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Jason McConnell ([personal profile] no_voice) wrote2015-09-17 09:05 pm
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Cause he knows he's taking chances. [Test post for Peter]

Jason arrives to St. Cecilia's feeling both as though he's about to take flight and he's about to sink into empty air with only the cold, cruel autumn ground to break his fall. He breathes in the oppressive humidity of the late August day as though he might steal some of the summer sun to keep himself warm on the inside. His senior year, finally. Everything comes down to this. All of those 'encouraging' family talks and hollow laughter about how he'll make the family proud and burn brightly on at Notre Dame. All of those discussions about how he'll meet his future wife and provide his parents with grandchildren soon enough.

He shakes his head, taking a stuttering breath to calm himself. He's only just arrived. No need to let the pressure of everything build quite that high up just yet.

His parents offered to help him unpack; he waved them off with the smile he'd gotten so good at faking, gently hinting that perhaps their assistance would be better off with Nadia, who rolled her eyes, but offered him an actual smile all the same.

His family ought to have left by now. He hopes. Regardless, with one last exhale, he's on his way back to his room. He needs to see Peter more than anything. He's the only person Jason wants to see in this moment; he's the only one who will understand.

But of course, he's Jason McConnell, and making his way back to his own room is never that simple. He winds up chatting with Matt for a few minutes, before gaggles of girls try and worm his number out of him. He endures about ten minute of it before excusing himself, nearly running to his room where, hopefully, he'll find Peter.
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-09 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
So Peter's father was finding out about track at the same time Peter did, only he was taking it the same way he takes anything Jason tells him. Too many times to count have passed where a quiet evening is ruined by the long arm of the McConnell law. As usual, he starts with a soft, patient kiss on that spot he loves along Jason's jawline. His heart misses a beat, but he's all focus and attention. His fingers work into Jason's hair, soothing. There isn's a single thing that could convince him to take his eyes off of his boyfriend.

"I figured," Peter says gently. His wide mouth works into a frown, but his hands continue to rake delicate fingers through Jason's soft locks. "What did he say?" He knows this is the part that will make the bitter desire for revenge rise up in his gorge. Still, Peter needs the information as a diagnostic tool, like the old episodes of Star Trek Peter would watch with his own father before the man kicked rocks.
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-09 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
A little smile plays at Peter's lips for a second when Jason kisses his knee. It's an innocent, sweet gesture, and it reminds him that he has a love that is pure; maybe not so in the eyes of the people who speak for the Lord, but one that isn't just some means to an end for temptation and desire. Jason's hot, soft mouth against the fabric at his knee is the kind of romantic gesture he'd hoped came with feeling this kind of love. It's the kind of thing he feels good being right about, unlike so many other things Peter's gleaned from his vantage point on the edge of the high school social radar.

The smile is gone by the time the inevitable bullshit hurtful words are out, hanging in the air even despite the fact that they'd gone relatively unsaid. That's the special brand of hurt words like the ones Jason's father hurls at his son like stones. They've done their job, and now Jason is a quivering mass in Peter's arms, which wrap even tighter around him. Tight enough that he is able to pull him up to kiss his temple. He's angry -- fucking furious, actually -- but he's doing what he needs to in order to slay Jason's giants the way Jason has slain his.

"Does that mean you're still in track, then?" It's a non-judgemental question for Peter's end; another attempt at understanding what it is that Jason's just been through. Not for the first time, Peter thanks God that his own bigot of a father is too much of a coward to say the things that Jason is forced to edure.

His ire rises further and he exhales it against Jason's skin, letting it go with another brush of a kiss against the side of Jason's face.
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-09 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Jason's little kiss produces the result he's looking for: Peter smiles a little wider; it warms from the epicenter of the contact outward. The waves reach his heart and he manages to somehow tighten his arms around Jason further.

