Rating: NC-17 (Adult Language, Sexual Situations – gay sex)
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Noah woke up and felt his wrist.
"My watch, where's my watch?" Noah said in a panic, waking up Luke.
Noah slipped out of bed and started to feel around the floor.
"It must be here." Luke looked at a panicked Noah.
Luke looked on in horror, as Noah was frantically searching for something on the floor. A few minutes later, he found his watch and pressed the button.
"4:15 am" the watch said.
"Oh god, I'm going to be late." Noah went into panic mode.
"It's okay, Noah, I'll take you."
"Do you see what my life has become? I still can't do anything, even after you sent me away, I still can't do it."
"We didn't send you away, Noah. You wanted to learn how to do things for yourself, so we found a place for you."
"You didn't want to deal with me, so you sent me away." Noah said honestly.
Luke could see the hurt on Noah's face. "We didn't want you to go, Noah. You wanted to learn things, so we found you a place."
"It didn't feel that way. I was scared. I didn't know anyone."
Luke looked sadly at Noah on all fours on the floor as Noah started searching for his clothes.
Luke got out of bed and handed Noah's clothes to him.
"I've been independent ever since I can remember because I've had to. Living with the colonel demanded it. It's hard to change a lifetime of how you lived overnight, Luke."
"Come on, let's take a quick shower and get you to the hospital. We can talk later."
Luke dragged Noah into the bathroom. Luke concentrated on cleaning up Noah. He shaved him and got him into the shower. Luke started washing Noah down, making sure he was really clean for his surgery. Noah began shaking slightly.
"I'm sorry, Luke. I'm just so scared."
"It's okay, Noah, you're going to see again."
"You don't know that." Noah's voice full of fear.
"No, I don't but I have faith that you will." Luke tried to sound reassuring.
Luke dried Noah off and helped him get dressed and then dressed himself. He helped Noah out to into the car. When they arrived at the hospital, the nurses took over and helped Noah into his room as Luke went down to get something from the cafeteria vending machines. Luke wanted to avoid Reid this morning, until after Noah's surgery. While they weren't officially dating, he felt some guilt about sleeping with Noah. He wanted to sleep with Noah but knew how wrong it was while he was sleeping with Reid. He went back up to the waiting room and fell asleep in one of the chairs. He slept there until Reid woke him up.
"How's Noah?"
"He's..." Reid stopped as he noticed Luke's hickey. "Uh... he's fine. Surgery was not as clean as I liked but I think it was a success."
"What do you mean?" Luke was scared.
"He bled a bit more than I thought he would. We will have to see if that complicates things."
"So it might not have worked at all?"
"Possibly, but the bleeding could have made things worse. There is no way of knowing until Noah wakes up. We put him in a temporary coma for a couple of days."
"You're saying he could have brain damage?"
"It's possible. This can happen in a surgery like..."
"Stop being so clinical. Stop talking to me like I'm in medical school and talk to me like a real person." Luke demanded.
"There is no way to know how this affected Noah until he wakes up. Until then it's all speculation, Mr. Snyder." Reid got up and walked away.
"Mr. Snyder." Luke thought to himself. "Why did he call me that?"
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Lily walked into the waiting room as Luke tried to comprehend what Reid had just told him. He explained everything he knew to her and cried on her shoulder.
"What happens if this didn't work?"
Lily walked with Luke to the chapel down the hall to say a prayer for Noah as Luke gathered his courage to confess to last night's events.
"I had sex with Noah last night."
Lily looked happy. "You did?"
"Yes, I'm also sleeping with Reid."
"Dr. Oliver... as in Noah's doctor?"
"Yes."
"Luke..."
"Spare me the lecture. I know... and Noah knows. He said he could smell Reid's cologne on my clothes." Luke stumbled.
"What are you thinking?"
"I'm not sure. I love Noah so much but I'm scared. I like Reid but not in the same way I like Noah. It's very confusing."
"Well, I've been in that position before." Lily looked sad. "I had hoped you wouldn't take after me and avoid the mistakes that I had made with my love life."
"He apologized last night for everything. I think he really wants to be with me but can I trust him again?"
"That's a tough one, Luke but you just have to go with your gut feeling... What is that on your neck?"
"Huh?"
Lily moved his shirt to get a better look. "You have a hickey on your neck."
"Noah... Oh... oh... that's why Reid acted funny after the surgery."
"So he marked his territory? How romantic... disgusting to look at but romantic."
"I got off easy." Seeing Lily's questioning look, he continued. "He could have peed on me." Luke finished with a laugh.
"Attractive." laughed Lily. "What are you going to do about Noah?"
"I'm going to wait to see what happens when he wakes up."
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Three days later, Noah woke up from his coma. He was anxious to get the bandages off his eyes.
When they did come off, Reid tried to remind Noah and everyone else that recovery was a long process."Remember, you may not see much at first but it should get better over time as the swelling goes down." The last of the bandages came off and the lights were dimmed. "Now slowly open."
Noah opened his eyes to disappointment. "It looks like I have my eyes closed and I'm looking at the sun. I can't see anything."
