#everafterdpfics

“Hush now, mon cher, no need to talk about yourself like that.” Mm. So much for finishing the pivoting point of that novel today, then. Although night didn’t count as day, really. “How was school?”

“Horrible.” Lips twitching into a smile, Andrew watched as his mate sat on the arm of the couch and collapsed backwards, groaning and whining as he completely blocked any and all attempts for Andrew to reach his laptop. He would have been more upset if it wasn’t so cute. “Andy! My teachers are all so mean!”

“Oh? Is that a new way to say incompetent?” Saving his work - Danny truly had inspired the wisdom of saving and making backup copies - Andrew set his laptop aside on the table and properly pulled Danny into his lap. “What happened today?”

“What didn’t happen!” Really, Andrew tried his best to listen along to Danny’s rant, but it was so hard to do when he was so easily distracted. As always, Danny was a blur of motion and energy, legs kicking as he told his story and arms waving throughout the air as if he trying to paint the words as easily as Andrew wrote them.

The teen was in his human form today, but his eyes still shone as bright as any spirit’s, the blue glistening like a sea at the brightest point of the day- Oh, goodness. He really had fallen far if he was comparing Danny’s eyes to sea. Love had never much been something he was interested in and now here he was waxing cheesy poetry - quite literally at times to his dismay - about Danny’s eyes. Perhaps he should make an effort to listen to whatever it was Danny was saying.

“-and oh my god Dash of course had to be the ‘perfect student’ and he was the one that started that fight in the cafeteria this time! It was so-” Mm, nothing too important, then. It was always so interesting how Danny’s skin was paler in his human state. Perhaps it was a random reaction. There were still parts of the portal they had never understood.

Shifting the teen further into his lap, Andrew easily wrapped his arms around Danny, kissing at the junction between his neck and shoulder, delighting in the way Danny’s words stuttered before he managed to continue. His sweet mate was far too adorable, truly.

“-even listening to me!” Oh, Danny had finally noticed Andrew was ignoring him. Wrapping around him tighter, Andrew moved to kiss at the corner of Danny’s lips, smiling at the blush it earned him.

“Of course. You were ranting about the school establishment and how much you would like to burn it to the ground, I believe?”

“Ghostly wail it, but close enough.” As the teen went near boneless, Andrew rolled his eyes as he tucked Danny under his chin, nuzzling against the top of his head. There was the faintest hint of peppermint that reminded him of winter. No doubt it was due to the boy’s ice powers. “Why can’t I run away to the Ghost Zone?”

“Because your friends and family would miss you, you deserve the chance at a college education, and I would never let you go if you ran away to me.” Andrew kissed at the cheeks that were steadily growing redder, a hand slipping down to rest at Danny’s side. “Danny…” Waiting until the teen’s full attention was on him, Andrew grinned and flexed his hand. “You got distracted.”

And, really… Of all the things to change in his life, Andrew never would have expected to learn that he was the one that initiated tickling attacks. It was hardly his fault, though, when Danny gave such beautiful reactions. The teen was already squirming and writhing against him, shrieks and cries of laughter escaping as his face scrunched up with the force of his laughs. “An- Andy!”

“What’s that? Even more? Well, if you insist.” A quick twist - and maybe the use of his ghost powers - and Andrew was straddling Danny and pinning him to the couch, mercilessly attacking every spot he knew. The laughing grew even louder, Andrew finally letting up when he saw the teen’s ghost features slipping through bit by bit.

Pinning Danny’s wrists to the couch, Andrew watched as Danny heaved and gasped for breath, slowly getting control of himself. His cheeks were blotchy and red and there were tears at the corner of his eyes as he shook, body settling back down into its human state. Andrew probably shouldn’t find that so cute, but he had admitted his obsession to Danny long ago. “Wha- What was that for?”

“You’re no longer thinking of destroying your school,” Andrew pointed out, kissing at Danny’s cheek before nuzzling the spot. “Je t’aime, mon cher.” Ah, it was always so easy to revert to the language he grew up on when it came to showing Danny affection. Mostly due to the fact Danny always had the most delightful reactions to the use of the language.

“J-Je t’aime aussi, mon ange.” And, alright. Andrew could admit he might have appreciated Danny speaking his language more than he should have. “Weren’t you in the middle of a scene?”

Ah, he had been. Even now a few of his thoughts were centered on the scene he had stopped in the middle of, the battle still moving in his mind and his laptop was right there so it would be easy to open it and get wrapped back up in those worlds- But, ah… He didn’t need to do that quite as much anymore.