[James feels and sounds amazing. Even as the exhaustion he's been ignoring all day for the sake of being functional in meetings and secret night missions is starting to finally catch up with him in his post-climax haze, Keith can't help feeling an edge of desperation in his own actions again. He wants James to make more of those gorgeous sounds and --
I love you.
The words make Keith pause, half wondering if he'd just misunderstood. Perhaps it'd been meant more like a I love what you're doing -- at least that one would be easier to reconcile with everything else that'd happened today. Either way, Keith knows better than to be happy about this -- really, he does. But fuck if any part of him really cares about that right now. Heart skipping beats again, Keith resumes stroking, a little faster this time, teasing around the tip before sweeping down towards the base and back up in a more insistent motion. Murmured back between breaths:]
Love you too.
[It's stupid how easily the words come to him now when it was paralyzing to even think about saying them years ago. It's arguably even stupider to say it now, but Keith refuses to regret saying it. He should've said this back then, and for all he knows Sendak could fry the planet at sunrise. Keith catches James' lower lip between his teeth, then pulls back enough to speak more clearly.]
So much.
[Then right back to kisses, right back to focusing on moving his hand on James' arousal. Right now at least, it doesn't matter why James said I love you; he feels better for having said it outloud himself.]
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I love you.
The words make Keith pause, half wondering if he'd just misunderstood. Perhaps it'd been meant more like a I love what you're doing -- at least that one would be easier to reconcile with everything else that'd happened today. Either way, Keith knows better than to be happy about this -- really, he does. But fuck if any part of him really cares about that right now. Heart skipping beats again, Keith resumes stroking, a little faster this time, teasing around the tip before sweeping down towards the base and back up in a more insistent motion. Murmured back between breaths:]
Love you too.
[It's stupid how easily the words come to him now when it was paralyzing to even think about saying them years ago. It's arguably even stupider to say it now, but Keith refuses to regret saying it. He should've said this back then, and for all he knows Sendak could fry the planet at sunrise. Keith catches James' lower lip between his teeth, then pulls back enough to speak more clearly.]
So much.
[Then right back to kisses, right back to focusing on moving his hand on James' arousal. Right now at least, it doesn't matter why James said I love you; he feels better for having said it outloud himself.]