John Constantine ([personal profile] onewaytohell) wrote2021-07-13 10:33 am



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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-22 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't that just be the worst. If Bruce tied him up to be nice to him. Suffer.

"Don't know any blasphemous party tricks?" Water into wine. What's your magic even good for. (A lot, he thinks. He thinks Constantine could be an incredible force for good, far better than Bruce and his anger issues, if he could just get a fucking grip.)

His waistcoat is off, discarded, and he's unbuckling his belt. But he stops, and looks at the other man.

"Alright."

Do it, then. He stands and waits, eyes already adjusted to the dark of the room. Beneath his clothes, Bruce is as ever, grotesquely scarred and improbably fit. He's pushing fifty; there is an inevitable loss of skin elasticity in the beginning stages of plaguing him, and he'll never again be in his prime. The spare parts that make up his spine do an excellent job, but he's always one back injury away from being permanent tech support. And yet he's still out there, night after night, beating the shit out of people half his age like it's the easiest thing in the world.

But not tonight. He reaches out when Constantine is in range, jerks him forward, careless of whether or not he might unbalance him.
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-23 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
Constantine stumbles, and Bruce doesn't budge. (The immovable object to Superman's unstoppable force; that he's human, nothing special besides his own manic stubbornness, has never seemed to matter.) And he doesn't flinch when the spell hits him, though he does raise his head, which might be a concession to what the fuck.

Though he did basically dare the man, so, this is just what he gets.

Bruce raises one hand, watching gold-flecked pseudo-fire vanish around his wrist, consuming the last thread of a shirt cuff. He always thinks he can smell something, around magic. Like the molecules that make up air have changed somehow. It seeps in between the cigarette aura, but only for some fleeting, half-imagined moment.

"That's very specific."

Didn't even burn off the waistband of his pants or anything.

His raised hand then finds Constantine's jaw, not so different from when he'd grabbed him earlier. This time, though, it's just to hold him firmly in place when he kisses him, hard and scraping. There's no punishment in it, but no real affection, either. He isn't sure if they have any for each other - that they'd be willing to admit. But there is familiarity in it, and that counts as something. Bruce pulls at Constantine's tie and thinks - even more askew than usual, shirt and skin alike marked with grime and dried blood - that even though there's no helping that he tastes like stale tobacco, at least he got some electrolytes in him. Tie off, he reaches lower, yanks up his shirt.

What are you waiting for?
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-24 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Skiing accidents. Sports injuries. Shrapnel from the car bomb that killed his son. (Sometimes he wonders, if he hadn't had to fake and stage a civilian cover story, if he wouldn't have become quite so unhinged about it. There is no time for mourning when you're trying to work out how to not submit Beaten to death by the Joker to a coroner's office.) Most people don't ask, these days. Bruce Wayne may be an airhead, but he's been through a lot.

A few weeks ago, there had been residual bruising from a particularly nasty few nights, but he's had a decent run of it lately. Nothing dramatic added to the graffiti that spans over him. He's just not getting younger.

Bruce allows himself to be pulled, which presses them together for that twist of magic. He gets one hand on Constantine's ass, keeping him crushed close, and shifts his mouth to the side of his neck. Other hand in his hair, grabbing hold of it. The feeling is interesting, good, clever. He wonders if John feels an echo of it, since they're touching; he wonders if John uses his magic like this with many other people. Who knows you?

Safer never to ask.

Stubble scrapes down his throat, to where Bruce sucks lightly at his adam's apple, then lower, sinking his teeth into his shoulder. Some shirt in the way, but that can be yanked off. Pop, some button meets its demise. A quick transition, then, between a moment when Bruce nearly says Any reason you're taking forever

Changes his mind. Pivots, instead, and throws Constantine down on his bed.
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-25 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
Bruce looms over him (unavoidable, given his stature, but he can lean into it, too), rolls his shoulders. Odd sensations down his spine just hit patches of nerve damage and skitter through steel replacement vertebrae; that scar is a nearly invisible one despite running from tailbone to neck. A plastic surgeon's talented hand doing the stitches, and billions of dollars worth of extendible income doing the skincare.

