New lovers are nervous

For a boy that hasn’t breathed in over a century, he can be awfully responsive. The small, subvocal sighs; the light, skating touches of fingers on Charles’s shoulders, still undecided between pulling him closer or keeping him right where he is; and the flutter of Edwin’s sooty lashes as his eyes slide open again when they slowly break apart – little psychosomatic reactions Charles will never get tired of studying each time he manages to mess up Edwin’s normally put-together demeanour. It hadn’t taken Charles forever to figure out where exactly his feelings lie with regards to Edwin, after all.

Or, 5 times Charles kissed Edwin and the one time Edwin took the lead.