Kiss Me Cruel

Fandom: the sentinel
Pairing: Jim/Blair, Jim/Blair/Rafe, Blair/other (meet JT, everyone)
Rating: NC-17 for abuse
Archive: the WWOMB
Other websites: http://www.squidge.org/~peja/
Disclaimers: Jim and Blair belong to Petfly, but their personas are my own, as is the delightfully protective JT who belongs to me and Blair body and soul.
Notes: This is an AU. Any resemblance to the well known characters is quite deliberate, but the character abnormalities make them mine
AUTHOR'S WARNING: These two are not the J&B you know well, so if a hard Au doesn't appeal, you know what to do
Summary: JIm and JT seal a bargain: Blair wakes up to JIms version of their life together.
Warnings: Jim is a man with a temper: Blair is a man with a secret to protect

"You can't be serious."

Jim shrugged. "That's a no, then?" He smiled. "I won't say its been great knowing ya. I am glad you've decided to leave Blair alone, though?"

"No." JT rasped, casting a glance toward the closed door. "I..." He shuddered, swallowing hard. "I accept your offer. I'll....I'll do it."

Jim closed the distance between them, wrapped a cruel arm around the blonde man and jerked him hard against his chest. A sharp nail traced the other man's quivering lips. "You know what you are accepting?"

JT nodded, not able to break the hold Jim had on his gaze. "I know."

"Good." Jim's lips crashed down on JT's cutting the inside of his mouth against his teeth. JT whimpered but his arms crept up the bigger man's broad back, clinging to keep himself upright.

"I'll expect you in my bed this evening."

"Blair...?"

"Blair will be joining us as soon as he is released."

JT nodded. "I want to ask one thing, though."

Jim arched a dark brow.

"Blair....You'll....Promise me you won't hit him or....or anything until he's better. I mean, he's not going to be able to take much."

Jim hooked a finger under JTs chin, drawing his gaze. "You ask quite a lot. Blair as a way of sparking my temper."

"Then...." JT swallowed, closing his eyes. "Then use me when he upsets you. I'll take his punishment."

Jim slanted him a curious glance. "Why? Why would you take his punishment?"

JT shrugged.

Jim's fingers encircled JTs throat and he squeezed. "You love him that much?"

JT struggled, clawing at the deadly hand around his throat.

The pressure was gone as quickly as it had begun. "Then you will watch over him while he is recovering. Hear me well, this accident of Blair?s has revealed one surprising turn of events to me.? A soft smile touched his lips before he stifled it under a cruel glare. ?I don?t know how it happened, but that man is dear to me. If you let anything...Anything at all happen to him I will kill you. If you try to take him from me, I will find you and I will kill you. If he goes with you willingly I will kill him first and make you watch him die. Slow and painfully. Are we clear?"

JT stared into Jim's rock steady gaze and believed. "Yes. Yes, we are clear."

Smiling, Jim nodded. "Let's go in and see how my Blair is doing, hm?" He cupped JTs elbow with hard fingers, drawing a whimper from the other man.

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Jim guided JT to stand beside Blair. "Aren't you going to kiss our Blair hello?" he purred, smiling at the uncertainty in two sets of eyes.

"I...." JT began. "I don't think...."

Jim's hand tightened on his elbow. "Come now, JT. After that hot clench I walked in on the other day, what?s a little swapped spit now?"

"Blair looks tired, Elli...." A hard squeeze warned him of his infraction. "....ehm, Jim."

"Kiss him, JT," Jim said softly. "And then we'll tell Blair our good news."

Blair looked back and forth between the two men. "Good news?"

JT glared at Jim for a brief moment, then leaned over, giving Blair the required kiss. Blair went very still as JT's lips covered his own. JT's tongue brushed the crease between full lips, asking but not demanding.

Blair groaned and his hands anchored on JTs forearms. Trembling lips parted with a soft sigh.

JT advanced the heat of the kiss. "Oh, God, Blair." He drew Blair into his shuddering embrace. "You scared me so damn much."

"JT witnessed your...accident, Blair," Jim said.

Blair met JT's miserable glance. "You were there?"

JT hesitated for a moment, then nodded. "I shouted to you to stop. You were...You didn't hear me....I guess."

"Tell him you'll be more careful from now on, Blair."

Blair nodded. "Yes, of course I will," Blair mumbled his gaze dropping to his hands. "I...I'm sorry I scared you."

"Of course you are." Jim brushed a chaste kiss over Blair's pale cheek. "Don't you ever scare us like this again, Blair love."

Blair nodded again. "I'm sorry."

"And well you should be." Jim's arm crept around JT's shoulders, drawing the blonde man tight against his hip. "Maybe you don't deserve to know our surprise."

Blair's teeth clamped down on his lower lips as he took in the casual embrace. "You....Are you a....couple, now?" he asked, his voice breaking. "Is that it? I thought you said we...."

"Yes, Blair love." Jim smiled coldly. "JT is moving in tonight."

"Oh....I see..."

"Do you, Blair love?" Jim traced Blair's quivering lower lip. "Don't you want your lover to join us in our....happy home?"

"Join..." Blair's confused gaze sought Jim's. "Us? You mean...."

Chuckling, Jim took Blair's hand and kissed the warm knuckles, one by one. "But of course, us, Blair mine." He slanted a mocking glance over the trembling hand. "What else?"

"I..." Blair offered a tentative smile. "Do we....do that? Include others, I mean?"

"We didn't." Jim said, his voice dropping dangerously. "Or at least I didn't until I discovered you've been..."

"Ellison, don't...Please.." JT stammered.

Jim's cold glare lifted to JT and he smiled. "....Hooking downtown."

Blair recoiled as if he'd been slapped. "Hooking?"

"That's all over as of right now, though," Jim warned. "For both of you."

"What?" JT jerked around. "You can't do that. Madrid will kill us."

The shark's smile flashed. "Madrid, huh? Hangs out in that Italian cafe on Cascade and third, right?"

"Yeah, but..." JT clamped a hand over his mouth. "You tricked me."

Jim nodded. "For your own good. Yeah, I did. You would never have given me his name otherwise."

"What are you going to do?"

The smile faded. "Take him down."

"It won't help, you know. His operation...the next guy in line will just take up the reins. We'll be right back out on the streets...."

Jim tapped a silencing finger over the other man's lips. "Trust me, JT. No one will pick up on either of you. Not after Madrid is taken down."

JTs glance darted between Blair and Jim. "What are you....going to do?"

"Don't worry your pretty blonde head, JT. Just trust me."

"But..."

Jim jerked JT against his chest. His lips crashed over quivering lips, drawing a soft whimper from the other man. "Ah, JT.." He broke the kiss, but not the embrace, tipping the man's chin until their gazes met. "You remember what I said? You understand that after today, both Blair and you are mine. I keep what belongs to me." he smiled showing sharp white teeth. "Does that frighten you?"

Continues in Part 6