FAKE Ficlet: From Lust To Love
Title: From Lust To Love
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: During the manga.
Summary: Dee started out lusting after Ryo, but now his feelings for his partner have deepened. The trouble is, Ryo doesn’t believe him.
Word Count: 559
Written For: templefugate’s prompt ‘Any, any, the difference between love and lust,’ at comment_fic.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
Dee had been all about the lust from the first moment he’d met Ryo. It wasn’t unusual; he’d always been better at lust than relationships, and Ryo was worth lusting after. The problem was, at a time when what he was feeling had begun to develop beyond wanting to enjoy his partner’s body just for the pleasure of it, he’d stupidly mentioned lust to Ryo and found himself casually shot down.
“You are what you are.”
Stupid! Now Ryo was never going to believe Dee wanted more than to get in his pants. Way to shoot yourself in the foot, Laytner!
Lust had gotten Dee in more trouble than anything else over the course of his life, not that he was complaining. He didn’t regret giving in to his desires on any of those occasions, despite the consequences. But he was older now, had finally met someone he could see himself settling down with, someone he wanted more from than just a casual friends with benefits deal, and he’d blown it.
Ryo was skittish enough as it was, not the kinda guy to just fall into bed with someone, and all Dee had done was confirm what his partner already believed about him, that he was a hornball who was only after one thing.
Even a year ago that would have probably been true, but not anymore. Just spending time with Ryo, getting to know him, had changed Dee, hopefully for the better, but how could he make Ryo see that?
Life had been so much easier when he was ruled by lust, when he hadn’t thought beyond getting the object of his desires into bed. Lust was uncomplicated, easily satisfied, if only temporarily, and required little effort. Love was a very different animal. Love took work, and patience, and time. It took commitment too, that was why Dee had always shied away in the past, preferring to satisfy his physical needs with willing partners while never getting in too deep.
But now he was totally out of his depth, because while he could easily find someone to sleep with, the only one he wanted was Ryo, who was still insisting he wasn’t interested.
Love hurt. Not just in the physical, not getting laid way, either. There was an ache inside Dee’s chest that wouldn’t go away, because his heart was invested in someone who treated his declarations of love as a joke.
‘Sucks to be me.’
How was he going to undo the mess he’d made and convince Ryo that he wasn’t joking? Dee had no idea, but he’d have to think of something soon, some way to prove that Ryo was more to him that a pretty face and a sexy bod. Maybe if he eased off on the pouncing for a while, showed Ryo he was interested in more than his partner’s body…
Whatever he did, it wasn’t going to be easy, because loving someone didn’t magically make the lust go away. The two emotions twined themselves inextricably together until they couldn’t be separated, physical desire and emotional need, tied together with a big, red bow.
Ryo might not know it yet, but he already had Dee, heart, mind, and soul as well as body, everything he was and everything he ever hoped to be. All he wanted was for Ryo to feel the same way.
The End
Fandom: FAKE
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, Ryo.
Rating: PG-13
Setting: During the manga.
Summary: Dee started out lusting after Ryo, but now his feelings for his partner have deepened. The trouble is, Ryo doesn’t believe him.
Word Count: 559
Written For: templefugate’s prompt ‘Any, any, the difference between love and lust,’ at comment_fic.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
Dee had been all about the lust from the first moment he’d met Ryo. It wasn’t unusual; he’d always been better at lust than relationships, and Ryo was worth lusting after. The problem was, at a time when what he was feeling had begun to develop beyond wanting to enjoy his partner’s body just for the pleasure of it, he’d stupidly mentioned lust to Ryo and found himself casually shot down.
“You are what you are.”
Stupid! Now Ryo was never going to believe Dee wanted more than to get in his pants. Way to shoot yourself in the foot, Laytner!
Lust had gotten Dee in more trouble than anything else over the course of his life, not that he was complaining. He didn’t regret giving in to his desires on any of those occasions, despite the consequences. But he was older now, had finally met someone he could see himself settling down with, someone he wanted more from than just a casual friends with benefits deal, and he’d blown it.
Ryo was skittish enough as it was, not the kinda guy to just fall into bed with someone, and all Dee had done was confirm what his partner already believed about him, that he was a hornball who was only after one thing.
Even a year ago that would have probably been true, but not anymore. Just spending time with Ryo, getting to know him, had changed Dee, hopefully for the better, but how could he make Ryo see that?
Life had been so much easier when he was ruled by lust, when he hadn’t thought beyond getting the object of his desires into bed. Lust was uncomplicated, easily satisfied, if only temporarily, and required little effort. Love was a very different animal. Love took work, and patience, and time. It took commitment too, that was why Dee had always shied away in the past, preferring to satisfy his physical needs with willing partners while never getting in too deep.
But now he was totally out of his depth, because while he could easily find someone to sleep with, the only one he wanted was Ryo, who was still insisting he wasn’t interested.
Love hurt. Not just in the physical, not getting laid way, either. There was an ache inside Dee’s chest that wouldn’t go away, because his heart was invested in someone who treated his declarations of love as a joke.
‘Sucks to be me.’
How was he going to undo the mess he’d made and convince Ryo that he wasn’t joking? Dee had no idea, but he’d have to think of something soon, some way to prove that Ryo was more to him that a pretty face and a sexy bod. Maybe if he eased off on the pouncing for a while, showed Ryo he was interested in more than his partner’s body…
Whatever he did, it wasn’t going to be easy, because loving someone didn’t magically make the lust go away. The two emotions twined themselves inextricably together until they couldn’t be separated, physical desire and emotional need, tied together with a big, red bow.
Ryo might not know it yet, but he already had Dee, heart, mind, and soul as well as body, everything he was and everything he ever hoped to be. All he wanted was for Ryo to feel the same way.
The End