#the coloring is shit because I was doing it while feeling tired qwq

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I've been thinking about this meme where the poly kisses each other, but with PapyFranS!!

[bukojuiice]

rose-colored boy

ೃ pairing: (eren jaeger x fem! reader)

ೃ  tags: college/modern au, fluff, humor, love at first sight cliché, mikasa is your cute little sister, armin, sasha, jean, and connie are your besties, and eren is a himbo who works hard and has terrible friends.

ೃ warnings: strong language and mild suggestive content

ೃ part 1/??? of my (eren x reader) college au!

ೃ word count: 3000 words

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ೃ This is my very first snk x reader fic! so i hope you bear with some errors! qwq 

i’ve been following the anime ever since it was released in 2013, and this is the first time i’m  going to be writing for it.  this month’s manga chapter really took me out so why not channel my sadness thru writing an fluff! eren fic? 🤧 i hope you enjoy either way!

ೃ  please do reblog if you enjoyed!! (feel free to add tags too because i love reading them and my heart swells with happiness when people love my work!)

ೃ  in which (Y/N) (L/N), 20, still in school, and regretfully-unregretfully-her little girl scout sister's assistant, meets eren jaeger in an embarrassing too innocent door-to-door cookie sale whilst a humiliating party was going on.

cookies, suspicious maybe-maybe-not pot brownies, meddling little sisters and friends, “oh my god they were roommates” vine on replay 24/7, homework, tears, and fairy lights bring them together.

“I’m going to enter now.”

“Ahhh yes, please!”

“Shut up, please.” Eren muttered to himself as he tossed and turned around in his bed, but still couldn’t get to sleep. “When will they ever stop doing this?” Why did Eren’s next-door roommate and his girlfriend have to do this five times a day? They had a lot of stamina for 21-year-olds who didn’t have anything better to do.

Eren’s thoughts eventually brought him to his parents.

His parents- did they even exist?

For pretty much 14 years of Eren’s life, they had been out of town or out of the country. His older brother, Zeke, blonde, bespectacled, tall, and sometimes too far up his own ass older brother who Eren is able to confide in from time to time, recently got a girlfriend whom he’s hopelessly in love with (they’re even thinking about getting married which isn’t really a problem since the girl is genuinely nice to his older brother so Eren is good with her.), so… things in the family had been a bit rough and busy to say the least.

Communication with his parents wasn’t always the best.

Eren would study late at night back when he was seven, because no one bothered to help him with homework. Along with the fact that he wasn’t the brightest kid in class, and he knew that very well, but he had ambition and he was determined to make it big in the world. He focused more on sports, particularly Soccer in middle school and high school, and tried to balance that with his studies.  After being granted a Sports Scholarship from Shigashina University, Eren decided to rent and share a flat, living with his batchmates who he met at a mixer party (before Uni started as this whole meet and get to know each other kind of thing) and whom he was so quick to call his ‘friends’, just so that he could get out of the hellhole that was his own house.

But things turned out much worse than expected.

Eren thought that the ‘College Life’ was to focus more on pursuing your future career and make a name for yourself but… it was the other way around.

He thought that after Freshmen year, everyone would take things seriously. Sure, have some drinks, get wasted after finals, or have house parties from time to time. But he was unfortunately, dragged into the wrong crowd. After attending around 5 parties in the first few months of being generalized as one of the infamous and pompous freshman archetypes present in every university, he called it a year and spent the rest of his nights doing homework, projects, playing video games, staying at the school soccer field until 10PM while his roommates were probably smoking crack and not caring about the number of units they needed to take for each of their goddamn subjects.

 He was ~living the life~ and now that he regrets most of the decisions he made in freshman year, the only option that he has left was to wait until his third year and move to a different apartment.  

 Now, here he was, Sophomore year, nearing the end of the semester, and very much eager to get the hell out of here and also study for his upcoming finals on Constitutional Law II, as his professor, Mr. Erwin Smith, was going to throw hands if one of his students score below average on the exam.

 “EREN MICK JAEGER! BROOOO!” Eren winces when he hears the shrieky and annoying voice of his flatmate Thomas Wagner, calling out to him. “Wanna go and party with us?” Eren smiles halfheartedly, shaking his head, “Ah, no thanks. I have a game tomorrow and finals coming up on Thursday.” Thomas smirked and wrapped his arm around Eren, “Oh fuck that, live the college life ya spoon.”

“No, really I have to study.”

Thomas frowned and groaned, “Oh god, you’re such a killjoy. Fine, if that’s what you want. Don’t blame us if we tell you to buy some beer down the block.”

