"You ever have, like... fantasies?"
"Fantasies? As in daydreams?"
"No, like..." he blushes, "...the sexual kind."
"Oh. Yes, I guess." Kenji looks away from the man in his lap, a smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.
"Yeah?"
"Yep."
"... You're a horrible person."
"Hey, you only ever asked
if
I have them, not what they are."
Jake glares at the amused face above him. "
Fiiiiiine
then, what are they?"
"Ha! Like I'd tell you!"
"Why you little-" A playful wrestle puts Jake on top of the Japanese man's legs, smirking as he pins him to the blanket. "I
said
. What. Are they."
"Well, you know, nothing specific," Kenji says, nonchalant in his incapacitation, "We've pretty much hit all the solid ones already."
"Oh." The brunette sits back, shadows from the tree dancing across his face.
"Besides, you don't really want to talk about
my
fantasies, do you?" Kenji runs his newly freed hand very intentionally up Jake's hip.
Blushing again, Jake climbs off and returns to his former position, laying across his boyfriend's lap. "Whatever. Hey-!"
Said boyfriend gathers Jake up and purrs against his ear. "Don't you want me to ask what fantasies you have,
darling
?" The right amount of emphasis on the term of endearment has the boy squirming in his arms.
"Maybe."
Wind tousles Jake's hair as he lays cradled in Kenji's wonderfully comfortable arms.
"There's kind of this one I had before we got together that's been getting stuck in my head lately."
"Oh yeah? Was it about... me?"
He chuckles as Jake hides an embarrassed smile in his bicep, letting out a muffled "Maybe."
"So, what's in this fantasy of yours?" Kenji strokes the boy's chocolate brown hair patiently.
"I know we've done some kinky stuff, but this one might be a bit... out there."
"Violence-wise?"
"Yeah."
"If you really want to do it, we can always talk out specifics and set boundaries."
Jake doesn't know how he got so lucky.
"Yeah, okay."
"Okay? Okay." His warm chuckle sends tingles through Jake's body. "Spill. What is your deepest, darkest secret?"
The boy pushes out a calming breath. "So, uh... you'd invite me over for drinks or to look at work stuff or something, and, you know, the conversation would go on and on."
"You do talk a lot." Kenji laughs again at Jake's fake glare.
"
Anyways
, you'd start making advances, and I'd try to make my excuses, and you'd, uh, kind of... force me? To... you know... and make me, um, beg for it..." The boy bites his lip.
Kenji takes a second to process.
"You want me to... rape you?"
Jake groans and covers his face with his hands. "Well, it's not like- I mean, it sounds bad when you say it like that."
"Oh, hey, no," Kenji laughs.
"I told you it'd be weird," the boy says, peeking through his fingers.
"It's not like we don't get into some weird stuff. This isn't that far off the path if you look at it like just another role-play."
Jake picks absently at the sleeve next to his ear.
"Do you want to do it?" Kenji's elbow is warm from the heat on Jake's face.
"Yeah," he whispers into the man's chest.
"Okay."
"Okay?" Jake glances up, chewing on his lip.
Confidently, Kenji nods. "Okay. Are you doing anything this Friday?"
"That's, uh... no, not really," the boy stammers.
"Great! Now, let's talk about those boundaries."
* * *
The Japanese man stops by Jake's cubicle Thursday morning.
"Hey, nice job on that overseas sale, by the way."
"Oh, thanks. I didn't know you kept up with the business in our little corner of the building."
The man chuckles. "Well, perhaps I am just looking for an excuse to get rid of this horrible bottle of scotch I found on sale at that bodega down the block."
"Leo's?" Jake laughs. "I wouldn't trust the aspirin there, let alone the scotch."
"I know my lesson now," his coworker says with a sigh, "Anyways, do you want to help me put it somewhere more exciting than my kitchen sink? How's tomorrow night?"
Jake ducks his head. "Yeah, sure. Tomorrow night." After a pause, he smirks. "Is that a date?"
"I don't date coworkers. See you then." Without any further ado, the man briskly paces away.
Jake can't concentrate on anything for the next thirty-six hours.
* * *
He runs a hand through his hair, checking one last time like he's not a complete mess.
A few seconds after he knocks, Jake is greeted by the welcome sight of a rumpled Kenji, tie loose around his neck.
"Hello." the nervous man is ushered through the door. "Can I get you anything? Water? Chips?"
"Water would be great."
The two make small talk as Kenji bustles around, gathering several different wine glasses and a bowl of pretzels and depositing them on a coffee table with the promised bottle of cheap scotch.
Jake grimaces at the first sip. "That's horrendous," he laughs.
"The purpose of alcohol is not to taste good, it is to get you drunk."
"Oh yeah?" Jake peers at the normally professional man over his glass.
"Yes." Kenji tosses his back in a gulp and immediately refills it. Jake amusedly shakes his head and follows suit, allowing his glass to be replenished.
As they work their way through the bottle, Jake lets the alcohol relax his tense muscles and manners.
"I've always noticed that about you. You always get so intent on your work, I just can't bear to interrupt you sometimes."
"You come to interrupt me that often? Isn't your office like two floors down?"
Kenji shrugs and reaches for the bottle again.
Jake taps at his glass. "So, uh, you do anything interesting lately?" Any other time, the Japanese man would have winked and answered '