Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:41:24 +0000 From: Bill Drake Subject: Naval Tradition Revised 45 Naval Tradition REVISED EDITION Bill Drake (billdrake@hotmail.com) with Corporal Cody NOTICE: THE FOLLOWING IS FOR ADULTS ONLY. It is gay erotic fiction explicitly depicting sexual acts between men, including male relatives. If that offends or disturbs you, read no further. Thanks to all the great work that the Nifty Archive does and the writers it publishes. Please consider supporting them with a donation. This is the revised and retconned version of Naval Tradition, told in chronological order. While the overall story is the same, there is lot of new content here (and some of the old parts didn't make the cut in this version). This revision has been a collaboration with fellow writer Corporal Cody. My thanks to him for his considerable contributions to and inspiration for this version. Feel free to drop a line if you enjoy it: billdrake@hotmail.com. I hope to have a (free) ebook version at the end of this, so you can let me know if you want to be on the mailing list for that. PART SIX: BASEBALL DREAMS Chapter Forty-Five Norfolk, Fall 2006 The whole drive back to Norfolk, my mind weighed heavily on me and Sean. Our argument wasn't settled, not really. I was crestfallen at the idea I wouldn't be able to top him. Ever. It was a change from my dating Greg, who was strictly a bottom with me. With him, I'd missed getting fucked. Now, with Sean, I was gonna miss fucking a guy. The more I'd think about it, the more pissed off I got, like Sean just wanted me around as a fuck toy, more than as a boyfriend. Then I'd feel sad, recognizing that Sean was just being Sean. It was his take-charge personality that drew me to him. And he was a great top. A ridiculously amazing top. Sean Carter showed me a part of myself I didn't know was there, each time we fucked. I'd gone for an older, smoking hot, Army man and probably had no business complaining that he wouldn't bend over for me. But that didn't make it any easier for me. I loved fucking guys and didn't want to give that up. I had felt such a connection with Sean, and now I worried maybe we wouldn't be compatible. I turned up the radio for most of the drive as I stewed over my thoughts. I remembered my arguments with my brother Matt over music on road trips, only now my CD player was busted, and I was searching as I went out of range of one rural station to another. It seemed like every country song was about heartbreak, which both amused and frustrated me. It helped when I got a text from Sean a couple hours later, even before I checked my phone when I got home to Norfolk. "Had a great morning Big Guy ;) Hope you made it home ok." Now parked in the driveway of Dad's house, I typed back a quick reply. For all my concerns, I was still very smitten with the man. With my bags on my shoulders, I fiddled with my keys on the front porch before opening the door to find the place dark and a bit stuffy knowing that the A/C had been off for months. I dropped my bags in the foyer and I flipped on the lights. The house I'd grown up in was now quiet. Like, creepy quiet. It'd been months since Dad left on his latest deployment, so I was probably the only person to check on the place since Dad locked up. I opened a few windows and lugged my bags up to my old room. The things there were as I left them: a couple of bins of my stuff in the corner, my full-size bed that Dad had never upgraded, the baseball posters on my wall and my trophies still on the dresser. As I unpacked, I hung Dad's dogtags in the spot I used to keep them, just above my desk. I'd had some time to process things, but the last year had been heavy dealing with Dad's involvement with Jack Grant, his Navy officer friend and a man I'd had my own sexual history with. There were the lingering complications of our incestuous affair, as I'd been the one to set it into motion by making the moves on Dad and first encouraging him to cross those lines with me. I knew, deep down, that Dad enjoyed the incest we'd committed, and I got the feeling we both savored that memory and the lingering attraction. At the same time, we were moving on, and I wanted to be understanding of Dad's desire to date again. I thought I'd be glad to have some space, without Dad there. But I missed my father. It had been over three months since I'd seen him after all. I walked down the hall and paused outside his open bedroom door. It felt quietly invasive, and I knew I was focusing too much on the idea of Dad and Jack sharing that bed. I spent that first evening in, airing out the place and ordering some Chinese takeout as there was nothing in the fridge. Shopping would be first on my list of things to do tomorrow. I enjoyed a couple of Dad's beers and watched some baseball on TV. Maybe one of these days I'd be playing into September. The next day, I did laundry and grocery shopping. Without Dad or Matt with me, I couldn't go to the commissary on base, so that meant the regular store, which was another reminder that I was no longer a dependent. Dad had actually left me some money to cover some basic expenses. I wasn't too proud to use it, but I hoped I wouldn't have to one day soon. And at least my paycheck could cover my share of things. On Wednesday I started work at the locally-owned sporting goods store. Coach Weir had lined up the job for me, and I was really grateful. It was retail and low pay, but minor league players had to scramble to get by in the off-season. I had the advantage of living rent-free at home, with Dad helping me out financially if I needed it. My hours would be only part-time until November, when the holiday season would start to ramp up. Unfortunately, even my part-time schedule had me working every weekend shift from there on out. And that was when Sean had his days off. I had envisioned going down to see him regularly, but now I didn't know if that was possible. Sean and I texted constantly, and we talked by phone at least a few times a week. The first time we talked, he called right before bed. I was down to just my boxer briefs and lay in bed, reclined under just a sheet, my phone to my ear as I looked up at the ceiling. It was great to hear his voice as I filled him in on my job. "Their bread and butter is high school and amateur team uniforms," I explained, "but I'm having to learn about all the equipment, too. I'm learning a lot of stuff I never thought I'd have to know," I laughed. "I'm sure you're doing great, Hot Stuff," Sean said, his gravelly voice a sign that he had had another long Army day. "They keeping you busy?" "It's slow so far," I said, having only seen the store so far on a weekday. "It'll pick up toward the holidays." I added, "I don't know if I'm going to have any weekends free, Sean. I'm sorry. I really want to come down and visit again." Sean seemed disappointed, and I felt bad. But also, selfishly, I was glad he wanted me down there with him as well. "We'll make something work, Jim," he said. "I could take a day or two off and come up to see you. I got quite a bit of Leave saved up. Or, you could come down if you get a day off." "That'd be awesome," I said effusively as I rolled onto my side. Then I thought about whether I could host him. I hadn't told Dad about having a boyfriend, but it wasn't like I was some high school kid and it shouldn't be an issue to have