The celebration went on for hours. Together the couple danced and danced, as well as with anyone else. When the elves threw a party, they were one to go all out. There was enough food to feed a small army, and people aplenty to eat it. But food didn’t hold an interest for AJ, and he could tell that it didn’t hold one for Brian either. He sought him out in the crowd and found him off to the sidelines, watching everyone with a small smile curving his lips. AJ licked his own lips and started across the room to him.

 

 

It took a while to make it over to him. He kept being stopped by people along the way wanting to congratulate him, or speak with him. If asked he couldn’t name a single elf that he spoke to. His eyes stayed focused on Brian’s eyes. Their gazes never left one another.

 

 

Then he was standing there in front of him, and it seemed that the rest of the world disappeared. All noise cut off; all sight except for Brian. That was the center of his whole world.

 

 

“You look stunning.” AJ said softly. Even through all the noise present, Brian heard him. That gaze, like sunlight in the afternoon sky, brightened more than it already was. “You look amazing yourself, Alyck.” Brian said huskily. It was the first time that Brian had ever called him Alyck, and it set something off inside of AJ. It pleased him in ways he hadn’t thought it would. “You don’t have to call me that.” He reminded him.

 

 

“I know. Maybe tomorrow I’ll go back to calling you Alex. But for tonight, it seems right.”

 

 

“I like it.” AJ’s voice had gone raspy. “Maybe, like you say, tomorrow it’ll sound more normal to hear you say Alex. I love how you say Alex. But tonight, it does seem right.”

 

 

Without thinking about it the two reached out and joined hands. That touch, that connection, grew stronger. In the middle of a crowded room they felt as if they were totally alone. AJ stepped forward, one hand coming up to cup Brian’s face, their bodies pressing together. They gave no thought to who might be watching them. No one else existed. As their lips found one another, it seemed the magic of the evening as well as their own magic flared to life. Passion filled them both.

 

 

AJ lost himself in the kiss. He nipped at Brian’s lips, his tongue coming out to taste and tease and savor. His hands moved, running down to hold Brian’s waist while he pressed him against the wall. Brian responded just as passionately, his arms rising and curling around AJ’s neck. He moaned against AJ’s lips and tried to pull their bodies closer. The shyness that Brian usually felt around others seemed to have evaporated.

 

 

That just heightened AJ’s need. When they were alone, Brian was always open and free. But he usually held a small amount of himself in reserve in public. Partially, AJ knew, because of how gay couples were treated. But also because Brian hadn’t been raised to be that way in public. Yet here among the elves it wasn’t uncommon to see a couple in a passionate embrace. Elves believed that emotions were the most natural thing in the world and that love was special. Though the final act was generally reserved for privet moments, there were celebrations that most humans would look on and see only a large orgy.

 

 

Coherent thought left AJ when Brian’s tongue entered his mouth. He sucked lightly before letting his own tongue slide out, tracing against Brian’s, mimicking the act that his body craved to do. Things could have progressed from there right against the wall if it hadn’t been for Howie and Richard stepping forward and clapping AJ on the back, startling him.

 

 

He jumped slightly, opening his eyes to look into Brian’s with a sigh of frustration. Their hands didn’t move from where they held one another, but they knew that they couldn’t ignore them. Without turning his head, he said “Yes, gentlemen? Can I help you with something?”

 

 

“This party is all for you two, and you’re over here hiding by the wall.” Richard teased them.. Keeping his hand on AJ’s back, he leaned his shoulder against the wall so he could see both their faces. “Being naughty, even. For shame, you two. There’s family present.”

 

 

Howie leaned on the other side, his grin as wide as Richards. “Doesn’t surprise me with Alyck, but Brian, you do surprise me. Usually you’re the more discreet one.”

 

 

Sighing deeply, Brian asked AJ “How much trouble would we get in if I just…” Brian gestured with his eyes toward the door and lifted his eyebrows. AJ threw his head back and laughed. As his mirth subsided he tipped back down and kissed Brian again. “Blowing them out the front door would be considered rude, love. Especially at a party like this. No one is denied entry tonight except blood enemies.

