the Iron Bull (
shok_ebasit_hissra) wrote2017-09-30 10:51 pm
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It took a while.
It had been a long time since Bull had any reason or occasion to put on something like this. He worked carefully, taking all due care. It wasn't impossible to do on his own, at least. Once or twice he'd been tempted to call Dorian up for help, but he felt like the final reveal had more impact if he did it alone.
When he finished, Bull re-emerged, joining Dorian in the living room again wearing something that might constitute armor, at least as far as some Qunari were concerned. More than that it was-- it was a statement of sorts. Bull had forgotten what it felt like to wear this, to feel the ropes against his skin, secure and comforting, as if they were holding him together. Controlled.
He watched Dorian's face as he approached, stopping a few feet on front of where the mage had made himself comfortable.
It had been a long time since Bull had any reason or occasion to put on something like this. He worked carefully, taking all due care. It wasn't impossible to do on his own, at least. Once or twice he'd been tempted to call Dorian up for help, but he felt like the final reveal had more impact if he did it alone.
When he finished, Bull re-emerged, joining Dorian in the living room again wearing something that might constitute armor, at least as far as some Qunari were concerned. More than that it was-- it was a statement of sorts. Bull had forgotten what it felt like to wear this, to feel the ropes against his skin, secure and comforting, as if they were holding him together. Controlled.
He watched Dorian's face as he approached, stopping a few feet on front of where the mage had made himself comfortable.
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He found himself so overwhelmed, for a momebnt, that he actually looked away, turning his head.
Dorian wanted to touch him awfully badly.
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"You alright there, big guy?" His voice was warm, maybe edged with a bit of teasing. Dorian wasn't even looking just then and Bull was pretty sure he could see a blush creeping into the mage's cheeks.
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The mage folded his arms over his chest with a puff.
"I'm perfectly fine, Bull, why shouldn't I be? It's just a uniform. An incredibly fiddly uniform that seems to be made fifty percent out of rope and fifty percent out of nothing at all. It's probably very climate-appropriate in Par Vollen."
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"Very climate-appropriate," he agreed. He moved closer and gently caught Dorian's chin to tip his head up, toward him. "And c'mon, this isn't half as fiddly as some of the stuff I've seen you put on, especially when we were back in Skyhold."
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"Ridiculous creature. You clearly can't even begin to compare the two. Fiddly, maybe, but mine at least didn't have the temerity to call themselves clothes without actually covering half of my--"
He averted his eyes from Bull's arms and shoulders.
"But it suits you. You may live in knowledge of at least that."
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Bull stood up, but he stayed close to the mage. He smelled good.
"Should I take it off?"
Normally Dorian was an open book to him, but Bull was having trouble reading him now. He couldn't tell how much of his reticence was over liking something he felt he should and how much might be actual discomfort.
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"No. I like it. But I'm not sure that I'm allowed to. Does that make sense? You look good. Very good. But that's not what that outfit is for, is it? Especially not to look good for some too-precious Tevinter brat. I wouldn't want to insult you, or disrespect you. But I can't guess what might. That's still part of your history, and your culture."
Whether or not Bull was, for all intents and purposes, Tal Vashoth.
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"You are allowed to like it," he said quietly, his voice warm and deep. "Maybe it's not meant to look good for other people, but I like that it looks good to you. Same way I'd probably stare for a long time if I saw you in all your altus glory."
His fingers brushed tenderly over Dorian's neck. "I know you, Dorian. And I know that somewhere under there might be a hundred questions about what its purpose is, if it symbolizes anything, if the color is important. And if you happen to be distracted by the fact that I look good in it, well... I can always answer all of those later."
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"Yes, please. Later."
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"I can't remember the last time I actually made you almost speechless," he teased. As soon as they were through the last doorway, he leaned down to bite Dorian's neck. He gripped his thighs, squeezed.
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"It's very hard to do, isn't it? I'm a veritable font of wit ad wisdom."
