. Feels good, too, to see want written so plainly there on the other man's face, as cracked open as he feels. It smooths that feeling that had been like a rise of hackles.
Where do you want me? and Marcus reaches down, curling his hand around Flint's arm.
"Come here," he says, still that edge of breathless. Hands pulling and ushering the other man to bend down back to him, and he lifts his thighs to accommodate. Does not demand he bow all the way into a kiss, catching him close with a hand to his chest, another up to his face, fingers splayed against jaw, thumb sweeping over mouth.
It feels good just to touch again, palm skimming muscle, pectoral, ribs, the other a gentle bracket at his face that doesn't seem like it will let him turn away. "Like this, here. Come in me. Fuck me."
In that slow rearrangement, dredged not fully down but close, his hands migrate. One for the mattress, planting in the tucked coverlet; the other moving from the top of Marcus' thigh to grasp at the tender skin and taut muscle below the back of his knee in absent reinforcement of the elevation of his leg. Touching to touch, some absent parallel in the flex of his grip to the hands that wander over him.
And that answer— Caught against the heel of Marcus' hand, he breathes out a long and aching sigh. Brow furrowing and eyes blinking briefly shut, throat thick as he pants hot against skin. Good. That's the answer he'd wanted (though maybe any answer would have been good; he could have come across Marcus' belly and that mingling of fluids would have satisfied too).
The muscle stretched across Flint's shoulder flinches as his face grows faintly heavy in Marcus' hand. Then, another hitch. This, from the hip, and it seems to remind him of how good the friction is—the fucking part of fuck me—, because then his weight shifts. Rocking forward onto his braced arm and levering the grip at the back of Marcus's thigh, he draws back. Gives one, slow stroke into him that becomes two before the dragging momentum of his own hunger catches at to him, and he moves to resume fucking Marcus in earnest.
He holds him there as Flint breathes through that long sigh, thumb impressing affection against the corner of his mouth. His own focus is sharper, renewed clarity. In the muggy haze of golden lamplight and a late hour, most shades are reduced to tea-stained gold and bronze, eyes dark with it, shadows sinking into dips and valleys. It would be nice to do this with sunlight in the window. Harsh light of day to study by. Shades of green and blue in those moments of eye contact.
But Marcus does like this, these close hours that feel like they belong to him, and Flint within them. Too accustomed, right now, to be totally silent, a soft scrape to breath out as the other man's weight settles, the strain of the hand at the back of his knee. A quieter sound out of him at that first stroke back in. The good ache of it without that overwound feeling of his own need.
Marcus' hand moves from Flint's face to his neck, a grip there that doesn't seek to interfere with that crucial rocking forward. The other comes up to curl around the wrist set against the covelet.
"It's good," is murmured, more whisper than voice. "It's good, that's good. Show me."
Some minutes ago, he'd felt more in control of this. Sturdy touch, patiently exploring the plane of Marcus' back and shoulder, fucking so slowly into him that it had ached. Eager, but not desperate. Hungry, but not starving for it. But Marcus wants him. And here, that light wrapping shape of fingers and the murmur of praise that goes straight to his cock, and he finds himself clinging by fingernails. Stripped down and anxious to be satisfied, fucking with a reckless kind of urgency.
Show me, Marcus tells him, and he groans out a low, carrying note in answer. Lets something give in his neck and shoulders to hang his head and lean softly into the shape of the thumb and palm.
In that hot, close space with the coverlet twisting under his hand and Marcus' encouragement warm against the skin, he's good for only a handful of full rough strokes down into all that waiting heat before his grip slips. Some line in him bowing, he comes with a catch of breath. A sharper grunt. Spills hot and sudden and sweet into him, pressing close for the insensible ringing duration.
With a shuddering exhale, he sags back. The angle of Marcus' leg is permitted to ease, and Flint slips nearly fully free of him as he slackens.
It feels a little like having some scrap of control wrested back. Not that it had been wrestled from him, as established. Given freely, and now between his hands again. Even here, laying bent doubled, held in place and the issue of his own orgasm cooling on his skin, from here Marcus can watch Flint unravel, murmuring, hands on him, inviting it with all parts of him. Something he is doing as well as being done to.
