hi again!! this is the same anon who requested soft dom r x s1 whitaker ahdhdhsjdjsh ,,,,,
can i req enemies w benefits whitaker x fem r sharing a bath together but it’s all comfort fluff with close to no nsfw that shows a big moment of vulnerability and intimacy :’))
(a/n:) AHHH SO SORRY THIS TOOK ME A MINUTE. I hope you like it. I've found i LOVE writing a beauitful lil lover boy Dennis. chefs kisssssss. thank you for the request!
Dennis Whitaker x fem!reader | ~1k words | enemies w/ benefits | comfort/fluff | bath scene | no nsfw
The thing about Dennis Whitaker is that he is relentlessly and infuriatingly gentle.
You'd figured that out sometime around week three of whatever this is.
The situationship with no name and no rules except the unspoken one: don't make it weird. You'd figured it out and then spent the next forever pretending you hadn't, because the alternative was acknowledging that gentleness like his was dangerous. That it got under your skin. That you were, in some deeply inconvenient and significant way, screwed.
You're thinking about this when he finds you on the bathroom floor.
You're just sitting back against the tub, still in your jacket, because you got home from a double shift and made it as far as the bathroom before your legs decided they were done participating for the day. Reasonable, honestly. You've been awake for twenty two hours. Your legs were well within their rights.
Dennis, who had apparently let himself in with the spare key you gave him for emergencies and had deeply different opinions about what constituted an emergency, crouches in front of you. He's still in his scrubs.
"Hi." he says.
"I'm fine."
"You're slumped on the tile."
"It's cool. I like it."
He looks at you for a moment with those eyes that you refuse to find endearing. "Okay then." he says, and stands up and starts running the bath.
This is the part where you should say something cutting.
I didn't ask for this. You're not my boyfriend. This isn't what we do.
You have a whole arsenal. You've used it on him before, watched him absorb it with that patient face that made you want to either apologize or fight harder, depending on the day.
Instead you watch him test the water temperature with his wrist. Old habit, probably. He adds something from the cabinet. Your eucalyptus thing, without asking.
"Whitaker."
"Hmm?"
"You don't have to.."
"I know." He sits on the edge of the tub and looks at you, not unkindly. "I want to."
Which is the problem, isn't it.
You get in the bath. He sits on the floor beside it, back against the tile, legs stretched out in front of him, and hands you the eucalyptus cap to smell while the steam rises and the world gets a little softer around the edges.
"Bad one?" he asks.
"Twelve year old." You close your eyes. "Bike accident. He was fine, ultimately, but for about forty minutes he wasn't, and I just..I need a second before I can talk about it."
The water is very warm. At some point his hand comes up to rest on the edge of the tub near your shoulder, not touching, just near.
An offering, not a demand. You close your eyes and sink into the tub a little deeper.
"I still think about the first patient I lost." he says. "I keep thinking I'm going to get better at it and I'm just. Not. Getting better at it."
You open your eyes and he's looking at his hands. He's picking at the hem of his scrub top. A nervous thing.
"You're not supposed to get better at it." you say and he looks up.
"Getting better at it means you stopped caring." You've given this speech and It lands differently when you mean it. When you're giving to someone who means something. "You're supposed to get better at going home. At leaving it at the door. That's what we're all trying to learn. Not to care less. Just to carry it differently."
Dennis looks at you with something unguarded moving across his face, something you've only seen in moments between whatever performance the two of you have agreed to give. Something that looks, uncomfortably, like relief. Like he's been waiting for someone to say that.
And anyhow wasn't he the one that was supposed to be comforting you? But when you looked at him, you couldn't help yourself. Couldn't help the softening of your heart.
You close your eyes again and scoff. "You're so annoying."
"I know."
"You're not allowed to be this.." You gesture vaguely at all of him. "While I'm trying to be unpleasant."
The corner of his mouth lifts. "Sorry. I'll be worse."
"You literally cannot be worse. That's the issue."
