Midvalley = Wolfwood, Trigun, set gamma.
Fandom: Trigun
Pairing: Midvalley = Wolfwood
Theme set: Gamma
Rating: NC-17. Not worksafe. Additional warnings for non-vanilla gay sex in #19, #26, #41, and #50, and a very very bad pun in #48.
Primarily based on the Trigun Maximum manga by Yasuhiro Nightow. Anime-based or AU based sentences will be marked as such.
#01 - Ring: The gold rings and expensive clothes that Midvalley preferred hinted toward riches of which Wolfwood could only dream, making him want a glimpse into the world where his partner lived.
#02 - Hero: They were too far gone to be heroes, but, one had told the other, they could be free men, and that was all that mattered.
#03 - Memory: Nicholas D. Wolfwood placed a single red rose on the grave that now held the only other traitor to the Gung Ho Guns, unable to even form the word "goodbye," as he stood there in silence.
#04 - Box: Wolfwood remembered the bemused smile that had spread across Midvalley's normally emotionless face after their first night together, when he had asked for a doggie box for the room service.
#05 - Run: Sometimes, Wolfwood wished that he and Midvalley had decided to run away at the same time, wondering if together, they would have been able to survive.
#06 - Hurricane: The typhoon raging outside was entirely forgotten as they shared that first night together as lovers, because for all the awkwardness, it was the best night of Wolfwood's life so far, and one he would much more remember for the pleasure than for the storm.
#07 - Wings: Midvalley would occasionally trace the tattoos on Wolfwood's back with his finger as he slept, a slight shiver going down his own spine at the thought of how painful the creation of those angel wings on the Eye of Michael insignia must have been.
#08 - Cold: The three greatest pleasures of life for Wolfwood were hot cigarette smoke filling his lungs, cold booze, and the slowly waning warmth of the afterglow as he slowly settled from the heights to which Midvalley had taken him.
#09 - Red: With the red satin sheets and the candles Midvalley kept in his luggage, and often a lot of imagination, he and Wolfwood could see even the most dilapidated fleabag motel as a welcome retreat from their lives.
#10 - Drink: Watching Midvalley placing the glass to his lips, flicking out his tongue to taste the quality of the bourbon, and finally throwing back the entire shot in one swallow was enough to make Wolfwood feel as if he hadn't been fucked in weeks.
#11 - Midnight: On what would be their last night together, neither Midvalley nor Wolfwood had been able to sleep, staring at the clock with its hand on midnight, as the thought hit their minds that the countdown had started now, and there was no escape.
#12 - Temptation: "Don't talk to me about your morals," Midvalley had said that first night, "because you know we'll only leave with our lips burned," and the same words four years later evoked the memory once more.
#13 - View: There was something very interesting to Wolfwood about watching someone who possessed the self-assured arrogance and the lack of shame that seemed to combine in Midvalley's personality, someone who could make even the most mundane act seem charged with sexual meaning.
#14 - Music: Wolfwood was almost tone-deaf, and Midvalley's fingers were too long to manipulate a knife with any skill, yet he wanted to show interest, so he offered to teach Wolfwood a couple of songs in trade for learning how to whittle a wooden bird.
#15 - Silk: The clothes lie discarded in a pile on the floor by the bed, pink shirt made of fine silk and worn white shirt, finely tailored white suit and priest's black suit.
#16 - Cover: Midvalley said it was only casual sex, that their relationship meant nothing, yet when he had dived into the line of fire to protect the priest from a sniper, Wolfwood knew it meant more, he meant more than that.
#17 - Promise: The only promise Midvalley and Wolfwood had ever made to each other was that they would never betray each other, as long as they were together, and that was the only promise they needed.
#18 - Dream: It had been their dream once to escape together, to leave the Gung Ho Guns, but that dream had only become a reality for Wolfwood, as Midvalley had assumed that being drawn closer to the inner circle would give him his chance to leave.
