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Of Artists and Assassins (1/?)

(Anonymous) 2013-08-14 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
A/N: So sorry, OP, but I accidentally went and got plot all over your story. D: And belated happy birthday!

Fun fact: Leonardo da Vinci was apparently, on top of all of his other skills, a very gifted musician



Of Artists and Assassins

Ezio moved smoothly through the crowd, merely one among the many, as it flowed along the streets of Venice in much the same manner as the water did through its numerous canals. The sun shone from a cloudless sky, warming the mid-April day, and cheered everyone around them to the point where he could have had his pick of any pocket. It had been a good day thus far – he and Antonio had gotten even closer to their goal of ridding Venice of Emilio Barbarigo's tyranny once and for all, and Ezio had even found several more names for the conspiracy against his family.

All in all, a perfectly good day, and he found that he did not even mind the poorly-talented bard dogging his steps for a few paces. The man had, perhaps, some tiny measure of talent above the usual lute-slapping rabble that were a mere step above the common beggar. But, much to the bard’s misfortune, Leonardo had a mere four days ago set out to test a newly constructed instrument while Ezio was devouring half of the artist’s loaf of bread, and the assassin had found that since then, nothing came anywhere close to the talent his friend had demonstrated then.

Perhaps he should make a visit, and try to pull Leonardo out of the stuffy workshop - his last visit had been in the evening, and the artist had seemed almost surprise that it was far past the time for the light lunch he had been heading for, engrossed as he had been in his work the entire day. Sometimes, Ezio worried that he forgot to eat during one of those focused sessions, and had made it a point to poke his head in at least once weekly, with either a Codex page or a ‘broken’ wristblade, or an actual injury from his many skirmishes with the guards - all to keep Leonardo from getting suspicious. Ezio had first hand witnessed the full wrath of a Leonardo who felt coddled

His feet knew the well-trodden path, and he did not even need to think as he wove his way through the crowd towards the plaza and its usually-busy workshop. Usually busy was the key word, though, as the workshop currently sat quiet and dark, its shutters closed firmly and not even a wisp of smoke coming from the chimney. Ezio had a momentary flicker of panic, remembering the horror he had felt in Firenze when he had been told that Leonardo had up and left without a word.

“Leonardo?” he called in concern, forcing himself to go through the motions of knocking on the door twice. When no answer was forthcoming, he glanced around to make sure no one was looking, then jabbed his hidden blade between the door and frame, and shoved with his shoulder first. He, really, was getting far too used to consider locks a mere triviality...

The sight within was startling. While there was always a considerable amount of organised chaos - with papers and books and sketches piled here and there where Leonardo had needed and thus made space to work on whatever had caught his fancy at the time, only to leave said work behind when struck by a new whim - seeing the place with near-clean tables was unsettling.

The piles and stacks moved to the crammed shelves, threatening to vomit sketches all over the workshop if anyone dared to as much as think of removing a book. Models had been moved from their various locations - even the one that Ezio was willing to swear Leonardo only used as a hatrack - piled upon a mostly cleared worktable that was only partially covered in paint and doodles.

“Leonardo?” he called again, stepping further in, his eyes quickly adjusting to the dim light seeping through the shutters. Finding the small stairway that led up to the artist’s personal chambers, feeling ever more dread with every step, he carefully crept along the walls.

The bedroom was close to cozy in comparison with the workshop below, and Ezio breathed a sigh of relief, finding his oldest and definitely dearest friend half-slouched in an armchair. Though his relief turned to worry when he spotted the two empty wine bottles carelessly discarded on the floor, the neck of one smashed from where it had apparently been thrown against the wall, and the third - mostly empty by the looks of it - clutched in a paint-and-charcoal-stained hand.

Of Artists and Assassins (2/?)

(Anonymous) 2013-08-15 02:39 pm (UTC)(link)
A/N: While I know fully well that the italian in the Animus was supposedly due to Rebecca being too lazy to patch Baby, it just doesn’t feel like an AC2 fic without random bits of italian sprinkled in...

Fun fact: Rumours have it that if he found someone with an interesting face, Leonardo da Vinci would follow that person around for a whole day to observe them.



“Ezio?” Leonardo asked, voice slurring, looking up and spent a moment as if trying to focus, before a disturbingly artificial version of his usual smile showed itself, and the assassin received an exaggerated wave of an arm. “Buon giorno, mio amico! Didn’t think you’d show up.” The artist paused, drinking straight from the bottle - a sight almost as startling as seeing him drunk, as Ezio had always seen him use cups or glasses - and then wagged his fingers at the assassin. “Come on, then, hand it over.”

Ezio frowned, worry now warring with confusion. “Hand over what?”

“Codex page? Isn’t that why you’re here?” Leonardo replied, taking another swig from the bottle and scowled when he found it to be empty. “Fine,” he continued with a strangely annoyed noise. “Fine. Then your hidden blade, or whatever else you need repaired.”

“I’m not here for repairs either?”

Leonardo all but tossed the bottle to the floor with a dull thunk, and gave the assassin a steely glare. “Then what do you want, Ezio? You don’t look injured, so what? Food? A bed? La mia casa è la tua, help yourself.”

Ezio did not know whether to be worried or ashamed that his friend apparently thought that he only showed up when he wanted something from the artist - not, of course, that his pathetic attempt to make excuses for visiting had helped.

Mi dispiace, Leonardo, but, honestly, I just wanted to visit you,” he said with his most charming smile, and earned himself a surprised glance from the inebriated engineer.

“Oh. That’s... Thank you, Ezio,” he said, and some of the tension melted from his posture along with the wry, but earnest smile. The contrast, it struck the assassin, was like the difference between a candle and the sun itself.

“So, mio amico,” Ezio started, kneeling next to the chair, ever mindful of any glass shards hidden among the dark floorboards. “Why are you drinking in the middle of the day? And in a darkened workshop, no less, on such a bellissima giornata? You should be outside, sketching birds or flowers, or following people with funny noses about the city.”

Leonardo grimaced in obvious distaste. “Not today,” he said, slumping further in his chair and very nearly threatened to slide from the seat. “I go out, and people come to me and ask for sketches or paintings or models, and none of them ever even bother to offer to pay. They just demand, like it doesn’t cost me time or materials or anything!” he growled, hands clenching in the air, before he sighed sadly and relaxed again. “Not today, Ezio... Today, I just want to stay in, solí. In pace..”

“Leonardo,” Ezio said, starting to feel exasperated as well as confused and worried. Really, he was not used to holding so many conflicting emotions without having someone’s face to gouge out afterwards. “You’ve never before complained of people clamouring for your talent. In fact, I distinctly remember you complaining about going for a walk, and not having as much as a single fan accost you on the street.”

With a snort, Leonardo crossed his arms and gave Ezio the scowl that was usually reserved for overly perfumed ladies and those who tried to look at his sketchbooks. Even in his currently considerably-far-from-sober state, it was enough to make the hardened assassin flinch. “It’s my birthday today,” he merely said.

Ezio blinked, and then mentally kicked himself. Repeatedly. How many years had he known Leonardo by now? Far too many. Far, far too many to not have picked up at least what time of the year his friend had been born in - and his brain helpfully supplied the memory of when Leonardo and the thieves had surprised him with a party at the Palazzo della Seta just last year at his birthday in June.

