Foursome AU - Andy Dolan, Jim Mason, Michael Langdon, and fem!reader // The Beginning • Part 2 || 18+ to read
Here’s part two of the foursome AU! In the upcoming chapters I’ll have a name for the series, I’m still picking one that feels right for this ✨
You can find Part 1 here
( warnings: insinuations of smut, fem!reader)
Now a year later, they are all in California. Andy and Jim didn’t have many things keeping them in Eden, not anymore. Michael’s operations with the cooperative have been put on hold, at least any operations involving the apocalyptic fallout anyways. He still runs the organization and keeps track of things there. Only a fool would leave Jeff and Mutt in charge. But he isn’t as focused on the lethal operations aspect of the organization.
The more Michael began to admire Jim and Andy, the less he wanted to destroy the world where a future between the three of them was being built. He still had the plans stored somewhere just in case he ever changed his mind, but his hopes of using them faded with each passing day.
Andy continues to rebuild his image in Hollywood. He’s now more picky about what roles he accepts and who he wants to work with. He’s done groveling at rich men’s feet for roles he doesn’t even want to play. He only works with respected people now, specifically people who aren’t homophobic. Michael and Jim helped him see that nothing was worth pretending to be something you’re not, not even fame.
Jim is a surfing instructor at Santa Monica beach. He gets to see the ocean almost every day and teach people who are as eager to learn to surf as his younger self was. It’s a dream for him. For once in his life, he can confidently say that he’s happy.
Every day, they come home to an apartment they share together. They each have their own rooms, plus one room with a super king size bed that they use for… cuddling and private activities.
Soon that room would be yours.
One random Saturday, Andy and Michael messaged each other with plans to meet Jim at the beach around Jim’s lunch break. They wanted to surprise him. Andy didn’t have any scenes to shoot that day and Michael had been getting more comfortable with taking time off work to spend time with Jim and Andy.
They are walking on the beach now. Michael is wearing a pair of sneakers that he keeps in his car for times like this. With Jim’s love of the beach, they visit the beach often enough to warrant having back up shoes on hand. Andy doesn’t really give a damn about the sand so he walks casually on the beach besides the stoic Michael.
Their eyes soften as soon as they see Jim. He’s with a student, most likely his last one before his lunch break. Jim looks completely in his element, calmly guiding the student through the instructions he’s giving her. Despite his patience and calm demeanor, they can see the pure joy shining in his eyes. He’s doing what he loves and they couldn’t be happier for him.
“Fuck, I wanna go kiss him”, Andy mutters, his voice a little tense with impatience. He loved seeing Jim happy but it also made him wanna make him smile for a different reason.. Andy sighs in a mixture of longing, and acceptance. He would have to wait.
Michael joins Andy in the struggle for restraint to go over to the grinning brunette. Michael glances over at Andy and smirks. “Patience, love…” He continues to stare at Jim for a while longer but something seems to start distracting him from his moment of admiration.
The girl on the surfboard beside Jim.
Michael feels a similar feeling to the one he felt when he first saw Andy and Jim. She was pulling him in… like he was meant to see her. His eyes narrow with intrigue. Andy snorts.
“You look like you’re about to shit yourself.. What’s got you so serious?”
Michael doesn’t respond, his expression only softening slightly, the only sign that he heard Andy’s comment. After another moment of taking in the sight of the girl, Michael mutters.
“The girl.. next to Jim. She’s… different.”
Andy hadn’t really taken the time to notice the girl. It was just another student of Jim’s. He looks over at her and sees that she’s blushing as she talks to Jim. He can’t exactly tell if it’s a true blush or a forming sunburn since the sun has been pretty brutal today. That’s summer in California. But this wouldn’t be the first time they saw a girl flirting with Jim.
He notices that Jim’s attention is completely captured by her. It could just be that he’s focused on teaching her. But Jim would usually notice Andy and Michael’s appearance on the beach by now, no matter how busy he was. Andy fits in a little better than Michael does with the beach crowd but Michael typically sticks out like a sore thumb.
“Huh” Andy says, now looking at the two with the same look Michael is. “She’s cute” He shrugs.
Michaels lips quirk up a little at that. Michael can read Andy’s true thoughts about the girl, they weren’t as simple as ‘she’s cute’. Andy just didn’t want to say it out loud in worry that Michael would get jealous. He’s always had a bigger heart than he wanted people to know about. “You don’t have to lie to me… she’s beautiful.”
