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Chapter Thirty-Three

Connection

The next two weeks were filled with the same. Luke and Noah had blended back together. Noah didn't realize how many movies Luke swiped from his collection when he moved to Chicago until he was going through them one night after dinner. He even took "Lawrence of Arabia". Luke slept through it twice and on third time when he finally did make it to the end. Noah got a "meh" in response. When Noah asked Luke why he took a movie he didn't even like, Luke became embarrassed when he answered him.

"Really, Luke. Why did you take this one?" Noah asked as he held the DVD case in his hand. Luke crossed his arms and leaned heavily on one foot.

"Well, I ah, I would put it in when I was working on an assignment for the paper, and it, it was like you were here. I could pretend that you were just over there watching it while I worked. Plus I did like the music," Luke looked down at his feet.

"Score,"

"Huh?" Luke asked.

"The music in a movie is called the score,"

"Oh," Luke said and Noah turned to put the DVD in. The score started and Noah turned down the living room lights. Noah reached a hand out and Luke shined with one of those shy smiles that always melted Noah.

"Watch it with me?" Noah asked and then Luke slipped his hand into Noah's. The gesture was so sweet and romantic, that Luke could not help but blush. Luke watched the entire movie and actually paid attention to it. Well, he did fall asleep a half hour from the end, but how can anyone blame him? He was leaning into Noah's side with a long arm wrapped around his shoulders. There was only so much he could do.

It was then that they decided that they would turn it into a regular thing. Noah would pick the movie as long as Luke would not make little jokes and comments. There were some hot make-out sessions on that really comfortable beige sofa while they watched some of Noah's old movies. Luke agreed to Noah picking the movie only to get heavy making-out. That sofa would never be the same again.

Noah was also glad that Luke's rent included utilities; with the length of the showers they had been taking lately. Luke said it was an attempt to save time and water. But in reality, the showers lasted twice as long and used gallons more water than if they went it solo. But then again there was also so much either boy could do. They had done nearly everything that two grown gay boys could do without going all the way.

Noah sat in the small exam room and waited for Dr. van Pelt to come in. His appointment was supposed to be at 10am, but with all the tesst and waiting between tests it was nearly 1pm now. He was sneaking texts to Luke the entire time. Luke's appointment was later in the afternoon. Luke wanted to go with his boyfriend, but he would not hear of it. Luke had barely spent any time with Scott these past few weeks and this was a perfect chance for them to hang out.

Luke was sitting across from Scott at the coffee shop and was missing Noah like crazy. Since Noah's declaration in the gardens at the hospital a month ago, they were rarely out of each other's sight. And for the last two weeks, they were sleeping together. Just sleeping; well not just sleeping.

"So, what the hell happened with you and Will?" Luke asked; finally breaking the silence.

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is, I haven't seen you a couple weeks. But I have heard ya'," Luke said and then looked at Scott over the rim of his coffee cup as he took a sip.

"You're one to talk! You and Noah have been attached at the lip since you came home,"

"Which is why I asked you out for coffee. Noah and I had not been cleared for anything other than heavy petting, so I'm leaving vicariously through you. Noah is at the doctor getting a check-up and he insisted that we have coffee, to catch up,"

"You're right. We're friends and I wanted to tell someone about Will anyway," Scott's smile grew as he spoke. He was in full beaming mode now. Luke could not help but be so happy for his friend. He knew all along that he and Will would make a great couple. He was just glad that Scott finally took his advice.

"So, speak. And don't you dare leave anything out," Luke said as he settled in to his side of the booth they were sharing. Scott looked about him to be sure that there wasn't anyone around to overhear what he was about to tell Luke.

"Ok, here goes,"

Scott was busy cleaning apartment. Will had left about an hour before and Luke just left. It felt good to tell someone about what happened between him and Will the night before. They did have that night together a couple years ago, but it was nothing compared to what happened last night. He had never felt like that before. He had never wanted someone so much. It meant so much more that Will was his best friend. They had a connection on another level that Scott had never felt before.

But wait.

Maybe that was why Will was in such a hurry to get out this morning. Maybe Scott had weirded him out. Will was never one to commit, why did Scott think that a fling with him would change things? Scott could feel his breakfast churning his stomach. What had he done? Scott got up from his sofa and started to pace slightly. He heard a loud slam and looked out into the hallway. It sounded like Luke's door. Seeing no one he shook it off and decided he needed to do something.

