Moonpriestess30:
Chp48: Yeah pretty gross but to be fair i would as well if i had a dire wolf intent on eating me. She can transform at will but it does get a little difficult to control under stress.
Ch49: Not gonna lie, used to play that game with my friends many, many, many years ago. Always made for funny conversations afterwards.
Chapter 50 – Private after party
'I've tucked Merrill into bed,' Makatza yawns, 'Aveline has somehow squeezed in with her, I guarantee one of them is gonna fall out in the middle of the night,' she mumbles as she stretches her arms wide. She spoke in a hushed voice, Varric was asleep in his chair his snoring was a regular interruption through the room. Fenris was lounging on the sofa and looked around before opening his arms for her to fall into, she sat on the sofa before laying on his chest.
'Tonight has been a revelation. I do not think I have learnt so much about our friends,' he says quietly. Her weight on his chest was strangely comforting and being able to smell her hair was relaxing. 'Isabela almost I died I think.'
'Yes, I was a little cruel,' Makatza smirks. 'Thinking of specific scenarios that I knew she had done for the game was probably a little unfair,' she says as she gets comfortable. It wasn't the best idea to be cuddling on the sofa but Varric was asleep and Garrett had taken Isabela to bed a good hour ago. There really wasn't anywhere else for them to sleep so they had a good excuse. 'Especially the one with the nug,' Makatza says through a yawn. She looks over at Varric. 'Do you think he's really asleep?'
Fenris raised a brow and glanced at the dwarf. 'Yes, he is asleep. Why?'
Makatza laughs lightly. 'Because we're in a little bit of a compromising position,' she teases lightly as she tugs on a strand of his hair making him smile. 'Izzy made me play a game earlier when it was just us girls,' she says wanting to know what his reaction would be. 'She likes to talk about what guys are like in bed.'
'I do not think I like the idea of you thinking about other men that way,' Fenris says honestly which makes Makatza grin and sit up resting her forearms on his chest as she looks at him.
'Tough,' she says simply. His reply was in the form of a disapproving growl to which she ignored. 'We'll come back to this in a minute,' she says. 'My point being, for the first time Isabela managed to talk about you.'
He had to admit he was intrigued, 'that is surprising,' he says dryly.
'I know right? I knew she was going to, she's been trying for months,' Makatza quietly giggles, 'she got away with it tonight as I was curious about what the others would think,' she smiles. 'They were pretty dead on, it was a little annoying.'
He brushes her fringe aside, 'I thought you said it was about what men were like in bed? Is there something I have forgotten?' He teases, 'did you have your way with me one night while I slept?' Makatza blushes and shakes her head.
'There's categories,' she explains with a laugh.
'It is a very well thought out game then. What are the categories?' He asks actually curious.
Makatza grins and gives him a gentle kiss before she continues to speak making him smile and feel a little better, which annoyed him at how easily she could flip his emotions. 'Well, there's the kissing, then there's dirty talk, foreplay, the actual sex and the …. finale,' she says going a little pink. 'Everyone takes a subject and we make predictions,' she giggles. 'Aveline had kissing, Merrill took foreplay, Isabela covered dirty talk and sex,' Makatza was enjoying the discomfort on his face with the telling of her story.
'What is the finale?' He asks confused. 'I am guessing that is what you spoke about.' Makatza's face went bright red and he chuckles, 'oh I see. That finale. I see. What did you say?' He asks.
Makatza forgot about this bit, she was telling him about the game to make him get all embarrassed but now it had backfired on her. 'Well I've never been in that position so I wouldn't know,' she says simply as she clears her throat. 'I didn't specify and we kinda forgot about that bit.'
'You are lying to me,' he says grinning as he winds his hands through her hair. 'You said something, I would like to know what it was,' Fenris pulls her close for a kiss tasting the whiskey and wine that she had been drinking. A flush of heat swam through her core as his lips touched hers and it felt as if a fog had swamped her senses. He held her close with a hand against her back as he cradled her head, her hair had fallen over them surrounding them in mild darkness and her perfume.
