content. brett richards x reader. pørn w/o plot (once again lol). dry humping. unprotected. dumbification (if you squint). praise kink. fingers in mouthhhhh. yeah. đŤĄ
brett richards who comes over smelling like smoke and sweat from another shift of putting out a forest fire that couldâve gotten real bad.
you liked being able to loosen him up. let him fuck you dumb until he could relax.
heâs pulling off his boots and tugging off his shirt as he eyes you with hunger. you lay back on the bed just in your lace panties palming your boob as you watch him strip.
âkeep your boxers on,â you tell him.
the corner of his lips tilt into a half smile as he chuckles under his breath. he unbuckles the belt and lets his pants fall, squinting up at you, âyou givin me orders now?â
âperhaps,â you smile.
he grabs your ankle and drags you down to him in one pull. leans over you until his chest presses against yours, hard and warm, dusted with greying hair. his mouth finds yours and a hum bleeds out of him into your kiss. relief and hunger all at once. you smile against his lips, fingers lacing into his dark grey hair.
your mouth opens for him and he takes. teeth catching your lip, spit-slick and shameless, tongue and the wet drag of his mouth until youâre gripping his hair just to hold on.
he pulls your hand away from your boob and replaces it with his mouth.
he suckles your nipple until it peaks hard against his tongue, groaning low against your skin like the sound was pulled out of him.
he switches to the other, mouthing at it deep and greedy, the wet sounds obscene in the quiet room, until itâs just as red and pulls off with a soft pop that makes your breath hitch.
your thighs start to closes and he smacks the inside of your thigh.
"keep them open."
you do.
he settles between them, grey boxers against your panties. he rolls his hips into yours. the cotton friction makes you gasp, feeling every ridge of him through the thin fabric. he does it again, watching your face.
âbrettä¸â
the corner of his lips tilt up in satisfaction. he hums against your skin and mouths at your chest again like he's feasting. muffled groans bleeding into your skin, stubble dragging rough where his mouth is soft, hips keeping that same grinding rhythm.
you pull at his hair and a deep grunt spills out of him. he finally lifts his head, eyes gone almost all black, mouth wet. he looks at you like heâs deciding something.
ânine days,â you say. recounting the days it had been since your last escapade in your apartment.
ânine days,â he repeats, voice rough. his hips press into yours harder and you inhale sharp.
he pulls back just enough and you take the opportunity. hands planting on his chest, you push him down onto the bed and swing your leg over him.
you settle onto his lap and feel it immediately. the damp patch on the front of his boxers, dark grey fabric clinging where heâs been leaking for you. your hips sink down against it and a groan tears out of you before you can stop it.
brettâs jaw tightens. his hands find your hips.
âyeah,â he says quietly. the corners of his eyes crinkle, satisfaction written into every line of his face.
you roll your hips and feel the wet cotton drag against your panties, the outline of him thick and obvious beneath you. your head tips back.
âgod,â you breathe.
his thumbs dig into the soft of your hips, watching you work yourself against him with that infuriating face of his. grey threading through his hair, lines carved deep around his mouth, and still he looks at you like youâre the most interesting thing heâs ever seen.
he flips you before you can catch your breath. back hitting the mattress, his weight settling over you. he pulls your panties down and off in one motion and tosses them in the background.
he settles between your thighs, and instead of pushing in he just pauses. looking at you spread open for him, wet and wanting.
his thumb finds your clit.
âohââ the sound jumps out of you.
he rubs slow, easy circles, watching your face with that same dark patience. "need t'get you ready to take me, baby." his voice is low, a little rough around the edges.
"been a while."
"i can take it," you breathe.
"mm." unconvinced. his thumb keeps moving, and he dips two fingers in without warning, feeling how you clench around them. he groans quietly at that. "yeah? feel how tight you are?"
your hips roll up into his hand. he lets you.
"there she goes," he murmurs. "good girl. jus' like that."
he works you open slow, fingers curling, thumb never stopping, until you're slipping wet around him and whining with it. until you're so soft and swollen and desperate that when he finally lines himself up and pushes in, thick and veined and achingly warm, it makes your breath leave your body all at once.
he stills. jaw tight, chest heaving.
âfuck,â he exhales. âso warm. so fuckinâ perfect.â
he starts to move. slow, deep strokes that have you feeling every ridge of him, the thick drag along your walls, your body gripping him like itâs trying to pull him back every time he pulls out.
âbrettââ
âi got you,â he murmurs. âi got you.â
he grips your jaw and tips your head back, kissing you messy and unhurried. all tongue and heat, spit slick at the corner of your mouth. you groan into it and he swallows the sound greedily.
his thumb finds your clit again, rubbing lazy circles while he moves, and the combination makes your vision blur. you grab at his forearm, his shoulder, anything to hold on to.
he pulls back from the kiss just enough to look at you. lips glistening, pupils blown. âmhmm,â he hums. âyou like that?â
âyesâyesââ
âgood.â his pace stays frustratingly measured. his hand slides up to grip your face, fingers pressing into your cheeks, holding you still. and then he licks into your mouth. slow and filthy, tongue dragging against your teeth, taking his sweet time. you try to kiss back but he doesnât let you. just holds you there and takes.
he pulls back with a wet sound and pushes his thumb past your lips.
you close around it without thinking. sucking obediently, tongue pressing up against the pad of it, and the sound he makes low in his throat tells you exactly what that does to him.
âgood fuckin girl,â he murmurs.
he leaves his thumb there and drops his mouth to your cheek. your jaw. the soft skin beneath your ear. trails down your throat, sucking a bruise into the pulse point without apology. lower, mouthing at your collarbone, your chest, until heâs got your nipple between his teeth again and youâre moaning around his thumb like youâve lost your mind.
his hips keep that same devastating pace the whole time. never speeding up. just deep and measured and relentless, feeling you get slicker and softer around him with every stroke.
âbrett,â you whine. âplease.â
he looks up at you from your chest. the lines of his face cast in shadow, grey hair mussed, mouth swollen. he looks absolutely ruinous.
"there it is," he says quietly.
and then he gives it to you.
his hips snap forward and you gasp, hands flying to grip the sheets. he sets a pace that's immediately relentless, deep and punishing, the wet sounds filling the room obscenely. your thighs are trembling. your eyes are burning.
"oh. oh fuckâ"
"yeah," he grunts out, eyes locked on your face.
"there you go."
his thumb presses down harder on your clit and whatever sentence you were forming dissolves completely. just a broken sound spilling out of you instead.
âbrett iâiââ you lose your train of thought halfway through. you try again. âplease, âmââ
âyouâre what.â he asks low and amused.
you have no idea. you genuinely cannot remember.
his thumbâs relentless on you. âdonât need you thinkinâ right now anyway.â
âfâfuck, brettââ your hips jerk up uselessly. ââs tooâi canâtâi donâtââ
âi know.â he coos. âi know, baby.â he doesnât stop.
your eyes roll back. mouth slack, sounds coming out of you that youâd be embarrassed about if you could think straight. but you canât. thereâs nothing left up there. just him and the drag of him and the filthy wet heat of it all.
âjusâ take it,â he murmurs. âthereâs my girl.â
it hits you like a wave you didnât see coming.
your whole body locks up, thighs clamping around him, a broken sound tearing out of your throat as you clench around him and fall apart. vision whiting out at the edges, toes curling, fingers twisting helplessly in the sheets.
he works you through it. slowing down.
âbrettââ your voice comes out sweet and wrecked. youâre oversensitive and shaking. âi justââ
âi know.â he tuts, unbothered. ânot done with you.â
âi canâtââ
âyou can.â
he reaches over without a word and grabs the pillow, sliding it under your hips. the angle shifts and you immediately feel the difference, hips tilted up, legs spreading open just a little more.
he drives into it. again and again, deep and focused, hitting that soft mushy place inside you that makes your whole body seize up and your thoughts go completely white. the sounds coming out of you are barely coherent. youâre saying his name like a prayer.
you think you might be seeing stars. the edges of the room going soft and swimmy.
and then you feel his lips press to your forehead. grounding you.
âstay with me,â he mumbles. you exhale shakily. he keeps moving, chasing that high, his breathing gone ragged against your skin, hips driving deeper, harder against that soft spot.
âcome with me,â he grits out.
and your body listens.
you cum with a full body shudder, thighs jerking, a broken sound tearing out of you as you clench around him and your vision goes completely white. your hands fly to his back, nails dragging down and leaving red marks in their wake, something between a sob and a moan spilling out of you.
he follows seconds later with a low curse, pulling out and fisting himself, spilling hot and white across your stomach and your thighs. his whole body shudders through it, head dropping to your chest, a long ragged groan punched out of his chest.
the room is quiet except for the sounds of you both trying to catch your breath.
he lifts his head and takes you in. your hair splayed out and tangled against the pillow, chest heaving, lips swollen and parted. eyes glassy and far away.
he cups your cheek in his palm. thumb stroking slow beneath your eye.
âhey,â he says quietly. the lines around his mouth softening.
you blink up at him. barely there.
he leans down and kisses you. soft this time, nothing like before. just his mouth, pressing once, twice, against your lips gently.
âyou did so good for me,â he murmurs against your mouth. another kiss to the corner of your lips. your cheek. âso good.â his thumb keeps caressing your cheek until a tear slips from the corner of your eye.
âtoo much for you, wasnât it.â his voice is low and rough at the edges, a little undone himself. his thumb sweeps the wet from your cheek.
you nod slowly.
he makes a quiet sound. almost a laugh under his breath.
âmade me so proud, baby.â he presses his lips to where the tear was. then your cheekbone. your temple. working across your face. âso fucking proud.â
another tear slips and he catches that one too.
his forehead drops to yours. eyes closed, chest still heaving faintly, sweat cooling on his skin. the grey at his temples damp. âyouâre alright,â he murmurs. âiâve got you.â
2: Halo of the Highest Grade, 3: Devil's in the Details
Summary: Planning a future with you only worked when Andrew's head stayed out of the past.
Pairing: andrew "pope" cody x fem!reader
Contains: late s1 andrew, fluff, sexual content (smut!), canon character death mentioned (ahem...), drinking, smoking & drugs, domesticity, touch starved reader & andrew, codependency, age gap (20 & 38, explicitly mentioned here), reader is in college, reader referred to as âgirlâ and presented feminine, no use of y/n
Word Count: 6.9k
Note: delayed ass update... i got burnt out in all senses but here we are! im also kinda struggling in knowing how to write andrew properly but #fuckit. I wanted to keep canon to some extent cause that scene in late s2 with amy just broke my heart
âHey, have you seen my lip gloss?â
Just being with Andrew has been nothing but utter bliss. After you so helplessly accepted any alarming bitsâ his aggressive need to protect, the insane amount of cash he had, the secrets he buriedâ, youâd gone on multiple real dates with him. No more late night walks, holing up together at home, or staying close by campus in a preference for saving gas. Not that you didnât enjoy the simplicity of staying in or a late night burger, but it was now dinners by the sea, driving out and exploring another town, and even a day at the zoo.Â
It was like you got an adult relationship, one you so desperately wanted after the emotional, financial, and physical confusion of adolescent flings. He took care of you, even started paying your part of the rent in full, and gave you a sense of maturity, regardless of his own occupational and familial secrets. Albeit, you still had a month of classes left and a-whole-nother year before you graduated. You were still undeniably naive, especially with the way you blindly trusted him.Â
In your bedroom, you had been getting ready for class, running back and forth from your closet to your bathroom. The morning started late, trading an hour or so of gathering yourself for extra time wrapped around Andrew. He was still in bed with barely any intention to start his morning, a rotten habit he gained from you.
âThe red one?â He rolled over, peeking his head above the comforter to see you standing by your dresser, âItâs on your desk.â
âNo, the one in the fat circular tube? Itâs got cherries on it.â It was a little stupid how dire you treated this situation, but you had some consistent particularity in your appearance.Â
Your room was a bit messy, clothes discarded on the floor from the night before. By his own volition, Andrew usually straightened things up in the morning anyway. As your last hope before scattering off to class, you reached for your jeans from yesterday, which were crumpled by the foot of the bed.
Reaching into the front pocket, you felt around and pulled out a wad of hundreds wrapped in a rubber band rather than a plastic tube. There were even more further inside, so much so that you had no clue your pockets even went that deep.
âAndy, whatâs this?â You dropped your jeans, eyes sifting through and trying to guess the amount in one. You knew it was his; what it was doing in your pants was beyond you.
âFinancial aid.â He sat up, leaning his back against your headboard.Â
You looked at him, then looked back at the cash in your hand, âI⌠I canât take this.â
Not only did you mean that out of humility, you had no clue where it came from. It was fine if he was dealing with shady money, but you? It didnât feel good getting involved.
âYou have to,â he nodded, âItâs a scholarship.â
You wanted to smile, almost. All of this, for you⌠The only thing you had done was keep him company, bring him to do things you wanted to do, use him to your heartâs content, and run his wallet. Then again, he was in jail for a bank robbery, and his family laundered money and committed a number of crimes you couldnât count on your fingers and toes.
âWhere did you get this much?âÂ
He dodged your question, âI figured you could quit your shitty job if I helped you pay for college, and you could come live with me after you graduate.â
âMy jobâs not that shitty.â You managed to mutter with a shrug.
âI donât want you to worry about anything anymore.â
âWell, how did you even get this?â
âDonât worry about it.â He stared at you in that piercing way, telling you to stop asking.
âOkay,â You sighed, managing not to press. You gingerly tucked the money back in your discarded jeans like it was a crime scene. âI gotta go now. Will you be home later?â
He nodded slowly. Before leaving, you came by his side and surfaced a hand over his cheek, resting under his jaw. The way his eyes looked at you made you want to forget everything, but you couldnât. You caught his lips in yours and pressed a kiss to them like it had been any other day. Pressing your thumb on his cheekbone and squeezing your eyes tight, you wanted to forget.
âSee you later, Andy.â
âBye, sweetheart."
Part of you was relieved your parents wouldnât have to pay for anything, and you didnât have to spend the entirety of your career paying off student debt. The other part of you felt uneasy. Did taking the money make you an accomplice in his family business? What were you going to tell your parents when the next payment comes? Is it bad you condone his behaviour without question? Was this a slippery slope waiting to happen?
You were Andrewâs girlfriend, though. You willingly took an ex-convict into your home and loved him like he was the man of your dreams. You also set aside the bad feeling in your gut, the legally reported red flags, and the concern from your friends. Who were you to have a moral compass all of a sudden? You didnât mind his money for other expenses, why was this a problem? Why now?
That night, you and Andrew sat on the couch, scrolling through Zillow after dinner. Among bites of his rigatoni, it began unseriously, Andrew mentioning that he wanted to see what houses were on sale nearby. On the couch, he had a bowl of chocolate ice cream in his hands with you leaning on his shoulder as he spoonfed you.
He watched as you contorted the map to look at different areas in San Diego county. Your fingers swiped over the mousepad, nails clicking on the surface while you scrolled. The ice cream was cold on his own tongue, his head pressed against yours, but he couldnât feel more warm inside.Â
Andrew offered almost every house you swept by, but you always had some concession. Too modern, too grandma, I couldnât see myself there, it looked kinda freaky, too bright, tourist area. No matter how lightheartedly you treated this, you were very particular. He knew he didnât really care what house would be his, as long as you were in it.Â
âWhy donât you look near the beach?â He suggested, putting the now-empty bowl on the side table.Â
âToo expensive.â You scrunched your nose, turning to him.Â
âNothingâs too expensive for my girl.â He pulled you on his lap, laptop following your knees. Your cheek pressed against his forehead as his hand ran up and down your back.Â
âWell, I always dreamed of having a beachfront house.â You spoke, mostly to yourself, scrolling towards the sea on the little map. You clicked through pins while Andrew explored your collar region.
Tucked into the crook of your neck, his head nuzzled closer to your skin, lips nipping at the open space. Andrewâs hair had been growing out from his prison cut, smoothing and grazing over you as he pushed in closer. His hands squeezed you tight, one on your hip and other over your knee, as you tried showing him the next few houses.
âWhateverâs fine.â He mumbled, mouthing over your collarbone then resuming back up your throat.
âAndy,â you hummed, moving your head down to catch his eye, âthis will be yours, you have to pick a good one.â
You had grabbed his chin in your hand, ripping him off your neck. His eyes bore into you, eyebrows heavily resting over them like you ruined his party. You kissed the bridge of his nose and ran your fingers through his hair.
âWhat do you want in your house, honey?â You asked, sending a mocking pout that mirrored his.
With a huff, he took your laptop and shut it, placing it along with the discarded bowl. His hand returned back on you, running up your thigh as you placed your hands on the sides of his head. Your legs moved over his spread thighs as you scooted closer up his lap.
âWhat do you want?â He asked, face tilted up at yours. âI know youâve thought about it. Tell me.â
âWellâŚâ You thought as his head dipped back towards your chest, pushing kisses up to your shoulder and down again. âMmm, I like a breakfast nook andâŚâ He pressed his mouth rougher on your chest, creating a trail up. Your fingers found his hair again, gently scraping through. âAnd a bay window maybe. A lot of cozy sitting spaces.â You yelped as his hand, cold from holding the bowl, slipped under your shirt, running over your warm skin.Â
âUh, huh,â he breathed into your chest, repeating, âTell me, sweetheart.â
âM-Maybe a nice bathtub.â You sighed, melting into his touch. He squeezed at your chest, causing you to flinch in his lap. âAnd an open living space? Like you can,â a gasp escaped your mouth as his lips kneaded under your jaw, âYou can see the kitchen from the living room.â
âAnything else?â
âUh,â Your legs squeezed together, âMaybe a garden? Iâm not good with,â you huffed while he continued pressing soft kisses over and over on your neck, âMânot good with that stuff, but⌠Um, colours⌠are⌠uh, huh.â His head dipped further into your neck.
Impatiently, you shifted, pulling his face up from your neck. A grin was plastered on his lips as his eyes softened at the sight of you. Lips trembling, you grasped onto him as you brought your face to his. You took his mouth into a kiss, desperate to latch onto something.
His fingers found your hair, caressing your scalp as his mouth worked over yours. You pushed in closer to him, squirming and trying to get a grip. As your hips pressed into him, he made a noise into your mouth, heavy and guttural.Â
Hooked under your knees and around you, his arms found your legs and back again. Mouth still on yours, he picked up the bowl from the table before he pulled you up as he stood. You pulled away when you realized he was bringing you to the kitchen.Â
Light still dim, he set you down on the counter beside the sink as he moved away from you. You looked around the room like you missed something. Eyebrows furrowed and a little bit frustrated, you watched as he turned on the faucet and let water run through the bowl.
âAndrew, whatââ
âGotta wash the bowl.â He said, taking the sponge from the dish.
With a sigh, you crossed your legs, waiting impatiently for him to finish. You saw the smirk creep on his face while he scrubbed, taking longer than necessary for one bowl and one spoon. You checked your nails once, twice, then let out a preposterous sigh, watching as he rinsed out the bowl.
He placed the bowl and spoon on the drying rack, then grabbed the towel to wipe his hands.
âIs that necessary?â You stared at him with your chin tilted down, eyes annoyed and attempting to be threatening.
âWhat?â He went over his hands thoroughly, just to piss you off.Â
âYour hands are gonna get wet anyway,â You said, reaching your leg out to tap his side with your foot.
He softly exhaled as a chuckle, âYou donât like when I donât dry my hands.â
You let out an exaggerated sigh again, mostly because he was right. He looked at you as the towel ran over his knuckles a third time. You showed your bare wrist to him, tapping it as if there had been a watch there.Â
Putting the towel back on its hook, Andrew approached you. His hands found your sides and you were suddenly in his arms again with a yelp. As he whisked you off to your bedroom, you squeezed your arms around him.
Back hitting the mattress, you pursed your lips when he kneeled between your legs. His hands ran under your shirt, tugging the fabric up as he pressed on your skin. You hummed while his head dug into your torso.Â
He kissed your stomach and up to your sternum tenderly, following the edge of your shirt. Hair brushing on your skin, he dug his head into you like he couldnât get enough. You let out shaky breaths as your fingers danced over the back of his head. He pulled himself over you, taking your lips back to his.Â
You wasted no time in hooking your leg around his waist, urging him closer. Andrew groaned as you pushed your hips up, finding him growing in his pants. You sighed when he pulled away, his mouth hovered over yours.Â
A smile grew on his face as he pulled your shirt over your head. You leaned forward and put your hands on his chest, surfacing over before reaching your fingers to the buttons on his shirt. It was like any other night with himâ your bodies have grown so accustomed to each other that you knew exactly where to put your hands without second thought.
âRemind me again?â He said, nodding his head at you while you worked the buttons open. âBeachside, bay window, open living space.âÂ
You rolled your eyes, peeling back the cotton of his button-up, âDonât tease me.âÂ
âI wasnât going to.â He exhaled, reaching for the hem of your lounge shorts.
Sighing, you pressed your hands over his chest, feeling the smooth, toned surface as he pulled your shorts down. You pushed the shirt off his arms before he could latch onto you again. Fingers curling into your lower back, he urged you to arch your back as his other hand moved between your legs.Â
âYou never told me what you wanted.â You said, breath heavy as his fingers just ghosted above your entrance. Propped up on your pillow, you stared up at him, who was far more interested in the space between your thighs than anything else.
His fingers shallowly pressed into you, feeling the wetness at your entrance as you inhaled. Failing to fill the ache in your belly, you squirmed towards him, clenching at nothing. His eyes watched the desperation coat your face while his bottom lip sunk beneath his teeth.Â
âMmm,â Andrew thought to himself, letting his fingers slowly work you open as his left hand bore into the indent of your back. You whined at the stalling pace. âI want to come home,â he leaned his head towards yours, forehead pressing, âAnd I want you to be there.âÂ
He pressed his index and middle into you, down to the knuckle as he muffled your moan against a kiss. Your eyebrows knit as you ground yourself against his fingers, pulsing as he moved only slightly. Breathy sounds fell from your lips as his forehead propped against yours.
The heat of his breath grazing your cheek, he opened his eyes to watch you needily pant and push your body up to his. Your eyes were squinting shut, like you were concentrating on goading him to go harder on you. Lips agape, it was the only part of your face that wasnât frustrated.
âAndy,â you exhaled, âthatâs notââÂ
You let out an uneven high-pitched noise as his thumb met your clit. Arching your back even more, you became putty in his hand, which was kneading at the skin on your side. He curled his fingers into you as he drew a steady pace, grazing the sweet spot he knew too well.
âSânot what, sweetheart?â His voice, husky and low, wafted over your lips.
âNot what I mean.â You groaned at his controlled movement.Â
Trembling at the barely-there contact, your mouth shut, pressing together if he wouldnât help it. Hands went to grab his shoulders as pressure built inside of you. Thumb working just as steady as his fingers, he drew you close to the edge but stroked too leisurely to bring you there. You squirmed as his palm attempted to stabilize your hips.
âFuckâ Can you just be inside me already?â Your hips jerked up, which was only met with the harsh squeeze of his hand.Â
âI thought I was the needy one.â He teased, pressing a kiss to your cheek as he pulled his fingers out of you.
Leaning back, Andrew reached for his belt buckle. You watched eagerly, leaning over your elbows. The sound of the metal clinking was music to your ears. His eyes caught your face for a second, watching your eyes glisten and your mouth fall into a grin. Biting your lip, you watched him pull down his pants like it was the greatest show of all time.Â
He sprung up like he always did, enthusiastic and craving, tip leaking over you like he had finished in his pants already. You laid back again as Andrew crawled over your body, slowly and surely while he pressed against you. A grin only grew wider on your lips as your fingers threaded in his hair.
Involuntarily, your hips moved over him, taunting him with your entrance. His arms bracketed around your head as his mouth found yours again, open and heavy.
âYou know I donât need anything, right?â He asked gruffly, letting himself hang over you. You nodded restlessly, antsy for him. âIt doesnât matter to me, I just want you.â
âAndyââ You let that thought be replaced with a shaky breath as he slipped in, slowly making space for himself inside your warmth.Â
Back arching, your stomach met his abdomen as your thighs fell wide open. He let out a soft moan before taking your mouth into a deep kiss. Tongue tugging onto yours, he moved slowly, letting you gravitate towards him and sink your fingers into his shoulders.Â
He pulled away from your lips, chin on yours, âItâs all I need, sweetheart.â
Panting, you moved your hips in sync with his, skin rolling over the sheets like your bodies became one. Into your mouth, he released little groans while his hands moved down your body to pinch at your hips. As you sunk yourself onto him harsher, he struck deeper and pulled a heavy moan from your mouth.Â
Andrew reached for your hand, peeling it off his shoulder and intertwining it in his. Reaching your arm above your head, he kept one hand on your hip, controlling the movement of you against him. His fingers clutched your hand, pushing shallowly as he whimpered into your mouth.
