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Early - Geralt x F!Reader

Summary: Waking up, Geralt finds you attached to his back and you whine about how early it is

With the sun coming through the window, Geralt slowly opens his eyes. He blocks the sun out of his face with his face as it's blinding.

He shifts a bit to feel your body up against his. He turns his head to see the top of yours.

Moving more onto his back, you instinctively move out of the way before laying your head against where his arm met his shoulder.

He slithers his arm underneath your neck to pull your naked body against his.

“Stop moving, it’s early.” You mumble, nuzzling your face against the top of his shoulder. 

“Hm,” is his response. 

He starts to draw random lines on your back and side.

“Wake me up when we need to go.”

Seconds of silence go past until he says, “We need to go now.”

Groaning, you turn your body away from his, his arm still rested under your neck and the back of your body against his side.

His body moves to be over yours, himself making you lie on your back, your eyes closed.

“We gotta go. That bard is going to waltz into this room and will demand us to go.”

Opening your eyes, you look into his golden ones. “We will go now if I get to sit on Roach and take a nap.”

You raise your hand to trace over his face.

“Hm. Fine.” He gets out of bed to get into his clothes, yourself staying in the bed and rolling onto your stomach in the middle of the furniture.

“It’s so fucking early!”

Working on Chapter 2 of "Of Blood and Bone", a moodboard:

SHIT IS GETTING REAL CAPTAIN- XD

You can read the first chapter here of course!!

You don't need to know all of The Witcher's Lore to read it, I just transposed Sol, Yord, Osha, Sol and the others into this and I'm throwing canon off a cliff (because I don't have time for that)!

"Of Blood and Bone" Update 2:

Okay so hi peeps!! So I have decided that this Witcher AU fic for the Acolyte characters will have 2 endings.

One for Oshecki (Osha/Jecki), and one for Yorsha (Yord/Osha).

Once we reach this part of the fic, the end, there will be 2 chapters.

Basically you'll be able to take your pick! Also, before some get their gears going, no, there won't be Oshamir/Oshimir (Osha/Qimir) in this one. There is no need to comment, request and all, I just cannot stand this ship. This is visceral, it just makes me want to throw up, like genuine disgust.

For the chapters containing violence, blood and all, I'll update the tags, ratings and all and put notes before each chapter so you can skip if you want/or not!

So you can read the first chapter here:

And you can get access to the playlist here (if you want to get in the mood to read it!):

"Beneath the Weeping Stars", A Witcher AU! TROP (The Rings Of Power) fiction coming soon!! [LONG POST]

Little Miss (me) not knowing heavy LOTR Lore but knowing the Witcher's one on the tip of her fingers so she's been transposing all the TROP dynamics in said-universe and now has minimum 10 chapters fully drafted and 15k words of storylines and subplots for minimum two added series/spin-offs

Please I have everything.

The damn hierarchy, the species, the kingdoms, politics, reworking on languages, the weapons, added new mythological creatures and all like I'm about to COMBUST-

So far, and that's not even everything cause we would be here for HOURS like I cannot shut up about it but hear me out:

A Galadriel/Elrond fight. Not saying why, not saying what happens after but I know I want a Geralt/Renfri like one here and you'll see why it makes sense while reading

Angst, hurt and comfort. I mean it's the Witcher Universe/AU so of course there are hurt, blood, gore etc.

I'm thinking about giving a very interesting arc to the local High Daddy King Gil-

The Politics? Oh, the political games are gonna be SPICY. Think Nilfgaard vibes but mix it with the depth of LOTR's kingdoms. Spies, betrayals, alliances forged in blood, secret sorcery, and contracts with monsters or otherworldly forces. Some kind of council that’s like the Lodge of Sorceresses, except more brutal, more manipulative, and utterly cutthroat. Plus, LOTR needs Witcher's sass. Please. I need Gil-galad being snarky at a council meeting, roasting Elrond while debating war strategies.

I will throw in more monsters—no question. I'm a monster girlie through and through. I’m thinking creatures that haven’t been seen since Morgoth’s time, so ancient and so terrifying that even the Elves are like, “Uhm… what?” I will add in a couple of contracts for monster hunters to deal with these things, but obviously, it all ties into the larger political schemes and personal arcs.

Races/Species: I am reimagining the Elves and Dwarves, Witcher-style. What if there’s a secret society of Elves who’ve been experimenting on themselves, trying to become more powerful? I will give them this dark, eerie vibe—maybe some of them have turned themselves into something almost monstrous in their pursuit of perfection. And the Dwarves? Oh, I will have them unearth something they should’ve left buried.

Humor and Sass: You know I will sprinkle in the sass. I can be a sassy petty bitch if need appears and I need them to have this sharp-edged humour! I need characters who are sarcastic, dry-humored, and unafraid to throw shade, even in the middle of serious situations. Elrond will roll his eyes at least once. And King Gil-galad? He will have moments where his sarcasm is so sharp it’s basically another weapon.

Some examples of quotes I cooked so far (not saying who said what duh):

"I never wanted to be your enemy. You think it doesn’t tear me apart to see you like this? You, who I would follow into every darkness… But you’ve made it so easy to forget who you were.... who we were. And maybe… maybe I’m the fool for believing we could ever go back."

"Mercy is a luxury we can no longer afford. I’ll not risk everything for the sake of a few lives. This world was built on blood, and it will drown in it before we’re done. So tell me... what side of history will you stand on, when the bodies fall?"

"I don’t need you to be strong for me. I just need you. The world has been cruel, Galadriel, but the cruelest thing is being without you. I’ve tried to be what everyone needed me to be, but gods… I am so tired. Just… come back to me. Please."

"So I heard you have a wraith problem." "I said "my wife", not ‘my wraith". "Did I stutter?"

"It’s truly fascinating how you manage to speak so much while saying so little. I wasn’t aware that ignorance could be weaponized so effectively. My sincerest congratulations on being a living example of that."

"Well, that was certainly one way to handle it. Not the right way, mind you, but points for creativity."

"Sometimes I wish we could bottle that joy and keep it safe for all time—the way they love so fiercely, so unconditionally. It’s a reminder that despite the burdens we carry as leaders, there is still room for joy, for laughter, and for love. Perhaps we should learn from them, not just how to govern but how to live. If I could protect that innocence, I would do so without hesitation. It’s our responsibility to guard these precious moments and create a world where they can thrive, free from the shadows of conflict."

[ Also sidenote but we have a little Elrond/Galadriel Discord server called "A Corner of Rivendell" if you're interested, just send me a dm and I'll give you an invite! I'm collecting stuff for a secret santa that will be announced soon enough so we all have time to prepare!!]

I'd love to request a geralt x reader with ❝  i never realized how much i needed you until you were the one person who wasn’t there.  ❞ in which geralt realizes his feelings :)

Dearest <3 I absolutely LOVED this reauest, and I've been wanting to write it for days, but first I got sick, then I nearly chopped the tip of my thumb off, BUT here we are now, and I finished it (thanks to @writingmysanity for putting the idea with the portal in my head, makes it even better)

(I’m always happy to receive requests, so if you want to, send some in. If you need inspiration, here are some prompt lists )

Pairing: Geralt x fem!Reader Warnings: None? I guess Word count: 3408

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“Guess it's time to say goodbye,” you said, trying to sound chipper, when actually you didn't want to leave the two men alone again, but you'd been by their side for a couple of months now, sharing their journey, and now, that the winter was coming, they had to make their way to Kaer Morhen. It would be Jaskier's second time at the keep, because Geralt had taken him along the year before, after he'd nearly lost his life, and Geralt hadn't wanted to leave the bard out of sight. So, naturally, he was coming along this year as well. He'd gotten along so well with the other Witchers in the end, that there simply wasn't another choice. Though Geralt could do with some peace and quiet, he wouldn't leave Jaskier behind. After all, the bard would have plenty other people to talk to and sing to up there, so that Geralt could excuse himself. But you... They'd brought you back home, because this was what you'd talked about. Join them on their journey, and when you came back to your town, they'd drop you off here safely again. And they'd done just that, had scheduled it for the end, so that they could make their way to Kaer Morhen after this. But were you really okay with saying goodbye now? No. No, you weren't, but what else was there to do? Tell Geralt that you didn't want to part ways with him – with Jaskier as well, because you'd grown quite fond of the bard – because you'd fallen completely and utterly in love with him? No, that would only get your heart crushed in the process, which you weren't ready for. Sure, there had been moments, when you'd thought that he might have feelings for you, that it wasn't only a one-sided thing, but these moments had been brief, interrupted, and there would never have come anything off them. It was better to just write it off, write him off, and remember the time you'd had together, the adventure.

“Gods, I'll miss you, Y/N!” Jaskier heaved a sigh, wrapping his arms around your body to hold you close. Yes, you did love the bard as well, like a big brother, and gods, you'd miss him. Sometimes you'd wanted him to just be quiet, but you knew that you'd miss his talking, his singing the moment he was gone.

“I'll miss you, too.” You buried your face against his shoulder, closing your eyes, hoping that the tears would not spill down your cheeks. For a moment, you stayed like this, breathing in his scent, so that you would remember it once they were gone, and it helped to keep the tears at bay. Once you parted, though, you had to turn to Geralt, not sure what it was you were reading in his face.

“Take care of yourself. I'll know if you don't.” Geralt smiled fondly at you, before he pulled you into a hug, his strong hands resting gently on your back. You didn't want to let go, hugged him a little tighter for a moment. Slowly you raised your head to look at him.

“I'll try my best, only if you try to take care of yourself as well.” You managed to smile up at him, getting lost in his eyes golden eyes for a moment, holding your breath. You didn't want this moment to end, but you knew it would, and staring into his eyes, being so close to him, wasn't exactly helping you to let go.

“I'll try my best,” said Geralt, repeating your own words, cracking another smile, before he leaned down to press a kiss to your forehead. It was time for you to let go, or you'd do or say something stupid, something that would ruin all of this, so you stepped out of his embrace to turn to the bard again.

“Keep an eye on him for me, will you?” you asked Jaskier.

“Of course, my dear.” Jaskier reached for your hand to give it one last squeeze before they got on their way. You had to break it off like that, or you wouldn't have let them go. Turning away from them was probably the hardest thing you'd have to do in your life, but standing there, watching them leave, would only have made this goodbye even harder for you than it already was.

Geralt was... odd to say the least. Jaskier and Yennefer had been watching him every since they'd arrived at Kaer Morhen, and Jaskier even after they'd parted from you. He'd been happy to see his brothers again, of course, but after their welcome, Geralt had pulled back from the group, had spent more time around the horses than around his brothers. He'd tried of course, but even Yen had seen how often he'd been lost in thought, or had at least appeared to be.

“Just admit that you miss her,” Jaskier said one day, visiting Geralt outside where he was taking care of Roach, combing her mane. Yennefer was with him, maybe just for moral support or to keep Geralt off his back, considering what he wanted to tell the Witcher. Geralt still had his back turned to both of them, but he knew that Yen was there with the bard.

“It's none of your business,” he said, not even asking who Jaskier was talking about, which only made the bard smile.

“So, you don't even have to ask who I'm talking about, proving my point.” The triumph could be heard in his voice for a moment, but the concern about his friend quickly won over again.

“I've never seen you so miserable, Geralt.” Now, it was Yennefer wo spoke up, taking a step towards the Witcher, stepping into his line of view behind Roach, but he didn't raise his head. A simple hmm from his side was all they got right now, which only served to make Yen roll her eyes at him.

“I've seen the way you look at her, especially when you think nobody's watching, or at least not her. The glances you stole, the way you smiled at her? Geralt, come ON. Get your head out of your ass and own up to it.” Now, it was Jaskier's turn to roll his eyes. Maybe, he should have said something sooner, but he had wanted them to realize it themselves, and he'd been holding out hope even after you'd parted ways, but Geralt hat disappointed him. It was no surprise that you hadn't said anything, because you hadn't seen how Geralt had looked at you – but Geralt had had to see the way you'd looked at him, right? Because you hadn't hid it as well, had been caught by Geralt himself every now and again. By now Jaskier wished he would have said something before they'd left you in your town.

“Can't you just let it rest?” There was a pleading note in Geralt's voice, when he turned around seemingly finished with Roach and kind of desperate to get away from the two.

“No, we can't. Look at yourself! You zone out all the time, you do not enjoy the company of your brothers like you usually do. You spent more time out here than with your family, because the fresh air, the work, it clears your head.” Yen was getting frustrated with the white wolf, which was nothing new, but normally it wasn't about a woman that was occupying his mind, and she knew, she just knew, that you were on his mind all the time.

“So?” Geralt turned to face them in one swift motion, looking like he was ready to rip them apart if they didn't shut up now.

“Are you really that blind? That stupid? You miss her, it's obvious. Gods, I miss her as well, but not like you do.” Jaskier shook his head and despite the look on Geralt's face, he even took a step towards the Witcher. “Have you never seen the way she looks at you?” That made Geralt's features soften, interest shining in his eyes, because he didn't know what Jaskier was talking about, so he shook his head. “You're really that oblivious, huh?” Jaskier shook his head. He should have said something apparently, then they might not be standing here right now. “Melitele help me! She'd been looking at you the way you've been looking at her all the time. With that longing in her eyes, hoping that you'd notice and not leave her back in her little town. She loves you, Geralt, have you really not noticed?”

“Why would she love me?” Geralt asked, genuine concern in his eyes, because he couldn't understand. He hadn't even been able to label his own feelings for you, but he had kind of known what it was, trying his best to ignore it, because he was sure that you deserved so much better than him.

“That's what you'll have to ask her. But stop putting yourself down like this. That's not like you. I've never seen you so uncertain.” Yennefer scrutinised him, trying to figure out what was going on in his head, though she could already guess what it was. The self-doubt was something she'd struggled with earlier in her life, but by now... and apparently Geralt had to fight that right now.

“Just... go to her and tell her what you feel. Tell her that you missed her ever since we parted ways. That you've been miserable without her.” Geralt rolled his eyes at the bard's words, but there was the hint of a smile on his lips. “Don't deny it. Just be honest with her.”

“Even if I were to go to her... It will take me days to get there, if I even make it through the snow out there.”

“That's something I can help with.” The smile on Yen's lips made even Geralt worried. He knew her, knew what she was capable of, so it was only logical that he worried what she was coming up with.

“Yeah, we talked about that.”

Before Geralt could do or say anything else, Yennefer had conjured up a portal to your town, and Jaskier all but kicked the Witcher through it, something he well deserved in Jaskier's eyes.

“Say hi from us!” he yelled after the Witcher before the portal closed, leaving behind a witch and a bard who were snickering to themselves, obviously proud of what they'd just done.

It felt like there was a hole in your heart, like something, someone was missing ever since you'd parted ways with the two men you'd grown to love. Being back in your own home, it just felt... empty, quiet, cold despite the fire burning to warm the whole room. You'd tried to distract yourself, tried to meet other people, and you'd been out there, telling your friends about the adventures you'd shared, a gleam in your eyes. Once you returned home, though, you felt hollow again. Still, you were hoping that this feeling would cease, that you would start to forget about your feelings for the Witcher and really, fully return back home, so that you could start over, get to know new people, maybe even a man. Right now, though, that wasn't possible for you. You met with your friends to get out of the house, but apart from that, you felt better on your own. The last few days, the weather had been in your favour, when it came to this, because the snow outside didn't really invite you to leave the house except for when it was necessary. Right now, you would be able to make it through another couple of days without needing anything. You had enough food, enough wood to keep the fire burning, and you could finally read all the books that had been waiting for you. A different kind of adventure, because when you couldn't be with the one your heart belonged to, you could read about those who could.

It was late when the knock on your door nearly made you jump out of your comfortable seat. You put the book aside, wrapped the blanket around your shoulders to brace yourself against the cold that would come in, and went to open the door. You didn't expect anyone, but maybe it was your sister checking up on you, since she hadn't heard from you in two days. Being away from home for so long had made your sister worry all the time, but you'd do it all again in a heartbeat if it meant that you could travel with Geralt and Jaskier again.

Ready to immediately tell you sister that you were alright and she didn't need to worry, you opened the door, only to see someone standing there, whom you never would have expected.

“Geralt?!” half question, half surprised gasp, but it managed to make the Witcher smile down at you. You felt your knees go weak for a moment, not really sure whether he was really standing there or not, so you reached out your hand, pressed it flat against his chest.

“Y/N. Can I come in?” His voice was softer than what you were used to. Your eyes landed on his hand that was now covering yours on his chest. A nod was all that you were able to manage right now, still confused, thrilled about this situation. When Geralt closed the door behind him with a thud, you looked up at him again. “Sorry to disturb you like that.” He let his eyes roam around for a moment, before they landed on you again. He'd only managed to stop himself from just barging in without knocking, because he hadn't wanted to find you here with someone else. Not that he thought you were that kind of person, but in the end, Jaskier's interpretation could have been wrong, and you could be here right now finding your happiness with someone else.

“You're not disturbing me... I was just reading. Enjoying the peace and quiet here.” Slowly you pulled your hand back from beneath his, because it felt like the skin on skin contact was nearly burning you. Everything inside you longed to be near him, as close to him as possible, but that would make saying goodbye again only more painful, so you stepped back from him. “Can I make you tea?” You already turned around to go to the kitchen, when Geralt grabbed hold of your wrist to stop you from walking away.

