How about Thenamesh Oce Queen/ Tyrant King AU a little backstory about Thena teaching Gil how to throw knives? :D would be interesting
Thena tried not to groan as she pushed aside yet another paper. There was so much to sort through after being gone for so long. It wasn't her fault she'd been poisoned!--and even now that she was back, it would be a stretch to say she was completely recovered.
Kingo and Karun had done a valiant job of running the business in her absence, but even now, there was enough to check over that she was considering never leaving her office ever again.
Gil tossed another knife at her 'dart board' (really, it was a corkboard with other business connections on it).
Thena didn't even look up, "you're flicking your wrist too much."
Gil sat up from where he'd been slouching so low he was practically lying down on her couch. "What's that, Sweetness?"
"Your wrist, you're moving it to much," she muttered, scribbling on paper after paper. "Think of it more as a frisbee."
"A what?"
Thena sighed. Maybe this was the end of what she was going to be able to get done today for work. She set her pen down and looked up at him finally. "When you flick with your wrist, you change the knife's trajectory. They're weighted at the handle, almost like an arrow. If you throw with your arm and let go at the right time, it will fly straighter."
Gilgamesh looked down at the knives left in his hand and gave it another shot. What she said was true! He was still off, but it hadn't flown completely off course this time. "I did it!"
Thena bit back a smile. His excitement was maybe a little bit cute, but he didn't need to know that. "I wouldn't say that if your target is sill able to come after you."
Gil faked a long, dramatic sigh and looked at her, "will you help me, Ice?"
"Gil-" she sighed, sagging in her chair. She was exhausted just from signing papers all day.
"Please, Princess?" he tried again. She looked up at the shift in his tone. He looked down at the knife in his hand, "I...what if someone comes after you?"
"Gil," she rolled her eyes, but soon discovered he was being serious.
"Really, Thena," he said more softly, standing to walk over to her. He gripped the knife in his hand. "You're still not fully recovered, and there's only so much I can do to protect you."
"I have people for that," she frowned.
"So do I," he shrugged without hesitation. "It's not enough, sometimes."
He had a point. Thena looked between his sad puppy dog expression and the knife in his hand. No one else had ever been allowed to touch them and she had let him occupy himself with them while he waited for her to be done with work.
"Angle your hips more."
Gil blinked as Thena rose from her chair and walked over to him. He let her guide him back to the corkboard and position him. Her hands ran over him, setting his shoulders, turning his hips as desired.
"Keep your arm steady," she advised quietly, her breath close to his ear. "Think of it as closing the distance between you and your enemy."
He risked a glance at her with a smile, "you have a real poetry when it comes to this stuff, huh?"
"Focus," she drawled, turning his head back to the target again. She raised his arm for him. "Don't think of it as throwing the knife. Think of pushing it forward yourself."
Gil took in a breath, thinking of the day he might have to throw one of these at someone coming at the Ice Queen--his Thena.
Thena watched passively as he made another throw, this one actually landing in one of the photos posted. "Not bad."
Gil looked at her, although she immediately moved him back into position. He chuckled, "must be my hot teacher."
"So insubordinate," she rolled her eyes at him. Once she was satisfied with his stance again, she let go, "again."
"Again."
"Again, higher."
"Again, faster."
"Y'know, Princess," Gil spun the knife in his hand before his toss, letting his improvements fuel his confidence. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were trying to seduce me."
Thena shook her head at him. He was lucky she loved him. "Well, do you?"
Gil blinked as she leaned up, only to slip the knife out of his hand for herself. "D-Do I-?"
"Know better?" she laughed, tossing hers over her shoulder and directly into the clock on her wall, stopping it before it hit the hour.
"Okay, okay, you win," Gil conceded, quietly pleased with the smile he got for it. That was the last of their throwing knives anyway. "What do you want for your prize?"
"Hm," Thena sighed, her fatigue coming over her again. Maybe it was a little too obvious - or maybe Gilgamesh was a little too good at reading her - because he had her in his arms in an instant. "Anything?"
"Anything," he whispered, kissing her temple and then her cheek.
Thena grinned, stopping him before he could get to her lips. Not that she was opposed to it in any way, but she most certainly didn't have the energy to keep up with him for even the gentlest of sessions. "Tteokbokki?"
Gil just smiled, his lips pressing against her fingers. He leaned down, kissing just beside her lips, "I'll have them delivered."
"That sounds perfect," Thena sighed, leaning against him heavier (and barely noticing as he pulled her into his lap on the couch).
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