Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:59:57 -0600 From: Extreme Writer <extremewriter9@gmail.com> Subject: Lifeline: Chapter 7 Lifeline: Chapter 7. ***Disclaimer*** This story contains writings in which things of a sexually explicit nature performed between males are portrayed. If this material offends you, then read no further. Also, the characters in this story have no resemblance to anyone. Not your friend John, your cousin Harry, or that guy across the street who always keeps his blinds shut. For those of you who have decided to stick around, you may E-mail comments, questions, suggestions, or anything else your hearts desire to: extremewriter9@gmail.com. Remember, your e-mails keep the story going, so please send them, even if they're just notes of thanks. Now, with all that out of the way, I present to you readers... Lifeline: Chapter 7. From Mark's perspective. Brett and I sat there for a few minutes. In an attempt to make him feel more at ease, I put my right arm around his shoulders and gently kissed him, trying to let him know through the kiss that I loved him and wanted to hear whatever it was he had to tell me. When I pulled away, He just sat there. I could tell he was close to tears. "Please, Love," I said gently. "Tell me what's up with you." "This is only the second time this has happened," he started. "It's very painful. It may not seem like a big thing to you, but I killed some one today. I feel so fucking awful!" With that, he broke down completely. I held him and gently put his head on my shoulder. It seemed slightly ironic to me because I had been on the reverse so many times lately. After regaining his composure somewhat, he continued. "I had no choice. The guy was waving a gun, firing in the air. Well, he was at first. When I asked him to put the gun down, he immediately pointed it at me and I saw, as if in slow motion, his finger tightening on the trigger. I reacted on impulse and shot him in the chest. He went down immediately and I knew there was no saving him. I panicked. I had to tell officer Gyles, my boss, what happened. He tried to reassure me that I did the right thing, but I'm still not convinced. I keep thinking I could have handled it differently." "And just how do you think you could have handled it differently?" I asked. "Look, I've killed before too," I went on. "Not with a gun, but with a switchblade knife. I had to get a box cutter after that because I had to ditch the knife because it had the guy's blood all over the blade. I ended up burying it in a ditch somewhere. He kept following me around and threatening me. Finally, we happened to meet in a deserted alley. He also had a switchblade. We fought it out. He cut my face in a couple places and that was it for him. He set me off, and I slit his throat without thinking. Just like you, I was scared that he would kill me if he got a chance to get the blade anywhere near my vital parts, such as my throat or my jugular, so I reacted on impulse, just as you did. I too went through the same things you are going through now. I finally realized that if I hadn't killed him, he never would have left me alone and I'd constantly have to be watching over my shoulder. Plus, he would have killed me had I not killed him. In your line of work, you can't be cautious. You have to defend yourself. Why did you come in contact with the guy in the first place?" "I got a call because his girlfriend called 911 in hysterics because, according to her, the man was waving a gun and threatening to kill her if she didn't give him the sex he wanted from her. For some fucked up reason, I was sent by myself. I had called for backup, but they were awful slow in getting to the house. By the time the backup finally arrived, I had already done the irreparable damage. I had to be driven back to police headquarters because I couldn't stop crying and shaking. All the way there, the backup officer and his partner kept telling me that I had done nothing wrong. In my head I know I acted the only way I could, given the circumstances, but my heart isn't that strongly connected to my head. I feel terrible!" I didn't know what to say. I had said all I knew what to say earlier. I did the only thing I could think of to do, which was to hold my dear Brett until he calmed down. "I don't know what to say," I said. "I wish I could think of the magic words to make it all go away, but I can't. It's something you'll have to get over on your own. I'll be your rock through this, but that's the best I can do." As I finished, I too broke down. I hated the fact that I couldn't help him more. I felt so guilty because I knew I had let him down. We just sat on the couch and cried into each others shoulders for I don't know how long. Eventually, Timber and Ross forced us to move. They kept trying to climb in our laps. They really were too big to do this, but they were only dogs and never figured this out no matter how many times we tried to explain it to them. I got up and finally got