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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. |
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And Gladio? Well, Gladio was the first solid thing he’d found to hang onto in a long while. There was a voice - tiny and guilt ridden, swirled in the back of his mind where he kept all the bad thoughts, the ones that kept him up at night, the ones that made him doubt everything - and that voice, soft and easy to ignore in that moment, wondered if this was right. Was it right to take the comfort that Gladio offered up, to press himself against the other’s chest and take what he could of that immense strength when his heart belonged so fully to someone else. Was his own desperation to not feel so damn alone anymore clouding his judgement of the situation.
Gladio held him like he was something… something more. Touch gentle and tender, those arms around him the night before like it was more than just the sex that had transpired before it. Those arms around him now like he was… like he was worth a damn. Worth more than just Noct’s tag along friend on some road trip. Was this just Gladio trying to do right by Noct, take care of his friend while he was gone. Some sense of duty… pity really in the end. Or did Gladio actually care. A thought that felt ridiculous but somehow not at the same time.
Did this matter to Gladio in a way that Prompto couldn’t return.
A thought that if he stopped to think about would flood him with guilt. So he didn’t think about it Just pressed himself in closer to the man willing to let him. Let the fingers that rubbed against his scalp soothe away the last of the lingering panic, let the words spread a warmth through him and not linger on the why of it all.
“Okay…” he replied, the word muffled a little with his head tucked against Gladio’s chest. He lingered there for another moment, breathed in the scent of leather and something indefinable outside of Gladio. But then he pulled back a little and gave a joking punch to Gladio's arm. “I'm pissed at you by the way,” though his tone and the grin on his face proved him to be anything but. “Do you know how many shitty comments I've gotten from Cid from the giant ass hickey you left on me?” said with a laugh.
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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.
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Prompto blushed a little at the notion, chuckled and shook his head. “Yeeeeeeeeeeeeah, no, I’m not telling him that.” A pause as he raised his brows. “You’re more than welcome to though, big guy,” which was kind of an entertaining notion really. Although probably best not to do it in the shop - while Cid had trouble with the finer movements needed to do the repairs and modifications he once did Prompto had no doubt he would still be capable of using the weapons in there.
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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.
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“Uh -” no, he’s not going to bring it up, don’t worry, Gladio. Just give him half a second to recover. “I know you would… and I’d be there to take pics because I somehow imagine that would be one priceless expression on the old man’s face if you did,” a bit of a chuckle though it’s a bit shaky.
It’s the first time he’d mentioned taking a picture of anything since - well, since Noct. Which was about the last time he actually ever had too, aside from one seflie Cindy had insisted on when he’d first showed up in Hammerhead. But once she’d seen the way he couldn’t even fake the face for it in the final result she’d never requested again.
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"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.
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“Naw, I’ve got a room behind the garage,” he answered and started them in that direction.
And he missed space. Which was weird since Insomnia was crowded and all buildings going high and stacked close together. But his apartment had been his and had a bedroom, a kitchen, a living room and a bathroom all of his own. He opened the door to a room, attached to the main garage building but at least a little private. And it definitely looked like what it was, a work and storage room that had been turned into a living space by necessity. Shelves lined the walls with various items and supplies, a long work bench against the back that had a few ongoing projects of Prompto’s along with binders stacked up high: labels in his writing indicating they were records of different kinds of supplies. A queen mattress (shamelessly stolen from a motel in one of the outposts gone under) had been placed on the floor, and a few duffle bags that were the extent of Prompto’s personal belongings next to it.
“Home sweet home?” he half said, half asked with a little laugh and a shrug. He moved to lean back against the work bench and suddenly realized that this kind of looked like he was indicating Gladio should stay here. Which - he wasn’t entirely opposed to he found, but also felt like maybe that wasn’t what Gladio wanted and really things were easier before they had slept together. “I - uh -” a rub of his hand against the back of his neck. “I could probably find you a room somewhere else too, or some of the hunters crash in the back of Takka’s…” the sort of unspoken if you wanted lingered after his words. "Or here works," a shrug. He was terrible at this.
