The three of you spent the rest of the afternoon talking about the details of your pseudo-contractual relationship.

The short version was straightforward. Work was work, and personal things needed to stay out of it, or you were going to have to find another job. Any issues any of you had didn't get discussed during work unless it was affecting work.

While you were all busy, you weren't so busy that you couldn't set a loose schedule for hanging out. Each week Law and Kid got a few hours of your time to themselves, with no interference from the other. Each week Law and Kid needed to spend a few hours of their time together getting to know one another. You weren't asking them to date each other, but you wanted them to try to get to know one another.

Your biggest concern was that tensions would build between them as time went on. You were sure both of them wanted to be able to honor whatever decision you made, but you didn't want any bad blood between them. Even if you were essentially risking your friendship with both of them by doing this, you didn't want to them to truly become enemies.

Finally, the idea was that all three of you would hang out together at least once a month.

Other little things that were worked into the agreement were basically just to avoid drama. No gloating or boasting, and nothing underhanded. However things went, however it worked out, it wasn't going to be because of duplicity. You had, exaggeratedly, but also seriously, threatened to not only not speak to either of them ever again, but also to rat them out to Bepo and Killer if anything like that happened.

"I didn't expect this contract to get longer." Eustass grumbles, reading over it. "Do we really need it?"

"I don't expect it to ever come into play," You admit, "but I think it's better if we're as clear as we can be about where everyone stands in this. It's certainly the first time I've done anything like it."

"Well, same here," he admits.

"Once, but it was about eight years ago." Law says, taking a drink. "It wasn't exactly like this, but close enough."

You tilt your head, and notice Eustass reacting a similar way. "How'd it, uh, end?" You ask.

"Amicably," he says simply. "Relationships are relationships. Sometimes they end messy, sometimes they just end." Law looks at both of you. "Even this might end ugly despite two plus years of us knowing one another. You can't see what tomorrow will bring."

Kid starts to say something but your stomach growls in the silence. You stare down at the coffee table as two pairs of eyes settle on you.

"My nerves ate through what we had at the café a couple hours ago." You admit as you feel the heat sneaking up your neck to your face.

"We've only been talking for-," Kid taps his phone and lets out a low whistle. "A little over four hours. Shit, I'm surprised it wasn't my stomach."

"We can go back to café and grab something for dinner." Law suggests. "Since everyone else's cars are already there it'll wrap up the evening neatly."

"Mm, there's a Thai place just a couple doors down from café," you suggest. "I'm hungry for a bit more than café fare, and we won't even have to drive any further."

"You're seriously going to turn into Thai food one of these days." Kid says, getting up and getting ready to leave. "Do you eat anything else?"

You look from him to Law and back before you smile mischievously. "Probably."

"You cheeky little -." Kid begins, but you've already got your shoes on and are safely out in the hall jingling your apartment keys.

"C'mon you two."

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A couple days later Eustass showed up at your apartment after work. You had spent most of Saturday with him and Law going over the contract and the details, and then you had spent most of Sunday trying to think of how you were going to make this work.

Eustass would be over on Mondays – you had half the class schedule that day, working in the morning at the gym before attending two afternoon classes. You had no classes Tuesday, so if he stayed over late it wouldn't be a problem. Fridays were for Law, he had residency every day except Friday and Saturday.

Once a month on Saturdays the three of you would get together, and Kid and Law got together on Thursdays.

The schedule was the easy part, the hard part was keeping it fair. But you weren't sure what constituted fair, and in the end you decided the best you could do was take the lead in setting the pace. You had texted as much to the two of them and had gotten agreement, but it was terribly embarrassing.

It was far more embarrassing when you opened the door to let Eustass in. Law wasn't short at 6'3", but Eustass was 6'9", almost twice as broad, and you were just short enough that they were both tall from your perspective. It wasn't his height that had your face red though; it was that look on his face. He wanted to devour you and he wasn't shy about anything. He wasn't shy at work, he wasn't shy when he spoke, and he'd never been shy about teasing you at work.

Eustass Kid didn't do subtle.

