JuJitsu SPF RPS chapter 10
"I could come to your hotel--for old time's sake, yeah?" Norman opens with, offering what he delivers best: a now worth remembering. And in that moment Sean loves him for his sense of freedom, spontaneity, for how comfortable with his own nature and desires he is.
He loves Norman even more after he tells him they can't fuck tonight and why. Norman's joy at Sean's happiness is just as real as the playful lust had been seconds before.
They talk on the phone for almost an hour, Norman wanting to hear every detail and not-quite believing it when Sean tells him about Dave wanting to take it slow.
"Sean..." Norman's voice groans under the weight of his worry. "Be careful, yeah? In case he has a tiny penis or he's not as gay as he thinks he is."
"He doesn’t kiss like a man with a small dick," Sean says to joke it off, and they fall into teasing banter and clever smack-talk so easily that for a second there it feels like they are brothers in truth and not just for the camera.
"I'm serious though," Reedus says after Sean's laughed himself breathless. "You're beautiful, inside and out. A man'd have to be crazy to turn you down. I know I was."
Sean doesn't know what to say to that. It's been too long, and Norman's reasons for leaving had been valid, despite how they'd felt about each other.
"Don't let yourself get hurt, Sean," Reedus says into the silence, "And call me if you need anything."
There's a click and Sean's left alone with his thoughts in the quiet of his hotel room.