Nothing Special 03 - Here Comes Trouble (11 page)

“Detective. I really think you should have that looked at. It’s still bleeding,” the officer said quietly. The concern evident on his smooth face. Ruxs appreciated it, but he just wanted to get the hell away from there. “I will. I’ll take a cab to the hospital,” he lied.

Two of the cruisers pulled away from the curb taking his mother and her
“boyfriend”
downtown. After the other two had concluded the call and bagged the two baggies of cocaine, they reluctantly left Ruxs sitting on the curb in the dark. He pulled out his cell and called for a cab. He kept the fastest cab company in Atlanta on speed dial. He didn’t want to go sit in a cold hospital. He needed alcohol… lots of it.

Green got up and turned off the movie he and his date watched after he’d cooked them dinner. She raved over his salmon and was even polite enough to help him clean the dinner dishes. She did look beautiful tonight and Green loved that she didn’t over-dress. She wore a nice pair of form-fitting jeans and a white, silky blouse. They ate dessert together on the couch and she had no problems kicking off her tan boots and settling in. He had to admit that the woman was definitely someone he wouldn’t mind seeing regularly. She was smart and could easily hold his interest in a conversation. She had a Masters in Forensic Science and Green found himself enjoying her animated descriptions of how she viewed a crime scene. But his thoughts kept going to Ruxs. Something was off about him. His partner was running hot and cold. He’d had fun at the park with them today, then when he’d dropped him off at home it was like he couldn’t get away from him fast enough.

Now with the television off, there was only the light from the kitchen, just barely lighting his living room. She’d smoothly inched her way to him and Green’s body reacted. She smelled heavenly. He leaned in and she smiled a sly grin, meeting him halfway. He lightly cupped her small jaw, as she brushed her soft lips against his. The kisses were delicate and teasing until Green cupped the back of her silky mane and pulled her in harder. She grunted in surprise but quickly caught on, opening her mouth for him. She tasted of pie and butter pecan ice-cream.

“Mmm. You taste good.” He moaned.

She smiled against his mouth and easily maneuvered her body over his, straddling him. He was so glad she wasn’t one of those females that believed in ridiculous dating rules. Only sleeping with a man after their five-hundredth date. He slouched down further on the couch, holding her thin hips as she just barely ground her body into his groin. He growled into her mouth, making her jerk back in surprise. He got a firm grasp on her hips and thrust up into her. Damn. He needed this. It’d been months since he’d had sex. Her head fell back and he wasted no time licking a slow path up her neck, biting at her cute, dimpled chin. He held her close to him, her round breast pressing back into his chest. Her soft moans spurring him on. Just when he went for the first button of her blouse his front door burst open, slamming into the small table behind it. The glass bowl that held his keys fell to the floor shattering in a vast array of pieces.

“What the fuck?” he asked, more so to himself.

His date startled at the noise. He quickly flipped her but was careful not to throw her. He settled her on the couch and ran towards the front door. Green’s eyes bugged at the sight of his bloodied partner stumbling into the room, just barely remaining upright. He grabbed at Ruxs’ shoulders steadying him, looking into his heavy-lidded eyes.

“Mark! What happened to you?” Green yelled.

Ruxs looked up at him in surprise as if he was just registering whose house he’d barged into. Ruxs’ eyes were dilated, his speech slurred when he spoke. “Green you’re home. That’s good. I have to tell you something really important. I’ve been having —” Ruxs halted his garbled confession, his eyes going to the woman that was righting her clothes on the couch.

Ruxs yanked out of Green’s hold, frowning angrily at him. “I didn’t think you’d be here.” Ruxs shook his head, grimacing like he was in pain.

“What are you talking about? I live here. Why wouldn’t I be here?” Green stepped in closer to his partner. Ruxs turned, running into the large stair railing, trying to make his way back to the door. “Where are you going? Wait! Ruxs what the hell happened to you? Your head is bleeding, your cheek is bruised. Did you get drunk and get into a fight?”

“Go back to your date,” Ruxs snarled. “I’ll call my cab back.”

Green pulled on Ruxs’ coat. Trying to turn him back to face him. He pushed him up against the wall, but Ruxs was determined to get away. “Where did you just come from? Talk to me. What happened tonight?”

