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▶️ Adrien, slap Sawdust -whumpzone

@whumpzone my beloved svkjnvds love ur series

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"Shit!" Master swears, immediately recoiling as though he was the one who just got backhanded across the cheek. "I was just grabbing my phone, are you okay?"

Sawdust's paw cupped his stinging cheek. He'd caught more knuckle than anything else, and he felt the shock through his cheekbone. It hurt, though far less than anything he'd gotten from his previous master.

The pain of it hardly registers in his brain. No, all he can feel is relief. He finally knows that his master can hit him. The comfort of the familiarity is overwhelming.

"Let me see," Master's hand holds Sawdust's cheek, and the pet presses into it to feel the remnants of the pain intensify.

"Thank you, Master," Sawdust near sobs, the almost joy in his chest overflowing, "Thank you!"

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Sawdust ► drink some water and have some higher quality food, please. (Human grade dog food is a thing apparently???)

Sawdust blinks owlishly for a moment as he the food and water is placed in front of him. Obediently and like always, he dips his head down and starts to lap at the water, drinking it as a good dog does.

Then he moves on to the food. That one leaves him a bit dumbstruck. Not the act of eating it, but the way that it tastes. He takes it into his mouth like normal, but when his teeth bear down on the kibble and break it into crumbly little pieces, the taste is different. It's rich and meaty and delicious, he almost has to physically stop himself from inhaling the whole bowl in half a second. No, he savors it, because he doesn't know when the next time he'll get something like this is.

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► Adrien, lock Sawdust outside during a thunderstorm.

It takes him a shamefully long time for him to realize that he didn't check to see that Sawdust was in the house after they'd both gotten out of the car.

Little does he know, Sawdust is whimpering and shivering, the loud booming frightening him and the cold rain feeling like shards of glass buffeting his fragile skin. He waits obediently at the door, curled up on the rough, pokey doormat as he waits for his master to deem him punished enough and bring him inside.

Adrien clambered down the stairs the instant he realized, rushing to the door and swinging it open.

Sawdust flinched, keeping his eyes down at the ground. Adrien leans down and bodily scoops up his soaking, shivering body.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, love, I'm gonna run a bath, hang on." Adrien muttered as he carried Sawdust up the stairs, chilled rainwater dripping off his body.

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Adrian! Give Sawdust a scratch on the head. Tell him he's a good boy. I feel like he needs to hear it just once.

"Come here," Adrien pats the spot on the sofa next to him. Sawdust can't do anything but clamber up to him, kneeling on the sofa and wondering what he's supposed to do. Adrien's expansive hand rests lightly on Sawdust's head, gently petting him like a dog.

"You're a good boy, you know?" The words feel weird on his tongue, but the way that Sawdust's big eyes sparkle as they look up at him makes him want to say it more and more.

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► Adrien, break the fourth wall and f- (kidding, kidding). Adrien, step on Sawdust's paw. :)

Adrien was still getting used to someone who didn't sit on the furniture. He really should have remembered.

He turned off the television and went to stand up from the couch, but of course nothing could go right in this house as he felt something solid underneath his heel. Shocked, he fell back onto the couch and went to hurriedly look at what was beneath him.

All he saw was Sawdust wobbly-lipped and kneeling, holding one hand in the other.

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Sawdust didn't know what he did wrong. He stayed on the floor like a good pet, and he didn't even interrupt his master, no matter how much his stupid stomach was growling for dinner. He didn't think his paw was broken at least.

"Here, let me see," Master held out a hand.

He was definitely going to finish breaking it, seeing as he didn't earlier. Maybe stepping on it was just an appetizer. Sawdust gulped and shakily extended his paw like a good, obedient pet, no matter how scared he was.

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► Adrien, forget your keys in the house, locking sawdust in and you out. >:D

"Sawdust!" Adrien yelled from the outside of the house. He'd left the building but not made it past the barbed wire fence before he realized that he forgot his keys inside. He doesn't remember where he left them, but he's fairly certain that they should be somewhere on the kitchen counter. If he could just get Sawdust to come unlock the door, he'd be able to run in and grab them. That being said, he's been stuck outside for about ten minutes now, yelling futilely and rapping his knuckles on the door.

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Sawdust heard the loud bangs on the door and the shouts of his name. It made his blood run cold. Loud sounds like that never meant anything good for him, and when they're accompanied by his master yelling his name, that was doubly bad.

When he heard the sound, his first reaction was to get as far away from the front door as possible. He scrambled through the house, going up to his room and curling up in the corner, trying his best to quiet his whimpers so he could hide when his master finally charged in looking for him.

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► adrien, hug sawdust. with or without permission, your choice.

decided to combine these two!

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Adrien was pleased to see that over the past couple of days, Sawdust had actually begun to settle in quite nicely. That is to say, he's not staying holed up in one room anymore, and he's actually moving around the house.

What Adrien doesn't expect is to come downstairs and to find Sawdust curled up on the floor behind one of the sofa's arms, whimpering.

"Hey, Sawdust," Adrien almost whispers as he kneels down near his pet, but not too close. "You okay?" Sawdust doesn't even look at Adrien, but he nods his head while it's still buried in his arms.

"You know you can tell me whatever's on your mind," Adrien sat against the back of the sofa, leaving Sawdust around the corner against the arm rest. "I'm not going to punish you either way, but I'd really prefer if you told me what was wrong so that I could fix it."

"I-" Sawdust starts, interrupted by a teary hiccup, "Just used to... Other dogs. Around."

"Oh, love, are you lonely?" Adrien asked. He didn't hear a response from Sawdust, but he saw his pet peek around the corner of the couch with red, watery eyes. "You want to come sit with me?"

Adrien opened his arms, and Sawdust didn't think twice before crawling into them. Adrien held his pet in a soft, warm hug, one hand comfortingly petting his back.

"You can come to me whenever you need, alright? I'll take care of you, and I'll keep you company if you're feeling lonely."

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► Sawdust, sit! Shake! Good boy!

Sawdust performs splendidly, sitting when he's told and offering his paw up for a shake. He's got a pleased, satisfied look on his face, one he hasn't been able to have at his new master's house yet.