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ajremixTitle: Patterns of Attraction
Fandom: DCU
Rating: R
Word Count: 1763
Characters: Ted, Booster
In response to: /coq/: “There seems to be an ongoing 'accepted' thing that Ted 'experimented in college'...I was wondering if anyone would be interested in revealing that his experimenting was with future!Booster (or at least one of them). So yeah. :)”
Summary: There’s a pattern to the men Ted’s been attracted to.(alternatively: booster shouldn’t be allowed to time travel unsupervised)
Ted had known from a relatively young age that he occasionally found guys attractive. Soon after realizing girls weren’t icky and, in fact, caused some interesting sensations in his body, Ted realized a couple boys he knew gave him that same reaction. He never asked his dad about it- his dad didn’t seem interested in answering any of Ted’s questions if it didn’t involve science or business -but his mom encouraged his curiosity. They had a deal, Ted and his mom- if he asked her more than five questions about a subject, she’d find him a book or two on it that they’d both read and then discuss. She didn’t even pause when he asked about reacting to boys like he did girls, she explained that she didn’t know much because 1) she never really thought about it before, and 2) no one really talked about that kind of thing.
So Ted learned about homosexuality and the biology and chemicals that affected attraction and he came to terms with the idea that it was a natural internal reaction. After reading up on the sociological aspects of it, Ted also came to accept that a lot of people weren’t as okay with the concept as him or his mom so while Ted came to be known as a hopeless skirt-chaser, he learned how to check out guys in a much more subtle way. And though things occasionally happened with girls, Ted never felt the need to go further with a guy than a few casual touches and the occasional fantasy.
Until the summer before senior year of high school.
Usually Ted spent the summers at a gymnastics camp, but that year was spent at home, preparing himself for college and the like so he stayed in Marquette. During his free time Ted would go to the gym- the one in Spring Valley which was much larger and actually had gymnastics equipment. It was on one of those trips that Ted saw him.
He had no idea what the man’s name was, if he lived in Spring Valley or was from one of the little outlying places and just taking advantage of the facilities. All Ted knew was he’d never really understood the use of the word Adonis until he saw that man. That and he’d never wanted anyone to bend him over a pommel horse and fuck him that badly before. He was much older than Ted- probably in his 30s -but he was beautiful and powerful and Ted just wanted to touch him everywhere. He seemed to favor the pommel horse and rings and with the kind of body he had, Ted couldn’t blame him. Ted didn’t even bother to pretend to be working out whenever he saw the man because he was just too hypnotized by the twirling of gold wrapped in flesh and muscle.
(Thankfully Ted was far from the only one that was entranced by the man though no one seemed to know him or even attempt to talk to him and every time Ted thought to himself ‘This time I’m going to introduce myself’ the man would get up on the rings and Ted’s mouth would go dry and afterward he really needed to get to a bathroom.)
Though nothing ended up happening all summer, the event was still significant as Ted had never before wanted anyone as badly as he wanted that man. Ted finished high school and ended up going to the Illinois Tech in Chicago and he found himself surrounded by attractive women and men both- none of whom knew him as clumsy Lardo Kord and Ted felt much more confident with his prospects in physical intimacy.
He still stuck with women for the most part though he occasionally made overt advances toward other men- Ted didn’t really follow through with either gender, though, too focus on his studies and personal projects instead. Then, in his third semester, there was a man in Ted’s advanced computer science course. Tall, exceptionally handsome, he mainly kept to himself and sometimes Ted would see him reading around campus and he ended up joining the Classic Literature club because his classmate was in it. His name was Jon, he looked a little older than the other students and he wore glasses- reading glasses as Ted eventually found out when he put them aside so he could kiss Jon without worrying about them. It took most the semester for Ted to get the guts to talk to Jon who was quiet but had this soft little smile and gorgeous dimples and when Ted saw Jon at someone’s house party, he couldn’t help himself. And Jon didn’t resist but drew Ted to an empty room and when Jon stretched back to pull off his shirt and bared all that sun-kissed muscle off, Ted couldn’t help but think briefly to the man in the gym and it just made Ted want Jon all the more.
