Title: Hear the conversations we talked about?
Author: Desperate For Attention
For: Any one that wants to read
Pairing: Stephen Hart and Connor Temple
Song Title: Dizzy- Jimmy Eat World
Disclaimer: All Character mentioned in this fic are sole property of Adrian Hodges and Tim Haines I can only dream of being the original owner.
Summary: "A visit!" Connor almost shouted his body jolted from the pillow, hitting his forehead against Stephen who grunted and scowled at him. "Uh... it was no one mum, just dropped something." Stephen rolled his eyes giving up and climbing away from the bed, pulling the shirt over his head Connor heaved a sigh of disappointment.
Hear the conversations we talked about?
Stephen smirked dragging his tongue sloppily along the flushed skin of Connor's throat, the younger moaned softly arching his back away from the mattress; his mouth parted in a low moan that rippled against Stephen's ears with an approving sound.
Their mouths met in a rough needy kiss, Connor's tongue curling against Stephen's as the lab techs skilful fingers fiddled with the buttons of his shirt often brushing the tips of his fingers against the exposed warm skin.
Connor tangled his fingers into the sandy blond hair of his lover; his head threw back in heavy pants when Stephen kissed his way along the front of his chest, often nipping at the skin to leave plush red marks over the otherwise flawless skin.
Despite the fact that Connor had in fact been attacked by various creatures or stray objects there never seemed to be a scar left upon his skin, where as Stephen still had them from his boisterous days as a teenager.
He paused to look at Connor when he felt the geeks phone vibrate through the thick denim of his jeans.
Connor bit his lip reaching into his pocket despite Stephen's sound of protest and pressing it to his ear with a sympathetic smile that made Stephen huff at him.
"Mum?.... no I'm not busy." Connor coughed looking to Stephen who cocked his eyebrow, Connor flushed. "I'm fine. No—what do you mean? Of course I'm still in university.... no I don't still live with Duncan. I know I never call." Connor sighed attempting to roll away only to have Stephen push against his hips and hold him in place.
Connor bit his lip to suppress the moan that burned his throat when again Stephen nipped at his skin, teasing the flesh of his throat with soft kisses and messy licks.
"A visit!" Connor almost shouted his body jolted from the pillow, hitting his forehead against Stephen who grunted and scowled at him. "Uh... it was no one mum, just dropped something."
Stephen rolled his eyes giving up and climbing away from the bed, pulling the shirt over his head Connor heaved a sigh of disappointment.
"You see, I'm staying with....a friend at the minute." He mumbled hesitantly watching Stephen furrow his eyebrow. "But—" He stopped. "Mum just listen—no of course I want to see you, it's just--"
Stephen watched as Connor took the phone away from his ear and frowned. "She hung up." He stated looking at Stephen who crossed his arms across his front.
"Come on, we have an early start in the morning." Stephen mumbled unable to stop his words from sounding harsh, Connor cringed watching Stephen crawl under the covers and flick off the lamp.
He sighed fiddling with the material of the sheet for a while before swallowing the lump in his throat and opening his mouth to speak, "It's not something that I wanted to tell her over the phone."
Stephen sighed rolling onto his side, bright blue eyes looking up at Connor who stared at the material between his fingers. "Come here." He mumbled pulling Connor against him when the student sunk down the mattress to be eye level with his lover. "I'm sorry. It's your choice if you don't feel ready to tell her than you don't have to." He whispered.
"I will tell her, just not over the phone." Connor muttered curling against Stephen's side. "I want her to meet you."
"Then her visit?"
"It was impossible to convince her not to come." Connor chuckled softly. Stephen smiled lightly pressing a quick kiss against Connor's forehead. "So you're not angry with me?" He mumbled.
"No, I'm not."
"Good. Because she's coming Saturday afternoon," Connor stated.
* * *
Abby loved the notion, the minute the words had rolled away from Connor's tongue she giggled at him despite the fact that Connor continued to frown at her and eventually turned on his heels with a scowl and attempted to walk away.
Abby stopped him.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry. Look it's not that big of a deal—"
"Not that big of a deal! Abby this is my mum she's expecting for me to have someone really pretty and able to give her gran-children; instead she's going to get a bloke!" He hissed. "She's going to get Stephen."
"Alright, alright calm down," Abby soothed placing her hand against his shoulder. "Did you tell her about Stephen?"
"I spoke to her about him once when I first started university with Tom and Duncan."
"And what did you say?"
"The things I said weren't exactly nice...." Connor admitted.
"But you never told her he was your boyfriend?"
"It's not a conversation I wanted to have over the phone." Connor grumbled fiddling nervously with the threads of his gloves.
"Why not? I thought it would have been easier on the phone."
"I can't tell my mum anything over the phone!" Connor grunted.
"What are you even worried about then?"