He took off his boots as the door closed behind him. It was a step up from the entrance into the apartment proper, and so you were a little higher up than usual, but the 6" inch step up wasn't near enough to close the gap in height.

Kid leans down and speaks low in your ear. His breath is hot, and the tone of his voice is lower and smoother than usual. Even more so than when you shared a kiss with them a couple days before. It nearly shatters all your plans.

"Where do you want me, Mouse?"

You nearly bite your lip to stifle any sound from escaping. "Uh... c-couch." You manage, taking a step back letting him walk by, and taking a minute to stop yourself from just dragging him full body into your bedroom. Not that there would necessarily be anything wrong with that, but you hadn't planned to dive into things quite that fast.

"I had considered cooking dinner, but honestly I'm a little nervous, so I was going to offer to get take out," you say, as he makes himself comfortable on the couch. "I even have menus for places that aren't Thai." You tease.

"We can worry about dinner later." He says patting the couch beside him. "Whatcha nervous about?"

"You want it alphabetical, or chronologically?" You shrug, taking some steps toward him. "I'm not sure I could Dewey decimal it off the top of my head, but -," You bite the bottom of your lip as you straddle his lap instead of sitting down beside him. "I could try."

Kid's brows raise, and he grins, humming in approval as his hands slip around the small of your back. "I don't think we need to worry about the details that much." His head tilts, and you can feel his gaze on you. "Lookit you, being so bold."

You can feel your ears going red as you settle in against him a little more, your knees several inches off the couch because the beast of a man beneath you was thick in the thighs as much as he was tall. Letting your stomach lean against his, you look from his eyes to his lips. That sure grin is just delighted by this entire situation.

"Eustass, can I kiss you?"

"S'often as you want, Mouse."

Cupping his face in your hands you lean down and kiss him softly before leaning back. Licking your lips you lean down and kiss him again, sinking into him and shifting your hands past his shoulders. Your fingers slip through his hair as you both part your lips at the same time, hot needy tongues intertwining as his pleased hum and your satisfied moan mix between you.

You shift for the kiss, trying to maintain dominance, but the movement causes the bulge in Eustass' pants to push into you. You didn't realize how horny you had been until the unexpected shiver of pleasure tore through you and you had to break the kiss to catch your breath.

You know he knows what happened. He's looking at you like the cat that caught the canary, or more pointedly, a cat that's caught the mouse. His hands hold your hips, and he grinds into you, sending the same shiver up through you as you hide your red face in the crook of his neck.

"K-Kid -." You gasp as he grinds into you again, making his name tumble out of your mouth in a shivery moan.

"That's fucking hot." He admits, as one of his arms slide up your back, tangling into your hair and tilting your head to the side just a little. Just enough he can tilt his head to purr in your ear. "But it'd be hotter if I could see your face when you make that noise, Mouse." He grinds into you again, squeezing your ass at the same time and causing you to cry out in pleasure, shuddering against his chest.

"Eu-Eustass I'm supposed to be setting the pace!" You nearly squeak the words in frustration as you lean back to try and scold him.

"Mm, and you can." He grins, holding you in place now that you've leaned back. "You can give me those colors we talked about before. I agreed to letting you set the pace, I didn't say I was doing to let you dominate me, little mouse."

"I was-wasn't, I mean," you make a frustrated noise as those golden brown eyes bore into you. "G-Green."

"Look at me, Mouse." You look at him even as he's speaking, and you know what's coming, but held as you are, trapped by his hands and his gaze, it doesn't matter. His hips shift and that delicious pleasurable feeling rushes up, and you can't get away from it or him and you do your best to just let the sound escape you.

Once the sound passes your lips you cover your face. Eustass hugs you to his chest and you both stay there for a moment, each of you trying to compose yourselves before you say anything. His hand is stroking your back idly as he's looking up at the ceiling. It's very calming, especially from someone so rough and tumble like he is.

"Did you plan to go all the way tonight?" He asks after a few tense moments.

You shake your head. "No, I-."

"Then we won't." He interrupts, his hold on you tightening for a moment. "I don't know what your plans are for all of this, but don't let either of us derail you."

