Water On Fire [MileApo | mxm]

9

Before Mile knows it, it's a wrap on KinnPorsche. Or, as Mile has come to think of it: KissPorsche. After a year and a half of dedicating his life to this project, it feels surreal to be done. This is one of the first things he's done for himself, without his parents and without needing to rely on his name.

Pond told them on one occasion: "I don't know if this series or my life will end first." It's been difficult, but they've overcome the challenges.

"What happens after this?" Apo asks him, both men laying on Apo's bedroom floor.

"What do you mean?" Mile does know what Apo means; at some point in the process of filming and promoting KinnPorsche together, they replaced each other's best friends, and it's hard to envision a future when they aren't working together. But he wants to hear it from Apo. Apo knows well that he could just retire, and roll around in the cash KinnPorsche brings in for the rest of his life. If he wants more... Well, it would make Mile very happy to hear it.

"I'm talking about our careers. I don't want to kiss anyone other than you." Apo runs a hand through his thick, luscious hair. "It's easy with you."

Mile swallows, beaming inwardly.

"It's easy with you, too."

"We...click, in a way I've never clicked with anyone before. I trust you with my emotions and my body and - everything. I think opportunities, people, like this come by once in a lifetime, at most. I can't go through that again with someone else. It might not even work."

"You won't have to."

This is Mile's first serious series, but it's Apo's ninth year in the industry. If he thinks their chemistry is special, Mile believes him. 

"So... More projects together then?" Apo rolls onto his side, facing Mile.

"Absolutely." Mile shouldn't make promises he can't keep, but he'll be damned if he doesn't give his all to make Apo happy.

He will find them another project, and another. In a thousand different universes, Mile will always choose Apo.

When Apo gets up and starts dancing along to the music, it takes all of Mile's willpower not to pull him onto his lap and French kiss the shit out of him. Especially because Apo is wearing one of his graphic tees, a purple shirt with a kitten pawing at a butterfly. His lithe, gorgeous body moves in a uniquely graceful and silly happy dance. And Mile knows, that's it. He's in love.

Mile, who has started dreaming about Porsche because he misses the character so much, decides to take his mother's advice. He meets with the BOC directors to discuss new project ideas, the most promising of which is a Thai historical period movie. Pond is game. He's struck gold with Mile and Apo and he knows it. There is simply no way to fake what they have.

Mile recently went to the temple with Pond and Pond suggested that Apo would look great performing a traditional Thai dance - and Mile has some characteristics that perfectly complement that if they were to do a historical period movie. This is how the idea was born.

Mile and Apo make plans to work together in the future - not just on one or two or three projects but indefinitely. Mile has typically been wary of commitment, preferring to keep his options open, but this is the easiest decision he's ever made.

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Mile is relieved that the end of filming doesn't mean the end of their nightly calls. He was afraid of losing that connection with Apo, but it hasn't happened yet.

The wave of interviews have begun, kicking off on April 1 with the iQIYI interview. They talk about making each other's hearts beat faster, Apo declaring no one does it for him like Mile. Mile gushes about Apo's beautiful eyes, as pretty as the day he first saw them. He calls Apo a gift from heaven, because that's how Mile feels about him.