Lee (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
atehimrightup) wrote2025-07-29 03:37 pm
atehimrightup) wrote2025-07-29 03:37 pm
Entry tags:
(no subject)
Lee is very unused to getting cars to go places. He's always just driven himself if he could, or walked if he couldn't. Hitchhiked, sometimes.
But now he's in a place where he can summon a stranger to drive him somewhere by tapping the tiny computer in his hand. The technological advancement in this place stuns him every single day. He can't even imagine how George deals with it.
He looks over at George next to him in the backseat of their current ride, watching him as he watches a touristy horse drawn carriage go by them with a big dopey grin on his face and, well, George is probably doing just fine.
He keeps staring, letting his gaze drop to the thin silver chain around George's neck. His going out collar, they've called it. Tonight is its first night in play, and Lee is eager to see how it goes.
When they arrive at the restaurant, Lee thanks the driver and slides out of the car, holding the door open and reaching out to take George's hand. "Come along, darling."
But now he's in a place where he can summon a stranger to drive him somewhere by tapping the tiny computer in his hand. The technological advancement in this place stuns him every single day. He can't even imagine how George deals with it.
He looks over at George next to him in the backseat of their current ride, watching him as he watches a touristy horse drawn carriage go by them with a big dopey grin on his face and, well, George is probably doing just fine.
He keeps staring, letting his gaze drop to the thin silver chain around George's neck. His going out collar, they've called it. Tonight is its first night in play, and Lee is eager to see how it goes.
When they arrive at the restaurant, Lee thanks the driver and slides out of the car, holding the door open and reaching out to take George's hand. "Come along, darling."
no subject
He kisses George again and slides a hand down his flank, fingernails scratching lightly over his stomach and ruffling the soft hair there.
“I like your hairy belly,” Lee assures him. “I can’t even grow a single chest hair.”
no subject
"You make me sound like some kind of beast," teases George, squirming a little when Lee scratches at his belly like that. It is, at best, a dusting of hair, and George has never really thought about it until now. He's never grown much facial hair and his chest is as smooth as it was when he was fifteen. "Can't all be smooth like a girl."
no subject
“Please, if this is a Beauty and the Beast situation, you’re definitely Beauty,” Lee assures him, nudging their noses together and then nipping teasingly at George’s bottom lip. “Even if I am smooth like a girl, apparently.”
no subject
As usual, the reference passes George by, but he rolls his eyes and pushes Lee back until he's flat on his back and George can lean over him, one arm across his chest to pin him down so that he can really look at him. Lee's hair is longer than it was when they met, the bright colours he'd put in it after Pride faded. His eyes are the prettiest that George has ever seen. The sharp lines of his face are lovely. It pains him to think that Lee can't see himself the way that George does.
"You look like a beauty from this angle," he says.
no subject
So skinny, no matter how much he eats. It’s never enough.
The compliment makes Lee grin, understanding dawning as he reaches up to touch George’s face. “Oh, no. You don’t know the story, do you? I know it’s old but I guess it’s not that old.”
He smirks and tugs playfully on George’s earlobe. “It’s a fairytale.”
no subject
"I don't even know what a fairytale is," says George, still leaning across Lee's chest. "I guess a lot can change in four hundred and some years."
no subject
Lee looks up at him and smiles widely, feeling hopelessly charmed. “Do you want me to tell you a fairytale?”
no subject
"Folklore," he says, nodding and then settling down still draped across Lee's bare chest. "My nurse used to tell us tales about the wee folk before bed." He rubs his cheek against Lee's skin. "Yes. Please."
no subject
He had been familiar with the fairytale as a kid, and one night while flipping through the channels bored (so before George, because he doesn’t spend many nights bored anymore), he’d stumbled upon a Disney version of the story. He’d watched it and missed Kayla fiercely, because she always loved the princess movies so much.
“Okay, okay. I’ll tell you a story,” Lee says indulgently, lifting the cake away and setting it on the bedside table. “We have to start how they all start, right?”
He clears his throat and cards his fingers through George’s soft hair, fluffy and clean after his shower.
