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[cousinshelley]

Things I Like
DNWs

Requests:

Evil
Prodigal Son
The Exorcist
Forever Knight



General likes:

• friendship, found families, loyalty and love whether it's sexual or not
• deep emotional connections and devotion
• third person POV
• people figuring things out together
• gray areas and difficult choices
• missing scenes and fix-its, as well as case-fic and plotty stories
• displays of affection and respect
• protectiveness and characters sacrificing their own comforts to help others
• dub-con in certain fandoms/pairings
• mutual pining with a happy ending, unrequited love finally realized
• hurt/comfort, especially things like one comforting another after a nightmare, tending wounds, caring for them when they're ill or injured, hovering after something traumatic and trying to take their mind off things
• oh my god there's only one bed and every other possible bedsharing scenario
• fake couple/marriage for whatever reasons to real romance
• forced proximity
• first kiss, first realization of feelings, first times
• humor, snark and banter, laughing and joking with each other
• I prefer flirting/pining/UST, getting there or first times rather than established relationship stories unless the characters are already couple in canon.
• happy endings

Smut Likes! I like sexytimes. I'm also perfectly happy to get a story that contains no sex at all or fade-to-black scenes. . I'm totally okay with any sex scenes you want to write being written with more generalities and less blow-by-blow anatomical detail. You can focus on the emotions more than the acts or body parts, and I will love it! Here's some relevant info if you'd like to write something explicit:

• I really prefer porn with feelings and emotional sex
• possessiveness and a little jealousy
• first times
• dubcon in some fandoms/pairings
• desperate, hungry kissing
• one or both partners overwhelmed with passion and feelings
• manhandling and displays of strength
• looking into each other's eyes while having sex and it almost being too much for one/both of them
• fake dating/marriage leading to sex as the characters realize their feelings
• up against the wall sex
• kneeling (especially for oral sex, but to kiss knees or thighs or anything like that, grand)
• penetrative sex, oral sex, fingers, frottage, rimming, mutual masturbation or one watching the other
• naked and half-naked or one clothed and the other naked, basically any combo of clothed/not clothed
• necking, petting, face and neck and body stroking, kissing and/or licking pretty much anywhere
• I really like up against the wall and one riding the other, especially if near the end the one on the bottom sits up and bounces the rider a lot more as things get intense, but any positions are fine
• thank god you're/we're alive sex
• bed-sharing or forced proximity that leads to romantic moments and/or sex
• one character being suddenly so overcome with feeling and desire for the other they kiss them and initiate things out of the blue, like they can't wait another second--love those big music swell moments
• bent over and fucked from behind
• hurt/comfort that leads to romantic things and/or sex
• light hair-pulling in the heat of the moment
• either partner sucking the other's finger
• one or both saying they need the other

DNWs

• anything pandemic-related (let's have it not exist please, no mentions, no masks, no distancing, no deaths).
• anything political or related to social justice or current events, including names of any RL people or public figures.
• AU (setting, A/B/O, genderswapping, etc.) but minor canon divergence to get non-canon couples together or see what happens if they go left instead of right are fine
• unhappy and otherwise bleak endings
• first and second person POV. I cannot get into it unless the canon is in first person or it's a fandom where journal entries and epistolary stories makes sense. I like those, so I'll point them out. Otherwise, I don't read them.
• unrequested ships and original major characters
• kidfic and pregnancy including mpreg
• unrequested gender identity or sexuality headcanons, a focus on gender identity or sexuality, teach-me-a-lesson fic
• surprise serious illness, character death, as well as cruelty to animals/animal death, infidelity, partner betrayal
• death of a requested character
• original character's outsider POV
• holiday stories, unrequested crack/parodies, unrequested crossovers
• non-traditional capitalization and punctuation, please use capital letters where appropriate and use quotation marks for speech. I have poor eyesight and reading something in all lower caps or with dashes for speech or something unusual is a lot harder than people with good vision might imagine

To clarify on the surprise serious illness, things like referencing canon trauma is fine but someone having a stroke or a life-threatening non-canon disease is a big no. Injuries are different. A character could get shot in something like a hurt/comfort or casefic scenario, things like broken bones, wounds (physical and mental) and even more minor injuries are fine as long as they'll heal.

