FIC: The Connections Series, Part 21/23, "Embracing the connection" (Charlie/Colby, R)
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Title: Embracing the connection
Series: The Connections Series, Part 21/23
Characters: Charlie/Colby
Rating: R for topic conversation.
Spoilers: None.
Summary: Charlie and Colby start to embrace the fact that they really want to be together.
Feedback: I would be so happy if I could get to know what you lovely readers think. :)
Disclaimer: I do not own Numb3rs or anything related to it. But I do own the ideas used for this fic in terms of the story and my OCs.
Beta: The always amazing irena_adler.
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Go to Part 20: I'm ready, NC-17
Go to Part 22: The right to judge, PG-13
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The Connections Series
Part 21: “Embracing the connection”
It was almost three o’clock in the afternoon when Charlie whispered, “Hey, Colby?”
“Mhm?”
It was all so silent, except for their voices.
Charlie laughed a bit at the sight of the relaxed grin on Colby’s face. The agent was still with his eyes closed, his chin resting on his lover’s shoulder while his arms still embraced him sweetly.
They hadn’t moved in ten minutes. They had spent that time without saying a word, Colby still inside Charlie against the wall, on the rug, waiting for the warm feeling inside their hearts to vanish.
But it hadn’t. It was exactly the same right now.
“Would you mind if I’d use your bathroom for a minute?” Charlie asked, admiring Colby’s perfect skin.
The agent held him closer, not wanting to let him go. “No… Don’t get up, let’s stay like this for a while longer…”
Again, the mathematician laughed, and he caressed Colby’s hands with light touches. “I’d love to, but I have to… clean myself.”
Colby opened his eyes, suddenly remembering all they had done. He saw Charlie’s face covered with little spots of dry cum, and immediately blushed. The images of his lover giving him pleasure made Colby stare at Charlie, feeling a little embarrassed.
“Hey, it’s ok…” Charlie muttered, knowing what Colby was thinking. He cupped his lover’s face. “I liked it.”
Now Colby swallowed and continued looking at Charlie in the eye. He was so different. Very early this morning, he had been shaking, nervous and reluctant to do anything, but now Charlie seemed very relaxed, warm and accepting of their situation.
The sweet pressure of Charlie’s lips against his made Colby felt completely at the other man’s mercy. He was totally melting against him, shocked that they had ended up making love again and this time Charlie hadn’t freaked out.
Very slowly, Charlie got up, being careful to not hurt the agent with his movement. Colby watched him grab his clothes and walk naked to the bathroom. He stared at his lover’s slim figure, still not being able to wake up and believe the dream.
Inside of the bathroom, Charlie put on his pants and his dress shirt, and smiled looking at the way things were arranged in Colby’s way. It was all so simple and tidy. After admiring the order of things, so different from his messy office, he looked at his reflection in the mirror and saw the dry cum on his face. It reunited a whole universe of meanings.
He smiled and then tried to get something to clean himself. He looked in the shower but he couldn’t find anything that seemed to be useful. And when Charlie turned around, there was Colby leaning on the doorframe, already messily dressed.
“Oh, Colby… I’m sorry, I was looking for something to wash my face… Oh, look! Here there’s at least soap…”
Colby stared at Charlie in silence and watched him turn on the water on the sink, soap his hands and then his face. The mathematician was at his apartment. Half-naked. After having sex with him. Against the wall. On the rug. And he was trying to get his cum off his face.
But of course, the cum was hard to clean.
“That’s not going to work, Charlie,” Colby said in a whisper, “I think I have something else …” He went to the bedroom and returned to the bathroom carrying a bottle of shampoo. “Here. It’s a little old, but it might help you to… you know.” He couldn’t say it. He couldn’t say anything explicit related to what they had done, even if he knew that it would immediately turn him on again. Dirty talk was something that had always fascinated him and aroused him, but it was some kind of taboo that he couldn’t free himself from.
“Thank you.”
Very slowly, Charlie used a little bit of shampoo to wash his face again very carefully. But still, the tiny spots were giving him a hard time. “It’s not working either. Did you say that it was old?”
“Yeah, but I think the problem is that you’re not doing it right. Here, let me.” Colby went towards Charlie, let water run over his hands and then he started to apply some more energy to his lover’s skin. He watched Charlie closely while he rubbed his face, and while he was concentrated on doing it right, the mathematician started to give him an unexpected look.
It was still all so new for Charlie. He didn’t even know that he could get turned on because of Colby trying to clean his cum off his face.
When Colby suddenly realized what Charlie was thinking about, he stopped scrubbing his face and waited.
“Do you think it’s normal that I…?” Charlie breathed hard and looked down at his own erection, which was hard against his pants.
Colby followed Charlie’s eyes and jumped in his place. “Wow.”
