I wrote a little something for an AU I and a few others were talking about today. Jon/Peter/Martin a/b/o verse. Where Peter bonds with both off them to win his bet with Elias basically. (It's also fairly fluffy, lol)
Question is, does this count for JonPeter week? XD
It's late, and the sea outside is calm, if foggy. Peter is thankful for this, for this quiet that only the sea can grant.
His omegas sleep beside him. Jon is the closest, his belly big on his frame. He looks so peaceful, pressed between Peter and Martin, breath slow and dreams calm for once. He has one hand tangled with Peter's, something that makes Peter's insides quiver with something he can't quite put a name to. Martin is on Jon's other side, tucked around Jon, face buried in Jon's neck. His growing belly shows less, but it's still striking too, knowing that this pair carry Peter's children.
There's this feeling in his belly, curled around his heart. It's soft, and Peter has only recently been able to put a name to it without his heart stuttering in a strange fear. Love. He loves them.
It's been strange, watching them grow to trust him. Ironically, it had been simpler with Jon, especially after the claiming, when he knew that Peter wasn't going to keep Martin away from him anymore. Martin has been the more cautious of the two, still bound to Peter, but holding back on the affection he gives his alpha. Only recently has he begun to thaw, giving kisses and passing touches with a new ease.
If Peter is being honest with himself, this is a relief. The cold had been funny at first...until it wasn't. Until it start to hurt. Thus, for the first time in his life, Peter had actually tried to win someone's trust. Their trust.
He's been taking care of them, keeping them hidden from the prying eyes of Elias. Keeping them fed and clothed and providing for them like a good alpha should. That's been helping, mostly.
He's surprised he has those instincts, honestly, how easily they come with these two, even if there is a certain amount of selfishness to them.
Peter supposes though, that it helps that they're both Lonely too, or shifting in that direction. Their time apart from everyone else, whether it be Jon's subtle banishment from the archives to Martin's active leaving, has left them open to Peter's god. They focus on each other-- helplessly devoted, loving and so soft-- and now on Peter and their unborn children has left them cut off from the world and happier for it.
Perhaps that's why their presence isn't an ache Peter must deal with, just like everyone else's is. They feel like him, belong to him. And Peter, for all his childhood promises to himself about never taking a bonded partner, doesn't regret a moment. Doesn't regret the way he stole them, encouraged them to bond with him and each other. Not when their future is ahead, a promise lurking on the tides.
