[ It’s not like Carver was a blushing virgin before he showed up here. He got around. He didn’t let it mean anything for years because it couldn’t mean anything. He had to put his people first - always, and forever. And if there was Riley, once, that still ended.
It doesn’t matter if he thinks about it sometimes, even in the aftermath. Riley’s probably long dead, a ghost to him either way. And yet that meant something, had a weight like this does, and -
And.
Carver takes a shaky breath, then another. He rubs absent circles with his thumb against Gold’s hip just for something to do other than react, twitching and quiet, to the way Gold touches him. It’s not enough to get him off - not yet, not like this - but it’s certainly enough to work him up. More than enough. ]
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It doesn’t matter if he thinks about it sometimes, even in the aftermath. Riley’s probably long dead, a ghost to him either way. And yet that meant something, had a weight like this does, and -
And.
Carver takes a shaky breath, then another. He rubs absent circles with his thumb against Gold’s hip just for something to do other than react, twitching and quiet, to the way Gold touches him. It’s not enough to get him off - not yet, not like this - but it’s certainly enough to work him up. More than enough. ]