[ Is it a sign of voyeurism that Ai is dreaming of doing this in such a public location? Questions for later, since with her offering herself up to him... how could he ever refuse. ]
Ai...
[ He's desperate for her. He bites down on her chest harder, not enough to break skin, but still enough to hurt. Meanwhile, his clawed hand runs down her back to her last remaining layer of protection, hooks one of his fingers on the fabric... and using his sharp claws, tears the white fabric off.
There's a brief justification for this in his head... that since this is a dream, it's not like it matters if he damages her underwear. In reality, though, he just couldn't bear the thought of her needing to get off of him.
With her now bare and on top of him, he starts to rock his hips even faster... the only layer between them now being his own. ]
[ Oh. She really has gone and worked him up, hasn't she? Even last night, when they were both running on the momentum of their restraint snapping in tandem, he'd never sounded quite so needy or so desperate. Even the way he shreds through those last remaining layers speaks to his control slipping and never mind that note of a plea in his voice.
She never thought she'd hear him say please quite like that. ]
Sorry. Was I a little too mean to you? [ She dips her head down to meet him in a kiss and her voice has warmed into something fond and gentle. ] Maybe I'm not cut out to be a bully after all.
[ As she kisses him, her hands ease down his body. She doesn't bother with his shirt - both of them are way too impatient for that as this point - and goes right to unfastening his pants. .... or trying to, anyway. She's a little distracted by kissing him. ]
[ "Oh please" he thinks. He'd be disappointed if she never tried to bully him again. He knows exactly how much she's enjoyed bullying him, and that this certainly won't be the last time she tries it. ]
Hah... don't say that when you've already gotten me to this point...
[ He kisses her back, nipping at her lips and dancing his tongue with hers. His pants aren't complicated, they're easy enough for her to unfasten and push down. His length springs out once it's done, pressing directly against her bare entrance and earning another gasp of sensation out of him, even as they kiss. ]
Ai...
[ His hands are gripping her hips, his face is flushed, he wants to push her down and have his way with her... but in this moment, he wants her to be the one doing it even more than that. ]
Well you were just so cute. I really couldn't help myself.
[ It still feels a little strange to hear it come out of her mouth and to be talking about him. Maybe he doesn't frighten her anymore, but the idea that her cold, sharp-edged Servant could have softened up enough for her to be this charmed by him... even seeing it with her own eyes, it's a little hard to believe.
Maybe that's why she's so delighted by it.
Her arms wind around his neck again so she can anchor herself against him properly. She thinks about dragging this out a little longer, seeing just how far she can push him... but then he goes and says her name like that and her heart flutters in her chest.
He really is so cute.
Her voice pours out as she sinks down onto him, sweet and hot, and a lovely tremble goes all the way up her spine. For all that she'd played at being the one in control, she's suddenly very aware of just how needy she'd been feeling all along, too. ]
Aaah... see? I'm not going anywhere. You can have as much of me as you want.
[ It's strange, being called cute of all things, especially when he considers himself to be disgusting. If anyone else had dared to say that about him, he'd have lashed out, but hearing it from her...
...Well, let's just say it's a good thing his face can't get much more flushed. ]
A-Ah...! Hah...!
[ With him below her like this, she has a front-row seat to seeing the way his flushed expression contorts and gasps in the sensation of her sinking down onto him. He'd been able to mask it the night before with the physical effort of being the one on top, but now it's on full display exactly how good it feels for him. ]
Ai...!
[ His hands grip her hips, his claws inadvertently dig into her skin, and he starts to buck his hips against hers... thrusting into her desperately, wanting nothing more than to devour her like this. ]
[ Once more, Ai's breath comes pouring out of her, heated gasps and low, sweet moans. A little part of her almost feels bad that she'd worked him into a state like this, but with the way his voice is spilling out as well, the way his hands are digging into her hips... she thinks he doesn't mind.
And really - when it feels this good, how could it be that bad, really? ]
Ah... ahah...! Sorry, did I really tease you this bad? I didn't mean to...
