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So I know that The Boys already showed that Soldier Boy/Ben likes bush but I wanted to play with that and yes I do AI chats and give no fucks so here ya go pookies enjoyyyy. 🖤✨
We never really talked about it but The Ugly Ducking that grew up to be a beautiful swan was still probably pretty fugly from a duck’s perspective
Like that story isn’t about an ugly duckling that grew up sexy, it’s a fucking swan was judged as a duck and hated itself as a duck until it found out it wasn’t a duck and stopped trying to be a duck.
The actual ducks in the neighborhood were probably still looking around at perfectly normal swans like “damn, look at those busted ass ducks”
This is pretty important, actually. The good ending is finding the other swans, not tearing yourself to pieces trying to impress the ducks.
although a lot of adaptations skip over this and sanitise it to the point where the message is apparently meant to read "you'll be forgiven for being born wrong, if you turn out thin and white and pretty!" - there's a lot going on in the original. For one thing, most adaptations present him as a wild animal, but the Ugly Duckling is born into captivity, into a society that mimics upper-class pretensions, which is why he's declared 'ugly'. His mother is loving and very generous at first - hatching him despite the inconvenient incubation period, and defending him firmly - but after the other domestic animals (including a higher-class dominant one) point out what a burden he is, she turns on her child. Previously, she genuinely appeared to like him.
And a thing that's missed, while kid's abridged adaptations miss out on the rest of the point, is that the Ugly Duckling decides he can't live like this and leaves the farmyard; he goes into the wild himself. In the various passages in which people try to keep him as a pet, or a duck, it's hammered home again and again that this does not make a good pet. there is nothing in him that suits being a domestic animal.
one of the particular parts that makes you go "sweet jesus, hans christian andersen" is where the wild geese rock up and are nice to the young swan, not quite recognising him as a swan but saying they're pretty into whatever weird vibe he has (is this a sort of queer recognition thing? we are told, explicitly, that the wild geese are both male, and they definitely say "you're so ugly it's hot - come with us" - given HCA, it might be) and then they're, you know, instantly shot dead. Because that's what happens to wild geese. They like your vibe and try to take you with them, and even offer to teach you how to flirt - and then you see exactly what happens to them. And then every encounter from there, from the old woman who attempts to keep him - a very satirical and funny passage - to the young family who genuinely attempt to save his life (but he's too fundamentally panicked and awkward to reciprocate their kindness, and explodes out of their house in a social catastrophe) the story hammers in: not only are you a terrible duck, but you just aren't MEANT to live with people. You're closer to the things they kill than the things they keep.
but yeah, adaptations miss this often: you have to go out into the wild to save your own life. you may die in the wild, and you WILL die where you are. nobody comes to save you - and nobody really could have, when you were younger - but ultimately, mate, you just aren't a very good pet. Of the list of "attributes of a domestic animal" you really suck, in detail, at all of them.
so it's very telling to me that the good ending is the one where he is a wild animal - but more importantly, a WILD SWAN.
Not killed. (like a wild goose).
Not kept. (like a duck).
but a secret third thing, that swans - of few creatures - get. they get admired and they get paid and they get LEFT ALONE. they have a position in relation to humanity, and it is BEING A LOVELY SWAN OVER THERE.
what a thing for a lonely heart to yearn for!
I saw some notes saying "oh wow I need to look up the original." It's very easy! It's here: The Ugly Duckling, by Hans Christian Andersen on Project Gutenberg. It is 3500 words or so and free.
The Ugly Duckling isn't a "fairy tale" or a fable. It didn't emerge from the collective unconscious - it didn't come from nowhere. It's an original work. Andersen wrote it in 1843. It didn't exist before he came up with it. the translation I linked above was translated in 1930.
like many HCA stories (The Little Mermaid, The Snow Queen) it's out of copyright and has pretty images, so it gets mined frequently as a free text - you can always republish a cheap Ugly Duckling, and don't have to pay an author. So people tend to just read and remember the various abridged versions. as a result, they think about it like a fairy tale - a sort of ambiguous, detached, floating thing that belongs to everyone and can mean everything. fairy tales - loose cultural fragments - can be hammered to suit any moral, or handwaved to be about anything, and then when you get bored of them, you can "twist" them a different way. Maybe it's about this. maybe it's about that. I read it as being about beauty. I read it as being about me. I don't like the politics. Today King Arthur is going to be Roman. Tomorrow Sleeping Beauty will wake up by herself. it doesn't really matter. And that's grand! that's what fairy tales have become - they are the people's mental property - they're to be played with.
