saving it for you
Pairing: Post-outbreak!Joel Miller x F!Reader
Summary: Joel goes away for 3 weeks and he’s saved himself for you.
Warnings: 18+ MDNI, alcohol consumption, piv, unprotected sex, breeding kink, mating press
WC: 4.4k
A/N: Um Ellie is like 20 cus I say so (It’s easier for them to bond that way imo its not even plot-important)
The first thing Joel sees is your beautiful face smiling in the crowd and he can already feel the weight of the world lifting off of him. He hears the guys laughing, taking in the crowd’s applause but all he can focus on is you. You’re giving him that face that makes his heart clench, Ellie is standing by your side and the two of you look so perfect that he fears his heart might just stop. His two girls, smiling their dazzling smiles at him, waiting for him to come home.
They pull into the stables and he dismounts his horse much faster than is safe, people are flooding into the small space trying to congratulate him but he brushes them off. His eyes scan every face he can see as he pushes through the crowd, looking for his girls. He’s getting restless, annoyed even, at the people praising and thanking him; they’re in his way. His responses get curter and a bit rude the longer it takes to get to you guys. He just misses you both, it’s been three weeks, the longest he’s been away and he feels like he might be losing his mind. He thinks about just screaming your name, you’d be sure to find him then. He’s not ready for the commotion that might cause, the looks he’d get.
“Joel? JOEL!!”
Your voice has him sighing contentedly before he can even process that it’s you. The moment he whips around to find you, he’s frozen. The way the sunset is shining in your eye, the tears that are flowing down your cheeks, your trembling lips as you hold back your sobs. He opens his arms, feeling emotion build up his throat and behind his eyes, as you both crash into him. It knocks all the air out of him but he’s so grateful for the ache in his chest because it’s immediately healed by the warmth of you two. That’s what he’s missed the most, your warmth, both of you.
Tears are flowing down his cheeks as he keeps both of your faces in his chest. He’s mumbling about how much he’s missed you both. Ellie is already complaining and struggling out of his hold. You on the other hand, are gripping him as tightly as you can, almost tearing his clothes, he can feel your sobs vibrating into his jacket, damp from where you’re tears are falling.
Eliie escapes with a remark of “Gonna fuckin’ suffocate me” and he lets it go, opting to focus on you instead. He wraps his arms around your shoulders, pulling you closer into his chest as he buries his face in your hair. You smell like strawberries, he missed it so much. He took one of your shirts with him but it lost your scent 3 days in… he missed it.
You shift your arms from around his torso to around his neck and finally place a wet kiss on his mouth. His hand is behind your head, pushing you into his lips in an instant. He tries not to moan into you, he’s aware that people around but god is it a task. He pulls away to see you and his knees almost buckle when you pull him back in, hands tangled in his hair and whimpering so gently when your lips meet again.
“Okay okay, alright break it up”
He can hear Ellie protest next to him and feels your smile against his lips, a little giggle slipping through. He wipes his tears before you can see them and smiles at you, watching you laugh at Ellie. Two more things he missed, watching you both interact and your fucking smile. You take his breath away as he watches your easy banter with Ellie, your arms still wrapped around his neck, he’s still inhaling your scent.
The moment breaks when someone bumps into you, detaching your arms from him with a yelp. Ellie grabs you with quickly as you both laugh, quickly brushing it off, It irks Joel but he moves on.
“It seems like everyone is heading to Tipsy!” Ellie is wiggling her eyebrows, she wants to go and you seem supportive. “I think we should go!” Your voice is all he can focus on, not what you saying but how you saying it, the way you say it, he’s missed it. You’re looking at him expectantly as you finish listing off why you think they should go. “So Joel? I’ll go with you to drop your stuff off and we’ll meet Ellie at Tipsy?”
He’s nodding at you, a little sluggish as Ellie begins to walk away. You grab his duffle from off the top of his pack and his back is instantly grateful. He whispers a small, “Thank you, baby.” and you press a kiss to his lips quickly and smile up at him. “I’ve missed hearing you say that”
The walk home is relatively peaceful, you tell him about everything that happened while he was away. He watches you ramble on fondly, his heart swells when he notices you start to huff, struggling with his bag. You drop it with a groan when you both reach the porch and he brings it inside with a chuckle as you whine outside. “No! I have to carry it in! Joel!!” You groan frustratedly behind him, he turns around to see you pouting, actually upset. “Joel it doesn’t count this way!”
He embraces you where you stand in the doorway his legs spread, pressing his whole body against you as he rocks you side to side. “I’ve missed you so much, baby. You’ve got no fuckin’ clue.” He can feel your cheeks press into his chest from your smile right before pushing him away. “Uh-huh, I’m sure. C’mon”
You grab his duffle and make your way upstairs, he follows behind you, trying and actively failing to keep his eyes off your hips, your ass, the way they move as you make your way up the stairs, he’s missed it.
His thoughts wander as you both make your way to your shared bedroom.
The moment he’s in there with you, blood starts rushing south. He can’t help it, it’s been so long and the room engulfs him in your scent. He adjusts his pants as he puts his pack down, pushing it under the bed. He can see you’ve been sleeping on his side, your pillow taking your spot, you’ve been sleeping with his. He gestures at the setup when you finish placing his bag in the closet. “What’s happenin’ here, honey?”
You go rigid and avert your gaze with a nervous smile. “I really missed you, Joel.” You look over at him adorably before making your escape, hurrying downstairs. He takes a moment to compose himself, adjusting his pants one more time before heading down.
You guys walk back with silent smiles for a little while before you speak up. “Your side smells like you… along with your pillow, that’s why I was using them.” You’re kicking a rock across the sidewalk as you speak. “Uh-huh… An’ your pillow?” You giggle down at the sidewalk before responding. “I missed you! The bed just- it was so big without you, the pillow made it a little bearable.” You chuckle lightly at yourself but what you’re saying makes his heart hurt.
He hated having to leave you, he refused it for quite some time but Tommy insisted, saying that Joel was the best they had, he couldn’t let his brother down and you didn’t want him to.
“Huh.” His response embarrasses you a bit, you start wishing you hadn’t told him, feeling a little uncomfortable. “Y’know… I took your shirt.” Your head snaps up to look at him and your eyes meet for a moment, shock and love written all over your face as you watch him avoid your eyes. “The uh- the pink one you wear to bed.” You see a blush rise to his ears as you gasp. “I was looking for that one!”
A shy smile splits his face as you hit his arm. “ ‘M sorry it smells like you! Or smelled I guess”
You watch him with such admiration as you guys arrive at the bar. You can hear people talking inside and you know it’s going to be a long night.
The town is alive tonight, music is playing and you’re dancing with Ellie. You’ve been drinking with her too, keeping pace with her even though everyone knows you’re a lightweight. Joel has reserved himself to the back corner after making his rounds, letting people give their thanks and praise. He’s just watching you know, watch you realize you can’t keep up with Ellie and switch yourself to water, pride inflates his chest.
My girl.
His breathing becomes shallow as he continues to watch you dance. He watches you get barely appropriate with Ellie, he knows the two of you are friends but… c’mon. He considers breaking you guys up but then your favorite song plays and he watches the joy spread on your face. He watches you jump up and down with Ellie, both of you singing lyrics at each other.
He loves how you are with her, he cannot believe how lucky he got with you. He continues thinking about you as he walks over to the bar for his 2nd glass. Ignoring the blood rushing south.
As the night progresses Ellie makes her way over to Maria, who she goes home with. You’ve started drinking again while dancing alone, Joel is still watching from the corner, a little drunk as he finishes his 4th glass. He places the empty glass on the bar before making his way over to you. People continue to block his path, attempting to talk to him but he shrugs them all off. He needs to get to you. His pants are tighter by the time he reaches you. He’s standing behind you and he knows you know he’s there.
You whine and press yourself back against him. “Missed you so so much, baby.”
He twitches against you when he hears the love name. It’s been too fucking long.
You turn with a wild look in your eyes as you press the palm of your hand to the bulge in his pants. It feels so fucking good, watching the way you bite your lip as he moans, he watches your face scrunch up. “Oh gotta lemme make you cum.” You’re a little tipsy, your words slurring against each other, your eyes hooded, maybe more from arousal than alcohol.
Joel tenses a bit from your words, you take it as a good sign and continue,
“We could go in the back booth, the bathroom, I wanna touch you.” You’re pouting at him now as he begins to shake his head.
“No, let's just go home, love.” He’s pressed his forehead against yours, panting against your face as you palm him.
He can feel it when your eyebrows furrow and you stop touching him with a grunt, “Joe,” his name comes out wrong, the ‘L’ getting lost behind your soft lips making him chuckle before kissing “You can’t even walk home like that! Lemme make you cum first Joey please”
Joel is getting a little nervous now, he can’t cum yet, not like this. “Sweetheart, they- they’re closing soon anyway. We’d just be an inconvenience.” Joel is speaking a little sternly, trying to convince you to just go home but what he’s saying is not getting through to you. You’re wearing a smirk on your face, thinking that he’s just playing hard to get. You press a kiss to his collarbone before pushing your hand down his pants, only to be stopped by him instantly. “Sweetie… C’mon..”
This rejection you comprehend. “I- I’m sorry Joel. I thought maybe you were just saying that… I’m so sorry obviously we can just go home.” You look so upset at yourself, thinking that you made him uncomfortable, and pushed his boundaries.
You’re looking at the ground now and you’re about to turn around to start walking home when Joel grabs your arm to hold you in place. “Baby, I want to. I swear on everythin’ I want it so fuckin’ bad but I- fuck I-” He’s looking to the side as he tries to gather his thoughts and confidence. “I’ve been-” His voice is different, he sounds embarrassed, whiny even. “I’ve been saving it for you”
You feel like all the air has been knocked from your lungs and heat begins to burn in your stomach. You’re still staring at him, in shock at what he’s just confessed. There’s no way that he means it in the way you’re thinking right now.
He probably just means his energy! He saved his energy for sex! That’s what he means you creep.
“Right. You don’t wanna waste your energy here… I get that.” Joel is red, embarrassed that you misunderstood what he said. He grabs your hand and starts walking home, the tightness in his jeans getting unbearable.
The moon is shining beautifully as you guys walk home. Joel hasn’t explained himself yet. You think that you’ve made him a little uncomfortable and that’s what is causing the silence between you two.