He knocked Jon over onto the bed in his enthusiasm but Jon didn’t seem to care- just laughed against Ted’s lips in a way that Ted decided he really, really liked. When it became apparent that Ted was fumbling even as he was exploring, Jon rolled them over, took Ted’s hand and guided it slowly down his body and his voice was a silky purr when he said, “Watch and learn.” And Ted watched, mesmerized by his hand on Jon’s cock. He learned as Jon told him how to stroke, where to rub his fingers and just how damned good it felt when Jon lined their cocks together and thrusted. All the while Jon’s hands were on Ted, stroking, petting, never resting until Jon’s back arched and he came over Ted’s stomach, choking out Ted’s name in a way that seared itself into Ted’s brain.
They continued going to their class and club, not really speaking all the much to each other, but sometimes when Ted looked over he’d find Jon looking back at him with a little smile. Then, just before finals week, after the club meeting, Jon leaned over Ted’s back and asked if he wanted to come over and study in a way that Ted knew had nothing to do with actual studying. Turned out Jon didn’t even live on campus and he had a small room rented all by himself and Ted was more than happy to take advantage of it. Or rather, Jon take advantage of it.
It was like he was a mind reader- he seemed to know all the spots that drove Ted wild, knew when Ted wanted it hard and when to go easy. They spent the entire night having the kind of sex Ted hadn’t actually known men could have. Ted couldn’t help but think it odd, though, that Jon’s hands were always so restless as if memorizing (or re-memorizing) his body and whenever he came, Jon clutched at him as if he was afraid Ted would disappear. Eventually Jon tucked himself against Ted, somehow knowing just how he needed to fit under Ted’s chin and they fell asleep. Then finals came and went and Ted never saw Jon again, had probably graduated and Ted couldn’t help feeling a little depressed about it.
But that experience opened Ted up to a whole lot more. The techniques that Jon taught him Ted ended up refining on his roommate of all people (Murray was like Ted- always eager to try something new and Ted found that more than made up for the fact that Murray wasn’t tall and blonde and built like a Frazetta hero). And then there was Professor Garrett- Dan -and though Ted’s initial attraction to him was because he reminded Ted of Jon and that gymnast, Ted ended up falling for Dan for being Dan.
The most he’d ever gotten with Dan was one frantic handjob in his office before Ted graduated and then Uncle Jarvis went psycho and Ted suddenly found himself in a vocation he idly fantasized about since he was a kid (and after doing the security for the JLA). He wasn’t looking too forward to it, to be completely honest. Not after having lost Dan, anyway, so Ted had gone to a bar in an attempt to drink the emptiness away.
That’s when JM found him and Ted found himself spilling his guts to him after their third drink and JM was appropriately empathetic. His hand was warm on Ted’s shoulder and they were close enough that their thighs were pressed together and with all that drink inside him and JM’s encouraging smile and the dim light giving him a soft, golden glow, Ted just wanted to loose himself in the man.
And he did, in the bathroom with JM on his knees and lips stretched over Ted’s dick and Ted’s hands in his short hair and it was perfect in a way it hadn’t been since Jon with JM knowing just where to lick, how to suck, with his hands restless on Ted’s thighs and between. Ted was sure he called JM Dan at one point but JM didn’t seem to mind, just swallowed as Ted came and asked if Ted was okay, if he needed anything else. Ted felt the need to kiss JM and did so and slid his hand into his pants while JM clutched at him desperately. Ted eventually left the bar and JM feeling a little more relaxed with life on a whole.
After that, Ted’s experiences with men was basically nil. Even surrounded by other superheroes who were all impossibly attractive and in even more impossibly tight outfits, Ted just didn’t feel any spark with guys. Until, years after his debut as the Blue Beetle, he met Booster Gold. He was beautiful, all carved gold and eager youth. He reminded Ted of Jon and JM and the gymnast and Ted found it harder to harder to keep his hands off him. The more Booster warmed up to him the more Ted wanted to kiss him, taste him, just feel Booster’s body filling out in his hands.
Which was probably why- being caught up trying to suppress his attraction so as not to make his teammate uncomfortable -it surprised Ted when Booster eventually pressed him up against the wall and said, “You could always ask if you want to touch.”
Ted didn’t remember asking, but he definitely touched, with hands and mouth and tongue over every inch of Booster’s body, learning every angle he could just as Booster did for him and, somehow, it felt like coming home.
