[Milliways]: Something REALLY new

[golden_lyre]

Orpheus pauses outside his door and turns to smile at Steve.

"Well? You've got the key."

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[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Keeping it short and sweet may be the answer."

[golden_lyre]

"If you're confident enough, no one will question it," Orpheus offers.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"I hope so."

He's quiet a moment. "It's going to be weird to be there and not really be home. I don't have an apartment anymore. Most of my friends are on the front lines, and I haven't kept in touch with my extended family for years."

[golden_lyre]

Orpheus huffs out a soft laugh. "Yeah, I know the feeling."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve huffs too and kisses his chest. "Sorry. Of course you would."

[golden_lyre]

"No reason to be sorry."


[ooc: Wee pause for errand running. :)]

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"All right." He lays his cheek on Orpheus's chest.


[ooc: Kaykay.]

[golden_lyre]

Orpheus strokes along his spine.

"It never gets any less strange, if you were wondering."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Being alone?" He kisses Orpheus's chest.

[golden_lyre]

"Going home."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"I imagine not," Steve says. "We're neither of us the same men who left. Home changes and so do we, usually in different directions."

[golden_lyre]

"Yes," Orpheus murmurs. "Exactly."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Is that why you spend so much time in the bar?"

[golden_lyre]

"How do you mean?" Orpheus asks, frowning slightly, confused.

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Because going home is so strange."

[golden_lyre]

"I'm not home when I go back, though."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Yeah, you go back to wherever you came from, but you can go home from there, can't you?"

[golden_lyre]

"I can. I do sometimes. But that isn't why I come here so much."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"Then why do you?" He strokes Orpheus's chest slowly.

[golden_lyre]

"For a long time it was because Apollo comes here. Even if I didn't see him while I was here, knowing that made me want to be here."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

Steve nods slowly. "Having him here must be comforting."

[golden_lyre]

"He's not even the Apollo from my world," Orpheus says. "But it had been so long since I'd seen him. I'd given up hope of ever seeing him again.

"Of ever seeing any of my family again."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"And now you've got him and your aunt...who else?"

[golden_lyre]

"I've seen quite a few others," Orpheus says. "Artemis and Aphrodite, Epimetheus, Ganymede... There's nowhere else I could meet so many like me.

"It's more like home than home."

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

"I'm glad," Steve says softly. "I'm glad you've got people like you around."