“I know. I’ve never wanted to do it all over again after only ten minutes.”
Now the agent stared at him. “Wait, you’re telling me that when you were with Amita, you never had like a… marathon or something?”
Charlie shook his head, his cheeks blushed under the shampoo. “Um… no, not really. Our intimacy wasn’t that… intimate. At least not the same way it is between you and me…”
They stared at each other in silence, adjusting to the way they looked. They were a mess, their clothes all wrinkled, their hair tangled, and their skin blushed and sweaty. It would take them some time to get used to see each other like this. And it would also take them some time to control the desire to touch each other every time they met like this.
But Charlie was a little concerned about the way Colby was acting. Since he had gotten into the bathroom, it seemed like Colby had gone a little cold. Charlie didn’t want to lose him now, when they had finally seemed to embrace their connection. He turned around and started to wash the cum off his skin. Applying a little more pressure, it disappeared. “You’re kind of silent,” he muttered, grabbing a towel and pressing it to his face.
Colby opened his mouth to say something, but he didn’t. He had no words to explain how appreciated and fantastic he felt. Charlie was there, and he was his.
But Charlie couldn’t know that, so he continued, “Did I do something that bothered you?”
Charlie looked so worried that Colby had to give him some response. “It’s nothing, I just…” He looked into Charlie’s dark eyes. “I just can’t believe that this is finally happening. That we… you know, slept together… and that we’re still here, with no regrets.”
Charlie took a breath, looking into his lover’s beautiful eyes too, and he reached for Colby’s hand. He caressed it slowly and muttered, “Yeah, I know… This is pretty different from what happened this morning…” he felt like he was about to cry again at the memory of his foolish actions, and he covered his face with his hands. “I’m so sorry…”
“Charlie…” Colby pulled Charlie towards him and put his arms around him.
The mathematician was trembling and when he took his hands off his face, his eyes were teary again. “I’m really sorry… I shouldn’t have told you all those things… I was so insensitive. I didn’t think about what you’d feel, I thought about what people might say, which is just… stupid.” He felt Colby’s arms holding him tightly. “I hurt you so much…”
Slowly, Colby caressed his lover’s hair and said very seriously, “Hey, you’re here now. You didn’t back out this time.” They looked into each other’s eyes for a second, the agent’s fingers lightly touching the mathematician’s curls. “I believe you. I believe that you’re sure about this.”
“Really? You do?” Charlie asked with his trembling voice, and he could see Colby nod and pull him closer. The kiss Charlie’s lover gave him reassured him so much that he couldn’t help starting to deepen it.
As the scenario was new, sexy in a weird way for them, Colby melted to Charlie’s eagerness, feeling his hand on his hair too. But unexpectedly, just when things were heating up between them, the mathematician broke the kiss.
“I think I need to take a cold shower now,” he muttered, stepping aside and shaking from head to feet.
“Are you ok?” Colby asked, a little worried about him, trying to control his own arousal.
“Yeah, yeah… I’m just not very used to getting this turned on when I’m so exhausted. It’s a little overwhelming… scary, in a good way, of course,” Charlie explained, and he ran his hands through his hair. “I guess that you don’t understand me, but that’s what I’m feeling right now.”
“Well, I do understand, Charlie… I’m a little bit… on fire here too.” Colby couldn’t manage to make his lips say the exact words his heart wanted to share with Charlie; he just couldn’t get into any kind of dirty talk. Not with anyone, and especially with his lover, if he didn’t want to come right there and then.
“I know,” Charlie muttered, looking at Colby’s hardness, outlined by the fabric of his jeans.
In a moment of panic, Colby jumped in his place and turned around, his hands on his hips, trying to relax and stop thinking about having sex again with Charlie. “Ok, ok. Um… Look, I really want to take this slow.”
“Colby…” Charlie warned him, pointing to their clothes, the way they looked, the wall and the rug of the apartment.
Colby lifted a hand, feeling his own face burn from embarrassment. “Yeah, I know that it’s a little late for that, but I really think that now that we’ve got the sex out of the way, we should really slow down. I mean it.”
“I know, and I actually agree. That’s why I suggested the cold shower.”
“Ok, you go first, and then I’ll take my bath. Shampoos are right there, and here you have the towels.” Very quickly, Colby showed Charlie the places where he kept his stuff in his very organized bathroom.
And before leaving, he kissed his lover sweetly on the lips a couple of times. Then he went to the living room and sat on his little sofa. He heard the sound of the shower being turned on, and some noises coming from the bathroom.
Thinking that he would live the dream as much as he could, Colby couldn’t avoid smiling, joining his hands and caressing them together, one against another. They had touched Charlie in the most intimate way. But most important, he had been able to get to know a side of Charlie that he hadn’t been able to really enjoy that morning because of the big fight they had had.
