Revolution

by rikkustrife

This is from a roleplay a friend and I have written together. It's placed in the aftermath of Anders destruction of the Chantry in Kirkwall and Leliana comes across him, and they begin their adventure together which in turns brings them closer together. Chapter 5 is the first sexual themed chapter for those uncertain if they want to read that part or not.

20. Chapter 20

"Hey!" Anders huffed and then looked away, pretending to have taken a worse offense than to what he felt. "I was able to hold down a few tankards last time. One – tankard, two-tankard, three-tankard, four."

"What rubbish." Fenris argued rather objectively and quick. He rolled his eyes upon sitting down and looked away from him. "You could barely handle one tankard."

Anders grinned slightly and folded his arms in his chant. "One – tankard, one tankard, one – tankard, one!"

Pops disregarded the men bantering back and forth as he took the Grey Warden Commander's money with gratitude. "Sure thing… Your rooms are up the stairs and down the hall to your left. I'll get started on those drinks for you too."

"Is that… Lyle, I hear?" Tess voice questioned.

Before Anders could react to it, he felt the back of his hood being pulled all the way down again. He panicked, reaching around frantically in order to get the woman to stop and then turned around on his chair to see in his relief that it was Tess.

"Tess!" He started to speak, still in shock and then quickly lowered his voice to a more whispered tone. "I'm kind of in disguise here…? I don't want anyone know I'm around."

"Oh! Are you hiding from Elina?" Tess questioned with big teal eyes, ready to take in gossip.

Anders couldn't feed her hunger for rumors though; even if he was willing to. He only looked at her blankly for the moment. "Who…?"

Tess nodded quickly and folded her arms under her large breasts and ruffled shirt. "Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Elina said you'd might say something like that."

"I don't know any Elina." Anders started explain.

"She said you'd say something like that too." Tess retorted as to confirm herself.

Anders frowned at this and tucked at his hood to keep it firmly and (hopefully forever) over his head. "She sounds like an annoying blabber-mouth feeding you more gossip to thrive on."

Tess gasped in surprise at him and poked Anders roughly in the shoulder. "She said you'd say something like that too!"

"Just shut-up… 'Lyle'…" Fenris snickered after hearing Anders groan in a sign of defeat.

"Yeah you and drinking seems to get you all frisky, not that I'm complaining or anything." Leliana teased as she walked up to the bar and sat down and rose a hand to gester the bartend to slide a drink her way. Which had and when the mug met her hands, she brought it up immediately taking a gulp or two before setting it back down on the wooden table. She figured it was safer here and decided in dropping her hood, and if a Templar had happened to walk in. She would have to hope they wouldn't see her right away.

The Warden followed Leliana's lead, sitting and taking an ale; when the voice of a female speaking closer to their group he began to turn once he heard more of the story/gossip. Of course a small smirk began forming on the Wardens lips as he turned around to face the mage and well built woman before him. "So Lyle… Been busy have you… Seems like you never change." He commented through his cup as it was still slightly pressed against his lips. Aragorn knew too well of what this 'Tess' was leading on to. And with Anders past, of being… 'friendly' of course helped to sum up the rest.

Leliana arched a brow in curiosity and confusion as she asked towards Anders. "Whats she talking about?"

"Probably one of his one or two night stands." The Warden replied for him.

This brought Leliana to lean into the table as she looked over to the Warden. "How do you know?"

"Really?" Asked the Warden, slightly stunned… "This is An—Lyle were talking about for Makers sake. He was as bad as you were, if not worst sleeping with women."

"Hey! I wasn't that bad…."

"Mhm sure." He teased, while he peaked through one eye to the rouge. "Its probably how he knows so well of all those balms that cure those itches."

Leaning back into her chair Leliana began to shake her head as she spoke out in utter disbelief by his words."That's not nice… Tell me again why we're following you?"

Aragorn shrugged his shoulders as he leaned back into his chair as well. "Cause you guys owe me, and couldn't see yourselves without me." He replied in a slight joking tone of voice.

Anders was feeling himself turn more red with each passing moment the Warden and Leliana continued their discussion. Luckily for him, he had a hood on to protect most of his face. Reaching up into the air in order to get Pop's attention, he started to speak and failing in calming the slight squeak in his voice. "I'll take one of those tankards now, please."

"Yeah, yeah…" Pops said and soon slid out the drink towards him once everyone else had theirs. He picked up a dishtowel and started to wipe down his counter. "So, anybody hungry then? "

"I could go for an ox leg about now…" Fenris seemed quick to answer, but the thought was more to himself.

"One ox leg! Coming up." Pops snapped his fingers, ready to start cooking.

The elf's eyebrows lifted in surprise that he was even heard and reached out towards him to stop. "That's not necessarily what I meant—"

"Oh, just eat it. You'll hurt his feelings if you don't." Anders said with a smug smirk towards him and eventually turned his attention back to Tess. "So, am I supposed to be worried about this Elina at some point?"

"Elina said if she ever saw you again, it'd be too soon. She's got a temper on her—that one-, so I don't know what you did." Tess answered, glancing up to the ceiling in thought.

Anders frowned some and took a quick sip of his drink before landing it back on the counter. "Why is it always me…?"

"Well, you'll find out soon enough, if you bump into her." Tess shrugged and then looked over towards Fenris who was gradually drinking down his tankard. "So…? Lyle? What kind of merry band have you rounded up this time?"

Anders raised a slight eyebrow at her; knowing that he already introduced Leliana to her – or so he thought –but Tess's interests seemed to hover over Fenris. He never did understand her fascination with elves. Most around here were city elves, and they tried to hustle people out of every coin they had, and the Dailish would have been way too proud to even be caught spotted near a "Shemlen-built structures" that it should have warded off ones like Tess right away.

