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They awoke to each others' warmth – his muscular legs wrapped around lithe, nimble ones and his bare chest pressed against the crude fabric of the boy's borrowed sweater. He drew fingers across a smooth hip, and the other turned to meet him with a kiss. They smiled and he left the younger on the bed, heading to the kitchen to make their morning meal.
He came in a few minutes later, hungry, groggy and bed-headed, and naked from the waist down.
"Nice pants."
He blushed and returned to the bedroom, returning quickly with plaid pajama bottoms that were just about falling off.
"What's for breakfast?"
He stared at the food he had been making.
"I don't know,"
He smiled at the boy's laughter; at the warm arms that slid around his waist and the soft lips at his neck. He would never have dreamt…
"I like it here," he said suddenly, disentwining his arms from his lover's taut body. He sat at the table and waited for the food, straddling a folding chair and watching the older man stroll the kitchen.
"Me too."
There was a comfortable silence.
"Why did you come here?"
He stopped what he was stirring for a second. What had he come here for?
Oh, yes. The Ruler. The lawbreaker.
"I… don't –"
"That's alright. I don't want to remember, either."
But that was the problem – he had to remember. If he didn't return… he would be severely punished. He had already taken too long. This morning, after breakfast, he would search. He would find the lawbreaker and end it, and spend one last night with the boy before returning to his lofty existence.
He smiled at the boy and set the food in front of him.
How could he leave him?
How could he…?
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