Drawn nearly closed, his eyes bore into yours, watching as you slowly blinked. You took him perfectly, rutting yourself on him as he pumped somewhere between achingly slow and ruinously deep. Eyes rolling back, you tried to meet him in the middle when his hand met the surface of your thigh.
He tilted his head down to find that sweet spot with his thumb, coated just from the leak at your entrance. Biting down on your lip, you stopped yourself from squealing as his nose drew over your cheekbone. Tighter around him, you pulled him in closer, hips squirming and stuttering like you never felt this needy before, which was entirely untrue since you met Andrew.
Hips stalling against you and voice unsteady, he groaned into your mouth, âIâm gonna buy you that house.â
Your hips bucked against his as you whined in response, letting the pressure build as much as it could. Huffing, he pressed his lips against yours as he let himself drive faster into you, chasing his own release. Your fingers grasped at the back of his hand, restrained above your head, as your other hand scratched the top of his shoulder.
âFeels so good, honey.â You mumbled, pushing your stomach even further towards his.Â
âDoes it, pretty girl?â His eyes met yours again as you nodded.
âUh, huh. You feel so good, Andy.â You sunk your hips down on the mattress, letting him drill further into you, thumb kneading you right there. You whispered, falling into a moan, âKeep going. So perfect.â
You fluttered around him, your own hips tensing as you contracted and clenched. Eyes threatening to shut, your mouth fell open with a stupefied sigh as you reached your peak. Your hands clutched on what they could as you furrowed your eyebrows in frustration, eliciting a long moan. You shuddered with overstimulation as he continued to his own. Back spasming up to him, your hand fell from his shoulder and squeezed on his bicep, tugging his arm away from between you.
âCanât handle it, honey?â He asked softly, slowing his thumb but nonetheless keeping it there. His hips continued frantically while he swelled inside of you. His eyes shut as you bucked again, âHm?â
âFuck,â you squeezed his hand above you, which was heavy on yours as he dove deeper. âToo much, Andy.â
âYou can handle it. Feels good, doesnât it?â His eyebrows tightened as his hips began to stutter. You let out a drawn-out mhmm noise of agreement as you contracted around him. âFuck, I love you.â He whined over your skin before releasing with a grand thrust.Â
Sweat on his forehead, his face tumbled over yours as you grew warm inside, squeezing around him while his hand fell out of sync. You sighed, senses prickly as his head tucked beside your neck. His hand fell over your thigh as his other kept your fingers threaded together.
You stroked your free hand through his hair as he panted into your neck, sticky with sweat. Eyebrows furrowed, he pressed kisses into your jaw while you massaged his scalp. Reaching your lips, he gave you a wet kiss, body still pressed against yours.
Your eyes fell wide as he pulled away. Blissed out, his face was relaxed, tan and freckled with his mouth hanging open. His hand rubbed up and down your thigh soothingly as his golden eyes glazed your own softened face.
You whispered, âI love you, Andy.â
With the curl of his lips, he pressed in another kiss, slow and steady, like he knew you wouldnât rather be anywhere else. You smiled as your lips moved with his, hands still pressed against him.
Pulling away, he looked at you and repeated seriously, âIâm gonna buy you that house.â
After the last big job, Andrew wanted to get his money and calm down. Heâd come around the house a few times and check on things, suss out J, collect his check. He didnât mind spending time with his brothers, though still keeping his cards close to his chest, but Smurf was always on him about something.Â
She summoned him to the kitchen, where she was fixing herself an afternoon drink, her umpteenth of the day. Looking a mess, she was grabbing the Vodka bottle from the top shelf when Andrew entered. Already feeling unsure about the atmosphere, he stood a distance away from the counter by the sliding door.
âYou know, I have been seeing less and less of you.â She said almost immediately, no greeting, no concern. âWhere have you been spending your nights?âÂ
âHotels.â He grunted, folding his arms.
She nodded, âAnd when are you going to buy that house you needed money for?â
âHavenât found the right place yet.â
Smurfâs hand clasped around the bottle as she twisted it open. She poured it straight into her glass, not bothering with a shaker or ice. Andrew watched as she moved to the fridge, pulling the door open.
âWhat did you need me for?â He asked impatiently.
Closing the door, she turned to him as she placed a jug of cranberry juice on the counter, âWhat were you doing on a college campus?âÂ
Furrowing his eyebrows deeply, he leaned his head towards her like he misheard, âWhat?â
âNicky said she saw you when her parents took her to tour schools in San Diego.â She spoke sternly, pouring the juice in her glass, âWhat were you doing on a college campus in San Diego?â
âI donât even know this girl.â He looked over his shoulder, where she and J were sitting by the pool. Nicky was watching them talk through the glass as she sat on the sunbed. âShe mustâve been confused.â
âShe said you were with a girl.â Smurf looked up at him, eyes narrowing as her grip on the juice bottle tightened. She clenched her jaw, âYou know there are no secrets in this family, baby.â
âWhy would I be in San Diego?â He shrugged his shoulders up, eyes vacant as he glared at her.
âFine.â Smurf bit. With a tired sigh and a sip of her drink, she continued, âI need you to do something for me.â
He raised his head in intrigue, watching her gulp down the alcohol.
âLena tells me Cathâs been talking to the copsâŚâ
Meanwhile, you were hanging out in Mila and Angelaâs apartment. Feet kicked up on their coffee table, you and Mila mindlessly watched some sitcom while she tried to convince you to go to some house party. It was off campus and a 40-minute drive north, making it less appealing from the fact that you didnât even know who was throwing.
âWe can crash at my momâs house this weekend!â She reasoned, phone in hand, likely opened on her Snapchat messages, âYou love the pool there!â
âWhereâd you even hear about this?â You sunk further into the couch.
âThis girl from my poli-sci group told me about it. They do it like every week, supposedly itâs crazy as hell.â She exaggerated, fingers swiping through her phone. âYou can even bring that creepy boyfriend of yours.â
âAndrew is not creepy.â You furrowed your eyebrows, glaring over at her.
âOk, well,â she looked up at you with a grimace, âhe never says hi to me and Ang. He just⌠stares.â
âHeâs just not a people person.â You defended. âBesides, I donât think he likes parties, and Iâm not driving to fucking Oceanside during rush hour.â
âBro,â She sat up, hands moving like she was laying out a plan, âFree drinks, free weed, probably fucking molly if weâre being honest, and that beautiful guest bathtub you like so much.â
âIâm not doing molly.â You shook your head with scoff.
âYouâve been so uptight since you started dating that criminal.â Mila sighed, flopping back on the couch. She wasnât serious about her supposed disdain for Andrew, but she was right about your lack of adventure when you got with him.
âWhy donât you ask Angela to go?â You crossed your legs.Â
âPlease, that girl is perpetually retired from going out.â She shook her head. âSheâs studying for the LSATs like sheâs gonna die if she doesnât pass, and youâre playing house like youâve been married for ten years. You need to come with me. When was the last time we partied?â
After a missed call then a text that was met with a thumbs up, you and Mila plotted your route. Within the next few hours, you were packed up and headed north to her momâs house.Â
âIâm surprised Andrew let you go.â She said as your car waited in the drive thru line for coffee.
âHe didnât let me. I donât need permission,â you sneered, pushing your sunglasses above your head. âHeâs working tonight anyway.â
âWorking? I didnât know he had a job.â She said as you shrugged. âWait, what does he do?â
âFuck if I know,â you chuckled, pulling up towards the window.
The party was already loud when you arrived. You had walked up the driveway through the side gate, where there were people smoking and talking, all in their bathing suits. You wore a short denim skirt that rode up if you sat and a shimmery bikini that had been stowed away at the bottom of your drawer. Mila dragged you over to the little tiki makeshift-bar in the corner to grab a drink.Â
There were a few people in the pool, splashing around with beer bottles in hand. Music bumped from speakers by the patio door, and the backyard was lit by the house lights. You could smell weed coming from everywhere.Â
Mila handed you a cup, full of something and urged it against your lips. Unsurely, you drank, eyes shifting around the party. The people there seemed older, not middle-aged but definitely not your age. She smiled and nodded at you as she drank from her own.
Leaning towards her, you said into her ear, âIs it just me or are we the youngest people here?âÂ
She hissed from the burn in her throat and shrugged, tossing the empty cup behind her.Â
You followed Mila around the party, letting her talk to people and find out where the weed was as you downed various drinks. Taking hits of other peopleâs joints in passing, you didnât linger long, as their dialogue only affirmed your suspicion. You hadnât smoked weed in awhile, not since Andrew has been with you, so each hit felt extra compelling.
Mila had latched onto this one guy, tall and brawny with a beard and that long surfer cut youâd see around the shoreâ definitely her type. He had been drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette when you approached. Mind already cloudy, you stayed eons behind Mila as she talked him up.
You couldnât help but think about Andrew, what he was doing, why he spent time away. You missed him in a heartaching way that could only be induced by this state of mind. Eyes trailed to the water, watching pairs happily talk to each other and splash around, fingers grazing each otherâs wet hair and lips pressing against soaked cheeks.Â
Not that what you had was undesirable, but you wanted to know him, through and through. You were fine with obscurity for his sake, though the seriosity he treated you with meant you needed to know everything to fully slip in. You wanted every inch of his life memorized up to the hilt, no matter how deeply wounded he was or how dark he suggested his past was.Â
In the den, your legs were sticky against the leather cushion of the chair as you watched Mila do lines on the glass table with two big guys who claimed to own the house, one being the guy Craig she clung to earlier. You werenât sure how you ended up here, but following Mila around could get you to odd places.Â
âYou want a bump?â Craig asked, rubbing his nose.
You shook your head, taking a hit from the joint you had been sharing with his brother Deran instead. Craig and Deran were sitting on the couch beside Mila. You were a ways away in a standalone chair, legs tucked over one another like you were in church. Craig had his arm around her like theyâd known each other.
âWhyâs your friend so uptight?â Deran gestured to you while talking to Mila. His voice was raised above the noise of the speakers, so you could very obviously hear him.
You tilted your head down, staring through your brows.
âShe has a boyfriend.â Mila spoke for you, taking a swig of her beer.
âWhat boyfriend? I donât see him anywhere.â Craig joked, scooting closer to Mila. With a cough, you handed the joint back to Deran.
âHe can beat your ass.â You slurred slightly, but tried to convince yourself you werenât that fucked up yet. Words spilled from your mouth like you couldnât control it, âHeâs, like, big and strong and beautiful... He can definitely beat your ass.â
Craig and Deran looked at each other and laughed.
Deran shook his head, âThis chick canât be serious.â
âNo, seriously,â Mila leaned forward and warned in her overly-expressive voice, âheâs, like, a criminal. Got out of jail recently for some heinous shit.â
âMilaâŚâ You groaned, sitting back in the chair. âYou canât just tell people that.â
âWhat?â She shrugged, hands flopping mid-air. âYou can look him up online.â
âI wanna meet this guy,â Craig chuckled, taking a swig from his beer.
âHeâs like forty or some shit.â
âUm, heâs thirty-eight,â you corrected, waving a finger at her, âAnd itâs not that old.â
âIt is if youâre twenty.â She argued without genuine bite.
âGirl, drink your beer and shut up.â You groaned again, flitting your hand at her, while you dragged out the âuâ in up. She giggled, as youâve been through this fake argument before.
Mila thought it was funny that you were seeing an older man and that he was living in your apartmentâ she always had opinions. Ultimately, she didnât care what you did with your time and romantic life. Anyway, she was doing lines with these random guys, so who was she to judge?
âSo, heâs a middle aged felon⌠who could beat my ass?â Craig raised an eyebrow at you. âAm I getting that right?â
You nodded once, âYup.â
âWhat, heâs got an eleven-inch dick or something?â Deran scoffed, sitting back and taking a swig of his beer.
You smiled with a shrug, placing your empty beer on the table.
âIâm sorry, but I donât fuckinâ buy it.â He shook his head.
âYou donât have to,â you chuckled.
Craig laughed, shaking his head before taking another line. Mila had been staring out the window, watching people jump into the pool.Â
Gasping, she beamed and sang your name, âI have to go swimming.â
âMila, youâre gonna drown.â You joked, but she was already up, grabbing your hand and forcing you up.
Dragging you outside, she quickly discarded her sneakers and skirt over on a chair before jumping in. Craig and Deran had followed the two of you out, new drinks in hand and one for you. Bumming a cigarette, you clinked your beer against Deranâs, watching Mila swim around.Â
You had been chatting about surf and Oceanside with the two of them, since you werenât really accustomed to this side of the county, while Mila played mermaids by herself. You got along fairly well with the two of them, not without little jokes of your middle aged felon. Another beer and another joint, you were best friends.
When you looked over again, Mila was talking to someone by the diving board, waving her arm at you and yelling your name. Her head was sticking out of the water and the guy was sitting on the board, leaning down to hear her.
âOne sec,â you said as Craig was about to finish a thought about something he called âWater BMX.â You scampered over to Mila and the boy who looked barely old enough to drive.Â
As you approached, she pointed at him aggressively with a giggle, âThis kid is like fifteen! Weâre not the youngest here.â
âIâm seventeen.â He said meekly with a chuckle, like he didnât really mind if you got it wrong.
âHeâs in high school.â Mila pointed to him, which made you give a lightheaded laugh. âWait, what the fuckâs your name again?â
âUh, J.â He nodded.
Clenching his fists open and closed, Andrew walked into the backyard with a shaky breath and wide eyes. The drive back from the desert was a blur, so was everything that happened in the past few hours. Cath was goneâ technically, missingâ and Lena was all alone. He hadnât even registered what heâd done, as if his body was working all on its own. HIs hands wouldnât stop shaking and it only got worse the more he tensed.Â
You. He couldnât stop thinking about you. Protecting his family at all costs had been ingrained in his bloodstream. Calloused hands and tough arms, heâd become the devil as long as Smurf had him in her grip, as long as he had to prove his loyalty. You, though, you fell between the cracks, reaching out to him like an angel. Genuine warmth and arms that he could fall into told him otherwise.Â
Andrew didnât know if he could possibly ever be truly loved before. He came to you like a blank slate, still wholly himself yet you didnât actually know anything about himâ Pope Cody, that is. You loved him in spite of himself, maybe it could be attributed to your lonely heart or your trusting innocence. A bank robbery, youâd excuseâ it was virtually harmless. What would the angel say now?
The music from the speakers pierced his ears, far too loud and coming in with a penetrating shriek, though he couldnât feel more underwater. Swaths of strangers around him looked faceless, blurred together and meaningless, like Cath did before⌠He needed to wake up, catch his breath. He needed a beer or something.Â
Body on complete autopilot, he floated towards Craig and Deran without even realizing. They were mid-conversation, sounds that barely formed to Andrew. Deran raised an eyebrow at him as Craig wordlessly handed him a beer.
Across the way, you were helping Mila out of the pool, holding out a towel you found on a shelf for her. You had been talking to J about college and his SAT score and whatever he had questions about. Mind still loopy, you and Mila didnât give him proper answers, lining the conversation with giggles and jokes targeted at him. She climbed out of the pool and wrapped herself in the towel.
âFuck, I need a cigarette.â She shivered, looking around for Craig.
Giving J a slight wave, you headed back towards the house, keeping your eye peeled for the brothers. Mila trailed behind, toeing along the concrete. You nearly tripped over yourself when you saw your Andrew by Craig and Deran. Just as beautiful as he had been in the morning, he stood rigidly beside them, muscles accentuated in his dark clothes. He was straight-faced with a beer bottle in hand, jaw clenched, eyebrows furrowed and eyes scattered.
âAndy!â You beamed, jumping on your toes to run at him, abandoning Mila in the process. Heâd been materializing in your mind all night, you worried you might be hallucinating, but the look towards you was confirmation. Arms wide, you lunged at him, squeezing yourself flush against his body. âYouâre here!â
Andrew tensed at the contact, but his arms instinctively wrapped around your waist. Your skin dug into his shirt, attempting to feel him closer than possible. His eyes darting to his brothers, they nearly laughed.
âAndy?â Deran smirked.Â
Andrew scowled at him, then sent a confused look at you as he said your name, âWhat are you doing here?â
âI missed you,â You dragged out, keeping your arms around his neck and your head pressed to his shoulder.Â
âThis is yourâŚâ Craig almost completed but stopped when Deran shook his head at him.
Mila approached, nudging her head at Craig for a cigarette. He obliged, lighting one of her before turning his attention back to Andrew. His eyebrow raised when he watched you place a kiss on his cheek, whispering something to him.
âPopeâs screwing a college chick.â Craig chucked to himself, then to Deran, âCanât believe thatâs who she was talking about.â
âPope?â It was Milaâs turn to raise an eyebrow. She sucked in the smoke, turning to you, scratching the back of Andrewâs head with your nails.Â
You had forgotten all about them, gazing up at him like he was the only person in existence. Andrew had just been looking at you concernedly, asking how and when questions only to be met with loopy answers and your hands on him.
âWait, how do you know him?â Mila pointed a finger at Andrew.
âHeâs our brother,â Craig said, causing her to perk up. Her eyebrows furrowed, looking at the two of them. Undoubtedly, she was trying to place them with the search results on your computer from weeks ago. She thought she had been too high to form a cohesive thought, but nothing was clearer to her than now. The Codys. Of course.Â
Deran laughed, âWait till Smurf hears about this.âÂ
The mention of her name made Andrew snap out of whatever trance you brought him under. His head snapped to them and his eyebrows furrowed, face darting back to his protective nature.Â
âHold on,â he mumbled into your hairline.
Making you stand on your own, he let go of you and stepped to the two of them. You watched helplessly, arms at your sides and curious.
âDo not tell Smurf.â He grit his teeth, fists clenched.
âSheâs gonna find out anyway.âÂ
âNot if you keep your mouth shut.â Andrew neared them, face dangerously close, trailing Deranâs. âUnderstand?â
âYeah, man, whatever.â Deran shrugged, taking another sip of his beer.Â
Infinite questions in her mind, Mila stood behind Craig as he simply watched the exchange, stuck on his inactivity. She watched as Andrew turned back to you, grabbing your hand and leading you out. Your feet dragged behind you, as his arm tugged you.
âLetâs go.â
Turning and catching Milaâs wide eyes, you whined, âWait, but Milaââ
âLetâs go.â He said to you more harshly, a voice you hadnât heard from him before.Â
Something flashed in your eyes, not fear but concern, like a drill command that jolted your spine forward. The protective and maddened look on his face told you everything. His stare suggested your only option was to follow, letting your curiosity wither away. You nodded sheepishly, glancing back at Mila, Deran, and Craig before following Andrew to the gate.
From the side of the patio, J had watched the whole scene. Still sitting on the diving board, he was watching Andrew, Craig, and Deran. He immediately caught interest when you called out a nickname he hadnât heard before. Watching you trail to Andrew, jump on him like you knew him well, then the intimidation exchange among the brothers. Completely sober, he took note.
1: Respectfully, Yours
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i knew it, i knew you
pairing: john carter x childhood best friend!psych intern!reader
synopsis: You never thought you'd see John Carter again, that was the plan at least. Until your psych internship at County General makes you confront your childhood best friend again after years of never talking. But love has ways of bringing things back to life, and when you see him, you just know it, you know him, and you never stopped loving him even after all this time. Will seeing each other after all this time rekindle your flame, or will you just run away again?
inspired by "I knew it, I knew you," by Taylor Swift.
warnings/tags: fluff, childhood best friends to lovers, hurt/comfort, some angst
chapter one - man, it's been a while
chapter two - parachutes for the free fall of being younger
chapter three - life has ways of leaving those days behind
chapter four - all the rivers i cried
chapter five - wondering if I'd made it up in my mind
chapter six - and I remembered "I loved you"
how i'd love to go to paris again (and again) | j. abbot & m. robinavitch
pairing jack abbot x fem!reader x michael robinavitch
summary after jack casually floats the idea of adding a third, you donât let it stay theoretical for longâwhat starts as curiosity turns into something a lot more real when robby gets pulled into the space you and jack have built together. (#threesometime #neverforgetchallengers) (ao3)
tags/warnings MDNI (18+) explicit sexual content, age gap (mid-20s / 50s), established relationship with you and jack, living together, unlabelled jack and robby sexualities (bi?), attempt at a true love triangle (et tu, challengers (2024) except no cheating & u and jack r <3. but rabbot under(over?)tones), unprotected p in v, oral (f/m, m/f) handjobs (f/m, m/m), masturbation, praise & teasing, dom!ish robby, bratty!ish reader, lowkey switch/softdom jack idk, finger sucking, domestic, drinking, brief hospital/medical stuff / orthopaedics (r3), porn with... context?, hint at robby internalised homophobia? possibly ooc for jack sorry, title reference to the 1975 but not inspired by the song more just bad pun bc... paris... threesome... get it
wc 18.3k words
spin off of the fic: my (wo)man on willpower | j. abbot - can be read solo!
Robby doesnât look confused so much as⌠unconvinced.
He sits back in the booth, one arm slung along the backrest, beer loose in his hand, eyes moving between you and Jack like heâs watching a consult go sideways.
ââŚYou two wanna try that again,â he says, slow, âbut in English this time?â
Jack huffs under his breath, already regretting opening his mouth. He drags a hand over his jaw, glancing at you like heâs half-tempted to pull the plug on the whole thing.
âTold you,â he mutters, low. âBad pitch.â
You nudge his knee under the tableânot hard, just enough. Donât bail.
Robby catches it. Of course he does. His eyes flick down, then back up, something sharpening.
âOh, donât tap out now,â he says, leaning forward, forearms braced on the table. âYou brought it up. Iâm listening.â
Jack opens his mouth againâ
ââNo,â Robby cuts him off, not even looking at him. âShe talks.â
Thereâs that tone. The one he uses with residents when theyâre dancing around something obvious. Not unkind. Just⌠direct. Your breath catches for half a second. Not nerves exactlyâmore the weight of being looked at like that. Seen through, a little.
Jack glances at you, something softer there now. A small nod. Go on.
You shift in your seat, tucking one leg under you slightly, grounding yourself before you speak.
âItâs not⌠open,â you start, careful. âWeâre not looking toâchange anything. Not really.â
Robby watches you the whole time. Doesnât interrupt. Doesnât fill the silence for you.
âItâs justââ you exhale, a small, almost embarrassed huff of a laugh, ââwe trust you. Both of us do. And youâve been⌠there. With us. For a while.â
âUnfortunately,â he mutters.
Jack snorts. âSpeak for yourself.â
But Robby doesnât look away from you.
You hold his gaze. âItâs not random. Itâs not⌠about finding some person to fool around with. Itâs you.â
That lands. You see it in the way his jaw shifts, just slightly. The humour doesnât disappear, but it tightens around the edges.
ââŚRight,â he says, slower now.
Jack leans forward, elbows on the table, finally stepping back in. âItâs not a free-for-all,â he adds, dry. âWeâre not pitching some kind of ER orgy.â
âShame,â Robby says flatly.
You almost laugh, tension breaking for a second.
Jack shoots him a look. âBe serious for one second in your life.â
âI am serious,â Robby says. Then, to youââIâm just making sure I understand what the hell youâre asking me.â
His gaze drops brieflyâto your hands, the way theyâre curled loosely around your glassâthen back up again.
âWhat are you actually offering here?â he asks.
You hesitateânot because you donât know, but because saying it out loud makes it real. Jack shifts beside you. You feel his knee press into yours, steady, grounding.
âItâs not just sex,â you say, quieter now.
Robbyâs brow lifts. âNo?â
You shake your head. âItâs⌠us. Still us. Justââ you glance at Jack, then back at Robby, ââwith you in it. Sometimes. If you wanted that.â
Thereâs a long beat.
Robby leans back again, dragging his hand over his mouth, thinking. Really thinking.
âYou two have been together, what,â he says, glancing at Jack, âtwo years now?â
âNearly three,â Jack corrects.
âNearly three,â Robby repeats. âYou know, you⌠you live together. Donât kill each other. Thatâs impressive.â
âThank you,â you say, dry.
