Wild Heart

 The moment they got back to camp from the trial, Grey had whisked them away on an impromptu honeymoon. Somehow even in this timeline his husband knew exactly what he needed...to the point he surprised him with his brothers. Both of them. Seeing Leo in human form brought tears to his eyes but it was seeing his youngest brother alive that pushed him over the edge. Tears running down his cheeks he hugged the youngest Malikov much to Q's confusion before the fight between the twins broke out. One that was dramatic that only a pair of Dionysus twins could put on.

Eventually they simmered down and Ender stole Greyson away to the beach needing just some much needed time with him. Lying on top of a blanket on the sand, Ender held his head in the the son of Artemis' lap as he stared up at the night sky the stars shining bit brighter that night it felt like. "I fell in love with you the first time you played the guitar for me," his baritone voice was just a whisper over the waves but still loud enough he knew his wildling could hear it. "We were in Central Park, probably at what I would consider our first real date. I brought some take out from a place down the block from the zoo you worked at as a picnic of sorts and you had brought your guitar. I had no idea that you knew how to play until that moment but once you did...well I was a fool for waiting over two years to tell you that I was madly in love with you."

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He was glad the meeting had gone well for the most part - bickering from the twins aside, the son of Artemis hoping that as the time went on over their stay that Ender would have more time to enjoy with his family. But he was still glad for the stolen moments alone.

The beach was calming, just the sound of the ocean, his fingers carding through Ender's hair where his head was resting on Grey's lap as his eyes looked out over the ocean, perfectly accustomed to the darkness, shining with the same feline glimmer of a predator. He looked down when Ender spoke, listening to the words as he shared a little of his previous life.

"I can strum a few chords but not really play, but piano is a different story." Grey replied offering a soft smile. "You used to like it when I played." He said before beginning to hum what he always played.

"i dunno! maybe i'm a little envious." a cool chuckle leaves his lips, glancing over with a soft hum. "what do ya think? have i been measurin' up to your expectations?"

"I could always be persuaded to give up my trade secrets." The son of Artemis teased playfully. "Exceeding expectations, I love hanging out and exploring the lake together, no one else who I could do it with as well, but I wouldn't be adverse to doing other things too."

When happily sat on Ender's lap with arms wrapped around him - his favourite place to be - he listened as Ender spoke, revealing a little of the similarities between their two lives. So he'd still been with Adam at the time, Ender stealing his heart in both timelines. "So the other me was a slut?" He joked with a chuckle. "Well we didn't hook up the first time we met, you were a gentleman, but we spent the night flirting rather heavily and you basically fucked me with your words so does that count?" He smirked.

When asked about Adam, Grey paused, head tilted to one side in thought at how to answer it. "He was...intense. The first person I loved or thought I loved, it was a complicated relationship from the beginning. He was charming, so very charming and very good with what to say to make me stay, even after he started getting possessive to the point of violence. He tried to keep me like a caged animal, like I was some pretty rare prize just for him but I was always more wild than he expected, never really tameable." Grey explained, eyes glazing over as he thought back to that time in his life.

"I saw the darker side of London's criminal life at his side, but he spoiled me. I think he really loved me in his own way...but I never regret the choice I made to leave with you. If he'd known what I was, what I can do, I've no doubt he'd want to use that to further his own gains."

soft & simple quotes for all your shippy needs! a lot of these can work as platonic prompts if that’s preferred. feel free to change pronouns, descriptors, and context when needed. combine prompts too if desired ♡

