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For all that J has always had to be the one to urge S to be pragmatic and serious, he's the one who's driven entirely by his feelings and desires, by a mind he knows is warped and wrong without knowing all of why or how. It's hard to want things so badly and not to be able to trust that, or to trust the wrong thing, the wrong need. Finding a middle ground feels all but impossible sometimes, and he ends up pulled back and forth by a constantly contorting sense of logic — ruled by reason without knowing if it's actually madness, ruled by his heart while ignoring the things he loves.

Right now, in this moment, he feels sure of what he wants. There are doubts, there are fears, there's always a shadow cast over every damn thing he does, but he's sure of this much, at least. If he can't be steady, if he can't be fully certain of his own self, he can be sure of S. While that scares him a little, feeling himself trying to lean for support on the same person he tried to push away, the same person he tried to kill, it also feels like one of the more sensible things he's done in a long time. Judging by his willingness to take J back, S isn't all that much saner than he is, but he's a hell of a lot more trustworthy.

And he's sweet, and he's loving, and every brush of his lips, every place his body presses into J's, rings out with that. And maybe J isn't ready for this, because he's been through a lot today and he's worn out and emotional, and just being kissed like he's the most precious person ever to exist almost makes him feel like he might cry again. He knows he doesn't deserve this. It isn't the first time he's rushed blindly, though, into things he knows he shouldn't do or have.

"We," he breathes out, "we should —" He doesn't know. He isn't sure. He means to stop kissing S for a moment, but ends up kissing him elsewhere instead, lips trailing along his jaw, his cheek. "I don't know." Stop, his brain supplies, and slow down. Be careful. Instead he lifts his head again for another kiss.

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There's something comforting about letting himself get swept away by need. It's better still like this, with someone he loves so damn much, fondness warm in his chest as he looks up at S. He's gorgeous, he always has been, but there's so much more to it than that. He is, without question, the sweetest, most thoughtful, most caring person J has ever known, maybe the only person who's ever really made him feel loved or worthwhile. It isn't fair for one person to be so attractive and clever and kind and talented, and it certainly isn't fair that he'd want to be with someone like J, but right now, J feels too needy to question it. Right or not, they both want this. There's no point in not having it. Why should he hold out on giving S what he wants so badly just because he himself is the one who's undeserving?

And it's nice to hear S like this, such a change from earlier. He almost says simply You know I do, because S should know that by now when he's told him so a thousand times, but it's been so long. Even with the two of them like this, how can he make any assumptions? He huffs softly and nods. "Always have," he says. S may be playful about it, but he's utterly sincere in return. "You're the most beautiful person I've ever seen in my life." It's strange, in the middle of how horrible he's felt today, and for months, to think suddenly how lucky he is. He is, though. This is more than he should ever have been allowed, never mind been able to have.

With another soft kiss, this time to S's hip, he smiles. It's starting to feel a little more natural to do so, less stiff. "And like this..." Love and lust go so readily in hand when it comes to how he feels about S. He runs the pad of his thumb over S's rim, gentle but firm enough not to be too much of a tease. "So pretty for me."

The response is a more serious one than S is expecting, and though he's short of breath already, it still knocks the air from his lungs for a moment. It isn't the first time — not even the first time today — that J has called him beautiful, but it means something all the same. Mostly, he hasn't thought much about that sort of thing, J's opinion on the matter the only one he really cares about anyway. But those words are weighty, might be a little moving, actually, if he let them be, if only because it's been so damn long. Months of J pushing him away were followed by months of grieving J, and he can't dwell on that for too long right now, not without bringing the mood down too much, but it still makes being here now, having J want him so much, mean even more.

Exhaling unsteadily, he glances back over his shoulder again as best he can. He can't get much of a view of J like this, but he still wants to see him, though it isn't as if he needs to be assured of J's presence with the way he speaks and touches him, S's breath catching audibly and stomach lurching with want at the press of his thumb. It's hardly anything yet and maddening for it, and S knows that must be the point. With as much time has passed since he's been touched by anyone, though — since whenever he was last with J, which feels impossibly far off now — he feels everything that much more acutely, his senses all heightened, his need overwhelming.

"I could," he starts, a belated response, but one he wants to get out even so. "I could say the same to you." Harder to hold back is the impulse to ask for more, but that much, he at least knows will be coming. Even if J doesn't believe it about himself, though, S has always found him beautiful. The least he can do is make sure J knows that he thinks so.

It's almost cute, actually, the way S looks over his shoulder, eyes dark and heavy-lidded but still somehow so sweet. Maybe it's just because he's already so desperate that everything seems wildly attractive right now, but it only makes J want him more. He's not expecting the compliment returned. While it's far from the first time S has said something to that effect, it strikes harder now than he would have anticipated. It shouldn't be possible for S to say such a thing and mean it, but he does; J knows he does, trusts him entirely, at least right now, at least about this.

