reader accidentally walked in on onlyfans!dunk setting up for a video. he was embarrassed, but reader not only offered to film a video with him, she even had a suggestion what his audience would love: spanking.
part 1 I nsfw visual reference
word count: 3k+
cw: fem!reader, no y/n, multiple povs, pining idiots with unbelievable tension, nervous!dunk but then confident!dunk, spanking, sir kink, 'good girl', consent checking is so sexy, aftercare
dunk paces around his room. this is his dream. this is his fucking nightmare. half an hour. you'd said you wanted half an hour to go back to your place and get changed. that meant he had half an hour to get himself to calm down. but instead of clearing his head, he just felt more and more nervous. and, well, hard. he'd been fighting a boner ever since you walked in on him in just his boxers and setting up to film. he'd put up a valiant effort and had managed to keep his cock mostly under control. but then when you offered to film with him...so sweet, such a good friend...when you suggested he...he...
spank you.
fuck, he'd gone hard as a rock and had to hide it with a blanket over his lap that, somehow, you hadn't spotted. probably because you were too busy planning. dunk was more than happy to let you decide everything. he'd not had much blood going to his brain right then anyway.
you're probably going to be back any second now. he checks the clock on his phone.
three minutes. it had only been three minutes since you left.
he's got an eternity to go and yet no time at all.
right. focus. breathe. first thing he needs to do is get rid of his raging hard-on. if he gets hard while...spanking you (oh gods)...., well, he'll apologize, but it seems like something to be expected and that you'd hopefully forgive. you're beautiful and if you let him touch you like that, well, his body doesn't know it's all for show. it's just reacting. so long as he minds his manners, remembers you're just being a good friend and helping him out, he doesn't think you'd be angry with him for it. but if you were to come back and find him sporting a boner when you've not even gotten the camera going yet, well, that might be disrespectful.
he turns his shower on the coldest possible setting. so cold it hurts. but that's what dunk needs to distract from the rush of heat. he spends a solid ten minutes just stood under the freezing water until he's shivering and mostly in control of his thoughts again.
he's still got time to kill. there's nothing more to set up around the bed. he ought to get some water ready. maybe a snack. this isn't sex. it's...performance. business. fake. but dunk still wants you to feel looked after and cared for. you must feel safe with him to even offer something like this. he needs to prove he's worthy of the trust you've put in him.
he rummages through his pantry for something to eat. he spots a plate of cookies on the table. those aren't his? but then he sees the toolbox sat beside it, and realizes, you'd made him cookies to thank him for letting you borrow some tools. and his heart goes all soft thinking how nice you are and good to him and sweet, sweet like the sugar dusting the cookies, and...oh, for fuck's sake, he's groaning as he realizes he's getting hard again.
it's probably not medically advisable to put an ice pack over his covered crotch, but desperate times call for desperate and questionable measures.
maybe he ought to call it off. maybe he should text you right now and...
there's a knock at the door.
he takes a deep breath, tries not to feel sick, and answers the door.
you step in wearing a long coat and carrying a bag.
"you alright?" you ask.
"yeah. yeah, you?" dunk asks, feeling his voice hitch nervously.
you set the bag down next to the cookies and go to take off your coat. dunk instinctively moves to be a gentleman and take it from you, but stops dead when he sees what's underneath. a sundress, so pretty and feminine and adorable, but hugging you just right and too short to be decent. and with matching knee socks.
"i didn't know what you'd want me to wear," you explain.
dunk's too busy staring to answer you.
you lift up the bag you brought with you.
"i brought other options if you wanted something elseâ"
"no! no, this isâ" he's struggling to get his brain to work. dunk likes what you're wearing. more importantly, he doesn't think he could handle seeing you try on different outfits for him. "you look nice."
he feels his face go hot and knows he must be red all over.
you smile, pleased. you really don't know what you do to him, do you? he should do the right thing and tell you this has gone too far. that he can't see you like this, much less...touch you...in a strictly professional manner. but he's weak and says nothing.
***
it's sweet, actually, how dunk seems more nervous than you. somehow that makes you feel more at ease. you know dunk would never hurt you. you sit on his bed across from him.
"we should probably talk rules and comfort levels and things," you suggest.
"right," dunk says.
you wait a few seconds. it's his onlyfans, after all. he's the one with experience (one video, but still, that's more than you). but he just looks at you expectantly so you take that as confirmation you're in charge.
"i don't want my face in it. or name," you start. "people are better about this sort of thing than they used to be, but it can still go really badly if someone's identity gets leaked. especially for a woman." you look down at your outfit. "i've got what i'm comfortable with on show. i don't want to take anything off. well, uhâ"
your confidence falters a second, but you press on. you have to be able to talk about this. it'll only be awkward or get complicated if you go in without being open and communicative first.
"it's...it's spanking, right? so if at some point you want to lift up my skirt to reach my ass better, or show it off, that's ok. i checked how much you could see of me in these panties and it's an amount i'm ok showing. just don't, you know, take it off. so just to confirm that's dress stays on, but skirt can come up, but underwear stays on. ok?"
dunk nods.
you'd managed to say that much. somehow, it felt easier now.
"for touching, i guess..." you think a few seconds. "ass is fine. obviously. thighs, hips, back are all fine. nothing more...intimate, over or under panties."
dunk coughs.
"do you need some water?" you ask.
he shakes his head.
"we don't have to," you add. "it's ok if you want to cancel."
"d'you want to?" he asks, bright blue eyes on you.
you think a few seconds then shake your head. you smile. "i think it'll be fun."
***
how are you so calm about this? able to talk about it so confidently and easily? meanwhile, dunk feels sweaty and clumsy and like his brain can't quite keep up with what you're saying, no matter how hard he tries. he knows why it's important to listen but fuck if he isn't struggling.
but then you're smiling and saying you want this and it'll be fun and...oh that makes him melt a little.
"we can stop whenever we want," you continue. "we can have a safe word. what do you think?"
he realizes you're prompting him to suggest a word.
"um...'stop'?" dunk offers.
you shake your head.
"no, should be something else. maybe 'red light'?"
dunk nods. he can remember that.
"how do iâ" he tries to ask but falters. his head ducks down to avoid eye contact, but it just makes it worse, because then his gaze is on the way your pretty dress rides up to reveal your thighs. "how do i do this so i don't hurt you?"
"i was thinking over your knee. if that's okay. if your angle is size kink, it makes the most senseâ"
"no, i mean. the actual...contact...don't want to hurt you."
"you mean how hard should you hit?" you ask.
dunk nods and rubs the back of his neck, feeling how hot his skin is right up into his hairline.
"we can do a test run," you suggest. "before we start filming."
dunk hardly has a chance to register that you're laying yourself across his lap when you suddenly jolt back.
"fuck, dunk, you're freezing!" you hiss.
oh. right. he hadn't fully warmed up yet from putting the cold pack on his junk.
"i, uh, took a shower" he shrugs.
"yeah, well, you're not spanking me with hands that cold," you say and grab his hands, rubbing and blowing on them. again, you're just so sweet to him and he feels his heart going all soft even as the rest of him is struggling not to get hard.
you try draping yourself over his lap again. dunk's hand instinctively goes to the back of your thigh to steady you. he can't believe this is actually happening. that he's got your ass, all round and soft and barely covered by your short dress, ripe and waiting for him.
he barely pats your left cheek.
you turn to look at him.
"dunk, you have to go harder than that."
he swallows and tries again, only a tiny bit harder.
"....dunk," you shake your head and sit up.
"i don't want to hurt you!" he says.
he couldn't forgive himself if he did.
"well, let me show how hard is ok, then."
"what? like, me turn over?"
you laugh and shake your head.
"no, this'll work."
you bring your hand down to smack his thigh, hard.
"ow! iâfuck, really?" he pants. you want it that hard?
you grin.
"i can take it, dunk. i know you won't hurt me. and if i want to stop, i'll tell you to stop. just like how you'll tell me if you want to stop. right?"
dunk nods.
"uh uh," you say and shake your head. "verbal responses."
"right," dunk answers.
"just relax. it'll be fun. and be confident. please, dunk, i promise, if you just don't overthink it and go for it, it'll be so sexy," you say, all breathy and whiny in a way that has dunk's immediate attention. "for the viewers, i mean."
right. for the viewers. he can do that.
"dunk?" you ask, voice suddenly a bit quieter. flustered. squirming a little. "can i call you 'sir'?"
***
you stand behind the tripod to make sure dunk's phone is filming and at the right angle. you give dunk a thumbs up. you stand just out of frame. you hardly breathe from the anticipation, waiting on dunk.
just as you'd agreed, he reaches out to grab your wrist and pulls you into frame.
"c'mere," he growls, voice all low and sexy like you'd suggested.
dunk spreads his legs and manhandles you over one knee, your body angled with your ass to the camera and your face pointed away. you whine.
"none of that. now be still," he orders.
you squirm.
"i said, be still," he repeats, one hand digging into your hip and locking you into place.
you nod and allow him to angle you as he wants. he pushes on your back gently, directing you to arch more, and you push your ass back and up to present for him.
"you goin' to be good and count f'me?" he asks.
"yes, sir," you whine, with only slightly exaggerated breathiness.
you'd agreed on ten and then you'd see how things went from there. you wait expectantly, but the blow doesn't come. seconds go by. you jump a little when you feel dunk's hand at your ass, but it's not a slap, he's just...rubbing your ass, all soft and soothing.
even on camera, he's still dunk, and either nervousness or concern for you makes him hesitate to strike.
you hang your head and whine, "please".
his hand freezes on your ass.
you hadn't discussed that. you're already going off script.
"what was that?" he asks.
"please, dâ sir!" you quickly correct.
"you want this?"
you nod.
"uh uh. verbal responses," he says, and you grin at the way he uses your own words against you.
"yes, please."
"say it."
"i want it."
his hand lands against your ass.
"oh, fuck! one!" you cry out.
smack! smack!
"two! three!"
as discussed, you start squirming on the fifth slap. actually, it was meant to be the seventh, but you couldn't help it. you squirming gives him a reason to grip your hips and drag you back into place, which you'd said his audience would love. nothing at all to do with the way his strength makes you pant with need. and if you squirm, even kick, a little more than perhaps dunk was expecting, so he has to try harder to put you in your place, well, you're just thinking of the viewers.
"quit that. you're going to stay there and take it," dunk says through strangled voice.
his next two slaps are harder as punishment. you love it.
