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Carlos can feel the hot Texas sun beating down on him as he and TK make their way through the farmers market. They decided it would be a fun date idea if TK went along with Carlos to the market to pick up the produce he would need for meals this week. He has been having a nice time despite it being a hot day even by a Texans standard. He reaches up a hand to wipe some sweat off of his brow as TK passes their cup back over to him offering him a drink.

“Thanks,” Carlos says as he accepts the cup and takes a large sip from it, noticing that it is almost empty. It was a large strawberry lemonade that they picked up from one of the first booths they saw and decided to split one in the hopes that it would help them keep cool.

Carlos takes one more large drink feeling a twinge in his bladder as he swallows, reminding him how much he has drank and how long they have been here. He then hands the cup back to TK while saying, “Here, I don’t want to hog it. You can finish it.”

TK’s eyes twinkle as he smiles at Carlos and accepts the cup back. “Thank you, you are such a gentlemen.”

Carlos decides to push the feeling to the back of his mind knowing it shouldn’t take too long to get the rest of the items on his list. As he continues on going through the booths making small talk as he gets what he needs he can’t help but notice that his bladder is filling up faster than he expected it to. Having to squeeze his legs together each time they stop walking.

“Are you okay?” Carlos is snapped out of his thoughts by TK’s voice as he sees him looking over in concern. “Are you getting too hot?” TK eyes are looking Carlos over as he says this while trying to pick up on any signs of heat exhaustion.

Carlos’s mouth twitches up in a smile as he tries to put TK at ease. “No, I'm alright. I’m pretty used to boiling hot summers unlike the mild ones I’m sure you had in New York.”

TK doesn’t look convinced he looks around as something catches his eye, he tells Carlos he will be right back as he heads over to a nearby booth. Carlos sees him ask the woman running it a question before picking up two cups from the table. TK makes his way back over to Carlos and hands him one of the cups.

“Here baby, I got us some water. I really should have been making us drink this from the start, water is the best way to slay off heat exhaustion.”

Carlos’s stomach lurches at the idea of drinking anything else but he brings the cup up to his mouth and takes a small drink anyways not wanting to worry TK. He will admit the cool water does feel nice as it makes its way down his throat. What is not nice is Carlos’s bladder already tensing in anticipation for when the new liquid will join his already full bladder.

As Carlos looks over some tomatoes he thinks of what to do and thinks of the sign he and TK has established. They have been using it whenever they are hanging out at Carlos’s house and it has been working out for then. But he has not tried to use it in public yet and the idea is slightly terrifying as he is suddenly aware of all the people around them. His bladder sends a new wave of desperation over his body letting him know it won't be ignored much longer.

Carlos weighs his options in his head he knows that if he tells TK they need to leave now he would with no questions asked but also wonders if he should at least try and see if he will be able to go. He knows that using the bathroom in public can’t be avoided forever and that it might be best to try the signal in public for the first time when he is desperate but not on the verge of peeing his pants.

As he feels the eyes of everyone at the market around them he reminds himself that no one but TK will know what he means and it will be alright. He takes in a slow deep breath as he reaches over and loops his elbow through TK’s. He then slips his hand down and quickly squeezes TK’s forearm twice.

TK feels Carlos squeeze his arm and immediately brings down his hand to return it with a squeeze of his own to show he understands. He is trying to remain calm and not make a big deal out of this knowing that Carlos probably already feels nervous and TK does not want to screw this up for him.

TK tries to think of the best plan of action and decides that heading back to the front of the market is their best course of action. He remembers seeing a row of porta potties up front, best case scenario Carlos will be able to use one of them and if not they will be right by the parking lot so TK can drive them home.

So TK keeps their arms looped together and starts to lead them to the front of the market while making small talk as to try and not overwhelm Carlos. “I can’t wait to try that new recipe you have planned, it sounds so good,” TK keeps rambling on as they are walking.

Once they are at the front TK looks over at the porta potties and sees that the locks on them are green so they are not in use. Still he looks over to Carlos and will leave the choice up to him knowing that even just letting TK in on his need is a big step forward so he doesn’t want to add any unnecessary stress by forcing him into an uncomfortable situation.

TK makes sure to keep his voice low as he asks, “What do you think baby? Do you want to leave or…” TK silently points in the direction of the porta potties with his head to get the message across and not bring too much attention to it.

Carlos thinks over his options as he takes in the line of porta potties he sees that no one else is over there and that it looks like none of them are in use. He decided that it would be best to try now and get it over with.

“Yeah we can stay,” As Carlos says this he is shuffling in place trying to work up the nerves to actually go and use one. As his anxiety starts to rise Carlos decided to send TK off and to see if being fully alone will help ease his nerves.

“Hey, do you remember that booth we passed by selling the jam? Do you think you can go and pick us up a jar?” Carlos asks while holding out the bag with the rest of their produce to TK.

“Totally, can do” TK answers while taking the bag and giving Carlos’s hand one last reassuring squeeze before he walks off.

Carlos takes in a long deep breath as he makes his way over to the portapotties. Knowing he needs to get moving before someone else comes over and it would be very unlikely he will be able to go then. He decided to use the very last one in the row so that even if someone does come over while he is in there it is less likely that they will try the one he is in.

He clicks the lock into place and then triple checks it making sure it is completely latched. Not wanting to be in this gross box for longer than necessary he quickly undoes his fly and aims down at the dark hole below him and starts to try and relieve himself on the spot.

However he finds himself freezing up as he can still hear the sounds of the people at the farmers market from inside the porta potty. He closes his eyes and tries to block out the sound and ease his way into relief, his bladder sending the signal to his brain that they still need to pee quite badly at that. His body involuntarily cringes at the feeling and he tries again to go knowing that he is in for a very uncomfortable ride home if he is unable to.

He holds his breath as he brings his other hand over to slightly push on his bladder hoping that will help. His bladder spasms at the new pressure but luckily it seems to work as he is now fully peeing. The feeling of relief washes over him as he starts to relieve his bladder being extremely grateful his bladder decided to let up and allow him to go.

Once his pee comes to a stop he quickly puts himself away and exits the porta potty to get away from the awful stench. He stops at the hand sanitizer station outside the boxes and feels his anxiety start to increase again as he walks away he finds himself unable to stop from looking around to see if anybody saw him exit the porta potty.

He keeps his head down as he walks towards the jam booth where TK is. He sees TK leaving the booth and heading in Carlos’s direction. He greets Carlos with a kiss on the cheek. “Hey babe, I found the raspberry jam that you really like.”

TK then raises his eyebrows as he questions, “Are we good to keep going or should we head back home?” And Carlos knows that is TK’s way of asking if he was able to pee without having to use the words which he is grateful for.

Carlos smiles at TK as he answers “We can stay, besides I completely forgot to get the onions earlier.”

TK grins back at Carlos as he says, “Well lead the way then.”

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All Carlos can think about on his drive back to the precinct is how exhausted he is. The whole day has been back to back calls without a single break in between. On top of that because he hasn’t had any time to himself today he has had to pee for the last four hours and he is pretty desperate to go now. He is fidgeting in his seat as he pulls his patrol car into the station hoping that the bathrooms won't be too busy.

But of course he is out of luck the bathroom is crawling with officers who like him have just got off their shift. He knows with the amount of people coming in and out of the bathroom there is no way he will be able to pee no matter how hard he tries. So he walks right back out of the bathroom still needing to pee extremely bad and he quickly heads out to his car.

Carlos then starts his torturous drive to the firehouse to pick up TK. His posterior is completely stiff as every small bump in the road causes a new wave of need to rush over his bladder. He keeps his thighs pressed together as tightly as he can as his breathing is now coming out more like gasps.

After what feels like an eternity he is pulled into the station's parking lot, however when he walks into the station he is horrified to see the ambulance missing from the bay. His attention is then drawn over to the ladder truck where he hears the sound of a rag splashing in a bucket. He looks over and sees Judd washing the truck. Each time it splashes in the bucket the noise is like pure torment for Carlos’s overflowing bladder.

“Hey Carlos, medical last call ran a little longer than expected. But they should be on their way back now,” Judd calls over to Carlos from where he is cleaning the truck.

“Hi there Judd, Thanks for letting me know,” Carlos says while trying to sound normal but his voice comes out a bit stilted.

Judd then starts making small talk telling Carlos all about the plans Grace and him have for this weekend. Carlos tries to pay attention but all his mind can focus on is the swishing of the water and the amount of pain this is causing his bladder. He tries to subtly bounce from one foot to another feeling sweat drip down his temple as he is trying to contain everything.

After 10 agonizing minutes Carlos can see the ambulance pulling into the bay. He tries to stop his bouncing as he sees TK, Nancy, and Tommy exit the ambulance. As soon as the ambulance stops Nancy rushes out calling back a greeting to Carlos as she runs off. “Hey Carlos, sorry, can't stop and talk.”

TK is chuckling as he walks over to Carlos and throws an arm over his shoulder as he explains, “Nancy has got a hot date tonight, that she has not stopped talking about all day.”

Carlos forces out a laugh of his own as he replies, “Well I hope it goes well for her.”