"He's wrong," Peter says. His mouth is very near to Jason's ear, so he doesn't speak up too much. Now, he presses a kiss just below Jason's earlobe. "You're going to get into Notre Dame with or without track. You're going to be St. Cecilia's Valedictorian and you'll captain the lacrosse team and tennis and whatever else you suffer through to make your asshole dad happy. You'll give a speech, your dad will pretend to be a human being for graduation day, and then we'll go off to Notre Dame and never look back. Fuck him." He's managed a soothing, gentle tone as he recites this fantasy, but he means the last two words too much for them to stay level. He wants to add that Jason will now be free to nab the lead in Romeo and Juliet since he's out of track -- he knows that's what he wants -- but there's no point in kicking Jason while he's down. He's that special kind of down that only his father can push him to, and Peter knows he's the only one that can bring him back. He's happy to help and relieved to be needed.

With all of the same care and warmth he's wrapped Jason up in until this point, he cups his cheek and turns his head a bit to kiss Jason's mouth, full-on and soft. He finds salvation. Only after the kiss lingers for so long and not nearly long enough does Peter address his statement. His cheeks burn hot at the high praise, but they're close enough that Peter figures Jason can feel it better than he can see it.

"No," he says, hand sliding down thin shirt fabric to feel the beat of Jason's racing heart. "But I'm yours." And he's proud to be, even if that's not allowed.
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-10 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Feeling Jason cling to him is everything, right then. He set out to be there for Jason and he feels like he's accomplished that -- small victories. He can feel Jason relaxing and that's all Peter needs. A loud burst of laughter escapes from Peter's mouth and the force of it crinkles his eyes.

"I'm all for it," Peter laughs. He kisses Jason again before carefully depositing him on the bed. He tucks his legs under Jason's and props himself up on an elbow. Peter's arm is curled around Jason's torso, and he gives him another, unable-to-resist kiss. "I always imagined it would be something more like..." He appears to consider for a moment before he produces, "getting really trashed after a rave and feeling each other up in his favorite car." The hand that is not busy propping himself up finds the curls near Jason's ears; it makes him smile as he feels their softness against the pads of his fingers. "Or in his favorite car and then on his second favorite." He's obviously joking, as malice isn't really Peter's strongest suit, but it's fun to talk about a fantasy within a fantasy.

"You're the saint," Peter informs him, finger moving from those adorable curls to the shell of the ear that they surround. He kisses Jason's chin: a reminder that he is still all-in on the comfort. "You're built like a Greek statue." His nose wrinkles as he tries to cover the silly flushing at his cheeks.
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-10 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Peter drops his gaze to let Jason's fingertips explore the edges of Peter's eyes. He loves these curious, un-resisted moments where Jason will allow himself to be as blown sideways by their love as Peter is. Anyway, Jason is far enough below him that he can just watch what his face does while his hands search for something on Peter's face. It's just totally unbelievable that the way Jason looks -- humbled and overflowing with affection -- is for him. Even in the wildest of fantasies that he would dare to indulge in as a child, he would imagine himself with someone less... utterly perfect. To Peter, Jason is so unreal that he couldn't have even dreamed him up. And Peter's a saint? Not exactly.

Feeling Jason laugh against his mouth spreads a smile over Peter's face as they kiss. He has to concentrate to get his lips pliant, and as soon as the kiss has ended, he's smiling again. Jason's laugh heralds a new chapter of the evening is beginning. He welcomes it, but keeps a foot in the past just in case Jason tumbles backward. Peter figures if he just keeps a foothold, he can lift him up and carry him back to paradise.

"Now that's a car commercial," Peter muses, and his eyes close with the force of his laughter. "It sends a strong message." The concussive force of his laughter has no bearing on the soft strokes of fingers through Jason's hair; he takes the opportunity to kiss Jason's neck below his ear once again, this time lingering without being able to help himself. After Jason's comment about Peter's stature, he decides to keep going in this vain, lest Jason get the added satisfaction of seeing Peter's cheeks turn up red for the hundred-millionth time in the last few hours. He's kissed his way down to the juncture of his neck and collarbone when he feels Jason's hand caress over to his stomach. He loves to hear what Jason thinks of his body because Jason is pretty much the only reason he bothers to maintain it. A naturally thin boy, Peter has enrolled in PE for two more years than was necessary just to stay on top of his appearance. Tennis is pretty much the only thing he can stand, so he just keeps taking that over and over and it keeps him in more-than-decent shape. That and his marathons with Jason, of course.

