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The Beauty Of The Evil Within

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Popsicles

Harringrove April day 17, Popsicles.  Tews commits crimes, and Steve and Billy work some things out because of them.

It started the day Dustin’s cat was convicted of theft.  

They held a trial, with Mrs. Henderson crying on the couch, Mike arguing for the prosecution, Lucas for the defense, and Max as the expert witness, pointing out that a wedding ring was much too large to fit into the mouth of a small cat.

Will presided over the trial and declared her guilty, on the grounds that she had been the one to smack it around the counter when Mrs. Henderson sat it next to the sink while she fixed a leak in the pipes.  It took her all day, and the handles turned the wrong way now, but the sink worked again, and in her triumph, she’d gone to take a shower.

Tews had given in to temptation and the call of the One Ring, and leaped up to pat it into, they all suspected, the Mount Doom of the kitchen, the crack between the counter and the stove.  Dustin was also sentenced, as the one who had seen a small cat succumb to the call of Sauron, and done nothing to save her from his influence.  

They’d all tried to pull it out for hours, with coathangers, the mop handle, and even the feather duster, with no success, and Tews had compounded her crimes by pouncing on all their weaponry.  El tried last, glowering into the depths, but no ring had emerged.

Tews was convicted of grand feline theft for stealing Sauron’s one ring, which they assessed at over one thousand dollars.

“It’s not as though Sauron made more,” Mike pointed out, and Will nodded, his lips thinning grimly.  “And it says here,” Mike said, hefting the law book he’d snagged from the library, “—that burglarizing someone’s house while they’re home heightens the offense.”  

“She also tried to pretend she was actually playing with a potato chip,” Dustin sighed.  “Wasting the investigation’s time, and perverting the course of justice.”

“And jumped on my head,” Will pointed out.

“Assaulting a respected and valued member of the court,” Mike said.

“Tews,” Dustin sighed, holding her up.  “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.”  She squirmed, meowing, and batted at his nose, and Lucas grimaced.  

“Harsh, man,” he said.

“I’m gonna have to say guilty,” Will said, shaking his head.  

“Let’s go light on the sentencing, though,” said Max, distracting the defendant with a piece of string.  “—you don’t want her coming out a more hardened criminal than she went in.”

“She’s showing no remorse,” Mike said, as Tews wriggled on the carpet, batting at their pant legs.  “I recommend house arrest to the jury.”  He picked her up and presented her to El.  “Don’t let pity sway you,” he said.  “If some innocent creature finds the One Ring where it fell, their heart will be darkened.”

“She played with powers she did not understand,” Dustin agreed.

El blinked at them, and then at Tews, dangling resignedly from Mike’s hands.  “Uh,” she said.  

 In the kitchen, a trickle from Mrs. Henderson’s homemade popsicles ran from the freezer down into the fridge.

 A week later, Billy walked in and slid his arms around Steve’s waist while Steve was brushing his teeth.  In the mirror, he had a weird look on his face.  “...Harrington,” he muttered.

“F’meah?” Steve asked, his mouth full of toothpaste, and Billy raised his eyebrows.  

“...just ate a popsicle…” he said, dragging it out, like Steve was supposed to make something of that.

“Hngmm?” he asked, intelligently.

“From the freezer,” Billy said, widening his eyes further, like that was helpful info.

Steve spit, and rinsed his mouth.  “That’s where we keep ‘em,” he said, staring back, because he could be just as unhelpful, if he tried.  He’d learned from the best.

Billy turned his head, groaning against Steve’s neck.  Billy’s face was red, Steve realized, and he turned in Billy’s arms—narrowly avoiding elbowing him in the face—and gave him a kiss—minty from his toothpaste, and cherry-flavored, because Billy’s lips and tongue were still red from Mrs. Henderson’s homemade popsicles.  Billy’s face was hot against Steve’s hands, and he was a little shaky, his eyes shiny and teary, and Steve wiped a thumb under Billy’s thick lashes.  

