Equilibrium (Vexxieverse Series - Part 5)

Pt 2. - And a Bottle of Wine (H)

Harry
April

This was going better than Harry had expected and exactly how Louis had predicted.

With a hand clamped on the back of Niall's neck, Louis leaned in by his cheek. "You were asked to only say 'yes' or 'no' when the Mistress asked you a question. Yet you said, what was it? Oh yes. 'Harry, oh fuck?"

Niall scowled and looked down at the floor.

"Now, the new rules are that you may speak. If you disobey her again, there will be consequences. Do you understand?" Louis let his eyes burn into Niall so that he'd feel them, even if he was looking away.

Niall nodded, so Louis unraveled the gag and tossed it away. "Sorry, Mistress."

"Good boy," Louis said with a squeeze, then nodded to Harry to continue the scene.

"Thank you, my love," Harry smiled at Louis, then at Niall with a playful warning to his eye. "I'm expanding on Niall's idea of getting to know each other a little better today. I thought we could do some trust building and revisit some of your Yellows. Zayn is off to a great start by agreeing to sub, so let's start with him." Harry and Louis both moved to Zayn, and he wasn't sure which of them to look at.

"Harry challenged her Yellow today by showing you all this side of her, and I think we all won, didn't we?" Louis smirked. He held a hand out to Zayn and helped him to his feet. "Everyone stand. Now I happen to know that Zayn hates to sub because," Louis's face grew serious when he looked to Zayn. "Baby, may I tell them? I won't if you don't want me to."

Zayn frowned and looked at the ground, but he nodded.

Harry wanted to do this because they were reaching a new level of trust as a single unit of five and they'd all agreed to start breaking down some of the walls they'd built around themselves over the years. They all had different challenges, but it was important that they could rely on each other equally and not couple off. This would be an important step in their OT5 relationship.

Harry silently directed Liam and Niall to stand by the headboard on either side of the bed while Louis spoke. They looked confused, but quietly obeyed. Niall had learned his lesson.

Louis gestured toward the bed. "Alright, love. Remember your colors. Lay on the bed for me, face up." Louis moved to stand on Liam's side and Harry was beside Niall. "See, Zayn has always been gorgeous. And because of that, he's always been under a microscope."

Harry took Zayn's wrist and placed it beside his head and Louis did the same on the other side. Zayn looked between the two of them, trying to figure out what they were doing and decide if he needed to freak out or not. Louis had explained to Harry prior that Zayn could be a good sub, but he usually had to talk himself into that headspace beforehand. He hadn't had time to do that yet, though.

"There were a lot of jealous people in our high school, desperate to find any flaw they could in Zayn because all the jock's girlfriends were always after him. And you know Z. He never engaged with anyone, which just made them want him more. These girls were so desperate for his attention." Louis looked at the subs. "Boys, we need you to hold down his arms since we don't have a headboard to tie him to. Don't let him up, he's gonna fight you."

"Why? Why am I going to fight?" Zayn turned his head to Louis.

"Liam, you OK to do this for me? I know he's usually your Dom, so it's OK if you don't want to." Harry asked.

As a switch, Harry didn't struggle with mixing up the dynamics, but that didn't mean it was that simple for the others. Even Niall struggled to flow between the roles sometimes, and he was a switch, too. But Liam was all sub and Zayn was 98% Dom (like Louis).