please stay. @sweetxner

Blaine’s heart felt like it might crumble to dust as he watched Hunter getting ready to leave.  His body was too tired, too melted into the sheets to barely move an inch and yet Hunter had the strength to get out of bed, gather his things together and begin to get dressed. They couldn’t be any more different in their positions.  For the most of the night their opposites were what made them whole.  Made them move together in ways that were perfectly suited to one another.  But now?  In the aftermath?  Blaine tilted his head against the pillow and grabbed a fistful of the sheet and blanket that were pooled near his waist and tugged it up his chest halfway before he whispered the plea that had been going through his mind faster and faster the closer Hunter became to being finished.  The closer he came to walking out the door.  

“Could you stay with me – just until i fall asleep?”  The question that could change everything.  Bring them to a level that, in spite of so many they’d reached that were beyond intimate and beyond any words that you could put to such a thing, they’d never dared trespass.  Blaine needed to.  Needed him to stay.  Plenty of times before, he needed that closeness and comfort to last throughout the night.  Never once did he have the nerve to voice it.  Tonight.  He had.  And now he cringed waiting for Hunter to explain to him why that couldn’t happen.  Why he was being foolish to think it could.  To think Hunter might want him beyond what they were when what they were was beyond anything Blaine could ever do without.  When he looked at it.  Maybe he wanted Hunter to need him as much as he needed him.  For that closeness to be so important that walking away would feel like walking on glass.

He had an careful repeat of his plea with reasoning behind it on the tip of his tongue.  Hunter’s initial reply made him dread that his worst fear was about to happen.  But then the bed was sagging and Hunter was climbing up over him, their eyes met and Hunter’s were soft.  That softness was what made Blaine belong to Him more than anything else.  “All day?  With you,” he grinned and hummed just as playfully, “Anyone who said that about you doesn’t know how to handle you.  That’s all.  I’ll cook us breakfast.  Lunch.  I’ll…give you more than a little fun.” His cheeks flushed with the promise.  Then his demeanor turned more gentle, more serious as he caught the real meaning behind Hunter’s questions and reached one hand up to cup his cheek and pull him back for another kiss, smiling at his favorite name right before their lips met.  “Yes. I’m very certain that is what I want.  If you’ll give it to me.  I promise.  I’d never want you to leave again.”  Another caress that swept into the hair above Hunter’s ear.  “Please..stay?”