Gabriel's knees are always (skinned) wrote in rooms,
Re: House of Strays: Ronan/Ben
[Seven seconds. That's how long he gets, with Ben's hand beneath his own and the soft scape of stubble against his scalp before the other starts to untangle himself from their side-embrace. Then Ronan is pulling his knees back up to his chest, hugging around them with his arms and turning away from Ben so that it's the curve of his cheek pressing against a kneecap once again.] Yeah. Sure thing.
[It's hollow, and he doesn't mean it. He's going to get tested in a couple of days, and on one hand he has faith in them, their ability to get through this. And then there's the tiny, niggling voice in the wayback corner of his mind that tells him he shouldn't ever expect to see Ben again. But he closes his eyes, breathes in once, twice. Breathes out. Goodbye. For now, or for a while.]