in the wake of misa’s breakup with his girlfriend, sam is determined to not let him waste the off season moping around, even if it means dragging misa out to hang out with dickie and his own girlfriend. it seems counterintuitive (according to everyone else in sam’s life) but misa seems to be enjoying himself more. sam’s got misa in the backseat and his girlfriend next to him when they’re driving out to see a movie, and misa sits across from them at a diner, and sam puts arm around both of them when they’re at a music festival.
this is such a good idea, sam keeps thinking, his favorite people all together. misa and his girlfriend seem to get along well, they both have bad taste in movies and like it when sam orders for them at restaurants. it just works so well, and then his girlfriend asks him if he’s trying to get them to have a threesome. it gives him pause because, what. what. but she’s looking at him not even angrily, or accusing, she just wants to know, always down for the plan, just like mike. a threesome was not his plan but she seems open and sam isn’t not open to it
asking misa if he wants to have sex with him and his girlfriend goes about as well as sam thought it would which means it’s very awkward and misa stares at him wide eyed, unnervingly silent, before he starts nervous laughing. what sam doesn’t expect is for misa to say yes, let sam make out with him in front of his girlfriend, and then have said girlfriend call it off immediately. sam’s normally pretty good at navigating social situations but he’s really out of his depth here, almost watching from out of his body until his girlfriend asks misa to leave. sam follows him to the door, tries his very best to make it clear that it’s all good, and don’t worry, and i mean, i had fun.
his girlfriend is mad though, or not quite mad but uncomfortable, which feels unfair because the whole thing was her idea. in the wake of it, she says sam lingered too long at the door, and sam keeps it to himself that he was about two seconds away from driving misa home. she continues on to say that sam was too into it, cupped misa’s face too gently, or brushed hair out his eyes too softly, or looked at him too genuinely. they break up a week later.
sam isn’t sure what to even tell people when they ask what happened because threesome with teammate gone wrong isn’t probably something he should be saying with any frequency. he breaks it down to we were just too different, and tells misa that it wasn’t his fault and they’re fine and i still want to hang out all the time. sam’s not sure how to broach the fact that every time he thinks about the aborted threesome, he always ends up thinking about misa more, if he would have been comfortable, what he would have looked like if sam had gotten to bite at his neck like he wanted, if sam would’ve walked out with him if his girlfriend hadn’t said anything. and he would’ve, he knows that.
sam ends up asking beckett how to soft launch making out with your bro when no one else is watching
