[ Daryl loves the way he shivers, decides quickly that he likes having another way to make Gabe feel good, and Daryl groans behind his ear and touches him in the rough-but-teasing way he himself likes to be touched - on the very rare occasions that someone has been there to do it for him. Every time Gabe rocks back Daryl surges forward, making the other man work to keep any space between himself and the wall, cursing hot under his breath as he leaves a wet trail of precum on the small of Gabe's back.
And then suddenly Daryl has let go of him and pulled away to yank Gabe's pants down to his ankles, kneeling as he does so. ]
Get outta these. Now.
[ But Daryl is growing impatient and the moment Gabe has stepped one foot out of the tangled trap of denim he yanks his hips back so Gabe has to double over if he wants to keep his hands on the wall like he was told. ]
[ It's rough, it's got that edge that Gabe craves every goddamn time he lets a man back him into a wall and handle him. Every time he lets it swing toward sex and not violence. He drags his nails against the wall and hisses, bowing his head. He keeps his palms flat against the wall, like he was told. Like Daryl wanted. And he shivers, hard and wanting, and bares his teeth at nothing. Or everything. It's one of those moments.
He liked the feel of Daryl's hands on him, dragging down his sides, and especially on his dick. And he likes them on his hips now, the feel of his calluses catching against the scars there. ]
[ He knows he has the magic to blame, at least in part, for his own mouth. For the things he finds himself staying to - and commanding of - Gabe. It's giving Daryl the urge and then taking away any filter he'd usually have in place to stop it.
So he doesn't stop himself from spanking Gabe in response to his little challenge, sharp and reprimanding. He pauses to spread him open with his palms, squeezing a little too hard. ]
We'll see.
[ Daryl's tongue is more confident than the first time. He never forgets what he's learned once he's learned it and he remembers exactly what Gabe likes - intensity. Roughness.
[ Yeah, he remembers this. Gabe bows his head and bites off a hiss, shivering all over as Daryl spreads him with his hands - rough, callused, fuck - and licks him. Just commits. Just goes for it.
Fuck, that's hot. That's never once failed to get him going. Gabe groans, digging his nails into the wall, and doesn't fucking move. He wants to touch himself, but he doesn't. He holds. ]
[ He likes making Gabe swear and shiver. He likes it even more when Gabe keeps doing as he's told and keeps his hands flat on the wall. Prone. It makes Daryl want to try and see what would break him and he redoubles his efforts, dragging his rough chin across him and finally pulling away to tease him with the tip of his thumb. ]
Tell me.
[ It's only half of a command that he growls out because he's too turned on to think the sentence through. He knows exactly what's in the nightstand of the bed he's barely slept in and he reaches without looking for the drawer and for the lube he'd found there that he'd never thought he'd have occasion to use.
Now, feverish, the thought doesn't stall him like it normally would. ]
Tell me to do it.
[ He warms up the lube in his palms before reaching around and stroking Gabe a few times with a slick fist, sliding the thumb of his other hand halfway inside him at the same time. ]
[ It comes out rough. Earlier, Gabe thought a fair amount of dying. About what it might feel like to have his tech cook inside his skull. How long it would take, what the damage would wreck before it finally dropped him. A bad death, on top of all the rest. And maybe he'd deserve that for all the evil shit he's done, like karma. Survival has a cost. The captain liked to say that. She'd talk about life being an endurance sport. She was always a bit morbid like that, but she wasn't wrong.
The thoughts slip away. Gabe whines, digging his nails into the wall, and shivers all over. There's nothing but this now.
Good. ]
Fuck me.
[ He shivers again, fucking into Daryl's hand. Wanting it rough, wanting to stop thinking so goddamn hard. And it's easier now, with the physical so close at hand. The way it crashes over him, the way that Daryl commits without the slightest sense of hesitation. There's nothing but this. ]
[ Daryl surges to his feet at the command, letting Gabe work his hips on his hand but only for a few hungry seconds - only until the second command hits home. It sizzles like lightning, that familiar request, even though Daryl had never expected to hear it again. He pulls his thumb out of Gabe and immediately, with only a couple of stuttering strokes of his cock to slick himself up, replaces the lack as he pushes inside of him all at once. Measured but without quarter.
