Snippet: Robin by Midnight
I'm finally making some actual progress on the next part of Robin by Midnight, but I'm making that progress by switching POV from M to Tim, which means giving up some of my favourite bits of M's perspective on the boys being lunatics. So to make it a bit less painful, here's a random moment from the beginning of the fic I'm sad about loosing. Enjoy!
ship: Midnighter/Tim/Jason
warnings: robincest, age difference, breathplay that would be unsafe if M wasn't a meta, everyone being series-typical levels of crazy, daddy kink as a joke, this tim has some gender shit going on
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They move exactly like they were both trained by the same obsessive bastard, Hood going high while Red goes low, working together without a word spoken.
M wouldn’t wish his upbringing on anyone, and if he ever meets the Bat they’re going to have Words about how he treats kids, but there’s a little lonely ache behind M’s ribs as he watches them come for him all the same. He and Apollo can - could - work together, know one another’s strengths and weaknesses and how to predict what the other will do, but there’s never been anyone who was his match the way these two match. He knows they didn’t actually grow up together, but there’s so many points of similarity in the way they move, the way they work together, that there’s no mistaking them for anything but siblings.
The people who built his fight computer hadn’t expected him to use anything less than lethal force, and they certainly hadn’t anticipated what is essentially play fighting, so although he does his best to keep from hurting them, he can’t keep himself from putting them both down fast and hard.
He hooks Hood around the waist, clotheslining him and using his extra strength and weight to flip him onto his back on the floor and pin him there with a knee on his chest, carefully keeping just enough weight to hold him in place but not enough to break anything.
Red is still holding a knife, and even knowing that he’s not trying to hurt him M’s brain reacts to him as the greater threat. The blow to Red’s wrist isn’t, quite, enough to break anything, but it’s enough to loosen his grip on the knife. But Red is a feral little bastard who turned himself into a weapon, so he’s got a nightstick in his other hand before the blade hits the floor, aiming a strike at M’s ribs.
It’s rare that M has to use even half his speed against humans, and he prefers it that way. The fewer people who know the full extent of his powers, the easier his life will be. But he’s about as certain that Red won’t use that knowledge against him as he is that he’s got another knife hidden in that hoodie, so he moves almost as fast as he’s capable of to get Red down onto the armchair with M’s hand around his throat.
Red grins at him and mouths “choke me, daddy.”
“I only play that game with one of your family, and you’re not him,” M tells him.
“You really need to stop telling me about Nightwing’s fetishes,” Hood says conversationally.
“You can tell me instead,” Red says, his voice tight with lack of air.
“Not,” Hood says, and wrenches M’s knee sideways, sliding out and up and pressing the tip of his knife to the skin behind M’s left ear, “when I’m here. Hi.”
M twists his head to look at him, confident Hood won’t actually cut him. “Hi.”
“Just because I don’t look like I own a lamp made from human skin doesn’t mean I’m not a threat.”
“You going to tell me to let Red up?”
“Nah, he looks pretty happy were he is.”
Red grins and mouths, “Harder.”
“I know why you have this kink,” M says to Hood. “What’s his excuse?”
“Terminally kinky,” Red says, more of the weaze than real words.
“Terminally is the word,” M agrees, finally letting go. Red’s neck had felt so slender, so delicate, under his fingers, and he’s too young and too damaged for M, but he can’t deny there’s a thrill to knowing intimately just how easy it would be to hurt this kid and then not doing it. It feels like rebellion, and he’s pretty sure if he said that out loud, Red would understand. “You want to be careful how you play with kinks like that.”
“I’m always careful,” Red says, pushing himself up on his elbows. “Is it time to negotiate?”
“That depends on Hood.”
“He’s on board,” Red says, in a ‘keep up’ tone of voice. “It’s you I’m asking about. I know I’m…”
“Young enough to make me feel like a creep?”
“I’m not that young.”
“You kind of are,” Hood says. “I mean, I know I’m not one to talk given all of my… everything, but I totally get there M’s coming from.”
“You’re only three years older than me.”
“And you’re five foot nothing and you were telling me not ten minutes ago how part of your psyche will always be four years old.”
“And it will be when I’m forty, so I don’t see what that has to do with anything. And I’m five nine.”
He’s just barely over five eight, but M isn’t going to be the one to smash his dreams.
He must be thinking more loudly than he thought, because Red scowls at him like he can read exactly what M’s thinking and mutters, “shut up. Are you up for this or not?”
“Depends on the this.”
“M gets to fuck me,” Hood says immediately.
