He could have made more of the kiss. It wouldn't take any effort to settle against Michael's body and go at it like they were teenagers again. But they'd done that again and again and it didn't seem to change anything. One of them would say or do something that would piss of the other one and they in turn would make the first angry and in the end...Alex would leave.

Except this time, his enlistment was almost up and he had nowhere to go.

So he kept the kiss gentle. This wasn't about sex. It was about showing Michael what he meant to him.