Back Door Chapter 6/8

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Title: Back Door Chapter 6/8
Author: mhobbs0430
Pairing: Adam/Kris
BETA: wizardesslyn
Fanart: wizardesslyn  Thanks, bb!  I love it!
Rating: NC-17/R for the whole story
Disclaimer: This never happened, just in my imagination, based on real people, I don't own them.
Warnings:  m/m sex, one night stand,

Summary: This is a based on a prompt for harlequinkradam round 4.  37. Adam Lambert’s a little tipsy when he mistakes Kris Allen for a fan and takes him home for the night [or blows him off, author choice]. Things are a bit awkward when Adam realizes that the Kris he met the night before is the same Kris Allen his band is supposed to be opening for on their upcoming tour. Can Adam convince Kris that he’s not quite the player [or jerk] he appears to be, and show him that they’re perfect for each other?

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Back Door Chapter 6/8

The next morning, Adam woke up after a fitful sleep.  He kept thinking about what Kris has told him.  It explained so much.

However, it didn’t fix their problem at all.  He knew they could be great together, but was the timing right?  What if it didn’t work out?  Should they jump into a relationship when Kris didn’t really know how to have one?  Should they just date?  Could Adam do that?  These were the questions that kept him from a good night sleep.

Kris didn’t fare much better.  He was glad that he’d opened up to Adam, but how would the man take it?  Was he damaged, or too much trouble?  What was Adam’s story anyway?  Could they, or should they jump into a relationship?  Maybe Kris should date.  But that was almost impossible in his position, especially on tour.

They both came to the exactly same conclusion and finally fell asleep.

~~~~

Everyone met in the lobby for breakfast.  They’d set up a separate area so they could have some privacy as fans had camped out trying to meet their idol.   Adam was gaining new fans as well who’d enjoyed the man slinking around the stage.

Kris said good morning to everyone as he sat down, not looking really good.  “Sleep alright, Kris?”  Cale asked him, not knowing what happened last night after he saw Adam kiss Kris and then stomp off; and then Kris going after him.  He wasn’t sure he wanted to know.  Tommy sat right next to Cale and headed him off.  “So”, he whispered in his ear.  “We are going to stay out of this, right?”

“What?”  He asked innocently.

“I mean it, Cale.”  Tommy warned.  “Don’t mess with them.”

After their meal, they headed back to the busses for their trip north.  First stop, Portland.  They had a ten hour drive and would arrive that evening and have another hotel night and then begin their 5 city stint in the north end of the country.

Adam slept most of the way.  He came out to eat with Tommy and the gang, but other than that, he stayed by himself, thinking.

Meanwhile, Kris was doing the same thing.  At least he had more room to be alone.  He had a real bed.  And all he could think about was sharing it with Adam.

The bussed stopped about half way to fuel up and let everyone out to stretch their legs.  Kris spotted Adam and walked over to him.  “Can we talk?”

“Sure”

“Not here.”

“But we’re taking off soon, Kris and…”

“Tell Neal you’re riding with me and then come over to my bus, ok?”

~~~~

“Riding with the boss?”  Neal said loudly.  Tommy heard as he came back on to the bus.  “What?”

“Kris wants to talk, so I’m riding the rest of the way with him.  That’s all.”

Tommy gave him a protective hug. “Be careful.”

“I will”, he promised.

Adam walked out leaving a bewildered Neal.  “What was that all about?”

“Nothing”, Tommy shrugged.

“Wait. I saw Allen coming out of our room last night.  Adam said they were just talking then.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, is there something going on?”

Tommy just shrugged again.

“Oh my God, Adam is sleeping with him isn’t he?”

“Neal.  Let it go.”

“Let it go?”  He yelled.  “Adam could totally fuck this tour up.”

Tommy grabbed his shoulder.  “Sit, down.  I’ll tell you everything.”

~~~~

Adam climbed onto Kris’s bus and had to pass Cale.  “What are you doing?”

“Um, Kris invited me.”

Cale just pointed to the back of the bus.  “He’s behind the night lounge.”

Adam ignored the glare from Cale and kept walking towards Kris who was in the kitchen.

“Adam”, he said greeting him. 

“Hey Kris.  Are you sure this is a good idea? Cale doesn’t seem too happy that I’m here.”

“Don’t worry about him.”

“Whatever.”

~~~~

Adam and Kris ended up talking the entire way at the kitchen table.  He told Adam all about his idol experience and the tour.  Meeting Mark and how he’d always call him babe when they were in bed together.  “It wasn’t an endearing term; he just didn’t want to call me the wrong name.”

“Oh, so that’s why you correct me when…”

“Yeah”, Kris lowered his head.

“Hey Kris”, Adam lifted his chin so he could look him in the eye.  “I’ve never cheated on anyone.”  And Kris believed him.

