#Luke and Reggie initiate willie into the

[1mnobodywhoareyou]

I have such soft hair and nobody is playing with it!

Moar from an old @innytoes prompt list (I don't know what's happening but my brain just keeps making things)

The friends have filled up the Molina’s living room: Willie has their head in Alex’s lap and their legs propped up on Luke’s. Reggie is half sitting on them and half sitting behind them, his butt wedged between Willie and the back of the couch. Julie is at Luke’s feet, her own legs intertwined with Flynn’s who is wrapped up on the loveseat with Carrie. 

They’re all talking animatedly, hands filled with pizza flying through the air. It’s honestly a wonder that nobody’s gotten sauce or cheese to the face.

Willie sighs loudly but nobody seems to notice, each wrapped up in their respective conversations.

They try again.

This time Alex stills, initiating a domino effect and after a moment the entire room stops.

“What’s wrong?” he asks.

Willie sighs again, softer this time and much less exaggerated, “I have SUCH soft hair and nobody is playing with it!”

Alex rolls his eyes and the others laugh. “Do you want pizza in your hair? Because that’s how you get pizza in your hair.”

Another sigh. “I guess I can wait. If I have to.”

“Dramatic today, are we?”

“Today?” Carrie raises an eyebrow with a teasing smile.

Willie grins, “it’s just SO soft. Begging to be played with. Really.” They look up at Alex, giving him their absolute best puppy dog eyes (he’s been practicing. Luke and Reggie have been phenomenal teachers, not that they needed much help).

Alex rolls his eyes again, wiping his fingers off now that he’s finished his pizza. “You are an absolute delight,” he says, voice dripping with sarcasm, before leaning down to kiss his boyfriend. When he sits back up, his hands automatically make their way to Willie’s hair and they beam up at him.

“I am, thanks for noticing!”

“Happy?”

Willie lets their eyes close, the feeling of Alex’s fingers carding through their hair serving the intended purpose. “Mmmm… always.”

#jatp #julie and the phantoms #alex mercer #willie jatp #willie nolastname #willex #i should have saved this for wednesday but I have no chill #fanfic #nobodys fics #I was honestly hoping for hand to forehead level dramatics but this happened instead

[onlygenxhere]

At least your hair still looks good.

When Alex asked Willie to join him and the rest of the band on a weekend trip up to Fresno to for a two night gig he’d jumped at the chance to go. He’d thought traveling with the band sounded exciting and getting to watch his boyfriend kill it on the drums was always incredible.

He didn’t take into account that the band was still trying to make a name for themselves and didn’t have much money to spend on a hotel so they’d all be rooming together. Alex had confided in him through text that he’d told the other three he wouldn’t go unless they got separate rooms if Willie didn’t come too.

Julie, Luke and Reggie had very recently started dating each other and Alex refused to be the fourth wheel for the weekend. They had promised to be good but Alex knew better, hell Willie knew better and he wasn’t around them nearly as much as Alex was. Just the way they looked at each other could sometimes make you feel like you were intruding.

The second thing he kinda forgot about was the crappy van the band traveled in that barely fit the four of them.

He’d initially thought he and Alex could sit in the back together but Alex and his mile long legs, which Willie was usually a fan of, just wouldn’t fit without kneeing Luke in the back.

So Willie had spent the five hour drive crammed in the back with Reggie, who was a great guy don’t get him wrong, but he hadn’t particularly wanted to get that up close and personal with him.

The actual gigs were amazing.

They rocked both of their venues and got cards from multiple managers and record execs.

Willie was so proud and excited for them all.

They were all still ridding on the performance high Saturday night after the show so they decided to go ahead and drive home rather than pay for a second night in a too small hotel room.

It had seemed like a good idea at the time until a deer ran out in front of them around three in the morning on a dark back country road and Luke skidded off the side into a ditch.

At least no one was hurt.

None of them were angry with Luke either. He’d done as well as he could in the situation. They were all much more tired than they were when they’d started out and the van seemed to actually be stuck.

Luke gunned the engine one more time and then sighed laying his head on the steering wheel.

“Guys, we’re going to have to get out and try and push her out.”

“Um, Luke,” Reggie croaked from the back. “It’s really dark out there.”

“I know babe but we don’t really have a choice and we’ll all be out there together.”

“We can’t all be out there,” Alex leaned over and frowned at Luke.” He nodded at Julie sitting between them. “Julie should stay in here and press the gas and steer the van up on the road.”

“I can push!” Julie huffed indignantly.

Willie bit back a snicker. Julie hated being coddled.

“Sweetheart,” Luke took her hand. “It’s not about being a girl. It’s about being the lightest.”

“Oh,” she bit her lip and nodded. “Sorry, that makes sense.”

“Ok,” Luke opened the door and slid out as Julie moved over into the driver’s seat. “Guys?” Luke looked at the rest of them.

Willie looked at Alex who just shook his head and rolled his eyes at him before opening the passenger side door and getting out. “Ugh! Luke it’s muddy!”  

“Sorry Lex!” Willie heard Luke call from the back of the van as he followed Reggie out the side door stepping down on the soft ground with a squelch.

Gross

Willie made his way around to the rear of the van finding the other three guys already getting into position to push. He squeezed in beside Alex just as Luke called out to Julie.

“Ok, Jules give it a little gas.”

They heard the engine rev and they all pushed getting the van to lurch forward slightly before falling back in the hole.

Julie kept pressing on the gas a little too hard digging the van deeper. Luke tried to call for her to stop from where he was with them but she couldn’t seem to hear him over the engine so he ran back around to the front to tell her before the situation got irreversible.

It was immediately dead quiet again.

“I hate to state the obvious,” Alex whispered, “but it’s really dark out here.”

Willie giggled and then had a thought.

He looked up and gasped.

“What?” Alex looked up and they both said, “Wow,” at the same time.

Willie had never seen so many stars being the city boy he was.

Reggie chuckled, “You should see the sky in Idaho.”

“I bet,” Willie said quietly glancing over at Reggie who was grinning up at the sky, apparently not worried about being out in the dark himself anymore.

“Ok, guys.” Luke said coming back to them. “Why are you all…” he looked up, “Ok that’s rad.”

They must have stood there staring up at the sky longer than he thought because the next thing he knew he was jumping out of his skin at Julie laying on the horn.

“Stargazing later, van unstuck now!” she called from the open driver’s side door.

“Sorry Julie!” they called in unison.

“We’re going to need to rock the van out of this hole,” Luke said getting back into position. “Jules is going to go a little more gently on the gas this time.”

He, Alex and Reg nodded and placed their hands back on the back of the van as Luke gave Julie the signal again and the van’s engine started to reve a little slower.

The guys found a rhythm that had the van nearly out of its hole after just three big pushes.

“One more!” Luke yelled as the van fell back in the ditch one last time and they all finally pushed it out of the hole. The van lurched away from them and up onto the road so quickly all four guys fell on the muddy ground.

“Fuck!” Alex gasped.

Willie had managed to catch himself on his hand and knees but the other three were flat on their stomachs.

“Oh my God,” Julie rushed over to them after stopping the van on the shoulder. “Are you all ok?”

“I think so Jules,” Luke said pulling his arms out of the mud with a pop.

“Yeah,” Reggie sighed as he stood up covered head to toe in mud. “Although I think we’re a little dirty.”

