[ CLOSED ] Midnight Rendezvous

[ombranera]

WHO: Zevran Arainai, Michel de Chevin
WHAT: Discussing that Delivery
WHEN: Shortly after this conversation
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Swearing, discussing of murder and gold, emotions.

It'd been heated, their last conversation. Zevran had settled somewhat after Michel confessed and fled- then Luciano and everything that came with suddenly being a parent. Then a stab of visceral fear that is so new to him and all the more terrifying for it. He had not reacted, probably, in the best way. But they are overdue a conversation, he and Michel.

Far overdue.

It is late and Luciano is sleeping peacefully next to Dogrhen, perhaps a little more Fereldan than Zevran would like but- it is so amusing an image he cannot help but let the pup persist.

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[ombranera]

He should have expected the turn, expected the way so soft and light a brush of capped lips against his own would have his breath catch in his throat. Should have known to hold himself against the lean that bid him follow after Michel even as he withdrew.

Friends. Without the sex, without the masks. Trying to be kinder, to be easier- and yet they seemed determined to undermine one another's resolve, even inadvertently.

Zevran sank back on his heels before he could reach for more, licking his lips for a familiar taste of trouble. Words failed him for a moment and his skin burned even in the dark with his flush. "I will likely be awake."

The child kept him up at odd hours, after all. Before he could do anything else that was terribly foolish he leaned back against the door to his rooms, watching Michel leave with a fragile sort of hope in his eyes.

For what? He could not say.

[disgracedchampion]

The only thing truly stopping Michel from getting a hand up between Zevran's thighs and pleasuring him until he was soft, sated, and limber enough to tuck carefully into bed was the infant on the other side of the door. It kept his resolve in check, but it didn't stop him from glancing back over his shoulder and catching that look and for a moment it caused a stutter in his step. Like he was somehow abandoning him...but that was silly.