Chain Male (2 page)

He wasn't sure what Dr. Rea talked about that night. He just watched Jason. Jason took notes. Jason chewed on the end of his ponytail when he was trying to think. Jason turned bright red when his bracelet clanked the desk.

When the rest of the class gathered their things, Chad swallowed hard. He got up and trailed out the door, last to leave.

"Tell them they work you too hard," Dr. Rea said, "or bring some coffee next time."

"Sorry, Prof. Long day." Chad shrugged and escaped, his ears and cheeks flaming, to where Jason waited for him in the hall.

"Hey you," Jason said with a grin. "Ready for some coffee? You look like you could use it."

"Yeah. Better late than never," Chad added with a glance at Dr. Rea, who was still gathering his books. He followed Jason to the campus coffee shop, nervous at being on a date. He waited, leafing through the history text, as Jason got the coffee.

Jason spread some papers around and opened the book, to give the appearance they were just studying. Chad watched, holding his coffee.

Finally, he had to ask. He bent over the book and whispered, "So, how did you know? Lucky guess?"

Jason nodded and turned a page. "You didn't get all flustered. And when I tried a leading question, you didn't slug me."

Chad smiled. "Slugging isn't allowed in the code of conduct anyway. Hasn't been that long ago that I realized it. It's been an okay secret."

Jason took a drink of the coffee. "You didn't growl at me or anything. Straight guys hate the idea of gays. They wouldn't have been so eager to help me find a book."

Chad needed to know. "Do you get slugged a lot? I mean...I never tried. I don't know."

Jason shrugged. "A couple times. I've got pretty good gaydar."

Chad smiled and tasted his own coffee. "You'll have to help me tune mine up.

"It's not hard. Observation, mostly. I noticed you noticing me. By the way, I'm not sure you got my name. I'm Jace. You know, like Joxer's gay brother or Han Solo's kid." Chad blinked and smiled. Jace face-palmed. "I am such a geek sometimes."

"Geek is cute on you." He leaned closer and whispered, "It's okay, I'm a closet Jedi, myself." In normal tones, he continued, "I'm Chad."

"Yeah, nametag."

Chad glanced down at his shirt and saw he was still wearing his library nametag. Chad Jacobs, Interlibrary Loan. "Guess I'm obvious." He jumped when Jace's bracelet clanked on the table.

"You like this?" Jace pulled back his sleeve.

"I love it. Where'd you get it?"

"Made it. Caught you staring a time or two like you were figuring it out."

Chad swallowed hard. He wasn't sure he wanted Jace to know so much about him already. He wanted to ask if the bracelet was heavy, if Jace liked heavy things around his wrists.

Instead, he said, "Yeah. It's different. I never saw one like that before."

Jace undid a hook and laid the bracelet out. "It's not hard. It's just a Byzantine chain."

"Not hard?" Chad stared at the intertwined links. Two links, flanked by links in a vee that hooked into another ring with another encircling the vee. It looked incredibly hard. He wasn't sure he could figure out how it went together. He handed the bracelet back. "It's hot on you."

Jace wrapped it around Chad's wrist. "It's hot on you, too." He fastened it off and stroked Chad's inner arm, sending little tingles through his veins. "Bracelets aren't all I make."

"Really? What else?"

"I don't do full armor. I like jewelry better. Earrings. Necklaces. The coifs the ladies like to wear." Jace leaned in close and whispered, "Sexy kink stuff."

Chad gulped the end of his coffee to hide his shock at having his fondest hopes for the date answered. He took a breath and screwed up his courage. "What kind of kink stuff?" he whispered, barely managing the words.

Jace traced a finger through some spilled sugar. "Chain mail bras with minimal cups. G-strings. Cock rings." He looked up. "It sells."

"I want to see."

Jace's face lit up with pleasure. "I got pictures back at my place. You want to come?" He drank off his coffee.

Chad swallowed at that invitation, then decided to pretend he hadn't heard the double meaning. He nodded. "Yeah. I'll follow. Where?"

"I live over on Chestnut."

"Not far. I'd walk if I lived that close."

Jace got up. "Yeah, but work is seven miles in the other direction. I was almost late because one old geezer didn't like the way I rotated his tires."

Surely he hadn't meant it to come out quite like that. Chad hid his grin and followed Jace. "I'm parked in the faculty lot. Let me come around and follow you. The blue bug, right?"

Jace nodded. "I saw you watching for me."

