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Laughing Lady ([personal profile] nilchance) wrote2006-11-13 08:53 pm
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FIC: Damned If I'm to Wake

Title: Damned If I'm to Wake
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: CMM/OMC, JA/JP
Disclaimer: Never happened. Nothing is assumed.
A/N: Sunk. This takes place in [livejournal.com profile] beanside's CMM/JDM universe, and fits in between Eight Easy Steps and Kept Me Small. Previous parts can be found here.



Fingernails dug into the back of Chad's neck, gripping, steering, ruthless. He closed his eyes and red stars beat behind them, in time with the hard drive between his lips and against the back of his throat. The cheap metal of the bathroom stall hummed beneath his hands, the bass of the music turned up so high Chad felt his bones vibrate. The music wasn't loud enough to drown out the appreciative groaning above him.

Chad grabbed at the guy's thighs, pressing his fingers deep against the muscle. Couldn't tell him to shut up with his mouth full, but damn, he wanted to. He wanted to beat the jackoff's fucking face in, his stupid perfect teeth and his 'hey baby' pickup lines and his smooth pretty hands.

The guy glanced down, mouth twisting, and grabbed Chad by the hair. "Don't look at me," he growled. "Keep going."

Impossibly, the guy shoved deeper into Chad's throat. He swallowed hard, trying not to bite or gag. It was messy and wet, but it wasn't about technique. It wasn't about anything but skin and contact and five minutes in a bathroom. It wasn't about-

"That's good, boy." Jeff's hand cupped the back of his neck, cradling, taking slow and relentless. His nails scraped lightly, deeper when Chad shuddered. "You're going to stay right there. Let me use that pretty damn mouth of yours as long as I want- shh, no, you don't get to choose. You're mine. This," Jeff's hips rocked forward, and Chad felt it roll straight through him, "is mine."

- the spill of wetness in the back of his throat or the long, low noise the guy made.

Chad jerked back, coughing and spitting what he could into his hand. He'd swallowed some of it, and the thought made his stomach roll. "Son of a bitch," he rasped, looking up, "what the fuck ever happened to warning a guy, you stupid douche? Didn't teach that at fucking community college?"

Two things happened at once.

The bathroom door opened, with Chad on his knees holding a mouthful of fratboy and the guy's pants still open. Over the dizzying spill of music, Chad heard a startled bark of sound that sounded remarkably like Jared's fucking boyfriend, damn it.

The fratboy hauled off and backhanded Chad in the face, like the idiot thought he was watching a rerun of Cops. He hit like a pussy, but Chad hadn't been braced for it and was too drunk not to take it full-on. There was a hot, stinging line along Chad's cheekbone.

The bathroom door slammed shut. A minute later, the fratboy bounced off the door and rebounded once, pinned by Jensen's body. Jensen growled something too low for Chad to hear, even if he wasn't drunk and bitchslapped stupid on the floor. The fratboy leaned his head back to get away from Jensen's teeth, his eyes very wide.

"Got it?" Jensen asked, almost politely. When the fratboy didn't answer, Jensen leaned his elbow into the guy's stomach and raised his voice to be heard over the retching. "Answer me."

Fratboy wheezed a yes. Chad leaned his back against the wall, under the paper towel dispenser, and touched his cheek. His fingers came away red. Fuck, he'd had a class ring on. Ron was going to kill him.

With that disgusting golden-boy grace, Jensen pulled the fratboy off the door, spun him, shoved him out into the hall and slammed the door shut again. Then he turned, looking down at Chad. Chad didn't know what to call the look on Jensen's face, but he glanced away from it anyway.

There came the sound of the tap running. A minute later, Jensen was kneeling in front of him, pressing a wet paper towel to Chad's face.

Chad hissed through his teeth, wrenching away from the touch. His voice was worn and thin. "Get off me."