He walked into his bedroom and ripped the sheets off of his bed. He suddenly wanted all traces of last night away. He stuffed the dirty sex sheets into the hamper and pulled clean sheets out of the cabinet in the bathroom. As he made his bed, he was picturing what he and Will had done last night. He didn't imagine the connection that he felt. There was no way that it was just sex for Will, god knows it wasn't for Scott.

He felt low. Very low. He had managed to throw away the best friendship that he had ever had.

What was he going to do now?

Scott was prepared to pull himself into his bed and curl under the covers, when he heard a knock on the door. 'If I ignore them, maybe they'll go away' he thought to himself. Hearing the knock again, he pulled himself to his feet and walked to his door. He opened the door and standing in the hall was Will. He was wearing Scott's favorite leather jacket; it cut across his shoulders just right. Scott smiled; he just couldn't hold it in.

Without saying anything, Will stepped into the apartment and took Scott's face in his hands. The next thing he felt was Will's soft mouth on his. Scott was shocked at first, but the shock quickly gave way to the uncontrollable need for Will to be naked. He grabbed onto the brunette's jacket and pulled him into the apartment. Will kicked the door shut and grabbed onto Scott's hips; pulling them together. Using his grip on Will's jacket as leverage, Scott pushed him against the front door and ground his body into Will. Will's groan was quickly swallowed by Scott as he slid his tongue along the roof of Will's mouth. Will could taste the mint from Scott's toothpaste and the tinge from his coffee. He suddenly wanted to taste more of him; all of him.

Shrugging off his jacket, Will dropped to his knees and pushed Scott's shirt up and out of the way; Scott finished the movement and threw the shirt across the room. He started to lick and kiss along Scott's stomach. Along the edge of Scott's jeans. Will continued to taste his skin as his hands started to undo his pants. Will looked up and locked eyes with Scott as he pulled Scott's jeans down. Scott caressed Will's cheek as the brunette continued what he started. He leaned forward and took all of him into his mouth.

Scott thought his knees were going to buckle. He braced his hands on the door and got lost in Will's mouth. Will's hot mouth enveloped him; he felt tingling all over his body. Scott's head rolled back and a loud moan came out of his chest. Will smiled as he continued to work Scott's body over. He wanted him quivering and begging for more. Will was slowly and softly dragging his fingernails up and down the backs of Scott's legs. Will could feel him shaking above him.

"AHHHH! HARDER! DON'T STOP! OH GOD!" Scott almost screamed as Will deep throated him. In the cyclone of pleasure that swirled around Scott, he suddenly had one coherent thought. 'He never did that two years ago,'

"AHHHH! I'M CUMMING!" was the next thought that Scott had. Scott's brain was on sensory overload and he wasn't even sure if he said those words out loud or just thought it. Will did not miss a beat. He continued to suck Scott, straight through his orgasm. Scott's body slumped against the door and his legs felt like jelly. Will rose from his knees and stood in the middle of Scott's outstretched arms. He had a sly, cat-that-ate-the-canary grin on his face. He was quite pleased with himself. He slipped his hand to the back of Scott's neck and pulled in for kiss. Scott could taste himself on Will tongue and the thought of that excited him all over again. Will slid his other hand to Scott's bare hip and directed him toward Scott's bedroom. Scott kicked off the rest of his clothes and followed a fully dressed Will down the hall.

Scott sat on the bed and pulled Will to him by his belt loop. Scott's green eyes found Will's brown ones and they didn't look away. Not when Scott started to undo Will's belt. Not when Will pulled his shirt off. Not when Scott made a long swath with tongue on the underside of Will's cock. Will grabbed a hold Scott's shoulder to keep his balance.

God. He had never wanted someone so much in his life.

Scott reached over to his nightstand and pulled out everything they would need. He pushed himself back on the bed and laid back against the pillows. Will followed right with him; his body hovering over Scott's. He draped his entire body on top of Scott, every part of his body touching every part of Scott's body. Scott's brain was still hazy from the amazing blow job, but he was coherent enough to feel Will rub his cock against him. Scott was getting harder by the second.

Before Scott's brain could manage to get his body to move, Will was inside him. Scott groaned at the stretching his body did around Will. Will's eyes closed and he savored the feel of Scott's hot insides. It was like they were made to do this. He slowly moved in and out of Scott, who wrapped his legs around Will's waist to bring him deeper. Everything else drained away. The room, the building, the city. It was just them and no one else.

Noah sat in the uncomfortable chair and his knee bounced as he waited. He was hoping for the best, but a small part of him was worried that the doctor would say that things were not right or they would need to wait to do more tests. Or, God forbid, one was fine while the other wasn't.

