you and steve hate each other but you decide to help him when he gets sick
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it was the sound of two consecutive sneezes followed by a cough that immediately caught your attention when you walked into family video.
“ew, you’re sick,” you said to steve as you adjusted your vest and fixed the nametag which said “robin” instead of your name because you were covering for her while she was out of town for a month.
“i’m fine.”
you simply looked at him. “oh yes, because sneezing and coughing are the signs of someone in perfect health.”
“it’s just really dusty in here,” he said, narrowing his eyes at you. “you probably should’ve cleaned better last night.”
you rolled your eyes at that and almost flipped him off but refrained from doing so last second. there was something about steve that always seemed to annoy you, and you knew that the feeling was fully mutual. it was way too easy to butt heads over nothing or start an argument over the littlest of things. hence why you were barely a minute into your six hour shift and the two of you were already ready to murder each other.
in a way it was funny, though— you two didn’t like each other but somehow you shared a common best friend. a best friend who would do anything to try and make you two become friends. however, through robin’s many failed attempts, it was settled that that was something that would never happen. in the end, she said that it was probably because you and him were way too similar to one another, which you wholeheartedly disagreed with, and that was why you couldn’t be friends.
“let’s just stay away from each other during our shifts, okay? i’d rather not get sick right before the fourth of july,” you told him.
“i’m fine,” he said again and then sniffled, which didn’t help prove his case. “but, i will happily stay far away from you.”
apparently, he wasn’t really fine because the next day he didn’t show up for work and it was just you for the entirety of the morning before keith showed up in the afternoon.
“where’s steve?”
“called in sick,” keith told you. “i almost didn’t believe him, but he actually sounded pretty bad on the phone.”
keith’s words didn’t surprise you at all, but for some reason for the rest of your shift you contemplated going over to steve’s house; bringing him a cup of the soup that was your mom’s recipe but you’d always end up making it for yourself when you were sick because of how much she worked, and also bringing him the cough syrup that seemed to always do the trick. and then you felt stupid for wanting to do anything that would help make him feel better because you didn’t even consider him a friend.
but still, when your shift ended you found yourself heading home to make the said soup and grab the cough syrup, and then proceed to go over to his house. your conflicting thoughts were fighting each other on the entire drive over.
“has this been poisoned?” steve asked when he opened his front door and you told him that you brought him soup since he was sick; hearing the words fall from your lips even surprised you, so his question actually somewhat made sense in your eyes.
but instead of acknowledging the fact that it was really insane that you were at his house right then, you sarcastically decided to say, “shit, i knew i forgot to add one ingredient!”
“ha ha,” he said with a straight face. “seriously, should i trust this?”
you rolled your eyes at him. “oh god, i’m already regretting coming here. just take the fucking soup, harrington.”
after another moment of contemplation, he took the tupperware of soup from your outstretched hand and then opened the door further to let you in. you followed him to the kitchen where he placed the tupperware on the counter.
“you didn’t have to bring me anything.”
you knew that, but there was still something in you that made you want to.
“i know, but i need you to get better fast so that i don’t have to spend another shift only with keith.”
he smirked at you. “so you missed me?”
you forced yourself not to consider his question for a second.
“‘missed’ is a very strong word,” you told him and then quickly changed the subject. “you look really bad right now, by the way.”
he was wearing a hoodie and basketball shorts, his hair was disheveled, and his nose was red from how much you assumed he’d been blowing it all day. it was probably the worst you’d ever seen him and you actually found yourself feeling bad for him, which was something that quickly confused you.
“glad to know your main reason for coming over here was to bully me.”
you smiled at him. “i can’t go a day without it.”
you then remembered something and started to pull it out of your bag. “oh, i brought some cough syrup too. you probably have already taken some, but just in case.”
“i actually haven’t taken anything,” he told you.
you furrowed your eyebrows. “so you’ve just been suffering all day?”
“is that not normal?”
the genuine curiosity in his question confused you for a moment before it all clicked into place. you silently wondered if he had ever been taken care of when he was sick. his parents were rarely ever around so you figured the answer was probably no. it reminded you of how often you’d also have to fend for yourself when you were sick since your mom was barely home. maybe robin was right— you and him were pretty similar.
“no, that’s not normal,” you shook your head at him before handing him the cough syrup. “please take this. you’ll feel better much quicker than if you just ‘let it pass,’ and i can’t believe this is something that i have to explain to you.”
he nodded and took the cough syrup before continuing to eat the soup, which he thanked you for and complimented you on how good it was.
the two of you eventually migrated to the couch in his living room, letting reruns of some random sitcom play out in front of you.
“y’know robin would be very proud of us right now,” steve said, breaking the prevailing silence. “actually being civil with each other.”
“yeah, she would,” you agreed. “but, we’re still not friends.”
