Happy Veterans Day guys ❤️

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"Alex? Mon ami? You there??"

"XANDER!"

"Huh?"

Alexander's head shot up from his plate of food, looking up at his friends who were staring at him curiously.

"You okay man? You've been twirling that spaghetti for like 5 minutes straight."

Alex looked down at his fork that was fully covered by spaghetti noodles and blushed. He chuckled and rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Sorry guys, just... thinking."

"About John?"

"Eh? Uh.. n-no.."

"You were, mon ami. I bet he's fine."

"But what if he's not? What if he's dying alone in the mountains of fucking Afghanistan?! (I spelled that right on the first try omfg)"

"Alex, they would've contacted you if he died."

"But-"

"Shut up and eat your pasta."

Alex huffed and dropped some of the noodles on his fork, then began to eat. He was barely listening to his friend's conversation when he heard the small bell of the door opening.

He brushed it off as just a customer, when Lafayette and Hercules went quiet, staring behind Alex dumbfoundedly. (Is that a word???)

"Guys? You good?"

Alex cocked his head, then jumped when his vision went dark. He tried to pry off whatever was covering his eyes, muttering a line of curses when it wouldn't budge.

"Hello?" He grumbled.

There was a heartwarming laugh.

"Salty as ever, I see. Guess who, babygirl?"

Alex flushed and his eyes went wide. He quickly pushed the hands away and spun around, his eyes brimming with tears. A rosy face with freckles and bright eyes stared back at him, and he almost screamed.

Alex immediately scrambled out of his seat and jumped at John, wrapping his legs around the taller man's waist and burying his face in his shoulder. John stumbled back but hit the wall, it keeping him upright as he locked his hands underneath Alex and supported the lightweight boy.

"Hey babe."

"Don't 'Hey babe,' me! I thought you were dead!"

John chuckled and rubbed Alex's back, feeling his boyfriends tears soak the fabric of his camouflage uniform. Alex pulled away and wiped his eyes, scanning John's face carefully.

He looked different. More handsome, for sure. His chin was more defined, he had a bit of peach fuzz, and damn, did that buzz cut look good on him.

Alex couldn't hold himself back. He kissed John with the most passion he could muster, a few of his tears slipping between their lips and making it taste a bit salty.

Still felt like a dream even though it tasted like he was drinking salt water.

"Get a room, lovebirds!"

John chuckled and pulled out of the kiss, looking over at his friends.

"Nice to see you too, guys."

Lafayette waved and Hercules saluted, getting a laugh out of John. He set Alex down and moved into the booth with the three.

Alex clung to his arm, about to never fucking let go, when John stole some of his spaghetti. He gasped and moved the bowl away, glaring at John playfully and swatting his hand when he tried to take more.

"It's not nice to steal my food!"

"Well it's more not nice to deny me my right to steal my boyfriends food!"

Alexander was trying to process that while John ate more of his pasta.

"What the f-"

"Don't question me."

Alex closed his mouth and shook his head, pouting as his food got snatched before his eyes. John sniggered at his lover's sad face, beginning to feed him some of the noodles.

Alex's face lit up as he happily accepted, snuggling into John more and more.

"You two are such goals."

"Shush you two sad single pringles."

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