[It's not fair. It's not fair, it's not fair it's not fair. A year after Gene arrives, Tony shows up and starts throwing his entire life into even more turmoil. And Gene had thought he was over him, especially after that fight. But they kept coming together, they kept testing the boundaries, and Stark kept doing weird little things like leaving a hand on his back to comfort him and brushing the sand out of his hair. How could that not remind him that he still wanted Tony? How could that not give him blissfully false hope that maybe Tony still wanted him too?
It's been two years since Gene's been this close to Tony, to anyone, and he can't believe how much he's missed it. He lets out a brief, surprised noise when Tony nibbles his lip and tenses when Tony grasps his hair, but then he relaxes into it, one hand still pressed to Tony's chest, the other slipping down Tony's side to secure itself on his waist.
He wants this. He wants this and he wants more and he nearly has to pinch himself to be sure this isn't just some cruel dream. While he's loath to admit it, he's been pining after Tony for years on some level or another, drowning it first in anger about the betrayal and then, in Keeliai, resignation that it would never come to be again. Now that it's happening, he almost can't believe it.
It won't last. He knows it won't last; it never does.
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It's been two years since Gene's been this close to Tony, to anyone, and he can't believe how much he's missed it. He lets out a brief, surprised noise when Tony nibbles his lip and tenses when Tony grasps his hair, but then he relaxes into it, one hand still pressed to Tony's chest, the other slipping down Tony's side to secure itself on his waist.
He wants this. He wants this and he wants more and he nearly has to pinch himself to be sure this isn't just some cruel dream. While he's loath to admit it, he's been pining after Tony for years on some level or another, drowning it first in anger about the betrayal and then, in Keeliai, resignation that it would never come to be again. Now that it's happening, he almost can't believe it.
It won't last. He knows it won't last; it never does.
But what the hell. As long as they're here, as long as they want each other, they're going to make it last.]