Everybody learns from *somebody*

[lordmegatron]

Passing the doors into the library, Megatron was pleased he had gotten the schedule correct as he saw who was sitting at the desk. If it had been completely necessary due to his own schedule, he'd have come here when he could. But since he didn't have to...

Ignoring the faint itch interfacing hadn't properly gotten rid off, Megatron approached the librarian at a lazy, casual walk. It was a pity he hadn't seen any signs at all that the surprisingly fine-lined truck-alted mech had the inclination he was looking for. Things would have been a lot easier (and, really, pleasing) if he had.

As it was, since there was no one left in the current arena circuit that he trusted with what he had to hand over, perhaps he would have to avail himself of one of the clubs. It made an irritable twitch slither down the treads on his shoulders, the thought that he'd have to do that.

It was ages since he'd had to go to an open venue like that to simply get his needs properly taken care of.

And he really would have preferred the librarian. Orion Pax - it hadn't taken anything to find out the designation when to found the schedule - was witty, somehow diplomatically argumentative and didn't give in if he knew he was right or wanted to stand for his opinion, actually had some smarts to go with said use of words and Megatron wanted to know more.

More, and more personally (most of the earlier he'd simply learned over the few times he'd been in the library when the mech was, but hadn't actually approached him). So this time, he decided to actually use the librarian's assistance in what he was looking for... and perhaps get something more out of it.

"Excuse me?"

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[lordmegatron]

He was surprised, he could admit that, and his optics brightened in reaction before they settled back at normal colour and he chuckled.

"Whatever you want, as you want it, Orion," Megatron murmured, optics dimming in pleasure as the motion the cloth was making along with the pressure Orion was using pressed the metal down into the sensors underneath. It pushed the sensors into a brief state of heightened input and then eased up, neutralising the input again - in essense, relaxing them.

Fingers twitching a little as Orion worked, Megatron thought using such a fine-weave cloth might have been a bit of a waste - it might end up ruined. Orion would, doubtlessly, not care about it though.

And here and now? Megatron didn't have too much thought to it either, since the important thing was that this was what Orion wanted to do and it was quite easy to simply sink into the sensation of both the polish being massaged into the metal and Orion himself.

Even as Megatron's optics dimmed to where they were nearly offline, he was very aware of Orion. How the mech was standing, where his hands were and, as Orion worked, where he'd be leaning or going next, his field attuned to the expansive weight of Orion's.

... He doubted be truly deserved what Orion was right now giving him, considering he'd been giving Orion such a hard time earlier pushing his authority... Not because he was uncomfortable or didn't like it, like Orion did, but because pushing a new dom what was he did until pushed back.

[ichooseboth]

"That is nice to hear you say," Orion purred, spark and field flaring at the reminder.

And this was, oddly enough, exactly what he wanted. The freedom to fuss over Megatron as he wished.

Orion certainly didn't care about the potential loss of the cloth; he was rubbing it heavily enough to give Megatron a nicely teasing massage, and if that ended up fraying the mesh on the gladiator's...rougher edges, then so be it.

"But you're going to have to stay still."

Orion grinned, glancing up from his work as he made his way up Megatron's arm. Even as he made dull silver armor gleam, he completely intended to drive the larger mech to distraction with teasing contact.

[lordmegatron]

He'd have laughed, really he would have, but instead he just grinned as a minute shiver worked itself through his frame at Orion's tone of voice and the flare of his field. This was just a tiny, very tame beginning, but it wasn't any less enjoyable.

Perhaps more so, since Orion was (both surprisingly and unsurprisingly) directing attention to him, in both the expected ways and, with this sudden turn to grooming, somewhat unexpected too.

And then Orion spoke, and Megatron stilled. He tilted his helm slightly, briefly meeting Orion's optics when the mech looked up and then he nodded.

"Understood." There was a rumble in his voice as he spoke, and his engine underscored it. Not from annoyance, merely something like anticipation and acceptance, the words, his own agreement and the implication running like fresh charge down his circuits.

[ichooseboth]

Orion purred as he basked in Megatron's responsiveness. He noticed that shiver, and his own want surged in turn, engine revving into a deep rumble. He'd never heard his own engine go so deep before...

This was too good. Was he supposed to enjoy it this much?

Orion quickly decided it didn't matter. They were both enjoying it. So he made his way up Megatron's arm, gently manhandling the heavily-armored limb; Orion rotated it to get at the underside of Megatron's forearm, raising it up and bending it at the elbow to get at the hidden portions of the joint.

Technically, he could have skipped the joint areas, as they didn't take easily to polishing, but Orion specifically wanted to pass over them with the cloth. They were too sensitive to avoid. He watched for any sort of reaction, before speaking again.

"Good. But I would like you to spread your thighs, as you were earlier."