“A little!” Alex said hysterically and Willie rushed over to help him up.

They all knew Alex didn’t like being dirty and this was next level grime.

He could see Alex trying to maintain his cool and if he’d been wearing his hoodie he probably would have. He could have just taken that off and most likely been ok but he was in just a light t-shirt so he had mud on his bare skin up both arms, his neck and Willie could see where it’d even gotten up under his shirt some on his stomach.

“Guys,” Willie said taking Alex’s hands and using his own shirt to wipe them up as much as he could. “We need a hotel, now.”

“It’s only a couple more hours till home we can make it,” Luke said coming over and looking up at Alex who had closed his eyes and was taking slow, deep breaths.

Willie bit his lip and turned away from his boyfriend and shook his head at Luke. No, Alex needed a shower and clean clothes before the panic attack he was holding off by sheer force of will took over and they all knew it.  

Luke sighed and nodded. “I’m sorry, you’re right Willie.” He turned to Julie. “Can you find us the closest hotel we can afford beautiful?”

“Already on it,” she said heading back to the van.

“Come on Lex,” Reggie took Alex’s elbow and together they got him back to the van and in the front passenger seat.

No one even questioned him when he climbed into the middle of the front seat next to Alex taking Julie’s usual spot.

She got in the back with Reggie as Luke started the van up.

It was ten minutes to the hotel.

They rode in silence, other than the sound of Alex taking slow deep breaths in through his nose and out through his mouth.

Willie looked around at the rest of them once he felt he could take his eyes off his boyfriend.  

There was enough light for him to see that everyone, even Julie was covered in mud now.

Luke’s arms were just as covered as Alex’s if not more so. Reggie had it in his hair in addition to his arms and neck. Julie had mud on her arm just from having to sit so close to Reggie. They all looked like they’d gone mud wrestling and lost.

A giggle started to bubble up his throat as the situation started to feel more and more ridiculous.

It wasn’t long before the rest of them started to laugh too. Willie turned back to Alex and noticed a slight grin turning up the corner of his lips.

He bumped Alex’s shoulder. “You ok hotdog?”

“I will be,” he nodded keeping his eyes closed, “Just trying not to think about it.”

“At least your hair still looks good.” Willie snickered reaching up and moving a clean dry strand off of his face.

Alex opened one eye and looked at him with such affection it made Willie’s heart soar.

“We’re getting two rooms.” Alex stated as he closed his eyes again.

No one argued.

Once he and Alex were clean, dry and snuggled up in the hotel bed, in a room all to themselves. Alex leaned over and gave him a soft kiss.

“What was that for?” Willie grinned at him. “Not that I’m complaining.”

“For taking care of me,” he kissed him again. “For not letting Luke drive us for two more hours covered in mud to save a few bucks.” Alex leaned his forehead against his and sighed before continuing, “For accepting my crazy and not making a big deal out of it.”

“Alex…” Willie reached up and touched Alex’s face feeling him shudder under his fingertips. “There’s nothing crazy about not wanting to spend hours covered in mud. Luke’s the crazy one.”

“True.” Alex chuckled. “Still… thank you.”

“Anything for you hotdog,” Willie said giving Alex a soft kiss on the corner of his mouth before laying back against the pillows pulling Alex down to lay his head on his shoulder. “But right now I’m beat. You can thank me more in a couple hours.”

He felt Alex chuckle against his side. “Oh I will,” he said sliding his arm across Willie’s waist and snuggling in.

And a few hours later he did… he so did.

#jatp #julie and the phantoms #willex wednesday #happy willex wednesday #we get the whole band this time #willie pov #willie is the best boyfriend ever #from the chaotic prompt list

[invisibleraven]

"Text me when you get home safely." for the Greater Polyphantoms Polycule

Kayla really couldn’t believe her luck, getting to sit in on a real live Julie and the Phantoms band practice. Sure she and Julie had become friendly after Carrie got over herself and declared her cool again, but still! They were a real band with a real contract for a real label to make at least three albums once they graduated.

Plus Kayla was not so secretly a fan of them-their music was so her style, and Julie had even asked her if she wanted to choreograph something for a music video!

Also she might have the tiniest teensiest crush on Julie. And Julie’s bassist Reggie. And well, Carrie isn’t someone Kayla would kick out of bed. Regardless, she was never going to act on any of those feelings, since Julie was dating Luke and she knew Carrie and Reggie had gone on more than a few dates.

So Kayla was just going to bury her feelings, groove to some great bops, then go eat her feelings with a pint of Chunky Monkey.

Only when band practice was over, Julie invited her to stay for their homework session. And Kayla wasn’t about to turn down math help from Reggie or history help from Alex. She gave them help with Civics and Biology in return anyways.

“Shoot,” Luke said, glancing at his phone. “Mom says I gotta get home, horrid Aunt Bertha is coming over and she needs reinforcements.”

Kayla noted how everyone winced at the name and wondered if she would get some stories later about the infamous Bertha.

“Text me when you get home safely, okay?” Julie requested. “No wheelies on your bike this time.”

“Sure thing boss,” Luke said with a grin, ruffling the back of his hair making Kayla get a good view of a nasty gash on his arm, presumably from his last wheelie. He leaned in and gave Julie a sweet kiss goodbye, which didn’t make Kayla’s inside shrivel, not at all.

Only then Luke went over and planted a sloppy kiss to Reggie’s mouth as well. “Mario Kart later?”

“Carlos and I are gonna kick your butt!” Reggie replied, “Jules you in?”

Julie went over and snuggled into Reggie’s side, pressing a kiss to the hinge of his jaw. “As long as you don’t whine when I beat you.”

“Never,” Reggie replied, nuzzling their noses. Kayla’s eyes flew to Carrie, who was just shaking her head fondly. And Luke…

Luke was giving sweet kisses to Alex, then Willie. A kiss to the cheek for Flynn, who returned it and he pressed a kiss to Carrie’s forehead and she rolled her eyes at him and then pulled him in for a proper smooch.

He approached Kayla then, and froze. “I was just gonna go in for a kiss, sorry!”

“Wh-what is happening here?” Kayla demanded.

The group exchanged glances, and it was finally Julie who spoke up. “Oh, we’re kinda all together?”

“All of you?”

“Well Willie and I are only with the guys, obviously,” Alex replied.

“And the only guy I like romantically is Reggie,” Flynn added. “But Carrie, Julie, and I are all together.”

“How does that even work?” Kayla asked, more curious than judgemental.

That’s when Flynn pulled out her very nice looking relationship flow chart, explaining it. Also dragging Alex and Reggie for their initial awful attempts at making the chart.

“Wow,” Kayla said finally. “That sounds so complicated but cool.”

“And there’s always room for more,” Reggie said with an eyebrow waggle.

“Way to keep it classy Reginald,” Alex groaned with a face palm.

Julie shook her head fondly then faced Kayla. “What Reggie is trying to say is that he likes you as well. So do I. So if you’re okay with it…”

“So cool!” Kayla exclaimed.

“So can I kiss you before I go?” Luke asked.

“I don’t think you’re my type,” Kayla replied. “But why not try and see?”

Turns out that Luke was a pretty good kisser, and Kayla had to re-evaluate what her type was-and now she had a pile of partners to help her figure it out.

Pretty good end to band practice in her mind. And she couldn’t wait until the next one!

