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Smiling, Ashley closed his eyes for a moment as his forehead was kissed, that was such a nice feeling, it relaxed him a bit. When they got there, he managed to get himself out with a bit of help from the other man, wincing a little again as he got settled with those crutches.
"I'm sure I can make it up." He said, adjusting his crutches as he was out of the car, looking up at the building. It'd be a pain, he was sore, stiff and disabled but he'd try. |
Jacob looked at Ashley in a considering manner as he lead him back into the building at a slow pace. It was only one story of stairs, though a rather long one but he'd risk tiring himself out more rather than risk the man breaking another bone by falling down the stairs. As they got to the stairs he paused and considered Ash again.
"I'll carry you up, and return for the crutches once I get you in bed," Jacob told him rather matter of factly. He just hoped he himself didn't fall and both of them got a broken bone to prove that he wasn't as strong as he thought. |
"But Jacob--" Ash started as he was standing at the end of the stairs, furrowing his brow. He didn't want him getting hurt too. "Are you sure? I don't want you falling too, you know.." He bit his lower lip, shifting as he looked up those stairs. He wasn't sure how he'd make it up otherwise, but he would have blamed himself if Jacob got hurt too.
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"I don't want you falling at all," was Jacob's reply as he stepped closer to Ashley looping an arm around his waist before taking away the crutches and set them against the wall. Then his free arm looped under Ashley's knees and lifted the other man up. He stood there a moment making sure he was successful at lifting the other man and staying upright before taking a step.
"You're rather light," Jacob said a little surprised but he smiled down at Ashley before taking the first step upstairs and managed to get to the top without a problem. By the time he reached the top though he was sweating and panting a bit, but he kept moving towards his apartment. "Here we go.." Jacob set Ash down long enough to get the door open, still he supported the other man with one arm as he did so. And again they found their way to the bedroom and Jacob lay the man down on the bed with a somewhat thankful sigh. He looked down at the other man on his bed though and smirked. "Do you sleep nude?" |
"Ah--" Ash grunted as he was lifted and carried up those stairs, holding gently to Jacob as he listened to him. "Well.. last I checked I was just under 100 lbs. Suppose you could call that light." He chuckled, rubbing at one of the man's shoulders as he watched him work up a sweat just getting him up those stairs.
Once on the bed, he laid back some, sighing in content at the soft feel of the fabric and mattress. "Mmm...? Actually. I do." He said rather matter-of-factly, shifting to pull his hospital donated top off after a pause, mindful of his head, trying to squirm out of his pants afterwards with little success now that one of his legs was bound by a cast. |
Jacob shook his head at the mention of the other man's weight, and he thought his was unhealthy for his height. Jacob watched the other remove his own shirt, but moved to help him to remove his pants with some awkward difficulty. Managing finally to get them off Jacob gave a small smirk and leaned in for a small kiss after covering the man with the blankets.
"I'll be right back," Jacob said and returned shortly later with Ashley's crutches and set them against the wall. The lights had also been shut off in the process and now the only light on was the one on the bed side table. Jacob stripped off his own clothes in fluid motions and climbed into bed next to the other man. "Now.. get some sleep." Jacob ordered, his voice holding some playfulness in it. He could tell the other man was quite tired anyhow. |
Ash let Jacob cover him, raising his head faintly into the brief kiss when he was covered up with a blanket, getting as comfortable as he could with his broken leg. As soon as Jacob was nude and in bed with him, he shifted a little closer, wincing some before settling down and sighing gently, chuckling at the man's playful words. "I don't think that'll be a problem." He said, followed by a yawn and he allowed his eyes to flutter closed, exhausted after the night's events.
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Jacob turned towards Ashley an arm settling across the other's stomach gently and smiled as he noticed the man already asleep. His own eyes fluttered shut shortly after and his breath became shallow in sleep.
For a few moments the two in bed seemed to be sleeping peacefully, laying against one another like it wasn't the first time. But soon the blond's body became to stir as if to wake. The blond shifted stretching his body, but he paused and stiffened suddenly when he felt a body next to his bumping into it with the stretch. Blue eyes flew open startled and only became more fearful when he spotted the man next to him... underneath his arm.... He pushed himself away as fast as possible as he stared at the other man wide-eyed. What was this stranger doing in his bed? Why had he been holding onto him? The blond's body was trembling, even more so when realizing what his eyes missed the first time. He was nude... and presumably the other man was as well underneath those sheets. He had the urge to wake him by pushing him out of bed.. but the bandages on his head made him stop. Perhaps he should just move to the couch and kick the man out as soon as he awoke... what should he do? His lower lip found it's way between his teeth. |
Had Ashley not been so tired, he might have woken at the feeling of Jacob suddenly pulling away from him. Instead, all he did was make a noise, shift and turn his bandaged head a little to the side as he mumbled the man's name. At least the name he knew.