Tommy walks over to the two of them with a smile of her own on her face, “Don’t we all.” She then pats TK on the arm and says, “Great work today, I will handle inventory tonight so you can get out of here.”

“Thanks cap,” As TK says this to Tommy Carlos’s bladder sends a strong pulse through his body and he has to quickly squeeze his legs together to not leak. Knowing that he will most likely not make it home in dry pants Carlos moves his hand to squeeze the arm TK has wrapped around him twice. TK quickly responds by tightening the arm he has around his shoulder to show him he understands.

“Okay, I’m going to get changed. Why don’t you come with me baby?”

Carlos lets out a soft breath of relief and he responds “Yeah, sure,” knowing that now he just has to make it into the locker room to go.

As the two of them are walking towards the locker room Judd calls out after them, “Hey you too make sure no canoodling takes place.”

TK yells back while rolling his eyes, “Haha you're so funny.” But Carlos is absolutely mortified by the implication. He feels the blush quickly spread from his cheeks down his neck. The idea of anyone thinking that they were going to mess around in there makes him freeze to the spot. The idea of what everyone must be thinking and who all over heard that is too much for Carlos to bear. As he lets his thoughts spiral he feels his heart start racing in his chest and he knows there is no way he can go in there now.

They are stopped right outside the locker room door when Carlos whispers to TK, “Never mind, I’ll just wait out here.”

“What?” Confusion spreads over TK's face as he looks at Carlos knowing that he wouldn't have done the signal in the first place if he wasn’t desperate. But as TK looks him over he sees his flushed face and thinks of what Judd said. “Carlos, baby, Judd was just teasing no one really thinks you're coming back here to mess around.”

TK then grabs on to Carlos’s hand and tries to gently pull him along. “It’s really okay. You can use the bathroom while I change. No one will say anything."

But Carlos just shakes his head, his mind already made up. He is too overwhelmed at this point to even humor the idea. “No, I’ll just head back down to the truck bay. So when you're done we can leave right away.”

TK's face now twists into extreme worry as he says, “Okay why don’t I just skip changing and we can get out of here now?”

But Carlos shuts that down as soon as he offers. “No, that would look weird if the two of us just walk back now and you're still in your uniform.”

TK relents after that not wanting to waste any more time arguing. “Okay, I’ll change as fast as I can.” So he rushes off into the locker room to change.

After TK is out of sight Carlos starts to slowly shuffle back down to the truck bay. As he is slowly waddling he feels a small warm spurt of pee leak out onto the front of his boxer. He stops dead in his tracks to tightly twist his legs together. Willing himself to not let anymore leaks escape. He realizes then that he is probably making a big mistake but it’s too late to turn back now. Once he gets it under control and he doesn't feel anymore leaks coming he slowly unwraps his legs and finishes walking to the truck bay.

When he makes it back over there Judd calls out from the truck continuing his teasing from earlier, “Back so soon? Well I sure hope you boys keep it PG.”

As he is laughing Tommy glares over at him as snaps “Will you leave the poor boy alone?” She then softens her features as she asks Carlos while looking over her clipboard for inventory, “How has your day been?”

Carlos tries to keep himself still and answer normally but his body resumes its desperate bouncing from before without his permission. He is bouncing back and forth on his toes at an extra fast pace now as he squeaked out an answer “It was okay, very busy.”

“I hear that,” Tommy responds with a sympathetic hum as he looks up from the clipboard. As she does she is taken back by what she sees in front of he she sees Carlos with his face pale and dripping with sweat as he frantically bouncing in place and the mom bell in her head starts to ring.

She keeps her voice even as she softly asks “Carlos, honey are you doing okay?”

Carlos automatically responds, “Yes ma’am, I’m okay,” he is unable to look Tommy in the eyes while saying this.

Tommy does not buy this for a minute. She has been a mom for too long to not know a potty dance when she sees one. She then starts to put the piece together, the trip to the locker room but the fast return after Judd's teasing. She thinks this over and realizes that if she tries to tell him to go back to the locker room he will most likely just get even more embarrassed. So she quietly moves over to the fire truck and tries to get Judd's attention.

“Judd,” Tommy says and when he looks at her Tommy whispers “Look over there.” As she motions over to Carlos with her head. The both can now see the desperate state he is in clear as the day.

Judd whispers back “Well what do you want me to do about it?” Tommy just sends another glare his way as she encourages him to go and say something. Tommy points over and says “Go say something, this seems to be your fault.”

Judd then puts both of his hands up “Alright, I’m on it.” Judd then makes his way over to Carlos and nonchalantly says, “Hey Carlos, why don’t you head back to the locker room and see what’s taking TK so long?”

Carlos looks up at Judd with confusion written all over his face not realizing what he is trying to do he asked, “What are you talking about it's only been like five minutes?”

Judd just doubles down and says, “Yeah but you know how TK is, he is just like his daddy and can be distracted in front of a mirror for hours.” He then added hoping it will help get his point across “I was just playing earlier you can definitely go back there.”

Carlos's face becomes beet red as he realizes that Judd clearly knows he has to pee and that if he is being so obvious that Tommy must also know. But he is unable to dwell on this as he feels another leak escape this time soaking the front of his boxer.

Carlos lets out a gasp as he quickly squeaks out an “Okay,” and tries to rush off as quickly as he can. However he can’t go too fast as with every step he takes he feels another leak come out and is on the verge of completely peeing his pants. As he enters the locker room door he almost runs head first into TK who is exiting.

“Woah,” TK takes a second to regain his balance as he reaches out a hand to steady Carlos. “Are you okay, sorry I took too long.”

Once Carlos regains his balance he quickly starts making his way around TK, “It’s okay, I just really need to…” He trails off but TK gets the message and moves back into the locker room to lead Carlos over to the bathroom.

Once they make it outside the stalls Carlos realizes he is still in his work clothes and there is no way he can undo his belt right now so he frantically asks TK “TK, help please MY belt.” He can’t even get out full sentences right now he is so desperate. But TK understands and pulls the two of them into the stall. Carlos quickly locks the door as TK gets to work on the belt.

Luckily he is able to get it loose right away and quickly steps back so Carlos has a clear shot at the toilet. Carlos pulls his soaked boxers out of the way and struggles a bit to maneuver his penis out of his wet underwear. But he is finally able to and he starts gushing a long powerful stream, a loud gasp of pure relief escapes his mouth. His legs start to turn to jelly under him as the feeling over takes his body he finds himself have to lean on TK. Who is standing behind him and wraps an arm around his midsection to support his weight.

Once his stream comes to a stop he looks down to observes the damage to his pants and is mortified to see he has a wet spot the size of a softball covering the crotch of his pants. His heart rate starts to pick up again not wanting to have to walk out there in wet pants and have everyone see him. His breathing starts to pick up as the panic feeling is now retreating full force but TK starts to gently rub his arms and tell him, “It’s okay baby, I’ll go grab you a pair of my pants from the locker.”

TK then presses a gentle kiss to Carlos’s forehead and keeps rubbing his arm until his breathing starts to slow back down. Once Carlos has calmed down some TK exits the stall and quickly goes to grab a pair of pants for Carlos. Carlos quickly locks the stall he is in once TK leaves so no one will see him. After a minute or so TK is back and knocks on the stall door, Carlos opens it and TK hands him a pair of sweats and a T-shirt he has. This way they can just pretend like Carlos just planned to change out of his work clothes.

Carlos makes quick work of changing just wanting to go home now. He sheds his wet pants and boxer and pulls on the sweats noticing that they are a few inches short but otherwise they fit okay. He then unbuttons his work shirt to take off his under shirt and put on the T-shirt. He then takes a deep breath as he exits the stall. When he does, he sees TK waiting for him and he wordlessly holds out his bag for Carlos to put his clothes in not caring that his pants will probably get everything in the bag wet as well.

He takes a minute to wash up at the sink and splash water on his face. He then realizes that if he really wanted to he could use their shower to clean up but right now he honestly just wants to get home. He turns back around to meet TK eyes and TK smiles softly at him as he holds out his hand. TK then asks, “Are you ready to go.”

Carlos just nods in response, too exhausted to try and form words as he grabs onto TK’s hand. They walk out of the locker room hand in hand but then Carlos freezes horrified at the idea of having to walk past Judd and Tommy again knowing they both know what just happened. But TK just gently squeezes his hand and whispers to him “It's all okay Carlos, let’s just get home.”

He waits until Carlos nods back to him before he starts walking gently pulling Carlos along. Once they are heading out they see Judd and Tommy look over to them. Tommy calls after them, “You boys have a nice night.” Tommy then elbows Judd in the ribs prompting him to say something.

Judd then rushes over to them calling out their names. “TK, Carlos wait one minute.” As he made his way over to them he lowered his voice to quietly say, “I apologies for earlier I didn’t mean anything by it. I will keep my teasing to a minimum from now on.”

Knowing that Carlos isn’t up for much talking right now TK answers for him “Thanks for that Judd.”

Judd then focuses his full attention on Carlos, “And uh, Carlos even if TK’s not here you are welcome back into the locker room for whatever reason.”

