Spaces Between

A/N: Written for the KH kink meme over on LJ, but I cleaned it up/added some stuff and decided to reupload it here. Just some TxAxV smut/fluff which I hope you'll all enjoy. :)

Spaces Between


It's the moments like this, strewn out between the minutes in seamless, unending gaps. Terra's body is warm and solid and strong between them, her fingers laced lazily with Ven's over the up-and-down steady rhythm of their sleeping friend's chest.

She hopes forever is like this, staring up at the semi-dark ceiling illuminated in clear hues of blue moon. There's a rustling beneath the blankets, a shadow moving against her makeshift sky and Aqua looks over to catch Ven's bright eyes, that brilliant, beautiful blue watching her impishly from the other side of the bed.

She smiles at him and he smiles back, propped up on one elbow as his gaze travels from her and then down to Terra, grin alighting with something mischievous as he reaches up with his other hand, untangling hers from his and lets his fingers dangle precariously over the older boy's face.

Ven, she shakes her head, giving him what she only half-intends to be a reproachful look, let him sleep.

But in a matter of seconds the blond is swirling light touches along the angles of Terra's features, grin stretching wider when their friend inevitably begins to twitch.

Aqua sighs in mock exasperation and closes her eyes, burrowing down further beneath the blankets. Okay, suit yourself, but I'm not getting blamed for anything once he wakes up.

Ven snorts with laughter a few moments later. She reopens her eyes and peers over at the blond to find him twisting Terra's lips into a variety of strange expressions. A giggle of her own has to be stifled when the brunet mumbles something incoherent, reaching up to knock the disruptive hand away- but Ven pulls his arm back before Terra can get to him, leaving the brunet to rub absently at his face before muttering something else they can't decipher and drifting back into an undisturbed sleep.

"I know how to wake him up," Ven whispers to her, and if the smile on his face could've gotten any more devious, well, it definitely just did.

Her eyes go wide with apprehension as she waits to find out the reason for that grin, and-

Oh boy. There's a reason, all right.

Still held upright on his elbow, the blond pushes his free hand underneath the blankets, coming to a convenient stop right in the middle of Terra's legs. That same hand begins to move in slow circles, and she opens her mouth, slightly, regarding the younger boy with both amusement and surprise.

"When did you get so fresh?"

He fixes her with an innocent expression and gives a little shrug, "I guess you guys are just bad influences."

"I am not," she huffs, only pretending to be offended.

"Suuure you aren't."

Aqua giggles when he winks at her, shaking her head slightly as Ven's hand begins to move faster and Terra lets out another mumble in his sleep.

It isn't too long before the brunet's hips are grinding up, languidly, Ven's touch becoming teasing, pulling his hand away a little every time Terra arches up-

And Terra makes this weird sound in the back of his throat that's something between a moan and a grunt and then both of them have to hold back their laughter, Ven easing up completely for a couple of seconds in order to let the moment pass.

Her eyes bounce back and forth between the blond's mischievous blue ones and the brunet's tightly-shut ones, laughing again when she catches sight of the slightly aggravated expression on his sleeping face. He keeps himself so guarded when he's awake that she finds it endearing, how expressive he can look when he dreams.

Ven starts up again and she smiles, an impish streak of her own now pulling up the corners of her lips. "Can't let you have all the fun," she whispers, and he grins back as she lowers her mouth to one of Terra's nipples, licking at the pink bud softly before enveloping it in her lips.

"See," Ven tells her, "I told you you were a bad influence."

She chuckles softly against Terra's skin and he makes that sound again, rolling his hips up a little faster now as he subconsciously attempts to increase the pressure of Ven's grip. Her tongue swirls in lazy circles while Ven continues to palm the elder's cock, the two of them falling into sync until Terra's movements slow and his body goes still atop the mattress.

She glances up curiously from his chest and is met with a disoriented cobalt stare, their now-awake friend greeting her with an expression that looks groggy and confused.

"Good morning, sleepyhead," she tells him, smiling demurely as he blinks down at them.

"...Morning," he groans, "What time is it?" His eyes squint blearily at the still-dark sky outside the window before peering down at the bulge underneath the blankets, sleepily taking into account the hand still groping him as well as his own hardening state.