"... 'kay."

You can feel him shift enough to look down at you. "If you want to order us some grub, I can go manually override my current state in the head."

"Pfft- hahaha," you laugh as Kid shifts his hips to clarify his point. "Alright, oh-my-god I can't believe you put it that way." You're still chuckling as you get off his lap and head to the kitchen. "If you don't want Thai I can order a couple subs."

You see Eustass flinch. "Of all the words." He sighs, walking toward your bathroom. "Thai's fine."

"But-."

"If you order sandwiches Mouse," he says, turning to you and practically looming over you. "We're going to be right back where we started cause I'll be thinking about having two, squirming, trussed up little submissives at my mercy for the rest of the night." You can't meet his gaze as he's using his entire imposing size to full effect. "So?"

"Thai it is then." You answer quickly.

You felt a little bad about having riled him up so much. Eustass hadn't ever been shy talking about his preferences, so you had long since known he was into the BDSM scene. You were also fairly certain he wasn't concerned about gender either, but he'd never said so plainly.

An image of you and Law tied up with Eustass looming over the two of you flashed into your mind so clearly that you nearly gasped. You shook your head and waved it away, trying to remember what it was that you were doing for a moment before you reached for the Thai menu.

Unlike Eustass, Law was a pretty intensely private person when it came to things like that. You had no idea what the doctor-to-be preferred, though you were sure you'd find out more on Friday, but it seemed rude to picture him in such a situation without knowing. He could be just as much of a dom as Kid was, which would explain even more why the two seemed at odds so much.

Eustass came out of the bathroom a couple minutes after you finished putting in the order.

"Better?"

"Barely." He admits with a grin. "But that's on me to worry about. What's the plan for the rest of the night?"

"Thai and a horror movie." You answer, watching him walk around the counter and into the kitchen where you were making tea. Whether he meant to or not, he looked like he was stalking his prey. It was sexy and distracting and probably entirely in your imagination, but it was a treat to see.

"I didn't think you liked horror movies," he muses as his hands gently turn you around to face him.

"I... don't, but you like them, and if it gets to be too much, I can just hide behind you." You explain with a smile. "If you wanted to go hit up a theater, we can, but -."

"Your little theater setup is good enough," he interrupts, leaning down and tilting your chin up as he kisses you. You can feel the pressure of it make your heart race a little, your eyes closing from it. "Besides, this way if it's no good," he leans down further and kisses your neck, causing you gasp. "We can MST3K it." He finishes, giving you a cheeky grin.

You laugh. "You nerdy brat," you smack his chest, it's a bit like hitting rock, and laugh again as you rub your neck. "You – you're terrible." You almost call him a tease, but even at work Eustass would always warn you that he could be a terrible tease if that's what you really wanted, and so now seemed like a bad time to tempt him. 

He winks as he takes a step back. "Don't over-steep your hot leaf juice, Mouse." He teases as he walks out of the kitchen.

"Brat – do you want some?"

"Sure, it doesn't taste half-bad when you make it." He says, crouching by the TV looking for the movie you rented.

"My tea is divine." You scoff, your ears going red at the praise even as you try to play if off. "Will you let me give you something different from last time?"

"Hm? Sure, Mouse." He answers, picking up the DVD and coming back over to the counter that separates the kitchen from the entrance hall. "Did you get the original Alabasta Psycho?"

"Yeah, well, I mean, the girl at the rental place recommended it. I knew you had enjoyed the new one, and you weren't comparing it to the original, so I figured you hadn't seen that one." You explain as you make a cup of tea for Kid.

"It's a good pick." He admits, clearing his throat. "So what kind of soggy leaf juice are you going to shove in my face this time?"

"Lapsang Souchong," you answer. "It's better with ham sandwiches or Chinese take out than it is with Thai, but I think you'll like it. It always makes me think of you when... I..." Realizing what you were saying a few words too late, you feel your face go red as you turn away from Eustass. "It'll be just a minute."

You could hear the smile in his voice. "I'm sure I'll like it."