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John Sheppard has this tie. You must read the ad copy, because it's awesome.

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He picked it up at a small curio/junk shop when he was stationed out in the middle of nowhere and going insane from boredom, because hey, it was cool and when he thought about it, it was pretty swank.

Unfortunately, most women didn't see it that way and anti-tieness was one of the major strikes against Nancy when they got engaged--Nancy even went so far as to tell him that under no circumstances would he wear it around her, with "under no circumstances will you wear it ever" strongly implied. But the drink dumped in his lap, the drink thrown in his face, or Nancy's inclusion of the tie in the prenup failed to shake his faith in the essential swankness of his tie.

So that brings us to now, when the tie becomes a crucial element in his seduction of Rodney McKay. You know that's what happens.

.eta: This possibly gives new meaning to "glowy sex" *muses*

In other news: New Hewlett icon! \o/

And, for those of you still around or just tuned in, model!John and reporter!Rodney improv with

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Rodney hiccups softly when John pulls back just a little, an unexpected exhalation of breath that's matched by John's soft shhh against his mouth. "Okay," Rodney whispers, and kisses him again; slower this time, and inexorable, because his eyelids feel heavy, his limbs leaden, all of him feeling as if he's being pulled by a strange new gravity into John Sheppard's bright orbit.

John slides his free hand around to curl at the nape of Rodney's neck, calluses snagging in the fine hair there, rough against soft skin, and Rodney shivers. Against him, he can feel John tremble in response, once and hard, before he's being pressed back against the manicured lawn and John's propping himself up over head him, a dark shape silhouetted by the sun and outlined by the cloudless sky.

Rodney lies there and squints up at him. "Can I ask you a question?" he says. "Off the record."

John shudders again, not precisely arousal but not precisely fear, and it's a bit late, Rodney thinks for either of them to back off now.

"Is this..." It's the question that will probably send John running back inside, or will make John punch him. It's the question no one's asked but everyone's speculated about, the one he can't write down. "Is this why you left?"

"Old history," John says, shadow of bitterness and regret in his voice, but his hand stays, stays, stays on Rodney's neck. "But yeah."

"Okay then," Rodney says, "For the record? I highly approve of your decision making abilities."

John huffs out a laugh, but doesn't look like he's about to get back to the kissing right away, which is the kind of shoddy prioritising that Rodney just doesn't hold with. "Approve of your decision making, but not your time management. C'mere." He wraps both arms around John's back, sliding his palms along warm skin that's slick with summer sun and arousal, and presses him closer.

"Okay then," John says softly, near-sarcastically, and comes, smooth smooth under Rodney's hands, a slow settling of muscle and weight between Rodney's legs and along his chest.

John kisses him, kisses like he isn't sure this is happening, something not done in so long--that kind of desperation, this complete giving-over that makes Rodney go dizzy and breathless, and his heart thump weirdly in his chest. Beautiful people aren't supposed to go without this--being able to smell the humid curve of neck, explore what lies hidden by clothing--they're supposed to have it all the time, and Rodney's had years to get used to this fact.

Only there's nothing smooth about John, not much practiced, no perfection beyond neglected stubble and a soft, needy sound to answer Rodney's palm against his chest. Rodney shifts up, shudders as John's breath drops a notch into a groan that comes up from somwhere deep.

Rodney's button-down, and the worn green shirt beneath it, come up and off, tangling briefly around his wrists before John flings them away to land somewhere in a distant patch of shrubbery. "Hotel," Rodney protests briefly, suddenly, shockingly aware that he's half-naked with the hottest human being he's ever seen; that they're rutting up against one another, John's denim-clad thigh pressed in between his own, right out where anyone can see them.

John's grin is wicked, and he presses it against Rodney's mouth, the line of his jaw, scrapes his teeth against Rodney's stubble. "The agency's paying these guys five grand a day, Rodney. The concierge could stumble across me doing coke from a Russian hooker's bare ass, and he'd just blink and ask me if I wanted a higher denomination bank note to snort with."

Rodney stares at him. "That's, uh..."

