Who: Leon Orcot and Michael Guerin, featuring Liv Moore and Sara Lance What: Meeting and making out When: Early July Where: The Double Tap Ratings/Warnings: Teenish for drunken kissing Status: Complete
If there was any time that Leon needed to drink, it was now. He hadn’t expected to come across D’s shop when he’d been walking through Chinatown, and but that was exactly what had happened, and it had thrown him for a loop. He’d attempted to buy some sort of maneating animal from D, one of the animals Leon knew D must keep around, except D hadn’t taken the bait. Which meant Leon was going to have to find another method to get what he wanted.
Luckily, he knew D well enough to know that if he gave D a nice cake, then D would give him whatever he wanted. That didn’t take the sting out of his failed undercover mission though. When Liv had asked if he wanted to get drinks, Leon had jumped at the chance. He deserved it after spending any time at all with D, after all.
Originally, he’d been glad when he’d seen Sara working the bar. It wasn’t that he was avoiding Dan, but… well, he was kind of avoiding Dan. He didn’t know what to do now that he had found out about Dan’s actual job, and thinking about that was the last thing he wanted to do right now.
Unfortunately, Sara and Liv seemed to be friends too, and somehow they’d started talking and Leon had been cut completely out of the conversation. He scowled into his double whiskey and coke - his fifth so far.
Michael had always liked Dan, the guy was one of the reasons Michael kept coming back to the Double Tap. However, he was beginning to like seeing Sara behind the bar just a bit more. She was easy to talk to and well fun to sleep with too. What he wasn’t expecting was for Sara to give her attention the pale girl he was pretty sure Dan was dating, over him. But she was so Michael was left to drink alone.
He had seen the pale girl come in with another guy though, one that was now all alone and only a stool over from Michael. “Your friend?” he asked nodding at Liv before taking a sip of his beer.
“I’m not so sure about that anymore,” Leon said, shooting a slightly sulky glare in Liv’s direction. It wasn’t like this was the first time she’d ditched him mid-hangout either. At least she couldn’t stick him with the tab this time; Liv drank for free at the Double Tap. “We work together, at least,” he answered finally.
He gave the man sitting next to him a quick apprasal. “I’ve seen you around here before, haven’t I? Flirting with Sara?”
“When she’s not too busy with your coworker friend,” Michael replied with a shrug. “And you’re friends with Dan,” Michael added. Because Michael had noticed the other guy before. And yeah Michael and Dan were kind of friends too, but this guy and Dan seemed a hell of a lot closer than your average bar tender/bar tendee relationship.
“Yeah,” Leon said, a little uncomfortably. He and Dan were friends, but Leon was still trying to wrap his head around Dan’s work and what it meant for their relationship. How could a detective be friends with a career criminal? Sure, Liv worked in the same place, but she wasn’t a cop. She hadn’t sworn an oath. Still, maybe he should talk to her and figure out how she was dealing with all of it.
“I’m Leon, by the way,” Leon said, extending a hand for a handshake.
Michael noticed how uncomfortable Leon seemed at the mention of Dan, but decided not to comment on it. Wasn’t his place.
“Michael,” he said instead reaching out to shake the other guys hand. He let his hand linger for a moment before pulling it back. “About time we actually met,” he added with a grin.
Leon swallowed, wondering if the lingering hand had been intentional or not, and then deciding that he must have been imagining things. “Guess it’s not such a bad thing getting to know the people who drink in your area. So, Michael, what is it you do?”
“Mechanic,” Michael replied finishing off his drink and waving Sara down for another. Man, he had never had to try so hard to get the attractive bartender’s attention before. Good thing there was a pretty good looking guy, in the scruffy needed a hair cut and a shave kind of way, right next to him to keep him distracted. “What about you?”
Sara glanced over and shot Michael a wink, though she finished her thought with Liv before she left to go pour him another drink. She glanced at Leon’s and without asking him started a refill for him too.
“Here you go, handsome,” she said, putting their drinks in front of them.
“Thanks,” Leon said, wondering if it was a bad sign that she apparently knew him well enough to know that he’d be asking for a refill sometime soon. It wasn’t like he and Sara ever hung out outside of the bar. Before he could comment on it though, she was already back gossiping or whatever she was doing with Liv.
“I’m a detective,” he said finally, turning back to Michael. “Mechanic, huh? I do a lot of my own fixes, but if I ever need something a little more, maybe I’ll bring my car by.”
