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Feb 09, 2011 00:39

He wakes up slowly, and it takes him a while to realize that it isn't the first time, and longer to understand why the body draped over him and the limbs tangled up with his don't seem strange or out of place. Once he's awake enough to grasp that, he's awake enough to wonder what time it is--he can see light through the curtains--but he can't see the clock without shifting position, and that isn't something he wants to do. Not just yet.

This whole experience is just too... novel.

He reaches up and combs his fingers lightly through Neil's hair, again just for the novelty of it. This, he thinks, is what he came here for. Not something as specific as waking up with Neil McCormick, but maybe he'd hoped for something along those lines.

Going back to Texas and leaving this behind is a harder thought to bear than he ever expected it to be.

hutchinson, au, neil

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