Chapter Two
Stephano cleared his throat and the barrel spun around to look him over.
Their first meeting had not been expected, so the demi-god had not the proper time to make himself look nice. But now he chose not to wear the gaudy gold he had been wearing last time.
Instead he wore bronze. Which the barrel realized suited his sapphire eyes better that the gold. He grinned slowly at the demi-god who flushed at the attention.
"You look delicious." He said hold out a hand to the bronzed male. Stephano took his hand and smiled, "Thank you." He wasn't sure what to call the barrel.
"I really can't keep calling you barrel…. Might I call you something else?" the barrel blinked in surprise.
"Uh… Sure…. What did you have in mind?" Stephano lifted and dropped one shoulder, "Oh, I don't know. I could call you Barry."
Slowly the barrel grinned. The grin make Stephano shiver, he cleared his throat and took a deep breath.
Barry leaned down and whispered in Stephano's ear, "Only if I can call you Stephy."
Stephano's face burned at the tone Barry was using and nodded quickly. The barrel straightened slowly and started to pull the demi-god along.
"Umm… Barry? Where are we going?" Stephano asked nervously, but allowing himself to be pulled along like a kite.
Barry smiled down at his nervous date. "To see a movie."
-A Barrel and a God-
Stephano actually tried to watch the movie. But it was difficult to watch a movie with someone nibbling on your neck.
The barrel was having too much fun tasting the demi-gods neck. It was also amusing to see the light dusting of red across bronze skin.
Stephano wondered why they were at a movie if they weren't going to watch it. Not that he minded the attention to his skin, but he would rather this happened…. A little less publicly.
He glanced at the barrel and tried to think of why Barry wanted him.
He could only come up with reasons not to like him; he wasn't a god anymore, he was French (kind of), he was basically just an animated statue, and he worked with a crazy MLG.
None of that seemed very attractive to him but maybe, just maybe, if he was really the barrel had been one of his followers before-
"Stephy?" Barry's voice sounded odd, Stephano glanced over to see the barrel's handsome face close to his. Almost too close.
"What is it Barry?" He asked slowly, turning to face the barrel.
Barry reached out and cupped Stephano's face in his hands and kissed him.
The demi-god would have been startled, if not for the fact that he had been expecting something like this at some point during their date.
The barrel had seen the look of pain of on the bronze demi-gods face and felt the need to erase it. So he did the only thing he could think of to distract his god. He kissed him.
The kiss tasted like an apology. Stephano wondered why. Unless the barrel really had been one of his followers…. Then maybe it was just sympathy he tasted.
He decided to ignore it either way and just kiss the barrel back. After all there was no further to fall, and he liked kissing Barry.