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Caesar Zeppeli ([personal profile] mylegacy) wrote2015-11-22 06:54 pm

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"Leave a message, per favore; I'll be back before you know it."

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nextlineis: (☆ you can turn a phrase)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-04-24 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
[He should probably be more annoyed about that smile against his throat because it feels like in some ways, Caesar's starting to laugh at him. But those injuries to his ego are soothed somewhat by the assurances and the trust that he places in Caesar. He believes that Caesar is just trying to make him happy, to make him feel good, without question. So, Joseph comes out of hiding again to catch Caesar with a kiss on the lips and by the time he pulls away a little to break off the kiss, he's smiling again.]

You always make me happy, see? [Joseph kisses Caesar again, fingers tracing over the hard lines of Caesar's stomach over his shirt idly.] I didn't say tickling was a bad thing, for the record.
nextlineis: (☆ let your words be)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-04-26 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[This close, he can hear Caesar breathing and feel his breath in their kiss. But what brings Joseph's awareness to the little hitches in Caesar's breath is the twinges of muscle beneath Joseph's fingers. He's barely even aware of Caesar's hand trailing down his arm until it closes over his, and for a moment, he half-expects Caesar to take his hand away. But before that expectation can develop any further, Caesar brings Joseph's hand under his shirt to feel warm skin. Without meaning to, Joseph makes a soft noise that'd almost seem thoughtful if it didn't sound so pleased.]

[As Caesar kisses along his jaw, Joseph's hand slips out of Caesar's and slides further up. He's memorized by the feel of Caesar's skin, the warmth and the strength of muscle just beneath the surface. Joseph has to turn his head a little to see the small bits of skin left exposed as Caesar's shirt hikes up with Joseph's reach. In doing so, it gives Caesar a slightly better angle on his way up to to just under Joseph's ear. Joseph starts letting his hand move back down, shivering at the kiss that lingers just under his ear and inhaling sharply as his nails begin to dig into Caesar's skin without entirely meaning to.]


Not about to tell me it's impossible, are you?

[Not a bad thing at all. A very good thing, in fact.]
nextlineis: (★ break break break)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-04-26 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[The bite does come as a surprise, bringing Joseph's hand to a halt right where it is. It's not enough to hurt at the very least, but Joseph isn't immediately sold on whether or not he likes that abrupt roughness. Fortunately, he really doesn't need to reach an immediate decision as Caesar soothes it away with a slightly slurred apology and kiss. And with that apology and kiss, Joseph decides maybe that also wasn't quite so bad. Not if that was just all because he started dragging his nails over Caesar's stomach. It was just abrupt. Unexpected. Like so much of this has been.]

[Unexpected isn't bad though. Joseph's figuring that out really fast.]


Course I can, [he says, lazily and sounding entirely like the cat who got the cream without having to put very much work into it at all. Experimentally, he drags his nails a little slower over Caesar's skin, digging just a little deeper to leave angry red marks in their wake.] So can you.
nextlineis: (★ all hail the outlaws)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-04-26 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Joseph bites his own lip at the sound of Caesar's voice and the way he simply seems to curve his entire body around Joseph. He doesn't question whether or not this is a good reaction. He thinks — no, he knows if it was, Caesar would throw down the brakes just as quickly as Joseph would in the reverse. Neither one of them are necessarily all that aware of what should or shouldn't be happening right now, but they're still more than capable of communicating their limits. There just don't seem to be any right now. Not between the two of them.]

[Joseph turns his head, pressing kisses into Caesar's hair and wordless reassurances. His fingers drift back up, just the very tips of them ghosting over their initial paths before deviating away. He's not quite so hesitant or tentative as how he drags his nails down this time, curling his fingers occasionally to dig a little more and to slow his momentum down when he begins to feel Caesar pushing into his hand.]
nextlineis: (★ still i'm leaving)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-04-26 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Desperation and Caesar just aren't two things that necessarily go together in Joseph's mind. Mostly because he's always seen desperation somewhat as a weakness, and while Caesar can be many things, weak simply isn't one of them. Even at his lowest moments when Caesar is small and needs something to hold onto for a little while, he's not weak. But it seems that Joseph's going to have to alter his definition a little because there's nothing in the way he responds to Joseph's touch or kissing him that seems weak.]

