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"I'm sorry, doctor. Director Aventurine is out today." Aventurine's assistant frowns.
Ratio pauses. "'Out?'" He echoes, and Melanie nods. "He left a few hours ago and hasn't been back since. I can leave him a message if you'd like."
"No need." He sighs. "Have you eaten yet, Miss Melanie?" When she shakes her head, he reaches into his lunchbox and pulls out a nutrient bar. "Do so soon. It's too late in the day, and it would be a pain to see your hard work stifled by an episode of malnourishment-caused syncope."
She thanks him as she cracks open the bar and pulls her IPC-approved lunchbox from under her desk, and Ratio takes that as his cue to leave.
He'll have to come back tomorrow for their usual lunch date.
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Now he's concerned.
"He hasn't been in since he left yesterday." Melanie frets over the phone. He was lucky to catch her call, considering he was nearly out the door on the way to the gamblers' work. "Doctor, I'm aware he can take care of himself, but-"
"I understand." He stops her. "I'll check on him now. Thank you, Miss Melanie." He hangs up and grabs his first aid kit on the way out.
Something is very wrong.
The entire drive to the gamblers' penthouse, all Ratio can think is that Aventurine only takes days off when he's forced to, which means this is a serious issue.
It also means there's a possibility Jade is in the know.
He dials her, and surprisingly, her assistant doesn't pick up; she does.
"I've been waiting for your call, doctor." She hums. "Because of the nature of this issue, I'll get to the point. I'm going to give you information on the assumption that you're going to bring Aventurine back to work in a week." She flips through something, then continues.
"You're aware of our dear gamblers' Leporidean attributes, I'm sure. Consider that when dealing with him, if you will. A week may seem generous, but I think you'll find you'll make use every moment. Good luck, doctor." With that, she hangs up, and is left sitting at a red light, silent phone in hand.
Making his way up to the penthouse is easy, he just uses his pass on the service elevator and makes his way up. Ratio brings both his lunch box and first aid kit. When he gets to the penthouse entry, he announces himself as he locks the door behind him.
"Avent- Oh my." He gasps.
His eyes roam the living room and kitchen, frown growing deeper as he sees the disarray the spaces are in. From the bedroom he can hear shuffling, like something is moving. It goes silent, and Ratio goes silent. If Aventurine is sick, there's nothing to do but let him rest.
And maybe to clean up the place.
He worked silently as he picked up clothes and shoes from the floor. He sets them in a clothes hamper and sets the shoes on the rack near the door. The couch is missing a few cushions and the kitchen is too well-stocked for what's considered normal for Aventurine.
It doesn't deter him, and he begins the next task of cleaning the kitchen as he cooks a stew for when Aventurine wakes up. He's halfway through cutting the fresh carrots when the door to Aventurine's room finally opens and the steps out.
Veritas very nearly cuts himself when he spots his boyfriend in nothing but one of Ratio's own Veritas Prime hoodies.
"Mmm..'atio..?" The gambler slurs as he wipes the sleep from his eyes. He steps into the kitchen, but Ratio stops him before he can go any further.
"You're burning up. Go back and get some rest." He turns the gambler around, but the blonde just whips toward him. His ears slip from over his shoulders to behind him as he looks up at Ratio.
"What are you doing here, doc? I know I'm burning up, it's normal." He leans forward with a smirk that makes Ratio nervous. "Or did you come to help me with my yearly predicament?"
"Yearly?" The doctor tilts his head.
Aventurine stands up straight and blinks owlishly. "Doc, what are you talking about?" He frowns.
The doctor crosses his arms. "I'm referring to the fact that I've rarely had you blow me off, and never without prior notice. You're burning up, your apartment is a mess, and your fridge is stocked. You are very clearly ill, but what I can't understand is why you've prepared for it."
For a moment, Aventurine looks shocked. He covers his hand with his mouth, then his tail wags and he starts to laugh. "Doc-" he giggles, "Doc it's spring! I'm a bunny!"
It clicks.