His gaze shifts back to you again, softer this timeâbut heavier, too.
âAnd youâre both telling me this doesnât⌠complicate things.â
Jack answers this time, steady. âEverythingâs already complicated. This wouldnât change what weâve got. Weâve talked, we trust each other, we trust you.â
Robby studies him for a second longer than necessary. Thereâs history in that look. Long-standing, unspoken understanding. The kind you only get after decades of knowing someone.
ââŚYouâre serious,â he says finally.
âYeah,â Jack says.
Robby exhales, a quiet, disbelieving laugh under his breath. He tips his head back for a second, staring at the ceiling like heâs trying to reset his brain.
âJesus Christ.â
You donât rush him. Neither does Jack. When he looks back at you, itâs different now. Less amused. More⌠considering.
âYouâre asking about the three of usâŚâ he tries, trailing off.
You nod. âYeah.â
His eyes flick, just briefly, to where your leg is still angled toward Jackâs, the easy closeness of it. Then back to your face.
âAnd youâre both just- youâre⌠good with it,â he says.
Your voice is quieter when you answer. âWouldnât be sitting here if we werenât. Youâre attractive, smart, funny. And I think youâve always secretly had a thing for at least one of us. Maybe both, but, one way to find out, I guess.â
Robby drums his fingers once against the table, then stills them.
â...Christ,â he mutters again, but thereâs a hint of something else in it now. Not just disbelief.
Interest. He looks at you properly then. Not the quick, passing glances from before. This is slower. Measuring.
âYou always this persuasive?â He wonders.
You tilt your head, a small smile pulling at your mouth. âOnly when it matters.â
That earns the faintest huff of a laugh.
âYeah,â he says. âI can see that.â
Jack shifts beside you, not tenseâbut alert. Watching the shift happen in real time. Robby notices that too. His mouth quirks, just slightly.
Your phone buzzesâonce, twice, then a string of messages lighting up your screen.
You glance down, already half-standing. âIâve gotta go. Park needs meâIsla called in sick.â
Jack doesnât even hesitate. Heâs already reaching into his pocket, keys in hand. âTake the car. Iâll ride back with him.â
You take them, brushing his fingers briefly. âThanks, baby.â
You lean downâmeant to be quick, but it doesnât quite stay that way. Your mouth presses to his, warm, familiar. He lets you, hand coming up to your cheek, thumb catching just under your jaw, holding you there for half a second longer than necessary before you pull back.
Thereâs a flicker of something in his eyes when you do. You straighten, turningâ Robbyâs already looking at you. Not subtle about it. Rarely is.
âMichael,â you say, softer, a small nod.
He repeats your nameâflatter, rougher, like heâs testing how it sits in his mouth.
You donât linger. You head out.
The door swings shut behind you.
Jack watches it a beat too long. Then exhales, leaning back into the booth, dragging a hand over his mouth like heâs resetting.
Robby doesnât look at the door. He looks at Jack. Thereâs a slow, almost amused curve to his mouth. Not mocking. Just⌠processing.
âAlright,â he says. âWhoâs idea is it?â
Jack doesnât bother pretending. âMine.â
Robby lets out a short, disbelieving breath. âYouâre kidding.â
âNope.â
âWhen?â
Jack shrugs, reaching for his beer. âRemember that detox sexless cult thing she did a few months back?â
Robby snorts. âYeah. You turned into the most unbearable version of yourself Iâve seen in twenty years. Which is saying something.â
âAppreciate that.â
âWalking around likeââ Robby gestures vaguely, ââlike a cat in heat.â
Jack huffs a laugh despite himself. âYeah, well. After you left that morning, we had our⌠you know, usual great sex - not adding as part of the pitch, you already know how good the sex is -â
â-get to the point,â Robby says, with a slight snicker.
âSome point, I mention⌠I donât know, marriage, foreplay, a third. We finish up, and⌠weâre just talking.â
âTalking,â Robby repeats, deadpan.
âYeah. Try it sometime. With a professional, even, they do that.â
âHard pass.â
Jack ignores him, a faint smirk tugging at his mouth. âIt came up. Not seriously at first. Hypotheticals. What weâd be into, what we wouldnât.â
âAnd you landed on me,â Robby says.
âYeah.â
Robby watches him for a second. Longer than usual. ââŚBoth of you.â
âBoth of us.â
That lands differently.
Robby leans back, dragging a hand over his jaw, thinking. Really thinking nowânot just reacting.
âThatâs your girl,â he says finally. âYouâve built something there. Iâm notââ he shakes his head slightly, ââIâm not interested in screwing that up.â
Jackâs expression doesnât change much, but something in it settles. He nods once.
âI wouldnât be asking if I thought you would.â
Robby glances at him, sharper now. âYou donât get to decide that for me.â
âNo,â Jack agrees easily. âBut I do know you.â
A beat.
âAnd I trust you,â he adds.
it hangs there. Robby exhales slowly, gaze dropping to the table for a second before coming back up.
ââŚYeah,â he mutters. âThatâs the problem.â
Jackâs brow lifts, faintly amused. âThat I trust you?â
âThat I donât take that lightly,â Robby shoots back.
Silence stretches for a second. Then Robby leans forward slightly, forearms braced on the table, voice dropping a notch.
âAnd youâre fine with it,â he says. Not a question. âMe and her.â
Jack doesnât flinch. âYeah.â
âReally.â
âYeah.â
Robby studies himâsearching for cracks, for ego, for something careless. Doesnât find much. Jack kept his pride in check. He wasnât a jealous person, not really. He was secure in himself. Something Robby envied, sometimes.
ââŚSheâsââ he starts, then cuts himself off, jaw tightening slightly. âYou know what she is.â
Jack huffs a quiet laugh. âYeah. I do.â
âTwenty-something,â Robby continues. âSmart. Looks likeââ he gestures vaguely, then shakes his head. âYouâve seen her.â
Jack smirks faintly. âI have, yeah. A lot of her. Itâs great.â
Robbyâs mouth twitches despite himself.
âAnd she looks at you like you hung the moon half the time,â he adds.
Jackâs expression softens just a fraction. âSometimes.â
Robby nods once, slow. Thenâ
ââŚYou really telling me youâve never thought about it? About herâ Jack asks, casualâbut not careless.
Robby lets out a quiet breath through his nose, leaning back again.
âThatâs not a fair question.â
Jack tilts his head at his friend. An insistence in his eyes to go on.
Robby tips his head back slightly, staring at the ceiling for a second like heâs debating how honest he wants to be.
Then he looks back at Jack.
ââŚWell Iâm not blind,â he says.
Jack doesnât react much. Just watches him.
âSheâsââ Robby exhales, searching for a word, then gives up and settles for, ââsheâs a lot. Sweet.â
Jackâs mouth ticks. âShe is⌠You ever think about her while jerking off?â
Robby lets out a low breath at that, clicking his tongue at his friend's bluntness. Fuck it, theyâre being honest. âYes.â
Robbyâs a little surprised when he sees the slow blink from Jack, a nod. Maybe irritable.Â
âWhat?â Robby scoffs. âYouâre cool with the prospect of me fucking your girl? But what I do with my hand in my spare time is⌠what, some sort of line being crossed?â
âI didnât say anything, alright. Iâm all good here. Just didnât think youâd admit it,â Jack nods with insistence. âWhat about during sex? Thought about her then?â
â...On occasion, yes, Iâve- sheâs popped up there, yeah.â Robby admits with brief hesitance.Â
Thatâs as far as he pushes itâbut itâs enough. Jack nods once, like this one he expected. Like it doesnât threaten anything.
âFair,â he says.
Robby glances at him, something like disbelief creeping back in. âYouâre taking that a lot better than I thought you would.â
Jack shrugs. âSheâs hot. Youâre not dead. Tells me youâve got a working dick, at least.â
Robby lets out a short laugh at that, shaking his head.
Jack took a sip of his beer, thenâbecause he wasnât finished, because he never really was with Robbyâtilts his head slightly.
âWhat about me?â
Robby scoffs immediately, too quick. âOh, come on.â
âNo, seriously,â Jack says, glancing at him sideways. Casual on the surface, not casual underneath. âNo shame, total honesty here. Twenty years, no secrets, all that bullshit.â
Robby drags a hand over his beard, already feeling the trap closing. âYouâre unbelievable.â
âHave you?â Jack asks, like he was asking about the weather.
A pause.
Robby stares at the table, jaw working once.
ââŚYou first,â he mutters.
Jack doesnât even blink. âYeah.â
Robby let out a slow breath through his nose, eyes dropping, like he was doing the math on how much of himself he was willing to hand over tonight.
âMan, itâs not evenââ Jack went on, shrugging a shoulder. âHalf the time that shit doesnât mean anything. Brain just throws things at you. Doesnât make you anything.â
Robby let out a short, humourless huff. âRight.â
âWhat,â Jack presses lightly, âyou worried about the gay implications?â
Robby shot him a look. âDonâtââ
ââWhat? Say âgayâ?â Jack says, not unkind, but not backing off either.
Robby glances up as a couple walks past, waits them out, then leans back in his seat, voice lower.
âWeâre talking about whether Iâve jacked off thinking about another guy,â he says, flat. âYeah, the⌠âgayâ of it all crossed my mind. Excuse me.â
Jack just nods, like that was fair.
âI just⌠I guess, I didnât realiseââ Robby starts, then stops, scrubbing a hand over his face. âI mean, you know, are youââ
Jack shrugs, easy. âIâve been with a few. Never made a whole thing out of it. Donât really care to.â
Robby gives a small, disbelieving shake of his head. âFigrues. Army man.â
âYeah, well,â Jack mutters. âYou donât have to slap a label on it, Rob. Doesnât have to mean anything bigger than it is.â
âIâm aware,â Robby says, maybe a little sharper than he meant to. Then, quieterâlike it cost him somethingâ ââŚItâs crossed my mind.â
Jackâs mouth pulled into something faintly smug. Not cruelâjust⌠satisfied.
âCrossed your mind,â he repeated. âInteresting wording.â
âDonât start,â Robby warns, but there was less heat in it now.
Jack huffs a quiet laugh. âIt was easier getting you to admit you think about fucking my girlfriend half our age than it was getting that out of you. Thatâs saying something.â
âFuck you,â Robby mutters, rolling his eyesâbut there was a reluctant grin there now, breaking through whether he liked it or not.
Jack shrugs, taking another sip. âOptions apparently on the table.â
Robby shakes his head, but didnât argue. Didnât fully look away, either.
Something in the air had shiftedâsubtle, but real. Not a line crossed, exactly. More like one finally acknowledged.
Robby studied him for a second, longer than necessary. There was history thereâyears of it, unspoken things sitting just under the surface, things neither of them had ever had to name.
Jack didnât push. Just leaned back, easy.
âThink about it,â he tries. âOr donât. Nothing changes.â
Robby nods once, short. âYeah.â A few seconds of quiet. ââŚYou still need that ride home?â he asks.
Jack snorts. âOh, a ride home? Wow. Subtle.â
âShut up.â
âFlirting now, are we?â
âYou are not a funny man, Jack Abbot, donât think otherwise,â Robby says, but he was already smiling, just a little.
â â â
2 WEEKS EARLIER
threesomenoun â three¡some â ËthrÄ-sÉm
1: a group of three persons or things : trio
2: a golf match in which one person plays their ball against the ball of two others playing each stroke alternately
3: a sexual encounter involving three people
âAre you trying to say you wanna play golf?â Jack says from the stove, not even turning around as he stirs the pan like it personally offended him.
The kitchen smells like garlic and butterâonions already softened down, carrots and capsicum still holding a bit too much bite. Heâs got one hand on the wooden spoon, the other braced on the counter, solid and steady in that way he always is.
Youâre perched up on the counter, one leg swinging lazily, phone in hand.
âYes,â you say dryly, scrolling. âIâm deeply passionate about golf. The balls. The stroking of the ballsââ
ââI get it,â Jack cuts in. âYou want a threesome.â
You look up at him, unimpressed. âI donât want a threesome. I love twosomes. Specifically with you.â A beat. âBut Iâm not opposed to⌠expanding the sample size.â
Jack snorts, finally glancing over to you. âExpanding theâJesus. Thatâs how you pitch wanting to fuck my best friend?â
âYou brought it up,â you shoot back, pointing your phone at him like evidence. âDonât act like this wasnât your idea. âOh baby, we should add a third, Robby would give me notesâââ
âI did not sound like that.â
ââIf anything,â you continue over him, âI think you wanna fuck your best friend.â
âAlright,â Jack mutters, turning back to the pan. âNot what I sound like. And câmonâyou know youâre all I wanna fuck.â He nudges the vegetables again, frowning. âI think these are done.â
âTheyâre not.â You donât even look up when you say it. âAnyway⌠I doubt heâd even be down for it,â you say. âI barely think he likes me as a friend.â
Jack lets out a quiet scoff at that.
You narrow your eyes. âWhat?â
âI think heâd fuck you in a heartbeat if I said I was okay with it,â Jack says, like itâs obvious. Then, distracted againââI really think these are done, hon.â
âTest the carrot,â you say, still scrolling. âIf itâs soft enough, itâll break with pressure.â
He presses the spoon into one. It doesnât budge.
ââŚNeeds longer,â he admits.
âHow do you know that?â
âI just did what you said, Iââ
âNo,â you interrupt, looking at him properly now. âHow do you know Robby would fuck me?â
That slows him down.
Jack exhales through his nose, shoulders shifting as he leans back slightly against the counter, thinking.
âI know him,â he says. âTwenty years of it. And I know you.â A beat. âThereâs something there. A thing. Youâve always had good chemistry.â
You huff lightly. âA vague⌠thing, maybe.â
You hesitate, thenâbecause you donât really do half-truthsâ
âI did have a bit of a crush on him,â you admit. âBefore I met you.â
Jack stills. Not dramatically. Just enough.
âI donât anymore,â you add quickly. âIt faded. Pretty fast, actually. It was earlyâbefore I started coming down to ED properly. Heâd come up sometimes, consults, whatever. I think it was justâŚâ you shrug, searching, ââŚolder. Authority. Bit of an asshole.â
Jackâs mouth pulls slightly at that, something between amused and unimpressed.
âGlad to know you donât have a type,â he mutters.
You lean in closer from the counter, nudging his shoulder lightly with your knee.
âHey,â you murmur. He glances up at you. âI like them a little shorter,â you say softly.
Jack blinks.
Then rolls his eyes, a huff of laughter slipping out despite himself as you grin and go back to your phone.
âUnbelievable,â he mutters, turning the heat down, a small smile at the corner of his lips.Â
â â â
The thing about a thirdâabout this thirdâwas that it⌠kind of just felt natural. Like there was so little reason to not do it, to not try it, invite it.
It wasnât sudden. It was something that had been sitting under the skin of things for so long it stopped feeling foreign the second it was named.
Robby had never been separate from Jack.Â
Not really. People liked to pretend friendships had clean edgesâthis is where I end, this is where you beginâbut that had never been the case with them.Â
Too many years. Too many nights that blurred into mornings, too many arguments that never quite resolved but never quite broke them either.Â
Theyâd dragged each other through their twenties, stumbled into their thirties, and settledâsomehowâinto their forties without ever untangling.
They knew each other in ways that made distance feel artificial.
And Robby had always lived in that tension.
He didnât soften easily. Didnât trust softness when it showed up uninvited. Jack had always been the exception to that ruleâsteady enough to withstand it, patient enough not to demand more than Robby could give. But patience didnât mean absence.
There were things between them that had never been said out loud. Not because they didnât exist, but because saying them wouldâve required a kind of clarity Robby had spent most of his life avoiding.Â
It was easier to file it under something elseâloyalty, history, proximity. Easier to laugh it off, to redirect, to let it sit in that grey space where it didnât have to be examined too closely.
Then you came along. And you didnât disrupt that balance. You just seemed to understand it.Â
You didnât wedge yourself between them, didnât ask Jack to choose, didnât look at Robby like he was something to tolerate or compete with. You moved through it like it already made sense to you. Like there was room.
And Godâthere was something about you.
Not just that you were beautifulâthough you were, in a way that made people look twice without meaning to. Not just that you were younger, brighter, sharper at the edges in a way that made everything feel a little more alive. It was the way you saw people.
The way you saw Jackâfully, without flinching, without trying to fix him or soften him into something more palatable. The way you leaned into him like you trusted him to hold the weight of that. The way you touched him without hesitation, like affection was a language you spoke fluently.
And worseâ
The way you looked at Robby sometimes, like you were trying to figure him out and already had.
Heâd noticed it long before anyone said anything. Of course he had. The small things. The way your attention lingered just a second longer than necessary. The way you didnât pull back when he got too close, didnât flinch at the edge in him that made other people cautious.
You met it. Sometimes you even matched it. And thatâmore than anythingâwas what made him careful. Because wanting you was one thing.
That was easy enough to dismiss, tuck away under instinct, under biology, under the thousand other justifications people used to avoid looking too closely at themselves.
But wanting you like thisâin the context of Jack, with Jack, because of Jack. That was something else entirely. It brushed up against things he didnât have neat categories for. Things that felt uncomfortably close to lines heâd spent years pretending werenât there.
And JackâŚ
Jack, who didnât do anything halfway, who didnât offer things he wasnât sure aboutâwas sitting across from him like this was just another extension of something already solid. Like this wasnât a risk so much as⌠an opening.
That was what threw him. It wasnât the sex or the implication, it was how Jack totally trusted him. With you, with this, with Jack himself.
And Robby didnât trust himself nearly that much.
That was the problem. Beneath all the deflection, all the dryness and sarcasm, the sharp edges, there was something undeniably real threading through all three of you. Not clean, not simpleâbut real in a way that resisted being dismissed.
Jack had never been particularly private about you. Not with Robby.
Not in the way people usually were about relationshipsâcareful, curated, keeping the good parts polished and the rest tucked away. Jack wasnât built like that. He didnât gush, didnât sentimentaliseâbut if heâd had a couple drinks in him and itâd been a long week, you came up. Inevitably.
Not in a soft-focus, hearts-and-flowers way.
In details. In fragments. In the way you got under his skin and stayed there.Â
The way you kissed him, made him feel every ounce of his own flesh and blood, grounded, and above at once. In how much he adored your figure, or some ridiculous position, some ridiculous story of stamina and libido, your mouth, his mouth, your hand, his hand.
Robby had learned, over the years, to let it wash over him. Half-listening, half-not. It wasnât discomfort exactlyâmore like⌠he didnât know where to put it. There was something about hearing your name in Jackâs mouth like that that sat strange in his chest.Â
âWhat the fuck do you mean six times?â Robby had said once, a laugh breaking through despite himself as he tipped his beer back.
They were sprawled out on the grass like they hadnât aged out of itâbacks damp against the ground, shirts sticking, the heat of the day still rising up through the dirt. The city hummed around them, distant enough to ignore. It felt like being twenty something again, except their knees ached when they stood and everything they didnât talk about sat heavier.
It was one of those nothing nights, sometime back in Spring. End of a shift. A few beers. Waiting for you to finish upstairs while Jack pretended he wasnât being watched over by the hospital.
Jack didnât even open his eyes. âI mean she came six times,â he said, easy. âWorking up to eight.â
Robby snorted. âYouâre talking like itâs a personal best.â
âIt is,â Jack said. âYou donât set goals, you stagnate. Thatâs what my therapist says.â
âJesus Christ.â
Jack grinned faintly, still flat on his back, arms folded behind his head like he had nowhere else to be. âWhatâs your number?â
Robby shrugged, taking another sip. âI donât know. I donât have a number.â
âYes, you do.â
âNope.â
âBull.â
Robby dragged a hand over his mouth, already regretting engaging. ââŚFour. Maybe.â
Jack turned his head slightly, considering that like it mattered more than it should. His fingers tapped absently against the neck of the bottle.
âFour,â he repeated.
âSome of us arenât treating it like a competitive sport,â Robby muttered.
Jack huffed. âItâs not me,â he said. âItâs her. Sheâs a natural.â
âShe really that good?â Robby had slipped as a question. Maybe for his own curiosity, maybe because he knew Jack wouldâve gotten to it at some point. Both, likely.
There was a beat.
Robby stared up at the sky like it didnât matter either way. Jack shifted slightly, something quieter settling into him now.
âSheâsââ he paused, like he was trying to find a word that didnât sound ridiculous and failing. âShe pays attention. Like sheâs studying you. Figures out what works and thenâjust⌠doesnât let up. Like Iâm constantly high around her. And man, she-â Jack cleared his throat. âShe does this thing with her tongue.â
Robby exhaled through his nose, slow.
He didnât say anything.
âShe swirls it, right around the underside, traces itâthe entire thing with the flat part. Goes between, you know, broad strokes, little ones, then sheâllâfuck,â Jack had mused. ââŚSheâll use the space beneath her tongue, suck, and still use her tongue at the same time. I canât describe how good it feels,â Jack had explained, his words slurring slightly but still carrying a strange clarity. âFucking⌠incredible.â
Robby couldnât have helped but picture it. The image of you, on your knees, long lashes batting at him, as you brought him to the edge. He sipped his beer, fingers a bit tighter around the neck of the glass.
âShe makes the prettiest noises, like a⌠I donât even know,â Jack added, quieter now, almost to himself. âMoans and screams, and so⌠Christ. Like she doesnât even realise sheâs doing it, possessed.â
âAlright, thatâs enough,â Robby cut in, not sharply, but firm.
Jack just smirked, eyes still shut. âYou asked.â
âI didnât ask for a breakdown.â
âSemantics.â
Robby shook his head, but there was a faint smile tugging at his mouth despite it. He finished the last of his beer, letting the cold settle something in his chest that had nothing to do with the heat.
A pause stretched between them. Jack sipped his beer. Thenâ
âWhatâs the deal with you and Noelle?â Jack asked, casual in that way that wasnât casual at all.
Robbyâs jaw shifted.
âSheâs⌠fine,â he said.
Jack cracked one eye open. âThat sounds promising.â
Robby huffed. âItâs notââ he cut himself off, shook his head. âDonât think itâs going anywhere.â
Jack watched him for a second. Then nodded, like heâd expected that. He handed Robby his own beer, watching as Robby took it after a moment, sipping from it himself
âYeah,â he said. âBummer.â
Another beat. Robby sat up, bracing his forearms on his knees, their shared beer dangling loose between his fingers.
âDonât think Iâm built for it,â he said finally.
Jack didnât move. âFor what?â
âThis,â Robby gestured vaguely. âRelationships. The staying. The⌠showing up part.â
Jack was quiet for a second.
Thenâ
âNow thatâs bull,â he said, not unkindly.
Robby glanced at him, a faint, tired smirk pulling at his mouth. âYeah?â
âYeah,â Jack said. âWeâve known each other, whatâtwenty years? Youâve stuck around that long.â
âThatâs different.â
âIs it?â
Robby didnât answer that. Jack pushed himself up onto his elbows now, looking at him properly.
âYou donât get to pretend you canât do something just because you havenât done it right yet,â he said.
Robby scoffed lightly. âDidnât realise you were gonna get philosophical on me.â
âYeah, well,â Jack muttered, reaching for his beer. âHate to break it to you, man, but youâre not some unfixable case.â
Robby laughed at thatâshort, real.
âGarcia said Iâd make a good ex-husband,â he said.
Jack snorted. âSee? Even she thinks you can commit.â
âThatâs not what that means.â
âClose enough,â Jack sighed. âLie down, will you. Youâre so damn tense.â
Robby let out a low groan but did it anyway, dropping back into the grass beside him, one arm flung over his eyes like he could shut the world out for a second.Â
The ground was still a little damp from the morning rain, cool through his shirt, the air thick and warm in that late-night way where everything feels slower, looser.
They went quiet after that. Easy quiet. The kind that only comes after yearsâno need to fill it, no need to perform.
âAw, you two are so cute.â
Jack sat up immediately.
You stood a few feet off the path, lit half by a flickering streetlampâscrubs wrinkled, hair a mess like youâd been running your hands through it all day, hoodie tied loose around your hips. One of Jackâs old military backpacks hung off your shoulder like it belonged there.Â
For a while there, Robby had forgotten the whole reason theyâd been in the park to begin with was to wait for you.
âHey, baby,â Jack said, voice softening without him meaning it to. âYou finish alright?â
You just nodded, already moving toward him.
You didnât hesitateânever did. Leaned down, pressed a quick kiss to his cheek that turned, halfway through, into something closer to his mouth. Warm. Familiar. You lingered just long enough that he had to chase it a second.
