Week 8: Hendrik / Feliciano

Hendrik nodded " a bit ja " he finished up his plate of pasta and sause, he picked up his napkin and wiped some of the sauce that managed to get on his face away. He returned the other man's smile and was content to just watch the Italian finish off his meal.

Feliciano looked at his friend and then at Hendrik's plate, where a small pool of sauce still rested next to the border of the plate. Poor lonely cute sauce…
The Italian eyes the other man, holding up his piece of bread. "If you're not finishing it, do you mind if I…?" meaning that he wanted to mop up that rest of that gravy with it. It wasn't exactly the most educated thing to do, taking it from another person's plate, but if Hendrik wasn't going to eat it, Feliciano wouldn't let that gravy go to be wasted.

Hendrik's eyes followed the Italian's eyes and chuckled softly when the other man asked his question. He slid his plate towards the smaller man " be mijn guest " he smiled as he knew with the Italian wanted and to be honest he was pretty full and it would be a waste when the other man could have it.

Feliciano took the plate and quickly finished what was left of the gravy with his bread. When the plate was finally bright and clean as it had just come out of the dishwasher, he sighed satisfied, leaning back on the chair.
"That was good~" he commented, humming a few, cheerful notes.

He turned to Hendrik, still smiling.
"So, what should we do now? Do you want something for dessert, or fruit?" he asked. "Oh, wait, you've some sauce on your chin!" he chuckled, and wiped it away gently with his fingertips.

It was only a drop, but he licked it away from his own skin and savored it happily.

Hendrik smiled as he watched the Italian take the plate and finish the gravy. He chuckled softly when he heard the other man sigh as he was satisfied, he nodded in agreement " ja het was very goed, I really enjoyed het " he smiled at Feliciano again " mijn complements aan the chef " he had raised his drink to the other man before setting the bottle back on the table.

" mmm het niet matter aan me Feliciano.. " his words were cut off when the Italian reached over and wiped some sauce off his chin, his eyes widened when he watched the other man lick the sauce off his finger.

"Well, I'm happy~" Feliciano smiled and looked back at Hendrik, only to notice that there still was a faint red shadow on his friend's chin. He leant forward to touch Hendrik's chin with his lips and lick what was left of the sauce with the tip of his tongue.

He added a soft kiss for good measure, and then wrapped his arms around the other's waist.
Eating half naked could still be a good idea for not getting your shirt stained, but he was suddenly starting to feel a bit cold.

"If you don't want anything else to eat, we could take a nap~" he suggested. After lunch meant definitely siesta time, for him.

Hendrik chuckled as he looked at the Italian " dat is goed aan hear mijn vriend " he blinked in suprise when the other man leaned over and touched his chin with his lips and a light blush dusted across his nose when he felt Feliciano tongue on his skin.

He looked down at the Italian as the man placed a soft kiss on his skin and watched him wrap his arms around his waist, he could feel his body heat being absorbed into the smaller man. " ah dat sounds fine Feliciano " he gave the smaller man a small smile.

He nuzzled a bit against Hendrik's chest before getting up and grabbing his arm to drag him back towards the living room, not caring about tidying the kitchen up first - dishes could wait after the siesta.

The couch he had in his living room was a very long and soft one, and not by chance, since he loved napping there. He landed on it with a content sigh, pulling Hendrik down with him.

Admittedly, he loved napping together with someone - there was no better way to fall asleep than while cuddling with someone, right? But sadly, he hadn't had the chance to do it for a while - he mainly slept with his brother, but he hadn't been around much, lately.

He patted Feliciano's head as the Italian nuzzled a bit against his chest, when the other man got up and grabbed his arm he let himself be pulled into the living room even though his fingers itched to clean up the kitchen he let it be to follow the happy Italian.

Hendrik blinked in surprise when he was pulled onto the couch with other man, he grabbed the back of the couch so he didn't fall and crush the smaller man under him. He climbed over the other man so that his back faced the back of the couch, as he settled in he pulled the Italian against his chest and rested his arm around the smaller man.

He had to admit it felt nice to have someone beside him when he took a nap and he had to admit the smaller man fit perfectly beside him.

He sighed again, laying his head on Hendrik's chest. It felt warm and comfortable, and he curled up his legs on the couch, nestling beside the other.

His friend smelled nice, as he had already noticed when he had tried his shirt on. He rubbed his cheek against Hendrik's chest's smooth skin, savoring the feeling. "You really have a good scent~" he said half chuckling, and looking up at him, his chin resting on the other's collarbone.

Hendrik blushed again when the other man layed his head on his chest, his arm tightened slightly around the Italian.

His blush darkened when he felt the other man rub his cheek against his chest " ah dank u Feliciano u have a nice scent aan " he looked down at the other man who was resting his chin on his collarbone.

"You're welcome~" he replied, nuzzling against his chest again, and then patted playfully on his belly with his fingers.

