#donaheck

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Middle Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sean Donahue/Axl Heck, donaheck - Relationship Additional Tags: Valentine's Day Fluff, Asexual Character, Ace Sean, Ace Lives, Fluffy fluff with fluff, Coming Out, Bisexual, Asexual Summary:

Axl and Sean's first date happens on Valentine's Day

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Consider...

Sean helps Axl learn about ballcocks which leads to a...ahem...religious experience after which Axl gives Sean perfect scores 💯 AU

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Real Estate Agent Prompts

- ten years later and Axl is the best agent in town. Sean Donahue returns to Orson to open a private practice and needs a house. Sean pretends to be indecisive in order to get more "house dates" together

- busy med student Sean looks up from a text book just long enough to finally notice whose face he has been sitting on at the bus stop. He is instantly so proud he calls the number just to congratulate him and they start catching up and whoops it's sunrise did we talk all night? Next time let's have dinner

- christening the house(s) for luck 😉

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Prompts

• We didn't see Sean's reaction to the new Axl in this episode. What does he think about that hair? Those clothes? Speaking Italian? The stories about nude beaches? Etc.

• Axl brought a gift home for Sean, too. What is it?

• That kissing both cheeks thing; when Axl tries to kiss Sean in happy greeting, Sean misreads the movement and WHOOPS THEY KISS AGAIN

• there is more to the story about the train station manager with a Yankee's cap. Fanfic gap between Axl arriving in the village and returning to Kenny. Maybe days passed in that quaint countryside. Maybe Yankee's cap guy was handsome and charming ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• The day Axl and Sean give their child the Tweety Bird sippy cup

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This song is %100 Axl on his way to Europe directly after Sean confesses his love

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Secret headcanon

that Axl writes. Dabbles. His grammar sucks and he gets bored and never finishes a piece but he has put words down. Musings. Maybe it is song lyrics, though he has never created music for these words--that would take work and let's face it he is too lazy. He lacks the patience with himself that it requires to take initial scribbles and mold it. If it doesn't come out perfectly the first time, he gives up. But he never stops jotting things down. Then in Europe, as he and Kenny and Sean sit on a gently swaying train, Axl's bag falls open and the contents spew on the floor. Sean helps scoop it up. The old five star notebook he has been using for his Thoughts since highschool is open. And it isn't like Sean MEANS to snoop. He just can't help seeing the words: homesick isn't actual pain in the heart it is a catch of breath when something is familiar or, worse, too new. Axl snatches the notebook from Sean's hand in a manner that says clearly that the writing is Private. Sean winces and apologizes and pretends he saw nothing. But it stays with him for days. Axl writes? He writes. Huh. And it's not bad. His handwriting and punctuation leaves something to be desired but the sentiment behind the words; it rings true. So true Sean can't stop thinking about it. At the sight of an overweight tourist with white sneakers and a sun visor in her dark curls, Sean is reminded of his mother and his breath hitches. "It's good." He says to Axl when he spies the notebook again. This time, the raggedy corner of it is sticking out of his armpit where he stuffed it as soon as Sean and Kenny appeared in the hotel room. "The business meeting?" "No." Sean points to the pages. Axl turns a little pink and rolls his eyes as he tosses it away. "Nah. It's just dumb stuff. Whatever." "I didn't see much, but what I did see, about homesickness... It's good. It's real, you know? I feel it too." Axl sighs. "It's so lame that I miss it. Orson is a dumb little town with nothing in it." "Your family is in it. That's why." Axl shrugs, clearly unwilling to carry on with this talk. Sean bumps his shoulder and points at the book again on his way to the shower. "I think if you keep it up, by the time we get home you will have the foundation of a stellar memoir." As Sean swings the door closed behind him, he hears Axl click a pen and start writing.

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