rareslash | on the edge - various

Two drabbles, same fandom and pairing.
Author:

yoursetcetera
Fandom: On the Edge
Pairing: Jonathan/Toby
Disclaimer: The characters aren't mine and I mean no harm.

Title: Air
Rating: PG
Summary: Toby thinks about the city, and the hospital, and Jonathan.

The problem with the hospital, Toby thought, was that there was always a faint feeling of death in the air, which was fitting because it was the suicide ward, wasn't it. But it was absurd, too, because everyone there was under the pact, thus making death the last possible thing for any of them; and anyway it didn't matter because the only air he ever really breathed was that of the city: the air of the pub with its late-night and seemingly permanent residents, of near-empty streets with their ghastly drivers, of the alleyways in which Jonathan would kiss him.

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Title: Forty-Two
Rating: PG
Summary: Toby has some strange dreams, and a realization.

Toby awakens at six forty-two rather suddenly. It's not the first time he's had dreams of this nature, part of growing up and all that, so he wouldn't be concerned in the slightest except this is the third time in a week he's had this particular dream -- he doesn't know who the bloke in it is, but he knows what he's doing.

"Dear Christ," he mutters, shoving on his glasses.

Toby passes Jonathan Breech in the halls at seven forty-two, on his way to breakfast, and does an admirable job of ignoring Jonathan's hello.

At forty-two past noon, Toby is reading Rachel another poem he wrote. Rachel gives him a coy little smile and acts like she doesn't know it's about her, and Toby (looking at her smiling face) realises with something like shock that it isn't.