Billy wrapped his arms around Steve’s ribs and hauled him out of the bathroom, tossing him on the bed, and sat on his chest, glowering down.  “Why’re you playing innocent about this,” he hissed, grabbing Steve’s hands.  “I ate a fucking popsicle, okay, it’s hot here at fucking eight o’clock in the morning.”

There was a different kind of heat on Steve’s mind, with Billy’s weight on his ribcage, and Billy’s chest and face filling Steve’s vision, but he cleared his throat, opening his mouth, as Billy whipped a wedding ring out of nowhere and waved it in his face.

“...you want to get married,” Steve whispered, his face heating as fast as Billy’s, like the blood tap in his chest had been turned entirely to ‘hot’.  “Y-you want to marry me?”

“We can’t just walk into a church—” Billy growled, his fingers tightening on Steve’s wrists, and Steve started giggling, smiling so wide his face hurt.  

“You want to, though,” he breathed.  

“...I don’t wanna walk into a fucking church,” Billy groaned, letting Steve reach up and touch his face.  “Rent some...shitty tux.  Make invitations.”

“But you do wanna be married to me,” Steve told him, beaming.  “You want me wearing your ring.  You want everybody to know I’m yours.” 

“Fuck yeah I want that,” Billy said softly, sighing.  “Too bad we can’t have—”

“I can wear a ring,” Steve pointed out.  “We can have a party.  We can—we can make Hopper say vows.”

“...I’m just picturing it like him saying grace, that time,” Billy said, grimacing, and Steve burst into snickers.

“Good men, nice bed, well done, be wed,” he offered, and Billy cracked up, leaning in to kiss him, softly, and then lie on top of him, sighing.  He was hot, and suddenly Steve wanted a popsicle, so he kissed Billy again, tasting the cherry on his lips.  “...I want a popsicle too,” he realized.  “For breakfast.”

“...anything more we’re gonna find in there?” Billy asked, raising his eyebrows.  He didn’t shift, so instead of getting up, Steve ran his fingers over Billy’s side, and then squeezed him, at the thought that Billy Hargrove wanted to marry him.  It was weird, and Steve couldn’t help snickering again, and kissing Billy’s hair.  “...didn’t even know we had a popsicle making...thing,” Billy mumbled, squirming even though he couldn’t get closer.  “...they’re pretty good, though.  You’re such a freak, jesus.”

Steve opened his mouth, closed it, and considered his sudden memory of Dustin bringing over a casserole, and the bag of homemade popsicles.  He remembered, additionally, Dustin saying they’d held a trial for his cat, and started laughing so hard he couldn’t breathe.

 When Billy could get Steve to speak in sentences again, instead of gasping, he stared.  “You—you’re saying…” he said, clenching the wedding ring in a white-knuckled hand.  

“We have to give it back,” Steve told him, kissing his face.  “We’ll get one that fits you, babe.  We’ll go pick it out.”

“I thought you were asking me,” Billy said, his shoulder blades hitting the wall as he backed away.  “I—I thought—”

“I’ve wanted to, I would’ve,” Steve lied, remorselessly, because he hadn’t thought Billy had the same dumb fantasies he did, and he wouldn’t have asked, for fear of Billy laughing him off.  “I want to, I do, we’ll—look,” he said, setting his shoulders.  “I’ll take off work.  We’ll go today, and give Dustin’s mom her ring back on the way home.”

“Make an honest man of me, Harrington,” Billy said, smirking over at him, but he didn’t let go of the ring he’d found in his popsicle until he had another one sized for his finger, and Steve had pulled the car over, and slid it on Billy’s hand with an accompanying kiss.

“Think it’d take more than this,” Steve said, as Billy slid Steve’s onto his finger.

“...we coulda got cockrings instead,” Billy whispered against Steve’s lips, and Steve snorted a laugh.

“Yeah, but if the idea is you want the bank teller to know I’m yours, d’you really want me arrested?”

 Tews was cleared of grand feline theft, though not of the various cat crimes of jumping on the head of the judge, and interfering with an active investigation.  Dustin apologized to her, though, and gave her most of a can of tuna, after running back to his mom’s room with the ring.  