But The Ugly Duckling isn't a fairy tale. it's a single sad, weird queer guy from a while ago, trying to tell you something personal about himself. maybe he isn't communicating clearly, maybe he's too weird, maybe you don't like it, maybe it annoys you - but <TheUglyDuckling> DOES have meaning and intention.
"I think the moral is this / I think the moral is that" - do try reading it first though! do try reading the whole thing first.
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i don’t care what anybody says, sam winchester is a freak in bed
i’m talking about putting you in a chokehold, your face suffocating in his biceps and drooling on it mindlessly from the backshots he was giving you, his hips ruthlessly snapping to yours while your back gave him that beautiful arch he loved so much
his bicep would be covered by your saliva, red bite marks and hickeys bright and evident on his skin.
“uh huh” sam panted, eyes pinned down on yours and examining your expression— a fucked up, lewd expression squished by his bicep— a sight to behold. “keep that back arched for me, mmm”
i’m talking about gripping your hair whenever you were straddling him, the slight tug making you moan in the hungry, passionate kiss and giving him enough space for his tongue to slide in your mouth
and because of that, there was no way to hide that beautiful face of yours from him. even when your face was buried in his shoulder as you rode his cock, breathless gasps of “sam! mph- sam” leaving your lips. it made his hand—that was already buried in your hair— lift your head up by your hair to lock your lips into a messy, open-mouthed kiss
“don’t hide from me” sam murmured in your mouth, his other hand pulling your leg closer to bury his cock more into your cunt. “wanna see your face when you make a mess all over me” the drag of his length in and out was stretching out your poor, fluttering walls. enough for your hips to slightly jerk back and a small sound leave your lips, only for it to be swallowed by sam and easily hold your hips in place with one hand, the other still buried and gripping onto the locks of your hair
and i’m talking about his large, large hand around your neck as he has you pinned under him in missionary, hovering on top of you and whispering filthy things in your ear to add onto the wet, slaps of his cock in your needy cunt
“thaaaats it. youre doing so so good f’me, baby” “god, you look so good like this” your throat would bob in his palm and his thumb would brush under your jaw, a subtle gesture so soft it felt almost out of place from how eager sam was for you, how starved he was a moan left his lips when the veins on his length were brushed perfectly, biting your shoulder to swallow back his sounds as he kept murmuring on your skin without a thought. “fuck, you have no idea how you drive me crazy”
absolute. freak.
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Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.
Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.
“FORBIDDEN.”
⋆˚𝜗𝜚˚⋆ dbf!dean winchester au x reader
having graduated from university, you return to your hometown for the summer while your boyfriend is off visiting his family as well. however, with the return, being back in a familiar environment immediately brings back old memories and the returning of your dad’s best friend, dean; whom you’ve had a secret, forbidden crush on since childhood. after four years of being gone, the unresolved feelings for dean haven’t seem to gone away like you expected it would, or avoided as much as possible considering you’re in a loving relationship with your boyfriend, adrian. but as dean continues to hang around all summer, things start to unravel and the unexpected becomes a reality.
warnings: age gap (adults), pet-names (kid, kiddo,…)
this is pt.2 to the first one: things are still in a work in progress, feedback is appreciated, still writing, updates are coming.
you just finished taking a hot shower, done skincare, brushed your teeth, even put on a little makeup and done your hair while you were at it. you knew dean would be staying the night anyway, might as well look nice.
“i missed you,” lingered in your mind still as you walked down the stairs; immediately being greeted by the sound of drunken laughter of your parents and dean.
the smell of whiskey filled the room as you slowly entered.
“look what the cat dragged in,” your dad says, stumbling from the couch towards you. his whole aura reeked of whiskey. his cheeks were bright red, heat radiated from his body. everybody was extremely intoxicated.
your dad hugged onto you tightly, making you stumble from his heavy weight. the only person you could focus on in the room was dean: he was mumbling to himself under his breath, closing his eyes as if he was about to fall asleep in that moment.
your mom stood up slowly, “your dad and i are going up to bed now, sweetie. goodnight,” they grabbed each others’ arm to help stabilize each other as they practically crawled up the stairs to their room.
silence immediately filled the room when it became just the two of you. you and dean.
the unspeakable tension you felt years ago never left like you thought it had. you felt his brooding stare that felt like it could laser you apart.