“Once upon a time, there was a girl who lived in provincial France. She was smart and kind and also said to be the most beautiful in all the land,” he begins, squeezing George’s shoulder and kissing the top of his head, murmuring an aside. “Present company excluded, of course.”
no subject
George laughs at that, a warm huff of breath against Lee's skin. Beautiful, yes -- but kind and clever? He's not sure anyone would have ever made that mistake about him. Kind, maybe, at some point in time.
"So this is Beauty," he says. "I'm following. la Belle."
no subject
“Her father had to go on a trip, and all Belle asked for as a gift was a rose. On his way back, he got lost and found a castle with a rose garden. He picked one to bring to Belle, but the Beast that lived inside the castle caught him and threw him in the dungeon.”
Lee finds that he’s enjoying himself very much. It’s so nice to just lay here, warm and satisfied, and feel safe enough to tell stories like children.
“Belle searched for her father and found the castle, and offered to exchange her freedom for his. The Beast accepted,” Lee continues, carding his fingers through George’s hair. “The Beast seemed angry and cruel at first, but the more that Belle came to know the Beast for who he was on the inside, the more she liked him. Eventually, she fell in love with him.”
no subject
"Le Bete," murmurs George, though he's still not sure he sees the comparison with Lee. Still, he doesn't interrupt the story further, idly trailing his fingers across the bare skin across Lee's ribs. He does smile when Lee says the beauty fell in love, remembering what he's confessed earlier when Lee didn't understand a word.
"Then what?"
no subject
He clears his throat and shakes his head a little, continuing with the story as his hands slowly travel over whatever parts of George he can reach.
“Belle found out that her father was in trouble and the Beast granted her freedom and freed her from their deal,” Lee says, fingers tightening slightly in George’s hair. “Even though it would mean terrible things for the Beast. So she left the castle and went to help her father, and the Beast was alone again.”
Lee lets him stew for a moment, then continues.
“But she came back! She was free but came back because she loved him. And because she came of her own free will and her love was true, it broke the spell.”
He wishes it were that simple.
“It turns out that the Beast was actually a prince, and he’d been cursed years earlier by a witch for having an ugly heart. She turned him into a Beast and made it so that only true love given freely would break the spell.”
Lee takes in a deep breath and lets out through his nose, kissing the crown of George’s head. “He was restored to his normal handsome human form and they got married.”
He smiles to himself, mouth pressed to George’s head. “And they lived happily ever after.” There’s a lump in his throat suddenly, and he swallows it back. “That’s how fairytales always end.”
no subject
"I like that," he says, a little dreamily, lulled by Lee's voice and the warmth of his skin, the softness of the bed beneath them. "Happily ever after." It doesn't seem entirely plausible, but none of this does. He kisses Lee's skin. "You're good at that."
no subject
“There’s a lot of fairytales out there.” He’s pretty sure that George is actively fucking one of them, but they don’t need to get into that one right now. “Most of them involve someone being too beautiful for their own good. Not that you’d know anything about that.”
His voice is warm and fond and he gives George a squeeze, fingertips gliding up and down his arm.”
no subject
"Oh, shut up," says George fondly, pinching Lee's side lightly. He'd come back from France fully aware of how beautiful he was and how far that could get him. It's different here. It doesn't matter at much. Lee's told him that much.
"I like the idea of this being our bed, as much as it's mine."
no subject
But everything George doesn’t know is getting heavier and heavier. The closer he gets, the more deceitful Lee feels. He feels stuck. Helpless.
“It feels like it to me, too,” Lee says thickly, resting his hand on top of George’s head and gently tipping it back enough for him to press a kiss to George’s forehead.
“I used to dream of having a big bed that was all mine,” he admits quietly. “Now all I ever want to do is crawl into yours.”
no subject
"You can crawl into mine any time you like," says George. He's always had the habit of kissing foreheads but, God, he likes it so much when it's done to him. He turns his head, pressing a trail of light kissed against Lee's bare skin.
no subject
But Lee is weak. That’s always been his problem. George has become another thing he can’t resist.
George’s plush mouth moves across his skin and Lee lets out a content sigh, gently tucking his fingers under George’s chin so Lee can see his face, looking into his soulful eyes.
“I want to make you happy,” he says after a moment, smiling softly and stroking his thumb back and forth over George’s chin.
Lee doesn’t know what’s going to happen or when. But he does know one thing for sure.
He’s so fucked.