"Shut up," Jensen said sharply. Gripping Chad by the chin, he wiped hard at the cut. "You want to commit career suicide? Fine. Do it on your own time, not mine."

"I'm not trying to-"

"Then congratulations, you're a natural. Next time, lock the fucking door." Taking his hand back, Jensen dropped the soggy, bloody towel on his lap. "Clean yourself up."

Chad took the towel and worked clean his hands, his throat, his arms. He didn't feel any cleaner once he'd thrown the towel away. His throat hurt suddenly, like it hadn't while the guy was shoving against him.

Jensen watched, kneeling too close, his mouth a hard line. Chad shifted deliberately away from him, feeling cold and washed out.

"You walked into the door," Jensen said finally, his voice low as gravel. "That's what I'm telling Jared."

"He won't believe you."

"Then you get to explain what happened." Jensen got up, dusted himself off and held his hand out. "Up."

Chad stared at him, choking all over again. Fucking Jensen and his perfect calm, his perfect relationship, his perfect timing, his perfect goddamn life. Fuck him for being so good for Jared, and fuck him for treating Chad like he was some one-eyed mangy stray that trailed after Jared and so had to be tolerated.

Fuck him, and fuck Jeff. Fuck all of this.

"Hey," Jensen said, an acid bite of sound. "Get off your ass, you petulant little bastard, or you can fucking walk home."

"I can drive."

"Good luck with that. Jared has your keys." Impatient, Jensen let his hand drop. "You're better than this Behind the Music bullshit, Chad. Get the hell up or I'm dragging you out and strapping you to the hood."

Chad snorted, suddenly too tired for this. Any of this. "You could just leave me here, asshole."

Jensen looked at him for a long moment before the corner of his mouth tilted up. "Nah. Jared would kill me." Bending a little, Jensen wrapped long fingers around Chad's forearm. His touch was warm and dry, competant, no arguments. "Now come on. I'm taking you home. We'll pick up your car tomorrow. I'll play Yanni at top volume and you can puke out the window. It'll be great."

Chad growled quietly, and let Jensen help him up.

*******
It turned out that Jensen meant 'home' as in his and Jared's, not the cheap rental Chad was living in until his house was safe for the dogs. It irked that Jensen apparently thought Chad was going to toss a hairdryer in the sink without supervision. He wanted his silence, another few drinks until he could sleep, the fake company of the television running all night. He wanted a shower and his toothbrush and maybe to kick a hole in the wall.

Jared's house was off the beaten path, quiet and still, with a huge yard. Light reflected watery patterns off the backyard pool. As they pulled up beside the house, Chad could hear the excited barking start up. He rubbed tiredly at his face and stumbled out of the car. Jared came out of nowhere, wrapping his arm around Chad's shoulders, steadying and solid and overwhelming. It wasn't until he had Jared there, radiating heat and the Christmas-spice warmth of his cologne, that Chad realized he was freezing.

Jensen was a shadow against the door, fumbling his keys and muttering to himself. Jared's breath brushed Chad's ear, his voice a low rumble. "So, that door had a class ring, huh?"

Chad shrugged, staring at the lights in their house.

Jared rubbed his big hand over Chad's head and said, too gently, "Dude, you're smarter than that. What's going on with you?"

Chad shrugged again, and bent to scratch Sadie's ears. "Nothing, Jare. Hi, baby, look at that pretty girl. Yeah, you know it, don't you?"

"Tool," Jared said, butting his head fondly against Chad's. "Be that way. C'mon in."

Getting inside Jared's house was a complicated relay of stepping over dogs and trying not to knock shit off randomly placed endtables. If Chad doubted that Jen was trying to kill him, that would've cemented it. Jared finally just grabbed him by the shoulders and steered him into the living room, where the couch was littered with scripts and Playstation controllers and remotes. Jared pushed him down, moved the stuff and shoved Chad unceremoniously over onto his side. Then he knelt and started working on Chad's shoes.

