The Laertes/Guildenstern AU ... why do we bother calling it that any longer? ^_~

[ay_my_lord]

*scene--the apartment that Horatio and Rey now share, on a lovely summer day; Horatio has opened a window to catch the sunlight, and he's sitting in the patch of sun, curled up on his beanbag chair. when Rey passes, he'll look up, with a smile* Can I ask you something?

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[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*freezes* Why would it ... ?

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

Because I guess it must have looked like I left him, when he was a nuisance ... and I never meant it to. *looks away, ashamed* I should probably call him more often. He likes it when we talk.

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*tries to smile, to reassure him* I know that's not why you left him. I know as well as anybody.

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

But I guess it would make sense, if you were afraid of getting left like that ... just like I'm afraid of you someday telling your wife that you'd thought you'd loved me. *tries to smile back*

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*stroking Horatio's shoulders, the back of his neck, soothing even as he admits (half to himself)* I'm not afraid because you left Hamlet. I'm afraid because everybody else left. And if you leave, too, I'll still love you, and I'll miss you, and I'll think about what I should have said to you or done for you to make you stay, or if I was just never good enough to keep you, if all of this was just too nice to last ... but I won't get in your way, and I won't say it aloud.

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

*letting himself be touched, and touching back, carefully* I never want to leave you. Not ever ... so you won't have to worry about getting in my way, because I want my way to be your way, too ...

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*trembling perhaps* I hope it will be.

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

*half-silly, half-serious* If I gave you a spiderflower, would you take it?

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*blushes* We still don't know what a spiderflower looks like ...

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Maybe that's okay. If I ever get married, I ... *sheepish* I'd kind of like it to be a church wedding.

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*nuzzles* Even though you're not religious?

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

*nuzzlesback* I still believe in God, most of the time ... and I still want someone to bless me and the person I'm getting married to. It would feel right, to get married like my parents did. *blush* Even if it were with a man, and I'd have to find a different church.

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

I'd like that, too, though. *shysmile* I'm old-fashioned.

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

I know. It's nice that you're old-fashioned; it makes you different from everyone else. ^__^ *goes to fill a glass with water for the lily, and then fetches their lemonade once the flower's safely tucked away*

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*smiles, so much calmer now* Maybe one day I'll come home with red roses and a ring.

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

*struck suddenly by the idea that this might really be for always--beaming* Maybe I'd have to take them from you, just in case they're hard to carry ...

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*laughs --* That's the only reason?

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

*nosekiss* Well, and in case they might be for me ...

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*sillysmile, and a lipkiss back* They'll be for you. And I'll want you to keep them --

(sweet dreams~)

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

*beams* Then maybe I'd be very, very happy.

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*laughs and blushes, maybe realizing just how silly he's being* Really -- ?

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

Really. *snuggles against* I mean, if this works, and you still like me, then maybe in a while ...

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

It just ... it seems like we've been together longer than we have, doesn't it? *blushes* 'Together' together.

[ay-my-lord.livejournal.com]

Because we sort of have been. *littlesmile* I mean, we've been living together a few months now, and everything ...

[carpoftruth.livejournal.com]

*nods* It -- it probably wouldn't even be that big of a step, to have rings and roses ...