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"Hey Ash?" Ash looks up from where he had been trying to make sense of a letter Katie sent him, something about her feud with Ewron again, to see his dragon standing in the doorway of his office. He throws the letter on his desk to join the small mountain of papers already there, giving all his attention to Tubbo. "Yes Tubbo? What can I do for you?"
It's rare to see him come to Ash in the middle of the day unless he's finished something new and wants to show it off. Tubbo starts to walk towards the desk, but stops in his tracks when he catches sight of Ash's eyes.
"Oh shit."
Ash looks around to try and find what scared his dragon. "What? What is it? What's going on, is someone there?"
Tubbo rushes his next words. "NO- No, it's nothing like that. Just. Um."
Ash gets up to stand in front of his engineer, hands holding his forearms in an attempt at comfort. Tubbo is still staring at his eyes in a mix of curiosity, slight embarrassment, and well-hidden joy that he's not letting himself feel. Tubbo grasps at Ash's biceps in return as he leans his head into Ash's chest, taking a deep breath (somehow) and raising his head again to speak clearly.
"Dude. I am so. So sorry, oh my god uhh."
"Wh- what happened? Why are you apologizing? Whatever it is, we can fix it."
"No no uh it's fine! Just- stay calm calm the fuck down-"
"I am calm but you're making me panic- what's going on?!" Something tells Ash that he might've been talking to himself there.
"Uhm. Uhh."
"It's okay Tubbo, I promise."
"Look- just. Did- have you not looked in a mirror today?”
“…” Ash gives him an unimpressed stare while he waits for Tubbo to backtrack.
“Ok stop looking at me like that, my bad, just- um. Oh gods how do I tell you this. Y'know your eyes?”
“No.”
“Ok well- wait what do you mean ‘no’? Fuck do you mean ‘no’? Anyway um. They’re still there-
"I wasn't worried about that?!"
"-Holy shit let me finish. They just. Ummmm. Look a little different maybe perhaps, and MAYBE perhaps, by chance it’s my fault.”
"Considering I don't really know what my eyes look like in the first place, this doesn't really bother me? Or affect me. What do you mean it might be your fault?"
"We're gonna talk about that in depth later. Have a deep talk and shit. But uhh before now I guess? Your eyes looked pretty normal this morning, maybe a little more purple than usual but I thought it was just your glitches acting up…"
"Tubbo. I don't know what they looked like at all."
"I'm getting to it. Chill. Basically, you know how like. Normal, not a hybrid of anything.. umm fuck why can't I think of someone.. FIT! Y'know how Fit's eyes look?" At Ash's nod, he continues. "Okay, so imagine that eye type, pupil in the center, white sclera, iris outside the pupil. That's you before today. Your iris was purple, not like a normal purple, it was what's the fuckin' word omb- ombrero? Ombre! That's the fucking word. It did the thing, well okay it still does I guess, but like, it does the thing where it goes from darker to lighter. So the top was a darker purple, close to what your uniform is, and then it faded into… I wanna say that's lavender? Or maybe lilac. I dunno, I'm not a poet."
Oh. Wow. No one's ever described what he looked like before. No one has ever bothered. He knows what his face and hair look like, vaguely. But the finer details, like his eyes have long been a mystery to him.
"That sounds.. that sounds nice. Wha- what do they look like now."
Tubbo laughs, clearly nervous. "Well, you know how my eyes are all dragon-like? Yeah um. Yours are now.. also like that. Your iris's are the same, just maybe a bit darker purple than before, and they sparkle a little now. Your pupils are more end-crystal shaped, same as mine. And your sclera is- hang on." Tubbo grabs his face with one hand and turns his head closer to the sunlight coming through one of the windows. Ash squints on reflex once the sun hits his eyes.
"Don't close your eyes, I need to check something." Ash opens his eyes and does his best to keep them open. Tubbo inspects his eyes before giving himself a nod and letting Ash go and turn away from the direct light.
"I thought so, but needed to check. Dragon sclera tend to have some type of constellation in them, symbolizing what family you're from or whatever. Mates get their own constellations that represent the relationship. I think. I don't know man, I'm getting most of this off of the one book I was ever able to get through."
"That… sounds about right. So what constellation do I have?"
"Oh right, you have the Heart Nebula. Yes it has nebula in the name, it is still a constellation. Technically. It's very pretty."
"Ah. Thank you. How come you needed to look in the direct sun for that?"
"No idea! That section had too many words that I couldn't understand. Best I got is that the stars appear on a very, very thin film that's on top of the actual sclera and it only shows itself when light hits it directly."
