#claire afton

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Talk about your version of William or I will spill hallucinogenic nightmare gas all over your blog =3

OKAY, FINE, YOU FORCED MY HAND

...heheheheh. >:3

Hurricane William Afton Lore Dump Part One

!!CW Warning!!: mentions of abuse, religious trauma, religious OCD, alcohol abuse, underage drinking and drug use, and addiction

William Anise Afton was born October 10, 1947 in a wooded area of Reading, a borough in Berkshire, England, to a shit awful family. This family consisted of his father (Edward), mother (Grace), and four older siblings (two older brothers and two older sisters), making William the baby of the family. The way they were shit awful, I'm not going to get into.

He went to Catholic school until he was twelve and developed a pretty big obsession with death during primary school because of a belief that what was happening to him with his family was his fault, making him guilty of sin, therefore condemning him to Hell at the age of nine. This resulted in obsessive thoughts that had him believe that everywhere he went, he was in mortal danger and had to prepare himself to die. He was petrified of dying because he always believed he was just meant to go to Hell and be tortured even before he got older.

Psychology bit: OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) can be a wide range of obsessive thoughts combatted with a wide range of compulsive behavior. In William's case, he has obsessional intrusive thoughts about death and Hell, which leads him to stay away from situations where he could die and be tortured for eternity, which is the compulsion. He avoided streets, stairs, heights, etc. the best he could for a long time.

When he was twelve, his father took him away after he discovered the at-home circumstances were horrible for the youngest member of the family. William then moved to London with his father, and they lived in the place where Edward worked, which was a mechanic shop he supervised for the owner of a small company.

Edward Afton had always been cold and old-fashioned, he was a veteran of the second World War, Irish, and very smart. He was also a mean bastard, an alcoholic, and emotionally unavailable for his traumatized son that he called Billy (even though that was nowhere near William's name, no matter how many times he was told it was a nickname). Not to mention that William confused him, and Edward didn't like things he couldn't understand.

William had always been... different. He was a shy and quiet boy, nose always in a book, (Will's favorites being Alice in Wonderland, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Wind in the Willows, and whatever books he could find with fantastical animals involved), had stereotypically feminine interests and habits compared to his older brothers when they were growing up, and had an odd obsession with rabbits.

Edward tried for a few years to "fix" him, to make Will "more like a boy". This included getting him involved in fixing cars, which William took to quickly, and bullying him out of his habits. Seemingly.

At this point in time, William was feeling a lot of shame for his lack of masculinity, self-conscious about his appearance, teenage hormones going haywire as he wasn't developing to fit the description of what people said a man should look like, and his father seemingly hating him more every day. This drew him to a group of boys that roamed the streets of London around his father's workplace. They were tough, toxically masculine, everything William thought he was missing.

This is where we mention William has always been charming and charismatic. He's learned it from the books he's read, movies he's seen, and stories he's heard. It's how he got money, food, books, and short-term relationships out of people whenever he wanted/needed it. The people he's charmed generally liked him, even though he was a stupid kid. At fourteen, he joined the rocker group that roamed around where he lived.

For a few years, to the age of seventeen, he ran around with them, dressed like them, did what they did, and became increasingly loud, impulsive, spiteful, incredibly violent, very tall, developed his father's drinking problem, and a drug addiction (that he kept secret). He dropped out of secondary school and had no plans other than someday soon he'd curl up into a ball and die somewhere. He didn't really care if he died at that point in time, William was too exhausted to care, and he lost his belief in a god and an afterlife. All of that shit he heard in primary school was just a scary story.

Then he met Henry in spring of 1964. Henry Emily was a twenty-year-old American student attending one of the universities for an engineering degree. He was working in that mechanic shop, the same one his father supervised; a trade offer given to him by the owner who knew Henry's father when they both served in World War II. The trade was this owner would pay for Henry's schooling while Henry (who was a mechanical genius apparently) would work in this shop.

History Bit: The 1960s was regarded as the "counterculture decade" in America, and in England, "The Swinging Sixties". There were massive differences between the two countries' views on the changing world and the changing cultures between them. One of the biggest things that caused this culture shift was widespread television access, giving the younger generation access to the world around them. American society was also thrown into the Vietnam War with the draft being set in place in 1966. There were many American movements in the decade, such as civil rights, anti-war, and gay rights, all seen as a direct attack on the "American way of life". England didn't have much involvement in the Vietnam War, the new generation was trying to move past the post-war era their parents came from. This will become relevant later.

William and Henry met on the circumstances that Will was trying to steal some of his stuff. From all Will's rummaging around in his stuff, he discovered some drawings of Fredbear (at this point, just known as Fred). This seemed to snap William out of this stupor he'd been in because he also had an animal character he'd draw. A golden yellow rabbit with purple eyes, that wore a little bow and waistcoat. He just called it Bunny (generating names wasn't his strong suit).

William couldn't pass up on the opportunity to meet someone that actually liked the same things as him. So, they talked. And then talked some more. And then spent the entire day together. And then they became best friends. Henry was reserved, calm, and headstrong, able to balance out William's high energy and impulsive nature.

The two of them could talk for hours on end about their animal characters (autistic people at their finest), pretty soon associating them with the other. Animatronics just started as a joke, both of them having an appreciation for Walt Disney and his Audio-Animatronics. Then it kind of stopped being a joke when Henry started brainstorming ideas for how a giant singing bear might actually work.

History Bit: Walt Disney coined the term "Audio-Animatronic" in 1961, the first of their kind being Disney's "Enchanted Tiki Birds" debuting in the Disneyland Resort, June 23, 1963.

Throughout the year, they became closer, and William started to feel more and more like a person living a life instead of going through the motions to survive. His mental health started to get better and he was slowly starting to express himself in the ways that he wanted to. He broke away from the rocker subculture and gained some social independence, doing what he really enjoyed doing, which was talking to Henry about Fred and Bonnie (Bunny renamed), reading on everything to help them on their journey to making a giant animatronic, drawing the two characters together, being Henry's best friend, and he was very happy.

Henry invited William to come back to his hometown in Utah (which William had never even heard of) and their goal became getting him across the Atlantic, slowly working off of his addictions and dependences. They were talking about owning a restaurant now with Fred and Bonnie as entertainment, everything was going to be perfect. But then there was a wrench in that plan.