Sex DNWs:

• non-con (though I often like the dubbiest of dubcon, depending on the fandom)
• underage
• characters calling each other daddy, baby boy/girl, slut, bitch, whore mommy or similar during sex
• sex toys, BDSM, fisting, insertions and things like edging, pain, torture, spitting, choking and hitting (unless it's a playful slap on the ass when they're really having fun or something or a dark context where it's meant to be bad/scary and it turns out okay)
• focus on bodily fluids or excretions, except sweat and tears (and blood where I mention it), come play or eating (in oral sex, swallowing is fine and I prefer that to the alternatives, but don't focus on the taste/texture, etc.) 
• Spitting. Enemas. Urine-related kinks.
• mpreg, pregnancy, oviposition or any other kinks along those lines involving eggs, inflations, dehumanization and extreme objectification, body horror-related sex stuff

Also, I just thought I'd put it out there that I'm not crazy about a lot of dirty talk during sex. A little bit is fine, and joking is always fine. A well-placed "fuck me" is also great, (or "fuck him/her" in a threesome or voyeur situation!) but ongoing dirty talk where one person is giving a running commentary of what's happening doesn't do it for me.

I'm also not a fan of constant "I love you"s and lots of baby and honey and stuff. I'd rather have subtlety than outright declarations about everything. I like characters saying "I love you" and saying sweet things to each other, but a little goes a long way and actions speak louder than words for me. And when it comes to sex, I'm much more concerned with how the characters are feeling about things than what's going where and who's doing what. 

JUMP TO:

Evil
Prodigal Son
The Exorcist
Forever Knight

Evil

David Acosta & Kristen Bouchard & Ben Shakir
David Acosta/Kristen Bouchard/Ben Shakir

Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics at Author's Discretion

I fell hard for this show. It has some genuinely creepy moments and themes, and characters that mesh so well together. I'm up for almost anything except a bleak ending with no hope. The story can be super dark, creepy, full-bore horror, but I'd prefer it not end dark or bleak. I like happy or at least hopeful endings.

Don't feel constrained by my prompts. Feel free to write something else!

• Canon-typical shenanigans with David, Kristen, and Ben would be great, whether missing scenes from the show or something new. I love the way they interact, period.
• This show is ripe with possibilities for the-devil-made-them-do-it scenarios. Kristen's act at the end of S1 is a prime example. What do Ben, David or Kristen do that they're manipulated into doing or possessed into doing that the others find out and have to fix, undo or protect that person from?
• I'd enjoy a post-S1 canon story too. (S2 is out now, but I'm always up for new directions.) What will David and Ben do? How will Kristen hide what's happening to her, and how long does it work before they find out? Do they have to exorcise her? (An exorcism and them covering up the murder would actually be awesome) Post-S2 (which is still ongoing at the time of this writing) would be great, too. 
• I chose both the & and / for these three, and I'll honestly enjoy either. If you opt for / it can be with or without actual sex. I like flirting, sexual tension, and heavy foreshadowing that they'll get together in the future, if you don't want to write sex. So no worries there!
• If you want to write sex, things can happen between them in a way that they think it's their idea but they're under some thrall like when David and Kristen were drugged out at the cult gathering, or it can be a sober sort of thing that spontaneously happens with the three of them. David's struggle with his celibacy and desires--I love that kind of thing, so feel free to lean in hard. 
• If you write sex, it can be 100% consensual or under-the-influence of something and I'll enjoy it either way. Just please make it natural and spontaneous with maybe a couple of questions at most about whether they want to do this or not or something, but no negotiations or rules or "formal" agreements, even if it's a stone-cold sober decision. No discussion at all would work, too. 
• I love dubcon, so it can be dubcon all day long, but please no outright noncon between these characters. However, one or more can feel guilty as if they nonconned one or both of the others, as long as that's resolved by the end. In a possession/manipulation situation, I also back off my DNW for rough things like hitting, choking, etc. As long as everybody enjoys it, however dubiously, and no permanent damage is done. 
• Along those lines, maybe they're influenced by demons or some force that thinks having them all together will destroy their relationships, but of course it has the opposite effect. The devil can think that some dubcon threesome where they double-team Kristen or where David or Ben has sex with the other is going to make them avoid each other, but joke's on you, bad guy, they secretly wanted it anyway, so there. 
• Maybe David and Kristen could be in another scenario like at the farm and Ben shows up, and that's how it happens. Maybe he shows up in that episode, the night David and Kristen first kissed, and things ensue. Any situation like that's going to be good by me.
• The three of them can also be together without any sex as long as there's some serious flirting going on and maybe the implication that things are going to happen between them eventually, whether they're influenced by something or not. Pig pile them any which way. And of course the three of them in & relationships is good, too!
• David's mushroom trips are a source of fascination for me. And I'm fine if they all, or two of the three, get dosed and either get sexy with each other or reveal shippy feelings to each other, or have some epiphanies about spiritual things or a case specifically, depending on where you want to take things.

