At the park again.

The sheet, as it turned out, was for a double bed. It seemed plenty big until you had full grown men sprawling out on it. Or it would have seemed that way, if Gabriel would have laid down on it. He looked over the dimensions and said, "I think I'll just sit over here."

Gabriel, we've fucked already. Being all distant now is … you know, he did freak out and run off and we never even got any clothes off. Remember all that stuff I was telling myself about going slow? Very gently Foster hazarded, "Hey, can I talk you into something?"

"Yeah," Gabriel looked at him unsuspecting.

"Could you lie down here, face away from me, and I'll do the same, and we'll put our backs together?"

Gabriel looked from Foster to the middle of the sheet several times, face blank. "Touching?"

'Touching?' No, Gabriel, we'll be like four feet apart from each other and maybe we should build a fucking brick wall between us just in case. "Yes." Foster smiled a little and dipped his head. "Please?"

"Of- Yes. Of course." Gabriel swallowed and laid himself out, wearing a wondering expression.

Foster settled in behind him, wriggling a little to get his back flush with the other man's. "Thank you," he murmured. Gabriel stayed very still for several minutes before finally pulling his book over to him and beginning to read.

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Foster put down the last comic book and sighed. It was nice to feel Gabriel breathing behind him. It stirred other thoughts. "What can I do with you?" he asked quietly.

Gabriel was quiet for a moment, before saying simply, "Anything."

"Anything at all?" You're either joking, unrealistic, or have no idea of your own limits. Or maybe what you mean is I can do anything and you don't promise to respond well to it...?

"Yes," Gabriel said, voice tight, "anything at all."

Foster turned in place and slipped his arm around Gabriel's waist, feeling the man tense all over. He rested his forehead against Gabriel's back and sighed, spooning against him and holding the man to him. After a very long minute, Gabriel rested his hand over Foster's and pressed it lightly against himself, giving a wordless approval to the position. Foster relaxed, holding him, and fell asleep.