He wouldn't wake until around 9 in the morning or so, though before Alex got far, his hand had gently taken grasp of the other man's in his sleep, some part of him conscious of the man trying to leave the bed and he murmured his name again. "...don't go.." Perhaps he was still just dreaming, but he didn't want to let go. |
"I'm. Not. Jacob." The blond said when the other man grabbed him and called him that loathed name. Even hated though it made the man's body tremble worse, even asleep the other man sent fear through him at the utterance of that name.
The blond pulled away from the other, no longer caring if the other woke, he just wanted to get away from him. He climbed out of bed and moved to the livingroom after pulling on underwear, jeans, t-shirt and a sweater. Curled up on the couch he stared at the tv that was not on... but he didn't want to watch tv.. he wanted to figure out how the other man got in his bed. All he did the day before was his same old boring schedule, and went to bed. Alone. Did the guy break in? He shook his head.. how did the man even get up the stairs? By the looks of him and the fact there were crutches in his room.. he would be too injured.. was there someone else in here? The thought scared him, but this place was too small for someone else to hide without having seen him. The blond shivered and tried to stop worrying without success.. |
His eyes finally fluttered open again when 9 am hit, feeling better with some sleep and a comfortable bed. He looked to the side and realized that Jacob was no longer there, his fingers brushing over a cold bed--had he needed to get up? But why so early.. he had to have been tired as well, after putting up with him all night.
Sitting up, Ashley groaned, touching his head before he dug through a little bag he'd gotten from the hospital holding his pills, looking the bottle over. He needed food and a drink before he could take it, or he was sure it'd make him sick. Slowly, he crawled from the bed and managed to somehow get dressed, though it took him a while, panting by the time he was done, standing up with his crutches. He slowly got to the door and out of the bedroom, limping out with the crutches to look for Jacob. "Jacob? You out here?" |
In the time that it took for morning to come the blond had turned on the tv. He done a search of his place and found not another soul in his apartment. Only the nude man that was in his bed. He was sitting on the couch watching some early morning show that was boring him to death, but when he heard noises from the other room he stiffened and his body shifted to the far side of the couch away from the man who had emerged from his room, calling him that revolting name.
"There's no Jacob here." The blond told him trying to turn fear into a glare full of hatred and knowing he failed at it. "Get out." |
"But you're Jacob. Man... what kind of game are you playing here?" He frowned and slowly approached the couch, feeling the bottle slip from his fingers as he held the bar of the crutch. Looking down, he sighed and muttered a small curse as he watched it roll away a little, he'd have to get it later, after he'd figured out what Jacob's deal was.
"You know.." He looked at him and frowned a bit more. "You seemed like you had better manners last night... For a whore. If you didn't want me to stick around, you shouldn't have come back to get me from the hospital last night! I would have been fine--or you could have let me get out of the cab at my work, that would have been fine too! I would have rathered slept on a couch in an office building than skip work, wake up and find you trying to be some asshole first thing in the morning." |
Blue eyes stared at the injured man as the tale was spun. It certainly wasn't the first time he was called a whore from someone else.. that way the blame was not on them when they forced him. Still the story was too thought out and yet he didn't believe it. He made a face and turned his face away, but he wouldn't allow his eyes to wander from the other if he made a move to hurt him... the man was already injured... couldn't be that hard to over power him..
"My name's Alex. Not Jacob." Alex spat out shifting away as the other man drew closer. Never in his life had he been so uncomfortable in his own place! Why wouldn't he just get out? "I haven't seen you before until I somehow woke up next to you... I should have pushed you out of my bed.. I guess I was too kind." His attitude was really to hide the fear he felt, even now he was trembling so much he couldn't get himself to stop. He closed his eyes and forced his mouth to shut up before he said something about the fact the only time he had sex was when people raped him calling him Jacob. |
Tears burned at his eyes and he clenched his teeth, starting to back up again, he wished it was easier to get away, he wasn't even sure how he'd get down those blasted stairs yet. He hadn't been able to practice walking with the crutches very much, now he was being thrown out like yesterday's newspaper.
