All Hands on Deck

Sidney was somber as he unlocked her door, pondering how a woman he known for a few weeks had captivated him so deeply that he was willing to let her career crumble all so he could be with her, even short term. They needed to talk about this, seriously, but unfortunately, Tessa never made that easy.

He found her in the kitchen, in nothing but a pink thong and short red apron, baking cookies. She turned and grinned when she heard him come in the door. “Before you say anything, try one of these.”

She practically shoved the cookie in his mouth. Thankfully it was so delicious and moist, still warm from the oven that Sidney didn’t even mind. Even though he didn’t like sweets, he told her with a mouth full, “Mmm, really good. What is this?”

“Red Velvet Crinkle Cookies that my mom used to make. More of a Christmas recipe really, but it’s the only thing I can ever get to turn out with any consistency. Have another.” She handed him a cookie and then went back to scooping them off the tray with a spatula. “So, how was your morning? Beau confess his love for me and challenge you to a duel?”

Sidney put the cookie down, not just because one was more than enough, but because he really did need to talk to her. “There was some Nessie talk from him, but the boys set him straight. Told him you were off limits.”

With all the cookies now resting on a cooling rack Tessa turned her full attention to Sidney, hooking her arms around his neck and pulling him towards her for a kiss. “How badly did you wanna tell him that I’m off limits to everyone but the Captain?” Sidney gave her a weak smile and she immediately pulled back. “What’s wrong?”

Sidney didn’t know what to say or how to say it, let alone how to start. His hands stroked her hips as he looked into her eyes. Finally he said bluntly, “What would you do if someone found out about us?”

Tessa’s face contorted in fear, eyes wide, jaw clenched. “Did something happen today, Sid?”

“No! God, Tessa, no, nothing. Everything’s fine. I’m just curious.”

She took a moment to breath a sigh of relief and asked, “Are you asking what I would do if someone found out or if everyone found out?”

“Does that make a difference?”

She shrugged. “Maybe.”

“Ok, both.”

Tessa blew out a long breath. “Well, if one person found out and we trusted them not to say anything, I wouldn’t do anything, I guess. Things could stay the same.” She let go of him and turned back to her cookies, but Sidney grabbed her hand, stopping her.

“And if everyone found out?”

Now it was her turn to struggle to find the words. She knew what he was asking; she had thought about it as well. If things fell apart like they could and she lost her job and any hope of working in the NHL in the future, would she still want to see him? She thought so, because there would be no blaming him for the outcome, they both knew the risks when this thing started and she knew it wasn’t like he would purposefully expose them. Besides, the man had effectively worked his way under her skin and she had no desire to shake him loose.

Then again, that was just in theory, who knows how she would react if that became their practical reality. So, she told him honestly. “I have no idea. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that.”

“I know you can never really know what will happen, but let’s say it’s today and everyone found out. What would you do?”

“Today?” Sidney nodded, now sinking his fingers in the hair at the back of neck, as if holding her was going to change her answer. It might have, because Tessa’s look of concern and doubt melted into a cheerful smile and she pulled him closer. She could tell Sidney just needed to hear something good from her, so she gave it to him, because it also happened to be the truth in that moment. “If everyone found out today…I’d make you call in sick and fuck me until the sun went down and came back up again.”

He laughed softly. “Then?”

“I guess I’d go to Reading and hope I could get my old job back.”

“And then?”

“Then…” She paused, sliding her hands under his sweaty black t-shirt, peeling it off as she went. “I’d have to make plans to see you whenever I could.”

When she started to tug down his sweatpants, he stopped her. “Why?”

She seemed genuinely confused by his question. “Why do you think? Because you’re fucking magnificent, Sid. Not as a hockey player, not even as a lover, just as a human being. I like the way I feel when you’re around, even if I can’t show it. I like the way we are together. This, you and me, you were right in San Jose, it is fucking great. And right now, how I feel is worst case scenario, even if I lost my job because of it…I think I’d still want it with you. We’re already miles from where we started and I wanna keep going.”

“Tessa, it is great. And you’re…unbelievable, too good for this bullshit. But, what do you mean, miles from where we started?”

“To be honest those first few times I was just in it for the mind-blowing orgasms.”

Sidney faked offense. “You were using me for my body? Shame on you.”

“It’s true, and I admit that was a little slutty, but goddamn you are just so fine, Crosby.”

