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Kolenzo + drag show or gay club

Kol’s Grindr hookup wants to pretend they’re actually dating and invites him to a drag show to prove how cool and funky he is despite the jock attitude. Bored and always game for a good club, Kol agrees and meets Tyler at the Midnight Lounge. He’s three martinis in when he decides to ditch the date, only for the emcee to welcome the Empress to the stage.

Dressed in gold and bling from head to fabulous stilettos, the Empress saunters up to a throne, fluffing out her voluminous train before sitting with regal primness. Then the beat drops, and her legs splay wide to reveal the large split in her skirt the tiny, gold shorts she wears underneath. She kicks up to the sky, and Kol finds himself captivated by the show of flexibility.

Abandoning Tyler at their table, Kol makes his way to the bar where a fetching blonde is working. He chats her up for info on the Empress and whether guests are welcome to meet her after the show. According to Caroline, she can bring the request to the Empress, one of her best friends. But she also knows he showed up on a date, which isn’t a great point in his favor. Kol just winks; he only wants an introduction to the impressive performer, nothing wrong with that.

She rolls her eyes, but heads to the dressing room on her break. Kol won’t admit to feeling anxious while he waits for her to return, his fingers tapping restlessly on the countertop while he waves away offers to buy him a drink. When Caroline does slide back behind the bar, she gives him an indulgent smile. “The Empress has retired for the evening. Enzo will be here any minute for his post-show beer, though.” Kol smiles, telling her to add it to his tab and a drink for her as well. “To thank you for your trouble,” he smirks. She pours beer from the tap and a shot of tequila before also filling a glass of water. Raising the shot glass in toast, she downs it before setting the beer and water at the seat next to Kol.

“Thanks, gorgeous.” A large hand accompanies the low accent, and it reaches for the water first. Kol turns to see a very pretty man smiling at the bartender as he drinks. Finishing the glass with a refreshed sigh, he picks up the beer next and finally faces him. “So, you’re the pretty boy who wants to meet me?” Enamored by the gold glitter stubbornly clinging to the shadow of his beard, Kol can’t help a lascivious smile. Oh, this Enzo might actually hold his attention for longer than his usual hookup. As they chatted, he caught Caroline watching them with a secret smile of her own, which made him think he wasn’t the only one more interested than expected.

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Kolvina Oh shit I’m in love with my best friends brother

Landing Freya as her Big Sister makes Davina the luckiest freshman pledge in Theta. Not only are they both planning to go to medical school, but their dream specialty is cardiothoracic surgery. Davina picks her brain relentlessly over course selection and professors, then she follows her application process like it’s The Bachelor.

During finals week, Kol drops in town to help his actual big sister let loose and enjoy her last bit of freedom before diving headfirst into her more intense studies. Freya extends the invite to Davina, who excitedly accepts. Kol flirts incessantly, and she’s flattered - until she comes back from the bathroom to find him flirting with a couple who end up taking him home from the bar.

Sworn off him forever, they don’t cross paths again until she lands an internship at the same hospital where Freya’s completing her residency. Invited over to her and Keelin’s Friendsgiving dinner, Davina unfortunately gets stuck sitting next to Kol, who doesn’t seem to remember that they’ve already met and no, she’s not going to give him anything but the bare minimum of social niceties.

Of course, Kol takes this as a challenge. It takes a few lunch deliveries, some rides home after too many 72-hour shifts, and one all-night flashcard study session before her intern exam that convinces her to say yes to an actual date.

She realizes how she feels when she helps Freya shop for a wedding dress, knowing she wants to wear a dress like that for Kol one day. Freya just looks at her. “Duh,” she finally says before turning back to the mirror. Davina smiles to herself, both at Freya’s pre-wedding glow and the giddy feeling rising in her chest.