them to leave Brett alone so I could let them out into the fenced in back yard because they had just ate and drank quite a lot. After I let the dogs out, I walked back to Brett and put one hand on each side of his rib cage and pulled as hard as I could. I wasn't strong enough to get him up, which I knew. It did get my message across to him, however. He stood up, turned around, put his arms around me, and kissed me gently. "Thanks," He said, his voice still sounding tearful. "It'll take me some time to get over this. I guess now we can help each other." "Yeah," I said. "Works for me. We ought to do something about dinner. I suggest pizza. I would guess you're really not up to making anything, even a sandwich." Agreeing with me, he used his cell phone to order me a medium Meet Lovers pizza and himself a medium pepperoni pizza. We wouldn't eat them all in one sitting, but left overs are never a bad thing. After we ate what we could of the pizzas, I went to my room to retrieve my laptop from my backpack. I had a biology assignment to finish and as much as I hated homework, I figured it would give me an excuse to quit worrying about Brett. After finishing my assignment, I listened to music for a while until Nathan called my cell phone. "Hey Nate," I said as I answered the phone. "What's up?" Mobile Speak had told me at my command who was calling, which let me avoid having to go through all the preliminary 'hello"' crap. "Not much," Nathan said. "I'm so pissed! Mom forgot to pay the Internet bill again!" "So," I said. "Just remind her." "It's not that easy man. She's not been in a good mood lately. Reminding her to pay for the Internet wouldn't help any because I'm the only one that uses it so it's not that important to her." "Well then, don't bitch to me about it. If you want your net, you know how to get it back. Be brave, Nathaniel." He hated it when I used his full first name, but I didn't care at this point. I wanted to get under his skin a little to pay him back for getting under mine. "Fuck you!" He said angrily. "No, I don't think I'd enjoy that." "I don't wanna ask her, so I have an idea. You're like my best friend, so can you do me a favor?" "Nathan, I have no money, and you know that. So, no, I'm not paying the bill for you." "No, that's not what I'm asking. Could you ask Brett to pay for it, just this once?" "Hell no! Brett has enough to pay for without having to pay for something you don't really need." "Fuck you! You're supposed to be my god damn friend!" With these words, Nathan hung up on me. "God, some friend!" I said out loud to myself. I didn't have time to get even more worked up about the fight with Nathan, though, because at that moment Brett walked into my room. I had my own room which I used to house all my stuff and to have some privacy if I wanted to talk on the phone, chat online, write, listen to music, or whatever. I always slept with Brett though. Brett walked over to me where I was standing beside my desk and put his arms gently around me. "What's wrong, Sweetheart?" He gently asked. "You look like some one really pissed you off." "Yeah," I said, trying to keep the anger and hurt out of my voice and off of my face, but wasn't all that successful at either attempt. "Nathan called to bitch because his mom forgot to pay the Internet bill this month. He said he didn't want to ask her to pay it because she hasn't been in a good mood lately. He asked me to ask you to pay it for him. I told him that you had enough to pay for without having to pay for something that he doesn't really need in the first place. He told me that I was supposed to be his god damn friend, and hung up in my face." "Why is having the Internet such a big deal to him?" He asked, sounding a little confused. "Because he has no life. Well, I take that back. His mom works two jobs and is hardly ever at home, and if she is, she's sleeping. She's so wrapped up in herself and her own personal problems that she doesn't even seem to really care about Nathan or his little sister. The Internet is really all he has to keep him occupied. This isn't the first time this has happened and the last couple times he's asked her she apologized and paid it. I don't really know why, because he's the only one that uses it, and it's not all that cheap. They have Insite, same as us, but the plan isn't as good. He's one of my best friends, but sometimes I just want to strangle him. He's so insensitive sometimes and it makes me sick." "You know I could pay for it, don't you?" "Yeah, I do, but that's not the point. The point is he needs to learn to ask his mother if he wants something. She's his mother and therefore the one whom he should turn to in matters such as this. It's the principle of the thing. Whether or not you can pay it is a non issue." Brett suggested I confront Nathan at school tomorrow, telling me that sometimes things like this work better in person than over the phone. I told him I didn't see what good it would do, but I did agree to try. I didn't