Even if he is, tough shit, John can't do anything about it right now— sort of. Bruce is always mindful of the potential for a magic mishap, but he is also always mindful of when and how John tries anything. The paranoid detective in him unable to turn off the note-taking. Maybe, when he demands that his partner relax, he's talking to himself, too.
Here they are again. Deep breath in, and out. Bruce slowly closes his hand around Constantine's throat, a steady constricting. This time aiming to actually make him dizzy, get him to another headspace, or as close as he can. It's borderline hypnotic for Bruce, too, feeling his heartbeat and his breath and having it just here so literally in his hands.
When he begins to loosen it back up, he keeps a kind of rhythm with it, so that when he pushes John forward it's a fluid movement in time with an exhale. He doesn't let him fall flat, controlling it, letting him rest against the mattress on shoulders-and-knees, and then, finally, dragging his hands back over his sides to his ass, touch intent. Click, pop, telltale sounds of a lube container, and then slick-cold touch against abused skin.
Deep breath in, then slow exhale. Again. It's starting to become almost hypnotic, which he suspects that Bruce wants. That drift to something less restrained, less overwhelmed with base needs and desperation. A space John can admit he struggles to reach at times; as much as he seems willing to give in easily to alcohol, drugs, and sex, it's always on his own terms, and always maintains careful walls of how much he lets people in. Giving up some of that control and letting someone else decide for him... it's not easy, but he trusts Bruce.
Enough that he slips further into the rhythm, and as Bruce tightens his grip again, John lets the dizzy feeling sweep over in the carefully controlled waves that Bruce follows, feeling his pulse racing and slowing against the other man's hand in turn. He's still achingly hard, but there's a measure of distance to it, enough to hold off any imminent risk of ending too soon. Probably for the best as Bruce guides him back forward and down, hands dragging over aching skin and sending distant tremors through where the pegs still pinch his skin painfully.
Then there's a slick, chill touch against him and John practically groans in relief shifting to try and spread his legs further in open invitation. After the spanking and with the sharp tug where the pegs still dig in, the coldness of the lube is almost a balm, and he's certain Bruce planned that too.
Well, he didn't have too much time to plan this. But Batman is always prepared.
The lubrication is cold, slick, oil-based; no fear of ruining bedsheets, with his expendable income. He warms it up by working it into John, steady and practiced. Massaging him open and stretching him while only giving him any pressure where he'd like it best incidentally. He spills the oil on the small of his back, strokes it down, rubs his erection against it there, the head of his cock pressing against John's balls between his legs, taking his time in a way that suggests he's checked out of reality, for at least a second. Absently enjoying himself, apparently oblivious for taking a glacial fucking age.
(His relationships - such as they are - have ever remained painted in quick meetings and shadowed truths. Desperate encounters on rooftops, leaving before dawn, comping hotel rooms and vanishing. The longer he says the more dangerous it is. Not just for the scars, the bruises, the damning evidence, but for what he might feel. Drawing it out is a rare luxury that threatens real intimacy. But it's as much of a drug as the alcohol had been.)
And then his fingers are clear, and he's rubbing himself against the rim of his hole, tugging lightly at that clench of muscle. Bruce leans over and snags a pin off one nipple without warning, and then pushes.
Bruce's hands are large and surprisingly dexterous for anyone who doesn't know him, and another time John might appreciate the skill with which they press into him, slowly working him open with the same finesse as they would a lock. But it is, indeed, taking enough time that what distance Bruce had managed to push him into is starting to waver, and John grinds out another curse as it becomes more and more clear that Bruce has decided that now is the best time to zen. He can feel the thickness of the man's cock rubbing against him with just enough contact to be a bloody tease and absolutely nothing near enough for him to have a hope of getting off himself.
"Come on, you bloody wanker," he curses, and maybe it finally gets through to whatever nirvana of making John's dick explode from need Bruce is trying to achieve, but at last Bruce is moving. The fingers are gone and John attempts to press back against the thick head of Bruce's cock, but the angle is all wrong. Likely also on purpose, he feels. He's at Bruce's mercy and nothing else is going to happen until the other man chooses to.
He's about to curse him out again, for all the good it might do, when Bruce jerks a peg free and the words become a choked out cry of pleasure and shock as he's rewarded at the same time. It's such a mix of pain and pleasure that despite how much he wants it, John's muscles clamp down around Bruce immediately and his body tenses against the harness.
John's always desperate to get away from what he wants, Bruce thinks.
