Chapter 1: Hands, Wrists, Various other body parts...
Summary: 30 Day OTP Challenge! Day 1: Holding Hands
Since agreeing to- well no, agreeing isn't the appropriate word, since Vaako had simply stopped fighting the inevitable truth of his situation and gave into Riddick to do as he pleased with him (and actually finding his own pleasure through the experiences) the First Among Commanders had learned some interesting things about his Lord Marshal. For one, Riddick is a possessive son of a bitch. More so than Vaako had anticipated. Even when asleep together in the huge bed in the Lord Marshal's private chambers, the Furyan would hold onto some part of Vaako in his sleep and until he woke there was no way the Necromonger could leave their bed.
Although Vaako would admit to himself that this particular facet of Riddick's possessive personality was the least bothersome, and was in fact something he enjoyed. He would rather have his testicles pulled up through his body and out of his mouth than admit this aloud but it was true, waking up to feeling Riddick holding onto his hands and wrists possessively, pressed up against him, it was a definite pleasant change to the cold bitch that once shared his bed. However it was the other times his possessive side would rear its head was when it caused Vaako a problem.
Like the time he was sparring with Toal and Riddick had come storming down, ripping Toal from atop him and had grabbed onto the back of Vaako's neck and dragged him back to their chambers, growling the whole time.
Riddick enjoyed holding onto some part of him it seemed, it didn't matter what, during the day and again at night.
Sometimes the almost tenderness that came with holding certain body parts gave the cold Commander sensations he hadn't felt since before he had been first purified and initiated as a Necromonger soldier. Although this being Riddick, the touch was still rough and not that gentle but it was more so than when he had a hold on his neck or hair for example. Sometimes whilst fucking, Riddick would choose to hold onto his hands, fingers intertwining. Neither would say a thing about it, there was nothing to say. For them they both simply saw it was a way for Riddick to assert his dominance and hold Vaako down, regardless of whether he was on his back or on his knees facing the mattress.
Except now they were courting, in Necromonger terms and as such had to follow certain customs. Although Riddick and Vaako hadn't actually courted one another... No, Vaako would liken it more to an Alpha Male stalking down his prey. Riddick hadn't just pounced on Vaako the moment he decided he wanted him (which apparently happened a lot longer before the Commander had thought), he had stalked his prey, wearing the man down and setting everything up to fall exactly as he wanted. But Necromongers didn't even do it like that, no it was a long complicated series of gifts and dancing around each other (not literally, not yet anyway) for a while. The two men had kinda skipped most of that and jumped straight to the part where they fucked like it was their last night in this universe.
However most were willing to overlook certain parts of this due to the fact that Riddick is the Lord Marshal and Vaako being the First Among Commanders but the Nobles, Purifiers and other Commanders that essentially ran the fleet under the Lord Marshal had demanded that they still follow at least some of the courting rules.
They weren't entirely unreasonable in what they asked, after all it was entirely a formality. Everyone in the fleet had accepted that Vaako was Riddick's and vice versa. It was simply to keep the traditionalists happy. So they were going to have to do things like hold hands when entering the throne room together.
One Noble had offered up that Vaako could take Riddick's arm instead, however in his mind that lowered his status down to some pretty little Lordling on his Lord Marshal's arm, rather than the fierce First Among Commanders, standing proudly beside a man who considered him his equal. So, hand holding it was.
"You know beautiful," Riddick smirks at Vaako, adjusting his goggles before walking to him and taking his hand. "I could get used to this Necro courtin' bullshit if it means I get to see you all flustered like this more often."
Vaako just shoots him a glare, hazel eyes narrowing warningly. It had the same affect on Riddick it always had, deep laughter erupting from him and then a cocky smile and a squeeze of his hand. "Let's get this over with."
All eyes were on their linked hands as they walk through the Basilica, some eyebrows raised but mostly out of the fact that they were following the courting rules (a little late but still) rather than the two of them being together. Everyone on the ship knew at least one tale of Riddick making his claim well and truly known on Vaako in some way or another in front of soldiers, nobles etc.
Yet Vaako almost found himself wishing for it to go back to that. He could handle Riddick's rough handling, grabbing his braids, neck or wrists and pinning him to something and leaving a nice big black bruise on his throat for all to see. But this gentle and tender gesture of holding his hand, fingers intertwined and an occasional squeeze? This was almost unbearable.
The Commander just reassured himself that it was entirely to do with the fact that he only associated this feeling with sex now and refused absolutely to even consider any other possibilities.
Riddick could practically feel the internal turmoil in his mate and could only roll his eyes. He had accepted the moment he laid eyes on Vaako and got a good whiff of him off of the Dame that this beautiful man was his Mate. His instincts had filled in the blanks for him and he didn't need to over think this or put labels to it. Vaako was his, mind body and soul and he was his, nothing more nothing less. Labels like 'love' meant nothing to the Furyan or his newly awakened Alpha instincts.
Holding his hand like this was just another way to remind these people not to fuck with what was his.
A/N: Sooo this is un-beta'd if you hadn't guessed!
I decided there is simply not enough Riddick/Vaako in the world and decided to throw my attempt into the pot... With the 30day otp challenge and man have I really made this a challenge because there are some seriously cute challenges for days and I had no idea how to apply it to these two, so I decided the best way to go about it was uh, this way?
Please let me know what you think! Any constructive criticism would be welcomed!