A warm, internal shiver follows the moment when Flint goes still and slow. Quiet, leg released, Marcus shifts enough on the bed until Flint and he are free of one another, a flicker of something in his expression that is both appreciative and amused at that specific feeling, delightfully dirty. That lowered legs moves crossways to let him sit up, leaning into Flint's space, hands out to catch his shoulders, jaw.
Doesn't kiss his mouth, first, going sideways to press it against his cheek, a warm nuzzle-like scrap of contact, as if waiting patiently on the edges for Flint to join him in the aftermath rather than immediately demand for more.
The soft flinch for their parting is only distantly marked. For here are Marcus' hands, and the warm scuff of his unshaven cheek, and the shape of his own short breath bouncing off skin back to him. Somewhere, Flint lays his hands at Marcus' side, his waist. The top of his thigh, his knee.
As the blurred shape of this bends back together and the drags of urgency melt off him, it becomes simple to turn his face the necessary degree to scuff his lips at the corner of Marcus's mouth. To breathe some heavier, fuller exhale out against warm skin. By the time he kisses Marcus, he's reordered himself enough to recall how to be slow and patient. The sound he makes into his mouth is only some low appreciative murmur, and there is so demanding scrape of teeth.
It isn't strange for them to come together gently in the after, even if it does seem to leave off in short order. Some return to form, nipping remarks and the slow dismantling of the thing built together until they occupy distinct spaces once again. This is thought of in some abstraction and with no particular conclusion as Marcus presses a kiss back, leaning into hands, his own suring up around Flint's shoulder, the other tucked under jaw.
Knows a little edge of greed, though. Awfully ambitious, given his own capacities in this moment, that he will likely sleep as soon as settled, but still there, present a little in the way he opens the kiss up just enough to taste his tongue past the other man's lips, before relenting.
That hand at Flint's shoulder slips down to chest as he drops his head, chin nudging the other freckled shoulder, mouthing a kiss there. Feels a little like prodding at a bruise, this, and equally satisfying.
A half turn of his face to follow has him breathing heavily across Marcus' hairline, mouth incidental at his temple. The warm, wet shape of the kiss at his shoulder is sting and balm both; he imagines he must taste like sweat, and smoke from the oily lantern (or from this proximity to Marcus, whose skin carries that scent on it despite having been divested of every stitch of fabric).
No, these are ordinary impulses. To kiss, and touch. To linger close for some short measure until the sweat and come begins to stick unpleasantly instead of just being rewardingly grimy. Give it a minute. Give it two, and the desire to loiter in this space will come unstuck. But for that duration, the wandering of hands stroking idle lines along Marcus' thighs; and the warm, steadying draw of breath; and, in less than a minute, Flint nosing at Marcus' cheek with a low rumble of request until he lifts his face the degree necessary to kiss him mouth again so that he might return that lazy taste of tongue past teeth.
"Where is your cigarette case?" a low spoken question, thickly murmured, when he eventually breaks back.
Lazy, Marcus lifts his head, answering that kiss with a small, contented sound. A hand wandering back up and around Flint's shoulder, sketching his thumb over a line of muscle. Part of him imagining pressing the other man back down to the bed, restarting all of this again, albeit slower and lazier.
The other part of him harbouring a more realistic perspective, and stops him from leaning in to chase Flint back down before the other man speaks.
Hm, and he looks back to the fold of his things on the chair. It does feel a mile away, those few steps from the mattress. "There," he answers. Moves a leg with the intent to go and retrieve it unless stopped, motions all slow and lazy.
He is stopped—the hand at his thigh catching closed. Near him, chasing the tender skin below Marcus' ear, Flint makes a low noise to protest the thing. Some grumbled assurance like, I'll have it, and he unfolds his own leg. Drawing his hands sluggishly away, he twists over with a working of muscle in shoulder and side.
It takes less actual physical effort to clamber across and out of the bed than it really seems like it ought to. Then he is on his feet. Sweat drying skin prickles in the oily lamplight. The night is dark—a purposeful decision to pick some span of time when the moon would be sliced thin for the work Marcus and the others had pursued—, and there is no moonlight to augment the room through the slash narrow windows.
Regardless, a cursory feeling up of Marcus's folded clothes reveals the hard edges of the case. Flint doesn't have to rifle far in the half dark to find the right pocket to raid before he makes to return to the bed.
