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“Esca,” Marcus begins, setting aside the cloak he has been poking at, “there is something I must ask you, and yet I fear the answer as much as I need to hear it.”
Esca frowns, trying to imagine what Marcus might be referencing. “I hope that you would not fear to ask me any question.”
“It is not precisely fear, I suppose, only…” Marcus trails off, evidently gathering his courage, and Esca gives him the time he needs, attempting not to indulge in his own trepidation at what the question may be.
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“Your boy is a getting little too friendly with the neighbor’s slaves.”
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Now Esca must simply be imagining things. Before he can talk himself out of it, he takes a step forward, then another, until the ring of lantern light begins to fall on the creature.
When Esca sees human hands and feet, he nearly jumps out of his skin, but instead he stumbles forward until the light reveals a partial human form. There are arms, and legs, and a bare torso, but the broad shoulders are covered with short, dense hair and barely narrow into an immensely thick neck, atop which sits the head of a bull, complete with massive, curved horns.
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“In the name of the gods, Esca, what were you doing?”
Esca’s lip curls, eyes crinkling with humor. Despite the heat coursing through Marcus’s body, the smile strikes him as cold. “Do you not know?”
“I know what you were doing,” Marcus snaps. “I do not know why you were doing it. Explain yourself.”
Cocking his head, Esca asks, “Have you never had a body slave before? Domine?”
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“Marcus,” Esca begins, as gently has he can manage, “have you not seen that there is honor and integrity to be found beyond the boundaries of Rome?”
“Yes, of course. You are living proof of it.”
“Then I ask you to trust me when I say that there is pleasure and satisfaction beyond the boundaries of Rome as well.” He tugs Marcus’s head up to kiss him again. “And that I do not need to submit to you in the slightest to have it.”
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No one said he had to kneel on the floor; there’s a perfectly serviceable wrought-iron bed with some very interesting attachment points a few feet behind him. But he took one glance at that and the weird-looking padded furniture in the corner, and it all seemed too… soft. Marcus didn’t come here for soft. He came here to hurt, to be hurt.
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Need the Fuel to Make My Fire Bright by the_deep_magic
Fandoms: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
01 Feb 2025
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Looking over his shoulder, Marcus glances across the one-room roundhouse to where their pallets lay pushed together, and he swallows hard. Yes, there has been intimacy of a new and welcome kind.
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There’s nothing that’s shiny and new on this fucking train, nothing that hasn’t been passed around and polluted and used a thousand times by everyone who could get their hands on it, not a goddamn thing. Nothing but Edgar.
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Ars Brevis (or, A Very Eagle Wanksgiving) by the_deep_magic
Fandoms: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
02 Dec 2024
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A collection of smutty drabbles for Thanksgiving 2024
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Esca needs but a moment to put the pieces together. “Oh. Is there… somewhere specific you wish to spend the night in Venta Belgarum? Or with someone?”
Marcus’s half-smile grows. “There might be a place, yes. A place I have not been before, but I have been meaning to visit.”
There are brothels in Calleva, too, Esca thinks, but he merely watches the road as it disappears beneath them.
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In the middle of his twelfth summer, Esca wakes with a strange itch beneath his chin.
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In the summer of his eighteenth year, Marcus awakes in the barracks with a burning around the skin of his right arm.
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The warmth in Esca’s chest, its suddenness, is a sign of much deeper feelings that he may not be ready to acknowledge. Rome has rules that govern the interactions of masters and slaves, as it has those that govern the affairs between patrons and their freedman clients, but as of now, he and Marcus do not fit neatly between any of these lines. Marcus does not strike Esca as one who deals well with blurred lines, and Esca himself no longer knows how to handle warmth.
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Lima Charlie (Loud & Clear) by the_deep_magic
Fandoms: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
08 Jun 2024
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Esca swears softly—he’s led the squadron to a dead end, but he’s determined not to let his fear come across in his voice. “You’ll have to backtrack to the junction, but drop another cam first and let me know when you—”
There’s a sudden sound in his ear like pennies rattling in a can, sharp and almost metallic. He hears Marcus yell “Down down down” and the feed cuts to black, and Esca is sure he feels his heart stop.
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“You told me you were starved,” Marcus says, waving a hand at Esca’s too-thin body, “and you still look half-famished, even after a week of good food. At the very least, the sallowness should be gone from your cheeks by now, but it remains there. And yet when I see you eat, it is not with any particular hunger.”
“Oh,” Esca replies, surprise written across his face as though he had not expected Marcus to notice.
“Is the food Sassticca makes insufficient? Do you require something else?”
“N-no,” Esca says, and it seems to Marcus he has caught the man off his guard, though he cannot say why.
“Do you simply need more of it? Are you hungry right now?”
An expression of whetted appetite crosses Esca’s face with such speed and intensity that it shocks Marcus, but Esca only murmurs, “Yes, domine. Famished.”
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The Salt is All the Same by the_deep_magic
Fandoms: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
30 Mar 2024
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Few Romans would keep an omega as a body slave if they aren’t fucking them, and Esca is young and strong and appealing to the eyes, even if he is not gentle and obedient as omegas should be. Marcus and his uncle could buy half a dozen body slaves with what they would make from selling Esca as a breeder. Having Esca tend to Marcus’s leg makes about as much sense as yoking up a prize-winning thoroughbred to plow the fields. But Esca is Marcus’s thoroughbred, and he will be damned if anyone else can have him.
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They are two young men in their prime; they should be winning glory in battle or carousing with brothers-in-arms or happily fucking anyone who’ll have them. Instead they’re stuck in this villa, bound to one another by servitude and an oath neither likes but both respect, playing parts scripted for them by the gods or fate or a bloodthirsty emperor who decided that Britannia must be part of Rome at all costs.
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The women of Calleva will absolutely not leave Esca alone, and it's making Marcus start to question his sanity.
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All the Soul-and-Body Scars by the_deep_magic
Fandoms: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
14 Feb 2024
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Five times Esca asked Marcus a question, and one time Marcus asked Esca.
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Esca knows he cannot be the first person Marcus has ever done this with. Desire isn’t quenched by shame; in fact, it grows and flourishes beneath it.
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What would Ashton even say, that it’s nice to be with people who take their time with him? That being gently teased and touched and titillated until he’s soaking wet doesn’t suck? No, fuck that. If Orym and Dorian haven’t figured out by now that Ashton likes a lazy morning fuck, they’re morons, and they’re not morons, so.