Makes Me Wonder
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oh_ameliaTitle: Questions and Answers
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hsbfc
Chapter: 17/?
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: language, sex
Summary: Totally AU. Justin asks Brian for his help after Ethan won’t leave him alone. How far will Brian go to help the blond? And how far will Ethan go to make sure Justin is his?
Disclaimer: QUEER AS FOLK is property of COWLIP and SHOWTIME. I own nothing.
Author’s Notes: The title was inspired by Maroon 5’s song MAKES ME WONDER, but has nothing else to do with the song. And I want to say thanks to my wonderful betaelyxer. You rock! Without your encouragement I would not be writing. THANKS and I love ya!
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“What the fuck are you talking about, Daphne?” Justin asked, the hairs on his neck standing up. “Where are you?”
“I’m at your apartment,” Daphne answered. “I thought I’d surprise you.”
“Is he still there? Does he know you’re talking to me?” Justin asked nervously.
“No, poor thing. He was so embarrassed that there wasn’t any food that he rushed out to get some. I told him it wasn’t necessary, but he insisted.”
“Daphne, do you have your car?”
Of course I have my car,” Daphne answered. “Where are you?Are you planning on getting back soon, because I have so much to tell you,” she continued.
“Daphne!” Justin exclaimed.
“What?”
“You need to get out of the apartment. Now.”
“C’mon, Justin,” Daphne scoffed. “I know I didn’t call but—”
“I don’t care that you didn’t call. But you still need to leave. Come to #6 at the corner of Fuller and Tremont. Ring the top floor.”
“Justin, what’s going on?” Daphne asked.
“I’ll explain when you get here.” Justin snapped hi s phone shut and tossed it on the coffee table, before slumping down on the couch.
“Is everything alright?” Brian asked.
“Apparently Ethan has been squatting in my apartment,” Justin said, running his fingers through his hair.
“What?!” Brian exclaimed.
“That was Daphne, she’s my best friend,” Justin clarified to Lindsay. “She wanted to surprise me by showing up early. She was calling from my old apartment.”
“Where Ethan’s at?”
“No, the fucker ran away.”
“How could he even get in?” Lindsay asked.
“My apartment doesn’t exactly have the best locks on it,” Justin answered.
“One swift push and you’re in,” Brian added. “I didn’t know you still had your old place.”
“I didn’t. I don’t,” Justin answered. “I just forgot to tell Daphne that I moved.”
Lindsay made a face as she picked Gus up from the sofa. It was strange, she thought, that Justin didn’t tell his best friend that he’d moved in with his boyfriend. She didn’t want to ask too many questions, at least not right now, but definitely soon. She wasn’t sure how comfortable she was with Gus being around Justin when she still knew so little about him. There were many things she sill couldn’t figure out.
“Well,” she said, her WASP learned smile back in place. “I think we’ll go now. I don’t want to intrude. Brian, give me a call tomorrow.”
“Bye, Lindz. Bye Sonny Boy,” Brian said as he kissed both on the cheek. He closed the door and joined Justin on the couch. “You alright?” He asked again because he knew Justin was holding back earlier.
“No,” Justin answered as he rubbed his temples. His heart felt like it would leap out of his chest, it was beating so fast.
Brian wrapped his arm around Justin and rubbed small circles on the blond’s back. He felt the tension ease as Justin's breathing slowly returned to normal.
The buzzer for downstairs rang and Brian went to answer it.
“I’m gonna go…wash my face,” Justin said as he made his way to the bathroom.
“Daphne?” Brian asked as he pressed the talk button.
“Yes,” a hesitant voice answered. “Who is this?”
“I’m Brian. Come on up,” he said, releasing the downstairs door. He opened his door and took a beer from the fridge, drinking it down as he waited for Daphne. A couple minutes later a head full of curly hair popped into the loft.
“Daphne, I presume,” Brian said, setting his beer on the counter.
“Yes,” she answered. “Brian, I presume?”
“Yes,”
“Where’s Justin?” Daphne asked, not moving from outside the door.
“In the bathroom.”
“Uh-huh,” Daphne said, crossing her arms.
“Are you gonna stay out there all night?”
“Justin!” Daphne exclaimed, rushing past Brian and lunging herself into Justin’s arms. She wrapped her arms around her best friend and squeezed with all her might.