[lordmegatron]

It seemed Orion was going to be thorough, and while the heavy slide of the cloth over the joint and down into its angles and deeper workings made the connections jump and tactile sensors go mad, Megatron remained still.

The charge skittering down his circuits and pooling lightly in the cluster around his spark chamber, plus the sensory input might otherwise have had him pushing back, nearly vibrating.

Now, however, he didn't move. His field moved in a subtle thrumming twitch, pushing against his metal, and that was more than enough... then his optics twitched slightly wider at Orion's comment and a corner of his lips angled upwards.

"... As you wish, Orion," Megatron murmured, voice thick with soft pleasure, both due to the polishing massage and the whole... situation. So he did as bid, changing his weight to counteract sliding his knees wider, opening up for not just his own field to push against the hip joints, but Orion's heavy, heady EM field as well.

[ichooseboth]

Orion's engine only purred it's approval louder, both at the sight and at the gladiator's ready obedience. He actually had to pause in his work briefly, fighting back the urge to further order Megatron onto his back, legs spread-

Mmhm. Later. Definitely later.

"Very good."

Lowering Megatron's arm back down, Orion polished over the upper arm and made his way to the pauldron. Data-clerk small hands slipping easily under the bulky metal, Orion buffed away at rarely-touched metal and half-hidden joint mechanics.

"And just to make it clear," Orion started, leaning in as he worked to rumble nearly against Megatron's back- "While I want you to try and be still, that doesn't mean you have to be quiet."

[lordmegatron]

The suggested open vulnerability (whether you did it from confidence and taunting, or not) always stirred a thrill through him, and this was no exception. That along with Orion's hands being slender enough, both because of occupation and their relative sizes, to get at places he normally couldn't...

Well, had he been less disciplined, less used to sinking into the slightly fuzzy and yet sharply defined space that left him both relaxed into his own frame and attuned to every single move Orion made, he would have squirmed.

Instead there was just a minute tightening, energy coalescing to bloom with warm fire from his own stillness, Orion's closeness, and the slide of the cloth. Then he ended up laughing when Orion spoke, a soft, deep rumble.

"You know me Orion... I'm not much for making noise, but you're going to have to push harder if you want to try and have me gasping from your hands to avoid squirming from them." His optics briefly flared in a glittering sparkle before they dimmed again, his engine momentarily revving along with his words.

Hey look I got icons again!

[ichooseboth]

"I know, but I do so like it when you do end up making noise."

He chuckled at the words, field flaring a little at the implied challenge...

He leaned in, stooped down enough to press his chest against Megatron's back; engine purring fit to rattle them both, he curled cloth-wrapped fingers around the hidden shoulder joint.

And carefully pinched.

"But I will certainly endeavor to try."

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[lordmegatron]

Humming quietly, both in non-committal reply - though he probably should've responded more politely to his dom - and when Orion leaned in and down and the vibrations rattled between them, Megatron didn't think anything further of that. Orion might just need to reach---

He didn't actually twitch at the pinch. Rather, the motion stayed trapped underneath his armour, vibrating along tensile cables and pistons while a surprised... noise slipped out of him.

It wasn't quite a moan, but it definitely had the underpinnings of it as Orion somehow managed to put the right amount of strength into the pinch, and place it at the most inconvenient spot, that the gentle charge already lazily spinning about and his primed sensory net interpreted it close to pleasure.

"... It appears so, yes." Somehow, he managed a more neutral tone, though faint threads of arousal still lingered.

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[ichooseboth]

Almost immediately, Orion returned to his polishing, buffing the affected spot in almost-apology.

Almost. Megatron was so full of subtle sass it was impossible not to feel at least a little vindicated. And his systems still revved at Megatron's little sound.

"Indeed. I still have a while yet to give it an attempt."

Carefully working his hands free, Orion moved on, dabbing more wax onto a somewhat ragged polishing cloth to make his way across broad shoulders and over the curve and wires of Megatron's neck.

[lordmegatron]

Orion could've done far "worse" and he'd still have had occasion to feel vindicated and a "right" to doing it.

"You do, at that," Megatron said, nearly humming, and had he asked about proper address, or Orion brought it up, he'd have been talking to Orion a shade more respectfully than he had been so far, but even so he was loose-jointed putty in (or perhaps rather under) Orion's hands and would do... pretty much anything he was told to.

Not just because Orion was expending effort and patience on doing this for him, but also because Orion was Orion and with this it was quite clear Orion would be looking after him... right now it was just more literal than it might be later.

The brush of the cloth along his neck brought the faintest of trembles - not in a bad way however. There was no part of him he wouldn't trust Orion with, especially right now, but his neck and throat was a vulnerable area and one that usually sent charge skittering right into his center.

He stilled even as his vocaliser reset, leaving a faint but audible little click.

