Fic: Right Where I Belong (Adam/Dustin)
Title: Right Where I Belong
Fandom: Power Rangers, sometime post DT
Pairings: Adam/Dustin
Rating: Pg-15
Summery: A drunken night together leads to something more for both Adam and Dustin.
Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with Power Rangers and I also don’t own anything to do with the book Tommy’s Tale by Alan Cumming. I’m only doing this mostly for my own slash love and enjoyment.
A/N: Much thanks to moonlite-n-rose for not only introducing me to the fandom, but for also being nice enough to beta this. Any mistakes you find are my own. And much thanks go to m14mouse for making the pretty banner. As a mild warning, Dustin tends to ramble his way to run on sentences.
Dustin snuggled closer to the warm body he was wrapped around. Wait…confused Dustin opened his eyes and blinked down at the guy in his bed. Whoa? Wait a minute? Dustin wrinkled his nose. Who was this guy? He’d really had way too much to drink last night. Hey, that was the guy Tommy had introduced him to yesterday, Adam something or other. Dustin nodded to himself and carefully got out of bed so he could go the bathroom and try to figure out what the hell he’d just done. Had the sex even been good? Why could he remember the this is Adam part and not how the sex was? That was just so wrong.
As he washed his hands he yawned and then decided that if he was going to get morning sex, and he like so had to because he like so had to remember how the sex was because like dude if he didn’t remember how the sex was then what was the point? After brushing his teeth he padded into his kitchen, poured a glass of water, and poked around in his medicine drawer until he found the pills that worked really good at getting rid of a hang-over when he forgot to put a bottle of water by the nightstand. He didn’t have a hangover, but then not everyone read Alan Cumming and got good advice on how to avoid hangovers and he so didn’t want Adam waking up and needing to be pampered. Dustin wasn’t sure if he could do pampering.
He padded back into his room, set the water and pills down and then stifled another yawn. Maybe he’d crawl back into bed, Adam had been nice, comfy and warm. He tilted his head and hooked his fingers over the blanket, slowly lowering it and taking Adam in. Dustin licked his lips. Oh, yea, he was keeping Adam in his bed as long as possible. Anyone that lickable had to stay for awhile. Nodding to himself he tucked Adam back in and then poked him.
“Dude, like wake up.” Nothing.
Dustin poked him again, “Duuude!”
Adam mumbled and swatted at him.
“Dude you are like so in my bed, so wake up.”
The covers went over Adam’s head.
Dustin shook his head, “At least wake up and take these.”
He pressed the pills into Adam’s hand, and handed him the glass of water surprised at how compliant a half-awake person could be. He took the still half-full glass of water to the sink and then looked around his kitchen trying to decide if he should get up. Maybe he should do his dishes, he had like five and that was too many. Dirty dishes were just gross. He scratched his stomach. Dirty dishes or snuggling with the lickable man in his bed? Well it was only seven. Decision made Dustin crawled back into bed and snuggled in. Adam sighed and snuggled back against him. Dustin smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek before drifting off.
He woke up a little less then an hour latter, and stretched. He poked Adam in the back. How could he still be asleep? It was eight o’clock in the morning. When he got no response he poked harder, “How are you still asleep? Wake up.”
Adam grumbled at him.
“Dude, I can’t understand you, wake up. You have to like tell me how the sex was cause I can’t remember. Dude…wake up…How was the sex? Was it any good?”
For all his trouble Dustin got a grimace and eyes squinted at him, “Goway”
“It’s my bed, Dude, so you have to wake up and tell me how the sex was.”
Adam blinked at him, looking sleepy and confused, “Wha?”
“Or we could just do it again. Then I’d remember how the sex was.”
“What time is it?”
“Eight, I like so let you sleep in.”
Adam groaned.
“Dude,” Dustin complained with another poke when it looked like Adam was going to nod off again.
“What?” Adam snapped, then his eyes opened and widened, “Oh hell.”
Dustin smiled at him.
“Oh no, no, no. I’m going to kill Tommy!”
Dustin blinked slowly, “Huh? He’s not here, are we going to have sex again are you going to freak out?”
Adam paused at that, confused, “I’m not freaking out.”
“Yes you are,” Dustin informed him, “and it’s not nice. I don’t think I like it.”
“What are you on?” Adam asked stifling a yawn.
Dustin frowned.
Adam blinked and suddenly realized that not only had he had sex with someone he’d just met, but they were both still naked and in bed together. He blushed and looked for an escape, “Where’s um…where’s the bathroom?
“Second door on your left, if you count my door. It’s the only other real door in my apartment.”
“Okay, thanks,” Adam said slowly before he made his way into the bathroom trying to figure out what he’d just done. Dustin? Dustin who he’d just met of all people? How did Tommy know someone that dense? Wait, it was Tommy. Adam shook his head. What the hell had he done? Obviously he just needed to get his clothes, and try to find a nice way to leave. He didn’t want to insult Tommy’s friend, but this just wasn’t him. He didn’t have one night stands, had never had a one night stand before. How drunk had he been last night?
