Title: Cause We've Ended As Lovers
Pairing: James/Logan and Kendall/Carlos
Rating: T
Word Count: 2,365 (This Part)
Summary: "Maybe we should just tell them we're together." Logan looked up, panicked, "We cannot do that. Because Kendall will kill you." James and Logan are dating, but Kendall and Carlos have no idea.
Disclaimer: I do not own BTR.
Author Notes: I don't even know where this story came from, but I didn't question it just wrote it down. This will be a multiple chapter story, just not sure how many chapters. The title is a song by Jeff Beck of the same name.
-X-
"I'm so glad you finally have a night off," James said as he leaned down to kiss his boyfriend. "I've missed you."
Logan smiled, hooking his arms around James's neck. "I don't have to be at the hospital until 24 hours from now. What are we going to do with all our time?"
James smirked. He leaned down again, not wasting time and immediately deepened the kiss.
Logan was in the middle of his residency at the hospital downtown. He didn't get a lot of time off and was always on call, or at least it seemed that way to James. They both had busy schedules. James's new T.V. show was taking off and had filming, interviews and photo shoots to do. As much as he wished he could spend all day, everyday with the genius, he was so proud of Logan for making his dream of becoming a doctor reality. Some days it was a struggle but they made it work.
James pushed Logan back until he was flat on the leather couch in the middle of Logan's cushy two bedroom, condo in Los Angeles. He loved that Logan was a perfect fit against him. He was smaller, allowing for James to hover over him, cover him completely, all the while their hips lined up perfectly. Logan slid his hands under James's shirt, pulling until it bunched at his armpits. James pulled back just enough so Logan could pull his shirt up over his head before diving back down to attack Logan's neck. The moan Logan let out when straight to James's dick.
"You are so hot. How are you so hot?" James didn't give Logan the chance to respond as he kissed the shorter boy once more. Logan lifted his legs to wrap around James's waist, drawing him closer.
James could think of nothing but LoganLoganLogan. He could see nothing but the love in Logan's eyes. He could feel nothing but Logan's tongue, hot against his own, his legs wrapped tight around his waist, his hands warm against the his shirtless back.
Logan needed to lose his clothes. Like now.
James began to toy with the zipper on Logan's jeans, just as Logan's phone blared from the coffee table next to them.
"Ignore it," James demanded.
"It's Kendall. We've been playing phone tag for two days."
"So keep playing."
"It will be a minute, promise." Logan rolled out from under James to grab his phone. "Hey man."
"Hey Logan! I finally got you. How have you been?"
"Can't complain." Logan ran a hand through James's hair, giving him a small smile. James turned his head to give Logan's palm a chaste kiss. "Hospital is keeping me busy. How's Minnesota and Carlos?"
"Good and great. That's actually why I called. Do you have vacation time coming up?"
"Not really, but I can probably swing a week or so. Why?"
"Carlos and I are coming to visit."
Logan's smiled dropped as he stood up, detangling himself from James. "What? When?"
"A few weeks. I don't know how long we'll stay but hockey is over for the season. If you can take some time off, I want all of us to spend some time together. It's been too long since we've all had the chance to hang out."
"I'll see what I can do."
"You don't sound too excited to see you big bro, Logan."
"First of all, I'm older than you. Second of all, I am excited. I can't wait to see you." He shot a nervous glance at James, whose eyes were wide, staring right back at him.
"Good. I've been trying to reach James, too. Have you heard from him lately?"
"James? No, I haven't. I haven't seen him in a few weeks."
"How is it that you two live in the same city and never see each other?"
"We're both busy, Kendall. We see each other when our schedule allows it. James's T.V. show really took off." Logan smiled proudly at his boyfriend.
"Okay, well I'll keep trying him. I'll send you the flight information so you can pick us up at the airport. Love you."
"Love you too." Logan dropped his phone loudly back on the coffee table. "Kendall and Carlos are coming to visit."
"I gathered. Shit Logan, what are we going to do?"
"I have no idea." Logan rubbed his hands frustratingly through his hair. James pulled his arm, until Logan fell on the couch next to him. He gave a long kiss to Logan's temple before leaning back against the couch.
James's phone rang from its spot on the coffee table next to Logan's, but he made no move to answer it.
-X-
"James, their flight lands in 2 hours. We have to hide your stuff!"
"I'm going as fast as I can, Logan."
"We've had two weeks to do this. I told you to take this shit back to your house."
"Can you please yell at me later? We don't have time for this."
"We are so fucked. Kendall is going to kill both of us." Pure panic etched Logan's face as he ran around throwing stuff in closets, trying to hide the fact that James clearly spent more time at his condo than his own three bedroom house in Hollywood Hills.
"Hey- Logan- hey, stop, come here..." James took the items Logan was holding in his hands, tossed it on the bed and pulled Logan into his arms. "It's going to be okay. Everything will work out. Maybe... maybe we should just tell them we're together."
Logan looked up, panicked, "We cannot do that."
"Why not?"
"Because Kendall will kill you. I don't want you to die. I love you."
James let out a small chuckle. "I love you too. We won't tell them. I'll put this stuff in my car. I'll take it to my house while you go to the airport and all of it will be gone by the time you get back."
Logan smiled. "You're a good boyfriend." He leaned up to give James a quick kiss. "Let's start putting stuff in your car."
-X-
Growing up, James could only rely on three things, hockey, his beauty and his boys. Hockey was a good distraction from his home life. He could count the number of times on one hand the times his absentee father and his workaholic mother made it to a game and still have digits to spare. He loved his mother and he knew his mother loved him, just not as much as she loved her cosmetics company. He doubted his father gave two shits about him.
