I don't own Dragon Age
Setting: Modern
Rating: T
According to plan
"So, what do you guys think? Pretty amazing, right?" Isabela said proudly. Hawke and Varric had just finished reading her latest 'friend-fiction', and Hawke had to admit, it was pretty good.
Varric grinned, "Ravaini, you are a genius" he said approvingly and Hawke nodded. She truly was, what she had made was a work of art, too bad it was only a story. An idea hit him and his face broke into a huge grin. Varric eyed him warily.
"Hawke ... what are you planning?"
"Who says I'm planning anything?" Hawke answered innocently.
"I know you, and I know that look" Varric replied.
"It's nothing really, I just thought, 'what a stunning pair Blondie and Broody makes, shame it's only a story', but then I thought we could make it real" he explained with a grin.
"Uh, I'm in!" Isabela exclaimed exited.
"You can count me in too ... But if Blondie or Broody asks, I were strongly against it" Varric said with a grin. Hawke smiled triumphantly, "I knew I could count on your guys" he said satisfied.
"So, how do we do this?" he asked them.
"Well, I have an idea" Isabela said, "Do you remember the shower scene?". Varric grinned, "How could I forget the shower scene?" he answered.
"Where are you going with this?" Hawke asked curiously, "They are hardly going to replay it as they are now".
Isabela smirked, "Not if they have a choice, no. But what if, for instance, all Fenris clothing were to disappear, and the only person around to help him were Anders, wouldn't that be something?"
"You seem very into this Ravaini" Varric commented.
Isabela nodded eagerly, "How could I not be, Fenris with that taut, controlled body, brooding demeanor and intense gaze and Anders -"
"- With his smoldering, golden eyes, perfect body and that sexy-tortured look he pulls off so well" Hawke continued for her.
"The only thing that beats that combination is your chest hair" Isabela said to Varric
"But we both know, nothing beats Varric's chest hair" Hawke said with a laugh.
Varric shook his head and grinned, "You sure you wouldn't rather want them for yourself?" he asked. Hawke contemplated it for a bit, then shook his head, "No, they are better together".
Isabela nodded, "And besides, when they are together, we could ask for a foursome, or partner swapping". Hawke nodded in agreement.
"Well, as long as you are sure, let's start planning. I think Isabela's plan show potential, let's work from that"
The other two nodded and the planning began.
"Hey wait, Anders!"
Anders turned around and looked down the hallway towards a running Hawke. Hawke had a gym bag over his shoulder along with his regular schoolbag, and Anders guessed that he came right from gym class.
"Huh? What is it?" he asked and looked at the panting Hawke who had caught up to him.
"Anders, I really really need your help, I'm running late for math and you know how our teacher is, but then I forgot my phone in the locker room ... and I thought you could get it for me!"
Andres grinned and shook his head, "If you keep up like this, you'll end up like Merrill" he said, "but sure, I can go see if I can find it"
"Thank you so much, I owe you one" Hawke said with a big, mischievous grin that made Anders feel slightly uncomfortable, he had seen that expression way too many times on his friends face. Nevertheless he turned around and walked towards the boys locker room.
When he entered the room, he heard the sound of running water, apparently someone was still in the shower. He began looking around for Hawke's phone but couldn't see it anywhere. With a deep sigh he went over to check under a blue towel with no luck. He was just about to look in Hawke's locker when the absence of running water caught his attention. He looked towards the showers just in time to see Fenris step out surrounded by a cloud of steam. Anders couldn't help running his gaze over his lean body, couldn't help noticing how incredibly attractive the other boy was. He had a taut, muscular body, still wet with droplets of water all over. Then there was his face, beautiful green eyes, Anders had always had a thing for green eyes. He had messy, platinum blond hair still wet after the shower. All in all he was gorgeous as he stood there in all his wet nakedness. Andres blushed furiously and looked away quickly.
"Oh, it's you" Anders said almost at the same time as Fenris spoke.
"What are you doing here?" he asked in an even more gruff and angry voice then the one he usually used when talking to Anders.
"Just looking for Hawke's phone, he said he forgot it here" Anders replied, trying his best to keep his eyes off the blond boy, who, he reminded himself, he didn't like and who certainly didn't like him. He was doing rather good, only a short glance now and then, and had even been able to focus enough to find Hawke's phone, when a confused and annoyed sound from Fenris drew his attention. The other boy was now mostly dry and with a towel wrapped around his waist, still a sight that made Anders blush and his pulse pick up. Fenris looked at Anders with an accusing glare.
"Do you have anything to do with this?" he demanded angrily while showing Anders his empty locker.
"Huh?" Anders asked confused, he had no clue whatsoever as to what Fenris was talking about.
"This!" he sneered holding the locker door open.