"You should get out more," he says wryly, reaching for the lotion again. Its consistency really isn't meant for this kind of thing, but he'll take what he can get. From the way S's breath hitched when J touched him, he's pretty sure they're on the same page about that much. "Or don't," he adds after a moment, drizzling lotion directly over S's hole, then his fingers. His sheets are going to be a mess, but that was a given. "Don't want you seeing someone more attractive and changing your mind." He's just playing, really, tone light, but he's just this side of blurting out that he wants S to be his. It's a strange thing not to be able to say. He just doesn't feel like he's earned that yet, even if he's already made it clear, even if he thinks they both know that. Even if S would agree.

Finger circling S's rim, he leans forward to brush another kiss against his hip, one to his back, sighing into his skin. At this point, he feels like he's teasing himself as much as S, heart in his throat with how badly he's aching for anything. Instead, he tries to stay focused on S, slowly, carefully easing a finger into him — just a little, just enough to let S know what's coming, and then more, biting his lip to stifle a moan. It won't be enough for S for long, probably already isn't, but, as he works his finger in and almost out again and again, it's hard not to think about what's still ahead and how good he's going to feel. "Okay?"

Joking or not, the very idea strikes S as phenomenally absurd. Even if he weren't half-naked, on his hands and knees, having made expressly clear that he wants J to fuck him, that would be the case; all of those things just make it even more so. Despite already having a hard time catching his breath, he can't help the short laugh J's words prompt from him, one that quickly gives way to a bitten-off moan at the first press of J's finger. Just for a moment, it's almost, almost too much, but having to make do with only what he had in the apartment already, he expected that to be the case. Right now, just to be touched like this by J again, it's more than worth it, his instinctive tension already beginning to ease.

"Okay," he confirms, his head dropping forward again as he nods. The motion is a slight, unsteady one, but his voice is, he thinks, sure enough that J will know he means it. Although he wouldn't want to have to stop things now, fearing the turn the mood might take if he did, he would if he had to, if there was too much discomfort or if he changed his mind. It wouldn't be fair to either of them to do otherwise. Besides, the more J touches him, the better it feels. Once, it would have been familiar; now, it's practically new again, except there are no hands in the world S loves as much as those, hungry for more even as he knows they shouldn't rush this.

Not pushing ahead too far, too fast gives him a chance to collect himself enough to say what he meant to before, too, not wanting to let this go unsaid, either, despite the lightness with which J spoke. "I wouldn't," S says, soft and fervent, a little tremulous. "Change my mind. Never." Even if he couldn't do this after all, he would still say the same, certain that no one could ever come close to J in his eyes. As with so much else, he thinks that if that were going to change, it already would have by now. It's only ever been J for him, in every possible way.

Admittedly, J is confused for just a moment, at once so focused and distracted that he only halfway processes what's being said. When it sinks in, he nearly stops what he's doing — not because he doesn't want to or thinks S doesn't, just because it's still overwhelming to hear. Just being here like this is proof enough that S loves him, maybe more than J ever would have thought someone could love a person before he knew S. Every time he reaffirms it, though, J still finds himself awestruck, moved in a way he'd be hard-pressed to put into words or music.

"Neither would I," he murmurs. He thought he had — thought, at least, that he could or that, barring that, he wouldn't need anyone anyway. The last day has made it abundantly clear that he was delusional ever to believe that. "Never."

In and out he moves until he feels S start to adjust. Long though it may have been, his body remembers the cues he wouldn't be able to name in words. "Good," he says, free hand moving to hold onto S's thigh, as much to touch him as to help keep him steady. It helps, too, to keep him from touching himself at the same time. He doesn't want to risk getting carried away or bringing himself too close; it's been long enough that he's not sure how long he'll last as it is. "So good. Do you want another? Or not yet? There's no hurry. Just want you to feel good."

And while he'd like to accomplish that by undoing S entirely, bringing him pleasure until it's almost too much, that means pacing themslves.

Part of S thinks he should know that already, at least with what the two of them have already said today. The words cut deep even so, would make his breath hitch if his breathing weren't already unsteady. All those months J wasn't taking his calls or talking to him, he never really gave up hope that there was still something between them — he would have stopped calling otherwise — but those months of distance instilled some doubt in him all the same. So did the knife in his chest, in the time before he acquired J's notebook, though that really isn't something he intends to be considering for very long right now. It just makes it mean that much more to hear J say something like that now, and to believe that he means it. None of it changes what happened in the past and what they'll still have to contend with, but it does, at least, make the little spark of hope that they can make this work burn a little brighter. With this kind of love, and to have made it here, now, in spite of everything, S doesn't see how they couldn't.

If it also seems like it runs the risk of being a strangely emotional conversation to have while J is fingering him, he figures it's still not the strangest thing to happen this afternoon. It's worth it, anyway, all of it, to be able to feel this good again, both wanted and loved after being on his own for so long.