Marcus moves once they finally break contact. Not far, just a sliding up a little on the covelet, stretching worked muscles in the same motion before settling, back finding the headboard in low slouch. His focus is more on the other man, anyway, considering the sight of him, standing casually bare in warm light, handling Marcus' clothing.
Will find himself watched when he makes to return. Inside, it's half full of cigarettes wrapped in brown leaf, with one mostly finished and stashed away for later dissection. The metal is an orangey tint, brighter in the lamplight, with its scratched in flame shape on the lid that he is sure he's seen Flint glance at skeptically at least once before.
This time, he offers an answer to unasked question, "It was a gift," lest he be accused of such obvious self-styling, never mind that he let it replace the ordinary tin one he'd had prior to it.
It's only a few strides back to the bed even when they're meandering ones. Once he arrives at it, he sets one knee up onto the mattress with enough weight applied there that the foot remaining on the thick rug underfoot is pretense.
(The eyes on him are to be expected. It might be disappointing were he to have turned and discovered Marcus' attention elsewhere. Anyway, it's only fair—he's looking at Marcus.)
His focus wanders down to Flint's hands, but also that stretch of thigh, which he remembers clutching not so many minutes ago, really, and the myriad of other little sense memories attached. Without the same sex-stupid fog clouding his judgment and senses, it's a different thing to look at Flint now, even if the man is in much the same positioning.
Rare, too. They'd likely be half-dressed by now, or making motions towards it, little room for lingering appreciation. Marcus narrows perception back to his hands, lazily anticipatory.
"It was left for me on a Satinalia without a note."
Flint's huff of a breath out as his attention dips to extracting a cigarette is like a laugh. This fucking place. These fucking people.
"Objectively preferable to the kitchen knife left on my doorstep," he observes, flipping the case shut with a soft nip of metal.
Then the case is set aside, a reflecting muggy orange rectangle on the mussed coverlet, and with the chosen cigarette tucked casually behind the ear, Flint clambers easily back into the bed. He sits beside Marcus, but with his back to the rest of the room rather than settling in alongside at the headboard. A bent leg, the line of hip and and thigh and knee incidental against the other man's side.
(It's generally easier to observe a thing from this direction rather than from beside it. To say nothing of the fact that he's tired, and if he lays down beside Marcus in bed made warm from their exertions then he will pass out before he has had the opportunity to
What, exactly? Make use of these minutes where he might study Marcus in his bed? Stupid.)
Leaning forward with the cigarette, he makes a grunt of a request for a light.
Minor adjustments follow Flint settling, sitting up a little further out of slouch to match. Conforming to arrangement, nearness, knee leaning to thigh. His hand falls to gently rest on the inner of Flint's knee, palm teasing over the hair that prickles over that patch of skin before resting.
With his other hand, raising it, he summons a small twist of flame between the bracket of thumb and middle finger, holding it in place for Flint to make use of. No sharp little studies to see if Flint flinches or hesitates, a broader kind of observation that is more appreciative than trying to find something out.
Only once the end of the cigarette catches and embers properly—
"I wasn't spared," he says, leaning back. "I received a bowl from the kitchens, and returned it on the finding. The culprit tried to break into my quarters to retrieve it some days after," because he's an idiot, says a fine flicker to his expression, "and talked only just fast enough to save himself."
He'll take an anonymous cigarette case over almost doing grievous harm to a man in a state of indignant paranoia.
"Do you think we'll still like each other come Firstfall?" And he turns his hand to accept a cigarette being passed to him.
(Surely if he were liable to flinch from the spark, he would have leaned over to the lantern instead. Or, at the very least, would have steeled himself for the brittle tang crackling in the air before all but summoning it.)
Flint's pulls on the cigarette are shallow and briefly held, the perfunctory type to coax the leaf and paper into burning made during some hum of acknowledgement for an idiot. He takes only one proper drag on the cigarette before moving to surrender it into Marcus' possession, turning his face in some easy direction so as to exhale smoke out through the nostrils.
What a question. It pinches at the corner of his eye. Tickles somewhere low in his belly.
"Do we like each other now?" he asks, tilting his face back. It has a scrape of humor to it, cool as it is.
Hm, around the end of the cigarette, drawing in smoke to linger in his lungs. Tips his chin up to breathe it out again over their heads.
