I’m writing a TAZ Balance college AU fic, here’s a fun lil peak at what I’ve been working on for the past few hours. It’s 6:38 am and my body refuses to let me sleep!
Taako, Lup, Carey, and Killian all walked their way out to the field after Taako adamantly refused to take the elevator. Even more people were milling about now, which would only added to the difficulty of finding Magnus, despite him being a tower of a man. Faces were rushing past an not giving anyone enough time to look. Two drow held a parasol over their heads, shielding their sensitive eyes as they rushed towards the eastern dorm room, a young country-looking girl who appeared overwhelmed was booking it to the main building, a red headed guy carrying too many books for one person to handle scampered towards the western dorm, and one guy was standing in the midst of the chaos looking stoned out of his mind with his hand half stuck in a pringles can, and then a voice, broad and chesty, cut through the crowd.
“Jules!” The group followed the sturdy figure of Magnus’s girlfriend as she ran towards him and he picked her up and swung her around, nearly taking out the half elf who was standing a little too close. “I’ve missed you!” Magnus exclaimed as he kissed her, and set both of her feet back on the ground.
“Oh, you know I missed you too, big guy.” Julia teased, pressing her finger lightly to the tip of his nose. Magnus was taken out of his tender reunion when he felt a weight throw itself onto his back
“Gotcha!” Carey exclaimed, having successfully snuck up on her friend and jumped onto him. Magnus laughed, turning his head to look at her.
“Carey! And Killian, and wow, hey you guys!” Magnus waved to his other friends as the dragonborn hopped off his back. Magnus quickly checked his pockets and grabbed her wrist. “Carey.” He said in a higher tone. “Give it back.” He extended his other hand and watched as Carey put his wallet back into his palm.
“You gotta keep your eye on your stuff, Maggie.” She teased, her tail swishing as she strode back to Killian’s side.
Taako and Lup were both snickering, and Lup high-fived the dragonborn when she got back to their small friend circle. Lup was about to compliment Carey when she was cut off by a different familiar voice.
“Fellas! Hey fellas!” A dwarf with a short-ish beard (short as far as dwarven beards go) and a prosthetic arm bounded up to them. “Wow, it’s so great to see you all again!”
“Hi Merle.” Taako waved as Magnus picked up the smaller man and noogied him.
“It’s been too long!” He exclaimed, putting him back down.
“I know, I know. I was doing spiritual stuff all summer so my dad took my stone of farspeech away. But hey, I got it back, and hey guess what else! I get to room with Davenport!”
“Oh, that’s great. You two really mesh well, that’s good.” Taako said, brushing his whitish blonde hair over his shoulder.
“I’m pretty psyched, I’ve got Avi and we’re gonna fucking party dudes!” Magnus gave powerful high-fives to both men. “What about you, T? Who are you with?”
The elf shrugged, playing lazily with his wand. “I don’t know, the dorm was empty when I got there, so I got the good bed.”
“You didn’t check the registry?” Merle asked. In all honesty, Taako hadn’t really thought to check the registry, but it wasn’t like he was about to tell anyone that.
“You gotta keep a little mystery going in your life, you know?”
Lup, who had gotten caught up in conversation with Carey, Killian, and Julia, was now tugging at her brother’s sleeve. “Hey, Taako? It looks like we’ve got competition.”