want to lose a friend over something as dumb as a forgotten Internet bill. Exhausted, Brett and I went to bed. I felt totally emotionally drained and I'm sure Brett felt the same. We had been lying there with our arms around each other and our foreheads gently touching for about an hour and I still felt no sign of sleep. I moved my head to Brett's chest in an attempt to find a comfortable enough position to force my body to relax and let me fall asleep. "Can you not sleep either?" Brett asked quietly. "No," I said unhappily. "Don't feel bad, I can't either. What should we do to try to get to sleep?" "I have an idea," I said. "Please tell me, because I am fresh out of ideas at this point," he said. "You could make love to me. That's one thing we haven't done at all and I've wanted to for a long time but what with being in so much pain and all..." I trailed off. "Are you sure?" He asked. "Yeah, I haven't been anymore sure of something in a very long time." "I've wanted to make love to you for a long time as well, but I wanted you to go at your own pace. I would have felt bad if I had unknowingly pushed you too fast," he said. "I really do want this," I said. "I love you and I know you love me. I would like for you to show me and I would also like to show you." I guess he liked what I said because he put his arms around me, turned me to face him, and kissed me deeply. After that, he just held me for a while before gently laying me on my back. "We should wait, though," he said, totally catching me off guard. "What?" I asked, confused. "We should wait," he said again. "It's late, and because of that, there isn't enough time to take it as slowly as either of us would like. It's Wednesday. On Friday, we'll have all the time in the world. Hell, we can even go into Saturday, which I think is a real possibility." "I'm highly disappointed, but I understand," I said. "Good," he said as he wrapped his muscular arms around me. The next morning came all too early for both of us. I laid there listening to Brett's breathing for a while before I realized that if I didn't move, I'd go back to sleep. I thought about just doing that anyway. It would be so easy! Somehow, my guilty conscience pulled me quite unceremoniously out of bed and toward the shower. Before I could get into the shower, however, there was a certain man that needed my attention; otherwise he wouldn't be moving any time soon. I had the perfect plan for waking him up! Feeling proud of myself, I gently lifted the covers from around Brett until his cock was exposed. I gently took the head in my mouth and pulled the foreskin back so I could taste the best of him. He started to leak immediately. I had been working on him for a little over three minutes when he gave a growl of pleasure and flooded my mouth. I held what he gave and shared it with him. "Careful," he said gently. "I could get very use to waking up that way." "Wouldn't bother me a bit," I said. "I never get tired of your taste or sharing with you. You're kisses are excellent, something to be treasured." "You really know how to make me blush," he said. I could hear him smile. "You have a shower to take," he continued. "You could join me, seeing as you have a shower to take as well," I said, pretending to sound annoyed. He liked that idea, but reminded me that we had a schedule to keep, so we could shower together as long as showering was all we did. When I got to school, my first order of business was to find Nathan. I was still mad about the way he had treated me the night before, but I guess I was more hurt than mad, which is why I wanted to find him and work this out with him. As it turned out, I wasn't able to find Nathan until lunch. I talked to him about last night and he apologized. He told me he had asked her that morning and she went ahead and paid it. Apparently, she went into this whole thing about how she was sorry she couldn't spend time with him and his sister, and how she would try harder. This wasn't anything new either. Nathan's mom had been living with two jobs and hardly any time to spend with her children ever since I had known Nathan. She, like many parents, probably meant well, but didn't see any way to get out of her situation. Nathan did agree to continue to be friends and I told him that I'd talk to Brett about letting him come over. I couldn't let him come over the weekend that was coming up because Brett and I had unfinished business to take care of. Brett obviously felt better than he had yesterday, because he was making spaghetti when I got home. "You're not supposed to be here," I said in surprise. "I'm not?" He asked, sounding just as surprised. "Then, where should I be?" I ignored his bad attempt at humor and walked over to him, wrapped my arms around him, and gave him a kiss he wouldn't soon forget. "If you want dinner to burn, you can keep doing that," he said in a low, lust-filled voice. "I'll pass on the burning dinner," I said. "But we can finish this later." I was about to pull