ooh drabble me 49. “Safety first. What are you? FIVE?” with Otayuri please? :)
Thank you! I had no idea what to do with this at first, but I slept on it, and then this happened...
Skate America was over, and since Phichit Chulanont had provided Yuri with what the Thai skater called his “connoisseur's guide to Detroit”, Otabek had been dragged out into the night life, seriously questioning Phichit's expertise soon enough.
The place they'd ended up in was a typical hipster joint; elk heads on the wall, microbrewery beer, the whole range of vegan, gluten-free, grass-fed foods on the illegible chalk-board menu, and of course mismatched retro gimmicks: a jukebox, old advertisements, and worst of all – a mechanical bull.
At least Otabek thought it was bad.
To Yuri, it was a challenge.
“I'm going to do this! Shit, I always wanted to try this.”
Otabek frowned. He knew the look on Yuri's face well, there would be no stopping him.
“This looks like a lawsuit waiting to happen.”
“Oh no,” came a cheerful voice from behind them. “You'll first have to sign this here agreement, so we won't be liable in case you hurt yourself.”
They both turned to the woman who'd sneaked up on them. Otabek assumed she was one of the owners, she looked the part, anyway, all tattoos and an undercut to rival his own, hair dyed a purplish grey. The grin she gave them both somehow reminded him of Mila.
Yuri inspected the piece of paper in her hand, taking the pen from her a moment later.
“I know I won't be able to stop you, but please consider all the ways you can injure yourself on this.” Otabek let his gaze travel down to Yuri's legging-clad groin, before looking pointedly back up at him. “Important parts of your anatomy, to boot. Just for once, consider – safety first?”
Yuri snorted, handing penand paper back to the woman.
“Safety first. What are you? FIVE?”
Otabek did not point out that when he'd been five, safety had not been one of his major concerns, nor that he still had a scar just under his hairline to prove it.
“Just don't get hurt. Yakov will kill you. And me.”
He did, pulling Yuri close, reluctant to let him go.
“I'll tell everyone you died bravely. Stupidly, but bravely,” he muttered into Yuri's hair.
“Like nature intended me to.” Yuri winked at him and put on the glove the woman handed to him, before finally mounting the mechanical atrocity.
All eyes in the bar were on him now. Yuri grabbed the handhold, and his legs grabbed the bull, Otabek could see the strain in his thighs, the leggings tight enough to show every muscle. The bull's operator counted down from three, and with a first jerky movement the bull came to life.
There were cheers when Yuri managed to stay on easily throughout the first twenty seconds or so, upper body moving with, or rather against, the bull, his free arm held out for balance. Jumps had trained him well for this, perhaps. The ride became faster, the bull's movements more jerky even, and the crowd went wild as Yuri managed to stay on. When Otabek looked around briefly, he saw the same mixture of awe and delight in people's faces, and wondered for a second how mechanical bulls compared to stripper poles vis-à-vis making a room full of people fall in love with you.
He turned quickly back to Yuri, and in spite of the continuing worries nagging at the back of his mind, he felt himself flush, unable to ignore the fluid way Yuri's hips moved to balance himself, though the suggestive movements were nothing compared to the expression on his face. There it was, that grim determination in his eyes that had first caught Otabek's eye, but also a smirk on his lips, self-satisfied, so sure of himself. It was enough to bring Otabek to his knees.
Not now, but later, perhaps.
When Yuri fell off eventually, after nearly two minutes, he did so with enough grace, falling safely being second-nature to figure skaters, after all, and the room erupted in cheers and cat calls again.
“Still alive!” As he staggered over to Otabek, his face was red and sweaty, and he was beaming triumphantly. “And no important parts of my anatomy hurt, though I think I've used muscles I've never even used in ska...”
His words were cut short when Otabek pulled him into another kiss, to renewed cat calls, especially when Yuri kissed back very enthusiastically.
“Back to the hotel?” Yuri asked, grinning, when they broke apart.
“Please,” Otabek muttered weakly.
“Otabek Altin, you have the strangest turn-ons.”
“It's you, Yura. It's always just you.”
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