The sensation of sinking into him like that overcomes Daryl's senses and he lets out a short, hoarse gasp against the back of Gabe's neck. He rocks him forward farther instead of pulling out to thrust, forcing him closer to the wall while both of Daryl's hands find their anchor on Gabe's hips to hold him in place. He drags Gabe's body off of him as much as he pulls himself out and the tip nearly escapes him before Daryl rocks back into him with abandon, pinning Gabe fast against the wall. ]
You--
[ He grunts between words as he fucks him, hard and relentlessly deep. It's a punishing pace from the start but 'slow, slow' is still playing endlessly in Daryl's mind. He wants to do this right. ]
[ Oh, fuck. Gabe nearly yells at the shift, adrenaline surging as Daryl gets to his feet and gets to work. And for all that Daryl seems to hesitate or stumble over things when they talk about it afterward - and that's a quaint thing, talking about it afterwards - there's no hesitation now. No stumbling, no second-guessing. Gabe always liked that in a man. And he likes how Daryl pins him against the wall so there's nothing to do but take it. No space to think, to get lost. No time to get caught on the sharp edges when all he's got the breath to do is react.
Fuck, yeah.
Gabe moans, bowing his head. Loudly, shamelessly. Why the fuck not? His hands tremble but Daryl's hands feel good on his hips. Catching against scars, holding him steady for it. An anchor. He's hard enough to break rocks and there's nothing to do but ride the wave until the end. And what a fucking ride. ]
[ Daryl chases those sounds, wants to capture that unabashed moan somehow and he finds himself sucking a mark onto Gabe's throat to make up for the impossibility. He's been given an order, been told what to do. Even without the influence of magic Daryl has never had trouble applying himself to directions. Now, it's all that matters to him in the world. For now.
His hands slide from hips to waist to chest and Daryl holds Gabe still like that, enveloping him, arching into him and sucking mean, demanding kisses from his throat to the back of his neck to his shoulders. A growl, a pleased threat, rumbles in his chest like it might in a big cat. By the time Daryl's hands drag down Gabe's arms and then brace against the wall beside Gabe's splayed hands, all the better for leverage, he doesn't even realize what he's doing.
When he first hooks his thumbs with Gabe's fingers, it's an accident. But then he laces them tighter doesn't let go. ]
[ Back when hey first met, Gabe didn't have a great sense of what Daryl looked like. None of the details, anyway. Just his general shape, the fact that his hair's longer. That he's got calluses on his hands. Nothing that would mark a man in a crowd, none of the details that Gabe used to take pride in memorizing. His whole world used to be wrapped up in his sight. What he could pull from the details, untangled from the larger picture. It felt like the world ended when he went blind.
It didn't. It just shifted. And he adapted. And he knows what Daryl looks like now. The angles of his face, the feel of his chest pressed against Gabe's back, the valleys and plains of his scars. How it feels when Daryl fucks him into the wall, his hands dragging against Gabe's arms and the lines of scar tissue and tattoo ink there. And then the angle when Daryl braces against the wall to fuck him harder, and deeper, and how it feels when Daryl laces their fingers. That little squeeze, another point of connection.
Gabe shivers, pressing his forehead against the wall. There's nothing to do but take it, ride it. Adrenaline spiking, the world narrowing to just this. Nothing but this. He moans, rocking back against Daryl as much as he can. Matching the rhythm. ]
[ As usual, particularly in a state like this, Daryl doesn't have to be told to do something twice. He lets out a pleased grunt of a laugh against Gabe's shoulder and turns to sink his teeth into the juncture at the base of the other's neck. He does it hard and holds him there, just like the first time he'd bitten him but this time he doesn't have fangs to dig into him with, he doesn't have the unhinged feral instinct, and so Daryl doesn't draw blood.
