01 July 2010 @ 11:58 am
How It Is  
Title: How It Is
Written By: [info]_alicesprings
Rating: R
Author's Notes: Just a little thing, set in the near future.



The thing is, they absolutely cannot keep their hands off each other. Give them a minute alone in a room together and they gravitate toward each other like magnets. Hands stroke faces, then lips meet lips, tongue touching tongue. The heat rises quickly between them - it always has - so quickly it almost scares Luke.

After waiting for what felt like forever with Noah, Luke and Reid almost had sex the first time they kissed each other. They sparked, right from the start. Snark, sparks, hate, sparks, understanding, sparks, lust, sparks, sacrifice, sparks, love, sparks, sparks, sparks.

One night not long after they finally decided to give things a shot, Luke was over at Reid’s place. He’d assembled a couple of mammoth sandwiches, presenting one to Luke the way an obstetrician presents a newborn to proud parents. They’d eaten and then moved over to the couch and within minutes the DVD playing on the TV was being ignored in favor of getting to know the inside of each other’s mouths better. Reid’s left hand found its way under Luke’s shirt, first stroking at the skin on his back and then tugging at the shirt. Luke pulled back.

“Wait,” Luke said.

Reid froze. “What?”

“Uh,” Luke cleared his throat, embarrassed. “Can we slow down a little?”

“Okay.” Reid tilted his head. “What do you mean? Exactly?”

“I just, I’ve only ever been with Noah, and we were together for a while before we, you know,” he shrugged, a blush staining his cheeks.

“How long’s a while?” Reid asked, reaching out to grab a sip from his bottle of water on the coffee table.

“Almost two years.”

Reid choked and Luke had to thump him on the back while he coughed and spluttered.

“God, you must think I’m such a stupid kid,” Luke said after Reid had regained his equilibrium.

“Well yeah,” Reid said, his voice sounding a little raw. “I always did but now I think you must be kind of insane too. Or at least, possess the patience of a monk.”

Luke’s eyes widened comically and Reid couldn’t help but crack a smile. “I’m kidding, Luke,” he said, reaching out to cup Luke’s cheek, his thumb stroking gently across Luke’s cheekbone. “There’s no rush, really. I’m not going anywhere,” he reassured Luke, who rewarded him with one of those stupid enormous smiles that made Reid’s insides feel like mush.

“You don’t expect us to wait two years though?” Reid asked, horrified.

Luke grinned and slapped his arm, leaning in to place a soft kiss on Reid’s mouth.

“No really,” Reid said. “You don’t, right?”

Luke just laughed.

Reid was a real trooper about it, backing off a little and making sure he didn’t get too handsy with Luke.

That was apparently a turn-on for Luke, who jumped Reid’s bones less than two weeks later.

Even now, Luke’s still not entirely sure how they go from zero to a hundred so fast, but they do. One minute they’re kissing and the next shirts are off, hands are down pants... Luke feels like he should be embarrassed about it, or something. Noah rarely initiated sex, and so often there was a reason for them not to do it – lack of privacy or yet another breakup or someone being kidnapped or shot or paralyzed... the list of crazy stuff that happens in Oakdale defies belief. Luke figured that sex just wouldn’t be a huge part of their life, and he was okay with that.

Reid, on the other hand, touches Luke whenever he has a chance. He energetically kisses Luke hello when he shows up at the apartment, Luke blushing prettily under Katie’s amused gaze. When they’re at Al’s or Java Reid hooks his foot around Luke’s ankle, pulling their legs close to tangle together under the table. Luke’s gotten so used to Reid’s hand on his cheek that now he leans into the touch before it’s even made.

And sex with Reid is... amazing. Reid has no problem initiating sex. Any chance he gets. Luke doesn’t either.

It’s not that sex with Noah wasn’t good; it was, after they’d gotten past their early fumbling. It was loving and gentle. Sex with Reid can be like that. But it can also be rough and hard. And Luke loves it that way too. Reid never makes him feel embarrassed by that. He loves to make Luke lose control, to swear and to scratch and to leave bite marks.

And Luke gets a thrill knowing how much Reid loves it when he does that thing with his tongue. He loves knowing that a lick followed by a gentle nip to Reid’s right nipple will drive him crazy. He loves that Reid’s discovered all the places on his body that can make him groan and beg and shout, and that Reid takes as much pleasure in making Luke feel good as he does in getting off himself.

In the beginning, when he was first falling for Reid, Luke was cautious about going further, worried that the doctor would end up hurting him. It worried him what his family would think of it all and he was so used to mixed signals and endless drama with Noah that he didn’t know how to handle Reid’s straight-talking approach.

Luke’s not blind - Reid can be a jerk. His ego is enormous, he still hates small talk and he’s curt to the point of rudeness. But Luke also knows that Reid will always tell Luke exactly what he’s feeling. He’s never once had the doubts with Reid that he had with Noah. What’s he thinking? What’s he feeling? Does he really love me? Does he love me as much as I love him? Am I doing enough for him, am I being a good enough boyfriend?

Reid appreciates Luke in a way he’s never experienced before. He’s a little giddy with it.

Sometimes they’re just doing ordinary shit – watching TV or something – and Luke will feel like he’s about to burst with happiness. He’ll be sitting close to Reid, tucked protectively under his arm, and he’ll find himself grinning like an idiot. He’ll catch Reid’s eye and Reid will roll his eyes, but he’ll pull Luke a little closer anyway and kiss him on the lips before turning his attention back to the screen.

Luke keeps waiting for it to wear off. To stop feeling like a teenager stupidly in love. He’s still waiting. But the weird thing is he’s never felt like more of a man.
 
 
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secretsolitaire: ollian love like crazy[info]secretsolitaire on July 1st, 2010 12:06 pm (UTC)
Awww. ♥♥
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Britin: lure almost kiss gif[info]_alicesprings on July 3rd, 2010 09:08 am (UTC)
Thank you!!! :)
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dani_blondy: BJ-Scarfs 407[info]dani_blondy on July 2nd, 2010 04:05 am (UTC)
Very sweet love the comparision of Luke/Noah and Luke/Reid :)

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Britin: lure gif[info]_alicesprings on July 3rd, 2010 09:09 am (UTC)
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
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pghbekka: Falling for you[info]pghbekka on July 2nd, 2010 01:52 pm (UTC)
I love this! It's so perfectly true.

And also, I have to get my LuRe icons up!
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Britin: lure gif[info]_alicesprings on July 3rd, 2010 09:08 am (UTC)
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
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