Now the apartment seemed complete. There were just a few things in it, and because of that, it had always seemed a little empty before; now it looked like a whole world of corners and places that Charlie could make his own.
He thought about everything that had happened until Charlie had finally given himself to him without regrets, and he was sure that it had been worth waiting for this moment to come. They hadn’t taken things very slow, but then again, it seemed very natural for them to want to be together as much as they could.
Colby was lost in his own world for a few minutes until the bathroom’s door opened and Charlie got out of it looking absolutely clean and adorable after his bath. His hair was arranged perfectly, even if his wrinkled clothes didn’t look that good.
The mathematician went towards Colby and kissed him on the lips. “Hi… I’m done, you can go now.”
Smiling, Colby muttered a little, “Ok,” and he went to take his bath.
And Charlie was left alone to enjoy the view of his lover’s apartment. He giggled at the thought of Colby’s expression when he was making love to him, the way he moaned with pleasure at his every touch. He noticed himself trembling because of the warm feeling that he still held inside his chest.
He had taken the right choice. Colby’s words, Colby’s caresses, had rewarded him for not bailing on him. No matter what anybody said, he would try to do his best to remain beside Colby as long as he could.
Charlie ran his fingers over the shapes of the room. Some lamps on the corners, the soft fabric of the sofa, and the sharp edges of the TV screen. Even the curves of the curtains that framed the window were an expression of the kind of person Colby was.
And it was a kind that Charlie knew that he wouldn’t be able to let go.
He smiled when he heard the bathroom’s door, and turned around to receive Colby. When Charlie went towards him to give him a tight hug, Colby held his lover back, and they tenderly kissed each other.
“You know… I was thinking that we should go talk to my dad and Don.”
“What?” Colby snapped, completely puzzled by Charlie’s suggestion.
“Yeah, I think we should do it. I mean, what we have is not going to be over any time soon, so they should be aware of that. And swallow their criticism.”
Astonished, Colby looked at the mathematician’s warm eyes, and then kissed him again. “Ok, as you’re so sure… Yeah, we could go.”
“Great.”
They kissed again, this time a little deeper, and for a moment they forgot what they had just planned. However, suddenly Charlie broke the kiss and said, “C’mon, get ready. I want to clear the air, at least with my family. They’re important to me and I don’t want to lie to them, even if I’m sure that I want to be with you and that I won’t change my mind, whatever they say,” he stated. “Besides, it would be pointless to try to pretend that there’s nothing between us. Don knows about us, and I’m sure my dad, who’s very perceptive, does too.”
Colby nodded, a little preoccupied about Alan’s response, and went to grab his jacket. Charlie did the same, and he also took his mother’s picture with him, as well as his stuff.
“Leave those there,” his lover said, pointing at the papers full of equations laying on the table. “You’re going to be here again anyway I guess, so…”
Charlie took a deep breath, smiling, left the papers on the table and grabbed his bag. “Ok, I’ll leave them here.”
They got out of the apartment feeling a little dizzy after all the changes they had been through during the last hours, and they got into Colby’s car. They giggled on the way to Charlie’s house, they talked about the music on the radio and had fun just being with each other. Time passed by very quickly, and soon they arrived to their destination.
Parked in front of the Eppes’ residence, which was still surrounded by “Police, do not cross” bands, Charlie took a deep breath, and he felt Colby’s loving eyes on him. “I’m ok, I can do this,” the mathematician reassured his lover one more time, and both of them got out of the car.
Colby was about to start walking towards the house, but Charlie stopped him and said, “Hey, maybe it would be better if I’d go in there by myself. Considering what Don said to me, I don’t want him to get you into a fight.”
“But…” Colby muttered, and then he nodded. “Ok, if you think that’s the best thing to do.”
“Well, I do. This is something I have to take care of myself. After all, it’s my family.”
There was moment in which Colby felt that maybe Charlie was a little ashamed to take him into his house now that he had different role in his life. Fortunately, Charlie read that doubt in his eyes, and he gently squeezed his lover’s arm.
“Is it ok if I’d ask you to come to the house after I talk to my dad and Don?”
Colby lifted his gaze and immediately relaxed at the idea. “Sure.”
They smiled to each other, and Charlie caressed his lover’s arm again. Then he walked towards his still damaged house, his mother’s picture inside his jacket.
Still a little worried about what might happen, Colby watched Charlie get into the residence. Suddenly, the neighborhood seemed so quiet that he knew that he would be able to hear any kind of fight between the people inside the house.
He rested on his car’s door and crossed his arms. This was going to take a while, but if Charlie got in trouble, he would go in there and support him no matter what.
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There are 2 chapters left for The Connections Series to be over...
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The song I chose for this chapter
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(Song suggested by reader Twin's Mom)
Hoobastank - "The reason"
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