He kissed him again, and while Eric stiffened under his hand, as he let out what had to be just about the sexiest little moan that Theo had ever heard, Theo gripped him through the fabric of his boxers, and he squeezed.
 
 “Lie still,” Theo ordered. “Let me help you.” He wanted to make Eric feel good, and he wanted him not to have to expend too much energy. Also, well, if he were completely honest with himself, he sort of liked the idea that he could control Eric like that, that he had him at his mercy.
 
 “Teddy,” Eric groaned, and then he gave a hoarse little cry as Theo started to actually stroke him, all the way from the base, along the entire length to the slick, leaking head, and all through his boxers. That made it seem especially dirty to Theo, for some reason.
 
 It was, by far, the most beautiful thing that Theo had ever seen. So beautiful that he could barely even remember to draw breath into his lungs. Eric was lying as still as he could, but he couldn’t even help but writhe, and his cheeks were flushed with the fever but also with desire, growing pleasure. Those beautiful little brown nipples were fully erect, and Theo took a moment to suck one into his mouth, intrigued by how the flesh was warmer than even the heat of his mouth.
 
 He sucked him, and he stroked him, and he ignored the throbbing of his own arousal, for now. He would take care of it later, but maybe he should have known better than to think he’d get away with that. Sick or not, Eric was just too giving in bed to allow that.
 
 “Touch yourself,” Eric practically begged, his full pink lips parted with his rapid breathing. “Make yourself come, baby.”
 
 Baby. Were they calling each other that now? Theo liked it, and he liked the idea, too. With his attention called to the throbbing, swollen ache in his pants, he was quite uncomfortable, and before he even had a chance to think about it, he was practically tearing open his own pants and pulling himself out.
 
 It would only take seconds. Only seconds to bring himself off, and he stroked Eric more firmly, more demandingly, as his other hand wrapped around the length of his erection, more squeezing than actually stroking. More trying to hold back the full force of his release than trying to chase after it.
 
 “Theo,” Eric whimpered, and seeing that, hearing it, was enough to make Theo almost shoot off right then and there. This big, strong, muscular man was so vulnerable to him at this moment, in a way which Theo wasn’t used to. This connection between them was only getting stronger all the time, and right at the moment, Theo couldn’t think that that was his imagination.
 
 It was incredible to him that Theo could be the one to make Eric feel like this. To make this amazing man lose control. He felt more and more precum seeping into his hand, and the rush of power which came from that was incredible. It was him who had done this, and Eric had not only let him but had almost insisted upon it.
 
 It started to hurt too much not to stroke himself, so Theo surrendered to the inevitable and let his hand move over his entire length, as slowly as he could make himself do it. Which wasn’t, truthfully, that slowly, but since he wanted nothing more than to rut into his hand and spill his cum into it, even that took willpower.
 
 “Theo! Oh fuck, Teddy,” Eric shuddered and then those boxers were soaked all the way through with a hot gush of cum, the spicy scent of it filling the air between them.
 
 “Eric,” Theo moaned in return, and even though he wasn’t touching himself with enough force or speed for him to come in normal circumstances, in this case, that was all it took. Knowing that Eric had come for him was more than enough, and he shuddered and his hips arched, his own fluids coming out of him with so much force that they shot out and painted Eric’s boxers with yet more of the thick, sticky fluid.
 
 Carefully, Theo eased those soaked boxers off of him, and then he tucked him in under the sheet and kissed him on the forehead.
 
 “Rest,” he whispered, but Eric was already drifting off. After a while of watching him, Theo lay down and did the same, and when Jupiter jumped up onto the bed and curled up between them, by their feet, it felt like a little family being formed.
 
 The idea didn’t even scare a nearly asleep Theo.