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Its been snowing well lately
gray and dull streets finally turning less depressing, Shining bright under the moonlight and all those street lights. almost ethereal on the evenings just like this one
The city was bustling, Christmas eve and everything that followed afterwards. Hum of the cars, people around, shop signs and decorations glowing under the snowflakes. Quite a festive view
And amidst all the chaos of humans so focused on celebrating, simple park nearby your home suddenly becomes a quiet place. A sanctuary even, to get away from noisy world and never care about going back home
And it was perfect for them. Just to stray around the town until its late night. One cup of coffee for both was the only thing they could afford but it barely mattered at this point
Laughing, talking about everything and absolutely nothing like there's no tomorrow.
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And it was all peaceful before legendfinder noticed that morbius stopped following him in the middle of a dialogue
"Yea, and yknow what she said?-.. m-"
less than a second took him to turn around, even less time to get surprised
"Catch that!"
A snowball flew into him, right into his face. quite a refreshing feeling, he just stood there for a few seconds trying to get all this snow off of him while morbius was laughing. But the revenge didn't took long
"..haha- OW. Ouch!"
And now not one but two snowballs hit morbius, right in the face too
"Pfft-" legendfinder rushed forward, morbius didn't fail to follow behind.
They both ran forward until exhausted, ending up stumbling over a tree branch and falling down in the pile of snow. Giggling, trying to catch a breath, they were just laying there
Legend looked at morbius, morbius looked back at him. It felt like a sappy novel trope coming alive yet he couldn't deny that he didn't really want to get up now. The snow felt warmer perhaps, perhaps it was all because of a guy Infront of him who was smiling like and idiot
His idiot, even. It just felt right.
And he smiled back in this comfortable silence between them. Only hum of traffic in the distance and eachother's quickening heartbeat. It was like they didn't need a thousand words, no, like no words were needed at all, like they both exactly knew the answer. Legend was content with that, he hoped morbius did too. hoped that morbius appreciated their quiet moments as much as finder always did
Legend flinched just slightly as he felt the finger trailing down his cheek lazily, flicked a snowflake off of him. The touch lingered for a few seconds more than it probably should have before the hand slid back down. But it was just enough to be meaningful. Morbius grinned, finder couldn't help but find it cute. Find him cute, find their mutual clumsy attempts in simple affection endearing
He leaned in closer to another's face, their breaths mingling
Snowfall intensified
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It intensified until it was hard to see
He couldn't even walk forward anymore, his legs gave out eventually. He fell down on the ground, breathless, his head spinning with aching whirlwind of thoughts
All the memories replaying in his mind, every single one. Now that they were everything that's left from his sanity and that god forsaken day
The snow felt piercing cold through his sweater, he had no energy to get up, couldn't see the point of doing it. And He didn't want to look up, Didn't want to look at the moon.
All he could do is grasp his gray striped scarf and feel how his hot tears ran down his cheeks. Curling up in a ball, trying to cover himself from the world.
The snow didn't feel as warm and inviting anymore, it never will without him. Without his frien- partner? Leg just remembered he never said he loves him out loud, the realization twisted in his gut tightly. The agents really wanted to get to him, well, good job he thought. It all was making sense - They succeeded, they got what they wanted, didn't they?
Damn the moon, damn the knowledge, damn everything.
Its getting colder
He couldn't feel his limbs anymore
The memory of morbius saying they will probably meet in hell or heaven again eventually, or every universe, or something like that since they depended on eachother this much. It claimed legendfinder's mind since that day he came back home to find his lover's breathless body. He wanted to believe it so bad.
"..see ya there, man"
He mumbled under his breath, letting his eyes flutter shut forever