Good Neighbors | part one
König x Reader
CW: reader has feminine pronouns, mostly plan on this just being fluff but will include angst and minor character death in future parts (wanted to give a fair warning just in case it makes you uncomfortable!)
please let me know if I missed anything that should be listed in the warnings though!
also I didn’t edit I’m sorry I’ve re-written this like six times so I just need to get this out haha
With a creak of his bones and a groan, König stretched out in his bed early one morning, wincing at the pull in his left shoulder and the stabbing feeling in his chest with each breath. If those two places hurt less, he probably would’ve noticed the knots in his lower back more but his brain was used to writing out the dull pains his body holds.
As he gotten older, his back has started to hurt more regularly but sleeping on the soft mattress back in his home, well house, only emphasized the pain. House, not home, because he had plans when he had bought this property to turn into a home years ago, make it a side project on times not on mission to create the life he always wanted. Even buying a soft large mattress for the main bedroom, figuring his partner would want a soft mattress, opposite of what he’s used to sleeping on but like the saying goes – soft wife, soft life, and that’s all he would want for his dream wife.
But like the rest of his dream, the house fell to the backburner, a burning reminder on what could’ve been for him but didn’t come to be. If he could’ve made the base his permanent address, he would’ve sold the house already, but unfortunately, his boss said no. He’s held on to it since then, but still, he’s spent most of his time on base, always coming up with a new excuse on why he needed to stay so close to his work.
Unfortunately for König though, he had been sent home on medical leave against his will after a broken rib and an injury to the left shoulder that left his body badly bruised and sore. But to him it was a worse punishment to be forced home for six weeks for rest and rehabilitation with physical therapy before he could officially be let out back onto the field.
Part of him just wishes they would’ve done the surgery to fix his shoulder, instead of waiting to heal on its own. At least then it would’ve had a more distinct schedule of when he can get back to normal, but all he hears from his doctors now is that it’s a low-grade separation, and they hope he should be healed in 6 weeks. We’ll see. He thought to himself as he thanked his doctor gruffly and rolled his neck adjusting to the new brace on shoulder, he’s at least grateful they didn’t force a sling on him, they probably knew he wouldn’t have worn it.
At least the physical therapy for the last two weeks would force him out of the house and into a routine again, but until then? König didn’t know what to do with himself for the next six weeks.
He didn’t have many friends in the area, most of the people he considered close were back on base or getting ready to be sent off on a mission, and there weren’t many people in the neighborhood that he actually knew or spoke to.
The neighborhood was a quiet one, filled with elderly couples, their children already have moved out to have their own families. The older couples would give König a quick smile and wave if they were in their front yards while he was on his way out of the neighborhood, or a jog, but he wasn’t getting invited to the neighbor’s holiday parties. He was okay with that; he didn’t really want to speak with them either. He was fine with just a mutually respectful relationship without them prying into his business.
It was different with his elderly neighbor Carol though. Carol lived at the end of the street with him, across the road from, and from his first day in the neighborhood, she was quick to learn more about the quiet big brute across from her.
“Good morning, König! It’s good to see you!” His elderly neighbor Carol calls from the driver’s window her car with a smile and a wave, idling in front of his driveway. Any other one of his neighbors, he probably would’ve given them a curt nod before turning away from them, but not Carol.
Carol was one of the few bright spots for him in this neighborhood, and one of the few reasons he even did come back to his house at times.
He had done some projects for her over the years, and even while he was gone, he made sure she was still taken care of. Like during the winter, he always made sure she had her driveway plowed, whether it be done by him while he is home, or mistakenly telling the plow truck driver her address instead of his own. He’s helped her keep the gutters clean around her house, cleared the drains at the end of their driveways during any storms, and even helped her clean out the basement when she had some water damage after an issue with her water line.
Carol reminded him of his own grandmother who has since passed and felt it was important to take care of her since he’s never seen any of her own family looking out for her. When he has been invited into her house for meals or to offer his help with projects, he’s seen the numerous family photos, numbers of photos should young children smiling, weddings, and graduations but of all the times he’s been over to help, never once had he heard about any of them visiting her. He can’t help the protectiveness he feels over her, and the frustration he feels thinking about her family just forgetting about her and what he wouldn’t give to be back with his Oma.
