#catace

Note: Honestly this was supposed to be a crack fic and then it got all sad...but then it became fun again! This is literally everyone x ace except for the first years lmao. Also I do take commissions now! All information is on my pinned!

“Are you sure this is going to work? And that he’s not just going to run away from this?” asked Epel worriedly as he tilted his head in concern at Yuu’s direction.

“Nah. I already have the rope and I finally bullied Crowley into giving me doors that can be locked through a remote or my phone so Ace can’t open the doors. Plus, we also have the ghosts, so he can’t escape without gaining some form of brain damage.” Added Yuu sweetly, as they he finished plating the last cherry pie, one of the few bribes that they had to make sure that the night went well.

“And you’re certain that the human will actually respond to our questions and won’t just ignore us until he passes out from sleep?” asked Sebek, raising an eyebrow and crossing his arms, fully doubtful about the plan that Yuu and Deuce had concocted. Well, the one that Yuu had concocted and bullied Deuce into.

“Whether Ace Trappola chooses to answer the questions that we have or not, I can still scan his heartbeat for any changes which can give us more honest answers.” Ortho reassured him, floating happily, excited for his first proper sleepover and interrogation.

“What if Ace has genuinely not noticed anything and we’re doing this for nothing?” asked Jack, a part of him worried that they were taking this too far and the other half worrying that he’s ruining his sleep schedule over something stupid.

“Don’t worry about that! Whether or not he’s not noticed anything, he has been reciprocating certain things.” Yuu waved the concerns dismissively away. “Besides, nobody runs away like that with that hiding something and knowing so. Besides I have a little something to make sure that Ace won’t be able to get one step away.” He giggled manically, scaring the room besides Ortho before he composed himself. “Now, get into your positions, Deuce is going to bring Ace here any minute now.”

And on cue, the doorbell rang.

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Deuce tried not to fidget guiltily as he and Ace waited in front of Ramshackle for Yuu to open their door so that they can have their sleepover. He tried to ignore the voice that sounded like his mother telling him to be honest, and tried to listen more to the devil Yuu on his shoulder who was reassuring him that what he was doing was for the greater good.

“You okay, Juice?” asked Ace, looking up from his phone and glancing a critical over Deuce, who looked as if he was holding a hot potato. “Didn’t forget anything did you?” he asked teasingly.

“NEVER BETTER!” okay so that was louder than Deuce was going for and winced alongside Ace at the volume of his own voice.

“Okay! Damn.” Muttered Ace, rubbing an ear in pain. Deuce winced again, guilt intensifying as he remembers what he and the other first years had planned.

Honestly, he had been against it from the start, mostly because tying a student up and forcing them into talking had seemed very much like something that an honours student would NOT do, however Yuu had worn him down.

/ “You can’t tell me that you haven’t been concerned? Worried? Curious even, about Ace interacting with the others.” They had cornered him, poking his chest with each word. “It wouldn’t hurt to check up on him, especially because he keeps running away or brushing off any questions.” They then shrugged and cast him a pitiful look and continued. “I just wanna ask him a few questions Deuce, honest! I’m just so worried about him!” /

And that’s all it had taken to get Deuce to trick Ace into coming to the interrogation. Honestly, a part of him was feeling slightly vindictive in this, however, a larger part was also swimming in guilt.

‘You’re doing this for Ace!’ he reminded himself as he rang the doorbell again only to have it dramatically open up with the ghosts flying around.

“Nice to know that bullying the Headmage can get you some sweets digs.” whistled Ace as he looked at the new door.

‘I wonder how cool he would find it when he realises it’s to trap him inside the house.’ Deuce sweat dropped as he and Ace made their way down the hallway.

“Hi you two!” Called out Yuu excitedly as they walked into the living room, the only one who didn’t look guilty. “Come on in. I have cherry pie for you Ace.” Yuu offered a plate that had a generous helping of cherry pie that looked as great as the ones that Trey regularly made.

