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Darlinâ shifts whenever theyâre sick or feeling unwell - something about their wolf form comforts them and helps⊠at least a little.
Sam came home to find his wolf in a corner - a giant pillow (not a dog bed, they insisted) that they often took naps on - hiding underneath a blanket.
He frowned. Their core was tired, the ache seeping into his own joints due to the bond. Walking over with soft footsteps, he gently lifted the blanket. Darlinâ lifted their head with a little whimper before hiding their eyes under their fluffy tail.
âSorry, Darlinâ.â Sam whispered, putting the blanket back over them. Must be a migraine. He quickly went to turn the lights off before returning to the resting bundle.
Sitting cross legged, Sam pet them from above the blanket. Darlinâs snout poked out and they sniffed their way to his leg where they rested their chin on with a little huff, blanket still covering their eyes.
He chuckled. Darlinâ was always more needy when they werenât feeling well. He shifted closer, lifting their head so they could fully rest on his lap, making sure the blanket was still covering them.
âIâll make you some dinner in a bit. Are you hungry?â
Darlinâ huffed, nuzzling their nose into him.
âDoes some chicken soup sound good?â
They nuzzled him again, tail swishing once.
âOkay.â
He stayed for a few moments more, savouring the quiet moment together. Dinner can come a bit later. For now, he just wanted to be there for them.
Summary : You're the Navy's most reserved systems specialist. Bradley âRoosterâ Bradshaw is the loud, golden retriever pilot who canât stop watching you work. He starts with coffee. Then conversation. Then a playlist. But you're silent, guarded⊠until the jukebox plays his song, and you finally speak in the loudest way you know how.
Bradley Bradshaw x f!reader/groundsystemstech!reader
Warnings : mutual pining, jealousy (brief flirtation), sunshine x quiet introvert, playlist flirting, heâs loud for both of you
Words : 5K
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There was a certain stillness to the sim bay when you were in itânot silent, exactly, but quieter in a way that wasn't just about decibels. It was the kind of quiet that made people talk softer when they walked by you, as if your presence created a ripple of calm in the mechanical hum of monitors and diagnostic lights. You werenât unfriendly. Just focused. Precise. A whisper in a world of voices raised too loud too often.
Bradley Bradshaw was not quiet, he was everything but quiet.
He was energy and swagger and sun-soaked charm, tall and golden, never without something to say. Usually something funny, sometimes something stupid, but always with that boyish confidence that made people laugh even when they didnât want to.
And for some reason, lately, he kept orbiting around you.
Today, it was coffee.
You barely registered the footsteps until he was standing beside your desk, one hand curled around a cup, the other sliding the second one in front of you with practiced ease, like heâd done this before, like heâd made this part of his day.
âHazelnut,â he said, voice low but cheerful, like you two were already in on some inside joke as he offered you the sweetest smile. âWith oat milk. Thought Iâd take a gamble, you look like an oat milk kind of girl.â
You paused mid-keystroke. Your eyes flicked up to his faceâthose soft brown eyes, wide and too curious for their own goodâthen down to the coffee. âOat milk kind of girlâ, what the hell does that mean ? Anyway, you took it without hesitation, your hand wrapping around the warm cup like it was familiar, though it wasnât. At least not yet.
A quiet breath left your lips. âThanks.â You murmured, voice just above the whir of the nearby fan: soft, clipped, barely there.
Then, you turned back to the screen, like the moment had never happened at all. Bradley stood there a beat too long, blinking once, then scratching the back of his neck with a sheepish kind of grin that didnât quite reach his eyes.
ââŠCool.â He said to no one in particular, and walked off. Glancing back once to see if you looked at him again.
You didnât.
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By the time lunch rolled around, the mess hall was its usual mess of uniformed pilots, engineers, and stray conversations about upcoming tests and simulations. Bradley slouched into a seat beside Phoenix and Bob, stealing a chip off Bobâs tray like it belonged to him.
âShe never talks,â he said, more to himself than anyone else, watching you across the room as you sat alone, quietly eating, headphones on. You were scrolling something on your tabletâa manual, probably, or flight logs. You looked like youâd be anywhere else if you could, and still, you glowed in your own strange, distant way. Like a lighthouse in fog.