“Guten morgen Carol, it’s good to see you, how are you?” König jogging softly over to her from his front steps and meeting her at her car window.
“Ah I’m doing well, but I’m not too sure about you, hm?” She says while eyeing the brace on his shoulder. “I always get so nervous for you, hon, I’m glad you’re home safe though.” She says giving him that maternal look but grabbing his wrist with an endearing squeeze.
“Anyways I’m off to my doctor’s appointment, you’ll have to come by for dinner sometime soon while you’re still home, alright dear?”
“Yes ma’am.” König gives a small smile and nod, knowing she’ll follow up with a call to tell him when he’s supposed to be at her house. She pulls her arm away with a smile, getting ready to put her window back but as König goes to turn back to his mailbox she quickly stops and calls out.
“Oh! And if you seem someone pull into my driveway while I’m not home, don’t worry! It’s just my granddaughter. She’s going to be staying with me for a bit, working on some projects around the house. I’ll have to introduce the two of you, she’s just the sweetest!”
König gives her a smile and nod as she pulls away, but he can’t help the feeling of trepidation building up his spine. Granddaughter? He never met any of her grandkids, not that he spent much time at his house, but he spent enough time to know Carol and how she always wished her family visited her more, so why now?
Carol doesn’t need her granddaughter to come over and work on projects around the house, he can do that, he’s been doing them for her for the past couple of years and now he’s even got the time to start the larger projects he promised. He’s looking forward to the dinner with Carol and her granddaughter just so he can figure out why this granddaughter did decide to finally show up.
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Grim Reaper Part Eight
Pairing: Poly 141 x female reader / Female reader/ You x Her mental health x König
Content Warnings: Violence, bloodshed, injuries, affair mentioned, miscarriage mentioned.
Words: 1283
Masterlist - Prequel - Part One - Part Two - Part Three - Part Four - Part Five - Part Six - Part Seven - Part Eight
Supernatural AU — Poem
Credit for Dividers: @cafekitsune + @strangergraphics
Summary:
He scoffed, finally looking up. “This isn't just your house, it's our house. You can't just leave and expect me to deal with everything.”
“It was yours since you bought it.” you corrected. “You don't get to kidnap me and expect me to play nice, König.”
The image in the back of your mind repeating as your ex-husband sat on the other side of you. The dark ebony dining table covered in foods he would have wanted you to engorge yourself with while he was off with his mistress in Austria.
Another choice he made for you in complete and total disregard of whatever you would have wanted.
She was a rose and you were a lilly.
He would always want her.
You will never have him.
“I don't see why you're here.” you commented.
He didn't look up from his plate. “It's a peace offering.”
“For ruining the marriage?” you countered.
The room was eerily quiet, the only sound being the clank of his fork against the ceramic plate. His jaw tightened as he chewed, and you could see the tension in his neck muscles as he swallowed his food. The air grew thick with unspoken accusations.
“It wasn't all me,” he finally said, not meeting your gaze. “You had your… issues.”
“I met you when I was a fresh-faced 19-year-old woman. You don't get to skirt along the blame and state it was my issues that made you stick your cock in her pussy.” you stated.
“I left you at 29. I don't want to be reminded of what you didn't want.” you added as you got up from your chair to leave to the room he would lock you inside.
He sighed heavily, setting down his fork. “Look, I know it's not easy for you, but we're here to talk about the house, not to rehash the past.”
“I moved out, remember, and stripped it of everything I ever put inside it. You don't get to have me.” you stated.
He scoffed, finally looking up. “This isn't just your house, it's our house. You can't just leave and expect me to deal with everything.”
“It was yours since you bought it.” you corrected. “You don't get to kidnap me and expect me to play nice, König.”
König's eyes narrowed at the mention of his name. It was a stark reminder of the power dynamics that once existed between you, and how little they meant now. He had always been a man of control, of precision, but you had grown stronger in his absence. Your voice was steady, the tremors of fear long gone, replaced with a cold, hardened resolve.
“You can't just waltz in and out of my life like this,” you continued, crossing your arms over your chest. “We're done. The house is yours. I have no claim to it anymore.”
König stood up, his chair scraping against the hardwood floor. He slammed his fist on the table, making the plates rattle. “You think you can just walk away? After everything I've done for you, all the money I've spent, all the times I've had to clean up your messes?”