Eren cracked an obviously fake laugh and pushed Thomas away from him, “You’re an ass. That only happened once and that was when we first met. Don’t you even dare try to ask me to buy you shit again.”

“Woah. Woah. Woaaaaaah. That was a joke Eren. Loosen up will you?” Thomas raises an eyebrow, clearly taken aback by the brunette’s sudden aggressiveness. He hums Moves like Jaeger by Maroon 5 as a way to spite Eren whilst passing by him down the staircase.

The brunette shook his head, tying his hair into a bun carelessly and sprinting into his room without uttering another word.

Eren just wanted to study. He really did.

Instead, his roommates, all of them, mind you, were all partying in the lounge and the music was too loud and Eren was too annoyed.

They did manage to bring him out and make him stay in the kitchen where he mindlessly glared at anyone who came in. He sighed and tapped his pen restlessly amongst the insane amount of books on the table.

There was a knock.

His roommate, Floch, came in the kitchen with his girlfriend who Eren couldn’t even name with all the women he has brought into the apartment. She was hanging onto his arm and giggling. Floch’s eyes were red and his speech very slow and lazy. "Eren!" he said with a sly grin.

Eren raised an eyebrow, shooting him an irritated look. "What now Floch? Are you here to tell me to take a shot again?" The ginger-haired’s girlfriend giggled once again and kissed Floch’s cheek. Floch laughed and swatted her away, though he missed by a long shot. "Someone's at the door," a thumb pointing to the den. "wouldchumind ge'in it?" another giggle. The girl nodded sloshily. "Yesss! Erenieee get 'em door, please. Be a dearrrrr."

Eren frowned and stared at them menacingly, earning no reaction from the two as they were mad drunk. "You were just in the den," Floch’s eyes widened. "My lovey wovey-we was in the den?" His girlfriend’s mouth went into an O. "Di'nt notice tha'!"

Eren sighed and stood up. He miraculously got through the throng of bodies and to the front door. "Yes?" he called out exasperated, not knowing who was outside.

"Do you want cookies?"

Eren turned and looked to see a little raven-haired girl, a girl scout no less, a blonde-haired boy pulling on a trolley who looked significantly shorter than him, wearing rimmed glasses, and an overall appearance whom his “friends” would immediately label as a nerd they had to be a few feet away from if they saw him and lastly, a girl who looked very tired and very done with life.

Beautiful (h/c)-colored hair, her eyes looked like the starry night sky, twinkling as he catches her gaze and a smile that looked forced, but warm all the same.  

A girl who was just absolutely fucking gorgeous.

Eren was captivated. His heart was beating like crazy and he could feel his ears turn red. He would make a fool of himself if he looked red as a tomato right now.

"Um," The girl peeked inside and grimaced, squeezing the hand that was her little sister's shoulder and catching Eren’s gaze. "Mikasa, I don't think these kinds of guys would want cookies."

“Unless they're pot cookies,” Eren almost said. Mikasa pouted and widened her eyes at Eren.

The older girl crouched down and frantically covered her little sister’s eyes. "Nopenopenope, Mi, don't pull that on him."

"But (Y/N)!"

(Y/N).

Her name was (Y/N).

Eren smiled sincerely (for the first time today) and leaned back inside to the drawer by the door to grab the extra cash he and his roommates put there for emergency pizza and stuff. "You know what? You're absolutely brilliant at selling cookies. I'll take one."

Mikasa smiled back at him cheekily and tugged her older sister’s hand. "See, (Y/N)?! He wants some! Go get 'em!”

The raven-haired girl then turned to the blonde teen, practically jumping up and down. “Armin look! We sold another one!"

“We did!” The boy who was apparently named Armin, clapped his hands together, then gave the little girl a high five. “You’re a natural at this Mikasa!”

(Y/N) looked at Eren, then Mikasa, and sighed. She grabbed a bag from the trolley Armin was dragging around and pulled out a box of cookies. Eren grabbed them slowly from her, their hands almost touching as he gave (Y/N) a small smile. The (h/c) girl blushed lightly, though not visible enough for the brunette to notice.

"Hope to see you again!" Eren called out when the siblings said their thank you's and bid farewell.

And, this time, even for the slightest moment, Eren’s serotonin levels were going straight through the roof. His heart was still beating loudly, almost in sync with the trash music his roommates were blaring on the speakers. and for a moment, even just for a moment. 

He felt genuine happiness that he hasn’t felt in a very long time.