But it's close.
He feels the reaction ripple through Gabe and his jaws clench harder, his grip as punishing as his thrusts that are getting away from him by now and Daryl suddenly has to pull back. He lets go of Gabe's neck at the same time as he drops his hands and steps back to pull all the way out of him. Daryl shudders at the loss. His chest is still heaving and he swallows, concentrating hard and trying not to come for a few seconds until the danger has passed. ]
Shit. [ He swallows, determined. ] Turn around.
[ He doesn't wait for compliance. He'd almost finished too quickly and there's something else he was supposed to do. Something he'd promised. He turns Gabe around with rough hands on his arms and waist and then, without waiting or warning him, lifts him up a few feet and pins him against the wall. ]
[ It doesn't draw blood but the bite echoes through the whole of him like an electric shock. Gabe gasps, his nails scraping against the wall. For a moment, there are no words. There's nothing but the adrenaline, his blood kicked up and Daryl fucking him like they're the first bastards to think of it. There'll be a mark, Gabe thinks vaguely. Something he'll be able to touch, to trace with his fingers. Something to remember.
And then Daryl stops. Gabe gasps again, his chest heaving, too breathless to curse at him and demand he get back to it. Fuck.
Fucking hell.
He turns, his back pressed to the wall, and then -
Oh. Well, then. Gabe's grin goes wide. ]
You're fucking strong.
[ That's fun. That's real fun. He loops an arm around Daryl's neck and then shifts to wrap his legs around him tight. ]
[ That grin. He isn't ready for it and it makes his stomach clench low enough that Daryl throbs. He can't help people much here. He can't protect them from what this place throws at them, from the torture they can't predict. Nobody needs Daryl like they needed him back home.
But making Gabe smile like that hits him harder than he was expecting.
Then those legs lock around him and take some of the weight from his arms and Daryl reaches down with one hand to angle himself and lower Gabe until he's sliding back inside as though he'd never left.
It's a little easier to keep control of himself like this, he has more he has to concentrate on, but none the less, Daryl knows he's on the clock. The angle is a little shallower but being face to face, feeling Gabe grinding against him as they move together, it has him on the edge. He doesn't know if he's allowed to go for a kiss so he buries his face in Gabe's collarbone instead, gasping and letting out grunts of effort as he fucks him. ]
My n-name.
[ Even with his mind a frantic, scrambling blank, the urge to find a command to give comes back to him. ]
[ Oh, oh. Gabe whines as Daryl slides back home, fucking him against the wall like there's nothing else but this. No bullshit magic, no Hell, just the two of them. Just this moment and how it feels to lose his goddamn mind with Daryl's arms around him, Daryl's cock in him. The angle's different but oh, fuck, Gabe can rub off against Daryl like this and he knows it won't take long. Not with how it feels, with the sounds Daryl's making. Gabe shifts to get a grip of Daryl's hair, holding tight. Holding himself steady as he falls apart. ]
Fuck. Fuck. Fucking shit -
[ It comes out in three different languages, all of it cursing. Gabe gasps, jerking against him, and - ]
[ Gabe's fingers curl into his hair and Daryl is dragged straight to the edge by the grip, hovering noisily on the verge of losing control and listening intently to Gabe disintegrating in multiple languages until the other man finally says his name. And Daryl lets go with a roar of triumph.
Fuck! Yeah.
[ The grip he has on Gabe gets impossibly tight as he tries not to let his knees give out but he comes so hard he can't see, his ears ring, and one foot slips while he rides it out and tries to keep giving Gabe what he needs. He doesn't know how he manages it but he thinks dully, while sparks are still firing through him, that it could be something to do with the hand in his hair and his name being yelled in that voice.
