A/N - I've changed the rating of this fic from T to M; this chapter reflects why. Some wholesome Ryoali + Hayama OT3 shenanigans, and later, something a little more provocative. ;) I love the combination of Alice, Ryo, Hayama, and Hisako, though - they're pretty interesting as a whole, and I like to think they're all open and secure enough in their marriages to play a little.
All you gotta do (is say yes)
04:02 – Denmark – Seven years post graduation
The gin burns his throat, but Hayama Akira slides his empty shotglass back across the calacatta marble countertop anyway, straight into the waiting hands of Ryo, who, at present, is nursing his eighth beer of the night. "One more."
"You should pace yourself," Ryo tells him, but pours him out another measure anyway.
He'd arrived in Denmark five hours ago, fresh from Massachusettes, en-route to Moscow, and reeling from the stark realisaton that it was all truly over with Hisako. It hadn't been in his plans to stay, but Alice had insisted he catch up with them for at least a couple of days, and so there he was: half in the bottle in the couple's swanky city apartment, missing his ex-girlfriend and growing increasingly anxious over his current state of affairs.
A new life. A new home. A new world. He doesn't know how he's to face the day knowing she's a world and then some apart.
"You have that face on you again," comes Alice's drawl from across the room. The blonde is still in her sequinned dress from their evening (and early morning) at the club, gold and red glittering across her breasts and shoulders. "Ryo, tell him to stop moping."
Ryo slides the shotglass back. "Stop moping. And anyway, you're going to feel like shit in the morning, so you might as well enjoy yourself right now."
He throws back the contents of his glass, then turns his barstool around and flops back. The cold marble against his skin sends shivers down his spine, but he's too tired to move and the world is spinning. The lights seem to dim around him, each individual bulb in the overhanging pendant lampshades appearing almost dream-like; soft pinks and neutral browns melding together to form clouds amidst a softly-darkening sky.
He'd watched a similar sunset with Hisako once from a quiet vantage point in the hills. A long weekend on their own, with not a care in the world but the joy of one another. If he closes his eyes, he can still remember the feel of her skin, the scrabbling of nails against moss and bark, her moans in his ears and the warmth of her around him.
The warmth of weight settles upon his thighs, and his loins tighten in desire. But it's a pair of bright red orbs that greet him when he opens his eyes, and only Alice who stradles his thighs, her tight miniskirt pulled all the way to her waist to accommodate her spread legs. He hisses as she bounces lightly, reaching out to clench his fists around her shoulders.
The bouncing abruptly stops, but then her hands are on his chest, her drunken giggles filling the room as she leans over him, feathery blonde tips brushing his adam's apple. "Hayama, come on. We're going to bed."
"I thought we'd agreed last time was a one-time thing." Despite his words, he can't help but to let out a faint grunt, halfway between a moan and a groan as the platinum blonde kisses his neck, her hands sliding under his shirt. A cursory glance aside shows Ryo already shirtless, a smirk on his face and darkness in his eyes. The man's gaze burns, tightening the coils in his stomach in a way he suspects has nothing at all to do with the fact that Alice's hand has moved southwards. Oh, fuck.
"It's up to you," Alice nibbles at his ear, and her damned hand squeezes, drawing a sharp breath from him. Then she straightens, ruby lipstick smeared across her mouth and a smug and knowing look in her eyes. "Whatever it is, I sure as hell am getting fucked tonight."
Ryo's hands curl around his shoulders from behind, snaking in beneath the collar of his shirt. He tenses as the digits rake along his skin, the sensation feeding his arousal. The man's voice is hoarse, but not without its own modicum of restraint. "How much longer are you going to pretend you're not already imagining yourself between us? Say yes."
And as he breathes the word like a prayer to the night, the two take him by the hands, and as one lead him to their bed.
08:40 – Denmark – Fourteen years post graduation
He sees red when he opens his eyes. Panic surges and he barely has time to register that it's Hisako in his arms before her eyes flick open. She smiles blearily up at him, and it occurs to him then that he'd only been dreaming after all.
"Good morning," She mouths, a little pink in the face.
Across the California King bed, Alice and Ryo's prone and naked forms are swathed in a plethora of sheets, draped over one another as they often are. Last night's excesses come rushing back to him – the four of them had been attending a gala in town, and had retreated back to the Nakiri-Kurokiba home sometime in the early hours of the morning. One thing had led to another – as it had the last time the four of them were together.
All in all, he thinks it's quite apt that his subconscious had chosen that particular evening from years and years ago to dredge up after all, if only in a dream.
"Good morning," He leans over, his forehead meeting hers. Alice mumbles something about burgers and cheese in her sleep, causing Hisako to let out a chuckle. "Did you sleep well?"
"Well enough. I'm starting to think the three of you have had way more experience at this than I know of."
He brushes her hair gently from her face. "We've had some encounters. Mostly after we broke up, that time." He pauses to gauge his ex-girlfriend and now-wife's face. "I trust them with my life."
"And I do too," Hisako tells him. "But I really have to rethink letting you three manhandle me that way again."
He grins. "Admit it – you love it."
Hisako quirks a cheeky grin. "I love it," She agrees. "And I love you."
"If the two of you are done being domestic and lovey-dovey," Ryo's voice, abeit laced with sleep, fills the room with ease. "Shall we wake Alice together?"
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