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❝ you’re so cute when you blush. ❞ ❝ your hair is so soft … ❞ ❝ you smell really good … ❞ ❝ how is your skin so soft? ❞ ❝ your laugh makes me melt.  it’s super cute. ❞ ❝ god, you are so CUTE, it’s not fair!!! ❞ ❝ i bet you’d look really cute/pretty/handsome in a dress/gown/suit and tie/tuxedo/(article of clothing). ❞ ❝ you’re all i’ll ever need. ❞ ❝ you have such pretty eyes. ❞ ❝ you always know exactly how to make me laugh … ❞ ❝ your dimples are absolutely adorable. ❞ ❝ are those freckles on your cheeks that i see? ❞ ❝ i guess all the love songs i’ve ever sang were about you. ❞ ❝ is it weird that i’ve daydreamed about our wedding? ❞ ❝ the word ‘love’ can’t even scratch the surface of what i feel for you. ❞ ❝ you’re my person.  you’re beyond special to me. ❞ ❝ there are seven billion people on this planet, yet you’re the only one for me. ❞ ❝ there’s no touch that feels like yours. ❞ ❝ every morning i want to wake up hearing your voice, seeing your smile. ❞ ❝ you taught me what love is … and what it means. ❞ ❝ being wrapped in your arms is a truly special feeling. ❞ ❝ the sound of your voice is like heaven to me. ❞ ❝ i truly can’t control my heart when i’m around you. ❞ ❝ just stay here with me … by my side. ❞ ❝ promise you’ll always be here for me … ? ❞ ❝ i love you.  more than anything. ❞

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"Well I can certainly answer those questions for you." Grey smiled. He was happy to share their history, if it brought them closer together, kept that spark between them he'd tell every little detail. "We met in London, I'd just moved back after travelling. I was with my previous partner at the time and we happened to attend the same party. Adam and I were sort of fighting and I was deliberately avoiding him to piss him off, we got talking in one of the empty rooms and I'll admit I was instantly smitten, you were just so charming." Grey recounted the events, still able to picture that night with perfect clarity - the way he'd been angry at his fight with Adam, the way he'd been instantly curious when he'd seen Ender for the first time across the room of people, when they had been alone in the quiet, empty room talking about anything and everything, how he'd hoped to see the other again even when he went home with Adam at the end of the night.

the shore comes into view, and a devious smirk begins to tug at the corners of his lips, an idea forming into his head. "last one there has to buy dinner!" he exclaims, making a run for it, stripping out of his shirt as he does.

At the challenge, Grey didn't hesitate to take off running himself, strides confident across any unruly terrain. Even with the wide grin on his face, there was a glint in the godling of the hunt's eyes, wild and untameable like the nature he commanded. "You're on."

" It's not really that bad...we don't do anything too extreme and we always back off if the pledge needs it. During my own hazing I had to streak around the frat house...or if I didn't do that, I would have had to clean the kitchen for a week, we always gave them cop outs." Evan for sure didn't force anyone to do anything or to do anything too awful, he was Vice President during his Junior Year, his last year, and was very much on his way to being President, if all of this didn't happen. Still, he could only imagine how it differed in group homes, and he hoped they didn't do anything too awful to Greyson. Hearing that Greyson had a plethora of animals in home and plethora and a half of people in Ender's, the certainly had a more packed full life. "Two leopards, a tiger, a hare and a dire wolf, a lot to take care of," But certainly easily for someone who's parent was involved with animals, " Maybe Taraji, Maisha or Kali would like to play with Melody," given they are all big cats. " How are you doing by the way...with all of this." He did start to realize that Greyson, both Greyson's, had it the worst out of all of them. They lost only one Godling, having to adapt to the new powers and skills, but Greyson lost everyone, having to reconnect with many people, while Evan just had to reconnect with Greyson...and the other campers than weren't Godlings.

"Hopefully my little family will continue to grow - I've already got plans for an owlbear so long as I can find one, and I don't rightly care what En has to say about it." He laughed. "Of course, Melody's more than welcome to join them for playdates." Grey smiled. He was always so proud of his cubs and how they were growing bigger each day.

When asked how he was doing, Grey shrugged one shoulder as he sipped his wine, considering his answer for a moment. "Fine I guess. I mean, nothing's easy - all the relationships I had are gone, the people I knew along with them...but I guess that means I get the chance to forge new ones right? I just hope you're all cool with me and not just wishing some time wormhole would suddenly swallow me up and spit out that other Greyson." Grey admitted, rubbing the back of his neck.

"I took to long to tell you how I felt about you and I want to make sure that never happens again. I promise to be open with you about my feelings and my past and anything else that you may need from me. Whatever is mine is yours." When Greyson moved to press the soft kiss to his palm, Ender slowly brings his free hand down to rest over the boy's chest right where his heart was kept. "You do not have to make the same promises, I understand if you do not, but I am making these to you so I can be a better person. A better husband."

