A Luke/Reid fic in which Noah is in trouble (As the World Turns, NC-17).
Title: On Second Thought (16/37)
Author:
sleeper6Rating: NC-17
Characters: Luke/Reid, Ruth
Summary: Noah is blind again and needs Luke in L.A. What will Luke and Reid do?
Disclaimer: All belongs to As the World Turns, not me.
Warning: Will contain angst so read only if you don’t mind that.
Notes: Sorry about the last one but I think y’all will like this one. All feedback encouraged!
Previous:
HERE Luke and Reid landed in Oakdale at noon. They waited for Ruth and Noah’s flight to arrive half an hour later, each occupying himself with his phone so as to avoid talking. As soon as the aunt and nephew appeared, Luke greeted them while Reid, without acknowledging either, grabbed their bags on his own and put them in a cab. Both Noah and Ruth were staying at the Lakeview, Noah paying his own room while Reid footed Ruth’s bill, per their agreement.
“Will we see you all later?” Ruth asked the two men as she got into the taxi. “You know I’m new here and Noah can’t really show me around, unfortunately.”
Luke looked at Reid.
“We’ll call you,” Reid said as he slammed the cab door shut.
Luke gaped at him, and Reid gave him an innocent ‘What’d I do?’ look. Neither said anything as they walked toward Reid’s car in the airport parking lot.
Reid wheeled his suitcase into the bedroom and removed his watch. “I’m gonna take a shower. I feel all sticky.”
Luke rushed to the bathroom door and stood in front of it, blocking Reid’s entrance.
“Luke, could you move?”
“Not until you tell me what’s going on.”
“Nothing is going on,” Reid stressed.
“That’s bull. I know you, Reid. You’ve been acting very weird since Noah’s aunt arrived in L.A., and I want to know why,” Luke demanded.
“So just because I’m acting weird means I’m hiding some big, dark secret?” Reid asked exasperatedly. “Please move, Luke.”
“No.”
“Luke.”
“Reid.”
Reid could resist a lot of things but his boyfriend’s obstinance was not one of them. And if he was really honest with himself, Reid wanted to confess everything to Luke, and this was the opportunity he needed to speak the truth.
Reid sighed and rubbed his forehead as he stepped away from Luke. “I don’t know how to say this.”
Luke remained standing against the bathroom door.
“I’m a hypocrite. I called you a liar but I’m one, too.”
Luke was confused. “What did you lie about?”
“I told you I brought Ruth Mason to Noah but you already figured out that it was also for us. I brought her to keep Noah away from you.”
“Okay,” Luke said slowly, unsure of where Reid was going with this.
“She said she was broke so I offered to pay the flight and hotel. She still didn’t want to come so I paid her extra,” Reid said, not looking at Luke.
“You paid her extra money? You bribed her?”
Reid looked at Luke. “Yeah.”
Luke’s mouth opened in shock.
“I feel terrible about it and I know I shouldn’t have done it but I was desperate,” Reid said in a rush.
“Desperate?” asked Luke angrily. “Desperate about what?”
“About not losing you to him!”
Luke stepped away from the door. “Even after I had already told you that you had nothing to worry about, that there was nothing and would never be anything between me and Noah?”
“Yes.”
“You never trusted me, then. You don’t have faith in me. You still think I want to go back to Noah.”
“Luke.”
“What? Huh? What?’”
“You and me have only been together a year but you and Noah were together three. You shared a lot in that time. Nuke was the love story for the ages.”
“Don’t call us that. Don’t fucking use that name anymore!” Luke shouted. “And who cares how long we were together-it ended. We ended. I chose to be with you, only you.”
Reid squeezed his eyes shut before opening them again. “I know that but then I saw you around him in L.A. and I see the way he affects you and I-I couldn’t help doubting you, doubting us.”
“Reid,” Luke said. “There is nothing-”
“I’ve never done this, Luke. I’ve never been in this deep with someone like I am with you. And I panicked. I got scared,” Reid’s voice slightly cracked before he forced a cough. “You were spending so much time with him and I believed you’d have second thoughts about me and remember everything you loved about him. And after the year we’ve had-the year that’s been the best of my life-I didn’t want to face the risk of losing you to him. I couldn’t.”
“But Reid-”
“And he didn’t make it easy by saying that you might go back to him.”
“What?” Luke asked surprisingly. “He said that?”