Chad squinted at him. "C'n I have coffee?"

Jared tossed one shoe over his shoulder. "Nope."

"I need to sober up, dude-"

"You need to sleep it off, bitch." The other shoe went sailing, and Jared tugged the blanket off the back of the couch. He smoothed it down, dodged Chad's attempts to whack him upside the head, and skimmed his hand through Chad's too-long hair. "Next time you pull your Scarlett in a swoon act, I'm dropping you on your ass."

"I didn't swoon," Chad grumbled.

"Whatever." Jared pushed his hair back again. It was strangely soothing. "If you feel the vapors coming on-"

"Eat my dick, Jare."

"Thanks, but I'm not your type. I won't bust your lip or anything." Jared reached over the couch, caught something that crackled. It turned out to be frozen vegetables wrapped up in an old shirt. Jared handed the package over, and Chad leaned his cheek against the cold pressure of it.

"Thanks," Chad murmured, pitching his voice low.

Jared shrugged easily. His eyes were too keen in the half-light from the kitchen. "Hey. You know you deserve better, right?"

Chad snorted and punched Jared in the shoulder, hard enough that his knuckles ached. "Go play house with your boyfriend, Jare. I'm good. Tell Jensen thanks."

"Thanks, hell," Jensen said from behind the couch. "You're doing my dishes and washing the dogs for this happy horseshit, housebitch. Now go nap and stop slurring at Jare."

"Fuck you too, Jenny."

"Yeah, yeah."

Jared patted Chad one last time and climbed to his feet. The dogs jingled after him. A moment later, Chad heard the tap run and the clank of dishes in the sink. Jared murmured something. Jensen laughed warmly, an intimate sound.

If Chad's eyes stung, it was the ice and the cut. That was all.

[identity profile] fureux.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
love love love.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-16 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee! Thank you!

[identity profile] tobemeagain.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
*bounce bounce, twirling and whoa, dizzy* I like it, I love and of course want some more. *but then I am greedy and know it*

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-16 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I got twirling! Score! *grin* Thank you very much.
poisontaster: character Wen Qing from The Untamed (Fuck)

[personal profile] poisontaster 2006-11-13 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I really really hate this systematic campaign to make me feel for Chad. *pets poor Chad*

*puts nose in the air* Let us never speak of this again.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-16 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
You loooove the Chad. You love him. You cannot resist his aura of cute. *grin*

Thank you!

[identity profile] coiledsoul.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
dude. not you too. damn it.

[identity profile] saintawesome.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
THERE'S NO ESCAPE. GIVE IN TO IT.

[identity profile] coiledsoul.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude, how come you haven't scanned in our note cards from the show yet?

[identity profile] saintawesome.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Because I suck and school and work have been hell. I'll try and put them up tonight or tomorrow if Final Fantasy XII doesn't drag me away.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-16 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Resistance is futile.

[identity profile] saintawesome.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
So much love. Oh, Chad. Just let Jeff make it all better, you walking self-desruct button, you.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-16 03:24 pm (UTC)(link)
The sad thing is, that would be so much harder for Chad than just self-destructing like he's used to. Because letting Jeff pet and love him =/= alpha male control freak.

Thank you!

Also: heeeee! the icon.

[identity profile] moosesal.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Whee! Now all that's missing is the threesome/teaching encounter.

Love this. Love Jensen in the bathroom with fratboy and pulling Chad off the floor. Love Jared's concern for his friend.

"Thanks, but I'm not your type. I won't bust your lip or anything."
Oh. Oh my heart, that's a good line.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-16 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Whee! Now all that's missing is the threesome/teaching encounter.
Yeah, that's still pending. With much Boone's Farm and Chad admiring the view from that cross he climbed up on. Unfortunately, I FAIL at the plot-what-plot? aspect of porn, so it's like the War and Peace of impromptu lectures.

