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topaz119 ([personal profile] topaz119) wrote2007-11-02 07:09 pm

by the light of the night, popslash, JC/Chris, Adult

By the Light of the Night
Fandom: Popslash
Pairing: Chris/JC
Rating: Adult
Disclaimer: Oh, no, nothing like this is going on, not at all.
A/N: Pretend this isn't late for TrickC Day? Or for Halloween? Un-beta'd, so read at your own risk. Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] unholyglee for the costuming consult.

Also posted to AOOO, here.



"Dude." JC batted at the fake cobwebs stretched end-to-end along the front of Chris's house, covering the shrubbery and windows and, oh, yeah, the door. "I thought the purpose of a party was to have people come and, y'know, party."

"Atmosphere, Chasez," Chris answered. "I know you're used to those high-end Hollywood parties, but out here in the real world, we like Halloween to look like Halloween, not some interior decorating theme."

JC edged past a couple of--guys? chicks? dressed in the full Michael Meyers deal. They could be accountants by day, with a fetish for full-on horror costuming by night, or they could be the real deal. It was Chris; you never knew.

"Hey, man, I'm gonna go change up in your room, okay?" JC hefted the bag with the rest of his costume in it. He could have driven over in it, but he'd have had to have done his make-up and wig here anyway, so he figured he'd just change, too.

Chris waved distractedly, diving back into the crowd to sort out what looked like a death feud between two ninja assasins--JC was pretty sure he saw nunchucks flashing but there were some things he was better off not knowing, so he dodged a drunk Cleopatra who was all hands and managed to get inside Chris's bedroom and the door locked without compromising his virtue any more than strictly necessary. Cleo might not have been his type, but there was a very authentic-looking Special Forces corporal that he didn't try very hard to resist.

It didn't take all that long to get the wig and make-up done. Quick-change skills were kind of like riding a bicycle and JC was always amused at how often they came in handy. Then it was just losing the cargoes and hoodie he'd thrown on over the rest of the costume and getting the shoes and the cloak right and he was back out in public.

All of JC's bitching earlier aside, Chris knew how to throw a hell of a party and everything was flowing--and burning--freely. JC grabbed three quick shots of vodka that had to have just been pulled from the freezer, three quick icy burns that left him loose and grooving to the band set up around the pool. He contemplated taking a hit as what smelled like the really good shit went by, but ultimately passed.

"Turning all pansy on us, C?" Chris wasn't dressed as anything. Or, more precisely, JC thought, he was mostly just dressed as Chris at his freakiest. JC had seen everything Chris had on, from the furred Viking hat, complete with horns, to the cut-off camos that showed the knee brace he still needed when the weather acted up. The Freddy Krueger t-shirt might have been a nod to the occasion--or it might only have the first thing Chris found when he got out of the shower.

"Nah, cat, you know me better than that," JC answered. "It's just the shoes." He twitched aside the full length cloak long enough that Chris could see the black and silver platforms with four inch heels and sparkles. "Not really conducive to getting fucked-up, not if I don't want a broken ankle."

Chris grinned, sharp and hungry, and JC knew he'd seen more than just the shoes. Which was, yeah, nice, a slow, shimmery heat right under his skin. He stretched a little, still under the cloak, but enough to answer Chris's smile before he wandered off to go hang out. There were people crashed out around the pool that he hadn't seen in years and there was no sense rushing things. The plan was in motion; JC was just gonna go with the flow.

Chris knew right where he was, all night long. JC felt his gaze, like the barest, lightest breath on wet skin, even though they didn't say another word to each other, not until JC saw Chris talking to the lead singer of the band right before they kicked into a familiar pounding rhythm.

The crowd whistled and stomped and JC had been pretty sure this would happen--Chris might be a total freak, but some things were entirely predictable--but he rolled his eyes at Chris anyway.

"Not really my range, dude."

"Fake it, pretty boy." Chris leaned in close. "Don't tell me you haven't been waiting for this all night, not with how you're dressed."

JC grinned, because of course Chris was right and he might even get why JC picked this costume. That didn't really matter; JC was more than ready to explain it to him in words of a syllable or less, but things would go a lot quicker if Chris was up to speed from the start.

It didn't even matter that JC wasn't warmed up or that that band was about ten times drunker than he was. As soon as he started, everyone was yelling the lyrics along with him and he could get right down to the real business of the evening: convincing Chris that hell, yes, JC had been waiting damn long enough and it was time to get on with it.