"We could try," has an answering scrape of humour. "See how we like it."
Marcus turns his hand to offer the cigarette back, eye contact ticked down to watching the burning end of the object. They are, anyway, sat here like this, with a propensity for finding each other again. Maybe if Satinalia were tomorrow, Marcus would identify two things he knows about Flint and combine them into a gift too.
He still has his hand at his knee, thumb idling against the edge of bone.
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When that grip secures, and Flint begins fucking him in that quick-hard manner, Marcus' hand grips tight over the one it is holding, eyes closed and breath coming faster. Without attention to his cock, the prospect of coming from that alone feels remote, abstract, if not strictly impossible, but then the climb towards it slows down, the loosening of that grip and the loss of that friction getting a half-growled sound out of him that is both relief and complaint.
The change of pace comes with a low, hazy glance backwards down the length of him, shuddering after the feeling of that longer stroke, the moment of loss only to be filled again. On the second, third stroke, he pulls a knee slightly forward, giving himself some leverage to push back against Flint. This does all feel easier than it has felt before, and there's some luxuriating in it, a slow but restless fucking back against him for a few long pulls of breath.
That hand on Flint sures up, aligning angle with a brief press of fingertips in the grooves of knuckles before finding a grasp somewhere high where wrist meets hand. A forceful tug with the intent to bring that hand up under him, to the warm, rigid, leaking curve of his cock.
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The thought of that illegible want, gone blurred and crooked between them, makes him shiver. Prompts the hand left at Marcus' hip to draw him tight in, greedy enough for the sensation of being knit flush that he's willing to forgo more these shallow, grinding strokes in and across each other. Watching, gaze heavy and wandering and trying to observe too many points at once, until his attention settles at the twist of Marcus' shoulder. The curve of his neck and the lay of his cheek. The hot flush of color in him.
With a low, murmuring noise of complaint, Flint reaches for him. Slips the hand from Marcus' waist to grasp after his shoulder again—
"I want to look at you." Shift over, says the squeeze of his fingers at Marcus' cock. Let him touch him better.
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He glances back. Abdominal muscles tensing, flexing into that squeeze. Nods, a murmur of sound that doesn't resolve into words.
Which doesn't convey the immediate fiery pulse of want. He wants to look. He wants to be looked at. Shifts as urged, folding a leg down to lay his hip and shoulder onto the bed and then twist around, a slow and careful rearrangement of limbs, hand dipping down to reflexively handle himself, a loose grasp at the base of his erection once on his back.
Staying close, brushing the inside of his leg against Flint's outer, anticipating the other man's own rearrangement in the tangle they want between them.
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In that remote tent where what they'd done has been intended for easy dismissal, there had been biting and scratching. The tang on blood on the air from Marcus' side. The desperate grasp of fingers. Here when Flint indolently stretches in over him, trapping their cocks together between them in the effort to find Marcus' mouth and steer him into a kiss with the press of a thumb at the bristly plane of his unshaven jaw, the whole arrangement has the tenor of a well worked muscle being stretched to avoid strain. Sloy. Relieved to be kissing him, and already growing impatient for the kiss that follows after this one.
A hand works between them. With some aching pull, Flint gathers their cocks together so as to rut softly once, twice, against Marcus through the loose circle of his fingers with a low pant of satisfaction. He's meant to be looking and this isn't that. Only give him a moment, and he'll remember his intent to spread Marcus open and watch how he comes undone on him.
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Chin tipping up with a groan at the direct contact of hand and cock against him. Chases another kiss with a hungry rasp of sound, if not quite backed up by bite and aggression, more soft and warm, loose and overworked.
"I want you," murmured against auburn bristle. "Fuck, I want you."
It doesn't have the tenor of an impatient spurring, no real implicit get on with it sharp in the middle. More confessional, as if there's more to the thought, like often or all the time or more than I ought, the slight texture of complaint to it. He's not sure there have been many in his life he would even allow to push him to his current state, the desperate ache of it, the open quality of his need.
There haven't been many in his life for all kinds of reasons, of course, but then, Flint should be among the worst of his choices. But it never does feel that way, as soon as the other man puts his hands on him.
