Private Lessons

Writers: Aaron, Heather
Date Posted: 13th January 2020

Characters: F'aen, T'ner
Description: T'ner asks F'aen for some private lessons.
Location: Dolphin Cove Weyr
Date: month 2, day 1 of Turn 10

T'ner was slowly coming to terms with a newly discovered part of himself. And that acceptance was in great part fueled by the permission Ayressa had given him to participate in "training". Knowing that it was not only expected but allowed had driven T'ner to look forward to it in a way he had not expected.

His desire to "train" with someone he knew, a friend, someone he trusted had not diminished, however. He suspected that his teachers intended for him to practice with T'kala, but T'ner had not gotten to know him any better than he had the day they met to discuss the prospect in the first place.

No, if T'ner had a friend, a friend he trusted...

}:You know he isn't going to say yes. He's your teacher. It's not appropriate,:{ said Lehystrath.

**You don't know. It's part of my training! Who better than my teacher? And besides, he's just an assistant – it's not as though he's the one in charge of my class as a whole.**

Lehystrath sent a feeling equivalent to a shrug across their bond.

"F'aen!" T'ner greeted the man with a smile more smitten than he realized. "Hi. Good day?"

"T'ner," F'aen said glancing up from the junior Weyrling he'd been dealing with. "No more skipping chores, I mean it. I'll have Scarleth check in with Privieth later to make sure you're where you are supposed to be." The sullen, young brownrider scuffed the toe of his boot over the ground, sending pebbles scattering, as he gave a nod and then turned and sulked away. "Well, it's been a day, I'm not sure if good is the right word for it," he said, turning to give T'ner his full attention with the hint of an exasperated grin.

T'ner offered F'aen a sympathetic one in return once he had turned to peer after the young brownrider as he left.

"I don't suppose you'd want to grab a drink now that the working part is over, would you? Might turn it back in a better direction."

His grin turned back to his smitten smile.

F'aen was struck by the smile T'ner was giving him. Mostly because, he knew exactly what kind of smile it was, and the invitation for a drink wasn't something that they normally did. "A drink, huh?"

"Don't worry," said T'ner. "You don't have to tell me off. I'll have klah or juice or water or something that will suitably keep me out of trouble." He chuckled. "Or we could just grab dinner?"

At the mention of the word 'dinner', F'aen's stomach audibly rumbled. "Well, I think that decides it. A meal sounds good, I completely skipped over lunch today." Not on purpose but one interruption had led to another. The greenrider's eyes glanced back at T'ner and the look on the face. He had the distinct feeling that T'ner was working up to asking him something. "You look like you have a question," he said.

"Ah, sure." T'ner was not so sure that he had been ready to just jump right in with it. Especially when asking might get dinner with F'aen cancelled.

}:You said yourself, it's just for training. Dinner is dinner. Training is training.:{

He chuckled nervously.

"I guess what I wanted to say was, I talked to my w...er... weyrmate, and we worked through the... well, the issue I talked to you about before. With the flight–", he coughed, "flight sex, that is. Anyway, she says she completely understands. And that it doesn't count. The training, that is. Practice beforehand. So I'm not clueless when it happens."

"Well that's good," F'aen said as they entered the Dining Cavern. "I'm a little surprised, I won't lie, most hold women don't take it so well when they learn that their weyrmate is going to be sleeping with others, especially others of the same sex." The greenrider grabbed a tray. "I take it the talk with T'kala helped?"

"He convinced me I needed to talk to Ayressa about it," said T'ner. "And that helped. I was just as surprised as you, though – that she said I should go through with it. I was going to tell her I wouldn't," he admitted.

"She just said not to tell her about it. So she can put it out of her mind." T'ner grabbed his tray, too. "We had already talked about flights before. So I guess it wasn't too much further to go past that."

F'aen considered that, but the way he saw it was Ayressa saying she didn't want to know about it wasn't exactly an 'acceptance' but more of an 'out of sight, out of mind'. Either way, the greenrider felt that it was the best thing for T'ner. Nothing good ever came from a dragonrider going into their first flight with no experience. "Well, I'm glad that worked out favorably for you. It will really make things much less nerve wracking."

