In Enemy Hands 5.1

Next week's prompts are:

“What is it about him/her that makes me…”

“Silly, that’s not where that goes.”

“Does that stick up your ass have an ‘on’ button?”

“Well, I heard through the grapevine that…”

“Same bat time, same bat channel.”

“I don’t really understand what that means.”

“Don’t hate me ‘cause I’m beautiful.”

or use: paint, rice, floor

or use: pizza, kite, water

or use: spider, zero, lamp

or have a character walk into a wall

or have a fish in your story

or “I think there’s a hole in the…”

or have a character count flowers on the wall

or “What do you mean Puff the Magic Dragon’s about drugs?”

or “I wandered lonely as a cloud”

or “You break it, you buy it”

or “If you were a dog, I’d call that a miniature…”

or “I want to spend forever with you, and only you…”


Chapter 5.1
Varo froze, his hand still in the warm water. He couldn’t think of anything he wanted to try more, but Adlar’s words still bounced around in his head. The other male had admitted he planned to seduce him.
The thought scared him but at the same time it thrilled him. And he was deathly afraid it wasn’t going to take too much, either, which disturbed him greatly. Adlar had showed him a bit of kindness, and here he was ready to roll over and show his belly.
“We don’t have to if you don’t want to.”
But he did, that was the problem. Varo stood and wiped his wet hand on his leg. “I’m guessing this would require we take our clothes off?”
Adlar smirked at him. “Of course.”
“Of course,” Varo repeated, his voice soft.
“Oh, come on,” Adlar goaded. “Dare you, Varo.”
Dare him? Dare him? Suddenly he heard his brothers’ voices, shrill and taunting, as they dared him to do whatever lark they’d dreamed up. Even though the events occurred along ago, the pain was still there.
Being the youngest hadn’t been easy. He spent his childhood trying to prove something to his older brothers and his father. As he grew older and learned how to defend himself, the taunting dwelled to nothing… of course that was after he kicked ass a few times. A side effect of that was he never backed down from a challenge. And he sure wasn’t about to start now.
Varo nodded as if he expected nothing else. “Dare accepted.”
Did Adlar think that would scare him off? He’d been naked around Adlar already. Okay, it did worry him, but he refused to give in. Adlar said he wouldn’t rape him, and as unbelievable as it sounded, he trusted Adlar to keep his word.
Adlar had given him no reason to think otherwise. In the short time he’d known Adlar, he’d found the other male to be distressingly honest. This was different from the court he’d grown up around. Most of the royals at his father’s court wouldn’t know honesty if it bit them on the ass—his dad included.
So Adlar planned to seduce him. Well then, two could play that game. Grabbing the end of his shirt, he pulled it over his head and dropped it next to him. His nipples hardened immediately. Sitting on the edge of one of the rocks, he removed his boots and socks. Standing, with a grin on his face, he faced Adlar with his hands on the snap of his pants.
Adlar raised an eyebrow as he too stripped. “Don’t stop on my account.”
So help him, if it were the last thing he did, he’d wipe that smirk off Adlar’s face. “I’m not.”
He unsnapped his pants and let them fall to his feet. Adlar’s eyes traveled over his body. With a smirk of his own, Varo kicked them off to the side. Adlar was still staring at him, discarding his own clothes forgotten.
Varo smirked as Adlar just stood there, staring. He had something for that too. “First one to the island wins!” 
“Hey!” Adlar shouted as he finished dropping weapons on the ground. “Cheater!”
With a hoot, Varo turned and ran toward the pool. Diving in, he sank below the warm lilac water. It covered his head, and he sank into the depths. Even below the water the Black Phospolrock crystals glowed.
He felt his braid floated out behind him as he swam toward the center of the pool, and then he heard Adlar hit the water behind him. He twisted around and held himself suspended as he watched Adlar swim toward him. Such grace and beauty. And stars, he moves as if he was born in the water.
The need for air pushed him to the surface. He shook his braid out of the way and swam hard, his sure strokes slicing through the water driving him forward as he freestyled to the island. He could hear Adlar gaining behind him. So the other male wanted to turn this into a race, did he?
That was more than fine with him. He dug deep, legs kicking harder to propel him through the water as he sped up. Needing to breathe, he turned his head and took a huge lungful of air. He absolutely refused to—a hand closed over his ankle and the water cut off his startled yelp as Adlar pulled him under.
Thrashing madly he watched Adlar power past him. He’d almost swear he saw that ever-present smirk as Adlar glided by. Oh, you’re going to pay for that. Determined to catch Adlar now more than ever, he resumed the chase, giving it his all.
The powerful kicks from Adlar churned the water to the point he was almost swimming blind. Just as he was close enough to grab Adlar, he noticed how swallow the water had become. Then the other male sprang out of the water even as Varo swiped at his ankles. He too burst from the water and chased Adlar up the slight hill that was the island.
“I won!”Adlar faced Varo, his long black braid swinging out behind him and a smirk on his face.
Varo prowled up the hill, water dripping off him, to where Adlar stood in the weak light from the hole in the ceiling. His wet skin glowed in the soft light. Varo’s mouth watered as he stared at the beads of water on Adlar’s chest. How could one person be this sexy? And that smirk of Adlar’s! That cursed smirk was driving him mad.
He continued right on the hill. Adlar’s eyes widened. Varo kept coming until he was practically standing on top of Adlar… then he grabbed Adlar behind the head and jerked him close. He’d kiss that smirk right off Adlar.
“Varo, what…?”

The sound Adlar made when he mashed their lips together pleased him. For once, since he landed on this goddess-forsaken planet, he was in control, and he relished the thought.

TBC
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