"Are you serious? Have you just not been listening to me? My mum is coming here Saturday afternoon to see me and I have to tell her that not only do I have a boyfriend, I have neglected to tell her for three months." Connor stated hanging his head.
Abby sighed, heaving a soft chuckle from her lips when Stephen knocked against the door.
"Is he still sulking?" He asked, rolling his eyes when Connor scowled.
"I'm not sulking." He stated.
"No, he's panicking." Abby stated, causing Connor to scowl at her, she brushed it off. "Anyway, I have to get back to Cutter." She muttered looking at the clock and pushing herself from the desk.
Connor sighed nuzzling his face into his folded arms. Stephen grinned.
"Come on Connor, it's not that bad." He whispered pressing a soft kiss against the student's cheek.
Connor grunted as a response and Stephen rolled his eyes at him, pulling the spare chair over to the desk he fell into it and leant back, admiring Connor who smiled lightly at him.
"I told my family about you." Stephen smiled, watching Connor's eyes light up and his head lift away from his arms.
"You did?"
"Yeah, you're an important part of my life; I wanted to tell them all about you. They would have come down but we don't live that close to one another anymore, different countries, states." Stephen whispered leaning forward.
"Didn't you feel—scared to tell them?" Connor whispered his cheeks flushed nervously at the lab technician.
"Yeah, a little. But she's your mum Connor, she's going to respect whatever choice you make in life despite who you make that choice with." Stephen mumbled.
"I know but, I just think she's going to be disappointed." Connor admitted.
"Connor, she's going to be happy that you're happy. I don't think she really cares if your dating a man, woman, dinosaur, alien. It's not going to change the way she feels about you." He mused touching his hand comfortingly against Connor's shoulder.
Connor laughed lightly.
"So stop worrying about it okay?" Stephen mumbled, smiling reassuringly at the student. He attempted to stand but Connor captured his wrist and held him in place.
"How come you never told me about telling your family?" He whispered and Stephen sighed a smile, falling back into the chair.
"Because I didn't want you to take it as a hint for you to do the same," Stephen muttered.
"Were they upset when you told them?"
"No. I've phoned them to report worse." He smiled playfully bringing a smile to Connor's mouth.
"Thanks." Connor whispered softly his eyes fluttering when Stephen leaned over to leave a kiss against his mouth.
"It's what I'm here for." Stephen mused pushing away from the chair and ruffling the short strands of Connor's dark hair affectionately.
* * *
Abby tugged at her sleeve, teeth chewing at her lower lip when Stephen pulled the door to Connor's office shut, greeting her with a smile that she tried her hardest to return.
"You handled that better than I did." She breathed; her voice was tight and shallow.
"No I j—"
"Trust me you handled that better than I could. I didn't know what to say to him." Abby smiled thankfully at him. "The problem is that since you came along, me and Connor we aren't as close as we use to be." She admitted.
Stephen smiled reassuringly towards her.
"We use to spend all the time together, watching movies and bickering over small things but now that your here he's a little different." Abby continued following Stephen along the corridor, falling into the chair when he held the door open for her to Nick's office. "Part of the reason I was so angry, was because I was jealous."
"I bet Connor misses those nights too, and I'm in no way stopping him." Stephen grinned.
"No. You were right Stephen you make him happy; really happy." She laughed lightly. "I just wanted to say sorry to you again. Because the way I have acted over the last few weeks has been far from friendly."
"Apology accepted." Stephen smiled. "Connor told me that he was moving back into the flat." He added leaning back against the chair.
"Yeah, are you okay with that? I think he's still a little unsure."
"Why?"
"Just the way he talks about you sometimes, I think that when he actually moves back he's going to wish he hadn't." Abby grinned. "He's a pain like that, makes his mind up one week, changes it the next."
Stephen laughed lightly before fiddling with the sheets of work against the desk, his eyes skimming over the words before looking up at Abby when she huffed a playful breath.
"Did you really tell your family?" She asked suddenly and Stephen looked up at her.
"Yeah."
"And how did they really take the news?" She whispered nipping at her lower lip.
Who was she to ask, she had spent the last week shouting at Stephen and giving him the cold shoulder each and every time he attempted to converse with her.
"I don't see my family that much, so I don't really care about their thoughts towards the subject." He answered the smile on his face fell and Abby sympathized with him.
"Stephen, I'm sorry."
"Don't tell Connor, I know what he's like he'll worry about his mum's visit and about my family. He'll feel guilty and there will be no getting through to him." Stephen smiled.
"Yeah, I won't say anything. Promise." She smiled reassuringly playfully dragging her finger across her chest in a cross shape, Stephen chuckled amusingly towards her. "Anyway I have to get back to Cutter, told him I was only going for a drink." She whispered pushing herself away from the chair.
The soft smile remained against her features when she pulled the door too with a soft click.
He sat staring at the plain wood of Cutter's desk for a few minute his fingers rolling over the coin he'd found against the desk.
