The fae clenched his teeth in obvious pain as Carrick practically slammed him against the wall. More thrusts. More claim in the blood and pain his Master was tearing from him with every movement.
"You do," he forced out, pinning himself to the anger he had earlier just to get through this. Carrick might not have been consciously aware of it, but to Hermes the vampire clearly wanted a fight just to make his victory all the more sweet.
"You...you..." He growled in his frustration. "Gods, are you always this willfully blind or is it just where your slaves are concerned?" His fingers dug further into Carrick's shoulders just to maintain his own balance. "If I brought light and laughter into this house, who do you think brought it to me? Who do you think I owe fucking everything to? What do you expect me to say here? My freedom? Fuck that. I don't know what I'd do with it anyway, and even if I did, I still wouldn't leave your side." He set his jaw, forcing himself through the pain as he drove down onto Carrick's cock of his own accord just to prove a point. He'd been through worse. He could handle this, and for the man he loved, he'd take it gladly.
"Don't think I don't know that you'd kill any other who dared touch me without your command. And don't think for a second that I wouldn't throw myself in the fire to protect you just as quickly. No matter how many more millennia you live, you will never have another slave like me. And I will never have another master, period. Would run exactly back here if in a fit of spite you decided to sell me and damn whatever consequences for it. I would claw my way back from Hades' kingdom itself to find my place at your side again no matter how much it tore me apart in the process. Hells, if it were my place in life to even think such things, I'd have you love me as an equal and not as a canary who sings so prettily for you. If it were at all possible, I'd be planting seeds in your head to turn me when you saw fit so that we might be bound together in blood for eternity, but it's not and so here we are, you with eternity and me with mere decades and if you think for a second that doesn't tear me up as much as it does you whenever I think about it then who the hells do you think you bought? What I want is you. All I'll ever want is you. I don't care what space I occupy in your life so long as I still have one."
He growled, still moving with his vampire, holding eye contact as much as he could with that monstrous face as if to prove he was not at all afraid of it. "You wanted to know me better than anyone has before. Start with there is no me without you and go from there." He was loud. They both were in their respective ways. Doubtless any slave in the next few rooms could hear them and Hermes gave not a single fuck.