Snippet request: maybe a m/m piece between a demon and a werewolf right after a full moon? No obligation to work on this, and btw i love your writing <3
He woke up in the demon’s familiar quarters, as he always did after a full moon. It was a sumptuous place, surprisingly clean and well-lit compared to what one would expect from hellish creatures.
The demon pressed a kiss to his shoulder. “How are you feeling?”
“Human.” It wasn’t quite the question asked, but it was accurate enough. He felt the same as he always did at this time of month - sore from his body being ripped apart and pieced into two different jigsaw puzzles in such a short amount of time, and as ever immensely fuzzy on what exactly he’d got up to in the moonlight. “What happened?”
“You know I can’t tell you that.”
“You know I have to ask.” He sighed, rolling into the demon’s side further and nestling his head on the warmth of his chest. The demon’s arm curled tight around him, keeping him together or so it felt. It always felt so right.
There were no mysterious injuries on this new moon, at least. He felt the normal ache of turning, none like he’d been mauled and scrapped with something nasty. That was something.
Like all werewolves, his moonlit hours were devoted to serving the moonlit demon. All the old stories would tell a man of the lunacy of moonlight, the way that it called to witches in the thrall of devils. His personal suspicion was that his particular servitude involved protecting the demon beside him. This was probably a conflict of interest and he probably didn’t care in the slightest.
In return, he was stronger than any human could ever be. He could turn at any time of the month if he wanted. It was how his family had always worked. Demons in and out of the house at all hours; the gift of lycanthropy in return for favours.
It was only on the full moon that he had no choice in the matter, no memory, no part of himself involved. A debt of blood collected.
“Easy,” the demon murmured against his hairline. “You’re okay. It was okay, I promise.”
“You’re a demon, your definition of okay is creative. And I don’t think you’d tell me if it wasn’t.”
“I’d never let anything bad happen to you.” The fierceness of the demon’s voice surprised him, and he glanced up.
The demon’s brow furrowed, studying him intently.
He blinked. His mouth went a little dry at that stare, at that conviction, his heart doing some warm and fluttering so very different from the cool touch of moonlight. “Oh,” he said. “Have you told your mother that?”
His mother, demon goddess of moonlight and madness.
The furrowed brow turned to a full on frown.
Yeah, he could imagine that she wasn’t entirely thrilled by the thought of her son…whatever this was…with the staff.
“Please don’t bring up my mother when we’re in bed,” the demon said.
He snorted and managed to take a breath, before leaning up to press a kiss to the demon’s - his lover’s - mouth. Maybe he could add that to his definitions of whatever this was, along with I’d never let anything bad happen to you. That meant something, right?
“I’ll let get you some breakfast,” the demon murmured, stroking his cheek. “You must be ravenous. Your clothes are on the side.”
He caught the demon’s wrist as he shifted from beneath him, heart abruptly hammering.
“Are we…that is…we’ve been friends for a while,” he said.
“Friends? Is that what we’re calling this?”
“What are you calling this?”
“That’s not a very helpful definition.”
The demon stared at him for a moment again, before settling down again on the bed. “It’s a good definition for you, it doesn’t involve any contracts. You don’t want another contract with a demon, I don’t think.”
On the other hand, it was far too early in the morning to have this conversation. And he supposed that was sweet, even if it would have been nice to be able to say ‘boyfriend’. But then he supposed he couldn’t exactly invite the demon prince of moonlight to his work party either. Could he?
“So no strings attached.”
“No strings attached.” The demon smiled, and pressed another kiss to his mouth, cold as the night sky and just as dazzling. Then he went to fetch breakfast in bed, the nice things that he always did since this ended up starting and he’d first began coming here when he woke up after a full moon.
Hell, but he really wanted strings attached.