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[horus_neferti]

It had taken a long time to find a road that led to New York. There were plenty of roads, but almost none he could use. They were still alive in a city like this. Lost, forgotten, but not dead. Eventually he had given up, and just followed the centipede smell, because even if New York had the protection of rats and birds, they had still infested

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[horus_neferti]

"uumm... Little India." Neferti said, thinking awkwardly about just where he was. He was busy trying not to have his stomach do flips up his throat at Daniel's words.

"um. Near 73rd. That's... the only street sign I saw. I didn't have any choice where I would end up, when I stepped off the road."

[d_dreiberg]

"It's all right." Dan said quietly; he usually walked most places - he never bothered with a car. Who needed one when he had Archie?

"I'll be there as soon as I can." He continued. "Wait for me."

[horus_neferti]

"I've waited long enough to see you. I can wait a little longer." Neferti said, his smile coming through his voice again.

"It's a red and yellow building. Near the grocery store." He added, trying to see out the window at anything that would Dan get there faster.

[d_dreiberg]

"I know where that is," Dan said - he liked Indian cuisine occasionally, although it gave him heartburn sometimes. "I'll be there as soon as I can." A pause.

"And try not go get into trouble." He smiled, then, too - just a little, over the lump in his throat and the shock still lingering in his mind. He hung up and left the groceries where they lay, just having enough sense to lock the door behind him.

It took him about twenty minutes to walk at a quick pace - before he spotted the restaurant. It wasn't one he'd been to, mostly because he didn't speak the language.

He crossed the street and immediately started scanning the crowd for Neferti.

[horus_neferti]

Neferti had been waiting, doing his best to stay out of trouble, which wasn't actually too hard, because he had been waiting for Daniel, and hadn't been paying too much attention to anyone or anything else.
He could count all the times he had been nervous on one hand.

He saw Dan a few moments before Dan saw him, and his stomach did another of those annoying leaps it had started since he'd arrived.

He lifted his arm, calling out Daniel's name, and for just a moment, he tried to keep his dignity, to approach with a calm coolness. But he couldn't do it, and a moment later he was flinging himself at Daniel.

[d_dreiberg]

"The tub really isn't big enough for both of us..." Dan said, looking at him, knowing exactly what the other was getting at.

He knelt beside the tub and fetched the cloth from where it hung, then dipped it into the water and began to move it over Neferti's back in a circular motion. It was as much a massage as it was a bath.

"Perhaps if you want to share, a shower would be better. Next time."

[cobra_tribe]

Neferti gave Dan a small, sulky look but it didn't last very long and it had faded away once Dan began to run the cloth over him. He could hold a grudge forever, but he was also very easily placated.

"Alright. But don't think you're going to get off so easily next time." Neferti said closing his eyes to enjoy the water the the cloth against his skin.

[d_dreiberg]

"Cute." Dan quipped; this sort of thing didn't bother him - he liked taking care of others. Even if Neferti had been a stranger, he would have done this very thing, without hesitation.

He gathered the other's hair up and held it with one hand as he rubbed at the back of his neck and over the shoulders. This was a new sort of intimacy, this everyday, ordinary sort of bond. They hadn't had a chance to really develop that yet, to get a sense for each other's usual routines.

Daniel drew back when he was finished, giving Neferti a little kiss to the temple.

[cobra_tribe]

Neferti gave a content murmur of pleasure as Dan rubbed his hands over his neck and shoulder and through his hair to hold it up. Such a casual and wholly intimate time and it satisfied him.

"At least until you tire of my constant need for affection." Neferti said, smiling and closing his eyes against the small kiss.

"I'll try to behave myself." He said.