"Not what you're used to?" The question, and John's tongue, is slick and sly against Rodney's earlobe.

"That's one way of putting it." In some things, John might as well be from another galaxy. He knows about Russian hookers, he maybe knows one or two, about coke (Rodney still can't think of his one joint without shuddering, or the munchies), about how exactly, wonderfully perfect it is when he rolls his hips hard against Rodney's, trapping both their cocks in hot, overwhelming pressure, grind up sending shocks up Rodney's spine.

"Fuck," he whispers, tells himself to get over it, this isn't anything new, it's sex. Only it is, and it isn't, as he gets a hand between them, under John's jeans, the edge of denim harsh on his wrist. A moan catches, breaks in John's throat when Rodney works a palm against him, so so hot, hard, eyes shut and god.

"Is, is this a modelling thing?" Rodney says, grunting as John bites down hard on the soft skin of his shoulder, coaxes a mark to the surface with sharp teeth and sharper tongue.

"Hmm?" John says, pulling back to inspect his handiwork. He mustn't be quite happy with what he sees, because he drops his head and rubs his stubble against the reddening skin. Rodney's hips buck up helplessly, because this, this--

"The not wearing of underpants," Rodney continues when he's got enough air in his lungs to form words, though he's not so sure about higher brain function just now. "Don't get me wrong, I'm seriously not objecting here, but doesn't that--I mean, right now with the chafing?"

John sits back on his heels, his weight balanced right over Rodney's thighs, and the look he's got on his face now is close kin to the expression he wore in that ad campaign which got banned in several Middle Eastern countries. "You might have a point," John says, "I suppose there'll have to be a physical exam, make sure there's no real damage?" He flicks open the top button of his jeans, oh so slowly, revealing another stretch of flat stomach, the first crisp curls of pubic hair.

Rodney lets his head drop back against the grass once, hard, just so that he doesn't come from the promise held in that flick of the finger alone.

Distantly, Rodney supposes that in this case maybe the button-up fly is a good thing, but the thought, almost everything, seems distant, pushed far away by John straddling him, sliding a considering finger under the new opening of his jeans. Rodney's pulse pounds in the fresh mark on his shoulder, throbs hard and low in his belly, his cock.

"Seems okay," John says, "but just to be sure..." and pops another button, fine shudders running all up and down his body, soft and ardent fuck when he manages the third and fourth and pushes the jeans down sinuous hips.

One long stroke of John's palm up his cock and it has them both gasping, experimental curl of John's fingers around the head.

"Feels okay," John mutters, voice sex-thick, quicksand reaching out to pull Rodney down, "but maybe you should see."

Rodney strokes him slowly, helpless to do anything other than look down at the sight of John's cock pushing itself in and out of his fist, making his grip just loose enough that he knows that John's pleasure's got to be coming more from anticipation than anything else. He's getting off on the thoughts of what they could to together, on the anticipation of Rodney working him harder and faster; and when John's head drops back on his shoulders, when he moans, low and guttural, Rodney does too.

"You know," he says, trying to make his tone as casual as it can be for all that his throat is dry and his voice is hoarse, "If this was going to be a proper investigation--uh, in-depth, as it were--an oral examination is probably required."

And whatever he's doing to John has pushed him past anything more than a grunt and a hard thrust that takes him past the hand Rodney has on his hip to steady him. Fuck yes John manages, and Rodney's fingers slip on flesh and denim, falling into place on the curve of John's ass to pull, pull, pull like John doesn't get the idea.

Which he does, he so does, touching his cock, then Rodney's face with sticky fingertips, helps Rodney up, helps him focus, and when Rodney licks across the head it's salt-heat-over-fucking-whelming, the weight and taste and feel of him. The one drag of breath he manages smells like John, surrounds Rodney with him. John's hand cups the back of his head, his neck, absent and encouraging when he rubs circles at the base of Rodney's skull.

