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1mnobodywhoareyou · 2 months

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the misadventures of peony

aka the fic that shouldn't exist (tm) it's done! this cracky "little" "should have been hammered out in one night" fic is done! thank you to @narcissusbrokenmirror for the idea and granting me coparenting rights. i hope I did peony right by you! tagging @legolasghosty @innytoes and @jmrothwell with NO pressure whatsoever to read! Y'all were my ask box cheerleaders (thank you) so if you were waiting to see this, here ya go!

on ao3 (2584 words), Rated G. CW for pet snakes and all that entails!

“No, you guys. We don’t have enough room. We don’t have enough time. We can’t get a dog!” Luke looks between all four of his friends and roommates, each sporting their best puppy dog faces, and he sighs before waving them off and turning away, “And put those away. It’s not fair.”

“But Luke! We’ll take care of it! We promise!” Reggie pleads, clasping his hands in front of him to really sell his point.

“Dude, you forget that I TRIED THAT! For years. And literally never once actually followed through on it. We aren’t home enough.”

Alex decides it’s his turn to try, “But you were a kid! We’re all adults!”

He’s met with a chorus of “yeah”s from the group and Luke rolls his eyes.

“No.”

Everyone huffs in frustration as they resign themselves to his veto vote. They’d agreed that decisions like this needed to be unanimous but they don’t have to be happy about the results.

“But what if... what if it wasn't a dog?” Willie asked.

“What do you mean?”

"What about... a bunny?"

Luke rolls his eyes, "You know just because it lives in a cage doesn't mean it's less work than a dog, right? No.”

"So that's a no on a hamster too?" Reggie chimes in

“Yes Reg, that's a no on the hamster too.”

“Damn.”

“What about... a bird? They’re chill,” Willie tries again.

“We're not getting a fucking bird, Willie.”

“A lizard? Oh! One of those bearded dragons! Those are cool.”

Luke glares at them, “No dragons.”

Willie's face falls into a mock pout. "It doesn't even breathe fire!" they exclaim pitifully.

This time, Alex joins Luke in glaring at Willie. “Really?” he chastises them.

Willie offers an unabashed shrug in response.

"What's the lowest maintenance pet we can think of?" Reggie asks in an exaggerated whisper.

Julie huffs, "A goldfish."

“No water!” Luke cries.

“Why not?” Julie counters harshly, hands on her hips. They’re all a little bit frustrated with how stubborn Luke is being and it’s unfortunately starting to break through.

“We have way too many electronics for water to be a good idea. We do NOT need another Reggie fixing his amp in the rain situation.”

“Dude, it's contained in a TANK,” Willie explains.

“You are seriously no fun,” Reggie quips as he fiddles with his sleeves.

Willie's eyes widen as he comes up with a new idea.

Luke sighs before Willie even opens his mouth. "No."

WIllie's face falls into another pout. "You don't even know what I was going to say!"

“I don't need to. No.”

“You only need to feed snakes like once a week. And there's no water,” he pauses to consider his words before continuing. “Well, almost no water. And they're PRETTY!”

Luke’s face pinches in confusion, "What?!"

"A ssssssnake. We should get a snake."

"A snake? Seriously?"

"Yeah, people have them as pets all the time. And they're super chill and low maintenance. Look!" Willie pulls out their phone and starts typing. He stops and turns his phone around for Luke. “See?”

Julie crowds in behind Luke and coos over the picture on the top of the screen.

After giving Luke a moment to read, she plucks Willie's phone out of his hand. Julie walks around to Alex and Reggie showing it to them.

Reggie's jaw drops and a contemplative look crosses Alex's face.

"Willie has a point, you know," Alex says after a moment.

"How do you mean?"

"We could have a super cool, super fun pet. It's low maintenance enough that we could ask Carlos to feed it like once a week when we're away. We don't need to take it out for walks. Just... clean the tank every once in a while."

Luke groans, "Are you serious? Can we at least sleep on the idea of it before we start talking about it?"

Reggie grins, "So you're saying we can talk about it?"

Luke offers a resigned sigh, “Tomorrow.”

That earns Luke whooping cheers from everyone else. He can't help the small quirk of his lips at their excitement but quickly returns his face to its solemn expression before they can notice.

“Can we get back to rehearsal now?” he asks once the others have started to calm down.

“Sir! Yes, sir!” Reggie salutes. He’s met with an eye roll from Luke and laughter from the others but they quickly find their positions, picking back up where they’d left off before being derailed by the pet talk.

—

They’d agreed, some with more resistance than others, that this was for the best. Reggie and Julie didn’t need to know EVERYTHING and it was fine.

Except that when Willie got home with that week’s meal for Peony, he was surprised to find both Reggie and Julie hanging out with her.

Reggie notices Willie’s entrance and lights up. He eyes the package in Willie’s hands and nudges Julie. She turns and directs a smile Willie’s way.

“Whatchu got there?” she asks, pointing at the box.

“Uh, nothing?” They reply awkwardly as he tries to shield it from them.

“Uh huh, convincing,” Reggie says with a grin. He takes a few steps toward Willie, who moves backwards each time Reggie gets closer.

Julie looks between the guys and lets a mischievous grin take over her own face. “Is it something we can’t see?” she asks carefully.

“No?” Willie answers, cursing himself for apparently completely losing the ability to lie at some point in the last five minutes. He puts the box behind his back for good measure.

Julie joins Reggie’s mission to solve the mystery of the box. She swoops behind Willie to grab it from their hands.

Willie sighs in resignation as he watches her peel back the lid.

Julie squeals in excitement as she holds the box out to Reggie. “Look at it! It’s so cuuuute!”

Reggie joins her and lets out a squeal of his own.

They fawn over the mouse for a moment before turning to look up at Willie.

“How’d you convince Luke?” Julie asks.

“Uhhhhh, I didn’t?” he tries and Julie narrows her eyes at him but otherwise accepts their answer. Apparently she has better things to do than interrogate them. She returns her attention to the mouse.

Willie runs a hand down his face as he muffles a sigh. They know this is going to end poorly. He lets Reggie and Julie take their time cooing over the small animal while he tries to figure out how to get them back out of the house so he can feed Peony.

They send a quick text off to Alex and Luke who promptly respond with a plan. A few moments later, Reggie’s phone rings and he’s ushering Julie out of the house on whatever errand Luke had sent them on.

—

They somehow manage to make it a few more weeks without any questions from Reggie and Julie. The half-lie that Luke didn’t let the mice stay seemed to do most of the heavy lifting for them and casual deflection worked for the rest. Until it didn’t.

—

Julie and Reggie burst through the door with a very resistant Carlos in tow.

“I told you I don’t want to!” he exclaims as he struggles against them.

“Just come meet her!” Julie insists as she gives another tug of his wrist.

“She’s a sweetheart,” Reggie adds, “you’ll love her.”

“Just give her a chance!” Julie pleads. She turns her most powerful puppy dog eyes on Carlos. He rolls his eyes back at her. She sighs. Right, sibling immunity. She nudges Reggie who immediately takes the hint.

He widens his eyes with his most pathetic expression and it’s Carlos’ turn to sigh, “You can show her to me. But I’m staying back here.”

“Yes!” Julie cheers. She turns toward the room, confused by the sight she’s met with. “What’s going on?”

“Nothing,” Willie says from their position in front of Peony’s enclosure. They’re flanked on either side by Alex and Luke, blocking the others from being able to see their pet snake.

Reggie gasps as panic overtakes him, “Is she… Is she okay?!”

“She’s fine,” Alex sighs.

“You weren’t supposed to be home yet,” Luke adds, directing a quick look over his shoulder.

“What’s… why are you blocking her?” Reggie asks. He walks toward them and the trio tighten up their formation.

Julie makes her way around Reggie and stands in front of the others. “Move, please,” she says, less of a question than it probably could be.

“No, I don’t think I will,” Alex replies casually, crossing his arms over his chest for good measure.

“I assure you, you do not want to see what’s behind us,” Willie adds, silently pleading with his eyes for her to drop it.

Luke directs his own puppy dog look her way and she rolls her eyes. “That doesn’t work on me, remember?”

Julie’s about to just push through them when Carlos speaks up from his spot by the door, “They don’t know how you feed it yet, do they?”

Everyone’s eyes widen at once and Carlos would laugh at the sight if he wasn’t halfway terrified. Julie and Reggie both round on him. Then look back at the guys. And then back at Carlos.

“Show me,” Julie insists, pushing between Luke and Willie. Her hand immediately covers her mouth in horror. Reggie’s at her side in an instant and his own jaw drops.

