Chapter 6

Adam's face still burned bright red when he dialed Tommy's number, but there was so much to be said that he couldn't send in text, so he had to do it. He held his breath when the line clicked. The line was silent as they both felt a little awkward.

"Hey." Adam whispered. He heard a sigh of what he hoped was relief from the other in.

"So is this where I ask you what your wearing?" Tommy asked with obvious fake confusion.

Adam bust out laughing giving the other man a few choice curses.

"Adam, with all seriousness: fuck your girlfriend." Tommy's deep voice filtered through the phone and Adam couldn't stop the chuckle that kept rumbling from his chest.

"Yeah she was a bitch after all apparently." Adam muttered as he pet Skeletor on the head. "The best thing to come out of this relationship was the dog. He's awesome." Adam paused, knowing what he wanted to say but not sure how to say it. "I'm not sure how long she's been cheating." Adam blurted out before he could feel embarrassed.

"How long do you think it's been going on?" Tommy asked his voice low and serious.

"She's been.. distant for months. Even before the cancer.. When I met you she had been sleeping in my bed for weeks but we hadn't had sex in a month. After I told her I had cancer it all got worse. She was going out and staying out all night and trying to sneak back in when she thought I was asleep. She hasn't even been going to my chemo with me. I have to sit there with a needle in my arm pumping poison into my vein and when I leave she fucking forgets to pick me up. I sat out side the hospital for 2 hours waiting on her and trying to call her. She FORGOT me.. I tried to tell her she could leave right when I found out. That I'd be fine. But she didn't leave. I asked her why and she said she stayed because I was so sick and it didn't feel right to leave." Adam took a deep breath, feeling suddenly out of breath after his rant.

"Adam, a piece of advice: Do not let her come back. She's going to try. She's never going to be a decent human if she'll sleep with another man while her supposed boyfriend is sick from chemo therapy."

Adam sighed and for lack of something to say he stated the obvious. "The chemo is the worst thing I've ever been through. I look like death, my hair was falling out, I bumped into the counter the other day and I have a bruise the size of a baseball. I feel tired all the time, but when I sleep I never feel rested. I've been seeing this therapist.. she's a horrible shrink but she's a nice person.. but I don't feel better about this. I...i feel like I'm dying, I know that's the chemo and all that shit, but it's starting to.. become real."

Adam started to get concerned when Tommy was silent for a while. "When my mother got sick, it started with a cough that wouldn't go away. She thought it was the weather.. her not being used to Tacoma after being in Pittsburgh for so long. She didn't have insurance so she just bought over the counter stuff hoping it'd get better. Months later she started having spells where she couldn't breath. It was like pneumonia but not. Finally one night, I drove her to the ER. They found a tumor in her right lung the size of my fist. She couldn't breath because of the fluid filling them. With her not having insurance they wouldn't let her stay in the hospital while they sent the biopsy out to confirm that it was cancer. We never went back to the hospital. My mom died slowly at home, drowning in her own fluids. Towards the end she looked awful but she never once lost her smile. She must have known what would happen.. I was 16 but she still put on a strong face for me. I nursed her to the end trying to make her as comfortable as possible. The moral is: This is real. You may die. You may not. I can't tell you it's going to be OK because I don't know that. But you can't sit around and wallow in it. Get off your ass and let your friend take you out. Do something. Because if these are your last days; you don't want to waste them feeling sorry for yourself."

Adam felt a tear roll down his cheek and his quickly wiped it away. "I'm sorry Tommy."

"Did you give her cancer?" He asked sharply.

"No." Adam whispered, another tear escaping down his cheek.

"Then you have nothing to be sorry for. Now do me a favor?" It wasn't really a question.

"Yeah sure."

" When's your next chemo?"

"Monday."

"OK then. Go to bed. Take your meds, gets some sleep, call me later when it's not the ass crack of dawn. When you go in for chemo Monday text me while you do it. I'll be training most of the day but I'll do my best to keep you company." Tommy yawned, and Adam could swear he heard him stretching.

"OK." Adam said quietly. He didn't know how he was supposed to fall asleep after the day he's had but he'd at least try.

"Good night Adam. It's good to hear from you."

"Goodnight. I'm sorry I was stupid and didn't call you when I found your number."

"It's OK now. Go to sleep."

Adam made a vague noise of confirmation and tapped the screen on his phone. He snuggled down into the sheets and Skeletor laid against his side. Before he knew it he was asleep.

Tommy flipped his phone shut and stared at it for a moment. He knew Adam didn't realize it but he had just opened up to the man more than he had to his own brother. He wasn't sure why but he was OK with that. Maybe because Adam was an outsider it made it easier for him.