[ Liar. He doesn't need fae eyes to see through that. ]
[ He can't even point out her lie, he's too busy being overwhelmed by the sensation of becoming one with her. Even now, she holds an advantage over him... able to tease him while he loses himself in her. ]
Ai...! Mn...!
[ Her kiss catches him off-guard, which he thinks is reasonable, considering how lost he is in her. Still, he returns the kiss as usual, still thrusting into her and practically melting into her embrace.
Look at them, sitting in an empty theater, her naked form bouncing on top of him while they kiss...
[ Even if this is just a dream, this really is shameless. Or, no - it's because this is a dream that it's as shameless as it is. Because there's no need to worry about anyone or anything else. Because this is a space just for the two of them. Because he asked her to come here, intentionally or not, and even though they're surely not even inch apart in reality, Ai couldn't help but follow.
Hm. When she puts it like that, which of them is the most desperate here? ]
Ah, you can't even talk...! [ A warm, breathless laugh. ] You really are so cute like this... no wonder you were such a bully...!
[ She kisses him again, just for long enough to nip at his mouth before her lips return to his ear. Her breath pours out hot with her words. ]
It's a little embarrassing like this. Right? Even though it's just the two of us. But that's okay with me. If you're the only one looking, I don't mind at all.
[ He's helpless against her... and to make things worse, the way she bullies him is doing wonders for him. He's too busy gasping and even moaning to get out a coherent retort, so... ]
Ah... hah... then I'll be looking all I want...!
[ He suddenly lunges forward, clamping his teeth down on her neck just like he had done last night. She was going easy on him, just nipping at him, and he had done the same... but he can't keep himself to just playful little nips, not like this.
Even if it only exists in a dream, he'll mark her over and over again until he's satisfied. ]
[ At once, Ai's body goes tight and tense and one of those shameless, out of control noises comes spilling out of her mouth. ]
Aah, Oberon, that's not fair...!
[ And yet, she doesn't sound even a little mad - if anything, it only seems to encourage her to rock her hips back into him, meeting every thrust with friction that underscores her voice with a moan. ]
You're the worst... No matter what, you just end up playing dirty...!
[ Well, fine. If that's how he wants it...
Her arms tighten a little more around his neck and she puffs another hot breath into his ear. It seems a little gentle for payback but then-
Her teeth come down on his ear, hard. Hard enough to hurt - and then sting under her lips and her tongue when she kisses all the spots her teeth had touched. ]
[ Shit, that hurts... and yet just like Ai, that bite spurs him to rock his hips even faster, thrusting himself into her in unison as she bites down on his ear... to which he stubbornly returns the favor by biting down on her neck again.
If they thought they had reached the heights of shamelessness, then this must be blowing that completely out of the water. It was one thing for Ai to have a masochistic side to her... but for that feeling to be mutual as well... ]
[ His teeth dig in at just the right spot and she shudders, back bowing under his touch. More of those shameless noises spill out but this time they can't be mistaken for anything but his name and she pours it all right into his ear - moans and gasps and all. ]
Liar! You'd - ah - you'd never say this was fair if I tried to pull that!
[ Of course, she's still nipping at his ear as she says that... ]
But... if anything's fair game then...
[ Her voice... changes. Something about the tone of it shifts. She's still teasing him - now that it's safe to, does she ever stop? - but it's underlined by something warm and sincere. Fond and sweet. Low and breathy. ]
Then I'll have to do my best to keep up... like a proper wife. Right? Oberon?
[ At first, Oberon manages to fight back well. He bites into her neck, coaxes louder and louder moans out of his Master all while she does the same and coaxes similar noises out of him. She already had him completely on the back foot, he didn't think there was anything else she could do to him...
Then she says that... and his heart truly does skip a beat.
He pulls back, his face somehow even redder than before. ]
W-Wife!? W-What the hell are you—ah...!
[ He still can't form a sentence without being interrupted by one of his own moans, but it couldn't be clearer just how much of a critical blow that was to him. He's wide open and completely defenseless yet again... ]
[ She'd wondered if maybe that was a step too far - if she was going a step past teasing and heading for outright cruel. She's just seen for herself what that'd mean to him and she's already using it for ammunition, after all.
