Kate Sherwood - Dark Horse 1.1 - Sometimes You Just Know (11 page)

Justin releases his arm immediately, but it's too late; hell, maybe it was too late even before that. Dan is scrambling now, almost panicked as he reaches for his clothes. Justin can see it when Dan forces himself to stop, makes himself slow down. Dan has his shirt in his hand, and when he turns towards Justin, his face is a neutral mask. He reaches out with the shirt in his hand, rubs it gently over Justin's stomach, and Justin realizes that he's mopping up, cleaning their come off of Justin's body.

"Shit, Dan, don't worry about it. I'll roll around in the grass or something." That isn't exactly what Justin wants to say, but he's too
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on details.
"Nah, it's cool, man—I've got clean clothes at the barn." "Yeah, and so do I—I live there, dude!" But it's too late, Dan's shirt

has already done the job. "Okay, so, we're clean now. Come back down and bask for a bit, why don't you?"

"Bask?" Dan says doubtfully, but after a moment's hesitation he obediently lies back down.
"Shit, Dan, I didn't mean you
had
too. I just… it's nice down here, it's nicer with you…."
"Okay, yeah. I'm here." But Justin knows that isn't quite true. Dan's body is there, but he has no idea where Dan's mind is. Justin doesn't know what happened, doesn't know why it happened. And he doesn't know what to do to make it better.
They stay there for a while, lying on their backs and looking at the sky. Justin's mind is racing, but it's frantic and purposeless; he doesn't really know what the problem is, so it's hard to think of a way to fix it. He's not even sure if there
is
a problem, as such. So Dan's not a cuddler… that's fine. If Justin had to choose between good sex and good cuddling, he knows which one he'd take, and there's no doubt that the sex thus far has been pretty damn good. And pretty damn plentiful, now that he thinks about it. His mind runs back over the last… God, the last twelve hours, only? Has everything really happened that fast?
He stirs a little to check his watch, and feels Dan react beside him. Dan doesn't pull away, exactly, and his body doesn't tense. It just gets ready. Justin changes the motion of his hand, so that instead of bringing it up to his eyes, he shifts it over to rest on Dan's stomach. He can feel the muscles there, so close to the surface, jump a little under his fingers. Dan's face doesn't change, though, just keeps looking up at the sky.
It's awkward. Dan's on Justin's left side, and his watch was on his left wrist, so it's his left hand that he's got on Dan. It's fine as long as Justin keeps his hand low on Dan's stomach, but he wants to run it up onto his chest, all over his torso, and he can't do that without shoving his elbow in

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Dan's face. Not the most romantic gesture.
So Justin shifts a little, brings his hand away and rolls over onto left
side. This is better; he can touch Dan
and
look at him. He runs his
fingertips over Dan's chest, watches the goosebumps rise in response.
When Dan stirs, and tries to move, Justin extends his fingers, lays his hand
flat on Dan's chest, and holds him still. It's not a lot of pressure, and Dan
could certainly fight past it if he wanted, but he doesn't. He submits, and
lies back with his eyes closed.
Justin leans over more, and brings his mouth to Dan's ear. "You all
right? This okay?" His hand keeps moving, barely touching, and when
Dan nods, Justin leans up again, props his head with his hand so he'll be
able to watch as he touches. Dan's skin is pale, already coloring a little
under the hot sun, and Justin wants to kiss it, taste it…. But he knows
where that will lead, and he wants to spend a little time doing this, for
now.
Justin touches Dan everywhere he can reach, and he watches Dan's
responses, feels the way Dan's breathing changes, the way his muscles
twitch when he's touched in different places. Justin's torn between trying
to make himself focus on the moment, enjoying himself, and trying to
catalogue the responses, storing them away for future reference. After a few minutes, Dan's eyes cut over to Justin inquiringly. Justin
smiles at him, and Dan's eyebrows furrow a little. He starts to talk, then
stops, then starts again. "Just this?" he asks. "Do you want me to do…
something?"
Justin shakes his head, and leans down for a gentle kiss. "Not yet,
okay?" Then he catches himself. "Actually, yeah. Roll over? Let me see
you everywhere?"
Dan cuts his eyes back again, looking doubtful. There's a moment
when Justin thinks he's going to refuse, or at least to ask a question, but
the moment passes and Dan rolls away from Justin, over onto his side and

then his stomach. He pauses again, and then shifts himself back over to Sometimes You Just Know | Kate Sherwood
put himself within convenient range of Justin's touch.

