#I can't be the only one who has a bunch of candles given by coworkers for Christmas right

[callalillywrites]

Candle Making and Scents - Their Sweet Omega One-Shot

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Relationship: Alpha!Jake Jensen / Beta!Pre-serum Steve Rogers / Omega!Reader

Word Count: ~860

Summary: Their Omega's candle-making has come a long way since its humble days, and they can't help loving her more for what she can do with her skills and business.

Warnings: not much really, lots of fluff and fun

A/N: It’s proofread but all mistakes are my own.

I do not give permission for my work to be copied or posted on other sites or fed into an AI machine.

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Omega’s business starts off as a hobby really as she puts herself through school.

It’s only after she makes her first few sales and completes a craft fair that she realizes she really likes making candles more than anything.

Her first website isn’t the greatest, but that’s easily fixed with some help from Ransom and his family’s connections. Sure, it means dealing with the wretched bunch, but it’s worth all the negativity that surrounds them. They help her business explode despite all their patronizing comments.

She’s determined to make her business the best, and she even succeeds.

When she meets Jake and Steve, she’s expanding her business with one of Ari’s connections. That connection gives her the first of many brick-and-mortar retailers who will ultimately carry her products.

Learning more about Steve’s asthma, she does take more precautions than she did before. This is even more true after she moves in with them. These precautions include showering off whatever scents she works on before she goes anywhere near Steve. While his asthma is mostly under control, some elements are more prone to set off an attack than others. She doesn’t ever want to be a reason for setting one off.

Now, that’s not to say Steve doesn’t enjoy her candles.

He loves them.

He especially loves them and her when she researches the best products for those with allergies and/or breathing issues. Any candle she makes for Steve contains these products and the lightest amount of scent she can get away. They’re also wickless since he uses a warmer over actually lighting them.

His favorite scent (and Jake’s) is her cinnamon roll one.

It reminds them of the day they met her and how she smelled. Every time they get a hint of cinnamon roll, a smile spreads across their faces. They’re actually known to hoard her cinnamon roll candles and only use them when they have absolutely no other options.

When she first discovers this secret of theirs, she’s a little confused, but that soon gives way to just loving them all the more.

Sure, she doesn’t make them these candles but every six months or so. Usually about the time their old, unused candle has lost all its scent. It’s something that she’s happy to do because they never fail to give her the loveliest smiles for her efforts.

Like Steve, Jake adores her candles and loves to burn them in his work office.

They’re even a big hit with his coworkers as they ask about them. He’s lost count of how many he’s converted into paying customers for his sweet Omega.

Each time he walks in and sees the latest candle she’s given him, he can’t help but relax and dive into his daily duties.

The only ones he doesn’t really share with his coworkers are the cinnamon roll ones. As much as he knows they’ll love it as much as he does, he gets a bit possessive of them, wanting to save the scent for him and him alone.

He’ll keep these in the bottom drawer of his desk and bring them out when his day takes a turn. Whether it’s taking on more duties or dealing with a nasty client, he only needs to take out one of these candles to help ground him again. It’s enough to remind him he’ll be back home with his Beta and Omega soon enough.

To Jake, she can’t make a bad scent.

Well, that’s not entirely correct.

The first time she brought home some of the more masculine-scented candles some of her retailers asked for, he had to hide his face.

It’s not that the scents weren’t good, but he really didn’t like the thought of her making anything that could potentially remind her of other guys.

Steve’s reaction is slightly better, but yeah, he’s not the biggest fan, either.

Their reactions don’t go unnoticed, either.

Omega spends a few weeks developing two new scents in secret, only revealing them when she has just right.

When she brings them home, Steve and Jake are confused until she explains those are the scents she associates with them. Both lack even a hint of the masculine scents they don’t appreciate, but they do have some more unique combinations.

Jake’s is a combination of gingerbread and snickerdoodle, both of which he’ll spend hours munching on while he works behind his computer. There are other scents that deepen the overall scent, but those are the strongest notes.

For Steve, she goes with a white currant mixed with cranberry prosecco. Something about the mixture of sweet and tart just always brings her back to her sassy, protective Beta.

The two of them love these scents, and like their absolute favorite scent, they never share these two combinations with anyone else. No, this is just for them.

The more her business grows, the more her Alpha and Beta are there to support her.

They’re even known to help her when she does an odd craft fair now and then, doing their best to help sell all the candles she’s made. It usually works, too, earning her enough extra spending money to spoil them (and herself).

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[ridiasfangirlings]

1) Fushimi gives Yata a candle. I was surprised, because he doesn't like candles that much, so he said thank you and put the candle on the shelf. This gesture upset Saru for some reason, but he did not say why. Fushimi spent the next week in Scepter 4 because they had a lot to do, although Yata felt that Fushimi was avoiding him for some reason. But I didn't think it was the candle. A week later, Yata saw a candle of the same company at one of the guys in Homra and said that he had the same one.

