if you’re open to requests/just an idea maybe some touch starved prompts?
touch-starved prompts—for when they ache, but don't know how to ask.
adjust phrasing as necessary. feel free to make edits to better suit your muse, but please don’t edit or add on to the original post <3 if you like, please consider supporting me through tips.
“you can… hold me. if you want.”
“i’ve been waiting for you to say that.”
character a flinching instinctively, only to melt the second character b gently cups their face and says,
“you’re safe now. you don’t have to pull away.”
“do you want me to keep touching you?”
a nod. eyes closed. they don’t trust their voice.
tracing invisible shapes on their palm, the kind you used to draw when you were kids.
“i remembered you liked this. i didn’t forget.”
arms around their waist from behind —
“i don’t want you to think you have to be strong all the time.”
brushing their knuckles over a scar you didn’t know they had.
“does it still hurt?”
“not when you do that.”
falling asleep with your head on their chest, hearing their heartbeat steady for the first time in forever.
“you’re shaking.”
“i haven’t been held in a long time.”
hugging them like you’re afraid they’ll disappear.
and them hugging back harder.
“i know i don’t say it often but... i miss being close to you.”
they hesitate before leaning into your hand —
then cling to it like they’ll fall apart without it.
“can you just… stay like this?”
the words are small. the need is loud.
letting them cry silently into your hoodie, not asking questions. just staying.
just being there.
you offer your hand. they stare at it like it’s the sun.
like they forgot warmth existed.
“i’m scared.”
“me too. but you don’t have to be alone this time.”
“you can… hold me. if you want.”
“i’ve been waiting for you to say that.”
they flinch at first—then lean into the touch.
“you’re safe now. you don’t have to pull away.”
“do you want me to keep touching you?”
a slow nod. no words. just need.
tracing tiny shapes into their palm like you used to.
“i remembered you liked this.”
arms wrapped around their waist from behind.
“you don’t always have to be strong.”
brushing knuckles over a scar.
“does it still hurt?”
“not when you do that.”
resting your head on their chest, letting the silence speak.
“you’re shaking.”
“i haven’t been held in a long time.”
hugging like the world is ending—and maybe it is.
“i know i don’t say it often but... i miss being close to you.”
they hesitate—then cling to your hand like it’s oxygen.
“can you just… stay like this?”
(the words are small. the need is loud.)
letting them cry into your hoodie, no questions asked.
just warmth. just presence.
offering your hand. they look at it like they forgot what warmth felt like.
“i’m scared.”
“me too. but we don’t have to be alone anymore.”
"I'll stay on the phone until you fall asleep. I don't mind."
Have fun. <3
Hi yes, thank you. I've finally finished this. Ignore the fact that it's 1 in the morning, I was determined to finish writing this before I sleep today. XD
Fluff Starters.
As you already know, I've had a fic in the works for... a week or so? And this line reminded me of a scene that will only get an off-hand mention in that fic. But I took the opportunity to expand on the scene here, because it's soft and domestic and sweet. (I know this is written as dialogue in the prompt, but I took it more as the general idea, rather than an actual line of dialogue in the fic. I feel that works better for them. This is probably going to be true for most of these prompts.)
Obligatory backstory: this is a Hiro/WPS lives AU. Akai and Rei were previously involved (mostly sexually), but they ended that when Akai went back to the US after the Black Org was brought down. Now they're... friends. We'll call them friends. It's Complicated. (They talk on the phone basically every day, and text even more often. They're closer than they've ever been. But, officially, they're not dating.)
Anyway, enjoy! Nothing to warn for here, it's tooth-rotting fluff all the way down. (And pining. So much pining.)
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Almost as soon as his shoes are off and placed neatly by the door, Rei pulls his phone from his pocket and navigates to Akai's contact, loosening his tie as he goes. It's late – pushing one in the morning, which means it's right around noon for Akai – a time when he's not typically available, but Rei's been assured that he will be today. He's fairly certain, based on their many previous conversations, that Akai doesn't typically get Saturdays off, but somehow their schedules have lined up in such a way that he's off now. The beginnings of unwanted thoughts start to form in Rei's mind, and he abruptly pushes them away as Akai answers.
"Rei-kun," he greets, a smile in his voice. Something unfurls in Rei's chest, the tension in his shoulders slipping away. "How was the wedding?"
Unfortunately, asking about the wedding conjures up other things Rei has been trying to not think about – namely, being interrogated about why he didn't bring Akai as his date. It started with Date, who really should've been more focused on his new bride than why Rei didn't invite his long-distance friend from halfway around the world to be his plus one, commenting, "I was surprised when you said you were coming alone; we thought for sure you'd ask Akai. Could he not make it?"
"He didn't ask," Hiro answered for him. If not for the smirk, Rei would've thought that perhaps he was trying to be helpful, so that Rei didn't have to explain himself.
He did give it his best effort, though. "He's already flying over in October for his brother's wedding. Twice in just a few months is a lot to ask."
This, of course, only led to teasing from both Date and Matsuda, while Hiro, Hagi and Natalie-san offered him no help whatsoever. Thankfully, as the highlight of the event, Date and Natalie-san couldn't stay too long and ignore their other guests, so at least he got some reprieve from the harassment, but the thought stuck with him.
Should he have asked Akai? It did seem a little selfish, given that a trip to Japan requires planning and taking time off from work. In the end, for those reasons, Rei convinced himself he made the right choice.
A small part of him still wishes things were different.
"It was good to see everyone again," he answers Akai, then puts the phone on speaker and sets it on his bed so that he can change his clothes. "I see Hiro all the time, but we're so busy with work that I haven't seen the other guys in a while."
