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Jaskier ♪ Julian Alfred Pankratz | Feral Bard ([personal profile] givingexposition) wrote2020-01-03 11:55 pm
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SORRY CUT OFF lol.

[personal profile] yourwitcher 2020-02-08 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Jaskier hid his crush well actually, at least for a time. Geralt could smell his attraction and feel his eyes on him, yes, but the bard liked sex and people so it seemed like generic appreciation rather than genuine lust. Leading up to Jaskier's seduction, the few months before, Geralt finally started to clue in that it was true desire and mulled it over for a time. Jaskier caught him at the right time but he thinks them having sex was inevitable. They spent all their time together on the road, often without the easy ability to find other partners, and the attraction was mutual. He doesn't regret it now, but Geralt thinks it's possible he might when it's over, at least until his heart mends. The bard will leave quite the scar on it.

Geralt snorts when Jaskier seems indignant about making certain they both enjoy it. "I was going to come on you after, no blue balls were happening." He had a very nice picture in his mind of blowing Jaskier's mind and looking at his flushed and blissed out face as he touched himself. It was also a good option, but he cannot deny that being inside of Jaskier is much, much better. It's nearly an addiction for him, some type of magnetic pull.

Jaskier's purr is music in itself and Geralt finds that he likes this. He can feel every part of Jaskier touching him, cradled in Geralt's arms. He is slightly less comfortable with people attempting to hold him, he ends up feeling boxed in. He smiles at that small blush of his, chuckling low near Jaskier's ear. "I like that you blush despite us fucking all the damn time." He doesn't know why it happens but it makes something warm in him each time. He knows that Jaskier is completely at his mercy, exposed and vulnerable, and that is a turn on for him. He's glad Jaskier trusts him.

It's appreciated that he doesn't tempt or taunt Geralt the way he usually does, as much as the witcher loves hearing it, because he is going to be struggling already. Every time Jaskier talks like that it makes Geralt want to make him scream, so this is for the best. He hisses when Jaskier's nails touch his thigh and he contains himself enough to take that offer and bite the exposed neck. He wants to go hard but nibbles instead, sucking a nice hickey in the place of where teeth marks typically are.

"Yes," Geralt agrees, swallowing hard. He feels good. They both feel good. He thinks he would probably be content to stay inside Jaskier like this for hours if either of them were capable of it, but he'd never be able to hold out. He always wants more out of his bard. Jaskier is hot and tight but it's in a strangely comforting way at the moment, not feeling his urgent need to break him. Yet. He blinks at the hand holding his, which is not helpful, but he gives Jaskier's fingers a gentle squeeze so he acknowledges what is meant by it. He unlaces their hands though as he needs his arm free for this.

One reason is to put his hand on his hip warningly. "Careful." Geralt's body loves it, moaning from Jaskier's movements, but his mind is trying to keep them both in check. "Patience." That's for them both. Finally Geralt moves, his hips slow as he slides out of Jaskier and back in, finding something very graceful in the motion between them. Jaskier is slick and welcoming and he keeps his thrusts long and thorough, so that every one of them has Geralt's full long length going in and out. This is love making, not sex, although he doesn't know what the term really means so he wouldn't use it. Geralt can feel the strain in his limbs now, in his arms, his senses full of Jaskier and his lust.

He lifts and tilts his head to make it easier for them to kiss although it isn't that comfortable, but Geralt puts his hunger into his kiss since he's containing it everywhere else. His tongue plunges into Jaskier's mouth, demanding and aggressive, a contrast to the pliant sweetness of the rest of him. It takes the edge off. Geralt groans out of it to breathe and moves his arm around Jaskier's middle, holding him tight and close. He moves them in a steady rock as old as time. "Fuck, I always want to be in you, Jaskier." He bites his earlobe. "Every time I look at you I want you," softly rasped into his ear.
Edited 2020-02-08 00:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] yourwitcher 2020-02-12 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I like the blushing," he says again, clearly. Reminding him that it was a compliment so he should accept it. It's a strangely innocent reaction to what's between them. Then again, Geralt was slightly nervous, even a bit bashful, when he let Jaskier take him. He told himself it'd been because it was a long time since he did that and he was making himself too vulnerable. That was true, but it was mostly because it was intimate. Real. They couldn't deny what was between them. He stopped wanting to. With Jaskier in his arms now, he can only be glad.