But when he looks at her with an expression like that... when he makes a sweet little noise like that... really, how is she supposed to hold back?
She leans in again and as she presses her forehead to his, her hands cradle his face. This close, he doesn't have any choice but to look her right in the eyes. ]
That's what you wanted, isn't it? No - it's what you just asked me to be, right?
[ Somehow, she manages to keep her trembling voice steady.
Maybe it's a low blow. Maybe it's going way too fast. She told him she didn't want to promise something she couldn't do but... ]
[ She's not wrong. It's low, it's fast... so fast that it was the last thing he could've ever expected out of her mouth. Honestly? He'd be a liar (wait, he IS a liar) if he said that it didn't stir something unpleasant in him. A spine-chilling fear that, while it might be true now, it could become a lie later. The possibility that she, like Titania, would become something forever out of his reach.
...But it's not all fear, as made evident by the way his heart starts to race and his expression turns oh so adorably flustered. Her words are the truth. Inexplicably, ridiculously, they are true.
He's smitten. He's smitten with her, and now she's calling herself his wife.
That storm of feelings, these emotions that he is woefully unprepared to handle... elation, fear, panic, love... ]
Ai...!!
[ All of a sudden, his hands grip her hips even harder, his clawed hand digging deeper into her skin as a result but who the hell cares? He grabs her and starts to thrust even faster than before... frantically, crazed even. ]
[ Ah. She's never seen him make a face like that before. She had no idea he could make a face like that.
No maybe about it. That was definitely a step too far. The part of her brain that has enough sense left to think even while all the air is gasping out of her lungs knows she's going to combust once she wakes up. Seriously, they kissed for the first time a few days ago and she's already calling herself his wife?!
But right now, she's a little too far gone to care. ]
Ah- Oberon, it's okay, it's okay...!
[ As stupid a girl as she is, even Ai knows what it means when you hold onto something that tight. His hands are digging in so hard, she wouldn't be surprised if she was scraped and bruised in all those places even after waking up.
But she doesn't flinch. She holds his gaze steadily, even with his frantic pace wrenching the breath out of her. ]
I'm not going anywhere, I promise, I promise -
[ He's so sweet. They really are just like each other in all the worst ways. When he's this desperate and this needy, what else is she supposed to do but kiss him? ]
[ The kiss is messier than usual, with so much of Oberon's effort going into thrusting into her like this, it's hard to keep his lips on hers for more than seconds at a time... but he takes it, he kisses her back, all while still pounding into her from below.
It was a step too far... and yet it stirred him to this point, desperate to claim her, desperate to keep her here... desperate to make sure those words remain the truth... ]
Hah... say it again, Ai...
[ The theater seat they're in creaks from their newfound intensity, and Oberon's words—the most honest words he's ever spoken, coming from the only thing he can think of right now—pour out in gasps.
Even though it's too fast, even though it's much too soon... he wants to hear her call herself that again. ]
[ Despite everything, Ai can feel how terribly soft her expression's gone. Even though her breath is pouring out of her with those dirty, shameless noises, she knows that the face she's making is so fond and so warm.
Really. When he asks her like that, how could she look at him any other way? ]
Oberon. [ It's in her voice too - warm liquid honey spilling out, sweet and hot and completely unable to be contained even a moment longer. Maybe that's why she starts with his name - so he knows what it's like to hear someone say it like that. ] It's what you asked me to be, isn't it? Your wife.
[ She's stunned at how steady her voice is, even as it's shot through with gasps and moans. It wavers but somehow, it doesn't break. ]
So I'll do my best. Like a proper wife.
[ And the worst part of all, of those sweet, murmured words -
[ He's doomed. He doesn't think he could even live without her anymore. Her honeyed voice, his name in her tones, dripping with love as though it were overflowing... there was once a time when he looked at her and claimed he felt sick, the lies that she covered herself with giving him reason to retch.
