#talksic

Chase hates the smell of Gerts hair dye, (which is canon) like. as much as he loves her, this is his line in the sand. One of them is not sleeping in bed that night, he can’t do it. he can handle Old Lance curling up like an oversized dog at the foot of the bed sometimes (he complains but lbr he adores that dino) and the resulting dino drool, and even when she stays up ‘till the wee hours reading, but smelly hair goo? Absolutely not.

Gert likes to rest her head on his chest and listen to him breathe and feel the vibrations when he talks and L O V E S it when he draws patterns on her arms.

Chase is one of the few people aware of where Gert is ticklish. (the backs of her knees and her armpits) and that sometimes she just needs a little tickle to feel a bit better.

they talk all the time. like. that couple sitting in each others’ laps and whispering and giggling? that’s them when Gert is feeling like pda. It’s also them when no one is around. they also just. talk over breakfast, and while watching tv and in bed. all. the. time. about everything.

It is during one of these cuddle fests that Gert finds out how much Chase A D O R E S her tummy. She’s so soft and warm and he loves feeling her all over and like. She knows she’s fat and she tries very hard not to be self-conscious about it and doesn’t want to need others affirming her beauty but y’know, sometimes it’s hard? Especially when it is well known her bf is really fit. So him really loving feeling her up and mumbling into her neck how much he loves her chub was very nice.

ok this is pretty obvious but when they’re older? Power Couple. just. they are couple goals they’re so in love and in sync with each other even though they are very very different people.

Gert is super protective of him ok? she knows he can fight his own battles but she’s ready to jump down someone’s throat (or get OL to) if they so much as make him look sad (she doesn’t want anyone to know tho because she has a cool and collected rep to uphold) Chase is almost always in Gert’s corner unless he needs to ground her down a bit. but he doesn’t even have to hold her flower because he’s standing back to back with her and they’re rdy 2 fite

The rest of the fam calls them mom and dad because. they totally are, Nico might be de facto leader but if Molly wants permission to do something she’s asking Chase first (he’s more likely to say yes to dangerous things, Gert for watching non-age-appropriate shows) Victor even asks sometimes and Gert is like “uhhh sure? dude you can do whatever you want really so long it doesn’t screw the entire team over”

Chase realizes that Gert’s his best friend when Victor (who is also like, his best friend so same same but different? the others are obvs like siblings.) does something dumb and his voice kinda shorts out and he talks like Darth Vader for half a day but breaks into laughter because of it so it’s surreal and Chase thinks Can’t wait to tell Gert about this and then gets all mushy smiles.

Gert realizes when Chase is telling her about said Darth Victor incident and he can hardly keep a straight face.

Chase tells her he loves her like. Maaaaybe a month into dating. He’s just. So In Love and doesn’t want to hold it in so he tells her and it’s probably the best decision he ever made because her lips part and she gasps like she didn’t know (and maybe she didn’t, he thinks) and her eyes go so soft as she looks at him and a stray piece of purple hair floats in front of them and he brushes it away and cups her face and kisses her so softly and oh, she might be crying, and kissing him, and holding him tight.

he doesn’t stop telling her though. like. some people like to reserve their “I love you”s because they think it will lose meaning if you say it too much. Not Chase. Whenever he thinks “I love Gert” he fucking tells her because each time he does he sees her eyes sparkle in happiness and he feels so free and happy and loved more than he ever did with his parents.  

He tells all the family he loves them too. Molly when she destroys everyone again in RISK, Karo when she makes really good vegan pancakes, Victor when he shows him how to fix a thing in like .2 seconds, Klara when she grows all these flowers that make him tear up they’re so pretty, Xavin when they tell him that they think they’re getting the hang of earth customs and shows off a Santa outfit. on July 4th (they’re trying), Nico when she’s complaining about nail polish. Damn, he loves them.

what I’m saying is that it took a while and a lot of work but Chase finds out how liberating it is to openly love your friends and girlfriend and fully express his “mushy-gushy” feelings because they make him feel happy and good, and it makes his family happy too! So fuck toxic masculinity, Gert was right, he’s embracing the love.

ok so it’s canon that Gert never actually told Chase she loves him??? (rip my heart) and maybe she doesn’t in so many words, but Chase knows she does when she squeezes his hand in hers, or sits in Leapfrog for hours as he works on it with Old Lace and talks about a paper she wanted to write in history about bell hooks and intersectionality just to fill the silence, or when he wakes up from nightmares about his dad and she runs her hands through his hair and kisses his forehead and sings until he falls back asleep or it’s time to get up. He knows she loves him, and she doesn’t need to say it for him to know, same as everyone else.

for everyone, she tucks people into bed, and makes favourite breakfasts, and worries, and is probably the best hair petter ever and everyone knows that it’s hard for her to say it out loud, but they know she loves them too.