One For The Road [6]
Cecil Dennis x afab!Reader • Rating: 18+ pals •Masterlist• ao3• want to be tagged? | requestinfo• ko-fi •
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Summary: You need to get some answers.
A/N: Ahh, we have reached the end! A massive thank you to @thexsanctuaryx for beta reading this series! <3
Warnings: Cecil crying (a lot), talk of pregnancy, anxiety, there's a happy ending, swearing, please let me know if I've missed a warning!
Word Count: 1319
Your first instinct is to leave. Just go. Walk out and drive home and delete his number and never talk to him again.
But then his panicked face and pleading eyes echoed in your mind, reverberating to the point of madness.
Just go. Walk out and drive home and delete his number and ignore him for a few days.
But that seemed cruel too.
You’d only just been doing whatever the hell you and Cecil had been doing recently. Neither of you had talked about what you actually were and besides, it definitely seemed like Danielle and him were no longer seeing each other, or sleeping together. Or…
You needed to know. At the very least, you owed yourself answers.
So, instead, you moped around the house a little, picking halfheartedly at the pancakes Cecil had been making, the ones he’d finished now cold.
In the rush he’d left his phone upstairs, so it wasn’t as if you could message him about when he’d be back.
You didn’t know when Harry would return either. Part of you toys with the idea of leaving a note or message for him to contact you when he gets back, just so you could go home and sidestep any possible awkward conversations.
Just as you are considering what to write, the front door slams open with the kind of force that should have, but luckily didn’t, rip it off its hinges.
Cecil bursts inside, wide eyed, sweaty, and panicked. He looks delirious, like he’s run twenty miles in the desert with no water.
He almost doesn’t notice you sitting at the kitchen table as he falls inside, but he manages to stop his body from running up the stairs and grabbing his phone when he sees you.
Your name falls out of his lips nervously, a whispered mumble that breaks a little at the end. His eyes teary.
He takes a step forward, his hands twitching at his sides as he goes to reach out for you, but he stops himself.
“She’s not pregnant.”
You don’t get a chance to answer as all his words come out in a rush of sound.
“She’s not pregnant, I promise, look I even got the doctor to give me proof.” He pulls out a folded piece of paper from his jeans. “It’s got her signature and the doctor’s contact info, you can check it all online too, make sure it’s real. She said you can call her to confirm that Danielle’s not pregnant, I explained to her, to the Doctor, she was really nice, she said she’d talk to you and-”
“Cecil,” you say softly as you stand and take his shaking hands in yours. “It’s okay.”
“Danielle– we slept together a few times about two months ago, but I always used a condom, always, and they didn’t break. And then we stopped hanging out because she’s…”
You wait, giving him space to finish as you stroke his hand.
“She’s kind of mean, and then we don’t talk, she blocks me and suddenly a few weeks ago she messages me saying she’s pregnant and I’m the Dad and I need to send her all this money.” He looks up at you hopefully. “I, I don’t have that kind of money… She wanted me to go to the first doctor’s appointment and, I think she really did think she was pregnant, but she wasn’t. And, and she told me the date, it was next week. For sure. I remember, I have the message, I can show you. It wasn’t today. Otherwise… otherwise…”
“It’s okay.” You give him a reassuring smile and take the doctor’s letter out of his hands and place it on the table.
“You hate me…” His voice completely breaks at the end, his face crumpling as the dam bursts and tears start to flow.
“Shh, shh, shh,” you wrap your arms around him quickly, holding him close and squeezing him tight. You rub his back as he weeps into you, burying his face into your neck. “How could I hate you, hmm?” You kiss his temple and he cries harder.
“You hate my kisses that much? They make you cry?” You tease lightly, trying to cheer him.
He shakes his head rapidly, still sobbing, but trying to stop. “I love them.” He insists through tears.
“Yeah?” You kiss his temple again, and then his cheek.
“Yeah, yes, I love them so much, I love you.” He blurts out and then sobs harder in the beat of silence that follows. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m-”
“Shhh,” you lean back so you can hold his face in both of your hands and look into his eyes. “Why are you sorry, sweet thing?”