[It seems like truly for the first time, Caesar's surrendering. That all of his walls and defenses have fallen down with nothing left but Caesar at his most raw and vulnerable. But nothing about that registers as weak. He's strong and he's beautiful and he's kissing Joseph absolutely breathless and to the point that he could very easily forget his own name with little to no effort. Joseph's hand shifts again, moving around Caesar's side to his back where he pulls Caesar closer with wordless demands into their kisses. The fingers in his hair feel good and Caesar's muscles underneath Joseph's fingers feel even better, but in some ways it doesn't feel enough. Not when Caesar's saying his name like that, like he's the only person left in the world.]
nextlineis: (★ shouldn't have)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-04-26 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
[As Caesar leans into Joseph, claiming him again and again with every kiss, Joseph doesn't even need to think about pressing back. And it's not a passivity with which he responds, even when the message back is simply yours, always yours. It's a choice to give the whole of himself to Caesar, to be whatever is needed or wanted in the moment in ways that are both different and more meaningful than they have been these past few months because Joseph's whole world, their whole world has shifted with three simple words.]

[It's obvious that Caesar is no longer thinking in terms of what's okay and what's not okay. He doesn't ask so much as he takes and Joseph's more than willing to give him whatever he wants. And just as they share in what they want, they share in that sense of liberation as well. Right now, it's okay to want Caesar. It's okay to want and to love him, to want to please him and be pleased by him. Whatever the consequences for any of this happen to be, that's something for beyond this moment. What matters right here and now is that they have everything. That Joseph's heart feels like it's running a race that it might lose but it's going to damn well try to win. That he can't seem to catch his breath because sometimes he tries, but he forgets what he was doing and it's Caesar's name he says in desperate pleas instead of taking a greedy gulp of air in. Eventually he just pulls Caesar completely off the counter, having to take a stumbling half-step back before trapping Caesar against the counter.]
nextlineis: (★ because all my life's)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-05-01 05:34 am (UTC)(link)
[There should probably be a rule or something against Caesar talking like that. It's too difficult to try and think about what he's saying and to listen to at the same time, so Joseph doesn't bother. He listens to it, he makes a noise of acknowledgement that gets swept up entirely into a seemingly abrupt bubble of laughter as he jolts forward a little when fingers begin gripping tight at his hips. It's only at the initial pressure that it tickles, but it still tickles and boy he wishes he could be less ticklish or caught off-guard by the way Caesar touches him, but it keeps happening.]

[This time, however, Joseph goes right back to kissing Caesar like nothing even happened and just tries to not feel the embarrassment. It should prove a much better plan instead of hiding away, and he doesn't think Caesar's going to mind it all that much anyway. At the very least, he probably won't be all that worried about it. Joseph probably should be though if Caesar's of the mind to catalog something like that for later use. And he probably is. He seems to enjoy remembering all of Joseph's embarrassing greatest hits to bring up again later. But not right now. Joseph can't bring himself to worry about anything right now. One of his hands leaves the edge of the counter beside Caesar to start tugging at his belt with mixed success at first because, quite honestly, they're standing too close to each other for it to be anything but slow-going. Which isn't ideal, but it's not something Joseph's about to get all that fussed about right now. Joseph's more than willing to trade speed for staying pressed close to Caesar.]
nextlineis: (★ it's our time to make a move)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-05-01 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[It feels like things have come to a grinding halt. No, it's more abrupt than that. It's more like a head-on collision into a wall. That's what it's like when Caesar puts his hand over Joseph's because for a moment, Joseph thinks maybe that's it. Maybe somewhere in the span of a few seconds when Joseph unwittingly crossed a line, Caesar's not necessarily changed his mind, but he wants to step back from this because he wants to think. The last thing he wants right now is Caesar thinking too hard on any of this, but there's not much he can do about it if that is the case.]

[Caesar starts trying to clarify and Joseph does his best to listen. It's difficult because his heart is still beating fast in his ears and he really wants to kiss Caesar even if they have to stop the rest of it, at least a few more times. But maybe they don't have to stop. That's the second thought to follow because Caesar's not taking Joseph's hand away and — oh they're kissing again. Joseph's not as quick to start kissing back and is almost a little hesitant in the way he returns it as it's starting to settle in what Caesar's saying.]

[...They're still in the kitchen, aren't they? Yep. Sure are.]

[Well.]


Okay, [he breathes.]