"Did you have sweet dreams?" Ven asks, grinning.

The bed shifts when Terra stretches, the weight of his body pressing down down down into the middle so that the both of them are shifted even closer to his sides. Aqua watches his face as he holds the stretch for a few seconds, his lips turning up at one edge a little and his eyes squeezing shut of their own accord before he blinks them back open.

"Did you two really molest me in my sleep just now?" His smirk widens as he watches their shadows merge and sway along the ceiling, and she thinks she knows what he's about to say-

"You perverts."

Yep. Knew it.

Ven gasps, opening his mouth in mock indignation. "Hey, everything I know, I learned from you guys. That's like the pot calling the kettle black."

"Yeah, yeah," Terra says, "at least I've never molested anyone in their sleep before."

And she laughs and then their positions are switching, flipping, shifting so that she's on her back and her boys are a tangled heap beneath the blankets, before there's the familiar feeling of her thighs pressed deep into the grooves of Terra's shoulder blades, his brown hair a blur between her legs and there's Ven, Ven with his eager nips and playful fingers, hands blending into mouth and then hands again as he wanders his way across her chest with a curious enthusiasm like he's never felt her flesh before.

She's breathing shakily in a matter of minutes, becoming increasingly wet as they continue to lavish their attentions on her, body quivering with the pleasure that's quickly building up inside.

"How'd the innocent one end up in the middle?" she asks teasingly, a gasp causing her breath to hitch at the end of her sentence when Terra does something particularly mind-numbing with his tongue.

"Pfft," Ven breathes against her neck, "accomplices don't get off that easily," and then his lips are against hers and Terra snorts with laughter, the vibration of his mouth around her clit causing sparks of pleasure to shoot down the length of her spine.

She's aware of the tongue poking deep into her moist slit again as well as the skillful thumbs that swipe teasingly over her nipples, and an orgasm bursts its way through her body several moments later, causing her to moan into Ven's mouth as it pulses through her in rapid, shudder-inducing waves.

Terra lifts her legs from his shoulders, gently, and Ven nabs her lower lip softly between his teeth before pulling away from her with one of his charmingly goofy grins. "You know, the wrongfully accused tend to put up a little more of a fight."

"And the guilty as charged tend to be punished," Terra replies as he slides up between them, "however the prosecutor sees fit."

"Hey! I was accused, not condemned," Ven protests, falling onto his back with an "oomph" when Terra uses one arm to slide his legs out from under him. "There's a difference!"

Her previously sped-up breathing begins to even out again and she twists so that she's lying on her side, watching as Terra proceeds to straddle the younger boy, who wriggles beneath his captor helplessly in an attempt to break free.

"Mmm," she muses, the smile that settles on her lips coming dangerously close to a being a full out smirk, "I think I'd like to volunteer myself as a witness. I can offer evidence to disprove any testimony the defense decides to give."

Ven fixes her with an expression of mock betrayal as he continues to struggle, currently attempting to disentangle his wrists from the grip Terra's got them in above his head. "Jeez, Aqua," he whines, "you're like the worst partner in crime ever."

She gives an indifferent shrug in response to him, her smile definitely starting to take on more of a mischievous edge.

"Nah, she just likes me better," Terra says, eyes meeting hers for a playful second before he cuts off whatever it is Ven's about to say, mouth melding with the younger boy's in a messily effective kiss.

Aqua watches as their noses bump and their jaws grind, both of them rougher with each other than they ever are with her- not that they think she's exceptionally delicate, or anything. When the two of them kiss, they kiss as if they're sparring, all teeth and tongue and clumsy angles, tending to be more on the rough and tumble side than the soft and sweet.

Ven's still writhing his wiry frame a little, and she can see their cocks, both hard now, chafing against each other's stomachs while they rock into the kiss. The corners of the blond's lips turn up suddenly in that recognizably devious grin- because Terra loosens his hold on Ven's wrists, distracted by the task he's currently occupied with, and the younger boy is quick to seize the opportunity. He has his hands free before Terra has time to even realize it, wrapping deft fingers around the older boy's length and beginning to stroke with a triumphant "hmmph."

They pull away, and Terra leans back with his palms facing down on the bed behind him, shivering lightly as the blond continues in his ministrations, using one arm to push his body up so that he's comfortable.