Carlos silently nods his head in acknowledgment as the blush spreads across his face TK then says, “Thank you Judd, We are heading out now. I will see you tomorrow,” And with that TK walks off with Carlos to drive them home planning ways to pamper Carlos tonight to help him feel better.

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The loud music is vibrating the club all around them as Carlos sways to the music feeling TK’s hands on his hips moving along with him. He notices TK inch closer to him almost completely closing in the gap between them as the two of them are completely lost in the music as multiple people dance around them. They have been at the club for a few hours now only stopping their dancing for the occasional drink and to talk to Paul, who they brought with them.

As the song comes to an end TK leans in close and has to yell to be heard over the next song starting, “Do you want to head back to the table?”

Carlos yells back an agreement and they make their way back over to the table where Paul is waiting for them with the next round of drinks.

“I see you two have finally decided to come up for air.” Paul’s eyes have a slight twinkle as he slides TK’s water and Carlos’s beer across the table.

“Oh yeah, well you looked pretty close with the woman you were dancing with earlier.” TK shoots back as he takes a sip from his water. Carlos chuckles at the amused look on both of their faces as he slides over pressing himself against TK’s side lifting his beer bottle for a drink.

Paul tilts his head to the side as he replies, “Fair point.” TK looks over at him expectantly as he moves his hand in a circle to try and prompt Paul into giving him more information. “So where is she now?”

Paul just shakes his head back at him, “She left with her friends a little bit ago, we were just having some fun dancing together.”

TK deflated a little at this, “Well that’s too bad.” But Paul just shrugs and says back, “It's all good I wasn’t looking for anything tonight anyways.”

Carlos looks over to Paul as he playfully says, “Well it seems like you're stuck with us tonight. Hopefully we are not too boring of company.”

TK lightly nudges Carlos in the shoulder, “Come on babe, of course he likes our company. Why else would he agree to come out with us once a month.”

“Well how do you know I’m not just humoring the two of you?” Paul raises an eyebrow as he raises the question, mirth leaking into his voice.

TK lets out a gasp as he pretends to be offended and he puts a hand over his heart. “There is no way you mean that.” As he is talking the music switches over to a new song, the fast beat getting TK’s attention. “Oh I love this song, let's go dance.” TK grabs Carlos’s hand and turns to Paul. “You too, come dance with us. Then you’ll see how not boring we are.”

Paul agrees to go with them as he and Carlos down the rest of their drinks and follows TK to the dance floor. As Carlos walks next to TK squeezing past other people to make it to the dance floor his bladder decides then to make its presence known the multiple beers he has drank over the night has made their way from his stomach to his bladder. He quickly glances to the side of the club where the bathrooms are located and just like he thought there is a line outside the men's room.

A pit starts to form in his stomach as he looks between TK and Paul, if he lets TK know of his need now they would have to leave the club to find a bathroom. At this time of night there most likely won't be many places open other than bars and clubs neither of which would have unoccupied bathrooms. Carlos’s eyes travel from TK to Paul taking in their smiling faces and seeing how much fun they are having he doesn’t want to ruin their night by making them leave early so he decides it would be best to hold off for now. Besides it’s not that bad anyway he reassures himself as TK pulls him in to dance with him. He hopes that he won't regret his decision, but it will be totally fine right?

…And Carlos is absolutely regretting this. It’s been about 30 minutes of dancing and while all the movement does help disguise the pee dancing he is doing as just normal dance it also is moving his bladder around increasing the pressure and he is extremely desperate now. He is practically vibrating on the spot trying to enjoy Paul’s and TK’s company and dancing to the loud music.

TK then waves a hand over to Paul and calls out over the music, “I’ll go get you guys another round of drinks since you got the last one.” Paul recipes that that sounds good while squeezing past people to see if he can find them a new table to sit at.

“Do you want to head to the bar with me or go sit down?” Carlos is barely able to focus on what TK is saying as the idea of adding any more alcohol into his bladder sounds like a nightmare. He is now swaying back and forth keeping his legs pressed together as he does, and thinks he will be able to hide his fidgeting better while sitting down.

“I’ll go to the table with Paul,” thinking fast he added “Oh and I don’t really feel like any more beer tonight could you just get me a water too?”

“Sure thing bade,” TK leans in and plants a kiss on Carlos’s cheek as he heads off to the bar. Carlos then traverses through the crowd of people and spots Pauls sitting at a table. Carlos focuses on schooling his facial expression to not show his desperation and then goes to sit.

“I see you were able to find a table.” As Carlos says this he sides into the booth to side a cross from Paul but can’t stop the small cringe that comes over him as his bladder gets squished as he sits down.

“Oh yeah that I was going to have fight a group of guys that were trying to get here first”

Carlos chuckles as he hears this and cocks an eyebrow and replies, “You probably shouldn’t tell a cop about your plans to get in a fight.”

“Don’t worry I would make sure and do it only if your back is turned so you have some plausible deny ability.”

This makes him laugh even harder which he quickly cuts off as he feels a leak almost slips out as he does. “You know I think that makes it even worse. Maybe just don’t do anything I would have to arrest you for.”

They continue to banter as TK slides into the booth next to Carlos and hands Paul his drink and places the waters in front of himself and Carlos. “What’s this about you arresting Paul?”

“Your boyfriend was just informing me that it is apparently bad etiquette to fist fight someone over a table.”

TK puts on a fake look of surprise, “But babe sometimes you have to fight to get the best table everyone knows that.”

Paul gestures over to TK and says “See that's what I have been saying."

Carlos just rolls his eyes at their antics “You guys are ridiculous,” he leans back in the booth as Paul and TK continue their conversation. He finds himself subconsciously bouncing as he sits and his eyes drift down to the water in front of him. He tries to act natural and take just a small sip of his water as to not raise suspicion. But when he does his face contorts into a look of displeasure and he has to stop right away to not cause any more discomfort.

When he looks back across the table he sees that Paul has seen the whole thing and has a thoughtful look on his face. Carlos begins to panic as he wonders what Paul could have noticed but before he can worry too much Paul looks away from him and pulls out his phone.

Carlos feels a shiver run over his whole body as he quickly shoves his legs back together. He knows he is approaching the end of his rope now that if he doesn’t do something soon he will humiliate himself in front of everyone here. He glances back over at Paul and sees that he is still doing something on his phone so he sides one of his arms over to TK and lightly pats his forearm twice.

TK quickly pats Carlos’s hand in return and glances from Carlos, then to Paul, and then to the bathroom line that is snaking out of the men's room. After he seems to have taken in the situation he says, “Well I don’t know about you guys but I’m beat.”

He starts to slip out of the booth while gently grabbing Carlos’s hand to help ease him out of the seat as well. He looks back to Paul and says, “We should get going, we’ll drop you off on our way home.”
But Paul just waves TK off as he gestures with his phone, “I was actually just texting Marjan and she is nearby. So she’s going to pick me up to hang at her place tonight.”

“Are you sure?” TK asks this, wanting to get Carlos out of there quickly but also not leaving Paul stranded by himself. But Paul just waves him off again, “Yeah I’m sure she is just a few blocks away and we have been planning to do a movie night soon anyways. I’ll walk out with you guys.”

Carlos hears TK agree as they start maneuvering through the large crowd to make it back to the entrance. Carlos’s bladder is screaming at him as he has to contort his body into odd positants to squeeze past people. Just then a group of people rushed past them going the other way, one of them clipping Carlos with their elbow as they did. Carlos freezes in place as the shock of the elbow causes a leak to come rushing out.

He takes a second to regain his barring as TK looks him over with worry in his eye as they stood stopped. Wanting to ask him if he is okay but knows that Carlos won't want to have that conversation in front of Paul so he just patiently waits for Carlos to start walking again.

They then continue their trek but much slower this time but they make it out to the parking lot. Paul sees Marjan’s car on the street just outside the lot so he bids them both a quick goodbye and heads to her car.

TK says his goodbye to Paul but Carlos doesn’t say anything to focus on trying to not leak again. TK then leads Carlos over to the passenger seat of the car and pretty much runs over to the drivers seat.

“Okay baby lets get home,” TK says this while starting the car.

Carlos is absolutely frantic in his movements now that no one else is around he is moving side to side nonstop while quickly uncrossing and recrossing his legs to try and find any position to help. However nothing seems to be working and he feels the tension in his bladder reach critical levels he then shoves a hand between his legs as a last resort silently begging to himself to just make it home.

When they reach a stop light he sees TK glance over at him for a second and a blush completely takes over his face. He tries to remove his hand and says a quiet “sorry”.

But TK quickly tries to reassure Carlos, “No need to be sorry, do whatever you need to do,” As the light turns green and TK makes sure his full attention is on the road to give Carlos the space to do whatever he needs to not pee his pants.

Despite TK telling him it was okay Carlos still tries to resist the urge to hold on with his hand. However his conviction doesn't last long as a few drops of pee escapes and he has no choice but to grab himself with his hand.
Carlos is gripping himself for dear life breath now coming out in quick gasps when they finally pull up outside of his house. He desperately fumbles with his seat beat as he undoes it and shoves the door open.

