Cruel reality
Author: FOXOReily
Summary: Seven months pass after Michael left for Portland. Michael returns to Pittsburgh to spend his holiday. Brian is stuck at relationship with Justin as ever. Michael wants to talk to Brian something, but cannot easily make an opportunity. Time passes pitilessly... Sorry, there is no-beta.
Rated: R
Categories: Angst, Drama
Characters: Brian, Michael, David
Warnings: None
Completed: Yes
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Chapter 11
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Brian was irritated with himself. He regretted that he had let Michael go with Justin. It was hard to think that Justin talk to Michael without harming Michael mentally. For most cases, Justin was insolent and hurt Michael's feeling openly. Brian understood that those actions that Justin cannot help doing are because of him. He knew the blond kid was doing not so good deeds to send away Michael from their sight. Justin was jealous of Michael anytime instinctively and trying to alienate him.
"I really fucked up."
Brian muttered in his mind. He promised to Michael that he wait for him unconditionally. It was his unilateral contract, and Michael never expected it to him. However, Brian couldn't help pledging it to Michael. The reason is because it was able to think that pledging seems like proof of his love for Michael. Nevertheless he has begun to regret the promise that he made to Michael because he didn't know when he could accomplish it. He maybe shouldn't have put too much confidence in patience of his own easily. Brian didn't think that he can wait much long term. He is not patient like Michael. If he had worked a little more positively, Michael may have capitulated after all. However, Brian couldn't force his self-centered conclusion on Michael. In addition, he wasn't in a position to use the special privilege anymore.
"Brian, you shouldn't annoy Michael."
Emmett muttered while playing with cocktail glass at his side. Emmett pinched the neck of the glass at his finger-tips and was rolling an almost empty glass edgily in his hand.
"What are you talking about?"
Brian asked back saying it without looking towards Emmett. Brian knew that Emmett is going all out and trying to protect small happiness of Michael by any means. Emmett wasn't going to tell it to Brian excitedly. He told for his gentle thoughtful friend entreatingly.
"I said that you shouldn't annoy Michael. He marries David and is living happily. Even if that is not the happiness that he expected most, you shouldn't have causing ripple in his life. Even if you realized his importance now, it's too late. Michael suffered enough. Don't you realize it?"
"You have no idea."
With perfunctory reply, Brian smiled at Emmett.
"I always knew how precious Michael was. We infatuated each other from the first moment when we met. Even if I did any kind of behavior in my life, I'm his after all. Though I knew that Michael had begun to doubt it."
"Brian, I'm not sure whether you tell the truth to me. But you had to do something if you understood his uneasiness. You should have said it to Michael at least if you're his. Therefore human being has a means of communication so-called 'words'."
"I know how the words are useless."
"No, Brian. Sometimes, the words can evade a catastrophe. God...I can't believe that the person who works on at the top of the advertising says such a thing."
Emmett shook his head sadly.
"I know that you're in the wretched situation. I'm not going to persecute and blame you meaninglessly. However, eventually, you're tormenting Michael again."
"We both are."
"Brian, you should give him up."
Emmett crooned pensively. Brian didn't answer it. He knew what Emmett wanted to say and he already did a fruitless stupid act in himself. However, it brought no solution to him. Brian can't let Michael go after all. It was the impossible consultation. Because they are two halves, if they lose each other they can't live. At least Brian couldn't do that.
Brian pretended to hear nothing and sway his eyes to the dance floor languidly. Then he discovered Justin in the direction of his eyes. Justin was making a quite nice scene with sand-colored haired well-hunk. Brian was pleased with Justin having recovered himself from his tragedy heartily. Brian remembered a state of Justin who was just discharged from the hospital which even couldn't walk Liberty Avenue by himself. Brian thought that Justin might become the responsibility of his life. And he thought that maybe he can love this boy. However, it was a groundless illusion. Unfortunately even if Justin is there with a man other than him, Brian's heart will not be in turbulent. Probably that kind of feelings will not bubble up in future either. Brian smiled quietly as thinking about such a thing hollowly.
"Emmett, I understand what you said. However, stop expecting an unrealizable thing to me."
"I didn't expect for, I asked you politely."
"Then I apologize for it beforehand."
Brian waved his hand lightly to Emmett and walked to the dance floor slowly for going towards Justin.
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"Hey, Justin."
"Oh, hey, Brian!"
Justin gave a lopsided smile and nodded to Brian. Justin's back was against a man's broad chest. His hands are grabbing well-hunk's hips firmly. Justin grinds his ass to crotch of hunk.