“Daph.” Justin smiled, returning the hug with equal fervor.
“What’s going on?” Daphne asked once she pulled back.
“So much,” Justin answered, leading her to the couch. He noticed that Brian had shut the door and went to the shower to give them some privacy.
“Who is Brian? And why is Ethan at your apartment if you’re here?”
“Brian is who I’m living with for the time being—”
“What?!”
“And as to why Ethan is at my apartment,” Justin said, taking a deep breath. “He’s been kind of…stalking me these past couple months.”
“What!? Justin Taylor why the fuck didn’t you tell me?”
“I didn’t want to worry you.”
“Fuck that,” Daphne said. “You’re my best friend. It’s my job to worry.”
“I wanted to tell you, I did. I just…” Justin rubbed the back of his neck and sighed deeply.
“So tell me what happened,” Daphne said as she made herself comfortable on the sofa. “And don’t leave anything out.”
Justin leaned back and rehashed everything that had been going on since he last saw her. He couldn’t tell what Daphne seemed to be angrier about. Ethan, for what he’d been doing, or him, for not telling her any of this sooner.
“So, Brian just offered to let you live with him? Just like that?”
“Yeah.”
“How did you know he wouldn’t turn out to be insane like Ethan?”
“I felt calm around Brian. Safe, almost. When I was with Ethan on our date, all night I felt like something was crawling on my skin. I couldn’t make it stop. Other than the fact that I was bored out of my mind, that was my main incentive to get away from him. “
“Oh, God!” Daphne exclaimed, shuddering. “I feel so dirty. I was actually nice to that fucking bastard.”
“Don’t worry about it, Daph. I should have told you,” Justin said.
“So how long are you going to stay with Brian?”
“Until Ethan leaves me alone?” I don’t know,” Justin sighed. “I just hate being an imposition on him.”
“From what you’ve told me about him, I think Brian would tell you if you were being an imposition or not,” Daphne said. “Where is he by the way? He’s been in there an awfully long time.”
“He’s probably just jerking off. That, and it takes him forever to get ready at night.”
“Why? What’s he do?”
“He has all this anti-aging shit that he slathers on.”
“He doesn’t need it. He looks great. Maybe a little too skinny…”
“His body is perfect.”
“How old is he?”
“Uh…” Justin scratched his jaw and counted on his fingers. “Lets see…”
“Justin Taylor!” Daphne playfully punched him on his arm. “You don’t know how old he is?”
“It never came up,” Justin said, shrugging his shoulders.
Brian came into the kitchen wearing pair of low slung gray sweatpants. He took and apple from the counter and a knife from the drawer.
“Brian, how old are you?” Daphne asked.
“How old do I look?” Brian asked as he sat down at the counter and started peeling his apple.
Daphne looked him up and down and pursed her lips. “Well, I’d never have pegged Justin as the type to go for an older man—”
“Watch it,” Brian said, raising and eyebrow at her.
“But I have to admit that if I were a gay man, I wouldn’t say no. Hell, I wouldn’t say no now,” Daphne continued. “I think I’ll have to guess…33?”
“Fuck you,” Brian said.
“Ouch.” Justin smirked. “A little harsh don’t you think, Daph?”
“I’m 31,” Brian said.
“Brian’s a bit…sensitive about his age,” Justin said, patting Daphne on the arm.
“Fuck you, too,” Brian said, but there was no harshness behind it. He was happy to see Justin smiling again. “Talk to me when you're all grown up.”
“I am all grown up, but when I get to be as old as you, then you’ll be…” Justin paused for a moment.
“Don’t even go there,” Brian warned.
“Two years? You get huffy over two years?” Daphne asked. “And I thought that Justin was a drama queen!”
“Oh no,” Brian said as he joined to duo on the sofa. “I have nothing on Justin in the drama queen department, He’s in a league all his own.”
“Yeah,” Daphne agreed, nodding her head. “The stories I could tell…”
“Don’t you dare,” Justin said, playfully pointing a finger at Daphne.
“Do tell,” Brian said as he wrapped his arms around Justin, pinning the blond’s arms down.
Daphne smiled as she watched the interaction between the two men next to her. She could feel and see the happiness radiating from Justin.
