Part 40
Henry's eyes flutters to open and the first thing he saw was Alex's face by the pillow next to him. His soft curls hanging down on his forehead, his long eyelashes creates a shadow under his eyes from the morning light. His sharp tip of his nose and the depth of his cupid bow over his upper lips that Henry loves so much had made a mental image over Henry's mind in years. He smiled seeing he is deeply asleep with his arm wrapped around Henry's body rested right on his back. Henry snuggled deeper underneath Alex's chin planting a kiss over his neck and he stirs to wake.
"Morning." Alex whispered and Henry wrapped his arm tighter over Alex's before he answered him. "Morning love." He looked up to see Alex looking down on his face and his fingers trails over Henry's cheek before he kiss him on his forehead. "If this is a dream, please don't wake me up." Alex says and Henry's felt fluttering feeling inside his stomach. He leaned to kiss him on his lips and Alex inhaled a breath shutting his eyes closed in their kiss. "I'm right here." Henry said and Alex exhaled in relieve. They cuddled for few more hours on bed before Henry jolted up looking for his phone.
"Hen, what is it?" Alex asks and Henry was already out of bed and trying to find his pants that Alex threw away on the floor last night. "Henry?" Alex asks him again seeing he is not answering his earlier questions. "I'm so dead. Fuck!" Henry mutters holding on his pants and starts searching for his phone. He finally found it in one of the pockets and turned it on but it won't and he cursed again. "I- I need your charger." He says and Alex pulled out a cord from his side and gave it to him.
"There was a time you told me that device is useless to the community." Alex snide comment didn't made Henry even slightly amused. He waited for the phone to turn on and he sat by Alex's side on the bed. "I'm so dead, he's gonna kill me." He says and Alex can't help smiling over his frantic so he wrapped his arm over Henry's waist and kisses over his shoulder. "I'm sure you're fine darling." He says planting more kisses over Henry's neck and he moaned to the side.
Soon the phone buzzed and Henry eyes widen at the name over the screen and immediately slides to answer the call. "I know! I know! I'm so sorry. I should have told you I went out. I'm safe and I'm fine. Please don't worry." Henry starts and Alex surprised at his words. Until he ended the call only Henry turned to look at Alex on his face and smiled.
"It's Shan, I don't have anyone to check up on me but him." He assured him and Alex nods resting his chin over his shoulder again. "I don't mind if you did have someone else checking up on you Hen." He says and Henry turned to have a better look at Alex. "No one else but Shan. I could never find someone other than you." He says and Alex sighed lowering his gaze at him. "Now you're making me feel like a horrible person for moving on from you." He says resting his body back on the pillow.
"Babe, no. don't say that. I'm happy that you could find another love." He says before he joined him on the bed and lay on top of Alex's chest. "It wasn't love. It wasn't like what we had. There's no passion, no excitement. I couldn't lose him cause I was afraid of being alone again." Alex replies and Henry eyes sets deeply in Alex's brown one.
"I hate the fact that I ruined you. I'm so sorry." Henry says planting a kiss over Alex's chest and pressed his cheek after. "It's all in the past." Alex says and kiss the top of Henry's head inhaling the scent of his hair that he missed the most. For five years, his feelings for Henry never changed. He miss having him around and now he has him back in his arms, the world felt better again.
They had breakfast, they showered and Henry need to go back to his hotel to settle his things and he has work but promised Alex he would returned soon.
Henry put on his jumper and was headed to the door before he was pulled again by his elbow and twirled around with his chest collides again with Alex and their lips crashed together. He returned the kiss with the same passion and his hands found Alex's hair and couldn't help burying his fingers in those curls. "Alex. I need to go." Henry whispered and Alex continued his kisses over his neck earning Henry a moan so sinful, he couldn't let him go just yet.
"How long?" Alex pouted and Henry hanged on to Alex's neck with his both hands while Alex rested his hands over his waist. "Soon. I need to make few arrangement and I have meetings." Alex pouted and Henry couldn't help kissing those pouty lips of his, "I miss the Henry that doesn't have plans for the next few months." Henry pulls away from Alex's neck and stares at him deeply in his eyes.
"He's here, but he's changed. I have to keep myself busy so I won't drowned in my own mind. At least, that's what's helping me moving on from you." Henry whispered the last word and he can see Alex's gaze lowered. "New leaf, remember? Together. We can do this." Henry said gripping Alex's neck tighter and Alex smiled his half smiled. "Together." He says and Henry crashed his lips against him again.
As he opened the door he was greeted with two person he didn't expect to see right now, here. "Uhm, hi?" Henry says giving way so Alex can see them both. "What the fuck Alex?!" Sophia yells at him by the door and Alex sighed. "Oh God." He mutters under his breath holding on to his hips in frustration.
They both stepped inside standing in the middle of the living space with Alex and Henry side by side and Nora and Sophia right before them, few feet apart.
"Are you freaking kidding me right now Alex?! You were bitching about him for five years on how much you hated him for leaving and the soon he arrives to town, you broke up with Gideon?! What the fuck is that?" Sophia yells again and Nora sighed beside her pinching her temple with her finger. "Who the fuck do you think you are Sophia? You have no rights to come and yell at me like this!" Alex replies the same amount of anger and Henry had to held him back so they won't bite off each other's head off.
"I have no rights?! You came to me and told me to just shot you with enough sedatives to actually kill you and be done with it! You tried to kill yourself Alex because of him!" Sophia screamed and it made Henry's heart dropped deeper into his stomach. "Is it true?" He asks and Alex turned to his side to face Henry. He couldn't answer him so he lowered his gaze before he nods.