Ratio's ears burst into flames and he tries to keep his composure. "I... See." He finally manages as Aventurine giggles. "Well, I'd like to offer my help while you... Recover. It's the least I can do."
The bunnyboy grins. "Oh? Offering your help? How chivalrous, doctor." He steps forward into Ratio's personal space, and Ratio can see the gamblers tail wagging. "What will everyone think if I come to work with your marks on my neck, doctor? People will talk."
Ratio sighs. "If you have no problems telling anyone about our relationship, then neither do I."
This time, Aventurine stalls. "Relationship?"
Ratio blinks. "Are we not dating?"
The silence is louder than gunshots.
Aventurine is the first to speak. "Dating?" He gasps.
Ratio rolls his eyes. "I thought it was obvious, damned gambler." His entire face burns in embarrassment as he speaks. "We go out to fancy dinners twice a month. We eat lunch together daily, and you've taken to keeping a wardrobe and a toothbrush in my apartment!" He scoffs. "If that's not dating, I'm unsure what is."
Aventurine looks like he's struggling to keep up. "...what?"
Something sinks in Ratio's heart, and his hands go cold. "I see." He steps back, and Aventurine's face goes from confused to appalled. "I've read the signals wrong, I apologize. I thought I had read your signals correctly." He turns to the stew.
Unfortunately, Aventurine seems to snap back to reality at that moment, and he grabs Ratio's hand and pulls him back. "Just- gimme a damn second, doc, that's a lot to put on a guy all at once!" He growls. "What signals? And when the hell did we start dating!?"
Ratio tilts his head. "Bunny mating signals include humming, scenting, and sniffing. The last lunch we had, you rested your head on my shoulder and refused to move until I let you keep my jacket, which you're currently wearing." He brings a hand up to Aventurine's cheek, and the gambler leans into it without a moment's hesitation.
"And it was my understanding we began dating the night after last years' Shareholder Appreciation Gala." Ratio continues. Aventurine looks up at him. "When we went home together. I remember." He chuckles.
Ratio moves his hand to under Aventurine's chin. "I would very much like to continue this conversation, and this arrangement, for that matter. But you seem to be leaking." He looks down to point out the trails of slick leaking down Aventurine's legs.
The gambler sighs. "It's been like that all day. The heat started this morning and getting off is both exhausting and useless." He slides into the kitchen behind his now-fully-established boyfriend. "This smells so good. Are those carrots?"
Ratio can't resist the way his lips turn up when he sees Aventurine's tail wags. "It is. I'm making soft carrot stew and tomato salad, since I'm aware they're some of your favorites." He comes up behind Aventurine to take the pot off the stove and turn the heat off. As he leans forward, Aventurine leans back.
Ratio feels the press of the gamblers hips, as well as the twitching tail. He looks down expectantly, and Aventurine looks up with excited eyes. "Are you sure you don't want to help me with anything else?"
Ratio puts a lid on the soup. "Zero points for such a ridiculous question."
Aventurine grabs him by the hand without a second thought. He leads them both to the bedroom, where he proceeds to toss Ratio into his nest with surprising strength. He straddles the doctor with a grin, and Ratio reaches up with a gentle hand to palm his cheek. The gambler closes his eyes and leans into the touch, and it offers Ratio time to lean up and kiss him.
The kiss is a long time coming. It's soft and swe et and everything Veritas has been hoping for for months. His hands find their way to Aventurine's hips, and he feels the soft ears fall softly on his chest as he lays them down. He lets the gambler lay on his chest before he flips them over. The gambler whines into his mouth as he bucks into Ratio's hold.
"Patience, dear gambler." Ratio chuckles as he makes his way leaving reverent kisses down his bunny boyfriend's neck. "Let me enjoy this." He nibbles on the side of Aventurine's ear and relishes in the whimper it earns him.
His hands slowly run up the blonde's body until he's thumbing at the perky nipples he's grown fond of. The heightened sensitivity of his heat makes Aventurine moan that much louder, and Ratio tugs on the bud again just to hear him one more time. "D-oh, don't tease me..."
Ratio pulls the cloth over Aventurine's head and kisses his chest. "I'm savoring." He admits.