Thank you very much!
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[identity profile] phantomas.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
wheee! MORE of it, and wow it is, too :D

Jensen and his matter of fact taking care of things wins. I love that you're writing in this 'verse, too.
Poor CMM...*g* *hides*


thanks!

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-16 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! *grin*

[identity profile] eloise-bright.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Oh so good. This confirmed my own personal opinion that Jensen is a really nice guy. Like his and Jared's tough love.

A moment later, Chad heard the tap run and the clank of dishes in the sink. Jared murmured something. Jensen laughed warmly, an intimate sound.

If Chad's eyes stung, it was the ice and the cut. That was all.


And then you go and make me feel sorry for Chad. Jeff, now would be a good time for you to come and sort him out. *g*


[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-16 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Shh, Jensen being a nice guy is supposed to be a trade secret. *grin* And he's not kind of fond of Chad at ALL. It's all for Jared's sake. Yep. Even when Jared's totally not around.

Thank you so much!

[identity profile] iwwfw.livejournal.com 2006-11-13 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Just when I thought I couldn't love this universe more, you add to it with some really great relationship J-squared. I loved Jensen taking care of Chad and the Chad/Jared banter was so them. Thank goodness I know that it gets better for Chad or I'd be a sad, sad girl.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-16 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!
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[personal profile] embroiderama 2006-11-14 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, yeah, how did you know I had been imagining what surrounded that scene of Jensen finding Chad in the restroom? This, however, is so much better than I had imagined. Mmmm, wonderful!

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-16 03:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, yeah, how did you know I had been imagining what surrounded that scene of Jensen finding Chad in the restroom?

Fandom hive-mind. *grin*

Thank you so much!

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, this is great. I love the voices: Jensen, sharp and practical; Jared, open and affectionate and caring but not dumb; and Chad, hating himself for screwing things up even when he's trying not to.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Aww, thank you! *grin*

[identity profile] shotofjack.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
I know you both are trying hard to break me down to saying something nice about The Chad but it isn't going to happen. I will not break, I will not break, I will not break.

Now, J2 - I have lots of nice things to say about them in this fic, especially Jensen. Jensen knows exactly what a tool The Chad is but is nice to him for Jared. That's the definition of love in my book - being nice to your SO's shitty friends.

A lovely chapter! Thanks.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Thank you very much!

You wiiiiill love the Chad. *dangle string*
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[identity profile] ginnytonnick.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
This entire series has been really something. I love the characterizations.

"Hey. You know you deserve better, right?"

A gem of a moment that should go in a jewel box.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG! your icon. *flail of love*

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it.

[identity profile] rynnalyn.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
This is wonderful. It's so rich and I love the layers it explores.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much!
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[identity profile] phantomas.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Was re-reading and came back to say how perfect this line is:
With that disgusting golden-boy grace,, because damn if that's not Jensen (golden-boy grace, he oozes it, imo) and also Chad's take on it, envy and admiration all wrapped into one for something/someone he feels so different from himsef.

:)

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Jensen totally has this indefinable SOMETHING, a grace or a sense of... hm. Sleekness isn't the word. But yes, and it's all the worse because Jensen is a ginormous dork when it comes to Jared. And that makes me happy.

At the same time, I think right then Chad's just a little ball of disgust and resentment and wanting what (he thinks) he can't have. So, yay! I'm glad that worked for you. Thank you so much.

[identity profile] beanside.livejournal.com 2006-11-14 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Y'know, it's only fitting that you get sucked into this. After y'know, you sucked me into the little bastard to begin with. *kisses*

Love this, love you.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
It was totally NOT my fault. If Jared hadn't done House of Wax, none of this would've happened, darn it.

Love you, too. *nuzzle*

[identity profile] koneko-meow.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"...I'll play Yanni at top volume and you can puke out the window. It'll be great."
Oh man that is great. This is awesome.

[identity profile] nilchance.livejournal.com 2006-11-17 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! *grin*