Bilingual :: A Pair of Drabbles
[ dm/ew/franka . for Mcee ] R
Lieblingsfreundin.
Franka curses in German when she cannot find the proper word in English, and she can feel the language caught up like heartburn in her chest.
Elijah watches as Dominic leans over, as they whisper using words he cannot understand, falling from mouths he's both kissed and fucked and worshipped. Dom's hand reaches over to catch Franka by the wrist, tugging with a gentle roughness. Her gaze slides sideways to catch Elijah with tiny claws, and when she speaks again to Dominic, her voice is low and wavering, and suddenly Elijah doesn't need to know German, because he understands anyway.
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Lieblingsfreund.
Dom curses in German when they fuck, and he can feel both Franka and Elijah caught up in all the secret places of his body - beneath his skin and blistering.
Dominic thinks that Elijah's mouth is like a bow, taut and fierce and overwhelming, and he uses his tiny white teeth to leave angry indelible marks across the trunk of Dominic's body - like wolves marking territory in the woods. Franka's mouth is more like a ghost, an afterthought - following the same spitshiny paths that Elijah has taken, cooing and whispering in his mothertongue, rendering his claimed and complicated body bilingual.
