| 1. | [100moods] 92. Surprised | Sparrow x Frost, last-name basis | 2. | [15pairings] look who's on top | top!Simon x Frost not during groupsex | 3. | [50harlequins] Spoiled Rich Girl and Poor Boy | Circle!Sparrow x Victor!Frost | 4. | Alduin x F!DB x M!DB, corruption & Shout!Sex | 5. | [15pairings] indecent exposure | Galen x Frost, seduction |
| 6. | Avery x Rylan x Jackson, dubcon & sex pollen | 7. | Caderyn catches Charon x Adrasteia | 8. | [15pairings] men | Simon x Sam, first time | 9. | [citrus-taste | Kinkier Table] 44. masturbation | Sparrow x Frost | 10. | [alphabetasoup] Hades | Sparrow x Frost |
| 11. | Dark!Hera x everyone AU | 12. | demon!Rylan x Avery x Ion, dubcon (Susanne & Myles Die AU) | 13. | Dom!M!Dragonborn x slave!Ancano x slave!Ondolemar, mindbreak | 14. | Domme!Esmeralda x slave!Scorpius x slave!Octavius, noncon & mindbreak | 15. | Dom!Sigurd x slave!Charon x slave!Caderyn x slave!Zephyrus (+ Adrasteia) |
| 16. | [citrus-taste] K-2. table | Sparrow x Simon x Nadia | 17. | [citrus-taste] 26. harems | Harem/Parabellum Crossover | 18. | [paranormal25] 23. writer's choice, tentacles | 19. | Malene x Ancano, fantasy AU & arranged marriage | 20. | [Maze of Fiends] Mate or Die AU |
| 21. | M!DB x M!Werewolf, hentai physiology & urethral penetration | 22. | [over-look] play dead | Izzy x Octavian, necrophilia roleplay | 23. | [smut-69] oil | Sparrow x Frost | 24. | [smut-69] orgy | Sparrow x Frost x Simon x Nadia x Loretta x Izzy | 25. | [lover100] S-61. secret | Sparrow x Frost |
| 26. | [lover-100] S-27. threesome | Sparrow x Frost x Galen | 27. | [citrus-taste] K-47. in public | Sparrow x Frost x Galen | 28. | Zevran x Lyna x King!Alistair, roleplay/raceplay #1 | 29. | Zevran x Lyna x King!Alistair, roleplay/raceplay #2 |
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Secret [2/?]
She made her way toward Frost just as Octavian did, wondering all the while if involving herself so directly in whatever was about to go down between them was really the right thing to do. But if there was one thing that Frost had truly achieved over the past three years, it was that he'd gotten her whole-heartedly on his side of the petty little rivalry he had going with Octavian. It wasn't exactly Frost's doing, of course, not entirely; Octavian hadn't needed any help to get himself on her bad side. Between what he had tasked Loretta with doing to her during that first year of her confinement and what he'd done to Seth less than a year later, he could have been Frost's best friends n the world and she still would have hated him with everything she had.
Frost noticed Octavian before he noticed Sparrow, and she watched his polite smile sink into a stoic expression that threatened to turn into a frown. The man he was talking to didn't miss the change; he glanced over his shoulder, obviously curious as to what had caught Frost's attention, and from the look on his face when he realized Octavian Donahue was headed in their direction said everything. Sparrow watched from just outside of hearing distance as the man made whatever excuse he could to rush off before Octavian got there.
She reached him just as Octavian did, and they seemed to notice her presence in unison; Frost looked a bit surprised to see her, but Octavian simply appeared amused. "Sparrow," he said, nodding to her, and then he turned to Frost. "Chancellor."
"Something I can help you with, Octavian?" Frost asked, voice tight.
Octavian laughed. "Always so unfriendly, Stelian. It's a party; I'm mingling. Surely that's not a problem?"
Before Frost had a chance to respond, Sparrow cut in. "And you wouldn't prefer to mingle with people you actually like?"
Octavian gave her a feigned look of surprise. "I thought that was what I was doing--catching up with friends I haven't seen it a while." He turned his gaze back to Frost, smiling like a hungry shark. "In fact, I only came over because I wanted to make sure you were alright. You looked quite uncomfortable talking to… whoever that was. A Freed cousin or some such?"
"One of the Childers, actually."
Octavian nodded. "Ah. As bad as Idris, then, I take it?"
Sparrow kept her face as blankly innocent as possible. "Idris," she said pointedly, "is our friend."
"Yes, it takes all kinds, doesn't it?"
Frost interrupted before the underhanded jabs could get any worse. "Nothing is wrong; I'm afraid I'm just preoccupied tonight."
"I'm surprised you're here, then," Octavian said, bothering for only the faintest hint of false sympathy. "The two of you are a rare enough sight in the Theatre that I wouldn't assume you'd be here if you didn't really want to be. You're not a particularly… public couple, after all."
Frost looked as distinctly unamused as Sparrow was herself, and with her hand still in her pocket, Sparrow rolled the dial of the little remote all the way down. Frost glanced at her, frowning, and turned back to Octavian. "We're not all quite as interested in putting on a show as you are, Octavian."
The Secretary grinned. "No, I suppose not. After all, you always were the kind of man who preferred to know he had a secret the rest of us didn't. Or at least to think he did." He turned those dangerously smiling eyes to Sparrow, and her skin crawled as surely now as it had for the past three years. "And what about you, dear? Enjoying yourself?"
I was, she knew, would be so unsubtle an answer as to tip this little interaction from passive-aggressive to actually aggressive, and she wasn't willing to let it go that far yet. Instead, she offered a simple, "More or less."
"Not getting any pleasure out of this, then?" he asked. "The party, I mean?"
"I rarely do."
"And yet you indulge Stelian anyway."