TITLE:  Mad Maxed
FANDOM:  Mad Max

CHALLENGE:  Use opening line - "I want you"
RATING:  NC-17 some chapters
WARNING:  M/M slash, B/D-ish, violence, angst, language
CATEGORY: First time
DISCLAIMER:  The usual - don't own them, not trying to make any profit, etc, etc.
CHARACTERS:  From the movie -
Main Force Patrol officers Max Rockatansky, Jim Goose and their commander Fifi.  All others - original minor characters.
SUMMARY:  Takes place before the events of the first movie.  Max is not married, has not met his future wife Jesse and is in for a surprise about his partner on the force and his own feelings about what he truly needs in a lover.
AUTHOR:  Max (Sometimes known as MaxG)  goss6@sover.net        
FEEDBACK:  Very much appreciated!!

NOTE:  Author fully admits that she is not up on Aussie slang and that characters will sound a bit “Americanized.”

                                                     

CHAPTER 1

 

"I want you," Goose said to himself, as he stared at Max's lithe form taking off his leather jacket.

 

"Huh?" came from the other man in a sort of distracted voice.

 

"Ah, I want you to grab the shower first while I get some eats and beer across the street," Goose quickly rushed; mortified that Max had over-heard his wishful thinking.

 

"Beer definitely sounds good after today," Max agreed and stepped into the motel bathroom, leaving Goose to sigh with relief that his friend had bought the cover-up.

 

They were in a motel room, having been on a long chase where they eventually apprehended the criminal, dropped him off at that county's pen, and then decided to take a room at the local motel instead of driving another hundred miles home in the middle of the night. 

 

It had seemed like the reasonable thing to do, and they had actually both laughed when the proprietor had told them that the only room available had one double bed. 

 

"Fine with me," Max had smiled amiably.  "We'll flip a coin for the bed."

 

"Sure," Goose had nodded, as his heart had started thumping at another image coming to mind. 

 

Goose had been interested in Max for years, but only recently had he realized he’d gone and fallen in love with his partner on the force, his best friend.  He was terrified of Max ever finding out about the double life he led, the women he saw as a cover and the men he saw on the secret side.

 

It wasn't as though Max had ever said anything derogatory about the gay men that they worked with at the department, but Goose had known back when they first met at the police academy and became friends that Max wasn't interested in men in that way.  Max Rockatansky was about as heterosexual as a man could get, and, because of that, Goose had assumed that Max wouldn't have wanted to be friends, or to remain friends, even after all that time, if he knew that his partner was gay.

 

It was simply a chance Goose didn't want to take.  Unrequited lust turned unrequited love, and he was willing to live with it instead.

 

Little did he know, Lady Luck had a different idea.

 

CHAPTER 2

 

Max sauntered out of the shower with just his boxers on and plunked himself in a chair by the table to watch TV while Goose escaped into the shower.  No matter how many times Goose saw Max nude or half nude in the locker room and showers at the station, it never failed to arouse him in some way, whether mental or even worse, physical, and he sure as hell didn't want Max to find out by mistake.

 

By the time he came out after a quick beating off in the shower, Max had already eaten half the food Goose had picked up and was lounging in the bed.

 

"Anything good on the telly?" Goose asked as he sat down to eat, avoiding Max's form sprawled out on top of the bed covers.

 

"Same buncha shit."

 

"Yeah," Goose nodded. "Not enough variety, huh?"

 

"Got that right," Max agreed while he scratched his thigh for a moment and guzzled yet another can of beer.  "Bored out of my mind sometimes. Everything’s the same in life."

 

Goose almost choked on his food and began to wonder if he should have put his pants on over his boxers.  - It's gonna be a long night, - he thought wearily.

 

"Hey," Max said after a few minutes with a slight slur.  "Getting really late. Ready to flip for the bed?"

 

"Sure."  Goose stood and rummaged through his pants pockets and then Max's pants pockets for change.  "Shit, nothing but bills. Go ahead and take the bed, mate. I'll take the floor." 

 

"'ssss not fair," Max stuttered drowsily from the beer and rolled over on his right side to face the middle of the bed.  "Share if ya want."

 

- OH MY GOD! - Goose thought at the prospect of actually sharing a bed with Max.  They had slept together sitting up in the front of their squad car many times and on couches with other guys at the station during down times, but never once had they shared a bed!  He wasn't sure if he could go through with it.  Hell, who was he kidding?  He was going to jump at the chance, innocent sharing or not.