"Well, I already don't believe in god," he says, reaching out to snag one of John's ankles. There is little dignity in being undressed like this, but that's what wizards get when they take a glacial age to do anything. "So we're probably covered, even if you summon a birthday cake."

Don't do that, though.

Bruce drags the other man's trousers off (did he have shoes on, are the socks a funny pattern, is he judging him for Hello Kitty stockings, tell me), and kneels properly on the bed so he can shove one of Constantine's knees up and out, prowling between his legs. Pushing him down with a hand on his chest, scraping blunt nails through wiry hair.

"Colors?"

Or? Bruce operates just fine with plenty of options; green, yellow, red, just fucking saying stop, specific safe words. He is also - the other man may know by now - experienced (and dangerous) enough to operate without any at all.
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-25 11:44 am (UTC)(link)
Bruce shoves him back down, hard.

(Everyone always says that and then oh no, where'd the Kryptonite spear come from, how could this have happened.)

He leans in, presses a kiss to his mouth. It's gentler than the bruising he initiated before, a contrast to the harsh way he's putting weight onto the other man's chest, hand splayed out wide over his solar plexus. But he doesn't linger. He shifts up, mouth ghosting over his jaw. "Who are you reminding?"

Me or you?

John's magic is interesting. It seems so intricate at times, and like a flailing sledgehammer at others. An art, wielded by an artist, capable of masterpieces and errant doodles on napkins - an artist who is getting both his hands pinned over his head in one of Bruce's. He strokes over the other man's body with his other, firm and questing. He squeezes over muscles, pushes deep into pressure and chakra points. Curls his fingers into nerve-dense tangles of fascia. He finds a spot on his ribcage, presses on it. Not a massage. Even deep-tissue ones hurt less.

"Huh." If Constantine wanted a dom who would just leave hickeys on him as a warmup, he's got plenty of options. But nope, he's here. Bruce releases his pinned arms so that he can pull one straight up, aligning his shoulder and spine while he palms over his ribs. "Inhale."

Where is it? Ah. There. Costovertebral. Pop.
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-26 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
"So quit slouching and getting punched in the side," he says mildly, about digging around in organs, "and I won't be able to tell when you have a rib-head about to float out of your torso."

Real, or Bruce being a brat in his own way? A mystery. He does know an awful lot about the human body, and furthermore, an awful lot about a bunch of hippy-dippy shit like chakras and paths of energy, for a guy so science-minded. Meditation, extreme physical limits, roots and internal tides. When he focuses so closely, and when he has experience with the body he's focusing on, it's hard not to see things.

Beyond the osteopath vision, he also sees desire, and it mirrors his own. Obligingly, he pushes down his own trousers and underwear, also ninjaing off his shoes in the process. (Maybe HE had the Hello Kitty socks.)

"You never sound all that convincing."

Bruce slides a hand over the inside of John's thigh, and palms his cock, pressing it against his belly and rubbing the underside with his thumb.
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-26 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Bruce makes a low sound at that slip of magic, pinches lightly at Constantine's side. He relents, though, leaning in to kiss him. It's good like this - cigarette taste aside - close and nearly grappling, kissing wet and just rough enough. Bruce doesn't quite bite down on his tongue, grazes it with his teeth before sucking on it, enjoying the contrast between that and the prickling discomfort of stubble-on-stubble. Too much and it turns to sandpaper, but they've got a minute. And another, to slot hips together, and rock down. Bruce gets his cock pressed in alongside the other man's, stroking them both before letting the leverage of the position do the work. He's only just half hard, and it fills and stiffens as it's rutted there into the other man's skin.

