Something Far More Suffonsifying

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more than just an ordinary pain

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🎂 Happy Birthday Anne @thisbuildinghasfeelings!!!!! 🎂 Cig @carlos-in-glasses and I have teamed up again this year to bring you another two fics on a theme. This year: Tarlos revisiting special places from their season one era with Jonah!!

Today I'm sharing Chapter One of more than just an ordinary pain, featuring TK, Marjan & Paul visiting the iconic Austin Bat Bridge in early Season One. Inspired 100% by Anne and I visiting the Bat Bridge and me almost pitching my phone off the boat when a bat grazed my head. (Yes there is video.) Chapter Two comes next week and features TK revisiting the bridge with Carlos & Jonah, followed by some found family feels with the Catan Crew. Cig's amazing fic will follow later this month! We hope you enjoy!!!

Thank you for the tag @pimento-playing-hopscotch 🧡 This is from something new, coming soon! Wherein we join our heroes for a chaotic dip:

When TK and Carlos wear shorts, Jonah is in the habit of sticking his hand into the hems and gripping hard as he walks alongside.

In the case of swimming trunks with their looser, ruched waistbands, this does result in TK half-mooning a small bachelorette party only five minutes into splashing around the turquoise waters of Tidal Wave Bay.

“Jonah, you’re gonna get me arrested for indecent exposure!” TK cries. He hoists his funky pink trunks patterned with tropical flora over his untanned ass so quickly he gives himself a wedgie. But the damage is already done. The bachelorettes can be heard laughing as far away as Dallas.

Jonah is wearing a stylish blue and green buoyancy vest, which means his ribs are hard to tickle, so TK gets his revenge by going for the armpits. Jonah shrieks and coils into Carlos for rescue, but of course the papas are on each other’s side, and Jonah finds his neck going all scrunchy when Carlos tickles him behind the ears.

If Jonah can’t beat them, he’ll join them.

He sticks his pointer finger straight into Carlos’ belly button, which is a fun trick TK taught him for making Papa Carlos lose it.

“Mijoooo-aaaaagh!” Carlos' voice bounces off the sanded concrete poolside, and now everyone within twenty feet is staring at the hunky screaming guy.

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Chapter one of more than just an ordinary pain is live on ao3! Here’s a bit from chapter two coming 🔜

“That’s right, baby,” TK says. “Me and Auntie Marj and Uncle Paul came to the Bat Bridge waaay back when we first moved to Austin.”

“How long ago?” Jonah mumbles. “Before I was your baby?”

“Yep. Before you were born. Even before me and Papa were together.”

“Wow.” A beat. “Before Unc Paul was bald?”

TK snorts. “No. Not that long ago.”

“Tell me about it,” Jonah says in his sleepy little voice.

“Well,” TK says, leaning into Carlos’s side. Carlos curls his arm around TK’s shoulders and pulls him a bit closer. “When I first moved to Austin I was very sad.”

“Why?”

He takes a moment to think about it. It’s been so long since he thought about his time before Austin, about the pain and heartbreak. About how he didn’t think he’d ever move on from it.

“I felt really lonely,” he finally says. “I had my heart hurt pretty badly. And I didn’t think it would get better. I didn’t know I was gonna find my people here.”

Jonah rubs his cheek across the soft t-shirt fabric covering TK’s chest.

“But then you found Papa.”

“Yeah.” TK smiles. “I did.”

“And Auntie Marj n’ Unc Paul.”

“That’s right, baby. They helped me feel better.”

Carlos squeezes TK’s arm. A quiet reassurance.

“Daddy helped himself feel better too,” he says.

“Daddy’s really brave,” Jonah sighs.

“The bravest,” Carlos agrees, brushing a kiss to TK’s cheek.