Phoenix didnât even blink. âWhisper ? Thatâs her whole thing.â
Bradley raised an eyebrow. âYeah, but she literally never talks. Iâve said good morning to her for like four days straight and got exactly two words in return. One of them was âthanks.â The other was âhmm.ââ
âShe doesnât waste words,â Bob offered gently. âI like that about her.â
âYeah, but how does she communicate ? Like, with other humans ? Does she just telepathically vibe what she wants across the room ?â
Phoenix smirked. âYouâre not mad sheâs quiet, youâre mad sheâs not talking to you.â
Bradley opened his mouth to argue, but nothing came out. He glanced across the cafeteria again. You were sipping the coffee he brought. Slowly. Still the only one youâd had all day. He watched the way you bit your lip, thinking intensely. How your hair fell back when you let it go, slightly hiding your face. But suddenly, a question popped in his head. âWhy do we even call her whisper ?â He said still looking at you, not really waiting for an answer, more to make a statement.
âWe talked once,â started Bob, cutting the brunet off from his observation. Rooster turned his head quickly, interested in what the blond had just told him. âSaid she was a former pilot. Real good one too.â
His interest peaked, âFormer pilot ? I thought she was a ground systems tech.â
âWell she is now.â The blond said. âBut she used to fly, so people still use her call sign. Top of her class, sharp as a tack. Then she switched to ground, said she liked the quiet shadows better than the spotlight in the cockpit.â
Rooster took a slow sip of his glass of water, thinking about what his friend had just told him. âGuess Iâve got a mission then.â
Nat raised an eyebrow, âWhat kind of mission ?â
âTo get her talking.â He answers, grinning like a kid who just found a new puzzle.Â
Bob laughed. âGood luck with that one.â
But that didnât discourage Bradley, not even a little.
The sim bay had the kind of buzz that never quite went awayâhumming computers, faint whirring fans, a voice or two in the background reviewing telemetry. It was comfortable in a mechanical sort of way, and you liked it that way: your space, your rhythm, your quiet corner of the world. You were back at your console, headphones on, lips parted ever so slightly in focus as you adjusted a variable in the flight response program.
Bradley Bradshaw, on the other hand, existed in full color. He lingered in the doorway, pretending to look for someone, but mostly watching you work. He moved like someone born in the sun, all wide smiles and long limbs, always cracking a joke or throwing a casual wink in someoneâs direction. So, when his boots thudded up beside your desk for the second time that day, coffee in hand again, you felt him coming before you even saw him. You slipped one of your headphones off as he stopped beside your desk, and he couldnât help but smiled at the anticipation.
âYou always drink coffee after lunch,â he said, setting the cup beside your keyboard like it was already tradition. âBut I figured Iâd switch it up. This one has vanilla instead of hazelnut. Dangerous, I know.â He chuckled for a bit.
You paused, glanced at him, and took the cup with both hands like it might vanish if you didnât. âThanks,â you murmured, the word barely above a breath.
He smiled like it was a full sentence. And then, to your surprise, he didnât leave. He leaned against the edge of your console, arms crossed. âSo⊠do you always have your headphones in, or is that just to avoid me ?â
You blinked, looked at himânot startled, just unreadable. Then: a quiet, short answer.
âNo.â
His brows lifted. âOh ? So itâs not personal.â
âNo.â
Another beat passed. He was clearly trying to decide if that was good or bad.
âWhat do you listen to ?â
ââŠMusic.â
That made him grin. âWow. The mystery deepens.â
You looked back at your monitor. You werenât trying to be cold, you just didnât know what to do with all that energy, all that focus pointed at you like sunlight through a magnifying glass.
Still, he stayed.
âWhat kind of music ?â he asked, voice dipping into something gentler.
You hesitated. ââŠInstrumental.â
âNo lyrics ?â
You shook your head.
âOkay. So you like stuff that doesnât talk much. That makes sense.â
There was a tiny flicker at the corner of your lips. Not quite a smile. But almost. Bradley caught it like it was gold dust.
