#may cassini

[mackdrawsstuff]

Happy Pride to THEM

[capybaraonabicycle]

My dear friend, may I ask for a little drabble from you? Please do feel free to write about any of our favourite characters and ships! I unfortunately don't have any prompts right now, but perhaps there is something in your mind! Thank youuu <3

Here you goooo! Look at how hard I am working on my thesis 😅

Anyway, thank you so much for providing inspiration for this, in more ways than one <3 You will see.

Warning: it is rather angsty and addresses symptoms of ptsd

(Also, it's a triple drabble obviously)

[ID: gif of the motorway in Gridlock, cars driving close to each other. One dives below. end ID]

Ship: Alice/May Cassini

Rating: T

Genre: Angst

Their car looked strange, although it was difficult to pinpoint why. The walls were closer somehow, the entire space more crammed. The bed reached into the cockpit, the window was suddenly tiny.

May found herself wedged into a cupboard at the back that she had no recollection of possessing. Far away, she could see Alice, sitting in her usual seat at the wheel, softly speaking into the mic. Despite the room having shrunk in size, it seemed like an insurmountable distance to cross, especially since May had to climb over the bed with her old joints.

Huffing and puffing she reached her, resting her hand on Alice's shoulder for comfort while she caught her breath. Alice wasn't reacting, still talking into the mic. May tried looking out the window but she couldn't make out anything through the pinhead-sized glass.

"What are we doing here?" she asked. "Didn't we - leave the motorway?"

She remembered distantly, a nice little flat, a walkable city, a life with fresh air. It seemed like a fantasy, now.

"We must have reached the end somehow" she muttered.

Finally, Alice reacted. She turned the chair around and her face was oozing pity. May felt her heart go clammy as Alice took her hand, soft, wrinkly skins dancing across each other.

"Oh May" she said. "There is no end to the motorway."

-

May shot up in bed, breathing heavily. She was in her flat, in New New York. She was not in her car. Alice was by her side, sleeping. Everything was okay.

Alice stirred, awoken by her panic. She tried to pry her eyes open.

"May?" she rasped. "Are you okay?"

"Yes, my sweetest" May lay down again, readily cuddling into her wife's open arms, doing her best to calm her breathing. "Go back to sleep, love."

Thank you for reading!

[jennyandvastraflint]

For the quiet acts of love prompts, could you do either

gently resting their head on their shoulder when taking a picture/peeking at something

or

fixing their clothes a little for them when noticing something is off

for beloved lesbians Alice and May Cassini, please?

(Or

kisses. on. the. tip. of. the. nose.

"(Or kisses. on. the. tip. of. the. nose. would be so cute as well 🥰

"(Or kisses. on. the. tip. of. the. nose. would be so cute as well 🥰"(Or kisses. on. the. tip. of. the. nose. would be so cute as well 🥰

Okay! Finally getting to these little prompts! Let's see...

I'll start with the first prompt!

"There's New New York," May said, sighing with a smile on her lined face. For over two decades, they had driven on the highway, living in a very limited space, and they had grown so much closer, some part of May feared what they would even do with more space.

Alice, who had been resting in the back of the car, slowly sat up. "Ahh, I'm getting old," she complained when her joints cracked, and May grinned.

"You've been getting older for years, love, but you're still young at heart... Come see?"

Alice shuffled closer, and after she sat down in her seat, she looked out at the sky in front of them. For the first time in decades, she could see blue outside their little car. "It's beautiful," she breathed.

"And we'll live up there," May said, running a nervous hand over her piece of knitting. It felt like only last week that they had gotten onto the car, and yet it had been nearly a third of their lives ago. Her hands were so lined now, May had stopped counting the wrinkles. Her fingers shook sometimes, and their joints had become worn with age, not helped by the fact that there was not much physical activity one could do in a two by six metres space.

A weight was placed against her shoulder, and May brought up a hand to run it through Alice's short wavy hair. Oh, she remembered the long, auburn braid it had been the day they had set off, the very first grey hairs only just appearing, the strands gradually greying as their years on the motorway passed. May took off her glasses to wipe a tear from the corner of her eye, and she turned to place a kiss to Alice's forehead. "I'm glad we're here together."

