Pleb, yeah, but another bump could be fatal. No one wants to risk it to find out. Thank you. takers dark lover, Heath will learn. M.j's place, thank you! LadyDragonsblood, I think I'm just being a tease. Hehe, can't get rid of Mama Adam. I do like how Chris is coming along here. Thank you, darling. Cerucci, chp 11, lol, I may have meant it as slightly dirty. Chp 12, sorry about that, Chris knows what he's doing. And those are things to think about. I do plan on addressing the issue about Adam and a baby.
The Darkest Corners;
Chapter thirteen/ 'Love and Warmth'
Rated; M/ L (uncomfortable conversation, slight cross-dress)
That night Chris read to him after dinner. Usually the routine was dinner, bath, then story time.. but tonight Adam was the one to get messy, so Adam opted for a shower first. That was okay, routines could be broken and not cause the end of the world. Gerard sat in Chris's lap, holding to the sippy cup with both hands and not drinking as much as gnawing on the nozzle as he listened to Chris reading him some fairytale from long ago.
"So the wolf arrived at the third pig's house where the other two cowered inside. 'Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in.' 'Not by the hair on our chinny chin chins.' Cried the pigs defiantly."
Gerard giggled and reached up to stroke the scruff on Chris's chin.
Chris smiled warmly. "So the wolf bellowed, 'Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down.' And so the wolf began to huff and puff with all his might, but try as he may he could not blow down the house made of solid brick. The wolf left defeated and the pigs squealed in delight, safe from the big bad wolf once and for all. The end."
Gerard pulled his cup down. "Sad 'ough.. the wolf dun't get a meal."
"Eh, maybe he found him a nice fluffy bunny." Chris poked Gerard's side.
Gerard giggled, wrapping his arms around Chris's neck and hugging him. "I love you, Daddy."
Chris stilled for a moment, lips twitching into a little smile. He hugged Gerard back, melting a little on the inside. "Love you too, kiddo." The thought occurred to him that Gerard probably didn't know any better and he shouldn't take it to heart, but it just made him feel so warm inside that he didn't care at the moment.
-xx-
Phil sat in the living room at a little round table, playing cards in hand and waiting impatiently for AJ to make a move. Mike sat and watched, having already folded. "Just put them down already."
"I will when I want to." She gazed over as her girlfriend came through the door and tossed her things down on the couch. "Hey, babe."
Paige shook back her long black hair, nodding at Phil. "Bogarting my girlfriend again?"
AJ reached over and hugged Phil. "Our Punky's lonely."
Phil growled and tried to peek at her cards as he attempted to pry her off. "I am not. That two-bit bastard over there brought me here." Meaning Miz.
"Hm. Should I be jealous?" Paige smirked.
"Yep." AJ chirped, sitting back in her seat.
"Hell no." Phil groused.
"He wuvs me."
"Brooks gets all the hott bitches." Mike muttered.
Paige slapped him in the back of the head as she went through to the kitchen. "Well, he's got you now, doesn't he?" She retorted.
"Ow.." Mike rubbed the back of his head childishly. "I was just kidding. About the bitch part.."
"Riiight."
Phil sat back, unamused. "It's either be here, or sit in my apartment and think about him."
"He just needs to get laid." Mike muttered to AJ.
Phil glared at him, but then slouched and sighed. "Fuck it, he's right. But who I want is out of service. Adam has forbid me from so much as kissing him."
"That's bullshit. You should be allowed to kiss your boyfriend." AJ stated.
"We're still on this?" Paige asked.
"Still." Mike nodded.
"How does he feel about you kissing him?" AJ asked, rearranging her mystery cards.
"He likes it. Or so he says, he tries to kiss back, initiates the kisses.. But that's not the problem, he gets all squirmy and he'll make these sounds.. jeez.." Phil swallowed. "I tried tickling him. He used to love that. But now.. he doesn't understand what it does to him and it scares him. It's frustrating."
"Stop tickling him then." Paige said obviously. "Use a different approach. Be more subtle."
"I just feel so sleazy. I think I made him cum.. he thought he peed."
"That is the most innocent thing I ever heard. Kind of makes my dick hard." AJ threw down her cards. "Now weep."
Phil twitched. "Damn it!" He tossed his own cards down on the table, defeated. Of course AJ's hand had beat his.