Andy huffs. He hates it when Michael reads his mind. But that doesn’t stop him. Andy nods begrudgingly, his tone softening slightly. “Fine. She’s hot. Happy?”
Michael’s smirk grows a little.
“Jim thinks so too”, Michael notes.
After a few more minutes, Jim’s session with the girl is over. She goes over to a towel just off to the side of where he was teaching her and sits down on it. Her gaze moves over to the waves as she quietly admires the ocean. This is when Jim finally notices Andy and Michael. He smiles widely and goes over to them. He sounds a little tired from being in the sun for so long but his spirits are still plenty up.
“Hey”
Michael gives a little smile to Jim but for the most part his attention is still on the girl. Andy takes notice and nudges Michael’s arm, grinning a little.
“You’re not being subtle, Mike.”
Jim’s eyebrows furrow, glancing over at the girl. He smiles a little, almost sheepishly. The same way he does whenever he is caught admiring Andy or Michael. “She’s nice. Not good with the board… but nice” He chuckles a little.
The girl glances back at Jim. Jim waves at her. She looks embarrassed at being caught looking at him and quickly turns back around.
“Ouch, Jimmy.”, Andy teases. “That was cold.”
Michael finally speaks up, looking at them as if nothing happened. But his tone suggests he is still deep in thought. “She likes you too, Jim”
Jim’s head tilts and his cheeks turn a little red. “What?” He scoffs, his hand moving up to rub the back of his neck nervously. It’s a habit they’ve seen him do plenty of times before when he was nervous. Andy’s grin grows. “I- I don’t like her” Jim sheepishly defends.
“Jim…” Michael says, almost like he’s trying to coax Jim into lowering his guard and admitting it. “She is cute…” He glances at the girl. “I have an idea”
From there, Jim introduced her to Michael and Andy. From the start, they could see that she found all three of them attractive. Her blushing was far worse than Jim’s ever was. Jim suggested that they all go out to lunch together. He had another surfing lesson scheduled with her after lunch so she had some time to kill until then. She accepted the offer. There was something about them that didn’t make her feel like she wouldn’t be in danger if she went with them. It almost felt like they already knew each other.
That was the first lunch of many that they would share together. She never made it to that second session with Jim… she was too occupied with a different kind of session with the three men who would change her life. And they were introduced to a woman that would be the thing they didn’t know their relationship needed.
6 months later, your bedroom was now that fourth bedroom in their apartment. Your apartment. Your new life together.
81 & 85 with Duncan and Jim (bc i love the way you write their dynamic 😍) please
“Come with me.”
“Take my jacket. It’s cold outside.”
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Jim woke up to the feeling of his head pounding, a familiar sensation he was growing used to. Burying his face in the pillow, he quickly remembered where he was because of the scent that lingered on the soft fabric. The faint smell of expensive cologne and Duncan.
He turned over, finding the other side of the bed unoccupied like it always was when he stayed the night. Duncan never slept in his bed with Jim, always taking the couch without a single complaint. He didn’t want to cross any lines with the boy.
Sitting up in the bed, he groggily pulled the blankets off of him and sat at the edge of the mattress. He was wearing a tshirt that didn’t belong to him, his jeans neatly folded at the end of the bed where Duncan had placed them after picking them up off the floor after Jim clumsily took them off before falling into bed. He gently grabbed the collar of the tshirt, bringing it to his nose and inhaling the scent of the other man that just seemed to linger everywhere. He was in his hotel room after all.
The two of them had fallen into a routine. Jim would show up at Duncan’s hotel room door, coming down from his high and desperate for somewhere to sleep that wasn’t his home - somewhere safe. Duncan would left him in, asking if he needed anything and Jim would just shake his head, going straight to the bed and pulling off his jacket (and in this case, his jeans) before falling onto the mattress and wrapping himself up in the warmth of the blankets, passing out in minutes. Some nights, if Duncan was out late, he come back to his room to find Jim curled up outside his door, fast asleep, only to get carried inside and put into bed.
The mornings were always a little different though. Some days Jim would wake up and Duncan would be gone, off to a meeting or something buisness-y that Jim didn’t really understand. Other mornings, Duncan would be there and would call for roomservice as soon as Jim woke up, eager to feed the boy who clearly needed something in his system besides alcohol and whatever pills he was taking the day before.