“So, there was this one time during swim practice…” Daphne started, much to the protest from Justin.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Ethan sat in his car and watched the window of Kinney’s loft. The same car that he saw when he left Justin’s was now parked in front of the building. It had to be the same girl. And now Justin knew.
He had been careful. If it weren’t for that girl he would still be basking in the feel of Justin’s sheets around him. He sniffed the collar of this shirt to see if he could smell Justin.
Wet cat. Wolfram must have been sleeping on his clothes again.
He knew he wouldn’t be able to talk his way out of this. Things had been going so well too. Justin was letting his guard down, and the walls that surrounded him. Now he would have to start all over again. He slowly drove behind the girl’s car and copied down the license plate number. It looked too plain and common for him to easily distinguish it from other makes of the same kind, so he needed more.
He knew he needed to call Michael. It would be better than having the man show up at his apartment raving like a lunatic. Hopefully he’d be able to find out more about who this girl was. She probably told him her name back at Justin’s, but he was in such a hurry to get away from her that he couldn’t remember. He cursed himself for being so hasty.
Tomorrow was another day. He could do this.
Chapter 16 | Chapter 18
Author:
hsbfcChapter: 17/?
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: language, sex
Summary: Totally AU. Justin asks Brian for his help after Ethan won’t leave him alone. How far will Brian go to help the blond? And how far will Ethan go to make sure Justin is his?
Disclaimer: QUEER AS FOLK is property of COWLIP and SHOWTIME. I own nothing.
Author’s Notes: The title was inspired by Maroon 5’s song MAKES ME WONDER, but has nothing else to do with the song. And I want to say thanks to my wonderful beta
elyxer. You rock! Without your encouragement I would not be writing. THANKS and I love ya! PREVIOUS CHAPTERS: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16
“What the fuck are you talking about, Daphne?” Justin asked, the hairs on his neck standing up. “Where are you?”
“I’m at your apartment,” Daphne answered. “I thought I’d surprise you.”
“Is he still there? Does he know you’re talking to me?” Justin asked nervously.
“No, poor thing. He was so embarrassed that there wasn’t any food that he rushed out to get some. I told him it wasn’t necessary, but he insisted.”
“Daphne, do you have your car?”
Of course I have my car,” Daphne answered. “Where are you?Are you planning on getting back soon, because I have so much to tell you,” she continued.
“Daphne!” Justin exclaimed.
“What?”
“You need to get out of the apartment. Now.”
“C’mon, Justin,” Daphne scoffed. “I know I didn’t call but—”
“I don’t care that you didn’t call. But you still need to leave. Come to #6 at the corner of Fuller and Tremont. Ring the top floor.”
“Justin, what’s going on?” Daphne asked.
“I’ll explain when you get here.” Justin snapped hi s phone shut and tossed it on the coffee table, before slumping down on the couch.
“Is everything alright?” Brian asked.
“Apparently Ethan has been squatting in my apartment,” Justin said, running his fingers through his hair.
“What?!” Brian exclaimed.
“That was Daphne, she’s my best friend,” Justin clarified to Lindsay. “She wanted to surprise me by showing up early. She was calling from my old apartment.”
“Where Ethan’s at?”
“No, the fucker ran away.”
“How could he even get in?” Lindsay asked.
“My apartment doesn’t exactly have the best locks on it,” Justin answered.
“One swift push and you’re in,” Brian added. “I didn’t know you still had your old place.”
“I didn’t. I don’t,” Justin answered. “I just forgot to tell Daphne that I moved.”
Lindsay made a face as she picked Gus up from the sofa. It was strange, she thought, that Justin didn’t tell his best friend that he’d moved in with his boyfriend. She didn’t want to ask too many questions, at least not right now, but definitely soon. She wasn’t sure how comfortable she was with Gus being around Justin when she still knew so little about him. There were many things she sill couldn’t figure out.
“Well,” she said, her WASP learned smile back in place. “I think we’ll go now. I don’t want to intrude. Brian, give me a call tomorrow.”
“Bye, Lindz. Bye Sonny Boy,” Brian said as he kissed both on the cheek. He closed the door and joined Justin on the couch. “You alright?” He asked again because he knew Justin was holding back earlier.
“No,” Justin answered as he rubbed his temples. His heart felt like it would leap out of his chest, it was beating so fast.