a guest over. Thankfully, Sean saved me. "I'll get a hotel. And we can fuck like bunnies, like in Tennessee." "Oh man, that sounds incredible," I said. I grinned at the memory of the marathon of sex we'd had in that Greenville hotel. Reaching down past my torso, I gripped my underwear-clad cock. I was getting hard thinking about it. "Yeah?" The cockiness in Sean's voice was coming out. But he had a seriousness, too. "I wasn't sure where we left things after our fight." With all the free time at home, I had thought a lot about this. I lay my head further back in my pillow. "I don't have a good answer, Sean. I want to fuck you, but I've loved everything we've done. I'm not ready to give that up just because I'm not getting everything I want. Not yet." "But you will..." he prompted me. "I don't know. I have to decide how important it is to me," I replied. I knew it wasn't the answer that Sean wanted, but while I could cave to him in this battle, I didn't want to back down entirely. I loved to fuck, and Sean should know that. "Damn," he said softly. "Look, Sean," I explained. "I'm happy to bottom for you, be your fuck toy or whatever. It's great. But I'm not going to be happy in a one-sided arrangement." Sean took in my words and replied, "I've met plenty of guys happy with that one-sided arrangement." "I'm not plenty of guys," I replied directly. "Fair enough." He paused. This seemed like another stalemate. Or, rather, a continuation of the one we'd had just days before. I'd confront that later, but at least we were talking about it. Sean might have been thinking the same thing. I could almost see his mouth form into a leer. "So, stud, you have some privacy right now?" "Yeah, have the house to myself these days," I answered. "You know, I often think back to that time when I was on R&R in Germany and you helped me stroke out a nice load." "That was hot," I said. "It was only our second time having sex, and it was by phone," I smiled. "Just hearing your sexy voice was an incredible gift during that deployment, Big Guy. Maybe... I was thinking I could help you out now. You know, help you get through those lonely nights up in Norfolk." "Yeah?" I smirked, reaching down and pulling my cock out of my underwear. My dick was rock hard now. Our difference of perspective on topping aside, I wished Sean was with me right then to take care of my needs. To fuck me. I tucked the waistband of my boxer briefs under my balls and took hold of my shaft, feeling its thickness in my left hand as I held my phone up with my right. "Tell me, how hard are you now, Jimmy?" Sean asked, his voice now getting deeper and more gravely with lust. "Rock hard," I said. I began a slow, choking tug down my length. "Scale of 0 to 10?" he asked. "11," I joked. "But serious, I'd say a 9 and a half." "Like you were that first night in Philly." His words brought back memories of that magical Army-Navy weekend, meeting Sean and that immediate chemistry we felt. "Oh God, Sean," I sighed, feeling an instant jolt of pleasure in my dick as I stroked it down to my balls. "Yeah, you remember that, Hot Stuff.... I knew I wanted to fuck you the second I saw you... blond college jock, standing in that bar alone, waiting for the right man...." Sean's deep breaths hinted that he might be stroking his cock as well. "I'm not a college jock any more," I grunted. "That you aren't, Jim.... you're a real fucking pro baseball player now... but just as horny as a college kid." His voice had a playful edge but was also deep and sexual. It was getting to me in a major way. "So horny," I gasped, feeling a spurt of precum jut out from the tip of my prick and drool down onto my abs, the clear slickness adding to my stroke sensations and coating my fingers. "Can't get enough sex, can you?" he taunted. I wasn't sure if he was stroking off, too, or if this was just for my benefit. "No, sir," I replied quickly. "I need it two, three times a day." "Like me," I heard his deep masculine voice growl in my ear. I had the sense he was pulling on his meat, too, slowly. "I got a crazy sex drive, Big Guy." "I'm getting that idea, sir. It's hot as fuck." I stroked and thought back to our few times together. "You a two to three times a day man?" Sean chuckled. "It'd be more if I was there," he boasted. "Oh, fuck yes," I hissed, getting into the vision of Sean here with me, naked in my bed, fucking me for the fifth time that day. Or me fucking him for the fifth time. It was a crazy and maybe not impossible idea. And one that pushed me over the edge. "Oh fuck, Sean, I'm cumming!" "Get it, man," he encouraged, his own voice drawing up. So my man was masturbating too, at the other end. Imagining me, wishing he was firing deep in my hole. My nuts drew up and I felt the familiar pulse in my piss tube. "Oh FUCK!" I cried out into the phone as my seed spurted high and wide. This was a heavy cum, and as heavy ropes of sperm landed on my chest, I realized I'd needed this. Sean was grunting, too, in deep orgasmic groans. A quick succession of sounds signaled his own heavy release. "Damn," he sighed. "Yeah," I said, feeling the intense satisfaction wash over me as my body relaxed into my bed. "Now I know how you felt during that R&R phone call." "Something like that," Sean laughed gently. "I don't like the idea of you getting so backed up, Jimmy," he added playfully. "Let's make this a standing thing." The idea cheered me up. It was tough being in a different state from Sean when we were at that early stage of dating, when I wanted to be with him more and get to know him. When I felt that pull to be with him physically and sexually. "Sounds great," I replied. "What, like a daily call?" We already texted and talked pretty regularly. Sean chuckled. I loved the baritone quality of his laugh and his Southern accent. "Well, I was thinking every other day, you horndog," he growled playfully. "But let's try a nightly thing." And that fall and winter we explored phone sex. Not only was it a welcome way to stay connected to Sean while we were apart, but it was over those times that I really embraced and developed my verbal side, feeding off Sean's own nastiness when it came to sex talk and getting better at taking the initiative myself. It was like we were willing to get a little wilder in our words to make up for the lack of physical contact. And ultimately that would be something we'd bring back into the bedroom. ***** I was feeling lonely. Being back in Norfolk was OK, but it also added to the sense of time being on hold. At the start of summer, I'd gone practically right from college to the minors, but now, other than a weekend with Sean afterwards, I was going through withdrawal from having a social life. The great thing about being an athlete in a team sport is that you had a bunch of guys to hang out with and bond with. Now that the season was over, I realized I missed that. Maybe I was less of a homebody than I thought. I reached out to one of my high school teammates, and we hung out one night. But he was now married, and we were clearly at different parts of our lives. I mostly just went to my job and spent my spare time working out at a local, off-base gym. I could fend for myself, and though I couldn't cook much, I'd make something simple when I got home each night. Major league baseball season was now over, so I didn't even have that to watch on TV in the evenings. And the