 

Faster than Max could fall asleep, Goose laid down on his side facing the man.  He was beginning to show that arousal now, but with Max half-drunk and unlikely to look south of the border at another man in bed with him, he was pretty sure he was safe.

 

Goose reached up and shut the light off, but had neglected to close the curtains so the room stayed illuminated just enough to make each other's features out.  He was glad for it.  Goose really enjoyed any chance he got to stare into Max's beautiful blue eyes, even though they were a bit bleary at the moment.

 

"So, you been bored lately?" he started, hoping to keep Max awake for a while since there was no way he was ready to fall asleep yet.

 

"Yeah, that bitch Linda is driving me up the wall. Hangs on me all the time. Calls me constantly. Picks fights when I'm not in the mood to go out. Hinting around for a ring. You know what I mean."

 

"Well, why don't you dump her? Always someone else around. You never have trouble hooking up when you want to."  - That's an understatement, - he thought to himself about Max.  - Women swoon over you just like a few other guys I know do. -

 

"Yeah, I know," Max laughed, aware of his unusually good looks, although it did embarrass him a bit to be judged like that.  "But was getting tired of that scene. Guess I'm looking for more. Just don't know if Linda is it or not."

 

"Looking for more? Mad Max Rockatansky is looking for more?" Goose teased, using his 'mad' nickname that he had earned from his strength and intensity on the force. 

 

Max was the best law enforcement agent they had, and Goose and most others easily acknowledged it.  The public was lucky to have Max as a cop protecting their roads, and Goose felt lucky to be able to ride shot gun with him most of the time.

 

"Awwww 'sssss not funny," Max laughed again.  "Can't I have more too? So many of the blokes we know have real relationships with women or men. Just wanna find the right one too. Ain't getting any younger." 

 

True, although he was only 25 to Goose's 24.

 

"Hey, about that."  Goose decided to take the plunge on a subject they'd never once actually talked about openly.  "How you feel about the men at the station that go out with other men?"

 

Max froze for a moment at the question, not quite sure how Goose felt about it either and feeling strangely uncomfortable to be talking about it in bed with a man.  "Well, doesn't bother me at all personally," he said truthfully after a moment.  "Whatever feels right for a person, I guess. You?"

 

"Nope, don't bother me either," Goose grinned and wiggled his eyebrows at Max in a mock flirtatious way just to see how Max would react.  He knew he was playing with fire, but he just couldn't stop himself.

 

That 'fire' reacted all right, but it was just like he usually did with Goose.

 

He laughed.

 

But that time, his left hand reached out and pushed in mock horror at Goose's hip in a joking way as though he wanted his friend away from him.  He didn't, of course.  He was just teasing back.

 

Goose didn't laugh, however.  He suddenly knew what he had to do.  It happened so fast that if he had stopped to think about it first, he never in a million years would have done it.  He grabbed right hold of Max's wrist with his right hand and held it against his erection through his boxers. 

 

There would be no doubt in Max's mind that Jim Goose was turned on.

 

CHAPTER 3

 

HEAT!  The word flashed through Max's shocked mind at feeling the warm hardened length against his palm. 

 

The next word wasn't nearly as nice. 

 

- FAGGOT! - he thought next in horror and tried to pull his hand back.

 

It didn't work.

 

Goose had a firm grip on his wrist, Max was physically tired and half-drunk, and his hand stayed pressed against that new territory much longer than he consciously wanted it to.  It had almost become like a tug of war between them. 

 

Max's eyes widened and he tried to pull back again, but Goose had thrown all caution to the wind, and he was ready to accept the consequences for his actions.  He was just hoping that Max wouldn't tear his throat out for it.

 

He wasn't far from it.  Max was staring down at the other man's hand holding his and knew that he had to make a decision.  He could use stronger force, rip his hand away while punching out with his other.  But that would mean deliberately harming his best friend in the process, and it was a bridge they had never needed to cross.

 

- GOOSE IS GAY GOOSE IS GAY GOOSE IS GAY! - went screaming through his mind at the revelation.  He was shocked beyond belief, his eyes showed it, but he struggled to maintain composure and not bring himself to offend his friend, who obviously had decided to show his feelings for him.  He didn't know if he admired Goose for being courageous or if he felt betrayed for not having known all their years as friends.  It bothered him a lot, and the more he considered it, his hand stayed right where it was, no longer trying to move away. 

