TWO SOULS, TWO BODIES AND ONE HEART

Mrs. Starsk Blondie

 

 

 

Summary:  Starsky’s birthday is near and Hutch wants something special for him.

 

Note:  This is the first story I’ve written using a song. It was a suggestion of a friend of mine. Hope you like it. The song is by George Michael and the name is “A different corner”

 

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Starsky’s birthday is coming and Hutch wants to surprise him with a big party. It’s his first birthday as lovers and above all, Hutch needs to celebrate life has given them this opportunity to show their true feelings and of that Gunther’s shooting wasn’t fatal. He want to celebrate the miracle that Starsky represents and wants to give him from now on everything he ever needs to show him his love and make up for the time they missed for not being brave enough to acknowledge the kind of love that they really felt for each other.

 

He makes a list with everything he wants to do, considering all things Starsky likes and he’s eager to do anything possible to make that day unforgettable for his friend, his partner, his brother and now his lover. <Lover>, he repeats mentally with a loving smile on his face and every time he thinks about that word he feels a warm sensation filling him inside. When he remembers how things went through he also feels sad because due to his fear for confessing his love to Starsky, not knowing they were reciprocated, had made them both miss so many beautiful moments as the ones they were sharing now. But thanks God they’d have the rest of their lives to make up for those times.

 

Taking advantage Starsky’d gone to buy some groceries, Hutch phones Huggy to tell him his plan and ask him to keep the restaurant for that day so they could have the party at The Pits. He’s so anxious he can’t stop talking about the party and he makes Huggy go nuts with all his ideas about the decoration he wants at the restaurant, the food that obviously has to be everything Starsky likes and he even asks his friend to tell him if he’s missing something, ‘cause he doesn’t want any loose ends.

 

“Aren’t you exaggerating, Blondie?”, asks Huggy surprised with Hutch’s excitement. “You don’t seem like yourself. You’ve never been so fond of parties”.

 

“Huggy, this isn’t just a party as any other…”, replies Hutch in the same excited voice. “It’s a very special occasion. It’s Starsky’s first birthday after the shooting…after I almost lost him…ehhh…I mean we almost lost him”, he corrects himself not to be that obvious.

 

“OK, ok, I didn’t mean I wouldn’t help you, it was just that you surprised me with your excitement”.

 

“Besides his birthday, this party is to celebrate he’s fully recovered and that I have my partner back”.

 

“Yeah, yeah, I think I see how you feel, Blondie”, accepts Huggy with a mischievous smile.

 

They go on talking about the details and when Starsky’s back everything is on the run and he doesn’t have a clue about the conversation between his blonde and their friend.

 

The guys then go to fix dinner and they eat peacefully in the kitchen talking about the case they handled during the day. The conversation then is taking other roads to more intimate comments and some caresses over the table and Starsky playing with his toes on Hutch’s leg beneath the table too. Soon the laughter turns into a more serious expression in their faces and their eyes meet full of love and lust and they lean over the table joining in a very deep kiss. Breaking the kiss just enough to stand up and hurry to the bedroom leaving the things of the dinner for next morning. The passion and hunger for each other builds up and they end up making love intensely till they fall asleep exhausted.

 

*****

During the following days all the arrangements are going as planned and Starsky just wonders what’s the reason for Hutch’s change in mood. The child inside of him tells him that maybe it’s because his blonde is preparing some kind of surprise for his upcoming birthday and that makes him anxious for the day to come. He himself feels that this year his birthday is a very special date because he’ll be able to celebrate it with the most important person in his life, the person he loves the most and he regrets it took him so much to realize his true feelings for Hutch so they wouldn’t have waste so much time. But fortunately life has given them another opportunity and he surely won’t let it slid away.

 

Hutch goes with his task preparing little gifts to surprise Starsky and get his attention away from the main present he plans to give him. Each moment he’s alone at home, while Starsky’s in the shower - and they’re not sharing the moment, of course -, if Starsky goes shopping or to the grocery, he even wakes up at night and without making any noise and taking advantage of the heavy sleep of his lover, he takes care of all the little details.

 

Right in one of those circumstances, when Starsky went to see Merle to take the Torino for a tune up, he hurries with some of those gifts and the emotions and anxiety inside him make him feel a little tired. He turns on the radio and closes his eyes to relax a little. His mind starts going back again to all the time spend with Starsky since they first met at the Academy and how things were getting them closer to each other avoiding the differences they had due to their different origins till they became the one and only support for each other.

 

In the middle of his thoughts a song in the radio catches his attention. It’s George Michael’s “A different corner” song and its melody and words make him think a lot because it fits very well with him.