By the way, I don't expect any other characters than the ones nominated, but if you want to throw some in, be my guest. My least favorite characters are Sheryl and Leland, and I'm still okay if they show up. (I love to hate Leland and feel horrified by Sheryl, so there's that.) Andy could appear too, if you want.

Also, even if I hadn't loved this show as much as I did, it would have been worth watching to discover Ben Shakir. First of all, I think Aasif Mandvi is both adorable and sexy as hell, and I've thought so since I first saw him on The Daily Show probably 15 years ago now. So as long as Ben's well-represented in whatever you write, I'm going to enjoy it.

I love him so much that even though I typically DNW kidfic, if you're moved to write Ben with Kristen's kids around or in the background or even as key characters (though they're not nommed), I'm game. I mean the whole Ben the Magnificent thing and how much those kids loved him and he loved and tried to protect them in return was an unexpected joy for me, so indulge yourself if you want to write a story involving that. I also really, really love his relationship with Karima, at least the tiny bit we got to see, so if you want to toss her in and develop their sibling bond/rivalry/bitchy arguments, go forth and do your thing!

Basically, throw anyone in you want, if you're so moved to, but I don't expect you to! David and Kristen are both sexy, smart and vulnerable in a way I adore in a character. Ben's my favorite, but I love them too. It'll be difficult for you to go wrong in any story with these three together. 

Prodigal Son

Gil Arroyo & Malcolm Bright & Ainsley Whitly & Jessica Whitly & Martin Whitly
Malcolm Bright/Edrisa Tanaka
Malcolm Bright & Martin Whitly
Malcolm Bright

Fanfic: 1 x 10000-Word Fic OR 2 x 5000-Word Fics at Author's Discretion

I will never get tired of Malcolm/Edrisa getting together fics, just so you know. Hard to go wrong, there. I'm also fine with Malcolm being shipped with Dani or (Vijay!), but no one else, please. I'd love a finale fix-it, whether it's Malcolm not turning Martin in, Martin not doing what he did, and therefore Malcolm not ending up stabbing him, a different scenario that makes it all okay (or at least little more messed up than before). I could read Malcolm and Martin roadtripping for days.

 

I'd love to see, in any time period, the dynamics between Gil, Jess, Malcolm and Ainsley, and how Martin deals with it or just the shadow of him there (I realize how difficult to have all of them in such a story). I'd also enjoy a story with Malcolm, Gil, Dani, J.T, Edrisa or any combo with Malcolm handing a case. Malcolm and Gil alone would be great, too. I love Gil's surrogate father role so much, so the more of that the better. 

  Since I also request Malcolm Bright as a lone character, if you want to write a Malcolm/Dani or Malcolm/Vijay, I'd love those, too. I already have some prompts from previous exchanges I'll include just in case you're leaning toward either of those. Malcolm and Martin can be almost anything. Malcolm trying to solve a case with his help (obviously pre-escape) with the episode-typical flashbacks to his childhood, a serious of visits and conversations, a post-escape road-trip that pretends it didn't end the way it did. 

I'll enjoy a story with Gil and the Whitlys (with or without Martin physically present or as a shroud over everthing). I love Gil's surrogate fatherhood and his love for Jessica so much. 

I'd even enjoy a story about Malcolm in the FBI without any of the other characters (though a phone call or two would be nice). Him dealing with life before he saw Martin again and how he handled it would be interesting. 

Prodigal Son-specific DNWs: Referencing Malcolm's canonical trauma is perfectly fine, encouraged even because hurt/comfort is my jam, but please no references to the fanon sexual abuse such as Malcolm/Martin or Malcolm/Paul Lazar.

