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"That's probably it," Ronin agrees with a sudden, soft laugh that he directs against the side of Remi's neck between kisses. "But then that is because I am not just a bad loser, but you are an obnoxious winner." A match made in heaven, truly. "And I didn't say we would find anywhere someone could see you, did I?" Grinning now, he directs another soft kiss to Remi's lips and lets warm hands skate over the tanned, scarred expanse of his husband's back. "Is it exhibitionism if all I care about is touching you?"

With one last kiss to the Bastion's cheek, Ronin feels his eyebrows raising to hear that his somewhat brutish climax hadn't upset the other man - and his cheeks flush anew as he realises he also probably wouldn't have minded it were their positions reversed. "I... it does make sense," he agrees, one of his hands leaving the water so he might brush his thumb across Remi's lips. "Well, with my full consent, there is only one way to find out, is there not?"

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RONIN

i kept falling over, i kept looking backward

"I have no idea what you could possibly be talking about." Remi says stiffly, his lips tugging down into a deep frown as he raised his chin just like that gif of the monkey. "I am a very gracious winner. Just now, did I gloat? Or did I kiss you and hold you in my arms?"

Finding the rest of his argument interrupted by soft kisses against his neck and lips, the Bastion sighed, unable to tell by the lazy river of his husband's emotions whether this was revenge or simply affection. "I don't know. You're the one who keeps bringing up all of these labels. I just know I like touching you, especially when you can't do anything to stop me." What the name for that was, Remi didn't know nor care, not with Ronin's hands wandering across his skin.

Blushing anew, the heat from the pools suddenly feeling wildly overwhelming, Remi glanced over his shoulder, eyeing the edges of the pool before peering into the mist and wondering where they might go that would check off the requirements of Ronin's five-dollar words for fucking in public. "Well, who am I to say no to that?" He says in a low voice.

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"Mm, you did kiss me and hold me in your arms," Ronin admits freely, already leaning in for another taste of Remi's lips as if to remind himself of it - and to try and smooth away the grumpiness from his expression. "But I could feel the smug satisfaction underneath, make no mistake." It's with a soft chuckle that he draws back enough to continue mapping the other man's skin with his hands - given that the Knight is still slightly adrift in a post-orgasm stupor, one could argue that this is indeed just affection, but with some interesting side effects for Remi.

"Some would argue that it makes you a dom," he points out. "We'll get you a whip and a paddle and see if it gets you off." Maybe later, though - already Ronin is following Remi's gaze over his shoulder towards the thick mist and potential edge of the pools, and this time it's his turn to ferry them along. Alas, he has no tentacles to do the job, but Ronin is quite happy to swim the distance.

Soon enough the voices that had felt so close are muffled and inaudible, and the bodies that had become distinguishable through the steam are gone once more. Finding a more shallow spot, Ronin slips his arms back around Remi, fully intending to lift him onto the hot stone at the side of the springs.

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RONIN

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"Mmmm..." Already the Bastion is shaking his head even as Ronin's lips try and fix his own in place. "I think you're misremembering." He mumbles into his husband's kiss, before sighing and sinking against the Knight.

"Well, not if you don't like it." Remi interrupts with a slight shake of his head. For all the pseudo-masochism the pair had allowed into their sex lives, pleasure on both sides was always paramount. Even knowing he'd caused his husband minor, but genuine frustration by his antics was enough to have the Bastion wiping any further games of count to ten sexual teasing from his repertoire.

Retracting his tentacles entirely so that there would be much less of himself to move—if Ronin was going to swim he could as well—the Bastion stopped at the side of the wall with his head cocked to the side, listening. "You—" Falling abruptly silent as he was lifted from the water in an absurd display of strength that had Remi forgetting what he was going to say entirely such was the way it made him feel boyish and stupidly in love, he let his hands press against the stone to properly determine if it was going to be too hot or not. Finding it just fine, for two demigods at least, he held out his hand in order to pull the Knight out of the water as well.

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"Mm, well I don't know if I don't like it yet." Ronin smiles sweetly up at his husband, and though he takes Remi's hand, rather than pulling himself out of the hotspring, he merely kisses the back of his palm and encourages him to sit at the edge of the water so the Knight might stand comfortably between his thighs. "Perhaps we'll need to think of a safe word," he suggests with a bob of his eyebrows. "Something innocuous, like... boomerang, or indigo."