Joel trails behind you, watching the way your hips move, trying to muster up the courage to fully explain himself to you. He’s leaking in his boxers uncomfortably, his mind is running rampant with thoughts of what he’s gonna do once you both get home. The way he’s gonna fill you up.
He jogs a bit so he can catch up with you one house before you guys. “Honey, I wasn’t talkin’ about my energy.” Your head snaps to look at him but he’s looking at his boots, hands in his pockets as you both continue walking. “I haven’t uh-” He chuckles and shakes his head at the ground, his eyes closing for a moment. “I haven’t gotten off since- uh since I left. That’s what I’ve been savin’… not my energy.” You’re silent for a bit after he finishes and it makes him nervous. He risks a glance at your face and realizes that you aren’t there. You stopped walking. He looks back to find you a few steps away, staring at him. Your chest is heaving as he watches you process his words, uneasy as he awaits your reaction and response.
He gets nothing however, you just start walking again. He trails behind you again as you both arrive at the house and walk inside. You hold the door open for Joel, he normally protests but he decides to just accept it this one time. It clicks and locks gently behind him as he stands in the dark living room. He’s thinking about how to approach you, he feels that you’re upset but it doesn’t change the fact that he needs you. He wouldn’t be able to handle the pain of just sleeping next to you.
You turn around after closing the door to see Joel just standing in the living room. You take this time to examine him, you memorize the expanse of his back, all its broadness and the muscles that ripple as he stretches his neck and arms. You feel your need for Joel continue to gather between your legs as you walk up behind him. You lift your hands to his back gently before coming up to his stomach and chest as you press your body against him, hugging him from behind.
Joel moans as you run your hands over his front while pressing your chest against his back in a way that has his cock jumping from within its confines. He huffs out before placing his hands over yours where the rest is on his lower stomach, just above where he needs you the most. His pelvis refuses to stop tensing under your hands, his hips tilting upward against his will when he feels your lips on the back of his neck. “I’d like to ask you why, Joel” He almost drops his head back into yours when he hears your whisper behind him. “I- fuck, sweetheart. I wanna cum in you, fill you all up.” He removes your hands and turns around to face you, smashing his lips against yours the first moment he can.
He’s groaning into your mouth as you unbutton his pants and his shirt. He separates your lips from his and reattaches them onto your neck. His hands place themselves under your shirt, moaning as they run over the expanse of your stomach before coming to unclip your bra. You’re almost overwhelmed with how Joel is all over you. Your hands are buried in his hair pulling him away from your neck to take your shirt off. Joel is disheveled as he watches you undress, revealing your adorable pink underwear, his favorite pair. He’s touching himself, his hand down his pants tugging at his cock as you lay yourself out on the couch. He watches you smile up at him before reaching down to touch yourself, spreading your wetness over your clit before circling it gently, your hips coming off the couch to press up into your fingers. Joel’s hips twitch and he yanks his hand out of his pants, grunting out a gruff “Fuck you, honey.” As you giggle and moan on the couch, you watch Joel take his shirt and pants off before walking over to the couch.
He towers over your body, inspecting every inch. Joel just rakes his eyes up and down your naked body, his cock twitching between his legs as he does. He stays watching you for what feels like hours before he finally touches your leg. You think finally as he lifts it, opening your legs and exposing your wet pussy to him. A moan slips through his lips as he sees the mess you’ve made between your legs, his knees weakening and dropping him to the ground.
A whine shoots out of your lips when he hits the ground, it evolves into a moan when Joel rests his head on your open thigh, kissing gently into your pussy. You can feel your other leg resting between his thighs and against his bulge, as he makes himself comfortable. You watch Joel’s eyes roll back as he slowly licks a stripe up your pussy, collecting as much of your taste as he can before you pull at his hair, forcing him up and out from between your legs. “Joel! You said you wanted to fill me up.” You try to use an accusatory tone but it comes out more like a whine, especially with the pout you’re holding on your face.
Joel smiles at you sweetly before pulling himself up onto the couch and pushing your thigh against your torso to make room for him between your legs. You reach your hands up to his desperately, pulling him in for a kiss as you try to pull his hips flush against yours. His hands come up to cradle your face as he kisses you, then use them to pull your face away from his. “Calm down, sweetheart. I still gotta stretch you out, It’s been so long since you’ve had something to properly fill this hole right, baby?” You just moan his name back at him in response.
His thick hands run down your face and down to your pussy, running his fingers along your lips, parting them, and gathering your wetness before bringing it up to your clit so he can play with it. Joel leans back on his heels to kiss your womb as he pushes his first finger inside you. You both gasp, a loud, pleasured one at the stretch of his thick fingers from you and a soft aroused one at your warmth from Joel. “Joel- please just fuck me.”
You’re squirming against his fingers, and Joel has his head pressed to your chest as he fingers you. He listens to your heart speed up as he adds another finger, your hand comes up the side of his face to play in his hair as the other grips his forearm. Your whole body is arching into him in a way that makes him wanna cry; the way you yearn for him on such a basic, primal level, that your entire body needs to press against him. His cock is twitching and leaking against his thigh and you’re moaning right into his ear.
“I think you’re stretched hm? I think you can take me now, baby.” Joel is worked up, his body is hot and he can't think straight. He’s been waiting for weeks. All the nights he spent in his sleeping bag, your shirt pressed against his face as he grinded against the hard ground willing himself not to cum, or the sex dreams that plauged him after the first week, that had him waking up hard with nothing to solve it. He’s pent-up and throbbing as he presses against your entrance. The wetness that has gathered there coats his tip and has him groaning and playing with your clit as he coats himself in it.
You’re grinding your hips up at him, trying to force him inside you. His eyes are misty, wild, and desperate as he finally pushes inside you. He inches his way in as you grip his arms and moan at him. He pauses halfway, trying to calm himself down as you whine and clench down on him. “C’mon, darlin’... can’t last if you keep up like this.” He groans out at you and brings his hand up to stop your hips from moving, leaving your clit pulsing at the loss of stimulation. He listens to your moans as he keeps pushing himself in, he listens to your breathy whine of relief when he presses his thumb to your clit again. He finally presses himself in you fully, he can feel your walls against him, sucking him in. He’s missed it so much, he’s been dreaming about this moment for two fucking weeks, and he’s been edging himself for days fantasizing about his moment.
He’s stopped breathing, he can’t breathe because you’re already pulsing around him, your thighs twitching from where they’re resting against his hips. Your feet come up to lock together behind him, pulling him in as you cum all over him, coating him in it as your pussy milks his cock. “No fuckin’ way, no-” His sentence devolves into a whine as he tries not to cum, he tries to shut his eyes and think unsexy thoughts but he can’t block out your moans, the way you’re leaking on him or the way you’re squeezing him like you want his cock to stay in you forever. “No, baby- please- fuck” He’s panting and grunting against your face as his hips buck into you, setting off explosions in your stomach.
“Not gonna make me fuckin’ cum.” He thrusts hard into you. “Saved this load up for you so I could breed you” He lifts both your legs over his shoulders and you watch his eyelids flutter before pressing into you. “Gonna make this a proper breedin’ session, yeah?” You can barely understand what he’s saying, your head is in the clouds as goosebumps rise all across your skin. Your body is insanely sensitive from your orgasm and the arousal of his homecoming but Joel doesn’t care, he needs this, he needs you.
He buries his head in your neck as your pussy suffocates him, groaning out as he fucks himself into you. His cock punches into your cervix again and again, his cock twitching inside of you like a second heartbeat as you moan in his ear. You’re moaning unashamed, too far out of your head to care about how you might sound, especially to your neighbors or any passerby and it's fucking him up. “Yeah, good girl. Keep moanin’ for me like that.” He pulls out of your neck to thrust harder, grunting as his eyes roll back.
You’re clawing at him, moaning and writhing as you feel a coil begin to tighten.
“Holy fu- Joel!” His eyebrows furrow as his hips start stuttering, losing their rhythm as he begins to whimper for you. “Sweetheart…” He tries to get his rhythm back, thrusting into your pussy as perfectly as he can. “So close, baby. Please just a little more.” You’re moans get increasingly breathy as you get closer and closer to your second orgasm of the night.
“Cum with me sweetheart, please. I wanna feel it, saved it all for you c’mon-” He’s rambling as he gets closer to releasing his load into you. His eyes roll back and he’s panting as he tries to keep up the pace whining when he feels you start to tighten around him, groaning as he thrusts harder, and starts toying with your clit again. Your body convulses, folding in on itself as you start cumming around him.
His groans get higher in pitch and closer together as his cock pulses inside you. He listens to your orgasm crash over and pride swells in him, he opens his eyes to look back down at you and cums deep inside you.
He moans hard and painfully above you like he got punched in the gut. He leans down to press a kiss against your lips but quickly pulls away to moan your name. His cock throbs out thick ropes inside you, you can feel him filling you up, coating your walls and cervix in his sperm. His orgasm feels like it goes on for hours as he bucks into you. “Fuckin’ take it, my love. It’s better than I imagined, feels so good, honey.”
He rambles on as he keeps thrusting into you gently, prolonging his orgasm.
He’s huffing and puffing as he comes down from his high. He releases your thighs, letting them fall over his hips so that he can pull out and press his body against yours, your stomach pressing against yours.
You force yourself up to a semi-sitting position and grab the blanket off the back of the couch to cover the both of you. You wrap Joel in the blanket and lay back down. He feels your hands run up his back, stroking over the wide expanse of it before running themselves through his hair and pushing his face to yours. You kiss him gently and sweetly, with all the love you have. He kisses back with the same emotion, causing you to smile on his lips.
A sleepy chuckle leaves his lips before laying his head on your chest, listening to your heart rate slow. His skin breaks out in goosebumps when you massage his scalp, a satisfying groan leaves his chest as you smile. “What?” You giggle out at him, scratching lightly.
“I fuckin’ missed this. I missed you.” He gently nuzzles into your stomach as his eyes begin to droop.
You smile as warmth blooms in your chest. “I missed you more.”
Thank you so much for reading!! Please please please give any feedback you may have! I want it all!
