Archive of Our Own ^beta

1.

Ross drops down onto the couch with a moan, welcoming the grounding weight of Joey pressing his full weight onto him.

“Jo- mph..” Ross moans as Joey presses heated kisses onto his neck, purposefully pressing his leg on to Ross’ erection.

“Fuck” Ross throws his head back, his cock giving a twitch when Joey’s lips moved down his chest, biting down on his nipple, causing Ross to hiss.

Joey smiled at that, letting his hand slowly slide down Ross’ pants-

Their intimate moment was suddenly interrupted by the door slamming open, with an irritated Chandler entering. Joey scrambled to hide at an angle where Chandler couldn’t see him unless he looked over the couch.

“Oh my god, Monica is being so insufferable right now, I mean, she won’t let me put my recliner in our shared apartment! Why are you shirtless?” Chandler interrupts himself.

“Can’t a man be shirtless in his own apartment?” Ross states, his confidence wearing in his tone. “Oh my god, are those…hickeys?” Chandler says with a disgusted scrunch of his face.

“Um, I, um..burned myself?” Ross says with a scratch to the back of his neck. He’s alerted at the sound of Joey trying to stifle a laugh, and Ross quickly kicks his side.

“Oh my god, you had a girl here. I’m so sorry! I’ll just remove myself real quick” Chandler says with a nervous laugh, his ears burning as he slammed the door shut. 

Ross bursted into laughter, pulling Joey into his lap, causing Joey to crack a smile. “You didn’t have to kick me” Despite him trying to sound accusatory, his wide smile gave no weight to it. “I’m sorry, let me make it up to you” Ross says with a smirk, leaning in to give Joey a steaming kiss.

2.

10….

9…

Joey led Ross to a secluded side of the building, the both of them giggling like school girls. 

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7…

6…

“We’re going to get caught” Ross whispers, but he doesn’t stop Joey from pressing him into the nearby wall. 

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4…

3…

“I don’t care” Joey replies, giving Ross a gentle kiss on the cheek.

2…

Ross suddenly felt his breath get caught in his throat, looking into Joey’s excited eyes as people continued to scream to the countdown.

“I’m in love with you” Ross whispers 

“What?”

1….

Ross grabs Joey’s face, sealing his previous statement with a deep kiss, running his hands through Joey’s hair, the sounds of people screaming ‘Happy New Year!’ fading out.

Joey pulls away with an unreadable expression, causing Ross’ heart to practically beat out of his chest.

“Ross, I-“ Suddenly the two of them could hear Monica calling for the both of them with a red-faced Chandler shadowing her, lipstick marks all over his face. Joey quickly jumped away from Ross. 

“Finally, I found you guys!” Monica exclaimed, a glass of wine in her hand. “Wow, we’ve been looking for you guys for a year” Chandler chuckled, his smile dropping at the silence following his very unoriginal joke.

“Tough crowd” He mumbled, letting himself be ushered away by a giggling Monica. Joey squeezed Ross’ hand with a loving look, letting him know that his earlier statement was very much returned. 

3.

“Hey, I was not like that!” Monica exclaimed, elbowing Ross in the side. “You totally were! I literally caught you writing your little love letters to Chandler” He defended himself, rubbing his side.

“Oh, you really like me huh?” Chandler teased her, wiggling his eyebrows. “Don’t push your luck” She teased back, patting his knee. “Besides, you were dating Janice at the time”.

Chandler made a face at that, a full body shiver visibly going through him. “Now why’d you have to remind me”.

“Guys! There’s a karaoke machine” Rachel and Phoebe excitedly ran over. “I’m not that drunk yet” Chandler quips. “Come on, Chandler! Lighten up at bit” Rachel whines, tugging at his jacket, clearly wasted.

“I think YOU need to lighten up a bit” Chandler comments, his nose wrinkling at her breath. “Yeah, come on Rachel. Let’s get you home” Monica says, dragging her to the car.

