SERIES:  These Boys

PART: 1 of 1

RATING:  PG (Vauge Slash)

PAIRING(s): L/S (?)

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SETTING IN TIMELINE:   Set about forty years post-canon, AU California.

SPOILLER/SUMMARY: “I Miss You" (Lenny and Squiggy. Where it comes and where it goes..)

NOTES:  For Cheshyre, on the occasion of her birthday.

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He stares at the man running up the walkway, keeping his features blasé in response to the joyous shouts peeling down from the trees.

They make contact -  shoulder to shoulder and back to the wall – their bodies licking before sinking together in a quick embrace.

They pull apart – he counts the wrinkles balconying his old friend’s brow and smiles.

There is love there, always – warm like a pond baked for hours under the August sun -  but the shared feelings were strange, mutant examples.  They would not fall in line, not be labeled ‘love’ or ‘friendship’, so they went along as they always did – never asking a question, never letting the distance between them widen too much, never wondering about the occasional throb or tingle here and there.  They were manly men.  They had grandchildren now, and questions were not allowed to be asked.

There’s no dead lizards or Jell-O skating today – he’s got an appointment with a new dancing hippo act at three, the other has grandchildren to visit.  After all these years there’s precious little to say, so they don’t waste time on words.

The wind rustles thin strands of hair, breaking the facile moment.  The one with blue eyes finally speaks.

“I miss you.”