Holes 2: Both Sides of the Wall, Part 9: Accepting the Gamble
Title: Holes 2: Both Sides of the Wall (9/?)
Chapter List
Fandom: NUMB3RS
Pairing/characters: Charlie Eppes/OMC
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Charlie has very particular needs - and unexpectedly finds someone who meets them. He has no idea that the other man has dark motives of his own.
[ Direct sequel to Holes]
Part 9: Accepting the Gamble
José thinks he has Charlie trapped - until Charlie changes the rules.
Word Count: 884
Notes/Warnings: Anonymous sex, rough sex
Beta: Yes, thanks.
Part 9: Accepting the Gamble -
José was relieved when Eppes stopped showing up in his boss's office. Eppes' intelligence had 'solved' the case and Eppes had moved on. However, without those daily reminders of Eppes' duplicity, José's anger faded somewhat. Until his tracking app told him that Eppes was heading to the club, until José arrived at the club in a rush, until José looked through that hole and saw Eppes waiting and hoping that this would be the day that José wouldn't be there and Eppes could meet his informant. Then the anger and hate would come flooding back and José would fuck him without restraint.
Fortunately, Eppes didn't go to the club every day. José was having enough difficulty hiding his activities as it was. José had to think that Eppes' contacts were getting frustrated with not being able to pass the information on. José had never been able to figure out where Eppes got the money to pay for his gathered intelligence - or if in fact, people paid Eppes to have him offer 'solutions' to agencies which benefited them. José could certainly see how criminals would be eager to have Eppes, who had the ear of many important people, steer an investigation to a rival criminal. Yes, they might arrest a bad guy, but more likely a bigger bad guy was let get away. If José would have been able to use the resources of the Agency to investigate Eppes, he knew he'd be able to turn up a suspicious money pattern. But no one wanted to look this particular prized horse in the mouth, so José could only do what he could to disrupt Eppes' system. It baffled him that Eppes didn't try to meet with his contacts outside the club. He must be a creature of habit. Or undimmed egotism.
José contemplated ways to get Eppes kicked out of the club. He could tell them that Eppes played loose and fast with the 'condoms always' rule, but there were other more certain approaches. For example, it would be easy to sneak a recording device in - then record himself as if Eppes was recording him through the hole. That would get Eppes booted for sure. But then José would have a harder time intervening in those meetings. So he let Eppes keep going to the club, and he was always right on his heels.
José managed to keep the tracking and the trips to the club from his fellow agents, but it was being harder to keep it from his wife. While she was usually willing to accept that his work had strange hours and he couldn't talk about it, she seemed to sense that something was different this time. He'd had to lie to her many times and they even stopped having sex for a while. Realizing that she might then mistakenly think he was having an affair, he forced himself to go back to regular sex with her. But loving, harmonious sex suddenly had no appeal to him. The only connection he desired was the moment when he looked through the hole at Eppes covered in his cum.
Seven weeks went by and José reached out to other agencies to see if Eppes was finally running out of actionable intelligence he could sell. José was frustrated to find that Eppes continued to shine - even shone brighter than before. He decided that Eppes must be using up months, maybe years of hoarded intelligence. José just had to stay the course and he'd start seeing results soon.
Though of course, he reassured himself, he'd have to watch Eppes for a long time after Eppes started running into trouble, to make sure that he didn't restart his activities.
José arrived at the club late one night, not too long after having sex with his wife. He wasn't worried about his body being able to perform, though. His cock was already hard with the realization that this time it would be fucking.
When he arrived at the hole, however, he looked through and saw Eppes sitting on his stool, fully dressed.
"What's this?" he snapped.
"I, uh," Eppes started and he looked up nervously to meet José's eyes. "We can, we can stay here if you want, but I was wondering if you… wanted to get a private room."
José blinked, shocked by the eye contact after so long with only one-way looking. "Why?"
Eppes stammered, "I just thought it might be f-fun. I wondered what it would be like."
José stared at him. A million scenarios of why Eppes was doing this flipped through his mind, but his body was already making itself heard - his hands itching to finally get to grip Eppes how he wanted, his cock aching to use both Eppes' mouth and ass in the same session.
"I could pay for it," Eppes offered. "A room."
José continued to stare at him. What sort of play was this?
"Or we can do it here, if you want," Eppes said, dropping his eyes. "Like usual."
"A room sounds good," José admitted huskily. "I'd like that a lot."
Eppes looked back up again, starting to smile.
And all José wanted to do was wipe that smile off his face.
"But don't expect me to keep going easy on you."