They parted outside the grill and Chad walked to his little Honda. His stomach had gone all shivery with anticipation and he kept licking his lips. He could still feel where Jace had kissed him the day before. The bracelet weighed his wrist and he turned it as he walked. He wondered if Jace made collars and imagined how those strong, cut up hands would feel fastening one around his neck, whether the touch would be as light as when he'd fastened the bracelet.

He wondered how Jace would look with a chain mail cock-ring attached to the leather harness of his fantasy. He shook himself. Driving while horny--again--would distract him. He pulled around to the student lot and followed Jason home.

Jason parked under a rusting canopy outside a cheap apartment building. Chad found a visitor's slot and joined him on the sidewalk. Jace let them into the basement apartment. It was picked up and vacuumed, but a strong metallic odor permeated it. It wasn't clean, not like Chad's mom's house, but it wasn't a rat-hole like a lot of student apartments. It reminded Chad a lot of his own place. He glanced around, discreetly looking for the source of the smell.

Some half-finished mail, with pliers beside it, lay on the end table. Chad figured that was part of the source. A stack of DVDs stood beside the laptop that sat on the coffee table. Jace had no television.

"I kinda shoved all the work in progress into the spare room. Hope you don't mind. I make more selling mail than I do changing oil and tires at Wal-Mart."

"I'm cool. Can I take a look later? I might want to buy something. I love your bracelet." Chad made as if to unfasten it and Jace stopped his hand.

"Keep it."

Chad had a fit of daring and stroked Jace's hand. Jace smiled at him. "Thank you," Chad said.

Jace moved in a little closer, whispering, "You're welcome" over Chad's lips just before he kissed them.

Chad's mind blathered,
Oh God, oh God, oh God oh God, now what!
as Jace's lips moved on his own, warm and tasting faintly of coffee. He had the presence of mind to open his mouth when Jace flicked his tongue over it. Then Jace was in his mouth, warm and slick and hitting every button he had.

Jace kissed him softly a couple of times and then smiled at him.

"That...holy fuck. That was better than I imagined." Chad felt his mouth getting away from him. He wanted Jace to kiss him again and shut him up.

"Imagined?" Jace looked a little surprised. "You've never been kissed? How'd you get through college without even a kiss?"

"Spent it buried in books. Am I that obvious?" Chad blushed.

Jace led him to a battered secondhand couch. "A little. I can fix that for you." He waggled his eyebrows suggestively.

"You're off to a great start so far."

"A good beginning. Let's see how the middle goes." Jace kissed him again, leaning into him, pressing him backward to lie on the sofa. The kiss went longer until they were breathing for each other, their mouths sealed together as their tongues met, twined and released. Chad could feel the erection through Jace's jeans to match his own.

Shamelessly, he ground up against Jace's hips, thrusting to match the tongue shoving into his mouth. The smell of Jace, a little sweat, a little oil, shampoo and coffee made his head spin. Just a few more thrusts and he'd...

Jace quit kissing him and sat up. Chad whimpered and reached for him. Jace kissed his fingers and opened both of their jeans.

"This will feel a lot better skin to skin." He hesitated. "Chad, you're okay with this? You went kinda funny around the eyes."

Chad nodded, horrified that Jace might stop. "I'm fine. I just want you."

Jace kissed him again, light and fast. "Then let me have a look." Jace pushed the open zipper aside and slipped warm fingers into Chad's shorts to fish him out.

Chad watched Jason's eyes get big and a smile make its slow way across his face. Jace got Chad's cock out and just stared for a minute.

"Oh baby. I'm almost ashamed to get mine out now. If I had condoms, I would be riding that like it was a pony."

Chad whimpered again, imagining Jace naked atop him, doing just that. His cock jerked and a bead of pre-come pearled up in the slit. Jace licked his lips.

"Ah hell, you're a virgin. You gotta be neg." Jace licked away the drop.

Chad bit his lip to keep from coming right then and there. When Jace closed his mouth over the whole head of his cock, there was no hope. Three flicks of Jace's tongue around the corona, over the slit and across the bottom made him shoot like a fountain.

He couldn't think, couldn't see. It was better than his hand and better than any fantasy he'd ever had. He wanted to stay right there, until the universe resolved itself behind his eyes and Jace got him hard again for another round.

He opened one eye and saw Jace smiling at him.

