[Richie shrugs off the notion despite Eddie's constant desire to dote on him. Richie's never gotten over the sting of what it felt like to lose him, and sometimes it still haunts him in the middle of the night once in a while and he wakes up cold, clammy, with Eddie's eyes on him in the darkness of the room.
It's not something they've talked about, but there are no words for it. Eddie knows and Richie doesn't see any reason to diagnose it any more than they already have.]
Okay, first you get a nightcap, then we can change for the jacuzzi. Deal?
[The elevator opens with a ding to their suite, it wasn't quite a penthouse but it came close and the balcony overlooked the same pool they were going to have a caper in once it closed and the coast was clear.]
You first.
[Richie's already in the middle of unbuttoning his shirt and stepping out of his loafers on his way through the threshold. Watching Eddie made him ravenous too, in a different way. The beams of pride and the half-hidden laughs in his palm at a terrible joke the small glimpses he'd caught from the stage had done him in early.]
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[Richie shrugs off the notion despite Eddie's constant desire to dote on him. Richie's never gotten over the sting of what it felt like to lose him, and sometimes it still haunts him in the middle of the night once in a while and he wakes up cold, clammy, with Eddie's eyes on him in the darkness of the room.
It's not something they've talked about, but there are no words for it. Eddie knows and Richie doesn't see any reason to diagnose it any more than they already have.]
Okay, first you get a nightcap, then we can change for the jacuzzi. Deal?
[The elevator opens with a ding to their suite, it wasn't quite a penthouse but it came close and the balcony overlooked the same pool they were going to have a caper in once it closed and the coast was clear.]
You first.
[Richie's already in the middle of unbuttoning his shirt and stepping out of his loafers on his way through the threshold. Watching Eddie made him ravenous too, in a different way. The beams of pride and the half-hidden laughs in his palm at a terrible joke the small glimpses he'd caught from the stage had done him in early.]