Demeter ∾ Δημήτηρ (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thesmophoros) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} nevermore_au,@ 2012-07-26 19:42:00 |
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What: Poseidon admits his feelings, this time his favorite sister doesn't turn him down.
Where: Olympus
When: Ancient Greece
Warnings: A jealous Poseidon, but not creepy McCreepster yet.
The world was under their thumb, mortal men their pawns in this big game of life. Hades had taken his realm, Zeus his, both brothers with all that they desired at their fingertips. One brother was not content, he was jealous and that jealousy grew with each day. It had started to harden that once carefree soul. It tainted him.
Those bright blue eyes were turning a heavier shade, his oceans becoming as cold as he felt inside. He had no Queen by his side like his brothers. It was unfitting for a god to own his own kingdom and have no company.
He was lonely.
The world had not completely turned him hard, but his compassion was starting to lack. He lashed out at sailors, at uncouth mortals without mercy. Demeter had asked to speak with him. There was no denying that he felt something for her, they had a closeness that he longed to be more. He was not her favored any longer, he was certain and therefore, the rough tempered sea king did not know if she would take him. If she would sense the hurt and loneliness inside. That he needed her.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-10 03:45 pm (local) (link) Track This
Demeter had been watching her brother from afar, growing concerned with him as the years passed. He was not the young man he had once been and Demeter didn't have enough time for any of her family these days. There was a whole world to help grow and she was needed for that.
From where she stood on the edge of Olympus she was able to look down over all of Greece (a feat only manageable by a god) and encourage her crops from a distance.
A presence behind her, and the dark haired goddess turned and then smiled warmly at her brother. "Poseidon," she said, approaching him. "It has been too long."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-10 03:55 pm (local) (link) Track This
Something in Poseidon had snapped when they had all taken their respective duties and positions. He craved far more than he could ever have, right now that was the attentions of his sister. Perhaps he'd even lashed out to keep her focus so that she did not forget him. He couldn't have her forget him.
His affections had not turned completely sour, not yet. But he was different, reaching out in the most complicated of ways for her.
He approached her giving a smile in return, but there was a hurt there. He did not embrace her, standing tall as his form stood over hers.
"Demeter," he said simply.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-10 04:05 pm (local) (link) Track This
Demeter tilted her head and took in the sight of him there. "No embrace for your older sister?" she asked, one eyebrow raised curiously.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-10 04:10 pm (local) (link) Track This
Poseidon had become wary with her silence. At her concerned tone he opened up his arms giving the embrace he hadn't felt in years. She near disappeared inside his arms, his head lowered down to rest his cheek against hers.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-10 04:13 pm (local) (link) Track This
"Dear little brother," she smiled into the hug, her arms wrapped around him. "I have missed you terribly."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-10 04:17 pm (local) (link) Track This
"Have you?" he asked, his tone curious but unsure. There was a detachment in his question.
He wanted to keep her there in that embrace, a huff of irritation when he did let her go, hand still on waist before it slowly dropped back to his side.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-10 04:19 pm (local) (link) Track This
"Of course I have," Demeter chided him, as though it were a silly question. They have all been split so far apart with their separate kingdoms. "Come walk beside me for a time," she said, holding her hand out for him to take.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-10 04:26 pm (local) (link) Track This
"Of course," he repeated that small and light smile curving at the corner of his lips.
He took her hand then, a tight squeeze as they walked.
"What is it you want of me, sister?" he asked after some time of silence.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-10 04:30 pm (local) (link) Track This
"Busy with my duties I have lost track of family," Demeter admitted a little sadly. She should have done better to keep them all close. As Earth Mother she was naturally nurturing and wanted them all to get along still. "I wished only to see you, nothing more."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-10 04:33 pm (local) (link) Track This
"As we all have," his eyes shifted forward, already longing to be back in the water. The water that held his euphoria, the water that wanted him, caressed him with her arms in the ways no woman would. Not willingly.