days were getting shorter. I did get back in touch with a lot of my friends via email: Rick had started up at Duke law school, and my sorta-ex-girlfriend from UVA, Sarah, was now in Grad School in Michigan. My former roommate and teammate, Kyle Avery, was having an OK senior year but griped some about his new roommate. His long-term girlfriend, Julie, had moved in with him, but they thought they'd save some money on rent by getting a roommate. Being back home also had me thinking about my high school buddy, Pete, the first guy I'd had sex with and the first gay guy I knew. Somehow, we'd drifted apart, maybe it was the distance and being across the country. At this point I didn't even have a current email or number for him. By this point, he may have moved on from California for all I knew, but I hoped he was doing well. On the other hand, Holt hated email and really wasn't a phone guy, but he was texting more and more. I told him I'd come visit, but wasn't sure when I'd have the chance. Maybe January. One weekday evening, we'd been texting all throughout my workout, and after getting home from the gym, I did finally tell him that I was dating somebody. An hour later my phone rang from my pocket. Maybe Holt was more of a phone guy than I expected. "McGrath!" he greeted, in Charlie's typical booming voice. "I wanna know the details. Who's this guy?" I laughed at his brash nature. I missed the dude. "His name's Sean," I said, bashful at finally talking about Sean openly. I took a seat on the living room sofa and reclined back. "He's an Army guy, a senior NCO... stationed in Ft. Bragg, so we're long-distance right now." "Nice," Charlie said. "How long have you been seeing him?" "I met him last year..." I started to explain. "But we're just now at the dating phase." "Last year?" Charlie asked. "You sly dog. You've been holding out on me." "I wasn't sure anything was gonna develop," I explained. "But we kept in touch during his deployment and have seen each other a few times since." I felt I was babbling on. "I dunno, maybe I was superstitious that telling anyone would jinx things." "Why would it?" Holt asked. "Maybe after my experience with Greg..." I explained. "I guess I'm afraid I'll tell people and then a week later it's not working out, you know." "Eh, if that happens, then fuck 'em if anyone gives a shit," Holt said. "But can I give you some advice, Jim?" "I could use it," I laughed. I did respect how Charlie and Scott seemed to be doing well in their relationship. They were the only gay couple I really knew and it was nice to see it work for them. "Look... I know you're the romantic type, and that's cool," my friend said. "But maybe you can build things up in your head sometimes, I don't know... I guess what I'm saying is focus on this Sean guy and what you have with him rather than, you know, get in your head." I took it all in. I always thought of Charlie as the happy-go-lucky type, but he could be a surprisingly good observer of people. "Is that your approach with Scott?" I asked. "Mostly. Though that fucker makes me talk about my emotions," he joked with a chuckle. "Anyway - when do I get to meet this guy?" "I don't see him enough myself," I said, explaining the long-distance issues. "That sucks," Holt said. "Well, I hope to meet him at some point." "Yeah," I said. Though I realized I hadn't met Sean's friends either at this point. We chatted some more, but Charlie had to run as he was still at work. It wasn't exactly the same as being back in our apartment together, but it was good to have a friend I could talk to. ***** It helped my mood a lot when Sean came up in mid October. He drove up on a Saturday afternoon and met me after my shift was over. Our previous two times together we'd been impatient to have sex and I wondered if this time would be the same. But he texted me to see if I wanted to meet him at a bar in downtown Norfolk. I had on my work uniform of khakis with a red knit polo with the store logo. I didn't want to waste time going home to change, so in my car, I peeled off the polo and put on a T-shirt instead - one of my older, faded Orioles T-shirts that showed off my body pretty well. As an added surprise for Sean, I'd also worn a jock that day under my khakis. I put on my worn UVA ball cap over my curling hair and started the car to make my way downtown. In the back of my head I was a little nervous about the possibility of running into someone I knew, but I figured I could say Sean was one of Dad's military friends visiting from out of town. I found the brew house that Sean had suggested, one I'd passed but never entered. It was a bit early for the bar to be packed, but a number of people were starting to fill the place. Taking a quick scan, it wasn't hard to spot the 6'5" mountain of military muscle in a sweatshirt, sitting at a lonely hightop facing away from the entrance. Sean was waiting with a pint already, watching some college football on the big-screen TV. A month or so of not seeing Sean made me even more excited to see him in the flesh, and he looked as incredible as ever as I caught his reflection in the large wall mirror. The lines on his cheeks and the crows feet at his eyes only made him that much more handsome. And by the day-length scruff on his jawline, I knew it was the weekend. He must have noticed me in a mirror reflection as well, because he turned in his seat as I approached. His ruggedly handsome face lit up with a crooked smile, and his normally hard brown eyes brightened at seeing me. "You're a sight for sore eyes, Hot Stuff," he growled as he stood and pulled me into a warm hug. Our embrace was quick, but I still took the chance to inhale the woodsy cologne along with a scent that was just Sean. "You, too, Sean," I beamed as I reluctantly broke our embrace and sat on the hightop stool next to his. "Man, it's great to see you." I held my stare, looking into his face for just a second as we smiled at each other, our eyes silently communicating that intense, mutual attraction. Sean looked up and down my body quickly and back up to my face. "Hope you're up for a fun night," he said in a low growl as he brought his pint to his lips. "Fuck yes," I smiled. "I'm surprised you didn't want to get right to the fun," I admitted. He grinned. "I'm a romantic fucker, don't ya know, Jim?" he said with a wink before signaling to the bartender to come over for my order. In short order, I had a frosty pint in front of me. Sean and I sat angled in to face one another, close enough to talk over the buzz of the bar crowd. My new boyfriend was in a fun mood, and it was rubbing off on me big time. I laughed, and yeah, I felt my cock getting a little hard sitting there next to him. Nervously, I looked up at the screen. "You rooting for anyone?" I asked. Sean was wearing a well-worn, Army hooded sweatshirt, and he lifted it up with one hand to reveal a snug white T-shirt underneath with the Georgia G logo on the chest. "Go Dawgs," he said in his booming voice. I laughed, though I kind of wished I had more of a flash of his meaty body beneath that sweatshirt. "Game finished about ten minutes before you showed up," he explained. "I got up here early to watch it." "You been here all afternoon?" I asked with surprise. "Guilty," he replied with a smirk. "I warned you, Jimmy.... us infantrymen can drink ya under the table." "Well, I'm behind," I said and took a good long