A New Friend
Asks are open, feel free to pop in and talk or request something!
Stone sighed as he walked out of the hospital building on base, several trash bags in his hands. He was so tired and he had at least five, heavy trash bags combined in his hands, full of trash.
It was the end of the day, so he had just been taking out the trash for the day. It was the last thing he had to do in the hospital building before he could get back to his barracks and rest, internally scolding himself for getting up at four in the morning even though he had been getting up at that time for years now.
He threw the heavy trash bags into the nearby dumpster, grunting softly at how heavy the bags were. Those were the last of the trash bags, which he was thankful about. He turned to head back inside the hospital building, only to hear rustling from the woods that bordered the base.
"Hello?" Stone asked, his voice cold as usual. His large, gloved hand reached for his sidearm, his brown eyes scanning the area for threats. "Come on out."
He was expecting an enemy soldier who had made it past the base's security measures or a recruit or two who were playing around in the woods, but instead he heard a meow. His cold brown eyes went to the sound just as a black, skinny cat jumped out from where it was hiding in a bush, its coat dirty with sand and leaves.
The cat meowed again and Stone's hand on his side arm fell. He turned towards the cat, eyeing it warily. "Ah, so you must be the stray cat that's been roaming around base," he said, his cold voice soft.
He had heard whispers of a cat that was roaming around the base, but it wasn't really a friendly cat, according to the stories. And there was evidence to back the stories up as several soldiers had come into the hospital building to get treated because they had been scratched at and bit by said cat whenever the soldiers made the mistake to get close.
The cat didn't seem hostile with Stone though, in fact it went right up to Stone's larger form and rubbed its head against his legs. He was surprised to hear the cat purring, and so loudly at that.
After a few seconds of hesitation, he took off his gloves and stashed them in his pockets, crouching down slowly to be eye-level with the cat. His movements were slow, not wanting to spook the smaller animal. As soon as he was low enough for the cat to reach his hands, the cat sniffed at his scarred hands and bumped its head into them, wanting pets.
"Hm, you don't seem like the hostile cat I heard about," Stone murmured, petting the cat. He let the cat guide his hand where it wanted to be petted, his touch gentle for the first time in weeks. "You seem... misunderstood."
He moved from a crouching position to a sitting one, which the cat really liked. He grunted softly as he felt the cat's small paws trample onto his lap, the purring getting even louder somehow. "You remind me of myself in that regard," he continued, uncaring that he was talking to a cat. "People tend to think I'm hostile too, though they're not entirely wrong. It takes some adjustment period to get used to me and I can be hostile if needed."
"I suppose you and I both, we've been hurt before, huh?" Stone kept petting the cat, the cat's front paws on his broad chest. He was so large at 6'6" that the cat looked like a kitten compared to him, though the cat was probably at least an adult by cat standards. "Can't trust just anyone, perhaps that why you're letting me pet you. We're kindred spirits, the two of us."
He spent close to an hour petting the cat and he promised to come back the next day, this time with some food. When Stone came back out after getting all of his stuff from the hospital building, he saw the cat still near the building. He gave the cat a little wave with his fingers when the cat meowed, feeling how his lips pulled into a small smile beneath his muzzle-like mask—something he hadn't known he could do.
He had never smiled before now, didn't know his muscles still worked like that.
"Until next time, cat," Stone said softly, turning towards where the barracks were. He walked away from the hospital building, feeling lighter than he had in months.
Reblogs are welcomed & appreciated!
46 notes
·
View notes
i truly hate the show bc YOU GUYS DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE MISSING WHEN YOU WATCH THE SHOW BEFORE READING THE BOOKS
you dont know that magnus’ magic is the same striking blue as alec’s eyes
you dont know alec’s eyes are the same color as the ancestors of a family so intertwined with his
you don’t know that magnus sees ghosts in the blue of alec’s eyes
you don’t know magnus is two inches taller than alec
you dont know that alec loves that magnus is taller than him
you don’t know that they dated in secret for months
you dont know alec’s wardrobe is absolutely hopeless and he only wears years old worn out sweaters with holes in the cuffs and magnus loves it
you dont know that sometimes magnus wears his worn out sweaters
you dont know that they didnt get married for years until alec became consul and they could get married in warlock blue and shadowhunter gold under his new law
you dont know they have two kids, before they ever married
you dont know their first son is named after alec’s brother max, who actually died during the war
you dont know that max’s skin is blue, and his eyes are just a shade darker than alec’s
you dont know that alec loved one man so much he changed the world for him
1K notes
·
View notes