#filled prompts #ficlet #the greater polyphantoms polycule #julie and the phantoms

[jmrothwell]

Happy early birthday! How about bed sharing prompt #8 for willex?

(Thanks Anon!! Part of why it took a while to post this was to get it closer to my actual birthday 😅)

Also for: 

@floating-in-the-blue: Can I request 8 (Whispering "Oh you are going to be very embarrassed when you wake up.") for willex please? @onlygenxhere : Bed sharing list. Oh it IS a good list. How about #8. Whispering "Oh you are going to be very embarrassed when you wake up." Maybe for Willex Wednesday if you're inspired that quickly?

Willie knew Alex was going to be late, he had a gig tonight. One Willie was unable to make due to a conflicting shift at the club. It’s why he wasn’t initially worried when he returned to an empty house. 

No, the worry came later after a few hours of mindless binging, with no sign of Alex. No message or call. No note of any kind. 

After thoroughly checking the fridge and kitchen counters (the usual best bets for notes to be left) and checking his phone several times over still with no luck, Willie decided he needed to go out and look for him. 

He’d barely gotten his shoes back on when there was knocking at his door. He was ready to tell off whoever it was on his own way out except, he heard the tell tale sign of a key sliding into the lock. Closely followed by the door being practically thrown open, some loud shushing noises and Alex giggling. 

“Alex?” Willie cried out as he dashed toward the front door, greeted by the sight of Alex shushing their front door between giggles as Luke helped support his weight. It didn’t take long to see why, the brand new cast encasing Alex’s leg.  “Dude, what happened?”

“Wheels!” Alex threw himself at Willie, who just barely managed to catch him. Thankfully, Luke also still had a pretty good grip on him. Even if Alex seemed to have entirely forgotten Luke’s presence with the way he was pressing his face into Willie’s neck. “I missed you.”

“Sorry, he’s never been good with pain meds. ‘Specially not the good stuff.” Luke said through an apologetic smile. Willie had heard all of them say that about Alex before but this was his first time actually seeing it. And truth be told, if Alex stayed this cuddly he didn’t really mind.

“You still haven’t said what happened.”

Luke bit at his bottom lip, his eyes suddenly danced with a guilt tinged mirth, as if he wanted to burst out laughing but didn’t think he should. “It was after we finished getting all the instruments back in the studio. Reggie and I were rough housing and he said…something smart assy about us hurting ourselves.”

Luke furrowed his brow like he was trying to remember but Willie would bet good money he hadn’t been paying any attention to begin with to hear it in the first place. Though he still hadn’t said how exactly Alex had hurt himself, Willie cleared his throat, and Luke refocused. 

“Anyway, He got fed up and said he was going to wait out in the van and totally wiped out on his way.”

“Really?” 

“Yep.” Luke said, that guilty tinged jovial look making a lot more sense now, as Willie could feel it reflecting on his own face.

“All right then,” Willie said with a shake of his head, fully taking Alex from Luke and thanking him for his help. 

When Willie finally got the two of them settled in for bed he was finally able to sit and process everything Luke had said about how Alex had hurt himself. Certain throughout the evening, with all the dancing he was bound to have done, there had been other more obvious times he could have broken his leg. And yet, he’d managed it with a single snark-filled misstep.

“Oh, you are going to be very embarrassed when you wake up,” Willie spoke into Alex’s hair, as his breathing slowly evened out, with the slightest hint of a snore.

#willex #willex wednesday #julie and the phantoms

[daintyduck99]

Never have I ever: Omegaverse, lol. #sorrynotsorry

I’ve never written anything for omegaverse, but if I did: 

The boys still come back as ghosts. Alex still takes it the hardest—as a beta, he had never had to worry about any of the crazy secondary gender stuff. He could always rely on his body to obey his mind (and when his mind’s a chattering mess he just drowns it out with the drums). 

Now he’s non-corporeal—it’s a big fucking change. 

However, there are other changes too. Secondary genders have evolved some since the boys died. Scents are stronger, and everyone smells like weirdly specific things now (Alex doesn’t want to believe this because every scent Luke and Reggie are describing sound like candle names, only when Julie starts agreeing does he even vaguely buy it). And like. Why. How is this making people mate more, was none of the crazy newish baby-making biology enough. 

Actually, Alex kind of wants to go back to the dark room. What the fuck. 

Medicine has also evolved. They make blockers and suppressants that don’t slowly kill you now, and a lot of people—those that can afford them, at least—are on them. Luke and Reggie initially assume that Julie’s a beta because of this, and she doesn’t bother to correct them. 

Alex has another layer of connection in his interactions with Willie, as Willie also relates to everything being so crazy different since he died. It helps to see how Willie takes it in stride despite having been dead longer (and how much worse things were for omegas when he died). 

Things are also more progressive in terms of like, non-traditional A/B/O dynamics, so that’s nice. Alex’s parents could barely withstand him being gay—they sort of had to, what with the church’s relatively new yet solid stance on it in light of secondary genders emerging a few decades before—they probably would’ve kicked him out if he ever brought home anybody who wasn’t also a beta. Anybody like Willie, who’s sort of the best thing that’s ever happened to Alex. 

You know Caleb would also find a way to take advantage of the whole thing. Like, maybe it’s part of his pitch to beta lifers: come hang out with some ghosts who are just like you otherwise (some, like Willie, are actually recent enough to have secondary genders besides beta but Caleb has them on blockers—if he can make food work, why not those—just in case any of the lifers who do come aren’t betas). 

Reggie catches Julie stress-nesting at some point—originally he was looking for his flannel. She’s a little embarrassed at having been caught (especially since the shirt is in there—never mind that she also has stuff from Luke and Alex and Carlos and Ray) but he’s so happy that she can’t be embarrassed for too long. Like, he literally lifts her off of the floor and all he can say is oh my god you’re like me! and your nest is so good, please teach me your ways. 

Luke and Alex catch them napping in there later. Alex totally makes fun of Luke for being all stereotypical alpha heart eyes about them but Luke says he has no room to talk because he’s also infatuated with an omega, which, fair. 

That’s all I have really, it’s basically what if canon also had all of this A/B/O worldbuilding lol

#ask game #author's never have i ever #things ash isn't actually writing #probably #willex #peterpatterlina

[floating-in-the-blue]

You know I wanna know more about the Willex RWARB fic you are Totally Not writing of course?

Thank youuu!!! I'm happy to talk about it and just need to, uh, decide which parts to talk about because otherwise I'll just ramble endlessly (I might do anyway).

I hope you're in the mood for angsty because I've been meaning to talk about HUGS for ages now and never found the opportunity.

Okay so I always have opinions about Alex and hugs but they're even sadder in this au. So basically, Alex never really got along with anyone in his (royal) family except for this sister. And she's the only one who would actually hug him a lot and always full of love. And then she dies of an overdose and Alex is left with parents who don't much care about him and an older brother and a king (or queen, not sure whether I'm going with book or movieverse on that one) and all they care about is that he keeps up the royal image and the facade.

They don't hug him.

Nobody really does. Because nobody is really supposed to get that close and there's all those rules and protocols and they don't really include touching the prince.

And Alex keeps to himself and doesn't let anyone get close because he's too afraid and anxious and also a closeted gay! Much too risky.

Until one Luke Patterson crashes into his life, closely followed by Reggie. And weirdly, they seem to care more about him than about him being a prince and he has no choice but to surrender and become their friend. And they are so touchy!! Even when they eventually figure out that's he gay!!!