"Yeah," he says after giving it a moment's thought, gauging how he feels, not wanting to be too rushed or reckless about it, not least because he doesn't think J could bear to hurt him even inadvertently. There's an odd sort of comfort in that thought, too, as if it serves a reminder to himself of just how much he really does trust J, even now. "I do. Want another. Feels good." It's fragmented, probably not entirely coherent, but he thinks that J will understand.

J can't say he doesn't enjoy the view, but this position leaves something to be desired. He wants, right now, to kiss S and shower him with love. There was a time when he was good at that, he knows he was. Maybe he can learn to be again. If he can't undo the past, he can at least try to fix the future.

He settles for kissing S's hip for now, not wanting to stop what he's doing yet. S sounds too good for that, shaky in a good way; the little pause he takes before he answers helps, too, reassuring J once again that this is right. So, so much else is still wrong, but right here on this bed, for a little while, it doesn't have to matter.

"Yeah?" he asks, letting his teeth graze lightly against S's thigh. S sounds sure enough, if somewhat gone already, both of which J takes as a good sign. He's careful, though, working a second finger in alongside the first, crooking them slightly as he pushes in and out. He's always wished his fingers were longer, first for the piano and then for this, the better to play both with, but right now it's for the best. He doesn't want S to come like this, and it makes it easier to keep teasing him, even as J starts moving his fingers a little harder, a little faster. "Still so tight. You sure you're gonna be able to take me?" He has no doubt of S's answer, but he still likes to hear it.

In spite of what they're already doing, S gasps when he feels J's teeth against his thigh, as much for the surprise of it as how it feels. It's still a bit strange, being able to see so little this way, not knowing what J is doing until he does it. But it's good, all of it, and maybe it's because he already feels so desperate or maybe because it's been so long, but he thinks anything that would enable them to have this is worth it. Besides, he tells himself again, they have time. Later he can climb into J's lap again, kiss him until they can't breathe, run his hands all over the stunning body that he once knew so well, and a host of other things that he's temporarily put aside for how much he wants this, now. It still isn't enough, even as it takes him a few moments to adjust again, even as he feels the pace of J's fingers start to change, but then, he always has loved J's hands, too. Now is no exception. S feels certain, probably nonsensically, that no one else would ever have been able to touch him half as well, and he wouldn't have it any other way.

"I'm sure," he says, groaning slightly at the way J sounds and the promise in his words, his eyes closing tight before he speaks again. "I missed that. You touching me, you inside me." He missed a hell of a lot more than that, too, but none of that is worth getting into right now, and half-dazed as he might sound, it's still true. "Keep going."

S doesn't really know how else to say it — that the way J's fingers move is so good, that getting more just makes him want more, as much as he can get, for J to make him utterly fall apart.

With every little sound S makes, every gasp and pant that punches out of him, the rest of the world fades a little further away. Someday J's going to have to figure out how to tell him all the things that filter through the haze now, lust helping to keep everything else out. He'll have to tell him how important he is, how beautiful, how loved, how sorry J is to have made him doubt it. How sometimes it feels like S drives him completely insane, and sometimes it feels like he's the only thing keeping J from slipping back into madness. How he never thought anyone could really love him, not truly, until S gave him that and more.

And he knows he hasn't deserved it. Even before the last few months, even before he left, he could be a shitty boyfriend, he knows that. He knew it then, too. Knowing isn't enough. But, god, how he wants to deserve it, to be even somewhat worthy of the love and trust S gives him.

Maybe that isn't possible anymore. But he's worth the effort. Someday J will figure out how to tell him that, too. Right now, though, words alone are enough to send a shudder through him, unable to help thinking ahead. "Missed this," he agrees. "You. Being inside you, god, I want it." He's almost dizzy with it, hungry, a hint of a whine in his voice and too eager to be bothered by that. Scissoring his fingers, he carefully adds a third. "Tasting you. I want that later, too." It's probably greedy to talk about later at all, but he doesn't care. He can't see much of S's face from here, but he watches him all the same, working him open, trying not to let impatience get the better of him. "I want anything," he admits. "Everything."

It's good, so good, at once too much and not enough in a way that's maddening and incredible. The stretch of a third finger, and maybe a little bit what J is saying, too, pulls a sound from him that's somewhere between a whine and a moan, all pleasure, any discomfort temporary and fading quickly, and worthwhile anyway for what he gets from it. J feels as good as he ever did, better, maybe, for how long it's been and how impossible this should be; his hands are as intoxicating as the prospect of later, leaving S dizzy and still breathless, overwhelmed, really, but in the best way possible. As much as he missed J, and even missed this specifically, though it hasn't exactly been on his mind of late, he'd forgotten just how good it felt to be touched, wanted, like this.