Please no Malcolm/Martin, Malcolm/Gil, Malcolm/Ainsley or anyone not listed as okay to pair him with.

If you set the story near the end of season one, you can pretend Eve was never a thing or reference their relationship as you please. I don't care either way, but I'd rather not get an entire Malcolm/Eve story. (If you want to save her, though, more power to you. I ended up really liking Eve and thought she got a shitty deal.)

Also, please no post-series Martin-is-dead stories. I'd rather avoid the end of that last episode. I don't mind post-series canon divergence where they take off together, even if Malcolm's struggling with his conscience and what to do, or Martin simply getting arrested again and things going back the way they were (or different as long as they still have contact). But please, not that last stabbing. 

Don't feel constrained by my prompts. Feel free to write something else!

Malcolm/Edrisa 

• Edrisa and Malcolm bond over a crime scene or autopsy and maybe with their heads together peering at a wound or a photo or something, Malcolm turns his face and realizes how easy it would be to kiss her at that moment, and things (whether a romantic bonding moment or more) ensue (in the office, not next to the dead body, because Edrisa has too much respect for the dead, I think).
• He invites her over to look at his weapons (or she invites him to look at some medical stuff she's collected or something) and at some point can't believe he's been only looking at her as a colleague all this time.
• Edrisa is taken hostage by someone, maybe from a case they're working on, and Malcolm talks him down to save her. Maybe Malcolm's the one who recognizes how shaken she is and invites her home where comforting, comfort sex or thank god youre alive sex can happen (after appropriate non-sexual caring gestures, of course). Maybe she doesn't want to be alone and he doesn't think she should be alone, so he lets her sleep in his bed while he watches over her, and she's restless or having a nightmare so he gets into the bed to hold her. Sex or not, your choice. Let me double stress that I will be just happy with non-sexual romantic and/or shippy things for all of my prompts/fandoms.
• Malcolm and Edrisa get trapped together in a relatively small space, maybe she needs some comfort so he holds her and they get closer.
• For this and any other Malcolm pairing, discussion about his father or his childhood, or anything involving his past, leads his hand to shake and him to obviously be disturbed. The one he's with can take his hand to stop his shaking, and things move on from there (or that can be the pinnacle romantic moment, of course!).

Malcolm/Dani

• I'd love any scenario where Dani has to comfort him, whether she goes to his loft for some reason and catches him in a nightmare, or she rescues him from some situation like when he was kidnapped.
• Dani comforting him at any point would be great, or he can comfort Dani. She hasn't exactly had a charmed life. Maybe one of their face-full of drugs scenarios makes her crave a high again and Malcolm stays with her until she's out of the woods again and over the craving hump.
• They can be trapped together, either by a bad guy or circumstance, and have nothing to do but wait to be rescued. Flirting, confessions, character-building conversations on up to sexytimes, and I'm fine with it.
• Malcolm and Dani have to go undercover as a couple and this leads to revelation of feelings. Bedsharing can be part of it and lead to sexy things. I'm always down for oh no there's only bed whatever shall we do? scenarios (as well as Dani getting into the bed with him to calm him down after a nightmare).
• Malcolm slips up and references something that happened between them in his hallucinated happy place with her and Dani won't let him go until he admits what happened while he was knocked out, and things move on from there. Maybe he's under the influence of something (which seems to happen a lot, poor guy) and talks to her about it, telling her everything, forgetting it was his secret.

 Malcolm/Vijay
  

• After Vijay drives the car back into the warehouse and helps save the day, what happens? He and Malcolm are both hopped up on adrenalin, maybe they go back to Malcolm's loft to reconnect and talk old times and this leads to shippy and/or sexy things.
• They reconnect at any point during or after the episode and talk about darker things, why they drifted apart, how hurt Vijay was at Malcolm's withdrawal. Comfort in the form of hugging, or kissing and hugging, or more is all perfectly fine with me!
• Maybe Malcolm reveals his crush and how he wasn't sure Vijay returned it at the time, and hey, turns out he felt the same.
• Hints that one or both (preferably both) have been pining all this time would be most welcomed!
• Malcolm/Vijay is sort of an exception to my DNW of pet names. He does call Malcolm "baby boy" in the show, so him calling Malcolm that is a-ok with me, but please not in the middle of sex. Leading up to it, though, particularly during some flirting beforehand or just flirting in general, it'd be totally fine. And of course it's fine in general conversation the way it was done on the show.
• Feel free to throw them into another case-related scenario after the episode that brings them closer together. Does Malcolm end up taking Vijay to see his Martin for some reason? That could be super interesting. Would Martin assume they're dating and say things like that, would he be jealous and show it so that Vijay might have to assert himself where Malcolm's concerned? Lots of possibilities.