Either way, providing that Remi acquiesces, Ronin will be able to settle before his husband, hands running gently across the tops of his thighs towards his swim shorts. Leaning in to press a few slow kisses against Remi's chest, it will take a small amount of shimmying on the Bastion's part to free him of his clothes, not that Ronin is complaining in the slightest.

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RONIN

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"Oh?" As the back of his hand is kissed, the Bastion tilts his head to the side reminiscent of any number of beasts, before he nods. "Oh." Ronin meant here here.

Edging himself forward slightly to sit as close to the lip as possible, Remi presses his lips together into a thin line as he hums. "But we both use those words so often." He chuckles, before opting for boomerang, if only because were they caught, he'd quite like to hear Ronin try and explain what it was they'd been doing that had anything at all to do with boomerangs.

Shifting his hips back and forth to aid with the removal of his wet shorts—it occurs to Remi to simply tear them off, alas he's learned long ago how quickly he goes through clothing if he simply shreds anything that causes him even a moment's sexual frustration—until they're dangling down by one ankle. Sighing with a touch of relief if only because his erection had been caged for quite some time, he gazes down at his husband with bright green eyes and a slanted smile. "Boomerang." He repeats, nodding emphatically if only so the Knight knew he could (and should) say it if he needed.

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"Mmhm," Ronin replies as Remi seems to catch his drift, though he's not currently capable of anything more eloquent given how his lips are occupied with lavishing kisses across his husband's chest. "We do?" It's through hooded eyes that the Knight finally draws back enough to look up at the other man, smirking and assisting in the removal of his shorts, tugging them away beneath the water (and having the good sense to tuck them down the back of his own lest they be swept away into the springs).

"Boomerang it is," he confirms, letting his fingers press and knead across the tops of Remi's thighs, even as he steps closer between the other man's legs. He doesn't plan on needing to say it at all, but as both of them know, things don't always go to plan. Nevertheless, Ronin is soon very much focused on his task, and it's with a last lingering kiss against the Bastion's collarbone that he finally allows his fingers to encircle his erection with slow and luxurious strokes, glancing sidelong over his shoulder to check there are no interlopers in the mist.

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RONIN

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"Am I now meant to be quiet about things?" Remi whispers teasingly into his husband's dark hair before sighing against the kisses fluttering across his chest. Running his fingertips down the familiar hills and crags of the Knight's biceps the Bastion takes a moment to appreciate the unfairly handsome man currently nudging his way between his thighs.

Given how things normally progressed between the two, it was actually quite rare for the pair to finish each other off separately such that Remi found himself surprisingly excited at the prospect of feeling his husband's mouth around his cock for more than just a bit of preemptive teasing. "Mmmmmm." The Bastion sighs indulgently as Ronin's hand finds its way around his erection. Letting his head tilt back and his eyes slip shut, he happily loses himself in the too-soft and too-slow movements of his husband's clever fingers.

"Anyone coming to join us..?" He asks slyly, cracking one eye open and raising a brow down at his husband.

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"Absolutely not," Ronin hisses, the mischief in his voice all too apparent as he dips a little further into the water. "Where is the fun if I can't hear how good or bad a job I'm doing?" Raising an eyebrow up at Remi even as his hand continues to stroke idly along the hard length of him, he shakes his head in response to his question. "Not yet. Make sure you have a clever story ready about how you dropped your boomerang in the springs should anyone appear, though. I'll say I was diving to look for it."

Rekindled arousal and wickedness will flood the Bastion in all the places they touch, and Ronin wastes no time in making up for the long moments where he'd left his husband untouched and wanting. Squeezing the base of his cock at the same time as he takes Remi into his mouth, it's true that it's a rarity indeed for this to be more than mere foreplay. His mouth is too occupied to say so, but the fact that this is more enticing than the idea of everyone watching them fuck probably says something about Remi being his real kink.

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RONIN

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"Oh that's right, I forgot what a novice you are at this." Remi says with a smirk. "First rule, no teeth." He adds with a huff of quick laughter.

"Wait, so I'm meant to be keeping watch?" Lifting his eyebrows, Remi glances toward the mists and the people presumably hidden within and frowns. "How about I think up a good apology instead, because there's absolutely no way I'm going to stop you." Not even if it was their children who came swimming through.