âMiss me?â you murmured, barely pulling back.
âAlways,â he said, easy. A little drunk, a little honest.
Robby watched it happen from the ground, not even pretending not to.
You dropped down in front of Jack, cross-legged, close enough your knees brushed his thighs. His hands came up immediatelyâinstinct, habitâsliding over your arms, grounding, checking.Â
Then his mouth found your neck, a soft press just under your jaw, before his hands settled at your shoulders, working slow circles into muscle that had no business being that tight at your age.
You exhaled like youâd been holding it all day.
âJesus,â you muttered. âKeep doing that.â
âYeah?â Jack hummed against your skin, a little smug.
âMhm.â
You tipped your head slightly, giving him better access without thinking. He took it.
Across from you, Robby shifted, propping himself up on his elbows now, watching the two of you with that same look he always gotâhalf amused, half something else he never quite named.
âRobby,â you said, glancing over at him, âhow the hell are you drinking after that shift? You guys were slammed.â
âSometimes a drinkâs all you get,â he said. His voice was steady, but his eyes flickedâbrief, involuntaryâto where Jackâs hands were still working into your shoulders. Then back to your face. âOrtho mustâve been a dream, though.â
You let out a dry laugh. âOh yeah. Absolute paradise. Park was being a complete asshole to one of the R1s. Kid looked like he was gonna cry.â
âSounds about right,â Robby muttered.
Jackâs hands slowed, thumbs pressing deeper into a knot that made you suck in a breath.
âCareful,â he said. âYouâre gonna fall asleep right here.â
âHonestly?â you said, eyes half-lidded now, âtempting.â
There was a beat. Quiet againâbut different this time. Fuller.
You shifted slightly, leaning back into Jack without thinking. Your hand found his knee, resting there, absent, like it belonged.
Robby noticed that too. Of course he did.
You glanced up at Jack then, studying him for a second longer than necessary.
ââŚYou been talking about me?â you asked.
Jack snorted, immediate. âWhat?â
âYouâve got that look,â you said, squinting at him. âAnd heâs looking at me weird.â
âI always look at people weird,â Robby said, flat, from the grass.
You didnât even look at him. âYeah, but this is a different weird.â
Jack huffed a laugh under his breath, shaking his head like you were ridiculous, even as his mouth betrayed him. âWe were just talking about yourâwhat was itâimmense beauty. Your sex appeal. Your many talents.â
His mouth brushed your neck again as he said it, like he couldnât quite help himself.
Robby let out a quiet breath through his nose. Not quite a laugh. Something drier. âItâs not far off.â
You stilled. Then slowly turned your head, looking at Jack properly now.
âWhat did you say to him,â you murmured, low, dangerous in a way that wasnât entirely seriousâbut not entirely not.
Jack leaned in, said something under his breathâtoo quiet for Robby to catch. Your reaction was immediate.
You smacked his legâright on the prostheticâwith a sharp thwack.
âJack.â
He barely flinched, just grinned, caught your wrist before you could do it again.
âIf you actually told him that,â you said, pointing at him, âI swear to god Iâll take this thing off and beat you with it.â
âThatâs dramatic,â Jack murmured, still holding your hand. âAnd also physically unlikely.â
âItâs true, though,â he added, softer now, mouth near your ear again. âYouâre very good at it.â
You rolled your eyes, but your shoulders had loosened, leaning back into him again despite yourself.
Robby watched the whole thing like it was a film he hadnât agreed to sit through, but couldnât quite look away from either.
âSo the tongue thingâs real then?â he asked, almost idly.
Jack groaned. âAlright. Weâre done here.â
You laughedâbright, cutting through the heaviness of the day shift still clinging to all three of youâand turned into Jack properly this time.
It wasnât quick. Not really. Soft at first, then deeper, your hand coming up to his jaw, holding him there. He responded without thinking, one hand sliding to your waist, pulling you closer, grounding himself in something he knew.
Robby looked away. Not fast enough.
You pulled back eventually, brushing your nose against Jackâs.
âIâll drive,â you said quietly. âYouâre drunk.â
âIâm not drunk,â he said automatically.
âYouâre pretty drunk,â you corrected.
A beat.
ââŚAlright. Could be a little drunk,â he conceded.
You smiled, already reaching into his pocket for the keys like it was second nature. He let you. Fingers brushing yours as you took them, just for a second longer than necessary.
âDonât lose the car,â he muttered.
âNo promises.â
You stood, stretching slightly, then glanced down at Robby.
âYou good?â you asked, softer now.
He met your eyes, something unreadable passing through his expression before it settled back into something easier.
âYeah,â he said. âIâm good.â
You nodded like you believed him.
âNight, Michael.â
There was a flicker at thatâsomething small but real.
âNight,â he said.
Jack let you haul him up, weight shifting automatically to his left as he got his balance, your hand steady at his arm without making a thing of it. He adjusted, rolled his shoulders like he always did, then followed your lead without argument.
âText me when you get home,â he called back to Robby.
âSure. Have fun with your girl.â Robby had said, lying back down.
âI definitely will,â Jack nodded.
You were already walking, his shoulder brushing yours, easy. He leaned down slightly as you hit the path, murmuring something low against your hair that made you let out a quiet, breathy laughâsomething private, something just for him.
Robby watched you both go.
Didnât move.
The grass was still damp under his back when he lay down again, staring up at a sky that refused to give him anything clear.
He exhaled slowly, dragging a hand over his mouth.
So, when you and Jack finally put it to himâcornered him in that quiet, deliberate way the two of you hadâRobby wasnât as hung up on the logistics of it as he probably shouldâve been. The dynamic, the risk, the aftermathâthose were the things a smarter man mightâve led with. But that wasnât where his mind went first.
It went somewhere simpler. Sharper.
Just how pretty were the noises you made? How soft was your tongue? Would you like it if Robby was cruelâif he held your head down and made you choke on him?
And Jack⌠steady Jack. What did he look like when he finally came? Did he like being teased, kept right on that edge until it snapped? Would he grip Robbyâs hair, or would he stay controlled even then, taking it without losing that composure?
It wasn't an abstract curiosity. It wasnât even entirely sexual, not at its core. It was about access.
About seeing something of both of you that no one else did. About being let into a space that already existedâintimate, closed, completeâand being told there was room for him inside it.
And thatâmore than anything elseâwas what made it difficult to dismiss.
â â â
Ortho is down for a consultation when you get called in.
The patient is already underâintubated and sedated, leg secured in traction. The CT is up on PACS, the fracture obvious even before you zoom in: a displaced mid-shaft femur, clear shortening, classic muscle pull deformity.
âYeah, thatâs a transverse mid-shaft femoral fracture,â you say, pen tapping the screen. âYou can see the displacement here, and the overlapâthis is why the leg looks shortened clinically.â
Santos leans in, her eyes slightly wide. âFuck.â
You shake your head. âIt looks dramatic, but itâs stable from what weâve got. No obvious vascular compromise on imaging. Ortho will likely take her for an intramedullary nail.â
Santos lets out a breath.
You scroll through the scan again, adjusting the windowing. âWeâll just want to repeat neurovascular checks pre-op and post-reduction. But sheâs straightforward.â
âThank god,â Santos mutters. âI was so not bothered to call for another consult.
A knock on the glass interrupts you. You glance up.
Robby.
Heâs already halfway through sanitising his hands when he steps in, eyes flicking once to the screen before landing on you.
âOrthoâs down in ED?â he says.
âYeah,â you answer, a little too aware of him in the doorway. âSantos messaged me. Femur fracture.â
He leans in beside you to look at the CT, close enough that the space shiftsâclinical, but not entirely neutral. Heâs tired in the way only long shifts make you, sleeves pushed up, forearms marked faintly by pressure lines from his undershirt.
âLooks like a clean nail,â he says.
âAssuming ortho behaves,â you reply.
He huffs something like a laugh. âThey wonât.â
âNo,â you agree. âWe never do.â
Santos clears her throat. âWhile Iâve got youâHuckleberry and I are having a Parisian party next Friday. At our place. You should come. You and Abbott, of course.â
You pause slightly.
âA Parisian party?â you repeat.
âYeah,â Santos says, warming to it. âParis-themed. Like⌠French food, wine, decorations. The Eiffel Tower and shit.â
Robby makes a quiet sound behind youâalmost a laugh, quickly disguised.
You glance at him, but heâs still looking at the scan like nothing happened.
Santos continues, mildly confused. âHave either of you been to Paris?â
âNo,â you say.
Robby: âNope.â
Santos nods like that still tracks logically. âYeah, me neither. Barely even been to Canada.â
Thereâs a beat.
âAnyway,â She adds, already backing toward the door, âYouâre invited too, Robby. Maybe the three of you come together or something. Youâre all closeâ
â...Sounds good, Santos, weâll let you know,â Robby says with a nod. âNorth Twelve?â
âConsider it done.â Santos says dry, nodding.
The door shuts behind her. Silence settles back inâclean, clinical, familiar. Except Robby is still standing close enough that youâre aware of him in a way you shouldnât be during a trauma consult.
He glances at the CT again. âParis-themed party,â he repeats flatly.
âDonât even,â you say immediately, because you can hear it in his tone already, trying to hide your own smile.
âWhat?â he says innocently.
You turn slightly toward him. âI know exactly what youâre thinking.â
He finally looks at you properly now, mouth twitching. âIâm not thinking anything.â
âYouâre absolutely thinking something and at work nonetheless? Inappropriate.â
âIâm thinking Santos should never be allowed to plan anything,â he says.
âLiar.â
That earns you a brief, quiet exhale of amusement. You finish with the scans and walk out, Robby hot on your heels as you head to the nurses station.
âYou think youâll go?â he asks.
âNo,â you say. âJack and I have the night off. Weâll be busy.â
âRight,â he nods.
A beat.
âYou?â you ask.
âIâd rather not spend my night around a bunch of drunk residents,â Robby says with a quiet exhale. âSo, no.â
âCome over then,â you offer, stopping at the nursesâ station.
Robby gives you a look. âThought you said you two were busy.â
âYou can be busy with us,â you say, looking up at him, pen tapping lightly against the chart. âOr just Jack. Or just me. He told me youâve thought about it either way.â
A faint sigh leaves him. âRight. I forgot he canât keep anything to himself.â
He leans against the counter, lowering his voice slightly as his eyes flick briefly across the stationâDana watching from a few bays away, already narrowing her gaze like sheâs clocking something she hasnât labelled yet.
âHave you?â he asks softly.
âThought about you? In that way?â you clarify.
He nods, a slight tilt to his head, curious.
You hesitate just long enough to make it honest.
âYes,â you admit. âYouâre tall. Kind. Your beardâs nice. Youâre probably a little meaner than Jack, which interests me.â
That earns the smallest twitch at the corner of his mouth. Something deeper in him satisfied.
âAbbotâs a lover boy at heart,â Robby says. âGives in easily. âSpecially for you.â
You nod, like that tracks. âMost of the time, yeah.â
That earns a quieter look from him. A pause that sits just slightly longer than professional. Then, more carefully, âIs it true you had a crush on me?â
You tilt your head. âGod, he really justâ Doesnât keep anything to himself.â
Robby exhales through his nose. âNot at all. Iâve been subjected to that man and his inner workings for too long.â
You bump his shoulder lightly with yours, just enough contact to make the space between you feel intentional.
âWas it a yes?â
âTo the crush?â You consider it. âYeah.â
That makes his eyebrows lift slightly.
âBefore Jack,â you add, like it matters in a technical sense. âOlder, authority figure, slightly emotionally unavailable⌠I think I might just have a pattern.â
Robby hums, low. âTracks.â
Thereâs a beat where neither of you moves away. Then he says, quieter, âAnd now?â
You donât look away when you answer. âNow, itâs just⌠different.â
That hangs there. From somewhere down the hall, a monitor beeps sharply, breaking the moment just enough for it not to tip into anything else.
You glance back down at the chart, already half-moving on.
âIâll let you know when we get a room open for the femur nail lady.â
And then youâre goneâalready walking toward the elevator, the conversation left hanging in the air behind you. Robby watches you go.
A quiet breath leaves him through his nose. He taps his fingers once against the counter, then pushes off it, turning back to the screens like he needs something solid to land on.
Dana appears beside him a second later, sliding into the space like sheâs been waiting for exactly this moment.
âWhatâs with that?â she asks.
â...Whatâs with what?â he replies, arms folding loosely, eyes still on the monitor bank.
âI mean,â she says slowly, âwhatâs with flirtinâ with Abbottâs girl in front of everybody?â
He doesnât look at her when he answers.
âThatâs not flirting,â he says evenly. âWe were just talking.â
Dana hums, unconvinced. âTalkinâ real close.â
âYeah,â she says, nodding toward the bay. âJust rolled in. Need you over there.â
âAlright,â he says.
And he follows her down the hall, expression already reset.
â â â
ââHey. Hold on a second,â Jack says, breath a little uneven.
âNo, donâtâdonât hold on,â you protest, already moving, frustrated at the interruption. Your hips roll, trying to sink deeper, but his hands clamp down on your waistâfirm, grounding, stopping you.
âHey. Easy.â A breath. âJustâgimme a second, alright?â
You huff, but you stop. Barely. Your thighs tremble, hovering just above his cock, the tip brushing against your wet slit. âThis better be good.â
He lets out something like a quiet laugh, more breath than sound. âYeah, Iâll try not to waste your time.â
A beat. He looks at you properly nowâfocused, a little too clear-headed for the situation. His thumb traces a slow circle on your hipbone, soothing, but his eyes are sharp.
âJust⌠wanna get this straight,â he says.
Your hands shift on his chest, nails dragging lightly. âOkay. Then say it.â
He nods once. âHe can be there. He can watch, he can fuck you.â A pause. âBut there are lines.â
You tilt your head, watching him. âSuch as?â
His grip tightens just a fractionânot enough to bruise, enough to mean something. âSuch asâyou donât forget who youâre with.â
You raise a brow, a smirk pulling at your lips. âHard to forget when youâve got your dick in me half the time Iâm not at work.â
âSmartass,â he mutters. Then, quieterââIâm serious. He doesnât get to know how you taste. Thatâs mine.â
âUh-huhâŚâ You roll your hips lazily, not sinking down, just letting the head of his cock nudge against your clit, making him hiss. âSo this is allowed?â You lift up, then lower just an inch, teasing the tip against your entrance.
âYeah, allowed,â Jack nods, his jaw tight.
âMm. This?â You lean down and kiss himâsweet, slow, your tongue brushing his lower lip before you pull back with a soft pop.
He nods into the kiss, groaning when you start to move again, lifting your pussy off him completely. The air hits his wet shaft and he shudders.
âYeah? What about this?â You wrap your hand around his cock, giving it a slow, deliberate stroke from base to tip, slick with your own arousal. You squeeze just a little, watching his eyes flutter.
âAll allowed,â he grates out, âbut his mouth isnât getting near this, alright, thatâs allââ He cuts off as he grabs you by the hips, guiding your pussy back down, lining you up and shoving it back in with a single, brutal thrust. Your moan rips out of youâloud, breathy, grateful. His cock fills you so deep you feel it in your throat.
âYeah? That good with you?â he asks, voice rough.
You nod, already starting to ride himâslow at first, just a rock of your hips, teasing the angle. âWhat about you and âim?â you ask, breath hitching as you grind down.
Jack shrugsâor tries to. âWhat donât you want?â
âNo blowjobs either, then,â you say, voice a little strained as you lift up and drop back down, feeling every ridge. ââS for me.â
âSounds good to me.â His hands find your hips again, but he doesnât guideâhe just holds, letting you set the pace. Letting you take.
You pick up speed, thighs burning, your clit grinding against his pubic bone with each roll. The room fills with the wet sound of your pussy gripping his cock, and you tilt your head back, letting him see the arch of your throat.
His hand comes up, thumb brushing along your jaw, pulling your focus back to him when you drift.
âRight here,â he murmurs.
You meet his gaze. That same lookâsteady, a little rough around the edges, but sure. His.
âGood,â he says, softer now. His thumb drags across your lower lip, and you part your mouth, just enough to suck the tip of it in. His eyes darken.
And when you move again, itâs slower. You rock forward, letting his cock hit that deep, sweet spot, and you moan against his thumb. You pull off it with a wet sound, then lean down to kiss him againâdirtier this time, tongue and teeth, whimpering into him.
âYeah,â he breathes against your lips. âThatâs better.â
â â âââ
Itâs late into the evening on Friday when you hear Jack on the phone.
âNo, canât,â Jack says, pacing your living room, phone tucked to his ear while he half-heartedly folds laundry and gives up halfway through. âIâm home. Sheâs cooking. Smells like Iâm about to get fat and happy.â
âBaby, can you come try this?â you call from the kitchen.
âOne sec,â he says, then quieter, back into the phoneââWhatâd you wanna do?â
âNothing,â Robby mutters. âI⌠I donât know, man. I donât feel like crashing Santos and Whitakerâs⌠house party. We could go for a drive. Hike.â
Jack stops mid-step. âA hike,â he repeats. âAt nine-thirty at night.â
A beat.
âYeah, not happening,â he decides, dropping the laundry basket and heading into the kitchen.
Youâre at the counter in that barely-there nightgownâsoft, short, riding up your thighs as you lean forward, aggressively chopping an onion like it personally offended you. Eyes glossy, blinking through it.
Jack pauses in the doorway for half a second longer than necessary.
Thenâbusiness as usual.
âAlright,â he says, stepping in behind you, close enough that his hand brushes your hip on the way past. âWhat am I trying?â
You nod at the stove. âCarbonara.â
He leans over, tastes it, humsâlow, approving.
âYeah,â he says into the phone. âSheâs showing off.â
You bump his arm lightly. âI am not.â
âYou are,â he says, kissing you quick, easy, like heâs done it a thousand times. âItâs working.â
You smile despite yourself, wiping at your eyes.
On the phone, Robby exhales. Rough. Tired.
âHikeâs dumb,â Jack says, shifting tone without making it obvious. âWhatâs actually going on.â
âNothing,â Robby says. âJust⌠canât sit still. Garcia was on my ass all day, Al-Hashimi wouldnât shut the fuck upââ
ââHey,â Jack cuts in, calm, steady. âTake a breath.â
You glance over at him. Heâs not looking at you anymoreâfocused now, locked into that mode.
âYouâre good,â he says. âYouâre not thinking anything dumb, right?â
A pause.
ââŚNo,â Robby says. âJust need to⌠get out of my head, I donât know.â
Jack hears it. You do too. That edge. That restless, pissed-off with nowhere to put it thing.
âHe can come here,â you say, like itâs obvious.
Jack looks at youâquick, assessingâbut thereâs no resistance there. Just a flicker of something else.
âYeah,â he says into the phone. âCome over. Foodâs ready soon.â
âI donât know, manââ Robby starts.
You reach over and take the phone straight out of Jackâs hand.
âHey, Michael.â
Thereâs a beat.
Jack watches you now, not even pretending to focus on the onions anymore.
ââŚHey,â Robby says, slower. âHeard you were cooking.â
âMhm,â you hum, leaning back against the counter, bare leg brushing against Jackâs where he stands beside you. âPlenty to go around.â
Jackâs hand settles at your hip automatically. Not possessiveâjust there.
Robby hears the shift anyway.
âThis a setup?â he asks.
You smile slightly. âYou always this suspicious, or just with me?â
A quiet scoff from him.
âYou should come,â you add, softerâbut not innocent. âYou sound like you need it.â
A beat. Jackâs thumb presses lightly into your hip. Grounding. Present.
Robby exhales. âYeah. Guess I can make it.â
âGuess you can,â you say easily.
Silence againâbut itâs different now.
You glance at Jack.
He nods once.
âDoorâs unlocked,â you say. âTwenty minutes.â
You hand the phone back.
Jack takes it, fingers brushing yours briefly, then brings it back to his ear. âYou heard her. No pressure.â
A pause.
ââŚAlright,â Robby says.
The line clicks dead.
Jack sets the phone down on the counter, then looks at you properly. A slow once-over. Not subtle.
âWhat?â You raise a brow.
âNothing. Nothing at all. Iâll finish the laundry.â He gives you a deep kiss to your neck, hands trailing over your figure as he mumbles into your skin, fingers gently pushing aside the light material. âYou gonna stay in this?â He asks.
ââS that alright?â You wonder, leaning into his touch.
He inhales sharply against your skin, lips leaving your skin. âSure.â
â â â
Youâre out on the balcony when it comes up.
Jackâs place sits high enough that the city feels almost stagedâPittsburgh stretched out in warm light, bridges lit up in clean lines, traffic moving steady below like it never really stops. Itâs one of those late summer nights where the air sticks just slightly to your skin, warm but not suffocating. Thereâs music drifting from somewhere down the block, a party you canât see but can feel in the background.
The balconyâs not smallâwide enough for a proper table, a few chairs, space to lean without feeling cramped. Jack had insisted on that when he bought the place. Said if he was going to spend money, itâd be on something worth standing still for.
Your plates are mostly cleared, carbonara half-finished, wine and beer sweating into the wood.
âHave either of you done this before?â Robby asks.
Jack shakes his head immediately. âNo.â
You donât answer.
Youâre thinkingâactually thinking, head tilted slightly, finger lifting to tap against Jackâs arm like you need him to hold on a second. Thatâs when it hits him, belated and faintly incredulous, that this apparently hadnât come up when the idea itself had.
ââŚHave you?â Jack asks, turning to you, already suspicious.
âI am thinking,â you murmur, brows pulling together like this is a serious recall exercise.
Robby raises a brow, watching you now, something amused creeping in despite himself.
âWhat do you mean youâre thinking?â Jack presses. âThatâs not⌠I donât know, something you half do or something. Youâd know.â
âOr something,â Robby mutters under his breath.
You shoot him a look, then roll your eyes. âOkayâno. I donât think Iâve had a threesome.â
âHow can you not think youâve had a threesome?â Jack wonders.
You lean back slightly, folding one leg under you, the fabric of your nightgown shifting higher on your thigh without you bothering to fix it. You donât notice how both menâs gaze drop there.
You exhale, already regretting engaging. âBecauseâtechnicallyâno one actually got fucked, there was no penetration by anybody, so, grey area?â
Thereâs a beat.
Robbyâs mouth twitches.
Jack blinks. â...Right.â
âOkay?â you continue, defensive now. âIt wasâhands. Thatâs it. Group situation, but not⌠full commitment.â
Robby huffs a quiet laugh, shaking his head. âGroup situation,â he repeats.
âShut up,â you mutter.
âAnother guy or girl?â Jack asks, too quickly.
You hesitate just long enough to make it interesting. ââŚBoth.â
Jack leans back like youâve just told him something deeply inconvenient. â...Huh.â
Robby lets out a low whistle through his nose. âSo not a threesome. Just⌠poor project management.â
You laugh despite yourself. âOh my god.â
âThatâs a foursome that lost direction,â he adds, dry.
âWhatever,â you shrug. âMed school was fun for me. Sorry I had range.â
Jack eyes you, something between amused and slightly thrown. âIâm just saying, thatâs a hell of a thing to casually drop over dinner.â
You smirk faintly. âIâm surprised you havenât.â
Jack scoffs. âIâve had opportunities.â
âMm,â you hum, unconvinced.
Robby glances at him sideways. âThat sounds like a lie.â
âItâs not a lie,â Jack says, defensive now. âI justânever felt the need.â
âRight,â Robby says. âTill now.â
Jack gives him a look. âTill now.â
Something passes thereâquick, familiar, not entirely friendly as Robby sips his beer.
After, you step out to the edge of the balcony, forearms resting against the railing. The city hums below you, the air warmer now, carrying the smell of food and distant smoke.
Inside, you hear Jack movingâplates, running water. Robbyâs voice low, asking something, already familiar with the space.
âThanks, baby,â you say when Jack comes back out, taking your plate.
You lean in, press a quick kiss to his cheek.
âThank you,â he murmurs, hand coming up to your hair, messing it slightly with a small, easy smile.
You push him away lightly. âDonât start.â
Robby watches it for a second before picking up the empty bottles, holding them loosely by the necks.
âNext to the fridge?â he asks, like he hasnât been here a hundred times alreadyâlike tonight isnât slightly different.
âYeah,â you nod. âRecycling. Thank you.â
He gives a short nod and turnsâ You catch his wrist. Itâs not forceful. Just enough.
