Sequel to: This Kiss
Author: Riley Cannon
Disclaimer: Fontana and HBO own them and profit from them; I just borrow them for purposes of smut and sap. Lyrics: "Is This Love," by Bob Marley
Lyrics provided by: Danielle

Summary: It would help, although is not essential, if you have already read the original fic, This Kiss, in order to know the set up. The short version is everything changed in Strange Bedfellows, with that first kiss, and this is catching up with them a little while after the fic concluded.

Dedicated to all my sibs who have provided pep talks, kicks to the ass, and had faith in my even when my own was flagging - Mav, Christy, Cat, Grace, Danielle, Eliza, Actizera, Aline, pirl ... Well, it's a long and amazing list, and I appreciate you all.

"...Chris..." Toby groaned heavily, his head pressed into the pillow and exposing his throat, shuddering again as his lover nuzzled and feasted on that tender flesh.

Chris smiled against warm skin, loving how eager and responsive Toby was to his touch. Loving Toby so much he didn't know how to express it in any other way but with a look, a kiss, a caress. Sometimes he thought that wasn't such a bad thing. Words could trip you up so easy. Hard to misinterpret this, he thought, opening his mouth against Toby's throat and running his tongue over sensitive skin, tasting desire.

He raised up over Toby so he could look into that adorable face and feel the power of that desire, hot and hungry, in Toby's eyes. Lifting a hand, he stroked through Toby's hair, the silky strands gliding between his fingers. "You really do look good without the beard," he whispered, dipping his head, lips brushing along a smooth jaw. Sometimes he'd look at Toby now and hardly believe this was the same man he had met that first day -- that crazy beard and the crazier rhymes, trying to keep the world at bay and guarding himself so carefully. Chris kissed his forehead and the tiny laugh lines at the corner of an eye, and slipped an arm underneath to hold Toby close and nuzzle his face into Toby's neck. Sometimes he also really hated himself for coming so frighteningly close to hurting this man so badly. He felt Toby embracing him, one of those square and dependable hands stroking over his hair, and Chris sighed, stretching out beside him, believing in miracles.

"What's on your mind?" Toby asked, voice soft, eyes thoughtful.

"Nothing, just..." Chris shrugged, resting his hand on Toby's hip, the look in those beautiful baby blues encouraging him to confess. "Just thinking about everything I might have missed."

Watching his face, searching his eyes, Toby nodded after a moment. "Glad the way it turned out?" he said, one hand curved around the nape of his neck.

Chris smiled, kissed the corner of his mouth. "Yeah, pretty glad."

A smile warming blue eyes, Toby said, "Me, too." He sniffed, thumb stroking his nape. "If you felt inclined to demonstrate just how glad you are," he murmured, "I probably wouldn't object." As if to make this point clear, he drew Chris' head closer, lips parting to Chris' slow and savoring kiss.

"Yeah," Chris nibbled Toby's lips and darted his tongue along them, playing tag with Toby's, "I could do that."

"Thought you might." Toby hooked both arms around Chris' neck, arching against him and encouraging him to proceed.

Hands skimming along Toby's sides and his back, craving more of his mouth with every kiss, Chris dragged his lips along Toby's jaw, nuzzling there and drawing in a deep breath. "I wanna love and treat you right," he sighed against Toby's hot skin.

Rubbing his cheek against Chris' hair, Toby said, "Keep going - you're on the right track."

Chris chuckled against his lover's throat, raising his head to look at him again, touch his face. "Like this?" He kissed him again, tasting Toby and toothpaste, sliding his lips down along the column of Toby's throat, feeling his lover stroking his hair as his lips and tongue spent a delicious time licking and sucking along that flesh.

"Yeah... Yeah, that's good."

Chris smiled, loving that breathless endorsement. Loving even more the way Toby's chest rose and fell, shudders of pleasure running through him as Chris drew his open mouth along each spectacular collarbone before licking a path along to one nipple, and then the other, licking and sucking the hard little knots until Toby was pulling at his hair and humping up against him.

"Don't you dare fucking stop," Toby groaned out in protest as Chris moved back.

"Wouldn't dream of it." Chris snatched another kiss before sitting back to strip off his wifebeater and toss it away. "Just wanna make us comfortable," he said, turned on even more at Toby's avid gaze roaming over him, eating him up. That look stayed hungry as he stripped off his boxers, that look caressing him almost as erotically as the touch of fingers teasing along his thigh and creeping inward, Toby's wicked smile letting Chris know how much he was enjoying himself.

"Alllll comfy now?" Toby whispered as he cupped his hand between Chris' legs and gently squeezed.

Chris sucked in a shaky breath, feeling a very long ways from comfortable - but in a really good way. He thrust into Toby's hand as those bold and clever fingers wrapped around his cock. Placing his own hand over Toby's, he guided that touch, closing his eyes for a moment as he soaked up every incredible sensation. "That feels really good, Toby."

"How about this?" Toby said and Chris opened his eyes as he felt the mattress shift, Toby coming up on his knees and running his hands over Chris' chest, just like he was savoring and storing it all up, watching his fingers grazing along Chris' skin and not hiding how much that excited him. A thoughtful look on his face as his fingers toyed with a stiff nipple, Toby flashed him that sexy and dangerous smile just before ducking his head to brush warm lips over the nipple and lash it with his tongue.

The fingers of one hand grasping Toby's upper arm, digging into the hard muscle, Chris stroked the other one along Toby's back, every touch of his lover's tongue igniting him. He ran his hand up into Toby's hair, pulling his head up so he could kiss his mouth, kiss him as deeply and deliciously as possible, worshipping him with those kisses.

He hadn't known to expect this. He hadn't known what hit him that first time his lips touched Toby's. Just one kiss, and everything was turned inside out. Oh, it was still Oz, still a miserable shithole where you had to watch your back 24/7 - almost. There were a few hours, here in the dark, in the shelter of this single bed, when he and Toby made something different, something that felt sacred and powerful.

And he rolled Toby onto his back, settling over him, tangled with him beneath the sheets, his senses filled with Toby as he bent his head to kiss him some more, feeling like he was taking communion.

Bob Marley
Legend (1984)
Is This Love

I wanna love you and treat you right;
I wanna love you every day and every night: We'll be together with a roof right over our heads; We'll share the shelter of my single bed; We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread.
Is this love - is this love - is this love - Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Is this love - is this love - is this love - Is this love that I'm feelin'?
I wanna know - wanna know - wanna know now! I got to know - got to know - got to know now!

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able, So I throw my cards on your table!
I wanna love you - I wanna love and treat - love and treat you right;
I wanna love you every day and every night: We'll be together, yeah! - with a roof right over our heads;
We'll share the shelter, yeah, oh now! - of my single bed;
We'll share the same room, yeah! - for Jah provide the bread.

Is this love - is this love - is this love - Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Is this love - is this love - is this love - Is this love that I'm feelin'?
Wo-o-o-oah! Oh yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!
Yes, I know; yes, I know - yes, I know now!

I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I - I'm willing and able, So I throw my cards on your table!
See: I wanna love ya, I wanna love and treat ya - love and treat ya right.
I wanna love you every day and every night: We'll be together, with a roof right over our heads! We'll share the shelter of my single bed; We'll share the same room, yeah! Jah provide the bread.
We'll share the shelter of my single bed - /fadeout/