Dark Water

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Title: Dark Water
Author: savageseraph
Pairing: Nikolai Luzhin/Alex Trevelyan
Rating: R
Warnings: Darkfic
Beta: caras_galadhon
Prompt(s): #7: "a sloshing, slurping slurry of mud"
Disclaimer: Don't own the characters or worlds. Just play with them for my own entertainment.
Summary: Nikolai's body tensed, fought Alec's weight as he struggled for air.



Even after two showers, Nikolai swore he could still smell mud clinging wetly to his skin. The body he and Alec had given to the river to hide vanished more completely than the memory of the muck of the riverbed pulling at Nikolai's shoes, of Alec's conspiratorial nudge that came just as he was trying to free his foot. It knocked Nikolai off balance, sent him under the surface. His gasp of surprise brought a rush of silt and clay and old decay flooding into his mouth. He flailed, momentarily panicked, until Alec grabbed him, hauled him to the surface. Strong arms slid around Nikolai, holding him up as he coughed and gagged, brought up filthy water he had swallowed, water he could still taste many hours and many drinks later.

Nikolai's arms tightened around the pillow as Alec's fingers stretched him, the same fingers that gouged out the eyes of the man they'd dumped in the river earlier that night. He bit down on the pillow as Alec's fingers curled to rub against him, then withdrew so his cock could take their place. Nikolai tried to relax, to enjoy the slow stretch and slide, but he couldn't.

"Always so tight, Kolya." Alec laughed softly, slapped the side of Nikolai's ass. "It's hard to believe you spent all that time in prison and still manage to feel like a fucking virgin." Another slap landed before Alec pulled back, shoved in hard. "Not that I'm complaining, mind."

Without Alec's hands gripping his hips, Nikolai might have tried to twist away while Alec fucked him open. He wondered how the hold his body had on Alec's cock compared to the slick grip of mud and clay; he wondered if it felt like drowning, if he could pull Alec down with him. Nikolai heard Alec's gasp as he tightened around several times in quick succession.

Alec's hands left Nikolai's hips. The same fingers that pulled him from the water closed around his throat. "I'm fucking you, Kolya. Don't forget that."

Nikolai's body tensed, fought Alec's weight as he struggled for air. For a surface he didn't have a prayer of reaching. As Nikolai's lungs started to burn, his vision darkened; the tension bled out of his body; and Alec's thrusts came hard and fast. His grip loosened enough for Nikolai to draw several gasping breaths before tightening down again as Alec's thrusts grew more urgent.

Mud. Nikolai tasted mud, felt the soft caress of the current against his cheek. The hands on his body, did they belong to Alec or to the man lost in the river? Nikolai shivered. It was dark, so dark, and he couldn't find the surface even though it felt so close. So close.. His body jerked, shuddered as his mouth opened in a soundless scream, as he came hard enough to lose himself in the dark.

Comments

[j-flattermann.livejournal.com]

Wow, this was tense. You had me shivering all over, not sure how this would end. And still…

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

This one was started out a bit less creepy in my mind, but it seems to have picked up dark as it went along.

[j-flattermann.livejournal.com]

I so know what this is like. Same here, sometimes I start with a nice little fic in my head and as soon as it hits the paper its dark and gloomy. They have there own lives, haven’t they? *winks*

[makamu]

And there it is, the Barbian brand of magic! I love how you intertwined death and life (in the form of sex), so that we were neither completely adrift nor standing on solid ground for the whole of the fic. It felt like mud when you read it, every interpretation I had slipping away the moment I had formulated it... Marvelous!

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

Barbian brand of magic

You have no idea how much that made me smile and smile and SMILE!!! *hugs*

I'm glad you liked it!

[govi20.livejournal.com]

The same fingers that pulled him from the water closed around his throat. "I'm fucking you, Kolya. Don't forget that." Brilliant, just brilliant.

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

Thanks! ^_^

[caras-galadhon.livejournal.com]

I love the way you've used the conceit here. Creepy and shivery and utterly fantastic. ♥

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And thanks for helping with the fidddly bits on all of them.

[helena-s-renn.livejournal.com]

Brilliant, the way you've used the mud taste and the lack of air... *thud*

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[splix.livejournal.com]

That was powerfully sexual and upsetting, too. I have a weird space in my heart for involuntary breathplay and the eroticism of danger and this hit quite a few buttons. Memorying this one, thanks.

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

Ooooo. Glad you enjoyed it. I hadn't read any breathplay in a bit, so I suppose I was due. ^_^

[shegollum.livejournal.com]

That was so tightly written and full of such contrasts. Had me tense throughout. I hope Alex finds it in him to hold Nikolai for a time.

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm. I wonder. I don't know that either of them is too good at comfort, but you never can tell...

[mooms.livejournal.com]

Very dark and powerful and hot as hell! I love the way you write this pairing and I liked the way you used the prompt line to shivery effect. Thank you so much.

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

This was another tough prompt for me. This fic was going to be a sweet and funny VigBean. It...uh...seems to have changed a bit. *winks*

[peersrogue.livejournal.com]

Very original love the dark under currents in their pairing. A real hide behind the sofa type relationship - scary but addictive.
Great writing - thanks for the chills!

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

Oooo. I like the scary but addictive thing, and yes, this fic is very much about that. ^_^

[stormatdusk.livejournal.com]

jeepers, meepers, and creepers (but in a great way). great imagery; loved it.

[savageseraph.livejournal.com]

Hee. I love your comment. Lots. *beams*