[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]

"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."

[smallgayjew]

"Of course you do."

[pushtheboatout]

He shrugs. "I like snogging you."

[smallgayjew]

"I like it too, but I can't imagine I'd feel the same if you started doing it obnoxiously."

[pushtheboatout]

"I'll only kiss you obnoxiously in the privacy of our ... privacy."

[smallgayjew]

David laughs shaking his head. "Yes, but if it's obnoxious, then it will still be...obnoxious, no matter where you do it, love."

[pushtheboatout]

"Fine," Stuart says with another heavy sigh. "I was trying to tease you but not if you're not going to play along."

[smallgayjew]

"I thought I was playing along," David says with a slight pout.

[pushtheboatout]

"Kissing obnoxiously is supposed to be fun."

[smallgayjew]

He arches an eyebrow. "But it's obnoxious."

[pushtheboatout]

"Fun for us," says Stuart, "obnoxious to other people."