He is a British soldier and survival expert who developed a passion for the outdoors, leading him to join the British Army
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When sleeping đ´ on a meeting
we survived monday
i love him pls go to therapy king
Pairing: The Void/Bob/Robert Reynolds/The Sentry x Thunderbolts!Fem!Reader
Summary: You have a late night encounter with The Void
Warnings: 18+ Minors DNI! Semi-Spoilers for Thunderbolts as there is Bob in this and there is The Void in this as well. This fic is kinda dark, this is The Void we are dealing with here, there are dark themes/elements explored in this story (but I will emphasize that everything is consensual in this), The Void talks kinda badly about Bob, Bob and Reader have an established friendship and both of them have feelings for one another that have been left unspoken, there is smut and angst in this as well, and a lot of Emotional Tension, The Void is kind of Obsessed with you tooâŚ
Smut Warnings: To be a bit on the safe side I would say this is Dub Con (it could kind of be looked at like that, I didnât write it with those intentions but just in case I wanted to put it there), Unprotected P in V Sex (pleaseâŚIf youâre going to have sex with entities like this wrap it up lol), The Void is Dominant as shit in this, There is Biting, Scratching, Markings left on the Reader, Dacryphilia (The Void likes tearsâŚ), Hair Pulling, Fingering, A little bit of humiliation? A bit of fem! Oral sex too.
Authorâs Note: Howdy yâallâŚWellâŚThis is my first Void Smut lol and jeez lord I really had to sink into it a bit and dig. This is my interpretation of how The Void would do or handle things, I didnât want to go too extreme, but I liked the request (made by @miss-whiddlesmort ) and hope that it meets expectations! Enjoy :)
Word Count: 7,759
The night you met The Void officially, you thought you were hallucinating or living out a real-life nightmare.
You had woken in your bed at the compound, drenched in sweat and tangled in your dampened sheets. The clock on the wall blinked 3:17 a.m. in red, hazy numbers.
That alone wasnât new.
Youâd had nights like this beforeârestless, disturbed, aching for something unnamed but constant. But this night was different.
There was a pressure in the room. A wrongness that seeped in through your pores and clamped around your lungs.
The air was too still, too silent. And the temperatureâGod, the coldâit wasnât natural. It sank into your bones like frostbite, numbing your limbs before youâd even sat up. You clutched your chest with a trembling hand, your heart fluttering against your ribs like a bird trapped in glass.
Your nightshirt clung to your damp skin, and as you wiped the sweat from your brow, you realized it wasnât just perspiration. It was fear. Primal. Instinctive. As if your body recognized something your mind hadnât caught up to yet.
The shadows in your room were darker than usual. Not thicker. Not blacker. JustâŚDeeper. Like they had weight. Like they were watching.
You blinked, trying to let your eyes adjust to the darkness.
And then the corner moved.
Not a trick of light. Not sleep haze. The shadows movedâseparating from the darkness like smoke drawn backward through a vent. Tall. Silent. Fluid.
Something seeped forward.
And when it stepped into the faint light slicing through your blinds, your breath caught.
Bob.
No. Not Bob.
The shape was his. The height, the shoulders, the outline of his jaw. The way his mouth curved slightly at the corners like he was seconds away from smiling. Youâd seen that shape slouched on the couch during late-night movie marathons. Youâd seen it standing barefoot in the kitchen making tea. Youâd memorized it without meaning to.
But thisâŚThis wasnât him.
His form was made of shadow, but it held. It wasnât formless. It wasnât drifting. It was shaped with purposeâan echo of the man you knew, but built from smoke and malice. His skin, if you could call it that, moved like a storm behind thin glass. Unstable. Eternal. His hair bled into the void around him, lost to darkness.
And his eyesâthose werenât Bobâs eyes. No blue, no softness. Just two white voids of light. Blank and endless. Not glowing with heat, but glowing like distant starsâcold, ancient, unreachable.
His mouth, thoughâfrom what you could seeâ was pale and sharp and curled ever so slightly, like he knew something you didnât.
Your body was frozen, but not from fear alone. There was something else. Something creeping beneath your skin, worming into the base of your spine.
Then he spoke.
âSo this is who he dreams about,â He murmured, voice low and silkenâtoo smooth. The kind of voice that didnât need to raise itself to command. A voice that made your blood slow.
It curled around your ears like smoke. Like a whisper just for you.
âI wanted to see for myself.â He took a step forward, and the air folded inward, like the room itself recoiled around his form. He didnât walkâhe glided, impossibly smooth, like the world didnât apply to him in the same way it did to everything else. He made the shadows stretch with him, bend for him.
You couldnât breathe, but you could feel yourself cowering slightly, afraid of what his next move might be. Being in a room alone with him was like a ticking time bomb, you had witnessed him only once, and that was with Bob present to defend everyone from himâŚNow was not the case.
