(I'm still in time, yeah!)
(and i wrote Oz's fluff with a sort of Marriage proposal, a sort of)
Prompt: Kissing
Paring: Beecher/Keller
“Do you wanna marry again?” Toby is reading his copy of Infinite Jest waiting for the lights out when Chris comes out of the blue with this question.
It is the ninth day of lockdown and Toby begins to think that the honeymoon phase is aready in the past (or maybe you can’t find someone likeable 24/7, even if has Chris Keller’s ass and charm) so any questions, anything that allows him to get out of his pod is welcome.
“If you're proposing already at least you should be on your knees.” Toby jokes leaning out from his bunk.
“Oh I’m sure you would like to have me on my knees.”
“What can I say? It suits you.”
Ok maybe the honeymoon phase is not over, after nine days together they still want teasing each other. And fuck each other senseless. The time to the lights out seems infinitely long.
“Toooooobe!” No time for indulge in impure thoughts.
“What?”
“Are you ignoring me?”
“I’m talking to you like now, how can I ignore you?” Sometime Chris remember him his little girl, Holly when was little. Holly always wanted his father’s attention even when they are playing together. It’s never enough. If Toby played with her and Gary she wanted that Toby only would play with her. She wasn’t jealous, especially not of her big brother that loved so much, but she always wanted more. More love, more games, more of Toby. More of Toby especially. Nothing was ever enough. In his dark days, when he was an alcoholic, Holly was the only one able to make him feel loved. Like Chris. Trapped sometime but always loved.
“Do you wanna marry again?” Chris asks nagging.
“And with whom, sorry?”
“Don’t know, some chicks. Some pretty woman with an expensive coat and a French name that goes well with Tobias.” Chris mumbles his name like was an insult.
“First no name goes well with Tobias. Second where will I met this rich and beautiful girl?”
“I didn’t say she was beautiful.”
“Is she ugly?” Toby says doing his best puppy eyes.
“Maybe you deserve an ugly woman. I don’t know where you will met her, chicks write to convicts all the time. They find scumbags sexy.”
“Chris I’m not Ted Bundy! There isn’t a Tobias Beecher’s fan club online outside this pod.”
“Of course there is. I made it.”
They smile each other.
After a few minutes Chris speaks again.
“I didn’t have a fancy weddings like yours-“
“But you had a lot of more marriages than mine.”
“Whatever. I didn’t have a fancy weddings like your but there was a moment I liked more than others. Or maybe a moment that I can remember even in the marriages when I was totally stoned.”
“Which one?”
“Marriage?”
Toby rolls his eyes. “Moment.”
“Oh yeah. When they said You can kiss the bride.”
“And why did you liked so much?”
“You know me Toby-“
“I don’t, really.”
“You do, really.”
Sometime their dialogues remembers Toby a chess game. To a move corresponds always another move.
“You know me Toby, I’m old fashioned. Don’t know. Maybe it is the official nature, maybe the chance to start another life.”
Toby waits.
“Without conjugal the marriage is useless here anyway.” Chris snorts.
Toby waits again.
“I will never start another life, again.”
Toby knows it’s true. Toby has a chance, Toby will be outside of Oz in few years, Toby will be able to meet a woman if he will want. All Chris has is Oz. And Toby.
“You know I’m not a priest or a Elvis Presley’s double and I will not definitely play the woman after the lights out but you can kiss me if you want.”
Chris’ smile is so beautiful that for an instant Toby sees outside.
Chris comes close to him, their noses touching, his breath against his lips.
“You can kiss the bride.”
They kiss.