“You… I…” Reggie stammers. His eyes turn glassy.

Reggie turns to Julie and the tears in his eyes seemingly grant hers permission to fall.

“Oh, that poor little guy,” she cries feebly.

Alex, Luke, and Willie exchange concerned looks. Alex wraps Julie up into his arms while Luke does the same for Reggie. They hold the pair as they let out their cries of distress.

“I told you this would happen,” Willie huffs at them, though any annoyance in their voice is belied by the fond look on their face. They can’t really fault Alex and Luke for wanting to delay this moment for as long as possible.

Carlos coughs out a bitter laugh, “Why do you think I didn’t want to do this?”

Julie’s lip wobbles as she turns to him. She doesn’t leave Alex’s arms but he loosens them slightly so that she can move. “I… I just thought maybe you were just weirded out by snakes.”

Carlos rolls his eyes. “I told you I was never coming here again after you got it-”

“Her!” Reggie corrects forcefully through his own residual tears. He pushes himself away from Luke, wiping at his face.

Julie offers him her hand and he grabs it immediately.

Carlos corrects himself with another eyeroll, “Her. You thought I’d refuse to be here if I was just ‘weirded out’ by snakes?” Carlos accentuates the words with finger quotes.

“She’s harmless!” Julie cries.

“Well, mostly,” Reggie murmurs woefully. “If you’re not small and adorable.”

“I’m small and adorable!” Julie pouts.

Reggie squeezes her hand in silent comfort. “And squeaky,” he adds. “You’re not squeaky.”

Julie grins at that. “Not most of the time, anyway.”

“Anyway,” Carlos interjects from his position by the door. “I came, I saw, I’m leaving. You can find someone else to help with your weird pet. It won’t be me.”

The five of them watch him leave in stunned silence before Willie realizes that he’d probably not driven himself there. They run after him, stopping to grab the keys and slip on their shoes on the way.

Willie just manages to get his second shoe on when Carlos pops his head back in the door.

“Yes, I’ll drive you home,” Willie tells him preemptively.

“Thanks.” Carlos waves back at the others, “Bye! Good luck with…” he gestures toward Julie and Reggie, “that.”

He disappears out the door again and Willie follows him. “Try not to inflict any more trauma on them!” they call out as they shut the door.

“Is it… is she… done?” Julie asks with a small voice.

Luke hazards a look into Peony’s enclosure. “Well, as done as she can be for now,” he tells her.

“Do they have to be,” Reggie shudders and Luke wraps an arm around his shoulders, “alive?”

“We tried,” Alex explains slowly, “but unfortunately she’s a bit picky. We didn’t want you to have to see it.”

“So when Willie had that…” Julie trails off.

Luke turns to her with a sad look in his eyes, “Yeah, Peony snack.”

Julie takes a deep breath and leans her head back, holding back a fresh set of tears. She crawls into Alex’s sweater as best she can. He groans but doesn’t otherwise fight her. He even tries to give her some extra space. It’s an emergency situation and if anyone’s going to be granted the right to stretch it out, it’s Julie. He almost goes as far as offering to take it off for her but stops when she glares at him.

After another deep breath, Julie speaks up again, “Okay, Peony snack. I guess now we know.”

“And you can tell us when it’s time to feed her and we’ll just make sure we’re somewhere else,” Reggie adds. He shudders, “Anywhere else.”

“But now we have to figure out what to do if we can’t rely on Carlos,” Luke says. “She won’t last our full tour without food.”

“I’m sure there’s somebody who can help. And if not, I guess we’ll just have to hire someone,” Alex responds with a sigh. They don’t yet make enough money to spend on too much frivolity and none of them will be very excited to lose what little they do have to a pet sitter. Even if it’s only once a week.

“We have time,” Julie assures them. They still have a few months until their next tour kicks off.

“Guess Luke had a point,” Reggie pouts. He quickly raises a finger and sticks it in Luke’s face. “Not a word!”

Luke mimes zipping his mouth closed but can’t mask the beaming look on his face. It intensifies with Julie’s giggle.

“Who knew Carlos was scared of snakes?” she wonders aloud. Julie grins as she shakes her head in amusement, “You think you know a person.”

—

Luke sighs as he takes in their wall of tanks and enclosures, each housing a different pet that he’d somehow been talked into. “You say no to one dog,” he mutters under his breath. “How did this even happen?” he wonders aloud, slightly louder than before and Julie manages to hear him and laughs as she walks over to stand beside him.

“Peony loves her friends. And now she’s not lonely when we’re gone,” she tells him with a grin.

“She’s a freaking snake,” Luke mumbles. “How lonely can she get?”

Julie chuckles and pats him on the shoulder before handing him his guitar, “Well, think of it this way: now you have a built-in audience for rehearsals.”

Luke groans as he slips the guitar strap over his head, “Fine.”

“Could have just said yes to the dog!” Alex chimes in from his spot behind his drumkit and Luke glares at him. “But I do love Crush and Squirt, so thanks for that,” he grins at Luke and is met with another harsh glare.

“No more!” Luke insists as he settles in behind his microphone and nods his head toward Julie and Reggie to get themselves situated which they quickly do.

“Yes, Dad!” Reggie giggles as he nods toward Alex who counts them in.

#jatp #julie and the phantoms #luke patterson #reggie peters #julie molina #alex mercer #willie nolastname #carlos molina #cw snakes #fanfic #nobodys fics

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innytoes · 2 months

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prompt 35 for reggie ship of choice?

Reggie snuck into the house, which was really quite hard with both his hands full of tiny, squirming kitten. He'd been the last one in the box at the foot of the alleyway, the cliché FREE KITTENS on the front.

And look, Reggie was more of a dog guy, or even a hamster guy, but like, the tiny sad mews just broke his heart and what if nobody else took him home? Then he'd be all alone. He couldn't let that happen.

Still, he needed to convince the others. And he had the perfect plan. Thankfully, most of them were in the living room, Luke and Willie half-heartedly watching a show, Julie doodling, Alex flipping through a magazine with his head in Willie's lap and his feet in Luke's.

So Reggie strode into the living room, before holding out the kitten to Julie, who was probably going to be the easiest to sway.

"The last thing you ate is what we have to name him," he said, seriously.

"Mew," said the kitten, and Julie's eyes widened with Cute Overload.

"Ass," Willie blurted out.

"Dude!" Alex said, shooting upright, face red, which answered the question of whose ass. He seemed to realise that a moment too late, when Luke leaned over to fistbump Willie.

"Um okay, maybe not that," Reggie said, looking hopefully at Julie again.

"Peanut Butter Bagel," Julie said.

"Mew," Peanut Butter Bagel said, when she reached out to pet him.

One down...

"Frito!" Luke said.

"That's more of a dog name," Reggie said, cocking his head. Maybe if he played his cards right...

"Since when are we getting a dog?" Julie asked.

"Well, Luke already named him!" Reggie argued.

"Yeah, Jules!" Luke said, because he was the best boyfriend. At least right now. "Do you want Peanut Butter Bagel to be an only child?"

The bickering started up, comforting and familiar, as Willie came over to inspect the kitten and make friends, and Alex admitted he was pretty cute, and by the time anyone realised that no, they'd never agreed to a kitten, Peanut Butter Bagel already had a name, a water dish, a comfy box to sleep in, an improvised toy (one of Julie's scrunchies) and the hearts of over half of the polycule.

Points to Reggie.

Now apparently, on to part two of his plan, a dog named Frito...

#julie and the phantoms #the greater polyphantoms polycule #you said any reggie ship so I went with reggiexeveryone lol #fanfic #I wrote a thing #special thanks to ash who basically helped me brainstorm this fic and is the reason that prompt was on the list in the first place lol #now I had an excuse to write it so thank you anon

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bbreaddog · 1 month

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It’s the morning after a wild New Year’s Eve party and there are quite a few regrets. . . .writer's choice for characters! ^_^

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Thanks for your one-and-a-bit-years’ long patience on this 😩 I’m so excited to finally, FINALLY share this with you!!

(Prompt from this post. Thanks @noworneverphantom and @1mnobodywhoareyou for beta-ing)

AND NOW, THE FIC (M rating, 2.1k words):

Anyone who thinks having your ears assaulted with the incessant blaring of a dawn break alarm is a great way to start the day is a damn liar.

He slaps his hand over the bedside table blindly until he finally hits the offending object. The noise stops. He flops over onto his stomach.

It’s 7am, January 1st. Fantastic information for someone who actually cares. Not him, though.

His body, however, does. Five hours is not nearly enough to… Well, five hours is not enough. Celebratory drinks on New Year’s Eve can be fun! He just forgets about the part where he has to wake up with the consequences.

