The Shaking Shape of You

*‘Worship you,’ Ash said. ‘That’s all I ever want to do, when you look like this.’*

*The Shaking Shape of You* is a *Fae Tales Verse AU*, and part 2 of *The Wildness Within (series)*.

## Summary

Augus liked the safety of pretending that these lines between them would never be crossed, but from the look in Ash’s eyes, he was already crossing them in his mind, over and over again. (Post The Wildness Within)

An Augus/Ash focused, explicit one-shot meant to further explore the dynamic set up in the AU The Wildness Within.

## Characters

#### Ash Glashtyn

Augus' brother. He has strong dra'ocht that usually feels reassuringly warm, but can feel 'heavier, syrupy' at times. He sometimes stays with Augus at his home, with Gwyn, as well, and loves them both.

Ash is fond of the human realm.

#### Augus Each Uisge

Ash's brother. He owns the lake where most of the story takes place.

Augus has freckles on his shoulders, and gains more in summertime.

#### Gwyn ap Nudd

Gwyn lives with Augus and Ash, but began training more with his magic. 'As Gwyn became more competent with magic, he left them for longer periods of time. Sometimes on excursions with the Raven Prince – where he often came back exhausted, dishevelled and drained – and sometimes on his own. He’d learned how to teleport with his light, and he used it egregiously often, sometimes just teleporting from one side of the house to the other. But with that ability, he’d begun to travel, the skills he’d learned in the woods – escaping his torturous, tormenting cousin – applied well to other areas of his life, and his Court status protecting him further.'

#### The Raven Prince

Gwyn's teacher and King of the Unseelie Court.

## Locations

#### Augus' home

Augus, Ash, and Gwyn all have separate beds there, and rotate through residing there, often together. The lake above/surrounding his home has a 'promontory of rocks that were radiating heat into the water, into the world, pale and sun-warmed and covered on the underside in vines. Gwyn did magic in the shadows of the rocks sometimes, but Augus liked to climb them.

There was a particular boulder he liked the most. Flat on the top, with a gentle downward curve, eroded by some glacier or river from so long ago maybe only the first Each Uisge remembered it. It wasn’t the highest boulder, and was still shaded by a giant weeping willow that grew too tall and too large, loved so often by Augus that it had become a dream that other weeping willows could only aspire to.
It provided part-shade, keeping the daunting space of the blue sky with its fluffy cumulus fragmented and broken up amongst the slender branches, the green leaves.'

#### Human realm

The residence of most humans, where Ash sometimes visits to collect items for his home in the fae realm.

## Quotations

* ‘Even your scent changes,’ Ash said, staring at him. ‘Did you know that? Are you scared of me?’ ‘Anyone in their right mind would be,’ Augus said. ‘You forget, I raised you. I know better than anyone – except your victims – that you’re a predator.’
* ‘I don’t ever want to hurt you,’ Ash said finally. [Augus]: ‘A part of you does.’ ‘That part of me wants to hurt the whole world,’ Ash admitted. ‘You have that too. That part of you that wishes I’d never come into your life. That knows it’s wrong for two waterhorses like us to live together.’

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 not\_poignant. "The Shaking Shape of You." *The Wildness Within. Archive of Our Own,* 14 November 2019. https://archiveofourown.org/works/21435694.