âAre you from around here ?â he tried again, as casually as he could.
You shrugged. âSort of.â
âThatâs not an answer.â
You glanced at him. âIt is.â
He chuckled, arms dropping as he leaned a little closer to your screen, trying to read what you were working on. âYou calibrating the response latency on Phoenixâs sim log ?â
âYes.â
âWanna explain it to me like Iâm five ?â
âNo.â
He laughedâthis full, warm thing that drew glances from two other pilots on their way out. You didnât laugh with him, but you did nod, slow and almost amused as you went back to work. And that was something. Bradley stared at you for another second. Then, without a word, he picked up the half-empty coffee cup youâd been nursing since morning and pulled a black Sharpie from his back pocket.
He scribbled something near the rim, just above the sleeve, and set it gently back beside you. You didnât look up. But you didnât tell him to go, either. He turned and left with a smirk playing at his lips.
Once you were sure he was gone, you reached out, fingers curling around the cup like it was something private. You turned it, just slightly. In dark, careful handwriting, it said:
âDonât worry,Â
I talk enough for both of us.â
You stared at it for a second. Just long enough for the smallest smile to touch your lipsâthe kind youâd never let him see.
Not yet.
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The Hard Deck was buzzing, already alive by the time you stepped through the doors. Half-empty beer bottles, familiar voices crashing over each other like waves, Phoenixâs laughter echoed from the pool table and a Springsteen song rumbled from the jukebox. Bradley was already there, leaning back at the bar, flashing that easy, sun-warmed smile at anyone who passed. As usual, he was dressed in an open Hawaiian shirt with a simple white T-shirt, his aviator pair on the tip of his nose, and his stupid moustache making him looking good as ever.
You hovered at the threshold longer than you meant toâlong enough to wonder why you came, short enough that no one noticedâthen slipped in quietly, the familiar hum of chatter wrapping around you like a cocoon. It wasnât nerves, not exactly. You werenât afraid of noise, just tired of being swallowed by it. But tonight, something pulled you in. Maybe it was the ache of loneliness that crept in when the hangar emptied you. Or maybe it was just the memory of Roosterâs smile earlier that morning, when he handed you coffee just to hear your thank-you.Â
âWatch this.â Bradley said to Phoenix, next to him, as he saw you cross the room.
âYou're gonna make a fool of yourself.â She laughed as he stood up, walking with a determined step towards you.
You found your usual corner near the window, sliding onto a stool with your drink and earphones already tucked in your jacket pocket. Not quite ready to drown out the noise, but ready to keep some space from it. You hadnât even settled on a stool before a shadow fell beside you.
âThere she is,â Bradley drawled, smooth and pleased, sidling up beside you with his usual beer in hand. âDidnât think this place was your scene.â
You glanced at him sideways, eyes unreadable, and shrugged. âGot bored.â
âOh, come on,â he said, leaning one arm on the table next to you, his attention all yours. âYou in a bar full of pilots ? Thatâs not boredom. Thatâs anthropology.â
You tilted your head. âMaybe Iâm observing.â
He grinned wide, taking that as a win. âSee ? She does talk.â He says loud enough so Nat could hear it.
You didnât reply. Just looked at him with wide eyes and sipped your drink, letting the silence settle again.
Bradley seemed content to fill it. âYou always just⊠listen ?â He asked, watching over the rim of his bottle.
You gave a small shrug. âSomeone has to.â
His eyes softened, âI like your voice.â He said unbothered by your silence.Â
That pulled something from youâthe tiniest exhale of laugh, gone before fully formed. But he caught it, and his grin widened even more when he saw the way you avoided his eyes for a second. âThere it is,â he said, mock-dramatic. âA sound. Weâve got confirmation of life.â
You rolled your eyes, but there was no heat in it.
Across the room, near the jukebox, Fanboy nudged Payback and nodded toward you both.
âTen bucks says he wonât get her to say more than four words tonight,â Fanboy said.
Payback chuckled. âIâll take that bet. Bradshawâs relentless.â
Back at the corner, Bradley didnât care. Didnât even notice. He was too focused on youâon the way your fingers traced the rim of your glass, the way you listened like it mattered. Then, he seemed to be slowing down, leaning against the edge of your space like he might stay there all night.
