spikessweetgirl (spikessweetgirl) wrote in fieldsofgold, @ 2009-01-07 11:02:00 |
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Present Day
Elijah sighed and smiled as the memory of that day faded. That incident had been the one that made Dom see that Elijah probably saw him more than just a friend and wanted more of their relationship and that he had wanted the same thing too. He’d never forget those days afterwards, how Dom was always at his side. Whenever he went somewhere with Billy, he had made sure to invite Elijah as well, not taking no for an answer. It had been a fun time and for the first time Elijah had felt like he belonged, something he hadn’t felt in a good long time and it had all been thanks to Dom.
He wiped more tears away from his eyes as he thought about those carefree, sunny days. Just on the cusp of something that had changed both of their lives forever. It had been a magical time. Elijah would do anything to be able to just go back. Hear that voice…hear that laugh…have those long, gentle fingers brush against his skin as Dom whispered a joke into his ear in an attempt to make him laugh and smile even more.
But it was all gone now, those days. The Fellowship had moved on, only to come together again when one of their own passed on, leaving Elijah to grieve the loss of a lifetime full of joy.
Fighting the gloom that was threatening to overcome him, Elijah reached into another box and pulled out a brochure to Arrowhead. He smiled as he remembered that day, so long ago, when he, Orlando, and Dom had driven down and what had happened afterwards…the very thing that had brought him and Dom together at last…
November 9, 1999
Elijah stretched his sleep-stiffened muscles and glanced at the clock. It was still very early morning and despite another day off, much to the unhappiness of Peter, Elijah still had to get up early. Today was all planned. Take a nice drive down to Arrowhead and enjoy the day hiking in the woods with Orlando and best of all, Dom. He blushed at the thought of Dom. Of course Orlando would be with them, but this would be the first time he’d be with Dom without the rest of the hobbits to join them…without Billy to distract Dom’s attention.
Elijah winced. That wasn’t very nice. He liked Billy. He was as good as a brother to him. But it didn’t help that he seemed to follow Dom wherever he went. It didn’t give him very much time alone with Dom. Now with it being just the two of them with Orli along…well it’d give him more time to get Dom alone…maybe even get to know him more.
A loud knock at his hotel room door broke him out of his thoughts, sending him scurrying for last minute items, like his jacket, a lighter, and his precious pack of cloves. Oh and not to forget his glasses. There was something else he was forgetting, but for the life of him he couldn’t think of what. Oh well. Couldn’t be important if couldn’t even remember what the item was.
“Lijah! Orli and I are ready to hit the road. Are you ready or do we have to leave your beautiful arse here to waste away with Bills and Sean?!” Dom’s voice floated through the door, causing a warm shiver to slide down Elijah’s spine, making him blush. Elijah couldn’t help but roll his eyes at his reaction. When was he ever going to get used to that voice and stop acting like a girl whenever that voice said his fucking name. It was fucking embarrassing, man and if Dom found out…well there would be no end to the piss-taking. Unless he felt the same way…Elijah sighed and shook his head. There was no way on this earth that Dom felt as deeply for Elijah as Elijah felt for him. It was just impossible. Men like Dom…they were ladies men. They could charm the skirt off any girl…they didn’t go for men like Elijah. Shy, young, virginal men…fuck, he had never felt so young in his life.
“I’m coming! Hold on!” Elijah called out, grabbing his things and rushing out the door, looking forward to a day with Dom…and Orli…
~*~
The day fucking sucked. At least it did in Elijah’s mind. It seemed like Orli and Dom had completely forgotten that he was even there as they talked about all things English. They only had spoken to Elijah a handful of times and the rest of the time, Elijah was left to his own devices. Which was to smoke his cloves and daydream about Dom. He just couldn’t believe it. He was so fucking close, yet still so far away. Dom might as well be on another planet instead of in New Zealand.
He sighed and leaned his head against his hotel room door, wanting to take a minute before he went inside. He was just so fucking disappointed. This was supposed to be his chance to get some alone time with Dom…maybe even confess his feelings…but that didn’t happen and with the way things were going, it wasn’t ever going to.