At a time where Ezio himself had forgotten all about it.

Even Rosa had pointed out that surviving for a quarter of a century was nothing to scoff at, and, in her usual friendly manner, hugged him and affectionately called him her cazzo di idiota.

Grateful!OP is grateful

(Anonymous) 2013-08-17 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. My. GOD! Thank you for working on filling my request! You are amazing! I can't wait to read more! I... I think I love you Anon. <3

Re: Of Artists and Assassins (2/?)

(Anonymous) 2013-08-17 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Not!OP but this is fucking beautiful and perfect and wow dude brb baking cookies for you.

Btw, feel free to keep all the Internetz I bestow upon you.

Srsly.

Me gusta.

Re: Of Artists and Assassins (2/?)

(Anonymous) 2013-08-18 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Fun Fact: During the renaissance, ‘Florentine’ was used as slang for a homosexual. Sure, they had their Officers of the Night, but obviously Florence didn’t bother much with keeping that particular law unless people made enough of a ruckus about it.


“Well. Buon compleanno, Leonardo,” Ezio said, a wry smile tugging at his lips as he placed a hand on his friend’s shoulder. “I am, though, afraid I forgot you bring you a present.”

“‘Sfine,” Leonardo mumbled, doing fine impression of most-definitely-not-sulking. “Grazie.”

Ezio smiled warmly now, worry giving way entirely to amusement now that he had discovered the reason behind his friend’s uncharacteristic bout of self-pity and asociality. “Come here,” he said, standing up just enough that he could pull Leonardo into a hug.

The artist grumbled incoherently under his breath, but, after a short moment, all but deflated and returned the embrace. Ezio stomped down a smirk of triumph, settling instead for keeping his arms around the other man - giving a final squeeze when Leonardo pulled back. And then they both paused; their proximity leaving their faces mere inches apart.

Something strummed through the air between them in that moment. Intangible, and yet, something different. As close as they were, he felt as if he saw Leonardo in an entirely new light - he could see the tiny bead of sweat in the crease between brows. The tiny scar near the bridge of the nose. A grain of sleep within a wrinkle of the eye. A freckle on the eyelid when Leonardo blinked slowly, languidly, as caught up in the strange air between them as Ezio was.

And then Leonardo leaned forward, pressing a kiss against his lips.

It was much as he had expected, and nothing like what he had dreamt of. The taste of sour wine, the other lips dry and chapped as they moved against his. Far too little teeth and tongue for his tastes. Far too chaste and brief.

Of course, Ezio had kissed men before. He had been a young man in Firenze, after all, and his mother had told him to find other outlets besides vaginas. He had found plenty more, once he came to Venice. Antonio. Ugo. That oh-so-flexible young man at Theodora’s, although Ezio never managed to un-distract himself long enough to get the youth’s name when he visited.

They pulled apart again, and the heavy air hung over them, as if the entire world merely waited for their next move. By his side, Ezio’s hand twitched. Longing to grab onto golden tresses and pull the artist in for a proper snog. His mind already planning the progression from there.

And then Leonardo destroyed the moment entirely by collapsing into a fit of giggles, and Ezio found himself heavily leaned on when the artist buried his face at a white-clothed robe, shoulders shaking with mirth.

“I wanted to do that for seven years, you know,” Leonardo quietly mused once his gigglefit had passed, and nuzzled against the assassin’s throat.

“Really? That long?” Ezio murmured, absentmindedly stroked the other’s back, and tried not to pay too much attention to the soft breath caressing his skin.

Leonardo made an affirmative noise with another, brief giggle. “I wanted to do that ever since you showed up at my door in those robes of yours. “Wanted to get you out of those, too, come to think of it...,” he replied, voice almost dreamy, before straightening and fixing the assassin with a wavering glare. “Have I mentioned that I am exquisitely drunk right now?”

“You smell like a winery, my friend,” Ezio replied, and all but hauled them both from the floor. “Come on, Leonardo. We need to get you to bed.”

Ti amo,” Leonardo warbled, voice muffled against the armour on Ezio’s shoulder - not seeming to care about any sharp metal edges - as he was half-walked, half-dragged the few steps across the chamber to the bed. “You’re the best friend I’ve ever had.”

“And from what rumours I’ve heard, one of the few male, non-patron friends you haven’t slept with,” the assassin replied, guiding Leonardo to sit on the mattress. “Antonio talks far too much after sex.”

“Antonio, bah, he’s dull in bed,” Leonardo scoffed with a dismissive gesture, toppling back over readily enough when Ezio kneeled down and struggled to pull the knee-high boots off.

The first came loose with a hiss of leather and cloth, and a groan from Leonardo. “Are you always this loud in bed?” Ezio asked, unable to help his own smirk as he started on the other boot, and got a protesting noise from the artist at the manhandling.

“Oh, yes. My last lover thought I was too loud,” Leonardo happily chirped, more than drunk enough to have left any shred of shyness behind. “So he gagged me. Tied me to the bed, too, while he was at it, and had his way with me.” A happy, utterly unapologetic grin spread over his face. “It was glorious.”

Re: Of Artists and Assassins (3/?)

(Anonymous) 2013-08-18 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Apparently, A!A fails at numbering. Please see the post above this one for the next part.

OP is making a fool of herself in pubic

(Anonymous) 2013-08-18 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Drunk!Leo is the cutest thing I have ever read. REALLY. A!A had OP giggle/snorting like a idiot in the coffee shop. You are amazing, and I love where you are going with this. Plus, I love how you add in the little tid bits of Fun Facts. The first two I had learned from my Art History class, but the last one was news to me. Amazing... No, better yet: "exquisite"!

Re: Of Artists and Assassins (4/?)

(Anonymous) 2013-08-19 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Gack! I cannot believe I misspelled Teodora’s name in the last update. I fail at names and numbering, it would seem. However, I love getting people to make a fool of themselves in public over a fictional story. Mission accomplished!

Fun fact: Leonardo da Vinci was so fond of animals that he was, indeed, a vegetarian, and
did purchase birds at the market for the sole purpose of releasing them. I’m still sad that we didn’t get a scene in AC2 where Leonardo ropes Ezio into setting birds free, but, apparently Ezio is a big oaf who doesn’t remember anything not involving stabbings and climbing on the furniture (because, come on, how many of us tried to climb onto Claudia’s desk to get her attention? I know I can’t have been the only one).



Ezio dropped the second boot and rose up to pluck the red, now lopsided, beret off his friend’s head when the artist sat up. “I take it your last lover wasn’t Antonio, then.”

Leonardo wobbled slightly, trying to orient himself with the constantly-shifting room. “Oh, no. Not at all. It was this... lovely young man at La Rosa.” He frowned. “Never got his name. Very flexible fellow. Tried to draw him, once, but I got too distracted.”

“He has that effect on people,” Ezio agreed, coaxing Leonardo into lying down properly, tugging up the covers. “Get some sleep, Leonardo. Judging from your workshop, you’ve been drinking and cleaning up through half the night. You could use some rest.”

“Not sleepy,” Leonardo huffed in reply, gave a great yawn that made his jaw creak, and was soundly snoring away less than two minutes later.

