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Any headcanons for the whole freak show circus with a male reader who's a tailor/fashion designer and loves making clothes for them because it's his way of saying he cares a lot about them?
I just find it cute
Sure, letās do that ā¤ļø
The freak circus x male fashion designer reader
Pierrot
He absolutely loves that his Lord would spend his time making clothes for him, you best believe he keeps every piece of clothing you make for him like it is a national treasure
He stays the most still out of all the boys when you are measuring him many times you have even seen that he has stopped breathing and you need to remind him not to suffocate himself
Literally in war with himself whether he should wear the outfits you make him on stage or not because he loves them, but he also does not want them to get dirty or ruined⦠and he cannot be held responsible for his action in blind rage when someone ruins something you make
Harlequin
Oh, his dearest is making things for him well isnāt this lovely~ but youāre not doing this for others right? Heās the only one right ? you love him the most right ? You would not want him to be jealous now would you?
Believe me he moves around when you are trying to measure him just so you can continue to stay close to him longer, but weāll stop if you get too annoyed and might leave⦠we canāt have that now dearest~
He will absolutely wear an entire outfit with only the clothes you have made for him and show them off to literally anybody willing to look, has pretty much completely discarded his old circus clothes and every time they get damaged heāll go to you to mend them and stay close to you
Jester
His dear light is spending his precious time making things for him ? Well, isnāt this a delightful surprise~ā¦. You are actually quite talented darling, he means that even if he loves you, he wouldnāt wear something he didnāt like
His dear light really does have a way with his hands⦠but so does he~ would you like him to show you ? He can promise you will not be disappointed, he could never not satisfy you, dear~
He doesnāt really wear clothes you make for him, but always make sure to wear them in times and settings when he knows they wonāt get dirty or damaged, so now you can tell what kind of performance he is going to do simply by what heās wearing
Ticket Taker
It seems his favourite visitor enjoy putting him in other types of clothing, and he does like the things you make for him they are truly style just prettier⦠but most importantly made by you~
He will come over and let you measure him any time you want he does enjoy your hands on his body no matter what he may say, you always make sure to include his colours and account for his maskā¦well arenāt you a dear~
Will probably mostly wear accessories you make for him with his usual clothing even if he loves them he has an image to maintain⦠and other visitors arenāt exactly as sweet as you so knowing he might not have full control of how those clothing are preserved and gets under his skin
Doctor
It seems his favourite patient enjoys making new scrubs for him, and he does enjoy wearing them. They are certainly very comfortable and beautifulā¦. So he truly regretted it when he canāt because he doesnāt want them to be stained with the blood of other patients
You donāt have to take his measurements though he knows all of his measurements down to the millimetre⦠though he will not refuse if you still want to do it, he does enjoy your reaction to his size~
He will wear the clothing you make for him when he is not working with patients and wants to look good, but not really when he is taking care of them⦠unless itās you of course~ he wants to make sure you know he appreciates what you make for him
warnings: 18+, making out, bunch of tonguing and spit, first kiss
you were very curious about it. pierrot's tongue has always been a mystery to you. from the odd color to the unnatural length of said muscle, it always manages to catch your attention whenever pierrot opens his mouth.
you wondered, what does kissing pierrot feel like? french kissing the man would go crazy with a tongue like that.
one day pierrot takes notice of your... intense interest and indulges you in your fantasies.
pierrot held you close to his chest, his face/mask? bloomed a nice red. his eyes half lidded, examining your expressions as his tongue swirled around yours a few times before plunging itself deep inside your throat once more.
your throat contracts at the intrusion, gagging a bit before a small moan escapes you. you tighten your grip on pierrot's clothes, your face is steaming and your lips are tingling from pierrot's nips earlier.
your thighs clench tighter around pierrot's legs, the need for air becoming obvious with the way your nail dug into pierrot's shoulder through his uniform.
while pierrot can go on for a while longer, he knows that you humans need your air and slips his tongue from your mouth with a 'slurp!'. immediately, you gasp for air, lips bruised and bloody while your chin and shirt was soaked in saliva.
you didn't seem to mind, instead you tug him back closer, mouth wide and open, tongue out for another tongue fucking. pierrot instead grins, trailing a nail down your spine.
a tingling sensation crawls down your back.
"my dear, please, take a few moments to catch your breath before we continue."
shaking your head, you pull his clothing once more, panting heavily. pierrot giggles, his tongue emerges from his lips, his large palm covering the back of your head, pulling you to meet him halfway.
your eyes roll to the back of your skull upon feeling pierrot's familiar muscle playing with yours. drool slipping from your chin and dribbling down your chest, your clothes sticking to your sweaty skin.
moaning at the sensation of pierrot's tongue, you don't realize your hips seem to have a mind of their own as they grind down on pierrot's growing bulge.
he hisses at the spike of pleasure on his crotch.
he briefly pulls his tongue from its spot deep in your throat, "my dear, m-may we take this a bit further?" pierrot pants.
without thinking you nod, "please, yes, just continue using that tongue on me." you rushed out before swiftly grabbing pierrot's head and shoving his lips back onto yours.
pierrot's whines, his sharp nails tearing into your clothing.
it's so worth it being curious, you thought.
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Of course, Pierrot is enthusiastic about your offer. He'd do anything to feel your hands on him, and the fact that you're offering to do something like that for him? Oh, how his heart swells with adoration.
He sits in front of you, hands on his lap, and unable to contain his excitement. He's practically vibrating at this point, grinning and blushing widely.
His breath hitched as you finally combed through his hair, your hands ever so gentle. Each movement is slow and careful, even the slightest tug has you apologizing profusely to him, although he has experienced worse.
He's used to getting hurt by humans. They've made him bleed, torn his hair out, and yelled at him. But you... Not once did you look at him with even the slightest hint of disgust. Instead of kicking him out the door because it's nearly closing time, you're here braiding his hair, spending time with him because you wanted to.
Because you liked him.
His heart beats so loudly it feels like it's going to jump out of his chest. He's staring at you with such intensity, pupils shaped into huge hearts yet you don't seem to mind.
When you finish, he almost whines at the loss of your touch, hands twitching as if he wanted to pull you back in and never let go. But alas, things must come to an end. And besides, he could never ask for too much. He doesn't want to scare you off after all.
"Thank you, my dear.. It is wonderful." The wide grin on his face is still present. It seems he'll never tire of smiling widely around you.
He'll be wearing it all the way back to the circus and even in his sleep. He keeps the hair tie you used to braid his hair with him forever, wearing it whenever he has to tie his hair.
Bonus: If you gave him a hairpin or even a little bow on the braids, he'll be over the moon. Be careful about giving too many gifts, though. He'll start thinking it's a proposal, unless you're into that?
šš¶šš: pierrot x gn! reader Ā· neurodivergent! reader Ā· obsessive devotion Ā· size difference Ā· size kink Ā· cuddling & aftercare Ā· biting/marking Ā· drugging (non-con) Ā· hurt/comfort Ā· possessive behavior Ā· praise kink Ā· soft to dark Ā· emotional manipulation Ā· worship Ā· smut Ā· making out Ā· lil angst Ā· filled with fluff!
ššššš šš¾š:Ā People have always told you youāre annoying. Too loud. Too curious. Too much. So you learn to behave. To bite your tongue. To survive the day.
After work, you go to the circus.
The lights donāt hurt there. The silence listens back. That feels illegal. Pierrot watches. Quiet. Patient. Like heās cataloging you for later. He lets you ramble. Let's you unravel. Doesnāt interrupt when you spiral.