#19 - Candle: Midvalley always said he would try anything once, but he was beginning to doubt the wisdom of ever saying that, as Wolfwood showed him handcuffs and hot candle wax.
#20 - Talent: Wolfwood couldn't determine which talent he admired more, whether it was the beautiful music Midvalley coaxed from that saxophone, or if it was how good he was in bed.
#21 - Silence: When they reunited after the Fifth Moon Incident, much more remained unsaid than had ever been before between them, yet soon enough, things were back to the way they had always been, and neither Midvalley nor Wolfwood would have it any other way.
#22 - Journey: Midvalley made sure to pick the assignments that required the most travel, because being out in the desert gave him the unmonitored time to be alone with Wolfwood that little else did.
#23 - Fire: There was something almost uncontrollable about the lust they felt for each other, something almost like an inextinguishable fire that burned away any thoughts of resisting, even of waiting or thinking about it.
#24 - Strength: Strength appealed to Wolfwood the most, as he wanted someone he knew he wouldn't break, someone with a strong will and strong body, someone he knew could understand what a monster he was and why he felt and did the things he did, and Midvalley had looked strong enough.
#25 - Mask: Midvalley wanted not to care when he'd heard that Wolfwood had slept with Vash, never mind that it was a betrayal so painful that he couldn't even find words for it, so he pretended he didn't know, pretended he didn't care, because if he seemed fine with it, he was.
#26 - Ice: Wolfwood had never thought that he'd ever want ice anywhere near his balls, but when Midvalley positioned a long ice chip between his lips and moved it almost as if it were a part of his tongue, he had enjoyed even the pain.
#27 - Fall: Little had brought Wolfwood closer to vomiting than when he had watched the bullets fly through Midvalley's chest, watching as Legato tried to reanimate his corpse long enough so he kept fighting, so he wouldn't fall dead and finally be released from his obligations.
#28 - Forgotten: No one ever bothered to lie flowers on the twisted metal, once his beloved saxophone, that now served as his grave marker, as the only man who would have cared to have done so was now lying in his own grave on the other side of the world, marked with the Punisher Cross and the occasional spray of red geraniums.
#29 - Dance: "I'll teach you to dance when my set's over," Midvalley had said as they drank at the bar, and although Wolfwood danced like he had two left feet, it would be one of his best memories of them, before anything or anyone else had barged in and changed everything.
#30 - Body: (anime universe, where Midvalley is beginning to age) Both Midvalley and Wolfwood preferred soft lighting, the kind in bars or in love hotel rooms, because it hid the imperfections both feared would cause rejection, as Wolfwood's surgical scars blended in with his tattoos or the natural appearance of his body, Midvalley's scars and the beginning evidence of aging faded, and it was just who they were, not how they looked.
#31 - Sacred: His mentor had told him to refrain from sex because his body was to be a pure temple not defiled by lust, yet Wolfwood found himself thinking that Midvalley treated his body with more reverence and love than the Eye of Michael ever had.
#32 - Farewells: Their second parting, when Vash had reappeared again two years after the Fifth Moon Incident, had been the worst, as this time, Midvalley knew, despite the plans he had made, the odds of his and Wolfwood's both surviving this time around and their reuniting in anything other than battle were even lower than they had been before, even lower than they would have been had they escaped while they could.
#33 - World: Neither had originally wanted to save the world, only to save themselves, and when Wolfwood began to be drawn toward Vash's ideas of saving everyone, it had caused Midvalley to become even angrier at both of the twins, as they had to be plotting together to destroy humanity.
#34 - Formal: They had no formal arrangement; none of the rings on Midvalley's hands meant he belonged to Wolfwood, and Wolfwood wouldn't have worn a ring on his finger if Midvalley had even offered one, yet their relationship, for that year before Wolfwood left, was one of the only constants in the always changing, ever dangerous world of being a Gung Ho Gun.
#35 - Fever: Midvalley knew the "miracle drug" of the Eye of Michael had probably saved Wolfwood's life from some of his worse injuries, but as he watched Wolfwood writhe in the throes of fever in that back-alley clinic, he wished he could throw out those vials, and could find someone, somewhere, who would be able to reverse what that merciless cult had done to him.