"Me too, darling, me too."

(And if you click, there is a surprise waiting for you under the cut <3)

And because I love you dearly, my friend, I decided to just go all out and give you one for every prompt you sent me!

So here's the second one!

"May, sweetie, is there anything else we need from the shops?" Alice slipped into her orthopaedic shoes she had gotten three weeks ago when her feet finally decided they'd had enough of walking about everywhere. Since their arrival in New New York, the two of them had lived in a small apartment, still much bigger than their car, and they walked everywhere together. The city offered public transport for free, but hardly anyone felt like using it after years spent only driving.

May's head popped round the corner, and she had something of a haunted look in her eyes. "You didn't tell me you were going out," she said before hurrying close. Her hand was in Alice's immediately, and she squeezed it lovingly. "I'll come with you."

They had noticed that neither was comfortable being away from the other for long, not after having had each other close for decades, always there for a loving smile, some comfort, and yes, when they had had fights, there had been no room to be apart either, but that meant they had quickly worked out their issues, resolving all problems as they came. Sometimes, Alice didn't know where she ended and May began, and she felt incomplete when they were apart.

A fond smile sat on May's face, and she looked Alice up and down. An elegant blazer and a matching skirt, and a plain shirt underneath had always been Alice's go-to, while May had fully embraced what others would call a "Granny look" with knitted sweaters and pastel shades.

May reached out a hand and straightened the blazer's lapels, then adjusted Alice's pearl necklace.

"Oh don't fuss, love," Alice said, her lips pulled into a loving smile.

"Can't let you go out like that, can we? Now..." She placed a gentle kiss to Alice's lips. "I think we should visit the florist."

"Why's that?"

May chuckled and brushed a stray hair from Alice's cheek. It must've fallen out of her otherwise perfectly styled updo. "Because I want to get you flowers, of course, dear."

And the third one!!

"Maaay?"

May looked up from the article she had been reading, and she switched her reading glasses out for her usual ones. "Yes, dear?" She could see Alice had long since finished her crosswords, having instead opted to fold the pages into paper cranes until she had grown bored of that too.

"I'm booored," she said, like she would have at the very beginning of their relationship, long before the motorway became the only place they had spent their time for twenty-three years. Oh, on the motorway she had complained, but they had always found something to occupy their time with. There had been some nights where they would make each other forget the long months spent only driving in a straight line, and then fall asleep against each other's bare chests.

"What do you want me to do about it? You could watch some TV?"

"I've watched enough news and TV on the motorway for three lifetimes. If I never have to see that newsreporter again, it'll still be too soon," she murmured. "What are you reading?"

May held up the text. "An article about the innovations to clear up the incredible amount of exhaust fumes the motorway created." And before Alice could call the article boring, May set it down and got up to join Alice on the sofa. "But you have my undivided attention now..."

A happy grin spread over Alice's lined face, and she nodded. "Good!" Despite her claims of boredom, she did not, in fact, begin talking about anything, but just kept making heart eyes at her wife. "You're so pretty," she eventually said, and May couldn't resist rolling her eyes.

"You still act like the love-sick teenager who asked me out while blundering and barely getting her words out..." She leaned close to place a kiss to Alice's lips, but to her surprise, Alice pulled back.

Before she could ask about the oddities in her behaviour, though, Alice kissed the tip of May's nose and hummed. "Heeehe, you're flustering," she said when May's cheeks grew hot, and she pressed another kiss to May's nose.

"Stop that," May protested with a giddy smile, her stomach squirming with butterflies at the sweet kisses.

Alice tilted her head like she was contemplating for a moment before she kissed her again. Then, with a cackle, she said, "Neverrrr, you knew what you signed up for when we got married..." And then, just for good measure. She kissed her again before May tugged her down to her lips.

I do hope you've enjoyed these! I'll put them all up on AO3 as well!

[kajaono]

They will be one of my favorite couples for ever. They are super minor characters, but how often do we see a happily old married lesbian couple that survive the epsiode and who are super lovely?!