"What's the best part about fighting?" Orlando asks softly, and goes to his knees, pushing Sean's unresisting legs apart so he can slide between them. His hands are soft, conciliatory, sliding across Sean's thighs in soothing refrain. "When it's over?" Sean offers, still not certain he's ready to trust the gentleness of touch. "The making up," Orlando corrects, and when Sean looks up, he can see the apology in Orlando's gaze. The hurt retreats as Sean cups Orlando's jaw, creating his own apology in the caress of roughened fingers across smooth skin. "Is that what this is?" he asks, matching Orlando's tone. He hates the wounded vulnerability in Orlando's eyes as much as he hates that he'd been the one to put it there. Orlando nods, nuzzling into the touch. He keeps his gaze on Sean. "If you want it to be." The heat of anger gives way to the more intense heat of need as Sean leans in, lips just ghosting across Orlando's open ones. "I want," Sean murmurs, and sinks into the kiss.
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