 The three of you continue to walk animatedly, now that the coast was clear and the guy from earlier wasn’t within earshot, your blonde friend just had to break the silence.

 Armin smiles, pushing his glasses up to the crook of his nose. “(Y/N), you did see how he looked at you right?” The blonde chuckles softly, catching his best friend off guard.

 You blinked. “Him?” You try to stop yourself from smiling, blushing profusely. “Geez Armin, I don’t even know his name yet.”

 “I’ll bet you 100 bucks that he goes to our Uni.”

 “Even if he does, it’s not like we’ll talk to him or anything. Judging from the place he lives in and the people he was hanging out with, we’re in two completely different worlds.” You shook your head in denial, holding Mikasa’s hand, your interlocked arms swinging playfully. Armin gives you a knowing look in response.

 Mikasa continued to wave back at the boy whom they had just sold cookies too. (Y/N) looked over her shoulder and smiled. “Wasn’t he nice (Y/N)?” Mikasa asks her older sister. (Y/N) returned her sister a small smile, “He was.”

 "I hope we see him again!"

"I'm sure we will."

 The day of Eren’s dreaded finals finally arrive.

He has prepared tirelessly for this. Hours upon hours of hard work. But, before he finally gets his well-deserved sleep, he has a few more hours to cram and absorb more knowledge for his exams.

So, what better way to do so than head straight to the library as soon as it opens at 6 AM?

This time, no one was going to bother him. No annoying roommates and no distractions.

Eren heads over to a table near the coffee and snack machines. He puts down his bag on a seat next to him, and begins to study once again. Looking through the course materials and the lessons that he still didn’t quite understand. Eren was so absorbed with studying and relying on his gut feeling that no other student in this university would think of going to the library at 6 AM on the day of finals… then he’s wrong. Very wrong. 

 “Sasha, should you even be eating mashed potato this early in the morning?” Armin asks the brunette worriedly, a huge tone of concern in his voice.

“Armin! Don’t chu worry! I ate heavy breakfast! Bacon, Eggs, and Toast! Did you not see me in the kitchen!?” She reassures her blonde friend, continuing to scoop up the mashed potato on a reusable cup.

“Liar.” Connie hissed, narrowing his eyes. “I was awake since 4 AM. Not once did I see you sneak into the kitchen until (Y/N) woke you up.”

“Atatata. Can we… stop with the negative vibes for a second?” Jean tries to become the mediator by holding his hands up against his two friends who were about to start an argument. “It’s finals week. We have to keep a clear mind, body and soul-“

“Jean, you know that’s BS.” You yawn widely, still practically half-asleep.

“Oh, come on! Can’t you just let me be positive just this once!? If we fail this exam I’m going to blame you!“

The five of you continue to talk mindlessly on the way to the library. Connie pushes the glass door open, very much excited to have this huge library all to yourselves.

Until…

There was someone already there.

Your eyes immediately come into contact with Eren’s. His radiant jade eyes staring into yours, mouth practically agape, his hands holding on to wooden chopsticks as the hot air of instant ramen breezes through his face.

“Oh?” Connie blinks. “Guess we aren’t the first ones here then.” He whistles.

“(Y/N)!” Armin nudges you in the arm in an attempt to tease you. “Guess your wish came true huh? We did see him again! By himself too!”

“W-what am I supposed to do exactly?” You turn to Armin, speaking in a hushed whisper.  

“Say thank you to him! Offer him to go on a boba date or something!”

“You got the Sasha seal of approval (Y/N)! He’s hot!” Sasha motions you a thumbs up and you can’t help but feel yourself already wanting to die of embarrassment.

The four of them slightly push you towards his table. With your friends cornering you like this, there was no way of escaping this.

All you had to do was talk to him and properly thank him for buying cookies from your little sister.

That was it.

No need for any extra ad-libs or poor and bad attempts of flirtation.

Just thank him (Y/N).

You can do this.

You breathe a hefty sigh then approach his table with confidence. The brunette continues to look up at you whilst turning the page of his reviewer that he wasn’t even looking at.

“Hi again! I just wanted to thank you properly for helping my sister and I, out the other day. Mikasa really appreciated the gesture you did for her, and she couldn’t stop talking about you to our parents since we saw you. You see, none of the other girl scouts want to be paired up with my sister because they think she’s an emotionless and monotonous freak. They’re really mean to her but she really wants to continue being a girl scout so my friend and I accompany her whenever she has to sell cookies!”