"eight! nine!" you cry out as the next ones land.
but ten doesn't arrive.
he's holding out on you again.
you whine in frustration.
"what's the matter, pretty girl? you want it?" he asks.
"i want it" you say in a quiet voice and wiggle your hips invitingly.
"louder."
"please, sir, i want it!" you moan out and gasp when the tenth blow strikes the centre of your rear.
dunk rubs your ass soothingly. he leans in towards your face, like he's kissing your hair, but he whispers so the camera can't hear, "do you want to stop?"
"no" you whisper back.
"can i keep spanking you?"
"yes!"
"can i lift up your skirt?"
"yes!" you say, probably a little too eagerly that you're worried the camera caught it.
dunk presses a real kiss to your hair then straightens again.
"let's get this pretty little skirt out the way" dunk says and slowly hikes up the fabric, revealing your pretty matching panties.
"ah, fuck" dunk groans, and it somehow sounds different from the controlled voice he's been using. he soon recovers.
"you wear this f'me?" he asks.
"of course, sir."
"good girl."
you keen, rutting your ass back and into his hand. something in dunk snaps and he starts bringing his hand down against you, hard. he alternates cheeks. his other hand grips your thigh to hold you in place and make you take it. oh fuck, it feels soooo good.
oh fuck, you can feel you're wet. shit. fuck. you're fucked. you squeeze your thighs shut to try to hide it. if dunk hasn't noticed already. but it just adds a delicious friction between your legs. dunk lifts his knee and adjusts you, but it inadvertedly pushes your mound firmly into his thigh. you rock forward, pretending dunk was spanking you so hard that it was jolting you, but it wasn't, you were just grinding your needy cunt against him.
his knee and hips jerked up, practically bouncing you on his lap. he bunched up the back of your dress and pulled you back into place. he didn't resume spanking, just gripped your dress in one hand and ran soothing circles over your ass with the other.
"there...there, that's enough now," he panted.
you could have thrown an absolute fit. you didn't want to be done. you wanted to be fucked, camera or no camera.
but there was a camera and this was all pretend and was time to wrap up. so you force yourself to instead mewl out a last, "thank you, sir."
you smirk as you hear dunk groan. you like to think maybe that noise was real.
dunk gently, but firmly, guides you off of him. he reaches over you and turns off the recording.
"how're you?" he asks, polite, concerned, hands folded in his lap.
only dunk could look so sweet and innocent after spanking you. it frustrates you even more.
"i'm fine," you swallow your annoyance. it wasn't fair to be angry at dunk for leaving you horny. "you?"
"g-good!"
"could i use your shower?" you ask. "i'm a little sweaty."
"course! yeah, course, anything you need," dunk offers.
anything but what you need most.
you don't say much else before heading into the bathroom. you curse at the first stream of fucking freezing water. gods, how cold of a shower did dunk take? you quickly got it hot and steamy. you cover your mouth with one hand and with the other reach down to rub your clit. eyes closed. replaying the scene over and over.
***
dunk's grateful you wanted to use his shower. it gives him a chance to change out of his sweatpants before you notice the rapidly growing wet stain and realize he'd came.
***
it only takes you a minute or two to cum. you rest your head against the tile and breathe deeply, trying to get yourself back under control. you take a few more minutes to enjoy the spray and the soothing pressure on your slightly sore ass.
you step out and wrap a towel around you. there's a knock on the door.
"yes?" you ask.
dunk sticks his hand in, holding out a hoodie and sweatpants.
"if you wanted to change," he offers.
your heart goes all soft at his thoughtfulness. you smile and take the clothes from him.
the sweatpants you've no hope of wearing, but the hoodie covers about the same as your dress had. you step out and find that dunk's changed clothes too. he's got water, your plate of cookies, and pillows arranged on his bed.
"thought you might need to sit. or, maybe not sit. you can sit, right?" he asks.
you laugh.
"i'm fine, dunk. you didn't go that hard."
"would...i dunno...hot water bottle?"
you shake your head.
"i could order pizza."
"....that would be nice, actually."
"right. you just relax and i'll take care of it."
***
dunk's laying in bed later that night, staring up at the ceiling, unable to sleep. had today been real? had he really...had you really....
his phone buzzes.
he picks it's up. it's from raymun. it's a screenshot of his second onlyfans video, you bent over his knee with your pretty ass in the air, with the added message from raymun: WHO is that????????
contents (nsfw): Duncan x fem!reader, modern AU, POVs alternating, neighbours, love at first sight, awkwardness on both sides, mutual pining, fluff, rom-com, forced proximity, attempt at humour, scent kink, size kink, Duncan is a big lad and loves boobs, vaginal fingering, penetrative sex, belly bulge, coming inside, love, love, loooooove.
synopsis: Duncan suffers from a severe case of down-bad for his new neighbour. When she clearly needs help getting furniture carried and assembled, he does what he mustâhelps.
word count: 12,2K (oops)
a/n: Banner by me, dividers by @pixopix and @uzmacchiato. I just think this guy has a massive rom-com potential *sighs wistfully*
Duncan falls in love easily and temporarily. He sees a girl in a cafĂŠ, engrossed in His Dark Materials, and his mind goes to wondering what it would be like to be there with his arm slung round her waist, reading over her shoulder. The feeling evaporates as soon as he realises that, to set in motion the cascade of events which might lead to his arm being allowed to wedge itself there, heâd have to talk to her first. His chest gets warm all over when, at a pub, another girl yells from the top of her lungs upon Arsenal winning a game. It chills back to lukewarm as soon as her boyfriend appears from wherever heâs been cheering before, delivering a sloppy, ale-scented kiss on her lips. If Duncan is anything, home-wrecker ainât it.
He purses his mouth involuntarily when a girl sitting in front of him on the bus has her hair gathered in a ponytail that reveals the nape of her neck. Sheâs wearing a thin chain necklace that pulls on the tiny hairs. His hands itch to brush the skin and untangle the mess carefully, then place the whole breadth of his palm there, from tendon to tendon, to ease the sting. Before he gets to live his lifeâs most torrid affair, the girl yanks on the chain viciously, plucking out singular strands with a small hiss, and gets off the bus.
When he falls in love again, he is disastrously unready for the prospect of permanence. Handshakes and congratulations muttered over keys passed to the flat next door have far too much of long-term arrangement about them for his peace of mind. Duncanâs beloved of today is wearing paint-stained dungarees, the knees pushed out and sagging with age. Her hair is messy and her cheek smudged with dust. Her socks do not match either. Sheâs thanking the building manager with glassy eyes and a smile pulled so wide she looks about to cry.
The manager delivers one last pat to her back, then reveals Duncanâs presence by bidding him a quick, âMorning.â Duncan nods once, then keeps his head down as he passes by. Before descending the staircase, he allows himself one last glance: you sigh, pause, and step into your flat. Certainty floods him cold: heâs in love with his neighbour.
He spends the day at work trying to reason with himself. You are only one girl who happens to live on the other side of his bedroom wall. Duncan hardly ever sees the other neighbours as it is. For all he knows, you keep odd hours and spend weekends elsewhere and have a boyfriend already hanging pictures in that flat in his head. If luck is willing to show him some mercy, he will not be sentenced to pine after the girl next door. By lunch he has bargained himself into a kind of peace. By the end of the day, he almost believes it.
Then he comes home.
Your door is ajar. Passing by, Duncan catches through the crack the beginning of a new life. The hallway yawns open to the room beyond, where a mattressânot nearly wide enough for twoâlies on the floor with its sheets crumpled up in a twist. There is a mug sitting on the windowsill with a teabag string dangling over the rim. A charger. A few cardboard boxes hunch by the wall, half-opened and all of it kills him a bit with tender, domestic ache. Youâre really here, starting from scratch.
From deeper in the flat comes your voice, frayed by an argument with a consultant. It grows louder. Nearer. Duncan finds what is left of his wit and slips past as quietly as he can, key already in hand. He is through his own threshold and turning the lock on a held breath before you come into view. A second later, your door slams shut hard enough to carry through the wall. He hears you thank someone over the phone tightly and end the call. Then, he catches the cutest little growl of frustration heâs heard in his life. When he closes his eyes he can see you again in all your disarrayed glory and decides the girls from cafĂŠs and pubs and buses may as well pack it in, and Duncan is in trouble.
He wakes the next day hoping the universe will spare him permanence, only to get sucker-punched by the sight of you fighting your post box in the main hall. The same girlish growl he already knows leaves you when the box will not budge (despite you asking it very nicely by rattling the lock with the key stuck inside it). He tries to disguise his gasp and it comes out as a dumb, hiccuped chuckle, which, of course, gets your attention.
âIs something funny?â you ask, face dangerously frowned, yet still the prettiest thing Duncanâs ever seen.
âN-no. No,â he gulps, loudly. âYou have to, uh⌠bully it a bit. Hereâcan I?â
His hands come out and you step away at once, making Duncan wonder whether it is because you believe his good intentions, or is it merely his intimidating size.
He leans in, presses on the little door and turns the key between his fingers until it clicks.
Your eyes are on him, bewildered. âThatâs âbullyingâ in your world?â
Duncan shrugs. âI meanâŚâ
âGood to know.â Before he realises what is happening, your palm is out and disappearing in his, and he learns your name, and from this moment he will remember it forever. âThirteen C,â you add, as if he has not noticed.
âDuncan,â he says. âFifteen C.â
âYeah, I know,â you say, smiling.
âSo, err⌠howâs it going?â
âAlright. Just getting toâŚâ Your eyes drag to the post box, then back to him. ââyou know. Oh, um⌠it might get a bitââyour fingers pinch together to present what a bit meansââloud over the weekend. Iâm having furniture delivered and I have to assemble it.â
That is it. Duncanâs heart behaves as if it has somehow acquired a brain of its own and is currently attempting an escape by slicing his chest open, lest he say something normal. Words pour out of his mouth and, to him, they sound like begging.
âDâyou need a hand? I couldââ As he speaks, you go still. Your eyes drop, and Duncan falters at once. âUnless youâve that sorted already,â he says. âI only meantâIâm good with carrying, is all.â
After a beat, thereâs a nod. âYes,â you say, and Duncan realises you are nervous. âGod, okay, yes. Iâve no one. Iâm not even going to pretend Iâm competent, or that itâs an easy job. My delivery company insists that weâve agreed on a downstairs drop-off and itâs a ton of bookshelves. If you were just being nice, thatâs absolutely fine though. God, sorry,â you mumble, holding your throat. âMoving is stressful.â
He has never seen awkwardness to match his own packed into someone so lovely. He feels an impossible urge to hug you, but knows that could make his affair fleeting, and suddenly finds himself wanting the opposite. âI wasnât. I meanâI was. Iâd gladly help. Iâve the weekend off.â
âWicked,â you say, a shy curve on your mouth. âThey come at eight on Saturday. That works?â
âIt does. Yeah,â Duncan says, nodding once, then again, as if the second one might make him sound less like a man who has just been handed a winning lottery ticket in broad daylight. âThat works. Iâll, uh⌠catch you later.â
He turns on his heel and starts back upstairs like a fool.