He's still gasping when he bites Gabe again. He doesn't do it as hard as the last time but he sinks his teeth into the softest part of the other's throat, just behind his ear, and lets him know how much he'd appreciated the obedience. Even as his knees finally start to give. ]
[ Goddamn. Gabe thumps his head back against the wall, shivering through the after-echoes. He feels the press of Daryl's teeth against his throat, right below his ear, and sighs. The warm feeling spreads through him, everything going slack and still. For a moment, even his racing mind steadies itself. His thoughts slow a trickle.
For a moment, it's something like peace. Then Daryl's stance shifts and Gabe twitches, running a hand through Daryl's hair. Cupping the back of his neck. ]
[ He's careful to pull out of Gabe before he moves, but that's the last thing Daryl can think coherently about for a good few seconds. It seems harder for him to force his arms to let go than it is to just turn, so Daryl takes a couple of unsteady steps over to the bed so he can let Gabe down gently and collapse next to him at the same time. His arms feel weightless once he's let go of him. His legs feel like wood.
The rest of him is completely depleted and he just lies there on one elbow, catching his breath. ]
You okay?
[ He means a lot of things at once - did I hurt you, was it good - but mostly he just wants to hear that Gabe's head isn't on fire. That whatever has been happening isn't still fucking happening. ]
[ One of these days, it'll stop throwing Gabe when people are careful with him. Back home, most of his hookups were rough and quick. Toss in some friendly banter, go break a headboard or two, thoroughly scandalize the neighbors, and then he'd up and leave. One and done. And then of course there was Jackie, popping in and out of Gabe's life like a wayward cat. Slinking in low and graceful like he knew he'd be welcome and Gabe, like a moron, let him close every goddamn time. How many times can you get cut by a man and still not see it coming?
Enough, as it turns out. Too goddamn many. This should have been more of the same. Funny thing was, even the first time they collided wasn't quite that simple. They stayed together in the aftermath, down in the grass. Not for long - not for long at all, on balance - but it was something. There was -
Trust, Gabe thinks, even if it was small and tentative. They could have fucked each other up. Would've been easy. Expected, even. And they didn't.
Funny, that. And here, Daryl just picks him up and sets him down, back on the mattress. Gentle.
Gabe breathes out slow. He aches, but it's a good ache. He reaches a hand back to tap at the ports in his neck, trying to feel for the heat. For that awful, twisting pressure.
Nothing. ]
Yeah.
[ He closes his eyes and just breathes out. After a moment, he shifts to bump his hand against Daryl's arm. Gentle. ]
[ He watches Gabe check his ports, curious as always but never prying, watching only because he knows Gabe can't see him doing so. He's always careful not to touch them, was careful not to kiss them this time, and Daryl nods with obvious relief at the news.
Good. That's good. He feels like he managed to actually help someone for once and that cuts off the creeping fingers of guilt he'd felt coming on, suggesting that he'd somehow taken advantage of the situation.
He knows Hell made it happen. More or less. He tries to remind himself not to give the place a double win by feeling guilty about it, too.
When Gabe nudges him, Daryl flops onto his back and reaches out to put his hand on Gabe's hip. Just rests it there. ]
Hmm? Oh.
[ He has to close his eyes and think for a couple of seconds. ]
[ Be nice if his tech came back online, but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen. At least he's not going to die of brain damage, so. Yay. Gabe drops his hand with a sigh and just flops on the mattress. He's aching all over and he can feel cum leaking out of him, but he doesn't give enough of a fuck to move just yet.
Besides. It's nice like this. Calm. He hums to himself, considering the request, and his sudden lack of interest in carrying it out. ]
[ Daryl chuckles at that - just closes his eyes and laughs quietly at the ceiling and it feels something like a release. Like a break in the storm. He sighs, breath finally coming slow and even again. He's starting to feel his own nakedness but he doesn't want to sit up. ]
Good. I ain't really into music.