That morning was different too. Instead of ordering breakfast and not saying much to each other until their stomachs were full and Jim’s head stopped viciously pounding, Duncan walked in a few minutes after Jim woke up, with a simple “Come with me.”
Jim didn’t know what it was about but he quickly climbed out of bed, pulling his jeans on and stepping into his tattered sneakers. “Where are we going?”
“You’ll see,” Duncan said simply, handing Jim his leather jacket, making the boy look up at him curiously. “Take my jacket. It’s cold outside and that thing is surprisingly warm.”
Jim held it hesitantly in his hands, feeling the smooth, cool leather against his hands before giving Duncan a small nod, pulling it on. It was a bit big on him, the sleeves just reaching his knuckles, but he didn’t mind. There was that familiar scent again, this time with a strong fragrance from Duncan’s cologne that he wore everyday.
They didn’t say much as they left the hotel room, walking down to the lobby and receiving Duncan’s car from valet. Jim always felt extremely out of place there, wanting to hide behind Duncan and not let anyone see him.
Foursome AU - Andy Dolan, Jim Mason, Michael Langdon, and fem!reader // The Beginning • Part 1 || 18+ to read
This is the beginning of a series I hope to continue on here! This is more the intro and backstory to how Jim, Michael, and Andy all met. They will meet reader in part 2 ✨. Let me know if you would like to be tagged in future updates of this story!
(Warnings: mentions of drug and alcohol abuse, mentions of struggles with sobriety, nsfw topics, mentions of toxic family dynamics, mentions of internalized homophobia)
Andy Dolan was never one that formed attachments to people, not often anyway. Being a star in Hollywood, he saw some of the pettiest and greediest sides of humanity. No one, not even his manager, actually cared about him. They cared about what he could for them, how his fame could benefit them and their selfish desires.
Andy might not have been a saint before moving to Hollywood but once he moved back to Eden, anyone who knew him before his move to Hollywood could see the change in him. He was different. Colder, distant… mean.
It was Jim Mason that brought Andy closer to himself than he ever imagined was possible.
Jim had just graduated from Eden University. After high school, Jim couldn’t take being in PV anymore. It was Medina that gave him the final push he needed to leave. Medina made plans to leave as soon as she graduated high school. Jim was slower on making any plans to leave. He felt an obligation to stay and help his mom. His dad had already seemed to have moved on from their family with his new family and his mom was stuck drowning in the past of their marriage. But she was pulling him down with her in her toxic cycle of self destruction and mania.
Jim promised that he would at least look at colleges out of state, even out of the country if he wanted it. They knew Sandy wouldn’t be happy about it but if she didn’t help support Jim through college somewhere else, Phil would. That’s the least he could do after the destruction he caused, the destruction they were still suffering from.
Along with Hawaii and Fiji, Jim heard of another place with waves that surfers from all around the world traveled to see. A town called Eden. There was a discounted rate for flights to the town of you were coming on grounds to tour the local college. Jim would quickly learn that Eden was a small town, the college he was interested in was the only one in town.
Plus, Jim had already long wanted to go to Australia before considering the college there. He added it to his bucket list a few years back when he drunkenly decided that he wanted to fight a kangaroo. That didn’t end up happening on his trip to Eden but what did happen is that he fell in love with the simplicity of Eden. In many ways, it was the complete opposite of Palos Verdes.
There wasn’t anything picture perfect about Eden. No standards to live up to, no one to impress. No more would be the days of watching people around him stress themselves about how their yards looked and what the neighbors thought of them. For the most part, everyone seemed to stick to themselves.
He also noticed a great amount of people barefoot there, with striked him as strange. But it oddly enough gave off a welcoming surfer vibe that only eventually cemented his admiration for how laid back the town was. He needed to be as far away from chaos as possible after the years of being plagued by endless surges of it.
Andy moved to Eden during Jim’s sophomore year at Eden university. Andy’s return to Eden was all the rage in the small town so rarely filled with anything gossip worthy. Rumors of Andy’s drug addiction, temper, and custody battle with his ex wife for their young child was all that was discussed in the whispers of the town for weeks.