âHey,â you say, softer.
He looks down at you.
Thereâs a pauseâhis eyes dragging, just briefly, lower before coming back up. Youâre close enough now to feel the heat off him, the faint roughness of his breath after a drink, after a long day.
You use his forearm to pull yourself up just slightlyâ and kiss him. Itâs not rushed. Itâs far from tentative either. Close. Testing.
His beard scratches lightly against your skin, rough in a way that makes you more aware of it, not less. He stills for half a secondâthen responds, mouth softer than you expected, hand hovering like he hasnât decided where itâs allowed to land.Â
Your teeth catch his bottom lip briefly. Thatâs what does it.
âStarting without me?â Jackâs voice cuts in, dry. âBit mean.â
Robby pulls back instinctively, like heâs been caught doing something he shouldnâtâeven thoughâ
Even though.
You smile a little, letting go of his wrist as he clears his throat.
âNext to the fridge,â Jack adds, nodding toward the bottles.
Robby nods once, wordless, moving past him.
Their shoulders brush as he goes. Not accidental. Jack doesnât move out of the way.
He watches Robby for a second longer than necessary, then looks back at you.
You end up on the couch.
It happens naturallyâplates abandoned in the sink, TV flicked on for noise more than anything else. Some late-night rerun playing low in the background, colours shifting across the room, low lamps lighting the room.
Jackâs in the middle, halfway through some story from workâone of those cases that stuck with him. Complicated, strange, the kind he canât quite let go of.
Youâre tucked into his side, knees curled under you, your hand idly playing at the back of his neckâfingers brushing through his hair, absent, familiar. You nod along, half-listening, more focused on the rhythm of his voice, the warmth of him.
Robbyâs behind you. Close enough that you can feel the heat of him through your back, even before his hand settles on your thighâslow, absent movement, like heâs not even fully aware heâs doing it.
Up. Down. Not pushing. Not asking. Just there.
Jack keeps talking.
You lean in without really thinking about itâyour lips brushing along his jaw, then just below it. Light. Familiar. Not rushed.
Jackâs hand comes up to your lower back automatically, pulling you in a fraction closer, steadying you there.
Robbyâs hand doesnât stop. If anything, it shiftsâjust slightly higher, fingers brushing warmer skin now where the fabric gives way.
Jack feels it. His hand stills for a second at your backâthen relaxes again.
He doesnât pull you away. Doesnât say anything. You exhale softly against his neck, your breath warm there, your fingers tightening slightly where they rest behind him.
And for a secondâjust a secondâyouâre aware of both of them at once.
Jack in front of you, steady, grounding. Robby behind you, quieter, heavierâwatching more than speaking.
Jackâs gaze lifts. Meets Robbyâs. Thereâs a beat. Not long. But long enough. Something passes between themâwordless, measured. Something you canât read.
Jack gives the smallest nod. Barely there. Robbyâs jaw shifts slight. Then Jack looks back at you.
Your hand slides from his neck to his jaw, turning him slightly, and you kiss him properly this timeâslow, deliberate. He leans into it without hesitation, one hand firm at your waist.
When you pull back, itâs not far. Just enough. Just long enough to turn.
Robbyâs already looking at you. Not surprised. Not really. Just watching. You close the distance like itâs nothingâlike itâs always been this simpleâand kiss him too.
Different. Not softer, not harderâjust new. Testing. His hand stills on your thigh for half a second before it shifts, coming up to steady at your side, like heâs grounding himself in it.
Thereâs a quiet breath from himâalmost a huff, almost disbelief.
âThis is fun,â You murmur.
You donât give him time to overthink it.
You lean back between them again, tipping your head slightly, and they follow without being told.
Jackâs mouth finds one side of your neck, familiar, certain.
Robby hesitates for a fraction of a secondâ then doesnât.
The other side. Slower. More deliberate. Like heâs learning something heâs not used to having.
You exhale, a soft sound you donât quite hold back this time, and your hands come up instinctivelyâone finding Jackâs hair, the other Robbyâs, fingers threading through both, holding them there.
For a second, it stays like that. Balanced.
Then you shift, just slightlyâhands tightening, guiding as you move the two of them, their lips almost naturally coming to find one anothers, moving them like ken dolls, before you drop your hands, watching with a small smile, as Robby's immediacy for control goes against Jack's. Robbyâs hand deepening into your thigh, grip tight as he kisses Jack.
Jack pulls back first, breath uneven but still controlled, his eyes flicking to yours like heâs checking inâlike he always does.
His hand slides up your spine, slower now, deliberate where it had been absent before. His palm is cool against your overheated skin, the contrast making you shiver as it traces upward, then back down again, lingering just enough to feel intentional.
You lean back into him, lips finding his neck againâdragging slowly over the roughness of his skin, the faint scrape grounding, familiar. You press a little firmer this time, less thought, more instinct.
When you pull back, itâs only barely. Your breath catchesânot dramatic, just⌠aware. Of him. Of Robby. Of both.
Jackâs hand presses more firmly into your back, keeping you close, steadying you like he can feel the shift too.
âBaby,â he murmurs, voice low, softer than before. âFeeling needy?â
You nod against him, answering with your mouth insteadâkissing along his jaw now, slower, more deliberate.
âYeah,â he exhales, a quiet sort of understanding in it. âI know, hon.â A beat. Then, quieterââYou want me, or him?â
You hesitate. Not longâbut long enough to matter.
Robbyâs hand shifts on your thigh, moving from the outside to your inner thigh, firm but unhurried, easing you open just slightlyâtesting, not taking. Waiting to see what youâll do with it.
âItâs alright,â Jack starts, voice still calm, like heâs talking you through something he already trusts. âGo ahead. She likes it when youââ
ââIâll ask you for help if I need it, alright?â Robby cuts in, low and even.
They exchange a lookâbrief, sharp, understood.
You lean over, pressing a quick, soft kiss to Jackâs cheekâsomething sweet, groundingâbefore shifting your weight and climbing into Robbyâs lap.
He stiffens for a second. Just a second.
Robbyâs always been hard to read. Timeâs etched itself into his face, but thereâs still that wall thereâsomething held back, something controlled. Maybe itâs nerves. Maybe itâs you. His best friendâs girl, sitting on him like thisâclose, warm, curious.
âYou okay there, Sasquatch?â you tease, tilting your head up at him.
His hands find your thighs again almost immediately, like muscle memory kicking in. His gaze flicksâdown, over you, then back to your eyes. Briefly to Jack. Then back again.
âSasquatch? Really?â he murmurs, one hand moving up to cup your breast through your top. His palm is warm against you, sending a shiver down your spine. âThatâs what youâre going with?â
âBeard, tall⌠same thing, no?â you shrug lightly.
That earns the faintest hint of a smirk.
âShe always cracking jokes before getting fucked?â Robby asks, giving your breast a firm squeeze. His other hand slides lower, ghosting over your stomach before cupping your mound through your panties
âDepends,â Jack admits. âOne time I got G.I Joe for an hour.â
âHe was in uniform, in my defense,â You defend, brief before you try moving your hips over Robbyâs fingers, eager. âCome on, Michael.âÂ
Robby's fingers press harder against your core, rubbing slow, firm circles that have you arching into him, a sweet whine escaping your lips, his eyes enamoured with how your mouth parts, breath warm against him.Â
âWhat a cute noise you make, sweetheart,â Robby murmurs. âAsk me nicely now.â
You hesitate, desperate as his fingers continue to move achingly slow over your wetness.
âAsk or I give Jack my hand right now instead and you can wait your turn for another hour,â Robby tells, voice low and soft, not looking away from where his fingers glide over your seeping core.
âPlease,â you murmur, voice breathy and desperate. âPlease fuck me with your fingers.â
You crash your lips to hisâharsh, messy, tongues thrusting quick and slick, his beard scraping rough red trails across your cheeks and chin. He growls low into your mouth, yanking your panties aside with brutal force, calloused fingertips dragging through your dripping folds, parting your lips wide before ramming two thick fingers knuckle-deep into your clenching pussyâno mercy, no prep.
You gasp ragged into the kiss, a high-pitched moan ripping free as your lips break away, saliva trailing shiny strings from his mouth to yours. You latch onto his neck, teeth grazing the salty skin, sucking hard as you grind down fierce onto his invading digitsâwalls squeezing tight around the stretch, juices flooding hot over his palm.
âMove your fingers toward her ventral,â Jack instructs from the side, voice calm but edged with that teasing know-it-all tone, his hand sliding warm along your spine.
Robby exhales sharp through his noseâmild irritation flashing in his eyes at the unasked advice, jaw clenching as he shoots Jack a quick, heated glare. But he curls his fingers obediently upward inside you, knuckles grinding rough along your front wall to hammer your g-spot precise and relentless. Your moan swells louder, body jolting as fresh gushes of slick coat his hand, pussy slurping obscenely around each pump.
âChrist, youâre making a mess on me, arenât you, kid? Huh?â Robby rasps, voice gravel-thick with mean delight, eyes locked on the filthy sightâyour swollen pussy lips gliding and sucking greedily over his plunging fingers, riding them frantic.Â
He twists his wrist sharp, scissoring the digits wide to pry your hole open, thumb mashing down hard on your throbbing clit with every brutal thrustâwet schlicks echoing loud, your thighs trembling slick against his forearm, arousal trickling warm down to soak his jeans.
He adds a third finger suddenly, forcing the burn deeper, stretching your cunt taut as he moves, hooking mercilessly on that spongy spot.Â
âYou getting close?â He asks, low and rough, listening closely to your moans, how they become pitchier, breathier, as sweet as Jack described. You nod, a loose yes, focused only on how your core winds up to the edge. âThat right?â
Your cries pitch wilder, back arching as he pinches your clit between thumb and knuckle, rolling it rough while his fingers churn your insides, coil tight in your core.
âWhat else she like?â Robby asks Jack, glancing over at his friend now, fingers never slowing their rhythm inside you.
Jack taps his index and middle digit to his lips, nodding toward you. Robby nods back, hums at the sight of you, curious.
Robby yanks his fingers free abruptâyour pussy clenching empty, a whine tearing from your throat at the aching void, hips bucking needy for more. He brings those soaked digits up to your face, gripping your chin firm to still you, watching hungry as you part your lips instinctively.Â
His fingertips tease your bottom lip, smearing your own cream glossy, before you suck them in deepâtongue swirling eager around the thick lengths, lapping every tangy drop, hollowing cheeks as saliva drips messy down your chin.
âAtta girl, youâre a fuckinâ mess now arenât you?â Robby murmurs, gaze glued ravenous to your bobbing mouth, cock throbbing harder under you. âYou wanna cum?â
You nod, frantic around his fingers, eyes pleading.
âNot yet,â Robby denies, voice almost gentle, yet harsh at once. âBarely seen what you can do.â
You exhale shaky as he pulls his fingers out with a wet pop, trailing spit from your chin before cupping your whole face possessive, holding you locked on him.
âGo over to him. Make him feel good,â Robby orders, jerking his chin at Jack.
You nod, movements sluggish from the edge he left you on.
âOn the floor, knees, now,â Robby snaps, voice brooking no argument.
You slide off his lap reluctant, crawling back to Jack beside him on the couch. He smiles soft at you, fingers threading gentle through your hair, cupping your cheek as he brushes strands aside, gaze roaming tender over your flushed skin.
âYou alright there?â he asks nicely, thumb stroking your jaw.
You nod eager, hands diving straight to his sweatpants, palming the rigid bulge straining thereâheat pulsing under your touch.Â
You tug the waistband down, freeing his cockâthick shaft springing up heavy, veins bulging, head slick with pre-cum. Your fist wraps tight around the base, pumping slow firm strokes up to the tip, twisting slick over the crown to spread his leak.
Jack inhales sharp, but you drop fully to your knees between his spread thighs on the rug, the rough weave biting into your skin. You lean in, lips parting wide to swallow his cockhead firstâtongue flicking the slit to lap salty pre, then sliding down inch by veiny inch, throat relaxing to take him deeper.
âLook pretty down there,â Jack murmurs with a small smile, hand light in your hair, just cradling.
âYouâre so soft with her,â Robby remarks from beside, voice mixed with mocking and earnestness as he watches you work, his own tenting obvious.
Jack shrugs, a quiet groan escaping as you hollow your cheeks, sucking vacuum-tight while bobbing steadyâsaliva pooling at the corners of your stretched lips, dribbling down his balls. Your hand strokes what your mouth can't reach, twisting wet on the upstroke, tongue pressing flat along the underside to trace every ridge.
Robby's gaze burns hotâflicking over your arched back, your drool-slick chin, eyes that dart between Jack's tense face, Robby's hungry stare, then flutter shut as you deepthroat him full, nose burying in his pubes. He fixates on Jack's cock vanishing slick between your lips, throat bulging visible. Then up to Jack, whose fingers grip tighter into your scalpânot shoving, just anchoring as his neck cords tense.
âGood job, sweetheart,â Jack praises breathy, hips twitching minimal into your rhythm.Â
Your moan vibrates around his length, humming deep to make him shudder, spit bubbling messy as you pop off to lick sloppy stripes up his shaft, sucking each ball into your mouth turn before plunging back down.
He groans low, head lolling back, âFucking⌠perfect. So perfect, always.â
Tension crackles thicker between themâJack's free hand drifts casual at first, then deliberate, palming Robby's thigh before cupping the massive bulge in his jeans, squeezing firm through denim. Robby stiffens, eyes meeting with Jack's, breath hitching as Jack rubs slow circles over the thick outline, thumb pressing the zipper ridge where pre darkens the fabric.
âYou alright there, man?â Jack scoffs, a light smile. âCanât handle it?â
Itâs a challenge. It always is with them. Has been since they were twenty something.
Jack knows exactly what heâs doingâknows the tells. The slight tilt of Robbyâs head, the way his weight shifts more onto one side, the flicker of something sharper behind his eyes. Heâs seen that look in bars, in fights, in operating rooms when things went sideways.
Robby doesnât back down from anything. Least of all him.
Then Robby exhales slowly, something almost like a laugh under it, eyes locking onto Jackâsâsteady, unflinching.
âOh, I can handle it just fine,â Robby agrees with his own smile. âGo âhead.â
Jack groans at your relentless mouthâfast and wet, then slowing perfect against himâhis hand stroking over Robbyâs clothed cock, deliberate and slow, denim rasping under his palm. He leans in first, crashing his mouth to Robby'sâsloppy, urgent, tongues battling fierce right above you, beards grinding rough, wet sucks and grunts filling the air. Jack's fingers knead Robby's bulge harder, unzipping halfway to delve inside, wrapping firm around the hot shaft through boxers.
You pull off Jack with a gasp, spit stringing from your lips to his glistening tip, replacing your mouth with your fistâpumping slick and steady along his veiny length, thumb swirling over the slit to smear pre-cum. Your eyes lock on their kiss, Jack's hand slowing on Robby as your thumb teases tentative over his own sensitive crown, tongue darting out to lap the edge of his slit.
âOh fuck,â Jack moans into Robbyâs mouth, breaking away to watch you lick him sweetly, hips bucking light into your grip.
Your free hand joins Jackâs on Robbyâs cock, fingers overlapping his as Robby undoes his belt buckle with a metallic clink, shoving jeans and boxers down his thighs. His thick cock springs free. You spit thick into your palm, slicking it hot before gripping him base to tip, stroking in tandem with Jackâyour hand twisting wet on the upstroke while his squeezes the root, veins pulsing under your combined pressure.Â
Robby hisses through clenched teeth, thighs tensing as you both jerk him off rough, pre dribbling over knuckles, your mouth still working on Jackâs cock.
Jack's strokes on you falter to lazy pumps, his fist gliding easy over your saliva-lubed skin as he watches Robby swell thicker in your shared hold. âFuck, feel that grip? Sheâs got hands made for this,â he rasps, voice husky, eyes dark on Robby's face.
Robby grunts approval, thrusting shallow into the double stroke. Jack pulls back suddenly, nodding down at you. âLet him feel how good your pretty mouth is, baby.â
You release Jack reluctant, his cock twitching angry-red in the cool air as he takes overâfist flying fast over his shaft, slick echoing. You shift on your knees, turning to Robby, who grips his base and taps the fat head heavy against your cheekâwet smacks on flushed skin, taunting drip of pre-painting streaks.
âDreamt about this once,â he admits, voice low. âThe way Jack described it, youâd think you have the mouth of an angel. That right? You an angel?â He wonders.
You lick your lips in anticipation, hand between your legs, fingers gliding over your folds.
âSeemed pretty desperate for my boyfriend there too,â You remark, not looking away from Robbyâs gaze.
His jaw tightens. âHeâs pretty good with his hand, but I think you can do better with your tongue.â
You part lips wide, tongue out flat as he slaps his cock deliberately across it, underside dragging salty over your tastebuds before shoving in brutalâhalf his length in one thrust, stretching your jaw.Â
You gag wet but suck hollow, cheeks caving as you bob frantic, hand pumping the rest in sync. Saliva floods fast, bubbling down his sack as you swirl tongue under the ridge, hollowing deep to milk him. Your fingers are quick against your wetness, dripping between your thighs, your other hand planted at Robbyâs thigh.
âShitâyeah, like that,â Robby growls, free hand fisting your hair to guide rough, not forcing but controlling the paceâpulling you off to tap his cock on your tongue again, smearing spit and pre glossy before ramming back in.Â
He fucks your face shallow, hips snapping precise, balls swinging to nudge your chin while Jack jerks himself faster beside, groans syncing with yours muffled around Robby's girth.
You sweep the underside of your tongue around Robbyâs cock, soft wetness coating him, slow, then fast, hearing how Robbyâs hand tightens harder in your scalp.
Jack leans close, breath ragged as his fist blurs over his cock, tip weeping steady. âEnjoying yourself?â
âFuck off,â Robby mutters, focused on your mouth, your eyes as they look up at him, wide, watery.
Your fingers slip between your thighs, dipping into your soaked pussy, rutting slow circles over your clit as you kneel between them, mouth stuffed full on Robby's cock. Spit drips messy down your chin, mixing with the slick from your own folds as you finger yourself deeper, chasing that tight coil building low in your belly.
âIâm good,â Jack rasps, eyes locked on your hand working your cunt, his fist pumping steady over his own cock. âSlow down, sweetheart.â
Your fingers comply, easing to lazy drags through your wetness, eyes flicking up to watch Jack slow his palm in sync, thumb circling his flushed tip. His free hand drifts back to Robby's thigh, squeezing hard muscle as he watches you deepthroatâthroat bulging obscene with each plunge, gags turning wet and rhythmic.
Robby's taunts rumble gravel-deep: âFucking hell, you gonna let me cum in that mouth, honey?â He pops free with a gasp, cock throbbing inches from your face, tapping insistent on your cheekâleft, right, smearing sticky pre over flushed skinâbefore you dive back voluntary, nose grinding into his pubes as you swallow him full, humming vibration to wrench a guttural curse from his chest.
âShe can take it,â Jack murmurs, voice thick. âCan you, baby? Come on, speak now.â
You moan muffled around Robby's girth, pulling off with a slick pop, resting your head against his still-clothed thigh as your fingers plunge back into your pussy, rutting frantic. âMhm.â You kiss alongside his shaft, tongue tracing veins lazy, lips brushing hot skin.
âSo damn sweet now,â Robby murmurs, hand loosening from your scalp to pet gentle through your hair, watching your fingers disappear knuckle-deep. âThat feel good?â
You nod against his thigh, licking slow stripes up his cock, pumping your pussy deliberateâthumb flicking your clit, hips rocking into your hand, edge creeping close, breath hitching sharp.
âNo more of that, alright?â Robby nods down, eyes sharp on your body. âYeah? You listening?â
You groan, fingers curling harder inside yourself. âFuck youâyou wanna cum, I get to cum too.â
Robby tilts his head, that piercing lookâthe one Jack knows spells trouble, before ripping into a resident. Jack nearly laughs, slowing his strokes to a tease. âNot how it works,â Robby says flat, voice dropping steel.
You glance at Jack, pleading.
âDonât look at him,â Robby orders, tone snapping stricter, hand fisting your hair tight to force your gaze back. You gulp, thighs clenching empty as you pull your fingers free, pussy clenching needy on nothing. âPut both hands behind your back if youâre gonna act like a fuckinâ brat.â
Reluctant, you clasp your hands behind you, knees aching on the floor, tits heaving with each breath. Robby nods approval, gripping his base to feed his cock back past your lipsâslow at first, letting you savor the stretch, then thrusting deeper as you hollow cheeks vacuum-tight.
Your tongue flattens under his shaft to lap the frenulum relentlessly, swirling wet around the head on every upstroke before slamming down throat-deep, gag reflex crushed to nothing. Saliva floods obscenely, bubbling at the corners of your mouth, dripping strings to his balls as you bob franticâsuction pulling groans from his gut, nose buried in coarse hair, throat milking him like a fist.Â
You hum constant vibration, eyes watering up at him, popping off to spit thick on his length before sucking one ball then the other into your mouth, rolling tongue heavy before plunging back down full.
âJesus Christâyeah, there we goâŚâ Robby snarls, hips snapping erratic, free hand clamping your nape to hold you buried as his cock swells impossibly thicker, balls drawing tight.Â
He floods your mouth suddenlyâhot spurts painting your tongue thick and salty, cock pulsing ropes down your throat as you swallow greedily around him, not spilling a drop. He rides it out shallow thrusts, groaning ragged until spent, pulling free with a wet schlick.
âFuck,â he pants, watching your tongue swipe clean over his softening head, lapping the last beads from his slit.
You fall back onto your heels, knees throbbing, core dripping wet and aching empty down your thighs. Swallowing his load thick, you stand shaky, and lean down to Robby, core exposed from your barely there nightgown. You grab him by his jaw, fingers at his chin, watching as his hand catches your wrist.
You smile at that. âGo on,â Your fingers linger near his mouth, covered with your wetness. âJack prefers the real deal. You shy all of a sudden, Mikey?â
Robby reluctantly opens his mouth, trying and tasting your wetness, sucking your fingers clean.
âAtta boy,â You say sarcastically, moving them out of his mouth. âYou think you can still fuck me, old man?â You whisper.
âWatch it,â Robby murmurs.
âYou can, in the corner, while Jack finally makes me cum.â You whisper. âJack,â you grab Jackâs hand, walking away with him as Jack follows suit behind you.
âUp and at it,â Jack tells Robby over his shoulder as he follows you.
âFucking hell,â Robby mutters, taking a second before following after.
You hum satisfied, leading them stumbling to the bedroom, the air electric behind you.
In the dim glow, you strip your nightgown overhead, leaving ruined pantiesâcrotch soaked darkâand a lacey bra barely containing your tits. Their eyes burn hot as you climb onto yours and Jack's bed, kneeling center.
Jack follows instant, standing at the edge, hands cupping your jaw rough-tender, leaning down to crash his mouth to yoursâpassionate and devouring, tongue fucking deep to taste Robby's cum lingering salty. You moan into it, hand snaking to grip his cock again, stroking firm base-to-tip.
Behind Jack, Robby's hands roam his back, trailing firm over shirt fabric before gripping the hem, yanking it up and off in one pull. Jack moans muffled into your kiss when your fist pumps faster, hips bucking into your grip, but he breaks away gasping as cool air hits his bare chest.
Robby presses close from behind, chest flush to Jack's back, beard scraping his shoulder as lips latch onto Jack's neckâsucking a mark deliberate.
âBaby, lie down for me,â Jack instructs.
You nod, lying down on your back, knees spread apart like second nature. He tilts his head, as Robbyâs lips trail over his skin.
âEnjoying yourself?â Robby echoes Jack's earlier words, hand meeting at his cock briefly, feeling Jack stiffen and inhale sharply at that. âYou gonna make your girl cum, or do I have to do that?â
âFuck off,â Jack murmurs. âGo sit in a corner and wait, or somethinâ,â Jack mutters, hands dragging you by the underside of your knee, gently towards the edge as he kneels on the bed, as Robby steps back with a chuckle.
âThink I got her ready, though, so, shouldn't take long,â Robby says. âUnless youâre not as skilled as youâve been bragging to be.â
âOh, my god, one of you make me cum or else Iâm doing it myself, Jesus,â you whine.