He doesn't keep shoving inside of him when the other man goes tense. He gives him a second, rocking instead, rubbing over the spot of stricken flesh where the pin was. Over to his flank, just holding him. Fingers tapping a few times, a silent reminder that he's supported, literally as well as figuratively. Bruce isn't here to maliciously hurt him. He's not going to let him collapse and suffocate, or hurt himself while bound.
"Gonna be mad at me for liking how you feel?"
Goading instead of breathe, you idiot. Though he should also breathe. Bruce rubs the small of his back with his other hand, strays his thumb lower, pressing into the cleft of his ass over where his cock is starting to sink into him.
John exhales slowly, focusing on breathing as he knows Bruce wants him to, letting himself take as long as he needs to recover from the dual sensations. The gentle touches of Bruce's fingers help a great deal, soothing over skin that feels throbbing and red, stroking over his sides lightly.
And despite what others might think of him or expect, the goading comment helps too. He snorts a laugh and exhales again, this time less like he's forcing the air out of himself and closer to normal.
"I'd be pissed if you were sunk even this deep and weren't appreciating it. All that work for no pay off is bound to upset anyone."
Christ, he can feel the press of Bruce's thumb, making it all the more apparent where his cock was pushing into him, and John shifts his weight back a little, meeting the gentle rocking motion of Bruce's hips and encouraging more from him.
He moves his hand, sparing him the further torment of that pressing thumb, but it's only to slap his asscheek. Ppft.
"Who doesn't like foreplay?" Bruce gets more of the oil, a messy application that nevertheless does the job of helping things along. "Are you like that with women?"
Slicked up extra, he feels less like he's going to wrench something truly pained out of him by rolling his hips forward in a proper stroke, holding the notch of one hipbone firmly. John's still so tight, a strangling vice of heat, perfectly contained here for him. The ball gag is still scattered off to one side, but honestly, Bruce would have only been really tempted to use it if the other man had gotten particularly mean. The kind of control that gets him going isn't the kind that asks for a silent, blank vessel to fuck.
"I'd watch you." Drawing back out, pushing in. Watching his cock slide into him, deep then deeper, snapping his hips when he's just about flush with his ass. "Fucking a woman. Sit right behind you with my hand on your neck."
He hisses as Bruce presses in deeper, but it's easier this time and then, fuck, the bastard starts talking and it's like an entirely new experience all over again. He can picture it as Bruce speaks, the heat of his body pressed flush against him watching as he fucked into her... The snap of Bruce's hips rocks him forward and he can picture that as well, three of them moving in tandem.
Now having his arms bound is starting to get frustrating, his cock twitching each time Bruce buries himself within him, aching from the thought of being touched or fucking someone else. He'd think it a miracle that he hadn't come yet, but he's certain it's less a miracle and more because some muscle-bound bugger keeps making sure he doesn't quite get close enough.
"Fuck, I knew you'd like that, watching me." Try as he might, John can't do more than rock back on his knees a little from this angle, and can't do the slightest for his own aching erection. "Fuck me like this at the same time, or just watching?"
Another sharp thrust and he rolls his head to press it harder against the bed, desperate need building again. "Bet you'd like to order me around all the while, wouldn't you?"
He's careful as he rocks in and out, even though it might not feel like it. Getting them both used to it. Slowing so that he can press in and give him short, quicker thrusts, loosening him up as much as he is trying to drive him crazy. Sometimes it can be tricky finding the best angle for his prostate, folded over like this, but Bruce has the right dimensions for it. He slides his hand down from John's hip to his bound arms, tucking his fingers around the leather ties, using that for a grip to pull him back onto his cock.
"Would it get you harder?" He leans forward, so he can tug lightly at his hair. As if the way he's shoved inside him, and the way John's torqued, isn't borderline too much already. His ass is bruised and Bruce is being nice about pulling his hair. "Having me instruct you? Make sure you got her off enough times?"
The hand in his hair vanishes, and he smacks his thigh, hard. Grinds in. "Or would you be too distracted thinking about my cock doing this to you?"
He's going to lose his mind like this, and it's going to be Bruce's fault and the bastard isn't even going to care. Trussed up and facing away like this, Constantine can't even tell if Bruce is getting anywhere near close as well, or if he's just going to keep setting the same frustrating pace of sharp, shorter thrusts that are almost agonisingly close to what he wants and yet still not enough.
As Bruce's hand moves to the straps around his arms he finally, finally gets some of what he wants. The feeling of power in Bruce's arm as he pulls John back to meet his thrusts, the thickness of his cock punching out a mix of curses and sharp, panting groans. It hardly matters if Bruce is managing to hit the best angle or not; being held like this and fucked nice and rough does it for him just as much, and he arches his head back into the other man's hand. Bruce hardly need to pull for John to follow his grip, his throat pressing against the bed and certain to have burn marks from it later.