"You have your other brothers, surly one of them would do." His words were sharp as if goading her to admit what he'd yet to ask.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-11 02:52 am (local) (link) Track This
Demeter looked at her brother with concern. He'd always been tempestuous (it was obvious the sea would belong to him as they were both so alike) but their time apart had made him more difficult to read. Demeter found herself hurt by that more than she should have been.
The Earth Mother slipped her hand into his, moving to stand in front of him and meet his eye. "We used to be so close, little brother," she said, reaching up to stroke his cheek. "Where have you gone to?"
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-11 02:58 am (local) (link) Track This
"Somewhere I doubt you can reach," he said in a whisper, a whisper that would have been soft enough to be taken away by the breeze had his voice not been so gritty.
His eyes closed for a moment into that touch, a slow exhale of breath. He opened them again to still find her standing there. He was unhappy, that much was obvious if only to her.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-11 03:04 am (local) (link) Track This
Demeter just kept watching him, her own expression one of sympathy and quiet worry. "Why so sad, Gaeochus?" she asked him, her hand remaining on his cheek. "Do you not know that I worry about you?"
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-11 03:11 am (local) (link) Track This
"Lonely," he admitted with a raised brow. He shook his head, looking elsewhere not liking at all where this was going. If she rejected him it could destroy what good was still there.
The words were on the tip of his tongue, but instead the headstrong Poseidon took her mouth with his own. It had never been a secret his growing affections for her, she'd have been blind to not see it.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-11 03:31 am (local) (link) Track This
"I have never wanted for you to be lonely," Demeter told him with a small smile. She could say no more though because suddenly her brother's lips were pressed against her own and Demeter made a small sound of surprise, but didn't draw away.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-11 03:34 am (local) (link) Track This
The action was abrupt as Poseidon was impulsive. It said what he could not in this moment. His hands grabbed the side of her face, urging her to let him have this. There was want and lust mixed in that kiss, but still a softness of a man that had not completely turned black yet.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-11 03:45 am (local) (link) Track This
Demeter heard herself moan against his lips, her body untouched for too long. She was the verdant earth. She needed life and need and growth. She was not a virgin of war or the hunt but the ever-living earth who embraced all life.
Eventually she broke the kiss, the taste of his tongue still on hers. "Little brother," she whispered, setting her hands against his chest to slow him down.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-11 03:52 am (local) (link) Track This
He felt that response giving him hope that she would give him exactly what he wanted. She stopped him then, his face still within her personal space, mouth that was heading for hers again until the pause.
He looked at her for a long time, blue eyes searching. He exhaled a stiff breath.
"What?" he asked, a slight chill to his voice, that press to his chest making him stop to get his words ready.
"Be my Queen," he asked, almost a desperation in his voice.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-11 04:03 am (local) (link) Track This
"Oh, Poseidon," Demeter said with the smallest shake of her head, hands still pressed against his chest. She was surprised at herself though, at how willingly and eagerly she had kissed him back. "We are Earth and Sea. There are distances that cannot be met."
She noticed that she hadn't told him no. That was interesting as well.
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Boobies okay more serious now *cough cough*
[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-11 04:16 am (local) (link) Track This
His lip twitched lightly not sure he understood just what she was telling him. Her hand still pressed against him putting that distance there. He turned his head to the side looking at her with question.
"Is that a no?" he asked slightly bitter in his words if it was. "This is no foolhardy question. I'm serious."
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have an even better icon!
[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-11 04:36 am (local) (link) Track This
Demeter looked at him carefully, realising that he was serious. "Your Queen? Little brother..." she thought carefully. "I am the Earth Mother. I cannot be Queen of the sea." She reached up to stroke his cheek again, finding herself drawing her body close.
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*stares*
[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-11 04:43 am (local) (link) Track This
She wasn't saying no but she wasn't saying yes either and it hurt. His teeth raked together sliding in his frustration, not quite sure how to take her answer.
He was disappointed.
"I am not your favorite I know," he started, quirking one brow even as she touched him softly. His voice hushed to that deep and wanting sound, "Let me have you." He wasn't going to beg.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-11 04:58 am (local) (link) Track This
"Sea King," Demeter reminded him gently, "you have ever been my favourite. Why must you always have such doubts within yourself?" Poseidon always seemed to need more than he had.
