He hummed into the second kiss, still leant in with no real intent to go anywhere until he felt like this was settled for now. Imagining coming home to Malcolm wasn't hard, he'd been daydreaming about it since they'd talked about this crazy plan.

He could stand to hear those three words more often. It made his heart hurt in its sweet relief.

"You already do." Raylan stole another kiss while he was there and settled back with a deep breath and an adjustment of his hat. "I don't know about you, but I'm ready to be home."

His soul was tired, his heart was tired, his eyes were tired and he could feel the prick of tears in his sinuses. This was a lot of emotion and as tough as he could be, it was getting to him and crying wasn't on his list of things he planned on doing today.