Normally, Ace would have jumped at such as opportunity and taken the pie without a second thought, however, he was glancing at everything with a critical and suspicious eye.

“You know.” Ace began, inspecting the room as if he was a detective looking for a dead body. “Typically, when we have these get togethers, I have to get on my hands and knees for cherry anything, let alone cherry pie.” He turned and pointed at an extremely guilty Jack and Epel “Especially when these two consider it treason to suggest anything other than pear or apple and especially because of your profound hatred for cherries.” He narrowed his eyes further, hands on his hips.

“Maybe these two have realised how childish they were being.” Yuu ignored the affronted look being given to them by the beast man and farm boy. “Besides, I wouldn’t call it a hatred.”

“Mhhm” Ace looked wildly unimpressed “Additionally.” He continued his critique, observing each of the freshmen, “Normally by now Sebek would have yelled at us for being late. Instead, he’s just sitting there as if he’s been fired as a guard for Malleus. In fact Deucey, Jack and Epel all look guilty…” Ace trailed off, eyes widening as he took a step back, realising the  trap he had been lead to.

“Surprise!” yelled Ortho, popping a party streamer.

Ace bolted. Well, he attempted to, because the moment his back was runed, he felt something pierce the back of his neck. The only thing he could hear was everyone else’s yells with Sebek’s very loud “WHAT THE FU-!”

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Ace blinked and tried not to wince at the soreness of his wrists before his widened properly as he realised that he was tied up. With his fully open he can see Yuu looking possessed whilst the others were mixed between anger and amusement.

“What the actual fu-!”

“Language!” Yuu cut off, placing his finger on Ace’s lips in a shooshing gesture “There are impressable ears here.” The little hypocrite had the nerve to look disappointed at Ace.

“Says the crazy son of a bitch who tranquilized me and now has me tied up!” snapped Ace before turning on the others “And why the hell are you lot not doing anything?” he demanded, struggling in his binds.

“In my defence I had no idea that Yuu had planned to tranquilize you.” Said Jack honestly, refusing to be tied down to that incident. “…however, I did now that he was plannin’ on questioning you tonight.”

“Oh, and that’s better?” asked Ace sarcastically as he shot a foul glare at the other teen. “Why are you lot even doing this?” he huffed, trying to escape form Yuu who was truing to feed him tome pie.

“We were just worried. Especially because you kept dodging us whenever we asked you about what was going on.” Epel tried to, for once willingly, play into his more innocent side. However, that only caused Ace to send him an unimpressed pout.

“And your best idea was to TRANQ me and then what? Annoy me into answering?” he raised an eyebrow at the other first years.

“Oh no!” replied Ortho cheerfully, also Joining Yuu’s mission in feeding Ace “I would just scan your heart rate and your emotional signal into giving us an answer-.”

“Oh wow, I can’t wait to answer all your questions 100% accurately and truthfully.” Ace replied in such a monotone voice and opened his mouth to accept the pies hovering around his mouth with as much joy as someone who’s just been told their dog died. Jack was slightly worried that Ace had been possessed by a ghost at some point during his struggle for such a melancholy response.

“We all frankly have one question. Are you doing our upperclassmen?” asked Sebek, fully serious. Ace stared at him for a moment before turning to Deuce.

“If you wanna make this up to me you’re gonna go punch him.”

“There will be no violence.” Yuu told them, much to the rooms outrage.

“YOU TRANQ-!”

“Besides.” Yuu continued, feeding Ace another slice of pie. “This question isn’t exactly entirely unfounded. WE have collected evidence to help support our hypothesis of these recent activities.”

“Careful or you’ll fry Deuce’s brain.” Snarked Ace as he chewed on another mouthful of pie. “Besides, what ‘evidence’ do you even have?”

“So glad you asked!” Yuu tossed the plate and Fork up in air which Jack quickly caught. They rummaged under the sofa before pulling out a thick book. “Here! No let us start with Riddle!

