Prison inmate’s only freedom now exercised in shifting of fingers from belt loops to drag blunted nails along forearms - elbows to bony wrists encircled and caressed gently as hands cupping cheeks - Jon returned the affectionate gesture. No need for a lobby-sized Ms. Hayworth and geologist’s hammer tonight; he’d no intention of escaping. Arrested and compliant with each word promising a brighter future.
Nevermind the phrasing was eerily reminiscent; set ever watchful radar screen a bleep-bleeping at possible intrusion into Queen’s own territories. But if Loras’ invasion was indeed responsible for Robb’s sudden enlightenment then perhaps they owed the feathery parrot a cracker or two.
Bonds more precious and rare than moon dust were being mined just then in the space between lovers’ eyes, unbound universe shrinking until only the two lads remained. Robb and Jon. Nessie and Krasevyi. Whatever they called one another, be it ‘Darling’ and ‘Lover’ or ‘Master’ and ‘servant,’ through dirty role plays or most intimate copulations with heartfelt confessions whispered against the curve of a sweaty backside, star shining brightest would outlive collapse of the solar system.
Soulmates. Anam cairdean, two halves of the same whole inseparable through time and space.
Only neither boy knew that yet; mystic forces only hinted at in the peripheral of their conscious minds and neither a poet able to articulate love’s deepest impact. But Jon could be honest. I can do that, alright. Honest as he’s been with me, starting with a smile that filled cupping palms.
“Of course. I want that, too. And I’m grateful you said as much because sometimes- sometimes, Robb, I just have no bloody clue what it is you want. So I attempt things I’ve no business or, quite honestly desire to try and it never works. It forces you away and then it’s this maddening spiral and you’re there physically but you’re not-”
“You shut down and I could be flashing my cock about but you’ve no interest I think because it’s not on your terms and that.. I fucking hate that.”