But of course Alex can't spend as much time with his friends as he would like, especially once out of college, because his family doesn't exactly approve of these friendships. So he mostly back to not being touched at all except in a professional way by make up artists and hair stylists and bodyguards guiding him etc. plus the obligatory hand shaking at all the boring events he has to attend.

Shaan, his equerry/personal assistant never touches him unless strictly necessary.

And then there's Willie. And even in their enemies/rivals phase, he doesn't care about the rules and touches Alex all the time. Handshakes that are silent arm wrestling competitions, slaps to his shoulder that are a little too hard, confrontational nudges.

Alex can't get enough and then he kisses him and there is a whole lot more touching going on once they figure everything out but of course it's not supposed to be serious and Alex is careful but then in Paris it all comes out. That he's never been with anyone before Willie. That he's touch starved as hell. That he misses hugs.

Willie tries to hug him on the spot but they're still in public and also Alex is terrified he'd just shatter apart if Willie hugged him so he laughs it off and they walk on but later, in the hotel room, Willie is determined to give Alex a proper first time, being gentle and taking his time with him and Alex already knows it's a mistake but okay, he'll deal. Only afterwards, Willie doesn't leave and when Alex finally accepts he won't and declares he's going to sleep now and turns away from Willie, Willie scoots close and spoons him from behind and Alex deserves a medal of bravery for not starting to cry right then and there.

Skip forward to more casual sex and things starting to get too serious and Alex finally putting a stop to it only for Willie to chase him back to London and his teary eyed love confession and telling Alex that Alex needs to say "please leave" because otherwise he just won't and Alex is crying too by now but then he just crushes Willie in a hug (say hello to the jatp hug but 120% more dramatic) and it's the very first time he has initiated a hug and now I am having FEELS again.

Also, under no circumstance imagine him being on lock down when the emails get hacked and published for all the world to read and he's cut off from Willie but also his friends and everyone and his whole family is disgusted by and disappointed in him and there's nobody to comfort him and then Shaan appears to show him Willie's speech on his tablet, Willie, who hates making speeches, making a speech about how much he loves Alex and Alex is just sobbing and then Shaan places his hand on Alex's shoulder in total violation of protocol and it's not enough, not ever, but it's also more than he has gotten from anyone else and Shaan and his hand stay there while Alex sobs his heart out.

:( (sorry for the feels)

#yeo writes #the willex rwarb au I'm not writing #best gay ghosts #sad phantoms #willex #phantomfloat

[legolasghosty]

Hello again!!!

4. and 12. (and maybe 13.) for Willex please 👀👀👀

Hello my love!!!!!!! Yes of course!!!

Alex could have sworn he only closed his eyes for a second, but suddenly the movie credits were rolling across the big TV in the Molinas' living room. How long had he been asleep?

The room was dark, but he could just make out Luke curled up on the couch with his head in Julie's lap. He was snoring softly. Flynn and Carrie have vanished, probably over in the kitchen raiding the soda stash or something. Reggie and Bobby were now firmly settled in Ray's giant recliner, twisted together and chatting softly. No one seemed to be moving to turn on the next movie, so Alex figured they were all done for the night. Fine by him, he was happy to just go back to sleep here on the loveseat.

He shifted a bit to pull the big, fuzzy blanket further over his shoulders, but then someone groaned in protest. Alex suddenly realized that at some point while he'd been asleep, he'd ended up leaning against a dozing Willie's side.

Not that there was a problem with that. It just caught him off guard is all. It wasn't like he sometimes humored little daydreams of curling up against Willie's back to sleep. Or of randomly pulling him into his lap in the lunchroom. Nope, definitely nothing like that was going on.

Alex rolled his eyes. No one was fooled by that. And they were already dating, he was allowed to want physical contact with his partner. It was just... hard to initiate.

Willie was great at initiating it, at catching Alex's hand as they walked through the halls and pulling him into sweet kisses when they were alone.

Alex was trying to get better at it, but that little voice screaming at him whenever he placed an arm around Willie's shoulders refused to leave him alone. Thank goodness Willie was so understanding about the whole thing.

As if the thought had roused them, a low chuckle filled Alex's ears.

"How come you always end up under my blanket?" Willie mumbled, grinning sleepily up at Alex.

Alex glanced down, realizing that they were in fact under the same blanket. It was huge and blue and soft. It was also the one Willie always claimed for movie nights. And this was like the third time in a row that Alex had ended up at least partially under it by the time everyone passed out in Julie's living room.

"Sorry?" he offered. "It wasn't intentional. I can go back to mine if you want."

"Nah, you're too warm for that," Willie decided, cuddling into his side. "Moving is not allowed."

"You just moved," Alex pointed out.

"Not the point, sir," Willie retorted, poking him in the thigh under the blanket.

"You just moved again," Alex chuckled, adjusting his own position to get more comfortable. "If you're allowed to move then I should be too."

Willie let out a dramatic sigh. "Must you be so difficult?" they teased,

"Yes," Alex chuckled.

"So high maintenance," Willie joked. "It really is hard having a boyfriend who's so smart and funny and pretty and talented." Alex could feel his cheeks flushing at Willie's words.

"You know, I really do a lot of hard work here," Willie continued. Then he gave Alex a mischievous glance. "I really do deserve a kiss. As payment. For.... services rendered or whatever the term is."

A laugh escaped Alex's lips before he could stop it. "You do a lot though," he responded. "You sure one kiss is gonna cover my tab?"

Willie hummed thoughtfully. His eyes were still half closed and his smile was wide and easy. Alex wanted to brush the loose strands of hair off their cheek. And maybe let his hand linger there. And maybe use his hand on their jaw to guide them a bit closer...

"You falling asleep on me?" Willie asked, cutting off Alex's train of thought.

"Huh, no, I'm good," Alex said quickly. "You're just..." He trailed off uncertainly, but Willie nodded for him to continue. "You're unbelievably cute when you're tired," Alex confessed.

He could just see Willie's cheeks darken in the dim light from the windows and the TV. "Dang, I feel like I owe you a kiss now," Willie chuckled after a quiet moment.

Alex glanced around the room. All of their friends were either asleep or occupied. And none of them would mind. So maybe...

"Split the bill and call it even?" Alex suggested, his voice barely above a whisper. He hesitantly lifted a hand and brushed those strands of hair back behind Willie's ear.

"Works for me," Willie breathed, leaning into Alex's touch and placing a hand on his shoulder.

They met in the middle, their mouths fitting together easily in a gentle, familiar kiss. Willie's lips were soft and warm and a bit dry against Alex's. They separated after a moment. Alex took in a shaky breath of Willie's coconut shampoo and the soda they'd all been drinking earlier.

He wanted to kiss Willie again. So he did.

Willie met him happily, hands sliding up to catch the back of Alex's neck. Alex wrapped his free arm around Willie's waist to pull him closer. They both shifted a little bit as they kissed, settling into a more comfortable position. It was slow and lazy and sleepy and perfect.

After a minute, they parted again. Alex focused on slowing his breathing to match the even rise and fall of Willie's chest.

"We should probably go to sleep," he sighed.

"Yeah..." Willie agreed reluctantly. "Don't go anywhere though. You're comfy."