And now here he is, unable to look away, unable to resist as her words—so undeniably the truth—reach his ears. ]
Ai...!!
[ It doesn't even immediately occur to him how embarrassing it is that those words are the trigger for him slamming her down on himself, pushing as deep into her as he can go, and erupting inside her.
If anybody else could see the way he throws his head back and gasps out a long, deep moan... he'd probably die on the spot. That is, after all, a sight only Ai is allowed to see. ]
[ He's rough enough that when his hands on her hips slam her down, it drags a long, shaky moan out of Ai's mouth as well. After she'd held it steady for all that time, it finally breaks and comes spilling out one last time with the sound of his name.
It's never been quite like this before. She's never been a pure girl - she was dirty and tarnished long before they met, after all. It's not like this is all new to her but... the idea that her words of affection could make someone feel that good, that they'd want her love this desperately and that they'd snap like that when she promises to give it to them...
If he's doomed, then maybe Ai's just as far gone.
Her arms slide around him and she hugs him, tight. Still shuddering warmly, still panting to try and catch her breath. ]
Ahah... Maybe I did go a little too far...
[ A sigh shudders out of her, satisfied and warm. She doesn't make a move to pull away from him. ]
[ He can't even answer at first, too occupied with catching his breath as she hugs him tight. His grip on her thighs loosen, his normal hand having almost certainly left a bruise, and his clawed hand having broken skin. At the very least, something like that doesn't have to be worried about in a dream, but here he is... hurting her.
And here she is, loving him in return.
It slowly starts to settle in that in this moment, he came not just because she was on top of him... but because she claimed herself to be his wife.
God, he may not let her live down calling herself that, but he can expect that he'll never be living that down either.
Still, for the moment... he can't even think too much on that. Instead, his thoughts remain on how warm he feels with her on him like this. ]
Nn, ah... of course I do, idiot...
[ As if going back to his harsh manner of speaking will save him any dignity now... ]
[ It certainly won't - if anything, going by that smug smile on her face, it's gone and made things even worse. ]
Heehee. That's good to know. There was me thinking I'd been too mean to you.
[ But then her expression softens. This time, when she hugs him again, her fingers thread through his hair and she cradles the back of his head as she pulls him against her. ]
... I meant it, you know. I really don't know for sure if I can be... her. And that's my fault, not yours. I've always gotten it wrong every other time I've tried to love someone like that. I don't know how to do it. But...
[ Her arms tighten around him a little. ]
I want to try. I want to see if maybe I can get it right this time. Even if neither of us can say it, I...
[ Her voice shakes a little on the way out. ]
I've always wanted someone to... it didn't even need to be love. I just wanted someone to tell me that they accepted me. Even though I'm like this.
[ His arms wrap around her in kind, holding her just as tightly as she's holding him. There's a brief moment when he almost laughs... accepting her even though she's like this? Well, he supposes that naked, sweaty, and still penetrated by him is rather unseemly... but to him, he truly couldn't be more in love with her.
But he understands. He understands painfully well what she means. His arms wrap around her back and waist, holding her as if to affirm to her that he understands. ]
But of course... besides, what's wrong with chasing a star that doesn't exist?
[ She never existed in the first place... it's impossible for Ai to be her, that which never existed in the first place... but reaching out for that impossibility is what allowed for the miracle that beat him, isn't it? ]
Even if no one else does... you're mine, Ai...
[ He'll always accept her, no matter how dirty or impure she is. ]
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Ai...
[ He's desperate for her. He bites down on her chest harder, not enough to break skin, but still enough to hurt. Meanwhile, his clawed hand runs down her back to her last remaining layer of protection, hooks one of his fingers on the fabric... and using his sharp claws, tears the white fabric off.
There's a brief justification for this in his head... that since this is a dream, it's not like it matters if he damages her underwear. In reality, though, he just couldn't bear the thought of her needing to get off of him.
With her now bare and on top of him, he starts to rock his hips even faster... the only layer between them now being his own. ]
Ai, please...
