Apt #14, MHA, Tuesday Morning
Apr. 18th, 2023 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The children had been sent back to their real parents, safe and sound. After which Steven and Llewellyn went back home to clean up the detritus that had accumulated over a three day weekend with little ones. Amazing how much of it there could be considering there were no toys or other child specific things. But snacks, reading books, drawing pictures, playing tag, building a blanket fort - it all added up.
There'd been no real plans for the day. Normally Steven and Llewellyn did their own things on Mondays, but the children had taken priority. Likewise normally Tuesday was Marc's day, with him getting up early to go to the gym. But once the children were gone Steven felt an ache at their lack that, while no where near the pain Marc would have felt at being around their presence, was still enough that Steven asked Llewellyn to stay the night and be there in the morning.
Which was why come Tuesday morning Steven was in bed with his beau, awake far earlier than he usually was but that was also because he'd slept very little to begin with thanks to all the thoughts and feelings running through him.
Llewellyn hadn't gotten much sleep either. Whether from his own emotions about having children over the weekend or from Steven not getting much rest Steven wasn't sure. Regardless they'd both been quiet, most likely both with the urge to let the other rest even if they couldn't.
Thus there was Steven Tuesday morning, staring up at the ceiling again, and debating if he should risk getting up and putting the kettle on for tea or if he should keep still on the odd chance Llewellyn wasn't awake right now.
[for the beau]
There'd been no real plans for the day. Normally Steven and Llewellyn did their own things on Mondays, but the children had taken priority. Likewise normally Tuesday was Marc's day, with him getting up early to go to the gym. But once the children were gone Steven felt an ache at their lack that, while no where near the pain Marc would have felt at being around their presence, was still enough that Steven asked Llewellyn to stay the night and be there in the morning.
Which was why come Tuesday morning Steven was in bed with his beau, awake far earlier than he usually was but that was also because he'd slept very little to begin with thanks to all the thoughts and feelings running through him.
Llewellyn hadn't gotten much sleep either. Whether from his own emotions about having children over the weekend or from Steven not getting much rest Steven wasn't sure. Regardless they'd both been quiet, most likely both with the urge to let the other rest even if they couldn't.
Thus there was Steven Tuesday morning, staring up at the ceiling again, and debating if he should risk getting up and putting the kettle on for tea or if he should keep still on the odd chance Llewellyn wasn't awake right now.
[for the beau]
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Date: 2023-04-18 06:53 am (UTC)That sigh, though, was not the sigh of someone who was at all asleep.
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Date: 2023-04-18 06:56 am (UTC)Being awake and wanting to talk were two entirely different things, however, so Steven didn't say anything in case Llewellyn still wanted quiet.
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Date: 2023-04-18 07:04 am (UTC)Not that Watts knew the right words to break the silence. Instead, the hand that had been sprawled across Steven’s chest started lazily drawing random patterns across his beau’s skin.
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Date: 2023-04-18 01:24 pm (UTC)"I am," Steven said. "You can keep the bed warm for when I get back."
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Date: 2023-04-18 05:16 pm (UTC)Even if that would make it hard to drink tea.
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Date: 2023-04-18 05:53 pm (UTC)He got out of bed and put a shirt on to match the sweats he was already wearing. From there he went to the kitchen and took care of getting cups of tea ready for him and Llewellyn both.
While he waited for the kettle to boil, he got Raphael's food and fresh water ready. "Are you enjoying the quiet or missing them as well?" Steven asked the cat, not really expecting a reply. After he put the bowls down he said, "I'll leave the bedroom door open for you if you'd like to join us."
Once the tea was ready Steven thought about it, then put the mugs on a tray as well as a plate with a couple of muffins leftover from buying food to keep handy for little ones who could get hungry faster than you knew it. He brought all that back into the bedroom. He would have announced himself but he didn't know if Llewellyn might have dozed off while he was gone, so he kept quiet just in case.
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Date: 2023-04-18 06:37 pm (UTC)Well, it could, briefly, but that would be messy. And then cold once again.
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Date: 2023-04-18 06:51 pm (UTC)"Hello, you."
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