Fandom: DCU
Rating: R
Word Count: 1763
Characters: Ted, Booster
In response to: /coq/: “There seems to be an ongoing 'accepted' thing that Ted 'experimented in college'...I was wondering if anyone would be interested in revealing that his experimenting was with future!Booster (or at least one of them). So yeah. :)”
Summary: There’s a pattern to the men Ted’s been attracted to.
Ted had known from a relatively young age that he occasionally found guys attractive. Soon after realizing girls weren’t icky and, in fact, caused some interesting sensations in his body, Ted realized a couple boys he knew gave him that same reaction. He never asked his dad about it- his dad didn’t seem interested in answering any of Ted’s questions if it didn’t involve science or business -but his mom encouraged his curiosity. They had a deal, Ted and his mom- if he asked her more than five questions about a subject, she’d find him a book or two on it that they’d both read and then discuss. She didn’t even pause when he asked about reacting to boys like he did girls, she explained that she didn’t know much because 1) she never really thought about it before, and 2) no one really talked about that kind of thing.
So Ted learned about homosexuality and the biology and chemicals that affected attraction and he came to terms with the idea that it was a natural internal reaction. After reading up on the sociological aspects of it, Ted also came to accept that a lot of people weren’t as okay with the concept as him or his mom so while Ted came to be known as a hopeless skirt-chaser, he learned how to check out guys in a much more subtle way. And though things occasionally happened with girls, Ted never felt the need to go further with a guy than a few casual touches and the occasional fantasy.
Until the summer before senior year of high school.
Usually Ted spent the summers at a gymnastics camp, but that year was spent at home, preparing himself for college and the like so he stayed in Marquette. During his free time Ted would go to the gym- the one in Spring Valley which was much larger and actually had gymnastics equipment. It was on one of those trips that Ted saw him.
He had no idea what the man’s name was, if he lived in Spring Valley or was from one of the little outlying places and just taking advantage of the facilities. All Ted knew was he’d never really understood the use of the word Adonis until he saw that man. That and he’d never wanted anyone to bend him over a pommel horse and fuck him that badly before. He was much older than Ted- probably in his 30s -but he was beautiful and powerful and Ted just wanted to touch him everywhere. He seemed to favor the pommel horse and rings and with the kind of body he had, Ted couldn’t blame him. Ted didn’t even bother to pretend to be working out whenever he saw the man because he was just too hypnotized by the twirling of gold wrapped in flesh and muscle.
(Thankfully Ted was far from the only one that was entranced by the man though no one seemed to know him or even attempt to talk to him and every time Ted thought to himself ‘This time I’m going to introduce myself’ the man would get up on the rings and Ted’s mouth would go dry and afterward he really needed to get to a bathroom.)
Though nothing ended up happening all summer, the event was still significant as Ted had never before wanted anyone as badly as he wanted that man. Ted finished high school and ended up going to the Illinois Tech in Chicago and he found himself surrounded by attractive women and men both- none of whom knew him as clumsy Lardo Kord and Ted felt much more confident with his prospects in physical intimacy.
He still stuck with women for the most part though he occasionally made overt advances toward other men- Ted didn’t really follow through with either gender, though, too focus on his studies and personal projects instead. Then, in his third semester, there was a man in Ted’s advanced computer science course. Tall, exceptionally handsome, he mainly kept to himself and sometimes Ted would see him reading around campus and he ended up joining the Classic Literature club because his classmate was in it. His name was Jon, he looked a little older than the other students and he wore glasses- reading glasses as Ted eventually found out when he put them aside so he could kiss Jon without worrying about them. It took most the semester for Ted to get the guts to talk to Jon who was quiet but had this soft little smile and gorgeous dimples and when Ted saw Jon at someone’s house party, he couldn’t help himself. And Jon didn’t resist but drew Ted to an empty room and when Jon stretched back to pull off his shirt and bared all that sun-kissed muscle off, Ted couldn’t help but think briefly to the man in the gym and it just made Ted want Jon all the more.
He knocked Jon over onto the bed in his enthusiasm but Jon didn’t seem to care- just laughed against Ted’s lips in a way that Ted decided he really, really liked. When it became apparent that Ted was fumbling even as he was exploring, Jon rolled them over, took Ted’s hand and guided it slowly down his body and his voice was a silky purr when he said, “Watch and learn.” And Ted watched, mesmerized by his hand on Jon’s cock. He learned as Jon told him how to stroke, where to rub his fingers and just how damned good it felt when Jon lined their cocks together and thrusted. All the while Jon’s hands were on Ted, stroking, petting, never resting until Jon’s back arched and he came over Ted’s stomach, choking out Ted’s name in a way that seared itself into Ted’s brain.
