Polar Explorer RPF - Prompt Post 1

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Deb/Silas, strength kink

[(Anonymous)]

Silas packs a lot of punch for a weedy guy and I want to see Deb feel some kind of way about it

FILL: waiting on your muscle, Deb/Silas, strength kink, E

[(Anonymous)]

“You wouldn’t expect it of him.”

“Pardon?” Deb said.

Titus gestured with his pipe down the slope, to where Silas was helping unpack a sledge just back from the ship. Up on his shoulder went a crate, easy as anything. Under the other arm, a heavy bag of fodder.

“Extraordinary strength, for an adolescent Yank. Wonder what they fed him on.”

“Pemmican from birth, I expect,” Atch put in. “Do you think I could convince him to take up boxing? I’m thinking of starting a club this winter, you know.”

“No,” Titus said matter-of-factly. “I fear his astonishing natural power will go to to waste as he dedicates himself to the life of the mind.”

“Pity. He’d make a tremendous sparring partner.”

“Mm. I’d like to see him knock Deb down, wouldn’t you?”

Deb had been glad then that his cheeks were already red from the stiff breeze outside. That image, of him being bested by Silas in a knock-down drag-out fight, stuck with him for a long time—outliving even the man who suggested it.


*


The Dry Valley stretched out into the distance, implacable and vast. Glaciers flowed into it along the sides like the tines of a silver comb, one after the other, and in between them two men wandered in search of ice and stone.

Earlier that day they had been crossing one of the numerous frozen ponds that dotted the dry landscape when Deb, his thoughts on an intriguing moraine in the distance, had stepped blindly into a weak spot in the ice.

Silas had been astonishingly fast, hearing the crack and whirling about. With one arm he had grabbed hold, hauled Deb out of the water and onto fast ice, then with both arms had helped him up to his feet. For a moment Deb, waterlogged up to his thighs but gratefully no further, had felt light as a snowflake and almost as delicate.

Now Silas was ahead of him again, silhouetted against the great white face of the nearest glacier, the sun beating down on his cornsilk hair and tanned face, and Deb was thinking not of moraine deposits but—in an abstract sense—of strong arms, a reliable safety net. Nothing bad could ever happen to one, he thought, while one was traveling with Charles Wright.

At last he gave into a persistent urge and called out, “Stop—don’t move.”

The sound echoed weirdly in the vast gravel glen and Silas looked back.

“What’s wrong?”

Deb struggled to access his camera from where it was being kept warm underneath his jacket. “Nothing. I’ve just—got to get a picture.”

“Of the glacier, or of me?”

“Both. I said, don’t move.”

Silas glowered charmingly at the camera while Deb framed it properly. He, Charley, rather disliked having his picture taken and had already proclaimed he’d be dodging Ponko at every opportunity. Deb hoped to be able to awaken some measure of vanity in him eventually, for he felt a strange anxiety that he himself would be overrepresented in the record of the expedition while Silas’s presence would be correspondingly lacking.

He took some snapshots of Silas against the glacier from afar, for perspective; and then approached to shoot him up close. He was gazing down through the viewfinder, trying to find the shot, when Silas said, “The hell are you smiling about? See something funny in there?”

Deb composed himself. “Sorry—“

“What have I said before, don’t get apologetic on me.”

“Fine, I’m not sorry. I was just… admiring the view, that’s all.”

Silas grinned. Deb took the picture.


*


How satisfying it was, each and every time he was able to distract Silas; to successfully cajole him away from his pendulum or his calculations for what he promised would only be a moment, only to end up kissing in the meteorological hut for some untold number of splendid warm minutes.

Deb didn’t really know how the awful winter could have been tolerated without this. He felt terribly guilty sometimes about it—which he hadn’t confessed, for Silas would’ve rolled his eyes and pointed out the flaws in his reasoning. But it was undeniable that they were the luckier members of a very unlucky set without really having any right to be.

The dark and cold outside the small hut seemed very far away, as Silas broke off to suck sharp bright circles into Deb’s neck. Deb leaned over to lick the outer shell of Silas’s ear—something he had an especial liking for. And he could have kept going just like this—he wanted to, really, but there was something else he wanted just a little bit more. He had for a while, but now he finally felt he had the guts to ask.

Into Silas’s ear he whispered, “Let’s fight.”

“Pardon?”

When he pulled away to look at Deb, Silas’s hair was marvelously mussed and his spectacles, which he always mulishly insisted on wearing so he could “see him properly,” were askew.

