Destination: Permanent Vacation

10: Yaku - Saturday

"Yaku!" I shut the door as I hear the steps down the hallway. "Morisuke!" Ignore him Morisuke. I lean against the door and breathe. The door rattles as a fist collides with it. "Open the door, lyubimyy,"

"Stop calling me that!" I yell back.

"Why? Did what happened in Moscow mean nothing to you?" What?

I whirl, opening the door and glaring up at Lev.

"Moscow? Oh, come on. We both know it's the other way around," I say.

"You think that meant nothing to me? Oh, Mori, you couldn't be more wrong," Lev answers, leaning against the doorframe.

"Oh, just get in before anyone overhears," I grab his shirt and tug him into our room, slamming the door behind him. "Now what on earth do you mean? Moscow did mean something to you?"

"Of course it did!" Lev says, dropping onto the bed. "Mori, I've liked you for years so that... that week was beautiful... it was one of the best weeks of my life-"

"So why did you leave?"

"What?" Lev stares up at me, looking as clueless as he did when I met him.

"I woke up and you were gone!" I yell.

"I went to order room service!" Lev yells back, standing up too. All of a sudden I feel very small.

"What?" I whisper, barely choking out the word but still trying not to be so quiet.

"Yaku, I'm a giant. I'm tall and gangly and you're like well over a foot shorter than me. I figured that you'd be in pain so I went to order room service but they were being stupidly slow and I ended yelling at them and they barely hurried up and I nearly gave up on ordering room service at all and by the time I got up to our room, you were gone. You left me, Yaku," Lev slowly descends from shouting into a whisper.

"I thought you left me," I whisper back.

"You know, I was almost dreading coming here, but I thought that if I was in the same room as you, you'd be forced to stay with me. We could talk things over and I could find out why you left. But you only left because you thought that I'd left you," Lev says. He leans down, his long arms letting his hands rest on my waist. "I'm sorry, Mori,"

"No, no don't apologise!" I tell him, reaching up to cup his face in my hands. "I should've waited longer,"

"I was gone for quite a while, I should've left you a message,"

"Can we just agree that we're both idiots?"

"Idiots in love," Lev responds. He smiles and pulls away. "I actually bought you something in Moscow, thinking that I'd get the opportunity to give it to you. But you ran off... We're lucky I kept it," He pulls a small brown leather box from his bedside table and hands it to me.

I open it and find it lined with plush red velvet. There's white tissue paper which I pull out, revealing a small silver necklace with two small things dangling from the chain. The first one, a small garnet encased in silver; the second a small round piece of silver engraved with the words 'from Russia with love'. As I lift it up with my finger, the piece of metal flips over revealing another engraving on the other side. MY+LH.

"Lev-" I start to talk, not really sure of what I'm saying.

"Mori, just... leave it. I'm sorry, okay,"

"Lev, no, why are you apologising? It's beautiful!" I tell him, closing the box in one hand and grabbing his shirt with the other.

"I was moving too quickly, I'm sorry, it's too early to be buying you jewellery and necklaces are more stereotypically for women and I don't want to infer that you're- ow!" The only way to shut Lev up. Kick him.

"Lev, I love it. And it's not too early! Do you remember what happened that night in Moscow? I think buying jewellery is exactly the next step," I tell him, rushing through my words.

"I'm an idiot,"

"Lev, we're both idiots. We had a true Romeo and Juliet moment back in Moscow,"

"Oh yeah? Who's Romeo and who's Juliet?"

"Lev!" I release his shirt and whack his shoulder.

"Well, chronologically, I guess I'm Juliet," Lev says through a laugh. "Moy malen'kiy Romeo,"

"Seriously? Lev, you are so cringey," I whack him again.

"Aww, lyubimyy~" He whines. Actually... it's not really a whine. Oikawa whines in that annoying high pitched voice of his. Lev can't whine because he's had so many voice drops. He sounds more... I hate to admit this- hot. Lev sounds hot.

I push a hand up into his face and he retaliates by using his size advantage to knock me onto the bed.

I yelp and whack him.

"Move!" I groan, he doesn't move. "Lev~ get off~" He smirks down at me and I sigh, already knowing exactly what immature comment he's about to make before it leaves his lips.

"Only if you help me," He winks.

"Are you serious?" I complain.

"Yes," I whack him again. "I'm sorry, no, I'm Severus," Whack. "Oww, Mori, fine. Seriously though, if you don't want to it's fine, I respect your boundaries," How is Lev managing to act like a gentleman even though he's hovering literally over me?

"Yes," I mumble.

"Huh?" I groan, not wanting to repeat myself.

"Yes, I'll *mumble mumble*"

"Speak up, Mori. Use your words," Lev says.

"I want to-" I trail off mumbling again.

"Morisuke," Lev says my name in a low voice.

"I want to sleep with you!" I let out, quickly covering my mouth in surprise.

"There's the answer I was looking for," Lev purrs. "But are you 100% sure? Because if you're not completely sure, then I will stop and wait for you to be ready," Such. A. Goddamn. Gentleman.

"I'm sure, Lev," I whisper. He smirks again.

"Anything you want to grab before we get started, lyubimyy?" He asks. I nod and he stands back up. I open the wardrobe and retrieve my headband. "That's adorable,"

"Sh-Shut up," I blush.

"You ready?" I nod my head and go to lock the door. "I need to hear you say it," I step away from the now-locked door and take Lev's hands in mine.

"I'm ready," He smirks and walks towards me, backing me up against the bed until I fall onto it.

"I'll try to let you walk this time shall I?"

"Don't you dare,"