âYou ever drink anything stronger than water ?â He asked, nudging his empty bottle toward your glass.
âI had whiskey last week.â You murmured.
Bradley arched an eyebrow. âOne whiskey ?â
You let the corner of your mouth twitch. âTwo.â
He laughed, the sound full and bright, startling in the close space between you. You turned slightly toward him, just enough to give him your attentionânot more, not yet.
âI think people forget you have a voice,â he said, his tone quieter now, like he didnât want anyone else to hear. âI mean, I see you every day. Running diagnostics, fixing our busted egos in the sims, headphones always on. But nobody really talks to you.â
âI donât mind,â you said, fingers tapping the base of your glass.
âWhyâd you stop flying ?â He asked suddenly, not unkindly. Just⊠curious.
You glanced away for a beat, surprised he knew that, then shrugged. âLiked control more.â
Bradleyâs smile softened, fading into something more thoughtful. âYou ever miss it ?â
You paused. Then, so quiet he almost missed it: âSometimes.â
He didnât say anything for a moment, just looked at you, like he wanted to remember the sound of your voice exactly as it was. Then someone brushed past you on the way to the bar, a blonde woman in a sundress, tall and glowing, with a spark in her eye and a laugh that cut clean through the room. Confident in a way that glittered, she moved like she already knew who would be watching her, and her eyes locked onto Bradley.
You caught the way his eyes settled on her. Not just a glance, but a long, lingering stare, the kind that said he was interested, curious, maybe even impressed. His usual playful charm softened into something quieter, more focused, like he was seeing something worth leaning into, and for a moment, it was like you werenât even in the room.
Anyway, he stayed with you a little longer.Â
And unconsciously, you gave him more than usual tonight. A full five minutes of quiet conversation, soft answers barely audible beneath the noise, a trace of a smile when he teased you about something you just said. It was the most youâd spoken to him outside the sim bay, and for a moment, it felt like something shifted. Like maybe he saw you a little more clearly now.
Then your glass emptied. You stood slowly, nodding toward the bartender on the far end. âBe right back.â You took his empty bottle in your hand, without asking him.Â
He thanked you and straightened, stretching his arms back just enough for the fabric of his shirt to pull across his broad shoulders. The movement was effortless, the kind of thing he didnât even know he was doing. âDonât disappear on me.â He called, half-laughing, as you stepped away, weaving through shoulders and laughter. You didnât answer, just slipped into the crowd, quiet as ever.Â
You didnât see the blonde until you were halfway to the bar, but he saw her. She brushed past you with the kind of scent you couldnât name but somehow noticed. And by the time you looked back, his eyes were already on her. Focused. That warm, open grin of his softened into something more curious, the kind of look he gave to things he wanted to figure out. The same look he gave you earlier that morning. When she glanced over and smile, he smiled back like it was instinct. The blonde placed a hand on his forearm, light and lingering, nails painted in a summer pink. And he didnât move an inch away.Â
He tilted his head, smiling down at her like theyâd known each other longer than thirty seconds. That familiar warmth in his eyesâthe one he gave youâwas now entirely hers. Your grip on his bottle tightened and you turned back toward the bar, but not for the bartender anymore. Instead you set the bottle and your glass gently on a vacant corner.Â
âDoesnât need his beer anymore.â You muttered under your breath.Â
âDitching the golden boy already ?â Phoenixâs voice came from beside you, light but knowing.Â
You didnât flinch, just gave her a small shrug, eyes fixed on a spot somewhere past the jukebox. âHeâs got company.â You said quietly.Â
She followed your gaze. Her expression didnât change, but you caught the way she exhaled slowly, like she wanted to say something. Instead, she offered a soft nudge to your shoulder. âCome shoot a round with me. Before Bradshaw says something stupid dumb and ruins both your nights.â
You nodded once, grateful, and let her steer you awayâaway from the laughter from the blonde, from the part of you that had started to hope heâs look for you first.
