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Tickletober Day 2: Feathers
Fandom: The Umbrella Academy
Characters: Klaus, Diego
Pursed lips here, jutted out hip there, hands through short curls.
Klaus was enjoying watching himself pose in the mirror in his room, soft music playing from the boombox by his bed. It was relatively early for him to be awake and have this much energy. 10:18am. He checked the time a few times to be sure he wasn’t hallucinating. Then again, he’d been sober for months now, what would he be hallucinating?
Klaus hummed along to the groovy melody of the song playing and wrapped his boa around his bare shoulders and neck, getting up close to the mirror.
Hunger overcame the man like a sudden illness and he heard his stomach growl. Without missing a beat, Klaus pulled his door open and sauntered his way around the corner, the melody still in his head.
He was met with Diego’s back since the sibling was sitting at the head of the dining room table.
“Good morning, Starshine!” Klaus announced and he spread his arms out to his sides in lauding and salutations.
Diego turned his head and his eyes followed Klaus as he made his way to the pantry, “Hey, Klaus.”
“Up so early. I thought you were the night owl.”
“I could say the same about you.”
“Avoiding the explanation, tsk tsk,” Klaus settled on a bag of granola and he popped a handful into his mouth as he turned and sat on the table rather than in a chair, legs swinging.
Diego had a half-drunk coffee in front of him. Klaus studied his brother, but not for long, since he knew the guy’s tells. Something was on Diego’s mind. It didn’t seem to be a terribly awful something, since he wasn’t brooding.
“You’re staring, Klaus,” Diego pointed out with a hint of tiredness in his voice.
“You could also call it admiring,” he smirked, chewing on some more granola, “Something you want to share?”
“No. Why?”
“You’re looking... I dunno... pensive?”
Diego chortled briefly, “Pensive, huh? I guess so.”
Very weird, Klaus thought, narrowing his eyes. He was so.. so docile. Diego Hargreeves. Knife man. Batman. Him.
Klaus stretched out on the tabletop, laying on his stomach as his face inched closer to Diego’s, “You’re worrying.”
“There are about 15 other rooms in this house I can go to--”
“Sorry, sorry, stay. Come on and stay,” Klaus cut his brother off, sticking a finger in his mouth to wrench an oat out from between his teeth.
“Do we need a bro to bro moment? Hm? We haven’t had those in a while,” Klaus was smiling now, meaning no harm. He set the granola down after offering some to Diego. Now he wrung the end of the feather boa around his hand.
Diego sighed. He was off today. But he knew why, at least. He just didn’t like it. He was feeling vulnerable.
“I was just thinking about all of us. All of you. What if anything happens where you’re not safe, you know? I dunno, the usual crap,” Diego stared down at his lap after leaning back in his seat.
Klaus didn’t expect Diego to open up even a little. So this was highly unusual. But Klaus found himself smiling anyway.
“You’re acting so,” Klaus’s eyes darted around trying to come up with the word before he pleasantly landed on, “soft.”
That got a reaction out of Diego. He shifted in his seat and cleared his throat, clearly trying to suppress any signs of a blush from becoming visible, “I’m not soft. This is why I don’t talk to you.”
“Hey, this is a judgement-free zone!” Klaus defended. He reached his boa over and fluttered it on Diego’s neck, making the brother cringe.
“Cut that out.”
“See!? You’re so soft! Mushy little Diego! You would’ve been cursing at me and pulling out your knives to threaten me by now, but no!” Klaus leaned forward more and persisted, able to run the feathered end by Diego’s left ear and neck.
Diego shook his head out and a giggle spilled from his lips. He wasn’t trying to actively stop Klaus’s annoyance.
Klaus slid himself forward on the table roughly and threw the boa around the back of Diego’s neck, hooking him in it and rustling it back and forth. Diego laughed and he shrunk down. Klaus dove a hand down and followed Diego, the hand squeezing right into the lower belly fat he knew would be there. Number Two yelped and he sunk into his chair further and further.
Klaus stopped tormenting Diego, “There’s always gonna be something wrong with all of us, I think you know that. But we’re good for right now. Nothing unsafe like you worry about,” he smiled through Diego’s lingering giggles and throat-clears as he righted himself on the chair he was in.
“I know,” Diego answered finally.
Klaus smiled and he wrapped his boa around his neck again, grabbing the bag of granola as he hopped off the kitchen table.
“Nice feathers, Big Bird,” Diego remarked as Klaus was leaving.
Klaus spun around and gasped so dramatically, that simple outburst was enough to get Diego laughing again. But he wasn’t laughing as hard as when Klaus went for round two.
T-Rex. With a mic. ..and a feathered boa.
Look at this on eBay
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Festive feather vibes
I’ve been working on refining a quicker sketchier style