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KC + sugar daddy/baby

As the CEO of Wolf Industries, Klaus is a busy man and doesn’t enjoy his brother’s incessant hints that it’s high time he found a respectable wife. Showing up to work events with a different date every apparently an embarrassment for a man his age, and Kol takes it upon himself to solve that little problem for him. He’s set up on a blind date, where he meets a wary Caroline. She’s finishing up her MBA at Columbia and interested to hear about his work, which is something of a novel experience for him.

About halfway through the date (which is going very well), she dives into the particulars of her requirements for the arrangement as Kol presented it to her. Caroline’s open to negotiation, of course, but not at all prepared for the confused look on Klaus’s face. Even his accent can’t compensate for the disdain in his voice as he says, “Sugar daddy?”

Caroline is not about to fight with him over the nature of her job, so she shrugs on her best business attitude and promotes the positive aspects he’d likely be attracted to. She doesn’t have the time to hound him like an actual girlfriend, she knows how to clean up nice for the fancier events, and her ironclad resume is plenty to impress even his snootiest of clients while networking. Particularly good at her job, she never sits down at a table she’s not willing to walk away from - and she’s just hailed a cab when Klaus smoothly appears next to her, graciously accepting her terms.

Their first big fight is when he transfers in a larger payment than her usual fee. She thinks it’s a reward for finally sleeping with him, he insists it’s a healthy retainer to extend their initial agreement (only prudent when he realized how much he enjoyed the arrangement, certain benefits included). The only way to resolve the argument is to renegotiate, which only fuels the foreplay - he narrowly stops himself from offering to whisk her away for the weekend, surely another opportunity for unintended insult.

The fight that breaks them is her hesitant announcement that she’s officially paid off her student loans and no longer needs to supplement her income. He thought she would leave once she graduated, but she even accepted an offer to work at Wolf Industries, their proximity throughout the work day like the sweetest torture for him. A year later, however, and she was firing him. Probably not the best circumstances to tell her how much he loved her, and yet…

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TONNIE + PARENTS TO BE

Bonnie’s been trying to come up with a cute way to tell Tyler she’s pregnant, but she ends up spilling the beans when he’s muttering profanities at the video game he’s playing (losing). “You know you’re going to have to clean up the language when the kid comes, right?” To be fair, she’s been coaching herself through all the changes that will affect her life for the last week, like giving up tequila karaoke nights with Caroline for the foreseeable future. The confused look on his face is so worth the slip when it melts into the biggest, proudest smile she thinks she’s ever seen on him.

His parents might not like that he’s in an MFA program, but they’re still less than thrilled when he announces his plan to take a year off to stay home with the baby. Tyler can still work on his graphic novel in his oh-so-brief free time while Bonnie continues to kick ass at her awesome biotech job. Grandma and Grandpa Lockwood were going to have to learn to deal.

Auntie Caroline takes her new role very seriously, and she starts organizing the baby shower as Bonnie is still telling her about the doctor’s appointment confirming the pregnancy. Tyler is suddenly bombarded with lists of gifts and tasks he should be working on to pamper his wife, and he knows full well that Caroline isn’t kidding around, so he dutifully looks up an article on foot massage.

Bonnie does not like the emotional mood swings, and she’s all but given up wearing mascara while watching television. When Tyler takes her out for a movie date, though, she gives in to the urge to dress up and go all out. Her favorite dress just barely fit over the growing bump, but his face lights up every time he looks at her throughout the night. Of course, she bawls barely ten minutes into the movie, and he helps her stand up for every pee break she needs to take. He gently brushes his thumbs under her eyes in the darkness before she leaves the theater, saving her from smudges.

As the due date approaches, Tyler gets more and more nervous with Bonnie’s mounting discomfort. He flies Grams into town a week earlier than planned, just having her close helping to put them both at ease. They’re cuddled on the couch while Grams makes a spicy chili, the rich smells alone somehow enough to have Bonnie clutching at her belly in surprise. Tyler kisses her when she giggles despite the shock, and the parents to be rush to the hospital to finally become parents.