She didn't know if she could say yes to him however. "We have such duties to be tended to. I fear that were I your wife, we would neglect these."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-11 10:11 am (local) (link) Track This
She was snapping it. That affection, that love. Poseidon swallowed heavy raising his head and not letting this beat him down.
"Demeter," he whispered closing his eyes and shaking his head.
"I need you, or I," he paused opening his eyes and taking a step back, his lips a thin line. "Stay to your duties if you must, but come to me still as a wife if you refuse to stay in the ocean." He would give her that as long as she didn't leave him alone. He couldn't continue this way or he'd turn into something dark and vile. He felt it and she could see it in his eyes. "What other woman would have me better than you."
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-11 10:18 am (local) (link) Track This
Demeter watched her brother, the worry and sadness clear in her eyes. "Why do you think so little of yourself?" she asked, touching his cheek and then leaning into kiss him softly again. "Haven't I always told you that you could have all that you desired? Why wish simply for me?"
She had always wanted the best for her brothers, and as much as she loved Poseidon she feared that she couldn't be everything he would want.
Why, why was she being so complicated about this. Had he been Zeus or even Hades she wouldn't have turned her head. She was repulsed just as any woman he failed to take. His hand closed up inside itself eyes closing again at the feel of her lips.
She was right to think that he'd want more as time waned on, he would always, but she wouldn't know if she denied him. She wasn't even trying.
"Don't deny me, sister," he said again in a soft whisper that desperation evident, "or I'll turn cold." He could feel that rush in his bones, that jealousy start to take hold.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-11 10:39 am (local) (link) Track This
"I could never deny you," Demeter said. "Not truly."
She took his hand with a smile. "I would never let you turn cold," she reassured her brother. "And I would be honored to be your wife." It would be complicated, she was sure. She needed the earth just as he needed the sea, and she was not in love with him. But love could grow and he was certainly dear to her.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-11 11:00 am (local) (link) Track This
"You mean it?" he asked with a turn of his head not sure yet if he believed her. He swallowed heavily again releasing that grip of his fist just as she grabbed it. Those eyes looked hungry, lustful but there was a change in them. One that was open now that she was giving him a chance. To love.
He gave her a smile, an honest one and not that smirky look that at times made him look devilish. Unlike Zeus he had not tricked her like had been done to Hera. He wanted her he honestly did.
His hand gripped around her waist pulling her closer to him so she could feel that beat in his heart, his head poised down to taste her lips again.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-11 11:13 am (local) (link) Track This
Demeter smiled brightly at him as he pulled her close, understanding that although this perhaps wasn't what she had planned, that it was important in ways she couldn't yet see. She kissed him, wrapping her arms up around his neck to hold him close. "I will be your Queen, little brother," Demeter told him, her expression warm. "I will everything that you need of me."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-11 02:35 pm (local) (link) Track This
His grip tightened around her waist losing himself in that kiss, evident his need for her as he once again got ahead of himself. She was saving him from destroying what good was still within him.
Maybe she didn't love him now, not as obsessesed as he'd become but she would. He would make certain of that.
WHO: Demeter & Poseidon
WHEN: Ancient Greece
WHAT: After their first time apart, husband and wife reunite.
WARNINGS: possible sexy times, but likely little else.
Seven months ago Demeter and Poseidon had married, a union between Earth and Sea that all hoped would stand strong and be the beginning of something important. Demeter did not love her brother the way that he loved her, but his words of needing her had meant enough that Demeter knew where her duty lay. She would do anything to keep Poseidon from whatever that darkness was that he feared, even if it was only himself.
Three months after the beginning of their marriage, Demeter had to leave to tend to her business on the earth. They had made this agreement because it was the only way it would work. The Earth Mother would spend four months of the year with her attentions solely on the fields and crops of man without any distractions, and the rest of the year she would spend with Poseidon, tending the world only as a caretaker. The cycles of the land would continue as she willed them but she would not be needed so terribly.
