Category: Same sex couple short fanfic
Rating: NC-17 for subject
Characters: Jed n Leo
Series: Nope
Spoilers: None
Summary: Waking up with a smile on your face
Archive: Just tell me where it’s going
Additional ‘stuff’: Don’t read this if the idea of Jed n Leo ‘together’ squicks you out. You have been warned!

Title: The morning after the night before

They lay in a tangled heap of limbs and bedclothes. Even in the depths of winter, Jed never seemed to feel the cold and a sheet and blanket were all that covered them. Jed felt the body next to him stir slightly, and he wrapped his arms around the cool exposed skin of the sleeping form, kissing the top of his lover’s head gently. Even this wasn’t enough to stir someone for whom snatching a few hours deep sleep wherever and whenever possible had become a habit.
Outside the door, he could hear the familiar low voice of the Head of his Secret Service detail. The door was locked, and Jed knew no-one could get in unless he unlocked it. The infrequent few hours of togetherness were not enough, but they had to be. In separate offices, in very different jobs, the two of them existed in a goldfish bowl of no privacy, of the constant shadowy presence of the Secret Service agents.
They had shared laughter. And tears. Lots of tears. They had found other people to love, had children, and experienced different things in their lives. But somehow, whatever happened, they always found each other again. Some invisible bond drew them back together. And into each other’s arms.
He knew every inch of the face of the person lying with their back to him. Every line, every tiny imperfection, everything. Over forty years, he had committed it to memory, able to recall it in minutest detail simply by thinking about it. The face of the person who had first shown him what love was, then, later, when he had finally accepted who he was, how to return it until, four decades later, Jed couldn’t imagine what life would be like if he hadn’t met Leo McGarry.