 

TAKE ME BACK IN TIME

MAYBE I CAN FORGET

TURN A DIFFERENT CORNER

AND WE NEVER WOULD HAVE MET

WOULD YOU CARE?

 

I DON’T UNDERSTAND IT

FOR YOU IT’S A BREEZE

LITTLE BY LITTLE

YOU’VE BROUGHT ME TO MY KNEES

DON’T YOU CARE?

 

NO I’VE NEVER COME CLOSE

IN ALL OF THESE YEARS

YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE

TO STOP MY TEARS

I’M SO SCARED OF THIS LOVE

 

AND IF ALL THAT THERE IS

IS THIS FEAR OF BEING USED

I SHOULD GO BACK

TO BEING LONELY AND CONFUSED

IF I COULD, I WOULD, I SWEAR

 

When the song is over, Hutch goes considering each word. <Seems George Michael is so deeply in love with somebody as I am with Starsky> he says to himself. <And yes, it’s an unconditional love for which I’d do anything to keep it precious as it is…It doesn’t matter what Starsky’d ask me, I’d do it without asking as long as I can have his love> He closes his eyes and his mind flies letting the song sink in related to his relationship with Starsky. <If at any time I’d feel dominated by his love, I guess I wouldn’t be strong enough as to give it up, because I’m caught in Starsky’s love as he were my shadow, my soul. Does Starsky realize how much power his love has on me? – he sighs – What would I be if we wouldn’t have met? Would I be as happy as I am now?…My life would’ve follow another road and surely I wouldn’t ‘ve had so much pain and fear as I had confessing my true feelings, fearing for being rejected…Ufff, instead of that our love is so true…so precious…> With these words he feels a great peace inside, a warm feeling runs through his whole body and he smiles thinking of his beloved Starsky.

 

As he’s immerse in those thoughts, he hears the Torino and hurries to hide the things he’d been working with sitting down again on the couch with a book in his hands as if he’d been reading.

 

“Hey, you’ve already brought your baby home?”, Hutch teases him.

 

“Aha…”, replies Starsky sitting on the couch beside him and leaning over him for a kiss. “And it would be a good idea if you’d do the same with that battleship of yours”.

 

“My car is alright as it is, Starsky”, says Hutch a little upset for the comment about his car.

 

“Oh, yeah, sure it is…The only problem it has is that the engine overheats, it has an oil leak and of course it continues honking the horn every time you open the door…” Starsky goes on teasing his lover. “Besides that it surely is in very good shape”, he smiles.

 

“Very funny…”, answers Hutch frowning. “Aren’t you afraid that the owner of that piece of junk would deteriorate the same way?”

 

“Hmmm, don’t think so…”, Starsky says with a naughty  smile.

 

“How can you be so sure?”

 

“Well, because I take good care of him to keep him in good shape”, he says leaning over Hutch for another kiss. “And I think I’m getting very good results”, he adds his hand resting on the evident hard-on that Hutch has.

 

Hutch responds the kiss and the caress and for some minutes they surrender to the sensations, the caresses and kisses that follow that first one till they get breathless. “Hmmm, guess I can surrender to that treatment for the rest of my life”.

 

“Glad to hear those words, Blondie, ‘cause I have lots of ideas to give you a thorough tune-up”

 

“I think I have to do my best too in order to keep you in good shape, what reminds me that if I don’t start fixing dinner…”, he says kissing the tip of Starsky’s nose and patting his stomach.

 

“You’re right, babe”, Starsky answers smiling.

 

****

 

Finally Starsky’s birthday arrives. As always, with his childish character, Starsky’s waiting anxiously to get the surprise Hutch has been keeping in secret for him. He has no idea what it could be, but knowing his Blonde, he knows he won’t be disappointed.

 

On the other hand, Hutch, knowing how curious Starsky is and in order to keep him from getting suspicious about the party, he starts the day bringing to bed a tray with a luscious breakfast with all the things Starsky likes and some of the small gifts he’d prepared.

 

Starsky is delighted and his face glowing with happiness as he opens each one of the packages because of the crazy ideas Hutch had, even including a piece of cold pizza wrapped with a bright colorful paper and a big ribbon around it and various chocolate bars wrapped separately.

 

They share breakfast in bed and after eating, Hutch takes the tray away and takes him in his arms kissing him deeply ready to enjoy the private celebration. Of course among Hutch’s ideas, he had asked Dobey to call them and interrupt their day off and although it was Starsky’s birthday, they’d have to go to the station immediately to help in one of the latest cases.

