Wayne was staying with a friend who, unfortunately, couldn't house anyone else, so Eddie would have to continue to stay with Steve while they waited for their new place to be ready. Neither one of them was complaining about it. Wayne decided to prepare Steve for living with Eddie.
"You should know that once he's all healed up, he's probably going to go back to sleepwalking. He does some pretty weird shit when he sleep walks," Wayne said.
"Like what?" Steve asked.
"Oh, you'll find out, son," Wayne replied with a smirk.
"Wait, does this have anything to do with the fact that at the trailer, his lock for his bedroom was on the outside of his door?" Steve asked.
"You'll find out," Wayne smirked and left. "Remember, never wake a sleep walker."
"Okay, that wasn't cryptic at all," Steve said and brought it up with Eddie.
"Oh, yeah, I have no idea what that's about. He's always said he doesn't tell me because he doesn't want to embarrass me," Eddie said, narrowing his eyes. "It makes me wonder if he's fucking with me. I don't think I sleep walk at all."
Shortly after he healed up enough, Steve quickly found out that Eddie did, in fact, sleep walk. Steve had gotten up in the middle of the night to get himself a drink of water when he found Eddie standing behind the kitchen island. He wasn't wearing a shirt, and Steve hoped he wasn't completely naked.
"Just shopping," Eddie said in a thick country accent, his eyes closed.
"Shopping?" Steve couldn't help but ask.
"Baby got bit," Eddie said.
"The baby got bit?" Steve asked, smiling.
"By bat," Eddie said.
"Whose baby?" He asked.
"Our Dusty," Eddie said. "Need meds."
"Well, you don't have to worry about that. I found the ointment and put it on the baby. He's sleeping peacefully. If you go to bed now, I'll show you the cutest little hat Grandpa Wayne bought for Dusty," Steve said, struggling not to laugh.
"Mkay," Eddie said.
He moved out from behind the island and started moving out of the kitchen. Yeah, Eddie was stark naked. Steve tried not to look at his ass as he walked behind him to follow him up the stairs, picking Eddie's discarded clothes as he did so. He followed him into his mother's bedroom and watched as Eddie slipped on one of his mother's flowery nightgowns that she never wore and then fell face forward onto his parents' bed. Steve grinned. He could undress him, put his clothes back on him, and bring him back to his room, or he could leave him there. Steve decided to leave him.
"Quick question," Steve said when he called Wayne.
"He slept walked?" Wayne chortled.
"Yeah, why the hell didn't you warn me that he would do it completely naked?" Steve asked.
"Shit, he usually wears his boxers," Wayne said.
"I guess he did that special just for me," Steve said sarcastically.
"Guess so," he cackled.
"You're a menace," Steve said.
"You know, one time I caught him halfway through the park trying to lure a feral raccoon so he could breastfeed the damn thing. Luckily, I caught him before he could get rabies. I put a lock on the door after that, one of those where you leave the key in the lock," Wayne said.
"Last night, he was shopping for medicine because our baby Dusty got bit by a bat," Steve said.
"Boy must be baby crazy. Well, I figure he's your problem now, son," Wayne said.
"Thanks," Steve replied.
Eddie stumbled in, still wearing his mother's dress.
"What the fuck happened last night?" Eddie asked.
"You slept walked," Steve replied.
"I did not! You take that back!" Eddie shrieked.
"You did. You went shopping in my kitchen completely naked and then put on my mother's dress," Steve said.
"Yeah, right," Eddie scoffed.
"Well, what do you think happened? Do you think that tiny elves kidnapped you, brought you to my mother's room, undressed you, and put my mother's dress on you?"
". . .yes."
Steve groaned and slapped his hand to his face.
"Good luck, you're going to need it," Wayne laughed before hanging up the phone.
Eddie started twirling and squatting right in front of him.
"Ooh, I like the way it swooshes around my legs. I wonder if they have this in black," Eddie said and leaned all the way over to look under the dress, his hair falling forward.
"What the fuck are you doing?" Steve asked.
"Trying to see if I can suck my own dick," Eddie said.
Steve looked at him in disbelief. It was hard to believe that he was going to spend the rest of his life with this guy. He was going to be a part of his life whether Eddie wanted him romantically or platonically. It was going to happen.
Part Two
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December Prompt 5: drink
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this one comes with a soundtrack
Dec 5, 2015
It’s Saturday night and they’re in a hole-in-the-wall in Tennessee. There’s live music and a lot of friendly drunks. Annabeth is one of them.
The semester will end in a week and they’re in the wrong timezone. He blames Frank, who was always too quick to volunteer them in service to the gods. As far as Percy is concerned, next time someone steals a mythical harp and hides it in Nashville they’ll need to call someone else.
Here they are though, despite logic and his best intentions to finish his last year of school on the straight and narrow. The harp has been returned; they’re in a honky-tonk hole-in-the-wall in Tennessee surrounded by too much leather and tassels, sharing a booth with some drunk twenty-somethings, they’ve lost track of Frank, and the shaggy looking guy on the microphone sounds like Chris Stapleton.
The impromptu trip down south had initially soured his mood, but somewhere between the pancakes they ate for breakfast today, the shrine-ish record shop, and his tangy drink, he had started to enjoy himself.