But as soon as his feet touch the ground it’s like the flood gates are opened. He is standing right outside the car door as the pee starts to rush down his legs. He tries to clench down and stop it but it is too late he completely pees his pants. As he stands there freezes it’s like everything around him drops out he doesn't even notice that TK has walked around the car until his hand is gently pressed to his arm.

Once the last of the drops of pee has soaked his pants as well as the ground below him he opens his mouth a few times to try and say something but is unable to. But TK just softly rubs his hand up and down his arm as he smiles gently at Carlos.

“Come on, let's get inside,” TK leads Carlos into the house and then into the bathroom where he starts the shower for Carlos. He waits until Carlos removes his wet clothes and steps in the shower before quickly picking up the clothes and putting them in the washer so Carlos doesn’t have to see them when he gets out.

He then heads back to the bathroom and strips out of his own clothes and goes to join Carlos in the shower. Once he steps in he sees Carlor standing directly under the water stream scrubbing down his legs extremely hard leaving his skin red and raw.

TK reaches out to stop Carlos while saying in a soft voice, “Gentle baby,” He pries the rags out of Carlos’s hand and steps closer while asking “May I?” Carlos nods his head and TK stands right in front of Carlos and starts to slowly wash his thighs with a lot less force then Carlos was using. He then glides it down the rest of his legs making sure he doesn’t miss a single spot. TK then gets some more body wash and starts to wash the rest of Carlos’s body.

The gentle touch of TK getting him all clean has Carlos’s start to come back into his body. He has been in so much of a state of panic he has barely been paying attention to anything that has been going on around him since he has let TK know he has to pee. He finds himself trying to recount all of what happened as TK angles him to wash off the soap.

He thinks over how they were supposed to drive Paul home that night and the look on his face when he saw Carlos at the table. As TK then grabs the bottle of shampoo off of the shelf and starts to work his fingers through his hair Carlos whispers out “Paul knew what was going on didn’t he?”

TK’s hands stop for a moment before resuming the job of scrubbing Carlos’s curls. “I’m not going to lie to you, he probably knew something was up.” But he quickly adds “I mean it’s Paul though I’m pretty sure the guy knows just about everything.”

Carlos thinks about what TK has sent and tries not to let his thoughts spiral but he can’t get the picture of Paul knowing that he has to pee out of his head. On top of that he imagines him in the car with Marjan telling her all about how Carlos was potty dancing at the table like a child and looking ridiculous.

He tries to get the thought to stop but they just keep coming and adding on to each other imagining vivid images of the two of them laughing at his expense somehow putting together that he has his boyfriend help him when he is desperate to pee.

His breathing starts to pick up as he squeaks out to TK, “Do you think he told Marjan?”

TK looks up at Carlos confused but sees the panic all over Carlos’s face as well as the rapid breath and quickly reassured him “No he wouldn’t do that,”

Seeing that Carlos was still in a state of panic TK decides to switch tactics he grabs one of Carlos’s hands to get his attention back on him, “Hey Carlos I want you to name five things you can see for me please.”

“Carlos looks up to TK with a slight look of confusion on his face but he starts to comply. “I see you, the shower curtain, the shampoo bottle” He then moves his eyes up and down before continuing, “The shower head, and the drain.”

“Good, now can you name four things you can feel?”

Carlos takes a minute to take in the sensations around him. “I can feel your hand in mine, the water hitting my body, the tiles beneath my feet, and some soap on our hands,”

TK squeezed his hand in response as a smile started to form on his face, “Great job, now what about three things you can hear?”

Carlos is able to respond quicker this time, “I can hear the water coming down, the air conditioner kicking on, and the sound of you breathing.”

“Good, almost done now. What about two things you can smell?”

Carlos takes a second to smell the air and is able to pick up the scents almost immediately. “The coconut shampoo, and the floral body wash.”

“Perfacet now the last one. What's one thing you can taste?”

Carlos scrunches his brow as he has to think this one over, “I don’t know, I guess the beer I had at the club earlier?”

“Yeah that works, I think taste is the hardest one to.” TK looks Carlos over and asks him “Are you back with me now?”

Carlos feels himself starting to blush again embarrassed at getting so worked up over nothing but tries to push that down as he answers. “Yeah I’m here. Sorry about that.”

TK wraps an arm around Carlos holding him closer. “Hey it like I said earlier there is no need for sorrys. Why don’t we get out of here and then we can continue our talk?”

Carlos is now starting to realize how cold the water has turned and sees that TK is slightly shivering as the water touches him. A feeling of guilt washes over him at having subjected TK to the cold. He agrees to get out and they head up to the bedroom and get dressed in some pajames. They then curl up in Carlos’s bed with TK pulling Carlos close to him placing his head right on Carlos’s shoulder.

TK then starts. “Now I’m going to say this because I think you need to hear it but if it starts to be too much I will drop it and we can continue some other time. Sounds good?”

Carlos nods his head slightly before answering, “Yeah that sounds okay.”

TK kisses Carlos’s cheek before continuing, “Good. Now I need you to know that no matter what it is that Paul noticed he would never tell anyone or use it against you in any way. And if for some reason he did decide to try and talk shit about you with Marjan she would absolutely kick his ass for even trying something like that.”

That gets a laugh out of Carlos and he rolls over so he and TK are now face to face. “I know that you are right and I know they are both good people who would never do something like that.”

Carlos hesitates for a minute and TK gently pushes some of Carlos’s hair back as he continues, “It’s just that I sometimes get so in my head about these things that I just completely spiral. Even though I know they are my friends and they would never do something so awful.”

“Well I will just keep reminding you how much our friends care about you and hopefully you can start to believe it.”

“We’ll see,” As Carlos says this he sees TK trying to stifle a yawn and Carlos glances at the clock to see how late it has gotten. “Let's go to sleep now.”

TK agrees and cuddles up close to Carlos and with that Carlos finds himself being lulled to sleep by the soft sounds of TK’s breathing.

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Carlos can feel himself making heart eyes at TK sitting in the booth across from him as he finished his burger while listening to TK tell him about the shenanigans he and Nancy got into while hanging out the night before. “So when we got to the restaurant it ended up being closed and at that point we were ready to throw in the towel and just go back to Nancy’s place and order something. But then…”

Carlos slurps down the rest of his soda as TK keeps telling his story. They have been having a nice calm night themself. They have tickets for a new movie tonight but decided to stop at a diner to have an early dinner before they had to be there.

Just then Carlos feels a twinge coming from his bladder he shuffles slightly in the booth to assess his need, it’s not too bad right now but he knows he should probably go to the bathroom before they leave for the movie.

Right when he is about to reach over to TK to let him know he sees TK glance down at his phone and sees the time. “Shoot sorry babe I got distracted we need to leave now or we will be late.”

Carlos looks down at his watch and sees that TK is right, they only have about 20 minutes until the movie starts. He weighs his options as TK waves over the waiter to pay their bill and thinks he doesn’t want to make them even later so he will just hold off until they are at the movie theater.

As TK puts his card back in his wallet he looks over at Carlos, “Ready to go?”

“Yeah lets go,” And with that the rush out of the diner to the car Carlos drives them to the movie theater that thankfully is only a few streets away from where they were eating so they manage to get there with some time to spare.

Once they are inside the lobby they head over to the ticket kiosks to pick up their tickets. Carlos looks around the lobby fidgeting slightly in place when he spots the bathroom in the far corner and sees there is no line outside of it.

TK glances at the time before saying, “I’m going to go and buy us some popcorn.”

“We literally just ate dinner and do you think we have enough time for that.”

“Were good there should still be a few more minutes of trailers and it completely goes against the rules to see a movie without popcorn.”

Carlos chuckles at this, “Well if it’s a rule then we have to do it.” As TK starts to walk over to the counter before he can get far Carlos reaches out and grabs his hand and squeezes twice. He quickly squeezes back while looking around the lobby like Carlos just was.

Carlos then nods his head to the corner where the bathrooms are and tells TK, “You can go and get the popcorn we can meet after by the theater entrance.”

TK’s face softens at hearing this and responds with a quick “Sounds good,” before heading off towards the counter not looking back at Carlos not wanting to make a big deal out of it especially when Carlos seems to have everything under control.

When Carlos pushes the door to the men's room open he freezes in place at what he sees in front of him. One of the stalls has an out of order sign on it and the other one is in use. He lets his eyes travel over to the urinal wondering if he can bring himself to use one for once only to see they are almost all being used. The only one that is open is right in between two other guys.

His bladder pulses at the sight but he knows that even if he could bring himself to try he would be unable to. He is shuffled from one foot to the other wondering if he can just wait for the stall to open without being odd when the door behind him swings open and the man entering almost runs into him.

“Woah sorry about that, you might want to move out of the doorway though.” The man then takes in the sight of Carlos discomfort clearly written on his face seemingly rooted to the spot. “Uh are you okay there buddy?”

This snaps Carlos out of his thoughts and quietly replies, “Yeah, I’m fine. Sorry.” While he keeps his eyes glued to the floor he makes his way around the man and leaves the bathroom quickly wanting to get out of there before anyone else notices him not wanting to make a scene.

