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prompto argentum ([personal profile] messofhangups) wrote in [community profile] downrightfierce2017-06-05 09:22 pm

008. prompto/gladio; oh, you're in my veins

and i cannot get you out



Prompto was pretty sure he was an idiot. No… not pretty sure. He knew he was an idiot.

And really… Cid and his never ending taunts to the marks on his neck were not helping. Nor was the fact he fucking hurt. He felt a little bit like he'd gotten hit by a truck. Or, more accurately, that he'd almost died, had his side torn to shreds and then decided to have some of the most intense sex of his life. Yeah… he was definitely feeling it.

But as much as a mess as his body was, it had nothing on his state of mind.

Because he had had some of the most intense sex of his life with Gladio, proceeded to spend the night with him cuddling, and then the morning he'd tried to fucking high five the other man, thanked him for the sex with a thumbs up and tripped over his own damn two feet as he tried to hightail it out of the caravan. Not exactly his smoothest moment.

“You. Are. Such. An. Idiot.” He mumbled and let his head fall onto the workbench. Gave it a few more hits with his forehead for good measure and realized he'd forgotten all about Cid for half a minute, at least until the older man started to laugh.

“Well I ain't gonna argue you on that one, kid, but you think you can keep the dramatics to a minimum here… we got work to do,” Cid said and pointed the end of a screwdriver at the pile of weapons on the end of the bench.

Prompto lifted his head. Sighed. Straightened up and grabbed the gun next to him. If nothing else it could maybe distract him from his own idiocy for a while. Distract him from that sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach that he had completely fucked everything up with his inability to be normal that morning. Distract him from how he could still feel Gladio's hands all over him, how the marks on his body still felt the ghost of lips, how he could still feel Gladio in him every time he moved.

Distract him from how he wanted more.

And it worked. For a while. He got lost in the work with Cid, found his mind clearing as he focused on the repairs and modifications, felt better as he took something broken and made it better. Worked at least until his phone buzzed against the bench where he had plugged it in to charge. He glanced up from his work and seeing that it was a text from Cindy he put his tool down and grabbed the phone.

Hey, Heartbreaker… looks like tall, dark, and handsome is getting ready to take off… thought you might like to know

The panic was almost immediate. Gladio was… leaving!?!? And that sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach threatened to overt take him, felt massive all the sudden as his throat went dry and he could barely swallow against the hard lump caught in the back of it. His hands started to shake… and he knew from experience that this could quickly go into a full out panic attack if he didn't nip it in the bud.

Deep breath. Inhale. Exhale. Breathe…

Five things to see; gun, screwdriver, phone, hammer, Cid. His eyes darted to each in kind. Four things he could touch; metal, workbench, denim, his own arm. And so his hand moved from gun to table top to his knee to arm. Three things to smell; gunpowder, the terribly fruity shampoo he'd borrowed from Cindy when he'd gotten back to the garage, the smoke from Cid’s pipe on the table. Two things he could hear; Cid drumming his fingers on the workbench… the blood as it rushed in his own ears and one thing he could taste was the bile that threatened in the back of his throat.

Fuck.

Prompto scrambled off the stool and ignoring Cid’s concerned voice behind him he bolted from the back room and to where he knew Gladio had parked his bike. He stopped a few feet short and now there had no idea what to even say.

“You're leaving?” he asked after a moment. His voice thin and tight.
iwillshieldhim: (smirk - small)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-06-08 01:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Gladio would have, if he knew, told Prompto it was okay. He didn't mind being used. Really, he and Ignis had discussed more than once if Prompto and Noct were actually in some kind of a relationship or not. It had started out as a rather nasty argument between them because on one hand, Noctis was supposed to be getting married to Lady Lunafreya, but... it was Noct, who needed to have real love, some kind of real life. Let him love Prompto, even if it was going to hurt them both. Ignis had dryly commented that he had never found any... physical evidence that a relationship was occurring, certain that between their two younger charges one of them would be unable to hide it from him, but Gladio had only shrugged and pointed out that if they were really that determined to hide a relationship, they would. Besides, not every relationship was physical.

If they were using each other, in their own ways, was it really so bad?

Prompto had long since become something more than just Noct's tag along friend and Gladio would have given him a piece of his mind if he knew. Prompto had become a friend to all of them, a brother, something so much more than they had a word to explain. There were only three people still on this plane who understood what they had gone through. How could he not be something more? ...True, his actions after Noct had been taken from them... probably hadn't helped any. How he had run in the face of his anger and shame.