Youāre not sure he understands you.
Heās very sure heās keeping you.
Bite me.
ššø: 10k
Your whole life, people have called you annoying.
Which is funny, considering you were never cruel or meanājust curious. Too curious. The kind of kid who noticed everything: the way people moved their hands when they talked, the tiny scars on their knuckles, the way their voices changed when they were excited. You asked questions because you genuinely wanted to know. You talked because silence felt itchy. You listened hard, then harder.
People didnāt read it that way.
Blunt questions became āinvasive.ā Excitement became ātoo much.ā Distraction became ārude.ā Somewhere along the line, you learned that curiosityāespecially yoursāmade people uncomfortable.Ā
So you learned to mask.Ā
Smile less. Ask less. Hold everything in until it pressed against your ribs.Which is probably why you kind of set a guy on fire at work today.
Not on fire. Just⦠adjacent to fire. His sleeve. The counter. The little āHave a Nice Day!ā sign.
It was the whistling. He was ordering some upside-down, half-something monstrosity and whistlingāoff-key, wet, relentless. The kind of sound that digs straight into your brain and rattles around like loose change.
You tried your coping tricks. You really did. You locked onto the wood grain of the counter. Counted the espresso hisses. Rubbed the seam in your apron pocketāthe good texture.Didnāt matter. The whistle kept peeling the world apart.
Thenāspark. Silence. Screaming. Oops.
And thatās why, as soon as your shift ends, all you can think about is the circus.
Because your job is a masterclass in sensory punishment. The fluorescent lights buzz and glare, exposing every fingerprint, every pore, every mistake. The sounds are constant and aggressiveāmachines screaming on schedules you donāt control, voices stacking on top of each other until they blur into noise without meaning.
The circus is nothing like that.
The light there is warm. Forgiving. Gold and shadow instead of surgical white. The sounds donāt fight each otherāthey belong. Every creak, every murmur, every strange note has intention. Purpose.
At the circus, the chaos makes sense.
Like, for example, Harlequinās laughter is exaggerated on purpose, a performance you can anticipate. Even the quiet in Pierrotās tent has weight to it, a kind of hush you can lean against instead of fighting.
At work, itās the people that make everything volatile.Ā
They arrive pre-fracturedāangry at traffic, at bosses, at their own livesāand youāre simply the nearest safe place to unload it.Ā
A man in a suit slams his loyalty card on the counter because it doesnāt scan, like you personally betrayed him.Ā
A woman sighs dramatically when you ask her to repeat her order, your flat tone translating in her head to disrespect.
āYou could smile,ā they tell you, sharp and entitled, as if your face is a public amenity. They want a cheerful doll, endless warmth on demand. Your neutral focus reads as rudeness. Your concentration looks like attitude. You follow the script anywayāHi, what can I get for you?ābut they hear something wrong in it. Not enough inflection. Not enough fake ease. Itās a test you were never given the rules for, and you keep failing it in real time.
So you cling to the routine. Handle out. Forty-five degrees. Three pumps. No foam. Precision as armor. But it never lasts. A coworker āfixesā your neatly stacked cups. The manager swaps your predictable synthwave for chaotic pop. The oat milk runs out with no warning. Control slips. Again.
The pay is miserable. The tips are worse.Ā
You leave with pennies and a head full of⦠noise.
And through the glare, the noise, the sudden shriek of the steamer, you hold onto one thought, over and overā
You can go to the circus after this.
Even if, when you get there⦠youāre still an outsider.
To Harlequin, youāre a reactive chemicalāfun to poke, fascinating to watch erupt, but ultimately a temporary amusement. He reads your tension like a script and finds your attachment to Pierrot hilariously predictable.
To The Jester, youāre a pebble on his sandāa curious, temporary guest. He allows your presence because you stay contained, nested in Pierrotās orbit where youāre less likely to cause a mess.
To The Ticket Taker, youāre a procedural error. A disruption to his perfect order. Your meltdowns are unscheduled noise, but as long as Pierrot files you away in his corner, youāre tolerated. Barely.
To The Doctor, youāre a live specimen. A symphony of misfiring nerves. Your bond with Pierrot is a clinical curiosityāa trauma clinging to a trauma. Sentimental, but efficient.
They all see it. They know youāre Pierrotās.
To them, youāre exhausting. A liability.Ā
A human puzzle with too many sharp edges. You see it in the way they glance past you, the slight tension when you walk in. Youāre a lit fuse in a tent full of gunpowder.
Except for Pierrot.
For a little context, Pierrot meets you by accident. Or maybe inevitabilityāheās never quite decided which as he stood up for him against other people for hurting him.Ā
He doesnāt come inside your workplace. The lights are cruel, the music tinny and sharp, an insult to everything he is as well. Instead, he lingers just outside the wide front window, a tall, unmoving silhouette stitched into the chaos of the street.Ā
Inside, youāre at the register during a rare lull, body wound tight. One hand rubs slow circles into your own arm without you noticing. Your eyes flick everywhere at once, inventorying tasks, sounds, people, exits. You wear the customer-service smile out of habit, but itās strainedāmisaligned, like it was glued on wrong.
To anyone else, you look stressed. Maybe overwhelmed. Maybe a little lost.
To Pierrot, you look like a clockwork doll wound too tightābeautiful, delicate, trying so hard to function in a world that refuses to slow down.
Then you notice him.
Itās subtle. A hitch in your breath. A pause no one else would catch. Your face changes. The public smile drops away entirely, replaced by something smaller and softerāconfused, relieved, unmistakably real.
Itās just for him.Ā
No performance. No effort.
Pierrot treasures that smile like a secret pressed between pages. He memorizes the way you lift your hand in that tiny, fluttering wave near your hipāhalf-shy, half-excitedābefore youāre pulled back into the grind. To him, itās sacred. Proof that beneath the mask you wear for the world, thereās something warm and unguarded trying to breathe.
You overwhelm him later. Thoroughly.
At the circus, youāre affectionate without realizing itātalking with your hands, touching his sleeve when you get excited, eyes lighting up as you tumble through ideas.Ā
You are a free spirit in the purest sense: endlessly curious, delighted by the strange, desperate to understand and share. You like knowing thingsānot to hoard them, not to boastābut because explaining them feels like a gift youāre dying to give.
You ramble like a kindergartner with a favorite fact. Your joy is loud, unfiltered, infectious.
Yet alone with Pierrot, something happens.
Like when you with him, you soften. Youāre still brightāstill buzzingābut gentler, like youāre handling something fragile. You explain things slowly, carefully, watching his reactions with earnest focus. You want him to understand you. Desperately. And you want, just as badly, to be understood in return.
The problem is⦠youāre never entirely sure he does.
He doesnāt recoil from your intensity. He doesnāt shut you down or look overwhelmed. He simply absorbs itāquiet, attentive, unreadable behind that mask. And sometimes you canāt tell if heās following every word⦠or if heās interpreting you in a way that belongs only to him.
When you shattered the vintage teacups over the misplaced sugar, you frozeāapologizing too fast, spiraling, bracing for correction. Pierrot didnāt see a mistake. He knelt among the porcelain, lifted the single unbroken saucer, and offered it to you like a truth you were meant to hold.
āI donāt see the mess. I see what survived.ā
It sounded beautiful. It also made absolutely no sense.