"Well, that man south of me is a Warden, you've met our lovely Chantry Initiate, and the elf's Dailish." Anders tried to think quick on his feet for a "convincing" truth; but not their names since he wasn't certain if they would wish to give their own or not.

Fenris; though spent his time, quickly chocking on his drink with the thought of being called Dailish.

Leliana couldn't hide her wide grin that happened to be growing more, and more with each passing word that Anders and Tess spoke to one another. If it wasn't for the Grey Warden she wouldn't of put the pieces together of this Elina being a woman from his past. She couldn't help but wait to see if this woman happened to show up, it would bring some kind of fun-ness to the party, as it was getting a bit dull after all this traveling of listening to Anders and Fenris bicker at one another. She was almost tempted to go along with Aragorn and lock them in a room together. Almost.

As the old man asked if they wished anything to eat, Leliana took a moment to look around the tavern to see what kind of food they offered, and see if someone was eating something that actually looked good or expensive for that matter. Once her eyes glanced back to the male she rose her arm up as if to grab his attention. "I'll take whatever the most expensive thing on the menu. Since the Grey Wardens paying, I'll happily spend the money for him." She teased.

"H-Hey!" Shouted Aragorn from the side. "I may be of a good name but that doesn't mean my pockets are always full of silver and gold." He huffed, while he began to cross his arms.

"Oh you can get more gold from Alistair, and you know it." Leliana replied as a small playful smirk began to smear across her lips.

The Warden sighed somewhat defeated, as he leaned back into the chair. Noticing Anders had begun explaining who they were to Tess. As he crossed his arms, he couldn't help but arch a brow. "No names? What are we just titles?" He asked curiously. Though he knew he was probably doing it out of kindness, and manners. But this didn't stop the Warden from poking at the mage each chance he got. "Aragorn is my name—"

"Leliana." Spoke Leliana from the side as she waved a hand. "But I thought I might of gave you my name the last time we were here?" She added with a shrug.

"So you were here before?" Questioned the Warden, as he looked over to Leliana who nodded reassuringly. He really didn't care to know, but passing words was all. "So when will we get to run into this mystery woman of Anders's. I would love to see him squirm seeing as how hes seemed to change his old way from the last this this Elina has seen him."

Anders only laughed as the small talk and jokes were pointed back towards him for the moment. Despite how bright his smile was, though, he was sweating on the inside. He couldn't remember what he had done in the past with this Elina; and that could be good or bad depending on if the two ever ran into each other.

"Nice to meet you." Tess started to smile towards Aragorn and then to Leliana brightly. "Oh, yes. Now, I remember. Lyle was trying to take you to bed that night too, wasn't he? That's what happens when he gets drunk."

"Please, no more stories about me…" Anders whined and hung his head for the moment.

Pops had handed Fenris his cooked ox leg, and then turned to start gathering a tornado of ingrediants and meat to cook for the next dish. "Alright. I think I can manage the most expensive thing on the menu… How about Fedora Surprise?"

Fenris raised an eyebrow as his attention was momentarily turned to lifting the giagantic ox-leg he was having to suddenly eat. "What's the surprise?"

"The surprise is finding out what a 'Fedora' is." Tess laughed and leaned more over towards Fenris.

"It's a very rare spice in these parts! And –you- stop scaring away my customers." Pops warned with a ladle waving in his hand.

"I wouldn't dream of it." Tess answered, promptly sticking her nose into the air briefly and took a small moment to trace her fingers lightly over Fenris's armor. "You know, I've always been fascinated with the Dailish."

"Really? You should visit a clan sometime. I'm sure they'd be fascinated with you too." Fenris responded though for the most part, he was trying to ignore her.

"Don't give Tess any ideas…" Anders warned him, but soon turned his eyes back towards Pops in order to see what kind of meat he was fixing to pull up for Leliana's dish.

"I'm really interested in your markings." Tess continued tracing her fingers over the elf's armor.

"They are called vallaslin … They show that I'm married." Fenris lied, trying to think of ways to keep the woman off from him. He finally decided he should at least try and enjoy his meal; taking a bite of the ox-let.

Tess leaned one side, resting against bar some and propped her chest up against it in a sultry pose. Her voice purred smoothly to him in a tease. "Married, huh? You know, eatin' ain't cheatin'."

Fenris gulped down the meat in a mid-moment of shock, following next to him was Anders snickering at what dismay could be collected from the elf. Fenris only lowered his head in dismay while Pops had finally handed Leliana her most expensive meal.

"And there goes my appetite." Fenris frowned and placed the ox-leg back down on his plate.

Leliana blinked a few times as she tried to recall the night she had spent here with Anders. And once she had, she shook her head. "Ah good ol' Lyle was too much of a gentleman, or was afraid I might hurt him to sleep with me that night…" She teased in a joke. "But he eventually caved. And then he was a different man ever since." She finished with a sly look to Anders as she gave a quick wink. "But it is nice to see you again." She replied cheerfully.

"Seems like our elf has a fan?" Aragorn commented through devious grin smearing across his lips. "Why don't you take her up on the offer. What happens in the tavern stays in the tavern." He teased.

Leliana shook her head not believing what she was hearing not only from Aragorn but from Tess too. But it did bring Leliana to glace to them, leaning into the conversation with rising curiosity. Though she felt slightly bad for Fenris, since she could see he was trying to push her away. And with each attempt it failed. But all the while it was humorous as well. After all they needed some kind of comedy even at Fenris' disposal. "Poor Feny." She whispered as she dropped her head down.

Aragorn seemed enlightened upon hearing Fenris losing his appetite, thus it brought him to go over to the elf. Snatching the ox-leg for himself before anyone else called dibs on it. "I'll take that… Don't want a good ox-leg going to waste now do we?" He asked curiously, as his eyes began to follow the plate which exited out of the back room and towards Leliana. He just saw his money slipping away with each step the old man took… What was it anyways!?