There is no way Carlos can go back in there any time soon knowing how weird it would look for him to go right back in there after he just left. While walking over to where he will meet TK he takes inventory of his body and while he definitely has to pee it’s not painfully full yet. He thinks that it wouldn’t be too hard for him to wait until the movie is over.

When Carlos meets TK over by the entrance he sees that he is holding a large popcorn and drink. TK smiles at him and asks, “Hey you good?”

Carlos schools his movements to make sure he is not fidgeting and returns TK’s smile. “Yeah all good. Lets head in there.” Carlos pulls out their tickets and hands them over to the employee who tells them where to go.

When they enter the theater they see that TK was right and the trailers were still going but when they climb up the stairs to their row Carlos sees that it is pretty much filled up so they will have to squeeze past the people already in their seats to get to the middle of the row.

They apologies to the people as they make their way down the row getting some glares from the people already in their seats. Once they are seated TK puts the drink in the cup holder between them and makes sure the bucket of popcorn is within Carlos’s reach. “See that wasn’t too bad.”
Carlos makes sure TK can see from his face that he is not convinced. “Really because it looked like that guy at the end of the row wanted to murder us with his eyes.”

TK just shrugs, “Yeah well-” He is then cut off by someone further down the row loudly shushing him. This causes TK to mutter with annoyance in his voice that, “The movie hasn’t even started yet.” But he puts his hands up in surrender as the guy looks around the people between them to glare at him.

Carlos’s face flushes from the interaction as he shifts in his seat trying to ignore what just happened. Of course now his bladder chooses to send up the reminder that he still hasn't peed but he just tightly squeezes his legs together trying to dull the feeling. He draws his attention up to the screen and focuses on the trailer it is showing.

After about five more minutes of trailers the movie starts and Carlos absentmindedly starts eating that popcorn. He tries to keep his focus on the plot while keeping his thighs pressed together. It's some new action movie and unfortunately it already seems like it is not going to be a very good one if the first few minutes of acting is anything to go off of.

So the bare bones plot does not really give him much to focus on other than the building pressure in his bladder. He finds that he has to keep shifting in his seat but quickly puts a stop to this when in his movements his arm accidently bumps the person sitting next to him. Causing them to shoot an annoyed look at him.

He stills his movements after this causing a desperate shiver to be sent up his spine, he crosses one leg over the other but other than than makes sure to stay as still as possible. He reaches for more popcorn as a distraction only for part of a kernel to go down rough. He has to quickly down some of their drinks so as to not have a coughing fit right in the middle of the theater.

TK looks over to him with concern written on his face but Carlos just mouths to him that he is okay. He decided not to have any more popcorn after this not wanting to risk having to drink more and add even more liquid in his bladder.

This movie seems to be dragging on forever. It is only at about the mid way point and Carlos is majorly regretting his decision. His bladder is now completely rock hard and as much as he tries to stay still as to not disrupt the people around him he can’t help but fidget in his seat as he now feels constantly on the verge of leaking.

Carlos wonders if it would be best now to call it quits and let TK in on his need so he can get out of there. Only to remember the dirty looks they received upon entering the theater and know it would be even worse if they had to walk past everyone again especially now that the movie is actually going. So he knows he has no other option but to grit and bare it now and just hope that time will speed up so he can get out of there soon.

Luckily it seems like the film is reaching its climax as the heroes are approaching the bank the villains are robbing and seems to be gearing up for the big fight. Just then there was a loud explosion on the screen causing Carlos to jump in his seat. His momentarily loss of focus causes some pee to dribble out but he quickly shoves a hand between his legs to stop it.

Once he gets himself back under control he takes a second to look around him and sees that in the darkness of the theater no one noticed him grabbing himself. As his bladder sends out more pulses following the leak he keeps his hand in place and squeezes even tighter so no more pee escapes. He decides to risk keeping his hand in place since no one is noticing it and he knows he is on the verge of flooding his seat.

However it seems like even his hand is not enough to keep the floodgates closed as when another explosion is on screen it doesn't matter how hard he is squeezing a full on spurt of pee escapes wetting the hand he has between his legs.

He just keeps thinking oh god, oh god I’m about to pee my pants right in the middle of the movie theater. He has to bend slightly in the middle and clenches with all his might so as to not soak his pants right then. He then quickly brings up his other hand to pat TK on his arm in rapid secession.

TK looks over, drawing his attention away from the screen only for his eyes to widen to the size of dinner plates at the sight of Carlos bent over with his hand between his legs. Without even a second to waste TK is up grabbing Carlos’s other hand and pulling him down the row of people.

Only to meet a major road block as the man who was glaring at them earlier shives his body so he is completely blocking the row so they can’t get out. TK quickly hisses out, “excuses me.” and tries to push past the man.

The man just smirks back at them and smugly says, “I’m not going to move, you should stop disrupting everyone and go back to your seats.”

TK then moves closer to the man and glares right back at him while saying, “You're the one disrupting everyone by not letting us through." TK then tries to push his way past him again only for the man to fully stand up now.

“I said I’m not moving,” He gets in TK’s face as he says that people around them are now starting to notice what is going on murmuring amongst themselves.

Carlos is absolutely horrified at what is transpiring while he is full on pee dancing now on the spot and pulls TK back. Worried that this guy is about to pull a punch and Carlos will then have to arrest the man while also stopping TK from fighting back knowing that he wont take this lying down.

However thankfully before it comes to this a woman from the other side of the row calls out, “Stop being such a dick.” And she then gets the people around her to move back and turns her attention to TK and Carlos. “Here come through this way.”

Not even caring that it is the longer way around Carlos pulls TK along away from the man and out the other way. TK says a quick thank you to the woman as they pass and rushes as quickly as they can to make a speedy escape down the stairs back into the lobby.

Carlos’s bladder is screaming at him from the added pressure the stairs put on his bladder. Having to move his hand back between his legs now not having the luxury to worry about who could be seeing.

They are practically running through the lobby to the far corner where the bathrooms are. As Carlos pushes the doors open luckily this time there is no one else inside. He slams the stall door shut taking a second to lock the stall and quickly forcing his zipper down. Without a second to spare he gets his soggy underwear out of the way just in time for his stream to connect with the water below.

He lets out a loud groan of relief as he is finally putting an end to the strain his bladder was under. As his stream starts to come to an end he looks down to investigate his pants he sees that there is a small wet spot but because of the dark color of his jeans you would only see it if you were looking for it.

He exits the stall and goes to the sink to wash his hands, while he is doing that the bathroom door bursts open with a loud slam. He jumps and looks over to the door but lets out a sigh of relief when he sees that it is only TK. However he sees that TK is bouncing fast from one foot to another.

When TK sees him by the sink a look of relief fills his face as he runs over to one of the urinals. He fiddles with his pants for a second while continuing his bounce and then the bathroom is filled with his power washer like stream.

While peeing he starts to say over the sound of his stream, “Sorry babe, I was trying to wait until you came out but standing outside the bathroom was reminding me that I was bursting to pee too.”

“It’s okay baby, no need to be sorry. Why didn’t you just follow me here?”

TK finishes his business before going to wash his hands as well and answering, “I knew you really had to go and I did want to risk you freezing or not being able to pee if I was in here as well.”

Carlos is overwhelmed with the feeling of love and looks at TK with the biggest heart eyes he has. “That is very sweet, but you know I have peed in front of you before so it most likely won't be a problem. As long as it’s just you.”

“True maybe we could test that one day,” He pauses for a second before adding, “Well hopefully a time when we both aren’t super desperate.”

Carlos laughs as he says, “Yeah that sounds like a plan. We should probably head home now,”

“Yeah good Idea,” TK then gets a mischievous look on his face, “Unless you want to head back and arrest that asshole for being a public nuisance."

“While I probably could do that, I don’t think it would even be worth it.”

“You're right, let's go home then.”

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“Are you sure you are feeling up to this?” Carlos asks this while looking over at TK who is now sitting on their bathroom counter while Carlos is standing in front of the mirror finishing getting ready for the night.

“Baby we’ve talked about this, I’m out of the danger zone of my concussion and I really want to have dinner with my mom before she leaves town.”

Still seeing the concern in Carlos’s eyes TK reaches a hand for Carlos to grab. He squeezes it lightly before bringing it up to his mouth to place a small kiss on the back of his hand. “I’ll be okay, and besides it’s my parents you know how they can get they will probably be fussing over me the whole night.”

Carlos’s brow unfurrow as he hears this, letting it put his mind at ease, “Well that is true over protectiveness must run in the family.”

TK laughs at this, “Oh don’t even, Mr. Are you sure we should go? You can honestly be just as over protective as they are.”

Carlos feels his face flush as TK calls him out like that. But TK just pulls him over by his hand so he is now standing directly in front of him on the counter. “Don’t worry, I think it’s cute that you care so much.”

TK then reaches up and pulls Carlos down by his shirt collar leaning in to place a soft kiss on his lips. He pulls back for a second before yanking him harder towards him again this time for a much harder kiss. Carlos wraps his arms around TK pulling him in even closer, both of their mouths fighting for dominance.