If he knew Jaskier was concerned about his reputation and Geralt's opinion of it, he'd probably laugh. While Geralt got frustrated in the past, before they were lovers, that Jaskier got into so much trouble from his dick, it didn't change his opinion of him. Who is he to judge anyone else on decisions like that? Besides, Jaskier's only his now. No one else gets to have him, at least as long as this goes on.

Jaskier's very into this and that makes Geralt into it. He is doing better with his control and coming to enjoy the sweet and slow rock of their bodies together. It feels nice. It feels important, for some reason. Geralt isn't entirely certain despite that he can come. He's so used to his style of sex that requires Jaskier to be completely submissive and at his mercy, or the stimulus of Jaskier inside of him doing the same thing. But there is submission in this too and release and trust. He is surprised when he feels the bard rising to the peak so quickly but not at all sorry for it. It's a credit to his skill ... and also a question mark about whether he wants this more often. Whether Geralt's style of wild fucking is the answer to every question between them. A thought for a time he needs to think.

Instead he sucks in a breath when Jaskier tightens around him and he growls. "That's it. I like when you let go." See, he is telling him all kinds of details about what he likes at the moment. Geralt truly is trying. He does almost stop though out of concern for Jaskier's over-stimulation. His body does not want him to stop, hates the very concept of stopping. Not when Jaskier is hot and willing. He wants to put him on his knees, on his back, but he stays restrained. He thinks of Jaskier nearly dying. He thinks of how much he cannot deal with that. He is grateful for the bard in his arms, wanting him, needing him.

"It's too much, I promise, another time." He says it through gritted teeth. It's not as if Geralt wants to get out of him; he wants to own his ass so thoroughly he'll need Geralt's salve for another reason. But Jaskier knows how Geralt feels about giving pain in the bedroom, at least true pain. Geralt's body screams at him when he slips out of Jaskier and gently pulls him onto his back, looking down at him. Geralt sits back on his thighs and golden eyes stay firmly on his bard's face. "Look at me," he rasps. He usually gets hesitant about eye contact, but not when they're in the middle of passion instead of vulnerability.

Geralt puts his hand on his thick cock, taking in every part of Jaskier's blissful face. There is no doubt in the way he sees him, in how intense his hand starts moving on himself, that he is enjoying this. Just like sex doesn't always have to be rough between them, it also doesn't need to end with him coming in Jaskier. Geralt is putting himself on display. His broad chest, his ridiculous muscles, his silver hair tousled and slightly sweaty from their sex. He looks powerful as he thrusts into his hand, moving to still Jaskier before he can try to lend a hand. This is what he wants. Jaskier to see him, to admire him. Know that his scarred and strong body is his.

It's erotic to him as he jerks himself off fiercely and fast, lust flooding his gaze, breath catching a little. "You said I could come on your pretty face. I'm going to." It seems like a fair warning and he moves up on the bed, straddling Jaskier's body to get closer. He'll warn him again, before, but now he rocks his hips into his hand, making a little bit of a show of it which is something he is only starting now to tentatively try. He will clean Jaskier off after, as he always does, but for now he lets himself just be caught in pleasure, eyes heavy-lidded.

"Close your eyes." He wants him to look at him, definitely, but he doesn't want to blind him. Seeing Jaskier's face covered in him will be more than good enough. Geralt can't hold back anymore and lets the tension release in him, gripping his cock and aiming true onto Geralt's flushed face. He groans through it, spurting more than usual, unable to stop from watching. It's erotic for him in a new way. He's marking Jaskier so completely in this moment. Coating him in his claim. Geralt tingles all over.
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[personal profile] yourwitcher 2020-02-12 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Geralt can see the value in something this slow and patient between them. Sometimes his mindless desire to split the bard apart doesn't communicate the full breadth of his want for him. And in the past that was what he wanted; he didn't want Jaskier to be led on or for himself to weaken to their building feelings. Now they are on the other side of it, and a part of him is curious to try the types of tender sex that he's never allowed himself before. It may not be his instinct, but that doesn't mean he rejects it entirely. Perhaps a suggestion for another day, when he is less concerned at all times about Jaskier's injured body.

