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Ernest Giles ([personal profile] ring_for_giles) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2022-09-02 05:45 pm

[closed] and if tomorrow it's all over

Who: Giles and Oswald
What: finally confronting what they've been dancing around for far too long
When: beginning of september
Where: their private pocket dimension
Warnings: discussions of sex



It's been a few weeks since the Events at the diner, and although things have calmed down significantly, it's still been very tense. Giles has done his best to put everything out of his mind whilst around Oswald, but he's still been more distant than usual, and it hasn't helped that Oswald has been just as distant. He can't know for certain the cause of Oswald's distance, but he's sure that what Sharky told him is no small part of it.

Although Giles has known that it wont get any better if they don't talk about it, if he doesn't start the conversation, he's been unable to bring himself to take that first step into the unknown. The arrival of a new suit, one that feels familiar when he puts it on (although it cannot be the exact same one he remembers), is what finally starts a plan forming in his mind and has him take that final step.

Whether it's a good plan or not, Giles has no idea, but it's a plan and it's better than nothing. It's also a plan that has him pacing the living room, checking and rechecking the gramophone, adjusting and readjusting his suit, and trying his level best to keep his anxiety in check.

Oswald has to come into the room eventually, and when he does Giles will be waiting with a small but inviting smile on his face and almost all trace of his racing thoughts pushed down and rendered invisible.
Just don't look at the constant movement of his fingers.

"I believe I promised you another dance"
ossie_oswald: (Foxglove)

[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-03 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Ossie can't help giggling through the kisses, because really, this whole thing is absurd. If he'd told himself prior to his first durance that he'd end up kissing Giles, he would've slapped himself. There's so much to enjoy here he can't stand it- the feeling of Giles' sharp teeth, the sturdiness of him, the way he dips down so Ossie doesn't have to work so hard. Can anyone be this happy? Is that this feeling? Ossie presses the pair of them onto the couch, immediately sitting himself on Giles' lap, utterly lost as to where to put his hands for want of all of it. He wants them everywhere, every single blasted place he'd imagined putting them, and to replicate some certain touches from prior to this night, to see if they felt different now.

"I should've worn something hideous from that blasted Tommy Bahama," he manages at length, breathless, "so you could do me the kindness of ripping it from me."
ossie_oswald: (Sweet Violet)

[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-03 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mm, I recall some handsome," a kiss to his jaw, "charming," the softness where bone gives way to flesh at his throat, "devil telling me only the most dedicated wouldn't be put off by it. Is that it, my darling Mephistopheles? Christ, I'm a fool- been a good friend to me-"

Ossie cups Giles cheeks with both hands, kissing him again.

"Now- I don't mean to rush you, old fruit, but I bally well know from experience that you can strip me faster than this."
ossie_oswald: (Chicory)

[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-04 10:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh stop it-" Ossie laughs, resting his hands atop Giles'; not to stop him, just for the contact, to feel him as he works. To be quite honest he wants Giles in his bed yesterday, preferably a hundred years ago, but unlike his usual flings and daliances... There's something amicable here. It doesn't feel like Giles is saying it to win Ossie over, it feels like he actually means it, which is so rare as to be remarkable. Giles has already won him over with devotion and care, everything else is just icing.

"I've already waited a hundred blasted years for you, how much more time do you need?"
ossie_oswald: (Daisy)

[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-05 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
Ossie aids him as best he can, each petal peeled away to leave perfectly geometrically goosebumps across his skin as he sits naked in Giles' lap; perfectly modeled, smooth, and featureless as a ken doll.

At which point one must look away for modesty's sake and allow them to catch up on a few years worth of longing in private.

We return, of course, to Ossie asleep on Giles' chest, rays of morning intruding on his slumber. It's well and truly after Giles usually awakens in his regular routine.
ossie_oswald: (Harebell)

[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-05 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ossie stirs anyway. There's no heavy sleepers once you leave Acadia. He humms happily, stretching out a bit, blinking up to see who's shared his bed-

It's Giles.

The last night hits him like a freight train.

