hoosierbitch: (S Hunched Over in Bed)
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fic: forever ago we made a record
author: [livejournal.com profile] hoosierbitch 
rating: NC-17
fandom: Chuck
pairing: Bryce/Chuck
notes: This was written for day 2 of [livejournal.com profile] mmom! The lovely [livejournal.com profile] daria234, queen of prompts, provided the inspiration for this fic (the original prompt can be found here!).

summary: “Bryce kept a tape of him and Chuck having sex during their college roommate days. While he is being a spy years later (but pre-series when they have not spoken in years and Bryce assumes that for Chuck's own protection, he will never be able to see Chuck again), Bryce wanks to the tape.”

*

Chuck at nineteen had been tall, lanky, and almost criminally clumsy.

They’d started the recording before they were in bed. Bryce had been checking the focus settings while Chuck stripped down, and it was a small dorm room. Not a ton of room to maneuver even when there wasn’t a tripod in the way.

"Shit, I'm so sorry – did I just kick you? I just kicked you, didn't I? Are you okay?"

The next thing on the tape was fifteen (fourteen and a half) seconds of Bryce laughing and Chuck protesting. Chuck's worried voice weaving in and out of the speakers as he searched for and found a spot on Bryce's thigh that was a bit red.

"It's going to bruise," Chuck announced.

He’d been right. It did. But when Chuck tried to leave the room to grab an ice pack (the click of the door handle, the swish of the terrycloth bathrobe) Bryce had pulled him back, slow dancing with Chuck into the farthest corner of the screen. "So kiss it better."

Then they finally tumbled onto the bed. Right in the center of it. Chuck's nervous eyes were fastened on the camera, but Bryce had just been looking at Chuck.

It was the most embarrassing part of the entire tape. Even more than the tan lines and silly faces and accidental bruises, it was the fact that he’d spent the entire time staring at Chuck like Moses at the burning bush. In disbelief. In awe. In love.

Bryce on the tape ran a hand through Chuck’s wild mop of hair, sighing as Chuck bent his head forward to kiss Bryce's leg.

He could remember the feel of it. Chuck's gentle lips pressing against the wiry hair of his inner thigh so softly, as if he’d been trying to heal Bryce with the brush of his mouth, the touch of his skin, as if Bryce was fixable. Bryce on the tape moaned and pulled Chuck up, up, into the V of his spread thighs, Chuck's mouth had drawn a confident line from Bryce's bruise to his groin to his cock.

Bryce let the tape continue to play as he got undressed. Grabbed the lube from the bedside table and slicked up his palm, settled into bed while the tape rolled through the blowjob. All that was visible was the back of Chuck's head bobbing up and down, and Bryce's face, tangled and tense.

When Bryce came (it hadn’t taken long, it never did, not with Chuck), it was loud. A startled grunt that built into a yell as Chuck's head went lower and lower. Swallowing. Bryce started to stroke himself as he watched. When Chuck had finished swallowing and pulled back, he’d laughed. The gift of Chuck’s laugh was sprinkled throughout the tape. Goofy and casual and sweet.

Bryce closed his eyes and listened. The hum of background noise on the tape (getting old, getting worn, one day it would break), his own breathing in stereo, the sound of traffic outside the hotel, Chuck Bartowski’s laugh.

They kissed for two minutes. Almost exactly. One-hundred and twenty-three seconds because Bryce had been counting the time in his head, making sure his refractory period didn't turn into selfishness. Trying to make sure that it was as good for Chuck as it always was for him.

"All better," Chuck had announced, as Bryce wiggled into a prone position, on his back, his side to the camera. Then Chuck kissed Bryce's thigh again.

Bryce paused the tape and went to get a drink of water. Stared out the hotel window at the Berlin skyline.

Chuck didn't say his name on the tape. There was nothing on it that could identify him. He still shouldn't have brought it with him. He turned from the window towards the television and stared at his face.

He looked young.

Stupid.

He pressed play and listened to himself breathe. Slow and unsteady.

