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To KisaraP for being one of my fangirls heh.

A Partial Explanation

Okay, so he'd been imagining what sex would be like with Teddy since he'd decided to go after the man, and yet Louis couldn't help but feel like he'd stepped into an alternate universe as he watched Teddy undo his trousers for him. With his head bent to his task Teddy's eyes were hidden from him, but he'd seen into them enough in the past few minutes to know that the scenes his imagination had generated were not going to live up to the reality. He'd known Teddy would be dominant and a little controlling, that was just how he was, but he hadn't anticipated this level of intensity and chemistry. The air was practically crackling with it.

Lifting his hips automatically when Teddy tugged his trousers and pants down Louis watched as they were completely removed and tossed to the floor, unable to look away as he felt Teddy's gaze move up his body, taking in the now exposed flesh. He didn't have to know what was in those eyes to feel the heat that lived there, his stomach and thigh muscles tightening automatically as he tensed up, unable to relax as he waited to see what Teddy would do next.

"You're so beautiful." Teddy breathed out softly, the words only audible because there was nothing else to drown them out. "So very beautiful."

Blushing a little, and not entirely sure why, Louis tried to interject some humor into the situation, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively. "Exactly what parts of me are you calling beautiful, hmmm?"

The grin Teddy wore had shivers of anticipation running down Louis's spine even before his words registered.

"Next time I'll give you a detailed cataloguing of every part of you I find beautiful…but right now I have something far more important to do."

That something, Louis found out seconds later, was applying his mouth and tongue to the task of giving him the most thorough, guaranteed to make his toes curl blow job he'd ever been on the receiving end of.

He wasn't being remotely toyed with either, that Teddy was determined to bring him to climax as quickly as possible was obvious to Louis as he buried in hands in the other man's hair as he tried to control himself a little without a hell of a lot of success as he bucked and moaned his pleasure.

He tried though, really he did.

But the fact that Teddy had had years more to hone his skills in this area were very apparent and the man was far too good at taking cues from his reactions, learning what he liked and applying that knowledge with a single-minded focus that had him approaching a climax so fast that he only just managed to process that fact before it was too late.

Whimpering and well aware that he was about to go off like a teenage boy Louis forced himself to take a deep breath as he tugged insistently on Teddy's hair to get the other man's attention. "You have to…stop. You're going…I'm going to…I can't last if you keep that up."

Biting his bottom lip hard as he felt Teddy's lips retreat Louis moved his hands to the covers, fisting them there as though that would help him leash the orgasm that was so close he could taste it. But he didn't want this to be all about him and Teddy definitely wouldn't want to make a habit of this if he didn't make it clear he was worth bedding.

"And why, exactly, would I not want you to come?" Teddy inquired when his mouth was no longer full, remaining where he was as he tipped his head up so that he could meet Louis's gaze. "That's rather the whole point."

"Uh uh." A stubborn look came into Louis's eyes. "The first time we come together. Believe me, you can do what you were just doing as much as you want later."

Just to tease him Teddy's licked his lips, savoring the taste. "I don't like to be rushed."

"Teddy."

Obviously amused by the commanding way Louis had spoken his name Teddy made a show of sighing before moving back up the blonde's body until they were face to face again, Teddy brushing his lips over Louis's before pointing out the obvious. "As close as you are you'll go off on my fingers."

"Will not."

"I could make you…but if it's important to you…" Stealing one last kiss as he trailed off, Teddy reluctantly got off of Louis long enough to retrieve the bottle of lubricant he kept in his bedside drawer before returning to his earlier position, deliberately drawing the blonde's legs up on either side of his waist before he started coating three of his fingers with the bottle's contents.

How Louis thought he was going to be able to rein himself in was beyond Teddy as he reined in his own desires to begin gently working Louis open for him, wanting the blonde more than able to take him when he slid something far more enjoyable inside his pretty ass. Because once he got inside of Louis Teddy knew he was going to lose it. He knew himself too well to think otherwise. He'd been waiting for this chance for years, and it had been far too long since he'd had a lover on top of that. He was primed in every way and if it weren't for his determination to insure that Louis remembered this night for the rest of his life he'd have gone off already from the pleasure of sucking the other man off.

Louis wasn't the only one fighting back an orgasm already.

Trying not to arouse more than necessary as he gradually worked all three fingers in, Teddy did more than his fair share of groaning as he felt those fingers being squeezed and massaged, Louis's body fighting to draw them in deeper and keep them there.

And on that note…"Enough foreplay?"

"Dear fucking Merlin, YES!"

