Prompt 25: Sunset
Lewis and Wilbur did a lot of things to pass the time during their visits. Video games, movies, walks at night. Sometimes Wilbur would be content with just watching his lover work at his desk, scribbling away at his notebooks.
But Wilbur's favorite thing to do was watch the sunset. Although he'd never admit it. Lewis knew anyway of course, and he thought it was incredibly adorable. But this also went unsaid, for Lewis valued Wilbur being in a good mood.
It had been Wilbur who came up with the idea of using the time machine to make the sunset last longer. The two had snuggled up underneath a fleece blanket in the vehicle on a cold January evening, and with Wilbur backtracking time for every ten minutes that passed, they were there for a little over three hours. To some, Wilbur thought, staring at the same thing for that long might be boring. Or maybe even that it would lose its beauty.
But he believed otherwise. He could've stayed there for hours more, into the night. It only became more beautiful with every minute that passed, every minute that was turned around again. With him and Lewis in the cloaked time machine, it seemed as though that sunset was for their eyes only. It shone all of those radiant shades of orange and red solely for them. So that they could sit so contently underneath the warm blanket, their hands clasped, with Lewis' head on Wilbur's shoulder.
So they could bask in the glow of what little time they had left, and for once, not have to think about it.