#toyeguarnere

Title: In With The New Relationships: Babe Heffron/Eugene Roe, Bill Guarnere/Joe Toye (mentioned) Summary:  Roe, Guarnere, Liebgott, and Grant are all excited that they can finally celebrate the Spring Equinox. It'll be full of telling stories, eating, spell casting... But it's there will also be a full moon, so it's no surprise that their celebrations are interrupted by Babe and Toye.

3. how did the relationship start?

Friends to lovers. Maybe one day I’ll write these two in a meet-cute scenario just for the sake of experimenting but friends to lovers feels so natural. They’ve known each other years, they’ve both dated other people but each time it’s felt like there’s something missing or not quite right. Then the simultaneous dry spell hits, going out and getting dates starts to seem so draining and it always ends in disappointment; hooking up still takes effort and you never really have any guarantee it’ll be good; so suddenly both of them have lost interest in seeking out potential partners but also they both still want sex. I feel like Bill would be the one to suggest ‘friends with benefits’ first, mostly expecting Joe to shoot the idea down as making things weird between them, but instead he thinks about it, and well, it’s not a bad idea, is it?

It is.

Because of course it’s easy to fall into domestic routines when you’re living together anyway and to start going to bed together and waking up together in a morning, well it’s very easy to start engaging in relationship behaviour out of habit and once it starts they both find themselves wanting more, but this is supposed to just be friends with benefits, right? They aren’t supposed to be falling in love…

(Maybe they’ve have both wanted but kept it to themselves and eventually tried to move on but always missed what could have been but Joe got drunk and spilled his guts to Luz and Bill was never good at keeping secrets from Babe and maybe another set of friends would have kept such disclosures private but soon both confessions are going around the gossip network and it’s only a matter of time before the rumours of mutual pining get back to the subjects and then they sort of have to talk about it don’t they. And by have to I mean they avoid each other for a week until Lipton asks to speak with them both in private but actually locks them in a room together because he’s nice but even he doesn’t have the patience for this nonsense.

15. what habits of the other drives them crazy?

Bill is Messy. Joe isn’t a neat freak, would honestly have considered himself to be on the untidier end of a messy to clean scale but Bill is something else. He doesn’t just put shit down wherever, he drops it or tosses it over his shoulder without looking where it’s going. Tell him to put the scissors in the drawer? He’ll do it, but it’ll be whichever drawer is nearest to where he’s standing, even if it’s a goddamn sock drawer. This wouldn’t be so bad except that a) Bill also being down a leg means that Joe can’t get up the same level of conviction to bitch him out about turning the whole apartment into an obstacle course/trip hazard, but most importantly b) Bill always knows where to find shit. It’s makes no sense. He has no system of organisation and doesn’t seem to pay any attention to where stuff is or should be, but instead of suffering the logical consequences for that, whenever he needs stuff he just makes an immediate beeline for it and whenever Joe asks Bill always knows even when it’s totally illogical stuff like the T.V remote being in the bathroom cabinet.

Nothing winds Bill up more than Joe being ‘bad with technology’. mostly because they both know that he’s smart enough to figure it out it’s just that he doesn’t really care enough to learn and he knows there are people who actually enjoy that stuff who’ll sort it for him. Dryer busted? Joe’s got a manual and a toolkit and it’s solved in ten minutes. Car trouble? He’s all over it. But ask him to hook the Netflix up to the TV and you’re gonna come back to him having unplugged half the cords in their media set-up and pointing the stereo remote at the DVD player and looking puzzled that it’s not working.

36. typical date night? out or at home?

Bill Guarnere - not so secret cheese hipster.

Their first real fight is because Bill found out that Joe bought pre-sliced processed american cheese for his sandwiches. “Yeah, and? It’s convenient.”

“It’s unnatural is what it is. And it doesn’t even taste like cheese.”

“You know there’s more than one way for cheese to taste, right?”

“Yeah. And it’s not. like. that.”

Bill gets his parmesan from a place that imports the real stuff, and he doesn’t hold with these knock-off cheeses from other places calling themselves parmesan - that’s illegal in italy for a reason, don’tcha know. All Joe wanted was a bit of extra flavour he could put in his sandwiches without it taking extra time to make ‘em not a whole debate about how he's somehow personally insulted Bill's entire family, but if Bill cares so much about what he puts in his sandwiches then Bill can fucking make 'em from now on.

"If it'll keep that shit outta my goddamn refrigerator you bet I will," Bill says.

OKAY GUYS I NEED OPINIONS

What is the ship tag people like for Bill Guarnere/Joe Toye?

Right now I’m seeings stuff scattered across a few different tags and that’s fine but for convenience sake it would be nice to know what the popular tag is.