“so, i heard you’ve got a boyfriend, huh, kiddo?” dean mumbled, barely getting out the words he wanted to speak. “yeah, i do. his name is adrian,” you returned his intense stare. “when do i get to meet the lucky guy?”
you let out a small giggle, “one day, dean.” his expression got more intense, his jaw clenching, eyes squinting. the atmosphere felt uncomfortable; an awkward feeling you couldn’t seem to place between the two of you. the last thing you wanted to think about was adrian, not while around dean.
the silence in the room felt heavy, thick with the sharp scent of whiskey and the quiet hum of the refrigerator from the kitchen. dean’s jaw remained tightly clenched, his gaze locked onto you with an intensity that made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. that easy, playful warmth he usually showed around your parents was completely gone, replaced by something dark, raw, and entirely focused on you.
“one day,” dean repeated, his voice dropping into a low, rough growl that vibrated in his chest. he let out a short, humorous breath of laughter, and a small sigh in between. he leaned back against the sofa cushions, but his body didn’t relax. “right. one day.”
you shifted your weight from one foot to the other, suddenly hyper-aware of how close you really are standing right next to him. the makeup you had carefully applied felt like a mask, and you wondered if he could tell you got ready just for him. his eyes flicked down to your freshly done hair, tracking a loose strand that rested against your collarbone, before snapping back to your face.
“your dad talks about him a lot,” dean murmured, his eyes narrowing slightly as he studied your expression. “says he’s a real gentleman. solid. predictable.”
those words felt less like a compliment to adrian and more of a challenge to you. dean shifted his position on the couch, stretching his legs out. the movement brought his boots inches from your bare feet.
“is he?” dean asked, his voice softer now, almost dangerously quiet. “is he everything you wanted, kid?”
your mouth went completely dry. the word kid usually felt like a reminder of the boundary between the two of you that you were forbidden to cross. but the way dean said it now, with his gaze dropping deliberately to your lips, made it feel like the exact opposite of innocent, and a shift in the air felt like the tension you thought only you felt between the two of you was reciprocated from both of you. your heart hammered against your ribs so loudly you were terrified he could hear it in the quiet room.
“he’s good to me, dean,” you managed to say, your voice barely above a whisper. you tried to sound confident, tried to find that steady rhythm you usually had when talking about your life at university, but the words felt hollow.
dean didn’t answer right away. he just stared at you, his green eyes tracking every micro-expression on your face, reading your nervousness like an open book. he closed his eyes for a long moment, rubbing a heavy hand over his face as if he’s trying to fight off the alcohol, before opening them to look up at you from under his brow.
“good,” dean muttered, though his clenched jaw told an entirely different story. he gripped the edge of the couch cushion, his knuckles turning white. “he better be.” his grip on the cushion slightly relaxed. “he better be,” dean mumbled under his breath again, his voice gravelly and rough.
“because a girl like you…” dean trailed off, his voice dropping an octave as he looked you up and down, taking in the subtle makeup and freshly-done hair. a dark, knowing smirk tugged at the corner of his mouth. “a girl like you deserved the best. not just some college boy who thinks buying you flowers makes him a real man.”
your breath hitched. the way he said, a girl like you, sent a violent jolt of electricity straight down your spine. the thing is, he’s your dad’s best friend, but the way he was looking at you right now wasn’t anything like before.
dean stood up from the couch. he stumbled slightly, the whiskey clearly hitting him hard, but he managed to catch his balance instantly. he closed the distance between you before you could even think about stepping back. towering over you, his broad shoulders blocked out the rest of the living room. you were trapped in his space, completely enveloped by the scent of musky vanilla, whiskey, and leather.
he reached out, his large, calloused hand hovering just an inch away from your face. for a terrifying, exhilarating second, you thought he was going to cup your cheek. instead, his rough fingers gently tucked the loose strand of hair behind your ear. his knuckles gently brushing against your heated skin, and you couldn’t help but suppress the sharp intake of air that escaped your lips.
dean’s green eyes darkened as he noticed your reaction. he leaned in just a fraction of an inch closer, his breath warm up against your ear.
“you’re a bad liar, kiddo,” he whispered, his voice a low, dangerous rumble. “you’re talking about adrian, but your heart is being so loud i can hear it from here. why is that?”
he stayed right there, looming over you, his heavy chest rising and falling just inches away from your own. the alcohol made him bolder than usual, blurring the strict boundary he had spent years enforcing between himself and his best friend’s daughter. up close, you could see the fine lines around his green eyes and the dark stubble mapping his jawline.
before you could even attempt to answer, a sharp, sudden buzz broke the heavy silence.
