A/N: Maeve suggested this idea and it was too big for the 31 Days of Smut. Duo and Relena fail a test, decide to blow off their day and drive to the beach where they encounter beach!Trowa. This also features one of the 31 Days of Smut prompts worked in, courtesy of AmberlyinViolet (I have way more than 31 prompts and this one was one of my favorites: 2x3xR with Trowa holding down Duo tickling him… and things).
A/N 2: I love reviews. I crave them. They make me smile and they make my fingers fly when I sit down to write. They introduce me to wonderful people who I become friends with and who give me all kinds of headcanons and ideas that will not go away until I sit down to write them (true story: Unexpected happened because of Luvsanime02; Entanglement because of Miss Murdered; countless one-shots from other amazing people). So, please, take the time to review.
A/N 3: I've got a bunch of ref images for this on my tumblr page "at" claraxbarton that you might want to check out.
A/N 4: Wake Forest, Duke, Davidson= great private schools in NC. Oak Island=lovely beach on the coast of NC. Davidson is about 20 minutes north of Charlotte, NC as a reference point.
A/N 5: Title from the lyrics of Peaches by In the Valley Below
Warnings: angst, smut, language
Pairings: 2x3xR
Working on a Feeling
After Trowa suggested that the folding table he used in the kitchen probably wasn't the best option, considering he had a perfectly functioning bed a few feet away, they moved out of the kitchen and to the bed.
And stood there, side by side, staring down at it.
Cathy, sitting on the couch, looked at them, her brows raised in what Relena knew had to be judgement.
"Is this one of those times when something seems like a good idea, but it really isn't?" Duo asked.
Trowa frowned slightly.
"You know, like when they advertise that if you eat a forty-eight ounce steak in twenty minutes it'll be free and you think to yourself - hell yes! But then, fifteen minutes later, you're regretting every decision you've ever made in life?"
Trowa laughed.
"Also, now that I've said that, I realize it might sound like a commentary on my ability to put big pieces of meat in my mouth but I want to assure you I'm up to whatever challenge you present."
Trowa smirked and lifted an eyebrow, and it was Relena's turn to laugh.
"Duo, I'm pretty sure you've impressed Trowa enough by your ability to insert your own foot in your mouth - he's probably not too worried."
Duo made a face at her.
And then they went back to staring at the bed.
Trowa sighed.
"We don't have to do this. I… I think I have a deck of cards around here somewhere. We can just… do something else while we wait for your clothes to dry and then you can be on your way."
It certainly sounded easier, sounded less awkward.
But it also sounded like something that would send Relena back to her normal life, feeling very ordinary and very, very disenchanted.
"No," Relena decided. She pulled the too-large plaid shirt over her head and dropped it onto the floor.
Both Duo and Trowa stared at her, Duo with a slight, fond smile on his face and Trowa with more naked appreciation.
"This is how she got to be prom queen," Duo said.
Trowa arched an eyebrow.
"By taking off her shirt?"
Duo chuckled.
"No," he said and pulled off his borrowed sweater, "by taking charge. By the time voting got around no one even thought they were allowed to vote for someone besides Relena."
Trowa smiled at that, the expression softer than his more sardonic smirk and Relena felt her heart skip a beat at the expression. He pulled his own sweater off and Relena had to stare.
A large, geometric lion tattoo covered most of Trowa's chest. The simple, thin black lines stretched from his clavicle almost to his naval.
As if, Relena couldn't help but think, he needed to be any more attractive.
She knew she wasn't alone in liking tattoos - she and Duo had made a habit of pointing out attractive men and women sporting ink for years and it had become a competition of sorts, to see who could find the most attractive, most interested tattooed person.
Duo smirked at her, clearly thinking of the same thing, and Relena was very tempted to announce that they had both won this time.
Instead, she hooked her fingers into the waistband of the flannel pajamas and arched an eyebrow in challenge to the two men.
Almost in unison, the three pulled down their pants and then stood, naked, admiring each other's bodies.