Either way, he continues on. He moves down from the gamblers' chest to his core, kissing and nipping as he makes his way down to the tuft of blonde hair. Despite his whines, the gamblers tail wags. The doctor threads a hand through small, soft locks and tugs, and Aventurine arches off the bed. His pussy drips onto his thighs, something Ratio is more than glad to remedy.
He licks in broad strokes, lapping up what slid down the soft thighs. Slowly, he makes his way up to the source of the slick. His thumbs come under and around Aventurine's legs to his pussy.
Ratio can't help but groan when he parts the thick lips. "Beautiful." His right thumb slides up to flick over Aventurine's clit which makes Aventurine yelp.
The doctor surges forward and locks his lips around the hardened bud, and Aventurine's curls in around his head. "A-Ah~!" He shrieks. Ratio is able to get one breath in before he pulls back and laps at the bunnyboy's hole, and then his nose is smashed against the gamblers' clit. "Veritas!"
Ratio's cock throbs under his clothes, but he doesn't even think about leaving his position. He licks up everything that leaks from his boyfriend, curling his tongue every lap up and swallowing as he sets his tongue for another lick.
He drinks until he can't breathe, and then he brings his head up, takes a deep breath, and dives back in. This time, he circles his finger over Aventurine's clit, and within moments he's got a writhing, screaming bunny boy in his arms. "Ratio- Veritas, oh, yes-!"
The grip on his hair hurts so good, but he's forced from his place by a foot pressing into his side as he's let go. "Off, off!" Aventurine trembles as he whines.
With a slick pop, Ratio pulls away. He pants as he looks over his boneless lover and a sense of pride fills him. Aventurine is panting under him, shaking and gasping while his right leg thumps at the bed. "Hurry up!" He grabs Ratio's shirt and pulls him up into a messy kiss.
There's no words as Aventurine slides off the taller man's belt and tears open his pants. His hand goes straight on to grab at the aching hardness, and Veritas chokes as it's tugged from his pants. "Vasha, wait, I haven't-"
"No more waiting. I've been fucking myself stupid for three years waiting for you to come in here and breed me. I'm impatient, dear doctor, so kindly do me a favor," he grins and shoves Ratio back so the doctor's knees hit the bed. "And get to doing that." His tail lifts to show off his wet he's already become again as he settles on his knees. Aventurine sinks his chest to the bed and arches his back, spreading his legs as he whines.
Ratio slides whatever clothes remain on him off and sets the pile onto the edge of the bed. They'll likely be kicked off at some point, but that's not is concern at the moment. "I'm here." He whispers as he slots his chest over the gamblers back. Ratio's left hand goes to thumbing the gambler's hips while his right goes to lining himself up with the slick warmth.
The slow push in makes them both moan. When Ratio nearly bottoms out, he feels what he can only guess is Aventurine's womb pressing against his tip. It's too early to press into the gamblers' womb, but it won't stop his lover from trying to tempt him anyway.
"Veritas~" he purrs and tries to rock his hips back, "come on. Just a little more."
Ratio pulls back, teasing him for just a moment by not pushing back in. "Patience, dear gambler. Trust that I'll give you exactly what you need." Then he slams in hard, ramming the bunnyboy's womb. Aventurine's eyes roll back as he wails. Ratio makes sure to pull that sound from him again and again with slow, persistent thrusts.
Aventurine's heat is a dangerous thing. He'd learned very early on, when doing research on human-animal hybrids, that if a hybrid was denied a heat or rut, they could become feral, which could put both the hybrid and their mate in danger. Naturally, the way to curb this is by giving the hybrid what they need during their heat or rut.
And Ratio intends on giving Aventurine everything he wants during his heat, so when Aventurine whimpers for him to, "Go faster, please! More, I need- please," he obliges.
His pace picks up as he pulls Aventurine's hips back onto his cock. "Yes, I- fuck!" The blonde shrieks. "Veritas!" His body trembles and his hands grip the sheets, and then he tightens up so hard Ratio can barely move. He drives his cock through the maddening clench until he feels himself sink deeper into the gamblers' pussy, and then Aventurine opens his mouth in a silent scream.
