#the only solution is CRASH THAT COPTER and force them to talk

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Tommy buys the champagne in a moment of uncharacteristic optimism. Maybe, he thinks. They could. They might.

One night with Evan is enough to bring everything he’s been missing up again in clear, vivid color. And it was fun, definitely, so—

Can’t they keep having fun? Evan hasn’t called, but Tommy didn’t expect him to. And. Knowing. With more certainty now. What they’re both getting into. They could keep having some of that fun, that spark, that the night before had proven once again they have in abundance.

So Tommy buys the champagne. It’s celebratory—he doesn’t think about what it means beyond that. He doesn’t think about what he’s going to have to do to make it work with Evan this time. Because it was such a coincidence, running into each other at the bar and then going home together. Having a night of tipsy, wild, giggly sex that been just as free and easy as any night while they were together. And that’s what Tommy wants. Something that feels easy.

He makes breakfast, a lavish spread that he can later kissing the remnants of from Evan’s mouth. And hell, he can do better this time. He can try harder, take care of him better, maybe even open up a little more, too. The hardest part is going to be asking for a second chance, and if he can do that, well.

Tommy already bought the champagne.

And then Evan wakes up. And it is easy, and Evan’s never looked more beautiful, and when Tommy tells him that it can change things, asks what he’s doing Saturday, Evan gives him the most devastating post-dick eye flutter Tommy’s ever seen in his whole miserable, goddamn life.

So of course that’s when he fucks it up.

Evan says he doesn’t have to have feelings for people he sleeps with, and if nothing else Tommy knows he’s a good lay. He takes care of his partners. It’s what he’s there for. So there aren’t feelings. That’s fine. He projected how miserable he’s been and that wasn’t fair to Evan. It was why he’d left in the first place, anyway. So he could find someone better and Tommy wouldn’t drag him down.

It is funny, though, he thinks as he leaves for a shift he definitely doesn’t have. He was right. Evan did break his heart a little.

Maybe, with so much still unpacked, he hasn’t had a housewarming party yet. Evan can find something worth celebrating without him.