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( all glory to the cup noodle. ) ([personal profile] manscaping) wrote in [community profile] banebu2018-06-18 11:00 pm

'cause we can make it, break it / closed




"Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time."

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[personal profile] claritatis 2018-07-05 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gladio has always been there as a steady, ever-present rock of reliability in Ignis' life. He has always known that should he ever reach out his hand, fumbling for support, Gladiolus would be right there. The man has never let him down before.

He doesn't need to be led. Ignis knows the way to the hotel from where he was sat like the back of his own hand, but he keeps his fingers curled into the fabric of Gladio's jacket while they walk side by side, making soft and idle small-talk about the current state of the world and what Iris is up to these days. It does Ignis good to hear about her. She always tries to help him just that little bit too much, but he never speaks unkindly to her about it - she's just trying to help.

Their path through the Leville feels strangely familiar, though he can't put his finger on why until they reach the door. His breath in as he realises is short, audible, and he presses his fingertips to the frame as a flood of memories return.

Gods. Why did it have to be this room?
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Here we are. [He echoes, his hand finally relinquishing its grip, sliding lightly down Gladio's arm, and he laces their fingers loosely together to tug the taller man down towards a soft, careful kiss against the corner of his mouth.]
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[personal profile] claritatis 2018-07-08 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Most of the time, it's Gladio pulling him into these moments, stealing a kiss or a touch that stokes the embers under Ignis' desire for him. But sometimes... Sometimes, it's Ignis who reaches out, and right now it's for the sake of forgetting where they are and the memories attached to this space. If they have to be here... then new experiences can override the old ones.

Ignis' feelings for Gladio have always been complicated, in his mind, only made more so by his constant compartmentalising of them. When they're not together, not alone, he tucks them away and shuts them down tight, only letting Gladio see that he means anything to him when there's no one else around.

He knows, in his heart, that it can't be easy. He knows he could make it easier in so many ways, but...

The space around him disappears with only Gladio to hold on to. He leans up, leans into the kiss, grips gently at the other man's shirt and presses in close.
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I want you. [He murmurs. He isn't sure what he wants yet, but gods, he wants something. Something to help him forget the state of the world and how it's crumbling around them. Something to help him forget the fighting, the nightmares, the way the scars on his face still sometimes sting enough to make him wince.

The only thing, the only person he wants to be able to remember is right here.
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[personal profile] claritatis 2018-07-14 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[If someone stopped him and asked... if someone stopped and asked him 'so, hey, what's with you and Gladio?', Ignis wouldn't know how to answer. He's sure he knew what he wanted out of this at one point, but now? Now it's the closeness and the intimacy that lets him forget everything else that's going on in the world, but he doesn't know what to make of it beyond that.

So, he disappears. He vanishes after each time they meet like this and it's not fair, it isn't right, but after they've cooled off and his mind rights itself, thoughts creeping back in, he brushes his fingers across the back of Gladio's hand before he leaves him. Sometimes he's sleeping, and sometimes he feels those liquid amber eyes burning into his back, but he always leaves.

And yet... Gladio never mentions it. Never argues. It never becomes a fight, and every time they meet again, he's taken back into strong arms and pulled to a warm, broad chest and he can fool himself that he's safe again, while he's there.

Ignis' breath hitches in his chest now, Gladio's fingers trailing fire and his own fingers bumping forearms and wrists and finding buttons to pull open. Sometimes they tease. Sometimes the feelings that he feels towards this man flicker into fire in his chest and swell upwards, almost making it out. Sometimes, like now, they're all hands and heavy breaths and it's different, more primal.

It's what they both need.

He shoves Gladio's jacket off his shoulders, digging his fingernails in. Half of his own clothes have already fallen to Gladio's hands and the flush of arousal rises through him so swiftly that he feels his chest tighten.
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Gods-- [Ignis mutters, half muffled against Gladio's mouth, the line of his jaw, the tensed curve of his throat.

Gods...
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-- Fuck me.
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[personal profile] claritatis 2018-07-19 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gladio's patience always pays off, eventually. Building a trust and comfort between them has taken time, and Ignis has always held back just that little bit of himself... perhaps in the hopes that he could avoid being entirely taken in by his feelings for this man.