Geralt knows they will have other chances to fuck ahead of them, so his instinct to protect Jaskier from himself is also giving him something he wants. Such a vision. Jaskier looks fucking delectable like that. Geralt's nostrils flare and he breathes in the scent of his bard's come and bliss. He could absolutely get off solely on staring at Jaskier's face this way. He is typically not someone who shows off, it doesn't come naturally to him. He doesn't put himself on display like this ever. Only Jaskier makes him feel this attractive and sexual, after decades of being seen as other.

He feels a strange sort of flutter in his heart at the compliment, stroking himself a little faster to display that he enjoyed it. His mind wants to remind Jaskier that he is far from lucky considering he is in this bed because of his mistake, but his heart and body react positively and needy. Geralt sees something in Jaskier's eyes that he doesn't recognize; no one's looked at him with love before. He assumes it's a more affectionate type of lust. Close enough.

"Fuck," Geralt murmurs when Jaskier lifts his face, closes his eyes. "Look at you. So fucking eager." It may be one of the sexiest things he has ever seen, flat out. The bard truly wants it, and that feral part of him snarls in pleasure. That newest red mark he made it very fresh on Jaskier's throat and if he wasn't already about to reach his peak, all of those details would have done it immediately. He groans through it, swearing several more times when Jaskier purposely puts more of him in his mouth. The bard is a damned incubus. A creature of sex and temptation.

He only proves that when he moves forward and Geralt isn't fast enough to stop him, too slow and heavy with his orgasm to warn him, and he scrambles with a startled hand into Jaskier's hair. Geralt doesn't react that much to overstimulation; he feels it but as someone who likes the sting, it is fine for him. Still! "Jaskier," he rumbles, a mixture of warning and pleasure from it, as he's licked clean and he shivers. But he uses his grip in Jaskier's hair to push him back after a few seconds, his mind coming back to him. "Lie back. You're insatiable."

Geralt is slightly unsteady as he pulls back and moves off the bed, doing his ritual as per usual to show his care, but this time it requires a wet rag which he had to wash Jaskier off regardless of their inability to keep their hands to themselves. He comes back and lets himself enjoy the view for just a few seconds. "Don't argue with me," Geralt murmurs before Jaskier can start. "I am not explaining to the healer when he returns why you look like this." The witcher would sincerely rather fight another ten vampires than have that conversation with a relative stranger. He very patiently and gently washes Jaskier's face off, and there's something almost soft in his golden eyes, admiring Jaskier's pretty features along the way.

Features that were slack in unconsciousness and then twisted in pain, because of Geralt's mistakes. His expression turns serious at the thought and he cleans off Jaskier's stomach where some of his own come was from earlier. He gently pulls his shirt that Jaskier's wearing back down over him. Geralt's quiet, setting the cloth to the side, and he doesn't look at his lover as his emotions wave through him. "I'm not ready to lose you," he says, a version of a silent prayer he said earlier in his mind but now voices out loud. He feels timid about it, it's such a damned sentimental thing to say. He isn't supposed to be this weak; loss is a part of his life. Loss and violence and isolation.

Golden eyes finally flick to Jaskier. "I want to train you in general self-defense." It will give him some small peace of mind. It wouldn't help him against the vampire, but perhaps in other ways it would keep him alive.
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[personal profile] yourwitcher 2020-02-15 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
If they weren't so compatible in bed this might have ended peacefully enough long ago, or awkwardly but overall peacefully, but damned if they weren't alarmingly in sync with sexual desires. Geralt hasn't had to communicate his favorite things; Jaskier seems to know. He's perfectly submissive and playful and surrenders beautifully. But he can be rough, biting and scratching and slapping, and it's as if someone created the perfect bedmate for him in an annoying and precious package. It's always good between them. Better than good.

"He wouldn't believe it. And also scold me for straining you." Geralt has no excuse outside of look at him. He understands now why so many people along their journey had trouble saying no to the bard. He is properly whipped at this point, not that he'd ever admit as much. He doesn't reply to the spoiling comment because it might please him to hear that. He likes spoiling Jaskier, if that's what he's doing.

Geralt is reluctant to look toward Jaskier when he touches his chin, but the kiss settles him. He reaches over to pull the bard into another kiss after his reassurance, this time stronger, almost a little desperate. There is no 'ever' for them. Eventually, Jaskier can and will, if Geralt doesn't push him away intentionally by then. It's just too early for it. They haven't had enough time; most of Jaskier's life, yes, but as his companion, not as his partner.

