Ride'em Cowboys

Chapter 3

The Corns a' Growing


"I just don't trust'em! For all we know, they might ransack the house and leave before dawn. I'm not going to get any sleep tonight and I have to go out to the pasture to make sure the mares are doing alright." Armin whined as he tied his towel around his waist and walked into the his bedroom, where Marco was sitting and listening to him on his bed. "Armin, I'm sure Jean and Erwin won't do something like that. Besides they're too busy upstairs working on whatever machine they brought into the house to see if they can nab this guy." Marco said as he watched, cross legged on the bed, as Armin removed his towel, letting it fall to the floor as he pulled up his briefs.

It wasn't like he never saw the other naked before, and same could be said the other way around, but it still made Marco blush. "Yeah well...I don't like them, especially Erwin." Armin muttered as he threw on an old t-shirt and turned around to sit on his bed with Marco. "I thought you said Erwin didn't do anything to you?" Marco raised an eyebrow at him. "He hasn't!" Armin said quickly. "Then you shouldn't say you hate him." Marco told him. "Unless...he did, and you're just not telling me."

Armin's cheeks grew a few shades darker. "He was out back near the barn smoking and I was worried he wouldn't but that cigar of his out all the way. I didn't want him burning the barn to the ground and he wasn't to happy when i tossed in the bucket." Armin said, and heard a small sigh come from Marco. "Armin, I'm sure if you just asked him and told him about that then he'd understand and wouldn't smoke next to it again." Marco said and placed a hand under Armin's chin. "But if he does anything you don't like, you can come runnin' and tell me." Marco said to him.

"Same with you and that Jean fellow, he was lookin' at you weird earlier and I don't want ya alone with him." Armin stated. Marco just laughed softly and shook his head. "Don't worry, you'll be the first one I tell if anything happens." He told him and moved his hand from his chin up to ruffle his blonde locks. "You better." Armin said and the two laughed softly, not wanting the noises they were making to catch the attention of the older men upstairs.

After the laughter had faded, they both looked at each other for a minute and saw that both of them were blushing very brightly. Marco leaned in and kissed Armin softly on his lips and then pulled back. When he did he felt Armin grab his shirt collar and pull him back for another, much longer kiss. Marco pushed Armin down on his bed and started to climb on top of him, kissing him down his neck now and Armin's hands traveling down Marco stomach and started to undo the buckle that he was wearing.

Marco heard a moan from Armin and stopped. "We shouldn't do this." Marco said and sat on his knees. "Shit..." Armin said as he realized what Marco meant, he forgot for a moment that they had guests. "When they leave?" Marco asked Armin, who nodded his head. "Now that I think about it we haven't done it in a while." Armin spoke from his spot, still laying down on the bed. "Yeah, but I wouldn't want to risk it while they're here. I already think Jean might suspect something but...Armin..." Marco's voice trailed off. "I know, I know." He said and sat up, wrapping one hand around the back of Marco's neck and brought him down face to face to give him one last kiss. "We'll be fine." He told him.

The taller teen nodded and said goodnight to the other before making his way out of the room, closing the door behind him and headed to his own bedroom. When he got there he started to change into his pajamas, looking over his shoulders a few times when he thought he had heard creaking around the second floor hallway. Brushing it off he got snuggled underneath his covers and fell fast asleep.

Marco's body always woke itself up at 4:15 every morning no matter what. It gave him enough time to jump in and take a refreshing shower to help himself wake up before getting dressed and going downstairs to get his morning cup of coffee. The young farmer was waking down the stairs, buttoning up the last few button on his shirt when he walked into the kitchen to see someone already standing there. "Dear heavens..." Marco nearly jumped out of his skin, realizing that it was just Jean standing there near the counter with a coffee cup in his hands. "Scare ya?" Jean chuckled. "Just a little." Marco said as he walked to the coffee maker to pour himself a cup. "It's weird having someone else up so earlier, I'm usually the first one. Armin tends to sleep in a bit." He said, making some sort of conversions, but what Jean had said the other day was suddenly brought to the front of his mind.

"So, you always get up so early?" Jean asked him, taking a sip from his coffee. "Yeah, every morning. I normally have to head into town early and then I go out and plow the fields, though I'm happy I can skip the drive into town today and just head out into the fields and I think Armin has to head out to the pasture." Marco said. "Do you really think it's safe being out there all alone by yourself? I mean that guy we're trying to catch is still running loose around here." Jean said as he down the rest of the coffee in his cup.

