Clear Water (30 page)
“Oh, God. Whiskey, can’t last… Christ, I’m gonna—
oh holy fuck!
”
Because that other stuff just sounded like a promise, and Whiskey was on his knees, stripping off those really sexy, clingy yoga pants and pulling Patrick, hard and sweet, into his mouth without preamble. He wanted
everything,
Patrick’s taste, his smell, his flesh, his come,
everything
as far deep inside him as he could get it. Patrick’s hands tightened painfully in his hair, and his hips, slender and tight with muscle, bucked in his hands. Patrick let out a yell they could probably hear at the next house, which was two acres away, and thrust himself into the back of Whiskey’s throat and dumped come as Whiskey swallowed without hesitation, the taste, the feel, the power almost making him come all on their own.
Patrick leaned back against the wall, panting, and then made feeble pulling motions at Whiskey’s shoulders while he made attempts at words. “Fuck. Whiskey. Jesus. My dad gets home in ten minutes.”
Not even that could kill Whiskey’s hard-on. He stood up, pulling Patrick’s magical stretchy pants up with him, and leaned his forehead against Patrick’s, liking that even though he was independent and smart and strong now, Patrick was still shorter than he was and Whiskey had the illusion of being able to protect him. “You’ve got a room, right?” His tongue still tasted like Patrick’s spend, and Whiskey kept rubbing it on his palate because he liked it.
“Yes. Kiss me first.”
“We might not make it to… mmmfff….” Because Patrick took over the kiss this time, and somehow, stumbling, kissing, fumbling, groping, laughing, they managed to make it up the stairs to Patrick’s room. About halfway up, Patrick started kissing down his jaw, and Whiskey turned around and sat down, hard, on the stair beneath his ass. Patrick kept kissing, made it to his neck, and Whiskey groaned.
“Do you really want your dad to get home—”
pant
“—and find you blowing me on the stairs?”
“Fuck! Get up, old man, and get your ass to my room before my father gets home!”
To give him impetus, Patrick grabbed his cock through his jeans, and Whiskey had to grab his hand and groan, or he would have come right there.
“Jesus, Patrick, these are the only clothes I’ve got!” Because the stuff he’d brought from the ship was on its last legs.
Patrick had mercy on him, and they scrambled, kicking off shoes and socks and losing Whiskey’s belt on the top landing and his shirt right in front of Patrick’s room and his pants right when the door slammed shut behind him. But then he was naked and Patrick was naked, and they were writhing on the bed, skin to glorious skin, and their mouths never moved, never parted, never stopped.
Whiskey ground against the crease of Patrick’s thigh once, twice, and he came a little, the hot slickness making it easier to grind. He groaned in Patrick’s mouth and Patrick groaned back, moving the hand that he’d put on Whiskey’s shoulder down between them. He took Whiskey’s cock in his long-fingered hand and squeezed, stroked, squeezed again, and this time Whiskey had to stop kissing long enough to watch stars explode behind his eyes and come completely, hard and hot in Patrick’s hand. Patrick kept his hand there while Whiskey rocked against him convulsively, milking out the last of the aftershocks, before he shuddered one more time and they lay, still and gasping, in the queen-sized bed.
The bed had been rumpled when they’d gotten in, and now Whiskey reached down to the bottom and pulled up the comforter, because it was forty degrees in the steel-gray February outside, and he wanted Patrick up against him in a cocoon of warm.
Patrick wiped his hand off on the inside of his sheet. “God, we barely made it,” he muttered. “That was fucking close.”
“Hey, what’s being naked in front of your dad once or twice. Except, you know, we’d probably never fuck again.”
Patrick snickered into his shoulder and then raised his face and kissed Whiskey warmly on the cheek. “I’m not done with the houseboat, you know.”
Whiskey turned his head and caught him on the lips this time. “I don’t care.”
“I mean, it’s not livable,” Patrick said, pulling back with an effort.
Whiskey thought his lips looked too red and swollen not to kiss again. “I don’t care,” he whispered.
This pause was much, much longer, and Patrick pulled back and tried one last time. “It means we’re going to have to stay here with my dad for a month,” he gasped, and Whiskey captured his mouth and kissed him until he stopped trying to bother him with trivia.
“I’m staying the night,” he said when he was pretty sure Patrick wouldn’t argue.
Patrick looked at him with those lake-blue eyes glazed and his pouty lips swollen and his slightly crooked front teeth showing in an appealingly dreamy smile. “Dad won’t mind,” Patrick murmured.
“Patrick?”
“Mmm?”
“Try not to mention your dad too often when we’re in bed, okay?”
“Gotcha. My blood test was clear. I bought lube. We can fuck now.”
Whiskey laughed a little, surprised when his cock gave a vicious, wholly awake and still horny kind of throb. “You think?” he taunted. “I’m an old man. I might need some encouragemmff—”
Because Patrick had dodged under the fluffy comforter and taken his cock into that sweet, wide, swollen mouth. He was enthusiastic about this now—he hadn’t been when they’d started, but now, he rolled Whiskey’s cock around on his palate and swallowed the head when it was in the back of his throat and tickled the length with the fine edge of careful teeth until Whiskey’s vision went a little dark.
“Patrick—I’m not gonna last!” he begged, and Patrick came up from under the covers, his lips glazed with spit and pre-come, a wicked, joyous smile on his face.
“I thought being old gave you stamina!”