The assassin shook his head to himself, tsking at the sight - though he could not quite hide his smile - and gently reached out to stroke the blonde locks. Leonardo, in turn, merely muttered in his sleep and rolled over, curling up much like the cats he was so fond of.

“Your head won’t thank you tomorrow,” Ezio said with a chuckle, and began cleaning up the broken bottles - before Leonardo would wake up in a fit of inspiration and stomp around on bare feet in search of charcoal and parchment.

Once he was certain that the bedroom was sufficiently inspiration-proofed, and that Leonardo was still sleeping the equivalent of having taken a brick to the head, the assassin snuck downstairs, pausing only momentarily to take in the still-surreal vision of the cleaned and cleared workshop. Sheer habit made him stoop slightly when he approached the kitchen, even though the wheeled device no longer hung from the ceiling, but had instead been resigned to a sad place in the corner. He gave Leonardo about a week before the workshop would be back to its normal, comfortably chaotic appearance - with sketches at every available surface, and forgotten cups of tea growing green on random shelves.

At least, he found, the kitchen was still its old self - a feat made possible by Leonardo’s Florentine assistant, Vincenzo, who had quickly instituted a rule of not allowing any sketchbooks, canvas, paints, models, or anything else but foodstuffs and utensils for the preparation of the same in the kitchen. A rule that had somehow stuck with Leonardo after his move to Venice, even when Vincenzo had stayed behind.

Of course there was no meat or fish in the larder, and while there were the ingredients for several vegetarian dishes instead, Ezio felt no urge to try his hand at making pasta or eggs. His family had always had maids, many of whom had felt a strange urge to spoil the fratelli Auditore, and it had resulted in Ezio being utterly unable to even boil water. There was a good reason that, apart from his close friends, the only people who felt no fear at seeing Il Assassino in person were the food vendors. So, bread, salad, and olives it was, and he felt no remorse in snatching some of Leonardo’s butter as well.

Some people - Ezio himself included - would have called it a miracle that he managed to occupy himself for the remainder of the day and evening, without pacing or growing restless with quiet. Perhaps Rosa had been right and he was starting to get old, or he simply needed a break from the high-paced lifestyle of an assassin, but he quickly dove into Leonardo’s collection of books - finding tomes on everything from astrology to zoology - and realised later that three hours had been devoured by a book on greek legends. Several more were consumed on a book of creatures living in the far distant lands that took many months of travel to reach.

Of Artists and Assassins (5/?)

(Anonymous) 2013-08-20 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Fun Fact: Leonardo da Vinci had a popular party trick where he’d straighten out horseshoes. He was also considered exceedingly handsome and tall, and was by his contemporaries known as a witty conversationalist and an extremely generous soul. Leonardo himself did express distaste in people’s ‘obsession’ with procreation in one of his notebooks - though, judging from the descriptions of his mind and body, the man might just have been tired of having to wade through sexual offers wherever he went...



It was far past sunset when Ezio managed to pull his head out of the books and returned to Leonardo’s bedroom - finding the artist still soundly asleep, although he had rolled over to face the room and was now hugging the pillow in his sleep. Quietly, Ezio wished he had any shred of artistic talent, or some other way of capturing the adorable sight, and understood his friend’s obsession with sketching close to everything.

“Leonardo,” he called, keeping his voice soft, and reached out to gently touch his friend’s shoulder.

Slowed by sleep and the alcohol, and a naturally open face, Ezio found that he could tell the precise thoughts that flickered through Leonardo’s mind as he pulled himself out of whatever deep sleep he had been in. Surprise at seeing Ezio there. A twinge of pain and regret when he recalled the heavy drinking. A flicker of sadness and loneliness when he remembered why. And a slow morph into complete and utter horror when he remembered the discussion they had had while Ezio had coaxed him into bed.

And then, with the full spectrum of emotions and thoughts completed, Leonardo groaned, hid his face in his hands, and rolled over, pulling the sheets up over his head to form a protective cocoon.

“Come on, Leonardo, get up,” Ezio said, poking the bundle with a grin that threatened to make his cheeks hurt if he kept it up much longer.

“Go away, Ezio, and leave me to die of shame,” Leonardo groaned, voice muffled by wool and hemp.

“Nonsense, no one has yet died of shame,” Ezio insisted, tugging at the top-most blanket.

“Fine, then leave me to die from this postumi di sbornia,” Leonardo acquiesced, and the bundled contracted slightly when the artist tried to curl into a ball.

“And that I know isn’t possible, either,” the assassin continued, settling a knee on the edge of the bed when he tugged harder, trying to wrench the blanket from an iron grip. “Leonardo. Sit up, at least. I have something that can help with your hangover.”

Ezio could practically hear Leonardo consider that - could hear that brilliant mind weigh through the aspects for and against his next action - and was thoroughly pleased when the artist untangled himself from the covers and gingerly sat up. Bloodshot eyes, hair looking as if it would have made a fine nest for one of his favoured songbirds, and generally looking almost as pitiful as the puppy he had once convinced Ezio into helping him save from drowning in a canal.

“Wine?” Leonardo said, looking in surprise at the cup he was handed.

Chiodo scaccia chiodo,” the assassin replied with a knowing smile. “Trust me. It helps. That, and food, but I can only bring you the wine, I’m afraid.”

The artist grimaced at the taste. “You couldn’t at least have used one of the decent vintages?”

“There was a nearly empty bottle in your pantry. I didn’t see the need to open a new,” Ezio replied, struggling to keep his grin at bay as he waited for Leonardo to empty the small cup.

And as soon as the clay vessel was lowered, a bead of red caught at the corner of the scruffy, blonde beard, he learned forward to slant their lips together, not caring the least about the sour, vinegary taste that lay above the natural flavour of sweat and skin and paint and soap.

[Exit Animus - Y/N?] - joke update, we return to your regularily scheduled porn on the 25th

(Anonymous) 2013-08-20 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Fun Fact: The whole concept of the Animus reading DNA to obtain memories is ridiculous. The first Animus didn’t seem to have any way of reading a person’s DNA, and Animus 2.0 (aka ‘Baby’) used a visual interface through a cannula… Would have made more sense to talk about using the Y chromosome (which would also explain why we only see male subjects and male ancestors). Makes me wonder - would mutations in the DNA result in the memories being scrambled? Perhaps we have a reason for the Animus glitches: Desmond stood a little too close to the microwave a little too often.


Desmond swore, pulling at the needle in his arm, not caring that he got blood all over Baby, and tried to sort out his own personality from Ezio’s as the Animus’ interface faded from his vision. That fucking bleeding effect took longer and longer for him to shake off every time he came out of that infernal machine.

“Desmond! Calm down, would ya?” Rebecca said, grabbing his shoulders and tried to get him to stay seated.

“Fuck no!” he barked, arm flailing and managing to push the woman away long enough for him to stand up - only to be grateful when her close presence meant she could keep him from falling over.

From her desk, Lucy frowned, looking up from her monitor and whatever lousy emails she had been busy sending. “Desmond, why are you pulling out?”

“What, the princess can’t handle a bit of manly snogging? Too much testosterone for you?” Shaun sniped from his chair - which, frankly, Desmond would have been certain was surgically attached to the Brit’s arse, if he hadn’t seen Shaun out of it a full three times so far. “You didn’t seem to have any problem with Antonio last time, or that flexible boy that no one seems to remember the name of.”