sip of my beer before signaling for a second pint. I had been a homebody pretty much since my return, only meeting up with a few of my high school teammates a couple of times. It felt good to let loose a little, and Sean was definitely the man to let loose with. "So," Sean started once my next beer arrived, his brown eyes darting at me playfully and his lips curled at one corner. "Tell me everything going on in the world of Jim McGrath." "My world?" I laughed. Nothing much seemed interesting with me at the moment. He looked at me, his eyes getting deep as he lowered his voice to a quiet growl. "God you got a sexy laugh. But yeah, I wanna know what you're doing up here all on your lonesome." "All right," I said. He listened intently as I told him how work was going, but I mostly talked about the adjustment I was having to being back in Norfolk now that I was graduated. "It's the same place, I guess," I explained as I shrugged. "But it feels like I'm in a different place in my life now." "You are," Sean said matter-of-factly. He paused for a second and continued. "Maybe it's not exactly the same, but it's kind of like when I go on deployment. Especially now. I come back changed, and there's that tough adjustment when you realize everyone else has changed, too. They didn't stop living their lives just because you left." "Damn, Sean." I didn't mean to be disrespectful in the least, but the heaviness of his situation hit me. I don't know if I'd have that mental strength to pick up and leave halfway around the world, like him, or Dad, or Jack, and now Matt. He gave me a grin, pulling me out of my thoughts. "Part of the life I chose, Jim. The first couple of times it bugged me... a lot. But I was almost 30 before I decided I could resent people, or I could live my life to the best." "That's cool." The man leaned back. "Here I ask you what's going on with you, and I fucking interrupt you," he said. "I like hearing about your experience," I admitted. So far, my main frame of reference for military life was from Dad. Growing up, I didn't have a good perspective of what deployment was like for him, but I remember me and all my brothers writing him letters whenever he went out to sea on long deployments. Mom would encourage me to write about everything so Dad could stay connected to family life... my little league games, my first day of school, my first homerun. I'm guessing Sean didn't get that. I took a quick sip of beer. "So... I guess I haven't asked you, but how long do you have before your next deployment?" "Not sure," he explained, his expression growing more serious. "Particularly with the war going on. Even as the Command Sergeant Major of a Battalion, I still gotta wait for orders to come down from Brigade." He seemed to respond to my own serious facial expression by softening his tone and body language. "But it should be a good 9 months dwell time at least." He took a sip of his beer. "I won't lie, Jimmy, it's nice to have my feet on American soil for a while." "I bet," I said. He filled me in on some of the daily routine of dwell time... training, preparation, range days, Airborne ops, days long field training. It sounded like a lot of grueling infantry work, but maybe with more of that psychological recovery time from combat making it easier. At least my job ended by 6. We made small talk and his eye contact got heavier. I blushed at it. I mean, I was looking at him intently, too, taking in his strong jaw and older, masculine features and military buzzed cut hair that all pushed my buttons big time. But I felt like a canary in a cage and Sean was the tomcat eyeing me up as his meal. Sean's mannerisms were working on my libido as well, and I found myself wanting to feel his body close, closer than what was allowed in a downtown bar. Dusk had turned full on dark outside, the bar lighting made Sean's handsome looks somehow a little older looking, more mature. The bar was closer to full now, but Sean and I were still relatively secluded at our high top. "We haven't talked about our past," he said at last. "We haven't," I admitted. "But I have been curious." He leaned in. Thankfully we had enough privacy to have this conversation. "When we met, I knew you weren't green. But once I had that first blowjob, I knew you had some real experience, Hot Stuff." I felt both proud and embarrassed as I chuckled and blushed. "Sexually. But not so much otherwise," I explained. He nodded, maybe not too surprised. "You ever date a guy?" I nodded. "Just once. Not real long-term, though. I guess playing ball... and wanting to go pro... I've had to keep things under wraps." "I get that," Sean chimed in. "In the military, you find ways to live with 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' you can't be as open as you'd like." "Have you dated lots of guys?" I asked. I felt it was a dumb question. Sean was 43, so he surely had a good deal of experience. That said, maybe the military kept him from exploring relationships. "My share," he said. "Had a couple of long-term boyfriends, one in my mid 20s, and a guy I dated pretty seriously until about 4 years ago." "Damn," I muttered. "Sorry, Sean..." He laughed. "What do you have to be sorry about? Jeff and I grew apart. It sucks, but it happens. We probably stayed together two years longer than we should have, just because it was convenient." "Convenient how?" I asked. Then added, quickly, "Fuck, I'm being nosy." He patted me on the leg under the tabletop to reassure me. "It's all good, Hot Stuff. I was gonna make some crack about how having a live-in hole to fuck was convenient... but I'll put it out there... Being with an Army man is real fucking tough on a civilian. Not gonna sugar coat it." "What's tough?" I asked. Maybe Sean was trying to warn me, and my first reaction was to be defensive. At that moment, though, I decided I'd listen. "Me not being there. 18-hour days, 4-day FTXs... list goes on, and especially deployments. Not to mention the psychological bullshit on top of it. Sometimes I'd be there, but not there mentally, you know?" I wasn't sure if Sean was talking about PTSD or something more general. I decided not to pry. "So, what... they break up with you?" I didn't mean it to sound callous, but it seemed like a boyfriend should be understanding. He flashed a smile. "Eh, sometimes I'm the heartbreaker. A lot of times, actually." "Sounds like you're preparing to break up with me," I said cautiously. I was nervous to bring it up, but at this point I wanted to know if that's what was on his mind. "We just started dating, Hot Stuff," Sean laughed. "So no, I'm not breaking things off." He leaned back, his tall, muscular body looking big in that high top chair. "I normally don't have this conversation so early, but you seemed curious about my history." "Fair enough," I said. He asked me more about my dating life, and I gave him the short version of me and Greg. Something about his candor made me feel I could be open with him. "I dunno, Sean, I think I realized that sexual chemistry is really important to me. I felt like I was stupid or something for prioritizing that, but maybe that's how I'm wired." "Jimmy boy, it's not dumb. It's probably the smartest thing I've heard you say. Lots of guys take years to figure that out." "So it's important to you, too?" I asked. "Not important," he said. "A requirement." A worrying thought crossed my mind, but