"I want to make the same promise, this is a marriage and I'll give as good as I get - always have." He replied, placing his free hand over Ender's on his heart. "You can ask me anything about your life here and I'll answer as much as I'm able - Anders wasn't always so forthcoming with everything going on in his working life, but I knew more than most."

" I was and it was very American college movie," Evan admitted, honestly he missed his frat brothers and the frat house, even if it was a mess half the time, " Parties, drinking, hazing, the whole thing, but it was honestly like the camp here...more straight, but we all became a family in the three years I was there." He dropped out to come here, not wanting to pass on his heartsong, wanting a change in his life after Corey left Colorado, he was glad he made that choice in the end. " Like animals...though doesn't Ender have a bigger following now?" He had met only a handful of Ender's last cult, not that there was many to meet, " I just got my first companion, she's asleep out in the garden right now," He looked over to the open archways that went out into the garden, near the back of the cabin was a little alcove that Evan turned into a lion's den. " Her name is Melody." His mother's name, and certainly something a young Evan would probably tell Greyson in foster care.

"Oh right, yeah I have my animals. I've got my leopard cubs, Taraji and Maisha, my tiger cub Kali, Fop the hare I rescued recently after a ghoul ate his family and the newest addition my dire wolf pup Akela that was a gift from my mother." Grey explained his little menagerie of creatures. "Bigger following? Yeah I think he mentioned it was just Todd in your timeline - here he's always had lots of people wrapped around his finger, as is his way." He said, thinking of the followers. When Evan mentioned his own companion Grey offered a smile, especially at the name. "A very pretty name." He said warmly.

He followed along easily enough as Hunter led the way, listening with interest as he spoke more about the other Greyson. "Interesting, I wonder what he'd gone through to make him like that." Grey mused thoughtfully. His own life certainly hadn't been easy, filled with tragedy at many turns, but he'd always tried to keep somewhat of a positive outlook on things, and since discovering his divine heritage, he'd tried to use his abilities and the gifts of his mother to protect those he cared about most. The pack survived while the lone wolf starved. It was a saying Grey lived by. "I wonder if our abilities were similar."

"but either way, i'm guessin' you're super cool in any timeline." as they grow closer to hunter's cabin, he motions toward it. "ya need a pair or trunks? dunno if any of mine'll fit right but i'll try n' find something."

"Oh I don't know about that - there's probably a timeline out there where I'm some kind of evil villain." He joked with a laugh before shaking his head at the offer of some trunks for swimming in. "Nah, all good. I got my own, or I can always swim in one of my wildshapes, unless you're scared to swim around with a crocodile?" Grey teased.

He'd known it was coming. There was only so many time he could slip away from a conversation to avoid it. That one thought that had engraved itself in the back of his head once the high of victory and worth had fallen off.

"It's my fault. All of this. The people you know not being here, the Greyson I know being there. It's on me. I made the decision to change the past knowing that all of this was a possibility. Not this exact scenario but..."

He couldn't look at the other as he spoke, instead turning his attention back to the training dummy.

"I'm still mostly just trying to figure out the guilt. I'm not holding it against you, I swear, just... Brains doing the 'twenty thousand different possibilities' thing."

Of course he didn't want people to be upset that they were stuck with him and not the other Greyson, but their feelings were valid - after all, he was still trying to navigate his own hurt at losing those he'd cared about, the connections he'd treasured.

"I wish I could say something that would help, but I'm not really all that sage, and whatever I might have to say probably wouldn't change how you feel anyway - but if it's any consolation, we were friends. I don't know how any of this time stuff works, but I'd like to be friends again. But I get if you need time or if it won't happen, I'll keep my memories of my Calvin." Grey said with a little smile, the edges almost sad as he touched his fingers to his temple. If all he had was memories of the others, he'd keep them, and fight as hard as he always had alongside these new godlings.

