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Please stay. He didn’t speak for a moment, but the way Blaine spoke – he didn’t hesitate and for a spell Hunter was worried he’d missed the tone and intent of Hunter’s words. Staying meant more, more meant commitment, committment meant publicity. What had been just theirs, their own world, private and secretive would be realized in new ways if he stayed and it was imperative that Blaine understood that. Though in the words that followed, Hunter knew. I’d never want you to leave again. He’d grown to care for Blaine. He loved the way Blaine wore his vulnerability with such pride, it was brave, so much braver than Hunter wished to be. Courage that had turned Hunter’s attention towards the shorter from the moment they’d met.
Hunter’s lips parted, searching for appropriate words to express the conflicting and overwhelming thoughts that were crowding his mind in the moment. He was and would never truly be good enough for Blaine Anderson. He could be good to him, maybe even good for him, and he believed he was already succeeding on that front, but he wasn’t everything Blaine deserved and it gave him pause before his acceptance. If Blaine wanted him, who was he to deny him of that? And it wasn’t just Blaine who craved more, who wanted and sometimes felt that he needed to prolong their time together, Hunter just believed they fit. As odd a pairing as they were. As different as they were. Perhaps that was the reason why. Two halves of some unspoken whole. “Blaine…” Hunter’s voice was quiet, unsure of it’s own presences as it left his lips and he kissed Blaine again.
“I’ll stay.” He nodded, a hand moving to cup Blaine’s face, staring back at him intently and letting out a sigh, “You know this changes everything, right?” He whispered, gentle but firm, as was a normal tone to take with Blaine in the dynamics they had, though their current body language was so much different than any position they’d put themselves in before. Hunter felt more vulnerable than he had in a very long time, and for once he felt comfort in it. Because with Blaine he could be vulnerable. “Of course, I’ll stay.”
Blaine found out the texture of the blanket he was currently plucking apart between his fingers was a terrible distraction from the nervous tension he felt twisting his stomach in knots as Hunter remained silent. He was going to leave. Wasn’t he? An excuse would come and they would part ways only to see one another in a more neutral setting..until they ended up here again. Trying to twist their dynamic into something it wasn’t was foolish. One night together could change everything. Please don’t let me continue being the only one ready for that. Keeping his heart in a cage wasn’t something Blaine was ever going to be good at. He’s tried and failed so many times. Not only with Hunter either. You’d think he’d learn his lesson by now. Turns out..
A dry throat and not so dry eyes were the end result of his wait once he’d brought his hands back up to rest on Hunter’s shoulders. One foot slid across the bed as his knee bent and he cradled Hunter in place. Kisses were peppered, he hummed in spite of the tightness in his throat but the unsurety couldn’t be any more visible as his eyes darted back and forth over Hunter’s as though his deepest secrets were written deep inside them and if he wouldn’t talk? Blaine could read them there if he tried hard enough. Please? He asked with a simple trickle of his fingertips over Hunter’s temple that shifted as he spread the lengths of his fingers apart and pushed them through strands of chestnut brown. Dark eyebrows jerked up at the mention of his name but another kiss stole the ‘yes’ that was on the tip of his tongue.
‘I’ll stay.’
Everything would be different. Blaine understood that. Craved it. Needed it to be. “I don’t care how different it’s going to be as long as I can keep you. We don’t have to talk about it outside these walls. Let them think what they want to think. We don’t have to say anything.” It wasn’t him asking to come out with who and what they were to one another by waving flags and shouting it on the loudspeaker. Or singing the dozen duets he could think of in two seconds he’d daydreamed performing together. All he wanted was this. The whisper and tone soothed him enough to speak his mind and he said what he had to say because he was smiling too wide to say much else than.. “Thank you Thank you so much.” Kisses fell to Hunter’s cheek and chin, the corner of his mouth as his arms wrapped around broad shoulders and pulled the other down fully intending to make the most out of the now hours they had left.