I feel like Fushimi gets talked into this by the alphabet boys somehow, like he can't vocalize his feelings well so someone suggests he try the candle route. Like say post-ROK Fushimi's obviously starting to accept the fact that he has a crush on Misaki but he also doesn't know how to deal with it, he's not good at putting his emotions into words and besides he can't quite convince himself that Yata would feel the same way and accept Fushimi's feelings after all Fushimi's done to him. At the same time though they've been getting closer since they reconciled and they're always going out on drinking dates and such and it's becoming harder and harder for Fushimi to bury his feelings. This has been putting him in an increasingly bad mood, snapping at the squad even more than usual because he's so preoccupied by all these annoying feelings. Eventually the squad manage to get him to admit it, like Akiyama notices Fushimi being more on edge than usual whenever Yata's mentioned and asks if something happened and Fushimi unintentionally blurts out that he can't find a way to tell Misaki that he loves him. The squad immediately descend on him like a bunch of gossipy old ladies, so excited that Fushimi-san is finally ready to admit his feelings. Fushimi waves them away angrily and mutters that it doesn't matter anyway, even if he tried to say it he would just ruin it. That's when Enomoto mentions the candles, he heard some of the ladies talking about how you can put a message in these special candles that will show up when the candle is lit. If Fushimi can't say the words maybe he can write them, and by giving Yata the candle Fushimi won't have to like stand there face to face while Yata reads it so there's no worry that he'll try to suddenly take the words back or anything.

Fushimi thinks this is a stupid idea but he ends up ordering the candle anyway, feeling like an idiot but at the same time wondering if this might actually work. It takes him a few tries to get himself to give the candle to Yata but finally one day after they've gone out drinking before the part ways to go back home Fushimi hands Yata the candle all 'here, this is for you.' Yata's kinda confused but also maybe a little pleased, because Saruhiko isn't the type to give gifts and isn't this a good sign, that Fushimi's giving him something. A candle is kinda weird as a gift but Yata chalks that up to Fushimi just being awkward, like well maybe Saruhiko couldn't decide what to get me and aren't candles supposed to be good gifts for like coworkers you don't know well and stuff (this suddenly makes him worried though, like but we're closer than that now aren't we). Yata doesn't really use candles but he's definitely not throwing Saruhiko's gift away so he just sticks it on a shelf and mostly forgets about it.

The next time he meets Fushimi for drinks Yata thinks that Fushimi seems weirdly nervous, like he keeps shooting Yata these little glances when he thinks Yata isn't looking. Yata asks if anything's wrong and Fushimi looks away and clicks his tongue as he says 'no,' there's something weird in his tone though. After that Yata notices that Fushimi starts avoiding him a little more, canceling when they were supposed to go out together and not really looking at him when S4 and Homra run into each other on patrol. Yata's confused and kinda upset, he thought things were really going well but now it feels like there's a wall between them again. He doesn't even really think much about the candle – or if he does maybe he starts to worry that it was like a 'coworker you don't know well' gift, like Fushimi's way of telling Yata they're not that close and he needs to back off.

Yata's feeling really bummed about all this when he stops in the bar, depressed and frustrated that things seemed to be going so well with Fushimi and now they're back to Fushimi not telling him anything. That's when he sees all the Homra guys gathering around Chitose, Yata goes over and sees Chitose has a candle with him that looks like the one Yata got from Fushimi. Yata's all what's with the candles all of a sudden and someone asks him what he means, Yata says Saru gave him one too. Chitose asks what Yata's candle said and Yata's like 'said? It doesn't talk.' Chitose explains he got this one from his current girlfriend, if you light the candle there's a message. The candles have basic messages but you can get special customized ones too, everyone starts joking about what kind of message Fushimi would give to Yata while Yata's just slowly realizing what just happened.

He leaves the bar in a hurry and rushes home, all flustered trying to find where he put the stupid candle. Finally he finds it and starts to light it, heart pounding, maybe worried that Fushimi put some kind of 'let's not see each other anymore' message in there. The candle starts to burn and finally the message shows up: 'I love you. Can we be together?'. Yata's face gets all red and he finds himself feeling almost giddy, like here he was worried that Fushimi hated him and instead Fushimi just confessed. Yata finds himself running right to S4, imagine Fushimi's working and Yata just busts into the office. Fushimi looks up and starts to say something cold to him but Yata just storms up to him and grabs him, pulling him close. Fushimi squirms like what the hell Misaki and Yata's like don't what the hell me you idiot, you're the one who didn't tell me to light the candle. Fushimi freezes and Yata's like yeah I finally got it, and anyway the answer is yes.