Chuckling in spite of himself Teddy quickly withdrew his fingers, just as eager and more than ready to give them both what they wanted. Setting Louis's right leg up and onto his shoulder Teddy reached down to position himself properly and then leaned forward to take what was his, groaning out Louis's name as he felt himself being taken too.

Gasping against Teddy's lips as he was penetrated Louis reached up to hold Teddy's head where it was, needing the contact as he stretched and arched his body up to take what he was being given, wanting it more than his next breath.

Waiting until he was fully seated inside his lover Teddy took several slow breaths before he asked Louis if he needed longer to get used to him, silently praying that that wasn't the case. And when Louis shook his head Teddy nodded in response and then crushing his lips against Louis's let the reins go free.

Louis would think later that he literally felt Teddy's control snap, the other man's eyes going close to feral as he plunged deep inside him again and again with hard, powerful strokes, filling him, stretching him to his limits so that Louis could do little more than hang on and absorb the power of Teddy's possession.

Minute by minute the pressure built up to unbearable levels, their bodies becoming coated in sweat as their muscles worked overtime to do their bidding. Every gasp and moan Louis made in between hot, open mouthed kisses seemed to slide into his blood like fuel to a fire, to the point where Teddy wasn't aware of anything but the two of them and the fact that their bodies were joined and producing sensations that had his whole body primed and aching for a release that would send them both on the ultimate high.

Crying out Teddy's name over and over again like a pray when his orgasm hit him, Louis felt like he'd gotten caught up in a massive tidal wave, his climax pummeling and battering his system with sensations magnified to an overwhelming degree that shattered his world even as it presented him with a better one.

All but growling in satisfaction at the sounds and sight of Louis coming underneath him, Teddy turned his focus to finishing what he'd started, already lost in the blonde's body as he kept thrusting away until the tidal wave found and hit him as well, dragging him under so that he ended up collapsed on top of his lover, struggling just to breath as he nuzzled close and let himself just live in the happiest moment he could recall ever having in a very long time.

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Utterly exhausted Louis's arms slid down Teddy's sweat covered back to thump uselessly onto the bedcovers, the blonde lying motionless under Teddy's body as he tried to understand what he was currently feeling. He'd always considered sex fun as hell, a great way to spend one's time that usually left him either really relaxed or energized and ready to have even more fun. Really hot, wild sex had been comparable to a really good rollercoaster too, but what he and Teddy had just done together had not left him relaxed, energized, or feeling like he'd just been on one hell of a thrilling ride.

No…if he had to compare it to something it would be getting stuck at the height of a category four storm and somehow surviving.

He totally got why his maman's people called it the 'little death' now.

He had barely recognized Teddy towards the end, the man morphing from the quiet, controlled man he'd known all his life to a forceful, dangerous predator that had been completely focused on possessing him, taking him as his mate so that every inch of his body knew it belonged to Teddy and no one else ever again.

Which, quite frankly, had scared the bloody hell out of him.

Feeling Teddy shifting up onto his elbows Louis felt his throat tighten up, a shiver running down his back at the thought that he was about to see those fierce, downright hypnotizing cobalt eyes again. Eyes that had made him willing to do anything Teddy might ask of him.

But when Teddy's eyes met his they were soft and gentle, no hint of the earlier passion that had had them both by the throat until they hadn't been able to breath.

Breaking out into a smile at this confirmation that he had his Teddy back Louis's grin only widened when the older man smiled back, sighing in pleasure when Teddy carefully shifted them over so that they were on their sides so that Louis didn't have to bear his weight alone. Allowing himself to be cuddled up against Teddy's chest Louis closed his eyes again, content to stay in the safety he now felt in the man's arms while his hair was being stroked so lovingly.

They stayed that way for a few minutes before Louis spoke, having recovered enough to brave bringing up the question he'd asked earlier but had never gotten an answer to. Why hadn't Teddy ever told them that he was attracted to men too?

The silence that greeted his question unnerved him, Louis just about to call it back when Teddy spoke.

"I can give you a partial answer, but the other part I'm going to have to keep to myself for the sake of someone else."

He wanted the whole explanation, but Louis nodded and said that was okay. At least okay for the time being, he silently added to himself.

"I'm….I'm not bi, Louis. I'm gay. And one of the reasons no one knows that is because I fought my sexuality tooth and nail up until my mid-twenties. Being gay…accepting that I was gay meant giving up something I've wanted all my life and with typical Black stubbornness I refused to accept that truth about myself until I had no other choice."

Louis didn't have to think hard to guess what that something was. He, like everyone else in their family, knew what Teddy had always dreamed of having ever since he was a child. "You can't get married or have biological children if you're gay. You didn't want to be gay because that meant you couldn't have the big family you've always wanted."

