[When Ben leans close it feels as though his heart has finally found steadiness. Maybe, when Ben says he's earth, what he means without realizing it is that they're earth for each other, because Alex has never felt steadier than when Ben's by his side like this. Than when they're leaning together. It's happened so few times, he can count them on one hand, but he knows how much it means. For both of them.]
[He leans towards Ben, rests his chin on his shoulder in a half-hug, a not-quite-embrace, something that would look strange and clumsy from the outside but which feels so incredibly natural to him. This is where he needs to be right now. In a few hours he'll need to be somewhere else, in another universe entirely. But this is his place now.]
[There are tears on Ben's cheeks and a few on his own, too, but he's happy at the same time. Happy at the promise that may not be kept, just because of what it means that Ben's made it.]
I'm glad. I'm glad I know you. I need to know you to be -
[Himself. Fully himself, everything he has the potential to be. A leader. A man, he guesses, as well as a friend.]
[He buries his face in Ben's neck all of a sudden. Anything but thinking about how he'll have to go in a little while, about how it's what he needs and how it won't be goodbye, really, not forever, but for a while.]
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[He leans towards Ben, rests his chin on his shoulder in a half-hug, a not-quite-embrace, something that would look strange and clumsy from the outside but which feels so incredibly natural to him. This is where he needs to be right now. In a few hours he'll need to be somewhere else, in another universe entirely. But this is his place now.]
[There are tears on Ben's cheeks and a few on his own, too, but he's happy at the same time. Happy at the promise that may not be kept, just because of what it means that Ben's made it.]
I'm glad. I'm glad I know you. I need to know you to be -
[Himself. Fully himself, everything he has the potential to be. A leader. A man, he guesses, as well as a friend.]
[He buries his face in Ben's neck all of a sudden. Anything but thinking about how he'll have to go in a little while, about how it's what he needs and how it won't be goodbye, really, not forever, but for a while.]