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Gabriel.
Onna farm.
Sitting out by the bunker.
Moping.
He has a pillow with him, yoinked from the living room.
Onna farm.
Sitting out by the bunker.
Moping.
He has a pillow with him, yoinked from the living room.
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What the hell, Steve, is what he's telling himself. This shouldn't be difficult. Talk to him. What the hell.
But the argument blew up out of nowhere, and it's still raw in his head, and he's scared to find out what damage it's caused.
So.
Awkward.
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Yeah.
Okay, Gabriel wants to apologize.
But he can't, because he doesn't think he was wrong.
So he just looks miserable, and... pats the bit of bunker roof beside him.
Maybe they can sit and be miserable together?
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...he's said it before, and the narration will say it again. That's just fucking fantastic.
Steve trails towards the bunker, and sits there, not meeting Gabriel's eyes.
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And then the pillow is set down on Gabriel's other side, and his arm slides around Steve's shoulders.
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But he seems to have forgotten how to speak.
He is, he decides, being ridiculous.
"I'm sorry I shouted."
It's something.
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"Me too."
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"And--"
Swallow.
"If you don't want... It would be a big responsibility."
And if it causes this much tension between them, then the idea leaves a nasty taste in Steve's mouth.
Just please, no debates about the ethics of it?
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Hug. Sigh.
"It would."
"Thank you."
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...'so are we all right?' would be the most trite and ridiculous thing to say, ever.
So Steve doesn't say it.
It leaves him a bit short of things to say, however.
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Gabe can answer anyway, by way of leaning his head against Steve's for a moment and then kissing his temple.
Yeah.
Yeah, they're all right.
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All right, now Steve can relax a little, turning his face into the kiss so that they're lips-to-lips. This feels better. This feels more like they should be.
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Arms sliding around Steve, face leaned against his, and just... staying there, for a moment. Still and peaceful and quiet.
Then, with maybe the beginnings of a wry smile curving his mouth: "Want to go back to the room?"
Because they both know from experience what happens when they start seriously kissing in public.
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...Steve had been thinking along the same lines, actually. Well, so far as 'thinking' is really the right word. He's just cursed with a bashful mun.
"Might be a good idea."
For the sake of any innocent farm-dwellers who might wander past and be traumatized. Aren't they thoughtful?
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Not literally. Go away, nosy Shatterfolk. Away! The porn: it is not for you! You can't has! Not yours!