Gil & Malcolm & Ainsley & Jessica & Martin

Again, you have my full permission to not include everybody. It'd be great if you could, but logistically Martin isn't going to fit in some stories, as an example. Gil & Malcolm and any one of the others would be enough if all of them is a tall order, no worries! I also ship Gil/Jessica, so including any of that would be fine by me. 

• Any scenes from when they were kids and Gil obviously started coming around a lot would be great.
• Malcolm canonically didn't speak for a long time after Martin was arrested, and was obviously suffering a lot. I like the idea that maybe Gil was the reason he started speaking again, or a combination of Gil and Ainsley. I'd love to see Gil helping through the trauma with Ainsley right there too, of course, not understanding a lot of what's being said. Maybe Ainsley did something that might hurt her like go to play with a candle or dash into the street and Malcolm had to shout to save her, and Gil was there to pick up the pieces after that breakthrough? 
• I'd like to see Gil interacting with them when they're teenagers or young adults, too. Birthday parties or catching them in the park when he's on his beat and talking to them. Anything really, from something dangerous or angsty to lighthearted stuff. 
• Malcolm and Ainsley's relationship either when they were growing up or in present day. Malcolm has been portrayed as a protective older brother, always telling her things would be okay, so him being protective of her as they grew up is a favorite thing of mine. But I like their adult relationship a lot, too. How did they keep in touch while he worked for the FBI? What things did she tell him about her life and relationships that she never told her mother?
• Now that Ainsley has killed to protect her family, and then some, how is Malcolm reframing a lot of things his sister said and did over the years? I'd love to read about him reexamining everything and trying to figure out when things changed, or he and Gil doing this together. I can see him wondering if his obsession with murder caused it, or if they truly can't escape their legacy, or if something else might have happened to her he doesn't know about to cause it.
• I'd love to see a scenario in S2 where Gil somehow finds out what Ainsley did and confronts Malcolm or both of them about it. I want him willing to keep quiet and protect them if needed, because Gil would. I like the idea of Gil helping keep Malcolm together since Ainsley doesn't seem currently worried about him.

I love everyone in this bar. Mix and match as you like as long as Malcolm's in the story. 
 

The Exorcist

Marcus Keane/Tomas Ortega
Marcus Keane/Tomas Ortega & Devon Bennett
Marcus Keane/Tomas Ortega & Mouse & Devon Bennett

I love that Marcus and Tomas are both flawed but strong and fit so well together, as friends and brothers in arms, and in my view the UST screams out of the TV. I do want more than friendship, hence the /, but sex isn't required for me to be all heart-eyes about it. I don't care whether you choose S1 or S2 or go post-canon, with a new take on something that's already happened or a brand new situation altogether.

 

I'm always up for them saving Bennett post S-2. Lord, somebody save Devon Bennett. But if he's still the longsuffering advisor to them at any point previously, that would also be great.

 

What I'd like most is to maintain that kind of thing that shows their friendship and devotion, and the more hand-clasping and nape-touching you can get in there, the better. And if you want to get them to sex, by all means, but I think there'd be a desperation and spontaneity to it rather than some planned or negotiated thing.

Fandom-specific DNW: Don't make god a hero in the story. No divine intervention that saves the day, please. And no Marcus/Tomas/Devon or anybody else.

Prompts for ideas, but feel free to write something else!

