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Eyeliner requires a steady hand.Adrian knows this. He has known this since he was nineteen and a makeup artist in Milan told him he had good bone structure and terrible patience, and he has been proving her right and wrong in equal measure ever since. He braces his elbow against the edge of Danny's bathroom counter, ring finger anchoring below his eye, and draws the line with the focus of a man defusing a bomb.
The bathroom mirror is large and unforgiving in the way that ranch house mirrors tend to be. No photographer's trick to the lighting. Just a man and a bulb and whatever the truth is today. Adrian has worked in worse. He has also worked in significantly better, but there is something about this particular mirror, in this particular bathroom that smells like Danny's soap and has a small chip in the bottom left corner from what was probably from Fabian when he was a kid, that keeps dragging his eye back when he needs it somewhere...