#Lil write a fic without using the word though callenge

[zwowow]

What do you think they would fight about?

Everything. They fight and bicker about everything. From dirty laundry left around the house to who gets the first shower in the morning. If there's an opinion to be had on something, these two are going to find a way to have opposite ones.

It's a part of their foreplay sometimes. When they settle down at night before bed, they bicker about what movie or TV show to watch. When it looks like Colson might win their little battle, Em starts to play dirty. He reaches under the blanket pulled over Colson and fingers over the top of his thigh, teasing for what could come if he lets Em have control of the TV.

Colson has a different tactic. He lets Em believe the battle is won, let's him change the channel and relax against the headboard before turning to him and starting to nibble on his neck. Em is sensitive there, and it isn't long until the control is out of his hands and sliding easily into Colson's palm.

The dirty victories like that always lead to another fight, though those typically end in hot kisses and a rough blowjob, not one of them taking the couch or a guest room until an apology has been issued.

There are times when the guest room comes into play. When their fights get too big to be contained to one room, or their anger would shatter the windows. Once, Em called Colson an obnoxious, talentless, little prick, and spent a week on the scratchy, unfamiliar sheets of the guest room. Another time, Colson told Em that he was so far past relevancy he should be begging to make their relationship public, if only to make it into a headline people will actually read. The couch fucked his back so bad Colson had to lay off on jokingly calling Em an old man long enough for his boyfriend to forget the way he moaned and groaned about his bad back all week.

And not often, but a couple of instances in the time they've been together, their fights hit deep into the foundation of their relationship.

When they fight about the future, a series of heartbreaking 'what if's and 'why not's they'd both rather forget, it gets hard. Their fundamental differences in opinions threaten to break them apart during those fights.

What keeps them together, their joking insults and playful disagreements that are a beautiful, contained love flame gives away way too easily to a fire ready to consume them both.

They fight with themselves as well. Em fights his instincts to tell Colson exactly what he's doing wrong with his career, the drugs, his music, and his daughter. He bites his tongue until there's blood when he sees him making a wrong step because even though fighting is their thing, he does know when to pick his deeper, more serious battles. He sniffs under his breath often that Colson could try and do the same.

Colson white knuckles his way through more of Em's bullshit than anyone gives him credit for. If there were a running tally of how many times Colson has swallowed jeers or pushed down an argument starter, he doubts he could count to the number it went up to. He's developed a nose for emotional landmines Em steps on without a care. Colson does his part in keeping them from fighting until they implode, and wishes Em could try to do the same.

So they fight. Over TV remotes and child rearing. In deep kisses and choked sobs. They fight about where to eat dinner and who gets the fries left at the bottom of the McDonald's bag. And it's all in good fun up until the moment it isn't. That moment that pushes a fight from insignificant to foundation rocking.

So um, you asked what they fight about and I gotta say, an easier question would have been what Don't they fight about?