Dorian smoothed his hands up over the back of Bull's head, enjoying the rasp of shaved hair. He pressed his hips against Bull, trying t find friction. Dorian was wearing too damned many clothes.
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"But I like thinking I can still shock you now and then." He kissed Dorian, downright gentle despite that his weight was bearing down on the mage, pinning him in place as he dragged their hips together.
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"I feel like I'm at a disadvantage now. You might start with the shirt."
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"Suppose I shouldn't rip anything, hm?" he teased as he pushed himself up. Bull worked Dorian's shirt off, letting his hands drag over every inch of warm skin as it was exposed.
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As soon as it was over his head, he immediately set on Bull with his mouth and hands, teasing scars with his fingers, running them along the ridges of sensitive skin at the edges. Teasing one of his nipples with a hot tongue.
"I don't know. It wasn't a very good outfit. You might have got away with it this time."
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"We'll have to work out a system... some way to identify clothes you don't care about losing. One way to get a new seasonal wardrobe." Bull laughed but the sound was strained. He pushed himself up more, braced his weight on his knees so he could work Dorian's pants off.
He needed him naked. Now.
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The smirk grew broader.
"Here's your first hint -- the underwear are just cotton."
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He was, maybe, a bit rough in getting the mage to the center of the bed, and with the satisfying sound of fabric ripping, Bull finished undressing Dorian.
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"Maker, I would let you eat me alive, looking like that," he breathed. He reached for Bull's horns, smoothing his palms over the rough texture, the lines of growth.
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Without much warning Bull moved and he got Dorian's legs hooked over each horn. It was easy then to lick a stripe up his cock, to take his time teasing and tasting him while Dorian was nearly bent in half.
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But only almost.
"Oh, sweet Andraste, yes.Bull." He dug his fingers around his grip tighter, feeling helpless beneath Bull's hot tongue, feeling absolutely exposed in the position Bull had pressed him into.
His cock ached, but not as much as the spot inside him that felt empty and hot.
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He didn't keep Dorian waiting too long. Bull lifted his head just long enough to grab their lubricant before his mouth returned to teasing, tasting - to seeing if he could make Dorian climb the damn bed. It was nice not having to worry about traumatizing the neighbors.
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"Bull, please. Are you going to keep teasing me until I make a mess all over myself, or are you actually going to do something with me?"
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Bull thought it was cute. But he wouldn't push Dorian tonight. He moved his head to let Dorian's legs slide off his horns - first one, then the other - careful, always careful of the tips. They weren't sharp per se, but they could scrape, and they could gore.
"You'll be a mess no matter what," he rumbled.
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"True enough," he gasped. "And whose fault is that, Iron Bull?"
Dorian reached between his own legs, giving his cock a few pumps, gasping and so hot. He could feel the sweat gathering at the back of his hairline.
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"But I think part of you likes it. Just a little."
Bull slicked his cock. He let Dorian see him doing it. Then he leaned over the mage and nudged against him. "Do you want to stay like this?" he asked, a grin in his voice. "More for you to grab onto."
Between his horns and the ropes tied around his torso, Dorian had plenty to get hold of.
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He grabbed one of Bull's horns to pull himself up, mouth near his ear. He bit at the fat lobe before whispering to him.
"Or it could always be hard, against the wall."
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He reached down to guide himself, wanting, needing to be in him.
"Dorian," he groaned when he finally sank in. He let gravity do the work from there, let Dorian ease down onto him.
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"Yes, yes, yes." he sighed, pounding his head gently back against the wall. He was so damn glad not to have neighbors anymore.
"Gods, Bull."
He wove his arms around Bull's back, raked his manicured nails sideways across his shoulders, before taking his horns in hand again.
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He worked up a rhythm, quick and deep. Dorian had a grip on his horns and Bull would never quite get over how good that felt. Just knowing Dorian was grabbing onto him like that, clawing at him for how good he felt.
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His lips tumbled out strings of creative curses in Tevene, one linked after the other like obscene poetry.