"Sooo, what do you want?"
Justin yelled lively. Brian smirked and shook his head as appreciating Justin's bold hips movement.
"Where is Michael?"
"I don't know. I came back to here earlier than him."
"What did you tell him?"
Brian asked. Justin raised his eyebrows in amusement.
"When Michael and I talk only with us, it's nothing but your topic in the case of most."
"Awww, it's not good. You shouldn't curse me when I'm not there."
"We'll never do that. We're worshiping Brian Kinney, oh so miserably. You should know it."
Justin continued dancing with hunky guy while ignore Brian's complaint.
"Was he all right?"
Brian asked suddenly. Justin watched Brian's handsome face with an incomprehensible expression.
"Mmm...Brian. I must just return those words to you."
"What?"
Brian had to move his body reluctantly to talk with Justin who is moving his body energetically. Brian swayed his body unenthusiastically.
"What did Michael say to you?"
"I think he didn't talk anything what you don't know."
Justin shrugged his shoulders and then approached Brian from sand-colored haired hunk's hold for an instant, and abruptly, but passionately, captured Brian's full lips. After that kiss, Brian stared at Justin with a little shocked eye.
"So...satisfied?"
"Brian, you must not forget that I'm here with you. You already know I'm not a type to easily give up."
Justin said as latching his hands back of Brian's neck. Brian snorted.
"Are you going to stalking me again?"
"I'm not sure now...but maybe."
"I thought that you're the one who miffed at me."
"Yes, I am. But, fortunately, I become tolerant person. Brian, I'm growing up. I may outstrip you soon."
"Then I may wait it joyfully."
Brian tilted his head and jauntily smiled at Justin. Justin grinned to Brian.
"We'll see. I'll scheme that we find the some way."
"Hey, Kinney! Why don't you join us?"
Hunk called out from the rear of Justin. It could say that it was a totally attractive invitation. But he didn't get it because he didn't want to.
"Yeah, probably at the next time."
Brian nodded to them and declined an invitation politely.
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Michael was watching their movement from catwalk. He wasn't sure what they talked about, but Michael enjoyed the view. He saw Brian dancing with men except him many times in this way from here. Michael felt even nostalgia for familiar déjà vu.
"I looked at Brian so fuckin' numerous times from here, but my heart hasn't so ached until when I saw him with Justin. Sometimes it was really unbearable. I think that Justin is promising."
"I'll have to say, Justin did his best without doubt. In fact, he arrived to the place very nicely. However, what he's doing is a losing battle after all."
Ted said with deep emotion. Michael smiled and watched Ted's face diagonally.
"Aren't you too pessimistic? I think that Justin does his best from now on. He is tenacious."
"Ah, Michael. That kid is not you. It is the most important thing for Brian."
Ted continued slightly shaking his head as talking.
"But, on the other hand, he is different from you because he knows a way of the rational relaxation. He can loosen him up for his desire. It is his strength. Justin has a part resembling Brian."
"It is terrible, but it will be right. Maybe Justin will become arrogant prick."
"Rather I think he will become pain in the ass. Oh, he already is!"
Ted said in smirk. Michael nodded as laughing mischievously.
"If Justin doesn't expect other than what Brian can give to him, their relationship may develop."
"Michael. Do you want it?"
Ted asked anxiously. Michael took eyes off the interesting scene developed in a dance floor and watched Ted's worried face.
"Yes, and, no. You shouldn't ask about knotty thorny issue to me."
And Michael smiled softly. Ted planted his elbows on a rail of the catwalk and rested his cheek on his hand. Then Ted sensed that Brian was aware of the place where Michael is. Ted could say that the change of Brian's expression was so dramatic. Brian devoured Michael with his eyes. And it was able to say the same thing to Michael. They crave each other's presence absorbedly. Just like if they immerse each other into themselves. Ted rubbed Michael's shoulder gently.
"Go to him. You deserve it. Regardless of my words, I don't think that Brian deserves you. But..."
Ted put his chin to his chest and smiled resignedly.
"Probably you two deserve each other."
"Teddy..."
Ted interrupted at his hand what Michael started to say.
"You don't have to say anything. You don't need to think about anything. You have to get what you want. Rather you have to do it."
And then Ted left from Michael's side slowly for Brian.