away when he gently took my hand and placed it in the middle of his body, making sure to squeeze. I could clearly feel the outline of his most prized possession through his pants. I kissed him again, even putting my hand gently on the back of his neck to keep him there. When we finally came up for air, we were both breathing so hard that it took several minutes of just standing there in each other's arms to regain our senses. Brett reluctantly and gently pushed me away and walked back to the stove. "Go get the dogs and feed them," he said. `I got the spaghetti inspiration right as I got home and totally neglected the dogs." "God," I said. "What would you do without me?" Brett walked across the kitchen to where I was standing next to the back door and put his arms around me and kissed me as if he were starving. "I'd go insane," he said gently and with what sounded like a tear in his voice. Feeling loved, I opened the door and was promptly knocked over by Timber and Ross flying into the kitchen. Before I could even get up off the floor, I was attacked again as the dogs decided that Brett was just too busy for them to bother messing with. Brett was laughing so hard by this time that he spilled the dog food he was trying to pour into their bowls on the floor. They didn't care. As soon as the food hit the laundry room floor, they were off, eating it up. Still laughing, Brett walked to me and pulled me up from the floor. I was just a little too tall for him to actually carry, so the best he could achieve was pulling me up enough so that I could get my feet under me. As soon as I was standing, I turned to Brett and playfully punched him in the back. "That was not funny!" I said passionately. "Yes, it was!!" He said. His voice sounded strained, but that was because he was trying to stop laughing and he was still tensing his body to pretend that I had actually hurt him when I punched him in the back. Eventually he just gave up, held me close to his chest, and laughed. "Okay, love," I finally said. "It was not that funny." "No, it wasn't," he said through his laughter. "But it struck a nerve, I guess because I was so upset yesterday. Besides, you looked so helpless and overwhelmed sitting there being ran over." The dogs must have known we were talking about them, because they reappeared from the laundry room and tried to separate us. I finally had enough and grabbed both their collars and ran outside to lie on the trampoline until the spaghetti was done. You know when you wake up and it's raining that the day will be a bad one. That's the way Friday was. I got woken up by a gentle, soul-searching kiss from Brett and the next thing I heard besides Brett's intense breathing as he still kissed me was the rain hitting the house. With much effort, I pushed Brett off of me. "Hay," he said in mock hurt. "Did you not like the wake up effort?" "I did," I said. "But you almost defeated your purpose by suffocating me." "But see," he said. "If I suffocated you, we'd still be joined at the lips so it would be just as easy for me to bring you back." "Yeah, if you say so," I said stretching toward the ceiling. Brett decided at that moment to take his knuckles and run them down my chest and sides hard and fast. For some reason that I have yet to figure out, that tickled. I grabbed his fists and held on. I could feel him trying to pull away, but he wasn't really trying. "You're not really trying," I said. "You don't want me to, trust me," he said. I didn't doubt that at all, so I decided to ask my burning question. "Can we take the day off today?" I asked, trying to keep the note of plea out of my voice. Brett sighed and laid next to me with his chin digging into my chest. I didn't care. I loved him and didn't care what he did as long as some part of him was touching me. He laid there for a few minutes, not saying a word. Then, out of nowhere, he said simply, "no." "Are you serious?" I asked. "Yes, I am quite serious. You have school and I have work. I have always wished that I could take the day off when the weather decides to be fowl, but duty calls." "Fine," I sighed and left and ran to the shower. The house was freezing! Brett joined me shortly. I liked it when we showered together because even though we couldn't play, I could still stand there and let him wash me. I loved the feeling of his hands moving over me. If we took a shower together during the week, he would make me wash my crotch and ass because he said that if he did it we would never get out of the shower on time. I hated it, but I did see his point. I was nice enough to wash him in return, and I even washed the places on him that he refused to wash on me, because I'm nice like that. Besides, he had more self-control than I did. After the shower, Brett attempted to do his most difficult task of the day, which was to get me to eat something before I left. I hated eating when I first woke up! Most of the time Brett failed, but it wasn't for lack of trying. I usually would give him a quick