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Eyes widening, Kalore watched him as the cloth dropped out of his hand, landing softly on the floor. He wanted him? Out of everything that could have been said, that hadn’t been at all what he was expecting. Kalore didn’t know what to expect, really, but he did know that that wasn’t it. Watching as Monty continued to attack the wall, he took another step forward, just himself as he took the other’s hand in his own, just keeping it there before he pressed his lips gently to his hand. “I… I want you too, Monty…” Whispering the words still, he knew that he couldn’t bring himself to match Monty’s pitch, not now, at least. He was too tired to do that. Maybe later he’d yell at him. Probably. “I… I’m always scared that you’re going to reject me, but never, ever, have I thought about rejecting you, Monty. Never.”

Kalore watched the other, listening to the words that he said and he couldn’t believe it. Monty wanted to be with him? Biting his lip, the blonde sighed and nodded, leaning forward to gently press his lips against Monty’s; tender, caring. “You’re not too late, Monty. I promise you, you’re not too late.” No, he didn’t think that there was a too late, other than one of the two doing something so stupid that they couldn’t come back from what they did. Then again, both were close to doing just that.

Watching the man, Kalore bit his lip softly but soon was sitting beside him, looking down for a moment. For some reason, he couldn’t get past all of the things that they had just gone through. “What… What do you want to talk about?” His hand raised, “We have a lot to talk about… but where to start, Monty?” Sitting beside him made him want to lean against him, get comfortable, but Kalore was stiff, unmoving. Both of them were tired of fighting, tired of all of this, but Kalore prayed that he wouldn’t be able to do anything like this again. If it happened again… Kalore couldn’t fight again. He was already ready to give up.

“Well…” Kalore rested his head back, frowning some as he thought about that. “It’s a good question, really. I’m not too sure.” He shook his head some, frowning more before watching him. “We… We could start where we left off before… You’re settled in now, so maybe not for the same reasons or… Never mind.” No, where they left off before the fighting was going to Kalore’s house, live together until Monty got back on his feet, and then go from there. Now it seemed like Monty was back on his feet but he honestly didn’t know. “I… I want to be with you, Monty, but I don’t know how right now.” He looked over at him. “There’s still the idea of doing what we had kicked around… but… other than that, I don’t know. Your ideas?”

Nodding some, he thought about that, having to agree. “Then… Then we’ll start over. We’ll… We’ll just be… friends, then?” That was weird, really, to think about it like that, but then he smiled just a bit. It would be the best. Monty and Kalore had started over but as friends with benefits. This time they would be just friends… friends that just hung out and then they would see what happened there. He knew that they’d go through the ‘stages’ fast, but hopefully this time it would be successful instead of the rollercoaster that it had been lately. “Just talk to one another… not touching at all, nothing… Right?”

“That’s… that’s going to be hard…” Muttering that, he shook his head some before he finally admitted what it was that they both were thinking. Looking at the other, he smiled just a little more. “But we can do this… I mean… It’ll be damn hard.” He was going to have to rein himself in again; something he wasn’t used to doing. That meant no teasing, no touches, no sticking his tongue out and showing off the tongue ring… damnitt, that was going to be the hardest. Sighing some, he looked surprised at the other’s offer before he smiled some, “I can pick? Hmm… Are you alright with someplace elvish? There’s that place in Dark Haven…”

Kalore rolled his eyes, “Kit’s not going to attack you… Dusk might because of you being gone and then back but she kinda was cool with you so, I dunno.” He shrugged. Then again, Kit had been fine with Monty as well, but Monty hadn’t insulted Dusk, at least not for a while… Chuckling some at the thought, he shook his head some. “If you don’t want to go then that’s fine. Most people haven’t really even bothered me anymore after I… well…” He touched his hair, sighing some before shaking his head some. “There’s that place in Dark Haven, along with some others. Most of my friends don’t even go over there anymore. I think you and I would be safe there.”