Thatās the thing with Pierrotāhis words confuse you as often as they comfort you. He barely speaks at all, after all. Heās not allowed to. So you fill the silence instead, rambling, explaining, laughing nervously, hoping meaning lands somewhere between you.
And when it doesnātāwhen you feel too loud or too unsureāyou retreat with him to his wagon.
His wagon. God. His wagon.
Itās all deep reds and golds and blacks, like someone trapped a very elegant, very melancholy sunset and decided to live inside it. Dark red velvet everywhereācurtains thick enough to swallow sound, pillows scattered across the floor in soft, indulgent excess.Ā
Sooo many pillows. On purpose. One corner is arranged just right, clearly intentional, clearly claimedāfor when thereās no show. His quiet time.
Which, somehow, has become yours too.
The light is nothing like the coffee shop. No buzzing fluorescents, no blue-white glare scraping at your skull. Here, it comes from small amber lamps, low and warm, turning everything into something old and gentle, like a painting thatās been loved too much.Ā
The light pools over shelves lined with objects heās collectedāthings that feel important without explaining why. A broken music box. A single white glove. A dried rose sealed under glass. The wagon smells like old books, chamomile, and something cool and clean, like stone. A smell that doesnāt argue with your brain.
And the silenceāGod. It isnāt empty. Itās full. Heavy in the best way. It settles over you like a weighted blanket, pressing the static down until your thoughts finally line up instead of colliding.
Once, the thoughts still won.
You short-circuited right there on the floorālungs stuttering, body locked, words spilling out without permission. You started reciting the molecular structure of caffeine to the wall like it was a spell that might save you. C8H10N4O2. Over and over. Fast. Desperate.
Folded himself carefully onto the floor, long limbs tucked in, hands resting in his lap, palms open. And he listened. Fully. Like you were reciting something sacred. Like every word mattered.
Sometimesāwhen the static in your head was a screaming hiveāhe let you hold onto him. Not in a clingy way. Just⦠enough.Ā
Youād fidget with his hands, tracing the long, elegant lines of his palms, counting the subtle joints in his fingers, lacing yours between his just to feel something real and cool and steady.Ā
Or your hands would wander up, finding his hairāthat shock of white silkācarding through it, twisting the strands, marveling at the texture. It gave your frantic energy a job. A quiet, repetitive task to focus on until the world stopped spinning.
He never moved. Never flinched. Never rushed you. He became an anchor. A paperweight for your soul.
And for a while, it worked.
But in the calmer moments, your curiosity would bubble back up. It was your default setting. You couldnāt help it.
Youād poke his arm. āHey. Do you have, like⦠bones? Or is it all⦠monster stuff in there?ā
Youād squint at the draconic curves of his mask. āAre there horns under your hair? Can I feel?ā
Youād gesture broadly at his serpentine form.
The questions were endless, tumbling out in a cheerful, nonsensical stream. You asked about the color of his eyes behind the maskāamber, you knew, but was it like honey? or like a warning light?, or about how his tail movedāwas it prehensile? could he pick things up with it?, or about whether he got cold in the winter.
One time, mid-ramble about the aerodynamic efficiency of his jesterās cap bells, youād abruptly switched tracks.
āWait, what do you eat?ā
The air in the wagon had gone very still, very fast. The gentle, listening presence youād grown used to tightened imperceptibly. He didnāt pull away, but the silence that followed was different. Heavier. It wasnāt a comfortable silence; it was a locked door.
ā...That is not a question for you, my dear,ā his psychic voice had finally brushed your mind, soft but final, the endearment feeling less like a caress and more like a period at the end of a sentence.
Youād blinked, shrugged. āOkay! Sorry. Anyway, about the bellsāā
Heād relaxed again, the strange tension melting as you happily veered onto a new, safer topic. You didnāt press it. You had a million other things to wonder about.
That was you. Naturally gifted at asking the one question that could pause the universe, and then instantly, blissfully distracted by the next shiny thought. Your tantrums when overwhelmed were volcanic, but your curiosity in the quiet was a sunbeamāpersistent, warm, and landing on absolutely everything, especially him.
He adored it. Every random question was a piece of you he could collect, a glimpse into the brilliant, scattered mosaic of your mind.
But latelyā¦
Pierrot had started to notice your behavior changing.
The way your shoulders creep up toward your ears when you leave the coffee shop, like youāre still bracing for those stupid blue lights to buzz back on. The way you move smaller, tighter. Like youāre trying not to spill yourself anywhere. That spark he adoresāthat sharp, curious, shining youāhasnāt gone out, but itās gone brittle. Taut. One wrong touch from snapping.
It worries him. Deeply.
And then there was that night at the Circus.
The one you donāt talk about. Everything was too much all at once. The laughter from the big top didnāt sound joyful anymoreāit drilled straight through your skull. Your skin felt wrong, stretched too thin, humming with leftover stress from work, from people, from the endless demand to be. You didnāt want comfort. You didnāt want explanations.
You just needed quiet. Real quiet.
So you went to him. To his wagon.
He was already there, sitting impossibly still. That focus of his isnāt just attentionāit has weight. It presses. His amber eyes locked onto you like the rest of the world had politely ceased to exist. And in his handsāthose long, black handsāhe held another gift.
A flower. Again.
Youāve lost count of how many heās given you.
But this one was different. Paper-thin strips cut from something oldāhis poetry, maybe. Centuries of sorrow and devotion sliced into delicate ribbons, each edge dipped in gold. Molten. Permanent. It glittered softly in the low light, all that anguish and beauty preserved forever.
And all you could think wasā
I donāt have room for this.
Not on your shelf. Not in your hands. Not in your chest. The texture was wrong. The paper was dry and whisper-fragile, but the gold edges bit backāmicroscopic sharpness, catching on your skin. It wasnāt something meant to be held casually.
And Pierrot just⦠waited.
Silent. Expectant. Waiting for you to understand. To feel the right thing. To offer the right response. Your mind was already fraying. Tangled. Loud with a single thought you couldnāt swallow downā
I canāt. I canāt. I canāt.
The pressure built until it had nowhere left to go.
You didnāt drop the flowerāyou recoiled, like it burned. The word ripped out of you before you could soften it, ugly and sharp and wrong.
āDie.ā You hurled the fragile, priceless thing across the wagon. It struck a tapestry with a soft, humiliating rustle and slid down the dark wood.
Then the energy had to escape somewhere else. You turned away from him, hands flying up into your hair, gripping hard enough to hurt.
āYou know whatās actually interesting?ā you snapped, words spilling too fast, voice trembling with that wired, frantic edge that means youāre already lost inside your own headāand this time, you donāt notice that Pierrot moved.
He doesnāt flinch. He doesnāt sigh. He doesnāt even look wounded.
He simply moves. Slowly. Carefully. Like every motion has already been decided. He crosses the wagon to where the flower fell and kneelsānot in apology, not in submission, but with reverence. He gathers it up, smooths one curled paper petal with his thumb, and places it on a small, empty stand as though it were always meant to be there. Preserved. Safe.
Then he turns back to you.
Youāre still vibrating, still pacing, your words unraveling into something about thermoclines and surface tension, your back to him as if motion alone might keep you from splitting apart.
Pierrot kneels againāthis time directly in your path.
You almost collide with him.
The blank bone of his mask tilts upward, catching the low light. When he speaks, it isnāt quite sound. It slips past your ears and presses gently into the center of your chest insteadāwarm, steady, startlingly calm.
