Toby loved sleeping skin to skin with you...
...not in a sexual way, suprisingly.
He just loves you and the feeling of you against him. Toby sleeps shirtless anyway, but the first time you two fell asleep like that after sex was just so pure, so calming and tranquil. For once he was free of all the plaguing thoughts in his head, because of you (Or maybe because he was able to enjoy some proximity).
He realized after having to camp out somwhere else for a mission with a bunch of guys, not having you there to hold and ground himself with, that he never wants to be apart from you ever again. Genuinely, the poor boy went through torture — Worst sleep of his life and it wasn't even because he had to sleep on the ground.
First night he was back in your room, he opened the conversation with a distinguished "Take your shirt off". You blinked at Toby for a second, sitting down on your bed: "What? Toby, not now, I told you I'm tired and you probably are too..!"
"Wait, nononono, n—not like t—that.."
It's your warmth, the softness of the skin, the lingering scent of your cashmere vanilla body lotion you'd put on after the shower, your hair in his face, your hands resting on his own while they were wrapped around your waist... It soothes him. Toby was and is prone to night terrors, nightmares and sometimes even sleep paralysis — The only thing that ever helped was you.
You thought it was sweet. It made him more human, honestly, because who doesn't crave the raw closeness of a loved one. Yeah, it makes him human in this environment and it makes you human, too, when you enjoy it as much as he does.
Toby's head would rest in the crook of your neck, his fingers sliding down your bare back, tracing your spine. It was way past midnight and you knew you had to get up rather early, but you just couldn't sleep. Your boyfriend also wasn't, you could tell by the way he kissed your shoulder from time to time.
In those moments you didn't even want to sleep. It was so peaceful, feeling Toby's warm (actually, super warm) skin against yours in a non-lustful way made you feel all fuzzy inside. This dude is like a furnace, which is like a gift send from above in the winter.. maybe that's also why you felt fuzzy inside. Not only because you felt loved, but also comfortable and taken care of.
Toby's usually not good at keeping his mouth shut, so you're extra thanful for moments like these — He gets all groggy, snuggled up right next to you with your head against his chest. He'll kiss the crown of your head, whisper sweet nothings in your ear, while you listen to his heartbeat.
That's also one of his favorite parts about being so close to you: He always knows you're still there, alive, by feeling or listening to your heartbeat.
He doesn't like to admit it, but he's actually quite the romantic as you can see. He'd trade the world so he'd be able to lie next to you, all vulnerable, skin to skin.
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