"Christ, just about anything you do seems to get me harder," he admits, and Bruce further proves the matter by following it up with a smack to his thigh, the skin still smarting from the pegs in place.
"God above, yes you're a distracting bastard and I'd lose my bloody mind trying to fuck myself on you and into her at the same time, you'd break me and I'd love every second of it." Like... what he felt like is happening right now, especially when Bruce sinks in and grinds against him, hips flush against his ass. How his own cock hasn't already exploded is beyond him, but he doubts he'll manage much longer with Bruce talking like that in his ear.
Bruce doesn't know how John does it, but he manages to get under his skin. He wears down Bruce's thick layer of apathy and touches something, all scrambling nails and claws and grating complaining that hook into him. It's not that Bruce doesn't feel, or care, but it's become so fucking difficult to let go—
How good it feels sparks into him like a slap in the face, finally inhabiting his own body fully, not detached on some plane that lets him go on and on for an age like he does when he's fighting. Bruce's breath catches, not really thinking about the picture their words paint, but falling into the sound of his voice, the feeling of being buried inside him, the fact that he's here, under Bruce's hands, prone but still struggling for more, more, trying to fuck myself on you, every second of it.
Maybe John can feel it when Bruce tunes in finally. He fucks him hard, harder, heavy grinding strokes that push in as deep as he's able, snapping in to savor it. When he pulls back he lets himself slip all the way out just so that he can press the head of his cock against the tight rim of his hole just to feel it again, just to drive John mental with frustration. Because he likes that. Likes hearing him bitch about it. It feels real. He shoves his cock back inside, grabs him by the hips, and pounds into him. Brakes off completely.
The change is apparent, even when he can't see Bruce's expression. He's seen it enough that he can still picture it though, the slight flicker in his eyes as he finally falls out from the distance that he seems to hold like a shield between himself and the world and grounds himself in the now.
'course, it helps that the change also means Bruce loses the carefully controlling actions of before. Hard to miss it when the man starts fucking him almost animalistically, like he's trying to punch the breath out of John with his cock alone. It's never quite enough to completely silence him, but he does fall to sharp curses, fragments of sentences and complaints cut off as Bruce draws back and slams into him again. Even the periods where he pauses only serve to drag more protests from John, too aware of the hot pressure of Bruce's cock at his entrance, deliberately kept back only to pound into him again when he's off-guard.
And he bloody loves all of it, the feeling of Bruce giving in to his own desires and desperation in turn. The only pity is that he'd already been half out of his mind with pleasure (well, maybe more than half) by this point and there's only so long a man can keep it together like this, with the sound of Bruce breathing heavily behind and above him and those hands gripping his hips roughly, keeping him still as he's fucked hard enough he knows he'll be a mess of bruises later.
It's like a jolt of power right up his spine, almost as powerful a rush as magic gives him, and John strains against he leather and Bruce's hands, every muscle feeling taut with effort.
He fucks him to get himself where he needs to be, sinking into that feeling of nothing else existing in his brain. Just for a little while. It's about as long as he can ever manage, only ever letting go when he's having sex.
(Anymore. He slipped too far, into prescriptions and alcohol and downing whole bottles of mood stabilizing medications with other whole bottles of wine. Just to stop thinking. Nothing will ever stop the dark claws dug deep into his mind, and these moments become—
worth something.)
Bruce wants to come, the tension building in him rushing too quickly now towards breaking. He pulls John up, haphazard despite his strength, enough to impale him further on his cock and get one hand beneath his jackknifed form. He wraps a hand around his dick and strokes, catching the other man between the force of his hips and the calloused circle of his fingers.
"Shh," he says, a rough rasp against the back of his shoulder.
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Even if he is, tough shit, John can't do anything about it right now— sort of. Bruce is always mindful of the potential for a magic mishap, but he is also always mindful of when and how John tries anything. The paranoid detective in him unable to turn off the note-taking. Maybe, when he demands that his partner relax, he's talking to himself, too.
Here they are again. Deep breath in, and out. Bruce slowly closes his hand around Constantine's throat, a steady constricting. This time aiming to actually make him dizzy, get him to another headspace, or as close as he can. It's borderline hypnotic for Bruce, too, feeling his heartbeat and his breath and having it just here so literally in his hands.
When he begins to loosen it back up, he keeps a kind of rhythm with it, so that when he pushes John forward it's a fluid movement in time with an exhale. He doesn't let him fall flat, controlling it, letting him rest against the mattress on shoulders-and-knees, and then, finally, dragging his hands back over his sides to his ass, touch intent. Click, pop, telltale sounds of a lube container, and then slick-cold touch against abused skin.