Chuck had spread Bryce’s legs, his big hands on the ticklish skin of Bryce's knees. Both of them turned to look at the camera at the same time (are we really going to do this?) before Chuck pressed Bryce's knees up to his chest and let go. Bryce had held them up. His hands tightening over skin that was still tingling from Chuck's hands, the sore spot that was just beginning to swell.

He squeezed more lube onto his palm and got back into bed as Chuck on the tape began to rim him. It was something they'd done often. Part of their routine. Chuck had read about it online, decided that he wanted to try it, and Bryce had been willing to humor him. Bryce had been willing to do a lot for Chuck.

The first time, Bryce had been so overwhelmed he hadn't been able to come. Not until Chuck had moved from his hole to his cock and then sucked him for about what had felt like hours while fucking him on his fingers.

Bryce was used to it by the time they made the tape. Could come from the touch of Chuck's tongue inside his body, would grow to full hardness after a couple of minutes. He'd been used to it, but that didn't make it any less brilliant.

He watched himself fall apart under Chuck's mouth. The squirming motion of his hips as Chuck rearranged him on the bed, the convulsive grip of his hands as he held himself open, the way his mouth fell open and stayed wide, his eyes closed, neck stretched back.

He looked so goddamn young.

He looked...

He sat up on the hotel bed, onto his knees, and started fingering himself. He was tight. It had been a while. He took his time. He had a few more minutes until the tape got to the good part. A few more minutes of listening to himself gasp before he started to beg Chuck, please, I'm hard again, just fuck me already, Chuck. Greedy. Needy. Stupid.

Chuck had pulled away, finally, when Bryce on the tape was about to start crying with need and Bryce on the bed had two fingers scissoring inside of himself. He rubbed his prostate as he watched Chuck smile. Both sent a jolt through his body. Both made his cock jump. On the tape and in real life. Chuck's fucking smile, wide and beautiful, so open and yet so – intimate. Like he was smiling just for Bryce.

Bryce had let his spread knees fall back onto the bed, bracketing Chuck's hips, welcoming Chuck into the open angles of his body. Chuck was still awkward, when he leaned forward and pressed their bodies together. It wasn't as sexy as it looked in porn because Chuck was heavy enough that Bryce hadn't quite been able to breathe and their ribs pressed against each other painfully as they gasped into each other's open mouths. But their cocks had been hard, and slick with Bryce's semen, and he'd started a rhythm with his hips that Chuck had joined with the experience of all the nights they'd spent together doing just that.

The angle of the camera didn't catch anything more than the sides of their hips, the swell of Chuck's buttocks, the scramble of Bryce's hands across Chuck's long back, the bite of Chuck's teeth into Bryce's shoulder. But he could remember how his cock had felt, in the slick canyon of Chuck's hip, how hot Chuck's cock had been.

He fucked himself with a third finger when Chuck pulled back and murmured something that the tape didn't catch.

He'd mumbled it into Bryce's ear. The left side of his head, so Bryce's sweaty smiling face had hid Chuck’s mouth from view.

Chuck had probably done it intentionally. Stealing a private moment away from the camera that had been making them both feel a bit uncomfortable, a bit more turned on. Whispered something that had made Bryce relax into the bed, made his hips pulse upwards one last time before Chuck sat up between his legs and started spreading lube across his dark red dick.

It might have been I love you. Or I want to fuck you. Sometimes he thinks he remembers Chuck saying you're so hot, or maybe it had been beautiful.

Chuck would probably remember what he'd said.

Bryce in the hotel fucked himself hard, three fingers spread wide, blocking any more thoughts of calling Chuck (I didn't do what you think I did, I had reasons, how could you think I would do that to you, did you - do you still - am I beautiful?).

Chuck on the tape took his time. He always had, camera or no, no matter how much time they'd had to spend together. Hours, days, stolen minutes in the custodian’s closet in the physics lab. He teased Bryce's hole with just the head of his cock, blushing furiously as he moved Bryce's legs to make sure it would all get caught on tape.

"You pervert," Bryce had teased. "Fuck," he'd gasped, as Chuck had thrust half his cock inside Bryce's body in retaliation.