 

“Isn’t is possible for him to live without us?”, Starsky says upset stepping out of bed, after Hutch had told him about Dobey’s call.

 

“The sooner we solve the case, the sooner we’ll be back and resume what we left unfinished”, Hutch teases him trying to cheer him up with a kiss on his cheek.

 

“I had so much expectations for this special day…”, he continues with a sad voice going to the bathroom.

 

Hutch smiles after the door is shut. <I hope all I have prepared to surprise you, Starsk, will fulfill your expectations…It’s very important for me that you enjoy this day as you’ve never enjoyed a birthday party before…This is only a little joke to make you more anxious and ready for tonight…I hope you don’t get mad at me>, he says to himself.

 

Trying to avoid Starsky a situation more bitter than necessary, when he listens the water running in the shower, he joins him in the bathroom so they can share at least some more moments of intimacy before going out.

 

****

 

When they arrive to the Precinct, they begin to work in the case Dobey asked them. It’s nothing too complicated and soon after lunch time they’re free again. The Captain, with the excuse of the birthday, let’s them leave the reports for next day and tells them to go back home to enjoy what’s left of the day.

 

****

 

“Home, sweet home”, says a not very cheerful Starsky easing himself on the sofa. “Would it be possible that we could enjoy my birthday without any other interruptions?”, he adds looking at Hutch with pleading eyes.

 

“I don’t know what you have in mind, Starsk”, says Hutch sitting down by his side. “But I surely will be eager to do anything you want”, he smiles and leans over him for a kiss.

 

“What I have in mind, Blintz…hmmm…I better don’t say it…”, he says a little disillusioned.

 

“What’s wrong, Gordo? You’re always so cheerful on your birthday…And now that we finally have the rest of the day for ourselves, you get sad”, Hutch embraces him sensing Starsky’s waiting a surprise and as he doesn’t see anything out of normal, he thinks there’s nothing special for this day.

 

“It’s just…well…I thought that we could have a very special day…you know…Breakfast was promising and if it wasn’t for that damn call from Dobey, we would’ve have a great morning…”, he sighs.

 

“We can continue where we ended”, Hutch says sliding one hand over Starsky’s chest through the opening in his shirt.

 

“Don’t know…it’s like I’m not in the mood…”, he says pouting like a child. “I was expecting a great day and it’s been as any other”.

 

“Let’s try to fix it, then…The day’s not over yet…Let’s go get changed and we can go out for dinner. We can go to a very special restaurant with soft music, low lights and then I’ll take care of a special dessert”, Hutch winks his eye and kisses the tip of his nose.

 

“Let’s leave the restaurant for other occasion, I rather have a Huggy’s special and that’s all”, he says now smiling.

 

“Didn’t you say you wanted something special for today?”, asks Hutch frowning not understanding the change in Starsky’s mood.

 

“That’s exactly what I’m talking about”, he replies with his eyes bright with excitement and desire. “I just realized that the most special thing I’ll have today…”, he straightens in his seat and takes Hutch’s face in his hands, “is the dessert you’ve promised me…And that’s what I really want for my birthday”, he leans forward to join him in a tender kiss at first then turning to a kiss deep and passionate full of love.

 

When they part for air they start laughing heartedly and Hutch plays with Starsky’s curls. “I hope I don’t disappoint you and that I’d be what you’re expecting”.

 

“I have no doubts about it, Blondie”, he says kissing him again.

 

Hutch straightens up. “All right, but anyway we first go eating at least to Huggy’s as you suggested. I don’t want your stomach to be the next to interrupt us”.

 

“Hey, when was that?”, Starsky says smiling cheerfully.

 

“I better don’t say anything else…I rather don’t take any chances…’cause once I’ve got you in bed, I’ll take care of you so you’ll be completely satisfied with your dessert, right?”

 

“Wow, Hutch!”, he exclaims his eyes beaming. “Let’s hurry then, I already wanna be back”, he adds getting up and pulling Hutch to the bathroom to take a shower and change their clothes.

 

Hutch smiles glad that he could cheer him up and he’s confident that everything’s gonna be alright now..

 

They take a quick shower and put on something casual and head towards The Pits. Hutch hides perfectly well his anxiety to see the face of his beloved when he finds out about the surprise party.

 

****

 

When they arrive to the restaurant everything seems like any other night, nothing from the outside makes some one guess that inside the place there are some friends waiting for the Starsky. Both walk cheerfully Starsky teasing Hutch about the dessert he’s gonna give him.