âOh, baby,â Jack murmurs, kissing at your inner thighs. âIâm leaving you waiting here.â
âSheâs being a brat. Have some patience, honey,â Robby insists, tilting his head at you in mock. âBut sheâs right, hurry up, Abbot, Christ.â
Jack swipes his tongue along your core, and you moan, your wetness ready and eager from Robby's fingering and your own arousal. He licks slow and firm, teasing your sensitive flesh.Â
Robby watches from the side, his cock still tucked away in his jeans, as he observes you writhing under Jack's talented tongue. His expression is heated, hungry, clearly enjoying the show.Â
"Mmm...you look like a-" you moan, too lost in sensation to finish the thought. "A fucking nun, Michael," you finally manage, nodding towards his henley. "You aren't hot in that? Take it off already, fuck,"Â
Robby clicks his tongue, a light roll of his eyes. "You could ask me nicely. Here I thought you were so polite and sweet," he chides.
Jackâs tongue is a relentless, wet invasion, fucking into you with a rhythm that steals your breath. You clench around him, a tight, pulsing grip, your fingers tangled in his silver curls, thighs locked around his head like a vise.Â
Your eyes stay fixed on Robbyâs as he discards his shirt, the fabric whispering to the floor. The snick of his belt sliding free from the loops makes you tighten your legs around Jack even more, a shiver of anticipation racing up your spine, as Jack laps at your pussy.
âWider,â Jack grunts, his voice muffled against your pussy. He pushes your thighs apart with his hard biceps, one big hand splayed over your hipbone, pinning you down. âStop squirming. Take it.â
From the foot of the bed, Robby watches, arms folded over his bare chest. He looks like a professor observing a dissectionâcalm, analytical, utterly in control. âHow close are you?â he asks, his tone clinical.
âMm, close,â you manage, the words breaking on a moan as Jackâs tongue flicks hard over your clit.
âYou make such pretty sounds. He was right about that,â Robby hums, stepping closer. He sits on the edge of the mattress, his calloused hand coming up to cup your cheek. His thumb strokes your skin, sweetly, but his brow is furrowed, his gaze intense. âCallinâ me a nun, and you still got this thing on, honey.â He hooks a finger under the strap of your bra and flicks it sharply against your skin, a sting of sensation.
Jackâs tongue plunges deep again, and you arch off the bed, a choked cry leaving your lips. Your eyes donât leave Robbyâs as his hand slides down, cupping your breast through the lace. He admires the weight, the shape, his fingers tracing the curve.
âWant me to fuck you first, or GI Joe there?â Robby recalls, a smirk playing on his lips.Â
He doesnât miss the way your mouth curves in a smile, even as your eyelids flutter shut. Jack quickens his pace, his hands now gripping your thighs like heâs holding you together.
Youâre too close, teetering on that blinding edge. Words are impossible.
âAnswer me,â Robby instructs, his voice dropping low and stern. His hand kneads your breast, then slips inside the cup of your bra, his fingers finding your nipple. He rolls it, pinches it just shy of pain. âWho do you want first?â
âYou,â you gasp, the answer torn from you instinctively, desperately.
Robbyâs smirk widens. âYou hear that, Abbot? I get to break her in first.â He doesnât look away from you as he says it.
He leans down, his hand sliding between your legs. Jack pulls back without a word, letting Robbyâs fingers trail through your soaked folds, delivering a slap to your clit. You shiver violently, a string of high, needy moans escaping as he collects your wetness on his fingertips. He brings them back to your mouth, his other hand still working your nipple.
âI was right,â you murmur, breathless. âKnew youâd be mean.â
âYeah? You like it?â Robby wonders, though he already knows.
You bite your lip, refusing to answer.
He pushes his wet fingers past your lips, pulling your jaw open with a firm pressure. The look he gives you is pure commandâdark, expectant. Obey.
âI like it,â you moan around his fingers, the admission almost reluctant. Your grip tightens in Jackâs hair. âFuckâIâm gonnaâoh fuckââ
âYeah?â Robby hums, petting your hair now, his other hand still at your breast. He watches your mouth hang open, watches the pleasure wreck you. âEyes on me. Come on. No, no. No closing them. You keep âem right here.â His gaze holds yours captive. âGood girl⌠good girl, arenât you? Bratty, but you just needed to cum a little, isnât that right?â
You whimper as Jackâs tongue sweeps over your oversensitive clit one last time, lapping up your juices as you shatter. Your orgasm crashes through you, white-hot and convulsing, your body bowing off the bed as you cry out.
âGood job, baby. Fucking hell,â Jack mutters against your thigh, his voice rough with praise.Â
He comes up your body, his hand replacing Robbyâs on your breast, kneading possessively. His lips find yours in a messy, wet kiss, tasting of you. Tongues swiping, teeth clashing briefly as you chuckle into the kiss, wet and sloppy as he moves to your neck, sucking hard around your jaw, yoru neck, hand trailing over your figure, squeezing, gentle, rough all at once.
âMy favourite girl in the world, you know that,â he murmurs against your skin, kissing at your collarbone.
You grin, feeling as Robby captures your mouth with his own, a brief pause as he watches Jack worship your figure. Jack slides a finger over your core, feeling as your back arches, how you gasp into Robbyâs mouth.
âYou arenât a brat, are you baby?â Jack murmurs, rubbing tight circles at your clit, hearing how you whimper at the feeling, fresh from your orgasm. âNo, honey, not for me, isnât that right? Yeah, I know, I know⌠my sweet girl,â He replaces Robbyâs mouth with his own, dragging over yours as you nod into the kiss.Â
âTold you. Lover boy,â Robby remarks to you.
You grin into the kiss, before Jack pulls away and naturally seems to find Robbyâs lips.
You watch, a strange heat pooling in your belly, watching as Jack immediately leans in and kisses Robby. Itâs harsh and sweet all at onceâa clash of teeth and soft sighs. You thought you might feel a spike of jealousy, but instead, a warm, possessive pride swells in your chest.Â
Robby stands, briefly cupping Jackâs jaw in a gesture thatâs both dismissal and affection before pushing him gently aside. Jack moves from between your legs, sprawling onto his back on the bed. Robbyâs hands are on your waist, and you yelp in surprise as he manhandles you with effortless strength, flipping you onto your stomach.
He drags your ruined panties down over your ass, off your legs, and sends them flying to a corner of the room with a flick of his wrist. Your bra is next; he unclips it with one practiced hand, and the lace joins the panties.
âAss up, sweetheart,â Robby instructs, his voice thick. He lands a sharp, stinging tap on your bare ass cheek. He has one knee on the bed, the other foot planted on the floor.
You obey, pushing yourself up onto your knees and elbows. Jack is lying in front of you now, his gaze heated. You reach for his prosthetic leg, helping him with the quick-release mechanism. Robby hands you the second one without a wordâa seamless, understood exchange. Jack kisses you, sweet and grateful, as he sets the limb aside.
"That's it," Robby mutters, positioning himself behind you. You feel the blunt head of his cock pressing against your slick entrance, teasing, and then he thrusts forward in one brutal, seamless motion.
Filling you so completely the air leaves your lungs in a whoosh. He sets a punishing pace immediately, each thrust driving you forward toward Jack.
Robby inhales sharply at the feeling of you. You adjust to him, moan loud and silent all at once at the feeling.
âShit,â Robby mutters. âFuckinâ hell, you know much Jackâs raved about this pussy? Callinâ it the treasure of the fucking ocean.â
His hands grip your hips like anchors, fingernails digging into your soft flesh as he sets a merciless rhythmâpounding into you with a force that drives your body forward with each impact, making the headboard knock rhythmically against the wall. âPerfect fucking pussy, sweetheart, you know that?â
You moan at his words, clenching even tighter around him.Â
âHow the fuck do you leave home, Jackâ Jesus Christ,â Robby says as he quickens his pace slightly, watching as your ass moves from the harsh contact of his hips against you.
âLife or death, and thatâs it,â Jack says.Â
âCome on, give him some love, kid,â Robby tells.
Jackâs cock is hard and leaking against his stomach. You lean down, taking him into your mouth, swallowing him deep. He groans, his hands coming up to cradle your head. âFuck, just like that,â he rasps.
Youâre split between themâRobby fucking into you from behind with deep, possessive strokes, and Jackâs length hitting the back of your throat. The dual sensation is overwhelming. Robbyâs hips slap against your ass, the sound filthy and wet.Â
âYou like being used like this baby?â Jack wonders, your moans vibrating against him.Â
You donât answer, focused on the sensation of Robbyâs cock harsh within you.
âHe asked you a question,â Robby pants, moving his hand to your hair, tight as you look up at Jack, watery eyed.
âUh-huh,â you nod.Â
âSee? Not so hard,â Robby groans.
Jack smiles a bit at that, caressing your face as you occupy your mouth with Jackâs cock. He groans. The taste of salt and heat floods your tongue as you take him deep, your lips stretching around his girth. You hollow your cheeks, sucking hard as you bob your head, letting him feel every ridge of your throat as you swallow him down. Your nose presses against his pelvis, and he groans, his fingers threading through your hair.
"Just like that⌠Just like that," Jack chokes out, his head falling back as his hips buck up involuntarily, his hand tightening on your jaw. His thumb presses against your cheek, forcing your mouth wider, and you feel every ridge and vein of his cock sliding deeper down your throat. "Come on now, so close."
The words vibrate through you, but before you can double down, Robby leans over your arched back, his chest sweaty and hot against your spine, his lips brushing the shell of your ear. "Make him wait."
You pull off Jack's cock with a wet pop, a thick strand of saliva and pre-cum stretching between your lips and his glistening tip before breaking. Jack's frustrated groan cuts through the room, his hips twitching in empty air.
"Fuck off, Mike," Jack growls, but his hand remains gentle in your hair, fingers stroking through the sweat-damp strands as you whimper from the brutal pace behind you.Â
Robby's cock is driving into you with relentless accuracy, the head of him hitting that deep, spongy spot inside you with every thrust, sending electric jolts through your core. Your inner walls flutter and clench around him, helpless against the assault.
"You gonna be a brat too, then?" Robby says, shooting a lighthearted glare at Jack over your shoulder.Â
Before Jack can retort, you clench down hard around Robby's shaft, a desperate whine escaping your throat. Robby's rhythm stutters for half a second, a low curse spilling from his lips. "Fuckingâhell, god, doll. You are so goddamn tight, y'know that?"
His pace becomes brutal, each thrust driving deeper, harder, the angle punishing. His balls slap wetly against your clit with every impact, the sound filthy and rhythmic. You feel the slick heat of your own arousal coating his shaft, dripping down your thighs with every punishing stroke.Â
"She's close," Jack murmurs, his voice softer now, almost reverent.Â
You shift forward, pressing open-mouthed kisses across his stomach, your tongue tracing the soft lines of his abs, tasting salt and skin, over the light freckles. You moan into his flesh, the vibration making his muscles jump, and then his palm cups your cheek, thumb brushing over your bottom lip, holding you warmly.
"Look at you," Jack whispers, his eyes dark and soft at once. "So beautiful like this. Taking us both. You're doing so well, baby."
âGo ahead, cum,â Robby growls into your ear, his hand snakes around your hip, his fingers finding your clit. He rubs tight circles against the swollen nub while he continues to pound into you, and the sensation is electricâeach thrust driving his fingers harder against that sensitive bundle of nerves. âNow.â
You moan around Jackâs cock as you break, your pussy clenching wildly around Robbyâs thrusts. The convulsions milk him, and with a low groan, he buries himself to the hilt and pulses inside you, hot and deep.
"Fuck," he breathes, his forehead pressing against your shoulder blade, his body shuddering through the aftershocks.
He pulls out slowly, and you feel his cum begin to seep from you.Â
âGoddamnit,â Robby murmurs, a pant.Â
Before you can even catch your breath, he spits into his palm, the sound crude and purposeful. He reaches down, slicking up Jackâs cock, which is already hard again and straining against his stomach. Jack groans, a deep, ragged sound at the touch.
âYour turn,â Robby tells him, his voice rough with use.
But instead of letting you face Jack, Robby guides you. His strong hands on your hips turn you, maneuvering your spent body until youâre straddling Jack, but facing away from him. Your back is to Jackâs chest, your ass pressed against his hips. You can feel Robbyâs cum, warm and wet, slicking the way as you settle over Jackâs length.
Jackâs hands come to your hips, steadying you. âEasy, sweetheart,â he murmurs, but his voice is tight with need.
From the foot of the bed, Robby watches. Heâs kneeling there now, his eyes dark and hungry, fixed on the place where your bodies move against one another, well practiced. Jackâs fingers slide between your legs, through the slick mess Robby left behind. He gathers it on his fingertips, his touch making you shiver, he brings those wet fingers to your lips.
You open for him, tasting Robbyâs salty tang on Jackâs skin as he slips his fingers into your mouth. You moan around them, your tongue swirling. Jackâs eyes never leave Robbyâs as he then pulls his fingers free, back to your cunt, a slight shudder once more, and brings them to his own lips, sucking them clean, tasting his best friend.
Robby watches this whole exchange, his chest rising and falling rapidly.
âAtta girl,â Jack pants against your ear, his hands tightening on your hips.
Then he guides you down, and you sink onto him with a broken cry. He fills you completely, the stretch delicious, the sensation of being stuffed so soon after your last climax making your head spin. Youâre so sensitive itâs almost painful, a sweet, overwhelming ache.
You begin to move, rising and falling on his cock, finding a slow, grinding rhythm. Your hands brace on Jackâs thighs behind you for leverage. The angle is deep, each descent hitting a spot that makes you see stars.
âThatâs it,â Jack encourages, his voice a rasp in your ear. His hands roam your bodyâgripping your waist, palming your breasts, thumbing your nipples.
You increase your pace, bouncing on him, the wet sounds of your joining filling the room. Your head falls back against his shoulder, your eyes fluttering shut.
âEyes open, sweetheart.â
Robbyâs command cuts through the haze. Your eyes snap open. Heâs moved closer, kneeling right beside the bed now, his face level with where youâre joined with Jack. Heâs watching every slide, every glide, his expression one of rapt fascination.
âLook at you,â Robby murmurs, his voice thick. âTakinâ him so well."
His praise fuels you. You lean more back, hands coming up behind you to Jack, angle pushing him even deeper, as you whimper, sharp gasps, teetering on the edge again.
âBaby, Iâm gonna cum,â Your moan, soft.
âFucking- shit, go ahead, honey, cum fâme,â he moans.Â
Your orgasm crests, a silent scream trapped in your throat as your body tightens. You clench around Jack, a series of violent, fluttering spasms that milk his length.
Jack curses, his hips bucking up into you. âFuckingâjust like thatââ
As youâre pulsing around him, Robby leans in. He captures Jackâs mouth in a sudden, fierce kiss over your shoulder. You can hear the wet slide of their lips, the soft grunts and sighs. Itâs raw and intimate, and it sends another shockwave of pleasure through your oversensitive nerves.
Robby breaks the kiss. âLift up for a second, kid,â he breathes against your skin.
Dazed and pliant, you raise yourself up, Jackâs slick cock sliding almost all the way out of you. Robbyâs hand replaces you, wrapping around Jackâs shaft. He gives him a few rough, efficient strokes, his thumb smearing the pre-cum beaded at the tip.
âMissed the taste of you,â Robby mutters to Jack, his eyes locked on his friendâs face as he works him.
Jack just groans, his head thrown back, his hands gripping your thighs. Then Robby guides you back down, easing you onto Jackâs cock until youâre fully seated once more, stuffed to the brim.
âGo ahead, finish,â Robby growls, his command for both of you.
You begin to move again, a slow, rolling grind now, utterly spent but driven by the need to feel Jack lose control. Heâs closeâyou can feel the tension in his body, the way his breath hitches.
âCome on, Jack,â Robby urges softly, his hand returning to your clit, applying just enough pressure to make you whimper. âFill her up. Give her what she needs.â
That does it. With a shattered cry, Jackâs hips piston up once, twice, and then he stills, buried deep inside you as he comes. You feel the hot pulses of his release joining Robbyâs already there, flooding you.
Jack kisses at your shoulder blades, near your neck, as you relax your body entirely, shaky breaths with your back against his chest. His arm coming around you automatically, instinctive, like it always does. His hand slides up your arm, slow, grounding, fingers brushing your shoulder, your collarboneâchecking, not asking out loud but asking anyway.Â
Robby puts a hand to your jaw, tapping your cheeks lightly with his fingers, watching as your eyes lazily find his.
âYou alright?â he murmurs, voice rough, softer than itâs been all night.
âMhm,â You nod, catching your breath.
âThere she is,â Jack murmurs against you, pressing a kiss into your hair, lingering there a second longer than usual.
Robby doesnât move right away.
Heâs sitting beside you both, elbows on his knees, head tipped slightly forward, breathing steadier nowâbut thereâs something in his posture, something looser than before. The edge is gone. Or at least⌠dialed down.
You shift, peeling yourself gently from Jack, turning toward Robby. For a second, thereâs that flickerâuncertainty, maybe. Not doubt. Just⌠recalibration.
Then you lean in and kiss him. Itâs different now. Slower. Softer. No urgency behind it.
Robbyâs hand comes up to the back of your head, not guiding, not demandingâjust holding you there, thumb brushing lightly at your hairline. He exhales through his nose, a quiet thing, like he didnât realize heâd been holding onto something.
When you pull back, you stay close.
âHey,â you say, softer.
âHey,â he echoes.
Jack watches the two of you. His hand still rests low on your back, thumb moving in slow, absent circles like it always does when heâs settling you.
Jack kisses gently at your bare back, âBe right back,â he murmurs against you, before you hear him leave the bed, putting on his temporary prosthetic.Â
You hear him leave, pulling away from Robby who watches Jack as he leaves the room, headed for the hall.
You groan and flop onto the bed, Robby moving the blanket over you, maybe suddenly prudeish as he picks up presumably Jackâs shirt and hands it to you. You hum, put it on.
âJesus,â you murmur, voice soft, wrecked. âI think my legs might actually fall off.â
That gets a quiet huff out of Robby.
Heâs sitting up at the edge of the bed now, dragging a hand down his face, then through his hair. He looks⌠different, a little. Looser. The usual edge sanded down.
âYeah,â he mutters. âThink youâll live.â
You glance over at him, managing a small smile.
Heâs already reaching for his boxers, pulling them back on, movements unhurried. The gold chain at his neck catches the low lightâthe Star of David resting against his chest, rising and falling with his breathing. Thereâs something grounding about it. Familiar. Normal.
Thereâs a beat.
Then, softerâ
ââŚYou good?â You ask.
He turns your head toward you. âYeah.â He thinks for a moment, a shake of his head as he lets himself admitâ âNeeded that. Needed to be⌠not alone, I think.â
You watch him for a secondâsomething thoughtful in your expression.
âThat something youâd wanna do again or is this a one and done situation?â You wonder earnestly, rolling onto your side as you look up at him. â
Robby doesnât answer straight away. He looks at youâreally looks, like heâs trying to figure out what the question actually means underneath what you asked.
Your hairâs a mess, Jackâs shirt slipping off one shoulder, eyes soft but steady on him. Hickies across your neck. Not fragile. Not asking for reassurance. Just⌠asking.
His jaw shifts slightly.
ââŚYou always this direct after something like that?â he mutters.
You huff a quiet laugh. âIâm an ortho resident. I donât have time for interpretive dance.â
That almost gets a smile out of him. He exhales, leaning back more fully, one hand rubbing absently at his chest like heâs trying to settle something under the surface.
âItâs notââ he starts, then stops. Tries again. âItâs not really a âone and doneâ kind of question.â
You tilt your head slightly. âWhy not?â
He glances at the doorâwhere Jack disappearedâthen back at you.
Because Jackâs not just some guy. Because this isnât just sex. Because thereâs history here that predates you by decades and still manages to feel unfinished. Because he already feels it sitting somewhere in his chest, heavy.
You seem to pick up where his head is at, a nod. âDo you have⌠like, real feelings for him? Or me?â
Robby scoffs a chuckle. âI donât have time to think about that.â
âJust time to fuck us though. Well, not Jack, sure heâll give me a complaint about that later.â You murmur.
Robby smiles a bit. âYou two are⌠perfect for each other. I still donât get how he found you.â
âI donât know either, to be honest,â You admit. âBut he cares about you. Like a lot. And so do I. And itâs not just because your dick is great, promise. Youâre always welcome with us, whether its sex, comfort, food, all three. We arenât picky people.â
âPicked up on that,â Robby nods, quieter now. âWhat are your plans? With him, I mean. He mentioned something about marriage.â
You smile a littleâmore to yourself than anythingâyour hand drifting, almost unconsciously, to your left ring finger.
âNo idea,â you admit. âHowever long he wants me around, I guess.â
Robby huffs a soft breath, leaning back against the headboard. âWell, if ageâs anything to go by, youâve got a good couple of years.â
You smack his arm lightly. âYouâre literally older than him.â
âIâm not marrying you,â Robby shoots back, deadpan.
âYouâre an ass,â you sigh.
That earns you a small smile.
The door opens.
Jack steps back in, towel slung over his shoulder, a glass of water already in hand. He pauses just inside, taking in the room in one sweepâquick, practiced. You, curled on your side in his shirt. Robby at the edge of the bed, quieter than usual.
âMy legâs killing me,â Jack mutters, like itâs an afterthought, already moving back toward the bed.
You push yourself up onto your elbows, frowning. âYou okay?â
âIâm fine,â he says, dismissive in that way he gets, like painâs just background noise. He hands you the glass. âDrink.â
You take it, still watching him. âYou say that about everything.â
âBecause everythingâs fine.â
Robby snorts under his breath. âYeah. Thatâs a healthy coping mechanism.â
Jack shoots him a look as he sits down, stretching his leg out carefully. âOh, Iâm sorryâdid you want to compare notes?â
Robby raises his brows. âNot particularly.â
Then Jack exhales, leaning back into the headboard. His hand finds your thigh automaticallyâabsent, grounding, like he needs the contact without thinking about it.
His gaze flicks between the two of you, lingering on Robby for half a second longer than necessary.
âWhatâd I miss?â he asks.
You shift, settling back into him, your cheek brushing his shoulder. âMarriage.â
Jack huffs. âOne night with my girl and youâre already trying to steal her? Alright. Good to know.â
Robby lets out a quiet chuckle.
âWith you, idiot,â you correct.
Jack glances down at you. âOh, him and I are getting married now?â
You roll your eyes and, just to be difficult, shift toward Robby insteadâcurling lightly into his side.
It lasts all of two seconds.
Jackâs arm hooks around you and pulls you straight back against him.
âRelax,â he mutters, pressing a kiss to the top of your head, holding you there against his chest.
Robby watches that, something unreadable flickering across his face before it settles again.
Robby stays the night.
Not in the same wayâthereâs a natural rhythm to it. He gives you and Jack space without being asked, drifting out into the living room, the quiet murmur of the TV carrying faintly down the hall. At one point you hear the balcony door slide open, then shut again.
Heâs not intrusive. Never has been.
But he doesnât leave, either.
if u havent read it, i'd recommend reading my (wo)man on willpower! this is a spin off of that, i suppose. focuses more on jack x reader, though. :D
a/n: girls i have another like 700 words i had that as a short scene of santos speculating why u didnt make it to her paris party (oh my god im so funny paris because threesome haha i know right, please dont click off this), and i might post that later, but my ao3 will get the full thing if u wanna just see what it was. the 1000 block limit on tumblr genuinely my opp fr.
anyway thank u guys all for the support on my (wo)man on willpower, so proud of that fic and so sweet the reblogs and comments! i wish u could see my grin every time! and yall hammered me for this so i hope its up to standard, meets an expectation or two. i had a lot of fun just exploring the dynamic, you x robby, robby x jack, jack x you, like i am a true believer in true love triangles, so hopefully that came across, but admittedly, still keeping jack and reader endgame obvi, so.. also sorry if it aint gay enough, i told yall i do not read mlm stuff, just not for me. i love it! just dont like, actively read it yk! i also just wanted to have fun with the prose, emotional stuff, etc, and idk. hopefully the smut isnt terrible, that shit is hard as hell! like, positions, dirty talk?! dirty talk is hardddd guys!! then like the build to it, ugh. i wish i had a smut class at my uni or something so i could really get into the weeds of it, and spend time endlessly editing it. i really couldve spent another few days editing this but honestly wanted it OUT and DONE !! need to lock in got exams soon team. okay sorry for this long as hell authors note ! lmfaoo. hope yall liked!
summary: you sign a 13-week contract at Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center for your latest position as a travel nurse. complicated reaches a whole new level when you quickly fall for your new boss Dr. Robinavitch
warnings: will be at the beginning of each chapter! broadly: smut, language, medical innaccuracies, and descriptions of injury
notes: my inbox is always open for requests or to chat! this list will be updated as parts are released, I hope you enjoy! If you want to be tagged, the link is below :)
synopsis Jack was just looking for an easy night, a quiet drink, but what he finds is so much better. You, sat in a seat that's his, fresh, new and young to the area, starting a new job with your dad. Jack just didn't think to ask the right questions... (5.2k words)
warning Smut MDNI! younger reader, older jack! Robby's daughter reader! oral (f receiving!) making out, language, protected p in v, dirty talk, praise king, reader is described to have longish hair, reader calls jack solider, peep the quin audio hints
authornotei locked tf in with this if i do say so myself. had this idea sitting in my drafts had to write it, if you like i would love to do a part two, the idea of dads best friend has me with a chokehold. i made up a small, tiny backstory for jack as we know so little. the beautiful jack gif credits go to @lovebugism (her fics are so good !!!!!)
