OFA: In the library

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Nikola is getting rusty.

But he has a good enough memory that despite the fact that it's been a good twenty years since he sat down at a piano, he's doing a fairly decent job of making his way through Au Claire de la Lune.

He doesn't play well, but he plays with great expression.

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"And the corsets," Nikola points out, highly amused at Will's perusal of his chest.

"If you're going to look, you might as well touch."

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Will runs his hand slowly down Nikola's and smiles sheepishly. "You're beautiful." He can't help feeling privileged.

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Will runs his hand slowly down Nikola's chest and smiles sheepishly. "You're beautiful." He can't help feeling privileged.

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Nikola gives him an amused look. "All right."

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Sounding like an idiot will be unavoidable if he comments. Will bites his lip. "I don't know a better word." He likes the lines, the way muscles of his chest are almost architectural. "And yes, obviously I need to work on my vocabulary."

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"I wasn't questioning your vocabulary," Nikola says. "More your aesthetic."

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"I'd think find you aesthetically pleasing would be useful."

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"It's certainly useful," Nikola agrees.

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"It's not that I don't find you attractive dressed, I do, there's just something nice about this." Will runs his fingers down towards Nikola's stomach, then up again.

"And you don't even need to work out."

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Nikola shivers slightly under Will's fingers. "I hardly look like I work out," he says.

He's fully aware that he's pale and skinny.

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Will does work out, a little, but it's more about trying to stay alive than watching his figure.

"If I liked rippling muscles, I'd be down the hall."

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Whatever the reason behind it, Nikola appreciates the results.

He chuckles quietly. "I suppose I was under the impression you weren't here because you found me physically attractive."

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"The force of your personality was simply too compelling for me to resist?"

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"Something like that," Nikola says dryly. "If it had been merely a case of physical attraction, you likely wouldn't have taken so long to give in."

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"I'd say it was complicated," he smiles and feels like an idiot. "I don't know. I was afraid and stupid and not quite sure what I was thinking." He cocks his head.

"Did you have a man or a woman first?"

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Nikola smirks at that confession, but he refrains from agreeing with Will about the stupid part.

"A woman," he says, smiling a little at the memory.

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Will's hand stops flat on Nikola's chest. "What was she like? Some dilettante who seduced you?"

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Nikola chuckles. "Not at all. She was a radical. A Marxist. I met her in Graz at the polytechnic."

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"Workers unite," Will quips, feeling Nikola laugh through his fingers. "First man?" This he's quite curious about.

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"Much later," Nikola says. "An actor. We met at Oxford, and he used to invite me up to London on the weekends."

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"Someone who seduced you?" Will's intrigued by that.

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"I suppose you could say that," Nikola agrees. "He was very subtle about it."

At the time, still getting used to new feelings and urges, Nikola had very much thought he was betraying the friendship by wanting more.

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"Not something you employ," Will jokes. If Nikola was subtle, it probably would have taken him quite some time to realize his rather confusing attraction.

"What was it like? Something innocent and gentle?"

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Nikola laughs a little at that. "Certainly not innocent, and rarely gentle."

At least not once he'd figured out what was happening.

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Will raises his eyebrows. "I see." Those thoughts should give him some interesting dreams.

"And now you're on a case by case basis or do you consider yourself bisexual?"