Criminally hot 🔥 I had to write a drabble. This is set in my modern AU where they're postgrad students and best friends with benefits already in love with each other but scared to confess it.
Exam papers flutter on the desk of Gale's supervisor as the fragrant spring breeze swirls in through the open window. The Astrophysics department's small office smells like old bookshelves, leather and coffee, more comforting than the Business School's sterile ultramodern building. But John isn't here to examine the decor - he came to entertain Gale because he thought it was unfair that he had to be holed up inside, grading papers when the weather was so nice.
That, and because John wanted to kiss him.
It's all he can think about lately. His best friend's lips, their plump cushion under his own, the taste of them, soft skin between John's teeth. Given their amazing, perfect, completely causal agreement that they'd help each other out quick and easy if needed, he didn’t have any hangups about it. But he did think it would be weird to just ask to make out without an end goal, so he pretended to be horny as an excuse, even though he wasn't.
He just didn't count on Gale being the one who'd be too turned on to resist a quickie right where they could be caught anytime.
"Jesus Christ, Buck." John hisses in the rolling chair of Gale's supervisor, his hips twitching to thrust into Gale's hand. In the grip of Gale's pale fingers, he throbs with hot need, Gale's spit slicking his length to make the friction just right as Gale strokes him. "Warn a guy next time."
"Warn?" Gale asks, lust low in his voice. He’s kneeling between John's spread legs, halfway under the desk. With his free hand, he tugs John's trousers and boxers down to bare his thighs completely.
"We started this whole thing because you said it would be convenient. That we could have each other anytime, no strings attached." He presses his lips to John's right thigh and bites down gently, his teeth digging into John's muscle. "I want you now."
"Fuck." John breathes out, gripping the armrests. He needs to swallow the moans already pressing at his throat, the guttural, helpless noises he tends to make in Gale's bedroom, because they're one curious professor away from scandal. "Can we close the window at least?"
"Nah." Gale nuzzles his thigh again, the corner of his lips curling into a smile. "I know you'll be a good boy, John."
John throws his head back against the headrest. "I'm really not."
He feels the huff of Gale's laugh on his leg. "Yes, you are." Gale sucks on a strip of John's skin noisily until it colours pink, sensitive. His expression is pure bliss. "My good boy."
A surprised whimper escapes John's throat. "What?"
Gale freezes for a moment, as if caught, but he goes back to rubbing and kissing John's thigh a second later. "Nothing."
"I don’t know what came over you." John mumbles breathlessly, slouching in the chair to give Gale better access to his cock, to chase Gale's teasing hand. His own fingers find their way to Gale's blond hair and tug as Gale leaves a hard bite on the meat of his thigh to mirror his work on the other side.
When Gale bats his right hand away, he puts the left on Gale's head instead. Gale gives him an exasperated look, then sits back on his haunches to get away from his demanding touch. His eyes roam over John's body lazily, his fist still moving up and down.
"You didn't sit like that on purpose?"
"Hm." John hums, pushing into Gale's hand. The chair rolls back a little, so he tightens the cradle of his legs around Gale's torso to stay in place. "Like what?"
"Like you wanted your dick sucked."
John closes his eyes as a wave of heat rolls down from the top of his head to his toes. "You have an oral fixation, I swear."
"Uh-huh." Gale just hums, his entire focus on John's cock now. He strokes his left hand over the bruises he sucked into the meat of John's right thigh, then he cups John's balls.
"Ah, fuck. You don’t even deny it."
Gale looks up at him from under his lashes as he leans forward. His body warm between John's thighs, his lips glistening.
"Why deny it?" He shrugs and kisses the tip of John's cock. Closing his eyes, he runs his pink tongue up the underside of it to the head, catching the drops of moisture beading there slowly from the torturous pleasure he inflicts on John's body. When John grunts, Gale looks at him again. There’s a playful glint in his eyes. "Be a good boy now, Bucky."
John puts his right hand back on Gale's head and presses his left fist to his mouth as hot, warm suction slides down his length and pulls his pleasure right out of his soul. Shadows pass behind the opaque glass of the door opposite him, people walking down the corridor. The star charts on the walls mirror the stars he sees behind his eyes as Gale sucks him leisurely, without a care in the world. No one walks into Astrophysics at four p.m. on a Friday, right? John prays, and squeezes his eyes shut against the pleasure as he thrusts into Gale's mouth.
He's gonna cancel his plans of going out and take Gale home again tonight.