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Enough that he slips further into the rhythm, and as Bruce tightens his grip again, John lets the dizzy feeling sweep over in the carefully controlled waves that Bruce follows, feeling his pulse racing and slowing against the other man's hand in turn. He's still achingly hard, but there's a measure of distance to it, enough to hold off any imminent risk of ending too soon. Probably for the best as Bruce guides him back forward and down, hands dragging over aching skin and sending distant tremors through where the pegs still pinch his skin painfully.
Then there's a slick, chill touch against him and John practically groans in relief shifting to try and spread his legs further in open invitation. After the spanking and with the sharp tug where the pegs still dig in, the coldness of the lube is almost a balm, and he's certain Bruce planned that too.
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The lubrication is cold, slick, oil-based; no fear of ruining bedsheets, with his expendable income. He warms it up by working it into John, steady and practiced. Massaging him open and stretching him while only giving him any pressure where he'd like it best incidentally. He spills the oil on the small of his back, strokes it down, rubs his erection against it there, the head of his cock pressing against John's balls between his legs, taking his time in a way that suggests he's checked out of reality, for at least a second. Absently enjoying himself, apparently oblivious for taking a glacial fucking age.
(His relationships - such as they are - have ever remained painted in quick meetings and shadowed truths. Desperate encounters on rooftops, leaving before dawn, comping hotel rooms and vanishing. The longer he says the more dangerous it is. Not just for the scars, the bruises, the damning evidence, but for what he might feel. Drawing it out is a rare luxury that threatens real intimacy. But it's as much of a drug as the alcohol had been.)
And then his fingers are clear, and he's rubbing himself against the rim of his hole, tugging lightly at that clench of muscle. Bruce leans over and snags a pin off one nipple without warning, and then pushes.
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"Come on, you bloody wanker," he curses, and maybe it finally gets through to whatever nirvana of making John's dick explode from need Bruce is trying to achieve, but at last Bruce is moving. The fingers are gone and John attempts to press back against the thick head of Bruce's cock, but the angle is all wrong. Likely also on purpose, he feels. He's at Bruce's mercy and nothing else is going to happen until the other man chooses to.
He's about to curse him out again, for all the good it might do, when Bruce jerks a peg free and the words become a choked out cry of pleasure and shock as he's rewarded at the same time. It's such a mix of pain and pleasure that despite how much he wants it, John's muscles clamp down around Bruce immediately and his body tenses against the harness.
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He doesn't keep shoving inside of him when the other man goes tense. He gives him a second, rocking instead, rubbing over the spot of stricken flesh where the pin was. Over to his flank, just holding him. Fingers tapping a few times, a silent reminder that he's supported, literally as well as figuratively. Bruce isn't here to maliciously hurt him. He's not going to let him collapse and suffocate, or hurt himself while bound.
"Gonna be mad at me for liking how you feel?"
Goading instead of breathe, you idiot. Though he should also breathe. Bruce rubs the small of his back with his other hand, strays his thumb lower, pressing into the cleft of his ass over where his cock is starting to sink into him.
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And despite what others might think of him or expect, the goading comment helps too. He snorts a laugh and exhales again, this time less like he's forcing the air out of himself and closer to normal.
"I'd be pissed if you were sunk even this deep and weren't appreciating it. All that work for no pay off is bound to upset anyone."
Christ, he can feel the press of Bruce's thumb, making it all the more apparent where his cock was pushing into him, and John shifts his weight back a little, meeting the gentle rocking motion of Bruce's hips and encouraging more from him.
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"Who doesn't like foreplay?" Bruce gets more of the oil, a messy application that nevertheless does the job of helping things along. "Are you like that with women?"
Slicked up extra, he feels less like he's going to wrench something truly pained out of him by rolling his hips forward in a proper stroke, holding the notch of one hipbone firmly. John's still so tight, a strangling vice of heat, perfectly contained here for him. The ball gag is still scattered off to one side, but honestly, Bruce would have only been really tempted to use it if the other man had gotten particularly mean. The kind of control that gets him going isn't the kind that asks for a silent, blank vessel to fuck.
"I'd watch you." Drawing back out, pushing in. Watching his cock slide into him, deep then deeper, snapping his hips when he's just about flush with his ass. "Fucking a woman. Sit right behind you with my hand on your neck."
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He hisses as Bruce presses in deeper, but it's easier this time and then, fuck, the bastard starts talking and it's like an entirely new experience all over again. He can picture it as Bruce speaks, the heat of his body pressed flush against him watching as he fucked into her... The snap of Bruce's hips rocks him forward and he can picture that as well, three of them moving in tandem.
