#danverses

“So I used to come on this hike a lot when I first moved here and I was developing feelings for this guy I had just gotten into business with, and I didn’t know what to do about it because I didn’t know if that guy had the same feelings or if I’d ever be able to muster up the courage to let him know how I felt. And now here he is, the love of my life, standing in front of me...”

rules: tag nine people you want to know better

favourite colour: I love any and all shades of the colour blue. I also love purple but mainly blue. 

currently reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo but looking to start If We Were Villains after I finish the Grishaverse Series 

last song: If I Can’t Love Her- Beauty and the Beast 

last series: Outer Banks (I know I’m so late but just in time for S2!)

last movie: Sing! 

sweet, savoury or spicy: a mix of sweet and savoury, I can’t do any spice unfortunately but I do have a bit of a sweet tooth, though not as much as when I was younger. 

craving: San Choy Bow 

tea or coffee: Tea, I don’t like coffee and as it’s winter here I’ve been drinking a lot of tea. 

currently working on: I’ve been doing some gif making here and there when I’m not at work. Also been doing some editing for one of my friends. 

Intimacy prompt 59: a height difference

Ahhh, thank you so much for this one pal! Any excuse for unrelenting early relationship tenderness 💖 

THE WAY YOU TOUCH ME MAKES ME TONGUE-TIED for @danverses [rated G, 595 words]

You can read this on AO3 here if you prefer!

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Patrick is under no misapprehensions about his height. He knows he's not particularly tall or short; decidedly average, like in so many other things. During one of he and Rachel's many breaks he tried online dating and one of the women he met up for coffee with told him he carries himself like someone much taller, and he never was able to work out whether it was a compliment or an insult or both. But he was taller than Rachel, and the few other women he dated for any length of time, which means that the first time he kisses David standing up — in the middle of their store in the middle of the day when anyone could walk in, and Patrick couldn't care less who sees them — he has a brief moment of readjustment when he realises he has to look up instead of down into the kiss. Before he can even begin to think about it too hard David's lips are on his and it's as natural as breathing, so simple that his body quickly forgets kissing was ever any different.

As the days pass and their kissing becomes more heated, David is gentle, and sweet, and has taken go slow more to heart than Patrick could have anticipated when he asked for it — but he's also unafraid to use the few inches he has on Patrick to loom over him, a move that might be intimidating if it wasn't accompanied by a smile at once so soft and so full of promise for things to come that it tends to make Patrick literally weak at the knees. There's something about David's sheer physicality, his expressive face and his wide gestures and the ease with which he moves his body, that makes Patrick's blood rush hot under his skin.

A week and a half after their first date finds them, like most other evenings, in the stockroom. Usually David lets Patrick stay in control but this time, somehow, it's Patrick who has his back pressed against the wall, hands clutching David's waist like a lifeline while David strokes his fingers soothing and featherlight across his shoulders, kissing so languorously Patrick thinks he could stay here forever and yet with such underlying heat his skin is humming with it. With the solid wall behind him and the warm weight of David in front Patrick finds himself slinking down, just a little, letting the wall support him as David has to crane over even further to keep their lips pressed together.

When David pulls away his lips are spit-slick and swollen, his eyes dark as he sweeps them over Patrick, who makes no move to straighten up. "You like this," he murmurs, syrupy voice laced with the kind of amusement that Patrick knows isn't directed at him but instead is something they share. David takes half a step forward, crowding into Patrick so he has to tilt his head back even further to maintain eye contact.

Patrick can think of several responses to the comment. Not as much as you do if he wants to tease, or he could rock their hips together and say seems like we both do if he wants to take things a little further tonight, but David is grinning down at him and Patrick just wants to give himself up to it.

"Yeah," he breathes instead, and David's eyes blaze. "God, David, I like it."

ceo!au, unrequited love, “you have the emotional capacity of a brick.”

i hope you’re happy because writing this gave me OUCHY FEELINGS!! (thank you for the prompt my friend 💛)

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“I got engaged this weekend.”

David flicks a cool gaze up from his desk. “And?”

Patrick shrugs. “Just… making conversation.”

“I’d prefer if you focused on your job. Thanks so much.”

“Wow.” Patrick laughs, dropping some papers down. “You have the emotional capacity of a brick, you know that?”

Behind the stony set of his jaw and the Givenchy suit, David crumples. He has his pick of countless men and women; yet the flame he’s harboured for fucking Patrick from Accounting since day one still burns, blinding and painful.

wait jk you did 7 lmao. 8??

Ummm. I will answer #7 again, no problem!

7. What’s your favourite piece of description or narration?

This one is from my fic Wedding #11, Part 2 of my Retail David AU.

“Do you have other dreams?”

Patrick smiles. “I think you can guess that I do.” David can. He doesn’t know all the details, but Patrick plays guitar, and is making his way through a queer reading list, and plays baseball with a rec league. All of those could lead to something. Plus, the way he looks at David, with a spark of possibility in his eye—David can tell Patrick is a man with hope for the future. He’s motivated by something intrinsic and powerful, something deep. He’s fighting for something, even if that something doesn’t have a shape to it yet.

David knows this because it’s a reflection of something inside of himself.

8. Which fic this year was most fun to write?

Fun?? FUN?? Jk. They all had super fun parts and parts that made me want to bang my head against the wall. But Wedding #11 was pretty smooth-sailing because I didn’t feel pressure when I was writing it. I was confident in the story I was telling, and because people asked for a sequel to Customer Service, I knew it would have readers. It only took me two days once I sat down to write it. Plus, I got to think about David and Patrick in formalwear on a pretty mountain, and there’s banter and pancakes!

Also, fun fact: There’s another story about D&P going to a wedding called Love Song #11 by cromarty. I didn’t even know about that story before I wrote mine. They have similar titles and David wears a gray suit in both of them! I found out about it because of this ask. I hope ppl don’t think I copied that fic, but it is an insane coincidence, and now that I’ve read it, I highly recommend it. (Mine has its title because ppl requested ‘David and Patrick go to the eleventh wedding’ that is referred to multiple times in Customer Service).

here's the truth from my red lips

Pairings: past Alexis/Ted, past Alexis/Twyla, past Alexis/Stevie

Rating: M

Tags: a low rent Knives Out redo, with a little bit of Ocean's Eleven flavor too, Secret Agents, IDK what else to say, Crack Treated Seriously

Summary: When infamous con woman Alexis Rose is found dead, her three ex-lovers – all cons in their own right – gather and each accuse the other of having her murdered. (But is Alexis really dead? Only time will tell.)

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i dreamt of you all summer long

Pairing: David/Patrick

Rating: T

Tags: Shapeshifters, Magical Realism, Bears, David should learn to listen more, Patrick's a bear, yes there's really a creek

Summary: Set in the esteemed magical realism series "a spell that can't be broken," this meet-cute details David and Patrick's first meeting at the eponymous creek. Patrick warns David that there's an abundance of wildlife at set creek, David is too grouchy to care, and Patrick turns into a bear right before his eyes.

hey bud it’s called PAYBACK for making me cry with your new story..... which I’m about to go reread so we can just sit here and cry together