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hastegas ([personal profile] hastegas) wrote in [community profile] jigglephysics2015-05-18 09:07 pm

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Life had long since become cyclical for Tidus.

He wakes up. He eats. He mulls around the house. He goes for a long swim. He comes back in, showers, heads to practice. He comes home. He swims again or practices on his own on the deck of his home by the water. He tucks back into bed again and sleeps.

The only upheavals in his painfully predictable life alone in his home come from games, the occasional night out with his team or an adoring fan and Auron's visits. He looks forward to them, no matter the context, because they tear up the heavy, grey blanket that has long since settled over him and smothered him slowly under its weight. He wants change. He wants a life without sunrises and sunsets he has to count down. Tidus wants tomorrows that come too soon and yesterdays that leave too late. He wants adventure, excitement, something to break this mold he has been shoved into as he cycles through his life in a house of ghosts and silence.

Practice never brings fatigue and coming home in the dimming light of dusk brings little hope of sleep when he hasn't worn out his reserves of energy just yet. It's not that he wants to sleep, that's just boring, but it would at least be a change of pace to get truly worn out and knocked to the ground by his own muscle aches. Nothing in this common rotation brings challenge for him anymore. It's likely why he lives for the thrill of games and the adrenaline that runs through him right before he submerges himself.

He pushes the door open and greets the quiet, emptiness of his house with a loud 'I'm home!' that seems to echo off of nothing and greet him in return. He crinkles his nose and tosses his bag of wet clothes from his practice across the room towards his couch.

"I can't think of a single thing I want to do tonight... No one even wanted to go out this time. This sucks."
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-10 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
Auron looks down like he's looking for something before meeting his eyes, pushing his fingers beneath his waistband, and then abruptly taking his hands from his body and leaning away; he needs the room to get his own clothes off, helping like he was asked to only because Tidus already took back his request. With the fastenings untied, it's just a matter of pulling away the plates of hardened leather and setting them on the floor with the rest of his things.

The movement brings him close again, one hand palm-down over the flat space above Tidus's tailbone so that he doesn't lose his balance when he's forced to lean backwards to accommodate.

They're nearly even.

"Satisfied?"
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-10 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
It takes no convincing for him to go with the suggestion of Tidus's movement, arms circling around his waist; he pulls him in, so they're fitted chest to chest and stomach to stomach, where he can feel his breathing and the quick beating of his heart under his breastbone. Auron bows with the intention of returning his mouth to the side of his throat, but stops halfway to his destination, forehead weighing against his shoulder.

For now.

He doesn't have to ask how long it will last.
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-10 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
His shoulders shake with suppressed laughter, soft, and fond, and brief. He's laughing at himself, or he's finally rediscovered the humor in the situation. How long has he been in Zanarkand? How much longer is he going to be? Somehow he was envisioning a future where he wasn't needed any longer, or at least one where the needing was less — because any future is inevitably going to contain his absence — and then he's confronted abruptly on the deck of the houseboat that isn't his and his own grasp on the situation's slipped, just that much.

It wouldn't be the first time he was wrong.

"I know." Auron says, smile audible. But, like all of his smiles, there's a hollowness at its center. Something that he, even with all his practiced feigning, can't pretend away.

He squeezes Tidus's sides under his worn hands, feeling over the tract of all that bare, warm skin, without moving from where his hand's in his hair, gently placating. It's something he's trying to say without saying. He has enough experience with these things to know. He has enough experience with these things not to question it.

Instead, after the moment's gone on long enough, he curls his hands around Tidus's upper arms and pulls him along with him when he lies back.
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-10 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Auron's grown accustomed to having very little; from the time he served in Bevelle to setting foot in Zanarkand, Sin receding behind him like a tidal wave in reverse, the most he's ever been able to call his own was a long pilgrimage gone too quickly. He should have been able to stop it. It should have ended on his terms. But that wasn't his part to play, and his story is not a story about absolution, recovery, or hard-earned second chances. Tidus's story is just beginning; it may never begin.

Ending or beginning, ended or never started; there might not be any perceptible difference between the two from where they're standing. Everything that's really his is untouchable. Not hidden away, protected, but as an apparition. Already gone.

Their noses bump when he kisses the corner of his mouth.