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The next few days passed in a blur of drills and simulator runs, but something was off. Bradley felt it before he even saw it. A shift in the air, subtle and sharp. The way people say you can sense a storm rolling on, not by the thunder, but by how still the birds go.Â
You were still there in the sim bay every morning, like clockwork. Still perched at your console with your headphones draped around your neck, fingers flying over diagnostic keys. Still responding to reports, confirming flight data, calling out corrections with crisp professionalism.Â
But you werenât there. Not like before.Â
You didnât glance over when he leaned on the edge of your desk with his usual swagger, coffee cup in hand, teasing tone ready. Youâd just take the cup without eye contact, said a flat, âThanksâ, and go back to the screen like he hadnât just offered you the sun.Â
No smile. No soft voice. No quiet moment like before. Bradley stood there a second longer, watching you scroll through diagnostics. The first time, he brushed it off. Maybe you were tired or busy. The second time, it tugged a little. But the third ? It started to sting.Â
âRough morning ?â he asked that day, testing the waters. He watched you from just a few feet away, trying to catch your expression through the edge of your hair. But you didnât even blink. Didnât even lift your head. Just muttered, âNoâ, and continued typing.Â
Bradley lingered awkwardly for a few seconds longer, waitingâfor a smile, a glance, anything. But you never looked up. He left the coffee on the corner of your console and walked away like a door had closed behind him.
And it stuck with him. It gnawed at him all day. During simulator drills, debriefs, even lunch where he barely touched his food, through endless conversations with teammates where he found himself half-listening, distracted by the feeling of something slipping out of reach. By the time evening rolled around, he couldnât shake it. He found Phoenix on the flight deck catwalk, where the sky was bruising purple, and the air still carried salt and heat.
âWhat did I do ?â He asked impatient.
She didnât looked away from the horizon, âTo who ?â
He looked at her like it was obvious and sighed, âWhisper.â
Now she looked at him, one brow lifted. âYou mean besides not shutting up around her ?â
Bradley narrowed his eyes. âNo, I mean lately. Sheâs beenâŠâ He exhaled hard. âDifferent. Cold.â
Phoenix tilted her head, giving him a long, pointed look. Then she asked, âYou really donât get it ?â
His expression didnât change, but there was hesitation in his eyes. âGet what ?â
âShe saw you Bradshaw.â
He blinked, âSaw me what ?â
Phoenix pushed off the railing, folding her arms. âYou flirted with some random at the Hard Deck right after spending all night talking her out of her shell. And she saw you. Every second of it.â
Bradleyâs mouth opened slightly. âWhat ? No, I wasnâtâ I just talked to her for a secondââ
âBradley,â Phoenixâs voice dropped, serious now. âShe was holding your damn beer to get you a new one. She wanted to come back to you.â
He stopped. Actually stopped. Like the weight of those words landed straight on his chest. âI didnâtâŠâ He scrubbed a hand down his jaw. âI didnât mean anything by it.â He muttered.
She softened a little but didnât let him off the hook. âDidnât have to.â She waited a beat, then said more gently, âSheâs quiet, not stupid. You think that kind of girl opens up to just anyone ?â
He didnât answer. Because he was thinking about the bar now. About the way your eyes had briefly flicked toward him when the blonde leaned in. About how your expression had shuttered before he could even recognize the look behind it.Â
Phoenix watched him closely, then nudged his shoulder. âSo. Fix it. Or at least donât make it worse.â
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Two days went by.
Long enough for Bradley to feel every inch of itâin the clipped responses, in the polite nods, in the way you passed him in the corridor like he was another file to be sorted and ignored.Â
And it was driving him insane.
Because you werenât the kind of person to shut people out impulsively. You were calculated, quiet, deliberate in everything you did. And this coldness wasnât sudden. It was chosen. Thought through.
Which meant it hurt.
He spent hours turning it over in his head, reliving that night at the Hard Deck, the way youâd said âBe right backâ like it meant something, like you were truly planning on coming back to him and not just disappear as he thought you would. And how heâd let himself be pulled into a meaningless moment with a girl he didnât even remember the name of. He hadnât even realized what he was doing. Not until Phoenix spelled it out for him in painfully clear words.