"Seems like it would have to be scarier for the other guy," said T'ner. After all, things were hardly going to be unpleasant on his end one way or the other, were they? But he did not want to hurt anyone, of course.

"But I'm glad that nobody has to be scared on my account. It's definitely no fun that way..."

F'aen snorted, "Please. One of the parts of being a male greenrider is _knowing_ you're going to end up in a flight with some guy that has no idea what he's doing. Brownriders and Bronzeriders win our flights too, so it's not like they're practiced, or anything. It's not exactly fun afterwards."

T'ner's eyes widened. He must have said something wrong. Used the wrong words.

"I... I'm sorry, I didn't mean... Slag. Then I meant it double what I said. I'm glad I can learn to be someone safe. Maybe Lehystrath can get fast enough to make sure you don't have to worry about that anymore." He offered a smile.

}:I am fast.:{

That caused F'aen's ears to perk up a little. T'ner was offering to try and win all of his flights, was he? "Well," he chuckled a bit, "when you know what you're doing, maybe we'll see about that."

"If you teach me, I'm sure I'll have it down lickety-split," said T'ner. His heartbeat went from normal to racing in... well, a heartbeat.

At first, F'aen seemed not to notice the importance of what T'ner said, but then it registered in his brain with a small jolt of surprise. "You want me to teach you?"

T'ner nodded. He bit his lip, and then when he realized he was biting it, he let it go and blushed. "Would you?"

F'aen knew that he was staring at T'ner now, staring without speaking, but he couldn't help it. He had never looked at T'ner in _that_ way before. They weren't terribly far apart in age, but F'aen was a Weyrlingstaff assistant, and so he'd always just looked at T'ner as a weyrling that needed his guidance and instruction.

}:It sounds like he wants your 'guidance' and 'instruction'.:{ Scarleth said with a sultry innuendo in her tone.

"I...I thought... I guess I just assumed that T'kala would..."

"Oh," said T'ner, the disappointment obvious in his tone. "I just, uh... It's just I don't even really know him, and... I know I can trust you."

}:I told you he would have to say no,:{ said Lehystrath.

**I don't need an I told you so. Not right now, bud, OK?**

"I'm not saying no," F'aen said quickly, hearing the disappointment. "I'm just, I don't know, surprised I guess." Perhaps it was because he couldn't see anyone saying no to T'kala.

T'ner brightened visibly on hearing that he still had a chance.

"Why surprised?" he wondered. After all, it was not as though the man was not rather handsome. To be sure, it might be different to be with someone taller than he was, but... There was just something about F'aen.

"I guess because... I don't know, I just didn't even consider that someone might want me to do that." F'aen knew that there were dragonriders experienced in helping senior Weyrlings who were new to sex, he'd just never thought that a Weyrling might want him to be that person.

"No? Have you met you?" T'ner chuckled. "I, um. I definitely want you to do that." He surprised himself with how much easier it was to say that now that he had already asked. And asking had been easier when all he had to do at first was nod his head.

"I wouldn't want anybody else."

F'aen knew he was blushing a bit, he could feel it in his cheeks. It was flattering, and slightly scary, since he'd never shown a first time bluerider around the bedroom before. "Well, in that case," he swiped some hair out of his eyes, "I'd be, huh, happy to."

T'ner had not felt this breathless since –

}:You probably don't want to follow that train of thought right now. Just enjoy the moment. You can be all guilty and conflicted later.:{

**Or you'll say you told me so?**

"Thanks," he finally managed to say. Faranth, but that thing with the hair. T'ner had wherrybumps.

"Anytime," F'aen winked, and then added, "or maybe we should see how it goes before I say that."

T'ner laughed a hearty laugh.

"That may be for the best," he agreed. He shivered. He could not stop shivering. "Here's to being a good student."

F'aen raised his cup. "And to being a good teacher."

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