Brian wrapped his arm around Justin and rubbed small circles on the blond’s back. He felt the tension ease as Justin's breathing slowly returned to normal.
The buzzer for downstairs rang and Brian went to answer it.
“I’m gonna go…wash my face,” Justin said as he made his way to the bathroom.
“Daphne?” Brian asked as he pressed the talk button.
“Yes,” a hesitant voice answered. “Who is this?”
“I’m Brian. Come on up,” he said, releasing the downstairs door. He opened his door and took a beer from the fridge, drinking it down as he waited for Daphne. A couple minutes later a head full of curly hair popped into the loft.
“Daphne, I presume,” Brian said, setting his beer on the counter.
“Yes,” she answered. “Brian, I presume?”
“Yes,”
“Where’s Justin?” Daphne asked, not moving from outside the door.
“In the bathroom.”
“Uh-huh,” Daphne said, crossing her arms.
“Are you gonna stay out there all night?”
“Justin!” Daphne exclaimed, rushing past Brian and lunging herself into Justin’s arms. She wrapped her arms around her best friend and squeezed with all her might.
“Daph.” Justin smiled, returning the hug with equal fervor.
“What’s going on?” Daphne asked once she pulled back.
“So much,” Justin answered, leading her to the couch. He noticed that Brian had shut the door and went to the shower to give them some privacy.
“Who is Brian? And why is Ethan at your apartment if you’re here?”
“Brian is who I’m living with for the time being—”
“What?!”
“And as to why Ethan is at my apartment,” Justin said, taking a deep breath. “He’s been kind of…stalking me these past couple months.”
“What!? Justin Taylor why the fuck didn’t you tell me?”
“I didn’t want to worry you.”
“Fuck that,” Daphne said. “You’re my best friend. It’s my job to worry.”
“I wanted to tell you, I did. I just…” Justin rubbed the back of his neck and sighed deeply.
“So tell me what happened,” Daphne said as she made herself comfortable on the sofa. “And don’t leave anything out.”
Justin leaned back and rehashed everything that had been going on since he last saw her. He couldn’t tell what Daphne seemed to be angrier about. Ethan, for what he’d been doing, or him, for not telling her any of this sooner.
“So, Brian just offered to let you live with him? Just like that?”
“Yeah.”
“How did you know he wouldn’t turn out to be insane like Ethan?”
“I felt calm around Brian. Safe, almost. When I was with Ethan on our date, all night I felt like something was crawling on my skin. I couldn’t make it stop. Other than the fact that I was bored out of my mind, that was my main incentive to get away from him. “
“Oh, God!” Daphne exclaimed, shuddering. “I feel so dirty. I was actually nice to that fucking bastard.”
“Don’t worry about it, Daph. I should have told you,” Justin said.
“So how long are you going to stay with Brian?”
“Until Ethan leaves me alone?” I don’t know,” Justin sighed. “I just hate being an imposition on him.”
“From what you’ve told me about him, I think Brian would tell you if you were being an imposition or not,” Daphne said. “Where is he by the way? He’s been in there an awfully long time.”
“He’s probably just jerking off. That, and it takes him forever to get ready at night.”
“Why? What’s he do?”
“He has all this anti-aging shit that he slathers on.”
“He doesn’t need it. He looks great. Maybe a little too skinny…”
“His body is perfect.”
“How old is he?”
“Uh…” Justin scratched his jaw and counted on his fingers. “Lets see…”
“Justin Taylor!” Daphne playfully punched him on his arm. “You don’t know how old he is?”
“It never came up,” Justin said, shrugging his shoulders.
Brian came into the kitchen wearing pair of low slung gray sweatpants. He took and apple from the counter and a knife from the drawer.
“Brian, how old are you?” Daphne asked.
“How old do I look?” Brian asked as he sat down at the counter and started peeling his apple.
Daphne looked him up and down and pursed her lips. “Well, I’d never have pegged Justin as the type to go for an older man—”
“Watch it,” Brian said, raising and eyebrow at her.
“But I have to admit that if I were a gay man, I wouldn’t say no. Hell, I wouldn’t say no now,” Daphne continued. “I think I’ll have to guess…33?”
“Fuck you,” Brian said.
“Ouch.” Justin smirked. “A little harsh don’t you think, Daph?”
“I’m 31,” Brian said.
“Brian’s a bit…sensitive about his age,” Justin said, patting Daphne on the arm.
