#ben with the lemon 🤣

[ellsieee]

Benjamin Tsang and Liu Dongqin for Waves magazine.

Waves magazine Q&A.

Testing their tacit understanding.

[e-dubbc11]

Congratulations on two years, my love! Very honoured to be one of the people that got to know you through this hell site ♥️ here’s my little sleep over ask: list your top 10 random favourite day-to-day things and your top 5 favourite desserts. Xxxx

My dear Heidi,

I remember you being one of the first people who I actually conversed with and one of my biggest cheerleaders when I first started writing, and for that I adore and love you endlessly. Thank you for being a good friend and for participating in my sleepover. ♥️♥️♥️

10 Random Favorite Day-to-Day Things.

Getting ready for work when no one else is awake. The house is so quiet and peaceful. I can listen to my music or my audiobook and not be interrupted. It’s wonderful

Coffee - that first sip is glorious

Singing along with my playlists in the car on the way to work. I really get into it, I’m pretty sure I’ve scared people or at least made them smile while in their cars 🤣

My desk at work has a bunch of little toys all over it so I have plenty to look at while I’m there.

My Ben Barnes calendar. I love looking over every morning to see that handsome face to look to see what the date is 🤣😘

Working with my best friend every day. I really am surprised we haven’t gotten in trouble with how much we laugh during the day

How excited my dog is to see me when I come home from work every day. Lady does the happy feet dance every time.

On nights I have to cook, I like to set up my Bluetooth speaker, put on a playlist and dance while I cook

I’ve been doing dry January so every night I’ve been enjoying a delicious cherry mocktail that I think has also been helping me sleep

Nightly Mario kart races between my husband and my daughter are highly entertaining

Top 5 Favorite Desserts

Tiramisu - it’s such kryptonite for me

Pistachio ice cream in a waffle cone - if a place has pistachio ice cream, I’m getting some 🤣

There’s an Italian restaurant not too far me that makes a lemon marscapone cake that is the best cake I’ve ever tasted

Gelato

Brownies with walnuts

[call-sign-shark]

*scream and bash my head against the wall* FLOR THIS WAS SO PERFECT I CAN’T. Thank you so much for this gift, I am beyond touched. Seriously. I know I stray away from PB with these two but I love them sm that the fact you took time to write this adorable fic and create this moodboard literally brought tears to my eyes. Even more knowing that, I’m this life, Rose and Heaven finally gets to be the best duo ever.

Everything in this is so perfect that I struggle to organize my thought and I’m fighting against the urge to paste every single line and comment on it. The settings is so lovely, I mean the two of them opening gifts in the empty common room near the crooked little tree is so heartwarming. I have to mention the line that says that when watching them no one would see two patients in a mental hospital but a beautiful, normal couple. Because that’s the thing: together they are stronger than their illnesses and can find solace. The intimacy and normalcy of the scene are adorable. The line “better than the sad pathetic tree that have the opposite effect on patients” hurt me to the core because this is so true… However the line “until we can find our own tree. The biggest” literally made me squeal in my pillow. This is such a Amos thing to say.

Can we also talk about Rose and James?! They are the best and most caring friends ever. When Heaven says that she can’t believe these two exceptional people care about them is true: she feels beyond grateful to have them in her life. It leads me to that line about Heaven trusting no one and thinking that people were all the same… For sure she changed her mind when she met James and Rosie. She might be the one who looks like an angel but, for her, this is James and Rose who has wings. Their gifts are also spot on: I cannot get over the fact you remembered all those tiny details about the character: Heaven loving lemon pies (and Amos mentioning it to James aw), the MP3 with metal music carefully chosen by James with love (I love this man to death, pls don’t touch me), the funny animals hoodie, the silly monkey ref… You are such a thoughtful and incredible mutual friend, Flor.

Honestly, when they’ll be out of the hospital, one of the first things they’d do would be to contact James and Rosie to invite them to a restaurant and spent all the evening together. I can easily see the two couples being super close!! “Sometimes monsters needed friends” YEA GURL THIS IS IT.