Ruxs didn’t answer. He kept scrambling to get out of his hold, but Green couldn’t let him leave like this. “Ruxs stop it. Just wait. Who did this to you? Answer me damnit!”

Ruxs stopped struggling and yelled in his face, “My fuckin’ mother!”

Reality hit Green like a sledgehammer to his chest.
Oh my god
. He needed to care for his partner, he needed him, needed him way more than his date did.

“There are you happy now? Now you know how fuckin’ pathetic I am. My dear old mother fucked me up when I arrested her drug-dealer who also happens to be her new boy-toy. But just before she could finish me off, the good guys showed up.” Ruxs’ voice was so dead of feeling; Green was scared he would do something crazy and permanent if he let him go.

“Chris. Is everything alright?” His date’s timid voice asked from just a few feet away. He still had his forearm across Ruxs’ chest. As soon as Ruxs looked up and saw her, he shoved his arm down and went for the door.

Green grabbed for him again and this time Ruxs’ physical protest was stronger than before. “Fuck. Ruxs don’t make me take your ass down. You’re not leaving.”

“Go back to her. That’s who you want!” Ruxs yelled in his face. “You don’t want me! Nobody fuckin’ does!”

Green felt like his heart was being squeezed by Ruxs’ large fist. He thought he actually got it now. He knew why his partner had flipped on him. He knew what had changed. Green threw his body against the front door, slamming it closed.

“Get out of my way, Green. Or I’ll move you.” Ruxs’ forehead was up against his and Green could only imagine what poor Cynthia was thinking. Two very big and heavily muscled men – one extremely drunk – vying to go toe-to-toe.

“I said you are not leaving.” Green hooked his arm on Ruxs’ shoulder moving him out of his way. “Cynthia. I’m sorry but I’m going to have to end our date now.” Green was careful not to say “postpone” or “we’ll get together again later.”

“No. I’ll go.” Ruxs grabbed Green’s wrist off his shoulder and twisted it hard, spinning Green around and pushing his chest against the front door. “Let me go. I don’t even know why I came here.”

Green heard his date gasp. “Oh my goodness. Chris do you need me to call someone?”

Green turned his head to the side, his cheek flush up against the cold metal door. He grinned and spoke in the calmest voice he could muster. “Cynthia it’s alright. We do this all the time. We’re just joking around. Honestly. Can you wait in the living room please?” Ruxs twisted and pulled his arm up higher. Green yelped then busted out laughing. As soon as he was able to contain the situation he was going to make Ruxs pay for this.

“Fuck you. You’re always laughing at me. I’m done with this shit. I’m leaving,” Ruxs said harshly. His speech was still slurred but the venom and pain behind his words were crystal clear.

With Cynthia gone back into his house, he could talk to his partner. “Don’t leave, Mark. I know you’re hurting. Just give me a minute. Let me walk her to her car, I’ll be right back. Let me take care of you,” Green whispered.

Ruxs panted his whisky-laced breath against the side of his face. “No. I know you want to be with her. I can smell her on you. Sorry I interrupted,” Ruxs said nastily, releasing his arm.

“Don’t go, Mark. Please.” Green tried to hold the door closed, but Ruxs yanked it open.

“Veto,” Green said softly, just loud enough for his partner to hear. “Stay. Stay with me.”

Ruxs stilled with his hand resting on the doorknob. Green watched him squeeze his eyes shut. Fighting against Green’s power.

“You heard me. Don’t you dare walk out that door. You can’t and you know it.” Green stood directly behind him. He put both hands on Ruxs’ broad shoulders. “Come on. Just wait upstairs for me.”

Green sighed with relief as soon as Ruxs slammed the door shut and turned back to face him. “Why should I stay?”

Green put his chest to his partner’s and leaned in close to him. Ruxs’ breath hitched and Green knew that he had it right. His partner had fallen for him. He whispered against the side of Ruxs’ mouth. “Stay because I told you to. Now go upstairs.” They stared at each other for a few tense moments before Ruxs finally turned and went up the metal stairs.

