#damn poly

[free-boundsoul]

...what piece of my soul do I have to give Erik to get a non-canon DAMN crew poly video?

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The freelancer, opening their arms as soon as they get home, announcing they had a bad day: 

Their four boyfriends immediately rushing to them like golden retrievers and spending the next 15 minutes in a pile on the floor together: 

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Could I request comfort from the damn poly boys(with Gavin, romantic) for them taking care of the fl after they got their wisdom teeth removed. Got mine taken out yesterday and it sucks

Did I ignore a couple of my other requests to get to this one? Yes. But this one seemed a little time sensitive. I got mine out a couple years ago and it was not fun. But I did get to sit in bed all day and watch Howls Movie Castle 12 times in a row, so that was fun. I hope you’re feeling okay and that everything heals well! Remember no straws for at least two weeks! Enjoy~~

(Also we’re ignoring the fact that technically magic could be used to fix everything, but that doesn’t make a very cute story)

CW: mentions of blood, medication,

Damien is in charge of the meds

He has alarms set, everything is measured and set out on the counter in order of times the Freelancer has to take it

He’s on top of it

He wanted to be in charge of the ice pack duty too, but since his hands are so warm, the packs are half melted by the time he gets them from the kitchen to the couch

So he makes Lasko carry the packs to the Freelancer on the couch

Damien was also the one who basically interrogated the doctor for 10 minutes once the Freelancer was done with the surgery so he could learn all the proper care steps

Gavin is the one filming everything while they’re still coming off of the anesthesia

Obviously he wouldn't ask the Freelancer about any topics they would normally avoid, but he does sit in the back seat with them as they ramble about whatever their brain can come up with

He would never show anyone outside of the five of them the videos he took, he just likes to watch them later

And maybe slightly tease the Freelancer about it later

Lasko is the one to drive everyone to the doctors, while Damien sat in the passenger seat pouring over pamphlets

When they get home they set the Freelancer up on the couch with anything they could need and settle in to watch a movie

Well, the four of them watch a movie, the Freelancer fell asleep about 15 minutes in

Damien wakes them up to change their gauze and take the meds they need

Anytime the Freelancer complains about their cheeks being sore, they make each of their boyfriends give them a light kiss on the cheek

“Kiss it better?”

And how can they say no to a face like that?

Well, they do for the first couple of hours, instead giving them a forehead kiss because they don’t want to accidentally agitate anything

But eventually they do give them cheek kisses

But they are all very careful to do it lightly

Huxley and Damien are in charge of food preparation

Well, Hux tries to help, but Damien kinda takes over

Listen, Damien hates seeing the people he cares about in pain or really even slightly uncomfortable, but with stuff like after surgery care, there’s a clear list of things to do and things not to do, so this is his specialty.

He just wants to help, but he’s also still a slight perfectionist

But they make a lot of soup for the Freelancer to enjoy, and they make sure there’s leftovers so they have something to reheat later

Once the Freelancer gets most of the sleep out of their system, they spend what's left of the day watching movies while cuddling with their boyfriends and switching between eating ice cream and soup

They have to have two ice packs on their cheeks to help with the swelling, so they feel back leaning against Huxley’s chest as a pillow, but he insists that he’s fine and that he can handle it

And when they fall asleep on the couch after movie number 4, Huxley carries them to bed

Basically the Freelancer is treated like the royalty they are for the next week at least.

It's short I know, but I hope you enjoyed either way. Feel better soon :)

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Could we get some poly damn hcs(including Gavin) where there is post inversion comfort? Like the FL comforting everyone and everyone being ok because they’re finally safe?? Inversion got me cryin dude :(

Me too dude. Me too.

This starts right at the end of inversion, and then skips to comfort portion later, so it hurts a little before it gets better. Hope you enjoy!

A small apology to all the requests sitting in my inbox. School is exhausting, and usually I can use the weekends to recharge and write, but last weekend I had my last high school music festival, and I had a field trip this weekend. So I've been slightly busy (Also I've started hyper-fixating on Stardew valley again, which sucks, cause at least with my fixation on redacted, I can do other stuff while I listen, but video games are a little hard to multitask with lol))

Anyway sorry onto the head canons

CW: Inversion, shutting down, mentions of injuries, mentions of trauma, mentions of nightmares, grief, guilt, crying

They’re all so scared for the barrier to come down

At least while it was still up, they could hold onto hope that the others were okay, that everything would work out okay

But once it breaks they have to deal with whatever happened

Gavin and the FL weren’t far from the entrance, so they were some of the firsts to get out

Lasko tackled the two of them to the ground when he saw them, refusing to let go

None of them were hurt, just tired, but they ignored their exhaustion to look for Huxley and Damien until Gavin literally collapsed against the FL and Lasko, who had to drag him back to the apartment

Gavin insisted he was fine and could keep searching right up until he collapsed

Once the two of them had made sure he was safe in bed, they went back out

Lasko tried to convince the FL to stay home and rest, but they’re stubborn, and insisted on helping him look for the other half of their family

It takes them a while, but eventually they find Huxley hunched over, sitting on the curb in front of one of the medical tents

They rush over and hug Huxley, checking him over to make sure he doesn’t have any injuries, and Hux does the same to the Freelancer

Once they make sure he’s mostly okay other than a few small scrapes, they ask about Damien