“I need to tell you something first.” Because if you left him standing here now, he might not be able to tell you what was on the tip of his tongue right now. Because he would have too much time to mull things over again. He hadn't come here straight away, had walked around for some time, before the darkness had surrounded him and he'd made his way to your home, finally able to tell you what was on his mind. You swallowed hard before you turned around, not really knowing what to expect, when you hadn't expected him here at all, ever. “Ever since we left you here, I've been miserable as Yen and Jaskier would say.” There was a smile forming on his lips, when he pulled you a little closer, his fingers loosening around your wrist, slowly stroking along your fingers, before he took your hand in his. “And they're right. I was back home among my brothers, and I couldn't really enjoy it, because my thoughts were elsewhere. They were here with you, wondering what you were doing, who you were with...” For a short moment, Geralt pressed his lips together, not wanting to think about you with someone else, some other man sharing your bed, even getting your attention. “You know... I never realised how much I needed you, until you were the one person who wasn't there.”

“Geralt...” His name was a mere whisper on your lips. Had he really just said what you thought he'd said? Or was this some kind of trick someone was playing on you? This was what you'd been longing for, what you'd secretly been hoping for all this time, and even when you'd parted ways, you'd still hoped that he would return after the winter and find you again. Now, he was standing there right in front of you, telling you that he needed you. It made your breath hitch in your throat when you tried to say something more. Your words simply failed you, but he could most definitely hear your heart that was beating rapidly in your chest upon hearing the words.

“I understand if this is too much all at once, but -”

“Geralt!” you said again, this time with more strength to your voice, but you still weren't able to put into words everything that was going on inside you, everything that he made you feel, but he looked yo worried, so uncertain, that you had to say something. Or do something. Where words failed you, you let actions speak louder than any words could. So you took one more step closer, stopping right in front of him, and rose to the balls of your feet, framed his face with your hands and pulled him down to close the distance so you could kiss him. Finally, after all these months that you'd been longing to do this, you finally got a taste of his lips – and it was sweeter than you could have ever imagined.

Geralt's hands landed on your waist, keeping you close to him, and what started out as a sweet, almost innocent kiss, quickly turned into something else, something carnal, something that tasted like more. While you would have loved to keep going like this, see where this would lead you, you had to break the kiss to get some air into your lungs – and tell Geralt what you hadn't been able to say before the kiss. Your hands dropped down to his shoulder, stayed there for a moment, before your right hand rose again to start playing with his hair a little.

“It's not too much, not at all,” you eventually managed to say, slowly opening your eyes to look into his. “I just... never expected you to feel the same way that I do. I never wanted to leave you and stay here.”

Geralt raised his hand to brush a few loose strands of hair from you face, cupping your cheek afterwards, a smile on his lips.

“And I never thought you could feel the same way for me, because of who I am... WHAT I am. I should have known you better.”

“Geralt, I love you for who you are, for the way you treat the people you care for, for the way you smile about Jaskier's stupid jokes, when you think nobody is watching you. For the way -”

“Alright, alright. If you don't stop, you're going to make me blush,” Geralt said with a chuckle, running his fingers along your arm, stopping at your elbow to place his hand back on your waist again.

“I didn't know Witchers could blush,” you teased, smiling to yourself.

“Believe me, with these words, you'll make even me blush, Y/N.” He leaned down to steal another kiss from your lips, not really wanting to part again, but he had something else to tell you. “I love you.”

“And I love you. I didn't expect any of this, I didn't expect to fall in love with you or that you would come back or -”

“Y/N!” he cut you off again, couldn't help the little laugh that escaped his lips. “Will you shut up?” Oh, you had a lot more to say to him, but as if to ensure that you wouldn't start talking again, he simply kissed you – not that you were mad about it, quite the contrary. You melted against him, held onto him, as if he was the air you needed to breathe in order to stay alive. You had all night to do this, and all of the next day. You certainly wouldn't let go of him for some time.

Princess of the Elves

Pairing: Geralt X Reader

Summary: As Princess of the Elves, life at the Edge of the World is a little less-than-fun. However when a Witcher and his Bard show up in your brother’s court, your life gets all the more interesting. Or what happens when a young woman follows a Witcher into too much trouble.

Warnings: Language, Smut, Fluff, Violence, Flashbacks, Injuries,

Word Count: 5,2K

A/n: Writing for Geralt is one of my favourite things to do now. If you haven’t seen the Witcher PLEASE go watch it because it’s amazing. This takes place in episode 2 and contains little-to-no spoilers!

THIS WILL HAVE A SECOND PART!!!

MASTERLIST

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“This is the part where we escape,” the human says, tugging against his restraints. The white-haired man behind him grunts, struggling to break his bonds.

“This is the part where they kill us!” He snarls. You watch from a dark corner in the room as Toruviel kicks the human in the face.

“Beast!” She snarls in Elder, kicking the white-haired man.

“Elves,” he spits, glaring up at her.

“Hey, that’s my lute!” You watch with a frown as his lute gets destroyed, all the while his companion is being kicked mercilessly.

“Shut up!” The white-haired man yells.

“No, you shut up!” Toruviel snaps.

“My elder speech is rough. I only got part of that.” You can almost hear Toruviel’s annoyance. “Humans, shut up!”

The human nods and replies in Elder, “Ah, got it, thanks so much.”

“Do you wanna die right now?” She asks, towering over the two men. “As opposed to later?” The pale one demands, spitting out blood. She kicks the human in the stomach and the other man nearly snarls.

“Leave off! He’s just a Bard!”

She turns to the pale man, a wave of newfound anger in her eyes as she punches him time after time.

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A young, horny Lambert sets his sights on an older hunk of Witcher beef. CW: age gap, flirtation.

"I'm going for it."

"Lambert, don't be a fucking idiot. They'll laugh at you."

"They might, but he won't. You miss all the chances you don't take, right?"

"Your funeral."

Lambert licked his lips and smoothed his hair back as he stood. He hadn't torn his eyes away from his mark for a single second since said man had swaggered into the hall a few hours before. This was the winter he'd do it. He was a man himself now, which meant he had every chance of bagging himself the hunk of good-lookin' he'd been coveting from the moment his dick had started getting hard at night and hair had appeared on his jaw.

Eskel.

It wasn't just that Eskel had two decades on Lambert or that he was becoming a seasoned witcher. No other Witcher in the keep compared. Sure, some tried. They might step toe to toe during drills or try to outflame Eskel's igni, but they never could. The only one that outmatched Eskel was his pale shadow, Geralt. They even looked a little similar. But cream puff was a fucking bean pole of a man, and that shitty headband...

N'aw, Lambert wanted big. He wanted heat, and honey eyes, and that thatch of dark hair he'd seen on Eskel's barrelled chest in the baths, and that huge fucking d--

"You lost, Lambert?"

Lambert blinked. Gweld, the ginger prick, was frowning at him, ale tankard halfway up to his mouth. The others had paused their card game; Clovis looked drunk, Geralt was slouched back trying to see Clovis' hand and Eskel was watching Lambert speculatively.

Watching, with those honey-coloured eyes that turned Lambert inside out. The words caught in Lambert's throat; shit, fuck, why was he so fuckin' stupid the moment Eskel looked at him?

He took a breath, conscious of Clovis elbowing Gweld with a chuckle, while Geralt looked over with a smirk.

Lambert found his words. He folded his arms, thrust his chest out, widened his stance and put on his best cocky smirk. "Was just wonderin' whether Eskel wanted some better company. You losers can't handle your beer at the best of times."

They laughed. Gweld elbowed Eskel who cocked a half smile, eyes rolling not at Lambert, but his friends, proving Lambert's point. Obviously.

"Is that right?" Geralt asked, amusement turning his narrow face bright with a toothy grin. Lambert had been told that as witchers matured they honed their sense of smell, could identify a man's emotions from his body language, the flush in his skin. Lambert knew Geralt had him sussed. "And what kinda company are you offering?"

"Geralt..." Eskel growled in warning, and it went straight to Lambert's groin. Fucking hells.

"Whatever he wants. I'm a man of many talents."

More laughter--"little man has game, shit; fuck, I'm chokin, too funny"--but Lambert wasn't put off. Eskel's eyes were on him, warming him like the sun. The lines around those eyes were wrinkled with mirth, and damn if that smile wasn't snatching the breath right out of Lambert's chest.

"Does your master know you're out?" Eskel asked, placing his cards face down. He leaned back in his chair and slung his elbow onto the back of it, knee turned out while a hand tapped at his drink.

Lambert tried to keep his eyes level and resist the urge to... look. Eskel's codpiece put on an absolutely fucking heroic effort, but it could only hide so much and that was when Eskel was soft. "What he don't know can't hurt him. No business of his who else is in my bed as long as I am."

Eskel pressed his lips together to smother his smile while the others guffawed. More was said but Lambert didn't really hear; he was too focused on keeping his heart from beating out his chest and appearing suave.

Eskel hummed. "Aren't you a little young to be lookin' for that kinda fun?"

"Worried you won't be able to keep up, old man?" Lambert felt momentum. He could do snark, he could meet Eskel on this well worn ground, toe to toe, and the way Eskel's head tilted to the side and his eyebrow rose. It wasn't a no, right? He looked interested. Amused, but he didn't dismiss Lambert outright.

Gweld slapped Eskel on the shoulder with a bark. "Eskel here's got stories that'd make your balls shrivel up into yer belly, lad. I don't think he's a good choice for yer first ride, best drop your ambitions."

"Fuck off, Gweld," Eskel said, but there was no heat to his words. Just wry amusement.

Geralt snorted into his drink and Clovis made a vulgar gesture with his hand, but before Lambert could respond a familiar voice barked through the hall and sucked all the building sexual tension into a vacuum. "Lambert, get your arse to bed, you missed roll call!"

Lambert clenched his teeth, shoulders lifting towards his ears. For fuck's sake...

Three of the witchers in front of him groaned in mock empathy. "Oof, tough break, Lambino. Cock blocked by Vesemir," Gweld said, shaking his head while Geralt and Clovis snickered. "Don't worry, we've all been there. Ain't that right, Gerbear?"

Geralt guffawed in protest and smacked Gweld on the shoulder. It quickly devolved into a wrestling match on the floor, one which Gweld was definitely going to lose. Eskel watched them briefly before he looked back at Lambert. "Another time perhaps," he said, toasting Lambert with his ale. "G'wan, before he decides the target dummies are a little light on straw."

Lambert grunted, frustrated, but stalked away. He'd made inroads, and the way Eskel's eyes had shone, and that crooked grin. Eskel hadn't outright rejected him, hells, he'd--well, that smile... Eskel didn't smile at everyone like that.

Lambert laid in bed with that smile behind his eyes and a hand under the sheets, determined that it would be Eskel's instead of his own by winter's end.

For Flowers May Fly If They Wish

Part Two

A sex pollen fic where Geralt helped Jaskier out bc he's just a Good Bro like that :) Contains all of the usual consent issues of sex pollen (mostly in part one).

If you missed the first part, you can find it here.

When in Dorian

It wasn’t as though Geralt had never slept with his friends before – or at least his comrades. There had been a few long winter nights, both before and after he went on the Path, and sometimes you just had an itch. It was like uncorking a barrel that had been fermenting for too long, that was all. Everyone agreed that it didn’t mean anything; it wasn’t personal, just a way to work out a need in the absence of other options. He’d expected it to be like that with Jaskier. After all, they’d been friends for years now. He knew Jaskier was attractive, but in a distant sort of way, the way you might admire a piece of jewellery or a well-shaped flower. The knowledge didn’t have any weight of lust behind it.

But after he’d helped Jaskier with the frenzy that had been induced with the deoval-stones pollen, he kept noticing it. He’d see Jaskier smile at someone else, and notice the way it lit up his face, and feel a strange pang of something almost like jealousy. Such a thing had never happened before when he’d lent a hand to someone, but then usually it wasn’t someone with whom he spent so much time. This was likely why some of the mollyhouses he’d visited had rules about seeing any particular girl too often, he thought. You could get the good time you’d had confused with actual feelings. That kind of risk was probably greater with someone you genuinely cared for, even if the way you felt about them wasn’t anything that required nakedness to be involved.

He’d been worried about Jaskier after the poisoning, and had watched him carefully for the rest of the evening and the next day, but he seemed to shake it all off surprisingly well. If he was a little quieter than usual, then that was to be expected. Geralt could hardly blame him for that. Jaskier had been forced into a vulnerable position, and the two of them had needed to do things that they otherwise would never have done with each other. Geralt was still glad that it was he himself who’d been here, since he knew Jaskier trusted him, and that he wouldn’t betray that trust, but far better would have been for none of it to have happened.

Geralt couldn’t help noticing that the two of them were tiptoeing around each other for days after the pollen incident. He couldn’t stop himself from doing it, even as he was aware of it. It was almost as though he was outside himself, watching himself half reach towards Jaskier and then pulling his hand back.

This will pass, he told himself. We just need to wait a little, and then things will go back as they were before, once the embarrassment has subsided.

Geralt found the herb he was looking for in the end, although after all of the mess leading up to its discovery, he felt less triumphant than he’d expected. The mage had wanted the entire thing, root to flower, so he dug one plant out carefully, leaving intact the other couple that had sprouted up nearby. He placed it in a small jar that he’d been given along with the contract, and pushed the cork into the mouth of the jar to seal it. As soon as the cork was firmly in place, Geralt felt his medallion buzz on his chest. There was some enchantment on the jar, then – possibly to preserve the sample while it was brought back to the mage. That was clever. Geralt wondered if he could convince her to give him a few of those jars in lieu of the payment she’d offered. So long as the enchantment lasted longer than a few uses, it would be quite useful for some of Geralt’s own purposes.

As Geralt tucked the jar into a spot deep in his saddlebags where it would be protected from breakage, he hadn’t been thinking about Jaskier at all. When did the change happen? When did those strange new feelings take root?

Jaskier seemed to shake off his own self-consciousness after a few days, which was a deep relief. Soon they were back to their old selves, laughing with each other again, and Jaskier constantly touching Geralt in small ways as he usually did.

It was funny: when Jaskier had first started travelling with him, Geralt had been taken aback by those small touches. He wasn’t touched by anyone, other than girls in mollyhouses who’d been paid to, or the big bear hugs from Vesemir and his brothers when he arrived and left Kaer Morhen in the winter. Geralt had thought that was the way that he liked it, and he’d been taken aback by Jaskier’s easy touches: the way he’d lay a hand on Geralt’s shoulder before sitting next to him on a bench, or would pat his forearm when commiserating with him over ale, or the way he’d bump shoulders to get Geralt’s attention when they walked together when Geralt was giving Roach a rest. 

Once their friendship grew and Geralt became used to it, he found that he craved that touch when they were apart. His skin felt strangely hungry when Jaskier wasn’t there, and when he was back home, he found himself passing some of those casual touches on to his brothers. Eskel had startled much the same way that Geralt had at first, but soon it became what they did with each other. Geralt wasn’t sure if he was imagining it, but he liked to think that they were all a little happier and more relaxed that winter.

Now that Jaskier had trained him into it, the sudden absence of touch for those few days felt unbearable. He could hardly blame Jaskier for feeling uncomfortable in his own skin, with what he’d had to go through. Geralt had tried to make the whole experience as easy and uncomplicated for him as he could, but the fact still remained that Jaskier hadn’t chosen any of it, and likely would never have chosen to fuck Geralt under other circumstances. Even with the pair of them being comfortable with each other, Jaskier’s lack of capacity to choose was still a problem.

If only Geralt had gone alone that day; if only it hadn’t been such a distance from the nearest town large enough to have a mollyhouse. He’d done what had seemed to be the best option available to them at the time, and Jaskier had survived, which was the important thing. He could live with a little awkwardness, since Jaskier had to live with worse. But there was some part of him fearful that this would be the end of their friendship, that Jaskier wouldn’t be able to stand being near Geralt any more after he’d more-or-less forced himself on on his friend. Never mind it was for Jaskier’s survival, and never mind that Jaskier had seemed to enjoy at least some of it – Geralt had been around enough survivors of attacks by monsters (or attacks by monstrous people) to know that the way someone seemed to feel at the time wasn’t always how they felt once the danger had passed.

All he could do was try to be considerate of Jaskier’s feelings, and let him decide what he was comfortable with. It wasn’t that far off some of the techniques Geralt used to train his horses, truthfully.

‘Stop it,’ Jaskier snapped one evening, two days after the trip to the forest. 

They were camped in a lowland forest between villages, both sitting around the fire after supper. Geralt had just sat down again after tidying away the last of their meal. Admittedly he was sitting further away from Jaskier than he usually would, but that was just because he was trying to be a thoughtful friend. He had no idea what he’d done to annoy Jaskier this much.

 ‘Stop what,’ Geralt said, perplexed.

‘That … kicked puppy look,’ Jaskier said, waving a hand. ‘I’m fine, you’re fine. Roach is fine. I’m just a bit out of sorts, that’s all.’

‘I didn’t say you weren’t.’

‘No, your face was just very loud.’

Geralt made a face at him, and Jaskier laughed.

Silence fell between them again. Geralt searched for something to say, but drew a blank. There wasn’t anything he could say to justify any of what had happened, not without making it sound like Jaskier was at fault when Geralt hadn’t warned him of the dangers of that part of the world. Jaskier picked up a stick from the small pile of tinder he’d gathered earlier, snapped it two, and threw both parts into the flames.

‘I am going to push off for a bit, though,’ Jaskier said, not looking up from the fire. ‘I have something I really ought to do in Carreras, so. Might be time to finally put it to bed.’

‘I see,’ Geralt said, who thought he did. He thought he ought to say something reassuring, like I wish you all the best, or I’ve enjoyed having you as a travelling companion. But his throat tightened and wouldn’t let them through. Part of him didn’t want to reassure Jaskier that he was happy to be left, and another part thought that he couldn’t stand telling Jaskier how much his companionship meant to him since it would sound as though he were begging for him to stay. Jaskier was free to do as he willed, even if leaving Geralt behind would break his heart.