Clasping her hands, Leliana grasped onto a fork and knife once the plate was set down before her. Before digging in, she reached over with her utensil poking at the food, as her gaze began to shift up to the old man bartend. "So is it good?" She asked curiously as she began craving into her dish without hesitation. Not really caring if it was good, she was starved. This was one reason she didn't miss traveling, due to either always be hungry or always, almost dirty. "I hope you guys are going to help me eat this…"

Fenris sighed some, watching his meal escape him. It was just as well though. It wasn't as if he really wanted it ordered anyway. Besides, after having this woman hang over him, it was enough to lower his urge to really attempt at eating -well anything for a while.

"Is it good? Why it's the best Fedora Surprise there ever is in all of Thedas!" Pops boasted proudly.

"Pops, it's probably the only 'Fedora Surprise' in all of Thedas." Anders snipped back but his eyes looked back towards Leliana's plate after her offering to share. He reached up and poked at the meat slathered with a dark gravy on top. "…Is that duck?"

"Quit poking into other people's food. If you want something, just order it." Pops responded and quickly slapped at Anders's hand. He then pointed towards Tess next. "And, you, get your bouncing breasts back to juggling tankards. I still have other people that want drinks you know."

"I'm going, I'm going…" Tess huffed and turned away.

Fenris sighed with relief that the woman was gone and bowed his head to the man in gratitude. "Thank you!"

"Alright… I guess I'll take the catch of the day…" Anders said, finally and then paused a moment before pointing at him. "And it better be fish."

"SO! This is how I find you is it? I knew it!" A shrilling voice shouted once the door opened wide enough to welcome a slight chill back indoors.

It was the same chill that caused Anders to freeze a moment. That was right… Elina. Oh, NOW he remembers her. Shrinking back into his stool as low as his neck and spin would allow, Anders tried to make himself appear invisible. This didn't work though, for within minutes, and the sound of footsteps stomping towards his direction, Anders was spun around on his stool and having to press his back against the bar for an escape.

The woman in front of him was actually a city elf. Her bright red hair and freckles were the highlight of what Anders remembered from a previous drunken stupor. He never remembered what caused the scowl on her face to appear so obvious or why her slightly golden eyes seemed to glare daggers into his own.

"I thought that was you popping your little head back into town." Elina remarked and folded her arms rather bitterly. It did seem a little humorous since she was actually much shorter than him…or even Leliana. Her eyes shifted towards Leliana; of course, and then looked back at him again. "And is she the next woman you're going to trade in for Big Bertha?"

"Did I-? I don't think I did that—" Anders started to laugh nervously and quickly waved his hands at her in disbelief. "—Impossible."

"The minute you had too much to drink, you climbed up on stage with her, took off your shirt, wore a lampshade on your head—"

Anders started to laugh rather loudly, in an attempt to drown her out. He could feel his blush turning redder by the second. "I don't recall!"

"Of course 'you' don't recall. 'You' decided to drink too much!" Elina scowled at him promptly.

Now, Fenris was pulled back out of his stupor. Honestly! It was a like a see-saw at this point with him and Anders laughing at each other's expenses. The male elf even tried desperately not to grin at the thought of it all, biting his bottom lip to keep himself from asking the question.

"Who's Big Bertha?" … Eh… Fenris failed at this task.

Anders glanced up in thought and closed his eyes, trying to remember. "She's this… six-hundred pound, voluptuous woman that has the voice of an angel—"

Though when he opened his eyes, it was just quick seconds to seeing his drink being picked up and soon thrown at him. Anders looked down at his wet clothes and frowned some. "…I deserved that."

Leliana decided to finally be adventurous and dig into the mystery meat taking a bite; followed by another, and another, and another. After gulping it down with a drink of her ale she looked to the old man with a wide and approval smile. "Pretty good old man." She complimented cheerfully; as she continued in eating her dish before her.

"It better be for that price." Aragorn huffed. "I don't think I'll have enough money for you all." He joked as he chowed down on the ox-leg like a barbarian. After all everyone thought all Fereldens were barbarians so he might as well live up to that.

"Well we'll just make you wash dishes or sell your body to Tess for payment." Leliana teased; which happened not to last long as they seemed to be suddenly interrupted by an oncoming voice from behind. Placing her utensils down, Leliana shifted her posture back as she glanced to where the voice was coming from. Once her eye took hold of the female, she looked over the dainty woman, of course welcoming her with a warm smile. But as soon as she heard more of this story she spoke of turned that smile into utter shock. In the back of her mind she tried to imagine Anders so drunk that he was singing, and had a lampshade on his head. "And here I thought we got pretty tipsy together. Looks like I have a new goal."

Upon hearing the name Big Bertha wanted to make Leliana ask who this person was, but Fenris beat her to this. And she couldn't help but listen further as her curiosity got the best of her.

Aragorn in the somewhat back shook his head in shock as he heard the explanation of Big Bertha. That he couldn't help but toss another joke at Anders obviously it was pick on Anders day. "So you like the plump ones too?"

Leliana shook her head glancing away from Anders and to the Warden. And when she did she heard a splash and crash. Causing her to jump slightly from the sound and look back to the mage, seeing him covered in his drink. This caused a immediate chuckle to escape her lips as she parted her lips. "It looks like she doesn't want you drinking either." Reaching over she grasped onto a napkin cloth and with it she began to wipe away the thrown drink from his features before handing it to him.

"And that's why you never piss off a woman. It always comes back to haunt you." Aragorn muttered as he tossed the ox-leg bone aside and began chugging on his ale.

"You know, Commander, normally I would try to explain myself but I am in exceptional company that convinces me not to." Anders glanced down at Leliana cleaning him off, though Aragorn's joke still rang back in his head. He looked back up towards Elina who still had her arms folded and glaring back at him.

