Can I request the impossible? Suit/Unknown (you choose) cuddles 0-0 🤲
Perhaps difficult, but by no means impossible, my dear! (at least I'd like to think not.) there is only one scenario in which I can imagine this happening and I think you probably saw it coming.
Suit Saeran x gender-neutral reader | Words: 1045
‘I’ll go now.’
‘Wait-!’ You’d scrambled from beneath the blanket and let the words fly out as if by instinct, or some inexplicable, deeply-rooted understanding that this may be the last time you would see Saeran as he was now, at least for a long time. Perhaps it was the fact that he himself had said you wouldn’t be seeing him for a while, and that he was leaving it to Ray to make you happy, but there was this nagging feeling that you needed to make the most of whatever time you had with him. ‘Saeran- don’t go yet.’
He flinched ever so slightly at your sudden outburst, his face still cast in the peaceful glow of moonlight.
‘Sorry- please- please stay a bit longer. Don’t leave.’
How ironic he found your plea to be; it had been Ray begging you not to leave and Saeran who insisted you would, and yet here you were. You had always been a strange one. Perhaps to you, even the company of a monster was better than the crippling feeling of being painfully alone? He supposed that he could understand this sentiment — maybe a little too well. Some part of his tired mind wondered if this had been the key to breaking you all along. Maybe leaving you isolated and abandoned in this room for days would have brought you a fraction of the numbing pain he carried. But even then, how long would he have been able to stand the insufferable emptiness that clawed at his being, tearing him up from the inside out, without the emotional rush your presence gave him? You confounded him, no doubt, but being around you made him feel alive.
Well, none of that mattered now.
He said nothing but his eyes remained steady on you. Somehow, they bore none of the sharpness you'd seen the previous nights. Instead, as he stood bathed in the soft glow of the moonlight, watching you silently, you felt a sense of the same weary sombreness that would often reside in Ray’s gaze.
The familiarity was comforting, and yet it made your heart ache.
‘Please… Can you stay a little longer?’
‘I… I’ve said all I needed to…’
‘I know, but I want you around. I care about you too, not just Ray. If you really want to leave, you can. But if it’s alright with you…’ you trailed off, shifting your position close to the edge of the bed so you were facing towards him and patting the space next to you.
He hesitated for a moment, then slowly, tentatively made his way the few steps from the open window to the bed, taking a seat at the very edge, staring at the star-speckled sky opposite you both. As he perched beside you (so close you could hear his breathing, close enough you could just about cup his cheek if you reached far enough, if only he’d let you) the mattress hardly sank under his weight. You found it odd: The preceding days he had made every effort to be as loud and as purposeful as possible, making his presence fully known as if in a constant and desperate battle for his very existence. Yet now, he barely took up any space at all.
‘Thank you, Saeran… Thank you for apologising.’
He remained silent. The gentle breeze from outside made the curtains sway and brought a pleasant coolness to your skin. He turned his head ever so slightly in your direction, but it was enough to meet his eyes. You could make out every eyelash, see the dark, tell-tale bags marking fatigue on his pale skin.
‘Saeran… when was the last time you slept properly?’
He raised an eyebrow slightly in response before you saw the corners of his mouth twitch upwards, unable to suppress a small smile.
‘You used to say that to him a lot, huh?’
He was deflecting, of course, but at least he was letting you have an actual normal conversation with him — which, now that you thought about it, was kind of a milestone for him.
‘Guess you two aren’t so different.’
‘Heh. I guess not.’
‘You can… rest here for a bit… if you want. If you really have to go later you should take some time to relax and lie down properly.’
His eyes widened a little and he shifted slightly. ‘I don’t think I should-’
‘But do you want to?’
He held your questioning gaze for several seconds. Eventually, he sighed and you shimmied over, making room for him as you leaned back against the comfy pillows, pink like everything else in this room, but now painted in a new light by the hour.
He began to lean down onto his side, a little uncertainly, and you gently guided his head to your chest, feeling his breath hitch in surprise.
‘Is this okay?’ you asked softly.
‘I-’
His cheeks were turning pink and he seemed to be caught off-guard, but after a moment you felt his arm encircle your waist nonetheless.
‘Relax.’
Under normal circumstances, he thought to himself, perhaps he should have chided you for telling him what to do. But there was a tenderness to your tone that he simply couldn't argue with even if he wanted to.
You began to stroke his crisp white locks, sometimes twirling the tufts in gentle circles around your fingers. He closed his eyes. Slowly but surely, his breathing evened out.
Several minutes passed in comfortable silence before he spoke in the tiniest voice you'd ever heard from him. ‘You’re caring for me… You always cared for me this whole time… even when I said and did those horrible things to you.’
The next words came out uneven, and you could have sworn you felt a teardrop or two on the fabric of your clothes.
‘...I don’t deserve this.’
You thought for a moment before responding, choosing your words carefully.
‘I think… you deserve another chance. I’m proud of you for taking accountability for your actions. And I know you don’t want to hurt me anymore. You deserve to feel safe and happy… And loved.’
His grip on you tightened ever so slightly, pulling himself as close as he could get to your warmth. He had cursed your scent so many times, but being surrounded by it completely, he only felt safe and calm. He wanted to inhale your warmth along with it.
This was bliss. This was the paradise he had been searching for.
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I had the wildest fever dream while trying to recover from a sickness today. I was Viktor from Arcane (I haven't even seen Arcane? I just know that my girlfriend thinks I could cosplay him) and Floyd Leech was my boyfriend and was trying to propose to me but he kept getting interrupted (it should be mentioned that he was wearing a mechanics outfit this entire time because he had a job at an auto repair shop) and it was all very cute and gay then we needed to shelter in place because there was an apocalypse of some sort.
So we were in the apocalypse yeah? Well we decided to start bulk making food in case the power went out and I was very upset that we had to pre cook rice because I hate it when you have to store cooked rice and it gets all mushy because I can't handle the texture because the texture is bad so we had to go on a grocery run so we could try different methods of keeping rice nice with a good texture, but here's the thing: if the government caught us they were allowed to kill us on sight for some reason.
So we were out and about when the apocalypse suddenly stopped and an alien spaceship containing weird og DOOM level graphic creatures were lurking beneath the surface also they came from kangaroos for some reason then I woke up and was like "wow. So that's why it's called a fever dream."
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