Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 18:33:42 -0400
From: Jon  Bennett <stonewolf@angelfire.com>
Subject: Journey part two

Thanks to all who wrote with encouraging words about the new series. It is
a lot harder to write then Nick and Jonathan; of course I had good
inspiration for that. This is taking work. :)

Keep the comments coming.
Jon
stonewolf@angelfire.com     www.stormloader.com/articwolf

Journey Part Two:

Jonathan had been right. It had turned out to be not only one long night,
but a few of them. Neither Nick or Jonathan had slept particularly well
that first night. Both had tossed and turned, lost in their own
thoughts. Even the coming of the dawn hadn't brought them sleep. Finally
giving up, Jonathan got up and walked across the room to the
bathroom. After taking care of his bladder, he entered the shower, turning
it on as hot as he could stand, letting it fill up with steam. So lost in
his thoughts he didn't even notice Nick enter the shower.  Silently he put
his arms around Jonathan.

"I'm scared man" said Nick, pressing himself against Jonathan.

"I know babe" said Jonathan, turning to take Nick in his own arms. "I think
it will be all right"

The two just stood there under the water and steamy spray for a few
minutes, neither saying anything.

"What was he talking about though?" asked Nick, reveling in the comfort of
being held. "Saving the world and shit? What was that? I don't want to lose
you. I can't lose you"

"Easy babe" said Jonathan, rubbing his hands up and down Nick's back and
shoulders as the steamy air swirled around them reveling in the feel of the
muscles underneath the skin. "I promise you that what ever happens, you
will be with me." He lifted Nick's face and kissed him softly on the
lips. "You are my life and my soul. Where ever I go, you will too"

Nick molded himself again Jonathan, kissing him back, allowing his tongue
to probe Jonathan's mouth. He could feel himself start to harden. Breaking
the kiss he looked at the man who had given him his life. "What happens
when I get older though? I mean, you will never get any older and I will"

Jonathan reached down and started to stroke Nick's swollen cock. "Somehow
as long as this thing gets hard you aren't ever going to be old" That
caused both of them to laugh. "Seriously babe, I'm eleven years older then
you, we've got a long time before either of us has to worry about an age
difference. Who knows what will happen twenty or thirty years from now"

"I'll be accused of buying a younger guy" said Nick, between deep breaths,
getting close to shooting from Jonathan's stroking.

"Chicken Hawk" said Jonathan laughing, knowing the moment of trouble had
passed. He slipped down, trailing his tongue down Nick's abs to take the
swollen flesh of his cock in his mouth. Rubbing his tongue over the
sensitive cock head caused Nick to moan and shoot his load down his
throat. After cleaning Nicks' cock he trailed back up and kissed him,
allowing some of the load to enter Nick's mouth.

"Not as good as a Bloody Mary in the morning, but it will do" said Jonathan
trying to keep a straight face.

"Wise ass" said Nick, starting to stroke Jonathan. "Come on let's go back
to bed. I'm shot"

"I noticed" said Jonathan smirking.

Nick pushed Jonathan towards the bed from the shower, both still
wet. Jumping on Jonathan, he lined his ass up against the straining cock
and pushed himself down on it. Both men moaned as Nick started to ride
Jonathan's cock. Faster and faster he pushed himself up and down on the
cock until Jonathan shot deep inside of Nick. This caused Nick to explode
once more, covering both of them in a thick load of cum. Collapsing forward
he kissed Jonathan, smearing the cum load between them.

"I love you babe" said Nick softly,

"I know man, I do too" said Jonathan.

As the two started to slip into a sleepy twilight, Sebastian choose the
moment to make himself known. Jumping up on the bed, he walked majestically
over to the two and growled quietly. Not getting any response he walked up
Nick's back.

"Cold feet!" said Nick flipping the cat off his back.

Jonathan laughed pushing Nick and Sebastian over. The cat, not taking
kindly to this vocally displayed his displeasure. Nick chased Sebastian off
the bed and grabbed the blankets pulling them over the two of them.

"Damn cat" he muttered.

"He loves you" said Jonathan, pulling Nick closer.

"I know, he just shows it strangely" said Nick, not without a trace of a
smile though.

Sebastian not to be put off, jumped back on the bed with a screech, landing
between the two of them, proudly looking like the conqueror.

For the next few nights, neither slept really well, but things once again
returned to a routine; neither voicing their thoughts on the next time when
Kristian would return.


Chapter TWO: Early one morning about a week after Jonathan was out on the
patio working with Brandon on paperwork when Brandon grumbled.

"Something wrong?" asked Jonathan as he poured a second glass of Orange
Juice.

"Yeah," said Brandon sitting back and reaching for a piece of toast. It had
become a morning ritual to have breakfast and work. "I got a password coded
email. Never seen it before. Seems to be a self extracting program that
needs a password to activate it. I scanned it and it is clean but I haven't
a clue who sent it"

A sudden chill went through Jonathan. He walked over and looked at the
laptop. In the back of his mind came an unbidden image and thoughts. "You
know" he heard in his head. "It is the time I said."