Finally Jim got invited to a party at Andy’s house. He met Hedwig a few weeks before Hedwig became Andy’s… roommate, whatever they were. His first year into being in Eden, he decided to get clean from the drugs and the alcohol addiction that would consume him whenever he wasn’t filled with pills. That led him to the wellness center ( the closest thing to rehab in Eden ). Hedwig’s best friend’s mom ran the place. On his second day at the center she tried to sell him something. It surprised him how bold she was about it, how nonchalant. He liked that about her.
Now three years later, they were all apart of the same friend group. Hedwig invited them all to the party she was throwing for Andy, on the condition that everyone played it cool and to not invite anyone else. That ended up being ignored by most of the group when a party for maybe 20 people became a party for more than 60.
Jim however did not invite anyone else. Everyone he really knew in Eden was going anyway.
Jim didn’t go to parties as much since he got clean. Being surrounded by the alcohol and drugs that were bound to show up at parties just wasn’t what he wanted to call a good time anymore. But he couldn’t pass up the chance to see Andy Dolan’s mansion. It was on the far edge of town, practically cut off from the rest of Eden. The property screamed elusive and mysterious, just like the actor did.
Jim couldn’t find any drinks that weren’t alcoholic. He figured that there would at least be some sodas or something but no, nothing. Not even water, which concerned him the more he saw how wasted people were getting.
Finally he goes looking for something away from the refreshments table. He needed something to keep his mind busy because if he didn’t have something to distract him, the itch to get drunk, or worse, would get stronger.
That led him to walking into the large kitchen. “Holy shit” He mutters under his breath. The kitchen was almost as big as his dorm room, his shared dorm room. He had seen wealth in Palos Verdes but he had yet to see a mansion like this. He was getting more and more glad he came to this party. He had to admit, it was a solid party. The music was loud, booming off the tall walls of the mansion, and people were having fun. He hasn’t seen the person this party is supposed to be for though. Nothing, not anyone or any candles on a cake waiting for him to make an appearance.
He pushes past his disbelief of the size of the kitchen and moves towards what he came for, the fridge. Even the fridge was huge. “Damn”, he snorts. He quickly scans the kitchen and sees a couple sitting on the island countertop, too lost in making out to even notice he was there. Perfect. He opens up the fridge and sees what he’s looking for. Water, sodas, juice, sports drinks… pretty much anything he could ask for to help him make it through tonight.
“Awesome”
He reaches in and grabs a sports drink. He was never huge on sports drinks but seeing everyone so drunk, bound for killer hangovers tomorrow morning, is almost making him subconsciously crave electrolytes.
Just as Jim is pulling the drink from the fridge, he hears a voice. He knew it instantly… his friends had a game of watching his movies and betting on how many times he would smolder. It was almost a signature thing he did every movie he was in, enough to be made into a game that was endlessly entertaining for him and his friends.
It was Andy dolan’s voice.
“Who the hell are you and why are you in my fridge? Who the fuck let you in here?” Jim stands there in shock, not knowing what to do or say. He was starting to think Andy was a no show at his own party. He certainly didn’t expect this to be the way he met him. Jim chuckles awkwardly, getting ready to apologize, but Andy continues to voice his frustrations. “I told security no more guests.. Fucking vultures… and of course it’s an American. Of course it is!” Andy laughs bitterly. It wouldn’t take a genius to see that he’s drunk.
Jim awkwardly closes the fridge, a bit surprised at the intensity of Andy’s response. “Sorry. Uh… I didn’t see any sodas out there so I-“
Andy scoffs, “what, you decided to just help yourself?” Andy looks at him with pure judgment and annoyance. Jim is starting to get a little annoyed with Andy’s temper but he reminds himself that yes, this isn’t his house. He didn’t have any right to treat himself. Jim sighs, “I’m sorry, man… I’ll put it back”
Jim moves to put the soda back but a little hum from Andy makes his attention go back to the actor. Andy is now looking at him with intrigue, the judgement fading slightly from his gaze. “You can have it… but I want a favor in return”
Jim’s eyebrow raises. “What kind of favor?”
That favor led to Jim and Andy alone in his bedroom with Hedwig. Andy managed to find Hedwig in the sea of party “guests” quickly trashing his house. He made an offer she couldn’t refuse.
Andy and Hedwig had an arrangement as roommates. She let him go down on her every once in awhile in exchange for money and a place to stay. It was mutually beneficial for the two and the agreement had been going strong for a solid few months now. Andy wanted to add something new to the agreement… and that something new was Jim.