He doesn't say anything. He moves his hand a half inch closer and you look at it for a moment and then put your wet fingers over his, the smallest possible concession, and he lets you pretend that's all it is.
It's not nothing.
You suspect, and this is the most dangerous thing you've thought all day, that it might be quite a lot.
For a music rec outside of Kpop, no clue if this will be your thing bit I love her music pretty much in general: Vienna Teng, check out "City Hall" for a song I especially like and that has an excellent bit of queer history story to it.
Added it to the playlist thank u so much!! I'm curious to find out about the queer history behind it too 🥹
🌼 - what do you think is the most beautiful thing in your life right now?
The emotion that totally overwhelms me every time I learn or understand something, and when I have the opportunity to share it with someone!
🌙 - what is the loveliest dream you’ve had?
Oh 🤔 actually, it's very common for me to have dreams that have an unsettling vibe to them 🤪 (ofc leading to looking for the meanings of the motifs involved, and they always blow my mind bcs they are very accurate), I don't often dream lovely and cute things 🥲 Anyway, once I dreamed of a pretty fluffy scenario with a rl crush 😔 we were so silly and in love *sighs deeply*
⏳ - if you were immortal, how would you spend eternity?
Oh my, I would be sooooo conflicted! Being able to see the future, how humanity will further progress and regress would be super interesting. Yet, I would absolutely hate to lose the people I love, I'd feel cursed...I would look for a way to not be. (Very cliché yup yup ik) Also, if it's a immortal-forever-young situation I wouldn't like to not experience aging... or maybe this is just txt lore rotting my brain 💀
I feel you on zutara. I liked their friendship a lot and honestly I didn’t end up shipping anything in the show other than Sokka and Suki. Tbh Aang and Katara being endgame kind of rubbed me the wrong way? Idk the romance was the weakest point of the show :/
Yes! I mean I totally see the appeal of Zutara but idk I just can’t convince myself hahaha maybe I didn’t see enough of them to actually ship them,, and me too, Sokka and Suki are my favorite couple and I didn’t like Katara and Aang at all, I would’ve preferred Zutara over that or literally anything else, it wasn’t a big age difference but they were still very young and Katara looked and acted a lot older than Aang so it was definitely weird, I also didn’t see much romantic chemistry between them, I liked it a lot as a baby brother/big sister relationship tho
I went for lunch with my friend and I guess she is friends with this girl I have had a little crush on so they both came. My friend said she was bringing a friend but I didnt know she was bringing Her so I had a lil gay panic attack while being introduced. They had to leave after 15 minutes and whrn le crush was getting in the car she yelled Youre hot! At me and all I could say was "Oh my god" before she closed the door. We have been texting but she went to bed so she is messaging me tomorrow!!
So sorry! I only saw this now. Oh my gosh, that’s great! That’s a nice turn of events, tell me if you get a date?! 👍
Congratulations for choosing Soobin as your TxT bias! Looks like we both have a type regarding tall, big, soft bunnies in general with the difference that my big, tall, soft bunny is in Oneus but EEEEEEEEH that's another discussion 😭
And I thought Keonhee finally meeting Soobin, going on a walk with him and becoming F R I E N D S was the last best thing I could have see this month 🥹
THANK U THANK U 🤣 it was about time i accepted the reality of things lol 🤚 the thing with txt is that I LOVE ALL OF THEM SO MUCH they made it so difficult to pick a bias!!!! but soobin has always had that je ne sais quoi, that addictional sparkle to him... maybe it's just because he's a sagittarius and i'm always sotto un treno for them, doesn't matter the gender idk idk💀
i still really don't know who my bias is in oneus but i see why yours is keonhee 😌 i love that we share the same type 😏 gentle giants bunnies for the win‼ and i love that they are bestiesssss 🫶🏻🥹 i saw that they took pictures of eachother and shared them on insta (soobin) and weverse (keonhee) and i remember they had other interactions previously, i should have reblogged a post about it somewhere 🤔