"And this is why I don't sleep around that often." Fenris remarked next, sensing the obviously awkward moment Anders and Elina were having when being face to face; and still with Leliana even there as well. He could only wonder of what she was truly thinking at the time…

"Oh, come on. Think of the parties!" Anders remarked irresistibly to the joke and stilled Leliana's hands before looking back to Elina lastly. "I am so, so very sorry what I had done. It was unfathomable to be the utter pig that I was to you that night, and I wish I could take it back. I really do."

Elina glanced down to her toes and kicked lightly at the floor. She almost had seemed willing enough to accept the apology; perhaps had even start over. "Well… I did challenge to out-drink you."

"And I bet you've won too! …Though, now, I think I'll swear myself off liquor and women for a while." Anders laughed and cleared his throat a little before pointing over towards Aragorn. "He's still single though."

"Hey! No you don't!" Tess prompted after lifting a few mugs up onto a carrying tray and propped her opposite arm against her hip. "He's supposed to save himself for me! Didn't think I heard ya, did ya?"

"If he can't pay, Tess, if he can't pay!" Anders called back while Elina rolled her eyes and took a seat near the closest and most drunk man that she could at the moment.

"Why does it have to be seen as a punishment? I thought it'd be fun." Tess scoffed, carrying her trays back to the bar and slid the dishes over for Pops to clean.

"Well that's no fun and here I was hoping we could get to the juicy good-ness." The Warden replied with a half joking tone of voice. He looked to Fenris upon speaking his statement and smiled. "Yes… That's another good way to avoid this. But one of us men have be the bad boys. And it looks like its lucky Lyle."

"Oh as if you're so angelic and perfect?" Leliana happened to remark with a smirk tugging at the corner of her lips.

"I am." He replied with a chuckle which happened not to last long as he heard Tess' words, and the statement of Leliana's from before rang in his mind. Causing him to give off a soft blush. "Er… I think I have enough money… What ever happened to Fenris being the main attraction?"

"It must be those pretty eyes grabbing their attention." Leliana commented back.

Aragorn huffed and slightly groaned at this as he knew his eyes were his weakness when it came to the females but still. Seriously? "Well you didn't help any selling me out as you did. Here I thought we were friends?"

"We are, and friends look out for each other making sure they have a good old time." She replied with a nod. She didn't bother to pay much attention to that of the Wardens next response as she stood up from her stool and re-grasped upon Anders hands, giving a small tug. "You know you should really get out of those wet clothes."

"And show her some of your dance moves." Piped in the Warden from the back, which caused Leliana to spat back with a huff. "Now-Now. Don't get all womanly on me. I just know how you two roll. It's hard to ignore since you two aren't the quietest bunch when you get routy."

"How come I'm always the one in wet clothes…?" Anders pondered out loud, though allowing himself to be lead away for the moment.

"Do you really want an answer?" Fenris asked, though he didn't sound too enthused to give one.

"If it's coming from you, no." Anders responded back from over his shoulder; leaving the group to sort out the rest of the night for themselves. He gave a slight sigh and a small pout upon being lead off. "I didn't even get a proper drink…"

The two entered the room together where, Anders quickly moved and dove straight onto the bed. His arms were held wide open and his face pressed deeper into the pillow. How he loved big beds like this. Huge, softness that could easily welcome him… Perhaps he had gotten to that comfortable moment in his life where he was spoiled, or maybe he had just been on the road for too long…. Or it could have been both.

He removed his staff and placed it down on the floor near the bed, for the moment and rolled over to his side. Anders's knee lifted up into the air, and he struck a pose just to tease Leliana with for the moment.

"You've gotten me drunk and dragged me all the way up here to strip me, you naughty thing." He sighed playfully and rolled his eyes. "Oh, whatever will I do with you?"

Upon entering the room Leliana rested her back against the door watching as Anders plopped onto the bed. She couldn't help but shake her head as she pushed herself off the frame and took a few steps towards the mage. "You're going to get those sheets to smell of booze." She couldn't help but arch a sculpted brow at his pose; surprisingly though it was very appealing to her.

"You're drunk after two little sips?" She asked curiously. As she stepped further into the room she began to reach back pulling her weapon off to rest it to the nearest chair or dresser. Next she began kicking off her boots not caring as to where they may have landed. "They must be putting something very special in those drinks of theirs. If you want I can get you a fresh one since you never got to finish the first. It would be fun to see your dance moves that woman was speaking of."

Leliana picked up her pace as she finally met the edge of the bed she began to crawl on top of the bed. Bringing herself to Anders, and with her palm pressed against his chest, she pushed him down on the bed as she swung a leg over his waist. "It looks like you caught me red handed." She started with a short pause as her hands worked diligently at the ties and buttons of his cloak to remove it from him and toss it aside and to the ground. "And I don't think I'm the naughty one, but you are… I'm the innocent chantry sister remember?" She added with a tap to the bridge of his nose.

He laughed some to her words, knowing that she would have taken his teasing almost a little too seriously. He moved in response to her pushing him aside, and lain on his back; looking up at her. His eyes glanced down towards his cloak after noticing at how fast she was working to untie them and free him from the tedious bonds. Anders hadn't fought; though he did prop his weight up against his shoulders and started to shimmy his arms out of the sleeves once he was free.

"Yes, you're so innocently attempting to discover all my dance moves." He teased and reached up towards her leather attire. He started to loosen her buckles and snaps that she was wearing and slid his hands underneath to rest his palms against her breasts. Even then, when Anders was lightly massaging her soft obs and teasing her further, he couldn't help with his smirking thought.

"Oh, but wait… Didn't I swear off liquor and women just a few seconds ago?" He questioned, barely remembering the very words that came out of his own mouth.

