Sort of a continuation from Glycaldehyde.


Dihydroxyacetone


No one can drink wine like Usagi-san. He practically purrs over his glasses of it, an alcoholic cat with his cream. He's almost certainly never drank the terrible sour cheap stuff, only the best vintages and grapes have ever graced his palate. He knows the grape varieties and the growing areas, and which years are nicest and how to prevent corking the bottle and he can rattle them all off the top of his head.

He plies Misaki with various bottles, and enjoys the results with his normal leering grin, and finally, the day after Misaki returns from his brother's, turns up with a bottle and a smile.

"You'll like this one," he grins, fetching two glasses and pouring generous measures into both. He takes a sniff of his and sighs, "Go on, Misaki. It's lovely. Just like yo-"

"Stop that! I'll drink it already!"

Akihiko watches him closely as he takes the glass. The liquid is rich and gurgling laviciously, the scent drifting up lazily. It smells like summer and flowers and freshly mown grass and Misaki cheerfully takes a mouthful. Wine rarely tastes as good as it smells, but this one is even better in his mouth. Misaki makes himself blush with that thought alone, the wine already accelerating the reflex. Across the table, Akihiko gives him a predatory smile and tops up the glass.

"You're trying to get me drunk," says Misaki without any malice. He takes another sip of his wine.

"Oh, why would I do that?" purrs Usagi-san, meeting Misaki's gaze and pushing the bottle an inch closer to the younger man. "Drink up."


Dihydroxacetone, or glycerine, is often derived from sugar beets or sugar cane and is used in self-tanning products and wine making, where it's used to affect the sweetness of the flavour. Mmmm, wine...