“I miscarried a child while you were off fucking some 20-year-old woman. I lost that child, and you weren't there!” you yelled at him.
His face contorted into a snarl. “That's your fault, not mine.”
“My fault? My fault? I did everything I could. I was excited for that damn child,,, you heartless monster.” you grabbed a plate, slamming against his face. “I did everything that doctor of yours told me to do.”
König's eyes widened in shock, a trickle of blood running down his cheek from where the plate had cut him. He reached up to touch the wound, his expression a mix of anger and disbelief. “You're not well,” he said through clenched teeth.
“Neither are you. You refused to fuck me, even when I begged you to beforehand. You fucked me once and that was it.”
He grabbed your wrist, squeezing until you felt the bones threaten to snap. “You never knew how to keep your mouth shut.”
”I would rather lose my life and this child than ever be with someone like you again. You never wanted me like I wanted you. Let go of me.”
The grip on your wrist tightened, and you could feel the beginnings of a bruise forming under his thumb. “You're delusional,” he spat. “You're the one who can't keep your head on straight.”
“I wonder why that is. I have an ex-husband who would rather use me, parents who abused me, and a life so miserable I had to run to Alaska to pick the pieces back up.”
König's grip loosened slightly, his eyes searched yours for any hint of weakness, any crack in your newfound resolve. But there was none to be found. Your eyes were a storm of anger and pain, yet there was a calmness in them, a peace that said you had accepted the hand you were dealt and had moved on.
“You're just a sad, pathetic excuse for a soldier,” he sneered, trying to regain control of the conversation. “Look at you, you can't even hold your own family together.”
“Not my family anymore.” you whispered into his ear. “Not my problem. Not mine to keep. Fucking pathetic excuse of a husband.”
He threw you across the room, and you watched the wall come closer, closer until your vision was filled with the stark white paint and the sound of your body hitting it was like a gunshot in the quiet room. You felt your back crack, the pain shooting down your spine.
“You're mine!” he roared, his face red with rage as he approached you. “Always have been, always will be.”
“Your bitch of a mistress caused that first miscarriage.” you told him. You don't know why you would because it didn't matter right then.
He was on top of you, his hands around your neck, squeezing until your eyes began to bulge out. The room started to spin, and everything went fuzzy around the edges. The pain was intense, but it was a pain you were all too familiar with. The pain of your ex-husband's grip was the same pain you felt when you had to watch him leave you for someone else. The same pain you felt when your ADHD made it impossible to focus on his lies. The same pain you felt when your PTSD took over your body in the middle of the night, leaving you trembling and cold.
“Do it. Kill me. Do it to make yourself feel more like a man by killing a defenseless woman like a pathetic moron that you always will be.” you wheezed. “Do it. Kill the baby inside me as well, like your girlfriend did.”
König's eyes bulged at the revelation. He froze, his hands still around your neck. You could see the doubt and fear creeping into his eyes. “You're lying,” he choked out.
“I never lie.”
With a snarl, he released your neck, and you gasped for air, your chest heaving. He stumbled back, the weight of your words heavy on his shoulders. The room was spinning, not just from the lack of oxygen, but from the horror of his own actions and the truth that had just been slapped across his face. You could see the gears turning in his mind, trying to piece together the reality you had just laid before him.
“Look at you.” you cackled. “Impregnating your ex-wife, and you were about to kill her.”
He staggered back, his hand hovering over the blood that was now staining the white collar of his shirt. The room was spinning, and you could feel the beginnings of a smirk form on your face despite the agonising pain that radiated through your body. The taste of victory was sweet on your tongue.
“Victory is the sweetest taste.” you mocked. “Didn't you say that once, dear?”
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The House is On Fire, and Everyone is Laughing and Smiling (pt 2)
Yeah you read that right, part two is finally out! Read part one HERE and enjoy the second hurt-comfort part of the fic. I will say, this is the part EVERYONE has been waiting for, including myself. It's a very sweet piece, but it made me hurt because ahhhh they're cute but so dumb!
Anyways,
TW: sorta cheating, sorta revenge cheating, they were never together so is it cheating?, angst (BUT DON'T WORRY THIS IS THE ONE WHERE THEY GET CLOSER)
Wordcount: 3.2k
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The House is On Fire, and Everyone is Laughing and Smiling (pt 2)
“Where is she?”
