Fandom:	Houston Knights
Series:	Future
Rating:	NC17
Pairing:	Joe/Levon
Archive:	Starwinder's
Title:	Future: Looking Back
Author:	Starwinder
e-mail:	starwinder2of7@gmail.com
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Future: Looking Back
By Starwinder

LaFiamma turned away from the window, swirling the wine in his glass as he studied his partner. Lundy was still a handsome man even now, after all these years, just looking at him could arouse LaFiamma. The blonde hair was mostly silver now, pure as snow, not yellowy like some blondes turn when the years catch up to them. He was still as slim as ever and he still favored cowboy boots even here where there were no horses and probably never would be. There were a few more crows-feet around his eyes and a lot of laugh lines around his mouth but all in all the years had been good to him, good to them both in fact. The lighter gravity that they had been living in here for years now had helped slow the aging no doubt.

LaFiamma was still as straight and tall as ever, still well muscled and strong from the weights he lifted everyday. His dark hair was touched with pure silver at the temples and sideburns but other than that just as dark as the first day they had met. It was still thick, too, something that Lundy appreciated since he had always loved to run his fingers through it.

He crossed the room to stand next to Lundy touching his glass to his partner's and began the old familiar toast that they had toasted each other with on that long ago first anniversary of their commitment to each other. "Loose cannons,"

"Quick draws," Lundy replied, picking up the toast.

"Hot cars," LaFiamma added.

"Fast horses." Lundy smiled, remembering Fooler but his eyes were tinged with sadness.

"Partners," LaFiamma smiled back at him that smile he loved so much the one that lifted just one corner of his mouth.

"Partners," Lundy affirmed.

They drank but not deeply. Neither of them drank much these days.

LaFiamma looked down at the wine-glass in his hand, then lifted it and touched it to Lundy's glass again. "To absent friends." He said quietly.

Lundy smiled sadly again and agreed, touching his glass to LaFiamma's before they sipped the wine again. "Absent friends."

LaFiamma looked back toward the window and Lundy nodded. They walked toward it in companionable silence. They had always been able to read each other easily. It was one of the things that made them so effective as a detective team. It was a big part of what had kept them alive long enough to end up here.

When they reached the floor to ceiling window with it's spectacular view, LaFiamma turned to Lundy and asked softly, "Any regrets?"

"About us? No. None."

"What about being here, following me to this crazy place, leaving everything behind on Earth? Any regrets there?"

"I gotta admit it's been a wild ride but opening up any new frontier is. As for leaving everything behind. I didn't leave anything that mattered back there. Everything I have ever wanted is right here with me. I miss Earth. I miss absent friends but no more than you do. I'd say that basically I have no regrets there either."

LaFiamma grinned a wicked grin that reminded Lundy of the old devil-may-care-days so long ago and said, "So. Tell me, Lundy, if somebody had told you on that first day in Houston that you and I would be here celebrating an anniversary that most straight couples never see what would you have said?"

Lundy returned the grin and replied, "I'd'a directed them to the nearest mental institute and suggested that they have themselves committed immediately."

He stepped closer to LaFiamma, reached out and put his hand on the back of LaFiamma's head and drew his lover into a long tender kiss.

The other patrons of the bar turned to look but no one seemed the least bit disturbed at the sight of the Chief of Police for the Mars Settlement being kissed by his Chief of Detectives. After all, this was both their golden anniversary as lovers and their silver anniversary running the Mars Settlement Police Force.

The End