Random Update/Feeling Old/Meme
I've just been invited to join the Facebook group of my HS Class' 10th year anniv reunion. How old do I feel right now? I have no intention to go to said Reunion, there's only about 1-2 people I'd like to see that I don't still talk to and besdies, I have at least one person per work day go, "Didn't we got to high school togehter?" To which I am
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Gene has an old camera Paw-Paw Roe gave him when he turned thirteen. He still uses it, refuses to give in to the digital age, clutching tightly to that bastion of childhood memory. Gene’s loves documenting St. Boniface, the bayou, their home. Especially since each year more and more of the bayou gives way under the pressure of Mother Nature and Modernization. He’s well aware that twenty years from now St. Boniface might not even be standing, so he takes pictures to cement the memories. And Babe loves watching him do it, pointing out locations and sitting beside Gene in the dark room while he develops his photos. Babe doesn’t have a photographer’s eye, never quite grasped anything dealing with art, but when he shares these times with Gene, he almost feels like it’s something they’re creating together.
In a house as old as theirs with as many people under its roof as they have, there is no hogging the hot water. To do so would genuinely be one of the most shitty and assholeish things to do. If anything uses the hot water up it’s the laundry machine or the dishwasher, and they both have priority over showers. As Merl-Francis so lovingly put it to Sid, the new roommate, “If you want a long, hot shower that bad there’s a Motel 6 down the highway just waiting for your credit card with a body under the mattress.” Not the friendliest way to put things, but direct enough to understand that in a house of six men, no one best be using up the hot water.
Take-out’s not a common thing for them. Besides the fact that St. Boniface ain’t exactly a fast food bastion or a restaurant haven, they’ve got more than enough hands on deck to make meals. Spina’s the best cook out of all them but they can all scrap a decent meal together if need be. Besides pizza, Merl-Francis got Babe and Spina addicted to Popeye’s chicken and catfish with red beans and rice. Gene-Baptiste would be a liar if he said he didn’t eat half of Babe’s portion too. He just wished he could get him to embrace crawfish. Babe refuses on account of not eating anything that still has its eyes when it’s served.
They have disagreements about the big things, like Gene’s working hours and Babe driving when he’s too tired but too damn stubborn to call, but the most trivial thing they fight over is proper way to pronounce water. Both refuse to admit that their accents make the word sound different than it should, and both are far too full of cultural and home town pride to admit it. It’s a completely stupid thing to fight over, especially with the more serious matters weighing down in their lives, but neither of them know how to stand down when their pride is up.
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The DVR and the Netflix are the domain of the whole house, and Babe and Gene, as the couple, rarely get a say. So they make do with their own movie collection. Babe’s made some noise about getting a DVR for their bedroom, but Gene doesn’t see the point when they don’t watch much TV to begin with outside of Babe’s addiction to Animal Planet.
The house is, for all intents and purposes, in Gene’s name, so he gets the calls whenever anything goes to hell. Either Gene or Merriell have to make the calls to the repair people. They just don’t trust Babe, Spina, Sledge and Sid all that much as outsiders. And it’s just not neighborly to try and screw someone over when your grandparents worked the oil rigs together.
Gene and Babe both leave their stuff around the house. It’s a bad habit the whole house has fallen into and the kitchen table holds everything from scrub tops, to bar rags, to sketch books. Gene is probably the worst offender of them all, but that’s more because he’s usually called out for some emergency before he can properly put anything away. Babe doesn’t have that excuse, he’s just bad at dropping left over change and random mints in any empty dish or drawer he can find. He gets it from his Ma. In the Heffron household, there wasn’t a specific junk drawer, so much as filling up every free spot with random treasures and finds.
Babe likes to go grocery shopping. Even though they have a rotation of chores for everyone, because buying food for six young men is a task no singular person could or should be saddled with, Babe still likes to make trips on his own. And that’s why he’s the one to buy the milk. It’s proved disastrous on more than one occasion, with Babe being out of town for a week and the milk either disappearing or going bad. He’s gotten to the point where he appoints Renée the milk caretaker if he has to be gone for more than five days.
Anniversaries really aren’t a big thing for them. It’s not that they don’t remember their first meeting, their first date, but some much of that time is clouded with the memory of Julian that it’s hard for Babe to remember any of the initial stages of their relationship with much of a smile. Gene understands it, completely, and feels no need to begrudge Babe his need to mourn. He’s just happy to have him here, in St. Boniface, making a life and putting down some firm roots. He don’t need a fancy dinner and some prefabricated sentiment to tell him that Babe is happy here, and with him, he pretty much gets that each morning. And that means more than any anniversary date could.
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ALSO GENE'S PHOTOGRAPHY. AND FIGHTING OVER HOW TO PRONOUNCE WATER (which seriously is ridiculous but totally something i can picture lmfao) AND THE THINGS THAT SNAFU HAS SAID TO SID. (/died at that quote, seriously.) and babe keeping things clean in their personal space because he doesn't trust anyone with gene's health. and the big arguments;; and all of it /coos.
goodness i love these boys.
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Seriously, I don't write Babe/Roe for ages and then I do and I'm full of warm fuzzies even with some of the bittersweet b/c of, you know, Julian.
They are my OTP to end all OTPS. They are ridic and adorable and kind of messed up, and they come with a Snafu and a Bill, but I just adore them so much.
(Also, yes, Snafu and his words to Sid. He tried to be all polite when they first met but once Sid moved into the house, he got treated just like everyone else.)
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seriously, they are just one of those inevitable OTPs.... they can't not happen, no matter what verse or whatever other pairings are thrown in. 8| AND THEY ARE ALL WARM AND FUZZY AND RIDICULOUS AND YES, MESSED UP but i like this in pairings, BUT IT WORKS. /coos more.
(week one; sid: that merriell doesn't seem all that strange why does heffron keep laughing at me when i say something about this. week two; sid: OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO EUGENE YOU DIDN'T TELL ME YOU WENT OFF THE DEEP END. I'M CONCERNED, I'M GOING TO GO CALL YOUR MOTHER.)
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They really are just complete end game.
(omg, YES, to all of this. Seriousy, poor, poor Sid.)
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(it's like sid's theme song has become that birthday tune hoosier sang to him.)
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