"Don't make promises," he says quietly. They couldn't keep them. He can't keep them. Jaskier is alive for today and he will stay out of harm for a time, until Geralt's paranoia is less present. He isn't used to being so honest about his fears, but he's been making progress with his bard. Trying. He wonders what Vesemir would say about all of this, if he knew. Geralt thinks he'd warn him just as Yennefer did, but understand it wouldn't change his prized pupil's stubbornness.

Geralt snorts, amused. "I know you're not good with weapons." He's seen Jaskier's rare attempt at handling them or himself, and it's always been bad. It won't be easy and he has to train new muscles, but it's the bare minimum. He can do that. He wipes his hands off on the cloth too; they're still a mess but a fixable mess. "The purpose will be to buy you a little time if I am not ten feet away when you get in trouble. I'm not making you a warrior." He likes his soft bard exactly as he is and coming to his rescue apparently was a kink he wasn't aware he had until he saw it for what it was. If teaching Jaskier how to punch or avoid being punched will spare him some trouble, it'll be worth it.

He's satisfied in body and now in mind that he's gotten his way and he raises an eyebrow when Jaskier takes the shirt off. He smiles, indulgently, warmly, and willingly gets pulled into an embrace. "You keep using being cold as an excuse for this." Geralt sees right through it but he settles the blanket nicely over them, especially tucking it around his partner. "Do you want us to have more sex like that in the future?" He runs his fingers along Jaskier's side. He doesn't have an opinion really, he's far more curious about the bard's. He seemed to like the tenderness a great deal.
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[personal profile] yourwitcher 2020-02-16 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Geralt's never truly had this before; he and Yennefer are very different and their relationship has layers upon layers, the way two ageless monsters with a lot of baggage can. Jaskier is a safe haven, a cool drink of water after nearly dying of thirst. He accepts Geralt, supports him, sees him in ways the witcher himself never can. He balks against too much positivity, as if he wants to shake the bard and demand he see what a ruin he truly is. But instead he accepts this balm to his injured soul for as long as he has it. Before he inevitably destroys it, whether his excuse is to protect Jaskier or truthfully to protect himself. But they have time. There has to be enough time before that.

If Jaskier wasn't injured Geralt might have pulled him up on top of him, ravished his body with his mouth and his hands until the bard was gasping all over again. Instead he stays tender and allows himself the ability to get comfort from his embrace and not sex. Geralt keeps him close, only saying Hmmmm in response to that comment about him in action. He doesn't think of himself as pleasant looking at all when he's in the middle of violence, even if he feels at his most honest when he is. When everything else is shucked off him outside of the need for blood and chaos, letting his senses and instincts take full control. Being a person is more difficult than being a killer.

"You won't always be able to run. I will give you minimal reasons to accidentally stab yourself." Geralt rumbles contently when Jaskier rubs his cheek against his chest. His own heartbeat is very slow underneath Jaskier's ear and his skin is rough when it's not torn and scarred. He is typically asked about his scars, but they're with one-off lovers who don't know all his stories. Jaskier knows more of them than most, but the oldest and most ugly are from before his time. "You don't need excuses for innuendo."

Geralt hasn't slept in a separate bed since they made this official, and rarely separate before that too. He never thought himself a snuggler and he would coldly deny it if it was brought up. But he likes feeling Jaskier breathe next to him. He likes when the bard trails those soft fingers of his over his skin. He's amused at the implication they aren't already having more than enough sex, but he gets smug about it too. It's a new feeling, being wanted like this, and he is hungry for it. That might be truly what his constant hunger for Jaskier is about; it's not always about desiring him, sometimes it's only about being desired.

"Mmm?" He can hear the uncertainty in Jaskier's voice in the answer and he glances down, catching blue eyes with curious gold. Geralt lifts his hand to run fingers through Jaskier's hair. He's never had this much either, the aftermath, the level of comfort that comes from relationships. But not enough comfort, apparently, and he frowns. "If I didn't enjoy it, you would know." The lack of staying hard or coming all over him would be a pretty blatant clue. He taps a finger under Jaskier's chin, keeping his face tilted up toward him. He still smells like his come. If Geralt leaned down and licked his skin, he would taste it, no matter how thoroughly he tried to wipe him.