Then again, he's not sure it was ever really quite like this, either, not coming on the heels of so much time apart and so many awful things besides. He won't think about that much now, but it does occur to him distantly that at least if they had to go through all of that, they get to have this now.

"Me too," he says, choked and desperate and too far gone to try to hide that fact, though his cheeks burn hot again, self-consciousness filtering through desire. "Anything." It sounds pathetic, or he'd think it would if J hadn't just said the same. S wants him to know, though, how utterly he's J's, and wants J to take what's his. He can't quite find the words to say that, either, at least not in any way that would make sense, but it's there all the same, a pulsing constant in his mind and his racing heart. He's always belonged to J in some way, and though S isn't the one who left, all he wants is to be able to come home.

When he said it himself, J felt as if it might be too much, too desperate. From S, though, it's exquisite. If anything, it's that it is so desperate that makes it so perfect; his voice is ragged, and the way he moans rings out in J's head, and he wants more of that. It's getting increasingly difficult to stay patient. The last thing he wants to do, though, is rush and end up hurting S in the process, at least in any way he wouldn't enjoy.

Though judging by the way S reacts to his touch, maybe J won't need to be so patient for too much longer. Three fingers should be enough, and he's already adjusting. "Doing so well," he says. He wants to ask S if he thinks he's ready, but he's not sure S wouldn't just agree. He's usually pretty good about thinking these things through, but J's just cognizant enough to know that neither of them are at their most coherent or wise. Though, to be fair, he's pretty sure no one should expect him to be either of those things within hours of having died in a fire he set.

He should probably be alarmed by how quickly he's able to push that thought aside now, but love and sex are powerful motivators, and S is both in one. "How do you want me, darling?" he asks, and it strikes him as silly to blush over using such a simple endearment, but it's been a long time since he used any sweet pet names for S at all. There was a time when the endearments came so easily and the dirty talk had to be learned, like all the rest of it, the two of them fumbling but enjoying every moment of figuring it out. He liked it better later, when both were so natural; it's odd for it to be reversed like this. "You want me like this, on your hands and knees? Or do you wanna ride me?" Both have their appeal for him. More importantly, though, both keep him from leaning over top of S. As much as he badly wants to, it's not worth trying yet. He's not sure he'd be able to handle it himself anyway, and he doesn't want to take any chances.

It's probably ridiculous, to be so flustered by a pet name. No, it's definitely ridiculous, S thinks, that hearing J call him darling feels so painfully intimate when he's got three of J's fingers inside him, but it's true all the same, making his thoughts short-circuit before he can try to formulate a response. On one hand, he can see how it sort of makes sense. Sex is just sex. Except it's never been just sex with J, and he's never had it with anyone else, so, really, that logic doesn't hold up either. Maybe it's just how long it's been, and how frayed things were at the end. Although even now, they're still all bound up in one another, being wanted physically is an easier thing to process than being wanted emotionally, even with everything that's already been said today. This speaks to something they haven't been in a long time, something he's not even sure they ever expressly decided to be again. He wants that, though, and he likes hearing it, something heady and addictive just in hearing J sound so sweet, maybe especially for what it's juxtaposed with.

Considering the question lets him mask his surprise a little, at least, and it isn't something he wants to rush into answering, anyway. "Like this," he settles on, stealing another glance over his shoulder in J's direction, though he can't see him well enough to try to gauge his reaction. As nice as it would be to be able to look at J, touch him, kiss him, he can do all of those things after. Mostly, though, he's just sort of relieved, if not entirely surprised, that J doesn't suggest being on top of him. S wants that, he does, but it has too much potential for one or both of them to react poorly. That isn't a chance he's willing to take just yet, not when they both want this so badly already. At some point, later, they can try it and see how it goes, but when this could far too easily break, it isn't the time.

"Please. If you want." It's a little contradictory, maybe a little nonsensical, but it feels right to add anyway — a sign of how badly he wants this and a way to make sure J does, too. His own desires aren't the only ones that matter here.

There is, he's pretty sure, very, very little S could ask for right now that he wouldn't be willing to give. There are promises he can't make or keep, but there's almost nothing he wouldn't do, and certainly nothing he can think of that S would want. This is easy to give him, to do just as he asks, all the more so for how sweetly he tacks if you want onto the end, always so considerate of J, like J isn't having to put in an effort to breathe normally and not touch himself for how badly he wants S. Position is next to meaningless right now.

"Please," he echoes, and he's pretty sure his voice actually shakes a little with how badly he wants exactly that. He's been half sitting the last few minutes, but he shifts onto his knees now, a little better able to see S from this angle. That's the downside of doing it this way, really, not getting to see him or kiss him during. They can make up for the kissing after, but he's always loved watching S during sex; he's beautiful like that, transported by pleasure, and, selfishly, J likes knowing it's because of him. "I want, very much."