Akai's quiet hums come through from the other end of the line. "I'm glad you got some time to relax with your friends."
"They asked about you," Rei says before he can stop himself. Mentally kicking himself for even bringing it up, he steels himself for whatever Akai's response might be as he works open the buttons of his shirt and slips it off his shoulders.
Akai's voice lilts upward in obvious confusion. "Oh?"
Rei hesitates there, debating. If he tells Akai the truth about what they said, it could lead to an uncomfortable situation. "They… just wanted to know how you're doing," he lies, heart pounding in his chest. For some reason, he feels disappointed in himself. "I told them you're keeping busy with work, but seemed to be doing well otherwise."
If Akai doesn't buy into his lie, it doesn't come through in his understanding hum.
Stripped down to his underwear, his clothes put away for cleaning later, Rei debates, for half a second, going to take a shower, but the call of his bed, and his unwillingness to end the call when they've only just started talking win out. He can shower in the morning. So, he plugs his phone in to keep it from dying, crawls into bed, and places the phone next to him as he lays on his side.
"Should I let you sleep?" Akai asks, apparently having heard the shift of the mattress.
"Not sleeping yet," Rei answers, though even he can hear how groggy he's already starting to sound.
Akai huffs quietly, which Rei chooses to ignore. "Go brush your teeth, Rei-kun. I know you'll hate yourself in the morning if you don't, especially if you've been drinking."
Rei's brain stalls; he'd completely forgotten, in his exhausted, distracted state, that he missed a step in getting ready for bed. He grumbles something unintelligible, sighs, and crawls back out of bed to the sound of Akai's chuckles. He hadn't had much to drink – he doesn't drink much these days anyway, can't quite stomach it – but that's no excuse for not taking care of himself.
As he trudges his way to the bathroom, taking his phone with him, Akai says, "My coworkers have decided that I must have a secret wife in Japan."
Stumbling a little (and determinedly blaming it on the one glass of champagne he'd consumed, despite how little sense that makes), Rei nearly chokes. "What."
This reaction only seems to further Akai's amusement, because there's laughter in his voice when he answers, "I rarely go out for drinks with them after work, and they've seen me texting someone. They made assumptions."
Despite knowing it isn't true, Rei can't quite help the bubble of annoyance forming inside him. He does his best to keep it out of his tone, though he's not sure how successful of an endeavor that turns out to be. "Logic would dictate that if you have a secret wife, you'd be working toward actually being in the same country as her."
"That would make sense, wouldn't it?" Akai agrees without hesitation. "I would hate to be separated from the person I love longer than necessary."
Rei's eyes narrow – something about Akai's words ring as suspicious in his ears, but he's too tired to figure out why. Choosing to push it out of his mind – perhaps he can think about it tomorrow – he focuses, instead, on getting through his nightly routine, Akai running commentary in the meantime by telling Rei about his latest case.
If he closes his eyes, it almost feels like Akai is in the room with him, rather than in New York; his chest tightens at the thought. He concludes that there's something seriously wrong with him tonight. He'll be back to normal in the morning.
He finally finishes up and puts his toothbrush away, then trudges his way back to bed, reclaiming his earlier spot. "If I've forgotten something else, it's not important and can wait until morning," he declares, earning another soft chuckle from Akai.
"Get some sleep, Rei-kun," he urges, and Rei's heart rate speeds up in panic. He's not ready for the call to end, even though he feels his eyelids starting to droop.
"Wait," he says, before Akai can say anything else. "How… are Agent Starling and Agent Camel doing?"
He feels ridiculous even asking, as he's never asked about them before. Akai's surely confused by the sudden interest, but he hides it well. "They're good. Though, I think Camel misses your cooking. He was talking it up quite a bit the other day."
Rei snorts, pulling his blanket over himself and snuggling his head onto his pillow, the phone lying beside him. "I've only made food for him once, and it was a sandwich. Hardly a culinary masterpiece. Doesn't even count as cooking."
"That's not how he tells it."
"Insane," Rei mutters, sleep tugging at his brain as he stifles a yawn. "If he visits, I'll cook a proper meal for him. Then he can quit waxing poetic about a damn sandwich."
"I'll let him know," Akai laughs.
Rei isn't really sure what else is said after that. Akai keeps talking, and he even responds to it, but words stop making sense, and he's pretty sure most of his replies come out as mumbles, as his mind succumbs to the quiet comfort of sleep. He'll only remember in the morning, with a pinch of guilt, that he didn't end the call, meaning Akai must have.
He doesn't even get the chance to hear Akai's gentle, fond, "Good night, Rei-kun. Sleep well," but somehow, the sentiment carries through regardless, leading to the most peaceful sleep Rei's had in longer than he can remember.
﹡ ❝ i'm not going. not now, not ever﹗ ❞
﹡ ❝ i will end whoever hurt you. no one hurts my baby. ❞
﹡ ❝ can you just stay please﹖ ❞
﹡ ❝ you’re still my person, even if i’m no longer yours. ❞
﹡ ❝ i would risk everything for you, without a doubt﹗ ❞
﹡ ❝ i know you hate me, but i will always love you. no matter what. ❞
﹡ ❝ i may not be your first love, but i want to be your last. however long it will take﹗ ❞
﹡ ❝ do you think we should just..end this﹖ us﹖ ❞
﹡ ❝ i know we weren't perfect, but you know i still love you right﹖ ❞
﹡ ❝ your smile, it will be what i want to see when i die. then i can die happy﹗ ❞
﹡ ❝ guess who made it into the cheer squad ﹖ ❞
﹡ ❝ i would lie for you. i would do anything for you. ❞
﹡ ❝ if i kissed you, i don’t think i’d be able to stop. never﹗ ❞