“of course not,” he responded with a shake of his head. “the world would probably explode if we were.”
“exactly,” you agreed, letting out a small laugh. “and we cannot allow that to happen.”
but still, as the cough syrup kicked in and he fell asleep leaning on your shoulder, you couldn’t help but feel that something had changed.
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OK so heres some of my favorite things that were talked about during the enter the florpus commentary thing yesterday:
one of jhonen's favorite things in the whole movie is the writing in zim's kitchen that says "do anything is real?"
they clarified specifically that gir was not lying and he did in fact eat a baby at the crazy taco
gir smells REALLY bad. theres like rotting organic matter in his body at all times. he stinks
zim's human suit is made out of actual human skin
zim is acting drunk on nacho cheese during that scene in his house because richard horvitz recorded it while drunk
they planned to have this whole thing with tak's ship only agreeing to go to moo-ping 10 because it knows tak is there. they wouldve shown her in silhouette during that brief explosion and she wouldve stowed away on the ship without anyone knowing and then wouldve shown up towards the end of the movie, but they decided to cut it out
zim did not need to frame membrane for a crime in order to get him into space prison and likely just tossed the guards like 5 bucks for it. its a shady place. they did specify though that if he did frame him for something, it would have been jaywalking
they pointed out during that scene where zim is celebrating peace day on dib's lawn that zim's reaction to seeing dib was very much genuine and that's just how his brain works. he is genuinely surprised to see him pop out of his own house. (they also described his reaction as like "being surprised to see your best friend")
the ham joke was ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL to the film and at some point jhonen remembered it and was like GUYS. WE ALMOST FORGOT THE HAM
there was supposed to be this joke where it cuts to and from gaz and dib in tak's ship and they would've had to stop at like a warp station or something and theyd be waiting in a long queue of spaceships and the radio is broken in the ship so theyre stuck listening to that one song. then itd cut to them like totally braindead drooling from listening to it for so long. and then a little later itd cut back a FINAL time and theyd know all of the words and both be singing along to it. but this was also cut out so only the last bit remained
when asked "who would win: minimoose or mrs. bitters?" the answer was along the lines of "neither, i think all of us lose in that scenario"
the tallest are just two dudes who happen to be the same height and therefore have to share the same job. they are not brothers and they are also not gay lovers ("as much as you want them to be, they are not. there is no love in this universe")
skooge is in fact alive and lives in zim's basement. they wanted to keep the number of "hey remember this thing from the tv show!" moments to a minimum so he was not mentioned in the movie. but he is there
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In light of the "Lucy looks for a new apartment" line in the 2x05 press release synopsis, it’s been fun going back and seeing all the tidbits the show’s dropped about how Kacy is learning and reacting to each other’s living habits. Seeing as it’s Lucy who’s probably going to be moving in with her, I’m guessing it’s intentional that they’ve been highlighting Kate’s reactions. Even though Lucy’s the one over all the time, she hardly ever says anything about Kate’s apartment.
2x01: Kate being surprised that Lucy’s cooked her a whole breakfast buffet with plates conquering every single flat surface of the apartment, Lucy seems to respond to a lot of things with, “you know that I’m from Texas,” Kacy honeymoon phase in Ernie’s lair, Kate makes her bed everyday immediately after waking up (implied that Lucy does not), Lucy would eat pizza everyday if she could (Kate sounds both disbelieving and fond of it all the same)
2x02: their coffee spot seems to be right outside of Kate’s apartment so 👀
2x03: Lucy thinks Kate’s good at decorating, Kate in wide-eyed shock that Lucy would even bring up the state of her apartment in front of people even as a joke and pounces on the chance to pile on, Kate likes organizing, her mom used to say “clutter is just delayed decision-making”
2x04: Lucy wore one shoe out to her car from Kate’s apartment, only keeps single extra shoes in her car instead of whole pairs, thinks it’s silly that Kate would even ask her how she knows which shoe she’s going to lose, Kate becoming increasingly more flabbergasted the whole time
Interesting that they’re introducing this ‘potentially moving in’ storyline so soon after they’ve started dating for real and started learning more about each other. And it’s been amusing seeing Kate and her progressively more confused expressions every time we learn more about Lucy. But above all, it’s been great to see how super smitten and in love with each other they’ve been ever since they got back together and you can see it even in the smaller moments. Like Whistler walking in holding Lucy’s shoe and openly talking about her leaving it behind at her apartment vs. S1 Whistler being all coy about them seeing each other to the point of hiding Lucy’s tennis bracelet in some security forms (and Ernie going up to Kate and asking about their “glass slipper situation” vs. Ernie being slightly more lowkey asking Lucy about them in s1)
So, keep making those goofy expressions Kate Whistler, because no matter how perplexed you might be by the way she lives, Lucy Tara is going to be looking for a new apartment and you're still going to ask her to move in with you despite it all.
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