Chain Lightning

Chapter twenty

The Secret Marriage

By

Sting

No earthly church has ever blessed our union
No state has ever granted us permission
No family bond has ever made us two
No company has ever earned commission

No debt was paid, no dowry to be gained
No treaties over border land or power
No semblance of the world outside remained
To stain the beauty of this nuptial hour

The secret marriage vow is never spoken
The secret marriage never can be broken
No flowers on the altar…
No bible oath to swear…
The secret marriage vow is never spoken
The secret marriage never can be broken


Never Can Be Broken

By

Ghost in the Mist


“Hush…hush…hush,” said the sea.

The moon and stars obeyed, but not two figures that lay on a blanket beneath the silent sky. Sean rolled over on his back, pulling Billy on top of him. His arms circled Billy’s waist and one hand skated up under Billy’s shirt, the caress
firm…the skin on Billy’s back rippled like water.

“What kind of vows would you make, Billy baby?” Sean asked.

“Hmm, let’s see. I would make…” Billy squinted his eyes, searching for the right words, the best thoughts. “Well, let’s see, now. Vows that never can be broken would be nice, but how do we do that?”

“Well, let’s see.” Sean said. Billy’s back felt warm beneath his palm, so warm it made Sean feel like he had a low-grade fever. “One that doesn’t need the blessing of any authority. Just our authority. That’s all we need, our authority.”

“Okay,” Billy smiled, his nose crinkling in that way that made Sean crave Billy’s flesh, Billy’s mouth. “By the authority vested in us, with this kiss, we do vow our love, this and every day.” Billy kissed Sean.

“And every night.” Sean added, and he kissed Billy back. “Now what?”

“Well what else, now? I know! We vow no law of any land or country binds us, because our love is bigger and stronger than any law.”

“Our love is all our hearts need.” Sean kissed Billy again, rolling them over on their sides. “And we vow that no matter what, the world stays out of our love. The world is too big and too fucked up to touch our love. Nothing of the world will ever stain our love.” Sean kissed Billy again and felt Billy’s small and clever hands at his chest, unbuttoning Sean’s shirt. The small and clever hands slid up Sean’s ribs to his chest and around Sean’s neck. Billy’s arms pulled
Sean tightly to Billy’s body. “Now it’s your turn.” Sean smiled. “Give us another vow.” Sean said.

“I have a question first.” Billy said.

“What?”

“Well, what about women? There won’t be another man for me. There better not be another man for you. But what about women, Sean? You know we both love them.
What if there’s a woman that catches our eye?”

“I have thought about that. What if she plays with both of us?”

Billy grinned. “That sounds wicked good, Sean. I’m sure there are girls out there that would love to have us both.”

“And I’m sure I’d like to have you and a girl. So she had better be willing to share.”

“The same goes for me. So long as she shares, we’re good with that, then.”

“Absolutely good. Now what was that next vow?”

“Well, that’s the part that can never be broken. It can’t be broken because we aren’t going to speak it. We make it in our hearts.”

“So it stays sacred. So it can never be broken.”

“Yeah,” Billy said. “Sacred. That’s a good word, sacred.”

“That sounds good, Billy baby. Because when I want to tell you how I feel, I just don’t have the words. I don’t think there are any words that do it justice.”

“So then, we just look into each other’s eyes and we make the vow in our hearts.”

Sean knew it was a dangerous business, looking into those eyes. That was how Billy had snared him to start with. He looked into Billy’s eyes, fell into them, let them hypnotize him, draw him in, into Billy’s soul. And Billy looked into
Sean’s eyes, those two cool green opals, like cool water on a fevered brow, eyes that worked their way into his heart, eyes that broke him and healed him all at once. Without realizing exactly how it had happened, Billy drew himself to Sean and sealed their silent vow with a kiss.

Billy felt Sean trembling and knew he was at his most vulnerable now. Again, he claimed Sean’s mouth. His small and clever hands had unbuttoned Sean’s shirt almost before Sean knew what was happening, and now they worked at the button and zipper of Sean’s jeans. One hand slid inside Sean’s jeans and Sean hissed, his eyes rolling up with pleasure. Sean frantically snatched Billy’s shirt off.
Sean’s hands were shaking so hard he had quite a time undoing Billy’s jeans, but once the job was done, he sat up and snatched off Billy’s jeans by the cuffs. He looked down at his lover, his eyes raking up and down the fevered body and settling once more on those eyes.

Sean lay next to Billy and opened his mouth to speak, but Billy lay a finger on Sean’s lips. “Sssh….” Billy said. Sean nodded. No words were to be spoken. The break in silence could break the spell.

And the sea said, “Hush…hush…hush,”

Billy kissed Sean again, nibbling on his lower lip. Billy loved Sean’s lower lip, which worked out well because Sean loved Billy’s top lip. With their mouths sealed in a passionate kiss the silence was easy to keep.