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Brow furrowing, he groans "Marcus," at the corner of his mouth. Circumspect, and cautioning, and so very desirous of hearing it or something in its vein again. Don't say that to him, says Flint's mangled low note. They'll leave a hot mark like a bruise bitten into the skin, and he'll have to look at it long after Marcus has snuck away from this room. How is he meant to tolerate that?
He kisses him once more, fever warm and telling on himself in its sluggishness. Breathing there for a moment in that intimate space— and then drawing up, shedding the bracket of Marcus' hands so as to straighten. There is sweat across the back of his shoulders. The palm he runs over the sum of their cocks while his attention roves from the needy stripe painted in Marcus' face to the swollen shape they make together is restless.
Then he does catch Marcus' knee. Coaxing it up, pushing it toward Marcus' chest so as to spread him wide and vulnerable. Smarting from I want you, Flint helps himself back. Bluntly sets his cock, teasing once or twice over the pretense of pushing into him. Hesitating because he knows this is going to be over soon. Morning threatens to cut up fast, and the longer he keeps them here the more likely it seems daylight might be delayed.
But he wants him, and he wants this. So eventually—thumbing the head of his cock back past the clutch of muscle, he sinks into Marcus with a tight groan. One long stroke to settle, nerves jangling and hand returning to stroke tight over the rigid shape of Marcus' cock. A shift, grinding as he finds his leverage. And then heavy and quick, fucking hard enough into the open sprawl to spur the reactive motion of his hand about Marcus.
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But his hands slip away easily as Flint straightens, and he feels a flush of renewed heat at Flint's palm at his knee, levering it back and fixing him open. Looking down towards where Flint pushes his cock down and against him, teases it, and maybe they're of accord, of wanting to linger here. For his part, arousal and a more abstract ache that had settled in at the sound of his name murmured like that, they snare together through his ribcage, constrict his breathing to a shallow, shivery thing.
Marcus presses his head back against the covers as Flint sinks into him, throat exposed thoughtlessly, a sound kicked out of him at the feeling of Flint's hand on him. Legs closing loosely around, a hand finding Flint's shoulder.
The easy rehitching, the dull pressure of that initial settling. Holding back from his own climax by the fingernails, refusing to let go until this little bit more is had, and then its just a slow slide to that inevitability as Flint begins to fuck him again in earnest, down against the mattress, up into the curl of the other man's hand. Watching that, first, and then Flint, expression somehow tense and open both. The room once again becomes saturated with the sounds he makes, the same breathy hitch on impact, but louder, less able to be helped. As compulsive as the fine tugs and twinges of muscle up through thighs and stomach as he nears.
He'd been watching Flint and now his focus smears aside as he comes in shuddered pulses, a held breath followed by a groan out of him on a delay.
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It's a good vantage from which to watch as it all comes unwound, the sudden stark heat of it motivation to bury himself with a groan. Pressed in taut as he strokes him through it. Grinding against him like a tremble of anticipation. The look of Marcus there, all spasming muscle and sweat and flecked in the hot pulse of come, is rivetingly exposed.
(Fuck, he's close.)
He wrings it out of him, breathing hard. Transpantly needy and winded from some sentiment—(does he have to say what he wants, and how he wants it, or ask how they're meant to fuck in paid room after this?; Flint's face is so legible even when he hasn't been made to sweat like this)—twinging like a sprain in his side. Slowly, sluggish but not gentle, Flint shifts his hand from Marcus' softening cock to grasp at his other thigh. Runs both hands speculatively from hip, to knee, and back again—the precursor to hitching him in marginally closer across the plane of his thighs.
"Where do you want me?" Just the question makes his cock twitch, the hum of near orgasm pulsing through him.
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And it feels good, Flint's cock in him, the grasp of hands on his thighs, the slight readjustment that sees them locked in closer. Feels good, too, to see want written so plainly there on the other man's face, as cracked open as he feels. It smooths that feeling that had been like a rise of hackles.
Where do you want me? and Marcus reaches down, curling his hand around Flint's arm.
"Come here," he says, still that edge of breathless. Hands pulling and ushering the other man to bend down back to him, and he lifts his thighs to accommodate. Does not demand he bow all the way into a kiss, catching him close with a hand to his chest, another up to his face, fingers splayed against jaw, thumb sweeping over mouth.
It feels good just to touch again, palm skimming muscle, pectoral, ribs, the other a gentle bracket at his face that doesn't seem like it will let him turn away. "Like this, here. Come in me. Fuck me."
