#theassxt

“Growing old is not a choice, growing up is totally a choice,” she pointed out, draped over a couch, arm draped over her face. She could relate to his dilemma way too much.

She hoped he liked everything (and the new boots and cat coffee mug she got him). He was an important part of her little ‘family’. She wanted him to feel special on his birthday.

“Maybe not, but I’m not going to stand around, waiting for the one meant for me.”

“Nah, man.” Alec was sure that his face reflected just how gleeful he felt at this confirmation. “Nobody really believed it. Is good, though. I got like, a lot of years worth of nerd goss to catch you up on.”

     Her shoulders slowly dropped as she watched Bucky extract himself from the debris. Bonnie’s magic was too drained for her to do much more than try to move some of the larger pieces from his body, and she worried on her lower lip as she took in his bruised and battered body. “We should get you looked at.” The last thing they needed was for him to have some internal injury that not even his accelerated healing could fix.

⌜ @theassxt. / starter bc i can. ⌟

“Aight.” Patty nodded, grin on her face. “That’s cool.” The flash of her eyes would have worried him if they had known each other longer. Her grin grew a little sharper. “I got a lot of questions.”

Neal pointed at the other man, his hand mostly wrapped around the beer bottle he was drinking from. “True. And also some people don’t bother hiding their dark side at all.” Was he thinking about the monster his father had become or Pan? Both, actually.