Chapter 4

Spoiler alert for the Shining, but really it's been out for almost 40 years so who's really to blame if you haven't seen it? Enjoy!

So, maybe he did find Saul kind of attractive.

Maybe he was just the only person he'd seen in a while and he was horny as fuck. Maybe Saul was pretty sexy. Maybe he hadn't been outside in a while. Maybe he just hadn't seen boobs in a while.

Maybe Saul's muscles under his shirt were pretty hot. Maybe his jaw was strong and square. Maybe Jesse wanted to sit on his lap and run his fingers through his silky hair.

Maybe Jesse wanted to sit on his face.

"Fuck…" Jesse muttered to himself, jacking himself off in the shower for the thousandth time. Saul kept commenting he took long showers.

Saul showers naked. "Ok, no.." Jesse muttered to himself. He finished himself off quickly, letting out a shaking, shivering gasp when he finally came in his hand, and immediately felt like shit.

He got out of the shower, drying his hair before wrapping his towel around his hips. He headed back to the spare bedroom, which had now been his for just over a month, to get dressed. He was just about to pull off his towel, when he heard the front door open, and Saul's voice as he talked on the phone. Jesse's heart suddenly started pounding and he felt compelled to go see him, despite being almost naked.

Saul stood by the door, clearly having an unpleasant conversation on the phone. His hand rested on his hip, one knee bent slightly as he rested his weight on the other leg, his eyes cast skywards as he tried to talk to whoever it was.

"No, you listen to me, you agreed- …Yes, of course it's part of the bill, it was written in the contract you signed. Well, good luck losing that murder charge without me, because you're looking at 10-15 minimum. Oh, what's that? You want me to keep your case? You'll pay the full amount? Excellent, see you next week then." He said with a smirk and hung up, sighing heavily as he pulled his tie loose.

He removed his jacket then looked up, noticing Jesse hovering in the doorway. He smiled. "Hey, kid. Uh, sorry about that – stupid client didn't realize he had to pay for a lawyer.." he muttered, shaking his head. He looked tired.

"Oh, no, man, it's cool.." he said with a shrug, feeling a little awkward now that he was actually standing in front of Saul in just a towel.

Saul smirked at him as he poured himself a glass of scotch, Jesse could have sworn he saw his eyes glance down his body as he looked away, and he realized he liked that.

He took a deep breath before he spoke again. "Hey, uh, I think there's something wrong with the shower..? It wasn't, like, flowing as good as usual…maybe it's, uh, like a limescale thing…or something..?" he asked, knowing plumbing wasn't exactly a good way to broach a possible 'fuck me' situation, but hey.

"Uh, ok, kid…I'll take a look at it later.." he muttered, with a sigh, sitting down heavily on the sofa. Jesse nodded and went into the bedroom to change.

He returned dressed in boxer shorts and a T-shirt, the heat outside battling with the apartment AC. He sighed and sat opposite Saul.

"Don't worry about the shower, I think I fixed it." He said and Saul smiled with a nod.

"Great, thanks, kiddo." He said. "So, I'm thinking maybe pizza tonight? What do you say?" he asked and Jesse smiled.

"Sounds great." He said. "How was your day?" he asked after a moment. Saul looked at him and visibly straightened, the smile returning a little more genuinely. Jesse wandered when someone had last asked Saul that question…

"Oh, you know, crappy. People are such idiots sometimes. Like, I had this one guy come in – he's maybe 50, 55?" Jesse nodded, Saul smirked, sitting forward a little. "He asks me if there is any way he would have been allowed to legally attend a high school PE class – says it was for his health, he needs someone to teach him how to exercise." Jesse frowned and Saul nodded. "Yeah, right? Then I take a little looksy at his criminal history and turns out he's been arrested five times before this for breaking into high schools with the intent of assaulting teenage girls!" Jesse's face contorted with disgust, making a grossed out noise.

"Shit… Are you gonna represent him?" he asked. Saul scoffed and shook his head.

