mercury's morning selfies had made it particularly hard sticking out the rest of their graveyard shift. tumbling into their bed, ren started exacting revenge by hitting record on their phone, hand sliding past the band of their sleep pants as voice took on breathless, lustful tonality, sighing moans in the shape of mercury's name as they buried their face into his pillow. slight shift of blankets, and then a hitch of breath. a shuddering gasp, and then a swear in mother tongue. ' mercury ... '
that morning, while getting himself ready for work, mercury had found himself standing in front of the bathroom mirror with his shirt unbuttoned and the zipper of his slacks undone. he'd pulled the waistband down his hips some and opened the front as far as it would go, so obviously showing the curve of the hard on he was sporting rather early in the morning, and he'd taken a couple pictures from different angles on his phone. he rubbed himself absently through grey-blue fabric of underwear as he considered what more to show. he took a pic while he was handling his clothed arousal, he took a pic after tugging down the waist of his underwear too, and he took a couple pics while he leaned against the wall to stroke himself off before work. by the time he'd finished, he managed to get one more picture of the strand of come that clung to the tip of his cock. cleaning up, he'd finished getting ready and went about his day, heading off to work on a newly appointed case with the body of a young woman. she'd died without anyone around at the time, so an autopsy was ordered. those always complicate an embalming.
silver had sent three of the selfies to ren, knowing full well that they were working today, with the intention of riling them up just as much as he was. he sent the first and the final pictures he took, as well as one of him leaning back, length in hand, a picture he managed to capture mid-gasp. truthfully, he should have known it would come back to bite him — he knew ren, he knew their competitive nature, not to be outdone by anyone, and revenge would be in order. but when he received naught but a voice message in response, with a few hours left of mercury's workday, he knew exactly what he was in for. quicksilver stared at his phone for a minute, weighing his options, despite the fact that the mere idea of what might be in that message was leaving him a little hot under the collar. he slipped phone into pocket and shed his work gear, making sure the body on which he was working was in a stable condition to walk away, and headed off to the bathroom.
soft gasp. uneven breathing, mercury's name. panting moan. muffled whimper. one groan, then two. foreign words. mercury's name. mercury's name.
black lost all sense of time and focus in that recording; it could have been minutes or it could have been hours that he stood alone in the bathroom, palming himself through his pants, listening back to specific sounds that felt like individual hot coals between his hips. the noises ren was making were positively licentious and mercury wanted every last drop of them, he would have bled that recording until it no longer held power over him if he'd had the chance. alas, he was still at work, still knee deep in awaiting cadavers, and his ability to balance patient detail work with getting home to jump his tease of a boyfriend was dwindling by the second. his frustrated rubbing only grew in intensity as he pictured the scene before him — already beautiful with clothing on, ren was even more so when clothing started to come off. he imagined, maybe they had stripped for this recording, maybe they'd teased themselves like mercury is wont to do. more likely, however, was that they'd stayed well controlled, slid one hand below the belt and moaned just how they knew silver would like it. they weren't wrong, either way. mercury was a mess.
he slowed his movements to a stop, standing up straight — albeit a little shakily — and he ran a hand through his hair, frazzled and a little upset with himself for listening while at work in the first place. lips pursed, phone returned to his pocket, and mercury leant over one of the sinks and ran some cold water, splashing his face a couple times before standing once more to grab paper towels. he needed to find his focus again, he knew that, and in reality it wasn't impossible to ignore the way ren moaned for him in his head. difficult, perhaps, but not impossible. trying to think of literally any other earworm than his partner's voice, he left the bathroom and headed back to work. at the very least the apron he wore would cover his arousal. this was one of those times he was glad he worked mostly alone — it meant he could have ren visit when he pleased, but it also meant there wasn't a lot to distract him from thoughts of them. conveniently, or maybe inconveniently, the only ghost around to keep company simply hovered silently near the refrigerator doorway, staring off with a forlorn expression. mercury sighed, and got back to work.
the ghostly company was far more lively around his house, so he instinctively avoided the spirit of the woman standing right inside his front door, shouldering past her as he haphazardly dropped his work bag to the floor. of the consecrated and soundproofed areas over the house, his first instinct was the living room couch, and when he didn't find ren there, he made his way to the bedroom. upon entering, mercury locked eyes with his partner, lotus sitting pretty on their bed, and silver-tongue walked calmly to their side of the bed. "you couldn't just take a picture, no," he began, voice low and collected. he crawled onto the mattress, and one hand felt up their calf as he settled over them on his knees. "you couldn't have sent a picture of your ass and called it a day." grabbing onto their hips, he tugged their body towards him down the bed, feeling incredibly possessive as heat built up low in his abdomen. "of course not, where's the fun in that?" voice grew darker as his fingers crept up ren's stomach, before slowly dragging nails down the planes of their skin, hooking fingertips into the waistband of their sleep pants. settling himself between their parted thighs, mercury ground his hips down into witch's own, and he lowered himself to be able to pull their shirt collar aside and press heated kisses to exposed skin. "no, you had to go with the one thing…" a shuddered breath. he licked a stripe of skin over their collarbone. "the one thing you could do to make me touch myself while at work." other hand slid under ren's shirt again, brushing nails over pec and nipple, and mercury basked in the feeling of how the bud hardened in response. sucking rather hard on one soft spot at their neck, quicksilver soothed over the bruised area with his tongue.
"i wanna hear your fucking voice falter, i wanna hear my name on your lips." another hickey, another roll of hips. "i want to be the one who does that to you."