William got mixed up with an upper-class girl slightly older than him, nineteen-year-old Claire-Marie Schmidt. He got her pregnant and neither of them wanted to abort the pregnancy and William didn't want to leave her to deal with this by herself because this was his fault, so Claire hung around to the displeasure of Henry.

Henry is just like William in a lot of ways. First of all, he gets jealous easily and second of all, he's lonely. All of William's attention seemed to get taken away by Claire and this unborn baby, and he felt abandoned. Not to mention that William and this girl had to get married per traditional values of Claire's father which they both respected. The baby was due in July and Henry was graduating in May, leaving soon after that. William could only pick one or the other. And he chose his wife. It was a painful and bitter goodbye at the airport, and William had to watch his one friend leave, not sure if he'd ever see or hear from him again.

He saw him again after about three minutes.

Henry cancelled his flight last second because he couldn't make a huge mistake like this. They made plans for all three of them to fly to Utah and that summer they did.

As soon as Claire got to close her eyes in the bed within the Emily ranch house, the contractions started, and Michael John Edward Afton was born a few weeks early in that room. When William laid eyes on Michael for the first time, something changed. Nothing else mattered more than who was in his arms right now, he loved nothing more. Of course, William got huffy when they had to give Michael back to Claire.

William and Claire had an interesting relationship. They didn't love each other like a married couple would, they were very good friends if anything. They confided in each other, told each other their problems, but William was a gay man and Claire knew this, and had no issue with it. They loved each other as good friends, they weren't romantically or sexually inclined to the other, so they formed an agreement that she could do what she wanted, and he could do what he wanted. And it worked for a while.

Part 2 ->

[springonmytraptillicomeback]

It’s very important to me that Claire and Henry are pretty similar. William definitely has A Type and it shows

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She's a Family Man Now (2)

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(a/n: so a handful of people seemed to be sorta interested in this fic so I decided to bust out a second part. please let me know what you think! reblogs and comments keep me going y'all~💗)

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You were back in the forest again.

Things looked clearer this time. Where before the trees were sorta smudged like a melting painting, now they looked more crisp, like a photo. Still not fully.. real? But close enough to pass off if you weren’t paying full attention. 

You looked behind you, an empty trail, looking identical to the one in front of you. With nothing else to do you started walking. You perked up when you heard that same voice again, not the female one but the male one. The old man. You followed it, even calling back asking where they were. Finally you saw something up ahead.

It was red…

You slowed down a bit, feeling a pit of unease settle in your stomach as you walked forward at a slower pace. When the trail you’d been following for what felt like hours finally ended you saw it led you to a small clearing. It looked barely big enough to fit three cars parked side to side, but in the middle of this clearing was a.. glowing red pond?

Why does this seem familiar? And why was there red light shining up from the small body of water?.. It lit up the entire clearing, leaving you feeling on edge. The whole place was eerie, and part of you wanted to just turn around and go back to the trail. But something kept you here, a feeling of curiosity. And when you stepped forward you froze in your tracks when you realized.. you weren’t actually alone in the clearing..

There at the far right end of the pond was a… man? You couldn’t see him the best with the only thing lighting up the area being the freaky red water, so you slowly called out a ‘hello?’. You clenched your fists when he looked at you and you finally noticed his head looked… weird. As you stepped closer it hit you where you were.. You’d seen playthroughs of the fnaf games enough to know about this part of the game. 

“...Old Man Consequences?” You asked nervously.

He gave a grunt of affirmation and then went back to looking out at the pond, looking focused on if anything was biting. As you stared at him you wondered if his head(?) was actually his head or just a helmet or mask or something. Because while he looked like a totally normal old man from the neck down, with the button down shirt with the two breast pockets and trousers; his head was another story. It looked like an animatronic gator head? Only it had no eyes, only a slack jawed maw showing off sharp triangular teeth. This whole dream, or coma, was so weird. 

“You think this is all a dream?” The old man asked, his voice sounding like it was playing from an old cassette player.

“Well… yeah. I got hit by a car, so this has to be shit I’m seeing in a coma.” You replied in a resigned way.

You looked down at him curiously when he let out a tired sigh. He sat his odd fishing pole down next to him on the ground before resting his forearms on his knees, seeming contemplative; then he looked up at you and you were forced to stare into the inky black depths of his gaping maw. You’d expected to see something in there. A human face if it were a mask, robotic parts if he were an actual animatronic, or an inner mouth if it really was his head. But no, there was nothing but darkness past his teeth, like a void. 

“I’m sorry to break it to you but.. this ain’t no dream. You’re not in a coma either. You were supposed to pass on, but I called you back to help me..” he said in a remorseful tone. 

That pit of unease from earlier returned full force at his admission, and you couldn’t help the way you nervously asked what he was talking about. He sighed again before picking up his fishing rod and resuming his fishing. But he explained that he needed someone to take over William Afton’s body to prevent everything he’d done in the timeline from actually happening. He’d never intended to pull you back specifically, he’d just wanted someone with some integrity to take over so none of the tragedy that passed would happen. He’d been calling out for help for a long time, since before they’d first thrown the demon down into hell. But nobody had ever answered, at least not until you.

“Something happened when you took over Afton’s body. None of us are sure why but things got thrown back, all the way past the start. To a time before things went so wrong.” The old man said wearily.

You furrowed your eyebrows, not sure what he meant and said none of what he was saying was making any sense. But then you froze and remembered.. 1978.. Old Man Consequence turned to you, a huff in his tone as he explained that YOU were now in control of William Afton’s body. And it was up to you to keep things from going to shit up there with the living. But he added on that since you’re technically supposed to be dead then you can count this as a second chance, or a reincarnation.

Hearing this distracted you from the year and caused you to gape at him before trying to articulate how insane all this was, though at first you just babbled incoherently, not really able to get out what you meant because of all the things you wanted to say at once. But finally after a deep breath you said,

“This.. this is BULLSHIT. What if I don’t WANT to be that asshole?! How is this even possible? Fuck.. I’m a-.. I WAS a woman! How am I supposed to just roll with suddenly having a penis?!”

You took in a shuddering breath before nearly collapsing on the bank of the pond, letting your legs hang into the water, not even caring that your pant legs were getting soaked. You could feel your shoulders shaking as everything he said continued to really sink in. Was he right? Were you stuck in some kid killer’s body now?? Potentially forever?!