He let out a long sigh, feeling suddenly like he might go back to sleep. He curled on his side and laid his phone beside his pillow before closing his eyes and finally falling into a blissfully dream free sleep.

Tommy roused slightly to the sound of someone moving around outside his room, his military training kicking in and his mind popped on line. The sounds move into the room and he feels the bed dip as a weight settled next to him on the mattress. The presence in the room didn't cause Tommy any alarm so he continued to lay with his eyes shut.

Hands, warm, heavy, and familiar come to rest on his shoulders and guide him to lay flat on his back. He could feel the warmth of another body as whoever it was leaned over and brushed their lips against his. He let out a pleased sound and let himself relax into the kiss. He could open his eyes but right now he didn't want to.

Pinpoints of pressure and warmth trailed down his chest before settling on the waistband of his shorts. Long fingers slipped inside and wrapped around his rapidly hardening length. Tommy groaned lifting his hips to thrust into the welcoming tightness.

The warm moist lips left his to trail down his throat, sucking lightly over his racing pulse. Moments later weight settled over his thighs and another hand was pushing his shirt up over his chest and soon lips where traveling down the dip of his breast bone and down his belly, tickling the hair there. Tommy let out a soft moan as his shorts and underwear were pulled down and his erection was freed. It smeared precum on his stomach where it twitch in excitement.

Soft warm wetness wrapped around the head of his cock and he finally forced his eyes open. He groaned as he saw Adam straddling his legs, his mouth stretched prettily around him. He knew now that he was dreaming but he didn't care. He let his hands find their way into Adam's hair, giving it an encouraging tug. The other man's lips curled into a grin as he took more of Tommy's length in his mouth.

Tommy's body shuddered as Adam hollowed his cheeks, dragging his lips up Tommy's length , letting the head almost slip out before sliding back down. When Adam started to rhythmically bobbing his head Tommy couldn't help his hips tensing and making small thrusts into Adam's welcoming mouth.

Adam moaned softly tilting his head to get a better angle and take more in and Tommy's thighs began to tremble, heat and tension coiling low in his belly. Tommy's breath was catching in his chest as pleasure trailed over his entire body. A low groan rumbled in his chest as he felt himself getting closer and closer, Adam's mouth and tongue finding all the right spots. The hands splayed across his stomach slowly curled and scratched their way down his thighs.

Tommy gasped as Adam's tongue swirled around his sensitive glands. He was teetering on the so close to the edge and all he need was just a second more...

"Tommy? You OK?" Brendan's voice snapped him violently from the dream and he found himself with his face in the pillow and his hips frozen mid grind against the mattress. He's painfully hard erection complained at the sudden cessation. "Tommy?"

"Yeah?" Tommy managed to croak out, turning his face into the breath damp pillow.

"It's lunch time. Food will be ready soon so I thought I'd wake you up.. but you sound busy. I'll just leave you to it. Just don't mess up the sheets. If I can make a suggestion.. do it in the shower." Brendan's voice filtered through the door and Tommy groaned hitting his head repeatedly into the pillow.

He heard his brothers foot steps as he retreated down the hall and Tommy cursed sitting up, his erection still straining against his shorts. With an irritated huff, Tommy stomped to the in suite bathroom and stripped his cloths off quickly and jumped into the shower.

He soaped up his hand and wrapped it around his aching cock and nearly sighed with relief. He braced his arm against the shower wall as he started working his hand over his length. He let his mind fill itself with images of Adam. Adam with his lips stretched obscenely around him, Adam spread out in bed stroking himself and begging Tommy to fuck him.

Tommy felt the threads of tension in his body finally break as sparks exploded behind his eyes. He grunted as he spilled over his hand and against the tile wall, his whole body shaking in the wake of pleasure.

Tommy stood there for a moment, braced against the wall, waiting for his breathing to return to normal before he quickly scrubbed the evidence of his activities away and washed himself a little slower than necessary.

When he finally was dressed and came down for breakfast his brother gave him a knowing smirk. Tommy cleared his throat and sat down at the table in his assigned spot between his two beaming nieces.

"Not a word." Tommy muttered in Brendan's direction.

Tess looked between the two men and took in Brendan's smirk and Tommy's still slightly flushed face and bust out laughing. "Oh lord I'm not changing those sheets.." She exclaimed then deflected Emily's questions about what she meant.

Tommy couldn't hide the grin that crossed his face as he tucked into his lunch, his mind wondering how Adam was feeling this morning. Without a thought he reached into his pocket and sent Adam a quick text to check on him. He was half way though the message before he realized that he felt lighter than he had in years.