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She never thought she'd hear him say please quite like that. ]
Sorry. Was I a little too mean to you? [ She dips her head down to meet him in a kiss and her voice has warmed into something fond and gentle. ] Maybe I'm not cut out to be a bully after all.
[ As she kisses him, her hands ease down his body. She doesn't bother with his shirt - both of them are way too impatient for that as this point - and goes right to unfastening his pants. .... or trying to, anyway. She's a little distracted by kissing him. ]
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He'd be disappointed if she never tried to bully him again.He knows exactly how much she's enjoyed bullying him, and that this certainly won't be the last time she tries it. ]Hah... don't say that when you've already gotten me to this point...
[ He kisses her back, nipping at her lips and dancing his tongue with hers. His pants aren't complicated, they're easy enough for her to unfasten and push down. His length springs out once it's done, pressing directly against her bare entrance and earning another gasp of sensation out of him, even as they kiss. ]
Ai...
[ His hands are gripping her hips, his face is flushed, he wants to push her down and have his way with her... but in this moment, he wants her to be the one doing it even more than that. ]
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[ It still feels a little strange to hear it come out of her mouth and to be talking about him. Maybe he doesn't frighten her anymore, but the idea that her cold, sharp-edged Servant could have softened up enough for her to be this charmed by him... even seeing it with her own eyes, it's a little hard to believe.
Maybe that's why she's so delighted by it.
Her arms wind around his neck again so she can anchor herself against him properly. She thinks about dragging this out a little longer, seeing just how far she can push him... but then he goes and says her name like that and her heart flutters in her chest.
He really is so cute.
Her voice pours out as she sinks down onto him, sweet and hot, and a lovely tremble goes all the way up her spine. For all that she'd played at being the one in control, she's suddenly very aware of just how needy she'd been feeling all along, too. ]
Aaah... see? I'm not going anywhere. You can have as much of me as you want.
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[ It's strange, being called cute of all things, especially when he considers himself to be disgusting. If anyone else had dared to say that about him, he'd have lashed out, but hearing it from her...
...Well, let's just say it's a good thing his face can't get much more flushed. ]
A-Ah...! Hah...!
[ With him below her like this, she has a front-row seat to seeing the way his flushed expression contorts and gasps in the sensation of her sinking down onto him. He'd been able to mask it the night before with the physical effort of being the one on top, but now it's on full display exactly how good it feels for him. ]
Ai...!
[ His hands grip her hips, his claws inadvertently dig into her skin, and he starts to buck his hips against hers... thrusting into her desperately, wanting nothing more than to devour her like this. ]
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And really - when it feels this good, how could it be that bad, really? ]
Ah... ahah...! Sorry, did I really tease you this bad? I didn't mean to...
[ Liar. He doesn't need fae eyes to see through that. ]
I'll make up for it, I promise...!
[ A kiss should help, right? ]
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Ai...! Mn...!
[ Her kiss catches him off-guard, which he thinks is reasonable, considering how lost he is in her. Still, he returns the kiss as usual, still thrusting into her and practically melting into her embrace.
Look at them, sitting in an empty theater, her naked form bouncing on top of him while they kiss...
Their love is uncontrollable, isn't it? ]
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Hm. When she puts it like that, which of them is the most desperate here? ]
Ah, you can't even talk...! [ A warm, breathless laugh. ] You really are so cute like this... no wonder you were such a bully...!
[ She kisses him again, just for long enough to nip at his mouth before her lips return to his ear. Her breath pours out hot with her words. ]
It's a little embarrassing like this. Right? Even though it's just the two of us. But that's okay with me. If you're the only one looking, I don't mind at all.
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Ah... hah... then I'll be looking all I want...!
[ He suddenly lunges forward, clamping his teeth down on her neck just like he had done last night. She was going easy on him, just nipping at him, and he had done the same... but he can't keep himself to just playful little nips, not like this.
Even if it only exists in a dream, he'll mark her over and over again until he's satisfied. ]
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Aah, Oberon, that's not fair...!