"You OK Jon?" asked Brandon. He had seen Jonathan's eyes go out of focus
for a moment.

"Yeah I'm fine" said Jonathan. "Send it over to my private email and I'll
take care of it."

"You know what it is?" asked Brandon

"I think so, nothing critical," said Jonathan covering his tracks, " I
think it is from an old friend"

"Whatever" said Brandon, "It's there"

The two continued to go over business for another half hour. During that
time, Mark had shown up with some stuff for Brandon and Nick had finally
managed to get out of bed. He walked out in boxers and sandals. Walking
over he kissed Jonathan, and stole his coffee cup.

"I gotta break you of that" said Jonathan good naturedly. "You're big
enough to have your own coffee cup now"

"Wiseass" said Nick. "And as for breaking, I think you did quite enough of
that. Not all of us can go without sleep."

Jonathan had been in a particularly horny mood and had woken Nick up three
times to have sex.  While not objecting, Nick was always grumpy when he
didn't get enough sleep.

"I didn't hear any objections" said Jonathan.

Mark just blushed at the thoughts going through his head.

"You want to go over some stuff Nick?" asked Mark. "You have a meeting in
Boston the day after tomorrow on renovations for the hotel"

"Grrrr" growled Nick. "Later.  Go work on your tan; I need coffee and a
run"

"OK" said Mark, making notes on the sheets. "You want to run and talk about
this stuff?"

"I guess" said Nick. "I should change. Do me a favor and find Paul. I know
Jeff will show up on his own."

"Not a problem" said Mark going into the house. Nick walked back over and
sat down on Jonathan's lap, stealing his croissant.

"Hey hey" said Jonathan.

"Too late" said Nick, putting the flaky pastry into his mouth.

"OK, I can see we aren't gonna get any more work done" said Brandon. "I'll
let you know about those contracts this afternoon"

"Thanks man" said Jonathan as Brandon left.

"God, you are so beautiful" said Jonathan, rubbing his hand over the hard
ridges of Nicks abs. He noticed a stirring in the boxers. "I see someone is
waking up"

"No more man" protested Nick. "The main vein is empty"

"Yeah right" said Jonathan, kissing Nick. He slipped his hand into Nick's
boxers. He started to stroke him to full erection as they continued to
kiss. Nick put his arms around Jonathan and let himself be carried over to
one of the lounges near the pool. Jonathan put him down and slipped off the
boxers to reveal Nick's throbbing hard on. It was obvious he was close as
his hairless nut sak was drawn close. Jonathan continued to stroke him as
they kissed. With a cross between a growl and a moan, Nick shot off yet
another load all over his abs. The thick white liquid contrasted sharply
with his dark Florida tan.

"Oh man" said Nick, between deep breaths "That was good"

"I'm glad." said Jonathan kissing him softly again. "Just to remind you how
much I love you"

With that he picked Nick up again and tossed him in the pool. "Now you are
clean too"

"I'll get you for that" said Nick, coming up out of the water. As he
reached for a towel from the ever present pile near the pool Paul came up
the stairs and saw them.

"Don't you ever put clothes on man?" asked Paul. "You gonna run naked?"

"You'd like to see me shag my ass in front of you wouldn't you." asked
Nick.

"I'll pass" said Paul. "Go get dressed, and we'll stretch"

"Have fun" said Jonathan, "I got some work to do inside. Catch you later"

"You haven't' run in a few days Jon" said Paul, "You need to"

"Yes Master" said Jonathan, "Later"

He walked into the house, and went to the den. Flipping on his computer, he
called up his email. He found the program that Brandon had sent from the
business file. After scanning it a second time with a different virus
program, he clicked on the exe file. The computer whirred and chirped. It
came to a screen with a single word and blinked expectantly:

PASSWORD:

After thinking about it for a minute, and despite the unfamiliar email
address, he was pretty sure who it was from, so typed in a word. The
computer blinked and came back to the same screen.

Bastard, he thought. Next time tell me the password. Suddenly a thought
came to him again. "What are you?"

Jonathan typed in a single word..... IMMORTAL

The computer responded and released the information. Jonathan read it and
frowned.. Well, he hadn't been to Las Vegas in a while anyway. He pushed
the intercom button. Brandon answered.

"Find Danny for me and bring him in" said Jonathan.

"OK" said Brandon. "Be there in 5"

So, it was beginning he thought.  Five minutes later Brandon and Danny
walked in.

"What's up" asked Danny. Jonathan pointed to chairs for them both.

"We're going to Las Vegas this afternoon." started Jonathan. This raised an
eyebrow from Brandon.

"That's not on any schedule" said Brandon. "You and Nick are headed to
Boston tomorrow afternoon for that meeting"

"I know" said Jonathan. "We'll head to Boston direct from Vegas. Meanwhile
call MGM get us some suites."

Then he turned to Danny. "Call your office for me, tell them I need to meet
with the Director in Vegas tomorrow morning"

"OK" said Danny, reaching for his cell phone. "You want to tell me what's
up?"