 

One thing Max did refuse to consider was why he would even allow his hand to stay there while they stared at each other.  It was a prospect Max wasn't ready to think about just yet.

 

Minutes passed that felt like an eternity between them, and Goose lessened his grip on Max's hand, praying that his friend wouldn't strike out at him suddenly.

 

Max did no such thing.  As long as Goose continued to hold his wrist, Max continued to keep his palm on the man's crotch.  It was almost as though Max was becoming entranced by the strange feelings sweeping through him, the way Goose was staring at him so earnestly, the almost tangible scent of both desire and fear rolling off the man towards him.  It was a combination that would prove to be Max's undoing, as it prickled over and under his skin in a way he had never felt with a woman in bed, and he found that it was a new sensation he was beginning to like.

 

However, the moment he realized that and felt his own physical arousal beginning in response to the signals Goose was sending, he snapped right out of it.  His own groin may have been tightening, but his mind was free again.   "Lemme go," he growled.

 

Goose immediately did.  He'd heard that tone of warning in Max's voice before when they handled criminals, and he certainly didn't want it ever directed at him.  He knew perfectly well what Max was capable of and why he lived up to the name Mad Max on the road.

 

"Sorry," he started, but quickly shut his mouth at the flare of fury that erupted from the eyes in front of him.

 

Max rolled fast from the bed, fearful that he would actually hit his friend if he didn't.  In seconds he was sitting in the one easy chair in the corner of the room with a pillow and a blanket, a parting message spoken before he closed his eyes.  "You come near me, I'll kill you."

 

CHAPTER 4

 

The next morning Max awoke to a very familiar sound he knew from years of spending time with men, and of course, with himself.  Goose was whacking off.  The man was trying to be quiet about it, but his breathing gave him away, his fist was making that very specific sound of flesh against flesh, and, most surprisingly, he was doing it on the floor under a blanket. 

 

Max didn't know, but Goose had felt strange sleeping in the bed after what had happened between them, and once he was sure Max had fallen asleep, he had crawled onto the floor to spend the night.  He was also feeling surprised, like Max, about what he was doing there and not able to bring himself to stop. 

 

Goose had woken from fitful dreams of the way Max had looked at him at first, the way he had kept touching him, although admittedly his fingers had never once moved.  Goose just couldn't get it out of his mind that maybe he had actually reached something in Max, that maybe there was the slightest most infinitesimal chance that Max would give him what he needed, that maybe he had done the right thing after all.

 

He was about to find out.

 

Max stalked over to him, indignant at knowing that the man was likely using him to relieve himself, but when he looked down at Goose, saw the splotched face of lust colored red highlighting his cheeks, the anger receded, and that strange prickling feeling washed over his skin again.

 

His blood began hammering through his veins, his groin began to tighten, but that time he didn't run away from it.  That time he met it head on, although not in the way that Goose would have certainly liked the most.

 

A bare foot rose and kicked the blanket off Goose, exposing the man to Max's view.  Goose struggled not to reach for cover, sensing that the move was aggressive but not actually meant to be harmful.  His hand stopped moving, however, not sure what to do, although it stayed gripped to his length, a length that Max was staring at closely for the first time ever.

 

Slowly he started stroking himself again, praying he was making the right choice, and while Max watched with his own quickening of breath, Goose soon cried out softly at the feel of his seed flowing over his hand under the intensity of the gaze Max held him under.  It had turned out to be the best damn hand job he had ever given himself.

 

Max continued to stand frozen for a moment, as the heat in his eyes cooled and he began to breathe normally again.  He didn't know what to do.  He had actually watched a man jerk off in front of him, a man he knew desired him.  It both revolted him and thrilled him.  He could feel something strange in Goose calling to him, but he was far from ready to accept it.

 

And, at that point, it was unlikely he ever would.  Max was just in too much turmoil at the turn his life had taken.  With a snort of disgust at himself, he stepped right over Goose and went into the bathroom.  It was time to take a very cold shower.

 

When he came out, feeling marginally better, especially physically, Goose was dressed and standing by the window.  He turned to Max, a hopeful look on his face that their friendship was intact, but Max avoided his eyes, grunting, "I'm going home."

 

Two hours of silence and tension later, Max dropped Goose off at his flat and went to his beach house to sleep the sleep of a very confused man.

 

CHAPTER 5

 

The next morning Goose heard the honk of the car horn outside his flat and hurried outside, relieved beyond belief that Max was there to pick him up for work like usual.  He slid into the passenger seat with a, "Morning," which Max ignored, and they headed down the highway in silence again until Max finally spoke. 

