Fierrochase smut stories

Camping pt. 2

"Are you sure this is the right direction, Chase? We are kind of having to do some bush-whacking here." Alex complained, yet again, while pushing tall grass and vines away from the path. Small scratches formed on his arms from the burrs and sharp plants, right next to the mosquito bites.

"Have a little faith in me, while you, Fierro?" Magnus led the way, barely getting a scratch on him.

"It's just that I didn't expect the campsite to be so far into the woods."

"Well, then it wouldn't be a true nature experience, would it? Plus, we're already here. I told you it wasn't far."

"We must have different definitions of fa-," Alex got caught off when he stepped into the clearing. It was just big enough for a two-person tent, a campfire ring, and space to lay out and relax. A near-perfect circle of trees enclosed the short plush grass, almost as if this area was man-made and tended to, but instead it felt natural. It was in fact a great spot for a true nature experience.

"It's nice to be on the other end of the gawping-expression spectrum," Magnus remarked.

He set down his pack and pulled out the tent. Alex squatted down next to him, grabbing some poles and hooking them together. They were the kind of poles that were already tethered together, just to make things easier.

"Huh, this isn't so bad. The people I camped with before I died didn't have tents, so we just strung up a fort with blankets and twigs. This'll be a lot nicer. But I thought these things were supposed to be difficult to put together."

"Not really, you just hook the poles together, stick them into the corner hooks, and use the hooks on the top to lift the tent up. See? This end goes at this corner, and you can get the one on the other side."

Alex grabbed onto the pole, pushing it down and back to reach the hook, when suddenly the tension was let free and it snapped back at him and whacked right above his left eye, knocking off his sunglasses.

"OW!" Alex covered his eyes with his hands, cradling his face.

"Are you okay?" Magnus rushed to his side. Being a healer, it was second-nature for him to do so, but he did genuinely want to make sure Alex was okay.

"Geez, I had it in there. I don't know why that happened." He uncovered his face, his left eye tearing-up and squinting because of the impact. The red veins appearing in the white of the eye really made the pale amber color stand out, especially in contrast to the right eye's dark brown.

I'll never get over those pretty eyes, Magnus thought, quickly chiding himself for blushing.

Magnus inspected the damage. The sharp end of the tent pole left a superficial scratch up to the eyebrow, a bruise already forming.

"Stop smirking," Alex retorted. "It's embarrassing."

"I'm not smirking." Magnus's heart warmed a little realizing that Alex would actually admit to being embarrassed in front of him. "It's nothing bad. It just might get a bit bruised and you probably don't want to spend a camping weekend with a black-eye. Here," Magnus reached his hand out to touch Alex's face and heal the wound. Instinctively, Alex flinched back.

"It's okay, Alex. I'm not going to see any memories if it's a small wound." Magnus waited for approval this time. Only later would he reconsider if Alex flinched because he didn't want to share memories or if being touched after a black eye brought back bad recollections of the past.

"Oh, yeah. Sorry. Go ahead." Alex sat up straighter and Magnus's hand cupped the side of his face.

Even though it was a hot day, they could both feel the warmth of Magnus's power flow through them. Magnus remembered the light scratches on Alex's arms from the plants, so he made sure the power healed them to, even though it tends to heal everything at once anyway. It took only a few seconds, but they both stared at each other in the meantime. Magnus loved to look at those heterochromia eyes, the daylight tended to make them more contrasted.

"See? All back to normal. Well, as normal as your face can get. Take that how you want it." Magnus smirked, just like he does when he thinks he cracked a good joke. He pulled his hand back and turned to finish setting up the tent.

Alex sat for a split second longer to let heartbeats slow down and to stop inwardly blushing. Don't blush, don't blush, don't blush, was all Alex could think through that experience. Snap out of it before you seem awestruck and he wins. He stood up.

"Yeah, I'll just let you finish with that. And I take it as a compliment. Normal, yuck." Alex said, again sticking his tongue out at the end.

A few minutes later, Magnus had finished with the tent and Alex had gotten dinner ready. Their dinner consisted of pre-made peanut butter and honey sandwiches, courtesy of Samirah.

"I have to be honest," Magnus started. "I had forgotten about bringing food. I'm so used to having it provided or, when on a quest, just trying to stay alive."

"Yeah, and it was crazy awesome how Sam was fasting the entire quest. When I would think about her, it gave me some motivation to keep going because I didn't want to look like a whiny baby." Alex ate the crust of the sandwich first before moving into the middle.

"Same here."

"But Magnus, you were a whiny baby. Or correction. You are a whiny baby."

"Oh, shut up." Alex laughed as Magnus pretended to be mad.

"Okay so, what are we going to do now? Explore until the sun sets or just chill here?" The sun had just reached the horizon in the west, mostly hidden by the trees, making it darker than it should be in the clearing.

"Good question," Magnus replied. "Well, we could go walk down the path just there, but you probably wouldn't like to have to walk through all those plants again." Magnus pointed at a side of the clearing, opposite of the side they came in from. Alex didn't see any path, just a bunch of trees and bushes.

"What path? It's just a bunch of trees. How do you even know it's there?"

"By memory, I guess. And I can feel it somehow. Also, there's a squirrel over there warning us to stay away from his nuts." Suddenly, they could hear a squeaking noise coming out of the trees and the rustle of tree branches shaking. "Maybe we should just stay here for the rest of the night. It's dark inside the forest and we can hike tomorrow."

"Fine with me. How's the whole animal-listening ability anyway? Are they annoying you?"

"It's not too bad, actually. I've learned to tune them out, just like Halfborn and Mallory's bickering."

"Good," Alex said dusting sandwich crumbs off his hands then standing up. "Nature calls. I'll try not to get lost. Also, don't follow me, Magnus, no matter how tempted you are."

"Wha-, I'm not. Why would I want to do that? Gross." Magnus's face flushed with red as Alex walked off, smirking.

Word count:1235

A/N sorry I haven't updated I just have been so busy!! Also thanks to @mythology_is and @livelikeademigod