"Yeah" said Jonathan. "Phase One"

Brandon looked at him strangely. "Something going on that I need to know
about?"

Jonathan sighed. "Yeah there is, but not now. I'll tell you onboard the
plane. Get it together, use Renaissance"

"Yessir" said Brandon, slightly miffed that something was going on and he
didn't know about it.

"Hey Brandon" said Jonathan as Brandon started to walk out the door.

"Yeah"

"Don't sweat it dude. I'll explain everything later. Trust me. It's cool"
said Jonathan, knowing he had pissed him off.

"Not a problem.:" said Brandon. "I'll let you know flight times in about an
hour"

"OK thanks"

"So what's up?" asked Danny after Brandon had left

"I'm gonna have to let him into the circle" said Jonathan.

"The circle" asked Danny.

"Yeah, the people who know what I've become." he said. "That's why we are
flying to Vegas. It has started. I gotta meet with Kristian tonight. Among
other things, we need to purchase the security company for its contacts and
ability to monitor situations world wide"

"Oh that's not going to go over well" said Danny.

"Be that as it may" said Jonathan getting up, "There doesn't appear to be a
choice. Also apparently we are getting new digs too"

"Oh?" he asked looking up over his notes. "What do you mean new digs?"

"I'm not sure, the notes were a little vague" said Jonathan. "But it would
appear that in order to monitor things we need to be in a more centralized
location."

"That would be?" he replied

"A small castle in Switzerland" said Jonathan, attempting to keep a
straight face, without success.

"Define small" said Danny, less then thrilled with the concept of setting
up security procedures in a castle.

"Hmm" said Jonathan, flipping pages on the computer screen. "Ah, here we
are. Not bad only 41 rooms"

"I'll go make a call and coordinate the trip" said Danny getting up "We can
talk about 'small' castles later".

Jonathan stood and looked out the windows as he left. Sebastian jumped up
on the desk next to him and churred for attention. Jonathan picked him up
and flipped him over in his arms. Scratching his belly, the cat sat
contentedly and purred, softly kneading Jonathan's arm.

"Why can't my life be like yours" he mused to the cat. "I get fed and
watered when I want, but I gotta go save the world"

The cat looked at him like he was nuts, but kept on purring.

Chapter THREE: The intercom chirped about an hour later while Jonathan was
still on the couch playing with Sebastian. In a streak of gray and silver
lightening, Sebastian flipped himself out of Jonathan's arm and attacked
the phone.

"Behave" said Jonathan still amazed that even after over a year the cat
still hated that sound.

"Yo" he said, rescuing the receiver.

"Lemme guess" said Brandon. "Sebastian"

"Yup" said Jonathan. "Whatcha got for me?"

"OK" said Brandon. "Renaissance is being primed as we speak. Captain
Hendrickson will have it ready to fly in about 2 hours. Karen and Anthony
are overseeing stocking the plane; I presume we are flying from Vegas to
Boston, so I've confirmed with Boston that he Penthouse will be ready. I'm
sending Mark to Boston tonight on the G-V to oversee that. Danny said he
will be ready shortly. He and Jeff will go with us to the plane, and he is
sending 4 more out there now. MGM will be expecting us. They had one owners
suite and two others available for us. They will be ready"

"OK sounds good, thanks man" said Jonathan, genuinely meaning it.

"No problem boss" said Brandon, "That's what you pay me for"

As Jonathan hung up the phone, Nick came into the study all sweaty.

"Damn you stink" said Jonathan, dodging out of the way of Nick.

"That's nice" said Nick. "How about Lunch?'

"You just ate a while ago" said Jonathan,

"That was a cup of coffee and a croissant" said Nick

"Yeah, well" said Jonathan, printing out some stuff off the computer. "Go
shower and change. We are leaving for Vegas in about an hour and a half."

"Las Vegas?" asked Nick, stripping off his shirt and rubbing himself down
removing some of the sweat "Got an urge to see a show or lose a million or
something?"

"No" said Jonathan as he stared at the beauty of Nick's sculpted abs and
tan. "Kristian sent a message. Time to go to work"

Jonathan could see the look of indecision cross Nick's face.

"OH" he said simply.

"Hey babe" said Jonathan coming over to Nick. "It's OK. He just wants to
outline some stuff and what not. We'll be there over night, catch a show,
drop a little coin and fly out to Boston in the morning"

Nick looked at him squarely in the eye. "Promise me something?"

"Of course babe"

"Promise me that you won't leave me alone for an instant the whole time we
are there." asked Nick, an obvious nervousness in his eyes.

"I promise man" said Jonathan, hugging Nick tightly.

"Thanks" said Nick, hugging back.

"Now, get your nasty ass in the shower and go change" said Jonathan
slapping Nick on the ass, "I'm covered now in your sweat"

"Come into the shower and you can be covered in more then that" said Nick
suggestively, taking off his shorts, standing in just his jock.

"Pervert" said Jonathan, throwing a couch pillow at him. "Save it for
later"

Nick walked out shaking his ass at Jonathan.