caleb would jump for joy seeing the two of you get wrinkles. you have the prettiest smile lines when you call him silly, and his warm eyes are framed by elegant crow's feet. it feels somewhat like the proof that you're not forever meant to live a life of experimentation and pain, and now your bodies have the capacity to age happily. here's to graying hair and slower walks together
vigilante!caleb who falls in love with you, sweet and kind civilian, and god, does he feel guilty about it. or rather, he feels so guilty about hiding his secret identity from you.
he's not up to nefarious things or lying to you per se, but still, the fact that he's keeping you in the dark should not make his stomach twist that hard—he's just trying to protect you after all.
maybe his heart clenches when he sees the way your eyebrows furrow in concern when you see the fresh cut on his cheek that's "just a scratch, a guy was drunk and got aggressive," and totally not a harsh beating from one of skyhaven's villains.
or when you smack his arm while laughing, and he accidentally lets a groan slip out, causing you to pull up his sleeve and examine the bruise forming on his arm from yet another nightly escapade where he got shot at.
or even that time when he stopped responding for days on end, coming back home to you with an almost imperceptible limp (that you obviously notice) and a box of pastries.
every single time, caleb comes up with an excuse for his injuries, but somehow, every single time, the bruise sites match up with those of skyhaven's darling vigilante, orpheus. funnily enough, even caleb's year-long disappearance matched his. you've had your suspicions, but surely he wouldn't lie to you about something this big.. right?
oh well. caleb'll reveal himself soon enough—hopefully it doesn't take a major injury and yet another death scare for him to do so.
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at first, he'll tell himself something along the lines of "oh, i just care about her life and job! the gossip is necessary to know what goes on in her life!"
sure, it started off like that. but now, even if he denies it, he's actually into hearing what laura's boyfriend sent to kylie. if you asked him if he was genuinely invested though, he'd give you an excuse about how "it's a nice way to decompress after a long day at the fleet, pips" or "what, should i not care about things my girlfriend is invested in?" — but really? he's just nosey now.
you're both laying on the couch, your legs sprawled upon caleb's as he traces abstract shapes on your calves. when you drop a bombshell, he fully grabs your ankles and sits up properly with wide eyes.
"they broke up!?"
you nod furiously, and something in the back of your mind tells you that caleb is way more invested in this than he told you before, but you bite your tongue. the gossip comes first.
"can you believe it? kayla received a message from jules, and he was basically confessing to her — even though he literally proposed to laura the weekend before!!"
caleb slaps a hand over his mouth, mumbling something along the lines of "damn cheaters" before he inquired more about what happened after.
really, there's no gossiper quite like caleb xia. he'll deny it, over and over again, but it's not like the fleet has much going on drama wise. therefore, he'll live vicariously through you — because he cares about you, yes, but also because who doesn't like to hear about drama?
SUPERMAN CALEB AND LOIS LANE READER!!!! this is my au where caleb doesn't get experimented on and gets to be the bright and kind man he would've been . a little too big and clumsy at the daily planet.. his big dorky glasses and nerdy interests.... he doesn't curse much and god does he love reader........ i think caleb would've been such a good guy under better circumstances i love him so much
APOLOGIES FOR INACTIVITY!! i was kinda going throught it but also not but! i celebrated my birthday on the 12th :D i'm 21!!! legal everywhere!!!! insane!!!!!
caleb likes buying you clothes he think you'd look cute in. he really loves how flustered you get and will tease you for it, but you can fight back! just start undressing veeery slowly and tell him to dress you up himself since he likes playing dress up dolls with you. he'll flush red in the blink of an eye.
(noun) the most important reason or purpose for someone or something's existence. french, literal translation for 'reason for being'.
you'd planned to have your summer pan out the way it always had. well deserved bed-rotting after months of frying your brain at university, bottomless ice pops and cold drinks, and maybe finally putting a dent into the massive pile of shows you'd promised tara and yvonne you'd watch. (there's only so many times you could handle tara's sad puppy eyes and yvonne's silent head shake of disappointment.) so it wasn't like you didn't have plans.
naturally, as he always does, sylus had other ones in mind for you. come spend time with me at the beach, he'd said. i haven't seen your face in months, he'd said. which technically wasn't true—you visited him when you could and you facetimed at least once a week. it's not like you were avoiding him, though. you did miss him. and what kind of person says no to a paid-for vacation sponsored by your nepo baby, elusive socialite, heir-to-a-fortune-and-then-some, sly mouthed but tender hearted best friend?
you just had one problem, though. you can't stand one of his friends. or 'friend'. you're not even sure why sylus keeps him around or how they even met. just that they went to university together and they share 'similar interests'. whatever that meant. and when you learn he's also coming on the trip for as a way to 'take his mind off recent troubles', you almost threaten to pull out of the trip entirely.
sylus sends him over to your house with bribery in the form of your favorite snacks. somehow, and in some ridiculous way, caleb leaves with a fake girlfriend and a stupid contract flimsy enough to make a ceo laugh in your face.
all you'd wanted was a peaceful vacation by the beach.
(you attribute sylus' sap and growing affinity for playing cupid to his partners. you're only hating outside of the club because you can't get in. that much you can admit. you're happy for him, though.)
summary.ᐟ university au. all the lis are friends. no evol au. featuring some npcs (ex: tara, yvonne, etc.) fake dating at a beach house to get over an ex that isn't even yours? much more likely than you think. don't forget your sunscreen and sandals.
tee says.ᐟ helloooooo and welcome to the teaser for raison d'être! so so so excited to be writing this—i loveeee a cute summer fic and the caleb demons are as persistent as ever, so why not combine the two? i just want to preface a few things in this fic before it's released to the world.
this fic's main couple is caleb and a non mc!reader, with background couples of xaviermc and featuring my selfship with zayne and sylus. this is the most self indulgent thing i've ever done on this blog, let me not even hold you. super excited and can't wait to show you the rest of it! happy reading <3
