I am a monster

Adam Legrand

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waxing: what is your proudest accomplishment?

“𝐍𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞.”

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫.

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svenisms‌:

He could hear his smile coming through the receiver, it was the most wonderful things about emotions was that you didn’t have to see them in order to witness or appreciate them “I have been doing so many drinks lately there better be a bench press in that castle of yours” he joked as he didn’t really understand the self isolation but at the same time didn’t mind too much about going to him, he accommodated to people and was happy to go to him if that’s what it meant; “What time are you free?”

Adam had to laugh at that joke of his. “Are you mistaken my café for a gym now?” He couldn’t help but shake his head. “I do have cookies but I doubt that would help now does it.” He teased over the end of the phone. “Also when you see me, feel free to openly judge me I’m aware I look like shit lately.” The lack of showering and sleep did that to him. 

“Seven pm.” They were closing earlier so they could discuss the theme of next month though he was thinking of giving april to the little mermaid. He really wanted to try to bake some fishtails. That was his sole excuse. “See you at the café then.”

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heywendybirdx‌:

As Wendy took the time to really observe Adam, she couldn’t help but think that his ‘could be better’ was an understatement. She had never known him to be vain or self-indulgent (quite the opposite, in fact), but he looked like he hadn’t slept or taken care of himself properly in days, maybe even weeks. It was clear from his appearance alone that something much more than the stress of running a business was on his mind.

“I’m fine,” she replied automatically, the words slipping off her tongue without a second thought. In her entire life, Wendy couldn’t remember a time in which she hadn’t replied to that question by stating that she was fine. Because she was always fine. And because even when she didn’t feel fine, she knew that her life was still so much better than a lot of other people’s. Dropping her gaze to the plate, she couldn’t help but smile at the gesture. “But thank you for the cookies.”

Looking up again, she didn’t even hesitate to shake her head when he apologised. “There’s no need to say sorry,” she reassured him with a soft, gentle smile, glancing around the café toward the other employees before turning her attention back to him. “And you don’t need to take my order, but… Maybe you could take a break? I’m sure the others can manage for a few minutes without you.”

Adam could feel her eyes on him and he wondered if his shower fiasco really was as bad as his staff had told him. He had taken one now but - he was becoming a bit worried that it was showing. Perhaps it was his lack of sleep that showed through, he snuck in the castle café yesterday to bake a lot. Which was how he was found by one of his staff members and got a scolding of a lifetime. He just didn’t feel safe alone. And no one would come here since only his staff had the key. Agatha didn’t know about this café, and his name wasn’t listed anywhere. So he was less worried.

"Are you?” He still couldn’t help but feel her brightness had dimmed down a little. So he squatted down to get on her eyelevel seeing she was seated and said: “You know it’s okay if you aren’t. You might be the eldest but that doesn’t mean you can’t have certain emotions.” He nodded as she thanked him for the cookies. “I overbaked a bit, so I’m handing a few of these for free.”

He wasn’t really sure if he should believe her, she could have said this out of kindness alone. Wendy simply was that mature and at times he wondered if it was more her personality than the way she was raised. He nodded, it seemed like she wanted to ask him some questions, or talk to him. He gave a sign to his colleagues that he was taking a break. They had a sort of sign language that could tell these things in order to not disturb the clients. And because he found sign language important, you’ll never know when a deaf customer would come in and tries to order something.

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annasxlarson‌:

“my love is finally back and I’m so happy he went and did what he wanted to do and that he won that competition he deserved it, he deserves everything.”

“You’ll have to give me some more info, what competition?” Adam asked. “Well, it’s good that he is back. Why don’t you invite him over for some coffee.” 

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I’ll find you

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itsmarygibbs‌:

She rubbed his back soothingly with her hand in an attempt to reduce the stress he was under, even if it helped for a minute it still helped. Feeling her hand receiving a squeeze she clasped her other hand around his to squeeze back. He wasn’t alone in this, she was here for as long as he needed her. 

“I’m wily and there’s strength in numbers. If she comes for you, she’ll aim to find you alone. We’re not going to let that happen, okay?” she said, offering him a smile of reassurance “Besides, haven’t you heard? I’m amazing at disguises.” she said jokingly to help lighten his mood.

Adam leaned against the touch, and took soft breaths. He could feel the panic that had started in his chest to lessen. His breathing was normal now, and his chest did not feel tight any longer. 

“Yeah, I think that’s a good idea. I plan to ask my staff to take me home because I don’t want to be left alone right now.” He chuckled softly. “Is that your amazing hat and sunglasses disguise?”