The wish had come out so naturally, so easily that he doesn't second guess it. No, he wants this, and he wants it now and with this man who has done everything to earn it but has never demanded anything. He shifts under Gladio's hands and then gasps, holding tight to his shoulders as his feet leave the floor. It occurs to Ignis to say Gladio might have warned him, but he's too caught up in the messy kisses pressed to his mouth and returning them just as eagerly.

If they're to make new memories in this room, Ignis could think of worse things to do.

He pushes a hand into the man's hair and holds his head steady against deep, firm kisses, feeling the check of Gladio's leg against the bed and huffing out a soft, breathless laugh.
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Anyone might think I'd kept you waiting... [Ignis whispers against a firm jaw, reaffirming his request in that simple, almost playful taunt. He wants this.]
Edited 2018-07-20 07:12 (UTC)
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[personal profile] claritatis 2018-07-22 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[It was the intention of it, and more of a segue into the easy way that they always seem to fall together. Maybe it's the alcohol, and maybe Gladio should think twice about this but Ignis is not - he's made his choice, and he's never wanted anything as badly as he wants this. There's only so long that you can wait for just the right moment.

Ignis sighs out a breath, slow and steady as hands wander down his body, as fabric is pushed aside and he groans softly when his cock is touched. Gladio knows just the right ways to make him squirm, just as he does in turn, talents earned through years of slowly learning one another's bodies.
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Mm... [He murmurs, his eyes fluttering closed and lips parting in another sigh wrapped around a satisfied-sounding hum of pleasure.] Six, I missed you...

[It isn't often he lets his emotions slip, not even for something so simple, but it feels like it matters right now and it comes out easily as his fingertips find Gladio's hair and work their way into it.]
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[personal profile] claritatis 2018-07-29 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
H--ah... [The soft sound of amusement he might have made is cut off by a quiet gasp of pleasure, a jolt of electric sensation up his spine. Does he miss this, or Gladio..? It wouldn't be an easy question to answer, but he would venture to say that it was both... or that he misses both things for their own reasons.

Ignis' arches slightly back, his fingers curling tight into the bedsheets as his breathing catches in his throat and hitches into unsteady panting. Is it the alcohol? Gods-- Is it? His head rolls to one side and he groans, twitching against the touch of fingers between his thighs.
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I want--

[He wants. Six, he wants it.]

Gladio, tell me you h... have something with you.
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[personal profile] claritatis 2018-09-05 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well thank the Six for Gladio's ingenuity, because the last thing Ignis needs right now is enough time to overthink what they're about to do. To most, this would be the least romantic setting imaginable, but... Ignis doesn't think he minds it all that much.

Besides, your standards for romantic settings drop considerably when you can no longer see them.

His breathing shudders audibly, the sensation of Gladio's fingers pushing into him not an unusual one at this stage, but tinged with the unfamiliar promise of more. He brushes his fingers against the back of his bedmate's head, tangling them loosely in his hair and not holding him there as much as lightly encouraging everything he does.

Ignis' hips shift restlessly against every press inside, against every twitch of pleasure that Gladio's tongue provokes down the length of his cock, and he grips the sheets hard with his free hand, twisting them up slightly between his fingers. It adds to the fuzzy warmth of the alcohol already buzzing through his system to create a heady mixture of intoxication and arousal, and a simple, honest desire for the other man.

As if he could ever deny the reality of that.
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Ah-mm... Don't stop...
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[personal profile] claritatis 2018-10-06 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ignis hisses out something that sounds oh so very much like 'fuck' but could well have been an entirely incoherent sound of pleasure at that second finger, tensing against it only briefly before he relaxes to all-too-willingly allow the intrusion. Everything between his hips throbs steadily with pleasure, tinged only slightly with the faint sting of being stretched but gods, he can cope with that for the sake of the rest of it.

His jaw clenches, a subtle resistance to the sensations threatening to overwhelm him entirely. It's no further than they've been before, not yet - how many times could Ignis say he'd been brought to the brink of pleasure and beyond by Gladiolus' deft hands and clever mouth - but it's the knowledge of something more to come that pushes him higher.
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Gladio-- [The name comes gasped out, a light tug against the back of his head almost like a warning. He isn't so inexperienced now as to climax after a few minutes of this, but he knows that if it lasts much longer...]

Not like this. Kiss me.