Thank you all for an amazing week! From scales to skirts, lies to pranks, partners in mischief, love, and arson alike, romantic, platonic, queerplatonic, and familial, you made some truly epic Dukeceit creations. This event would not have been the same without each and every one of you!
Now, although the week is officially over, there is still time for late submissions! We know life sometimes gets in the way of plans, and we want as many of you as possible to get recognition for your hard work. (This is especially true as Mod Peregrin was kept offline for the second half of the week due to some unexpected irl events!) Because of this, we will be reblogging late submissions until the end of August! The AO3 collection will be open to add new works until then, too. There is still time to get your work in!
(P.S. Everyone give a HUGE round of applause to all the other mods, especially Mod Lily! They all put in so much hard work to make the week as amazing as possible! It absolutely could not have happened without them, and they each deserve all the appreciation in the world. <3 —Mod Peregrin)
Saw a tik tok of a person doing stuff while their snake was just chilling on their head and my brain immediately went: Patton and Janus
First thing I thought of in the middle of drawing this was the Headcannon that the sides turn into animals when they get overwhelmed, but if anyone else has a Headcannon that would explain this, let me know!
Chapter Eight: At Our Destination, Not Just the Two of Us
Masterpost | First | Previous | Ao3
Summary: This was written for @dukeceit-week-2024, @dukeceitweek
Janus and Remus are living in a campervan at the moment. Are they going somewhere? Who knows. The only thing that’s important is that they’re together.
Content Warnings: Flirting, Kissing, Bickering between the twins
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“I don’t want this to end,” Remus admitted quietly.
“I know, darling.” Janus didn’t look over at his boyfriend, too focused on the GPS that told him they were only five minutes away from their destination.
“Can’t we just drive past and keep going?”
“No, dear. It was fun and I loathe to admit I wouldn’t mind if this trip was longer, but we need to go back at some point. I can only take off time from work for so long and we do still need the money. Even if we were to live like this full time. I don’t think I’d enjoy it on a permanent basis, actually.”
Remus sighed, leaning heavily into his seat.
“Yeah, I know. Me too, actually. I can’t sculpt like this. Or paint on the scale I’d like. I know it’s for the best, but still… I don’t wanna deal with the responsibilities again.”
“I cannot relate to that at all.” Janus moved his hand to Remus’ thigh and squeezed. “It’s going to be fine. You focus on your art and let me deal with all the annoying paperwork and bills.”
“You’re gonna be busy again,” Remus accused, though it was in a lighter tone. He was indeed upset at that fact, but he also knew that it was necessary.
“Yes. That’s probably not going to change for a long while.”
“I know. It sucks ass.”
“It does.”
The GPS announced the last turn they would have to make before they’d reach their destination at the end of the road.
“We’ll find the time to do something like this again, promise,” Janus said. “Not every year, not even every other year but we’ll do it again.”
“I’ll cut you if we don’t.”
“Sounds fair.”
They drove the last stretch of their journey in silence, just enjoying each other’s company and reflecting on the past three month on their own.
It had been the most freeing time in Janus’ life.
He was going to miss it.
He pulled the van into a free parking spot outside a lovely, old hotel. The location of the wedding.
“Are you ready?” he asked Remus. His boyfriend huffed.
“One last thing.” Remus pulled Janus over to him, practically lifting him from the driver’s seat and onto his lap, before sealing their lips together. It was unusually sweet for him, no tongue involved.
They parted a few minutes later.
“Now I’m ready,” Remus grinned and Janus chuckled.
“Then let’s go.” He leaned over to grab the keys from the ignition before climbing out of Remus’ lap and out of the passenger door. Remus followed after him, but not without commenting on how good his butt looked.
“There you are! Finally!” The car door wasn’t even closed behind them before Roman was stalking over to them, looking close to furious. “Do you have any idea what time it is? You were supposed to be here yesterday!”
“What a nice welcome,” Janus commented dryly, causing Remus to burst out in giggles and Roman to glare at him.
“Sorry, Ro-bro, but we got turned around.”
“Oh, really?” Roman asked, obviously not convinced, his arms crossed.
“No, he saw a flyer for a carnival and begged me to go.”
“It was super fun, I almost puked on one of their rides! So worth it.”
“I cannot believe you two! A carnival, really?! The rehearsal dinner for your wedding is in two hours! Two hours! And you both look like you haven’t showered in a week!”
“Don’t be dramatic, it was only five days.” Roman groaned and Remus smiled at him, delighted by his annoyance.
“I do not know why you didn’t get a better van! One with a shower! Janus is a lawyer for goodness’ sake, you could’ve easily afforded it!”
“Yeah, but that wasn’t the aesthetic we were going for!”
“I am so going to strangle you!”
“Oh, look, the grooms finally made it,” a new voice commented, and Janus turned to see that Virgil, his best man, had joined them. “Roman was going up the walls since yesterday, it was hilarious to watch.”
“I can’t imagine that at all.” Janus smirked. “You seem quite calm though. Usually you would be right there with him, worrying your pretty little head off about everything.” Virgil elbowed him in the arm for that and rolled his eyes.
“Why would I stress myself out about your wedding? You already paid for all of this, so it’s not like it would’ve been a loss for me if you didn’t end up showing. Plus, I know the two of you, of course nothing here would go to plan, especially since Roman did most of the planning. I was sure you’re going to turn up late, if just to spite him. Hell, I wouldn’t put it past you to have arrived here like two days ago and you’ve just stayed in the van ten minutes from here until you could be fashionably late. I’m more surprised you showed up for the rehearsal at all. Second plus, Logan’s been weirdly insistent that you’d be here around this time. I think Remus has been texting him updates.”
“Why should we put so much effort into a wedding Roman wanted more than us? We would have been fine with getting an officiant into our backyard during a barbeque. He insisted on something more ‘meaningful.’” Janus rolled his eyes and Virgil snickered.
“He and his high standards. Anyway, let’s get you inside and under a shower. You reek.”
“Why, thank you Virgil, for telling me that so politely.”
“Fuck off and just come along.”
They started off towards the hotel, closely followed by the twins that were still arguing.
“And what the hell was that text about sunflowers in the bouquet?” Roman huffed, still rather worked up. “You can’t expect me to change that on such short notice! And they would have clashed with the other colors, plus they stand for platonic affection, not romantic!”
“The fuck you mean ‘short notice?’ I asked you about that two and a half months ago!”
“Yes, way too late! I added some sunflowers to the decorations but not the bouquet.”
“Wow, thank you for your sacrifice.”
They continued to bicker like that the entire way. When they reached the entrance to the hotel, Virgil pulled the door open and held it for them all to pass. Janus let the twins go first, since Roman seemed about to explode if he didn’t get Remus ready immediately. Janus watched them disappear further into the building when Virgil lightly shoved his shoulder with his own.
“So, you ready to get married?” he asked.
Janus watched Remus laugh loudly and pulling his brother into a hug and he smiled.
“I was ready to marry him years ago.”
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This is the end of the story! Thank you all so much for reading, reblogging, tagging and commenting 💛💚
do you know the feeling when you suddenly have an urge to draw something? this was me with this picture, apparently these two really wanted to kiss and who am i to deny that sdghjkjh
this was fun! this was the first shipping week i actually participated in and even if it "only" were two pictures i'm glad i could contribute something 💛💚