[ He knows most people don't get it, but even music had been a luxury that Daryl hadn't had around him much in his early life. His first life. In his second life, after he met his family during the end of the world, it had been practically alien. A liability or an annoyance. ]
[ Gabe breathes out slow, coming back to himself. Taking stock of his body, the press of Daryl's hand against his hip. It's nice, he thinks. The ache in the aftermath. How it's settled him. He can feel the bite marks throbbing against his skin and that's nice, too. A little reminder for later. Something he'll carry. Keep for himself. ]
[ It's said idly. He bumps his hand against Daryl's, tracing his fingers along the edge of the scar along his hip. Jackie left him that one. It healed crooked. Hasn't faded yet. ]
And we can do that. But you don't have anything? Nothing you do when things are quiet?
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And then suddenly Daryl has let go of him and pulled away to yank Gabe's pants down to his ankles, kneeling as he does so. ]
Get outta these. Now.
[ But Daryl is growing impatient and the moment Gabe has stepped one foot out of the tangled trap of denim he yanks his hips back so Gabe has to double over if he wants to keep his hands on the wall like he was told. ]
Fuck... Lookit you.
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He liked the feel of Daryl's hands on him, dragging down his sides, and especially on his dick. And he likes them on his hips now, the feel of his calluses catching against the scars there. ]
You better do more than look.
[ He grins, his head bowed. ]
I'm not gonna break.
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Yessir.
[ He knows he has the magic to blame, at least in part, for his own mouth. For the things he finds himself staying to - and commanding of - Gabe. It's giving Daryl the urge and then taking away any filter he'd usually have in place to stop it.
So he doesn't stop himself from spanking Gabe in response to his little challenge, sharp and reprimanding. He pauses to spread him open with his palms, squeezing a little too hard. ]
We'll see.
[ Daryl's tongue is more confident than the first time. He never forgets what he's learned once he's learned it and he remembers exactly what Gabe likes - intensity. Roughness.
But as promised, he starts slow. ]
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[ Yeah, he remembers this. Gabe bows his head and bites off a hiss, shivering all over as Daryl spreads him with his hands - rough, callused, fuck - and licks him. Just commits. Just goes for it.
Fuck, that's hot. That's never once failed to get him going. Gabe groans, digging his nails into the wall, and doesn't fucking move. He wants to touch himself, but he doesn't. He holds. ]
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Tell me.
[ It's only half of a command that he growls out because he's too turned on to think the sentence through. He knows exactly what's in the nightstand of the bed he's barely slept in and he reaches without looking for the drawer and for the lube he'd found there that he'd never thought he'd have occasion to use.
Now, feverish, the thought doesn't stall him like it normally would. ]
Tell me to do it.
[ He warms up the lube in his palms before reaching around and stroking Gabe a few times with a slick fist, sliding the thumb of his other hand halfway inside him at the same time. ]
I like it when you talk.
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[ It comes out rough. Earlier, Gabe thought a fair amount of dying. About what it might feel like to have his tech cook inside his skull. How long it would take, what the damage would wreck before it finally dropped him. A bad death, on top of all the rest. And maybe he'd deserve that for all the evil shit he's done, like karma. Survival has a cost. The captain liked to say that. She'd talk about life being an endurance sport. She was always a bit morbid like that, but she wasn't wrong.
The thoughts slip away. Gabe whines, digging his nails into the wall, and shivers all over. There's nothing but this now.
Good. ]
Fuck me.
[ He shivers again, fucking into Daryl's hand. Wanting it rough, wanting to stop thinking so goddamn hard. And it's easier now, with the physical so close at hand. The way it crashes over him, the way that Daryl commits without the slightest sense of hesitation. There's nothing but this. ]
Make me feel it.
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The sensation of sinking into him like that overcomes Daryl's senses and he lets out a short, hoarse gasp against the back of Gabe's neck. He rocks him forward farther instead of pulling out to thrust, forcing him closer to the wall while both of Daryl's hands find their anchor on Gabe's hips to hold him in place. He drags Gabe's body off of him as much as he pulls himself out and the tip nearly escapes him before Daryl rocks back into him with abandon, pinning Gabe fast against the wall. ]
You--
[ He grunts between words as he fucks him, hard and relentlessly deep. It's a punishing pace from the start but 'slow, slow' is still playing endlessly in Daryl's mind. He wants to do this right. ]
Uhnng-- you f-feel it? Huh?