“That why you told me not to say nice things to you? Because you just wanted a sex thing?”

She clutched his face with both hands, telling him sincerely, “Pretty much, yeah. I thought that we would just have some fun and walk away. But now…I don’t think I could do that. I mean the sex is still the best part, I just also appreciate your other delightful qualities. I’ve found that you’re more than just a big cock attached to a nice body.”

Sidney laughed from deep within, loving how the woman could simultaneously confess that she had real feelings for him and yet still keep it light. Besides, she had said all he needed to hear, that she would still want him even if everything around them went to shit. “Oh, baby, you’re a natural charmer is what you are.”

“Mmm-hmm. Now are you gonna kiss me or what, because my plan to seduce you by baking cookies half naked has been patiently on hold until you stopped talking.”

He did kiss her, smiling against her mouth as he did so. “By all means, seduce me.”

“Finally.” She slipped a hand under the waistband of his sweatpants and took hold of his firm cock. Because despite how serious their conversation had started, he had come home to his heart’s desire baking cookies half naked and that will get any man going in no time. After giving him a few tugs, she released him to pull off his pants, allowing him to step out of them before she tossed them to the side.

She applied her mouth to his neck as he took his turn to handle her body, grabbing her ass as he pulled her against him, running his palm up her thigh when she bent her leg and hooked her ankle around his leg. Sidney closed his eyes and melted against her, her affections, still slightly delirious from her sweet proclamations. He knew he didn’t deserve her, with all her goodness, but he was damn sure going to try and be a man worthy of her.

He felt her kiss move down his chest as her hands followed. Soon, she sunk to her knees, grasping his cock with both hands before covering it with her mouth. His hands found her neck and delved into her hair, pushing his cock further down her throat as she hummed happily around him.

He let her pull back, before sucking him back down again, her tongue creating a delicious suction on his tender underside. “Shit, Tess. You’re so fucking good at this.”

Her mouth broke contact with him and she smiled up at his hooded eyes. “I have something even better in mind. Don’t move.”

Sidney was leaning against the counter, both hands against the edge to help keep him standing. He watched her grab a styrofoam bowl, chuckling slightly at the fact that the woman had no real dishes in her apartment yet still managed to make a batch of cookies.

Tessa was back on her knees, licking at his cock, getting him nice and wet. “What are you doing, cutie?”

“You know I have such an awful sweet tooth.” Sidney nodded, watched as she took a handful of powdered sugar from the bowl and rubbed it all over his saliva coated cock. “Mmm, my two favorite things.” Tessa licked along his shaft, getting a mouth full of the thick sugary, almost frosting like substance he was now covered in.

Sidney was hardly able to draw in a breath while looking at her. “Goddamn, why is that so hot?”

Tessa blew a laugh out her nose and continued to work his cock, licking off most of the sugar before taking him fully into her mouth again. She felt the sticky white substance oozing out the corners of the mouth and across her lips. Still, she grabbed that perfect ass of his and pulled him even closer, took him even deeper, sucked him even harder.

He wasn’t going to last at this rate. He cupped her jaw with one massive palm and pulled her off of him, tugging her to her feet before kissing her ardently. Two strides forward and he had her pressed against the wall, the sweetness on her lips transferring to his just as her muted moans shared across their tongues.

She broke from him, panting. “I wasn’t done.”

“I was about to be.”

“Then let me finish.” He allowed her to overpower him and flip them so his back was against the wall and then once more she was on her knees, his cock in her mouth, enjoying the sweetness of the sugar as it mingled with his pungent sweat. She took him deep, sped up, and swirled her tongue around the tip whenever she eased back from him. Her hands cupped his ass again, momentarily, until she brought one palm to his balls, squeezing gently.

“Tess…Tessa…I’m gonna come.” He tried to pull away, but she pulled him closer, taking him down her throat as she felt him unable to hold back and he filled her with his orgasm, panting out her name. When he was done, she continued to lick at him, taking the last bit of sugar and come with her.

He pulled her up for another kiss, this one a little softer than the last. “Are you seduced, Captain?”

“Hell yes I am.”

“Good. Now go take a shower.”

“What? Why?”

“Because if you stick your dick in me after that I’m gonna get the mother of all yeast infections, which is very not sexy. Plus, you smell like a gym bag.”

“Really? Bad?” He hooked his arm around her neck, forcing her nose towards his disgusting armpit.

