166. Breaking Down

The extra weight was beginning to feel familiar. It reminded Elric of the time he'd been pregnant however, this constant heaviness came with an aching pinch in each and every muscle on his body. He tried to shift the weight, groaning aloud with every move then gave up upon feeling a sharp stabbing pain from his lower back. That same pain he'd silently carried and endured every waking morning, forcing his muscles to wake up and move.

It always felt worse in the morning after his body had come from proper rest although, something was different today. The soreness he felt all over his body was an extra discomfort he didn't want to have to deal with that he reconsidered his decision to be off painkillers he'd discontinued from taking as soon as he began breastfeeding.

The sound of a heart beating gently, followed by the warmth that came with it flew his eyes wide open. The realization that he'd been resting his head atop Niel's chest made him flustered. There was no doubt that the deed had been done for it explained why he'd been aching all over.

Paying attention to the rise and fall of Niel's chest, Elric's head raising along with it, he smiled, dedicating his attention back to the slow beating heart. It was evident that Niel was still deep in slumber.

Yesterday evening upon his fated's return from work, he'd vowed to do everything he could to end the tension between them for Neil only spent time with him when he breast-fed the twins, or after their bath while moisturizing both Lusha's hair and Elric's.

Those moments had been awkwardly silent however, Stan's scolding still lingered in his mind. Owning up to his childish tantrum, Elric decided to handle things the only way he knew how to.

Niel went ballistic upon Elric's declaration that he had already applied and was accepted to be part of a team of independent lawyers, who'd later question Mora's father when he was to be allowed to defend himself in one of the cases filed against him. He'd known Niel would definitely be against it but what better time to inform him that than this. Additionally, he'd been pondering over how to bring the subject up even before their conflict but now that Niel was furious, the timing couldn't be perfect. It was like hitting three birds with one stone.

Niel's argument inclined towards the safety and future of Luca and Lusha while Elric used the opportunity to point out he wasn't a considered part of that safety.

"You're the reason we'll begin worrying about our safety! Why should I concern myself with your protection when you don't care about yourself?" Niel had scoffed out of anger, to which he instantly regretted and apologized but Elric would have none of it.

As much as he was feeling hurt, Elric played along, riling his fated up until he couldn't take the guilt anymore and offered to come to a consensus.

"Let's stop fighting." Niel had said. "I'll sleep here tonight okay? I'm sorry..."

Elric dissimulated his joy beneath a visible agitated expression. Niel had rose to the bait.

A light tap on his head startled him followed by a hand stroking his head gently. Lifting his chin up to come face to face with Niel, he whispered, "Zaddy the baddie in bed."

"You were awake?" Niel asked, his voice heavy from sleep.

Teasing, Elric sniggered, "For a while now. I was enjoying the sound of your beating heart."

"Well, I felt yours beating faster so I was a little tensed. Are you okay?"

"Nothing skips you by huh?" Elric's face flushed upon realizing how attentive Niel has always been. He'd been too distracted with his thoughts that he hadn't realized he was getting excited with his cunningness to have finally made Niel sleep beside him. He became even more flustered upon the memory of how physical they'd both got and wondered. 'Did I pass out while doing it...?'

Niel chuckled, pulling Elric in his arms. "You are so easy to read."

Elric was about to retort back but stiffened when he felt one of Niel's hands reach for his lower back, pressing it gently. It hurt so bad.

"How do you feel when I put pressure here like this?"

"It's alright."

"Are you absolutely sure?"

"Yea."

"What about this round fleshy part? I spanked it a lot yesterday." Niel asked once more, tracing his hand to touch one of the buttock.

"You call that spanking?"

"I presume it wasn't spanked enough then."

"More like my ass gave your hands a spanking."

"Really?" Niel laughed, moving his hand further to reach between Elric's thighs and felt a swelling. It didn't surprise him when Elric flinched for they'd been rather passionate a little above average.

Pulling his fated closer, Niel hid his disturbed expression for a moment. Upon delivering the twins, the image of Elric stretching apart almost tearing, his pelvic bones widening at the front and back to allow dilation fo the birth canal tormented him that he'd refused to engage intimacy for a while or even think of it. Often times, Elric would be the one initiating by seducing him with his scent thereby leaving him with no choice but to respond to his need.

He'd been extremely gentle this entire time however yesternight, he broke his oath, being as rough and physical as Elric had wanted.

"It's swollen..."

"It doesn't hurt."

"You are lying. I can sense you and we share the same spiritual essence." Sutting his eyes briefly, Niel began perceiving a different scent from Elric, one that was seductive in nature, playing at the tip of his nose, down to his lower belly and towards his groins.

"Sorry I've been childish and selfish..." Elric hesitated, his body trembling as he felt a gentle rubbing at the entry between his thighs. Niel had been playing at the same spot so intimately that a light moan escaped Elric's lips. The pleasurable sensation and the need to apologize, he had to give up one and focus on the other. Choosing the latter, he thought it would be easier to apologize since he wouldn't have to do so facing Niel in the eye.

"Being attracted to someone doesn't mean I should sleep with them and you are obviously way hotter. I shouldn't have said it out aloud that I was attracted to someone else when it was just a passing feeling... In my mind, I-I thought I was being open and honest with you...wait..." Elric gripped onto Niel's back tightly, burying his head into his shoulder when he felt a finger sliding inside him. The satisfied sensation brought his breathing to grow hotter and hotter. He lost to the temptation of wanting go for another lovemaking exercise. His body may hurt but he didn't mind all. Niel just had a way of making him feel loved and cared for. He was giving him everything he wanted that even now as he felt another finger slide into him, moaning at the entry of it, he shivering and panted, enjoying the movement of them twisting and turning inside him as Niel played on, teasing at his sensitive spots.