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Fuck, yeah.
Gabe moans, bowing his head. Loudly, shamelessly. Why the fuck not? His hands tremble but Daryl's hands feel good on his hips. Catching against scars, holding him steady for it. An anchor. He's hard enough to break rocks and there's nothing to do but ride the wave until the end. And what a fucking ride. ]
Haaa - yeah. Yeah, I - feel it.
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His hands slide from hips to waist to chest and Daryl holds Gabe still like that, enveloping him, arching into him and sucking mean, demanding kisses from his throat to the back of his neck to his shoulders. A growl, a pleased threat, rumbles in his chest like it might in a big cat. By the time Daryl's hands drag down Gabe's arms and then brace against the wall beside Gabe's splayed hands, all the better for leverage, he doesn't even realize what he's doing.
When he first hooks his thumbs with Gabe's fingers, it's an accident. But then he laces them tighter doesn't let go. ]
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It didn't. It just shifted. And he adapted. And he knows what Daryl looks like now. The angles of his face, the feel of his chest pressed against Gabe's back, the valleys and plains of his scars. How it feels when Daryl fucks him into the wall, his hands dragging against Gabe's arms and the lines of scar tissue and tattoo ink there. And then the angle when Daryl braces against the wall to fuck him harder, and deeper, and how it feels when Daryl laces their fingers. That little squeeze, another point of connection.
Gabe shivers, pressing his forehead against the wall. There's nothing to do but take it, ride it. Adrenaline spiking, the world narrowing to just this. Nothing but this. He moans, rocking back against Daryl as much as he can. Matching the rhythm. ]
Bite me.
[ It comes out hoarse. ]
Now.
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But it's close.
He feels the reaction ripple through Gabe and his jaws clench harder, his grip as punishing as his thrusts that are getting away from him by now and Daryl suddenly has to pull back. He lets go of Gabe's neck at the same time as he drops his hands and steps back to pull all the way out of him. Daryl shudders at the loss. His chest is still heaving and he swallows, concentrating hard and trying not to come for a few seconds until the danger has passed. ]
Shit. [ He swallows, determined. ] Turn around.
[ He doesn't wait for compliance. He'd almost finished too quickly and there's something else he was supposed to do. Something he'd promised. He turns Gabe around with rough hands on his arms and waist and then, without waiting or warning him, lifts him up a few feet and pins him against the wall. ]
Legs around me. Right?
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And then Daryl stops. Gabe gasps again, his chest heaving, too breathless to curse at him and demand he get back to it. Fuck.
Fucking hell.
He turns, his back pressed to the wall, and then -
Oh. Well, then. Gabe's grin goes wide. ]
You're fucking strong.
[ That's fun. That's real fun. He loops an arm around Daryl's neck and then shifts to wrap his legs around him tight. ]
Do it.
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But making Gabe smile like that hits him harder than he was expecting.
Then those legs lock around him and take some of the weight from his arms and Daryl reaches down with one hand to angle himself and lower Gabe until he's sliding back inside as though he'd never left.
It's a little easier to keep control of himself like this, he has more he has to concentrate on, but none the less, Daryl knows he's on the clock. The angle is a little shallower but being face to face, feeling Gabe grinding against him as they move together, it has him on the edge. He doesn't know if he's allowed to go for a kiss so he buries his face in Gabe's collarbone instead, gasping and letting out grunts of effort as he fucks him. ]
My n-name.
[ Even with his mind a frantic, scrambling blank, the urge to find a command to give comes back to him. ]
Say it. Wh-when you come.
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Fuck. Fuck. Fucking shit -
[ It comes out in three different languages, all of it cursing. Gabe gasps, jerking against him, and - ]
Daryl.