"Hell no, I'm not that much of an asshole. As a rule, I don't represent rapists or pedophiles. He qualifies as both, so I had Huelle escort him from the premises." He said with a sigh, sipping his drink before looking at Jesse again. "Why are you so happy?" he asked, smirking. It was then Jesse became aware of his own smile, and looked down.

"Uh, you know, just glad you're a, like, decent human being and all that…" he said with a shy smile that made Saul's heart swell. The lawyer chuckled and sat forward, placing his glass down on the coffee table before standing up.

"I'm gonna go change into something more comfortable. Uh, you wanna pick a movie?" he asked, pulling his tie off all together. Jesse looked at him and nodded.

"Uh, yeah, sure. Any particular kind?"

"Whatever is fine, up to you." He said before heading off to his room. Jesse sighed and went over to the cabinet full of DVDs, wondering if Saul had actually seen all of these. There was literally hundreds, maybe thousands depending how many means of storage he had hidden away, and most of them Jesse had never even heard of. There was a lot foreign cinema – French, German, Japanese, Brazilian… Jesus, Jesse could barely watch stuff in English without getting lost, subtitles were even worse.

He selected one of the few movies he recognized, The Shining. He'd never actually seen it, but he vaguely remembered it being on the syllabus when he almost took a semester of Film in high school. He ended up taking Shop, which he found he enjoyed immensely, and he still kind of missed making things with his hands. Maybe that was why he'd enjoyed cooking with Mr. White so much – Mr. White excluded.

He put it on and waited for Saul to return, getting them both a cold beer from the fridge.

Saul returned wearing comfortable-looking sweatpants and a plain black T-shirt, looking a lot more relaxed and, Jesse thought, pretty hot. He'd given up denying his feelings of attraction towards Saul, but was still nervous about acting on them.

Saul grinned at the DVD menu, recognizing it immediately.

"Great choice, kid. Have you seen this before?" he asked, graciously taking the opened beer he handed him. Jesse was about to lie but then decided not to, shrugging.

"Uh, no. I just, uh, it was the only one I, like, recognized… You have a lot of movies, dude.." he said. Saul chuckled, sitting on the couch beside Jesse.

"Yeah, I guess you could say I'm a film geek." He said, smiling at Jesse, who smirked. "I should warn you, though, it's pretty scary." He said, playing the movie and the long intro over the mountains began.

"Oh, really? Like the Blair Witch Project scary?" he asked.

"Uh, I'd say scarier – and not as much motion sickness. Definitely bigger budget." He said with a grin, making Jesse chuckle. "You've seen Blair Witch then, huh?"

"Yeah, I didn't think it was that great though – I mean I know it was super low budget it and everything but, yeah, wasn't super impressed... I saw it with a buddy, and he almost puked." He said, grinning at the memory. Skinny Pete did not have a strong stomach.

Saul laughed, getting up to turn off the lights, saying they needed to be 'more immersed'. He then returned to sit next to Jesse, grinning excitedly.

"Am I gonna shit my pants?" Jesse asked, concerned about the darkness. Saul laughed.

"I hope not, kid, this is a new couch." He said, making Jesse smirk, and played the movie, turning the volume up so it hit on the surround sound. "Sound is a big part of what makes it scary." Saul said.

Jesse was starting to get nervous. He was jumpy at the best of times, now they were about to watch something that was designed to make him scared... He settled back into the sofa cushion, his shoulders tense and his eyes trained on the screen.

"Oh, cool – I like this guy, he was a wicked Joker." Jesse said, pointing to Jack Nicholson. Saul nodded, grinning.

"That he was." He said, Jesse smiling back at him.

They watched for about an hour, when the mood started to get distinctly more tense and scary. Jesse felt his body tense as he watched Jack Nicholson walking towards the forbidden room 237.

He watched, wide-eyed, as Jack walked into a mint-green bathroom and, very slowly, the shower curtain was moved aside to reveal a naked woman. Jack grinned and they embraced, kissing passionately, while clips of the kid, Danny, having some kind of fit, alternated. Jesse was just getting confused when the camera angle changed to zoom on Jack's face.

