"You can touch me wherever you like, you know."
It's their third night together when Aberdeen says it. It's not her usual teasing means of addressing such, ah, mature matters either. It's gentle, voice soft as she reaches out and takes his hand.
It hadn't occurred to Alistair that she'd noticed. Admittedly, he was careful⦠for a few reasons. The elf was so, so desperately tiny compared to him; petite and soft from her life spent locked away in the tower. Additionally, it was more than a little intimidating anyway; he knew she wouldn't be mad if he did something wrong somehow, she'd never, but oh how he fretted himself into a fit anyway.
"I know, you're stronger than I am," he told her with a sheepish grin.
"Then you don't have to wait for me to direct you."
The first time together, she'd noticed his nerves and helped. Placed his hands here and there, shown him where she liked to be touched and kissed, set a pace for him in his lap while he held her hips and pressed their foreheads together. And, oh Maker, he loved that. Both the feeling and the comfort of being shown what to do, told how she wanted to be touched.
But by now he'd committed everything he could to memory. He knew where to kiss, where to squeeze, where to gently trail his fingers to make her shiver. He'd run it over in his mind millions of times now. But he still hesitated the last time when she'd drawn him into her tent and slipped out of her clothes for him. Still grasped at the air nervously until she'd guided one hand between her legs and the other to her face. Taught him how to please her with his fingers while she sucked on his, leaving him utterly awash in feelings when she'd finally slid down and put her mouth on him. And even then she'd taken the time to gently guide his hand to her hair, letting him know he didn't have to simply ball his hands into fists at his side while she sucked him off.
Now, she was watching him with that skeptical little frown she got when she was pondering someone. Swallowing hard, he reached out his other hand, not the one gently captured between hers, and drew her closer. It was the barest hint of a touch, just a light clasp on her side, but it was enough that she knew how to respond and piled herself in his lap, nude and dainty and beautiful.
And his, all his. His that had said he could touch her how he liked.
"What's the matter?" she asks, nuzzling under his chin.
He coils his arms around her, protective. Feels her press a kiss to his throat as she waits for his answer.
Aberdeen laughs, not cruelly, and nuzzles another kiss against his throat. "What, you think if you aren't a god of sex I'll kick you from my bedroll in a second?"
"No," he says, and means it. She loves him, he can feel that much, she'd have him even if he couldn't please her at all.
"I just⦠want to make you feel good."
Aberdeen hums, still nuzzling at him. "Want to know a secret?" Alistair makes an affirmative grunt. "You do."
But that's when you lead, he means to say. But Aberdeen tuts softly before he can finish.
"Never felt like I do about you about anyone else," she tells him. "I want to give you so much. I want to keep you. I want to give you⦠myself. You can have what you want."
Alistair thinks of the little noises she makes, somewhere between frustration and pleasure, when he thrusts up into her when she's on top. He thinks of the goosebumps raising on her skin when he trails feather light touches along her back and stomach. He thinks of when he'd grabbed her ass to help her guide him back inside her when his cock had slipped free and she'd let out a giggle loud enough he was certain the whole camp knew what they were doing.
He wants all of that and more. Forever. As long as she'll have him in her bed.
He also wants her cuddled in his lap like she is now. He wants her sleeping on his chest, tucked into his bedroll with him in nothing but a pair of shorts, cheek pressed to one of his pecs. He wants the way she smiles when he catches her eye out of the blue, cheeks tinted red before she winks and looks away, making his ears go pink.
Aberdeen untangles herself from him and he reaches after her, needy. She catches his hand, fingers gently twining with his, but doesn't stop until she's sprawled out comfortably on his bedroll. He takes in the sight a moment, mouth dry, of her body naked and waiting. When his eyes reach the curls of hair between her legs she lets her thighs fall open and Maker save him if he wasn't hard before it's painful now.
Pretty perky little tits is where his eyes end up fixed after a moment. She'd joked before, when she'd guided his hands to them, that they weren't much in his hands but fuck he loved them. Had wanted to touch them again, a few times, but had chickened out when she didn't put his hands there again. Now, with an offer like this, he swallows his nerves before crawling over her and sinking down to nuzzle his face between them.
Aberdeen laughs but the noise hitches in her throat delightfully when he starts peppering kisses across her chest. The scratch of stubble and chapped but soft lips are enough to get her squirming and tangling her fingers in his hair in seconds.
It's not a reaction he'd expected, she almost seems shy in her flutters of giggling and cradling his head there. But she likes it, he can tell that much when her fingernails gently scratch at his scalp.
"You're ridiculous," she laughs, breathless. "Spread my legs open for you and you wanna play with these tiny things."
"I like them," Alistair murmurs against her skin. He does. They're small but it's just the right size for his palms. Just right for his mouth, nipples perky when he brushes his lips over them.
He hears Aberdeen's breath catch a little and when he cocks his head a little to look up at her she's blushing, smile all soft on the edges. "Thanks," she mumbles. "Never had anyone pay them much mind."
This makes him want to spend hours on them. But her thighs are framing his hips and when he shifts a little he presses his stomach near her pussy and it's warm and he remembers how it felt inside and⦠and he's got to get out of his pants.
He only manages to free his cock, pants halfway down his ass, before the idea of further struggle isn't worth it and he takes what he's gotten. Shifts to line his hips up with hers and realizes, rapidly, how he's probably going to prefer her on top simply because of their size difference. Because at this angle he has to crane his neck down to see her face and even then he doesn't get a proper look at her face when he lines his dick up and slides inside her.
He gives it a good try anyway, a few good and deep thrusts where she whines and claws at his back, before he gathers her in his arms and lifts her, shifting back to sit on the tent floor with her piled on his lap. The change in angle makes her moan and grab onto him more desperately and Alistair smiles and uses the newābetter, in his humble opinionāangle to nuzzle his face against her neck.
"I like when you ride me," he whispers against her skin, cheeks hot in spite of himselfāin spite of the fact they're actively fucking and all. "But I think I'll move you this time."
To illustrate his plan, he cups her ass in his hands and bounces her on his cock. Aberdeen replies with a string of curses, back arching, and he's fairly sure from that alone he has her approval but the desperate whisper of "yes, thank you, baby" settles itself somewhere deep in his brain to be kept forever.
The past two times he's been unable to outlast her. It's nothing that seemed to bother her, if anything she'd treated it as a chance to show him ways to please her without his cock. But it means he's a bit shocked when he feels himself getting close only to have her muffle a cry against his chest, nails digging at his back and pussy spasming around his dick. It's a particularly wet orgasm, his thrusts as he draws her through it met with gushes of fluid, and she trembles in his arms all through. In one of the final thrusts, her pussy squeezing the life from him, he comes too, buried inside her, and crushes his face against her shoulder to hide from the wash of emotions that hit him.
They're sweaty and sticky, his lap wet with both their end, panting for air. He feels Aberdeen pressing kisses to his chest, her hands sliding up to tangle in his hair. When she moved her kisses upward, to his neck and jawline, she starts to shush him soothingly and cradle him against her shoulder and it's only then he realizes he's sniffling, eyes wet and stinging.
"You feel so good," he whispers against her shoulder. "You're so perfect."
Aberdeen smiles and presses her lips to his temple. "Right back at you, sweetheart. Haven't come that hard in my life. Thank you."
After they clean up and settle down he shuffles their spots until he's spooning her. And while it's not as nice as her head on his chest, and he's sure she'll end up there eventually, it's nice holding her like this. His whole world. Wrapped up safe in his arms.