He yawns, jaw aching with the stretch, and ribs protesting with the expansion of his breath. Something twitches under his palm. It kinda tickles. He sniffs.

A moment passes. There’s another twitch, then a quiet squeak.

Oh, Reggie thinks. He should probably move in case it’s a rat or something. But lifting his arm suddenly feels like lifting a boulder that’s been superglued to the ground. He sighs. It would be so easy to give up right now.

So he does.

It’s not a big deal. He could probably handle having a little rat friend. Besides, rats are cute. And if his parents didn’t let him have a hamster back in high school—well, now he can have–

An annoyed grumble. Reggie screws up his face. That’s a loud fucking rat, probably one that won’t be much fun to take care of, actually.

So Reggie, still half-asleep and hungover to all hell, makes a decision that any other responsible adult in his situation would make:

He’s going to grab the little guy.

Reggie’s fingers slowly draw in. His eyebrows furrow. It’s something smooth, and a little more triangular than the rat-shape he was expecting. Not that he’s one to body shame.

Experimentally, he squishes it.

There’s a splutter, then–

“Ow!” Reggie whines when his hand gets slapped away.

“Dude, what the hell?”

Reggie’s eyes snap open, sunlight stinging before he can smack a hand over them. “What the hell?” he parrots.

“Lemme breathe.”

“Okay,” Reggie croaks, a little hysterically. “Yeah, sure. W-what are you doing in my bed, though?”

From the other side, Luke snorts. “S’my bed, dude.”

No, it’s not, Reggie wants to say. Because that would be stupid. Being in Luke’s bed would be stupid. Reggie knows that, and Luke has to know that. They’re in a band together! A band where they’d all agreed to never shoot their shot within the group.

More specifically, Reggie had promised both Julie and Alex separately that he won’t get caught up in his long-standing crush on Luke, and that he definitely won’t end up in Luke’s bed. It’s too risky.

So this can’t be Luke’s bed, Reggie thinks, because then we would be in big trouble.

There’s some shuffling beside him, followed by a deep sigh. Reggie peeks through the gap between his fingers. Luke’s eyes are closed, the crease of his brow just smoothing out. Reggie watches Luke’s mouth soften, lips parting slightly, his breaths returning to slow waves. He looks so peaceful.

Just as the thought occurs, Reggie huffs out a small laugh. “Thought you were a rat,” he murmurs.

Luke doesn’t reply. Reggie shuts his eyes again.

So maybe he’s thought about this before, waking up next to Luke all soft and rumpled. Maybe it’s a daydream he likes to revisit regularly. So what? Sue him. It’s not like he’d say no given the chance.

Besides, he seems to recall only saying that he won’t end up in Luke’s bed, so… yeah. He just has to verify that he’s in his own bed, and they’ll be fine. Probably.

Reggie rolls over gingerly, cracking open an eyelid to squint through the bright morning haze. It’s hard to tell whose room it is at a glance when the layouts are so similar:

There’s a wooden desk shoved into a corner at the other end of the room, the chair pulled out to accommodate the mountain of clothes dumped on it; an acoustic guitar sits beside the tallboy, occupying the only section of the floor that’s ever seen the light of day. Speaking of light, why is it so fucking bright?

Reggie props himself up with one elbow, then braves a look at the source of light.

Of course, he groans. The blue curtains hanging over the window are, for some godforsaken reason, open—pushed to the sides, allowing the morning sun to flood the room.

Sure! Reggie thinks. That’s not even the worst part about it, so why not? The only thing that could possibly be worse than this is if Julie and Alex were here pointing at the curtains themselves; because the curtains in Reggie's room are red.

“Fuck,” Reggie moans, letting his eyes fall shut.

If there’s one thing Luke’s good at, it’s persuading Reggie to do things. Stupid things that will get them into stupid trouble.

Maybe they could say it was just a sleepover? Nothing had to have happened between them. Just a couple of bros sharing a bed. It’s winter, it’s cold. Saving on heating bills. Something like that. That sounds reasonable enough, yeah?

He looks back at Luke, and yeah, okay. That’s great, actually—Luke’s not wearing a shirt. That’s… fine. Luke’s fine. Like, really fine.

Getting off track. It’s fine! They’ve all seen Luke waltzing around without a shirt before. Hell, even if he was wearing one, half the material would be gone along with the sleeves. So the story could still pass. This is nothing new.

What is new, to Reggie’s horror, is the massive purple bruise blooming on the side of Luke’s neck. Reggie does not squeak. How did he miss that? It’s huge!

Don’t panic, Reggie tells himself, panicking. There could be any number of reasons why there’s a hickey the size of a golf ball on Luke’s neck. Probably just as many as for why they’ve woken up in the same bed.

Reggie can think of exactly one.

Alex is gonna be so mad. Julie is gonna be so mad.

He swallows. It’s fine, he tells himself, like it’ll be real if he keeps saying it. Maybe this could be salvageable somehow. If they’re sticking with the sleepover thing (which he’ll talk to Luke about… probably), then he should check that they’re wearing clothes. That would make it more plausible. Hopefully.

The back of his neck prickles with sweat, and he suddenly wishes the thought never occurred to him. Now he can’t stop thinking about Luke laying beside him, naked. He can’t stop thinking about Luke seeing him naked. Reggie bites his lip. This is a bad idea. Maybe he can just roll over and go back to sleep and he’ll wake up from this dream.

Except, Reggie has never been one to deny his curiosity, even if it does trap the rat, or however the saying goes. He inhales sharply.

Careful not to disturb Luke, Reggie slowly lifts up the edge of the covers. He takes in a quiet breath and, before he can psyche himself out, leans down to take a peek.

He slaps a hand over his mouth.

We’re gonna die, Reggie thinks, heart pounding in his chest. Alex and Julie are gonna kill us, and we’re gonna die.

“Luke,” Reggie says, nudging him with the back of his hand. “Luke. Luke.”

“What?”

Reggie bites his lip. He has to be smart about this. Although he doesn’t know how smart he can be with this headache swooping back in. “Do you, uh, usually sleep naked?”

Luke snorts. Reggie’s face heats up. “Yeah,” Luke says.

Reggie’s pulse quickens. “So this is normal?”

“Yeah,” Luke says again, slower this time, an unreadable look on his face.

“In– in the middle of winter?”

“What are you, my mom?”

Reggie squeaks. “I-I just mean, like– what if– what if someone else is in your bed?”

Luke blinks. His lips curl up into a smirk.

“Well,” he drawls, propping himself up on an elbow. “Seems like you already know the answer to that.”

“I-I mean–” Reggie stammers, cheeks growing hot. “You could’ve at least– put some pants on, or, or… um…” he trails off, watching Luke’s eyes rake down his chest and slowly drag them back up again. When their eyes meet, Luke slips his tongue out to wet his lips. Reggie’s skin prickles.

“Now, why would I want to do that if the clothes are just gonna come right off again?”

Reggie has never claimed to have a strong resolve. They don’t make it out of bed for a while.

———

“What the hell is that?” Alex demands.

Act casual. Be natural.

”Yeah, Reg,” Luke smirks. Reggie’s blood runs cold. “What the hell did you do to me?”

Alex rounds on him. “You did this?”

“Did what?” comes Julie’s voice, and Reggie instinctively scans the studio for cover. Julie stops in the doorway, staring at Luke. “What the hell is that?” she asks, tone measured.

“That’s what I said,” mutters Alex.

Reggie glances at Luke, who’s still proudly parading the massive hickey on his neck like it won’t get them murdered. Reggie resists the urge to put his face in his hands and scream.

Julie looks between Luke’s smug expression and Reggie’s guilty-puppy eyes, and Reggie can pinpoint the exact moment it clicks.

“Oh my god, what did we say about hooking up within the band?!”

“Felt fucking good, though,” Luke says with a sly smile. “Reggie’s mouth–”

“Absolutely not,” Julie cuts in, holding up a hand. “I never, in a billion years, want to hear about what happened between you and Reggie’s mouth. Gross.”

“Yeah,” Alex says, raising a pocketed hand. “Me too.”

Reggie’s face grows hot. Hell could open up a trap door to a thousand spikes underneath him right now and it would suck less.

“I’m gonna need a moment,” Julie announces. “You two–” she points between Luke and Reggie “–behave. I’ll be back.”

Reggie hangs his head, shame creeping up the back of his neck. He hates disappointing people, least of all Julie Molina. Now the fate of his spot in the band, and probably his friendship with Julie, is doomed.