“WHAT THE-!” Anything else that Ace wanted to yell out was muffled by the huge chunk that Jack forced into his mouth.

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“Ace, you’ve been so good lately.” Riddle purred, cupping Ace’s cheeks, a knowing smirk on his face as he gazed at the bashful freshman, who averted his eyes and pouted at the praise.

“Y-you don’t have to s-say it like that i-idiot!” whimpered Ace

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“THAT DID NOT HAPPEN!” Snapped Ace, jumping up, somehow managing to look threatening despite being tied up with crumbs on his face.

“Oh wait, that’s the fanfiction page. Give me a moment.” Yuu shuffled through the pages as everyone else gaped at him. 

“Deuce, get me out of here.” Demanded Ace as he turned to his roommate.

Deuce bit his lips nervously before he steeled his resolve. “Sorry Ace, but you need to see the truth for yourself! You have been flirting with the upperclassmen!”

“When have I ever-“

“Ah here!” yelled Yuu. “Here we go.”

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“I must congratulate you Ace, these roses are painted quiet well.” Praised Riddle, as he inspected the flowers that were painted to perfection. “This might be the best you’ve done so far.” He continued, observing al the bushes.

“Awe, housewarden!” Replied Ace with fake bashfulness, rubbing his neck whilst also looking for more praise. “It wasn’t that hard. It’s a little trick that my brother showed me last night and I just applied it to painting the roses.

“Regardless, I believe this behaviour deserves rewarding, turning to Ace with a genuine smile. “We can share a pie together as I try and figure out the trick you used. It can be cherry, and you can even take the first bite.” He told the younger, who laughed eagerly. “However, can you first lower your head for me for a moment?” requested Riddle, face turning serious.

Ace, confused, did as he was told, unsure of what this will lead to. A gasp left his mouth involuntarily as he glanced back up at Riddle. Said Riddle, who was patting him on the head. Ace jumped back, shocked and blushing, spluttering for a few moments. In contrast to Riddle who still looked composed, the only trace of amusement visible In the glimmer in his eye.

“W-h-why would you do that!” spluttered Ace, cheeks bright red as he glared at his housewarden. Frankly, he did not look at intimidating as he would have liked and it only led to Riddle chuckling and guiding him inside.

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“So what?” snapped Ace, face red from having to hear such an embarrassing memory.

“Soooo, it means that you inherently get submissive and-.”

“Finish that sentence and I will leap over this table and do the worm on you.” Threatened Ace.

“You have to admit, you do get extremely happy whenever the upperclassmen praise you and you blush a lot when they do.” Deuce tried however he was just met with a betrayed look from Ace that caused him to back to dejectedly eating one of the many pies that Yuu had laid out, with Epel comfortingly patting him on the back.

“Okay so I get happy when my housewarden praises me? So what? Don’t all of you?” minus the disgusted look of Epel, everyone else in the room nodded at the statement. “See so that evidence Is unfounded.

“Okay, but what reason does a vice warden have to act like this?”

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“Thanks again for helping me with this, Ace.” Thanked Trey again as he whisked the ingredients inside the bowl and set it aside as the topping for the cake that was almost done.

“Anytime, Trey senpai! So long as I get a piece of cake I’m game.” He laughed as he finished cleaning the bowls, in one of his rare moods oof obedience where the reward was actually good enough for him to go above and beyond. “Besides, I’m just being a good little freshman.” He jokes, eyes narrowing teasingly. Trey let out a chuckles the prankster.

Suddenly, the oven ding went off and Trey went over to the oven with mitts, ready to take out the cakes. There were two inside One big one reserved for the dorm for the upcoming unbirthday party and a little one that was reserved for Ace as a thanks for helping Trey with baking.

Trye took them both out and Ace excitedly bounded over for his portion of cake and pouted up at Trey.

“Can I have it now?” he pouted, looking at Trey with puppy dog eyes.

