They'd celebrated selling the deli with a dinner at Bess' restaurant, just the six of them: Tony and Carter, Eleanor and Julie, Bess and Norman. Tony pretended not to see the tears in Bess' eyes when she hugged him one last time, and Norman pretended that the smile he pasted on his face was genuine. Even Carter had been misty-eyed when they'd finally climbed into his van for the drive home.
The last night this would be their home.
"I got kinda fond memories of this place," Carter said.
"Yeah?"
Carter grabbed him in a bear hug from behind. "Yeah."
Tony didn't wince. The stitches were out, and his bruises were almost gone. He'd taken a shower that morning, and it had felt like heaven.
"You wanna take a bath with me?" Tony asked. "I feel like a good soak."
Carter's lips grazed the back of his neck. "That all you feel like?"
Tony grinned. "It's a start."
Carter ran the bath water, complete with bubbles, while Tony stripped out of his clothes. Tony had discovered early on that Carter preferred bubble baths when he was in a romantic mood. If the amount of bubbles was any indication, he was in for a long night of lovemaking, not fucking. He was good with that, too.
Carter got in first, then Tony climbed in and settled in Carter's arms. The bubbles tickled his chest, the hot water loosened his muscles, and the hard steel of Carter's cock against his ass made his own cock twitch.
"I'm gonna miss this tub," Carter said.
"We'll get one and put it in the van."
Carter chuckled. "Wouldn't that be the thing. Then we could do this in the middle of nowhere." He reached around Tony, one large hand cupping Tony's balls.
Tony dropped his head back against Carter's shoulder. "Yeah, I'm gonna miss this tub, too."
Carter squeezed, just enough pressure to get Tony's cock's attention. His lips pressed against the side of Tony's face. "You remember the first time we did this?"
"First time you grabbed my balls?"
A deep chuckle rumbled through Carter's chest. Tony felt it in his bones. "Yeah, that, too."
For a while, they stayed like that, Tony soaking, Carter fondling him, pressing soft kisses on his skin. Tony was hard now, but it was the kind of hard he could sustain without an aching need to come.
"You got anyplace you'd like to go?" Tony asked.
Carter's hand stopped moving under the water. "You don't have that already figured out?"
"Figured we'd talk about it."
They didn't have too many choices for roads leading out of town. They could either go north and into Canada or south toward Coeur d'Alene. If they skirted the lake to the east, in less than twenty miles they'd be in Montana.
"We never planned on stopping here," Carter said.
No, they hadn't. They'd just been driving and things worked out.
"So that's what you want to do?" Tony asked. "Just point the van down the road and see what happens?"
"Long as we don't wind up back in Jersey."
Tony trailed one hand under the water, rubbed his fingertips across Carter's thickly muscled thigh. "You ever miss it?"
"Busting heads?"
"Yeah."
"Nah."
Tony smiled. "Good to know."
They didn't have as much money as they'd had when they left Jersey, but they had enough to get by. Neither of them cared about an extravagant lifestyle. They'd end up somewhere else that felt good, and they'd stay there for a while. It didn't much matter to him where that was as long as Carter was with him.
"So, we go south for a while?" Tony asked.
Carter chuckled. The hand that wasn't fondling Tony's balls squeezed in between their bodies, and Tony felt Carter's fingers probing at his backside.
"That a direction or a request?" Carter asked.
He didn't wait for Tony to answer before he pushed one thick finger inside. Playing with his balls had loosened Tony up, and once inside, Carter knew exactly where to press.
Tony let out a long, low moan as Carter continued to fondle him inside and out. He let his head fall back on Carter's shoulder. This was heaven.
"Maybe we should take the fucking tub," Tony muttered.
"Mmmm," Carter said, his mouth against the back of Tony's neck.
Carter's hand had started squeezing Tony's balls in a rhythm almost like the one Carter used when he was making love to Tony with his cock, not his hands. Tony couldn't keep his hips still.
"You gonna grab my cock here eventually?" he asked.
Carter's lips moved up to Tony's ear. "You are," he murmured.
Tony shuddered, then he grabbed his own cock and started stroking in time to what Carter was doing with his hands.
The feeling was incredible. Carter had added a second finger, filling him up, and was rubbing and squeezing his balls, all the while Tony was adding the friction his cock so desperately needed. He didn't stroke fast -- he didn't need to. He felt entirely possessed and loved and cherished, and that, more than anything else, was what made him come.
While he was still so relaxed he felt he could float forever right there and be perfectly happy, Carter lifted him up just enough so that Carter could slip his cock inside. Carter only thrust a few times, almost like he wanted to be careful because they hadn't lubed up, and then he came, too.
Tony sat like that on Carter's lap, Carter's cock softening inside him, for so long that his wet skin dried in the warm night air. He'd been content here. They'd been content here, but maybe it wasn't so much the place on the map as it was the place they'd come to as a couple. It really, truly didn't matter where they ended up, or even if they never settled down again but just wandered from place to place.
Tony took Carter's hand from beneath the water where it was still cupped loosely around his balls. He brought Carter's fingers to his lips and kissed each one.
"We're gonna do okay," he said. "We're gonna be okay."
He could almost feel Carter's smile.
"Never doubted it," Carter said.
The End
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