Abby/Townsend sfw?
anon: Abby/Townsend sfw - 1,3,11,12,13
I was not expecting to do so many of these omg
1. Who cooks?
Townsend, usually, but both are capable. They’ve each been living on their own for long enough that they know how to prepare a meal, but Townsend likes to have absolute control over everything he eats. He’s the sort of man who cares about presentation, meanwhile Abby would eat green mac ‘n’ cheese if it tasted good.
2. Who’s the messiest? The cleanest?
Do I even have to answer this one?
3. Who fixes the vehicle after a breakdown?
Abby, because Townsend doesn’t want to get his shirt dirty. Abby, because she’s the one who gets the damn job done. Abby, because the underside of the car is more blindspot than not, and there’s no way in hell Townsend’s getting down there.
4. Living space has a leak! Who fixes it?
Townsend, to make up for the aforementioned car incident. “Do you even know how to use a wrench, Townsend?” “Of course I do.” “Oh yeah? Because so far you haven’t even – ” “For love of – give me the bloody wrench.”
5. Who buys the groceries?
Townsend, because his cuisine is art. (And also he’s a lil lactose intolerant shh don’t tell Abby, she’ll stock the freezer with ice-cream just to spite him).
6. Going out to eat: Who pays? Who orders the most food? And who has dessert?
If you don’t think that Abigail Cameron snatches the check before he can and goes on about her “rights as a capable and independent woman” in the middle of a crowded restaurant, then I don’t know what to tell you, friends.
7. Who knows how to swim? Who doesn’t?
Both of them are excellent swimmers. Triathletes, in fact, and they work out together, constantly pushing one another to be that much faster, that much stronger, that much better than the other one.
8. Is someone multilingual? Do they try to teach another language to the other? How does it go?
I AM SO UNBELIEVABLY HERE FOR SARCASTIC FIGHTS IN LANGUAGES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN. They’re lucky to keep a sentence in a single language, much less an entire point, and through it all, their names rise above the rest. Through it all, the words Abigail and Townsend bind them to reality.
9. Any pets? Or plants?
Townsend has too many plants. So many – like, so many plants. It is concerning.
10. Baths or showers? Together or separate? Any bubbles or bubble fights?
Townsend doesn’t mess around with such foolishness. The point of a shower is to be cleaned, and you can’t do that if you’re exposed to someone else’s filth. Of course, his opinion quickly changes once he hears her humming on the other side of the frosted glass.
11. Can they stand silence? Who talks the most? Who talks the least?
Abby talks the most, but when Townsend talks, it means he’s got something to say. It’s a happy sort of balance, Abby listening when she needs to and Townsend listening to everything else. Maybe it wouldn’t work for everyone, but it works for them.
12. Who stays up late? Who sleeps the most? Does the other have to force them to sleep/wake up?
There are nights when Townsend has a lead – when he’s been sitting at his desk all day, the Earth spinning whether he’s aware of it or not. There comes a point when the only light around him is the light of his screen. There comes a point when he’s working and he’s just going to keep working, even if it kills him. Abby wonders if he ever stopped before she came along. Abby wonders if maybe he would one day kill himself with his work if she weren’t there to close the laptop and tell him to come to bed.
There are nights when Abby sits at the table, reading a journal that isn’t hers. There are nights when she’s far beyond tears and sadness, and now only feels the absence. Only feels the guilt. She reads by the light of the stove, sometimes with coffee, usually without and Townsend watches the guilt form in the circles under her eyes. He wonders if maybe one day it would crush her, that weight named Matthew Morgan. She wonders just how many times she’d reread Matt’s words if he weren’t there to shut the journal and tell her to come to bed.
13. Who is the highest maintenance? Does the other mind?
They are both equally high maintenance, but luckily for them, the only people who mind are the people outside of the relationship.
14. Vacation ideas: who decides them? Where would they go, if anywhere?
Buuueeeeennnnoooossss Arrrriiiieeesssss.