SoftlyTea



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    Once upon a time there was a very superior Skyrim Kink Meme prompt.

    With some trepidation, a fanfic writer called SoftlyTea decided that she would fill it. Trepidation, because she hadn't written any fiction in A Very Long Time, and as for putting things on the Internet - hah! But doing things that utterly terrify you is good for you, or something, so she did it anyway. Thus was I Will Always Be Here (Part 1) born.

    What SoftlyTea could not have known, when her trembling hand clicked the 'Post' button on that fateful LiveJournal comment, was that such an action was to start a chain reaction of shenanigans and joy for her OC Liya, her prompter's darling Imani, and the Thalmor that pretend not to love them.

    Apart from the first one, these are mostly silly, hopefully-humorous one-shots. One day Liya and Ondolemar will get their own lengthy multi-chapter backstory, but... not today.

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    Various fills for the Skyrim Kink Meme.

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    “Promise you won’t laugh? Like, swear on your undead life?”

    “I swear on my-” Astarion choked on his spit. “My what?”

    “Your undead life?” Gale tilted his head like a confused puppy. “Did you think the whole vampire thing was a secret?”

    “Well. kind of?”

    Gale laughed in earnest. “Astarion, I know you can’t see yourself but you have to understand what you look like. You look like whatever an emo kid imagines when they picture themselves grown up, with your perfect hair, eyeliner, and the leather jacket thing.”

    “I-”

    “Also if the ethereal beauty wasn't enough, you have a blood flask in your jacket pocket at all times.”

    Astarion blinked, but quickly gained his composure, a damn near predatory grin stretching across his lips, highlighted by the fact that he was no longer hiding his fangs. “So you think I'm beautiful, wizard boy?”

    Gale rolled his eyes, trying to keep the flush off his cheeks. “Of course I do, Astarion.”

    ~*Modern with Magic AU! with Professor Gale and Librarian Astarion*~

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    He unexpectedly turned as he closed the door and caught Daphne observing him. Their eyes met, she blushed in embarrassment, and—

     

    Every time he smiled, really smiled with his whole face, the world around him seemed to dim in comparison. He made her want to take up painting again. Or pastels, or any of the other art forms she’d left behind when she graduated from RISD and started her first bookmaking apprenticeship. She’d never felt compelled to make representational art, but Gale Dekarios in the full bloom of joy was absolutely worth representing.

     

    In which tiny, remote Icepeak College mysteriously hires a massively overqualified antiquities scholar in the middle of term, and its book arts workshop director finds herself inexorably pulled into his orbit. In her defense, he's really fucking hot.

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    Gale is so handsome, is the thing. Even in spite of the circles beneath his deep brown eyes, he never looks so alive as he does when he is immersed in his research. There’s a flush visible above the line of his beard, and his eyes are dark and focused, his spirit roused by the ancient knowledge unraveling before him. You want him to look at you with that heady expression, gaze so dark and wanting.

    Perhaps, you think, he needs a little more encouragement.

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    Or, Gale is trying to work and Tav won't stop annoying him. So he makes her keep her mouth busy :)

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    Gale was right: the Shadowlands are far from suitable for indulging any thoughts more basal than survival. And yet—the weight of his gaze burns into you still, heated and heady. He has not stopped watching you since the battle for Last Light. Since he’d all but admitted that the sight of you, covered in the blood of winged shadow-beasts, sent his blood surging southward. “I can’t imagine anywhere that could turn my heart from you,” he’d said. “Cursed or otherwise.”

    Not that you can blame him, truly. A flush rises to your own cheeks as you recall the way he’d looked in battle: hair wild and eyes blazing, flame and lightning crackling at his fingertips. Ordinarily, Gale wears expressions best described as kind and approachable. To be reminded of his hard-earned skill, of the sheer well of power surging beneath his skin… it sends a thrill of arousal through your gut, hot and insistent. You cannot help but turn to seek him out.

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    A lil Gale x Tav (or Reader), as a treat. :)

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