âWerenât you heading out?â you ask.
He stops so abruptly he nearly misses the next step. âRight,â he says, and clears his throat. âI was actuallyââ Jerks a thumb towards the front door, then has to come back down past you with what dignity he can gather. âGoing to work.â
Your smile does something unhelpful to his insides. âThought so.â
âYeah.â He gives a small nod. âSo. Saturday.â
âSaturday,â you echo.
âDeadly.â The word slips out on its own. Duncan feels his ears burn. âI meanâgood. Grand. Iâll see you then.â
He goes before his tongue can betray him any further, out through the front door and into the morning with his heart beating high in his throat, having managed to turn a straightforward goodbye into a full display of personal deficiency in under thirty seconds.
And deadly he is. Youâre left smiling and so struck, it takes you another thirty seconds to clock that you are wearing an absurdly torn T-shirt, pyjama shorts and mountain climbing boots (classic just going to check mail assembly). Then another five to release a breath.
You were a bit too overwhelmed by the sight of your own four naked walls and a slice of floor to sleep on when you first saw him to assess him properly. Now, thoughâeyes, first and foremost. Huge, and blue and with lashes that belong on a doll rather than on a grown-up man. Proportional to the rest of him, which is also huge in a way that makes you feel safe and taken care of, not hunted.
Then his voice, which sits warm in your ear after he is gone, low and soft and careful with every word. His face: freckles over the bridge of his nose and across his cheeks, hair that cannot decide whether it is dark blond or ginger, and a blush that rises so easily it almost seems unfair on a man built like that. And his armsâChrist on a stick. They look as if they could hug any worry clean out of you. Crowning all of it is the most endearing smile, all crooked teeth, which he seems to reach for whenever the colour in his face becomes unbearable. Absolutely dear lad.
And he has agreed to spend the weekend with you, playing adult Lego with IKEA bookshelves. An offer you probably shouldn't have accepted, but heâs a sweetheart who, by all rights, ought to take up space more confidently than he does. Instead he ducks his head, fumbles his goodbye and flees, leaving you with your lip bitten raw.
You know damn well it is entirely unwise to develop a crush on your neighbour. Nevertheless, the tiny voice in the back of your head is already chanting, please donât be a psycho, please donât be a psycho.
The rest of the day you spend pointlessly cleaning the space that will get obliterated by dust and cardboard come weekend anyway, then listening to his footsteps through the wall in the evening. Saturday, you realise, while you have been busy making goo-goo eyes at him, you completely forgot to give him any actual logistics. Where are you meant to meet? Who carries what? How much time does he have?
You knock on his door at 7:45 a.m. and might as well just kiss the doorknob. Nothing. Try again, and still nothing. By the time the phone starts vibrating in your hand with an unknown number, your stomach has already dropped low enough to bruise. The delivery driver is downstairs. They are waiting for a signature. You swear, apologise, swear again and hang up feeling like an absolute clown for ever believing a kind stranger was something that just happened to you.
When you get down to the main hall, Duncan is already there. Waiting. In jeans and a white T-shirt with paint stains set so deep into it they look permanent. The sight of him hits you hard enough to wipe your mind for a second. Broad shoulders. Sleep still clinging somewhere about his face. Hair not fully decided yet. He turns at the sound of you coming and your heart gives one awful, hopeful kick.
âI thought you, uhâhi,â you say.
âMorning,â he says, straightening. There is a crease between his brows, like he has been wondering where you got to. âSorry. I went down when I heard the van.â His eyes flick over your face quickly, then away. âYou all right?â
That lands badly enough in your chest that you have to clear your throat before answering. âYeah. Yes. I just thought youâd changed your mind.â
The blush comes up at once, easy as breath. âNo,â he says. âNo, Iâm here.â His eyes flick to the heap of boxes crowding the entrance, then back to you. âAnd thank God, it seems. How many bookshelves dâyou need, anyway?â
You shrug, already flustered. âI have a lot of books?â
Something in his face gives. Worse than a mockeryâa smile. âRight.â
The delivery men are in no mood for inept romance. They want signatures, directions, confirmation that yes, all of this misery belongs to you. Duncan takes the handheld scanner from one of them before you can fumble it, passes it back, then bends to the first box with the ease of a man picking up a childâs toy. You stand there a second too long watching his forearms jump under the weight and have to jolt yourself back into usefulness.
So, itâs carry the lighter things. A flat-packed desk. Narrow boxes of shelves. Bags of fittings that clatter and bruise your shins. Duncan gets the proper monsters: the long boxes that seem designed to take out the ankles of whoever dares lift them, the thick ones packed with boards, the pieces that turn every staircase into an insult. By the second trip, his white T-shirt is sticking to the middle of his back. By the third, you have learned that the muscles there move under cotton in a way that ought to be regulated. He goes up the stairs with a box balanced on one shoulder and one hand free for the rail, and every time he turns sideways to clear the landing, you get some fresh reason to stop believing in a merciful god.
âSorry,â you mutter for the fifth time, wrestling a carton through your front door.
âWhat for?â
âFor owning things.â
He ducks under the doorframe with another box. âBit late for that.â
You laugh despite yourself. He smiles without looking at you, sets the load down exactly where it needs to go and is gone again before you can decide whether to stare at his back or his hands.
Eventually, the entrance hall gets empty, so the one outside your flat can look as though a Scandinavian warehouse has exploded. Inside is worse. Cardboard everywhere. Thick white foam. Plastic corners. Long, baffling pieces of wood in shades with names no tree has ever deserved. You are sweaty and breathing through your mouth. Duncan wipes the back of his wrist across his forehead and leaves a pale streak through the dust there.
You lean against the wall and attempt a joke through your lungs. âIf youâre fed up, I can probably handle the rest alone.â
His head comes up at once. âWhat, youâre kicking me out before the best part?â
âYou think this is the best part?â
The blush arrives with such force it nearly does him an injury. âI meantââ He huffs a laugh at himself and looks down. âThe building. The shelves.â
âRight,â you say. âThe shelves.â
âMm.â
You let him suffer for one beat longer than strictly kind, then rescue him. âTea?â
He looks at you with real gratitude. âGo on, then.â
The kettle buys you both a little grace. For a while, it works. He tears through cardboard, stacks the big pieces, gets the general logic of things faster than seems fair. He is excellent at the parts requiring weight, reach or brute confidence. When you come back with two mugs though, Duncan is crouched in the middle of your floor among split boxes and hardware, reading the leaflets with an expression usually reserved for bad news from the doctor.
You pass him a cup, and he mutters an absent, âAh, thanks, luv,â making your stomach twist. Goes back to frowning. Squinting, while holding the paper a little further away. Then further still, arm almost fully extended. His eyes narrow into slits. He turns the page one way, then the other, like Satan himself may be written on the back in clearer print. Under his breath, he whispers, âShite.â
You are beginning to enjoy yourself immensely. âEverything all right there?â
âMm.â
That is plainly a lie. His jaw sets, and finally he reaches into the pocket of his jeans. Out comes a pair of glasses so practical and slightly old-fashioned they look as though they have been with him longer than some friendships. He puts them on with the air of a man making a grave concession to weakness.
You nearly go through the floor. The lenses give him the most ridiculous, endearing bug-eyes. Not distorted exactly, but gentled, opened up. Softer, somehow. Boyish in a way the rest of him does not allow. He glances up and catches you looking.
âWhat?â he says, already half-defensive.
âNothing.â
âLiar.â
âIâm not lying.â You set your mug down very carefully. âYou just lookâŚâ
He waits. There are a hundred things you could say and none of them are survivable. Dear. Ridiculous. So lovely it hurts. You land on, âSerious.â
Duncan snorts, unconvinced, and looks back at the paper. âThis thing was written by the devil.â
You kneel beside him and lean in. The leaflet rustles between you. Up close, his shoulder is warm. So is the line of his thigh where it nearly touches yours through old denim. He smells of soap and sweat broken by honest work.
âI thought it was the best part,â you say, forcing your gaze onto the tiny drawings instead of his glasses.
Duncan glances up. âBest partâs the company,â he says, and with those huge eyes behind wire frames, your crush leaves the realm of manageable things entirely.
He doesnât really know what heâs doing. This, leastways, feels natural: helping. And it gives him enough space to push through anxiety and have something like a conversation with you. Nothing that would make his ridiculous in-love feeling flee has happened yet, so Duncan allows it to persist. At least as long as he gets to spend time with you assembling bookshelves.
That goes as expected: heâs tormented by your hands brushing his whenever you pass him a screw. Then by his own indignity at being unable to work with the smaller bits, where you step inâmuch too close for safetyâwith your nice-smelling hair and cute jokes. âWhatever would you do without me, hm?â you say, turning the smallest Allen key Duncanâs ever seen.
He clears his throat. âUh⌠letâs see. Watch telly? Go down the pub for a game? Go running?â
âHow utterly boring,â you mutter, focused on the task.
Duncan nearly rests his chin in one hand. âI know. I consider myself saved.â
You smile. Huff at the key refusing to go any further and deem your job done. âAlright,â you say, then deliver one more nail to his coffin. Your hand comes up to lift the hair off the back of your neck and cool off. He immediately goes to judge the kissability of it. Duncan, who in his lifetime has inspected necksâ napes in abundance, considers himself an expert on the matter. The verdict: yours is everything-able. Grabbable. Lickable. Kissable, and when he focuses enough he can imagine it smells heavenly too. Before he can blink himself out of it, you turn and ask, âHungry?â
âAlways,â Duncan says, and curses internally at how breathy he sounds. âWhere dâyou want these?â he asks, pointing at the whopping four assembled bookshelves, which currently create a little maze in your living room/dining room/bedroomâa room serving as all three.
âOh, wherever you think,â you say, already scrolling through the food ordering app. That one hits him square in the gut, being allowed to do something domestic in the home of a girl heâs known for not even a week and is still deeply, hopelessly fallen for.
