Title: Holidays: Birthday
Summary: Holidays sometimes help and sometimes hurt, but they're always different.
Pairing: Nick/Hodges
Rating: PG
David Hodges had never thought that his birthday was something special. It was on the sixth of March and only six people beside himself knew this: his mother, Jacqui, Bobby, Ronnie, Archie, and apparently, Nick Stokes.
He hadn't been aware that Nick had known when his birthday was, but then he suspected that he'd mentioned it to him over one of their after-shift breakfasts. Ever since Christmas dinner and the hamster, they'd been friendlier – talking, going to breakfast, and generally enjoying each other's company. So when David got the invitation in the mail to head over to Nick's for a homemade birthday breakfast after their shift, he hadn't had much trouble in accepting.
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Nick was quite the fantastic cook, as it turned out, and an even better host. They had pancakes made from scratch, eggs, and bacon, and this time David had brought the drink – orange juice.
"It's too early for wine," he'd said, and Nick chuckled as he agreed. David liked hearing that chuckle, if he admitted it to himself. He also really liked Nick's company.
The food was delicious and he returned the multiple compliments on its taste as Nick smiled and... well, it was probably David's imagination but it looked like Nick had blushed. What were they putting in orange juice, nowadays, anyway?
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They say that birthday surprises are the best. Up until his thirty-ninth birthday, David would have disagreed. The only big surprises he'd ever gotten on his birthday had been disappointments – having to move, his mother getting another new boyfriend, or things of that nature.
However, on the morning of the thirty-ninth anniversary of his birth, as David Hodges sat in Nick Stokes' living room on Nick's Stokes couch being kissed passionately by Nick Stokes himself, he'd have to agree – birthday surprises were pretty damned cool after all.
It had only taken approximately four decades for his birthday to finally be special, but as Nick deepened the kiss and he found it increasingly more difficult to think or breathe, David vaguely thought that if this were the result, he hadn't minded waiting all that much.
TBC.