So now he sat with that. The guilt, the frustration, the quiet hollow ache of knowing heâd hurt someone who barely let people close to begin with. And he wanted to fix it. But with you, big gestures didnât work. He knew that. You didnât want spectacle, you wanted sincerity. Something simple. Something honest.
So that morning, before anyone else was in the sim bay, he left a flash drive on your console. No note. No explanation. Just slid it onto the edge of your desk beside your water bottle and walked away without a word.
You noticed it the moment you sat down.
A plain silver drive, no label. But when you hovered over the files on your screen an hour later, curiosity finally won over.
âSongs You Should Smile To â A Rooster Originalâ
You stared at the name for a long moment, your finger paused above the track list. You didnât open it right away. Didnât smile, either. Just⊠paused. Then clicked. The first song was soft, warm around the edges. The kind of sound that lingered like late sunshine on concrete. It played in your headphones for exactly thirty-eight seconds before you stopped it. Then closed the window. Then unplugged the drive.
You slipped it into your pocket like it was something fragile.
Later that day, while the rest of the pilots were out on deck, Bradley circled back into the sim bay. You were alone at your station, typing quietly, brows drawn together as you reviewed a diagnostic thread. He lingered by the edge of the consoleânot leaning in like usual, not crowding your spaceâjust there. Treading softly.
âHey,â he said gently, scratching at the back of his neck. âDid you, uh⊠open it?â
You didnât look at him. Just nodded. âYeah.â
That was it.
A single syllable, flat as an ocean on a windless day. You didnât elaborate. Didnât offer a smile. Didnât even glance his way.
Bradley hesitated, thumb rubbing the edge of his palm. âCool,â he said, too quickly. Then added, âJust figured⊠you might need a better soundtrack. Yâknow. For⊠stuff.â
No reply. No warmth. Nothing to hold on to. You didnât ignore him, but you didnât give him anything, either. And that was somehow worse. He lingered for a second longer, then gave a small nod and turned away. Chest tight, mouth pressed into a thin line.
But he didnât see the way your fingers curled slightly as he walked off. The way your eyes flicked toward the flash drive, still safe in your pocket. Or even the way you waited until the door hissed shut behind him before reaching for your headphones again.
You started the playlist over. From the beginning this time.
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The Hard Deck was loud that night. Louder than usual. Full of laughter, clinking bottles, half-sung choruses to half-remembered songs. Bradley was already two beers in when he dropped onto a stool by the bar, half-listening to Hangman brag about something no one cared about and trying not to look toward the door every few minutes like some hopeful idiot.
You hadnât showed up yet.Â
He told himself he wasnât looking. That he didnât care. That it was just a normal night, and he was just enjoying the bar like everyone else.Â
But then he heard it.
The song.
Soft drums, rising gently above the noise, his heart stuttered.
âI want to know what love isâ by the Foreigner.
It wasnât one of the Hard Deck bangers, not on Pennyâs usual rotation. It was his song. The first track on the playlist he gave you. One that made him grin when it came on during drives, made him think of wind in his hair and summers that never quite ended. It wasnât loud enough to cut through pool games or Paybackâs booming laugh across the room. But loud enough for him to hear it.
He blinked, turning toward the jukebox automatically.
And there you were.
Alone, standing quietly with one hand still resting lightly against the machine, like you werenât quite sure you were allowed to touch it. Head bowed just a little, listening. You looked soft in the amber glow of the neon bar lights.Â
Playing his song.
Bradley was on his feet before he could stop himself. He crossed the floor slowly, weaving through the crowd as his pulse ticking somewhere behind his ribs, watching you with a quiet disbelief. You didnât turn until he was almost beside you. Then, finally, your eyes lifted to meet his. There was something unreadable in your expression: something brave.
He opened his mouth to say something, but you beat him to it.
âI liked this one.â You said simply, your voice barely louder than the song.Â
Just that.