When heâs put everything where it looks best, you reappear with two beers in hand. Heâs managed to find himself a spot on the floor where heâs sitting cross-legged, fully engrossed in the manual of the furniture already assembled, and your mind briefly goes to what it would feel like to wedge yourself onto those thighs.
You pass him a bottle, plop down next to him, and say, âGot us pizza. Fastest.â
âGrand,â he says. Leans back, trying to find something to stare at that is not your feet. âSoââ The bottles clink. âHowâs it feeling?â he asks, then pauses to watch you down half of yours in approximately five greedy gulps and chuckles, all helpless.
âJesus, sorry.â You stop when you catch him staring like you have grown horns. Wipe your mouth. âItâs, um⌠less echo-y. Weird. But good. Like Iâm starring in a rom-com. Oh shiââ
One of the shelves tips and starts falling face-flat. Duncan is up before you can properly register him moving, catching it with one hand.
âGot it. Got it. Yeah, the floors.â He wedges a folded bit of cardboard underneath to keep it straight. âTheyâre round as the earth.â
You blink, then slam the bottle onto the floor so hard some beer erupts from the neck. âFuck, so I was right all along? It does feel like Iâm going downhill from that corner.â
âSeems you were,â Duncan says, sitting back down. âGot to screw those to the walls, or you might get flattened in the night.â He points out the trajectory of it. If it went, it would go straight for the mattress. âWe can do it tomorrow?â
âTwo days in a row? Guess I bought you dinner, so everythingâs by the book,â you mutter, and Duncan chokes on his beer. âSorry. God, sorry. Itâs the beer, I promise Iâm not an obnoxious neighbour.â
He wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. âIf thatâs obnoxious, Iâd say Iâm managing.â
You blink at that, then smile fully, teeth and all, and Duncan counts them before licking the backs of his own in a poor imitation of what it might be like to kiss you.
You turn towards him and lower your voice. âSo youâre saying I should keep plying you with pizza and lager?â
There is a crust of dust in the corner of your eye. A strand of hair curled at your temple. The hinge of your jaw, where he would gladly suck a pretty pale bruise, just so youâd remember him as a man who leaves souvenirs. The collar of your T-shirt is darkened with sweat, and he can smell it and wants to press his nose there. On the floor between you, your hands point towards each other, fingers a hairâs breadth apart. He has half a mind to lean in.
The buzzer goes off roaring so suddenly you jump.
âGod, thatâs⌠loud,â you say. âOne minute.â
The pizza arrives in a flurry of apologies, change, the brief humiliation of you having to shoulder the sticking front door with your hip. By the time you come back, Duncan has schooled his face into something he hopes resembles a man here for neighbourly reasons and not because he is one missed interruption away from pressing you into a wall so you can learn another purpose for all this strength.
You sit on the floor to eat because there is nowhere else to do it. The box goes between you. Grease blooms through the paper. Your knee knocks his once and stays there just long enough to keep his heart misbehaving.
The conversation comes in starts. Where you moved from. Whether the building is always this loud. How many books is too many books. He tells you he works mornings more often than not; you tell him this move has already shortened your life by a year. He laughs when you do impressions of the delivery men. You laugh when he tells you the names of the shelves sound like obscure illnesses. It should feel awkward. It does, a little. It also feels good enough that Duncan keeps forgetting to be shy until his own voice brings him back to himself.
He does not want to go. He knows he should. So he puts on the fakest yawn of his life, stretches his arms over his head for effect and says, âRight. Better leave you to it.â
Your face falls so slightly he almost calls it back.
âWhat time dâyou want me tomorrow?â he asks, before he can stop himself.
That brings you back at once. âWhenever works for you.â
Duncan nods like a man with options. âI could do ten?â
âTenâs perfect.â
âGood.â He gets to his feet and brushes nonexistent dust from his jeans. âIâll see you then.â
When he leaves, it is with pizza marrying lager in his stomach, your laugh in his ears, and the growing suspicion that the universe has no intention of sparing him permanence at all.
He lies awake in bed, acutely aware that you are just behind the wall, and snorts helplessly into his pillow when a loud Fuck! follows a loud bangâpresumably a toe fallen victim to one of the corners in the dark.
There is something insanely erotic to Duncan about a girl who lets him in and allows him to see the raw bones. No objects yet to hide behind or define yourself with; all he gets is your personality, stripped right down, and the version of you made intimate by imperfection. The one whose socks are nearly brown on the soles from cardboard dust, whose fingernails are dark beneath the crescents from handling metal bits all day, who stops herself from downing a whole bottle of beer only because he, in his dumbness, looked at her sideways.
And it feels nothing like his other crushes, which lived in perfect sealed-off vignettes, girls caught on their way somewhere else. You are going nowhere. Better: you are trying to stay. And Duncan has the honour of watching and helping it happen.
On Sunday he is ready at ten sharp and knocking on your door. His hair is still wet, and he is standing there with two coffees because he has no idea whether you have managed to unpack the coffee pot yet. That is the only reason.
Your voice comes muffled from inside. âComing! One secââ
He hears fumbling. Water running. Something hits tile and you hiss, âShit!â
When you open the door, you look like you have only just dragged your shirt down over your back. Your hair is lifted with static. Your feet are bare, and Duncan has to force his eyes up from them. There he finds the corner of your mouth whitened with a trace of toothpaste.
âHi. Sorry, I overslept,â you say, flattening your hair down with both palms.
âDâyou want me to come back later?â
âNo! No,â you say. âIâm up, promise. Also, is that for me?â Your finger points at the cups.
âNo, luv. Brought them so I could drink two coffees in front of you.â
He presses one into your hands. You snort, then step out of the way. The hallway is narrow enough that he has to turn sideways to get through, and your stomachs still brush faintly. Duncan stops dead, points at his own mouth. âYouâve got a littleââ
Your hand flies up and scrubs at your mouth with alarming force. You huff, embarrassed. âSorry. I donât drool, itâs just toothpaste.â
âThank God.â A smile, unguarded and crooked and just so dear you want to squish his cheeks.Â
He steps in fully and is met by the sight of the place properly gutted this time. Boxes split open. Books in tottering stacks. Fragile things wrapped in newspaper. Clothes half-freed from bin bags. He crouches over one of the boxes nearest to him, whistles low, and lifts out a hardback thick enough to stun a horse.
âWhat have we here? Remember how we talked about how many books is too many books yesterday? Thisââ
Then he leans further into the box, and mind leaves your body.
His shirt rides up over his loins. The muscles there rise in two thick ridges either side of his spine. They deepen the groove between them, pull his waistband tight, make a gap between skin and denim that would fit a flat palm perfectly. Fucking biteable, is what they are. Unbearably hot. You could live there, happy and fed and entirely unbothered, your cheek resting in the well of his back. It doesnât help at all that his butt is as round as your floors which are as round as the earth.
It takes him a second to turn. When he does, he looks almost pleased with himself. âThis is too many books, lass,â he announces. The lass does not help either. His brow pulls in. âHey. You good?â
âHm?â you hum, and bury the lower half of your face in the coffee cup in a futile attempt to hide the heat of it. âYeah. Hunky-dory. And there is no such thing as too many books, Duncan.â
âYou can call me Dunk. Friends do.â He stands then, book still in hand, and your body takes that as fresh bad news. âRight,â he says. âYou ready?â
âAs ever. Are you? I see no glasses.â
Something bright flickers across his face. He sets the book down, reaches into his back pocket and produces the case with a little flourish. Flips the arms open with both thumbs and settles the glasses on his nose like a man about to perform surgery.
âThere,â he says. âHappy now, lass?â
âVery.â You clear your throat. âOkay. What should I do?â
He looks round your flat, glasses low on his nose, taking stock. âMight be better to clear some of this first,â he says. âLeave the drilling till later. Weâve the desk still, donât we?â
Yes, unfortunately. So you unpack the desk while Duncan deals with the cardboard. He breaks boxes down with an efficiency that ought to be illegal, folds them once, twice, then stamps them flat under one boot. It should not do what it does to you, that sound, that force, that careless certainty of a body built to make stubborn things give way, but it does. Repeatedly. By the time he hauls the broken-down mountain downstairs, you need a moment so badly it arrives without asking.
You end up spread flat on the floor, muttering, âFuck, fucking fuck,â into the air, heels of your palms pressed into your eyesockets hard enough to make your vision exist only in shades of black.
The front door opens quietly. A few steps, and: âTired already?â Duncan asks.
Off with your head, then. When you look up, he is standing over you with the ceiling nearly on his shoulders. Not really. It only feels that way. A sigh. âJust⌠regrouping,â you say.
His mouth twitches. He puts a hand out. âCâmere, wee thing. Itâs nearly done.â
It stirs your lower belly hot. So does the sight of his hand waiting for yours, broad and open and patient. You give him your arm because the other option is to reject it and scramble yourself up in an entirely undignified way. His palm closes round your elbow. Instead of yanking, he lifts steadily, calmly, as if you simply have no weight. The pressure of him stays even once you are upright. He is still holding you when you straighten fully, and for one daft second you let him.
âRight,â you say, smoothing your hands down your jeans. âI just need some water. Do you want some?â
He nods and follows you into the kitchen.
You reach up for the glasses from the top cupboard. There are only two unpacked. Duncan notices that at once. Notices, too, the way your shirt rides with the stretch and catches there above your hip, folded back on itself, leaving a strip of stomach bare. He feels it clean in the chest. Affection and neighbourly feelings that somehow have managed to fester into want, plain and greedy. He wants a lot, he realises. And heâs certain heâs obvious as daylight in it, and so engrossed in his own inadequacy things elude him.
What he misses is that you are no less obvious, only quieter. The way you hand him the glass so your fingers drag against his and stay a fraction too long. The way you drink from yours fast, quenching thirst that water has nothing to do with. The way your eyes travel down the line of his jaw to his throat as he swallows, unabashed for a second before you blink and pull them back.
Thank god he cannot read minds. Yours is all clatter. He looks right in here. In your kitchen, such as it is. A bit sweaty. A bit messy. Big enough to crowd the room without trying. The flat already warmer and more lived in for having him inside it. And you want him to stay so badly it makes your palms damp round the glass. Spoken aloud, it would sound ridiculous. Inside your head, it has already settled into fact.
