jesus, I love this. This is just so fucking perfectly THEM, every BIT of it, and it kills me dead. Joe, of course, going to get Billy. and the call to John, and god, I just - yeah, I love John, too, he's *concerned*. And billy on teh corner waiting, Billy so beaten down and fucked up, and Joe knows how to handle it, has learned how. I have so many MOMENTS in this that I can *see* - billy dragging himself and th blanket over to the bed - him and joe reading together - god, teh fucking SEX, jesus, so hot. That blowjob. and the end, there, and god, this:

“Don’t get any ideas,” Billy warned, defiantly jutting his chin up in the air from where it rested on Joe’s thigh.

You mixed-message little motherfucker, Joe thought. The balls on you to say that, when I’m doing this. What else would I be thinking. . . ?

and this:

d been plenty of denim on denim, Billy up against a wall or bent over a table or bed, Joe grinding his hardness against Billy’s slim, clothed ass.

this is fucking tremendously good.