#canden

I’m really sorry for basically taking 84 years to getting around to this ask! But we’re finally here, and we’re here with the boys having some… Interesting and bloody reactions to the realization that you might like someone else way more than you like them…

Warnings: yandere characters; kidnapping; mentions of manipulation; brief description of a panic attack; violence with mentions of broken bones; death; non-consensual drugging;

  Canden is not going to react in the way you might think he would. Mainly because Canden has no need for you to love him back, be it romantically or in just any other way, really. He loves you completely unconditionally. You could see him as a friend, as family, as a simple acquaintance or even just straight up as an annoyance whom you hate with everything you have. Honestly, you could kick him in the stomach and insult his very existence and he would simply thank you for your time. Which is a reaction no one else expect you is able to get from him. Canden, more than anything else in the world, just wants to see you happy. And if that means you have to be with someone else, so be it. He might even encourage it, especially if he sees that it makes you truly happy!

  But if you somehow think that this is actually not such a bad outcome for this situation, that it's even somewhat... Sweet, in its own strange way, then you haven't been paying attention. Canden loves you, but he has absolutely no sympathy, and much less respect, for your new partner. He already followed you around like a lost puppy beforehand, but now he has entered full guard dog mode.

  The poor soul who decided to confess to you is not going to able to catch a break from Canden. Well, sure, he's genuinely happy that you seem so content and in love, but it's like there's a bit of a disconnect between seeing you so happy and being able to associate that happiness to the person that's actively causing it. Because Canden doesn't trust them. At all.

  He's going to start following your partner around, always suspicious of what they are doing and of who they are doing it with. Who knows what they are planning? Who they are meeting behind your back? He swears, if he catches them doing something that could even just indirectly upset you, he doesn't even know what he's going to do with them. Actually, he knows. And it involves a lot of bones getting broken. They could just be casually hanging out their friends, just them and the boys being out on the town, and this dude is actually going to go apeshit as if he is the one getting cheated on. Even though no one is actually getting cheated on in this situation. What can I say? Canden's dumb, overly protective and jumps to conclusions faster than a professional Olympian long jumper.

  If by some miracle your partner still has all of their bones intact after a month of dating you, it's still not a pleasant time for them. Or for you, in that matter. Between Canden still being as attached to your hip as he was before you started dating your partner and how he keeps stalking you both, being just an overall (and actually dangerous) nuisance, it wouldn't come as a surprise if your partner simply... Can't handle it anymore. And starts asking to break up with you.

  Well, you could try to reason with Canden (or just straight up yell and berate him if you prefer), and while he will feel incredibly guilty for causing you such distress and unhappiness, he still doesn't quite seem to get that the problem stems from the fact that he needs to let your partner go. That he needs to stop acting like an actual guard dog.

  Your relationship is not going to last, I hate to say it. Mainly because Canden will not let up, even if things calm down for a bit if you do confront him. I have a feeling you won't even blame your partner for this, if you were in their shoes you probably would have left even earlier, but they did their best to try and stick around for as long as they did because they really do love you. For as hypocritical as this is going to sound, Canden is genuinely going to be just as heartbroken as you are once the relationship is over. You were so happy! They really just had to go and ruin everything, didn't they? He knew from the start that they were up to no good.

  I... Hope Canden doesn't ever find your ex-partner while out and about after this. Because, trust me on this one, the last time you spoke to them might just actually become the last time you will ever see them. And, honestly, I don't really want to describe the state that they'll will be left in by the time they get found the next day.

  When it comes to Tiago, well... His distain is going to be a lot more obvious and straightforward. Mainly because witnessing this love confession is going to leave him absolutely fucking livid. He doesn't understand. Where did he go wrong? How didn't he see this coming? How did this motherfucker manage to slip under his radar so easily?! How?! Tiago isn't going to stick around for false pleasantries, as he would normally do if this had happened to involve literally anyone else but you. He's out of there as soon as he manages to snap out of his rage induced stupor.

  He's not okay with this. He really isn't. And it's going to be plainly obvious that something's wrong with him. Blank gaze, limited attention span and some rather unpleasant bruises covering the fragile skin around his knuckles, suggesting that these had quite the few rude encounters with some really hard surfaces. He hates this. He hates that this is affecting him so much. He hates how exposed and fragile this makes him feel. He hates how much control you have over his emotions, even if indirectly. But, above everything else, he hates your new partner.

  He already thought he spent way too much time thinking about you, but if this jackass doesn't consume his every thought ever since he saw them confess to you... He wants it to stop. He wants them to stop. To shut up. To let go of you. To not look at him as if they're just as worried for his well-being as everyone else, claiming that any friend of yours is a friend of theirs. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. The only way Tiago would even want to look at them is while he's burying them in his backyard.

