Nowhere is Safe | Pt. 17 Patrol

[owned_by_a_cat]

Title: Nowhere is Safe
Pairing: JaeMin / MinJae
Rating: NC-17
Genre: AU, Suspense, Romance, Army!fic
Summary: Invisible up close, able to kill from a long way away… when an elite sniper operates in your neighbourhood nowhere is safe. To Major Kim Jaejoong, being a sniper is more than a job. It's a mindset he needs when the people around him fall prey to a shooter with a high-powered rifle and his new partner, Captain Shim Changmin from Army Intelligence, turns out to be as much a distraction as he is a help. Undeniably both smart and gorgeous, the man has issues. And an attitude. And he's about as subtle as mortar fire in showing his dislike of Jaejoong.
Thrown together by the crisis, both Jaejoong and Changmin struggle to reconcile mutual dislike and mutual attraction. But when events escalate and the stakes get higher, they must put their attraction and differences aside and work together.

Under Attack || Return to Base || Pissed and Pissed Off || Do Over || Attempts at Apologies || Discoveries || Close to Home || Backfoot || Traps || Confession || Plans and Pleasure || Reasonable Doubt || Desired Outcomes || Old Foes, New Allies || Triangle || Unravelled ||

Patrol

Without Jaejoong guiding his steps, he'd never have found the cave. Changmin was sure of that. It wasn't on any map. And it was cleverly hidden behind a waterfall. He'd followed Jaejoong up the side of the falls, curious where the sniper was headed, when Jaejoong had ducked around a rocky spur and had simply disappeared from view.

It had been disconcerting as hell, but surveying their small domain—just smaller than his assigned quarters on the base— mostly dry, out of the wind and dimly lit, he doesn't mind having been made to pay with a moment of panic.

"How did you find this place?"

Jaejoong smiled at the memories and Changmin liked the look. Between their earlier animosity and the later revelations, he hadn't seen the sniper that relaxed and unguarded before. "I was sitting down in the valley one night in winter when I suddenly realised that I couldn't hear the waterfall. It was cold, but not so cold that it would have frozen solid. I've never seen it cold enough for that, though records say it did freeze one year just after the end of the war. So I got curious and came up to check it out." He paused, slipped off his pack and set it into a small niche in the wall, well out of the way of their feet.

"And what did you find?"

"Impatient, like it," Jae huffed and threw him a look that made heat coil deep inside Changmin's guts. "The fall was no more than a trickle. What little water there was didn't completely hide the opening. So I explored, found the cave and also found a way that could be used when the fall is in full flow."

"Why was there no water?"

"There'd been a small landslip, about half an hour up the valley. Couple of big trees had come down along with the rocks and were blocking the river."

"You cleared that?"

"I don't carry explosives just for decoration, you know. I've been taught how to use them, too."

"Ha. Ha," Changmin grumbled. "I was thinking more in terms of international— Fucking hell! Is that a hot spring?"

Right at the back of the cave was a small pool and the water was warm. Not steaming hot, but much much warmer than the water in any of the mountain streams Changmin had used for washing in the last few days. Shaving would be so much easier come tomorrow morning!

"There is a hot spring somewhere in the mountain," Jae confirmed, unrolling sleeping bags and mats. "The water comes down here, but it mixes with the river along the way. Still, it's plenty warm for a dip, even when the river's running full."

"I look forward to that," Changmin sighed. He hadn't thought that out of all amenities he'd crave hot water. And—strangely enough—music. Neither of which was advisable while camping almost within sight of the border.

"How do you feel about a proper dinner?" Jae asked. All of a sudden he stood close enough that Changmin could feel his warmth all down his side. "Something cooked instead of ration bars?"

The air in the cave grew a little thin and Changmin swallowed. "Is that safe?"

"I wouldn't suggest we have barbecue, and I don't carry enough fuel to cook rice, but soup isn't an issue. You game?"

"I'd love it." Changmin managed to say that with a straight face. "Anything I can do?"

"Jump in the pool. I can see you salivating over it. Maybe that will relax you."

"Because relaxed is exactly what you want me to be, right?"

***

Trust Jaejoong to be able to turn instant noodles into a feast with nothing more than a few herbs, chestnuts and mountain vegetables they'd picked along the way. Changmin wanted to lick his bowl and that after he'd had third helpings!

Jaejoong just laughed. "Someone likes my cooking."