She watched Duo's eyes traverse Trowa's body with the same curiosity that she felt, both of them admiring his tan skin, his taut belly and long, firm legs that seemed to go for days. Relena found her lips quirking into a smile when she looked at Trowa's groin, at the thatch of auburn curls that were just a shade darker than the hair on his head, but still very noticeably red.
She swallowed hard at the sight of his semi-erect penis nestled among the curls and felt herself lick her lips in anticipation.
Trowa made some kind of noise, something low and guttural and she looked up to see him staring intently at her.
Even now that they were naked, even now that Relena and Duo were practically devouring Trowa with their eyes while Trowa seemed to be enjoying looking between their bodies, that same slight, self-satisfied smirk on his face, it seemed they all still found it a challenge to actually do anything.
"Why don't you two start," Trowa suggested after a moment, "and I'll join in."
Duo shrugged.
"Yeah, that sounds good - Relena?"
She nodded in agreement and felt herself relax when Duo put his hands around her waist, pulling her close so that the length of their bodies were pressed together.
He kissed her on the lips, light and teasing and, as it always did with Duo, it felt fun and easy to kiss him back, to tease him just as much as he teased her, licking and nibbling and sucking until they were both a little breathless, both flushed and aroused.
She felt Duo's hands slide up her back, his familiar hands ghosting over her skin in the way that he knew would make her shiver and arch into the touch.
Duo smirked against her lips, pleased with himself, and Relena decided to return the favor.
She bit into Duo's lower lip as she raked her nails down his chest, over his abdomen and he shuddered and tried to pull away.
It was her turn to smirk, as he glared at her.
"What else makes him do that?" Trowa asked.
Relena turned to him and arched an eyebrow.
"You mean where else is he ticklish?"
"No! No, that's not what he meant," Duo protested and started to move away. "He meant what else makes me shudder - like sucking on my earlobe or something. Right?"
Trowa laughed.
"I did, actually, but Relena's idea has a certain kind of merit to it."
They grinned at each other and Relena pushed Duo face-first onto the bed. Before he could move, she straddled his back, pinning him down with her weight, and gestured to his thighs.
Trowa knelt down on the bed beside Duo's feet.
"Haha, funny game you two but can we just -"
Relena expected him to reach out and tease Duo with his fingers, but instead, Trowa leaned down and licked the backs of Duo's thighs.
Duo jerked in surprise, his hips bucking so forcefully that Relena almost fell off his back, and he made a sound that was something between a moan and a giggle.
Trowa grinned at that, teeth flashing white behind his lips as he leaned down and licked Duo's skin again.
Duo squirmed frantically, trying to get free and Relena had to laugh.
Her laughter quickly turned into a shriek when Duo reached out to tickle her feet.
She lost her balance and fell over, allowing Duo to escape.
He glared at her, flushed and breathing heavily. It looked like he was about to attack her again, she could practically see his fingers itching, but then he grinned and looked over at Trowa.
The other man snorted and held up his hands.
"Be my guest. I'm not ticklish. At all."
It was a challenge both Relena and Duo took seriously. They maneuvered Trowa down onto the bed and started with all of the standard spots - neck, armpits, sides, thighs, knees, feet - and came up with nothing.
Well, they came up with no laughter, no suppressed giggles. Trowa laid on his back, hands tucked behind his head, hair covering half his face and a wide smirk on his lips.
Relena was determined to wipe that smirk off his face - no matter how attractive it was on him.
She ran her fingers down the inside of his thigh, feeling his muscles quiver under her touch, and then, just above his knee, she curled her fingers and tried to tickle him, hoping the sudden, unexpected move would startle him into a reaction.
Trowa merely raised an eyebrow.
Duo went for another approach. He propped himself up beside Trowa and licked a trail down the other man's abdomen, glancing over the mane of the lion tattoo on Trowa's chest. Duo then pulled back and blew on the moist flesh he had left in the wake of his tongue.
Trowa shivered, hummed in contentment even.
"Told you," Trowa said smugly, "no reaction."
"Well, I wouldn't say no reaction," Relena argued, eyeing Trowa's very erect cock. She had watched it grow in size while she and Duo teased him, until it was now fully erect, a glistening bead of precum on the head.