And they're so different, Aqua thinks, so different yet both so beautiful to her in their own ways... a renewed moistness is budding in between her own legs as she watches them, losing herself in the sight of their moonlit silhouettes.

"Looks like there was a flaw in your prosecution," Ven gloats, moving up and down and twisting carefully every inch of the older boy's member, alternating between teasing touches and firmer, faster strokes.

Terra's lips curl back as his teeth grind down, fingers digging deep into the rumpled blankets. "Irrelevant," he breathes, "You're not allowed to distract me," and he repositions himself with some effort so that he's straddling the blond again, prying Ven's fingers away with a grunt before moving himself down the length of his body and putting his lips to use a little further south.

Ven moans as the head of his erection is first licked, lifting his legs up so that they're over the brunet's shoulders in the same way that Aqua's were before. One of Terra's hands move to cup Ven's balls while he takes the rest of his dick into his mouth, the fingers of his other hand traveling until they're probing carefully inside the blond's exposed ass.

"Nnnngh... Te... Terra," he whines, face flushing with both pleasure and determination as his prostate is hit.

Aqua can feel her own breath speeding up, folds slickening quickly at the sight of them. She flips onto her belly, wriggling her way over so that she's lying directly next to Ven. His head turns and he greets her with a fleeting smile before reaching up to fondle one of her breasts, marveling at the way the weight of it swells in the spaces between his fingers, and she nips at his neck while he plays with it, trailing hungry kisses against his skin while he uses his free hand to push himself more deeply into Terra's mouth, grasping desperately at the strands of dark hair.

He's unrestrained, unashamed when climax hits him. There's no holding back in the way he arches his back up off the mattress, coming with a stilted, airy whimper, not too loud but not too quiet, either. He lets his head fall back and his body relaxes, all the tension in his sinewy muscles gone and the concentrated expression on his face replaced by one that is smiling and serene. He shuts his eyes for a moment, catching his breath.

"Well, for once I'm going to be grateful that you guys teamed up on me."

Terra chuckles and Aqua smoothes a lock of hair away from the blond's forehead, unable to contain a small giggle of her own at how sated he looks, lying there. That seamless smile, those bright blue eyes. So simple. So open. There's a softness to his face, an innocence that just fits there... she hopes he can always be like this.

"Not a bad sentence, huh?" she smiles, "I'd say you got off pretty easy."

"Consider it a warning." The mattress shifts and her back is pressed up against something warm, something solid, a pair of strong arms wrapping around her waist as Terra whispers in her ear, "But I never said I was finished with the accomplice."

"Ha ha," Ven laughs, sticking his tongue out at her as Terra pulls her closer to him, and she can feel herself flush a little, despite herself, scowling at the younger boy with the most serious expression she can muster.

"Payback," Ven says simply, sounding victorious, and Terra's got his lips on her neck before she can say anything, calloused hands sliding first up and down the slopes of her hips and then along the pale, smooth stretch of her stomach.

He reaches up until he's cupping her breasts, next; his hands are larger than Ven's, but not as quick, and he doesn't move them with the same kind of energetic fervor. His caresses are slower, more pragmatic as he tweaks and squeezes, focusing on a single sensation as opposed to a whole myriad at once.

She can feel how hard he is with their bodies held this close together. He's patient as he touches her, and it's like him, she thinks, always making sure that she and Ven are taken care of first.

Terra, Terra, Terra.

She shifts her body in his arms and he loosens up on her enough so that she can roll around to face him, laughing shyly when she moves a little too quickly and their noses bump.

"Ow," he mutters, but it didn't really hurt and he says it good-naturedly.

"Sorry," she replies, and she can hear Ven chuckling even with her back turned.

He gives her a smirk that's even more devious than the blond boy's, if that's even possible, before his lips meet hers and they're kissing, kissing- his mouth feels different against hers than Ven's did, different but still right, somehow, right in another kind of way.

Aqua wraps an arm around him, letting her fingers wander idly over the muscles in his back. He's so strong, she thinks, tracing the hardened lines of sinew that shift beneath his flesh, and there's a part of her that can't help but wonder a little sadly at where all that time went, the fact that he's so much bigger than she is now a reminder of how much he's- how much all of them- have grown up.