You clear your throat and look anywhere but at his mouth. âRight,â you say. âIf we stand here much longer, that desk will build itself out of spite.â
That gets a smile out of him. Small. Crooked. Ruinous. âCanât have that.â
So, the desk gets built. The shelves end up arranged into a final, satisfying shape which, if everything goes to plan, will make a small home library. Duncan measures them up, shifts them by inches, squints, steps back, shifts them again, makes them line as evenly as the old building allows and does the bulk of the work with the drill. You end up his nurse, passing him sleeves and screws when he asks, holding things steady where he tells you, fetching the bits that roll away.
At one point he grunts and squints at the wall with such offence in his face that you ask, âDid BILLY say something rude?â
He snorts. âNo. But I might need your hawk eyes here, luv.â
âI see,â you tease. âIâll tell you a secret. Canât see shit from afar. I suppose that makes us one properly sighted person between us.â
The prospect of making something whole with you is so enticing Duncan nearly misses the fact that you have slipped under his arm and then between his biceps. From there he gets your neck again. The shape of the space behind your ear. The little hollow where he decides his fingers would sit perfectly, cradling your head while he kissed you stupid. He puts all his strength into pressing the shelf to the wall while you screw the tiny bits in, holds his breath and prays for his body to behave. The space between his stomach and your back is so narrow he could close it in one step. Then he could bury his nose in your nape. Thenâ
He blinks against the thought so hard something scratches his eyeball. âBloody fuââ he mutters, trying to wipe his face against his shoulder.
You feel the shift and turn your head a little. âYou all right?â
âYeah, just⌠something in my eye. Dust, Iââ
You crane your neck first, then turn in the cage of his body. Set the screwdriver down. Dust your hands off on your jeans. âHold it,â you say. âCome here.â
Dear Lord above.
Your hands reach for him. One finds the bridge of his glasses and pushes them up till they catch in his hair. The other comes to his cheek. Then both of them are there, cool skin, cradling his face as you pull him down to your height and look straight into the ruined eye. Duncan goes still from boots to teeth.
âDâyou see it?â he chokes out.
âYeah. Just an eyelash. Long one,â you mutter.
Your knuckle comes to his lid and draws it down gently. The eyelashâa brown curved thing, outrageous in its prettiness, like he has put a bloody curler to itâworks itself loose, catches him once more for spite, then blinks far enough free for you to pinch it between thumb and forefinger. You hold it up in front of him, forgetting he likely cannot make out a thing without his glasses.
âThere,â you say. âBetter?â
âCanât see it, but I believe you,â Duncan breathes.
He stays bent over you, close enough that the freckles show one by one. You could count them if given the time. You want the time. All day, if possible. Or a year. All year to count them and then find out whether they continue elsewhere. He licks his lips once and then keeps very still, save for the faint trembling in the arms.
You pull him a fraction lower. Then another.
Duncan looks like he wants to say something and rejects each option in real time. His mouth opens. Shuts. When he thinks you are about to kiss him, you slide his glasses back down onto the bridge of his nose and he makes the smallest wounded sound in his throat, near enough a whine to count. But you keep coming. Closer. Closer. He can feel your breath wash warm over the tip of his nose, over his upper lip. Then your mouths are there, set together already, the contact made and held. Soft and dry with the day. Neither of you moving. Both of you letting the other back out if they want it badly enough. There are no takers.Â
Duncan closes his eyes. His voice comes out low and strained. âCâmon, girl. Give me something.â
âThis?â you say, and then move. And god, what a movement that is. He feels it everywhere. In his toes, where you step on them to lengthen your reach, and he welcomes that weight. On his scalp, where your fingernails scratch him so deliciously a shiver skitters down his spine, making his hips move forth. On his upper lip that gets framed by both of yours and then his mouth opens and his tongue slips out and Duncan is so trustful of his own work his palms finally leave the shelf. They come to gather what there is of you. He wraps you all tight and around in his arms, sets his hands on your waist and hip and with it you lift a little, and in that lift Duncanâs kissing his neighbour.
His glasses get skewed. He steps away from the bookcase and to the nearest wall, where he presses you in. One tug, and your legs know exactly what to doâthey cinch him, ankles crossed in the small of his back, and youâre airborne, clutching his neck, thighs supported in his grip. He keeps kissing, because this is simply impossible and if there is news about to be broken to him that permanence is not an option heâd rather receive it later than sooner.
âWait,â you mutter. âGod, Iâve been trying not to do that.â
âY-you?â he stammers. âWhy?â
âBecause youâre my neighbour,â you say, swiping hair off his forehead. For once, your faces are level. Heâs so damn gorgeous itâs nearly absurd for him to be unaware of it. Angular where it matters, soft where itâs unexpected. You can think of another arrangement where height will not exactly come into play, but firstâ
Youâre overcome with need to glue yourself to him, so you hug him into a full-body shackle: tighten your arms and legs where they keep you up, and bury your face into his neck to mumble a wishful, âYouâre not a player, are you? You donât go around calling women lass like you know what itâs doing, right?â
His palms twitch on your thighs. Face moves towards you, then stops, held there by caution so naked it shreds. He lets out a breath that is a quizzical chuckle. âJesus, no,â he says. âI can barely talk to you.â
A laugh breaks out of you, and then out of him too. He tips his forehead to yours for a second, still holding you up like it costs him nothing.
âAre you?â he asks, quieter. âA maneater?â
The thing is, you were struck with him from the start. There was lust in it, greedy enough to startle you with your own nerve. But the rest has come on slower and worse. Out of use. Out of kindness. Out of watching him take the weight of things without making a show of it. Out of seeing him go soft-faced with concentration, seeing how badly he wants and how carefully he handles the wanting, as if it is something that could do damage if let loose carelessly. You have known him three days and already the flat feels rearranged around his presence. Maybe this is what blessing looks like in real time. Proximity. Repetition. Two people getting an unfairly clear look at each other too quickly.
You lean back enough to see him. âDo I look like one?â
His eyes go over your face as though the answer might be written there if he studies hard enough. âNo,â he says, with such immediate certainty it almost hurts. Then, because apparently that is not enough for him: âYou look pretty. And kind.â
A smile tries to happen. Your throat goes tight around it. âThat so?â
He nods once. âYeah.â
You smooth your thumb over the heat in his cheek, the rasp of ginger stubble there. His glasses are still crooked. His mouth is still open the slightest bit from the last kiss. Entirely too dear. Entirely too much.
Oh, and does he. The second time it comes with all his better judgement buried alive beneath it. He gets his mouth on yours like he has finally understood the point of having one. Bolder now. Hungrier. Your lower lip catches between his teeth and there is nothing neat about the way he bites it, only care and the lack of enough care, both at once. Crooked teeth bite just fine, you learn. Better than fine. He mouths you until your breath goes thin, then drops to your neck and inhales so deeply it feels dragged out of the soles of his feet. Nibs, and whatever was warming in you goes past that. Burning now. Clean through.
âBed,â you mutter, fingers twisted up in his shirt.
Duncan had no idea that was even possible, that one word from you could turn his whole body into a set of orders barked and obeyed in the same second. He does what he is told. Walks with you held high on him, your weight gathered tight and easy, and when he reaches the mattress on the floor he goes down with care, one knee first, then the other, until your back is sinking into bed that is still only a mattress and a fitted sheet half-pulled loose at one corner. He stays over you, breathing hard enough to show it, one hand planted by your head, the other still hooked under your thigh.
âYou sure?â he asks.
You nod too fast, then colour. âYeah. Sorry. Iâm justâŚâ Your face does something shy and pained. âSweaty.â
Duncan looks at you. Thoughtfully. Like this is a thing worth considering from all angles. Werenât he the biggest sweetheart god ever let loose on the public, that look might be labelled as menacing, too.
âI know,â he says. Then, lowers his face to your belly.
Words leave your body. That is all. They just go. He presses his mouth to you through the shirt first, then rides it up with both hands, bunching cotton inch by inch until your arms have to lift. The chance is taken: his hand slides to your wrists and sets them above your head. Your breath catches so sharply it nearly cuts. Duncanâs nose goes to your skin and he smells you like he means to learn something useful. Belly first. Then higher. He drags slow through the middle, mouth open now and then, breathing in. Your chest. The damp little hollows under your arms, where the tickle of his breath makes you squirm and laugh helplessly. Higher still, until he reaches your throat. He sweeps your hair aside with his cheek to get a clean stripe of skin and settles there, breathing you in as if he has come home to it.
âI like the way you smell,â he says against your neck. His voice roughens on the last word. âBloody maddening, if you ask me.â
It does something murderous to your insides. You twist under him, wrists flexing in his hold, just to get closer. His grip tightens by a hair from pure absorption. Nose traces the line under your jaw. Another small bite. Your heel drags against the sheet.
âDuncan,â you say, and it comes out wrecked enough to make him lift his head.
Hair is falling into his eyes. Glasses sit crooked on his nose. His mouth is wet and pink from kissing you, cheeks spill red all over his skin and you wonder if that blush exists below the T-shirt too. Sensitive. There is a look on his face like he is trying very hard to keep being good while every part of him is begging for permission to stop.
âYeah?â he says.
You swallow. Feel his thumb resting on the inside of your wrists. The whole blunt weight of him held off you by restraint alone.
âMore,â you tell him.
Lances him clean through, that one. Duncanâs eyes drop to your mouth, then lower, as if he means to be sensible about it and catalogue the options. âWhere?â he asks, voice thick. âTell me where, lass.â
You could laugh at how decent he is, kneeling over you in a state that ought to excuse much worse, still asking like the answer matters more than his own pain. Instead you lift your wrists a little in his hand and he understands. Lets them go. Your palms land on his shoulders and stay a second. On the impressive spread of him and the hard work of holding himself up. âEverywhere,â you say, then, because he looks like he may pass out from being too good, âStart with here.â
You guide him back to your neck. The instruction is taken with shameful gratitudeâhe might go down as a man who leaves souvenirs after all. Mouth finds the place heâs already put some mind into, perfecting the bruise with focused lips, then the edge of his teeth, then the flat of his tongue to soothe what he has done. Then, he shiftsânose wedging the collar of your shirt aside, finding skin hidden all day under cotton and sweat. Every new inch offends him with how little of it he had before.
Sounds get born in his throat and die into a hiccup every time your body speaks up. There are fingers in his hair. Little gasps. Movement under his groin is particularly unbearable when your leg brushes him. No matter how old and stretched, jeans were simply not made to contain a boner, and Duncan learns it the literal hard way.
âYouâre doing me in,â he says into your throat.
