Title: up and over and far away.
Rating: R, mostly for non-graphic sex.
Word Count: 2,484.
'Verse: AU.
Summary: There're two lads at the docks, and they're watching the ships.
Notes: I really, really wasn't planning on writing this. The mod!post a few days ago reminded me of the prompt for this Challenge Cycle, which in turn went and spawned an entire universe, and I thought it was as good a time as any to delurk. Hello, all! :D
they walk home in the orange of the evening, just as they begin to light the gas lamps - walk on either side of the pavement, still bickering, with their knees skinned from their earlier tussle. arthur listens to the boy's foreign little rasp of a tongue, and thinks how strange stars must be, when seen from close instead of afar.