kiss and leave so as not to have to hear his lecture. Sometimes, just to please him, I would eat something. I could tell how happy he was when I did eat something, and it did my heart good. Of course, there were the rare occasions when I actually was hungry. On this particular morning, I was a little pissed, so I didn't eat. Plus, I wasn't even hungry. I gave Brett a long, gentle kiss to get him to shut up, and reminded him that this afternoon would be special. Agreeing with me, he gave me a hug and sent me on my way. That day was the longest day I'd had in a very long time. I was so glad when it was finally over! The day wasn't too long, though, because we only had half of the regular school day on Fridays because those students who stayed in the dorm went home every weekend and needed more time so they could get home at a half-way decent hour. When I got home, I expected to be there by myself because it was still early in the day, about 2:00, but I was pleasantly surprised to find Brett was there. "Well," I said. "What brings you here so early?" "I didn't feel like patrolling in the rain, so I decided to sell weapons instead." "Hmmm," I said. "So you wanted to sell weapons rather than carry them today. Sounds like a plan to me." "It does definitely make for an easier day," he said. "Well, I'll leave you alone so you can finish. I'll go find something to occupy myself for the next couple hours." "I have something to occupy you for a couple minutes at least," he said. Interested, I walked to his chair which he spun around to face me. He gently put his arms around me, leaned forward in the chair, and kissed me for about three minutes, although it felt to me like three years! I was sad when it was over. "Can you do that again?" I asked hopefully. "Don't worry love," he said gently. "There will be a lot more later. I promise. We're long overdue for bonding time." "All right then, if that's what you want to call it," I said, and left the den which was where Brett worked. I went to my room and listened to various music and read e-mail until Brett appeared. I didn't know he was there at first. I wasn't paying attention, so I didn't see him standing in the doorway. The only reason I knew was because he told me later that he stood there for three or four minutes just to see if I would notice him. Since I didn't know he was there, he walked over to the bed where I was laying, picked me up, and carried me as best he could and dropped me on the bed we shared. After he did this, he immediately left. I was confused. Why would he do that? I found out soon enough. "Where did you go," I asked as he reappeared. "You'll see," he said. He walked over to me and laid down next to me. "Can you figure it out?" he asked. I turned toward him and tried to see what he was talking about, but the blinds were closed so there wasn't enough light for me to really see him, so I tried using my hands. I felt all down his body, and realized that he wasn't wearing anything, but I still couldn't figure out why that had caused him to leave the room. "You're not wearing anything, but I still can't figure out why you had to leave," I said. "I put my clothes in the washer. We have to do laundry and I figured I wouldn't be needing them anymore today anyway," he said, sounding like he was wearing a smile as wide as the earth. I accepted that because it made a lot of sense. I turned toward him and put my arms around him. As soon as I did, he put his arms around me, and we began to hug each other at the same time. "Hey," Brett said after a few minutes. "We have a slight problem. You're still dressed." "Well," I said. "You can take care of that." "Fine, make me do all the work." I was about to protest, until he kissed me and said, "I'm kidding. I'm more than happy to undress you." ------------------------------ >From Brett's perspective. I pulled Mark's shirt up but not all the way off. I took the time to lick his entire upper body that his shirt had uncovered before completely removing it. Once his shirt was removed, I gently laid on top of him so that our upper bodies would touch, and kissed him with all the feeling I could. I kissed him for several minutes, then licked all the way to his hips again. Then I unbuttoned and unzipped his jeans and pulled the jeans and boxer briefs down just enough to expose his cock and balls. I gently licked and sucked all three things for a long while before I removed the jeans and briefs completely. After I was done removing all his clothes, I held him again and we kissed for a long time. -------------------------- >From Mark's Perspective. After our kiss ended, Brett laid me gently on my back, put his lips right next to mine and said, "now, the moment we have both been waiting for." He gently put one finger in my ass, and slowly pushed it in. The first time he hit my prostate gland, I thought I was going to die from the pure pleasurable shock of it. As it was, I just squirted a whole ton of precum and pulled Brett down by the shoulders