Marco didn't say anything for a moment before placing his cup down on the kitchen counter next to the coffee machine and crossed his arms against his chest, bringing one hand up to his mouth to chew on his thumb nail. "The other day I was out in the field and i heard guns hots, I thought it was Armin scaring away the fox that's been hanging around here but I never heard him fire off so many, so I came running home to make sure he was alright. When we were talking I told him I heard him firing off his gun a lot and he told me he only fired one shot." Marco told Jean, a slightly worried expression showing through his face. "The guy we're after, from what we've been informed, is in fact armed and dangerous." Jean said to Marco and walked up to him. "We wouldn't want the people housing us to be in any kind of danger now." He told, standing in front of Marco until he was able to gently pin the freckled boy between the counter and his hips. "So it might be in everyone's best favor to pair up, don'tcha think? Hell, we could even help you guys around the farm while we're looking for our guy." Jean said, giving Marco a very sultry smirk.

"As tempting as that sounds...Jean ah, working in the fields isn't as easy as it sounds, and ah..." Marco turned his head to the side and placed his hands on the taller one's shoulders, "I need to go wake up Armin." He told him as he tried pushing Jean off of him. "I'm sure Armin wouldn't mind sleeping in for a few minutes and while he does that we can get to know each other a little bit better." Jean whispered in Marco's ear. Marco suddenly shoved Jean off of him and put some space in between them. "Are you mocking me or something?" Marco asked him. "What? N-No, I wasn't doing that." Jean said, shocked by the strength the other possessed. "W-Well either way I have to go get Armin up. I-If you'll excuse me." Marco said and hurried back up the stairs.

When the young teen got to the middle of the second floor hallway he pressed his back against the way and let out a few short pants of air he hadn't realized he'd been holding in. He could feel his heart-rate slowly rising, which was one of the worse times it could possibly do that. Marco glanced down to see the slight tent in his pants and cursed himself to hell. He didn't exactly know if Jean knew that both him and Armin were gay and he was genuinely interested in him, or just trying to make fun of him. He knew how much it hurt to find out your so called lover was just stringing you along for their own personal sick and twisted pleasure.

After a few minutes he was able to calm himself and walk into Armin's room to go wake him up.


Once everyone in the house was up, Armin sneaked outside, since he didn't want to be near the two agents and started towards the barn. He went over and checked King's leg and reapplied the medicine and rewrapped his leg. After that he walked down the left row of stalls and opened up Tawny's stall and guided the young champagne colored stallion out into the barn and tied him up at rack near the back of the barn house. He went around to each leg and picked it up to make sure his hooves were doing alright and started gearing him up so that he could ride him out to the pastures. Armin was just about done fixing his bridle so that it wasn't too tight when he heard the barn doors wailing opening.

The short blonde looked over the horse's rump to Erwin walking towards him. 'The last person I want to see this morning.' Armin thought bitterly. He held Tawny by the reins, and helped him move around so that he could see Erwin clearly. "What do you want?" Armin snapped at him. "Well, since you snuck out of the house, I'm sure you missed the part about us paring up." "What?" Armin said, deadpanning. "Marco agreed to it as well as Jean and I, so majority rules. Jean and Marco are already heading out into the field so that leaves you and me." Erwin said. "I'm sooo happy." Armin said while rolling his eyes.

"Where exactly are we going?" Erwin said, walking a little bit closer to Tawny. "Well, we," Armin pointed to himself and Tawny, "are going out to the pasture to check up on the mares." Armin said as he started to walk Tawny towards the entrance of the barn. "Not without me." Erwin said as he stepped in front of Armin, who immediately jumped back. "Keep your distance." Armin told him. Erwin stood there for a moment before he understood what he meant. "Still shocked by that little peck on the lips are we?" He asked him. "No, I've probably kissed more girls than you have." Armin growled at him.

After bickering back and forth for a bit, Armin finally caved in and let Erwin tag along with him, though he had to go get Howler and saddle him up as well, before they could head out. "Don't fall off up there." Armin called out as he watched Erwin get up on top of Howler. Erwin maneuvered the horse so that it was facing the other riding duo. Armin gracefully swung himself up atop Tawny and trotted over to the door.