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Brian's eyes were locking on Michael. He crossed the dance floor smoothly and went up the steep stairs. During the time, Brian's eyes captured Michael and never let go. On the crowded dance floor, Michael wasn't sure how Brian accomplished the wonder trick. If it was him, he bumps to at least two-digit of men and must have been stranded on the floor three times.
"Brian."
"Michael. I knew that you are here."
Brian smiled at Michael softly. They chuckled and bumped each other's shoulders lightly as leaning on a rail of catwalk.
"Yeah, you will know that I always watched you wistfully from here."
"So did I."
Brian looked into Michael's deep brown eyes.
"You know, whenever I look at you, I didn't doubt that you smiled at me. Because you were always there for me."
"Oh, well... You're mostly right. When I watched you, I couldn't help smiling like some idiot."
Michael giggled boyishly. Brian relished his favorite Michael's giggle with his ears deliciously.
"Sometimes I was overwhelmed in your dazzling beauty. It was huge mystery for me why you could smile at me like that. You were able to make me daunt."
"What are you talking?"
Michael looked up at Brian's face suspiciously. Brian sighed as looking down at the dance floor which is wriggling of the crowd.
"Though I believed only you, I hurt you many time. Because I knew that you always forgave me, I used your gentleness. But, I was sure that it was only you who bear with me and can live in my tiny shitty world. I was having a hunch vaguely for our future."
"...Brian?"
Michael squeezed Brian's right forearm by his hand gently. Brian caught Michael's eyes with his eyes again. And his left hand caressed Michael's raven-black hair lovingly.
"One day, when we were walking street I stopped casually and turned around toward you. Then I saw you were brooding and drooping your eyes for some reason."
"Oh...when?"
"I don't remember when, but you were avoiding my eyes."
Brian slightly shrugged his shoulders.
"Somehow I know why... Surely you were in uneasiness."
"Aww, typical Mikey. The insecureness is my patent. You know that? It's nothing to do with you."
"What I minded was that you couldn't tell your uneasiness to me."
Brian rubbed his nape impatiently.
"I thought that you held something which you cannot say to me. Then that time I wouldn't deserve your trust. I knew I was still occasionally shutting you out. Probably, from the day when I met you, I'll haven't change a bit. Maybe I'm not growing up. You may have felt uneasy about it."
"Why do you think so? Did you think that I denied your nature?"
"No, I didn't think so. I was just..."
"Brian, tell me, do you think that not to change is bad thing? Or do you think that it is good thing? I say it doesn't matter really. What the fuck is 'the growing up', anyway?"
Michael questioned Brian closely by fast-talking. Brian slid his fingers on Michael's cheeks.
"Good or bad...Maybe, both. But what most makes me be sorry was that I pretended not to notice all the time that your smile turned into tears."
"Brian... you don't have to be sorry for me. It was my own problem."
Michael pressed his cheeks to Brian's palm. And Brian cupped Michael's face by his hands and they touched against each other's forehead.
"Mikey, please don't forget this. I know myself that I'm not so faithful and I may not have watched only you. However, you were the only one that I can call my reality. It doesn't still change. You're my true love."
"Why are you saying it now?"
Michael asked to Brian as choking back his tears.
"Because you're trying to disappear from my life."
Brian answered to Michael as still caressing his face. Michael closed his eyelids and concentrated on touch of Brian's hands that is airily gliding at his cheeks and temple. He couldn't fall apart ever when he is with Brian. Michael caught both Brian's wrists softly and kissed Brian's knuckles.
"Don't worry, Brian. Even if I can't be beside you, I'm always there for you."
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They left the Babylon after they told honestly their secession to their friends. Brian couldn't help thinking about a contrastive expression of their friends. Of course Emmett didn't welcome that he took Michael away. Brian can understand a feeling of Emmett. However, demeanor of Ted made him restless. He seemed to just watch two of them calmly with a quiet look. It was so odd.
"I hope that you return to a hotel or your mother's house properly."
Brian heard at edge of his ears what Emmett said to Michael indirectly as caressing Michael's cheeks. Brian didn't like seeing someone touching Michael even if it was just Emmett.
"Emmett, Michael is an adult. He can decide by himself whatever he wants. I don't think that he wants second Debbie."
Brian said to Emmett fretfully as rolling his eyes.
"But you shouldn't tire him. You know, he's getting used to quiet peaceful life in Portland."
Ted said to Brian chidingly.
"I'm fine, Teddy."
Michael smiled for Ted meaningfully and stroked his biceps. Brian didn't like their intimate exchanges. He wanted to punch Ted's face. Shoo! Michael is mine!