"Alright then. I have stars in my eyes now. That's cool. Wait- do you have them too?"
"Oh- umm, I mean I do, but I don't know what my new one is. Wanna check for me? It'll be a recognizable constellation."
Ash nods and tilts his dragon's head toward the light. Tubbo does a much better job of keeping his eyes open than Ash did. His eyes are so lovely. A mix of blue and green that apparently makes the islanders debate over which is more prevalent, and honestly Ash gets the appeal of talking about Tubbo's eyes for hours on end. When the afternoon sun hits them, the green really shines through. Ash is reminded of an eye of ender and he understands why some rich fucks choose to make them jewellery. Tubbo's eyes are way better than eyes of ender though, so full of life and sparkling brighter than any jewel. Something must show on his face that he isn't looking for the constellation because Tubbo pokes him in the side and gives him a knowing grin. Ash shakes his head minutely before actually attempting to look for the constellation. The only constellation Ash recognizes is the Orion's Belt, and he tells Tubbo as much.
"Huh. I've got no idea what that means. Thanks for checking, we can look it up later." Tubbo blinks a few times to get his eyes back to normal and then continues to stare into Ash's eyes.
Ash flushes from the prolonged eye contact and looks away. He doesn't see the smile that creeps up on Tubbo's face.
"Well… is there something you needed? I know the whole eye thing is not why you came up here in the first place. Can I help you with something?"
Tubbo hums and starts walking towards Ash. He walks Ash back until he hits the chair and pushes Ash down so that he's sitting. In a smooth motion, he uses his tail to sweep the papers off the desk and hops up to sit on the desk right in front of Ash.
"Yeah actually, I think you can." There's a gleam in Tubbo's eye Ash hasn't seen before, his smile is sharp, and he's leaning forwards slightly. Ash feels like he's being examined, not in a bad way, not when it's done by his engineers calculating eyes. He swallows thickly before speaking.
"Wha- ahem What can I help you with?" Tubbo can see Ash's hands twitch on the edge of his chair, like he wants to reach out and touch but isn't sure he's allowed. He'll make it easy for him. Tubbo slides off the desk into Ash's lap so that he's straddling him, legs caging his Supreme Leaders. Ash flushes a pretty red and his eyes go wide, glitches flying off him. His hands finally get what they want as they go to rest on and rub circles into Tubbo's hips.
Somehow Tubbo's grin gets bigger as he drops to speak right in Ash's ear. "Do any of your books have anything on actually mating?"
Ash has no idea if Tubbo knew that's what he was reading last night after he thought Tubbo went to sleep (He knew, of course he did. Ash had to put the book down every two seconds to give himself a breather. Really it's Ash's fault for putting it down with the title facing him, it only took him three tries to actually read it.), but all he can do is nod a little and flick his eyes up towards his room in the Pantheon, a silent question. Tubbo shakes his head grabs Ash's jaw with one hand, the other now on his leg.
"Nah, we're not going anywhere yet."
Tubbo leans in to kiss him and it does start sweet, it just doesn't stay that way very long. It quickly turns into a battle of tongues and teeth, biting at lips and eventually moving to jaws and neck before coming back up to lips and starting all over again. Soft moans and whines come from the both of them, echoing in the otherwise silent office. Tubbo's tail snakes around Ash's thigh, his hands roam over his chest and arms while Ash's hands stay on the back of his neck and his back, pulling him back in after they both try and breathe. Ash eventually finds the perfect spot just behind his ear and on his neck and bites down hard, making Tubbo cry out in pleasure.
Tubbo shoves a leg between Ash's in retaliation, pressing his knee up against his crotch. Ash moans into his mouth and rolls his hips into him, trying to get more stimulation.
This feels like a cue to go to the nest now. Tubbo pulls back red-faced and lips swollen, Ash looking up at him with pupils double what they should be. Looking at his new eyes and the earring that hasn't been removed since Tubbo put it on, he can't help but give one more closed-mouth kiss to his Supreme Leader that turns into more licking and biting at soft lips before abruptly getting up and tugging Ash outside and towards the factory.
Something flutters in Ash about going to the place they both consider safe to do this for the first (and hopefully not only) time. He knows that Tubbo doesn't like the all quartz building, but he still built it. And he built it well, he didn't half ass it or try to convince Ash to use a different block because quartz is what Ash asked for. He did it for Ash, because Ash asked. He tries to keep meetings in the Pantheon far and few between, and short when they do happen out of consideration.
Tubbo does at least wait until they're both in the door before pushing Ash against it and kissing him hard, tongue in his mouth before Ash can even think of anything else. They stay like this for what could have been days or seconds before Tubbo remembers why they're there are starts taking his clothes off.