"That's okay for now," reminded Reid. "The important thing is that you are seeing light."
Noah had hoped that he would be able to see. Reid checked Noah's eyes and he thought everything was good at this point but Noah was still disappointed. Luke could see Noah's disappointment take over his face. Reid finished his examination and left the room, without looking at Luke.
"I know you are upset, Noah."
"I was hoping for more." Noah began to cry.
Luke grabbed Noah's hand. "It's a start, Noah. You can see the light. That's more than you had."
"I suppose" As he drifted back off to sleep.
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Noah was totally depressed when he came to stay at Lily's house to recuperate a couple of days later. Luke was afraid that Noah would crawl back into his shell but he didn't. He answered all of Luke's questions and never fought against him when he tried to help Noah. He could tell that Noah was fighting against himself, against a lifetime of behavior. He knew Noah was trying to change. Luke did his part by letting Noah do as much as he could by himself. They hadn't talked about their relationship since the surgery.
It's been two weeks since Noah came home, he put in his eye drops, like he did daily and decided to take a nap. The headache he had was killing him, so he decided to try to sleep it off. He's been staying in the guest room but he just couldn't get a good night's sleep there. The only bed in Lily's house that Noah felt comfortable in that moment was Luke's. He took off all his clothes, slipped into Luke's bed, naked and fell into a deep sleep.
Several hours had passed when Luke walked into his room and saw Noah sleeping in his bed. He undressed and took a shower. He had been working at the farm and you could tell from the smell. When he was done with his shower, he walked back into his room.
"Luke, is that you?" Noah woke up after he heard Luke in the shower.
"Yes. I didn't wake you, did I?"
Noah opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the voice. Stunned, Noah sat up in bed and continued to look at Luke. Luke looked over at Noah and noticed tears running down his face.
"Is your headache bad?"
"No." Noah took off the covers and sat on the corner of the bed, naked.
"Then why are you crying?" Luke could see that Noah's penis growing.
"You're naked."
"Well, I just took..." Luke, looking back over at Noah, stopped pulling out clothes to wear and walked over to Noah kneeling down in between Noah's legs.
"I can see you, Luke. It's blurry but I can see you." Noah took in Luke's nakedness.
Luke started running his fingers through Noah's hair.
"The first thing I see is your naked body." Noah smiled. He put his hand behind Luke's head and drew Luke into a kiss. When the kiss was over, they had their foreheads touching each other. "I love you, Luke. Thank you for taking care of me and loving me, even though at times I didn't deserve it."
"I'm so happy for you, Noah. I love you too. I know you've been trying very hard to change since your surgery. You didn't fight me at all. I'm proud of you."
"And I'm glad that you let me try to do things on my own before you helped me."
They sat there and just stared into each other's eyes.
"We should probably call Re... Dr. Oliver." Luke didn't want to say Reid's name.
"Um... about that..."
"I haven' t seen or talked to him since your surgery, Noah. Ever since he saw the hickey you gave me." Luke slapped Noah's thigh.
"Ouch." yelled out Noah. "I wanted to re-claim what was mine, Luke."
"I know you think..."
Noah pulled Luke into a kiss before he could finish what he was going to say. He broke the kiss and spat in his right hand lowering it to Luke's cock and started to slowly start to masturbate it. It wasn't long before Luke was hard. Noah continued to jack off Luke.
"I want to be with you, Luke. I want it so bad."
"I think..."
Noah sped up, causing Luke to stop talking. He was beginning to moan as he was approaching his orgasm. He threw his head back in pleasure but Noah suddenly stopped. He moved Luke on the bed. He grabbed a condom out of Luke's drawer and put it on. He lubed himself and Luke up, pulling Luke so his ass was hanging off edge of the bed. He lifted both of Luke's legs and eased himself into Luke as Luke moaned out in pleasure.
As he was fucking Luke, Noah started talking to him.
"I know I have to work on pleasing you out of the bedroom but I'd really like to try to work things out, Luke."
Luke was panting and tried to talk between moans. "No... fair... asking me... nowwwww."
Noah smiled and then brought his face to Luke's neck and gave him another hickey as he continued to fuck Luke long and hard. Luke put his lips to Noah's neck. Noah continued to give all he had to Luke before they were both ready to orgasm.
"Look... look... look... me... look... at... me." Luke finally was able to complete what he wanted to say. Making love with Noah had always been terrific for both Luke and Noah. They knew what buttons to push to make it pleasurable for both of them and their deep love only added to the pleasure. Sex with Reid was more mechanical. It was more about getting off than anything else. It was pleasurable but to Luke, he wanted more. He wanted someone that he could connect too, emotionally and Reid just wasn't emotional.
Noah looked into Luke's eyes as they both began to cum.
"Yes... yes... yessssssss." as Luke came.
Noah came just after Luke did. He relaxed because he knew that Luke initiated the looking into the eyes as they came. That meant to him that Luke wanted to try again. They both crawled under the covers and took a quick nap before they called to setup a doctor's appointment.
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The End.