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And that answer— Caught against the heel of Marcus' hand, he breathes out a long and aching sigh. Brow furrowing and eyes blinking briefly shut, throat thick as he pants hot against skin. Good. That's the answer he'd wanted (though maybe any answer would have been good; he could have come across Marcus' belly and that mingling of fluids would have satisfied too).
The muscle stretched across Flint's shoulder flinches as his face grows faintly heavy in Marcus' hand. Then, another hitch. This, from the hip, and it seems to remind him of how good the friction is—the fucking part of fuck me—, because then his weight shifts. Rocking forward onto his braced arm and levering the grip at the back of Marcus's thigh, he draws back. Gives one, slow stroke into him that becomes two before the dragging momentum of his own hunger catches at to him, and he moves to resume fucking Marcus in earnest.
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But Marcus does like this, these close hours that feel like they belong to him, and Flint within them. Too accustomed, right now, to be totally silent, a soft scrape to breath out as the other man's weight settles, the strain of the hand at the back of his knee. A quieter sound out of him at that first stroke back in. The good ache of it without that overwound feeling of his own need.
Marcus' hand moves from Flint's face to his neck, a grip there that doesn't seek to interfere with that crucial rocking forward. The other comes up to curl around the wrist set against the covelet.
"It's good," is murmured, more whisper than voice. "It's good, that's good. Show me."
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Show me, Marcus tells him, and he groans out a low, carrying note in answer. Lets something give in his neck and shoulders to hang his head and lean softly into the shape of the thumb and palm.
In that hot, close space with the coverlet twisting under his hand and Marcus' encouragement warm against the skin, he's good for only a handful of full rough strokes down into all that waiting heat before his grip slips. Some line in him bowing, he comes with a catch of breath. A sharper grunt. Spills hot and sudden and sweet into him, pressing close for the insensible ringing duration.
With a shuddering exhale, he sags back. The angle of Marcus' leg is permitted to ease, and Flint slips nearly fully free of him as he slackens.
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A warm, internal shiver follows the moment when Flint goes still and slow. Quiet, leg released, Marcus shifts enough on the bed until Flint and he are free of one another, a flicker of something in his expression that is both appreciative and amused at that specific feeling, delightfully dirty. That lowered legs moves crossways to let him sit up, leaning into Flint's space, hands out to catch his shoulders, jaw.
Doesn't kiss his mouth, first, going sideways to press it against his cheek, a warm nuzzle-like scrap of contact, as if waiting patiently on the edges for Flint to join him in the aftermath rather than immediately demand for more.
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As the blurred shape of this bends back together and the drags of urgency melt off him, it becomes simple to turn his face the necessary degree to scuff his lips at the corner of Marcus's mouth. To breathe some heavier, fuller exhale out against warm skin. By the time he kisses Marcus, he's reordered himself enough to recall how to be slow and patient. The sound he makes into his mouth is only some low appreciative murmur, and there is so demanding scrape of teeth.
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Knows a little edge of greed, though. Awfully ambitious, given his own capacities in this moment, that he will likely sleep as soon as settled, but still there, present a little in the way he opens the kiss up just enough to taste his tongue past the other man's lips, before relenting.
That hand at Flint's shoulder slips down to chest as he drops his head, chin nudging the other freckled shoulder, mouthing a kiss there. Feels a little like prodding at a bruise, this, and equally satisfying.
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No, these are ordinary impulses. To kiss, and touch. To linger close for some short measure until the sweat and come begins to stick unpleasantly instead of just being rewardingly grimy. Give it a minute. Give it two, and the desire to loiter in this space will come unstuck. But for that duration, the wandering of hands stroking idle lines along Marcus' thighs; and the warm, steadying draw of breath; and, in less than a minute, Flint nosing at Marcus' cheek with a low rumble of request until he lifts his face the degree necessary to kiss him mouth again so that he might return that lazy taste of tongue past teeth.
"Where is your cigarette case?" a low spoken question, thickly murmured, when he eventually breaks back.
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The other part of him harbouring a more realistic perspective, and stops him from leaning in to chase Flint back down before the other man speaks.