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hi! could i request a little something unconventional? i was thinking something where ominisXmc (or any other pair) had a daughter and seb becomes infatuated with her (she’s of age and reciprocates) and he has to show her how to “love” so to speak. i’m a sucker for age difference
Hi, nonny! Oh my, but this is a naughty one 😅
As a little disclaimer, I don't really think Seb would do this, he'd feel too guilty doing it to Ominis' daughter, and he'd also feel like a bit of an uncle-figure (which complicates matters further haha).
But yeah, have a smutfic of Sebastian healing an emotionally neglected girl with orgasms 💕 Enjoy, my dear!! Mwah 😘
You better be careful what you wish for, btw, because I ship Ominis with Anne, so that would have given this fic a whole nother angle of kink 😂 But I paired him with MC <3
— PAIRING: Sebastian Sallow x F!Reader
— WARNINGS: smut, angst, age difference (39 vs 19), vaginal fingering, size difference, frottage
— WORDCOUNT: 12k (another long one 😭)
The first time Sebastian met her, she was only a few years old. It was in many ways a memorable day, yet for the longest time seemed so forgettable. Most of his time had been spent travelling either around the country or abroad, chasing relics for private collectors, breaking curses, and occasionally smuggling the odd forbidden artefact… Seeing the Gaunts had been relegated to a special treat, as he hardly had time to visit his friends and their new family.
He’d been to Ominis’ wedding — as best man, no less — when he wed their childhood friend. It was not long after their graduation, as was often the case with wealthy pureblood families. Sebastian was happy for them. He’d caused them so much trouble, after all, dragging them into his search for the cure that afflicted Anne, then making them accomplices, in a way, to his uncle's murder… He hadn’t thought much of it during 5th year when everything seemed urgent and risks didn’t matter. In retrospect, between what befell his family and the fight against Ranrock, that had been a year most mad for all involved.
Sebastian first met little Miss Gaunt a few years before she was due to attend Hogwarts. At around the age he and Anne had lost their parents, in fact… Ominis and his wife had a modest little mansion that they made the most of, his older brother having inherited the bulk of the family fortune.
They had lunch and dinner, and Sebastian stayed with them overnight, and they went out for a picnic the next day. Their daughter was a bit shy, but she loved running in the sunshine. They all enjoyed the picnic while keeping an eye on her, but she never got into trouble — nothing like he and Anne when they were children.
The next time he saw her, she was in her 5th year. He had just arrived from France and was yearning for some old-fashioned English hospitality. Ominis offered to host him for a few weeks and Sebastian was looking forward to spending time with his best friends again. Their house was more stern and sparsely decorated than he remembered, but it was blissfully cool inside.
He’d just been there one day when the Gaunt daughter arrived from school for summer break. He almost didn’t recognise her, although she seemed to recognise him.
“What do you say, dear?” Her mother wrapped an arm around her back and held her tightly to her side, looking down at the girl with a thin smile.
“Hello, Uncle Sebastian.”
“Good girl. Now go take your things upstairs.”
He smiled warmly at her and tipped his head in a polite salute before she went up to her room, carrying her luggage. She’d been sweet, there was no cause to mention to her that he hated being called Uncle, for personal reasons… He wondered if Ominis or his wife ever realised it.
“We try to encourage her to be more independent, not rely on house elves,” said Mrs Gaunt as they went into the tearoom where Ominis was. “We didn’t have anyone to wait on us hand and foot when we were growing up, did we? So it’s best she doesn’t get accustomed to how they do things in Ominis’ family.”
“A bit of pampering never hurt anyone though,” said Sebastian, who at her age would have cherished a little bit of luxury.
“She’s spoiled enough,” said her mother, waving her hand dismissively.
Lunches and dinners were quite formal, with rich but measured dishes. The house elves apparated the meals on the heavy wooden table, but Mrs Gaunt and her daughter took them away after the meal was over while Ominis and Sebastian talked.
They discussed Ominis’ side of things more often than not and tried not to talk about Sebastian’s work, but it was clear questions lingered in the air. Why was he away for so long? What did he do on the continent? Who was he working for? And why did he sound so, so tired… Still, Ominis learned very little about what Sebastian was doing. It was for the best.
Meanwhile, as the weeks progressed, Sebastian learned a great deal more about the Gaunts. Subtle as Ominis normally was, he never shied away from criticising his family, and he took particular delight in talking about them now. They weren’t fairing well, Sebastian found out, losing vast sums to gambling or debts or irrational expenses. Ominis and his wife kept their part of the family afloat through careful management, and they shared none of it with his estranged siblings.
“Is that why you’re so spartan about everything?” asked Sebastian with a smirk as they drank firewhisky at the empty dinner table.
“I’m only being reasonable,” said Ominis. “We both agreed on it.”
“You and your wife?”
“Yes.”
“I just hope you’re not pulling the belt a bit too tightly…”
“Oh, come now, do you live in the lap of luxury?”
“You know I don’t…”
“So?”
Sebastian smiled tightly and sipped his drink again. “It does not make for a particularly charming childhood, that is my one observation, if I may…”
“You don’t think we’re being too strict, do you?”
“I just hope you’re not trying to compensate for anything through her…”
“We’re not,” said Ominis firmly. “She has a more privileged childhood than I ever had…”
“Just because you’re not practising Crucio on her does not mean she’s—”
“Sebastian, please,” he frowned, “I never should have asked…”Ominis took another drink to calm his nerves and sighed. “She’s a little shy, maybe, but she’s always been like that. She has the very best —”
“She wasn’t like that the last time I visited.”
Sebastian wasn’t sure why he’d even broached this subject, why he was challenging Ominis. The Gaunt family were within their rights to conduct themselves as they saw fit, and he, a bachelor, hardly had a say in this.
“She was five years old then,” said Ominis sternly.
“So?”
“So children change as they grow up… Really, Sebastian, I’d have thought you of all people understand that. I certainly thought you’ve changed over the years… Perhaps I was wrong.”
Sebastian sighed and dropped the subject — as he always did whenever Ominis brought up what happened in his fifth year. It was like he constantly held it above his head, that and every other mistake he’d made, waiting to drop it on him whenever he stepped out of line.
He wondered if Ominis did the same with his daughter…
He saw her on rare occasions other than at lunch and dinner, sometimes throughout the house or when they were both out in the garden.
She wasn’t much for talking, although she liked it when Sebastian showed her new spells. They sat together on the little stone bench beneath an ageing chestnut tree, and Sebastian would make its falling white petals form shapes in mid-air, birds and foxes and wolves, and have them run after each other.
“Which one do you bet on?” he asked as he directed the chase with his wand.
“The wolf,” she said with a laugh. “He’s the fastest and the strongest.”
“Really? Well, let’s see…”
By the end of the slow, floating chase, the bird had won. It took refuge high in the branches and ruffled its petal feathers at its pursuers below.
“How about that?” smiled Sebastian, looking fondly down at her.
The girl laughed, her smile weak and awkward, as she looked up at the free flower-bird. But she was still so different from the carefree child he’d seen years ago…
Sebastian left a week after that and only kept in touch with Ominis through Owls. He learned about how their family’s prospects slowly improved, how they moved to a new house, the ill fate that befell other Gaunts, and then about their daughter’s graduation. She’d been decisively average in her N.E.W.T.s, to the disappointment of both her parents, but Ominis said that, aside from that, “she was doing well”. It sounded like make-believe.
Sebastian visited them two years later. He’d just finished a lengthy and rather harrowing job in southern Spain, one that had gone quite wrong. A few deaths occurred. All in all, Sebastian was keen to get away from it, to go back home in colder climes, and forget all about it.
The Gaunts, conveniently, were vacationing on the Isle of Arran and invited Sebastian to join. He gladly accepted. They were renting a house near Sannox by the sea and boasted of daily excursions.
“We’re going up Goatfell Mountain tomorrow,” said Mrs Gaunt after she showed him his room. “Do you wish to join?”
“Sure,” he smiled, “why not?”
The house was old but solid, with thick brick walls and smooth wooden floors, old furniture, and a lovely view. The sound of the waves never ceased.
Little Miss Gaunt was staying in the room next to his on the 1st floor. Before he saw her around the house, Sebastian had wondered whether she was even there, as they hardly mentioned her and she didn’t make a sound from her room. But she came down at dinnertime, and they all ate together in the living room on the ground floor.
She smiled at him the first time she saw him, and gave him another “Hello, Uncle Sebastian.”
She was a bit taller than last time and had lost some of the baby fat of her younger years. Her dress that first evening was a frilly thing with colours that didn’t suit her. It was clearly chosen for her by her mother, in the hope that it would feminise her a bit…
It became obvious during dinner that the girl would rather have been anywhere else. Sebastian had often felt that way with the sordid sorts of wizards he had to deal with in his work…
Mr and Mrs Gaunt chatted away, asking obliquely about the sort of things Sebastian had done in Spain. They veered very quickly to talking about how their former schoolmates were doing when it became obvious Sebastian’s dealings weren’t fit for dinner conversation. The girl picked at her food and drank a great deal of water and just kept quiet while her parents spoke incessantly about other people — who got married, who died, who went on to work where…
“We’d like for her to either find someone nice, or at least get some employment,” said Mrs Gaunt at one point, looking at her daughter pointedly, who ignored her. “But,” she sighed, “no such hope thus far.”
“It will be alright,” said Ominis. “Things will fall into place in due time.”
“You can’t keep speaking like that,” said his wife. “Especially not around her. She’ll grow complacent.” She then turned to Sebastian with an air of tired exasperation. “To get her to go out into society is like pulling teeth. Took tremendous effort to have her join us on this trip. But it will do her good to be out in nature, don’t you think?”
“Oh, of course,” said Sebastian, smiling awkwardly. “I remember she used to love being out in nature, isn’t that right?” he asked, leaning over a little to see the girl just past her mother. She didn’t look up from her plate.
“She used to frolic like a goat when she was little,” Mrs Gaunt laughed. “What a darling, she was… Oh, but those days are long gone, she’s no fun at all anymore.” The woman turned to her daughter and tucked her hair behind her ear, holding her heavy jewelled earring in her palm for a moment to assess it, as if it might’ve broken while the girl wore it. “Isn’t that right, dear?”
Sebastian wasn’t sure if he could call it tension, that which was between the daughter and her parents. She was sullen more than resentful or angry… But there was definitely resentment there as she was spoken of and pawed at like a doll while simultaneously criticised for being… herself.