 

 

“Blow us out the door? Brian, I’m shocked!” Howie joked, putting a hand to his heart. “What happened to the gentle B-Rok that I knew once upon a time?”

 

 

Brian ignored him, still smiling at AJ. “Can’t I at least gag them?” he asked.

 

 

“Mm, you are turning feistier, aren’t you?” AJ murmured, pressing his hips forward again. Brian grinned in response. “Uncle tells me that it’s the sun elf in me coming out stronger and stronger. Apparently my people are not as inhibited as most.”

 

 

AJ leaned in to lick the shell of Brian’s ear and whisper “You should see my people when they’re in the woods, in our element, lover. We’re connected to nature at her basest form. Like the animals in nature, we have no inhibitions whatsoever.”

 

 

The soft hum in Brian’s throat had AJ chuckling. Their friends chose that moment to make themselves known again. Howie tugged lightly on AJ’s arm to get his attention. “Seriously, though, Alyck. You’ve told me about the customs of people here. I’ve even met a few. Last thing you want to do is be rude and ignore your guests. Come join us. We’ve got a spot where we’re watching the music and eating, and we came to get you guys to join us.”

 

 

“Seriously, D. Much as I love you, I’m really not in the mood to lie on the grass right now and listen to music.” AJ told him as kindly as possible. Musical, masculine laughter surrounded them. A firm hand clapped AJ on the back. He grinned at Brian, knowing who it was, and knowing what kind of reaction there was going to be.

 

 

“That is my grandson!” Flreu called out joyfully. “Full of the same passion as his grandfather! That is my bloodlines coming true.”

 

 

Shock painted Richard and Howie’s faces. It was a priceless sight that amused AJ to no end. “Your bloodlines are strong, grandfather, trust me.” He told him, earning him another laugh from Flreu. The cheerful elf turned toward Howie and Richard, giving them the full power of his wide grin. “Why don’t you two come and join me and regale me with tales of Alyck while he takes his young lover upstairs for a much more exciting party. If he’s anything like his grandfather at all, we won’t be seeing him till sometime on the morrow.”

 

 

Brian and AJ took advantage of the moment and moved away from the wall. AJ reached over and hugged Flreu and kissed his cheek. “We’ll find you when we’re up, grandfather. Then we’ll talk.”

 

 

“Yes, yes. We will talk long then, but now is not the time for that. Go! Have no worries about the magic tonight, for our home is shielded for such. Go please your man, and bring him with you tomorrow. I expect to see both of you with wide smiles and bright eyes!”

 

 

“Grandfather, trust me. The very foundation of your home will tremble.”

 

 

Laughter followed them through the crowd and as they headed to the stairs. When it was realized what they were doing, voices called up to them, cheering them on, calling out suggestions that made AJ grin, and a hint of Brian’s old blush return. Yet it faded under the passion that was still simmering under the surface. Once they reached the top of the stairs, AJ gripped Brian’s hand tightly and took off at a run, his laughter bouncing off the walls.

 

 

He took Brian up another set of stairs, then another long spiraling one. When they reached the top AJ opened a trapdoor that led them onto the roof of one of the towers. The night sky stretched over them, a bright and clear night lit by the glowing moon and all its stars. To Brian’s surprise, instead of stone under their feet, the tower top was covered with a bed of moss that trailed up and over the short walls to dangle down the sides. “It’s beautiful, Alyck.” He breathed.

 

 

“Not as beautiful as you.”

 

 

AJ’s words brought Brian’s gaze back to him. He watched, hunger in his gaze, as AJ let go of the trap door, shutting it behind them, and pulled a section of moss over it. “It felt more natural to be outside tonight.” AJ said huskily, using Brian’s hand to draw him close. “Now, I’ve been waiting all evening to be able to unwrap you. I think it’s long overdue, don’t you?”