It's sensory overload, and dimly Rodney's aware of his body, his mind, parsing each thing individually so that it's bearable, comprehensible--the clean lines of John's hips under his palms, moving with the thrusts of him; the breeze carrying the scent of fresh sweat and grass and flowering bougainvillea; sun heating his shoulderblades and the nape of his neck as he bends to his task; the distant sound of traffic and the low, bitten-off moans that John is making; salt taste and raw-silk feel of him on Rodney's tongue; the sight of him seen this close, blurred and too-sharp, distinct, his own thing.

The one thing he can't parse is whatever's in John's eyes, way too much in them for Rodney to figure out for all they're blown black and glassy and staring straight down into him. That's John's own, maybe, for all he's given his body to Rodney's hands. But Rodney tries, tries as he grips John's ass, fingers snaking around, down, in, playing the tight heat of his entrance, the slick-sensitive skin behind his balls, press up with an index finger, enough of a promise that John shudders and snaps, surges forward with a broken cry.

"Oh, Jesus," John gasps, "Oh god," his eyes widening in something like surprise, and he pushes back against Rodney's finger. Something sparks off inside Rodney in sympathy at that--he knows the kind of raw burn that brings, how good it has to feel--and he presses in, deeper; crooks his finger; takes John's mouth in a messy kiss and drinks in all the small cries of John's pleasure as he comes.

It's almost enough, at the border of being too much, John a shaking heat around Rodney's finger and his come all over Rodney's chest. John places a hand over Rodney's racketing heart, to brace himself as his thighs give way and ease him back to earth, to Rodney, who whimpers.

"You got..." John lifts his hand and inspects it, sticky white strands tangled around his fingertips.

"You got," Rodney manages, and almost breaks when John licks his fingers, offers them to Rodney, a teasing slide in and out over Rodney's tongue.

Rodney swirls his tongue around John's fingertips once, lightly, and feels John move as if to pull away, to slither bonelessly down Rodney's body. But Rodney doesn't want him to move, wants this--the taste and feel of John in his mouth--any way he can get it, and he tugs John's hand back, sucks hard and rhythmically on John's fingers. The taste is salt-bitter harsh on his tongue and Rodney moans, wanting more of it; wants to go back down on John again and suck him mindlessly, the head of John's cock bumping gracelessly against the back of his throat while he looks up at John from beneath lashes that can't stay open.

"Rodney," John whispers, breathless, and the shocky pleasure in John's voice is enough to have Rodney's hips canting upwards as he comes and comes, wet and hot inside his jeans.

Some tight thing in his spine unwinds, curls again in the hand John has pressed against his cock, pushing, encouraging the last of his orgasm from him. He pulls his fingers from Rodney's mouth, circles them wetly around a nipple, bends his head to blow across it so pleasure stretches out thick and heavy like the air that carries high desert heat and flowers.

Rodney shudders back to himself and John's weight on top of him, John licking lazily up his chest, his neck, licking back into his mouth again so there's nothing else to breathe and taste but John, and nothing to think but John fuck, oh god, this is perfect. And when John pulls back satisfaction lids his eyes and pulls a slow smile from him, one Rodney answers hesitantly.

Seriously, so much love.

"So," he says. "Um." He's suddenly acutely aware of the fact that he's lying on his back on a lawn with a gorgeous, half-naked man lying on top of him and his own come growing sticky and cold inside his boxers. None of this feels as uncomfortable as it should--not with John's hand stroking warm along his side, curving to meet the still-stuttering rise and fall of his ribs; not with his thighs pressed tight against the poke of John's hips--but it's awkward in a way Rodney's never felt before. Even through his satiation, he's conscious of the desire to roll John over, press him down onto the sweet grass and to kiss him and kiss him just for the sake of the sweet heat of John's mouth against his own.

He blinks. John's still smiling down at him, but even as Rodney watches him, there's a hint of wariness creeping into that expression. He's hesitated too long. "Rodney?"

"Um, yes," Rodney manages. "Yes, that's my name."

Amusement doesn't wash away that wariness; instead, it only sharpens the dark, hesitant mistrust in John's eyes. The sudden skip in Rodney's heart has nothing to do with extremely satisfying, athletic sex--no, recognition's put it there, the realization that he's broken his own speed record for repelling someone. When John rocks back on his heels, body brushing warm and tense inside the brackets of Rodney's thighs, his knees, Rodney wants to reach out; when John looks away, mouth thin and forbidding, Rodney, for the first time ever, has no idea what to say.