"You... jerk." He grit out. "I knew I shouldn't have slept with you... I can't believe I actually thought you wanted to see me again--you didn't even ask me to pay--you told me not to worry about it..." He dug his phone out of his pocket and threw it towards the man now calling himself 'Alex'. "Just keep it! I don't want your god-damned number, I'll just get a new bloody phone." And with that, Ashley had turned around and started towards the door, kicking his pill bottle along a bit since he couldn't figure out how he'd lean down far enough to get it. Maybe if he got it out of the room he'd spot someone else who might pick it up for him. Opening the door, he kicked the bottle out of the room a bit and walked slowly to follow after it, not even bothering to close the door behind him because it took too much effort to just get out of there. Damn.. now he couldn't call a cab, how the hell was he supposed to get out of there? He didn't have enough money anyway. His shoulders shook as he stood a few feet from the door and stared down at the pill bottle and cried. "I'm so stupid.." He muttered to himself. |
Alex flinched as the phone flew at him, but he could help but stare at the hobbling man on crutches. He couldn't get passed the fact the man actually sounded sincerely hurt, and not physically either... Alex picked up the phone and stared at it. The man had left without hurting him.. wasn't that what he wanted? Then why did he feel so bad?
Slowly Alex got to his feet and approached the door that the man had left open. He was going to close it but he paused looking out now to see the other man there actually crying... Alex bit his lip and pressed his chest against the door frame partly hiding himself from him and peeking out. "Y-you won't hurt me will you?" Alex asked after getting the nerve up to talk to him. His voice shook with fear and the hand with the cell phone in it was visibly shaking. He looked down staring at the floor wondering what to say to the other. This man was the first who took him seriously. "I.. don't know who this Jacob is... but everyone who calls me by that name..." Alex shivered, this would be the first time he admitted it aloud to anyone. "Th-they .. rape me..." Alex paused still staring at the ground somehow trying to explain to the man he hadn't meant to upset him. "I wish ... I could meet this Jacob.. to see just how much like me he looks.. because I don't even have any siblings... never mind a twin.." Alex looked up at the other man fear still apparent on his face. "I'm sorry ... to have upset you... But you were the one in my bed when I woke... "When I went to bed early last night .. I wouldn't have imagined finding anyone else in it when I awoke..." |
Ashley's shoulders tensed up as he heard the man's voice and heard him coming out again, holding still though his shoulders still shook and he tried to hold back a loud sob. God he was such a baby, why was he crying so much? The man was just a prostitute, he'd find better men out there, people who worked jobs like his, who worked in a company, he'd find someone like him in the world he lived in, right?
He hardly moved, even when Alex admitted that the people who called him Jacob were people who raped him, though his eyes glanced towards him a bit. He didn't really believe him, he wasn't sure what to believe anymore. "Yeah well.. you're kinda the one who fucked me." He hissed out between clenched teeth, feeling a bump swell in his throat as he tried to gain control of his emotions. "If you want to meet him, why don't you just look in the bloody mirror? YOU'RE JACOB. I slept with you! You put me to bed last night! You even held me when I drifted off! You're the one who pretended to be my family member just so you could get me home after I fell asleep behind the wheel of the car and totaled it, you were even the reason I was so tired I nearly got myself and my coworkers killed!" Well he didn't believe that part, he should have known better; he should have called a cab for them, but he was so mad at him! He was so mad that he was lying to him, he was just so... hurt. So very hurt. "I.. never want to see you again. I'm leaving now. I'm going to go work and forget I ever met you, so just let me go." He kicked the bottle agian so it would head towards the stairs, unsteadily making his way towards them and he paused at the top to rub at his face, trying to get his vision to clear up after crying so much. He didn't kick the bottle this time, carefully stepping over it so he could try to get down a few steps--maybe then he could turn around and lean over to get the bottle when he was a few steps down. He was just so shakey, he was afraid he'd fall, taking them slowly until he got to where he thought he could reach the bottle, turning around some, setting a crutch against the stairs a bit and reaching for the bottle carefully, trembling. |
Alex fell to his knees, why couldn't the man understand? Yet... what was wrong with himself? The tale seemed almost true if it hadn't included him as part of it... as Jacob. Why must it be him this all happened to..?
"If... that's all true..." Alex said to the man's back his eyes finally looking up at the man. He was trying to make sense of this but his ID said Alex... nothing with the name Jacob come up around him aside from people's mouth's but the man seemed to believe it was true... "I don't remember any of it...." He reached into his apartment grabbing his wallet and slowly got to his feet approaching the stairs where the man had begun to climb down. When the man turned to pick up the bottle Alex had it in his hand to pass it to him, the pills inside rattled a bit with how much his hand was shaking from the effort of going so close to the other man. In his other was his ID... trying to prove to the other man his identity. "Look... it says Alex Weib. Me." Alex said shakily his mind still raced trying to make sense of what he knew and what the other knew. "If... I'm this Jacob... I... don't remember being him.." |
Forcing himself to sit down on the stairs, Ashley took the pills and held them in his hands as he looked at the ID almost half-heartedly. He was already so tired of hearing it, but the ID really did say 'Alex' on it. "Then... Maybe you were just lying to me last night. Maybe Jacob is just the name you use when you're selling yourself out to all those men or luring people in like me. Maybe you're just a sadistic lying bastard.. or maybe you're sick. I hope you are.. I really.. hope so. Because I want to see the man I met last night."