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Jack didn't have a specific place at the bar, but everyone knew where he sat. He got half way across the bar, dragging himself across the sticky floor before he realised there was someone else sitting in his seat. He could tell it was his stool from the slight wobble it gave side to side, and he could tell it was a young woman sitting in his seat from the sound of her laugh.
Terry, his favourite bar tender who'd seen him at his worst and best, caught a look at him and grinned.
âHey! Just the guy I was talking about!â
Jack didn't know he was territorial about his bar. But he found himself sliding into another bar stool with a sulk. âUsual please, Terry,â he said, letting his backpack drop with a heavy thud.
âYou got it, boss!â
A whiskey would soon be slid over the counter, chased by another and maybe another till a small fuzz clouded the edges of his mind and he could sleep easier. He forgot just how gruelling days could be.
But then he spotted you.
You were still smiling with the remnants of a laugh. One finger on your right hand was chasing the condensation down your emptying glass. He did a double take at you, looking past the hair falling to the smooth skin, doted with a mole or two.
You were young. The sort of young you didn't find in a bar- at least not alone. But this bar also wasn't the busiest, exactly why he liked it.
You didn't look like you belonged there. At the same time, you looked like there was nowhere else you wanted to be. Your chin rested in your other hand, your jacket was slung over the back of the stool and you weren't shying away from anything around you.
Jack's whiskey was dropped off in front of him and finally Jack got a look at you. Beautiful. There was no other way around it. He wasn't going to judge a book from its cover but he had a feeling your beauty wasn't the last thing to surprise him.
âCan I get you another drink?â he asked you once he held your attention for more than a second.
Your eyes widened, as if you hadn't expected him to talk to you. âOh no, thanks, I shouldn't drink too much tonight.â
âWhat?â said Terry, pretending to wipe over a 'dirty' spot on the counter. âI thought you were celebrating, huh?â
Jack's brows rose. âA celebration?â
âShe just moved to the city,â said Terry.
You smiled, bashfully. âI got a new job.â
âCongratulations,â said Jack. âAnd welcome, this is Pittsburgh's finest.â
âThanks,â you said.
There was a moment passed in silence where the both of you seemed to understand the two ways the night could go. If you mutually decided to keep it there, a polite congratulations and a kind offer of a drink maybe you'd just remember him as the kind, older stranger.
You turned to him. âIf the offer of that drink still stands I think I'd like to take it.â
Jack moved his body to face yours. He glanced at Terry, who waited happily. âAnother one for-â
You told him your name and it chimed a bell in Jack's head, as if he'd been waiting his whole life to hear your name from your lips. He introduced himself and his fate was sealed.
âSo, are you a native to Pittsburgh?â you asked, twirling a bit of hair between your fingers.
Jack lifted his shoulders. âCame her to settle down after some things.â He didn't want to get into the whole collage and tours and losing his leg and moving here after losing his wife. He didn't want to watch that pretty face of yours contort with worry or sympathy. âAre you new here, or?â
âKinda. My dad's around her, parents divorced so I only see him sometimes,â you explained, flippantly.
âAnd now you got a job here?â
âNow I'm here.â
You told him where abouts you were living which had him worrying if he was any other random guy at a bar that you'd be telling him, putting yourself in (potential) danger. Or maybe Jack was special. It wasn't a very good area, the sort he never even looked at when he was moving, but he knew it was cheap.
âI passed this place driving in, looked good,â you said.
Jack chuckled and leaned in to avoid Terry's ears as he'd gone off to change the channels and some other guys requests. âClearly your new around here. When I said it was Pittsburgh's finest.... it might have been an exaggeration.â
You laughed and Jack wondered what other stupid jokes he could make to have you laughing again. âWell, nobody's offered me the grand tour yet.â You took a swig of your beer.
There was an opening.
Jack didn't know why he was looking for one but it was out of his lips before he really understood what he was doing. âIf you ever need a tour guide,â he said, gesturing to himself. Did he look dumb doing so?
You raised your brows. âYou might regret that. I ask a lot of questions. I'm really into my history.â
âGood thing I know a lot about this place.â He did not, but he could read some stuff up.
âYou know, you're quite the charmer, Jack,â you said, seizing him up.
He nodded his head side to side. âYou've caught me on a good day. Any other day I'm an asshole,â he said, regretting the words as soon as they left his mouth. What was he doing? âI- that was a bad joke. I'm not an asshole. At least I don't think so.â
âI don't think so,â you said. âAfter all you're keeping a lonely girl like me company.â
âYou moved alone?â
You smirked. âAre you asking me if I have a boyfriend?â
Jack usually came to this bar for a quiet one after work. At 6 am he'd nurse a whiskey, an un healthy habit he knew. Sometimes he was called in early and only had a couple hours to spare before his actual shift started he'd hang around, have a glass of water of a crappy cup of black coffee. He didn't come here to flirt with girls. Young girls who would probably attract some stares if he walked around with you on his arm.
Yet the idea of doing just that thrilled him.
âI guess so, yeah.â
A small dusting or blush rose to your cheeks. âWell, I'm alone. There was this guy back where I used to live but.... meh, he was stupid.â
Jack nodded, listening as if you were one of his patients. âHe dump you?â
âHe cheated on me.â
âThen he's the stupidest guy around.â
You smiled, laughing off your blush. âYou know, you don't know me yet. I could be a massive asshole.â
âWell that's up for me to decide,â he said, as if he hadn't decided you were anything but.
It didn't take long for the place to fill up after that, people finishing work or deciding to end their nights of drinking there. It wasn't usual for Jack to be around at that sort of time, so the in flood of people surprised him, crowding the two of you at the bar.
That's how he ended up in a booth with you, an arm slung over the back of the cushioned seat as you sat in the ghost of his touch. You were almost leaning into him but keeping a conscious decision not to fall into his arm. The both of you were still nursing the same drink an hour later, sharing stories from each others lives.
Jack didn't ask about your new job and you didn't tell him.
âHow long's your dad been out here?â Jack asked.
âPractically all his life,â you said. âBut he moved when he met my mom, they separated when I was like five? He came back here so usually I'm just visiting.â
Jack nodded, briefly eyeing how close his hand was to touching you. So far he'd kept it polite. A hand helping you off from the bar stool (you did not need his help), a gentle hand on the small of your back as he led you to the booth, a finger brushing away lint that wasn't on your shoulder. He just wanted to touch you again.
âYou close with him?â
You smiled, un-easy. âWell I'm about to be. I'm working with him.â
Jack made a wince and an O face.
Soon enough you were shuffling out of the booth, saying you needed to use the restroom. Jack knew stories about girls who went to the bathroom and didn't come back out, climbing through the window and leaving the guy to wonder what he'd done wrong.
He tried not to let his mind wonder. He checked himself, kept an eye on any guy wondering closely and tugged your drink closer to him, though the bottle was practically empty as well as his glass. He chucked a mint from his pocket into his mouth and chewed it down quickly.
He checked his phone once and then sat and waited.
When you got back to the table, you weren't alone.
Jack frowned as he saw the guy at your side, big enough to swallow you up and shirt so tight on him Jack had a suspicion he brought a size too small on purpose. He straightened at the pinch in your brows and purse of your lips.
The guy at your side was equally studying Jack.
The both of you stopped in front of him and you gestured down to Jack.
âTold you,â you said in answer to a conversation he wasn't apart of.
Jack didn't know what was going on and he wasn't picking up on any social cues. He lifted up a hand, grey hairs rising along his arms in a shiver. âHi.â
âOh,â said the guy. âThat's cool, I guess. Maybe I'll see you around.â
You shrugged and took your seat next to Jack, this time tight into his side. He let his arm drape around your shoulder.
The guy took his cue and dismissed himself, wandering back to his buddies at the bar, looking back to you once.
âWhat was that about?â Jack asked, checking the guy one more time.
You didn't move from his side, only turned into him and he didn't move his arm. âSorry, the guy was waiting for me to come out the bathroom. I told him I was here with... my dad.â
Jack had expected a lie you'd told the guy. Maybe you said you were already here with someone, a boyfriend maybe? âYour dad?â he chocked on his breath. Was he old enough to be your dad? Probably.
âI'm sorry, I panicked!â you said with a laugh.
It was infectious. Jack couldn't help but chuckle to, rubbing away at a wrinkle in his forehead. âI couldn't have been your partner? Or something.â
âC'mon, you think me saying I have a boyfriend will change him hitting one me?â you asked. âA guy like that?â
âYou weren't interested in him?â Jack asked, looking over your shoulder to pass a small glare over to the guys. âBuff. Blonde. Young.â
You shook your head, pushing yourself further into his arm. âNah. I like mine with meat on their bones. Darker... maybe greyer hair,â your eyes looked all over him, lingering at the lower part of his face. âOlder.â
You were a treat dangling in front of him and Jack was starved.
He licked at his lips. âWell, I don't think dads do this-â
Before you could question him, Jack took a risk and kissed you.
You welcomed him warmly, your lips soft and eager against his. Where he tried to take it slow, you let him. His hand spread across your back, drawing you in as his head tilted, nudging you to be closer, closer, closer. His tongue traced the bottom of your lip and you opened obedient, tongue hot as you fought his, gasping into his mouth.
He felt the twitch of himself in his trousers, the tightening around his crotch.
Your mouth was warm, tinged with the bitter beer you'd sipped and something sweet on your lip-gloss.
He dragged himself away to catch a breath that his whole body burned for. Your lips chased his, body leaning into his.
Your lip-gloss was smeared down your chin and Jack was all too happy to swipe his thumb and wipe it off, savouring the sticky-ness of it and slight shine on his thumb.
Jack dared take a look at the bar where the guy and his pals stood. His mouth was slightly agape at witnessing the kiss and Jack was all to keen to keep his eyes on him as he kissed you again.
Jack couldn't tell which one of you was more ravenous. If his hands were fumbling with your jean buttons with more need than your own was trailing under his shirt and tugging it over his head.
He thinks it might be him but if you wanted the title he'd give it to you gladly, eager to please.
He had you leant back on the sofa left only in your pretty pink bra, your legs thighs thrown over his shoulders as he feasted upon you, boxes you hadn't un-packed building your own kingdom around you. He was a devout solider upon his queen, if anything.
Your chest heaved in a breath you just couldn't catch, gasping in the pleassure he was drawing out. âJ-Jack-â
If he thought your lip-gloss smeared down your chin was a sight your arousal slowly making a mess of his face as he licked into you was a new delight entirety.
He wanted your slick mess to slide down his chin, down the greying hairs of his chest and all the way down to where his cock stood at attention under his trousers.
Jack's hips were bucking, chasing any small friction in his denim. âYou like that?â he asked, flicking the tip of his tongue into you.
âYes, yes, I do.â
He puckers his lips and slurps up your arousal, fingers digging into your thighs and keeping them open, supporting you as your hips bucked up helplessly.
He looks up, the bliss on your face a small indicator of your end coming soon. Jack lets you come, coaxes it out of you with avid sucks and licks.
You came on his tongue on gasps of his name. He'd heard his name yelled before, heard it whispered in dying urgency. Heard it snapped in anger but nothing was better than the sweet call of his name from your lips, drunk on your first orgasm.
He crawled back up you once your body had started to calm. Jack pressed his mouth into your own, sharing the taste of yourself as his hands were skilful in sneaking around your back and un-clasping your bra.
You sighed into him at the freeing feeling and his hands cupped you at once, messaging your breasts.
Jack kissed at you, moaning at the softness he felt in the palm of his hands. âYou're so-mmph- so fucking beautiful.â
You toss your hair over your shoulder and look down to him, bringing him back up with your hands on his cheeks, his stubble rubbing into the palm of your hands.
He licked into you, groaning at the taste of your mouth. At every taste of you it was new, like he'd forgotten what you tasted like before and it was the first time.
âWanna-â he said, breathless pulling away. âWanna kiss you all the time from now on.â
âIs that a promise?â you said, grinning and pecking his lips.
Jack smiled too, your teeth clashing as he nodded.
He let himself be led like a dog to your room. There was a mattress on the floor, a suitcase or two pressed up against the wall and a box left open. Jack wanted to peak inside, wanted to see what else was about you. He wanted to know everything.
Your lips promised more, more, more.
Jack's hands fell useless at his sides as he felt the brush of your knuckles go to his belt. He closed his eyes, letting you work. He heard the clatter of the belt whipped off and thrown aside carelessly. He bit down on his lip with a smile.
He only opened his eyes as he felt you tug off his jeans, the fabric catching at his prophetic.
You looked at it for a second before looking up at him.
He hadn't felt insecure about his leg in years. It knocked on his consciousness then, keen to enter. He couldn't think of what to say. âUrm- yeah-â
He was calmed when you slowly sank to your knees and kissed over the lingering scars there, your nails scraping down his thighs. His cock twitched happily in his boxers and you could see the excitement leaking from him early.
âCome here,â he said with a rumble of his voice.
You were up on your feet and he was kissing you again, holding your mouth open to just taste you. He pulled off his boxers, kicking them away before his hands traced up the sides of you.
âI have- I have condoms,â you said, hands pushing him away lightly. âMake yourself comfortable, soldier.â
Jack was glad you'd turned your back to fetch condoms you'd packed luckily in the easy and already open box in the corner of your room. It gave him time to ease himself down on the mattress and watch as you bent over to find the condoms.
He was shocked he wasn't tasting blood as he bit hard down on his lip. If he wasn't so desperate to feel your warmth around him he'd have given himself a little tug, but he was too scared he'd come too soon.
Settling comfortable on your mattress on the floor, Jack tugged on the condom and sat himself up to brush your hair back.
âAre you sure?â he asked.
You nodded and leant into kiss him.
Jack wrapped a light hand around you neck and urged you back, looking in your eyes. You knew what he wanted.
âYes, Jack. I'm very, very sure.â
He smiled and was ready to move when you stopped him with hands on his thighs.
âCan I... I want to be on top.â
Was Jack supposed to say no to you? You may as well have asked him to build your mattress, un-back all your boxes, re-paint your walls. If you'd asked, he would have done anything for you at that moment.
When you gripped the base of his cock he held his breath. When his tip was pushed into you he exhaled with a loud groan.
âSsh,â you laughed. âI don't want to get noise complaints from the neighbours already.â
Jack held onto your hips, supporting you. âFuck your neighbours.â
He focused on the feel of you as you lowered yourself all the way, his cock stretching you open.
âOh shhiiiit... god,â Jack gasped, seeing where you sat flush on his lap, the head of his cock twitching inside of you.
Your head was leant back, eyes screwed shut in pleasure.
âNo- look at me, look at me,â he said, lifting his hand to pinch your chin and drag your gaze back down. You opened your eyes that had turned dark with desire. âYeah, just like that. Keep your eyes on me.â
And you did as you leant back onto your hands, slowly dragging yourself from him and then back down, setting a pace you were comfortable with.
Jack let you take the lead, lying there and taking it with mutters of encouragement and groans of disbelief. He laid his hand upon the bottom of your stomach, almost being able to feel him inside you. That- or you were driving him crazy.
When the sound of skin on skin sounds you switch your tactic, leaning over him and grinding down.
Your eyes were fluttering in pleasure, your mouth left open. You were still trying so hard to keep your eyes on him just as he'd told you to. âOh fuck, Jack, it's-it's too much.â
âNo it's not, honey,â he coaxed, brushing back your hair and holding your cheek in hand. âYou're being so good for me. Just a- just a little longer.â
You whined, walls fluttering around him and sucking him in.
Jack didn't know where he was finding the restraint not to come from. It had been a while for him, since he'd talked to someone as pretty as you, since he'd been in a bed that wasn't his. Since he'd had something other than his own hand to come onto.
Your grinding became un-stable, your thighs squeezing around him. âJack, I think- I'm gonna come.â
He wrapped an arm around you and drew you in till you were held against his chest. The sweat against your bodies rubbed and mixed with the saliva shared between your mouths in kisses where you both fought for dominance.
At the angle of you pushed down on top of him his cock was deeper. He was so close to you, so close in more ways than one.
Jack groaned out your name, his cock twitching inside of you, begging to be released. âCome for me, honey... come for me-â
With a loud moan into his neck you let go around him, walls clamping down on him.
Jack let go of his restraint, planting his good foot on the mattress and thrusting up into you at an odd but delicious angle, once- twice! Before he came, slumping down on the mattress.
The both of you laid there, his hands brushing down your back and bringing out shivers.
âI have never come like that in my life,â he panted, catch his breath.
You looked at him. âWhat? On your back, on a mattress on the floor with boxes piled up. Or was I just that good?â
He hummed and pretended to think about it. âHow about all the above?â
The both of you laughed.
Once you'd both used the bathroom and had returned to your room Jack was still naked while you'd thrown on his shirt, drowning in the smell and feel of him. He'd never wished he was younger and could get it up quicker than in that moment.
You fell back down on your mattress, nodding and inviting Jack to lie down next to you. To stay the night. So, it wasn't that kind of one night stand. Good. He wanted it to be an every night stand.
Jack got down on your mattress but resigned himself to the bottom, slowly pulling apart your legs, taking his time like he hadn't been able to bring himself to do out in your living room.
You propped yourself up on your elbows, looking down at him. âJack, what are you doing?â
âSsh,â he said, finding himself between your legs again. âWe don't want noise complaints from the neighbours, already.â
Jack woke with his body like soup. His body was drifting in bliss, the sort one got after swimming all day, leaving limbs sleepy with exhaustion and the activities still sat in your bones.
His body ached with you. With the feel of your hands tugging at his hair as he had you coming on his tongue a second time, your hands on his chest as you moved on top of him.
He reached for you, finding an emptiness with nothing but the smell of you left on your pillows.
Jack inhaled sharply before he heard the shower turn off and door thrown open. A cloud of hot condensation and the scent of your shampoo hit him as you stepped out, wrapped in a towel.
Jack rolled over, peering at you through sleep. âMorning.â
âHey. Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you, I was hoping to let you sleep in for... like, ten minutes,â you said.
âDon't worry about it. I'm an early riser,â he said, checking his phone for the time. Half six in the morning. It wasn't technically a lie. He was up at this hour, finishing his shift. âFirst day at the job today?â
âYes, and I'm working with my dad so I cannot be late.â
Jack pushed himself up, finding his boxers. âYou get ready. You want me to make some coffee? Providing you've un-packed it.â
You rose a brow, a smile tugging at the corner of your lips. âYou trying to make a wife out of me, Jack?â you teased.
He smiled down at you when he stood, almost challenging.
âCoffee pots on the side, it was one of the first things I un-packed.â
Jack kissed your cheek before sleepily making his way through your place, manoeuvring with far less grace than lust had him moving the night before. He flicked on lights, started the coffee and took the extra couple minutes to peer into boxes that had been ripped open. There wasn't much, clothes, a couple trinkets and such. Text books that were so large and piled up he couldn't make one from the other.
He'd just caught a glimpse of you as a kid, hands in between two other people. One, a woman he assumed was your mother and the other he didn't get to see before he heard your trainers squeak on the floor and was backing up from the boxes.
He poured you a coffee and handed it to you, watching you take large gulps.
âThanks. I'm sorry, I wouldn't usually do this but I really got to run,â you apologised.
âThat's fine, I'll dress and I could give you a lift in?â he offered. âI'd really like to see you again.â
You smiled, cheeks popping. âWell, I'd really like that too. But you don't have to give me a lift in, I'll drive myself, otherwise I'd have no way of getting back.â
Jack was seconds away from offering to pick you up too. Any excuse to see you before he realised he was back on nights tonight. Would it even be plausible? To be able to spend more time with you?
He'd move heaven and earth to make it possible. He'd got his first sip of you and was addicted.
âTake your time,â you added. âShower. Eat left over takeaway in my fridge. You can steal from me if you want but I warn you I have very little worth taking.â
Jack sighed playfully. âI'm sure I can think of something you'll miss. You have your phone?â he asked, holding out his hand.
You handed it to him, un-locking it first.
Jack typed in his number, adding his name as a contact and in brackets added- guy from bar/a good lay. Just in case you forgot. âYou can call me when you want that tour of the place,â he said, as nonchalant as possible, wishing at once he'd slid his jeans on just to be able to slide his hands in the pockets.
You read what he saved himself as and laughed. âA good lay, you were a bit more than that, solider.â You slid your phone into your jacket pocket, hiding your inform or something underneath.
Jack smirked, leaning in. âReally?â
âReally.â
He leant in and kissed you. He wasn't forcing your mouth open, he wasn't grabbing at you although he wanted to do both. He knew, maybe more than most, the importance of getting to work on time. But he could almost imagine this was his life. Waking early to make you coffee and food, kissing you and sending you on the way to work. Coming home to find you waiting for him, his name laced on your lips.
âI really have to go,â you mumbled against his lips.
âThen go,â he said, kissing you again.
He walked you to the doors, quick kisses being shared, small touches he dared tempt himself with before you were fleeing, practically running away to not regret leaving.
Jack did take you up on your offer and had a very cold shower.
The rest of the day Jack thought about you, teased himself with you. He'd never felt so infatuated before. He returned to his place in the late afternoon after spending time just breathing your things in. His apartment felt shockingly empty, too neat even though Jack hadn't cleaned in a while. It didn't feel lived in, loved in. It was probably painfully obvious it was a bachelor pad.
However he didn't have to linger long. He showered again and dressed in scrubs, checking his phone once and finding a text from you.
I've been thinking, a good lay really doesn't cover it, a solid nine out of ten.
He smirked down at his phone, tutting.
Only a nine?
Your reply came almost instantly.
Well, there's always room for improvement.
I'll show you improvement. Maybe a nice dinner would get me to an 11/10?
Already got yourself a 9.5 solider :)
The smile that wasn't an emoji tugged at his heart strings.
Jack didn't know how he was supposed to take you to a dinner when he worked nights and your job was a day thing apparently but he'd work it out. You wouldn't have to worry a thing.
By the time he was clocking into work that evening he was so distracted in checking the best restaurants around (what had the best food, or the best views, which played nice music, which were expensive...) he was so distracted he didn't even notice he was in early.
âBrother!â Robby called, greeting him with a wide grin and hug.
Jack was slow in hugging him back. Hiding his phone in his back pocket from your texts before hugging him back, worry pulsing in his veins. A happy Robby always worried him. âHey, you're cheerful.â
Robby pulled away, shrugging. âYeah, I guess I am.â
âNobody die today?â
âNo, two people dead.â
Jack frowned. âAnd we're happy about that?â
Dana called his name from the nurses station, urging him over.
Robby's hand was steady with a firm grip as he led Jack over. âGlad you could make it in early, there's actually someone I want you to meet.â
âSomeone, huh?â Jack wondered if Robby had finally decided to ditch his seven week itch thing and maybe try seven months, maybe even get to a famous seven years. Had he been waiting till it was serious to introduce him to the special woman?
âPicked them up from the airport yesterday while you covered my day, thank you.â
Jack had only just dropped his back at the counter when your name was called.
And suddenly there you were- glancing up at Robby in a way that gave no shock to hear him call you.
You looked at Robby then found Jack.
Scrubs. You were in black scrubs just like him, a navy top underneath. Your hair was scraped back from this morning, showing the expanse of your neck that he remembered nipping and licking the night before. Your eyes were plain, expression dropped as you stared at him, feet carrying you over to Robby on autopilot.
Jack watched as Robby's hand laid on your shoulder like it was always meant to be there.
And I'm working with my dad so I cannot be late.
