Loneliness and desire
The companion fic to "Lemon-flavored kisses". The title is taken from the 31 Days theme for September 26, 2005.
Gamma always kisses Uni Giglionero tentatively, testing, it would seem, the reality of the situation – that they are lying in one bed, face-to-face, legs twined together the way ivy wraps itself around a tree, or creeps over old and weather-worn rocks.
You can't really blame him, given everything that they are going through. You can't really fault him for thinking, time and again, even after she said "yes" and he dared not to breathe for a second afterward, that this wasn't going to last, that he was imagining things and he was going to wake up alone somewhere. Utterly alone, with nothing but the imagined scent of her on his pillow.