āThe differentness inside youā¦ā he says, soft as gravity, āā¦it must land somewhere.ā
You freeze. The lecture dies mid-thought, caught behind your teeth.
āLet it land on me.ā
His hands risesānot to stop you, not to restrainājust open. Waiting. An invitation shaped like trust. āI am your relief.ā A pause. Absolute, unshakable certainty. āI will not break.ā
The words donāt soothe you. They unsettle you.
Because you donāt know how someone can offer themselves like that. You donāt know how youāre supposed to land on another person at all.Ā
You sank into it, the plush fabric a predictable pressure against your skin. He didnāt sit beside you. He settled on the floor at your feet, a respectful distance away, his back against the divan, his mask turned toward the quiet room. Giving you space, but not leaving.
Slowly, haltingly, you started to talk again.Ā
It was about the coffee shop. The man whoād whistled. The woman whoād snapped her fingers in your face. The clatter of dishes, the sour milk smell, the crushing weight of a line of impatient faces. It was a jumbled, frustrated dump of sensory grievances and social misunderstandings.
As you spoke, you grabbed the pillow beside youāa sturdy, embroidered thing heād given you for exactly this purpose. You dug your fingers into the fabric, twisting it, punching it softly, kneading your overwhelm into its helpless form.
āThe one who snapped,ā Pierrotās voice brushed against your mind, soft as a mothās wing. āThe sound was an aggression. Would you like me to find her? To ensure her hands are⦠quiet?ā
It wasnāt the first time heād offered. Last week it was about the whistling man. āI could steal the breath from his lips. He would not whistle again.ā He said these things not with malice, but with the serene practicality of a gardener removing a thorn.
You let out a wet, half-hysterical laugh into the pillow. āNo. No, Pierrot. Itās⦠itās fine. Itās just⦠people. Theyāre just like that.ā
āThey are poorly made,ā he responded, simple as fact. āLoud. And sharp. You are not.ā
You werenāt sure about that.Ā
You felt pretty sharp. But you also felt the tight coil in your chest beginning, slowly, to unwind. Your rant tapered off into silence, broken only by the faint plink of a distant bell and the sound of your own breathing. He had watched you reject his soul-gift, rant about random, and then violently stress-squeeze a pillow. And he was still here. Not just here, but settled. Present.Ā
It wasn't just the loud noises or the bright lights anymore. It was a deeper, quieter ache that had started to settle in your bones.
It was the social static. The white noise of existing near people.
It kept happening. A few days after the thrown flower, after the strange peace that followed, the little things began to pile up again. A misplaced key that ruined your morning routine. The neighborās bass, thumping through the floor at a rhythm that didn't match the beat of your own heart.
But worse than the sensory sandpaper was the quiet question that had begun to echo in the down moments, in the silence after the espresso machine shut off, on the walk to the circus:
Why does everybody stray away from me?
Youād replay interactions like a forensic detective looking for the fatal flaw.
Youād been polite to the new barista. Youād explained the cleaning protocol for the steam wand with careful, thorough detail because you wanted to help. Sheād smiled tightly and said, āThanksā¦,ā then turned and never asked you a question again.
Youād shared a genuinely cool fact about the history of public fountains with a regular. Heād nodded, said āHuh,ā and the next day, he took his order to the other register.
You weren't mean. You weren't cruel.Ā
You were just⦠you.Ā
You asked direct questions because you wanted direct answers. You shared enthusiasms because you thought joy was meant to be given away. You listened to the words people said, but you kept missing the invisible script running underneath.
And the verdict, you were starting to believe, was unanimous.
You were the weirdo. The person who talked to themselves at the register. The one who would be startled if someone came up behind them too quietly. The one whose smile never quite reached their eyes because they were too busy counting inventory in their head. The one who could tell you about the tensile strength of spider silk but couldn't navigate the simple, smiling choreography of āHowās your day going?ā
It made you feel like a ghost. Solid enough to do the work, to be seen, but somehow immaterial in the ways that built connections. People drifted past you, around you, away from you. Your differentness wasn't a loud, sparking tantrum anymore. It had turned inward, becoming a silent, sorrowful distance.
It was this heavy, hollow feeling you carried with you when you went to him, days later. Not in a raging meltdown, but in a simmering, quiet fury.Ā
You weren't crying; you were analyzing, picking apart the flawed social contract of humanity with icy, clipped precision, as if by understanding the broken rules, you could fix whatever was broken in you.
Pierrot listened, a statue of attentive sorrow. Then he spoke, his psychic voice a gentle stroke against your aching mind.
āThey are not worthy of your analysis, my dear. Your mind is a pristine blade. They are rotten wood.ā
And thatās when it snapped. Not the old, sparking overload, but a new, cold fracture.
āDonāt,ā you said, your voice flat and foreign. āDonāt call me that. Donāt talk about my mind like itās⦠like itās some sacred artifact. Itās just a brain. A faulty, sparking one that scares people away.ā
The air in the wagon stilled.Ā
You had finally said the quiet part loud.Ā
Pierrot went utterly still, then his head cocked with a sharp, avian distress. You rarely spoke so directly about your own mechanics, and never been this cold dismissal. He took a step forward, a long hand risingānot to grab, but to bridge the sudden, terrifying distance.
āPlease, do not say such things. Do notāā
You backed up, a quick, panicked step, hitting the edge of his writing desk. The retreat was a physical rejection, and it struck him like a blow. You saw his shoulders tense, his amber eyes behind the mask widening fractionally.
āMy sweet angel, do not pull away,ā his voice rushed into your mind, softer now, layered with a desperate, pleading texture youād never heard before. āYour words, any words, even the sharp ones, let me have them. Do not leave. Do not silence yourself. You are the only true sound in this hollow world. My dear, my only light, pleaseā¦ā
He was rambling, the endearments spilling like overripe fruit, sweet and cloying and suffocating.
It was too much. Overwhelming, like always.
Itās like the emotions were a thick syrup you couldnāt swim through. This was his pattern: overwhelm, then soothe with a saccharine offering.Ā
As if on cue, his hand went to a small, mother-of-pearl box on the shelf. It clicked open with a sound like a settling bone. He produced a single, perfect piece of candy, held it out on his pale palm.
āHere,ā his mental voice gentled. āThe sweetness will ground you.ā
It was always pink. A soft, floral pink, dusted in sparkling sugar. It looked innocent. Delicate. Like a tiny, sugared heart.
āHere,ā his voice brushed your mind, softer now, layered with a coaxing tenderness. āThe sweetness will ground you, my dear. It will help the world feel⦠softer.ā
Oh, thoes candiesā¦Ā
Everything you eat one, a memory, thick and syrupy, pushed its way to the front of your mind. The lethargic, fuzzy calm that always followed. The way your sharp edges would blur, your frantic thoughts slowing to a gentle drip.Ā
The way the noise of the world would mute, replaced by a warm, humming static. It felt like being wrapped in layers of pink cotton wool, safe and separate from everything that could cut you. But it was a trapāa submission to a quiet you never chose, a loss of control dressed up as care.
It always made you feel rather⦠stuck.
Revulsion, clean and sharp, cut through the fog of your distress. āI donāt want to bite on something sweet,ā you hissed, and before you could think, your hand swatted out, knocking the delicate candy from his palm. It skittered across the floorboards.
The silence was absolute.
Pierrot stared at his empty hand, then at the lost candy. The stillness was worse than any outburst. Slowly, he curled his fingers into a fist. When he looked back at you, his voice was a whisper of pure, unadulterated need.