to kiss him hard. It took a little maneuvering because he had to twist his arm so that his finger could remain inside me. "That will work better once the fingers are out and the real thing is in," he said gently. I continued to enjoy his one lubricant-covered finger for a few minutes more. The stinging pain that I had first received had now subsided. When he added a second finger, however, it returned in full force. I was trying not to let on that I was hurting, because I wanted this to continue and I knew that it wouldn't hurt forever, but I must have failed. "Love, your face gives you away. You're suppose to let me know if I am hurting you at all. If I hadn't been watching your expressions I never would have known," he admonished me. "I want to continue and I know it won't hurt forever," I said, almost crying. "It's ok, it will continue, just be patient. I'll keep my index and middle finger inside you and just move them around a little until you feel no pain, then I will add a third. Once you feel no pain with the third, we can move to the real thing." "When you do that," I said. "Take it slow. I want you to make love to me for, oh, at least an hour." "I can definitely do that," he said, adding a third finger. Tears spewed out of my eyes, and he started to remove his ring finger which he had just inserted. "Don't!" I said urgently. He ever so slowly put it back in, and it felt a little better. "Move them around a little," I said, a little more relaxed than I had been in the beginning. I was glad that I had made it this far. After about ten more minutes of Brett gently moving his fingers inside me, he ever so gently removed them, but not before poking my prostate one last time. Even though he had prepared me very well with lots of lubricant and his three fingers, when he pushed in and the head of his cock had went passed my sphincter muscle, the stinging almost made me physically sick. "Don't worry," Brett said soothingly. "It'll get better. Give it time." "Just stay there," I said, trying not to throw up. "hopefully next time this won't be so hard," I continued. "It won't," he said. "each time it gets easier. It's still a good idea to prepare each time, but there is never nearly as much pain as there is the first time." As he was talking to me, he slowly and gently pushed more of his cock into me. When he was about half way in, the pain was all of a sudden replaced by a very warm feeling coursing through my entire body. The feeling was very similar to the feeling you get when you swallow alcohol. "I feel so warm now," I said in wonder. "Good," he said excitedly. He pushed a little more into me. I nodded for him to keep going. In about three more minutes, I felt his bush of pubic hair and his ball sack gently touch the backs of my thighs which were over his shoulders and the bottom of my ass. He bent forward still inside me and gave me a deep, gentle kiss. Pulling just barely away from my lips, he said, "congratulations my dear, I'm completely joined to you now. I know it was hard work, but I can see in your eyes that it was worth it." I answered him with a strong hug and another kiss. Brett moved his legs so that they were spread farther apart and resting on either side of my body. He had folded his lower legs so that he was raised up slightly on his knees. I was able to reach straight down and gently grasp his hairy thighs. I gently held on to them as he started to move ever so slowly in and out. The feeling as he began to move was indescribable. I felt as if some one had knocked down a dike that was holding in a massive well of love. I couldn't help it, the tears just started rolling. Brett leaned down to kiss me again, and gently asked, "you ok?" "Yeah," I said trying to calm down. "It's so...I don't know...overwhelming. I feel so much love! If I feel anymore, I think I'll pass out." "I understand," he said. The next thing I knew, I felt his hot tears hit my face. It was one of the most emotional moments he and I had shared up to that point and it will stay with me forever. We eventually calmed down and he started to gently move again. It felt better and better as time went on. Right before we came which we had managed to time so that it happened for both of us at the same time, he leaned down, pressed his body tightly to mine, kissed me, and gave a deep growl of ecstasy that I felt all the way through my entire body because the frequency was so low and every part of him was pressed to some part of me. I came a gallon between our tightly pressed-together bodies, and he came so much that it overflowed and ran down the backs of my thighs and his balls. After a shower to clean up, we just laid there and held each other and talked about nothing in particular. This last step of bonding as lovers that we had taken had truly been special, and we knew it. We just kept talking, kissing, and hugging until we both eventually fell asleep, exhausted. It just goes to show, rain can be deceiving. It was the best day I had ever had!