" I do love a ranch dressing pizza," He admitted, " Something about it just... it's gross, but I love it," Evan chuckled, moving to grab his glass again and take his first sip, " This is really great Grey," He chimed, trying to perk up and not let the awkwardness of the beginning of all this fester. He honestly kinda want that normal for Greyson for him so he didn't have to say goodbye to his timeline's Greyson, another person to say goodbye to. Another sip, " That really sounds dope, There was a guy I lived with in the frat house...Oh, I went to college, joined a frat, all that...but he loved camping and had his cabin out there that all the guys went to in the summers, it was a wild time, but it was really nice, when everyone was hungover and I was the first up, to sit outside on the swing and look out into the woods...to be surrounded by that all the time, sounds amazing." The oven dinged, Evan moved to grab a mitten, opening up the oven and pulling out the pizza, it was a thinner crust, big pepperonis, lots of cheese and a tomato sauce. Grabbing the rotary cutter, he did quick work to split it evenly, taking a small portion. Evan was a growing guy, he had certainly put on a bit of muscle and even height since getting here, and Evan was eating a lot more too, but he didn't want to chow down in front of Greyson, " Any companions staying with you?"

"You were in a frat? Like those things in all the American college movies?" Grey asked curiously. He'd never gone to university himself, despite wanting to. Oxford or Cambridge had been a dream at one point, but he'd never had the grades or the money and truth be told, the wild had called more than books. At the question about companions, Grey tilted his head to one side questioningly. "What do you mean? Like other godlings or?" He asked, not sure what Evan meant.

" Well, this isn't a New York slice, those are super large and really thin." Evan leaned back against the stone countertop, his pale hands planted into edges of the limestone, listening to Greyson explain his thoughts on this converging of timelines. Evan didn't necessarily follow the same beliefs on this, he wanted to know everything about his Evan, to compare and constant, to see just how he got to a place he never thought he would go. " I do want to get to know you Greyson, always did", if anything, he liked that he got to get to know Greyson all over again. He wanted to ask about Evan, about their relationship, but maybe, for now, not talking about all that is good, " What is your cabin like? I never been to Artemis' cabin before."

He shook off the sudden clouded thoughts, reminding himself that whatever people might feel, he was here and they all had to deal with that. "I hope so, and like I said you can ask stuff - I'm happy to answer what I can." He said before thinking to his cabin. "It's towards the edge of camp, practically in the woods. Feels pretty much like natures took it over, almost hard to see where the forest ends and the cabin begins. A huge tree basically grows through the middle of it."

Robbie nods his head and chuckles as he hears the other man's words. "Can imagine that must be one hell of a trip to go through. Seeing people in relationships that are likely vastly different than ours." Robbie said with a hum and a small smile. "Was this version of myself as much of a handsome devil as I am?" Robbie asked with a cheeky grin as he looked at the other boy.

The son of Tyche nods his head. "Well..." He began, his voice taking on a rare serious note. "Just let me know if you need anything, alright? May be a bit of an asshole, but I don't want anyone here feeling out of place." Robbie said with a shrug of his shoulders and running a hand through his hair.

"A bit of an asshole?" The son of Artemis chuckled with a raised brow. "You're not doing a very good job at upselling yourself with talk like that." He joked playfully. "But thanks, I appreciate it. I do certainly feel out of place in my own camp, but hopefully that will fade."

" I'm slowly getting things together, been sitting on some gold while my new powers settle in, so about to go do some shopping here soon." He was still a bit nervous to go out and shop, given all that The Son of Tyr has done. Taking his own glass and taking it up to his lips, he stopped when he heard Greyson. " Oh," He put down his glass, " Shit, I'm sorry...I didn't mean to, I just," He had just figured that they would like the same thing, but it was true that this Greyson was, in some ways, vastly different that the old Greyson. " I should have asked, this is all just...What do you like? I don't have much around, but I can make some adjustments." Evan felt like an asshole now.

"Don't stress over it - I'm just saying, for future reference, you can always just ask me about me. I don't really want to just be compared to the other Greyson all the time, you know?" He tried to explain, rubbing the back of his neck with one hand, trying to form the right words. "Like it wouldn't surprise me if we liked a lot of the same stuff, acted the same way, felt the same way about the same things - I just don't want to be compared to him all the time or to have my own sense of identity just wrapped up in what you might know about him. Get to know me." He smiled. "I won't be comparing you to the Evan I knew, to me - you're a different person and he's well...gone into the fabric of time or whatever as far as well all know so, no point dwelling on him."