And what about the way you wrote both Heaven and Amos? They are spot on, in characters, and more perfect than what I could have written for them. Every of their interaction, beside making me swoon and giggle, is so accurate for them. I love how playful and cuddly they are. I mean, Heaven smearing a bit of cake on his nose

Also this whole excerpt “Of course not! What made you think that? That I was ready to walk through the corridor in middle of the night, breaking several rules, because of you? Or your beautiful face? It's all because of them, my sweet girl." What a little adorable and enamored bastard. 🤭 Once again I am BAFFLED at how good you analyzed and wrote him, Flor. All playful, cocky and sweet. Of course it’s only for Mrs. Chaos and the little tree that he comes. For no other reasons!! 😬🖤 Moreover let’s not judge the hyena’s name, he did his best. 🤣

Last but not least: THE MOODBOARD!!! THE MOODBOARD IS SUCH A PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF EACH GIFT (the hyena and monkey sent me)!! The whole picture conveys softness and happiness so well that I can’t stop staring at it and smiling like an idiot. The picture you chose for illustrating Heaven is literally one I have in her Pinterest board. And that pic of Ben Barnes????

My baby, my love, he looks over the moon!! No language has enough words to tell you how grateful I am. Thank you so much Flor, I’ll cherish this until I die. 🖤🖤🖤

Also I told y’all Amos was deadly in love and that, with proper therapy, he’d be the best. I’m beyond happy that I’ve managed to make you love him.

Friends and festivities.

This is longer than I originally planned. But I like it.

It's also a bit, just a bit, different from the timeline you have @call-sign-shark yet, I hope you like it anyway.

I couldn't help but write something about these two because I simply love them.

"Seems Santa came full of presents for you this morning," a nurse said to Amos and Heaven leaving a big package on the table they were at. Plus a cardboard box with the name of a bakery on it. Neither of them needed to ask who sent those presents to them, they already knew. Most people feared them, reputation preceded them. But it happens that, sometimes, monsters needed friends.

Amos smiled as he saw Heaven opening the smallest box first that contained a lemon pie. Her smile matched his.

"Have you something to do with this? How did they know lemon pie is my favourite thing?"

"I thought I was your favourite thing."

"You can't compite," she said putting meringue on his nose, "but you're close."

"Thanks, sweetheart," Amos answered cleaning himself "No. I didn't even know about this! But maybe I mentioned to James that you liked it. It was just a comment, I didn't imagine he was going to remember it."

"This is really nice and so are you for mentioning it," Heaven said and kissed his cheek. "Would you like to open the big box?"

"Yeah!" Amos exclaimed not waiting for another sign of approval and proceeding to tear the wrapping paper decorated with reindeers.

If someone had been watching at them, then this person would have seen a beautiful couple opening the presents on Christmas morning like thousands of them across the world and not two patients in a psychiatric ward monitored the 24 hours. But in that moment, they were alone so no one was looking at them.

It didn't take long for the table to be covered by the things they received: Dozens of pictures of Heaven that James took of her that Amos wanted plus a couple of photos were they were together. A MP3 player filled with hundreds of metal music, that according to the note that accompanied it, they were selected by James because Rose had no idea about that. The ridiculous hoodies she promised Amos to do for him (and Heaven if she wanted to) were also part of the gifts. Two crocheted animals that made both of laugh.

"This is you," she said holding the monkey.

"That's me?" he asked stealing it from her hands, "you are not going to let it go, are you?"

"But he's adorable as you are... And no, I'm not," she said smiling, admiring the hyena that was for her. "Would you like to pick a name for her?"

"Mrs. Chaos."

"Oh, you can do better. I'll think one myself later," Heaven said putting the hyena aside and picking the the last gift that was a snow globe. "This is pretty. More beautiful than the sad, pathetic tree we have here," Heaven said glaring at the Christmas tree that the stuff put there to cheer the patients up but caused the opposite effect. I never see one in a while."

"You can have it," he said. There was a sparkle of happiness in her eyes that wasn't frequent and Amos couldn't help but smile again.

"Oh no, I bet it could look better in your room."

"Of course not! Besides, Mrs. Chaos deserves her own Christmas tree until we can have our own tree. The biggest one of all. And," Amos smirked, "it's a good excuse for me to visit your room and see them."

"Them? Not me?"

"Of course not! What made you think that? That I was ready to walk through the corridor in middle of the night, breaking several rules, because of you? Or your beautiful face? It's all because of them, my sweet girl."

"You're an idiot," she replied chuckling but allowed him to kiss her. "Merry Christmas, Amos."

"Merry Christmas, love."

She rested her head on his shoulder. "Have you ever considered the possibility that someone like them could care about us enough to give us something?"

"No, but there they are."

Heaven thought about it. There was a time when she thought that all people were the same. She still knew very well that most people prefer to judge those like her or Amos, sadly. But after knowing them, the idea that all people were the same wasn't part of her anymore. Maybe one day when she left the hospital, she'd spend the festivities with them and Amos. That'd be nice.

But for now it was her, Amos and the promise that good things were about to come.

The PB era stole this friendship, but this modern timeline made it possible 😭❤️.