Now though her time among the grain had finished and she returned to the beach where she and her husband had sworn to reunite on this day. Demeter was surprised to find that she was waiting for him with a longing she hadn't expected, one that was directed not just to brother but to a lover deeply missed.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-14 06:28 pm (local) (link) Track This
It was cold in the time Demeter spent away, leaving Poseidon once again alone to his dark underwater euphoria. It had soothed something in him for a time at least, it gave him a sense of calm. For the short months she had been at his side he'd shown a regress that kept that hateful side at bay.
For the time she was gone however, his oceans were not tempered, their waves aggressive. Reminding her that he was still there. Only as those last few days assured him Demeter would return did he quiet down.
He was well aware that she did not feel for him in the same way. His eyes were lusty, needy in a way that she had yet to feel. Poseidon would deal with that as long as she held no other man in her arms. He was a jealous god, like so many others, not even Demeter's acceptance could change that.
He kept her waiting there for good measure before emerging from that wet blanket deep below. The water dripped down his face from those dark locks to bounce off that shiny metal of his costume.
[ooc: I know it's from PJ, but that outfit seems pretty deemable as Poseidon's. Just with the RA face! XD]
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-15 09:12 am (local) (link) Track This
Demeter turned as he rose from the sea and her smile could not be hidden. She moved towards him just as Poseidon moved towards her and when she was close enough, calf-deep in the sea, she wrapped her arms around her husband and kissed him without reservation.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-15 10:39 am (local) (link) Track This
She threw herself on him in an embrace he'd been hoping for but not expecting. He had had every intention of making that first move. His hands gripped her waist tightly, mouth devouring hers in that kiss.
"You act as if you missed me," he whipsred hungrily against her lips.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-15 11:07 pm (local) (link) Track This
"I have," Demeter said against his lips, body pressed against his. "More than I could imagine."
After a long while she broke the kiss, drawing back to look at him, hands on his cheeks. "Four months should not have felt so long."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-15 11:48 pm (local) (link) Track This
There was a moment of ease that swept across his brow at her touch. His breath evening out from that infectious kiss. She'd not kissed him that heavy before, not like she desired so much more of him.
He gave her a side smile. "It was too long." He'd been sure to remind her every day of that. His oceans were calm now.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 07:30 pm (local) (link) Track This
"My husband," Demeter whispered with a smile. "I heard tales from sailors of your ocean's rage while I was gone."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 07:50 pm (local) (link) Track This
He chuckled lightly, tilting his head to the side at the accusation. "Those tales were true," he admitted brows lifting as if the action amused him.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 07:52 pm (local) (link) Track This
"What shall I ever do with you?" Demeter teased, taking both his hands in hers and kissing them. "Four months of the year your seas will be unsailable."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 07:59 pm (local) (link) Track This
"Just reminding you I'm still here," he said giving her that dark blue gaze. He'd learn in time, or perhaps continue to puncture sea captains boats with his hard sea waves. "I'll learn." It was still new this not being allowed to have her by his side as wanted.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 08:01 pm (local) (link) Track This
"As though I could possibly forget," his sister-wife said with an adoring smile. She sighed, a sound of contentment as she wrapped her arms around him. "I truly did miss you."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 08:05 pm (local) (link) Track This
He wasn't lost yet, something in her promise to him had kept him from switching over into a man that would be of little comfort to her ever again. Had she denied him that day he would have been distraught and taken his anger into something quite cruel.
There was still goodness left in him now. "Did you now?" he said in a teasing voice, deep and low in it's question. She seemed different, as if the tide had changed with her time away. As if he meant more than the title and brother.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 08:08 pm (local) (link) Track This
"Let us return home," Demeter said as she drew back, letting that be her answer. "This wife will show you how she missed her husband."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 08:36 pm (local) (link) Track This
There was a palace much the temple structure from their mortals. Perhaps it was even built by mortal hands and blood. It on a rock wall, some of the rooms barricaded into that thick wall as the other half levitated down over the ocean where waves often crashed up against the stone. Behind them was a field of green signifying that this is where water and land would always meet.