AJ cackled and took the winnings- which was loose change, some candy and a random button, just stuff that everyone had just pulled from their pockets.
"I was gonna eat that candy." Mike pouted.
"Whelp, Philly wouldn't play strip poker like I wanted to." AJ pointed out, opening a Jolly Rancher and throwing it in her mouth. "Mmm.." She smiled deliberately at Mike.
Miz rolled his eyes. "So mature."
"I just don't know if I can have any kind of relationship with him." Phil said.
"Sure you can." AJ patted his shoulder. "Just take it slow and be gentle until you see how he's going to handle anything physical."
"Don't scare the poor thing." Paige added.
Phil glared at her.
"Sorry." She shrugged. "I'm not implying you'd do it on purpose."
"And stop getting on Adam's bad side. Like it or not, he's Gerard's caretaker. If he thinks you mean harm, you won't get anywhere." AJ pointed at him. "Be good."
"Yeah, thanks." Phil shook his head. "It's probably pointless. I don't even think he remembers me when I leave."
"He knows you when you visit, that's all that matters. Stop being such a puss-bag."
He knew she was right.
-xx-
Shopping with Gerard had at least gotten much easier and Adam and Heath took a little shopping trip while their men were at work. Adam did manage to get back before Chris got home, however.
"Hey, baby. How was work?" Adam greeted cheerfully.
"Lazy. What you all do today?"
"We went shopping."
"Shopping, huh?" Chris said, hanging his jacket on the back of a kitchen chair. "How was Gerard?"
"Oh, he was as good as gold. I let him pick out some fall and winter clothes. And these." Adam pulled something out of a bag and held it up. It was adult-sized fleece footed pajamas, they were black with the yellow Batman logo on the chest. "Look what I got him."
"They fit?"
"Uh-huh. These were in women's sleepwear, in juniors. They're almost long enough to fit me." At nearly 6'5, Adam was quite statuesque.
"Damn. What girls are they making these for, WNBA players?" Chris quipped, reaching out to feel of the pajamas.
Adam giggled. "I got him a pink pair with skulls on them."
"They don't have the butt-flap, do they?" Chris snorted.
"No, they don't have the butt-flap." Adam said mockingly. "Leave it to you to ask about a butt-flap."
"I don't know, that would be convenient." Chris grinned. "Could get you a pair, easy access."
"Well, no one needs easy access to my baby." Adam carefully folded the pajamas.
It was then Gerard wandered in and Chris nearly choked. "And what is my boy wearing?"
Gerard looked up at him like it was obvious. "Gwumpy.." He was wearing a light blue tank top with the blue Care Bear on the front sitting on a cloud, the end of the shirt was ruffled and with it was a pair of short white shorts with fluffy blue clouds all over them. Grumpy was his favorite, he was always so huffy, but funny. And mostly he loved the color blue right now the best.
"I see.. but it's so skimpy.." Chris said of the girl's pajamas. He watched Gerard wander back to the living room.
"They were in a box of his old clothes. You know when I picked up some of his stuff out of storage? Well, he found them before I could." Adam explained. "He'll be fine just around the house, but not when Phil's here."
Chris shook his head. "S'long as he's happy. And especially not around Phil." Though Phil probably remembered them.
"It's getting to where he won't be wearing anything like that for long. Colder by the day." Adam shuddered just thinking about it. "Brrr.."
"Phil still helping pay for his storage?"
After the accident, Adam and Phil decided to have Gerard's belongings put in a storage building. Phil had made a couple of payments on Gerard's apartment, but he realized he couldn't keep up two rents and most of Gerard's clothes and stuff were at Phil's anyhow. So since Gerard couldn't live on his own, Phil let his apartment go and moved the rest of his things to storage since Adam agreed to split rent on it.
"Yeah, he does okay with it. Most of it's just wasting away in there. I've got out some of his clothes and stuff.. but there's things he no longer really has a use for.." Adam rolled his eyes upward in thought. "Phil kept the stuff like his comics, CDs, DVDs, art work.. I think he kept his special toys too.."
Gerard had been listening from the living room. He wondered what special toys.. but he wasn't going to ask about them. It kind of hurt to hear them talking about Phil anyway right now. He wasn't quite sure why.