That means he has to stop fingering S first, though. He slows his pace, giving S a moment before he carefully eases his fingers out of him. It's disappointing in the moment, he knows, but he'll make up for it soon. First, though, he crawls further up the bed until he can press his forehead to S's before kissing him on the lips, hunger tempered only by the awkward angle. "I love you," he murmurs, stealing another quick kiss. He has every intention of absolutely ruining S in a moment, but that makes it feel all the more important to make it clear how much he loves him. "You ready?"

More than, J knows — both of them are — but he still wants to check in, dropping a kiss to S's shoulder.

Necessary and expected though it is, S still can't quite manage to hold back a disappointed whine when J withdraws his fingers, already missing the contact, aching for more. He knows it will be worth it before very long at all, but at least for a moment, it's maddening not to be touched anymore. It pays off sooner than he would have thought, though, when J moves up the bed to kiss him, something S very much did not see coming. Brief as it is and strange as the angle is, it's so sweet that it sets his heart pounding all over again, his mouth curving into a faint, breathless smile as he tilts his head, trying to chase after that kiss just a little. He doesn't get very far, of course, but it's an impulse he can't restrain, or at least doesn't see the need in bothering to do so. They've kissed more times than he can count, and they've even spent plenty of time kissing today, in between bouts of crying and S trying to explain this place, but much like that term of endearment, it means something, albeit a bit strangely, for J to delay fucking him for a few moments to come kiss him instead.

"I love you, too," he says with a slight nod, soft and earnest despite how half-wrecked he already sounds. "I'm ready." He thinks that ought to be self-explanatory; in a less immediate and less specific way, he thinks he's been ready for this since J first walked out another lifetime ago. For so long, S just wanted him back. Having J here now, hearing him say that he loves him, it feels incredible every time he stops to think about it, in this case providing a fleeting distraction from just how desperate he is. "I'm ready."

It's nice, really, that J stops to ask. Somewhere in the back of his head, he appreciates that, too, even with as obvious as the answer must be. It isn't that S would have expected otherwise, exactly. With as long as it's been, it's just that all of this is sort of like new again, and even half out of his head with desire, he wants to take in and savor all of it, not least how loving J is after all this time apart.

No one should get to be so many good things at once. S is. How he manages it, J doesn't know, but he's everything all in one — intensely attractive, disheveled, desperate, the whine that rises out of him utterly gorgeous; and yet, at the same time, something so endearing in the way he leans in after J, the sweetness in his expression. Swept up in the moment as he is, J can't help the way his heart aches, bittersweet, longing to be better. Even now, he knows it's absolutely absurd to think to himself that he wants to take care of S. He's done it in the past, but there are more than a few reasons S has been the one taking care of him for so long, whether or not J wanted it. But he wants it.

If nothing else, he can do this part, though. With one more quick kiss, he slips away, wriggling awkwardly out of the last of the clothing S loaned him. At least, he hopes he can get this part right. He's out of practice, but these things seem to come back to him pretty readily. Kneeling behind S, he strokes himself a few times, just to take some of the edge off. Even biting his lip, he can't suppress the needy moan that pulls out of him, but that's fine. Somehow that makes him less self-conscious than the endearments and confessions, not least because he knows S will like hearing him.

"So ready," he groans, reaching blindly for the lotion. He fumbles a little, hand shaking more than he expected when he finds it again. The lotion is a little cooler than he'd like as he preps himself, and he's not sure it's really going to be as helpful as they hoped, but it's hard to care too much about that when S looks so fucking inviting. He presses close, rocking his hips, so S can feel how hard he is now, his dick rubbing against S without coming anywhere close to entering him.

Even having just said that he wanted this, even wanting it still, S thinks again that it's a little strange not to be able to see J or what he's doing. There's a sort of thrill in that, too, in not knowing, in trusting J that much. Still, for just a moment, waiting for what comes next and hearing the way J moans, S wishes he had a better view. Later, he tells himself once more, remembering how good J sounded saying so a moment ago, too. They have time; it's not like they only get to do this once, no matter how surreal it still seems if he thinks about it too much. He might not know what will happen after this, and he does know that it won't all be this warm, safe haze of love and lust all tangled together and keeping everything else at bay, but whatever they're facing, he believes that they can at least face it together, and that's incredible all on its own, far more than he had any reason to believe they would ever have again.

The same is true of this, too, S's breath catching when he feels J press against him, his head instinctively turning back again, though it still doesn't do much good. "You're so hard," he says, low and approving, like he had any reason to expect otherwise, like he isn't, too, like it hasn't taken all the restraint he can manage not to start touching himself, held back mostly by the need to keep himself upright. Resisting that impulse is all the more difficult when he's still waiting for more, for what he knows they both want, but at least being able to feel J like this, he doesn't think he'll be waiting for much longer.