The front held three massive archways, frescoes painted above and on the columns of deep blues. Giant doors opened up the gateway into their palace, various plant-life, greens surrounding the hallways. The ceiling was marbleized in light and dark blue hues which often looked like moving water above with the smell of sea water like a perfume in the air.
There was no one there but them and the sound of water crushing against the rock wall below.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 08:41 pm (local) (link) Track This
Demeter entered their home, already feeling more relaxed as she removed her cloak and hung it up. The servants didn't seem to be around and Demeter assumed, quite happily, that Poseidon had sent them away for this reunion.
She walked over to the edge of the huge open room to look out at the sea, taking a deep breath. "I missed this as well," she told Poseidon, looking over her shoulder to him with a gentle smile.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 08:48 pm (local) (link) Track This
He'd taken off that metal chest-plate, arm cuffs and sandals as he'd entered the room.
The hall was empty, quiet.
"You better," he warned her.
He came up behind her, hands snaked up her shoulders, lips pressed against a naked spot on her neck. He pulled back that dark hair. She smelled fresh like earth. He took in that scent.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 08:50 pm (local) (link) Track This
Demeter's sound of desire was quiet and buried deep in the back of her throat, his lips cool like the sea. "Take me to bed," the Earth Mother whispered, turning her face so her cheek was pressed against his lips.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 08:54 pm (local) (link) Track This
His hands that had rested on her hips moved forward, pressing her back against him, his breath just a cool breeze against her cheek. He chuckled deeply, nipping against her earlobe, hands pressing lower as if to taunt her.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 08:55 pm (local) (link) Track This
Demeter ran her own hands down over his thighs slowly. "Don't you wish to show me how you've missed me?"
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 09:01 pm (local) (link) Track This
"Oh I will," he stated, the words 'Queen' whispered in her ear in a deep rumble.
He'd release her then only when that flush hit her cheeks and he pulled her by the arm until they were in the bed chamber. He flung her gently on the bed, stalking it slowly before crawling in on top of her.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 09:03 pm (local) (link) Track This
All the passion and fury of the ocean her brother was and Demeter almost growled into his neck, the vines around their bed reaching out for them both just as she reached out for Poseidon.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 09:09 pm (local) (link) Track This
When his mouth reached hers, that biting fury on her tongue he embraced it with his own force, pressing himself on top of her and forcing her legs around his waist.
His breath was hot, hands sliding down her back and pressing her closer near lifting her off the bed just to mold her against him, kisses heavy.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 09:14 pm (local) (link) Track This
Demeter murmured his name against the crushing lips, arching herself towards him. Four months she had found herself thinking about his body pressed against hers and now it finally was. She moved her kisses to his throat, harsh, her fingers digging into his sides. If he wanted today to play the tempest then she would play the forest fire, the scorched land that took all.
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That icon *_*
[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 09:24 pm (local) (link) Track This
What fire she threw back he absorbed. He hadn't had her like this before. He bit down on her lower lip, until she took that trail down his throat. His breath hung in his chest at that touch. He'd near crushed every ocean ship in the time she'd been gone just with the thought of her touch hanging over his head.
Eager hands grabbed at the material of her gown yanking it up to feel that soft white skin of her thighs. Her nails left half-moon shapes in his skin, something he rather enjoyed the feel of.
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I never thought Poseidon would get it....
[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 09:28 pm (local) (link) Track This
Demeter could feel the press of him against her thighs and the only movements she made were those that might bring her even closer to him. His passion brought out hers all the move. She returned to kissing his lips and then put her hands on his chest to push him off her, just enough to confuse him, to make him want that contact back.
She looked at him breathlessly, her eyes gone vibrant green like the most verdant of her fields. "Make me yours," she finally said, her voice promising of darkness and wilds.
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Hahaha!
[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 09:40 pm (local) (link) Track This
There was a smirk that tailed on the end of his lips at her demand after looking at her perplexed when her kisses stopped.