Now having his arms bound is starting to get frustrating, his cock twitching each time Bruce buries himself within him, aching from the thought of being touched or fucking someone else. He'd think it a miracle that he hadn't come yet, but he's certain it's less a miracle and more because some muscle-bound bugger keeps making sure he doesn't quite get close enough.
"Fuck, I knew you'd like that, watching me." Try as he might, John can't do more than rock back on his knees a little from this angle, and can't do the slightest for his own aching erection. "Fuck me like this at the same time, or just watching?"
Another sharp thrust and he rolls his head to press it harder against the bed, desperate need building again. "Bet you'd like to order me around all the while, wouldn't you?"
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"Would it get you harder?" He leans forward, so he can tug lightly at his hair. As if the way he's shoved inside him, and the way John's torqued, isn't borderline too much already. His ass is bruised and Bruce is being nice about pulling his hair. "Having me instruct you? Make sure you got her off enough times?"
The hand in his hair vanishes, and he smacks his thigh, hard. Grinds in. "Or would you be too distracted thinking about my cock doing this to you?"
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As Bruce's hand moves to the straps around his arms he finally, finally gets some of what he wants. The feeling of power in Bruce's arm as he pulls John back to meet his thrusts, the thickness of his cock punching out a mix of curses and sharp, panting groans. It hardly matters if Bruce is managing to hit the best angle or not; being held like this and fucked nice and rough does it for him just as much, and he arches his head back into the other man's hand. Bruce hardly need to pull for John to follow his grip, his throat pressing against the bed and certain to have burn marks from it later.
"Christ, just about anything you do seems to get me harder," he admits, and Bruce further proves the matter by following it up with a smack to his thigh, the skin still smarting from the pegs in place.
"God above, yes you're a distracting bastard and I'd lose my bloody mind trying to fuck myself on you and into her at the same time, you'd break me and I'd love every second of it." Like... what he felt like is happening right now, especially when Bruce sinks in and grinds against him, hips flush against his ass. How his own cock hasn't already exploded is beyond him, but he doubts he'll manage much longer with Bruce talking like that in his ear.
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How good it feels sparks into him like a slap in the face, finally inhabiting his own body fully, not detached on some plane that lets him go on and on for an age like he does when he's fighting. Bruce's breath catches, not really thinking about the picture their words paint, but falling into the sound of his voice, the feeling of being buried inside him, the fact that he's here, under Bruce's hands, prone but still struggling for more, more, trying to fuck myself on you, every second of it.
Maybe John can feel it when Bruce tunes in finally. He fucks him hard, harder, heavy grinding strokes that push in as deep as he's able, snapping in to savor it. When he pulls back he lets himself slip all the way out just so that he can press the head of his cock against the tight rim of his hole just to feel it again, just to drive John mental with frustration. Because he likes that. Likes hearing him bitch about it. It feels real. He shoves his cock back inside, grabs him by the hips, and pounds into him. Brakes off completely.
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'course, it helps that the change also means Bruce loses the carefully controlling actions of before. Hard to miss it when the man starts fucking him almost animalistically, like he's trying to punch the breath out of John with his cock alone. It's never quite enough to completely silence him, but he does fall to sharp curses, fragments of sentences and complaints cut off as Bruce draws back and slams into him again. Even the periods where he pauses only serve to drag more protests from John, too aware of the hot pressure of Bruce's cock at his entrance, deliberately kept back only to pound into him again when he's off-guard.
And he bloody loves all of it, the feeling of Bruce giving in to his own desires and desperation in turn. The only pity is that he'd already been half out of his mind with pleasure (well, maybe more than half) by this point and there's only so long a man can keep it together like this, with the sound of Bruce breathing heavily behind and above him and those hands gripping his hips roughly, keeping him still as he's fucked hard enough he knows he'll be a mess of bruises later.
It's like a jolt of power right up his spine, almost as powerful a rush as magic gives him, and John strains against he leather and Bruce's hands, every muscle feeling taut with effort.
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(Anymore. He slipped too far, into prescriptions and alcohol and downing whole bottles of mood stabilizing medications with other whole bottles of wine. Just to stop thinking. Nothing will ever stop the dark claws dug deep into his mind, and these moments become—
worth something.)
Bruce wants to come, the tension building in him rushing too quickly now towards breaking. He pulls John up, haphazard despite his strength, enough to impale him further on his cock and get one hand beneath his jackknifed form. He wraps a hand around his dick and strokes, catching the other man between the force of his hips and the calloused circle of his fingers.
"Shh," he says, a rough rasp against the back of his shoulder.