“Hey Doodle,” Dom interrupted Elijah’s swirling thoughts as he took out his keys to unlock his own door. “What are you doing standing there? Your bed is on the inside.”
“I know that,” Elijah forced a smile, again feeling a thrill that Dom was talking to him and for once that day, Elijah had all of his attention. “I’m just resting my head against the door for a minute.”
“Well don’t stay there too long. Astin might appear and start bustling about like a mother hen again,” Dom snorted, getting a small laugh from Elijah.
“Sean means well. He’s just perfecting the art of being my Sam, is all,” Elijah smiled, reaching for the keys, all eyes on Dom. But the smile turned to a frown as he searched his pockets and his key wasn’t there. What was worse, he now remember what he had forgotten that morning. “Fuck!”
“Problem, Lij?” Dom asked, just about to go in, his blue eyes staring at Elijah curiously.
Elijah blushed, feeling more embarrassed than usual. It wasn’t a habit for him to forget his key…he usually grabbed it first thing. He had just been so ecstatic that morning that he had completely forgotten to grab them. “I forgot my fucking key. Now I’m going to have to go down to the fucking front desk and beg for another one. Fuck!”
Dom shook his head with a small smile. “Rough luck. Listen, let the clerk sleep, yeah? You can bunk with me tonight. I have plenty of room.”
Elijah’s eyes widened, as he tried to hide his excitement. A night in Dom’s room? Alone with Dom? That was like…well…it was a fucking dream and he was positive that someone was going to wake him up at any second. “I don’t want to impose…”
“You’re not imposing. You’re one of my best mates, yeah? Why shouldn’t you stay the night?”
Because I want to lick the back of your neck and run my hands over your chest and kiss those lips…”Can’t think of a reason, really…ok. Thanks.”
“That’s what mates are for, love. Tomorrow, we’ll go down to the clerk and he can let you in,” Dom smiled, happy to be of some help to Elijah. Needless to say, he’s grown to be quite fond of the yank…maybe even more than fond. To be honest, he had felt a certain affinity for the young man ever since they first met, then when Elijah had taken his side during the whole splinter episode…well his feelings has been growing. He just wasn’t sure if he should do anything about them. Patricia had always talked about how unprofessional it was to get involved with co-stars. That things always ended badly…and bloody hell, he didn’t want things to end badly with Elijah. He wanted to be lifelong mates, if nothing else. If getting romantic with the yank ruined that chance of friendship…well he could pass…but did he really want to?
Elijah only hesitated for a second, still feeling like he was taking advantage of the situation, yet, he really didn’t want to disturb the people at the front desk and Dom was offering…it wasn’t like he was inviting himself over…right? “Ok…,” he smiled, trying to ignore the butterflies that were battling it out in the pit of his stomach.
Dom only smiled in response, opening the door for his guest to enter. “After you.”
Elijah swallowed down his nervousness and entered the suite, nearly jumping out of his skin at the sound of Dom closing and locking the door. He smiled nervously and sat down on a nearby couch, noticing a picture of himself, Billy, and Dom in hobbit gear. He smiled, touched that Dom would have a picture that included him.
“That’s the first day of filming,” Dom stood behind him. I do believe we were all nervous that day…”
Elijah just smiled and looked up at Dom, before his gaze drifted back to Billy. He winced at the shot of jealousy that bolted through him. He really had no clue where it came from. He knew that Billy was only a friend…just like he was. It just irked him that Billy was the one, out of all of them, that was closest to Dom. A part of him sometimes wondered if the two brits were more than friends. “So…does Billy visit you here a lot?”
“Yeah. He drops by,” Dom shrugged, moving towards the minifridge that came with the room. “What a soda, Elwood?”
“No thank you,” Elijah refused. Honestly, he didn’t think he’d be able to put anything in his stomach at the moment and it not come back up. “I’m good.”