āThen bite on me.ā
You froze. āWhat?ā
āIf you need to sink,ā he continued, stepping closer. He slowly, carefully, pulled the black glove from his right hand, exposing the pale skin of his wrist. āSink into me. The candy is a gentle lie. This is a true anchor. Let your turmoil rest here. Let me hold the weight of your wakefulness.ā
Your heart hammered. āAre you mocking me?ā
He flinched. āNever.ā A vow. A prayer. āYou are the only truth. Is it not you and me against this world? So come. Rest on me.ā
He sank to his knees, his offered wrist a pale skin.
āYou need calm. I can give it to you,ā he murmured, his tone moving into something dangerously gentle. āWith kindness. With patience.ā A pause, heavy. āOr with another dose. The pink calm is still here. I only want to help you slip into something softer.ā
He gestured faintly toward the mother-of-pearl box.
āYou need the quiet, my sweet angel. You need it. And I need to give it to you.ā His voice dropped to a tender, horrific whisper. āLet me take care of you. I promise. I promise and promise and promise.ā
The word promise fell like a stone into a well, echoing with the emptiness of all the promises before. Promises to be gentle. Promises to only use the candies when you were ātoo far gone.ā
He reached to tuck your hair behind your ear, his touch chillingly affectionate. āDonāt make me devour you, too. It would be so much easier to just be sweet for me.ā
You just stared, terrified.Ā
The sheer vulnerability in your wide eyesāāoh, it makes my body tremble in so many ways. I-I mean,ā Pierrot froze. The warm amber glow of his eyes behind the mask vanished, leaving only deep, black voids. He couldnāt help but put a hand to his face, a pinkish blush blooming beneath the bone-white surface. His large, black-gloved hand pressed against his cheek as he twirled a strand of his white hair with the other.
āYou must feel it,ā he breathed, his psychic voice a shiver of awe. āAfter all, didnāt you? Such a perceptive thing. So light. So yielding.ā
You didnāt answer. You just looked⦠terrified.
Pierrot sighed, a sound of infinite sorrow. āAll I want⦠all I want⦠is to keep you safe from the world. They treat you so mean. Itāll drive me mad. It will. So the candy helps. The quiet helps. You see?ā
He was terrifying. He said such sweet things with this dark, hungry tone.
He leaned closer, his black-void gaze holding yours. āIf you need to bite⦠then bite on me,ā he repeated, the offer curdling into a demand. He pulled his hair aside, exposing the elegant column of his neck. āBite here then. The sweetness is a lie. This pain is real. I am real. Pour your differentness into my flesh. Let me hold the shape of your teeth.ā
He sank lower, abasing himself completely.
āIf you are going to save me from the silence,ā he begged, his voice trembling with raw, unfiltered acheā
āJust come kiss me. And bite me.ā
Well⦠you didnāt choose the candy.
You took a slow, shuddering step forward. Then another. The terror was still there, a cold wire in your chest, but beneath it was a current of something elseāa desperate, furious need for something real. Something that wasnāt sugar-coated silence.
Pierrot watched you come, the black voids of his mask unblinking, his blush a faint, persistent glow. You reached him, and with a push that was more a collapse than a show of force, you shoved him backward onto the deep pile of pillows and blankets in his corner. He let himself fall, a cascade of red and black fabric and gold trim, yielding completely.
You climbed into his lap, settling against him. You sometimes forgot how large he was, all coiled, serpentine grace beneath the lavish robes. Dressed in his sorrowful regalia of red, black, and gold, he was a monument.Ā
But to you, he was just⦠your space.
Your safe, quiet place in a screaming world.
You nuzzled your face into the cool skin of his neck, where heād offered it. You could feel the slow, heavy pulse of him beneath your lips. You took a gentle bite.
He was a bit sweet. Metallic, like rain on old copper, but with an subtle sweetness. At least he was telling the truth about that.
A sharp, stifled sound escaped himānot a gasp, but a resonant, shuddering hum you felt vibrate through his chest into yours. You didnāt see it, but behind the mask, his amber eyes shattered and reformed, the pupils blooming into perfect, pulsing heart-shapes.
Ahh.
Pierrot was shocked. He had convinced you.Ā
The feeling was an avalanche in his still, silent world. If he could recall the memory in his veins, trace it like a genealogy⦠how long had his cells screamed in search of you? Eons. Now he knew what he had to be. Your anchor. Your restraint. Your sole source of truth. After all, hadnāt Fate discovered the two of you once again?
You kept going. The gentle bite became more purposeful. Not enough to break skin, but enough to press, to test, to claim.Ā
It got Pierrot bad. Bad. Bad. Torturing him in the most exquisite way. A low, ragged noise tore from him, and his large hands came up to cradle your body, his touch reverent and trembling. The cool leather of his remaining glove brushed the small of your back, then slipped beneath the hem of your shirt, lifting it ever so slightly. The shock of skin-on-skin contactāhis cool, smooth fingertips against the warm, vulnerable plane of your lower backāmade you jolt.
Oh, my, oh, my God
His blood was pumping crazy, a wild, frantic rhythm against your mouth.
Oh, my, oh, my God
āCause he knew youād save him. You had to.
Before he could dissolve completely, before he could lose the last shred of his carefully maintained control, you pulled back from his neck. You looked at his mask, at the place where his mouth would be. Then you kissed him.
It was deep, and searching, and filled with all the frustration, the loneliness, the static, and the strange, terrifying trust you had in him.
His eyes widened behind the mask, the heart-shaped pupils blowing even wider. For a second, he was perfectly, utterly stillāa statue shocked to life.
Then he groaned, a raw, unfiltered sound that seemed to shake the wagon, and he kissed you back. He pressed deeper, returning the kiss with a centuries-starved hunger, his hands tightening on you, one buried in your hair, the other splayed possessively against the bare skin of your back, holding you to him as if you were the only thing keeping him from flying apart into a thousand desperate pieces.
Then a thought, hot and clear, cut through the fog in your mind.Ā
You could take all of your frustrations out on him.Ā
Not by throwing things, not by screaming into the void, but like this. By pouring all that coiled, sparking energy into the space between your body and his. And you did feel a bit calmer.
Your fingers, which had been fisting in the fabric of his red-and-black tunic, slid to the intricate golden lacing that cinched his corset-like vest. You began to slowly, methodically, unpick the knots. One. Then another.
Pierrot noticed. His kiss broke with a soft, wet sound. He caught your wrist, his grip not tight, but questioning. A tremor ran through him. āWhat⦠what are you doing, my angel?ā His psychic voice was ragged, breathless.
You looked up, meeting the black voids of his mask. Your voice, when it came, was low, a bit rough, and absolutely certain.Ā
āYou said you own me. With your candies, with your poems, with your silence. You said it. So,ā you gave another purposeful tug on the gold lace, loosening it further, exposing a sliver of the pale, smooth skin beneathā
āhold still and be owned.ā
His gasp was a real, audible thing. As you never such naughty things beforeāwell right in front of him. The hand on your wrist went slack, not in release, but in utter surrender.
You leaned down again, but not to his mouth. You brought his own bare wrist to your lipsāthe one heād offeredāand bit down on the soft, fleshy part of his palm. Not hard enough to wound, but hard enough to make him jolt, a sharp, sweet whine escaping him.
