Well Rafa did call him his partner in an interview the other day (cept he didn't know the word so said it in Spanish and got someone to translate it). And then said that they go out for dinner together "with more than pleasure". And an entire LJ comm exploded upon reading that.

Honestly, most fandoms you have to do a bit of word-twisting, a bit of scraping about for vague ideas for plot-bunnies. With them you don't even have to try.