“Why don’t you come sing with me Joey?” Phoebe requests. “Ahh, nah” He shrugs her off. “Okay, I’ll raise the stakes. If you can down 5 hard tequila shots in a row without tapping out, I’ll kiss you. If you don’t, I get to choose what song you’ll sing” Phoebe smiles sinisterly.

“Okay, you’re on! This’ll be easy” He hyped himself up, gulping audibly at the shots in front of him. He gets through 3 shots before sputtering. “YES!” Phoebe exclaims, clapping her hands excitedly.

She drags him up to the stage, giggling as she chooses the track. He audibly groans as the music starts playing. “A bet is a bet” She says with a shit eating grin.

“Oh, alright” He resigns, staring at the lyrics as they come into view. “I like big butts and I cannot lie, you other brothers can’t deny, that when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get sprung” He signs along, giggling along with Phoebe, the tequila obviously getting to his brain.

Ross cackled at the sight, not being able to take his eyes off Joey. The way he slightly swayed, the huge face-splitting grin across his face, the way sweat dripped down his face. All he could feel building in his chest was love. 

He snapped out of his daze when he felt a pair of eyes on him, and he met Phoebes knowing grin. Once the song ended, Ross chuckled as he slapped Joey across the back, stating he should take him home. He tried to convince himself that Phoebes grin widened for a different reason as he led Joey out the door.

He opened the door to Joey and Rachel’s shared apartment, her door shut and most of the lights off. He helped Joey take off his jacket, and went to grab him a bottle of water.

When Ross returned, Joey drunkenly giggled as he grabbed at his hips. “How you doin’” He smirked, looking Ross up and down.

Ross laughed at that. “You are way too drunk”, his laugh growing louder at the pout on Joey’s face. He sat down next to Joey, taking him into his arms. He almost immediately heard snoring, and the coziness of the dimmed lights and Joey’s chest slowly rising lured Ross to sleep as well.

When Rachel gets up to use the bathroom, she smiles at the two on the couch. “Their friendship is so cute” She mumbles to herself.

4.

“So, who did you hook up with last night?” Monica’s question almost makes Joey spit out his drink. “What?” He asks with a nervous smile.

“You walked in here with that grin that you always do after you get laid. So, what’s her name?” She repeats with a grin. 

“It’s not anyone you know” Joey lies through his teeth, but Monica didn’t buy it anyway. “Oh come on, is it someone you’ve already slept with before?”.

“I don’t kiss and tell” He says, crossing his arms. “Joey, you tell me when you get a new zit” Monica deadpans. “Hey, you promised to never bring that up again” Joey says with a frown, gesturing as he speaks.

“Have it your way, I’ll figure it out” Monica promises. “Yeah, right” Joey scoffs, walking to get some chocolate milk from the fridge.

“Monica, did I leave my keys over here? I can’t find them” Ross asks as he enters without knocking. “I don’t think so” She confirms, her eyes immediately going to the very visible hickey on his neck.

“Ew, Ross, the least you could do is cover that up” Monica complains, gesturing to his neck. “Oh, sorry” Ross mumbles, scrambling to pull his turtleneck up to cover it. Joey hides the grin creeping up his face by taking a swig of chocolate milk. ‘I’ll figure it out my ass’ He thinks to himself.

5.

Joey gets up with a groan, wincing at the pain in his back from the position he slept in. He padded into the kitchen, mumbling a quick ‘Good morning’ to Rachel.

He grabbed a newspaper as she went to use the restroom, involving himself in the story, not even noticing at first when she tried to get his attention.

“Joey!” She tries, pulling the newspaper out of his grasp, ignoring his offended ‘Hey!’. “Did Ross stay the night?” She asks, hands on her hips. Joey scoffs nervously “No, why?”.

“His toothbrush is in the bathroom” She says, raising her brow. “Well, we are toothbrush buddies. He brushes his teeth here, and I brush mine at his apartment, it’s a whole thing” He cringed as he completely pulled that out of his ass.

