Don Juan's first thought was nothing good ever happens when you're gone, but he held it in. Someday, if everything went well, he'd be able to say things like that and have them just come across as sweet, romantic things to say, rather than triggering some deeply held anxieties they both shared about the liklihood of Don Juan's life going off the rails whenever Hudson wasn't around.

"Nothing interesting," he settled on instead, which was true. It was the wrong time of year for bustling society calendars, and Dean had only been gone a handful of days anyway. "Missed you, too. I hope you're planning to feed me before you start tearing off my shirt?" he joked. "Otherwise you've been wounded in vain, no?"

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