I stayed silent. "You thinking about the `topping' argument aren't you?" he asked. I nodded. "Fuck, Sean, I don't know what to say." He leaned in and grinned. "I've been giving it some thought, too, Hot Stuff. And, well, I'm not gonna bottom, but maybe we can figure out a compromise." I perked up at the idea. "Compromise, how?" He dropped his voice. "How `bout this visit, and the next, we take fucking off the table, for either of us. Short of that, you can do what you like." His voice got a sexy growl. Then, as if he had a following doubt, he added, "Within reason." I laughed. My mind started racing overtime thinking of the possibilities. "Damn," I hissed. "Can't wait." I even squirmed just a bit in my seat as my cock began boning up in my work khakis. If we hadn't ordered food, we probably would have gone off at that moment. But our meal arrived, and we both must have been starving because we wolfed it down. After dinner we went back to Sean's hotel room. The first thing he did was peel off his sweatshirt and set it down over a chair. The snug white t-shirt he had on underneath clung to his muscled frame, showcasing the bulk in his chest and arms, and I could even make out the ridged outline of his dogtags plastered to pecs. Sanding in the middle of the room in the dim light, I didn't know what kind of approach to expect from the man. Slow and romantic, or hard and fast. But as he grinned and stepped up to me, I could tell something more sensual was on his mind. His hands latched onto my flank as he pulled me in gently for a kiss. I took off my cap, tossing it onto the same chair before leaning into his taller frame. My lips sought his, my tongue slipping into his mouth as my hands slid around his back. Soft and deep, this was Sean Carter kissing at its best. Lots of tongue but not impetuous - the smoothness a contrast to his thick 5-o'clock shadow. For all my experience, I was still learning techniques for sex and for making out. I was now copying every bit of Sean's initiative and trying to match his incredibly erotic approach. My cock was quickly thickened in my khakis, filling out my jock. And as Sean pulled me tighter against him, I could feel the growing mound in Sean's groin. We stood face to face and made out as Sean's large hands traveled under my shirt and up my lats in a smooth caress as I ventured to touch his firm midsection with my own hands. I knew Sean was a hunk, but our absences had made me almost forget just how rockhard and toned his furry muscle was. He had one of those builds that was big but not quite bodybuilder huge as the man's muscle still managed to feel compact. Some of it was the difference between a Soldier's brawn and an athlete's, each used regularly but in different ways. But some of it was age, the way that his mass just felt denser than mine. Sean had a big smile when we finally broke our kiss with a soft smack. "Damn, Hot Stuff, I missed that." "Me too," I said, giddy with a crushed-out lust. "So..." my boyfriend said, bringing up the plan that was clearly on his mind. "No fucking this visit... tell me what you want to do, stud." "I can think of a couple of things," I smirked, stepping even closer, rising up to push my hard crotch into Sean's. "Yeah?" he growled. His hands slid down my backside to grip my round ass. "Like what?" "A couple of things," I said, keeping our lips close. "I... I'd love to fuck your face." It gave me a rush to say that outloud. If Sean was going to be top dog when it came to anal, I figured I could assert myself orally. He winced. "Dude, your dick is crazy big...." he paused, checking his impulse. "All right, I promised to give it a try. What else?" I felt my heart pound as my fingers dug into his back. "I want to rim you." If I couldn't fuck Sean Carter's perfect ass at least I could eat him out. "Yeah, my Jimmy's an ass man?" Sean let go of one of my ass cheeks, slipping one hand around my waist and reaching down to cup my crotch. Feeling his palm on the shank of hardon in my khakis made me glad. Like it wasn't gonna be all about me servicing that NCO cock. I nodded. "I could almost come eating a guy out." Sean smiled then raised his eyebrow. "No funny business, though, right?" I could see that he was worried I'd try to weasel my way into topping him. "How about a finger?" I pleaded. I figured I could enjoy pushing the envelope a little. "All right, one finger," Sean growled in mock negotiation. He stepped back from me, letting go of my ass before he peeled off his T-shirt in one smooth go. Goddamn, he was magnificent, every inch of him. Thick heavy muscle, but not too rigid in his bulk - the way his muscles moved showed a lithe, flexible quality. Fine dark hair splayed over his chest and around his nips, then covered the middle of his cobblestone abs and led down under the waistband of his jeans. As much as I enjoyed watching Sean strip for me, I think I liked his gaze on my body even more as I peeled off my Orioles T-shirt and kicked off my sneakers. I may not have had Sean's bulk, but I was in great shape, my fairer skin and light coating of fine blond body fuzz a contrast to Sean's hairier and more olive complexion. "Jesus fucking Christ," Sean growled, undoing his jeans. "You got a body that won't quit." "You like it?" I prompted, flexing my muscle some. Yeah, I was eating up his lust for me. He nodded, a hungry look on his handsome face. "You're really making me regret my no-fucking pledge." "I'm holding you to it," I smiled, enjoying the playful banter, but also wanting to make sure he wasn't gonna go back on his promise to make this visit about my needs. "I'm a man of my word," he smirked, and I watched him peel his jeans off his waist and down his hard thighs. He'd gone commando, and a nice piece of hard, 7-inch Army cock stuck out straight from his hairy crotch. I got a shiver as I realized that dick was familiar to me now, though our absence from each other over the last month and a half meant the dick seemed bigger than my memory. It was easy to compare Sean's endowment to mine and find it shorter and with less girth. But not by much: Sean Carter was easily better hung than most men I'd been with. Especially considering how rough the man could be... all in all, his size was big, but not too much for me to handle. Since my attention had been on his pulsing cock, I'd half forgotten I'd worn a jock strap beneath my work clothes that day, just for him. It was just one of my simple white ones - a pair of thin blue stripes running along the center of the thick waistband as the pouch looked full and heavy with my hardening 8-inch cock. But as I peeled off my khakis, I got treated to Sean's surprised reaction. "Whoa...!" he hissed, clearly loving what he saw. I half turned, as if to model the strap for him and show off my bod. I let him see how the smaller twin straps hugged and framed each round cheek of my ass. "I thought you might like it," I said with a grin. The Soldier stepped up to me, his rough hands feeling me up along my bare sides as my own hands touched his hips. I felt his hardon nudge against my abs, smearing a little precum on my light belly fur. We stood face to face, smirking some, we were both so excited to have this alone time together again. "Damn straight, I like it. I fucking love straps... and you look amazing in one." He pulled back, his hands on my hips twisting me a bit while he looked