'I said that you would pull me close,' she whispered between kisses, 'and at that moment,' she bit his lip ever so lightly making him inhale sharply before crushing her mouth with his. She pulled away from his fevered grip she continued to speak leaning down to whisper in his ear, 'the moment when it hit you, you'd moan my name like a prayer,' she said softly feeling his heavy breathing against her neck. His fingers dug into her skin a little as he held her, she kissed his lobe and then moved back a little so she could look at him.
He felt that she was being a little cruel and going by her smirk she knew it. Fenris strokes her cheek lightly, 'one day you will know if what you predicted was true,' he says softly making her blush with a giggle as she bit her lip and nodded. 'I would appreciate it if you kept it to yourself though,' he teases making her blush darken.
'Promise,' she says smiling as she leans into his hand.
'You are... Venhedis,' he chuckles clearing his throat. 'I cannot think straight around you,' he admits. 'My skin does not even hurt-' the look on her face made him pause in his sentence and he tilted his head to look at her. There was a little bit of silence before she spoke.
'Ah, about that... please don't be angry... I have something to tell you,' Makatza winces not knowing how he was going to take this. He raised a brow and waited for her to continue. 'I um, realised that subconsciously I have been emitting a...healing wave? Like every time I thought you were near or you'd touch me my mana would project this numbing or healing pulse. I only realised I was doing it earlier today when you caught me off guard in the kitchen.'
'You have been healing me?' He repeats a little confused. Makatza sits up and moves away a little allowing him to straighten as he get up, she glances over at Varric to make sure that he's still asleep.
'I'm sorry! I know it's a massive breach of like your physical boundaries and invasive but I didn't even know until this morning and yes, I kinda have been doing it since because I didn't want to hurt you-'
'Katza,' he says softly stopping her before she babbled herself silly. He had made peace with the fact that her mana affected him in ways she couldn't control and that his lyrium would always react to her regardless of what he wanted. 'For how long?' He asked.
'Um, hard to pinpoint but I think it semi-sorta started around the time I healed your ribs. My mana has like a memory? So I use my mana on you to heal and so it just assumes that's what it's supposed to do around you as I'm guessing you're generally in pain? It's such low level healing I don't even feel the draw from it...' she attempts to explain. 'I could try to stop it but it would take me a while-'
'No, no...' he says simply shaking his head. 'No, I do not want to feel pain when I touch you. I do not want that memory,' he mumbles looking down at his hands. 'Is it selfish of me to want to feel normal around you? Even though I would simply be taking advantage of something I hypocritically always said I despised?'
Makatza shook her head and held out her hand for him to take, he pauses before resting his fingers onto her. 'Do you feel that?' She asks.
'I feel nothing, just your hand,' Fenris says quietly.
'Exactly,' she nods. 'Just like everyone else who would take my hand. Do you feel this?' She asked as she released her mana in a strong wave of healing over his hand and arm.
'Yes, you are actively trying to heal me,' he nods.
'The first time is my mana doing it's subconscious thing, the second time I am trying. What about now?' She said as she pulled her mana back completely. Fenris winces at the sudden return of the memory of pain as it shot through his fingers, her nails were resting on his palm and causing a sharp spike through his markings. Eventually he has to pull his hand away, making her smile turn sad. 'It isn't selfish to not want to feel that, Fenris.'
'I did not realise the difference was so intense. How have I not noticed the fact I felt no pain around you before?' He asks.
'I'm going to assume that it's just so alien and surreal you never truly believed it could be real,' she hypothesises. 'If you don't mind, I'd like to just let my mana do it's thing. I don't want you to be in pain,' she asks softly, a first step to him believing that what happened to him wasn't his fault, that and I don't want him to be in pain when he touches me.
