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olivia-anderson-fanfic · 4 months ago

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Dancing 'Til the Break of Dawn - Pt14

<Pt13

(TWST Zombie apocalypse AU where Yuu beast tames just a little too close to the sun)

“So… the convenience store?” Ace asked, batting his eyelashes.

Yuu and Deuce glanced at each other, each giving a nonchalant shrug as if to say ‘sure, why not?’ It wasn’t like they were busy or anything, might as well try to find Ace’s beloved convenience store.

“I mean… we can try.”

“Sweet! I think it should be…” Ace pointed to the right.

Deuce frowned, shaking his head. He pointed to the left. “It’s that way.”

“No, it’s not. Maybe all of those cigarette ads were right – the smoke is getting to your brain,” Ace said, frowning.

Deuce raised an eyebrow. “Or maybe one of those corpses you’ve eaten has cursed you with an inability to remember geographical locations.”

They turned to look at Yuu.

Has Yuu ever mentioned that he hated being the tiebreaker? Because, if he has, then he would like to say it again. Because he has not stopped hating it.

But, today, he has a solution!

He kicked a nearby bottle and watched it spin. It ended up pointing left.

“Deuce wins,” Yuu said.

“Hell yeah.”

Ace crossed his arms over his chest. “No. Absolutely not.”

“You’re just mad that fate favors me,” Deuce said, smirking.

“I’m mad that we’re leaving it up to fate at all,” Ace said. A lie to save face, surely.

But…

Yuu hesitated. “I mean, if you want, we could try the subway. Trey did give us directions, so…”

Deuce and Ace blinked.

“You were serious about that?” Ace asked.

He could only shrug. “I mean… yeah. It’s not like we have to worry about zombies, so…”

“It’s not the��zombies that make it dangerous,” Deuce said, rolling his eyes.

“I know,” Yuu said, his face flushing. “But if you want to guarantee we know where we’re going, then that’s the best way to do it.”

“... fine, but if we die my ghost is going to haunt your ghost,” said Deuce.

“Bold of you to assume Grim will let me die,” said Yuu.

“Oh, don’t worry, I’ll take you out with me,” Ace said.

Yuu was both flattered and horrified. Thankfully, he would never have to truly consider the implications of such a situation: “Grim will 100% bite me if I die. Don’t worry, though, I’ll bite you guys, too.”

“Awwwww, Yuu,” said Deuce.

Ace, however, narrowed his eyes. “You’ll make sure we’re dead, too, before you bite us, right? Because, yeah, being a zombie is better than being dead, probably, but…”

Yuu smiled.

“... right?”

“Do you think Grim could lead us back?” Ace said, frowning. “With his, like, omnipotence and numerous functioning brain cells?”

Grim spun in a circle. Spun in another circle. Spun in a third circle. His ears flattened against his head.

“Read the signs, bud,” Deuce tried.

Grim gave him a blank look.

“He can’t read,” Yuu said, slowly, giving Deuce an exasperated look. “Grim’s a cat. Cats can’t read.”

“How does he understand Japanese, then?!” Ace asked.

Yuu raised an eyebrow. “I taught him. Duh.”

“... you… taught… your cat to understand Japanese?” Deuce said, slowly, his eyebrows furrowing.

He had not, in fact, actually done that. By the time Yuu had found him, Grim had already had the Japanese language, like, downloaded into his brain. But was that funny? No.

So, Yuu shrugged and said: “I had a lot of time on my hands.”

“Did you teach him to walk, too?” Ace laughed.

Yuu started to say no, but then thought about it a little harder. “I mean, I did have to give him PT when I found him, so… I guess?”

Ace and Deuce were back to looking mildly incredulous.

“You know, I just assumed that the apocalypse messed you up, but I’m starting to think you were just a freak before all of this started,” Ace said.

Yuu spluttered. What the fuck?!

“You keep saying that Grim is your ‘baby’, but I didn’t think you meant, like, literally…” said Deuce, snickering.

“I mean, I didn’t birth him,” Yuu mumbled.

Deuce grinned. “Hey, dude, that’s messed up, adoption exists. Unless you don’t think that adoptive families are real families. Which is so problematic of you, by the way.”

Yuu huffed. “I never said that! Don’t put words in my mouth!”

“Don’t save face now,” Ace said, shaking his head, ‘solemnly’. “We know the truth.”

“You guys’re gonna get me canceled on Twitter,” said Yuu, sulking.

“I fucking hope Twitter’s collapsed by the time this apocalypse is over,” Deuce muttered.

Yuu raised an eyebrow. “What, like, because of the apocalypse? Or just on its own?”

“Either way works,” Deuce said.

“Ah! Deuce! Don’t let him distract you!” Ace said, because he was evil. “We both know the important thing here is figuring out whether Grim is actually Yuu’s kid.”

“You’re so right. But we already know the answer. Quick, Ace, draw up some adoption papers for Yuu and Grim so we can make this official.”

Yuu crossed his arms over his chest. “Hey, hey, if anything, Grim is, like… my younger brother.”

Grim raised an eyebrow at him. Seemed to snort at the idea. Who raised him to have so much sass?! Because Yuu, who was not Grim’s parent, hadn’t done it, surely!