âYou think he doesnât know?â The Void asked, tilting his head just slightly, like he was marveling at a secret. âThe way you look at him?â
His voice was nearly a whisper now, soft and deliberate. âThe way your breath catches when he smiles at someone else. How you light up when he says your name. How your thighs tense when he accidentally brushes your arm in the hallway.â
He was closer nowâtoo closeâand every inch of his presence filled your skin with that same biting chill. It sank into your bones, into your lungs, until your shiver wasnât just fear, but anticipation you didnât want to name. The scent of ozone, and burnt concrete itched your nose, and there was something earthy beneath it all, like he had been pulled out of the ground.
âI could smell it on you when I woke,â He murmured, lifting one hand. His fingers hovered just beside your cheek, not quite touching, but you could feel itâlike static in the air, cold and prickling. âThe heat. The ache. You wanted him to come to your door tonight, didnât you?â
You swallowed hard. âHeâs notâhe wouldnâtââ
The Void laughed.
It wasnât loud. It wasnât manic. It was soft, and deepâit vibrated into your chest. And that was worse.
âOf course not. Heâs Bob,â The Void said with a sneer beneath the velvet of his voice. âSweet. Gentle. Terrified of his own hunger. Heâs dying to touch youâbut he wonât. Because heâs weak.â
His hand touched your jaw. Cold. Unrelenting.
âYou wouldâve given yourself to him,â He whispered, thumb brushing across your bottom lip. âIf he asked. You wouldâve spread your thighs like a prayer and begged him to take you. And heâd be too afraid to move.â You whimpered, more from the sting of that truth than from his touch. The Void leaned closer, and you could feel his mouthâjust hovering above yours, the barest breath of sensation. Not warmth. Nothing about him was warm. Just the presence of absence itself. He wasnât breathingâat least not the way humans doâbut somehow, you could feel it: cold tendrils of air that werenât air at all, seeping from his lips to yours like he was pouring frost into your lungs.
His hand slid beneath your chin, fingers long, cold and elegant, as if carved from obsidian smoke. They curved under your jaw with inhuman precisionâlifting your face toward him with a gentleness that betrayed none of the power coiled in his touch.
âLook at me,â He said, voice low and silken. It didnât echo in your earsâit vibrated through you. Beneath your ribs. In your spine. Like something whispered through a cathedral built only for nightmares.
And when you didâwhen your eyes met those twin, glowing voids of lightâyou felt your thoughts stutter.
He didnât just look at you. He reached into you with that stare. Unraveling the parts you kept hidden even from yourself.
âI know everything you want,â He cooed, his lips brushing your cheek now, the chill of him raising goosebumps across your entire body. âEvery suppressed breath. Every trembling thought. Every filthy little ache that keeps you awake.â
Your throat tightened. Your lips partedâbut not to speak. You couldnât have spoken if you tried.
He hovered there like a vampire from a storybook dream, all sin and shadows, all impossible temptation wrapped in the shape of the man you secretly loved. But colder. Sharper. And infinitely crueler. Your lips trembled. You tried to speakâtried to summon words, a command, a plea, anythingâbut all that came out was a faint breath:
âBâBobâŚâ
The Void stilled. Just for a moment.
And then he smiled.
Not sweetly. Not kindly.
The corners of his mouth curled upward with slow, surgical delight. Like heâd been waiting to hear that name spill out of your mouth and now that it had, he could savor it like blood on his tongue.
âNo,â He said, his voice even lower nowâdarker, closer. His thumb pressed more firmly against your chin. âDonât say his name like that. Not here. Not while Iâm the one who has you.â
You tried to look away, to break eye contact, but his hand shifted, guiding your gaze back to him like a puppeteer tugging on strings.
âHe wouldnât know what to do with you,â The Void continued, his breathless voice curling around your spine, holding onto it. âHeâd be so afraid to hurt you, heâd never touch you the way you need.â
His other hand movedâghosting down your shoulder, across your armâcold, trailing goosebumps in its wake. You shivered beneath the touch, not just from the chill but from the fact that you didnât pull away.
You should have.
You should be demanding he leave. But you werenât.
Because your body, traitorous and trembling, was reacting to his every move and hanging on anticipation.
His fingers slid downward with slow, excruciating purpose, skimming over the curve of your chestâyour nightshirt thin and damp against your skin. And when the pad of his index finger ghosted across your nippleâalready perked beneath the fabric from the cold, you gasped.
You didnât mean to. But you did.
You felt itâfelt how your back arched the tiniest bit, how your hips shifted, how your thighs pressed closer together beneath the sheets. It was instinctual. Automatic.
Mortifying.
Arousal curled through your stomach like steam, hot and confusing.
His voice dropped into something darker. Amused.
âOh,â The Void breathed, fingertips circling once, lazily, over your breast. âYou feel it too.â
âIââ You choked, the sound sticking in your throat.
âYou shouldnât,â He interrupted, drawing his hand downward, trailing over the soft dip of your belly now. âYou know thatâŚBut you feel it regardless.â
His palm found your thighâbare where your nightshirt had ridden upâand he let it rest there, cold and heavy. Possessive. The contrast of his icy skin on your overheated flesh made your whole body twitch.
Your heart was slamming in your chest now. Erratic. Desperate. You could hear it in your ears, feel it in your fingertips, in your pulsing core.
