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Looking for Love	By : IrenaAdler Category: M through R > NUMB3RS Views: 2208 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Part 13 � Night and morning

/�How many roads we�ve
traveled�/

Don ate lunch and then slept.� He woke with Will sitting on the bed nearby,
reading. It made him feel looked after, a strange but nice feeling.

That evening went like the one before � hockey, Will�s good
cooking, conversation, laughter. Don found out that Will was a fourth-degree
black belt in Aikido, a self-proclaimed Trivial Pursuit champion, and collected
tigers when he was a kid.� Don admitted
to occasionally cheating at golf, a weakness for pistachios, and an
encyclopedic knowledge of sports movies.�
Both Will and Don were yawning by the time this particularly long hockey
game got over.� They�d been watching
while sitting on the bed, both safely on their own sides.

Will stood up and rubbed his face.� He went over to his dresser and picked up his
PDA then frowned.� �Ugh, I�d forgotten
about that.�

�What�s up?�� Don
asked, contemplating whether he wanted to change into Will�s pajamas or just sleep
in Will�s sweats.

�Pre-dawn meeting tomorrow.� Gotta be there.�

�Pre-dawn on a Monday morning?�� Don said.�
�Yuck.� Remind me never to join
the DEA.�

Will hesitated.� �Are
you going to be okay taking care of yourself in the morning?� I can call in sick if I need to.�

Don tried to look at the question rationally and
dispassionately.� He�d managed to go to
the bathroom all by himself this evening.�
With his rate of improvement, he should be able to handle a shower by
himself tomorrow.� �I�ll be okay.�

Tilting his head, Will inspected Don�s face then nodded, apparently
deciding that it wasn�t just pride talking.

Will went into the bathroom and changed into sleep
clothes.� Don decided to stay with the
sweats and college t-shirt.� He climbed
under the blankets.� Will came out of the
bathroom and turned off the lights.� In
the dark, Don heard Will pull the blankets up and felt the movement in the bed
as Will lay down.

After a moment, Will said quietly, �You can start the night
over here if you want, instead of sneaking over later.�

Don felt himself flushing.�
�I thought you were too asleep to remember that.�

�Not at all,� Will said, �and what I said last night still
stands.� I�m offering you warmth and
comfort, nothing else, no expectations.�

Don hesitated.� He was
glad that the room was so dark, so Will couldn�t see in Don�s face how much he
did want to come over, and how much he thought he shouldn�t.

�I can put it in fancy Sociological terms if you want,� Will
said and Don could hear the smile in his voice.

�Wouldn�t want that degree to go to waste,� Don said but
didn�t wait for Will to couch it in any other terms.� He slid across the bed and touched Will�s
arm.� Will lifted his arm and Don tucked
himself inside Will�s arms like he belonged there.� Will gave a soft sigh that could have been
sorrow or happiness and placed his cheek against Don�s hair.

Don relaxed, feeling warm and surprisingly at peace, despite
the body-wide pain that, as always, clamored for his attention.� He was surprised, and a little baffled, by
this instinctive trust he had in this man he�d just met and only had his word
for who he was.�

Must
be rebound.� Don smiled to
himself and closed his eyes.� He�d
happily take rebound over the hell he�d been living.

The next morning, Will�s alarm went off very early, before
it was light.� Will carefully extracted
himself from Don�s arms and got out of bed.�
Don grumbled and curled into the warm spot left by Will�s body and fell
back asleep.�

Don came partially awake some minutes later as he heard Will
standing next to the bed. Too sleepy to open his eyes, Don waited for Will to
say something.� Instead, Will leaned down
and brushed the lightest of kisses on Don�s cheek, then
he was gone.

Two hours later, Don woke up fully and found his uninjured
hand pressed to his cheek where Will had kissed him.� He unfolded himself and stretched
painfully.� He was having a hard time
remembering when every movement of his body didn�t hurt.

He got up and made it to the bathroom alright, then managed
to put on his shoes.� He was just going
to wear Will�s sweats for now.� Grabbing
the bag of his things he had packed the day before, Don went out to the
kitchen.

On the kitchen table were several things � a bowl of oatmeal
and a note on how long to warm it up in the microwave, Will�s business card
with his private cell phone number written on it, and the salve he�d used on
Don�s anus.

Don warmed up the cereal and ate it at the table.� It was odd to be in Will�s house without
Will.� Still, Don could sense Will in
every room, in piece of furniture, even the saggy old couch.� This wasn�t just a place Will slept, he really lived here, as opposed to Don and his
apartment.

Giving a sigh and feeling like a baby bird leaving the nest,
Don put his cereal bowl in the sink, pocketed the business card and salve, and
left.
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