"You can ask me for anything you want in bed, just as I do." Although it is less asking in Geralt's case and more demanding, but he has no qualms with telling Jaskier what he wants. Usually Jaskier only asks for things when Geralt asks him directly, and he assumed that was out of natural submission. But now he wonders if the bard thinks he can't or doesn't want to risk a rejection, which is fair. He slides his finger in a caress along Jaskier's soft cheek. "Try it out." Geralt's mouth curves at one edge as his finger moves over Jaskier's lower lip. "Tell me you want me to fuck you gently more often."
Edited 2020-02-16 23:58 (UTC)
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[personal profile] yourwitcher 2020-02-17 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Geralt can't imagine getting bored of Jaskier. They've been on the road together for a long time now, off and on, fully on after becoming lovers. Jaskier's always surprising, playful, amusing, and yes, irritating sometimes, but never boring. Geralt thinks he's boring in comparison. He is rigid and old. Set in his ways. Changing even slightly has taken time and effort, and it will never come easy to him. He balks at being pushed but on the whole Jaskier rarely does, and when he does, there are good reasons for it. Such as forcing the conversation after that debacle with Yennefer. Earlier in their relationship that would not have led anywhere good and led to a vicious fight between them, so sometimes it just takes time with the witcher.

He meant it when he said he always wants Jaskier, which is strange for him, to let something consume him that isn't violence or duty. It isn't difficult to rile him again. Geralt is content with some affection after sex, at his softest and most pliable when feeling good from an orgasm and good energy between them. He huff-chuckles. "I'm a decent teacher, but I am not nice." That should hardly be a surprise. He barely knows how to keep from being feral in the bedroom, fighting is a different story. Still, he leans down to kiss the top of Jaskier's head. "I will be less strict with you. A dagger is a good idea." Less strict does not mean nice.

Geralt smirks at Jaskier's attempts at innuendo, rolling his eyes. "You just did. Hopefully you got it out of your system." He knows that is not at all the case, but a man can dream. "Don't flirt with me while we're training. No distractions." It will already be difficult for him when his blood gets flowing and his energy spikes not to let that feeling mix with his active lust for Jaskier. He needs to train him! Not get distracted by the smell of his sweat and back him up against something. He sounds very serious when he says that.

A year ago they definitely would not have this conversation, but yes, here they are. Jaskier's eyes are so vivid in color, framed by eyelashes that Geralt would say were as pretty as any woman he'd ever met. His eyes are soft and it makes Geralt a little nervous on the inside, being looked at with such adoration. His own gaze is warm but not soft; it's not a comment on lacking the same feelings, more that he is made of stone. This is as sweet as he gets, for now. Still, he doesn't break their gaze.

Geralt nods at Jaskier's words: see, not that difficult after all. "I gladly will, once you are healed." They both enjoyed the sex they both have, but it will be easier when Geralt isn't concerned with every movement he could harm him too much. He wasn't so certain he could be as gentle as he just was, and now he knows he can be. It will make it easier for him to do that for Jaskier again. It means constant control over his strength and aggression, but it is worth it. They both will get let loose in their own ways at other times, an equal partnership.

He frowns and keeps caressing Jaskier's soft lips, tracing them. "When I told you no, it was not a forever no." Geralt doesn't like the idea that his one rejection for Jaskier made him uncertain of asking for anything else. He hesitated from saying no partly for that reason. So he is reiterating that it was not a flat refusal, although they both had permission for those, if need be. "I've never been fucked in that position before, it takes an adjustment." That is more than he typically explains or admits to, although he does not define his reasons for that. That should be enough. And it also means Jaskier will be his first when it happens.
Edited 2020-02-17 18:15 (UTC)
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[personal profile] yourwitcher 2020-02-17 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Geralt doesn't fear Jaskier leaving him in the sense of choice. He thinks it very likely that will have to be his choice, in the end, to walk away when he knows it's time. He said he would and promised nothing to the contrary. But he can't imagine the bard actively choosing to walk away from him, there is too much certainty in his presence, in his loyalty. Unfortunately those are the roles they have: the person who leaves and the person who gets left. But not yet. He will stay as long as he can and try to keep his temper and fear from breaking them apart early.