Another fluffy hs au question 🤭 do you think Gale uses emojis when he texts John? Does he even text at all? What about Bucky? 😁
Thank you so much, I love these fluffy questions! 🥰
They text each other constantly. Bucky sends Gale a lot of tiktoks and memes, and quite often, Gale doesn’t react to them at all, but he’ll reference them in a random in-person conversation the next day and Bucky will cackle like a hyena. No one else understands what's so goddamn funny. They have so many inside jokes that it's like their own language - this is what they're doing in the short drabble I wrote, Lunch Break.
Bucky's texting is erratic - sometimes, there's correct punctuation, other times, even the spelling is atrocious. It’s like, he’s capable of doing it but doesn’t bother. He always texts in short lines though.
Gale, on the other hand, always writes things down properly, but the length of his texts varies. It’s either a one-word reply from him or a block of literature. The latter is one of three things: a science-related topic, a rant about his parents or a love letter. He finds it easier to write some of his stronger feelings down than to say them, and not seeing Bucky's face and being alone while he’s typing the text bring a lot of thoughts out of him.
Bucky struggles to reply to the love letters. He feels utterly inadequate at phrasing things the way he feels them, so sometimes he just says "same bb" or he calls Gale. But it's hard because Gale doesn’t want to say things and gets embarrassed so the call is just as imbalanced as the text conversation.
Gale rarely uses emojis, but Bucky uses a lot. A lot. Eventually, it rubs off on Gale somewhat and he starts using a few. Bucky takes a screenshot the first time Gale sends him a ❤️.
Bucky tries to sext Gale sometimes but fails to get him to play along. Then, other times, Gale completely KO's him by casually dropping some sort of innuendo or just simply reminding him of a hot memory and then dipping.
Today in the eighteenth slot you'll find a fic rec by @carnevol and a moodboard and a drabble by @onyxsboxes
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Day 18 Fic Rec
Love means nothing (in tennis) by phlegmatic @irregularcollapse [Explicit - Modern AU - Gale "Buck" Cleven/John "Bucky" Egan - In progress 4/20 - 24,8k]
Gale meets John Egan at a Challenger in Bordeaux when they're both 19 years old. After that, he can't seem to shake him. But what's more is, despite what his dad says about Gale's game, and what the commentators say about their rivalry, and what he's been told about tennis his whole life, Gale doesn't think he wants to.
Sympathy for the devil by Hart @blixabargelds [Explicit - AU, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Modern AU - Gale "Buck" Cleven/John "Bucky" Egan - In progress 1/? - 6,8k]
John and Gale are the hosts of once-popular, now-failing ghost hunting show 100 Haunts. They do not believe in ghosts. All these shows are fake; with scripted, doctored footage. But when they're asked to return to a previous location, their second shoot there captures more and more horrors they can't explain.
@carnevol rec: Only one chapter is up now but the writing is phenomenal! The level of details is amazing it had me on the edge of my seat
Awww so cute hahaha! 🥰 Bucky would melt. He just wants to cuddle them both on the spot and kiss Gale's cold cheeks. Meanwhile, Gale is already thinking about practical matters, like getting cat food and a litterbox. I also know for a fact that Bucky would take it without complaint if the kitten kneaded him or played with him a bit too roughly and left scratches.
So I’m gonna have to read Reverie again to be able to leave a coherent comment 😆 but I do have a question. Doesn’t it drive John insane that Gale still keeps things from him after all these years? I don’t want to write any spoilers here but Gale kept his feelings and his problems deep down and I understand that sweet Gale was trying to spare John (since he already has his own mental issues) but I guess I’d have still been mad if I were him finding out later the kind of shit Gale was going through all alone. But maybe John just accepts that this is the way Gale is? Every chapter leaves me thinking about your boys for days after I love it so much. 💓
Hi dear, what a great question! ❤️ This drives Bucky absolutely mad, but he also understands that this is a part of Gale. It’s possibly Gale's biggest shortcoming, this stubborn idea that he should shoulder his problems alone and not burden anyone else with them. It’s an ongoing issue through the entire story.
It stems from the fact that Gale never had anyone to rely on, even got told sometimes by his parents that he should not bother them, and then of course he even carried some of their responsibilities / problems in addition to his own. This is deeply ingrained in his personality and being in an extremely stressful situation in the stalag just makes it worse. This is why Bucky says "the doors are closing" even when they're awake.
The reason why Bucky doesn’t make a bigger fuss in this chapter is because his own mental health is at rock bottom, he’s severely depressed. So basically, he just takes it in stride.
In the long-term, after the war, I think they would have some serious fights about this.