[Joseph's hand turns over in Caesar's to hold onto it as his other hand leaves the counter to hold Caesar's face instead. He doesn't make any immediate motion to start heading towards the bedroom, choosing to instead kiss Caesar. He wants to make up for the delay, the subtle panic that maybe Caesar was saying something he ended up not saying at all. Kisses seem to be the best way to do that. So, that's how Joseph chooses to lead Caesar out of the kitchen and back towards the bedroom. Joseph's hand slips down from Caesar's cheek, fingers grazing and curling along his neck until they reach the front of his shirt and give him a tug to follow.]

[For once, he's grateful for the lack of furniture and clutter in the apartment. Otherwise, he'd have to actually turn around and pay more attention to where he's headed. Instead, he can focus on keeping the kisses between them teasing.]
nextlineis: (★ still i'm leaving)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-05-02 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
Mm.

[That's about as far as answering Caesar verbally as Joseph can get. A promise muffled by Caesar's lips on his that he won't stop kissing him under any circumstances. But it's not the statement of the promise that matters half as much as that it's kept, and Joseph sees to it that it is. Even though he's the one leading, the one that's supposed to be pursued with more kisses, there are times when he meets Caesar again before he even has a chance to chase after Joseph.]

[Joseph uses his foot to bump the bedroom door open the rest of the way, not breaking his stride over toward the bed. He sits on the foot of it, starting to pull Caesar down in front of him. But then he changes Caesar's trajectory entirely, tossing Caesar down on the bed on his back beside Joseph. It means a break in the kisses, of course, but there's not much of a delay between Caesar being tossed down onto the bed and Joseph crawling over him with a crooked grin. He can't tease, not entirely, when he wants so badly to be as close to Caesar as possible. He reaches between them as he leans back down to hungrily kiss Caesar like his very life depends on stealing the air right out of Caesar's lungs, experimentally moving his hand over Caesar first over his pants and then under his shirt.]
nextlineis: (★ that this world could give)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-05-02 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[It's a little hard to satisfy both of Caesar's requests at once because one requires him pulling a little further away and the other, the opposite. So, for a few moments, he attends to neither and while he tries to make up his mind, nips at Caesar's lip before letting his kisses trail down along his chin and jaw. He knows he can't leave Caesar hanging on a decision forever, however, and it's with a high degree of reluctance — and a soft, put-upon whine — that he pulls away to pull his shirt off the rest of the way. It's a little clumsy at first, having to first pry it away from Caesar before he can get it off himself, but once he's got the hem of it out of Caesar's grasp, it's off and tossed somewhere on the floor in an instant.]
nextlineis: (★ all hail the outlaws)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-05-02 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[At first, Joseph isn't entirely sure what to make of Caesar's staring. It's not that he feels self-conscious or anything like that, but he thinks maybe he took a little too long to reach a decision and it wasn't the right one because there's something in Caesar's gaze that speaks to some discomfort and it doesn't feel like the get your pants off right now kind of discomfort. He almost asks if Caesar's okay, but then something seems to settle and Caesar closes the distance between the two of them.]

[His breath shakes and he shudders as Caesar drags his nails along his body. Coupled with kisses, teeth, and words he doesn't really understand, Joseph forgets all about touching back because his whole world becomes narrowly focused on just the sensation of Caesar touching his skin and breathing him in. Joseph doesn't take anything back so much in words, but he leans into each of Caesar's touches as best he can with wordless murmurs and a soft moan whenever his nails start to dig just a little harder. Somewhere along the way, Joseph's hand tangles itself up in Caesar's hair, but it's another moment or two before Joseph swiftly and abruptly remembers. His other hand on the bed that had started to take to bunching up the blankets, releases them to move to Caesar's hip. He grabs the hem of Caesar's shirt and starts pulling it up, his other hand leaving Caesar's hair to join the effort.]
nextlineis: (★ did you think it would?)

[personal profile] nextlineis 2016-05-02 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
[It's worth it in the end to Joseph. That's not to say that it's ideal that Caesar has to move away from him, to stop touching and kissing him, just to get his shirt off. But it's worth it because Caesar is beautiful and he needs a moment just to look. To look and to feel warm skin underneath his hands as they both drift up from Caesar's stomach and over his chest. He can feel every shift of muscle, and it's almost enough to throw off every attempt to catch his breath. And that's about all he can take before he has to kiss Caesar again, pushing him back down onto the bed and following him to effectively pin him this time with a soft, pleading noise. His kisses break away from Caesar's lips back down along his jaw and to his neck as a hand travels down once more. Joseph's nails trace over the earlier lines he made on Caesar's stomach before finally reaching his belt again.]

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