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“Thanks for letting me stay here, Shorter,” Ash says. His voice is hoarse, still, but ... different, now. It’s breathier, and almost sounds whiny. “Let me make it up to you, yeah?”
And maybe it says something about Ash—or what he’s been through—that he drops to his knees without so much as a kiss.
Ash wants to convince Shorter to let him stay the night. Shorter doesn't need convincing.
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19 Oct 2026
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It’s just past three in the morning, and someone is knocking on the restaurants back door, Shorter realizes, blinking blearily at the clock, sitting on the surface of the beat-up old chest of drawers he uses as a nightstand.
Who the fuck was knocking on the door to a restaurant at three in the morning?
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19 Oct 2026
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Sharp green eyes stare back at Eiji. Only for a moment, and then those eyes close shut, face relaxed. Completely and perfectly asleep. Except the hair on the back of Eiji's neck has stiffened— that same feeling Eiji learned to listen to when he was nineteen because it means something isn’t right (before he even learned just how things can go so terribly wrong). Ash is asleep, to anyone else, but Eiji knows what his husband looks like actually tired from a long day, and this smaller, stiffer version is certainly not the same man that fell in bed with him last night.
A man... this looks like a child.
Or, a 30-year-old Ash is swapped out with a 15-year-old Ash, and Eiji's just along for the bumpy ride.
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18 Oct 2026
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“You won’t hurt me,” he insists, remembering to keep his voice breathy. Needy. “You can’t hurt me.
“Ash!” Eiji scolds lightly. “I don’t just want to ‘not hurt you.’ I want you to feel good, too.”
The word slips from his lips before he can stop it. “Why?”
Ash tries to give Eiji everything—more than he's able.
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18 Oct 2026
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"But even amid the haze of relaxation and warmth, one thought comes through with uncomfortable clarity. How much longer is Eiji going to keep this up? How much longer will he treat Ash with affection and kindness before his patience finally runs out and his touch turns cruel and demanding? Ash knows violence, so intimately that he can rarely be bothered to mourn for his own suffering anymore. But when it’s Eiji, when he imagines Eiji’s hands as the ones bruising him, something deep within him cries out in protest. It’s only a matter of time before the inevitable--Ash knows this--but he wishes it weren’t. He wishes he could live in this bliss, this gentleness, forever. He wishes that, just this once, there could be a different ending to this story.
But there never is. Ash would stake his life on it."
Ash knows touch well. Too well. But then he meets Eiji, and suddenly something about it is different than before.
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