Author: Eggy Weg
Rating: PG
Pairing: Webb/Rabb
Summary: Rabb upsets Webb
A/N: I'm trying to get over writers block so I'm just writing the first thing that comes to mind, so basically I don't have a plot. Its my first slash fic and it's not Beta'd.
Disclaimer: They characters aren't mine.
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"Jeez Clay calm down, you know I didn't mean it" Harm said trying to apologise he knew Clay was upset when he left JAG today, but that was usual these days, he certainly wasn't expecting his bags to be packed when he got home.
He hadn't known Clay was going to be at JAG today so as soon as he saw him he acted out his usual 'Webb your a nuisance' routine without thinking. It was only as he saw Clays smug look turn into one of pain and fear that he realised his mistake. Clays mother Porter had passed just two months ago, Clay had taken it hard, and almost anything seemed to upset him these days. And of course with being at work at the time he couldn't just chase after Webb to make it all better.
"Well you sounded like you meant it to me" Webb said still being defensive. The only reason he got Mac that file was so he had an excuse to see Harms smiling face again, trying to put a little cheer into his life, instead all he had received was a heap of abuse from the man he loved.
"Come on Clay don't be like that, you know I have to act that way at work" Harm said pulling him into a hug.
"Yeah I know" He sighed relaxing into the hug, he wasn't thinking properly when he just turned up at JAG out of the blue like that, of course it would put Harm on edge. "It's just..."
"I know Clay, its okay"
"I hate it Harm" Clay confessed in a shaky voice. Harm just pulled him closer and kissed his cheek.
"Harm..." He wasn't going to finish the question but at Harm's pointed look he realised he had no choice. "Harm, do you love me?" They had declared their love long ago but they didn't say it much, and now he needed to hear it more than ever, Harm was all he had left and he was terrified he was loosing him too.
"Yes Clay I love you" Harm clarified with out hesitation and a little concern. "What's this all about" In their three years together they had had many a fight, but never did they doubt the others love.
"I'm sorry Harm, I love you too, I'm just being stupid I guess" He gave him a little self deprecating grin.
"Tell me what's wrong" If they didn't sort this out they would only spend the night arguing and he was determined to make Clay forget his pain for just one night...to make him smile again.
"My moms dead Harm, what the hell do you thinks wrong" Clay snapped, then closed his eyes and took a deep breath trying to calm down. The last thing he wanted to do was start another fight with Harm "I can't do anything right anymore... everything just seems to go wrong. I can't even be in the same building as you without causing an argument. I don't know why you have stuck with me for so long..." He trailed off a single tear rolled down his face. "There are plenty of other men out there Harm who are just begging for your attention, why do you stay with me when I cause you nothing but trouble?"
"Because it's you I love Clay. It's you I want to share my arguments with, the make up sex with, to spend my life with. *You* and no one else...Your world has just fallen apart Clay, you are going to be upset and angry, you need me now more than ever. He stopped to breathe never once breaking eye contact.
"And it's not just because you need me" He answered seeing the question in Clays "It's because I need you too"
"Do you remember when my mother died Clay, I was so lost...and you didn't know what to do right? So you just held me all night every night as I cried the demons away...I didn't pay any attention to you for months and then one day, we were arguing and I looked at you, I really looked at you for the first time in a long time. God Clay I felt like such a heel, you were so pale and thin from the stress...you had those deep circles under yours eyes because I had kept you till all hours arguing and fight picking. I looked into your eyes and I could tell you thought you had lost me, that I didn't love you anymore, but at that moment I loved you more than I ever thought possible... you stayed with me no matter what I said to you, no matter how much I hurt you, most people would have fled as far and as quickly as possible... That night I asked you why you had stayed, you said that you loved me and wanted to help me, to see me smile again, that my pain was your pain..."
"Well Clay I may have been slower at realising it but you are apart of me now, your pain is my pain. And I don't care how many arguments you start or how many nasty comments you throw my way, you are stuck with me, for better or worse..." And whatever else he was going to say was cut off as Clay pulled him into to a long passionate kiss, and in that one fleeting moment all of their fears were washed away.
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