A smile began to tug at the corner of her lips as she looked down to him as she heard his words. Her hands pressed against his chest as she leaned in giving a little dance wiggle of her body near his lower regions, which made it more of a playful grind for a moment until she rose again. "Well I only got to see your dance moves once. In the dwarven tavern… And I've always enjoyed a good dance when one was nice enough to show me." She glanced over for a moment watching his wandering hands. As she felt the warmth of his hands form against her breasts a whimper formed out her lips as she began to close her eyes. Taking in this short moment they shared together, since traveling did bring it to where they had little time with each other.

"Hmm?" Leliana questioned as she started to peak through an eye and down towards Anders as he spoke to her. She had caught what he said but still couldn't help but be shocked by it. "Awe come on love. I thought you were speaking of other women. Not me…" She pleaded in a tease as she began to shift and roll her shoulders until she slipped out of her armor and tossed it to the ground. "But you know me… I would never force you." She finished with a further tease in her voice as she leaned down into his body once more laying soft brushed kisses along his chest and up to his neck, while her hands found warmth in his sides as her fingers danced there.

He hadn't felt the need to really answer or add to anything she spoke of; letting his kisses do more of the convincing. He closed his eyes and tilted his head up just a little so that his lips would have met hers. Then upon laying back down, he could feel how he was guiding Leliana's body to melt on top of him. Anders's hands lifted to slide around her back and then to rest at her hips.

He would have started to grind her body against him, but the feeling of her lifting her warm mouth away from his gave Anders the moment to relax. Then her fingers started to tickle around at his sides, causing Anders to quickly yelp and squirm. He wasn't just wiggling around either. He was laughing uncontrollably, and nearly resorting to violent thrashing around; kicking twisting his upper body to hide.

"Lel—hah-hah! Leliana—ah-hah-hah-hah! No! I—" He pleaded, reaching up in between them both to capture her wrists in an attempt to make her stop. Feeling himself blush, he looked at her through a fit tears from laughter. Anders still seemed to have breathed hard from the surprising jolt. "I'm—I'm highly ticklish."

As their lips met Leliana couldn't help but let the soft sounds of pleasure pass her lips and bounce off his as their lips collide in a mesh of passion. And when his arms happened to wrap around her she felt her body not only melt but give in into him. As little tingles and goose bumps that radiated throughout her body.

Leliana's eyes began to widen from hearing Anders uncontrollable screams of laughter. Thus making her laugh just slightly along with him. She was about to go back and dig back into his sides for more torture. But he had already grasped onto her wrists making it impossible for her to do so. A defeated sigh pushed its way through her lips as she arched a brow down towards him. "Really now…?" She happened to question in sultry tone of voice.

At first a smile smeared across her lips as she looked her wrists which were bound and began twisting them until her hands happened to grasp around his and she brought his hands over his head, holding them there. "Then I'll just have to do this…?" Without waiting for a reply, she began to slink her body down, so her once hands which held him down released trusting he wouldn't stop her as the palm of her hands followed down in her trail eventually stopping to grasp at his hips. Once she sat on his shins she lowered herself near his sides. Gently brushing her lips across where her hands once laid, and there she replaced with moist kisses, as her tongue had snuck out in aid in her taunt upon him.

Anders's eyebrows lifted some in the surprised question when Leliana started to speak to him. From the moment she held his hands up towards his head and started to shrink down below, he was fighting the questionable reflex to have pulled his arms to his sides. Doing so would have closed off the gapped access to his ribs. However, Anders realized soon that he didn't really have to do this, so his hands remained where they were placed.

He could feel her lips and tongue gently pressing around the areas from where her fingers had once been. The sweet torture left him wanting to squirm and yet at the same time just to remain still. He took in sharp breaths of air and tried to calm himself; but it wasn't working as much as he would have liked. The slight chuckles weren't really so much coming from the thought of being tickled, but more-so out of excitement.

Leliana's chest was pressed slightly against his waistline, and from each movement of added pressure she gave, the more Anders wanted to have arched slightly into her. Though, he didn't and tried to seem as much of a gentleman as he could, the mage still couldn't maintain the hard-on she was intentionally causing him. Unable to cool his blush much, Anders lifted his left arm to cover his eyes. His right hand finally lowered towards Leliana's hair, in order to at least touch her.

"How much longer are you going to tease me like this?" He moaned from the wandering delight. He enjoyed giving her freedom and control, but obviously enough to the point his anticipation could withstand it.

As Anders soft moans filled her ears, she began to glance up to him through her lashes as a small smile began to appear on her lips. Through she hadn't ceased in her ongoing teasing, but went back for more as she felt the bulge rising under his clothes. This time though she began using the ends of her crimson hair to brush gently across his skin.

"I'll keep going as long as you let me." She whispered back as she began to run the bareness of her chest against his groin, bringing herself arching up now to look down to him. With the palm of her hands she held herself firmly up and with her legs she scooted herself up on him again. Their hips joined, feeling the warmth of her center and his hardness brought a whimper to pass her lips. A part of her wanted to tear away the rest of her binding clothing and his. To feel their bodies joined, caressing each other through sweat as they cried out through the night of pleasure and ecstasy. But she knew she could hold out. After all she was a bard once that had to control these urges… It wasn't like it would be so hard… Would it?

Through closed eyes she tried to keep her mind set on track and not give into those tempting urges and she finally brought herself to collide against his body as her arms laid restlessly upon his chest while her hands tangled within his locks. Her lips brushed against his giving off a few single kisses in between Eskimo kisses as well. "You do make it very hard though." She muttered softly as she began to dip her face into the side of his neck placing kiss after kiss along his neck to his ear lobe. There she stopped and began to part her lips, as she wrapped her mouth around one of his lobes, sucking gently but before leaving it to throb she tugged at the end with the front of her pearly whites.