The two of them headed out front and up the road to get to the pastures. "It's about a ten minute ride or so to get there, but I wouldn't want you hurting yourself or Howler trying to gallop some of the way, so it's gonna be longer." Armin called over his shoulder at Erwin. "How thoughtful of you." Erwin said as he brought Howler up next to Tawny. "Better be careful, Howler likes to buck if he doesn't get his way half the time." Armin warned him with a smile. Erwin just rolled his eyes at the younger blonde and looked straight ahead at the road.

Silence covered the two for a long while, neither one willing to start any kind of conversation with the other. Though Armin didn't mind it at all, usually his rides up to the pasture were silent, expect for the sounds of hooves hitting the gravely pavement or soft earth.

After they had reached the halfway point, was when Erwin opened his mouth again. "So, you and Marco I've heard have owned the farm for about two years." Erwin stated. "Give or take." Armin muttered, he watched as two tiny chipmunks scurried across the road, not interested in what Erwin was trying to say. "A friend of mine use to own one." He told him, to which Armin just hummed. "I see you're still upset over that kiss." Erwin said. "Of course I am, you're a guy! I told you it before that I like girls!" Armin barked at him, making Tawny pick up his gate a little so that Erwin couldn't see his face.

Erwin moments later made Howler pick up his canter so that he was once again riding side by side with Armin. "Nothing wrong with liking guys in my book." Erwin said with a straight face as he stared at the road ahead. Though the older blonde did notice the younger one duck his head down to try and cover the blush that ran across his cheeks. "I told you I'm not gay, what do I have to do to stop talking about it." Armin said, his voice very low and soft.

"You shouldn't deny things about yourself, it'll cause a lot of problems for you later on." Erwin told him in a stern voice that caused Armin to look up at him. "Whatever." He said and looked back at the road.

When they got out to the pasture Armin sent Tawny into a full out gallop and went to go see the mares.

And Erwin? Well he sat atop Howler with a very interested look on his face. He watched Armin raise his body slightly off of the horse as he ran, and the wind swept his blonde hair behind him and he caught the glimpse of something wild in his eyes just as he got to far away for him to see. He had defiantly picked the right place to set up their base camp. "Your owner is quite the looker." Erwin spoke to the horse. Howler snorted and shook his head up and down before following the trail that Armin had made in the grass. Erwin sighed to himself as the horse took his time to follow the shorter blonde, "I just talked to a horse." Erwin said out loud and ran a hand down his face.

When he finally caught up to the other, he saw that Armin was knelling on the ground next to a rather large horse who was eating grass. "Maria here is due soon." Armin said as he looked over his shoulder to see Erwin dismounting Howler and coming over to him and stood up. "I'll have to bring her in soon so she's not out here in the cold." Armin muttered and patted the horse's hind leg softly. "This'll be her second time birthing." Armin said and walked over to Tawny, giving him a good scratch underneath his neck.

The two of them walked around the fields for a while, while guiding the horses by their reins. Armin went over to every mare he saw to give her a once over and made sure everything was good. When he was looking over one of them longer than the others, Erwin left Howler by Tawny and walked over to the knelling blonde once again. The mare seemed docile enough, so Erwin places his hand gently at the base of her neck and gave her a small pat. "Something wrong."

"Bite marks on her hind quarter...damn it." Armin said as he stood. Erwin looked at Armin for a moment before looking down at the horse's back right leg to see two bite marks that must've recently stopped bleeding. "Fucking wolf, I'll kill it the next time I see him or that fox." Armin cursed. "We need to get her back to the barn so I can treat her and make sure that it doesn't get infected." Armin said to him as he walked along the other side of her. When he did, he heard Howler stomping at the ground and crying out loudly.

Armin's blue eyes scanned the area around them quickly. "Easy boy." Erwin said as he went to go and calm the stallion down, Armin looked over towards the tree line all the way towards the far side of the field and saw it. Dark grey fur trotting against the line of trees. Without hesitation Armin ran over to Tawny and mounted him faster than anything and dug his heels into his sides and they were off before Erwin knew what hit him.

Erwin watched from where he was as Armin took off on the horse, heading right towards the wolf. The creature turned to look at the two of the them for a moment before it started to run away. Armin chased it down until it ran deep into the woods. "And stay there!" Armin called after it, making sure it was in fact gone before heading back towards Erwin.


"So this one?"

"No, the one next to it."

"I knew that! I was just testing you."

"Mmmh."