Ash removes his clothes slower than Tubbo, mostly because he's actually taking the time to fold them instead of throw them somewhere to be picked up later. Two seconds of waiting later, the dragon gets annoyed and speeds through unbuttoning the rest of Ash's shirt, takes the rest of his clothes and throws them on the far side of the nest and falls back into it, pulling Ash with him.
"C'mon, want you in me already"
"Tubbo I can't just- I have to prep you-"
"No you don't."
"What?"
"Already did it, before I went to go see you. 'Want you now" Tubbo growls a little at the end of his sentence, tugging Ash closer by the shoulders.
"Wha- you already did it? You sure you're ok? I don't want it to hurt or anything."
"It won't, you're fine, just hurry up for fucks sake-" Ash cuts him off with a kiss to his lips which Tubbo sinks into. They go back and forth, slow and sweet for a little before Tubbo starts getting antsy and biting Ash's neck again. Ash tries and fails to swallow a moan before he grabs Tubbo by a horn and pulls him off his neck- Is that blood running down his chin? How was Ash so lost in pleasure that he missed the blood spilling out of his neck?
Tubbo licks his lips of blood. "Don't worry, it's not that much." Ash wipes his chin of the blood and lets him suck the blood off his fingers. That doesn't have any right to be as hot as it is, but it's Tubbo, and that explains a lot of things about Ash's brain.
"Can- can I do it next time?" This probably isn't a good time to ask but he's probably going to forget later and why's he even assuming there will be a next time, gods he should stop talking and thinking and existing in general really.
"Do what?" What the actual fuck is Ash talking about that's more important than what's currently going on.
Ash takes a deep breath. He can get through saying it again. "Can I prep you next time?" Oh. Tubbos eyes soften.
"Yeah, yeah you can. I just really, really wanted to do this now. You can do it every time if you want."
Every time. Every time. Ash had to have been a saint in a past life for this to be real. Ash smiles and takes the hint and starts to line up with Tubbo's hole, far too slowly based on the whines from above him, but those stop once he starts sliding in.
Ash sinks in slowly, still wary of hurting his dragon, checking in every time he moves. It's very sweet and Tubbo appreciates it but he would also like to get pounded sometime today which is why he prepped beforehand so he takes matters into his own hands and wraps his legs around Ash and drags him in all the way.
"fUCK- Alright I get it, do I even need to ask if you're okay for me to move?"
"No you don't and you know that." Ash laughs a little and starts moving in and out.
"Go hard? Please Ash?" By normal standards, he is, but neither of them are normal. Tubbo can tell he's holding back, his grip on the blanket next to him and his careful expression are so clearly betraying it. He begs Ash to go harder in between moans and he does, it's just not hard enough because he's still holding back and Tubbo has seen him fight before, he knows Ash can go harder but he's not and Tubbo doesn't understand why.
"Ash please just fuck me hard-"
"I am going hard-"
"You are not, I can tell you're holding back, c'mon please I'm asking you ahhh-" Ash grabs a leg and brings it to his mouth. He bites at his thigh, kissing and sucking the same spot right afterwards to make the marks stay. This distracts Tubbo thoroughly for a while, but eventually he gets his head clear enough to remember that Ash is inside him and not doing anything about it.
Tubbo lets out a noise halfway between a whine and a groan, tail thrashing against the bed with a thump.
"Ashswag I swear to all the gods if I can still think coherently in the next five minutes I will flip us around and do it myself holy shIT-"
Ash thrusts again but it's not enough, it's too gentle, Tubbo can tell he's still holding back. Fine. Fine, he gave Ash a chance, but he won't listen so he'll do it himself. His legs slip from where he had wrapped them around Ash to make room for different limb with more flexibility to do what he wants. He wraps his tail around Ash's waist and pulls. Ash lets out a choked moan at the sensation and Tubbo growls in frustration at not getting quite what he wanted, so he uses his tail to get Ash to pull out, not completely, but close enough, ignoring Ash whining. As much as Tubbo wants to slam Ash back in over and over and over again until he finally gets the neon flashing sign saying "Fuck me until I can't think anymore", what's the point of having control if he can't have a little fun?
