don’t pretend (to know the damage done)
relationship: Jason Grace/Nico di Angelo
summary: Nico practices his makeup skills on Jason. Jason realizes there's a lot he'll put himself through for Nico's sake.
“You were right,” Jason mumbles, his eyelid trembling in an attempt to hold it shut, but not too shut, like he was instructed.
“About which part.” Nico readjusts the way that he’s holding Jason’s face hostage, shifting more on his knees. Jason can only kind-of see the look on Nico’s face, something that’s distinctly negative, his eyebrows sloped down tight together, knit by little creases in Nico’s forehead, the way his mouth is pressed into a firm thin line of concentration, eyes hyper-focused on Jason’s eyelashes as if each individual one has offended him in a new and unexpected way.
“This is definitely more uncomfortable than shaving my legs.”
Nico huffs out laughter that doesn’t show at all on his face, eerily. Jason closes his other eye.
He’s pretty sure makeup just isn’t his thing, not in the way that it is for Nico. It feels less like he’s getting made pretty and more like he’s being dressed up for play time, the same way he puts on stupid, shitty Halloween costume dresses when he babysits Estelle. His eyelids feel heavy and sticky with product, and he can’t really help the wriggling, urgent feeling like Nico’s going to find something horrific and gross in his skin, looking at him up close like this.
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@thinkingjasico HERE IT IS I'M FINALLY POSTING IT part 2 of makeup fic!!!! sorry it took so damn long
