#izzy blushes when he realizes and ed jalf smirks half smiles at the response

[fist-amidst-the-hands]

something something after a particularly rough fight izzy has a cut high on his cheekbone near the corner of his eye. ed tends to his injuries and maybe it's the rum or maybe it's the way izzy is looking at him but he can't stop thinking about placing a tender kiss right over the mark

#ofmd #ofmd hc #blackhands #maybe they've fucked before maybe they've even made out a few times (drunkenly) but this... #this level of tenderness is something thats been building and growing and threatening to boil over but never has #because they can justify a quick fuck or even a sloppy drunken makeout session #that tension is strung so taught it's easy for it to snap #but this... this isn't tension. it's not strained enough for a snap #it's wide and deep and surrounds them like an unseen haze #it runs through their veins at all times it's always there it's gentle #hard to know when it even started and harder still to know what the tipping point will be because well #it's been there for so long #in my head this is when they're young and still crewmates on someone else's ship #later when they give each other their first tattoos izzy lets ed pick what to give him and just says 'keep it simple' #so ed chooses that spot just below the corner of his eye where he first gave in to tenderness #izzy blushes when he realizes and ed jalf smirks half smiles at the response #also this wasn't intended to be part of it BUT since ed can't read/write this is basically ed's signature right #oof i also want to make this part of a bigger thing but only time will tell #y'all when i said i can and i will go off in the tags I was NOT joking askdlfs #just a little post #... with big tags