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[onceaviking]

Eric's room is cool and dark.

Once they are inside, Eric turns on the bedside lights and pulls off his t-shirt, dropping it on the floor.

There's a bottle of brandy on the small table and the bedding is Egyptian cotton, smooth and silky.

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[onceaviking]

Just a human boy.

Eric steps close. The sound of the boy's heart is loud.

He runs a cool finger down the side of his face.

[i_am_your_host]

The boy shivers a little and raises his eyes.

"Why won't you call me anything?" he asks in a low voice. "You can if you want to, anything you like. A name, a nickname...?"

A pet name?

[onceaviking]

Eric shakes his head a little.
"I can't use the name you gave me," he says. Softly.

[i_am_your_host]

"It does not have to be that name," he insists, stepping closer, looking up at him with those big, brown doe eyes. "Give me any name that you like. I will not share it with anyone else. It will be your name for me, and no one else will know. Please, Herr Northman?"

He feels very small. Like a mouse pleading with a cat to keep it as its own.

[onceaviking]

Eric looks down at him, his face cool and impassive.

Then he runs a cool finger along the boy's temple.

"Be careful," he says in German, "what you wish for little mouse. You might get it. And then what will you do?"

[i_am_your_host]

His touch and his voice send a thrill through him, and he inhales a short, soft gasp.

"I don't know," he replies in German, in a near-whisper. "But I would be happy to have it."

He blinks up at him. "Call me that again?"

Little mouse. The corners of his lips twitch in a tiny smile.

[onceaviking]

"Mausi," Eric repeats.
"Run along."

[i_am_your_host]

The boy blushes deeply, his heartbeat fluttering.

He darts in on tiptoe to kiss him under his chin and quickly steps back.

"Yes, Herr Northman."

He turns to hide his smile.

Opening the door just enough to slip through, he pauses, giving him a shy but grateful look.

"Auf Wiedersehen, Herr Northman."

And he disappears, closing the door behind him.

Eric gave him a name.

[onceaviking]

{ooc: d'aww}