Ash can't think, he feels like he's drowning in lust. As soon as Tubbo started using his tail- no, as soon as Tubbo started bossing him around, Ash felt like he was under a spell to do whatever he wanted, to please his any desire. It's not like he's ever denied Tubbo in the first place. He just- he just doesn't want to hurt him. He doesn't think Tubbo knows what he's asking for every time he says "harder". Ash is.. dangerous. He's stronger than anybody would expect, not by any natural means. There's no way that Tubbo could know that, so he tries to keep his strength human, what it should be. But, like always, Tubbo sees right through him and still says he wants more. It should be embarrassing how fast Tubbo can get him to plead and beg. It should be the other way around. Ash wouldn't change it for the world.
Ash's hips twitch forwards, held back by Tubbo's tail. Whimpers and pleas come spilling out of his mouth. "Please fuck just let me back in, I promise I'll go harder please-"
"No, you didn't listen the first however many times I said it so now I gotta prove 'm not scared of breaking or whatever's going through your stupid, pretty head and do it myself until you get the hint. I'm not made of glass Ash." With no further warning, mostly because he can't wait anymore, Tubbo pulls Ash back in hard.
They both moan at the action, Tubbo's tail looses all strength for a second while he's dazed from finally getting what he wanted before tightening back around Ash's waist. With much more effort this time, Tubbo pulls him out and in again, Ash is still distantly pleading but he has a point to make, so he does it again, and again, and again, hitting that spot deep in him over and over, slowly losing control over his tail as he can feel himself slipping further and further from coherency. He stops when he can feel his tail getting weak and his head spinning from pleasure. He lets his tail drop against the bed while Ash pants heavy above him.
"You gonna be good 'nd fuck me like I want now? Or do I need to keep using you to prove my point?"
Ash doesn't respond, not verbally anyway. He just moans and turns his sharp eyes on Tubbo. He grabs his engineers hands and pin them above his head with one hand, holding his hips with the other. He captures Tubbo's lips in a kiss at the same time that he finally uses the strength his dragon has been asking for and pistons into him, hitting home every time.
Tubbo's pretty sure the desperate pleas to keep going and broken moans that echoed the room were coming from him, but he's honestly not too concerned with it, if Ash was bothered by it he knows how to shut Tubbo up. He can feel his brain stop working, any complicated thought was gone long ago. His only thoughts are about Ash, Ash's scent, the bruises his hands will hopefully leave against his wrists and hipbone, the ones he already left on his neck and thighs, his lips on his neck and mouth and jaw, laving over earlier bites and bruises, the drag of Ash's cock in and out, how fucking good it feels to be taken care of like this, to let everything go and have Ash handle everything.
Ash has no problems with that, not when Tubbo looks so blissed out, not when he sounds so so good like this, begging for Ash. Ash keeps the pace up, eventually trusting that Tubbo won't (or can't) move his hands from above his head and choose to use his free hand to stroke Tubbo's horns, gripping and pulling his head in different directions when he wants to kiss or bite a different part of Tubbo and needs better access. Tubbo feels like he's floating, thoughts of staying like this forever, in this room, under Ash and at his mercy flood his head. Maybe he could find a way to keep Ash with him forever.
It don't take long with the added stimulation of Ash touching his horns for Tubbo to start reaching his peak.
"Ash- ahhhh 'm close, please- mmffgh" Ash looks up with his blown out eyes from where he had been sucking a new bruise on his chest and moves so that Tubbo can see his face.
"Me too- me too. You gonna come untouched for me? You gonna come on my cock?"
Something resembling a 'yes' comes out of Tubbo's mouth so Ash keeps going, faster, more erratic as he gets closer and closer to his own climax. Ash can tell both of them are almost there, so he puts any and all strength into one last thrust. He doesn't expect Tubbo to use his tail to help pull him deeper than ever while somehow finding enough coordination to grab his neck to pull him down into what would have been a kiss if they both weren't busy seeing stars as cum spilled out of them.
Ash whispers praise and sweet nothings to his dragon, who's still very much out of it. Ash pulls out, somehow Tubbo was coherent enough the complain about that. He calms back down after Ash gives him a kiss in apology.
Seeing as his dragon isn't in a position to move, Ash grabs a towel from a drawer (Why does he keep them there?) and starts cleaning them both off as gently as possible so he doesn't disturb . Tubbo's practically asleep by the time he's finished and puts the towel elsewhere, the only sign of life from his dragon being a weakly outstretched arm for him to crawl under when he gets back to the nest. The dragon sighs in contentment and presses his head against Ash's neck.
For once in his life, he's deeply asleep. Ash follows soon after, despite how much he wants to watch his beloved as he rests.
The next morning, Ash will wake up before Tubbo, for once. Upon this realisation, he'll spend the entire morning staring at Tubbo, running his hands through his hair until his dragon wakes up for the day.
Ash will spend the day thinking of stars and staring at the brightest one right in front of him.