It bounces off your pulse. âYou seem alive enough.â
He laughs, a breathy little snort. Lifts his head just far enough to look at you. His face is flushed down to the neck. He reaches between your bodies with obvious reluctance and catches the hem of your shirt in both hands. Stops there. âCan I?â
You nod. It still does not satisfy him.
âMm. And now can you tell me that I can?â he says.
âYes, you can,â you tell him. âTake it off.â
He strips you with the care of a man undoing bandages. Your shirt goes up in stages, dragged over your ribs, your bra, your face, until it is gone. He stares long enough to make your stomach jump. Itâs slower than everythingâthan a quick skim of current wants or broad hungry looking. Almost dazed. Like each small part of you has to travel the whole way through him before he can move to the next one. His thumb runs along the underside of your breast through the bra, testing nothing more scandalous than weight, and his eyes close briefly at the feel of it.
âJesus,â he says under his breath.
âWhat?â
He opens his eyes. âYouâreâŚâ Then stops, mouth twisting, unhappy with every word available. âA lot.â
You grin before you can help it. âGood a lot?â
His answer is to lower himself and press his face between your breasts, right into the warm cleft through the bra, as if language is a thing failed beyond repair. The sound you make at that goes straight to his hips. Duncan exhales hard, rubs his cheek on the lace, then wedges his fingers between your back and the mattress, to the clasp at your back with more hope than skill. The first try gets him nowhere. The second worse. He pulls away far enough to glare at your tits like they have personally insulted his family.
âNeed help?â you ask.
He looks embarrassed for exactly one second. âNeed a miracle.â
You laugh. Arch and bend and press your belly out and your arms briefly make it look like youâve grown small wings. That is worse for him somehow, watching you undo your own bra for his benefit. When it loosens he sighs like he is the one being let out of it. He peels it away, lets it fall wherever, then just looks again. His hands come up and hover, huge and uncertain, before settling on your ribs. Warm. Shaking faintly.
âStill alright?â he asks.
âYes.â
You find him. Guide him higher. The effect is immediate. Duncanâs breath leaves him in one stunned pull. Then, itâs roughness on skin. Palms large enough to divide equally, a tit per one. He holds you and smiles like an absolute goof.
âThere,â you murmur. âThatâs better.â
His mouth opens. Nothing useful comes of it. Which, really, fair.
You slide one hand down from his neck to the hem of his T-shirt, bunch it in your fist and tug. It lifts enough to show a strip of stomach, warm and furred and indecent in its ordinariness. A manâs body right there in your hands. âCan I take your shirt off, Dunk?â
That sobers him by half a shade. Makes his eyes search yours. âYeah,â he says. Then, because permissions have to be balanced: âYou can.â
You peel it up and over him. Duncan helps in the last second, ducking his head, pulling one arm free and then the other. The shirt lands somewhere by the mattress and suddenly there is too much of him at once. Chest broad enough to lay a proper grievance on. Shoulders built for carrying things that have no business being carried by one person. A scatter of pale freckles over the tops of them, which feels like information the public should not have access to. Hair dusting through the middle and down his stomach, where it disappears under the waistband of his jeans and leaves your mind to finish the route unsupervised.
âOh, Jesus,â you say before deciding whether you mean to.
The colour in his face deepens. As you suspected, it bleeds down: stains that bloom like bruises sketch his neck and lower. âWhat?â
âNothing,â you lie. Your hand goes out, palm to his chest, just to see. Warm. Slightly damp. Hard and alive under skin. His heart is going like a thing trapped. âYouâre veryâŚâ
He watches you try to land it. Offers, âBig?â and somehow even that comes out apologetic.
âHot,â you say, and the laugh that breaks out of him is so helpless it nearly kills you.
You kiss him to put him out of his misery. Or yourself. Or deepen it. Hard to say. His hands wake up after that. One stays on your breast, thumb dragging over the nipple until your back leaves the mattress. The other travels down your ribs, your waist, the notch of your hip, then lower still until he reaches the button of your jeans and stops there like someone brought up against a locked gate.
His forehead drops to yours. âCan I?â
âYes.â
The button goes. The zip next. Duncanâs fingers slip below and the sound you make at the first pass of his knuckles is enough to make him shut his eyes. Thereâs no rush in it, just checking. He decides one yes about bottoms is probably enough, so instead of cramming a palm into denim, he hooks both hands over the waistband and slides your jeans down to your knees. You kick the rest off.
A quick examination of conscience later, Duncan realises he is the victim of the mysterious ways the universe works. One day he sees a girl in a corridor and thinks all the unhelpful thoughts about her. The next, he offers to help because heâs built like that. Now the same girl lies below him, naked as day, clearly wanting him back if heâs learnt anything at all about why girls get wet between the legs. This is the part he wasnât prepared for. Pining over a face with no name to it is one kind of torture. Being desired is another, because desire asks something back.
He runs a hand the whole length of you, ankle to knee to thigh, until it lands there. The skin is damp, curls glossy, and when he squints hard enough through those goddamn stupid glasses he can see your muscles clenching, impatient. Impatient for him. Your hands get impatient too: they come for his buttons, shake there a little. He lets you fumble a bit, even allows one clumsy tug, until, inevitably, his trousers stay locked round his thighs.
âWe in a hurry?â he asks.
âN-no, I justââ Your brows furrow; throat bobs. You inhale, then sigh out, âwant you.â
His mouth pulls crooked with it, because the sweetness of being wanted hurts him a little. He comes down next to you, onto his side, one arm sliding under your neck so your head has somewhere proper to go. He kisses your temple once, warm and brief, then the corner of your eye.
âSoon, lass,â he says.
You only huff at that, offended on principle. The offence does not survive long. His hand drops between your legs and one finger presses inside with all the patience he has got, and your whole body gives a startled little jump.
âOhââ
âGood oh?â
âBest fucking oh,â you say, and a cute smile blooms on him.
He works it slow, watching your face with such naked concentration it ought to count as indecent. The glasses are slipping again. He nudges them up with his shoulder, fails, gives up, so you help by plucking them off. His thumb finds the place above and your breath leaves you in strips. He swallows, looks faintly green around the gills with the effort of saying the next thing, then says it anyway.
âYou got a condom?â
âN-no, butââ A sharper thrust of his thumb splits the thought clean in two. âFuckâIâm on the pill.â
Something truly frightful must cross his face, because you rush to fix it.
âNothing whorish, I promise. Just health reasons. Iâm all alone like a country dunny otherwise.â
Duncan shuts his eyes for half a second and bows his head, not out of judgement but because the opposite has arrived too hard and fast. A blessing to him, that. A crime, otherwise. He gets half a mind to entertain the daftest thought aliveâthat maybe it was always meant to go this way. You, alone like a country dunny. Him, not much better.
Second finger joins the first. You make a sound into his throat and the silly thought dies happy.
He works you open by degrees so thoroughly you start wondering if thereâs going to be a follow up to that condom question. Not that his fingers donât feel goodâthe fucking do, almost too much. But from where youâre cradled you can see exactly the way his cock is jerking in his underwear, still framed by the fly of his jeans. Simultaneously you know heâs the kind of guy whoâd close your trembling legs after you come, then cuddle into your neck until he softens, because this is not about him. So you try again.
âDuncan,â you breathe. âEnough, Iââ
âYouâll need more than that for me,â he says. Abashed. Iâm sorry that my cockâs too big to fuck you right away and there will be no quickies in our life kind of embarrassment. Itâs unbearably sweet. Insanely hot. Blood pumps your cheeks plump and warm already, and then Duncan nearly ends you by saying, âNeed to sort you out first.â
And itâs the first time in your life a man has told you his size might be a problem while making it sound like care came first and ego didnât show up at all. Heâs everything but swagger. Your heart does something daft and soft around the edges while the rest of you clenches hot around his fingers.
âOkay,â you say, cupping his face. âOkay, one more. Justââ A swallow. âFair warning, I might come.â
It startles a grin out of him. Mean by his standards. Lovely by any other. âHowâs that a bad thing?â he asks. Kisses you once, hard enough to shut you up for a second, then gives you that remedy for a cock-too-big problem of his and your vision bleaches.
God, youâre full. If girth blesses every part of him evenly, you may indeed be doomed. You would be already if he wasnât this thoughtfully slow. You can feel in real time how your muscles adjust round him, then take a second to unclench when he withdraws to the first knuckle.
âYou alright?â he asks, and his own voice tells on him. Tight. Thinned out with strain. You look so pretty itâs becoming unendurable. Hair dragged wrong, mouth open, eyes gone bright and glassy in a way that makes him so hard itâs difficult to think with any dignity.
Your nails dig into his nape. âIâm so good Iâm gonna lose my mind in a second,â you breathe. A swallow. âCan you please take your pants off?â
He nods, nose brushing yours. âAlright,â he says. âIf anything hurts, you tell me, yeah?â
Then he has to do the humiliating bit. First, he drags the shoes off his feet by pressing a sole to each heel. Then, shimmies out of the jeans, dragging the underwear down with them. Kicks that off too, and one leg catches, stubborn, round his ankle. By the time he joins you in nudity, he is red right up to the ears and flat on his back, camped next to you in all his difficult truth, cock heavy on his stomach.
Your eyes drop and your breath does an audible hiccup. You can feel his stare burning a hole through your forehead. He lies there tense, arms pinned to his sides like they are itching to cover himself up. God, what a waste that would be. It hits you then that he is boyish in random places so he can be an exaggeration of a man in others, and somehow all of that adds up to just a lad.
And since the opportunity has presented itself, you take it.
He is large enough that the head reaches near his navel, and yes, the girth is something to reckon withâbut havenât you just been worked open for this exact occasion? There is something insanely lovely about a man who would have half a locker room struck dumb standing for verdict, only to lie there with tension standing out in his forearms like he expects to be judged instead of wanted. He is not carved out of marble either, thank god. There is softness to him. Hair lies over his chest in an even, soft spread and trails down his stomach, which has the smallest give to it, a swell around the navel that looks made for a cheek to rest there. A vein runs the whole length of his cock, and with the pulse inside it he twitches, lifts off his stomach and falls back again. Heavy thing. Solid. Human. Entirely too much and, for that very reason, exactly right.
You put a palm on his arm. Murmur, âCome here,â and squeeze till he gets the message.
Duncan rolls back onto his side to face you, still halfway looking like he might apologise for the state of himself. You hook a thigh over his hip and pull him in until your groins meet. The contact draws a raw little grunt out of him. Good. Let him suffer a bit too. You kiss himâonce, slow enough to make it stick, then again with your mouth smiling into his.