He hazards a glimpse at Luke. He actually looks sorry now that Julie’s out of sight.

Alex sighs and turns to them, lips pressed into a thin line.

“Alright, Alex, go ahead,” Luke grumbles. “We know you’ve got something to say.”

Alex watches them carefully for a beat before opening his mouth. “Okay, I don’t wanna say I told you so–”

“Yes, you do,” Reggie mumbles.

“Yes, I do,” Alex concedes, shutting his eyes for a second. “But I won’t, because I know you know you messed up. Okay, we all agreed this wouldn’t happen. I’ve kept up my end of the deal. Julie’s kept hers…” He trails off, shrugging. He doesn’t need to say it, but Reggie can practically hear it. Why was it so hard for you to do the same?

Reggie looks at Luke, then back to Alex before dropping his gaze. He’s just about to open his mouth to apologise when the door creaks open.

“Okay,” Julie breathes, carefully closing the door behind her and stepping into the space. “Now that I’m over the initial shock of…” She gestures vaguely at Luke and clears her throat. “I’ve given it some thought, and I’ve decided…” She looks between Luke and Reggie, biting her lip nervously. “We can make an exception here,” she says finally.

“Wait, seriously?” Luke and Alex say in unison. They grimace at each other.

Julie stares. “Okay… anyway,” she says. “Yes, I am serious. Just as long as the two of you—Luke and Reggie—can keep it professional when we’re together as a band.”

“Yeah,” Alex agrees. “We don’t want personal stuff to get in the way of how we work, right?”

Reggie could almost cry with relief, wrapping his arms around Julie in a tight hug with an earnest “Thank you!” before releasing her so Luke can do the same.

With the air cleared, they disperse to set up for the day. Luke bumps his hip against Reggie and throws him a wink. Reggie blushes despite himself.

“Oh, and one more thing,” Julie pipes up. “In case it wasn’t clear enough: no hooking up on band time. Got it?”

Reggie straightens up and salutes her. “Yes, ma’am!”

He hears Luke laugh next to him. “You got it, boss,” he says.

Julie rolls her eyes fondly, and returns to setting up her keyboard stand.

Reggie feels a tap on his shoulder. He turns around, and Luke presses a quick kiss to his lips. It happens so swiftly that Reggie is left stunned; he stares wide-eyed after Luke, who’s already making his way toward his mic.

Somewhere behind him, Reggie hears Alex mutter, “Why do I have to be here?”

#jatp #jatp fic #luke patterson #reggie peters #peterpatter #ruke #ask #jmrothwell #new year prompts #writing prompts #i write things #mine #FUCK. the relief is so great. you’ve no idea #I’m so happy i finally get to share this AHHHH #i hope i made it worth the wait

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l0ves1ckf0ol · 2 years

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SANDMAN HEADCANNONS part 1/???

LORD MORPHEUS - general hcs!

he could sleep late and wake up at 6 am and would have zero to no problems in starting the day at that hour.

death calls him 'morphy' as a way to annoy him, he allows her to call him that and her only

had a pet hamster in one way or the other.

is ace (i think its cannon?)

is completely amused by humanity's theories/perspectives in anything that involves, hell or heaven.

he likes his coffee, black but prefers tea

would spend his time reading at the library with lucienne (if he's not busy)

has candles to help him relax when he's alone.

despises the rain

cares about his hair WAYY too much

has a hard time picking out his ootd even though his wardrobe only consists of black of everything, needs lucienne for it sometimes.

intp or intj

would love reggie black

LORD MORPHEUS - romantic hcs!

idk bout yall but i feel like mf is touch starved so cuddles are his go to way of showing affection.

absolutely little to no pda- unless he's jealous so when he is maybe a firm waist hold or a peck on the cheek.

he knows you like his voice so he only shows his teasing side to you.

will never admit that he loves you when you tease him about it but will certainly put someone in their place when he gets jealous

he gets jealous- a lot

"he was looking at you funny."

you both share a small infatuation for lucifer morningstar.

dramatic & overthinks a lot

will never fail to hype you up in lowercase in any situation.

lucienne is yall's love counselor

LUCIENNE - general hcs!

people saw her as strict and grumpy, but was later changed

she doesn't like taking the leader role but it makes her feel better for having a bigger purpose/role

often checks in with morpheus when he's working on his creations.

when she's got nothing to do, she gossips with abel and cain

matthew is the founder of them scrumptious tea

i think she would be non binary with any pronouns

she would definitely kin hermione granger or remus lupin

is good with kids

she feeds strays (if they ever exist in the dreaming)

has strong emotional intuiton

firm believer that she's either infj or infp

LUCIENNE - romantic hcs!

words of affirmation and acts of service go brrr

mild pda

offers to do your makeup or do your nails and she does it very well

she would rant about morpheus

she trusts you to the point that you think she dgaf about you

gets flustered when you dress up for her

she likes to give you massages.

is practically still when she's asleep so easier to cuddle

reading together >>>

sometimes doubt that you rlly like her but you assure her a lot

hugs and quick pecks 4ever cus she's a classy individual.

grocery shopping w her

#the sandman netflix #the sandman lucienne #lucienne x reader #lucienne headcannons #the sandman #the sandman x you #the sandman x reader #the sandman headcanons #lord morpheus x reader #lord morpheus headcannons #cant i just have both please.#v hot #xu's headcannons

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judgementdaysunshine · 1 year

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🎈 🎉 🥳 🎂 HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈

🌲 tree - 4'11 (I know im short lol), brown wavy hair and eyes ) Got a few tattoos. Anxious, caring, friendly, clumsy (I bruise easily lol) and chatty. Bit of a bohemian love vintage and retro. Love history and reading. Animal lover.

My fandoms are

Moonknight

Marvel

Star wars

Harry Potter

Thank you! Firstly I ship you with Marc! 💙

He likes hearing you talk of history whether with Steven or by yourself but the way you were passionate about it made his heart swell

He grew fascinated with the retro cameras you collected over the years as well as every vintage item you had and started collecting his own items

He liked how much shorter you were than him always making a joke when he would get the chance but also that he would bend down to kiss you always smiling at how tiny you looked standing under him

Despite not being a big reader himself he loved to hear you read no matter what it was or how long he always felt safe hearing you calmly read even helping him sleep whenever he couldn't

He also has a secret love for all your tattoos and every time you're asleep he just runs his fingers across each and every line on all of them then kisses them after

He wasn't a big animal person like you but he liked them well and soon he became a big one after the two of you adopted a yellow labrador retriever named Reggie who was a wonderful dog

He always had the thought in the back of the mind about your future together getting married and having a family despite how much he felt that he didn't deserve it but you reminded him that he was only human and deserved to be happy

Secondly I ship you with Clint Barton! 💜

He always had a weird found love of tattoos and the first time he saw each of your tattoos he just became mush on the ground and after being together for a couple of years the two of you would go and get matching ones together

He loved how passionate about animals you were even when you were younger always having a pet to take care of from dogs,cats,and hamsters to birds,guinea pigs,and rabbits then a couple of months after being together the two of you first got a black cat you named Blueberry and later on a german shepherd and husky mix you named Rex

He loved whenever you would dress in any of the vintage dresses and outfits you have collected some you've gotten from your grandmother from the 70's that made you look like you just walked out of a picture making him wonder how he was the one to have you with him

He never liked reading or the quiet but somehow you would have him read with you whenever you couldn't find anything else to do or just didn't go out anywhere and he grew it enjoy the quiet moments reading a book with you

He always makes a joke about how short you are even when you stare daggers into his soul for it every time

He is always taking pictures of you with one of the many cameras from a polaroid,canon AE-1, to a kodak,or finetta 88 always managing to get the best pictures of you smiling,sleeping,dancing,cooking,or kissing him

He would always stop what he was doing when you need to talk,be held,or do something to calm down when you're anxious about something no matter what it was or what you wanted to do or how long it took he would always do it to see you smile or be better again

He always listened to you ramble and talk about so many things in history from Egyptian rule,the Roman empire,The Aztec ruins in Mexico,or even big points in the world's history from Japan's occupation of Korea,the 2004 Indian ocean earthquake and tsunami,the 1989 earthquake that destroyed the bay bridge,or Hurricane Katrina

Third time is a charm I ship you with Luke Skywalker! 💚

He loved seeing you wear the old Jedi clothes and sing the old music that were sung by many different jedi including his father and Ben Kenobi years before either of you were born

He always stayed with you when you were anxious always taking you to the calmest places where all you could hear was the wind blowing through the trees and just walk in the lake feeling the water run by and see the animals in the woods from afar