Adam told Kris about the band, how they met and got started.  He also told him about his last boyfriend, who’d done a number on him as well.

Once they started performing at local clubs, and Adam started getting so much attention, he did go through a period of hooking up.  “But I’m not a slut, Kris.”

“No, you were just looking for Mr. Right?”

“Exactly.”

They sat closer and closer as the day wore on into evening.  They were holding hands as they drove into Washington State.  Then the bus stopped, announcing their arrival at the hotel.

“I have an idea”, Adam said.

“What?”

“Let’s go out tonight.”

“To a club?”  Kris really just wanted to relax in his room.

“No, dinner.  Just you and me.  Call it a date if you want.”

“You want to date me?”

“Yeah, I do.”

Kris smiled.  I can do this.

~~~~

They checked into their rooms.  Kris told everyone they had reservations in the hotel restaurant and to order whatever they liked.  He had plans.

“What plans, Kris?”  Cale eyed him suspiciously.

Adam walked up to the two of them and announced, “We have a date, Cale.  Do you have a problem with that?”

“Uh, no, I guess not.”  Cale wasn’t ready for the confrontation.

“Good”, he smiled, reaching his hand out to Cale.  “You don’t need to hate me.”

“I just worry about him”, he pointed to Kris.

“I know.  It’s just a date, ok?”

They walked off leaving the troupe to themselves, feeling the stares on their backs.

“That felt good”, Kris said, putting his arm around Adam as they walked outside and waited for their car.  “You handled him perfectly.”

“I’ll take care of you, Kris.  I promise.”

~~~~

Dinner was nice.  There was a restaurant a couple of minutes away.  Kris’s security waited in the car for them. 

“So, I’ve wanted to ask you this one question”, Kris said, mischievously.

“What’s that?”

“How did you get the name ‘Back Door’?  It sounds kind of…”

“Gay?”  Adam laughed. “Yeah, but it’s really a not so funny story.”

“Do tell.”

“We all met in high school.  Tommy and Isaac were in jazz band and I was the drama/chorus geek.  I also didn’t look like this.”  He pointed to his hair.

“What do you mean?”

“I was fat and had strawberry blonde hair.”

Kris almost choked on his glass of wine.  But then he remembered seeing Adam naked and it all connected.  The rug didn’t match the drapes.  “Oh, I didn’t connect that before.”

“I wasn’t exactly the most popular kid, but I could really sing.  Anyway, Tommy, Isaac and I got to be really good friends, and wanted to start a band.  There was this girl who was sort of goth and also played keys…”

Kris raised his eyebrows.  “Cam?”

“Yeah, Cam…”

He continued, “She had a really great basement and we thought we could practice there, but her parents didn’t like the whole rock thing or having boys in the house, so she’d sneak us in and out of the back door whenever they were home…  She called us her Back Door Boys.” 

“That’s it?”

“That’s it!  We met Ashley the next year, and really hit it off.  By then we’d found another place to practice, but the name stuck, so…”

“That’s a really uninteresting story”, Kris giggled.

“Told ya.”

“This has been really nice, Adam.  I’m glad we did this.”

“Me too, Kris.”

~~~~

They were driven back to the hotel and Kris walked Adam to his room.  Neal was already in bed, but jumped up when he heard the door click.

“What are your intentions with my brother?”  He asked, accusingly.

“Neal”, Adam reprimanded.

“It’s ok, Adam.  It’s a fair question.  We’re dating, Neal.  For now, that’s all.”

He eyed them both suspiciously.  “Dating?”

“Say goodnight, Neal”, Adam pushed him away, so he could kiss Kris good night.  “I had a really nice time, Kris.”

“So did I.”

Adam kissed him gently as he swept his lips across Kris’s.  “See you in the morning.”

Kris went to his own room, his fingers touching his lips where Adam kissed him just moments before.  He got ready for bed and lay down, reaching for his phone.  ‘Are you asleep yet?’

Adam was in the bathroom brushing his teeth when his phone buzzed.  He smiled.  ‘No.  Miss me already?’

A few seconds later: ‘Yeah.  Come up to my room?’

“Neal”, Adam said quietly.  “Are you asleep?”

“Go ahead, Adam.  I know you want to”, he huffed.  He could hear the buzzing from the bathroom.

“Thanks for not judging me, bro”, he smiled and typed into his phone:  ‘I’m on my way.’

“Don’t get us kicked off the tour”, he yelled as Adam left the room.

~~~~

The next morning Adam and Kris came down to the lobby together and everyone in the group clapped and cheered.  Kris turned bright crimson and Adam just smirked.  “Isn’t this fun?  Dating publicly?”

