Hard Time 100
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Get Up
The challenge: Write a drabble that includes the phrase “Good boy.”

He’s a dark silhouette crouching between my outstretched legs, looming over me and waking me with his stare.

“Time to get up, Toby.”

I yawn and pretend I’d rather sleep, but he knows all my small tricks and lies. He crawls up the length of my body like a cat, stretching and purring, and then he’s kneeling over my head. He falls forward on one hand and uses his thumb to open my mouth.

“Come on Toby,” he whispers, aiming his cock carefully and pushing it along my tongue.

I close my mouth around him and he sighs, “Good boy.”


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How Things Were
Another Good Boy drabble. This takes place in an AU universe of mine; I occasionally post bits of the story on my LJ and refer to it as “the Safari Universe.”

We often couldn’t make it to a hotel room fast enough. I’d climb into his double-parked truck, and impatient hands were tearing at my suit before I even pulled the door closed.

“Chris…not here…”

Sometimes he listened, sometimes he didn’t. Sometimes he held me down and pinned my hands at my side while he sucked my cock right there on Fifth Avenue. I made my expression neutral and watched people walk by as I came, low moans resonating in the stillness of the air around us.

Momentarily satisfied, he swallowed and looked up at me with a smile. “Good boy.”


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The Greatest Gift
The challenge: Write a drabble that takes place in the visitor’s room. I wrote this one as a joke; the real one comes next.

I see it in his face, and it makes my stomach feel like it’s been dropped 100 stories onto hard pavement. “Have you fucked her yet?”

“Well...yes...” He looks down at his hands clasped in front of him. “But...I think I have something that will make you feel better.” He tilts his head back up at me and grins.

“Yeah?”

He reaches under the table, and I hear a rustle of plastic. “Look, Chris.”

“Oh Toby,” I whisper, reaching out with a trembling hand. “Socks. God, they’re beautiful...”

“Glad you like ‘em. Now come here and give me some sugar.”


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Déjà Vu
Here’s my real visitor’s room drabble.

It’s been a long time, but I know that walk when I see it, and that lazy backward tilt to your head—how could I forget? You smell different this time, though, like strong mints steeped in gin.

"Did you miss me? Christ, I missed you." You’re working your hand down the front of my pants before I can answer.

I know I should try to stop this, to sit down and talk to you—but your warm hand is stroking me and I’m tasting your mouth again, and the only thing I’m capable of thinking is “You missed me.”


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Wanker
The challenge: Voyeurism.  This one is canon.

As your eyes wander into each dark pod, there’s only one thing worth finding. It’s the same thing you look for every night, bottle of lotion in one hand, cock in the other. You see his fist as a blur of greased motion—you see it, 20 guys across the common area can see it if they want, and Officer Murphy could see it, too, if he turned 45 degrees to his left. But Toby’s putting on this performance for an audience of one. His eyes sparkle in your direction as he comes in his hand, wishing it was you.


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Later That Night
Another voyeurism drabble; this one takes place in another AU universe of mine, an early-1950s noir story.

Cigarette smoke drifted up and around Chris’s head in a gray haze; he idly wondered whether it might be visible to someone inside. The bedroom was dark, but not as dark as the night, and he was able to see Toby clearly as he unbuttoned his shirt, the shirt Chris lent him. When it was open, hanging loosely from his thin frame, Toby paused and slowly smoothed the fabric against his chest. He suddenly struggled to yank it off his body and then crushed it against his face. Chris noticed that Toby was hard now. That made two of them.


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Alone
The challenge: Write a drabble in which a specific smell plays a role.  Takes place in the Safari universe.

The sweet, wet reek of alcohol was like a knife through the air, sharp enough to make my eyes water from across the room. Toby threw his coat on the couch next to me like I wasn't even there.

"Rough day?"

He ignored me, walked past me into the kitchen. The freezer door opened; a bottle hit the counter. I heard the crack of the ice-cube tray, the cold music of ice tumbling into a glass. He left the scent of gin and frozen night air behind with me, and I breathed it in because it was all I had.


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Distraction
Free-for-all challenge: write about anything.

I stared at my book without understanding a word; for a second, I couldn’t even remember which book it was. The sound of Chris exhaling sharply, again and again, seemed as loud as thunder in my ears.

My eyes shifted to watch him. He mouthed numbers silently with each push-up.

“Ten, fourteen, twenty-seven, three, seventy-nine…”

Beecher,” Chris sighed, then collapsed to the floor. “Don’t move. I’m gonna kick your fucking ass.”

“Mmm hmm.” I pretended to read again, but he reached out with one hand and pulled me to the hard floor and suddenly I didn’t feel like pretending anything.


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Contested Property
The challenge: Change canon in some way.

“You’re not scared of Keller...?”

“Fuck you.”

I watched Mondo force an unconvincing sneer. I licked my lips and looked down at the bulge in his pants.

“Why don’t you come here, and I’ll give you a hand with that.”

“Keller said ‘hands off.’”

“Keller doesn’t fucking own me.”

He paused. I could almost hear the gears turning. “Adebisi will have my ass if there’s trouble.”

“It’ll be Keller’s ass, not yours.”

Apparently, I made my point. He crossed the pod in two strides and pulled my mouth hard against his. From above, Chris’s stare burned straight through us both.


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How I Know
The challenge: Write a drabble in which one of the boys describes the other.

He wrestles me until he’s on top, and when I finally relax and look up I see his eyes, pale and cloudy blue-green like that glass you find at the beach. When I stand up after my fiftieth push-up, those eyes slowly lick the sweat from my chest. When I lift my dripping face from the sink after lights out, they touch me with fierce blue lust from across the pod. Even when it’s dark I can still see color and light in his eyes; it’s how I know that now there’s nothing between us he doesn’t want to see.



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