"Figures. What about the stuff he has no use for then, gonna do anything with it?"
"I asked Phil, but he says he wants to keep it.. so.." Adam shrugged.
Chris nodded. He understood, Phil was still holding onto hope that things could one day be normal again. Poor guy.
-xx-
"I think Philly's mad at me." Gerard said out of the blue as they sat in the living room, him watching television and Adam reading.
Adam looked up from his paperback. "Hm? Why do you think that?" He put his marker back and closed the novel before getting up and stretching.
"Cuz he don't come around no more. An' las' time wiff you two arguing.. he mad at me.." He felt kind of abandoned.
"No, baby. He's mad at Mama." Adam wrapped an arm around Gerard as he slid in beside him on the couch. "Ooh, you're so cold. We'll put on your warm 'jamas after your bath tonight. Would you like that?"
Gerard nodded, tilting his head back to gaze up at Adam. "They soft and fluffy."
"They are." Adam kissed his head. He was quiet a moment, debating. "How.. do you feel when Phil kisses you?"
Gerard blinked and shrugged. "I don't know." Adam wasn't supposed to know about the kisses.. but Adam knew now, so he wasn't sure what to say about it. Should he tell Adam he liked them? "Okay, I guess.. they make me tingle.. not like when you play wiff my hair.." He nibbled his lip, gazing around. "But diff'rent.."
"Good or bad different?"
"Good. It's nice." He gave a unsure smile at Adam and stared back at the TV.
"He's not been forcing you though, has he? Making you do it when you don't want to?"
Gerard looked at him and slowly shook his head. "No. Just wiff the tickling. That feels funny.. weird.. tingly.." How could he describe this? Kissing was a relaxed kind of tingly.. and tickling was a panicked kind of tingly. So different and so the same. He wasn't sure.
Adam nearly choked on his next question. "Has he ever touched you.."
Gerard was confused and Adam twitched as he said, "Uh-huh, he touches me all the time.. hugs me and pets me.. like you and Daddy.."
Adam took a breath. "Not that kind of touching, baby.."
Gerard didn't understand. Touching was touching.. right? What other kind of touching were there? "I don't know.." He squirmed uncomfortably.
"Okay.. did anyone at the institute try and make you feel like Phil does? Kiss you or..?" Adam trailed off with a sigh.
Gerard started to fidget, he didn't want to continue this conversation. He wanted Mama to stop. So he shook his head. "N-no.." He closed his eyes. "No.." He repeated, bringing his hand up to chew on his fingers.
Adam saw he was close to panicking and pulled him close, rocking him. "Okay okay.. no more, it's okay. Shhh, calm.. I just want you to tell me if anyone hurts you, okay. I don't want you hurt."
"No.."
Adam shushed him again and started humming. He saw now that he definitely could not talk to him about this and the thought of explaining it made him feel uneasy. He finally felt Gerard relax and hug him.
Chris came through at that moment, fresh from the shower and in comfortable clothes. "Whew, man, I feel more human now." He saw his boys. "Anything wrong?"
"No, it's okay." Adam pulled back and raked Gerard's hair away to look at him. "Right? We okay?"
Gerard nodded and Adam gave Chris a look that simply said 'I'll tell you later.'
"Okay." Chris took a seat next to them. "Hey, kiddo, what're we watching?"
"Cosmo." It was a DVD of Fairly Odd Parents.
"He likes the little green haired dude. He's funny." Adam said, stroking his hair back. "I think it's time we got a haircut, it's getting kinda long."
"Why would you want to cut all that pretty hair?" Chris asked, reaching over and gently tugging a lock.
"I think I remember once asking you the same thing." Adam huffed. Chris once had long epically gorgeous hair. His hair was still epically gorgeous, just not long.
Chris scratched at his hair. "Mine's getting kind of shaggy as it is."
"And I don't want to cut all him's pretty hair off. Just trim it up, maybe get it layered some. Look, it's long enough to put in a ponytail." Adam giggled, gathering all of Gerard's hair up before letting it fall.
Gerard would have glared, but Adam was running fingers through his hair and it felt so nice, he shivered and smiled.
"In fact.." Adam reached over and snatched up two hairbands that were laying on the coffee table. "Here, turn around."
