#luckington

Wash and Tucker being in a romantic relationship first before Locus is included, and Locus is yearning for something like that. Something where you feel safe and loved and, sure, you get into arguments, but they’re never used against you and your words don’t get manipulated to the point of not even recognizing what you actually said and what was twisted.

Wash and Tucker being in a romantic relationship first before Locus is included, and Grif and Donut both notice him pining. They try to talk to him about it only for him to go beet red and silent while Grif tries not to laugh because jfc what is his life now, having to coax an ex-merc into telling him about his crushes.

Wash and Tucker being in a romantic relationship first before Locus is included, and they finally finally start noticing and realize he’s never going to make a move. So they scheme.

Wash and Tucker being in a romantic relationship first before Locus is included, and Tucker starts being more touchy with him: clear slow pats on the shoulder, bumping his hip lightly to move him out of the way (or just because), even doing a side hug when he’s feeling adventurous.

Wash and Tucker being in a romantic relationship first before Locus is included, and Wash starts to give Locus soft smiles that he gives no one else; starts to let his hands linger on him when they spar and one of them offers the other a hand to get up; starts to have quiet conversations with him in the morning before anyone else is awake.

Wash and Tucker being in a romantic relationship first before Locus is included, and Locus is so fucking confused and anxious and doesn’t know how to process what either of them are doing because they can’t possibly be hitting on him. They can’t. That’s not how it works. He’s supposed to simply yearn from afar as they do their own thing and wait for his silly crushes to go away.

Wash and Tucker being in a romantic relationship first before Locus is included, until they’re not. Until Wash leans over to give Tucker a kiss goodnight and then turns around to give Locus his own, a soft one on the cheek. And Locus just stares at Wash, lips parted and eyes wide. After long seconds pass with no one moving or speaking, Tucker walks closer to the two of them, cups Locus’ cheek with a hand, and gives him another firmer kiss on the lips. Nobody mentions the tears in Locus’ eyes.

So pre-relationship Tucker and Wash definitely fall into bed together more than a few times

Cause Wash has nightmares and sleeps better with someone else there

And Tucker is a sleep cuddler and Wash is a very good pillow

Wash usually curls in on himself when he sleeps or stays rigid stiff when it’s a bad night

Either way, Tucker kinda just flops onto of him and Wash slowly curls around him

Also Tucker 100% has nightmares too

Not as frequently as Wash, but he’s seen some shit and it comes creeping up on him at night sometimes

And Wash is pretty good at soothing him back to sleep

Once they’re leaning toward being a thing, there’s probably lots of soft, sleepy smooches

Tucker likes to be the big spoon and press gently kisses to the back of Wash’s neck and play with his hair

Little spoon Wash is all about the warmth and comfort, even if it takes him a million years to admit it

and now to shove Locus into this mess because I’m a menace

Locus also 100000000% has nightmares, like lbr here

Tucker waking people up from nightmares and almost getting stabbed is my aesthetic and no one can take that away from me

Once the Reds and Blues adopt Locus (they do, people can pry this out of my cold dead hands) he probably has his own room that’s sort of out of the way

But Tucker passes by on his way to get food or something and hears some thrashing around

Wash screams in his sleep, Locus is almost worryingly quiet with how much he’s moving around

Tucker moves without thinking and tries to shake him out of it and almost gets face stabbed

But he talks Locus down nice and slow and Locus just recoils and curls in on himself and doesn’t know what to do because fuck he almost just ruined everything, redemption down the fucking drain, new family out the window, shit shit shit

And Tucker’s probably been iffy on Locus to this point, but seeing him like this, his big heart breaks and he just... slowly scoots closer and careful hands rubbing Locus’s back, slowly pulling him into his arms

Locus sort of freezes, but then he just goes and maybe breaks a little

After that, Tucker’s like ‘nah, no more sleeping alone’ and drags him into bed with him and Wash

So Locus and Wash are both just ?????? but they go with it

The first couple nights are probably pretty awkward, Locus and Wash both do their statue impressions and Tucker whines a bunch because what the fuck guys this isn’t comfortable someone snuggle him

And he’ll be in the middle, probably for a while, and just drag their arms around him and get nice and cozy

Locus probably doesn’t sleep that first night

Or the next one

Or the one after that

Until Tucker’s ready to pull his hair out because this is supposed to be helping, but it seems like it’s just making everything worse, and he’s probably not sleeping great either and they’re both irritated and snappish and Wash is just sighing in the background as he chugs his fourth cup of coffee in twenty minutes

Wash and Tucker probably talk and then lure a very irritable, but exhausted Locus to bed and carefully tuck him in the middle

And at first Locus is Not Comfy and feeling a little trapped, but then Wash gently rubs his back and Tucker snuggles up to his chest and there’s probably some lil sleepy smooches in there and he slowly relaxes

They probably have to have some serious talks (tm) to figure out the situation here, which definitely go perfectly and don’t have any problems at all cause they’re all great with emotions

Yeah no, it’s awkward and there’s bumps in the road, but they’ll work shit out

Once things are a little more steady, they probably switch off pretty regularly who’s in the middle depending on who needs to be there the most

Tucker likes it best when they’ve got Locus in the middle and both he and Wash can rest their heads on his chest and have his arms around them and he can hold Wash’s hand and just listen to both of them breathe nice and easy

Wash’s favorite is when he gets to be the big spoon and smush Tucker against Locus’ chest and play with their hair, and he puts his back to the wall so he can watch the door for trouble

And Locus likes it best when he’s got one of them resting on top of him and the other squished tight to his side so he can keep them close and feel that they’re both there and warm and alive keeping him grounded, reminding him he has new partners now