 

 

With a last pull Brian was right against him, their bodies pressed together. The ring around Brian’s eyes had begun to glow again, made brighter by the semi dark of the night. Those hands that AJ so loved slid up to unclasp AJ’s clock, letting it drop to the ground. “I agree. Sexy as your outfit is…” Brian slid his hands down, unlacing the front of the jerkin until it was open over AJ’s chest. He let his hands slide underneath, pushing it off of AJ’s shoulders. “…I want what’s underneath it so much more.” Brian finished, his eyes feasting on AJ’s skin.

 

 

The fire jumped back in AJ’s body, settling down low. As Brian’s hands slid over AJ’s stomach, AJ brought his own hands up to unhook his lovers cloak and let it fall too. They didn’t speak as they slowly undressed one another. AJ relished in each piece of skin revealed. When he had Brian stripped to the waist he couldn’t resist leaning in to nibble along that prominent collar bone, tasting the flesh there.

 

 

Brian let his head fall back as AJ’s mouth traced up his neck. There was no rush tonight. Nothing that called to them, or restricted their time together. They were free to touch and taste and take their time.  Neither did they have to worry about their magic leaking out and causing damage. As Flreu had said, this place was shielded against magic so that nothing could leak out and wreak havoc.

 

 

Brian must have been thinking along the same lines because AJ suddenly found them pressed together by a breeze that came gently from all sides. The air lifted them slightly, holding them in the air. AJ wrapped his legs around his lover’s waist, trusting in him to keep them safe in the air. He never stopped the nibbles and open mouthed kisses over Brian’s neck, even as they were turned and he found himself laid on his back in the moss.

 

 

He moved to kiss Brian’s lips, tasting the sweetness of his kiss. It was AJ’s turn to arch his head back when Brian moved over him, lips and tongue moving over AJ’s jawline, up to his sensitive ears. He ran his hands over Brian’s back and reveled in the sensations that were exploding through him. Both their bond and this new link throbbed with the feelings that passed between them. Brian’s lips moved lower, down his collarbone until they found a hard nipple.

 

 

With just a hint of teeth, Brian pulled the nipple into his mouth, rolling it with his tongue until he had AJ gasping. Then he moved to do the same to the other. AJ’s hands threaded through those curls, and the flowers resting there still. Then Brian was moving lower, licking his way down the washboard abs. His hands were at AJ’s waist, unhooking the wrap there and the strings that held AJ’s breeches on.

 

 

Something tugged on AJ’s boot, lifting his foot into the air even as Brian’s hands were working on his strings and his tongue was dipping into AJ’s navel. It was the most natural thing in the world to him that Brian was using air to help undress him. AJ was content to lie back and enjoy his lovers ministrations.

 

 

Once the boots were off and lying somewhere in the moss, Brian started to slowly slide the breeches down, his mouth moving away from AJ’s skin so that he could look at his prize as he finished unwrapping it.

 

 

There as a faint glow to AJ’s skin, and the green in his heavy lidded eyes was bright. Brian found himself thinking that there was no one better looking in the entire world. He sat back on his haunches for the moment and simply admired his lover. When the corners of AJ’s mouth curved in that sexy, come-hither smile and his eyes had that bedroom look, it was almost too much for Brian. He traced his hands up AJ’s thighs, enjoying the way that AJ quivered under his touch.

 

 

AJ watched as his lover knelt and flicked a tongue over his swollen head. He gasped, his hips jumping, but he never stopped watching Brian’s face. That soft skin seemed to be absorbing the moonlight and reflecting it back. In Brian’s eyes was that sensual look he only gave to AJ. The one that never failed to have AJ shivering.

 

 

Then he lost the ability to think again. Brian’s warm mouth closed over just his head and AJ’s body bowed up. He couldn’t stop watching as Brian slowly took him further in, inch by inch. “Gods above, Brian…”

 

 

In response Brian took the last of AJ into his throat and hummed. He knew how to please his partner and set a steady pace, slowly bobbing his head, sucking the length of him in before sliding back up. Soon he had AJ panting and shivering both. Tonight they held nothing back from one another. They gave themselves up to the passion, to this celebration of their love and commitment.