Her eyes green his own a bright shade of blue like the clearest of Greek ocean water. He yanked that dress up and over her head tossing it aside so he could enjoy looking and feeling all of her.
Those vines and plant life continued to grow up alongside the posts of the bed, wrapping around. There was a growl low that he delivered before threading her legs back with his, hands needy over her skin. There was a darkness that still crept out in this kind of passion, but nothing destructive.
He threw off his chiton which was more like leather straps over fabric, the only barrier he had left between them. He wrapped her legs back around him forcefully taking what she demanded, only there was no malice in it. No hate, nothing that intentionally meant to hurt her.
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Have another one!
[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 09:47 pm (local) (link) Track This
Demeter cried out, burying her face in her brother's shoulder as he took her, her nails running along his back. She moaned his name, letting him set their pace, letting him have her as he wanted her, just as she'd needed him these long last months. Demeter was a woman of fierce and all-encompassing passions and in her brother she had found a man who could match them.
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*_*
[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 09:58 pm (local) (link) Track This
He couldn't get enough of her, the smell of her hair buried in his nose as he strapped her down for that long ride. His breath just short in his throat, letting their skin soak in that sweat and passion.
He'd keep going until they were both tired, letting her beg him for more each time until they collapsed. She'd clawed marks into his skin by the time it was all over and he laid back against the soft furs of their bed, body beaded with sweat, hair wet.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 10:02 pm (local) (link) Track This
"I should leave more often," Demeter smiled from where she lay, half off the bed and with those vines of her coming to curl around her arms, wanting her as near as Poseidon had. Her breath was heavy and her body ached in the most wonderful ways.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 10:17 pm (local) (link) Track This
"Unless you want nothing left of this place and dead sailors rotting on the beach, then no, no you don't," he said, but there was a light humor in his voice.
He turned on his side, pulling her close, fingers running in her matted hair, kissing her lips this time with a near gentleness.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 10:21 pm (local) (link) Track This
She returned the kiss, happy now with the gentleness as she was exhausted. "Mmm," she murmured happily. "I love you."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 10:23 pm (local) (link) Track This
His own head felt dizzy, body lazy and tired but satisfied. For now at least. She'd said that before, but it felt different.
He looked at her quizzically for a moment as if to try and absorb those words and how she meant them.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 10:26 pm (local) (link) Track This
Demeter noticed his expression and her own turned confused as well. "What?" she asked him, but she was smiling.
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 10:35 pm (local) (link) Track This
"You've said that before," he said simply, urging her to say it how she really meant it.
"You did not love me when we wed." He'd known that, but he hadn't cared.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 10:38 pm (local) (link) Track This
Demeter moved to lay her arms on his chest, her chin resting on her head. The shake of her head was light. "No," she admitted with ease. "Not as a wife should love a husband. But in our time apart," her fingers traced lines on his chest. "I have come to desire you more deeply."
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[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 10:46 pm (local) (link) Track This
He felt his teeth grind together at that comment, though he knew it's truthful nature. The arm that had been wrapped around her side, curling ever so slightly away until she spoke the last end. There was some sort of contempt in that she'd awakened to that thought. He hadn't felt loved by anyone really, not anyone accept her.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 10:47 pm (local) (link) Track This
"I married you because you asked me to and because you needed me," Demeter told him clearly, seeing the beginning of him pouting. "But I came back to you because I have fallen in love with you and would have it no other way."
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Boo that should have been 'except' not 'accept'
[info]neptune_storm
2011-02-17 10:52 pm (local) (link) Track This
"Had you not expected to come back?" She'd seemed eager to leave him at first as if not knowing how he would react. If she had not returned he would have been as cold as he'd threatened before.
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[info]thesmophoros
2011-02-17 10:54 pm (local) (link) Track This
"I would have always returned," Demeter said, reaching out to stroke his cheek. "I swore to be your bride and nothing would change that I took that oath. But perhaps I would not have run such distances as I did to reach you there on that beach." She gave him a small smile.