His thumb stroked slow, cold circles against the flesh of your thighâeach one burning in reverse. Your skin prickled with goosebumps even as heat started to pool low in your belly. The contact was barely pressure, but it might as well have been chains. You couldnât move. Couldnât breathe without taking more of him in.
His mouth hovered above yours, still not kissing. Still denying. Just close enough to own the air between you, to breathe you and all your sensations in.
Every breath you took was through him. And every breath he gave you, he took something with it.
âYouâre wet,â He whispered, voice dark and delighted. âYouâre shaking and achingâbut youâre wet.â
His lips skimmed your cheek again. His nose nuzzled softly beneath your ear, like a lover might, if a lover was made of cold smoke and unspeakable things.
âThatâs what scares you most, isnât it?â He purred, a smile in his voice. âNot me. You. The part of you that wants this.â
Your breath hitched. You squeezed your eyes shut again. And of courseâof courseâthat was when he said it:
âYouâre pretending itâs him right now.â
Your whole body went still.
âYouâre closing your eyes and painting his face over mine. Giving his heat to my hands. Imagining him finally breaking. Finally taking what he wants.â
His hand trailed upward, fingers brushing the crease where your thigh met your aching core.
You moanedâquiet and shameful.
âAnd thatâs fine,â He whispered. âThatâs exactly why Iâm here.â
He exhaled againâhis breath sliding straight into your mouth, down your throat, curling around your insides like frost. You trembled beneath it.
âIâm here because you want him so badly,â He teased, âYouâll let anyone who looks like him fuck you.â
His words struck hard, and heat flooded your faceâburning your ears, your cheeks. You felt exposed. Humiliated. But your hips still shifted beneath his palm.
âYou think itâs wrong,â He continued, as his fingers began drawing slow circles through the thin damp cotton of your underwear. âTo be turned on by me.â
His voice dropped to a dangerous purr. âBut itâs not...â
You gasped, trying to speak. But his hand lifted againâjust enough to make your body whimper in protest at the loss.
His lips turned up against your jaw.
âNow,â He said, his voice velvet and bone. âLetâs make a deal.â
Your eyes fluttered openâblurry, dizzy, dazed.
His glowing ones were waiting for you.
âIâll let you pretend that Iâm him,â He whispered, voice like the crackle of burning ice, as his hand slipped up towards the waistband of your underwear, trailing his thumb along the elastic before disappearing beneath itâyour thighs separating slightly, feeling his fingers find your clit instantly with cold perscision.
And you moanedâa soft, broken sound that escaped before you could stop it, muffled against his mouth as your lips hovered just shy of his. You werenât even kissing yet, but it felt like you were inside itâlike you were already swallowed whole by the gravity between you.
His breath hitched.
His thumb circled slowly, then againâeach pass was more deliberate, more devastating. The heat building inside you was unbearable now, your thighs trembling, your core pulsing, your breath nothing but fractured gasps drawn from his air.
âYou feel that?â He breathed, his voice like crushed silk, smooth and vicious. âThat ache youâve been living with for monthsâhow easily it folds under my hand.â
You didnât answer.
You couldnât.
His fingers moved with cruel graceâunrelenting, skilled in a way that made your knees curl up slightly and your hips roll without thought. Like your body was begging him to stay there. To keep going.
âYou donât even need me to finish the offer, do you?â He whispered against your lips. âYou already know what Iâm giving you. And you want it.â
You trembled. âS-Say it anyway,â The words came out broken from your throat, distracted by the feeling of his fingers, and the thoughts of Bob plaguing your mind already.
His smile was carved ice.
âIâll let you pretend Iâm him. All night. Iâll make you sob for it. Shake. Come until you forget your name,â He purred, fingers still working slow, filthy circles that had your legs twitching. âAnd when morning comes, he wonât remember a thing. But you will. Every inch. Every sound. Every thrust.â
He leaned in, lips brushing yours, his breath catching on your next inhale. âYou get to pretend he was brave enough to take what you gave him.â
The pad of his middle finger pressed down harder, applying the perfect hint pressure, and your head dropped back with a quiet, whimpering cry.
Thenâhis voice, low and demanding:
âSo sayâŚItâs a dealâŚâ
Your answer wasnât a whisper. It wasnât broken.
It was plain. Certain. Cut from your throat like a spell:
âYes.â
The Void groanedâdark and low, like he felt that word slide into him like lightning.
Then he kissed you.
It pulled you apart at the seams, stealing every breath and sound and shred of hesitation you had left. His lips were cold, brutal, claiming your mouth like it was already his. His tongue swept into you with a force that left no room for thinking, only reactingâtasting every gasp, every soft whimper, like he wanted to learn you from the inside out.
And all the while, his fingers never stopped.
Circling. Stroking. Pressing into that aching bundle of nerves with precision that felt unholy.
It wasnât fairâhow good it felt. Your thighs were trembling, your hands fisting in the sheets as your hips rolled helplessly beneath the weight of his palm. You werenât guiding any of it anymore. Your body was answering him like a prayerâinstinctive, desperate, worshipful.
The heat inside you was like a storm cracking through your core. Your belly tightened, breath stuttering, back arching as he kept his rhythmâslow enough to tease, hard enough to devastate. Your moans were muffled by his kiss, swallowed like secrets. But he heard them. He fed on them.
