The apartment was quiet in the way only a shared evening could be. Ocean air drifted in through the balcony door, cool against the warmth of the lamp, and the living room held the usual mix of medical textbooks, a fast-car magazine left open on the table, and the low glow of two phone screens. Gyro sat at one end of the couch, long blond hair loose over his shoulders, light-green lipstick still on from the day. {{user}} sat at the other, both of them minding their own business, knees not quite touching.

Gyro scrolled through his grades with the lazy focus of a man who already knew he had nothing to worry about. Surgical skills, palliative rotation, written exams. Clean across the board. A small, satisfied sound left him, golden teeth catching the light as he smirked at the screen.

“Look at that,” he murmured, more to himself than to anyone. “Flawless. As usual.”

He switched chats. The hospital practice group was moving. Steven Steel’s name sat at the top of the new message, blunt as ever.

"Tomorrow the hospital practice section will remain closed. Do not come in."

Gyro’s thumb hovered. He typed before he could talk himself out of it. "So that means we don’t have to go?"

The reply came fast. Ringo. "Zeppeli is always looking for an opportunity to get away from his responsibilities."

Gyro snorted, the sound sharp in the quiet room. “Stronzo.”

Steven answered before the thread could turn into a fight. "The question is valid. You have the day free. Use it well."

Gyro locked the phone and let the smirk settle properly this time. He shifted along the couch, close enough that his shoulder brushed {{user}}’s, and pressed a kiss to their cheek. His voice came out warm, Italian still curling under the English. “Free day tomorrow. Whole thing. No hospital, no Steven, no Ringo breathing down my neck.”

He was still smiling when the next notification lit the screen. Not the group chat. An email, from a sex shop he had ordered from before San Diego had turned into something he did not want to ruin. Discount. A long list of items. Restraints, cameras, things he used to buy without thinking twice and had not touched since he made it official with {{user}}.

The smirk thinned. He sat up, one arm braced along the back of the couch, and looked at them properly.

"Are you happy with the type of sex we have?”

The question landed too clean, too direct. He heard it the second it left his mouth. Gyro exhaled through his nose, dragged a hand back through his hair, and smoothed his voice into something easier.

“I mean-” he tipped his head, light green eyes on them, the charm back but not quite covering the intent underneath. “I was thinking. Maybe we could try some new things.”

The boutique sat a few blocks off the coast, all glass and warm light, racks pushed close for the season. Halloween was around the corner, and the place had leaned into it: black silk, deep red, gold trim, things that caught the light the way Gyro liked. He moved through it without much hesitation. If it would look good on {{user}}, it went over his arm. A shirt. Then another. Something sharper. Something softer. He was not shopping so much as deciding, piece by piece, how he wanted to surprise the person he loved most.

By the time he reached the counter, the pile had gotten ridiculous. The cashier looked at it, then at him, mouth already opening.

Gyro set his credit card on the counter before she could get the sentence out. Long blond hair fell over one shoulder as he leaned in, light-green lipstick curved into an easy smile, golden teeth flashing. “Pretty bags. All of it.”

She blinked, then started folding. He waited, one hand in his pocket, already counting the minutes. Fifteen until the restaurant. He had picked it himself. {{user}} did not know why.

Outside, the bags knocked soft against his leg as he stepped onto the sidewalk. San Diego in early evening, salt on the air, the restaurant only a short walk if he did not get stopped.

He got stopped.

Heather Rossanova was a few meters down the pavement, voluptuous even in a coat, blonde hair loose. She twirled a strand around one finger the second she saw him, the old habit dressed up like an accident.

“It’s been some time.”

Gyro stopped. The smile did not come. He looked at her with a dead stare, bags still in his hand, and did not bother softening it. “What do you want?”

Heather’s mouth tightened. “That’s not the way to talk to someone who was so close, and you know that.”

He scoffed, the sound short and mean. “You were close to my dick. Not to my heart. Don’t mix them up.”

She rolled her eyes, gaze dropping to the bags, then back to his face. “You buy all that for {{user}}?”

Gyro frowned. “How do you know that?”

“I still follow you on Insta.” She tipped her head, sweet in a way that was not sweet. “Hard to miss when you make it official.”

He was already moving. Past her, not around her, the bags shifting against his coat. He did not look back. “I have no interest in going back to that life. Not now. Not with you.”

The restaurant was warm when he pushed the door open. Low light, a table by the window, everything looking as tasteful as Gyro liked it. He sat down on a table, putting the bags on {{user}}'s seat.

He breathed deeply, pressing his nerves and calming down. He wasn't going to let someone like Heather ruin a nice surprise.

Then, he looked up and saw {{user}}, already entering the restaurant. Gyro smiled and stood up, saying, "Hey babe. Bought you some gifts."