“Fuck you, Shaun,” he snapped. “Except not literally. Fuck. I don’t swing that way,” he said, clutching at his head and tried to reaffirm his own identity instead of that of a 500-year old, Italian pervert.

“Desmond, you know this is a critical memory,” Lucy tried to smooth over, only to have Desmond whirl at her with an accusing finger.

“I was snogging Leonardo da fucking Vinci!” he snarled. “Snogging! And who the fuck knows what else they’ll get up to?! It’s fucking bad enough I have to sit through Ezio whore his way through half of Italy, men and women, without having to bang historically important figures along the way!”

He pointedly ignored Rebecca’s grumble of how they, technically, were historically important figures.

“Well, congratulations, mister homophobic arse, but we don’t have time for your childish tantrums about what you want or not,” Shaun replied, crossing his arms and swung his chair around to scowl at Desmond. “I, for one, would absolutely love a cup of hot cocoa right now, and maybe a nice little vacation to the Seychelles. But neither of us get what we want, as we are stuck here, in an old warehouse, with the Templars sniffing at our heels, and our only bloody hope of getting anything done is to have you man up, get back in there, and just face the fact that you have to bed - as you yourself put it - Leonardo da fucking Vinci.”

“Can’t we just, you know, skip it?” Desmond asked with a face, running hands over his shortly-cropped hair and wished that he had something longer to tug on - as Ezio had done. “Go over it? It can’t be that important, anyway. What are they going to do, find a map over the Pieces of Eden tattooed on Leonardo’s ass?”

“It’s a very important memory to Ezio, and if you want to stay fully synched, you have to live through it,” Lucy said, fingers tapping on the keyboard. “We could skip it, if it didn’t seem to be very closely linked with the next many years of memories, and I’m not sure if we can keep you from desyncing if we avoid it. There’s a reason you saw that many of Altaïr’s memories - if we just throw you in, your mind will desync too fast without the required background information.”

“What the fuck is there to know? They fuck, hook up, and that’s it,” Desmond growled, crossing his arms in a mimicry of Shaun’s posture. “Besides, I’m not a fucking homophobe. I just don’t think it’s.. that it’s right to fuck people that I’ve read about in history books!”

“Good thing you haven’t read more history books, then,” Shaun muttered under his breath, turning back to his screen and typing out yet another database entry or emailing another assassin group or looking up whatever weird porn that float his prickly boat. Desmond did not really care, Rebecca declared that her Baby needed a reboot, anyway, and subtly shoved him into the kitchen to eat the remaining yoghurt before something - or someone - exploded.

Shaun showed up ten minutes later, mutely dumped a stack of prints on the kitchen table, and walked out without a sound. Desmond groaned and banged his head on the table when he realised that it was a neat table of names and dates and accomplishments, each and every one of them being a significant character in their own right, and every single one of them having been fucked by Ezio thus far.

“Fine, you fucker,” Desmond grumbled, scraping out the last of the yoghurt with the pink, pathetically small plastic spoon that came with the yoghurt as angrily as he could. “You just want to watch Ezio and Leonardo get it on. Fucking pervert. I bet you and Rebecca record it all and watch it at night…”

It takes an hour before Lucy finally kicked Shaun from the room, told Rebecca to turn off the visual recorder, and convinced Desmond that he’d get to experience it at some point, anyway, and so he might as well get it over with.

“I’m not a homophobe,” he muttered as Rebecca slid the IV back into his arm, and his view dissolved into the smoky grey of the Animus’ interface. “I’ve slept with men.”

“Ooh, this is going to be fun,” the techie cackles with glee as the rest of his senses are fading - the last he heard was the thump of Lucy’s fist making contact with black hair, and a dismissive bark about the recording software being turned off, thankyouverymuch.

OP thinks A!A enjoys making her laugh her ass off in public

(Anonymous) 2013-08-20 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
You! You amazing writer! I have to say that you wrote each character so well, and so cannon that i half thought that this could have been a deleted scene from the actual game. I love how Shaun one-ups Des with the stack of papers stating how important each of Ezio's lovers were. XD It was perfect!

Really, as far as i am concerned, you will all of the Internets. I look forward to your fills when you get back.

P.S: Please don't ever apologize for "getting plot all over my story". Please get as much plot as you want all over it. It looks fabulous! <3

Of Artists and Assassins (6/?) - and now we return to your regularily scheduled porn

(Anonymous) 2013-08-25 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
Fun Fact: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born out of wedlock, hence his lack of a proper last name (da Vinci just means ‘from Vinci’, and di ser Piero would be ‘son of Sir Piero’). His mother was presumably named Caterina, as his tax papers named her as a dependent, and Leonardo da Vinci later paid for her funeral - she was most likely a maid or a peasant, but we do not know for certain. Leonardo was taken into the household of his father, Piero Fruosino - a notary - around the age of five, and was apparently doted on despite being a bastard. His father remarried four times, and Leonardo was about 18 before the first legitimate heir to the Fruosino family was born. Two years after that, Leonardo da Vinci was considered a master of the arts and was given his own workshop in Florence - talk about setting high standards for his younger brothers to live up to!




The kiss was, if possible, even more chaste this time, the lips against his frozen in shock. However, much to his delight, his attempt of pulling back had Leonardo follow part of the way, lips still immobile.

Sitting back fully, his smile satisfied and hungry at once, Ezio watched the emotions play through those delightfully expressive eyes, before the front of his doublet was caught in a strong hand and he was yanked, roughly, into a proper snog. Tongue meeting his in a battle for dominance, teeth descending on his lower lip when he had to pull back for air, and that dominant hand pulling him back in for a second round.

When they finally parted, both were out of breath, and Ezio was certain that his lips were just as reddened and kiss-swollen as Leonardo’s. They stared at each other, each man trying to find a path to go from there. The assassin’s fingers twitched when the artist’s eyes turned worried and sad for a moment, and he felt a desperate urge to push Leonardo down and kiss and lick and taste until that awful expression was forgotten and only cries of pleasure remained.

“I hope that that, too, helped on the headache,” Ezio said with the most charming, wry grin he could manage, and dropped his voice to a seductive purr, “else I’m certain I could think of a few other ways to take your mind off it…”

Leonardo gave him a soft, oddly tired smile, the unfaltering grip on the other’s doublet preventing Ezio from leaning in for another kiss. The assassin was proud enough to admit that he pouted then, and was relieved when Leonardo’s smile turned genuine and lost the shade of sorrow and worry.

“As tempting as what you offer is,” Leonardo said, placing a finger on Ezio’s lips to silence the protest, “then not now. I’m still quite hungover, and I’d rather have a clear head for, ah, our ’sport’.”

Ezio grinned ferally, mouth opening to suck on that finger, laving it suggestively with his tongue, teeth nipping every so gently at the sensitive skin, and felt a thrill run down his spine at how the artist’s eyes dilated in beautiful, naked lust. “You are right, caro mio,” he breathed, letting the digit fall from his lips with a final kiss. “You should eat and drink first. Recover your strength for what I have in mind…”

Leonardo nodded mutely, just the faintest tinge of red on his cheeks beneath the freckles, and Ezio rose to his feet, taking care to put an extra swing in his step as he sauntered out of the bedroom. Even seeing the cleared workshop did not cool the fire in his blood, and he was well aware that he was grinning like a hungry wolf as he puttered about the kitchen and tried to find something that could work as a meal for the two of them.