“I guess you can have it now.” Sighed Trey teasingly as he moved the bigger cake away so it can cool down before h turned to the smaller cake and spread some icing on it. “Here you go.” Teased Trey, holding a fork with cake on it to Ace. Ace pouted at the merciless upperclassmen before sucking up his pride and taking a bite. Unfortunately, their actions were not coordinated, and it led to icing smudging on Ace’s cheeks.

Trey chuckled as he swiped as he swiped the icing from Ace’s cheeks with his thumb. Then Ace did something that surprised him. Ace, hungry and waiting for the cake all this time wasn’t about to give up on his hard-earned reward and leaned forward and wrapped his lips around Trey’s thumb and sucked.

It was quiet as Ace collected the icing. Trey slowly tilted the others head and made it so that his hand was cupping the side of Ace’s face and waited for the younger to finish. He made sure to move slowly as to not alert the redhead.

Finally, Ace let go and looked up at the other, cheeks slightly red from his greed and sucking the thumb. However, when he looked up, instead of the teasing smirk he expected, it was to Trey’s smouldering look.

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“When the hell did you even see that!?” Ace demanded to know; cheeks red as he realised just how dirty the actions were. Immediately Yuu pointed at an extremely guilty looking Deuce, who also looked embarrassed at having heard the story again.

“In my defence it was because I wanted to make sure that it wouldn’t infect the kitchen so I can make omelettes.” Deuce defended himself, annoyed by the looks he was getting sent by the first years.

“Okay so I’m helping my vice-housewarden to bake.” Began Ace, ignoring Jack’s mutter to Sebek and Epel of ‘and giving sexual favours in the kitchen. “So what?”

“And what about the photos that Cater takes of the both of you?” asked Yuu.

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“Hey Acey. Come here!” Cater told Ace, already wrapping an around Ace’s waist and throwing his phone up for another picture.

“Again Cater-senpai?” whined Ace, already leaning into Cater, peace sign up.

“I can’t help but want to take pictures of cute things!” complained Cater as he angled his phone correctly.

“You saying embarrassing stuff isn’t exactly going to motivate me into doing ths, y’now?” sighed Ace as he felt Cater tighten his arms around waist even more. The snap of the phone went and Cater pressed a cheeky kiss on his Ace’s cheek and smiled at him teasingly.

“Too bad I can’t take more cute photos of you. I just know that you can be cuter.” His words ended with a seductive tilt that Ace didn’t both figuring out, simply due to the fact that he felt too hungry to argue.

“Whatever. Can we get some food now?” he pouted.

“It’s a date then.” Cater agreed as he hooked his arms around Ace’s and walked to the kitchen to scavage for food.

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“So? I talk to one of my upperclassmen? So what? You don’t?” snarked Ace, rolling his eyes at the flimsy evidence presented in front of him.

“Well Silver doesn’t call out outings dates and neither does he seductively talk about taking compromising pictures of me.” Argued Sebek, questioning how much in denial Ace was.

“No one wants to hear from the peanut gallery!” snapped Ace when he realised that none of his friends were on his side.

“Okay. So, you’re friendly with your upperclassmen which is fair. But why are you so close with other upperclassmen?” asked Jack, raising an eyebrow, finally able to release all that he’s been holding inside.

At first, he had felt as if he was going crazy and reading too much into things. However, as he listened t Yuu and Deuce talk about what Ace was doing with his own dorm, he remembers Ace with his upperclassmen and he realised just how far Ace had gone into this. It was time to break his peer out of whatever in-denial delusion he was in.

“What are you talking about?” Ace fidgeted again, reminding everyone uncomfortably about their crime and how they were going to suffer for it later.

“Oh you will when I start listing these interactions!” argued Jack, affronted at the sheer obliviousness in front of him.

‘Vil is so going to kill me for the lack of sleep I’m going to get tonight.’ Thought Epel as he watched the two oldest first years argue in front of him, reluctantly shoveling some cherry pie in his mouth and trying to ignore the betrayal in his heart.