The comment, the smile that went with it and Changmin's wayward mind all combined to set his face on fire. It wasn't just Jaejoong's cooking he liked, but he'd be fish food before he admitted that aloud. "Don't tease," he grumbled instead.

"Why not? We have a whole cave and three days to ourselves. I'd planned on so much teasing you have no idea." Jaejoong brandished a small jar of chili paste. "For starters, I'm planning to lick this off your nipples."

"What? No!" Changmin stared in outrage. "Chili paste? Are you nuts?"

"Don't complain about something you haven't tried," Jae shrugged. He dipped a finger into the jar and licked the chili paste off it as dainty as a kitten. When most of it was gone, his licks grew obscene, tongue swirling and plush pout sucking on the digit until Changmin could no longer watch. "Besides," Jae said around the finger in his mouth. "I let you have your way the last time. Now it's my turn."

"But chili paste!"

"C'mere," Jae waved and knotted his fingers into Changmin's undershirt as he came close enough. He pulled him into a kiss that was hot enough to melt Changmin into a puddle on the floor, a mix of fragrant chili paste and the unique honey spice that was Jaejoong.

"See? Not so bad after all. And much more entertaining than the eternal ice cream and melted chocolate."

"But… food? Can't you just fuck me?"

Changmin was ready for the attack this time, for the hot mouth that ravished his, for the hands that went everywhere, enticing and inflaming. He was even ready for being shoved into the wall and held there by a forearm across his throat and an insistent knee between his thighs. That's what he wanted. That right there. And Jaejoong knew it.

"I could probably shove it up your ass right now and you'd take it you're so turned on," Jae gasped when he drew back. "But that's not really what you want for your first time. It's not what I want, either. I want to hear you swear. And I want to hear you scream in pleasure, not pain."

"God damn it, Jaejoong!"

"Yeah?" The sniper nuzzled his face into Changmin's neck and nibbled on the sensitive skin while his hands were busy further south. "Gonna let me go to town on your lush ass?"

Changmin had no breath left to answer. But he managed a nod.

***

Time blurred in their small cave. At some point, the sun set and the space grew gloomy enough for Jae to set a small night light beside the jar of chili paste, bottle of oil and tins of sake that had left Changmin speechless for a few moments.

"In case you needed something to help you get that stick out of your ass," Jae smirked when Changmin had joined up enough brain cells to ask the question.

"I don't have a stick up my ass. I was… distracted," he protested.

"Prove it."

By that point, Changmin would have done almost anything to get Jaejoong's hands on him. The stress he'd been under for far too long was slowly fading, but it left him jittery and feeling almost hollow. The chance to forget for a while was a lure he couldn't resist.

When they'd fucked before, Jaejoong had been the one seeking oblivion with unrivalled focus. Jaejoong as a top was no less focussed, but now his aim was distraction. Flitting from place to place, mixing touches that inflamed with soothing kisses, bringing that damned chili paste into play when Changmin least expected it… he was so damned good at creating distractions that Changmin barely noticed when Jaejoong shoved an oiled finger into him. Right then, he was too busy coming all over his abs and half of Jaejoong's face.

"Damn you look tasty!" Jaejoong declared and even laying there gasping, body buzzing from his release, Changmin felt himself flush.

The finger inside him became two and Jaejoong, who turned out to be perfectly ambidextrous, decided that he wanted to know how Changmin tasted mixed with chili paste.

Changmin was too turned on to complain. He shuddered under Jaejoong's ministrations, demanded kisses, touches, more… and found Jae was perfectly happy to indulge him. More chili paste on his nipples. More of Jaejoong's hot mouth licking and sucking and driving him nuts until he was so close, he was sobbing, begging… and yes… swearing.

Moonlight silvered the light in their cave behind the waterfall by the time Jaejoong finally thought that Changmin was well enough prepared. As Jaejoong had promised, he'd screamed himself hoarse. He thought he'd come at least three times during Jaejoong's relentless assault, but he was no longer sure of anything. He just knew that he needed Jae inside him as he had never needed anything else before.

"Hands and knees, baby," Jaejoong instructed and Changmin scrambled to comply.

The revealing, submissive position forced a blush up his neck and into his cheeks. His arms and legs shook so badly, he struggled to keep himself upright. But he wanted this. Wanted Jae to put his cock where his fingers and tongue had already been, wanted to feel the man so deep inside him he'd never forget.

