ok so
how about one night mac and dennis are drunk and mac is visiting dennis at penn and starts goin on about how much he wants a tattoo but they’re so expensive. and dennis’ roommate happens to have needles and ink and dennis tells mac he’s seen his roommate tattoo himself like all the time. so mac is like “holy shit dude I really wanna do that but I’m nervous.” and dennis is like “don’t be an idiot I’m gonna do it for you and it’s gonna look so good.”
and mac swallows hard, suddenly very aware of what’s about to happen—dennis holding his thigh still while he traces out a shape with a ball point pen. and he’s so close and telling mac he’s brave and it takes a lot to handle pain like this. and mac has to bite down on the inside of his cheek to keep from flinching but after a while the pain settles into a steady burn, and dennis keeps looking into his eyes to make sure he’s alright and mac knows his pupils are dilated but so are dennis’ so it’s fine. and when they’re done mac jokes about “kissing it better” and dennis blinks but then he’s kissing mac, actually kissing him and his hand is still gripping mac’s thigh and his other hand is in mac’s hair and mac thinks maybe this is the best night of his life.