He loved hearing you tell stories of the history of a lot of the planets and the history of the people of your home planet even stories of the Jedi and Sith he never heard before

He always smiled seeing you with animals from an ewok,bantha,and loth cat to a wookie,tauntaun,and dokma no matter where the two of you traveled to he would always see you holding and playing with some kind of animal native to the planet

He would always have his students talk to you,play with them,and have food with them when you were depressed and lonely knowing how much all of his students loved and adored you a lot of them seeing you as a mom to them which warmed your heart when they each told you on separate occasions

He never really makes fun of or teases you for being short but he does find it cute at the height difference between the two of you

He knew quite a few people who had tattoos but he never knew that they could be so beautiful and when he saw yours he just started and gently touched all of them while you smiled at his childlike curiosity of the art embedded in your body

And finally I ship you with Cedric Diggory! 💛

He always takes you to a small flower patch near a field miles away from Hogwarts and puts flowers in your hair when you feel depressed

He always finds your love for animals endearing and absolutely heart touching that you treated them exactly like you did humans no matter what

He was shocked at your tattoos but soon always kissed them and traced them when you showered together even getting matching ones for your anniversary of hummingbirds

When you were anxious he would hum piano music to you until you felt safe just laying in his arms with your head on his chest and head tucked under his chin rubbing your back

He always enjoys the fact that you were short that he could just look down and see you next to him holding on to his sleeve with your fingers and your head on his forearm

Whenever you talk about the history of Hogwarts,the houses,or your family he would just watch you for the whole time you talked about whatever it was that you'd ramble about

#moonknight x reader #clint barton x reader #star wars x reader #marc spector x reader #luke skywalker x reader #cedric diggory x reader #judgementdaysunshine's birthday celebration #judgementdaysunshine

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michelangelinden · 1 year

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One Line, Any Fic

Rules: Pick any 10 of your fics, scroll somewhere to the midpoint, pick a line, and share it! Then tag 10 people

I was tagged by @sunsetcurbed (like a month ago, I'm sorry rip) (here is her post, definitely take a look!) and it looks like so much fun, so here we go!

I don't have 10 people to tag, so I'm just gonna do a couple (no pressure of course!): @legolasghosty @wr0temyway0ut @willexmagic @willexxmercer @kybee1497 @curvesomesunsets @fireflyingaway @caswellseyes and anyone else who want to!

Caress my cheek and leave traces of glitter (and hold me like I'm something precious)

If he weren’t so busy regretting his life choice, he probably would’ve fallen asleep again right here on the table.

2. Pretend-Fiancée and literal Partner-In-Crime (don't try to steal my watch again)

Alex is just about to give in to the tug, catching Willie’s eyes dropping down to his own lips, when the cardboard box the ring was stored in gives in to gravity and tumbles over the edge of the table to the ground with a dull thud

3. Between Chaos and Contentment (and a little Creativity)

Alex decides that five minutes under cold water is too long so he gets an ice cube wrapped in a paper towel instead, dripping water everywhere.

4. Whore /Affectionate

Then, because he feels kinda stupid, he hesitantly places his hands at the sides of Willie’s thighs, careful to not go too far towards butt-territory.

5. When I got to touch you, I touched the sun (just like I always wanted)

It wasn’t a conscious decision for Willie to look at Alex—Willie couldn’t look away anymore.

5. You think I'm cool? (Unfortunately, I do)

When Bobby tells Reggie to open his eyes again, he runs his thumbs underneath them one more time, checking if they’re even, and adding a little more on the left.

6. All the other People who tried (it had to be You)

“He looks murderous! He was looking at me like I was his breakfast!”

7. And I would kiss you if you wanted to (with my hand on your cheek)

Do not get attached to Willie.

8. Please tell me what you need (being sad is okay)

Bobby presses a quick kiss to Reggie’s lips, they are both calling their ‘good bye’s to Luke and Julie before Bobby pushes him out the door.

9. Don't come into a man's house and insult his shampoo (unless it's your boyfriend's)

“I-,“ Alex starts, calming down again, “yes, I will help you wash your hair.”

10. Rambo the Hamster (don't give Reggie a Cat)

“Oh, no, nothing, it’s just that this little guy here,” Alex pointed to the cat on his lap, “doesn’t really give off Rambo-vibes.”

#any guesses who my favourite character/ship is?#i don't think it's obvious at all /j #it's so fun to see the vibes of so many fic on one page #can definitely recommend doing this!!#linden writes stuff #linden answers asks

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steelycunt · 1 year

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reggie (street hamster) is a longhaired hamster which means sometimes he gets little bits of the sawdust in his cage tangled in the ends of his fur as he wanders about. and that means when we get him out of his cage we have to hold him above it for about fifteen seconds and gently tug all the sawdust out of his fur so that it doesn't get everywhere and he sort of sits there while we do that. and i guess what i'm trying to say is that if [redacted] were a [redacted] i would gently uhhh [redacted].

#does that make sense.#turning on the no one can reblog feature quick like #anyway he's sitting on my lap right now. it is so fucking freezing in our house bc were trying not to turn the heating on too much except #weve got two separate little mini heaters turned on and pointed at reggies cage to keep him warm. he is the warmest guy in this house rn #everyone else is layering up and shit but not reggie. reggies feelin summery hes feelin tropical #r

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invisibleraven · 2 years

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❛ nope, puppy dog eyes aren’t going to work this time! ❜ for the Reggie ship of your choice!

When Alex started dating both Reggie and Willie at the same time, he knew he was in for a wild ride. Willie was a chaos gremlin at the best of times, and Reggie was always down to clown, so Alex frequently found himself the sensible to keep them both alive, and more importantly, out of jail.

But he still found himself playing lookout when they broke into a museum to skate and scream and secretly hang some of his partner's art on blank spaces on the wall. Grinning as they ran from the lone security guard, not stopping until they were panting for breath safely behind their apartment door.

"I don't know why I let you two talk me into this kind of stuff," Alex gasped, nodding his thanks as Reggie passed him a glass of water, downing it quickly.

"It's cuz you loooooooove us," Willie drawled, his wide grin lighting up Alex's view. "Plus, you had fun Hot Dog, don't even front."

"Oh yeah, running from the cops is always great fun," Alex snarked. "But... yeah, maybe I did." Then he paused, raising a finger. "That doesn't mean we keep doing illegal shit on our dates!"

But given Willie and Reggie's shared conspiratorial grin, Alex knew it probably did.

Like when Willie wanted to graffiti over the hate speech in the neighbourhood, well Alex couldn't exactly tell him no. Plus Reggie helped hold his hand steady as they drew a large ghost over a swastika, and maybe it was the fumes, but Alex couldn't stop from grinning as they erased the terrible imagery with their own brand of art.

Or when the both of them wanted to sneak into a movie theatre to see the invitation only midnight premiere of a franchise they all really loved, well Alex took that as a bit of a challenge rather than a crime. Plus the teenage employees were way too apathetic to care if they had tickets or not.

But when Reggie wanted to break into a pet store to play with all the animals, Alex had to draw the line. "No way, no more breaking and entering!"

Reggie turned his saddest face onto Alex, pulling Willie in to do the same. Alex turned his face. "No! No way! Nope. The puppy dog eyes aren't going to work this time!"

"But Alex...."Reggie begged. "Think of all the cute little bun buns and hamsters that we could play with!"

Alex let out a long suffering sigh. "Reg, you know I love you, but there is no way that we are breaking into a pet store so we can play with animals that I will end up having to wrangle back into their cages and most definitely get arrested for doing." He then looked at the crestfallen expression on Reggie's face and decided to relent, just a little. "Look, how about instead we go visit the animal shelter and you can play with some puppies instead?"

"Yes! Come on cowboy, as cute as the little rodents are, you know you wanna get some good quality doggo time," Willie added.

"Can we get a dog?" Reggie asked.

"Absolutely not," Alex stated firmly.

Yet when confronted by the puppy eyes of not only Reggie and Willie, but the actual puppy dog eyes of a little mutt named Maggie, well Alex found that he couldn't say no, and before too long, they brought her home. Look, he was only so strong okay? And plus, now that their dates revolved around taking Maggie on walks and to the park, Alex found himself having to run from the cops way less often.

Though she did prove to be an excellent look out.

