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"My ego comes in to play because I don't like being wrong, being hurt, or even showing it, but baby, you've got the power to hurt me more than anyone 'cause I've opened the doors to the most fragile parts of me for you. Heart and ego. You don't realize that I have never gotten one sliver of genuine affection from even my own parents so I stopped trying to care, because it hurt to do so and not have it returned. I've taken a chance on you, and come to love you," at least he was pretty sure that's what love was supposed to be. He declared it to be so, so it was.

Billy realized his voice had risen again, making a rather undignified rant at pink eyes awash with worry and fear bore in to Ladon.

"I might not act it but damn it, baby you scare me. It scares me that you hold so much power over me, and that I've given you that power..."

Even scarier was that this was no lie. Billy just hadn't realized it until now.

For whatever reason, Billy allowed himself to be dragged out the door. Billy watched Ladon carefully as he looked to see if anyone was around. Billy was waiting for the argument to continue. The kiss was unexpected, but certainly the more preferred response. Billy decided to monopolize on it.

returning the kiss, and hand rose to cup the boy's cheek - fingers raking through hair, then breathlessly, "I take it I finally said something right?"

Billy didn't really care for a proper reply. He wanted another kiss. He wasn't going to just go in and take it though. The first one had been the first really assertive move Ladon had ever made, at least by Billy's view of things. That fact alone coming from someone not known to act so suddenly, much less where romantic actions were concerned, gave Billy a thrill. He wanted to see if Ladon would do it again.

Did he? As far as Billy was concerned he did.

Billy was generally comfortable around Ladon, finding his company enjoyable - save for the argument. Ladon was definitely a unique minority in his ideals - a rare, precious, gem that Billy could be proud of, polished and worn. Ladon was, from what Billy had observed and gathered, a very devoted, knowledgeable person, responsible, perhaps not as naive and innocent as Billy had once liked to believe... Billy found himself searching to please him or finding little things that made the one think of the other, and he found that it was always with fondness, no ulterior motives. Billy had become attached and possessive, not wanting to lose this comfortable feeling. Of course, the revelation that Ladon was Wolframite threw much up in the air. Up-heaved some of that comfort, but now that they knew...it would work out. Somehow. Billy wanted it to work.

"I love you, Ladon," The words rolled off like the sigh someone let out when they just realized they'd been holding a breath, and with it that very same feeling of relief. That hand that had not left Ladon's cheek brushed that dark hair back.

He didn't ask for confirmation of reciprocation, because he didn't have any doubts in its validity, although the part about 'I'm still trying to figure myself out' stuck out in his mind, and there was perhaps the minute fear that the Love Ladon had for him was not the same romantic love that Billy thought he had. But if that were so, then Ladon would not have kissed him. Ladon had kissed him. Somehow that was important to that line of thought. Either way, Billy didn't want to think that he was afraid, even if he had stated that Ladon did have the power to cause the big bad Billy Roadinger fear.

Scratch scratch scratch.

Aree was, by now, seated comfortably on the couch and taking full advantage of the opportunity to scratch the hell out of her stitches. Her Captain and Lieutenant, fellow members of the elite rebel forces of Earth, were in her kitchen professing gay love to one another. Aree had done her best to tone the two young men out, even through the thin wooden door, but the apartment was small and... well, suffice to say she knew far more about the one-eyed Captain than she felt comfortable with.

Just as their ooey gooey love fest reached it's peak, Aree's voice shattered the moment.

“I have nothing against homosexuals, gentlemen, but now you two are just being gay.”

Scratch scratch fork.

Ladon was learning an important rule that many couples faced. Thin walls meant a total lack of privacy and romance and when he was reminded that Aree was nearby, he died. Bowing his head, he turned every shade of magnetic, pink, and red, in the entire spectrum of mortified colors to be had, and groaned. "I forgot she was here." He whispered, knowing she could at least not have heard that. Still, the fact she probably heard EVERYTHING ELSE made him want to grab his coat and run back to his own apartment.

Stepping away, he looked up at the boil. "Go and have your meeting. I'm going to go slip into the kitchen and……..not die." He said, opening the door and letting Bismuthite, Billy, his boyfriend inside. "..and you're not off the hook." He whispered back, stepping inside.