Eight minutes.

Not that long, for them. Chuck usually lasted longer. But he'd been hard even before they'd gotten into the room with the borrowed camera, furtively holding it in front of his body to hide his erection. Chuck had stroked himself as he set up the equipment, watching Bryce make up the bed with clean sheets.

Eight minutes.

For eight minutes Bryce in real life ignored the Berlin skyline and the unfamiliar room and the gun on the bedside table and the fake passport in his briefcase and the job he'd been sent to do, for eight minutes he pretended that Chuck still wanted to smile at him and whisper to him and fuck him until he cried and keened and wrapped his body around every inch of Chuck that he could reach, for eight minutes Bryce pretended it was 1999 and all of the lies he'd told Chuck were ones for which he could be forgiven.

Chuck had started off slow. Long, deep thrusts. Had grinned at Bryce because it was a challenge, a tease, because he knew it would drive Bryce crazy. Bryce always wanted it fast and hard, an adrenaline rush more than pleasure. Chuck had started slow but Bryce had known exactly how and when to twist his hips, known just where on Chuck's neck he should bite to get him to speed up.

Chuck was beautiful. He looked older on the tape than he did in any of his pictures. The muscles in his arms were tense and covered in a sheen of sweat, his hair sticking to the back of his neck. Bryce had loved to tug on the little curls that collected there. Chuck looked powerful, in control, and the entire time that Chuck was inside of Bryce’s body, breaking him open and pushing him hard, he didn't, not for a single second of those eight minutes, look away from Bryce's face. For eight minutes Chuck had looked at Bryce the way Bryce always looked at Chuck.

When Chuck came, Bryce closed his eyes. Twisted his fingers around inside his body and jerked himself quickly. A few tight strokes and he was coming all over the bedsheet, body clamping down around his hand, tense, almost painful.

He turned the tape off before Chuck pulled out. Rewound it before it could get to the part where Chuck sucked him off, where Bryce came for the second time. Loudly. Chuck had scolded him once the camera was off, sure that the neighbors had heard.

Because there were parts of the tape that were more torture than tease.

Because he could remember the burn of Chuck's cock stretching him open. The unbelievable warmth of his mouth. The way Chuck’s cheap sheets had felt underneath his eager body. But he couldn’t remember the way Chuck's fingers had traced circles on his legs when his mouth was worshipping Bryce's cock. Hadn’t noticed it when it had been happening, too overwhelmed at the tightness of Chuck's throat, the pressure of his lips, the twist of his tongue. But the tape offered proof. Chuck's fingers had been moving in slow circles. Delicate. Gentle. Soothing.

The VCR clicked when it finished rewinding.

Bryce hid the tape in the secret compartment of his suitcase, cleaned up the bed, closed the curtains tight, and went to bed.

He would dream.

He would dream only secrets that could be explained and kisses that didn’t end after two minutes and smiles that were mirror images of each other and small circles healing bruised skin. And in the morning he would wake up and be Bryce Larkin. And Chuck Bartowski would be worlds away.

*

feedback is loved and adored!

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Date: 2011-05-02 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] photoash.livejournal.com
:) I had so very much hoped you'd write this prompt but actually hadn't thought you would :D So what a wonderful surprise <3 <3 <3!

I haven't read bottom!Bryce very often but you make it work amazingly well here. I love how equal you portray them, and how loving Chuck is in his subtle way here!

The heartbreaking lines that Bryce can't remember the loving caresses as much as everything else :) that's so good but so SAD! (god everything about Bryce as a character is so sad/tragic - it's why I love him so!)

The details in the video and the contrast to Bryce!Berlin is amazing -- how he can't remember what Chuck said :) but that he's sure Chuck can. That he so desperately wants to call Chuck and ask about his feelings/explain himself but he knows he can't.

I've always thought that no matter how painful Bryce's betrayal must have been to Chuck, it was infinitely worse for Bryce since he had no one after he ran Chuck away and he knew he had hurt someone he loved so badly to save him and could never tell him!