“Gross, Sid, come on. Knock it off.” Her words had very little bite considering she was giggling uncontrollably. They stumbled around together, naked and half naked, goofy as sugar high children and he rubbed her face against him harder.

“Tell me how bad it is.”

“Fucking terrible, you jerk. Let go of me!”

“Smell it, breathe it in. Ow!” She had pinched his pectoral muscle and then shoved him away when his grip loosened, trying to escape him in the living room. He caught up with her quickly, tackling her onto the sofa and pinning her down.

Tessa was weak from laughter and unable to fight back. Sidney grinned at her before bringing his lips to hers sweetly. It was good, pure. And he had needed it, to hear her laugh, to know that she would still want him. It was just…so important to him. And damn, all that was getting him hard again in no time. Tessa felt it against her thigh and smacked his shoulder.

“Shower, please. I’m not done seducing you yet.”

Sidney washed the stickiness and sweat of the morning off his body as Tessa helped herself to a paper plateful of cookies, lounging in bed waiting for him. That was how he found her, halfway into her fourth cookie, now naked and laying on her side.

Sidney’s first thought was that this was something he could get used to: relaxed silliness, baked goods, Tessa naked in his bed every night. On the road and even at home before she got this place it had been easy for him to put distance between them, better protect their secret. Now, he wondered if he’d ever be able to tear himself away from her to even make it back to his house for another change of clothes. And that could become a new problem if anyone noticed.

Still, he brushed this aside and laid down next to her, picking up another cookie and breaking off a piece that he pressed between her lips. She chewed it asking, “You’re not gonna have any more?”

“You’re the only sweet I want, Tess.”

She grunted softly and he fed her another piece, letting his thumb linger across her lips. She poked the tip of her tongue out, licking at him. When he fed her the last piece, she took it with a smiling mouth, biting her bottom lip.

Sidney’s hand clutched the back of her neck, pulling her face towards his. “You kill me with that lip bite, every time.” He took her lip between his own teeth now, nibbling gently as she moaned against him.

He found himself on his back, Tessa crawling up towards him and then straddling his waist, her lips still on his, fingers running through his wet hair. He gripped her thighs, squeezing them roughly with his massive hands as he kissed her back. When he brought a few fingertips to her pussy, she grabbed his wrists and held them down.

Meeting his eyes she told him softly, almost whispering, “I never get to kiss you, just kiss you like we have all the time in the world. Nowhere to go, nothing to hide. Can we do that, will you just kiss me for a while?”

“Yeah…yeah.” He leaned up and kissed her again and that’s all they did for what felt like hours. She freed his hands and he used them to softly caress her skin, her outer thighs, her hips, sides, and back, rubbing the pattern of bruised hickeys down her front. Her fingers tangled in his hair that curled at the ends, stroked the side of his neck with her thumbs tracing his jawline, held his biceps and felt his quiet strength. Their mouths and tongues went from languid to controlled energy and back again. The peaks and valleys of intensity building the desire between them.

And yet, they only kissed some more; Sidney rolling on top of her for a while, his hips slightly thrusting against hers, but he made no move to rush them along. He held her hands over her head, interlocking their fingers as his mouth brushed her jaw and then traveled to her neck. She murmured quietly, the sound vibrating against his lips. He filled her open mouth with his, sloppily kissing her now as he inhaled her moans, slowly then as he savored the taste of her.

And they kissed some more; Tessa freeing herself from his hold to flip them again. This time, her lips demanded something extra, pulling at his, her tongue stroking his quickly as she rubbed herself against abs, moaning. He felt her urgency and went to flip her over, but she resisted. Instead, she moved down and guided his cock between her folds before leaning towards his kiss, gasping at the feel of him.

So good, Sidney’s own gasp turned into a moaning grunt as he thrust his hips up to finish job, sheathing himself inside her fully. “Oh, God…Sidney. Fuck…”

Tessa sat up, flipping her long hair out of her face, back curved, hands on his chest and then she started to move; her hips coming forward before circling back, working his cock beautifully inside her. Her mouth fell open, only her breath came out. Sidney cupped her jaw, slipped his thumb along her open lips as she flicked her tongue across the tip before biting it, pulling it in deeper.

She grabbed his wrist and led his hand down, putting his thumb on her clit as she continued to fuck him. That endless kiss had left her so wet, so needy for him that the minute he made contact she came, bucking against his hips as he rubbed her through it.