Percy shares that out loud and Annabeth misses it. He repeats himself and she leans closer because she still can’t hear him.
“What?” Her hand drops to his upper thigh to steady herself when he pulls her to him.
“Dance with me.” His fingers rub into the skin of her arm before dropping to her elbow to pull her to her feet.
“Is that alcohol?” She reaches for his drink, like she’s decided to see for herself.
Annabeth’s shirt is blousy and embroidered and her jeans are tight and his eyes have hardly left her all night. His hands even less so. Add in the cowgirl boots she’d acquired (borrowed– stolen??) at some point this afternoon, it was a look that was definitely getting filed into his favorite fantasies folder.
“No.” He holds the drink out of her tipsy, grabby reach. “Just dance with me. Come on.”
He guides her from behind, hands on her hips as they navigate into the stomping, swinging mix of groups and pairs and solo dancers. She lays her hands over his and there’s an interchange, she’s turning to face him, she’s tugging him to an open spot on the dance floor, he’s falling into the circle of her arms, face in her neck, damps curls and lemon and sweat, his hands overlap low on her back. He lets her easy rhythm guide them in a simple two-step, side to side. She cups the back of his neck and the way she’s looking up at him is almost definitely not fit for public.
Or maybe it is and it’s all in his head (his other head) because the guy on the mic is singing about someone helping him “trim this tree” and he can’t be the only person hearing an innuendo in there.
Annabeth’s face is flushed and her smile is pure joy. “You’re dancing with me.”
Hardly. But he gives a nonchalant shrug and says, “When in Tennessee.”
It’s hard to think about his footwork when he wants her this much.
“Yeah?” She steps back from him, she’s left enough room for Jesus and a disciple between them, their hands are their only physical points of connection. “Got any moves, cowboy?”
It’s probably the alcohol in his system, but he'll tell anyone who asks that the hip-thrusting, finger-gun-pointing move he busts out was just to hear her laugh.
She shrieks. “Percy– oh my gods.” She two-steps back into his personal space, closing the distance between them to nothing as she laughs.
He makes a noise that's both pain and relief at the sudden contact. His hands grab her hips on instinct, thinking about other kinds of contact and rubbing and rhythm.
She turns her back to him and he has no choice but to hold her by her waist and hope she won’t give him that hard of a time.
She doesn’t verbally tease him. She does reach back for his head and kiss him, sweet at first, before parting her lips, catching his bottom lip between hers, he groans when she sucks it, then bites, her tongue–
“Merry Christmas from Nashville!” Someone knocks into his side. It's a lady from the bar’s staff, she’s bobbing and two-stepping to the twangy melody, she’s also holding a cowboy hat out to him. They’re passing them out like party favors.
He’s a little bewildered but he takes it, squishing it onto his head until it feels a little less than absolutely ridiculous. The one she gives Annabeth is pink with fur trim. Before Annabeth dons her own accessory, she twists to kiss him, chastely this time, murmuring, “Definitely your look.”
She settles back against his front, resuming the casual side to side sway they had started with. He can tell she’s distracted though.
He lowers his mouth to her ear. “What are you looking for?”
“Frank.”
He laughs. “You ready to go?”
“I think both of us are.”
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Steve is the first thing Eddie sees when he wakes up in the hospital. Eddie is high on pain medication, and Steve is giving him his soulful puppy dog eyes. Eddie bursts into tears.
"Why the fuck are you so cute?" Eddie asked. "Put those eyes away or get the fuck out!"
"Uh. . ." Steve said and slipped on a pair of sunglasses. "Is that better?"
"No! Wait! Bring them back!" Eddie said and took off the sunglasses before slipping them on his own face.
Eddie smiled and cupped Steve’s face.
"I want to take you out," Eddie said fondly. "But not like kill you, I mean like a date."
"Thanks for clarifying," Steve chuckled.
"I'm slow, I like explanations," Eddie said. "But that does not make me stupid!"
"You are far from stupid," Steve said softly and kissed his forehead. "And when you're sober, we'll talk about that date. I'm sure you'll freak out once you remember what you said."
Some time later. . .
"Oh my god!"
Eddie sat up and groaned when he did. He looked over to find Steve sitting beside his bed.
"You ready to talk about that date. . .big boy?" Steve smirked.
"Yeah," Eddie said, narrowing his eyes. "I've changed my mind. I am definitely going to kill you."
Steve laughed, slipping his glasses back on his face.
"It's a shame, sometimes I like to put out on the first date," Steve said.
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Alphabet asks: E, F and Y
E - Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom? If so, what?
i mean, I think my various dumb comics are hilarious but. i'm not sure that counts:
lan zhan and jiang cheng 4ever
hua cheng tormented by xie lian's relationship with his foam roller
whipstitch BEAR ATTACK!! (in which i was the art + @lemeute the brains)
i feel like i have to have written some crack/have at least made myself laugh with my fics but scrolling thru my ao3......there is not. much
oh i guess i wrote some juniors crack which sort of turned into crack taken seriously but i'm counting it bc it opens with this:
“I’m going to say it,” Zizhen says abruptly.
“Please don’t,” Jingyi says, voicing Sizhui’s own unuttered thoughts.
“Why did no one tell us the Yiling Patriarch was so — so handsome?” Zizhen demands.
F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?
Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Both answered here!
fandom ABCs
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