to the side for a better view. "I swear this is your scene, Jim," he said. "But can I at least get a touch?" I nodded and turned away from him, presenting my backside. Almost immediately his hands were on me, warm against the cooler skin of my ass cheek. I grinned to myself as I felt his thick fingers explore my exposed buns, circling around my butt brawn almost lovingly before he finally, maybe reluctantly, stepped back. Smirking, Sean circled around me, and I watched as he got up on the bed, on all fours. Just seeing his strapping 6'5" military-honed body in that position made my hardon surge out of the elastic pouch in my jock pouch. I got up on the bed behind him, slowly running my hands up his knotted thick calves and then his outer thighs. I loved how full his leg hair was, not overly furry I suppose, but it was clear that I was with an older man who had the body hair to show for it. My hands eventually reached and cupped his hard buns. That dark fur covered much of his ass and got thicker before it disappeared into his crack. I outright gulped when Sean spread his legs for me, his hairy cheeks parting and giving me a better view of his pink pucker, ringed with dark brown hair. "So you never been fucked, Chief?" I asked as I crouched down for a closer view, I held Sean's heavily muscled glutes in each hand, pulling the man's ass open to reveal his hole. Unable to resist, I moved my face between his buns and gave Sean's ring a quick swipe with the tip of the tongue. I moaned some, to myself as much as anything. His large body twitched a little, and when I pulled back I saw him looking back at me with a challenging expression. "Never have, never will," he asserted. I felt a little rebuked, but it was my own fault for bringing it up. "Well, let me eat your hole, then," I said. And turned my attention back to his ass. I pulled him apart once more and dug my fingers into his furry cleft. I brought my lips back to his hole. My licks were exploratory at first. I let my tongue flick along the rim, only lapping at his hole furtively. Maybe I was worried Sean would get spooked from ass play that was too assertive. After a few minutes of soft, gentle licking, I gave some soft kisses with my lips, and there was something wonderfully erotic about that to me. I pulled back and took in the view. Sean's hole was now wetted down, the dark hairs ringing his hole now wet and plastered to his skin with spit, and his puckered entrance now glistened. Sean Carter had the ass of a tall man. Defined glutes that were hard and more functional in their shape than round. "Um, you been rimmed before, Sean?" I asked, finally looking back up at him. "You're not the first to lick me, Hot Stuff," he said, looking back at me. "Go ahead," he urged. I had the CSM's permission. Gripping his hard glutes, I pulled his ass back open and dove my face right in. The hairs of his ass brushed against my smoother cheeks, and I remember the warm heat radiating from his body. His muscled buns were snug against my jaw as I finally full-on kissed his hole. My tongue then lashed out to lick at his tightly-sealed entrance. I moaned into his ass, my fingers digging into the muscled mounds of his glutes. I fluttered my tongue against his pucker before pressing forward to see if I could work my tongue tip into his ring. I wedged my face in further and locked my lips around his hole. Pressing the hardened tip of my tongue forward, I began eating out my Army top boyfriend. His hole opened for me, but only enough for my pliable oral muscle to dip in. His vice grip kicked in around my tongue. Sean was tight all right, very much a cherry hole. But that idea turned me on. I closed my eyes and began eating Sean's hole. Jack Grant had introduced me to the act, and I was remembering how much I loved giving as well as receiving when it came to rimjobs, especially Sean's. I began munching in earnest, sucking at Sean's ring with my lips and licking and flicking at it with my tongue. Sometimes pushing with my tongue, sometimes sucking more. I ate him and held on tightly to that hard army ass. Sean overpowered my hold and pulled away from me to lie flat on the bed. I was actually breathing heavily and my own spit dripped on my chin. I thought maybe he'd had enough or wanted a break, but then he hiked his butt up for me. Once his cheeks parted for me to see the spit-wet state of his crack, I took the hint and followed him down onto my belly, my hands resuming their place on his buns as my lips and tongue reunited with his hole. I resumed rimming him. "God, that feels nice, Jimmy," he grunted, his deep voice a contrast to his sexual excitement as I my tongue flicked and dipped at his hole. "Get up in there, buddy." I did as the Sergeant Major requested, and Sean's sphincter even relaxed some for my licking, drilling tongue. Some. I was getting turned on now, big time. I pulled back, breaking the kiss with his hole. My heart pounded in excitement as I watched that pucker wink a little, covered in my spit. Carefully, I brought my index finger up to Sean's hole and teased around the ring. I pulled back and spit some on my finger. This wasn't gonna be an outright finger fuck, but I wanted to take advantage of the permission I had to explore. "I'm going in, Chief," I said quietly as I put my finger back and nudged the folds. I could sense Sean's body tense some. It was beautiful to see his ass and back muscles tighten, but I hoped he'd be able to relax. I dug in a little, working my way in past the tightness. "Don't worry, Sean.... I'm not gonna go far." "All right," I heard. He was being game for this. I didn't know if he found the fingering unpleasant, but I suspected he was still worried I was using this to go for more. I pulled back enough to spit on his hole again, right where his sphincter constricted around the tip of my digit. Then I spit again. The slickness helped and I was able to work a good inch and a half, in and out, down to my middle knuckle. I was mesmerized as I watched his hole dilate then squeeze, imagining it was my cock instead entering his cherry. Sean let out a hiss of air, but didn't say anything. I didn't extend the fingering, but I wanted to enjoy this moment before I finally figured that was enough. Besides, I was turned on like crazy and eager to get off. I slipped my finger from the vice grip of hole and gave a light pat to his ass, before I reached down and pushed my jockstrap all the way down my thighs with an almost angry tug, then worked my legs out of them before crawling up toward the headboard. My 8-inch cock was rock hard and dripping, and in need of attention as I gripped the base, angling it down towards Sean's face and lips. "Suck me, Chief," I ordered as I wiped off my chin with the back of my hand. If Sean wasn't gonna give up his hole, I was gonna at least play top dog for this session. The Soldier turned on his side, facing me, and looking up before he reached up to massage my bone with his strong fingers. "You better fucking be careful with this monster," he grunted. Bossy Sean. "Just suck me, Sean," I hissed, exasperated. He nodded and wrapped his fingers around the base of my shaft, pausing like he was preparing to do a high dive. Then he leaned forward and pulled my prick toward his mouth. I bit my lip and watched Sean lick the head, lapping up my sap before opening his jaw around the fat head. Sean's mouth