Happy Birthday, Hades!

The Biggest Secret of All

[LuciferXHades]

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"Fuck, yes, harder."

Hades's breathy moan sent fire through Lucifer's veins as he leaned over him, propped up on his fists as he rutted against his ass. He savored the clench of muscles, the legs around his waist, jerking him deeper, harder. Lucifer's eyes flickered open, and he watched with intense hunger as Hades's hair splayed like an oil spill on the cream colored pillow, that olive skin shiny with sweat, those electric blue eyes glazed over and glowing in the dimly lit room.

Fuck, just watching Hades was like watching porn. The sight of that long silky black hair contrasting with the pale color of the pillow, that skin wet with sweat, those eyes watching him like the entire universe around them had vanished and nothing else existed.

Lucifer dipped his head down, his fangs elongating as he prepared to sink them down into Hades's throat. Hades tilted his head, allowed him the space to bite. Lucifer moved slow, fangs puncturing warm skin, settling in place, allowing access to rich powerful blood that flooded over his tongue and down his throat. A heady spiced wine that filled his stomach greater than any meal could. He felt the lightning hot shockwaves of power flooding through his body, and it intensified as Hades reached up to sink a hand in his thick blonde waves, clenching them tight in his fist.

Hades had, over time, come to truly savor the feel of those fangs in his throat. He was unsure when exactly it had happened. In the beginning, it'd simply been as necessary as a condom for mortals, but as time went on, if Lucifer didn't bite him somewhere, he couldn't reach that peak of true euphoria. He wanted to see spots, he wanted to go temporarily blind with pleasure, he wanted to scream until his throat was hoarse. He wanted to sink his fingernails into Lucifer's hard muscular back, rake them down and mark him.

Something about tonight was so much... deeper. Hotter. Sexier.

Lucifer was slow, and the peak was drifting closer and closer, and Hades wanted to latch on and take control. He wanted to throw Lucifer down and set a rocking hard pace, but he also wanted to savor this moment. Savor the sounds as Lucifer's skin slapped against his, Lucifer's ragged breath and occasional moans above him. He savored the feel of Lucifer's weight above him, the way his body rocked back against the mattress, shoving it against the headboard and making it crack against the wall, that blonde hair falling over those broad shoulders, tickling his nose and his cheeks as he moved.

He wanted to ask what Lucifer's deal was tonight. The archangel was far more passionate tonight. Rough, but so fucking slow, and it drove Hades up the wall-- in a good way, and a bad way.

But he didn't want to speak, for fear of ruining the intensity of the moment. It heightened, strained, begged to reach that point of complete ecstasy. They rocked together in a harmonious dance of love, sex, hunger. It built until Hades couldn't hold on anymore. His head fell back against the pillow, his vision spotted, and he struggled to keep his eyes open as he watched Lucifer come. That ruggedly handsome face melted into utter bliss and he growled as he came, those fangs flashing brightly in the lights.

Once he was positive Lucifer was finished, he let himself go and roared as he drove himself over the edge, coming long and hard, clutching Lucifer to him so tight it was a miracle he didn't break the angel's bones in his grasp.

His breath came in helpless pants afterwards, blue eyes watered briefly before he slumped back against the bed. Lucifer, unable to hold himself aloft, collapsed down beside him, keeping an arm around his lover to hold him close. They lapsed into silence, aside from gasps for air.

"You were different tonight," Hades said at last, frowning up at the ceiling. Lucifer arched a brow, scooting up until he was sitting against the headboard. He reached down, sinking his hand in Hades's hair, relieved when the Greek god didn't smack his hand away. He must've done a lot better than he hoped, so he took the chance to relish the feel of those silky black locks sliding between his fingers. He leaned down, closed his eyes, and inhaled a whiff of that hair. A combination of smoke, ash, and something uniquely Hades.

"I wanted to make tonight special," Lucifer answered softly. Hades blinked, then peered up at him suspiciously.

"What makes tonight any different than any other night?" He asked. It was one of those times he loathed that he couldn't read the archangel's mind. His mother's abilities had limited him to reading only the minds of those who weren't close to his heart. He began to understand why his mother had isolated herself from others, had been a total bitchress to the extreme. It was safer to read the mind's of others, put at ease the anxiety of not knowing the unknown.

