Y’all ever think about how Leverage could have very easily written a black pain story with Hardison, a black foster kid, but instead made him the happiest one in the group and literally the ONLY ONE without a tragic backstory
contents: 18+, minors dni. fluff. smut (mentioned). bruises. eddie feels a little bad here. this is part of my ray of sunshine series.
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thinking about the day after you and eddie have sex for the first time. you wake up late in the day, muscles and joints sore and aching as you remember your activities of the previous night.
you’re still groggy as you walk into the kitchen for something to eat with eddie nowhere to be found. part of you feels a little sad that he wasn’t there beside you when you woke up and now he’s not even here at all. you try not to dwell on it, thinking that maybe something just came up and he needed to take care of it and just finish your food before going back to bed, thankful that you had the day off.
you wake up some time later and groan as you sit up rubbing the sleep out of your eyes. it’s dark outside and you hear footsteps so you get up and walk out to see eddie in the kitchen with his back turned to you. he turns around to see you and smiles but it’s not his usual enthusiastic smile whenever he sees you. is he okay? what if he regrets last night? lots of thoughts begin to swirl around inside your head as eddie walks over to you and gently cups your face to make you look at him.
“how do you feel?” he asks and you just hum, not really knowing yourself how you’re feeling. “does it hurt?”
you look at him confused and he leads you to the full length mirror inside the bedroom and lifts up the old shirt you’re wearing, exposing an array of bruises and bite marks all over your thighs, waist and stomach. he rolls up your sleeves to show you the ones on your arms and pulls down the neckline so you can see the ones along your neck, shoulders and chest. was that really all from him? you turn around to look at him and frown at the look of guilt on his face, like he did something horrible.
“eddie, i’m fine. a little sore but i’m fine,” you reassure him as you gently run your thumbs over his wrists.
“i got carried away. forgot how much more delicate you are,” he mumbles as he looks at the marks on your neck.
“eddie, i don’t mind the marks or you getting carried away. i just kinda wish you were still here when i woke up so i didn’t feel so alone. for a moment, i thought you regretted last night,” you mumble the last part as you look down but eddie heads you and shakes his head as he gets you to look at him.
“sunshine, i could never regret anything with you involved. i’m sorry i wasn’t there when you needed me,” he says before placing a kiss on your forehead. “by the way, you have the rest of the week off.”
you laugh as you bury your face in his shoulder as he wraps his arms around you, placing another gentle kiss on top of your head.
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