will: yeah?

mack: now that i'm captain. we should like. stop. like the. the things we do. like i should get a girlfriend. right? that's what captains do. right smitty?

will: yeah sure man no sweat do what u want

mack: that's... it? ur not... like. upset?

mack, internally: he should be so fucking upset. like crying-his-eyes-out, so-angry-he-breaks-things-and-begs-me-not-to-leave upset. like he should tell me not to go through with it and that he'd be better for me than any girl. and he should obviously throw me down onto the bed and fuck me to make me understand that i'm all he wants. obviously. like objectively that's what he should do. like objectively that's what i would do if smitty said he'd want to fuck someone else. like i'd chain him to the bed and not let him leave until he swore i was all he wanted. and like obviously he should do the same to me bc he doesn't want anyone other than me and he doesn't want ME to even think about anyone else. like, objectively.

will, carefully keeping his voice easy-going and perfectly even: well yeah it was only a matter of time. fun while it lasted though, right?

mack:

mack: 🤨

mack, blood boiling: like it's been two years though. nothing?

will: dude no offence but ur not the only man in the world. if u wanna get a gf, get a gf. hey, do u think people still use raya for hookups or should i just redownload grindr?

mack, blank faced, gritted teeth: whywouldudothat.

will: i mean if ur getting a gf, then i'm--

mack: throws will's phone against the wall

will: stares

mack: stares back

will: say sorry

mack: why would i say sorry? i'll buy u another one. ten if u want. like do u think ur grindr hookups would. or even could. like i'm obviously way better for u than any of them

will: that's not really how apologies work

mack: good bc i'm not apologizing when ur the one being a fucking idiot. pull ur head out of ur ass smitty obviously u won't need to download anything bc ur not fucking anyone else

will: well unfortunately u don't get to decide that for me.

mack: i do if ur my boyfriend, though.

will: well luckily we're not that, so.

mack: we are though. like exclusive. like no one other than me. right? say it

will, sighing theatrically: fineeee if that's what u want then whatever i guess. neither one of us will fuck anyone else. if u insist

mack: i do. like, ur mine smit. obviously.

will: lol sure whatever

alt ver (because these freaks would be mutually so into it)

The combined powers of Robert's insanity being a bit to much when he's trying to tamper his own insanity down and deep and John getting in there with manipulating the need for Aaron to feel guilty about people loving him and how much he owes anyone who dares try to put up with him... God Aaron. You break my fucking heart.

The one person who always loved Aaron fully and unapologetically really is Robert.

Also you're so right Anon. He would have cracked if he stayed around. He probably would have cracked by the end of the day! But then John came in laying the guilt on thick, and Aaron went for the nuclear option. The only way to keep himself away from Robert. Literal physical distance. As much as he can get.

I would even say even if Robert didn't come in swinging (he's so funny I'm sorry it took him like 8 hours to go from I'll wait to TELL HIM NOW HE CAN DO IT TOGETHER 🥰) I think John's guilt trip would have made Aaron tell him to leave. He was already feeling guilty for sleeping with Robert. And then John gives him all these reasons to feel more guilty for "betraying" John, since he "fixed" the Anthony thing, and it's Aaron's family who is a mess, it's Aaron's Ex who is causing John troubles (Never mind it's John's BROTHER).

Azriel x Eris ~7.9k words Cowboy AU

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Roots, when Eris finally manages to grow them, become wild and uncontained. Three years, three summers, and he wants to build a garden with reserved ranch hand Azriel. When he proposes making things more permanent, Azriel begins to withdraw. Eris takes the resuscitation of their romance into his own hands. A bit violent, a little deranged; they come together anyway. ~ Or: I make Eris insane, Azriel gets turned on by domesticity, and they frot in a kitchen that doesn't belong to them.

Lil snippet for ya ;)

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The sweat, a simple slide down his temple, meets the hinge of Azriel’s bronze jaw, and then Eris’s mouth. A reward in the touch of his tongue to sun-warmed skin. The shudder of Azriel’s whole body, curving into Eris like the melted frame of the waxing moon over the Mogollon Rim. 

There’s a prayer here, somewhere. Between Eris’s lips and Azriel’s skin. Between the sun-stoked red rocks of central Arizona and the tough soles of their boots. 

The fact that he allows it. Likes it. Holds Eris’s hips squarely between the heart of his palms and catches his eyes under the wide brim of his hat. Shadows falling across his face, the slip of a quickly waning evening where the heat rises, baking their bodies until they shine as bright as the wavering sheen of appearing stars. 

A moment kept. The brims of their hats meet, tip forward and into each like tectonic plates, and Eris can taste salt and the dry red dust of the earth they’ve been kicking up the whole day. 

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There’s land not too far out in Sedona, a collection of suburbs. They make up the bottom of the mountains by periphery. All of their smooth asphalt streets, shiny new stop signs, and well-paved driveways leading up to stone bungalows. The sweet front-stoop porches reminded Eris of his grandmother’s house near the Tetons. Her windchimes of sea glass because she missed the ocean. 

There’s one specific house on the outskirts of suburbia. Cupped at the very end of a cul-de-sac, far enough away from neighbors that there’s no danger of peeking over each other’s fences. There are beds of soil in the front yard, fertile and dry enough for a nice garden. The stairs leading up to the green front door had been refurbished recently and still smelled of fresh paint. Eris has the whole place mapped out. From room to room, he marks each space with a memory not yet made and says, here, here is where we’ll build.

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