“I never even see him here” She comments. “Yeah, well that’s part of it. It’s more fun that way?” He says, not even believing himself. Somehow, it flies right over her head. “Hm, okay” She says, leaving to go to her room. Joey lets out a breath he didn’t know he was holding. He didn’t know how much longer he could hide, but he respected that Ross wasn’t ready yet.

+1

Joey came into Ross’ apartment fuming, throwing his jacket onto the couch. “Joey? What’s- mmph” Joey cuts him off with a searing kiss, backing Ross up onto the couch until he was partially laying beneath him.

“What’s going on?” Ross asks as Joey pulls away, huffing. “Just that role I worked really hard for, that I didn’t get” Joey sighed, sitting back up.

“Is there anything I can do to help?” Ross asks, rubbing his back. Joey stares at him hard before he leans in, stopping right before meeting the other man’s lips. “Stop me if you want” He offers.

“Use me” Ross breathes against his lips. Joey’s cock twitches at that, almost knocking their teeth together at the force he kisses him. Ross allows Joey to press him into the couch once again.

He moves to press hot open mouth kisses against Ross’ throat as he unbuttons his pants, grabbing a hold of his cock, Ross’ hips buck into his hand as he moans, holding Joey close to him.

Something about being completely dominated by someone who was much shorter than him made his own cock twitch. His senses were filled with Joey. The smell of his sweat and cologne, the dirty words he whispered into his ear, and the sparks shooting up his spine as Joey thumbed at his tip. Ross wanted Joey to have every piece of him.

Joey reaches into his own pants, letting his cock free and grasping the two of their lengths, jerking the both of them off together. Ross gasps at the feeling, his stomach tightening at the sounds of Joey’s groans.

Joey knew the other man was close with how he kept arching his hips into his hand. “Come for me baby” He whispers into his ear. The name does it for Ross as stars shoot behind his eyelids and he releases all over Joey’s hand. 

He whimpers as Joey continues to get himself off, coming shortly after. The pain mixed in with pleasure was something he would definitely explore later. 

“That was…wow” Ross smiled, pressing his forehead onto Joey’s. “Yeah” He agrees, breathless. Suddenly, the phone starts ringing off the hook, and Ross stands up to answer it.

“Hello?” He says, trying not to sound like Joey just gave him the handjob of a life time. “Dude” Chandler sounds, like he was flustered.

“What’s up?” Ross asks, concerned at his tone. “You could’ve at least closed the curtains” He continues, the astonishment clear in his voice.

Ross felt his heart drop at that, and slowly turned towards the window directly adjacent to Monica and Chandler’s shared apartment. He met the disgusted and surprised faces of their three friends.

“Oh my god” Ross whispers, the redness of his ears crawling up to his cheeks. “What’s going on?” Joey rasps. “We forgot to close the curtains”. “What?!” Joey shouts, leaping out of his seat and confirmed that the curtains were in fact, open.

“I KNEW IT!” The two of them heard Phoebe shout from the phone. “DID NOT!” Joey shouted back. “At least Monica didn’t see” Ross said, sighing as he rubbed at his neck.

“Oh no, she definitely saw, she’s locked in our bedroom right now” Chandler says, laughing at Ross’ groan. Joey hung up the phone at their various teases.

“I can’t believe we forgot to close it” Joey says , covering his face as he sat back down on the couch. “I know, I’m sorry” Ross apologizes as he presses a sweet kiss to Joey’s lips. He wraps his arms around his shoulders, almost starting a round two until the phone starts ringing again.

“What?” Ross groans as he picks it up. “Curtains are still open buddy” Chandler speaks. Ross hangs up on him with an annoyed sigh before he yanks the curtains closed, surging forward to kiss Joey again, straddling him. 

Joey smiles against his lips, secretly glad that he didn’t have to tell them himself. He returned Ross’ intense kiss with equal force, and forgot about the embarrassment from earlier. He’s sure he would forever hear about it afterwards. But he was okay with that.