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[legolasghosty]

1+7 for willex please? <3

Willie spits into the sink as quietly as they can, the old house creaking in spite of his efforts. The clock on his phone silently informs him it's a little after midnight. Willie glares at it. It's entirely too late, and everyone at the concert was smoking, which means Willie is going to have to do laundry in the morning just to get the smell of cigarette and weed smoke out of their uniform.

At least they were mostly chill stoners.

Their phone buzzes on the countertop. Willie taps the screen, surprised to see a text from Alex. Shouldn't he have crashed hours ago? He's in the middle of training camp, so Willie has barely seen or heard from their boyfriend apart from brief text exchanges in days.

He opens the message quickly.

Alex: Hey are you still awake by any chance?

Willie rinses their toothbrush then grabs the phone.

Willie: Ya whats up?

Alex: Just woke up.

Oh.

Willie knows what that means. Sure, he hasn't spent a ton of nights sleeping beside Alex since they got together, due in large part to both of their crazy work schedules, but they've talked about it. The nightmares. Where they come from, what triggers them, how Alex comes out of it.

Willie: Scale of 1-63 how bad?

Alex: Uh... like a 34.

Willie glances out of the bathroom, down the dark hall. Both of his younger siblings are asleep. They don't have school in the morning since it's summer vacation, but Willie doesn't want to wake them regardless.

A soft mrup by his feet pulls their attention down to the floor. Cassie stares up at him with big, yellow eyes, glowing in the darkness. He leans down to scritch under her fluffy chin. She whips her tail back and forth while she accepts the attention, then strolls off towards the front door. Willie glances at the bedroom doors that hide his siblings, then grabs the phone again.

Willie: u wanna come over?

Alex: I don't wanna wake anyone up.

Willie: its fine cassie is already up so no repeat of last month :P

Alex: okay if you're sure. Be there in 10.

Willie slides in their retainer, then heads to the front room. He flips the outside light back on and turns on the kettle. Cassie starts rubbing against his legs, demanding attention. It's crazy to think that she was a stray less than a year ago. Just as the kettle starts to hiss, they hear a soft tapping on the front door.

"Hi," Alex mumbles when Willie opens it. He's wearing thin pajama pants and that worn out pink hoodie in spite of the warm night, arms wrapped around his torso.

"Hey Alex," Willie responds softly, stepping back to let his boyfriend in. "I got water ready for tea or cocoa or something."

"Thanks," Alex responds, entering and toeing off his shoes. "Sorry."

"No worries," Willie assures him. "I'd just gotten home from wor when you texted."

"Concert?" Alex asks as they head for the kitchen.

"Yeah, big rock band," Willie answers. "Lots of smoking."

"Youch," Alex comments. He takes a mug when Willie offers and pours hot water over a lemon tea bag.

Willie comes up behind Alex as it steeps and wraps their arms around his waist, hooking their chin over his shoulder. Alex leans back into them just a little. "How was training?"

Alex shrugs. "Fine I guess. Luke almost swallowed his tongue when Bobby joined us for sprints. Reggie and Nick got in trouble for choking on grapes while doing chubby bunny at lunch."

Willie laughs. "Sounds entertaining."

Cassie must decide then that the humans are wasting too much time, because she joins them near the stove. She sniffs at Alex's socks for a few seconds, then starts headbutting his calf. Willie lets go to allow Alex to crouch.

"Hey Cass," Alex murmurs, letting her inspect his fingers before scratching behind her fluffy ears. "Sorry, am I disturbing your beauty sleep?"

"I think I already did that when I got home," Willie points out, leaning against the counter.

"Awww, rough night for you, mama," Alex croons. He lets his free hand start petting over her floofy tortouseshell coat. "No rest for the wicked I guess."

"How dare you accuse her of such things," Willie jokes around a yawn.

Alex straightens up and begins doctoring his tea with a bit of honey. "I should let you get to bed."

"Are you coming too?" Willie counters gently.

Alex bites the inside of his cheek, then nods. "I gotta at least try, right?"