Gerard scooched around to where his back was to Adam, letting the blonde gather up one side of his black hair and secure it with one of the bands.
"Think he'd be okay with taking him to the salon?" Chris asked.
Adam was working on the other pigtail. "I don't know. I don't think Amy would mind if I brought him in after closing or something.. but.. Sit still please."
Gerard was giggling at the TV, bouncing a bit. "Sorry.."
"But I could ask if she'd just come here and cut it. She used to come cut his hair at the institute." Adam fixed the other pigtail and sat back. "There."
Gerard shifted back around and shook his head, flipping the pigtails, some of his shorter bangs falling loosely in his eyes. He never really wore his hair up, Phil told him he never really did. But he didn't mind Adam playing with his hair. Heath liked to get a hold of it too. Heath used to be a little rough, but had gotten better. With him Gerard usually ended up in crooked braids. Heath said he was practicing. Jay said he wasn't improving and Heath smacked him.
"Can she cut mine here then? I tip well." Chris tugged a pigtail and got shooed away.
"No.."
"Awe, why can't I play with them?" Chris pretended to pout. Gerard paid him no mind.
"I can ask her." Adam said. Amy Dumas was a trusted life-long friend, she owned a small hair salon in town.
Gerard crawled in Chris's lap, wrapping his arms around his neck. "M'I pretty, Daddy?"
"Very pretty." Chris smiled, hugging him.
Adam giggled to himself. There should be something odd with a pretty boy half naked in girl's pajamas, sitting in his boyfriend's lap and calling him Daddy. In any other circumstance it would have been. Chris had told him last night about Gerard calling him Daddy. He figured maybe he didn't know any better, but it was cute and they were already attached anyhow. Besides it's not like they had the heart to tell him he couldn't.
After dinner, Adam got Gerard bathed and into some clean, warmer and less-revealing pajamas. Then Gerard crawled in Adam's lap for story time, nibbling his thumb.
"Ah-ah, don't do that. If you're going to, just suck, don't bite. There you go." Adam looked up when Chris snorted.
"That didn't sound right."
Adam glared, his look warning 'that's not what I meant and you know it.'
Chris only giggled.
"Want 'tory.." Gerard mumbled around his thumb, anxiously waiting for Adam to begin.
"Daddy's going to get a spanking if he don't quit." Adam muttered, opening the book. They both knew he was teasing, Adam wasn't the spanking type.. though he had been the being-spanked type before.
Chris mouthed the word "kinky" and sat down next to his boys.
Gerard pulled his thumb from his mouth to look at Adam seriously. "Would you really spank Daddy?"
Chris let out a giggle snort and Adam rolled his eyes. "No."
"Got my hopes up for nothing." Chris tsked.
"He's just teasing and being silly. No one's going to spank you either." Adam kissed his head and started to read.
Gerard didn't worry about that. Once a nurse had threatened to with his belt within Adam's earshot. Adam told him in front everyone that if he even thought about it he'd strangle him with it. No one else threatened after that ever again.
After Adam had gotten Gerard in bed, his phone rang. He looked at the ID, but didn't recognize the number. Thinking there was a chance it could be something important, he hit accept. "Hello?"
He expected at least a voice, but all he heard was faint breathing in the background, not even a return 'hello.'
Adam waited a second more and once again said "Hello? Who is this? I can't hear you."
There was still only silence and the breathing, and Adam thought he heard the distant sound of something humming in the background. Then there was a beep and the line was dead.
Adam blinked and looked down at the fading screen of his phone. He checked the number again and still didn't recognize it. Oh, well, he thought. If it was important they'd call back. If not, then it was no big deal.
Was watching the World's Dumbest Inventions one day and they showed these full-length footie pajamas for adults- I have seen them in stores in the juniors, they're out now for winter, I even have a pink pair with bunny feet that I never wear- and they were making fun cuz that's what they do and someone was saying that all they needed were adult pacifiers and bottles. I had already wrote this, but it made me think of it. And hey, those pajamas are warm. None of them have the butt-flap though. Under normal circumstances, my pixie loves being spanked, but I'm not having it in here non-consenting. I shall have other uncomfortable stuff instead. The Three Little Pigs story wasn't copied from a storybook or website, just a lazy recount of it. I've loved the Paige and AJ feud, they're so dating now in my twisted world.