When he pulled back, a strand of spit still connected your lips to his, glistening between you in the dark.
âLook at you,â He murmured, voice low and reverent. âAlready falling apart. And Iâve barely touched you.â
Your chest heaved, your skin burning with fevered need, your hands gripping the fabric beneath you like it was the only thing keeping you from floating away.
His fingers withdrew from your underwearânot to stop, but to hook into the waistband and pull them down your legs in a single smooth motion. You flinched, breath catching as the cool air hit your slick heat, now fully exposed.
The Void knelt on the edge of the bed, eyes drinking you in. His glowing stare raked over every inch of youâspread out, trembling, glistening with sweat and arousal, your thighs parted for him like an offering.
âMine,â He said simply, cold fingers curling around your knees to drag you closer to the edge. âEven if he never dares to take youâŚYouâre already mine.â
You gasped as he leaned inâand licked you.
One, slow stroke of his tongue from your core to your clit. Cold and so precise, you thought you might scream.
You let out soft sobâa broken, high sound that ripped from your throat without your permission.
His tongue pressed harder, licking again, againâunrelenting. Each movement of his mouth was calculated to destroy. To burn. He sucked your clit between his lips, not gently, but with purpose. Claiming. Consuming. You cried out, hands flying to his hairâor where his hair shouldâve been. It wasnât soft. It was smoke. Cold, silk-like shadow that rippled through your fingers, impossibly smooth.
And that was when he looked up.
Eyes like galaxiesâwhite, blinding, ancientâlocked onto yours, but all you could picture was Bobâs baby blues instead. You realized your face was wet. You were crying.
From the pleasure. From the ache that was finally being dealt with. From the heat and the way your own body was betraying every moral line youâd ever drawn.
He saw it.
And he moaned.
Low. Dark. A sound of pure, vicious delight.
âOhâŚâ He whispered, voice cracking like ice underfoot. His shadowed lips glistened with your slick as he rose up again, fingers returning to your clit again to keep the friction, stroking with even more purpose. âThatâs what I wanted.â
His free hand cupped your cheek, tilting your face so he could see the tears streaming down your skin. His thumb smudged one under your eye, then dragged it to your mouth, pressing it between your parted lips.
âOpen,â He commanded, voice honeyed with sin.
You listened to him, and felt the wet pad of his thumb press onto your tongue. You tasted the salt.
He smiled.
âBeautiful,â He breathed. âFucking beautiful.â
And then he pushed two fingers inside youâslowly, and deliberately so he could watch every reaction come up on your face. His fingers curled just right, and your whole body archedâan electric jolt of pleasure snatching the breath from your lungs. You were spread wide for him now, every nerve ending lit, pulsing, raw. The tears on your cheeks hadnât even dried, and he was already dragging another cry from your throat.
âYouâre picturing him now, arenât you?â The Void murmured, voice velvet over a blade. His forehead pressed against yours, his body so close you could feel the cold hum of his power licking against your skin. âEvery time I move inside you⌠You pretend itâs him.â
You whimperedâbecause you were. You couldnât help it.
You werenât just picturing Bobâs faceâyou were reaching for his warmth, his shy hands, the softness in his voice, the revenant way he might have touched you if he werenât so afraid. But The Void moved like he already knew everything Bob wouldnât do.
And somehow, that hurt.
âYou want it to be him,â The Void whispered, curling his fingers again, harder this time, making your eyes roll back. âSweet, trembling Bob. Whoâd kiss your thighs before he ever put his fingers in you. Whoâd ask you twice if itâs okay. Whoâd thank you when you came.â
He laughed softly, but not unkindly. The sound was darkâyesâbut laced with something deeper. Possession. Hunger.
âPoor thing,â He crooned. âYouâve been dreaming of him for so long, you donât even care who makes it real, do you? You just need it. You need to feel.â
His fingers began to thrust nowâslow, deep, deliberate. Every motion wrung a moan from your mouth. Your hips moved helplessly with his rhythm, chasing friction, chasing something that felt dangerously close to breaking again.
âBut I can do it for him,â The Void purred, his lips grazing your jaw, your ear, your temple. âI can fuck you like he never will. Let you feel what itâs like to be wanted without the fear of ruining your little friendship. Touched without hesitation.â
Your breath hitched. Your legs trembled. His thumb returned to your clit and circledâone cruel, precise motion that made your whole body lock up in place.
âYou want to hear him say it?â The Void asked. âYou want to hear what heâd never dare whisper in your ear?â
You couldnât even answer. Your mouth openedâbut the sound that came out was just a needy little gasp, half-sob, half-beg.
He smiledâso close you could taste it. Thenâ
âYou feel so fucking perfect,â He whispered, but it was Bobâs voice now.
Or at least, it was close. A mimic. A shadow with just enough truth to break you.
âI think about this every night. Your skin under my hands. The sounds youâd make. The way your thighs would tremble when I finally touched you like thisââ His fingers thrust harderâdeep and brutal and exact ââGod, sweetheart. Iâd ruin you.â
You moanedâloud and raw, your whole body jolting at the sound of those words in his voice. You werenât just picturing him nowâyou were with him. In some twisted way, he was here, folded into the darkness.
