Academic Love Languages
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Law Professor Astarion Ancunín enlists Gale Dekarios, Doctor of Magic and Arcane History, for a bit of help translating a boring book he needs to have read like, yesterday. Can he find a way to stay on task and totally not get distracted by Gale's luscious locks?
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It takes just a moment—a blink and you miss it sort of movement—for Gale to grasp his own shaggy hair between a soft fist and twist it up and over a few times. He holds this twist against the back of his skull. Some strands are too short, and fall forward again, but this haphazard result is evidently good enough for Gale, as he doesn't smooth them out. With the hand that holds the clip, he carefully opens it with ease. The claw comes up and snaps shut, leaving Gale’s hair properly pulled back and away. He resumes his intent work over the script beneath...
Astarion’s standing there beside him, in the Special Collections of the library on the campus where they both fucking teach, and all he can think about is how badly he wants him.Series
- Part 1 of Academic Love Languages
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With so many tumultuous things going on in his life, Gale realizes he’s slacked on his campus community service hours – good thing Astarion’s Trial Advocacy class is looking for volunteer jury members :)
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“Have you all reached a verdict?” Astarion recites the formality of the question with honeyed chagrin, addressed to the collective jury.Gale wills himself to stand, trembling slightly as he feels all eyes boring into him. “We have, your Honor.”
Astarion’s gaze immediately locks on to Gale. His cocked eyebrow expresses his disbelief at seeing him as the foreperson, but he looks more than pleased by it. The grin that sweeps across his face might very well be Gale’s ruin, if he’s being honest.
He looks like he wants to eat him…and he'd let him.
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- Part 2 of Academic Love Languages
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A week in Waterdeep for the Feast Day holiday break permits Gale and Astarion the time and space to recognize all that they’ve been missing out on with each other…of course, those revelations never come out conventionally, do they?
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Clarity’s a devilish thing, he realizes. It took fucking up the one good thing he has going for him to come to terms with that, unfortunately. Now, he’s haunted not just by what he gleaned directly from Gale himself, but by the knowledge that if only they were both a bit more intrepid, they could have been seeking warmth in each other’s arms much, much earlier. But the manner by which these secrets were revealed—and his reflexive reaction after the fact—has poisoned it, crushed by the shame of his own hedonistic appetite.And to think it all began with a bite.
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- Part 3 of Academic Love Languages