#fluff kinda?

Simon wasn’t a violent man. Sure, he did violent things for work, but that didn’t mean he enjoyed them

He’d stayed up more nights than he or anyone else could count, head in his trembling scarred hands, wishing it would stop, the memories, the guilt he carried, the lump in his throat that still hurt even after he tried to swallow it.

Everyone he couldn’t save, the people he didn’t know and the people he did, the ones whose footsteps he recognized.

He wasn’t a violent person. Never wanted to be.

That’s why it hurt when that’s what people expected from him. when they saw his outside, his scarred and intimidating form, and just assumed the inside was the same. When partners wanted him to be rough and dominant in bed.

He tried, but couldn’t. The slaps they requested always landing too light, the hair pulling always hesitant, his grip loosening before it could ever sting.

He just wanted to be gentle with someone. Wanted someone to be gentle with him.

Someone he could kiss softly, cupping their jaw while they loosely ran their fingers through his hair.

Someone who’d trace his scars as they lay bare beside him, asking where each one was from, kissing away the pain and bad memories as he told them.

Then he met you.

“I… I’m just not, I like it gentle” you murmured, sitting on the edge of the bed next to him, the moonlight casting a faint glow through the room.

He smiled faintly.

“Yeah… I can do that”

Illumi Zoldyck: #98 “First one to make a noise loses.”

Warnings/ tags: None

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“At this rate you won’t even be able to ever defeat Milluki,” Illumi said, looking you over in his typical way after a sparring match. Calling it a sparring match was kind. It was more of a ‘see how long you can pretend that there is ever a hope in hell that you could ever take Illumi until he finally knocks your ass down’ match. But that was a bigger mouthful than it was worth.

“I’m getting better,” you defended, “I took out the last mark entirely by myself.”

“Yes, but he wasn’t a very good fighter.”

You huffed, standing back up and dusting your butt off as you watched Illumi. His eyes weren’t looking at you truly. More he was analyzing you, thinking of how he could improve your fighting ability more quickly.

He was so lost in thought that you couldn’t help but to think of all the things you’d like to do to him while he was distracted like this. Like draw whiskers on his face or slip away and tie his hair into a braid just because you could. For a good few minutes, he wouldn’t really care what you did as he was too busy thinking over the next hour of practice. Usually you used this distracted time to take a break.

Then a little idea came into your mind. “Illumi,” you called as you sauntered closer to the man. He watched you, but was obviously still lost in thought, a casual hand against his chin as was his tell. “I bet there is something I can beat you at,” you continued with a note of teasing in your voice.

Illumi couldn’t help but to smile at you. It was absurd that there was anything in which you could beat Illumi at, and you thinking you ever could was obviously laughable. “I don’t believe you know what you are getting yourself into, y/n, but enlighten me. What is it that you can beat me at?”

You could feel the spark of excitement flicker in your eye as you closed the distance between the two of you. Your lips were inches from his, breast pushed into his chest firmly, and hand was gripping his cock all in one quick motion. To your credit, Illumi did not seem to have anticipated this move. “I bet I can make you make a noise before I do.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Quynh | Noriko Characters: Andy | Andromache of Scythia, Quynh | Noriko Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Immortality, love through the centuries, Art, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, anyone else curious about that Rodin comment?, bc i was, Post-Canon Fix-It, for Quynh specifically Summary:

Andromache of Scythia was photogenic before photos were cool.

Alternately: Artists like drawing immortals. They’ve got a certain… timeless quality.

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: The Old Guard (Movie 2020) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Andy | Andromache of Scythia & Quynh | Noriko, Andy | Andromache of Scythia/Quynh | Noriko Characters: Andy | Andromache of Scythia, Quynh | Noriko Additional Tags: Immortals, Friends to Lovers, Strangers to Lovers, Canon Compliant, Canon-Typical Violence, First Kiss, First Meetings, Fluff, ish?, Eventual Happy Ending, Tenderness Summary: