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Chapter 15

Coming Together

     Grian existed.

     That was the best way he could put it when thinking of the moment right after he was tied for the first time. He didn't blackout, or slip into unconsciousness after the mind-shattering orgasm - orgasms? - that the inflation of the alpha’s knott had practically punched out of him… but he wasn't precisely conscious of the world around him either.

     He floated, aware of the room and that the others were there, talking over him, his body being shifted and moved to be better supported… but he wasn't really registering any of it as happening to him .

     So, he existed; floating in the space between the conscious and the unconscious until he was slowly allowed to sink back into his body and the physical world a bit at a time. The first thing he was really aware of as a physical sensation was warmth. Some part of his logical mind sitting aloof and only distantly involved with any of this was surprised he wasn't chilled with his cooling sweat but no, he was snug in a pocket of heat that left no part of him, even his toes, feeling even marginally cool. It took him a moment to reconcile the pervasive feeling as one that was only partly belonging to the physical world. The other part came from a slow wash of soothing warmth within him as his body slowly came back on line with nerves once shivery with the needs of his omega presentation, now soft and pliable as melted wax. It might have been alarming if instinct hadn’t told him that the supine half-melted state of his body was related to the less comfortable, and yet still very comforting heat of the body wrapped around his back, pressed tight to him and warding off any stray breeze or chill from behind.

     Alpha… his slow-rolling train of thought eventually supplied to him as he leisurely began to reconnect with his consciousness. Yes, alpha, that made sense. Was good and proper. According to those instincts which were slowly pulling him back into the moment, that was the source of his feeling of ‘rightness’.

     Keralis was alpha, and he had given Grian what he had wanted and now he was doing his duty, warming and sheltering his partner's sensitive body exactly as Grian's body was sheltering and warming the alpha's knott.

     Those deep instincts, which were not even his, really, told Grian that all of this was exactly as the world should be.

     But the voice of those same instincts had no explanation for the matching wall of warmth to his front, pressed just as tight, just as solid and comforting and…

     A soft gasp answered by a mischievous chuckle next to his ear finally dragged Grian back to himself fully, the quiet wet whisper of a kiss right next to his ear luring Grian to lean into that other presence until the soft fresh scent -like warm nutty bread- filled Grian’s head and lungs and he found his nose nestled into the crook of Xisuma’s neck as the other beta kissed the alpha at Grian’s back.

     Grian was a little surprised to discover he felt no pull of jealous territorialism with the realization that his tie-mate was kissing another; in fact, it was almost like his pseudo-omega instincts were somehow pleased by the other beta's nearness to Keralis and himself in the moment. Grian leaned even harder into Xisuma, that deep subconscious part of him thrilled with contented happiness and he let his lips part so that he could lap his tongue over the skin in front of his nose and taste that comforting homey scent more directly.

     "Looks like someone is back with us." He heard X chuckle softly as Grian continued to nibble and suck meditatively at the crook of the admin's neck, slowly but surely leaving a mark there. "How are you feeling, friend?"

     "Good." Grian murmured, almost sleepily. "Full." 

     "That you are." X chuckled, and Grian felt the glide of soft fingers down over his belly, lower still until…

     Oh. he’d forgotten about just how full he was.

     Grian's gasp was accompanied by a raspy chuckling hum of pleasure from the alpha at his back, as X pressed his hand against Keralis’s cock where it was distending the skin of Grian's abdomen. It still felt alien how the sensation of that external pressure made it move inside him. It made him want to experience it again, and Grian rocked his hips into Xisuma’s touch without thinking about it… which rolled his oversensitive prostate right against Keralis’s now very very solid feeling knott.

     Oh!

     Well, that certainly explained how a knotted couple could continue to fuck, the way Scar and Bdubs had. All of Grian’s recently reclaimed brain function came to a halt as what blood flow he’d regained immediately did a U-turn and headed south again. 

     Grian whined plaintively and kept the motion going, that needy hunger coming alive in his belly once more. His logical mind babbled at the impossible demands of his body. He'd come three times already! They should be done . Winding down to wait out Keralis’ knott with soft cuddles! Not… Not starting up again ! But his body clearly hadn't gotten the memo. It was very insistent that it wanted more of what the other two men had to offer, and it had no intention of letting his silly beta-thinking get in the way of more fun.

     "Greedy little Grian." Came Keralis’s panted growl as he began to rock his hips in time, "Can't getting enough of Papa K's big Knölig, pretty Bird?"

     "Yes. More please, Papa K. Need more. Please~." Grian didn't even care how close he was to begging. All his previous experiences with his omega wantonness felt positively tame in comparison to the knott-induced hunger burning through his veins now, and he had no time or energy left to spare a thought for shame.

     "My word, you really do turn into quite the needy little thing, don't you?" Xisuma chuckled. Then the other beta did the unforgivable and straightened up, stepping back and away. 

     Grian mewled. There was no other term for the distress sound he made as that comforting warmth and scent were taken from him. He instantly turned tomato red when both of the bigger men laughed fondly at him. Dear coders, what had being knotted done to him? Xisuma took pity on him at least; leaning back to drop a light kiss on Grian’s pout.

     “I’m not going anywhere friend, just let us take care of you.” He whispered against freshly kissed lips before straightening and turning toward the bar. Then he rather ruined it when he threw a sly smirk over his shoulder and said, “After all, we wouldn't want you dehydrating after Keralis has wrung so much jizz-juice outta' ya.”

     The indignant squawk he made at the admin's horrible turn of phrase was cut off when a hand appeared before his face and pressed two cum coated fingers into his gaping mouth, instantly transforming the sound into something equally indignant but decidedly less hostile as that spicy sweetness made his thoughts turn fuzzy around the edges as his physiology was confused by the unexpected hit of the hormone it was already overproducing. 

     “He’s right of course, such a mess you made, pretty bird.” Keralis purred into his ear as Grian instinctively sucked at the builder's work-roughened digits. Keralis seemed to have a motive behind his action beyond the forestalling of Grian’s complaining, however, for no sooner were his fingers, mostly cleaned of his own omega-leaning-cum, he removed them and turned Grian's head back over his shoulder so that he could kiss him, his hot wet alpha's mouth seeming to grow even slicker as he licked all the lingering traces of sweetness from where he'd deposited it on the beta-morph’s tongue.

     All that extra moisture woke Grain up to the fact that he was, indeed, parched and he gave a sheepish grin when X returned with a fresh cool bottle of water. Grian let the admin tip the cool liquid down his throat with a grateful hum, while Keralis took to nibbling at his throat. The alpha chased the bob of Grian's Adam's apple with each swallow; almost as if having knotted his partner had brought out a particularly playful streak in the Alpha. As if to confirm the notion, Keralis then thrust his hips up with a chuckle, making Grian gasp as Xisuma was wiping droplets of escaped water from his lips, causing his mouth to fall open and body to jolt forward so that X's thumb ended up pressed to Grian tongue instead of his lips.

     Again, instinct took over and Grian closed his lips around the digit and began to suck eagerly.

     “Goodness me, but you are keen .” The admin chortled, leaning in and stroking his hand down Grian’s chest and over his abdomen. “Is your omega side always like this? Or is it just because you’ve got such a big belly full that you are so hungry?” His hand found the slight bump again and again he pressed into it, making the alpha’s cock move in delightful ways and causing Grian's cock to start leaking so heavily he could feel the hot fresh pre rolling down his shaft.

     "So eager for us," Keralis practically purred in Grian’s ear as X pulled back a bit and began to kiss his way down Grian's chest, the implications of which had the beta-morph on the brink of hyperventilating as he rocked and rolled and whined in Keralis's lap. "Imagine Shashwham, if he's so messy for us, what a little slut he'll turn into at his first big meet-up. Everyone's been so very careful, no one wanting to upset our shy little Brian… and here you are so ready to be an absolutely lovely little whore for them all aren't you?"

     Grian cried out then, though whether it was for the terrible wonderful things Keralis was saying to him or for the nerves-shattering moment when Xisuma wrapped his lips around Grian's cock, the beta-morph couldn't have said. But whatever the core reason Grian was utterly powerless in the face of it and he thrashed as hot tears welled up in his eyes for the overwhelming shiver that ran like an electrical current from his scalp to his toes.

     He had no hope of lasting, not with that thick knott rubbing against his sweet spot and a warm mouth wrapped around his cock. 

     His orgasm this time, however, was … different.

     As if to make up for the rapid nature of the seeming cascade of climaxes his omega presentation and the alpha’s knott had been putting him through, this one was…smaller? That was the only way Grian could think to describe it; still mind-numbingly powerful, but short . He felt his cock convulse only twice as he spilled into Xisuma's mouth and his back passage clamped down on that huge feeling obstruction, which made his eyes roll up and his head fall back onto Keralis's shoulder. His orgasm there and gone again between the space of four or five gasping breaths…

     “Done already? Surely not. We can give my Shishwammy more, yes? He deserves his own reward for being so patient and kind, don't you think pretty little Brian?” Grian could only make sense of maybe half of the words the alpha's whispered in his ear, but he knew the sound of a question in the tone and blindly agreed anyway, “Come to Papa K, sweet Shashwham. Come give me another taste of our little Brian’s sweet sauce.” 

     Xisuma seemed reluctant to leave the cozy place he’d made between Grian and Keralis’s knees at first but came up quickly enough when the alpha reached down and gave him a sharp tug on his hair. “Up Sweetface. Come give Papa a kiss.” 

     Grian managed to open his eyes and lift his head enough to appreciate the distant look in the admin's eyes before he was leaning over to kiss their alpha partner. He brought with him a cloud of omega scent that was strong enough to cut through Grian's haze and he came back to himself enough that he managed to make a bit more sense of Keralis's words.

     Yes. X certainly did deserve a reward. 

     When the beta pressed into Keralis for that kiss, making Keralis groan and his cock pulse inside Grian, the small beta-morph wrapped his arms around that broad chest and did his level best to haul the big man in as tight to him as he could. Fortunately, X was quite distracted by Keralis's hungry kiss and didn’t even seem to notice when Grain reached down to his ass cheeks and pulled him in until he had to straddle Keralis’s knees as well. 

     He did notice however when Grain snuck a hand between them to stroke his semi-hard cock. Xisuma broke from the kiss with a shudder and a gasp.

     “I’m… I’m not sure I have another in me, friends. Coders, I forgot what it was like to try and keep up with an alpha and omega together, and on top of this morning and just now…”

     “Do you want to stop Shashwham?” Keralis asked even as he reached around and grabbed Xiusma’s hips and pulled him in ever tighter and rather squashed Grain’s hand between them in the process.

     “Goodness, no.” Xisuma moaned, his hips bucking up into Grian’s grip all the same. “Just thought you ought to know I might not be able to see this through. Oh, Sweet Mercy!” Grian wasn’t sure exactly what Keralis had done but based on the way Xisuma’s cock throbbed in his grip, Grian rather thought X had underestimated his stamina. Then Keralis rolled his hips just a small bit more and Grian was crying out too as that intense pressure against his sweet spot caused his entire nervous system to light up like a fireworks display. 

     Later Grain would think back on this moment and marvel at how quickly Keralis simply turned off his ability to think with that little trick. It was like the alpha’s knot had a direct throw switch between Grian’s cognitive function and his sheer animal instincts.

     With a cry Grian lunged forward, catching the other beta’s lips with his own and whimpering a moan as he was assaulted by the taste of his own omega-sweet seed and Keralis’s alpha spice on Xisusma’s breath and he set about practically trying to devour the other man. 

     X gasped into the kiss, and his hips jerked forward roughly as Grian realized his own cock hadn't softened in the slightest after that last odd orgasm and was very happy to be squeezed between the warmth of his and Xisuma's bodies. He could make it better, though…

     Grian shifted his grip until he could get his cock alongside X’s.  His hand was too small for the job really. And whilst the slide of their cocks against each other was delicious, it didn't feel like he was managing to provide that really good pressure with his fingers stretched too wide. He whined in frustration as he tried and failed to adjust his grip to better encircle Xisuma’s and his cock, Making the admin echo him with an aggrieved groan of his own.

     “Sh sh sh, Sweet faces, let Papa K help.”

     Grian gasped pulling Xisuma’s breath into his lungs as a warm rough hand slid between them from the opposite side of Grian’s and then there was a strong grip about the base of their cocks, freeing Grian’s hand to glide up to focus on the sensitive heads and as soon as his warm hand captured them both it was like someone turned on fire tick and he and X both began to rut and rock with frantic need as what had been a simmering heat bloomed into an inferno.

     With almost no warning, Grian found himself coming, His cock leaking a final watery batch of seed out between their bellies and over his knuckles and he cried out as much in shock as pleasure, but his partners weren't done with him yet.

     The small Beta-morph did his best to hold himself up under the onslaught as both his partners seemed spurred on by the results of his climax. The warm wet spill of his cum slicking the surface of their cocks for X while the pulsing clench of his channel made Keralis curse and thrust his hips upward in sharp jabs and he sought out one more release of his own. X bucked rapidly, thrusting his cock up against Grain’s freshly slicked fingers and Keralis’ grip lower down squeezing them both like a vice.  Clearly, the admin wanted that last orgasm despite his earlier concerns and Grian simply bit his lip and swallowed his overstimulated whining as Xisuma’s lips parted from his own and the big man gave voice to his own whining gasps, voice adorably high and reedy sounding as he closed his eyes, and focused his entire being on hunting down his pleasure, as Keralis growled and fucked his knot up into Grian poor battered prostate from behind.

     It was too much. 

     It wasn’t enough

     It was terrible.

     And it was perfect.

     With an overwhelmed sob Grian let his head fall back and begged for more, begged for mercy, for his partners to come for him. He begged for everything all at once in an endless litany of fevered pleading.

     And finally, his partners toppled over their own precipices, one right after the other. 

     X came with a jittery series of gasps as he added to the mess between their bodies, Keralis with a growling groan as his knott throbbed and Grian felt his guts slosh as the alpha added more of his seed into the locked space behind the tie. There was a moment of stillness, as bodies taut from pleasure expended the last of their offerings until all at once, everything went soft around the edges and Grian found himself happily smothered as both of the bigger men collapsed forward, enveloping him in a soothing grounding cacoon of flesh, their combined weight crushing in on him, the perfect counterbalance to hold him together when his overstimulated vibrating nerves would have seen him flying apart.

     Unfortunately, the moment couldn’t last forever no matter how much Grian wished otherwise. Oxygen, it turned out, was still a necessity and Grian's lungs soon found things a bit too cramped for their liking, and they were all of them piled together a bit too awkwardly to fight gravity for long.

     X, in what Grian was coming to realize was predictable behaviour of a beta in these situations, was the first to recover. Well, ‘recover’ was perhaps a bit of an overstatement. The exhausted shaky groaning giggles as he wobblingly pushed himself clear so that he could flop dramatically onto the bed beside them, probably didn't fully qualify as ‘recovery’, but it was more than what either Keralis or Grian himself were capable of at that point.

     It was still impressive though as it was only a few moments before Xisuma found the strength to reach up and tug at Keralis's arm till the precarious mutual balance between Grian and the alpha was disturbed enough that they began to collapse sideways and Keralis had no choice but to roll and support Grian on the way down.

     Grian whined as the shift moved things inside of him and his nerves buzzed angrily at the now intense overstimulation.

     “Shhhhhhh,” Keralis soothed, “just let us get you comfortable and then no more moving m’k? We just rest for a bit, yes Sweetface?” The alpha's voice was even softer than usual, the edges raspy with his own exhaustion but he put forth the effort to be sure Grian wasn’t left with any uncertainty. Then he made sure Grian would stay as relaxed as possible as his teeth, gently but firmly, closed on that spot on his neck that seemed to cut the strings to his entire body and Grian went even limper, as impossible as that seemed.  

     As though he were a scruffed kitten, all his muscles simply released all their tension and he went utterly pliant in the other men’s hands and Grian couldn’t help but appreciate the distance the trick put between his awareness and his body. It turned the occasional sharp twinge of discomfort as X helped Keralis move them up the bed, into a softer, more pleasant kind of ache; the deep press of old bruises versus the sharp sting of a cut. It was still awkward and rather uncomfortable a time or two but worth it when his and the alpha’s feet were no longer hanging over the edge of the bed and X was free to pull a light sheet of Crimson silk over them all, warding off the chill of drying sweat.

     “We’re making a horrible mess of your bed, I should get something to clean us all up with…” Xisuma’s voice was soft and like Keralis there was a distinct note of sleepy reluctance in his tone.

     Grian felt his brow furrow, not like the idea of Xisuma moving away from the cozy pocket of warmth his partners had made for him. He found himself concluding that he’d much rather sleep in a slightly sticky state than have the beta leave the bed just then. Keralis shared the sentiment apparently, as the whipcord of muscle the older man called an arm, reached over to tug X in tighter to them, clearly announcing that the alpha had no intention of letting X do any such thing.

     “Rest.” Keralis commanded lazily, “The sheets will live. We can all clean up after Brian is no longer knotted to my Kielbasa.  But right now is for soft, lazy cuddles.” And Grian backed him up by worming his own arms over and around Xisuma's waist before burrowing his head into the admin’s broad chest with a contented sigh.

     “Well then. If you both insist.” Xisuma said, a fond smile in his voice.

     “We do. Now be a good boy, Shashwham, and get the lights for us.” And with a quiet chortle X ran the command to drop the room into darkness and they all drifted into a deep, sated, sleep.

~A~B~O~

     Unsurprisingly, Grian was not the first to wake after their post-coital cuddles. More surprising was the fact that he had managed to sleep through not only the end of the knott and Keralis’s withdrawal but also a perfunctory wipe-down and relocation. This was all apparent as when he did wake,  he was on an entirely different part of the bed his head pillowed on a lap as fingers carded through his hair, his body feeling if not exactly fully clean then at least not sticky or itching in any of the places he would expect after passing out still coated in cum and sweat. 

     He blinked groggily as he assimilated all this information, vaguely aware of a quiet conversation taking place over his head. 

     “Well, we need to find a place to hold one soon.  We could all use a chance to touch base, and Beef has been doing that thing where he is very loudly not hinting he wants to get on with that scene he proposed sooner rather than later.”

     “Is that a good idea? A Scene? At our little bird's first real meet-up?”

     “Now, I get where you’re coming from. And if it were anyone but Grian, I’d probably have told Beef he would have to either wait until the next or set up a private invitational event… But between Grian’s newness to all of this and the fact that he’s a beta-morph… I would probably be looking to arrange something similar myself if Beef hadn't approached me. I think having something to distract everyone so that he isn't just automatically the centre of attention will go a good way toward helping him find his comfort within the group. A scene will be good to split focus a bit, that way he doesn’t get swarmed and overwhelmed.”

     “True…” Despite Xisuma’s confidence, Grian was coming around enough to make some sense of the words even if that sense didn't come with any true understanding of what was being said,  he was definitely aware enough to hear the real note of hesitation in Keralis’ voice. “But Beef and Etho… they don't do things halfway when they decide they want to Play. ” 

     The way Keralis said the word “Play” told Grian the older alpha definitely wasn't talking about minigames.

     “Beef’s given me the basic script for what he wants out of it and I’ll make sure Grian knows what he’s in for so he can decide how much or little he wants to participate in advance. Given what some of the others get up to… well Beef and Etho in a public setting with others around to keep an eye on things… they’re probably one of the better sets to introduce that side of the server to him. But all of that is  pretty much a moot point though if we can’t get a proper community central build organized fairly soon.”

     “Why do we need a community build?” Grian asked - well, croaked ; his throat was devilishly dry- deciding he wanted to get the holes in this conversation filled in more than he wanted to continue drifting on the edge of sleep.

     “Ah, you’re awake at last, my little sleeping beauty!” Suddenly a huge pair of hypnotic eyes were taking up Grian’s entire field of vision, as a kiss was dropped on his nose. “How do we feel? How's your pretty little backside? Not too tender I hope?”

     “Geeze, Keralis! Let the guy get a breath in, yeah?” X softly chuckled, pushing the older hermit back out of Grian’s face so that he could fill the space with a bottle of water instead. “Though do let us know if you would like a potion or anything. I don't know how it works for beta-morphs," X continued, “but I know most of us basic-betas admit to being a good bit more tender after a knotting than any of the omegas ever seem to be.” Grian sipped the proffered water as X brushed his hand through Grian's hair with more a direct intention of moving any stray strands from his face as he peered down at where Grian lay blinking in his lap. 

     “I’m fine,” Grian said, waving away X’s concern casually without really considering the matter or doing an actual mental check-in with his body. 

     Then he moved.

     The moment he shifted his weight from the fully supported and comfortable sprawl in an attempt to sit up, his body decided if he wasn't going to pay attention to it, it would make him pay attention, and his entire backside screamed at him.

     “On second thought,” He squeaked, “Maybe I should take that potion.” And he lowered himself back into Xisuma’s lap with excessive caution while said man clearly tried hard not to laugh at him as Keralis sprang from the bed -not even trying to suppress his snickering giggles- to fetch the requested restorative.

     “Coders… this is. I've never... I mean."

     X chuckled at Grian’s alarmed babble.

     "Taking a knott isn't the same as the usual." He said, hand running over any aching muscle he could reach. "I take it, being a beta-morph hasn't helped that much in this case. Is it just aches? Nothing sharp or stab-like?"

     Grian shook the negative and Keralis returned and held a bottle of healing potion to his lips. Which Grain sipped gratefully despite the bitter taste.

     The moment he'd downed the last of it his partners rolled him and even as he felt the magic in the liquid go to work at easing the aches and strains, Keralis’s hard hands began to knead into his lower back further chasing the discomfort away while X applied a similar treatment to his shoulders.

     Grian was soon a melted puddle of person between them. But he was too well-rested already to stay so inert for long.

     "What were you two talking about when I woke?" He inquired, "About builds, and Beef and server-sides?"

     Keralis chuckled, and Grian heard X sigh in a way that made him think the admin was levelling the alpha with one of his looks.

     "Well, you probably haven't noticed as this is only your second season and you had rather a lot on your plate what with settling into your place on the AA list, but we're past due for our first season-meetup, largely because we don't have a proper central community build to hold it in."

     “Would something in the shopping district do?” Grian asked. 

     “Oh? Does our pretty Brian have some lovely new build planned for us all?” Keralis crooned as he dug his fingers into particularly tender muscle and made Grain gasp. “Well, I was actually drafting up something during my… alone time this past couple of weeks.” When neither of the other men said anything he continued on if a bit reluctantly. “I’ve had an idea for another server event, something more encompassing than Tag. Only problem is, it would need a pretty big build in the middle of everything and I don't know if I have the diamonds to finance that…”

     “Go on.” Keralis encouraged when Grian trailed off after such a big ask.

     “Well, if you could get the land fee waived for the plot, and let me know any specific needs I could probably work them into the Build.”

     “What kind of build are we talking?”

     “Well, it’s sorta a big town hall kind of thing.”

     “That, my friend,” X said as Grain craned his neck up to meet his gaze. “Sounds just about perfect.”