It’s A Love Story…
Colt Seavers (The Fall Guy 2024) x Reader
-Part 2 to Coffees, Plural-
Disclaimer: I don’t own any of the characters in this story except for Sheila and the reader insert!
Author’s Notes: Background is summarized on part one! I tried to get Colt as in character as possible, but it’s hard to perfectly capture him 🙃 also, this is not edited!! idk if it’s cringe or cute, but if you enjoy the story, please leave a comment! I’d love to see what you think! Icons by @gosling-girlx !! She’s the best!
Content/Content Warning: nothing serious! Just some suggestive themes and some smooching at the end :)
Part three is out!
Reader’s POV
Looking back on it, I think my crush on Colt Seavers really did develop on day one. But little did I know, it’d only get stronger.
Dramatic, right? It’s not wrong, though…
After bonding over his affinity for coffees,- yes, plural- that first day, I knew I was down bad. At first I thought it was just stupid butterflies- I was prone to falling fast- but as I got to know him I realized it was far more than just stupid butterflies.
There was just something about him- a lot of somethings, actually. It was- it is- his puppy eyes. His coffee addiction- affinity, sorry. His sense of humor, the way he comes preloaded with sarcasm at any given time. The way his legs bounces when he’s nervous, bored, excited, or all three. His perfect smile. The way he pays attention, the way he cares…
I could go on. And on. And on. And on. But you get the idea.
And oh, that voice… that’s enough to-
Sorry. Anyways.
Over the past nine-ish months we’ve gotten pretty close. I’ll meet him for lunch on set, we’ll meet at each other’s trailers just to hang out, sometimes we’ll find ourselves down by the beach… it’s just nice.
Also, over the past year, I’ve rekindled my friendship with Jody Moreno. We hit it off immediately after I arrived, as if no time had passed at all since the last time I saw her. We’re close again, just like we were back in college, which is also really nice.
She knows full well about my little (big) crush on Colt. I didn’t even have to tell her, she just burst into my trailer one day a couple months ago, accusing me by exclaiming “You like Colt!”
She’s lucky I love her so much, because otherwise her incessant teasing and blatant attempts at setting us up would be just a little annoying.
Today I was on set, watching Colt get thrown around while being on fire. I couldn’t help the way my heart tossed and turned with worry while watching him do his stunts- yes, he’s a professional but that doesn’t mean these crazy stunts scare me any less. He teases me about my worrying, but I can see the way that sometimes the thumbs up he’ll send the director’s way isn’t genuine.
By the fifth take on this stunt I could tell he was beginning to grow weary. Thankfully the stunt coordinator takes mercy on him and tells him to take five after the crew extinguishes him.
He gets up and looks around before setting his eyes on me. My face grows warm as I watched his face light up when he recognized me.
“Heya stud,” I say by way of greeting when he approached me. “How you feeling?”
“Never better,” he responds with a trademark thumbs up.
“You know that that’s still cheesy, right?” I ask. He gives me the thumbs up pretty much anytime I ask him how he’s feeling, and I tease him about it every time.
“Yeah, but you love it,” he shrugs playfully. I swear, he purposely lowers his voice sometimes. Not that I’m complaining, it’s definitely not unattractive…
“Maybe a little,” I concede with a small smile. “Anyway, I brought you some brownies for lunch,” I said, taking a brown paper bag out of my satchel. “They’re from that bakery we tried a couple weeks ago.”
“Aww, [nickname], you shouldn’t have!”
“Oh don’t you worry about me, I ate like three for breakfast,” I say sheepishly. They really are that good, the baker must be putting crack in them with how addictive they are.
“So you’re telling me I can’t offer to split one with you on the beach?” he asks, bringing out the puppy eyes- at least, more so than usual given that he always has puppy eyes.
“Now how can I say no to that offer?”
“You can’t,” he says with a cheeky smile as he starts walking back to set, noticing the stunt coordinator waving him over.
I wave goodbye to him, and then sneak over to the directors chair to say hi to Jody.
“Aw, look at this blush!” she greets when I meet her, pinching my cheeks. “A certain stuntman got your panties in a twist?”
“Why do I subject myself to you?” I groan.
“Because you love me.” She’s not wrong.
“How’s the scene coming along?”
“Perfectly, I’m just torturing your boyfriend until he agrees to go to karaoke with the rest of us tonight. I think he’s still embarrassed from last time,” she laughs.
Last time he drunkenly sang that Love Story song by Taylor swift and was straight up bawling midway. Everyone laughed and has a recording of it, and holds it over his head.
“You’re pure evil, Jody Moreno, and I very much aspire to be you,” I say, watching Colt get flung into the rock again.
“It’s an art, what can I say,” she shrugs, before grabbing her megaphone.
“Oi, stuntman!” Colt sends over a thumbs up before she can continue her sentence. “I feel like we can salvage that last take…” she smirks.