  For some time, Tiago will genuinely have no idea of what to do. He wants to keep living his life as per usual, he has to, but he finds himself nearly completely unable to function properly. He feels as if he's only able to concentrate on his anger and jealously, and literally nothing else. He can't stop thinking about you and your new partner. It's honestly... Painful. But he tries to keep it down. He really does. But being alone stewing in his own misery and anger doesn't do any wonders, either. He swears he's losing his goddamn mind.

  The only thing that's keeping him in line, even if barely, is that he really doesn't want to fuck everything up. He has a reputation to keep, an image to maintain. He knows that violence won't solve anything. He can't hurt them. He shouldn't hurt them. Nothing good will come out of it. He can't lose his rationality, he really can't afford it. One wrong move... One pair of eyes in the wrong place at right time... And the whole charade he spent years building and maintaining is going to come crashing down faster than he would ever be able to justify his actions. And... What would you think of him then?

  But also… They... They are trying to take you away from him. Is he supposed to just sit by and watch? To watch you slowly grow distant from him? To watch as you leave him behind? As you abandon him? No. He can't. You somehow managed to bypass every single one of his defenses over the time you two spent together. You managed to become so important to him... So what makes you think you can just simply walk away from him?

  It was an accident. He swears it was. He thought he had calmed down, he thought he had his head back in the game. He had finally worked up enough nerve to talk to your partner directly, thinking that he could use the opportunity to get on their good side, to start somewhat of a friendship, so later he could use it to his advantage. He had to start somewhere, so he thought he could humor them long enough to "hang out". It was a calculated risk, considering the state he's in, but as you're about to find out, Tiago... Isn't very good at math.

  There was a point where he found himself completely alone with them. As him and them both came upon a stairway something… Something clicked inside Tiago's head. He didn't even gave himself enough time to actually realize what he was about to do... It happened so fast... All that they needed was a little push... That's all it took. He only realized what he had done once he heard a sickening crack against the hard concrete.

  And then... Silence. Complete, near deafening silence.

  As for Gabriel... Oh, the poor guy. He'll be frozen in place, completely unmoving, as if the scene took everything out of him to be able to process what was happening. And then it suddenly hits him like a slap in the face. As soon as he starts to feel a familiar sting in the corners of his eyes, he's already getting out of there as fast as his legs can carry him, before anyone who happened to be around could even get the idea of asking why he's crying.

  It happened. What he was fearing would happen, what he constantly warned and tormented himself about... It happened. Someone took you away from him. And he let happen. And... You let it happen. You seemed just so... Happy. With them. Without him. You don't need him. Of course not. You never did. What made him think that he would ever have a chance, that he would even be worthy of having a chance? Stupid. Fucking idiot. What was he expecting?! You never cared abou-

  Ah. He... He needs to find to find a place to calm down. It's started to get hard to breathe...

  This is going to wreck him, that's for sure. And it's going to leave him in shambles for quite some time too. Gabriel has a tendency to wallow in his own misery, after all. Even so, he still manages to try and scrape by, he always does, but this time around... He can't. He just can't seem to let this go. To let you go.

  He tries to stop. To convince himself that it's okay, that it's not the end of the world. He can still try and be your friend, right? He can still be near you! Then why can't bring himself to do so? Yeah, it might have something to do with his difficulty to approach more than one person at a time, but he also can't deny the way his stomach twists every time he even just catches a glimpse of your partner. Is he angry? Jealous? He might be, but it's hard to try and identify your feelings while you're busy trying to not look like you're about to either burst into tears or start hyperventilating at any given moment.

  He's going to make a rash decision, sooner or later. And it's a bit of a gamble on each one of you is going to end up locked away in his house first, you or your new partner, but this is going to end with both of you making a permanent visit there, that's for sure. Gabriel at this point can't even find a logic explanation for his own actions, as he usually desperately tries to do. He... Just wants to separate you two, he can no longer lie to himself and pretend that he doesn't. But how? He doesn't have the charm or confidence to seem like a better option than your partner, he can't bring himself to lie or to try and manipulate you into thinking that they're a bad person, and he doesn't want to hurt them either, that would be an awful thing to do! So what other choice did he had?! He's not sure how he even managed to get this far!

  His restlessness still isn’t going to stop even now that he has you two basically at his mercy. And while he is glad (relieved even!) that you're finally safe with him... Well, what is he going to do with your partner?

  He keeps you both way too sedated to be fully aware of what's going on, but while he's extra careful and attentive of you and how you're reacting to both the substances and your new environment, your partner... Isn't as lucky. Let this be said, Gabriel can't bring himself to hurt them. A certain part of him even feels obligated to care for them. But that's not going to last long. His anxiety is going to slowly settle in, and the weight of what he did to someone who didn't deserve any of this is going to make the process even more painful. At this point he most likely will lock them away in a room where doesn't even have to look at them most of the time.

  It's going to happen eventually. Though not with any malicious intent, it's still going to happen. His nervousness is going to cause him to get sloppy with the dosages he gives them, to forget to feed them, or to constantly postpone taking care of them until... Until he’s suddenly faced with the fact that it's no longer necessary.