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    The first few times are an accident —no matter how many times Pez insists that it’s not.

    It’s not Henry’s fault that he’s never really had to cook for himself. After years of watching his father cook for him as a child, Henry had wrongfully imagined that the matter would be quite easy— when it was, in fact, not.

    Proven by the fire brigade bursting down his door every now and then.

    In which Henry is trying to learn how to cook, and every terrible attempt amuses the sexy firefighter who saves him from burning down the entire building very much.

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    Henry watches Alex, the man he adores and loves so ardently, and the moment is palpable, delicate, and yet too large for even the sky to contain.

    He watches Alex, and in that moment, he wants to be his husband, the ache and urge of it almost unbearable.

    “Daddy!” Nena takes Henry’s hands, and he looks down at her, the angel who had saved him, and he smiles at her, quiet with emotion, letting her lead him into place.

    He would follow her, follow Alex, anywhere.

     

    (Henry, Alex, and their daughter, and the first years of coming home, forever.)

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    04 Jul 2024

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    04 Jul 2024

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    “She truly is your daughter, Alex,” Henry sighs, defeated.

    “Fuck off, sweetheart,” he laughs, a soundbite of the sun. Henry forces himself not to physically react, the term of endearment sweet and menacingly familiar coming from Alex’s lips. It’s been years. “You know they’re useful.”

    “Ah yes, eyelashes, truly a formidable instrument in managing international relations.”

    Alex grins, and Henry is too late to catch the slightest downward lilt on the corner of his mouth, “Worked on you once, didn’t it?”

    Oh, did that ache.

     

    (Much had happened since the time Henry had told Alex to leave. Alex had passed the bar, gotten married, had the most beautiful daughter. And Henry, well. He stayed right where he was.)

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    04 Jul 2024

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    “It sounds like the Alex I grew up with,” Henry tells him. He pauses, thinking if he can say it, but he holds on to the light, and tries, “The one only I got to see.”

    And Alex doesn’t leave him any room for doubt, telling him, “That Alex will always be yours.”

    Henry closes his eyes, chin quivering in the wake of new tears, grateful and pained, and even all these years later, still quietly in love.

     

    (In which Henry and Alex were children, growing up together, and Henry had always loved him, a little, a lot. And then they weren’t children anymore, and everything changed, and the memories are haunting, all-consuming, and divine.)

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