Title: Sweet Surrender
By: glo-starz
Pairing: Nick/Greg
Rating: PG13
Summery: After the best night of his life Nick decides to say the best thing he could ever say.

Nick gazed at Greg, who was sleeping contentedly in his arms. He couldn’t believe that tonight this beautiful creature had let Nick take him for the first time. He couldn’t believe how good Greg had felt, how beautiful he had been writhing beneath him and how intense his release had been as Nick moved within him. He had never felt pleasure like it in his entire life. He allowed his fingers to stroke Greg’s cheek, revelling in the contented sigh that escaped from his lips.

Nick’s smile grew wider. There was no doubt about it. He was in love. Head over heels, crazily and intensely in love. He had never felt like this before. Sure, he’d thought he’d been in love with any number of women over the years. But now, when he compared it to the depth of his feelings for Greg, how he felt whenever he looked at him, what those beautiful eyes staring at him made him feel, what watching his lithe body when he should have been working did to him, he knew that actually he had never been in love before.

Nick sighed and tried to imagine what it would have been like if the explosion those few months ago had claimed Greg. Thinking about losing Greg made his stomach hurt and his eyes ache with tears. The scars still made Nick gasp every time he saw them, and he felt a strange pride that Greg would share them with him when he went to such efforts to hide them from everyone else. How it had been him who Greg clung to as he had nightmares, and as his hands shook from the nerve damage.

He didn’t know how Greg had managed to do this to him, but he had. And Nick wouldn’t change it for the world.

He placed a small kiss on Greg’s forehead and Greg smiled, still breathing softly.

He was amazed at the physical sensations Greg could bring to him, too. The feeling of Greg’s fingers was like electricity when they first touched him, then burned like ice as they continued. On all of his favourite spots, that gentle touch could make Nick shiver. He revelled in the sensual feel of that tongue on any part of his body, and that pretty mouth wrapped around his cock was exquisite. It made him see the moon and stars...hell, the whole galaxy, the pleasure was so intense.

Greg knew how to handle him, how much pressure, where, how often, which strokes to use to bring Nick, screaming, to climax. And now, Greg had given himself to Nick as intimately as any man possibly could.

Nick wrapped himself tighter around Greg, overtaken by a sudden possessiveness. Greg was his, and no person, accident or injury would ever take that away from him. Not now he had it.

Greg yawned and slowly opened his eyes, his face breaking into a smile as he stared up at Nick.

“I’m not going anywhere Nicky,” he mumbled, before nuzzling his cheek against Nick’s chest.

“Sorry.” Nick blushed. Why was Greg always able to read his thoughts?

“Just...the lab...and after tonight ...well...”

“It’s ok, Nicky. I understand.” Greg began to draw little circles on Nick’s chest, letting his fingers slowly play over the muscles that rippled under his touch.

“I don’t think you do fully, Greg. You see...”

Nick suddenly realised he had no idea how to start, how to say what he felt. Greg had said it, more than once. Last night he said that he loved Nick enough to give him something really special. And boy, did it turn out to be an amazing gift. It was just that Nick was scared. Scared that it was too soon, what would happen to him, what would happen if he finally admitted what he had been feeling for so long.

“Then make me.” Greg pushed himself up onto his elbows, his head cocked to one side. Nick refused to let him go, his arms still wrapped around the blond.

“I ...uh ...Christ, why is this so damn hard?”

Greg let his fingers trail down to Nick’s crotch.

“It isn’t ...yet. But say the right thing, and who knows?” Greg giggled and wiggled his eyebrows. His comment relaxed Nick, who took a deep breath and spoke.

“I don’t know why, but I’ve wanted to say this for so long. And for some reason, I just couldn’t. It scared me. It still does a little. And I have no idea why, because nothing could be as right or as perfect as this.” He let his hand go to Greg’s back and began to stroke his scars.

“When the explosion happened, I couldn’t handle it. I thought I’d lost you. I was terrified.” Nick felt tears pricking at his eyelids so he took a deep breath and wiped them away with his thumb.

“From the first moment we kissed, maybe even before that, I knew. But I’d never been there before. I thought I had, but I hadn’t.”

Greg listened patiently, his soft brown eyes lovingly gazing into Nick’s.

“I...I’ve...I’ve fallen in love with you, Greg.”

Greg’s face immediately broke into the biggest grin Nick had ever seen.

“Oh, Nicky!” Greg lunged forward, his lips meshing with Nick’s, his tongue forcing Nick’s lips apart and slipping inside, wrapping itself around Nick’s own tongue. Nick melted into the kiss. His eyes closed and he pulled Greg to him as tight as he possibly could. Eventually, they broke apart for air.

“Oh Nicky, I love you too!” And Greg wrapped his arms around his shoulders and pulled Nick on top of him.

“That wasn’t so hard after all,” Nick said.

“Really?” Greg giggled, letting his hand slide to Nick’s crotch. “Could’ve fooled me!”