He almost, almost parrots J's words from earlier back to him, almost asks if J still wants him this badly, but S thinks better of it. Considering how quickly everything fell apart after that, it isn't worth invoking that moment. Besides, he can feel it for himself, even if that's a little surreal in its own right after having been pushed away for so long. "Want you so bad," he says instead, obvious though he knows that is.

For just a moment, J finds himself anxious again. It's stupid, he knows it is, to be nervous when they've done this so many times. He's out of practice, though, and he wants so badly to do well, to make this not just good enough but good. It's the sound of S's voice that pulls him out of it. He takes a moment just to look at him, the arch of his back, ready and waiting. "I know," he says, a hint of wonder mixed in with the need. It doesn't make sense, but who cares? Reason can wait.

He can't, not any longer. Steadying a hand against S's hip, he takes himself in hand with a quiet hiss, slowly, carefully easing into S, a little at a time. They both need that, he's pretty sure. Even being partly inside S after so long is overwhelming, but all that does is making J want more, barely restraining himself from slamming into him. "So good," he groans, breath hitching, both hands at S's hips as he settles inside of him. As tempting as it is to start moving immediately, he wants to give S time to adjust. Himself, too, really, letting himself acclimate to the way S feels around him. "You feel so good, fuck, so tight."

He had it in the back of his head that he wanted to wreck S, just absolutely ruin him, fuck him until he turned into a desperate mess, but now he's not so sure he's not going to be the ruined one, a needy whine rising out of his throat as he tries to keep his hips still. It's been too long since they had this — not just the physical intimacy, but the emotional, too, the way it feels to be buried deep inside of S, his heart skipping beats from both lust and love. "Can I — please —"

Even being ready for it, even with J so carefully, so torturously taking his time with it, S still feels all the air get knocked from his lungs, a shaky whimper spilling out of him before he can try to hold it back. He probably wouldn't be able to, anyway. J hasn't even started to move yet — or maybe in part because he hasn't started to move yet — but it's overwhelming, almost too much and still not enough all at once, making him tremble as he waits, as J settles. It's good, he knows, to have a chance to adjust, for any immediate discomfort to start to give way as he gets used to how it feels to have J inside him again. The pause, the stillness, they're good for the both of them; they just also make S feel like he can't breathe, one moment interminably drawn out, still so wonderfully impossible to get to have at all.

His mind gone all but blank, he hears J speak but barely processes any of it. That last word, though, please, cuts through the haze, lands like the sweetest of blows. S can only guess at what he's asking, though he thinks he has has a pretty good idea, but he also doubts that there's much of anything that he would say no to right now anyway. Instead, he nods, frantic and feverish, desperate for more, for whatever J will give him. "Yes," he says, gasps, really, shaky but determined to get at least that much out. There seems to be no possible way by now for J not to know how badly he wants this, but after everything, he doesn't want to leave any room for doubt. "Fuck, yes, please."

Still, or perhaps especially now, he doesn't know quite how to say just what he wants from J. Somehow, though, hearing that needy edge in his voice, he half-suspects that J might already know.

J sighs, actually sighs, in relief when S agrees. His head is already swimming, everything pleasantly hazy, as he starts to move, everything about this vaguely surreal. Distantly, he knows that, not very long ago at all, he was in terrible pain, feeling the worst he's ever felt. Even knowing he'd finished the sonata, the satisfaction of doing so didn't outweigh everything else, and it didn't lessen the physical shock of the pain in his arm and the blood loss. He's not entirely sure how he got to this point from there, but it's hard to care when he feels so fucking good.

He only half-hears himself, for that matter, soft moans and gasps spilling from him with every thrust. He's still taking his time — not slow, not drawing it out, exactly, but not fast either, not yet, and not quite as deep as he'd like. He wants to make sure S is comfortable, first and foremost, and maybe, too — no, definitely — he wants to hear how much S wants this, wants to hear him beg and plead. That, and he doesn't want to go too fast and come too soon. They've waited too long to end this so quickly.

Gripping S's hip with one hand, he lets the other roam, smoothing over his ass, up along his back, down to his waist. "So good," he says, breath shallow and shaky. He doesn't know now if he just forgot how incredible this felt or if it's just a matter of how long it's been since they slept together, but S is so tight, so hot, around him, it makes him dizzy. "You're so good, darling. Fuck, I missed being inside you like this." From back here, he can only catch a bit of S's profile, and it's really not enough, but he's still so devastatingly beautiful even in glimpses.

Most of the time they were apart, S didn't let himself think much about this. It didn't always work — he meant what he said earlier, that he always thought of J, too — but when he already felt half-crazy for missing J, unable to move on, unable to write, unable to stop worrying, it wasn't worth torturing himself. All of it was bad enough without dwelling too much on the particulars. Then, in the time after — well, he couldn't have had sex for a lot of that time even if he'd wanted to, and with J gone, there was no reason for him to want to. That loss was too fresh. Thinking about this, J inside him, his hands on his skin, his voice so sweet and encouraging, would just have been torture, and he was in a miserable enough state already.

