Day 9: Hugging

Logan was snuggled up in bed with Keegan. It was the same routine, once everyone went to bed Logan would sneak into Keegan's room. He was still wide awake, looking up at the endless darkness while Keegan slept beside him. None of this would be plausible if Keegan hadn't given him that hug. Their first hug.

A high risk underwater mission, that would most likely end in failure. Logan sat on the boat watching them put the distance between the rest of the group and themselves. Keegan was across from him checking his underwater rifle. He glanced up to see Logan staring off into space. Setting his rifle down, he looked at the younger man and raised a brow. "You okay kid?"

Hearing Keegan's raspy voice snapped Logan back into reality. "Yeah. Sorry, just spaced out a little."

He looked at Keegan and gave him a small smile. His face was almost unreadable but Logan could see the almost non existing smirk on his face. Knowing Keegan would be with him during the mission made his nerves die down. Logan liked the ocean, he just wasn't a fan of what was in it...giant squid, sharks and whatever else swam in the depths of the ocean.

"You sure you're okay kid?"

Keegan wasn't convinced. He crossed his arms and stared at the younger man across from him. Logan sighed and wiped the sweat from his brow.

"Kinda. I'm not a huge fan of the deep blue sea...well what lives in it." Logan rubbed his neck in embarrassment and hoped Keegan wouldn't laugh about it. He glanced over at Keegan to see a neutral facial expression on the older man.

"Nothing big and bad is gonna try and eat you. The worst thing that's possibly down there are some sharks. We'll be fine Logan."

Keegan tried to reassure him that everything would be okay. But Logan wasn't convinced. Underwater...sharks...probably enemy forces. Nothing about that was okay. Logan let his mind wonder. A few moments later it was go time.

Well Keegan was right. Sharks were around and so were a bunch of enemy forces gathering anything the could find. They met with some resistance but easily made their way through. When they neared the ship, Keegan and Logan took shelter in an old lighthouse to take out the ship.

"All right you line it up and I'll guide it in." Logan shook the thought out of his head and lined up the Proteus Missile. It easily hit the ship. But the blast wave was bigger and stronger than either planned.

Logan held on for dear life while the blast wave sent Keegan flying down. When the lighthouse started crashing down Logan had no choice but to let go. He fell onto his back with a thud. Briefly blacking out, when he came to, his breathing tube was off and a piece of debris was caught on his arm. Logan tried to move the piece of debris off his arm, with the lack of oxygen and the pressure of being a few hundred feet below sea level wasn't helping. His vision started to go black and it was starting to be hard to breath. Then like a saving angel Keegan came out of nowhere and hooked up the breathing tube.

"You okay?" asked Keegan. He held up the okay sign and Logan nodded. "Okay. Let's get this stuff off of you."

With a little force they both got the huge piece of debris off of Logan's arm. Logan was catching his breath when Keegan did something he never thought would happen. He hugged him. Logan found himself in a tight hug with Keegan. A smile formed on his face, but it quickly left when Keegan pulled away. "Let's get out of here?"

"Yes, please."

Besides swimming away from crashing ships and sharks. Logan could only think about that hug. Keegan was always the quiet keep-to-himself type of guy. It almost seemed uncharacteristic of him to even hug people. Then again Logan only met the man a few weeks ago. Either way he was intrigued of what would happen next.

xXx

Logan let out a sigh in the dark room. Sleep still wouldn't come. It was a good thing they had a day off tomorrow or he would be screwed. He felt Keegan shift next to him, then he heard the raspy voice. "You should be sleeping."

Logan chuckled and turned to look at him. He could see Keegan's icy stare in the darkness and it sent a shiver down his spine.

"I can't sleep."

Keegan let out a small sigh and wrapped his arms around Logan and pulled him closer. He immediately settle down next to Keegan. Logan couldn't thank his dad enough for tasking him on that mission. If he didn't go, then he wouldn't be in the arms of someone who means so much to him. Logan closed his eyes once Keegan kissed the back of his neck. Then they were out like a light.