āYesāā
You didnāt stop. You moved, a slow slide in his lap that made him groan, the friction of fabric between you igniting a new, urgent rhythm. Dry, desperate, and perfect.Ā
You were taking your frustration out, and he was yielding to every bit of it. You traveled up his arm, over the corded muscle of his forearm, leaving a trail of open-mouthed kisses and gentle nips, until you found the place youād bitten beforeāthe tender, vulnerable junction of his neck and shoulder.
You sank your teeth in there, deeper this time.
Pierrot cried out. His head fell back against the pillows, a stark picture of blissful agony. His large hands flew to your hips, not to stop you, but to guide you, to grind you down against him in time with the desperate, rolling thrusts of his own hips meeting yours.
āMoreāplease, more,ā he pleaded, his voice a broken chant in your mind. āClaim me. Mark me. It is the only seal that will hold. The only bond that is real. Bite until your teeth meet my soul. I give it. I give it all.ā
It was a sacrifice. An offering of his very substance. And in biting him, in taking this violent, intimate piece of him, you were accepting it.Ā
You were sealing the fate heād always believed in.Ā
You bit down again, and he shuddered violently beneath you, a sob of pure ecstasy tearing from his throat. His costume was coming undone under your hands, revealing more of him to your teeth, your lips, your claiming touch.
He was somewhat bare below you, the elaborate red and black fabric pushed open, though his mask and jester's hat remained perfectly, eerily in place, and his black pants were still fastened.
Your eyes went wide. Youād never seen him like this. His chest was pale white, like marble veined with the faintest hints of blue, the skin stretched taut over a surprisingly elegant, long frame.Ā
You hadnāt considered the anatomy of it.
āWhoa,ā you breathed, the scientist in you momentarily overriding everything else. Your fingers, almost of their own accord, reached out and touched his collarbone. It was cool, smooth. āYouāre so⦠long. Do you, like, have extra ribs? Is your spine different? How does your⦠everything⦠work?ā
The questions tumbled out, a slow, dazed return to your usual selfāusing curiosity as a compass in uncharted territory. You traced a line down his sternum, fascinated.
Pierrot lay perfectly still beneath your exploration, his breath catching at each touch. The heart-shaped pupils in his amber eyes were wide, consuming.
āYou may map me later, my dear,ā his voice brushed your mind, strained with a patience hanging by a thread. āEvery inch. But firstā¦ā
He moves, rolling you gently until you were nestled beside him in the pillows, facing each other. His gloved hand came up to cradle your cheek.
āMay I⦠leave my bite on you?ā he asked, his psychic tone devastatingly polite. āI promise. I will be gentle. So gentle.ā
You nodded, a slow, mesmerized dip of your chin.
His hands, which could be so frighteningly strong, became impossibly soft.Ā
He undressed you with slowness, each button, each brush of fabric away from your skin. His breath hitched as more of you was revealed. When you were finally bare before him, he went utterly still for a long moment, just looking.
āYou are so beautiful,ā he whispered, the words echoing with genuine, awe-struck reverence. The pupils in his amber eyes had softened from hearts back to wide, circular pools of molten gold, drinking you in. āAll this warmth⦠I had forgotten how it feels.ā
His cool hands skimmed over your shoulders, down your arms, as if memorizing you by touch. Then he bent his head, his mask brushing your skin as he placed a kiss on the hollow of your throat. Then another. A trail of cool, worshipping lips followed the line of your collarbone, the curve of your shoulder.
He was true to his word. He was gentle.Ā
But the intent behind each touch was overwhelming. When his mouth finally settled on the soft skin where your shoulder met your neck, he didnāt bite down hard.Ā
He closed his teeth over the flesh with a careful, persistent pressureāa claiming that was more seal than wound. It was a slow, deep sensation that made you arch against him, a gasp trapped in your throat.
He held the bite for a long moment, a low, resonant hum of satisfaction vibrating through him and into you. When he finally released, he soothed the spot with his faded orange, gold-tinged long tongue, then pressed his masked forehead against yours, his breathing ragged.
He was marked by you.Ā
And now, in his own silent, devoted way, you were marked by him.
Your eyes watched his long body caging you in against the pillows. You could feel the heat of him, the surprising strength in the slender frame. And you couldnāt miss the obvious, heavy bulge straining against the black fabric of his trousers, right where your foot had brushed against it.Ā
A bright, vivid red blush bloomed across the pale skin of his chest and throat, visible even in the low light.
Out of pure, dizzying curiosity, you whispered, āCan I⦠see it?ā
Pierrot went still.
 The amber eyes behind the mask flickered with a mix of shock and sheer, vulnerable want. He was hesitant, a tremor running through him. But to deny you, to displease you⦠that was unthinkable.
āIf⦠if my angel wishes,ā his voice was a strained, mental rasp. āOnly if you wish.ā
You changed positions, gently urging him to lie back. With careful, slightly trembling fingers, you undid the fastenings of his pants. He lifted his hips to help you, a silent, surrendering motion.
And then it was unveiled.
His cock was⦠monumental.
The hue was the same faded, sun-bleached orange of his hair, darkening to a rich, burnt umber at the baseāa technicality utterly lost in the sheer, awe-inspiring presence of it. It was thick, a heavy, beautiful weight that filled your hands when you dared to touch it. The girth was substantial, requiring both hands to circle it fully.
It arched upwards with a slight, perfect curve, designed to reach deep. The tip was broad, a smooth, flared crown, and beneath the skin, thick, roping veins pulsed slow.
Holy shit, you thought, your mind briefly blank.
Itās as big as my face.
āYou donāt⦠have to,ā Pierrotās voice shuddered into your mind. He was propped on his elbows, watching you, his entire body taut with restraint. āEven this⦠you looking⦠you touching⦠it is more than enough. I could just hold you. Just hold you tight.ā
But you were already committed.Ā
Driven by a mix of wonder, affection, and a daring edge of your own. You leaned forward and bit his inner thighānot hard, but a sharp, playful claimāthen kissed the same spot.Ā
āI want to keep going,ā you murmured against his skin, the words vibrating into him.
You blew a soft, warm breath across the broad tip, watching him jolt. Then you gave him a long, slow, experimental lick from the very base of his balls, up the thick underside vein, all the way to the flared crown. The taste was clean, salty, uniquely him.
Emboldened, you opened your mouth and took the head of him inside, just the tip, as your hands worked the massive base.
Shit, heās a lot bigger than expected, you thought, the stretch immediate. But it didnāt matter.Ā
You were fascinated.
Above you, Pierrotās hands flew to his own face, his fingers pressing against his masked temples as he watched you try to take more of him. The sightāyour curious, determined expression, your lips stretched around himāwas unraveling him completely.
āSo cute⦠so⦠curiousā¦ā he breathed, the words fractured.
He was breathing in ragged, heaving gasps. One of his large pale hands tentatively reached out and settled on the crown of your head, not pushing, just resting. A question. A plea.
You met his gaze and gave a tiny nod.
His hand gently applied the lightest pressure, guiding you to take him deeper. You relaxed your throat as much as you could, letting him slide further in until the head nudged the back of your throat. The feeling of being filled, stretched by him, was overwhelming, a hot, claiming fullness.
It was all too much for his centuries of pent-up, devoted longing. The combination of your willingness, your curiosity, your warmthāit shattered his control.
āIāmā!ā
A broken, silent cry echoed in your mind as his hips gave a shallow, helpless thrust. He came suddenly, intensely, with a force that made his whole body arch off the pillows. Thick, hot streaks of cum shot somewhat in you mouth then into the air, some landing across your cheek, your forehead, with shocking warmth.Ā
There was so much of it.
