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[gunmetalgrey]

For @coveitous from this meme and fuck me it got long I’m sorry.

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He stayed. Somewhere, between stolen cigarettes and lusty moments, she had given him the emotional bandwidth to stick around. It was hard to think back to an actual tie line of when things started to blur, she had been to his place a dozen times now but despite spending time in his bed she had never truly slept there. She had pretended for an hour, or let him drift off before finding her things and leaving a post it. It wasn’t like she was going to sleep in his presence so why waste it? There were very few places she could truly let her guard down and rest, and knowing there was only one dead bolt on his front door did not let her rest easy. He never seemed to take it personally.

Yet the look Grey shot back at the tone of surprise in her voice was almost like he was offended. The surprise wasn’t really about the staying so much as the fact it was the first hoarse words that had left her lips in nearly three weeks, her voice half gone and croaky from lack of use. But there was no way he could know that.

For the month, they hadn’t seen one another. She, had a job somewhere that was sure to be dangerous and he was just going to have to wait for her to reappear again. When Alex had finally made it back to London, her life had begun to fall apart. For the following three weeks, she hadn’t been able to leave her front door. For the first two, she hadn’t left the coat cupboard. Things had become… well, a shit show. And after all this time spent with her heartbeat in hear eardrums, or listening to Victor letting himself in to remind her to eat, she had made it as far as Greys work when she knew he was going to be finishing.

The intention had been one last look to cut him off. A goodbye he’d never know about and then off to the next thing. Funny, how it had descended so quickly into her legs wrapped around his waist and their tongues tying each other in knots. There were no words between kisses, no words in the cab and nothing but pleasure as she finally reminded herself why she had sought him out in the first place. Being with him felt good. Good in a way that words couldn’t express if she wanted them to.

And as things finally came to a point of exhaustion, with tingling legs and ringing ears, she rolled away from Grey to immediately find the peace of sleep. She barely even noticed the sighs they shared as she drifted off, still in her giant t shirt. She slept like the dead. Weighted, still, motionless. The kind of tired that came from weeks of unchecked insomnia running rampant. And given the dark in her flat it was impossible to tell what time of day her eyes had opened to find the sight of him… still there.

She looks at him. She truly looks at him, with creases from the sheets on his face and shuffling to get comfortable before she sits herself up and crawls into his lap. Her head settles over his shoulder, chin gently resting there and arms draped over his back in the kind of way you might carry a sleeping child to bed. She needed to talk.

“I-“ that was too direct a starting point.

She let the syllables stew this time, her tongue running along the roof of her mouth for a good thirty seconds before attempt two.

“…it’s…”

That was not better. Because even with the first word out of the way, the sentences faltered.

“ … t-th-there’s…”

And this was the issue. Because her words had started to turn to honey, gluing themselves somewhere between her brain and her lips so that they never made an efficient escape.

She sighs. And she climbs off him slowly and carefully. The shirt makes almost a dress on her, clambering over the edge of the bed and heading to the door back to the kitchen before motioning for him to follow.

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