“It’s N-no problem!” Eren quickly replies, running a hand through his hair. “Why would they say such horrible things to your sister like that? Judging from the way she acted in front of me, she was quite the opposite. In a positive way of course! Those kids are just assholes who are intimidated because another girl their age is seemingly better than them.”

You giggle in response. “Thank you. I’ll tell Mikasa that you said that!” 

There was short silence for a few seconds until you realized that you forgot to say something. 

“Ah! I’m (Y/N) (L/N) by the way!”

“Eren.” He smiles, reaching his hand out to you for you to shake. You grip his strong and calloused hand firmly, and Eren could feel his ears turning red again while you were about to blush as red as a tomato.

You hear your friends snickering in the background and you took this as a sign to go back to your table. “I guess, I’ll see you around campus?” You ask, tilting your head. For, you actually really wanted to see him again after this.

“Yea! I’ll be seeing you!” He grins widely, watching you leave where he was seated. His smile then envelops into a frown as soon as you went away then he goes back to studying.

“(Y/N)! (Y/N)!” Connie whispers loudly, calling you over by waving his hand. Why was this dunce being so painfully obvious? “Ask him if he’s looking for an apartment or if he wants to live with us!”

“Already!?” You ask in disbelief, a bit shocked by what Connie had just said. He scoots to the left, as you take a seat between him and Sasha. “Guys, you’ve known him for like… 3 minutes. Only Armin and I actually interacted with him before this.”

“He has to pass the vibe check first.” Jean shrugs, sipping on an iced expresso. “But, yeah, he does seem alright from a few feet away.”

“Come on (Y/N)! Ask him!” Sasha nods approvingly. “It’s weird that he’s studying alone like this while we’re in another table trying to remain unaware that he looks lonely as hell.”

“UMmMM… maybe he wants to study alone because that’s the only way he can focus? That’s a thing that normal people do, Sasha.” You remark sarcastically, trying to think up of more reasons to not approach him again.

Armin clears his throat, “Look, (Y/N), it won’t hurt to try right? Besides, don’t you feel a tiny bit sorry for him? He does seem lonely and you do have a crush on him so… more ways to interact with him right?”

Your shoulders slump and you breathe a defeated sigh. “Okay okay fine.” You make your way to Eren’s table again but before you do, you turn to your friends. “By the way, I don’t really have a crush on him just yet. I just find him cute okay?”

“Yeah yeah.” They say in unison as you continue to walk back to the brunette’s table.

“Hi again Eren!” You wave and try your best not to fumble or look painfully obvious that you were infatuated by him. He looks up and you try your best not to smile like a weirdo.

“Hm?” He hums.

“Would you like to come over to our table and study with us?”

To be continued.

[allofthisnonsenseplease]

More R76 discord plotting with firesonic152. ^^

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 lol oh--had a quick prompt idea earlier: Jack as a gruff nurse at a hospital that caters to wounded vets. He was a field medic, but got sent home after an explosion that nearly killed him and left him scarred. Gabe is one of hte patients at the hospital, newly returned from the front and very prickly, though Jack catches glimpses of a passionate person beneath the face Gabe presents to the world.

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 OMG gabe gets along well with jack bc jack is too grumpy to care about stuff like pity or sympathy

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 ^^ they start up a stitch n bitch in the rec room

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 LOL jack is very good at ranting angrily about things which means there isn't that awkward dynamic of the nurse trying to start a conversation and gabriel having to decide how much info he really wants to share jack just. launches right into something and gabriel listens along

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 when Jack works doubles, he'll sometimes sneak in a nap next to Gabe's bed if he's really really beat, 'cause he knows Gabe'll chase people off if it's not an emergency.

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 omg QwQ

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 maybe sometimes when Jack gets too tired or stressed it begins to affect his vision, so it's important he rest when his body tells him he needs to

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 QwQ we need to contrive a reason for jack to sleep IN gabe's bed at one point >w>

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 someone stole all the chairs. XD maybe he goes to sleep in a chair, but wakes out of a nightmare and Gabe basically hauls him into bed and forces him to lay there and relax? like, not necessarily a panic-attack inducing nightmare, but just something sad

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 omggg and it's the first time gabe's seeing him sleep in an actual bed and he absolutely melts when he discovers how jack likes to curl up in a little ball

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 Jack totes wears dinosaur scrubs. like, the first thing he says when he meets Gabe--not even making eye contact with him--is just: 'don't let the dinosaurs fool you. i'm not nurse sunshine. here's your meds.'

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 OMG gabe instantly likes him

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 Gabe looks at this big, buff, scarred dude who is more interested in his chart than him, and asks 'That really something you get often enough that it has to be part of your greeting?' Jack finally looks at him and smiles very faintly. 'You would be surprised.'