‘Are you likely to be heading north next?’ Jaskier asked. ‘Or heading back towards the south?’

Geralt shrugged. It hardly seemed to matter.

‘Only I don’t think it’ll take longer than a few weeks. I just want to know where we ought to meet up again.’

Geralt’s breath left him in a woosh and left him dizzy with relief.

‘Might be worth heading south again,’ he said. ‘Eskel and Coën tend to travel through the northern states, so I’m more likely to find work further south.’

Jaskier nodded. ‘Well then, how about Ellander? If I’m not there in a month, you could always leave a message at the tavern or the village noticeboard saying where you’re heading next.’

‘Sure.’

Jaskier grinned at him then, a brief and brilliant thing which lit up his face, and stood up.

‘Bed for me, I think,’ he said, and patted Geralt’s shoulder. ‘I’m absolutely bushed.’

‘Good idea,’ Geralt said. His chest felt fluttery in relief that he hadn’t lost Jaskier’s friendship after all. ‘I’ll be right behind you.’

🪻

They had breakfast together the next morning – a simple porridge that was easily cooked overnight by setting the pot in the embers of their fire. Afterwards, Geralt cleaned out the pot and their bowls. He returned to the camp to find Jaskier adjusting his small pack – usually folded away in one of Roach’s saddle bags – before lifting his lute on his opposite shoulder. He fiddled with the straps until they were settled just so, then turned to Geralt with a small sigh.

‘Well, I should go,’ he said.

‘Yes,’ Geralt agreed.

Neither of them moved for a long moment after that.

‘This is ridiculous,’ Jaskier muttered, and threw himself forward into Geralt’s arms.

Geralt hadn’t expected an armful of bard and baggage, but he folded his arms around him carefully and held on, turning his head so he could breathe in Jaskier’s comforting scent. He was so glad that Jaskier had stayed by his side this long, that he hadn’t run screaming after that day in the glade. Some part of him was still afraid that Jaskier might yet disappear and Geralt would never see him again after this parting. He held Jaskier tightly, and tried not to squeeze him hard enough to bruise.

‘All right, let me go, you old softy,’ Jaskier said, and drew back. 

Geralt let him go with a pang of regret.

Jaskier stood there, closer than usual, looking into Geralt’s eyes as though he were memorising Geralt’s face too. He smiled crookedly, then leant forward and kissed Geralt’s cheek. Geralt froze. This wasn’t their usual farewell, and he didn’t know how to respond.

‘Look after yourself, Geralt. I’ll see you soon.’

Then he turned away, and left.

🪻

A couple of weeks later, Geralt found himself with a heavier than usual purse. He’d taken a contract for a moola in a little town west of Anchor, and not only had the ealdorman paid him generously, he’d put Geralt up in his own house. In the stables, sure, but it was warm enough there, and the groom set up a palliasse for him to sleep on, and even provided blankets as well. Roach also seemed to enjoy having company for the evening. They fed him as well, directing him to the kitchens and he sat down with the servants for their evening meal. He had expected that it would be eaten in stilted silence, but the kitchen boy asked him a question about his ‘beautiful horse’, and that was enough to unlock the boy’s cheerful nattering. The cook relaxed into a smile as well, and it soon became apparent that the kitchen boy was her son. He told Geralt that he wanted to become a farrier when he was older, and said mother chimed in that she was hoping to find a suitable man to apprentice him to, but their village was too small for a blacksmith or a farrier of their own. She was waiting for an itinerant one to come through, as the boy about the right age to send him off on an apprenticeship. Geralt wished them both luck, and when his meal was done, went out to the stable to see to Roach and to settle himself. 

He wondered as he lay in the stable’s loft, with the gentle sound and smells of livestock below him, whether the fact that the ealdorman was comfortable enough with letting him stay here was because of Jaskier’s songs. Jaskier would surely think so, he thought with a snort, before settling for sleep.

Soon after that contract, he found himself in Dorian, and since he’d been paid recently and saved on the cost of a meal and bed, he had enough to find himself a little company. He made his way to the mollyhouse, and hoped that his good luck would last long enough that he could make use of the windfall.

The madam sniffed at him when he presented himself, but permitted him entrance, and didn’t even warn him away from any of her girls. No, not just girls after all, he realised as he adjusted his pupils to the darkness of the house’s parlour – her charges. A young man was playing cards with two of the girls, and he also looked up at Geralt’s approach. Not every mollyhouse had men working there as anything other than bouncers, and the novelty of it piqued Geralt’s interest. That wasn’t something he indulged in very often. Truthfully, he rarely had the opportunity. Besides, it had felt strange to do so on the odd occasions that he visited a mollyhouse with Jaskier. He wouldn’t have wanted to give Jaskier the wrong idea about their friendship, and besides, some men were revolted by the idea of other men fucking. He didn’t quite think Jaskier would be one of those, since he had always been so open minded it was a surprise that it didn’t just run out of his ears, but Geralt had been wrong before.

The young man had short, messy dark hair and bright eyes that looked at Geralt almost hungrily, and there suddenly wasn’t anyone else that Geralt was interested in. The boy was halfway out of his chair before Geralt even reached him, and the fire of interest in Geralt’s belly was stoked a little higher in anticipation.

‘Would you—’ Geralt began.

‘Yes,’ the young man said. ‘Oh, you’re a witcher.’

Of course. Of course the young man’s interested had waned when he knew what Geralt was. He couldn’t even fault him for that.

‘I am, sorry.’ 

He started to turn away, but the young man caught his arm.

‘I didn’t say no.’ His eyes, when Geralt turned back to him, were sparkling. They were blue, Geralt noticed, now that he was close enough to see.

‘What’s your name?’ Geralt asked.

‘Wasiley,’ he said. ‘What’s yours, handsome?’

‘I, uh …’ He cleared his throat. ‘Geralt.’

‘Geralt,’ the young man repeated. ‘Come with me.’

Geralt followed him into one of the private rooms. As soon as he closed the door behind them, the young man was pressing up into his personal space, his hands on Geralt’s chest. Geralt took a surprised step backwards, and found himself back against the door.

‘What would you like from me, darling?’ Wasiley purred. ‘Want my mouth?’ He tugged Geralt’s shirt free from his breeches, and started working on the buttons.

Geralt felt a thrill go through him at that darling. It was exactly the kind of pet name that Jaskier tended to give him. Usually being reminded of Jaskier would be a distraction, would jolt him out of the moment, but tonight it felt thrilling. He wasn’t inclined to examine why. Not now, with this young man’s hands on him.

‘Yeah, please,’ Geralt said, his voice a husky rasp.

Wasiley grinned at him, and sank to his knees before him. His fingers made light work of Geralt’s remaining buttons, and then the tie of his braies followed. Before Geralt could try to help, the boy was pushing his braies down just far enough that he could free his cock from its confines.

‘Oh, aren’t you a pretty thing,’ Wasiley cooed to Geralt’s prick.

Geralt wanted to find it ridiculous, but he was already most of the way hard, and the boy’s clever hand was already stroking him to full thickness.

‘Mm,’ Wasiley said, and licked along the Geralt’s length.

Geralt bit back a noise, and then the young man took him into his mouth, working the rest of the shaft with his hand. Geralt leaned back against the room’s door, clenching his hands into fists at his sides.

‘You can touch me if you want,’ Wasiley said, and guided one of Geralt’s hands into his hair.

Geralt couldn’t help but notice then, with his fingers tangled through short dark brown hair, that the man he’d chosen had something of a passing resemblance to Jaskier. From this angle, the illusion was even better. This similarity to his friend ought to have been a turn-off. It would have been before, he knew. Perhaps it was the fact that he’d shared such an experience with Jaskier so recently, but a vision of Jaskier kneeling before him and taking Geralt’s cock into his mouth was bizarrely tantalising. Jaskier had offered, hadn’t he? Geralt had refused him, since the purpose of that liaison was to keep Jaskier from harm. Besides, it was hardly arousing to have someone offer to suck you off because they were out of their head from a mind-altering poison.

But what if he hadn’t been? What if Jaskier had just offered because he’d been bored by Geralt’s search, and he’d decided that he wanted to make his own entertainment, and that Geralt himself would be Jaskier’s entertainment?

‘Mm,’ Jaskier said as Geralt tightened his fingers in his hair, and took Geralt a little deeper. 

‘Fuck,’ Geralt muttered.

Would Jaskier be this skilled? If he were offering to distract Geralt with it, he must be. Perhaps he’d been sucking men off for years behind Geralt’s back. Knowing his friend as he did, he couldn’t imagine Jaskier as anything other than skilled in this. He was useless in a fight, sure, unless you wanted to rile up your opponents with sharp retorts. But between the sheets? How could he imagine Jaskier being anything else?

‘Do you want me to finish you like this?’ Jaskier asked. ‘Or do you want to fuck me?’

‘Can I—Fuck you,’ Geralt said. ‘Please.’

Wasiley gave Geralt’s prick one more stroke, and kissed the underside of the head. Geralt was so hard he thought he would lose his mind with it.

The young man slipped out of his shirt, which was made of such fine linen as to give hints of the body beneath it, but still having that chest bared to him was a temptation. Geralt was obscurely disappointed at the man’s lack of chest hair, though. Whether Wasiley was naturally ungifted or if he removed it for whatever reason, Geralt didn’t know, but he thought it a shame nonetheless.

Wasiley gave Geralt coy looks from below his eyelashes as he unbuttoned his breeches slowly, teasingly.

‘Will you undress for me too?’ he asked. ‘Or are you going to fuck me fully dressed?’

Geralt grunted at the reminder. He pulled off his boots, and started stripping off his clothes as he might if he were about to plunge in a river for a wash. His efficiency meant that he actually finished before Wasiley did, and he laughed as Geralt closed the distance between them before he’d managed to step out of his braies.

‘Eager,’ he said, although his blue eyes were alight with mischief.

Geralt nearly bent his head to kiss him, but remembered where he was and who he was with just in time and stopped himself. At least Wasiley didn’t seem to expect any pithy response from him. He ran his hands over Geralt’s chest as though Geralt were the one providing him with a service, and he wanted to make full use of the brief time they had together.

‘How do you want me?’ he asked, looking up at Geralt coyly. ‘Do you want to take me on the bed? Bent over the foot of the bed? On the rug in front of the fire?’

Geralt pictured that as though watching a stage play: Jaskier laid out on a bearskin rug before a fireplace in one of the inns they’d stayed in, his prick hard and pink and leaking onto his belly. Geralt could almost picture himself kneeling between Jaskier’s spread legs, and then Jaskier would look up at him and—

‘On the bed,’ Geralt said. That seemed safest. He tried to banish those inappropriate thoughts about his best friend. Perhaps Jaskier had been right to leave for a little while. He knew the thoughts were only plaguing him because of that odd experience they’d shared, but their heat was confusing.

‘Mm, yes,’ Wasiley said, somehow managing to turn his few steps to the bed into a wiggle to show off his arse. It was, Geralt had to privately admit, a very shapely arse. ‘Come catch me, then, Witcher.’

He watched Geralt with hungry eyes as he stalked closer. As Geralt put one knee on the bed, Wasiley reached for a little bottle on a side table. He poured out a small measure into his cupped hand, and stroked it along Geralt’s cock. He groaned at that slick slide, but nearly as soon as had started it had stopped again. More oil was poured out, and then Wasiley was slicking a couple of his fingers and reaching back.

‘May I?’ Geralt asked. He wanted to touch, wanted it to be his fingers opening the boy up. And perhaps if he did, he could focus his attention on this moment, and not whatever peculiar new fantasies his brain was inventing.

‘You’ll have to be gentle with me,’ Wasiley purred. 

He passed the bottle over to Geralt, and repositioned himself onto his hands and knees, giving Geralt a coquettish look over his shoulder. Geralt clutched at the bottle and tried to make sense of the conflicting signals, but despite his words, Wasiley seemed perfectly relaxed. He’d been happy enough to turn his back on a witcher, so he couldn’t be too afraid. Wasiley arched his back, and sent Geralt another look to gauge the move’s effectiveness, which shook him out of his indecision.

‘Tell me if it hurts or if I’m going too fast,’ he said. He slicked his fingers, corked the bottle, and put it down beside the bed.

The first finger slipped inside easily – not surprising for someone who likely trained for his job much as Geralt did for his. The boy groaned, and Geralt caught his lip in his teeth at the feeling of the muscle fluttering around his finger. A second one was as easy to slide in beside the first, and Geralt moved his fingers slowly, trying to be as gentle as he’d been requested to be. In and out he slid them, spreading his fingers just a little to get the muscle to relax, and then sliding them in again. From the noises Wasiley made, he seemed to be enjoying himself. Hopefully that enjoyment was honest.

On the next slide deeper, Geralt managed to find his sweet spot, from the surprised little oh of pleasure from his partner. He smiled to himself; that didn’t seem like the kind of response that was rehearsed.

‘Do you want another?’ Geralt asked. ‘You seem loose enough.’

‘Mm, yeah, give it to me,’ he panted.

Geralt left his fingers where they were and leaned awkwardly to pick up the bottle of oil. He took the cork out with his teeth and managed to slick up another finger and get the cork back in the vial without too much difficulty. Wasiley groaned as Geralt slipped his fingers out and then slid a third in. Geralt could hear the boy’s heart beating faster, but it wasn’t the rapid-quick drum of panic. Still, he took his time easing his fingers in with small movements until that tightly clenching hole relaxed enough to allow him deeper.

‘Want my cock?’ Geralt asked. He watched as his fingers disappeared deeper, twisted around, and slid partway out, and the stretch of that hole around him. ‘Or do you just want me to fuck you like this?’

‘Whatever you want, darling,’ the boy panted.

Geralt bit his cheek and considered it. He wouldn’t get a truthful answer as to which the young man would prefer. He liked bringing his partners pleasure, but he was here for his own release as well. And the boy hadn’t been afraid of him, had offered this, which Geralt wasn’t always allowed to have. It would be foolish not to seize the opportunity when he wasn’t sure when the next chance to have this would be.

He still enjoyed the whine Wasiley made when Geralt removed his fingers, leaving his hole empty again. There was more than enough oil left in the bottle to slick himself with again, and then he was pressing his cockhead to that welcoming hole, and pushing in.

He groaned, feeling the clutch of the boy’s hole as he pushed inside slowly. He couldn’t help but remember the last time he’d had this, when Jaskier had been at the mercy of that flower. The entire situation had of course been much less pleasant, and his focus had been on ensuring that Jaskier made it through the experience intact rather than on his own pleasure. It had been an act more of ministering than of mutual lusts to be indulged.

Even so, Geralt had still found a certain quiet satisfaction in being able to bring his friend to climax with just his hands, and by the time it had become clear that something else would be needed, Geralt had been sufficiently affected by the smell of Jaskier’s arousal, and the thrill of bringing him to climax that he had needed little else to get him interested when Jaskier had needed it of him. Jaskier had been much tighter than this, and Geralt had been worried about not hurting him. Under other circumstances, he might have spent more time opening Jaskier up and getting him to relax, but there hadn’t been the time. There hadn’t been the time to luxuriate in any of it; the focus had needed to be on keeping Jaskier alive.

But Wasiley wasn’t going to die if Geralt enjoyed himself. He could focus on the physicality of the body beneath him: that long pale back that was smooth and unscarred, the tousle of dark hair, the hot clench of his hole around Geralt’s prick. If circumstances with Jaskier had been different, if they’d just fallen into bed out of boredom instead of because Jaskier was endangered, perhaps it would have been more like this. Geralt could have focused on sharing their pleasure. He could seek out that sweet spot, which must be somewhere – ah, there, based on that moan – simply for the reaction he could wring out from Jaskier. He’d prefer to fuck Jaskier face to face, as he had last time, so he could enjoy the pleasure he was bringing him, but with Jaskier on his hands and knees like this, at least he could still listen to his heartbeat, and those little desperate noises, because Jaskier was nothing if not demonstrative of his feelings. And he could kiss him, just at the base of his neck, or between his shoulder blades—

There was a little jolt of surprise from the man beneath him, and Geralt remembered himself.

‘Sorry,’ he muttered. It wasn’t Jaskier beneath him. It wasn’t anyone he knew. It was a young man who was here because he was being paid. He wasn’t looking for any signs of an affection that they didn’t share.

‘It’s fine, darling,’ Wasiley said. ‘You fill me so well. Gonna fuck me beautifully, aren’t you?’

Geralt grunted, and started moving his hips again. He was here, in Dorian, with this young man, and they were both just looking for a physical release. Even so, Geralt couldn’t help trying to coax out those little noises of pleasure again, the ones that sounded genuine. That was far more exciting, the thought that Wasiley was enjoying himself too, rather than merely the feeling of another body beneath and around him. Soon every smack of skin was accompanied by little gasps and whimpers. The dark head dropped between his shoulders, and he was arching back into each of Geralt’s thrusts. It was Geralt who was bringing him this pleasure, the little open-mouthed moans, and Geralt could just picture what Jaskier’s face must look like, his blue eyes squeezed shut in pleasure—

He was getting close to his peak, so he adjusted himself, bracing himself with one arm on the bed and curling himself around the back beneath him so that he could reach beneath and take Jaskier’s – no, the smell was wrong – take Wasiley’s cock in hand to stroke him through it. The boy tipped over sooner than Geralt expected, coming over himself and the bed in spurts. Geralt slowed and stopped, not wanting to overwhelm him with sensation that he knew could easily become discomfort.

Wasiley was still panting as Geralt pulled out. 

‘You’re still hard,’ he observed.

Geralt shrugged. He felt awkward about not managing the timing right, even though he was here in this place for a purpose, and they both knew it.

‘You could come on me,’ Wasiley said, turning himself over onto his back in a languorous sort of flop. ‘Go on. Dress me up in white.’