The voice sounded familiar. You were only just able to make it out through the fog wreathing your head.
“She’s in the bathroom,” you heard someone else say.
“How long has she been in there?”
“An hour, I think.”
You blinked slowly. You were roused, but only just. Soon you were slipping away.
A loud slamming on the door had your eyes cracking open again.
“Dude, what the fuck!”
“Who the hell are you? Wait, what are you doing to my door!?”
SLAM.
“Dude you need to leave.”
“Hey hey HEY! Don't TOUCH me!”
SLAM.
“What’s your fucking problem?”
“Get out of here!”
SLAM.
A few more shouts, but you heard Shauna as clear as day.
“Wait, König?”
König?
No, that was impossible. König was never invited. Why would he be here? Wait, did you even text him the address?
“YOU NEED TO LEAVE.”
The door burst forth. You could hardly see, but you could see something big above you.
“Guys back up, let the big guy through.”
"Is he leaving?"
"He'd better be..."
You felt yourself get hoisted up into the air. Panic welled up in your chest.
“Shh… It’s okay,” a kind voice soothed you, “you’re okay now.”
“So, you’re König?”
“Get the fuck out of my way, little man.”
You felt a steady bobbing motion as you were carried through the air. You blinked once, twice, and fell back asleep.
—
You woke up in a beautiful bed. You’d never felt more comfortable in your entire life than you did when you stretched your body under the wonderfully heavy duvet. The pillows held your head securely, and when you arched your back you could feel a wonderfully warm body pillow behind you.
“Ach, you’re awake.”
Not a body pillow.
You rolled over clumsily, somewhat panicked and yet still feeling numbed by whatever had been flowing through your system last night. Shit, your head hurt. Did you have painkillers anywhere?
“It hurts, ja? Let me get you something.”
He crawled over top of you to grab something, then bent down to push a pill onto your tongue. You automatically swallowed when he poured water down your throat. You coughed before falling back to the bed. You felt like your stomach was a pit trying to invert itself as you writhed in the bedding. Your head felt heavy and the light filtering through the curtains pierced the back of your skull, pounding with your heart in your chest. What the hell happened last night?
“Go ahead and rest,” König whispered into your ear, “it’s okay. Just relax. It’ll be better soon.”
“I wanna die,” you moaned.
“Shhh, it’ll be okay,” König crawled back to your side and lay beside you, “I’ll be here for you.”
You shuddered. And yet, the bed was so inviting, and his scent was draped around you like a warm mink coat. He was everywhere all at once, just like you’d dreamed of for so long. But why? Why did he have to be perfect after you’d already gone off with someone else? Why was he being so good to you? Didn’t he hate you?
“You’re thinking too much,” König nuzzled into your neck, so close to your gland and yet just far enough away to make it seem innocuous.
“‘M not,” you mumbled into the covers.
“You are, little one,” König chuckled, “think later. It’s time for bed, ja?”
“But… Why are you being so nice to me?” you tried to look at him but he gently pushed you face back into the sheets.
“Rest now,” his voice took a stern tone before thawing like Spring's last snow, “I’ll tell you everything when you get up, but I can’t tell you anything while you’re like this.”
“Why not?”
“You might not remember.”
You wanted to argue, but you were too tired. Instead, you rested back into the covers and closed your eyes to drift back into nebulous darkness.
—
Your eyes finally opened again, this time without feeling like actual death had you in a choke hold. Though your head still ached and swam wildly when you moved too quickly, but it wasn’t as daunting as before. Before? Yes, before. There had been a before. That’s right, you had woken up before.
“König?” your voice cracked through the still air.
“I’m here,” came the reply from behind you.
You gingerly shifted to your back, then cautiously rolled over to see König laying beside you. The bedding just barely came up to his pecs, showing off that he wasn’t wearing a shirt. Instead, he seemed to be perfectly comfortable being at the very least half naked beside you.
“What’re you doing here?” you croaked.
“I’m comforting my omega,” he replied and pulled you to him, “you had quite the adventure last night.”
“Did I?” memories of last night came bubbling up the surface, “oh, I did.”
Shaun, Eric, Rick, the woman, the drinks, the fire and the stars, they all flitted through your mind.
“Ja you did,” König chuckled, “but don’t worry, it’s over now.”
“Is it?” you whispered.
“It is.”