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Fuck! Yeah.
[ The grip he has on Gabe gets impossibly tight as he tries not to let his knees give out but he comes so hard he can't see, his ears ring, and one foot slips while he rides it out and tries to keep giving Gabe what he needs. He doesn't know how he manages it but he thinks dully, while sparks are still firing through him, that it could be something to do with the hand in his hair and his name being yelled in that voice.
He's still gasping when he bites Gabe again. He doesn't do it as hard as the last time but he sinks his teeth into the softest part of the other's throat, just behind his ear, and lets him know how much he'd appreciated the obedience. Even as his knees finally start to give. ]
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For a moment, it's something like peace. Then Daryl's stance shifts and Gabe twitches, running a hand through Daryl's hair. Cupping the back of his neck. ]
Easy. Let me down.
[ It comes out soft, still breathless. ]
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The rest of him is completely depleted and he just lies there on one elbow, catching his breath. ]
You okay?
[ He means a lot of things at once - did I hurt you, was it good - but mostly he just wants to hear that Gabe's head isn't on fire. That whatever has been happening isn't still fucking happening. ]
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Enough, as it turns out. Too goddamn many. This should have been more of the same. Funny thing was, even the first time they collided wasn't quite that simple. They stayed together in the aftermath, down in the grass. Not for long - not for long at all, on balance - but it was something. There was -
Trust, Gabe thinks, even if it was small and tentative. They could have fucked each other up. Would've been easy. Expected, even. And they didn't.
Funny, that. And here, Daryl just picks him up and sets him down, back on the mattress. Gentle.
Gabe breathes out slow. He aches, but it's a good ache. He reaches a hand back to tap at the ports in his neck, trying to feel for the heat. For that awful, twisting pressure.
Nothing. ]
Yeah.
[ He closes his eyes and just breathes out. After a moment, he shifts to bump his hand against Daryl's arm. Gentle. ]
Think it's stopped. Tell me to do something.
[ A test. Just to make sure. ]
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Good. That's good. He feels like he managed to actually help someone for once and that cuts off the creeping fingers of guilt he'd felt coming on, suggesting that he'd somehow taken advantage of the situation.
He knows Hell made it happen. More or less. He tries to remind himself not to give the place a double win by feeling guilty about it, too.
When Gabe nudges him, Daryl flops onto his back and reaches out to put his hand on Gabe's hip. Just rests it there. ]
Hmm? Oh.
[ He has to close his eyes and think for a couple of seconds. ]
Sing me a song.
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Besides. It's nice like this. Calm. He hums to himself, considering the request, and his sudden lack of interest in carrying it out. ]
I can't sing. At all.
[ He snorts. ]
Guess you're lucky it's worn off. It's bad.
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Good. I ain't really into music.
[ He knows most people don't get it, but even music had been a luxury that Daryl hadn't had around him much in his early life. His first life. In his second life, after he met his family during the end of the world, it had been practically alien. A liability or an annoyance. ]
Ain't really into anythin', I guess.
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[ Gabe breathes out slow, coming back to himself. Taking stock of his body, the press of Daryl's hand against his hip. It's nice, he thinks. The ache in the aftermath. How it's settled him. He can feel the bite marks throbbing against his skin and that's nice, too. A little reminder for later. Something he'll carry. Keep for himself. ]
Everybody's got their thing. C'mon, try me.
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You promised to show me some comic books, once.
[ He sounds slightly amused by the memory, even if the night of dancing had been something he'd been trying to forget as a whole. ]
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I did.
[ It's said idly. He bumps his hand against Daryl's, tracing his fingers along the edge of the scar along his hip. Jackie left him that one. It healed crooked. Hasn't faded yet. ]
And we can do that. But you don't have anything? Nothing you do when things are quiet?
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He shrugs again, this time because he's a little self-conscious. He doesn't notice that he does it. ]
Back home, I'd just find somethin' that needed doin'. There was always somethin'.
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