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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.
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He pushed himself off the bench and moved closer. A shrug of shoulders as he looked up at Gladio. “I guess? Maybe?” Fuck why was he so bad at this.
Prompto paused for a moment and then fell back into something he was at least slightly less bad at. Stepped a foot between Gladio’s, hands sliding behind his hips as he leaned up to drag his mouth across Gladio’s neck. “I mean, if you wanted…” effectively giving up having to make the decision himself.
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"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.
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He pulled back, slipped hands into his pockets and looked up at Gladio with a smile. “But I'd never say no to a massage,” he added. Who would really.
Prompto opened the door to his room and nodded to the stairs down the hall. “First door on the left,” he instructed Gladio. Anyone who would use that particular washroom was already milling about in other places for the day so Gladio shouldn't run into anyone. “Should be towels and everything up there.”
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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?"
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He smirked a little at the invitation wrapped up in the question. “Big enough,” he answered, his tone a bit amused. “Why, you looking for some company there, big guy?” but the question was rhetorical at best as Prompto had already moved to follow Gladio.
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"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.
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He leaned over Gladio and adjusted the tap to the magic spot that would keep the water running hot. “It's kind of finicky,” he explained, “I got the hot water tanks to run off the generator but it only seems to like that specific spot.” A shrug as he finished.
Prompto tugged his shirt off and let it fall to the ground. His expression faltered for a moment as fingers ran over the fresh scars on his side. The vivid reminder that it had been damn close. Too close.
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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?
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His mouth felt dry, blood running hot and cold all at once as warmth and panic raged to see who would emerge victorious. Scared at the idea of wanting this and scared at the prospect of walking away from it.
So he shucked off his pants and shoes and slipped into the shower. Waited till Gladio was undressed and wrapped an arm around his arm to pull him in. Prompto traced a line up black ink as he looked up at Gladio from under wet strands of hair before he leaned forward and dragged his mouth over a pec. “It is seriously unfair how hot you are,” he said, lightness returning to his tone at the words before his lips latched around one of Gladio's nipples.
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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.
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But it somehow didn't matter right then as Gladio looked down at him, as he groaned under his touch. And Prompto let his gaze fall as he sunk to his knees. His mouth dragged over the crease where hip meet thigh, one his hands ran back to grip around Gladio's ass and the other trailed lightly over the length of his cock as he let his eyes dart back up.
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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.
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There's a determined glint in his eyes at the challenge laid down. And while he's sure that maybe the answer is no, or at least no to some degree, he sure as fuck was going to try. His tongue followed the line his thumb had just made, lapped at the tip of Gladio's cock and then he opened his mouth. The water that spilled between them helped as Prompto slid his mouth over Gladio's length, lips stretched wide around Gladio's girth. He took Gladio as far as he could on that first foray, then hollowed his cheeks and sucked as he pulled back before he repeated the motion.
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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.
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Prompto's head bobbed forward as he took more of Gladio into his mouth, fingers wrapped around what he couldn't get in his mouth. His tongue lapped at the underside as he bobbed back and forth, cheeks hollowed and damn if his jaw wasn't already starting to ache but it was perfect still. His eyes flickered up and he watched Gladio as he worked him.
Tears pinpricked in the corner as he pushed himself further, felt the tip of Gladio's cock down his throat and he worked against actually choking. Prompto pulled off for a moment, his hand still around Gladio's cock though with a few thrusts as he coughed a few times, head turned to the side. A mumbled shit under his breath before he wrapped his lips around Gladio again and started once more.
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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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One of Prompto's hands moves to Gladio's thigh, fingers curled into the skin there for balance. His eyes still upward toward Gladio, even as his other hand moved to wrap his fingers around his own cock.
And he doesn't answer because he knows the answer is written all over his face. Please - do it - fuck my throat raw until I can't even breathe, can't even think, can't even see straight and until there's nothing but you.
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