"Jesus Christ."
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[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-05 10:46 am (UTC)(link)
"May as well be," Ossie manages when some semblance of his faculties return to him, "I say, I was... I... I'm at a loss for words. Really and truly, I'm speechless. For all this time- and we really- and you, and-"

A pause.

"Sharky? Really?"
ossie_oswald: (Daisy)

[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-05 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Mm, true."

Ossie sighs happily, nestling in against the fur on Giles' chest.

"I suppose we ought to discuss the boring parts. Expectations and such. But I must insist on making a better go of it next time, and being permitted to seduce you back. The Wuthridge honour depends on it."
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[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-06 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
"The bed currently has something that the rest of our little prison doesn't," Ossie walks his fingers up Giles' chest, "and I don't intend on leaving this spot until that certain lovely thing does."

Ossie comes to rest his thumb lightly on Giles' neck, stroking down the muscle with the barest of pressure.

"You understand that I'll still need to flirt to satisfy the demands of my season. And... I've been a half-feral tomcat fed by whomever comes across me for a long time now. It'll take some time for me to adjust."
ossie_oswald: (Harebell)

[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-06 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
"...you would?"

It's a relief, and enriches his joy at the situation- he can put away the idea of having to resign himself to being a housewife in order to keep Giles happy and around.

"I'll make sure they know who I'll be coming home to," Ossie finally moves to kiss at Giles' Adam's apple, nosing into his neck.

"Of course you'll get every sordid detail. I would of course extend the same to you, as well- I rather... it's horribly embarrassing, but I rather thought Sharky was trying to come onto the both of us when he was... I believe he thought he was trying to get more details out of me about our relationship, but he didn't do especially well with it. Needless to say, it's put some wicked thoughts into this little head of mine, if you can believe it."
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[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-06 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"Was I really the last to know?" he asks, although those fingers and Giles' mouth certainly diminish any chance of soreness on the subject.

"A fellow might get used to this sort of treatment, you know. You'll never be rid of me now."

Ossie wriggles himself a little further up the bed, so he can whisper in Giles' ear.

"I think I'd like to watch the pair of you play. See what all the fuss is about before I ask to try for myself, don't you think?"
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[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-08 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Ossie slips his knee in between Giles' legs, turning himself over to lie properly chest-to-chest with him, cheek to cheek.

"Sweet-talker," whispered once more, and Ossie nips at the lobe of his ear with his teeth.

"What a treat, to get to watch you work your magic. Were we not trapped here, I'd say I'm the luckiest man in the world."
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[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-08 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Alas, the fun part can't last forever, and Giles redirects his attention back to the matter at hand. He leans into the touch, craving more of everything he has to give.

"I wouldn't want you to. But if we get out of here, know that what's mine will be yours. You won't need to work."

The next part earns him a slight tilt of the head, "how do you mean, my dear?"
ossie_oswald: (Daffodil)

[personal profile] ossie_oswald 2022-09-09 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"... I see."

Ossie's jaw tightens and suddenly the whole bally thing turns to ashes in his mouth. That of course Giles wouldn't be willing to give up his beloved work to be with him- that he'd just expect Ossie to be all too happy to play the role of a monster expecting him to do everything without pay, to... exploit him like that. It burns at the back of his throat and for a moment he has half a mind to vacate his own blasted bed.

But... before Ossie had exunted stage right, that Johnny chappie had said something about... a labour of love. He couldn't envision it, couldn't wrap his head around it at first, and Giles will have to forgive him a long few moments of thoughtful silence.

Finally, at last, something clicks together in his mind. If Giles were to suddenly refuse to sleep with him because it was something expected in Arcadia, it... would likely sting, wouldn't it? That he was free to do the activity with whomever he pleased under any circumstances was a measure of his freedom- and while many shunned it afterwards, Ossie had always preferred an affirmative approach, doing it because he chose and finding enjoyment in it that had been taken from him during his durance. Giles could have easily found other work through Winter or otherwise with that fish-fed brain of his...

Christ, to have blatantly ignored such an act of love for so long.

"You... truly do enjoy it, then? Honestly? And you'd tell me if you ever stopped wanting to?"

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