"Perhaps you should show me just how far," Alec said, but then he was all squirming limbs and Richard's underpants were still in the way, and Alec was shifting to try to help him get them off.

His teeth catch on Richard's lips as he leans back in, unable to bear the lack of contact even if it turns his movements more to fumbles, even if he can't watch his own hands any more at the moment.

For now Richard was too new and too sorely missed for Alec to think about letting him go, even given everything else that Richard was, that he deserved better than to have Alec to hold him down, in this place of all of them.