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 arrow right to the heart gabe's already down

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 XD

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 just fuck him Right up

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 lol much much later on in this one, Jack comes in wearing owl scrubs, and before Gabe can ask, he's just: 'I needed a new set, and they were out of dinosaur ones.'

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 AWWWW gabe says "i was just gonna say owls are my favorite animal" with a tiny little smile jack knows. that's why he picked them god gabe

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 Jack knows. Gabe has mentioned this before. XD

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 LOL

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 lol whoops

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 >w<

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 Jack a little too roughly insists that that has NOTHING to do with it. Gabe swears that his cheeks went a bit pink before he booked it out of the room.

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 jaaaaaack

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 Gabe starts calling him Nurse Sunshine and Jack just grimaces every time and threatens to switch Gabe's meds if it catches on.

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 omgggg gabriel goes all flirty and says "okay how about just sunshine then because you're the light of my life" and jack straight up smacks him

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 XD Gabe, he has a carefully cultivated reputation to maintain here.

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 ..... HOLY SHIT NURSE JACKIE

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 -'.'- Sorry?

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 I THINK THAT'S A TERRIBLE TV SHOW ABOUT TERRIBLE PEOPLE I remember my mom watching it XDDD LOL YEAH it's a super like. depressing show about a nurse in a shitty hospital and she's always drinking and stuff well

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 haha no thanks :D

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 yeah not for me either ^^;

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 okay but--if Gabe got sent back for losing his legs, and he's in a wheelchair while he heals up before they get him prosthetics and into the rehabilitation exercises and what not--him and Jack fucking with each other. Gabe trying to run Jack down in the halls, Jack parking Gabe in a corner and sticking a door stop behind his wheels so he can't move the chair and Gabe's just shouting at him as he walks away 'JACK YOU FUCKING FOSSIL I AM A GODDAM WAR VET IF YOU THINK THIS IS GONNA STOP ME YOU GOT ANOTHER THING COMING I'LL CRAWL AFTER YOU AND BITE YOUR LEGS OFF SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT'

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 AHAHAHA he starts stealing lines from monty python JUST A FLESH WOUND JACK!!!!

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 He's got HUGE...tracts of land!

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 LOLLLLL jack: are you. flirting with me. through monty python

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 HAVE BEEN FOR A YEAR BUT THANKS FOR NOTICING

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 LOL

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 Jack is just: '...Gabe, I have a face like a pickax accident and I threaten your life almost daily. What the fuck, bro?'

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 XDD gabe gives jack flowers and jack just kinda stares at them and says "it feels pretty backwards for a patient to give a nurse flowers doesn't it"

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 he got Jack a balloon shaped like a brontosaurus, too. ^^

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 OMG

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 Jack puts the flowers in a vase in Gabe's room. Looks at him, and goes: 'I'm keeping the balloon.' and leaves.

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 EEEEE gabe sits back grinning. jack kept the balloon. mission accomplished.

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 and Jack left the flowers to be sure Gabe would have something cheery nearby. -^^-

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 THE FLOWERS WERE A DECOY!! awwwww!!

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 big ol' softie

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 does gabriel ever try the cheesy af "kiss it better" thing

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 I WOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IF HE DIDN'T ((also, momentary kinda sad suggestion--when Gabe is eventually discharged and gets to go see Jack's apartment, the place is pretty bland for the most part and lacks color and personality, but Jack's room is particularly dim and messy...except for the still-inflated dino balloon Gabe gave him which is sitting on top of his clothes chest.))

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 QOQ AHHHHH does jack get to move in with gabriel qwq

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 vice versa, prolly. Maybe Gabe doesn't have any family that can put him up, so Jack offers his couch while Gabe looks for a job and a place, but he just never ends up moving out bc they get together <3

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 <33333 and gabriel insists on brightening up the place

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 YES

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 hangs up pictures and paints walls and everything

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 the day he moves in, he brings Jack a whole herd of dino balloons

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 turns out he's very good at reupholstering furniture too awwww!!!!!

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 Jack is just: '...i can kill you in your sleep.' Gabe: Then who would refuse to put up with your bullshit? Here, go find them nests in your crap or whatever. Jack tries to not, but he can't resist.

