Lucifer's mansion, Wednesday night

[betterthanaplan]

Duke did not have a pineapple this time. Or flowers, for that matter, though he did bring a very nice bottle of wine for Lucifer, which he left in the kitchen for him to find.

Before wandering off through the rest of the mansion, getting more of a feel for the lay of the land, so to speak, and thinking about how to get his brain to accept the place as partially his as well as Lucifer's.

His boyfriend would be happy to hear it didn't involve netting. It . . . might involve an overabundance of plants that were inappropriate to the outside climate. And possibly multiple water features.

Duke didn't tend to do things by halves any more than Lucifer did, okay? He just . . . went about it slightly differently.

When it was time for Date Night to actually begin, though, he made sure to find his way back towards the kitchen. It wouldn't do to be late, after all.

[for him!]

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[betterthanaplan]

"Going to make me, huh?" Duke asked, spearing a bit of beet. "That sounds like fun."

[my_own_advocate]

Lucifer laughed. "After I make you do a great deal of other things," he teased. "I can make a list."

[betterthanaplan]

"What, and spoil the surprise?" Duke asked. "Hmmm, though I guess if anyone could make a chore list sexy, it's us. . . ."

[my_own_advocate]

"I'll draw sexy diagrams," Lucifer promised. "Mm, the ropes help."

[betterthanaplan]

"The ropes are extremely sexy on their own, yeah," Duke said, taking a thoughtful sip of his wine.

And started picturing trying to do some chores while tied up in interesting ways and choked a little.

[my_own_advocate]

Lucifer raised an intrigued eyebrow.

"Penny for your thoughts?"

[betterthanaplan]

Duke cleared his throat. "You ever see the movie Executive Assistant?" he asked.

[my_own_advocate]

"Absolutely," Lucifer said, and now he sounded delighted. "Why, are we discovering new kinks?"

[betterthanaplan]

"More . . . an idea that I never really thought I'd end up trying out," Duke said. "But I'm now definitely thinking about trying."

[my_own_advocate]

Lucifer took another bite.

"Well, Octavia and I use the traffic light system," he said, after a moment or two. "You know, red means stop entirely, orange means 'do something else'..."

[betterthanaplan]

"That's a good system," Duke agreed. "Something to add to our list of things to try."

[my_own_advocate]

"It's more of a precaution than 'thing to try'," Lucifer said. "If we are going the executive assistant route."

He took a sip of his wine. "Anyway, continue."

[betterthanaplan]

"Yeah, no, that's what I meant. The movie stuff is something to try. With the light system in place." Duke shrugged and took another bite of his food. "Uh, specifically the, like. Doing stuff while tied up. Like, chore-type-stuff."

[my_own_advocate]

"I'm not sure whether I'm surprised or deeply unsurprised that you're interested in that kind of thing," Lucifer said, taking another bite of his food. "I'm up for it, of course."

But he was up for anything his partners were up to, so...

[betterthanaplan]

"I would definitely be more surprised if you weren't," Duke said. "You were really good with the ropes and stuff last time."

[my_own_advocate]

"I have had a lot of practice," Lucifer said, beaming. "Hence, diagrams."

[betterthanaplan]

"Okay, see, now I'm picturing, like, the Kama Sutra as illustrated by the people who make IKEA instructions."

[my_own_advocate]

Lucifer chuckled. "You must know of shibari techniques," he sighed. "They get rather intricate."

[betterthanaplan]

"I believe it," Duke said. He leaned in to give Lucifer a kiss on the cheek. "And I'm looking forward to learning more about all of them with you."

[my_own_advocate]

Lucifer smiled at him, leaning into the kiss a touch.

But then he rose. "Just a second," he said, walking towards one of the bookcases lining one wall of the living room. He rifled through it, and then came back with a book.

It had rather a lot of pictures.

He offered it to Duke.

[betterthanaplan]

Duke took the book and flipped it open.

And did some staring.

And flipped the page and stared more. He leaned back into the couch, his food forgotten for the moment, as his eyes traced the lines of the ropes in the pictures.

"Holy shit," he said softly. "You can do this stuff."

It wasn't a question. He had no doubt at all with regard to Lucifer's abilities. His tone was almost pure awe. (The rest was horniness.)

[my_own_advocate]

"I have gotten in a fair bit of practice over the centuries," Lucifer agreed, taking an easy sip of his drink.

What? He enjoyed awe and horniness on Duke, and he was determined to enjoy it.

[betterthanaplan]

"Can we --" Duke started, then changed tacts. "You should take photos. When we do this. For all of us to enjoy later."

Especially if he managed to get to the point of enjoying being dominated by Octavia again.

[my_own_advocate]

"As you wish," Lucifer said, mouth curving. "Can't ever have enough naughty pictures of either of you."

[betterthanaplan]

"And these will be . . ." Duke looked at the book again. "This is art."

He might have very different tastes in a lot of things than Lucifer did, but Duke did have strong aesthetic tastes.

(Especially when it came to ropes.)