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  1. This is so great! Ahh!

    Carisi looks tired, but again, happy. He’s wearing one of his few flattering suits – navy, burnt orange tie – with a camel coat, a little dishevelled from a long day, but still one of his better looks.
    He doesn’t notice he’s been staring until Carisi comments.

    Rafael checking Sonny out in his doorway? An Extremely Pleasant Image.

    Their almost-but-not-really vitriolic banter, when Carisi had just about earned his grudging respect and Carisi had taken him off the pedestal he’d been on for several months. Somewhere along the line, it’d gone wrong, and Carisi stopped taking it, metamorphosing into someone who wasn’t him, looking roughly the same but with a harsher tone and an angrier disposition.
    Omg. That sweet season 18 shade.

    “This is my-”
    Yes, Rafael?

    "I’m sure you and your-” he glances at Carisi, “your- your Sonny,” he settles on and Rafael watches Carisi turn away to hide a grin, “will be fine.”
    LMFAO

    Rose, he corrects himself. Can’t refer to your temporary ward as the baby, or it. He holds her at an arm’s length, his hands hooked under her arms. She’s calmed down, and stares at him blankly with wide blue eyes.
    “Hey,” he greets.
    He watches Carisi stare at him in wonder at his incompetence. “You can’t hold her like that.” Carisi comes awfully close to him, taking her away for a moment. “She’s big enough to hold her own weight up, but she’s tired, so you’ll want to lean her on your shoulder.” He gently turns her around and leans her against Rafael’s shoulder. “Put your arm here,” he pulls Rafael’s arm under Rose so she’s effectively sat on his arm, and pulls the other to brace her back.

    That classic Rafael Barba baby hold. And oh. Well. *w*

    “What time do you call this?” Rafael deadpans as he lets him in.
    RAFAEL YOU JUST WANT SO BADLY TO BE A NAGGING HOUSEHUSBAND, DON’T YOU?

    “I can stay,” he offers, and knowing what Rafael is obviously going to say to that, he continues. “Only say no if you really don’t want me here. Not out of some misjudged pride.”
    GOOD SONNY. He knows Rafael :)

    Fate, the unhelpful voice that has been chipping in over the past two days contributes.
    “Fate,” Carisi says, and while he’s turned away, he can practically hear the grin in his voice.
    Rafael snorts. “Hardly.”

    lmao!

    “Why am I still here, then?” Carisi asks.
    Rafael shrugs. “I don’t know, why are you?”

    Come on. Rafael. Sonny. We all know why.

    It isn’t like he’s going to share that he wanted to be an actor (and before that, a frog, although he was 5 at the time).
    Oh my god. Classic.

    There’s something he’s feeling for his apartment which is suspiciously more homely, and it does nothing but serve to remind Rafael of how lonely he is.
    Ohhh? Foreshadowing C: Looking forward to the next chapter! Well done, I’m enjoying this a lot! :D

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