 

"Should've told me." 

 

"I know," Goose immediately sighed.  "I'm sorry."

 

"How long?" Max asked, although his eyes never left the road.

 

"Long before we met," he admitted. 

 

"Girls?"

 

"No. Not like that."

 

"Guys at the station?"

 

"Yeah, a few. Some I meet at the clubs."

 

"Clubs?"

 

"Yeah, not around here. I take the bus. Hard to describe."

 

"Try me."

 

"I don't know if I should."

 

And right then and there, Goose knew he had found the man he was yearning for.

 

Max's head whipped around, a snarl erupting from his lips in a punctuated voice. "I.SAID.TRY.ME."

 

It washed over Goose perfectly, and he had to control the urge not to smile.  He knew what he was going to do now to convince Max of their compatibility.  "I .... I go to the clubs looking for a specific kinda man. I'm a very hard-core bottom, Max.  Do ya know what that means?"

 

"Yeah," Max murmured, his eyes back on the road.  "I think I know what you're saying. You like men to order you around. That kinda stuff."

 

"A lot more to it than that, but yes, essentially."

 

"You like being hurt?"  Max really wanted some answers now.

 

"No! I mean, it depends. With the right dom a little pain is great. But it's so fucking hard to trust a bloke to know when to hold back, not cross the line ..... Shit, mate, you think I'm sick, don't you?"   - Damnit! I said too much! -

 

"No Goose," Max denied very quietly.  "But I'm not gonna pretend I understand it."

 

Goose's mouth opened and closed a couple of times, wondering if he should say just one more thing or not. 

 

"Spit it out," Max said at seeing his friend's indecision.

 

With an audible sigh, Goose continued.  "What I'm looking for is something that feels right, feels perfect. I don't feel it with the other blokes."

 

"Are you saying you feel it with me?" Max asked with narrowed eyes turning to him.

It was absolutely truth time.

 

"Yeah, Max. I do. I feel it, and I think you feel it too. I think that it's in you to be a fucking fantastic dom for me, and I think you'll really like it if you give it a chance."

 

In response to hearing what he was already questioning in his own body, Max's hands tightened on the wheel, his gaze fixed on the road, and he was grateful that they pulled into the station before he had a chance to consider what to say.

 

Although the day went normally in most ways, Goose went about unfurling his plan.  He took to standing close to, although being careful not to touch, Max as much as possible.  He even began anticipating the man's wants and needs, getting things for him, doing things for him before Max could do it for himself. 

 

It wasn't long before everyone in the station saw what was happening, and it wasn't long  before Max decided that he liked being treated in that way.  Girls had done it in the past, but he had always sensed that they didn't really mean it; they had only wanted him in bed or as marriage material, not something on a deeper level.

 

He convinced himself that he wasn't interested in a deep level past friendship with Goose, but he couldn't deny that watching Goose in action as he brought him coffee and donuts, magazines or anything else he mentioned or reached for, was very fulfilling.  - Hell, if the man doesn't want to, he can stop anytime he wants. I'm not forcing him to wait on me hand and foot. Not even asking him. -

 

Well, he wasn't asking him ....... yet.

 

As a couple weeks passed by, Max was the one that subconsciously moved it to the next level.  He began showing Goose with little looks and short curt words what he wanted every day around the station.  Goose thought he had died and gone to heaven.  His plan was working.

 

The men around them continued to watch, and unbeknownst to Goose and Max, a wager was going on behind their backs.  It was great entertainment to see what would happen between the two, and money was quickly passed back and forth between their friends and co-workers.

 

Goose suspected they were being watched, and he played up to it as best he could without being obvious to Max, who pretended to be oblivious to the change in their environment.  The two had yet to touch in any way, and as far as Max was concerned, that was fine with him.  He was more than willing to keep seeing an annoying Linda for sex before he'd let himself touch another man.

 

If he and Goose hadn't been such good friends for years and good partners on the force, Max probably would have quit his job and moved away.  He was that scared deep down inside of changing.

 

Goose knew that of course and spent those weeks being a perfect servant, but not in any way that would frighten his prospective lover off.  He knew it would have to be a slow process with Max.  His partner was the most stubborn man he knew, and it was one of the traits about him that he loved.

 

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The incident that brought it to a head happened over a month later in the leisure yard where the men went to blow off steam by lifting weights, throwing sports equipment around or just lounging around in the sun for a while between missions.

