I melt like wax around you

You didn't think much of it as the early morning passed in a hazy blur, but as you walked by the living room window, you spotted a black-clad figure amidst the snow.

Curiously, you pull the curtains back and watch as Vincent slowly walks down the hill before stopping and crouching down, being mindful not to get his knees wet as the snow crunched beneath his feet.

You leaned against the windowsill and crossed your arms, eyes searching for whatever must've caught his eye before you finally spotted a pair of black orbs a few feet away from your lover.

You squint and finally make out a white rabbit near the remnants of a bush, nose twitching cutely.

A smile crossed your face as you watched Vincent hurriedly sketch, his head dipping back down before snapping up as his hand flew across the paper. Vincent was very keen on getting every detail right, so much so that he usually forgot to take care of himself and completely blocked out the world surrounding him.

Now that you think of it, you don't think you've ever seen Vincent acknowledge animals enough to ever draw them. Of course, he has a few charcoal drawings lying around, but you've never seen him sit and sketch whatever animal was in front of him.

A huff of a chuckle escaped you as you watched amusingly. It was adorable how "well-hidden" Vincent was. I mean, a tall man dressed in a pitch-black overcoat long enough to reach his knees in the middle of your lawn, covered in fresh, falling snow?

It's a mystery how that rabbit hasn't fled yet.

Vincent closed his sketchpad and tucked it back into the beat-up satchel under his arm, along with a pencil, before standing up and dusting himself off. You smiled even wider as it looked like Vincent nodded at the tiny creature before turning around and pausing.

You wave at him from the window, wiggling your fingers as he's finally spotted you watching him. He tilted his head ever so slightly before lifting a hand and giving an almost shy wave.

You giggle quietly to yourself and push off the window, turning to meet Vincent at the front door. You open it and watch as Vincent walks up the steps before stomping all the snow off his boots.

"Can I see?" You ask as Vincent shuts the door behind him. You help him shed his coat, eyes gleaming when he nodded and dug through his bag, pulling out his sketchpad.

You wait patiently as Vincent flips through a few pages before turning it towards you. He watched your expression carefully as your eyes traced the soft corners that made up the rabbit before the sharp edges of the dead bush above it.

"I like it," you nod approvingly, chuckling as the corner of Vincent's eye crinkled as he smiled beneath his mask. Vincent put his sketch pad away and turned his head back up to you, signing;

"It reminded me of you."

Bo Sinclair (House of Wax '05)

He's super fucking annoyed at this new habit of yours. He wakes up one night to noises in the kitchen, and at first doesn't even notice you gone from the bed until he's sneaking up on the intruder--only, there isn't an intruder. It's just you, making a fuck ton of noise messing with the kitchen drawers absentmindedly.

"What the fuck are you doin'?" He doesn't even realize you're asleep until he grabs you and spins you around to face him, only to see your eyes glossed over as you don't react to him. This just pisses him off even more, because of course you'd be a fucking sleepwalker. He shakes you awake and starts bitching at you as he drags you back to bed. He has no time for this y/n, he needs to sleep.

Threatens to tie you to the bed if you don't stop. You argue that you can't control what you do in your sleep, but he doesn't care; you will stop or you will be tied down. There is no room for discussion with Bo as he has to have things his way. You can still try, of course, but it'll only get you so far. No one wins an argument with Bo Sinclair.

He makes true on his promise about tying you down. The next night, he wakes up again to sleep walking you, this time trying to open the (locked) front door. This sent him into a frenzy, screaming at you for trying to leave. Bo has terrible abandonment issues, so the fact that your subconscious tried to leave fucks him up deeply. He forces you back into bed, and ties you down despite your protests.

He's secretly heartbroken. He won't admit to it, of course, but there's no denying the ache in his chest. You wedged your way into his heart, and now you're trying to leave? There is nothing you can say to make him calm down, or convince him you don't want to leave. In the back of his mind for the next few months is the image of you trying to leave, and abandoning him forever.

He refuses to let you go. In the morning, you try to convince him that you weren't trying to leave, that you were just sleep walking, but he doesn't care. He'll be an asshole and lock you in y'all's room to sulk, only coming in ever so often to give you bits of food. He doesn't let you out of the room for weeks until he finally feels secure enough to start letting you roam the house again.

If you continue to sleep walk, he will continue to tie you down. Be prepared to have sore wrists for the rest of your life.

Vincent Sinclair (House of Wax '05)

Terrified of you leaving him. One night, Vincent wakes up to find you gone from the bed, nowhere to be found. He's frantic, and he practically tears Ambrose to the ground trying to find you. You're one of the only good things left in his life, and losing you would break him apart. He's sick with grief at the thought. He's angry that you would try to leave. But mostly, he's scared.

He finds you in the museum, staring at one of the 'sculptures' absentmindedly. He realizes pretty quickly, however, that you aren't in the right of mind when he tries to frantically sign at you and you don't respond. He slightly sighs in relief when he realizes that you aren't actually trying to leave, just sleepwalking. Still, there's a knot in his stomach as he gently carries you back to bed that won't go away.