It ended up being the rest of the bread, butter and olives, some of the hard cheese Leonardo favoured and Ezio detested, and a jar of the sugary, fruity preserves that they both enjoyed. The assassin did consider ramping up his already blatant seduction and serve the meal without a shirt - until he remembered that strangely forlorn look Leonardo had had, and realised that there were old ghosts that he had to vanquish before he could get the artist’s full attention.

And so, when Leonardo joined him - newly washed, hair combed, and in fresh clothes and hat - the assassin was fully dressed and peacefully sitting at the table, pouring water for them both. The artist tsked and went to make tea, and soon boiled eggs and beans joined their meal as well.

They ate mostly in silence, and at the way Leonardo was packing away the food, Ezio sorely suspected that he had come across his friend after yet another period of time where the artist simply forgot to eat. So, instead of bringing up any topics that could distract Leonardo’s appetite, he settled for watching with a small smile, piling more onto the plate whenever his artist was about to run out of food, picking delicately at his own until the table was close to cleaned.

Of Artists and Assassins (7/10)

(Anonymous) 2013-08-26 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Fun Fact: There was not one, but two (that we know of) accusations of sodomy against Leonardo da Vinci - one in April 1476, and the other in June of the same year. The details on both are fuzzy, but the first would appear to have been dismissed as one of the other four people accused were close with the Medici. The second one was dismissed as it was unsigned (at a time where accusations of sodomy could be made secretly, but not anonymously). Still, no wonder that our Leonardo hung around with the more trustworthy thieves and assassins, eh?

“So,” Leonardo began, leaning back in his seat and discreetly held up a napkin to hide his burp.

“I can’t stay faithful,” Ezio said, having spent the meal thinking, and figured that that little step might as well be out in the open from the very beginning. He had tried, of course, but inevitably his attention would wander, no matter how much he cared about the other person, and while Ezio had the single minded determinedness of a ballistica bolt, he was also well aware that he had the willpower of a particularly wet sock.

The artist’s smile turned wry. “The day you stay faithful to someone, Ezio, is when you’re ten years from the grave of old age,” he said. “Besides, I cannot well ask for something that I know I cannot offer in return.”

The assassin raised a curious eyebrow at that.

“I have the very finest young men that bella Italia has to offer come to my bottega to be sketched and painted,” Leonardo elaborated, the barest of a flush on his cheeks, although his smile was unashamed. “Most who insist that it is done with little or no clothes. Many who are young enough to be curious and quite lussuriosi, and value the flesh over the law. Honestly, you cannot possibly expect me to be able to stay loyal without giving up my art at the same time.”

Ezio smirked. “Corrompere i giovani, are you? Leonardo, you sly dog! Makes me wish I had agreed when my mother asked if I could model for her pet painter, instead of bullying Federico into going instead…” He paused, something clicking in his head, remembering when his brother had returned from one such modelling session in a remarkably better mood than when he had left, and with several lovebites he had desperately tried to hide under his collar. At the time, Ezio merely had thought his brother had taken a detour home, as Ezio himself had done so often. “Leonardo… Did you and Federico..?”

The artist did not reply, but his telltale blush and sudden refusal to meet Ezio’s eyes was plenty of answer on their own.

“Well,” the assassin said after a moment to digest that new bit of information, and leaned over the table, hungry grin snapping back in place, “at least now I know you won’t be completely taken aback by the sheer passion of an Auditore.”

“There is… One more thing,” Leonardo said, fiddling with his cup, though his gaze was warm and determined. “This won’t be just once. I refuse to be merely another notch in your spalliera.”

Va bene. I had not planned on it being a one-time experience, either. That would not be fair to you or to me,” Ezio said with a nod, leaning his weight on his arms. “Any other conditions?” he asked, grin widening. “Any restrictions on the use of shackles? Of toys? Or molesting you in public?”

That got a reaction, as Leonardo flinched; the old, raw terror that Ezio had glimpsed earlier returning in full. “Nothing public. I… I would prefer if but the two of us know of it,” Leonardo said, that beautiful lust and need having been replaced entirely by worry and fear.

Ezio quietly swore, but, at least he had found out where those ghosts lay. Now he just had to find out who had put that terror in his beautiful, friendly, all-around cheery friend, and figure out a particularly slow and painful way of killing them. “Leonardo..?”

The artist took a steadying breath, eyes on the empty cup in his hands. “There were… people, in Firenze, who learned of my preferences. There were many… accusations against me.” He paused and looked up, a weak but wry smile crossing his face. “Had you not killed Uberto Alberti when you had, he would most likely have ensured that my trial would be seen through, and that I would swing from the gallows.”

The assassin felt his hand twitch, although the lack of its usual bracer - currently sitting on the side of the table along with most of his other weapons - meant that the hidden blade could not pop out of at the reflexive motion. “I understand,” he said, flexing his hand under the table, and forced himself to give Leonardo a comforting smile. “Still, if either of us should be caught, I’m certain that they would much prefer to charge you for housing, aiding, and equipping a known assassino, rather than something as difficult to prove as sodomy.”

Thankfully, Leonardo laughed at that. “Ezio,” he said, the smile almost reaching his eyes, “if I didn’t know better, I would think that you’re trying to talk me out of this!”

“Well, there’s always the constant risk that I’ll bring an army of guards to your door; that someone may kidnap you and force you to make weapons for them; that I’ll bring home flesh-eating genitial parasites from one of the courtesans; or that you’ll simply end up tired of me barging through the window at all times of the day to raid your larder and drool all over your pillow,” Ezio cheerily replied, batting his eyelashes. “Really, Leonardo, there are several reasons as to why this would be a generally bad idea.”

Leonardo’s long, talented fingers tapped out a melody on the cup, although the old fear on his face was rapidly fading, to be replaced with open amusement and laughter, and just a bit of that lovely naked lust. “And why, amico mio, should we then do this?” he asked, head tilting slightly to the side, his grin playful.

Ezio rose from his seat and moved to lean over Leonardo’s, pressing a kiss against his forehead. “Because, I’m discreet,” he said, moving to brush his lips against a soft eyelid, “and because you’re so much more than a painter or engineer or brief fling to me,” shifting to the other eyelid, tongue briefly darting out to taste that taunting freckle there, “and because I’m willing to try, and to keep trying even when I run into problems I cannot easily solve.” Finally reaching those wonderful lips, whispering against them, “and because I have a simply massive pene that I know how to use.”

Of Artists and Assassins (8/11)

(Anonymous) 2013-08-29 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Fun Fact: A!A has consumed no less than 2324 cups of chocolate milk over the course of writing the story so far.
Also, A!A currently find themselves in over their head with work, so adding an extra part to the story in order to update
something.



Leonardo seized him by the front of his doublet, pulling him in for a long, hard kiss. “Do not make promises you may not be able to keep, caro mio,” he growled, before that iron grip pulled them together again.

