Hi hi!! I've recently read LiT and I have been a fan since then♡! May I request vii with Ace for that moments ask if you don't mind?? Thank you!!
Of course!!! And welcome to LiT!! ☺ Ooo, this is a good one!! Now, for Ace it would be...
vii. pillow forts, childhood movies, fairy lights, giggling, candy, the smell of popcorn, shared warmth, tickle fights
Carefully, he stepped back to view his work.
It had taken a bit of fanagling, and some help from the ghosts, but Ace had successfully constructed the pillow fort in the loft. Now, they just needed to keep Kal away until they had finished setting up.
Kal had been... off these last few days. Spacing out and just looking generally down. Enough so that even Grim noticed it. So, he and Deuce decided they needed to do something... bigger than their normal sleepover.
It took a few days of planning, and another couple to get everything they needed without Kal knowing, but they got it done.
"Is Gus still making popcorn? It smells good from here." He asks the lanky ghost helping him.
"Y~up," Ezra replies, giving the fort one final once over from above. "Kettle cooking might take a but longer, but you'll get more out of it, and you can top it however you like~!"
"I like the sound of that." Kal would flip between sweet and salty popcorn, while Deuce always liked a lot of butter. He himself was good with whatever, so long as it wasn't Kal's extra salty popcorn.
Making quick work down the stairs, Ace made his way to the kitchen to collect their snacks for the night.
"Is the fort done? You two took quite some time." Gus inquires as he dumps popcorn into a bowl, the third among the lot.
"Fort's all set for operation Movie Night Sleepover~!" Ace cheered, "Deuce just needs to come back with Cater-senpai's tablet and the candy and we'll be perfect."
"You boys are sure putting a lot into this." Gus mused, "It's good how much you care for each other."
Ace can feel his cheeks flush at that, his hand going to fiddle with the charmed bracelet around his wrist, a gift from Kal.
(After all Kal has done for them, after all they had been through, for and because of them. After... everything, this was just the natural course of things, right?
Without Kal, everything would have been-)
"Hmm. I wonder about that." Gus sent him a teasing smile, making him flush further.
"I'm back! I got everything, and Diamond-senpai even let us borrow the standing case for his tablet!"
Luckily for Ace, Deuce finally returns with the last of what they need. Now, Phineas just needs to go get Kal and Grim and the party can begin.
"Tadaima..." You muttered, stepping into the dorm once more, Grim hurrying ahead of you.
It had been a long week. You don't really know why it felt as such, it had been a normal school week with little happening. Even so, you felt... a lot of things really. Disconnected yet overwhelmed, you've been going on autopilot for the last few days trying to sift through the fugue state you've found yourself in.
Phineas had come to see you after club activities to say that Gus would take care of dinner, and not to worry about anything tonight.
The three of them had been worrying about you, and you appreciated it, but you want to hurry and get back to normal already so you could thank them properly.
... Why did it smell like popcorn?
"Okaerinasai~!" A pair of cheery voices answer you instead of the trio of ghosts. You look up to find Ace and Deuce, dressed in their pajamas already, and you wonder what they're doing here. You hadn't planned a sleepover with them today... right?
"[Hey, hey! Is everything ready?]" Grim whispers conspiratorially.
"[Everything is all set!]" Ace beams, replying at a normal volume. You can only blink in confusion.
"{... What is all set?}" You ask cautiously.
"Kantokusei, [trust us, you'll like this.]" Deuce motions for you to follow, and you do so only because you trust Deuce not to let Ace pull anything outrageous.
You follow them to the main sitting room, and that's when you notice something up in the loft that makes you stop.
You walk up the stairs to the loft slowly, and find yourself before a pillow fort, blankets hanging from standing lamps and coat racks. You think you see... fairy lights hanging among the blankets?
Peeking inside you see bowls of popcorn and candy and a tablet set up at one end.
Your heart stutters in your chest.
"{Go get changed and come on in. We've got a long itinerary to get to tonight.}" Ace sends you a wink before he shoves you towards the hall, grin playing on his lips.
You're quick to follow through, and before long, you are snuggled between your boys watching movies from the pair's childhood.
"[See, I told you Kal would like Jubilee Studio movies! No one can hate Jubilee Studio!]"
"[Yeah, yeah, you were right Mr. Honor Student, it was a more action-y movie than I thought for being about a flying tree, shut up already.]"
"{Ace, don't be mean~ I thought you were trying to cheer me up?}" You tease.
You'd heard from the Ghosts between movies that it was Ace who planned this little party, and seeing as Ace would deny it outright, you decided it was best to poke at him a little.
"{And you're acting pretty cheeky for someone who worried the lot of us!}" Ace jabs you just below you ribs and wait not there-!
Your yelp dissolves into giggles that you try to smother. You can't let them know.
"No wAIT IYAAHAHAHAHADAHAHAHA-!!!"
"[Hey, watch the popcorn-!]"
Your shriek of laughter resounds as Ace digs his fingers into your sides. You flail and wiggle, but Deuce holds strong and you are helpless at the onslaught. Grim only watches on, munching at your abandoned popcorn.
They have found out you're ticklish.
After a minute of laughter and flailing, Ace finally let's up. You are left slumped in Deuce's hold, breathless and exhausted.
"Aho." You state once you've caught your breath and Deuce helps you sit back up properly.
"[You love us.]" Ace grins mischievously.
"[... Yeah. Yeah, I do.]"
They must not have thought you'd admit it. Or maybe not so casually. Both are stunned speechless, cheeks pinkening.
But they don't backtrack or deny it. Instead, they both wrap one arm each around you and draw close.
"[We care about Supervisor a lot too. We were really worried when you weren't yourself.]"
"{We know things haven't exactly been a walk in the park, but you can rely on us for this much. Ok?}"
Between the pair of them, even your tears were warm.