He was watching Geralt with eyes still dark with desire. Geralt was used to being stared at, but usually it was uncomfortable, something he couldn’t wait to escape. Usually those watching eyes were filled with suspicion or hostility. Being watched with lust was setting his blood on fire.

‘Yeah?’ he growled. ‘You want that?’

He took himself in hand and gave himself a slow stroke. Wasiley watched him, and licked his lips.

‘Give it to me,’ Wasiley goaded, and opened his mouth.

Geralt lost control at that. He stripped his cock roughly, and the roughness and chafing feel somehow seemed to stoke that fire in his blood even higher, until the fire felt hot enough to melt steel. He spilled across the pale body beneath him in thin stripes of white, one managing to spill across the boy’s mouth. Once he had finished, the boy licked his lips and swallowed the small mouthful he had been given. Geralt groaned.

The young man was a sight, laid out across that bed, making no move to cover himself or to clean himself of Geralt’s spend. Geralt drank in the sight so that it might carry him through lonely nights to come. Without quite meaning to, for a moment he saw Jaskier there in the boy’s place, and pictured the satisfied look on his face. Geralt had seen the look before, when Jaskier sneaked back into their room at night after some successful rendezvous, but now he imagined it with a pool of spend on Jaskier’s tongue, and a strip of white across his cheeks. He imagined another stripe of white across Jaskier’s chest hair, and wanted it so badly he could almost feel the texture beneath his fingertips as he rubbed it in, grinding it in deeper.

Fuck. What was wrong with him? Jaskier was his friend, and he’d never had such filthy thoughts about him before. It didn’t feel fair to this young man either, who had done his job skilfully, but which Geralt had barely appreciated. He’d been too caught up in his own fantasies.

‘You should probably clean up,’ Geralt said, backing away and climbing off the bed to give the young man room to move. 

He avoided the young man’s gaze as he dressed again. He wasn’t sure if he was more afraid of Wasiley thinking that Geralt regretted something of what they had done together, or if he would somehow know that Geralt had been fantasising about someone else. And someone he didn’t even desire like that, no less! At least buttoning his breeches gave him cover. You couldn’t be expected to look at a bed partner while you were buttoning something at your waist; it stood to reason. But soon enough the last button would slip into place, and then he’d have to look up again.

By the time he looked up again, Wasiley was attending to his own clothing. Perhaps he hadn’t even noticed Geralt’s discomfort – it wasn’t as though he was likely to be watching him dress while using the wash stand. Wasiley was facing away from him as he dressed too, humming to himself as he buttoned his own breeches. Geralt felt foolish thinking that this stranger would even care about his own tumultuous thoughts.

He sat down on the bed to count out the agreed-upon amount, and added a couple of extra crowns to it. Wasiley probably deserved twice as much as he was charging for treating a witcher as though he were human, but Geralt couldn’t afford that. He could still leave him a little extra for his kindness.

‘Aren’t you sweet,’ Wasiley said when he turned around again, sizing up the pile on the table with a calculating eye.

Geralt shrugged uncomfortably. He wasn’t sure any part of his behaviour this afternoon could be described as ‘sweet’. Especially not considering how much he wanted to escape now that he’d had what he came for. He wanted to leave, so he could put this entire confusing incident behind himself, and return to the ordinary parts of his life, which made sense. Wading through a midden after a zeugl might not be pleasant, but at least he understood it.

He checked he’d gathered all of his things again, and headed to the door.

‘You’ll have to come see me again the next time you’re in town,’ Wasiley said, leaning on the edge of the open door and looking up at Geralt from beneath his eyelashes, even though there was probably only an inch or two between their heights.

‘Sure,’ Geralt lied, and even managed something of a smile for the length of time before Wasiley closed the door behind him, and he could exhale in relief.

That night, as he stoked the fire beneath his cooking pot, he realised that he’d been blowing the entire situation out of proportion. It wasn’t as though he hadn’t had strange fantasies before. He’d had a dream during training, soon after learning about gryphons, where a gryphon had taken him during a fight. He’d woken hard and confused about it, because it ought to have been a nightmare, but it hadn’t felt like that when he’d woken. He’d never had that dream again, and it wasn’t as though he had suffered such strange desires when he eventually fought one of those beasts. It was as though his mind had taken the fearful dread he’d felt during his lesson, tracing his finger over the woodcut of a gryphon in the bestiary, and had tangled it up during dreams into something else entirely.

And he had been afraid when he saw Jaskier flushed and wanting, when he recognised the symptoms. He’d put that fear aside, had locked it inside his chest so that it wouldn’t slow his thinking – or his responses – but since saving Jaskier hadn’t been a fight, he hadn’t been able to subsume it into a stronger sword thrust or a faster sidestep. It shouldn’t be surprising that there was some kind of residue left behind from the experience, like trying to pour a Cat potion into a vial that had held Swallow without washing it out in between, and being surprised that the potion was altered. Doubtless, like most experiences, its hold over him would lessen with time. By the time he saw Jaskier next, he would have put all of this behind him, and one day he’d be able to laugh about it.

[When part three is uploaded, a link will go here.]

For Flowers May Fly If They Wish

I took a little break from my ongoing WIPs to write a silly ficlet, which uh. Wound up kind of eating up something like the last month. It's not a ficlet any more.

Anyway, I wrote a sex pollen fic, which contains the usual dubcon warnings that such a trope requires. It's Porn With Plot. This is the first part; I'm hoping to have the rest up in the next few days.

Into the Woods

Jaskier would be the first to admit that sometimes he does stupid things when he’s bored. It’s as though there’s some imp that seizes him, and then ... he does foolish things which perhaps he oughtn’t.

But this time he wasn’t even doing anything. He had followed Geralt into this glade in the mountains of Mahakam because there was some rare plant that he’d been asked to retrieve. No monster was even trying to eat either of them. Geralt was just fussing about in the bracken looking for whatever the plant was supposed to be, and Jaskier waiting near Roach, minding his own business.

Whatever Geralt was looking for was apparently small, because he was just about on hands and knees looking for it. Jaskier, having quite literally nothing better to do, used the toe of his boot to shift one of the large leaves of a nearby plant aside to see if there was anything interesting underneath. He’d been careful, but he must have bumped some kind of flower underneath, because a cloud of pollen, or spores, or something floated into the air and made him sneeze.

‘Don’t touch anything,’ Geralt said immediately from the other side of the glade, not even looking around from whatever undergrowth rummaging he was doing.

‘I’m not,’ Jaskier said. He hadn’t! He just nudged it with his foot, which he might have done walking along, and thus didn’t count at all.

Geralt made a huffy sort of noise, and dropped the leaf he was peering beneath, pushing a different large leaf from another, different plant aside just as carefully.

Jaskier gave up. This was clearly going to take all day. He fetched out his notebook and pencil from the saddlebags, then unbuckled his lute case and took his baby out. He found a suitable tree whose roots were largely free of plants and fungi (and thus meant he was unlikely to crush the very plant Geralt was looking for), and sat himself down, leaning his head back against the trunk and closing his eyes. It was a pleasant sort of afternoon, he thought idly. If he didn’t have the boredom of being trapped here while Geralt foraged, it would be quite pleasant. Although since Geralt didn’t seem to be likely to shift them along any time soon, Jaskier could spend his own time however he liked. There was admittedly a gnawing itch in his belly that was likely to bloom into hunger at some point, but it wasn’t yet quite so bad that he had to do anything about it.

For the last few days he’d been working on a song about a contract Geralt had taken to rid a village of a vampire, but this one was being more difficult than usual. He opened the notebook to the relevant page and stared down at it, chewing on his lip and tapping the paper idly with his pencil. It wasn’t the words themselves that were the problem. Was it the rhythm? Did it want a more driving rhythm? If he changed the way he plucked the notes, perhaps, or added in more ornamentation to the lute part? Something about it wasn’t quite right, and there seemed little point in working on the second verse until he worked out what it was about the first one that was wrong. Perhaps if he fiddled with the second line ...

It was no good. He was too restless. He couldn’t focus on it properly. Perhaps he’d have better luck if he started a new song, and then he could come back to this one when he didn’t feel as though he would die if he stayed sitting in one spot. He thrust his lute back into its canvas case, tossed his notebook and pencil beside it, and got back to his feet. There was no use fighting what his nanny used to call his ‘ant attacks’. Trying to push through them never worked. But going for a brisk walk often solved the problem, so if he paced out the length of the glade and back again, he ought to be able to sit and work again, whether he started something new or worked on the half-finished song again. If he was really lucky, the walk wouldn’t just ease his irritation, but would knock something loose in his head, and then he might have a flash of brilliance. It didn’t help that it was a warm day, and the sun on his skin was heating him up slightly more than he thought he could bear.

Walking the length of the glade and back once didn’t solve the problem. Neither did a second, or a third. It only felt as though it was getting worse for once, and an undirected want was coiling in his belly with no way to satisfy it – at least, not without Geralt making smart remarks. Worse was the fact that the heat beneath his skin was stronger for the brisk walk, so he was triply uncomfortable. He wanted to scream, but he tried to hold those kinds of urges in check when Geralt was nearby. Either it would annoy him beyond tolerance, or (possibly worse) he wouldn’t react at all, other than to raise an eyebrow, and then Jaskier would feel stupid.

‘What’s wrong,’ Geralt said, and actually paused his plant bothering long enough to turn around in his squat to look at him. Glare at him, possibly. It was hard to tell sometimes with Geralt when he was actually annoyed and when he was simply intent on whatever he was doing. And when he was annoyed because  he was intent on what he was doing and you’d interrupted him.

‘Nothing,’ Jaskier said. ‘I just—I’m not in the mood for sitting around and waiting, and there’s precious little else for me to do here, and I’m not exactly going to wander off somewhere without you and get myself stuck in a crevasse or fall into a cave or something.’

He folded his arms, although it didn’t really help that horrible niggling feeling that he ought to be doing something. The village they’d been staying in was too small for a mollyhouse, so he didn’t even have satisfaction to look forward to this evening. Fuck, but that roiling need was distracting.

‘You’re all pink in the face,’ Geralt said, frowning. He stood up, and his nostrils flared. ‘Jaskier, what did you do?’

‘Nothing, I told you,’ Jaskier snapped. 

Geralt strode towards him, and Jaskier took a half step back out of instinct, before stopping himself. It was just Geralt. Why was he feeling jumpy?

Geralt took his jaw in his hand and tilted his face up. He searched Jaskier’s face for something, although what he was looking for Jaskier hardly cared. That touch on his skin simultaneously settled him and made his heart race. A whimper escaped his lips before he could bite it back. That was embarrassing. Worse, he was half hard in his breeches, just from Geralt touching him. That hadn’t happened for a while, and he’d hoped that he’d put that behind him. It wasn’t fair for this need of his to get its hopes up with Geralt’s touch, since that was the one quarter where he would never gain satisfaction. At least these breeches were roomy – he hoped that meant that Geralt wouldn’t notice. It might be a faint hope, but although Geralt was horribly observant, those same observational skills seemed to always fail when it came to anyone’s interest in him. Jaskier might yet get away with this.

‘I wasn’t even looking for that one,’ Geralt said finally. ‘You would manage to find that and stick your nose right in it.’

‘One of what? I told you, I didn’t touch anything,’ Jaskier said, then, ‘Why are you letting go?’

‘Well, you’ve clearly got more than the dose you’d get if it was just releasing pollen on the breeze,’ Geralt said. ‘You bumped it, then. Or kicked it. I’m assuming you haven’t been eating strange flowers that you’ve found.’

‘Of course not,’ Jaskier said, although he felt vaguely guilty at the accuracy of Geralt’s guess. That guilt was overwhelmed by the strange urgency he felt now that Geralt wasn’t touching him any more. Geralt’s words finally penetrated the odd fog that seemed to be shrouding his mind, and one stuck out in particular.

‘Wait,’ he said. ‘Dose of what?’

‘Peasants call it deoval-stones, or bollockwort,’ Geralt said. ‘It’s a type of orchid, and supposed to be something of an aphrodisiac. Some of the mountain villages gather it to dry and send it to apothecaries in Tretogor or Vizima. One village has a festival to celebrate the first flower they find in a year.’

‘Pfft, that doesn’t even work,’ Jaskier said, relaxing. ‘I mean. So I’m told. From friends. Who tried it.’

‘It does,’ Geralt said, ‘but you’d need a much stronger dose than you’ll get just brewing a tea from dried flowers. It’s best if it’s fresh, before the potency goes out of it. A proper distillation can be quite strong, if you gather enough of the fresh flowers.’

‘I haven’t any brewing equipment, and I haven’t drunk any strange elixirs,’ Jaskier pointed out, folding his arms. Hugging his arms to himself felt good, so he did that. Not quite as good as Geralt touching him, but better than nothing. He waited for Geralt to get to the point. Geralt was usually keen on cutting to the meat of the matter, but now he seemed strangely hesitant to do so.

‘You haven’t breathed in any usual deoval-stones, either,’ Geralt said. ‘Not if the effect is this pronounced. Where were you standing when it happened?’

‘Right there,’ Jaskier said impatiently, pointing at his previous spot beside Roach.

Geralt knelt down, and used a stick to shift the leaf Jaskier had lifted before.

‘There it is,’ Geralt said heavily. ‘That little blue flower.’

‘Isn’t bollockwort white?’ Jaskier said. ‘Or do the flowers change colour when they’re dried?’

‘The usual kind is,’ Geralt said. ‘This is a ... stronger variety. It’s only found in a few places, usually near old mage towers. No one I’ve talked to has been sure whether it’s an escaped experiment, or if it’s the result of normal plants being too close to an area where a certain amount of magic has ... seeped into the soil.’

‘That doesn’t sound promising,’ Jaskier said. ‘Geralt, tell me that I’m not going to turn into a swallow or something.’

‘You’re not going to turn into a swallow,’ Geralt said obediently. 

He paused then, and Jaskier could just tell it was an ominous pause.

‘What,’ Jaskier said. ‘Geralt, what. Just tell me! What’s going to happen? Am I dying?’

Jaskier was trying very hard to stay calm, but Geralt’s constipated look was not making it easy. He could feel hysteria bubbling up inside him.

‘You’re not dying,’ Geralt said, which was something of a relief until he added, ‘Not if I have anything to do with it.’

He turned his back on Jaskier then, and took a sidestep to where Roach was browsing in a nosebag. That should have been the first sign that this was a dangerous place, Jaskier realised belatedly, the fact that Geralt didn’t want Roach eating anything here. When he’d seen Geralt fasten it onto her, Jaskier had just assumed that it was to prevent her from eating the plant Geralt was looking for. Now he wondered if it was for more reasons than that.

He trailed after Geralt, expecting that as soon as Geralt had her resaddled, they’d be riding somewhere to fetch help. Instead, Geralt was rummaging amongst their packs for ... his bed roll?

‘What—’ Jaskier managed.

Geralt turned around, bed roll in his hand and guilt in his eye.

‘The pollen you inhaled is still an aphrodisiac,’ Geralt said. ‘It’s just much, much stronger than the common form of the plant. It’s less of a bedroom aid than it is a bedroom imperative.’

‘What the fuck does that mean?’ Jaskier said. He felt he should be forgiven for the fact that his voice had gone rather shrill. His whole self felt shrill.

‘You have to ... work it out of your system,’ Geralt said.

Jaskier stared at him.

‘By fucking,’ Geralt added, helpfully.

Jaskier turned on his heel and walked away, his mind whirling. It didn’t—Surely Geralt was joking. In a moment he’d call out to him, and tell him that he was only kidding, that all Jaskier had to do was wait it out and drink a lot of water.

Geralt didn’t call out to him.

Jaskier strode back. Geralt was just waiting there, the bed roll in his arms.

‘Are you actually serious?’ Jaskier demanded. ‘Your solution for this is fucking? What’s the alternative?’

‘Well, if you don’t, you could get a fever so high that it cooks your brain,’ Geralt said. ‘I thought you’d rather avoid that.’

Jaskier’s mouth opened and closed soundlessly. The heat in his face was unignorable, which he would ordinarily put down to embarrassment, but there was also heat rising in the rest of his body. He’d been getting hot even before Geralt explained his predicament, hadn’t he? He could feel himself sweating into his linen shirt. He’d put it down to the heat of the day, but now that heat felt threatening. He shivered.

‘So, what, I just have a wank here while you go back to looking for your plant?’ 

The prospect felt a lot less tempting than it might have in other circumstances. It wasn’t as though he’d never wanked near Geralt before, but that had always been under the cover of darkness, and they both pretended afterwards that it hadn’t happened. It was an entirely different thing to be doing this in dappled afternoon sunlight, even if Geralt was kind enough not to watch him.

‘Actually, I was offering to help,’ Geralt said.

‘You what,’ Jaskier managed, although every fibre of his body was saying yes, please, anything you want.

‘It doesn’t have to mean anything,’ Geralt said. ‘I’ve lent a hand to other witchers before when someone had a need. This sort of thing usually goes faster with another person, and I don’t know how long the onset to anything critical happening is.’

He said it perfectly easily, as though Jaskier wasn’t going to have fantasies until the end of his days of naked and oiled witchers fucking each other.

‘Um,’ Jaskier managed.

‘Look, we’re friends, aren’t we?’ Geralt said. ‘I don’t mind helping you out. But you need skin contact. It helps counteract the poison. I think it would be more effective if I helped, but I can just strip off and hold you while you do it, if you’d rather. Or we could sit back to back, I think, so long as our shirts were off. That might work too, even if I suspect it might be less effective.’

That sounded somehow worse than fucking his best friend and the love of his life and having it not mean anything. The embarrassment of having Geralt so close but not participating, the humiliation of it all ... no.

