there's you in everything i do (teocatl, obsblood, T)

Five times Teomitl thought "I love you" to Acatl

One time he said it out loud.

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ce cipactli (one crocodile)

The first time Teomitl thinks the words, it’s in the shadowed privacy of his own courtyard after a lesson. Acatl is binding the wounds from their bloodletting—he insists upon it, and at any rate it’s easier than Teomitl trying to wrap his own forearm one-handed with the other end of the bandage held in his teeth—and Teomitl looks at him, grave and dark-eyed and careful, and the words fall into his mind like stones into a still pond. Slow. Heavy. Creating ripples that waver to the very edges of who he is.

I love you.

He inhales too sharply, and Acatl looks at him. “Too tight?”

What—oh, the bandages. He shakes his head.

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