"... something wrong with your locker?" Anders asked, "Looks all right to me, sure you aren't just delirious?"
"It's empty" he clarified frowning at him.
Anders nodded, "I can see that" he said, "... Why would that be my fault?"
Fenris gave a exasperated sigh, "My clothes are missing, but I gather from your bemused expression that you really didn't have anything to do with it"
Anders looked around the locker room, and true enough there was no clothes in sight, "Oh" he said lamely. Fenris' frown deepened at that and he sent Anders an annoyed look. A thought suddenly hit him.
"Oh! do you want me to go and get you some clothing? I live in the dorm, it won't take long to get something" he offered, which earned him an unhappy look from Fenris, "Well, otherwise you'll just have to walk around like this for the rest of the day" he continued with a smirk, mentally adding not that I would mind.
"Fine" Fenris grumbled reluctantly, not looking the least bit happy about having to wear Anders clothes.
Anders left the locker room to get clothing for Fenris.
Hawke looked at the others with a big smile, "you know, I think part one was a huge success" he announced. The three of them were seated around Hawke's kitchen table discussing how yesterdays mission had gone.
"Hawke announced triumphantly" Varric narrated earning an annoyed glance from Hawke.
"Will you stop that already?" he said frustrated, Varric had been narrating his day since lunch, said it helped him with his writhing.
"Hawke inquired, now sounding frustrated. His friend replied 'I told you, I need to practice my storytelling'".
Hawke groaned, "Fine, I'll just ignore you then, me and Isabela can plan without you!".
"Hawke stated, though it was clear that he desperately needed the assistance of his short but very manly friend".
Isabela giggled, "Very manly indeed".
"... Isabela, don't encourage him, we need to focus on step two" Hawke said with a deep sigh.
"Hawke demanded sounding ever more exhausted and frustrated". Varric smiled widely as Isabela visibly tried to collect herself.
"Ok, I'm ready now" she said after one final giggle, "What should we do now?".
"Well, I have been thinking a lot about that since yesterday, and I think I have a plan that might just work".
"Hawke said, now sounding proud. His two friends turned towards him with curious and expectant looks on their faces" Varric narrated. Isabela nodded and did her best to look curious and expectant. Hawke sighed again and shook his head.
"You guys ..."
"You love us" Varric said with a huge grin.
"How could he not" Isabela added with a matching grin.
"Now, oh great leader, tell us about this amazing plan of yours?" Varric inquired. Hawke sighed once again, something he seemed to be doing a lot, and gave in.
"Fine, I thought we could hold a movie night and invite both of them". Varric and Isabela both looked very unimpressed.
"A .. movie night?" Varric asked skeptically.
"Hopefully we're talking a dirty movie or something" Isabela added, "or strip poker".
Hawke shook his head, "No, too obvious" he said, "but I wasn't just thinking a movie night. There's more to my plan then that".
"There better be" Varric answered.
"And I require at least one sex scene" Isabela said with a grin, "otherwise there's hardly any fun to it".
Hawke smiled and nodded, "That's acceptable. Now, I were thinking a lovey dovey love movie, Anders and Fenris sitting so close together they are almost on top of each other, romantic candlelight and a bit of alcohol. How does that sound?"
The two others seemed to consider it for a while, but then began coming with their own suggestions, and Hawke knew the plan had been approved.
Fenris knocked on the door to Isabela's apartment. She had rather suddenly invited both him and Hawke over for movie and pizza. She had mentioned other guests so he guessed Varric and maybe Zevren would be there too.
It was Hawke who opened the door, "Hey there Fenris, Please come in, the others have already arrived" He said with a smile and stepped aside so Fenris could enter. Isabela lived on her own in a small one bedroom apartment. Aside from the bedroom she had a small living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. Hawke led him to the living room, which were fairly crowded. In the middle of the room were a couch and two chairs, all positioned around a TV. Isabela was sitting in one chair, and Hawke quickly took the other one. For a brief moment Fenris wondered if the two were fighting, they usually always took the couch on occasions such as this, then his attention was caught by the other people in the room. Or in particularly one of them. There, in the couch next to Varric, and even worse next to the only free spot, were Anders. Fenris narrowed his eyes at him, but at the same time he felt his heart skip a beat and then pick up speed. Anders always had this effect on him and more than anything else that was what infuriated him about the other guy. He could never control his emotions around Anders and he hated not having control.
"Come, sit down, the movie is about to start" Varric said with a grin. Fenris glared angrily at Anders one last time before sitting down, as far away from him as the small couch allowed.
Isabella started the movie and Hawke turned off the lights, leaving the room illuminated in a warm glow created by red candles, placed all over the room. Fenris' brow furrowed, why all the candles? It would seem more fitting for a romantic date than a movie night. Before he had time to ponder it more closely, the movie began.