He feels like he's being milked, and his orgasm hits him like a wall as he groans. Aventurine hiccups under him and his eyes shine with unshed tears. Ratio pulls the gambler's head back slowly to give him a kiss. "Beautiful." He murmurs between breaths. "Ten points."
When Aventurine can speak again, he grins. "Can you go again? We're gonna be here for a while." He wiggles his hips back and Ratio grunts as he grabs his lover's hips.
"I can be here for as long as you need." He drives his hips forward, and Aventurine whimpers. Before he goes any further, though, he pulls out. The blonde whines, but then he's pulled to lay on his side. Ratio pushes one of his legs up, and Aventurine grabs his own leg to his chest as he's spread open.
Ratio admires the blush on the bunnyboy's cheeks as his ears flop next to his reddening cheeks. "Who knew the good doctor was so perverted?" Aventurine giggles. "A position like this isn't known by those who keep only to educational books."
The scholar leans down, sliding back into the slick heat and watching as Aventurine's eyes flutter shut. He gently pulls the gambler into a soft kiss, and when he pulls away, the bunnyboy is already squirming. "As flattered as I am that you think I only indulge in educational tomes, I have to remind you that I am still a man." He fucks in, and Aventurine squeaks. "I think of many things that don't involve my studies, and right now, I am thinking about how well you come apart when I fuck you."
It's obvious by the look on his face that Aventurine didn't expect him to respond the way he did, and Ratio grins as he leans back and puts a hand under the gamblers thigh to keep it pushed up. He fucks Aventurine with the drive of a man starved, and Aventurine's head is tossed back as he shrieks. "You do things to me, damned gambler." He admits.
"You come into my office flaunting your body and sexuality and expect me not to respond? Zero points." He slams against Aventurine's womb, and the bunnyboy's tail wags.
"Oh! I- fuck, right there, do that again- You always looked at me like, mmh~ Like you wanted to eat me!" The blonde gasps. "Like a starved wolf, and- ngghh!"
Ratio grinds his thumb against Aventurine's clit. "I was." He growls. "You made me this way, so take responsibility!" He circles his thumb around the throbbing bud, and Aventurine shrieks as he cums. Ratio's palm is soaked as he squirts, gasping and writhing against the pillows as if his body was unsure whether to pull away or push into the feeling.
"You've made a mess, dear gambler." Ratio coos. He slides out before Aventurine can realise what's happening, he puts the bunnyboy to lay on the bed on his back, then Ratio brings the lithe legs up to Aventurine's chest. He makes sure the ears are resting on the bed and not under in danger of being squushed before he pushes in.
"Muh-mating press..." Aventurine whimpers. "You gonna mate and-and breed me?"
Oh, that voice, so ruined and wrecked and pleasure-drunk, does Ratio in. His hips slap against Aventurine's ass as he fucks him ruthlessly. "I will mark you and fill you so that the entire cosmos knows you are mine." He tries to keep himself together, but Aventurine squeezes him and wails.
Again, he pops into Aventurine's womb with a groan, and he feels Aventurine squirt on him again.
Except when he looks down, he can tell it's not ejaculate, and while he's never been into watersports-
"Aeons, Aventurine!" He cums so hard his eyes roll back and he sees stars. He fills the gamblers womb again, panting as he lays Aventurine on the bed and lets his legs fall gently. The bunnyboy pants and whines when Ratio pulls out, but neither of them have the strength to move after everything. Ratio drags his boyfriend to a dry spot on the bed, then he collapses next to him.
Aventurine moves his hand to grab for Ratio's, and they sit in silence as they catch their breath for a moment. Aventurine speaks first. "You mean it?"
Ratio smiles softly. He doesn't need an explanation, he knows. The scholar lifts himself to give his boyfriend a kiss, smiling when Aventurine's tail can be heard wagging against the bed. "I love you, Aventurine."
"Kakavasha." The blonde smiles. "And I love you too, Veritas."