She slowed down then, continuing to ride him as she leaned down and kissed him yet again. He wrapped both arms around her, hugging her to his chest leaving no space between them. Tessa rested her head on his shoulder, smelled her shampoo on his hair, licked a bead of sweat from his neck, still rocking her hips back against his cock.

“Tessa…my Tess…so perfect.” Sidney came up on his knees, sitting back on his ankles, holding her against his body until he laid her on the bed, her legs draped over his thick thighs. He palmed her hips and surged forward, thrusting deeper before pulling back to pump into her.

She smiled up at him sweetly. His hands skimmed her hips and sides until they cupped her breasts, squeezing lovingly. Tessa held his wrists, kept his hands right there as she rocked her hips in time with his.

He broke free of her hold and now lightly ran his fingertips up and down her torso, circling her nipples with only a whisper of a touch, feeling the peaks pebble and tighten. He traced every hickey, stroked her collarbones and the hollow of her throat. His delicate touch and hard stare on her body doing more to drive her to the edge than even the constant pressure of his cock against her g-spot.

“Sidney…mmm, ugh…Christ. Please…”

Wordlessly, he nodded and brought his thumb back to her clit, making slow circles as his hips increased in speed, driving into her. Tessa sped up as well, clenching around him and lifting her body towards his. When she started to come he dropped down, kept fucking her, and kissed her breath away as he let go soon after.

Lying side by side the correct way on the bed in the aftermath, remembering how to draw breath, Tessa watched Sidney’s eyes start to close slowly. She sat up, checking the time. Turning back, his eyes were open again, but he was smiling sleepily. She planted a kiss on his cheek. “Nap time for you.”

“Yeah, it is. What are you gonna do?”

“I should get the the arena. Me and Georgie were gonna try to get the trainer’s room a little better organized. A surprise for Jack when he gets back.”

Sidney started to get up. “You want me to leave?”

Tessa tisked, pushing him back down. “No, I want you to stay. If you want?”

“Mmm, I do.” He snuggled back against her pillow, pulling the extra one against his body. Tessa covered him with the comforter, kissing his cheek again.

“Is your alarm set?”

“My alarms are always set. You know -”

“How you like your routines, yes, I know.” She paused, debating about bringing it up when their afternoon had been so lovely, but still thinking about their conversation from earlier. “Sidney…” He opened his eyes again and she continued. “You know that Jack is coming back. And when he does…I have to go to Reading if I want to work. Even if no one finds out about us…eventually I’ll have to go.”

Sidney sat up slightly and cupped her jaw with his hand. “I’m not worried about that. We’ll make it work. I know we will.”

“Oh, you know, huh?”

“I do. And if you’d still want me even if you lost your job then you know it too. Now go to work, I’ll see you later.”

Tessa smiled and kissed his palm. “Yeah, you will.” She left him in bed and got dressed, was halfway out the door when Sidney called after her.

“Hey!”

She swung her head around the corner. “Yeah?”

“The boys are going to Fat Head’s after the game. I told them I was busy, but maybe you wanna go? I can tell them my plans fell through and we can all go together.”

Tessa nodded slowly. “That sounds like fun. If they ask me I’ll say yea.”

“They’ll ask. Everyone likes having you around.”

With a smirk she asked teasingly, “Even the Captain?”

“Especially the Captain, even if he doesn’t get to show you that in front of anyone else.”

They shared an understanding smile. “Go to sleep before your routine is ruined.”

“You keep it up, this post-morning skate pre-nap sex thing is going to become my new routine.”

“Hmm, not that I’d mind, but I’ll be interested to see how you plan to pull that off when we’re on the road.” Sidney didn’t answer, but Tessa saw his brain firing a mile a minute behind his eyes and the sight made her laugh. “Don’t think on it too hard right now.”

“Bye, baby.”

“Bye.” She blew him a kiss and was out the door, jogging down the stairs, smiling all the way to the arena thinking about two things: Sidney Crosby snoozing in her apartment and him possibly making her a part of his sacred routines. Also, definitely smiling about the fact that he was right: they would make it work, no matter what, no doubt about it.

Notes

Hey, guys! I leave for Costa Rica on Friday, but I am going to try and get another chapter posted before then. Otherwise I will be gone for a week and then back in grad school, so there may be a delay, but I will work on this whenever I can. <3