Carlos feels TK move slightly pulling his mouth to right below his ear. He feels his hot breath on his ear lob as he nips lightly there before placing a kiss on the spot. He trails his mouth down to the base of his neck before shooting back up to his mouth.

After a few more seconds of heated kissing TK pushes Carlos back and hops off of the counter. They both just stand there gasping for air for a minute before TK gives Carlos a sheepish look. “As much as I would love to continue this, we really do have to leave soon or we’ll be late.”

Carlos raises his eyebrows at this. “Now that’s just not fair, you shouldn’t start things and not follow through.”

“Oh I plan on following through,” TK dances a finger across Carlos’s chest as he says this leaning back in real close but stopping just before he makes contact. “When we get back home that is.”

And with that he leans right back and starts making his way out the bathroom door. Shooting Carlos a mischievous look as he walks away.
“That is so teasing,” Carlos calls out after him but all he gets in response to that is the sound of TK’s laugh filling the living room. He then takes a minute to collect himself, refixing his hair in the mirror and straightening his clothes out. Being extra careful to make sure he looks put together, the idea of TK parents being able to tell what they were doing by looking at him is almost too mortifying to even think about.

He glances at his watch and sees that TK is right, they do really need to get going. He gives himself one more once over in the mirror and then heads out to the living room. TK is finishing putting his shoes on when he looks over to Carlos. “Ready to go?”

“Yeah sorry for taking so long.”

“Baby you’re fine, I’m the one who distracted us.”

As Carlos stops next to TK to pull his own shoes on, TK leans in to kiss his cheek but Carlos pulls back and raises an eyebrow at TK. “Uh uh, like you said no more touching until we get back.”

TK puts his hands up as a chuckle escapes him, “Alright, I deserve that.” He then playfully makes a show of moving himself all the way away from Carlos.

They then make their way to the car Carlos hopping in the driver's seat to drive them to Owens house. The drive is going smoothly, luckily not hitting much traffic on the way when Carlos is struck with a realization he forgot to pee before leaving. He had planned to do it after he was finished with his hair but after getting distracted by TK his whole plan has been derailed.

While his bladder is definitely sending the signal that he has to pee, it is nowhere near an emergency yet. His best bet is to limit his fluid intake during dinner so he will be able to hold on until they leave.

He pulls up outside of Owens house parking his Camaro next to Gwyn's car. They walk up to the house and within seconds of knocking on the door Gwyn flings the door open to greet them. She immediately pulls TK in for a hug. Before reaching up to and taking his head into her hands to inspect where the wound was.

“TK, You are looking so much better. Have you been taking care of yourself and following the doctor's instructions? And don’t even think about lying to me about it because I’ll just ask Carlos who will surely tell me the truth.”

TK quickly jumps in before she can bombard him with any more questions. “I’m doing a lot better, as you can see the wound is almost completely healed and I no longer have migraines all day.”

He sees her gearing up to another round of questions but cuts her off before she can. “I promise I’m really okay. Besides I had one of the best care takers a person could ask for. Who apparently you believe would be more honest about my health than me.”

“Well yes I know he would shoot straight with me about your wellbeing.” Gwyn moves away from TK before directing her attention to Carlos and pulls him in for a hug of his own. “Isn’t that right”

“Yes ma’am he wont get anything past me.”

Gwen pulls back before gently reminding him. “You can just call me Gwyn.”

They all hear a laugh coming from Owen exiting the kitchen to come and join them by the door. “Good luck with that one. I’ve known him a few months longer than you have and I’m still exclusively called Captain Strand.”

Carlos has to shrug his shoulders at that having just stopped himself from greeting him as captain Strand.

Gwyn then starts leading them over to the dining area. “Anyways dinner is almost ready if you boys want to make yourselves comfortable.” She then lowers her voice to add, “Don’t worry I was helping with the cooking so there will be some carbs in it.”

“Yes, since you see it fit to poison our son and his boy friend.”

“You are so dramatic. You know-”

TK shoots Carlos an amused look as he rolls his eyes at the fact that they couldn’t have even been here five minutes before the arguing has started. TK jumps in cutting his Mom off, “I’m sure it will be great. Why don’t you and I go sit in the living room and talk about your plans for flying home?”

As TK and Gwyn walk off to the couch Carlos approaches Owen in the kitchen. “Do you need a hand with finishing dinner?”

But he is quick to wave Carlos off "Nonsense you’re our guest. I’m pretty sure Gwyn would have my head if she heard I was putting you to work.”

That gets a laugh out of Carlos, “Alright fair enough.”

“I was thinking of opening a bottle of wine though. Would you like a glass?”

“Oh um,” Carlos hesitates for a second feeling a twinge from his bladder reminding him why it is a bad idea. But he doesn’t want to appear rude. “Yeah I’ll have a glass.”

Owen gestures for Carlos to take a seat at the kitchen island as he gets the bottle and glasses ready. Carlos shifts as he sits down trying to find a comfortable position on the bar stool as he crosses one leg over the other.

Carlos watches intently as Owen places the glass in front of him and pours in the wine. The sound caused him to squeeze his crossed legs together even tighter. But he still just thanks him for it as Owen pours his own glass and turns his attention back to the stove.

They make small talk about work while sipping on their wine as Owen finishes up dinner. A timer goes off and Owen pulls the fish out of the oven. He gets ready to start plating their food when he asks Carlos. “Do you think you can let them know dinner is done?”

“Can do.” So he hops down off of the bar stool having to pause for a second as it has jostled his bladder. But is able to quickly compose himself before going to get TK and Gwen.

He hears them laughing as he enters the living room seeing them deep in conversation on the couch. He clears his throat to get their attention. “Uh, dinner is ready now.”

“Great, TK go help your Dad get the food on the table.”

“On it.”

As Carlos is about to head to the table Gwyn reaches out to him, “Hold on a second. Sorry, I feel like I’ve been ignoring you. I wanted to thank you for taking such good care of my boy after his head injury.”

“It was nothing TK is a pretty easy patient,”

“Ha, well now I know you are lying to me. He is probably one of the worst patients.”

Carlos’s face flushes at this, “Maybe, but I don’t mind. I like being able to take care of him.”

Gwen just smiles at this, giving Carlos a knowing look with her eyes. “Well then let's go eat.”

They enter the room the same time TK and Owen are sitting down. He takes his place next to TK and can’t help but notice the fact that his glass of wine has been topped off. He just pushes his thighs together tightly feeling his jeans chafe against his legs as he does. He will just have to make sure this glass lasts for the whole meal so he is not offered any more.

He draws his attention to his plate taking in the salmon with roasted potatoes and vegetables. “This looks great,” He makes sure to complement the meal before they start digging in.

So they eat their meal Carlos taking small sips of wine between bites but making sure he is passing himself. They are about half way through the meal when Carlos feels his need to pee intensify. The glass of wine from before dinner must have made its way down to his bladder to join the liquids all ready inside. He starts subconsciously bouncing his leg with intense speed under the table. As TK and his parents are making small talk while enjoying the meal Carlos can not bring himself to focus on a word that is being said.

The bouncing is brought to a stop a few minutes later with TK placing a hand on one of his thighs to stop the movement. He sends a silent concerned look to Carlos but Carlos just shrugs him off focusing his attention back on the meal. After that he is much more careful about keeping his body as still as possible. But not being able to move is proving to wreak havoc on his overly full bladder. He tightens his grip on his fork and clenches his teeth as his bladder sends a strong pulse of need over his body.

As the meal starts to wind down and Owen starts to pick up the plates to take them to the kitchen. Carlos feels his whole body start to relax as he thinks he is in the home stretch and that they will be leaving any minute now.

“Oh, I almost forgot. I baked a cake for dessert. You boys sit tight while I go and cut it.”

With that Gwyn is following Owen into the kitchen leaving Carlos and TK sitting by themselves. Carlos forces his body to tense back up. The news that they will be here even longer when he thought he was close to relief sends a wave of panic over his body.

He feels TK’s hand fall on his shoulder. The surprise of it makes him clench his tired muscles even tighter as to not leak on the dining room chair.

“Babe, are you okay? You’ve been pretty quiet tonight, and you seem pretty tense.”

“Yeah, I’m fine,” He says this quickly and when he sees that TK doesn’t look convinced he adds, ‘I’m just kind of tired tonight. That’s all.”

TK takes a second to think this over before leaning in close to Carlos and whispering. “I’m sorry for teasing you before we left. I didn’t think it would affect you this much.

“What?” That confusion is radiating in Carlos’s voice and he frantically corrects TK. “No, no, that has nothing to do with this. I swear.”

“Okay?” Now it is TK’s turn to be confused, “Well then what is this the-”

But before he can finish his question his parents come back into the room bringing an end to the conversation.

“All right, I made a chocolate raspberry cake. I hope you like it Carlos. It slipped my mind to ask what kind of cake you like beforehand.”

Carlos is quick to put her at ease. “That sounds wonderful, I’m sure I will love it.”

With that they start on the cake even Owen is having a small piece of his own with only a few comments slipped in about how bad for you it is. But other than that they all praise Gwyn for how good it is the rich, moist cake seeming to melt in their mouth.