Michael smirked at Sara, maybe he was finally going to get some attention from his second favorite bartender. But then she was right back to the pale girl. What the hell could they be talking about for so long. Whatever he was enjoying the company of the guy next to him at least.
“No shit?” Michael asked. He didn’t have anything against cops, even if they had sent him to the drunk tank on occasion. Hell he was even friendly with some of the ones that brought him in. “You get to solve a lot of murders?” Detectives didn’t exactly go around breaking up bar fights. That much Michael knew.
“Yeah?” he rose his brow. “Gotta admit I’m a fan of anyone that knows their way around a car.”
“I’d get fired if I didn’t,” Leon said, shrugging, though that wasn’t necessarily true. While he did have one of the highest arrest records in his precinct, he knew a lot of cops who had abysmal arrest records and they still had their job. “I’m in homicide, so…” he shrugged.
Leon grinned, pleased at the compliment. Leon didn’t have a lot of fans, and while this guy might not exactly know him, it was still good to hear. “Well, I guess it comes with the territory. I’ve still got my old car from high school. My pops showed me a thing or two, so I’ve been able to keep her running.” He probably couldn’t afford a new car if this one ever did finally die for good.
Michael also still had the same truck he had in high school. Hell he had even lived in that truck for a bit. So he wasn’t that surprised that Leon still had his car. However it was impressive that he had kept it up himself.
“Not many people can do that,” Michael commented. “You know you’re gonna have to bring her by the garage now. So I can see for myself.”
“Yeah? Maybe I’ll do that sometime,” Leon said. “You’re not going to charge me for it, are you?”
“Not unless she needs some serious work,” Michael replied with a grin. “But if she’s lasted you this long, sounds like you know what you’re doing.”
“I like to think I do, at least,” Leon said, preening a little under the praise. “You offer to check on every stranger’s car for free? Doesn’t sound like a very good business plan.”
“Only the ones I like,” Michael replied with a smirk. Which granted wasn’t many. But Leon didn’t need to know that.
“Well, lucky me then,” Leon said, with a bit of a half smile. “Alex used to work with cars, but...,” Leon rubbed the side of his head. “Well, it’s kinda weird to go to your ex about that sort of thing, I guess.” Even if they had started sleeping together again. Well, the once. Leon wasn’t sure if that was going to turn into anything more than the one time. “He doesn’t do it anymore anyway.” No, these days Alex was modelling when he wasn’t working in the ER.
Alex. Had Michael heard that right? It only took him a moment to realize Leon wasn’t talking about Alex Manes. This Alex apparently worked on cars or used to work on cars. Which he was pretty sure he would have known if Manes did. Something they could have bonded over or some shit. Back when they were talking. But that wasn’t important right now. What was more important was that Leon’s ex was a guy. Interesting.
“I guess that means we can’t date either,” Michael replied with a smirk. “Wouldn’t want you to run out of mechanics.”
“I didn’t even think that was on the table,” Leon said, giving Michael a bit of an appraisal before hurriedly returning to his drink. Leon wasn’t looking to date anyone else anyway. He was still in love with Alex, even if in his head he knew that the two of them couldn’t actually be together again. Not with everything that had happened.
Michael wasn’t looking to date either. Relationships weren’t his thing. That had been proven. But he was up for a good time. And Leon? He bit his lip looking the guy over again. Yeah he looked like he knew how to show a guy a good time.
“And what if it was?” Michael replied smirk still on his face.
Leon self-consciously licked his lips and cleared his throat, not really sure what to think. It wasn’t often that he got hit on in general, but even less often that he was hit on by guys. Alex was just about the only one, and Leon still wasn’t entirely sure of himself when it came to men (or, well, woman, really, but he never let that stop him). But he’d be lying if he said that Michael wasn’t a good looking guy.
“I uh, gotta go to the bathroom,” he said, turning in his bar stool so he could get off of it. He’d be able to clear his head there, at least.
Michael didn’t usually hit on guys himself. Nor had he been with many. But it was a part of himself that he wanted to explore a bit more. With the way Leon was looking at him it seemed like he was considering it as well. And then all the sudden he was up and headed for the bathroom. Michael wasn’t sure if that was some type of code or not. Leon did seem a bit flustered.
Michael waited a minute and then got up himself heading for the bathroom. He caught Leon just as he was exiting and pushed him back inside crashing his lips into the other man’s.
Out of everything Leon had expected, this was not it. There was a brief moment of surprise, almost resistance, and then Leon let himself get pushed into the bathroom, wrapping his arms around Michael. He’d never kissed a man who wasn’t Alex before but this… well, this wasn’t bad. In fact, this was better than ‘not bad’. He didn’t even notice the man who squeezed passed them, muttering something impolite as he exited the bathroom.