This is your one chance, a little voice in his head told him. Wouldn’t you rather have had him even once? Even if you’ll never have him again?

‘No, that’s fine,’ Jaskier said. His mouth was dry. ‘You can help.’

Geralt’s expression cleared, and he looked relieved. He started unfastening the buckles on the bed roll.

‘You should probably undress,’ Geralt said.

He didn’t watch as Jaskier started to fumble with his buttons. Instead, he focused on getting the bed roll laid out. Jaskier would have watched Geralt’s arse at any other time, but he did the sensible thing and looked away while he unbuttoned his doublet, feeling very virtuous about it. Admittedly, part of reason he was holding himself back from catching an eyeful was he didn’t think he could manage buttons if he combusted from lust at the sight of Geralt’s behind. He shrugged out of his doublet, folded it haphazardly and dropped it on top of their packs, then did the same with his shirt. The buttons on his breeches were next, and he couldn’t quite make his fingers work right. Why couldn’t he unbutton them?

‘Here, let me help,’ Geralt said, and he was suddenly by Jaskier’s side. ‘Once you work through the poison, you’ll feel better. Less shaky.’

Geralt made short work of the buttons. For a moment, Jaskier could almost believe that they really were going to fuck because they both needed it, that this tension between them (lopsided though it had always been) was finally breaking like a storm front. But Geralt’s hands dropped away after the buttons were all free of their confines, and the way he smiled at Jaskier was like an indulgent friend helping his drunk friend home, not a lover consumed with lust.

‘There,’ Geralt said kindly. ‘That should be easier.’

‘Thanks,’ Jaskier muttered, and turned away to try to hide his heated face as he stripped off his breeches and braies. He knew that there was little point, but it made him feel a little better if he could pretend for a minute that Geralt wasn’t privy to his humiliation.

When he turned back, Geralt had already taken off his own arming jacket and shirt and was seated cross-legged on the bedroll as though he was about to meditate. He looked up at Jaskier and smiled.

‘I thought you could sit in front of me, and then I could—Well. You know,’ Geralt said.

He made an obscene gesture with an apologetic face, as though offering to give him a quick wank was an imposition he was asking Jaskier to suffer through. Jaskier felt the laughter bubbling up inside him. He had lost his mind. That was the only explanation for all of this. Whatever rare flower pollen he’d breathed in had actually just caused him to hallucinate, and it was only in those fevered imaginings that Geralt was apologising for fulfilling one of his guiltier fantasies.

‘Yeah, sure,’ Jaskier said. 

The laughter escaped him in a thin kind of giggle, and he froze. Surely Geralt would take offence, would think he was laughing at him—

‘It’s all right, Jaskier,’ Geralt said, impossibly kind. ‘Look, just come sit down.’

He spread his legs into a wide V, and Jaskier forced himself not to look at Geralt’s crotch. He wasn’t sure if it would be worse if Geralt was hard but still not attracted to him, or if Geralt was soft because this was really just another witchery task to him, as unarousing as brushing down Roach or slaughtering a kikimora.

Besides, Geralt was doing this as his friend. He wouldn’t want Jaskier eyeing him with appreciation or lust.

He settled himself down between Geralt’s legs, his own legs splayed, trying to keep a little space between his arse and Geralt’s prick while still putting himself in touching distance. Geralt gave a little huff of breath and shuffled himself closer. He tugged Jaskier’s torso back a little until it was resting against his own chest, andwrapped an arm around him.

Oh, thought Jaskier, as soon as their skin touched. Yes, that’s much better.

Geralt's skin was beautifully cool, and with the contact the heat in his own skin seemed to ebb into something more tolerable. Some of the giddiness and hysteria that had been building in him also eased. He gave a sighing breath, and the next breath he took felt much easier, as though some band tightening his lungs had been removed. He softened into Geralt’s embrace and let his eyes flutter closed in bliss.

‘Don’t fall asleep on me,’ Geralt rumbled right in his ear.

‘I won’t,’ Jaskier said, then, ‘Oh! Ohhhhh.’

Geralt had taken advantage of his distraction to wrap his hand around Jaskier’s cock and to stroke it just once, in an firm, even pressure. Any minimal softening from his embarrassment and confusion at this situation was gone. He was harder than he thought he’d ever been, his prick just this side of painful.

The pace Geralt set was slow at first, and a touch too loose. It was a delicious agony. In all of his fantasies, Jaskier would never have guessed that Geralt was a fucking tease.

He forbore it for as long as he could before grabbing at Geralt’s thigh in those sinfully tight leather breeches that he wore – so tight that they were almost leather hose.

‘Geralt, please, you’re killing me.’

Geralt immediately loosened his grip and slowed down further, ignoring Jaskier’s howl of anguish.

‘Too much?’ he asked.

‘No,’ Jaskier growled. ‘Not enough.’

Geralt huffed a laugh, but at least he tightened his grip a little and started stroking again.

‘Good?’ he asked.

‘Yes,’ Jaskier groaned. ‘Fuck, just like that.’

Geralt hummed, and did something with his wrist on the upstroke that had Jaskier’s eyes rolling back in his head. He tipped his head back onto Geralt’s shoulder, hissing out a breath. Geralt didn’t pause in his stroking, but his other hand spread itself wide across Jaskier’s chest. It was a point of stability, and the feeling of their skin touching there was so intense that he felt as though when this was done, he would still wear the outline of Geralt’s hand, branded in silver-pink scar tissue. He was pinned in place by both of Geralt’s hands: one on his chest, and one on his cock. He was strung between them like a lute string, thrumming to the rhythm Geralt set. He was making little keening noises as he was brought closer and closer to the edge, shuddering against the cool solidity of Geralt behind him.

‘Easy,’ Geralt murmured. ‘You’re nearly there. Just let go.’

That reminder of who was touching him was nearly enough to do it, and then Geralt did that little twist again, and Jaskier was lost.

‘There, perfect,’ Geralt said. ‘Well done.’

The warmth in his voice sent another shocky wave through Jaskier’s body. Geralt slowed his movement, then his hand was a warm tunnel that Jaskier fucked into another couple of times, chasing the last moments of pleasure, before he subsided against Geralt’s stony solidity. His eyes closed and he lounged there, panting and enjoying the moment, even the pleasant kind of ache that still remained.

‘You’re still hard,’ Geralt said.

Brought back to his body, Jaskier realised he was right. His prick was still hard, and it still ached.

‘What? No,’ he said, gazing down at himself in dismay.

‘It might take more than one to work it out of your system,’ Geralt said. ‘We can give it another try.’

‘It hurts,’ Jaskier said, too tired to put a brave face on it. ‘It’s too soon.’

Geralt put a hand on his forehead.

‘You’re still too hot. I don’t know how long we can wait. How much does it hurt?’

‘Well, not hurt as such,’ Jaskier admitted. ‘But I’m too sensitive. It’ll hurt to go again so soon. It’ll be too much.’

His past partners were always happy to be distracted from the fact that Jaskier was too sensitive to be touched immediately afterwards by his skilful mouth and hands, but he knew that this time that was out of the question.

‘Sometimes too much can feel good,’ Geralt said. ‘I’ll show you. Wait here and I’ll get the oil.’

Jaskier felt the loss of his touch as soon as Geralt left. He was too tired to sit up on his own, he decided, and let himself lie back against the bed roll. He stared up at the blue sky. A fluffy white cloud meandered above him on its own path, completely uncaring of Jaskier’s suffering beneath.

‘Up you get,’ said a pair of leather trousers, standing over him.

‘Too tired,’ he told them.

A huff of laughter, and then strong hands lifted him up and Geralt settled himself behind him again.

‘I missed you,’ Jaskier said, letting his cheek rest on the smooth plane of Geralt’s chest. He was aware in a distant sort of way that there was a reason he wasn’t supposed to tell Geralt how he felt, but he was too fuzzy-headed for that reason to mean anything, or for him to even remember what it was.

Geralt seemed not to mind. He pressed his hand against Jaskier’s forehead, and it was a cool balm against Jaskier’s heated skin. All that heat was leaching away now that Geralt was touching him again. All too soon, though, that hand was taken away. Jaskier made a protesting little whine.

‘This might take a moment to feel good,’ Geralt said, tipping oil into his hand and putting the bottle down. ‘But it shouldn’t hurt. Tell me if it hurts.’

His hand closed around Jaskier again and started to stroke, slowly and gently, the way he’d begun last time. It was a different feeling with his hand slicked by oil, less heated. But it was still far too soon for it to feel good.

‘Too much,’ Jaskier complained.

Geralt ignored him, and kept his touch feather light and slow, and suddenly it wasn’t too much. Or it still was, but Jaskier didn’t care any more.

‘Gods, oh fuck,’ he breathed, arching in Geralt’s arms.

Geralt hummed, and Jaskier could feel it all the way along his back. Fuck. He was being taken apart, and it was Geralt who was doing it. It was a very different kind of slow torture, because he wouldn’t have borne it if Geralt touched him as firmly he usually liked it. That would have been pain, but this was intense sensation, hovering between pain and pleasure, until it tipped over into just being pleasure. He was writhing as though he didn’t have control of his body. Everything was subsumed into the intensity of the sensation, white hot along the whole of his cock, and radiating out from there.

‘Geralt, Geralt, Geralt,’ he whimpered, but Geralt held him fast, an arm across Jaskier’s chest like a harness holding him in place.

Geralt shushed and coaxed him towards his peak, his hand on Jaskier’s chest moving in small circles. His grip around Jaskier’s cock tightened just fractionally, and then Jaskier’s body was seizing up and he was coming again. It was a smaller amount of spend this time. That made sense considering how short a time it had been since the last. It hurt a little, although not as much as his cock did. He sucked in air through his teeth and smacked Geralt’s hand away.

Geralt held him while he caught his breath, which was uncommonly kind of him.

Jaskier was still hard. He still wanted. No, that wasn’t quite true. His body still wanted for pleasure. Jaskier wanted for sleep, despite the fact that it was barely afternoon. He let out a sob of despair, and turned his head to rest his cheek on Geralt’s cool chest again.

‘You’re still too warm,’ Geralt said.

His voice soft and gentle, as though Jaskier were some lost child he was coaxing out of a monster’s lair. He never spoke to him this way, not even when Jaskier had been sick for a week and they’d had to hole up in an old barn. It was a bad sign that Geralt wasn’t teasing him as he usually would.

‘I can’t,’ he sobbed. ‘Geralt, I can’t. It hurts too much. I can’t do it again.’ He sucked in a hitching breath. ‘I’m going to die, aren’t I?’

‘You’re not,’ Geralt said fiercely. ‘We can lie you down, get a cool cloth on your forehead. That might help. And then we could …’

‘What?’ Jaskier asked hoarsely. He wanted Geralt to save him, the way he always did. Geralt always knew what to do. But Jaskier just couldn’t see how Geralt could fix this.

‘Wait here,’ Geralt said.

He didn’t leave Jaskier sitting this time, but helped him lie down. The loss of Geralt’s touch again felt as though his own heart and lungs were missing. Jaskier stared up at the sky again, at the gathering clouds. They were still white, but as one crossed the sun, a shadow fell across him. He barely felt the coolness of the shadow with the fire roaring inside him.

Geralt was kneeling beside him pouring water onto a folded piece of cloth. Jaskier reached out a desperate hand, but all he could manage was to land it on Geralt’s lap. That wasn’t at all satisfying with the leather in the way. He needed Geralt to touch him again.

‘Just sit up and drink a little,’ Geralt said. 

He helped Jaskier up onto one elbow. Jaskier wanted to make some kind of joke about being treated like an invalid, but he found he needed the help. All of his limbs felt heavy, as though someone had poured lead in them when he wasn’t looking. Geralt pressed the mouth of the waterskin to his lips, and he managed a couple of mouthfuls of water before he couldn’t sit up any longer. The lukewarm water tasted so good that he knew he was thirstier than he ought to be.

‘It hasn’t helped,’ Jaskier said. He was worse than he’d been when they started this. It felt as though he would burn away in layers, like a book hurled into a hearth.

Geralt laid his hand on Jaskier’s forehead. ‘You’re a little cooler than you were. You just haven’t worked it all out of your system yet.’

He replaced his hand with the wet cloth, and that helped the fever a little. Jaskier had just had the same water in his mouth, so he knew that the cloth wasn’t icy cold, but it felt as though it were. He really was cooking from the inside out, like parsnips or turnips laid in the coals of a fire. 

Even if it hadn’t saved him, he couldn’t regret having had Geralt’s hands on him. That was a nice way to end his life, he thought. It was several of his most fervent wishes come true, aside from the one with Valdo Marx and the swarm of vicious man-eating rats. And Geralt actually confessing to some kind of feelings, but that was even less likely than the rats.

‘How are you feeling now?’ Geralt asked.

‘Hot,’ Jaskier said. ‘Chafed. Sore.’

‘Still too sensitive to be touched?’

‘Mm.’

‘I could—’ 

Geralt looked uncertain. Jaskier didn’t like that expression. Was it going to be I could take your body home to your family? He might be resigned to the probability of his own death, but if Geralt was, then there really was no hope.

‘You could what,’ Jaskier said, around a fearful lump in his throat.

At the same time, Geralt said, ‘I could suck you off, if you like.’

Jaskier’s mouth dropped open. He wanted that, fuck, of course he wanted it, but he wasn’t sure he’d even heard it correctly.

‘I thought it would be worth a try,’ Geralt said. ‘And it might hurt less.’

‘We can try,’ Jaskier agreed hastily, his heart pounding with need. ‘It won’t … hurt you?’

Geralt stared at him. ‘What?’

‘The poison. Aren’t we getting it out of me through my spend?’

A slow smile. ‘It takes a lot to poison witchers. I’ll be fine.’

‘All right, then.’ Jaskier wasn’t sure Geralt was right about that, but he was too greedy to disagree.

Geralt shifted, nudging Jaskier’s legs apart and settling himself between them.

‘I haven’t done this a lot,’ Geralt apologised.

Jaskier didn’t care, couldn’t care. He opened his mouth to tell Geralt so, just before a cool mouth enveloped his heated cock.

‘Oh, fuck,’ Jaskier said, his hips jerking up off the ground. Geralt pinned his hips down with his hands, and bobbed his head, taking more of Jaskier’s shaft inside. He was still sensitive, but thankfully this wasn’t as intense as the last time, and Jaskier was thankful of that. Geralt could only get half his cock in his mouth, although even that felt like bliss. 

One of Geralt’s hands left his hips, and Jaskier bit his lip in anticipation of a hand along his raw-feeling cock. It would probably be worth it, considering the intensity of his last orgasm, but Jaskier had never particularly enjoyed pain.

The hand on his cock never came. Instead, Geralt cupped his balls in his oiled fingers, gently rolling them and softly stroking his sac. Jaskier was nearly mindless with the force of so much pleasure in such a short time. Just one of Geralt’s hands was apparently enough to keep his hips pinned, and that casual reminder of Geralt’s strength sent sparks up and down Jaskier’s spine. He bit down on the meat of his thumb to keep himself quiet, but even that couldn’t completely muffle the little wanton noises that leaked out around the seal of his lips.

Geralt pulled off his prick, and Jaskier felt a breeze caress his cockhead, cooling the drying spittle.

‘You can make noise,’ Geralt said gruffly. Was Jaskier imagining it, or was his voice rougher than usual? ‘There’s no one to hear us, and I want to know if you’re enjoying yourself.’

Jaskier made one more whimper around his hand at the thought of Geralt wanting to hear him. At the fact that Geralt was watching him unwind even now. He managed to get a sufficient hold of himself to remove his teeth from his palm and lay his hand back at his side, and Geralt bent his head again.

‘Gods, fuck,’ Jaskier breathed, as his prick was licked and caressed and sucked. He made embarrassingly desperate noises as he slowly climbed towards another peak. His very bones ached, and yet there was pleasure there too, suffusing him from the tip of his cock outwards, like ink dropped in water. There was a different feeling of something like satisfaction too, centred on all the spots where Geralt’s skin touched his: his hand on Jaskier’s hip, his other hand still caressing his balls, the line along Jaskier’s inner thigh where Geralt’s forearm rested. 

Fuck, he was nearly there, he was giddy with it, and his whole being was chasing that peak. He just needed a little more, and he thought he might have been asking Geralt for it. Might have been begging. Geralt’s hand slipped along his balls until they were cradled in his palm, and his fingertips were pressing into a spot just behind them and—

Geralt didn’t pull off, even though he’d surely done his part, and Jaskier wouldn’t have begrudged him such a move. Most of Jaskier’s partners who’d been willing to use their mouths didn’t want to taste his seed, and they’d been doing it for much less selfless reasons than Geralt was. Besides, with Jaskier poisoned, wouldn’t it be safer not to? But no, Geralt kept swallowing and working his mouth around Jaskier’s cock until his peak faded and Jaskier pushed him away again.

At least there was less spend for him to swallow than there usually would have been, Jaskier thought wryly with the lucidity that had returned in this moment between waves of need. 

Now that the pleasure had faded, the ache in his bones was back, and he could feel how hot and sweaty he was. He didn’t think he could sit up, not yet. He pulled the cloth off his forehead. It was far too warm now, and barely felt damp at all.

‘Let me,’ Geralt said, and came to take the cloth. He uncorked the discarded waterskin, and tipped it over the cloth until it was soaked again.

‘Put it on my chest?’ Jaskier said.

He groaned as Geralt patted his forehead and cheeks with the cloth. He could feel a slight breeze caressing his freshly damp skin, and was blissful to feel even a tiny bit cooler. The cloth dragged down his left arm, along the outside, and then Geralt lifted his wrist and dragged it up the sensitive inner skin towards his pit. Then he repeated it along Jaskier’s right arm. As the breeze caught the crooks of his elbows, Jaskier groaned in pleasure.