“FORBIDDEN.”
⋆˚𝜗𝜚˚⋆ dbf!dean winchester au x reader
• sorry, i’m not the best at writing, but i had an idea and had to execute it somehow. ❤︎ this is only a snippet of a fic i want to write, but i wanted feedback (it is most appreciated) and if i should continue writing this! might put it on ao3, but im scared!
warnings : age gap (both adults though)
i’m still writing, and i have no idea what other warning i’ll be having, but i’ll be updating it as soon as possible.
there’s something completely intoxicating about wanting dean, especially knowing he’s your dad’s best friend, making him entirely forbidden.
dean being your father’s friend, while having an extreme attraction towards him, has created a secretive tension between the two of you that only you’ve felt; whether it’d be in the middle of the night when everybody was asleep. dean would often stay overnight after having a few drinks with your dad. he’d be laid up on the couch, watching tv, strongly reeking of whiskey, your heart would beat out of your chest from seeing him.
you were terrified of him, only because you felt like he could immediately read your thoughts; which were hardly appropriate to ever think about, let alone about your father’s best friend.
the thought of dean crosses your mind every once in a while. it’s been four years since you’ve last seen him now that you’ve been off at university and just graduated. since your first year of university, you’ve been completely occupied with your boyfriend , adrian.
he’s perfect; your parents love him, every time you visit your parents for the holidays he comes with you. the unfortunate thing is, he’s not dean. as much as you love him, dean has always been in the back of your mind; constantly contemplating on the what-ifs, what’d it’d be like with him, how he is, if he’s got a wife and family. you barely ask about him when you’re with your parents, but they bring him up once in a while, but it hurts to hear his name and you’d never admit that to anyone.
now that it’s summer, you’re visiting your family for the time being. for the first time in years, adrian won’t be coming since he’s visiting his family elsewhere.
your parents just picked you up from the airport. the first thing you do is jump onto your bed. it was a six hour flight, and you barely got to peacefully sleep because you were restless the whole flight.
as you plopped into bed, you couldn’t help but fall asleep immediately.
by the time you woke up, the clock on your nightstand read seven-thirty p.m. the time you got home was around twelve p.m; you slept for about seven hours.
your head feels extremely heavy, mouth dry. you got up from your bed to go downstairs for a glass of water, hoping that maybe dinner would be ready too.
as you walk downstairs, you start to hear a crowd of laughter and yelling; sounds like your mom and dad, and a random man. slowly you start to descend downstairs, trying to make the least noise possible, secretly peeking out to see who’s with your parents. everybody was huddled up in the living room.
your heart dropped. you could recognize that laughter and voice anywhere; it was dean. the first man other than your dad that you ever adored, looked up to. all you could think about was how bad you looked, how your breath smelt, how you smelt overall. before you could even run back upstairs, your dad immediately saw you and called you out.
“hey kiddo, come down. somebody here wants to see you.” he yelled. you cringed so hard, slowly turning around and going back downstairs to greet dean.
“hey, kid. haven’t seen you in a while.” dean smirked, holding his arms out to offer a hug you couldn’t escape from giving him.
“yeah, nice to see you again.” you said under your breath, hoping he couldn’t see how nervous you were and the fact that you just woke up. you gave into his hug, wrapping your arms around him, your face into his warm, brooding chest, smelling of a musky-vanilla cologne. he still smelt intoxicating since you last seen him. his arms completely wrapped around your body, instantly bringing a comforting feeling you haven’t felt in a while, not even a feeling that you felt with adrian. you didn’t want to let go, and it didn’t seem like he did either, but you let go of him anyway.
“how are you doing?” dean asked, staring at me with his greek eyes, i could barely utter a word out once i caught his glance. “i’m great, dean. how are you?”
he let out a small grin, “that’s nice to hear, i’m well. i missed you.” your heart skipped a beat, maybe a few beats actually. to hear that he thought of you, even missed you made you automatically flustered. “i missed you too, dean.” smiling awkwardly, hoping the spotlight turns to someone else. for a bit, he just stared at you, looking you up and down before changing the topic and continuing to talk to your parents.
fucking awkward, you thought to yourself. even years later, that forbidden feeling for him never changed.
after the conversation ended between you two, you resumed going back to getting water to rehydrate. the thought of him was still in your head; his scent, his eyes, his smile, his voice. you knew it was wrong, the feeling you feel for him wasn’t appropriate to feeling while being in a four year relationship with your boyfriend.
