Turn the Other Cheek

By Chris Owen

Chapter One

"Now, you can't tell me that you've never heard this before." Will turned the music up a little and danced around the room toward the couch, wiggling his way around the edge of the coffee table. The latin beat seemed to rest right in his hip bones, every movement extending out from there and making his body sway.

Mal was enchanted. "Sure." He reached for Will's hand and tugged him down on top of Mal's body. Dancing lying down was even nicer than watching Will put on a private show. "I've heard it. You had it on last time I was here, when we were making supper."

"Very good." Will marked his approval with a kiss, and then another.

Mallory and Will were at the start of two days off from their jobs as firefighters for the city of Ottawa, and they were making the most of it. They'd already taken a run along the Rideau Canal, had a huge breakfast out at their favorite diner, and they had plans that night to go to a movie with a couple of guys they worked with. Between breakfast and the movie there were hours to fill up with chores, napping and maybe a little dancing.

"It was memorable," Mal told him. He smiled, his hands going to Will's ass and guiding him in a semblance of a dance. It was difficult to get it just right, lying down as they were, but he thought Will got the point. "I like dancing in your kitchen. Better than anywhere else, I think."

Will laughed at him and wiggled. The mock-dancing turned into grinding and rubbing, which was what they both were after. "Better than in a bar like Cleo's where we have a dance floor and space to move?"

"We can't get naked at Cleo's." That was all too true. They'd never tried to mess around there, hadn't slipped into the bathroom to make out a little -- that was kid shit, in Mallory's mind. Aside from the entire potential for arrest and the humiliation of being in the newspaper for being in a sex scandal, there was the sheer semantics of it. They couldn't get naked at Cleo's. There just wasn't room for the kind of things that happened when Mal and Will danced and then got busy.

They were big men. They were rangy, and tall, and fire fighters. They were used to spreading out and taking over a space, and they were still at the stage in their relationship where things were being broken when they started messing around. Glasses on tables that got bumped as they stumbled toward bedrooms, chairs that fell over when one of them was pushing the other down over a table, stuff that got swept off counters.

The bill for messing around at Cleo's would take most of Mal's paycheck, he was sure. Plus, various people would kill them. Will's whole family, Mal's ex-girlfriend, Dave. It would be messy.

"Hello in there," Will whispered. "Where did you go?"

Mallory blinked. "Uh." He felt his face heat up as he blushed. "Sorry. I was adding up the bar bill for fucking around at Cleo's. You know. Broken glasses, bail, loss of income, Trish's wrath."

Will stared at him for a moment and then started to laugh. He laughed so hard he rested his head on Mallory's chest and shook, unable to speak in full sentences, just a few words here and there. They were good words, though: "weird", "bizarre", "strange", "crack me up", and "never boring".

Mallory rolled his eyes and let Will laugh. "Can we concentrate on the fucking around part?" he asked, his hands once more squeezing at Will's butt. "Come on, babe."

"Sure, sure." Will actually wiped his eyes and couldn't kiss him because Will's smile wouldn't go away long enough. "Sorry."

"Laugh it up." Mallory couldn't help smiling back. "Hey, you can laugh and I'll suck you off, how's that?"

Will scrambled off him and landed at the other end of the couch, his fingers untying the string of his gym pants. "With ya." He shoved them down off his hips and smiled proudly. "Ready and willing."

Mal could see that. He licked his lips and approached, sliding off the couch and to his knees, pushing one of Will's knees to the side. "I don't hear laughing."

"Well, no. I think the offer of blow jobs kind of disrupts the humor center in my brain."

Mallory looked up into Will's face. "And you say I'm the weird one."

"You were adding up the bill for collateral damage in a hypothetical sexual situation while you were in an actual sexual situation. That's weird."

Mal couldn't really argue with that. "You're perpetuating the discussion while I have my hand on your cock," he pointed out in self-defense.

"Point taken. Please continue." Will grinned at him and pointed to the cock under discussion. "See?"

It was hard to miss; it was one of Mal's favorite pricks of all time. Sleek and straight, long and wide, dark and smooth, Will had a gorgeous cock. Mal took a moment to study it and then, just as Will was taking a breath -- likely to tell Mal to get on with it for God's sake -- Mal licked. Just at the head and then down to under the crown.

