I got inspired from reading you gush about Remy ships while being in a cool cafe(?). So consider: Remy and Logan run a cool little place that technically is *called* a coffee shop, but also sells smoothies, teas, desserts, meals, books, jars, mugs, and an assortment of random objects. All the other sides/shorts characters are regulars, and the couple Virgil and Emile keep flirting with the couple Logan and Remy, and eventually they become a poly relationship. -squirrel anon
oh gosh I didn’t realize I needed analoremile (?) in my life until now but I DO I need them VERY MUCH
Especially in this context because!!! at first Virgil and Emile are just Another Couple who comes to the store y’know and Logan and Remy like them but it’s whatever overall
Until one day when everything changes for seemingly no reason (there is a reason, Logan and Remy just don’t know it- it’s called Virgil and Emile met Logan and Remy, became immediately gayer than they already were, told each other this, and decided that the only thing to do was to court the couple together until they were ALL together because Gays For The Win) and suddenly Emile and Virgil are not only coming more often but being oddly... close with Logan and Remy
Remy’s fine with it, of course- he’s a naturally flirty person by nature, being with Logan hasn’t changed that- and he doesn’t mind at all playing along, exchanging sweet compliments with Emile while he makes him his tea and trading more traditionally flirtatious remarks with Virgil while he helps him pick out books. It’s fun for him, what can he say? Plus, he knows it doesn’t really mean anything- he loves Logan, they know that, he knows that, and he is not a cheater! So it’s okay.
Logan’s also fine with it. He’s not as flirty, per say, but he doesn’t mind long interesting chats with Emile that have a few compliments and softly lingering gazes thrown in by the other, and he doesn’t mind letting Virgil convince him to rant about something or another while the other watches him with an eye that’s paying a bit more attention to Logan than it should and calling Logan beautiful a few more times than a taken man should. After all, Logan knows how Remy acts, and like Remy, he’s not planning on being unfaithful anytime soon (or ever), so it’s alright to enjoy the slightly off interactions. It’s okay.
It takes Logan and Remy about one month or so to figure out it’s not okay.
Because somewhere down the line of just liking Virgil and Emile and finding them cute and fun and sweet and a very good couple (tho they seem horribly clashing, Emile doesn’t seem to mind Virgil’s darker tendencies, and Virgil seems content with and grounded by Emile’s softer ones) they fell in love with them.
Remy ends up admitting this to Logan one week after he realized it, not wanting to hurt their relationship with the secret, only to learn Logan had been sitting on the same realization for two weeks (Logan had been hoping it would go away if he ignored it- considering Virgil and Emile seemed intent on not letting him ignore it, however, this plan hadn’t been working)
Collectively, they die a little (a lot) over gay, and then decide to keep the secret from Virgil and Emile, because that’s weird to tell two happy dating guys that you, as a couple, are in love with both of them.
This plan works for two days, because Virgil and Emile are not blind, and they realize pretty quickly that Logan and Remy are acting weird around them.
Cut to Virgil and Emile somehow managing to corner them in their own shop, Remy and Logan awkwardly admitting to their ~secret~, and Virgil + Emile more or less being ‘fucking FINALLY’
and then they get together :)