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adropofgoldenrachelx‌:

“Oh, I should totally tell my mom to come and look at the cups here,” Rachel thought aloud suddenly. “She’s always looking for fancy dinnerware. Sometimes she and dad’ll have parties with people they work with, and there never seems to be enough cups for everyone!” She smiled brightly at Adam, nodding her head in agreement. “You’re right about the time, though. People seem in an awful hurry all the time around here.” Rachel never understood why everyone was always rushing, never taking time to stop and smell the flowers or talk to that cute kid or watch the little bird on the bench. It could be overwhelming rushing about all the time.

“Feel free to bring her here, I’ll have some cookies for her waiting too.” Adam said with a wink. “I can write her some websites that I order these from, though I can picture it’ll be nice to hold the wears first before ordering it. There is a difference in weight in these.” He explained. Adam felt more in his element this way, his worries sinking to the back of his head. “That’s why this place exist, there is no hurrying here. You can take your time to enjoy the silence. I communicate with my staff through sign language so we keep talking as minimum unless the customer asks.”

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heywendybirdx‌:

Before she came back, Wendy had promised herself that a visit to the Castle Café in order to get reacquainted with its proprietor (and above all with his coffee) would be one of the first things on her to do list upon her return. As it turned out, things had taken a slight detour since, but nonetheless, she remained adamant about keeping her promise. The brunette had never been one to make promises that she couldn’t keep. Even if it was a couple of days later than expected.

“Oh, there’s no need to be sorry!” she interjected with a warm smile, trying her best to be reassuring while keeping her tone as lighthearted as possible. She could sense that something was wrong, or even just slightly off-kilter, but she could also sense that now was not the right time to pry. “It’s completely fine. I’m just happy to be back here. In fact, is there anything I can do to help?”

It took him a moment to notice who was actually talking to him. “I was wondering if you had exchanged my café for a different one. But then Ella told me that you were traveling, I heard you were in the land of Tea lucky for you I can bring back some memories because we just got some new tea cups to fit our monthly theme.”

He snickered. “It’s Cinderella month.” He said as he pointed to the glazed cookies in the display counter.

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lullaby: are you looking forward to anything?

not anything specific.

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flower

flower: what’s your favourite thing about yourself?

My eyes. I might look a little rough but my kindness is always found in my eyes.

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euphoria: who’s someone who you think will be in your life forever?

I hope my mother.

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❤️

𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓘 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓮𝓷𝓰𝓪𝓰𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮, 𝓘 𝓭𝓲𝓭𝓷’𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴 𝓘 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓫𝓮 𝓬𝓪𝓹𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓯𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓲𝓷 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓰𝓪𝓲𝓷. 𝓔𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓲𝓻𝓬𝓾𝓶𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼, 𝓱𝓸𝔀 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓼 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓰𝓸𝓷𝓮. 𝓨𝓮𝓽 𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓶𝔂 𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓸𝓷𝓮.

𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓪𝓷 𝓲𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓱𝓾𝓶𝓸𝓻.

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svenisms‌:

Sven had been at work when his phone rang, he wasn’t with a customer and luckily his job was quiet as he answered seeing that it was Adam returning his call; “Adam my man!!! You finally picked up, where you been dude?” joking that he had probably died on him or was somewhere doing something despicable-… who knew, Adam was Adam; “Did you want to go out for drinks later or something? Catch up on life and that shit?” he wanted to know what was going on for and with him to see what he had been up too.

“Hey there Sven,” Adam said, smiling against the phone. “I’ve been at my job like normal people.” He teased. It shouldn’t be too different from Sven if he thinks about it. “I’m up for a drink, you mind coming to the café though first. I have my reasons.” Mainly he didn’t leave without an employée it had become that bad for him. He was afraid to leave by himself, paranoid Agatha would appear one day and attack him.

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charmvnt‌:

an eyebrow quirk up at the relief that henri notices washing over adam’s face. oh it’s that bad then, huh. henri figures that he should’ve had told the employees right away to say his name when looking for adam. he pushes down the sort of skeptical look on his face and replaces it with a much more pleasant demeanor. henri smiles a bit and nods at him. “just me!” henri says, walking closer to his friend. “yeah, it’s been a while. i had my internship and all that,” he elaborates. he figures adam doesn’t quite remember what he was up to and he doesn’t blame him. after all the mess that henri figures happened, he can only imagine the turmoil that is adam’s mind right not. “i just thought i’d drop by and see how you’re doing,” he looks down then. henri isn’t this straight forward usually, but then again, he knows adam doesn’t enjoy beating around the bush too much. “i heard about agatha so- yknow, i thought you’d like to have someone to talk to.”

It was no lie that things weren’t actually going well for Adam. The man had to be forced to even come to work because he was scared. It wasn’t like his colleagues didn’t understand but they felt like he needed a push so Agatha couldn’t control his life. He found himself cackling at ‘just me’. It wasn’t just Henri, Henri was a nice guy. Adam knew as much, they were friends after all. 

