[Milliways]: First Gestures

[smallgayjew]

Posner can't believe that it's actually here. He can't believe he's finally leaving home (with Dakin) and moving out (with Dakin) and starting at Oxford (with Dakin). He's got all his essentials packed into a trunk and a suitcase, and it feels like too little to encompass his life so far, but it also feels appropriate to be starting a new life without any of the encumbrances of the old.

On the platform, he kisses his mum and hugs his dad and shakes his uncle's hand, and he tries not to look at the tears his mum is holding back, and he tries not to let his own fall. It isn't sad, not really. It's only...a bit frightening.

So he kisses his mum once more, and he lets her fix his hair, and he hugs his dad again, and then he takes a deep breath and lugs his trunk and his suitcase and his whole life onto the train and moves to find a seat by the window so he can wave them off they can wave him off.

And he doesn't sing Gracie Fields this time, but he wants to.

Comments

[pushtheboatout]

"If people ask questions, we can always just say we're pulling all-night revision sessions. Any strange noises they may hear is just their own wicked imaginings."

[smallgayjew]

"Oh, true. We'll have to be careful about that, won't we?"

He's never had to think about keeping the noise level down before.

[pushtheboatout]

"If it's thick old walls, maybe not. The room I stayed in during the interviews wasn't too noisy."

[smallgayjew]

"True, but I very much doubt people were...bunking up during the interviews."

[pushtheboatout]

"If you don't hear the odd bump and thud, you likely won't hear the odd ... other noises."

It's tempting to start moaning in David's ear.

[smallgayjew]

"Sometimes the odd...other noises are louder than the odd bump and thud," David points out.

He's grateful Stuart refrains.

[pushtheboatout]

Stuart smiles at him. "Just have to keep you quiet then, won't I?"

He rubs his lower lip wit his thumb as if he's contemplating all the ways to do so.

Which he is.

[smallgayjew]

David blushes and ducks his head and looks out the window.

He has nothing to say to that that would be appropriate on a train.

[pushtheboatout]

Dakin smirks and knocks their knees together.

[smallgayjew]

David smiles over at him and bumps his shoulder.

[pushtheboatout]

"Don't get too adorable or I might have to snog you."

[smallgayjew]

"Stuart!" David chides softly.

[pushtheboatout]

"Oh, no one's listening, anyway."

[smallgayjew]

"Not at the moment, no."

[pushtheboatout]

"But if it makes you that nervous I won't threaten to snog you again." He sighs, much put-upon.

[smallgayjew]

David rolls his eyes. "When we're alone. you can do more than threaten, all right?"

[pushtheboatout]

"I don't know," Stuart says airily. "You don't seem to like it much."

[smallgayjew]

"Not on a train, no."

[pushtheboatout]

"Stuart leans close. "I will kiss you on a train, I will kiss you on a plane, I will kiss you in a box, I will kiss you, um--"

Not with a fox. Hm.

[smallgayjew]

David arches an eyebrow at him, smirking. "Hm?"

[pushtheboatout]

"Not with rocks?"

[smallgayjew]

"I should hope not. Care to try again?"

[pushtheboatout]

"I will kiss you obnox...

...iously."

[smallgayjew]

"Yes, I fully believe you to be capable of that," David says with a smile.

[pushtheboatout]

Stuart laughs. "I think it sounds like fun, too."