"Scared?" Jaejoong draped himself over Changmin's naked back, his warmth a ward against the shivers. "Min, are you scared?"

"No," Changmin snarled, wanting the sniper to get on with it. "Yes," he whispered a moment later. It wasn't fear that shivered through him. Not all of it, at least. There was more lust than he'd ever known what to do with. There was so much need it short-circuited his brain. And then, right at the heart of that explosive cocktail was a tiny nugget of fear. Blow jobs, hand jobs, fucking a few guys when he was on leave and far away from the garrison was one thing. Bending over for another officer, one who was superior at that was… something wholly different. His whole career could go up in smoke if he'd misread the sniper.

And it was as if Jaejoong could read his mind. Soft lips teased the spot behind his ear, a tongue sneaked out to touch his lobe and the voice that filled his ears was rough as velvet. "It goes both ways," he whispered. "Trust. I let you have my ass right there on the base. But I didn't want that for your first time. I wanted somewhere safe."

"Don't make it sound as if I'm a total virgin here," Changmin scoffed. He had to act tough or he'd dissolve into mush at Jae's consideration.

"I'm glad you're not a virgin. I just wanted the chance to take my time ravishing your ass and ruining you for other men. It's my favourite pasttime, that. Wrecking long-legged, bambi-eyed intelligence officers."

Again, Jaejoong read his mood. And again he responded the way Changmin needed him to. Jae's hands were soothing, gliding up and down his chest and abdomen… until they suddenly weren't. By now Changmin's nipples were so sensitive even the lightest brush over the tips sent him soaring. And Jaejoong's touch wasn't light. Nor was there anything hesitant about the heavy cock that nudged at Changmin's slicked entrance.

"Let me do the work," Jaejoong instructed, voice strained with the effort to hold still. "I mean it, Min. I want to take you a few more times before we go back, so I want to make sure you're not too sore." He slid his hands to Changmin's hips and used his thumbs to spread his cheeks.

Changmin thought his ears might catch fire at the rush of heat spreading through him. Though why he was embarrassed by Jae looking at his ass, when his fingers and tongue had done far more than look made no sense at all.

"You're gorgeous," Jae groaned, spreading him wider. "You took my breath away the moment I saw you, and now I'm looking at your ass swallowing me and I still can't breathe right. Gods, you're amazing."

Jae's cock slowly sliding inside him felt as strange as it had felt having Jae's fingers up his ass. He felt stretched and full and desperate for Jaejoong to move. And once he'd breathed his way through the initial intrusion, Jaejoong did just that.

Over and over, in long slow thrusts, the drag and slide were simply perfect. So perfect that Changmin lost his mind over the sensations. Sparks shot up his spine and sizzled across his skin every time Jaejoong's cock dragged over his sweet spot. Darkness crowded the edges of his vision and when he closed his eyes the roaring of the waterfall took over his mind. His world narrowed to the tension coiling in his gut, winding tighter and tighter with every thrust, every touch of skin on skin, every groan and gasping breath until the coil suddenly snapped and his world exploded.

Changmin was sure he screamed Jaejoong's name as he came.

Or maybe he whispered it.

***

Changmin had never felt so sated in his life. Or so wrung out. Jae hadn't been joking about wanting to take Min's ass until they had tried everything that could be done with said ass and Jaejoong's cock. He'd taken to waking Changmin with a blowjob and a few fingers, something that usually escalated pretty quickly to a hard, frantic fucking. They cooled off in the pool afterwards and then Jae fed him breakfast. They invariably made love a couple more times during the day, in which ever way Jae felt inclined to try out. They talked, too, but more often than not, Jae was buried balls deep in Changmin's ass and the intelligence specialist didn't want to have it any other way.

Before Jaejoong, he'd had no idea his body was capable of that much pleasure. Or that his voice had such an impressive range. Their final bout of lovemaking had been the most astonishing of all — and after the three days they'd spent doing little else that was saying something.

Jae had started slow, teasing Changmin into arousal and shoving his tongue down Min's throat while he shoved his cock up Changmin's ass. The kiss deteriorated a little over time, but Jae never stopped the slow, deep thrusts that were driving Changmin out of his mind. Even when the younger man came, Jae didn't stop. He kept moving, slow and deep, dragging over every sensitive nerve ending until Changmin didn't know what to do with himself. Screaming didn't help against the wave of overwhelming pleasure, begging didn't help either. He tried to get away, but Jae had him pinned and every time he changed their position—spread Changmin's legs a little wider, or shifted on his knees for a better angle—new waves of sensation spiralled through Changmin like out-of-control lightning.