"Your scent, it's getting stronger..." Niel's voice was heavy as he spoke.

"Put it in...." Elric begged, lifting one of his legs to rest on top of his fated's waist and began thrusting his hips forward, enjoying the feeling of Niel's hardened member pocking at his belly. "I know you want to..."

"I do...but I won't..."

"...Why not..." Elric asked frustratingly.

"You are still recovering... I shouldn't have pushed you like that yesterday."

"I wanted it...ah! ...Hah...!" Elric moaned, his voice raising higher and higher, reacting to the pleasant sensation that came with the rapid change in tempo, speeding and thrusting in and out of him. He struggled to hold onto his release, wanting to prolong the pleasure and pain that came along with being touched, stroked, teased, coaxed... loved...

He was already satisfied, but what he sought was beyond satisfaction, something special that only his fated could give, a satisfaction that this lover alone could provide.

Gripping tighter at Niel's back, Elric lifted his chin up and pushed his waist even closer towards his fated, enjoying the feeling of both their members touching each other. Reaching down, he held onto them and began stroking them together to match Niel's tempo but it was too hard for Niel too had began releasing just enough scent to level his hunger up.

"...Babe..." Elric called out softly, his voice heavy with passion and as if to answer to his fated's call, Niel pulled out his fingers and rose atop his lover, lifting both his legs up, pressing them to gather and plunged between them.

His body moved fast, his waist slapping at Elric's hips, his member rubbing between his lover's thighs, the touch, the feel of their members brushing softly, then harder. He continued to grow bigger and bigger than Elric's.

With his eyes half opened, Niel looked at his lover and loved what he saw, the tattoo of his name, branding him the owner of this body, of the family they'd become. This is what he wanted, to posses Elric's sexual desire and conquer it. His hunger for Elric was his as Elric's lust was for him and him alone. All of Elric belonged to him.

"I love you..." He whispered under his breath. "I love you so much..." His voice trembled. "...babe...only you..." Unable to end his intimate confession, he huffed, bent down and kissed his lover hungrily as if to eat him up. He wanted to trap Elric's moans, taking them with him, in him and only let go when they were both at their climax, Elric's eyes tightly shut while Niel's watching him, the sight of his lover's look as he found his release doubling the pleasure he was feeling.

Niel stayed onto of Elric, supporting himself with one of his elbows and monitored his lover closely until his breathing came back to normal. A completely flustered Elric was a look he enjoyed and wanted to remember.

"I love you too." Elric finally whispered back. "Maybe even more."

"Enough to not want to be with anyone else?"

"There is only one of you...and one fated and I have both. Aren't I lucky...?"

"You se, I want you all to myself." Niel interrupted. "I don't want to share you nor give you to anyone else. If you find yourself sexually attracted to someone, bring them over and I'll scare them away just like I did that other guy therefore. Elric, I can be possessive and selfish too. If you want to see that side of me, you're welcomed to tempt me some more."

"You...chased him away?"

"Let's just say, if looks could kill, he'd be dead. While you were busy trying to turn me on, my eyes were fixated on your newfound attraction entire time. Good thing he was smart enough to leave quietly and the only reason I asked you to tie me up was so I don't have to strangle someone's neck out of jealousy."

Elric grinned mischievously.

"Not your neck stupid."

"How dispiriting."

"On a serious note though, you know being fated signifies our compatibility only to each other right? The fact that you are marked means you won't get bigger..."

"I know I know. I was being silly and overambitious."

"Little pecker will never return to it's former size even if you get hard." Snickering, Niel added, "The furthest you can do is tickle someone and that would taint your former Casanova reputation."

"Way to rub it in, oh wait, you just did yesterday and today 'Big Pecker'... That was a terrible comeback. It sounded funny in my head though." Elric laughed at himself and Niel joining in upon giving up reasoning with his fated.

"The next time you want to resolve a conflict, don't trick yourself into it. Own up to it upfront and apologize honestly, properly and responsibly otherwise whatever you say won't sound sincere."

"You knew, huh?"

"Yea. I went along with the argument because you were desperate and I was enjoying it, but then you seduced me with your scent and I lost..."

"I've missed you..." Elric spoke suddenly, pulling Niel to an embrace. "Can we stay like this a little longer?"

Niel responded with a light laugh, pulling his lover up with him to a siting position. "You are such an emotional individual. An emotional wreck to be exact. It's probably why your father wanted a guaranteed partnership for you through fateship instead of pairing up. He must have known this side of you when you were much younger."

Elric giggled, his gentle laugh trapped by a lump in his throat, his voice cracking, drifting into tiny whimpers, then a sniffing sound or two followed by him tightening his arms around Niels's neck as his vision grew blurry.

He knew what Niel had said to be true, he'd hid himself well all these years and only a fated would have been able to see right though him upon imprint. He used to despise being exposed by Niel. It left him vulnerable, his safe hiding place disclosed and now he had to share it with someone else, someone who wanted to hold his hand so they could walk out from it.

The gentle pat on his back only made him weep even more, leaving him shaken and as he watched them trickling down Niel's back, he wondered if the feeling was tickling to Niel, a thought that brought a smile upon his saddened face.

"You are right. I'm an emotional wreck who loves mooching hugs for comfort."

"Probably why you like koala possession so much."

Elric crackled with laughter, covering his eyes with one of his hands. "That is true indeed. I probably would have been miserable if I'd ended up paired. My dad understood the need of a fated and the role they play. Thinking back to our last moments together, he must have known he was going to leave me and mom alone, and how I'd be taken away from her to live with his relatives."

"Your mom is a fighter though."

"Dad knew that too. I know my mom would never have allowed me to go if she knew what I was to go though with them. Either way, it was worth it, the pain and suffering I endured. If I didn't, I wouldn't have met you."