Posted originally on the Archive_of_Our_Own at https://archiveofourown.org/ works/236798. Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: Underage Category: M/M, Multi Fandom: NSYNC, Popslash Stats: Published: 2011-08-08 Words: 933 ****** Couch ****** by Jane_St_Clair_(3jane) Summary Chris is in the middle, the first time. Justin likes attention. He likes to be at the centre of things, sometimes physically. So occasionally he makes it real, hauls the guys down around him in a makeshift nest and pulls their arms around him until they understand that they're not allowed to let go. JC used to bring a book, and Chris understood that he'd been doing this with Justin for a long time. After JC fell asleep, Chris got in the habit of putting the book on the floor. If he propped himself up just right he could cuddle Justin and still watch TV over both guys' heads. The first time Justin kissed him, Chris was watching a Full House re-run and feeling dirtier than he usually did watching porn. JC was dead to the world. Justin shifted out of his doze, pressed in closer, opened his mouth and kissed Chris' throat. Chris' hand tightened on Justin's nape convulsively, holding him there. For a long time, even after Justin had stopped and was just breathing into Chris' skin. Justin's arm around his waist was very, very still. It was a different day, under warm, muted sunshine but in cold air, that Chris rolled Justin onto his back and kissed him. Justin's mouth opened under his almost before Chris had touched him. Both hands framing Justin's face while he did it.  When he looked up, JC was watching him. Propped on one arm, rubbing Justin's belly half- absently. They spent all of that afternoon with Justin flat between them and both Chris and JC touching him with open palms, looking at each other. Justin stretched and murmured and finally fell asleep, and sometime while the sun was going down Chris kissed JC, leaning across Justin's body to do it. Justin came in too tired to talk one morning, settled in between them, and fell asleep. Chris remembers kissing JC for hours over Justin's shoulder, stroking the boy while he did it. Justin wake and nuzzled him, kissed him, rolled over to look up at JC. Kissed JC's fingers and his palm and his lips, carefully. In Wyoming, when the bus' heater proved to be woefully inadequate, they buried themselves in all their bedding, together on the couch, and slept that way. Careful fingers slid under clothes all night. Kisses landed on hands and flesh bared for half-instants. Justin's nose was horribly cold whenever he left his head outside the covers, and he liked to bury it in Chris' neck until it warmed. The first real skin waited for warmer climes. Kansas, not quite warm enough to demand air conditioning, but Chris was sweating and he peeled off his shirt without thinking. Shivered when JC leaned over and licked along his ribs. Shivered harder when Justin pushed him down and licked his spine. Chris in the middle that first time. Justin kissing him and JC sucking him, except at some point they changed, kissed over him while they were doing it. Touching him and each other all over, though only Chris was completely naked. Justin finished it, and JC held him and whispered sweet-voiced obscenity while Chris twisted close enough to mouth the bare skin of JC's belly. He sucked JC first, less careful than he should have been but without hurting, at least. Justin after, with the kid curled around him and whispering random love onto his skin. All three of them in a tangled pile, JC finally naked and Justin's jeans down around his knees, half-sleeping while they drove. The naps made Chris nocturnal. JC slept all the time; Justin slept erratically, settling down whenever he was tired and prowling the rest of the time. They drove though Texas by night and Chris actually saw most of it. Stars and farms, messy roads, cars. Justin curled up in Chris' lap and sucked gently at the skin on his thigh until he fell asleep. He woke up early from a nap and found JC and Justin naked and wrapped around each other beside him. Long, slow kisses and fast, sharp thrusts, and Chris wasn't really surprised when Justin came, gasping. JC rolled off him and onto Chris and kissed him fully awake, then wrapped around him and proceeded to show him what the Chasez mouth could do. Which was how Chris learned that JC could essentially kiss you until you came. Chris was fully dressed in Arkansas when JC tackled him and wrestled him down and Justin dogpiled them. Laughing bodies all around him. Mouths on his throat and belly, hands all over him. Teasing him and making him laugh, so that he was already breathless when JC slipped a finger into him. Chris stared up at him, and JC looked so fucking *serene*. Justin's eyes were as dazed as Chris felt. Justin had to touch everything. His fingers traced around JC's. He nuzzled both of them all over, watched them wide-eyed while JC kissed Chris and opened him, slicked him and slowly fucked into him. Justin's hand twined into Chris' while JC took him slow and deep. That one kiss, Justin and JC, just out of his reach, was what sent him over. Chris was twinging inside an hour later when he laid Justin out and prepped him and kissed him and held Justin's shoulders in his lap while JC fucked him. His boy, gorgeous on his back. Chris still watches TV sometimes, after. With Justin pressed against him from shoulder to knee and JC wrapped around both of them with his head on Justin's hip. Strange, surreal television, with the world in motion and the guys on both sides. Please drop_by_the_archive_and_comment to let the author know if you enjoyed their work!