day fourteen - doing something together
This is pretty terrible, but I'm throwing it up here and probably not bothering to put it on AO3, so there you go.
Some sort of modern, still-powered AU. Not daycare, because Daycare!Erik has better things to do with his time than the crossword puzzle.
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doing something together (~300)
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Charles makes a quiet, almost disguised, sound of protest.
Almost.
"You promised you'd stop," Erik says without looking up, though his pen hovers over the "E" in "sneak" and he doesn't finish filling in the word.
"I didn't say anything," Charles insists. "Go on. Make your own mistakes."
Erik sighs and drops the pen, perhaps a bit dramatically.
"'Mistakes,'" he repeats. "Charles."
"Your decision, then," Charles says, rustling his newspaper. Erik wants to rip it away from him and smack him with it repeatedly.
"You can't say 'mistake' and then take it back!" Erik insists. "The crossword is mine. You don't yell answers, you don't help me cheat, and you don't get to tell me what I'm doing wrong until I've done the whole thing. Those are the rules."
"I can't help it!" Charles says. "You're so loud and so wrong!"
"I'm not wrong!" Erik says. "'Double-crosser!'" He smacks the newspaper down in front of Charles. "Five letters that starts with 'sn.' It's sneak! It's obviously sneak!"
"It's not sneak," Charles says.
He's silent after that, though, because Charles is an infuriating bastard who lives to drive Erik out of his mind.
"Well?" Erik asks after an endless minute of silence as Charles sips his tea.
"You said you didn't want my help," Charles says, lifting his chin churlishly.
"Just tell me the fucking answer," Erik says.
Charles sighs.
"It's snake," he says. "You're thinking 'link' for 'join together,' but it's obviously 'fuse' because fourteen across is 'sanfu.' That puts an 'e' in the corner there and makes the obvious answer snake!"
Charles is trying to sit calmly, but he's a little wild around the eyes. Erik restrains himself from crumpling up the crossword and throwing it at Charles' head.
"Fine," he says. He slaps his palm down on the table and yanks the puzzle back towards himself, cursing his need to seem smart enough to do the damn thing in pen and writing over his incorrect answer.
Any day now he's going to carry out his threat to switch to sudoku.
*
the rest of the days:
1. Holding hands
2. Cuddling somewhere
3. Gaming/watching a movie
4. On a date
5. Kissing
6. Wearing each others’ clothes
7. Shopping
8. Hanging out with friends
9. Making out
10. Eating icecream
11. In a different clothing style
12. During their morning ritual(s)
13. Spooning
14. Doing something together
15. In formal wear
16. Dancing
17. Cooking/baking
18. In battle, side-by-side
19. Arguing
20. Making up afterwards
21. Getting married
22. On one of their birthdays
23. Doing something ridiculous
24. Doing something sweet
25. Doing something hot
Some sort of modern, still-powered AU. Not daycare, because Daycare!Erik has better things to do with his time than the crossword puzzle.
***
doing something together (~300)
***
Charles makes a quiet, almost disguised, sound of protest.
Almost.
"You promised you'd stop," Erik says without looking up, though his pen hovers over the "E" in "sneak" and he doesn't finish filling in the word.
"I didn't say anything," Charles insists. "Go on. Make your own mistakes."
Erik sighs and drops the pen, perhaps a bit dramatically.
"'Mistakes,'" he repeats. "Charles."
"Your decision, then," Charles says, rustling his newspaper. Erik wants to rip it away from him and smack him with it repeatedly.
"You can't say 'mistake' and then take it back!" Erik insists. "The crossword is mine. You don't yell answers, you don't help me cheat, and you don't get to tell me what I'm doing wrong until I've done the whole thing. Those are the rules."
"I can't help it!" Charles says. "You're so loud and so wrong!"
"I'm not wrong!" Erik says. "'Double-crosser!'" He smacks the newspaper down in front of Charles. "Five letters that starts with 'sn.' It's sneak! It's obviously sneak!"
"It's not sneak," Charles says.
He's silent after that, though, because Charles is an infuriating bastard who lives to drive Erik out of his mind.
"Well?" Erik asks after an endless minute of silence as Charles sips his tea.
"You said you didn't want my help," Charles says, lifting his chin churlishly.
"Just tell me the fucking answer," Erik says.
Charles sighs.
"It's snake," he says. "You're thinking 'link' for 'join together,' but it's obviously 'fuse' because fourteen across is 'sanfu.' That puts an 'e' in the corner there and makes the obvious answer snake!"
Charles is trying to sit calmly, but he's a little wild around the eyes. Erik restrains himself from crumpling up the crossword and throwing it at Charles' head.
"Fine," he says. He slaps his palm down on the table and yanks the puzzle back towards himself, cursing his need to seem smart enough to do the damn thing in pen and writing over his incorrect answer.
Any day now he's going to carry out his threat to switch to sudoku.
*
the rest of the days:
1. Holding hands
2. Cuddling somewhere
3. Gaming/watching a movie
4. On a date
5. Kissing
6. Wearing each others’ clothes
7. Shopping
8. Hanging out with friends
9. Making out
10. Eating icecream
11. In a different clothing style
12. During their morning ritual(s)
13. Spooning
14. Doing something together
15. In formal wear
16. Dancing
17. Cooking/baking
18. In battle, side-by-side
19. Arguing
20. Making up afterwards
21. Getting married
22. On one of their birthdays
23. Doing something ridiculous
24. Doing something sweet
25. Doing something hot