He had still wanted to squirm; even more so when Leliana teased him with her hair. The light feathery touches were almost too much, and soon he was back to trying to keep his snickering to a minimum. Her breasts pushed up more against him soon caused a pleasant surge of excitement to course through him. Once she had climbed back on top of him to reach his lips, Anders found that he couldn't take just to keep his hands idle anymore. She was tempting him too much, and the teasing was turning more torturous for him to handle. Though her statement later had truly made him grin; whether it was meant to be taken out of context or not, Anders treated it as so.

"Don't I know it." He joked back rather slightly in between having to tilt his neck some to allow Leliana's lips to roam where they wished.

Her mouth teasing his earlobe had been the topping of his treat, since he couldn't take anymore of her teasing. Anders breathed in a long sigh and started to work the belt buckles and snaps around Leliana's leathered jeans. He slid his hands in, underneath the clothes and grasped her rear-end firmly. Pressing Leliana against him and at last having that fulfilling moment of grinding her most interesting part against his own. He hadn't stopped from there, though; taking this victory further by shimmiying his right arm a little lower so that his fingers could reach Leliana's sweetest spot to tease.

After a short moment of prodding one of his fingers into her wetness, he smiled and turned slightly to kiss her cheek. "I think… we're wearing too many clothes, Love."

The moment she felt and heard the clicks and clasps of her belts and buttons unravel from her waist brought her eyes to glance down between their bodies for a moment. But when his hand slipped in between her clothes though was the moment she felt a numbness come over her small body. Her pelvis grinded across his in the need of the moment as soft whimpers passed through her lips. A gasp stopped this though, as she felt his wandering fingers find her center almost causing her to buckle on top of him. Instead she brought her lips to his, interlocking them in a wild kiss.

She had almost forgotten his words, being lost within the moment. She couldn't help but smirk through clouded thoughts as she brushed her lips across his rough unshaven cheek. "But its what makes it more fun my love." She teased as she knew she couldn't fight her urges forever. It was only a matter of time until she or he gave into them. Though taking a few pieces of clothing off wouldn't hurt in the least.

Leliana didn't want to budge from his touch, his invitation was so inviting. That she began to shift her hips side to side, maneuvering her pants and armored skirt to slide off her at least partly. But she couldn't get it fully off unless she stood. She sighed some at this and rose a index finger giving a signal to him to wait for a moment as she rose from him and tended in getting her clothes fully off herself. After that was accomplished she stood there for a moment, before twirling upon her heel to show off her nakedness to him in almost a taunt before returning back to the bed and resting herself alongside him this time as tugged at his clothing as well. "Your turn." She muttered as she turned her hands to his waist as her fingers worked diligently at the buckles and buttons at his pants, loosening them enough to slide them down enough to where her hand had slid down his pants and trousers to meet his warm, erect member. She gave a teasing stroke, with the base of her palm and then another before parting her lips as she gaze up towards Anders with a look of loving desire. "Looks like you got yourself all bothered."

Leliana had managed to move away from him, causing Anders's hands to have left her in that brief moment. He started to sit up the moment she was pulling away; still in an attempt to reach out towards her. Anders gave a slight sigh of defeat, to allow Leliana to continue undressing. It wasn't as though he minded, but he was enjoying his time for once.

"It's moments like this I almost wish I was wearing robes from the Circle again." He mumbled, more to himself with the thought, but took no attempt to hide his words.

As she climbed back to him completely nude, Anders was quick in his attempts to react assertive in return. The only thing that stopped him between his kisses towards her shoulders and neck, was when she had grasped his member and gave it a tempting sense of direction. Anders whimpered a little, pressing his mouth more towards her collarbone, in a light love-bite in return.

-"So much for subtle "assertiveness"-

Unable to put up with the mockery for much longer, Anders rolled them both over to where he finally had Leliana underneath him. He returned the fiery kiss he was given moments ago and braced her hands up towards her head in order to keep her still. Upon breaking the kiss at last, he kissed her nose and started to smile.

"You've teased me long enough." He rasped from his heated tone, and soon moved his hands down along her arms. The spell of warmth radiated from his palms as he reached her breasts. When he started to slide downward, his lips started to suckle over her left nipple in return.

Leliana couldn't help but chuckle at his mumbled words of the circles robes. "Now that, I would love to see." She added with a nudge of her nose against his own. "Don't they wear dresses though?" She asked aloud, not meaning to as she had noticed her mind began to wander trying to imagine Anders in such clothing.

In the heat of the moment of her coaxing him on in her endless teasing, she at first didn't bother to pay much attention to the bite he inflected upon her collar bone. But her body had reacted, her chest rose into his warmth as she let out a gasp. Her left hand that was draped around him once drew little unknown invisible drawings upon his back, now dug her fingernails slightly into the core of his back. She began to peak from her eyelids to him at his statement and she couldn't help but smile shyly at this. "I'm sorry love I'll be gentler next time."

She wasn't expecting him to suddenly roll over on top of her. So when it happened a little sudden squeak of surprise escaped her lips. As her legs propped up on each side of him and slightly crossed over the back of his legs while her arms wrapped around his neck bringing him further into the kiss they shared with one another.

Leliana had loved when he used any kind of spell upon her during their love-making or foreplay. So when she had felt it she couldn't hold back the helpless whimpers escaping. Her arms began to drop from his neck once he moved down her as her back arched into the gentle touch.

"Anders." she panted breathlessly she writhed under him, pushing her hips against his in an effort to meld their bodies.

"They're manly robes…" He pouted between suckles and kisses between her breasts. Though he did look towards her with a grin afterwards, "And pretty ones… There're no buckles or snaps to worry about when removing them."