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 qwq and when gabe initially moves in they're not quite boyfriends yet they kinda know they like each other but they haven't REALLY done anything yet

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 -^^-

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 and so boundaries and stuff are very confusing at first gabe sleeps on the couch (jack offers him the bed but gabriel insists) and it takes almost no time for gabe to move into the bed with jack

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 ((but but--the bed thing being an ice breaker. Gabe comes into Jack's room at dark o clock one morning and wakes Jack up and says 'Your couch is crap.' and Jack just grumbles back 'Couch store is closed.' Gabe doesn't move, so Jack sighs and lifts up a corner of the blankets and Gabe sits down & takes off his prosthetics to curl up and go to bed. He reaches out to pinch Jack's toes, and jokes 'Jesus, Jack, your feet are colder than mine!' Jack grumbles at him and reaches out to swat him, but it turns into something more like ruffling his hair as Gabe settles in. Turns out they're both cuddlers.))

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 AHHHHHHHHHH and jack did his napping in gabe's hospital bed before but it's not at all like this gabriel wants to kiss him SO badly but he can't tell if that's an okay thing to do yet

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 <3<3<3 Jack's all full of mixed signals in this one XD Oh! When Gabe gets back from his job the next day, there's an owl-shaped pillow waiting for him on the couch. Jack looks at him, then glances away. 'Just wanted to make sure you saw it,' he mutters and heads back for his room, leaving the door open. When Gabe comes in to put the pillow on the bed, Jack doesn't have any objections.

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 AHHHH CUTE

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 as thanks for all the dinosaurs -^^- jack doing his best to be sweet

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 BOY KISS HIMMMM hhhhh when do they kiss for the first time

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai don't know o_o;;;

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 maybe jack is going off to work and gabriel is like "bye babe<3" and jack gives him that silent blank stare, gives him a quick peck on the corner of his mouth, and leaves

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 what if Jack keeps clumsily trying to return the affectionate gestures Gabe makes? Like, Gabe usually cooks, but Jack attempts to make them dinner one night, burns part of it, doesn't get one of the side dishes done till half an hour after everything else, burns his fingers, makes a mess of the kitchen and swears a bunch--fuck ups like that

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 omggg I LOVE THAT

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 and finally, Gabe is just: 'here, look, if you're trying to tell me something, let me see if I got the message.' and smooch

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 eeeeeeeeee

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 aaaaaaaaaaaaah!! Jack just out of the blue like that!!! XD Gabe was just kidding around and didn't expect the kiss!

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 I LIKE BOTH

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 SO DO I

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 maybe jack does that thing and then neither brings it up again. until gabriel goes in for the Real smooch

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 Jack does the thing, and Gabe rationalizes it as more of his twisted sense of humor, plus he was just coming off a double and there's no one at the hospital to be sure his sleep isn't interrupted anymore so he might ahve just been sleep addled there was that weird long pause just before. it was probably just another joke, right? RIGHT? meanwhile, the rest of Gabe's brain is setting off fireworks and popping champagne bottles maybe Gabe gets home from work that night and it's when Jack has made dinner and Gabe kisses him for realsies

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 QWQ

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 XD 'cause Jack fucked up the kiss, too!

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 DAMMIT JACK YOU SUCK AT THIS

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 everytime Jack tries to be sweet it comes of as at least slightly awkward

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 I LOVE THAT SO MUCH so does gabe apparently

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 XD he tries so hard, bless his heart

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 gabe has such heart eyes actual image of gabriel: :heart_eyes:

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 XD

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 NOTHING BAD HAS HAPPENED IN THIS ONE IT'S JUST BEEN SMOOTH SAILING START TO FINISH

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 uhm. gabe lost his legs

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 .... WELL YEAH BUT IF HE DIDN'T LOSE HIS LEGS HE WOULD HAVE NEVER GOTTEN MARRIED

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 YOU MISSED THE CHANCE FOR ANOTHER PYTHON REFERENCE HE GOT BETTER XD

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 LOLLLL NOOO!!! lmao imagine jack hadn't seen monty python and didn't get all the reference gabe was throwing at him he thought gabe was just saying nonsense so gabriel has to sit him down to watch it

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 eeeeeee!