"You see Henry, you didn't just infected him with your darkness, he became one because of you. So if you love him, let him go. Let him be happy." Sophia told him and Alex feels the rage rising up in his but before he could, Nora beats him."Shut up Sophia! This isn't about you! If you can actually see that they needed each other, stop breaking people apart!"
"Why are you siding with him? You saw what happened, you were there too Nora!" She yells back and Nora shook her head in disbelief. "Yes I was there. I was there when Alex tried to kill himself, I was there when Henry did the exact same thing, not you Sophia, me! I was there through all the therapy they both need. You patched an old wound doesn't make you better than any of us. This is their choice and you think they should separate again? They had been separated and it didn't do them any good! They were both miserable, Henry did died jumped to his death. You wouldn't know that if you would actually care for them both!" Nora couldn't let Sophia meddled in this anymore seeing all they want was each other.
Henry couldn't take it anymore, this is all too much for him. "Alex, Sophia's right." He says trying to hold on to him but they all turned their heads towards Henry and Alex gripped his hand tighter. "Don't! Don't do that. You don't owe her anything. Don't push me away again. Together. Remember?" Alex cupped Henry's cheek with his both hand and set his eyes deep into Henry's hoping he won't think what he was actually thinking right now.
"Henry, we are just worried because neither of you answered your phone. That is all. That is why we are here." Nora tried to tell him and Henry turned his gaze towards her. He can see Sophia still holding on to the rage in her. "I know you took care of Alex all these years. You taught him to be a better doctor. He looked up to you and you care deeply about him."
Henry exhaled turning his gaze towards Alex again and held his both hand, "But I think we let our future rested in our hands instead of other people." Alex smiled wider before he leaned to kiss him on his lips. "Ughh." Sophia groaned in disgust before she headed to the door again. "Don't come at me if he breaks your heart again." She says before took her leave and they all stood there in silent not able to utter any words for the moment.
"Gideon told her." Nora says and they both turned to look at her simultaneously. "Why?" Alex asks and Nora shrugged her shoulder. "I don't know, maybe he needed to talk to someone and knows how much she hated you." Nora pointed at Henry and he sighed in Alex's arm that was wrapped around his shoulder. "I still need to leave. I'll call you." Henry says and kiss him on his cheek before he returned the same kiss over Nora's. "Thank you." He whispered into her ears and she smiled at him.
Henry returned to his hotel room with a smile on his face and as soon as he opened the door, he saw Shan waiting for him inside his hotel room and his face dropped. "Sorry." He says and Shan sighed shaking his head, "I assumed you eat?" He asks and Henry nodded closing the door of his room and Shan took a step closer to him, "Take this now. You miss a dose." He says grunting to the fact that Henry is reckless at his medicine time. He took it reluctantly anyway in silence and sipped on the glass of water handed by Shan and he handed him back after.
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"So.." Nora asks after left only her and Alex in the loft and they both sat on the couch with Nora in his arm. Alex wrapped his long arm over her shoulder and they both sat in each other's warmth. "Finally huh?" Nora asks and Alex chuckled nodding with a wide smile on his face. "I love him Nora. I never love anyone like I love him." He says and Nora nods softly next to him. "What's your plan?" She asks him and Alex stares at the small box on the table right before them knowing exactly what's inside of it. His thought immediately went to Henry and the thought of their future together.
"He has to go back to Paris soon considering he overstayed in New York. I don't know what to do right now." Alex says and Nora chuckled next to him. "What's so funny?" He asks her and she turned her gaze at him. "Did you know that Shan lied about the plane is having technical failure or something. Because he wants Henry to fix his past and have a better future here with you." Alex turned his head sharply at her, "Wait, what? How did you know this?" He asks her and she laughs.
"He told me at the hospital. He knows how much you still love him and he knew you would take care of him. He wanted Henry to have someone that can takes care of him in the future so he won't ended up being alone if something happened." She says and Nora can see Alex's eyebrow furrowed at her. "He is getting married soon. He can't take care of Henry considering he has to resign from his post as his assistant. He hasn't tell Henry yet but considering you both made up so it's a good sign right?" She asks him and Alex pulled away from Nora on the couch and leaned forward on his knees.
"I don't know. We haven't exactly talk about this just yet. I mean we just got back together less than 24 hours, give us a break damn it." Alex replied and Nora laughs stroking his arm up and down to comfort him. "You'll figure it out." Nora told him and he sighed before he rested his head over her lap.
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"I have to go back to Paris." Henry says over the phone speaker while he packed his clothes into the luggage. He can hear the silence over Alex's side and rustling from behind it. It was nine at night and Henry knows Alex is probably in bed already. "For how long?" He asks and now Henry was the one who kept his silenced. "I don't know love." He says softly and waited for Alex to say something else.
"Do you think this would work?" Alex asks him and he stopped folding his clothes into the bag. "Long distance you mean? I really don't know." Henry replied and Alex sighed. "I'm gonna miss you." He whispered and Henry pressed his lips together, "I'm gonna miss you more." They both stayed awkwardly over the phone in silence and Henry sat on the edge of the bed staring at his phone by the bedside table with Alex's name appears on the screen.
"We'll figure it out." Henry finally said and he can almost feel the pain stabbing in his heart for leaving. "I'm sure. I love you." Alex replies and Henry exhaled in relief before he replied, "I love you more."
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