'I... would like that,' he agrees, a little time passes in comfortable silence before a thought hits him and he wishes to change the subject from his markings. 'Do you play that game often with Isabela?' He asks feeling the soft relief as her mana washes over him once more. He sits back against the sofa and she shuffles closer so that she was leaning her head on his chest.
She giggles and nods. 'Yes, she likes to play it whenever we get the chance,' she rolls her eyes.
'You partake in answering the questions?'
'Yes I partake,' she teases as she looks up at him. 'Makes you uncomfortable doesn't it?'
'I do not like the idea. I do not like thinking that you are thinking about other men, especially in that way,' he admits as he closes his eyes and adjusts his arm around her a little. There was a brief cough from Varric as he cleared his throat and shifted in his seat before settling back down, they pause having a brief moment before they relax. 'I do not like how friendly you are with men in general,' he adds quietly.
Makatza smirks and sits up straight to look at him. 'Like I said earlier, tough. You will just have to learn to deal with it,' she says simply. 'I'm not changing who I am to make you feel more at ease. You either trust me or you don't,' she states.
Fenris sighs and opens his eyes. 'I trust you. I do not trust them.'
'That's fine, you don't have to,' she smiles.
'What do you want from me, Katza?' Fenris asks softly. 'Today and tonight has been for lack of a better word, fun. Is this all it is though?' He says quietly. 'I do not think I would be able to give you what you want in the future.'
Makatza tilts her head. 'Why are you worrying about things that won't happen for years to come? Can't we enjoy what we have right now? Get out of your head and live in the moment with me. Right now I want to enjoy my time with you. I don't want to tell the others just yet because they'll stick their noses in and I don't want to deal with their opinion but it doesn't mean that I'm not serious about what this might be, does that make sense?'
'Only because I know you,' he chuckles as a little of his tension is released.
'What do you want from me, Fenris?'
'You. I want you to be mine. Only mine,' he says simply as he gives her a half smile. Ah, the controlling and boundary issues are rising here, she thinks a little amused. Well she had already told him that she wasn't going to change who she was and he accepted that so she would respect his wants. Instead of agreeing to what he said she kissed him sweetly in reply but it seemed to be all the answer he needed. A flush of cold swept over them from the open window and Makatza shivered as she got up and shut the window and grab a blanket from the cupboard on the way back to the sofa. 'I think it would be a good idea to get some sleep,' he nods.
'Well we're gonna have to act really well in the morning when they find us,' Katza laughs as she cuddles up to him, thankful that he wasn't wearing his armour or it would be really uncomfortable. 'I'm thinking that if I think about what happened tonight in enough detail my head might actually implode from my tell tale blush. Think that will be convincing enough to make them think I'm embarrassed?'
'If it does not work I can always push you off the sofa,' he jokes making Katza snort and giggle covering her mouth with her hand.
'Can we call that plan 'B'?' She laughs as she laid her head down on his chest and breathing in the sweet smelling spices from the armour polish he used. Her wolf sense had merged with her own almost seamlessly and she could pick him out a crowd in a heartbeat. Her inner wolf was happily content for the moment though there was a pang for her puppies, she knew they were fine. Her heart had never felt more complete than it had ever been. The entire weight of the night crashed upon her and within a few minutes she had fallen asleep. Fenris would be the first to admit that this sofa wasn't the most comfortable piece of furniture in the world but he wouldn't change anything. He kisses the top of her head as he wraps an arm around her shoulders and using his other arm as a pillow he turns his head to the side so that he could fall asleep.
Silence began to grow in the room, an hour or so passed and Varric opened an eye half way as he looked at the pair. 'Is that how it is then?' He says to himself amused, the elf thought he had been asleep and they had let their guard down. Honestly he didn't mean to spy on them, it had just happened and it wasn't like he could have left at any point. Well, he would respect their wishes and keep it to himself for the time being but it didn't mean that he couldn't have some fun with them first.