He tells them Damien is in the medical tent, and that he was asked to wait outside

So they wait with him, all of them crouched uncomfortably on the curb

Damien hobbles out of the tent about an hour later

They all stand up quickly (or as quick as they can, they’re all exhausted) and wait for Damien to say something

He just wordlessly walks over and buries his head in Huxley’s chest

The other two are quick to wrap their arms around them, and they have another group hug

Their family made it. They’re all safe

The walk back to the apartment takes a little while

Damien can hardly walk, and Huxley is exhausted

Lasko does his best to prop up Damien, and the Freelancer tries their best to hold up Huxley, but by the time they make it home, they’re all swaying on their feet

The they all pass out as soon as they get into bed, and they hold onto each other like they’re scared the others will be gone when they wake up

Okay, that’s enough of the angst, onto the comfort portion of your regularly scheduled broadcast

The first day they just spend sleeping

But sadly the world moves on, despite all the terrible things that happened

They all have to start processing everything eventually

Gavin just doesn’t want to talk about it

So the Freelancer will just sit with him as he tries to find ways to distract himself

They’ll find him sitting on the couch, staring out into space

They’ll gently cup his face in their hands, tearing his eyes away from the wall and softly kiss his lips until his eyes come back into focus

“I love you,” they whisper, and they get a couple hours with him until he zones out again

Lasko is running around like a chicken with his head cut off

He wants to help, he knows his partners are hurting, but he feels like it isn’t his place to try and make them feel better

He can’t even imagine what they all went through, and he’s so afraid of accidentally making it worse

So he pushes all of those thoughts deep, deep down, and tries to put on a brave face for everyone else

Until one night the FL is up late because they can’t sleep, and they hear sounds coming from the bathroom

So they slip out of Huxley’s grasp (a usually impossible task. Boy has a tight grip) and make their way down the hall

Lasko is sitting on the edge of the tub with his head buried in a towel, doing his best to muffle his crying

He must not have heard them come in, because when they lightly rap their knuckles on the door frame, his head shoots up

“Freelancer! I’m sorry I just-”

They just sink to their knees in front of where he sitting and hold him, letting him cry into their shoulder

“I’m sorry, I don’t know why I’m crying” he apologized, trying to wipe away his tears as they kept forming in his eyes

“Shhh, you don’t have to apologize to me Lasko, I’m right here,” they soothed, rubbing small circles on his back

They stayed like that until Lasko's cries stopped.

“Listen to me Lasko,” the FL said, cupping Lasko’s face. “We all made it. All five of us. We’re all still here, and we want you to feel okay too. You can talk to us my love. We all love you so much”

Lasko started crying again, and this time by the time he was done, it was almost time for them to get up, so

So the FL dragged him to the living room and sat him on the couch while they made two mugs of hot chocolate

They sat on the couch and drank them together until they both dozed off, curled up next to year other, Lasko laying his head on the FL chest

That’s how the others found them the next morning, sleeping on the couch with two empty mugs on the coffee table

Hux isn’t very vocal about his grief

He’ll just linger around in rooms where the others are, like he’s scared to be left alone

He starts to get nervous if any of them are out of his line of sight for too long, especially Damien

A lot of times he’ll just walk up behind one of his partners and hug them from behind while they work on whatever they were doing

Huxley and Gavin especially can be found like this a lot, because Gavin doesn’t want to talk about any of it

So Huxley just follows them all around like a lost puppy, occasionally picking them up to hold them of a bit

Damien is not particularly happy about this, because he just wants to brood, but he’s having a very hard time saying no to his boyfriend

Also Huxley is like six and a half feet tall, so you really can’t fight back against him

And at night when they’re all in bed, even though half of them can’t sleep, they all stay in bed because Huxley is holding onto them all so tight

Have y’all ever read Percy Jackson? Think like the way Percy clings to Annabeth after they get out of Hades. That's Huxley

The thing that brings Damien out of his episode is actually him yelling at the FL

The fun thing about the freelancer, is they’re usually so busy trying to look after others that they don’t take good care of themselves

And the others are usually pretty good at watching out for it, but they’re all just trying to get through everything, so it’s no ones fault

But anyway back to Damien

While he’s recovering, he sleeps in one of the other rooms for a bit, but even after he’s healed, he continues to sleep in the guest room because he doesn’t want to wake any of the others up when he wakes us from a nightmare

Sometimes Huxley will join him. a) because Damien physically can’t kick him out, and b) Huxley is the heaviest sleeper, so the nightmare excuse doesn’t work on him

Come to think of it, none of them are sleeping well, because even if they didn’t have a nightmare, they’ll probably wake up when one of the others do

So Damien is isolating himself as a form of self punishment for not being ‘good enough’

Which is BS of course, but he doesn’t see it that way

Thankfully the Freelancer does, so they try to knock some sense into him

But Damien throws it right back at them when he points out that they’ve been avoiding dealing with their own feelings about everything in order to try to take any burden off of their partners,

Their conversation gets a little heated (heh, pun), but they both calm down and talk through everything together before meeting back up with everyone else

They five of them finally talk through their grief and guilt about everything that happened

After a lot of talking (and a fair amount of crying), they’re all exhausted, and they all pile together in their bed and sleep through the night for the first time in a while