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ROUND TWO
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The club is alive, clogged thick with greasy beats, and Howard is sweating.
He shrugs deeper into his leather jacket, turning his shoulder away from bodies that drift too close, from hips that twist, stock-still and then slick-quick in the multicolored strobe lights. He's not here for them: the club crowd, the ones that come here and lean on bars, eyeing up the crowd like a wolf in a valley, shoulders wide and hackles raised. It's always the dangerous ones that get picked up the quickest, always the wide-shouldered dark-eyed leaners that are approached before anyone else. It's an animal reaction.
Howard weaves around the outside of the many-headed body of thrumming dancers. The bar-leaners stand lax-legged and gorgeous, brimming confidence and daring someone to try their luck. Drink in hand, hint of a sly, smug smile, I'm too good for you, but give it a shot and I'll blow your mind: a motif Howard had perfected, a long time ago ( ... )
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"How many?" the clerk asks. A woman, busty and blond with too-red lipstick; she reminds Howard of Maria, back when they first met. "How many?" she repeats, after he takes too long.
"One," he tells her. Someone moans off to his right. He leaves his sunglasses on.
"How long?" She doesn't look at him.
"An hour. Two," he corrects.
She waves a hand, gesturing vaguely beyond them. "You can pick one, or we've got -- " a moment of rummaging, " -- this." She hands him a slim leather-bound -- well, it can only be described as a menu, every page filled with gorgeous full-color prints of men and boys of every size, stature, color. There are no headshots. Each page is numbered. Howard flips, examining the pictures: ( ... )
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"Four ninety-three forty-seven," the woman says without pause, her expression the same, her tone no less bored. Howard hands over five hundred in cash and steps back. She doesn't offer him change, just slips the money into her drawer and picks up the phone to say something quick and harsh into it; Howard's stopped listening, is distracted, running blueprints in his head to keep Maria's smile away. He's waved forward again after a moment. "All right. Nicky -- Nicky!" the clerk calls, and a young man appears, bleached-blond with a cigarette dangling from a corner of his mouth. "Nicky will take you back. Room eight ( ... )
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Ferro cocks his head toward Howard, but his face is mostly obscured, covered by a large black blindfold that leaves only his mouth for the looking, stretched wide and wet around a rubber ball gag. His shoulders, and those bird-sharp shoulder-blades, stretch down into his arms, twisted around and bound at the small of his pale back. Howard is struck again by Maria, but then Ferro rotates his hips, one smooth roll that begs Howard to touch him. And Howard can't feel bad anymore; he just can't, he's all out of feeling bad about tonight ( ... )
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Fingers digging into Ferro's thigh, Howard finds himself closer to the edge quicker than expected, and he braces his knees to reach under Ferro and close a hand around his cock. Ferro jerks, curls forward and presses his cheek hard to the mattress. "Yeah," he pants, the first thing he's said, twisted up with lust and a desire so desperate it's palpable.
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And stops.
Traces the scar there.
He remembers that scar.
Remembers Tony, five years ago -- he was eleven and already belligerent and opinionated. Remembers him reaching for the iron Howard had just set down from welding, remembers him yelping at its warmth and dropping it. Remembers the spin of Tony's panic and his blood, his burn-sheared shorts and his sobs.
Remembers every second of that injury and that scar with burning clarity.
Tony, he goes to say, and remembers where he is.
"Come on," Ferro -- Tony, oh god, it is Tony -- says, rolling his hips again, begging. "Come on, ( ... )
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It doesn't matter how fast Howard yanks away after that, how quickly he gets dressed and leaves the club, ducking his shoulder as he stumbles past the same clerk, still bored behind her desk. It doesn't matter how quickly he finds his car, how sharply he turns the corner, how much gas he gives it as he guns away from the club. It doesn't matter how much alcohol he drinks as soon as he's in the door. He doesn't even make it to his workshop; he drops right there in the living room and is through a bottle of cognac before he can consider moving.
None of it changes the fact that he just fucked his son.
Tony comes home three hours later, freshly showered and bright-eyed. He stops in the doorway, his face going blank when he sees Howard and the four bottles around him. "Rough night?" he asks, his voice all distance and shaded derision.
Why were you there?
Howard can't decide if he's asking Tony or himself, so he doesn't say anything at all.
After a long, silent moment, Tony fades away.
[END.]
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Well. That's me. Going to hell in a handbasket. *duncare*
Man, this was amazing! Exactly what I'd been hoping for. :D Guh, Howard's emotional turmoil throughout and Howard being so messed up at the end, and uh uh uh Tony coming in "freshly showered and bright-eyed" and his voice all derisive. *sobs* And the porn! Totally delivered, authornon. Awesome Kudos to you! <3
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