[ And yet, she doesn't sound even a little mad - if anything, it only seems to encourage her to rock her hips back into him, meeting every thrust with friction that underscores her voice with a moan. ]
You're the worst... No matter what, you just end up playing dirty...!
[ Well, fine. If that's how he wants it...
Her arms tighten a little more around his neck and she puffs another hot breath into his ear. It seems a little gentle for payback but then-
Her teeth come down on his ear, hard. Hard enough to hurt - and then sting under her lips and her tongue when she kisses all the spots her teeth had touched. ]
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[ Shit, that hurts... and yet just like Ai, that bite spurs him to rock his hips even faster, thrusting himself into her in unison as she bites down on his ear... to which he stubbornly returns the favor by biting down on her neck again.
If they thought they had reached the heights of shamelessness, then this must be blowing that completely out of the water. It was one thing for Ai to have a masochistic side to her... but for that feeling to be mutual as well... ]
All's fair in love and war...!
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Liar! You'd - ah - you'd never say this was fair if I tried to pull that!
[ Of course, she's still nipping at his ear as she says that... ]
But... if anything's fair game then...
[ Her voice... changes. Something about the tone of it shifts. She's still teasing him - now that it's safe to, does she ever stop? - but it's underlined by something warm and sincere. Fond and sweet. Low and breathy. ]
Then I'll have to do my best to keep up... like a proper wife. Right? Oberon?
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Then she says that... and his heart truly does skip a beat.
He pulls back, his face somehow even redder than before. ]
W-Wife!? W-What the hell are you—ah...!
[ He still can't form a sentence without being interrupted by one of his own moans, but it couldn't be clearer just how much of a critical blow that was to him. He's wide open and completely defenseless yet again... ]
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But when he looks at her with an expression like that... when he makes a sweet little noise like that... really, how is she supposed to hold back?
She leans in again and as she presses her forehead to his, her hands cradle his face. This close, he doesn't have any choice but to look her right in the eyes. ]
That's what you wanted, isn't it? No - it's what you just asked me to be, right?
[ Somehow, she manages to keep her trembling voice steady.
Maybe it's a low blow. Maybe it's going way too fast. She told him she didn't want to promise something she couldn't do but... ]
So I'll do my best.
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[ She's not wrong. It's low, it's fast... so fast that it was the last thing he could've ever expected out of her mouth. Honestly? He'd be a liar (wait, he IS a liar) if he said that it didn't stir something unpleasant in him. A spine-chilling fear that, while it might be true now, it could become a lie later. The possibility that she, like Titania, would become something forever out of his reach.
...But it's not all fear, as made evident by the way his heart starts to race and his expression turns oh so adorably flustered. Her words are the truth. Inexplicably, ridiculously, they are true.
He's smitten. He's smitten with her, and now she's calling herself his wife.
That storm of feelings, these emotions that he is woefully unprepared to handle... elation, fear, panic, love... ]
Ai...!!
[ All of a sudden, his hands grip her hips even harder, his clawed hand digging deeper into her skin as a result but who the hell cares? He grabs her and starts to thrust even faster than before... frantically, crazed even. ]
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No maybe about it. That was definitely a step too far. The part of her brain that has enough sense left to think even while all the air is gasping out of her lungs knows she's going to combust once she wakes up. Seriously, they kissed for the first time a few days ago and she's already calling herself his wife?!
But right now, she's a little too far gone to care. ]
Ah- Oberon, it's okay, it's okay...!
[ As stupid a girl as she is, even Ai knows what it means when you hold onto something that tight. His hands are digging in so hard, she wouldn't be surprised if she was scraped and bruised in all those places even after waking up.
But she doesn't flinch. She holds his gaze steadily, even with his frantic pace wrenching the breath out of her. ]
I'm not going anywhere, I promise, I promise -
[ He's so sweet. They really are just like each other in all the worst ways. When he's this desperate and this needy, what else is she supposed to do but kiss him? ]
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It was a step too far... and yet it stirred him to this point, desperate to claim her, desperate to keep her here... desperate to make sure those words remain the truth... ]
Hah... say it again, Ai...