Alex chuckled and they laid down across the couch, snuggled tightly together. "Good night, Willie," Alex mumbled, his eyelids already heavy.

"Good night, Alex," Willie responded.

Alex was glad they didn't mind sharing their blanket with him.

Hehehehhehe hope you enjoyed it!

(Prompts from this list!)

#legolas tag #legolas filled prompt #I wrote a thing! #willex #julie and the phantoms #jatp fanfic #willie jatp #alex mercer #I love them your honor #and Flarrie is definitely out doing silly things and drinking too much soda in the dining room #Julie is reading fanfics since Luke is asleep on her and she's not quite ready to doze off yet #and Bobby and Reggie are having a very serious conversation about what the difference is between a comforter and a duvet. #it's a good time #movie night with the whole gang! #followed by a sleepover always #cause no one has the energy to go home by the time they finish the movie(s) #okay I'll shut up now

[xxprettylittletimebombxx]

heyyy bestie asking these anon coz im shy but 🛒 🤗 🤲 love ur writing btw &excited for the big bang fic!

That’s okay! Thank you for asking and thanks for the kind words!! 💕

🛒 What are some common things you incorporate in your fics? Themes, feels, scenes, imagery, etc.

HANDS (lol). No but in all seriousness I think just focusing on smaller moments is something that comes up a lot in my fics. Sometimes that’s the light touch of fingertips accidentally grazing, or sometimes it’s prolonged eye contact. Breathlessness at the expense of another person too is something I tend to play with A LOT!

🤗 What advice would you give to new fanfic writers that are just getting started?

Go with the idea that you’re the most excited about— that’s really going to drive you to keep writing even if you don’t see a lot of engagement on your stuff at first. And to that point, high engagement is not indicative of how good or bad your fic is so try not to get too swept up in ao3 stats or comparing your ao3 stats to others.

🤲 Would you please share a snippet of a wip?In an embarrassing twist of events most of the WIPs I have started are smutty 🫣 I know smut isn’t everyone’s cup of tea though so instead, here’s a coffee shop au that I think I started for Jukebox Appreciation Week but never finished! (Under the cut though because it’s a bit lengthy!)

send me Fanfic Writer Emoji Asks!

(For some added context: I initially envisioned this as a coffee shop au where Julie gets a job at the same shop Luke and the guys work at. Luke ends up being assigned to train Julie on bar so they bond over that but the ball really gets rolling when Julie finds herself without a duet partner for the big winter showcase at school and Luke steps in and volunteers to help. Okay I think that’s all you need to know— please enjoy!!)

“Alex, take over for me,” Luke says impulsively.

Alex looks like he’s about to protest. Luke knows he tends to avoid the register during the late morning rush, but he follows Luke’s line of sight as he tracks Julie’s form as she rushes past the the bar, offering a halfhearted hello to Willie, who’s elbow deep in soap suds at the back sink, before she ducks back into the warehouse.

“‘Yeah, okay, go,” Alex says finally.

“We got you, buddy,” Reggie assures him from his spot at the bar, using his free arm to give Luke’s ribs an encouraging nudge. “You know...there was a chocolate croissant left in the pastry case last I checked,” he adds casually.

“Thanks, man— I owe you,” Luke says gratefully, making quick work of plating up the pastry in question before heading out.

He makes a pitstop at the coffee lab, making use of the toaster oven before he begins his search. It doesn’t take long to find her tucked away on the old couch someone, at some point, had tucked under one of the many steel pallet racks that line the coffee shop warehouse. And despite scuffing his shoe on the smooth concrete floor, she still looks startled when Luke sets the plated croissant on the table in front of her and slides it toward her.

“But...I didn’t order anything,” Julie remarks in confusion.

“On the house,” Luke grins before adding, “And freshly toasted.”

“Thanks,” she whispers, picking the plate up and balancing it on one knee.

“Can I…?” He asks, gesturing toward the opposite end of the couch.

“Sure.”

The silence is thick around them as Luke takes a seat beside her, his right knee bouncing restlessly as he deliberates over how to proceed. What little rationality is still left in his brain is screaming at him to abort, but he knows he’s not going to do that. Especially not after he catches sight of the way Julie’s worrying her bottom lip between her teeth while she picks halfheartedly at one corner of the chocolate croissant he’d just brought her.

“You good, Boss?” He asks carefully.

“Yeah. Fine.” Julie answers, with a bit too much lightness to be believable.

Luke doesn't press it, but he quirks an eyebrow up at her when she chances a glance at them and their eyes lock.

“Not really," she concedes through a heavy sigh.

“Wanna talk about it?”

Luke waits with bated breath for Julie to hit back with some sort of quip about respecting boundaries, but by some miracle, he must have played his cards right. Instead, Julie launches into a rant about some tool in her music program named Nick who flaked on their midterm project to work with some other girl.

“And Carrie’s like…well, she’s Carrie Wilson,” Julie rambles on. “And I’m…not.”

“You’re right. You aren’t anything like her,” Luke agrees. “But you’re Julie fucking Molina! You’re like a human wrecking ball, and you’re worth ten Carrie Wilsons any day.”

She turns away, the corners of her lips turn up in the barest hint of a smile.

“That’s sweet of you to say but I’m not sure you’re the best person to pass judgement here. You haven’t even heard me sing— I could be awful—“

“You’re not!” Luke interjects.

It’s quick enough to raise some suspicions in the girl sitting next to him, and when Julie quirks a questioning eyebrow up in his direction, Luke realizes the jig is up.

“I…may or may not have heard you singing in the walk-in while you were putting the milk away?” He confesses. “And— don’t be mad— but I…may or may not have gone home that night and spent a little too much time scrolling through every video you have up of you playing on your Instagram.”

“All that time spent doom scrolling through my profile and you couldn’t even bother to double tap on any of those videos? Luke, I’m hurt.”

“In my defense, I didn’t want you to think I your new co-worker was some crazy internet stalker.”

“Too late now— you’ve outed yourself as my number one fan,” Julie giggles.

She gets lost in her thoughts when her laugh fizzles out, and when a crease of worry materializes between her brows, it takes everything Luke has not to reach over and try to smooth it out in an effort to take that worry away.

He settles for reaching out and giving her wrist a comforting squeeze.

“Hey, I’m serious Julie. Screw that guy— you don’t even need him.”

“Maybe you’re right but…well, it would’ve been nice to have a partner again,” she muses. “I haven’t written with anyone since my mom died. I guess I just thought it might be nice to try again.”

#tysm for the questions nonny! #ask games #fanfic asks #juke fic #ela writes stuff

[beencryingfor25years]

I suddenly feel the need to write a Willex chiropractor au... who am I?

Hear me out: Sunset Curve Chiropractic

In short: Alex the main chiropractor, Willie the new patient who got hit by a car. Boy meets boy, closely helps work with him to fix his pain, all whilst slowly falling in love and being sure the other could never feel the same and also not being able to act on their feelings because ~professionalism~ and client/doctor dynamics

More detail and brief descriptions of them and the other main characters in this verse found below…

Alex is the main chiropractor, he does the initial intakes, adjustments, and works with patients to manage their pain and reach their goals. He works more closely with the extreme cases that require more hands-on, personalized attention. He is insistent on professional integrity and intent on keeping his work life separate from his personal life, which has to this point never been an issue, though a certain cute skater boy crashing into his life might conflict with that.