They continued going to their class and club, not really speaking all the much to each other, but sometimes when Ted looked over he’d find Jon looking back at him with a little smile. Then, just before finals week, after the club meeting, Jon leaned over Ted’s back and asked if he wanted to come over and study in a way that Ted knew had nothing to do with actual studying. Turned out Jon didn’t even live on campus and he had a small room rented all by himself and Ted was more than happy to take advantage of it. Or rather, Jon take advantage of it.
It was like he was a mind reader- he seemed to know all the spots that drove Ted wild, knew when Ted wanted it hard and when to go easy. They spent the entire night having the kind of sex Ted hadn’t actually known men could have. Ted couldn’t help but think it odd, though, that Jon’s hands were always so restless as if memorizing (or re-memorizing) his body and whenever he came, Jon clutched at him as if he was afraid Ted would disappear. Eventually Jon tucked himself against Ted, somehow knowing just how he needed to fit under Ted’s chin and they fell asleep. Then finals came and went and Ted never saw Jon again, had probably graduated and Ted couldn’t help feeling a little depressed about it.
But that experience opened Ted up to a whole lot more. The techniques that Jon taught him Ted ended up refining on his roommate of all people (Murray was like Ted- always eager to try something new and Ted found that more than made up for the fact that Murray wasn’t tall and blonde and built like a Frazetta hero). And then there was Professor Garrett- Dan -and though Ted’s initial attraction to him was because he reminded Ted of Jon and that gymnast, Ted ended up falling for Dan for being Dan.
The most he’d ever gotten with Dan was one frantic handjob in his office before Ted graduated and then Uncle Jarvis went psycho and Ted suddenly found himself in a vocation he idly fantasized about since he was a kid (and after doing the security for the JLA). He wasn’t looking too forward to it, to be completely honest. Not after having lost Dan, anyway, so Ted had gone to a bar in an attempt to drink the emptiness away.
That’s when JM found him and Ted found himself spilling his guts to him after their third drink and JM was appropriately empathetic. His hand was warm on Ted’s shoulder and they were close enough that their thighs were pressed together and with all that drink inside him and JM’s encouraging smile and the dim light giving him a soft, golden glow, Ted just wanted to loose himself in the man.
And he did, in the bathroom with JM on his knees and lips stretched over Ted’s dick and Ted’s hands in his short hair and it was perfect in a way it hadn’t been since Jon with JM knowing just where to lick, how to suck, with his hands restless on Ted’s thighs and between. Ted was sure he called JM Dan at one point but JM didn’t seem to mind, just swallowed as Ted came and asked if Ted was okay, if he needed anything else. Ted felt the need to kiss JM and did so and slid his hand into his pants while JM clutched at him desperately. Ted eventually left the bar and JM feeling a little more relaxed with life on a whole.
After that, Ted’s experiences with men was basically nil. Even surrounded by other superheroes who were all impossibly attractive and in even more impossibly tight outfits, Ted just didn’t feel any spark with guys. Until, years after his debut as the Blue Beetle, he met Booster Gold. He was beautiful, all carved gold and eager youth. He reminded Ted of Jon and JM and the gymnast and Ted found it harder to harder to keep his hands off him. The more Booster warmed up to him the more Ted wanted to kiss him, taste him, just feel Booster’s body filling out in his hands.
Which was probably why- being caught up trying to suppress his attraction so as not to make his teammate uncomfortable -it surprised Ted when Booster eventually pressed him up against the wall and said, “You could always ask if you want to touch.”
Ted didn’t remember asking, but he definitely touched, with hands and mouth and tongue over every inch of Booster’s body, learning every angle he could just as Booster did for him and, somehow, it felt like coming home.
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Date: 2010-07-11 11:14 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-14 07:39 am (UTC)You also write sexy very well! :D
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Date: 2010-07-14 09:07 am (UTC)(also your icon is tres adorable!)
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Date: 2010-07-14 09:41 pm (UTC)LOL! I mostly meant Booster's loneliness, but I like the other idea too: "You mean I thought I was a total stud, but all these guys have secretly been Booster? Noooo!"