was full, with my cockhead wedged between his tongue and the roof of his mouth. He grumbled around my dick as he pulled another inch between his lips. Sean sucked dick better than I expected him to. He held onto and stroked the fat base as he dutifully worked my wide head. I let him drive as he began a slow bob, making my cock ride the roof of his mouth. Slowly he rocked as more and more of my prick slid into his warm mouth. Once he got used to my girth, he actually sucked me pretty vigorously, slurping a good four inches of meat in and out of his strained mouth with a steady cadence as he focused on his suckjob. I had my hands on my gently rocking hips, looking down to watch the glistening shaft of my cock dip and and out from between Sean's stretched and stubbled lips. His fist milked the rest of my shaft as I felt the cum begin to boil in my nuts, not erupting into ejaculation, but feeling closer. I moaned, telling Sean how close I was. Guiding my right hand to the top of Sean's head, I could feel the soft bristle of his buzzcut against my palms and between my fingers. Just the whiskery feel was almost enough to get me off. I gave a soft thrust into Sean's mouth, and in response the man emitted a muffled groan before he looked up at me. The action caught him off guard, but he nodded, letting me know it was OK. So I went at it. Both hands on his head, my thumbs at his temples and my fingers clinging to the back of his scalp, I held on to Sean's head and shallowly fucked his face. I made sure not to go too deep, only letting the head of my cock tap the back of his mouth, making Sean gag just a bit. But I worked his mouth with faster strokes, eager to build the stimulation into a well-deserved nut. And, God, it was insanely hot to be in charge with him. To hold his skull and fuck his mouth. Sean let out deep wet groans, and I could feel his spit roll down the underside of my shaft, lubricating his stroking fist. My girth made the ride snugger than it might have been with a normal sized dick, and the fact that I could get this seasoned senior, infantry NCO to take it was driving me to orgasm, fast. "Oh fuck, Sean," I gasped, my hips now pumping in a good rhythm, not too hard, not too soft. "I'm gonna cum..." I felt more than heard him moan around my cock, and that sensation was enough to push me over the edge. My hips froze and my cock immediately began to pulse between Sean's lips as I fired off heavy into his gullet. The Soldier sucked down my seed as his fist milked my shaft. I let my moans draw out, my hand still clutching his skull as my dick delivered five or six full spurts before my cum eased to a trickle. I may have gone a little rougher in the heat of orgasm, but Sean took it OK. He made a show of licking off the excess saliva from my prick and leaking cum from the tip before pulling off. I pulled my hips back to draw my deflating cock out of his mouth. "Think you can return the favor, Hot Stuff?" he grunted, cum still making his voice thick in its deepness as he wiped the spittle off his lips. The man rolled onto his back and showed off a 7-inch hardon that was twitching and leaking. I nodded. "Gladly," I said, sated but still eager to reciprocate. I crawled back onto the bed and got between his spread legs, taking his shaft in hand and giving it a few slow strokes. I decided I wasn't going to work him up slowly. Sean needed to get off, and I was going to be the man to get him off. Sean looked down at me in almost a desperate plea, reaching down to run his fingers through my short blond hair. I angled the head of his prick to my mouth, tongue-bathing his swollen glans, lapping up all his salty sap before wrapping my lips around the flared corona as my tongue flicked at the tip. Sean immediately hissed, pulling my bangs back as his other hand gently guided my head down onto his meat. I took a couple of slower, shallower bobs to get that Army dick wet, then I went for the kill. Holding his hard shaft, I swallowed Sean with long deep mouth strokes, working the entrance of my throat around his cock head. Tightening around him on each outward bob, I aimed for the right amount of suction. With my left hand I fondled his tightening hairy balls while my right twisted gently along his base. My eyes began to water as I suppressed my gag reflex. I swallowed his thick cock head over and over, riding that ridge of my throat entrance as I felt Sean's hips begin tense and his pull on my hair tighten. "Holy shit!" Sean cried. The man gripped my head and hair as he began to shallowly thrust into my mouth, and in turn, into my throat. It wasn't completely comfortable, but I wanted his cum. He let out a cry again and wasn't being quiet either, and I hoped we weren't making too much noise in the hotel room. It didn't matter, because the man wasn't going to last long. "Unnngh!" I heard, and like that, Sean's cock was spurting into my mouth, filling my craw and coating my tongue with heavy blasts of thick, salty seed. I hummed around his cock as I did my best to siphon his load. I suckled on the spewing head and felt the tube in his shaft pulse in my fist as he unloaded each round. I loved his taste, I decided. It was pure Sean: masculine and bracing, with a softer side that revealed itself eventually. I savored his cum, then swallowed it down as I more gently worked his rod to milk out the last drops. "Goddang," he bellowed when I pulled off. "You are TOO fucking good at that, Jim." His muscle body gave a visible shiver of sexual aftershocks. "Fuck!" I scooted up the bed and his body for a kiss, which was as soft now. We tasted lingering hints of each other's cum on our tongues. His arms wrapped around my waist and my legs mingled with his, and his body felt warm against mine. "I didn't go too hard on you, did I?" I finally asked as I pulled my lips from his, my arms wrapping around his neck while I felt his hands run up my back. "You got one hell of a battering ram," Sean grinned as he reached down to cup my ass and push my hips, and my still firm cock, against his. "But you showed admirable restraint." "Good," I said. "I wanna do that again some time." I gave him quick peck on his stubbled lips "It was hot," he admitted. Then with a smirk, he changed the subject. "So I'm 'Chief,' now, huh?" I nodded. "I needed a nickname for you, too. Sean. I dunno, Chief just seems to fit." Only later would Sean point out that the equivalent of a Sergeant Major in the Navy is a Master Chief. Then, I just knew, I was drawn to the feel of the term for him. "Chief it is, then," he replied, brushing my hair back before turning out of my embrace to look at the clock. "Getting tired?" I asked. "A little," he said. "You able to sleep over, Jim?" "Oh yeah," I answered. I used the spare hotel-provided toothbrush and got ready. Since I hadn't packed anything for an overnight stay, I decided to sleep naked, like Sean. Sean did his before-bed routine as I settled in between the sheets. I loved the fact of being naked with Sean, even after the sex, and I was thrilled to see him strut out in the buff in nothing but his dogtags, his meaty cock swinging soft now as he got under the covers next to me. He pulled me close. "I missed this, Chief," I said, now chest-to-chest as I brushed my fingers along his stubbly jaw. "I hope that's not too clingy a thing to say." He smirked and reached down to run the backs of his fingers up