"There's no contest," Peter says. He moves his hand from the Jason's curls down to the hem of his shirt and tugs it up to reveal that sinfully chiseled torso beneath. His hand slides down the bare skin, drinking it in. Just looking at Jason makes his breath quicken, his head swim. It's inevitable that Peter's mouth will find its way to that soft skin stretched over chiseled muscle, but he's going to resist as long as he can.
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-11 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The truth is that Peter had no idea what kind of love existed in his heart before he met Jason. He'd been told most of his life by an adoring mother that he was sweet -- he likes hearing that, especially now that he knows what a disingenuous place the world is -- so it makes to him that he has all of this love that rises in his throat and clouds his "better" judgement. Still, Peter likes to believe that the deep, burning love he has only exists because of Jason. He has no evidence to the contrary.

Peter feels the way Jason tremors through the kiss. Maybe he's still afraid, still wound tight from the hateful words from the mouth of a ignorant father. Before that hand finds its way to Jason's middle again, he presses a cool hand against Jason's burning face, unobtrusive and soothing. They don't need to talk about it, anymore. The aftershocks are still being felt, but there's no point in getting clutched about the initial seismic waves if there's no damage to their foundation. Anyway, Peter's sure that Jason will speak up if needs to.

"I don't think you understand how obscenely loud I'd be," Peter comments easily, stopping his kisses to nuzzle into the crook of his neck. He's still smiling, wider even. "I'm not sure I could control myself in the face of pissing your father off." He chuckles, nips the skin he's just warmed with his face.

Hearing his name breathed that way turns Peter's stomach to liquid. He's half-hard anyway, just from touching Jason and having him close, then the reciprocation of the touch. Wetting his lips, he just lets himself experience the sensation of Jason's hands in his shirt, rubbing hot little circles there. It occurs to him, how blown out his eyes must look, that he's breathing through parted lips, and he breathes, "God, I love the way you touch me."
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-11 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
If Peter could talk about it, he would say that he always knew he was gay. He just felt weird, for a while; he was that kid no one would play with and he figured that was his lot in life. Actually, he was fine with that. Peter felt better when he was amusing himself; when he was quiet there was no danger of saying the wrong thing. Unfortunately, his ears worked just fine, and in his silence he heard his mother's friends' conjectures about his reasons for being so quiet and reserved. The first time he'd heard the word, his little nine-year-old brain retained it. For months, it reverberated off the walls of his subconscious, and when he learned the meaning, he had actually cried. Alone, in his room, of course. He didn't know there was a word for people like him, and if there was a word, that meant there were more people like him. More people that were made wrong, just like him. Suddenly, Peter's loneliness lifted, and his parents were relieved to see him make friends. He was a nine-year-old playing the role of a lifetime, dancing like hell to please God and the people who provide for him, and this delicate balance created a performer. He still feels like coal that may one day be lucky enough to be a diamond. Maybe proximity to Jason's million-dollar smile is the ticket.

When the muscles of Jason's torso ripple below Peter's hand, he succumbs to a fascinated, ruined sort of noise. God, he's so beautiful. If there ever has to be someone after Jason (and Peter cannot imagine how or why), there's no way he will ever compare. Hasn't people heard that their physical state deteriorates with age? In this moment, he's sure Jason is the exception: that he'll look exactly like he does in this moment for the rest of his life. He hopes he gets the chance to be disappointed.

This is what he is musing on when all of a sudden, he finds himself pressed into the mattress. The noise the move elicits is something like a gasp and something else like the relief of a prayer answered. Jason's sliding down his body and Peter's all body electric, his core tensing and smoothing at contact.

