Thank you for staying with me for so long! There will be 15 chapters in all. Only 3 (counting last chapter) will have lemon scenes, and only 1 out of those 3 will be as hardcore as I can make it!
As you should know by now, I try to make my stories as IC as possible. This chapter is how I think Alviss would react to Rolan fainting on him. And Nanashi being wise and giving advice for once!
Confessions of the Soul
It was still stormy the next day, thunder storms coming and going throughout the day. Rolan lay in bed, temperature soaring and muttering deliriously to himself. He had caught a fever.
Alviss reclined on the leather couch, reading a book whilst going through last night's events in his head. He had fought with Nanashi that he knew for sure - he had the bruises and mess to remind him. But the one thing that was bothering him was what he did with Rolan.
When Rolan had fainted and Alviss finished up, he was worried. He cleaned up their mess and waited for Rolan to wake up. He didn't, and now he had a fever. Did they do it right? What if Rolan had caught something from Alviss? He continued to worry as Nanashi walked into the room. He was feeling down because the weather meant he couldn't go out and swoon girls. Alviss had a stroke of inspiration.
"Nanashi?"
"What?"
"When you've had... well you know... with a girl, does she faint?" he questioned innocently. Nanashi stood there, peering miscellaneously at him.
"No... not always. It depends on the girl I suppose," he answered with a tone of slight suspicion in his voice. Alviss sighed and tensed, glancing in the direction of Rolan's room.
"Why do you ask?"
"I... I think I broke Rolan."
"'Broke'?" Nanashi asked incredulously. "What did you guys do last night?" As Alviss blushed and muttered something, Nanashi beamed. "Oh... That's what ya did... I was wonderin' what all that noise was," he teased, sitting next to Alviss on the couch. "Wow! Al ya ol' dog! I didn't know ya had it in ya!" he nudged Alviss with an elbow. Alviss tolerated this treatment by just ignoring it. He didn't want to have a fight again.
"But he... fainted..." he hated the whimper that arose in his voice. "Did I do it wrong?" he voiced his worries out loud.
"Well... Not really. It's a bit like using your magic," Nanashi started to explain as Alviss stared at him in disbelief. He's comparing that to magic? he thought.
"If ya aren't properly prepared or if ya haven't used it before, yer drained of yer energy."
"So... because Rolan was weak and unprepared, he fainted?" Alviss was feeling better. Nanashi nodded, smiling widely.
"That and he probably exhausted himself blowing up those muggers... and him being left in the freezing rain wouldn't've helped," he added.
Alviss ignored this statement and said, "So I most probably did it good?"
Nanashi chuckled. "By the sounds I heard last night, ya were great."
Alviss straightened himself and smiled coldly. All doubt and guilt washed away. He glanced critically at the leering blonde and cleared his throat. "Well then, if that's that..."
"So ya love him?" Nanashi boldly fired. He was bored after all and this was one of his favourite pastimes; trying to wind Alviss up until he was ready to kill. Alviss simply shrugged his shoulders in reply. "Ya still not admitting that ya do... even after last night?" he scratched his head. "Yer incredible..."
"If I did... I wouldn't tell you. I'm not stupid you know," Alviss replied coolly, sniffing pompously and going back to his book. Nanashi snorted.
"'Not stupid'? Ya asked me if ya had broken him!" he exclaimed. Alviss hid his embarrassment in his book. He mentally slapped himself, realising how stupid he must've sounded. Even though he had pushed aside his pride for Rolan, he wasn't about to let this man goad him.
"Nanashi. We need to talk."
"About what?" Nanashi asked apprehensively, not liking the tone in Alviss's voice.
"Your behaviour is unacceptable at the moment. I trust you to act like a responsible grown-up on matters like these," Alviss said. Nanashi opened his mouth to retaliate, but changed his mind half-way and closed it, nodding once.
"Now, I want to talk to you about... that," Alviss started, shifting uncomfortably.
"What?" Nanashi blinked.
"You know... THAT."
"Sex?"
Alviss blushed and inclined his head stiffly, hoping to God that Nanashi wasn't about to be immature about it.
"What about it?" Nanashi watched Alviss. The proud man looked awkward. My word! he thought. He's asking me how to do it! "I ain't giving ya any of my secret moves," he joked. Alviss's mouth twitched at least.
"I just want to... I mean, I don't want to hurt him," Alviss explained.
"Ya should only do it when ya both are ready," Nanashi advised. "I'm sure when that time arises; ya will know what to do."
Alviss nodded and smiled. He stood, going to the kitchen to prepare Rolan's meal. On his way up the hallway, he looked over at Nanashi and said in a strange voice, "Then you can tell me your secret moves."
Nanashi's mouth dropped open as he stared after Alviss. Alviss made a joke?!