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“So am I.” Val looked right back at him. “For you. I mean—you’re here for me, and thank you, thank you. But I want to do that for you as well. After missions. Negotiations. Frustrations, or triumphs. If you need me, in turn.”
“I like that idea,” Tam said. “You and me, here for each other. It’s both of us.”
Val’s smile lit up the room. Brighter than the space outside.
“Think you can sleep now? Thinking about that. About us.”
“Yes,” Val said, settling back down with him, in the circle of Tam’s arms. “It’s not normally more than once a night, anyway. But…even aside from that…I think I feel better. More so than I usually do, after. More evenly balanced, perhaps. You made me laugh.”
“I’m pretty good at balance. Advanced ambassadorial techniques, and all.”
“I’ve got some leave,” Val said, a little hesitantly, but with one hand sneaking over to rest on Tam’s chest. “After we’re back…I know we’re only about three days out, I know you must have a life to get back to, another mission, debriefing, something, but—if you’ve got the time, if you would like…I like oceans, beaches, if you also like that…water, and sailing, and—and falling asleep together, perhaps…”
“You know,” Tam told him, “I do have some leave coming up, and it’s funny, I was thinking the exact same thing about sleeping with you a lot more,” and kissed him again, surrounded by the cloud puff blanket and the hush of the night and the viewscreen swoop of flowing stars.