Hendrik was lean, and Feliciano's fingertips lingered for a small moment around his bellybutton, before his hands fund their way between the couch and the man's warm back, his arms wrapping around the other's waist. Hugging Hendrik felt definitely nice.

His blush darkened slightly again when the Italian nuzzled against his chest again. he sighed slightly in content when he felt the other man pat playfully on his belly.

Hendrik could feel the smaller man's fingers on his heated skin as they lingered on his lean muscles for a brief moment before they danced across his skin to his back as the Italian hugged him. He didn't always really show it but he rather like being hugged and if he was going to get hugs while he napped? even better he liked cuddling.

Feliciano looked up at his friend, as if he was expecting something from him. For some reason, he didn't feel so sleepy anymore.

"Don't you have a story to tell? You know, maybe on of those goodnight stories for children, with happy ending and everything?" he asked softly, his fingers playing again on Hendrik's skin.

Hendrik looked down at Feliciano he could see the other man wasn't really all that tied.

" story? " he closed his eyes as he ran through his memories as he tried to remember any old stories he knew as he tried not to focus on the fingers that were playing on his skin "ah I can tell u a story from way back when I was young if u like " the story of Katje, the Windmill Cat came to mind as he tried to ignore the fingers.

Feliciano nodded enthusiastically as he heard the name of the story. He had never heard of it, but he liked stories and fairytales, so it was even better if he could listen to one of them for the first time.

"Yes, please~" he answered promptly, his fingers drumming on Hendrik's chest. "And if you don't remember some parts of it, I don't mind. I won't notice it!"

Hendrik chuckled " alright Feliciano " he smiled at the Italian's enthusiastic nodding and started his story "... In the early ages, when our far-off ancestors lived in the woods, ate acorns, slept in caves, and dressed in the skins of wild animals, they had no horses, cows or cats. Their only pets and helpers were dogs. The men and the dogs were more like each other than they are now...." his fingers moved on their own drawing circles on the other man's back.

( you can read the story at The Cat and the Cradle )

Feliciano leant on Hendricks chest, listening greedily to the story, happy to feel the other's hand moving on his back, stroking his skin in small circles.

He made a face when his friend went on talking about how people used to get rid of the newborns if they were girls, but then relaxed when the small girl the story was about was hidden in a safe place.

He chuckled when Hendrik started describing the cats - Feliciano himself loved cats a lot, although he had never tried to tell the time of the day by just looking at their eyes. Indeed, cats knew how to be tender with children, if they wanted to.

But then he worried when the other mentioned the small chick floating all alone in the flood, after all the rest of its family had died.
"Did the poor thing manage to survive?"

He knew he had chosen the best story to tell the Italian beside him, he knew Feliciano loved cats and this was the only good story he knew that involved a cat. He chuckled softly at the face the brown haired man made when he had started talking about the baby girls and silently agreed with him.

Hendrik looked down at Feliciano's face and nodded " ah ja the chick did " he smiled at the smaller man and paused his hand on the other man's back for a moment before continuing to rub Feliciano's back.

Feliciano smled brightly at hearing that. He never liked when animals got killed in stories, it didn't sound fair.

Arms still wrapped around the other man's waist, he curled up on his lap, emitting something that sounded like a cat's purr. After all, the story had been all abour cats, and Feliciano wouldn't mind being cuddled as a kitty while curled up in a ball on Hendrik's legs.

"Meow!" he added for good measure.

Hendrik couldn't help but chuckle lowly when he heard what sounded like the Italian purring, he couldn't help but bring his hand up and pet Feliciano on the head for a moment and run his fingers through the brown strands .

When the Italian meowed he let out a laugh.

Feliciano sometimes regretted not having a tail. If he had one, he would have stretched it, wrapped it around his body and then napped like that. But he didn't have a tail, nor cat ears, so instead he lifted his chin to have Hendrik scratch under it.

He smiled as the other laughed at his "meow", so he hummed another two "meows" and rubbed his head against his chest.

He looked surprised for a moment then gentlely scratched under the Italian's chin and chuckled " uw like a kitten Feliciano " his hand dropped down onto the shorter man's waist and chuckled again at Feliciano's two more meows and blushed at bit when the other rubbed his head against his chest.

Feliciano nodded, purring in response. Of course he was a cat~
He closed his eyes as the other man scratched him, then followed that hand to lick lightly the back of it, always purring. Hendrik's hand still smelled of food, and Feliciano sighed happily.

Cats had a great life, he thought, if it all consisted of food, cuddles and sleeping on their humans' laps... now, Feliciano's life already consisted of that, basically, with also all the boring stuff humans had to add to it.

Hendrik chuckled again as the Italian purred again, he had to admit he though the idea of Feliciano as a cat was rather cute. He blinked in surprise as the other man licked his hand, he blushed slightly never having anyone ever lick him before.

The hand he had rested on the other man's waist started to move as he petted the Italian's back.