He offered Hedwig double the price he normally gave her for when it was just them, and he offered him double that.
At first when Andy brought up the idea, Jim was totally against the idea.
“Are you insane? We just met! No. Fuck no.”
But when he saw that Hedwig was the person in question that they would be with that night, his tone changed a little. Jim and Hedwig had been together a few times for meaningless hookups. Hedwig never wanted anything serious so Jim just enjoyed the times they had when they had it and that was that. They hadn’t hooked up ever since Hedwig moved in with Andy. Jim would’ve been lying if he said he didn’t miss it.
So, Jim agreed.
The night brought both all three of them pleasure like none other. It opened up a new world for Jim. That night is when Jim discovered he was bisexual. What was once an actor that Jim joked about, became his discovery to parts of himself he never would have thought was there.
Those sessions of Andy paying Jim steadily became more and more frequent. Eventually Jim wasn’t needing to ask for help with money from his parents anymore. But it wasn’t just about the money. Not for Jim or Andy.
When Hedwig moved out to go to college with her best friend Scout, Jim thought he would never hear from Andy again. It wasn’t a week later though that Andy invited him over.
Without the attention being on Hedwig, they discovered new realms of pleasure all over again. Over and over again. Months later, Andy finally invited Jim to move in with him. Jim just graduated college so he didn’t have a dorm to stay in anymore. That wasn’t the only reason he agreed to move in with Andy, but at the time he had convinced himself that it was.
They helped each other grow in ways that were subtle at first. Andy quickly took notice that Jim was uncomfortable with him being on drugs. Jim didn’t say anything but the more times Jim left the room when Andy would pull out his pills, the more times Andy grew to realize he missed Jim’s presence.
Andy began easing up on the pills. He met up fewer and fewer times a week with his dealer until eventually he started dodging his dealer’s calls.
He drank scotch on occasion but otherwise he learned from Jim the ways they could let loose and have fun without alcohol. And with not being exposed to the drugs and alcohol as often, Jim’s sobriety became easier. Having Andy as a support system of sorts was something he began to lean on and appreciate.
Both Jim and Andy had forms of toxic masculinity that they struggled with. Jim was constantly told in his teen years that he was the man of the house. He didn’t have the luxury of discovering himself before responsibility floored him and his mind. When he wasn’t stuck at home being the man of the house, he was around the bay boys who were as rough as they come. He remembers a comment one of the bay boys said once about gay men and he cringes to this day thinking about it.
So needless to say, he wasn’t around supportive people.
In Hollywood, if you so much as wear rings on your finger or showcase nail polish on your hands, rumors can spread about your sexuality. For more of the toxic directors and casting agents in Hollywood, those rumors could be the one thing that gets your part passed up to the next person if it doesn’t go with the image of the character you’re playing.
So Andy repressed any feelings of being anything other than stereotypical “strong and manly” for his roles. He didn’t feel like he could afford any disadvantages, especially with the press he was already getting during his divorce.
In the privacy of Andy’s mansion in Eden, Andy and Jim got a place where they could be themselves without anyone to perceive or judge them. They discovered the things they were suppressing all along.
Eventually Jim started to grow uncomfortable with Andy paying him every time they were together. It wasn’t just about the money or just about the sex for Jim. Jim enjoyed their time together. He insisted that any money Andy would want to pay him could be marked up as Jim’s rent to stay there. Andy wasn’t happy about it but he reluctantly agreed once Jim got upset enough about it.
Andy wasn’t used to people not wanting him for his money or his fame. It put him on edge and made him feel vulnerable. Why would someone want him for him? There had to be an ulterior motive, he had convinced himself. As much as he enjoyed his time with Jim, he didn’t trust it.
That’s until they met Michael Langdon. Michael was traveling to Australia on business for the cooperative. The majority of his outposts were built in the United States. He wanted to change that to have a minimum of 7 spread out across the globe. As much as Michael disliked humanity as it was, people were a resource to building a better world. That included having people of different cultures and perspectives. From a business perspective, he couldn’t ignore that.