• Marcus doesn't leave Tomas at the end but stays to help him through what will surely be some post-demon PTSD. Okay, I want there to be post-demon PTSD, not sorry. The hurt/comfort is strong with these two.
• I love nightmares and the hurt caused by them especially when there's someone close to by to offer comfort afterward. A dream or series of them where first-season dark Marcus is whispering things in Tomas' ear would be good, too. Or possessed-Marcus does it when awake, and it can lead to some sort of seduction or not, dubconny in the no-no-yes vein or not (but no non-con). How would they deal with it afterward? Even a situation where it almost happens but doesn't is ripe for some great introspection and character/relationship stuff.
• I really like the idea of one or the other having those intense dreams where the other menaces them in the sexiest of ways, and each night the dreams escalate, and they start to have trouble separating reality from their dreams when they wake up so they might do or say things that would not be forward with the dream other but are unexpected in real life, and the one not affected has to suss out what's going on.
• If god could convince Marcus that loving someone and expressing that through sex wouldn't make him less an exorcist, that'd be really great. Tomas might point out that he'd know if that were evil with his newfound skills and all.
• Just about anything--post-exorcism conversation and comfort (I loved the bar scene at the end of season 1), navigating each other's spaces, a story about something they did together between S1 and S2, investigating the church.
• Any hurt/comfort scenario, expansion on any episode from either season, or any situation where one or the other is possessed and fighting it to keep from hurting the other and has to be exorcised. I truly love that stuff.
• A lighter story that involves Marcus teaching Tomas his ways, maybe with Tomas messing up quite a lot, and them not entirely exhausted all the time or in danger would be great, too. As long as there's obvious shippy affection between them, even if they're both fighting it, and lots of touching and standing far too close together, I'm down.
• I love Devon Bennett and his relationship to both of them. His relationship with Marcus especially is so affectionate he can't even hide it when he's furious or exasperated. More of that.(And honestly, I like him yelling at Marcus, so if you write him, let him give a good righteous well-earned holler at Marcus least once.)
• An episode-like plot where they have to exorcise someone and Bennett is there to help would be fantastic.
• Maybe post-show Marcus never leaves or goes back to Tomas (with or without Mouse) and together they find Bennett and save him. I know he's integrated but maybe he can be an exception and get saved. It can be done! I like the idea that in the course of an exorcism lots of Bennett's past with Marcus comes out and gets used against them like things said in anger or the demon trying to convince Marcus and Tomas things that aren't true like how Bennett feels about them or him sabotaging them with the church or something. It would also be difficult for Bennett because he has the memory of killing at least one person we know of in the hospital.
• Maybe Bennett, possessed and fighting it enough to function somewhat normally most of the time, joins them to help with something while they figure out how to save him from integration.
• Maybe pre-s2 ending Bennett's there to help save one of them, whether through an exorcism or some other scenario, like one kidnapped by the demonically possessed or trapped in a situation like the showdown with the demon inside Angela Rance. Any hurt scenario really, supernatural or not.
• Or either Tomas or Marcus hurt and in the hospital--I'm amazed most of the show wasn't one of them recuperating in a hospital bed, frankly--and Bennett is there comforting the other while they wait and just being a good friend (I love him, so anything he's in will be great).
• I also chose all of them with Mouse as a tag. I love Mouse, but much like the show, I don't always know where to put her or what to do with her. If you want her around to help save Bennett, or help after the last episode or even sometime prior, I'm all for it. 

Any season, any scenario and any character you might want to toss in are fine with me!

Forever Knight

Nicholas Knight/Lucien LaCroix
Nicholas Knight/Lucien LaCroix/Janette DuCharme
Nicholas Knight/Lucien LaCroix & Natalie Lambert & Don Schanke

I would love anything with any of these characters as long as the relationship between Nick and LaCroix is more than casual. They don't have to have sex for that, but sexual tension, touching more than usual, gestures, a kiss, things like that please. Just what was on the show is fantastic, but I'd like it all a skosh more obvious. Of course, sex is perfectly great, too.

I'm a diehard Nick/LaCroix gal, but I also really favor Janette/Nick/LaCroix, particularly in the earliest days of Nick's immortality before he became quite as resistant to his new nature. While canonically Nick and Janette were a couple for quite a long time, I like to think they were a threesome for at least some of that, or at least occasionally, and that Nick and LaCroix (and probably LaCroix and Janette) had their own private relationship, as well. I see LaCroix as far too possessive to leave them be and not be involved for too long.
 

