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3.5

[23rd of September - Düsseldorf]

Calum heard the story... third hand? Luke told Michael, and Michael told him. It was nice that Michael and Luke were talking more but also made it feel like he was gossiping about his own boyfriend.

Ashton had gone to Luke early in the afternoon before he was expected to do anything, and Luke was sort of a free agent for his few days back. Sierra had decided that it was for the best if Luke just 'hung around' rather than anything else because he'd be gone again in a few days. So he was more than happy to spend a bit more time with Ashton. Which was why he hadn't thought much of it when they were about thirty minutes into the movie, and Ashton started on an... odd line of questioning.

"So, like, has Sierra ever surprised you like that?" he had asked.

The main character had been waiting at home naked for her husband. If he and Michael were watching it together, he probably would have posed the same question at Michael to try and make him blush. Ashton, however, didn't normally watch these sorts of movies with them, and he didn't normally ask questions like that. But, he'd reasoned, if he was old enough to have a boyfriend, he was old enough to have these conversations.

"Yeah, a couple of times, back before we worked together," he confessed, thinking that would be the end of it.

"So, before you were married? Did you like it? Or not? Is that why she stopped?"

"Ah yeah, before we were married, you already know we had sex before we were married, and god no, I loved it, love everything about her, but it was usually after we'd been apart for a bit, and we aren't apart like that very often anymore." As he explained, Ashton was silent, so he assumed the discussion was over.

"Has one of you ever watched the other while they ah-self completed? I've seen that happen in movies like this before," he added, "is that real or just like a movie thing?"

"Some people like that," he replied, avoiding the main vein of the question, eyes still fixed on the television.

Ashton hummed his understanding again, and they went back to watching the movie quietly.

Then another question came to him "What about in movies when a guy asks a girl what she's wearing on the phone, and she lies? Why is she lying?"

Luke fought the urge to turn horrified eyes on the younger man, "because she wants to sound sexy, and a t-shirt and jeans isn't as sexy as baking in your lingerie."

"But if you baked in your lingerie, couldn't you like burn a breast or something?"

He sighed, a laugh almost escaping him, "It's about the fantasy Ash, not practicality,"

He made a 'hmph' noise, "Okay, well, what about sex on the floor? Like in here, hypothetically, would the rug give you rug burn?" he asked, gesturing to the shag pile rug in front of them.

This was when Luke started to get suspicious, "No one is having sex in here, not while we're here,"

"I know that! "Ashton protested, "I just mean, do people really have sex on the ground? Or is that fantasy too?"

"Some people," Luke said, unwilling to give his young charge any more pointers.

"What about penises? What's considered big? Is yours big?"

Luke actually choked this time, "it's fine, let's just drop this." he said, focusing on the TV.

"Fine? Like compared to Michaels? His is big, isn't it?" Ashton had turned completely on the couch, drawing his legs up underneath himself and leaning forward ever so slightly to watch Luke with big excited eyes.