Beauty and His Beast [MxM] (UNEDITED)

Fortis POV

"Your first hunt?" He asked as he kicked a stone out of the way as we walked.

"Uhm. Maybe five or so." I replied and chuckled when he widened his blue eyes at me.

"Wow. That young. I was sixteen." He replied as he bit the inside of his cheek and looked ahead, a far away look crossing his features.

I looked at him and felt a strange warmth flood my entire being. Just being this close to him without having to worry if he would push me away, caused feelings to spread through me. Feelings I had never experienced before and had no idea how to word it out.

"You're staring again" he said as he looked ahead making me snap my head in the direction in front of us as I felt that wave of embarrassment take over me. Something I felt quite often when I was with him.

"Those markings. What do they mean?" I asked as I lifted our hands that he had laced together once we left the palace, and looked at the silver markings on his hand.

Markings that ran up to his forearms and chest. A few on his face too and yet, it did absolutely nothing to mar and impair his immense beauty.

"I was born with them. My healer said it was the markings of a God. Markings that hadn't been seen in eons and that's pretty much how the whole fiasco of me having godly powers started." He said as he shrugged and bit his bottom lip.

I could tell that he was holding back from telling me something and I didn't want to push him to tell me for I wanted him to open up to me on his own. I had no idea where this new found feelings we had for each other would lead to, but one thing I knew for certain and that was, that I wanted this feeling to grow and find what it could become.

"You don't believe that do you?" I asked as I drew circles with my thumb along his finger as he looked ahead.

"What?"

"That you have godly powers" I replied and watched him shrug before he turned his gaze towards me and looked at me with those intense blue eyes of his.

"I don't. It's not just that my powers haven't manifested yet, even after eighteen years, but rather, I don't even feel that powerful either. I couldn't do anything when Kronar attacked me in my cell and neither could I do anything when that beast attacked you. I was so terrified something a God shouldn't be." He said as he looked down.

I stopped walking, causing him to stop too and look at me with curiosity in his eyes. I reached forward and placed my eyes on the sides of his face, bringing him closer to me as I ran my thumbs across his cheeks.

"Everyone is afraid of one thing or another. Even the strongest of creatures fear. It's how we know we still feel. It's what saves us from going over the edge. Just because you fear doesn't mean that you're not strong or the legend that you're meant to become one day" I said in a soft voice and touched my forehead against his as I let out a sigh.

I felt him place his hands on my wrists, tightening his grip on them as if I was somehow grounding him and that thought alone put a smile on my face.

"How is that I've known you for two months and yet I feel like we've known each other for lifetimes before?" He asked causing me chuckle as I lifted my head and pressed a kiss to the tip of his perfect nose.

"That is a mystery to me as well." I answered and stood there taken aback when he smiled and reached up, wrapping his arms around my neck and pulled me down.

He pressed his perfect lips against mine as he ran his fingers through my hair. I felt myself smile as he moved his mouth against mine, slipping his tongue into my mouth and completely taking over it. I didn't fight him for domination for I knew that was not what I wanted to show him, but rather, how much he meant to me.

I felt him flinch, causing me to open my eyes and move away from him, only to see a slight trail of blood running down his lips making me widen my eyes at what I had done.

"Shit. I'm so sorry. I wasn't careful." I said as I watched him wipe the blood away with his thumb and shake his head.

"Don't be sorry." He said as he smiled and placed his hand on the side of my face.

"Besides, I kind of like it." He said as he ran his thumb across my tusk that was the cause of his earlier injury.

Before, it had been the only part of my body that I was actually thankful for. I wasn't sure if it was because it made me look almost like everyone around me, or that it didn't make me feel that different. But right now, I had never wished I could just pry them out more than I did right in that moment.

I couldn't kiss him without tearing his lips off!

"In fact, I like everything about you." He uttered as he smiled at me and reached up to trail his fingers along my shoulders before he wrapped his arms around my neck.

"I like your smile, your laughter. I like how you tilt your head when you're clueless about something even though you'll never ask about it. I like how your gaze wonders when you're so deep in thought. I like how you scrunch your nose when you see something you don't like, but most of all-" he said as he placed his hand on my chest and trailed it down, resting it on the place just above my heart. He looked at it for a second before he looked up at me.

"I like who you are inside here."

I looked back at him, never in my entire life have I felt inner warmth as I did in that moment

Is this what it felt like to be loved?

He hadn't used that word and yet I felt it in his meaning and knew it in my heart. I took his hand in mine and leaned down, placing my lips against his, careful not to hurt him this time and expelled what my mouth could not utter.

I pulled him against my body, hearing him mouth those sounds that drove me insane and when he trailed the tip of his tongue along one of my tusks, I completely lost it as a shudder raced down my spine. I had never known they were so sensitive until he touched them, causing tingles all over my body.

I broke away from him, panting heavily as I pressed my forehead against his hearing him chuckle. I looked up raising my eyebrow wondering what he found funny in a moment like this. He looked back at me, nuzzling his nose against mine before he smiled at me.

"I've never really been someone who spoke what I felt. I didn't feel like there was reason to, and it wasn't because there weren't people who would listen, but rather I just didn't want to. And yet, with you, I just want blurt everything out. All the inappropriate stuff inside my head, all the awkward and embarrassing stuff. Everything. I want you to know everything." He said as he as smiled at me.

With every word that he uttered, I felt my heart hammering in my chest, my nervousness of doing something wrong and stupid only increasing at every second as I tightened my hold on him.

"No one has ever said that to me before. You've been the only one who has ever looked at me with something other than disgust and I know I've only known you for two months and yet, it feels like we've known each other for lifetimes. Is that weird?" I asked and watched him chuckle as he shook his head before he placed a kiss on my nose.

"Not in the slightest."

I let him out of my grasp and locked his hand in my own as we continued our walk through the forest. His occasional laugh and chuckle at the different things he saw around him spreading a smile across my face.

"Where are we going?" He asked after a few more minutes causing a huge smile to spread across my face as we walked.

I had never ever taken anyone there before, nor had anyone known of his existence. But Ares wasn't just anyone, he was someone special. Some different. Someone whom I wanted to become better for and someone I wanted to show everything of myself to.

"To my mother's house."