Shush and go back to bed/I was awake anyway/would you like me to rub your back?/I think I love you - Perc'ahlia AAAAND shush I'm braiding your hair for a bonding moment with the twins <3
the universe: hey mango what are you writing today
the universe: …i…don’t know what i was expecting……..
When Vex pushes the bedroom door open with her back, the tea tray gripped tightly in both hands, she finds Percy sitting up in bed, his back towards the door. She tsks, and Percy gives her a quick glance and a small smile.
“Go back to bed, you,” she chastises gently, walking over carefully, “You shouldn’t be sitting up yet.”
Percy shrugs as he finishes knotting the ties of his sleeping robe. “I’m fine,” he replies, nonchalant, “I’ve been awake a couple of hours already anyway.”
Vex slowly, gingerly sets the tea tray down, climbs back onto the bed. “Are you still in pain?” she asks as she crawls closer to him on her knees, “Is that what woke you?”
Percy rubs at his temples before reaching for his spectacles. “Yes and no, honestly,” he answers, “Felt you moving around.”
“Eurgh,” Vex groans, “Sorry, darling.” She plants a little kiss on his shoulder, which immediately gives her a different idea. “Would you like me to rub your back, dear?”
“What?” Percy asks, falsetto and falsely shocked, “And make you use your dainty little hands on my ruinous, ruined flesh? Dear lady, I couldn’t! I wouldn’t dare.”
Vex swats him on the arm, and Percy laughs, one arm clutching at his side to brace where Vex knows he took the brunt of the impact in the fight. “Seriously though,” Vex says, “I could get some hot water, might help with some of the ache and sting until Pike or Keyleth can help again?”
Percy says nothing at first, but then reaches for her. Vex offers her hand to him, and he takes her by the wrist and tugs at her. “Come here,” he says, quiet, soft. She realizes what he wants, and is careful as she moves around him and off the bed. He pulls her to him, wrapping his arms around her hips and giving her stomach a kiss over her clothes. Vex still feels the warmth of it against her skin, and it makes her sigh, her bottom lip between her teeth.
“I have a problem, Vex’ahlia,” Percy says, looking up at her, the hint of a smile in the corner of his mouth.
Vex circles her arms around his neck, the fingers of one hand playing with the hair at his nape. “Have you now?” she asks in reply, “What problem might that be, Percival?”
“I think I might love you,” he answers, and Vex chuckles, shaking her head, “Yes, as a matter of fact, I’m afraid I certainly do.”
“Why the shit would that be a problem?” Vex retorts, as falsely indignant as he was shocked a while ago.
Percy laughs too, tightens his embrace around her a little. “Because, dear one,” he says, and Vex sees the expression in his eyes soften, “I don’t know that I deserve you in my life, let alone be blessed enough with the opportunity to love you.”
Vex shakes her head again, tapping at his nose with a finger. “Shush, you,” she tells him, “You’re wonderful, alright? Every last bit of you. You’re golden.”
“And you are more,” Percy says, the look on his face so loving that Vex feels her heart actually hurt, “So much more.”
She answers him with a kiss, as deep as she can manage, and she feels him smile against her lips. But when she tries to move into him a little more, he hisses, and she pulls away.
“Fuck,” Percy grumbles unhappily, and Vex kisses into his hair instead.
“Seriously though,” she says, palms on his cheeks, “Back rub. Yay or nay, Lord Percival of Whitestone?”
He sighs heavy, his entire body moving with it. “Yay,” he answers, frustrated, “Very yay.”
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