"Michael, e-mail me the photographs of your house. I have some suggestion about your outdoor swimming pool and fabulous garden."
"Sure, I will."
"Don't forget that, beauty."
After hugging Michael tightly, Brady said to Michael eagerly. His hands were caressing Michael's back affectionately. But after that he was abducted to two of blond twinks to the backroom. Well, anyway, Brian decided that he don't give a shit even if what Brady do or say. Well...Yeah, isn't it right?
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Inside of the cab, Brian noticed that Michael was exhausting.
"Did your energy drain out?"
Brian drew Michael's body to him and whispered tenderly.
"A piece of banana did quite good job effectively. However, I seem to have been running out of fuel."
Michael chuckled as leaning on Brian's chest. He realized that he ate nothing from lunch, too. Brian suggested it to Michael.
"Do you want to eat something?"
"Umm...I want to eat some wonton soup."
Michael muttered at sleepy voice. They came back to Brian's loft after having supplied Chinese takeout on the way. About their having returned to the loft, Michael said nothing. They sat down on a luxurious rug that spread all over the living room's floor, and like good old days they drank beer and ate Chinese food. Plus, some joint again. They spent good time comfortably with safe topics.
"You'll have work tomorrow. You should take rest a little."
The clock is pointing around 3:00 a.m. Michael said to Brian anxiously.
"Brian, you can go to the bed."
"If you come with me."
Brian stood up and said to Michael as wiggling his eyebrows.
"I can sleep here or can call a taxi."
"Mikey, you can return in morning. There is not the harm even if you wait here till the sunrise. However, I think that this room is not suitable to sleep."
Michael shrugged his shoulders while looking at beer bottles, and leftover that scattered around of them. Their senior high school album, CD cases and Gus's photographs were spread all over on the couch. Michael was too tired to make his bed, after putting them in order.
"Why not? I'm tired as hell."
Michael stretched his both arms and said to Brian who stood in the front of him. Brian pulled up Michael's body and stood him.
"Can you walk?"
"Maybe."
Michael nodded ambiguously. Brian asked about nothing and merely nodded and threw Michael on his shoulder and swatted Michael's ass playfully.
"Ow!"
"This is a freight charge for me."
Brian carried Michael to his bedroom and plopped down Michael's body carefully onto the bed. And he took out sweatpants from a drawer and handed it to Michael.
"This is yours. Probably you have mislaid this here very in old days."
"Did you keep it for me?"
"Well...yeah...Uhm, you don't need to worry. It's clean."
"Thank you, Brian."
Michael nodded and received his old sweatpants from Brian. It was exactly his own thing.
"Wow...This is really an antique."
Michael laughed for unexpected surprise.
"Why did you keep this for so long?"
"Because it's yours."
Brian frowned and thought. Probably it would be true. Brian asked Michael as taking off his own clothes quickly.
"What are you going to do tomorrow?"
"My plan? Well, maybe I go to the diner and talk with ma. And also I'm going to meet Uncle Vic."
Michael changed into his sweatpants and crawled under sheets sluggishly.
Brian watched Michael who is sinking his head in plush pillow and still fighting his sleepiness somehow.
"Mikey"
"Yeah?"
"David may come to pick you up."
Brian muttered as sitting down beside Michael. Brian felt that Michael stared at him in wonder.
"Did you talk to him?"
Michael asked in a quiet voice. Brian caught Michael's eyes and nodded.
"When you fainted on a street. I called David after having taken you to the hotel."
"While I'm sleeping?"
"Yes."
"I see."
Michael closed his eyelids and nodded discreetly. Michael knew that David would never tell his disease to Brian. Even if Brian questioned him strictly, David should have never compromised.
"Probably he'll arrive at Pittsburgh tomorrow."
"Oh...do you think so?"
Michael opened his eyes again and asked Brian. Brian sighed and nodded frustratingly.
"When I hung up, your hero seemed to fly to here forcibly by oneself."
"Brian, you must have scared the shit out of him."
Michael smiled slightly. Brian muttered as staring at Michael's endearing smile.
"I guess he does love you."
"Yeah, he does."
"And you too?"
"Hmm-huh."
Michael fluttered his eyelashes and nodded.
"He is becoming the pessimistic old man. Brian, you shouldn't torment David."
"I couldn't help. He has the one thing which I cannot help wanting in of the whole world."
Brian drew Michael's smaller body close to his chest, and secured him in his embrace. Brian buried tip of his nose in Michael's soft hair and inhaled Michael's sweet scent.