Green took a deep breath and turned to retrieve his date. Only she was standing right there, her cashmere coat draped over her arm. When he started to speak she put her hand up and shook her head, as if telling him there was no explanation needed.

“It’s perfectly okay. I understand.” She smiled sweetly.

Green pinched the bridge of his nose, walking over to her. “I’m so sorry. I really don’t know what to say.”

She put her petite palm on his cheek. “Go take care of him. He needs you.”

“Are you going to be okay? I can make sure you get home safely. He’s going to be out like a light in a few minutes.”

She rubbed her thumb along his beard stubble. “Hey, I’m a big girl. I know my way home. And besides, I’m packing a little hardware myself.” She winked, holding up her purse.

He grinned back at her. “You are going to make some lucky man very happy, Cynthia.”

“I know I am.” She smiled teasingly.

Damn. If he wasn’t crazy about his partner. He had a strong feeling that Cynthia could be the one. But his heart belonged to someone else. He put his hand on the small of her back and walked her down to her car. He took her keys, unlocked, and opened her door for her. She kissed him on his cheek and thanked him for a wonderful dinner.

“It was a lovely date, Chris. You just need to work on your closing.” She laughed at her own joke, closing her door and driving off.

Ruxs went upstairs and pulled down his large duffle bag that was in his closet.
Wait. This isn’t my closet. I don’t live here. This isn’t my place. This isn’t my fuckin’ bed. This isn’t my fuckin’ dresser.
All the liquor he’d consumed at the rundown bar around the corner from his mom’s house was still coursing through his system, but unfortunately he was no longer numb. He felt the full impact every fuckin’ pain he had, from the throbbing at the back of his head, to the clutch of his heart at seeing Green with a woman.

Ruxs yanked open the first drawer and dug his hand in to yank out the shirts he had in there. The first one he pulled out was brand new, still with the tag on it. He blinked a couple times, trying to remember buying a new shirt. He unfolded the soft cotton material and saw it was the exact same black AC/DC shirt that he’d ruined at his mom’s house when he was washing dishes. Obviously, Green had immediately ordered him another one.
Fuck
. Ruxs plopped down on the bed clutching the shirt in his hand. Ruxs groaned. “Why does he have to be straight?”

“Who said I was?” Green’s smooth voice wafted over him like a warm blanket.
Is that supposed to be another joke?
Ruxs closed his eyes, wishing things could be different.

Ruxs tensed as he heard Green’s footsteps come closer. He felt him standing in front of him, but he couldn’t look at him. Ruxs was humiliated again. He should’ve just admitted to himself that he wasn’t good enough for a man like Green, even if he
was
gay. He’d been halfway beat to death by his own goddamn mother. Now he had busted into his house a huge, drunken mess. No one —.

“Shut up.” Green’s voice was dark and stern. “You’re actually gonna sit here and have a fuckin’ pity party for yourself. That’s not the man—”

Ruxs cut Green off, jumping to his feet, barking in his partner’s face. “Fine! Then I won’t st —”

“Sit your fuckin’ ass down!” Green yelled back louder, bumping his chest, making Ruxs fall back down on the bed. Ruxs grunted at the pain in his back, in his head… in his heart.

He didn’t quite know what to do when Green stepped in between his legs. Ruxs didn’t know why he was breathing so hard either… he just was. He felt a strong hand grip his face, tilting his head up. He stared into Green’s dark eyes. Beautiful eyes. Green looked at him like he was the most important thing in the world. God, Ruxs would do anything for this man to want him back as much as he wanted him. Green stroked the cheek with the bruise and Ruxs flinched lightly. Green didn’t talk, he just manipulated his head, turning him left and right, surveying his injuries. Then Green did something that had Ruxs’ last reserve cracking. He gently cupped the back of his head and brought him forward until Ruxs cheek was resting on his hard stomach. “Hold me back,” Green whispered.

Ruxs’ arms felt like they weighed a ton. He managed to put both arms around the man in front of him, and when he did his whole world crashed down around him. Everything that had been weighing him down the last few weeks. All the pain of wanting something permanent in his life. The hurt of losing his mom forever. He squeezed Green to him, held on to him for dear life. Held him like he’d die if he let go. And Green held him right back, whispering quietly, “It’s okay. You’re going to be okay now. I’ve got you. I never meant to hurt you. I swear. I didn’t know. I promise you I didn’t. I never would’ve gone out with her. Why didn’t you just tell me? Damn you.”