Justin takes a moment just to look at Dan, the rise of his shoulders sloping to his hard, narrow waist, and then rising again, his ass muscular and round, his legs strong and a little bowed. Justin can't wait long before he touches, and this time he can't use just his fingers, has to lean over and press a line of kisses down Dan's spine. Justin shifts himself over a little, nestling his right leg in between Dan's, with Justin's torso still twisted off to the side so he can see Dan's back and have easy access to all of it. The new position brings Justin's cock up against the side of Dan's ass, and he can feel it begin to harden at the contact, and knows that Dan can feel it too.

Justin tries to take his mind off it, and go back to the soft touching, but Dan is moving a little now, subtle little ripples of his body, his ass rubbing up against Justin, gentle warmth and friction, and Justin's kisses on Dan's shoulder change from soft to demanding. Dan turns his head and Justin surges forward to find his lips, and brings his body more on top of Dan, letting his weight press Dan down.

With Dan's upper body pinned, he moves his lower half, shifting over to be more underneath Justin, Justin's cock now totally hard and rubbing down the crease of Dan's ass. Justin gasps at the new sensation, wishes frantically that he'd thought to bring lube, or even a condom, and then he remembers Dan's deal from the night before, the agreement that Justin would bottom. He thinks of it now, thinks of Dan stretching him open, sinking into him, and even though it's not something he normally seeks out, the idea is exciting; the idea of giving that access to
Dan
is exciting.

But Dan seems to have given up on that idea, shifting his legs wider open and canting his ass upwards, making the contact tighter and even more sensational. Justin groans and leans down again, finding Dan's mouth and plunging his tongue inside, grabbing the back of his head to tilt his face further in Justin's direction. Their hips are moving together now,

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somehow in time, in rhythm.

Justin wants to be inside Dan so much that he can barely stop himself. On one of his thrusts his dick catches a little on Dan's hole, and Dan moves as if to welcome it. Dan pulls his face away and says, "It's okay, if you want…I just got tested, I'm clean."

Justin can't say the same, not for sure; he's always careful, always uses protection, but it's been a while since he had a test. He doesn't know what it means that Dan doesn't even bother to ask about that. His dick tells him that he must be clean, that he
has
to go for it, and he almost gives in. "I don't have any lube or anything," he says, and he's not sure if he's explaining his refusal or asking for permission to go ahead.

"You could use spit," Dan suggests, his voice barely more than a mumble against Justin's lips. Justin has a hard time reading Dan at the best of times, and this really isn't one of them. He pulls back a little, trying to get a better look at Dan's face.

It's not easy, but Justin is sure he gets it right. "No, man, you don't want that."
Dan shrugs a little and looks away. "It's okay…"
"No, it's not." Justin manages to nudge Dan's head back around. "Hey, Dan, listen to me. I appreciate that you're trying to give me what I want. Absolutely, that is… great. But here's the thing. I
never
want to hurt you, so if you want to give me what I want, you need to help me make sure that I don't hurt you." He stops and drops a kiss on Dan's lips. Justin is still achingly hard, but that doesn't seem so important anymore. "Do you hear that, man? 'Cause—I really need you to know that. Okay?"
Dan turns his face away again, but Justin nudges in with his chin and turns their faces back together. "No, Dan… please. This is important. To me." Dan's face is unreadable, and Justin wonders if the message is getting through at all. And then, it's as if Dan's mask just disappears. Instead of his impassive face, there's
Dan
, his look of cautious hope, as if he's almost

