Make Me Feel

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Chapter 29

Zachary felt the older man hold his hand a bit firmer as they entered the darkness of the passage. He squeezed the hand in his own and smiled in the cool damp dark.

"Close the door behind you. Last thing we need is a maid finding this."

Zachary looked behind him and saw the silhouette of his partner and saw a small cluster of red lights light up, and there was a clicking sound as the tentacle carefully closed the hidden door behind them.

The teenager paused listening to the other man's breathing and used his free hand to feel along the cool stone wall for the light switch. He groaned at his idiocy remembering that he couldn't feel anything with his left hand and had to release his hold on Otto's. He found the switch and grinned with child like triumph and flipped it up causing the lights to come to life. Retaking the other man's hand in his own he led Otto down further until they stepped into the enormous cave.

Zachary grinned to himself by the sharp intake of breath that came from the warm body behind him and turned slowly to look upon his boyfriend's awed face.

Otto was staring at the large cavern around him the way a five-year-old would look upon Disneyland. His dark glasses had slipped down for enough on his nose bridge for Zachary to see his wide staring eyes and his mouth was dropped open ever so slightly.

"It's beautiful isn't it?"

Zachary's voice was hushed and soft. As a child he had always found the cave frightening, but when he had grown older he had seen the true beauty. The stalagmites and the deep shadows mixed in a scary but magical way, and the every present bats flitting and squeaking around the ceiling added to the first thought of fear, then turning to awe as you witnessed their behavior. The sudden pits had been blocked off with small fences years ago (due to the presence of a sneaky little boy) but added to the depth and mystery. The small 'island' with the Batcar was still present though the famous vehicle was coated with a thin layer of dust. Different pathways could be seen leading off to the other sections and the enormous computer stood in its glory.

"It's more spectacular than I had imagined."

Otto's voice also came out hushed, though it was full of wondrous awe. He tore his eyes away from the sight and looked back to Zachary with eyes full of wonder.

"I can't even imagine the odds of our meeting. Who would have ever believed two individuals such as ourselves would ever find each other?"

Zachary grinned and felt his own wonder at the chances.

"No kidding, but somebody must have wanted it or it wouldn't have happened. Must be some very creative angels."

Otto smiled at the thought and reached up to stroke the teenager's hair with a soft look in his brown eyes.

"I think I know who that angel was. It's as if Rosie hand picked you herself."

Zachary visibly melted and reached up to touch the hand in his hair. His eyes showed a complex mixture of emotions and he half smiled at the man before him.

"What was she like? I've tried imagining her, but I want to know what she was really like."

Otto sighed and looked up in thought. It hurt to think of his Rosie. As hard as he tried to think of their lunches together, their private jokes, her constant encouragement…everytime he thought of her he saw her screaming in fear as that shard of glass hurtled forward taking her away from him forever as he stood unable to stop it. When he tried remembering the smell of her perfume, her watering her little potted plants, all he could see was her slumping to the ground, lifeless.

But then he looked into the cool frosty eyes of the boy in front of him, and he thought of how truly a like his two loves were. Both were gentle, witty, compassionate, and passionate. Rosie would have adored Zachary; it truly was as if she had picked him. In his mind he imagined Rosie looking down from her seat in the clouds and pointing down at the teenage boy saying 'That one is perfect, Otto will love him.'

Looking into those green orbs, he could also see the loving brown eyes of his first love.

"She was beautiful."

He heard himself say.

"And smart. Oh God, was she ever smart. She loved writing poetry and short stories. Normally I wasn't interested in those sorts of things, but I had actually used poetry to win her. Such a warm woman. But she had her sparks, that was for sure. Rosie was like…like…Rosie was a gypsy. She had such depth but she was so untamable. She loved to dance, she used to force me to get up and dance with her. She would twirl around in a swirl of skirts and jangle of earrings, necklaces, and bracelets. She really was like a gypsy. She was my gypsy, though I never tamed her. I didn't want to, she was so perfect as her dancing unpredictable self. I loved her so much, and I still do."

Otto looked down from where he had been staring at the ceiling and saw an odd look on Zachary's face. Then it hit him, he had just been gushing over a woman who was gone, going on and on about his love for her, and had completely forgotten his other love. His love who was there. Who was living breathing and just inches away from him. That was like telling the boy 'oh your nice and all, but she was my real love. Not you.'

"And you're just as precious to me. You're my gypsy boy."

He pulled the boy forward into a deep embrace. He used his body to tell the boy how much he loved him. He took the young man's face by the chin and looked him square in the eye.

"I love you."

And they kissed.

End of Chapter

Okay I have to make this quick and get off. Thank you so much for reading and please review.

Stray-