âIâd kiss you everywhere,â The Void murmured, still using Bobâs warmth, that breathless awe, as if he knew exactly how Bob would sound if he let go. âWorship you. Fuck you slow until you cried.â
His fingers drove deeper. Your orgasm clawed at your spineâhot, frantic, building fast.
âYouâd let me, wouldnât you?â He whispered, back in his own voice now. âYouâd let him fall apart inside you.â
You noddedâdesperate, whimpering, eyes wet again.
âThen do it,â He hissed. âCome for him, and then let me take you...â
That was it.
The wave crashed.
You shattered.
Your mouth dropped open, a silent cry tearing from your chest as you pulsed hard around his fingersâclenching, sobbing, breaking on the pleasure that stole your name and your breath in one brutal, beautiful stroke.
And as you came, The Void held youâhis body pressed against yours like a shroud, his cheek to yours, his fingers still pumping slowly and deep to drag every last aftershock from your spent, and shuddering body.
âThere you go,â He cooed, voice a low, tender growl. âCry for me, pretty thing.â
He kissed your temple softly, before trailing his lips along the set of tears that slipped down your cheeks.
Your chest rose and fell in stuttered waves, limbs limp and trembling beneath him. Every inch of you throbbed, overstimulated, but not satiated. Not completely. Because his fingers were still inside youâslow now, gentler, curling with reverence as he coaxed the last pulses of your orgasm from deep within.
Your cheek pressed against his shoulder, slick with sweat and tears. And when your lips parted, your voice came out crackedârasped from the inside out:
âFuckâŚâ You breathed, âThat wasâGod, that was goodâŚâ
The Void stilled for just a moment.
Then his smile returnedâsharp and cold and devastatingly pleased. He leaned back to look at you, eyes glowing with that eerie celestial light, drinking in your wrecked form.
âYou liked that,â He said softly. Not a question.
Your hips shifted involuntarily, and your breath hitched. His fingers were still inside you, still nestled where you were slick and twitching around him. He pulled them back slightlyâjust enough to make you whimper.
âI knew you would,â He murmured. âBut that?â His eyes darkened. âThat was only the beginning.â
Your eyes fluttered open, still glassy, still wet.
He leaned in, pressing a slow kiss to the side of your throatâthen another, lower, near your collarbone.
âI think I can make you come a few more times,â He whispered against your skin. âOr make you beg louder. Or shake so bad you forget what planet youâre on.â
You whimpered, the sound caught halfway between arousal and disbelief. He was still movingâslow, hypnotic thrusts of his fingers, shallow and wet, punctuated by the brush of his palm against your clit.
âI could do it again,â He offered, voice molten silk. âRight now. Just like this.â
You moaned, legs twitching under him, your nails digging into his backâinto smoke and shadow that somehow felt like flesh.
âOr,â He continued, pulling back just enough to let you see the tilt of his grinâwolfish, dark, almost giddy with the hunt. âWe could go deeper.â
His free hand slipped between your bodies, trailing down.
You followed his gaze down to where his other hand was reachingâtoward the shadow that made up his lower half, that strange blend of form and nothingness, unreal and solid all at once. His fingers curled into it like mistâlike he was parting smokeâand then, impossibly, flesh formed. Real. Heavy. Hard.
You gasped, eyes widening, your thighs tightening reflexively.
Because he wasnât just teasing anymore.
He was becoming, and your breath caught. You felt his fingers slipping out of you.
âI told you,â He purred, watching your face intently, hand now slowly stroking himself to full form. âIâll let you pretend.â
His hips pressed closerâjust enough that you could feel the heat of him, the weight of him, thick and cold against the sensitive inside of your thigh.
âBut this part?â He whispered, mouth brushing yours. âThis is oursâŚâ
He rutted slowly once against you, just to make you feel itâslick from your own release, heavy where it nestled against your folds. Not inside. Not yet.
âI can make you see stars,â He said, and this time there was something almost reverent in his voice. âBut only if you want it.â
You looked at himâat those impossible eyes, that cruel mouth now softened by the barest trace of awe. You swallowed hard, still trembling from the last orgasm that hadnât quite left your bodyâand yet, your breath was already quickening again.
Your lips brushed his as you whispered, âLetâs try.â
The moment the words left your mouth, the world seemed to shift.
The Void moved faster than thoughtâone moment he was kneeling over you like a storm, the next he was lifting you effortlessly into the air, your body limp and pliant in his cold hands. He cradled you with ease, his strength vast but controlled, like gravity bent to his will. And then he sat.
Pulling you into his lap.
You landed straddling him, thighs trembling as you folded around him, knees bent on either side of his hips, his chest flush against yours. It was an impossible contrastâintimate, meditative, sacredâand yet soaked in power, in shadow, in lust. Your legs wrapped around him, feet tucked behind his back, body completely enveloped in his. His arms cradled your waist, his hands spanning your lower back and hips like they were made to hold you this way. The cool weight of his cock pulsed against your coreâthick and solid now, slick from your arousal and his own precum, perfectly aligned with your entrance. But before he movedâhe looked at you.