 

A new man had joined the force recently, and Goose had immediately sensed a competitor.

 

Bentley was a sub just like him.  To a gay man, it was obvious by the way the man looked at Max and also at the other true dom, Johnson, in their station.  The force was made up of an almost equal proportion of gay and straight men.  But, as gay men knew more so than straight men, doms or tops in the gay world were not as common as bottoms.   The few straight men who had actually talked to Goose about it had told him that they thought it was backwards, that it would be the other way around, but nothing went the way you expected in life, and that was one of those things.   Men were by nature the more aggressive sex of the species, but when men desired other men for sexual needs, it was more often than not that they wanted to be the reverse as a bed partner.  At least that was the way it seemed. 

 

And, because of that, a man who had a good top would fight to keep him by tooth and nail if necessary rather than risk losing him to the sea of bottoms waiting to snatch him up.  It was a very large sea, and a man like Max, just coming into his new sexuality, could easily be swallowed whole if Goose didn’t stand up and protect him.  Not just for Max, but also for himself.

 

With that in mind, plus the fact that his body was tensing with plain 'ole jealousy, he watched Max converse with Bentley in the yard one day, laughing and talking, while he stood on the other side and tried to talk to other men. 

 

- Can’t you see he’s flirting with you? – he wanted to scream across the yard at Max. 

 

Max didn’t see a thing.  He was just having a conversation and was still fairly naïve with noticing at how men, besides Goose now, flirted with other men.  It wasn’t until Bentley actually touched his arm during the telling of a joke that Max started to get a clue.  He wasn’t about to say anything, of course, as he had yet to make an announcement of any kind about his relationship with Goose or his sexuality in any way other than what the men had seen and heard of in his experiences with the local women. 

 

Max was never one for kissing and telling.   As much as he knew that he could go out with most of the women that flirted with him on a regular basis, he was actually a bit shy about asking someone out on a first date.  It made him even more endearing to women, as Max didn't have a true wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am reputation like one would have expected.

 

With a smile, he ended the conversation and drifted away, leaving Bentley with the swooning feeling that many women often felt when Max Rockatansky smiled at them. 

 

“You bitch,” Goose was soon hissing in Bentley’s face as he pushed the man.  Max had already moved across the yard and wasn’t paying any attention.

 

“Who are you calling a bitch?” Bentley protested and regained his footing. 

 

“Stay away from Max.”

 

“Oh yeah? Well I heard Mr. Gorgeous was still on the fence about it, that apparently your scuzzy ass wasn’t doing it for him. I bet I could get him to fall off that fence onto mine in less than a day.”

 

Goose didn’t even answer.  He did what he had wanted to do the first moment he caught Bentley looking at Max the other day.  He decked him.

 

Bentley staggered but jumped back up and tackled Goose to the ground with a roar that caught the ears of every man in the yard who hadn’t already been watching with keen interest.  Faces turned to see the two roll across the dirt, hitting and swearing as blood flew from mouths and arms and legs battered at the other.

 

It didn’t last long.

 

In less than a minute Goose was flying up against a chain link fence under Max’s fury while Bentley slowly climbed to his feet.   Max was in a rage.  He knew what the men must have been fighting about.  He wasn’t stupid.  But it made him feel like a piece of meat, and that royally pissed him off.

 

“Don’t you fucking move!” he shouted at Goose and turned back to Bentley.

 

Bentley was grinning with victory, thinking he had won Max’s favor, but if anything, he had won his contempt.  The mad man stalked over to him, as Bentley’s grin faltered at seeing the look on Max’s face.  But the sub in Bentley kept him standing still, only a slight whimper of fear escaped while Max leaned close and whispered in his ear.  “I’m not gay, but if you fuck with Goose again, I’ll ram my shotgun up your ass and blow your fucking head off.”

 

The man nodded quickly in understanding and sagged considerably when Max stormed out of the yard ……. leaving Goose on the fence.

 

CHAPTER 6

 

Four hours later, Goose was still there. 

 

He had been told not to move, and even if he wanted to now, his knees had become locked, and he would have fallen flat on his face in the dirt.  The muscles in his arms were in agony too, holding them up against the chain with his fingers laced through the fence, defying gravity.  It wasn’t the horrible pain of his cramping exhausted body, however, that was doing him in.  It was standing all afternoon in the hot Australian sun in his full body leather uniform that was making Jim Goose truly suffer.