Their trip to Goatfell Mountain the next day was a chance to relax. Mr and Mrs Gaunt were quite happy to undertake the trip, which was two hours away from where they stayed, while Sebastian and Miss Gaunt walked behind them — sometimes together, sometimes apart. They didn’t speak much aside from pleasantries, and coordinating with each other as they climbed the smooth, thick rocks that made the mountainside.
But Sebastian didn’t feel she was the same around him as she was around her parents. She was lost in thought and distant, sure, but the undercurrent of anxiety that seemed to normally grip her was abated.
“You must be relieved to be done with classes,” said Sebastian as he helped her up a slope.
“A bit, yes,” she said, still quite reserved. She clung to his hand, her grip reedy but strong.
“So what plans do you have now that you’re free?”
“Please, don’t you ask me that too,” she said, begging almost.
“Alright,” he chuckled. “Sorry. Sounded a bit too much like your mother there, didn’t I?”
She said nothing, but he knew it was the truth.
“At least you can practice magic out of school grounds now whenever you like,” he said. “What was your favourite subject?”
“I didn’t really have any,” she said, walking slow and cautious on the slippery rocks, holding her skirt up to watch the ground. “I liked the thing you did with the petals last time though…” she said after a short silence.
“You remember that?” grinned Sebastian. “That was just a bit of coordinated levitation… I could teach it to you, if you want.”
She looked briefly at him from the corner of her eyes and smiled in a tight, awkward way. “Father says you work with dark magic…”
“Well… That’s not the only magic I know.”
He felt uncomfortable, confessing this to her like that. He didn’t know what she thought of dark magic, but if it was anything like Ominis, it wasn’t good. Still, she didn’t seem to recoil from him after that, although she was so hard to read, always in her shell…
After a slow trek, all four of them reached the summit. It was a flat and grey expanse with a beautiful view of green hills behind them, and the sea ahead. The clouds were low and soft, mere vapours teasing a hint of blue sky between their folds.
Sebastian sat down to catch his breath, his hat resting on his knee, while Ominis and his wife did the same a few feet away. His wife was describing the scene to him, although Sebastian was sure his friend could feel the view, somehow, through the air, through the far sound of the sea, through the soft moss that grew on the granite and the lichen that spotted it. He smiled watching the two of them, nearly unchanged since childhood. Could he say the same? All he had to show for the passing years were a few grey hairs and new wrinkles.
Miss Gaunt joined him, sitting just an arm’s length away. His smile widened upon seeing her.
“Well?” asked Sebastian. “Was it worth the trouble to come all the way up here?”
“No,” she said, sounding quite bored. But then she broke into a little smile and looked down again. She was pretending to be more grumpy than she really was…
“Not very exciting, I suppose,” he shrugged, playing along with her. “Perhaps you’d have more fun in the city.”
“I think I would like that,” she said.
Sebastian looked at her, pleasantly surprised by this hint of her enthusiasm.
She wore a dark grey skirt today, with buttons on the side, and a white shirt embroidered with flowers which fluttered around her figure in the wind. The lace collar lapped against her neck. Her hair, though ruffled slightly from their journey, sat neatly pinned beneath her broad straw hat. She kept her hand on top of it so that the wind wouldn’t blow it away.
“I could take you, you know,” he offered. “When I go back to London.”
She looked at him with something like fear or surprise. “N-no, thank you,” said the girl, smiling awkwardly. “I don’t think mother would let me.”
“Why not?” said Sebastian. “I could ask her. I’m sure she —”
“No, no —”
“But you’re so unhappy with them...”
She stopped whatever she was about to say and could only give a tight, painful smile in response.
Sebastian felt sorry to have been so blunt, but as he looked into her eyes, he could tell they had finally reached a real, uncompromising understanding together, something other than the stilted, tepid pleasantries of family friends.
He leaned over and placed his hand on hers, and could feel the warmth of her hand through the gloves.
“I’m leaving for London at the end of the week,” said Sebastian. “I know an apothecary who lets a room above his shop on Diagon Alley, you’d be very comfortable there… I could show you around, show you the best bookstores and dressmakers. You can meet new people there, maybe meet a boy,” he smiled.
“No,” she said, suddenly looking down and blushing.
“Alright, no boys,” he chuckled. “But do you want to come? You don’t have to stay long…”
She didn’t say anything, but he could see her looking to the side, thinking about it. Sebastian gave her another encouraging squeeze of the hand and then released her.
“Why don’t you try being on your best behaviour today?” he suggested, fiddling with the rim of his hat. “Put your parents in a good mood, make them more amenable.”
“How could I be on my best behaviour?” she asked, frowning up at him slightly. She clearly resented his request.
Sebastian thought about it for a moment. What would parents like hers want to see? They clearly had no patience for her more childish inclinations, her savage and withdrawn demeanour… He’d heard her mother describe her daughter as a “wild creature” on more than one occasion — not as some untamed thing, because she was in many ways quite docile, but as someone completely apart from civilization. They wanted her to perform: in school, in society, and now in adult life. And their daughter had fallen short on all fronts.
In spite of her quietness and her poor grades, she wasn’t dumb. She could sense their disappointment and naturally resented them for it. Sebastian realised with a clench of his heart that the love she had received so far was always conditional.
“Walk with your back straight,” he said matter-of-factly, “and walk a bit more in front, rather than always behind them. Smile a little, if you can, and speak up a bit more when you have a thought.”
The girl shook her head. “They criticise me whatever I say. Whatever opinion I share is stupid. Whatever thing I like is in poor taste… And they do tell me to smile more, but when I do, they say how ugly I look doing it.”
Sebastian sighed. He’d met people like that before. In fact, his Uncle Solomon was such a character. Nothing his nephew ever did was good enough...
Sebastian didn’t wish to blame his childhood friends for ending up being such parents, but he couldn’t help but feel a twinge of resentment toward them too. He had to remind himself that he’d never had children, and he never knew what difficulty that entailed.
“Walk with me, then, when we return. We can pretend to be chatting.”
She nodded and smiled at him gratefully, with just a hint of embarrassment. It took a while for Sebastian to realise she wasn’t embarrassed to be in his company, but to be offered help…
Mr and Mrs Gaunt led the way as they descended Goatfell, the woman boasting of the sketches she’d made of the landscape. She’d drawn with particularly deep strokes so that Ominis could feel them too.
“But it doesn’t compare to the colours, does it?” she asked, turning her head to Sebastian and her daughter who walked a few steps behind. “So cold and yet so alive…”
“Bunch of grey rocks and grey water,” her daughter mumbled only loud enough for Sebastian to hear.
He hid his grin behind his fist.
But she made an effort to follow his advice somewhat and walked like a proper lady beside him rather than a morose teenager dragged along by her parents. And they didn’t have to pretend to chat, as conversation came easily to them.
“So what is there to do on Diagon Alley except shop for school supplies?”
“Well, that’s where most of the wizarding businesses are, these days. Bookstores, broomstores, potioneers, anything you could ever want. You’d be surprised at how much there is to see there, how much you haven’t seen when you were just getting your school books and a cauldron…”
“And Knockturn Alley?” she asked with a cautious tone.
“Now how do you know about that?”
She shrugged. No doubt Ominis had told her about it… Warned her about it.
“Well, it’s not something you should concern yourself with. That’s no place for a young lady.”
“Oh…” She sounded disappointed.
Sebastian didn’t talk to the Gaunts about taking her to London that evening, nor the next, but the day before he left he brought it up with Mrs Gaunt after dinner. She and the girl were in the kitchen, one using magic to wash the dishes, the other to dry them.
Mrs Gaunt seemed sceptical at first and gave her daughter an apprehensive look, but underneath that, Sebastian could tell she saw the potential benefits… It was easier, he knew from experience, for him to convince her of an idea, and for her to convince Ominis.
A few carefully placed words and two weeks later, and he Floo the girl into Diagon Alley.
“Let me carry that,” said Sebastian, leaning down to pick up her suitcases as she brushed the green dust off her skirt.
“Oh no, I can —” she immediately said.
“Nonsense. Let me be a gentleman for you.”
“Well, if you —”
“On one condition.”
“What?” she asked, a bit startled by his suddenly serious tone.
“Never call me ‘Uncle Sebastian’ again.”
“Oh, alright,” she laughed.
Sebastian had arranged for her to stay above the apothecary he’d mentioned before, on a street not far from where he lived.
“My flat is just around the corner, there,” he pointed out from the window. “Around there, and to the right, then a left, and it’s in a big redbrick building.”
“I’m not sure I’ll remember that,” she frowned, looking out the window with him. “But thank you… I’ll try to pay you back, you know.”
“Don’t even think about it,” said Sebastian as they turned their attention inside the room. “It’s my gift. To compensate for never bringing you anything from my trips,” he smiled.
“I don’t think father would’ve accepted them anyway,” she said with a timid smile. “He never seemed to like the places you went to.”
“Yes, I thought as much…”
“But they never seemed so bad. France, Spain, Switzerland… I never understood what was so bad about your trips. I wished I could go sometimes.”
“Well, maybe someday, you will,” he smiled down at her fondly. “Hopefully for pleasure though, not business.”
She bit her lip and looked up at him for a moment, then down again. Sebastian played with the rim of his hat and looked around. The room was furnished but was quite sternly decorated. It was yearning to be filled.
“I shall let you settle in, then,” he said after an awkward silence. “We can meet for lunch.”
They met for lunch every day after that, and for dinner too. In between that, if Sebastian had time to spare — and he made sure to have plenty for her — he’d show her his favourite shops, a different one each day. He led her through the streets that she visited before each school year, but he could tell she looked at them with different eyes now. She could go anywhere, buy anything — within her budget — and stay in any place for as little or as long as she liked. When they grew bored of Diagon Alley, they went through Muggle London. He showed her where all the nice lady shops were too, although he confessed to not knowing much of them.
Against her protestations, he bought her a few things, trinkets mostly and souvenirs, nothing so expensive that would make her feel indebted to him. She looked guilty to receive anything at all, and it broke his heart to see it.
He knew Ominis and his wife didn’t deprive her of anything growing up, but somehow they’d raised a child that felt unworthy of receiving positive attention… Whether they tried too hard to make her self-sufficient or Ominis complained too much about his wasteful family, something had gone wrong somewhere. Sebastian knew it wasn’t his place to fix it, but it was hard to hold himself back… He felt so at peace when he was around her, so at home, more than he ever remembered feeling in long, long years.