Really looked.
Glowing eyes drank in your flushed cheeks, your sweat-slicked skin, your trembling lips. Then, one hand reached upâslowly, reverentlyâand gripped the hem of your nightshirt.
âOff,â He murmured.
You raised your arms, and he pulled it over your head with one smooth motion dropping it off the side of the bed.
His breathâif it could be called thatâhitched. Visibly. Audibly.
He stared like he hadnât just undressed youâbut like heâd uncovered something holy. His palms rose reverently to your chest, cool thumbs brushing softly over your nipples before flattening his hands to feel the curve and weight of you. You gasped, arching slightly, the contrast of his chill against your overheated skin enough to make your breath falter.
Thenâhe leaned in.
And sank his teeth into the soft underside of your breast.
Not hard. But deliberate. A nip that sent shockwaves down your spine, followed by the cold, wet drag of his tongue as he licked over the mark he left behind. And then he sucked. Deep. Long. Obsessive. His mouth sealed over your skin with a hunger that made your thighs clench tighter around his hips.
Another kiss. Another bite. Another bruise left behind like a brand.
His voice, muffled against your chest, purred, âYouâre mine for tonightâŚBut I want you wearing me for daysâŚâ
His hands gripped your hips, adjusting the angle of your body until the head of his cock slid against your foldsâslow, teasing friction that sent a tremble rolling through you both.
He rutted upward onceâjust enough to make your breath catch and your slick spread over him in a glossy smear. He groaned softly, dragging the thick head of himself over your clit and down again, never breachingâjust letting the sensation throb between you.
âFeel that?â He asked, his lips brushing your nipple before he kissed it againâwet and possessive. âYouâre making me this hard⌠Just by looking like this. Crying like that. And you still havenât taken me inside.â
You whimpered, shivering against him, your forehead pressed to his shoulder.
He pulled backâhis hands trailing along your sides until one gripped your ass, fingers spreading the flesh like he owned it, while the other slid up your spine and settled flat against your back. Cold. Claiming.
Then, his mouth curved into something wicked at your ear.
âIâm gonna fuck you now, sweetheart,â He whispered, voice dark silk, low and promising. âNice and slow. Let you feel every inch sink in while I hold you like thisâwhile I make you forget who you were before I touched you.âYour body responded before your words could. Your hips rolled forwardâseeking. Inviting.
He smiled.
And helped you lower yourself.
You gaspedâboth of you didâas the head of him breached your entrance. You felt him twitch against your fluttering walls as he pushed in, inch by inch, thick and ice-slick and infinite. The stretch was sharp, hot despite his coldness, and your fingernails bit into his shoulders as you buried your face in the crook of his neck.
âFuckââ he choked, his voice breaking for the first time. His hand on your back raked downwardâfingertips dragging along your spine like he was trying to anchor himself to your heat. âYouâre soâtight. So wet. Itâs likeâfuck, itâs like drowning in fireâŚâ
He sank in deeper, inch by inch, until your thighs trembled and your moan broke open against his skin.
His mouth pressed to your temple, to your jaw, to your shoulderâhis lips and teeth grazing every part of you he could reach as he bottomed out, his cock fully sheathed inside you.
One hand held you at the base of your spine, the other gripping your ass tight, grounding you as you both breathed through it.
âIâve waited eons to feel this,â He whispered, kissing the tear-tracks on your cheeks as your bodies finally stilledâlocked together, shaking, throbbing, full. He just held you thereâtrembling, locked around him like your body had been sculpted for this exact moment. You could feel every inch of him inside you, feel how he throbbed cold and thick against the fluttering pulse of your inner walls. Your forehead was pressed against his shoulder, your breath stuttering in and out of your lungs as your body adjusted to the invasion, to the way he filled every aching space inside you.
Then his hand slid higherâup your spine, over your shoulder, until it gripped the back of your neck.
âLift your head,â He commanded, voice dark silk wrapped around barbed wire.
You obeyed without thinking, tilting your chin up to meet his eyes.
âMore,â He growled. âI want that pretty throat bared for me.â
You arched your neckâslow, trembling, exposing the vulnerable column of your throat to him. The movement made your body shift around him, made your inner muscles clench, and he groaned like it took effort not to slam into you.
âGod, look at you,â he whispered, reverent nowâhungry. âSo obedient. So fucking beautiful like thisâŚâ
Then he leaned inâand dragged his teeth down your exposed neck, going to the little space right where your jugular notch is, the soft dip where the mark would be hidden beneath a shirt.
His bite sent lightning down your spineâsharp, claiming, undeniable. You cried out, arching into it, your hips shifting involuntarily around the thick stretch of him still buried inside you. And then his mouth lifted from your skin, and his voice rasped against your throatâragged now, edged with something more dangerous than control.
âIâm going to leave a mark there,â he growled. âWhere only I will know. Where he will never dare to look.â
And then his handâstill braced at the back of your neckâscraped down your spine.