“I don’t want to go to jail. Especially not for shit Afton did! God, what am I going to do?” You asked, mostly to yourself.

But the sharp toothed old man asked you if you’d been listening at all. He repeated that the timeline had been rewound, like a tape, and it had gone back years before Afton’s youngest died. None of the spirits had known WHY it’d happened, but it had occurred when YOU took over William Afton’s body. Now he was alone here, waiting to see what happened next. He knew it was a lofty request but he hoped you wouldn’t kill yourself to leave. He explained that yes, it wasn’t your responsibility to help these souls, and he’d take your place if he could, but he can’t. He’s tried before and it won’t let him, whatever ‘it’ was, the universe or what have you.

You wanted to argue with him, ask questions, demand answers, all of that; but the water of the pond started to move. Old man consequences clucked his tongue and said that you were waking up, so your time together has been cut short. For now anyways. He swore he’d talk to you again soon if you needed it but said to just try your best. Which left you feeling pretty flabbergasted. Try your best?? At what? Being William ‘Shithead’ Afton?? This was fucking ridiculous, you didn’t want this! Don’t you get any say in this whole thing?! 

But you never got to voice your complaints because suddenly the water went from calmly swirling to riptide, yanking you off the bank of the pond where you sat and into the cold water. One second you were fine and the next you were being pulled under, red overtaking your vision before fading to black. It all happened so fast that you didn’t have time to do anything but experience it.

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You woke up in the hospital… Again.

At this point it was just annoying. But this time something was different. You could hear soft humming to your right, and when you managed to turn your head to see what it was you were greeted with the sight of a woman sitting on the same sofa you’d seen the day before, doing some kind of embroidery you think. You could almost say she looked relaxed if it weren’t for the stiff way her shoulders were raised a little and the crease between her eyebrows.

Aside from the subtle stressed out look she was sporting she was an incredibly beautiful woman. You sorta thought all women were pretty but still, she was certainly something. She had messy loose strawberry blonde curls, warm skin, and eye-catching blue eyeshadow. And she had a pastel geometric button up tucked into a pair of gray jeans. A very retro look from your perspective but you figured for her it was a very stylish outfit, at least if Old Man Consequence was truthful and you really WERE stuck in the 80’s or whatever…

You got caught staring at her and flinched when she gasped and shot out of her seat. Flinching caused you to jostle your cast covered arm and leg, eliciting a groan of pain from you. The woman rushed over to your side, her hands hovering above you like she wanted to help you but wasn’t sure how. She settled for resting a hand on the shoulder connected to your cast free arm and saying with worry in her tone,

“Don’t worry, I’ll call the nurse to come check on you.”

Her accented voice sounded familiar to you for some reason, and as she focused on pressing the call button it hit you; her voice is the one you heard in your dream. The one that got kinda weirdly mixed with Old Man Consequences. So whoever she was she apparently knew William, which made you oddly nervous. Would she realize you weren’t him!? You felt yourself panic before calming yourself down. Even if she did there’s no way to PROVE you weren’t William Afton. You were in his body for fucks sake. You had his blood, his DNA, finger prints, all that shit. You were fine. Hell, maybe you could fake having amnesia! Yeah! That would make sense, right? You’d been in a car crash after all. Who’s to say you didn’t bang your head??

When the lady came back with the nurse and doctor in tow you had made up your mind to fake amnesia. Which you sorta thought would be harder than it was. But it turns out not being born in the late 70’s or 80’s made it shockingly easy. But stressful regardless. When the doctor was explaining everything that happened to you in the accident the woman took your non injured hand and held it in hers. You stared down at your connected hands and without thinking you asked her what her name was, unintentionally cutting off the doctor who was still speaking. You froze as soon as you noticed… you spoke in a British accent. What the fuck..

The woman gave you a stunned look while the doctor and nurse shared a concerned glance. But the woman opened her mouth before closing it, like she wasn’t sure what to say, but then she blurted out that she was Claire, your wife! Your eyes widened and your face felt hot. Running on pure surprise and disbelief you couldn’t help the astonished tone to your voice as you almost yelled,

“You’re my wife????... Wow~”

Your awed tone did cause Claire to flush a little bit but the doctor chimed in and asked you if you could answer a couple of his questions. You said okay and blinked when he asked if you knew what year it was. You recalled the news broadcast and hesitantly answered 1978. The doctor seemed relieved and asked you who was the president of the United States. Here is where you started to panic. You could not for the life of you remember who was the president in 1978.. Was it Nixon? Or was it Reagan? You didn’t remember! The last time you thought about any presidents before Clinton was back when you were learning about the American presidents in school!! So it was with much anxiety that you nervously answered, “Uh.. Nixon?”

The blank stare the doctor and nurse gave you let you know that was probably wrong as FUCK! Shit, how wrong though?! You were starting to visibly worry when the doctor asked to speak to Claire out in the hallway. You worried until they came back and the doctor started asking you more questions. Simple things first. Your name, your family’s names, and more. You could ‘remember’ the names of your immediate family but not what they looked like. Then the nurse came back with flash cards and asked you what each picture on them was. House, car, tree, bike, cat, plane, school, bird, campfire. They seemed relieved that you still had your basic understanding intact. 

After the evaluation the doctor said it sounded like you were suffering from a form of amnesia. Thankfully not one that would affect your ability to function as an adult, but because of the car accident you seemed to have forgotten some of the key elements of your personal life. Claire looked horrified but the doctor was quick to reassure her that it was likely temporary and your memory would probably return after some time. It would be best for you to get reintroduced to your family in an effort to jog your memory into returning quicker. But for now you’d need to stay in the hospital so they could run a few more tests to ensure it wasn’t anything serious.

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Well the good news is.. it worked. They think you’re suffering from amnesia. Which will make things a hell of a lot easier on you when you inevitably can’t remember something Afton would have known. But the bad news.. Claire seems so sad.. And despite not knowing the woman, it made you sad to see her so despondent. Once the doctor left the nurse made sure you were comfortable, asked if you needed anything then said lunch would be around soon before leaving you and Claire alone. She just stood by the end of your bed, staring off at the wall, not saying anything. You felt awkward and cleared your throat before speaking to her.

“I-.. I’m sorry.”

Hearing a British man’s voice come out when you’re speaking is still wild. You’re not sure how or why you have the accent still but trying to apply logic to this all seems like it would just drive you crazy so you let it go. Instead you focus on Claire as she turns to look at you. While there was still a sadness in her eyes, now it was paired with some puzzlement. She asked what you were sorry for, making you let out a breath, not sure how Afton would react but knowing how you would so you went with that.

“For upsetting you. I know I’m supposed to know you, but I can’t seem to. Which I find strange. I can’t imagine forgetting someone as lovely as you..” You finished with a hum, not trying to be smooth, just being honest.

Claire blinked, cheeks getting warmer before a small smile broke out across her face. She let out a short chuckle, replying that despite everything you were still a charmer. But then she let out a tired sounding breath and came over to sit in the chair next to your hospital bed, reaching out to grab your hand before stopping herself. You noticed and turned your hand over, palm up and reached out as far as you could in your state for her hand. She gave you a shy, grateful smile before taking your hand. After that it was silent, just the sound of the EKG machine and the low volume of the tv resonating in the room. It felt a bit awkward so to get rid of it you tried talking again,

“So… you’re really my wife?”

She smiled again, a hint of sadness to it, before saying yes, you’d been married for a number of years. You sorta felt jealous of Afton in that moment, how’d a weirdo like him get such a pretty wife? It almost didn’t seem fair, in that same cosmic injustice sorta way that caused the good to die young. And without thinking you said with a grin that you must be a very lucky man then. This got a shocked laugh out of the strawberry blonde and she replied almost incredulously that you were literally in the hospital with multiple broken bones and a head injury! 

You just smirked cheekily and retorted that that may be true but you also had a beautiful wife that was sitting next to you so that trumps some silly broken bones any day of the week.

Hearing Claire laugh was infinitely nicer than seeing her sad you decided~

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Fnaf revival au(part 7):

While Michael was in the asylum, he was assigned a therapist of sorts to keep him at bay. Her name was Claire(some call her Clara sometimes), which is ironically Clara's(Mrs. Aftons) twin sister: same ginger hair, same emerald eyes, and the same motherly attitude towards others. The others who worked at the asylum thought she would be perfect for Mike because they thought he would behave if she was with him, and he actually did. Whenever Claire's around, he behaves and is surprisingly more compliant with the other doctors and patients in the asylum. Unfortunately, Claire is the only one that Mike is willing to talk and communicate with(his voice is like Williams, but deeper and with no British accent). He saw Claire as his own mom(he's a mama's boy, too), but something bad happened: Claire was fired. When that happened and she left, that kinda pushed Michael to the edge, and he was P*SSED. that was his only parental figure that ever cared about him (aside from his siblings). He demanded to know why Claire was fired, and the boss who worked there told him that she was "useless" and "not worth the time." And that was what pushed Michael all the way off the edge because William used to tell him that. Claire came back to the asylum to pick up her glasses because she left them, but when she got there, what she saw made her drop all her stuff. She saw multiple dead bodies of the doctors and the patients on the floor, and then she saw at the end of the hallway Michael with the bosses head in his hand, completely bloody. Michael saw her and approached her slowly. She wanted to run, but she felt like she couldn't even move at all. Then, when Michael approached her, he hugged her for what felt like minutes upon minutes(Claire hugged him back to with hesitation of course, but hugged him nonetheless), and then after that, he left to go find his siblings. Claire wanted to call the police more than anything, but she was too in shock and didn't do it. She just grabbed her glasses and her stuff and left.

Bonus:

Clara(Mrs. Afton) is still alive. She just divorced William and went to go live with her sister Claire. But despite that, she left loving every single one of her children with all of her heart ❤️. She wanted to go on and start a different career, just hoping one day she could come back to her children and take them away from the horrible man that is William(unfortunately though, she was too late....or was she?)

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Mike and Vanessa as Leon and Claire cuz I recently started playing re2

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6 fanarts thing from twitter ^_^

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The Emmerson Sisters

(aka William's wife and her sister :])

(Claire is younger. also forgot the gray in their hair. dangit.)

@that-darn-clown @hello-there-world @docterzerocare

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some of my favorite characters from stuff! (There's a lot more but here!)

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I know I’ve got a quadrillion different requests I’ll probs never get to but someone should give me Mike Schmidt/Michael Afton requests (I know most of the Lore of the games and I’ve watched the movie earlier today AND I’m rewatching it literally as I’m typing this). Depending on which Mike you want, please specify <3

here’s what i will and won’t write and what fandoms i write for in case you want to request for others

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no because legit the ONLY reason I haven't read Dark Heir yet is because I still have a couple of non canon-compliant fics I want to write without the knowledge of the second book lol

I've had a sequel to Come, Devil, Come in the works literally since wrote the thing last year oops - and I could still write it after I read the book, but like, I still kinda wanna write it with the not knowing

same deal I have this idea for something I wanted to write about the Dark King, and I still do, but again I don't want to go in with knowledge, especially if we actually learn things about him in the second book

and you'd think that the anticipation is making me want to just bust them out, but no I've just been sitting here vibrating out of my skin for like 2 months now because the writing bug will not grace me with its presence

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Hurricane William Afton Lore Dump Part 3 (aka I Tell You the Afton Family Drama)

CW: discussion of mental illness, trauma, divorce, violent thoughts, abuse, self-worth issues, cheating, and abandonment

Let's start this part out by making one thing clear: William is not great at taking care of himself. Not great at taking care of himself is the sense that, while he can survive, he doesn't thrive. At least when he was younger. This directly contributed to William as an adult being a highly immature and childish individual.

He was no longer put in a directly dangerous environment (although he remains in a chronic state of unease and paranoia), but the constant stressors throughout his development resulted in emotional instability. This emotional instability impairs his ability to form and keep relationships, make premeditated decisions, and have a solid self image. Therefore, the people that interact with him often (employees, Henry, Claire, associates, and frequent acquaintances) view him as immature, childish, neurotic, and kind of a bitch.

This was soon swept under the rug labeled as, "just how he was".

As the situation for William got increasingly more stressful after Fredbear's opened, this instability became more apparent. He started to have fights with his wife and Henry very, very often. Especially after Henry met Rosa (eventually Mrs. Emily), who he was now including in the creative business of Fredbear's. This caused William's first mental breakdown that wasn't nearly as bad as his second.

Now, let's talk about those notebooks. Those stacks upon stacks of notebooks mentioned in The Silver Eyes. William's most common self-therapeutic exercise was using these notebooks to rant, rave, vent, and everything in between. Henry and Claire both knew of these journals and respected his privacy to not ask what was in them.

After Fredbear's Family Diner opened, these books started to curb from venting about his feelings concerning his childhood, personal inadequacy, the political environment, and into these more violent entries toward people. Toward Rosa specifically. Well, it started as just Rosa, then it slowly trickled into various people he felt slighted by during the day.

Getting his feelings out on paper helped but he had been disposed to violence, opposition, and confrontation throughout his life before now. Safe to say he was a fighter when it came to fight-or-flight stress responses. Most of the altercations he's had with others weren't physical, but he did know how to bruise an ego to the point where a swing was taken. He's never ever laid a hand on his children.

He didn't want his kids to live in the same kind of fear he did, they didn't deserve that kind of life. Despite what his father would say, William wasn't stronger for the cruel punishments he got. If anything, he was just angry and afraid.

Claire and William would get into very loud arguments over the stupidest things he would roll his eyes at, whisper under his breath, and laugh at her about. William wasn't the only one going through a tough time.

Claire was in a practically loveless marriage with a gay man, in the middle of a nowhere place thousands of miles away from home, feeling useless and unappreciated. To her, Michael and Evan were William's kids, not hers. She was deathly homesick and couldn't deal or compromise with William's temperament, because William always thought of himself as the right one in every situation. She felt like a guest in her own house.

She couldn't have a public relationship with anyone else than William because of their marriage status they didn't want to get pestered about. Claire felt like she didn't have a life here and she wanted to go back home. William and Claire got divorced in 1973 and she was going to leave the country that same year, but of course, something came up.

Henry may or not have been having an affair with Claire. His wife, Rosa had no idea and their daughter, Charlotte, was on the way. William laughed in both of Henry and Claire's faces when they explained what happened. Elizabeth was born early 1974 with Henry's red hair and green eyes.

There was an odd tension between the three of them (Henry, Claire, and William) at this time. Almost apologetic, but all of them much too proud as people to verbalize it. Henry and Rosa get divorced after she finds out what happened, Henry and her sharing custody of Charlie, which causes another shift in Henry's personality.

Michael was especially affected by the environment, attaching to his father's style of stress management (internalize it and throw fits of rage). He was starting into altercations with school peers at this point, William always taking his side of the argument whenever he had to get involved.

After a few years to allow Elizabeth to grow, Claire then left with the toddler for London in 1977, leaving Michael and Evan behind for William to raise. William wonders to himself, "how hard could this possibly be?"

This marks the end of the the AU's first installation, "Wild Cat".

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Hehe here it is

Here is a close up ig?

Terrance really misses Claire 😔

Claire is 5”5 (not including the heels she wears)

but Terrance is 7”3 so the height might be wrong lol

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bunnies love tr

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Do you need some Vitamin D? (Incubus! William x Oblivious! F! Reader) [Part 10]

~I'm sorry! Okay! We needed some angst!! I hope this chapter makes it up to you. And don't worry, this isn't the end either.~

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CW: 18+ MINORS DNI. Fluff, age gap (Reader 20's - William Afton 40's(?)), teratophilia, meet-cute, punny pick-up lines, scenes of working out, minor porn-logic, ditzy! reader, could be classed as bimbo! reader?, size-difference, flirting, monster-lover, sexual innuendos, Monster! AU. Angst. Extra monster! Jealousy, defenstration, mention of blood.

Henry had noticed that things seemed a little tense in Freddy's when he walked in that morning.

William was late coming into the office, which was unusual for his life-long friend and business partner. William Afton didn't do late unless he could help it, the only things he had ever known William to be late for, infact, were social functions when he was with his college girlfriend Clara. But something seemed off to the were-bear's senses as even one of the members of staff seemed particularly tense.

And of course, he noticed a hastily scrawled note on the space in the schedule where your name sat where it had been erased and replaced with Claire's.

He sighed and ran his hands through his curly, dark hair. The whole day had been plagued with a sense of melancholy from the incubus crammed at his desk behind Henry. Barely moving, hyper-focused on his paperwork with the formerly customary 'Afton scowl'. Henry knew William had a chronic case of resting bitch face sometimes, but he had thought his friend has seemed generally much happier with everything and had been smiling more.

"How's-" Henry said your name suddenly, breaking the silence that had fallen over the small office space as William paused and barely glanced up from his work. "I noticed she wasn't on the schedule today."

"Why should I know?" The were-bear blinked at the calloused reply, feeling himself reeling as he got the sudden sinking feeling that something had transpired that he hadn't been privy to. Taking out his phone and texting away as he feigned disinterest.

"Because she's been living at your house?"

"Not anymore she's not." William growled, feeling his chest tightening unpleasantly at the thought. His salt and pepper hair was tousled like he hadn't quite bothered to brush it, even his stubble seemed to be unkempt as William rubbed his hands over his face tiredly. Henry looked at William and watched his pen hovering above the paperwork, poised to write something the incubus had forgotten.

Henry paused and shuffled over his chair, sitting opposite William and making the older, broader man look up with a scowl and furrowed brow as if to ask what he wanted.

"Talk to me William, something is clearly bothering you."

"And what if I'm just glad to have my own damn house back?"

"I think you're lying to yourself, firstly," Henry raised an eyebrow at the still scowling incubus, who thumped his foot in retaliation, although Henry was quite used to his friend's bullshit by now. "And secondly, what happened to all that flirting you were doing? I mean it was bad, sure, cringey even! But I haven't seen you smile that much around somebody. Ever."

William thought for a moment and sighed as he leaned back in his slightly too small office chair. Placing the pen down on his cluttered desk and his frown deepening as he realised that Henry was right. He had been happy, he'd been smiling a lot more and he'd even spent more time out of the workshop without having to be coaxed with food, a cigarette break or once, even a trail of candies leading towards a precariously balanced cardboard box ontop of a door and Henry peering out from around the edge holding some string.

"She...texted me last night."

"Okay. And what did it say?" William pulled his phone out, wincing as his thumb ran over the semi-deep scratch in his screen from where he had frustratedly and accidentally clawed it the night before.

"'How do you ask a guy out you like?'" Reading the text out loud, Afton winced, swallowing hard as that ugly green jealousy raised it's head again. But Henry simply raised his eyebrow again and rolled his hand, gesturing for the incubus to continue.

"''Well, guys like it when you're blunt with them. You should just ask them.'"

"And then?"

"'Would you like to go out with me?'" Henry smiled widely but coughed to hide his excitement as the rabbit man stared at his phone, frowning and making Henry's smile slowly fall as he got a sinking feeling in his stomach.

"Please, tell me you said 'yes' to that poor girl." William looked quizzically at the were-bear, tipping his head to one side as he ran his thick fingers through his hair.

"No? I said she just needed to say that to whoever she was asking out. It was clear she had somebody in mind." The incubunny growled as that jealous feeling that knotted his stomach up and he thumped his foot hard enough to make the desk shake slightly. Henry felt his face falling from the usual cheer into a paled scowl as he stood up. Pacing around to William's side, he moved his hand up behind his friend's back as if he was going to soothe William's temper.

And a bear paw smacked him in the back of the head instead.

William's head snapped forwards, blinking as he tried to clear his vision and standing up abruptly. Feeling his sharp teeth press against the inside of his lips as they curled into a snarl. Claws digging into the palm of his hands as he seemed to tower slightly over the more ursine looking Henry. Both monster men at various stages of their respective transformations. William's eyes purple and slit pupiled. Henry's blown out and dark. Both sporting claws as Henry tried to not let his own primal form take over.

"What the actual fuck, Henry?" The low baritone growl that reverberated around his chest would make most other monsters back down, and certainly would make a human loose their nerve, but Henry stood firm and put his bear paws on his hips, little round bear ears pinned back and his head low, snorting loudly.

"What the fuck am I doing? God you're so fucking stupid, Afton!" Henry placed his paws over his face and dragged them down lightly, careful not to catch himself with his claws accidentally. "She DID ask the guy she liked."

"Who? How come you know?"

"IT'S YOU, YOU FUCKING FLUFFY BRAINED DIDDLE DEMON!" Henry shouted, his fingers curling into fists in exasperation as he looked up at his friend. Watching the pinned back rabbit ears slowly lift then slowly lower again as a look of confusion and horror crossed his grey-ish furred features.

"What?"

"My god, are you so far up your own ass you can't hear me now? She asked you. She literally asked you how you would like to be approached with being asked out and then she did and you blew her off. Great fucking job, you absolute muppet."

Going back to his usual family friendly self as he shook out the transformations and snorted again, growling as he spoke, unhappy that he had had to resort to violence to snap William from his pity-party. William's ears felt like they were ringing as his body slowly returned to most of it's normal stature and features, his claws still remaining as his foot began to tap nervously against the cluttered office carpet.

"Oh...oh fuck."

"Yeah, you getting it now?"

"Oh... oh fuck I have to find out where she is. I...Oh fuck I have so much apologising to do." William moved on auto-pilot, feeling his legs partly turning to give him a little extra speed as Henry looked after him and swore under his breath, following behind and trying to make sure there were not traces of ursine features left on his face.

"William! William Afton!"

Afton didn't hear him as he tried to walk himself calmly into the dining room. Eyes wildly scanning and not caring in that moment if his secret was blown wide as he looked for one person in particular. He hadn't been particularly caring about sorting the rota out when he got the sense that you weren't coming in that morning, but he could already feel his heart pounding so hard and fast in his chest he was afraid it might burst in his chest. Finally, he spotted who he was looking for, and quickly smoothed his shirt back into place after his slight transformation, fingers running through his hair as he slowly and calmly made his way over.

Or at least, he hoped he looked calm and collected.

"Claire! Thank you for coming in on such short notice." He gave the smaller woman a wide smile as she stopped sweeping and looked up at him. Scowling heavily and turning her attention back to the broom as she swept up pizza crumbs and confetti from kid's birthday parties.

"I'm not talking to you Mr. Afton." She snapped, making William blink and wince as he had that sinking feeling that perhaps it was to be expected.

"Young lady, I-"

"I don't care. Zip! I'm not talking to you after what you did to-" She said your name and all his suspicions were confirmed. Wincing and cringing in on himself as he tried his best to hold his still human looking hands in a placating gesture.

"Look, I know that I-"

"Oh Mr. Emily! Wonderful, do you want to know what Mr. Afton's done?" Claire leaned against the broom and turned her glare towards Henry, who seemed a little flustered and out of breath, cheeks burning as his curls were a little wild.

"Claire. I know that William might have made some little mistakes, but I assure you, it's being handled." He assured, attempting to remain professional and courteous as the smaller woman scowled even more. He began to wonder for a moment if somebody had finally made a match for Afton's own face of displeasure.

"*Little mistakes*?" Claire spat, making Henry raise an eyebrow as William looked even more sheepish, pulling his hands back to his body as he cringed. "Do you know what he did? Did he actually tell you because I can tell you-"

"FOR FUCKS SAKE, *LISTEN*. William is *trying * to ask you where she is because he's been informed, by *me*, that his stupid ass couldn't see that he was the one being asked out." Henry decided to cut to the chase, knowing that they were going to get nowhere with Claire when he could see that William was itching to find you.

She looked between the two men, her forehead creased as she tried to see if one of them would crack and reveal that it was some cruel joke to be played on you when you weren't even there. But her complexion drained and paled as she stared, the dawning expression of realisation that Henry wasn't lying to cover for his business partner.

"Wait so he....you.."

"Actually wanted to say 'yes' if I had realised that she was actually asking me." William felt his foot tapping away on the mildly tacky carpet, his nose twitching as he rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly, but the expression on Claire's face as she formed a silent 'o' made his brow furrow and his nails dig into the skin on the back of his neck as his stomach sank. "Claire?"

The woman got out her phone and quickly scribbled down something on a loose receipt that she had kept in her pocket, handwriting shaking as she handed it to Henry, who in turn passed it to William, reading it and wondering why he'd been handed her address.

"Look, okay, she was really upset last night and so I told her to go on a date to get her mind off of it-" William's head snapped up as she held her hands out placatingly, a growl bubbling up in his throat, barely surpressed.

"With who?"

"I don't know, some guy from her apartment block. David, Damien.."

"Dave?"

"Yeah, that's-Mr. Afton?"

William Afton didn't wait as he began to set off from the pizzeria, allowing himself to growl as he began to change before he even hit the door. His sharp teeth filling his mouth, nails becoming claws as he ripped at his tie and tried to pull it from around his neck. It was like he was suffocating as he stumbled around the back of the building, feeling bones shifting under his skin as his body grew warmer as the fur started to sprout over his skin.

Dave fucking Miller.

He snarled as he kicked off his shoes, his feet changing as he managed to barely make it to the heavily sheltered back alleyways so he could complete his transformation. A growl constantly reverberating in his chest as he only kept one goal in his mind spiralling as he lost control for the first time in a long while.

He had to find you.

You hadn't quite planned on your landlord sitting opposite you in your apartment unit, but there Dave Miller was. Dressed in a t-shirt that had some suspicious stains on it and looking like it had been dragged out of the building's lost and found bin and a pair of black slacks. You had been a little confused when he had shown up wearing no shoes and only his socks, but you were grateful that at least he had shown up.

After crying for most of the night, Dave had come to knock on your door to ask what was up, apparently he could hear you quite clearly through the wall since your bedrooms were backed onto each other, which led to some embarrassing thoughts as to what else Dave might have heard had your relationship with William developed. But when you explained to the vampire what had transpired, he gave you an almost condescendingly lazy smile as he suggested that you should try dating him. Explaining that really, it made sense, a vampire was essentially a soft dip into the world of non-human dating, and it would give you a chance to see whether or not you wanted to even continue in that world.

It had seemed like a fantastic idea at the time.

But now you were sat in your own nice blouse and good jeans, watching as Dave swirled the wine glass in his hand and the thick red inside clung to the glass a little too long to allow you any thought that it could be a particularly viscous red wine. You were regretting the choice to not allow Dave to bring his customary mug around so that at least you wouldn't have to look at it. Dave called it 'exposure therapy'. He checked his watch for the fifth time in an hour, and you felt each one sending a sinking pit into your stomach.

"Do you have somewhere else to be?" Snapping slightly as the gaunt man looked up, lazy smile on his face and shaking his head slightly. Picking up the glass and sipping from it with an exaggerated sigh of appreciation.

"No no, sugar. Just waiting for the real date to begin." His words stung you, and you felt your eyes becoming hotter as tears pricked at them. Swallowing thickly as your hands curled around the cutlery you had set up on the kitchen counter, since you at least needed to eat in the traditional sense.

Dave suddenly perked up, looking towards your window and moving over towards it with that careful, lanky shuffle that held a shocking amount of grace in it for such an awkward looking man. Thin, willowy almost, but you could see in his bare arms as the sinewy muscles twitched as his bruised, dark circled eyes darted about. Never quite making eye contact until you least expected it.

He stood by your window as you felt yourself getting upset all over again, unsure why you had listened to Claire and allowed yourself to go on one date with somebody you didn't even really know when you have rather been sat on your couch watching re-runs of overly dramatized medical shows and eating a pint of ice-cream. Dave's fingers curling around the latch to your window before opening it out wide. It was the one above your fire-escape too, so it opened additionally wide, allowing a cool breeze to flow through the smaller space.

Then you heard it.

Heavy thumping. Growing closer, louder as something settled in your chest, heavy and bassy, before it even registered in your ears. The hair on the back of your neck instinctually stood up, eyes flickering about as you wondered what the sound was, although Dave seemed unperturbed as he continued to stare out of the window.

The sound finally clicked into place as something slammed into the door, hearing thin wood creaking under the weight of whatever it was as you jumped up out of your seat. Dave simply turned around and paced himself back to the counter, his expression serious for a moment as he wrapped his arm around your shoulders. Startling you as you felt his cool skin against yours, the way his long fingers touched the back of your neck and played with your hair making your skin crawl as you realised a little too late that his grip had tightened and forced you into the same spot.

The thumps grew more insistent. The door gave way slightly, and suddenly you could hear the noise that had been making your chest turn and feel uneasy.

Growling.

"My my, now we're getting somewhere, aren't we sugar?" Dave asked, sucking his teeth as he picked up the wine glass from the counter and swirled it. Making your nose fill with the smell of cold pennies.

"Dave?"

"Don't worry sweetheart, everything will be fine. Just promise me you won't freak out."

"Dave something is breaking down my door!" Struggling in his grip as memories of that one time you were broken into surging forwards as the growling assisted in fast-tracking your fight or flight response.

You knew that you were never winning that fight.

"Your real date has arrived."

Dave's cold, iron breath brushed your cheek as he leaned in and whispered, brushing his clammy lips against your skin as the door burst down. Splintering under the sheer force of what was behind it. Heart racing so loudly that you could feel Dave's thin fingers tapping along with it across the base of your skull.

An elongated hand gripped the upper part of the doorframe. Purple eyes glowing in the darkness beyond your doorway as a flat nosed face, teeth sharp and lip curled back into a snarl that displayed his elongated canines. You felt your breath catch in your throat as the yellowish-brown fur came into your sight, watching the claws drag against the plaster of the wall and gouge into it was the lumbering, hulking figure pulled itself in.

William Afton seemed taller, if that was somehow possible. His face less human as you realised his face had pushed out into a slightly lapine snout. His soft ears pinned back against his head and shoulders, the hunched position he was in to fit inside your apartment combined with his broad frame to fill the room and make him look even more intimidating. You realised after a second that his shirt was barely clinging on by some threads, tie like a ridiculous purple collar around his thick, furred neck as he seemed to be staring right at you.

No, not you, you realised. But Dave as you felt the vampire's grip on you tighten instinctually. Bringing the glass to his lips and drinking down the rest of it before setting it down on your counter. Planting a kiss on your cheek, eliciting a growl from William as he stalked towards Dave, panting and chest rising and falling rapidly as his hyper-focus on the vampire seemed to blind him to how small the space really was.

It was a blur of fur and movement that you almost missed as William lept forwards, grabbing hold of Dave in one of his monsterous paws and making you yelp as your landlord as wrenched away from you. A scream tearing itself from your lips as you watched William's fur and muscles ripple and he flung Dave through the window.