“Who said anything about promises? I was merely stating facts,” Ezio replied with a smirk, his heart pounding for reasons entirely unrelated to the lack of air, and was hauled in for another rough kiss. “Now, if I was to make promises, it would be that neither of us will get any sleep until far past the sunrise.” A fourth kiss followed. “Or that I would ravish you until you’d be spoiled for any young model’s touch.” That earned him another kiss, this time with teeth and lips tugging at his lower lip until he moaned. “Or that, cazzo, Leonardo! Or that neither of us will be able to walk tomorrow!”

“Good promises,” Leonardo panted, hands firmly grabbing Ezio’s arse and practically pulling the assassin into his lap. “I like those promises.”

Ezio made a noise of approval, ground his hips forward and down and grinned into the kiss at how Leonardo groaned deeply, his grip trembling against the assassin.

“Upstairs, Ezio, per favore!” he gasped, fingers tangling in - but not pulling at - Ezio’s hair with said assassin leaned in to start kissing his way down a pale neck.

“Mm.. Why? I quite like the thought of having you gasping and writhing on the kitchen floor,” Ezio replied, thoroughly distracted with pulling open the artist’s shirt and figuring out just how far down those lovely, lickable freckles went.

“The bedroom is soundproofed.”

The assassin did cease his ministrations at that, looking up - well aware by now that, if not for other reasons, his cheeks would hurt in the morning from his grins. “Leonardo!” he chuckled.

Leonardo blushed scarlet, shoving at the other man hard enough that Ezio found himself on his feet instead of in Leonardo’s lap. “Not like that! I just like to sleep regardless of the noise on the street! Or have you, perhaps, forgotten that there is a tavern just a stone’s throw from here?”

“Save your excuses, Leonardo, and let us go take advantage of your soundproof bedroom,” the assassin grinned, grabbing one charcoal-stained hand in his and pulled the artist up as well. Feeling oddly giddy as he led the way through the dark workshop, Leonardo’s hand still in his.

Hyper aware of everything - the heat from the other man; the smells of bread and oil and soap on them both. The lingering dust in the air; the smell of sleep when they entered the bedroom - and then Leonardo spun him around and slammed him against the now-closed door.

Tongues and lips were quickly fully occupied with tasting each other again, and Ezio pulled at Leonardo’s shirt, trying to reveal more of that lovely skin to lick. The artist, however, gave up on trying to divert the assassin of the multitude of belts and buckles and overly ornate sashes that held his assassin’s robe in place - meant for an active lifestyle mostly involving laughing in the face of gravity and scampering up walls at a speed that could make a squirrel jealous - and instead tugged the cloth up to access the trousers beneath; dextrous hands making quick work of the knot and diving under the leather to stroke and caress.

Ezio pulled back with a snarl of pleasure, biting the shoulder he had been laving attention on, before settling for gasping and panting as he could literally feel Leonardo measure him. A small hum from the artist as those deviant hands stroked from root to tip, and then he leaned close, voice dropping a full octave as he all but breathed, “Voglio che mi scopi.”

It took a moment for those glorious words to filter through the assassin’s usually sharp mind, and then he pushed forward, walking Leonardo backwards until the back of the artist’s knees hit the edge of the bed, and, with a small squeak of surprise, he toppled backwards, dragging Ezio down with him. The assassin was quick to take advantage of the new position, pushing up on his hands to bestow kisses on his soon-to-be lover and firmly grind their hips together until Leonardo’s moans threatened to undo him.

“Slick?” he panted, all too aware of how the artist’s hands were busy kneading fistfuls of his arse.

“Drawer,” Leonardo ground out, teeth and lips mostly occupied with marking the other man’s neck.

Both hissed at the loss of contact when Ezio pulled back entirely, moving to the side to rummage through the nightstand - though Leonardo was doing his to keep the assassin’s attention distracted by rolling over, biting and caressing his rear, and hands doing a fair attempt of divesting him entirely of his trousers.

“Leonardo!” Ezio gasped, feeling a spit-slickened thumb skirt over his bottom, pressing against the puckered hole, and caused him to nearly drop the small bottle.

Magnifico,” the artist murmured, teeth lightly scraping against soft skin. “I long to sketch you like this - so desperate and needy…”

“Perhaps later,” Ezio groaned, arching willingly when that finger slipped in and pressed against the sensitive spot within. “Enough! I wish to see you!”

Re: Of Artists and Assassins (9/11)

(Anonymous) 2013-09-05 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
A/N: Technically, supposed to be the second half of part 8. But it was splitting it, or go two weeks with no update...

Fun Fact: In Venice during the 1500s and 1600s, Jewish people were required to wear red hats. Leonardo da Vinci, though, was Christian, so that detail may have been Ubisoft goofing up while trying to make him easily recognisable in a crowd. Especially because he apparently DID wear a hat similar to what he has in the game, but it was most likely black. No stories of whether or not he would wear it everywhere, however.



Leonardo pulled back obediently at that, giving the assassin a much needed respite to recover his wits, and allowed them both time to undress. Ezio roughly yanked the robes over his own head once enough buckles had been loosened; emerging from the sea of white to find a gloriously aroused Leonardo laying his own, folded clothing over the back of the chair and mock-scowling when the assassin cheerfully kicked leggings and robe to the floor.

“If anything, I’ll grow tired of you leaving dirty clothes everywhere,” the artist affectionately grumbled, willingly moving to kneel astride Ezio when the latter beckoned him.

“I won’t complain about the sketches in the bedroom, if you don’t complain about the clothes on the floor,” the assassin chuckled, wrapping an oil-slick hand around Leonardo’s length.

The artist groaned, hips shifting to slide through that loose grip, his bright eyes fluttering closed in pleasure. Intent on taking advantage of the other’s docileness, Ezio brought his other hand around, testing the entrance. Leonardo moaned, arching beautifully, legs spreading further to allow access, and the assassin could not help a groan of his own at the sight.

“So greedy,” he breathed, pressing two fingers in, and felt rather than saw Leonardo’s fingers tighten in the sheets when he twisted them just so. “How many times have you touched yourself like this, imagining your fingers to be mine?”

Troppi,” the artist gasped, hips stuttering as he tried to gain further friction.

Ezio pulled back then, savouring that hungry, needy whine of protest, before rolling them both over. While it was a less intriguing position than before, he could move freely now, and seized the opportunity to continue his old mission of licking each freckle while his hands returned to their tasks of stroking and petting. Leonardo made the perfect noise, half breathing Ezio’s name; half a prayer; and half a sound of raw, primal hunger. Arching willingly into the assassin’s hands, body greedily accepting three fingers with little difficulty.

Bello,” Ezio murmured against skin, and bent to taste the hard, weeping length in his hand.

Leonardo screamed then, tossing his head back and clawed at the sheets; body arching, trying to gain more contact. The assassin found he had to use his free hand to pin the hips to the mattress, lest he ended up biting an area he had no plans for biting, but, in turn, could bop his head freely, fingers stroking in counter to every move.

The artist was panting his name like a prayer, hands scrabbling for purchase when Ezio’s teeth gently teased the head; fisting in the sheets when he curled his fingers just so; and grasped at the dark hair when the assassin sank down fully, letting the muscles of his throat do the work until his vision swam black from the lack of air. This, he decided, was a far more pleasant way to cause a jaw ache than grinning like an idiot throughout the day, especially when his reward were those desperate, needy sounds.