BVut the laugh, the punch to his arm, loosened the air and he could give a small smirk back. "Old man's just jealous he can't get it up anymore; just ignore him." He brought his hand up just enough to be able to ruffle the chocobo-butt hair. "Just tell him that. He'll stop." And probably throw something, but he couldn't even imagine those kinds of words leaving Prompto's mouth.
iwillshieldhim: (look down confused upset)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-06-08 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"You really think I wouldn't?" Gladio wasn't afraid of Cid, even if the man was a legend. Look, they'd gone through hell and back; there wasn't much he was honestly afraid of any more and anything he was... well, it was a hell of a lot worse than being threatened by an old man with a weapon.

He squeezed Prompto's shoulder firmly before doing something that he didn't really think about, bending down and brushing his lips to the other's forehead. It actually wasn't until he turned around and was pulling his pack off his bike that he realized what he did, hands hesitating in their work for a few seconds, staring at nothing, before he mentally whispered a curse.

Just, don't even bring it up, Prompto.
iwillshieldhim: (proud chin up)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-06-10 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"You know, you're not helping if you're trying to make sure I don't do it," Gladio pointed out, hoisting up his pack to his shoulder as if he hadn't done what he'd done seconds before. He brought up his chin, studying Prompto's face, but whatever confusion or surprise that might have been there from his act was already gone. So instead, he gave a little gesture with his elbow out towards the buildings.

"Where have you been staying in all this? In that caravan?" Though he sounded kind of doubtful, as he hadn't seen any real signs of someone living there in the long term. It had been so long since he'd had a place, even something simple, that the idea felt foreign. It also brought up memories of a place that lied, as far as he knew, in ruins back in Insomnia. The library gone to ruins, the very full room of training gear and weaponry covered in dust, the little things left behind he hadn't thought about because he'd be back in just a month or so, why worry?

He tried not to think of anything from home too often, not when that rabbit hole went to so deep.
iwillshieldhim: (look into distance)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-06-11 12:53 pm (UTC)(link)
There was so much that Gladio missed, and so much that he did everything in his power not to linger on. This was a man who had not grieved for what he had lost, not yet, not when their mission was still on going and he had so much that still needed to be done. He was well aware that when it finally all broke, it would shatter like a dropped plate and his ability to pick up the pieces and glue them back together would be as destroyed as the rest of him. So, instead, he followed his father's advice - keep those emotions behind him, beneath him, until the mission was over, and only then allow yourself to experience them.

That sort of mentality was never meant for a mission that went this many years, but for a man who lived for another, who breathed his duty and put it above all else, it was the only thing he had left to cling to when failure otherwise loomed.

He looked around the room slowly, realizing it was something so much more permanent than anything he had known in years, and felt a mix of sad amusement over it. It worked, really. That was all that was needed, and for someone like Gladio who didn't stay in any one place for long, it seemed like a damn good place for now. The mattress looked like an unexpected luxury.

"You inviting me to stay, Prom?" The sideways glance look in the blond carefully, trying to read his body language. Awkward, unsure as he had always been. Yet... why was Prompto offering? Was it all because of last night, or because he thought Gladio would just up and leave? The memory of Prompto's face tucked into his chest lingered at the back of his eyes, as did the feelings it cropped up just beyond the forehead pressed to his jacket.
iwillshieldhim: (smirk - small)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-06-23 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Hello there. Seemed to Gladio like Prompto had made the decision himself. A part of him wanted to mutter that Prompto didn't need to sweeten the pot or anything, but well, fuck. Maybe they both needed the physicality of it. So instead he only gave a quiet huff of a laugh, bringing a hand up to the back of Prompto's head and sliding his fingers through the softness of his hair. "Sure. Means you'll have to keep sharing the bed, though." Spoken like it would be a problem, but well aware it wouldn't be for either of them. It had been easier to fall asleep with Prompto on his chest than it had been for years of sleeping alone.

"Tell you what. Show me somewhere I can get a shower around here, and I'll give you a massage to try and help out with some of that limp." Smirk. He knew damn well he was being a bit of an asshole and it was a flex of his ego but at the same time, it was a stroke across the tentative re-connection they had made together through a single mutual need.
iwillshieldhim: (smirk - small)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-07-03 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, already got yours." Complete with a squeeze. No, not a damn bit of this was normal, not even before Noct had been taken from them, but... hell. If none of it was normal, then that was the new normal and Gladio was just going to go with it. What else could he do? He'd been doing it for so many years now, the constant changing and yet the horrible constant of the darkness, of his anger and hurt.

He snagged his pack and opened it, after Prompto showed him the way, and grabbed something out of it - a flash of what might have been soap, and of all things, a straight razor. "Shit, a clean towel? Must be my lucky day."

But he only got a few steps towards the door before, without even looking back, he offered, "hey, Prom. ...Just how big is that shower, anyway?"
iwillshieldhim: (smirk - small)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-07-05 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Straight razor was a hell of a lot easier to keep than any kind of electric or disposable one in this hellhole of a land anymore, and besides he could not only keep it sharp, clean, and oiled better... it could be a weapon, if he needed. It'd happened once. Some hunters had no morals left in them.

