"Strange Bedfellows"

crossover story collection

*All stories are hard yaoi/slash

"Watch Me"

(Hadrian/Black, Calyx voyeur)

Hadrian has an unexpected request.

Hadrian's lips cut him off. Black murmured in surprise at the aggressiveness, but he didn't fight it. He sighed, and Hadrian quickly slipped his tongue into Black's opened mouth. The sorcerer pumped his tongue back and forth between Black's lips. Surprised by the boldness, Black was even more surprised by how quickly he became hard in response to it.

Hadrian broke the kiss and panted, "Black." His breath puffed hot and quick against Black's chin. "I want you."

"So I gathered," Black said, breathing faster, also. He rubbed circles against the other man's naked back. Hadrian was completely nude. "You came to the right place."

"No, I want you." Hadrian watched Black's face with sudden intensity. "I want to take you."

"Santa's Wicked Helper"

(Calyx/Caled, Caled/Calyx/Hadrian)

Just because Black is off at a charity function without him doesn't mean Calyx can't have fun on Christmas Eve. Thanks to a few special gifts, he makes the Juxtan boys' first holiday in Juxtapose City a memorable one.

"Your turn, sweetheart." The other blonde smirked deviously. "You didn't think Doe Eyes was the only one being tortured tonight, did you? It's Christmas Eve. Everyone gets their share of the fun."

Caled smiled and turned back to Hadrian, who was rapidly losing any grasp on coherency while the toy buzzed inside him. "Be right back," the mercenary whispered. Hadrian's response was a lustful groan.

Grinning, Caled sat up, the remote in one hand. "I don't know if anything could match what you gave to Hades."

Calyx rubbed his hands together. "Oh, don't you worry, hot stuff. Your gift is just as thoughtful, shall we say. I spent a good half hour thinking about it in the shower last night. I used up all the hot water, it's that good." He tossed Caled the small box which was the size of the mercenary's fist. "Remember, whatever's in there you've got to let me use on you."

"Employee of the Month"

(Caled/Hadrian, Calyx/Black, Calyx/Hadrian/Black)

Hadrian worries that the other men think he's incapable of fending for himself so he takes a job at a fast food restaurant. But Caled is less than pleased with Hadrian asserting his independence.

*features artwork by Tanko

Calyx squeezed the black-haired sorcerer. "Okay, okay. You want a job. Where do you want to work? What can you do?"

Hadrian considered the question -- and realized, to his chagrin, that his answer was less than promising.

"He lacks any proper skills," Caled answered for him, crossing his arms and looking pleased with himself.

Hadrian glared at his lover. "Nonetheless, I'm intelligent." He looked hopefully at Calyx. "Where do those without skill find employment in this world?"

Calyx's eyes shifted. Hadrian followed the empath's gaze to a storefront from which smoke drifted from the roof. The smell of cooking meat came strongly from that direction. "I'm afraid, sweetheart, that you're going to be flipping burgers." Calyx shook his head and snickered. "Ah, Darkness is going to love this."

"I'm No Angel"

(Calyx/Finn)

Calyx discovers he doesn't need Bliss to have a wild night at his favorite club. All he needs is a pretty, red-haired Angel.

*features artwork by Nelena

The dancer looked like a kid, but the way he smiled at Calyx told the empath that this was no child. The young man's slender body was mostly bare, which was just the way Calyx liked his dance partners. What the little redhead did wear was skimpy: a little black crop top with sheer arm warmers and black hot pants. Calyx licked his lips as his eyes traveled lower. The redhead was wearing stockings.

"My kind of boy," Calyx murmured.

The redhead was cute. He was drawing a crowd. But his eyes were for Calyx alone. With a little smirk on his face, the redhead danced around Calyx, slender hands running up and down his own body, pausing to tweak a nipple, sliding teasingly across a tightly packaged groin. The young man placed his back to the empath and looked over his shoulder at Calyx. Grinning, the redhead spanked himself on the ass.

Calyx was hooked. *Two can play this game.*

"Ultimate Surrender"

(Everyone/Black)

Black has been having the same intense dream every night. One day, he asks his friends to help make his dream a reality.

*features artwork by Kiriko-moth

Black became obsessed with watching men. He watched the way they walked, the way they moved. His eyes were drawn frequently to small groups of men. He tried to imagine them naked. He imagined himself standing in the midst of them, naked and bound.

He managed to hide his new preoccupation from Starr and his friends, but Black knew it was a matter of time before they noticed. He tried to control himself for their sakes. He didn't want them to think he had become a sex fiend. He didn't want them to be disgusted by him.

But he couldn't deny that when an anonymous male brushed against him in a store or when he found himself pressed to the back of a crowded elevator filled with men, his cock got hard and his fantasies swam through his mind. He wanted to be surrounded. He wanted to be overwhelmed . . .

Obsession wasn't healthy. Black knew he had to do something about it.

"Stalking Doe Eyes"

(Calyx/Hadrian)

When Hadrian gives Calyx the cold shoulder, the empath decides some sexual punishment is in order. Hadrian isn't sure he likes being the empath's prey, but finds he has no say in the matter.

*features artwork by Livvy

"Please don't tell him." He caught Calyx's arm as the empath started to leave. "Please."

Calyx looked from the hand on his arm to Hadrian's face. A sly smirk took over the blonde's mouth. "That depends, sweetheart." He reached up and brushed a tendril of hair from Hadrian's throat. "How much is it worth to you?"

Hadrian swallowed his irritation. Leave it to be Calyx to be greedy and extract this sort of payment. "What will you accept in payment?" he forced himself to ask.

Calyx leaned forward and whispered against his ear, "Bad boys deserve to be spanked, Hadrian. Tell me you want me to spank you."

"Nothing But a Baby"

(Caled/Hadrian, Black/Calyx)

Calyx is a tough guy, right? Then why is he jealous when Hadrian catches a cold?

*features artwork by Mim

Calyx concentrated on the love and tenderness he felt between the two men, letting it fill his mind so he wouldn't have to feel anything else. He was concentrating so hard that he didn't notice at first that Black had joined him in the doorway. When the empath smiled sheepishly and turned, he found Black staring intently at him.

"Jealous?" Black teased, but his eyes weren't teasing. His mouth wasn't smiling. He was studying Calyx a little too closely for the empath's comfort.

Calyx laughed as if the question were absurd. "I'm Calyx Starr, sweetheart. I'm not interested in romantic bubble baths."

"Hmm," was all Black said, unconvinced.

Calyx sent his lover a dirty look. Inside, though, his stomach was fluttering.

"The 10-Minute Dare"

(John/Caled, Caled/John)

Prompted by a dare from Finn, John sets out to show a cocky Caled a thing or two about what an 'old man' can do. There's just one problem -- who's supposed to be the bottom?

He couldn't believe he was doing this. But he couldn't back out now. Caled would never let him hear the end of it. He walked to the bedroom like he was heading to his own execution. Caled was standing beside the bed.

"So what are you interested in, old man?" Caled stripped off his shirt and tossed it onto the floor. He leaned casually against the side of the bed. "You want to suck me, or do you want to flap your heels in the air?"

If John were still drinking his beer he would have choked on it. As it was, he slammed the door behind him with excessive force. "Look, you cocky son of a bitch, I may be with Finn but I'm not gay, you got it?"

Caled laughed. "And what is that supposed to mean?"

"It means I don't do things for men," John mumbled, beginning to regret even more his decision to cave in to this stupid dare.