Oh, god no.
âJack, this is my daughter,â said Robby, saying your name with practised ease and a proud grin. âThis is Jack Abbot, night attending. My best friend.â
splish splash (18+)â Robby had a strict âno shower sexâ rule due to all the cases heâd seen in the ED, but that didnât mean there werenât other ways to be dirty while trying to get clean. Or, three times things got steamy in the shower (and one time that reminds you why the rule is in place to begin with). (5.5k)
does your husband know? (18+) â PTMC is hosting their annual fundraising gala, an event you're required to attend despite your objections. Also in attendance is your ex-fling, Dr. Michael Robinavitch, who takes the opportunity to try and rekindle the long extinguished flame. The problem? You're both married. (9.3k)
Jack Abbot
you shaved your bush (18+) â In an attempt to seduce a past hookup, you accidentally send your attending, Jack Abbot, a lewd photo. (9.5k)
sexy to someone (18+) â you finally put yourself back out there and set up a date for your night off. to your utter humiliation, you get stood up. the night takes a turn when you see your attending, Jack Abbot, who suggests you have dinner together since you're already all dressed up. (10k)
don't fear the reaper â working at the hospital morgue didn't exactly endear you to the emergency room staff, especially when you're always cracking jokes. you think Jack might be warming up to you, but are quickly proven wrong when he berates you in front of the department after an ill-timed joke.
gif credits to @baran-alhashimi and @wesandresons <3
making out with jack and he has to keep reminding you to slow downâŚ
MDNI 18+
based of this perfect ask from my sexy hot mootie đŤśđ˝
Jacks got you perched on his lap on his couch, his big hands resting on your hips, slowly guiding them back and forth on his bulky thighs. Your arms are draped over his shoulders, tangling in the curls that rest at the nape of his neck.
Youâve been making out on his couch for about a half hour now, and itâs agonizing. Youâre sure if you were to get up thereâd be a wet splotch on his jeans from how wet you are.
But every time you try to speed things up heâs slowing you down again. Both of your chins slick with saliva, you move your lips quicker against his, pushing your head forward to get impossibly closer.
But heâs raising a big rough hand to your chin, pinching it between his fingers and manually slowing down your movements. You can feel the sleazy smirk heâs wearing as you whine and your hips buck up once more, his hand finally sliding off your face back down your body.
âStop whininââ heâs growling roughly from the time his voice has been idle itâs gone a little raspy, âgot all the time we want, promise Iâm gonna make you feel good, just wanna kiss on you a littleâ heâs whispering against your mouth before sloppily licking his own saliva off your chin and shoving it back into your mouth with his tongue.
Every time you speed up, even if you donât notice it, heâs grabbing you and easing your jaw, pulling it down as he licks into your mouth, and slowly pushing it back up to connect with his own lips to yours, setting a speed, a rhythm. Heâs nodding when you finally catch onto the speed heâs content with âtheeree yaâ goâ you can feel his teeth against your lips when he smiles and lets out a little âyouâre learning now hm?â
And youâre just nodding and whimpering, hips grinding harder against his jeans.
You think you've always secretly known Carter can't stand you for the same reasons you can't stand him.
Tags/Warnings:
SMUT 18+, dialogue heavy, there's a buildup okay, enemies to lovers, workplace romance, you're both kinda dummies so, technically idiots in love, mild age-gap, forced proximity, lowkey submissive-and-breedable Carter, (consensual) manhandling, hickeys/love bites, dry-humping, oral (fem-receiving *cheers*), John is a WHORE and I will not be taking criticism about it, not BETA'd
WC:
4.5 k
Author's Note:Â
This idea came to me in several parts that I smashed together into a single one-shot so if it seems a little plot-lazy, thatâs why. I'm also only on season 2 of ER, so canonical inconsistencies are highly likely. Please remember that I am human, so if you notice any mistakes â no you didnât. I hope you enjoy and have a lovely day/night <3
âAs I already said, John, I gave it to you two hours ago.â
You look up from the chart in your hands to glare at him. Carter shoots the same, spiteful look right back down at you; he hates when you call him John in that tone, especially because that usually means youâre trying to be a hard ass.
âWell, I donât know what to tell you. Itâs. Not. There.â Every word is punctuated with irritation and a tilt of his head while he follows close at your heels as you try to get away from him. Heâs become good at trying to cancel out every move you make lately.
âWell, someone mustâve fucked up something,â you say, smiling tightly at Carol as you pass her while ignoring her glance up at John trailing behind you, as well as the quirk in her lips when she looks back down at her work. She always does that.
âHm, I wonder who that couldâve been.â He puts a hand onto his chin, feigning a look of puzzlement that does absolutely nothing to hide the patronization.
Itâs moments like these, on other days youâve had this exact conversation with the resident nearly word for word and certainly insult for insult, that you wonder how youâve yet to be restrained from taking a swing at himâright across his stupid face.
âWould you both shut up?â Susan breaks the thick air hovering between the two of you, slapping a folder against Carterâs chest. âCarter,â she looks up at him, turns to you, repeats your name with the same tone of voice, then briefly spares him another glance, âplease, try to act like grown-ups during the hours youâre working at a hospital?â
She leaves you both standing there defiantly. John expels a heavy huff in your direction, looking down at the file, then back at you. âI didnât tell you to leave it on my desk.â
âOh, Jesus,â you exhale, turning away from him without sparing another glance. Youâre lucky to leave the conversation with both of your eyes still in their sockets, with how much youâve been having to roll them. Sometimes you think John wakes up some days with the sole purpose of being dissatisfied with everything you do.
And on days like today, when that seems to be the likely case, youâre usually better off just avoiding himâwhich, to be fair, is what you usually do.
Unfortunately, today you just canât seem to get away from him.
âI need another line in,â he tells you as he passes you in the hall. âRoom five.â
Youâre already on your seventh IV of the hourâŚ
âI want the you to get the labs for Kelson, Morris, Martin, and Alan ordered, and make it quick.â
You already have two sets waitingâŚ
Eventually you just end up switching some of your assignments with other attendants, just to get a few minutes away from his constant barking. Itâs usually not this bad. Itâs never this bad, you have to say. Sometimes even, horrified as you are to admit it, heâs not all that miserable to be aroundâonly, of course, as long as someone else is with you both and neither of you actually have to be alone with each other. Youâve never had to spend more than five minutes alone with Carter since your first day. Havenât even cared to wonder if you could even possibly stand it, either, as the chances of that actually happening have been dwindling day by day.
Of course, it would be just your luck that youâre at work on the day the possibility swings wide open like a door on loose hinges.
You hear your name said loudly over the hallway bustle after another hour of bickering between collisions throughout the area, Carterâs immediately following. Susan is standing stiff with a clipboard in her hands, though her face looks rather proud for someone who sounds so pissed.
Carter gets to her just as you do. Both of you glance at each other with equally narrow eyes.
âAlright kids,â Susan begins, âletâs for, just a short while, play nice so we can get our work done, hm?â She smiles between you both. âThere's a supply closet that needs its inventory taken.â
âInventory?â
You both say the word at just the same time, just as baffled. You veer your head at him, and just as you do so, his head is already turned at you.
âYes. Inventory. Maybe youâll both learn to work together for once.â
And you know thatâs not what she means. You and Carter can work together just fine. Hell, youâre one strange, hell of a pair when youâre not being so stubborn. With patients, you flow around each other like youâre both on tracks, knowing where to and not to move to get things done efficiently around one another. During procedures youâre on the same wavelength, too. You both have the same laser-focus that pulls through when you need it. If you didnât despise each other, you might just make a good team.
So, as you crowd yourselves into the miniature-home-sized supply closet while trying not to stir up dust, you try to figure out what this is really about. To understand Susanâs mindset when she made the decision to lock the two of you up (metaphorically, as the closet you find yourself in doesnât even have a lock) for however long itâll take to log all of this.
At the very least, itâs a break from the bustle of the ER. Itâs a busy day and Susan has found someone to cover for both of you for the hourâthe least she could do as an apology for locking you up with Carter in the first place. That nearly makes this worth the hassle. Nearly.
After all, the small, subdued smiles and giggles from the direction of the front desk were not lost on you as Susan gave you both the âbriefingâ, and youâre betting they werenât lost on John either. The more you question this âassignmentâ, the less happy you are with the lot of them.
You know about the rumors. The generic ones that always come in workplaces when there are two people who are even somewhat relative in age and disposition. No one ever says anything when Carter is barking tailored orders at you. When heâs looking at you sternly while, at the same time, giving you positive feedback on a patient or decision of yoursâ. No one does anything but stare and smile behind their hands, and of course, thatâs plenty to get the general idea of whatâs going on in everyoneâs heads.
Youâve ignored it, thus far. You pretend itâs not that big of a deal to you because really, it shouldnât be. Theyâre just rumors. The result of low-maintenance days around the wing with nothing much else to do but wonder why you and Carter look at each other like that while just less than shouting at each other at the same time.
âCount?â Expelling the thoughts of it all from your mind, you look up from the clipboard Susan gave you to John, whoâs leaning up and over one of the shelves into a tub on the top. âWhatâre we working with?â
âUhm⌠sixtyâno. Fifty-seven.â He puffs out his cheeks and drops his heels back down to the floor. âItâs uh, itâs fifty-seven.â
You nod. Another box checked. One less reason to spend any more time in this sauna.
This is part of the level that no one bothers to do any work on. Itâs air conditioning has been out for months. Another reason, youâve noted, to be pissed off at Susan.
Carter, somehow, must be thinking the same thing, because he plops down onto the floor next to you with a hand over the back of his neck. âFuck, I thought they fixed the air.â
âNot here, apparently. Susan has us working out of the sixth layer of Danteâs inferno.â
He laughs. Itâs sudden, quiet, but a laugh nonetheless. A genuine laugh at something you said. Thereâs a first time for everything, it seems. âAh, could be worse.â
âYou think?â
âSure,â he says confidently, looking at the palm of his sweaty hand before looking up at you, âI could be in here with Benton.â
Snickering involuntarily, you fold your arms around the clipboard and hug it to your chest. âI though you liked Dr. Benton?â
Assuming that statement is true, considering John has never actually told you this himself.
âCourse I do. Heâs the best resident Iâve ever worked with. Hell of a guy,â he confirms, looking down at his feet, then quickly looking back at you with an intensity that feels like heâs piercing right through to your soul. âI just canât stand to be around him sometimes.â
You hum. Know that feeling.
Itâs his words that make you start to think you understand why you and John behave towards each other the way you do. Because youâre not immune to knowing that somewhere, deep down, you admire John. Honestly, itâs the only reason you can stand being around him as much as you can. He knows what heâs doing when it comes to doin his job. Caring, compassionate, and attentive to every patient. Smart, too, you know. Might not always seem smart, but he is. Capable. He's really not all that terrible, at least as a doctor. You donât hate him. Not at all unfortunately. As much as youâd like to be able to, you canât.
A silence settles over you both. Some unknown reason prevents you from speaking up about the eleven categories you still need to take inventory of, so in silence you both remain for a long time.
âLook,â he says, finally breaking through the quiet haze filling the room. Your name falls off his tongue with a sigh, then he hangs his head down, tapping his knee with his thumb. âYou know, Iâm notâIâm not hard on you just to be an asshole. Right?â
âSure.â
He chucklesâthe kind that tells you your answer exasperated himâand looks up at the dim ceiling light. âIâm not,â he repeats, looking up.
After a moment of dragging out your silence, you nod, resigning your stubbornness to the backseat. âI know, John.â
Impulse bids you to add on a little bit of a dig to the end; just as a force of habit, really. Doesnât make you any less of an asshole, you want to joke, but donât. Strange.
âGood.â
Another stretch of silence, this one louder with the presence of your mutual inner thoughts than the previous.
Itâs not that this is some incomprehensible revelation. You had figured (or, possibly just hoped) that John wasnât just being an asshole to you for no reason. Youâve had other mentors; oneâs that are sweet on you, oneâs that are hard on you, and oneâs that fall somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. John is strange in that sense. Even if heâs less than sweet about it, he has always challenged you for the better. You know at the end of the day, itâs helped you to make improvements in your work and education. Itâs kept you entertained, for sure. All of the bickering and snide comments and little jabs at each otherâs work ethic that are never truly more than a way to annoy the other.
And maybe thatâs why youâve always tried to follow it all with a grain of salt and an equally hard-ass response. Itâs irritating on the worst days; something close to fun on the best.
âYouâre gonna be a great doctor.â
Johnâs voice is quiet, softening the unfathomably sudden weight of his words.
You quickly look at him. Heâs already staring back at you, eyes gentler than you think youâve ever seen them.
Thereâs a stillness you canât seem to break from holding you right where you are. You feel your eyes drift over Johnâs face. Youâve never been so close to him before. Never been able to get a proper look at his features. When heâs not being such a jerk, heâs actually pretty handsome. (Only when heâs not being a jerk, you have to specify to yourself, otherwise youâd have to admit that youâve always known heâs handsome.)
âThank you.â It comes breathless from you, without much thought. Youâre not sure what else you couldâve possibly said, anyway.
John nods, looking away, shoulders stiff. His lips press tight together, chin dimpling. You never noticed it did that before.
It goes on for too long; the stillness. You watching John. John watching his hands. Neither of you seem capable of moving, youâre sitting there for so long.
âWe should probablyââ
âYeah,â you confirm, thankful he was the one who decided to press play again. âProbably.â
And yet neither of you stand. The stillness continues, now with confirmation you definitely should be doing something else.
John sighs. Runs a hand over the back of his neck. You try not to notice the way his arms stretch out or the ridges of the veins flowing underneath the skin.
âJohnââ
You stop, as thatâs as far as your thoughts got before you started speaking.
He sighs again, heavier this time, expectant. It makes you feel like youâve made a mistake.
âIâm sorry.â You shake your head at yourself, backtracking. âI donât know whatââ
âItâs alright.â His hand shoots out to gently touch your shoulder, only for a moment, before he withdraws. âYouâre fine, itâs just⌠Iâmââ
âYeah, I know,â you say. You understand that youâre both thinking the same thing. âResident.â
Johnâs shoulders droop down with a puff as he says your name again quietly, more to himself, it seems.
âJohn, itâs okay. I shouldnât have⌠We should just get back to work.â
You stand up and go to start sifting through bins once more, but you feel a tug on your arm. Suddenly his warm fingers are wrapped around your wrist, thumb against your pulse point.
And then heâs pulling gently on your wrist, wordless. You follow his lead and inch your feet closer to him. It feels awkward, standing there while John stays crouched down on his feet below you, and it immediately feels even more awkward when he drops his forehead against your knee.
â⌠John?â
You stare, totally stunned, as he rolls his cheek over your leg with a groan. He starts shaking his head, like heâs answering a question heâd asked himself in his mind.
âI shouldnât be doinâ this.â
âYouâre not doing anything, John,â you say, trying to sound comforting.
âArenât I?â He looks up at you, eyelashes casting a shadow over his iris. âAnd, please, stop that,â he adds, scrunching up his face.
âStop what?â
âCalling me that.â
âYour name?â
âYes.â
Huffing, you bend your knees and drop down to be at his eye-level. He watches closely as you do, every move you make tracked by his eyes.
âI like your name,â you say.
âNobody likes my name.â
âDo you just enjoy neutralizing everything I say or is there some sort of bet going on that Iâm not aware of?â
âI do notââ
You tip your head a little at him, eyebrows standing tall.
John presses his lips together. For a moment he stays that way, then in a sudden burst, he laughs softly and nods.
âI do, donât I?â
âOften.â
Youâre both smiling, and itâs almost possible for you to forget how you got to this point in the conversation in the first place. Almost.
It gets quiet suddenly. So very quiet. Both of your smiles start fizzle out, but your eyes remain locked on each other. The heat of the room becomes much more noticeable in the silence. You notice the thin sheen of sweat over Johnâs forehead, the way his hair sticks to it in thin, long spikes. His cheeks are pinker than usual.
âJohn,â you murmur. Suddenly, your eyes are focused on his lips.
âI told you to stop that,â is his response, a smile repositioning his lips ever-so subtly. âSeriously, I hate it.â
âJohn,â you repeat in the tone you know very well he hates. Youâre not sure what youâre trying to achieve now, but it is still fun nonetheless.
A huff blows out from his nose, but the smile remains, so you keep going. Or, at least, try to.
âJââ
You donât get the satisfaction of finishing his name. Before you can, your tongue is being held incapacitated by Johnâs lips. His hands are gripping your hips, and all youâre able to do is sink into it. Your legs go useless under you, body giving way. Johnâs chest cushions what would be your fall, his hands pulling you flush against him.
And then his lips are cruelly dragged away from yours. It causes a quiet whine to escape you. A whine which only slightly makes you want to die from embarrassment.
John whispers your name with a sigh. His head shakes, and he starts to say something, but you donât give him enough time to make any sense before youâre catching his lips back into a kiss to stop him from continuing. He doesnât complain about it at all, just tightens his hands over your hips and scoots a knee between your thighs.
âWe canât be doing this,â he tries.
You just hum, kissing, kissing, and kissing him some more between every attempt he makes to change your mindâmaybe to change his own mind, too.
âI shouldnâtââ
âPlease stop talking,â you manage to get out between kisses, firmly enough that you hope he understands this is an alternative measure to get your point across rather than to gently smack him like part of you wants to.
John grunts, squeezing your hips, and nods.
Smiling at his silent agreement, you sift your hands through his hair, down the back of his neck, nails scraping lightly over the skin above his collar as you trail all the way down to his shoulder blades. Youâre able to feel the muscles flexing across his back through his shirt.
You donât think about things you should; not the possible (and likely) repercussions there could be on both of your careers if this is to go on or the fact that this supply room has no lock, not the fact that youâre not actually supposed to like John according to your own strict set of personal rules. All youâre thinking about in this moment is the desire you have to find out what Johnâs skin feels like under these clothes.
So, you start tugging. Lifting Johnâs shirt out from under the waistband of his pants. The movement of your bodies makes it a little difficult, but you still manage to get it off quicker than you thought you would, and the second his chest is bare your hands glue themselves to it. His skin is softer than youâd thought itâd be. Covered in a layer of thin fuzz and not much else. As you skim your hands over his chest, he migrates his lips down your neck. Sliding his teeth over your skin. Suckling along the ridges that arenât hidden by your own scrubs.
He's getting handsier by the second. The grip he has on your hips is tightening, loosening, then tightening again even more. Teeth, scratching a little more with every pass over your neck.
Eventually, he seems to get frustrated with the barrier between his lips and your skin, and suddenly your shirt is being torn off of you and thrown to the corner of the room. Heâs back on you in an instant, too. Back to sucking on your skin, almost certainly leaving little red spots all over you, which should bother you, considering you are still at work and, given the circumstances, will look very suspicious once you leave this roomâbut it doesnât. At the present moment, all you want is to be marked up by John in every possible area, visible or not.
And heâs delivering on that desire just fine on his own, leaving marks all along your body; over your shoulders, down your neck and down your chest, reaching the plush skin available in two slivers above your bra cups. He seems to like it there especially. Spends plenty of time pressing his face into your chest, breathing you in.
âThought about this,â he then says, muffled into your skin. âThought about this a lot.â
You donât necessarily register the importance of this statement. Just nod and smile, pet the top of his hair. âMe too.â
He groans, sliding his hands up your back. His teeth graze the edge of your bra strap. You wonder, briefly, if heâd be able to undo the clasp with his teeth.
âWant you,â he murmurs suddenly, slightly crazed. âWant my girl.â
Oh.
Your own craze follows, hands grasping and gripping all over him in desperation. Your teeth find his ear, gently clamping down. A grunt punches out of him as his hands smack down over the curve of your ass, fingers digging into the plush skin through your pants.
âYes, Johnâfuck.â
You feel the shape of a smile against your breast. His breath his hot and heavy. The sensation of the sweat on his skin mixing with your own makes you shiver.
âMy baby,â he says, and you only now realize heâs been whispering to you this whole time. Rambling words that dilute themselves against your skin. âYouâre my baby. My girl. All mine, all mine.â
Shit. Youâve heard some of what the other ladies around the unit have had to say about John. Youâve known, at least in theory, that he has the notion of a reputation with women. But Jesus, you werenât expecting this. Not the rambling of a man deprived or the desperation in his touch. Youâll have to remember to wonder if heâs like this with every girl or if youâre getting special treatmentâsome other time though, as youâre plenty content focusing on the needy man devouring you in the present moment.
Before you know it, youâre on your back. You donât question how you got there; all that matters is that John is on top of you with his knee pressing up between your legs and his hands pinning you down to the floor. You moan into his mouth as he digs his knee against you just right, sending a wave of heat up your body.
âLike that?â He sounds eager. So desperate to please.
âYes, baby. Right there.â
âLike that,â he repeats, satisfied. In the midst of all of this depravity, you find yourself thinking that heâs kind of adorable.
One of his hands disappears, so you break away from where your lips are attached to his neck to search for it and return it to where it belongs on your body.
Youâre somewhat torn from this thought when you find it: pressing palm-down onto the tent in Johnâs pants in a rough rhythm. It works alright there, you suppose, listening to the quiet whimpers pouring from Johnâs throat as he grinds his hand down on himself.
âTouching yourself, baby?â
âMhm.â He licks his lips right up against your skin.
âYou gonna come?â
âNo⌠want you toâŚâ
You smile, kissing his nose. He shudders, shoulders tight. You feel it shoot down through him to where his knee is still pressing against you.
âThen make me come, baby.â
He lets out all of the air in his lungs, shoulders going loose, body nearly collapsing on top of you. His skin seems to be getting hotter by the minute.
It's only a few more moments before heâs slipping your pants off and tossing them out of sight. His hands hitch up your thighs and then heâs there, lapping at your wet slit and pressing his nose against your clit.
He doesnât disappoint you. Not one bit. It seems that his⌠knowledge⌠of the female anatomy does him well in many aspects of life. He knows just where to suck. Where to gently slide his tongue against to make your back arch off the floor.
You donât know how long heâs on you forâonly that by the time he finally drags himself away youâve come at least twice and your legs feel weak. He pants against the inside of your leg, face damp, kissing you between heavy breaths. His fingers stroke over the tops of your thighs, gentle circles, easing you down from your orgasm.
âSâokay baby,â he coos. His lips come down to press a kiss to your stomach, the side of his face coming soon after to rest on you. You feel his body relaxing, so you find the top of his head and gently brush your fingers through his hair. He sighs, the corners of his mouth curling up. You never thought youâd be able to know when heâs smiling just through the sensation of it.
You lie there together, just long enough to catch your breaths and to cool offâhard to do in the room now steaming with the additional heat of your bodies. You donât feel compelled to speak, and he seems to feel the same. Things remain quiet, nothing but the sound of your shared breathing filling the space.
The eventual process of getting your clothes back on is⌠interesting. Itâs not silent. Not very verbal either, though. You both take turns bumping your shoulders against each other, snickering when fabric wonât go smoothly over a head or a button wonât poke through a hole. It feels light; the weight of your fake-distain for one another has lifted and youâre now free to enjoy each otherâs presence. Despite this, neither of you will actually talk. Really talk. No actual words pass between you until youâre both dressed and standing next to each other awkwardly, looking around the small room, looking at the work you still need to get done.
For some reason, itâs then that it finally occurs to you that this truly had nothing to do with inventory.
âYou donât think that Susanââ
âProbably,â he replies before you can finish, looking up from where heâs been staring at his feet.
You sigh, place your hands on your hips, and drop your chin. For a moment you think about what to do now, then try: âDo you think we shouldââ
âFinish?â
âYeah.â
âYeah, probably.â He nods. âSheâll send us right in again if we go back with unfinished paperwork.â
âProbably,â you say, but add: âWouldnât be the worst thing, though.â
Both of you smile at each other simultaneously.
âNo, it wouldnât be.â
âBut we have work to do,â you say solemnly, a faux frown tugging on your lips.
âBut⌠we have work to do,â he repeats, his smile weakening. âRight.â
âSo we should get to it, then.â
âYeah. We should.â
The smile he returns in response to your own makes it easier to be unsurprised when it takes another hour before youâve finished taking the inventory, and another thirty minutes before you both emerge from the closetâmessy hair, hickeys, and all.
The looks you both get once you return to the unit tell you there are likely to be several bets coming to an end today. You canât bring yourself to pay it much mind; you just care about the piece of paper folded up in your pocket with an address written messily in blue ink.