Live Now

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Title- Live Now

Author- Elvish Lady

Rating- PG-13

Summery- Orlando can’t find his lover late one night.

Beta- the LOVELY tularia. Thank you for doing this on such short notice!

Author’s Note- Happy Birthday ‘Kasha Kitty! This is for you My Lovely!


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Orlando reached over in the king sized bed for his lover, to find cold sheets. Groggily he lifted his head and looked bleary-eyed at the empty spot beside him. Blinking the sleep that glued his eyelashes together, he sat up looking around. Not seeing his missing love, Orlando stood, unheeding of his nude form and padded out into the hall.

After looking in on the empty studio that they put on the second floor after Orlando and Viggo both woke in the middle of the night with ideas, Orlando’s brow furrowed in concern for his lover. He knew that Viggo couldn’t be in the bathroom, the sheets were too cold for that.

Walking down the stairs, Orlando looked for lights, but none seemed to be forth coming. Looking into the living room, the kitchen, the deck outside, and finally the office, Orlando found Viggo hunched over something in his lap. The side lamp only emitted a small amount of light, casting shadows onto Viggo’s frame, accentuating the muscles of his back, making Orlando smile and his heart to constrict with love.

He walked over to him and looked over his shoulder to see a photo album that Sam put together of him in Rings. The book was open to the picture of Orlando with the one ring.

“What are you doing down here?” Orlando whispered into Viggo’s hair, giving him a kiss on the top of his head, and wrapping his arms around his lover’s shoulders.

“Remembering… and thinking.”

“Remembering and thinking? What are you talking about?” Orlando asked looking down at the photo album. “Wait, you’re not thinking about THAT again are you?” his eyebrows clenching in concern.

“I just wonder…. I wonder what would have happened if we did it all differently. I know you don’t hold it against me… but sometimes I think I do. That some day you’re going to wake up and go ‘what if’ and then you’re going to resent me. I’m twenty years older than you. I just… I don’t know.” Viggo whispered, his voice seemingly strained and pleading.

“You look at me.” Orlando said firmly as he took the album from the older man’s hands, set it on the table, and sat on his lap in its stead. “I didn’t give up anything. I have what I want and what I need. I still have the chance to film. I mean, yes, I walked away from what could have been the best career in the world. I could have had millions of dollars, expensive cars, and what ever else I wanted in the world except for one thing. I wouldn’t have had you. You are the only thing in the entire world that counts for anything. I would be willing to give it all up again, just so I could have you. I love you. I love you’re quirky way. I love the way you opened my eyes to another world when you showed me how to sculpt. I love the way you interact with your son. I love that you’re willing to go through raising another child because I want to. I love you. And that is all that matters to me. So, when you are sitting here in the dark, looking at photos of me in magazines, and promotional pictures of Pirates, I want you to remember that.”

Viggo looked up at Orlando, and halfway smiled. Orlando smiled back before crushing their lips together in a searing kiss. “Come on stinky human. Let’s go back to bed.” He said as he took Viggo’s hand, stood, aand led him away from the book. “That’s history. I want to live now.”