"It's smart to fight dirty. Whatever keeps you alive." Geralt is irritatingly honorable, yes, and he is far more careful with his human opponents than the monsters he slaughters. In life or death situation though, of course he would fight dirty to keep breathing. And he absolutely wants Jaskier to do the same. He isn't going to impose his sense of odd and unexplained honor on anyone else. Whatever keeps his bard coming back to him.

Geralt kisses his hair again; it's such a simple gesture and he likes that. He keeps his nose in the strands. They'll need a bath in the morning, he can smell the come in Jaskier's hair. Only a bit, but enough. "You can have one of my daggers." He has several blades outside of his swords, all smaller and for different types of use. In a fight who knows what he'll need to use. It is not as easy a thing as it sounds, to give Jaskier one of his. They are all well made and lethal, and a witcher giving someone a weapon of his truly is the same thing as offering a heart or something deeply romantic. He says it like it's nothing.

Geralt growls playfully at him. "No flirting," he warns again, knowing full well there will be flirting and sudden sex, but it won't stop him from fulfilling his promise of making Jaskier at least slightly more formidable. He will still always come running to rescue him and be glad for it, but whatever little things he can change to make himself less afraid of the bard getting injured are necessary.

He looks forward to fucking Jaskier that way now; it will be particularly satisfying coming in him after proving he can do it. Geralt brushes his fingers on those warm cheeks. Blushing. Adorable, truly. "Mmm, no mind-reading. I wondered why you were hesitant to ask for it, questioned whether I gave you reason to, remembered the one time I've rejected your request." He says very little much of the time, but he thinks a great deal. His mind curled around those facts, making conclusions, and yet again he's explaining himself more for Jaskier than he does for anyone else. It is pure logic in this case.

It isn't easy in particular for a witcher who is very dominant in sex and very closed off emotionally on top of that. He grunts in agreement, grateful that Jaskier understands, and gives him a compliment as a reward. "You were good at fucking me. You'll have another chance." It won't be as frequent as the other way around, but he enjoyed it. Jaskier was fiercer than he expected and Geralt still remembers the sensation of his tongue inside of him.

A memory for another time. For now he puts his long arm underneath Jaskier and keeps him close, tilting his head down to kiss him gently. "Perhaps. You rest." He hasn't slept since before the fight, unable to rest with Jaskier still injured, but perhaps here with the bard's reassuring heartbeat in his ears he can.
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[personal profile] yourwitcher 2020-02-21 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
Geralt doesn't know where he learned such sweet and comforting gestures from. Certainly not from anything else in his life; his training, his brief moments with whores, his relationship with Yennefer, affection is not something he's been taught. Perhaps it is built into him, somehow. Or he got addicted to the way it felt when Jaskier would do it to him, running fingers through his hair, cupping his cheek, caring so damned much with every touch. He started to mirror it and now it came to him easily enough.

He frowns at the response to his knife offer. "I can get another one." He can, technically, but yes, his blades are special. And meaningful. Geralt scoffs and tugs lightly on Jaskier's hair. "It's not as if I am giving you my swords." Which he would never, ever do unless there was no other choice. Those are sacred. It is good that Jaskier understands that the offer means something though, it will mean he will be more careful with it.

"You are my ...." He actually doesn't know a word for it. He gestures to the two of them and their current nudity. That's a summary enough. Sex. Monogamous sex. With perhaps some emotions. SOME. "My knives are better than others, and you will carry one." It does not sound like he's asking, because Geralt rarely asks, he demands. The point being made is that because of their arrangement, he considers it only natural that Jaskier get to use his property. They've shared their bodies and lives together, what is one blade?

Geralt is old. He hasn't aged truly in a long time, but he is old, and he's always been very perceptive on top of that. He is adept at being in denial about himself, but in general, he sees situations very clearly. Jaskier is not difficult to read on top of that. He wears his emotions on his sleeves. Geralt can usually tell what he's thinking or feeling from a distance away, from only the posture of his back. He rolls his eyes about Jaskier's pride, knowing that he deserves a little smugness for his conquest of his white wolf.

"You are safe," he says quietly, closing his eyes as he listens to Jaskier's steady heartbeat. "Sleep." The command is gentle and it is only seconds after Jaskier drifts to sleep that Geralt does as well.

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