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“And you’re more than forgiven.” Leon traced his eyes up and down Sebastian’s body, taking in his tense, expectant posture and his guarded but still vulnerable expression, and made a decision. He pushed himself from his chair and took the couple of steps needed in the small room to bracket Sebastian against the back of the door. He saw the way Sebastian’s eyes lit up, then took Sebastian’s jaw in both hands and kissed him.
The way Sebastian went so soft in his arms could never get old; Leon was sure of it. He angled Sebastian’s head to kiss him deeper, and Sebastian let out a little moan and wrapped his hands around Leon’s neck.
Leon broke the contact of their lips with a chuckle. “You smell like you’ve brought the whole bar back with you.”
Sebastian wrinkled his nose. “Some clumsy oaf spilled a whole cup of liquor on me. Why he had a whole cup is beyond me.”
“Hm.” Leon hummed doubtfully, then pulled Sebastian’s lips open with his thumb and plunged his tongue inside. Sebastian gasped, and Leon felt his cock twitch against him as Leon licked the inside of his mouth. Then he pulled away and braced his forehead against Sebastian’s to keep him from coming back for more. “You taste like the whole bar too.”
Sebastian laughed and whacked the side of his head lightly, though he still had his arms wrapped around his neck. “Well, I didn’t go to drink water.”
“Are you drunk?” Leon cocked his head. “Can you get drunk?”
Sebastian rocked his head back and forth. “Ish. My body can feel the effects, but my mind is pretty much the same.”
“So why do it?” Leon asked. He contented himself with petting his thumbs across Sebastian’s cheekbones, luxuriating in his nearness and his touchability and a conversation that wasn’t an argument. “If it doesn’t numb your mind, why bother?”
Sebastian frowned. “Do you drink to numb your mind?”
“I don’t really drink.” Leon shrugged a shoulder and then kissed Sebastian’s nose and each of his cheeks.
Sebastian blushed under the kisses. “But when you do. Is that why?”
“Yes.” Leon would have thought that obvious. He’d assumed the obviating quality of alcohol was its best one and why so many in the Resistance turned to it, at least now and again. “Why do you?”
“For the comradery,” Sebastian said as though that answer was just as obvious to him. “I like all the people, and the noise, and the nonsense.”
“I hate that part.” Leon wrinkled his nose and then nuzzled it into the hollow of Sebastian’s ear.
Sebastian laughed. “Somehow that doesn’t surprise me.”
Leon smiled at the feel of Sebastian’s laugh rumbling through him. He’d always had the most amazing laugh. Leon could pick the sound of it out of an entire crowd of laughing people with barely a thought, no matter what body Sebastian was in. He kissed across Sebastian’s throat to the hollow under his other ear.
Sebastian shivered when Leon breathed across his skin, and Leon felt his fingers twitch against his scalp as he pulled Leon closer to him. “Leon.”
“Mm.” Leon growled at the breathiness in Sebastian’s voice and nipped his ear lobe. “What?”
“I love you.”
Leon froze.
After a beat, he put his hands against the door and pushed back, but Sebastian tightened his arms around his neck. Sebastian pressed their foreheads together and pouted out his lower lip. “You said it first.”
Leon sighed and dropped his hands down to Sebastian’s hips. “That doesn’t mean you need to say it back.”
“Well, I did.” Sebastian scowled. “I am. I love you.”
That familiar guilt twisted in Leon’s chest. What had he done? “Sebastian, you know—”
“That the Resistance comes first for you, I know.” Sebastian eased up his death grip around Leon’s neck and let him pull away to a distance that was more comfortable, though they kept their hands on each other. “I pay attention. I’m not an idiot. I know your priorities.”
“Then—”
“And I don’t even know that I dislike that about you!” Sebastian’s inability to stay still reared its head, and he threw his hands up. He paced across the room and out of Leon’s arms. “I mean, I like that you’re dedicated and passionate and brilliant and intense.”
Leon swallowed. He wasn’t sure anyone had ever complimented him with that sort of stridency.
“And you’re handsome and intoxicating.” Sebastian spun back to him and advanced like a panther. “And the way that you look at me makes me feel like I’m the most incredible man to have set foot on this planet.”