“I’m older than you,” Yuu said.

“I dunno, man, in cat years… aren’t they adults after, like, a year or so?” Deuce said.

Yuu frowned at the idea of a one-year-old Grim having a wife and kids. That felt like a crime, in his opinion.

Either way, he glared at Deuce. “I can’t believe you’re taking Grim’s side over mine.”

“It’s funnier,” Deuce said, shrugging.

His mouth dropped open in sheer offense.

They ended up stopping at a hotel to wait out the night.

“I call the bed!” Deuce said. “Enjoy the floor, losers.”

“I’m injured,” said Yuu. “I should get the bed.”

“You’re going to milk that forever, aren’t you?” Ace said, sighing.

“There is a hole in my shoulder.”

“Yeah, yeah,” Ace said.

“What, do you think you deserve the bed, Ace?” Deuce said, eyebrows raised in sheer incredulity. “You have the futon back at the convenience store!”

“Exactly! So, we should continue the tradition of letting me sleep comfortably while you two suffer!”

“Deuce. Rock paper scissors me for the bed,” Yuu said.

Ace frowned. “What about me?”

“You’re going to sleep in the dumpster out back if you’re not careful,” said Deuce.

Grim meowed for their attention.

“What is it, O Wise One?” Ace said, snickering.

He tapped his paw on the floor three times.

“... his inability to speak is really inconvenient sometimes,” Deuce murmured.

“I think he’s saying that we could just share the bed? Like… all three of us in one? Maybe?” Ace suggested.

From the flat look Grim gave him, Yuu figured this was not it. Grim had probably been suggesting that they simply take different rooms in the hotel.

But he opted not to voice this thought, instead nodding along when Deuce and Ace started debating who would get which side of the bed.

… because winter was coming fast. It would be best to get used to each other now, so they wouldn’t have any problems when they had to do it for the sake of conserving body heat.

Yuu swung the door open and froze.

“There’s a corpse on the floor,” he said, dumbly.

“The room service at this hotel is amazing,” said Ace.

And then he was promptly punched in the shoulder by Deuce and Yuu. Because of course he was.

Yuu leaned back in the pillows, careful of his shoulder.

“If you drool on me again, Ace, I’m going to make Yuu sic Grim on you,” said Deuce.

“Kill me yourself,” Ace sniffed. “Coward.”

Yuu yawned, rubbing a hand over his face. “Yeah, don’t drag Grim into this, he doesn’t deserve that.”

Ace snickered, turning and pressing his face into Deuce’s shoulder. Deuce rolled his eyes, slinging an arm over the both of them.

For a minute, it was quiet.

“... I wish we didn’t meet like this,” Deuce said, quietly.

Yuu blinked. “What does that mean?”

“Like… I wish we could have met before the apocalypse,” Deuce explained, before grimacing. “Though, I guess, it’s best you didn’t know me then. I kinda sucked.”

They mulled this over.

Ace snickered. “Well, then, we probably would have met in, like, detention or something. I was a huge class clown, and you were in your whole delinquent phase, and Yuu was being his usual freakish self –.”

Yuu pouted. “I was a star student.”

“You were not,” said Deuce, rolling his eyes.

“You weren’t there! You don’t know!”

“Oh, we know,” Deuce said.

“Well, I’ll have you know that my grades were amazing!”

“Notice how he only mentions his grades,” Ace whispered conspiratorially.

Yuu huffed. Mostly because he didn’t have much of a retort for that. “... I may have snuck an animal into school a few times,” he admitted.

“Why?” Deuce said, snickering.

“Well… my pa – my apartment didn’t allow pets, and if anyone found out then they would have thrown them out.” He yawned into his hand. “So, I took them to school.”

“Someone could have had an allergic reaction, Yuu,” Ace said.

“Skill issue,” said Yuu, shrugging. “At least their last memory would be of a cute animal.”

Ace rolled his eyes. “Maybe we would have all met in jail, actually, now that I think of it. Yuu for getting someone killed via allergies or something. Deuce, again, for his delinquent shit. And me for… I dunno. Crime things.”

“Cannibalism?” suggested Deuce.

“That’s not creative,” Yuu chided, shaking his head. “I like to think that, in some alternate timeline, Ace is in jail for something lame, like public indecency.”

Ace batted his eyelashes. “You like to think of me indecently?”

“No, I like to think of you fully clothed, in an orange jumpsuit, doing penance for your crimes.”

“Oooooh, someone has a very specific fanta –.”

“Alright, time for bed,” Deuce cut in, groaning.

Ace snickered. “Hey, man, you initiated the conversation, this one is on you.”

“Yeah, frankly, I don’t know what I expected.”

Yuu smiled, tangling their legs together. And, despite the chaotic day they’d had… in a warm (real) bed, pressed close to Ace and Deuce, with Grim purring by his head, Yuu slept better than he had in months.

~~~~~

Pt15>

#*jingles gloomily across the floor* i forgot to crosspost again...#twisted wonderland #ace trappola #deuce spade #twst yuu #twst grim #and thats all i had to do #lmao oof

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