 

Max didn’t care in the least.  It had turned into a battle of wills, and as far as he was concerned, Goose could let go of the fence anytime he wanted and come inside.  Sure, they’d probably have an argument about it, but then they could go back to the way things had been the last month, a way that Max had become comfortable enough with.

 

Unfortunately, Goose didn’t want that anymore.  He desperately needed more from Max, and waiting for Max to “release” him was his way of taking that stand and making it known.  The man he knew was his dom would come to his aid or Goose would stay by that fence until he collapsed.

 

Fifi was the one that finally broke the battle.  Unknown to both men, he had already taken Goose and Max off the work schedule for the rest of the day and night, and he was quite ready to say something to his best man on the force about what was going on.

 

“ROCKATANSKY!” he bellowed from his office.  “GET YOUR ASS IN HERE NOW!”

 

Max stood from the couch where he had been trying to watch TV with one eye while keeping the other eye on the figure of Goose far across the yard.  With a shrug of nonchalance at his co-workers, he took his time sauntering into their commander’s office.

 

Max had been yelled at many times on the force.  It came with being so good at what he did that he was sometimes TOO good and got in trouble for it too.  He didn’t care one whit about being dressed down or reprimanded when it was called for, whether he agreed with it or not.  Fifi didn’t intimidate him in any way.  He highly respected his superior, and he enjoyed working for the man most of the time.

 

“What’s up, Fifi?” he asked, as he walked up to the man’s desk. 

 

Fifi stood, walked around the desk and towered over Max.  He was a very large man, tall and broad, but he knew Max wasn’t one to even notice and break a sweat.  “Take a look out that window, Max,” he said and grabbed his arm, yanking him across the floor to the window.

 

“Yeah, nice day, isn’t it?” Max quipped.

 

“Sod off ya moron!  Don’t ya see what’s happening?”

 

“All I see is an idiot sweating in the sun.”

 

“That idiot is one of my best men, and I want you to march your ass out there and bring him in.”

 

“No fucking way.”  Max stood firm, his lips set in stubbornness that Fifi recognized well from past confrontations.

 

“You’ll do this, Rockatansky, or I’ll give Goose a new partner.”

 

That certainly made Max’s lips twitch.

 

“Who?” he demanded.

 

“Johnson,” Fifi smirked.  He knew just what man to throw at Max, the only other very dominant gay man on the force.  Either Max would step forward to protect his partner, his friend, and his quite likely soon to be lover, or Fifi would go out there, forcibly pull Goose off the fence and assign him a new partner to ride shotgun with, a man that Fifi knew had a past history with Goose.

 

“Fine,” Max sneered.  Giving in didn’t come easy to him.   “I’ll bring his sorry ass in.”

 

“Not just that,” Fifi smirked again, knowing he had Max by the balls in a way he had never truly had before. 

 

“What?” Max snapped with impatience, staring up at his commander.

 

“Take this,” Fifi grinned, dropping a key into his hand.  “It’s to my two rooms out back. I want you to bring Goose there, take care of him, and I don’t want to see either of your faces until noon tomorrow.”

 

The commander of the station knew it was just a matter of time, like the other men did, before Max officially claimed Goose as his own.  He was just quite surprised that it hadn’t happened yet, as most of the men, gay and straight, could see what a perfect couple Max and Goose would make in that way.  Besides, he had a little money on that wager too, and it never hurt to stack the deck in your favor if given the chance.

 

“Why can’t I just drop him home like normal?” Max questioned.  He wasn’t too thrilled with the prospect of spending another night with the man.  It was something he had been careful not to do since that life-changing incident in the motel.

 

“This is a fucking order, Rockatansky. Do it, and that’s final.”   - And maybe when you come out tomorrow, you’ll have straightened this mess up between the two of you one way or the other and even put a little change in my pockets. –

 

“You’re the boss,” Max snorted with a roll of his eyes and headed out to the yard.

 

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It only took one close up look at Goose for Max to admit to himself that he had been wrong.  He should have given in and “released” the man much sooner.  Max had never seen someone be so close to heat exhaustion and still stand conscious, although barely conscious, that was for sure.

 

“Goose, you wanker,” he said softly in remorse.

 

The man’s head slowly lifted.  He had been unaware that Max was even there.  His agony was so great that he had turned his mind into his safe place that he used only when a dom got too rough and he was unable to stop it.  It was a place where nothing could physically hurt him, a place to keep himself from going insane. 