You closed your eyes, and despite your better judgment, leaned your head onto his chest. He was so beautifully warm. It was so warm, soft and comfortable. It was glorious. It couldn’t get better than this, could it? It was just so nice to be here, finally, after pining for so long. Of course, he was only comforting you after the disaster that had been last night, but it was something beautiful to behold. In this moment, you could pretend to be his beloved omega, his little pet, his only love. Of course it wasn’t true, but you wanted it to be. Oh how you wanted it to be.
König rubbed your back soothingly, helping you fully unwind in his bedding.
Now that you thought about it, you were finally in his nest. This was where he slept each night, where he scented, where he… Okay maybe your thoughts needed to be reeled back in.
“Are you comfortable?”
Bless König for knowing just when to interrupt your thoughts.
“Um, well, I’m better,” you stumbled over yourself, words clotting on your tongue like blood in dirty bandages.
“That’s good,” König mumbled. He looked down at you, his blue blue eyes suddenly seeming so sad again. Why did he always look so sad when you just wanted him to smile?
“Are you okay?” you asked meekly.
“Me?” König snorted as his mouth quirked up into a wry smirk, “I’m fine. I’m more worried about you.”
“I’m a bit better, but…” you looked down at the bedding, “this is your nest, isn’t it?”
“It is,” König admitted, “it's nice to share, no?”
You wished he’d tell you to stay, make yourself at home for while you're ill. You wanted to hear that you were always welcome here for a bit longer. Better yet, don’t go. Don’t leave him. Make your nest within his own, shape this nest into one for the both of you, make it together.
He said no such thing. Instead, his words hung in the air, tacked in place like dirty stockings over the smouldering embers of a fire.
“Do you like it here?” König asked with a strange sort of hesitancy, “most people say my scent is too strong…”
“I think it’s nice,” for emphasis you snuggled into his pillow.
The muscles around König’s neck relaxed. You didn’t even realize they were tense in the first place. Goes to show how attentive you were to you alpha, you supposed.
“That’s good,” his words clunked together like rusted gears, “I’m happy you like it.”
You thought carefully for a moment. You learned something important last night. Before your memories cut out, before you got lost in that fog, you remembered talking to someone. Right, Rick. That's why you remembered him. He said something to you that set you on edge. Or was it just that he set you on edge in general? You didn’t know, but something felt wrong when you thought about him.
The memory flashed through your mind like white lightening, setting your mind ablaze with fear. Earlier that night, he'd seen you for what you were. You couldn't hide from another alpha. Not from his nose at least. But were all alphas the same?
“Alphas have good senses of smell, right?” you asked hesitantly.
König nodded slowly, his eyes already drooping into their usual melancholic state.
“So you could smell him then, couldn’t you,” you whispered.
König’s smile was so kind. It hurt to look at him smile like that, so pained and yet trying so hard to please you. Weren’t you meant to be the one pleasing him? Why did he have to look so sad, even when he smiled?
“I always knew,” he murmured, his eyes downcast to where his hand lay beneath his great head.
“Since the first trip to the farmer’s market?” you asked.
“The moment you came back I knew,” he admitted, “I always knew.”
Your closed your eyes. Shame flushed through you, ridding you of any puppy love you had for Shaun. Shaun. Now the name sound like ‘shun’, and how you wished you were shunned. You wished he’d hate you. You wanted him to cry and scream, but instead he smiled at you to try and ease your pain.
It wasn’t fair. It wasn’t right that he knew. He was never supposed to know, he was never supposed to find out. You tried to keep your voice down late at night, you tried to hide your phone screen from his eyes, you tried so hard to keep this from him but he knew since the very beginning. It was all for naught.
All the dates with Shaun over the past couple of months. Every weekend, sometimes on a weekday. Every time you rode in his car he could smell the fast food burned into your clothes.
“You at least could’ve brought back a doughnut for me,” König chuckled at his little joke, but it only served to twist the knife further in.
He knew about the damn doughnuts. His nose really did tell him everything he needed to know, didn’t it? You felt so stupid.
“I didn’t know you knew,” you tried to justify but even you knew your words were hollow.
“We were never mates,” König’s grin was full of bitter, clenched teeth, “how could I tell you no?”
“But I lied to you,” you whispered.
“You lied, but I did too,” König sighed, “when I saw you leave, I’d try to see others.”