He dug through is pocket for a pen and his cards, getting annoyed with how deep the scrubs pockets were but he found them both and wrote on the back of a card "Meet me tonight at Imajinicks" and handed it to Alex. "Put this on your nightstand or something.. so the note is face up... If you're lying.. I'll never see you again, but if you're sick.. I'll probably see you.. and you won't even know it." He frowned, shifting to pocket the things again and try to get up, now putting the pills in his other pocket so he couldn't drop them. "I'm going now. I need to find a way out of this place and take my freaking pills before the pain cripples me." He scoffed, slowly becoming annoyed because of the growing ache of his head and the pains from his wounds. |
Alex took the card with the note and looked at it. He nodded a bit at the man's instructions he bit his lip as he looked at the brunette as he got up. Alex didn't know what to think about the man calling him sick.. but Alex wasn't lying..
"I wish I was lying..." Alex said in a small voice as he looked at him. "At least then I would know why all this crap is happening to me..." Alex closed his eyes a moment and sighed as the other man mentioned getting out of there. He looked in his wallet and pulled out a few bills, what was some money for this man's pain? "Here.. I'll call a cab for you.. I.. for what it's worth.. I'm sorry .. for what I said... I'm just.. afraid." |
"I don't have money for a cab." He eyed the cash the man had pulled aout and shook his head. "And I don't need anymore donations from you, I think I've had my fill." He retorted, starting down the stairs again. "I'll just find a pay phone and call a coworker, I don't need anymore help." He added, huffing a little bit as he kept his cautious pace with the stairs.
"So.. keep your money. You'll need it if you really aren't lying." He muttered and then fell quiet as he tried to get down those stairs a little faster as he got more and more used to the crutches. |
Alex watched the other man go down the stairs, just to make sure the man didn't fall. He retreated to his room setting the note on the nightstand as instructed now so he didn't forget. He didn't leave his apartment again that day, he'd given himself too much of a headache with thinking things through.. trying to find common ground with the man he'd upset so much.
That night he headed to bed setting the cellphone next to the note. If he was Jacob and responded to that note... at least the man would get his phone back. Jacob woke a few minutes later looking rather confused. He looked around realizing Ash had left already and he'd slept until evening again.. Why hadn't the other man woke him? Jacob sighed and turned on the light noticing immediately that cellphone that wasn't his and spotted the note afterward. His lips gave a small smile... Silly corporates, they couldn't even miss a day of work.. Jacob thought shaking his head. He got up out of bed, took a shower and then got dressed in jeans, black muscle top and a jean jacket. He looked at the effect and shook his head. He seemed as giddy as a first date, going rather backwards when you thought about it. He grabbed his key and walked out of his place making sure to grab Ash's cell phone as well as he went to meet him. |
Ashley was in his office, crutches set aside and he was fast asleep in his chair, door open and the building itself was still open specifically for Jacob--he'd even let security know who was coming in and that they didn't need to check his ID, he didn't even know if Jacob had an ID of his own or not.
He was in a new suit, jacket hung up and a little wrinkled from the position he was reclined in on the chair, broken leg on the desk of paperwork and drawings for advertisements. Under his eyes were still a little red--he'd cried off and on through the day, though he'd thought work would take his mind off of it all, it hadn't. He'd fallen asleep waiting and waiting and waiting for Jacob to hurry up and come find him, tell him he didn't remember all the things he'd said to him. |
Jacob looked up at the tall building that Ashley had first brought them to last night when he'd thought he was giving his home address. Jacob shook his head and entered the building and gave his name to the officer that stopped him at first. He found his way up to the office and looked at the scene in front of him as he entered through that open door.
His lips turned up in a small smile to find Ashley asleep and he approached stealthily lifting his hand to run fingers through that brown hair and leaned in pressing gentle lips to Ash's unaware how upset the man was while waiting for him. |
The hand through his hair had woken Ashley, but he didn't open his eyes right away, feeling the warmth of those lips pressing in against his own. Tears slipped down his cheeks as he opened his two-toned eyes finally and looked at Jacob, trembling. "...J-Jacob..?"
His hand reached up to touch Jacob's, grasping it, lacing their fingers together. He couldn't bring himself to be mad, he was still hurt, but he was so happy. So very happy. "You.. really don't remember?" He mumbled, taking a slow, deep breath. |
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