*"Hey, Alvin! Mm-hmm, I can talk. Ahaha! No, I'm not taller than you yet. But I'm starting to catch up. Let me guess: You're calling about a job, right? Yeah. Uh-huh. Got it. Elize'll be joining us this time"

After hanging up, Elle stands up from the ground. She looks at the clock that, once in the past, had belonged to Ludger and smiles to herself before beginning to walk towards home.

"Can you believe it? She has called me Alvin!"

Gaius chuckles from his desk and turns his head to look at Alvin, who was still lying on his shared bed with a frown.

"She has probably done it to tease you"

"Tsk, she better not think that she can stop calling me 'dad' just because she is old enough to help me with my job", Alvin says while standing up from the bed, his tone sounding still a little sulking.

Gaius chuckles again.

"I assume that she had bought your excuse about a new job?", Gaius asks, kissing Alvin's cheek softly when this one encloses his arms around the king's neck from behind while leaning his chin over Gaius' shoulder.

"Yeah, I don't think that she had guessed that we have organized a birthday party for her", Alvin says with a satisfied tone before adding with a more worried one, "I hope she likes her presents. It's incredibly difficult to know what to buy to a sixteen years old teenager"

"Don't worry. I'm sure she will love your present", Gaius says with a reassuring tone, "At the end everyone is going to come, right?"

"Yep", Alvin says kissing Gaius' cheek back before leaning against the king's desk, "everyone. So before preparing anything here I'm going to get my toys supplies from my office since little Ludger is coming as well"

Gaius smiles to himself.

"Well, at least Maxine is still too little to be dangerous"

"Yeah, for now she is rather calm. It seems that she's more like her father", Alvin says with a smile while thinking about Milla and Jude's adorable two-years-old daughter.

"Give her time", Gaius says with a smile, "she'll surely become a strong-tempered woman like Milla in no time"

Alvin shakes his head.

"Poor Jude", he says with an apologetic tone that causes Gaius to laugh before resuming the writing of his letter.

Alvin observes the king in silence during some seconds before diverting his eyes towards the photo that was put in a frame on the desk.

The photo that Marcus took four years ago during the wedding and in which he and Gaius appeared kissing completely unaware of the rest, who was looking at them with amused but extremely happy expressions on their faces.

Alvin smiles to himself, remembering what a good day it was.

Or better said: how good all his days were after that one.

"Then are you going to your office now?", Gaius asks, making Alvin come back to earth to settle his eyes on the king's concentrated figure again, and he can't avoid to exhale a soft sigh. Damn, how could his husband have gotten even more handsome after reaching the forties?

"Yeah. I'll go. But in a while"

Gaius stops writing when hearing Alvin's change of tone, from casual to a one that clearly belonged just to the bedroom, and when the king looks up at his husband he realizes that this one was looking at him with a raised suggestive eyebrow that causes him to smile.

"Didn't you have enough with last night?"

Alvin shrugs.

"It wasn't bad. But since Elle is coming back from her trip tonight maybe we should make the most of this morning"

Gaius chuckles before letting his pen on the table. Then, he stands up as well, situating himself just in front of Alvin to settle his hands on the man's waist while this one encloses his arms around Gaius' neck.

"You know? You have not changed one bit during these years", Gaius says with an amusing tone.

Alvin laughs.

"And is that bad?", he asks while leaning down until his lips are just teasing Gaius' ones.

"Not at all", Gaius whispers against Alvin's mouth before sealing their lips together in a passionate kiss, making Alvin stop leaning against the desk and walking him towards the bed until the back of Alvin's knees hit it.

"It seems that I was not the only one who didn't have enough", Alvin comments with satisfaction while lying on the bed, removing (rather hurriedly) his clothes while observing the king doing the same.

"I had enough", Gaius replies with a smile before crawling over Alvin in order to attack his neck, making the younger man exhale a satisfied gasp while beginning to grind his hips up against Gaius, searching for contact, "but there is no way that I could say no to such a tempting proposition"

Alvin laughs before forcing Gaius to look at him again.

"You haven't changed one bit either, your Majesty", he says with a smile that Gaius immediately returns.

"And is that bad?", Gaius asks, purposely repeating Alvin's previous words and causing the last one to chuckle.

"Not at all", Alvin repeats, enclosing his arms around his husband's neck to kiss him again, calmer this time, "I love you, Erston"

Gaius smiles tenderly and leans forward to speak just in Alvin's ear.

"I love you, Alvin. Now and forever"

Alvin chuckles, remembering that Gaius had told him those same words the day of their wedding, but before he could tease the king for his sappiness the king had already resumed his attack on his body and was beginning to travel down with a rather evident intent of keeping his ministration even lower, so the only thing that Alvin does is to close his eyes while throwing his head back, a satisfied moan escaping from the smile that was adorning his lips.

It promised to be another incredible morning.

The End

The Mercenary and the King

GAlvin43v3r

And like this, after 36 chapters, 'The Mercenary and the King' has finally come to an end :)

When I began to write this fic, I couldn't possibly have imagined that it was going to end being such a long one. In fact, at first I just planned to write a one-shot in which Alvin and Gaius made out/slept together and nothing more. That one shot was going to begin with the make out session that appears at the end of the chapter 8 of this fic, but at the end I wasn't satisfied with the result because I felt that I had to develop Gaius and Alvin's relationship more so such a scene had sense…and like that, this fanfic began to grow and grow and this is the final result xD

To all the ones who have been reading it, I seriously hope that you have enjoyed it almost as much as I've enjoyed writing it :) I would lie if I said that I'm not going to miss to write about this uncommon but awesome pair because during a year and half I've got used to have Gaius and Alvin present in my head almost every day. But everything has to eventually come to an end, so I just hope to have finished this story in a more or less right way :)

And finally, thank you so much to the ones who have been commenting and leaving kudos. It's incredibly nice to see that there are people out there who appreciate what you do ^^

Sorry for such a long note -.- And I hope to see some of you again if someday I decide to keep writing about these two ;)