“It was my mother’s,” she said, when she came out to feed them more popsicles.  Steve and Billy eyed each other over them, holding them up to the light to survey for more valuables, or spiders, possibly, Steve thought.  He half expected to find a LEGO man fighting a toy dragon, but all he could see was red, so he bit carefully, and looked up to see Billy watching his mouth, and swallowing.  

“We’ll get on planning you a ceremony right away,” Dustin told Steve and Billy, his eyes on their matching rings, and they shook their heads rapidly, but Dustin stood, waving his fist at the sky.  “Lord of the Rings themed!”

 Steve threw a piece of tuna to make Tews climb up Dustin’s leg, and they escaped.

The other Harringrove April prompts I’ve done

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The Evil Within Set Pieces: Krimson City Police Department

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Basic Tags:

Crimson's Gifs: Resident Evil

Crimson's Gifs: Devil May Cry

Crimson's Gifs: The Evil Within

Crimson's Gifs: The Wolf Among Us

Crimson's Gifs: Saints Row

Relationship Tags:

Pairing: Encantado - Romantic Pairing of Ashley Graham & Luis Serra

Pairing: Keeping Score - Romantic Pairing of Leon S. Kennedy & Ada Wong

Pairing: Billy Coen Is Dead - Romantic Pairing of Rebecca Chambers & Billy Coen

Pairing: I've Got You Super Cop - Romantic Pairing of Jill Valentine & Carlos Oliveira

Pairing: Come On Supergirl - Romantic Pairing of Jake Muller & Sherry Birkin

Pairing: See You Around... Wolf - Romantic Pairing of Bigby Wolf & Faith

Pairing: Is This What You Want? - Romantic Pairing of Nero and Kyrie

Pairing: From My Gunsmithin' Days - Romantic Pairing of Lady and Nico

Pairing: I Need My Partner Here - Romantic Pairing Of Joseph Oda and Sebastian Castellanos

Partnership: Fill Your Soul With Light! - The Dynamic Duo that is Trish & Dante

BroTP: Ashley and Leon - Platonic/Siblingly Pairing of Ashley Graham & Leon S. Kennedy

BroTP: Claire and Sherry - Platonic/Siblingly Pairing of Claire Redfield & Sherry Birkin

BroTP: Devil May|Never Cry - Platonic Pairing of Lady, Trish & Dante

BroTP: I Had A Hunch Myself - Platonic/Familial Pairing of Nero and Trish

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Relationship Type Tags:

Theme: DMC Ships - Red's Preferred Devil May Cry Pairings

Theme: Red's RE Ships - Red's Preferred Resident Evil Pairings

Theme: Minor Pairings - Any pairing between secondary characters in a game

Theme: Pairings With History - Pairings that obviously have had previous history off-screen

Theme: Sparks In Dystopia - Romantic Relationships that grew further in apocalyptic settings

Theme: The One That Got Away - Romantic Pairings that end up losing one another or one party assumingly passes away

Theme: LGBT Pairings - All sets with LGBT relationships

Theme: Pride 2023 - All sets related or made for Pride Month 2023

Theme: Like Father Like Daughter - Father-Daughter relationships or Parallels in sets

Theme: Soulmates - Platonic or Romantic Pairings that have so much dynamic chemistry that they cannot be separated and come as a set

Theme: Saviour And The Saved - Sets featuring somebody saving someone else and the dynamic of that!

Theme: Power Pairings - Platonic or Romantic Duos that kick ass together

Theme: Iconic Duos - Famous character Duos in sets!

