suddenly hot

October 2002

	Suddenly Hot by coreopsis c Pairing: Brian/AJ rating: NC-17 Thanks to Nafio, Zoicite, Dara, and Lancenerd for beta.
	Until that show in Munich, AJ had never paid much attention to Brian's body. He was just another guy with whom AJ had to compete for vocal parts and occasionally had to change clothes, and not any sort of a sex object. He wasn't made to be--not to the extent that Kevin and Howie and AJ himself were, at least. They were always being told to take off their shirts and spending too much time getting cold water poured on them for no reason other than to highlight their muscles and make them look sexy. Why being wet was considered sexy sort of escaped AJ, even though he already considered himself something of an expert on the subject of sexiness. He thought the video for Quit Playing Games had made them look too dumb to come in out of the rain, and Kevin had thrown an absolute fit that management had ignored, as usual. So AJ was aware of his own sexiness and would concede that Howie had his moments, and Kevin was damned hot when he didn't have a stick up his butt, but Brian...no. Brian was a goofy, sweet dork who was a perfect friend for Nick who was a pretty, sweet dork--any sexiness the two of them possessed was the kind that appealed to little girls or disgusting old men like Lou. If asked, AJ would have sworn he truly believed that, until... During that show, Brian really got into the music and lifted his shirt as he thrust his skinny little hips in a move copied straight from AJ's own repertoire. AJ looked at that flat stomach and the waistband of those cheesy Backstreet Boys boxers sticking out of Brian's low slung black pants and he saw an unexpectedly sexual creature. He shook his head and kept singing. He may have even laughed a little, but later, after the show, when they were back in the hotel, lazily discussing the merits of going out and trying to pick up German girls or boys, he couldn't help but watch Brian carefully. He wondered if there'd been some major change in Brian's overall appearance that he just hadn't noticed, but no, Brian looked the same as always as he wrestled on one of the beds with Nick to keep him from whining about them going out without him again. As much as he didn't care for the clubs, Nick didn't like to be left out of group activities either. AJ stared harder at Brian. His hair was too short (soft looking), his smile was too wide (sweet), his eyes were too squinchy (really kind of pretty). His arms were too skinny (cut), his hips too narrow (flexible), his skin was too pale (smooth and creamy). Brian's legs wrapped around Nick's as they rolled over, nearly falling off the bed, both of them barking and giggling like hyenas-- AJ did not want to know what had prompted that particular turn of events--and AJ felt a little flushed and a weird sensation fluttering in the pit of his stomach. If he didn't know better, he'd have thought it was jealousy, but what did he care what Brian and Nick did? Why should he care if Brian had Nick pinned to the bed, his groin dangerously close to Nick's? It was just stupid horseplay like they all did all the time, just playing and wrestling and touching and...oh fuck. Nick somehow reversed their positions and had gotten Brian's wrists in a tight grip, and AJ wanted to leap across the room and rip Nick's fingers loose. Nobody should be holding Brian like that except him. Whoa. Back it up just a minute. AJ ducked his head and hoped what he'd been thinking wasn't showing on his face. He didn't realize he'd been quiet for so long until Howie nudged him and said, "AJ, are you even listening? Kevin thinks--" but right then, Brian snapped his teeth at Nick's arm and AJ tuned Howie right out again. He'd go along with whatever Howie and Kevin decided anyway. He just hoped he could sneak a few drinks and maybe find some hot German boy who spoke just the right amount of English, although AJ's German was pretty good when he came to asking for what he wanted. AJ watched Brian's mouth and wondered if he was a biter. Wondered what kind of kisser he'd be. Wondered if he ever did anything else with that pretty mouth besides kiss. He'd seen Brian flirting with just as many boys as girls in the clubs, but he never paid enough attention to know whether Brian ever followed those boys down darkened hallways and into dingy bathroom stalls that gave only the barest illusion of privacy. AJ had no idea if Brian had ever sunk to his knees and rocked some European boy's world, or if he'd be interested in rocking an American boy's world in a cleaner, more