She had put his gifts away each time into her purse and sometimes didn’t even open them, choosing instead to look down morosely and change the subject to something else. He couldn’t help but feel unwanted by the time two weeks were over, and was surprised by how much it hurt. Somehow, the thought of not being good enough for her was devastating to him, although the implications were perverse — as were his dreams at night, increasingly, the longer they spent time together.
But then one evening he walked her to her flat after a day of walking around the furthest edges of Diagon Alley, close to where Knockturn Alley was. She’d been understandably apprehensive the whole time, although he reassured her they would not cross over into it. Still, there were tendrils of dark magic floating in the air that any witch could sense.
He didn’t know what possessed him to walk her all the way to the door, and further in. Perhaps he just wanted to make sure she felt safe — and besides, she didn’t stop him.
She seemed a bit shy about letting him in though, unable to meet his eyes or stand still. As he wished her good night, he realised why.
On the little vanity, lined up around the mirror, were all the gifts he’d given her. The thin silver bracelet hung around the neck of a wooden cat figurine like some long and fancy necklace, the enamel box stood open holding a jar of enchanted red ink and a fimble embossed with flowers, the journal he had monogrammed with her initials lay beneath a new pair of calfskin gloves, and the silk scarf with a flexing snake on it was coiled by its side.
He forgot whatever he was saying, lips parting in a smile, and after taking it all in, he looked at her again.
For her party, the girl felt quite stupid. She’d never blushed so fiercely, and although it was too late now, she took her hat off and moved to block Sebastian’s view of the vanity.
“So you did like the things I got you,” he said cheerfully.
“I never said I didn’t,” she muttered, going to hang the hat on the back of the chair.
“You let me think so, though,” he said, frowning at her but speaking with a playful tone.
“Well, I’m sorry…”
“But why don’t you wear any of them?” asked Sebastian, stepping quickly around her to look at them again.
She turned toward him, squeezing the fingers of one hand in the other. “I didn’t wish to ruin them…”
Sebastian looked at her. “How would you ruin them?”
She shrugged.
And he thought they made such progress while they were together… She spoke more, spoke openly, shared her opinions with him however harsh or strange — and he’d been surprised to find out she had really strong opinions about certain things, which made him wonder at the true depth of her internal life, her thoughts, her feelings, everything she kept hidden from the world.
He sighed, and went to pick up the silver bracelet. It was a chain of tightly interlocking links on the front side of which a marcasite-encrusted serpent coiled. He set his hat on the desk and placed his gloves there too, and unclasped the bracelet.
“Here,” he said, turning toward her. “Give me your hand.”
She extended her left hand to him, and Sebastian locked it around her little wrist. He held her hand in his and looked at it. Silver suited her complexion well…
“See? Not ruined,” he smiled, holding her gaze.
The girl smiled tensely and looked at the bracelet. It was too sad a smile for Sebastian to bear.
“What are you thinking?” he quietly asked.
“That if I use them, I’ll break them or stain them or lose them somewhere...”
“But if you just have them lying around, they’ll last longer?”
She nodded.
“Well, I’m flattered to know they mean so much to you,” he smiled. “But I’d rather you use them and ruin them than not use them at all. I bought them for you, for you to enjoy. And you can’t enjoy them when they’re just sitting there,” he chuckled.
She smiled a little wider, her eyes still aimed down. Sebastian’s grip went up from her fingers to close around her wrist, cupping it in his hand, gently pushing her sleeve away. He could almost hear her breath catch in her throat. When he looked at her face again, he found her looking back at him.
He didn’t know what he saw in her eyes, and couldn’t begin to guess what she was seeing in his. And before he could think of what to say, the girl stretched up on her tiptoes and wrapped her arms around him. She pulled her body close to his, and by instinct, by sheer need, he held her to him. In the silence between them, he could sense so much, so many things she left unsaid but which he keenly felt.
“What’s wrong, my dear?” he asked, rubbing a hand up and down her back. “Hmm? Why are you so sad? Do you miss your parents?”
He could feel her shaking her head.
“Do you wish to go elsewhere? Are you tired of this place?” he chuckled. “I know these aren’t the most glamourous accommodations, but…”
She shook her head again.
Sebastian held her tightly to him and sighed. “Are you in love?” he asked.
She stayed still this time, frozen in his arms.
“You’re lovesick? Is that it?” He laughed and pulled her closer.
The girl didn’t answer, but Sebastian didn’t need her to. They held each other, basking in each other’s warmth, and he noticed he could feel her heartbeat against his chest.
Sebastian couldn’t help but wonder who this boy was that she loved, where she even met him. Maybe it was a handsome young clerk in one of the shops they visited, or someone she’d spotted at a restaurant when they were having lunch, or maybe — Merlin forbid — a muggle she saw when they were out in London… For some reason, all of those ideas made him feel strange, uncomfortable, and quite a bit angry.
“Who is it, then?” he asked, putting a smile on his face as he leaned away to look down at her face again.
The girl looked up at him and wouldn’t say a word, instead biting her lip to keep quiet. He’d seen such secretive moods from her before, but none that were so deep, that hung so heavily over their conversation.
“I promise I won’t tell your parents. It’s just an innocent crush, I suppose, right?”
It took some effort and courage on her part, but finally, she nodded.
Sebastian gave a deep sigh. “So, who is it?” he asked again, his broad hand coming up to cup her cheek. “You can tell me…”
“I don’t think I can.”
“Why? Don’t you know his name?”
“I do…”
“And?”
She kept looking at him with those large, sad eyes. He had hoped that by now she would’ve learned he was her friend…
“Is it someone you… shouldn’t like?” he tried.
She nodded.
“I see… Well, you’re a clever girl to realise it. In that case, perhaps it’s best you put him out of your mind.”
He suddenly remembered how long he’d been holding her, and although he wanted nothing more than to comfort the girl all night, he began to let her go.
“Uncle Seb— Sebastian,” she said quickly, “it’s… it’s not a boy.”
He froze and looked at her, wondering what she meant. “What is it then?” he asked. “It’s not a goblin, is it?” he asked, teasing her.
“No!” she laughed, looking down again. “It’s…”
But she couldn’t speak, couldn’t say it. Her hands left his shoulders and went down to his waist, pulling him close to her again, begging wordlessly for another hug. He couldn’t deny her. Sebastian sighed deeply with a smile as he held her to his chest.
He wished he could help her, make all her dreams come true, and give her the comfort and the love she’d never had enough of. His hand came up and pet the back of her head, trying not to ruffle her carefully pinned hair. The feeling of it sent shivers down his spine that he didn’t think he should experience. Her breath hitched at the sensation, and with a subtle step forward, she pressed herself more firmly to his front. Sebastian swallowed an embarrassing moan and tried to turn his hips away, but then she leaned back, pressing her head deeper in his hand, and looked up at him as if waiting for something.
“Who are you thinking of?” he asked in a low voice, hoping that she told him of someone, anyone, to drive away his unworthy desires. “Who is it?” he asked, his hand coming up to cup her cheek.
The girl swallowed the knot in her throat, terrified by the intensity of his gaze. Her face flushed red and her eyes teared up, but she worked up the courage to lean up, and wrap her arms around his neck, and kiss his cheek.
Sebastian could have died on the spot. His arms tightened around her as if he really would have died if he didn’t have her to cling to... Could she do that? Could she kiss him? When her lips parted from his skin, he turned his head and kissed her cheek as well. His hands began to tremble as he realised who she had meant…
“…Me?” he asked, clinging more tightly to her. “D-do you mean me?”
She nodded, her soft cheek brushing against his.
Sebastian sighed from the depth of his chest and moaned. “How could you do that?” he asked with a shaky laugh. “How could you mean me? I’m… I…”
He was nearly forty years old, and she wasn’t yet twenty. As if that wasn’t enough, she was the daughter of his two best friends. He couldn’t imagine doing that to Ominis — whatever that was, because he certainly had no intention of compromising her or… or…
Slowly, she pulled away from him, the hug relaxing in a loose holding of hands. “Oh,” she said, and she sounded so dejected. Whatever tension was on her face before faded, her eyes downcast, her mouth frowning.
“I don’t mean that… that you’re… I mean, that I don’t…” Sebastian cursed quietly. “I don’t mean that you’re not charming and beautiful and…” She looked up at him and took his breath away again. “And lovely,” he finished.
“So it’s just that you don’t like me,” she said, seeming to have decided for him that she wasn’t good enough.
“No,” he said, his hand cupping her cheek firmly, “that’s not it. What I meant was… that you shouldn’t like me.”
“I know that, but do you think I can help it?”
The sudden resolve in her surprised him. Sebastian chuckled softly, his thumb tracing circles on her cheek.
“No, I don’t imagine you can help it,” he replied, his voice low and soft. “And to be honest, I can’t either.”
The girl looked up at him quizzically, seemingly torn between hoping he said what she thought he did, and fearing that he didn’t. He wasn’t usually so hard to read, he was certainly more expressive and open than her, but right now, his gaze was thoroughly impenetrable.
Sebastian fought against himself, against the last lingering denial of what he felt for her, but he knew it had reached its end.
“I only want what’s best for you. Do you know that?” he asked.
“Yes?” she quietly said.
“And this isn’t what’s best for you.”
“What is, then?” she frowned.
“You deserve to be loved,” he said tenderly. “To know what it’s like to be loved, to know that you… you deserve it.”
She bit her lip, and he could tell his words hurt her somehow, reminding her of what she lacked in life. His thumb caressed her cheek again.
“I can’t do that to you, though,” he chuckled nervously. “Your father would kill me.”
“I would never tell him,” she said, her hands fisting at the back of his coat.
“That isn’t the sort of thing you should say…”
“I don’t care what I should or shouldn’t say. What about what I want?”
He swallowed thickly and groaned, feeling himself crumble before her.
“You bought me all these things,” the girl continued, looking plaintively and angrily into his eyes, “but you won’t… won’t…”
“Won’t what?” he asked. “Can you even say it?”
She frowned again, her eyes tearing with frustration at her own shyness.
“You say I deserve to be l-loved,” she mumbled, peeking up at him for scant seconds. “But if you won’t do it, who will?”