"Fuck, Jason, your mouth," he marvels, head tipping back against the feeling of Jason's mouth all over Peter's skin. He finds himself once again needing to watch the way Jason looks pressing into him, kissing over him. He wonders briefly if he should be the one to be offering this kind of overwhelming comfort, but it's hard not to feel greedy with that mouth on his skin.
Edited 2015-10-12 00:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-12 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
What did it mean that he and Jason found each other, Peter wonders. This is the nature of a person raised in faith, though: at a certain point the philosophical questions stop. If he believes that they were made for each other (and he does without any hesitation), then that means that what they're doing together is okay, right? If the love is strong...

He doesn't even know how to finish that sentence. After that it all seems contrived and he still can't decide how he feels about any of it.

On Jason, though, Peter's stance is pretty clear. The way Jason eggs him on with his leading little teases makes that tell-tale pigment rise in Peter's cheeks. Once again, he finds his lover congratulating himself on turning Peter on.

"I don't know why you're so smug," he murmurs, still arching against the touch; it illustrates his point anyway. "You can wind me up without trying," and wound up he is. It's a switch so easy to flip that Peter is sure Jason could do it in his sleep. He already has.

But for all that Peter's mouth (half-halfheartedly at most) protests, his hands expose the wafer-thin lie by sliding his hands all the way up Jason's shirt to lift it over his head. Before Jason can go back to congratulating himself, Peter meets the aforementioned mouth with his own. His kisses are tender even in their eagerness. As much as it seems the damage of his father's words has lifted (and impossible as it may seem), he's more in love with Jason than he is in need of his touch. Admittedly, not by much, at that moment.
Edited 2015-10-12 01:40 (UTC)
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-12 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Peter makes a noise that is dissatisfied, though only barely, with Jason's kiss to his cheek. It seems so innocent, and the sweetness quickens the beat of his heart, but there's Jason, keeping Peter self-aware even when he wants to disappear with him. He wants to tell Jason so badly how he's all that he has, but all that he needs. They're scaling their escape and through every tone shift and unsaid truth, they're still making progress, and that's good for Peter.

"You're beautiful," Peter vollies back, putting no emphasis on which is truer. The simplicity of their dynamic in solitude would probably make their classmates sick. It's somewhere between Matt's pining soliloquies and Tanya and Lucas' incessant PDA storm, but Peter and Jason are so much better off in so many ways. Maybe it's because it's a secret.

Jason's hands are so warm and gentle that Peter catches his breath when they're off of him, but searching hands have become a hard, hot body atop Peter's and he forgets what he missed immediately. Soon Peter has shed his top layers again and when skin meets skin, Peter hums his approval. When his eyes open from this moment of nirvana, he catches Jason's eyes and the sharp twists of arousal in his abdomen cool to a dull throb, just as insistent. On his inhale, his gaze softens and he is able to relax completely on the exhale. This is perfect, he thinks.

"Jason..." He's almost all the way to the end of the 'I' in 'I love you,' but he doesn't want Jason to feel any more pressure than he already has today. Instead, he strains his neck upward to place a small, sweet, tender little kiss. A few moments linger before Peter pulls Jason down on top of him again, arms winding around his boyfriend's shoulders.
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-12 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Peter may as well be drunk. He's sure he looks like it, and the way his eyelids flutter when Jason touches his hair, how it takes a minute for Peter to get his eyes back open.

"I think you're perfect," Peter responds, and hushed as he is by the truth of it, he's also very matter-of-fact. He does, like everyone else, think that Jason is perfect; in fact, Peter has more proof than anyone. Not that he could share it.

