meretricula | bwahaha! back on track with another (brief) installment

it will be finished, if it's the last thing I do. ~determination~

Glorfindel lay quietly in his warm, comfortable bed, thoroughly reveling in the afterglow and the resulting lassitude that weighed down his limbs. He was unhappily jolted out of it only when he felt his bedmate stirring in preparation to rise. "Where are you going?" he yawned, too relaxed to muster up a proper show of indignation.

"To bed," Erestor replied, in tones that implied that only a total idiot (which Glorfindel clearly was) would have needed to ask.

"Erestor, you're already in bed."

"My bed," Erestor specified, sighing. "We do have to get up tomorrow morning, you know."

"Um... so?" Glorfindel was genuinely confused, but when dealing with a creature as contrary as Erestor, he'd grown accustomed to it.

"So, I need sleep, which I won't get if we end up going another round. So I'm removing you from temptation. And I didn't bring a change of clothes with me."

"I... look, I'm not good at explaining these things. But I don't want... this... to be something where you can't stay the night. I realize you don't have much reason to believe me yet, but I love you, and I want you to stay, even if it's just to sleep - "

Erestor, losing patience with Glorfindel's rambling monologue, leaned down to cut him off with a kiss. "Good night, Glorfindel."

"You can borrow one of my robes in the morning," Glorfindel continued, not having quite processed yet the fact that Erestor was wriggling back under the covers.

"It wouldn't fit. Good night, Glorfindel." Erestor's voice was sharp, but he pulled Glorfindel's arm to lie across his chest with unaccustomed gentleness. Glorfindel nuzzled the back of his neck briefly in reply.

"Good night, Erestor."

*

Erestor woke with the sun shining directly into his eyes and a warm, wet sensation tracing patterns around his belly-button. "New curtains," he muttered, still half-asleep. "Any curtains. And - " Then the warm, wet feeling dipped into his navel, and he jerked upright, yelping. Glorfindel grinned up at him, a mischievous light in his eyes. "Glorfindel! We have a meeting to prepare for, so get your tongue right out of there and - SWEET NIENNA PUT IT BACK AGAIN."

Glorfindel happily obliged, and by the time Elrond came looking for his wayward Captain, both he and the good Counselor were fast asleep once more in the sun-bathed, messy sheets. Elrond smiled and locked the door as he exited, since there were, after all, many things in life more important than meetings, leaving behind the aftermath of a very good night indeed.

that could have been longer and better, but at this point I really don't care. =)