Trying to wake up, Adam splashed water on his face and then froze. He’d already insulted Dustin. Okay, so he’d apologize, explain that he was grumpy first thing in the morning and hadn’t meant it, and try to escape while not thinking about how great the sex had been, mind-boggling good actually and there wasn’t going to be more. No, there would be no more sex, even if it’d been the best sex he’d had in a long time, maybe ever. Adam shook his head, he’d been drunk, it couldn’t have been that good.
Walking back into the bedroom Adam froze in the doorway. Dustin was padding around his room naked, sorting who’s clothes where who’s. Adam looked down when he realized he was standing on his own boxers. As he started to pull them on he turned his head towards the front door taking in the scattered trail of their clothes. Oh he remembered doing that. He wet his lips, he was not going to think about it. Clothes being tossed on the bed caught his attention. He turned back to take in Dustin’s offended look, “Dude, those are your’s, you can leave now.”
“What?” he asked confused.
Dustin glared, and crossed his arms over his chest, “I said leave.”
Oh, oh that was hot. Dustin pissed off was hot.
“Why?”
Dustin opened his mouth then closed it. Adam wondered if he’d self combust when the angry glare turned into an angry pout. Then Dustin was coming towards him ranting, “I’m not on anything! I let you sleep in and I like made sure you wouldn’t have a hang-over. I was even going to cook you breakfast! But no, I’m an idiot and you hate Tommy for introducing us. I don’t care how lickable you are you can’t just….”
Adam couldn’t take it anymore, he cut Dustin off with a kiss. This was bad, he should be running the other way. They hadn’t even been awake in each other’s presence for more than five minutes this morning and Adam was annoyed beyond belief, but Dustin angry and ranting and saying he was lickable…how as he supposed to resist that? With a sinking feeling that he was going to get in way over his head, Adam tumbled them towards the bed and reminded Dustin just how good the sex had been.
AN: Neither Adam or Dustin know about each other's past as a Power Ranger.
Adam closed his eyes with a smile. He hadn’t figured out what he’d gotten himself into, but for now he was content to drift as Dustin babbled at him. The sex had been as good as he remembered and now with Dustin curled against him he decided he could get used to this.
Dustin poked him, maybe not.
He peeked over at the other young man, took in the curious look and closed his eyes again before he asked, “I missed something, didn’t I?”
He could feel Dustin’s smile against his skin, “Yeah.”
“What was it?” Adam prompted after a moment.
“Oh, um, I asked how long you’ve known Tommy. So like how long, dude?”
Adam smiled, despite the oddness of being asked that question while being naked and in bed he felt strangely comfortable. Wondering why he wasn’t blushing he told Dustin, “Since high school.”
“Dude,” Dustin told him in a way that clearly meant ‘that’s profound’. Adam’s grin widened.
“That must have been like a long time ago.”
Adam’s smile faltered, “It wasn’t that long ago.”
“But he like has his doctorates man. That’d like, I don’t know, take me forever.”
Adam ran a hand over his face trying to decide how to best explain to a non-Ranger the adventure Tommy’d been in when he’d gotten his doctorates, “He…there were special circumstances. I still contest the idea and Hayley helped him.”
“Oh yeah, she like way cool. She might be like smarter than Cam, maybe not, but don’t tell him I said that.Have you met Cam? He and Hayley get going and its like scary, dude. They were working on this computer once and all I could do was hope that stuff was like under warranty.”
Adam waited for a pause, “No.”
“No what dude?” Dustin asked confused.
“I haven’t met Cam, who’s he?”
There was a cut off of a word too quick for Adam to make out, a moment of thought then Dustin was telling him, “A friend, he’s a genius. Really smart.”
“How’d you meet him?”
There was another pause and Adam opened his eyes to take in Dustin’s wrinkled nose, “Um, at school?”
What wasn’t Dustin telling him? Adam closed his eyes again, he was too comfortable and too drowsy to really care at the moment. All he really wanted to do was to go back to sleep.
There was a quick kiss on his shoulder and then Dustin asked, “You’re not going to ask me a like zillion questions about school are you?”
“No.”
“Cause I like did go. I even graduated and everything.”
Adam opened his eyes at that statement. He turned to look at Dustin, “Why wouldn’t I think you ‘graduated and everything’?”
Dustin shrugged and gave him a goofy grin. Adam found himself smiling back. He reached a hand up to touch Dustin’s cheek and eased him closer for a kiss. As Dustin started to pull back Adam found himself caught. Cupping Dustin’s face he told him, “Hey, hold on.”
Dustin looked confused. It was strangely endearing and Adam couldn’t help but smile as he placed a kiss on Dustin’s nose. He brushed his fingers slowly over Dustin’s face as he took in the eyes that had caught his attention in the first place. Why hadn’t he noticed them till now? They were hazel, in an almost golden way, like eyes he would expect to see on a large cat, but here they were staring back at him, watchful. Adam placed another kiss on Dustin’s nose, “I’m sorry.”
“You’re like so confusing me.”
“For earlier, I’m sorry for earlier. I didn’t mean what I said. I’m not the nicest person first thing in the morning.”
“Oh,” Dustin laughed, “You’re like Hunter then, you could’ve said so dude. I’d have let you wake up on your own.”
