Back Painting
Ajax is the type of partner to let Xavier paint on his back while laying down,,
Ajax is living in Xavier's dorm because he took Rowan's spot (sorry Rowan, but the boyfriends needed to be together) This is my first writing for them, so hopefully it's not absolutely horrible..
Ao3 link!!
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"Babe," Xavier says to get Ajax's attention. He looks up from his phone, seeing his boyfriend standing at his desk. "Yeah?" A smile comes up to his face and he doesn't stop it, letting his teeth show a little.
Xavier smiles back at him, "can I paint your back?" asking him nicely and convincingly. Even though Ajax would let him paint whatever he wanted including himself; he loves seeing his work and watching him make it.
Laughing a little at how he's asked, "Sure." he answers simply. Getting up and going over to the other "So, do you want me to lay down over here?" He questions, being confused as how Xavier wants to do this.
"Yeah," pointing to his own bed, "just lay down. Take your shirt off.." he smiles more as he turns around. Ajax listening and doing as he was told, throwing the shirt across the room to land on his bed.
Flopping down on the bed and watching Xavier get everything ready before starting, putting paint in his paint pallet and grabbing some paint brushes. The paint is all kinds of different greens, varying from shades and hues.
As he comes over, he puts his knee on the bed and hikes his other leg over Ajax's waist, straddling his back. Putting the paint pallet down carefully on the bed and taking one of the big brushes before also sitting them down on the bed.
Starting by painting a light green base coat over most of the others back, going from his lower neck to his lower back. The paint brush tickles his skin and makes his giggle a bit whenever he makes a new stroke, making Xavier smile behind him.
After the base coat, he starts with a light sketch of what he wants to do. Marking out and planning where he wants everything to be, putting his full attention on the task at hand.
Ajax sits still for a while, enjoying the peace. But his attention span is too short to sit there for too long, so he eventually brings out his phone. Going on TikTok and scrolling while Xavier peacefully paints his back.
It's domestic, kind of. Sitting here together, in almost complete silence. Feeling comfortable with each other and enjoying each other. It feels as everything is fine, like everything is just so right.
They stay like that for an hour or so, Xavier getting lost in the art; and Ajax watching videos and playing on his phone.
He feels the other lean back towards his legs, getting a farther away view of his work. Adding some fixes and correcting some stuff before getting up and putting the paint brushes in some water, and the paint pallet on the desk.
"Don't move," Xavier says when he sees Ajax looking back at him. Going over and getting his camera, taking it out of the case and making sure there's film. Coming back over to the bed, he climbs back onto his lower back and lines up her camera.
He takes a picture of his artwork, and it saves on the camera so that he can print it out later. Once he makes sure it looks good, he leans over his back and holds the camera in front of Ajax's face, showing him the picture.
"Woah..." He says, very in character of him. Xavier laughs and takes the camera back up to his level, getting off of his back and sitting on the bed. "Can I move?" He asks before he does it, not wanting to ruin the artwork before it needed to be.
"Yeah," he nods, still looking at the camera. Ajax sits up and joins beside him, also looking at the camera; they're shoulder to shoulder, so it's not that hard to see it. "I'm going to print it out," He states.
Ajax nods and hums, "You should, it looks good." praising him for his work. He deserves it, all of his work is amazing and sometimes he doesn't even try to make it good.
He gets up to put the camera away, and Ajax watches him as he does. Once he's done, he comes back over to the other. With Ajax still on the bed, and Xavier standing, there's a big height difference between them.
Neither of them mind as Xavier comes to stand between his legs, putting his hands on the other's shoulders. Ajax awkwardly puts his hands right above his hips, holding him in place loosely. He doesn't know what to do, so he just sits there and lets Xavier look at him, waiting for what he may do.
It doesn't take long before he's leaning down and gently kissing him, the long hair that he had down falling onto the others face. Ajax doesn't do anything about it, instead, he slightly grabs the others hips a bit more tightly.
After a few seconds, Xavier pulls away. They catch their breath a little and look at each other, both smiling a little just from looking at each other. Ajax wraps his arms around his waist and pulls him up and to the side, throwing him on the bed. He yelps, and laughs, and Ajax does too as he brings him closer.
They laugh for a minute before he unwraps his arms but brings them under his arms and keeps them there, one of his snakes come out of his beanie, looking down at Xavier. He looks back up at it but returns his gaze to the other man's eyes after a second.
"Thank you," Ajax says to him sweetly.
"Thank you." Xavier says back to him.
He gets off of Xavier and lays on his side, pulling his boyfriend with him, to which is willingly agrees to. They lay there, Xavier running his hands down along his back, over his artwork and no doubt messing it up a little.
Time passes by, and they stay like that. Ajax falling asleep quickly with the hands running over his shoulders and shoulder blades. Xavier lets him, joining him after a while of thinking about how pretty of a muse his partner is, of course.
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