“Fuck you, too,” Brian said, but there was no harshness behind it. He was happy to see Justin smiling again. “Talk to me when you're all grown up.”
“I am all grown up, but when I get to be as old as you, then you’ll be…” Justin paused for a moment.
“Don’t even go there,” Brian warned.
“Two years? You get huffy over two years?” Daphne asked. “And I thought that Justin was a drama queen!”
“Oh no,” Brian said as he joined to duo on the sofa. “I have nothing on Justin in the drama queen department, He’s in a league all his own.”
“Yeah,” Daphne agreed, nodding her head. “The stories I could tell…”
“Don’t you dare,” Justin said, playfully pointing a finger at Daphne.
“Do tell,” Brian said as he wrapped his arms around Justin, pinning the blond’s arms down.
Daphne smiled as she watched the interaction between the two men next to her. She could feel and see the happiness radiating from Justin.
“So, there was this one time during swim practice…” Daphne started, much to the protest from Justin.
Ethan sat in his car and watched the window of Kinney’s loft. The same car that he saw when he left Justin’s was now parked in front of the building. It had to be the same girl. And now Justin knew.
He had been careful. If it weren’t for that girl he would still be basking in the feel of Justin’s sheets around him. He sniffed the collar of this shirt to see if he could smell Justin.
Wet cat. Wolfram must have been sleeping on his clothes again.
He knew he wouldn’t be able to talk his way out of this. Things had been going so well too. Justin was letting his guard down, and the walls that surrounded him. Now he would have to start all over again. He slowly drove behind the girl’s car and copied down the license plate number. It looked too plain and common for him to easily distinguish it from other makes of the same kind, so he needed more.
He knew he needed to call Michael. It would be better than having the man show up at his apartment raving like a lunatic. Hopefully he’d be able to find out more about who this girl was. She probably told him her name back at Justin’s, but he was in such a hurry to get away from her that he couldn’t remember. He cursed himself for being so hasty.
Tomorrow was another day. He could do this.
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Date: 2007-09-21 01:06 am (UTC)Lindz makes me want to hit her sometimes lol.
Okay Ethan is all kinds of creepy-crazy and someone needs to save poor Wolfram from him as well as Justin.
Yay no "Michal that shit!" to contend with at least lol.
That was a great chapter!
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Date: 2007-09-22 03:21 am (UTC)Lindsay annoys me sooo much. Go ahead...hit her! hehehe
So glad you enjoyed it! I'll try to update soon.
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Date: 2007-09-21 03:51 am (UTC)Ethan staying at Justin's apartment is just... so gross! And really shows how very, very creepy he is.
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Date: 2007-09-22 03:27 am (UTC)Hopefully Ethan's creepiness will lighten up...
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Date: 2007-09-21 04:39 am (UTC)Loved it, can't wait for more!
Hugs,
Arlad
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Date: 2007-09-22 03:29 am (UTC)Ethan is gross and disgusting. *nods*
I really hope to update soon.
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Date: 2007-09-21 07:00 am (UTC)Linds is a bit of a pain - here's hoping she doesn't cause trouble.
Looking forward to seeing what happens next as per usual.
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Date: 2007-09-22 03:33 am (UTC)Linds is a bit of pain - here's hoping she doesn't cause trouble.
uh...um...*looks around, avoiding eye contact*
*grins*
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Date: 2007-09-21 07:18 am (UTC)Sam
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Date: 2007-09-22 03:34 am (UTC)I really hope I can update soon.
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Date: 2007-09-21 10:00 am (UTC)And I love how she instantly sees the happiness and adorableness that is the boys :)
I agree with
Great chapter! More!
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Date: 2007-09-22 03:38 am (UTC)I agree with
maybe he can be saved...
I hope I can update soon.
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Date: 2007-09-24 12:47 am (UTC)Love Daph! She has always been a fave of mine.
Michael scares me even more than psycho Ethan. I hope Brian chews him a new one!
Thank you so much for this great story.. I will definately be following it!
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Date: 2007-09-24 09:51 pm (UTC)I just posted a new chapter. Hope you enjoy. :)
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Date: 2009-04-19 11:23 pm (UTC)ugh! rolling in Justin's sheets
that rat hole of an apartment is going to need to be fumigated!