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 he OOPS XD

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 also, also--when it comes time to propose, Jack gets the rings, but he just shoves the box at Gabe and says 'You do it' 'cause at this point both of them know he would fuck it up somehow. XD

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 kjadnadsjfnKJNDF CUTE

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 so Gabe gets to plan a big romantic proposal and Jack can just relax and accept

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 qWq also back to the monty python thing. gabriel spends the whole movie watching jack and is delighted when jack actually laughs at some of the jokes jack is such a stone faced bitch in this one LOL

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 !!!!!! <3<3<3 HE IS AND I AM GETTINGA  KICK OUT OF IT! XD

firesonic152 – 09/03/17 ME TOO

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/03/17 actually, we've had several lately I've really enjoyed. I need to go back and save these soon. ^^

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 >w< now i'm thinking about jack lovingly riding gabriel in this one lol bc gabe doesn't feel like wearing his prosthetics anymore, he wore them all day and his legs are achey and he just wants to lie in bed so jack settles on top of him and takes care of it

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 aaaaaaaaaaaaa jack crawls on top of him wearing his resting bitch face as he kisses all up Gabe's thighs and stomach and chest, right up to his lips and he just grinds against Gabe for a bit, then he sits back, and he's still all stone faced, but that starts to soften as he works himself open, and it disolves away completely as he takes Gabe in

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 EEEEEEEEEEEE gabriel is so gone. he falls in love all over again.

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 <3

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 and jack does that silent stare but this time his face is soft and open - not smiling, but relaxed and in love gabriel has to kiss him

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 he's so eager about it that Jack actually laughs--just a short huff of breath, really, but it goes straight to Gabe's heart.

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 gabriel is so ready to cry. "stop making me fall in love with you," he admonishes jack. "it's not fair"

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 'How is it not fair?' Jack sounds almost offended, and Gabe lets go just long enough to get a good look at his face and realize that what the awkward love of his life probably meant was: 'You do the exact same thing to me.'

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 AHHHHHHHHHHHH I'M DEAD THIS IS JUST NONSTOP SUGAR THIS IS LIKE.. FUCKIN PIXIE STICKS

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 =9 they're war vets. let them be happy.

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 GAHHHH I LOVE IT SO MUCH BUT MY IMPULSE IS TO BREAK IT STOP ME

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 ...break it how?

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 IDK WHY WOULD YOU ASK ME THAT NOW I WANNA COME UP W SOMETHING

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 last time i recall asking you to tell me one thing, you told me the opposite XD

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 XDDD the only thing i can see ruining this is jack's self-loathing tbh like after some particularly bad days he gets it into his head that gabriel deserves better and all that. but it's okay bc gabriel isn't scared of jack's attempts to drive him away!!

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 ah, so the colorful dino scrubs were a clever attempt to mask the crippling self loathing after all? XD

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 NATURALLY have you SEEN his apartment??

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 lol p sure i suggested it XD just wasn't sure how deep we wanted to go down that particular rabbit hole

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 yep XDDD jack tries very hard to convince gabriel to leave him but gabriel figures out very quickly what he's doing and just kinda shrugs it off not very effective!!

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 Jaaaaack. What are you doing? Ohhh...you know what? He really could get serious about that and kick Gabe out of his apartment. Like, he wouldn't do it unless he was sure Gabe was financially stable, I think, but that's an option.

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 ahhhhhhhh QoQ he does it after gabriel finally confronts him about trying to drive him away

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 SHIT HE'S ONTO ME

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 gabe is like "i see what you're trying to do jack but it's not going to work. i'm in love with you and i'm not going anywhere." and jack just kind of snaps in a fit of madness and tells him to get out.

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 ohhh jackie. if you weren't in a downward spiral before... =(

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 :(((((( gabriel has to go and stay with ana for a little bit

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 my brain is already trying to skip ahead to the make up argument XD

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 LOL i'm caught on the part where jack is spiraling in his dark empty apartment

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 oh dear what if Gabe keeps calling him? and, like, the only sound in there with Jack is the phone ringing. and he's curled up in bed with his arms over his ears and his fingers clenched in his hair, listening to it ring and hating himself for sending Gabe away and hating himself for not even being able to end that properly and hating himself for not wanting the phone to go silent and cut off that last, fragile connection. And also kinda hating himself for being too chickenshit to answer.

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 AKSJNFSAKJNF THAT HURTS

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 So he finally picks up, and Gabe starts talking, saying that they need to discuss this, but Jack just mumbles kinda tonelessly 'I'm not good enough for you.' and Gabe snaps back 'Who are you to say what's good enough for me??' and that starts to get a rise out of Jack, because he was there when Gabe was first brought in, and he saw him hurting and struggling and fighting and staying positive through it all and Gabe fucking shines. Jack wasn't hurt nearly as bed, but he's just a shut down shell of what he used to be. And he snaps back 'I'm your doctor' and almost hangs up, but Gabe is quick with his response. 'The hell you are! You're my friend Jack, and more than that if you'd stop letting your fears lead your life for you!' There's silence for a minute, before Gabe tries for a bit of their old humor. 'Besides, you're a nurse, not a--' Jack hangs up.