“Says who? Being old means if you don’t get your ass stretched and sit on me, I’ll come early and we’ll be watching TV when your old man gets home!”
Patrick grabbed the lube from the dresser, snicked open the lid, and dumped some on his hand. His hand disappeared behind him, and he started wriggling, making “mm-mm” sounds as he squirmed against Whiskey’s body. “’S’long as it’s porn,” he moaned, and Whiskey scooted away and took charge.
“Here.” He took Patrick’s hand, glistening and stretching his asshole without gentleness, and pulled it away. “My turn.”
There was more than enough lube there for him to use his own fingers, and
he
moved slowly. Patrick was on his hands and knees in front of him, whimpering shamelessly into the pillow, his body dilated, his cock and balls hanging heavily below him, and Whiskey thought it was a good thing he’d climaxed once already, because if he’d seen a picture of that on the ship, he would have creamed in his pants, no touching required.
“God, I hope you’re ready,” he rasped, and Patrick wiggled his ass and whimpered some more, and Whiskey watched in wonder as his cock slid slowly inside that warm, slick, hot orifice and then pounded home.
Patrick grunted and then started issuing orders. “Fast, hard, now!”
And Whiskey was helpless, like he’d always been helpless, and he complied, letting out a battle cry and plunging into the melee with all the formidable force at his command.
Patrick pulled three times on his slender, graceful cock and surrendered, groaning loudly enough to shake the bed, and Whiskey wasn’t far behind. He collapsed on top, mashing Patrick flat, and then stayed there, burying his face in the back of Patrick’s neck and shuddering, trying to keep the brightness in his eyes from spilling over.
“God, I love you. It’s like fever. This isn’t enough. It’ll never be enough. Jesus, tell me you’ll move into my shitty little houseboat and never leave.”
Patrick made a helpless grunt. “It’s a rock awesome houseboat, and you’ll have to kick me out. Now go hit the shower, I have to call in sick for work.”
Whiskey should have argued. He should have insisted that Patrick go to work like a good little boy, but he didn’t. Patrick was grown, and his work loved him, and if he was going to take a little Whiskey time off, well then it was no worse than Whiskey running the fuck away from his dream job with three days’ notice.
The hot water in the big-assed white shower felt good on his skin, but it felt even better when Patrick stepped in the beige-tiled space with soap and a cloth and spent a giddying ten or so minutes soaping him up and then letting him soap Patrick up and then turning off the water and sinking to his knees in the shower and worshipping Whiskey’s body until he came one more damned time.
“God,” Whiskey panted, rubbing Patrick’s sopping wet, blond-brown-in-the-winter-too hair. “They’re gonna need to give me an IV when I’m asleep, just to keep up.”
He offered his hand and helped Patrick up, and Patrick plastered himself against Whiskey’s front, ignoring the clamminess of their bodies in the cooling shower. “I came while I was blowing you. Take five. You’re off the hook.”
They laughed for a few minutes and then found big, fluffy white towels and wrapped up and dried off, and Patrick gave him some sweats that didn’t fit and one of his dad’s T-shirts that sort of fit, and then ran downstairs and came up with some pizza that had miraculously been dropped off.
“My dad’s downstairs,” Patrick explained while Whiskey took a too-big bite of rich-people’s-delivery pizza. Whiskey tried not to choke on the bite, and Patrick explained without guile, “He saw the rental, and I guess just figured we’d want to be left alone. He said come out when you’re ready, and we can spend the weekend finishing up the boat.” Patrick took a bite and chewed and swallowed. “But I think it’ll take longer than that, even with the three of us.” He looked up anxiously. “You up for that?”
Whiskey didn’t even need to think about it. Patrick may have been a lot of things—insatiable, rabbit-minded, perfectly odd and oddly perfect, but he was not, as far as Whiskey could see, broken. Not this time.
“Yeah. I think me and your old man could co-exist for a while. I gotta find a job anyway—easier to do when you’re not tripping over the home improvements. You sure he’s crazy about having your boyfriend living in your bedroom?”
Patrick smiled, obviously relieved. “He likes you. It sort of freaks me out, but, yanno, I’ll take what I can get. But….” He hesitated, took another bite of pizza, looked nervous.
“But what?”
“You think we could, you know. Visit him? On weekends? He’s turned into sort of a human being lately, because he came home and did shit with me after work. I’d hate to think that would go away.”
Whiskey nodded, and then smiled, and then laughed.
“What?”
He shook his head. “I’m just home, that’s all.”
And it was true. The houseboat would come; their place on a small berth would come. He’d get a chance to see Patrick’s improvements, the uneven places in the paint where Patrick had gotten distracted and moved onto another task and then come back with another shade of ecru. He’d help install the heater, the three different (and somehow complimentary) shades of blue, green, and gold carpet, and the bed that was almost bigger than the berth, and the other berth that was almost all clothes and things they’d need. He’d see the honest-to-God couch (again, those bright, surprisingly complimentary colors) and the raw wood paneling and the kitchen with the nice counters and matching plates and the crisp coat of paint and brushed brass fittings. He’d see the fanciful name panted on the stern, the “American Bullfrog,” and he’d laugh.
But the boat was the least of the things that he was talking about that first day on Patrick’s bed. What he was talking about was all of it—Fly Bait and Loretta for Christmas, someone’s father to visit and make feel better—people. People, and a place, and belonging.
And, most of all, Patrick, who made a home in Whiskey’s heart wherever they ended up together, as long as it really was them, together. Home.
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