the cold water hit your throat, but it did absolutely nothing to cool down the sudden, burning heat radiating beneath your skin. you leaned against the kitchen counter, gripping the surface tightly, your eyes fixed on the tile floor as the muffled sounds of laughter drifted in from the living room.
four years. four years of building a perfectly normal, healthy life with adrian. adrian, who called you every night before bed, who bought you flowers just because, and who your father treated like a son. you loved adrian. you really did, or do. but as you stood listening to the low, gravelly rumble of dean’s voice, a terrifying realization washed over you: four years with adrian hadn’t done a single thing to wash dean out of your system.
dean’s scent; that heavy mix of musky vanilla and the faint, underlying trace of whiskey he always favored, seemed to cling to your clothes from that brief, agonizingly perfect hug. your skin still tingled where his large hands had pressed into your back. and the way he looked at you? that slow, deliberate scan from your messy, sleep-tousled hair down to your bare feet before his eyes locked onto yours with that unreadable smirk. it didn’t feel like a man looking at his best friend’s kid. it felt risky, it felt dangerous.
“hey, honey, can you bring out a couple of clean glasses?” your mother called out from the living room, shattering your thoughts.
your chest tightened. you forced a breath into your lungs, blinking rapidly to clear your head. “yeah! regular or…?”
“the whiskey glasses, sweetie. dean brought over a special bottle to celebrate your graduation.”
of course he did.
you opened the upper cabinet, your hands trembling slightly as you reached for the heavy crystal tumblers. you took three. you wanted to grab a fourth for yourself just to survive the evening, but you knew how that would look.
carrying the glasses back into the living room felt like walking on a tightrope. dean was sitting on the edge of the armchair, his forearms resting on his knees, holding a dark amber bottle. he looked up the second your feet hit the hardwood floor. his gaze caught yours, steady and intense, holding it just a second too long as you walked over to the coffee table.
“thanks, kiddo,” your dad said, taking two of the glasses and setting them down. he looked up at you, his eyes crinkling with pride. “dean was just saying how fast time flies. feels like yesterday he was helping me teach you how to drive, and now you’re a college grad.”
“time definitely flies,” dean murmured. he poured a generous finger of whiskey into your dad’s glass, then his own, never entirely breaking his perimeter of focus on you. “but some things don’t change. you still look exactly like the girl who used to steal my flannel shirts when you were a teenager.”
your breath hitched. your dad laughed, completely oblivious, swatting the air. “oh, don’t remind me. she ruined three of your good ones with paint stains.”
“i don’t mind,” dean said softly. his voice dipped, a low register meant just for this room, but it felt entirely directed at you.” his eyes flickered down to your lips, then back up to your eyes, a lazy, knowing grin spreading across his face. “they looked better on her anyway.”
your heart didn’t just skip a beat; it hammered violently against your ribs, you felt as if it could explode out of your chest immediately. the memory flashed vividly in your mind: sitting on the living room floor at two a.m years ago, wearing his oversized shirt, freezing under his intense stare while your parents slept upstairs.
you swallowed hard, your knuckles turning white against the edge of the glass of water you were still holding. “i, uh… i should probably change out of my clothes into fresher ones. before dinner.”
“don’t hurry on our account,” dean said, raising his glass slightly in a silent, private toast before taking a slow sip, his eyes never leaving yours over the rim.
you turned swiftly, and practically fled up the stairs, your heart racing so loud it drowned out the conversation restarting below. closing your bedroom door behind you, you pressed your back against the wood, sliding down until you hit the floor. your phone vibrated in your pocket. you pulled it out.
a text from adrian: just landed at my parents' house! missing you already. tell your mom and dad I said hi. love you.
you stared at the glowing screen, guilt squeezing your stomach like a vice. you loved adrian. you are supposed to be thinking about adrian. but as you buried your face in your hands, all you could inhale was the faint, lingering scent of musky vanilla left on your skin, and all you could see were those sharp, intoxicating eyes watching your every move.
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oh my god, fill me the fuck up
i was seeing all these little blue flowers everywhere and kept thinking "dang what are these bitches, i can't remember..." well guess what. they were fuckin forget-me-nots. can't believe i failed step fucking 1, the hot girls on iNaturalist are going to laugh at me and i'm gonna flunk out of hobby botany school.
!!! Learn From My Humiliation!!! THESE ARE THE BITCHES!!!! DO NOT FORGET THEM !!!!
