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[imthepilot]

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Bodhi leads Galen up to their rooms, setting the cat and the basket down. "How about we take a bath. And get you out of those ridiculous clothes."

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[imthepilot]

"I think so. Or something similar." he doesn't play with it. It's Galen's to explore.

[galen_erso]

"Do you know how to use that? Turn it on?"

[imthepilot]

"Maybe that button on the side? I guess? Or the centre bottom one. It doesn't have many buttons so one of them must turn it on."

[galen_erso]

Galen looks at it.

"Perhaps not in the water, if it uses old-fashioned electricity," he muses.

[imthepilot]

"Good point." he takes the phone and puts it out of the way, climbing back in the bath with Galen.

Okay, he's dying to look and at the same time not. But holding his lover is more important.

[galen_erso]

Galen pulls him close, and nibbles at his shoulder.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi hums warmly and tilts his head, offering Galen his neck. "Love you."

[galen_erso]

"All of you," Galen murmurs, leaving the 'and I, you' unspoken this once. "I love all of you, always."

[imthepilot]

"Always." Bodhi echoes, turning to straddle Galen's lap. "Or as long as we have. It will be worth it."

[galen_erso]

Galen pulls him close, and kisses him deeply.

"And when whatever we have runs out, we will become on with the Force together, pouring our lives' energy back into the limitless sea it came from," he murmurs.

[imthepilot]

"Yes." Bodhi whispers into the kiss, running his fingertips over Galen's neck and shoulders. Mapping his skin anew.

[galen_erso]

Galen is running his fingers over the burn scars on Bodhi's back. Out of these painful beginnings, so much has grown.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi shrugs, aware of the small patches of nerve damage where he still can't feel. "I dream about that night. The crash. I wake up smelling fuel."

[galen_erso]

Galen holds him close.

[imthepilot]

"And every time, I wake up next to you." He looks Galen in the eye. "I never stop being amazed how lucky I am."

[galen_erso]

"We both are."

[imthepilot]

Bodhi kisses Galen deeply, shifting his weight to press closer.

[galen_erso]

Galen shifts and stretches so as much of his skin as possible is right in contact with Bodhi's. He may not be quite up to full sex yet, thanks to the barely broken flu, but by the Force, he wants to touch as much as he can and never let go!

[imthepilot]

Bodhi traces patterns over Galen's skin with his fingertips, following them with slow kisses. Just touching. Just being.

[galen_erso]

Galen softens into the touch, his head touching Bodhi's shoulder as he sighs deeply.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi nuzzles his hair, bringing up a handful of water to wash the sand away. And again, and again, till Galen's hair is wet enough to shampoo.

[galen_erso]

"You pamper me utterly," Galen says, eyes half-closed in utter lassitude and bliss.

[imthepilot]

"I enjoy it as much as you do." Bodhi points out, massaging the foam of the shampoo into Galen's scalp. He wants all of that other man gone. Every last grain of sand.

[galen_erso]

Galen's hair is long enough to snake around Bodhi's finger; luckily, that other man didn't bother to cut it.

On the surface of the bath water some mermaid scales still float.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi flicks the scales away, wanting nothing to do with them, however pretty.

He rinses the shampoo away, brushing the water from Galen's hair with long even strokes. Just enjoying the feel of it.