“If you say so,” Dom grabbed a beer and collapsed next to Elijah, taking the picture out of his hands. “Enough about Billy, Lij. I want to talk about you. Are you still homesick for your sister?”
Elijah blinked in surprise. He didn’t know why, but he wasn’t expecting Dom to have remembered that little conversation. He was beyond touched and maybe a bit hopeful. If Dom is taking time to remember their conversations…maybe there’s feelings there that can turn into something more… “I’m good. I mean…I still miss her, but I’m so busy here and now that I’ve made such good friends…I don’t miss her as much. Um…thank you by the way…for talking me through that. It was tough and it probably would have been worse if you hadn’t been there to talk to.”
Dom smiled and shrugged. He wasn’t really expecting to be thanked. He just wanted to make sure that Elijah was alright…that he was comfortable with them now. “It was nothing…I know what it’s like to be away from home and missing family. As much as Mattie and I fought, I still miss the wanker, if you can believe that.”
Elijah chuckled and leaned back, feeling his muscles finally relax. It was funny. He’d start out in Dom’s presence, totally tense, then Dom would say something that would make him relax. After all, it seemed like Dom liked him, no matter his faults. And there were a lot of them. “I think we all miss our siblings. I know I miss Zack. The biggest pain in the ass you’d ever meet, but he loves me and….” He stops and blushed, embarrassed that he’s spilling so much about his private life to Dom. He really must think that he’s a naive little twit…”Sorry…didn’t mean to ramble on like that….”
“You weren’t rambling,” Dom smiled, unconsciously moving closer, his eyes never leaving Elijah’s…his want for the younger man at a nearly unbearable level now. “In fact…I kind of like the sound of your voice…it’s nice.”
Elijah blushed again, not knowing what to make of the compliment….or of how Dom was looking at him or how his face seemed to be getting closer to his own. “Really? I mean…I’m a bit nervous here and…I tend to talk on and on and on when I’m nervous and it can be rather annoying and…” all words were cut off as soft lips gently pressed against his own and all his senses opened up to the tingling sensations shooting through his body at that moment. He was being kissed…he was being kissed by Dom…and he wasn’t fucking ready for it, but that was ok…because he was being kissed by the man he had been crushing on for weeks now.
Dom couldn’t say what had come over him. He had no intention of kissing Elijah Wood that night and he was still pondering if he ever would…but sitting there next to Elijah…listening to that voice…feeling the pleasant heat from that body…he just couldn’t stop himself from leaning forward and kissing the young man. When he pulled away, Elijah’s expressive blue eyes were closed and Dom couldn’t read any emotion on his face. Shit, maybe he had made a mistake…maybe he shouldn’t have kissed him like that…without warning. Elijah had trusted him and Dom had taken advantage of that trust. At any minute Elijah will go running out of the room screaming bloody murder…
But he did none of those things. Instead Elijah did something that if anyone told him he’d do a few days ago, he would have laughed. He cupped Dom’s face with gentle hands and pressed his lips to Dom’s once again, this time flicking his tongue out against Dom’s bottom lip, tasting him. He sighed as Dom’s arm wrapped around his waist and rested against his back and returned the pressure.
Needing to breathe, the boys broke apart and stared at each other in dazed amazement to find that their feelings were mutual. Dom smiled, touching Elijah’s face, his eyes sparkling with an emotion that Elijah couldn’t name, while Elijah himself was full of his own sweet surprise. The only word he could think of was finally. Finally, he not only got time alone with Dom…but their first kiss as well. He had been more than he had ever dreamed of…
The entire relationship had been more than he had ever dreamed of. That night in Dom’s hotel suite had been Elijah’s first male kiss. Dom in fact had been his first male relationship and his last. Elijah knew from the moment his lips had met Dom’s that there would never be another for him. He wiped away the tear as he put away the brochure. At that moment, he wanted to touch those lips again…feel that arm wrap around him…to have that moment of the first kiss revisited. But that was impossible now. Dom was gone forever and he was alone, with nothing left but memories of what had been.