You felt your world collapse around you. He saw others. He tried to get a side relationship too. But unlike him, you never had a clue. All the emotions you’d suppressed for so long came bubbling up to the surface in a great tidal wave, stringing you out in the currents, rending you limb from limb.
He had lied to you.
You couldn’t be mad though.
You lied to him too.
“Nobody stuck with me,” König sighed, “everyone knew I didn’t have my heart in it.”
“Then why did you do it?” you whimpered, tears prickling as your throat constricted, invisible hands clenching down on your windpipe.
König ruffled his messy blond hair, with a sigh. He closed his eyes and lay still beside you. A tender hand gently bushed along your shoulder, down your arm, and then it left you alone. Your skin felt cold in its wake.
“I wanted to hurt you,” he said, “like you hurt me.”
You hiccuped. Were you actually crying? What right did you have to cry?
“I’m sorry.”
Sorry wasn’t enough. No words could possibly heal the damage you’d done. The two of you had lit your respective ends of the stick of dynamite between you, and only now did they meet. Figures that they’d burn out when your head was already hurting and you felt like you’d been battered down into nothing but mulch to feed the flowers. You were finally low enough, at least.
“Why did you want to hurt me?”
You already hated his answer.
“Because I wanted you to be mine.”
The dams in your mind gave way to a flood of tears. You couldn’t stop yourself from shaking now. You were pathetic, but in a way, so was he. You both were miserable whelps. And yet, here you lay in a nest together, comforting each other by eating each other alive. You relished in the taste of his meat upon your teeth for so long, but only now did you realize that you’d eaten so much that there was nothing left but the rotten truth on his bare bones.
“I wanted to protect you,” his voice shook like leaves in the wind before a coming storm, “I didn’t want you to love me.”
“But why?” you choked.
“Because one day I will leave and I won’t come back,” König crushed his eyes tight, “I’m going to die out there. I'm going to get deployed again, and one day I'm not coming back. I’m going to die and I’ll leave you behind.”
You hated him. But more importantly, you hated KorTac. No, you hated humanity for waging war, but more importantly you hated the universe for being so cruel by letting you dance this cosmic waltz. Hate. Hate. HATE. It coursed through you, your blood boiling and foaming under the surface like hydrothermal vents. You wanted to gnash your teeth, scream at him for being so stupid, but what was there to say?
If he let you love him, he’d break your heart on the battlefield. If he didn’t, he’d break your heart in your own home.
“We never had a chance,” you finally said.
“No, Maus,” König’s great form shuddered weakly, “not a single one.”
You wanted to beat your hands against his great chest, but instead your hands curled up into your form in two tight balls. He shuddered and quaked as silent tears wracked through his goliath body.
“I was so stupid,” he cried, “I pushed you away and now look what I’ve done to you?”
You shuffled closer until you could press your nose into the glands of his neck, “No, I was the stupid one.”
“Maus, I ruined us,” König shakily wrapped one arm around you.
You let him press you against him. In fact, you pressed yourself in, unable to stop yourself from wrapping an arm under his to hold him tight like you’d dreamt of for so long.
“You’re so stupid,” you beat his chest weakly with one fist, “we’re both so stupid.”
König curled around you like a cat. His warmth set you alight under the blankets, but you didn’t dare try to pull away. His tears soaked your shirt, the same one you wore last night. He never changed you. He was too good to touch you like that, not when you were so vulnerable. He was a better man.
“Never again,” König hissed, “I’m never letting you go again.”
“I’ll never leave,” your words formed into a ribbon. It wrapped around your heart before trailing down through your wrist, winding up his arm before plummeting into his chest and taking his heart into a snare. The ribbon tightened painfully around you both.
“Promise me,” he sobbed, “promise me we won’t ever do this again.”
“We won’t,” you vowed, “we won’t. We won’t, we won’t, we won’t.
König held his breath, but the sobs overcame him regardless.
“I don’t know if I can believe us.”
“Try,” you urged him, “try for us.”
“I don’t want to hurt you again,” he hugged you painfully close, “I don’t want to do this again. When I found you… I can’t do it again. I’m not that strong a man.”
“Then don’t be strong,” you cried.
