Suite 518/520, Wednesday after lunch

[demonbelthazor]

Bel was in too good of a mood to work, so he left the construction site after lunch and headed back to his room. Currently, he was standing in the living room, finishing a frustrating and somewhat confusing phone call with Angel, while the cats looked on, bemused.

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel gave Anders a curious look. "Something wrong?" he said. "Are you okay?"

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders shook his head in the most unconvincing way possible. "Fine. I'm fine. How come he gets to know?"

[demonbelthazor]

"Gets to know what?" Bel said. "How I feel? I thought we talked about that last night. . . ."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Sort of? A little? Maybe?"

Anders dropped onto the couch and ran his hands through his hair, flustered and wondering if this whole spell had been a Really Bad Idea.

"So . . . you like him more than me then, huh?"

[demonbelthazor]

Bel frowned and sat down next to Anders on the couch. "No, it's just different," he said. "What I feel for him, or for Phoebe, or for you, it's all different."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders suddenly found a tiny hole in the knee of his jeans fascinating, and started picking at the threads. "Do you lo -- I mean . . ."

Argh.

[demonbelthazor]

"Do I love you?" Bel said, tilting his head. "I do, you know that."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"I --" Anders looked at him for a very long moment, agape. "You never say so, and I wasn't sure," he said finally.

[demonbelthazor]

"I don't?" Bel said, surprised. "I should."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Little mental fistpump of victory.

"It'd be nicer than you just saying you know every time I say it," Anders said, already starting to blush like a huge dork.

[demonbelthazor]

"I'm sorry," Bel said. "I guess I didn't realize that you wanted to hear it."

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Dork," Anders said affectionately. "'course I do."

[demonbelthazor]

"I'll try to be better about it, promise," Bel said.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"It's just nice to hear it," Anders told him, slinging an arm around his shoulders.

[demonbelthazor]

"I'll say it more often," Bel promised.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders leaned over and kissed him. "Seriously, just hearing it from you is a lot."

[demonbelthazor]

"I really mean it," Bel said, kissing Anders back.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders pulled back and, a little cross-eyed with goofy happiness, grinned at him. "I know," he said. "I love you too."

[demonbelthazor]

"Dork," Bel said, cuffing Anders lightly.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Your dork," Anders pointed out.

And since Bel was in such a schmoopy mood, why not take advantage of it and try to curl up in his lap?

[demonbelthazor]

"Mine," Bel agreed, not at all having any problems with the snuggling.

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"And don't you forget it." Anders closed his eyes and snuggled up happily against Bel. Yeah, this was definitely good.