A tiny infinity later, Quentin asks, “How long do I get you for?”
The first thing Eliot starts to say, before he bites his tongue and stops himself, is “forever.”
And as far as he tries shoving the thought down, as much as he knows he doesn’t have the right to say it, or the power to make it true, it still bobs right back up to the surface anyway. Now that his parents and Fen and all of fucking “high society” are leagues away, there’s nothing to stop his desperate longings. He wants to be with him tomorrow, and the next day, and for all time after. He wants to spend months just holding his hand, years buried in the tight heat of his body, decades delving into his mouth and nipping and kissing and sucking and worshipping his lips, and a lifetime hearing his voice. Greedy bastard that he is, that’s still not enough. He wants to declare to the universe that he’s going to be with Quentin long after they’re dead and gone. He wants to be wrapped up in his soul for all time, like that old couple in the myth, where Jupiter and Mercury transform them into intertwined trees.