Fic Update: Heart of the Woods
Chapter Title: The Games We Play
Fandom:Ā Dragon Age; Dragon Age: Inquisition
Pairing: Fairbanks/f!Lavellan
Summary:Ā Sometimes a past can be overcome. Sometimes it can't. And sometimes, something that could have been disappears under unthinking words, and the person you're trying to catch slips right through your fingers.
Or, what if Inquisitor Isera Lavellan and Cullen just kept missing each other, never quite able to bridge the mage vs templar gap? What if there was one rejection too many, and someone else started to love her instead?
This Chapter Featuring: Smut. Lots of smut. Pining. Varric and Dorian being good friends. Kink. So much kink. And inappropriate use of innocent flowers.
TWs: Sex. Knife play (no blood). Denial. Teasing. Power games. Bondage.Ā
āThis game is not about mere pleasure,ā he says, brushing the petals against her inner thigh, where the gown bunches āround her hips. āThis game is played between equals, with love. Desire.ā He grips her knee and pushes, baring more of her. āControl.ā
āOā oh?ā Isera arches slightly when the rose slips higher, not quite touching her own folds, and whines when he keeps going, soft and slow, down the other thigh.
āThis game,ā he continues, turning the stem until the thorn presses into her calf, leaving a thin white line down the gold of her skin, āis about feeling. How much can you take, how high can we push each other?āĀ
She swears, twisting her wrists against the leather strap, and he lays a hand warningly over them.Ā
āWe both know you could free yourself with little more than a thought.ā Softly, Evariste skims his lips over the leather, her fingers, until the sleek muscles in her arms go slack. āThe point isnāt to get free. That is why the binding is loose.ā Grasping her wrists together, he pulls until she sits upright, chest to chest with him. āIt is simply⦠a suggestion,ā he whispers.
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A/N: This fic would quite literally have been a disaster if not for my most beloved @asaara-writesā, who patiently and wholeheartedly not only read basically every draft of this, but corrected my French to make it properly sexy and not embarrasingly horrible. Also @thebisexualmandalorianā who cheered on the increasing levels of kink with delight, and @yousoseelieā who finds this fic even hotter than I do.