The Mathematics of Mountains
Prompt: #319, Mountain
Summary: Sometimes Charlie sees things . . . differently.
Notes: Could be considered a sequel/companion to my earlier drabble, 'Geekery as Fitness Training'
Also, my beta is indefinitely indisposed, so this has just been looked over by me, and self-betaing can be . . . tricky. Hence also the title and summary are all me, and those are not my strong points.
Charlie stood at the edge of the space around the cabin, looking out over the mountain, which just . . . fell away, in a frozen cascade of natural formations.
It took his breath away, even as snippets of geological equations and formulae swirled in his vision alongside them.
If anything, those strings of numbers increased his appreciation of the wonder that was the formation of mountains - everything is governed by math, shot through with the shimmering threads of numbers.
Broad, warm hands settled on his waist, distracting him as Ian bent, kissing his neck.
"Enjoying the wilderness?" Ian asked, an amused murmur, propping his chin on Charlie's shoulder to look over the slightly vertiginous drop with the easy calm of someone accustomed to such things.
Charlie nodded absently. "Oh, yes." he replied, squeezing Ian's wrists and leaning back into his solid support. "Quite worth the hike. And absence of technology."
Ian was startled into a laugh, and he straightened - careful not to push Charlie too far away in the process - and tilted his head, trying to see the slope of the mountain beneath them the way Charlie did.
A moment later he gave up, with a smile at his own foolishness. "What do you see, when you look from here? You were telling me something about the math of mountains yesterday, weren't you?"
Charlie shifted slightly. "Listening very well, weren't you." he said, but his tone was more amused than anything else.
Ian took that as his cue. "To be honest, at the time, I was more interested by the fact that you were keeping up with me going up the mountain and managing to rattle off all those facts and equations at the same time." he admitted.
Charlie hummed noncommittally.
"I'm listening now?" Ian offered, sliding his arms fully around Charlie.
~Fin~
I've updated this one way out of order - it's the most recent that I've written, for the current week's challenge - but only because of it's possible sequel-ness, so. . . Back to the regular order of things next update.