The Preening Peacock (Kai)

[Malachai Roen]

How was Kai supposed to answer? He had said the best thing he could think of on a moment’s notice. And now Zach was grumpy. “Hey…” he mumbled, taking Zach’s chin in his hand so he was looking at him. “I love you, alright? If it really bothers you that much, I… I won’t do it again.” Keeping Zach happy was more important than trying to look perfect, he knew. It was just a struggle for the vain Taiwanese man sometimes.

But there was no doubt that he was crazy for the writer, and he was fairly certain he’d never realize exactly why he was, either. It didn’t make sense to him (or his sister, and probably not his parents either if he ever told them… Yikes…), but he wasn’t going to fight it. Just like he wasn’t fighting Zach as he stood there and held his hand rather dumbly, seeming lost for words. An amused smile crept up Kai’s face. “You…?” he encouraged, his voice slightly teasing. He started to have a feeling what he was-

Yep, he was right. What he wasn’t expecting was how feisty the writer suddenly was, and so Kai easily toppled backwards with a surprised grunt. “Hey!” he protested with a laugh, but then Zach was on him, and kissing him, and Kai gladly drank him in. He wasn’t sure how long they kissed, hands sliding, lips melding, until Kai had to pull away to suck in some desperate breaths to keep from passing out. “Zach…” he uttered, half-groan, half-growl. “We’re… Going to be even later now… And this time… It’s your fault…”

With one powerful motion, Kai rolled over on top of his lover, pinning him down and straddling over his hips. With deft fingers, he unbuttoned the shirt he’d only just put on a short while ago, tossing it aside before sliding his fingers through his hair, ruffling it up even more. “You asked for it,” he growled with a toothy grin, bending down and attacking Zach with more kisses.

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Zach knew it....which was why he said to drop it. There wasn't any point in arguing this...point. "I know..." he said softly, though not without grump. "I just....I just got irritated and....I shouldn't have said that...Sorry." There you go, it was out there, could they move on already? Especially since Zach was feeling a whole different kind of frustration underneath his grump.

The kind of frustration that apparently had driven Zach into attacking Kai just as they were finally about to leave. Zach pulled up from the ravenous kiss when Kai forced them to separate for the sake of air, and he loomed over his younger lover, scowling. "Yeah, well....we're already late...and that's your fault." What Zach had planned wasn't going to take a fraction of the time it took for Kai to pamper himself into perfection...a perfection that was soon going to be sullied completely by mad hands and crazed kisses.

"Ahh!" Zach yelped when he suddenly found himself being flipped over onto his back, their positions completely reversed. Zach stared up at Kai, watching as he tantalizingly started to unbutton his shirt and toss it off to the side without a care. And then Zach grinned, his eyes sparkling, mirroring the expression also held by his...his boyfriend. "Hurry it up then." He engaged in the next series of kisses with an abundance of love, lust, and affection. "You slowpoke," he chided between breaths.

[Malachai Roen]

“Okay, okay, you don’t have to convince me,” Kai laughed breathlessly, already eager to get this little ‘distraction’ going. Honestly, he could spend the night locked up in the apartment with Zach if the writer just asked him… But they’d see where this went.

He smiled down at his… Lover… Boyfriend… His Zach, and Kai was hit with a wave of emotions he wouldn’t have been able to explain if asked. “I’m going~” he laughed, continuing with the series of kisses as his hand slid down Zach’s torso to take off his belt. “… Love you…”

And those were the last string of coherent words he would make for the next… While.

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“Dammit, now I’m going to have to fix my hair again,” Kai chuckled as he laid back in bed, one arm wrapped firmly around Zach’s shoulders and holding him to his chest, the other fiddling with a strand of the older man’s own hair. His breathing was deep, his cheeks flushed, and he overall felt… Very warm and content. “Think you can walk?” he teased, leaning down to place a last kiss on Zach’s lips before he started to sit up. Kai stretched, then rolled out of bed and did the same with his wings, which had decided to burst out about halfway through their romping.

That done, he picked up his pants and put them back on, glancing back at Zach over his shoulder with a sly smile. “… You should do that more often,” he suggested, chuckling breathlessly. “That was… Fuck… That was hot.” Kai snatched up his shirt and went back to the bed, taking his time buttoning it back up. “… You still want to go out, right?”

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Zach groaned, feeling a series of pains shooting from…places…as he turned into Kai, his cheek resting on his lover’s chest. “What a tragedy….” he said blandly. Did this guy think about anything other than how he looked? Oh, well. If Zach really had a problem with it, he wouldn’t have been so attached to this big, dumb lummox in the first place. Besides, Zach was too content right now to give Kai too much flak over it. Zach returned the kiss, then considered the question seriously. “I think so,” he replied, not without a touch of irritation over Kai’s teasing.