All of the nervousness and awkwardness she had felt before was gone - the tickling had been a good idea, had relaxed all of them and given them the chance to touch each other, to learn Trowa's body, that wasn't, strictly speaking, sexual.
Now, however, all of Relena's thoughts turned away from harmless tickling and towards a decidedly sexual direction.
"Fair enough," Trowa agreed.
He reached down, smearing the precum with his thumb, and stroked the shaft of his cock once.
"You have a fucking gorgeous cock," Duo muttered.
"So do you," Trowa replied and reached over to stroke Duo's cock.
Duo grunted in surprise, then bit his lower lip.
Relena had always wondered what two guys together looked like - when she and Duo discussed their sexual fantasies, when they talked through their dream threesome, it was always with two men, both of them agreeing that an extra cock never hurt.
Duo leaned closer to Trowa and started to stroke him as well, so that the two of them laid there, side by side, stroking each other.
Relena could feel her own arousal spread, could feel her nipples, already hard, become almost painfully so and she could practically feel the heat radiating from her vagina, could feel the lubrication of her sex.
Trowa looked over at her, his eyes half closed, the smirk finally gone from his face.
"Come here," he instructed, and she moved closer.
He used his free hand to cradle her skull and pull her face to his, kissing her with his sensuous lips.
His lips were dry, slightly chapped and she imagined it was from the wind and the cold of the beach. She traced over his lips with her tongue, wondering if she would taste salt, and when he opened his mouth to her she slipped inside the wet heat and sighed.
Trowa's hand shifted from her skull and down her back, his large palm warm and rough against her smooth skin. His fingers curved around her ass, squeezing lightly as he brought her closer to him, shifted her onto his thigh so that she was straddling it.
She moaned at the sudden friction between her legs and she rubbed against him, spreading the lips of her sex open and feeling her own moisture on his skin.
Trowa's hand clutched at her hip, steadying her even as his kiss turned a little frantic, his tongue thrusting into her mouth almost on pace with the way his hips thrust up to meet Duo's hand.
Relena had to pull away from the kiss after a moment, had to suck in a gulp of air and she looked down at Trowa, at his unfocused eyes and wet, parted lips.
"Holy shit, you two are the sexiest thing I've ever seen," Duo practically moaned beside them.
Relena turned to her best friend, saw the flush on Duo's face and chest, saw the way he bit one corner of his bottom lip while drawing in uneven breaths, and she knew he was close.
She leaned over to kiss him, swallowing his moan of pleasure as Trowa did something that Duo seemed to find particularly enjoyable.
Relena wrapped one hand around Duo's neck, holding him close, and with her free hand she reached for Trowa, stroking her fingers over his chest until she found one hard, flat nipple and rolled it.
Trowa groaned, the sound raw and visceral and beside her, Duo shuddered and gasped into her mouth.
She let him pull away and had to smile when he fell back onto the bed beside Trowa, eyes closed and breathing heavily, Trowa still stroking his spent cock, milking a final stream of thick, cream semen from him before Duo shied away.
Trowa let him go, smirking, pleased with himself no doubt. He lifted his hand to his lips and licked Duo's cum, holding Relena's gaze steadily while he cleaned himself.
She felt a sharp current of arousal at the sight and leaned down to kiss him, tasting Duo and the beach.
Relena continued to ride his thigh, rocking back and forth on the hard muscles, feeling his neglected cock rub against her belly as she moved. Both of Trowa's hands were now at her waist, urging her on and Relena continued to play with his nipples.
"Duo, you're being lazy," Relena admonished her best friend.
"Mm?" Duo rolled over, still looking thoroughly wrecked and wrapped in post-orgasmic bliss. He watched them for a moment, a slow smirk spreading across his face, before he moved closer. It was the smirk of trouble, of 'I've got an idea and it is a very bad one.'
Relena felt her breath catching at that smirk. She remembered it, very well, from so many times before.
Duo licked his hand before wrapping it around Trowa's cock again, his hand moving at a slow pace.
