My Alien Boyfriend

Together

*This was supposed to be fluffy but it's kind of depressing.... I'm sorry! More fluff to come :)*

*So I said a few chapters ago we wouldn’t be seeing Parv again, that I would be focusing on Simon and Lewis... woopse! I just really wanted to write some Parvill :)

“Can’t you stay and take a few days off? You just got back!”

“I know, which is exactly why I need to go. I’ll be back in a few days.” He presses a quick kiss to my cheek, turning to the stairs.

I pout, even though he can’t see me, an idea forming in my head as I watch him go. “Fine then. If you need me, I’ll be hanging out with Ridge and Bebop.”

At the name Ridge he flinches and stops, at the name Bebop he spins around to glare at me. “You will not. Ridge is bad enough, I don’t want you to go anywhere near Bebop.”

“Is Strifey jealous?” I smirk.

“Of course not!”

“So why can’t I hang out with Ridge?”

“Why are you suddenly so obsessed with Ridge?”

I try to look as innocent as possible when I say this: “You were gone almost two whole weeks Will. I was bored. There was nobody here to keep me entertained.”

Will’s face goes blank, expressionless. To my surprise he turns and leaves, the door shutting quietly.

I stand there awestruck for a moment. “What?” I run upstairs, hoping Strife is still here.

He is, standing on the path leading to the doors that go nowhere. “You know how Lewis sent you to me? How it was a ‘favor’?” He air quotes. “Back before you came along, Lewis and I... we spent a lot of time together. Then you came along, and he told me that Simon wanted to start spending time with him.”

He turns to look at me. “Do you understand what I’m saying?”

I take a few steps toward him, shaking my head. “Strife-”

“You were like a parting gift. I was very hesitant at first, but you, uh, proved your worth quite quickly.” I blush at the memory, Strife not looking at me. “My point, Parvis, is that I don’t like seeing you around other people like Ridge because I don’t want him to take you away like Simon did.”

It takes a second to process, and when it finally does I run over to Will and throw my arms around him. “I would never leave you Will, never.”

“I know Parvis, I know.”

~Simon’s POV~

Duncan decided that he was going to go hang out in space for a few days, after a bit of prompting from Lewis. Duncan’s not stupid, but like the best of us, he can be naive sometimes.

Currently we are sitting on the once tainted dirt over on Lovely island, stargazing. Lewis points out all sorts of constellations and planets, some of the names so complex it makes my head hurt from just hearing them.

It’s nice, just being able to sit here in Lewis’ arms, listening to him talk about nonsense as we stare out into the abyss. Something tugs at my mind though, something that has been bugging me since he first went missing.

“Lewis?”

He stops talking and looks down at me, pressing a kiss to my forehead. “Yea?”

“Do you ever miss your home? Like, do you ever wish you could go back?”

He’s quiet, staring up at the stars with that faraway look in his eye again. “No,” He says after a while. “I mean, of course there are moments where I think about how nice it would be to go home and see my family and friends, but then I hear you whining about something, and I realize: Those people back on my home planet, they aren’t my family and friends. You guys are, here. I didn’t really have time to get to know anyone back home like I did you guys. I mostly hung out with Will and Sjin, the other kids on the ship with me. Once we were old enough our parents left, leaving us with a crew of commanders. We made our way up the ranks, Will getting sent off to a different ship.”

“Then you guys crashed.”

He laughs. “Yea, Sjin’s fault for spilling the equivalent of tea all over the controls.”

“Of course it’s Sjin’s fault. It usually is. Remember the whole giant head ordeal?”

“Yea, I don’t know what that was all about.” We laugh, falling into a comfortable silence once more.

At some point I fall asleep, waking up some time later to find the torches nearly burnt out, Lewis fast asleep on the ground next to me. I smile, curling back around Lewis and sighing contently.