"I think you'd only shut up with a gag," he says, mouth brushing against his as he speaks. He drives down, forward, moving one knee up to spread John's out, so the can grind in harder. It's not completely comfortable. He knows he's heavy, muscles bordering on too solid. But the bite of everything is present and real. "But you'd probably magic your voice out anyway, if you could clear your head enough to do it."
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-27 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Bruce grunts at the sparks and jerks one hand over, up to the other man's face. Shoves his fingers in his mouth. There, you little brat. Obviously the move there is 'my dick', but he's busy, right this second. Maybe later. (Or not. Bruce is sometimes cagey about receiving oral. John isn't the only one with self-worth issues currently in this penthouse.)

With his mouth occupied, Bruce kisses at his jaw instead, and lower, finding that same spot on his shoulder to bite into again, and go about leaving him a significant bruise. Taking his time, as he rocks his hips, sliding their cocks together. Sketching out a plan in his head. Having a precise one with a partner so wily doesn't always work, but it can't hurt to try. It's a nice mental exercise, at least.

Without warning, he sits up, detangling himself and flipping the other man over onto his front (ducking, one hand on John's thigh, appropriate use of combat know-how). He gets one of the magician's hands behind his back, pinning him, pushing him down into the mattress with a firm hand on his head. He digs fingers into his shaggy blond hair and pulls, leaving that there and moving his other hand out of the pin to go lower and deliver a heavy smack to his ass.
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-28 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Bruce splays his hand out, rubbing over Constantine's scalp, almost gentle - but then curls it again, re-establishing that grip in his hair, pushing him flat down on the mattress. The other man could try to wriggle out of the position, but he'd probably hurt himself; Bruce leans just enough weight over onto that arm to make it feel just to one side of dangerous.

Meanwhile, spanks him again. "Do you really think it's pent-up?" Smack, another. "When you know exactly what I do every night?" Crack. Hard enough to feel a sharp sting on his own palm, but too precise for the impact to run up to his elbow. Bruce knows just how to hit him, spread out the pressure, get his ass a perfect, even shade of red, and push musculature around in a way that won't leave lasting damage. He'll never hit him incorrectly, or too hard at a certain angle, and end up bruising the tendons around his tailbone; still, he hits so hard and quick, it might be hard to imagine he's not just doing it blindly.

The hand pinning the back of his head slips lower, rubbing at the base of his skull. Nicely, almost. Bruce gives his ass a squeeze and then leans over him crosswise, heedless of how much he weighs, so that he can lean over the edge of the bed and open a drawer beneath it.
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-28 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
Clink, clack; sounds like he's got all sorts of shit in this drawer. And he does. With a head's up he can make sure to have a more curated selection on hand, but because John surprised him, it's whatever happens to be immediately available. He supposes he could tie him up and spend an hour tediously sorting things just to drive him bananas, but if he's honest with himself, Bruce is a little eager for it, too.

"It's just what makes sense."

Intensity. Focus. Drowning everything else out. The chance of his mind skittering away to think of - take your fucking pick - is too great, when sex is ordinary. Drinking and abusing prescriptions during socialite hookups had helped, but now, he's back to this. He would sub more if anyone could push him into that space successfully, and he'd have gentler affairs if he didn't find kindness directed at him so impossible to understand.

So here they are.

Done with scavenging, Bruce pulls himself up with a number of items. They go clunk onto the bed beside John, long strips of real leather, metal fastenings, the tinny jingle of something with buckles. Bruce is more of a shibari and adjacent guy, when it comes to bindings, enjoying the meditative process, but this custom in-between gear is also fun. And quicker to get on, thus minimizing wizard bitching.

"Elbows and knees." And he will get pulled there ungently, if he isn't quick about it.
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-29 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
What is keeping Bruce going?

A good question. One he doesn't think he has an answer for. Violence is only a part, and he isn't sure if it's a symptom or a motivating factor, anymore. The simplest truth is that he is too in the habit of it all. He's been this way for so long that he doesn't know how to do anything else. Superman has fundamentally shifted him, but those shifts don't go as far as his sex life.

Imagine if they did. Sorry, I'm vanilla now because an alien was nice to me.

Christ.