“No, we should go back to sneaking around”, Kris said.  Adam shot him a look of horror.  “I’m kidding, Adam”.  And then he kissed him in front of everyone.  “Breakfast, everyone?”

They had a four city stint and would be sleeping on the bus for the next few days.  Adam decided to stay with his band on those days, but hotel nights, he and Kris would go on a date and then usually end up in Kris’s room for the night.  Before the second month was over, they’d adjusted the room assignments.  Adam had officially moved in with Kris on those nights, Neal now roomed with Isaac, leaving Tommy and Ashley together and that left Cam with her own room; which suited for her just fine.

The tour was going well; Adam and ‘Back Door’ were gaining popularity and their own growing fan base.  Kris tried not to be jealous when cute boys threw themselves at Adam, who had to constantly remind Kris that he wasn’t interested in them; just him.

Kris was learning about himself, too.  What kind of boyfriend he was.  He’d grown so attached to Adam.  He sometimes wondered if it was going too fast.  Adam was great, though.  Then his mind would wander to the end of the US tour.  Then what?

“What are you thinking so loudly about, babe?”

“It’s Kris”, he had to stop himself from saying that.  But old wounds...

“Kris, baby.”  Adam would practically sing.  “What are you worried about?”

“Nothing.  I just…”

“What?”

“I’m really enjoying this time with you.”

~~~~

They were two thirds the way through the tour.  Every show was sold out now.  It was a total success, partly due to ‘Back Door’.  Kris was thinking ahead.  He had a meeting with management and the record company on conference call at their next hotel stay.  They hadn’t booked any opening act for their overseas tour yet, and Kris wanted ‘Back Door’ to stay with them. 

The record company was well aware of the relationship between Kris and Adam Lambert.  “Kris, don’t make big decisions like this based on your personal life.”

“I’m not.  Well, even if I am; this just makes sense.  They’ve gotten a really great response so far and we all tour so well together.  I’d like to make this happen”, he stood firm.

The next week, Kris’s management team invited Neal, ‘Back Door’s’ manager to lunch to discuss things.  He said he’d have to get the band’s approval, but thought it was an awesome opportunity.  It would mean a lot of money and exposure for the band. 

Everyone was on board and really pumped up.  “So, I guess sleeping with Kris Allen wasn’t such a bad idea after all”, Isaac teased.

“What?”  Adam was horrified.  “Is that what you all think?”

“Chill, Adam.  I was only teasing.”

But Adam realized that if his own band thought that, what did Kris’s band think?  What did Kris think?

He decided to find out. 

~~~~

The busses pulled into the next city in the early afternoon.  They had to go directly to sound check at the venue.  Fortunately, that night was a hotel night and they had the next two days off.

The concert went well, but Adam felt a little off.  Afterwards, Kris asked him what was wrong.

“I’m not sure that extending this tour is such a good thing, Kris.”

“Why not?”  Immediately, Kris thought that Adam was having second thoughts about him.  “Are you tired of me already?”

“God no, Kris.  Why would you think that?  Wait, is that why you asked us, just because of you and me?”  Adam didn’t want that to be the reason. 

“No, of course not.”

“My band thinks so.”

“What do you think, Adam?”

“I don’t know right now.” 

~~~~

They both spent the next day moping around.  Cale decided to confront Adam.

“What are doing, man?”

“What do you mean, Cale?”

“I mean, Kris is a mess.  You two have a fight or something?  I told you not to hurt him.”

“How do you know that I’m not the one who’s hurting?”

“What happened, Adam?  Maybe I can help?”

“Do you think that I played you guys in some way, just so we’d get extended on the tour?”  Adam asked seriously.

Cale started to laugh, “Why would you think that?”

“One of my band mates said something like that.”

“You started something with Kris before you even knew who he was.  And even though I was against it at first, you two seem to be good together, when you’re not acting like idiots.” He smiled.  “No one thinks that, Adam.”

Adam nodded.  “Thanks, Cale.”

“Don’t mention it.”

Adam went to find Kris and apologize for being a moron.

He found him in their room sitting in the bed, playing his guitar.

“Hi Kris”, Adam sat down next to him.

Kris put his guitar down and took Adam’s hands.  “I would never have suggested you guys continue the tour if wasn’t the best thing for both of us.” He said sadly.

“I know that.  I’m sorry.”

“So why would you think that?”

“When Neal told us about the new contract, one of the guys said sleeping with you turned out to be a good idea; like I’d planned it or something.  I’d never do that.”

“I know that, Adam.  And so does everyone else.” 

He nodded, hoping that Kris was right.

Adam was falling for Kris and it scared him a little; but, he was the happiest he’d ever been.  Adam knew that he could spend a lifetime with this man.  He just hoped that when the tour was finally over, that Kris would agree. And by then, it wouldn’t matter what anyone else thought.

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