 

As soon as they get inside, Starsky freezes when he sees all the decoration with balloons, serpentines and wreaths in all kind of colors and a loud shout from everybody saying “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”, applauses, whistles and the music starts playing.

 

Hutch, who had stayed standing behind Starsky, gets near and resting both hands on his shoulders whispers in his ear, “Happy Birthday, Gordo”.

 

Starsky comes to reality and turn around to face him looking into his eyes with his own wet with tears of happiness and emotion. “Th-Thanks, Blondie”, he tells him wrapping him tightly with his arms. “You had the secret well hidden. I really thought that I was wrong about something special today”, he adds stepping back just enough to look him at his face.

 

“I thought you only wanted the dessert…”, whispers Hutch smiling.

 

“You know it’s true…But this…Thank you”, he tells him again mesmerized in his blonde’s face.

 

It seems they’ve really forgotten about the others in the room, but their friends make them come to reality interrupting the instant greeting, hugging and giving presents to Starsky.

 

The party starts to live with loud music, dancing and all the meal and drinks that Huggy with the help of his waitresses bring to the guests. The environment is great, cheerful and in between the guys just can share a shy gaze in which Starsky continues to thank Hutch this surprise and Hutch on his side shows how happy he is being able to give this party to the person he loves the most.

 

Some minutes before the cake is served, Hutch, of course, sings some of Starsky’s favorite songs and besides a little out of the right tone, everyone accompanies the song. Next, Huggy brings the cake with a Torino on top making Starsky laugh heartedly in awe with all the details his blonde has taken care of to give him a special birthday.

 

Just when they’re eating a piece of the cake and some of their friends are leaving, Starsky can sit with Hutch in a distant booth. “I can’t believe you took all this work to organize this party, Hutch! It’s just incredible!”

 

“What’s incredible? To be able to celebrate your birthday together in a special way? To be able to celebrate I have you beside me and show you how much I love you?”

 

“How can I show you how grateful I am for this?”

 

“If you can assure me that you’ll leave the party with me and not with one of those girls that spent all the night flirting with you as in other times…”

 

“Dummy…”, he replies with a tender smile in his face.

 

“Starskyyy!”, Huggy calls him from the bar. “You’ve got a phone call”.

 

Starsky looks at Hutch doubting then he stands up and heads toward the phone. “Starsky”, he answers.

 

“Happy birthday, Davey!”, his mother says from the other side.

 

“Ma! Hey, it was me who had to call!”, Starsky exclaims grinning.

 

“This is your day, David…I’d love to be there with you and give you a kiss in person, but…Hutch wanted to pay my ticket, but I didn’t let him expend that much money…”

 

“Hutch was gonna pay your ticket?”

 

“Yes, but I knew he was organizing a special party for you and I couldn’t let him pay out more…I’d rather you save a little money and then you both can come to spend some time with me”.

 

“Promised, Ma…It’s so nice hearing your voice”, he says tenderly.

 

“And I’m so grateful with life knowing you’re so happy…I’m glad you have somebody who loves you that much and cares for you…Hutch is a very special person”

 

“I know, Ma…I’m lucky having him by my side”. They continue talking a little more not going very far about the relationship between him and Hutch, but it seems to Starsky that his mother already knows and there’s no need for words. They say their good byes with the promise of a visit to New York.

 

The party is getting to an end, everybody leaves and after saying good-bye to Huggy and thanking him too for his cooperation, the guys leave in the Torino towards Starsky’s apartment.

 

****

 

As they get inside, Starsky gets a hold on Hutch pinning him against the wall wrapping one arm around him while he locks the door with the other and he kisses him passionately. All the anxiety for not being able to be together during the party, makes Starsky more eager to show Hutch now in the intimacy of their world how grateful he really is for the great surprise.

 

Hutch responds to the kiss as passionate and hungry as Starsky and without wasting time they continue to kiss, caress and clinging to one another while they start stripping off their clothes leaving them on the floor on their way to the bedroom.

 

Once in the bedroom they let their bodies fall over the mattress and they entangle in their love making. Hands and mouths exploring the other’s body in every inch getting out sensations so intense that they don’t last much and climax only with the contact of their bodies and their dicks rubbing against each other. They finally lay exhausted in each other’s arms.

 

While they rest in the afterglow they turn on the radio listening to the sweet music that they usually play that late at night. They lay enjoying the pleasure of being this together with no one to disturb them.

 

“Hutch, this has been the best birthday I’ve ever had in my whole life…And it was so special ‘cause if that day I wouldn’t made it…today wouldn’t have existed…Hutch…you can’t imagine how happy I am being alive and being here with you”, Starsky says his choked with emotions.

