#The Modern Day Cowboy|Andrew Is A Dead Man Walking Riley

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Fudge behaving badly

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Fudge Behaving Badly: a misbehaving/getting into trouble headcanon.

“Babe, babe…lissen. I can explain in a minute but just in case… I want you to call Jay at her shop, okay? She still has her license with the bar. And she’s a lot closer than your office is. And technically we were arrested in the-”He knew she was going to cut him off and he’s as patient as he can be because really, that’s not the phone call you want to get when your husband takes a weekend off to go ‘home’ to New York. Even as much as you hate that he calls it that…home should be the place that you two are building. Home should be where you’re raising your kids. Where he comes back every night except…Except moments like this. And he knows she has every right to be furious, to be terrified. As much as he loves New York it is very much a cesspool and some people float right up to the top, don’t they.

“I know, babe, and I’m sorry. But what was I supposed to do. We were up at the bar and Baz hit the head while I ordered drinks and a couple of these long-shore men get up and follow him back in there. Start talking shit about him an�� me an then there was the shoving and the pushing, and I wasn’t about to let him go it alone, although it was pretty funny when he grabbed the back of the toilet tank and laid this guy bigger than me out with-”She has a few things to say about that too, and he can only agree with her. Yes, he’s getting too old for that kind of thing. Yes, they should have just left. But it was just supposed to be a night out. It was supposed to be a good time. And he wasn’t about to left someone screw around with Baz.The cop comes to collect him, take him back to the holding cell and he has to leave out the last of the details. He tells her he loves her. He tells her he’ll see her in a day or two, depending on what kind of legal voodoo Jay can produce.

And when he gets back to the cell? He drops himself down on the concrete bench covered in graffiti and God knows what else. Cradles his head in his best friend’s lap because it’s close to killing him with the waves of pounding pressure. Baz drops a hand down on his chest and asks how it went.“Oh, dude. She is gonna fucking MURDER me when I get home.” Riley half grins and swats at Baz’s hair. Because honestly? It’s kind of worth whatever fresh hell his wife can come up with. Despite the possibly broken nose and the fact that he can’t see out of one eye that great….he feels more himself than he has in a while.