the cautious losers and emotional wrecks (for Chase)

[sortofaman]

The Doctor had reverted to Plan C. Plan C was not particularly ideal, and in actuality it was hardly a plan at all, more a reactive mechanism until he could sort out what his actual plan was going to be, if he did at all, or until he couldn't take anymore.

Whichever came first.

Plan C was dealing with the issue by not addressing it head-on, by not engaging. Mostly it was because the Doctor had no energy to do so--Nate had been up nights again off and on with teething, and he'd been trying to write up a thesis on different theoretical reactions to the idea of being fictional, and how people would come to terms with it. He was thinking his project would be to come up with a set programme of therapeutic mechanisms for treatment of said issue...

Anyway.

So he didn't really look up when Chase came in, only mumbled a greeting and underlined some text with a pencil.

Subject lyrics by Bob Seger.

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[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"Not be a bloody ponce," said the Doctor, not even startled by Chase being on top of him now, even if he was having a stupid human reaction to the very fact of it. "Does it make you feel any better that if I didn't care, I wouldn't give you shite about it, Robert?"

[dr_robchase]

"Don't call me Robert," he snapped at the Doctor and leaned even closer than before until there was hardly any room between them at all, their faces close. "You're doing everything that pisses me off and I know you know that."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"Then stop being a royal bloody wankjob," the Doctor replied, eyes dark and brown and angry, his hand on Chase's bicep tensing with fingers drawing in against skin and muscle. "Trying to pretend everything's just peachy bleeding keen and ever so delightfully normal. You wanted normal, you wanted someone who'd just roll over and take shite, well, you married the bloody wrong man to do it!"

[dr_robchase]

"I don't want normal. I've never been normal." Each word was heavy and each sentence followed the same heavy cadence as the other. "But I want some respect and consideration and for you to act as if you still love me instead of just tolerate me," he snapped, words hurt and irritated at once.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor was, in all honesty, slightly stunned, and he looked up at Chase with a wide stare. "I'm trying, but if we don't talk about it or do anything about it, then how can I not react like I do?" he asked, frustrated as hell, and moved up to rest his forehead against Chase's.

[dr_robchase]

Chase pressed his forehead against the Doctor's with a little more firmness, trying to swallow all the dryness in his throat. "If we talk," Chase said, voice low. "You can't rile me up. It makes me feel like we just run ineffective circles. We have to talk, for real."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor ran his fingers through Chase's hair, considering this, then let out a sigh and nodded, trying to meet those blue, blue eyes. "Yeah," he agreed, openly, honestly without any bullshit.

[dr_robchase]

Chase caught the Doctor's gaze for a moment before leaning in suddenly and pressing his lips to the Doctor's with a desperate momentary need, kissing him desperately and trying to find some kind of connection again. "This good?" he mumbled against the Doctor's lips.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

It was both what the Doctor had anticipated and not it at all, and he groaned, moving up to kiss him in reply, lips slightly parted. It was a sudden shift and change in feeling, and he liked it, liked what the need felt like once more. "Yeah," he breathed.

[dr_robchase]

Chase kept in close and even between kisses -- hot breath mixing between them -- he felt as if they were closer than they'd been in a very long time. "I missed your hands," he admitted, blurting out the words. "I know it probably sounds stupid..."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"It doesn't bloody sound stupid," murmured the Doctor, but there was no vitriol behind it, just affection, fingers spreading wide against Chase's back. "It sounds true."

He had missed Chase as well, but more than anything how he tasted, how his upper lip curved in towards his lower one, how it felt to tease it out with a slow drag of his teeth. So he indulged himself.

[dr_robchase]

Chase was breathless within something like minutes of when the kiss first started and he didn't even feel like that was a bad thing, necessarily. He exhaled shakily and drew away to stare down at the Doctor with half-lidded eyes. "I don't think you're going to leave me on purpose. I know that," he insisted, voice low, but it was something he felt as if he needed to get across.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"Okay," said the Doctor, blinking a couple of times to draw away the haze of need that had taken him, just so he could focus. "You...you know that I just give you shite because I know you can keep being better, yeah? That you don't have to be scared or alone or anything..."

His own accent had slipped a little, gone somewhere north of the border.

[dr_robchase]

"You give me shit and I just remember my father," Chase said, his words almost guttural as he got them out. That was all he thought about when he had his back to the wall and was being accused of acting contrary to how it was expected he act.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

The Doctor bit into his own lower lip, unable to look at Chase for a moment, then finally met his eyes. "I'm sorry," he said simply. "I'll...I won't do that."

[dr_robchase]

Chase nodded fervently at that, hoping that this counted for progress even if he was busy pressing his lips to the Doctor's and letting out a shaky gasp while he stole more kisses. "I just want to be safe, here. I don't want people to keep going because I'm going to be left with nothing left soon enough."

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

It was progress. Definitely. "I know," said the Doctor, and slid his hands under Chase's shirt, up over his chest, determined to make things work, that things were right. "But..."

And Chase kissed him again, nearly making him breathless, and he kissed back, a sweet focused trail of his lips. "Can't just live afraid..."

[dr_robchase]

Chase's breath caught when he felt the Doctor's hands on bare skin and he pressed harder into the kiss, like a collision that was bound to happen, so it might as well have been forceful and wonderful. "You're never afraid, then?" Chase half-asked and half-moaned out the words.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"There's a difference," said the Doctor, or maybe 'said' wasn't the right term, maybe more like 'gasped', as he pulled up Chase's shirt, desperate to get it off him now please, "between being afraid and living afraid."

If he thought too hard on everything in the universe, he would have been afraid all the time, frozen, unable to move.

[dr_robchase]

Chase bit down on his lower lip and felt the blood pulsing there as he tossed the shirt onto the floor and stared down at the Doctor from his straddle of him, trying to figure out what he wanted to do first. And then it was all too easy an answer as he slid down off the Doctor and started yanking his pants off.

"M'gonna try to be better," he mumbled, breath hot against the Doctor's hip.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

"So..." said the Doctor, whose eyes widened just slightly at the movement, knowing where it was leading and dear god, definitely not objecting. "So...so'm I."

He reached down to run his fingers through Chase's hair.

[dr_robchase]

Chase turned his cheek to the side to nuzzle lightly at the Doctor's bare thigh once he got his trousers lower. He licked his lips, rendering them wet, before slowly parting his lips to take the Doctor in, shallow, but there. It had been a long time since he had done this, but he felt like it was almost like a strange, sexual coming home.

[sortofaman.livejournal.com]

Despite the Doctor's best intentions, wanting to watch him, wanting to see his hair grow mussed and lips part, he couldn't help but close his eyes as his head fell back to the pillow, body lithe and rising to meet him. "Oh, god yes," he murmured, fingers tightening a little in Chase's hair.

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Chase was probably never going to admit it aloud, but he really did like it when people tugged at his hair. It tugged on his heart a little, this reminder that someone could want him so much. He let out a tiny moan as he continued to lap shallow and soft strokes with his tongue, careful not to go too deep when he hadn't done this in a while.

[dr_robchase]

Chase was probably never going to admit it aloud, but he really did like it when people tugged at his hair. It tugged on his heart a little, this reminder that someone could want him so much. He let out a tiny moan as he continued to lap shallow and soft strokes with his tongue, careful not to go too deep when he hadn't done this in a while.