Chapter 7 Moving On And Coming Out

"Jafar?.." Aladdin said softly, his low voice slightly hesitant from where he was enfolded securely within the Sultan's warm, loving embrace in their bed contentedly.

"Yes, my dove?"

"I.. I'm sorry about yesterday.. That I was such a wreck, I mean. It was just, being away from you for so long was.. really hard on me.. I..-"

"Shhh," Jafar soothed, interrupting him. He then pressed a single finger to Aladdin's lips before kissing him gently for a reluctantly brief moment, looking over into his husband's eyes where he lay cuddled against his side.

"I understand, my love. I cried myself to sleep every night while you were away. But, can we please do our best to try to forget the unpleasantness and look to our future together? I love you, so much, Aladdin, my sweet husband.."

"I love you, too," Aladdin promised, snuggling closer to his lover and nuzzling his face against his bare chest happily. "More then anything, or anyone else. I always have."

"Mmmm…" Jafar hummed softly, kissing him again, longer and deeper this time. The kiss drew a low moan of pleasure and longing from Aladdin as he rolled them both in the large bed so that Aladdin lay beneath him, both of them already fully naked as they had been sleeping.

"Spread your legs for me?.." Jafar requested gently. His lips curved into a slight smile when Aladdin's cheeks flushed pink at his request as he obeyed quickly, opening his thighs to his exploration, whimpering as he felt two of Jafar's long oil-wet fingers pushing inside his body slowly.

"Unghhh, ohh.. Jafar.." he groaned loudly as the Sultan stretched him quickly for the coming penetration, but still being careful not to hurt him. "Please.. I need you, inside me! So much!"

Jafar nodded, adding a third finger beside the first two before he was satisfied that his lover could take him in. He knew that it would take a few days, maybe even a week, before he was stretched out enough down there after their unwilling separation to be able to take Jafar into himself again without much preparation like before.

Then he withdrew his fingers, immensely enjoying Aladdin's sharp, needy cry as he lifted his husband's legs up onto his shoulders securely, pushing himself into his warm, welcoming body carefully. Jafar gave him a few necessary moments to adjust before he started to rock his own hips, moving inside him, going deeper slowly until he could go no further. He shuddered in response when Aladdin moaned throatily, staring up into Jafar's eyes, almost purring with pleasure as he started to thrust into his younger lover's body in earnest now.

They held each other close; panting together; kissing fiercely; sweat dripping from their bodies as they made love.

Too soon for both their likings it was over, and they lay there together in the bed, spent and contented. They cuddled close with the Sultan still buried inside Aladdin as they slowly drifted off to sleep again after exchanging whispered endearments and "I love you's" to each other softly before the only sound in the large room was their quiet, peaceful breathing as they rested together after their pleasant exertion.

Alternate Agraba

"Jasmine?" Aladdin said, walking up to her where she sat looking out the window in her rooms with a slightly sad expression on her face. "Can we talk?"

"Of course," she said, obviously faking a smile as she turned her slim body on her seat to face him. "What is it, my love?"

Aladdin sat down in a second chair directly across from hers, reaching out to take both of her delicate hands in both of his, ignoring her barely perceptible flinch at his touch as he stared into her eyes.

"Jasmine, I.. I can't marry you. I'm-"

"What?" she gasped softly, honest shock filling her face and eyes at his totally unexpected statement. "But, we have to-"

"Jasmine, please.." he said quietly. "Just.. hear me out before you say anything, okay?-"

She nodded slowly, and he continued his explanation to her.

"-Thank you. I can't marry you, Jazz. I'm sorry for it, but.. I just.. I don't love you like that. Not anymore. I tried, Jasmine, I really did try. I tried as hard as anyone possibly could try. I honestly did want to make you happy with me, but.. I know now that you don't love me, either. You never did love me. I'm not what you want. I'm not what you need. I never could have been. I thought that I could pretend for you, as you were, but.."

"But what, Aladdin?.." Jasmine asked him quietly, surprised to see moisture fill his sky-blue eyes as he looked back at her steadily.

"I don't want to spend my whole life pretending to be something I'm not," he answered her honestly. "Something that I never could be. I want to love, and to be loved by someone. I need that connection. And.. I've found that level of connection. I've met someone, and, I love him, with all my heart, with all of me. He needs me, and I have pledged him my love, and my protection, forever.-"

He saw her eyes go to the ring on his left hand, then back up to his face quickly, her expression clearly questioning him curiously.

"-Yes, Jazz, he wears one as well, though, of a different colored stone. We may not have had an actual marriage ceremony. But, to us, it meant just as much, if not more then one, and the Vows that we made to each other were real, and just as binding. I love him, and he loves me, and so, I cannot marry you. I'm sorry, and I hope that we can still be friends, Jazz, maybe even like brother and sister?"

"Of course, Aladdin. It is better this way. I was.. reluctant to tell you, because I did not wish to hurt you, but.. I, too, love another. Or two, as it were. My servant and my maid, Hassim and Alita. They are married to each other by law, but they love me, also. I am truly sorry that I have not been honest with you, and, I hope that we can put the past behind us and look to the future, whatever it may be. I shall deal with the fallout with my father the best way that I can when it arises."

"I, too, wish for this to be so."

"Good, So, tell me, who is it that is your love? Someone living within the Palace?.."

"Yes, actually. It is your father's Vizier, Jafar.."

Alternate Agraba

"So," Jafar said to Aladdin when he returned from speaking to the princess, his face worried as he looked at his lover as he sat down beside him on their bed. "What did she say? Was she shocked, my love?"

"Shocked? No. It is as I suspected. She does not wish to wed with me, either. Nor with anyone, for her loves are already married, to each other. We are free to be together always, my sweet sorcerer. From now, until the end of time will I love you, Jafar."

"As I will love you, Aladdin, my heart."