private hotel room. AJ shook himself and tore his eyes away from Brian, looking over at Howie and Kevin who had stopped talking and were watching television. "So where we going, fellas?" Howie rolled his eyes. "I knew you weren't listening. We're not going anywhere. We're staying in since we have to be up so early for the photo shoot in the morning and then there are two shows in the evening." "You're not going out?" Nick piped up. AJ glanced over to see him staring at them, his face was flushed, eyes wide and hopeful, hair sticking out in all directions from wrestling. AJ was relieved that he didn't find the kid hot now too. Maybe he'd imagined the Brian thing. He glanced behind Nick and into Brian's grinning face and almost groaned. He hadn't imagined anything. He wanted Brian. Brian Littrell. B-Rok. A bandmate, the one thing he'd tried not to want, because first of all they really were like brothers, just as they told every interviewer who never could remember their names, and second, it was just too hard being that attracted to someone he had to be around all the time. So he'd pretty much trained himself to not think about the guys that way, unless Kevin was standing around the dressing room naked and damp from the shower or Howie crawled in bed with him when they were both lonely and homesick. Okay, so maybe he did think about them that way. He was also starting to get the whole 'wet equals sexy' equation too. Come to think of it, Bri had looked pretty hot in that damned video too, all slippery and glowing. He had to get out of there. Maybe take a cold shower. "No, we're not going out." AJ got up and walked to the door, speaking to Nick but shooting a look at Brian. "I think I'm gonna head over to my room. Take a shower or something." "I'll be over in a while," said Howie, since they were rooming together again. "No hurry, D. You won't be missing anything." AJ ignored Nick's joke about that statement and tried not to look at Brian again as he left. AJ walked across the hall and let himself into his room. He tossed the key on the dresser where he knew he'd probably forget it in the morning, but didn't let that concern him. That's what he had Kevin and Howie and his mom for, to take care of those little details that he didn't feel like fooling with. He stripped his shirt off and tossed it on his bed before digging some clean underwear out of his bag. He sat down on the bed to take off his shoes and socks, his mind whipping up vivid daydreams of Brian suddenly throwing himself at him, begging for AJ to fuck him. Then the fantasies shifted along a surprising tangent where Brian was demanding and taking and generally being a rather forceful top. Almost painfully turned on, AJ fell back onto the bed, pulling frantically at the fastenings of his pants. He'd planned to wait until he was in the shower to jerk off, but apparently his imagination and his body were conspiring against that plan. He'd no sooner slipped his pants and boxers down than someone knocked on the door, eliciting a loud groan of frustration. He thought about ignoring it, but he knew it was probably someone who wouldn't just give up and go away. Petting his dick sympathetically, AJ carefully pulled his boxers up and over his erection and then pulled his pants back up, zipping them just far enough so they wouldn't fall off. He walked over and opened the door to find the object of his new-found lust smiling innocently at him. "Brian. What do you want?" "Hey AJ. I just wanted to check and make sure you were all right. You've been acting kinda strange all night." Brian eased into the room and turned back to look at AJ who was still hanging onto the doorknob and staring at Brian and trying to ignore the re-ignited currents of lust flowing through his blood. "So are you?" AJ scowled and gripped the doorknob even tighter, trying to get his body to settle down. "Yeah, sure. Fine." Brian stepped closer and squinted at AJ. "You don't look fine. You're all flushed and--" Brian's eyes traveled down AJ's body and then widened when they got to his groin. "Oh." He cleared his throat and grinned sheepishly. "Why didn't you just say so? I'll let you get...back to it." Later, AJ lay awake trying to convince himself that when Brian brushed up against him going out the door, it was purely by accident. But as he finally drifted off to sleep he decided there was nothing pure about it at all. * The rest of that week and all of the next consisted of work, travel, collapse into bed, and then get up and do it all over again. The Boys didn't get an afternoon off until they were in Vienna, and they