"Don't say anything," Warrick said, unchaining the door briefly and then closing it and sliding the chain home behind them. He'd heard the key in the lock before he was even undressed from work.
"I mean it, I don't want to hear, well, anything." His voice was low, urgent, tired. He moved back into his living room without turning on a light. The only illumination came from under the door to his pantry, where he must have left the light on, and from the muted television.
The flickering blue of "Behind the Music" took away the golden highlights in his skin, and flattened the deep relief around his jaw, his eyes, his throat. The scene was surreal, almost hallucinatory, in it's monochromatic flash and fade. Only his voice, hypnotic and rich even at his breaking point, revealed any life in the apartment.
They crossed to the couch, and he collapsed into it. His hands fell impotently to his sides, palms up as if in supplication, and he closed his eyes and let his head fall back.
"I promised this was over." Warrick didn't quite whisper. A whisper would have been too confiding, too intimate. He rumbled softly as he spoke, allowing his belt buckle to be unfastened.
"I'm with Catherine now, you know that?" he asked suddenly, lifting his head even as he lifted his hips. His black Levi 550s slid down is thighs and pooled at his ankles. He didn't take off his shoes.