âI like you,â you whisper. His face does a helpless thing around the eyes. âCome on,â you say, nudging his nose with yours. âIâll take it easy on you.â
âWill you?â he asks, while suffering internally. Both a promise of bliss and a difficult animal before him, he fists himself at the base and lines up. Your lips kiss the crown. Arms yoke his neck until noses flatten against each other. He can feel where your thigh, the meat of it, spills over his hip bone, quivers and settles heavier than heâd suspect it can. First inch, and heâs breathing hard. A bit more, and you join him.
âShit,â you mutter. âKeep⌠keep going.â
He does, but so slowly it nearly stops counting as movement. Your body loses the line between pain and pleasure. There is excruciating sweetness in his hand. He manages to hold manâs favourite handle (your ass) while rubbing his thumb in compassionate strokes. Mouth hums and lashes tickle your cheek, eyes search for signs of sore thatâs unwanted. The stretch he delivers burns, the opening is downright rude in its bluntness, but Duncan remains gentle, and thatâs what turns this whole thing so total.
Underneath the turmoil, deeper, stranger, comes fullness that puts your musings about fingers to shame. Thereâs weight to it, length to it and, fundamentally, intent that makes your body waver between flinching from it or gathering it closer, so it tries both.
Duncan sees the whole war pass through your face and stops dead. âToo much?â
âN-no,â You breathe through it. Feel the wait in the whole of his frame. âStay a minute. Just let meââ
He goes still at once. By force of patience, and by that old art he has been made to practise all his life and still has not mastered. A man built like Duncan does not get much leave to move through the world carelessly. People take one look at the size of him and hand him a part before he has opened his mouth: lift this, carry that, mind yourself, do not crowd, do not startle, be gentle. So he learns slowness. Learns to take the edge off himself before it reaches anyone else.
Now all of that gets spent on holding still while your cunt drags on the little of him already inside, hot and slick and so tight round the crown and upper body of his cock it feels like a clean seizure. He had let himself think of this in useless scraps. The sight of it. The permission of it. The prospect of being taken in where he has wanted to be since that first day. The actual feel is another beast entirely. The yielding comes by increments. The muscles take him, think better of it, grip again. Heat packs close enough to border on pain. If this much is enough to strip every spare thought out of his head, Duncan has no idea what shape he will be in when you let him deeper.
When your hips start making little lawless attempts at settling further onto him, he asks, âWhatâre you doing, hm?â
You huff at him. âBouncing on it crazy-style, what does it look like?â
Insane, is what you are. He lets out a full snort, then another, and it all breaks into a boyish giggle. âHave I got a mad girl, then?â
âYeah, Iâm fully bonkers,â you grin. Sweat breaks on your forehead and it looks pretty. âProbably shouldâve told you beforeââ The angle shifts, minutely. You sink deeper. Moan tears your mouth open and Duncanâs cock jerks inside you. âOh fuck, itâs getting good. Oh, thereââ
âThere?â
âYeah, right there,â you say, hugging him tighter and speaking into his mouth. âOh God, youâre precious. You were right.â A swallow. âWith that sorting-out thing.â
He kisses the corner of your mouth. âYou tell me,â he says. âTell me if Iâm being a bastard.â
âImpossible,â you whisper. âNo chance. Fuck, Duncanââ
One of your hands comes loose from his neck and slips between your bodies. You press it low on your belly first, just above where the softness gives way to strain, and when you sink carefully again you can feel it there if you mean to. A hard shape. Buried enough that the knowledge of it makes your face go hot all over.
âChrist,â you breathe.
Duncanâs brow pulls in. âWhat?â
You catch his wrist and drag his hand from your hip to your stomach. Flatten it there. Make him feel it. Then, because the thing asks to be proved twice, you rock down on him again and pin his palm in place.
âLook,â you say. âLook what youâre doing to me.â
There he is, a proof of blood under fleshâfilling you so completely it overspills. His fingers flare over your stomach, press, and Duncan can touch his own cock through the membrane of skin. His mouth falls open. Red surges up his throat so fast you nearly laugh.
âJesus,â he says, stunned. âLass.â
You do it once more, slower, both of you feeling for it. âThatâs me,â he says, dazed.
You nod against his cheek. âThatâs you.â
His eyes shut. One beat. Two. Then he makes a sound into your mouth that is pure loss of it. His forehead presses to yours. âGirl,â he says, thumb twitching over your belly, âyou keep doing that and Iâll be no use to either of us.â
âItâs your turn,â you say, wrapping your arm back where it belongs. Wrapping him all over with your limbs until heâs shackled and happy about it. âFuck me. Please.â
âOkay,â Duncan says. Swallows. âOkay, justâcan you tell me again? Please,â he says, hoping youâll catch the meaning. Thatâs itâs not about smugness, but for a big bastard like him, needing to hear it twice before he believes someone truly wants him this bad.
âCome on, Dunk. Fuck me.â Thereâs a kiss on his forehead. âNice and slow until you come, yeah?â
Before he knows it, heâs nodding like a daft thing, and his hips start moving. Gentle thrusts, deep, fat rolls of pelvis until a smile pulls your lips. âJust like that,â you tell him. âYouâre doing so good. God, you feel good, fuckââ
âTake it easy on me, lass,â he breathes. âYou promised.â
He holds you, or himself onto, the dip of your hip. Kisses you through it, badly at first because neither of you can keep the rhythm of your mouths and bodies straight, then better, then worse again when the feeling climbs. The heel of his palm presses on your stomach where he bulges you out and the fingers he keeps pointed down so they can brush you whenever you decide a twitch from your side is due. Crude little arrangement, but effective.
âShit,â you grunt. âHow you doing, hm?â
"Barely," he says. "You?"
The truth of it is written all over him. The tremor in his thigh and the way his breath snags. The slow loss of that thoughtful caution he has worn like a second skin all day. He is trying, still, to be good. It only makes the strain of it show more plainly.
"Close," you tell him, feeling your own spine prickling with it. "Fuck, so close. Will you come inside me?"Â
His whole face changes around it. âJesus, luv,â he says, nearly bitten off. Wedges his nose into your neck. Then, lower: âYeah. God, yes.â
You can tell exactly how sore you are going to be tomorrow and expect your insides to have a different shape starting now. But your body has already made up its mind about him. It is learning him in real time and keeping the record. From the look of him, he would let himself be kept if asked, so you have a growing feeling that this must be the place. And then another thought comes, equal parts romantic and foul: that if he finished there, if he gave you all of it, the ache might turn kinder.
And Duncan, godâhe's truly barely holding. He tries to think of neutral things but whenever his lids part your mouth is there, blurred and lovely, and you smell so good skin is about to melt off his cheeks. His balls ride up a notch, tense, and go hard with the strain in the sack, and the whole of his length burns so bright he feels it in his temples. Itâs hard to keep his thigh from quivering and his hand from misbehaving. Fingers dig where he holds you and thereâs a growing worry heâll leave you with a palm-shaped bruise on your ass. He hopes youâll forgive him.
âF-fuck,â you grit. âDuncanââ
You tighten like you mean to choke the soul out of him. Everythingâarms, legs, cuntâseizes around him. The skin goes taut under his touch and you stare him dead in the eye from under eyelids so fuck-drunk heâs never been granted a sight like this in his life.
In this entanglement of trembling thighs and shoulders working so hard they seem knocked senseless, he feels it pulled out of him by force. Comes, and keeps coming, with his face pressed into yours, panting, and muttering yes, girl, yes, until his toes go cold and Duncan realises heâs way too long for your mattress and his feet kept touching the floor the whole time heâs been making love to you.Â
He blinks and feels the resistance of skin against his eyelashes. Learns that heâs crushed you in a bear hug so tight your breath has gone shallow. His arms loosen. Face comes up to scan for damage and instead of asking if youâre alright, Duncan hears himself saying, âIâve been half gone on you since the hallway.â
Your eyes are glassy. Your mouth does that helpless pull thatâs a smile around something overwhelming. One that happens when people burst out laughing instead of crying.
âI hope I lived up to expectations,â you say. âBecause Iâve been half gone on you since the post boxes and now Iâm fully.â
âMy girl,â Duncan says, swiping hair off your forehead and disbelieving his own boldness. âAre you my girl?â
You nod and hold your arms out for him. It does something quiet and final to his face. Duncan folds himself back down into you, gathers you up proper, then draws back just enough to look. His hand runs the line of your side, careful and searching.
âI didnât hurt you?â
You shake your head. âNo.â A laugh, weak and warm. âIâve learnt a thing or two, though.â
That gets one out of him too. He ducks his head, grinning into your cheek, then lifts it again with some practical thought arriving behind the eyes. âHold on a sec.â
You blink at him. âWhy?â
He glances down at the mattress, the sheet, the general state of things. âBecause that bedâs poor enough without me making a full show of it,â he says. âI donât see another in here, so Iâm trying to save you the mess.â
You do hold on. Arms and legs go round him at once, locking him in place so completely it startles a pleased little huff out of him. Duncan plants a palm behind him and gets to his feet with you wrapped round him. The lift goes through his whole body. A hard breath. A tightening in the jaw. One small adjustment of grip when your weight shifts. Then he is up, broad and warm and breathing a touch harder than before, and you are still exactly where you want to be.
Still, you ask, âIâm sorry, and what exactly are you going to do? Pull out over a bin?â
Duncan looks mildly offended. âYou strike me as a lady,â he says. âI had the shower in mind. If youâve one of those.â
You smile into his mouth. âIâm tempted to say no only to make you march us like this to your flat.â
He fixes his grip by hitching you once higher on him. Thereâs a small girlish yelp. His nose rubs along yours, playful and mean and soft andâ
âWill you take it easy on me, lass?â
You nod with your face still tucked close to his. âWill you?â
He will, or lightning may as well strike him where he stands. Because Duncan is in love with his neighbour, and this one is not going anywhere.
newest scenario stuck in my head is casual dominance with rabbot and bratty reader⌠she talks to jack in ways she would never dream of talking to robby because jack is so easy on her
he finally realizes itâs gone too far when heâs sitting on the couch with robby, having a beer and watching the game, and you waltz right up to him and hold out your hand.
âGimme your keys.â
Jack looks at you, then looks at Robby, baffled. Robbyâs brows had shot up at your tone, and he just shakes his head and looks back at the TV, a clear nonverbal ânot my problemâ
âIâm sorry,â Jack eyes you. âWas that an order or a request?â
You huff and roll your eyes. âIâm meeting my friends.â You mumble. âCan I have your keys?â
âUh uh.â Jackâs unimpressed. âWhy donât you try that again. Louder this time. And nicer couldnât hurt.â
You purse your lips, stubborn. Stare at him for a while. You wait for him to give in and hand them over, donât expect him to just raise a brow.