Hm, and he looks back to the fold of his things on the chair. It does feel a mile away, those few steps from the mattress. "There," he answers. Moves a leg with the intent to go and retrieve it unless stopped, motions all slow and lazy.
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It takes less actual physical effort to clamber across and out of the bed than it really seems like it ought to. Then he is on his feet. Sweat drying skin prickles in the oily lamplight. The night is dark—a purposeful decision to pick some span of time when the moon would be sliced thin for the work Marcus and the others had pursued—, and there is no moonlight to augment the room through the slash narrow windows.
Regardless, a cursory feeling up of Marcus's folded clothes reveals the hard edges of the case. Flint doesn't have to rifle far in the half dark to find the right pocket to raid before he makes to return to the bed.
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Will find himself watched when he makes to return. Inside, it's half full of cigarettes wrapped in brown leaf, with one mostly finished and stashed away for later dissection. The metal is an orangey tint, brighter in the lamplight, with its scratched in flame shape on the lid that he is sure he's seen Flint glance at skeptically at least once before.
This time, he offers an answer to unasked question, "It was a gift," lest he be accused of such obvious self-styling, never mind that he let it replace the ordinary tin one he'd had prior to it.
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(The eyes on him are to be expected. It might be disappointing were he to have turned and discovered Marcus' attention elsewhere. Anyway, it's only fair—he's looking at Marcus.)
The case pops open with a soft click of metal.
"From who?"
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His focus wanders down to Flint's hands, but also that stretch of thigh, which he remembers clutching not so many minutes ago, really, and the myriad of other little sense memories attached. Without the same sex-stupid fog clouding his judgment and senses, it's a different thing to look at Flint now, even if the man is in much the same positioning.
Rare, too. They'd likely be half-dressed by now, or making motions towards it, little room for lingering appreciation. Marcus narrows perception back to his hands, lazily anticipatory.
"It was left for me on a Satinalia without a note."
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"Objectively preferable to the kitchen knife left on my doorstep," he observes, flipping the case shut with a soft nip of metal.
Then the case is set aside, a reflecting muggy orange rectangle on the mussed coverlet, and with the chosen cigarette tucked casually behind the ear, Flint clambers easily back into the bed. He sits beside Marcus, but with his back to the rest of the room rather than settling in alongside at the headboard. A bent leg, the line of hip and and thigh and knee incidental against the other man's side.
(It's generally easier to observe a thing from this direction rather than from beside it. To say nothing of the fact that he's tired, and if he lays down beside Marcus in bed made warm from their exertions then he will pass out before he has had the opportunity to
What, exactly? Make use of these minutes where he might study Marcus in his bed? Stupid.)
Leaning forward with the cigarette, he makes a grunt of a request for a light.
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With his other hand, raising it, he summons a small twist of flame between the bracket of thumb and middle finger, holding it in place for Flint to make use of. No sharp little studies to see if Flint flinches or hesitates, a broader kind of observation that is more appreciative than trying to find something out.
Only once the end of the cigarette catches and embers properly—
"I wasn't spared," he says, leaning back. "I received a bowl from the kitchens, and returned it on the finding. The culprit tried to break into my quarters to retrieve it some days after," because he's an idiot, says a fine flicker to his expression, "and talked only just fast enough to save himself."
He'll take an anonymous cigarette case over almost doing grievous harm to a man in a state of indignant paranoia.
"Do you think we'll still like each other come Firstfall?" And he turns his hand to accept a cigarette being passed to him.
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Flint's pulls on the cigarette are shallow and briefly held, the perfunctory type to coax the leaf and paper into burning made during some hum of acknowledgement for an idiot. He takes only one proper drag on the cigarette before moving to surrender it into Marcus' possession, turning his face in some easy direction so as to exhale smoke out through the nostrils.
What a question. It pinches at the corner of his eye. Tickles somewhere low in his belly.
"Do we like each other now?" he asks, tilting his face back. It has a scrape of humor to it, cool as it is.
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"We could try," has an answering scrape of humour. "See how we like it."
Marcus turns his hand to offer the cigarette back, eye contact ticked down to watching the burning end of the object. They are, anyway, sat here like this, with a propensity for finding each other again. Maybe if Satinalia were tomorrow, Marcus would identify two things he knows about Flint and combine them into a gift too.
He still has his hand at his knee, thumb idling against the edge of bone.
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