Serirei Week !!
Day 3: firsts/love languages
Reigen finds himself speechless (rare occasion)
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Serizawa gave him a slight nod, his face unreadable but tense. He gently directed Reigen towards the couches and sat him down. Wordlessly sitting beside him, he opened the first aid kit and rummaged through it.
Reigen watches in cautious silence, eyeing his coworker's rigid movements. The cloth he used to temporarily cover the large scratch left by the spirit was starting to itch. He slowly untied the knot with his uninjured hand and peeled off the blood-soaked makeshift bandage. It was drying off, but it still looked terrible. Four large gashes across his forearm, it almost looks like a scratch from a big cat.
Serizawa shifting closer brought Reigen's attention back to him. Their eyes met for a second before Serizawa looked down at his arm with a wince. Guilt evident on his face as he wet a towel with water and started to wipe off the blood with the lightest touch he could manage. Reigen swallowed the lump in his throat, the tense silence was getting to him so he spoke up.
"This could be part of your training, you know." He lightly joked, shrugging with his unoccupied shoulder. "It's important to know first aid, especially in our line of work." Serizawa's eyebrows furrowed as a frown formed on his face, but didn't take his eyes off his work, nor did he say anything back. As soon as the blood that smeared was gone, he grabbed the disinfectant and a cotton ball.
It was gonna sting, Reigen already knew that, but he still felt his heart flutter when Serizawa glanced up at him with a sorry look and muttered, "This might sting..."
Reigen didn't miss the way Serizawa was holding his hand with his free hand. He didn't miss the way his thumb was soothing the back of his palm with light strokes. He didn't miss the way he could feel the warmth radiating off of Serizawa's body just from how close they were sitting. Reigen felt himself gulp, not sure if it was in preparation for the pain, or to force himself back to retain his composure.
He let out a small hiss and a wince, before letting it dissipate quickly upon seeing Serizawa's face look more like a kicked puppy. He knows the man felt guilty for not arriving quick enough to prevent the spirit from hurting Reigen further. It wasn't his fault though. He can't blame Serizawa, not when he looked this sorry.
Gentle, flitting hands finally wrapped the wound in a bandage and secured it carefully. When it was done, Serizawa didn't move away, but instead let his hand rest on the wrapped arm, slowly rubbing his thumb against it like it would help heal the wound faster. It might, Reigen could hope. He could hope that this moment lasts. He looked up at Serizawa with a soft look, hoping that his message came across. Please.
Serizawa looked up at Reigen's eyes with the same level of fondness. Despite what he feels, it still scares Reigen, to see someone look at him like that. He's scared of seeing it often that he'll get attached to it, attached to the fondness, attached to feeling loved.
He almost felt himself jump when Serizawa gently held his hand up and pressed Reigen's palm against his lips with closed eyes. It's like his heart stopped, his breath hitching as he inhaled sharply.
This seemed to wake Serizawa from whatever trance he was in and pulled away, his face flushed red. His gaze landed everywhere except Reigen's as he cleared his throat and gathered up the used cotton balls and the bloodied washcloth. "I'll, uhm, throw these away. I'll grab some ice for your neck.. and make you some green tea in a bit..." He paused, sparing Reigen a glance and assessing his state.
"I'm glad you're okay, Reigen.." Serizawa spoke again, then escaped to the restroom to clean his hands off. Reigen sat there staring at his palm, dumbfounded and speechless.
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Timetravel Hallmark-themed AU 🎄 Threadfic - Part II
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Pairing: Billy Butcher/Homelander
Context Summary: Want to read a “short” Butchlander threadfic being written live for the holidays—rife with (almost) every Christmas Hallmark movie clichés?
(You can read it being written live here on Twitter!)
If you’re unfamiliar with the Hallmark movie genre, here’s a quick rundown of Every Hallmark Christmas Movie Ever and gist of the cheesy tropes this threadfic will be loosely adapting.
For those without a Twitter account and therefore have a hard time accessing the threadfic, screenshots of the second part are provided here below the line break!
✨ Happy reading, dear readers! See you in Part III! ✨
Bonus A/N: They’re bonding~! In every Hallmark movie, the leads practically fall in love in one month. For this threadfic, I'm giving them at least a year and more (it's a whirlwind romance on Billy's side, whereas it's been more than ten years on Homelander's side).
So about the emotional knives in this update! 🔪 🔪There's always going to be a butterfly effect when it comes to time traveling so :) it's only fair to show HL a direct consequence of meddling with time.
Like I said on Twitter, this threadfic has two hurt/comfort scenes because with crisis, comes love 💗 ; this is their first hurdle (it’s the tamest one of the two; the second one hits harder but it is practically in every Hallmark Movie ever 🙄😂 so I’m obligated to write it). This part of the threadfic that I was able to squeeze into tumblr's 10 screenshots max/post mostly revolves around the "hurt" part of the hurt/comfort trope. If you were following this threadfic on Twitter, you already know what’d happened for the “comfort” part, shhh. I was just unable to squeeze it into these 10 screenshots for my tumblr readers…. But, as a lil preview of what’s upcoming, you can expect the "I didn't know where else to go" trope and HL's "oh" moment in Part III!
Threadfic Update Schedule: new content will be added to the Twitter threadfic every couple of hours and/or weekly until we reach a satisfactory-enough conclusion. Once I have enough new content to screenshot 10x, I’ll post a new part here on tumblr.
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