Willie is a new client who got hit by a car while skating in traffic, and all things considered is doing pretty well. The brunt of his physical injuries have healed, but some back pain persists, and he’s been experiencing bouts of dizziness, both of which are preventing him from living his full life and keeping him from his passion of skateboarding. His friend Julie recommended that he see a chiropractor, and though he was wary about the legitimacy of the practice, is willing to try almost anything. After his intake appointment, he finds himself far less skeptical about the whole idea. It’s unclear if this is due to the fact that everything was explained very clearly and thoroughly with a medical basis, or because of the super cute chiropractor himself. And of course, his is considered one of the special cases that requires more one-on-one work with Alex.

Other characters:

Luke is the functional trainer, he works with clients to gain and maintain strength in tandem with the other treatments. He’s always ready with enthusiastic encouragement and a fist bump for good work. He also curates the office’s background music that is playing at all times (and may occasionally slip a Sunset Curve song from their old days as a band onto the playlist). A certain curly haired patient coming in is always the highlight of his week.

Reggie runs the front desk, handles paperwork, PR, and assists Luke and Alex as needed. He’s the cheerful face that greets and happily chats with all the patients while they wait for their appointment time. He's also the one that chooses to always play videos of cute animals in the waiting area, though Alex has banned him from adding any of the "veterans reuniting with their dogs" videos into the rotation, because he found him crying at the front desk one too many times.

Julie is a current, more long-term client of the practice. Her original problem for coming in is pretty much corrected, but she keeps coming in once every two weeks for routine adjustments and continued maintenance. She and Luke consistently have flirty banter, but neither has taken any steps to go further than friendship, even though it is clear they are both interested, and Luke is bad at hiding the fact that he is head over heels for her. She is the friend who recommended the chiropractor to Willie, and she failed to mention the fact that the main chiropractor is very cute, gay, and just Willie’s type.

#I am not a writer but I may or may not have almost 2000 words of random ramblings here and there? #I’m not quite sure what’s happening #like some of those words are full scenes and some are just ideas of things and some are just about the characters like this post #is this a thing I am actually writing that will ever actually see the light of day? I have no clue #but I do have a heckin lot of ideas for it rn #can you tell I started going to the chiropractor recently? #a lot of these ideas are absolutely inspired by real life #except for y’know the whole falling in love thing bc my chiropractors are both older and married #jatp #julie and the phantoms #willex #so i made a thing #not quite a fic but maybe…? #fic writing #sunset curve chiropractic

[missjoolee]

📓📓pleeeeaaase

OMG HI HI HI YOU! My mutual, my guy(gender neutral), my pal :D

You send me two books, you get two three fics with the same au. two Juke and one willex. These came from when I had a mini crisis about first words soulmate aus and how some kid born in the 80s probably has WAZZUP! on their hipbone because there isn't any possible way at least one person didn't have that. but then a lovely(deranged) spiral happened with @preoccupied-educator and these came about.

JUKE- canon adjacent

Julie's soulmate first words are something along the lines of "that's so rad" and it doesn't mean much to her as a kid because she had her parent's explain what it means and is pretty happy that her soulmate will find whatever she's doing super cool. It's when she has a slumber party with flynn and carrie that leaves her scared that her soulmate will be super old because "nobody has used 'rad' since the 90s" (thanks a lot carrie, 🙄)

When she goes into the studio for the first time after her mom dies, she listens to SC's demo and Now or Never inspires her to sit at her mom's piano where she finds Wake Up and she musters the courage to play it. Her singing is what summons the guys and after they get through the screaming exchange, Luke, not having a chill bone in his body when it comes to music, lets her know "that was so rad!"

and Julie, shocked at hearing her words, goes zero brain to mouth filter "oh thank god you're cute and not old". which finally gives context to luke's words and it has alex and reggie in giggle fits as luke stares at her in wonder and awe.

When things calm down, she still has a mini panic attack because wait her soulmate is old? No, he’s actually 17…he’s just been 17 for 25 years, does that make him old?

JUKE - canon adjacent but kinda sad?

Julies words are "my name is luke". Growing up friends with Carrie, she has met the dorky Trevor Wilson, so one day she looks through her parent's Trevor Wilson CDs and as she plays them in her room, lying on her bed looking through the jewel cases her eyes catch on the tracklist for one he put out in 2000.

7. My Name is Luke

She immediately switches the CDs and plays track 7. And she absolutely falls in love. It becomes her favorite song, connecting with the emotions of the lyrics.

in 2020, three ghosts fall into her mom's studio and after the initial shock, the one in the rush shirt introduces himself and her heart flutters as she hears her words. She is realistic though. lots of Luke's could introduce themselves to her so that doesn't mean this one is her soulmate. Luke hears his words but he assumes that since he is dead, they don't matter anymore so he doesn't react.

But as the weeks go by and he helps her find music again, she can tell things are different with him. And then it comes out that Trevor Wilson stole Sunset Curve songs. Stole Luke's songs. And it hits her that the song that she loves so dearly, the song that has become inseparable to her from her words, was written by this boy who has saved her in more ways than one and lafkjl;flkjafgh; Julie's filled with rage that it was stolen. It's basically "luke introduced you to rock" but like 2.0

Willex - primary school au

Alex's words are a source of anxiety for him ever since he was old enough to understand them. "That's not how you dab." Destined. FATE has sentenced him to disappoint his soulmate from the moment they meet. So when, in third grade, dabbing takes the school by storm Alex is determined to learn before he can meet his soulmate.

One day at recess, he sees a kid across the blacktop dabbing and he tries to mimic it to learn. After 2 weeks of watching and trying, alex is approached where he's practicing.

"That's not how you dab." is said with a good natured chuckle.

Alex is so nervous he doesn't reply but his lack of response doesn't offput the boy that he'd been watching from afar. Willie shows him how to dab again and all Alex can do is copy him again. finally with Willie's tutelage, he learns and then kind of runs away because he just met his soulmate! his soulmate was so nice! and then it takes him a week of building up courage to approach willie and say "thanks for showing me how to dab." and those end up being Willie's words and all along he was trying to find his soulmate by dabbing at recess. He turns and shouts across the blacktop

"I TOLD YOU IT'D WORK, AARON!"

(send me a book emoji and I’ll share the plot of a fic i’ll probably never get around to writing. No time frame on this. I will answer any that show up in my inbox so long as i still have ideas!)

#joolee's crack like thoughts #jatp #juke #julie and the phantoms #jukebox #willex #soulmate aus #they are weird #somebody has YOLO on their body in that world #or yeet #or even #bye felicia!

[bananakarenina]

You still taking fic asks?

For the Want Your Midnights series, how would have Willie trapped the PeterPatterLina trio in a closet? -something I still secretly wished happened, because I thrive off fictional drama.

Also which fic has been your favorite to write?

i definitely am still taking asks!