<3 Amazing fic as always :) thank you for writing and sharing <3

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Date: 2011-05-04 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
Y'all were so excited about this prompt, I figured I had to at least try to write it!!! I'm so glad you liked it! :D

(And thank you so much for the email about that one line - I think that tweaking it made it much much better, and folks seem to really like it now that it, y'know, makes sense. *sheepish grin*)

YOU ARE WONDERFUL, AND YOUR COMMENTS MAKE ME SMILE!FLAIL.

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Date: 2011-05-02 10:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lionessvalenti.livejournal.com
Oh, this is so sad! And wonderful, but sad! I think this is the saddest paragraph I've ever read, but it encompasses everything I love about this:

For eight minutes Bryce in real life ignored the Berlin skyline and the unfamiliar room and the gun on the bedside table and the fake passport in his briefcase and the job he'd been sent to do, for eight minutes he pretended that Chuck still wanted to smile at him and whisper to him and fuck him until he cried and keened and wrapped his body around every inch of Chuck that he could reach, for eight minutes Bryce pretended it was 1999 and all of the lies he'd told Chuck were ones for which he could be forgiven.

OW. FOR REALZ. But ♥♥♥♥♥.

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Date: 2011-05-04 11:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
:D :D :D :D :D

Thank you!

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Date: 2011-05-02 11:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coffeethyme4me.livejournal.com
This is gloriously beautiful. Especially this, "Chuck looked powerful, in control, and the entire time that Chuck was inside of Bryce’s body, breaking him open and pushing him hard, he didn't, not for a single second of those eight minutes, look away form Bryce's face. For eight minutes Chuck had looked at Bryce the way Bryce always looked at Chuck."

Simply wonderful.

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Date: 2011-05-04 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
Thanks, sweetheart! So glad you liked it. EVEN IF GOSHDANGIT THERE'S TOTALLY A TYPO IN THAT PARAGRAPH.

form =/= from.

...

:D

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Date: 2011-05-04 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coffeethyme4me.livejournal.com
LOL! Don't sweat it. That's an easy one for the eye to slip right over and the brain to just see as correct. Plus the damn spell check can't catch it.

So are you gonna write more for the MMoM? I, uh, left you some prompts. HINT, HINT!!! ;-D

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Date: 2011-05-03 12:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] speccygeekgrrl.livejournal.com
Ohhh, this is just heartbreakingly good.

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Date: 2011-05-04 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
:D

Thank you so much!

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Date: 2011-05-03 12:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] penguingal.livejournal.com
I don't watch Chuck, but I know who Chuck and Bryce are and omg... this is so amazing. And so delicious. And you continue to just astound me with how fabulous your writing is and your turn of phrase. How you make a simple thing so hot.

Love it.

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Date: 2011-05-04 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
:D :D :D

Thank you so much!!!!!!!

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Date: 2011-05-03 01:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabidchild67.livejournal.com
God, you get me every time! How do you get me every time? This line just undid me completely:

I didn't do what you think I did, I had reasons, how could you think I would do that to you, did you - do you still - am I beautiful?

*sniffle*

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Date: 2011-05-04 11:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
Whee!!! Thanks, sweetie!

*gives you tissues*

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Date: 2011-05-03 02:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ursula4x.livejournal.com
Such grief and yet very hot.

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Date: 2011-05-04 11:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
Thank you, Ursula! (And lovely icon, btw! :D)

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Date: 2011-05-03 04:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daria234.livejournal.com
AMAZING. I knew that it would be amazing as soon as I heard you wrote it. But this was Fucking. Amazing.

Moving and funny and complicated and honest and just AMAZING.

I love that Bryce counts the seconds that each part lasts. That he shouldn't bring the tape on the job but he does. That he knows the tape won't last forever - subtle and perfect.

And Bryce's pov on what he looks like on camera, his thoughts that Chuck looked at him like he were fixable, his embarrassment at how he stared at Chuck even as he keeps staring at how he stared at Chuck - this was fascinating too.

