AN: Sort of a prequel to a shorter drabble I wrote on tumblr called 'Good Boy'. If you like this, please check it out.
"Honestly, Oswald." Ed rolled his eyes, his voice taking on a somewhat stern tone. "You're behaving like a petulant child."
"I am not," The Mayor and Kingpin of Gotham's underworld insisted, in a decidedly petulant tone.
His Chief of Staff looked the Mayor over, observing how he was practically pouting, with a sulky scowl on his face and his arms folded tightly across the chest of his expensive three piece suit. Despite having come so far in his life, Oswald still had his moments where he may as well have still been a spoiled, overindulged child.
It was irritating when Ed was trying to make him see reason, but at the same, there was something oddly endearing about the childish behaviour.
Quite suddenly, the taller man placed a finger beneath Oswald's chin, forcing the shorter man to look up at him.
"If you keep sulking like that, you'll get a spanking."
He couldn't quite place what had made him say that, but it seemed such an appropriate threat when Oswald was behaving so unreasonably. Almost immediately, Ed decided he was glad that he'd went with his gut and said it, because the blush that came across Oswald's lightly freckled face was incredibly satisfying.
"D-Don't tease me!" Oswald blurted out, face growing increasingly red with every second that passed. The almost wolfish way that Ed smiled at him didn't exactly help him calm down either.
"I'm not." He leaned down, further invading the other man's personal space and making him squirm. "So, are you going to stop sulking? Or am I going to have to take you over my lap, Mr Mayor?"
Oswald's heart was pounding in his chest and his knees suddenly felt quite weak. He knew that he should be insulted by the suggestion of such a childish punishment, and part of him was, but he couldn't deny that the thought of Ed being so stern with him also called to a part of him that he tried to keep hidden. A part that craved some well deserved chastisement.
He knew that he was being unreasonable, being so stubborn on trivial matters was petty. Yet his pride didn't make admitting that he had been wrong easy.
"I…" He found that while Ed was quite cooly confident and in control at that moment, he struggled to get any words out. "I… Um…"
Ed chuckled, not able to stop himself. Perhaps it was a trifle cruel, but he always found it rather adorable when Oswald got tongue tied. "I have a feeling that you don't exactly despise the idea, am I right?"
Oswald's face somehow grew redder and he squirmed all the more under Ed's penetrating gaze.
The poor bird was hopelessly wound up now.
"I'll take that as a yes." His voice was low and seemed to vibrate all the way through Oswald's body.
Then, he abruptly stood up straight again and walked past Oswald, the conversation ending as quickly as it had begun. Ed picked up a file of papers on the nearby desk and flicked through them quickly, his back to the other man. "That will have to wait until tonight though. You have a meeting with the City Council in fifteen minutes. Come along, Mr Mayor. We don't want to be late."
Oswald was frozen in the spot he had been before Ed had worked him up so mercilessly and then left him, hopelessly aroused and his heart still pounding loudly in his chest. It took a few moments for him to collect himself enough to respond.
"Y-Yes. Of course! We'll talk more after the meeting!"
He followed Ed out of the room, a couple of paces behind his Chief of Staff, thoughts of what Ed had threatened him with still playing in his mind.