His hands move from around her back until they're groping her breasts again, and she finds herself smiling into the kiss a little, amused by the fascination both boys seem to have with her chest. She moves her own hand from the space in between his shoulder blades, up up up so that her fingers are tracing the angles of his face, which are not really soft, like Ven's are, and slightly more mature than boyish. Where the slope of Ven's jaw curves gently, Terra's seems to bend, much sharper. His skin is rougher, his lips are thinner, and there's this sort of conflicted hardness to his gaze that she's never seen in Ven's eyes.

He runs his tongue along the back of her teeth and she presses their mouths together more tightly. His hips grind up against her and she reaches a slightly tentative hand in between them, brushing the tip of his length with her fingertips... the brunet inhales sharply at her touch, removing his hands from her front and placing them on the small of her back again in order to pull her body closer to his.

She breaks the kiss, motioning for him to lie back and he complies wordlessly, using his hands to guide her hips as she positions herself on top of him. She glances over at Ven, who's still sprawled out in the same spot they'd left in, an idle smile on his face as he watches them through half-lidded eyes.

Aqua chuckles at how satisfied he looks before she turns her attention back to Terra, who's leaning back as he waits for her to do something, the rather prominent arousal that's pressed up against the base of her stomach belying the neutral expression on his face. It must be getting hard for him to wait by now, but he doesn't rush her. She smiles thankfully at him, happy that he's trusting her, and slides down so that her mouth has access to the throbbing erection in between his legs.

It doesn't take that long to get him panting, not with him already this charged up. He refrains from putting a hand in her hair, tangling his fingers instead into the blankets, and she takes as much of him as she can into her mouth, tongue swirling as she slides his dick up and down within the puckered confines of her lips.

"Shit," he's grunting, and she peeks over at Ven to see his eyes bouncing back and forth amongst the two of them, looking simultaneously amused and turned on, albeit a little sleepy.

There's a tingling in the pit of her stomach as she continues to suck him, and she isn't even aware of how wet she is until the insides of her thighs become slippery, the familiar heat beginning to build again in between her legs. She pauses for air, looking up at Terra to find his teeth grit hard in concentration, knuckles going white around the fistfuls of sheets.

He glances down at her when she stops, trying only semi-successfully to hide his frustration, but she can see it, and try as she might she can't help but snicker at how pitiful he looks, Ven doing the same, and-

"Very funny," the brunet huffs, unable to repress a shudder as she inches her way back up his body and leans down so that her weight is pressing his slick arousal tight between them.

"I think the prosecution deserves an award for working so diligently," she says to him, glancing over at Ven with an infectious grin. "What do you think, defendant?"

The blond pretends to look thoughtful for a minute, breaking into another fit of laughter when Terra fixes him with an exasperated glare.

"You better say yes," he mutters, "or else I'm putting you on probation."

"All right, all right," Ven concedes. He grins as Aqua giggles, "I say yes. Jeez. Guess it pays to be a law-abiding citizen."

"That it does," Terra agrees, smirking as he wraps an arm around her waist in order to brace her as he flips their bodies over so that she's on her back with him looming over her.

Aqua spreads her legs to accommodate him, breath hitching when the tip of his arousal brushes up against her entrance. His arms are like sturdy pillars on either side of her, and there's a need in his eyes when he looks at her, something hungry and desperate for release. He won't ask, but she knows why he's hesitating. He always does, no matter how many times they do this- won't take that last step until they tell him it's okay.

There's something about how he waits for her permission, biting down on the inside of his cheek in that familiar, anxious kind of way that makes her feel bad, for his sake... she and Ven know that he would never do anything to hurt them; she only wishes that, some day, he can have that same kind of faith in himself.

Terra's eyes meet hers. Are you sure? his expression seems to ask her, and she nods in reassurance, smiling a little when he releases the breath that he's been holding. He pushes into her as slowly as he can manage, always wary of inflicting pain.

It does hurt, in all honesty, just because of how big he is- but they're getting used to each other, they all are, and it's not so bad once he starts moving. So she wraps her arms around his neck and buries her face against his shoulder, not wanting him to take the way her face tenses up the wrong way.

