#all these azn drama meetcutes i've been injesting are causing severe brainrot

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I can't imagine I'm ever going to get around to formally writing this but have been daydreaming all week about a Lost Pet AU in which Frank's dog goes missing and he goes to the nearest coffee shop to put a "Lost Dog" flyer (with a pic of his dog, and his contact info, etc) up on the bulletin board. He gets disheartened when he sees like 20 other flyers up. No one will even notice his flyer...

He sees a guy sitting in front of the window, drawing and gets an idea. If he had someone draw a pet portrait or otherwise graphically spruce up his flyer (that he made in fucking Word) then more people would pay attention.

He'd been crying all morning as he'd walked around the neighborhood calling his dog's name and calling all the local shelters to see if anyone had turned him in. He didn't sleep well. He looks beat.

He sits down across from the guy (Gerard. I'm sorry. I can't ever stop with this lol) and starts asking if he knows anything about graphic design and could Frank pay him to help make his flyer better.

He'd say no if it was anyone else but something about this guy's sad eyes pulls at Gerard's heartstrings. He says Frank can buy him another cup of coffee in exchange for some markups of the flyer and they can go from there.

Gerard has really good advice. Text bigger, especially for the word 'LOST,' some kind of fun border, he likes Frank's idea of a linework pet portrait to catch the eye. He turns the page of his sketchbook and asks Frank to show him a picture of his dog so he can use it at a drawing reference.

A few minutes into sketching, Frank gets a call. One of the shelters Frank had called just got a dog that potentially matches the description of Frank's dog. He starts looking up directions to take the bus to the shelter on his phone and Gerard is like, "...Do you want a ride?"

Frank doesn't know why this stranger is being so nice but he'll take all the help he can get. (Gerard doesn't know what has come over him either.)

But when they get to the shelter - it's not Frank's dog. So they go back to Frank's place to input Gerard's markups into the Word Doc while Gerard keeps sketching. They import the sketch, print the flyers. And in the evening Gerard goes with him to tack the flyers up on utility poles around the neighborhood.

At some point Frank realizes they've spent all day together. He thanks Gerard for all his help. Gerard shrugs and says he's happy to have a distraction from the commission work (for a tattoo design) he's been putting off. At this point Gerard has accepted that he maybe kind of has a crush on Frank, especially after having been in his apartment. And he's realized he doesn't have to endure the mortifying ordeal of asking Frank for his number because it's on the flyer. ("Hellllll yeah.")

They go for one last drive in the evening, spiraling out around the streets from Frank's apartment. They end up finding Frank's dog in the park. Gerard drives Frank and his dog back to Frank's apartment. Frank invites him up and Gerard sits in the bathroom with them while Frank gives his dog a bath. They both end up getting wet when the dog shakes out his fur after they get out of the tub.

Frank feeds his dog dinner and then his own stomach grumbles and he is like "you have to let me buy you dinner." At this point Frank has accepted that he maybe kind of has a crush on Gerard and doesn't want him to leave. It doesn't help that Frank's dog seems to like Gerard, or that Gerard is being so cute when he pets the dog. It might kill frank.

They order delivery. When it arrives they put on a movie to watch while they eat and shortly after he's done eating Frank falls asleep and his head drops onto Gerard's shoulder because the sleepless night before and the stress-exhaustion finally caught up to him. And then the dog curls up at their feet and rests its head on Gerard's foot and he's like "...I'm not moving for the rest of the night this is too fucking cute." Love wins lol