Pairing: Chow/Finn/Ratso/Tohru/Valmont
A/N: Day one for @polyshipweek using prompts 'team as polycule' and "Is that my hoodie?"!
A lot of strange things happen around the Dark Hand. Personally, Tohru would like to blame the demon-dragon living in Valmont’s office. But strange things happened before then, as well. Really, he figures it’s more a consequence of who they all are as people and the Enforcer’s desire to knick shiny things mixed with Valmont’s desire to be rich. He can’t say it hasn’t worked out well for them so far.
Besides the point, though.
Tohru can’t find his hoodie. At first glance, this may not seem very strange. But for Tohru, who is cold and swears he recently saw it, it is. The last place he put it was the entryway to the penthouse. It was simply good manners to hang it with the rest of the jackets. Without it being there, he checks the closet, the living room- though he knows it’s not there, since he was just in there reading-, and even the kitchen. Yet he finds it nowhere. It’s not a very easy hoodie to lose, being a quadruple X, but he’s seemed to manage it anyway as he goes through the rest of the penthouse, even the bedroom.
Finally, Tohru just concedes and returns to the bedroom for a blanket. His hoodie would’ve been preferred, it’s easier to read with sleeves, but at least it’ll keep him warm. He grabs one of the blankets from the bed and wraps it around his shoulders.
When he returns to the living room, the clouds have opened and are snowing upon the city. Up here, it always looks beautiful. Delicate snowflakes falling in a dance. Or, as is now, a heavy waltz. The reported snowstorm is finally happening. Tohru smiles to himself, holding the blanket tighter, and turns to the four heads he can just see over the back of the couch.
He rounds the couch to join them and stops when he sees Ratso curled into his own blanket, against Finn who is inside dark green cloth along with Chow and Valmont. Chow is tucked between them, likely because he’s the shortest of the group. Tohru blinks. “Is that my hoodie?”
“Yes,” Valmont says, unashamed, looking from the window to him. “It’s quite warm.”
Ratso makes a noise, pouting. Apparently he was unable to fit. Tohru frowns himself.
“I was looking for that,” Tohru says, more resigned than anything. The three of them look comfortable, curled into his hoodie. He won’t deny them it. Really, any annoyance he might feel stems solely from how much he searched.
“We found it in the closet,” Chow says. Which is not where Tohru thought he’d left it. Valmont must’ve put it away yesterday.
With his boyfriends deciding to join and the falling snow, Tohru moves to start a fire in the penthouse’s fireplace. The fireplace is one of the reasons Valmont moved them to this building, as well as picking the top floor. Ratso walks away as he works on getting the fire to a nice blaze and the sounds of putting in the kitchen reach them before Ratso returns with a tray of hot chocolate and tea and popcorn for whatever movie they will watch as Tohru reads and Valmont works one-handed on a crossword puzzle. Tohru smiles down at his book when he cracks it back open.