OMG bahahahahahahahaha truly a fantastic question. I imagine that some as-yet-unforeseen ghost magic would be involved (and we already know Willie can do things like set off car alarms, etc, so why not closet-trapping LMAO) BUT also it could be something as simple as trapping *julie* in the closet and telling luke & reggie to rescue her/sit with her while they figure out how to get her out, aka a little bit of trickery, which we also know willie is good at. obviously flynn would be involved with planning and/or getting julie into position. alex would probably facepalm a lot but he'd be fed up with the ot3 so he'd definitely help.

as for favorite to write...a difficult question!! i have trouble picking favorite anythings but here we go.

i am still absolutely bowled over that i even wrote for love's sake only in the first place, AND that people love it, so there's that. The initial story is 47k words! i wrote a BOOK. and it's not a bad one! hahaha. also i love historical romance so it's kind of a love letter to that genre.

and then there's leave the light on, which is like 10k words of emotional devastation. i love exploring past canon and exploring more adult themes, and also finding love again when you thought your heart was done.

want your midnights will always have a special place in my heart because it was my very first jatp fic (and actually my first published fic in about a decade.) and it just went from there!

finally, heart like a wheel my secret and forever beloved. exploring womanhood & motherhood through the lens of a character we don't even see onscreen: will read and write every time, hahaha. i would love to find the inspiration to finish emily patterson & sarah mercer's versions of this. we'll see!

#thank you for the amazing questions!! #myfic #writing #for love's sake only #to love's self alone #leave the light on #want your midnights #heart like a wheel #julie and the phantoms #fanfiction #some nights be better with you

[1mnobodywhoareyou]

Bursting into life pls!

eeeeeeeeeeeeee BEX MY FAVOURITE 🥰🥰🥰

I need to go see if I have a new snippet and I've talked about this tons in the #bex verse tag. But... I'll find something new to share here!

(i do not have a new snippet. energy in this verse has been spent building histories and futures)

I'll put my plans for the next chapter below the cut:

We left off with Luke walking out on his meeting with Carrie and Willex working through Alex's anxiety and trust issues.

Carrie needs to have a conversation with Flynn about Luke criticizing her "ability to have fun"

Luke needs to initiate contact with Carrie so they can figure out finishing this goddamn song without murdering each other because they're nothing if not both stubborn and committed to sticking it to Caleb.

Luke suggests trying out their song at an open mic "DUDE I CAN'T DO THAT" "Trust me, you can here. They're cool."

She concedes. Invites Flynn who forcibly drags Julie.

Luke takes Alex and Reggie. I think. Willie stays home with Bex. Though as I'm typing this i think it might be Reggie that stays home... Remains to be seen.

Everyone (sans Willie) meets for the first time.

#THANK YOU! #bex verse #<- my beloved #answered ask #wip #ask game #nobody writes #i don't remember all my tags any more #jatp

[notesappsaver]

Songs

Angel -FINNEAS

Luke’s depression OR Julie dealing with grief/depression and her boys write her a song

Reggie/Luke into Reggie/Luke/Julie

Half a heart

Juke break up BC Luke did something stupid

Alex or willie are helping Flynn help Julie through it

Luke has Bobby and Reggie

Luke writes this for Julie with a disclaimer that he knows he was wrong and she doesn’t have to forgive him but he misses her so much and wishes he could do anything to make it right

Saw you in a dream

The Japanese house

Luke dreams of Julie before he dies

If I die young, ode to their parents.

Give me love Luke still loves Alex

1995- we’ll talk about it after the orpheum

2020- Alex loves willie and Luke has 2 b ok with that

“How can you be self destructive you’re already dead!”

Superman- five for fighting

Like “rock legend” Patterson lives around Julie and one night she hears him playing this song and doesn’t recognize him but knows it’s an original. It gets stuck in her head and she need to learn more about this mysterious neighbor of hers

Punks don’t dance

Julie sees Luke at a drive in with Carrie. She thinks it’s a date but it wasn’t.

Begin again

Sunset curve broke up after Hs

Reggie lost touch with everyone and needed up with Caleb who was abusive

He almost had something with Luke before Sunset curve broke up

He meets Julie at some point and immediately falls in love with her, but then finds out she’s dating Luke (!)

He tries to just be her friend and refrained like but it slowly becomes clear they all like each other

Reggie doesn’t know what to do because anything good in his life he ruins so he initially says no to them

But he can’t stand not being around them, and there’s a weird tension when they do hang out

Happy ending!

Little things

Julie is feeling insecure so like reggie and Julie write a song together Poly bonding!

Evermore Alive AU

Luke and Julie start dating /sophomorefreshman year of HS

Junior/senior year right before/after Rose dies Sunset Curve gets the opportunity to tour. Julie doesn’t want him to leave her cause *trauma* but he has to get out of his house and all the grief so he leaves

They loose contact and 5 years later he writes this song

Either she’s famous or just out of college and knows what that song is about-duets/ covers/ IDK songs it

A drop in the ocean

Willex

The boys keep an eye on nick/Caleb so Alex can go see Willie at the HGC. Willie is playing this on piano when he gets there

Ghost- Halsey. Willex

Angst

lonely-MGK

Bobby wrote this song after the boys die

“I wrote my first song with him in the basement”

one of the boys?

To make you feel my love

Alive AU Neurodivergent reggie

Reggie is have a Bad Day TM

Wake up from nightmare, everything feels wrong

Goes to Julie’s early and is nervous

Julie sings this to him as he falls asleep in her lap

All to well 10 min

Caleb and someone

Hang over cute

#fic ideas #song fic

[invisibleraven]

"Oh, this? It's... nothing!" for the Julie ship of your choice because we all know she can't lie to save her life lol

Julie shots her reflection a sly smile as she lifts her shirt, exposing the fresh ink on her hip. The redness had finally faded, the peeling had stopped, and now the image could be seen nice and clear.

"Sobrina, are you ready to go? Those bargains aren't going to hunt..."

Julie yanked down her shirt as her aunt burst into her room, but apparently not fast enough given the stern look on her face.

"Julianna Maria Rosita Molina! What was that I just saw?"

"I have no idea what you're talking about tia," Julie said, though she found she couldn't meet her aunt's eye.

Victoria crossed her arms, tapped her foot, but Julie stood firm. Then she stepped forward and yanked the shirt back up, exposing the tattoo to the air. "This Julie. What is this?"

"Oh this? It's... nothing!"

"Julie, I love you, but you are a terrible liar. Why do you have a tattoo?" Victoria asked, still looking entirely unimpressed.

"Because I wanted one?" The glare continued, and Julie sighed. "Tia, I'm over eighteen, and it's my body. It's somewhere tasteful. I got it at a reputable shop and am taking care of it to avoid infection."

"I still don't like it."

"But I do, and that's what matters." Julie touched the ink on her skin and a smile couldn't stop itself from bursting forth.

"So what does it mean?" Victoria asked.

Julie lifted her shirt up further, showing off the colourful butterfly, all purples, reds, and turquoises. It splashed across her hip. And hidden in the ink, so tiny that her aunt will never see it, are some letters. Letters spelling out the names of her loves who have matching ink on their skin, signifying their bond.

The artist had been really reluctant to do it initially, saying that 90% of the people who got a name on them that wasn't a blood relation always ended up breaking up within a year. Always insisting that they were different, they would be together forever.

"Maybe we will, maybe we won't," Julie had replied. "But I don't think I'll ever regret this. Even if it's only a fleeting moment in our lives, I want to remember it, and have this reminder to look back on."

The artist shrugged. "Okay, don't say I didn't warn you. Also removals or altering it is way more expensive and painful than getting it. So... keep me in mind in a year."

"I like butterflies," Julie finally told her aunt.

"I still don't approve, but I guess it's too late now," Victoria had said.

"Far too late," Julie replied. "Plus dad's seen it, showed me his, and I know mom had a matching one."

