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OOM: Himself again!

Teja's room looks as it always does -- spare and simple, with a map table holding writings and drawings, a CD player and a stack of CDs, armour and some weapons in a corner, the door to the bath ajar so cats can go there if they wish to.

But the light of the moon -- almost full still! -- reveals some differences, also.

Two identical harps in the corner by the guitar.

Two men in the bed. This is not related.-

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Charlie's head is rested against Teja's shoulder, arms around his lover's waist. He is, for once, peacefully sleeping.

Teja has woken but twice or thrice this night, each time seen his lover's face in the moonlight, dark eyelashes, dark brows, dark curls -- and put his head down again, hidden his face against the warm beloved body, and gone back to sleep himself.

Charlie's woken up once, from a start in whatever he was dreaming; but he did the same thing, and tucked his head back onto the warm shoulder to go back to sleep, smiling at the closeness. He sighs gently in his sleep, shifting closer to Teja's side.

It is almost morning when he is woken again.

Edited 2009-03-15 20:02 (UTC)

There is a cat, poking its nose at them both.

It succeeds in waking Charlie up with the prodding of one paw at his arm. He cracks open one eye and stares at the cat sleepily. "What, cat?"

Teja wakes, also.

"Count?" he asks, blearily. "You are standing on us, and it is night."

Count mewls loudly in his bleating little voice.

It is almost morning! The humans should wake up and pay attention to their cat!

Charlie gives a little sigh, sitting up and letting the blanket fall to his waist. "He probably wants food. Or just for us to wake up." He reaches out and pets the fuzzy grey fluffball, picking him up as he lays back down gently, settling him between his and Teja's bodies.

"Hey, little one."

Count snuggles down, and Teja reaches out and ruffles the cat's fur.

"Is that moonlight, or yet dawn?" he asks.

Count settles between them; he has what he wants: their attention!

"Still moonlight, but it must be early morning." He lets the cat settle between them and lays his head back down. "Did you sleep?"

"Deeply," Teja says. "I would not say you are sleep-inducing -- but I feel warm and safe, curled against your shoulder."

He smiles lightly, turning his head to kiss Teja's chest, and his shoulder. "I don't mind being sleep-inducing, to you."

Teja sighs deeply, content where he is, sharing his narrow bed with his lover and his cat.

"You know..." he begins.

"I know?"

"I used to have that hole upon the flesh of my breast, in that part that would be called a nipple in a woman..." Teja ventures. "I remember it now."

"It's still called that in men, as far as I know." He brushes his fingertips over one bared nipple, kissing his chest lightly and ruffling the kitten's fur, enjoying the resultant mewl and purring.

"Did you want to get it re-pierced?"

Teja almost mewls and purrs as well.-

"There is no metal in it now," he says, "but might not the hole still be there -- or there again, as I remembered it?"

"I'm sure it would be. You could put the bar back through it, if you wanted, yourself. It wouldn't require a needle."

He kissed him softly on the cheek, and down the side of his neck. "Why?"

"As you are touching me," Teja says, blushing a little in the pre-dawn moonlight, "could you feel if it is still there?"

"I could," he smiles, brushing his lips over Teja's chest. "It's still pierced, actually. Did you want to put something back in it?"

Teja gives a deep, pleased sigh (mot quite a moan) at the touch, and nods in the darkness.

"Yes, I would," he says. "So it will not close up again. I might have to make myself something, as the piece I had in there has vanished."

"You could use the one I gave you. It's a simple bar with a shield."

"May I put in something that large already?" Teja wonders.

"The bar is the same size as the one you got pierced with, it just has a shield around it, is all." Charlie settles over him lightly, nuzzling at his collarbones.

"You make a really good pillow."

Now, Teja does moan at the pleasure.

"One assumes you do not treat a mere cloth and feathers pillow quite that tenderly," he says. "Not would it sigh, and melt, as I do!"

"Mmmm, no, it generally doesn't. But I'm quite happy to simply use you, instead of a regular pillow." He kissed his lips, idly threading fingers through his hair with a content smile.

"I'm glad I can make you happy."

"You can make me purr, melt, and sprawl, if you do that!" Teja says, his arms around Charlie -- not too tight, as there is still a cat between them.

"I might be doing that, soon." Charlie leaned in to kiss him gently. "If you want me to."

"Put the ornament into that hole upon my flesh?" Teja asks. "We would need more light for that."

Teja gets a short look for that, before Charlie just shakes his head slowly. "I can put one in when it gets lighter, out. Or we can turn on the light, if you're awake enough."

"Hrm," Teja says, not stirring. "I would just lie here for a while, with you in my arms, happy to hold you, and be myself again!"

Charlie smiles, still shaking his head. "I can do that too..." he chuckles, and rolls them carefully so the cat can resettle beside them. "Like the view better from here."

Teja gives a long of contentment.

"I love you," he says. "More than ever."

"I love you too." He laid his head back against the dense pillow, lazily drawing his fingers down Teja's sides.

Teja breathes very deeply, relaxed and quiet, sleepy again, warm and safe.

He gives a little inarticulate murmur.

Charlie gently brushes the tip of his nose against Teja's, giving a soft kiss. "This is nice, laying here with you."

"Hmmm - mmm," Teja says.

He kisses Charlie back, and falls silent.

Charlie merely nuzzles into Teja's embrace and smiles to himself.

The quiet comfort needs no words.

Indeed, it does not.-

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