#filled prompts #ficlet #willexie #julie and the phantoms

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katnissgirlsmakedo · 2 years

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ok final ranking of my boys, and then later i have many more thoughts to share

you already know. my little baby raf 💖 genuinely cheered when he hit seth with that oar

kirin. somehow the blonde jock boring-reggie-mantle motherfucker wormed his way into my heart. he sucks he loves his boys he’s a narcissist he’s bisexual but doesn’t know what that means he’s stupid and he loves his boys….

ivan, yass and slay and serve etc <3

somehow making it in the upper half of the list when he started SO low, josh. he’s just a silly little guy you know. just a funny little dude. and he’s kirin’s pet hamster

henry. i don’t have much to say about henry he’s just slightly more compelling and fun than the remaining boys

scotty. god i hope he gets less boring.

bo, same thing as scotty

dj once again gets a place on this list even with his minimal screentime and the fact he’s not even part of the group, just to make our next guy look even worse than he already does. without further ado:

seth. fuck seth

#the wilds liveblog

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helpmeiamprocrastinating · 2 years

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Reggie’s never going to get a puppy.

Or a hamster.

Or pizza.

He’s never going to get to barbecue with Ray.

Or help Carlos with schoolwork.

He’s never going to get to reconcile with his parents.

He’s never going to sing Home Is Where My Horse Is with the band behind him.

He’s never going to get a solo.

He’ll never say “Tell your friends”, after Julie says “we’re Julie and the Phantoms”

He’s never going to hug his family again.

I just can’t stop thinking of all the things that the guys will never get to do, or what we’ll never see them do.

#julie and the phantoms #jatp #no unfinished business #julie molina #reggie peters #luke patterson #alex mercer

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wolfstcr · 3 years

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damn cute | reggie peters

pairing: reggie peters x fem!reader

summary: reggie has a little problem slipping up by saying things sometimes and it gets worse when he talks to attractive girls like you.

warning: swearing, making out.

Julie, Flynn, and the boys were sitting at a table of one of their favorite dinners around, Tambo’s. It was their usual program for the weekend, but this time there was something else catching the boys’ attention.

Julie was literally vibrating with enthusiasm. Everyone else seemed to notice that and got confused, exchanging glares and trying to guess what in the world could get the girl suddenly so excited.

“Ok, what are you hiding?” Luke asked and Julie rolled her eyes at him.

“It’s a surprise.”

“You know, i think we dealt with enough surprises in the past few years.” Alex said.

“C’mon, Jules!” Reggie shouted. “Just tell us.”

“Fine!” she blurted out. “So... one of my best friends is moving back here. She’s in her way right now. And congratulations, you just ruined the surprise.”

“Oh my God, Y/N?!” Flynn exclaimed, suddenly interested in the conversation. Julie excitedly nodded. “How did you not tell me this before?!”

“It was supposed to be a surprise!” Julie retorted. The two girls had smiles plastered on her faces while the boys still seemed clueless.

“Sorry, who?” Alex questioned.

“That is it?” Reggie asked looking disappointed. “No puppies? No hamsters?”

“You guys gonna love her.” Flynn said ignoring Reggie’s questions.

“When will we meet her?” Luke asked taking a sip of his milkshake.

“She will be here any minute, actually.” Julie said quickly glancing at the door and turning to face the boys again.

“Where is she from?” Alex asked.

“New York. I met her when i was a kid through Carrie when she used to live here.” Molina answered and Reggie scoffed. “What?”

“New york? Through Carrie? I’m not really into dealing with a rich kid in our friend group.” Reggie retorted.

“First of all, that’s rude. You don’t even know her, she’s not like that.” she defended. “And besides Flynn, Y/N was the only one by my side when mom died, before she had to move away. Now she’s here and you guys better treat her right or i’m dropping you.” Julie said playfully and Reggie just crossed his arms.

When he was about to say something again, you entered the dinner, making the bell on the door ring and catching everyone’s attention.

Okay, you were not what Reggie thought you’d be.

The sweet grin on your face and the way you spontaneously acted made the guys - specially Reggie - realize you were very different from what they thought a Carrie’s friend from New York would be. You held the door open for an old couple who were leaving and murmured a “good afternoon” when they thanked you.

“Y/N!” Julie yelled getting up from the table. You immediately spotted her and smiled at your best friend, walking towards the girl and embracing her in a big hug. Flynn was the next, hugging you warmly and murmuring “i missed you”. They leaded you to the table with three boys who you knew that were part of Julie’s band.

While Alex and Luke watched the whole scene between you and the other girls, Reggie just couldn’t take his eyes off you.

He thought you were absolutely stunning.

Reggie was breathless. The other two boys were smiling when you got closer, and before you take a seat, Julie introduced you to them.

“Guys, this is Y/N. Y/N meet Luke, Alex and Reggie.” she said.

“Hey, guys. It’s so nice to meet you!” you said, shaking hands with each of them and snapping the bassist out of his thoughts. Alex and Luke said it back and Reggie just nodded, not trusting his words and trying to play the cool. “Honestly, i couldn’t wait to meet the guys who brought music back to Julie’s life. You are really important to me already.”

Why did she have to be this pretty and so nice?

What Reggie didn’t know was that you were also enchanted by the boy. You thought he was just so cute, kind of shy but at the same time trying to play the cool since the moment you sat at the table. You also found it really cute how the way he dressed completely contrasted with the way he acted. And God, you couldn’t help but notice how good looking he was.

While you were talking and answering questions regarding your New Work life to Julie and Flynn, Reggie was focused on how pretty you looked. Your hair looked so good, just like your lips. He had loved your clothes and your style. And there was something about your smile, too. You were truly one of the most gorgeous girls he had ever seen.

“My God, you’re so damn cute.”

It took a few seconds for him to realize everyone had stopped talking and was staring at him, while his gaze was still on you.

Oh, no.

He didn’t just said that out loud, did he?

“Very smooth, Reggie.” Luke joked holding back his laugh. Alex had a smirk on his face, while Julie and Flynn looked surprised at first but quickly smirked at the two of you too.

His eyes widened and he quickly started to look for an excuse for what he just did without looking dumb for you. On the other hand, you didn’t try to hide the rosy blush on your cheeks. Instead, you just stared at Reggie with a big - and flirtatious - grin and waited for him to say something.

“I’m so sorry, i-i didn’t... i didn’t realize, you know, that i was... i didn’t mean to say that out-“ he tried to explain himself but stopped as soon as he realized you were looking at him smiling whit your bottom lip between your teeth.

“Reggie... You know, i think you’re damn cute too.” you said putting a lock of hair behind your ear and he immediately blushed at your words. “Can you scoot over? Today i’m sitting next to you, if that’s ok.”

“S-sure!” he answered and offered you a shy smile.

[...]

Since the night you moved back to your hometown and met the guys about two weeks ago, Julie and Flynn wouldn’t stop teasing you about Reggie. The friendship between you two had grown based on flirting. The way you acted and the way you looked at each other made it very clear how not-platonic your relationship actually was.

“It’s finally movie night!” Flynn yelled from the kitchen.

Your friends had decided to organize a movie night and watch a few classics from the ‘90s, your and Reggie’s personal favorites. Everything was ready and you were just waiting for the boys to show up.

“We’re here!” Luke announced as they entered the house.

“Took you long enough.” you sang out from the couch, turning to face them.

“Hey!” Reggie greeted and you smiled at him.

“Finally!” Julie said.

“We brought some snacks!” Alex said putting the bag on the table.

After a few minutes, everyone was ready in their sits. Alex sat in the armchair on youf left and Reggie in the one on your right. You, Julie, Luke and Flynn squeezing your bodies together on the couch since no one wanted to sit on the floor. Flynn finally pressed the play, starting officially your movie night.

“This is going to be fun!” she exclaimed.

They didn’t even get to finish the first movie.

Looking around, only you and Reggie seemed to be awake. While everyone else was asleep, Luke’s body started to lean down towards yours and there was no more space left by your other side. It got uncomfortable enough to make you get up from the couch and decide to sit on the floor. It wasn’t too comfortable either but it was better than having your body smashed by Luke and Flynn.

“What are you doing on the floor?” Reggie whispered from the armchair snapping you out of your thoughts.

“Um? Oh, Luke and Flynn’s bodies were suffocating me.” you answered and he chuckled.

“Come sit with me.” he said patting his thighs. You blushed at the thought of sitting so close to him and shook your head.

“Oh, no. Thanks.” you mumbled a little embarrassed and he just nodded and turned his attention to the movie again.

A few minutes had passed and the floor was getting really cold, making your body shiver. You fought against your embarrassment and decided to stood up and walk to Reggie. You playfully pouted and he looked at you.

“Is your offer still available?” you asked and he just giggled, nodding. You sat on his thighs and he instantly embraced you, putting one hand on your waist and the other one resting on your leg, trying to make it more comfortable for you.