all wished it could be an entire day off. Kevin was fighting off a cold so he went back to bed after their morning interview, while Jane dragged Nick off somewhere with Aaron. Brian, deprived of his favorite running buddy, ended up going over to Howie and AJ's room where AJ was asking Howie if he wanted to go shopping. "Come on, D, it'll cheer you up." AJ finished tying his sneakers and bounced to his feet, his back to the door. "I don't need cheering up." Howie smiled so that Brian almost believed it. "I just want to call home in peace, so go on without me. Take Denise." "She's busy with fanclub stuff and besides, you love to shop. A whole new city full of stores to explore. Come on." Reaching for the telephone, Howie looked over AJ's shoulder and noticed Brian. "Well, then take Brian." "Take Brian how?" AJ asked, suspicion coloring his tone in a way that made Brian curious as to what he was thinking. "I think he meant take me shopping with you," Brian offered, laughing as AJ whipped around in surprise. "The door was unlocked." "You don't wanna go shopping," said AJ, not quite dismissively, but close. "I'd like to see some of the city though and it's not as much fun alone." "Most things aren't." AJ smirked and Brian knew he was talking about sex again. AJ did that a lot lately, often at unexpected times as if he was trying to make Brian uncomfortable or something. It didn't work, but he kept doing it anyway, which made it extra amusing. "Good point, so why do it alone if you have someone willing to do it with you?" Brian asked, smiling guilelessly when AJ's mouth dropped open. "Oh...okay." AJ shrugged and headed for the door. "Let's go then." Brian followed him out into the hall and said, "If you don't want me to go, I can find something else to do." "I never said I didn't want you to go." AJ put on his sunglasses as they stepped into the empty elevator. "You've been acting weird lately, so I thought maybe you were mad at me or something," said Brian, his eyes firmly fixed on the flashing numbers above the door. "I'm not mad at you, Rok." AJ sighed, making Brian look over at him curiously. "I just...umm, can I be completely honest?" "Of course you can." Brian smiled encouragingly, but his stomach was twisting itself into a knot of apprehension. There were just so many bad places this could go. "I just...well, I just discovered how hot you are." AJ stared straight ahead and just blurted out the words. Brian was saved from immediately answering when the elevator door opened and a large group of businessmen got on, crowding the boys over to one side. Brian swallowed the uncharacteristic urge to curse as AJ's hard, lean body pressed up against his side. Several seconds that felt like an eternity later, the elevator stopped on the mezzanine where the conference rooms were and the businessmen got off, leaving Brian and AJ with plenty of space. Neither of them mentioned that fact as they rode the down to the ground floor, silent and still touching. They'd tramped up and down a dozen streets and browsed through more shops than Brian could count. Well, AJ browsed while Brian fidgeted and tried out different funny voices on shopkeepers. The best was in a jewelry shop when AJ slipped into an extravagantly bad French accent to match Brian's as seamlessly as if they'd planned it. They walked three blocks before Brian could quit laughing. After a couple of hours, they stopped at a little sidewalk café for coffee and a snack. Brian was surprised to find himself getting physically aroused just watching the sensual way AJ enjoyed the chocolate cake he'd ordered. When AJ noticed Brian watching him, he raised an eyebrow and held out a forkful. Brian leaned forward and opened his mouth, letting AJ slide the fork in and then closing his lips as AJ pulled the fork back. The sinfully rich cake practically melted on his tongue and he smiled as he licked a bit of frosting off his lips. AJ shook his head and muttered something that sounded like "Teasing bitch." Brian just shrugged and offered AJ his pastry, which AJ picked up and bit into with obvious enjoyment. He followed that up with much licking and sucking of creamy filling from his fingers until Brian was shifting in his seat, wanting to look away but unable to do so. "You're evil," Brian said in a carefully low voice, finally glancing around to see if anyone had been watching them. AJ just grinned and sipped his coffee. * Because of his often professed Christianity, Brian had gotten stereotyped by fans and press alike as having an angelic nature to go along with his angelic voice. AJ had already known