Fics like Ember

Arthur is so goddamn beautiful, flames shining in his eyes, mouth wet with whiskey. He palms the stray drops away with the back of his hand, busted knuckles scraping over a split lip. John stares with his heart in his throat and his guts tied in knots, liquor making everything soft around the edges. Arthur catches his gaze for a moment, smiling wider and rolling his eyes at whatever Bill was rambling about before looking away. He pulls out a cigarette, striking a match on the bottom of his boot. Lifts it to his lips and lights it, tossing the spent match into the campfire, lips pursing around the end as he takes a drag. The cherry flares, and fades; John feels wild. He can’t stop watching. Thinks of Arthur cleaning his gun. Arthur picking a lock. Sketching in the pages of his journal, lost in the lines; good with his hands, so intent. John thinks about what it’s like to be on the other end of focus, Arthur’s eyes narrowed as he cleans blood off of John’s face, ready to stitch him back together. He’s never more real than when Arthur is looking at him that way; like he is all that matters.

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