Sebastian whimpered deep in his throat. He had nothing to say to that.
“Do you want me to find someone else?” she asked.
“No,” said Sebastian instantly, his grip around her waist tightening.
The girl, impish little thing, smiled victoriously.
“Then why won’t you show me?” she whispered, standing on her tiptoes again to reach closer to him, her head tilting dreamily, her eyes large and vulnerable and full of hope. “Just because I shouldn’t like you that way? Nobody else likes me but you, anyway” she said, sounding terribly sad where only a second ago she was flirtatious.
“That isn’t true,” said Sebastian, shaking his head.
“It feels that way to me.”
He shook his head again, but he had no way to contradict her because he felt as if he was the only one in the world who truly loved her — and what madness it was to admit it — who truly wanted her, top to bottom, the whole of her, for himself.
“Do you… have someone else?”
“No,” he admitted.
“Then, why not…”
“I told you, your father, both your parents in fact —”
“They don’t care about what I want,” she said, “so why should I care about what they want?”
He laughed. Her frown deepened thinking that he laughed at her.
“Never knew you were so headstrong,” he said, both hands coming up to cup her face.
She whimpered at the warm touch from him, so close to being caressed and yet still held so far from him, from the only man who ever made her feel anything.
He tilted his head and leaned in closer until she could feel his breath on her lips. “I can’t give you what you want,” he sighed, his eyes searching hers. “But I… I can show you how I feel.”
She looked up at him again, a thread of hope winding around her heart.
“And show you what… what you really feel too,” he added with a teasing smile.
The girl barely opened her mouth to ask what he meant when he dipped down to kiss her.
She winced in surprise at the touch of his lips and her whole body felt alight. She didn’t know when she closed her eyes, but within a few heartbeats she was lost to his embrace, knowing nothing else in the world but his touch — big, warm, rough hands around her jaws, tilting her head upward, plump, chapped lips surrounded by an evening stubble caressing her mouth, breath tickling her cheek...
When he pulled back to catch his breath, she nearly chased after him. It had been her first kiss, and she could hardly imagine anything more exhilarating. The feelings that were rushing through her made her dizzy, but looking into his eyes steadied her. Still, she keenly feared his rejection. She knew what she wanted from him was wrong, but was too hungry for his love to care.
“Why can’t you give me what I want?” she spoke with a hint of desperation.
“You know why, sweetheart,” he smiled, his eyes growing sad at the sight of her so needy. “But… I can still love you. Show you how much I love you,” he said. “Is that enough for now?”
The girl frowned but nodded eagerly, the longing of months and years finally spilling over. She leaned in for another kiss. Sebastian chuckled at her eagerness and gave her what she wanted, while they both tried not to think of how illicit, how wrong this was. They kissed in the centre of the room until they both were breathless, and he felt her finally calm down. Against his chest, he felt her heart beat steadily.
“Did I give you your first kiss, my lovely one?” he asked.
She nodded.
“And your second one?”
“Y-yes…”
Sebastian chuckled and leaned down to kiss her again. She moaned into his mouth.
“And your third?” he sighed against her lips.
She whimpered and clung to his cravat, pulling him down to kiss her again, and he smiled against her mouth. She seemed to like being kissed, so he put all his care into it. His lips nipped hers, then covered them for long, languid caresses, and his hands went up from her waist to the bottom of her ribs, squeezing her gently.
With a moan, he parted from her again and looked at her. He couldn’t help but give her another little peck on the lips before stepping away. The girl whined, her arms reaching for him. It made Sebastian grin at how greedy she’d become…
“May I?” he asked with his hands on the lapels of his jacket.
“Oh,” she whispered, “oh, erm, yes…” He was planning something, she could tell.
He smiled fondly at her and took his jacket off, hanging it on the back of the chair beside her vanity. “Why don’t you sit down, my lovely one?” he said.
She blushed fiercely but did as he said, and went to sit down on the bed, her body facing his.
“Take your boots off,” he said as he unbuttoned his vest. “And your drawers, too.”
Her heart skipped a beat when she heard his words. Without taking her eyes off him, she leaned down and unlaced her boots, putting them to the side. Her toes curled as she prepared herself for what came next. Sebastian’s eyes raked over her as he loosened his cravat. His brown eyes never left her, the edges crinkling as he smiled.
Rising her hips slightly, she rolled her long skirt to her knees and dipped her hands beneath it, tugging the drawers off her hips then off her legs, and let them rest on the floor. She looked away from Sebastian, her breathing frantic and her face all red at what she had just done. She looked as if she were still fully dressed, but now Sebastian knew there was nothing protecting her intimate parts from him.
Slowly, he took his boots off too and let them lay where they fell, and unbuttoned the top of his shirt. He licked his lips hungrily as he stepped closer to the bed, letting his fingers trail lightly over the silken sheets.
“You really are lovely, you know?” he breathed, his voice low with desire.
She bit her lip and tensed up again, moving up the bed the closer he got until she was next to the pillows. Sebastian stopped in front of her, his knees next to her own, and cupped his hand beneath her chin. She looked up at him so innocently that he felt like a bit of a monster, but he was determined to strike a balance between what she asked for, and what he was ready to give…
“Will you let me lay beside you?” he whispered.
She moaned and nodded, moving to the side to make room for him, inviting him on the bed next to her. Sebastian sat down, wearing just his shirt and trousers with the suspenders framing his chest, then moved so that his back was against the pillows.
“Come lay here,” he said, patting his chest.
The girl seemed a bit confused but quickly understood what he wanted when he lightly spread his legs. With an awkward little shuffle, she eased herself to the middle of the bed, between his thighs, and let her back lay against his front. Sebastian’s arms instantly encircled her, holding her warmly to his body, cradling her.
For a while, they stayed like that, with his lips at her temple and her hands clasping his arms. She worried he might be uncomfortable, with her back against him and the stiff corset digging into him, but Sebastian didn’t seem to mind. He felt warm, and firm, and steady, and gradually her heartbeat calmed.
“For how long have you felt this way?” Sebastian eventually asked.
Her knees bent slightly, as if she could hide away. “I don’t want to tell,” she muttered.
Sebastian chuckled and wrapped his arms more tightly around her. “Alright, you don’t have to say it,” he whispered against her cheek, “for now.”
His lips trailed down to her jaw, little suckling pecks that made her sight and tilt her head, then went down the column of her neck, stopping at the clavicle. He felt her stiffen in his arms again. Carefully, so as to not scare her more, his right hand uncurled itself from around her waist and travelled lower to her hip. Tug by tug, he raised her skirt a little higher.
“Shhh, it’s alright,” he whispered in her ear. “I want to do something… but tell me if you don’t want it.”
The girl winced and shook her head.
“No?” he asked.
“No, yes. Don’t stop,” she breathed.
Sebastian laughed lightly and kept pulling her skirt up, all the way until he could dip his hand beneath it. She gasped when she felt his fingers on her inner thigh.
“Is this good?” he asked.
She nodded, settling more firmly against him. He moaned deep in his chest when he felt her bottom rub against his bulge, but continued with the gentle motions of his hand across her skin.
“Very soft,” he praised in a close whisper. “And so, so warm… Are you always like this down there?” he teased.
“Y-yes?”
Sebastian smiled at her innocence and kissed her cheek again. “I believe it,” he said. “Especially with all that walking we’ve been doing lately… These darling thighs must be tense all day, rubbing against each other, no?”
The girl squirmed against his lap, a fire licking up and down her skin from that little point where three of his fingers touched her. She felt him caressing her thigh slightly inward, almost all the way to the back of her leg, his palm engulfing her for a few quiet moments, and then trailing upwards.
“Is this alright?” he asked, his voice sounding lower than before, rougher.
It reminded her that he was a man, big and rough and so much stronger than her — a man as old as her father, although that wasn’t the sort of thing she wanted to know just then. She closed her eyes tightly against the uncomfortable thought.
“H-higher,” she whispered. Her legs spread wider as far as his thighs allowed.
“Higher?” he teased as he drew circles on her skin. His left arm closed around her waist in a stronger grip. “What will I find there, hmm?”
The girl dipped her head and moaned low in her throat, knowing he was playing with her. Her hands fisted in her skirt.
“Is there some secret place there?” Sebastian chuckled. His fingers went up along her thigh, where she was even warmer, even softer, and he groaned.
He could feel the muscles in her thigh flex beneath the skin. With one heavy caress, he moved his left hand from around her waist and cupped her chest. With careful tugs and encouraging her to shift a little, he eased her corset lower down her torso until he could feel her breasts slide up from beneath its grasp. She gasped and nearly jumped, but then melted in his arms with a light mewl.
He kissed her cheek again. “Shhh it’s alright.”
The girl lay docile in his arms while he carefully caressed her breast, squeezing it the slightest bit, then resting the young globe in the palm of his hand. Underneath her skirt, he teased a path all the way up until he felt a soft wet tuft. The girl whimpered, squirming against his front again, but Sebastian just rested his hands on her.
“Is this good?” he asked, peppering kisses up and down the side of her face.
“Yes,” she whispered, “I think so…”
“You think so?” he chuckled. “Well, let’s make sure, then.”
Keeping his hand still at her breast, he trailed his fingers higher up between her legs, slow and patient and searching. When his index touched her slit, she moaned.
“Oh,” he breathed lustfully, “so you do have a special place here…”
The girl curled in his arms, and Sebastian let himself slip lower down the bed, spreading his legs wider to accommodate her while not moving his hands at all, letting her feel him there.
“So wet,” he whispered as his finger began to caress her, going up and down her swollen lips. “It isn’t normal to be this wet, is it, my darling? And so, so feverish… Are you sure you’re alright?” he chuckled. “You’re certain you’re not ill, my sweetest girl?”
“No, of course not,” she said, unsure why he was even asking. She had the feeling he was joking, but she could not imagine why. This was not the time to jest, in her opinion.
“Oh, I’m not so sure,” he breathed, letting his lips rest against her cheekbone. “You wouldn’t lie to me, would you?”
“N-no…”
“I guess I need to find out for myself, then.”
And then his fingers started moving. He teased her with both index and middle finger, going up and down her slit, making her more and more wet, feeling her moans right against his mouth as he rested his lips at her throat. He could feel her hole, tight and hot and flexing, and above it, her raw little nub peeking out, so hard and small... He paused there and swirled a digit around it with the lightest touch. She nearly jumped in his arms, wailing at the unfamiliar feeling.