James had always been pretty and always would be. He often used his beauty as a way to score dates, get out of detention and sweet talk the cute cashier into giving him free smoothies when they lived at the Palm Woods. Logan used to tell him that his sense of personal vanity resulted in a bad case of narcissism. James had no idea what that meant but he thinks it has something to do with him being good-looking, so he just smiled and said thank you.
The most important part of his life has always been Kendall, Logan and Carlos. He met Kendall first. They were in the same class in Kindergarten and bonded over James' Minnesota Wild lunchbox. James met Carlos in first grade. The overly energetic kid accidentally tackled James into the sand while racing towards the swings. They have been friends ever since. Logan didn't move to Minnesota until third grade. Kendall befriended him first, recruiting him to be on their hockey team when he found Logan skating on an ice pond near his house.
The four of them were inseparable. They did everything together. That threatened to change when both of Logan's parents died in a car accident in eighth grade. They were barely 14, getting ready to start high school and a whole new chapter of their life. They had plans: hockey, girls, popularity and now all of that was jeopardized by tragedy. Logan's only other family was his maternal grandmother who lived in Texas. The boys couldn't stand the thought of losing Logan. He lost both his parents, now he was going to lose his best friends.
Kendall came to the rescue.
He somehow convinced Mrs. Knight and Logan's grandmother to let Logan stay with them. It wasn't long before the Mrs. Knight officially adopted him into their family.
It was because of this, that Logan and Kendall's bond became stronger. Sometimes James was jealous of their brotherly bond. He didn't have that with anyone and Kendall was his friend first. He learned to deal with it, however. Logan to got stay in Minnesota, that was all that mattered and besides, he had Carlos. Things weren't so bad.
Especially when they moved to Los Angeles in search of pop stardom. The band had a good run. After five years, a platinum record and numerous sold out shows, they decided to call it quits, right around the time Kendall and Carlos hooked up. To everyone else, this seemed to come out of nowhere but Logan and James always knew the oldest and the youngest members of their quartet had a thing for each other.
Post Big Time Rush life, brought along major changes for all of them. Kendall entered the NHL draft and was picked first round by the Wild. He moved back to Minnesota, taking Carlos with him. James often gave Carlos crap about being the trophy wife, but the insult held no bearing with Carlos. He was content to follow his boyfriend around; he looked at it as being supportive. Logan was accepted to med school at UCLA. James was happy that he would have one of them still in Los Angeles. James started doing modeling gigs and guest appearances on T.V. shows. He finally landed a show of his own, the lead character on a new drama show. The network was promoting it heavily; they thought it was going to be their next big hit. James agreed.
After dropping his stuff off back at his house, he made his way back to Logan's apartment. Letting himself in the door, he immediately hears laughter and voices that have been missing from his life for far too long.
"James!"
Carlos spots him first. He jumps off the couch and practically tackles James with a hug.
"Hi, Carlos." James hugs him back just as enthusiastically. "How are you?"
Carlos steps back. "Good, good. I've missed you, man. It has been too long."
"I've missed you too, buddy."
"What about me? Can I get a hug?"
James turned to find Kendall and Logan smirking at them. He hasn't seen Kendall in years and yet all he wants to do is grab Logan and kiss him until he can't breathe.
"Hi, Kendall." James steps forward and hugs him, clapping him on the back. "How was your flight?"
"Not too bad. Plane was on time, everything went pretty smoothly."
"Good. I'm happy you guys are here. It has been forever since all four of us have hung out."
"We were just talking about that actually," Logan says. "We want to do something tonight to celebrate the four of us being together again."
"Sounds like a great idea."
Logan smiles at him. James can't help but smile back.
-X-
"Why are we going out again? Aren't we getting a little too old to be doing this?"
The four of them were currently walking down the street towards the nearest club. Logan had been to many clubs, but the whole thing wasn't really his scene. He wanted to stay home and hang out at his place, but he was overruled. Carlos suggested the club and Kendall quickly jumped on board. What Carlos wanted, Carlos got.
Kendall scoffed. "We are not old, Logan. We haven't all hung out in over two years and we haven't gone bar hoping since before we called it quits on Big Time Rush. Plus from the sounds of it, you guys don't hang out that often either. It will be like a reunion."
"Come on, it will be fun. We can act like we are 21 again: new to alcohol, new to bars, no responsibility, relying on you to wake us up for rehearsal the next day," Carlos directed towards Logan.
"I don't recall that being fun."
"It's not like you have to go the hospital tomorrow," James offered. "Loosen up. Have some fun."
"Okay, okay, let's go," Logan gave in as Kendall and Carlos whopped and hollered, walking ahead.
James leaned down to whisper in Logan's ear. "Plus, when they get so trashed they won't remember anything, you and I can grind on the dance floor." Logan smirked. "Does that turn you on, Logan? Dancing close, my hands on your hips, hoping the boys don't get suspicious... me kissing your neck, pulling you tight against me, moving to the music, hot and sweaty-"
Logan stopped walking. "Shit, James."
"I want to kiss you so bad."
Logan looked up at James and could tell that was true. He could see it in James's eyes how badly he wanted to kiss him, how badly he wanted him. Logan would be lying if he said he didn't want James just as bad.
"Come on you two," Kendall called. "We're wasting precious time."
Logan forced himself to look away from James and walked quickly to catch up with Kendall and Carlos. It was going to be a long night.