#mcnurse

i’ve been thinking about mcnurse for a long time bc They Were Roommates!!! (oh my god they were roommates) but like,,,,being me idk if putting connie here comes as a surprise tho lolol

“have you ever kissed a guy?” nursey asks, draped over one side of the couch, two beers in, right after connor comes out to him. “like, really kissed, not spin-the-bottle kissed or drunken-dare kissed.”

“nah,” connor says, putting his own bottle down on the coffee table. “never got a chance.”

“do you - do you wanna?” nursey asks, sitting up. “like, i’m totally up for it. i mean, i’ve been into guys still, sometimes, and -”

okay, so connor’s probably thought about this a few times, after he and nursey became teammates, friends, roommates. and there are probably a million reasons why this is a terrible idea, but he can’t think of a single one of them right now.

“sure,” he says, moving closer.

and then suddenly nursey is in his space, one hand coming up to cup connor’s cheek. the look in his eyes is almost too much for connor to bear, something heavier in them than the perceived levity of this conversation.

connor closes his eyes and leans forward, presses his lips to nursey’s just once before pulling back.

nursey doesn’t let him go far, though. they stay like that, breathing in each other’s air, and then nursey kisses him again, still light and not enough.

there’s something more hanging in the air, something that they’re not quite yet ready to address, but this - it’s enough for now.

(where ur fic at tho fam)

23. who steals the blankets? fuck ok so my instinctual reaction to this was nursey bc connie is Too Polite and Would Not. but we all know connor is actually a little shit and probably is an octopus when he sleeps so connie def. (nursey makes up for it by using connor as his own personal space heater instead.)

33. how do they refer to the other in public? how do other people refer to the other? i feel like they’d use “nerd” and “dork” and “dumbass” a lot, also nursey really likes “my boy” (but connor doesn’t use that for nursey). connor probably sticks to the vitriolic names. the oilers probably just say “your connor” and “your nursey” and there’s a l o t of eyebrow waggling bc they’rea ll shits