"You're gorgeous, you know that?" Jace said before coming down to kiss him. Chad shivered under Jace's lips, under the salt taste on his tongue. When Jace slid strong fingers along his soft belly, he giggled. The giggle turned to a shudder when Jace tweaked his nipples.

"Oh God," Chad moaned.

Jace kept smiling. "Good, huh?"

"More."

Jace obliged with another kiss. Chad could feel Jace's hands working down around their waists and almost jumped when a hot, hard cock landed on his belly.

"Ever frot off? Just get with someone and rub against them?" Jace asked as he shifted to line his hips up with Chad's. "I like it a lot."

"Haven't." Chad lifted up a little toward him. "Er, no."

"No, you haven't or no, let's not?"

"No, let's." Chad rubbed up against him, trying to get hard again.

Jace kissed him deep, which worked the proper magic. Chad's cock woke up, ready for action. "Yeah. Now we both get to play." He aligned their cocks and started rocking, just a little friction all along their shafts.

"Oh wow." Chad pressed up for more contact. "More?"

Jace laughed. "Yeah, lots more." He thrust more vigorously, as if fucking, although his cock stayed right along Chad's. After a moment he wrapped his hand around both cocks and rolled up, tugging Chad to sit up, too. "Phallic-worshiping manly sex," he teased.

Chad followed, wanting another kiss. "That kind of worship I can do." He relaxed into the arm Jace wrapped around him. Jace wrapped his legs around him, too, practically sitting in his lap as his hand jacked their cocks together. Chad took the lead and kissed Jace first this time, moaning softly into it at the sensations coming from his groin.

Jace's hand moved faster and he gasped around Chad's tongue. Chad felt the warm splashes on his belly and cock as Jace came.

Jace.

Came.

Another person had had an orgasm from kissing and touching him. The thought alone was enough to send Chad over the edge.

They lay together on the sofa kissing for a while. Jace got up and brought back a few tissues and they cleaned up. The process was considerably hampered by Jace stealing kisses.

Chad caught a look at the clock on the laptop. "I have to go. It's after midnight and I'm opening tomorrow."

Jace caught him and gave him another kiss, this one playful, but scorching. "Fuck, or rather frot, and run?" He nibbled Chad's neck. "It's okay. I have to get up, too. When can I see you again?"

Chad fastened his jeans and settled back on the couch to enjoy the last kisses of the evening. "I'm off Sunday and Monday."

"I got Sunday this week. Let's meet for breakfast and see what comes of it? If we decide to walk, fine. If we decide to go to the park or the zoo or the museum, that's fine, too." An idea occurred to Jace. Chad could see it all over his face. "You willing to model for me?"

Chad thought a moment and nodded. "If you've got something to fit me, I'll try it on."

Jace grinned. "Bracelet? Necklace?" He kissed Chad's ear and neck. "Other?"

Chad swallowed hard. "Other? Maybe?"

"What you wanna try, cutie? Name it and I'll make sure it fits."

"Do you have"--Chad took a deep breath--"a harness?"

Jace raised an eyebrow. "Not in chain. Bet I could make one though. So there's some kink in the librarian after all," he teased, waggling both eyebrows with a leer.

Chad giggled and blushed. "Another secret. I just read about it."

"It's okay. I do kink. Not hard stuff, but a little."

Chad nodded. "That's good." He took a kiss and stood up. Jace saw him to the door.

"Chad, you want just a little taste right now?"

He hesitated. This could go bad very fast. He was in a near-stranger's apartment and he suspected Jace was a lot stronger than he was, for all that the other man was several inches shorter. "Yes?" he said, finally.

"You'll like this, I think." Jace pressed him against the wall, his hands around Chad's wrists and kissed him, hard and deep, not biting, but definitely letting Chad feel his mouth and tongue and whole body pressed against him.

Chad melted into the kiss, feeling his whole body open to it. He wished he wasn't spent, just so he could get hard again. He gave a half-hearted struggle to see how tightly Jace was holding him. Jace let go immediately.

Jace looked at him, worried. "Are we okay?"

"We're great. Do it again." Chad smiled and added, "And let me struggle. You'll know when I want loose."

Jace gave a soft little chuckle. "Really?" He pinned Chad's wrists to the doorframe and kissed him again. This time he nibbled at Chad's lips, then worked down to suck at his neck. Chad felt his cock trying to wake back up, but he didn't have the energy for it. He squirmed a little in Jace's hold, loving the feeling of being restrained, remembering it for later.