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Gabby tensed when Efflo yelped his answer, but tried to relax enough to let out a nervous laugh. "Yeah, I noticed that. But why? Like, what's the deal with them, anyway?" He couldn't recall a time when he'd seen Efflo without some sight of worm somewhere, but for the life of him he didn't know what, exactly, was their role in the boil's life.

"You don't eat them for sustenance, do you?"

And all in the matter of a few seconds, Gabby suddenly became a bug lover.

"Oh." He looked down at one of them, his gaze focused and stern. "They're.. a lot more important than I expected. Kind of glad that was my first question." His gaze returned to Efflo's head, and his face brushed against the hair, moving from left to right. "I think it's pretty damn important you stay together."

When Efflo shifted, Gabby tightened his embrace, and lifted his head. "Okay. Your turn."

Damn. Gabby had hoped Efflo wouldn't catch on to that. He grumbled, unhappy with how far away Efflo's hair was. He reached up to try and tug on it, but laziness struck again, and his hands flopped down against the boils legs. "Fine. Something about me." Efflo told him about the bugs, and Gabby felt that might have been the most important bit of information - so what was important about him? "I guess, I like it when someone's against this side. Here." His hand rose up and ran down the length of his right side. "Some of me is missing, here. I can't ever stay completely solid there, even as a dragon. So when someone's there, I feel.." His cheeks darkened in embarrassment. "Complete."

Gabby's left eyebrow rose up high when Efflo answered a question he wasn't aware existed. He let Efflo slide off, and of course, when the boil nestled into his right side, Gabby let out a sigh of relief and closed his eyes. It felt even better when someone was doing it on purpose, filling in every unfinished nook, closing every gap. He leaned helplessly into the nuzzle, the ghostly tendrils wrapping themselves possessively around the boil that pressed against them. "Feels so good." He whispered. "Don't know why."

He'd never understood what it was about that side that always felt unfinished, and incomplete. He figured he'd never know. He just wanted Efflo's warm body to stay there, for as long as he could possibly manage, and keep him whole.

Gabby opened his eyes, and flickered them sidelong at the boil, heavily lidded with intent. "Wasn't really complaining about where you were before, though. In case you were wondering. Which you were."

That was too much. Gabby tensed, his body rising just slightly while his eyes fluttered closed, and he realized that all of those confusing, heated feelings that bubbled out when he kissed Efflo were related very closely to whatever he'd just made the boil feel right then. A slow hiss of air left him, before he collected himself and turned his head away. For the first time ever, Gabby knew he was blushing.

All those new and confusing feelings were starting to make sense - but that made them more insistent, and far more dangerous. They'd only just started dating that day..

The stutter caught his attention, and he turned his head around to catch the flush of color overheating Efflo's cheeks. He reached out to feel them - so hot they made his fingertips itch. "You.. you..?" Gabby was very interested in whatever Efflo was trying to say, at that moment, and he wasn't letting him get away without it.

Embarrassment was their new best friend, it seemed. Gabby smirked when the boil whined into his jacket, and he settled his free hand over the boils head, petting it affectionately. As much as he wanted to hear it, making Efflo suffer for his desires wasn't a turn on. He just let the boil calm down, and chuckled softly.

"Fine." He whispered into Efflo's hair. "Then ask me another question, and maybe I'll forget what we were talking about.

Spoiler: He wouldn't.

"What was that?" Gabby ducked his head and tucked his hand under Efflo's chin, forcing his face up to meet him. At that angle, just right, it wasn't possible for him to keep himself from stealing just one kiss. Satisfied with the gentle touch, he gave Efflo a wary look. "Sorry, I didn't hear you through my clothing. Come again?"

When he heard the question, the first thing Gabby thought was that he'd expected more knowledge searching. But as soon as he realized what, exactly, he was asking for, the logic part of his brain shut off. It really didn't help that Efflo was suggesting his clothing was in the way. Gabby knew there was a dangerous game being played, but thinking was impaired. So he untangled himself from the boil, while his eyes remained firmly rooted on Efflo's. He unzipped the zipper of his long, fluffy jacket, with purposeful patience. And then he took it off, one arm at a time, and folded it very carefully into a neat square that he placed right where his head would be. When he laid back down, he pulled Efflo back into his arms, and the intensity of his unblinking gaze remained focused on the boils eyes.

"I hope that solves any more confusion." Gabby muttered huskily, trying to read exactly what the boil was thinking behind those bright eyes. Then, because he asked so nicely, Gabby gave him one soft, chaste, but lingering kiss. Now he was being careful, because his usually quick and clever brain felt sluggish and impaired.