Through the Screen

"adri, don't you think you should go to bed now?" noah sulked, rolling his eyes as he watched his son shifting his body further so his head could lay down in abel 's lap, abel 's fingers running through the tangled mess in a fond action.

"what's your problem, i wanna spend time with my papa," adrian complained, and abel only giggled softly, pink splashing on his cheeks at all the attention. this was the last thing he thought would be happening when he took an impulsive decision to come back home on the first flight he could catch. he was expecting ignorance and cold glances, not lunch dates and shopping and an actual cake baked for him.

he still had a dab of blue icing smeared on his left cheek that he was unaware of, and neither noah, nor adrian made him aware of the fact. the reasons for both of them were different, where noah thought abel just looked adorable, adrian was hoping that the icing would leave an annoying blue mark on his papa's cheek when he finally realises that it's there.

"come on, he's my husband too you're not the only one who missed him," noah pouted, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose as he crossed his arms across his chest and adrian just squinted his eyes at noah before sighing in defeat, getting off abel 's lap and pressing his lips against abel 's cheek in an affectionate gesture.

"goodnight papa," adrian mumbled and abel ruffled his hair once again before kissing his forehead, and once adrian moved to walk to his own room, noah was calling out his name.

simply stuck his tongue out at him, ignoring

his breath as abel giggled, for a moment forgetting how messed up the situation really was and simply relishing in the fact that they could be

that was causing his breathing to get shallower and more rapid

in and out of consciousness, breaths leaving his mouth as

was an unhealthy shade of red, his lips parted and his eyes rolled back into his

noah sat down next to him and pushed a tuft of curly hair off abel 's forehead, abel was falling limp against him, the slightly

to keep the feeling of safety above all his thoughts. when noah turned around in his position and pulled abel impossibly close, abel could