Marco for the last twenty minutes had been trying to teach Jean how to work the plow since the other was just begging him to teach him. Plus it was the only way to shut him up and to get work done. "Okay, now after you push that, slowly pull this lever up, it'll drop the plow that's in back and help pick up the corn." Marco explained to him. He suddenly felt Jean's hand on his lower back and jumped. "Nice to know, but I can't see what that beautiful ass of yours block my view...not that I mind." Jean said, and Marco didn't even have to turn around to know that the other was giving him a devilish smirk, and Marco didn't want to turn around anyways since he knew he was blushing.

"Just sit on my lap." Jean said as he snaked his arms around Marco's waist and made the other fall back into it and held him there tightly. "Much, much better." Jean spoke right into Marco's ear and it caused him to shiver. "Now, what do I pull again?" He asked him. "You pull up this lever right here." Marco said and pointed to it. Jean grabbed it and slowly pushed the lever up by its handle. "G-Good, now slowly put your feet on the gas pedal and both hands on the wheel." Marco told him.

Jean moved his feet around the small sitting area, having Marco lift his legs up a bit. "You know this only seats one person for a reason." Marco told him as Jean's hands left his waist to grab the wheel. Slowly they started moving forward. "See I'm a natural at this." Jean commented and smiled up at Marco, who was looking at the review mirror at him since he didn't want to turn around. "I feel like I'm crushing you, just wait by the edge of the field until I'm done." Marco said. "You're not crushing me and I'd rather have you here than be separated and have that guy come in and take one of us." He told him as he lifted one hand off of the wheel and placed it right on top of Marco's clothed crotch. "J-Jean what do you think you're doing!?" Marco squeaked and shifted on Jean's lap. "Multitasking." He told him.

Marco felt Jean's hand start to undo his buckle and then start working on getting his pants undone. He heard Jean hum softly against his ear and blushed deeper. "S-Stop it..." Marco said softly as he tried to pull his hand away from him. "A cowboy like you working on the fields all day much not get a lot of attention down here." Jean muttered, not hearing Marco's plea. "Stop it!" Marco said sternly and torn Jean's hand away from him, making the other put on the breaks to the giant tractor. "You okay?"

"No I'm not okay! You're doing all this stuff to me and I barely know you! Jesus Jean I don't even know how old you are!" Marco said to him, finally turning around to face him.

"So if you knew more about me, then you'd let me do these kinda things with you?" He asked him, raising an eyebrow at him. "I-Well...maybe I don't know...I have to get to know someone first before doing-doing stuff like this with you or anyone." Marco explained. "Alright then what do you want to know about me?" Jean asked him.

"What?"

"I'm 23 years old, graduated college from Harvard and went into the agency, and got paired up with Erwin, who's pushing 28 but doesn't let other people know that." Jean said. "My favorite color is brown, I love drinking whenever I get the chance, my favorite food of all time are omelets and I like you." Jean told Marco in one very long breath.

Marco covered his mouth with the back of his hand and looked away from Jean, not saying anything. "Anything else?" He asked him, and Marco just shook his head from side to side.

Jean sighed and placed his hands back on Marco's hips and slouched back in the driver's seat. "I'd like to get to know you better to." Jean said and raised one hand to grab the one that was covering Marco's mouth and pulled it away. He brought his other hand up and grab hold of his chin and gave the other a long kiss.

When the older one pulled back Marco grabbed his arm and pulled his back into a kiss, which Jean did not mind at all. He moved the smaller male so that he was straddling his waist on the seat and finished undoing the other's pants and pulled them down a bit. Marco pulled back and started to get rid of Jean's shirt for him. When he was able to get it completely open, Marco gave Jean a quick kiss on the lips before moving down to start kissing his neck and shoulders lightly.

Marco felt one of Jean's hands dip inside his boxers and gave his cock a soft squeeze.

"Not yet." Marco said and held both of Jean's hands away from him, which left the poor man confused. "What do you mean?" He asked him. "You don't want to continue?" "Yes and no. No because we're in a tractor and I don't want a sore back and yes because I think it'll be much more worth it if we got to knew each other better than just listing off favorite items." Marco told him as he fixed himself and hoped out of the seat and moved down to the ground.

"Besides, it's lunch time and I'm hungry."

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A/N: Hello everyone, so that was chapter three! I'm glad the few reviews that I have gotten are positive and just wanted to thank you so much! As far as I know it, I will be continuing this so stay tuned for more! ^^