The fight starts over something innocuous, but silent anger builds to resentment so easily. It isn't the first time that they've gotten into a physical tussle, but it might be their most aggressive to date.
Alejandro is sporting the beginnings of a bruise under his left eye. Rudy would say it highlights his cheekbone nicely if he hadn't been the one to throw the punch that put it there.
Rudy knows his lip is split and blood drops are staining his t-shirt; there's also a boot print on his thigh that came just a little too close to his crotch for comfort.
It's an antagonistic instinct in him that urges him to reach for the rosary around Alejandro's neck and yank at it. It leaves them both standing in shock when a string of beads breaks free, the silk frayed from years of wear, leaving Rudy with half of a rosary in his hand, whilst the cross drops from Alejandro's chest.
He doesn't try to dodge the punch thrown at him; he can understand the urge.
He hears the bones in his nose crunch as the colonel's fist meets his face, and as he lands on his back, he's nauseated by the feeling of blood dripping down the back of his throat. It isn't the first time either of them has broken the other's nose.
The other man lands on his chest with a snarl, and Rudy half expected to be bitten before the string of beads is snatched from his hands. He can barely make out the string of insults thrown his way over the pounding in his ears, but Alejandro's hands shaking out of utter fury doesn't escape him.
At first, the other man's actions confuse him, a hand clamping furiously over his mouth and pinning his head to the floor.
That's until the beads hit the back of his throat.
It's human instinct to cough, trying to dislodge the foreign entities from his mouth to avoid suffocating on them and decades-old silk if he swallows them.
At first, he flails, scrambling to avoid becoming a martyr to his faith at the hands of his partner. And then he gains his bearings.
It's difficult whilst thrashing against another grown man's weight, but his hand finds Alejandro's face, and he can feel skin tearing as he digs his nails in claws into the other man's cheek. He takes skin and blood under his nails with him as his hand falls.
He knows his face is scarlet, breathless and all but gagging as he bucks like a mechanical bull to get Alejandro off of him. Only as he tastes salt, tongue pressed against the other man's palm, does he know what to do.
Alejandro growls as he sinks his teeth into the other man's hand with all the force of his jaw, but he's quick to pull his hand away from Rudy's mouth. Allowing the man to turn his head to the side and spit out the old beads, sending them flying to the floor in a puddle of pink-tinged saliva. He makes the conscious choice not to think of the age of the beads or where they've been.
He's too busy trying to regain his breath to pay the other man any mind, attempted murder aside.
It's why he can't help his reaction. Back arching off the floor as he instinctively reaches for the colonel's hip when the man grinds his ass back against Rudy's cock, achingly hard and tenting in his pants.
Vicious, lustful eyes meet his own as blood drips from Alejandro's face onto his belt, and the man grins, offering him a view of worryingly sharp canines that he imagines will bracket his adam's apple shortly.