"I'm not," he mutters, licks lips that are inexplicably dry.

"Rodney?" John makes an exasperated noise.

"Used to this," Rodney finishes lamely. This earns him a you've-got-to-be-shitting-me look, something that shouldn't look so hot, disbelieving twist of lips that are still kiss-swollen and damp. "To really hot sex. In the daylight. With someone--someone..." He waves a hand and hopes John gets the idea.

"...You're supposed to be interviewing?"

"Yeah," Rodney says, relieved, because that, that covers a whole multitude of sins--says that he's had sex with someone he was supposed to be purely professional with; says that he was supposed to be coaxing out John's secrets, when all he did was show the qualities of his own vulnerabilities, the form of his own need. "Well, no, I mean--with anyone. But with you, you're--" He reaches out to John with the fingers of one hand, almost but not quite touching all that bare, Indian summer skin. "I'm not used to feeling like the hostile interview would have been the safer option," he finishes eventually, lamely, hoping that he's saying what he means because he's swiftly finding that with John, all his words turn to cliches.

"Oooo-kay," John drawls. He stays where he is, hands resting on Rodney's knees, peering Rodney in a way that makes him wonder if this is how politicians and CEOs feel when faced with Rodney McKay and his battery of painful questions. And Rodney knows John's smart--anyone who's lasted this long in the spotlight without giving up any of his secrets has to be--but it's in what way he's smart that decides how he's going to read what Rodney can't even begin to understand himself.

It occurs to him that John might have used this--them, sex--to keep his own secrets back, on the theory that giving up something else would be better than telling Rodney anything.

"Why don't you speak?" Rodney blurts out. "Speak up, I mean--speak out. You could, if you wanted to. I'd listen."

John cocks his head to one side. "Thought that's what you were doing, McKay. Interview?"

"Yes, well, that," Rodney says expansively, rolling his eyes. "That is entirely different, because that's me asking for the sake of my job and within the limits of what the paper's legal department will allow me to ask. This is me asking for you."

John blinks down at him, and then quickly runs the tip of his tongue across his lower lip. There's a quality to the way he's holding himself which makes Rodney think he's nervous, skittish.

It's not like he isn't skittish himself, and when John pins him with eyes that wear somberness as well as they wear passion, something very like anxiety skips up and down his nerves. Rodney shifts, aware he's still on his back, spine riding soft curves of soil, and John's still between his legs, thumbs pressed hard to the inside of his knees.

"Whatever you don't want out there... whatever you want to just keep here, that's your choice." Rodney swallows. "You've never told anyone, have you?"

The quick shake of John's head is really only confirmation.

"I'll talk," John says at last, reluctant but firm. "To you."

"Okay," Rodney says, pushing himself up off the ground so that he's sitting, John balanced on his lap. "Okay," he says to the soft curve of John's throat, the sharp line of his collarbone, "okay, I can listen." He swats very gently at John's shoulder when he hears the huff of laughter that earns him, because he can so listen when he wants to--Jeannie's told him as much on at least one occasion--and he's finding that he's strangely invested in this, in this man whose outline he knew before they ever met.

And John tells him in awkwardly measured breath, the words themselves facts only, pain and anger buried so deep they might as well be on display.

"They dumped the other guy too, obviously," he says, pitching the words low, as though the flowers and long, slow day will overhear. "And the Academy kept it quiet because of my dad. He thought the best way for me to repay him would be to marry and at least pretend to be straight. It didn't work."

The question But all those women rises and dies on Rodney's lips. He's seen pictures of John with an endless procession of women, a list long as Rodney's arm... only, different women, never the same one twice.

"It's easy to keep people quiet if nothing happens," John says out of nowhere. "And that's really what I want."

"For people to shut the fuck up?" Rodney noses at the base of John's neck, a nexus of bone and firm muscle and soft skin.

"Yeah," John says, and his laughter vibrates against Rodney's mouth. "Yeah, pretty much."

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