this to be a gross exaggeration of one aspect of Brian's personality, but having that angelic mouth doing sinful things to AJ's body drove the point home rather forcefully. "ummm, Bri...are you sure that Nick's not coming back soon?" AJ gasped, as Brian started working AJ's pants off. He tried to help by lifting his hips off the bed and wiggling around, but really, Brian was doing a fine job all on his own anyway. In no time, AJ was naked and Brian was down to soft cotton boxers that teased at AJ's dick as Brian straddled his hips and leaned down to brush his mouth across AJ's. "We have a couple of hours. He won't be back until six." Brian punctuated the sentence with a kiss and then added, "Jane said so." "Oh well, then." AJ smirked and pulled at the waistband of Brian's shorts. "Take these off." "I'd rather keep them on while I blow you." Brian smiled sweetly and AJ wondered how long it would be before he could think of Brian as just another dork again. "It'll help me. With control." "Oh...kay." Surprise and arousal were battling for dominance, and AJ was left staring up at Brian a little too wide-eyed to be cool. "You've done this a lot?" "No, just...enough." Brian nodded and ducked his head to suck one of AJ's nipples between his teeth. He rolled it around and bit down a little sharply, then licked the sting away. He went through the whole routine with the other nipple--suck, roll, bite, lick--and then lifted his mouth off of AJ's chest just enough to say, "I know you have." AJ was little more than a mass of throbbing nerve endings and had no idea what Brian was talking about. He didn't care as long as Brian kept moving his hips like that and sucking and biting and...doing whatever Brian wanted. He worked his tongue loose from the roof of his mouth long enough to whimper, "Damn, you're hot. All of a sudden. How--" He trailed off with a groan as Brian scooted back until he must have been hanging off the bed and dipped his tongue into AJ's belly button. "I haven't changed, AJ." Brian skimmed his teeth along a prominent hipbone and reached up to dislodge AJ's hands from his hair. He pushed them down to the bed without ever removing his mouth from AJ's skin. AJ refused to beg, but if Brian didn't stop teasing him and touch his dick soon, something drastic was going to happen. Like begging, possibly. "But you...I never..." "You never noticed me is all. Now be quiet so I can concentrate." Brian slid his hands up the length of AJ's body, from his thighs up over his torso, skimming his throat until they cradled his face. His fingers brushed lightly over AJ's lips until AJ opened his mouth and sucked one inside. Brian chuckled and then teasingly licked AJ's cock a few times before engulfing the head in his warm, wet mouth. AJ clenched his fists around handfuls of the crisp sheets and tried not to arch his hips into the sensation, while Brian's finger slipped out of his mouth and trailed down his throat to his chest. When Brian pinched his nipple, AJ moaned very quietly even though he doubted Kevin would be able to hear him through the wall. Besides the walls being decently thick, the guy slept like the dead when he was sick. AJ tested that theory a moment later when Brian swallowed the entire length of his dick like an expert and he shouted something incoherent even to his own ears. Brian pinched AJ's nipples again and pulled off long enough to ask, "You okay?" His breath whispering over damp, highly sensitized skin sent a fresh shudder down AJ's spine. "Oh fuck yeah," AJ said with heart-felt enthusiasm. "Keep going." Brian raised his head and smiled expectantly and AJ frowned, trying to figure out what-- Oh. "Please, Bri?" Brian nodded and lowered his head back to AJ's cock and licked it from base to tip and back again before sliding it back in his mouth and starting to suck, not too hard but not too delicately either. It was just right, just about fucking perfect. AJ couldn't keep his hips from bucking, trying to go even deeper into the wet heat of Brian's throat, but Brian curled his hands around AJ's ass and held him still before he could do any damage. AJ might have apologized if he'd had the breath to do so, instead he untangled his hands from the sheets so he could pet Brian's head, neck, shoulders, whatever he could reach. The rough, random caresses made Brian purr around the flesh in his mouth, the vibration sending AJ flying over the edge until he was falling and soaring and coming all in one glorious burst of pleasure. His eyes closed and he drifted on the sensation for a few moments until he felt Brian moving around next to