AndersxF!Mage!HawkexJustice (Janders everyone :3)
Warnings: DubCon
The next morning while Aliea was brushing her hair in the mirror she saw a recently clothed Anders come up behind her to put a soft kiss on her temple. She tried her best not to shrink back from the lips that had so tormented her the night before. There were no blue cracks or glowing eyes, this was just Anders for once. "Love, is everything all right?" he asked in his gentle loving voice. "Of course Anders all is well" she lied through her teeth. Turning around she tucked an errant lock of hair behind his ear. She forced a smile and kissed him softly on the lips.
"I was planning on doing a little shopping, you were going to spend the day in the clinic anyways right?" Aliea asked. Anders nodded swallowing down his disappointment. He was actually hoping to take the morning off to make up for their romantic evening he apparently fell asleep before the other night. He came home too late the yesterday and was feeling quite guilty. Before he could try and kiss her again she slipped out of his reach and back into the bedroom to dress. He sighed, but just promised himself to be home at dinner.
For once he beat Aliea to the Hawke estate. She showed up about a quarter hour after dinner was served and said little during dinner. By the time Orana cleared the plates Anders realized she not said more than hello, good, and I'm done and most of it was directed at Orana. He followed her up to their bedroom and watched her settle into her chair by the fireplace. She pulled a book from the floor and began reading without even a nod to him. Annoyed at being ignored he charged up to her chair. "Aliea" he said firmly. She looked up at him with sad eyes, he could swear that tears were almost rimming them. He anger lost he muttered "Love, I just..." Aliea sighed and dropped her book on the floor letting Anders kneel before her. She took his head in her hands and pulled him in for a soft kiss. He sighed and laid his head on top of her breasts wrapping his arms tight around her.
"What is going on? I feel like you are avoiding me" he asked sounding genuinely hurt. She sighed closing her eyes before responding "you know the answer to that Justice.". Anders raised his head from her chest blue eyes glowering at her. "I warned you" he spat out. Aliea rolled her eyes and stared over his shoulder. "You know you didn't say I couldn't tell him, you just said I shouldn't, you said I couldn't tell the others" she finally explained. "Always the astute observer" Justice replied cooly. "Either way, it's my turn now" he said with a chuckle and saying the incantation to make the collar once again reappear on Aliea's neck. Aliea had noticed that after Justice had finished the other night the collar seemed to disappear, but her magic didn't return. He had merely hidden the collar with a cloaking spell so thorough she couldn't even feel the collar when it was hidden.
The new weight on her neck made her gulp. "Delicious" he said watching her swallow. "I had planned to try something different tonight, but...I've changed my mind" he announced. Aliea looked at the ground waiting instruction. She had spent the entire day researching abominations in the circle library thanks to a Cullen's help sneaking her in the fobidden library. They had formed somewhat a friendship through the years between her brother being a Templar and her saving the young Templar recruit that had gone missing. She may go against the Templar's a lot, but she never went out of her way to harm anyone and Cullen respected her for it.
However it was all for naught, because as she thought none of the circle books mentioned anything about non-corrupted abominations, let alone what happened with the spirit started taking over more than usual. Aliea had decided to suffer through anything Justice wanted until she could figure out a safe way to get him under control. Tomorrow she had decided she would confide in the Isabela, Aveline and Merrill. She barely noticed that Justice had disrobed her and positioned her on the floor by the bed. His face a cruel twist of a smile as he freed Anders' member from his small clothes. Choking her with a blowjob again? she thought half amused. Justice really didn't have any imagination.
Aliea felt terrible for pretending to leave the house before Anders, but she really needed a undisturbed bath. After she heard him mumbling to himself about the note she left and leaving through the back exit to Darktown she crawled out of her wardrobe and asked Orana to heat up a bath for her. She usually did it herself, but her magic was still missing is action thanks to Justice's new invisible toy. "Mistress..." Orana began. Aliea looked up from worrying her bathrobe sleeve while waiting for the water to warm. "It's not that I mind, of course I don't mind, but don't you usually just...magic the water warm?" she pried. "Ah well it seems I'm on a magical time out Orana" Aliea explained, not wanting to get into more detail. "I would hope the bruises would have at least started to heal though Mistress" Orana continued. The fingerprints on her neck, make-up having been washed off last night, were even darker than before, since Justice like to squeeze her in the exact same place to leave his mark on her. Aliea sighed, since when did Orana, she stopped herself, Orana was always this nosy. "I still don't know Orana, but just keep it between us while I work it out. I promise Anders won't bother anyone else. Hell he doesn't even know he's...bothering me" she offered feeling dirtier by saying so.
After a nice long scrub and a slightly early lunch Aliea managed to catch Isabela at the Hanged Man. She collected Merrill herself on the way and they were just waiting on Aveline to meet them. Aliea had sent a missive the night before telling her to do so. Varric's suite was empty as his own missive's return had stated it would be. Aveline came sauntering in wearing her full armor as usual. "This better be important Hawke" she replied gruffly. "Oh, I think it is" Aliea confessed with heart full of melancholy. All the girls in her party sat in a circle around the round table Varric had apprehended for his private quarters. Three sets of eyes stared at her waiting. "So...this is kind of hard to admit, and I need your words that you will wait and hear me out for you do anything" Aliea advised. Three short nods left nothing for her to do but advise her friends the treachery now plaguing her love life.
"It seems something's changed" she started. "With Anders" she finished seeing Aveline giving an I knew it look and Isabela looking intrigued. Merril just looked confused as always. Aliea filled her lungs with a large breath of dirty tavern air. "Or I should say Justice" she continued. No longer able to delay she started to describe the events of the last few days in vivd and disturbing detail. All her friends gave her pitying eyes and waited for her to go on. Aliea bit her thumbnail in frustration saying "It's all so frustrating. The first time I don't even know what happened because he threw me to the wall and knocked me out, the second he took over in the middle of me...you knowing Anders and the last time he took over when Anders was asking me why I was avoiding him. It seems Justice can take over whenever he wants now, so we can't tell Anders what is going on without causing Justice to just pop out again and pissed. I would know." Aliea unconsciously rubbed her neck where the hidden bruises were.
"And you say he collared you?" Merrill asked timidly. "I don't see a collar are you sure?" she said with a hopeful smile. "Very sure Merrill, he casts some sort of spell to hide it, but I assure you I'm as magical as a Dwarf right now" she said with a half-hearted laugh. "Maybe if you were as magical as Sandal you could stun Justice with an enchantment" Isabela said with a smile. Polite laughter stuttered out of everyone before silence refilled the suite and the champion's female contingent pondered in silence awhile. Merrill tried to get the collar to appear, but without luck. Merrill thought if she could see it, maybe she could figure out how to remove it. Aliea's memory of the rune's were so rudimentary her crude drawing was pushed aside after a few tense moments.
After several hours they came up with nothing past leaving things as they were until Justice showed more of his hand. None of the three wanted to leave Hawke to go back to her house to him, but if Justice's threats proved true, he may hurt or kill Anders if Hawke was too tardy. They settled for getting her completely tossed before dropping her off at the mansion at dinner time. Aveline left instructions with Bodahn to send word if he felt the Lady Hawke needed any assistance. The three walked slowly away from the Hawke estate together in silence. "We can't really leave her to Justice's cruel treatment can we?" Aveline squeezed out trying to hide any emotion in the loaded statement. "It's what she wants" Isabela exclaimed with a sad tenor. "Sometimes" she went on "it's what you have to do."