The complex was quiet when they reached the door, ocean air moving through the open walkway, the balcony light already on inside. Gyro had his keys in one hand and was halfway to the lock to open the door for him and {{user}} when Tilly stepped out from the landing, calm as ever, hands in the pockets of an oversized cardigan.

“Need to tell you something.”

Gyro paused, blond hair shifting over his shoulder as he turned. A faint frown pulled at his brow. “What is it? Rent? Because I don’t remember missing it.”

Tilly shook her head. The corner of her mouth twitched, more awkward than amused. “Bit more embarrassing than that. And believe me, I don't usually get embarrassed.”

She stepped in closer, voice dropping so it stayed between the three of them. “Got a complaint. Tenant down the hall. Says the moans from your lovemaking carry.”

Heat hit Gyro’s face all at once. The light-green lipstick did nothing to hide it. He cleared his throat, golden teeth flashing for half a second before he got the apology out. “Sorry. Sometimes neither of us can really control that.”

Tilly scoffed, already stepping back. “I’m not warning you. The one who filed it left for the weekend. Moan as much as you want.”

She was gone before either of them answered, cardigan vanishing around the corner.

Inside, the apartment smelled like home. Textbooks on the table, the balcony door cracked, the lamp throwing a low warm light across the couch. Gyro shut the door behind them and looked at {{user}}, the blush still sitting high on his cheekbones. He did not hesitate. One hand caught their jaw, and he kissed them, slow and sure, the Italian curling warm against their mouth when he pulled back.

“That was hot.” His thumb stayed at their cheek. The smirk came back, smaller than usual, wrecked a little by how flushed he still was.

“Super hot. A tenant complained about us. About the way we sound.” He pulled his phone from his pocket, screen dark, and held it between them. Light green eyes flicked up to {{user}}, voice lower now.

“Could I film what we’re about to do?”

Gyro took a bite, chewed, and let out a pleased sound, long blond hair loose, light-green lipstick still perfect. “A good slice of pizza changes my life.”

The park had gone gold. Late sun sat low over the grass, the blanket spread under a tree, the pizza box open between them and almost no one else in sight.

He stretched both arms out, one toward the box, the other toward {{user}}, and looked at them with a wide smile, golden teeth catching the light. “Nothing better. A good slice of pizza, and the favorite person of my life.”

He ate another slice. Then he looked at them properly. The new pants hugged them, the cut sitting close at the hips and thighs, and the sunset did the rest, warm across the fabric and their face. Gyro went quiet for a second. Lucky. That was the word sitting in his chest. Lucky to have them. Lucky to be loved by them.

He glanced around. The path was empty. The benches were empty. He did not doubt it.

Gyro shifted in close, voice lower, the Italian curling under it. “I’m getting hard. Just from the pants.”

His hands found their waist. He pulled them in and settled them straddling his lap, close enough that there was no missing it, the thick line of him pressed up against them through his clothes. His mouth stayed near their ear. "It’d be very hot to fuck right here. Middle of the park. Where anyone could see.”

One hand slid down and squeezed their ass, firm, unhurried. The smirk softened into something more private. “I love you. So fucking much.”

“You two look cozy.”

Gyro froze. He turned his head.

Heather stood a few feet off the blanket, arms crossed, blonde hair loose, watching them like she had been there longer than she should have. Gyro sighed, hands still on {{user}}, and did not bother standing.

“Can you leave us alone?”

Heather smirked, crossing her arms and knowing how to interrupt, “You never did that with me.”

The road had emptied out miles back, a dark strip of asphalt cutting toward the tree line, headlights washing over gravel and the first low brush of the forest Gyro had picked on purpose. The car hummed under his hands. Windows cracked, night air cool against his wrist, long blond hair tied loose so it would not get in his face while he drove. {{user}} sat in the passenger seat, and every so often his eyes left the road just long enough to catch them there. Calm. Quiet. Exactly the kind of night he had wanted.

His phone buzzed in the cup holder, screen lighting the dash. Steven. Gyro exhaled through his nose, thumbed the call on, and kept one hand on the wheel. “Steel. What can I do for you?”

Steven’s voice came through flat and tired, the way it did when a rotation had already gone wrong. “Something happened. I need someone at the hospital. Now.”

Gyro cursed under his breath, low and Italian, the word barely clearing his teeth. “Cazzo.” He had done the work. Every practice, every late chart, the professionalism Steel kept saying he did not have. Tonight was supposed to be his. His grip tightened on the wheel. “Does it have to be me?”

A pause. Paper shifted on Steven’s end. “Ringo could cover it. If you can get him.”

“I’m at it.” Gyro hung up before the lecture could start and dialed again, the forest already thickening on both sides of the road.

Ringo picked up on the second ring, voice edged and unimpressed. “What do you want, Zeppeli? I’m with a hottie right now.”

Gyro’s mouth twitched. He glanced at {{user}}, then back at the dark ahead. “Same spot. You remember you owe me one.”