While Carlos is enjoying the cake he is also kicking himself for not letting TK know he had to pee while his parents were in the kitchen. Having wasted this golden opportunity to slip to the bathroom when they were by themselves. Now trying to eat as fast as he can without it seeming odd praying that he wont start leaking now.

He is unable to stop his leg bouncing now as the pressure in his bladder has reached unbearable levels. His bouncing is not only shaking his chair but TK’s leading him to look back over at him in concern. But Carlos is not paying attention to him, only glazing around the table at everyone else's plate hoping they will be done soon as well. He was so locked in on not leaking that he didn’t even hear Gwyn asking him a question until TK lightly pokes his arm.

“Sorry, what was that?”

“That’s okay, I was just asking if you would like another piece of cake.”

“No thank you, I am absolutely stuffed. It was very delicious though.”

His weakened bladder muscles take advantage of his momentary distraction as a few drops of pee escapes. He has to clench down as hard as he can to not let any more escape. He feels a sharp pain now coming from his bladder and he knows no matter how hard he tries he will not be able to hold it until they are back home.

He looks at TK’s plate and sees that it is empty meaning they could leave now. But even if they were to leave right this second Carlos knows he will completely flood the car seat before they are even half way home.

He grabs on to TK’s hand that is sitting on the table and gives it two quick squeezes. TK responds in no time with a squeeze of his own but has to take a second to think of an excuse for Carlos this time.

“You know what I realized when I was unpacking my things I left one of my hairbrushes in the bathroom here.”

His parents just look at each other confused before looking back at TK. “A hairbrush?”

“Yep, come on Carlos help me look for it.” And before they can even say another word TK is up from the table and pulling Carlos along to the bathroom.

Carlos can hear how flimsy of an excuse TK gave but at this point he doesn't really care. All he can allow himself to focus on is keeping up with TK and not flooding Owen’s hallway floor. TK stops outside the bathroom door letting go of Carlos’s hand. Carlos runs inside not even taking a second to shut the door but luckily TK shuts the door for him.

He is frantically dancing in place in front of the toilet while pulling hard on his button trying to force it open with shaky hands. He is able to wiggle his button open and pull down his zipper right after. When pulling out his penis before he is even able to aim at the bowl he is already peeing causing him to drench the floor in front of the toilet. He quickly redirects to the toilet and is unable to stop the loud moan from coming out of his mouth to overcome by relief. He tries to stifle another moan that tries to escape the room around him filled with the sound of his gusher of a stream.

When his relief comes to an end he fixes his pants and he freezes in place as he sees the mess he made in front of the toilet. But he jumps into action to clean it up as well as he can. He starts looking around the bathroom trying to find anything he can use to clean it with. He hears a knock on the door and calls back “Just a minute without even thinking,

“Baby it’s just me, is everything okay?”

Carlos hesitates for a second before opening the door for TK. He sees TK’s eyes flash with worry as he only opens the door a crack. But the worry quickly dissipates as his eyes travel down to the crotch of his pants and sees that they are dry.

“Talk to me babe what’s going on?”

Carlos doesn’t respond with words just opens the door the rest of the way so TK can see the floor in front of the toilet.

“It’s okay, that is an easy fix, I’ll be right back.”

So leaves Carlos standing there awkwardly trying to figure out if he should do something. When TK comes back into the bathroom with a bottle of cleaning spray and a roll of paper towels. He closes the door behind him and crouches down in front of the toilet to start cleaning.

Carlos moves so he is kneeling next to TK. “You don’t have to do that.”

TK just sprays down the floor with a cleaner and grabs multiple paper towels. He keeps some in his hand and hands the rest to Carlos.

“It’s all good, it will go faster if we do it together.”

So the two of them make quick work of getting the floor all clean and placing the paper towels in the trash before washing their hands.
Carlos hesitates in front of the door. “What do you think your parents think we are doing here?”

TK pauses for a second before answering, “I don’t think you really want me to answer that.”

Carlos groans, leaning his head back on the wall completely embarrassed by the implications.

TK brightens up before fumbling under the bathroom sink and pulling out an old hairbrush from under there. “On the bright side there is really a hairbrush so maybe they won't think anything.”

Carlos can’t stop the chuckle that escapes him appreciating TK's attempt at lightening the mood.

“Well then let's get back out there before we are gone suspiciously long.”

Chapter Text

If one more person tries to talk to TK about how great his dad is he thinks he just might scream. Now don't get him wrong TK agrees that his dad is pretty great and normally talks like this wouldn’t bother him but after the tenth or so person coming up to him to sing his dad’s praises it’s getting a little old. He finds an excuse in a waiter passing by with a tray of water to get out of his current conversation. He grabs the glass and makes his way to another spot in the room losing the woman who tries pushing the conversation in the process.

TK fidgets with the collar of his suit for a second before going back to sipping his drink to make himself appear occupied. It’s not the first time he has pulled this exact same move tonight and it probably won't be the last. He takes in the room around him all of the first responders here dressed to the nines trying to schmooze all of these rich people into donating to the first responders funds.

Now TK knows how to be a kiss up and appear charming to people with money that is not the problem here. The problem is when firefighters from other stations come up to him talking about his dad not stopping trying to see if TK will put a good word in for them to be transferred to the 126. Which frankly TK finds pretty insulting even if he did have the ability to do that he wouldn’t especially when the people asking him are reeking of desperation.

His eyes scan the room now looking with one purpose and he quickly spots what he is looking for. He sees Carlos on the other side of the room talking with a group of people. He takes a minute to appreciate how handsome he looks all dressed up effortlessly charming the people he’s talking to. If TK was them he would be immediately handing over a large sum of money.

Lost in his thoughts of drooling over his extremely hot boyfriend TK is brought out of it by the feeling of his bladder. He has been keeping very hydrated tonight and all the water he has been drinking to get out of polite conversation is making its presence known. His mind drifts to the hall where the bathrooms are and remembers the long line he saw for it earlier. It’s his best bet to head over there now not knowing just how long the line will take.

As he is making his way over there he hears a meek voice trying to get his attention. “Um excuse me, are you TK Strand?”

TK has to stop himself from groaning, it is not the end of the world for him to be stopped for a little bit, he just doesn't really feel like having another conversation about his dad right now. Still he forces a smile on his face to not appear rude in front of the donors around him.

“Yeah that’s me, and you are?”

When he turns he sees a man who seems to be in his early twenties looking extremely nervous fiddling with his cufflinks on his jacket.

“Oh, right sorry, I’m James. And uh… well I heard that recently you went from being a firefighter to a paramedic. I was thinking of doing that too and had a few questions I wanted to ask you. If that's okay?”

At this TK’s face lights up from a fake smile to a real one his mind now racing with pointers he could give the guy. “Oh! Yeah, ask me anything. I would love to help in any way that I can.”

TK then spends the next hour talking to him about what he needs to do to get certified and how even if he chooses to stay a firefighter it would still be a good idea to get certified anyway. To be prepared as well as to be able to keep his options open.

They exchange goodbyes and the guy is on his way. As soon as he is no longer distracted it’s like a sledgehammer slammed into his bladder. He is subtly twisting in place trying to ease the tension but not make a scene with all these people around. He is kicking himself for getting so sucked into the conversation and completely forgetting he was heading to the bathroom.

He knows that it is absolutely imperative that he gets in the bathroom line now! That any other detour would spell disaster for his now aching bladder. He starts to weave his way through the crowd trying his best to not jostle his bladder in the process. He is almost to the exit of the large room when an older woman stops right in front of him. He is forced to come to a screeching halt and he can feel the pee sloshing around in his bladder as he does so.

“Oh pardon me young man.”

TK looks at the woman again and freezes in his tracks when he realizes who it is, all of them being briefed beforehand about her family. It’s Donna Monroe, one of the wealthiest people here and one whose family almost always writes a big check for the department.

“I am so sorry Mrs. Monroe, I really should have been watching where I was going.”

He sees her wiping off a few drops of champagne from her long black dress that he can tell just by looking at it cost more than three times his yearly salary.

“Nonsense I’m the one who stepped in your way. Say, aren't you the Strand boy?”

“Yes ma’am I am.”

“Oh, I see you are picking up on our southern hospitality already.”

TK forces himself to laugh at that, “Well I’m trying my best.”

His bladder takes this moment to pulsate with a frantic need. He has to subtly squeeze his thighs together, his clammy hands gripping on to the sides of his pants tightly. Hoping that she doesn’t notice. If he were talking to anyone else right now he would have excused himself but he can’t think of any way out of this conversation.

“Your father has really made a splash in his time here. With a reputation like his I should have known he would do great things.”

He has to fight to not cringe as her choice of words makes his bladder constrict. “Ha, yeah he does like to shake things up.”

He is now stuck here as she rambles on about his dad asking him what it was like working with him. As well as trying to dig into the details of their family life. TK keeps his polite smile on his face and answers every question she asks. As he wonders what is the nicest way he can get out of this conversation.

He then spots a life line in the form of Carlos walking by them. And TK jumps at the opportunity. “Carlos,” TK calls out, getting his attention before grabbing the crook of his elbow with his hand pulling him over to where they are standing. “Mrs. Monroe have you met my partner, Officer Reyes?”

