Oliver

[nola_cyclops]

Being away from Oliver was difficult; at some point, maybe, a 24, 36 hour separation wouldn't ache. But right now, it did, and maybe that was because it was new love, or co-dependency, or any number of reasons, but it was one thing Sam didn't really wish to rationalize. Sam (and Scott, especially Scott) were prone to rationalization above all us.

With Oliver, he tried just to feel.

Sure, they had already seen each other again after Sam's overnight -- Sam had stopped by Oliver's studio as promised, for a quick hello and a kiss and a cup of coffee -- but a quick, public moment like that couldn't replace the moment they were both at home together, alone, with nothing to do but be with each other. It was the only company Sam wanted.

Somewhere, in the back of his mind, was a pang of guilt for not devoting his spare time to solving their 'situation' -- but they really didn't appear to be in danger, and the situation could wait.

Right now, Sam was coming home to the man he loved, who promised to wait by the door for him. To test that theory, he knocked on the door rather than opening it himself.

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[nola_quicksilver]

The door flew open almost instantly, and there was Oliver, wearing his new Cyclops-blasting-something-in-Japanese-shirt. "I next-dayed it," he explained without being asked.

[nola_cyclops]

Sam grabbed Oliver by the shoulders with a happy, surprised laugh, and leaned back to get a better picture. Oliver, who was Pietro, wearing a shirt with Cyclops, who was Sam, on its chest. What a weird, wonderful, unpredictable turn of events. What a strange way to find love and happiness from their other, broken world.

"Such a Cyclops fan," he said fondly.

[nola_quicksilver]

"Ugh, gross," Oliver said, but he was looking at Sam with such naked affection that the joke was clear.

[nola_cyclops]

"Cyclops of the X-Men, that's your guy, huh? I think I can be a little like him." You know, just a little. Sam pulled Oliver close and kissed him hello. It was a very warm hello.

[nola_quicksilver]

Warm enough that Oliver melted against Sam, fisting the front of his shirt as they kissed. God, he'd missed him. He always missed Sam.

"Are you offering to roleplay as yourself?" Because that was a new level of weird, even for them, but also maybe Oliver was into it?

[nola_cyclops]

If something ever happened to their life here, it was details like Oliver holding Sam's shirt that he would miss the most.

But it was better to not think in those terms. Sam laughed, holding Oliver's cheek to stay close and intimate. "I don't think I was, but I'd probably be pretty good at it."

[nola_quicksilver]

"You'd be great at it." Oliver pressed his cheek against Sam's hand, like he always did. "I'd be terrible at it."

[nola_cyclops]

"And thank god for that. There's quite enough of me in the world already. The world needs you to be you." More Cyclops was the worst idea no one would ever have.

[nola_quicksilver]

Oliver made a face. "I meant I'd be terrible at the sexy roleplaying-as-Pietro part. I'd be a disaster as roleplaying you." And why would he have to anyway, with the expert right here?

[nola_cyclops]

"I have a hard time imagining you being terrible at anything you might describe as sexy," Sam replied, and kissed Oliver again. Because how could he not! Anyway, Oliver, Pietro: it was all the same, and all sexy.

[nola_quicksilver]

Sam kept distracting him with kisses! Oliver let him before remembering to explain, "I think the sexy part would be fine, but the part where I need to pretend to be aloof and disdainful of you wouldn't work anymore."

[nola_cyclops]

"I won't miss that," Sam murmured. He was so lucky that Oliver had given Pietro a new perspective on Sam's -- Scott's -- character. "I don't think I can be aloof with you anymore, either." Which would be a disaster if they were ever supposed to assume their old lives again, separately, but then they wouldn't agree to that, would they? Together or nothing.

[nola_quicksilver]

"You weren't aloof with me, you were simmering with barely contained annoyance and dislike." Provoking that had been Pietro's goal, after all. Wow, what a shithead.

[nola_cyclops]

"To be fair, I was like that with a lot of people." But it was true, Pietro had driven Scott nuts.

[nola_quicksilver]

"Yeah, you were that type. It was like sensing blood in the water." Oliver said it with fondness, though, and took Sam's hand to lead him to the couch.

[nola_cyclops]

Sam rolled his eyes. "In retrospect, I don't blame you at all for having no time for me." Scott was... an interesting man. Sam, though, could be led to a couch by his boyfriend and comfortably follow to sit beside him. His arm, of course, slid around Oliver's shoulders like it was seeking its home after too long away.

[nola_quicksilver]

"I mean, I was also busying doing Magneto's bidding and wondering how my life had come to this, so it wasn't just you." Oliver leaned against him, loving how he felt tucked under Sam's arm. It made him feel so safe and secure, and wanted.

[nola_cyclops]

"You deserved better," Sam said quietly. "So much better." Pietro had only been a kid in a hostile world like the rest of them. There but for the grace of God, and so on. Sam lovingly kissed his cheek. :

[nola_quicksilver]

"I have better now," Oliver assured him. "This life has been my second chance at being young and happy."

[nola_cyclops]

“You are pretty happy,” Sam agreed, planting a kiss on Oliver’s temple. “And young and handsome.”

[nola_quicksilver]

"What was that last one again?" Oliver feigned confusion, but couldn't help grinning. "I must have missed it."

[nola_cyclops]

Sam bit back a laugh. "Handsome, I called you handsome."

[nola_quicksilver]

"Three handsomes summons me like Beetlejuice." Oliver crawled onto Sam, straddling his lap, and put his hands on his shoulders. "Sorry not sorry."

[nola_cyclops]

Now Sam did laugh, but out of happy affection. "Hi Oliver," he replied, because there he was! and he wrapped an arm around Oliver's waist. "I'm not sorry at all."

[nola_quicksilver]

"You better not be." Not everyone got this close Oliver attention, after all. "Did I mention how hot you were when you stopped by the shop and how everyone was jealous?"