Ties you to the floor at night. You wake up one morning to the familiar feeling of a cold chain around your ankle, and you realize you've been tied down to a metal cuff sticking out from the ground. You call for Vincent immediately, and he tries his best to calm you down and comfort you. You beg and beg to be let out, that you would never leave him and that you love him-! But in the end, no amount of pleading can convince him to unchain you. He just can't let you go, y/n. And if chaining you down in the basement is the only way he can keep you, well...

Tries to take you on "walks". It's humiliating. You want to scream at him after he signs to you his suggestion. You aren't a dog. You beg for him to let you free, just for an hour or so, but he won't budge (even though he really wants to). If you want to walk around Ambrose, he'll insist on you wearing your ankle chain, with him holding the other end. If you do end up agreeing to this, expect to be heavily humiliated by Bo, who laughs his ass off the first time he sees you and Vincent walking together, chain and all.

Stays up at night more often to watch you. He has nightmares about you leaving him. He can't sleep, not until he's for sure certain that you can't won't leave him during the night. He's so embarrassed to admit it, but he gets sick at the thought of you away from him. He adores you and if he lost you? He would probably kill himself. Maybe he'd take all of Ambrose with him. He doesn't want to think about it.

Adds padding to your ankle cuff. It ends up chaffing you in the night, so one day Vincent convinces Bo to go to the next town over and buy some ankle cuffing for you to wear so the chain doesn't bruise you anymore. He wanted to try to use wax as a padding first, but you didn't like the idea (for some reason).

Lester Sinclair (House of Wax '05)

Tries not to take it personally. He hopes knows you don't really want to leave him (anymore); yet one night when he finds you shambling down the road in a sleep-ridden trance, he can't help but feel a little...upset? Offended? He'll guide you back home but on the way he's thinking about how he can further drill into your subconscious that you need to be with him at all times. That means even in your sleep, y/n!

Lester puts furniture in front of the door. He smiles to himself as he builds a wall of chairs blocking the front door, effectively creating a barrier between you and the outside world. He thinks he's so smart. His heart breaks in half the next night when he hears the chairs tumbling down and your unconscious body pawing at the doorknob. He's also a little impressed that you managed to sleep through such commotion...!

He sleeps on top of you. It's a bit uncomfortable having a full grown man slumped over you every night, but it's the only thing he can think of after his previous attempts to keep you in bed. If you really have a problem with him sleeping on you, he'll (reluctantly) stop, but you'll still find an arm strewn across your body every night. He just really wants you to stay in bed, y/n.

Still ends up taking it personally. He doesn't say it out loud, but every time you're out in Ambrose, he gets nervous that you might just walk off into the forest, wanting freedom to leave him. And when you start sleepwalking more and more, it starts to confirms all his fears that you actually want to leave. He tries to ignore it, but really he gets a deep ache in his chest when he sees you up at night, absentmindedly swaying by the barricaded door. "You don't really wanna leave me, right darlin'?"

Asks every single visitor about sleepwalking tips. It's annoying to most, but he doesn't care (or doesn't notice). He needs to figure out a way to help you, so why not ask the future wax figures? Most of the visitors shrug off his questions or get too creeped out by his general person to give genuine answers, but ever so often he gets a legitimate tip that he's desperate to try on you the following night. Ever heard of sleep hypnosis, y/n?

Vincent :

Vincent's love is quiet in the way a canvas is painted. It's slow, it's unsure.

His feelings show through familiarity and routine, it's familiar in the way he remembers every detail of you. Every candid moments sketched somewhere in his sketchbook, without even realizing his hands betrayed his feelings at first. It comes through routine: everytime he lets his workshop door slightly open, whenever he lets you watch him work (to a limit), and in the ways he cares in subtle ways.

Parts of him feels embarrassed whenever he sees that pages of his sketchbook are filled with pieces of you. A hand, an eye, the silhouette by the church, a familiar hairstyle.

bonus if jonesy tolerates you!

Lester :

at the opposite of vincent, lester's love is much more vibrant and easier to notice.

Lester is naturally an easy person to get along to, to laugh with, so with every antics of his love came easily. He'd always bring you in his adventures. Sometimes you'd go mushroom picking, sometimes it's to help a wounded fox pass the road. His caring nature towards animals (when alive...) always fascinated you. He is clumsy and terribly awkward by moments, but thats because he's not used to someone being this attentive to him and him only.

Overall almost childishly adorable, his love is easy to recieve and to percieve. 100% gives you the most comfy seat whenever you two sleep in his truck.

Bo :

Bo's love is harder to catch, because it's hidden behind alot of things. Routine, familiarity, control.. him being emotionally restricted makes the feelings he cannot control hard to handle. Thats why he often hides the ways he cares behind more rougher, clumsier things.

his little acts of love could come out as fixing the window that always kept you up at night because of the noise it did, taking the longer route whenever you two go in town because you like the feeling of the wind, forcing you to stay inside whenever outsiders pass by.

even if he loved you he wouldnt be blandly soft, but his attitude towards you would definitely be different that usually.