[ichooseboth]

Orion grinned at Megatron's back; hand on his frame, polishing tight, affectionate circles into the metal, he could feel what his optics couldn't see.

He could feel that hidden tension under the surface, and he was excited for it.

One of the few, inoffensive 'research' vids he had watched had involved something like this. The Dom tying up her sub and making him come undone completely. He'd honestly enjoyed that part - up until the tiny femme had broken out the energon whip to punish the mech for his 'mistake'.

His arousal had be quite crushed.

But he was aiming for the first bit if the scenario. Was he supposed to punish Megatron if he broke an order doing what Orion wanted him to do in the end? The 'rules' seemed a little fuzzy on that part.

He chuckled as he ran soft fabric over more neck cabling, breaking his pattern only to press a kiss to the back of Megatron's helm.

"Better."

[lordmegatron]

He'd have tilted his helm forward if he could have, but he'd been told to be still, so he would be. The tension and slowly building charge collected along circuitry, priming sensors until his sensory net was on literal edge for every single shift Orion made behind him and the lightest of brush of the cloth.

It'd been too long since he'd been doing something like this, and he was sooner on edge than he usually would be but even with Orion focusing on his neck he was hardly done already.

"... As you... say, Orion," his vocaliser wasn't glitching, not exactly, but there was airy static under the words and his optics dimmed. Megatron tightened his stance just slightly at the brush of Orion's lips against his helm, the slight friction like a shooting star across his sensory net.

Despite the tension, Megatron was more relaxed than he'd been in a good while already, regardless of Orion's inexperience - he was doing quite well, and Megatron flexed his hands where they grasped the opposite wrist, and then tightened his grip again.

[ichooseboth]

His purring was definitely smug, now.

Orion knew it was silly to be so pleased so soon, but he was too glad about having such an obvious impact on Megatron so quickly. Sensing the tension through his palm was one thing; feeling the rising heat of Megatron's internal systems through the metal, the low hum of building charge?

Oh yes. Perhaps he could manage this, after all.

Making a humming sound of agreement, Orion made to move Megatron further, a fingertip pushing gently at the edge of his helm or lifting his opposite, unpolished arm. He lingered on the back of Megatron's neck only for a few minutes; as much as he wanted to see how much he could make the larger mech shudder touching his cabling alone, he had a deadline and a whole lot of frame to polish.

Next time, perhaps. For now, he moved down the mech's back, pressing more firmly as he rubbed wax into tense spinal struts.

[lordmegatron]

Orion seemed to be managing very well indeed, and it was only partly because he had very clever hands. He might have been a bit disappointed when Orion left his neck to trail down his back but it didn't last long.

The charge and heat wasn't after all, lost, it just slid down to swamp his circuits and leave every slide of Orion's hands with a fizzling edge along his sensory net.

Shifting his hands to rest them on his knees to let them be out of the way - even if he should probably have waited to hear where Orion might want them - his engine dropped down into a purr at the heavy hand sliding down the armour of his back.

Tensile cables relaxed under the pressure and armour subtly shifted as it was massaged along with the polishing, and had he had no discipline, his stance would definitely have sagged under the cloth.

It didn't, however, just got slightly rearranged as the lack of pinched tension allowed Megatron better posture, tightening it up even as he relaxed... which might be a strange situation especially as his burgeoning arousal wasn't lessening, but it was the truth.

[ichooseboth]

Still humming happily as he worked his way down the impressive back struts, Orion didn't think on the motion immediately; it wasn't yet an ingrained thought process, to think of motion as wrong, but it still pinged him as off.

Then Orion froze, vents hissing.

"Megatron."

He pulled away from his work on Megatron's back, stiff and glaring at the spot where the gladiator's hands should have been.

"I don't recall telling you to move."

[lordmegatron]

Ah.

Caught.

And it probably shouldn't, but Orion's tone as well as the sudden space between them thrilled down his struts and his fans kicked on a notch higher. He could feel the heat of Orion's glare against his back, and it was as delightful - if far sharper - as his approval and pleasure had been.

Pushed a bit far, obviously.

"I apologise, Orion." In this situation, of course, an apology wasn't enough, and if Orion ever forbade him to speak... well, that wasn't now. "I forgot myself." He certainly didn't move his hands back against his back again, however. That would be just as bad as what he'd just done, so instead he just flexed his hands on his thighs and waited.

[ichooseboth]

Orion snorted, both pleased and unimpressed at once. The apology pinged at his systems pleasantly; hearing Megatron apologizing for such a simple thing should have felt wrong, like it had when he had been in the same situation - but instead, it felt correct.

And at the same time, it really didn't feel like an apology was enough.

"Obviously."

Given his own inexperience, Orion was at a loss for a long moment, unsure of how to address the blatant disobedience.