 

Anyone else’s voice probably wouldn’t have even reached to him in that place, but Goose had already willingly conditioned himself to respond to Max’s voice, the voice of his master, the voice of the man he loved, and he responded to that voice with an anguished whimper that barely reached Max’s ears.

 

Anguished or not, those ears were still hardened, just like the man’s heart in that matter.  Max simply couldn’t comprehend how someone could go to such an extreme to make a point, especially a point to someone who didn’t want anything to do with that point.  It didn’t make sense to Max, but he was too tired of the battle to take his anger out on Goose at the moment.  Instead, he asked with simple weariness, “Why mate? Why would you do this to yourself?”

 

“For you, only for you,” came from the swollen cracked lips of the man before his head fell again against his chest.  Exactly what was needed to pierce through the steel surrounding Max’s resolve. 

 

With a deep sigh, he finally said the one word left to say, the word that was needed to end his friend’s suffering.  “Move.”

 

With a loud groan, Goose released the chain link fence and fell forward, unable to stop himself.  He would have landed on the ground, probably broken his nose and other bones in his face if Max hadn’t caught him, heaved him up around his neck and across both shoulders, and placed him in a secure hold to carry him back inside.

 

With a grunt from the weight of a man only a few pounds lighter than himself, he walked through the station, ignored all the stares, and brought Goose right into the rooms in the back, gently laying the beaten body on Fifi’s large bed.

 

Goose hardly stirred as Max quickly pulled the leather jacket of his uniform open to let cooler air reach him.  “Water,” Goose rasped, and Max ran into the kitchen, bringing back a large glass and holding it with a shaking hand as Goose drank while Max supported his head with his other hand.

 

“Better?” Max asked, feeling real pains of guilt at what he had let happen.

 

Goose didn’t respond.  His head fell back, passed out into a deep sleep, and Max immediately checked his pulse and rise and fall of his chest.

 

When he was satisfied that Goose would recover fully in time, he continued stripping the man down to just his boxers, left the room long enough to run a bath full of lukewarm water, and carried in his arms the sleeping man to the tub to be cleaned.  After over four hours in the hot sun in his full uniform, Goose really needed it.

 

The bathtub was filled with an entire bottle of shampoo, as Max didn’t want to touch any more of Goose than he had to, and he let him soak in the water wearing those boxers while he ran a soapy washcloth over and under his arms, around his neck, face and upper chest, through his hair and wherever the water in the tub didn’t reach. 

 

Once he felt sure that Goose was as clean as he was going to get with the only type of bath Max was willing to give him, he lifted him out, laid him back on the bed and proceeded to dry him off with soft towels.  Goose had yet to stir.

 

- Fuck. What about those wet boxers now? Can’t let him lay in them like that. 

 

Well, he could have, but Max didn’t want to take a chance with Goose getting ill in his weakened condition.  So, with a shake of his head, he pulled them off, glancing only for a second at something he’d seen many times over the years but had never really paid any attention to until that day last month.

 

Once Goose’s body was completely bare and as dry as it was going to get without Max actually running the towel over that area, he threw a light blanket over the man, turned the light low and left the room to clean the bathroom and throw the man’s clothes into the washing machine.

 

When that was done, he moved into the kitchen after a quick check to be sure Goose was still sleeping, and seeing that the man was breathing normally in a healing rest, he fixed himself some dinner, turned on the TV and settled into a recliner by the bed for the evening and night.

 

There was no way Max would climb into the bed next to Goose, sleeping or not.

 

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Morning came and Max immediately jumped to check on Goose.  The man had rolled over onto his stomach during the night, kicked the blanket off and was showing every inch of skin on his backside to Max’s sight.

 

- Jesus! -  Max thought and turned away, resisting an impulse to reach out and touch the mounds of flesh.  – What the hell is wrong with me? It’s just an ass! A MAN’S ass for Christ’s sake!  I gotta call Linda today and get laid!

 

And with that determined thought, he stepped into the shower before he could cave to the itching that was creeping into his groin.

 

Unfortunately, the shower didn’t help that time like it had in the motel room once.  He tried cold, hot, warm and cold again, until he finally gave up and stepped out with a raging hard-on. 

 

“Fuck Goose!” he shouted in surprise at seeing the man standing in the bathroom, nude with his own hard-on.

 

Goose didn’t even jump at the shout.  He took one look at Max’s dripping wet manhood he had never seen both engorged and bare at the same time and fell to his knees in front of him.

