happy ever after started with you

Whenever Maverick reflected back on his relationship with Venom, if anyone asked him when he knew he was smitten with the elegant, white-gloved Empress, he would say from their first interaction. Venom had been such the polar opposite of him—haughty, aloof, high-strung, stern. It might have bewildered anyone else to know that was the woman a renegade like Maverick had fallen for, but the answer was actually very simple in nature. Venom was the yin to his yang, the balance to his chaos. Where he had helped her recover from a broken heart by letting go of the uptight monarch she had forced herself to become, the same was equally true for himself as Venom brought him back together, kept him grounded and stable, steadied him against uneven seas. Apart they were extremes of opposite ends of the spectrum, but together they created a beautiful harmony that made the sky and snow brute wonder how he had ever lived his life without her in it before now. Maybe he hadn't been alive at all, and Mav's life only truly began that sunny summer day on the Ashen coast.

And now here they lay, wrapped up in each other and cuddled so close it was impossible to tell where one body began and another ended. Their coats mingled and meshed, charcoal and navy and white all over blending together where they touched. The humming sounds of delight Maverick was able to pull from Venom when he played with and teased the quills in her scruff made his grin widen. He loved doing things that made his love feel good, and these secret little shows of intimate knowledge of her body were the perfect way to obtain them. Just before his mouth claimed hers in a deeply passionate kiss, his lover had teased him back, asking if he was not as needy as she was. Maverick hadn't responded in the moment, but as the two wolves fed at each other's mouths like horny yearlings, the dire brute couldn't help but cop a feel of his Empress' shapely rump, squeezing her supple flesh between his toes while he tugged her hips closer to his. He pulled Venom's body taut to his, so close she would no doubt feel the press of his arousal and need against her slender belly, teasing her with the feel of warm flesh on flesh. Their lips only parted once both of them needed to breathe, Mav sucking in a deep, urgent gasp of air and reveling in the pleased gasps he pulled from Venom as he manhandled her.

"I bet you can feel how needy I am," teased the lustful rogue with a grin and a hungry look in his deep teal eyes. He knew Venom couldn't see the grin on his face, but he knew she could hear it in his low, rumbling tones, just as she could feel his desire pressing into her lower stomach with a subtle push of his hips toward her. Without her sight, their lovemaking would be all touch and sound and taste, navigating one another by familiarity. Venom's whispered words drew enticed hums from her brute, and Maverick gingerly brushed the side of his muzzle against Venom's while his paws moved over her body, never letting them part from her so she could feel where his touch was on her at all times without surprises. "Mmm I think you're right..." he mused in sultry purrs. One paw moved to wrap around Venom's waist, holding her by her hips while the other slid down her supple thigh to hoist her hind leg up over his waist and draw her closer to him.

Maverick could have maneuvered Venom into any position for their lovemaking and he was sure she wouldn't resist him in the least, but for their first time being intimate in a while and knowing it would be their first time mating since the loss of her sight, Mav wanted the highest amount of intimacy and closeness he could give his goddess. So he shifted their bodies to align their hips like this, wrapped up around one another on their sides amongst the plush furs. He wanted to be facing Venom the entire time, to watch the pleasure and love as it danced across her beautiful face. He wanted to be even with her, lost in her as they entangled themselves together. And so he gave his Venom just that. Once he felt their bodies align, Maverick pressed his hips forward and sank home, gritting his teeth against the sudden hot wave of pleasure that crashed into him from that initial connection. A deep groan resonated in the dire brute's chest, his paws clutching possessively and lovingly around Venom's waist and thigh, holding her to him while he brought them together.

Mav only stopped once they were fully joined, gasping for breath and staring deeply into unseeing sunset jewels while he basked in her perfection. "Close enough now...?" he teased her between gasping breaths, planting a playful lick over her nose before he began to build that slow, steady rhythm with his hips withdrawing and rolling back into hers, holding her perfect body to his all the while he took her and claimed her, making love to Venom in the way the Empress always deserved to have.

"Venom & Maverick"