His mind was in over drive and his eyes clouded over with a vacant stare. Connor being relaxed was all well and good but what about him? What was he going to do if Connor's mum wasn't as understanding as he had said?
What if she didn't like him?
He had butterflies in his stomach.
The thought left his mind quickly when the ADD rang against his eardrum and the sound of rushed footsteps broke through the door alerting him quickly of the sudden panic.
Placing the coin against the desk he heaved a sigh and shook his head to clear it.
* * *
Connor sighed contently resting his head against the warmth of Stephen's sofa, breathing in the soft scent that had lingered far longer than he had been there.
Stephen smiled at him fondly watching from the kitchen counter as Connor lay motionless against the sofa a smile snaked against his mouth.
"Does it hurt?" He grinned when Connor snorted.
"That's an understatement. I would have been in less pain if it had eaten me." He answered cringing when Stephen knocked his feet over the side and fell into the space beside him.
"A little over dramatic Con," Stephen observed with a content smile of his own.
"You didn't see the way it looked at me Stephen, it was like a wild animal possessed."
"It was a herbivore." Stephen smirked, "a baby herbivore at that."
Connor huffed with a smile shifting awkwardly along the sofa until he was pressed against Stephen's side, his nose nuzzling the warm flesh of his lover's throat.
A soft moan whispered through his throat when Stephen rested his hand against the student's shoulder his mouth quickly finding Connor's in a soft kiss. A soft sigh fell away from his mouth when the lab tech pulled away, his eyes fluttering lazily.
"I love you." Connor yawned, breathing deeply through his nose when Stephen gently ran his fingers through the short strands of Connor's dark hair.
"I love you too." He whispered softly pressing a kiss against the top of Connor's hair.
Connor sighed softly curling himself against Stephen who closed his eyes and ran his fingers softly against the top of Connor's hair.
"What is she like Connor?" Stephen asked pulling Connor's attention to him for a minute, the student furrowed his eyebrow and blinked a few time.
"Who?"
"Your mum idiot," Stephen rolled his eyes playfully when realisation dawned in Connor's eyes.
"Oh. She's nice really nice and she has a weird sort of humour it might come off as sarcastic but she doesn't really mean anything by it." Connor yawned into a whisper. "Why?"
"Just curious," Stephen defended.
Connor shifted lifting his head until his eyes met with Stephen's in a soft smile. "Are you worried?" He grinned.
"Maybe."
"What about?" Connor whispered the smile fell for a minute when Stephen sighed.
"What if she doesn't like me Connor?" He mumbled in a voice that Connor was sure he had never heard the lab tech sound like, so little and insecure. Connor smiled nudging his arm playfully.
"What is there not to like?" Connor mumbled his smile soft.
"The fact that I'm a man," Stephen whispered nuzzling against Connor who sighed.
"You said I was sulking when I was worried." He pointed out; Stephen rolled his eyes and smiled playfully down at the student. "Stephen, please don't worry about it. She will like you. She likes everyone." Connor whispered punctuating the sentence with a soft kiss against Stephen's mouth.
He hesitated for a minute before heaving a sigh and looking up at Stephen.
"I have spoken about you before on the phone.... she knows you exist."
Stephen turned his attention to Connor, his eyebrow cocked. "What did you say?"
"Well it was first week at University and it was pretty much the only lesson of Professor Cutters I went to." He paused looking to Stephen who gestured for him to continue. "I might have said that you were a complete git...maybe worse."
"Oh great, so I'm already the bad guy," Stephen laughed playfully putting a faint smile back on Connor's face.
"But that was long before we started you know." He stated. "But I haven't really spoken about you since, with working at ARC most of the time I don't really get a lot of time to talk to her. She's completely out of the loop." He sighed.
"Yeah but that's not your fault, Connor your hands are tied there is nothing that you can tell her that Lester is ever going to approve of."
"I know, I just wish that I could tell her one amazing thing that I have done in my life without the fear of being arrested or shot as Lester threatened." He snorted a laugh.
"But I know you have, I know loads of amazing things that you have done, with and without the anomalies." Stephen tested, his mouth tugged into a smile when Connor furrowed his eyebrow. "Come on, we have an early start in the morning."
Connor huffed a groan. Wincing as he stood.
"You know that Homalocephale actually hurt."
Stephen snorted a laugh punching the student's arm playful, his mouth tugging into a smirk when Connor winced and scowled.
"It was a baby Connor."
"Irrelevant Stephen." Connor grunted with a smile when Stephen snickered.
xD I wrote this in the common room the other day.
The bit with Connor and stephen was going to be Connor and Nick to show the sort of supportive father figure. But then I though I could link it to Stephen and Abby re-building the bridge of friendship.
Anywaysssssssssss...... I hope you enjoyed it.
Reviews will be rewarded with kisses from Connor.