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• All Of YOU   Now Who's In Charge?

  Nick balanced the tray of coffee and toast with one hand as he opened the bedroom door with the other. Even if Gabriel wasn't hungry, he was, sex always made him hungry.."Here you are, coffee and toast," he said, pushing the door shut with his foot.Gabriel looked up from checking his emails, "Thanks," he looked at the tray which held granary toast, and a little dish piled high with curls of butter, he grinned up at Nick. "You being playing chef again?" He said, pointing to the butter.Nick laughed sitting on the end of the bed the tray between them, "No that was Lucy playing house, the fridge is full of butter curls and chocolate curls, I think there's even a dish full of carrot curls."Gabriel raised his brow, "You have a butter curler in your kitchen drawer?" He said spreading one of the said curls on his toast.Nick shrugged "God knows, I suppose I must have if Lucy found it?"

• All Of YOU   The 'L'Word pt 2

  Gabriel lay comfortably resting on the pillows that Nick had carefully arranged. Physically, he had aches in places that he'd never had before. Mentally, he wasn't sure how he was feeling. Mixed emotions were running through him. He was happy that Nick loved him and relieved that they were on the same page again. There was the shock though, the shock that he'd had full-blown penetrating sex with a man, never mind that it had been with his best friend.

• All Of YOU   The 'L' Word

  Gabriel stirred, he rubbed his nose on the crook of his arm and turned his head towards the edge of the bed. He was warm, and he was so comfortable in his sleepy, drowsy state. He hadn't got a clue what time it was he didn't care, it wasn't as if he had to go to work anyway. It was light though he could tell that even through closed eyes. He pushed his hair back from his face and opened his eyes. He stilled immediately, that didn't look right, where was the usual crap on his bedside table? It slowly dawned.

• All Of YOU   Of Picnic's Football and Arousal

  The rehearsal seemed to go on forever, and Gabriel could see that Nick's temper was running short. They sat on flight cases and chilled while the sparky's sorted the lights out. They did more rehearsing, and at last, they called time. It wasn't as if they didn't know the songs, but there had been problems with the lights and Nick made excuses that the room was too cold for him to sing and the fact that he still wasn't feeling too good."I'm not straining my voice on a rehearsal; I'm done." He said, tossing the mic to his technician and jumping off the makeshift stage.Gabriel was feeling very nervous now, nervous and excited. He sat for a minute still behind his drums as if he was hiding, and when he eventually did stand up from his stool, his knees turned to jelly. For a moment, he held onto his snare drum, he took a deep breath and locked his knees.Nick hadn't looked at him all the time he was singing, which was strange as he always came to stan

• All Of YOU   Reunion

  Gabriel waved to the landlord as he left the pub an hour later. His lunch was very tasty, Joe's wife Brenda was an excellent cook. He strolled back to the harbour car park and and got in his car, and for once in over a week Gabriel felt happy, nervous and excited, but really happy.He drove down country lanes lined with high hedges, he opened the windows, it was okay having air con in the car, but there was nothing like the warm breeze blowing against your face and listening to The Rolling Stones performing very loudly. The area to the left of the car was all fields for most of the way and on the right hand side was the sea, which kept disappearing behind hedges.Not wanting to draw attention, he turned Jumping Jack Flash down when he entered the village of Kyngs Cove. He followed the village high street, passed the shop, and two pubs opposite each other. Playing fields for the kids and a village school."In two hundred yards turn right. You have reached your de

• All Of YOU   The Drummer's Beat

  The Drummer's Beat rocked gently on the slow morning waves, and Gabriel reclined naked on a cushioned sun lounger drying off in the mid-morning warmth after his swim. The water was a bit chilly this early, and he hadn't stayed in the water for too long, but it was long enough to chase the sleep away. He'd been on the boat for three days now and the first day had sailed about six miles up the coast where he had anchored the boat just offshore. He was away from the public beaches and anchored just off a private cove.It was peaceful, and he was feeling better and in much more control than he had been the week before. The panic he had felt at the idea of his sexual preferences changing, almost overnight, had calmed. He had sat for a long time watching the waves and being completely honest with himself. What he and Nick had shared was something he wanted. There were so many questions he needed the answers to, and the only person who could answer them was Nick.The motion a