Red slants him a glance. “I don’t recall offering you a choice.”
“Oh so that’s how it’s going to be, is it? You gonna make me into your bitch?”
The smile on Red’s face is distinctly feminine and distinctly mean. “Make you? Darling, you’re going to beg for it.”
Hood takes a sharp breath, staring at Red with an expression M is intimately familiar with. Except he’d had to spank Hood’s ass raw and fuck his mouth to get him to look like that. All Red’s done is talk to him.
God, it’s almost sickening how perfect they are for each other.
“Yeah, okay, we can do that.” Hood licks his lips. “We can definitely do that. Do you prefer Sir, Mistress, bitch in charge…?”
“Just Red.”
“Oh you’re mean. I like it. Don’t I get a name at least?”
Red shifts, crossing his legs at the knee and arranging his - her? - arms in a way that M’s certain would be showing off his cleavage to the best advantage if he had any. “I don’t object to Scarlett.”
“Classy. Pronouns?”
Scarlett glances at him, and he realises he’s the odd man out here. “Whatever you’re comfortable with, kid. I’ll deal.”
“She and her,” Scarlett says, and then relaxes back into Red, and it says a lot about how carefully poised Scarlett had been that Red seems relaxed by comparison. “But I don’t need to be anyone but myself. I’d prefer M’s participation was voluntary.”
“It’s not like I didn’t already know you aren’t always a guy,” M points out. “You can be as femme, or as female, as you like with Hood, as long as you’re male with me.”
Red gives him a long slow look, and then says to Hood, “I really like him.”
Hood grins, lopsided and far too adorable for a guy with a bodycount like his. “Yeah, me to. Wanna arm wrestle for who gets to suck his cock?”
“Limits first.”
“Oh man, do we have to?”
Scarlet raises a single eyebrow, and it’s not particularly sculpted but somehow she’s giving the impression that it is just through sheer force of personality. “Hood…”
“Yes, your bitch-ness?”
“If you act like a child, I will be forced to treat you like a child. Does the idea of being made to sit in the corner thinking about what you’ve done while I suck Midnighter’s cock excite you?”
Hood shifts uncomfortably. “Honestly? Yeah, kinda. But only because you’re being so mean about it.”
“Jesus, you really are easy,” Red says in the voice of the girl from earlier, the one who looks like Hood’s smaller angrier sister. “Guess you’re just as much of a slut as the Titans always said, huh?”
“Gah, no, stop! Fucking hell Red, you cannot do that to me! You want a hard limit, there’s one for you. No being members of the family while we’re fucking.”
Red smiles, hot and predatory, and Hood sighs. “You being me is still really weird, and I still don’t look that much like I wanna get railed, but for some reason it’s not actually killing my boner, so sure. I’d still prefer you were just you though.”
“This is me,” Red says. “That’s just… You know how sometimes when B calls you tiger, you look into his eyes and there’s absolutely nothing except champagne and bad decisions looking back? Well the man who can do that to himself was my role model growing up.”
“God that’s creepy. I do get what you’re saying, and it’s even kind of sweet that we’re so important to who you are, but I’m hoping you are sane enough to at least understand why I prefer my brother not turn into my sort-of-sister half-way through sex, even if it wouldn’t bother you personally.”
“But you don’t object to me being you?”
M has had his cock so far into Hood’s mouth that he could feel his throat constricting around him, but he’s never seen him blush this hard before. “I would be kind of hot. If we… If you…”
“You want to watch yourself suck me off?” M asks, amused. It probably shouldn’t make the thought of sleeping with Red more appealing, but then if he was expecting any of this to make sense he wouldn’t be fucking Bats. “Or maybe you just want to suck your own cock?”
“According to multiple senior Titans you would not be the first Robin to manage it,” Red says with a grin. “We’d be carrying on a fine tradition.”
“That definitely doesn’t count,” Hood argues. “And honestly, I’ve always thought that was kind of a weird thing to want to do anyway.”
“So you do want to watch yourself suck M off,” Red surmises. “I can definitely do that. But we were talking limits. Yours and M’s.”
“And yours,” Hood says, before M can.
“You know me better than that, Hood. Tell me where to stop.”
“I know you well enough to know when you’re fronting,” Hood says. “But fine. I’ll be yours if you play your cards right, but that doesn’t make you or M my daddy. Or mommy. I’m a person, not a dog or an object, and letting you push me around doesn’t change that. And I own to being a slut with pride, but if you call me a whore or anything else that sounds like you’re talking shit about sex workers I’ll bite your cock off, you understand?”
