[Closed to Eli]

Michael was humming as he finished the notes on the last chart of the day. He would have said that he wasn't normally one for humming nonsense tunes while he worked, but ever since he'd met Eli Dixon, there were a lot of things he did that didn't come under the category of normal for him. Like smiling. Like feeling at ease in his own skin.

Like feeling loved fully and completely for being the man he was, without qualification.

It was an amazing, heady thing - and one that had him thinking about other things he'd never considered before. Legal, binding things.

But that wasn't something he was going to think about right now. Now was for finishing his charts, closing up for the day, and taking his boyfriend out to dinner.