"Exactly." There was both regret and acceptance in Teddy's voice as he continued. "So I fought it, went out with girls, ignored what my…body wanted and tried to be who I wanted to be. It didn't work of course, but Blacks have their own brand of stubbornness and…I didn't start seeing men until I was twenty two. You came out shortly after that but I was still hoping to change my fate and I thought I'd do more harm than good if I came clean about everything and you and everyone else got the wrong idea. I feared that you might all think that I thought there was something wrong with you embracing who you are and that you might think I thought you should try and change the way I was. And in all honestly it made me feel…immature and stupid, to fight so hard what a boy could accept so easily what I couldn't seem to stop myself from denying. By the time I'd given up completely…I had another reason for keeping quiet, and that second reason isn't something I can tell you…at least not now."

He'd always had his parents and siblings, a large family that were constants in his life and who he couldn't imagine not having around. By blood Teddy only had his grandmother. Teddy had no memory of his parents, and the rest of his 'family' was of the honorary sort. To his way of thinking that made them even more family, because they were family by choice and not because they shared blood, but you'd have to be an idiot not to get the fact that growing up without a traditional family had seriously shaped who Teddy was.

Shifting up so that his head was resting on the pillow beside Teddy's Louis reached out to stroke the other man's cheek. "I probably would have been hurt, especially since I was just a kid back then, so I guess I can't hold that against you…but I still don't like it…especially if you expect me to pretend we aren't together now. Which I'll have to, right, to be with you?"

"No." Teddy answered softly. "I won't ask you to lie for me. If you want everyone to know then that's fine. I'll deal."

Okay, now he was really confused. "But what about the second reason, the reason you won't tell me?"

That would be the tricky part, Teddy silently acknowledged as he continued to stroke Louis's hair, finding comfort in it. Keeping the others from realizing that he was in love with Louis, and not just attracted to him, would be difficult as hell. He'd have to do his level best to avoid them being observed together, and be on his guard at all times, but he would never, could never let Louis think for a moment that he was ashamed of their relationship. And he wouldn't ask the man to lie to his family, their family for him either.

There was going to be hell to pay though.

And not wanting to think about that at the moment Teddy decided to concentrate instead on the fact that for now, maybe even for a while, he had his Hummingbird.

Shifting forward Teddy pressed his lips against Louis's, pleased when they automatically parted to allow him access, snogging him back as he rolled them so that Louis was on top of him this time.

Breaking off the kiss Louis grinned, though there was a gleam in his eyes that said he was well aware of the fact that Teddy was once again aroused. "Nice recovery time." He purred out, smoothing his fingers across the older man's bare chest.

Deliberately smiling in a decidedly 'Black' way Teddy waited until a hint of wariness appeared in Louis's blue eyes before he clued the other man into why it was he was so confident the blonde would leave his bed well satisfied.

"This is nothing. I'm a Metamorphmagus, Louis. I can manipulate EVERY aspect of my body."

Teddy waited until the blonde's eyes had gone as big as dinner plates in shock before pouncing.

He had no intention of sleeping that night.

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Rubbing a tired hand over his face Harry headed up the steps, leaning against the door after he'd used the doorbell to signal his arrival. Given what time Teddy usually headed for the office the house's two occupants should be having breakfast, but if they were at war the way Wesley had indicated it was quite possible that wasn't the case. Louis had an explosive temper after all, and Teddy could out freeze the North Pole when he lost his. Not a good combination, which was why he'd decided to drop in before heading in to work.

Okay, Ginny had seen the letter Wesley had sent and demanded he stick his nose in their godson and nephew's business, but he would have dropped by eventually…once they'd had more time to cool off.

And he was pretty curious as to what the two men were fighting about. They'd always gotten along pretty well considering the gap in their ages and differences in personalities. Well that and it took something big to make Teddy snap, not that Louis wasn't perfectly capable of being that annoying.

Lips twitching Harry's amusement changed to parental mush when Teddy's patronus came stumbling through the door, yawned at him, and then informed him in a very sleepy voice that neither he nor Louis could come to the door at the moment but to please send a patronus message if either of them needed to get back to him.

The silvery white wolf yawned one last time and then dissipated.

"You forgot to ask me to leave my number after the beep." Harry murmured, shaking his head, not doubting for a moment that Teddy wouldn't even remember sending his patronus message in the first place. His godson had definitely not had any caffeine yet, or he would have come to the door. The boy had had his manners drilled into his head too well to do otherwise.

Thoughtfully he considered trying to get ahold of Louis, who was actually a morning person, but decided to just leave it.

He'd come back later after work.