Tumblr prompt “Great, perfect, nice. Fuck this.”
“All we have to do is keep Blaise off our backs until Caleb fixes it,” Atlas explains carefully, his voice lowered and head bent towards the others. Caleb nods along. “All I need is like, two hours, tops. Blaise isn’t that hard to trick either, he believed me when I told him that I still sleep with stuffed animals.” Camilla rolls her eyes and points a finger with a perfect green nail at both of the boys in turn.
“Do not fuck this up.” Then she’s turned away with a flick of her wavy hair and walks out of the old shack. They sigh with relief at the lack of her presence and grin at each other, soft giggles rising in their throats. Atlas waves at hand at Caleb and shushes him again.
“Okay,” he starts quietly. “Okay. You start on the fixing of the things.” Caleb’s giggles disappear into the dark when he turns and walks into the back of the shack, a tool box clanking in hand. When Atlas goes and finds a chair by the entrance, the salty sea breeze pulling at his hair and a new notebook in hand, he makes sure to keep his eyes towards the entrance to the beach. He then learns that looking at his lap as he writes and listening for movement doesn’t work when it concerns werewolves.
“What the hell is that?” Blaise snaps, already standing toe to toe with Atlas in his chair. The teen startles and drops his pen, staring at Blaise with an open mouth. Ironically, he couldn’t find any words despite just writing as much as he could. “Where did you get it?”
“That ice cream store,” he blurts then curses under his breath. Then in the moment between Atlas’ curse and Blaise’s next scathing remark, Caleb drops something and the clattering noise echoes slightly in the shack.
“Wait! Blaise!” Atlas scrambles after the alpha quickly. Blaise takes one look at Caleb standing over the bonnet of his Ute, grease stains on his hands and tank top, and reels around on Atlas’ still holding the notebook open in one hand.
“Great.” He snatches the notebook out of Atlas’ hands. “Perfect.” He flips through it briefly then turns to Caleb. “Nice.” He glances across the scratched up paint and broken windows. “Fuck this.” He turns and storms out in a frenzy, leaving Atlas and Caleb stunned in the old shack and staring at each other blankly.
“You should talk to him,” Caleb suggests after a minute.
“I’m bad with words *and* you said that you know some of those titles.” Atlas gapes before he begins nodding slowly and rushes out after Blaise. He didn’t need to look far as the older man had slumped into the chair Atlas was using and opened on a certain page in the notebook. Blaise didn’t look up but Atlas didn’t say anything either. He just picked up the pen he was using and offered it to Blaise. The man looks surprised at the gesture but takes the pen and slips it into his jacket’s pocket. He flicks the corner of the page and tilts the book to show Atlas.
“You wrote this part?” His voice sounds timid, maybe even *vulnerable*. Atlas nods and scratches at his wrist nervously.
“It sounded like it was nearing the end and I can’t stand sad endings.” Blaise looks at Atlas openly and tries, again, to solve the enigma wrapped in a puzzle. And, again, he can’t do it.