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 GABRIELLLL JAAAAAAAAAACK gabriel has to be jack's nurse this time!!! take care of him gabriel!!!!

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 lol Maybe Gabe starts hanging out in the rec room at the hospital or something?

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 ((side note: jack spends much of his time in bed curled around the owl pillow))

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 Gets a couple of the patients rooting for him. One of them lets him know when Jack has borrowed a spare bed for a nap, and Gabe goes to sit in and play watchdog like he used to.

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 awwwwwwww qoq

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 ((ohh Gabe left it for him ;u;))

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 omg jesse is there bc he lost his arm! he's gabe's best wingman!!

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 ((it was Gabe's favorite thing--he would bring it into the living room to hug it on the sofa when they watched stuff)) GO JESSE!! =D

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 Jesse is very good at figuring out where Jack is napping and tipping off Gabe

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 Jack wakes up one day and asks Gabe tiredly why he keeps following him around there. And Gabe's just 'Well, I could go home with you. I still have my key, you know.' He hasn't used it because he's not trying to take away all Jack's hiding places. 'Give it back,' Jack says, but there's no heat to the words, and he turns his face into the nest of his folded arms. 'Do you really want me to?' When Jack doesn't answer for a minute, Gabe tries a different question. 'Do you still have all those stupid balloons?' Jack nods. 'You looked pretty happy when I gave them to you. And I was pretty happy being able to give them to you. That's worth something, isn't it? Making each other happy?' 'I'm not--' 'Don't bullshit me, Jack. You saying I don't deserve to be happy?' Jack's head shoots up. 'No! You do! I--It's me that--' 'You make me happy, Jack. Let me do the same for you.'

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 KAJNCSXKJNAKSXJN QOQ YEAH JACK!!!! LET HIM BE HAPPY Jack huffs and retorts, "Am I making you happy now?" and Gabe says "Well not right at this very second but-" Jack cuts him off and says, "Exactly, Gabe, I do shit like this and I'm gonna hurt you even more." then gabe gets to give him a speech about how life is full of both happiness and misery and if you're gonna inevitably be miserable at some point, you might as well take what happiness you can get "Wouldn't you rather be miserable sometimes and happy other times than just being miserable all the time?"'Gabriel asks evenly, "I would."

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 ;u; gaaaaaaaabi

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 It does seem so simple when Gabe puts it that way. But Jack knows unending misery turns into white noise after awhile, just a numb blandness that settles over everything. It's more bearable than having happiness taken from you. It's like a white hot knife with serrated edges sawing out your lungs. It's so much easier to just accept a gray world. But.... Jack already knows before he makes his decision. It's worth it.

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 TTuTT atta boy jackie

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 cries Jack tries to have sex with Gabriel that night but they end up just snuggling

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 ohhhhhhhhhhhhh ;u;

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 He gets on top of Gabriel and starts grinding and stuff but he just,.. he just wants Gabe to hold him

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 did i ever send you the lyrics for Signal i the sky by Matt hires, 'cause it's good for this one. ;u;

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 omg you didn't!!

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/matthires/signalinthesky.html

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 I'M EMOTIONAL

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 TTuTT

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 hold him tight gabe qoq

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 and then, of course, lots of hard work coming to terms with emotional issues, but also lots more silly gifts and awkward but heartfelt reciprocation

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 qwq like uhhhh question for jack WHY ARE YOU SO SET ON EVERYTHING GOING BAD

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 um. dude? my friend? that was all you XD it was good. it was fine! XD

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 oh yeah oops

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 Jack was a grump, but it was all happy and sweet. XD

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 i mean, i guess you could have just had him get hit by a bus or go blind and have to cope with that.

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 oH MY GOD DUDE WE SHOULD DO THAT LOL

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 that second one in particular might cost him his job at the hospital, which is his livelihood and also something that makes him feel like he's still making a difference five times jack was miserable in this au bc one of the writers wasn't happy with the sweet version. XD

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 XDDD AND THE ONE TIME I LET IT SLIDE

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 lolololol i'm up for it, but i think more contributions from my end are gonna have to wait till tomorrow

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 yeah i'm tired too bed tiiiime

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 =u=

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 let the gay old men rest for now

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 let them watch over each others sleep ^^

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 >w< cuuute

SuspiciousPopsicle – 09/04/17 and with that sacchrine nonsense XD night night <3<3<3

firesonic152 – 09/04/17 <3333333 gn!!!!