Their rocking quickly turns into a well-versed rhythm between them, him thrusting down and her pushing up at a timely pace. The pain subsides almost completely now and she's left with a warmth that spreads throughout the base of her belly, causing her to moan as he moves inside of her, increasing the bucking of her own hips in a signal for him to quicken his pace.

And he does, breaking out into a sweat when his thrusts become harder, grunting as he lets his eyes roam over her, the subtle pout of her lips, the quivering fullness of her breasts as they undulate beneath him. Her legs wrap tight around his waist, pulling him in deeper, strong thighs hot and quivering against him- and then both of their eyes flit over to Ven, his lean body looking lithe and comfortable as he peers at them with that curious blue gaze.

She presses her lips against the brunet's collarbone, her whimpering muffled by his skin while his cock continues to fill her, stretching her, thrusting over and over again into that spot buried deep inside. Her hands run down his back, across the nape of his neck, through his hair... the noises he's making sound guttural, his breath hot against her ear-

And she looks over at Ven again, unable to stifle her cries now as the tingling increases in her belly, pleasure coiling her insides up impossibly tight. She's getting closer, she's so close now, panting as he rolls his hips again and again, pushing as far as he can fit inside of her- pushing, pushing- and that does it-

Aqua comes with a gasping scream, blunt nails digging deep into the backs of Terra's arms in an attempt to use his body as a base to push herself closer with. She's slick and wet and clenching hotly around him as her orgasm courses through her, again and again and again-

Until Terra's panting above her in heavy, ragged breaths- and he thrusts hard, and he goes rigid- climax racking his body in a rippling volcano of release.

When they're both spent, he drops to the bed so that he's lying on his back in the middle, stretching out until there's an arm around each of them, and Ven reaches down to rearrange the blankets, pulling them up until they're tossed slightly haphazardly over the three's resting forms.

Aqua sighs as she curls up into Terra's side, reaching her free hand across the span of the brunet's chest in search of Ven's. He sprawls out sloppily next to Terra, catching sight of the hand and realizing immediately what she's looking for.

He laces their fingers together with a goofy grin. "You guys really got into that whole law enforcement thing. How come neither of you two ever mentioned you had a fetish?"

She laughs softly and Terra digs a fist into the boy's hair, ruffling up the already-messy mop of blonde on his head, "Since when do you know anything about fetishes... ?"

"That's for me to know and you to find out," he teases, ducking his head to get away from the fingers in his hair.

Terra snorts in amusement before yawning, pulling them both a little closer to him as he closes his eyes. "I'm not sure I would even want to find out, but okay. Whatever you say, Ven."

Aqua closes her eyes as well after one last look at each of them, smiling to herself. She's content but pretty tired, now, ready at any moment to start drifting off to sleep.

She hears Ven shift a little, making himself comfortable. "Uh huh. Well goodnight, Terra. Goodnight, Aqua."

"Goodnight, Ven," they reply in unison.

A few minutes pass- she thinks, because she's already half-way dreaming- when there's another rustle from the other end of the bed.

Ven's voice breaks the silence, sounding sleepy but sincere, "So is anyone down for round three? I'll wake you up in a couple hours."

Oh, Ven, she thinks, too tired to open her mouth.

Terra must've been, too, by the sound of it, but she hears his voice anyway, the noise reverberating strangely from where her head lies against his chest. "Wake me up again and I'll kill you," he mutters, "Or better yet, I'll make that probation thing come true."

Ven snickers before yawning, "Fine, fine, Mister Law Enforcement. You're no fun. Aqua, what about you?"

She groans incoherently, hoping that it's convincing enough to get her point across.

"Guess that's a no," he says dejectedly, "All right, then. Goodnight, guys."

Terra's chest vibrates. "'Night, Ven."

A few more minutes pass.

And it's too bad Aqua isn't dreaming when she hears what Ven says next.

"You think next time we can try handcuffs?"

"Ven," she gasps, startled to her senses.

"It was an honest question," he states innocently, but the laughter that follows is far from innocent-

And it's abruptly cut off as Terra pulls a blanket over the blond's head.


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A/N: There may be a sequel in the works for this that makes use of the handcuffs idea but we'll see. Anyway, hope you guys liked it! CC is always welcome.

Thanks for reading!