He would have spoken more of them, but his mind was elsewhere. He was lowering his fingers back into her, massaging thoroughly over her inner walls, and tugging lightly at her right nipple between his lips. Anders could give a slight muffled sound when Leliana had scratched him, but it wasn't deep or hardly even considered painful as long as there was no blood drawn. Surely; though, there would have been red marks from her later. Anders was occasionally reminded that she had a slight kink for pain, where he clearly didn't. It was just enough to keep him smiling to the thought.

Reaching down once he was certain she would have been ready for him, Anders removed his hand from below, only to glide his shaft over Leliana's clit. He lifted his head up from her breasts and pushed his top weight more against his shoulders and forearms; keeping her trapped to look up at him. It was clearly a tease of his own, gentle and still very informing of how wild she was driving the mage.

"Do you love me?" He questioned, lowering his eyes towards her neck, soon followed by his mouth to place a rough kiss against her skin.

Leliana couldn't help but giggle lightly at his explanation of the circles clothing. As it seemed he had a well to known experience with them, just by wearing them. Though she didn't ask any further into it as she wrapped her mind, body and soul around him.

He was driving her mad; but in a sense of good madness if there was such a thing. Usually she would have thrown herself on top of a man who was enticing her like he was to her. But she was lost, in the sensations he was giving her. The warmth of his hands gliding across her skin, the sweet suckles he put forth on one of her most sensitive areas; almost had brought her to an ecstasy itself. And she wanted nothing but to let this moment they shared to last as long as possibly, for the both of them to be able to remember and look back upon.

Her arms followed the mage as he situated himself on top of her, her slender arms wrapped around him. One around his back and the other to his neck. When she felt the warmth of the tip of his cock slide across her wet center, it caused her body to shudder with as the sound of pleasure passing her lips as she grinded her hips against him uncontrollably. The lids of her eyes began to flutter open reveling her bright emerald hues as she gazed up towards him.

Upon hearing his words, brought a smile to crack upon her full lips. "Anders." She whispered, her hand which wrapped around his neck slid and the palm of her hand cupped his prominent jawline. "I love you, so much. I always have, and I always will until I take my last breath." She replied softly. Her fingertips gently dug in-between his neck and jawline to bring herself up to him as her lips tenderly pressed against his unraveling into desire.

He smiled some into her kiss, and gradually found himself easing his way into her. The deeper he pushed in, the more powerful the kiss became. He started to rock gently against Leliana's frustrated motions; since he didn't want to have waited long either by this point. She had felt so good around him that his pace had slightly quickened. It wasn't too long though before his mouth had torn away, and Anders was back to his rather expressive nature. He moaned near her ear and mumbled sweet dedications to her.

"You are too good to me." His warm breath pressed near the nape of her neck. "I never thought I would love again, but I can't imagine myself without you."

Had he been pleading…? Perhaps a little. His time in the Fade did cause him to miss the finer things in life, after all. Anders never wanted to have been without this again; the feeling of someone and having that love returned. Yes. By then, Anders could honestly say that he loved Leliana. He couldn't imagine returning from Tevinter without her.

At the moment when he felt himself reaching close, he had tried to slow his pace down at least a little in hopes that Leliana's final moments of bliss would have risen with him. After all, he didn't want a partner to have been ahead of him nor behind in hardly anything. He wanted her steps to have been taken right when he took his.

Leliana almost found herself lost in the kiss, if given the chance she would have been for Makers sake only knew for how long; the warmth of his lips like a summer's day and then their moist tongues dancing together in a wild frenzy. If it wasn't for the sudden slide of his shaft into her center she would have been taken away by just this. A muffled moan pushed its way through her lips as their lips were joined in harmony. When lack of air finally made them break away, Leliana arched underneath as helpless cries out of pleasure passed through her lips.

She looked to him through peaking eyes, though her hues beamed a fire within. A joy came over her as she heard his words and then felt a form of warm tears of happiness fill inside her. Even though she had heard Anders say the words of 'I love you' to her many times before, this was something different to her; something more important. Leliana didn't want to frighten Anders with her sudden girlish emotions though and instead drove her features into him by hiding in the center of his neck. Her mouth parting as her lips molded to his skin, sucking on the one area her tongue tasting the salt of sweat and the sweetness of the skin beneath.

When she pulled away and their pace with one another had slowed down to a more rhythmic speed, she parted her lids to look to him. She tried to hide her expression from him as she felt her inner walls contract around him causing her to flinch some realizing she was coming to her peak. In attempt to stop this Leliana brought herself to concentrate more on him; her hands smoothing down his sides and to his chest, where the tips of her digits circled around the hardness of one of his nipples, and then the next. This didn't cease her broken breathing as she raised herself up enough to press a sweated forehead to his as her lips puckered out to meet his in an inviting kiss.

"Le—Leliana…" He rasped after the feeling of her warm mouth against his neck. His eyes closed, unable to tell from where his built up restraint was ending to where hers began. One would say, it was just at the right spot at the right time; well for him. "Oh, Maker! You're too good t-?"

Feeling her walls tightening around him had Anders's back soon thrown into a frenzy. He couldn't hold himself back for much longer and after a strenuous hold, the mage lowered his head and climaxed. His breath barely could even catch up with him, since he was huffing from the exercise. His eyes had closed briefly and soon he was verbal again.

"I love you…" He moaned just before he started to collapse nearly over her. He paused for the moment, letting the air cool the heat of his sweat.

After a few moments, he had finally propped himself back up on his elbows, so that he could liter his woman's face with tiny kisses. For Anders, it had just seemed like the perfect ending every time. He pulled out from her soon, and nestled next to her, wrapping his arm around her and keeping her body cuddled close to him.

"Ahh—Anders…!" She managed to muffle out, through each broken word spoken was a gasp for air ready to fill her lungs. "You… We feel so good together." She finished by brushing her lips against his.