"Might be. Depends on if that company can wash my back for me or not." Gladio laughed as he led the way, and the moment Prompto was also inside the bathroom and the door was shut, he turned, captured the other's chin in a hand, then his lips in a kiss. Briefly, but firm, before Gladio smirked.

That was all before he started to test out the water, seeing if he was lucky enough to get a hot shower for the first time in a damn long time.
iwillshieldhim: (look down)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-07-06 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Gladio looked back and there were words on his lips to comment that Prompto was looking good - and honestly he had filled out that scrawny body really well - when he saw that expression change. Shit. He shifted to reach over, grasping Prompto's wrist and brought up the fingers that had touched the scars, touching his lips to them before his hand covered the scars himself. "You're still here." Very quiet yet firm, looking Prompto in the eyes if he could meet them. Too close, but Prompto was alive.

He nudged Prompto towards the water, thinking that he could get the other's mind off the near-death experience. Who didn't like a bit of fun up against a shower wall?
iwillshieldhim: (smirk - small)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-07-07 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
The change in Prompto's breath didn't go unnoticed, and it settled like a warmth in Gladio's chest that he wanted to feel more of. It was so much softer than he usually was, so much softer than the sounds he brought out of other people when they had sex. Fucked. It was, usually, a release for all involved and that was that. Here he was, though. They had done nothing less than found that relief in each other last night but... it held something more. It still did. It was why he was still here, the image of Prompto pressed up against his jacket, clinging to him.

The feeling of being wanted by someone in a way that wasn't just sex.

Gladio took in the sight of Prompto as he finished undressing, then took his time peeling off his own layers before joining him. It was a surprise how demanding Prompto turned back he let him do it, bringing up a big hand to slide into blond strands and pull them back from those eyes before giving a laugh. A laugh that turned into a groan as that sight, shit. He let his hand move back around to cup Prompto's skull, licking his lips as water ran over them. "Funny, I'd say the same about you."

Prompto had filled himself out, had the look of a fighter, more certain about himself. Those damn eyes... still just like he could remember, too blue and bright even with the darkness in and out.
iwillshieldhim: (look down)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-07-08 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, there had been a time when he was most of those things. Now most of the people in the world were pale except those that had a naturally darker skin tone and Gladio, as he looked at Prompto, found he liked the look of the dark sprinkle of freckles against white skin. Like the universe in reverse, stars against the sky. He looked thin, they all did from hunger to one degree or another, but less awkward looking. Much less.

Almost no one was on the level of Gladio's body, but most people definitely weren't built like the Amicitia were.

Fuck. The thought slid through Gladio's mind as he stared down at Prompto on his knees, his lips parting at the sight of it which was way, way better than he might have ever imagined. It was easy to bring his hands into Prompto's flattened hair, thumbs rubbing up behind his ears. "...shit, do you have any idea how good you look on your knees?" he said quietly over the spray of water that took away blood and sweat and semen and dirt all tried into their skin. "Think you can take me?" The corner of his lips lifted, challenging.
iwillshieldhim: (look down)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-07-09 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
That sensitive spot was very much tucked away for future reference with the plan of finding more. Prompto was proving himself to be very responsive to touch, and it encouraged Gladio to keep up those little motions - stroking his fingers along the other's scalp, down to the sprays of freckles across his cheeks, neck, shoulders. There was no way to miss the change in Prompto when the challenge hung between them, specially when Gladio's thumb ran under the other's chin briefly so he could look down into those vivid eyes.

Pretty much the answer to that question had been 'no' no matter who it was asked to when it came to him, but it often spurred on a certain vigor in some people that could definitely be fun... just like now. There was something downright surreal about watching Prompto as he used that tongue like he knew what he was doing, then even more with that mouth of his. "Fuck," Gladio groaned quietly, tongue flicking out and licking across. "Knew that mouth was good for something. Been holding back on me." His thumbs caressed behind Prompto's ears like a reward.
iwillshieldhim: (look down)

[personal profile] iwillshieldhim 2017-07-10 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Gladio didn't look away as Prompto took him, pupils wide and making his eyes that much darker in his arousal. It was impossible to miss the way Prompto's throat flexed around him, something not unfamiliar from the past, but feeling Prompto doing it of all people felt wrong, yet at the same that wrongness somehow made it... more.

He groaned low and when Prompto pulled back, he took the chance to still his head and give a few shallow thrusts, testing the waters. "Fuck, that's good, babe." The words just came out of his mouth without much thought behind them other than the truth of them. His hand shifted and his thumb stroked over Prompto's throat. "Willing to choke yourself for me? Mm. Curious to see just how far you'll make it down here." His thumb slid down the length of it.

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