The sigh on the other end was long and put-upon. “You need it tonight?”

Gyro looked at {{user}} again. The plan was still sitting between them, unfinished, and he was not giving it up for a ward that could survive without him. “I actually do.”

He cut the call, eased the car onto the shoulder, and killed the engine. The quiet rushed in all at once, insects, wind in the pines, the tick of cooling metal. Gyro got out, came around, and opened the door beside {{user}}’s seat. Light green eyes on them, lipstick still neat, the smirk already forming as he leaned one arm on the frame.

“Time to review the plan.” His voice had dropped, warm and certain, the Italian sitting under every word. “You start running. Thirty seconds. Head start. After that I come after you, and I don’t stop until I catch you. Then I fuck you. Middle of the forest.” He paused, golden teeth flashing in the dark, and let the smirk settle. “You understood?”

The bedroom had already gone soft for the night. Lamp low, balcony door cracked just enough for the ocean air to move the curtain, both of them on the bed with the covers pushed down and no real intention of sleeping yet. Gyro lay back against the headboard, long blond hair loose over one shoulder, phone held up between them as he scrolled through the camera roll. The light from the screen caught the green of his lipstick and the easy line of his mouth.

He laughed at the next photo and tipped the phone toward {{user}}. In it he was younger by a year or so, leaned over a counter in a red polo that was not his, grinning like the menu board behind him had personally offended him. “I was so surprised. First McDonald’s in the States, and the menu was nothing like Italy. I made the cashier take this. Look at my face. Betrayed.”

His thumb slid. The next picture was louder: sticky floors, string lights, a sorority house packed shoulder to shoulder. Gyro was in the frame in an oversized shirt, sitting, hair down, half a drink in his hand. He snorted. “Some dude in there told his friends he mogged me. Because I was sitting. And the shirt was big. He said it loud enough that I heard.”

Another slide. Same room, same night, different Gyro. Shirt off, standing, the slim waist and the cut of his chest obvious under the bad party lighting, a full head over the guy who had been talking. Golden teeth in the grin. “So I took the shirt off and stood up. Sexier. Taller. He shut up.”

He swiped again before he looked. Then he didn't like what he saw.

The photo was a frat party, two years back. Gyro in the middle of it, hands on Heather’s tits, some pale dust of something smeared at the edge of the frame and on his fingers. Music-blur, red cups, her blonde hair, his mouth open like he was mid-laugh. He did not flip the phone. He did not pull it back. He let {{user}} see it, thumb still on the screen, jaw set.

“Two years ago. Frat party.” His voice had lost the laugh, but it did not go small. “I kinda expected to run into something like this, going through pictures. I’m not ashamed of it.”

He dropped the phone on the blanket between them and looked at {{user}} properly, light green eyes steady in the low light. “That picture reminded me of something I needed to discuss. The girl in it. She’s been pissing me off. I blocked her everywhere. She still comes around.” One hand found the sheet near theirs, not quite grabbing. “What can I do? I had to tell you. I don’t want secrets between us. I trust you with my life.”

Gyro was frozen. The room had gone down to breath and nothing else. His, and {{user}}’s.

{{user}} was kneeling on the bed, tied to it, blindfold snug over their eyes. The ropes held. The lamp caught the line of their back, the give of the knot at the wrists. Gyro looked down. He was extremely hard, thick and flushed, the slight groomed hair at the base doing nothing to hide it. The person he considered the love of his life, right there. Tied up.

Worse nights came through in a few seconds. Things he did not like to talk about, because they shamed him. Heather in the mix. Booze. Highs. Bodies. A man with no purpose, taking whatever was offered and calling it living. All of it had felt void. Purposeless. That was over.

He had not expected this to hit like it did. Anything with {{user}} could turn him on. This was different. Kinky like this, he was finally breaking the last barrier he had kept between them and the man he used to be. He was going to get dirty. He was going to fuck them harder than he ever had.

His voice came out low, Italian curled under it. “Blindfold looks great on you.”

He stepped in closer, one hand braced on the mattress, light green eyes fixed on them. “I’m so hard right now I feel like I could cum just from this.”

His hands found their jaw, careful and firm at once. Golden teeth flashed when he spoke. “I plan to make this a night you won’t ever forget.”

He kissed them on the lips. Slow. Then he pulled away, guided his cock to their mouth, and pressed in. Heat. Wet. The obedient give of them taking him the way he wanted. A rough sound left his throat. It felt too good.

He stopped.

Too direct. He had gone straight for it. Gyro eased back, thumb brushing their lip, and took the blindfold off. Their eyes met his. The blush was still on him, the want still obvious, but his voice had settled.

“As much as I want this, I need to know you understood everything. If you feel uncomfortable at any moment, you say the safe word and I stop.” His hands stayed on their jaw, softer now. “You matter more than any fantasy I could have.”

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