TTD - And then They Were Roommates ™
Before Villain was their roommate, Hero never had any peculiar feeling about their apartment. They were grateful to have a roof over their head, but were not particularly picky about how it looked like under. It wasn’t like they had the kind of time to arrange the place. To be honest, with their working hours, they didn’t see why they would find energy left for this. As long as they had a bed and electricity, it was fine. The result was a reasonably clean room, but a rather bland place. The only thing that was really personal was the vanity in the bathroom, covered with hair products and beads of all colors. At Villain’s displeasure, Hero spent hours in front of it, because unlike some people whining from behind the door, they had their priorities well in order.
True, Hero had felt a bit insecure when Villain had entered for the first time, stopping in front of every furniture with such solemnity you’d swear they were staring at a masterpiece in a museum. Flustered, the not-so-proud owner had explained that they were not that rich, but Villain had seldom made any comment, and well, with their shadow covering them it wasn’t like their body language was readable. Maybe they were tired too, and after their place had just been destroyed by Supervillain it was understandable. They’d glistened towards the guest room and locked their door without a word.
The agency had called in the middle of that night for news. Hero, toying with their blanket, had assured their superior on the phone that yes, Supervillain had been destroyed for good, no they weren’t making it up, and oh by the way, Villain had reformed and changed their ways, hmmhmm, yep, definitively. On the other side of the line, that declaration was met by no little skepticism. After one hour of pleading, they’d at last convinced their interlocutor not to send a team to eliminate the threat. The next day, they were ordered to keep Villain under lock and key. Villain had stared when they’d shyly explained the situation to them, brandishing a padlock they didn’t really know how to use, and had only said:
“I could open this pathetic thing in my sleep.”
Given how gifted Villain was with building tools and machines, it was probably no idle boast. The good news, though, was that they’d accepted to stay in their room whenever they were left alone as long as Hero would give them an old game-boy left in a drawer for years to keep them occupied. As time passed, it became evident that Villain was an indoor creature who was delighted at the idea of not stepping outside ever again. In return, Hero had given them pretty much whatever they wanted, including scraps of metal and lots of tools. At first, they’d said nothing, but when parts of the room had began to be covered with sinister forms, they’d felt they had to put their foot down:
“You are not building a torture room in my place.”
“What else am I supposed to do, you oppressor ?”
“I’m the one paying the taxes.”
Villain had sulked for a moment after that, but then they’d suddenly asked:
“Aha, but what if my torture tools were also useful appliances?”
Hero had stared and said:
“No.”
“No as no or no as it can’t be?”
“Both.”
“You have little faith.”
Villain had immediately put themself to work. In an alarmingly short time, they’d built a tiny guillotine for the kitchen. It could cut even coconuts properly, in one strike. Hero couldn’t use it much, because it made them feel sorry for the poor vegetables (especially after seeing Villain do it, yelling “death to all of you, you feeble preys!” at a bunch a carrots), but they had to acknowledge it was a decent tool to slice a loaf of bread. Actually, Villain was good with the kitchen in general. Being disturbingly fond of cutting vegetables and fruits, it was no surprise that they’d fallen in love with the blender Hero had never used before:
“For what it is but a miniature death trap, where my innocent victims are trapped in a transparent prison and melted into oblivion by unforgiving blades?”
Hero had asked what kind of blade would be forgiving, and they’d got lightly tapped on the head with a cardboard tube for their trouble. But the outcome of all of this was a fridge always filled with bottles full of drinkable food that never got Hero’s stomach upset. Villain had even made a damn acupuncture chair which spikes looked deadly, but were in fact quite soothing. After that they’d stood up, and Hero just knew that they were puffing their chest behind their shadow:
“So, have I succeeded in my impossible task?”
And Hero could do nothing but answer:
“Yes. Completely. It’s genius.”
And it was. Really, the biggest beef they had was the time when Villain had stolen their two favorite magnets on the fridge. They’d stopped dead in front of the aro and ace pride flags that fixated the to-do lists of the day, declared that green, purple and black were traditional colors for villains and so they were “bound to have them”, had yoinked them and flied back to their room before Hero had time to react. And as much as they were for people exploring their own identity, how were they supposed to keep their groceries list in sight now?
But none of this was the weirdest thing. It was the fact that whenever Hero returned to their place with all these strange additions, it didn’t feel bad or crowded. It was the strange new and warm feeling that finally they were home, they were home, they were home.
(Though they still wanted their magnets back.)
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here to stay (Rhett Abbott x OC)
Summary: After their first date, Rhett walks her to her door
Pairing: Rhett Abbott x OC (Tessa Abernathy)
Word Count: 1345
Warnings: kissin' with some heavy petting, and not like super explicit but there is in fact some dry humping and rhett does mention creaming his pants soooo
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They finished watching the movie even if neither of them understood what was going on. Rhett asked her what she thought was going on, and Tessa came up with something on the fly. About betrayals and gold and some big reason for such an epic finale shootout. It made him laugh as he squeezed her hand and a certain kind of pride filled her chest at getting him to do so.
For a moment, as the credits rolled and they hopped down from the truck bed, she wondered if things would be weird between them now. She didn’t usually take things so far on a first date. So she worried, as he drove her back to the Boy’s Home, if she just ruined everything by allowing that to happen. By wanting it to happen. She didn’t want Rhett to think she just wanted him to get off. She wanted him because she liked him. As childish as that sounded. He was kind and earnest and good-hearted and his dry sense of humor left her in stitches. He genuinely cared about people — looked damn good in a pair of chaps. And he was so unlike everything everyone was telling her he should be.