Doing the movie, some romantic comedy Fenris hadn't seen before, Anders kept moving closer and closer to him. At first Fenris tried to push him away, but he soon realized that it didn't do any good. Varric was taking up way more than his share of the couch and no matter what he, or Anders, did they couldn't move him. With a weak sigh and an annoyed look at Varric, Fenris decided to focus on the movie and completely ignore Anders, however close he might be. It turned out to be harder than he had expected. It didn't matter how much he tried, he couldn't block out the warm, and disturbingly comfortable, sensation of Anders' side pressed up against his own. He found it increasingly more difficult to keep his breathing even and controlled, and he kept glancing towards the other guy who he noticed, not for the first time, was very handsome. Golden hair put up in a ponytail, deep golden brown eyes and a light stubble, all of which made Fenris heart beat faster and made it difficult to focus on the movie. All of this wouldn't really be so bad if he thought he might have had a chance with Anders, but the two of them had gotten off to a bad start, arguing over something silly the first time they met, and Anders had made it clear ever since that he didn't care much for Fenris.
Suddenly Isabella stood up, "No need to pause the movie, I have seen it before" she said and then left in the direction of the bathroom. Shortly after Hawke's phone started ringing, "Oh, sorry guys, I have to take this one" he said, and with that he too was gone. No more than a few seconds later Varric cleared his throat and stood up, "I'll just go and get some snacks from the kitchen" he said and left the room. Fenris was now alone with Anders.
"... That was odd" Anders commented with slightly furrowed brows. Fenris nodded, he had to agree.
"You don't think they are planning something, do you?" Anders continued. Fenris glanced at him, "Like what?" he inquired.
Anders shrugged, "No idea" he said with a small laugh, "Maybe I'm just being paranoid".
Fenris nodded again, "Wouldn't surprise me" he muttered.
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Anders demanded. Fenris was about to give a response, when his attention was caught by a loud moan. After their friends had left, neither of them had been paying much attention to the TV, which was now showing a rather explicit sex scene. Fenris felt his cheeks heat up slightly and glanced towards Anders. Their eyes met in a brief instance, before Fenris quickly looked back to the screen trying his best to ignore the man still sitting uncomfortably close to him, and especially ignore the thoughts the scene had called up in him.
They sat like this, neither looking at the other but still close, until the sex scene ended and their friends returned. The two occurrences were curiously close to each other and Fenris thought about what Anders had said, maybe they were up to something?
"That went rather well, if I do say so myself" Hawke said with a grin, once again meeting with his two friends to plan.
Isabella nodded, "Now it's time for the big finale" she said excitedly and looked at Hawke who nodded, then they both looked expectantly at Varric.
Varric eyed them with a confused look, "... Why are you looking at me?"
"Well, we thought that we need something really big and romantic, you know to bring them together" Hawke began explaining.
"And then we thought, who is the most romantic person we know" Isabela continued.
"Who would also agree to help us with this" Hawke added, and then they both looked at Varric again.
"Let me get this straight, you guys want me to plan the last event?" Varric asked, just to be sure. The two others nodded.
"Yes Varric, but only because you are so clever and both me and Hawke admire you greatly"
Varric seemed to consider it a bit before he sighed, "fine fine ... actually I already thought of a few ideas, but I'll need your help to set it all up".
"Of course! What do you need?" Hawke asked eagerly.
"What are you planning?" Isabela asked almost simultaneously.
Varric grinned, "What better way to bring them together then a romantic dinner? But for that we'll need food, someplace to hold in and a way to get them there"
"Hm ..." Hawke said, considering, "If you guys can provide the other stuff, I think I have a way to get them both to show up"
"I seem to recall that the lock on our history classroom is fairly easy to pick, we could set the dinner up there" Isabella suggested. Varric and Hawke both nodded.
"Then I'll acquire food and decorations" Varric looked at the other two, "If we meet up there at .. 17:30? then we can decorate and prepare and have them arrive at 18:30, how does that sound?"
"That sounds amazing" Hawke said with a big grin.
Fenris furrowed his brows and stared at the little pink note. It was addressed to him. His name was on it. In neat handwriting and with a heart over the i. Cautiously, as if he were afraid it would bite, he took out the note and unfolded it. There were a message on it.
Meet me in the history classroom at 18:30.
Eternally yours,
You r secret admirer.
Fenris read the message at least four times before checking to make sure it really was for him. It was. A secret admirer? The first person his thoughts went to was a certain boy with golden eyes and hair, but he quickly discarded the idea, Anders didn't like him like that, didn't like him at all really. Fenris took a deep breath, the only way to find out who it was, was to as the damn note said.