The shoes were more of a hassle than he'd been expecting, a half-size too small and the heels way too high, but once he hit the one hell of a lover line and got the cloak thrown back and off, the fishnets and Merry Widow took up whatever slack his lack of mobility was leaving. He didn't think Chris had any complaints, not judging from how he was tossing down shots of Jagr every time JC shimmied his hips. And frankly, that was all that mattered; the rest of the crowd could go fuck themselves if they didn't like how he sounded.

A couple of girls joined him on the second verse, surprisingly on-key and willing to vamp it up with him (and make-out with each other when they weren't singing, which JC was definitely not going to complain about, even if it was hellaciously distracting.) There was some serious crowd participation going on, but he stole one of the lead singer's mikes as he strutted off, to make double-damn sure Chris heard every word of come up to the lab and see what's on the slab before he closed out the song and ducked inside the glass doors to the living room. He snagged that fifth of ice-cold Grey Goose on his way back up to Chris's bedroom.

If JC knew Chris--and after all the years together, if not together-together, he did--there wasn't any hurry. Chris wasn't gonna give in and admit to anything, not without circling around the issue another couple thousand times. It didn't matter though. JC was just as stubborn as Chris, more even, and he wasn't leaving. Period.

Chris's room faced out over the side of the house, away from the band and the party; it was quiet enough that JC found the remote and started channel-surfing until he found the porn. Chris might take his time, but there was no way JC had misread the definite interest in the dark eyes that had been following him all night. Sooner or later, Chris would be there.

*

The vodka had long since gone warm and the sun was nearly up when the door finally opened and Chris walked in the room, unexepectedly quiet. JC stayed where he was, curled up under the quilt on the big bed. The TV was muted, but the bodies still twisted and writhed and the light flickered over the room.

"What is this, JC?" Chris wouldn't look at him, but his voice sounded steady--hoarse and raspy, but not drunk or high.

"What do you think it is?" JC leaned up on his elbow, watching as Chris nudged the discarded platforms out of his way before lightly fingering the fishnets that JC had draped over the over-stuffed armchair when he'd finally decided that a shower was in order.

"Halloween, right?" Chris laughed, sharp and bitter. "Time to play at being whoever you're not."

"Sure," JC agreed. "Doesn't mean it's not what you want anyway."

"Don't you fucking play games with me, Joshua." Chris drew a deep breath, scrubbing his hand across the scruff of beard on his chin and finally met JC's eyes. "Just, don't."

"I was playing some tonight," JC said, nodding. "Not with you, though." He sat up all the way and let the quilt fall down around his hips, low enough that not even Chris at his most stubborn could miss that JC was naked in his bed.

"What is this, JC?" Chris repeated.

"Exactly what it looks like, exactly what you're telling yourself it isn't." JC managed not to roll his eyes; he thought he might deserve some kind of award for that. He wriggled completely out from under the covers. "If you quit being so thick-headed, I won't even make you take a shower before I blow you."

Chris watched him silently for a long, long minute, one of the longest of JC's life, but then one corner of his mouth quirked up. "Such a fucking romantic, Chasez," he said, pulling the t-shirt over his head.

"I sang you Sweet Transvestite, man," JC said. "I'm saving the roses for Some Enchanted Evening." Chris snorted and JC made a mental note to call Joey and find out what florists in Orlando could deliver rose petals by the truckload, but then Chris was on the bed and anything that wasn't skin pressing on skin went flying right out of his head.

"Fuck,C," Chris groaned into the curve of JC's neck and JC hissed at the sharp scrape of teeth along his collarbone. "Fuck. Did you shave your legs?"

"Fishnets, man," JC panted, getting his legs around Chris's waist. "They look like hell if you don't and I wanted--shit, Chris, yeah, like that--I wanted to look goo--oh, fuck--"

Chris was grinding down onto him, hot and sweaty and perfect, even before he slicked his fingers with pre-come and started working them into JC. His eyes were dark and intent and JC let himself fall into them, arching up hard and needy.

"Yeah, Chris, God, want you, want your come on me," JC panted and then whimpered as Chris pushed a third finger in, rough and hot and merciless. JC came, biting back a howl at the sudden sharp burn and made himself keep his eyes open so he could watch Chris come, too.

"Fuck," JC mumbled, as soon as his lungs remembered how to breathe. He dug his nails into Chris's hips, not letting him get away, rocking up into him. "You figure out what this is yet?"

"Hell, no," Chris answered, but he was mouthing over the marks he'd left on JC's neck. Translating from the Chris, that meant good things.

"Cool," JC said. "I don't shave my legs for just anyone."

"Freak," Chris said.

JC hummed in agreement and fell back asleep as the sun came up.

[identity profile] vaudevilles.livejournal.com 2007-11-03 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Oh. Oh!!!!

*flails incoherently*

This. You. It. YES.