“Is this ok?” he whispered when your body tensed a little and you could feel his hot breath on your neck. You didn’t trust your words that moment so you just nodded, giving him a sweet shy smile.

It was more than ok.

His left hand started to drawn invisible circles on your skin and the gentle touch of his fingers made you melt. Reggie couldn’t care less about the movie on the screen, the only thing he could focus on was how pretty you looked in his arms. After a few seconds you rested your head on his shoulder.

“Is it comfortable for you?” Reggie whispered one more time and in the second you turned to face him to give an answer you realized how close your lips were. You stared at each other’s eyes and mouths for what it looked like hours. Before he could say anything you close the space between the two of you, starting a sweet but passionate kiss. His hand went to back of your neck while his thumb gently caressed your check. Your hands were on his shoulders and neck when you broke the kiss and stood up. You were unsure if what had just happened was right. It did felt right, but you had to think.

“Um, i’m going to the kitchen, i’ll be right back.” you excused and walked away from him, leaving the boy clueless.

You grabbed some water, almost spitting everything out when you heard a voice saying your name.

“Y/N!” Julie and Flynn called at the same time.

“You two literally almost killed me!” you exclaimed.

“You and Reggie had a damn of a moment!” Flynn muttered and you felt your cheeks heat up.

“What?! How the heck did you saw that? You were literally sleeping!”

“Or we were just pretending to...” she said and you raised your eyebrows, knowing that they were fully and completely asleep a few moments ago. “We were sleeping but we woke up minutes ago. Time enough to catch your make out session with lover boy!” the girls grinned widely and you tried to hide the silly smile on your face. “Why did you leave him?”

“I don’t know, i just had to think... I mean, does he feel the same way or was it just a moment?” you sighed. “I like Reggie, i really do. A lot.”

“You do?” you heard a voice say behind you and panicked as soon as you realized who that voice belonged to. Reggie was standing a few steps away from you at the doorway. You turned to face the girls, who just had a huge grin on their faces.

“YOU SET THIS UP!” you yelled and before they could answer you continued. “I’m going to kill you two. Now.”

“Not today!” Julie said leaving the kitchen with Flynn and locking the door with you and Reggie inside.

“Julie Molina, you better unlock this right now!” you yelled, wanting to avoid any embarrassment with Reggie.

“Figure your things out!” she yelled back.

“I think she’s right.” Reggie said, walking to you. “We should figure it out, right?”

“Reg...” you began. “It’s ok if you don’t feel the same way.”

“What?!” he laughed. “Are you really that oblivious? And i thought i couldn’t be more obvious. I like you, Y/N. A lot.” Reggie admitted and before you could say anything he kissed you for the second time that night.

His right hand grabbed your waist and slightly squeezed it making your body shiver. You gently tugged his hair making the boy gasp, earning a proud smile of you. This kept going for a few minutes until you two pull away, breathless and with your eyes still closed.

“What if i take you on a date?” he asked a few seconds after your little make out session ended.

“That sounds amazing.”

“Good.” he whispered relieved and you grinned. He was so pure.

“Julie, you can open the door now.” you said a little louder so she could hear it. Everything stayed silent. “Julie? Flynn?” you tried again.

No answers.

“I swear to God, if they fell asleep...” you started.

“You know, we could at least enjoy our time since we’re stuck here.” the boy suggested using a flirt tone.

“And what’s on your mind?” you said taking a step closer and pulling your bottom lip between your teeth.

“Have i ever told you how damn cute you are?” he asked and you pretended to think. He laughed and leaned down to kiss you again.

“I feel like i’ve heard that before.”

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crybabyddl · 3 years

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I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO REITERATE SOMETHING

Yes, let’s circle back to the beautiful performance of Edge of Great. More specifically the BODY LANGUAGE, particularly Julie and Luke’s, which I will be analyzing with gifs.

Exhibit A

Jealous Luke looks over at Julie and Reggie vibing

Julie is aware that she’s avoiding Luke, which she is doing so bc she realized her feelings for him thanks to Flynn earlier in the episode.

Since Julie has put the task of ignoring Luke upon herself even though she has no obligation to, she ends up failing her own mission. She sees Luke’s reaction to the lack of her attention.

She literally FREEZES. She’s emotionally worried to confront what she’s feeling and it’s beginning to manifest physically.

Exhibit B

It gets better y’all. After Luke finally has even a crumb of Julie’s attention, he beckons her over with his signature head tilt. This is important bc he did this with his longtime bandmate during the soundcheck of what would’ve been their biggest performance. If he feels comfortable enough using that body language with a girl he’s only known for, what, a week and a half(?) then you know this puppy boy’s got it BAD.

Julie is well aware that Luke is getting jealous. But in classic Julie fashion, she will try to tune it out instead of addressing it. Our wicked beauty doesn’t like confrontation and would rather just deny and avoid than potentially make things awkward, especially when she knows Luke would ask her about it at a later time.

The look on Julie’s face. Her eyes widen and the classic tight-lipped awkward smile is present. She’s literally saying “ok enough of that let’s get back to work doo doo doo” with her face. The way her body SWINGS back into performance mode as she faces the audience again. It may have been a split second, but when you’re deliberately trying to avoid looking into the dreamy (dead) eyes of someone you shouldn’t be crushing on, any amount of time feels too long. Plus, she knows Flynn is watching and doesn’t want her to lecture her (but she does anyway bc Flynn is observant and knows her bestie too well to let any action slip past her).

Exhibit C

Keep in mind; NONE OF THE GUYS KNOW WHY JULIE IS AVOIDING LUKE. Flynn, Alex, and Reggie have noticed the Juke chemistry, but it’s still too soon for them to get past the “we like each other but we’re too clueless to notice that we reciprocate” phase, so even though their respective besties know, they are still denying. Besides, Reg, Alex, and Flynn know better than to keep pestering if they want to keep their kneecaps. In reality they’re both smart enough to tell by this point, but for the sake of the plot and to make everything more adorably frustrating, Flynn has the collective brain cell under lock and key, leaving Juke to be like *dog tilting its head and making that “a-roo?” noise*

Anyway, Reggie notices Luke being snubbed after realizing that his extra dose of Julie time was slightly out of the ordinary. Luke is clearly concerned (look at his eyebrows and how his eyes travel from Reggie, to Julie, then to the audience to trying and get his mind off it and bring his focus back to the main goal; the performance.) If he can’t have the moment of connection with Julie that he so desperately craves, he’s gonna fill that void as best he can by connecting with the audience. >:’)

But Reggie’s trying to help Luke brush it off by conveying his reaction as ‘look at julie coming into her own! i told you she was a star! and you thought you were the lead singer? think again buddy this girl’s got you beat!’

But since Reggie isnt a master at hiding his feelings yet, especially around Luke, —who was able to get under his skin earlier (“girls, am i right?”)—Luke was easily able to see through that and interpreted what Reggie was saying as “look at julie go, she all in the zone. you’re literally making heart eyes at her get a grip you’re slacking lmao” (hence luke’s right eyebrow quirking at reggie like ‘dude seriously gimme a break u know i need attention like tinkerbell’) even though Reggie’s true message was a bit less harsh and more lovingly teasing, but it’s Luke, he sees things through his eyes and at his intensity, regardless of who it’s coming from. (This is one of the reasons why Luke comes off as selfish at times.)

Exhibit D

Poor Lukey boi can’t seem to catch a break today! Not only does Julie ignore him, then has a cute lil (platonic but it’s luke so it still makes him jealous >:P) moment, but now she has the AUDACITY to interact with Alex? The guy who was out learning Ghost 101 with this Willie guy instead of rehearsing with the band? What gives?! What’s he got that your moody ghost bf doesn’t? >:’(

He literally just watches, and even glances back in a way that, to me, screams ‘did i see that right? did i just see what i just saw with my own dreamy (but dead) eyes? say sike rn.’ \_(*_*)_/

Meanwhile, Alex pays no mind. I like to think that Alex is fully aware that Luke is an angry boy rn, but has learned to ignore it, especially this bc literally NOTHING happened. Either that or Alex has no clue and just truly thinks nothing of it and is having too much fun to think about Luke’s moody and childish behavior. Either way, Alex is just straight chilling and we love to see it *^_^*

Notice how Reggie is right there vibing with Julie and Alex. Luke feels a bit betrayed like ‘not you too! i know you were the first to turn on me but i figured since you’re such a golden retriever you’d be loyal and come back to my side!😠🥲’

Also; Luke approaches the rest of the group, wanting to be included in at least SOME of the vibing, but when Julie starts dancing and smiling with her buddy Alex, he backs up like

“you know what? nope. nevermind. not doin’ it.”

and the group’s like “i mean hey it’s your loss, but luke we want you to-”

“no, bc you chose to piss me off right in front of my face so no luke time for any of you! no cuddles, no hugs, no nothing! you made your bed, now lie in it and perish.”

