#I’ve only seen the show so please be kind akskdkfk

[donutcats]

au where norrie wakes up from being ghostlocked somehow and eventually she goes to london to spend time with lucy (because lucy can only stay so long in her old village before feeling like she wants to rip her own skin off) and lucy introduces her to the boys and its really just an outsider pov of the way the house tends to work. norrie witnessing their haphazard schedules for the next week, the way they slot in time for each other if they’re busy doing solo work. it’s the way norrie watches how seamless lucy fits into this new life. the way they juggle around the kitchen table during meal time or pass around a book before anyone gets a chance to actually ask after it.

it’s the way norrie had to sit and watch lockwood meticulously peel an orange during breakfast, as he kept the conversation alive so easily but never once ate any of the slices. and she was going to question it, at the least ask if she could steal one if he wasn’t going to eat them, but then lucy was there, slumping into the seat next to him, and lockwood had so gently passed her the plate of peeled orange slices. as if it were such a normal occurrence.

norrie is starting to realize that it is. little acts of service, reminders that they care in an unspoken sort of way. doing things for each other without ever bringing any attention to it. it’s maddening to witness but she thinks she kind of understands. only barely and only because she loves lucy so much.