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! =)

[identity profile] phaballa.livejournal.com 2007-11-03 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
This is FABULOUS. I think I would die of joy if JC every played Frankenfurter. DIE. And then go to heaven where I could watch it over and over.

Also, you can cram more hotness into 5 sentences than some people take 1000 words to do. And that is only one of the many reasons why you are awesome :)

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
hee! Thank you! I don't think Frank's in JC's range, for real, but I'd still love to see it, too.

As for the sex--I think it's that I write 2000 words and then rip it all out and leave those five sentences and hope it makes sense. ;)

[identity profile] musiclover03.livejournal.com 2007-11-03 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
*flails and babbles incoherently, falls dead* *points to icon*

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
pensnest: JC and Chris on stage (TrickC)

[personal profile] pensnest 2007-11-03 08:15 am (UTC)(link)
Ooohohoho, yeah! JC performing Sweet Transvestite would be such a very glorious thing!

I like this JC, I like the wariness of Chris. Also, it is amazingly hot.

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
It would be even more glorious if his hair was long enough not to need a wig! Not that I'm bitter or anything. ;)

And thank you!
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[identity profile] turps33.livejournal.com 2007-11-03 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I loved this so much!

The whole party was so real, so vivid that I can imagine it easily.

Your description of Chris' 'costume' was so him, too.

Just perfect.

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I told Donna that I was trying to work in that stupid green wig Chris has been known to be photographed in, but it was messing with my vibe, so I had to go with just the Viking hat. =)

[identity profile] duoshinigami.livejournal.com 2007-11-03 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
This is so totally delicious and hot! I love that you don't just come right out and say who JC is-- even though, yeah its obvious, but there is still something wonderful about how you don't say it :D ANd I love that he sings Sweet Transvestite...that would definitely be a show I would want to see!

And I'm totally in love with the way you had him and Chris play cat and mouse. I love the build up! And I really really want to see JC in a cloak and fishnets...Yummers. And the sex scene...Oh God! The sex scene was absolutely fantastic. I was really digging that with the whole...

Chris was grinding down onto him, hot and sweaty and perfect, even before he slicked his fingers with pre-come and started working them into JC.

That was my favorite line in there. I keep reading it and reading it because it is so freaking sexy! Well done and kudos to you!!

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'm glad not coming right out and saying who JC was didn't mess with you; every time I tried to work it into the story, it felt clunky and intrusive, so I just went with the descriptions instead.

And I'm totally in love with the way you had him and Chris play cat and mouse.

In my head, they'd been playing for a really long time and JC just decided enough was enough. And I am ALWAYS happy to hear that the sex sounded sexy, not lame, because it's always so hard to write. So, thank you again!
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[personal profile] rikes 2007-11-04 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
That was fun! I could really feel the energy of the performance. :)

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2007-11-04 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I had quite a good time imagining it as I was writing. =)
poisontaster: character Wen Qing from The Untamed (popslash)

[personal profile] poisontaster 2007-11-10 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
I really love the build up to this. The layered YEARS of build up, fractal-ized by the build up through the party, the way you imply so much without saying it that it's completely obvious without being obvious. Mmm. Okay, it's late and I'm fried in the brain by this, but it's lovely and I loved it. :D

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2007-11-10 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, thank you! I haven't written a lot of Chris/JC, but they have this groove in my brain, like they fit, even if they haven't actually acknowledged it yet. I'm so glad you liked it!

[identity profile] geneli4.livejournal.com 2007-11-16 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
He sat up all the way and let the quilt fall down around his hips, low enough that not even Chris at his most stubborn could miss that JC was naked in his bed.

mmm, i love this line, the way it feels like years, and is still so clear, so bare, jc naked in his bed. very nice!

of course, i love the image of jc in fishnets, too. :)

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2007-11-17 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
=) Thank you! It's what happens when cult movies intersect with a need for a plot bunny. It's probably best I went with this rather than the Dark Shadows thought.

[identity profile] callmesandy.livejournal.com 2008-10-12 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I really enjoyed this!! :)

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2008-10-13 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay, thanks! It was fun to write. =D

[identity profile] puszysty.livejournal.com 2008-11-08 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
I've never seen Rock Horror (insert gasps here), but I can just picture JC in the getup trying to be seductive. Fun, humorous story.

[identity profile] topaz119.livejournal.com 2008-11-11 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
hee, thanks! Rocky Horror is best appreciate in a non-sober state, with plenty of other people similarly intoxicated, but Tim Curry has an awesome voice and Sweet Transvestite is quite the song. It really isn't in JC's range, but he'd still do a bang-up job. =)