Green Thumbs
Their apartment was surrounded by river water and concrete. Dorian tromped around the perimeter on a sunny day off and came back inside.
"Are you patrolling?" John teased. "Is this the changing of the guard?" He snorted at his own joke from the couch where he was sprawled.
Dorian smiled at him and sat down on the end of the couch on top of John's legs because he refused to move them. The human pulled himself free, losing one sock in the process. "You have no yard, no land for growing things."
"It's by design," John informed, "I don't have a green thumb."
The android raised his eyebrows and looked down at his thumbs curiously. He waved the comment away, and said, "I want a vegetable garden."
"I want a million dollars," John quipped back.
Dorian smiled at him and patted his naked foot. "I will build a box on the porch for growing."
"No way," John said, folding his arms over his chest.
Dorian didn't look phased by the dismissal, "Don't worry there will still be room for all the many, many activities you do out there." In all of his time knowing and living with John, the android had never once witnessed the human spending any sustained amount of time on his deck.
"One must ask," John said, stabbing at Dorian's ribs with his big toe, "why you, an android who does not eat, needs to build a vegetable garden."
Dorian seized John's foot in his hand and kissed his big toe, then massaged the warm, fleshy extremity, rotating his thumbs deep into the pads. John closed his eyes and melted against the touch. Dorian was very pleased with this response and continued the motion with brio.
"Oh, fuck," John said, turning so Dorian had a better angle on his foot, purring like an old cat as the android's firm hands rubbed up his calf and massaged the top of his leg with deft hands. "Build a garden, I don't care. Grow lettuce and carrots and peas and lemons, and nuts, and bolts, and oh shit, Dee. Anything else you damn want."
"Thank you, John," Dorian said, working his way up John's thigh with his big hands. John's breath sped up. "I will."