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sweetprince ([personal profile] sweetprince) wrote2008-08-15 05:08 am

Fic: Imperator

Title: Imperator
Author: [livejournal.com profile] dark_reaction
Pairing: Jack/Spot *gasp* I know
Word Count: 852
Rating: Hard R
Summary: Spot drags Jack into the shade of an alley.
Notes: This was written for [livejournal.com profile] maypirate's prompt: Newsies, Spot/Jack, Ink. I know, I know, what kind of order am I writing these prompts in? But I've done three including this one. So worry not.


Jack was a lot of things: articulate, charming, handsome, determined, a bit too much of a dreamer perhaps. He was not a Park Avenue boy, terribly good at arithmetic, and definitely not a queer. Therefore he couldn’t really explain why he was hiding in an alley, back pressed to the brick, as Spot Conlon jerked him off.

He’d said no, voice curt, when Spot first tugged him in the narrow space between the two buildings, fingers hooked into the cheap leather of his belt. He’d shaken his head, tried his best to convey disapproval, but despite the disparity in their sizes, Spot was more than able to strong arm him up against the wall when he was only doing the barest bit to fight him.

“What are you doing?” he’d whispered, like it wasn’t obvious. But Spot knew he meant more than the hand inside Jack’s pants. He meant grander things like newspaper routes and passing people on the street, he meant having to look in the mirror afterwards.

“Listen Cowboy, there’s not a lot in life that’s within my reach, but when something is, I take it.” His voice was dangerous and low, the same one he used when his boys were getting out of line. He punctuated it with a sharp twist of his wrist as he stroked Jack.

Jack’s head fell back on his neck and he let him—why? Out of some morbid sense of curiosity? Because it was a strange and beautiful thing to have all of Spot’s intensity focused upon him. Jack wondered how many of the boys that blindly followed Spot knew this touch, knew what it felt like to have his slender fingers wrapped tight around their cocks while Spot stared them down.

Jack was defenseless in any case. There wasn’t any saying no to this. He’d known since he’d crossed into the shade of the building that his resolve was going to amount to nothing. Sweat rolled down his temple, right past the outer corner of his eye. He let his eyelids fall shut.

Spot was silent as he tugged on Jack’s cock, thumb gliding perfectly over the head, but the nebulous gaze Jack had closed his eyes to spoke almost louder than words.

“I’m not sur—I don’t—” he stuttered and stumbled, breath spilling out like he’d made a dash from the Battery all the way to Medda’s.

“Don’t what? Don’t wanna come?” Spot laughed like he didn’t care what Jack had to say. It made Jack wonder if he could’ve been anybody, that Spot would’ve found somebody else if Jack hadn’t been on the Island. Or did it have everything to do with Jack in some twisted exercise of power. Spot never ceded Jack anything even when he was on the ground that Jack ruled, albeit with a much looser reign.

He pressed his cheek to the brick, sure that he would see all over Spot’s face, ‘you didn’t even want this, but look at you, begging for it with every rock of your hips.’ He couldn’t bare it, but he had to see it out too, because the burn of Spot’s hand was setting his blood alight, until he felt it even in the soles of his feet.

He moaned when Spot slowed down, tried to push up into the grip, get more of what he wanted, what little Spot would let him have. He became conscious of Spot’s hand pressing down over his chest like he could push right through the skin and bone and squeeze Jack’s heart still.

Jack would be leveled, and all those who had come before and tried to do the same—his father, the rich capitalists on Wall street, the Delancey brothers, the headmaster at the children’s home—would stand amazed, because Jack had never blithely bowed his head and accepted his place.

Spot tortured him, the pad of his thumb sliding pre-come around the head of his cock, pressing into the slit and the sensitive underside until Jack couldn’t resist any longer. He came inside the only pair of trousers he had left, Spot’s hand gripping tight, a groan of almost pain falling past his lips.

Spot leaned in, stretching up on almost tiptoes to cut the sound off with his mouth, and this was not the roman triumph, the parade of strength Jack assumed. It was gentle, shy, like Spot could barely believe it was happening. When Jack turned his head, Spot stepped back, fishing a grubby handkerchief from his pocket and wiping his hand with it.

Jack’s face was on fire, he could feel the blood beat just below the thin skin of his cheeks. Spot cocked an eyebrow at him and walked back out into the midday light. Jack looked down at himself. There were black prints on his bare forearms, rubbed off from Spot’s hands just like the ink had rubbed right off the paper. He could taste it on the dip of his lower lip, and he knew when he undressed tonight there was going to be a trail of bruise like marks pointing straight at Jack’s misdeeds.

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The title comes from the reference to the Roman triumph. During the days of the roman republic, a person who had served well in some form of conquest was given the title imperator, from which was later derrived the term empereror. I played with adding SPQR, which was the formal signiture of government in Rome, meaning the "senate and people of rome" and was borne as the Roman vexilloid until the time of Constantine.

[identity profile] maypirate.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
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Brain splode now, content later.

[identity profile] maypirate.livejournal.com 2008-08-15 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay wait back now.

There's so much that I want to say but I'm trying to keep track of it all even as I'm reeling. I like the details of their world, the little specifics. I adore Spot's confidence and his pseudo-brattiness and how dirty and sweet it is at the same time.

He meant grander things like newspaper routes and passing people on the street, he meant having to look in the mirror afterwards.

I love that line. I just do. Everything it means and it's so brilliant.

He became conscious of Spot’s hand pressing down over his chest like he could push right through the skin and bone and squeeze Jack’s heart still.

I love that image. I like the force and not-force implied behind it.

I was so excited when I saw this and I saved it to read and now I'm reading it and I'm so thrilled and I can't believe I actually requested a fic for Newsies but you are the only person I would ask it of and I can't imagine anything better.

And I also turned on my comment e-mails. I think.

Thank you so much for this, and everything you do for me.

[identity profile] dark-reaction.livejournal.com 2008-08-16 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Your reply is worth the bending of my OTP. I didn't want to make it too lovey dovey, because I still ship Jack/David like a crazy person, but at the same time, I thought. Jack would totally do this, I feel like he's not the sort of person who turns down love wherever he can get it. Anyway, I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKE IT.

[identity profile] xjessica-faithx.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
"OMG Newsie fic!!!"
That's what my brain yelled out when I saw this. lol

I'm a rabid Jack/David shipper, but I can't deny that there is something there with Jack and Spot.

Wonderfully done I can so see this happening!

[identity profile] dark-reaction.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
I like Jack/David too, and when [livejournal.com profile] maypirate asked for it, I was like "OH MY HEART, IT BREAKS!" but I was strangely compelled.

[identity profile] subterrain.livejournal.com 2008-08-20 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Ok, I don't know how I missed this, but I love the seesaw balance of power between them, how you contextualize Jack's pride and Spot's demands in the way they fit into the world, and how this screws with their self-image but - yeah, exactly what Spot said - they take what they can get. UGH. THAT LINE KILLED ME.

I'm so glad you abandoned poor Davey for a while for this, because, YES.

[identity profile] dark-reaction.livejournal.com 2008-08-21 08:05 am (UTC)(link)
OMG, I adore you. How many people can you tell, HEY LOOK I WROTE THIS, and then...have them go. BUT YOU DID. I AM SPOILED. SO MUCH!

Even if I abandoned Davey, I couldn't let it be quite a pleasant experience for Jack, because you know, sex is only fun when it's with someone you love. *cough*. Especially when you're a sixteen year old boy.