"Josh, I’m waiting…"

Louis spoke calmly, but there was a hint of impatience in his voice. Josh remained silent, frozen in place by the sheer thought of having to expose himself to Louis.

Louis went to pull away Josh’s blanket only for him to yank it back and cling to it even harder.

"Louis, please…"

"I’m serious. You’re being a brat. I’ve seen children act more maturely." He was getting exasperated, patience wearing thin, as he was tapping his fingers on the mattress impatiently.

"Please, Louis, I don‘t want to", Josh begged, clutching his blanket anxiously, looking for some kind of mercy in Louis‘ serious expression.

"I have to do a lot of thing I don‘t want to. Now get up before I make you!" Louis was clearly tired of the discussion, but Josh realized that he wouldn’t give up anytime soon.

The back and forth had somehow increased the pain in his head and he wanted nothing more than to lie back down. There was no way he could win this argument and in his current state, he wouldn’t be able to fight back if Louis were to physically force him out of bed.

He had to admit defeat.

Josh didn’t look Louis in the eyes when he pushed away his blanket and sat up straight, moving to slowly get out of bed. It was humiliating, having put up a fight and still not having achieved anything.

Standing in front of Louis with brightly blushed cheeks, partly due to his fever, partly due to embarrassment, he crossed his arms in front of his chest, trying to cover himself as he felt Louis‘ burning glare all over his body.

"Pull down your briefs", Louis instructed him and he did. Louis’ voice was firm now, stricter than before, leaving no space for contradictions. Josh thought it was quite intimidating.

He could already picture Louis using the same tone on disobedient patients. Was he anything but a disobeying patient to Louis right now?

"C‘mon, over my knees now", Louis requested next and petted down on his thighs as if to reinforce his statement.

Hesitantly, Josh laid down in the older boy’s lap, his hot face pressed into the mattress, his long limbs awkwardly dangling around, his naked ass up in the air. He hissed quietly when his cock made contact with the rough material of Louis‘ jeans.

"Let‘s get this over with, huh?" Josh jumped when there was a couple of, admittedly careful, pats on his bum.

He could hear the tub of vaseline being opened.

Without further warning, Louis spread Josh’s cheeks with one hand, exposing his hole and Josh shuddered. Tears of shame welled up in his eyes, knowing that Louis had a perfect view of his entrance.

Another shiver went through his body when there was a slick finger, covered in cold vaseline, touching his hole. Louis spread the cream thoroughly, gently massaging his rim in an attempt to make his loosen up.

The finger disappeared from his hole. Louis wiped his hand on a paper towel and grabbed the old thermometer off the nightstand, all while keeping Josh’s cheeks spread open and exposed to the cool air.

He could hear Louis shake down the mercury inside the thermometer. Shortly afterwards, he felt the tip of the thermometer pressed against his rim.

Despite the humiliating position, Josh could feel himself getting hard against Louis’ thigh. If the older man noticed, he didn’t say anything.

When Louis slowly started inserting the thermometer, Josh tensed up. He had wanted to comply, but the feeling was too strange to simply ignore. The older boy noticed his discomfort.

"Try to relax. It’ll hurt less if you aren’t as tense."

As there was no sense in fighting any longer, Josh tried hard to follow Louis‘ instructions. Deep down, he wanted the older boy to be pleased with him, to be proud of him.

He slowed his breathing, closed his eyes and tried to relax his muscles, but to little avail. Louis put the thermometer back on the nightstand and went to rub Josh’s shoulders instead, whispering words of encouragement. The impatience that had soaked his voice earlier was gone and he spoke in a tone one might use on a scared child.

It helped. Josh felt himself go pliant under Louis’ touch, despite the unusual position there were in, and his muscles started relaxing. When Louis decided Josh had calmed down, he grabbed the thermometer again, preparing to continue the procedure.

"Let’s try this again. Take a deep breath, love."

This time, when Louis pushed in the tip, it slid inside Josh smoothly and with very little resistance. Louis muttered gentle praises at him while pushing it deeper, and Josh’s dick twitched in the older man’s lap.

The thick tip of the thermometer felt strange inside his anus. It wasn’t necessarily uncomfortable but unfamiliar. His former boyfriends had always preferred taking on a more passive role during sex, and he himself had never felt the urge to be penetrated.

It was a new experience and if it weren’t such an embarrassing situation, being at the mercy of an attractive boy barely older than himself for whom the procedure was nothing but strictly professional, he might’ve found himself genuinely enjoying it.

When Louis was satisfied with the position, he let go of Josh‘s cheeks, trapping the thermometer between them.

"Be a good boy and don’t push it out."

Louis kept the thermometer in place with one hand, but the other went to rest on Josh‘s lower back, gently caressing the soft skin there.

"You‘re doing so well. It‘ll be over in a couple of minutes", he praised and even though Josh couldn’t see his face, he could hear the smile in his voice.

They spent a few minutes in silence, Louis gently rubbing Josh‘s back, while the younger man prayed that Louis wouldn’t take notice of his increasingly hard cock, starting to leak droplets of precum.

Louis held the thermometer still, no unnecessary shifting and twisting, and Josh was grateful for it.

Once Louis decided enough time had gone by, he pulled apart Josh‘s cheek once again and slowly removed the thermometer from his hole, the tip getting caught on the rim for just a second, making the young boy‘s breath hitch.

Louis glanced at the scale, reading off the temperature while quietly muttering to himself, before he addressed Josh.

"It‘s a bit elevated, but nothing to worry about just yet. We‘ll have to keep a close eye on it anyway", he explained, and Josh was anxious to get off Louis‘ lap and back in bed, not caring about Louis‘ announcement that this would be a recurring procedure.

Josh was fidgeting nervously when Louis grabbed another paper towel off the nightstand and wiped away the leftover vaseline thoroughly. "See, it‘s over already. Wasn‘t even that bad, huh?"

Josh didn‘t dare to agree nor deny.

"You can get back in bed. I’ll get you a cup of tea right away", Louis said after he had thrown the towel in the bin right next to the bed.

Josh scrambled to get up and back under the covers, desperate to not let Louis see his leaking dick, while the older man cleaned the thermometer and closed the container of vaseline. Afterwards, he got up to get Josh his promised cup of tea.

The second Louis had left the room, Josh wrapped a hand around his aching erection, jerking himself sloppily. He reached his orgasm embarrassingly fast and bit down on his lip to keep his moans down, knowing exactly how thin the walls were.

This time, he was the one grabbing a paper towel to clean up after himself.