requested | by anon as part of my gestures of affection series
pairing | garth x gn! reader
The occasional brush of your body against his back as you lean over him to see something. The weight of your shoulder digging into his side as you reach across the table for something. Your back resting against his shin from your spot on the carpet in front of the couch during movie nights.
You don’t seem to realise you’re even doing it, the casual touches, brushing your body against him and even lingering sometimes.
But Garth notices, each instance leaving him rigid and suddenly alert of your skin on his. The heat of your body seeping into his until he’s all tingly and fuzzy feeling.
It escalates from there. From draping yourself over his lap as you whine about Nightwing’s training, to resting your head on his shoulder as your eyes shutter closed after a long day.
He feels like he’s going insane. Surely you can’t be unaware of what you’re doing? What you’re doing to him? Kicking up a swirl of butterflies in his gut whenever you so much as touch him.
You’re resting on his lap, eyes closed and a contented smile on your face, the common area of Titans Tower empty bar the two of you when you murmur, “You’re such a good pillow, my favourite pillow.”
You don’t elaborate further, nor can Garth bring himself to pry. Not if it will disturb the careful balance of what you’ve constructed.
So for now he’ll let you lean on him, however you needed, even if you left him a confusing puddle of giddy emotions.
