#✯ — [ ᵇᵒˡᵈᶰᵉˢˢ ˢᵗᵃᶰᵈˢ ᵃˡᵒᶰᵉ ᵃᵐᵒᶰᵍ ᵗʰᵉ ʷʳᵉᶜᵏ ] ⨯ byanyan

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@byanyan asked: they're staring at him from across the room, waiting. and then, the moment he finally makes eye contact with them... they very maturely stick their tongue out at him. (sometimes u just gotta be a nuisance, i'm so sorry)

Colton's tucked in the corner of the entryway as he removes his jacket, watching how Lena quickly paced back and forth from the kitchen to the dining room and back again after letting him in before looking over the rest of the place as he was told to make himself comfortable — picking apart the LITTLE things, like how the front door didn't quite shut taut, how one of the corners of the runner in the kitchen stuck up slightly, and how the back door swung outward instead of in...

— a residual habit from his previous profession. He found it difficult to turn off, especially in NEW places he didn't know.

Gaze finally makes a grand scan of the room, left to right, stopping ABRUPTLY as he meets the kid's tucked away in the opposite corner — just as abruptly greeted by a TONGUE, stuck out tauntingly in his direction. Doesn't surprise him...

In fact, the bartender didn't expect anything less. It's too bad he didn't have anything else better than IMITATION up his sleeve — or some level of MATURITY past fifth grade — because if Lena were to look back now, she'd see him mocking them: tongue all the way out, complete with a bird flipped conspicuously in their direction...

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@byanyan asked: ↪ Quotes from things I’ve written “I don’t hate you. I don’t blame you if you don’t believe me. I’m not askin' you to forgive me, either, but… I don’t hate you” (:

Even as reluctant and soft spoken as it is, their words rupture through the thick silence of the empty and closed bar like an EARTHQUAKE — causing a faulter in step as he moves behind the bar to finish his closing routine. But he doesn't spare them a glance...just continues grabbing glass after glass, from bin to shelf, bin to shelf in a monotonous way the bartender WISHED the night had started with.

But no — instead, it started with an unusual and CRYPTIC phone call, which was followed up by a wild goose chase to find the kid, just to have to break up an argument and ensuing FIGHT that could've easily ended up at the emergency room for any number of them.

And maybe it was the awfully quiet ride back to the bar that made them utter their finer feelings towards him now. Or how this is just another example of how they usually prove to be more bothersome to him than what they're worth — how it's an intentional thing, and they KNOW IT. Just to piss him off. Or perhaps it was the mixed look of disappointment and UNEASE he'd worn since they left the scene, Cassidy having always been stuck in a weird limbo of uncertainty with Byan — never knowing exactly where he stood on that friend to enemy scale.

It's why the silence between them briefly returns, Cassidy leveraging all these thoughts and reeling in some of that simmering ANGER left over from tonight's situation, for Byan's sake — leaving their statement to hang in the air a moment before he finally turns to address it.

" — 'least not when it's CONVENIENT for you, huh?" It's mumbled under his breath before he busies himself with clearing the counter, looking for a distraction before he ends up saying something he'll regret...

"Jus' cut th'crap, kid. If this is your way of tryin' t'keep me from tellin' LENA, you'll have t' try harder than that..."

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@byanyan asked: ↪ Send a 👫and I’ll write four headcanons I have about our muse’s relationship 👫 if you want!! pls also feel free to ignore me since we haven't done much with these two ♡

grey please —

i would never ignore you. so long as you're okay with me taking creative liberty on these — kinda gonna be like, suggestions and sorta, plot based ( in modern verse, because i love it so much ) since we haven't officially established a whole lot, so lmk what you think:

Of course, they meet because Byan tries to slide through the bar doors with a fake ID. I think this is just about as far as we've plotted, so hear me out — I know you've plotted a lot with @chronal-anomaly and so have I, they're each other's best friend in both modern and main...so wouldn't it be hilarious if, after the first few sour encounters between these two, Cassidy and Byan are both sorta forced to put up with each other because of Lena? Even better if neither one of them knew until all three were in the same room one time. I just thought it'd be neat — and would definitely give Cassidy more reason to put up with them rather than just put them out.

I also think it'd be neat if they eventually do end up tolerating each other, maybe not on the same level as Byan and Lena, but maybe to the point where they...at least feel some sense of camaraderie with Cass. They surprisingly have quite a bit in common in this verse — Cassidy would definitely see a good bit of himself in them, and I think that'd definitely trigger a sort of protective instinct within him. He'd feel a need to at least point them in the right direction, considering he never had anyone to do that for him when he was their age.

There was ONE TIME they entered the bar and Cassidy actually willingly served them a drink. It was after hours, as indicated by the locked doors they violently tugged at until they opened, and they seemed to be in a rush to get there — or perhaps just...away from someplace else, Cassidy couldn't really tell which one. But he brings them in regardless, locks the doors behind them, and lets them sit at the bar while he finished closing shop. Cassidy's interrogation techniques failing him, he decides to wordlessly offer up a frozen cocktail — virgin, though he won't disclose that to Byan — to encourage an EXCHANGE, in hopes that they'd loosen up enough to at least tell him what's going on. Just a friendly effort to understand. It's up to Byan if they accept or not.

If you two decide to let me slide my cowboy in between Byan and Lena, considering how close they are to her, and Cassidy's position as part-time bartender, part-time small town secret keeper, I can definitely see Byan confiding in Cass a bit. Maybe some of those things that they really need to get off their chest, but can't work up the nerve to tell Lena — probably particularly before they knew of their connection ( not sure they'd do the same if they knew how close he was to her ). Or even maybe asked for advice a time or two — after Cass opens up a bit and explains how similar their roads were. Obviously all of these, but especially this one, require quite a bit of development to get this point, but yeah I think they could be really neat your honor —