Kevin Ford (witherthougoest) wrote in after_the_fall, @ 2012-05-21 18:49:00 |
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Entry tags: | hom!josh, other!kevin-616 |
HoM!Josh
The weather had been unseasonably warm, though it was still cool by the standards of Kevin's Georgia childhood. The only thing that mattered, though, was that it was warm enough to come out to the lake well past dark, when everyone else was pretty much in for the night and no one else was likely to even be thinking of swimming. He'd asked Josh about it a couple of weeks before and they'd given it a try, found that it wasn't too unbearably cold - especially not with a healer on hand - and this was the third time they'd come down to swim. Kevin thought back to all of them doing this in the fall last year, before school had become so chaotic for Kevin and his Josh, and littlest Josh had started to go even more fragile and strange. Before Foley had come, and things had become so much more difficult and complicated...and then he let it all go on a slow exhale, and focused on the here and now. Cool water and shadowed moonlight, frogs chorusing somewhere in the lakeside reeds and Josh right next to him.
"Thank you," he murmured quietly, reaching out to wrap his fingers around Josh's wrist. "For coming out here so late with me." It was the same as being here in sunshine and the heat of the day, he was sure, but...he couldn't find it in himself to risk that.