 

“That was my intention, Starsk”, Hutch says entangling his fingers through the ruffled curls of his lover.

 

“But you didn’t have to work that hard nor waste so much money…You even wanted to pay Mom’s ticket to be here…”, Starsky insists impressed raising up on one elbow to face his blonde.

 

“There’s nothing I wouldn’t do to make you happy and to show you what you mean to me, Starsk…It took me a long time to be brave enough and confess my true feelings fearing your rejection, being so blind to realize you were giving me signs that you felt the same”, he says with a shy grin.

 

“Dummy”, says Starsky caressing his cheek and smiling tenderly.

 

“Yeah, I know…I was too dumb…and I almost lost you without having told you how much I loved you…But, life is giving me another chance and this time I won’t waste it and I won’t stop telling you I love you and that you’re the most important person in my life…and unless you throw me away, I’ll always be by your side stuck to you giving you even the most strange thing you could imagine to show you my love and make you happy”.

 

“Hey, Blondie, are you completely sure of what you’re saying?”, says Starsky trying to lighten the mushy moment. “’cause I’m very jealous and possessive and I could take advantage of that”.

 

“Scouts’ honor”, replies Hutch flatly smiling.

 

Both laugh and join in a tight embrace and start kissing passionately. “You know you’re everything to me too, don’t you?”, says Starsky when they break for air. “I love you as I’ve never loved any one else and if it wasn’t for people that don’t understand this kind of love, I’d go everywhere shouting that I love you and that we’re incredible together”.

 

“You know? I think Huggy has his doubts about us. Some of his comments when we were talking about the party…and I’ve already notices he has an idea in other opportunities, but he’s not anybody to worry about. Huggy’s a good friend and I trust him in this too”.

 

“I do too…Well, I guess Mom gave me some clues she knows there’s something else between us, besides our friendship and partnership…But it didn’t seem to bother her, ‘cause she knows that’s what makes me happy”, Starsky adds smiling broadly.

 

“I really don’t care what the others think, Gordo…What we have is too special to let anyone destroy or spoil it…”, states Hutch holding him tight and they stay this way in silence absorbing their mutual essence.

 

The radio begins to play George Michael’s song “A different corner”, the one that had made Hutch think about themselves during the arrangements for the party.  Both remain in silence listening to the song till the end.

 

TAKE ME BACK IN TIME

MAYBE I CAN FORGET

TURN A DIFFERENT CORNER

AND WE NEVER WOULD HAVE MET

WOULD YOU CARE?

 

I DON’T UNDERSTAND IT

FOR YOU IT’S A BREEZE

LITTLE BY LITTLE

YOU’VE BROUGHT ME TO MY KNEES

DON’T YOU CARE?

 

NO I’VE NEVER COME CLOSE

IN ALL OF THESE YEARS

YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE

TO STOP MY TEARS

I’M SO SCARED OF THIS LOVE

 

AND IF ALL THAT THERE IS

IS THIS FEAR OF BEING USED

I SHOULD GO BACK

TO BEING LONELY AND CONFUSED

IF I COULD, I WOULD, I SWEAR

 

“What a song!…I’ve never listened to it before”, says Starsky looking into Hutch’s eyes.

 

“I heard it one of the days I was mixed up with the arrangements and it did make me think about us…It surprised me that at the end he says that as this love hurt him that much and has him surrendered to his lover, he’d change everything if he could”, Hutch explains looking sternly into Starsky’s eyes.

 

“Has your love for me hurt you that much?”, Starsky asks shyly.

 

“Everything I’ve already told you hurt a lot…My fear for not being corresponded and even rejected by you…My fear for losing you and thus lose half of my being…”

 

“And…if you could…would you change what we have to avoid that pain?…Would you prefer things were different and that we weren’t together?”, asks Starsky now with certain fear in his voice.

 

“Of course not!, you dummy…On the contrary, I thought that maybe…if life wouldn’t have let us get together, I know I’d never had the chance to know the true happiness…I rather have this feeling of belong to someone with all the happiness and sorrow it means…than living in loneliness without your love”.

 

“Wow, Hutch…I was afraid you’d changed your mind…and you wanted to change the road as that don’t-know-what-Michael in the song”, says Starsky grinning in relief.

 

“The only Michael I wanna follow is one David Michael Starsky that owns my heart, body and soul and who I’m lucky to have here by my side…and whom I won’t let go either”.

 

They then join in a tight embrace and start kissing making the heat grow again and they make love again to seal their commitment for life.

 

THE END