Geralt dampened the cloth again before wiping down Jaskier’s chest. The rough linen caught on Jaskier’s pebbled nipples, and he bit back a moan, even though they were surely past any sense of propriety by now. Geralt had got him off three times, and was wiping him down as though he were a child in bed with a fever. Jaskier wouldn’t have had the breath to complain even if he wanted to, and besides, it felt so good to have even a brief cool breeze touch his heated body.

His legs were wiped down next, with a freshly dampened cloth. When he got to Jaskier’s feet, Geralt wiped down the tops and the bottoms, and Jaskier cried out with how much cooler he felt.

‘I’d take you to the river, if it wasn’t so far,’ Geralt said. ‘If I could get you into the river, that ought to cool you down.’

Jaskier tried to remember when they’d passed the river. There had been a bridge this morning, hadn’t there? Soon after they left the town, before they walked several hours here. Jaskier would burn up into cinders before they made it back, he was sure of it. Even if Geralt threw him on Roach’s back.

Geralt wetted the cloth one final time before folding it again and placing it back on Jaskier’s forehead. The cool was blissful, and Jaskier sighed with relief.

‘You’re still hard,’ Geralt said, a small furrow between his brows. ‘How do you feel?’

‘All right,’ Jaskier said, hoping it was true, and that he wasn’t imagining it. ‘Perhaps we can wait it out? It might go away on its own.’

‘Perhaps,’ Geralt said, although his tone of voice said It’s doubtful. ‘You should drink more. You’re losing fluid.’

‘I didn’t lose that much,’ Jaskier said, for contrariness’s sake. ‘You should know that.’

‘You’re sweating,’ Geralt said. ‘That counts.’

Jaskier deigned to let Geralt help him up to a semi-recumbant position again, although he didn’t really have a lot of choice about the matter. Geralt’s hand under his back still felt good. In fact, it felt almost too good, and he realised that the need was building in him again. He tried to ignore it, tried to pretend it wasn’t happening, but it was difficult to pretend not to be affected with Geralt touching him, and with his being so near. His face was just above Jaskier’s as he offered the waterskin, and if Jaskier just reached up a little higher, he could pull him into a kiss. If only the waterskin were Geralt’s prick, he could be drinking down something entirely different, something thicker and a little bitter, with the slight saltiness of skin. Jaskier could almost feel the weight of a cock on his tongue as Geralt pulled the waterskin away and corked it.

Distantly, Jaskier heard him say I’ll get the other one, but it felt unimportant when Geralt’s cock was right there, imprisoned in his too-tight breeches. Didn’t it hurt? Jaskier’s hurt. He could fix that for him, pay Geralt back. He scrabbled at the buttons of Geralt’s fly.

‘Jaskier, what are you doing?’ Geralt said, gripping Jaskier’s wrists.

‘Making you feel good,’ Jaskier said. ‘Let me, I need to, I need this—’

‘It’s not about me,’ Geralt said gently. ‘If you need, let me help you.’

Jaskier tried to reach the buttons on Geralt’s breeches, but those hands holding his wrists were too strong. Geralt was immoveable when he wanted to be.

‘It hurts, Geralt,’ Jaskier said plaintively. He lay his cheek down on Geralt’s thigh. Geralt’s leather breeches were cooler than his own skin, but they didn’t give him the relief that touching Geralt’s skin did.

‘I know,’ Geralt said. He rubbed circles on Jaskier’s naked back, and Jaskier wished he were a cat so he could purr. ‘But if you let me help, it’ll hurt less. At least the poison seems to be ebbing.’

‘No, my prick hurts,’ Jaskier said. ‘I don’t want to even touch it, and you know how odd that is for me.’

Geralt huffed another of his little laughs, and Jaskier tried not to preen about it. Making Geralt laugh always made him feel as though he’d won a prize.

‘We could try something else,’ Geralt said. ‘There are other parts of the body that—’

‘You could fuck me,’ Jaskier said. The lethargy clinging to his limbs almost seemed to fall away with the excitement of that idea, and he sat up. ‘Then you could enjoy yourself and it won’t hurt.’

‘I told you, I don’t mind—’

‘I do,’ Jaskier said. ‘Please, Geralt. I need it. I want it. I want you to fuck me. Please? Say you will. It’s all I’ve ever wanted from you. It’s all I dream of at night.’

He was horrified at the truth spilling from his mouth, but the admission was out there before he could stop himself. A cold feeling closed around his heart. Geralt had been so understanding up until now, but the rest of what had happened today could be blamed on poor luck and circumstance. This was a secret Jaskier had been keeping from him for years, and Jaskier knew all too well how poorly such a secret was usually received by a friend who wasn’t expecting it from you. He didn’t want this to be the end of this friendship the way it had been before. But his head was foggy with need, and his prick was still hard, and he couldn’t think what to say to try to make the situation better.

But Geralt just rolled his eyes. ‘There’s no need to be dramatic.’

Relief stole Jaskier’s breath from him, but he managed, ‘Please. Please, Geralt. Please fuck me.’

‘Are you sure you want this?’ Geralt said. ‘I don’t want to—’

‘It’s just a fuck,’ Jaskier forced himself to say. ’Besides, if you touch my prick I will die, which seems as though it will undo the rest of your careful pains.’

‘I’ve not,’ Geralt said, the words abrupt. ‘Fucked someone. Like that. Not for a while.’

‘Oh. You don’t … have to,’ Jaskier said, trying to ignore his dismay at Geralt’s obvious discomfort. He always pushed too hard. Why did he always push people too hard? Geralt was probably revolted by the request, by him—

‘I don’t mind. It won’t be a hardship,’ Geralt said. ‘Just don’t expect any particular skill. I’m out of practice.’ His hands went to the fly of his breeches and started to unbutton them.

‘So long as you fill me, I promise that’s all I require,’ Jaskier said primly, his expression carefully calculated to make Geralt laugh. When it did, he felt his shoulders relax a little and he let himself recline on the bedroll with relief. ‘I could always ride you.’

Geralt gave him an ironic look before pushing the last button through its buttonhole. ‘It seems to me as though I’ll need to do all the work,’ he teased. ‘You hardly seem capable of riding anything. Where did I put the oil?’

He wriggled out of his breeches and kicked them off. It was far more alluring than it should be, Jaskier reflected. Despite his good intentions, his eyes were drawn to Geralt’s half-hard cock. Not revolted by him, then. That delicious cock drew closer, and then Geralt was looming over him. Jaskier blinked, but Geralt just reached past him to seize the small bottle of oil. Sitting back on his heels, he uncorked it and put the cork carefully aside.

‘It’s possibly you may have to do the – hah, the wolf’s share – of the work,’ Jaskier said, heroically addressing Geralt’s face instead of his prick. ‘I would like to point out that this is scarcely my usual bed manner. I’m not used to being so …’ He waved a vague hand.

Geralt swapped the hand holding the oil bottle so he could lay a non-oiled hand on Jaskier’s thigh. ‘I don’t mind, Jask. You’ve been poisoned. It’s not as though we’d be likely to do this otherwise, would we?’

‘Right,’ Jaskier said weakly.

That was a harsh reminder of the situation. If he wasn’t under the compulsion of a fucking plant, his prick would soften at that. But he could still feel his pulse in his too-hard cock, which was as eager for Geralt’s touch as ever.

You fucking traitor, he thought bitterly.

At least Geralt wasn’t completely soft, which was some small measure of comfort. Geralt might not be interested in him, but at least he wasn’t forcing himself to do something he found abhorrent.

Geralt took his hand away again to attend to his preparations. Before he could bite his tongue, Jaskier said, ‘Please don’t stop touching me.’

‘I need both of my hands,’ Geralt said, looking down at him. ‘But here, if I shuffle forward, can you shift your leg around me?’

Jaskier managed to move both of his legs so that his calves rested against Geralt’s sides.

‘Better?’ Geralt asked, corking the oil again.

‘A little,’ Jaskier admitted. His face was hot, and he couldn’t tell if it was embarrassment or just the fucking fever that would not abate.

He watched the breeze ripple the edges of the trees on the far side of the glade to distract himself.

‘May I …?’ Geralt asked. 

Jaskier dragged his attention back to what they were doing. Geralt’s hand hovered near Jaskier’s hole, waiting for permission.

‘Yes?’ Jaskier said, then ‘Ngh,’ as Geralt pushed a finger inside.

It had been a little while for him too, truthfully. It was harder to find interested men in smaller villages, since everyone there needed to be much more circumspect, and he didn’t know any of them, which made it harder to judge who to approach. It was easier in the cities. He knew the places to go to find others of like mind in Novigrad and Oxenfurt and Vizima. But he and Geralt had mostly been travelling though smaller backwaters lately, and this act was more comfortably done somewhere where you wouldn’t be disturbed. Better to stick to hands and mouths and thighs if you were sneaking a fuck in a stables somewhere. Not all villages were comfortable with men taking their pleasure together, and you never knew when getting caught would be dangerous.

Geralt’s fingers were thick, and it took a moment for Jaskier to relax around him and for the pain to ease into pressure and fullness. He knew Geralt was watching his face for his reactions, but he couldn’t meet that gaze. He felt open and vulnerable in more than one way with the reminder that Geralt was simply doing this to save a friend, and wouldn’t welcome Jaskier’s messy feelings about him. It was making it harder to relax and let Geralt in, as though keeping his body rigid would stop his mouth from spilling his secrets.

‘Come on, relax,’ Geralt said, rubbing Jaskier’s hip with his other hand.

‘I’m trying,’ Jaskier said. ‘This isn’t exactly the ideal situation.’

‘I know,’ Geralt said. ‘We don’t have to do this, you know. You don’t have to force yourself. We can try something else.’

That sounded worse, Jaskier thought. What was the point in this afternoon breaking his heart if he couldn’t at least have had the experience of Geralt filling him up?

‘No, I want it,’ Jaskier admitted. ‘I’m just feeling a little tense.’

If they were lovers, Jaskier thought, he could probably coax a kiss from Geralt, and that would help him relax. He couldn’t ask for that, though. It wasn’t what was being offered, and Geralt was already being more than generous by offering his body.

He wished Geralt would kiss him, though. He had two of Geralt’s fingers inside him, he had Geralt’s flanks pressing along the inside of his own legs, and yet he still felt starved for touch, as though he might die from that instead of the poison coursing through his system. He pressed his cheek into the bed roll beneath him, but it didn’t help.

‘Normally I’d give you a stroke or two,’ Geralt said. ‘But I’m guessing that might be a little unwelcome at the moment.’

‘Please don’t,’ Jaskier said with alarm.

‘We’ll try other things,’ Geralt agreed.

His free hand swept over Jaskier’s hip, towards his cock, but diverted away and stroked softly over his inner thigh instead. It left a tingle in its wake as Geralt repeated the motion with Jaskier’s other thigh. Seemingly pleased with the little noises he’d coaxed out, Geralt did it again, this time lengthening the movement until it ended on the soft skin beneath Jaskier’s knee, before brushing his fingers towards his cock again. Jaskier hadn’t known that the backs of his knees were so sensitive. He imagined what it would be like if it wasn’t just Geralt’s fingers, but if it was his lips nuzzling into the soft skin there and leaving kisses. If Geralt did that while fucking him, holding Jaskier’s legs up above him so that he could torment him with licks and kisses to that tender skin.

‘There you go,’ Geralt said with satisfaction, twisting his fingers inside Jaskier and working them deeper.

He managed a complicated bit of slight of hand, thumbing the cork out one-handed so that he could drizzle a little more over his fingers and Jaskier’s stretched hole. Jaskier made a little whimper at the cool liquid touching him, but Geralt was kind enough not to comment.

Jaskier quickly realised that the reason Geralt did it that way was so that he could prepare for a third finger without leaving Jaskier open and bereft. He didn’t even quite remove the two fingers holding Jaskier open while he slipped the third finger in beside them, and Jaskier groaned in satisfaction at the stretch. Geralt’s free hand returned to stroking along Jaskier’s hip as he moved his other fingers inside him so very gently and slowly.

Slowly, the pleasure of the stretch waned and his need to be filled more waxed, until it was buzzing under his skin again, like an entire hive of bees.

‘I’m ready,’ Jaskier said, tucking his heels behind Geralt’s arse and trying to urge him forward. ‘Please, I’m ready. Fuck me. Please.’

Geralt’s fingers slipped out of him then, and although Jaskier knew it was necessary, the loss still made him feel as though he were dying. Geralt wiped his fingers on a rag, then poured more oil into his palm and stroked it along the length of his cock. Jaskier watched greedily. Geralt’s prick was long and thick because of course it was. Was there anything about him that wasn’t the pinnacle of human perfection? Soon that thickness would be inside Jaskier. He licked his lips.

There was a brief pressure at his fluttering hole, and then the head of Geralt’s cock slipped inside, pushing Jaskier’s air out of his lungs with it. It was definitely thicker than three of Geralt’s fingers.

‘Fuck,’ Jaskier wheezed.

Geralt paused, concern on his face.

‘I’m fine,’ Jaskier said. ‘I just need a minute.’

‘I can wait,’ Geralt said.

How? Jaskier wanted to ask. How can you possibly wait? He felt so desperate. Some small part of him knew that this was not how he normally felt during sex, that there were plenty of times when he and his partner had taken their time. When their fucks had been leisurely, drawing out their pleasure until they were both almost crying with it. He’d spent a full day in bed with the countess that one time when her husband was in Tretogor for business, and the two of them had spent that day trying to suspend each moment of pleasure indefinitely. That was still one of his fonder memories. But the concept of drawing out anything for the joy of it was completely foreign to him now. More foreign than Nilfgaard – perhaps as alien as the dryads of Brokilon, or those merfolk that he’d met with Geralt that time with the duke. He wasn’t sure he’d be able to wait at all were he in Geralt’s position, so it was probably for the best that their roles weren’t reversed.

‘In, in me, now, please,’ Jaskier chanted, when his desperation for more overwhelmed the discomfort of the stretch.

Geralt obeyed, but of course he was slow and gentle about it. He ignored Jaskier’s pleas and took his time pushing in as slowly as the arrival of summer in the northernmost states. Jaskier’s breath hitched in his chest and he only realised he was crying when a tear slipped out and rolled down his cheek. Geralt stopped moving, which was intolerable.

‘Are you all right?’ Geralt asked.

‘No,’ Jaskier said. ‘I’m fucking poisoned, and my best friend promised he’d h-help, but all he’s doing is torturing me and not fucking me.’

‘All right,’ Geralt said with a little smile. He tipped his head forward so that his forehead and Jaskier’s rested together for a moment and they shared breaths. ‘Just making sure.’

‘Fucking – move,’ Jaskier hissed, but Geralt was already straightening his back and finishing the push deeper inside in one slow, smooth movement.

Geralt paused again once he was fully sheathed. Somehow that made Jaskier feel more overwhelmed than if he’d started pounding into him. Geralt was bigger than anything he’d taken in a while, and he felt so full. He gripped Geralt’s forearm as he held himself over Jaskier, and tried to breathe through the feeling of being thoroughly impaled.

‘Ready?’ Geralt panted.

‘Please,’ Jaskier said, and another tear slipped from his eye.

He was thankful when Geralt grunted and started to move, and didn’t acknowledge the fact that Jaskier was falling apart beneath him. It wasn’t even the fact that it was Geralt that was destroying him, not entirely. It was the overwhelming feeling of all of it, the pain and the pleasure and the artificial desperation that the pollen had induced in him. The love he had for Geralt was just one more candle lit in a temple glowing with a thousand candles on its altar. Even without the physicality of the accompanying fever, Jaskier felt as though he might burn up from need alone.

Geralt was finally fucking him. It wasn’t as hard as Jaskier would normally like it, but with a kind of methodical attention to it. It reminded Jaskier of watching Geralt grinding herbs in preparation for potion making – or poultice making, if Jaskier had done something ill advised and needed tending. It wasn’t as though Jaskier felt like an object, or as though Geralt saw him as a chore. That wasn’t it at all. Geralt had such a care for everything he did, whether it was making something or planning a hunt or looking after Roach, and now all of that care and concern was turned directly on Jaskier. Geralt was watching him as he fucked him, examining his face for every reaction. Jaskier didn’t think he’d ever had the full focus of Geralt’s attention before, not like this, and the force of it felt as all consuming as the effects of the pollen. The care and concern in Geralt’s eyes almost took his breath away. He knew Geralt cared for him; he’d felt comfortable in this friendship for years now, but he felt anew just how precious that trust and care was coming from Geralt, and it was like falling in love with him all over again. He felt another hot tear slip down his cheek as he gave a hiccupy sob.

He could feel himself climbing towards another peak, but the build was slower than all of the previous ones. Even with Geralt filling him so perfectly, and stroking that spot inside which always drove him out of his mind (even when he wasn’t at the mercy of a stupid plant). He ached to touch his cock, but he knew that wouldn’t help, not with the abuse he’d given it so far today. He clung to Geralt’s forearm instead, and wished that they could kiss. He wished that there was something a little more romantic about this, or at the very least deliberately erotic. That Geralt had been harbouring some secret lust for him that he was finally giving way to, and the reason they were fucking in this glade was because they couldn’t bear to wait any longer to consummate their passion. The desperation Jaskier felt might then feel thrilling, instead of torturous.

Kiss me, he willed Geralt, not brave enough to ask him directly. Please. Just kiss me. He could feel more tears welling in his eyes, and he hated it.

‘I’ve got you, Jask,’ Geralt said. 

