Looking for Love
Part 15 - Good karma
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Part 15 – Good karma
/…Across sand and sky
and gravel…/
A little after ten o’clock that night, after he’d finally
extricated himself from his dad, Don called Will.
“Hi,” Don said quietly.
“Yeah,” Will answered.
“Doing better, but would you mind checking …?”
“Come on over.”
Don drove over to Will’s house, noting the improvement in
his body in the thirty-six hours since he’d left.
bedroom. As Don got undressed, Don told
Will about his bath and his father finding him there.
that the bath was a good idea. He left
the room and Don got dressed.
Pulling the knot tight on his tie, Don walked out in the
front room to find Will pacing back and forth.
Will spun on him and growled, “Okay, Don Eppes, I’m glad
you’re doing much better so I can finally tell you what I think about that
stupid stunt you pulled.”
Don froze in place and blinked.
to.
“Letting Channing do that to you was the goddamn stupidest
thing I’ve ever seen!” Will snapped. “It
was only by incredible luck and a series of coincidences that I was there to
save your sorry ass.
Will continued fiercely, “You have no idea how hard it was for me to let Channing take you into his
dungeon. That man is an animal and you
let him just rip you to shreds! Where is
your sense?” Will paced
angrily across the room. “If I hadn’t
gotten that break in info that night that I needed, I probably would have blown
the whole operation, months of work, just to get one idiotic, ignorant FBI
agent out of a situation that he should never have let himself get into.
give you a badge? Or is it just you that
lacks any sense of self-preservation or intelligence?”
Don kept his mouth shut and waited for Will to say what he’d
obviously been holding in for days.
Will’s anger was completely understandable and even a relief to Don,
since it was how he’d react in the reverse situation.
isn’t a saint after all.
“If you ever get
yourself into some stupid shit like that again,” Will said
with grim sincerity, “I will leave you in whatever goddamn hole you’ve dug
yourself and walk away, knowing that you’re determined to fuck up your life.”
Will stopped in front of Don, his
face flushed. “Well?
yourself?”
“I can’t defend it,” Don said simply.
else you said, but maybe it wasn’t just a coincidence that you were there to
get me out.”
“What,” Will snapped. “Good karma?”
Don shrugged.
“Something like that.”
“Well, you’ve used up all your good karma for the next few
lifetimes then.”
“Maybe,” Don said, and his heart began to pound.
He stepped close to Will, put his hands on Will’s shoulders,
and kissed him full on the mouth. He had
to tilt his head up slightly but Will’s full lips were as warm and delicious as
he’d imagined. Will hesitated then began
to kiss him back with fervor. Don slid
his tongue between Will’s lips. Will’s
tongue circled Don’s then dove into Don’s mouth.
Don broke the kiss and leaned back.
what his mom had always called his “sunshine smiles”.
electricity that Don had been whipped and abused to find.
the power of that smile but couldn’t help it.
“Maybe it’s just rebound,” Don said cheerfully. “But I don’t
care.”
Will reached down, grabbed the back of Don’s head and kissed
him again. This kiss had double the
electricity of the first one and it was Don that broke it again, panting a
little. His mouth was still sore and
tender and the rest of him, well …
Don stepped back from Will and grinned.
another health check.”
Will stared at him then snapped, “You are a bastard.”
“Yes, you’re just figuring that out?”
the house. He hummed as he walked to his
car, and though he still moved painfully, he felt better than he had in a long
time.