"Well," Lucifer leaned further down, this time planting a kiss on Hades's temple and the god peered up at him, "Give it one second." He looked at the clock. Hades frowned, watching as Lucifer stared intently at the clock on the nightstand that read 11:59 in bright blue letters. When it switched to midnight, Lucifer smiled pleasantly and turned to his lover.

"Happy birthday," he said. Hades stared at him, expression honest confusion for a split second before he scowled.

"Let me guess, Theo?" He asked dryly. Lucifer chuckled.

"Yes."

"Little shite," Hades muttered, then slowly sat up, grimacing before he sat against the headboard beside Lucifer, who watched him with a faint smile, "Remind me next time I see him to spike his coffee with arsenic." Lucifer rolled his eyes at something they both knew he'd never do. While parents never chose favorites, Hades did frequently spend time with Theo. The two were so similar, shared so many experiences, it was no wonder they found solace in one another's company.

"I'm a little disappointed you didn't tell me yourself, even after all this time," Lucifer added, folding his arms over his chest. They'd been together since the last Titan war, so a few years. Yet, it had taken so much time for Lucifer to learn such a basic thing, and granted, they were old enough to where birthdays were really nothing more than excuse to drink and have cake, but Lucifer tended to feel that his lover's birthday, much like those of his children, was important.

"What's the point," Hades said dryly, blinking tired blue eyes, so Lucifer dimmed the lights further and he watched with forever fascination as those blue eyes immediately began to glow in the dark, "We're eternal creatures. Birthdays are a chore. And it doesn't fucking matter. I tend to associate my birthday with unpleasant memories." Lucifer frowned at that. Theo hadn't mentioned anything horrible going wrong on...

Immediately, Lucifer felt a sense of guilt. He hadn't really been thinking when he thought of wishing Hades a happy birthday. It wasn't until he actually thought about it now that he realized that Hades's birthday was also the very day in which he'd been sentenced to death, to live in Cronus's stomach realm for years.

"Hades..." Lucifer started, but Hades rolled his eyes and shot him a dirty look.

"Don't," he said, and Lucifer sighed, "Really. It was a lifetime ago."

"I didn't mean to bring it up. I just wanted you to know that I'm happy you're still here, with me," Lucifer added. Hades studied the angel before him. Even in the dark, he could make out the angel's handsome features. Though stern, the very definition of fatherly really, Lucifer was devastatingly sexy with that mane of golden blonde waves, celestial blue eyes, those perfect high cheekbones, ruggedly masculine stubble covering his jaw.

He really wasn't sure how he'd gotten so accustomed to this arrangement.

Their relationship.

He didn't know what to call it still. Dating? No, that sounded too teenage. Lovers? Well, sure, but it still felt wrong. Partners? What, were they doing a business deal in bed? He had no idea what word to give to their relationship. Just that that was what it was. A relationship. Deep, intense, unlike any he'd ever had, and so terrifyingly real that sometimes he woke in the night to find Lucifer and ensure that he was actually there and he wasn't suffering eternal damnation.

Because he knew he wasn't perfect. Hell, he wrote the book on how to be an asshole and he still autographed that same book to this very day. Social interactions were not his forte, expressing his feelings was even more impossible. Formulas, equations, that stuff made sense. It was logical. It was clean cut. But everything else, oh no, even though there was a rule book on communications, it was still chaos. Utter chaos. It was one of the reasons Hades truly hated the Atlantean god, Atlan.

The god was a pure representation of such chaos. Hades would sooner bite his own tongue off than live in a world that was made up entirely of disorder.

Shuddering at the thought, Hades glanced sideways at Lucifer, who appeared to be staring at the bed now, looking uncomfortable and guilty for having brought the thing up. Hades studied his face for a moment longer, then looked away.

"I was in that realm for years," he said, making Lucifer blink and look up, "I was probably seventeen, eighteen, by the time Zeus came and go us out." Lucifer frowned, reaching out to touch his arm, but Hades shrugged his touch off uncomfortably. He didn't particularly want to discuss that time of his life. It was dark and cold and he wanted to pretend it never happened, but that was the thing with trauma-- it didn't go away. It could always be reached. And yet, as he sat there, reliving that time, he realized he'd never spoken about it to anyone.

Not even Persephone, and Persephone knew every damn thing about him.

"The air was so fucking thick," Hades murmured, reaching up to rub his throat, "Everything was so hot, and sometimes it'd get cold for no reason. We ate things we weren't supposed to, things that made us fucking sick... We couldn't drink the water. It was like acid. It burned a hole through my tongue when I tried to drink it the first time." Lucifer swallowed.

"Hades--"

"Will you just shut up and listen, or maybe you just wanted to fuck me and leave?" Hades demanded, and Lucifer put his hands up. Hades studied him for a moment, then looked away. Lucifer looked at him with concern.

"I tried to find food with the least side effects. Things that didn't mutant us. Things that didn't kill us. Better to eat something that made us vomit than to eat something that tore a hole through our digestive tract... You know, sometimes I wonder if that's what this is from?" He reached up to rub at his eyes, and Lucifer frowned.

"The fact that you can see in the dark?"

"No, the fact that I can't help watching episodes of House on the weekends."

"Alright," Lucifer ceded, then frowned, "Did you always have this ability? To see in the dark?" Hades shrugged, looking down at his fingernails for a moment before looking up across the room.

"As far back as I can remember. I don't honestly remember what happened the first couple years I was alive. I don't know how I lived long enough for my other siblings to arrive. And I don't fucking know how they stayed alive. Hera always crying, Poseidon always blowing shit up, Hestia constantly tagging along behind me, Demeter screaming at anything that moved in the dark."

"What did you do when Zeus arrived?" Lucifer asked. Though, the Greek god's name was a bitter taste in his mouth. Hades raised an eyebrow at him, then looked away.

"Well, we tried to kill him, actually," he admitted with a smirk, then shook his head, "The only people in that realm were my siblings and I. Suddenly this full grown male pops up out of nowhere, tells us he's here to take us to war, of course we're gonna fucking stab him in the face. Of course, we didn't even get that close. Zeus was being trained by nymphs. We were trained by a harsh environment. A huge leap between the two... Anyway, Zeus got us out and boom, we're back in the world. Just like that." Lucifer frowned, staring at Hades intently, but there was something else to this story he was leaving out. He waited to see if Hades would elaborate, waited to see if there was a tell that would give it away.

And that's when it hit him.

"The day Zeus rescued you," Lucifer murmured, "It was your birthday." Hades shrugged.

"How the fuck would I know? I didn't have a calendar."

"Hades--"

"It doesn't matter," Hades decided, sinking back down onto the bed and rolling over to give Lucifer his back, "Either way, thanks or whatever. If you really wanna make this a happy birthday, you'd better fucking do this every single night. The fucking, not the storytelling. You keep this up and I might just fucking tell you my biggest secret of all." Lucifer smiled and settled into the bed beside him. He rolled over, put his arm over Hades, who grunted and tried to shrug him off. Instead, he pulled Hades to his chest tightly and Hades reluctantly allowed him.

"And what is your biggest secret of all?" Lucifer murmured against his ear, nuzzling behind it. Hades shivered at the sensation, fighting back the uncomfortable noises he made when he was tickled. He reached back and pinched Lucifer's nose, making the archangel growl.

"Guess you'll just have to stick around with me longer to find out," Hades mused, releasing his nose with a rough twist before he snuggled back down under the covers. Lucifer smiled, rubbing his nose against Hades's shoulder before he kissed him there.

"Well... For what's it worth, Hades, I do hope you have a wonderful birthday... and I'll be happy to repeat the same thing next year, and the year after that, and the year after that, and the year after that..." His voice faded as he realized Hades had drifted off to sleep. With a slow smile, he wrapped his arms around his lover, kissing him on the cheek while he slept, murmuring a soft "I love you" before he closed his eyes to sleep.

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A/N: Oh, I know, that was short, and I apologize, but it's been a rough weekend, buh. It was so nice to revisit these two, though. Really miss their antics and especially that fluffy fluff * v * So, once again, Happy Birthday, Hades, ou have a new life and a new person to share it with. Enjoy and be sassy. Cuz you Hades, bitch ;)