Title: If Music Be the Food of Love
By: angstytimelord
Pairing: Will LaMontagne/Ethan Delacroix
Fandom: Criminal Minds
Rating: PG-13
Table: 1drabble
Prompt: 15, Music
Disclaimer: This is entirely a product of my imagination, and I make no profit from it. I do not own the lovely Will LaMontagne or Ethan Delacroix, unfortunately, just borrowing them for a while. Please do not sue.

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Will smiled to himself as he leaned back in the comfortable chair he'd settled in, not far from where Ethan sat at the piano. He loved coming to this bar, though it was one that he hadn't frequented before he and Ethan had met. Now, it felt like home.

He had spent so much time here since he'd been with Ethan, watching his boyfriend play and falling more in love with him each time he was here.

It hadn't been Ethan's music that had made him fall so deeply in love -- that had been due to Ethan himself -- but Will was sure that the music was part of why he loved his boyfriend so much. There was something almost mystical about the music Ethan made.

It was sensual and beautiful and haunting, all rolled into one incredible sound.

Ethan's music only made Will love him all the more. There was something endearing about his passion for music, the way a song could seem to sweep him away on a tide of joy. And Will was swept away right along with him; Ethan's love for music was infectious.

He would never have the talent that his boyfriend did, but he could appreciate Ethan's talent, and marvel that he could be the chosen lover of someone so incredible. There were still times when he couldn't understand what had drawn Ethan to him.

After all, he was just a cop. There was nothing special about him; he didn't have any singular talent. He wasn't brilliant like Ethan; he was just a man like any other. But he was a man who was deeply in love, who would do anything for the man he adored.

Ethan's music only fed that love and made it grow. And maybe that was why Ethan had fallen in love with him -- because he could appreciate that music Ethan made, and because his boyfriend's incredible musical talent would only make him love Ethan more each day.

Will smiled at the thought. Maybe music truly was the food of love.

In that case, if music be the food of love, his boyfriend could play on, and he would simply sit back and enjoy Ethan's talent to the fullest. That talent only made Will fall more deeply in love with him every time he heard Ethan play; his music was somehow magical.

It wasn't the music that had captured his heart and soul, Will thought with a smile. It was the man himself. The fact that he could create such beauty only added to his appeal.

Will leaned back in the chair, his gaze riveted to Ethan as he took a sip of his drink. Watching his boyfriend play only made him want Ethan all the more -- and if music was the food of love, then tonight he was definitely getting his fill.

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