His nails werenât blunt. Not human. They dragged like talons, cold and precise, raking over your skin in slow, deliberate lines. You gaspedâhalf in pain, half in stunned, coiling pleasureâas red-hot welts bloomed in their wake. Your back arched, offering more, shivering for more, even as your throat formed a soundless whimper.
âYou feel that?â The Void purred, voice low and taunting. âThatâs not his touch. Bob could never do this to you.â
Your fingers clawed at his shoulders, nails digging into the slick cold of his not-skin.
And then, you said it.
âBobâŚâ
You felt the growl before you heard it. A deep, guttural noise vibrated from his chest and into yours. His hands snapped to your hips, fingers digging hard into your flesh as he slammed up into youâone hard, vicious thrust that ripped a sob from your lips.
âSay it again,â He hissed. âSay it while I fuck you like he never will.â
âBobââ You moaned, desperate, wrecked.
He thrust again. Harder. Sharper. The sound of your bodies colliding echoed off the walls.
âSay it like you mean it,â He snarled, thrusting so deep your breath left your lungs.
âFuckâBob, yesââ
His rhythm turned brutalâdeliberate and punishing, like he wanted to carve himself into your memory one thrust at a time. His grip on your hips tightened until it bordered on bruising, dragging you down to meet every savage snap of his hips.
But you werenât passive.
You moved with him.
Clawing at his back. Grinding down. Letting your lips ghost over his neck, whispering, âYouâd never touch me like this if you were really him.â
He froze. Just for a second.
And you took it.
You rolled your hips, grinding down, deep and slowâuntil he moaned.
His grip faltered. Just a touch.
And you smiledâbroken, breathless, wild.
âYou hate it, donât you?â You gasped into his ear. âThat Iâm still thinking of him. That even while youâre inside me, I want his hands.â
The Void snapped.
He flipped you again, this time with no gentleness, slamming you down onto your back and dragging your legs wide around his waist. His hands pinned your wrists above your head, and he drove into you with a snarl.
âSay his name again, and Iâll make sure you never stop shaking,â He growled, hips rutting into yours with devastating force.
âBobââ You cried out, defiant and desperate.
And he fucked you harder.
Flesh and smoke. Fire and ice. The rhythm of him was relentless nowâlike he wanted to break you open and live inside the pieces.
His hand released your wrists only to grab your throat, tilting your face toward his as he hovered above you, his glowing eyes wild and endless.
âI could make you forget who he even is,â He rasped. âI could fuck you so deep you only remember me.â
You moaned beneath him, arching up, mouth open and shaking.
But your whisper cut sharper than any scream.
âThen why do you still wear his face?â
He froze.
The Voidâs eyes flaredâbright and blinding, rage and lust and something else fracturing through them.
Then he slammed into you.
And again.
And again.
No words. Just motion. Just force.
You cried outâlouder nowâlegs wrapped around his waist, arms clawing at his back as he fucked you like he wanted to erase you.
And all you could do was sob his nameâ
âBobâBobâBobââ
Until the only thing left between you was ruin. You couldnât tell where the line was anymoreâbetween pain and pleasure, between him and Bob, between your own cries and the desperate slap of skin against skin as he drove himself into you, unrelenting, and grinding. The bed rocked beneath you, headboard thudding rhythmically against the wall, and your fingers gripped the sheets like they were your last tether to this world.
His bodyâcold and massive and utterly inhumanâpinned you to the mattress, his cock grinding against your cervix with merciless precision. You were gasping. Choking. Drowning in the force of him, and still, you begged.
âMoreâplease, moreââ
His hand released your throat only to slide up, gripping your jaw and forcing you to meet his eyes. You couldnât look awayânot from those twin galaxies of void-light, those pale endless pits that saw everything.
And still, you moaned, âBobââ
Something inside him snapped.
His mouth crashed into yoursâdevouring. Teeth and tongue and cold, silken fury. He kissed you like he wanted to brand you from the inside. Like he wanted to replace every soft memory of the man you loved with something brutal and monstrous.
And you let him.
You felt his hand slide between your bodies, slick with sweat and your own release, and then his thumb was on your clit againâpressing, circling, wrecking. It was too much. Too much.
âCome again,â He growled, breath ragged now. âCome while Iâm inside you. Come while you scream his name.â
You tried to fight it. Tried to last.
But your body betrayed you.
Your back arched, a broken sound clawing out of your throat as your walls seized around himâtight, wet, desperate. The world fractured. Your vision went white. Your soul splintered.
And you screamed.
âBOBâ!â
The Void shudderedâhis whole body jerking above you like he felt that cry inside him. He snarled against your mouth, hips snapping once, twiceâand then he came with a sound like a god falling.
He didnât moan.
He groaned, deep and guttural, his cock twitching violently as he spilled inside youâcold and endless, filling you with something that didnât feel like seed, but like starlight and sorrow and shadow. You felt it in your bones, like he was pouring the universe into you, and you were too full to hold it all.
You lay thereâlimp, splayed, twitching beneath him. Your thighs trembling, your chest heaving, your voice cracked to nothing. His body slumped over yoursâheavy despite the fact that he wasnât entirely real. His mouth pressed against your temple, breathless and cold.
For a moment, there was no sound.
Only the echo of your own heartbeat pounding in your ears.
