All Tied Up - for @Hairsprayed
Jan. 14th, 2023 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jukebox_heroThey'd planned to do this back around Christmas so that it would be thematically appropriate, but things had kept getting in the way, up to and including Steve's parents' flight being cancelled and their actually being home for New Year's Eve, which had been a definite wrench in the works on top of all the other delays, most of which had actually been fun regardless.
But finally, partway through January, they finally had time to themselves again, with Wayne off on an ice-fishing trip and Steve's parents gone to who knows where to make up for the missed New Year's Eve trip, and truthfully Eddie didn't really care why they finally had time alone, he was just thankful that they did. Mostly because he'd actually taken the delay time to practice some knots, though he already had a reasonably good idea of what he was going to do, since he had the rope for it. He'd also kept the single string of twinkle lights from the 'fireplace' accessible, just for the aesthetic of it, since that had been the original plan.
He had managed to burn through the half-nervous, almost-anxious energy well before, mostly by way of tidying up, not that Steve didn't already know how he lived, but because he needed something to do with the energy if he was going to be any use when Steve actually got there, but also by making sure that everything they were going to need was lined up on his desk within easy reach.
Which was part of why he was grinning outright when he opened the door, "On time, again, guy could get used to this."
But finally, partway through January, they finally had time to themselves again, with Wayne off on an ice-fishing trip and Steve's parents gone to who knows where to make up for the missed New Year's Eve trip, and truthfully Eddie didn't really care why they finally had time alone, he was just thankful that they did. Mostly because he'd actually taken the delay time to practice some knots, though he already had a reasonably good idea of what he was going to do, since he had the rope for it. He'd also kept the single string of twinkle lights from the 'fireplace' accessible, just for the aesthetic of it, since that had been the original plan.
He had managed to burn through the half-nervous, almost-anxious energy well before, mostly by way of tidying up, not that Steve didn't already know how he lived, but because he needed something to do with the energy if he was going to be any use when Steve actually got there, but also by making sure that everything they were going to need was lined up on his desk within easy reach.
Which was part of why he was grinning outright when he opened the door, "On time, again, guy could get used to this."