Now that he's here, though, he's glad that he didn't, because it feels even better than he remembered. Still he wants more, but this is good, too, so good, his breathing still uneven and shallow as he continues to adjust, much too far gone to hold back his soft moans as J thrusts into him. Not for the first time today, it strikes him how this is at once both familiar and new, reminiscent of their early days together when they were first learning each other's bodies but with all the history between them, too, and so much better even than he let himself remember when he did think about it. He's pretty sure that, earlier, he thought this was a bad idea, and now he knows he was wrong. Nothing that feels this good, or that could make J sound like that, could be a bad thing.

"I did, too," he manages to choke out between unsteady breaths, closing his eyes for a moment as if to collect himself, though it isn't as if it makes much difference from here. He wishes so badly that he could see the look on J's face, but he likes this, too, the not knowing, letting J set the pace, the trust it makes him realize he still has a heady rush all on its own. "Missed this. You feel — fuck, so good."

He whimpers again, which would probably be embarrassing if not for everything else about this. "You can — keep going." It's not quite more or harder or faster, mostly because he can't decide which to say, partly because he doesn't want to rush this, or himself, too much. He thinks he could take it now, though, and, God, he wants that.

It would probably be absurd to say what immediately pops into J's mind, the words on the tip of his tongue anyway. He only just bites it back. When he's the one who chose to stay away for so long, when he knows he's the reason there was distance between them to begin with and all of this should have been impossible, it doesn't feel fair, but he can't stop thinking You feel like home.

But he does. Absurd, too, to think that at all in this position, S on all fours and half-clothed still, but it's true. The way he sounds, the way he feels — the warmth of his skin, the new-old sensation of being inside him, joined so intimately with someone he loves so much — it feels like coming home again after a long, long time. Things have changed so fucking much, more than he ever could have imagined, but some things — the most important parts — are as they always were.

"Good," he says instead, both praise and reassurance. Keep going isn't much in the way of direction, but it's enough; it tells J he's on the right track, at least, and that he can do more, which is what he wants anyway. They both meant it, he thinks, when they said anything. As long as it's them, they'll take what they can get. Right now, that means more. Hands slipping up to grasp S's waist and keep them both steady, J rocks his hips a little harder. Just a little faster, too, but he's more focused on getting deeper for now, trying to find the angle that makes S feel best. "Just want you to feel good," he says, a little slurred, "make you happy." Even distracted from his own words by the way S feels, he suspects he knows what S will say, but he's pretty sure he stopped making him happy a long, long time ago. There's a lot of lost time to make up for now, and sex won't be enough, but it's a start. With his grip at S's waist, he pulls S's hips back into him just as he thrusts his own forward, trying to get deeper still, a broken little moan spilling out of him.

Even having asked for this, however obliquely, S still gasps, surprised, when J's thrusts get harder, that breath leaving him on a ragged moan, louder than a moment before. However irrational it may be, he feels like he couldn't possibly get enough, and it just makes him want more, as much as he can have, as much as J will give him. It still feels desperate, sort of pathetic, to think so after so much time spent reaching out and being turned away. The way J sounds, though, and the way J touches him, make S think that it might not be just him anymore, J thrusting deep inside him and his fingers gripping his waist like he might be able to keep him that way. Absently, he wonders if it will be hard enough to bruise; he hopes that it is, wants marks left behind, proof that this was real, that it happened, that J wanted him again. Even if this was all J wanted, S thinks he could manage to content himself with that. At least it would be better than being shut out again. At least it would keep J sounding like he does now, such a far cry from the way things were earlier today or the last time they saw each other before this.

He doesn't really think that's the case, though, not with everything J has actually said. Some of it may have just spilled out in the heat of the moment, but it seems more like the way they were before than anything strictly physical, the warmth of those words something he'd want to hold onto if he had remotely that kind of mental capacity. Instead, he nods, or tries to, the movement too unsteady to really be considered such, swallowing hard as he attempts to speak again. "I do," he says, "I am," and he's not sure if it makes a single bit of sense, but he means it all the same. He feels better than he has in longer than he can remember; he's happier than he has been, too, as odd a word as happy is to describe being fucked like this by someone who was until a few hours ago his very dead ex and still wanting more. No one has ever made him as happy as J does. Probably no one has ever made him as unhappy, either, but that was another time, relevant now only for the fact that they've made it here from there.

Still half-nonsensical, his voice still strained, he adds without thinking, "I want that too." He's never been half as good at making J happy as he's wanted to be, tried to be, but that doesn't mean he'll stop trying yet.

