The bottled water was a blessing to Blue's parched throat. He took a couple of desperate gulps, following it up with some pills to alleviate the pounding of his skull. Eivind was there to coddle Blue, to put a smile on the young man's face despite him feeling like his body had been tossed into a washing machine and wrung dry by rough, unforgiving hands.<br/><br/>"You're too good to me, you know that?" Blue laughed, grinning as he felt the thick hair of Eivind's beard against his palm. The handful of hair was comforting to him, easing Blue into a state of strained serenity. His body might have felt like garbage, but his heart was whole as he lay there, long legs entangled with his mate's beneath the soft sheets.<br/><br/>"Anywhere," Blue repeated, groggily focusing his steely gaze onto Eivind's dark eyes. Among the rushed chaos and the anxiety Blue felt at not only the upcoming ceremony but also at the terrible plan he had cooked up with Sig and Stellan, Blue had hardly any time to consider what he and Eivind would do if he was actually<i>successful.</i>A honeymoon seemed impossible, a fairy tale he could tell himself simply to help find sleep at night. But now Eivind was presenting the idea to him, rendering the fairy tale tangible with a whispered promise, and Blue wanted nothing more than to believe it wholeheartedly without the lingering doubt that he wouldn't be around to be whisked off to whatever paradise Eivind had in store.<br/><br/>"I... I've never been to Hawaii," Blue mused, frowning as he thought, though the process was more difficult than usual. "Or maybe someplace in the Caribbean? I've never been to anyplace tropical. Some island with a big crystal-blue ocean and a private cabana where you fuck me senseless, hm?" He sighed, arching his spine and stretching in bed, listening as his vertebrae popped. A familiar soreness was hovering at his backside, and Blue recalled the way his lover had pinned him up on the counter the night before.<br/><br/>"We'll need about a thousand gallons of sunblock, though," he joked, placing his hands on Eivind's hairy chest, rubbing the hard muscle beneath the skin. "Would you like that? Going to Hawaii or something, I mean."