“I, I, I,” he hiccups and swallows trying to force his tears down. “I thought you’d be gone and never speak to me again, and I ran all the way here back from the doctor’s because I didn’t want to be in the car with her for a second longer, and you hate me and now I said I love you and I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.”
You stroke his cheeks with your thumbs and kiss his lips lightly. His breathing hitches.
“Cecil,” you say softly, “take a seat and I’ll get you some water.”
He shakes his head, “Can I hold your hand while you get water?”
You smile, your chest heavy and you nod.
He holds your bicep, pressing his forehead against your shoulder as you fill a glass. He sits when you guide him to the table and takes the water when you offer it. He drinks quickly, trying to swallow as much as possible to please you.
“Hey, don’t choke.” You say gently, taking the glass out of his hands - half full - and sit down next to him.
He looks at you sadly from under his wet lashes, little shudders of his cries echoing on his body. “I get it… if you don’t want to ever see me again.”
“Cecil,” You stroke his hair and he presses his head to your hand, closing his eyes. “It’s okay. I promise.”
His eyes snap open as he looks at you, confusion and shock plastered all over his face. “You…?”
“Me…?” You tease a little.
“You don’t hate… you want to…?”
“I want you dummy,” you smile and kiss him again gently, a soft brush of your lips to his.
He moves after you quickly, deepening in kiss and moaning softly. The moment he pulls back he’s crying again. “Sorry, sorry, sorry,” he waves his hand and wipes at his eyes, “happy tears, happy tears.”
“You’re so sweet.” You give his hand a little squeeze.
He shakes his head. “I’m a piece of shit. I should have told you… I just didn’t…” He sighs, “I didn’t want to put you off. You’re already so kind and hot and put together, and I’m just-”
“Shh.” You grin and he smiles back. “Besides, we’re not… we never talked about being… you know. We never set any boundaries.”
He nods. “I’d like to… be like… going steady.”
You can’t help but giggle at the sincere way he says it, the honesty in his tone just causes joy to bubble in your chest.
His smile widens as you laugh. “Is that a yes?”
You nod. “Yes.”
He grins wildly and kisses all over your face repeatedly until you're laughing so hard you almost can’t breathe.
“Sorry, sorry,” he chuckles as he moves back.
“Stop saying sorry.”
“Sorry.”
You snort and then pause. “Would you still like to come over to mine?”
His eyes widen a little, glittering in the light. “Three day food and fuck weekend?”
You let out a bark of laughter and nod. “Three day food and fuck weekend.”
He kisses you again, sweetly this time. “I don’t deserve you.” He whispers against your lips.
“That’s okay. I don’t deserve you either.”
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Personal: Home just in Time to Catch COVID for the first time
Apparently Squirrel's been unwell for three days, were out of tests and forgot to ask me where they were, kept wandering around maskless to chat with me because they missed me and we needed to coordinate on stuff.
I was slightly sneezy right before bed, but attributed it to air quality and being out in it yesterday. Woke up very sick and immediately went to test before contacting Millennials to warn them off, because i do not fuck around. I was trying to get back to sleep when Squirrel came to ask about tests. Mine was likely false negative because the infection was so new.
So yeah. Quarantine here.
I was able to get an appointment very early tomorrow, so that's something. Bad news is, Doctor told me to wait for the booster until after the trip and I was intended to go today. I effectively likely don't have much if any immunity and it feels like someone is sitting on my chest.
I told my Doctor at the beginning of the pandemic that my goal was to try to avoid catching it for two years, which was the initial guestimate for a vaccine. I made it 4 years 7 months. Nearly 8. Two or is it three of my millennials still have never had it. I suppose I should count it a win, but I'm pissed, especially as if I'd ignored Doctor's orders or stayed south a little longer or if squirrel had been more careful when I got home, I'd be okay. My chronic illness and lung stuff are already hugely debilitating. I don't need extra chronic illness on top.
I had planned to put as much time and energy as I could into catching up the stuff I didn't post before leaving, the stuff I missed, and the firehouse of new stuff I queued last night. No clue what I'll be able to do, as I literally never had COVID before.
I beg of you wash your hands. Wear your mask.
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