Sara didn’t think too much about Leon and Michael both going to the bathroom, though she’d noticed it from the corner of her eye, until an angry looking man came from that direction and interrupted her conversation with Liv.
“I don’t know what kind of bar you’ve got here,” he said angrily, “but if men having sex in the bathroom is common then I’ll never be back again.”
Sara blinked slowly, and then glanced again at Michael and Leon’s empty seats. “It’s not,” she assured the man, though she didn’t particularly care if she lost his business or not. She’d never seen him before. But either way, she was pretty sure Dan would not approve of anyone having sex in the bathrooms, and she was definitely going to have to go and break that up.
“I’ll be right back,” she said to Liv, and made her way to the men's bathroom. Without shame, she threw open the door, and then leaned against the door frame, arms crossed across her chest, and a bit of a smirk on her face as she watched Leon shove his tongue down Michael’s throat. This really wasn’t a terrible sight, as far as things went.
But neither of them seemed to notice her open the door, and so, after a couple of seconds of drinking in the sight, she loudly cleared her throat. Leon jumped, and pulled his face away from Michael’s, even if his arms were still around him, and stared at Sara, wide-eyed.
“As hot as this is, you two are going to need to get a room that isn’t the bathroom,” Sara said, grinning at them both like the cheshire cat.
Michael wasn’t sure what had come over him. He was forward usually sure, but mostly with women. He had never been this forward with a guy before. Hell he had only really been with one guy before himself. But that was the point. He needed to explore that side of his sexuality a bit more and Leon was pretty damn hot.
Michael was caught up in the moment, in the way it felt to have another man’s lips on his, the way his muscles felt under his hands, he also didn’t notice the other man in the bathroom. However when Sara came in that sure got his attention.
Well shit. Who would have thought one of the people he was sleeping with would catch him making out with a guy… though he probably shouldn’t have made out with a guy at her work if he didn’t want to get caught. But she didn’t seem all that phased by it.
“Right,” Michael said dropping his hands. “Sorry about that,” he finished giving Sara a sheepish smile.
“You don’t need to apologize to me,” Sara said. It wasn’t like she’d walked in on some sort of scene from a horror movie. She nodded her head back, gesturing to the hallway outside of the bathroom. “Come on you two, get a move on,” she said, still very clearly amused.
Leon flushed, and without a word, walked out of the bathroom and back to his stool. This whole thing was embarrassing, and he couldn’t for the life of him think about what had come over him. Things with Alex were a confusing mess, and having D in town didn’t make any of that easier. He had to admit that it had been kind of nice to kiss a guy and not worry about what that meant about their relationship.
Michael followed the two of them back out. Unlike Leon he wasn’t all that embarrassed. More disappointed they had been stopped. But he had a feeling that was that for the evening. Still he sat right back down on the bar stool next to Leon.
The second Liv heard the guys complaint she looked around the bar and realized Leon was gone and so was the hot semi-regular. She almost followed Sara to the bathroom just to see for herself but she knew that wouldn’t be appropriate. Still she watched as Leon came back out of the bathroom followed by the guy. She couldn’t help but smile for her friend. He’d been through a lot lately, he needed some action. Just maybe not in the middle of her boyfriend’s bar. Still she made her way over to him holding up her hand for a high five.
Was this awkward, sitting next to the dude that he’d just made out with? It felt kind of awkward, and weirdly, he felt a little bit guilty despite the fact that he and Alex had been broken up for well over a half a year now.
And then Liv was offering her hand in a high five, and Leon could feel his face heating. “Oh come on, Liv,” he muttered.
“What?” Liv asked innocently though she did put her hand down and lowered her voice. “He’s hot.” She approved. She wasn’t even on matchmaker brain anymore but Liv was still meddling into Leon’s love life. But since she was on brain tubes right now and not influenced by another personality she let it drop and went back to her stool talking to Sara.
Michael on the other hand had a feeling that they weren’t going to be picking up where they left off after that interruption. He placed some money down on the bar to pay for his drinks. He wrote his number down on a napkin sliding it over to Leon. “If you ever want to get a room,” he smirked referring back to the comment Sara had made. With that he stood up and exited the bar.
Leon somehow managed to blush even harder at that, and while he was pretty sure he wouldn’t be calling to get that room with Michael sometime, he still slipped the napkin into his jean pocket. After all, who could really say when he might need it?