Phil is covered in scars.
His knuckles have the white dings of someone who has spent a lifetime working with his hands, there is a scar running up the side of his index finger, and another on his left palm. There is one across his bicep that Techno vaguely remembers the origin of, another on the opposite forearm, white and wrinkled with age.
One runs through his eyebrow, faint and only noticeable for the way the hair doesn’t grow there. A small one just under his lower lip that has been there as long as Techno can remember. There’s one where his chin meets his neck that is hard to see unless he’s looking up, that Techno doesn’t like to think about the origins of. His nose is a little crooked, the result of a fist or sword (or both) meeting it in a way that broke it, probably more than once.
More hide under his clothes, Techno knows. The starburst clusters of an arrow piercing the skin, sweeping lines from the edge of a sword, the ripped edges of an axe. He’s seen the burn scars splashed across Phil’s shins, a mark of the fight against a dragon most would avoid. He’s a warrior, and he carries the marks on his skin, a story of his travels.
Techno has more, he thinks. He’s bigger, and so that means more area to cover with the various scars and bruises that seem to happen without him even noticing. He can’t remember a time when his skin was clear, actually. He’s never thought of them as something special or terrible, it’s just how he looks.
He wonders, though, as he looks at Phil’s scars, at the proof that the other man is still alive and has walked through each fight to end up at Techno’s side, if Phil loves his scars as much as Techno does. He finds himself tracing them with gentle fingers and mouth when they’re in bed, kissing each one like it’s precious, like he can heal it and take away the hurt that came with it. There are fingers in his hair, and warm skin against his, whole and once broken, but now mended, and the proof is under his fingers. Proof that they can heal through anything thrown at them. Proof they can survive.
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