Ruxs finally calmed after several minutes and looked up at him. “What are you saying, Chris?”

Green went down on his knees so he was eye level with him. “I’m saying: Why didn’t you talk to me, Mark? How long have you been feeling like this?”

“Long enough to drive me crazy.” Ruxs laughed humorlessly.

Green stared at him. He put his hands on Ruxs cheeks. “Com’ere,” he whispered.

Ruxs’ eyes widened slightly, his voice a hushed murmur, “Are you gay?”

Green smirked. “Are you? Just shut up and come here.”

Ruxs leaned forward and let Green close the rest of the distance. He ignored the constant throb in his head, now more focused on the pulsing in his cock. Green’s lips were soft and supple. He couldn’t help the sigh that escaped him.
Finally
. This is what he’d been fantasizing about for weeks. Ruxs opened his legs wider inviting Green in. When he was close enough, Ruxs tilted his head, wanting to deepen the kiss. The shallow pecks he was receiving now just weren’t cutting it. But Green pulled back, rubbing his face against the cheek that wasn’t cut. His hands rubbing up and down Ruxs’ arms, and oh god it was wonderful. Different than how he usually touched him. Green placed a soft kiss on his cheek, his jaw, dragging his mouth back up to his ear. “Tell me,” he whispered. “Tell me how you feel about me.”

Ruxs just barely cracked his heavy eyelids. His voice was so ragged, so pained when he responded. “I can’t.” 

“I’m not going any further until you say it.” Green licked lightly at his ear and Ruxs groaned at the pleasure. Damn, he didn’t want Green to stop, he wasn’t even close to getting his fill. He had to take his chance now. He leaned forward, his forehead resting against Green’s chest. He inhaled deeply and a surge of anger shot through him more powerful than anything he’d ever felt. He bolted up to his feet, pulling Green up with him. The shocked look on his partner’s face was little consolation. Ruxs pushed his chest flat up against Green’s, his fist clenched in his nice button-up shirt. He propelled them backwards until Green slammed into the wall so hard that the framed picture of the
1965 Shelby
that hung on the wall came crashing down to the floor. Ruxs ignored it, staring into Green’s wide eyes.

“Mark what the fuck, man?”

Ruxs leaned in, his lips ghosting over his partners. He growled low, his voice harsh and angry, “You smell like her. That’s not how
you
smell.”

Green had the same hard grip on his waist as Ruxs had on his shirt. “Nothing fuckin’ happened. I didn’t even get to second base.”

Ruxs bunched the shirt up tighter. “Oh, but you wanted to, didn’t you?”

“Don’t do that. Nothing matters but from this point on,” Green hissed back.

Ruxs didn’t know why he was acting this crazy. Probably because he loved Green’s scent. He’d been enjoying it every day for years, now he smelled foreign to him, and he hated it. Ruxs buried his nose in Green’s throat, the prickly stubble tickling his senses while he searched for that scent that had driven him crazy the last few days. He didn’t smell it at the base of his throat. He showed Green his disapproval by sucking hard on his tan skin. The grunt Green gave him made him even crazier, made him anxious to find that smell. Green’s hands were on his back pressing him in closer. Ruxs moved in deeper under Green’s jaw, he nipped him there too. His chest rose and fell as he anxiously sought out his want. He ran his nose down under his earlobe, under his collar. “There you are.” He moaned. Ruxs let go of the shirt rumpled up in his fist and smoothed his arms up Green’s hard chest, gripping his throat. He pushed his head up so he could have full access to that fragrance. Green rubbed small circles on his back while Ruxs kissed and licked that wonderful scent. “You’ve been driving me in-fuckin-sane with this new cologne for days.
You’ve
been driving me crazy period. I want you, want you like I’ve never wanted anything. I don’t want to just be your best friend, I want that and a whole lot more.” Ruxs brought Green’s mouth back to his and kissed him with all the passion that had been bound up inside him. His partner opened and surrendered to his kiss, kissing him back with an intensity he’d only dreamed about.