“Let’s fight,” repeated Deb, and in a smaller voice, “and you’ll win, and—and, you know.” He tried to get the meaning across with his eyebrows, but he knew very well that Silas simply no good at implications, so he eventually whispered, “…and you’ll take me as a prize.”

A familiar lopsided smile appeared. “Where on earth did you get an idea like that?”

Deb shrugged. “I’ve just been thinking about it.”

“I bet you have. Christ alive.” He kissed Deb some more and then said, “I never knew anyone could find so many different things to want from me. Well, why not.”

He hauled Deb to his feet—prematurely, Deb thought, he hadn’t truly meant now, surely they could have gone on kissing a little longer—and began stripping down to his suspenders.

No half measures for Charley, not ever; Deb hurried to follow his lead. Silas rolled up his shirtsleeves and then reached over to do the same for Deb, lingering over his wrists, brushing a thumb along the dark hair there.

They squared up. “Give it your best,” said Deb. “Don’t be afraid you’ll hurt me.”

Silas barked a laugh. “Are you kidding? I’m terrified. You’re like a china doll.”

“Now, that’s uncalled for!”

Deb went for him then, seized him by the shoulders and then they began. Immediately he felt that Silas was being gentle with him. He was too pliant, too careful—more of a friendly scrap than a real fight. They grappled playfully, for a while trading pushes and pulls back and forth across the felted floor of the hut. It was almost like dancing. Deb thought it was nice but not in the spirit of his idea.

“Come on,” he said. “Really, I can take it—“

Silas just rolled his eyes, which inspired Deb to force him up against the wall, one arm held across his chest. He leaned up to deliver a swift, provoking bite to Silas’s lips. Silas practically growled, and finally in a burst of real strength pushed his arm out, spinning Deb away until his back thumped the wall.

Now, their positions reversed, Silas had Deb against the wall, and he grabbed at Deb’s wrists and forced them up and over his head. A bony knee came up to dig hard into his upper thigh. He tried to wriggle free and failed—that grip, he thought, good Lord, and felt his heart begin to really pound.

Divested of their thicker layers and standing chest to chest, could Silas feel it? He was staring down at Deb, glassy-eyed, his mouth—reddened from their earlier exertions—hanging slightly open. “Is this,” he said, “what you want?”

“Yes,” Deb said, “yes.”

He kicked out at Silas’s ankle, not hard but hard enough to distract him, and was able to wriggle his way out of Silas’s hold—but only for a second. Silas let him get one step past him, and then grabbed him from behind. Deb strained hard but those wiry arms around him were locked tight. He reared back, trying to throw Silas off-balance—it was like trying to push against a glacier face. Silas, feeling his attempts to resist, hooked an arm around his neck, a genuinely uncomfortable headlock, and there they stood, swaying for a moment in matched exhilaration.

“Please,” Deb gasped. Perhaps a plea for mercy, or for—something else. He could feel Silas growing hard, a trapped cockstand pressing against the curve of his backside. He wanted it, but he didn’t want to lose Silas’s arms around him.

Then Silas fought him down to the floor, and Deb still gave some genuine attempts to resist, all the while exulting in the feeling of finally being well and truly overpowered.

This was the berserker strength he’d found himself contemplating frequently of an evening, before even the first time he and Silas had kissed; the arms he was later hotly embarrassed sometimes to want, rather badly, carrying him across a threshold, throwing him down into a feather bed…

Presently Silas’s full weight was brought to bear; Deb was prone, one arm pinned behind his back as Silas kneeled firmly on the back of his legs.

“That was too easy,” Silas said, though he was audibly panting. “You’ve gone soft, old man.”

A part of Deb wanted to remonstrate with Silas about the extenuating circumstances: the cold weather and his injuries preventing exercise—the heavy mantle of the hut’s black mood keeping him in bed—perhaps also contributing to overindulgence at meal times—but he was almost beyond himself with need now. If he opened his mouth it could only to be to beg for Silas’s prick. He had his own unignorable cockstand now too, but when he moved himself minutely against the floor to relieve it, Silas bore down further.

“Don’t move.”

“Can’t,” said Deb truthfully.

“You were right, you know. That felt good. God damn.”

He groaned as Silas shifted on top of him, all knees and elbows as he fumbled in his pocket for the petroleum jelly.

“I just could have you anytime I want, couldn’t I,” mused Silas lightly. Deb said, a little dizzily, “Mm-hm.”