"'Ultimate' of Clean."
Suddenly, Brian uttered it as having been remembered.
Michael nodded and smiled.
"Did you remember that? Probably, you gave to me the thing which somebody gave to you. Anyway I still occasionally use it. It's not so bad. I kinda like it."
"When you wear it, I feel it like totally another fragrance. I think I got it from the woman employee of the client. I gave you it because at that time I used Bvlgari habitually. But like you said it's not so bad at all."
Brian tickled the concavity of Michael's neck with his nose. Michael was squeaking hysterically and trying to escape from Brian's torture.
"Brian, stop it!"
"If you stay with me forever."
Brian caught both Michael's wrists by his hands and pinned him onto the mattress. Brian felt that Michael's chest heaved under his chest intensely.
"Brian...I..."
Brian was trying to capture his feelings that swing into Michael's eyes. However, However, there was only unchangeable fact that resembled despair.
"I know you can't."
Brian lie down next to Michael and drew Michael to his chest again.
"In the tomorrow morning, I take you to a hotel."
"Brian, you don't have to do it."
Michael said apprehensively. Brian felt that Michael's long eyelashes grazed skin of his chin softly.
"But, I want to. You have to stop trying to take my time away from me with you."
Brian muttered and closed his eyes. Michael spilled tiny giggle with a small sigh.
"Thank you, Brian."
"You're welcome."
Brian pressed his lips to Michael's forehead lightly. Michael being here with him, it was the greatest joy that he could touch Michael when he expected it. These seven months he starved for Michael and longed for Michael. However, Brian understood that the happiness flew away soon again from his hands. David is right. He must cherish time with Michael till a good doctor comes to take Michael away. Valuable time when Brian obtained it drew to an end.
In spite of fatigue, they couldn't sleep. Brian knew that Michael was still awake. His breathing was steady and quiet, but Michael's hand resting on Brian's chest was flexed restlessly against his skin. Michael's dark head was resting on Brian's left shoulder joint.
"Mikey, are you awake?"
"...Yeah."
"Uhm...Are you happy now? Well, I mean now."
Brian asked abruptly. Michael didn't have to think about it.
"I'm very happy that I can be with you. Actually, I didn't expect that I could have such time with you."
"Because of Justin?"
"Umm mostly. But the reason was not only it."
Michael shifted his head and looked up at Brian's face.
"Brian...?"
"Yeah?"
"I love you."
Michael stated it. Brian fell his cheeks onto Michael's hairline.
"Still you'll leave me."
"Yeah...You are right."
Sighingly, Michael admitted it. Brian expressed a hopeless sigh thinly.
"I will forgive you. For now."
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When they had begun to finally doze off, they didn't have much time left. They entered the bathroom together while yawning greatly. At first sight, Brian sensed Michael's uncertain step. They took shower together without need to ask for each other's permission. Though their physical contact was close deeply, there was not the sexual strain between them strangely. Michael knew that Brian's chest had supported his back. And Michael appreciated Brian that didn't ask even a single word to him about his physical condition.
"Wow...You have the hell of morning hard-on."
Michael noticed that Brian's erection is poking his back.
"Of course. I have this every morning. If you want, you can take care of this."
"Aw, I'll refrain from the duty."
Michael wagged his head while lathering shower gel with high-quality natural sponge. Brian said under shower as stealing a glance at Michael's crotch.
"I'm afraid to ask, but don't you have it anymore?"
"I have those sometimes, but, not every morning. Brian, you're already over 30. You should abstain a little"
"Why I have to do that? Michael, your aging must have been hasty because of living with old man."
Brian took plentiful foamy sponge out of Michael's hand and has begun to wash Michael's back. And he valued assets of Michael.
"However, your fabulous peachy ass doesn't seem to yet sag."
"Brian. Why don't you give me your underwear?"
Michael said as wiping drops of water of his hair with a fluffy bath towel.
"I don't want to put on dirty underwear again."
"You can get them from in my drawer freely."
Brian yelled from the kitchen as pouring coffee into a cup. Michael shrugged his shoulders and opened the door of the closet of the bedroom. Then Michael realized there were the some clothes which were not Brian's possession obviously. Still Justin's things in there made Michael a strange feeling. It was fact that Justin had begun to build his space to Brian's place. He can take in that reality. Even if it was how much cruel reality to him, there wasn't the way other than received it and go ahead. Luckily Michael acquired the way a little early.
Michael took out simple black boxer shorts from a drawer and wore them quickly. And then wore white cotton T-shirt.