my abs, sending goosebumps along my flesh. "I missed this too, Hot Stuff." **** Even after that weekend had passed, I was in a good mood. I knew the bottoming argument would still be an issue, but I felt Sean was at least willing to find other ways to make me happy sexually. And the phone sessions helped. We hadn't managed to keep up the once-a-day phone sex, but it now averaged every two or three days. I eventually felt comfortable revealing more of my deeper desires to him. I hadn't really planned it, but the conversation just developed as he called me one evening after a gap in our talks. Sean's Army duties had him busier than normal that week, and we were overdue. I'd just gotten done with my shift, walking in the front door with my gym bag still on my shoulder when my phone went off in my pocket. "Hiya Hot Stuff," Sean's voice bellowed when I picked up. I heard a door shutting and other sounds that suggested he was done with his work day. I could almost see him setting down his keys as he took off his beret. "Hey Chief," I greeted. I'd just got home from my shift as well. "Just getting back from base?" "You got it," Sean said. "Thought I'd hit you up for some hot phone." I could practically see his smiling leer through the phone. "Don't cut to the chase, do you?" I laughed. "Fuck no," the guy growled playfully. "I've been worked up all afternoon thinking of one of your prize blowjobs." "Well, let me get settled," I said. "Yep," Sean said. And I suspected he was doing something similar to me as I walked upstairs to my room, dropped my gym bag on the floor and fished out my trusty lube. I knew I wouldn't have this privacy soon when Dad returned from his deployment in a few weeks. With my free right hand I reached down and undid my work khakis, slipping them down and then peeling my underwear off over my growing, fat cock. I kicked off my shoes and plopped on the mattress in just my socks and red work polo. "All right, Chief... what were we talking about?" I joked as I gripped my dick, stroking it to full hardness. "You sucking my cock, kiddo.... working me to a nice, hard cum," he added. I could tell from his voice he was already stroking. Probably still in full uniform. "You know I miss that dick, Sean," I said, relishing the excitement of talking aloud about sex and my fantasies with the guy. "You better," he grunted. "I want to experience that talented deepthroat again. Goddamn..." "You will, Chief. Promise." My own hand was working my rigid bone now. Not too fast but slowly picking up the pace and enjoying the pleasure of masturbating with Sean's deep, gruff voice in my ear. "How'd you get to be so good at it, Jim?" he asked. "You really asking?" I replied. Not sure how much he wanted sex talk. "Yeah, I'm really askin'." His statement was blunt and hearing his Southern accent got me going. "I had a fuck buddy in college, he ended up becoming one of my friends." "Charlie?" Sean asked. We'd talked a lot by phone and emailed a lot about our lives by now. The strange thing about the long distance thing was how the names we heard weren't yet connected to real people. But Sean knew Charlie was not only my best friend, but my only gay close friend. "Yeah, Charlie," I said. I'd taken my hand off my dick. I was still hard, but maybe the vibe shifted some. "I don't know if I should be telling you this," I said. "You can trust me, Jim. But it's your call. You said you were interested in sharing our past some." I nodded. He was right. "Well, don't ever tell him I told you... but Charlie is really good at blowjobs. He loves it, and it's his thing. And, I dunno... I asked him to show me how he does it." "Your secret is safe with me." Then, his voice getting hornier, he added, "You know, you took me by surprise that first time you showed off your skills." "I'm glad, Sean." "How would you show them off for me now?" he asked. Sean was really good at phone talk, reminding us of the moment and the connection we had, even at a distance. My response was horny in tone, almost raspy. "I'd lick that amazing cock of yours, Chief.... get it nice and wet." "Like a dog on a bone, huh?" Instinctively, I knew his fist was working dick faster, and my own had resumed its stroke. "Something like that. Wetting you down before I went down on you. Like on that hike." "You were so nervous, kiddo. That was hot," Sean said. "You like pushing me, don't you?" I asked. "You know I do. I think you like it, too, kiddo." "I do," I asserted. "I loved going all the way down on you out there in the open." "Fuck... you get turned on by Daddy's cock, huh?" I remembered what my Navy Vet fuck buddy, Brian, told me. That I shouldn't be afraid to go for what I want. "Actually, 'Dad' turns me on more than 'Daddy'," I told him. "Is that right?" Sean growled. "Da-yum that's hot." "Yeah?" I asked. Glad he was receptive to the idea. "Deep throating your dad... showing him his boy can take a dick." "Yessir," I grunted. I was getting closer and Sean's indulgence of my kink was getting there. "I know we've been exploring other things, Jimmy," I heard his deep voice say. "But you want Dad to fuck you again?" Holy crap, those words were hard wired to my balls. In two seconds, I felt my cock twitch and jerk in my fist. I was cumming, all of a sudden. I let out a choked cry and felt jets of sperm fire out onto my uniform polo shirt. Somewhere, mid orgasm, I heard Sean's own excitement crest. "You cumming, Jim?" he asked. "Hell yes," he growled and then I heard the telltale sounds of his climax. I loved hearing Sean cum, there was something deeply primal about that sound. "Damn... I needed that," he finally said after we took a second to clean up. "Long day?" I asked, amused some now that the rush to release was past. "And how," he replied. "...How's things up in Norfolk?" His tone was coming back to normal Sean. "Work is picking up. Nothing much to report." I was wiping down, and I sensed Sean was doing the same on his end. "They're not working you too hard, are they?" he said. "Nah," I said. "Probably better than being bored." "Listen..." Sean said, "I know you have work, but I have plans to catch the Army-Navy game again this year with a few buddies. If you're free, you're welcome to join." "When is it?" I asked. I knew it was always soon after Thanksgiving. "December second, in Philly. Saturday. Maybe I'll go up to New York a day or so early." The reality was sinking. I wanted time with my boyfriend, but it didn't seem practical. "I'll check, Sean. But I think that might be tough for me. That's going to be a weekend in the prime retail month." I was all of a sudden feeling sad this might not work. The phone sex was great, but it wasn't the same as being together. "I wasn't sure, Jim," he said, gamely. "Just thought I'd ask." "Yeah." I was now in a funk of a mood. "Man..." I exclaimed. "It'd be great to see you." "We will find a time, Hot Stuff. Work comes first, but we will. Maybe after the holidays..." "Yeah," I said. Then, with a gentle chuckle he switched subjects. "So... the dad-son thing, huh?" "Just something to add to the mix," I said. "If you're up for it." "I think you know I'm up for it, Son," he teased. Just hearing him say that had my dick jerking a little stiff again. "Listen... I'm gonna get some grub, Jim. But thanks for sharing that." "Trust me, the pleasure is mine, Chief," I said. "Have a good night.... Talk to you later."