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Chapter 6 of Beat Slowly up now!

Chapters: 4/6 Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate), Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate), Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate), Tav (Baldur's Gate), Karlach (Baldur's Gate), Wyll (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Slow Burn, Bloodweave, Fix-It of Sorts, Developing Relationship, general warnings for Astarion's past, and Gale's, astarion POV, Traumatized Astarion (Baldur's Gate), a lot of tense flirting, Teasing, Oral Fixation, Dom/sub Undertones, Dominant Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Submissive Gale (Baldur's Gate), emotional avoidance, physicality as a substitute for unwelcome emotions, Fingers In Mouths, Grinding, strong tent walls Summary:

Oh he knew the wizard could move any time he wanted to; that the illusion of captivity was simply that. And yet somehow, he knew he wouldn’t. He could feel the drumbeat of Gale’s pulse beating frantically through his mouth, hear the way his heartbeat was expressing the moment in the way his mouth couldn’t.

Desire, anger, heat. Physicality would drown out that pitiful empty feeling.

This close, Astarion could see the mark was more than just skin deep - it seemed to almost seep through the wizard’s skin, from the inside out. Tracing its path upwards, Astarion could see Gale’s pulse hammering in his throat, the darkened tracery of his blood vessels indicative of something other than regular blood running through them. He could smell the wizard himself through the dark magical scent, a soft earthy tone of herbs and spiced wine that might have been ridiculously appealing had it not been so thoroughly drowned in rancid overtones.