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Guren Ichinose | Red | #A5211F

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[swordfucker]

You don't have to.

[Guren is quick to correct that. He's already finished his own cola, the cold hound, and so he puts his empty glass down and moves to lie down in the bed again, instead of sitting up.]

I know you said you weren't ready to run into anyone else. I don't mind keeping you to myself for a little while longer, either.

[Well, he doesn't know Dextera ran into people already, but shh.]

[passio]

[ dextera’s glass is about halfway empty, but when guren settles, dextera wants to as well. so he sets his glass aside, deciding not to say anything about his encounter, and slides further down into the sheets.

he’s warm. he’s happy. ]

…

[ he breathes out a sound like a laugh, lifting one hand into the air so he can keep signing without being tempted just to write on guren’s chest. ]

Here is good. Chess, later.

[swordfucker]

[ good... good. Like this, they can just enjoy time with each other. Guren can think again and again that Dextera is alive, that he doesn’t have to be in pain over that anymore. He wonders, of course, about the cost— was it really the same as Akira after all? He’d written it off as him not really dying, but now...

He turns, draping one of his arms across Dextera’s waist. He normally doesn’t face in like this, too embarrassed and preferring to have others be the ones who cling to him, but this is loose and he’s really missed him. Really. ]

Chess later. Sounds good to me.

[passio]

[ it’s completely and yet not at all different from how things were before. a simple kiss has only broken the tension between them, and dextera is glad he did it. he needed to. he needed guren to know what he felt, in case it became too late—in case they all only get one second chance. ]

…

[ dextera laces his fingers with guren’s. even if it’s a little warm for cuddling like this, dextera wants to be with him in every way while he recovers.

it’s the least he can do, after dying.

they’ll rest, dextera will make sure his bandages stay changed and his wounds are cleansed, and eventually, things will go back to whatever the new standard of normal has become between them. ]