If we matched on just Nick/LaCroix, set it anytime. If we matched on the threesome, also feel free to choose any time period previous to Janette's disappearance in S3. I'd love something set when Nick was a new vampire, or a new look at his seduction to become one. Sex in the blood of our enemies? Vampires in an ecstatic post-feeding orgy? Why yes, thank you very much.

  

I'll be just as happy whether you choose to explore a moment between Nick and LaCroix alone or one between all three of them. While I mentioned I prefer first times to established relationship, this is an exception. You can explore a first time with LaCroix or him with LaCroix and Janette both, or pick a time later when they've already been together, maybe for years.

Prompts for ideas, but feel free to write something else!

• A casefic or any kind of story set with Nick/Lacroix as a focal point that also has plenty of Nat and Schanke in it would also be a joy..
• Right after Nick was brought across, it'd be fun to see his first time in a threesome and probably his first time with a man as part of that.
• I'm really taken with the idea of Nick coming untouched just from maybe being fed on/feeding from LaCroix (or being fed on by one or both of them as part of their first encounter, or one in the future)
• When he still reveled in being a vampire, the sex while covered in his own blood/sex while covered in the blood of their enemies would be great.
• Two or three of them hunt together and have celebratory sex after feeding, or they're attacked by people who don't know they're vampires, so there are injuries and blood, and they can dispatch their attackers and have sex while healing.
• Nick/LaCroix set later after Nick has tried to get away from him would be great for makeup sex or let's forget we hate each other long enough to have sex. Maybe LaCroix catches up to him without being a bastard about it for once, Nick is lonely and despairing that he'll ever change his life, and LaCroix knows just what he needs. Makeup sex would work well for the early days of Nick's immortality, too. He messes up a hunt, drains someone LaCroix wanted to feed on, screws up in some way, they fight about it, and then make up in a sexy way.
• I really like the idea of, not necessarily the first time but an early encounter, where they basically make a LaCroix sandwich with Janette and Nick doing everything they can to pleasure him, the more worshipful the better. (A Nick or Janette sandwich would be good, too, but there's something about both LaCroix' protégés going to town on him that really appeals. If Janette's the filling, be sure they touch each other and do things to each other, too. MMF more than MFM, please.
• Given the supernatural basis of the show, something like an aphrodisiac curse or a sex pollen situation would work pretty well. Maybe Nick gets dosed and it's up to LaCroix or LaCroix and Janette to get him through.
• Nick or LaCroix licking a line of blood off the other's face and mouth. Yes, please.
• I'm also really fond of the idea that their mental bond would allow LaCroix to make Nick feel certain things even when they're physically nowhere near one another. He could reach through that bond and arouse him, either just by thinking things or touching himself and letting Nick feel that pleasure. 

Nick/Lacroix & Natalie & Schanke

• I'm all for fun and friendly times between Nick, Nat and Schanke as long as at some point LaCroix shows up and there's at least good tension between him and Nick, if not more. Maybe a case they're working on interests LaCroix or Nick goes to him for help or something. 
• Something could happen to Nat or Schanke and LaCroix knows how to help/fix it but gets a promise from Nick that he'll spend time with him before he does it. A little extortion between friends. 
• Somehow, an actual vampire cure is discovered, but it's one of a kind, and ends up in Nick's hands. Before he can take it (and I'd love him to be indecisive when it comes down to it), Schanke is turned by some rogue vampire. He thinks he's dying, not realizing what's happening, but Nick has to use the one-of-a-kind cure to keep Schanke from becoming a vamp, and the consequences of all that, particularly with LaCroix. 
• Set during Black Buddha, the sole survivor of the crash is Don Schanke (or two can survive if you want to save Cohen, too). He was thought to be dead, but he's discovered alive when they're transporting bodies. He's not a vampire but was supernaturally saved as a favor to Nick (maybe by LaCroix who was owed a favor by someone who could pull off such a thing, in a generous moment). What happens? Survivor's guilt and trauma is fine, but let him recover. And what happens between Nick and LaCroix when Nick discovers why Schanke survived.  
• Let Schanke figure it out and remember. He knows Nick's a vampire, and he knows that Natalie knows, and he learns that LaCroix is the one who turned Nick originally. Let him be his hilarious self with the occasional serious moment, and show what happens as they continue working together. Learning how close he came previously to being a vampire's dinner at the Raven would be a great moment once he knows the truth. 

 

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