Vincent Bishop X Reader - [Wedding Guest Blues]
Summary: NB!Reader goes dress shopping for an event with family and ends up feeling self-conscious about the dress they liked most. Vincent helps them feel better.
CWs: Implied dysphoria, sexism, weight shaming, the typical afab experience, toxic family, depression mention, Vincent's typical perving, SFW with suggestive ending
Addendum: Reader is nonbinary, implied AFAB
WC: 1.2k
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You came home to your shared apartment, exhausted both physically and emotionally from your trip to the mall. With your long white plastic bag in tow, you dragged your miserable self past Vincent--who was on the couch-- to your room and chucked it onto the bed.
"Uh oh," He lowered the volume on the TV, already knowing something was up just by your expression and posture. He got up and entered your room as soon as you flopped down face first onto the bed, hovering in the doorway for a brief moment as he decided what to do. Being the ass he was, he decided it was only fair for him to lay on top of you as well, curling his fingers into the the gaps between yours from behind. "What's wrong sweetheart?" He murmured into your ear, taking a deep whiff of you like he always did when you got back home from an unfamiliar place.
"Nothing... Just dress shopping..." You sighed, partly out of exasperation and partly due to the weight of him on your back.
He hummed in response, in that kind of "ah, I see" tone. He had an idea of what you were getting at, but he still wanted you to talk with him a little more.
"I'm guessing it wasn't all that grand, if your current state is anything to go by... Let me guess, your family didn't let you pick anything you liked and had a comment for everything you tried on?"
"Yep... Pretty much."
"Oh, you poor thing," He nuzzled his head against yours, shedding purple strands all over you to find later. "Well, do you at least like the dress you settled on?"
You shrugged half-heartedly.
"It's fine, I mean I-I like it but it's not... It doesn't really matter what I think," Your fingers sprawled, body desperate to gesture around like you normally would but unable to due to the purple rat man keeping you pinned down. "Honestly a suit is less than half the trouble, even though they'd never let me wear one... But there was this one dress," You began, smiling slightly.
"It was so beautiful... It was the perfect cut, color, everything... But when I stepped out of the dressing room..."
You trailed off, slowly closing your eyes as you recalled the expression of your family members. Disgusted, horrified, judging.
"It'd be good if we had something to suck that stomach in!"
"Just don't eat before the party, okay?"
"That dress doesn't flatter you at all, makes you look so old!"
"Well... Uh... What do you like about it?"
When your breaths began to grow shaky Vincent sat up, looking down at you sympathetically. "Hey, hey, hey," He rubbed your back gently, giving you room to readjust if you wanted to. "I'm sure you looked gorgeous in it... Hell, you look gorgeous five days into your depression outfit, I kinda like it when you're a lil' stinky--"
"Vincent!"
He chuckled, shaking his head, "Sorry, sorry... But seriously, I mean it. I don't know what they said or did to you, but I can assure you that none of it's true. In fact..." He got up, an idea suddenly entering his mind. You rolled over to look at him while he picked up a pair of your pants accidentally(?), shimmying into them while he spoke. "Where did you say that mall was again?"
"Aw hell Vinny, that dress was damn near 200 dollars! It wasn't worth it anyway, I'm fine with the one I got--"
"Ah, ah! But it's not your dress though. It's the dress you agreed to, but not yours. Let's go find your dress again, I at least want to see my darling in it." He walked out of the room in your ill-fitted pants to go fetch his keys. You groaned, not really wanting to return to the scene of the crime (the crime in question being the absolute MURDER of your self esteem) but you knew Vincent wasn't gonna let up otherwise so you conceded and got back up anyway.
You actually got to enjoy the mall this time around, he parked near the front and got you a little treat from one of the cafes inside, then took you back to the store you were in. Treat first, hard stuff second, he had you practically conditioned, and sometimes you'd even get a treat after too.
Part of you hoped that the dress you liked wasn't there anymore just so that you could give everything up and call it a day, but ironically enough it was on a nearly empty rack all by its lonesome, like it was awaiting your return. You approach it hesitantly, pinching the fabric between your thumb and knuckle to rub the soft material. It was comfortable too...
You thought Vincent had wandered off for a second but it turns out he was right behind you, just hovering. He had a tendency of sneaking up on people like that despite how tall and unique in appearance he was. "This the one?" He asked, reaching past your shoulder so that he could touch it as well. "Hmm... It's soft," He murmured, trying to visualize you in it. He gulped back a bit of drool, being the pervert that he was. Suit or dress, he liked seeing you in both but liked ripping them off of you even more...
You snatched it off the rack, rolling your eyes as you already knew what kind of lewd thoughts were racing through his mind. You speed walked to the dressing room, knowing that he was behind you as he'd never miss a chance to see you try on some clothes. As you shimmied into it once again and zipped it up, you tried to recall the burst of confidence you felt when you first put it on. You swished the skirt around and did a little twirl, but even so you still felt the sting of the words exchanged hours earlier. Maybe they were right, maybe you were just crazy and the dress really was that ugly on you. "I guess it's just okay," You felt yourself almost relinquishing your adamance on the subject, but when you slowly opened the door to the dressing room and stepped out Vincent was taken aback.
Seeing his shock made you want to slam the door shut again, but this was a different kind of surprised, the good kind. Vincent Bishop had been a natural performer all his life, but you could tell when he was faking things. This was not one of those times.
"Oh, darling..."
He clutched a dark hand over his heart, crumpling up the fabric of his shirt. "You... You look..."
"Ghastly?"
"No! You look... Perfect..."
He stood right where he was for a little while, just to marvel and croon over you like the obsessive boyfriend he was, but soon enough he was up to no good again. He glanced around for any of the shop attendants, and when he noticed they were absent he began to creep closer. "What's say I help you out of that pretty little dress of yours, hmm?~"
"Vincent," You warned, slowly backing into the dressing room anyway. "You break it, you buy it y'know."
"Who said I wasn't going to get it for you, cara mia?"
"Oi, don't you cara mia me!"
Alas, before you could back-sass him any further it was already too late. The door was closed behind him and he was determined to add white accents to that beautiful, perfect dress.



















