Fire, it’s the first thing that comes to mind as he prowls along the edges of the nightclub, fingertips running over velveteen curtains as they hang from the ceiling, his need to wrap the immortal up inside one of them, to watch them struggle for breath as he curls his fingers around their slender throat has him smirking. He watches them, watches the way they gravitate toward the center of the room like they always have, a lustful narcissist that craves that power, that control over others as Dorian beckons them to him one by one. Adrian watches as the man takes them one, two, three at a time; their hands running over and beneath what little clothing the immortal paints himself in. The blond is jealousy and he is wrath rolled in one but Adrian can’t help the way his heart beats a little faster at the sight of his lover, the way his breathing quickens, eyes dilate like he’s injected himself with that pretty little needle he keeps in the back of his dresser inside a little black box, the spoon burned on one side but he’s yet to throw it away.
Adrian hasn’t felt the need to get high, hasn’t felt the need to take a life as he saunters around the nightclub; not like he has tonight. Perhaps it’s Dorian—he knows it is, that man makes his blood boil as his fingers trail over the sweat stained locks, use and age turning what once was painted on silver into nothing but rusted copper. The deadbolt is sturdy, thick in the lock of the wood as he pulls the curtain over it, hiding the doorway and its way out like a maze inside this heated dome. The pyres are slowly coming along, all they need now are the bodies to line around them. Something that can be easily fixed as he pulls out the flask from inside his coat pocket, silver chain dangling beside his fingers after he undoes the lid and sprinkles alcohol over the ends of the curtains. The shadows hug him, devour him as if he were made of nothing but darkness, a monster that has its eyes set only on the immortal dancing in the middle of the room. He wants to touch them, to dig his nails into their throat as he rips it out, to let his tongue run along the side of his hand as he tastes their crimson ichor.
Dorian calls him ‘their Adonis’ a name that makes his lips curl up in delight as he traces the tip of his tongue over their throat, watches the way their body arches up into his hand as he squeezes them just enough. The way their legs spread further as he slides between them, nestles himself inside as if it’s where he’s always belonged. There’s a pause, a moment to savor the memories that fall upon the flat of his tongue, the way he swallows them back to the sounds of Dorian’s moans as he fucks them. How they dare to defy him when the blond tells them that he’ll kill them, their laugh as his fingers tighten around Dorian’s throat. The glint in his lover’s eyes, an unspoken challenge that burns through Adrian’s blood better than any drug ever could, they are his addiction. They are his disease.
He can feel it, how Dorian flaunts those fake lovers around, the way he tells them everything they want to hear as Adrian watches tongues gliding over one another. Watches their mouths part as the immortal moans for the filth that dare lay their fingers upon what is so rightfully his. It is with this thought that Adrian sneers, walks past the people along the walls, his pace nearly quickening to the next exit like a lion stalking its prey. He stalks and Dorian allows it, haven’t they always done this though? A game of cat and mouse that neither have ever been willing to end, they get off on it. They get off on each other’s insatiable need for one another. Their jealousy, their wrath, their sex and their bloodlust calls to them like a siren in their veins as Adrian finally stills, the doors are locked, exits covered and now it’s just a matter of time before he lights this rat maze on fire. His eyes glint like the tip of his knife as he pulls it out from beneath his shirt where it’s been strapped, holds it against the black of his pants away from the crowd though with as mesmerized as they are by Dorian, no one will ever notice—until it’s too late.
Adrian is a g o d, he is chaos and hatred, twisted desires that slither beneath his veins like diseased snakes as they inject their venom into him bite after bite. He is a man that will die a thousand deaths but only by the hand of one other, he will die when Dorian finally rips out his heart and devours it before him. But tonight, tonight he will keep his tainted heart as he lays waste to the filth gathered there in that room, he will destroy the lives of many as he lights fire and sends them all to hell if only to obtain his lover’s attention once more. There is nothing Adrian will not do to get that cold gaze upon his heated flesh, to get those eyes he so desperately wants to carve out so they’ll always watch him, the need to flick his tongue over them as if to taste the inside of Dorian’s beauty. It’s bitter and acrid, a monster to most but to Adrian, Dorian will forever be his only savior, his only destruction. His fingers brush over the side of his neck, knows that the immortal will be watching as he lets his lips lilt, his gaze piercing through their own like the knife he holds beside him.
He shivers with the anticipation of what the night holds, breathes in the last remnants of the sullied air before he pulls out his lighter and flicks it open, watches as the flame catches, dances over the blade of the knife as it’s tossed upon the hanging pyre. The catch is nearly immediate, the blue flame spreads over the velveteen curtain, elegant shades of purple darken beneath its intimate touch as the flames devour it. Poison seeps into the air in colored smoke but the lights only dance through it like fog rolling in off the shore, the people are too numb to care, too numb to notice as they watch the man before them all toss his head back and laugh. It’s rich and sultry, a sound that could make a virgin’s toes curl but Adrian’s lust is hotter, burns hotter as the flames lick along the back walls, drag their poisoned tongues over sullied curtains as they leap from one to another. They ignite behind him, piercing blue eyes the forefront of the scene as his lips slowly spread into a sinister smile but he steps forward, blond hair falls in loose curls like he’s nothing more than precious doll. But the cracks that spider out over his features show only the grotesqueness that lies beneath his beauty and his desires, the way it oozes down his features like thick, black syrup. Screams start to rip around him, shouts as the crowd sees the burning inferno reaching higher and higher along the walls. The smoke hangs in the air as his body continues to move forward, unphased as his shoulder is hit, unphased as he’s pushed by hands that no longer wander in search of something more.
His breath huffs out between parted lips in a playful laugh of mockery, a melodic lullaby sullied by the way Adrian carries it. The knife has been lost beneath the rampaging feet but it’s unneeded now as he wraps his hands around his lover’s waist, pulls them close against himself while lips tease the crest of their ear, the music thundering around them both, left untended to by the DJ who has joined the screaming frenzy on the floor. Every entrance is covered in fire bathed curtains, the doors locked and Adrian chuckles, presses his hips up against Dorian’s rear before they start to grind together to the music, a slow moving tongue tastes them, tastes the sweat upon their skin as he dips his head down low against their neck. There’s a moment, a pause as he takes in this new body, the way it feels, the way it tastes and smells but he purrs out words that are far too gentle in such a situation, whispers tinged with twisted love and lust as his fingers begin to wander beneath the fabric of Dorian’s clothes, following paths that other’s have sullied as he smiles into their skin.
“Welcome home, Dorian. Long live the King.”