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If anyone noticed last, it had to have been Hal. Not that he was unobservant or anything like that, it’s just that he never found it strange or different to hook-up with teammates. He had done it before, it was nothing new to do it with his fellow Lanterns. They were attractive, they knew what the others had to go through, it just felt obvious to him.
It took him a little while to think that it was different from any old hook-up. That he hadn’t felt this way about anyone in a very long time and that it hadn’t ever ended in anything but heartbreak.
Hal sat at the bar, watching Guy wipe down the counters, and he thought about all the times they had fucked. All the times they had fought, with words and with fists. And then he thought about all the times they had sat together and shared a beer, the way Guy would give him a smirk when they fought on each other’s side, taking down bad guys.
He thought about John making them all coffee when they weren’t allowed to sleep. The way he smiled when he explained the roast or which method created the best flavor. The appreciative look in his eyes whenever someone brought him back a bag of fancy coffee from Earth, which they all always did no matter how expensive it was. Hal never blinked about buying a twenty dollar bag of coffee, even if he didn’t have much, because it was always worth it to see John look happy.
And Kyle was happy to have any little comfort of Earth. The way his eyes shut when he opened a new box of pencils and smelled them, the way he looked when he was concentrating on breaking in a new sketchbook.
Hal thought about them, because it was hard not to. When Guy brought his favorite rum from Earth and gave him a drink on the house, when John had picked up a Coast City newspaper for him, when Kyle brought him a hand written letter from his family back on Earth.
He realized that it wasn’t a labor of friendship or something nice that his friends with benefits did for each other. Not from the way the happiness on their faces made him feel. Not from the way his heart skipped a beat when Guy looked over his shoulder and smiled broadly, waving at the other two as they walked in the door.
It wasn’t the independent moments that made him realize he was in love with Guy, John, and Kyle. It was the culmination of every single one of them, building up to this one time as they were all together in Warriors.
And, somehow, Hal knew they felt the same way.