Reid nodded. “When I was alone with him. I don’t know if he was just trying to rile me up, but it worked. So I had to keep you away from him and bringing his aunt to him seemed the only way to do that.”
“And you paid her to ensure that she came.”
“Can you blame me?” Reid asked as he sat on the bed.
“But why push me to be with him-and her-if the plan all along was to get me away from him?” Luke asked.
Reid wasn’t sure why, but he didn’t want to tell Luke about the threats he’d received from Ruth, or about Ruth’s delusions of reuniting Noah with Luke. Not yet, anyway.
Reid shrugged. “I felt like I had to keep her happy or she’d tell you what I’m telling you now. So if she needed your help or wanted you to go lunch with her, then I had to make sure you did.”
Luke sadly shook his head. “You should’ve told me from the start.”
“I’m so sorry, Luke.”
“For a moment, I thought you’d lost a bet with her and I was supposed to be her slave for life,” Luke said with a weak smile.
Reid smiled.
Luke exhaled as he sat on the bed next to Reid. “I know you are sorry, Reid and you should be, but I’m sorry, too.”
Reid immediately shook his head. “No, Luke, this is all my fault.”
“I shouldn’t have gone to L.A. If I knew it was going to affect you like this, I wouldn’t have gone. And you’re right about the way Noah gets to me, still, after all this time. I can see why you were worried.” Luke sighed. “I need to put an end to these horrible feelings I get whenever I’m around him. I’ve been kind of desperate to do that for a while now, and that’s why I was eager to go to L.A.”
Reid remained silent.
“So, Noah’s aunt is just interested in the money?” asked Luke.
“Yeah. She’s not a very nice woman, Luke. You should stay away from her.”
Luke nodded. “There was something off about her.”
Both men remained quiet.
“I’m sorry, Luke, for everything,” Reid said after a while. “It won’t happen again.”
“Lying or bribery?” Luke asked with a slight smile.
“Both.”
Luke nodded and stood.
“Where are you going?” asked a panicked Reid.
“I-I have to process all this. I can’t do that here. I need some time. I’m going to my parents’ for a while,” Luke said, looking at the floor.
Reid stood. “Luke, no, you don’t have to leave. I’ll go-I-”
But Luke interrupted him by putting a palm in the air. “No, stay, please. I-I’ll be back.”
And he turned around and walked out. Reid heard the keys and the front door shut as Luke left him.
“Hey.”
A startled Reid looked up from the medical journal on his desk and saw Luke standing in the doorway to his home office with a plate in his hand.
“Hungry?” asked Luke with a small grin.
“I thought you were-you said you were going to stay at your mom’s,” Reid said confusingly. It’d only been three hours since Luke left him standing alone in their bedroom and a small part of Reid had feared that Luke wasn’t coming back. So he was very relieved to see Luke standing in front of him.
Luke walked to Reid’s desk, which sat against the wall in the small room. “No, I said I was going to my mom’s but I didn’t say anything about staying there. Are you kidding? You know I can only handle my mother in small doses,” Luke said with a laugh.
“She's not so bad,” Reid said, sitting straight in his chair and looking up at Luke as he leaned against one side of the desk.
“No, she’s not, I guess. She gave us groceries,” Luke said, handing Reid the plate with a sandwich on it. “We didn’t have any food when I left and I figured you didn’t go shopping.”
Reid set the plate down and stared at Luke.
“I need you to have faith in me because then this isn’t going to work,” Luke said.
Reid nodded. “I know.”
“You say that but you have to believe it. You don’t just have to trust me; you have to trust yourself and us. You and me, remember?”
Reid smiled and touched Luke’s hand. “Always?”
“Always,” Luke whispered, squeezing Reid’s hand before leaning down and kissing Reid softly.
Reid pulled Luke closer and rested his head against Luke’s waist. “I love you, Luke.”
Luke caressed the soft curls. “Good to know.”
Reid sat back and looked at up Luke. “Did you wear these for me?” he asked as he fingered the top button of Luke’s shorts.
Luke laughed. “I told you I would.”
Reid pulled Luke’s shirt up to reveal his stomach and gently pressed his lips to the smooth skin above the waistband.
Luke, watching Reid kiss him, moaned softly.
Reid glanced into Luke’s eyes, asking the silent question they both knew so well, and Luke nodded. Reid unbuttoned and unzipped the khaki shorts and slid them down Luke’s pale, but toned, legs.