Leliana's pants with the mixture of whimpers filled the room, her arousal rising with each thrust he pushed into her. It felt as if her body was withering under him but her hips never bothered to stop in their taunting grinds along with him. Though this had gotten to her eventually, as a sense of that built up tension he rose inside her released, causing a sudden quiver of her body, her inner walls giving in as she climaxed, their mixture of fluids joined inside her; thus bringing her to cry out in expected defeated moans.

After a moment of catching her breath and steading it she reached out to wipe away a few astray strands of his blonde hair back in place. "And I love you."

She smiled some as her legs still were bound to him even enjoying the feeling of him above her as he was now, that she began to caresses the base of her foot along his lower calf. She started to tremble though the moment he began to slide out of her center. That she felt the seepage of their combined juices trickle out of her, slightly. "Hopefully we didn't keep the whole tavern awake." She began to mutter slightly through his kisses upon her facial features bringing her to smile brightly. "Makers sake I adore you. You make me so happy. I don't know what I would do without you."

As she felt the adjustment of his body against hers, she automatically followed his lead. As she laid her body to his front in a spooning position, she felt a sense of security this way. Her arms wrapped tightly around his arms that she tangled her legs next as her form cuddled warmly into his form.

"Oh, boosh-wah!" Anders scoffed in a light joke after hearing Leliana mention about the Tavern. "The customers can sleep with an extra pillow over their heads. I hear it does wonders for the skin anyway."

He listened to her and was happily nuzzling his stubble along her cheek and then her neck. His ankles continued to move in a slight constant rhythm against her own. It was his method of cuddling, and the habit had never left him. Anders looked towards the covers and in one fell swoop, reached behind him and pulled them over both of themselves for the night.

At last, taking the moment to breathe in the essence of their afterglow, Anders partially had opened his eyes to look towards her. He figured they were only going to have a few hours to sleep, but at least this time, he hopefully wouldn't have to worry about someone barging in or trying to capture/kill him right at the moment of waking up.

"I wish it will always be like this…" He whispered just moments before sleep finally took over.

As the night passed by and further into the morning, Anders stretched in the bed. He looked towards Leliana asleep near him and lightly kissed the bridge of her nose. Finally, it was a peaceful morning he could wake up to. The mage turned carefully in the bed so that Leliana could sleep more. He tucked the blanket back over her and turned, looking back down at himself. He smiled at the thought of hardly even getting out of his clothes before last night's event. Reaching up to adjust and fasten his buckles and zippers until he was fully dressed, Anders could smile at himself with pride.

Anders words stayed with Leliana as he spoke of wishing it would always be this way. She nodded her cranium in response as she began to feel the warmth of their bodies combined thus making her lids heavier by the moment. But she managed to speak a few parting words before drifting off to sleep. "It will be love, always. As long as were together."

As morning came Leliana was too exhausted to get up, from both the travels to get to Kirkwall and their past deeds of last night. So when Anders got up it didn't even budge her an inch. Instead the rouge curled up in a ball in attempt to gather up both their heat from their slumber.

Outside of the room, and a few doors down Aragorn was reading himself for the next day travels. But before dressing into his newly washed clothing and armor, he instead stood in his birches, a towel thrown over his shoulder and bed head atop his crown. A yawn escaped his lips as he ruffled the nape of his neck hairs with his fingertips as he began to walk to the large door, grasping on the brass knob and turned it. He exited prominently, and trailed towards the nearest bath-house. But before doing so he was halted by a room, or a door per-say. And even though he stood there almost completely naked, he brought himself to this door and extended the arm to knock on the center of the large door before him.

"Ohhhh Lyyyle…" He announced curiously, his arm shifted down to its resting place as his hues glanced to the knob of the door to see if he had begun to open it. "You better be up!" He started again but his tone and next round of knocks were fiercer than before.

The knocking began to stir Leliana in her sleep, but amazingly hadn't woken her, yet. As she just had begun to flip to one side then to the other, blankets entangling with each movement she had made.

Anders looked towards the door upon hearing the knocks. His eyes had glanced at Leliana; seeing that she was still stirring a bit in her sleep. Anders figured that if was going to assure Leliana her rest, then he needed to handle what the intrusion was at his room. He opened the door and looked back at Aragorn, standing in front of the doorway -… half naked…- and couldn't help the slight curious eyebrow that hiked up a few inches, in his expression.

For one, Anders had to get use to being called "Lyle" again, which was always a little awkward for him to do at first. Not to mention the fact that the tavern was a public area, so Anders really didn't expect such a presented greeting. He could tell within minutes though; that he was probably preparing to go to the public bath house down the street. Too many clues gave that away…

"I would have thought you'd have given Tess the slip…" He started to say while sliding out into the hallway and closing the door behind himself. "…or did you?"

A chuckle couldn't help but emit from the Wardens lips as he looked to Anders seeing his curious expression. Beyond that he happened to look seeing Leliana resting, peacefully. "Wore her out did you?" He questioned. "Good…" Aragorn finished with a pat on the mages shoulder as he stepped back allowing the mage to step outside the door.

He took a moment to glance around, and to a table which caught his eye and on top of it was a bottle; which Aragorn happened to trail to for a moment, grasping the bottle by its neck, bringing it to his side. Though the Warden wasn't far from Anders; he was brought back waving the drink in the mages face in a taunt. "Tess?" Ohhhh Tess… Right…" He halfly replied, as his hues shifted down to the floorboard. "Nah she couldn't handle this." He stated with a wave of his hand, up and down his features. "Not many can, it's very disheartening… Sadly…"

"Now for you … If you're not too busy with your little lady you should come with me… As I could smell you across the hallway and beyond. Or was that the smut from last night?" He began to tease. "Plus I can't be drinking alone after all. You know the saying if your drinking alone you're an alchie, but if your with a group its cause you're a socialist. So what do you say?"