#36 - Laugh: "You're going to be the only one who gets out, aren't you," Midvalley had said as they finished yet another round of whiskey in some roadhouse far enough away from Knives and his pet slave that no one would hear them, and while he pretended to laugh, Wolfwood could tell that it was as fake as the snow lodge theme of the bar.
#37 - Lies: Midvalley lied that he was not being drawn in deeper by the Gung Ho Guns' promises of eventual freedom, and Wolfwood lied that he was not being drawn away by Vash, yet both could tell that it wouldn't be long before they would be separated, never to meet again in the world of the living.
#38 - Forever: Words like "forever" and "eternal" and all the others usually attached to "romance" never would apply to them, as both Wolfwood and Midvalley cherished the idea of their relationship being something that could be here today, gone tomorrow, something that must be special exactly because of its impermanence.
#39 - Overwhelmed: (AU, based on lilithisbitter's "Plants in the City") The snow fell in drifts between the domes of Grey City as Wolfwood walked, trying to support both Midvalley and that damn saxophone case he wouldn't leave no matter what for the few last steps toward the semi-safety of a capsule hotel for the night, wondering how he had ever got into the role of babysitter for a drug-addled musician.
#40 - Whisper: They could be words of love or words of anger, but whenever Wolfwood felt Midvalley's hot breath against his ear as he was drawn closer to hear something meant for him alone, it felt almost as if they had shared a deep kiss.
#41 - Wait: "Some say anticipation is the best aphrodisiac," Midvalley had said that first night they shared together, as he slowly licked his way down Wolfwood's back.
#42 - Talk: As they sat staring at the five moons from the car they had rented for their second assignment together, they talked about everything under the suns, and Wolfwood had been so surprised that Midvalley had wanted to hear him talk, instead of dismissing him as a slow-witted bumpkin for his accent alone.
#43 - Search: Neither Wolfwood nor Midvalley knew exactly what they were searching for in their relationship with each other, and both would never admit to looking for anything in each other aside from the sex, yet both wanted to find something they had never had and never could have.
#44 - Hope: It had been one week after the Fifth Moon incident when Wolfwood, unable to find Vash, had given up on searching for him, leaving Jeneaora Rock with Midvalley, hoping that six months hadn't been too long to rekindle the flames of desire.
#45 - Eclipse: Both Midvalley and Wolfwood knew that the likelihood of their surviving to the end of the twins' fight was almost as impossible as a dual eclipse of the suns, yet they still held in their hearts the hope it could happen.
#46 - Gravity: Life on this planet was like fighting gravity, Midvalley had once said, and as Wolfwood knew his own life was waning, he understood the truth of that statement, and now the sands were about to claim his dead body as well, finally, completely taking him away from Vash, just as they had taken Midvalley away from him.
#47 - Highway: One of the differences that had actually led to their fiercest arguments was that Midvalley liked driving cars to their assignments, and Wolfwood had preferred his motorcycle, yet they soon compromised when Midvalley had shown him all the things that could be done in a backseat of a car as compared to on a motorcycle.
#48 - Unknown: It had been Wolfwood's first attempt at "pitching," with all of the unknowns that entailed, but as Midvalley moaned his name beneath him, almost begging him to not stop, to go deeper, at least he didn't worry he wasn't good enough anymore.
#49 - Lock: "You know, you're gonna need a better lock on your door," Midvalley had said as he undressed the night they stayed at the orphanage, "unless you want Aunt Melanie getting the shock of her life about her Nicholas."
#50 - Breathe: Wolfwood breathed out as Midvalley pushed his clenched hand in deeper, feeling pressure within him as he took another deep breath, and he found his mind wandering for a second to how vulnerable he was lying there, unable to even grab for the gun in the nightstand, yet with the next breath, Midvalley's hand was against his prostate, and for a moment, he didn't care about anything else.
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