#terramous

Of course you can!

“I know you’re sleeping but I have got to tell you about my day.”

Carlos almost turned and told TK he’d woken up at the sound of his arrival. But TK would feel bad about it, thinking it was his fault and he was cutting on his sleep, otherwise he would’ve woken him up to tell him whatever it was.”

“There was this call we went on, a drug overdose. You know how hard those can be for me, and I realised that I no longer think about using while I’m on them like I used to.”

He could hear TK undress and throw his uniform in a pile in the corner of the room, something that annoyed Carlos constantly. Then, TK went to the bathroom to start on brushing his teeth. It was with a mouth full of toothpaste and saliva that he kept on talking.

“All I could think about was you and how much I wanted to come home to you. It wasn’t a good wanting to go home feeling, but you, Carlos Reyes, my future husband, consume all of my thoughts. Every time I encounter something difficult, all I can think about is how could it will feel to be in your arms again.”

He spit back into the sink and rinsed his toothbrush.

“And then I come home and you’re asleep.”

TK slid under the covers and wrapped his arms around Carlos.

“Clearly a strategic move so you can be the small spoon,” he whispered. “It’s okay, I love you and I’ll be your big spoon every night even when our hair has gone white if you let me.”

100% swim!captain TK was mostly born out of whatever movie Ronen was in that I didn't watch bc I don't do scary movies (for I am a punk) but supported him via reblogging gifs people made where he was coming out of the pool and my goblin brain said, wouldn't it be nice to do an AU where TK is like this big man on campus that everyone swears will be the next Michael Phelps?... but he's failing his English course and at risk of losing his spot on the team and has to get tutored. And then wouldn't it be so great that Carlos literally does not know anything about how big of a deal TK is on campus and TK is intrigued by this and makes it his mission to break Carlos out of his shell in exchange for his help

Trainer!Carlos is my take on what if the spin instructor (or for this sake, personal trainer) Alex skips out on TK with is Carlos? But in this verse things do not go beyond one date when Carlos realizes Alex is actually in a relationship and he tells TK what's happening. At first TK is in denial hard, but the truth of it comes to light pretty quickly. Carlos becomes a good friend to him and ~*~feelings~*~ come about but their very strange origins make them both hesitant to push for more.

I’ve slowly started to get back into this tarlos college au for @reyescarlos​ who has very generously not been pestering me for it. I haven’t done much yet but the brain juices are finally flowing with fic thoughts again

It was a month later that that he saw him again.

And it was, of course, once again he was doing his rounds. This time it was a frat party, and mercifully, he was on the earlier shift, so he won’t have the fun time of dealing with near passed out drunks. Still somehow he was surprised to see TK once again from afar through the open door as he helped a particularly inebriated student into his cart, and strapped her in for good measure so she didn’t fall out as he drove her home.

In the brief moment that he saw TK, he seemed just like he was the first time he caught Carlos’s eye, full of energy and the life of the party and it made his heart pang with a sense of wanting, just to even be in the same room as him and drink in his presence.

He would get that wish later in the week.

of course max!!

while i answered it originally here, i did find a snippet in my notes app that for u <3

“She’ll be fine, Nance,” TK murmurs, gently curling his fingers around her wrist. It sounds nice, sure, and she’d love to believe it, but it’s hard to when they’re stuck waiting outside with half their friends still inside a building with collapsing ceilings and black smoke billowing out the windows. It should catch her off guard that he’s only referring to Marjan, and she should worry if he’s somehow picked up on…whatever this is, that she’s been feeling for the firefighter. But when Nancy looks his way, TK is looking at her calmly, reassuringly, and she knows she’d be silly for ever worrying. Her bottom lip must wobble despite her best efforts, because TK moves in closer and wraps his arm around her. “She’s got a good head on her shoulders. I mean—she’s Marjan. If there’s anyone who can get everyone out of this unscathed, I’d put my money on her.”

@terramous Thank you both! <3

I know everything and absolutely nothing about this fic all at the same time. It is all the little ways in which TK and Carlos find one another, lose each other before finding each other once again. Sonia has told me it's kind of like a Serendipity AU and I am all about having that as a backbone and blueprint for it. It starts in New York and all ends up in Austin when TK moves there to go to UT Austin. It's an idea I've had for quite some time and I really am excited for it. Here's a snippet for you both <3