Theme: DMC Power Duos - Powerful two-person team-ups in DMC

Theme: DMC Power Teams - Powerful team-ups in DMC

Theme: DMC Interesting Dynamics - Sets studying dynamics between characters in DMC

Theme: DMC Mentor/Student - Sets studying the relationship between a person setting an example for someone else in Devil May Cry

Theme: DMC Platonic Relationships - Sets exploring platonic or familial relationships in Devil May Cry

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Misc Tags:

Theme: Dedicated To Friends - Sets I've made for my friends

Theme: PTSD - Sets exploring canon depictions of PTSD in games

Theme: Grief - Sets exploring canon depictions of grief in games

Theme: Insanity - Sets exploring imagery or games where the characters lose their minds

Theme: Introductions Aside - Sets that introduce characters

Theme: RE Parallels - Sets that compare Resident Evil scenes

Theme: RE Set Pieces - Sets featuring Resident Evil Scenery

Theme: Classic RE - Sets featuring Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, CVX, RE0 or RE1R

Theme: RE Romantic Parallels - Resident Evil Romantic Parallels between multiple couples

Theme: Jill Valentine's Fashion Sense - Sets involving Jill Valentine's Outfits

Theme: Umbrella's Legacy - Sets depicting Resident Evil Characters affiliated with the Umbrella Corporation

Theme: RE Dream Cast - Red's Preferred cast for a new Resident Evil game

Theme: Pieces On The Board - Resident Evil Sets depicting each faction or Affiliation within the games

Theme: Hidden Gems - Relatively unknown or unpopular games I've made sets of

Theme: Character Death - Sets featuring the death of characters

Theme: Faked Character Death - Sets featuring the false death of characters

Theme: The Heroes - Sets featuring main characters or heroic characters

Theme: Supporting Cast - Sets featuring NPCs or side characters

Theme: City Of Ruin - Raccoon City Tag

Theme: Blood and Gore - Game typical Gore tag, can range from horror game typical to mortal kombat typical

Theme: Infection Spreading - Sets that involve zombie/zombie-adjacent behaviour or infection

Theme: Morally Grey - sets that feature Morally Grey characters

Theme: Morally Sound - sets that feature Morally Sound characters

Theme: Take My Breath Away - Scenes that are very attractive or aesthetically pleasing

Theme: Women Of My Dreams - Red's Favourite Female Characters Of All Time general tag

Theme: Favourite Female Characters Of All Time - dedicated tag to this set series

Theme: Feminine Power - female empowerment! Typically found on female-only sets or sets that display women at their best!

Theme: Masculine Strength - male empowerment! Typically found on male-only sets or sets that display women at their best!

Theme: Character Development: found on character sets displaying a change in behaviour or a comparison to the past and present!

Theme: Red and Redder - Characters affiliated with the colour red for my namesake

Theme: Colour Palette Blues - Sets with Blue tones

Theme: Colour Palettes - Rainbow - Sets with multicoloured tones

Theme: Resident's Fashion - Resident Evil outfits tag

Theme: Game Interface - Depicting game title screens, menus etc.

Theme: Dream Cast - Red's Dream Casts for any game

Theme: Truth and Lies - Depicting paralleled scenes where a lie is told and a truth is revealed

Theme: SR Parallels - Saints Row Parallel Sets where scenes are compared

Theme: TWAU Pairings - Pairings I prefer from Telltales: The Wolf Among Us

Theme: TWAU Set Pieces - Scenery from TWAU

Theme: Dream Dream Dream - Sets that feature dream, nightmare or hallucination sequences

Theme: Red's Favourite DMC girls - Devil May Cry Women I adore in gifs

Theme: DMC Alternative Costumes - Ex Colors and Alternative Costumes in Devil May Cry

Theme: DMC Parallels - Scenes in Devil May Cry compared

Theme: DMC Iconic Moments - Famous Moments in Devil May Cry

Theme: DMC Hilarious Moments - Funny Moments in Devil May Cry

Theme: Domesticity of DMC - Domestic Bliss in Devil May Cry

Theme: Favourite Male Characters Of All Time - Favourite Male Characters Tag!

Theme: Favourite Characters Of All Time - My Favourite Game Characters

Theme: Best DLC Of All Time - My personal favourite DLCs in games that are the best of the best

Theme: Aesthetically Pleasing - Gifs based around the beauty of what's featured in the set

Theme: TEW Set Pieces - Set Pieces from The Evil Within

Theme: Gothic Horror - Gothic Horror in video games

Theme: Goth - Gothic elements in video games

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Personal Tags:

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