“Bedroom?” Reid whispered as he touched Luke’s boxers.
Luke shook his head. “No, here. It’s been a while since we’ve done it in the baby room.”
Reid laughed. The previous house owners had a nursery in this bedroom, and Luke never stopped teasing Reid that his office had once belonged to a baby. He slipped Luke’s boxers off him and then stood, leaning against Luke, as he removed his own pants and underwear. He then sat back down on the chair and Luke straddled him. They kissed fervently and passionately, both men desperately wishing to prove how much they needed only each other.
Luke broke the kiss and leaned slightly back, making Reid push his chair in closer so that Luke’s back could rest comfortably against the edge of the desk. He glanced at the drawers on the side of the desk. “Do you have a rubber in there?” he asked breathlessly.
“No.”
Luke shifted to stand. “I’ll go get one.”
Reid stopped him. “No, don’t. We don’t need it.”
Luke stared at him. “Are you sure?”
Reid had always been careful when it came to using protection and had never risked not using it. But since being with Luke, he had done things that he never had with anyone else: shopping hand-in-hand at the farmer’s market most Saturday mornings (which Reid always agreed to even when he preferred to be asleep), cuddling while watching a movie at home (Luke had branded Reid his human teddy bear and squeezed him a lot), and swimming in fifty-degree-temperature water at the Snyder Pond (which Reid also thought was quite murky but said nothing about it). This was one more first he wanted to do with Luke.
Reid kissed him. “I don’t want there to be anything between us anymore.”
“Me neither,” Luke said, kissing Reid back.
Reid stripped Luke’s shirt off and Luke helped Reid remove his. They kissed some more and then Reid stuck two fingers inside Luke’s mouth, which Luke gladly sucked on until they were wet enough.
Luke held on to the chair’s handles as he elevated himself slightly so Reid could push his fingers into him. Luke tossed his head back and moaned loudly as Reid opened him. Luke’s sounds coursed through Reid’s body and he bit down on Luke’s neck to stifle his own groans.
Reid moved his fingers inside Luke a while longer before asking, “Are you ready?”
Luke nodded and he moved his hands from the chair to clasp them around Reid’s neck. Reid spit and coated himself. He then shifted in the chair, lifted Luke and set him down on his hardened cock. Both men gasped as they made bare contact with one another. They breathed hard and fast as they looked into each other’s eyes, knowing now that they were more connected than they’d ever been or be with anyone else. In that moment, it was finally just Luke and Reid.
Luke rocked back and forth as Reid held him carefully. Reid then reached between them and grasped Luke’s cock, pumping him as Luke moved on top of him. Reid slid a little down the chair to push himself up into Luke even further. Luke’s mouth hung open as he felt Reid deeper in him. Luke reached behind him with one hand to hold himself against the desk as he continued to bounce up and down on Reid’s cock.
They lasted only a few more minutes before they both came, one right after the other. They held onto each other, hands grabbing and sliding down bare backs as their breathing slowed down.
Luke pushed his sweaty hair away from his forehead and smiled at Reid. “That was . . .”
“Yes, it was,” Reid agreed, his breathing still ragged as he smiled back. He touched Luke’s face. “See? I trust you, Luke.”
“Good.”
The following morning, Reid walked out of the operating room after performing a brain biopsy on Noah. He’d obtained the tissue sample that he needed to analyze the extent of the damage and to determine whether surgery would be necessary.
Ruth, her blond hair in a ponytail, smiled at him as he walked past her in the waiting area. “How’d it go?”
“The results will be ready this afternoon. I’ll let you know as soon as I know.”
She glanced around. “Where’s Luke? I thought he’d be here for Noah.”
“Luke said he’d call Noah later to see how it went, but he is busy doing other things right now. He has Noah in his prayers, though,” Reid said.
Ruth laughed. “I thought you’d make sure that Luke was here.”
“Why would I do that?”
“You know why, Doctor.”
“Luke knows about the money. I told him,” Reid said.
Ruth’s smile faltered a bit. “And what did Mr. Snyder have to say about that?”
“Nothing. We don’t think or talk about you, other than when he and I both agreed that you’re a gold-digging bitch,” Reid said with a smile. “Talk to you later, Ruth.”
Ruth narrowed her eyes as she stared after him.
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So, do y'all think this is the end of Ruth Mason? Let me know what you think.
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