“Ah, that explains why Ella had been staring outside the café window. I hope you at least visited her before me.” He teased. “Nothing stays secret in a café you know.” He was happy to tease his friend, it lightened the load. 

“I’m...coping I guess that’s a word right?” He could feel the glare of his colleagues and sighed. “Okay it’s pretty bad- I haven’t been able to sleep for weeks and they had to force me to shower because I neglected myself.”

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Wendy sat at a table at the Castle Café, hands wrapped around her forgotten cup of coffee as she stared listlessly out of the window, lost in her thoughts. Truth be told, it was proving a lot harder to adjust to life back in Andromeda than she thought it would be. As much as she tried not to, she frequently found herself dreaming back to her time in London and feeling a surge of longing; like she was homesick for that place, and those people, even though this was technically her home.

And there was nothing wrong with Andromeda. She loved being close to her parents and her brothers again, and she had missed her friends dearly, enjoying catching up with them about their lives. That wasn’t the problem. She was the problem. Because the town was not entirely the same, but her part in it, her life here, was. It was as if she’d stepped outside of the painting that was her life and had an entirely unrelated experience only to step right back into that painting again as if nothing had changed.

Her life in Andromeda went on, carrying it along with her as if she wasn’t a totally different person now. But she was.

Shaken from her thoughts by a hovering presence, Wendy tore her gaze from the window and offered the proprietor of the café a warm smile, even if it wasn’t quite as bright as the one she usually wore. “Hey, Adam,” she greeted, remembering her coffee and having a sip of it. “How are things with you?”

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Adam flinched as his name was called. Truly he should get his shit together by now, but nothing seemed far different from this case. He gave her a wary smile before adding: “Could be better.” There were dark circles under his eyes since he didn’t manage to sleep. He didn’t manage to sleep at all, there were days when he woke up gasping for air because he forgot how to breathe in his sleep. He was neglecting himself too, everyone could see that. Lumiere had forced him to take a bath because he wasn’t even taking any showers anymore. He kept hiding in the back and it took a lot of effort for Adam to get back in the front of the café again. 

He fidgeted with his hands for a bit before asking about Wendy herself. “What about you- You seemed a little blue so I got you some cookies...” He placed the cinderella themed cookies in front of her. The cookies were frosted, a glass shoe, the classic cinderella dress, the birds and the mice.  Every month a new princess was celebrated, and this was the month of cinderella. Not his favourite princess, but she ranked high on the list.

“Can I take your order?” He asked, noting how unprofessional he was being. “Sorry, my mind is a mess lately.” He admitted.

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bellexlefebvre‌:

“Well I hit the jackpot in finding a roomie then didn’t I?” She said taking his arm, gently. 

Adam flinched as she gently took his arm and shook his head. “I’m sorry Belle I can’t do this.” He took her hand and took it away from his arm and let it fall next to her. “This is wrong- we aren’t even proper friends yet, you barely know me, and I barely know you. Even more, this isn’t a situation where I should be sleeping at a stranger’s house.” He bowed his head. “I appreciate your concern, but I think it’s better for me to sleep at one of my colleagues.”

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Sven was in need of friends, it wasn’t that he wasn’t the type of guy to have friends or he was lonely or anything but it was more about finding the time to actually go out and get some friends. Sure he had his brother and Anna but while they were shacking up and playing tonsil hockey with each other Sven needed someone who he could hang out with besides that and who better then someone he had kept running into from time to time; “Hey Adam it’s me Sven-… it looks like you might be a little bit busy right now hence why you aren’t answering your phone but when you get a spare minute or two mind giving me a call back? Cheers” he disconnected the call but left it close to him just being on high alert that he would give him a call back shortly.

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Adam has been quite sensitive to the buzzing of his phone ever since Agatha send him those text messages. So when he received a call it took him about 30 minutes before he could convince himself to check who it was, he failed and had to shove it to one of his employees who checked for him. Luckily it had been Sven.

He listened to the voice call:  “Hey, Adam it’s me, Sven-… it looks like you might be a little bit busy right now hence why you aren’t answering your phone but when you get a spare minute or two, mind giving me a callback? Cheers”

He immediately felt bad for not picking up sooner and he decided to call him back right there and then. 

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It was a good thing Mary was here, he could find himself relaxing in her hold. Nodding his head, as to wanting to believe her words. “Okay...” His voice was nothing but a faint whisper, and the trembling was far from over. He took her hand in his and gave it a little squeeze.

“B-But what if you get hurt too.” He couldn’t have his friends get mixed into this. This was his mess, right?

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