Freya,
For the valentine's ask game...how about angel or love notes with my husband Dave? 💝
oh michelle I loveeee love notes for dave.
because even in our most redemptive timelines (let alone our canonical contract murder man) dave york is all about control.
so much of his has been stripped for him, after all. enlist in the military? you’re taking someone else’s orders. discharged honorably? not his fucking choice. being tossed into civilian life with a set of skills no civilian could ever understand, a hundred lifetimes of blood on his hands? not. his. choice.
which means dave craves control, needs as much of it as he can get. perhaps love or companionship softens him a tad, digs in at the tender center of him sitting hidden under decades of callous violence, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t crave it just like everything else.
so dave loves to leave you love notes. sticky notes on the fridge or by the coffee maker, maybe on his pillow when he has to slip out early for a job some days. on the steering wheel of your car or in the top drawer of your desk at your office (nevermind how he got in there). always short things. never frilly.
thinking of you. -d
see you tomorrow. -d
wear something nice tonight. -d
don’t miss me too much. -d
because it’s sweet, yes. makes you grin softly to yourself, yes. (not that he’d know. not that he sometimes hangs around and watches.) but more than that, it means he controls you just a little, harmlessly. he makes you think of him. all day, while he’s gone, giddy he’s been so thoughtful and left you one of his cute little notes.
he needs to know you’re preoccupied by him. distracted and swooning and tongue-tied. lord knows he’s preoccupied by you.
valentines day asks (with the boys)
