HIYA I'M SO SORRY ABOUT HOW LATE I SUBMITTED THIS
Long story short I've been busy all day and was only recently able to get home and do a final check-over, so-
Anyway! I have a bunch of writing notes that are basically unhinged rambles, so quick version:
I did cynthm because I stalked your blog a tiny bit, saw that tag and decided Yes.
Characterization is probably poor because I went into this without once reviewing character behaviours (I don't have either of them in-game), so sorry.
With that, I hope you enjoy (this mess)! :D!
I'm also so sorry for the abrupt end, for I'm still not good at endings lol
[Also, this is JustifiedThoughts. Hi :D]
Cyno stifles a few small burps with one hand as his stomach grumbles its complaints at being stuffed as it is—though some of those complaints might also be because he’s still eating. Sort of.
He amenably opens his mouth just enough for another small cluster of grapes to be pushed in and carefully plucked off of their stems, each one being chewed and savored thoroughly before he swallows them.
He looks up at the one feeding him right as another cluster presses against his lips, of which he absentmindedly parts once more.
Admittedly, Cyno hadn’t expected his ‘dinner’ after finishing up paperwork relating to a recent arrest to be Alhaitham insistently feeding him clusters of grapes, but it’s certainly not the oddest meal he’s come to have.
In fact, the coolness of the grapes is actually quite a nice contrast to the persistent heat of the day that had leaked into the night. Although he’s long since been used to Sumeru’s constant heat, it’s still useful to utilize methods of cooling oneself.
“Not that I’m not grape-ful for the food, but what’s the- urp- occasion?”
He stops Alhaitham from putting yet another cluster into his mouth with his question, a soft burp escaping in the middle of it as he carefully spreads his hand over his stomach. Both feeling and hearing it gurgling beneath his fingers, he swallows down the next burp that attempts to arise—unintentionally making himself just a bit more uncomfortable, and his belly just a touch more noisy.
“You were not present for breakfast nor lunch. With consideration of your working habits, it is reasonable to assume that you had yet to eat at all today.”
Logical as per usual, Alhaitham seizes Cyno’s chin and rhythmically plucks grapes from the most recent cluster and sets them upon his tongue, coaxing him to eat every few with the same analytical gaze that he usually carries.
Seeing the resolve steeled within the other’s eyes, Cyno shrugs and lets the feeding carry on, even with his stomach audibly protesting it.
It’s only halfway through the third cluster since then that he reaches and halfheartedly shoves Alhaitham’s hand away, his belly churning and grumbling rather uncomfortably.
“I’m grape-ful, really, but- my stomach’s wine-ing a bit too much for me to ignore.”
He chokes down what would be a discomforted groan, hand automatically gravitating back to gently resting on his stomach as it gurgles bitterly. Even so, he can barely stifle the burp that stirs from its depths at the barely-there pressure, uncomfortably shifting where he is.
Fixated as he is, Cyno admittedly jolts a bit when, without any warning, Alhaitham sets his hand to firmly press down upon his belly with just two fingers. The pressure easily urges up an airy belch that leaves him slightly breathless and unwittingly gripping the aforementioned fingers with his own.
“Mm..Maybe a pour choice...”
Even so, he can’t help but quiet into relatively incoherent mumbles when Alhaitham really begins to properly rub his belly with practiced, smooth motions that help ease the churning to a degree.
While his stomach’s disquieted gurgles are slowly calmed to more peaceful rumbles, he moans softly, distracted with a different matter as he absentmindedly presses his belly up to Alhaitham’s hand with all of the patience of a particularly excitable dog.
FINALLY POSTING THIS LIKE 2 WEEKS LATER (they sent this on time). BUT HOLY SHIT THIS STILL MAKES ME SO HAPPY <333 I know the point of secret Santa is personalization but this is literally hitting all the right neurons in my brain thank you so much <3