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  1. Public Bookmark 31

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    “Besides which, I think it’s somewhere in the fine print on being boyfriends. As you’re my first, I may have to refer back to the designated powers and duties, now and then. I haven’t learnt them by heart yet.”

    Alex is quiet for a moment and when he speaks his voice is softer, more thoughtful. “I think we get to draw those up ourselves. The position of boyfriend and the officially designated powers and duties therein.”

    “Oh,” Henry says. “Well. I’ve never gotten to declare my own powers before. Constitutional monarchy and all that.”

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    21 Oct 2023

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    Henry Fox was going to marry Alex Claremont-Diaz.

    This is one truly objective fact. It is not something that Henry believes, but something that he knows in his heart.

    Or: 5 times Henry thinks about proposals, marriage and Alex, and the one time he acts on it (and Alex beats him to it.)

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    17 Oct 2023

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    Alex bounces on the balls of his feet, ready to step in and wrap Henry in his arms, call him baby a million times, anything to take the hurt out of his eyes.

    And then his mom surprises him, just a little. "Oh, honey. Come here."

    Alex watches as his mother wraps her arms snugly around Henry -- Alex knows that hug, knows that Henry will be powerless to do anything other than hold her back. Henry's arms do wrap around her, and for just a moment, he tucks his forehead into Ellen's shoulder. A breath shudders out of him and his shoulders look like they curl in on themselves as he inhales again, shaky and watery.

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    24 Sep 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 82

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    Even after thirty-odd years of being together (twenty-five of those married) Henry still has to drag Alex away from his desk and up to bed. Even just a few days after routine surgery Alex can't help himself.

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    24 Sep 2023

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    Henry is pushing his arms through the woolen sleeves of a peacoat. He faces Alex and there’s no softness left in his features. He’s genuinely angry this time. None of the endeared exhaustion of his antics Alex is so used to seeing from him. None of the fondness that always plays hide and seek in his eyes when he looks at Alex. Henry looks blank and placid. His press face, edged with a hint of venom.

    And Alex has seen versions of this face. He’s seen a calmer facade of it, one that had boarded a plane back to England by the time Alex woke up.

    There’s something cold settling in Alex’s stomach. A kind of panic crawling up his throat. There’s ice dancing at his fingertips, but his hands are sweating, and oh God, Henry’s leaving again.

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    Or, Alex and Henry get into a fight. Henry tries to leave, Alex needs him to stay. So he does.

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    24 Sep 2023