At 18:25 that evening, after a quick change of clothes and a shower, Fenris entered what was normally his history classroom. The first thing he noticed was that someone had hung big pink cardboard hearts all over the room. Then he noticed the table in the middle of the room, the table was set with burning candles, fancy silverware and two pizza boxes. The third thing Fenris noticed were the rose petals all over the floor, table and about any other free surface in the room. Someone had really gone overboard with this.
Fenris shook his head, who would go to such extremes? A quick look around the room told him that whoever it was hadn't arrived yet. He placed himself against the wall and waited. It became apparent that whoever it was they didn't put the same care into punctuality as they did decoration. After more than ten minutes the door finally opened and Fenris heart almost stopped beating. There in the doorway, looking confused and overwhelmed, stood Anders. For a few moments Fenris just stood and looked at him. Was this some sort of joke, or ...? Then they both seemed to shake themselves out of their confusion.
"You?" Fenris said in shocked unison with Anders.
Then, before any of them could say more, the door slammed shut behind Anders and somewhere music started playing. The sweet sound Can you feel the love tonight filled the room.
Anders looked accusingly at Fenris, "What's going on?" he asked.
Fenris glared angrily at him, "I should be the one asking that! Why did you set this up?".
"Me!? I wasn't the one sending small pink notes!" Anders exclaimed.
"Then who sent this?" Fenris demanded and threw a pink, crumbled up piece of paper at him. Anders looked confused at him and then unfolded the paper.
"Huh" he said looking utterly confused.
Fenris furrowed his brows, "Don't tell me you didn't send this ..?" he said, barely able to keep the disappointment out of his voice.
Anders shook his head, "Sorry to disappoint you" he said with his usual grin, the one that made Fenris heart skip a beat.
Fenris huffed indignantly, "Good" he said coldly, as always hiding his true feelings behind anger. At his words a slightly hurt look quickly crossed Anders face, but it was gone before Fenris was sure he had even seen it.
"Oh well, then I'll better be going" Anders said and cleared his throat. He went over to open the door, and Fenris wasn't sure whether he wanted him gone as fast as possible or wanted him to stay. As it was the decision was taken for him.
"It's locked" Anders concluded, "Seems someone really want this to happen, huh?".
Fenris sneered, ".. If you had anything to do with this" he said angrily.
Anders held up his hands in surrender, "I swear, I got the same note as you...". He looked around thoughtfully, "But if we are stuck here anyway" he grinned at Fenris, "It couldn't hurt to have that date, eh?".
Fenris felt his heart ship another beat and he felt trapped, whatever he did it would be a mistake. He could agree and Anders would find out about how he felt and mock him or he could say no and pass up the only opportunity he would ever get.
"Uhm .." he said indecisively. Meanwhile Anders had sat down at the table and started eating. Fenris sighed heavily and sat down in the other chair. At about this time the music changed to Love's in the air.
"So, what about me don't you like?" Anders asked out of nowhere. Fenris was taken aback by the question.
"I mean, I'm charming and handsome. What's not to like?" he asked with a grin.
Fenris couldn't help but smile at this and then he made a mistake, he looked into Anders eyes. They captivated him and made him reckless, it was like being under a spell.
"Who said I didn't like you?" he asked with a small smile of his own. This answer seemed to surprise Anders and the look on his face quickly shook Fenris out of the spell. He cursed himself, he shouldn't have said that.
"I just assumed ... well you hardly seemed happy to see me today, or any other day for that matter" Anders said. Fenris looked down at his pizza, he could feel his face heat up. This was terrible, he should never have come, he was never going to leave his room again after this.
"... Fenris?". The cautiously asked question made Fenris raise his head and look at Anders, who was much closer than last time he had seen him. Anders was leaning over the table and was merely inches away from Fenris. For a long moment they just stared at each other, then something unbelievably happened.
Anders kissed him.
Fenris stared wide-eyed at him in confusion and wonder. He barely had time to register what was happening, let alone response, before Anders drew away.
"Sorry, sorry, shouldn't have done that" he said quickly. Fenris blinked in confusion, then his thoughts finally caught up and he grabbed Anders by his shirt and drew him in to a deep kiss.
The music changed to Everytime we touch and Fenris found himself agreeing with the lyrics. This kiss made him feel like he could fly, it made him feel static and exited and everything all at once. And it only got more intense when they started using tongue.
When the kiss finally ended he found that he was panting and slightly out of breath. He looked at Anders who looked much like Fenris felt.
"So ..." he began and looked away unsure of what to do now.
"Wanna give this, us, a try?" Anders asked as he stroked Fenris cheek. Fenris felt his face light up in a smile and he looked at Andres again.
"I suppose it couldn't hurt" he said grinning widely.