"Ugh, don't remind me, I held their hands while they got them," Victoria said. "Your mami almost passed out at the sight of the needle and your papi got sick afterwards. I had a solid month worth of I told you sos after that." She then gave a little sniffle. "But in the end... I guess your dad is happy to still have that part of Rose with him."

"Exactly why I got it, to keep something special to me close," Julie said, hugging her aunt. "I'm off now, don't wait up!"

Julie rushed off to the diner where her loves were waiting and slumped down on the table as they greeted her. "My aunt saw the tattoo."

"Oh shit," Reggie cursed.

"Are you grounded for life?" Flynn asked.

"I think I just barely avoided it?" Julie replied, smiling in thanks as Reggie slid over a glass of water and Flynn passed her a piece of the crusty table bread. "She's not happy, but she has to accept it."

"My mom saw mine too," Flynn confessed. "But she just wanted to know where I got it done because she wants to add to her sleeve and liked the artist's work."

"Good old Marisol," Reggie chuckled. "I showed mine off to the guys immediately after. Willie thought it was sick, Luke and Alex didn't get it, but they don't have two wonderful partners to share it with, so who cares what they think?"

"You do," his girlfriends chorused and then giggled. Reggie blushed and shrugged, because yeah, he did. The guys were also the only ones who knew he was dating Flynn and Julie, since they caught them on a date. They wanted to keep it quiet for now, just something for them.

Plus when they came out at Julie's graduation party? It would make the whole thing worth it.

And ten years later, the three of them went back to the same tattoo parlour, showing the artist they had beaten the odds. Pus they had another piece or two to add; smaller butterflies with the names of their kids on them to create a whole flock.

#filled prompts #ficlet #regal butterfly #rulin' trouble #julie and the phantoms

[jmrothwell]

"You two are so obvious." / rulie

also for @invisibleraven who asked for the same thing ^_^

Fire to my Bullet

(Part 3 to Dangerous Hands)

“You sure this is how you want to do this?” Julie asks for what must be the millionth time as the two of them stare at the front door of her Dad’s house. 

The others had gone inside a while ago and were bound to start asking questions soon. If they weren’t already. Reggie can’t seem to get his body to cooperate with the plan. 

Originally when he’d suggested they let everyone know about his and Julie’s relationship at Ray’s bi-weekly family dinner it sounded like a great idea. Everyone would be there so they wouldn’t need to have multiple talks and long drawn out anxiety laden waits between them. This way it would be quick, like removing a bandaid. . .or being decapitated.

“Relax,” Julie calmly says, her fidgety hand on his back giving away her own nerves. Though she’s probably safe from the death sentence he feels he is walking into. “There’s nothing to worry about.”

“Yeah.” He agrees in spite of how certain he still is that someone–Flynn or Tia at the top of the list–is going to kill him. Scratch that Tia is the top of the list. He’s had suspicions Flynn, and Willie, already know to some extent and they just hadn’t done anything. Yet.

“C’mon” Julie says, gently nudging him forward and he manages to get his leaden feet to move just as Luke and Carlos duck out the front door to ask what’s keeping them.

Dinner rushes by him in a blur. He’s sure it’s delicious as Tia’s cooking always is. Truthfully he can’t taste anything. Far too preoccupied with trying to look far more relaxed than he actually feels. His nerves only grow worse with every suspicious glance his way. 

Julie clears her throat, in a definitively trying to get attention way, as people are finishing up and before Tia or Ray go into cleaning mode. All the eyes shift to her and all the blood drains from his face as his heart decides to run away from him with his soul. Leaving him an empty husk of a man. 

Julie’s fingers lace with his under the table and manage to tether him back down, firmly grounding him with her grip. He squeezes her hand back realizing she may need grounding just as much as he does. 

“Reggie and I have something we need to tell you.” Julie says as everyone else’s attention shifts their way. Reggie swallows hard, trying to mentally capture everyone’s fond smiles before everything turns to shit. 

“Finally going to tell us your dating?” Luke laughs around another mouthful of food and everyone else around the table send him varying levels of disapproving looks or telling him off. 

“You knew?” Reggie asks, even though the answer is blatantly obvious by how everyone reacted to Luke’s joke. Which he only just now realizes wasn’t even a joke. 

“How long have you known?” Julie asks, her grip on his hand tightening. 

“Since Atlanta,” Willie quickly says with a shit eating grin, and Reggie thinks he’s the only one not surprised by that answer. He’s sort of half expected that for just as long. 

“And I thought I figured it out early.” Alex says, and after further pressing from practically everyone else continues with. “I sort of put it together in Chicago.”

That answer does initially surprise Reggie. Thinking back, though, Alex had acted really weird for that portion of the tour. He just thought he was going a little stir crazy from all the time stuck on the tour bus.

Julie on the hand looks the most surprised out of everyone. Her expression actually gets Reggie to smile a little. It’s much closer to how he expected everyone else to look.

“Jules, are you seriously surprised?” Flynn asks, gesturing with her arms. “You two are so obvious even your Dad and Aunt picked up on it.”

“Well, I don’t know how I feel about that.” Tia says, looking slightly placated by Flynn’s sheepish apology. “ But they’re right Julie. The way you two were constantly looking at each other, running late, or leaving early. It was obvious something was going on.”

Everyone continues exchanging stories of how they discovered his and Julie’s relationship. Reggie’s muscles seem to finally relax under everyone’s playfully teasing jabs. Though he can’t let himself fully relax, not yet. He can tell Julie’s tensing up beside him and moves his hand from hers to grip her thigh. Hoping to provide some small comfort.

Neither of them are prepared when Carlos turns the teasing to Ray, asking if he’s ready to be a Grandpa. 

Julie’s fingernails are suddenly biting into Reggie’s forearm. He barely notices, too focused on not accidentally doing the same to her leg. There’s a barely audible squeak from Julie’s throat he just manages to hear over the sudden pulsing in his ears. 

Ray isn’t even halfway through his retort–which Reggie misses entirely–when the table falls silent. The quietest he’s ever seen anyone from this particular group ever be. All eyes are back on the two of them. 

Reggie knows his poker face can be lacking sometimes. Knows Julie’s is even worse. He’s fairly certain they look guilty as hell. It’s all but confirmed by the mixture of shocked expressions aimed their way. 

He’s dead. He’s so fucking dead.

#rulie #rulie relajante #Dangerous Hands

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Alex is the bad influence in willex and Alex is absolutely aware of this and thinks it’s really funny that half the people in his life think Willie is the bad influence, because sure he’s usually seen as the most sensible member of sunset curve but c’mon man on their first date Willie helped him with his anxiety and then like two weeks later Alex asked him to steal a tour bus

#Luke and Reggie initiate willie into the #people think you’re dragging Alex down but you happen to know he’s perfectly dumb and impulsive by himself #club #willie: here I’m gonna try help with your anxiety and help you enact revenge 🥰 #Alex: well that didn’t work out so well can you drive this can of people into the desert so we can steal the gig they busted their asses for #I mean this with so much love and affection #but Willie is chaotic good and just tryna help out and have fun #and Alex’s is just out having a good time with his friends bending the laws of physics and morals #I love them both hugely #jatp #julie and the himbos #julie and the phantoms #julie and the fat ones #luke patterson #julie molina #reggie jatp #alex jatp #willie jatp #willex