#friend stuff

WHO do you think you are ordering me around . ok fine whatever

I was tagged by the lovely @mushrooms-x-moss, @notyourmamasdeerbat, @redaresss and @woundedsoul12 <3 ty guys, always love seeing what you're up to

And what am I doing? I'm still deep in the Yellow Bike AU I'm writing with Fern (I just remembered how we talked about it being like "three chapters tops" hahaha nope).

Tal and Rook decided to do love confessions in a crowded bar, because why the fuck not, apparently.

"Hey, gorgeous," Rook purred into his ear.

Tal set the drinks back down and half-turned to catch him by the waist and press him to his side. That happy sigh Rook always made when he did that was the best. "Had enough of stabbing people?"

"I could go for a different kind of stabbing now," Rook grinned up at him, eyeshadow sparkling in the dim light.

"We only just got here and you want to leave? Who are you? What happened to my Rook?"

Rook gave him a half-lidded look that would have been an invitation on anyone else, but Tal knew him well enough by now to see the wariness. "Your Rook, am I?"

"Only when you want to be, pretty boy," Tal shrugged, leaning down to kiss a golden cheekbone. "You're yours. Being with you is enough for me."

"Even though you love me?" Rook asked, eyes narrowed like he didn't want to believe him. "I know you do."

"I do, yeah," Tal said, catching his chin to tip his face up. "Love you too much to try and change you."

Rook's eyes crinkled at the corners with his usual bright smile. "Did you know that I love you too?"

"I noticed, yeah," Tal nodded, smiling back. It was impossible not to when those ocean eyes shone like that. "Doesn't have to change anything between us."

"I like what we have. No one's ever loved me the way you do."

"A lot?"

"Without wanting to cage me," Rook said, giving him the shyest smile Tal had ever seen on him.

"Never, little bird," Tal whispered and leaned down to kiss that smile away. "You're perfect just the way you are. Not gonna clip your wings."

Rook sighed into the kiss and caught Tal by the shoulders, fingers digging in just right. Everything was just right with him.

"So how about that stabbing?" Rook purred when he pulled away, breath ghosting over Tal's lips.

Tal burst out laughing, catching the back of Rook's head to rest their foreheads together. "You're the absolute worst," he chuckled, enjoying Rook's dumbass giggles. "Have a drink with me first."

Rook tried to pout at him, so Tal smothered his protests with another kiss. "I'll stab you later, yeah?"

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Coaxed into posting on this site again to post this comic of @skunkes's and my iteration of arcane characters (plus his sona lol)