“Now’s as fine a time as ever, I suppose.” But he was taking his sweet time with the stuff and Deb couldn’t stand being teased.

“Charley…”

Silas tutted. “You’re my prize—didn’t you promise—and you’ll be seen to when I say.”

But he needed it badly too, quite obviously, and got to it quickly after that. Deb, as shy of making noise as ever, made faces into the floor as Silas breached him with a slick finger. His wrist, formerly pinned behind his back, was now being held to the floor by Silas’s free hand. He was still being weighed down bodily, and efforts to wriggle back onto Silas’s fingers were less than successful. He had to content himself with simply being handled; which was alright, as at this point in the winter Silas knew just how to do it. He was an industrious perfectionist in all things, including getting Deb gloriously open for him.

Now that Silas had him like this Deb wouldn’t have minded letting the whole thing last. It wasn’t as if he was uncomfortable—far from it. Making soft huffs with each stroke, he was clenching his fists and curling his toes in pleasure…

But Silas’s suppressed impatience inevitably asserted itself. “I’ve got to, Deb—I’ve got to, come on,” he muttered, pulling away.

“How do you want me?” Deb asked. He had his own preferences—he liked when Silas had him bent over the table, or against the wall—but he had been won outright tonight, and ought not to have much of a say in the matter.

“Oh—just let me keep a hold on you, won’t you.” He recaptured Deb’s wrist to help tug him up, and then grabbed him round the middle. Deb, pleasantly limp and doll-like, let himself be managed expertly and easily into position. On his back, he could feel a rather dopey expression forming at the sight of Silas above him, but wasn’t much in the mood to mind.

Silas minded. “Damn you,” he scowled, not unpleased, and practically flung himself down, wrestling Deb’s trousers down even as he attacked him with a kiss. “Do you know,” he said, cheek against Deb’s, “that you are infuriating, that you’re criminal, that you’re an instrument of torture, the way you look—“ and he was fumbling below, lining himself up— “the way you feel, oh fucking Christ—!”

“Keep going,” Deb gasped. Silas, quickly attaining momentum, kept up a steady stream of colorful language as he fucked him, fast and strong and with a hard-won confidence that Deb had, with pleasure, helped him cultivate these last few months.

Here they had enjoyed a rare luxury of time and space, infinite dark and dull and cold hours during which something had to be done to pass the time, to keep the blood from going sluggish and the mind from circling round a drain at bottom of which was a certain terrible truth.

Silas treated it like work: in the sense that he loved to work, was a perfectionist in all things and would not rest until the most ideal results possible had been achieved.
He was still holding Deb down, both of Deb’s wrists in his singular grip agin above Deb’s head. The muscles in his long pale neck were standing out and sweat was gathering on his upper lips. Each determined stroke came closer to making Deb let out the cry that had been building up behind his teeth—which is what Silas wanted, of course.

As he unerringly hit that spot deep inside, Deb felt the pressure building… His own prick, unattended to, was dripping messily onto the hair of his lower belly. Silas had stopped talking now and his face was all screwed up in the way that meant he was very close, but he would not finish until Deb was done, he was keeping himself tightly controlled for the sake of Deb’s pleasure and his own satisfaction of a job well done.

“Let me hear you,” Silas demanded, or rather pleaded—this close to the edge he sounded very young, not all that authoritative, rather desperate. It was absurdly sweet.

Deb kicked out, shuddered, went over the edge and let himself go—loudly. When he opened his eyes again Silas was kneeling above him, having let go in order to finish himself off.

As if Deb would permit that—!

Mustering volition through his haze of pleasure he reached up and brought Silas down on him with a thump, and interposed a hand between them.

Silas was cursing again, fast and blue, right into Deb’s mouth—at least up until Deb felt warmth spurt over his hand below, and there was a choked groan, quickly swallowed up by a kiss.


*


“It was Titus’s idea.”

“What?!”

“That we fight,” Deb said, into Silas’s neck, as they continued to postpone getting back on their feet. “Ages ago. Years.”

Silas’s laugh was a low rumble. “Now, how’d I just know you’d never have come up with something like that on your own. There’s not a drop of violence in you.”

“I might have!” Deb tried, but Silas wasn’t having it. “Nuh-uh, no way. Corruption, plain and simple. What right did he have putting such ideas in your head?”

“You can’t say you didn’t like it.”

Silas rolled his eyes. “Course I liked it,” he admitted. “But now I’ve got to come up with something better.”

That, Deb soon made sure Silas knew, was something he was very much looking forward to.