Thenâ
He kissed you.
Soft this time. A brush of lips over sweat-damp skin. Reverent. Almost⌠mournful.
âI felt it,â He whispered, voice raw, his hand smoothing up your ribs, cradling your side. âWhen you said his name.â
You swallowedâbarely able to lift your head.
âI know you wanted it to be him,â He murmured. âBut I made you come like that.â
Your chest rose and fell beneath him, still trying to catch your breath. He shiftedâstill inside youâgrinding just once more, like he wanted to remind you of who had taken you.
âI made you cry. I filled you up. And when youâre lying awake tomorrow, remembering how your body shook around me, how your thighs wouldnât stop tremblingâI want you to remember that it was me. Not him.â
Your eyes flutteredâdazed. But you didnât fight him.
You didnât correct him.
His body finally softened, pulling back slightly. His hands cupped your face againâhis fingers gentle now, brushing hair from your damp forehead. His glow was dimmer. Quieter. Like a storm that had passed.
âYouâll wake up in a few hours,â He said softly. âAnd this will feel like a dream.â
You blinked.
He leaned inâkissed the corner of your mouth.
âBut your body will remember.â
Then he was gone.
Just like that.
Vanished into the shadow heâd emerged from, the cold lifting from the room like a ghost fleeing dawn.
And you lay there aloneâaching, shaking, legs still parted, chest still rising in broken little gasps.
Your bed was wet with sweat. Your throat burned.
Your lips still tingled.
And between your thighsâyou could feel him. The stretch. The soreness. The echo of every thrust, every word, every impossible truth.
And worseâ
The only name in your mouthâŚ
Was Bob.
ââââââââââ
The room stayed cold even after he was gone. The shadows thinned, but they didnât leaveânot entirely. Not the way you needed them to. Not the way your body needed to pretend they hadnât coiled around you and taken.
You stayed in the bed for a whileânumb, ruined, staring at the ceiling while your breath evened out in small, ragged hiccups. The sheets were tangled around your thighs, soaked with sweat and something colder. Your legs ached. Your throat was raw. Your lips still felt the press of his.
Eventually, you sat up. Slow. Careful. Your body protested with every movement. Your thighs trembled when they parted. The ache between your legs was still sharp. Deep. Your skin pulled tight across your spine where the claw marks layâraised and hot, stinging in the silence.
You didnât bother covering yourself. There was no one in the room. No one to hide from. No one but yourself.
So you stood.
Naked.
Shaking.
And walked toward the bathroom.
The ensuite light was harsh when it flickered on. Your eyes burned as they adjusted. You blinked a few times, reached out with a trembling hand, and braced yourself against the edge of the sink.
Then you looked up.
The mirror didnât lie.
Your neck was littered with marksâsome small, like whispers of bruises blooming beneath your skin. Others were deeper. More deliberate. A bite just above your collarbone, swollen and red, already darkening. Scratches raked across your shoulder blades. Finger-shaped bruises on your hips.
And lowerâŚ
You pressed your thighs together. A slow throb pulsed between them. Not just soreness. Memory.
You stared at yourself for a long time. Chest rising and falling. Eyes wide and hollow. A strangerâs reflection wrapped in the echo of your own desire.
And then you turned the water on.
You didnât wash like someone scrubbing sin away. You didnât cry beneath the stream. There were no cinematic gasps or moments of clarity.
You just showered.
Quietly.
Efficiently.
Water warm. Hands gentle. You cleaned yourself like someone who knew there was no washing him out. Not really. His fingerprints were inside you now. Beneath the surface. Carved into your bones like frost.
You stepped out twenty minutes later. Toweled off. Dressed in the softest pair of sweatpants you owned and an oversized sweater that used to belong to Buckyâyou wore it on days where you were feeling down. You werenât sure if today qualified.
Your hair was damp. Your neck stung. Your thighs still trembled when you walked.
But you opened the door anyway.
You stepped out into the hallway.
The early morning compound light was a pale gold, spilling through the windows like it always did. You could hear coffee brewing in the common kitchen. The low murmur of Ava and Walker arguing over cereal. The sound of normal.
You walked forward, bare feet silent against the cool floor, your breath caught in your throatâ
And then you saw him.
Bob.
Standing a few feet away. Slouched against the hallway wall in flannel pajama pants and a black hoodie, a mug in one hand, the other rubbing at his tired eyes. His hair was messy, cowlicked from sleep. His expression soft and bleary, like heâd just woken up.
He looked up at you.
And smiled.
Gentle.
Warm.
Untouched.
âMorning,â he said softly, nodding at you.
Like nothing had happened.
Like he hadnât been inside you just hours ago. Like he hadnât made you scream his name until your voice gave out. Like he didnât still live inside the stretch of your aching body.
Your mouth opened.
But you didnât say anything.
You just nodded back.
âMorning.â
He walked past you with another sleepy smile, mumbling something about getting more coffee, and disappeared around the corner.
And you stood there, alone in the hallway, wrapped in a sweater two sizes too big, your thighs still sticky from the night beforeâ
Wondering how long it would be before you stopped pretending it had been a dream.
Or if you even wanted to.