He vented hotly against Megatron's neck, giving the previously-polished back a token swat with the cloth.

"Just for that, you can turn your optics off again. And put your hands back where they belong."

[lordmegatron]

While Orion was quiet, Megatron simply stayed still and quiet himself. The crawling potential of whatever Orion would decide scratching down his circuits and keeping his fans on a higher cycle.

His field twitched noticeably when Orion swatted him, but otherwise he remained still... and then his fingers twitched just slightly where they rested on his thighs.

"Yes, Orion." He wasn't going to shift around or squirm. He wasn't that undisciplined. Instead Megatron offlined his optics after first dimming them almost until they were offline. Then, precisely and carefully, but not slowly, he lifted his hands off his thighs and snaked his arms back behind him, grabbing each opposite wrist.

There was no way to hide his engine revving briefly, and despite the slowly creeping discomfort over being unable to see, charge ran gleefully down his circuits.

[ichooseboth]

"...Better." Orion had to pause yet again, his own systems redlining briefly at the surge of satisfaction and arousal that coursed through him.

Right. Yes. Very good. He purred, loud and openly.

Orion reached down, touching each wrist and the fingers curled around them, in a moment of smug awe, and as a reminder to them both.

"Keep those there until I tell you to move them."

His armor creaked briefly as he peered around Megatron's side, confirming that his optics were offline. Satisfied by the lack of red glow, he folded the cloth over to a less-frayed side, and resumed his path down Megatron's back with a fresh dollop of wax.

He only had a limited amount of time, after all.

"So. Was that some sort of test?" He questioned after a few moments of deep polishing, tone much less severe than before.

[lordmegatron]

The approval he could pick up from Orion - engine, field and touch all - bolstered the charge in his systems and set his engine purring, even if it all was because he'd broken the rules. His fingers twitched at the touch against his wrists, and he tightened his grip a little in response.

"Yes, Orion." Not acknowledging that he'd heard was rather unthinkable right now.

The darkness he was left in taunted him to flare his field out and get a better idea of his surroundings even if he knew exactly what Orion's apartment looked like and where Orion himself was. But he didn't, and the crawling wariness slithered under the charge, setting it alight with tension.

It was uncomfortable and delightful both.

"Hmm. Not a planned one, no. I am not quite that unforgiving with a new dom, or with you, Orion. But attempting to push the rules, especially with a new dom I don't know how they will react... yes. I apologise for doing it so soon however."

Orion would probably be able to tell, if he thought about it, that he'd been doing it almost since they started their little scene.

[ichooseboth]

Orion snorted in acknowledgement, too busy purring and polishing to take too much offence.

"So is it a game - or a challenge, to push?" He asked, with the air of proper curiosity rather than challenge of his own. He was still new to it, and this was a learning exercise of their own, after all.

[lordmegatron]

He had to keep from shifting in his kneel to ease the building tension from his lack of sight, but this, like the taunting need to flare his field out was all part of the punishment of course.

If a punishment didn't affect him, it'd be quite useless, after all.

"Challenge, more like," Megatron said after a moment, the tensile cables in his thighs tighening and he had to consciously relax them so he wouldn't shift - either closing the spread thighs or widen them, "not because I don't want to be here, because if that was the case we wouldn't be doing this at all. More a test of your resolve."

Dropping his voice into a purr to accompany his engine, Megatron let go of some tension, concentrating on the other sensations which were far more pleasant than his discomfort over the lack of visual input.

[ichooseboth]

Bracing a hand on Megatron's hip - fingers curling in a possessive grip only half-unconsciously - Orion polished his way down the thick overlapping panels making up Megatron's lower spine.

"My resolve, hmm?"

Though amused, there was a distinct note of challenge in the questioning sound.

"To make sure I simply don't let you get away with it and end up turning the whole thing around on it's head?"

He pressed and massaged against the tense underlying struts and cables as he went, ending with a flourish just above Megatron's aft.

[lordmegatron]

Engine thrumming underneath his armour, Megatron carefully didn't smile. Neither at the way Orion curled his hand around his hip, nor at the challenge in his question.

It was pretty delightful how quickly these things were being stirred out of the smaller mech with just the opportunity for them to do so, and it wasn't just (in a way not at all) thanks to Orion's massage that Megatron found himself in a humming heat and moving at the slightest indication from Orion despite just earlier having pushed back.

"Basically, yes." Despite having resolved not to smile, Megatron heard the heat in his own tone, and, beyond that, managed to only just stay properly still and not arch into the teasing slide of Orion's polishing as it finished above his aft.

His optics still being offline and the darkness that created, as well as Orion's earlier displeasure and approval both reminded him now to stay still.

And that, as much as the polish, if not even more so, dropped his engine into a deep idling purr along with the charge wrapping around his circuits.