The Boy and the Summoned
A @carry-on-big-bang fic and art collab with art by @ic3-que3n!
Rating: Mature (will likely increase in later chapters) Word Count: 4.2k posted, ~30k total Canon divergence/alternate timeline, Demon!Simon, Human!Baz, Vampire!Natasha, slow burn, strangers to hesitant allies to friends to lovers
Summary:
What Baz wants is a relaxing university break visiting his family in Hampshire. What he wants is to help his pregnant step-mother around the manor; to braid his little sister's hair; to avoid his father's awkward questions about his future plans; to (maybe) kick his smoking habit.Instead, what Baz gets is a magickal ring, a (surprisingly fit) demon, and a problem to solve.
Excerpt:
I’m dreaming. I know that I’m dreaming, because the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen is kissing me. I think it’s humanly impossible to be this gorgeous. My fingers are tangled in bronze curls. Between kisses I catch flashes of his blue eyes staring up at me from beneath hooded eyelids doused in thick lashes. There is a freckle or mole on his skin for every star in the sky above us. I’m so happy I could burst open. I could let the river inside of me flood the world, and I wouldn’t care because I have this man in my arms. I’d drown us all for him. He’s hot, temperature-wise, and it’s making sweat drip from my hairline to my cheek. He licks it away, but not with his tongue- with fog. He’s turned to fog, black and thick and all-consuming. I can’t breathe, but I don’t care. I sink into his embrace as he settles over every inch of my skin at once, and it’s worth every moment of oxygen deprivation.I lean in, deeper and deeper and I’m tumbling through a hole. I’m falling fast, and there’s no ground in sight. There’s just a hole, endless, swallowing me—