“Is this good?” he asked against her neck, his breath frantic. “Is this good for you?”
She whined and squirmed in his arms, teasing his manhood with her bottom. It made him growl, but she probably didn’t realise what she was doing. Sebastian teased her tight bud more and then, after cupping it between three fingers, squeezed it lightly at the same time as he squeezed the tip of her breast through her shirt.
“Un— Sebastian!” she moaned.
“I told you not to call me ‘Uncle’,” he said with a hint of frustration. But he knew she didn’t mean it, probably didn’t know his fraught relationship with the word, so he sighed and kissed her cheek in apology.
“‘m sorry,” she whined, still twisting in his arms.
“It’s alright,” he whispered, kissing her cheek again. “It’s alright, just… just lay in my arms and let me take care of you.”
And as he spoke, his fingers kept teasing her between her legs and at her breast, slowly, deliberately squeezing those two sensitive points at the same time and pulling on them gently. The air was filled with her gasps and the shifting of clothes against clothes, the light squeaking of the bed, and Sebastian’s groans. He turned his head toward her, filling his lungs with the scent of her hair.
His hands on her relaxed, and he went back to holding her breast gently while sliding his fingers up and down her slit. He could feel her shivering in his arms at the change, and chuckled.
“Which do you like best?” he whispered in her ear. “Hard, or gentle?”
“Erm…”
“Tell me honestly,” he said without a hint of teasing.
“G-gentle?”
Sebastian smiled and kissed her cheek. “Gentle, then, for my girl.”
Another shiver ran through her, and if he didn’t know any better, he could’ve sworn she purred.
His thick middle finger slid slowly, carefully down her folds, then held there for a moment, went up again, and down, all in a steady, predictable motion. His left hand, meanwhile, warmed her breast, holding her to him.
“How do you feel?” he asked, rubbing his stubbled cheek against hers, so smooth and soft.
She felt completely overwhelmed, covered, supported, and utterly cherished. She couldn't even begin to put into words how he made her feel. “Nervous,” the girl chuckled, her voice strained, but happy.
“Just nervous?” he smiled.
“And…”
“And what?”
She wouldn’t say.
“Do you feel cared for?” he asked, the corner of his lips brushing against her skin.
She nodded.
“Do you feel wanted?”
Another little nod.
“And needed?” he sighed, taking another lung-full of her.
The girl whimpered and dipped her face down.
Between her legs, Sebastian began to brush against her faster. His finger felt her plush lips on either side, warm and wet and innocent. He pressed deeper and felt her gasp and jump when the tip of his finger touched her hole again.
“Do you?” he asked more warmly, almost a growl. “Do you feel how much I need you?”
“I… I don’t know…”
“Oh, my darling little girl,” he moaned, and his hand squeezed her breast a little tighter. Sebastian so badly wished that he could have her read his mind so that she could see how deeply his love for her ran.
His caress went further, dipping into her entrance gently, curiously, almost timidly. It coaxed a kittenish trill from her and she rubbed against his front again, his bulge slotted right between her cheeks.
“Don’t you feel that?” he moaned, pressing back against her with his stiff length. “Do you know what that is?”
“Is… is it your… male part?”
He laughed a little. “That’s quite the polite word for it. Yes, my little one.”
Sebastian rested his lips against her cheek while he pressed into her hole a bit more firmly. She gave a reedy cry when the tip of his finger pierced her.
“Oh, it burns,” she whined.
“Shhh, I won’t hurt you,” he whispered in between kisses. “You’ll see… you’ll see… I’ll show you that I care for you,” he promised.
His lips travelled her jaw, leaving wet trails down the side of it and along her neck. To distract her from the penetration, he began to flick her breast with his thumb through her shirt, and soon made that nub pucker again. Between her legs, he felt her growing wet.
“Do you trust me?” he growled. “Do you understand I want you?”
Silence.
“Not yet?” he grinned.
Sebastian slid his finger deeper. Instantly, she cried out and her back arched and he felt her squeeze around him. He felt the broken sound of her surprise shiver through her neck and into his waiting lips.
“How deep inside of you can I go?” he asked breathlessly. “How deep will you let me?”
It was a double-edged question, and they both could feel it. She knew by this point that his actions were less about giving her pleasure — even less about taking it for himself — and more about showing her that she was worthy of desire, of care and want and love.
“Deep,” she whispered, relaxing against his chest as her channel swallowed his probing finger.
“Deep, hmm?” he chuckled. “Deep and gentle, is that how my girl likes it?”
“Yes,” she moaned mindlessly.
Against his wrist, he could feel her thighs flexing. Sebastian groaned deep in his chest and slowly thrust into her, always upward, never retreating until he felt all the way to the end of her.
“So tight,” he whispered, peppering kisses on her neck again. “Tight and warm, that sickly sweet warmth of yours…”
He nibbled at her neck and squeezed her breast again, caressing it in slow but greedy motions. Inside her, his finger pressed all the way until he reached her cervix.
“Ow,” she winced, trying to move away.
“Stay still,” he said.
She did, allowing him to feel her, all of her. Her channel throbbed and pulsed around him, not knowing what to do with the intrusion. Sebastian paused in wonder at this marvellous part of her, this secret, deep, and tender place that nobody else had known before. When he felt her greedy channel relax, he began pulling out. Teasingly, he trailed his finger out and out and out of her, letting her feel it the whole way.
“It feels so cold,” he chuckled, “it’s so wet from you…”
She didn’t say anything, but he could tell that she was blushing, her cheek felt hot where it touched his temple.
“Are you ashamed of that, my sweetest one?” he asked, ending it with a lick of her neck. “Are you ashamed of how wet you are for me?”
“Don’t talk like that,” she whispered, turning her head away.
Sebastian distracted her by kneading her breast, bringing his finger back to her entrance, and circling her hot and twitching hole.
“You’re wet for me, because of me” he said again more firmly, determined to break through her shyness and shame. “You’re warm and feverish and plush in your most secret place because of me,” he hissed. “Isn’t that right?”
“Why do you want me to say it?” she groaned, twisting in his grasp.
“Because I want to know,” he said with a kiss to her clavicle, “that you know it,” and then he kissed up her neck, “and I want you to admit it to yourself,” and then he kissed her cheek, “and I want to feel how desperate you get when you say those naughty words, my darling.”
The girl bit her lip and turned her head away, her fingers digging into his arms, nails snagging against his sleeves, struggling against him — and, in a way, against herself.
He penetrated her again, this time with two fingers. To keep her from squirming away he kneaded at her breast harder, more punishingly, threatening her almost.
“Say it,” he ordered with a low murmur.
“Yes,” she gasped, her back twisted in a painful arch between his heavy paw at her breast and his thick, invading fingers. “Yes, I’m wet because of you…”
“And what else?”
She moaned, canting her hips distractedly into his thrust as his fingers opened her up.
“Are you all swollen because of me? Because of what I’m doing to you?”
“Yes…”
“Do you want me?”
“Yes…”
“You want me inside of you?” he whispered, his lips and tongue teasing the crook of her neck. “You want me here?” His fingers curled in her girlhood, pressing against that soft spot above her entrance.
She gasped and squirmed, her eyes and mouth opening in a shock of wonder.
“Here, in this tender little place?” Sebastian continued, and his fingers curled and pulled, then pressed in again slow and thick and deep. “This hidden spot? This weeping, lonely little hole?”
Her legs spread wider of their own accord and she hooked them over his knees, her arms going up and back, her fingers finding their way into his hair. She held on to him, completely dependent on him now, open and exposed and invaded.
“I want you,” he growled, pumping into her deeper, not pleasuring her spot anymore but feeling her whole channel again, forcing it to open wider, to accept him. “Do you believe me?”
“Yes,” she cried, although he wasn’t sure she was even listening anymore.
“Do you feel that? You feel me wanting you?” said Sebastian with a harder, fuller thrust that moved her body up his torso, before pulling her back with it. “You feel me needing you?” he asked, his length rubbing against her innocent backside.
“Sebastian —”
“Say it, I need you to say it, I need to know that you… you understand what I feel for you…”
The girl nodded, her lips parted in a breathless gasp. “Yes…”
“Yes what?”
“Yes, you need me… you want me,” she said, and he could almost hear a tearfulness in her voice.
“Good girl,” he sighed. “And do you know what else?”
She moaned and shook her head as her body trembled, caught between his thick thrusting fingers and his hard manhood pleasuring herself on her.
“I love you,” said Sebastian. His eyes were closed and his lips were at her ear. It almost scared him to admit it, but she needed to know.
“I… I love you too,” she whispered, turning her face lazily toward him.
When Sebastian opened his eyes, he saw her there, with her half-lidded, dreamy gaze, her sweaty forehead, tear-stained cheeks, and those lovely, bitten lips… His hand left her breast to hold her still by the neck and he leaned down to kiss her.
The girl moaned into his lips. The only sounds now were their delicious moans and the wetness he pulled out of her as he pumped his fingers through her gushing channel.
Sebastian was breathless when he released her, and his whole body was alight. Although he was still mostly clothed, he felt nearly at the edge just from her in his arms, her body pressing down on him. The more he tended to her core, the more of her he could smell.
“I would lick your tenderest little parts,” he breathed as he looked into her eyes, “but that might be too much for you, wouldn’t it, pet?”
She stared at him quite shocked, not knowing what to say. She couldn’t even nod in agreement.
“So why don’t you just come for me? Release for me, let go…” he whispered, stretching out his tongue to lap at her lip. “Let me feel… this little hole… ” he continued, his fingers thrusting harder into her, shaking her whole body, “convulse in pleasure around me…”
Sebastian was certain she didn’t exactly know what he was talking about, and he actually wished she didn’t. He wanted her to be innocent, he wanted to be the first for her, to teach her and train her and show her pleasure. Show her how to surrender.
He groaned when she pressed in a certain way down on his lap, and instinctively he released her neck to grip her hip, holding her still for his use. His two fingers, thick and dripping wet with her, dug as deep inside her as he could and held there as he put all of his efforts into pressing up against her, rubbing himself against her bottom. He moaned shamelessly with each delicious thrust. His sounds were deep and lustful and embarrassingly revealing of how savagely he wished to take her, but the scared look in her eyes centred him.
Sebastian kissed her again then leaned back to look at her face as he used her, imagined himself taking her, feeling her wetness soak his shaft, feeling her weak little body parting for him, having no choice but to surrender and open and take him inside where he could spill —
“I… I love you,” he gasped, pleading with her almost, needing her to understand it and accept it. “I love you…”
“Seb—”
He frowned and closed her lips with a kiss, and then he felt his shaft twitch as it spilt its seed. It was a messy and distorted kiss, more of a moan and a cry and a crushing of lips, but for a moment it felt perfect. Her body relaxed above him, her fingers caressing his hair and his neck, her girlhood clenching around his fingers, suckling on them.
Sebastian breathed in deeply then released her mouth. He grinned lazily and leaned back to look at her. There was a sticky and disgusting feeling at his loins, but that didn’t matter now. Slowly, his fingers resumed their thrust.
She gasped and tensed in surprise, but soon eased and moaned more openly, her head tilted back exposing her neck, her chest arching against her shirt. Sebastian thrust deeper, those two thick fingers keeping her spread. He pulled the wetness out of her with each outward thrust and let it make her thighs and bottom slick.
“How long have you wanted me?” he asked in a teasing whisper at her ear. Now that he had warmed her up, he felt sure he would get the answer out of her.
“Wh-what?!”
He chuckled, pumping his fingers faster. “How long?”
“Since… since the fifth-year summer break,” she admitted, speaking in so small a voice he would not have heard if he were further away.
“So since you were fifteen!?”
Sebastian was a little scandalised. He pictured taking advantage of her at that age and recoiled inwardly. But at the same time, he didn't wish to make her feel ashamed. After all, she couldn't help her feelings, and he would be lying if he said he wasn't the slightest bit flattered. So he fought against how taboo it was, and chuckled.
“How naughty my little girl is,” he purred, nibbling at her ear.
“I’m sorry,” she groaned, turning her blushing face away from him.
“You should be,” he said, half-teasing. “I only ever wanted to take care of you, do you know that? I wished… I wished I could take you away sometimes. Just to have you for my own. To love you freely.”
She was nearly breathless with the revelation and turned to look up at him. His trusts between her legs gentled as he confessed his more innocent feelings to her, and she had no idea what to make of it.
“Did you really?” she asked in a whisper.
“Yes,” he smiled, “but not like this. Not as…”
“As lovers?”
“Yes, not like that. Just, as your friend or… anything.”
It was awkward for Sebastian to show this side of himself. It didn’t go well with what he was — an older man twice her age, slightly rough around the edges, involved with dark magic and seedy figures and things she shouldn’t know about. And she was so sweet and delicate, so fragile in his arms… But it was true, all he wanted was to love her, protect her, take care of her, in whatever capacity she allowed him.
Sebastian leaned down and kissed her forehead, his fingers stilling inside her for a moment. No sooner he parted from her skin that she leaned up and kissed his lips — clumsily, reaching mostly just the corner of his mouth.
“I want you,” she said as she looked into his eyes. “I… I wish you could take me away, forever.”
“But you know I can’t,” sighed Sebastian, and his fingers began to cant back and forth inside her, making her feel his despair and desire and longing to be with her as deeply as possible.
“I know… But I’ve dreamed of it,” she whispered. “So many nights… when I thought about you.”
Sebastian’s eyes darkened and he listened to her, his lips parted in a stilted gasp. He wasn’t sure he should know more, he was afraid of what he would hear, but a part of him was greedy to know everything that this darling girl thought about.
“Did you?” he asked lowly, and he started a deliberate, deep rhythm that trailed her channel up and down. Her plump folds kissed his knuckles when he thrust all the way inside.
“Yes,” she said in a high, weak voice.
He smiled. He loved the way she got so breathless when he pleasured her. “Did you touch yourself?”
“I did…”
“Did you touch yourself thinking of me?”
She closed her eyes and nodded.
“Like this?”
“Please,” she sobbed, her heart trembling in her chest as his fingers dragged themselves out of her. “Pleasepleaseplease…”
Sebastian licked his lips and looked down at her. Her arms were limp around his head and her eyes were closed. He drank in the sight of her weak and surrendered, and then he gave her what she wanted. He put his fingers back to her girlhood, trailing the slippery digits up and down her slit.
“You pleasured your special place?” he teased, grinning against her blushing cheek while his fingers dragged her slick up to her tender nub. “Alone, at night, while you thought of me…?”
She mewled and bowed her head, regretting somewhat that she had even admitted it to him, because now he used it to torture her — but his fingers felt so good, working her so precisely to feverish pleasure.
“Yes yes yes, please,” she mewled.
His chest purred beneath hers while his fingers strummed her pearl, tending to her most sensitive point relentlessly, diligently.
“Will you show me how you sounded when you reached your peak?” he whispered. “Will you spill for me here as you did around your pretty little fingers?”
“Please, Sebastian,” she cried, and her voice began to sound a little panicked. “It… it’s too much…”
In response, he held her down, his left arm stiff around her waist while with his right he abused her girlhood in short, aggressive rubs. He could feel her nub becoming stiffer, its raw head peeking out. With each downward thrust, he picked up a little bit more slick that leaked from her and brought it up to wet her pearl.
“It’s not too much, you can take it,” he whispered. “Doing so well for me, letting me love you like this… Letting me show how much I love you…”
“I can’t, I can’t,” she rambled.
Her legs started to tremble against his, her hips canting up and down, spreading the wetness that he’d spilt around himself in his soiled trousers. Sebastian groaned at the delicious, savage feeling of it all.
“I can feel you leaking out of your little hole,” he said with a dreamy voice. “Is that how you’d drip around me if I kissed you there? Is it? Is it how you’d gush around my manhood if I gave it to you?”
“Yes,” she mumbled, her head twisting back and forth, her hair a ruffled mess against his pillow, over his shoulder, sticking to his cheek. “Yes yes yes, I want, I want…”
“I’ll give you what you want, my girl,” he growled, holding her down and playing with her nub. “My good little girl, sweet, wet, dirty little girl…”
And her whole body began to tremble, starting with her legs, her stomach, her hands clasping desperately at the pillow. She let out a scream before she caught herself and bit it back. He reached down and kissed her mouth, swallowing it from her. Sebastian held her to him, barely letting her move while she squirmed with the shock of her powerful orgasm.
“Se— Sebastian! Aaah… Aaahh!”
Her core clenched and throbbed, hungry and empty and desperate for something that never came inside. Right above it, his fingers kept tending to her pearl, flicking it until it nearly drove her mad.
The girl mewled into his mouth, pleading with him to stop but in a thoroughly unconvincing manner.
“You like that?” Sebastian asked against her lips as his caresses slowed to steady, long, torturous strokes. “Hmm? Was that good?” he asked with a kiss.
“Mmm… yes,” she whispered, her voice trembling as her body relaxed, limp and sapless in his arms. Only faint twitches travelled up her legs anymore, but she spread them wider for him as he kept tenderly caressing her girlhood.
“Yes?” he grinned. “My naughty little girl liked it?”
“I did,” she said in the smallest, shyest whisper, her eyes cast down toward his lips.
He understood what she wanted, and leaned forward to kiss her again. The room around them fell silent now that her frantic breaths and moans abated. All that was left were the lewd, slopping sounds as he kept fingering her.
“Good little girl,” he sighed against her mouth. “Gone all soft now that you’ve been pleasured, haven’t you?”
She blushed and nodded, the tip of her nose brushing against his. Sebastian chuckled and leaned in to kiss her again, and again, and again. Slowly, he stilled his fingers, but kept them there, cupping her secret place, letting her seep lazily into his palm.
“How do you feel?” he asked with a warm smile.
“Good,” she murmured, a similar smile playing on her lips too. Her eyes were low and sleepy, but held his gaze.
Sebastian chuckled and disentangled his arm from around her waist, bringing it up to brush her messy hair away, caress her face, and pet her lovely cheek. Her legs dipped back from around his and closed around his wrist, hugging his hand to her centre.
“And did you like what I did to you?”
She bit back a wince and nodded again. Sebastian’s eyes crinkled with a smile and he dipped down to her mouth, tasting her in a long and languid caress.
“Give me your hand,” he said, “the left one,” and waited for her to comply.
She stretched out her left arm and watched curiously as he grinned and kissed the bracelet there. It was, in its own way, more like a mark of belonging, of his commitment to her — like an engagement ring.
“You were beautiful,” he said as her hand came down to brush against his face, “and sweet, and adorable, and the most enticing little witch I’ve ever seen.”
The girl squirmed in his lap, smiling awkwardly, but there was nowhere for her to go even if she had the strength to do it. He cupped her in his hands and held her to him.
“Well, I hope so,” she said with a small voice, looking between his lips and his eyes.
“You deserve to be loved. I hope you understand that now, at least a little bit better…”
Did she? She wasn’t sure. Held in Sebastian’s strong steady arms, against his broad chest, she knew she felt at home, and safe, and cared for, but love came with a little difficulty… How could he be satisfied with her?
“I know I am most inadequate —” she started.
“No,” he shook his head, “you are not. You deserve to be loved, and I wish to be the one to do it.”
She looked into his eyes again, quietly reading every emotion that flashed through there, every hint of vulnerability, of devotion, and found them all reflected in her too. Her hands finally found the strength to reach up again and tangle loosely in his hair.
“Alright,” she whispered, leaning up to breathe against his lips. “If you’ll love me, I’ll love you,” she said, kissing him gently on the mouth. “In fact, as you well know, I already do…”
Sebastian chuckled and held her closer, rocking her gently on his chest. Slowly, his hand slid away from her core, allowing her to close her legs, and his to close around her. Entangled in each other, they forgot about their messy clothes, their ruffled hair, and knew only of how much they liked each other’s closeness.
They spoke in sweet hushed whispers about what they planned to do, how they intended to live together, to accomplish it against all odds. Slowly, Sebastian forgot about his plan to only show her these safe, distant forms of love — with fingers and close embraces and perhaps eventually with his mouth, acts that left no lingering mark on her and had no chance of spoiling her honour. No, after this evening, could see himself taking her away, even marrying her, building a life with her… And as he gazed into her eyes throughout the evening, all the while until they fell asleep, he hoped she pictured the same future too.
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