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his fingers along the soft skin on his cheek. "Okay?" he asks quietly. Dan speaks as if he's not sure of his voice. "Yeah. Okay." He looks
Justin in the eyes as if searching for something, then turns his face a little
more, and kisses the palm of Justin's hand, then reaches up to find Justin's
lips. "Okay," he breathes, and Justin smiles, and feels Dan's lips turn up
under his.
"Okay?" Justin asks, and he's not sure what he's asking, but he just
wants to hear Dan agree with him again. He's grinning like a loon, and he
just doesn't care.
Dan pulls his head back and looks at Justin like he thinks he's crazy,
but then he smiles sheepishly back, like a grown man caught playing a
child's game. "Okay."
"Okay," Justin agrees, burying his face in the crook of Dan's neck,
and then bringing his mouth back up for a deep kiss. Their bodies start
moving again, but it's not as frenzied as before. They shift around so
they're facing each other, lying on their sides, and for a long time they just
make out, the movements of their groins secondary to their hands and their
lips. Justin's never shared this with Dan before, this casual intimacy,
nuzzling and whispering and kissing. There's a patch of soft skin on Dan's
neck, just under his ear, that makes his whole body curl when Justin kisses
him there. Justin feels a flash of jealous anger at the thought of other
people finding the same spot, and then a different kind of anger when he
wonders whether anyone ever
has
found the spot, whether anyone's taken
any effort to please Dan rather than just letting him please them. Eventually, the demands of their bodies become overwhelming.
Justin nudges Dan over onto his back and lies on his side beside him, and
he catches one of Dan's hands in his and brings it down to Dan's cock.
"Show me how you like it," he murmurs. "Show me how to make you feel
good."
Dan smiles and pulls Justin's head down for a kiss. "You already
know…"

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Dan's smile is shy, but he lets Justin guide his hand down, and he entwines their fingers together and wraps their hands around his cock. The grip is tighter than Justin would have used if left to his own devices, so already he's learned something. Justin likes being able to kiss Dan while they're getting him off, but he also likes being able to pull his face away from time to time, watching the way Dan's expressions change. Dan might be inclined to close down right
after
coming, but leading up to it his face is beautifully open, his eyes fixed on Justin's and then focused on nothing as he reaches his climax, spurting up over their joined hands and onto Dan's stomach.

Justin doesn't give Dan the chance to pull away this time. He keeps their hands entwined, and brings them to his mouth, licking and sucking the come from Dan's fingers. Dan has recovered enough to sit up a little, propping himself up on his elbows to watch as Justin moves his head down, licking off Dan's stomach. When he's clean, Justin rests his chin there, and looks up at Dan, who tangles his fingers in Justin's hair and pulls him up for a kiss.

"Thanks," Dan says. "Your turn?"

 

Justin shrugs, trying to ignore the physical evidence to the contrary.

"No rush."
"Okay, we won't rush." Dan pushes himself up a little further, then
rolls over and eases Justin onto his back. Justin lets it happen, lets Dan
take control of things. "So I guess it's your turn, right? To show me what
you like?"
Justin smiles. "I like you."
"Yeah, okay, that's the general idea…." Dan smirks. "Now I want the
details." He leans forward, runs a hand down Justin's chest, and Justin
inhales a breath in anticipation. "Do you like my mouth? Or my hand?" "Oh, Jesus, man, I have to choose?"
Dan grins again, and bends over to kiss along the line his fingers just
traced. "I dunno…do you want
me
to choose?"

Justin really can't decide; Dan's mouth is a beautiful thing, and Sometimes You Just Know | Kate Sherwood

having those lips wrapped around him is fast becoming one of his favorite sensations… but he's also getting pretty attached to kissing his mouth, and it can only be in one place at a time. "Yeah, okay, you choose."

Dan's lips are hard and strong as he moves his mouth down Justin's chest. One of his hands snakes up to Justin's mouth, and he runs his middle finger along Justin's lips. His fingers are work-rough, like sandpaper against Justin's soft skin, but he's gentle, and Justin likes the feeling that Dan could hurt him, but doesn't. Then the finger pushes gently inside Justin's mouth, just the tip, just as Dan sucks in the tip of Justin's cock. Justin sucks a little, swirls his tongue around the finger, and Dan mirrors the action down below.

Justin thinks he gets the idea, but he wants to test. He gently pushes the finger out of his mouth, holding the tip pursed between his lips, and feels Dan do the same to his cock. He sucks the finger back in, feels Dan do the same, and then he hollows his cheeks and sucks hard, moaning a little when Dan does the same, and then groaning a little more when Dan moans in mimicry, sending the vibrations along Justin's cock.