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Parrot sighs softly in his sleep.
He brushes a hand through the other avain's hair and tucks a stray strand of hair behind his ear before he gives him a considering look.
Pretty. That's one of the only words that he can use to describe him right now as he looks at him.
The pale slant of his neck, the freckles that paint his cheeks, how sharp his features are, the small scar on his thin lips and the colour of his wings—a vibrant green—only seem to heighten the attractiveness of his being. Perhaps Billy is putting too much thought in such small details but he finds himself…charmed.
There's a prettiness to him that he can't deny.
Really, it almost makes him forget how much of a…pain in the ass the younger bird is with how innocent he looks right now. How… sweet looking he appears to be in the bed.
Parrot shifts in his sleep and Billy absentmindedly pulls the cover closer to them, hearing a soft trill escape the other that has him press a kiss to his forehead. It's only a peck, but the pause he takes after doing it has something settle in his stomach.
It's a domestic gesture.
If he was anyone else, he's sure it would be called sweet but for an avian like him? A sigh escapes his lips.
He should get out of the bed and, he glances at the morning light peaking in from the window, take a look around the area before the younger man wakes up. It would be a good idea to deal with any possible issues that could potentially rise from them being here while the other slumbers and it…lets him get away for a bit to think.
Maybe even get some information on where Theo is as well. He knows his student was here awhile ago.
Perhaps he could find someone that might know where a safe house of his is…maybe even bring Parrot along later—
He shakes himself from that thought.
Thinking the way he is now is unbecoming of him as The Butcher.
Another sigh escapes him.
Billy should get out of bed and find the clothes that he scattered last night when he and Parrot fell into each other for a few hours. He thinks he's starting to feel his back sting after the younger man raked his nails over it while they made—while they fucked.
That's all they did.
Such a simple, animalistic act of lust between them. It's not like they haven't done it beforehand when one is feeling in the mood of something like…
Connection.
He's really giving this more thought then he should be.
They fucked and it meant nothing, was always going to mean nothing between them so he shouldn't keep thinking on some sickly sweet idea of making love—
"Bro, if you think any harder, I fear a vein might pop."
Billy blinks and surprise flutters over his usually stoic features before he smooths them out, tilting his head away to look at the window as Parrot stares at him.
He's still running his fingers through the other man's hair, he realises, and Parrot leans into it.
It's…sweet.
"My patience with you might pop," he should stop caressing his hair. "Brat."
That word earns him Parrot sticking his tongue out like a complete child and the other's piercing clearly on display for him.
The brat even wiggled it at him for good measure.
He still can't bring himself to stop from caressing the others short hair.
"I may be a brat, but you know what you are?" Parrot huffs at him and brings himself closer, or as close as he can since he's now practically laying on Billy's other arm, effectively trapping him. "Wanna know?"
He shouldn't raise to the bait.
The younger man is just being a brat right now.
"What am I then?" He asks.
"A bitch," He opens his mouth to counter him before the avian continues on. "and I guess handsome."
Oh.
That's…well.
"Feeling romantic, are we?" he hums out as Parrot pouts at him. "What? You're just getting a little bit too sentimental now."
Billy tries to ignore how a warmth settles in his stomach.
It's just a fucking comment.
But it does make him look back at the other hybrid.
Doesn't mean anything special when he's heard it a thousand times beforehand from others.
It doesn't matter that it came from Parrot.
"Well," the other bats his pretty eyelashes at him and he has to grind down the urge to trill at the act. "You were feeling pretty romantic last time—pretty birdy right? Called me that the entire time we did it and then cleaned me all up when I got angsty after it—"
"You're bitchier in bed if I don't do it," He starts.
"I didn't ask you to do it," his jaw clicks with how fast he closes it after he said it and the other rubs little circles into his arm with his fingers. A too soft gesture for their likes. "And I usually do it, but you've been so sweet to me lately. Always doing it for me before I get a chance too."
Billy… has been doing that a lot more, hasn't he? He barely even realised until now that every time since they left Merchant City he's been…
Sweeter.
To Parrot.
"Yeah," he doesn't know what else to say other then that. "I gotta…"
His heartbeat picks up with the look the other gives him and he needs to turn away from that… that tender expression on his face because its just so…
So weak.
He's not weak.
The strong overcome the weak and something like this—whatever this is—is weak. They're meant to be a means to the end for the other and not—
Not this.
"I'm gonna take a look around," he pushes Parrot back and the other gives a trill in confusion at his action. "Get a layout of the area so we don't get caught by Lettuce and his little gang now."
His skin feels scalding from where the other touched him as he gets out of the bed and tries to, as much as he can, to act nonchalant as he changes into his clothes.
Billy can feel Parrots gaze on him.
It makes a shiver run down his spine as he turns back to look at him and the other man just looks at him from the bed, his wings now covering him a bit to hide.
He's thankful that the avian isn't showing him anything on his face—that its just blank. Billy isn't sure what he would do if Parrot show any other emotion.
It's sickening.
He's sickening to let this weakness through.
"I'll be back soon," he manages to get out. "It's still early so you might as well sleep a bit more while you can."
The other gives him a slight nod and he sighs, relieved, as he turns to leave him.
Getting away for a couple of hours should…clear his head a bit.
As he opens the door to the inn hallway he can hear Parrot call out to him and he freezes.
"Be careful then, mate."
He's never left a room faster.