Filled with selkie!Greece/Japan and shades of selkie!Greece/the sea.
(If you're still out there, OP, this fill may not be exactly what you wanted as "floating" isn't really the main focus of it (although I still tried to make it an important theme/motif thoroughout), but this idea just wouldn't leave my mind.)
Keep Me From Floating Away [1/4]
anonymous
February 11 2011, 06:08:08 UTC
Every afternoon when the first haul of the day is complete and the cats have been fed, Heracles goes down to the shoreline, strips off his clothes, and enters the sea.
The sea is warm and welcoming, wrapping around his body like an old friend. Or a possessive lover, Heracles thinks, but these kind of thoughts are soon softened, muted by the feeling of being underwater and surrounded by the sensations of the sea. He kicks his feet and guides with his arms and his body moves through the water smoothly, the sunlight dancing on the surface just above him and fish that could fit in the palm of his hand appearing to wave their fins at him in greeting before politely swimming away to make way for him. The taste of sea salt is on his lips and tongue; the low hum of the sea in all its beauty and majesty in his ears. He does not need to come up for air; he can stay down here forever
( ... )
Keep Me From Floating Away [2/4]
anonymous
February 11 2011, 06:10:28 UTC
These memories come so vividly to him that it is difficult to believe they could ever be washed away like footprints on sand. However, every time his thoughts drift to the feel of seawater on his body, the emotions and details in these memories seem to diminish slightly as if bobbing away from him on the water's surface and him being able to draw them close to him again only because he does not have his seal skin and the seal side of him hence cannot cut off the attachments that the human side of him places on these memories and feelings. Heracles knows that if he ever finds the seal skin Kiku hid from him upon his silent request, his human side and everything related to it will be swept away to insubstantial specks over the horizon by the waves of the sea to make way for his seal side that cares only about the sea. His human side will return, but only after a lengthy period of time with his seal side in control
( ... )
Keep Me From Floating Away [3/4]
anonymous
February 11 2011, 06:12:36 UTC
The sea stretches out in an infinite expanse before him, its hue of blue growing richer the deeper he can see. No, not an infinite expanse. A beautiful expanse, but... Heracles gives his mind a mental shake. But Kiku soon leans down to satisfy that part of Heracles that has been aching for attention for the longest time and Heracles, with a moan escaping his lips at Kiku's ministrations, remembers why he lets Kiku chain him like this. Kiku enjoys this kind of private activity, of course, but there's also something appealing to Heracles about being physically chained up like this and told outright by his captor that he's essentially at his mercy, and nonetheless trusting his captor to not hurt him and remove the chains if they grow to be too much for him.
And Kiku is there in the flesh, eyes seductive yet loving, and for that moment, the only sounds in his ears are the breaths and words Kiku murmurs into them and the only sights his mind is interested in are the ones revealed as Kiku slides his yukata down all the way off his
( ... )
Keep Me From Floating Away [4/4]
anonymous
February 11 2011, 06:14:37 UTC
"Mmm," Heracles says, but doesn't move. He doesn't like sleeping alone with only the sounds of the sea for company; the cats' purring helps to counter them, but not as much as Kiku's warmth by his side and his soft breaths by his ear do. He closes his eyes to take in the smell of Kiku's hair, but when the waves begin to ripple from the back of his mind to the front, he opens them again to take in the slope of Kiku's jaw and the lock of extremely dark brown, almost completely black hair tucked behind the shell of his right ear.
Kiku sets down his empty teacup with a soft clink on its saucer and turns to face Heracles, his lips almost brushing against Heracles'. "Many of the cats have chosen to rest on your bed after their lunch," he says softly, "Would you like to check on them
( ... )
Re: Keep Me From Floating Away [4/4]
anonymous
February 12 2011, 06:02:28 UTC
I am extraordinarily fond of Greece/Japan as it is, but this is soft but dark but sweet but angsty and I love it very much~. Even though it's an AU, it's still very much in character and their relationship is spot on.
Greece/anyone
Floating
Be it literal or figurative
Filled with selkie!Greece/Japan and shades of selkie!Greece/the sea.
(If you're still out there, OP, this fill may not be exactly what you wanted as "floating" isn't really the main focus of it (although I still tried to make it an important theme/motif thoroughout), but this idea just wouldn't leave my mind.)
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The sea is warm and welcoming, wrapping around his body like an old friend. Or a possessive lover, Heracles thinks, but these kind of thoughts are soon softened, muted by the feeling of being underwater and surrounded by the sensations of the sea. He kicks his feet and guides with his arms and his body moves through the water smoothly, the sunlight dancing on the surface just above him and fish that could fit in the palm of his hand appearing to wave their fins at him in greeting before politely swimming away to make way for him. The taste of sea salt is on his lips and tongue; the low hum of the sea in all its beauty and majesty in his ears. He does not need to come up for air; he can stay down here forever ( ... )
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And Kiku is there in the flesh, eyes seductive yet loving, and for that moment, the only sounds in his ears are the breaths and words Kiku murmurs into them and the only sights his mind is interested in are the ones revealed as Kiku slides his yukata down all the way off his ( ... )
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Kiku sets down his empty teacup with a soft clink on its saucer and turns to face Heracles, his lips almost brushing against Heracles'. "Many of the cats have chosen to rest on your bed after their lunch," he says softly, "Would you like to check on them ( ... )
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