It's enough to be here. It's enough to be able to do anything. His hands find Tidus's hips again, then curve lower, pressing their bodies together from the hips down. A flush of heat uncurls from low in his stomach, spreading to his chest, his thighs, the tips of his fingers. He's been stingy with how he's been touching him. It comes from a contradiction that he still hasn't solved.

But he can move, regardless.
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-11 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Auron makes a sound of satisfaction at the drag of Tidus's weight over his hips, perhaps the first sign that he's enjoying this for what it is. Yielding to clever hands and a willing body. Two years, give or take, and they'll both be gone. If Auron knew that, he wouldn't have agreed to this either. But even with everything he's learned, he can't actually imagine any future that isn't more of the same burning sun rising over the flat sea and settling between impossibly tall, brightly-lit buildings.

Never-ending. Just because he escaped death, much the way the city itself did so long ago, doesn't mean that the same logic applies to him. But he has a choice while the city has none. Sometimes it almost seems as though he has more choices now than he had in life. And if that isn't miserable...

Auron raises his hips, lifting them both off the of bed with a creak, back bending in a strong, subtle arch. They persist in being clothed from the waist down, but there's not much left to hide. He squeezes his hands like he's suddenly remembered what Tidus told him to do, then ventures a step further, sneaking his fingers between parted thighs. His skin's so hot to the touch that the only evidence of the thin fabric is the weave of the thread he can feel under his fingertips.
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-11 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a little too easy, but it's meant to be, isn't it? Neither of them are very good at listening to their betters, but this kind of cooperative movement — the simplest kind of give and take — comes naturally, regardless of their unnatural circumstances or the unnatural happenstance that brought them both here. Auron's loathe to think about it, but when isn't he thinking about it? Even with the weight of another body on top of his...

That's why he's never sought the people in this city. One reason, anyway. It would do him little good.

Auron's neck bends with the rest of his body and he blinks his eye shut. There isn't enough room to reach between them, bodies folded flush together, so he works with his hands where they are; presses his palms up and down the tender insides of the thighs spread astride his hips, before lastly pulling at the fabric still clinging close to his skin. He stops once it's halfway off of his hips.
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-11 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Even though they're cooperating — keeping up with each other — his eye flutters open when he feels the hands on his chest. Whatever he expected that movement to mean, it wasn't more attention angled in his direction. He would be fine without it. He could say this. But he knows, all the same, that that's not what this is about.

He knows Tidus isn't thinking ahead. They're not the kinds of people who do.

He's the kind of person who grabs his thighs where they're still under his hands to press his hips down while he pushes up smoothly with his own, still no more insistent, but his grip is getting tighter.

"Lift your hips."

Belatedly, he loosens his hands so he can.
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-11 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"It wasn't an order."

It could've been. But he doesn't have to listen to Auron, whatever his preference is. He doesn't address his offer for help. Instead, his hands go to his waistband, finally impatient enough to hook his thumbs beneath the elastic and peel it off without anymore half-measures, at least until his jammers get trapped around his thighs, spread legs impeding his progress. But he isn't covered anymore, and he tugs him down again, cock hot and heavy where it falls against his stomach.

One of his hands rests on his thigh, but the other strays back to his lithe waist, the bend of his knuckles dipping into his navel. It's deliberate when he keeps from touching him any lower, and he watches his face while he advances, brushing his bare hips instead, his tailbone.

Even though he's moved, Tidus's weight is still bearing down on his hips. The proof that this isn't one-sided is trapped underneath the curve of his ass. He's only surprised he hasn't said anything about it yet.

He's fine with that. Which, of course, means that it won't last.
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-12 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes."

It's matter-of-fact as the same time as it's teasing; whether Tidus is trying to find somewhere tender to poke his fingers or if he's just being honest, he can't think of a better answer than the real one. He has a fair idea of what he likes, although he doesn't think on it much, and golden skin and a muscular swimmer's build is among those things. So is, apparently, bleach-blonde hair and a wicked grin.

Nothing that Tidus says stops Auron from continuing to avoid the places that he knows he wants him to touch; the hand on his thigh snakes upward, fingers spreading, and he brushes upward along the little valleys the muscles in his chest make with his fingertips until they're placed firmly against the flat hardness of his sternum. What he usually wears is revealing enough that he isn't seeing anything new, but he knows if he shared that particular information Tidus would put two and two together and realize that he started looking before today.

