As long as you need me to, ( he told him softly, Drift's throaty purr vibrating through his fingers.
After his divorce, Leonard knew hadn't been the easiest to tolerate. Even sensing it was coming hadn't put a damper on his grief, his failure. He failed his marriage, failed his wife, his daughter, and he failed to keep his professional life together in the wake of his personal failures. Drinking himself stupid and lashing out was par for the course back then, unwilling to move on, even afraid to, until he climbed onto that shuttle.
That wasn't to say he knew what Drift was going through, at all. He did know something of the paradoxical need to push others away just as much as he needed them to be there with him.
Leonard dropped a hand away to tug his boots off, before he shifted into a crosslegged seat, happy to keep up the caresses until Drift asked him to go. )
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After his divorce, Leonard knew hadn't been the easiest to tolerate. Even sensing it was coming hadn't put a damper on his grief, his failure. He failed his marriage, failed his wife, his daughter, and he failed to keep his professional life together in the wake of his personal failures. Drinking himself stupid and lashing out was par for the course back then, unwilling to move on, even afraid to, until he climbed onto that shuttle.
That wasn't to say he knew what Drift was going through, at all. He did know something of the paradoxical need to push others away just as much as he needed them to be there with him.
Leonard dropped a hand away to tug his boots off, before he shifted into a crosslegged seat, happy to keep up the caresses until Drift asked him to go. )