Pete clings to this loop as long as he can, feeling light and free now that Ray knows the truth. There’s no secrets left between them on this walk; at one point, maybe Day 3, Ray asks if Pete will sing for him once they get out of this. Pete sends him over a slanted grin and insists he’ll perform with a guitar and piano and everything if he can play Ray’s instrument, too, after. Ray turns red as an August-ripened tomato, but he does reply, “I think I’d like that.” They both get warnings because Pete celebrates their would-be date by leading Ray through a waltz. When they separate, wheezing and halfway hysterical, Barkovitch is putting down his camera and calling them queers and Harkness is scribbling furiously in his notebook.
Repeat Until Death by ThirdActLove
Fic art commissioned from the lovely @archrui
