( a letter for Alcuin between the pages of a battered journal, stacked atop other similar journals, in a variety of shapes and colors )

It had taken some doing, arranging a meal for Alcuin's birthday without Alcuin himself either making plans or being aware that Mohinder had anything planned. He supposed he might simply have told Alcuin, but he thought, perhaps, Alcuin would fret over whether he meant to invite Rupert - he didn't, as it happened ( Read more... )

The evening it seemed, and perhaps his island experience, truly would spiral and repeat. As he'd brought Rupert food, drink, and marijuana earlier, now Rupert would bring it for he and Alcuin. And as Daniel had once invited Alcuin to dinner to resolve the sexual tension between them, now it was his turn to invite Alcuin to join he and Rupert to do ( Read more... )

Mohinder stayed with Rupert long enough to explain and to be polite to someone in whom he might be interested, but no longer. The distress he'd seen in Alcuin's eyes made it impossible to continue the conversation they'd been having ( Read more... )

continues from here"I've not forgotten," Mohinder teased, voice purring with a soft heat that offered more than it asked. Rising, he gestured to the path with one hand and set the other in Alcuin's lower back ( Read more... )

Mohinder didn't know the people throwing the party. It suited him fine, as Independence Day had no special meaning for him. He knew it did for Daniel, though, and had nourished a vanishingly small hope he might wish to spend the evening together ( Read more... )

If he hadn't already arranged this meeting with Dani and Alcuin, Mohinder wouldn't be sitting in the kitchen, fresh showered and alone with his thoughts. He'd be somewhere with Daniel.

God, Daniel.

Thinking about Daniel made his kiss-bruised lips curve and his body ache with remembered pleasures ( Read more... )

Since meeting Daniel, Mohinder's mind had been restless, whirling, like it had from drink. There was an entire universe, or several, of aliens and people he would never be able to explore. Questions he could only begin to formulate, for which there would never be answers. Daniel's Stargate, that he would never step through ( Read more... )