#knight!billy

GOD

sneaking out your balcony window because you wanted to ride out on your horse in your lonesome! You just wanted some time alone and you don't hate Billy but he takes his job as your personal guard very seriously, especially since he's a younger knight who's still trying to prove his worth.

He hears a rustling in your room and knows you must be up to something. It's even worse when he goes to open the door and it's locked and you're not responding. He'd have a flash of worry if like, someone got into your room and attacked you, but maybe you've also tried to sneak out before, so that's also at the forefront of his mind. Billy can pick the lock and get the door open, only to see your balcony doors open, your nightgown discarded on your bed and your riding boots gone, so he can put two and two together.

Also, when he does find you, he's mad. He's annoyed. He got his horse and rode off in the direction he assumed you had gone in and he's right. Billy knows you so well and he knows that's apart of his job in a sense, but he didn't ever mean to know this much. And once he's caught up to you, he's lecturing you, about how you could've gotten hurt, how he would've been responsible but maybe you snap about just wanting a moment of peace and he knows exactly how stressful your life is.

okay so basically, steve is a prince and nancy is the princess from a neighboring country and they have an arranged marriage

at first its pretty okay, they get along fine, kinda have the whole "i'll learn to love you" mindset going on

but it's....boring

like steve finds himself looking forward to council meetings, which he usually dreads, because him and nancy just don't click

obviously neither of them say anything, they pretend everything is fine, it's their duty, they owe this to their respective countries

but fuck there's another issue

the captain of the guard, william, is so fucking captivating

like him and steve argue during council meetings and what's the best course of action for certain situations

(they 100% didn't get along at first but steve's seen william comfort some of the kids in the town and seen how he is with his horse and they end up bonding over their psuedo siblings)

they joke and banter and william is one of the only people who can best steve at sword fighting

"that was quite some fancy footwork, sir william–"

"billy, you can call me billy....your majesty"

all steve can think about is how warm william–billy's hand is against his own, hauling him off the ground

so steve ends up laying awake at night feeling guilty as all hell, laying there next to nancy, his wife, but hasn't stopped thinking about billy's hand in his from earlier

so he just avoids and avoids billy, finds things to do when billy starts to approach him, finds other people to spar with

until billy's pulling him into the horse stables, asking what the fuck is going on, is he okay?

and steve realizes what he's doing and decides he has to table his feelings–whatever these feelings are–because billy doesn't deserve to be avoided like this

so they're friends

and it's....fine, it's fine

steve stills finds himself staring when billy's hauling his saddle up onto his horse and his muscles are rippling and his skin is glistening and he's got this focused face

and it just goes like this for forever

and billy keeps brushing up against steve and it's a lot

until

until steve's trying to find dustin, who's somewhere in this fucking labyrinth they call a castle

and he peeks into this broom closet and finds nancy

his nancy

being pushed up against the wall by the painter in town–jonathan or something

steve just closes the door and stares at the ground, processing

they talk about it, later in their room, nancy nervously fiddling with her dress and on the verge of tears

but steve's okay with it, really it's okay, because maybe he's been thinking about someone else

"and it's....it's not like we love each other"

its hurts to say but they don't, they aren't in love, they're only married to bring unity to their two kingdoms, only married for political reasons

obviously they stay married but

nancy can see jonathan, can sneak him into the palace and watch him paint from the view of one of the towers, can read all the books in their endless library at their leisure

and steve?

steve can stare without a cloud of guilt hanging over him

steve can spar with billy, knowing he's going to knock him onto his ass, and grip billy's hand a little tighter, a little longer when he's pulling him up

steve can help billy brush his horse and go all mushy on the inside when billy talks to his horse

steve can meet max and laugh when billy ruffles her hair and when they argue over nothing

steve can tell billy to meet him by the gates, and bring warm cloaks and food and shushes billy when he asks what steve's up to too loudly and grasps billy's hand and pulls him out into the woods, into the woods he grew up in, pretending to fight dragons and save princesses

pulls billy out to this clearing where to sky in crystal clear and there's a funky little lean-to against a huge maple tree that steve built when he was a kid

spreads a quilt out and throws one of the cloaks over billy's shoulders and fastens it, missing the soft look billy's giving him

and they talk all night, munching on the basket of food steve brought

and the moment comes, the moment where the world stops and all steve can see are the constellations in billy's freckles and the moonlight in billy's eyes

and steve just asks

"can i kiss you?"

and billy leans and presses his lips to steve's like he's been waiting, like he was just waiting for steve to ask

I may have done a bit of self indulgence with this one

I feel like billy would be the type to inexplicably like dnd

At first it would take him a while to get his head around it

But will would be patient and just excited to be playing end again

Max found it kinda weird that billy was hanging out with will

As they played will found out that billy's character was an anti hero, a dark Knight and it was evident that billy wanted to be like his dnd character

Billy was trying not to show his excitement when will drew his dnd character but he keeps the drawing to aspire him to be a better person, to be like his dnd character

YEAH

fem!reader

yeahhhh :(

yeahhhhhh