"Look at our girl, there, Trowa? Look at that dirty girl riding your thigh like she's in a damn rodeo," Duo said. "And look at those tits, Trowa. Begging for attention, don't you think? Bet they'd fit so good in your hands, too. Go on - give her a taste of her own medicine."
Trowa let out a ragged breath and his eyes narrowed but he followed Duo's instructions, pushing aside one of Relena's hands so he could reach up to her.
His calloused palm cupped her right breast, completing covering it and she shivered as he ran his thumb over her swollen nipple.
"Oh look at her face, Trowa. This girl is going to get off just humping your damn leg. Pinch her nipple and I guarantee she's going to cry out - going to be so close to coming that you can feel it."
Trowa did, pinching the sensitive flesh just this side of painful and Relena did cry out, didn't even bother to fight against the pleasure or Duo's prediction.
Beneath her, Trowa bucked.
"You like that too, huh? Like seeing our girl get off on you? What else do you like, Trowa? Would you like to see her touch herself? Want to see what she likes best?"
Trowa nodded and Duo arched an eyebrow at Relena.
"Well? Give the man what he wants, Relena. Show him what you like."
Duo had pulled this before - the bossy as fuck in bed card - and Relena hated how much she enjoyed it. She had tried it on a boyfriend once, who had been less than enthusiastic, but when she had turned the tables on Duo a few times she found that he enjoyed it even more than she did.
For now, though, Relena followed orders and ran her left hand over her left breast, massaging her own skin with just enough pressure to make her writhe against Trowa's thigh.
Both men were watching her with hooded eyes, that smirk still on Duo's face, and Trowa's lips barely parted as he seemed to be fighting to keep his breathing even.
"Hm, that's good Relena. You're enjoying that aren't you? Touching yourself with us watching?"
She had to nod in agreement, Duo's words exciting her almost as much as her own touch.
"What else do you like, Relena? I know Trowa's hard thigh feels good to grind against but don't you want something more? Doesn't your clit need some attention?"
Relena moaned and even though she blushed, even though she felt as dirty as Duo had described her for doing this - for humping against a complete stranger - she had to agree.
She had to lean back a little as she spread open her labia and Trowa propped himself up on his elbows, intent on getting a better look, and his movement jarred against her in a sharp upward thrust that had her moaning again.
And now he was smirking again. Relena knew she shouldn't be even more turned on by that look - in other, more clothed circumstances that smirk would have had her ready to start an argument. But right now, it just aroused her and urged her on.
She slipped two fingers into her tight, wet heat and found her clit. She rubbed against the bundle of nerves, circling it and applying just enough pressure to make herself want more.
"Gorgeous, yeah?" Duo asked Trowa, a fondness in his voice that made Relena look over at him.
His evil smirk was gone, and instead he was looking at her in a way that made her heart feel painfully tight in her chest.
It was the same way he had looked at her when they graduated high school, when she threw her arms around him and kissed him out of the sheer joy of being done. The way he had looked at her on Valentine's Day of their freshmen year, just a week after Relena's boyfriend had dumped her and Duo had shown up at her dorm with the most enormous Hershey Kiss she had ever seen and a kitchen knife. The way he had when they moved off campus as sophomore's and he had carried her over the threshold of their apartment a la old romantic movies. The way he had looked at her when she practically force fed him soup when he was sick over winter break a few months ago.
"Yeah," Trowa agreed.
"You should see what she looks like when she comes. It's like she's seeing color for the first time, like every time she comes she's overwhelmed by it. Show him, Relena. Show him how fucking amazing it is to watch you come. To watch you just jump over the edge and let go. Come for him Relena."
And she did, Duo's words pushing her closer and closer, her fingers working against her clitoris until she felt so tight, tense and pulsing and engulfed by sensation and then there it was - that blinding moment of release that left her breathless and empty and complete.
She felt Trowa's hands on her hips again, felt his fingers digging into her thighs and she couldn't be bothered, honestly didn't care that his grip was hard enough she was going to bruise.