[ The theater seat they're in creaks from their newfound intensity, and Oberon's words—the most honest words he's ever spoken, coming from the only thing he can think of right now—pour out in gasps.
Even though it's too fast, even though it's much too soon... he wants to hear her call herself that again. ]
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Really. When he asks her like that, how could she look at him any other way? ]
Oberon. [ It's in her voice too - warm liquid honey spilling out, sweet and hot and completely unable to be contained even a moment longer. Maybe that's why she starts with his name - so he knows what it's like to hear someone say it like that. ] It's what you asked me to be, isn't it? Your wife.
[ She's stunned at how steady her voice is, even as it's shot through with gasps and moans. It wavers but somehow, it doesn't break. ]
So I'll do my best. Like a proper wife.
[ And the worst part of all, of those sweet, murmured words -
They're not in any way a lie. ]
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[ He's doomed. He doesn't think he could even live without her anymore. Her honeyed voice, his name in her tones, dripping with love as though it were overflowing... there was once a time when he looked at her and claimed he felt sick, the lies that she covered herself with giving him reason to retch.
And now here he is, unable to look away, unable to resist as her words—so undeniably the truth—reach his ears. ]
Ai...!!
[ It doesn't even immediately occur to him how embarrassing it is that those words are the trigger for him slamming her down on himself, pushing as deep into her as he can go, and erupting inside her.
If anybody else could see the way he throws his head back and gasps out a long, deep moan... he'd probably die on the spot. That is, after all, a sight only Ai is allowed to see. ]
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It's never been quite like this before. She's never been a pure girl - she was dirty and tarnished long before they met, after all. It's not like this is all new to her but... the idea that her words of affection could make someone feel that good, that they'd want her love this desperately and that they'd snap like that when she promises to give it to them...
If he's doomed, then maybe Ai's just as far gone.
Her arms slide around him and she hugs him, tight. Still shuddering warmly, still panting to try and catch her breath. ]
Ahah... Maybe I did go a little too far...
[ A sigh shudders out of her, satisfied and warm. She doesn't make a move to pull away from him. ]
Will you forgive me?
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[ He can't even answer at first, too occupied with catching his breath as she hugs him tight. His grip on her thighs loosen, his normal hand having almost certainly left a bruise, and his clawed hand having broken skin. At the very least, something like that doesn't have to be worried about in a dream, but here he is... hurting her.
And here she is, loving him in return.
It slowly starts to settle in that in this moment, he came not just because she was on top of him... but because she claimed herself to be his wife.
God, he may not let her live down calling herself that, but he can expect that he'll never be living that down either.
Still, for the moment... he can't even think too much on that. Instead, his thoughts remain on how warm he feels with her on him like this. ]
Nn, ah... of course I do, idiot...
[ As if going back to his harsh manner of speaking will save him any dignity now... ]
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Heehee. That's good to know. There was me thinking I'd been too mean to you.
[ But then her expression softens. This time, when she hugs him again, her fingers thread through his hair and she cradles the back of his head as she pulls him against her. ]
... I meant it, you know. I really don't know for sure if I can be... her. And that's my fault, not yours. I've always gotten it wrong every other time I've tried to love someone like that. I don't know how to do it. But...
[ Her arms tighten around him a little. ]
I want to try. I want to see if maybe I can get it right this time. Even if neither of us can say it, I...
[ Her voice shakes a little on the way out. ]
I've always wanted someone to... it didn't even need to be love. I just wanted someone to tell me that they accepted me. Even though I'm like this.
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But he understands. He understands painfully well what she means. His arms wrap around her back and waist, holding her as if to affirm to her that he understands. ]
But of course... besides, what's wrong with chasing a star that doesn't exist?
[ She never existed in the first place... it's impossible for Ai to be her, that which never existed in the first place... but reaching out for that impossibility is what allowed for the miracle that beat him, isn't it? ]
Even if no one else does... you're mine, Ai...
[ He'll always accept her, no matter how dirty or impure she is. ]