ATG fic: You are nothing without me (7/7)
Warning : This chapter containx NC-17 (explicit M/M sex
Author notes:
1. Special thanks for my sweetest beta Myr
2. Sorry for late update and thank you for all your feedback and support.
Chapter 7
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The hot water sloshed quietly as Hephaistion ducked lower in the tub, a page had prepared the bath for him. After meeting Alexander on the mountain, Hephaistion had fallen ill again.
Hephaistion lay in his bed for a whole week and Alexander only left his side for shorter periods. The King was terrified to lose him again and therefore he constantly watched over him personally.
Watching his lover lying in the bathtub aroused every part of him, and Alexander came to sit next to him, to run his eyes over a body he had missed for so long, and to inhale the familiar scent of his lover, a luxury he had been with out in what seemed like an eternity.
"You are so beautiful, my Hephaistion. May I help you bathe?"
Turning to him, Hephaistion smiled softly. "Do you want to help me bathe, Alexander? You are the king and not a servant."
Alexander smiled sheepishly and said with a childish voice, "But I want to and if I am a king I can have what I want, right? So may I touch you, Hephaistion? Please, you are killing me by not allowing me to help you."
Hephaistion snickered listening to Alexander begging so prettily, knowing he was teasing him.
Ever since Hephaistion came back into his life, Alexander didn't dare to touch his lover without asking for permission. He was so afraid to offend his lover or losing him. He wasn't even certain that Hephaistion in fact wanted him back - perhaps his lover was just too ill to refuse him, and he couldn't risk that.
"Then, my king, you can help me," Hephaistion grinned and returned to his formal position.
Alexander started a slow massage of his lover's shoulder. He hated how thin Hephaistion had become after several months of sickness after the dreadful near drowning. His lover used to be more muscular, but now he had lost a lot of weight.
"Do you like me doing it, Hephaistion? Can you feel it? My hands?"
Hephaistion laughed softly with closed eyes, mesmerized by the sheer feel of Alexander's touch. "Yes, I certainly feel it, Alexander. You press so hard – it would be impossible for me not feeling it."
Alexander paused immediately. "Sorry, you should tell me if I hurt you. Phai. I'm sorry."
Turning to see the King's guilty eyes, Hephaistion picked up his hand and kissed it. "You didn't hurt me, Alexander. You were just showing me the strength of your body and I enjoyed your touch very much. If you don't mind, would you continue your work, my King?"
Alexander quickly responded to his lover's sweet compliment and gladly started his task, sharing smiles.
"I love you, Phai," Alexander whispered in Hephaistion's ear. His lips were so close to touch his lover's sun kissed skin; his breath was quickened with desire being so close to his nakedness.
Understanding and hearing every little change in the blond man, Hephaistion smiled, and answered with a playful voice, "Are you going to tell me you love me every day, Alexander. Will you now get bored eventually?"
"No, I want you to feel it every day in your life how much I love you and not just telling you, Phai, starting from now."
Before Hephaistion had a chance to reply, he felt Alexander's breath on his nose and when Hephaistion opened his deep blue eyes, the King's face was an inch away from his own.
"Please, Phai. Let me kiss you. I need to feel you. May I have permission my love?" Alexander groaned and his breath quickened.
"You may ask anything from me, my King, just don't hurt me again."
"Never, Phai. Never."
Within that second, Alexander's lips touched the trembling ones of his lover. His hand caressed tears from Hephaistion's cheek as their tongues were entwined. Alexander realized how much he missed this feeling. How he loved everything in this man, and how every part of their bodies were fit together perfectly, feeling that the Gods had created Hephaistion just for him. He was so grateful that he had been granted another chance to hold this man in his arms.
Lifting his panting lover from the tub, Alexander lay him down on the bed. Looking down at the breathtaking sight of the figure in front of him, he smiled. "You are mine, Hephaistion, always and forever." Alexander grinned and cocked his head before he grabbed the cloth that lay on the large bed. "I would be honoured if you would let me dry you, my love."
Instead of using the cloth to dry his lover's body, Alexander moved to bind Hephaistion's eyes with it and started tracking his tongue on his lover's cheek down to his neck and nipples. He heard the man beneath him breathe laboured with desire. His hands were touching and teasing his lover's sensitive spots. Moaning loudly, Hephaistion moved restlessly under Alexander's touch. His lover was so aroused and ready for him to take. Alexander moved to his lover's groin to taste the precious cum, oozing from the slit. Licking and tasting him repeatedly, his other hand trailed down to Hephaestion's opening. Gently, he fingered him, drawing a line up and down, up and down on his lover's channel.
"Alexander, please stop torturing me. Ohh... Gosh... I missed this!"
Hephaistion's shoulder bucked up from the bed, because he could no longer stand the teasing and he wanted to touch Alexander in kind, to feel his love, and fulfil their need.
Smiling, Alexander pushed his lover down on the bed. "Be patient, Phai. This is just the beginning. I haven't even begun making love to you."
"No?" Hephaistion asked dazzled, "How can it be? I feel like I am going to explode any minute."
Alexander sank his teeth a bit into the base of Hephaistion's mushroomed cock head but not enough to hurt him, just to further arousing the man beneath him. Dragging his teeth gently to the root of Hephaistion's cock, he then moved his practiced mouth and tongue on his lover's erection. The intensity built up and, Hephaistion eventually came apart, having missed Alexander's touch for so long. Screaming loudly when he burst his seed into the King's awaiting mouth, his whole body jerked and trembled until he was done coming.
The aftermath was soothing their hearts; lying close and holding each other was precious to them, after having had several passionate and intense sex. Everything was beyond reason. It was flesh to flesh with the purest and deepest desire between two long lost lovers. In the end, Hephaistion drifted away and fell quickly asleep in Alexander's arms. It was a divine feeling that Alexander would cherish and remember for the rest of his life.
Alexander gently kissed Hephaistion's eyelid and brushed moist strands of hair from his lover's perfect face. "I love you, Hephaistion, and I don't know how to thank you for all the love you have for me." He covered his lover's naked body with a warm sheet and put on his robe to leave the room.
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"So Hephaistion was finally returned to you?"
Jerking in surprise at hearing a voice behind him, while he quietly closed the door to Hephaistion's room, Alexander managed to reply, "What, Ptolemy? Don't surprise me like that sneaking up behind my back again if you want to keep your head." Alexander complained with a playful voice.
"How is he?" Ptolemy cocked his head and gave Alexander a wry smile.
"He is getting better and he is resting now."
"You are blushing my King, I doubt I have seen that look since we left Mieza."
Alexander was laughing happily and drew Ptolemy in for a hug. The older man was a little bit surprised at how his King had changed from a depressed shadow of his former self, and into this smiling man in such a short time.
"You really have gotten him back, haven't you? You are even unable to stop smiling, my King," Ptolemy tried to suppress a sudden need to laugh, looking at the King's blushing face.
"I don't think I can hide anything from you, Ptolemy. With a wise friend and General like you, it is no surprise that I can go this far and surpassed all other glory."
"How about Hephaistion, my King, is he the part of your glory?"
"He is me, Ptolemy. How can I achieve anything without myself? Now you have to allow your King to order chicken. I am very hungry now and I'm certain that he feels the same way." Alexander smiled brightly and patted Ptolemy's shoulder before he left the older man behind.
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After Alexander ordered food for him and Hephaistion, he decided to go the temple to honour the god for giving him back his lover.
Once he entered the temple, he found the old priest who welcomed him on the first day he paid the temple a visit. The old priest walked toward the King and bowed down before he spoke solemnly to him.
"You cannot take him away, great King Alexander. Our god postponed General Hephaistion's time on this earth but he cannot live long outside our city. If he leaves this town, he will die." After the old priest finished his last sentence, he again bowed down to Alexander and left.
The end (really? UMM... this time it is not so. I added NC-17 scene in this story so I have to add an epilogue in this story so please wait for the final epilogue chapter for the happy ?sad? ending?)