Title: Unbuttoning
Fandom: Silmarillion
Challenge: Button
Other prompt: N/A
Rating: E
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Runa for encouragement & sanity-checking. Fall-front trousers have a flap in the front rather than a fly, which can be made to button up the two sides or along the top (or both).
Summary: Buttoned fall-front trousers are an invitation to undoing




Slowly, deliberately, Maedhros undid Fingon’s straining fall-front, one button at a time, alternating between the two sides, leaving the top buttons for last. It was a delightful torment, a drawn out pleasure and anticipation of pleasure. Toggles, ties, hooks, even laces did not have quite the same effect as the careful twist-slide-pop of buttons. Buttons could be worked one-handed, as they had learned in Beleriand. That was no longer a requirement, but meant Maedhros had a hand free for other uses — teasing nipples, tugging braids, oiled caresses — all pleasures in themselves, no less a joining than what was to come.