"For the sake of staying upright tomorrow, yeah probably."

Alex stirs in his honey, then takes the mug in one hand and offers the other to Willie. "I'm good."

"You're amazing," Willie replies as he takes it and leads Willie towards his room. It used to be an office, but Willie and his siblings had rearanged things after they lost their parents. It felt too wrong to sleep in their old room.

Alex sets his mug on the bedside table while Willie plugs in their phone. "You good if my alarm goes off at 6?" his boyfriend asks as he sits down.

"Yeah that's fine," Willie promises. They crawl to the inside of the queen sized bed, pulling the blankets back for Alex. "Just know I'll probably go back to sleep after you leave."

"Fair."

It takes them a few minutes to get settled, but eventually Willie is flat on his back with Alex curled into his side, sharing a pillow. Willie rubs slow circles into the tense muscles of Alex's shoulder and back. Their boyfriend starts to slowly relax under their ministrations.

"Thank you," Alex murmurs in the dark. "For...everything."

"Anything, you know that," Willie responds. He presses a kiss to the top of his head.

Anything else Alex might have said is interrupted by a sudden weight near their feet. Willie startles a little but Alex chuckles. The small intruder creeps up the bed until Willie can make out their cat in the darkness.

"Someone felt left out," Alex decides, reaching out to Cassandra.

She purrs and inches closer.

"She never sleeps with me when you're not here," Willie comments, smiling.

"It's cause cats like me better," Alex states, as if it should be obvious.

"Hey, you have your own cat," Willie protests. "No stealing mine."

Cassie lets out a little huff and curls up next to Alex. Willie tickles her under the chin behind his back. Between her and themself, Willie feels Alex finally let go of the tension in his limbs and his breathing starts to even out.

"Good night, Alex."

"Night Willie. Love you."

"Love you."

[fagtainsparklez]

got a text from my old boss that she got new kittens, which didn’t surprise me bc she’s infamous for having like 10+ cats at a time and is constantly taking in strays from neighboring farms. average thursday for her right. but then i go to actually open the image she sent and

unique markings indeed!

[necromosss]

sometimes we (i) forgot

[noodles-and-tea]

Well, yes.

[cherlok-jolms]

The family's fighting again.

[toonaviv]

chapter 3 was really good.

[Image description: Digital drawing of characters from Deltarune chapter 3. Toriel and Asgore are walking away from each other with neutral expressions on their face. Tenna is clinging onto the back of their shirts, looking nervously into the pit he is dangling over. In the pit is the Roaring Knight grinning at dark world Kris. Text above them reads "Divorce leads TV to the worst places." End description.]

[redstonedust]

i'm not "undiagnosed" i'm largely headcanoned as neurodivergent but with no confirmation in canon. i hear a showrunner said something at a panel last year but it hasnt been leaked on youtube yet.

[no-context-discord-quotes]

this is a typo in a textbook written by the professor of this class, it cost me $105, i will be sharing with the world

[mctreeleth]

I keep seeing the leather/pleather vs denim jacket poll over and over again with all different sorts of discourse about how there is no plastic-free pleather and like, that's TRUE, there isn't, but honestly I DO think people who don't want to use animal products* also deserve to look cool

and so my suggestion is that y'all google "waxed cotton jacket" or "waxed canvas jacket" plus like, "motorcycle" or whatever style you think is cool, because there's a plastic free leather-look material that is strong and durable and waterproof and doesn't use animal products** AND is plastic free already out there and some of the clothes that you can get made out of it look sick as hell.

*ignoring the fact that most leather is meat by-product that would be going to waste anyway

**except beeswax but if you're going to object to that then honestly there's no helping you

[scapegods]

what if this scene was worse

[emryste]

redrew some older 2020 art. we remain hedgehog

[val-of-the-north]

His greed sickens me.

[walrus-tusk-615bc]

Eternal Sugar is so happy that these Complete Strangers She Doesn’t Know are so supportive of her.

[lunehowls]

silly transfem jon doodle

[scurvyboy]

they would get along i think