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For the tipsy sleepy headcanon: bamon + snowed in roommates

I already recced you @sixmorningsafter, so thanks for making me go above and beyond to even pretend to compete (it’s INCREDIBLE and I highly suggest it for Belvafore fans). :P

Damon is the first to acknowledge he’s not going into work that morning. His baby brother might be all about saving the world, but the family firm can go without its corporate litigator until the roads clear up. He makes a pot of coffee, preparing Bonnie’s mug with hot chocolate about the time her normal alarm goes off.

Seeing the snow coating the roads below, she yells at him for not having snuck into her room to turn off her alarm before it could ring. Even someone who doesn’t understand the concept of public service should be able to get basic courtesy.

He argues that letting her live in his spare room should be service enough, but even he could appreciate that he had the pillow thrown at his face coming.

When she moved to the city to join the regional dance company, she hadn’t expected the cost of living to so far exceed her admittedly robust salary as a choreographer. Hitting up college buds in town was a rite of passage, and it’s not her fault she grew on him and cooked better food than he could promise his gorgeous kitchen.

For a snowy morning snuggled under a fuzzy blanket, though, she can’t think of anyone else she’d rather argue over proper Netflix binges with.

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KENNETT + ANGRY NEIGHBORS

Dude, she has been living in this same apartment since high school (thanks, Grams!) and she is not about to put up with a drum set moving in next door.

She totally would if he was a) any good or b) even attempting to soundproof his pad, and YET-

So Bonnie dips into the grimoires that Grams left to her, just in case any of that witchy mojo happens to include tips for auditory bliss. She doesn’t expect it work, but it’s worth a shot, right?

Unfortunately, the spells do nothing to stop Kol’s ability to slam drumsticks for noise, but DO manage to completely remove his mouth from his face (though she thinks his eyebrows do most of the talking/yelling/flirting for him).

It takes her a few days and one seance to find out how to fix him, but she kind of misses his thoroughly exhausted half-expression when she gives him the perfect opening for a dirty joke HE CAN’T MAKE.

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KOLENZO + COLLEGE AU + RIVALS TO LOVERS

Pledging the same fraternity was supposed to make them brothers. But when one is a stuck up legacy from the family that literally founded the school and the other is only pretending to afford tuition and Greek fees through loans, scholarships, and two jobs? Let’s just say that the experience isn’t as mutual as expected.

When a prank goes wrong, however, Kol surprises the hell out of Enzo when he takes the blame with campus police.

Enzo shows up to walk him home from the little station, even though it took him longer to get there than it would have for Kol to just go on his own.

They laugh the whole way, about the prank, about the arrest, about their brothers. Kindred spirits aren’t something that are supposed to exist, but Kol wonders if maybe they do anyway.

His suspicions are confirmed when Enzo pinches his ass in farewell as opposed to the meek wave he’d expect from any other brother. As he lets himself into his dorm room, Kol can’t help the spring in his step at the idea of moving into the same house next year. Think of all the trouble they could will get into.

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KC + FAKE MARRIED

Okay, look, it was only supposed to be a joke that got way out of hand. They only sent out invites to avoid certain family obligations that same weekend...but gifts started to show up in lieu of RSVP acceptances.

It turned into a moral dilemma where Caroline needed to send the gifts back, but Klaus knew she wanted to keep them.

Low-key prepared to propose ever since the day she slammed a door in his face for only pretending to bring pizza to the study group, he plans a Vegas trip for them to do the photos up RIGHT for a fake wedding that looks real and trashy as hell (to ensure fewer family invitations down the road).

Then whoops, they got a little too drunk and forgot to tell their convenience chapel that it was just for show and not supposed to be a real wedding.

After the wedding night, well...it just seems silly to go through all the paperwork to get the thing annulled. Fake married, married married - who cares about semantics when the sex (and mushy, lovey dovey adoration) is THAT good???

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