Noah felt odd to be concentrating on sex so much, but it was the last step that he and Luke had to take to cement that they were really together. He and Luke had always been compatible in every aspect of their lives together; emotionally, intellectually, sexually. He loved Luke so much and the fact that they could come back to each other was a testament to that fact. Now he wanted to show Luke how much he missed him all these months. They had had fun these last few weeks, but Noah's mind kept drifting back to the first time they slept together. He had never felt so close to anyone in his life and it meant more that it was with the one person that he loved more than anyone else.

It wasn't until Luke was gone that he realized just how much he missed that kind of connection with someone. Everyone tried to help him feel better about things and himself, but that connection with Luke…nothing came close.

It also didn't help that Luke was sexy as hell and Noah was horny as hell. Seeing him around the apartment; he wanted to jump him constantly.

Dr. van Pelt came into the exam room and sat down across from Noah.

"So, how are you feeling?"

"I'm good,"

"Ok, well your test results are back. It seems that your remaining kidney has picked up the slack for the other. Your blood work looks excellent as does your urine culture. I wish all of my procedures went this smoothly,"

"So, Luke and I can…," as soon as he said it, he could feel his cheeks redden. His fell to his feet. He's going to think I'm a freak.

"Oh, well. I have to do Luke's exam, but yes. Everything looks good on your end," Dr. van Pelt knew pretty quickly what Noah was alluding to. He was use to it. Most of his transplant patients asked him the same question. It wasn't something that was mentioned in medical school, but it did not surprise him when he was asked.

Noah visibly relaxed. He stopped rubbing his hands together and a slight smile broke out across his face. The doctor gave him a pat on the shoulder and a small packet with directions to continue with his medications and make follow-up appointments.

Noah was outside the hospital and grabbing his cell phone as soon as he thought he could. It took two rings and Luke answered.

"Hello gorgeous," Luke said and Noah instantly smiled.

"Hi. What are you doing right now?"

"I'm in cab on my way to the hospital for my appointment. Where are you?"

"I'm just leaving the hospital after getting a clean bill of health,"

"Aww, baby I am so glad. Are you still there?"

"No," Noah responded as he called his own cab. "I'm going to run some errands and meet you at home. Is that all right?"

"Yeah, just be careful. I love you," Luke said as the cab came to a stop in front of the hospital.

"I love you too," Noah answered as he cab pulled from the curb. Both men hung up their phones and each felt a bit lighter.

Noah had made all of his required stops. He stopped at Luke's favorite Chinese food place and ordered food for delivery later. He grabbed some of Luke's favorite snacks at the corner market. Noah even stopped Walgreens and got Luke favorite bubble bath and lotion. He wasn't sure what the night would hold but he wanted to be prepared. Noah had told Luke over and over again that he loved him and that he was sorry for pushing him away, but tonight he was going to show him.

Luke opened the apartment door and was immediately hint with of vanilla. He pushed the door open and saw that the room was full of nearly two dozen candles. They were long tapers, short votives and even some were floating in small bowls. They cast a warm glow on the entire room. Luke breath caught in his chest. There was Chinese food sitting on the coffee table and apple cider in a bucket on the floor. Noah had pushed back the furniture in the room and every pillow in the entire apartment were on the floor along with a few blankets. He even had a fire burning in the fireplace.

Luke shut the door and stood still in shock.

"Hey," Noah said as he came down the hall.

"Hey," a smile instantly went across his face when he saw Noah. He was wearing his sleep clothes and he was bare foot. "What's all this?" Luke asked as he took his messenger bag and dropped it by the door.

Noah came up to Luke and took his hands in his.

"This is an apology," he said as he looked down at their joined hands. Noah tightened his grip slightly. Luke got a little worried.

"An apology for what?"

"For the past six months," Noah looked back at Luke and he could see tears in Noah's eyes wanting to fall.

"Baby, what are you talking about? We went over all this," he lightly caressed Noah cheek; he could feel Noah's chin quiver slightly.

"I know, I know, but I haven't been able to show you. I mean really show you. I love you so much Luke. I never stopped. I know I made it really hard to love me for the three months before you left, but I wanted you to know that I never stopped loving you. I may have doubted a lot of things, but my love for you was never one of them. I got the all clear from the doctor this morning and all I wanted to do was show you how much I am so in love with you," Luke stepped forward and lightly kissed Noah.

"How did I get so lucky?" Luke asked; his voice was so quiet and in pure awe of the tall brunette in front of him.

"When you figure it out, tell me how I got so lucky,"

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