I am, he says, and it feels a little like something untangling in J's chest. Not you do, which he'd expected, which he wouldn't really be able to believe — I am. That he believes, that he can accept as true. Here, now, in this moment, he makes S happy. Everything inside him is all messy and confused still; he spent so long trying to make himself believe he didn't want this anymore, any of it, that it feels like his whole world keeps shifting again and again — being alive, being loved, feeling how badly he still wants all of it. It would overwhelm him entirely if he didn't have something to focus on to pull him through. It makes sense that would be S. He's so often been J's anchor, when J has felt steady enough to allow it. He is again now, J gripping his hips perhaps harder than he means to in his desperation, holding on for surprisingly dear life.

He could say he knows, because he does, that S wants to make him happy. Sometimes that was the very problem. And it's hard to say that he is happy, because he kind of is and he kind of isn't. Happiness is complicated. Today is complicated. He doesn't know — wouldn't know, even if he weren't swept away in the heady haze of sinking into S again and again — how to say that it's enough for him. Right now, at least, it's enough that S cares enough to want that still.

"I love you," he says instead, a ragged gasp, hips snapping forward. It occurs to him briefly that they haven't actually decided to get back together; he's just kind of been assuming, which is crazy, given that he also assumed S would want nothing to do with him. The notion that it might be too much to keep saying he loves S passes quickly, though. It isn't like S hasn't said it, too, and he wants to say it. "You do, you do, fuck, feel so good." He nudges at the inside of S's thigh, encouraging him to spread his legs wider so J can shift his angle, a whine in his throat before he even notices it enough to hold it back. "Always so good for me, take me so well."

Just hearing that pulls another broken moan from S, one that comes out almost as a sob, though it's all pleasure and longing. They've said so several times today; J told him as much just minutes ago, though everything feels hazy now, anything outside of this difficult to think too much about. Still, it hits differently, somehow, hearing J tell him he loves him while also thrusting so hard into him, holding on so tightly. Maybe it's that, just a moment ago, he was considering the possibility that this might be all there is, or maybe it's how long it's been since he was able to feel J like this, or how emotional today has been, or any combination of things. Now doesn't seem like the time to examine it; S feels too good for that, and it's too hard to focus on anything that isn't the sound of J's voice or how he feels, how deep his thrusts are, how his fingers dig into S's hips, everything pure, electric sensation.

"I love you," he echoes, just barely managing to choke the sentence out. He can't not say it back, though, not even with as difficult as it is to catch his breath or string words together or think clearly at all. At J's prompting, he shifts, parting his legs further, though it isn't easy to do with as shaky as he feels, his arms barely supporting his weight anymore, fingers clutching uselessly at the sheet underneath his hands. He's desperate and aching and it's incredible, just what he wanted, or at least getting close to it, a whine of his own leaving him unbidden at the last thing J says. It gets under his skin more than he would have expected it to, though he's also so far gone, so lost in this, that probably anything would. Still, he likes hearing it, breath shuddering a little.

Once he's sure that he's still steady, though he thinks J's hands are probably doing more to accomplish that than his own limbs are, he risks a brief, momentary glance over his shoulder before he gasps out, "More, please, please."

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Pretty probably shouldn't be the word that comes to mind right now. Looking down at S, though, it's all J can think. He's just barely peeking up over his shoulder, cheeks red, eyes bright and dark all at once, hair a mess, shirt rucked halfway up his back; he's shaking, a little, and making these beautiful noises, a fucked out mess asking for more, and it's the best thing J's seen in years, the best he's felt in longer than he can put a name to. S is so pretty like this — always lovely, always, but seeing him like this just gets under J's skin, heightens the already incredible pleasure he feels. He did this. No matter how much else he's fucked up, at least he can get this much right for S. More than that, S trusts him enough to let him still, wants it as badly as J does. Loves him. He can barely get the words out, but he still does, and it makes J wish he could lean down and kiss him.

"More?" he echoes, checking in, though it's pretty clear what S wants in spite of his shakiness. Already he feels so good around J, pulling him in, every thrust feeling like sparks crawling along his skin; there's a hot tension burning down his spine, and he's torn between wanting to ignore the request so he can draw this out longer and chasing that. In the end, though, it's really what S wants that matters, though it conveniently aligns with what J wants too. "Since you said please." It doesn't come out nearly as playful or confident as he intends it to be, his own voice ragged with desire, words punctuated with a sharp moan. Still, he means it. He wouldn't say no to S, least of all like this, and he's never pretended he doesn't like it when S says please like that, half-broken.

So he gives him what he wants.

He's trembling a little himself, trying hard to keep both of them vaguely upright, running on pure adrenaline and desire. It's enough to keep him going, though, that and S's voice and his little whimpers and moans, as he picks up the pace, fucking him harder, faster. "So good, doing so good. I've got you, fuck, fuck," he gasps, and he's babbling a little, and he really doesn't care. It feels too good, utterly exhilarating; he can't be bothered to care about anything that isn't this, how good he feels and how good he can make S feel.