Andy/Eddie

Date: 29/01/2020 15:27 (UTC)
muccamukk: Eddie and Andy standing in a bombed out airstrip sharing a look. (TP: Ruins)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
Having ALL the feels about these two, and really want to do the reunion fic prompted in the LLSS newsletter. I'm thinking Burgin's PoV.

However, I'm trying to get at least a draft of my fic for rairpair done before I write anything else.

However, however, I'm still poking away at the There Was Only One Bed fic, which got sort of off the rails with the sex scene, so I need to go back and rewrite a bunch, but here's a bit from earlier in:
When he came back into their cramped room, Hillbilly was sitting on the edge of the bed with his elbows on his knees. He wasn't slumped, but sitting at rest. When Andy closed and bolted the door, Hillbilly looked up, teeth flashing white in the dark. "Figure I oughta sleep on the floor after all, sir," he said.

Andy took a breath, tasting the air, which was cool and smelling faintly of eucalyptus pollen. The room was very dark, dark in a way that Andy hadn't known before wartime blackouts. The bit of moonlight coming in through the curtains showed only the outline of Eddie's body. Andy hesitated over the light switch, wondering if it would be easier to have this out in the dark or when he could read Hillbilly's expression. In the end, he left the light off, and went to sit at the head of the bed, leaving enough space between their bodies to seem decorous. "Worried about your virtue?" he asked carefully.

Hillbilly's head dropped forward as his hissed out a breath through his teeth. It wasn't quite a laugh. "Worried about yours, more like, sir. Can't account for something I don't know I'm doing."

It wasn't a confession, but it skirted close to being one. Andy imagined Hillbilly weighing the options: how much he trusted Andy, how much he was potentially risking, what there might be to gain. Or was that wishful thinking on Andy's part? Was Hillbilly worried that Andy might read the tension between them in a way Hillbilly did not intend, and make an unwelcome and potentially ruinous advance?

"I'm long past the age where I've any virtue left to trouble me," Andy said finally. "Though I am troubled by the possibility of stepping on you on the way to the head. It's up to you." Again, he felt like he was balancing on that ridge, close to getting somewhere, but with a precipice on either side, and Hillbilly stuck up there with him.
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