08-31-2016, 08:37 AM
Bradley watched as Methos and Anton played their parts. Adam was all over the club floor flirting with man and woman and he say his songs. It was a sight to watch him in his element. He'd long gotten over the jealous moments when Adam would touch another person. He knew where his husband came home to every night even if they weren't in the same location.
The girl beside him rattled on things he didn't quite understand. Science must be her thing. He smiled and nodded and basked in her excitement.
Bradley had forgotten how many glasses of wine he'd had as he sipped his last one - at least that was what he told himself. She declared she was celebrating and Bradley smiled. "What are you celebrating my dear?"
"Academic rigor! The promise of tenure! Changing the field of physics forever!"
Her expression changed, more like she was changing gears. Probably dumbing it down for him. "Badass science!"
Bradley smiled. "Definitely in need of celebration then." He waved over the bartender. "Three of what she's having. Methos will want to celebrate with us." And he couldn't leave out Anton, he and Adam were having a grand old time.
His drink arrived and the other two were being held for when Adam returned to him. It was a truly fascinating drink, the way it glowed. Bradley turned to watch his husband on his latest rendition of a ballad he'd written when they were very new to this life.
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Methos was in heaven on stage. Every eye on him. The roar of the crowd. Though the rich and the famous were a little more discrete in their roar. But the energy was there and that was what Adam loved.
He and Anton paused a moment and took a moment to wet their whistles so to speak. While he breathed in he spoke to the crowd. "Anton Stepanov, ladies and gentleman. You can see him preforming Orpheus Monteverdi's L'Orefeo. One last song. Any one specific?"
A man in the crowd shouted out, "Dark Necessities"
Methos frowned. "I am not a cover band."
Methos waved the suggestion away.
A woman in the crowd shouted, "Found His Soul."
Methos grinned "Yes. That one. I can definitely do that one."
He hoped Anton knew the song. But if not a capella it was. Methos started singing the song he'd written for Bradley. It was his bearing of the soul to the man he loved. The first time he'd ever sang the song he and Bradley were alone, and he'd proposed afterwards. It was not a whirlwind romance, years upon years went into crafting it before Adam proposed to him. And Adam had been terrified Bradley would say no.
As the song came to the chorus his eyes landed on the pair at the bar. Bradley grinned at him and he leaned in to the girl with a whisper. Bradley knew the game...
****
Methos started singing. His voice as lovely as the day he'd first sung that song to him. And when his husband turned to find him with a beautiful girl. Bradley leaned in and whispered. "It seems you have an admirer. He will sweep you away when this is all said and done. Your friends will be ever so jealous. Teach them to leave you here all alone."
Edited by Methos, Aug 31 2016, 08:42 AM.
The girl beside him rattled on things he didn't quite understand. Science must be her thing. He smiled and nodded and basked in her excitement.
Bradley had forgotten how many glasses of wine he'd had as he sipped his last one - at least that was what he told himself. She declared she was celebrating and Bradley smiled. "What are you celebrating my dear?"
"Academic rigor! The promise of tenure! Changing the field of physics forever!"
Her expression changed, more like she was changing gears. Probably dumbing it down for him. "Badass science!"
Bradley smiled. "Definitely in need of celebration then." He waved over the bartender. "Three of what she's having. Methos will want to celebrate with us." And he couldn't leave out Anton, he and Adam were having a grand old time.
His drink arrived and the other two were being held for when Adam returned to him. It was a truly fascinating drink, the way it glowed. Bradley turned to watch his husband on his latest rendition of a ballad he'd written when they were very new to this life.
****
Methos was in heaven on stage. Every eye on him. The roar of the crowd. Though the rich and the famous were a little more discrete in their roar. But the energy was there and that was what Adam loved.
He and Anton paused a moment and took a moment to wet their whistles so to speak. While he breathed in he spoke to the crowd. "Anton Stepanov, ladies and gentleman. You can see him preforming Orpheus Monteverdi's L'Orefeo. One last song. Any one specific?"
A man in the crowd shouted out, "Dark Necessities"
Methos frowned. "I am not a cover band."
Methos waved the suggestion away.
A woman in the crowd shouted, "Found His Soul."
Methos grinned "Yes. That one. I can definitely do that one."
He hoped Anton knew the song. But if not a capella it was. Methos started singing the song he'd written for Bradley. It was his bearing of the soul to the man he loved. The first time he'd ever sang the song he and Bradley were alone, and he'd proposed afterwards. It was not a whirlwind romance, years upon years went into crafting it before Adam proposed to him. And Adam had been terrified Bradley would say no.
As the song came to the chorus his eyes landed on the pair at the bar. Bradley grinned at him and he leaned in to the girl with a whisper. Bradley knew the game...
****
Methos started singing. His voice as lovely as the day he'd first sung that song to him. And when his husband turned to find him with a beautiful girl. Bradley leaned in and whispered. "It seems you have an admirer. He will sweep you away when this is all said and done. Your friends will be ever so jealous. Teach them to leave you here all alone."
Edited by Methos, Aug 31 2016, 08:42 AM.