And SO HOT. Chuck making him lose control. Bryce needing to watch Chuck make him lose control. The contrast with the Berlin skyline and the controlled environment of his spylife.

This line: "I didn't do what you think I did, I had reasons, how could you think I would do that to you, did you - do you still - am I beautiful?".

and the fact that Chuck steals a moment from the camera, the fact that Bryce looks for an excuse to call him. The sex and the psychology and ALL OF IT.

thanks so much for writing this. I didn't want to beg, but I really wanted it, and this is so much more than what i asked. LOVE IT







(no subject)

Date: 2011-05-04 11:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
YAAAAAY!!!!!!

*happy!flail*

I'm so glad you like it! The prompt was SO GOOD that a lot of the fic pretty much wrote itself! I just wrote the typos. *glares at keyboard*

But seriously - thank you so much for your wonderful prompts and your fantastic feedback, I really really appreciate it. I'm kinda proud of this one, and I wouldn't have written it without you. ♥

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Date: 2011-05-03 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] misura.livejournal.com
This was delightfully hot and inevitably bittersweet (as these two tend to be) and for all that the sex tape was hot and delicious and bringing to mind a happier time with a happier Bryce and Chuck, I think my favorite moment was Bryce trying to call to mind what Chuck told him while his lips were hidden from the camera. Not remembering it in the end, and then thinking that Chuck would have remembered.

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Date: 2011-05-04 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
:D

Thanks so much, sweetie! I know that the canonical fate for these two really colors all of the pre-series fic about them. In my brain-canon, though, they totally end up happy together. They get a house with Sarah on the beach and have lots of dogs.

I have to have happy endings or my heart wilts.

(Many, many dogs.)

THANK YOU!

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Date: 2011-05-08 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eternal-moonie.livejournal.com
WOOHOO!!!!!!!!

Absolutely LOVE this!!!

I've written 2 Chuck fics once. "f:chuck" on my journal.

Keep up the great work!

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Date: 2011-05-13 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
Thank you so much for the feedback, I really appreciate it!

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Date: 2011-05-09 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladycat713.livejournal.com
Very hot and sweet.

There's a small sadistic part of my brain that wants Sarah to find the tape while she's with Bryce and maybe she looks Chuck up and then tells Bryce she can see way he kept the tape and tells him to either go get or she'll get him for herself.

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Date: 2011-05-13 11:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
Oooh. Sexy. :-)

In my head-canon, they totally end up in the hottest threesome of all time. And nobody dies.

Thank you for the feedback!
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Date: 2011-05-13 11:18 pm (UTC)

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Date: 2011-05-10 04:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nevcolleil.livejournal.com
Wow! :D This is so hot and so bittersweet and so amazing! What a beautiful, beautiful fic. It's perfect on its own, but oh do I want a sequel that reunites Chuck and Bryce and leads them in a direction much happier than canon!

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Date: 2011-05-13 11:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
Oh, thank you so much! In my head!canon, they totally have a happy ending - maybe I'll get to writing it down, at some point...

Thank you!

Beautifully written

Date: 2011-05-13 11:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] t1gerlily.livejournal.com
Raw and lovely.

Re: Beautifully written

Date: 2011-05-13 11:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
Thank you so much!

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Date: 2011-05-16 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] afiawri.livejournal.com
:O Whooooooa.

That was magical.

And just. Just. *weird flaily hand movement of awe*

The tape getting old and someday going to break. That blew my mind. I mean. You write hot stuff all the time and it's details like that that grab me and shake me.

I love this. Bryce's angst. How well you write the past and present alongside each other. How very very real this feels.

And the details. RAWR. I do not know how you do it. And every time I try to study your writing I get sucked back in the story. Probably my mind telling me Shhh. Magic is not to be explained. Shut up and enjoy the AMAZING porn and the beautiful, heart breaking angst.

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Date: 2011-06-01 08:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hoosierbitch.livejournal.com
THANK YOU!!!!

I gotta give Daria credit for the tape getting worn out, that was part of the original prompt.

Your feedback makes me flail at my screen in a computer!endangering manner. So. Thank you. ♥