him. AJ opened his eyes to find Brian had stripped off his boxers and was now stretched out next to him, one hand resting on his stomach and the other lightly stroking his erection. His eyes were closed and his mouth was wet and, at that moment, AJ couldn't think of anything more beautiful. He sighed at the inevitability of it all. There was no way this would be a singular event, excused by boredom and the giddy relief of actually having an afternoon off. He played his part as the bad boy, but really he could be such a romantic pushover when the right buttons were pushed, and somehow Brian had managed to hit most of them without half trying. Sneaky little fucker, thought AJ as he rolled over on top of Brian. He pulled Brian's hands away from his body and pinned them above his head then proceeded to lick every inch of smooth skin from the tasty hollow at the base of his neck down to the muscle that curved around his side into his hip. He could never remember what it was called, but it was really fucking sexy on Brian so AJ licked it again and smirked when Brian moaned and writhed underneath him, trying to get some friction on his aching cock, no doubt. He wondered when Brian would notice that AJ had turned his hands loose and nothing was holding him down except for himself. When AJ licked his way back up to Brian's mouth and kissed him deeply, Brian curled his fingers over the top edge of the headboard and AJ realized that Brian knew exactly how free he was and chose to be restrained anyway. AJ ran his hands up the length of Brian's outstretched arms, nestling their fingers together and working his hips against Brian's until Brian made an insistent sound in the back of his throat. "Close, AJ, 'm so close," Brian almost whimpered, but it still sounded like a demand. "Yeah, I know, I'll take care of you," AJ said, as he snaked a hand between their bodies, cupping Brian's balls in his palm as he rubbed at that spot right behind them with the tips of his fingers. He licked and kissed Brian's throat, mouthing it gently knowing he couldn't bite and suck the way he wanted to. Couldn't leave marks so soon before a photo shoot, and even though he couldn't say offhand when the next one was, he didn't doubt there'd be one soon. There always was. Brian moaned and came as soon as AJ moved his hand up to wrap around Brian's cock. AJ caught the come in his hand and rubbed it on Brian's belly, then he scooted down and licked it off with long leisurely strokes of his tongue. Brian giggled and flexed his abdominals until AJ nipped him lightly and moved back up the bed for a kiss. Brian licked at the corners of AJ's mouth with a satisfied hum and then said, "Do it again sometime?" AJ collapsed onto the pillows on the other side of the bed and said, "Sure." After a moment, he lifted his head and glanced at the little travel clock next to the bed. "When did you say Nick would be back?" Brian peered at the clock and then raised his eyebrows at AJ. "We have time." "Good, 'cause we're gonna need it," said AJ as Brian rolled over on top of him. *** That night when they were getting into their outfits for the show, AJ glanced up to see Kevin staring at him intently. AJ raised an eyebrow inquiringly, but Kevin didn't say anything, just shifted his gaze to Brian for a few seconds before looking back at AJ. After a long moment, he went back to dressing and talking quietly to Nick. As they got into position for their entrance, AJ leaned into Brian and whispered into his ear, "I think Kevin knows...something." "So?" Brian whispered back, matter-of-factly. "I'm not ashamed. Are you?" "No." AJ could say that firmly and decisively, even if he had no idea what else he might be feeling. Brian shrugged. "Then everything's cool." "If he gets mad, I'm telling him it was all your fault." "What'd I do?" "You got hot all of a sudden." Brian laughed. "No. Maybe you'll learn to pay more attention." AJ smirked and looked over Brian's shoulder. "Oh, I see what you mean. Nick is growing up pretty well." "Very funny," Brian said in a tone that made it clear he meant just the opposite. "Stay away from him, he's a baby." "Only a year younger than me," AJ reminded him. "Yeah, but you were never a baby." Brian shot a lascivious look at AJ's hips, which were already moving just a little in anticipation of the music. "Never." "Yeah, well, I thought you were never hot and look where that got us." "I have no complaints," said Brian just as decisive and firm as AJ had been earlier. "Me either," AJ replied, patting him on the ass too quickly for anyone to see. "No complaints at all." End Back