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[heatmetal]

[ his voicemail greeting is just a guitar riff ]

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[heatmetal]

You love me?

done

[heatmetal]

Too late, I'm freaking out.

[retromix]

Stop, then.
Why do you think I spent so much time with the vampire?

[heatmetal]

Kinda thought it might be because he has two nipples.

[retromix]

I was talking to him about YOU.

[heatmetal]

[ ... oh. ]

About me?

[retromix]

Yeah, about all the things I wasn't ready to say to you but it was easy with him because he already found us weird as hell. Apparently you do need a summary, so here it is: of course I love you.

I wake up and I love kissing you first thing even when you don't remember it later. I think about you when you're not around and I want you to hold me so bad I suddenly feel freezing without you. I feel like all my organs are bursting with a need to be near you and it's crazy and intense but it also feels so good when we're together, like I'm on fire.

You're my boyfriend. That means something to me.

[heatmetal]

[ oh.

eddie doesn't know what to say. for a long, long time eddie just sits there looking down at the message. feels his eyes burn a little, just a little, at the sudden swell of feeling. eddie is used to being rejected. he's used to being tolerated. he's not used to someone wanting him like this. wholly and completely, warts and all his infuriating little habits.

it, unfortunately, derails what he wanted to talk about. how if steve likes billy, then - he's got no problem opening things up. he cares about billy. and while he doesn't want mindless fucking, its clear they've got a bond.

a bond which is being pumped full of affection, and guilt, and a little bit of uncertainty that he's worthy of all this. ]

I love you too.

[retromix]

[ He's about to seek Eddie out when he gets that text and tension seeps from his shoulders. He's so glad he doesn't have to ask if Eddie loves him too. ]

Good.
I can't BELIEVE we just did that over texts! I HATE the future!!

[heatmetal]

You wanna come say it to my face?

[retromix]

No because you probably look really smug right now.

[heatmetal]

Smug is not the word I would use.

[retromix]

I know you pretty well by now, EDWARD MUNSON.
You're smug.

[heatmetal]

Do you want photographic proof?

[retromix]

Always.

[heatmetal]

[retromix]

You're blushing?

[heatmetal]

Steeeeeeeeve Harrington.
The only people in the world who have ever said I love you to me are my Uncle Wayne, my old man once when he was really hammered, a hallucination I had on ayahuasca, and Henderson.
Of course I'm gonna be blushing when you come out waxing poetic about it.

[retromix]

I'm so mad I'm missing this, I love it when you get all shy and hide behind your hair.
I can't wait to kiss you tonight, you're adorable.

[heatmetal]

Next time, babe, say anything you need to right to me.
No judgement here.

[retromix]

I want to sleep with you, sometime. Not as a damn werewolf either.
Like ... do you know what I mean?
Would you enjoy that, if it was just me?

[heatmetal]

You wanna top?

[ god. ]

Baby, I'd love that.
I love everything you do.

[retromix]

I really, REALLY want to fuck you. Really hard. Maybe get your wrists tied up. Taste every inch of you while you're on your stomach.

Yeah, I want to top.

[heatmetal]

[ eddie . exe has stopped working

and yeah. yeah. yeah! he's glad steve can't see his face. he's red. and when control isn't in his hands, eddie ends up on the off foot. flustered. ]


I'd like that a lot.

[retromix]

Tonight, then.

Unless you want to speak to Billy about what he broadcast.