"I got them."
Watching Michael who emerged from the bedroom, Brian raised his eyebrows. What Michael chose was one of the most wore out thing in his wardrobe.
"You were able to get brand-new T-shirt."
"These are enough for me."
Michael muttered as patting the chest of his shirt and laughed impishly.
"If you want substitution for these, you can get my dirty underwear and sweaty stinky small T-shirt."
Brian answered a remark of Michael with a straight face.
"Oh, it's a great deal. Leave them for me. After having fully enjoyed your erotic smell, I'll hand wash them deferentially while grieving abandoned by you."
"Brian...I was just joking."
Blushing fiercely, Michael said mumblingly. Brian burst out laughing.
"Really, you had better leave them here. I'll put them for a spare for your next visit."
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After having finished breakfast with coffee and cereal, they went to the hotel where Michael stayed. Michael noticed that his persistent headache began to gradually climb up his whole body. Until suffer from this disease, Michael hasn't thought about how a headache could depress his whole body. However, it arrested him indubitably and tied him in pain.
"Michael, are you all right?"
Unable to bear it, finally Brian asked it to Michael. Brian couldn't overlook the wrinkle of Michael's brow, and thin coat of sweat.
"I can handle this."
Michael barely smiled and said to Brian.
"Fortunately I can spend time lazily in the hotel's room. It's visitor's good thing."
"I think that Debbie nurses you with pleasure."
"...Brian, you don't say it seriously, do you?"
Michael opened his eyes widely for terror. Brian teased Michael for distorted joy.
"You let Debbie make the chicken soup at large pans and may let her tuck in you to bed."
"I'm not 8 years old anymore."
"She hardly can see that you're already an adult."
"It must be so."
Michael rolled his eyes and tiredly nodded.
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David sat down on the luxurious sofa of the hotel lobby and watched that they entered from the entrance. Brian was supporting unstable step of Michael at his arms like he is protecting Michael. It was obvious that Michael wasn't in good condition. When Michael decided to go home alone, what David worried most seemed to happen now. Michael's condition is worse. The doctors said that Michael should have been rather hospitalized than going for an outing before an important surgery. However, David wasn't able to turn down Michael's decision flatly.
And he is watching the result now.
Look at them.
David thought. It was clear at a glance that they love each other deeply. Even if it was any kind of love, David couldn't deny that Brian loved his lover. And then...Michael. David knew from a beginning that Michael was in love with Brian Kinney. However he wasn't able to still give up Michael. He took every fair means to separate Brian from Michael. David loved Michael and really wanted him. He was sure to overcome Brian. If he persuaded Michael seriously, David thought he can win Michael. However, even if he accomplished, it doesn't mean he can take a feeling that existed between them. It certainly still existed between two of them. Blind unconditional love. David looked at the cruel reality and accepted it into his mind. They may still love each other, but Michael loves him either. David never doubts that.
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When they went through the entrance of the hotel, soon Brian noticed an appearance of David. The good doctor must have arranged an airplane to Pittsburgh immediately after he called. Brian prayed that the ground split, and swallow David before Michael was aware that David was here. However, Brian knew that Michael is sensing David's presence. In his protection, Michael let his eyes swim uncertainly.
"...David?"
Brian heard a small mutter of Michael. And he felt Michael's weakened body stirring in his arms.
"Yeah, he is here."
Brian stared at Michael's eloquent eyes and said. Only several seconds, they just stared at each other's eyes. Brian realized what he must do instantly. And he wasn't able to resist his duty.
"Brian?"
"With those beautiful eyes, you shouldn't stare at me like that."
When Brian muttered, Brian felt Michael's arms wrap around his neck and felt soft lips kissed his lips sweetly.
"Michael...You can go."
Brian heard his own voice hoarse disgracefully. Then he released Michael from his embrace.
"Michael, are you OK? I missed you so much...!"
Brian saw David almost ran up to Michael and held Michael's body who is barely walking. And he saw Michael easily allow to David lifting his body up in David's arms. Actually, Michael didn't let Brian do it at all in public. Michael is having border of the pride against Brian secretly. However, Michael can entrust it to David. Michael may reveal his weakness to David so that Brian can reveal his weakest part to Michael. The cruel reality hurt Brian's mind deeply. Brian stood there petrified for a while and watched Michael held in David's reassuring arms. And he heard Michael whispering it in small voice as nodding at conversation with David.
"Yes...I know, David... Please take me home."
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