I’ve been imagining this story prompt for a week now and am finally writing it down
Danny and Tim are in the same class (college or high school idc) and Tim has a raging fever from some infection he got tumbling around Gotham rooftops and alleys. It’s a filthy city, infections are gonna happen (does he have a spleen? dealers choice).
Danny, Tim, and another classmate are put on a team project for the duration of the class, and the other notices Tim is flushed and sweaty and calls him out for it like “Hey dude I think you’re super sick you should go to the nurse” and puts a hand against Tim’s forehead to test for fever. Tim’s too exhausted to protest. He’s legit almost passing out but good at hiding it.
“Wow he’s really burning up. Danny, feel this.”
“Nah I can never tell,” Danny says. “I run cold so checking temp isn’t something I’m good at.”
“Well maybe that’ll help him wake up a little,” and the other classmate grabs Danny’s hand and puts it against Tim’s cheek.
Tim sighs and presses his face into Danny’s hand like a cat. Danny blushes. Other Classmate laughs and shoves Danny closer to Tim, who absolutely buries his face against Danny’s neck and drags him into a vice-grip-hug.
Danny is sputtering and blushing tomato red.
The teacher finally notices and walks over. Whole class is watching, laughing, whispering. Other Classmate explains to teacher that Tim is super feverish and teacher tells Danny to take Tim to the nurse.
Danny tries to move away but Tim holds on tighter and Danny eventually just sighs and lifts Tim into a princess carry (making more classmates giggle or whistle) before walking out of the room to go find the nurse’s office on campus.
Story extras -
Tim is given some basic meds and the nurse calls his emergency contact to pick him up with orders to visit their family doctor. (Bruce or Dick or anyone else, whichever fits your timeline.)
Tim becomes lucid enough to ask Danny why he’s so cold (he hasn’t let go yet) and Danny says, “Well not every meta can fly or throw laser beams. Some of us are just chilly. And it comes with the perk of not needing a winter jacket.” — in this story Danny isn’t shy about being meta, it’s a good cover to deflect any ghostliness, and being naturally cold is an easy answer alongside being something that’s obvious to anyone who touches him by accident. He plays it off nonchalantly. Maybe he goes on a rant about metahuman rights and how just because some people got a funky gene it doesn’t always result in superheroes and villains, some people are just accountants who hiccup bubbles.
Tim is severely touch starved and enjoys holding Danny for that reason. No other. Nope. That’s all, just the touch starvation. It’s really nice to have a prolonged hug and be held by a really cute cold boy.
Danny tries to pass Tim off to whoever comes to pick him up. It’s embarrassing trying to pry Tim off him and Danny can’t seem to make the blushing go away. “I’m so sorry. Wow this is so awkward. No this has never happened to me before and I’ve never talked to Tim before today we’re only in a couple classes together no we aren’t secretly dating why would you think that?! No he didn’t ’fall asleep in my arms’ he literally passed out from fever please get him to the hospital asap he needs an iv for fluids and meds!!”
Danny eventually gets back to class, which is nearly over. Other Classmate joined a different group and the teacher gives Danny a printout of the assignment that he can complete with Tim within the week. Great… now Danny has to see the cute clingy boy again. He can’t let Jazz know about today or she’ll read way too much into this.
So I’m rewatching the Superman animated series and suddenly hear Danny Fenton’s voice. I look up to see... the Weston’s cousin.
Jimmy Olsen was also voiced by David Kaufman, and looks just like Kyle and Wes.
...just a little shorter.
But now that Jimmy’s pics of Superman are on the front page of the Daily Planet twice a week Kyle has proof aliens exist that he can keep tossing in Wes’ face.
Kneading bread dough is the most grounding thing for me. So I decided to make some rolls to relieve some stress and make something nice.
@stealingyourbones has made some delightful food abominations, which taught me I can replace the water in bread with almost any liquid.
So I tried Miso.
The yeast loved it and frothed up super fast. Mixing miso broth with the egg and oil smelled funky. The dough didn’t rise any fluffier than usual but the texture feels good. Then I decided to roll in some black garlic and green onion. I’d add nori crumbled up but I ran out.
So lemme see if I’ve got this right. This weekend we’ve got:
Purim - holiday about a community avoiding slaughter, celebrated by dressing up in silly costumes to mock uppity politicians, and eating hamentaschen (triangle shaped jam filled cookies)
A total lunar eclipse - also called a blood moon due to the red color
Pi Day - eating pie to celebrate a never ending number
Ides of March - death of a dictator by those he thought he was safe from
Sooooooooo………
I should make a hamentaschen shaped pie and eat it while gazing at the blood moon dressed as Luigi Mangione
I want something big to happen this weekend so bad. I don’t even know what I want that thing to be, I just see the dominos lining up. Something’s gotta give something’s gotta give.
Danny quickly discovers he can’t move a certain distance away from his bones.
He’s freaking out about never being able to leave Amity Park ever again and certainly never be an astronaut when Tucker shrugs and says “so always take one with you? Like, it’d be easy to have a small one in your pocket.”
And then Sam has a Goth Epiphany and smiles real big and creepy and just says,
“Bone jewelry.”
If you wanna get creepy or graphic about it you can have the kids work out how to clean the rotting flesh off the bones.
Vlad would know this weakness and exploit it, whether to keep Danny close or to keep him away from certain places or projects.
If you wanna be silly you can have Danny wear different bones for different moods - like how it was popular for a while to wear a wishbone for good luck.
Danny could gift bones to loved ones.
Maybe Paulina steals a necklace or ring she thinks is pretty and learns something about Danny and/or Phantom.
DC crossovers very welcome - have a hero, villain, or side character figure out this is a weakness of Danny’s. Like if Lex Luthor has Danny’s bones and Jimmy Olsen is the one to rescue them. Or maybe to be silly Danny can ask Green Lantern to put him and his bones in an air bubble to carry them to the moon for a day trip.
I like to take cookies to work, especially when I’m experimenting with new flavors (last week was strawberry rose cookies).
When one of my coworkers has a birthday I ask if they have a request.
This one kid has the strangest flavor ideas because he has no understanding of baking, just things he likes. I love that his requests make me have to sit down and think how would I do that?
This year’s birthday request is:
Root Beer Cookies
So I’m making a molasses cookie base and put root beer flavored drink mix powder in with the flour. I’m also crushing up root beer barrel hard candies to see if they melt and re-harden like toffee (the hard Werthers are great for this) or maybe I can roll the cookie in the hard candy powder after I crunch them up - like a sugar coating.
So far the dough tastes… good? Unexpectedly good. I legit did not expect it to taste so much like root beer. My tongue is confused because this root beer is solid not liquid.