 

“Let me, please,” he asked and looked up with huge pleading eyes.  Goose was a man with every characteristic of what was considered ‘normal’ behavior for a man, except in that one way.

 

It was the kneeling position and the look that did it more than the words.  It reached right down in that part of Max that Goose was desperately trying to find in his friend.  It reached down and wrapped itself tenaciously around Max’s own inner sexuality.

 

“You wanna suck me?” Max grunted after a long moment of staring in wonderment at the repulsive yet exquisite sight before him.   He had never in his life thought he would find himself one day saying those words to a man.

 

“Yes, please,” Goose practically moaned and reached out one hand.  He was feeling much better both physically and mentally from his ordeal, and he was ready for anything. 

 

“Don’t touch me,” Max growled and roughly batted his hand away.  “Don’t ever touch me unless I tell you to.”

 

“Yes, Sir,” Goose spoke with a catch in his voice.  He could almost feel the change in the air as Max began to transform into exactly what he knew he could be.  Max had said ‘unless I tell you to,’ the perfect phrasing for a man like Goose.

 

“What did you say?” Max asked, confusion in his voice in thinking that he couldn’t possibly have heard Goose correctly.

 

“I said, Yes Sir,” Goose replied easily. 

 

Max stood still, his brow furrowing as he rolled the word ‘sir’ through his mind, decided he liked it very much indeed and nodded his head approvingly to Goose.  “So, tell me Goose,” he continued with a line of questioning he had been wondering about recently.  “You suck a lot of dick?”

 

“Yes Sir,” was the unhesitant answer.  Goose had no intention of ever lying to Max now that his secret was out.

 

“Lately?” Max asked in a calm tone, although his body was unconsciously tensing at the thought of what Goose may have being doing in recent weeks.

 

“No, Sir. Not since ….. that night.”  Goose hadn’t wanted to touch another man or let another man touch him the minute he had realized that there was a possibility of a relationship with Max.

 

“Good.”  Max nodded again with satisfaction.  “Been with any women lately? I know you’ve had sex with women, Goose. Seen you in action at parties.”

 

Goose was tempted to chuckle.  He knew what Max was referring to; wild drunk parties where people tended to go off into corners and hump with little care if anyone happened to see them.  He didn’t dare let out that chuckle, though.  He knew he had to stay serious for this.  Too much was at stake.

 

“No Sir. I haven’t touched a woman like that in months. I can do it if I have to, but I don’t prefer it.”

 

“Good, ‘cuz I don’t want you to. No men, no women. Understand?”

 

“Yes Sir!” Goose shouted in delight, as his cock twitched noticeably.  He’d be celibate for the rest of his life if he had to for Max.

 

Max wasn’t really sure what he wanted or what he was doing or saying.  He looked like he was in control, but he felt almost as though someone else were speaking through him, guiding him in the way that Goose needed even though he had no intention of ever being the man’s lover. 

 

I just told him he couldn’t be with anyone? How could I do that to him? – he thought in shock and opened his mouth to take it back when that length jutting up from the man’s hips towards him twitched again, even harder, and he caught the sight of semen dripping from it.

 

- Oh god! He’s driving me crazy!  “Get …. Get back in bed,” he snapped, as blood roared through his body in desire.  No woman had ever made him feel quite that way.

 

At the order, the sweetest words Goose had ever heard, he was on his feet, flying from the bathroom to land on the bed on his hands and knees and present his backside to Max.

 

It almost undid Max right there to see the position he was in when he finally stepped into the room, still nude and very much aroused.   Reining himself back, he moved up close to the bed and stared at the form of the man in the bright room and at the look on the man’s hopeful face. 

 

It made him want to question Goose more.

 

“You really like a dick up your ass?”  - No one’s EVER touching mine! -

 

“Yes Sir. I do.”  - Best fucking feeling in the world! -

 

“Ever do it to another bloke or a girl?”

 

“No, don’t want to.”

 

“Let men suck you?”

 

“Yes Sir. The ones that will.  Better than women.”

 

“Really? Why?”  Max was curious.  He’d been the recipient of some pretty good blow jobs, although he could well remember some pretty bad ones too.

 

“Blokes I sixty-nine with really want to. Love sucking dick as much as I do. I just don’t know any women who are quite as ….. enthusiastic about it.”

 

“Enthusiastic?” Max laughed.  “Yeah, I get what you mean. So, Goose, you want to sixty-nine with me?

 

“Yes Sir. I mean no Sir. I mean ….”

 

“You mean what?”