Notes: I'm baaaack! We had an amazing time with my family (and without them) in Italy, and now we're back. My kiddo was such a trooper. Now it's time to get back to work, so...have some story! Also, explicit here, so read appropriately.

Title: Hadrian's Colony: Chapter Nineteen, Part Two

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Chapter Nineteen

Photo by Goutham Binuraj

Recounting what he’d gone through wasn’t exactly comfortablefor Kieron, but there was an element of consistency to it that he liked. He’dbeen making reports like this for most of his life—to his superior officers,aka his mother and grandfather; to the refugee board on Trakta; to therapistsand counselors and lawyers…he knew how to do an after-action review.

It was interesting for him, too, to hear Bobby’s side ofthings. Catie translated to make communication faster, and between the two ofthem they got through the events leading up to their escape pretty well. Elanus,true to his word, stayed quiet throughout the whole thing. He didn’t even makeeye contact with Kieron, looking contemplatively down at the ground as hedescribed dangling one of his attackers over the reptilian pit, pretendingBobby was a nuclear device, convincing his mother to help him escape, and the fightsthat led to most of his injuries as they made their way out of the compound.Bobby helpfully put up a schematic he’d copied that laid out their route, completewith dramatic pauses and stick-figure re-enactments of the clashes he’d beenthere for.

It wasn’t until Kieron started getting into what happenedright before their rescue that Elanus finally looked straight at him. “She saidwhat to you?”

“The truth,” Kieron said evenly.

“Bullshit.”

“She believes it, and I believe her. Hard not to, under thecircumstances.”

“She’s insane.”

“She’s a devoted daughter.”

“She chose her abuser over her own son,” Elanus pointedout.

“She chose to be a good soldier in the end, and I think we’redone on this topic now.” He and Elanus stared at each other in silence for along moment before Catie finally broke it.

“Dadddeeee is riiight.”

Kieron shook his head a little. “What?”

“We neeeed to make them suuuuffer for what they did toyouuuu.”

“Oh, baby.” Kieron sighed. “If I’ve learned anything fromleaving this place, it’s that vengeance doesn’t solve things. If they hadsomeone else we wanted to save, that would be one thing, but Bobby and I madeit out. You found us—you rescued us. That’s the important thing.”

Bobby tapped something out too quickly for Kieron tounderstand. “He says he’s annngry for you too, but he thinks you’re rrrightbecause you’re aaalways right,” Catie said. Kieron could hear the eyerollin her tone. “He’s such a baaaby.”

“Be nice to your brother,” Elanus said, then ran a handthrough his hair. He’d done it so many times now that it was fluffed up into apoof. Kieron desperately wanted to run his hand through it, but theyneeded to finish this. “All right, fine. I insist on monitoring that place, butyou might be right about retaliation. You gave them absolute hell, and thepeople who hurt you the most have already paid for it with their lives.”

Well, that was way better than Kieron had expected. “Thankyou,” he said genuinely. “I appreciate that.”

“I’m not ruling out constructive violence if the situationcalls for it,” Elanus added. “We might need to utilize part of their facilityto get off this rock, after all.”

“I understand.”

“So don’t be too smug.”

Kieron smiled. “This isn’t my smug face.” No, it wasn’t. Itwas his “I want to suck your dick right the fuck now” face, and Elanus knew it.

“Kids,” he said slowly, “Kieron and I need to talk alone fora bit. Catie, if you could play with Bobby outside and turn off your interior sensors,that would be great.”

“Ugh.” She opened the hatch. “Come on, Bobby, they’re goingto be gross for a while.”

Bobby tapped a question.

“No, you can’t watch! Don’t you knooow what gross meeeans?”

Another question.

“No, they don’t shed their skins like snaaakes, they fucklike bu—”

“Language, Catie!”

“Sorry, Daddeee.” Bobby rolled out, still tapping questions,and Catie closed the hatch behind him.

The lights dimmed, and the ever-present hum of Catie’s functionsquieted. Kieron got up from where he’d been sitting on the floor by Bobby andcrossed over to where Elanus sat in the pilot’s chair. He straddled his fiance’slap, mindful of his still-healing leg, and wrapped his arms around Elanus’sshoulders and neck. Like this, they were almost the same height, and it waseasy to press a kiss to Elanus’s cheek, then his forehead, then the bridge ofhis nose. Kieron finally tasted his mouth, muffling the whimper that emergedfrom Elanus’s lips the second they parted. The sound was half pleasure, halfpain.

“I’m with you again,” he whispered. “We’re together, we’regood. We’re so good, let me be good to you. Let me show you how good I can befor you.”

“Oh, fuck,” Elanus breathed. His dick was stiff through thethin fabric of his pants, pressing up against Kieron’s ass, and for a momentKieron thought about changing his game plan, but—no. He was desperate to haveElanus in his mouth right now; he could have him in his ass later. “Kieron…”

“Mmhmm.” He slid off Elanus’s lap onto his knees in betweenhis legs, then leaned in and rubbed his cheek against the bulge in the fabric. Hemouthed it, licking, then sucking at the head of Elanus’s cock through hispants. He was so hard, so ready…he’d fill him up so well Kieron couldn’t thinkabout anything except pleasure.

“You want it, darling?”

“Mm, please yes,” Kieron said, and was rewarded with Elanusundoing the fastenings at the waistband and quickly freeing his cock. He leanedin eagerly, but Elanus cupped his jaw and held him back for a moment.

“Go slow,” he said, and Kieron heard a world of desires inthose two simple words. Go slow so I can watch you better. Go slow so I canreally feel it. Go slow so I can make sure I remember it’s you and not somedream.

He wrapped his hand around the base of Elanus’s cock tosteady it, then slowly, painstakingly lowered his mouth over the tip. He lickedthe smooth, hot head and hummed with satisfaction as the first pearl of precumrose to the surface. Kieron sucked lightly, just at the top, then graduallytook more and more of Elanus into his mouth until he felt his cock at the backof his throat. Then he hummed, and relaxed, and—

“Fuck.” Elanus’s hands threaded into his hair andtightened, mussing it the way he’d ruffled up his own. He eased Kieron back,then down again, and Kieron let him have the control. Let him, hell—it felt goodto give him the control, to let someone else make a decision for the first timein way too long, to do something that only felt good and didn’t come withechoes of pain. He hummed appreciatively, and Elanus’s next push was a littleharder.

Perfect. Kieron sucked until he drooled, until hismouth and throat were hot and sore, until he was about to come in his own pantsand then finally, finally Elanus shot down his throat groaning his name.

Kieron pulled back slowly, aware that he was a teary,swollen-lipped mess right now and careful to give Elanus time to enjoy thesight. “You’re gorgeous,” his fiancé muttered as he pulled Kieron up into hislap again and worked a hand into his pants. They kissed, and Kieron finally gothis hands into Elanus’s hair and held on as he squirmed, rutting up intoElanus’s grip. It only took a few quick thrusts of his hips before he came,empty except for pleasure and exhausted way beyond what he should be. He barelynoticed Elanus laying him down on the bed and cleaning them both up, thenjoining him.

“Mmkids?”

“They’re fine together for now, Catie will let us know ifshe needs us,” Elanus said softly as he pulled Kieron in close. He settledagainst Elanus’s shoulder blearily. “Go to sleep.”

Easiest command ever to follow.