Fill 'Blue for you' Part 1a
anonymous
April 24 2011, 21:22:47 UTC
This is my first time attempting a fill so please accept apologies upfront in case it isn't quite what the OP had in mind. Also it seems to be getting a wee bit long considering it was supposed to be PWP when I started it.
Lying face down and naked from the waist up on the low bench in the dingy back room of the tavern, Esca feels the tiny pinpricks as the ink is forced into his skin; barely noticeable at the moment but which he knows will coalesce into flaring pain in his back and shoulders like a wildfire before long. He can hear the wizened man who bends over his back and inflicts this slow torture upon his skin muttering under his breath as he works but not even the joy of hearing another speak in the familiar accent and dialect of his home can distract from the pain to come.
'Try not to tense up so Esca, it will not ease the pain and it will distort the design.'Esca tries to force his muscles to relax and keeps the vituperative reply safely in his head; it is not wise to irritate the fellow who is permanently marking your
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Fill 'Blue for you' Part 1b
anonymous
April 24 2011, 22:44:33 UTC
Esca wouldn't be surprised if that were true. He is well aware of how traditional Roman values view sexual relationships between men without the safety and clearly defined boundaries of ownership between them, and he can all too easily imagine Marcus deliberately refusing to acknowledge Esca's desires and his own for the sake of some sort of warped Roman notion of morality
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Fill 'Blue for you' Part 1c
anonymous
April 24 2011, 23:07:10 UTC
It doesn't last for long though as the pain makes its way through the haze of alcohol again and he knows that whatever their druid used to add to the mead on such occasions previously had dulled his senses. It has certainly not been this painful in the past or he might have thought twice about this. A wave of longing and despair sweeps over him so strong that he doesn't even try to fight it; just remembers his tribe and his family and all that is lost to him now forever. He returns to cursing Rome and all Romans and uses his anger again to bolster himself
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Re: Fill 'Blue for you' Part 1c
anonymous
April 25 2011, 10:50:03 UTC
Thank you all for your lovely comments, they absolutely make my day. I was a bit hesitant about putting this out here as I am a very nervous author at the best of times and am slightly awed by the standard of writing on this meme. I have a couple more parts ready to go, so updates will be up shortly.
Fill 'Blue for you' Part 2
anonymous
April 25 2011, 13:08:30 UTC
Marcus has been alternately worried and furious all day since Esca disappeared before anyone else in the villa was up this morning with not a word to anyone. In truth Marcus knows that now that Esca is no longer his slave he has no right to expect to know what the smaller man is doing every minute of every day, but it wasn't like Esca not to let someone know his whereabouts out of politeness if nothing else. He sighed and grumbled under his breath as he forced himself to move away from the window, refusing to acknowledge that he is moping and looking out for Esca's return
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Fill 'Blue for you' Part 2b
anonymous
April 25 2011, 13:30:00 UTC
Oops. That last post should have been Part 2a. Damn character limits!'Ugh, you're drunk.' Marcus stated the obvious and flinched as soon as the words left his mouth, aware that he sounded like a nagging wife. If he hadn't spent the day fretting he might have been amused; he'd never seen Esca the worse for drink before, the Briton was normally so controlled
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Lying face down and naked from the waist up on the low bench in the dingy back room of the tavern, Esca feels the tiny pinpricks as the ink is forced into his skin; barely noticeable at the moment but which he knows will coalesce into flaring pain in his back and shoulders like a wildfire before long. He can hear the wizened man who bends over his back and inflicts this slow torture upon his skin muttering under his breath as he works but not even the joy of hearing another speak in the familiar accent and dialect of his home can distract from the pain to come.
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keep it up!!
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