“I can’t say that I have. It's a pleasure to meet you.” She then holds out her hand for him to shake his hand.

He reaches out to shake her hand and TK makes sure to keep his own grip on his other arm as he does so. “The pleasure is all mine ma’am.”

“My you too boys are such charmers.” The two of them shoot her a bright smile at that. And then of course she directs the conversation right back to Owen. Fortunately Carlos takes the lead in the conversation to take some of the pressure off of TK.

TK has to resume his twisting from earlier to try and quell his now ever present need. He is glad Carlos is there now because he can’t even begin to pretend to focus on anything other than how bad he needs to pee. He stands there suffering for another few minutes before he is struck by a realization. Duh it is so simple and he uses the hand gripping Carlos’s elbow and quickly squeezes it twice. He waits for Carlos to respond with a squeeze or a pat of his own and… nothing. TK then tries again hoping this time he will understand but also knowing they never talked about the sign being reversed so Carlos might not even be clocking what he is trying to do.

He tries it one more time this time squeezing a little bit harder hoping it will help get a crossed the message. He is then able to see the realization dawning on Carlos's face twisting with understanding. Carlos quickly patted the back of his hand before drawing his attention back to Mrs. Monroe.

“You know Mrs. Monroe, Captain Strand is here tonight. I just saw him standing on the other side of the room and it looks like no one is talking to him now.”

Her eyes widened in excitement “Really?”

“Oh yes, and I’m sure he would love to talk to you.” He then points her in the direction of where he last saw him. She quickly says goodbye to them before going to find him. “Thank you so much. You boys have a nice night.”

Carlos waves her off, “You too ma’am.” He then turns his entire attention to TK with an extremely guilty look on his face. He starts to quickly lead them the rest of the way out of the room and apologize along the way. “I am so sorry baby, I should have been paying closer attention. I should have known what you were doing the first time.”

“Carlos babe, It’s fine really. You got us out of there, that's all that really matters right now. Although we probably will owe Dad an apology for throwing him to the wolves like that.”

That gets a snort out of Carlos, “Come on now she wasn’t that bad.”

“No but I’m sure her husband is really going to love seeing her drooling over my dad in person.”

“You do have a point.”

“Of course I do it just- Oh god no!” TK cuts off their banter at the awful sight in front of him. The line to the bathroom is even longer than before. Panic overtakes his body as he sees what seems to be at least a twenty minute wait if not longer.

He feels Carlos pull TK closer to him rubbing one of his shoulders trying to ease some of his tension. His concern now radiating off of him he lowers his voice to ask, “Are you going to be okay?”

“Yeah I’ll be fine, let's just get in line now.” But even as he is saying this TK is not fully convinced it’s true.

Time feels like it is completely standing still. The only reason he knows that time is actually moving is the bathroom line slowly inching forwards every few minutes or so. His twisting has evolved into a full on pee dance switching between marching in place to frantically bouncing but even that doesn’t seem to be helping much anymore. His bladder spasms causing him to freeze for just a moment as his need to take over his whole body. As he clenches all the muscles in his body he finds himself squeezing tightly onto Carlos’s hand he is holding. Carlos is looking at him worry filling his eyes as he opens his mouth to say something.

But TK leans in close and whispers in his ear before he can say anything. “I really need to go. There is no way I can wait in this line anymore. What am I supposed to do!” His voice speeds up as he is talking the panic clear as day as he speaks.

Carlos takes action after that, gently tugging TK by the hand to the entrance of the building taking him to the car. Whispering reassurances to him along the way. “It’s okay baby, I’ll find somewhere open nearby. It will be faster than waiting in the line.”

Once the two of them are alone in the car TK becomes much more vocal about how much he needs to pee. “Oh god, oh god. This is bad, this is so bad! I feel like I’m going to burst!” He just keeps repeating things like this while frantically bouncing his legs up and down.

Carlos hears how panicked TK is and feels his own panic start to raise at seeing just how upset TK is. But Carlos forces that feeling down and focuses all his attention on finding any place for TK to relieve himself.

“Oh god, hold it hold it. Oh no, wait, n- ah” A loud gasp cuts off what TK is saying as he feels a large jet of pee shoot out. He slams his hand between his legs trying to use all of his might to not pee anymore. He sees Carlos look at him out of the corner of his eye as he turns the wheel of the car. TK feels a blush start creeping up his neck but doesn’t remove his hand. “Sorry, I just need to go so bad.”

“Hey baby you're always telling me there is nothing to apologize for. The same applies to you, do whatever you need to do babe.”

TK is silent for a few minutes, the only sound filling the car is TK’s ragged breathing as he tries desperately to hold on. He then lets out another loud gasp as he feels more pee leaving his bladder entering his groin and he has to clamp down even harder than before to contain it. “Oh shit, no please!” He then directed the next part at Carlos. “Ah! I need to pee so bad! I can’t stop it.”

“I know baby, I know. I’m so sorry. It’s okay if you can’t wait any more. It’s all okay.”

Carlos is doing everything he can to soothe TK, knowing how awful he must be feeling right now. When on the street ahead of then Carlos finally spots a store that’s open. It’s a small convenience store with a few cars in the parking lot but Carlos sees the green glowing open sign and starts driving there.

“TK, baby there is a store on the next right. Do you want to try and make it inside?”

TK sniffles slightly before answering, while he is not super sure of his ability to not pee his pants before he can even find the bathroom. He knows the only other option at this point would be peeing his pants in Carlos’s car and if there is a chance he can avoid that he is going to take it.

“Yeah, okay lets try.” With that Carlos is pulling the car into the parking spot making sure he is parked right next to the door. He quickly gets out of the driver's seat and slams his door shut before hurrying over to the passengers door. He helps TK out of the car and the two of them rush through the door, the bell jiggling as they slam the door open.

Carlos’s eyes scan the store quickly but doesn’t see a bathroom sign. He decides the quickest option is to ask the cashier. “Uh excuse me, where is your bathroom?”

The cashier just glances over at them, being one of the few places open at this time of night he is used to people rushing in here looking desperate. So he is not even fazed in the slightest at the sight of TK red in the face bouncing in place with his hand between his legs. He just points them to the back corner of the store. But as they are rushing that way he calls after them, “Try not to make a mess of my floors.”

TK whimpers when he hears this, mortified at the idea while also being at the very end of his rope.

“Just ignore him baby. You are doing so so good. You're almost there.”

TK listens to Carlos’s words of encouragement and lets them replay over in his mind as they make it to the bathroom door. He bust in without any hesitation and positions himself in front of the urinal. However it really is just like a full on roll reversal as his shaking hands struggle to undo his belt getting even more frantic now that he is inches away from the urinal.

But having anticipated this Carlos is quick to come up behind him and reaches around to undo his belt. “I got it, you start working on your fly if you can.” Having been in this position many times now he knows the best thing to help at this moment. After minimal finessing Carlos is able to get the belt open and makes quick work of undoing the button right after. “Alright got it.”

With that, that is all the prompting TK needs to pull his still leaking penis out of his underwear and point it directly to the urinal. It takes a second for him to really get started going after the strain he put on his bladder but then the whole bathroom is filled with the loud gushing sound. He is so relieved he feels his legs start to give up out from under him. But luckily Carlos is right there to help support him. He lets out a quiet sigh of relief as his head dips back pressing gently onto Carlos’s shoulder.

Once he is finished TK just stands there for a second back fully pushed against Carlos’s front taking a second to collect himself. After he is able to wind back down the first thing he says is. “Maybe the two of us should stop wearing belts.”

TK felt Carlos’s laugh vibrating through his chest to his back. “I would fully agree to this but both of our uniforms require belts.”

TK pulls away from Carlos and starts redoing his pants taking in the damage as he does so. He is embarrassed to see a large wet spot taking up the entirety of the crotch of his pants. Without even having to say a word Carlos is shrugging off his suit jacket and hands it over to TK to cover up. So TK quietly ties it around his waist and makes his way over to the sink to get himself as cleaned up as he can.

Carlos doesn't want to force TK to talk if he doesn’t want to but the guilt he was feeling earlier creeps back in and he just has to say something. “Look I am really sorry for not realizing what you were trying to tell me right away. With how much you help me it sucks that I failed to help you in the same way.”

TK turns the sink off and faces Carlos he makes sure to keep his face soft as he reaches out a hand to Carlos. He doesn’t say anything until Carlos has grabbed his hand. TK starts rubbing his thumb in miscellaneous patterns on the back of Carlos’s hand.

“You did help me babe. Besides I don’t think those few minutes would have really made a difference. The bathroom line would have been just a long and I would have been in pretty much the same spot. And if you really still feel like you messed up just remember it for next time.”

“You know I should really be the one comforting you, not the other way around.”

This just makes TK shrug his shoulders, “Well I’m pretty much okay now. Sure, I was shaken up while it was happening but now that the panic has subsided, I just want to get home and change out of these pants.”

“Well then let's go and once we get home I’ll make sure to take extra good care of you in the shower.”

“I’ll definitely never say no to that,” TK then gestures to the door with the hand that is not on Carlos’s, “Lead the way.”