Duo leaned over and kissed her again, light and teasing and just enough to make her feel settled, to push back any creeping doubt or need to feel ashamed of what she had just done.
"Can you please stop torturing me now?" Trowa growled.
Duo chuckled, the sound dark and sexy and he turned his attention back to the other man.
"Is this really torture?" Duo asked, still stroking Trowa's cock at that slow pace.
Relena continued to sit on his thigh, letting Trowa hold her in place and careful not to think too much about why that felt so good.
"Yes," Trowa growled again.
"Then tell me what you want - what would make this less like torture and more like pleasure?"
Trowa was silent for a moment, licking his lips as he struggled to speak.
"Maybe you want me to go a little faster?" Duo suggested, altering the movement of his hand on Trowa's cock.
"Mhm. Yes."
"Maybe you want Relena to kiss you again?"
"Yes - No. I want you to kiss me."
Duo obligingly leaned down and brushed his lips over Trowa's and Relena knew exactly how it felt to be teased by Duo like that.
She watched Trowa lift his head, watching him struggle for more but Duo kept pulling back.
"Nuh-uh," Duo whispered against Trowa's mouth. "That's all you get until you come for me."
Trowa glared at Duo, but he let his head fall back onto the bed and he looked over at Relena for intervention.
"You're the one who chose him over me," she teased him. "But I'll still kiss you, if you ask very nicely."
Trowa closed his eyes and let out a long suffering sigh that turned into a moan when Duo twisted his wrist. Trowa's hips jerked upwards and his fingers clutched at Relena's hips again.
"Please," Trowa bit out.
Relena had to grin as she leaned over his taut body. She could feel his muscles tense in anticipation under her.
But instead of kissing his lips, Relena pressed a kiss to his throat and then his sternum before licking a trail to his nipples.
She kissed one before taking it into her mouth and biting down gently.
Trowa made a strangled sound and his hands tightened again as he thrust into Duo's hand erratically.
"Fuck!" He panted and then she felt his body relax under her, could hear and feel the hammering of his heartbeat and she felt something warm and sticky on her belly.
She looked up at his face, at the lack of a smirk and the glassy look in his eyes.
He had been handsome before - but seeing him so undone made him even more attractive.
She looked over at Duo, who was looking very pleased with himself.
A buzzer sounded, startling all of them.
"Laundry," Trowa breathed.
For a moment, none of them moved. But then Trowa let go of Relena and crawled out from between them.
She watched him walk across the room, completely naked at ease, to the laundry closet.
"That was pretty fucking amazing," Duo breathed, laying down and pulling Relena onto his chest.
She relaxed against him and hummed in agreement.
The sound of the dryer starting had her looking up.
"Your clothes are still damp," Trowa said as he came back to the bed. He looked down at them, a softness in his eyes that Relena would have thought of as affection if it was from someone she knew.
"Oh? Bummer. Here I was counting down the seconds until we had to leave," Duo said.
Trowa snorted a laugh and climbed back onto the bed. He kissed Relena on the lips before adjusting her body so that he could spoon against her back.
"You did say something about having plenty of condoms and lube," Relena reminded him.
"That I did," Trowa agreed, one hand gliding down her side and towards her hip. "It is getting late - were you two planning on still driving back tonight?"
"Are you inviting us to stay?" Duo asked.
Trowa shrugged and his hand dipped past Relena's hip and to her groin, fingers teasing at her pubic hair.
"I wouldn't mind," Trowa said neutrally.
"We aren't going to drop out of school and move down here even if the sex is amazing," Duo said.
Trowa snorted and pressed a kiss to Relena's shoulder.
"Good. There's not enough room for you three people in this house. Plus I bet the two of you take forever to get ready in the mornings."
Relena elbowed him in the ribs and he caught her arm and used it to roll her over.
He kissed her again, tongue sweeping deep into her mouth in a quick, almost possessive move.
She watched Trowa do the same to Duo, watched Duo look back at him with a slightly dazed expression that she knew mirrored her own.
"But I hope the sex is good enough that you consider coming back for a visit."
-o-
THE END
(no seriously. I absolutely refuse to make this longer.)