After the Shindig

[04_after]

Quatre's lying on the sofa in his apartment, socked feet resting up on one of the arm rests as he reads a book. He's vaguely waiting for his boyfriend (he hasn't changed out of what he is wearing for the party, though he's pulled his sleeves back down), but it's the type of book -- and he has the type of patience -- that he can probably wait near-infinitely (for sums of the infinite under 12 hours).

Hopefully, though, he won't have to.

Comments

[3nanashi]

Maybe not indefinitely, but he will have to wait a while.







Eventually, though, one of the sets of footsteps coming down the hall has a possibly familiar rhythm, and is followed by a hand on the doorknob. (A hand that the lock is keyed to, in case Quatre was in any doubt. He's Quatre; he wasn't.)