The sensation seemed to shock him back to himself. He pulled out of your mouth with a wet sound, his hands flying to your face, his thumbs frantically, tenderly wiping the mess from your skin.
āI apologizeāIām so sorryāit was too fast, I couldnātāforgive me, my angel, Iāā he babbled, his psychic voice a torrent of embarrassed, worshipful distress.
You looked up at him, catching his frantic hands in yours. Your face was flushed, your eyes wide not with disgust, but with awe and wonder.
āItās okay,ā you whispered, your voice hoarse. Then, with a spark of your old, blunt curiosity cutting through the sensual haze, you asked, āHow many times⦠can you do that?ā
Pierrot went completely still beneath you.Ā
More still than his usual silence. The quiet from him felt⦠stunned. Speechless in a way that had nothing to do with his vow.
You blinked, realizing; you were doing it again.
Dissecting the moment with questions when the moment just was. A flush of self-consciousness burned through the haze of warmth. āSorry, Iāmā Iām doing it again, Iāll justāā You began to pull back, to retreat into the safer space of your own head.
But his handsāone gloved, one bareāflew up to cradle your hips, holding you firmly in place on his lap.
āNo,ā his mental voice was a soft, desperate command. āDo not pull away. Ask. Always ask.ā He took a shaky breath, his thumbs stroking your skin. āAs many times as you want me to. A thousand. Until my jaw aches. As many times as you⦠want me.ā
His words trailed off, significance shifting. You followed his eyeline, glancing down between your bodies.
Oh.
Youād been aware of the firm pressure beneath you, of course. But now you looked. His cock, thick and long, curving slightly against his stomach. The sight didnāt spark a cascade of analytical thoughts for once. Instead, it sparked a feelingāa deep, visceral, wanting pull low in your belly.Ā
This was something you could feel your way through, not think your way through.
And the vibe⦠the vibe was right.Ā
The lighting was warm and low, not distracting. The wagon smelled of old velvet and himāthat clean, stone-like scent. No sudden noises. No demands.Ā
Just Pierrot, watching you with those wide, golden eyes, his hands steady on you, willing to follow your lead, willing to be as silly or as serious as you needed.
Emboldened, you moved your hips, a slow, experimental grind against him. The smooth, hot slide of your wetness against his skin drew a shattered gasp from him. His head fell back against the pillows, the bells on his hat giving a soft, frantic chime.
āYouāre⦠youāre so big,ā you murmured, not with fear, but with fascinated delight. You were practically sitting on him, your own arousal making a slick, messing path between you. The sensation was incredibleāso much so it was toeing the line of too much, a pleasure so sharp it threatened to tip into overload.Ā
But you didnāt want to stop.Ā
You wanted him.
āPierrot⦠please,ā you begged, your voice trembling not with panic, but with need. You lifted yourself up slightly, guiding him with a clumsy, eager hand. āCan you⦠put it inside? Please?ā
He tensed, his hands tightening on your waist. āI do not wish to hurt you,ā he whispered, the words strained. āYou are so small. So warm. I could⦠break you.ā
āYou wonāt,ā you breathed, leaning down to kiss the cool plane of his mask where his cheek would be. āI can take it. I want to. I want you.ā The words felt like a truth deeper than any fact. āPlease. I need⦠I need to feel you.ā
Everything about him was so pleasingāthe contrast of his cool skin against your heat, the absolute focus of his attention, the way he let you set the pace.Ā
You wanted him so, so badly, even if certain touches, certain intensities of feeling, could sometimes short-circuit your system.Ā
This felt worth the risk of overload.
Hesitantly, agonizingly slowly, he guided you as you sank down. The stretch was immense, immediate, a breathtaking fullness that made you cry out. It was a lot. Almost too much. You froze, panting, your nails digging into his shoulders.
Pierrot went statue-still beneath you, every muscle in his long body locked with the effort of control. āTell me,ā he begged, his voice a ragged thread in your mind. āTell me what you need. Do you need to stop? Do you need⦠the candy?ā
āNo candy,ā you gasped out, shaking your head. The intensity was overwhelming, but it wasnāt wrong. It was him. āJust⦠just stay still. Let me⦠let me get used to you.ā
You focused on your breathing, on the feeling of being utterly filled and stretched by him. Slowly, the sharp edge of too much softened into a deep, resonant ache of enough. More than enough. He was stretching you so good, so perfectly, you had to remember to breathe.
Tentatively, you began to move. A slow, rocking grind of your hips.
And the world outsideāthe blue lights, the screaming customers, the confusing social scriptsādissolved into static and then into nothing. There was only this: the warm, amber glow of the lamp catching the gold on his mask, the scent of old paper and cold stone and him, the incredible, silencing sensation of being connected to the one thing in the universe that made your chaotic heart feel still.
You moved up, then sank back down with a soft cry. Pierrotās large hands flew to your hips, his cool grip guiding you, helping you find a pace. His thumbs pressed into the dip of your waist.
āFuck,ā you breathed out, the word shattering the last of the quiet. āYou feel so good.ā
The noise between you became a symphonyāyour shuddering gasps, the wet, slick sound of your joining, the rustle of velvet pillows, the soft, choked sounds he made behind his mask, half-moan, half-reverent prayer.
āYes,ā his voice scraped against your mind, raw and awed. āJust like that. You are⦠perfection. A vision. You take me so beautifully.ā
He watched you with those heart-shaped pupils, his breathing a ragged, open-mouthed rhythm beneath the fixed porcelain smile. His hat was slightly askew, a lock of white hair stuck to his damp temple.
āShit,ā you moaned, leaning forward to brace your hands on his chest. āIf I keep this up, I might not be able to walk tomorrow.ā
āThen donāt walk,ā he growled, the thought laced with a possessive thrill. āStay. Always stay.ā
Fuck it.Ā
The thought was a spark that lit a fuse.Ā
You let go. You rode him aggressively, getting wild, chasing the coil of heat tightening low in your belly.Ā
You fucked him with a desperate, claiming energy, your nails scraping lightly over the pale skin of his chest. You were going to ride him until you were satisfied, until this fire burned out the last of the dayās cold static.
āI⦠I should focus on pleasing you,ā he gasped against your neck, the words fragmented, apologetic, as if heād been selfish. āLet me⦠let me make you feelā¦ā
You cupped his masked face in your hands, pulling him up to look at you. āYou are,ā you breathed, and then you kissed him, deep and sure. He moaned into your mouth, his long tongue tangling with yours, a shock of cool, slick. You pressed yourself closer, wanting him, all of him.
āYouāre so good to me,ā you murmured against his lips, between kisses. āYou take such good care of me.ā
The words hit him like a physical blow of bliss.Ā
A soft, shattered sound escaped him, and when he pulled back just enough to look at you, the expression on what you could see of his faceāthe slight part of his lips, the devastating softness in his amber eyesāwas one of pure, unguarded love. It was a look that promised forever, promised devotion, promised a thousand more quiet wagon nights.
Emboldened, drunk on him and your own power, you pushed at his shoulders.
He understood instantly, letting you guide him onto his back once more. You straddled him, sinking down onto his length with a slow, deliberate roll of your hips that made you both cry out.Ā
This time, you set the pace.Ā
You fucked him with a desperate, claiming energy, your nails scraping lightly over the pale marble of his chest, leaving faint, pink trails. You were going to ride him until you were satisfied, until this fire burned out the last of the dayās cold static and the memory of every judging stare.
