Kiss Me Once (SOC fanfic)

Kaz/Jesper drabble written for RareCrows Week: Day 7 (Kiss) (Rated T)

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kaz Brekker/Jesper Fahey, Inej Ghafa & Wylan Van Eck, background kaz brekker/inej ghafa - Relationship, background Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Eck Characters: Wylan Van Eck, Jesper Fahey, Kaz Brekker, Inej Ghafa Additional Tags: Polycrows - Freeform, rarecrows week 2022, Scene switching, Wynej treating themselves because they deserve it, Smut because Kazper deserve it, mlm, Fluff, Smut Summary:

Inej decides that she deserves a spa day with Wylan so she suggests that Kaz spends some time with Jesper.

If You Want a Partner, Take My Hand

Kaz envies Jesper. He envied Jesper the moment they met, both of them boys still. That envy was not the reason why he hired two sailors to beat the shit out of Jesper for his gambling debts so Kaz could offer him the safety of gang membership instead. Kaz would have still done the same if Jesper wasn’t so secure in his masculinity, if he didn’t wear whatever he liked even when he got mocked for it, if he didn’t let his collar gape open and welcome pursuit by men and women alike. Kaz never allows his private, shameful envy to affect any of his relationships, especially now that he basically runs the Dregs… but when he sees the ease with which Jesper acts, lives, exists as a man, he can’t help but yearn.

Jesper Fahey is the kind of man that Kaz never had a chance to become—even beyond the difficulty with touch—by a mere accident of biology.

He can stray from expectation as much as he wants: no one will deny him manhood.

Because he was born with a dick.

He had the good fortune to be born with the body Kaz wants, the body Kaz needs, to ensure that he, too, is respected without question as the man he knows himself to be. The man he is, just as much as Jesper. Instead, Kaz is forced to hide. Despite his authority, he must obfuscate his shape with shirts cut just the right side of baggy, must forestall challenge with violence that brooks no argument or question. His voice is the way it is, rough but not deep, and whoever mocks it dies. He has no beard, but as far as anyone else is concerned, that is his preference. It’s unfair—but then so is Ketterdam and the world and life itself—it’s unjust and annoying, the effort Kaz must devote in order to live life as himself, and yet Jesper…

Well, Jesper’s nothing but smoke-screens.

My humble addition to @rarecrows-week,  day 2 - joy Inej and Jesper enjoy a quiet moment together 🥰 I just think they deserve good things.

[Image ID: an incomplete digital drawing of Inej Ghafa and Jesper Fahey. It is colored with minimal shading. The background is a muted orange. Inej and Jesper face to the left. Inej sits upright with her back against a tree. She wears a grey shirt and dark pants. Jesper lays on his back on the grass, between Inej’s legs. He wears a green coat and has an arm folded over his stomach. There is a blue butterfly on Jesper’s forehead.]

a new kind of understanding

Matthias had expected Nina to laugh at him when he’d first said it. He had thought that, as she often did, she’d make light of his request. 

There had been more vulnerability in his chest when the words first came out, and he hadn’t known how to cope with it, with the fear it came with. All he’d known when he rolled over in bed to tell her, the dark holding him safely, was that the only way he’d been able to cope with her potential rejection of it was to assume the worst. She wouldn’t be angry, but she might have laughed. 

She hadn’t laughed. 

Nina had blinked, and been surprised – that much was obvious. Then she smiled with incurable fondness, then told him she loved him. 

Now he’s here.

There’s a split second before the study door in front of him opens, and it fills Matthias with a sharp prickle of anxiety. Should he have brought something? Flowers, perhaps, or wine? Homemade apple cookies, even, because that’s what his Mamma brought when she took him around to someone’s house with a request held sweetly behind her lips. He’s a houseguest already, he supposes, but nonetheless this is him stopping at someone’s doorway with a need for a favour and that means he likely shouldn't be empty handed. 

But he is empty handed, and the door is opening, and Matthias is faced with the fact that he is here and Jesper is there and truly, he isn’t a good enough liar to come up with a reason on the spot for his sudden appearance at his study door at eight bells, with the morning still slowly wakening around them.

Jesper blinks.

“Helvar,” he says. He doesn’t even seem wary, just surprised. “Didn’t expect to see you up and at ‘em for a while. Where’s the lady?”

“Still asleep,” Matthias says, truthfully. Nina is lavish in her every wish, most especially on those days off that see them travelling back to Ketterdam. Matthias understands, and is delighted for this to be something he can give her. 

“Okay,” Jesper says slowly. “Why are you here?”

• @rarecrows-week - Day 1: NEW

inspired by the iconic Anne Hathaway picture! thanks to the BOTB people for all the encouragement on the making of this drawing :) this one's for you @feelinglikecleopatra <3

Finally started writing on PC my drafts for the @rarecrows-week !

We’re so excited!! 🥳

35 weird au combo writing prompts

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DAY 1: New

DAY 2: Joy

DAY 3: Feel

DAY 4: AU

DAY 5: Remember

DAY 6: Words

DAY 7: Kiss