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He nuzzled close, careful of his horns, and found his favorite place on Dorian's neck, the one that made him gasp, made him grab on to Bull whenever he bit it.
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It was a free sound of immense pleasure, edged with pain, as the head of Bull's cock finally found perfectly the place inside Dorian that made his whole body feel hot and melted and the lights flash patterns in the back of his skull.
He came, hard and stuttering and noisy, between their bodies, making a mess of himself. As promised.
His thighs shook. He moaned, coming down slowly, in slow stepped moments.
"Oh, amatus."
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He was close though, and it only took a few more quick thrusts to follow him, to make a further mess of Dorian. He moved his hips lazily after that, until he finally stopped, leaning Dorian into the wall so he wouldn't fall.
He nuzzled Dorian's cheek and he slid an arm around him, giving him more support. Holding him rather than simply pinning him.
"Always worried you're gonna concuss yourself," he confessed, smiling as his other hand gently nudged between the back of Dorian's head and the wall.
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His hips still worked in gentle circles against Bull's belly. It still felt lovely, even with his cock tired.
"Even if I do, it will be worth it," Dorian said. He clung to Bull, waiting for him to move.
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Red rope remained a stark contrast against his gray skin.
"Feel like you have enough manual dexterity back to help get these off?" he asked, grinning lazily at Dorian. He looked beautiful like this, loose and relaxed and thoroughly pleased.
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Dorian's eyes, still dark from pleasure, narrowed in amusement as he sat up a little straighter to help Bull remove the Qunari armor. It was artful; it was art. Dorian knew he had to respect it, and he did, but he still also loved the look of the red silk braids criss-crossing over Bull's huge biceps.
He started with the knots at the sides and began to reverently slide the ropes loose, pulling them apart where they crossed and sliding them out of their stays.
"I'm grateful, Bull. That you let me see this. I really am."
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He leaned forward and kissed Dorian's cheek, his neck, trying not to interrupt his line of sight too much while he worked. That was probably impossible, given how close they were.
"It seemed important," he confessed. "It is... part of me you might never have seen otherwise." Bull had no cause to wear it in Thedas, and if he had, they were all screwed.
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"Can't say that I have anything I could add to my wardrobe that would be equivalent. Unless you count a proper set of robes with my family crest emblazoned hugely on the front. And a very stupid hat."
He slid reluctantly off of Bull's lap and went to rustle up a hot, damp towel.
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"They're meant to symbolize our service to the Qun," he said, loud enough that Dorian would hear him. He knew Dorian was curious - knew that he would have read all about it if there were books to be had. But Bull wasn't sure that there were, anywhere. "We're all bound together beneath it, no single part more important than the others. Only together does it all make sense. It also symbolizes the control that the Qun gives us over ourselves."
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That Qunari were waiting to kidnap him from bed as a child and eat him up.
As it turned out, that had happened after all. But not in the way Dorian had suspected it might as a child.
He crossed the room to the bed and began to clean off Bull's abdomen with slow strokes of the hot, damp towel he'd brought with him. He worked quickly, before the towel grew cold. And he smiled, gently.
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He stayed still while Dorian cleaned him off, and as soon as the mage was done, Bull caught hold of him and rolled over, dragging Dorian back into bed. He kissed Dorian, downright sweet and gentle in the way he held him.
"I also wouldn't mind peeling you out of all those fancy robes," he said, trying to bring back more levity." He thought of the dream Dorian had given him, the one in the middle of Minrathous.
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He settled in next to Bull, trying to shrug off the affection, but only very poorly trying. Eventually, he stopped pressing at the other man's immovable heft and chose instead to sigh and tangle their legs together.
"The house is quiet out here," he said, observing just that. The only noise were the garden grackles, in their usual spot in the tree beside the house. Their jabber was soft through the closed windows.
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"Makes sleeping in easier."
In he center of Darrow, once the city was awake and bustling, Bull tended to just be up, regardless of how late he might have worked the night before. If he was tired enough, he'd go back to sleep, but, especially on trash collecting day, he tended to just give up.