He didn’t pressure her into doing something she didn’t want to do. But what if she pressured him? What if he expected more when they got back? What if she blew it before they even got the chance to see where this went? To see if he would stick around?
“Hey,” Rhett called out as he drove. “You’re gonna make yourself bleed if ya keep doin’ that.”
Tessa looked down at her hand, one nail torn to shreds from her biting. She drew her hand away with a tight lipped smile, clasping it in the other as heat flooded her cheeks.
“Sorry,” she mumbled.
“Nervous habit?” he questioned.
“Yeah. Sorry,” she said, really having to resist the urge to chew at her nails once more.
There was a pause, then Rhett asked, voice soft and gravelly, “Wanna tell me what you’re nervous ‘bout?”
“M’fine. Really,” she assured, not wanting to make him feel bad. “Didn’t even realize I was doin’ it.”
Tessa felt tears sting the backs of her eyes. Everything was ruined. There wasn’t going to be a second date. Anytime they saw each other from now on was going to be awkward and tense. Another chance at love and companionship shot in the foot all because she couldn’t control herself around the boy she liked.
“M’sorry,” he sighed quietly, glancing over at her with concern pulling his brow. “If I made ya feel like…Ya had to. I just wanted t’make ya feel good. ‘C-Cause I know how stressed y’are. But I — I never wan’you t’do somethin’ y’don’t wanna be doin’.”
Head turning to look at him in the darkness, his tongue working against his cheek, her heart melted. They were worried about the exact same thing.
“And here I thought I made you feel like you had to,” she laughed, wiping under her nose to keep the tears at bay.
He scoffed lightly with a smile. “No, I wanted to. Trust me.”
“I wanted it to,” she said, unaware that her hand was rising back towards her mouth — innocent fingernails ready to be chewed to shreds.
But then Rhett caught her hand before she even came close. Bringing it across the bench seat to hold against his thigh.
“Good.”
When he pulled up in front of the Boy’s Home, Tessa told him to turn the headlights off so as not to disturb the boys who should be asleep by now. Their window facing the street. Then, with his fingers already around the keys in the ignition, he asked if he could walk her to the door. She agreed, but they were going to have to walk around to the backdoor off the kitchen. Again, so as not to disturb the boys. Rhett liked the idea, since it let him stay with her just a little bit longer.
He took her hand as he helped her down from the truck, and this time he didn’t let go as they walked together through the grassy side yard on the east side of the house.
Once they were in the shadows, hidden from the world and the flickering orange porch light, Rhett tugged her to a stop. She looked back at him confused. And he just grinned, some smug little thing that made her stomach flip as he pulled her closer. As he slowly backed her up with big steps and one big hand rising to grab her neck in a loose hold. It made her breath catch in her throat as her spine collided with the white siding.
“I don’want this t’end just yet,” he confessed quietly as his thumb traced her jaw. “I’ve had a really good time.”
“Me too,” she answered, breathless.
He smiled down at her before bending down and pressing a kiss to her cheek. Then he nuzzled at the soft flesh with a sigh, pressing his body flush with hers. She could feel his dick, still hard and pressing against his jeans at her stomach. It made her gulp as she reached up to fiddle with a button on his shirt.
“What d’you wanna do right now, sunshine?” he whispered as he pulled back to look her in the eye. She swallowed nervously, eyes glancing towards the obvious tent in his pants, but he just shook his head. “Don’t worry about that. If I could control it, I would.”
That made her laugh with a nod. “Just — Just leave me with one more kiss…Maybe?”
“I can do that,” he replied in his quiet, earnest way.
Then he leaned down and pressed his lips to hers. It was sweet and languid and breathy. Her head tilted to one side as he held her there with his hand around her neck and thumb pressing into her jaw. His tongue poked out to run along her bottom lip and she parted for him easily. Without hesitation. He was tentative in his exploration, licking into her mouth with a kind of softness she didn’t think a tough cowboy would be capable of.
But then her hands fell, landed on that big belt buckle, tugged on it only slightly — and his hips jerked. Meeting her stomach in a slow grind that had him nearly whining into her mouth before he pulled away.
“Shit, m’sorry,” he panted against her lips.
“S’okay — it’s okay,” she assured as she tangled her fingers into the long hairs at the back of his head.
“You just do somethin’ t’me, sunshine,” he said.
“I — I don’t mean to,” she answered, still thumbing at the shining silver of his belt buckle.
He smiled, a breathy chuckle tumbling from his lips. “I know.”
Rhett kissed her again on a deep breath and a laugh. Tessa giggled into it as he nipped at her bottom lip and licked into her mouth. She felt like a teenager again. Hiding under the bleachers at the rodeo, kissing fast and dirty because they didn’t know if or when they would get caught. When she was a teenager, she imagined doing that exact thing with Rhett Abbott so many times. But now here she was, laughing and suckling that boy’s lip, at twenty-three. Her teenage self whooping and hollering in the back of her mind.
She pulled on his hair, entirely by accident, and he moaned into her mouth. His hips rocked into her again, and again when he pulled back with his lips parted and eyes screwed shut.
“We gotta stop,” he sighed, pecking her lips again. “Or m’gonna cream my pants like a fuckin’ teenager.”
Tessa nodded, feeling a little kiss drunk. “I can make it from here.”
“Okay.” He grinned, then he gave her one last lingering kiss before muttering, “I’ll call ya.”
Then his hands slipped away from her and walked back to his truck. Leaving her leaning against the wall with a bit lip grin and tingling all over.
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