Sean’s hands moved across and around Billy’s body, so familiar and yet still feeling like a mild electrical shock. Sean withdrew his mouth and replaced it with two fingers as he slid down Billy’s body. Billy nibbled and sucked on Sean’s fingers as Sean kissed and licked a path to the fork of Billy’s legs. He flicked his tongue and gathered the clear dew he found there, then slid his lips slowly around Billy’s cock. Sean took the two fingers still wet from Billy’s mouth and slid them inside Billy’s body, taking care not to rush things. Billy drew one leg up, and Sean could see that Billy’s toes were curled with pleasure. He’d not noticed that before, and the sight seemed terribly erotic to him. He wondered if his own toes curled when Billy ate him.

Sean took his time, eating Billy gently and slowly, withdrawing when he got too close too soon. A year ago if someone had told him he would be doing this, Sean would have fed him his fist. Now he could think of nothing he would rather be doing. For a man who was new to all this, Sean had developed quite a taste for it, something he had never even thought of until he had fallen into those eyes. Now Billy was under his skin, in his pores, in his head and in his heart. It had to be right because it just felt so right.

Sean flicked his fingers inside Billy, pushing him to the edge. Billy’s fingers curled into Sean’s hair and Sean could hear Billy gasping deeply, almost as rhythmically as the “hush, hush, hush,” of the sea. Billy’s fingers tightened in Sean’s hair as Sean bore down with his mouth, using his tongue to finally push Billy over the edge. Eating Billy was like eating candy-floss, always sweet and never enough to satisfy.

He was rock-hard now, and Sean’s need ripped through him like a storm, their mutual silence seemed to enhance his desires, and he found himself suddenly mounting Billy with a hunger that bordered on ravenous.

Billy could taste himself in Sean’s mouth. The sensation spurred him on; the emotions tripled the intensity. He grasped Sean’s cock firmly and lifted and parted his legs to guide Sean inside. Sean looked down at Billy and could see the moon and stars reflected in Billy’s eyes. Billy’s face looked so beautiful, the expression of pleasure so complete that Sean found the sight incredibly moving. He had waited months before he had finally given in to his desires, he had waited because he hadn’t wanted to just use Billy, and now Sean wondered how he had managed to wait so long. Because Billy was beautiful, Billy was fucking gorgeous, especially when he made love.

Sean wanted to speak, but Billy had wanted silence, and he could not deny his lover this sacred moment. So Sean spoke with his body, and Billy answered with his own body. Arms wound around Sean’s neck, legs wrapped around Sean’s waist, lips sought out lips, tongues twined together like small slippery serpents. Sean found Billy’s leg with one hand and let his hand slide up until he could grasp one ankle, pulling it so that he could then wrap one hand around Billy’s foot. Sean found it was entirely possible to smile while kissing, because Billy’s small feet were once more curled with pleasure.

Billy wasn’t sure how Sean did it, but he did it, he did it every time. Sean could wake the sensual in Billy, make him forget where he was and almost who he was. Sean fucked him slowly and thoroughly, driving himself deep and moving in slow, small circles, pushing Billy slowly and carefully so as not to end it too soon. The moon crawled silently across the night sky as Sean continued to work Billy, and the sea said, “Hush…hush…hush...”

Still they spoke not a word, not even when they climaxed, and it was a powerful climax for them both. Sean lay atop Billy and kissed him a long, long time, so long that their breathing had evened out before the kiss broke. Billy tried to speak, but found he could only repeat a single word.

“Sacred,” he whispered into the silent and sacred night. “Sacred.” It was all he could say.

Sean was tongue-tied; Sean couldn’t say a word. There weren’t enough words or there weren’t the right words, in any language he knew of, so Sean said nothing. Instead, he answered Billy with a kiss. As their kiss deepened, the sound of thunder rolled in the distance. A few cold droplets fell from the sky.

Sean dressed Billy and himself hurriedly and quietly, then wrapped the blanket around them both as they hurried to the car. As Sean put the car in gear and sped off into the night with his lover, he finally spoke.

“Looks like a nice, long, rainy spell, baby.” He said. He took Billy’s hand in his own and kissed Billy’s knuckles. “Maybe we’ll get rained in again, if we’re lucky.”

“Oh, I hope so, Sean, I do hope so.” Billy pulled Sean’s hand to his mouth and kissed Sean’s opened palm, then he closed Sean’s fingers around the kiss.

“I wonder, baby….” Sean said.

“What, big Daddy?”

“I wonder if there’ll be any chain lightening. I love chain lightening.”

“Yeah,” Billy said, “Yeah, me too.”

And the sea said, “Hush…hush…hush,”


~>FINIS<~