This didn’t have to feel different. He didn’t have to let it. It would’ve been easy to pretend, to lull himself into a false sense of security with the fiction that tonight was like any other night, that it wasn’t the beginning of something new and terrifying, uncharted territory he thought he was content leaving unexplored. He could pretend that it was just a job, clear-cut and uncomplicated as the first time they fucked, that Noah could leave him feeling like he was cut open, secreting poison from the well of anger inside of him, deeper than he had ever imagined, but that it would be okay, because in the morning he’d be gone. He’d be putting it all under wraps again, burying down deep, black and festering hurt that he tried to never let see the light of day.
He was practiced at self-delusion, he could do it easily. Could lose himself in the feel of Noah’s mouth, the push and pull of their bodies against each other - could ignore the way that it had already begun to feel familiar and, more than that, craved. But it was, Parker’s lust for Noah warped and twisted and specific, because Noah had someone become more than just a warm, willing, and paying body to fuck, more than just a conduit for anger he’d never owned up to. He’d become someone real, someone that Parker wanted more of, more glimmers of his vulnerabilities, of truths given out so rarely, the catalog of his hurts that had made him this way, had shaped and whetted him into sharp and cutting angles, a blade that anyone would cut themselves on if they tried to hold onto. A blade that Parker was grasping with both hands.
Maybe, ultimately, someone that Parker saw hints of himself in. Of the basest and most reactive parts of him, concealed under bravado made of smiles and humor, of evasions and lies, a whore’s false confidence. Because Noah was hurt, Noah was snarling, Noah was angry - and parts of Parker were to, parts that clamored for recognition. And they were both scared, he could see that too, could see it in the way that they’d agreed to this in the first place - wild eyes and short breath and grips tight enough to bruise. Outside of the constant sparking and thrumming of their physical connection, nothing was easy with them, because they were too caustic, too secretive, too afraid of connection for this to be simple, for it to go smoothly. It had been a battle to get here, because Parker had started by trying to push Noah away, a panicked reaction to Noah getting too close, to seeing or wanting too much, and had ended up pulling him back instead. And maybe Noah was braver than he was, or maybe just more used to asking for and getting what he wanted, because while he’d been willing to walk away from Parker, to storm off when Parker had snapped, feral and defensive, that Noah was nothing more to him than his money could pay for, he’d also been willing to ask for this - to want Parker, to want him here, to want him close. To have him, and to try something that was maybe doomed to fail, to implode in on itself.
He didn’t have to think about it now, but it was hard not to. Because he had a key and his belongings in the bedroom down the hall, waiting for him to unpack, to settle in and slot his things in alongside Noah’s like they belonged there, like Parker belonged there. Because no matter who else he might sleep with, who might hire him, he’d be coming back to Noah afterwards, because Noah was now something constant in his life, because he had chosen this and wanted him there. And it all coalesced into a pit in his stomach, twisting and gnawing, telling him that while he didn’t think it was a mistake now, that could change so rapidly. And he’d given up some measure of his defenses, so that realization would come too late, would come after he’d been hurt - because Noah was close enough to strike out hard and fast and immediately, close enough that Parker didn’t have a hope of defending himself against him, against pain accidental or intended, or against Noah worming his way deeper.
"And here I thought foreplay was for old fuckers who took forever to get it up." There’s a breathless edge to his banter, alcohol and arousal and the unknown, fingers twisting in Noah’s hair again, smirking as he bucked the petulant and wordless admonishment of Noah batting his hand away, twisting and tugging at the dark and unruly strands as he encouraged Noah forward, smirk fading and giving way to a stuttered out groan as Noah swallowed him down.
Hand in Noah’s hair, he guided him backwards as he shuffled closer, moving with a modicum of composure and grace, drunk as he was, knees threatening to buckle with the heat and suction of Noah’s mouth, greedy and consuming, nothing held back. His knees hit the mattress, caging in Noah’s torso as he walked them upwards, pushing Noah back until his shoulder blades hit the mattress, Parker’s knees on either side of his shoulders, hand wrapped around the base of his skull to fuck into Noah’s mouth, the hot and eager swallow of him, the combination alcohol and heady arousal making him freer with his words and reactions, babbled out strings of curses and hitching breaths, “Jesus, fuck - your mouth.”