âWell?â
âMay I please have the keys to your truck so I can go see my friends?â You drone flatly. Robby fails to stifle a chuckle. Jack nods.
âGettinâ closer.â
You groan, throw your head back dramatically. âI just wantââ
âWhining isnât gonna do it either.â Jack warns. âI know youâve got manners in there somewhere, sweetheart. Iâve heard you use âem.â
âWhy are you making this so difficult?â You complain.
Robby outright laughs now, mutters âjesus christâ and takes a swig of his beer. He canât comprehend how Jackâs staying so calm.
âIâm not the one whoâs being difficult.â His voice is even, but has a sterner edge than usual that compels you to pause for a second. You inhale slowly, a big, calming breath. Jack nods. âYeah, attagirl.â
âIâm sorry.â You say softly. âThat was rude. Can I please borrow your truck for the night?â You sound earnest this time, and your cheeks flush warmly as you ask. âIâd really appreciate it. I wanna go meet my friends.â
Jack grins at you, reaches out to pat your hip approvingly. âThere she is.â He nods towards the door. âKeys are in my coat pocket.â
âThank you!â You scamper away.
Robby scoffs, looks at jack dubiously. âThat all there is to it?â
Jack shrugs, takes a swig of his beer. âIâll give âer another reminder tonight.â
The shade was nice, but the plums were definitely sweeter. The juice soaks his tongue and scruff, dripping down his chin and down the column of his throat as he takes another bite.
Just a couple more.
Oh, but it was the farmer's daughter who turned out to be much sweeter. She squirmed on his tongue and pulled his roots until he groaned into her cunt -- of course, not before she slapped him upside the head for picking at their tree -- the way her puffy lips were also drenched in juices.
She chewed with a soft moan, never taking her eyes off him. And when her hand around his hair tightened, peeling him away, he couldnt help the way he simply refused; ducking down for more.
"Which is better? You want this instead?" She asked with pinched brows and the plum squishing juice between her fingers.
He groans a rugged, "no," and thats all she gets before he becomes absolutely ruthless.
Needless to say, he left with a carton of plums and you by his side, and a very angry farmer at home, now daughterless.
actually oh my goodness....he kisses so sweet and sloppy i loveeee this man okay so....
here are more of my thoughts and headcanons on that sweet farm-raised man. let me know if yaâll would like me to elaborate on somethin!
modern!farmer!dunk hcs ŕ¨ŕ§ËËË
it's not a quaint little hobby farm. it's a serious operation. hundreds of acres of crops and a dedicated pasture for his small herd of beef cattle and horses. he's got a beat-up, mud-splattered 1970 ford f-250. the interior is surprisingly tidy though. his barn is a huge, well-kept structure, and his house is a sturdy, no-nonsense farmhouse that he built you with his own hands. it's clean, comfortable, and perfect for raising 7 muddy barefoot babiesâŚ
in town, he's known as "dunk the tank." he's a giant of a man, quiet and reserved, with a work ethic that's borderline legendary. he's underestimated, made to feel simple at times and maybe a little feared for his sheer size.
he's not a man of many words, but he's your good, honest man and he says a lot to you where it counts.
you had moved to the small town to escape the city. you find yourself in the little cottage on the edge of his property by the pre-school. your first meeting is him coming over to introduce himself because it's only neighborly to do so...and he did catch a glimpse of you moving in and it's not his fault his heartbeat rings in his ears every time he sees you tending to your garden!
so he's standing there, all almost 7'0" of him, looking like a brawny maypole in a flannel shirt, and says in a low rumble, "saw you got some trouble with the fence. i can fix that for you."
the talking stageâŚit's slow. so slow. he'll show up unannounced with a bag of fresh-picked vegetables and eggs or a cord of firewood "for the winter." he'll just lean against his truck, talking about the weather or the price of feed, while you try not to stare at the way his biceps strain against his sleeves.
his way of asking you out is, "the sweetpea diner's got good pie on fridays. i'll be there 'round seven. if you're...around." it's the most casual, non-committal invitation you've ever received, but the hope in his eyes is everything.
the first kiss⌠it happens on your porch swing after a dinner you had cooked for him as payment for fixing your fenceâŚbecause he refused any sort of real payment.
you went for a sundown walk with him after dessert. and by the time he walks you back to your door, the silence is thick with unspoken things.
he stops, turns to you, and just looks at you for a long moment. then he leans down, and it's exactly as you imagine, sweet and sloppy. he's a little clumsy, like he's not sure of the angle, and his lips are soft and a little chapped.
he tastes like the cherry pie he had for dessert and black coffee. it's not a practiced, movie-perfect kiss, it's real and a little messy and so incredibly earnest it makes your heart ache. when he pulls back, his face is flushed and he looks so hopeful and nervous you have to pull him back down by his collar for another one.
once he's settled comfortably in the relationship, he's all about it. he's a man who works with his hands, and his love language is touch.
he's always got a hand on you. on the small of your back as you walk through the grocery store. on your thigh when you're sitting on the couch watching tv.
he'll come in from the fields, covered in dirt and sweat, and just wrap his arms around you from behind, burying his face in your neck and breathing you in. "you gotta shower dunkâŚ" you smile and he replies with, "do you maybe want join me then?"
he loves to scoop you up. it's his favorite party trick. you'll be mid-sentence and he'll just hoist you over his shoulder like a sack of feed, laughing at your shrieks.
and in the bedroomâŚ
oh, it's so good. he's all about giving pleasure. he could cum from watching you cum. you are like his own personal playboy centerfold.
he's strong and has insane stamina, but he's also surprisingly gentle. he's fascinated by your body, exploring every inch with his calloused hands.
he loves going down on you, and he's amazing at it, all sloppy and enthusiastic and completely dedicated to making you fall apart.
it takes you both a minute to work up to your pussy taking his cock fully. he's a talker in bed, all low praises and gruff commands. "that's it, take it," "thatâs my fucking girl" "look at me pretty thing, look at me when you cum." all while clamping down hard cumming all over his girthy cock!!!
now dunc is a patient man, one of the most patient men youâve ever met. Being that you and egg have been driving him crazy for months on end as you three travel through the kings road, teasing and taunting dunc for his size and stupidity. Even teasing him in other way only a women could do. Slightly touching him in unexpected places, lifting your skirt to reveal your bare legs, pressing your cleavage together, even going as far as baiting him into catching you indecent while bathing in a pond. But like I said, Ser Duncan The Tall is a patient man. Until heâs not.
And thatâs how you wound up in this positionâhunched over a broken tree trunk, your skirt bunched up at your hips, tits slipping out of your braseer as dunc relentlessly feeds you deep and slow strokes. His large hand cupping under your jaw, fingers sprawling over your tear stained cheeks.
âohmygodsâdunccccâ you whine, hand coming up to grab at his meaty forearm.
âShhhh mâladyâfuckâyouâll wake eggâ
You almost forgot about the sleeping child almost 30 feet away from you. Your teeth sink into your lower lip in an attempt to muffle your moan, and had not the man behind you roll his hips making his thick cock head hit your sweet spot, you wouldâve been successful.
âOhhh dunc! sâdeep..sâfuckinââŚdeepâ your hips move on their own, moving back to fuck yourself on dunc, the stretch feels so incredible, a mix of pain and pleasure that turns you brain into straight mush
âSevenâPLAPâfuckingâPLAPâhellsâPLAPâ each pant from his mouth is a deliberate thrust. Pulling your jaw back as he leans over so his lips are parallel with your ears. âI-is it all you desired mâlady? Does my cock make you f-fuckâfeel good?â
Youâre too cock drunk to answer, just a frantic nod, jaw hang open as droll slides down your chin, all over duncs hand.
A breathy laugh comes from dunc. Snapping his hips even harder as he uses his free hand to guide you back to him creamy coated cock. âBeen teasing me for fucking monthsâmmmshitânow take all of me mâkay honeyâ
âY-yesserâŚâ your words slur, eyes seeing the back of your skull as you fight a nasty little smirk.
a/n â first dunc Drabble kinda nervous đ, dunc fic coming in the future!
I like to think that you had seduced Dunk into your bed one evening when you were both lonely in an inn. Complete strangers, of course. Somehow you had convinced him to fuck you in doggy style, despite that endearing nature of his that thought it only just to take you on your back. And after that night, you sought out that feeling in every other partner. You tried the biggest men. The hairiest men. Soldiers and knights. The occasional farmer from time to time. But none of them seemed to match the weight of Ser Duncan the Tallâs body or the heft of Ser Duncan the Tallâs cock⌠and neither did they make you feel all soft and red like a schoolgirl. It was all so.. minuscule in comparison. Until one night, youâre visiting a distant cousin in AshfordâŚ. And what do you know? Perhaps itâs fate. Heâs there, stuffing his pretty mouth with tarts. He has a beautiful face, of course, but the sheer size of him is what has you warm all over. Had he gotten taller since you saw him last? You donât know⌠itâs been about six months since the two of you had shared a bed. Maybe more. But youâd recognize that familar head of hair anywhere.
And itâs no surprise (as weâve seen in canon), that Dunk fell head over heels in love that night all those months ago. He saw you in every girl, every maiden who had a love for the lyre and a tendency to cry during sexâ when he left the inn that morning, finding you had been swept away by your group of eager traveler friends, he felt lost. He had had no way to contact you, and he had never felt so thick headed. Why hadnât he asked to send you letters? No, no⌠that would be crazy⌠stupid⌠you were just a lover for the night.
Still, Dunk was fully convinced that he had lost the love of his life.
Until one night, heâs searching for a tourney in Ashford⌠and what do you know? Perhaps its fate. There you are, across the tent, drink in hand. And you are looking at him. And Dunk knows that the seven themselves have blessed this union.
So naturally, the two of you find yourselves in bed again. This time with sweet confessions, a promise to write, and your ass and back sore the next day. Dunk staying a few days longer so the two of you can do more talking and less fucking⌠and then maybe some more fucking. And you decide to depart with your group for a temporary trip with him. And you find that you both are quite similar. And that Duncan is very, very kind.
Needless to say that the two of you become attached, and you become his pretty wife that he absolutely worships and adores!! And all because of doggy style on a stormy night in June. You never know, ladies.
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