“Beautiful,” he panted, pulling back to catch his breath, and flared the four fingers he had fitted in, feeling the artist’s muscles tense at the sudden pressure; even as the artist pushed into the touch, desperate for more.

Re: Of Artists and Assassins (9/11)

(Anonymous) 2013-09-09 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
This is all kinds of lovely and exactly what I needed. You are awesome. I love the historical notes too!

Re: Of Artists and Assassins (9/11)

(Anonymous) 2013-09-23 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
OP Here: I hope writer didn't go poof. It was getting really good. :(

Of Artists and Assassins (10/11)

(Anonymous) 2013-09-30 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
A/N: Go poof? Nah. This A!A never gives up on a story without letting others know about it.

Fun Fact: Leonardo da Vinci considered himself an engineer foremost, and a painter only as an afterthought. However, models and war machines are easily lost to time, and so we know him mostly as a painter - in the process forgetting that he was so ahead of his time that he was theorising about plate tectonics at a time where the vast majority of people couldn’t read.




Ezio was only dimly aware that his hands were shaking as he reached for the bottle of oil to slick himself with; his mind far too occupied with the sight of Leonardo spread across the bed sheets, sweat-matted hair sticking to skin, steely grey eyes dilated to the point of near total black, skin flushed with arousal, and chest heaving for breath.

Magnifico,” the assassin groaned, certain that he could be undone by that sight alone.

Ezio!” Leonardo all but snarled, body twisting to let him spread his legs wider. “I swear, if you don’t fuck me right this instant, I’ll-”

It was, Ezio decided, amazing how quickly the otherwise eloquent Leonardo could dissolve into nothing but moans and heady whimpers at the touch of a tongue on his cock.

His lips kissed a quick path upwards through the trail of coarse, golden hair; up a finely toned stomach; crossed the chest where he could feel that fluttering heartbeat against his lips; and finally rejoined that lovely mouth - feeling Leonardo’s arms and legs embracing him even as their tongues stroked and and caressed. Their lengths met, and, for a brief while, Ezio could not muster the willpower to pull away, savouring the slide of flesh against flesh too much.

“Take me, assassino,” Leonardo growled, breaking their kiss in favour of biting Ezio’s neck. “Before I pin you down and make you.”

“So impatient,” the assassin laughed, lavishing attention on one soft ear, enjoying the way he could cause soft gasps and moans against his skin. “You won’t let me make gentle, sweet love to you through the entire night?”

“Right now, I am not in the mood for neither gentle nor sweet,” the other groaned, grabbing onto a rear toned by running from guards, archers, and just for the fun of it, pulling them together with more force, and nipped a path up the assassin’s throat. “Ezio, please...”

That soft noise fully eroded any last shred of willpower, and Ezio was hardly aware of grabbing onto legs and shifting them both into position - only aware of the slide of flesh, of pressure growing around his cock, of trying, trying to be gentle, to push only when muscles around him relaxed and pause when they did not… Until Leonardo, frustrated with the slow pace, wrapped his legs around the assassin’s waist and pulled. Ezio gasped for breath, the very air nearly knocked from his lungs at the sudden spike of heat and pressure and bliss around him.

Dio, you’re big,” Leonardo groaned against his neck, and the assassin felt the imprint of teeth against his skin. “Move, Ezio, before-”

The younger man snapped his hips forward at that, and the artist’s next words were drowned in a groaned gargle of pleasure, his arms’ embrace tightening, and Ezio was quite aware that he would have a thoroughly well-chewed neck come morning.

“You have no idea how good you look like this,” he moaned against one freckled ear, nipping at the lobe as his hips found a steady rhythm, feeling the artist’s gasps and groans against his skin at every dive forward. “Did you know, you were the one who drove me to such curiosity that I sleep with as many men as women these days?”

Parlare di meno,” Leonardo panted, legs wrapping tighter around narrow hips, trying to urge the other into a quicker pace. “Scoparmi!”

Ezio pulled back, to Leonardo’s hissed protest and frantic grabbing, only to pull pale thighs over his shoulders, before plunging back in - and finding that he had a new hobby in discovering new ways to make his artist scream. Pushing forward, clawing for further purchase on the sheets as he drove deeper, faster, their rutting frantic and desperate. Pleasure building quickly; a coiling, thorny want that left Ezio with little thought beyond the urge to draw more moans from his lover; to make the blunt, paint-stained nails dig into his shoulders as his partner struggled to get him deeper, faster, and harder, Ezio, please!

Only too happy to oblige, he lifted up slightly, pushing the artist’s shoulders down with one hand, and reached between them. Leonardo gasped, eyes widening in shock, and then came apart, clenching gloriously around Ezio as he spilled between them. And the assassin found himself helpless to do any but follow - coming hard enough for it to be painful; momentarily blinded by the sheer bliss.

Slowly coming to his senses, feeling gentle fingers lazily comb through his hair. He moaned softly, feeling warmth around his flaccid flesh, and mouthed against sweat-salted skin, feeling the pulse there slowly recovering from its erratic beat.

Buon compleanno,” he murmured, unable to help his own, satisfied grin, and shifted just enough for them to slip apart, refusing to mourn the loss of the warmth around him.

Leonardo made an unhappy, though still satisfied noise, not entirely unlike the giant cat for which he had been named. ”I think it beats the time when my father gave me my first charcoals,” he replied dreamily, fingers returning to coming through the dark hair.

“Good. Sleep now,” Ezio grumbled, and found himself shoved aside to lie beside Leonardo; though he was quick to wrap his arms around the other when the artist made to leave the bed, in a cuddle that threatened to turn violent if it was denied.

Ezio..,” Leonardo said, sounding exasperated.

“We can complain in the morning about not having cleaned up,” the assassin said, already half-asleep, and curled more firmly around his lover.

Leonardo made a few, token protests more, but soon enough relented, and Ezio was only too happy to doze off with his ear pressed against a strong back, and the sound of a heartbeat lulling him to full sleep.

Of Artists and Assassins (11/11) - le fin

(Anonymous) 2013-10-10 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Fun Fact: Leonardo da Vinci was very fond of playing pranks - especially if he could throw the entire Vatican into fits of panic by, say, dressing up a lizard like a dragon. Our Leonardo with a meat cleaver? Totally up his alley. Ezio was probably just no fun to prank, and so we don’t get to see more of that side of Leonardo within the game. Also, Leonardo was born on the 15 of April by the Julian calendar, though our (Gregorian) calendar would put him down as born on the 24th.

Secondary fun fact: The Carnivale of 1484, the year of this story, fell in the start of February. Cristina and Ezio had their second-to-last meeting at the Carnivale in 1484. I did not actually plan that when I began on
Of Artists And Assassins, but sometimes fate decides to make things work in one’s favour.



They coupled again at some point during the early morning. Ezio woke to curious. questing fingers trailing over the growing number of scars on his back; and he had pulled an apologetic but willing Leonardo on top of himself in return. Dry seed and old oil had presented an interesting counterpoint to the sensations of flesh against flesh, and, really, the assassin would have been embarrassed by how quickly he found his release, had his attention not fully been on stroking and petting and caressing until the other shuddered and added to the mess between them.