No buildup. No grand declaration. But your voice was warmer than it had been in days, and your eyes held a softness he hadnât seen since before that night at the bar. And Bradley melted. A breath escaped his chest like relief and hope all tangled into one. âYeah ?â He asked, the corner of his mouth tugging up. âI thought you might.â
You gave a tiny nod, barely there. âHad it on repeat all night.â
He smiled then. Really smiled. The kind that stretched across his face like a sunrise. His heart clenched in his chest, and for once, he couldnât find a smooth comeback. Just stood there, quiet in front of the quietest person he knew, feeling every word like it had weight.Â
 âIâm sorry,â he said finally. âFor that night. I didnât mean toâ I wasnât trying toâŠâ
âI know.â Your eyes didnât leave his.
And thenâfinallyâyou smiled. Bradley exhaled slowly, like heâd been holding his breath since that night. You looked at him for a long time, longer than you ever had before. The jukebox kept playing as the music wrapped around you both like velvet.
Bradley laughed under his breath, âThere it is.â
The jukeboxâs glow flickered softly across your face, casting colors that shimmered like stained glass: red across your jaw, blue across your lashes. You were looking at him like heâd said something sacred. Like he hadnât messed it all up.
Bradleyâs throat tightened. His hands ached to moveâto reach for you, to tuck that strand of hair behind your ear, to do somethingâbut he didnât. He didnât move. Didnât trust himself not to screw it up by rushing. So he stood there, holding his breath, watching you like heâd watch a sunrise he was afraid to blink through.
And you⊠you just looked at him for a moment longer. Eyes calm, unreadable, but soft. Then slowlyâso slowly he almost thought he imagined itâyour hand reached up. Fingers brushed lightly against the collar of his shirt, then steadied there, like an anchor. You leaned in, hesitant, but sure, eyes locked on his, not breaking even once. Bradleyâs breath caught. His lips parted just slightly. He still didnât move.
But you did.
You kissed him.
Not tentative. Not shy. Not loud, but louder than anything youâd ever said before. It was soft, but certain, the kind of kiss that said everything you never did. And Bradley melted into it. When he finally kissed you backâdeeper, more grounded, hand slipping gently around your waistâit felt like exhaling after months of holding his breath. Like gravity stopped pulling and just let him float.
And in the background, Kelly Hansen sang on :Â
I wanna feel what love is, I know you can show meâŠ
This bedtime story is for the lovely @konnorhasapen
They requested and I quote "Vincent and Lovely's sickeningly sweet relationship but it's told from Adam/ dead Adam's POV
And how can I refuse something so delectable :}
Hi, I'm Adam. And tonight I'm going to tell you how I d-d-died *cue intro music*
First off I didn't do shit wrong
I was out walking after just Batista bombing my maker when I saw a snack of an ass
Oh and some human
who smelled nice may i add
anyway I was hungry so I slid up to them and kindly told them that they were nothing more than a snack and I was going to fuck their boyfriend :)
wELl then the MAN himself showed up, pimp slapped me so hard I was human for a second and told me to stay away from them.
-_-
bro they don't got your name on them???
or maybe they do- đ
idk
i ended up following them home veeeeeeeery stealthy like hehehe
i hid in their closet
came outta the closet-
...
not like that-
kidnapped them and hid them under the surge
very poetic I know <3
when they woke up let me tell you
full course meal
10/10 would attack and eat again
was i in the wrong? nOpe
my mama said never to go to bed with an empty stomach
anyway on this day in particular for some fucked off reason
the fuckin human TURNED INTO A DAMN PIKACHU AND SHOCKED THE SHIT OUTTA ME
UH
THE FUCK?????
HUMANS CAN DO THAT????
before i was able to ask whAT the hap was fuckining the door slammed open and
oh-
hi vincent nice weather we're having-
ow-
oh
OH SHIT
THATS MY BODY
wheres my head-?
WHAT THE FUCK
DID I JUST DIE?!
"hello adam"
i turned to see my maker
oh fuck i was dead-dead
dayum-
my maker faded away all ghost like or sm so I watched bitch boy and Pikachu leave
Before he left he looked at my corpse and poked pikachus side
"Hey look, he gets no head"
they laughed at my FUCKING CORPSE????
AND QOUTED VINE
THIS BITCH-
they walked out and left me there to rot >:(
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i ain't even made vincents hot asf