“I have to be,” he hiccuped, “I need to keep up appearances. If my team saw me like this… Weak, in an omega’s arms, they’d…”
“I don’t give a damn what they think,” you hissed, “just let yourself love me. Let yourself be weak.”
“But how?”
“Love me.”
He pulled back to look you in the eyes.
His eyes were rimmed with a bright red as tears trailed beneath. He looked pitiful but you couldn’t be much better. Maybe, it was better to be weak. Together, you could be weak. By being weak, you could be strong.
“Will you let me be your alpha?” he asked hoarsely, “after all I’ve done?”
“Only if you’ll let me be your omega, despite everything,” you replied weakly.
“Please,” he gasped.
“Then take me,” you snuggled back in.
König finally pressed you into his scent gland. He rubbed slightly, spreading the oils of the gland across the side of your neck. If you didn’t know what was happening, you never would’ve guessed it was happening.
You’d read articles that said that when someone scented you, you could feel the oils on your skin. But König was different. There was a slight dampness, but nothing uncomfortable. You’d expected something tacky or viscous, but this was nothing of the sort. This was just König pressing himself into you, scenting you like you’d wanted for so long.
Underneath his touch, you could feel your own glands tingle as they took him in. In turn, they coated his neck, claiming him as yours forever.
“I won’t ever let you be without my scent,” he hissed, “you’ll always have me, wherever you go. I’ll never let anyone hurt you again.”
“And I’ll never leave you,’ you promised, “I’ll always be yours. Let me scent you.”
His shuddering calmed as he scented you, coating your neck with his musk before moving to the other side of your neck. When you caught a glance of his expression, it was no longer tearful, but rather clouded by rage and determination. His fangs hung over his lower lip as he began to rub his neck against your other side.
You rubbed against him yourself, coating him in yourself. You couldn't put your finger on it, it was hard to describe how you smelt, but when you pulled him into your gland you could smell him change. It was slow, ever so gentle in how it crept in, and soon he no longer smelt of someone else, some great alpha A stranger, and instead he smelled of you and, more starkly, he smelled of home. You could cry over this alone.
“It’s not your fault though,” you whispered, “I went because I wanted to. You couldn’t have stopped me.”
“But I could’ve gone with you,” he sighed, “I could’ve protected you.”
“Thinking about the ‘what ifs’ never really did much to change the present,” you rubbed the broad expanse of his back, letting your scent coat him entirely.
“I just..” König raised up and pressed into your neck firmly, “I never want to leave you alone again.”
“And I’ll always be by your side,” you assured him.
After another few minutes of nuzzling you, taking turns on each side of your neck to ensure you were fully covered, König finally pulled back to look you in the eyes.
You could smell yourself on him, him on you, both of you, you.
“You’re mine,” he leaned in close, “always and forever.”
“Always,” you leaned in close until your lips were but an inch apart.
Ever so slowly, he leaned forth, pressing his lips against yours in a tentative kiss. Gentle, fearful, frightened even. He felt so light that you feared he might fly away, wings of a butterfly up up and away. You laced your fingers into his hair to tether him to earth, to you, to the promises you made but didn’t know if you could keep.
His lips felt like feathers and childish promises for futile future. The hands he gently took your cheek with were of marble and leather, hardened by battles long since won by men who deserved to run back but were instead forced to march forth. He was eternal might and glory, blood sweat and tears shed by a monolith of marble, but with you he came apart like a thousand shards of porcelain. You wanted to gather each piece, put it back together with gold, but his vase had been shattered too many times. He was a lost cause but you wanted to love him regardless.
He pulled back, but you wanted more. You tried to pull him in again but he resisted.
You lay there in his nest, watching each other for another movement, but none came. You were safe and comfortable.
He let you kiss him again, this time softening into your touch. You were terrified that when you pulled back, he'd be gone. He had been a ghost in his own home, haunting you with his melancholy. Now, you could feel his heart beat with a terrified joy. You clenched over his heart, then let yourself fall back into your nest.
The two of you were dead walkers. You had crawled from the grave long ago, but when you lay together, you felt your heart beat for the first time, throbbing with the ache of disuse and rot rooting through the flesh. With each moment you looked into his eyes, you could see him wake up too. His cheeks were flushed with blood, his eyes bloodshot from years of tears being unleashed in one sitting. There would be more to come, but not now.
Now, for the first time since you both met, you could love.
Konig Dump
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