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ozy has been reading some flds memoirs lately
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"It's your honeymoon too, I wouldn't have wanted to plan things without talking to you." 

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"Oh. That-- makes sense. --I haven't left town much. I don't know where would be a good place to go."

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Marlo pets his hair. 

"We could go to the city for a few days — there's a zoo and an art museum and a natural history museum and a planetarium —" 

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"I don't think I've ever been to any of those things!"

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"Then we can show you some of them!" 

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He bounces. 

"I've never been to Salt Lake City before! Apparently it's huge!"

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"It is huge — the planetarium's great, I liked the natural history museum and the library but I don't know what you like —" 

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"I love libraries and I like history-- I don't know what a planetarium is--"

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"It's for seeing the stars — you can go at night and use their telescopes, or they have films about astronomy during the day, there's a dome they project things onto the ceiling of." 

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"That sounds like the best thing in the world."

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"It's great." 

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Leo puts his head on Marlo's shoulder.

He observes that they have not had sex yet. That is good, because he's scared, but also terrible, because he's scared and the dread is spreading through his entire body and he just wants to get it over with. 

Maybe Sasha is here because Sasha doesn't want them to have sex? That would make sense. But they are going to have to have sex at some point.

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"Are you okay?" 

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"I'm great."

Keep sweet, he thinks.

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He clearly isn't. 

Marlo gives him space. (Sasha can ask later, maybe that'll scare him less.) 

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Aaaaaaaaa no what did he do wrong why is Marlo moving away from him. 

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"Em," and it isn't quite a warning. "You're just freaking him out more." 

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"Sorry," very quietly to Leo, and he goes back to hugging him. 

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And now Sasha told Marlo to hug him and he should probably be thinking about this, should probably be figuring out what it means for his place in the household, but he's tired and overwhelmed and Marlo is right there, as warm and strong as he'd always imagined, and hundreds of nights of fantasies rise up and he's crying softly into Marlo's shoulder. 

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Okay. Okay. This he can do, he knows how to do this. 

He cradles Leo and whispers "we've got you, we've got you, it's going to be okay," over and over again into his hair. 

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Marlo is so good. How is Marlo so good and noble and kind and everything Leo ever dreamed he would be--

"I don't know what to do," Leo says into Marlo's shoulder. "I don't know what-- my position is."

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"We both like you and care about you and want to give you a place where you can be okay," he says, because he doesn't know what else to say. 

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"I think I've said five words to Sasha in my entire life before my wedding day."

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"And you bounce when you're happy and get excited about libraries, but I can leave you alone," and he does that.  

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Okay, Sasha is leaving them alone, that must mean that it's time for--

He presses a kiss firmly to Marlo's lips in between his tears.

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