Bruce chucks the tangle of straps beneath the other man and straightens his spine out, aligning his head, his shoulders. Holding him with a palm flat in the center of his chest for a moment, pressing up, almost like he's trying to lift him, but really just seeing what it makes his shoulderblades do as he jams a thumb under one on his back. People who do this all have their own tricks and quirks. One of Bruce's is perfectly precise physical arrangement. Less risk of injury means prolonged activity, increased recovery time. And more security felt, in the midst of it.

So. He goes about getting a harness on him, folding things over, wrapping them around, snug and correct. As he works his own erection pushes against John's hip, and after he gets the main shape done, he tugs on the cross-section over his ribcage with one hand and gropes over his ass with the other. Ranking nails over his skin, dragging his touch lower to press up behind his balls, too firm to be teasing, but too slow to get anywhere.

He pinches him at the sensitive juncture of groin and thigh. Hard. Cheeky smack to one globe of bum after.

"What keeps you going?"

Pushing him down now, ass still up, face on the mattress.
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-30 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
Bruce smacks his ass twice in rapid succession, hard enough to really hurt and shove him forward. He keeps his other hand at his shoulder, preventing him from wobbling or collapsing. Grabs one asscheek and digs his nails in, holding him there, other hand circling the base of his neck. Caged in.

"No."

You're too wound up but not on edge, he might say, if Constantine hadn't rejected safewords wholesale. Do you want to get off right away and keep going? Will it help settle you?

But that isn't what happened, and so, it isn't what's happening.

Instead, Bruce hits him a few more times, lower on his thighs to spread out the bite and burn of impact, skating his touch up to the core of him and stroking roughly over the soft skin behind the root of his cock. But no further. Keeping him pinned heavily all the while - until he shifts up, leans over him to snag his opposite arm. The binding isn't finished, and he gets to work straightening his shoulders again and strapping his arms behind his back. He doesn't linger overmuch, but there's still a determined care to how he moves him; inescapable, laser-like attention. He runs his fingers hard and punishing over a meridian line from collarbone to wrist: lung lines. John won't notice. It won't help.

He finishes with the other man's forearms tucked parallel together and snug against John's body, one hand against each of his own elbows. Bruce grabs the rest of what he'd dragged up from the drawer, and tosses a ball gag towards the end of the bed like a threat. For now, it's merely left there.

Bruce moves. Fully behind him, erection brushing against his abused ass, like maybe he is actually going to fuck him, despite that No. But then he's getting a grip in the fulcrum of the custom harness and up the other man goes, back against Bruce's chest.
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[personal profile] nightlife 2021-07-30 11:58 am (UTC)(link)
Parent insults are always cute. His saintly, dead parents. It no longer takes Bruce out of anything, but once in a while, just for fun: I remember sitting in the police station, scuffing something off my shoe because I was looking down, anything to not look at any of the cops around me, and I realized it was my mother's dried brain matter.

You know, sexy.

Bruce maintains upright posture, letting Constantine press into him but not actively taking any of his weight. He's got something going on with the hand not securing him, but he keeps it out of view.

"What do you think is stronger?" Bruce hitches him back even closer, rocks his hips forward so that his cock slides into the cleft of his ass. He's not as hard as he could be, but holding steady nevertheless. Hot and firm against impact-reddened skin. "Failure or stubbornness?"

A question for them both.

Once his dick is somewhere comfortable, he tugs John back, leaning just enough to take his weight. He trails his hand over his front, bypasses his cock, bring a smack down onto the outside of his thigh. His hip. Gets in close, so the small shockwaves will reach the nerves spreading into his groin. Keeps it up for a while, until a new sensation breaks in: a dull pinch at one nipple. Then the other. Clothespins. Plain wooden ones with a metal spring like you get in a 50 pack at the grocery store; there's no need for anything gimmicky or 'stronger', the longer these things stay on, the more they'll hurt, period. Bruce flicks one, hums in consideration. Brings both hands down over his hips and below. Still not touching the magician's cock.

"Aching for it," he observes. "Can you feel yourself leaking?"

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