He can feel the vibration of his vocal cords through the bones in his upper chest when he speaks. It should be calming, but really, it's just — He raises one eyebrow in a severe line, adam's apple visible when he swallows, not-so-subtly glancing down the length of their bodies. If he were seven years younger, he'd be a sputtering mess. Thankfully, he isn't. But it doesn't keep the uncertainty out of his voice.

"What do you want me to do?"

His good sense tells him he shouldn't ask, but he isn't very good at listening.
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-12 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Auron doesn't bother fussing or refusing to cooperate, at least, not this time — It wouldn't do much in his favor, now that Tidus is tugging at the fastenings on his pants curiously while he figures out how to get them loose. He isn't inclined to open his mouth and go giving away his secrets. He usually isn't. That's a part of the problem, his refusal to budge in the face of Tidus's wondering curiosity. But he isn't giving this up when he's giving everything else up; letting the last of his modesty unravel beneath sure hands.

It's what gets him to place both of his own hands on Tidus's bare thighs, fingers tucked against the soft, smooth skin behind his knees, like he's trying to keep him from moving too far away. Like he wasn't the one who was made to promise he'd stay here with him.

He didn't need to do this to prove it. But he's already said that.

"That's not an answer."

Not that he can say much. Ambiguity is his cornerstone, these days.
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-12 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Auron is helpless underneath Tidus's restless body, although that's not the full truth of it. He could move if he wanted to; leave if he wanted to; stop this if he wanted to, but he isn't. It's his hand, and he's giving it away. There's no way to be a passive participant in this; there's no way to do it and disapprove at the same time, even if there are things he might've liked to smooth past. Like undressing himself. Like asking Tidus what he wanted.

He's hot and hard under the palm of his hand, and then under his stomach when he moves over him, trapping him whilst he speaks. It's another performance, if an unneeded one. His attention is already centered in on the boy bearing down on him, fighting to keep him transfixed even though he doesn't need to resort to these measures. Or maybe he just likes to say these things, feel how they sound on his tongue. They couldn't have spoken like this before. He's spoken to other people like this before.

Maybe he should have kept a closer eye on him. Too late now.

Auron finds his voice eventually.

"I wasn't aware you were making plans."

It's really not an answer. Not to the question he's asking. But he didn't get the answer he expected himself. A simple confirmation or denial, that's all he was looking for. Auron breathes out with a sigh, glancing at Tidus and then at the ceiling shrouded in darkness. He can imagine all of the things they could do without blushing, but it's much more difficult to imagine doing anything for himself. Conversely, if what Tidus wants is a challenge, it would be easy to provide it. He would give him everything he wanted, but he's better, he thinks, at giving him the things that he never knew he needed at all.

"I have no objections.

But I make no promises."

In fact...

"There's something I want you to do."
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-12 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
His hands are still touching his thighs, although there's no reason left to hold him. He'll do what he wants. Which is why the next thing he says is,

"Blow me."

Because repeating Tidus's own words back at him is easier than the alternative. Auron's terms, like everything else about him, are vague at best. In the same vein as his careful, continual touching is at odds with his apparent distance from the whole act. In reality, he's never been very good at wanting anything. His life, as far back as he can remember, has been dictated by the needs of other people. From the priests in Bevelle, to Braska, to Jecht, and now...

It just isn't in his nature. Perhaps he doesn't seem like that kind of man. He's not sure he knows how to explain it.

Or that he would want to.

"How long have you been thinking about this?"
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[personal profile] entrust 2015-06-12 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"That long?"

There's a catch in his throat, and he misses Tidus's lips over his own, but very quickly his mouth is elsewhere and he doesn't have to look to know. His voice is rough, senses arrested by the physical onslaught coupled with the unexpected admission. Expecting coyness this far in is a fool's errand, but Tidus has no reason to lie, which can only mean that what he's saying is the truth. A year. Or two.

And he never once noticed. Couldn't have begun to consider.

His assumptions seem foolish, suddenly.

Auron raises a hand to his mouth like he's trying to keep himself from saying — or asking — anything else. His free hand finds its way to Tidus's shoulder when his hips shift up, not involuntarily. He has enough self-control to keep from feeling guilty about asking for this. Not that it seems he has any reason to, after all.