Naturally, you ran up to the windowsill, staring out and expected to see blood and gore dashed out on the concrete, but instead, what you saw confused you.

Dave was unmoving for a moment, before you could make out his thin frame lifting itself slowly. It looked wrong. Like all the angles weren't quite human. But your attention was on the big, chalk bullseye drawn on the sidewalk, your heart racing as you were filled with adrenaline. Watching as Dave managed to limp and slide himself over to a car that you hadn't noticed, the lights flicking on and the car slowly pulling out of the lot and into the night.

William's head pressed against your ribs as he tried to shove past to look through the window, but you turned and blocked it. Afraid, confused, and weirdly, you felt your heart aching as you looked at his features properly.

Whilst he looked rabbit-like when you had seen his monster form, and still recognisably humanoid in a lot of ways. This was different. Afton almost reminded you more of a hare, the fur less fluffy and more sleek to his hulking mass. But the sharp, jutting teeth that rendered him unable to hide them under his lips screamed predatory as those slit-pupils focused on you finally. Panting, the growl abating slightly as he seemed for a moment to not register who you were, and then realisation set in. You watched the animal face fill with confusion, with something warm, and then with horror as it dawned on him that you had watched him throw a man out of a window and break down your door.

Your ears filled with a soft sound as you were unable to take your eyes off of him, watching him attempt to stand and shaking his head like a wild animal that had gotten confused. Realising it was his body shifting and changing as it definitely shrunk a bit, his fur fluffing out and becoming more of the digitigrade legged rabbit humanoid that you had come to expect from William's monstrous form.

"Bunny..." He breathed, his deep, gravelly voice wavering as he reached out a hand to you before pulling it back to his chest. His eyes filling with worry as he looked at your confused, scared expression, feeling his heart swelling with self-doubt and loathing.

He had lost control. He had almost caught you up in his own ugly jealousy and gotten you hurt.

"William?" You were unsure of yourself, your own voice wavering as he nodded slowly. Both of you swallowing thickly as you began to head for the door, looking over the broken splinters. Stepping over them and feeling the incubus following your every move and following after you as you began to head down the stairs.

You needed some air.

The cold air bit at your skin in a way that was adrenaline inducing and soothing all at one. William's car was weirdly parked in the lot, but glancing at the rabbit man as he trailed sadly after you, his ears still pinned as he ran his hands over his furred face, and seeing his black slacks burst open at the bottom half of the seams, barely giving him tattered shorts, you somehow doubted he had driven there.

You sat on the hood of his car, your body shaking as the adrenaline passed and William stood barely within your reach. Looking anywhere but your face.

"What...Was..."

"That...wasn't pretty. It's what happens when I lose control. You deserve every explanation that I can give you." His voice still gravelly as he focused on your face finally, scanning you to see how you would take the information.

"You can lose control?"

"Yeah. Incubi are...well, no, demonic types in general are more prone to it. It gets messy quickly."

"What made you lose it?"

"Bunny..."

"No, William, you said I deserved an explanation, and I'm asking you." You managed to firm your voice, looking into his purple eyes and seeing his brows turning up as his expression saddened. His foot thumping his against the floor as he tried to think of how to word it. Taking a deep breath before he opened his mouth.

"You. You made me lose control." He swallowed as he ran his fingers through his fur and tried to stop the nervous tap his foot made against the concrete. Barely remembering taking his shoes off. "Well, more specifically, realising that you were on a date."

"You...turned into...that..because I was on a date?"

"Shit, that sounds awful. Bunny, god why is it so hard to speak to you? I'm an incubus, I'm a demonic being, admittedly third generation, but still. I don't like people, but talking has never been a problem until you arrived and I couldn't shake you from my thoughts." Growling as he thumped his hand against the hood of his car lightly, leaning over you and meeting your eyes finally.

"Bunny, if I had realised that you were asking me, god I...I would have said yes so many times over. I would have done so many things differently if I had known."

"You really didn't know?" You asked, incredulous as he nodded slowly, his ears perking slightly before flattening again, his nose twitching constantly as he looked away from your gaze.

"You've been thinking about me?"

"Constantly. I didn't mean to send that text to Henry, I wanted to send it to you! I purposely did it. Call me an old fool, but I...God, bunny, I want to worship the ground you walk on, you're my sunshine, and I understand if you don't want to ever see me after-"

You didn't give William a chance to continue speaking as you grabbed his tie and pulled him close, your eyes brimming with tears as the rabbit man babbled his inner thoughts to you in a heart-felt confession. He stumbled closer as your smaller frame tugged him in and he resisted to try and not crush you under his weight.

But as your lips met his, all that tense anxiety melted from his body and yours. Holding onto his tie as he was stupefied by the kiss for a moment before his thick, strong arms wrapped you up and held onto you tightly. Hearts pounding together as you broke off for air as you felt him shifting around you. The lips you kissed becoming less furred and feeling his beard scratching as your skin, thick, rough fingers stroking down your back as you sat back and looked at William's human face staring at you. His lips curled up in a smile and creased the corners of his eyes as you felt him doing a little jump in one spot, making you smile back at him.

"You don't mind...that I'm a monster?" He asked, thinking back to the terrified expression you'd had seeing his most monstrous state.

"William, if I minded, I wouldn't have kissed you when your face was furry."

"Yes, I know but still."

"Shut up and kiss me again, incubnny."

"Oh, gladly, little bunny." He cupped your cheek with one hand as he leaned in and kissed your lips again. A soft, chaste thing that still stole your breath away as he pulled you against his broad body, perched on the hood of his car as he tenderly stroked your hair. Both of you wishing the moment would never end, even though you knew that you couldn't leave William in his shredded clothes.

"Maybe we should get you home, you're kinda half-naked in the parking lot." William chuckled at your words and raised his greying eyebrow and smiling wickedly, rolling his eyes playfully.

"And here I thought that was extra romantic."

"Oh totally, in a very different context."

"Oh?"

"Stop smirking at me! You'll find out eventually, you still owe me a proper date first."

"Can I at least give you another kiss for now?" Waiting for you to confirm with a nod.

And he did, pressing his lips to yours once again and cupping both of your cheeks as you felt your cheeks flushing. Holding onto his tie still as you remained in the half-dark. Knowing that there was a lot of things the two of you would have to work out, but you were looking forwards to each and every step.