25 Moments Challenge -- Prompt #13: Comfort
This one was a lot of fun to write. =)
Title: How It All Began
Author: Kishamaru
Fandom: Poets of the Fall
Characters: Olli/Marko
Rating: Kid-safe. =)
Genre: Fluff, Romance, Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Written for the prompt "Comfort" from the 25 Moments Challenge. Olli reflects on the first night he came to Marko for help.
Disclaimer: The fact that it's called fanFICTION may have given it away, but this is purely a work of fiction. =)
13. Comfort
As he lay in bed, wrapped in his partner’s arms, Olli started reflecting on when it all started. When he began relying on his friend for so much more than just music and a few laughs on the tour bus.
His mind wasn’t actually too clear on the details of when, but he remembered how-a bad fight with his current girlfriend, kicked out of their shared apartment yet again. Marko might have lived with his parents at the time, but it was still better than fighting for space on a bench in some park after midnight.
Olli hadn’t meant for it to go the way it did, hadn’t expected to feel the wet on his cheeks as he muttered why he was there to the older man. Wiping his face hurriedly in embarrassment, he was startled at first to feel two long arms wrap around him, open palms tracing soothing circles across his narrow shoulders.
He’d gotten over the surprise, though, relieved at the feel of the warmth he was then enveloped in. The two had made their way back into Marko’s house, and Olli didn’t even think to question it as he was lead through to the living room, as he sat down and, at Marko’s encouragement, poured out the story of the last several months.
Marko, normally noted for his own way with words, turned out to be an excellent listener as well, nodding here and there, never interrupting but instead letting Olli vent. When the shorter man was finally finished, eyelids dropping with fatigue, he leaned forward and nudged the tired body into a horizontal position on the couch.
After a few minutes of sitting and watching the steady rise and fall of the thin chest, Marko finally got up, paused, and then kissed him goodnight before settling into a nearby chair to wait until morning.
It wasn’t long before Marko joined his friend in sleep.