I was tagged by @grapegiuce thank you Gi!! I will get back to this Channik fic hopefully by the end of the month but here's a small snippet below. I'm tagging @additiva @formulaocean @chouse16 only if you want to ofc. No pressure!
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“Can I help?” asked Charles, eyes darting over the various utensils spread out on the counter. “I am not the best cook myself but I think I can manage pasta. Plus I feel bad leaving you doing this all by yourself chéri. So, please, put me to use, per favore.”
“Oh,” Jannik hesitated. He was a bit protective of his kitchen. Okay, so maybe he was more than a bit protective. His brother who had been banned from the kitchen multiple times for dicing bell peppers wrongly could vouch for that. Also, the videos he’d seen of Charles’ cooking skills didn’t really inspire a lot of confidence. The pasta being crunchy in that one video still haunted him.
However, Charles looked so earnest. Jannik didn’t want to send him away to the drawing room like a kicked puppy. And it was supposed to be a date. That meant they should be spending time together right?
“I mean, there’s not a lot that needs to be done. But if you really want to, you can cut the guanciale into small cubes?”
“Si! Now where do you keep your knives?”
“Uh, the drawer to your left. The guanciale is in the fridge. Second shelf.”
As he separated the egg yolks, Jannik watched from the corner of his eye as Charles rummaged around the drawer, finally pulling out the biggest one possible. The one Jannik used to slice steak.
He hurried over to take it out of Charles’ hands and give him a more appropriate one.
“You have a lot of knives,” observed Charles interestedly. “I didn’t know that you could get so many kinds. I just have two at home myself.”
Jannik was going to die. It took every bit of restraint in him to stop himself from snatching the knife from Charles’s hands when he saw how he was holding it while cutting the meat. No, Jannik. You can’t act like a dictator in the kitchen on the very first date.