‘I know,’ Jaskier said wetly, because he did. Geralt might not return his affections in the way Jaskier wished, but he was the best of friends that anyone could ask for, and loyal to a fault. Jaskier knew that Geralt would walk through fire to save him if he had to. He’d had any doubt of that.

‘Nearly there?’ Geralt asked. His voice was a low rasp. ‘Think you can come for me?’

That isn’t fair, Jaskier thought, as his body seized and he came. It was a pitiful amount that seemed unfair for how much it hurt. Geralt slowed and stopped, but was kind enough not to pull out immediately. Jaskier closed his eyes, knowing that Geralt was still watching him, still monitoring his body and its reactions. If Jaskier didn’t open his eyes, he wouldn’t see what expression was on Geralt’s face. Then it wouldn’t hurt so much that it was concern and not lust.

Once his breathing was largely returned to normal, he had the unpleasant sensation of Geralt pulling out. He must have made a face, because Geralt huffed a quiet apology as he settled down beside Jaskier on the narrow mat. The fever felt as though it had finally receded, but Jaskier was still thankful to feel Geralt’s soothing bulk all along his side where his body touched Jaskier’s.

‘How are you feeling?’ Geralt asked.

‘Better,’ Jaskier said, relieved that it was true. Some of the ache in his bones had receded. Although he wasn’t exactly soft yet, he was finally softening. His cock might still feel chafed, but at least he wasn’t so hard it hurt any more. It was still uncomfortable enough that he wished he could somehow take it off and leave it in a drawer, which was never a feeling he’d had about his own prick before. Well, not since that awkward part of his youth when it seemed to have a mind of its own, anyway.

‘You look a little better,’ Geralt said. ‘Although it’d be easier to be sure if I could see your eyes.’

Jaskier opened them, partly out of surprise at the request. ‘My eyes? What about them?’

‘Your pupils were enlarged,’ Geralt said. ‘It happens sometimes if people are drugged.’

‘Huh,’ Jaskier said. ‘They didn’t feel any different.’

‘It’s not something humans can feel,’ Geralt smiled. ‘Or so I’m told.’

‘But you can?’ Jaskier asked.

Geralt hummed.

‘Huh.’ Jaskier digested this new small puzzle that was witchers. ‘So are my eyes better now?’

Geralt was silent for a little too long.

‘Not quite yet,’ he admitted. ‘But it might just take a little longer for the last of the pollen to make its way out of your system, even once the fever has definitely broken. Not all effects last the exact same time – I learnt that long ago, when I took my first potion.’

Jaskier hummed an acknowledgement and let his eyes fall shut again. On any other day he’d ask Geralt for details, try to prise the whole story from him. But his whole body was so tired. Perhaps he could just have a little nap here, while Geralt fetched his plant.

Geralt seemed willing to let him lie there, thankfully, and even better, didn’t seem about to abandon him in favour of herbcraft just yet. The two of them lay together in comfortable silence for a while, then Jaskier felt him move against his side as a prelude to sitting up. A moment later, his hand just glanced over Jaskier’s chest as he reached across him for something. Jaskier, shamefully, moaned.

He opened his eyes. Geralt was looking down at him with a worried frown.

‘It’s never going to stop, is it?’ Jaskier asked, misery swirling through him.

‘It took longer this time,’ Geralt said gently. He was still trying to be comforting, Jaskier thought. He wasn’t sure if that made it better or worse. ‘Perhaps this is the last one, and then you’ll be done.’

‘I thought it was supposed to be one,’ Jaskier said. ‘When you said it had to be fucked out of my system. I thought one good fuck and we would be done.’

‘I’ve never had direct experience. That’s what the accounts I’d read suggested, but none of them were very precise in the details.’

‘Geralt, I don’t think I can.’ Jaskier said, despair filling him. ‘Perhaps if you have some magical way of making me come without touching me—’

‘Sadly, that wasn’t one of the Signs I was taught,’ Geralt said. ‘You had to be a witcher for a solid hundred years before they taught you that one.’

Jaskier didn’t laugh. Geralt grimaced apologetically.

‘I’m going to die, aren’t I?’ Jaskier asked.

‘You won’t,’ Geralt said. ‘We might just have to wait a little longer. We might have worked enough of it of you – you’re not as hot as you were. Your fever might slowly drop until you’re back to normal, and you might just be uncomfortable for a little while while you wait for that to happen. Or ...’

He had a thoughtful expression on his face, and Jaskier had a moment of sudden hope. 

‘Or what?’ he asked. 

‘Or we could try something else,’ Geralt said. ‘See if we can’t work the last out. It might feel a little strange, but it shouldn’t hurt.’

‘Anything,’ Jaskier said. ‘You know me, willing to try anything.’

Geralt smiled at him. ‘Yeah. All right, let me get the oil.’

He reached over Jaskier again and grabbed the little bottle, and then settled himself between Jaskier’s legs again. ‘So what are you actually planning?’ Jaskier asked, trepidation starting to build as Geralt poured out a little pool of oil into one cupped palm and oiled up his fingers.

‘I’m going to finger you,’ Geralt said. ‘There’s a spot inside you which will help you ... produce emissions.’

‘What?’ Jaskier said faintly.

‘It should get the last of the poison out, which I think might reduce your symptoms.’

‘How do you know this?’ Jaskier demanded. ‘About producing emissions, I mean.’

‘Experimentation,’ Geralt said vaguely, which was an annoyingly coy response.  ‘Breathe and relax.’

The instruction was not particularly helpful, all things considered, but when Jaskier felt Geralt’s fingers pressing against him, he did his best to follow it.

At least he was still loose from being thoroughly fucked earlier, so it wasn’t much of a stretch at all. And it didn't hurt as he’d feared it might. It felt a little strange, Geralt’s fingers shifting around inside him while he watched Jaskier with that hawk-like gaze of his. It made Jaskier feel more than naked, as though every part of him and all his secrets were laid bare to Geralt’s relentless measuring stare. It made him feel more vulnerable than the fucking did. He knew his body and soul were safe with Geralt – he just wasn’t as sure of his heart. 

He made a noise as Geralt’s questing fingers found that spot inside him again. Geralt’s focused expression shifted into satisfaction.

‘There we are,’ he murmured, seemingly to himself.

He was unrelenting after that, with all of his attentions focused on that same sensitive spot. He didn’t hit it bruisingly hard, as some of Jaskier’s lovers had done, but his strokes were remorseless, and Jaskier was already oversensitive. It took Geralt almost no time at all to sweep Jaskier up in a flood of sensation, but as overwhelming as it was, it never seemed to get close to cresting. He was surprised, therefore, when the first weak spatter landed on his belly.

‘What—?’ he said.

‘I’m wringing you out,’ Geralt said. ‘Should get the last of it out, but you won’t come.’

‘Oh,’ Jaskier said.

That was a little hot, he thought. In another situation, with someone who lusted to see what heights they could bring him to, it definitely would be: a lover taking such control over both his body and his pleasure that they could bring him to the brink like this, and then just provide him with release without a peak. Even reminding himself why it was happening now wasn’t quite enough to take the thrill away from the thought. He suspected he was going to have a new guilty fantasy the next time that Geralt was off on some expedition, leaving Jaskier behind to entertain himself.

Geralt continued his assault. Jaskier felt as though he was suspended in midair, held between one moment and the next. Geralt had been right: he couldn’t peak, but with the ongoing attentions, he couldn’t come down either. He was distantly aware that he was making desperate little noises, but any shame over them was too distant to be felt.

Finally, Geralt’s slow movements slowed further, then stopped.

‘That’s it, that’s the last of it,’ he said. He withdrew his fingers carefully, and wiped them on a cloth.

‘Mnyeh,’ Jaskier managed through a dry mouth.

‘I think we should finally have worked through the worst of the poison. You should feel a little better now.’

Jaskier hummed an acknowledgement and tried to gather the tattered fragments of himself again. He felt as though he’d been spread out over the entire glade, the way a gust of wind might scatter an unattended pile of grain. He lifted his head to look around himself, but that felt like far too much work, and he let it fall back onto the mat again.

‘Rest,’ Geralt suggested. ‘We’ll stay here tonight. I won’t make you walk back to the village this evening.’

Jaskier made a noise of acknowledgement. Geralt patted Jaskier’s thigh soothingly, much as he might pat Roach’s flank, and helped him sit up enough to drink the last of the waterskin. Then he let Jaskier lie back down while he gathered up the cloth and the little bottle of oil (now much depleted), and stood up, presumably to put them away again. Jaskier missed him immediately that Geralt moved away from him, but it was the usual feelings of longing for a lover who was just out of reach, not the recent frenzied desperation where every time they’d not been touching had felt like a little death. That was something of a relief. Perhaps Geralt was right, and it really was over. He felt strangely hollowed out at the thought, as though all of the worry and fear that had filled him had carved out a home for themselves his centre, and now that they had trickled away, there was nothing left to fill it.

Geralt finished rummaging in the pack and buckled it closed again. Jaskier watched lazily as Geralt picked up their discarded clothing. He seemed just as he always did, as though whatever they’d just done together hadn’t touched him at all. Perhaps it hadn’t.

‘I have your clothes,’ Geralt said, coming nearer. He’d folded them into a little pile, too. ‘You’ll probably want to put them back on before you get cold.’

‘Right, yeah,’ Jaskier said.

Geralt bent down and put the pile by Jaskier’s hip, then moved away and turned his back to give Jaskier an extremely belated measure of privacy. Geralt had his own shirt slung over his shoulder, and was shaking out his breeches.

Jaskier pushed himself up to sitting. Geralt was right: it was starting to feel chilly, especially now that another cloud was passing before the sun, throwing the glade into shadow. He pulled his shirt over his head, and fumbled his arms into the sleeves. His whole body felt as though it was slightly the wrong size, like last year’s breeches after a solid week of midwinter festival feasting at a duke’s palace. He’d have to stand up to put his breeches on, he thought with discontent. Ugh.

Geralt turned around and saw him sitting on the bed roll with a scowl on his face and a pair of breeches across his sprawled knees.

‘Want a hand up?’ Geralt asked with an amused twist to his lips.

‘No,’ Jaskier said, but put out his hand out for Geralt to take.

Geralt laughed, and took Jaskier’s hand, pulling him to his feet. He held him steady and didn’t let go immediately, which Jaskier was very grateful for when he realised that his legs were shaking beneath him.

‘The feeling will pass,’ Geralt said, clapping him on the shoulder.

Jaskier had a long horrified moment where he thought that Geralt hadn’t been as ignorant of Jaskier’s feelings as he’d always assumed, and was letting him down gently.

‘The aches and your hands shaking, I mean,’ Geralt added. ‘They should lessen soon. By tomorrow at the latest.’

‘Oh good,’ Jaskier said weakly. ‘By tomorrow. That’s ... that’s great news.’

‘Next time perhaps you’ll remember not to mess with odd-looking plants,’ Geralt said, a teasing smile on his lips.

‘I told you I didn’t,’ Jaskier said automatically, and then realised they were back to their usual selves – or rather Geralt was back to his usual teasing. The moment had truly passed.

‘Rest,’ Geralt said again. ‘Perhaps you should fiddle with your lute instead of sticking your nose into things and maybe you’ll manage to avoid a second dose.’

Although he wanted to argue with Geralt about being left on the bedroll like a fractious child sent to the nursery, the thought of a second dose of pollen was a sobering thought. Jaskier didn’t think he’d survive a second round. He gathered his lute and notebook, and plopped himself down on the bedroll as he’d been directed, where he’d be safe from any further magically augmented plants.

An hour or so later, Jaskier heard a noise of quiet satisfaction, and watched Geralt bring out a tiny plant with equally tiny white flowers in clusters. This was presumably the plant which had caused the whole mess of today, if admittedly rather indirectly. It was strange to think that such a small thing had tipped Jaskier’s whole life on its head.

Later that night, Geralt set up the fire in the centre of the glade, where there was little other than stubbly grass, and roughly where the bedroll had lain. It was as far away from any further suspicious plants as they were likely to be in this glade. They sat around the remains of the fire laughing together as they usually did. Jaskier was sure that he was a little giddier than usual, due to the sheer relief that things between them would settle back into their usual patterns. But when they retired, Geralt set his own bedroll up on the far side of the fire, instead of next to Jaskier as he usually did. When Jaskier had pressed him in the past, he’d muttered something about being a bulwark against monsters, but Jaskier found it a comfort to have him near, not to mention his big witchery shoulders being an excellent windbreak.

But now Geralt was sleeping about as far away from him as he could be and still be in the same glade. He hadn’t slept that far away from Jaskier in years, not since the first week or so that Jaskier had been trailing after him. With a sinking feeling, Jaskier realised that perhaps Geralt had been more uncomfortable with what Jaskier had made him do than he’d shown. Jaskier lay awake for a long time, his back to the fire, staring out into the darkness and wondering if they’d still be able to remain friends after this.

[Part two! (of four)]

For the kinks prompts, how about some Geraskier for 23. possessiveness?

(possessiveness, 2.7k, explicit, trans jaskier, jaskier has a vagina, semi-public sex, also on ao3)

happy belated birthday @kueble! hope you like it! ❤️

(and then this ended up being kind of a birthday gift to me, too)

sam is this guy, also featured in this wonderful verse and the sam the baker tag. his simeon in particular is the creation of @valdomarx!

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The afterparty in the library is a merry thing, good food and good wine flowing as Oxenfurt’s finest (and their less fine) celebrate the triumphant victor of the annual bardic competition. Jaskier’s pink-cheeked with the thrill of it, basking in the glow of his adoring fans. He’s accepted many a drink and congratulations from eager partygoers, though he’s turned down the barrage of their other offers, to their chagrin.

It’s a very new thing, between Jaskier and the sharp-eyed witcher nursing his drink between bookshelves. Jaskier’s unaccustomed to refusing advances on behalf of an actual possible reason, not merely tormented wanting. He’s still not sure Geralt wants something exclusive, that he’s not himself tempted by the intrigued glances aimed in his direction.

They…haven’t exactly talked about it.

Jaskier does know him well enough, though, to recognize Geralt’s deepening scowl when a burly, kind-eyed baker approaches. Jaskier meets Geralt’s gaze and flashes him a look that he hopes conveys just a little longer, I’ll be right there.

He doesn’t want to rush this exchange, though. Sam’s not like the rest—he’s the very best baker in town, and after commiserating over their shared woes, he’d once kept Jaskier quite warm during one of the winters Geralt had left him for Kaer Morhen.

“—and you were right, of course,” Sam’s saying, smiling warmly at him. “Being direct was the best way. That and the brioche.”

“Gods, your sinful brioche!” Jaskier groans. “Wait—so—you and Simeon at last?”

Sam blushes, his curls bouncing as he nods.

“We’re to be handfasted come the solstice,” he says, and Jaskier’s heart swells with happiness for his friend.

“Oh, Sam!” he exclaims, “I’m so happy for you!”

“And I you, my dear Jaskier. Quite the victory tonight.” Sam claps him on the shoulder, his warm eyes softening. “It’s good to hear you singing happier songs, my friend.”

“Thank you,” Jaskier says, smiling. Sam inclines his head in the direction of the man in the corner.

“That’s him, isn’t it? Watching us like he’d like to throttle me?” He grins knowingly. “Another victory, then?”

It’s Jaskier’s turn to blush.

“I—something like that.”

Sam’s smile broadens.

“Good. Good. You deserve the best, you know.”

“As do you, you darling boy.”

Jaskier sinks into Sam’s embrace, inhaling the familiar scent of cinnamon.

“Go on,” Sam whispers. “I know you want to. I’ll cover for you, it’s all right,” he adds with a wink.

“Thank you,” Jaskier says gratefully. “Can we come by the bakery before we leave town?”

Sam chuckles. “I’ll have honey cakes ready for you both.”

Jaskier squeezes his arm in gratitude, and makes his way through the crowd, shaking off admirers as he goes.

“Hey,” he says, somewhat breathless, as he reaches Geralt’s corner.

Geralt hums, staring daggers at a particularly interested young lord near Jaskier’s shoulder.

“You know,” Jaskier starts, tracing his thumb Geralt’s knuckles where they’re white around his mug. “I’m not going home with any of them. You know that, right?”

Geralt’s brows knit. He’s still not looking at Jaskier.

“You can do what you want.” The words come through gritted teeth, a muscle in his clenched jaw twitching. Jaskier’s heart twists.

“I want you, you must know that by now! I just…didn’t want to assume you wanted me…you know, to yourself. Or in public.”

Geralt’s frown doesn’t loosen, but he looks at Jaskier now. And oh, the blazing gold of that gaze makes heat surge through Jaskier’s whole body.

“What?”

“I don’t know the rules of this!” Jaskier hisses. “It’s all so new! I—I want everyone to know I’m yours, Geralt. Fuck, I’ve wanted it since I was eighteen and all the more now that I know what it means to be yours. I just…don’t want to scare you off.”

“How would it—”

“I want you so badly, Geralt,” Jaskier says, and the heat has spread to his cheeks now, he knows he’s blushing, he can’t stop. “I want to be yours so badly. But if you just want to be casual, if you want me to see other people, or to stay apart while we’re in public, well, that’s…fine. I’ll take whatever you give me.”

For one terrifying moment, Geralt stares at him, unreadable. And then—

It’s a deep crushing sort of kiss, nothing like the tentative, tender ones they’ve shared so far. Geralt’s big hands on him, one heavy as it cradles his head, the other pulling him close at the small of his back. Geralt licks into his mouth and it’s dizzyingly romantic and terribly, magnificently demonstrative, making Jaskier’s knees turn to water.

“Oh,” he says, breathless. He’s grinning like a fool. Geralt’s still holding him tightly, breathing hard as if he’s just come from a hunt. Jaskier hears, vaguely, the young lord behind him heave a disappointed sigh and turn away. Jaskier clears his throat. “Shall we, ah, make our way back to the room, then?”

