Hard of hearing!Simon Riley
Hard of hearing!Simon Riley whoâs got permanent damage in his right ear from years of explosions, gunfire, and close-quarters chaosâno one on base really comments on it anymore, but heâs used to tilting his head slightly when someone talks, or barking a gruff âWot?â when the words blur together.
Hard of hearing!Simon Riley who meets you and immediately notices how you donât dial it down. You talk and talkârambling about your day, laughing loud enough that it echoes off the walls, filling every quiet corner of his flat like you were made to chase away the silence heâs lived in for years. Past partners always told you to lower your voice, said you were âtoo much,â but Simon just watches you with those dark eyes and lets you keep going.
Hard of hearing!Simon Riley who starts positioning himself on your left side without thinking, the good ear turned toward you so he doesnât miss a single word. He never asks you to speak up or repeat yourself; instead he leans in closer, mask tugged down just enough that you can see the faint scar along his jaw, and mutters, âKeep talkinâ, love. Like hearinâ you.â
Hard of hearing!Simon Riley who finds your volume oddly comforting after missions. The flat used to feel like a tombâtoo still, too quiet. Now itâs full of your voice: you singing off-key in the kitchen, yelling excitedly at the telly, chattering while you cook. He catches fragments sometimes, but the tone? The energy? That comes through crystal clear, and it settles something restless in his chest.
Hard of hearing!Simon Riley who gets a little smug when you forget and raise your voice even more around him. Youâll be mid-rant about some coworker and suddenly boom a laugh, and heâll just smirk under the mask, pulling you into his lap with one big hand on your hip. âDidnât catch all that,â he rumbles, âbut I liked the last bit. Say it again.â
Hard of hearing!Simon Riley who never once makes you feel like your loudness is a flaw. If anything, he guards it. When Soap or Gaz tease you lightly about being the âloud oneâ in the relationship, Simon shuts it down with a flat stare and a low, âShe talks how she talks. Fuck off.â Youâre his noise. His life. The one sound he never wants muffled.
Hard of hearing!Simon Riley whose favorite thing is when youâre in bed and that volume of yours really comes out. He loves the way you canât stay quietâwhining his name, gasping loud when he drags his cock slow and deep, moaning without shame as he pins your wrists above your head and fucks you harder just to hear you get even louder.
Hard of hearing!Simon Riley who growls against your throat, âLouder, sweetheart. Want the whole fuckinâ block to know whoâs makinâ you sound like that.â He angles his hips just right, thick length stretching you open, and when you cry outâsharp, unrestrained, voice cracking on a broken âSimon, fuck, right thereââhe swears it hits him harder than any explosion ever did.
Hard of hearing!Simon Riley who buries his face in your neck as you come undone, your loud, messy moans vibrating against his skin while he spills inside you with a deep, guttural groan of his own. Afterward he stays buried deep, breathing you in, one calloused thumb brushing your cheek as he murmurs, âNever get tired of hearinâ you lose it for me. Loud as you want, love. Always.â
He pulls you close, your chest still heaving, voice hoarse from how freely you let go, and for once the world feels perfectly loud in all the right ways.
I'm in love with this. Like, seriously. Been told my whole life to "Lower your voice", or "Be quiet", sometimes just a repeated gesture to lower my voice. People have flinched at my volume sometimes, and I feel bad, and I try to lower my volume. But the longer I talk, the louder I get, and I've been talking to me my whole life, so it doesn't always register. My grandmother got sudden hearing loss in one ear a few years ago, got some of the hearing back, and now both her ears kind of suck. She already thought I was loud. Now, we've discovered she's sensitive to the specific pitch or something of my voice. If anyone else sounds too similar to me, it affects her too. So if I'm in the same room, I can be whispering and she'll yell at me to lower my volume like I was shouting at full volume. I've lived with her for 15 year, and am currently trying to move out. Sorry. That was a very long, roundabout way of trying to say : I've been "too loud" my whole life, since before I can remember. So to have someone that just . . . tolerates how loud I am, let alone enjoy how loud I am? It would be one of the greatest gifts I could ever receive. Thank you for writing this, @ynstark. Many, many, many, many kudos to you. It may not seem like much to you, but this piece of fanfiction has made me very happy at a time when I am constantly trying to leave a house and family that only brings me grief 99% of the time.























