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I just wanna cuddle ya
They were comfortable, settled, right there in each others arms where they belonged.
In their new home, in their new life, all of it more than they could have ever wished for.
“May…”
“Yeah, sweetheart?”
“Have you ever thought about you know…?”
Mayday raised his head to look at Crosshair having paused mid sentence or thought. The former sniper suddenly talkative though being a surprise for Mayday.
As the both of them having laid there, exhausted after having survived several most mind blowing orgasms mere moments ago. And certainly talking wasn’t an option at this point. But Mayday always humoured Crosshair, no matter sleepy or not.
“Wot?”
“I dunno.”
“You don’t know what you’re asking or, what, you were just making conversation?”
“Well, I do, know… kinda?”
“So, and, what???”
Sometimes, it was like pulling teeth, getting things out of Crosshair.
“Us, I guess?”
They had spent the several months in this, rather blissful existence. Ever since arriving to Pabu. The two having been tightly knit together, joined at the hip as the Batchers had teased Crosshair for.
But that they had come to Pabu where Crosshair’s family lived?
Well, that was something of a fluke truly. As as soon after escaping the Outpost together with Mayday’s team and the other clones stationed there, they had managed to get in touch with the Clone Underground and things having moved along from there.
And so, here the two were, in their own happily ever after.
“Us?”
“Yeah, us, the two of us. You know what I mean, don’t you, May?”
Crosshair suddenly being in need of validation it seemed. Of the us of the two of them.
“Hmm.”
Mayday sounded thoughtful but he felt more like smirking. Crosshair certainly having his hangups that much Mayday had realised by now. Alas, he did not care. At all. As Mayday would take Crosshair with all that he was, warts and all.
Besides, hadn’t Mayday just stated, nay shouted out quite loudly for anyone in close proximity to hear he loved Crosshair? Granted, in the heat of passion. But it did not make those words mean any less. As Mayday was totally and deeply in love with Crosshair no doubts, ifs or buts about it.
“You really have to think about it that hard?”
“Not hard, heh. Not anymore.” Mayday chuckled, the puns all there.
“Funny!”
“Heh, yup! But, lemme think.”
“I thought you did.”
“So, tell me Cross my love, how many times have I declared my utter and total devotion to you during the time we’ve been together?”
It was Crosshairs time to think, not that he needed to really. Each one of those times etched deep into his memory.
“Many.”
“And you have said it back… how many times?”
Mayday really loved to make Crosshair squirm, but in a good way.
“Well, I have…”
Crosshair really had. But being not the most expressive man in the galaxy, not as often as Mayday. Realising he really should say it more often.
“I remember.”
“Well, I have.”
“Not arguing. So what can you deduce from that fact alone.”
“That you think about us. About me.”
“Yeah. And that would also mean, that I love ya Cross.“
“I know.”
Mayday stared wickedly at Cross, the words he too needed to hear still unspoken by Crosshair, despite his own need for assurances of the same.
“And?”
“And I love you too, May. That’s why I asked. You know, to be sure you still cared.”
“So you were worried then?”
“Well… a little.”
Mayday turned to Crosshair fully, drawing him against himself, holding him impossibly tight. Their eyes locking as they lay there, side by side.
“After everything… you still think I don’t want to spend the rest of our lives together?”
Crosshair blinked once, twice. The confirmation to his ever lingering doubts pretty much there.
“I… no.”
He cuddled in deeper to the warmth of Mayday’s.
It felt good, to be held, to be loved. Crosshair feeling perhaps choked when he spoke again.
“I love you May.”
“I love you too, Cross.”
They remained like that for a long moment happily and contently in each others arms until sleep claimed them both. The soft spoken words of love lingering long in both their minds, invading their dreams, something which had become more happy as well.