Michael was just leaving a meeting with the people the cooperative assigned to creating outpost 15 in Eden. The bunker was being built in preparation for the 2020 apocalyptic fallout. Michael wasn’t pleased with the meeting. Not a single person in the town of Eden met up to his standards of professionalism. Half of the people in the meeting were wearing casual daywear and it irked him. This isn’t how he conducts business and it made him question his plans of having an outpost in Australia.
As he was walking out of the building, he senses something. He could feel them before he saw them… an intoxicating mixture of desire and turmoil. It was at an intensity like nothing he had seen before. It drew him in, his brows furrowing as he prepares to find the source. His magic tingles in his fingertips as he looks around. Then, bingo. Across the street lies the beach of Eden, where Jim and Andy were.
Jim was attempting to teach Andy to surf. Andy said he wanted to give it a try and Jim was more than happy to teach him. More excuses for Jim to touch Andy when correcting his posture on the board. Jim was redirecting Andy’s foot for the 5th time, trying to show him proper placement to stand on the board. Andy was getting impatient. He was used to success, even in the smallest of ways. Being corrected so many times was setting him off.
“I got it, I got it” Andy huffs. Jim could see Andy biting his lip in frustration and it was making him feel things. Jim’s eyes travel down to Andy’s lips, staring a little too long to not be noticeable. Andy’s eyes darken with lust.
Michael can sense their emotions… feel the way each of them were holding back in their own way. Jim, repressing the feelings he truly felt for Andy. Jim was falling in love with Andy, without realizing. Andy had become enchanted with Jim but his internalized homophobia didn’t allow him to feel it. Andy just chalked it up to Jim being a nice distraction. But it was more than that for the both of them.
Michael decided to try something, a little experiment. He walked over to the beach, cringing a little as the sand made contact with his designer shoes. He could buy new ones but it still stung a little. He goes and sits on a nearby bench, just far enough away from them to observe and not be seen.
His fingers continue to tingle with magic. He channels that magic to absorbing some of the feelings swirling between Jim and Andy. He lifts enough of those feelings away so that Jim and Andy can see each other for how they really feel.
But something unexpected happens, something Michael wasn’t even predicting. Jim notices Michael. Jim looks on curiously, eyeing him up and down as subtly as he can without Andy noticing. After a few minutes, Jim went back to helping Andy’s form on the surfboard and that was that. A second of admiration.
Michael was used to people fearing him, sucking up to him in fear of angering him. That moment of admiration was small but it was not insignificant.
Michael decided to stay in Eden for a few more days, give the town a shot at salvation if he deemed it worthy for one of his outposts. But that wasn’t really the reason he was staying. He wanted to offer Jim and Andy a shot at salvation… a shot at a new world, with him.
Calix smiled and leaned back against the blond who had slid up behind him, gently settling the scarf around his neck. “Aren’t you sweet?” he said playfully. He looked back out at the ocean, arms wrapped around himself. It was chilly outside, the crisp air of fall starting to roll in - alongside dark clouds coming over the sea. He should probably just go inside, but he had insisted he wanted to stay out for a bit and sit on the beach - and apparently this had been Ezreal’s solution.
Foursome Au: Does The Rose play any part in the foursome Au that you can happen a guess at?
“Rose is uh...still around...Draven and Talon both appear to be in the school of ‘make sure he can never come back’ and Ezreal is...a bit concerned. I haven’t seen as much of him, but I’m not sure if that’s because he’s backed off in favor of no one or someone else, or if it’s because I’m staying at Draven’s place most of the time now.”
[[ this is probably the best I can figure. I don’t imagine that The Rose would be gone in this AU, but Calix would be with three lovers now - two of whom are full blown Noxians who would not take the concept of a threat to one of their own lightly in the least. I could see Ezreal being concerned, more and more so the more he hears about it. Calix would probably try to ignore it, honestly, and push it off as though it wasn’t something that was actually going to matter - not that he doesn’t realize The Rose is dangerous, but because he doesn’t want to think about it, and maybe being in this relationship with three other people makes him feel a bit safer, and a bit more like The Rose will just lose interest in him. Although, whether that’s true or Rose is just growing more jealous because he’s with more people is definitely up to question...]]
foursome au: do you get jealous of any of your lovers? which ones and why?
“Mm? Jealous? No,” Calix smiled, “Why would I? We’re all lovers. Ezreal’s still a bit uncertain about things, I think, at least sometimes - but this is a relationship between the four of us. There’s no reason for jealousy.”