Harrison yawned, ambling to the kitchen in the odd hours of the morning, sweatpants barely clinging to his hips. Rent was due in a couple of days, and his shift at the diner got cancled last minute. He felt almost as shitty as he looked as he set the kettle to boil and gathered the eggs from the fridge. He cracked them into a bowl, hardly noticing the man sat in his breakfast nook.
"Harrison?"
At the sound of his name he jumped, dropping the bowl on the floor. He swore under his breath as he caught sight of his father, nibbling on some potato chips. The man was tall and broad, with a casual attitude that often had Harrison feeling out of sorts. He wore his pajamas still, and if Harrison didn't know better he reckoned the bastard slept on his couch again.
"Daddy, I done told you that key was for emergencies." Harrison grumbled, grabbing some paper towels to clean the spilt egg.
"It is an emergency, kiddo. Your momma kicked me out." Charles said, feet crossed over the table as he reclined.
Harrison let out a sharp breath, his patience hanging by a thread. "You couldn't have called? Sent me a text or something?" He tossed the dish towel onto the counter and glared down at the sink. "You know I can't stand it when you just show up out of nowhere."
Charles shot him a hard look, swiping a bag of chips off the counter. "What, did you expect me to sleep on a curb?"
"That's not what I said, and you know it." Harrison's hands gripped the edge of the sink, his back still turned. His jaw tensed, frustration simmering beneath the surface.
"It sure as hell sounds like it," Charles muttered, rising from the chair, his voice sharp as he crossed the room. "I didn't have anywhere else to go."
"You could've at least warned me!" Harrison snarled, turning around abruptly. "You always assume I'll be here to fix everything 'tween you and momma."
Charles halted just short of him, his eyes blazing. "And you wouldn't? You'd open the door every time, so what do it even matter?"
Harrison clenched his fists at his sides. "That's not the point. The point is you ain't never stop to think, Daddy. You never consider how I--"
"And why do you think I always end up here, huh? Why is it always you I turn to?" Charles interrupted, his voice low but still charged. "What does that say to you?"
Harrison froze. He couldn't answer that--not without admitting things he wasn't ready to face. The silence between them thickened, the tension nearly suffocating. Charles took a step closer, their chests almost touching. Harrison's breath hitched, his heart racing. "What you even trying to say?" His voice wavered, uncertainty creeping in.
Charles didn't respond right away. Instead, he moved in closer, the space between them vanishing until Harrison could feel his breath on his skin. Charles' gaze softened, though the intensity never left his eyes. "You really don't see it, do you?"
Harrison's pulse pounded in his ears, the frustration dissolving into something more dangerous. "Daddy--"
Before he could say more, Charles grabbed his shirt and closed the space between them, their lips colliding in a fierce, desperate kiss. It was messy, urgent--everything Harrison had tried to bury, everything Charles had never said aloud. He knew it was wrong. He knew he should push his father away and demand to know what the hell was wrong with him.
But he couldn't.
No, instead he let his father lift him onto the counter and nestle between his legs. He could feel his father's hard cock press against his crotch. He whimpered as Charles pulled away, sliding his hands under his shirt to grip his waist.