Exhibit E & F: This is where it gets a bit interesting and theorized hehe...

Now we all know that this moment is just fucking ICONIC

WEOWH NEOW NEOW!!! WEOW NEHR NEHR NER-NER-NER NEHR NEHR NEOWHR!!! (wer nehr-nehr-ner-ner-nehr-nehr!!) WUEHNER-NEUHNER-NEHR-NEEOW-NEOWH! DLOOLOODDUH-DOODLAH-HOOBLUEH-NEOWHR-NEUEHR-NEEEEEEUOWRH!!!!

But hear me out– HEAR ME OUT!

What if... now don’t shoot the messenger who just so happens to also be the theorist... but what if...

WHAT IF!!! Luke didn’t!! plan this?!!!

Listen i know you’re probably thinking:

“Well uh Nicole, isn’t that kinda the whole point? It literally wasn’t planned until Charlie realized Madi was gonna be standing on the piano so he suggested the idea for the guitar solo to Kenny.”

And you’re right! But here’s the kicker:

What if Luke THE CHARACTER, just decided to do this as an “Alright that’s it! You wanna be like that? Well what if I just hit you with my super awesome radical totally cool wowza guitar skills & make a moment between us? Huh? What do you think about that? Hmm? HMMM???!!!”

He licks his lips & that to me read** like he was nervous (**read rhyming with bed just to clarify) so that means it could’ve been a spontaneous, spur-of-the-moment thing.

In the second gif, you can see that Julie’s head is tilted, as if she’s a bit confused, but she’s also delightfully surprised.

Julie is quick to smile and scrunch her nose at Luke, something she does often. It tells Luke his impulsive action garnered a positive response from his favorite girl. Julie also starts to shake her head, but doesn’t go through the motion in full, which means she’s still a bit nervous to let her guard down. This is probably because she doesn’t know what he’s thinking or what he will do next. The lopsided smile mixed with the suave, gliding steps towards her probably brought her back to her daydream lol.

Luke’s happy bc Julie’s no longer ignoring him. He smiles like a GOOBER bc this chump is simping HARD for our Julie. So cute! :’)

Exhibit G

And hear me when I offer this:

What if Luke poofed the guys out???

I know, I know. It’s a bold claim to make. But the boys are special, considering they are a threat to Caleb (3 gay-variant himbos vs. a gay magician that could’ve been on broadway but decided to make some sort of deal with a devil so he just entertains capitalists who most likely sold their souls to get into the hgc which i will probably elaborate on in a future theory so dont do that bc im gonna lmao idc we all have big brains) So it’s not too crazy to think that they could share some ghost powers.

We know Caleb transported the guys during You Got Nothing to Lose. And the guys have left a place at the exact same time on more than one occasion.

And you may be thinking “well what if the guys poofed out to give juke a moment alone together?” And to that I say...

Look at Reggie. He isn’t looking back at Alex like “dude let’s give them some space.”

The timing of him turning around, at least to me, makes me think Reggie was surprised by Luke approaching the piano. (But also he lowkey was waiting for Luke to prove him wrong by doing something to get Julie’s attention so Reggie isn’t mad. Neither is Alex but he doesn’t like being told how or WHEN to ghost) Luke doesn’t even give his bandmates a warning eyebrow quirk, a hand signal, nothing. Reggie turns to Alex like ‘dude what is he DOING?’ And before he can even really convey that, they go *POOF*

This man had a plan and he was gonna do it, so he did. Whether it’s the power of love, they stopped performing, or Reggie and Alex actually poofed out, the odds worked in Luke’s favor so he and Julie could have a super special moment, a moment special enough to make an actual living person (Nick) wonder if a “hologram” has a better chance at connecting with Julie than he does.

Again, regardless of who made them poof or how they poofed, they mf poofed so Luke’s a happy hamster. (Idk it just sounded fitting instead of happy camper lol wait what if someone had 3 pet hamsters and named them alex reggie and luke🥺 someone buy some hamsters and let me be their godmother or their aunt and i’ll love them from afar.) Anyway, Luke’s thriving, flourishing, his crops are going to grow in time for the harvest.

You can see Julie lean back as she turns to see Luke. It’s... almost as if... She. Wasn’t. Expecting. Him. To. Be. There..??

Honey badger Luke bc he DGAF <|:) Bitch, it’s Luke mf Patterson and he’s gonna,, GET! IN! YOUR! FAAAACE!!!

You CANNOT tell me he’s not doing the absolute MOST to try and seduce Miss Juliana Mariposa Rose Molina.

Yes I’m making a headcanon that Julie has TWO middle names and that one of them is the spanish word for butterfly and that the other is her mother’s name. Also yes, I believe (i believe that we’re just one dream away from who we’re– oh, that’s not what we’re doing? okay, sorry!) that Juliana is Julie’s full name.

In this house we love and respect Juliana Mariposa (Dahlia)** Rose Molina

**I’m just putting Dahlia there for fun bc I can. :) Whether I’d consider it a possible middle name of hers depends. Anyway I just thought it was a cute thing to add bc it goes along with the other middle names I gave her *^_^* Also, I feel like I made a post giving a bunch of the characters middle names lemme see if I can find it later)

Ok i’m done this took me basically all day from like 10am until 4:08. I obviously took breaks in between, but not long ones...😶

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"you're a wherewhat?" for rulie ?? Please and thank you.

Combining this with your other ask of '"Honestly, you being a [insert supernatural being here] explains so much." + rulie ?'

"You're a werewhat?" Julie asked, as Reggie fidgeted his fingers together.

"Werehamster," he said again, awkwardly. The guys all knew, and they were cool about it. Alex had immediately gone on a deep dive of Proper Hamster Care, and forbidden any hamster balls ("They're bad for your spine, Reginald!") and gotten him proper, enriching toys and treats.

He mostly stayed in the studio these days, in his special little cage. That was way safer than at home, where he tried to stay under his bed with his assortment of toilet paper rolls and shredded history notes, and hoped his parents didn't find him and think they had rats and tried to kill him.

"I got bitten when I was seven. I always thought it was weird, finding a hamster at the beach, so I tried to get him to safety and welp..." He shrugged.

"So you're not keeping a secret pet from me?" Julie asked, pointing at the cage they'd done their best to hide behind other junk in the loft. Ever since Julie joined the band and she invited them to practice in her mom's studio instead of the dingy old garage they used to practice in, things had been better. Except it also meant they'd had to sneak in Reggie's Hamster Home in the middle of the night. Thankfully, none of the Molinas really went up into the loft much.

"I mean, kind of," Reggie said. "Except the secret pet was me. I'm so sorry, Jules. It's just, you know how people are about weres." He'd noticed the Molinas were pretty chill about the whole thing, though, so he wasn't particularly worried. Though hopefully Julie wouldn't be so mad that he'd have to find another place to hang out on the full moons.

"Yeah, people were always jerks about Tío Mario being a werepigeon," Julie said. Oh, that explained a lot. "It's okay, Reggie. Of course you can use the studio for the full moons. We can even get you a bigger enclosure, if you want."

"You're not mad?" Reggie asked, relieved.

"Honestly, you being a werehamster explains so much," Julie said, listing stuff on her fingers. "The way you always stuff your cheeks with Tía's empenadas. The way you're always shredding paper. The little burrows you make on the couch with our blankets during movie night. I should have seen it sooner."

Oh, he guessed he did do all those things. And here he thought he'd been doing such a good job of hiding it.

"Besides," Julie said, grinning. "I bet you're a really cute hamster."

Reggie flushed, but grinned. "Well, I don't mean to brag but like... Luke did once enter me in a Cute Pet Picture contest and we won a year's worth of hamster bedding." Okay so maybe using a were was cheating, but they hadn't really had the money to buy it, so they decided that ethically, that meant it was okay.

"Oh my god I need to see this immediately," Julie said, and Reggie pulled out his phone. As they huddled together on the couch, he had a feeling that everything would be okay.

That was of course until Julie came to check on him the morning after the next full moon and caught more than an eye-full of Very Much Not A Hamster Anymore But Also Not Dressed Yet Reggie.

But in the end, that worked out for him too.

#julie and the phantoms #reggiexjulie #AUs are awesome #I wrote a thing #fanfic #this is so stupid but I love it #yes I had a list of 'what would be the silliest animals Reggie could be'#the other options were Opossum and skunk #and pomeranian

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