(Warning: bed scene. Nothing much happens here, you can just skip it if you like)
"Aren't you going to sleep yet?" Darius asked me, stifling a yawn while leaning on my chest.
"I'm still reading this chapter about illusions, it might help when Arman finally awakens," I told him. "Did you see how interested he was with illusionary magic?" I went on proudly. "I have always thought that he would be good at it, I can't wait for him to manifest so that I could teach him the spells properly!"
"The clock tower just chimed 12, you know."
"You can go on ahead and sleep first, there's just a couple of paragraphs left..."
Darius went silent.
I looked at him and saw him scowling at me.
"It won't take much longer now," I said with an apologetic grin.
Darius replied by crawling beneath my book.
"How much longer?" he asked with a frown.
"Just a couple of minutes mo– Ahh!"
I covered my mouth.
Darius smiled at me mischievously as his fingers fondled my chest. My eyes darted towards the sleeping Elliot's bed. It's a good thing I've placed an inaudible spell around my bed beforehand!
"D-Darius..."
"Go ahead and read," he said while unbuttoning my shirt, "I'll do what I want to do as well."
Upon saying this, he kissed around my nipple before licking it's tip and covering it completely with his lips! I could feel his tongue darting around it inside his warm mouth. I had no choice but to abandon my book and concentrate on him instead!
"I think I can go further now..." he whispered as I reached down to kiss him. "Can you help me?"
"W-what would you want me to do?" I asked.
"Kiss me too..."
He sat on top of me and took off his shirt.
My hands seem to have a mind of their own as I fondled his chest, my lips, like magnets attracted to his rose colored nipples which I kissed hungrily, suckling him like a babe in his mother's arms.
"Ughn..."
I paused and look up at Darius' face, thinking that he had had enough, but there was only pleasure that I saw there.
Pleasure, and longing for more.
"There... suck me harder..."
He began to slowly rock back and front on top of me, his hardness rubbing against mine. He held my head tight against his chest, and as I suckled him, his breath came faster, as well as his movements, until his body stiffened with a loud gasp."
"A-are you okay?" I asked when his body fell limp over mine.
He didn't reply.
He was still catching his breath.
I gently laid him down on the bed and kissed his forehead. I was about to pull the covers on top of us when he suddenly spoke up.
"Will you be meeting with your senior again in the morning?"
"Huh?"
"Can you stay here with me `till the sun comes out?" he snuggled against my chest. "Don't leave."
"But I promised to meet Senior Eth–"
Darius suddenly reached up and silenced me with a kiss.
He was hungry.
Ravenous.
I had to pull away to gasp for breath.
"Are you okay?" I asked when I saw his desperate look in the half darkness of the room.
"Stay," he blurted out, his eyes filling with tears. "I don't want you to go to him."
"What's the matter?" I sat back up to comfort him. "Senior Ethan isn't a bad person, he's nothing like his bro–"
"That's not it!" he argued. "I don't care who he is, I just don't like you meeting him!"
"But why?" I asked once more. "It's not like we're doing anything wrong, I promise, we won't be raiding the library again!"
"That's not it either!" he insisted, his voice getting louder.
I sighed, glad that the inaudible spell was up.
"Then, can you tell me the reason why you don't like Senior Ethan?" I asked him patiently.
"I... I just don't like it when you meet with him... in the baths... all alone... naked..."
I frowned as he trailed off, his face bright red, his eyes averted from me, when suddenly, it all made sense.
"You... are you feeling jealous of Senior Ethan?"
Darius kept silent, though his face told it all.
"Oh, Darius," I embraced him and held him close, "I had no idea you could be this cute!"
"W-what are you talking about?!" he snapped at me and tried to push me off. "I-I'm just... worried about you!"
"About me? When I look like this?" I said with a chuckle. "Aside from you, only Senior Ethan had ever shown any interest in me, physically. He's pretty weird, you know? But I assure you, it's all in the interest of science."
"How can you say that?" he glared at me and pinched the skin over my cheek bones. "You are beautiful in your own way!"
I couldn't help but laugh.
"You're the only one in this academy who has ever told me that!" I kissed his nose and caressed his nape. "In fact, I still find it hard to believe that someone as beautiful as you is being intimate with me."
This finally silence Darius. He quivered and nuzzled my hand, he then climbed on top of me and pushed me down to lay back on the bed.
"You're the only one I want to touch me..." he whispered as he leaned down to kiss me. "I want to do more than just kiss and touch and cuddle..." he whimpered. "I want you to ravish me and take all of me and make me forget everything else in this world... particularly the memory of those days..."
Darius' words were cut off as he sobbed on top of my chest.
I placed my arms around him and rubbed his back as his body shook and his tears fell on my neck.
"Shh... it's okay... it's alright now, I'm here, I'm not going anywhere..."
"Y-you promise?"
"I promise..." I placed my arms around his waist and felt him quiver. "I want to do more than just kiss and cuddle too, but... I don't know that else to do..."
Darius went silent and still.
"I... neither did I..." he said in a low whisper. "That time... I was forced to do things... I never thought I could ever do with another man... it was disgusting... it felt like slugs were crawling all over my body... yet that potion... that thing they fed me... it made... things feel..." Darius trailed off again.
"You don't have to think about that anymore, Darius," I told him.
"But..." he continued, "ever since that day, there's been this craving... and ever since that time I saw you in that path leading back to the dorms... all I could think of was that I wanted you to touch me that way..."
"Ever since..." my eyes widen in the half darkness. "Was it some kind of lingering effect?" I asked.
"I don't know..." Darius shook his head. "All I do know is that I only want to do it with you..."
He slowly looked up at me, his eyes shining with tears.
"I still can't get over what they did to me..." he whispered, "yet I can't stop wanting it, and I think I'm ready now..."
A memory came back to me, about something Senior Ethan said in passing...
'I hope those two released apprentices find good partners to comfort them... Nights would be particularly difficult until the effects wear off.'
I suddenly sat bolt upright on my bed.
Darius looked up at me, surprised.
"Can you guide me?" I asked him.
"H-huh?"
"Show me what to do!"
"What to..."
"How can I comfort you? I am inexperienced and may be clumsy and cumbersome, but please, help me make you feel better."
The surprised look on Darius' teary face turned into a shy smile.
"It's okay... we're both clumsy when it comes to making love..."
I felt my face burn.
"Just..." Darius took my hand and placed it on top of his damp hardness. "Touch me the way you would touch yourself..."
"But... I have never touched myself like that before..." I mumbled shyly.
Darius' eyes widened before breaking into soft laughter.
"Then, let me take the lead..."
Darius sat on top of my lap once again and pulled my underwear down, exposing my manhood.
I instinctively covered myself.
He took my hands away and placed them on his hips instead. He then touched me andbegan rubbing me.
"I knew you were big, but not this big..." he said as I quivered with pleasure. "Does that feel good?"
All I could do was nod in reply.
He pulled out his manhood as well.
It was soaking wet.
He held it next to mine and started rubbing them together.
"Touch me too..." he gasped.
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SORRY!
The rest of the scenes are too graphic.
You can find and read Perks Ch. 36 in my ko-fi account :)