"Hn—" The Bastion gasps, his eyelashes fluttering with the burst of sensation that the combination of Ronin's hand and mouth provides. "Gods that already feels so good." He mumbles in a tight voice. Not quite knowing what to do with his hands—once, so very long ago, that had gotten him into quite a bit of trouble with Isla—Remi at least is not so concerned with Ronin about doing the wrong thing such that his fingertips find their way into his husband's dark hair with ease. For the time being his touch is gentle and appreciative, not quite so stirred up by the Knight's ministrations yet to be forceful.

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Unable to maintain any sort of coherent conversation given his current task, Ronin nevertheless does manage to raise an eyebrow up at his husband, which is about as coy a look as Remi will ever receive from the Knight with his mouth wrapped around his cock. Humming a note of either understanding or disagreement, or approval (it really could be anything), his free hand slips up the length of Remi's thigh to coax its way around his hips and to the small of his back, arching him further forward.

Lavishing the Bastion with attention - and yes, keeping his teeth to himself for now - Ronin's eyes close at the feel of fingers in his hair, and he makes a considered effort to relax, to taking even more of the other man into his waiting mouth. All but gagging himself on Remi already, it's through quick snatches of air through his nose that he maintains something of a rhythm, withdrawing only to let his tongue swirl around the head of his cock in an effort to tease, before swallowing him up once more.

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RONIN

i kept falling over, i kept looking backward

If the fae-wild shade of his husband's eyes wasn't enough to be his undoing on a good day, to see them peering up at him from between his own legs accompanied by the frictionless pulses of his tongue had the Bastion more than gasping. "Now that's just cruel." Remi hisses, his fingers flinching in his husband's hair as he arches himself forward.

"I'm already close—" Remi admits with a shaky laugh, knowing that he had no real reason to be self-conscious about it—shorter was normally better for the person giving BJs anyway—but even so his cheeks flush a touch to say it.

"Fuck you're so good at this." Combing his fingers through his husband's hair as if to keep his hand busy, Remi inhales deep enough to have his nostrils flaring as the first blush of his orgasm began to snap at the balls of his feet. Lifting his eyes to the roof of the cavern before sweeping them through the mist, the Bastion felt a sense of restlessness like he'd never known begin to take over. Likely it was because by this time he'd be pinned beneath the Knight or otherwise digging his fingertips against his hips, but remaining so still really was a punishment.

"nnnn fuck, Ronin." He hears himself whine, finding it strange not to use the attuned bond in a moment like this and thus having no real control over the volume of his voice.

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Remi will feel Ronin's smile since he can't respond in kind, though the urge to use the Attuned bond is almost irresistible. He doesn't trust himself to say anything that might be interpreted as neutral, though, and so hopefully his husband will be able to interpret his enjoyment through the flush of feeling wherever they touch, through the gentle insistence of the hand against the small of Remi's back to coax him ever forward.

I know, he might have said, of remaining still and the torture it seems to drag through his body not to be able to react in kind, though to hear that Remi is close is enough, at least, for Ronin to act on his own. Squeezing the length of the Bastion's cock, his mouth moves in tandem with the quick strokes of his hand, clearly not intending to prolong the other man's misery on the precipice of pleasure.

i'm almost me again
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RONIN

i kept falling over, i kept looking backward

Slack-jawed and looking as if he was in some sort of fugue state the way his eyes were glazed over with arousal and his lips kept flinching with unspoken curses, Remi's breath hitched in the back of his throat as he felt the telltale drag of pressure begin in the base of his spine, connecting with the static shocks that had risen up from his feet.

Still marvelling at the flashes of his husband's jawline or the flutter of his eyelashes that he was able to make out between bobs of the Knight's head, Remi felt the edges of his sanity begin to fray beneath the overwhelming tension that occurred beneath his aching cock and his husband's mouth.

"gods, I'm gonna cum." Not said as a threat or a warning but instead muttered with relief, Remi let his head tilt back almost lazily as his fingers pressed into his husband's dark hair. Leaning back on one arm in order to lift his hips, the Bastion, with his husband's assurances ringing somewhere in the back of his head, dragged the Knight down onto his cock, his strong fingers cradling his husband's head. Spluttering out a curse to feel the head of his cock hit the back of Ronin's throat, Remi's fingers tugged in warning as he came in a sudden overpowering wave of pleasure.

At what point he lost his hold over gravity and let himself fall back onto the hot stones Remi wasn't sure, all he knew was that when he finally managed to open his eyes he was staring up at the ceiling with an absurdly satisfied smile on his lips.

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