Adam fought down a wave of jealously. The question as to who Hunter was and why Dustin would know his sleeping habits was none of his business, he hadn’t know Dustin long enough. Still he could resist asking, “Another friend I don’t know?”
Dustin nodded, “Oh, he was mean in the morning. If you didn’t let him sleep in he’d like gripe at you for the rest of the day. It was like horrible man.”
Adam found himself smiling at the short babble. When was the last time he’d smiled this much with someone he’d just met?
Dustin pressed a quick kiss to his lips and crawled over him, “I’ll just let you sleep then.”
“What?”
“You’re practically falling asleep on me Dude, obviously you need to get some.”
Adam couldn’t help but smile again as he struggled to sit up, “I can get up.”
Dustin pushed him back down, kissed Adam’s forehead, then his lips as he stated, “No, I like you in my bed.”
Knowing he wasn’t going to argue with that, and feeling a familiar blush creep up his cheeks Adam snuggled back down with a drowsy, “Thank you.”
“Yep,” Dustin told him as he padded out of his room.
Later, in the shower, Adam blushed again as he thought of the way Dustin had just crawled over him and then pushed him back into bed. The blush turned into a smile at the memory of the way Dustin had bustled him into the shower, amid protests that he could go back to his hotel for such things. Dustin had been adamant though, pointed out the clean towels, found out if he wanted breakfast or lunch and then disappeared. Realizing that arguing with someone who could babble that easily wasn’t going to work Adam had simply taken his shower, dressed in his clothes from the day before, that Dustin had nicely left on the counter, and then wandered into the kitchen.
Dustin was on the phone, “Tor, really stop apologizing. I’m okay, so I got a little more drunk than I should have, but dude you were busy, so was Shane. I’m fine really…I was with Tommy and I’m like all here, one piece…hang on.”
As Dustin caught sight of him he pressed the phone against his shoulder, opened the fridge and grabbed the milk. He smiled at Adam, “See I made breakfast.”
He dropped the milk on the table next to the cereal, “I put the milk next to the cereal, and see breakfast. Do you want toast…I’ve got bread and a toaster. Oh I can make eggs, do you like eggs?”
Adam couldn’t help but smile as Dustin scratched his head, frowned, then put the phone back to his ear, “What Tor? Huh?”
“Cereal’s fine, great even,” Adam reassured as he set himself down to a bowl and Dustin bustled about pulling things out of his fridge.
Dustin smiled at him, then frowned, tilted his head and said, “Dude like yeah I have someone over and no it’s not George. I may be clueless sometimes, but I’m not stupid…Yeah…huh? MmmHmm…okay, see you tomorrow then? No, I have someone over and I’m seeing you tomorrow. Yeah…Yeah…okay, bye Tor.”
Dustin hung up his phone, apologized and finished piecing together his sandwich before he flopped down in the seat across from Adam. Without missing a beat he asked, “Dude, like why are you staying in a hotel, aren’t you in town visiting Tommy?”
“I could have stayed with him and Hayley,” Adam pointed out, “but Kaley isn’t sleeping through the night yet, so I thought it’d just be easier to get a hotel room.”
“Huh, yeah I guess being waken up by a screaming baby wouldn’t be like the nicest thing to deal with on vacation,” Dustin told him before starting on his sandwich.
Adam nodded, “It’s why he left last night. Hayley called, wanted him home, apparently Kaley was driving her insane or something, not really sure.”
Dustin finished his bite of food before he told Adam, “Sometime Hayley can get her back to sleep, but if she really gets going Tommy has to sing to her.”
Adam shook his head, “Really?”
Dustin shrugged, “Only thing that works apparently. They tried it over the phone once, but it doesn’t work. He has to hold her and sing to her.”
Adam shook his head again, that poor child was going to end up so tone deaf.
“Dude, have you ever heard him sing? It’s like awful.”
Adam smiled into his cereal and took another bite as Dustin launched into a full description of which of his friends could carry a tune. When he slowed to ask Adam about himself, Adam told him, “I do okay.”
Dustin nodded as he polished off his sandwich and began to put things away. Adam finished up his cereal, poured himself a glass of juice and was almost about to take a drink when Dustin told him that he didn’t have to stay in a hotel if he didn’t want to. Adam set the glass down, thankful that he hadn’t taken a drink yet. Stay with the guy he’d just met for the rest of the week?
Dustin blushed at the way Adam was staring at him. He stared at his shoes, “I mean like the couch folds out if you don’t want to sleep with me again, but like why waste all that money if you don’t have to?”
“Yes,” Adam found himself agreeing while he was mostly memorized with the way Dustin looked while blushing. His agreement had Dustin smiling at him and Adam found himself smiling back without meaning to.
Then it hit him, what he’d just agreed to. Adam grabbed his drink, so he’d have an excuse to look away. He’d just met Dustin, barely knew him, barely knew anything about him except that he wanted to have sex with him again. Okay, Adam told himself, obviously Dustin was a nice person, he was a friend of a friend, so it wasn’t like he’d just agreed to something insane. Right? How was he going to explain this to Tommy?