“I understand. M?”
“I’ve never had a woman touch my dick, and I’m not starting tonight. If you and Hood want to play that way that’s fine but leave me out of it. Ass to mouth is how you get the really gross diseases. And we will be using my definition of fucked up for tonight, and if either of you gets an urge to do something fucked up, tell me first.”
“Sorry.”
“Not asking for an apology, Hood. I had fun. But I’d like a warning before you drop the dark shit on me this time.”
“Yes sir. Does that mean you’re not going to choke me?”
“No he isn’t,” Red says, and apparently this is what possessiveness looks like on him, eyes narrowed so M almost can’t see the black hole inside him, and high spots of colour on his pale cheeks. “He’s going to spot me when I do it.”
Enhanced senses can do all sorts of fun things, including spotting the exact moment Hood’s pupils dilate and his pulse kicks up a notch. “Promise?”
“I know to the second how long you can go without air.”
“B’s figures are out of date.”
“No they’re not. You’re just a desperate little slut.”
“Well yeah, obviously. I have it on my business cards and everything.”
“Vigilante, crime lord, sucks dick like a champ?” M suggests, amused.
“Aw, you remembered!”
“Hard to forget a mouth like yours, pretty boy.”
“Speaking of, I’m guessing all this flirting means you’ve got over your existential horror at Red’s age and gender, and we’re doing this thing?”
“I wouldn’t say that. The minute I stop being horrified by him is when I know I’ve gone fully mad, but I am prepared to put that aside to make sure he doesn’t skin you and wear your face as a mask.”
“We don’t have to do anything,” Red says. “You’re hot and all, but if you want to just play ref, or tag out with me, that’s fine. I’ll live.”
“Nah, if I’m doing this I’m going all in.” He holds out a hand to Red, feels it gripped by a hand that’s small enough to make him wince but calloused enough to know it belongs to one of his own tribe. “Kiss me.”
Red makes a low pleased noise that M can only label a purr, and slips off the sofa into M’s lap. Up close his eyes aren’t so cold as they look from a distance, flecks of true blue in amongst the grey, but they’re just as crazy as he was expecting.
He leans in to kiss him anyway, and the bit of his brain that’s yelling ‘eighteen! He’s eighteen!” is easier than he thought it would be to smother, because Red knows how to kiss.
M had been half expecting him to be soft, or at least yielding, but he kisses like he’s exactly as much of a bitch as he is, teeth nipping sharp and hard at M’s bottom lip when he doesn’t open up as quickly as Red wants, and a hand tight in his hair like M’s the one who’s offered to be Red’s bitch, and fuck but he’s always loved that. Red’s small cool hands don’t feel anything like Apollo’s huge hot ones had, except for how both of them touch him with complete confidence and not even a little bit of fear.
Even Hood had been scared of him, just a little, just enough to feed into his weird kinks, but Red’s kissing him like M isn’t the most dangerous one in the room, and he’s so into that.
He can feel Red’s eyes on him, knows he hasn’t closed his eyes when M did and probably never will, but he ignores it in favour of giving as good as he gets, digging his fingers in over Red’s ribs just enough to ache and pushing forward to fuck his mouth with his tongue, grinning into the kiss for the sweet little catch of breath he gets for this. Toppy little bitch isn’t opposed to taking a dose of his own medicine then.
When he pulls away it’s with that soft wet noise that tells you it was a good kiss, and the boy looking back out of Red’s eyes might even be real. He looks like he can’t decide whether he wants to fight M or ride his cock until he’s crying from it, and that’s a hard look to fake.
“Jesus,” Hood says quietly, and M looks over Red’s shoulder to see him watching them with wide wanting eyes. “My turn.”
M absolutely never claimed to be nice, which is why instead of just letting go of Red he picks him up and turns him around, arranging him with his back pressed to M’s chest and his legs held wide by M’s own, and says, “Go on then. Kiss your little brother.”
Red snorts and Hood makes a noise that’s somewhere between a groan and a moan, but he does as he’s told, dropping to his knees so Red has to bend over him, managing to loom despite being half Hood’s size.
“Hello big brother,” he says, the words pressed against Hood’s lips, a tease and a promise. “I’ve been looking forward to this.”
“I’d say the same but I only admitted to myself I even wanted you about half an hour ago,” Hood says, making Red hum something that was probably supposed to be laughter. “God T… Red. Kiss me?”
“I do like it when pretty boys ask nicely for what they want,” Red says thoughtfully, and kisses him.
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