He moved with Kai, sitting himself up and draping his legs over the side of the bed. Ugh..his everything hurt. What had he been thinking? A moment of pure madness, he decided was the culprit. Zach stared down at the carpet, in a daze, until he was whacked by something black and feathery.

“Hey!” he exclaimed, batting the intrusive things away from his face. “Excuse you, keep those to yourself!” Zach stood and tried to escape that stretching wingspan. “As in, on your side of the bed!” Was he irritated again? Not really. But Kai didn’t have to know that.

Zach sighed, hiding a smile as he scanned the room for his own clothes, then moved to put them on once he found them. “Do what?” he replied, feigning ignorance. Nope, Zach had no plans to do that ever again…well, maybe on special occasions. He had to be in the right mood. “Of course I do. I don’t want to be cooped up here with you all night all the time.” Even though he’d probably be fine with that too. “Hurry up and get dressed,” he said smartly. “Or I’m leaving without you.” An empty threat. Zach wouldn’t dare.

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“I know,” Kai replied solemnly, patting down some stray strands that had gotten ruffled over the last several minutes. If he didn’t care about how he looked, he wasn’t doing his job, as far as he was concerned. Even if Zach didn’t care so much, he still did. “Mmm… Good,” he replied, brushing his hand over the writer’s arm. “Wouldn’t want to have to carry you.” He had to tease. It was in his nature.

He flinched a little when he felt his wing whap something hard – oops, Zach. “Sorry,” he replied with a short laugh. “This room is too small for them… For something so majestic…” Kai snickered and tucked the appendages up against his back again, concentrating a moment until they melded back into his flesh. The familiar tightness reappeared, but it wasn’t anything he wasn’t used to by now, since he only let them out once or twice a day on average to stretch or exercise them. “That better?” he asked over his shoulder.

He’d only recently realized that a faint feathery sort of pattern appeared on his skin when they were tucked away. Kai found it interesting… And made him wonder if other people with hidden physical abilities shared similar features. He might need to do some research…

Kai snorted and was brought back to the present by Zach’s ignorant question. “You know exactly what I’m talking about,” he prodded. “The whole shoving me down, pinning me to the bed thing? Remember that?” Of course he did. Zach was just being stubborn, like usual. “Okay, okay, give me a few minutes then,” he huffed back, finishing with his shirt before darting off to the bathroom before Zach could protest. Fortunately, it did only take him a moment or two to fix his hair enough to be presentable. “Alright, let’s go,” he chuckled, snatching up his jacket and snagging Zach’s hand before anything else could distract them. Well, apart from another smooch, which Kai planted on his boyfriend’s lips as they stepped out of the apartment.

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Zach managed a small smile. Oh, well. Kai’s vanity was irritating as hell, but if it weren’t for that, Kai wouldn’t be Kai. Besides….Zach did enjoy looking at the tall man when he was looking hot. Though to Zach, Kai would look good even as a scruffed up bum.

“Right….” he said with an unimpressed roll of his eyes. Majestic. Zach swatted those majestic wings of Kai’s away from his face until Kai willingly retracted them and put them away like a good boy. Zach didn’t mind them, but those wings did get in the way sometimes. And he had the sneaking suspicion that Kai knew it and shoved them in Zach’s face on purpose. Like when he was trying to read or watch TV, or do anything else that wasn’t paying attention to Kai. He was such a spoiled brat. Attention starved much? Then again, Zach had no right to talk, considering how possessive he got of the younger man when he chatted with anybody who wasn’t Zach. “Stupendous,” he said blandly. Zach wasn’t going to give Kai the satisfaction of an amusing reaction.

This extended into the innocent act. Nope, nope, Zach did not do anything just now, it was Kai’s fault again. As usual. He tricked Zach, that’s what it was, a trick. “You must have been hallucinating,” he continued to deny. Zach started rebuttoning his shirt, having already found his pants and slid into them. Hopefully, Kai would be done by the time Zach declared himself ready too. He’d already primped enough, surely he had enough of a head start that he didn’t have much to do after a little romp in the sheets, right? Zach shook his head, letting his newly trimmed hair fall messily around his face and off his neck. It probably wasn’t the best he could make it, but it was better than before. Still, Zach checked himself in his reflection in the window, just to make sure he was ‘presentable’ enough for Kai’s stupid standards.

Zach glanced up when Kai finally declared himself fit for the public eye. “Right,” he muttered as he was snatched away by the ridiculously tall, dark, and handsome man. The kiss left behind a smile. They still didn’t have that much time left in the night, but…that was okay. Zach followed Kai out of the apartment, closing the door behind them.