“Through the rabbit warren of this place?” Geralt groans.

“It’s a fifteen minute walk,” Jaskier laughs, wonderfully light-headed at the thought of Geralt wanting him now.

Geralt leans in. Takes Jaskier’s lower lip between his teeth, and tugs.

“Know anywhere closer?”

*

Jaskier drags Geralt through the outskirts of the crowd, hiding behind his bulk as best as he can as he maneuvers his lover through an unassuming doorway and the narrow corridor behind it. It’s just a few steps until it opens into the wide, windowed archival room, crowded with precious manuscripts, towering shelves, and sturdy tables for individual study. It’s blessedly empty, though the chatter of the party filters through the corridor; this room has no lock, as the only entrance is the one which they just came through.

“Ah, there’s no couches or anything, but we could—mmph!”

Geralt shoves him against the nearest shelf with a groan of relief, heedless of the books that teeter perilously with the force of it. He shoves his thick, muscled thigh between Jaskier’s legs and Jaskier melts against him, grinding helplessly as Geralt spurs him on, those strong hands rolling Jaskier’s hips. The friction is exquisite, and Jaskier blushes as Geralt deepens the kiss. He knows Geralt can smell his slick.

“I don’t want casual,” Geralt growls. “I don’t want you to see other people. I don’t want to stay apart.” He presses his leg higher and Jaskier whimpers. He could almost come just like this, especially if Geralt keeps saying these things. Geralt shakes his head, his fingers bruise-tight on Jaskier’s hips. “I want to make you mine. I want everyone to know. I want it so badly I’m…terrified.”

“What?” Jaskier whispers, smoothing the hair from Geralt’s face where it’s fallen from the braid Jaskier’d set it in. “Why?”

“Are you joking?” Geralt snorts. “Jaskier. I’ve been standing in the corner wishing I’d bitten my claim into you last night so everyone knows you’re mine. You are your own person. The star of this night, of this town. And you should be! Fuck, you’re magnificent.” He shakes his head, nuzzles Jaskier’s jaw. “And I—this is—I don’t want to scare you away. To ask for more than you want to offer.”

Jaskier groans, rocking against him, and pulls him into another searing kiss.

“Doesn’t make me any less of my own person to be yours, Geralt,” he whispers. “I want to be yours! Fuck, are you joking? I’ve wanted it for years, please, please.”

Geralt blinks at him.

“You’re serious. You’re sure?”

“Mark me,” Jaskier pants, tilting his chin in offering, clawing at Geralt’s clothes. “Claim me, fuck me, Geralt! I love you, I want you, I’m yours. All yours. I don’t want anyone else.”

“I love you,” Geralt murmurs, pressing against him. “I don’t want anyone else either.”

They’ve only said it a handful of times. I love you. And never like this, never a promise, a claim.

Jaskier laughs in relief, biting his lip to try and stay quiet. And then Geralt’s fumbling with the bow on the back of his trousers, and he lets out a helpless moan.

“I’m not waiting another fucking minute to get my mouth on you,” Geralt growls.

Everything goes a bit fuzzy, a whirlwind of wonder and desire. Geralt drags Jaskier’s pants and braies to his ankles, spreads his legs as far as they’ll go, and sinks to his knees to bury his face in Jaskier’s cunt.

Jaskier tries to muffle his cry in the heel of his hand, his head falling back against the weathered spines of the books. He’s slippery with slick and Geralt eats him like he’s fucking starving, fingers digging into Jaskier’s ass and bringing him as deep into his mouth as he can. Jaskier’s trousers trap his ankles, and even though at first he longs to fling his legs around Geralt’s shoulders like usual, the angle seems to give Geralt pronounced access to his swollen clit, which Geralt uses to his advantage.

“Oh fuck,” Jaskier whispers, “oh fuck, Geralt.”

It’s Geralt, really, who ends up needing to force himself to be quiet. He whines into Jaskier’s pussy, wriggling his tongue as deep as he can between Jaskier’s folds, lapping at his slick and groaning as if it’s the most delicious thing he’s ever eaten.

“You taste so fucking good,” he murmurs, gazing up at Jaskier through eyes heavy with desire. “And you’re all mine.”

“Yours,” Jaskier breathes, his chest heaving, “yours, yours.”

Jaskier’s come to suspect Geralt loves doing this, and bites back a grin as he senses Geralt trying to focus, for once, instead of lavishing Jaskier with his mouth for ages as he usually does, bringing him to the edge over and over until Jaskier’s a sobbing mess, shaking all over and screaming when Geralt finally lets him peak.

This time, Geralt swirls his tongue around Jaskier’s clit in the precise way he knows gets him off quick. Usually it takes at least a finger inside him to bring him off this fast too, but something about Geralt’s hunger for him, the party next door, you’re all mine—

Jaskier comes with a long, high moan, as quietly as he can. Geralt licks him hard through it, eager and reverent, that perfect, rough tongue drawing out his pleasure. Jaskier trembles, tangling his fingers in Geralt’s hair, grinding into Geralt’s mouth as he peaks a sharper, sweeter second time, Geralt snarling in feverish appreciation as Jaskier overflows.

Jaskier’s still seeing stars when Geralt pulls off him, with one last tantalizing kiss on his sensitive clit.

“You’re gonna fuck me, right?” Jaskier whispers. Geralt kisses him and Jaskier goes weak at the taste of himself, the nudge of Geralt’s perfect tongue making his cunt throb again.

“You’re sure?” Geralt murmurs, thumbing Jaskier’s lower lip. He’s so close, he smells so good, and fuck, Jaskier can feel that big, powerful cock straining through his trousers.

“Yeah,” Jaskier says, his voice breaking on it. “Didn’t you want to…bite your claim into me? So everyone knows I’m yours?”

“Jask,” Geralt says into his jaw, sounding strangled. “We’re going to have to walk past all of them on the way out. You’ve got your congratulatory banquet tomorrow morning, and then we’re going home.” And oh, it makes Jaskier giddy that Geralt wants him to think of Kaer Morhen as home, all the giddier that he already does. “I shouldn’t leave any marks. They’ll see. They’ll all see.”

Jaskier takes Geralt’s face in his hands and looks him in the eye.

“I want them to,” he says. “Don’t you?”

The look on Geralt’s face is something Jaskier will never forget. It’s a blaze of desire, warm love cracking through the last of Geralt’s defenses.

“Yeah,” he says. “Yeah, I really fucking do.”

And then Geralt spins him, manhandling his front against the bookshelves. Jaskier barely has time to register what’s happening and brace himself on a shelf as Geralt unbuckles his trousers and slides into his slick cunt, covering Jaskier’s mouth with his palm just in time to muffle Jaskier’s scream of pleasure.

This, this feels like coming home. The way Geralt parts him, opens him, fills him so thoroughly and so fucking good. It feels more right than anything Jaskier’s ever done, every single time.

“Move,” he whispers into Geralt’s hand.

His eyes roll back as Geralt does, fucking him in long, hard strokes, his free hand yanking Jaskier back onto his cock with every thrust. Jaskier almost never comes from penetration alone, but he’s still tingling from his orgasms, and then Geralt sinks his fucking teeth into Jaskier’s throat just beneath his jaw, sucking a hard, obvious bruise there. Something about the sharp ache of it makes everything feel extra wild and wonderful, Geralt’s hunger for him and the way Jaskier had loved him in secret for so long, and now Geralt wants the whole world to know. And another on his shoulder, and another just behind his ear, flicking his tongue over the sensitive skin as his cock hits Jaskier’s g-spot at exactly the fucking angle that makes him bright with pleasure, and Jaskier comes harder than he has in his life, writhing in Geralt’s grasp, sobbing into his palm as the ecstasy pulses through him.

“Don’t stop,” he gasps, “please.”

Geralt snarls in his ear, pleased, possessive. He pulls out of him and Jaskier whimpers, but it’s only to yank Jaskier’s trousers off of one foot and lay him out on his back on the nearest desk, sinking into him so deep. He works his thumb over Jaskier’s clit and Jaskier arches, muffling his cry in his fist as he comes again, sweating and twitching and alight with it. Geralt fucks him hard as he’s coming down, bending over him, his hips stuttering in a way that tells Jaskier he’s close.

Jaskier wraps his arms around him and holds him, reveling in the stretch and the rhythm of it. Over Geralt’s shoulder, he can see the familiar starry designs etched in the ceiling. He used to spend evenings reading in this very room as a student, but more recently, he used to spend tortured winters here writing sad, angry songs about Geralt. He’d been so defined by his heartache for so long, and now, fuck, now—if he’d known then what he would get to have, oh.

He squeezes Geralt tight, moaning in delight as Geralt wrecks another bit of his throat with his teeth.

“You’re so fucking good, love, fuck,” Jaskier tells him, shivering and grinning helplessly. “You make me feel better than anyone else, no one fucks me like you, no one loves me like you. I love you, I love you, I’m yours.”

Geralt groans, thrusting harder.

“I’m yours,” he murmurs. “Fuck, Jask—I’m—”

It occurs to Jaskier very suddenly that perhaps they’re not entirely equipped for him to walk back to their room with his pussy dripping come.

“Ah—here, love. Let me.”

Geralt pulls out of him with a regretful sound, but it turns rakish when Jaskier slips off the desk and onto his knees, wrapping his lips around Geralt’s throbbing cock.

“Jaskier,” Geralt says, in something like awe.

He barely has time to savour the taste of himself before Geralt’s spilling down his throat and the two tastes mingle perfectly, thick with sex and sweet with love. Jaskier’s intoxicated by it, hollowing his cheeks to get every drop.

Geralt sinks onto the floor to join him, gathering Jaskier in his arms. Their breathing slows, the passionate heat of the magic between them easing to a glowing, familiar warmth.

“I love you,” Geralt murmurs. “Fuck.” He nuzzles the bruises on Jaskier’s throat, petting over the marks on his chest in wonder. He makes a low, growling, beautifully possessive sound, and Jaskier grins in his arms.

“I know,” he whispers, and kisses him.

Presently they tug on their clothes, trying to rearrange each other into something only moderately scandalous. There’s no mirror in the library, but Jaskier’s beginning to ache all over in the best way, so he suspects he looks quite wrecked indeed.

“Congratulations again, Jask,” Geralt says, earnest. “You really did well tonight. I—” he grins, somewhat sheepish. “I love your singing.”

They will walk back through the party, and Jaskier will wave a gracious tonight to all his jealous admirers, wearing Geralt’s bite proud on his throat. Tomorrow, he’ll be celebrated again, and then he’ll get to go to Kaer Morhen and have Geralt show him off to his whole family.

It’s not the first time Jaskier’s taken home the grand prize, but it’s the first time he really, truly feels like he’s won.

Lambert/Aiden (slightly angsty) reunion snuggles!

Smut under the cut.

For all Geralt was absolute crap at reading the room when it came to his own relationships, he was an expert when it came to those of his family. Something Lambert had never been more thankful for when the White Wolf made some absolute bullshit excuse and left Lambert and Aiden alone at the inn in their shared room after a shared dinner to "Talk or whatever. I'll be back in the morning."

He owed the older Wolf big time. First helping in tracking down Jad and then Aiden after they heard mention in a tiny village of a green eyed Witcher passing through some months ago. They'd worn no medallion and armour seemingly cobbled together from scraps, but Lambert had been adamant it couldn't possibly be anybody else.

He had absolutely no idea how he was even going to begin paying brother back, but that was a worry for when he wasn't sat in the middle of the narrow bed, stark naked and knuckles deep in his lover.

Aiden keened from where he was straddling the others hips as Lambert's need to take this slow warred with just pure need. The new scars criss crossing the Cats body - more sinewy than the last time they'd seen each other but no less appealing - were covered in red and purple love marks, the pupil of his remaining eye blown wide as damp strands of hair clung to his forehead and neck. The other had given as good as he'd got and had left Lambert's nipples deliciously tender from where he'd played with them until they were raw and he was pretty sure his back was absolutely covered in scratches by this point in the proceedings.

"Shit, Lambert please. I'm ready."

"You sure?" He asked, giving a shit eating grin as he twisted his fingers and caused the other to bite out one of the Elder curses Lambert remembered teaching him.

"Yes, I'm fucking sure. It's been almost two years. I'm not waiting a minute longer to have you in me."

Despite his insistence, Aiden's face still pinched in discomfort, followed by a brief bitter-sharp undercurrent of pain to his scent as he was breached.

"Woah, woah. You sure you're ok?" Lambert asked, stopping the others descent with a firm grip on his hips.

"I'm fine. Like I said, it's been almost two years."

Neither of them were sure how much time had passed until Lambert finally bottomed out, Aiden arching his back with a moan and a satisfied smile, "I missed you."

It was then it slammed into him like one of the mountain avalanches: This was Aiden! Aiden whimpering and writhing in his lap, Aiden tight and warm around him and so, so alive. Aiden was alive, and he was here!

"Lam?" A hand cupping his jaw brought him back. Concerned, green eye searching his face, "Where did you go just now?"

"Sorry, I -" Lambert faltered, fighting to keep his voice steady.

"Do you need to stop?"

"No! I mean." He buried his face in Aiden's shoulder, "I don't want to stop but can we....just stay like this for a bit?"

"Oh, Lam. Come here." Aiden said, changing his bruising grip on the other to a gentle hug whilst Lambert pressed his nose hard against Aiden's neck, feeling the other press kisses to the top of his head.

"Pup, you're shaking."

"I'm fine, I'm fine. S'just you being here. Doesn't feel real."

"... Lambert, I need you to listen for a minute. Alright?"

Lambert nodded before he felt Aiden gently guide his head until one ear was pressed over his Witcher slow heart.

"Hear that? I'm real, this is real. I'm here."

Lambert gave a small whimper in response, still trembling with the sudden emotional upheaval as his hands wandered over every part of the other he could reach, the Cat only pausing in his litany of reassurances to give a small gasp when Lambert's fingers brushed over where they were joined, "That's it. You feel that? Me and you together again. Just as it should be, and that's how it's going to stay now."

"You promise?"

Aiden tilted the Wolf's head up, amber eyes full of emotions usually banked deep, deep down as he brushed their noses together.

"I promise."

Like Father, Like Daughter

A/N: Based on a prompt.

Title: Like Father, Like Daughter

Summary: Geralt should have expected his child’s first word to be ‘fuck’.

Words: 640

“Fuck!”

Geralt paused. “What?”

“Fuck!” The little girl bounced on the blanket Geralt had set her on, pointing with chubby fingers across the river. Usually, he’d ignore her senseless baby babble or simply nod along to whatever was coming from her mouth, but that had not been senseless babble. It’d been a word.

He’d been somewhat attempting to gain a word or two from her for a few weeks now, each attempt a valiant failure, considering she seemed to prefer her ‘ga’s and ‘goo’s. It’d been an irritating process, but he’d been told—by who, he couldn’t remember. Probably Vesemir—that babies didn’t start speaking until they reached at least ten months. He would never be sure of course, but Akela couldn’t have been more than a new-born when he’d found her in the woods, making her eight months old now. She couldn’t even walk yet.

But she’d just spoken.

A corner of his lips began to curl upwards, until it froze, and his eyes widened as he realised what she’d just spoken.

He craned his neck to look where she was pointing. He breathed a nervous chuckle. “Duck, Akela,” he corrected, making his way towards her. “That’s a duck.”

“Fuck!”

“Duck.”

“Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!”

He sighed and lowered himself beside her, balancing on the toes of his boots. Honestly, he wasn’t surprised that had been her first word. It was his first word every time something went wrong, or Akela decided to use her newfound crawling abilities to hide from him after he’d turned around for a second. He didn’t really care either, but he knew he’d get more looks than he’d prefer when around other people if the baby was constantly cursing.

Akela stopped bouncing long enough for him to gently grasp her shoulders. She blinked at him with those bright blue eyes, pouty lips parted. “Don’t say that,” he said slowly, letting her absorb each word. “It’s ‘duck’. With a ‘d’. Duck.”

She stared, clearly processing, before giving him a two-toothed smile and bouncing again. “Fuck!”

Geralt hummed and swung her up into his arms. He trudged towards the riverbank. “Duck,” he said firmly, pointing at the mallard floating in the middle of the water. He looked back at the baby, not an ounce of confusion on her face. Instead, she stared at the duck for a good few seconds and turned back to Geralt with yet another goofy grin.

“Fuck!” she decided.

“No. Duck.”

“Fuck!”

“Duck, Akela! It’s a fucking duck!”

In the eight months since he’d found the little girl, he had learnt many things. A big one was that raising his voice, even a small bit, would make her cry. It started with a trembling lip, then her big eyes began to well with tears, then she’d start sobbing, and he’d feel guilty. He’d never known guilt before Akela.

What was worse, though, was that her sobs rarely went into full blown fits. That was reserved for when she was hungry, in pain, or merely in a temper. When she was upset because of something he’d done, she stuck with her tiny hiccups and quiet sniffles, turning her face into his shoulder if her pitiful struggles to be put down didn’t achieve anything.

Geralt sighed and shook his head, the first bite of that familiar guilt prickling his skin. He stared out across the river and turned, walking to the blanket. He sat down, Akela on his lap, and pat her tiny heaving back. “You can say it if you want,” he relented. “Say it, ‘Kela.” Akela lifted her head, cheeks wet with tears, and Geralt smoothed her blonde hair back. He pointed out across the river again. “What is it?”

She followed his finger and chewed on her own. She hesitated. “Fuck…”

Geralt smiled a little painfully. “Right.”

“Fuck!”

Like father, like daughter.

Witcher Masterpost