This always happens so fast, Peter thinks, as his breath gets caught in the lurch of the changing tide once again. So many of the students at St. Cecilia's have a notion that love and sex are two different concepts. Matt loves Ivy, but what Ivy loves isn't Matt. Tanya and Lucas love each other in their way, but it's been admitted by both parties that they will likely not continue with their torrid (and incredibly tiresome) love affair after they graduate; if Lucas graduates. Ivy won't look back at Matt the moment another pretty guy ignores her, but she'll keep sleeping with him. Nadia will pine for Matt for the next five years before she has a lesbian experience in college and becomes an artist and meets a man she deserves. No, in St. Cecilia's hallowed halls, love is for God and sex is for boredom. All along the sweeping landscape that makes up their pretentious Catholic school, there is only one room in which the two meet and Peter and Jason alone in it. After months of safety in falsehood, they finally get to be real again.

Need ignites below his stomach as soon as he feels Jason's clothed hardness drag against his own. He's still got himself under control, for the most part, and he's got encouragement, which as all he needs. He lifts his hips to press back against him, sighing a little moan at the resulting sensation. He's not stopped kissing his lover, nor loosened his arms around his shoulders. Another jolt of his hips jolts his hand to action and he slides his hand in Jason's back pocket, grasping for more pressure between them.
Edited 2015-10-12 03:44 (UTC)
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-13 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Peter knows that, more than anything, Jason wants to be perfect. He tries to make it happen with a 4.0 GPA, a body that is unparalleled, and smooth, en speech. Jason thinks that those that see him as perfect are falling for his act. He has a lifetime of his father's paralyzing words and misdeeds to second-guess himself out of his confidence. Peter knows that Jason has convinced himself that his father is right; Peter also knows that he's wrong. Jason is no more the boy his father thinks he is than Peter is interested in sports. Well-mannered, cocksure, smart, effortless Jason is still tender, tactile, considerate Jason, and Peter thinks that,either of these versions are perfect. It's Peter that's wrong.

Not tonight, though. Now that school is back in session, Peter is Jason's even if no one else knows it. At least Jason does, and if he were to forget, the way that Peter shivers against that small ghost of a touch under his clothes is likely proof enough. He wants more already and decides to illustrate this with a heated, heavy moan into his lover's mouth. He's still feeling greedy in his desire, so he doesn't let the sound stop him from kissing Jason desperately. Maybe the tension that's come and gone has Peter feeling bolder or maybe Jason's promises and compliments are getting to his head because he finds himself tightening his hand in Jason's pocket, stuck between pushing him down and parting their bodies to feel more of that promising touch.
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[personal profile] paper_courage 2015-10-13 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
Now it's Jason that's coming undone, and Peter is awed by it. Some simple friction, a few rushed grabs, no less than a hundred kisses in the last fifteen minutes and suddenly Jason is translated. The locked, barricaded door serves as permission, the neutrality of the first night back before school is their excuse, and the hours of open time that separates them and reality is theirs to make of it what they will. These thrills tremor their way down Peter's spine and meet with the electric spark in the pit of his stomach. The charge snaps Peter's hips into Jason's touch twice, completely involuntarily. He whimpers softly.

"Jason." He marvels. Jason's name is at Peter's lips again, but he stifles it in favor of licking his way into Jason's mouth. That pit in his stomach is molten once again. Desire flares up in him and he tugs Jason's pants down, only opening them as much as he has to in order to accomplish his task. He's still only about half-present in his mind, and that little fraction dwindles every time Jason completes another mind-altering pass of his hand. He's not totally sure what his plan is, but he knows that it involves as few clothes as possible.

"I'm yours," Peter reminds him, but his response is breathless, his focus diffuse. Against the flat front of Jason's hip, Peter slides his palm fingers-down until his own hand is curled the root of Jason's cock. He manages to regulate his strokes, but only just. Jason's fingers slide over the most sensitive part of Peter and he screws his eyes shut against the intensity of it. A few breaths huff by before Peter's eyes meet Jason's again.

"Then bend me over the desk." He means this to be a request, but a combination of being too far out of his mind for manners and the knowledge that this wish will likely not be met with disdain prevents it from coming out that way. It was Jason's idea in the first place; they'd been talking about fucking on a car, but they can work with what they have.

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