When Green brought his hands up to his neck, Ruxs jerked back hissing at the pain of the little cuts that littered the back of his head. Green frowned. “Oh shit. I’m sorry. I got kind of lost for a moment.”

“Does this mean —” Ruxs started.

“Let’s get you cleaned up. More of that can wait.” Green went to move but Ruxs stopped him.

“No it can’t.” He sealed his mouth back over those soft lips, pushing to be let back in. Green licked at him a little more, his humor evident, chuckling in his mouth.

“Wouldn’t you rather continue this in my room, in my bed, under the covers and warm?” Green said quietly.

Ruxs’ pelvis reacted to that suggestion all on its own. His cock was solid steel as he thrust forward. “Fuck.” He felt dizzy. Probably more so from his drunken state, but he was also drunk from Green’s kisses.

Green pushed until Ruxs was no longer pressing him into the wall.
Jesus H. Christ.
Green had to try to gather himself. He felt like a character in the Wizard of Oz. Everything was so simple one minute, his world in black and white. Then in rushes a storm, next thing you know he was being swirled and whipped in a million different directions and dropped down into an imaginary world of color and excitement. Ruxs was so wonderful in his eyes. Full of magic and power. Green felt so alive when he’d been yanked up to his feet, pushed up against a wall and kissed like he’d never been kissed before. Ruxs growling and biting at him, all because he didn’t like him smelling like someone else. It was hot and erotic. He hated that Ruxs felt so insignificant. His mom always did a head job on him. He’d leave her feeling worthless and pathetic and Green was fucking over it.  He was going to make that bitch pay for doing this to him.

Green wanted nothing more right now than to get Ruxs in his bed and show him that he was far from nothing special to him. He was everything. But first he had to find out exactly what happened tonight. Ruxs had come to him drunk and crazed. He needed to make sure that there wasn’t damage control to do before any word got back to their lieutenants.

He held Ruxs’ hand and led him to the master bath off his bedroom. Ruxs sat on the toilet lid while Green got out the first aid kit. “Start talkin’”

While Green was pulling supplies out of his medicine cabinet, Ruxs got up and came up behind him, wrapping his arms around his waist and pressing his still hard cock into his ass. Green closed his eyes. He didn’t even want to think of how long it’d been since he’d been filled so full the burn turned to ecstasy.

“I don’t want to talk about that. I can think of so many other things we could do,” Ruxs mumbled against the back of his neck.

Green turned around, ignoring the ache in his own balls and the clenching of his ass. He pointed at the toilet lid. “Sit and talk. Now.”

Ruxs dropped back down and started with what happened as soon as he got to his mom’s. Green worked carefully on cleaning up his cuts, trying hard not to curse and throw something the further Ruxs got in his re-telling of the evening’s horrors.
Fuckin bitch
. Replayed in his head over and over. When Ruxs finally got to the part where his mom was getting ready to bash his head in with a solid glass ashtray, his voice had changed. Green threw away the bloody gauze and put the peroxide and bacitracin back in the cabinet.

“Am I done?” Ruxs whispered, his chin resting on his chest.

“Yes.” Green was done patching him up. He really didn’t know what to say to make this better. There were just no words invented. How do you console someone whose mom tried to kill them over drugs? All that Ruxs had done for her. Green just stood close to Ruxs, letting him know he was there. After a story like that, needless to say the sexual mood had been killed.

“I’m going to shower,” Ruxs murmured, getting up and walking past him.

Green heard his door close and after a few minutes the shower in guest bath was running. He pulled off his own clothes, needing to shower himself. When Ruxs came back, he didn’t want to still have Cynthia’s perfume on him. He did his business in the bathroom and bathed quickly. With a towel wrapped around him he went to his nightstand and picked up his phone. He called their office. It was late but Ronowski and a couple other detectives were usually there over night. As soon as Ro picked up the phone, Green told him everything that happened. He needed Ro to double-check the police report filed and find out exactly what Ruxs’ mom was being charged with and which DA had been assigned to the case. His partner would want those answers in the morning.