EJ
Summary: #14 “I found this kitten in the street” & #15 “I couldn’t help it and you know that!”
Characters: Reader, Eric Coulter, EJ
Fandom: Divergent
Word Count: 651
Request: @jasonmccannsgirl8699
I was walking home after work when I heard something. I stopped to look around, I heard it again, coming from a box. I walk closer and look inside. Eric is going to kill me, I think while picking the box up.
I get home and luckily he isn’t home yet. I had thrown the box away before coming inside. I had the kitten hidden in my jacket, I walked to the bathroom and washed him with a washcloth.
“Babe I’m home,” I hear Eric come in.
“Really I hadn’t noticed,” I mumble. I get up, leaving the kitten in the bathroom. “How was initiation?”
“Boring, the recruits are weak,” he walks out of the kitchen beer in hand. The kitten didn’t like being alone it would seem. “What was that?”
“What was what?” I reply, a little too fast. Eric narrows his eyes and tries to walk past me.
“Move,” he demands.
“I was walking back from the parlor,” I start walking to the bathroom, “and I found this kitten on the streets,” I hold up the kitten.
“You could’ve left it on the streets!” He walks back to the living room. “Why did you have to bring it home!?” He starts pacing.
“I couldn’t help it and you know that!” I scream at him, sitting on the couch. “I’m not you Eric! I can’t just leave a helpless creature out on those streets, they deserve a home just as much as you do.”
He takes a drink from his beer, “What did you name it?” he asks in defeat.
“EJ, short for Eric Jr.,” I hold the kitten to my chest petting him.
“You better look after it and keep it away from me,” he sits on the far end of the couch. EJ squirms out of my arms and jumps on Eric’s lap. “Y/N. Get him off of me.”
“He likes you,” I smile and walk to the kitchen. “I’ll make lasagna tonight,” I say as an afterthought.
I start getting everything I need out and get to cooking.
Mini Time Skip
I take the pasta out of the oven and set it on the stove so it can cool down. I walk back to the living room to see how Eric’s doing with EJ.
I stop as soon as I see them. Eric is holding EJ in the air and ‘baby talking’ him.
“Your a cute little cat aren’t you? Little cute fluff ball,” he sets him down on his chest and caresses his fur. “I expect you to get into trouble. I mean you are named after me so it’s kinda a set up isn’t it? You make Y/N happy so I guess you can stay.” I take a picture of them, they both look at me as soon as the flash goes off. “Delete it.”
“Not a chance. Anyway food’s ready,” I say before walking back to the kitchen. Eric walks in with EJ on his shoulder.
“Do you think he’ll like the lasagna?” He puts EJ on the table.
“I think he will,” I put a little bowl of lasagna in front of him and he starts eating. “Just like his namesake.”
We finish dinner and I put the leftovers in the fridge while Eric washed up. I go to the living room and set up a movie. “If I didn’t know any better I’d say you were setting me up for something.” Eric sits on the couch and not soon after EJ gets on his lap.
“Well you let EJ stay, not that you had a say but I thought I’d be nice about it,” I say taking a seat next to him. I snuggle up against him and he wraps an arm around me.
“I love you Y/N,” he kisses my head.
“I love you too Coulter,” EJ meows looking at us, “We love you too EJ,” I chuckle.
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