Chapter 2
"There's your room," Hope stopped in front of a plain white door with a stripe of gray going across it, "Take any of the bunks and come by my room tomorrow."
"Am I alone...?" Noel trained his gaze toward the door, hearing something Hope couldn't.
"You should be." Hope pressed his hand against the door, it opened and gave view to three young trainees, huddling over some sort of machinery.
"Director!" One of them shouted in surprise, "Sorry are we being too loud?"
"No, not at all." Hope reassured them, blushing a little at the fact that he was barely wearing any clothes, "Are there any free bunks around? I swore this was an open one."
"The Internship program just started yesterday, Director," The one with large, round glasses said, "You said for us to take the lower floor bunks. Is there something wrong?"
"Nothing is wrong. Sorry for the intrusion," Hope shook his head and started to head back out, "I'd love to see your contraption after you're done, if you would be so kind."
"It would be our honor, Director!" The youngest one with bright yellow hair said. Hope smiled at the group and closed the door behind him.
"Huh, I've never seen anyone so excited to see you." Noel crossed his arms, his weapon strap riding down his arm, "Must come with the title."
"You'll know all about having other people excited to see you." Hope closed the door and pushed past him, going to the next door. This door was twice as large as the others and opened to an even bigger room. It had a large desk with stacks of paper work all neatly piled against one another, a cat pencil holder and an open notebook with an equally adorable cat pencil. To the side was one large bed. The walls had a few posters of Cocoon, before and after shots. Above the desk was a picture of a woman, same nose, hair and eyes, it was Hope's mother.
"There's a change of clothes in the drawers over there, they might be a little big on you but it'll have to do," Hope said, "I'll have the air bed out for you."
"Thanks." Noel said, "Do you think I could check up on Serah?"
"Noel, Serah's fine. She's with Alyssa. Safe, sound and probably sleeping as well." Hope slipped into a white night shirt, "Uh...could you turn for a moment?"
Noel nodded and turned, letting Hope slip into a pair of briefs. The older male's hair still dripping wet from the shower. Noel busied himself with finding his own night clothes but Hope's clothes were all the same except for the different assortment of colors of his pants.
"I'll be right out, taking your clothes to the laundry. Feel free to change." Hope took the Hunter's clothing without hearing his protests.
"I thought Serah said Hope was a timid guy." Noel huffed and slid into his night clothes. Shirt and pants were both too long for him but the fabric was stretched tight over his hardened muscles, "He looks like I'm a new test subject or something. Serah, that is not how timid guys look at other people."
But of course, dearest Serah couldn't hear Noel's complaints. She was already tucked in a sleeping beside Alyssa, who also had to share her bunk with the time traveler. Noel grumbled and waited for the older man to come back empty handed.
"He really doesn't seem to like Alyssa," Noel began to rummage through the room, "I guess I owe Mog a couple of casino coins for that one...but then again, what does a guy like him fancy?"
Noel found nothing but paper work with weird numbers and mathematical symbols. He was taught to read yes, but not much further than a ten year old vocabulary and his math skills weren't very great either. But who needed to calculate things when the Seeres needed to be protected on the spot? Hope's desk was slightly open. Noel, with his uncanny ability to not investigate his surroundings opened the desk fully, giving full view to Noel's answer.
"Ah," Noel nodded at the sight before him, "He's more into the males than females."
There wasn't an excessive amount of inappropriate magazines but just enough to give Noel the idea. Hope was a good man, anyone could see that, just terribly secretive with his own personal life.
Noel heard footsteps and slammed the drawer shut, he walked as far away from his desk as the room allowed. Hope walked in breathlessly with a smile stuck on his face.
"Who'd you run into to make you smile like that?" Noel raised an eyebrow.
"I didn't run into anyone," Hope shook his head, "I can't smile for no reason?"
"There's always a reason," Noel smiled at that, "Where's the bed?"
"Oh right, it's just under the bed." Hope closed the door behind him and crawled onto the floor, reaching under his bed.
Noel got on his hands and knees just beside him, brushing up against the director. Noel felt his muscles stiffen at the touch, giving Noel a slightly...naughty idea. Just as Hope reached for the folded air bed and pulled himself out from under the bed he felt a strong hand grab his wrist and loosen his hold on the bed. With a surprised cry Hope looked over with large emerald eyes, the smirk on Noel's lips sent alarms off in Hope's head. He felt Noel's heavy chest on his for a heated moment as the younger boy pressed the Director against the bed. His legs gave way for the Hunter to lean close to the white haired man, his breath against his cheek.
"Director, I'm a bit surprised you'd keep this such a secret," Noel said, feeling Hope's chest go up and down as his breath begin with quicken, "When were you planning to tell everyone?"
"What...are you talking about?" Hope struggled to pull away, meeting fiery brown eyes.
"Do you enjoy being pinned down?" Noel pressed closer, "I always thought you'd be a man of action...not just lay here and take it."
"Noel, please...you're..." Emerald eyes fluttered heavily, his hips bucked ever so slightly, "Please get off."
"No one is here to see, Director," The Hunter ran a finger sharply against his cheek, making him look at him once more, "I always got the impression you were a virgin."
"I'm...I'm not." Hope shook his head but Noel saw through the lie, Noel saw through everything about human expression.
"Don't lie now," Noel was centimeters away from Hope's pink lips, "How do you expect to be happy with everything if you can't even enjoy yourself?"
Hope couldn't say anything at this point, his heart pounding madly in his chest and his erection growing with every passing second. Hope didn't want to come out to public because he found it so...off topic with his work. It was irrelevant and would only cause chaos within his staff, especially with Alyssa. But he couldn't deny Noel wasn't giving him a very.. pleasurable experience at the moment. The younger Hunter pressed against the flesh between his legs as he leaned forward, catching his lips in a hungry growl. Hope was unsure, being that he never confronted anyone with these emotions, and turned his head to follow Noel's movements. Noel wasn't the most skilled kisser in the world but he certainly fit Hope's pleasure spot.
Daring to take this a step further Noel slipped his tongue between Hope's lips, entering his mouth with only a muffled moan of surprise from the director's throat. Hope's hands were hooked around Noel's shoulders,tightening as a feeling passed through him. Something remarkably heated, like a comet shooting down from his head to his lower reigns. Noel felt Hope's stomach tighten and his legs give a slight jerk.
Noel broke himself from Hope, a silver line of saliva followed onto Noel's lips from Hope's. It took a moment for the emerald eyes to focus onto brown ones, his head cleared through the euphoria and replaced it with embarssment. There was a slight wetness slipping from between the director's legs and Noel was lying right on top of it.
"Noel I...I'm sorry I shouldn't have..." Hope's cheeks were turning a dangerous shade of red as he shrank away from the hunter.
"That's all it took? A few words and a kiss?" Noel studied the director, "Caius always described it like it took longer..."
Hope only looked down and reddened even more.
"People are always different." Noel shook his head and picked up Hope's chin with a finger, "So, how do we fill up the air bend?"
"We...uh...we take the...blow it up from there and..." Hope fumbled for words.
"Ah, I got it." Noel pulled away from the red director. In a few seconds the air bed was filled and ready, Noel stepped over Hope and stole an extra set of blankets and pillows.
Finally, Hope got up, a bit lightheaded and wandered over to turn off the lights. Once in the dark he heard Noel flip over in the bed and begin to fall asleep. Hope took the moment to change and walked back to his bed, a bit shaky.
"I'll do better next time, Director." Noel said before fully falling asleep.
Hope could only writhe in his own feelings as sleep took a slow hold against him.