He met your frenzy with a worshipful hunger, his hands flying to your hips not to guide, but to feel you move. His own hips arched up to meet your every downward stroke, driving him deeper. The praise in your mind never stopped, a constant, psychic stream of devotion that wrapped around you both.
āYou are everything. You are all. The way you move⦠angel⦠my sweet, demanding angel⦠you ruin me, you save me, you are mine, you are mine, you areāā
His voice broke off into a silent cry as his climax took him again. It hit him harder than the first, a seismic wave that made his body bow up under you, a sound like a shattering bell choked behind his mask.Ā
He spilled deep inside you, his hands clutching you to him with a possessiveness that bordered on pain, as if he could fuse you together through will alone.
Yet you didnāt stop.
The feeling of him inside you, so deep and present, was the only clear thing in the universe. You slowed, your hips making small, small circles, grinding against him, dragging him through the aftershocks and back into a fresh, aching hardness.
He gasped, a ragged, sobbing soundābut it was edged with gratitude, with worship. He was putty in your hands, a sacred instrument you were learning to play.
How many times did he come? The number blurred. Twice? Three times? You lost count in the glorious haze, your own focus narrowing to the single-minded purpose of chasing the feeling, chasing the perfect silence only he could give you.Ā
You were overwhelming him, and he was letting you, welcoming the overstimulation as his due, his reward for being yours.
But even the most devoted saint has his limits.
Eventually, the balance changes. With a low, possessive growl that vibrated from his chest directly into yours, he moved. It was effortless, startlingāone moment you were riding him, and the next the world spun.Ā
You were pinned deep into the mountain of pillows and blankets, the air knocked from your lungs. One of your legs was hooked over his shoulder, the other wrapped tight around his narrow waist, opening you to him completely.
The new angle was devastating. He didnāt just enter you; he claimed the space. He drove into you with a deep, relentless, piston-like rhythm that stole your breath and your thoughts.
āMine.ā
The word fissured through your mind, not a gentle endearment now, but a fundamental truth. He hammered it into you with every deep, perfect thrust.
āMine to cherish. Mine to keep. Mine to fill.ā
He fucked you like he was trying to memorize the very shape of your soul from the inside out. Like if he moved with enough devotion, enough desperation, he could stitch his essence directly into the fabric of your being.Ā
The stark, unchanging bone of his mask was a surreal contrast to the living, sweating, shuddering reality of his body moving above you, the corded tension in his arms, the desperate arch of his back.
You came with a cry that felt like it tore something free inside you. The world dissolved into white and gold, your body convulsing around him, milking him, pulling one final, broken release from his very core. He followed you over the edge with a choked, reverent sound, spilling into you as if he could anchor himself there forever.
He collapsed over you, a trembling, beautiful weight of silk, bone, and cooling skin. His masked face was buried in the crook of your neck, his entire long frame shaking with the aftershocks.Ā
The only sounds in the velvet-dark wagon were the frantic, slowing drumbeat of your hearts, and his soft, whispered mantra against your sweat-damp skin.
āBeautiful⦠perfect⦠my home⦠my love⦠my love⦠my loveā¦ā
You woke feeling strangely⦠refreshed. Clean. The usual morning fog was absent, replaced by a soft, golden clarity. You turned your head on the pillow.
And holy shit.
There was Pierrot, doing a long, sinuous stretch. The man was long of elegant, pale limb, still decently naked, thankfully covered from the waist down by a tangled blanket.Ā
The lamplight caught every detailāand every mark. His neck, his collarbones, the flat plane of his chest⦠they were a canvas of faint, love-bitten blooms. Purpling teeth marks. Your teeth marks.
A flush of heat shot through you, part awe, part horror. You tried to slip out of the pillowed nest quietly, yet before you could get far, a long, cool hand circled your wrist.
āAre you alright, my heart?ā His voice was a sleep-roughened murmur in your mind, thick with concern.
Instead of answering, you turned and buried your face against his lower chest, wrapping your arms around his narrow waist. You rubbed your cheek against his cool skin, a wordless, grounding gesture filled with a tenderness that surprised you both.
He went very still, then his arms came around you, one hand cradling the back of your head. āGood morning,ā he breathed, the words imbued with a reverence usually reserved for prayers.
āGood morning,ā you mumbled into his skin, your voice muffled. You pulled back just enough to gesture vaguely at the marks. āIām⦠sorry. For all of that.ā
A soft, huffing soundāhis version of a laugh. He took your hand and guided your fingertips to trail over the bites on his collarbone. A full-body shiver went through him. āDo not apologize for scripture. I adore it. I adore you.ā
The moment was so perfectly, quietly domestic it almost hurt. Then your phone, half-buried in a blanket, lit up with a notification.Ā
A reminder for your shift.
The real world, with its blue lights and sharp voices, came crashing back in. āI have to go,ā you said, the words tasting like ash.
The change in him was instant. The softness vanished, replaced by a wire-tight tension. āNo.ā His arms tightened. āStay. Please. I was going to make you food. You just woke up. You need to eat. Stay with me.ā
He gently, implacably, pushed you back down into the pillows, then settled his head on your chest, his mask cool against your skin. He was a heavy, pleading weight. āOh, please, donāt leave me. Not yet. The world is so cruel out there. Stay in our quiet. Just a little longer.ā
āI have to,ā you whispered, your fingers threading into his hair, even as your heart rebelled. āI donāt want to, but I have to.ā
You felt him go still.Ā
Then, with a sigh that seemed to carry the weight of centuries of loneliness, he untangled himself and stood. āThen⦠at least let me send you off properly. One cup of tea. For the road.ā
He moved to the small, ornate stove in the corner of the wagon. You watched his back, the play of muscle under pale skin, the way he moved with a silent, focused grace. You heard him whisper to himself, a low, frantic murmur you werenāt supposed to catch.
āJust a little longer. Just a few more hours. Theyāre so tired. They hates it there. Theyāll only break them again. Iām not being cruel. Iām being kind. This is kindness. Keeping them safe is kindness. Theyāre mine to protect. Mine to keep safe. My sweet angel, my chaotic heart⦠theyāll see. theyāll understand itās better hereā¦ā
He returned with a delicate china cup, steam curling with the scent of chamomile and something else⦠something faintly floral, sweet. Pierrot. He helped you sit up, his touch infinitely tender, and held the cup to your lips.
āFor strength,ā he whispered aloud, his real voice a rare, rasping gift.
You drank. It was warm. Sweet. Soothing.Ā
The tension of the impending shift began to feel⦠distant. Muffled. Like a bad dream you were slowly waking from. A heavy, pleasant lassitude seeped into your limbs. Your head felt fuzzy, warm.
āYou know,ā you slurred softly, leaning back into the pillows, your eyes struggling to stay open. āI never really liked that place anywayā¦ā
A profound, victorious stillness settled over him. He took the cup, set it aside, and gathered you back into his arms, tucking your head under his chin. A wave of pure, unadulterated peace washed through the psychic space between you.
You are his salvation through your chaos.Ā
He is your sanctuary through his stillness. You own him with your rage; he owns you with his unconditional, obsessive acceptance. Itās a fated, destructive, perfect bond.
He wouldnāt have you any other way.
And as the drugged tea pulled you back under, nestled safe in the tomb of his devotion, your final, mumbling sigh was a vow and a request all in one, breathed against the skin of his throat where your marks still bloomed: