Ch 51- Under the willow

(If anyone is confused by the title it is from the first line of a well known Lullaby named 'Deep in the Meadow'.)

Wei Ying couldn't help but stare at his husband, who he was sure wore a self satisfied smirk on his face. He gasped as he spoke….the words tumbling out.

'You remember what day that was?'

If anything Lan Zhan's smirk got wider.

'Of course I do. I remember everything about that day….You don't?' Lan Zhan asked, a definite tone of amusement present.

'I was kind of busy being pinned down and manhandled by some pervert to worry about what day it was' Wei Ying grumbled teasingly as he rubbed his head on his husbands shoulder almost like a cat.

Lan Zhan shifted a little so he could see the contours of his husbands face as he spoke.

'Pervert?' he asked both a little confused and astonished.

'Yeah…...you see that day in the meadow I was still a virgin, still intact and completely unknowing how sex worked and everything….then I was held down in the middle of meadow, stripped and deflowered where anyone could have walked up and watched. What do you call the man who did that to me if not a complete pervert?'

It was plainly obvious that while he had been speaking Wei Ying had been fighting back the urge to break into laughter. The last sentence was even muffled slightly as he turned his face fully into Lan Zhan's shoulder to try and hide the huge grin on his face as if he wasn't telling this story to the other man involved. Lan Zhan on the other hand wasn't trying to hide the amusement in his eyes at the story Wei Ying was telling. Wei Ying had always been good at twisting narratives but to hear him tell this story where he was almost like he had been some maiden with no clue about the world that Lan Zhan had taken advantage off was very amusing. Well he could play along to.

'mmm' Lan Zhan agreed after a moment. 'taking someone's chastity, holding someone down against his will, having sex in the middle of a meadow. Yes it sounds like the man was a pervert to me as well.'

Wei Ying's mouth gaped open at the response. He knew Lan Zhan had got better at flirting over the years but this level of teasing was new. However before he got over the shock he found his mouth filled with Lan Zhan's tongue, a taste he knew intimately well, then he found himself rocked back on the soft grass with a heavy body on top of him. The tongue stopped for a moment when Wei Ying let out a gasp from hitting the floor, non too softly.

'Lan Zhan…..you!' He managed to gasp before he was cut off by two long thin fingers resting on his lips signalling to keep quiet.

'I am being a pervert!' Lan Zhan said, as if it was a perfectly normal sentence to come out of his mouth! Before once again leaning in and assaulting Wei Ying's mouth with his own.

It wasn't the first time, and defiantly wouldn't be the last, that Wei Ying had been pressed into the ground by his husband. Lan Zhan loved pinning him to whatever structure or floor they were having sex on and allowing him the minimum amount of movement, if any movement at all. If he was honest Wei Ying loved it as well. The moonlight seemed to make Lan Zhan's chest glisten with an ethereal beauty as he opened his robes. Wei Ying couldn't help but lift his hips to rub his hardening member against Lan Zhan's thigh. Wei Ying wanted to reach up and touch that perfect chest but both his hands were held above his head in one of Lan Zhan's strong palms.

Wei Ying's body wanted more, wanted all Lan Zhan could give him. A small part of his mind though was telling him that this was a public clearing and anyone could walk up on them. Lan Zhan's body hovering over his, his hand holding his own to the floor and his mouth and tongue easily controlling his mouth. God he wanted …...wanted everything…...no matter where they were. Lan Zhan's free hand slid underneath his trousers and stroked a finger into his ass preparing him for what they both knew would come next.

'Lan Zhan' Wei Ying managed to gasp round his husbands mouth.

Lan Zhan slid a second and then a third finger inside Wei Ying, who was now beginning to buck his hips despite technically being fully clothed. Lan Zhan then removed his hand from Wei Ying's wrists and began to open his robes, leaving them as a thin shield against the dampness of the ground. Both of their trousers followed soon afterwards, Lan Zhan slowly inching his down and wriggling out of them. Wei Ying couldn't help but gasp and buck his hips further as Lan Zhan slid into him, a movement so natural by now that neither of them thought about the process. Within a few moments both of them had forgotten they were in a clearing with only the moonlight illuminating their joined bodies as a witness.

Wei Ying felt a hand shaking him and opened his eyes to the early morning sun. He tried not to roll over and ignore the hand on his arm, he tried not to ignore the voice telling him it was time to wake up. God he was tired, after all they had done the night before how could Lan Zhan still wake up so early and sound so…..so awake! Eventually when Lan Zhan's hand didn't show any intention of moving Wei Ying groaned and opened his eyes with more determination. This seemed to satisfy his husband who simply nodded and moved over to a small fire that had been built a few steps away. It was then he smelt it, the food being cooked on the fire drifting on the early morning air over to him. Wei Ying got up, found his belt and tied it on. After last night they had both been too tired to get properly dressed against the cold so had simply wrapped their robes around themselves before huddling in their bedroll.

As he sat down next to his husband Lan Zhan offered one of the skewers of meat towards him, which of course he didn't have to be asked twice to take. As he ate it he spoke.

'You bit my neck again last night. Does that mean I'm going to walk around for another three days looking like I got bit by a dog?'

'mmm' was they only response Lan Zhan gave as he reached for his own skewer and began to eat slowly.

'Lan Zhan….I don't mind you biting me...well actually i kind of do...but as it won't stop you anyway... do you have to do it in such and obvious place' Wei Ying huffed and grumbled around his food.

Lan Zhan simply paused his eating and looked at him with those eyes that scared most people but had the ability to turn him into a puddle of need. Lan Zhan didn't blink or move his eyes away from Wei Ying's as he moved his free hand to push some loose strands of hair from the others face.

'Yes!' He said with a ring of command, before turning back to his own meal.

As Wei Ying and Lan Zhan left the clearing to continue on their journey little did they know that their connection with that clearing had already become something that would last well past their own, or even their children's lifetimes.

A hunter had been travelling home the night before. He had spent some days in the forests beyond and was now travelling the path home. He was well used to there not being anyone on the road to speak to during his three day journey back to his village but he quite enjoyed the solitude of his own thoughts. His catch this time had been good and he was looking forwards to selling it all and being able to settle for a while before needing to take the long trek again. As he approached one of his normal resting spots, a nice clearing with a good view, he heard noises just off the side of the road. Curious as the noises sounded part human part animal the hunter had crept up to the side of the clearing to have a look. He had become astonished when his eyes had fallen upon two men, their naked bodies glistening in the moonlight. Their clothing, what little he could see of it, was nothing he had ever seen, and both men's beauty could only be described as out of this world. The hunter might have not been educated but he wasn't stupid and it didn't take him long to realise what the two were doing, and what the sounds were that bought him there.

He had left and walked through the night with the images of the two inside his mind, unable to shake the feeling he had just seen something no human should have seen. When he returned home to his village he told his story of the two male gods who had come down to earth to have sex in the meadow. He had seemed to honest that the villagers believed him and handed the story down to their children and their grand children. Soon among the local villages the story of the gods in the meadow had taken on legendary proportions. No longer was it just two gods who had come down to earth in that meadow but the people had woven in their own tales of angst, love and betrayal making it into a heart wrenching tale.

Now when people visited that small clearing, once so inconsequential that it didn't have a name, they would sit and tell the story of the two gods who were so beautiful and in love that even those in heaven hated them. To try and destroy that love the other gods had put a curse on the two that they would never be together, that their love would mean their deaths as gods. Little did the jealous gods know that the two didn't care about being gods, they only cared about being with each other, and so they both had made the heart-wrenching choice to leave their families and descend to earth together. The meadow also became a sacred place for youngsters to get married if they wanted a long and happy life together with their beloved, hoping to get blessings from the two gods in the tales. The meadow which had once just been a place to sit for those on the road was now even known as 'The Soulmates Meadow'