MEME!

[calliope_love]

filename: barmalolwhut.cwk

At this rate Liam was never going to find a nice lady to marry and produce pretend-grandchildren for him to…terrorize. Barma had been looking forward to this for the better part of the last decade, and he had long hoped Liam’s theoretical offspring would inherit his habit of flailing wildly at the slightest provocation. He’d once been able to entertain himself at child-Liam’s expense for hours at a time.

Stupid Xerxes Break. Always getting in the way.


filename: earlyrainsworth.cwk

“You could ask for help, you know,” says the boy, slipping into the room and shutting the door behind him. His tone isn’t angry and offended like usual, Break notes. Resigned, really. Maybe Break is getting lucky and Liam is losing interest. Or maybe he’s starting to accept the fact that Kevin-Break feels absolutely no need to include him in his business and wouldn’t even notice him at all if he didn’t somehow turn out to just be there all the time.

Or maybe Liam’s just tired. That’s most likely. He’ll have the wind back in his flustered little sails bright and early tomorrow morning.

“Meh,” Break tells him. It’s a fairly eloquent summary of his opinion on…well, pretty much everything.


filename: firmhand.cwk

“Gilbert gave you coffee this morning, didn’t he.”

“…what does that have to do with anything?”

“Coffee makes you evil,” said Liam bluntly. “I have noticed this. It puts you into your ‘meddlesome pest’ mode, and you do things like roll around on the table during tea and stuff entire plates into your mouth and taunt me in the bedroom.”


filename: lily.cwk

Lottie had never been inclined to put up with any sort of nonsense and that was why she was kind — just now, Lottie can’t be bothered to say things to try to make everything better, and that in itself is a comfort. There are no words that can fix this, and the idea that words could be enough to mend things only makes her angry.

Lily loves Lottie, but Fang had been her favorite.


filename: lolbadfic.cwk

You could at least aim in the general vicinity of rugged masculinity, Break, Sharon thought, teeth grinding.


filename: madasamarchhare.cwk

Liam did not even jump when Break exploded into his office. Liam was so accustomed to Break exploding into his office that he got jumpy on the days when Break didn’t explode into his office. When Break was exploding into his office it meant all was right with the world.


filename: reason.cwk

Sometimes Break would steal up behind him and drink some of his tea just so he’d taste nice for the kiss that inevitably followed, and sometimes they would curl up in front of the fire with mulled wine and a thick blanket and do nothing but rest quietly against one another all night long.


filename: snow.cwk

Just then Xerxes was tucked in between his friend and the back of the couch, head on Liam’s shoulder and legs tangled together with the other man’s. He was the perfect picture of innocent affection, except for the fact that he’d stuck his utterly frigid toes directly into Liam’s socks not three minutes previous.

“Next time you decide to go running about in the snow,” Liam said, arm around Break’s shoulders and fingers in his damp hair, “you really ought to stop and strap your boots up.”


filename: fuckcancer.cwk

Last time Xerxes had sent him such a vague message it was because the washing machine had decided to spit bubbles everywhere, and after letting it stop on its own and halfheartedly throwing every towel they had at the resulting mess, Break had decided his obligation towards cleaning it up was fulfilled. Reggie had been very angry to have a soap flood between herself and her litter box during the time it took Liam to get home, freak out, and figure out what to do about it while Xerxes sprawled apathetically across the couch, and the cat hadn’t forgiven them for weeks.

In retrospect, not near the crisis it could have been when you lived with a man who was liable to pass out and bash his head open on the floor if he didn’t eat enough candy.

Comments

[rosethorne.livejournal.com]

The first one made me LOL so hard. The last one had me wanting more. Mostly because of the title, but angry-Reggie was an amusing mental image.

Posted my own, too.

[calliope-love.livejournal.com]

I do not understand Rufus Barma, so when I try to write him, crap like that happens. XD

The last one is the Big Huge Modernverse Project of the moment. Xerxes tells me we should probably find a better title "even though that one pretty much sums it up, yes". Their domestic shenanigans make me happy.

Will get to your message shortly; have been trying to slaughter a bout of sleep deprivation and thus have had to prioritize projects I'm working on.

[rosethorne.livejournal.com]

Well, Barma's more of an enigma than a lot of other characters at this point. I have the same problem. XD

Yeah, that's what I figured. I'm guessing this is when Xerx tells him? And, omg, I agree. Gil giving Break coffee = lol.

No prob. At school grading anyway, so take your time. I teach in an hour or so and then won't get home until after 10.

I also totally stole this meme and did it. XD Yay, distraction!

[tsutsuji.livejournal.com]

Oooh, more early Rainsworth! And is that modern!Barma?

Break rolling around on the table during tea will always have a special place in my heart, because it's what he did when we first met Liam. <3

[calliope-love.livejournal.com]

It was actually intended to be canon!Barma, but it could go both ways, I suppose. Modernverse!Barma is even sillier than the chibi Barma we see scurrying about in the omake sometimes, though. XD

The early Rainsworth is intended to be a vignettey thing of the sort that TAIGTS is. Except it's...gonna be a hell of a lot longer, apparently.