He looked over the woman's shoulder and his eyes widened in horror. Then it revealed what he was seeing. The woman's back was rotting, sections of flesh moldy and decaying, and she was suddenly bigger, flabbier.

Jack pulled back to see the beautiful model-like woman had become a gross old lady, rotted and disgusting, while more clips showed her lying in bath water, her skin congealed and putrid, alternating between Jack backing away from the one in front of him, and the one in the bath, who slowly began to rise up.

Jesse felt a mixture of horror and true fear and he felt himself shifting closer to Saul, breathing suddenly difficult. He picked his feet up off the ground, suddenly extremely paranoid, and his hands reached for Saul, terror filling his mind as the old lady began to slowly chase Jack, her arms outstretched as she laughed menacingly.

Jesse jumped when he felt Saul's arm wrap around him and he looked up to see him looking at him with a smile and a slight frown.

"Kid, it's ok, I got you.." he said, rubbing Jesse's arm. "You ok?" he asked.

"Uh, y-yeah…sorry, that kind of freaked me out.." he said, panting slightly. The scene was over, moving onto the chef in Miami trying to get a hold of the family, and Jesse finally relaxed. "Fuck, that got me, dude.." he said, his heart still pounding.

"Sorry, kid, I didn't think you'd be so affected by it. I can turn it off if you-"

"No…no, I'm ok, I just – old ladies and stuff, man..." He said with a forced, shaky smile. Saul nodded, still frowning a little at him.

"Ok, if you're sure. I don't want to give you any more nightmares than you already get…" he said.

"To be honest, I think I'd rather dream about that than the stuff I dream about now…at least I know this ain't real." He said honestly. Saul sighed and nodded – shit, the kid's life was a horror story. "But, uh…if you can, like, keep your arm around me…that would be good.." he said, turning back to the screen, and Saul could sworn his saw the signs of a blush on his skin. He grinned and nodded, shifting so his arm was more comfortably wrapped around Jesse.

"You got it, kiddo.." he said, pulling Jesse closer so his head rested on his own shoulder.

They watched the rest of the movie as close as possible. Nothing else really scared Jesse as much as the old lady had, but it was still a pretty scary movie. The party made him tense, as did the whole river of blood scene. The maze at the end, however, had him clinging to Saul, and Saul to him.

When the movie was over, the credits rolling to an old timey orchestra-singer combo, Jesse looked at Saul and smiled.

"Thanks…" he said and Saul grinned, his arm still around Jesse. Neither of them moved away, and neither seemed to want to.

"Any time." He said, his voice low. Jesse blushed at that, and stared up at Saul. Saul stared back at him, then glanced down at his lips and, in a flash, they were kissing.

It was clumsy and rushed and their noses were touching in a weird way from the angle, but it felt good, right. Saul pulled away, panting slightly. Jesse was panting too, his lips wet and parted as those ocean-like eyes consumed him.

"Ok?" Jesse asked after a moment. Saul nodded.

"Yeah…you?" he asked. Jesse nodded.

"Oh yeah.." he said, then a grin crossed his face and he laughed. Saul stared for a moment, memorizing the sound and sight, then he laughed too. They were kissing again after that, and Jesse's hands were in Saul's hair and Saul's hands were on Jesse's sides as he pushed him down onto his back. He moved a hand under the younger man's shirt, feeling the soft skin and hard ribs, then down to the sharp hipbones.

He felt Jesse jump and shiver at the feeling, moaning softly into Saul's kiss. Saul took this as a 'keep going' and his palm found the hardness in Jesse's boxers – the thin fabric doing almost nothing to conceal his erection. Jesse broke away at this with a hissed curse and moved his hand from Saul's shoulder and down to find his cock hard too, tenting his sweatpants with impressive length.

"Fuck, kid..!" Saul gasped, looking down at him, Jesse looked back. "Are we doing this?" he asked, hoping beyond all hope this wasn't a joke, or Jesse thinking he owed Saul something. Jesse grinned and kissed him, flexing his fingers over his host's sensitive cock.

"Hell yeah, dude." He said with a grin, and they kissed again.

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