Flushed and sweating and tossing his head to ward off the madness, Changmin barely noticed the tightness coiling in his gut, the way he clung to Jaejoong and how his fingernails left furrows in the sniper's shoulders and down his back. All he knew was pleasure. And the desperate need to scream out his release.

He couldn't move when it was over. He could barely keep his eyes open for long enough to check whether Jaejoong had come with him. And he remembered nothing else from the rest of that night.

"That was insane," he commented the next morning. His body felt heavy and languid, but for the first time in forever there was total silence in his head.

"Good insane or bad insane?"

"So insane that I want to do it again. Soon. I think you fucked my brains out."

"And you're not worried about that?"

"No way. I haven't felt that good in… god knows. Forever? Is that why you bottom?"

"Sometimes," Jae had a tiny smile on his face that looked ridiculously sexy. "It doesn't so much matter which position you play. It's the willingness to give up control that makes the difference."

"That's why you let me fuck you back at the base?"

"I needed it. After coming back from patrol and finding Jong Ki dead… yeah, I needed a few hours to let it all go."

"And I thought you had a lot of making up to do."

"That too, of course."

"So… is it always like this when you come home?" He didn't ask if Jaejoong had ever had sex with Jong Ki. It seemed too personal a question seeing the man was no longer around.

"No, of course not. Most times, there's nobody waiting for me. Sometimes I need to go out again the next day, and relaxation is a row of beers and a few bottles of soju along with a few hours of music." He shrugged. "So when I get the chance to cut loose, I take it. Can you blame me?"

"Why should I blame you for anything?" Changmin asked, surprised. "Just look at me…"

"I am, believe me," Jaejoong replied. "You feel so relaxed you can't image how you're ever going to have sex again, right? But if I wanted to take your lush ass one final time you wouldn't say no?"

The words dropped like ice cubes into the warmth between them.

"Is it?" Changmin asked very quietly.

"Is it what?"

"The final time."

Jaejoong would win any pouting contest hands down, but he couldn't sneer for toffee. He seemed to know it, too, because he aborted the effort and slugged Changmin in the shoulder instead. "Idiot. I meant one final time out here, okay? The colonel is cutting us some slack since it was your brother we had to go after, but if we take a couple of weeks to have fun out here he may have a word or two to say about that. And I know we haven't talked much about what happens when we get back… but I wasn't planning on not seeing you again." The pout was back at that along with an evil twinkle in the sniper's beautiful eyes. "Just so we're clear."

Part 18: Choices

Comments

[be-ddelusionall.livejournal.com]

man, where is this cave so I can watch!
sexy JaeMin sexy sexy

<3

[ladylilyanne.livejournal.com]

Only Jae... he would use chili paste. I'm kind of sad to see this coming to an end. Thanks for updating!

[owned-by-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I'd turn voyeur for those two. ..

[owned-by-a-cat.livejournal.com]

I could imagine that chili paste, or more likely Gochujang paste, would be in Jae's pack even if he mostly lives off the land. So that wasn't too much of a leap for me.
And there may, perhaps, be a sequel...

[ladylilyanne.livejournal.com]

That sounds interesting... maybe the North Koreans make a comeback, Ran Joon breaks out of prison to warn them, or he's put on parole based on how well he works with the other two... there are so many possibilities. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

[minesomine.livejournal.com]

Fantastic idea. Take me with you.

[minesomine.livejournal.com]

These two are too hot on their own, together it's...

[kyouya3.livejournal.com]

Yey smuttt!!! I'm reading this on bus and well, I'm grinning deep inside with poker face outside hahaha thx for updating. This story hasn't finished yet, right?

[owned-by-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed it, even if it was on the bus. And no, it's not finished yet. There's one more chapter to go before I can get down to brewing the sequel.

[owned-by-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know. That's why I like writing JaeMin...

[n3uromanc3r.livejournal.com]

I tried to read it on the bus too, but after a while I felt I was blushing that's why I only finished it at home! : D

I'm envying Changmin, your soldier Jaejoong is simply perfect!

[epiktraveller.livejournal.com]

I need to know where that cave is because of...reasons...