#brynn | threads

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closed starter for brynn and sebastian @wickedthiswaycomes​

At the end of the day, Brynn wanted to unwind. Her son could take care of himself, Kane was nineteen, so sometimes she would go out for drinks or go to a friend’s house. But today, her friend came to her work instead. She loved surprises like that. “Sebash-tee-ahn! How’s it going, stranger?” she asked, de-gowning, taking her gloves off, and walking up to hug him. Sometimes she was upstairs taking care of the business, and other times she was downstairs taking care of business, or rather, the dead bodies.

Still, the dead didn’t phase her, only if she knew the person in life more than in passing. Most of the time she could compartmentalize, and she was surprisingly good at helping people to mourn their loss and giving hope to her patrons. You didn’t need religion to love or miss your friends or family, and you didn’t need religion to tell you that you may see them again, in one way or another.

[wicanthropy]

closed for @eternusflames​

Date/Time: Saturday, 10/31/2020, ~9:45PM

Location: Brynn’s home

Her shift at the morgue today was longer than normal because her assistant Lennox had previous plans with her partners for the holiday. For some reason, Brynn’s feet ached like the dickens, and Javi had previously agreed to come over to help give out candy as a family. However, Kane backed out at the last minute saying there was a school party (Brynn didn’t know how much she believed him, but since he would probably be drinking she wouldn’t expect him back home until the following day). 

Kane said his goodbyes and hugged his parents who sat comfortably on the couch surfing Netflix. Javi was a bit of a pushover, so he’d allowed Brynn to watch Queer Eye. Now that they had the apartment together, Javi offered to rub Brynn’s feet. She groaned at the idea of it, but couldn’t resist as her feet begged her to take a hot bath and soak. This would have to do, so she nodded as Jonathan Van Ness went on about the makeover he was doing. 

As the episode went on, Brynn found herself getting distracted, and so right before the big reveal at the end she paused the TV and even turned it off, which must have surprised the father of her son. “Javi... what are we doing?” she spoke under her breath before looking up into his beautiful eyes. “I appreciate the foot rub, and...” she scoffed, “I’m not asking you to stop. But. Do you really...” she scrunched up her face as she decided how to word this, and spoke the following words slowly. “This doesn’t feel platonic anymore. I need to know what the catch is. I need to know your intentions.” Before Javi could speak she found herself babbling immediately. “We keep kissing and I know it isn’t a one-way street, I am kissing you back but I can’t fall in love with you all over again, not if you are going to pressure me. You know I can’t have that I was forced for so long to live my life in a mold and you know I will do anything in my power to break out of that and be my own self. You can’t tame me, Javi, and I don’t want you to think that you can. Just because I was on bed rest for a week and have been on ‘good behavior’ doesn’t mean I am any different than I was 25 years ago. My beliefs are the same: marriage is archaic and sexist and Micah turned me off from the whole damn ordeal. God, I never stopped loving you and this is breaking my heart because I want you but you know I have stipulations.” She nearly choked on her words towards the end. “I can’t give you what you want. So stop dangling the carrot in front of me like I’m a damn horse. And stop... touching my leg. You know I get goosebumps when our skin touches.”

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@eternusflames​

Brynn usually walked to work but this morning she had slept in and needed to drive. Usually Kane took her car to work but she had asked Javi to drive their son to work so she could get to work on time. It was no big deal, she knew her boss wasn’t a hardass, but sometimes a change of scenery was good for the family. Also, she liked to make her son’s life harder only some of the time. After work she bought something easy for dinner, placed it on the counter, and picked up her son from the Barrett Farm. 

As Kane washed up in the barn, Brynn got out of the car to talk to the younger of the men. “I don’t mean to be a bad mom, but are you sure he is a good worker? I only ask because he is too shy to ask you to write a letter of recommendation for the future. Actually I haven’t asked him to ask you yet, but while I’m here....” She smiled at the man. “I just think a letter of recommendation would be most reliable and accurate if it was written when you still know him, not five years from now when he’s finished college and is looking for a job and your memory of him is foggy. Not that... fae’s memories get foggy,” she joked.