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WINTER Dirty Work | TIMA MACAU 250822
Piarles getting married for tax benefits will make such a cute fic Omg
charles suggests it as a joke one time--"you would be a monaco citizen, pierrot, think of the money you wouldn't have to waste on your milan apartment"--but they laugh it off, and the thought disappears.
at least. for a little while.
pierre thinks of it again listening to danny ric talking about juggling his time in monaco to retain his citizenship. it sounds like such a hassle, to settle there for the financial benefits but have a whole life elsewhere--and it feels dishonest, which he doesn't like. he'd never want to do it like that! at least if he were married to charles he'd have a reason to stay all the time--
and oh, when did that thought resurface? he must make some kind of expression because daniel stops mid-beer and is like "what, mate, are you the financial crimes unit now?" and pierre just laughs, having startled himself by the thought. "you're too busy for your own good, daniel," is what he settles on, but the way his brain had so readily supplied the charles option™ kind of has him thrown.
he mentions it to charles when they see each other at the driver's briefing on that race friday. "i was talking with daniel the other day and he said this thing--he's totally about to get caught with the whole monaco thing." and charles is laughing when pierre continues, "if i were your fake husband, i totally would not get caught." or something really kind of heavy-handed like that. and charles...stops laughing. "yeah," he says after a too-long beat, "but you'd have to be careful about who you date, you know." (pierre hadn't even thought about that part--seeing someone in secret while he's got some wedding band tying him to charles. it just hadn't occurred to him.)
they drop it.
but the thought resurfaces again, and again--the idea of being a citizen of monaco, of giving up milan because it's starting to become too much of a hassle and just...living with charles and paying less rent and not being by himself all the time? when he mentions it to ilies he just gets a loud burst of laughter and an "oh, yes, definitely" that sounds sarcastic but in a way that's got pierre raising an eyebrow.
it could work. it could be something they try.
he texts charles about it. were you serious?
about what? an immediate reply.
pierre's sweating bullets and he can't really figure out why. the citizenship thing.
charles...is typing for a while. pierre is hyperfixated on the little bubbles. then, after what feels like forever: of course p
so pierre just. takes the swing. you wanna marry me then? short sweet and to the point. he's expecting another agonizing wait.
sure is the reply he gets almost instantly. so fuck it! he'll get married to charles and pretend. it won't be hard, because they're best friends and he already spends plenty of time in monaco as it is. he's met the royal family, he's close to the leclercs, nothing really will change except his location.
...right?
scenes when pierre gets fixated on the rings they exchanged in front of the marriage license clerk. when charles jokes about sharing a bed as pierre says he'll sleep in a guest room. when charles asks if he wants to start seeing other people and pierre's tongue is so, so heavy when he says if you want even though he really, really doesn't want that. when they have to hold hands when they go out to the store because #married but they...they don't stop once they're in the privacy of their apartment building. when they get so drunk one night and pierre just kisses him because "we are married, it is what they expect of us" with a grin only for charles to cave easily and devour him. when they realize the next morning this may not be as simple as they thought.
i always thought that kintsugi kid was one of those songs that was too personal to ever be played live............
could’ve been interesting if the curse seal the hyuuga use was originally supposed to like. lock off the possibility of accessing the “mangekyo” version of the byakugan bc they saw what a barrel of crazy the uchiha turned into and decided no thanks
You're absolutely right anon it would have been nice for there to be an origin story for the LITERAL BRANDING AND SLAVERY besides... *checks notes*....... so nobody...can look at their eyes......when they're dead
you know you're in frighteningly deep when you compile a concerningly lengthy comprehensive document of every single scrap of in-game information pertaining to your favorite character
got too freaky on the sideblogs might be fucked
spring break is so close y’all I swear I’ll be here soon, the show closed and finals are next week and I have so damn much to do......pls kill me