"You're teasing," Will pointed out. His thighs were tensing and relaxing, the waistband of his gym pants moving and becoming taut as his legs shifted.

"Of course. We have hours."

Will laughed softly. "All right, then. One slow, leisurely blow job it is. Followed by...?"

"A nice slow fuck." Mal licked him again, inhaling the heady scent of Will's body.

"Nice." Will's voice dropped to a whisper and his cock flexed a bit. "I like your plan." His fingers carded lightly through Mal's hair. "I like you."

Mal looked up at him and rolled his eyes. "Don't be going all mushy on me."

"You like it when I get mushy." Will smiled down at him and touched his cheek. "I like you lots. Sweetheart."

Mal's blush came back and he busied himself with Will's prick, taking it in and sucking lightly. He did like it when Will talked like that, but it always made the sex more intense and harder to control. He spent a lot of time avoiding thinking about that. If he thought about it, he might figure out why the sweetness lent itself to intensity, and he wasn't sure he was ready to go there quite yet.

Will's phone started ringing and Will groaned. "Don't stop," he said, his hand in Mal's hair again. "Ignore it."

Mal nodded, his head bobbing over Will's lap, Will's cock sliding in and out of his mouth. He loved the way Will filled him, stretched his lips; sucking Will off never failed to get Mallory's engine revved up. He lifted up long enough to ask, "Is it work?"

"Yeah. Ignore it. Not going in today."

Mal snorted softly and went back to sucking cock. They were on a forty-eight. He wasn't going in. Will wasn't going in. The phone rang four times and then fell silent as Will's voice mail kicked in. With a sigh of relief as the distraction faded away, Mal took Will in all the way and pressed his tongue everywhere he could reach.

"Oh, man." Will's hips shifted and he thrust slowly, working with Mal. His breath was catching and his hand was moving restlessly, touching Mal's face and hair. "Yes. Just like that."

Mal could do just like that. It was a nice, easy pace, and he could touch with his hands, his mouth happy enough with the way things were going. His own erection was happy, too, distending his track pants and rubbing ever so slightly whenever he shifted. It was nice, a low grade hum in his spine. Maybe this time they could get off without exploding everywhere and moving frantically.

On the coffee table, Mal's cell phone began to ring.

"Oh, for the love of--" Will broke off just as Mal licked a particularly sensitive spot. "Oh."

"Ignore it," Mal ordered, his words mangled by the mouthful of Will's dick.

"I can't -- your ringtone is Put Out the Fire and it's killing me."

It was, too. Noticeably.

"You don't like Queen?" Mal asked incredulously as he leaned back and scooped up his phone. He glared at it viciously. "This better be fucking important." He flipped the phone open and snarled, "Mallory."

There was a brief pause and Dave sighed. "Don't be pissy, Mal. Please. I know I didn't wake you up. I need someone to come in."

"What are you still doing there?" Mal asked, sitting down on the floor and leaning against the couch. Dave was usually on the same shift as Mal and Will, so he should have been long gone. "Call someone from A shift."

"I'm covering for Barry as it is, A is all filled up. C relief can't come in early and I can't find anyone to--" There was a pause and horrible retching noises.

Mal pulled the phone away from his ear and made a face. "Oh, gross."

"What's up?" Will was already putting his cock away and tugging his pants back on.

"Dave's puking." He sighed. "I'll go in. It's only a day. Tell you what, I'll meet you back here tomorrow morning and we can make a plan for the overtime pay."

Will nodded, not looking overly thrilled. "I'll miss you at the movie."

Mal listened to his phone but only got more of Dave's horrible sounds. "Me, too," he said to Will, risking a fast kiss as he waited for Dave to come back.

"Have you got your key?"

Mal stood up, nodding. He couldn't help smiling as well, his hand automatically going to his pocket to make sure he hadn't lost it. "Yep. Hey, Dave? I'm coming in."

Dave groaned something and hung up on him, so Mallory put his phone in his pocket and reached for Will. One more kiss, a whispered promise for later, and he headed out. He'd have to go to his place to get his stuff before he went to the station, but by the sounds of it, Dave would still be exactly where he was when Mal got there.  

 

Turn the Other Cheek is available at Torquere Press on the Turn of the Screw serial service, starting in June 2009