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dating dbf!Sam Winchester
hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god
hi could u write the reader is having a really bad day and she kinda tears up so ben (sb) comforts/babies her but he’s not gentle or soft
BAD DAY WITH BF!SOLDIER BOY
Tags: established relationship. Fluff. pure fluff. Comfort. Age gap intended. Mean Ben if you squint. No use of y/n. No description of reader. Soldier Boy just wanna take care of you. (wc: 968)
You couldn’t be having any worse of a day than the one you were having right now. You had so far locked yourself out of your apartment, lost one of your AirPods as it fell down between the platform and the train on the subway and gotten all wet from the rain as you walk to your campus, soaking up your feet entirely and most probably caught a cold. And it was only 8 a.m.
By 10 a.m., you had also failed your exam, to which you had studied for weeks. Bought a coffee that fell all over your already drenched coat.
You carried a heavy heart for the whole day, every little victory feeling to insignificant to make you feel better and every bad thing that happened just added to your bad luck streak, to the pile you were carrying on your shoulders. Even as you decided to get home at the afternoon by uber, to get there faster. But the uber driver was smelly and hit traffic.
So it was only natural for you that as soon as you got home and threw your backpack and coat to the ground, your eyes well up with tears. You’re exhausted, it took you forever to get home and everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. Ben is laying on the couch, rolling up a joint and he furrowed his eyebrows as he saw you dragging your feet and holding back the tears as you sat up right beside him.
“What the hell happened to you?” he asked, his tone low and lolling up on his tongue. You tried replying, saying something, trying to explain how everything in your day just went to Hell, but no word came out, only a sob and a hiccuped and small I can’t anymore before you broke, finally, crying to his side.
Ben raised his eyebrows at you, huffing a little and you threw yourself to his arms, burying your swollen face into his chest as you cried. “Wow. Easy there, sweetheart.” he whispered, his hands hovered over you for a moment, pinched eyebrows as he stared at your crying self. He finally caved in, his arms wrapping around your body and he patted your back slowly. “It’s okay, you’re fine.”
It’s not that he was ever taught to be… soft or how to bring comfort to anyone. Ever. Not even he had it. It was hard for him to know what to do exactly or how to… help? maybe? He caresses your back softly, trying to be soothing. He only lets you cry it all out, holding you in his arms.
You wipe away your tears, pulling away a little. He uses his thumb to catch a stray tear. “There you are.” he says with a small smile.
He doesn’t do gentle. He doesn’t know how. His hands just try caressing your back as you hiccup your way through your story. And of course you know he’s only half-listening to you. “C’mon, doll. You can’t be like this because of a sole bad day.” You know he’s trying, he wants to *help. But he’s coming off a little mean. You sniff, looking up at him through your eyelashes. He leans in, kissing your forehead as he believes he has given you the best advice you’ve heard in ages.
His expression is tight as you two stare at each other and he gruff. You know he’s getting annoyed by your tear-streaked face, your swollen eyes and your red nose, but it’s not like you can help it!
He huffs as he leans back on the couch, pulling your feet up on his lap. He tossed you his phone before he started taking off your shoes. “Order something in one of those things you like so much, my treat.” he grunted, throwing your shoes away on the ground. “You probably didn’t have a proper meal in all day.”
He took off your wet socks, starting to massage a little your feet to get them warmed up. You took the phone with trembling hands, ordering a pizza finally. You knew Ben would want some afterwards too. He got up and brought from your bedroom your fuzzy socks. Those he makes so much fun of but you keep saying how much you love them cause they keep you warm. As he sat up, he put them on your feet slowly, uncharacteristically careful.
He pulled the ridiculous weighted blanket you had there on the sofa and he manhandled you to make you snuggle to his side, your back resting on his abdomen. And he tucked you in —poorly— but still.
“I ordered pizza.” you say with a small voice and you gain a hum in response while he absentmindedly changed the channels on TV. He kissed the top of your head, his eyes glued to the screen.
“See, doll? You’re fine.” he said and you snuggled more into him, cuddling into his chest and seeking for the heat of his body. His heart was steady close to your ear. He keeps you close while he’s caressing your back and every now and then leaving a small kiss on top of your head.
He’s trying his absolute best to show that he cares. It’s not his fault he can’t do more than that.
He lights up his joint, holding you against him and he offers it up. You take it, just raising your head a little and taking a puff from between his fingers. He smiles. “Good girl.”
His praise makes you finally smile and you leave a kiss on his wrist before cuddling again, awaiting for your pizza.
a/n: Based the whole thing in an actual bad day I once had. How I WISH he was there to do all of this for me and baby me like this.
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