 

 

“Brian. Oh, Brian.” AJ chanted his name, his fingers curling into the moss on either side of him as his hips started to roll, trying to speed the motion of Brian’s mouth. “Gods, you’ve got to stop or…ohhh…I’ll finish before we even start.”

 

 

Brian didn’t break stride. He actually picked up his speed slightly, adding a little more suction, a hint of teeth here and there that he knew would drive AJ wild. His hands traced over AJ’s hips, his thighs, leaving warmth everywhere they touched. Pleasure built and built in AJ until he was blind to anything but that.

 

 

His head tipped back as that warmth spread and grew and his breathing became more labored. He tightened his grip on the moss and pushed upwards with his hips. The last thread of his control snapped and he was shouting hoarsely to the sky. His hips bucked up again and Brian’s lips locked around him, taking every last drop. Only when AJ was limp against the moss did Brian let him slide from his mouth.

 

 

AJ lay in a daze, the stars seeming to dance above him in the sky. He heard Brian undressing but he couldn’t force his liquid muscles to move. Then skin was touching skin again. Brian was putting his arms under AJ’s legs, behind his knees, lifting them up as he slid his body forward. The hard tip of him pressed against AJ’s tight hole and he found that he could still feel. He moaned as Brian started to slide in, then pull out. In, then out. Just an inch or two each time, but enough that it had AJ’s mind coming back to life.

 

 

He brought his hands up, wrapping them around Brian’s neck and pulling himself up and his lover’s head down so that their lips could connect. When they did, he felt Brian slide in further this time. He tried to push his hips down, to demand more, but Brian was taking his time, enjoying his teasing pace. Slowly AJ felt his body come back to life. His cock throbbed, slowly growing, though he’d spent himself only moments before.

 

 

By the time that Brian sunk all the way in, AJ was hard and panting again. Their eyes locked together and then Brian was moving slowly, pulling almost all the way out before sliding back in. The pace he set was easy, one to enflame them both.

 

 

The whole tower top seemed to slowly start to light up. But the light wasn’t from the stars or the moon. It was coming from their skin. Pleasure and power mixed together, bleeding into one. When AJ wrapped his legs around Brian’s waist he gave a shudder at the way the angle allowed Brian to slide deeper. The stones around them seemed to tremble with him.

 

 

The breeze blew through their hair, teasing across their skin like warm caresses that drove them more mad.  With each pump of his hips, Brian brought them both closer and closer to that peak. There was no teasing now. Magic was on their skin, in their very blood, and their bond was opened wide so that all sensation was shared. Together the two picked up the pace, moving faster and faster as their breathing became more and more labored.

 

 

AJ was the first to lose it. His legs gripped tightly to Brian’s hips and he lifted his own hips, angling just right so that Brian ended up pushing right into his prostate. That triggered the explosion in AJ and his world suddenly went bright.

 

 

A scream tore past his lips to echo through the air around them. The earth around the castle, inside the outer walls, shuddered with them. The fountains throughout the castle and the courtyard all flared and shot up with him for that moment in time.

 

 

Feeling the force of AJ’s orgasm, and the muscles that tightened around him, was enough to send Brian flying as well. The wind picked up around them as he pushed himself in as far as he could go with a cry of his own. Down below them every flame grew double its size, shooting high toward the ceiling for a moment.

 

 

The two men collapsed into the moss, panting and clinging to one another, both feeling rather smug.  It took a second for sound to reach them. But suddenly the two could hear something clearly coming from the castle below. AJ was the first to recognize it and he chuckled, watching Brian’s face to see the reaction when he realized what it as.

 

 

The sound grew louder, unmistakable now. Every elf in the castle was cheering for them, laughing and cheering.

 

 

Brian’s cheeks turned instantly red when he realized what was going on. Mortified, he buried his head in AJ’s shoulder. All AJ could do was throw his head back into the cushion of moss and laugh.