Giddy and sated, Ezio reacted too slowly to prevent the artist from rolling out of the warm bed and retrieving a wet cloth to clean them both with - though he did manage to stave off sleep long enough to insist that Leonardo joined him again. Once again curled up around a warm body, sleep quickly reclaimed the assassin’s otherwise well-honed mind.

When he woke again, the sun had risen, and Ezio was disappointed to find that the bed was empty. That the clothes over the back of the chair were missing. And, which caused his stomach to knot painfully over the simple domesticity, his clothes had been picked up from the floor and neatly folded, bracers and sword on top. A basin of water waited for him, clean cloth by its side, and he was certain that he could smell toasted bread wafting up from the downstairs workshop.

It took him a short while - sitting at the edge of the bed, savouring the ache in his loins and the bruises on his neck, and trying not to grin like an idiot - to realise that he felt happy. For the first time since Cristina had yelled at him and plainly told him that he had missed any chance he could have had with her, and that she never wished to see him again. A strange feeling, he concluded, when that memory was no longer accompanied by quite the same heartbreak as earlier.

After washing and dressing - spending far too long, really, on tightening and adjusting the multitude of buckles in an unhurried way that he had not had the luxury of in several years - and strapping on the considerable arsenal of weapons he owned, the now fully-dressed assassin made his way downstairs. Leaving the bedroom where both of their barriers had been broken down, and left the two men with something… new. Ezio was still unsure of what to call it, but, he knew, it was something he had every intention of holding onto, by any means available to him.

Of course the workshop was still eerily clean. But Leonardo seemed to have had a flash of inspiration over the course of the night or morning, and Ezio was happy to see that one only-just-begun painting; four sketches of birds and one of some kind of giant crossbow; one half-constructed model; three glass jars with unmentionable and possibly flammable liquids; and half a dozen screws and springs now decorated various surfaces around the workshop. Slowly, but steadily, Leonardo’s tendency to begin projects had started to turn the place into something that had a cozy familiarity to its chaos.

And within the kitchen, Leonardo was puttering about in trousers and tunic, with only a pair of loose shoes protecting his feet from the cold stone floor. The table, cleared of what had remained of their dinner, had instead been laid out with breakfast, and warm tea steamed from the cups.

“Good morning, mio amore,” Ezio said with a grin, leaning against the door frame.

“Toast’s gone cold, sorry,” Leonardo said, gesturing momentarily with a skillet, and very nearly sent the sliced turnips within into the fire, although his smile was broad and happy and just a bit nervous, as if the assassin would up and vanish at any moment.

“I think I’ll survive,” Ezio replied, walking over to give a kiss to his new lover, and found that, yes, he could most definitely get used to this peaceful life.

Of Artists and Assassins - Italian-English phrasebook and postscriptum

(Anonymous) 2013-10-10 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Italian phrasebook, in order of appearance (but not reappearance). Please note that I don’t speak any notable Italian, so, it is likely filled with errors:

Buon giorno - Good day
Mio amico - My friend
La mia casa è la tua - Make yourself at home (Lit: My house is yours)
Mi dispiace - My apologies
Solí - Alone
In pace - In peace
Cazzo di idiota - Fucking idiot
Buon compleanno - Happy birthday
Grazie - Thank you
Ti amo - I love you
La Rosa - The Rose
Fratelli Auditore - (the) Brothers Auditore
Il Assassino - The Assassin
Postumi di sbornia - Hangover (lit: After-drinking effect)
Chiodo scaccia chiodo - Hair of the dog (lit: Nail against nail)
Caro mio - My dear
La bella Italia - Beautiful Italy
Bottega - Shop
Lussuriosi - Lustful
Corrompere i giovani - Corrupting the youth
Spalliera - Headboard (of a bed)
Va bene - That’s fine
Pene - Penis
Per favore - Please
Voglio che mi scopi - I want you to fuck me
Magnifico - Magnificent
Troppi - Too many
Bello - Beautiful
Parlare di meno - Less talk
Scoparmi - Fuck me
Mio amore - My love




What happens after this, you may ask? Well, the prompt was only for sex; the story just wanted a bunch of plot all over itself along with a fluffy enough ending to rot teeth.


My headcanon, however, for the continuation of this story:

Ezio remains as an assassin, of course, despite his desire here for a peaceful, uneventful life. One year after this, in 1485, he uses the flying machine to infiltrate the Palazzo Ducale in a mad dash to try and save the Doge (a failed mission). That caused him to become a wanted man, and forcing him to flee Venice for a year. In 1486, he returns, only to find that Leonardo and Antonio have apparently struck up something in the interim - much to Ezio's amusement.

In 1488, Leonardo first examined the Apple, before Ezio lost it during the seige of Forlí - and the two were apart until 1492, where Ezio lost track of the Apple in Spain, and returned to Italy, where he continued the hunt for the Apple until 1498, where he had Cristina die in his arms. That event drove a permanent stake between Leonardo and Ezio, as Ezio could not bear to keep anyone near to his heart out of fear of losing them.

A fear that came true in 1499, the mere year after, when Cesare kidnapped Leonardo without Ezio even realising. In fact, Ezio only learned of this in 1502 - which... frankly did not help much on what little remained of the spark between them. The friendship, however, persisted kidnappings and beatings and Salai, and Leonardo continued to construct weapons and tools for the Assassin Order - though he refused the offer to be initiated in the Order. Ezio returned from Turkey in 1512 with Sofia, and Leonardo took the oppertunity to move to France. Both to retire, and to leave his old friend and love to raise a family without any old inventors hanging around to be a distraction. Ezio retires fully from the Assassin Order, instead focusing his time on Sofia and their two children, and on tending to his wineyard

The two met one final time in France, where Ezio came to bid his final farewells, and they shared one last kiss. And, on May 2nd, 1519, Leonardo passed away, joking that Ezio would only be a few years behind him, as the assassin had always been.

In 1524, the prediction turns true, when Ezio sits upon a bench in Florence for a rest while out with Sofia and their two children. And passes away, having at last had the peaceful life and unbloody death he had longed for for so long.

Re: Of Artists and Assassins - Italian-English phrasebook and postscriptum

(Anonymous) 2013-10-11 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
Sooooo... this is about twelve different kinds of amazing and a dozen kinds of awesome. Especially your headcanon for later, which has an organic and three-dimensional quality that I find particularly wonderful. (Sorry if that last comment doesn't make sense, but if I had a talent for writing then I'd be posting fic instead of commenting on them.)

Have you filled anything else around here? Because I would love to read more of your stuff if it's available.

Re: Of Artists and Assassins - A!A

(Anonymous) 2013-10-11 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, A!A only recently got into the AC fandom. Had only just finished ACII when I started this fill. Chewed my way through Brotherhood while writing it. And just started on Revelations three days ago (dunno how many civilians I've accidentally shot so far while trying to talk to a shopkeeper...).

But, A!A will definitely be around to fill more prompts.

Right now, they're just happy that OP likes the fill. :D

OP! Is more than happy with the fill!

(Anonymous) 2013-10-12 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh my god. A!A Has made me so very, Very, VERY happy! Seriously, i could kiss you if i could! <3 Thank you so much for the beautiful fill, you have a real talent for writing and I love my birthday gift from you! <3

Re: OP! Is more than happy with the fill!

(Anonymous) 2013-10-13 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Happy OP makes for a happy A!A. ^^