He groans, out loud. And even from like 25 feet away, I can hear it. And I don’t like how hot I find it.
“All I need is a double thumbs up,” she chides. The rest of the crew is also turned his way, with a lot of snickering coming from our little peanut gallery.
He meets my gaze and I mouth “please” with as much puppy eyes as I can, hoping that he can read my face from where he’s at. He scowls in a comical way, closes his eyes, face dramatically tilted toward the sky before finally looking back at us- at me- with two thumbs up.
“Perfect, that’s a wrap!” Jody exclaims, cackling maniacally after she’s turned off the megaphone. “See you at nine, Seavers!”
He gives a little sarcastic wave, but a smile takes over his face as he meets my gaze again, and I can’t help the way my heart skips a beat when I send a coy wave his way.
***
Colt’s POV
You know that feeling, when your heart starts pumping and you start smiling all stupid, when you’re telling yourself that you’re a dipshit but it’s because she’s just too perfect?
Yeah. That’s y/n to me. Anytime I’m near her I have to remind myself to breathe. It’s like the movies, like some sort of rom com that she loves so much, except better. So much better, if you ask me.
Honestly, I’ve had a crush on her since the beginning. Man, I just used the word crush. For some reason I can hear that dipshit Tom Ryder’s asshole voice in my head, calling me a “pussy bitch”- a personal favorite “original” term of his- for using the word. But I don’t care, because how else do you describe… butterflies.
You know what it is? It feels like a Taylor Swift song. Like a Love Story, if you will. And baby, I just want her to say yes.
I think I need help.
I still remember how flustered she got when I accidentally scared her when I met her that first day.
We had both been running late, me more so than her due to coffee(s- yes, plural) related reasons- it’s an affinity, not an addiction.
I had went to say hi while she was in the middle of doing her own makeup, I think she got bored waiting for me, and she jumped like six inches, and accidentally dragged her makeup brush down the side of her face.
I felt so bad, the look was gorgeous, very northern lights- esque with greens and blues and purples- but at the same time, I was too stunned to speak. Y/n is gorgeous, as it turns out, with or without makeup, and even with a steak of yellow going down her face that would make anyone else look like they had a jaundiced scar.
Thankfully, I still don’t think she noticed my dumbfounded disposition as she ran to the sink.
But the thing is, she’s not just drop dead gorgeous. She’s also the sweetest, cutest woman in the entire world. Her sense of humor- the self deprecations, the sarcasm which perfectly matches mine… how flustered she gets when I’m driving her around, the way she gets cold and smuggles into my side when we sit in the trunk after a night swim, shivering but still trying to talk with her teeth chattering. The way her hand’s so small compared to mine… you get it.
Also, the fact that she doesn’t make fun of me for being a Swiftie.
At least not as much as the others do.
Which frankly, isn’t saying much, now that I think about it.
Anyhow, even after being thrown against a rock four times I’m still not ready to wave the white flag at Jody. I told myself I would never step foot in the karaoke bar again, not after last time…
Sorry, I just got war flashbacks.
<Author’s Note: these war flashbacks sound a lot like Love Story by Taylor Swift>
But then of course, she just had to be on set. She’s got me wrapped around her little fingers, bringing me brownies and calling me a stud. The last straw was the puppy dog eyes from across the set- I have no idea how she hasn’t figured out the effect she has on me. Or maybe she has, and is just an evil genius. I don’t really know.
Not that I need to know, because if the words “Swan dive off of a bridge” fell from her perfect lips I’d probably do it.
Looks like I’m going back to karaoke…
***
Reader’s POV
“Come on, y/n! We’re gonna be late!” Jody yells as she raps her knuckles on the door of my trailer.
“I’m not coming out! I look ridiculous!” I yell back. I had let her pick out my outfit, and she picked out a short black romper with a tight bodice and flowers printed on it. I don’t think it suits me very well, and I’m seconds away from wearing a t-shirt and jeans. I don’t feel like doing my makeup, so that’s one less thing to worry about, at least.
Wait, why is it so quiet now? Where did she go?
“Y/n, this is your last chance,” she warns, apparently having took a quick break from peer pressuring me into coming outside.
“I’m. Not. Coming. Out.”
“Fine,” and for some reason, I can hear the smile in her voice. That’s never good.
“Y/n?” a new, softer, lower, more gravelly voice comes from outside my cabin. For fuck’s sake.
“Colt?” I ask, rubbing my temple.
“Yeah. Can you please let me in?” he asks so sweetly, it would be impossible to say no.
I mentally punch myself before unlocking the door to my trailer, and of course, to no one’s surprise, he looks perfect. Jody must’ve scampered off, because now it’s just me and him. He’s wearing a white tank top underneath a completely unbuttoned black short sleeved button down, black slacks and white shoes. His usual necklace, the gold chain with the small medallion, accompanies the look. His hair is tousled, and I don’t even think I have to mention how pretty his face is- that part’s a given.
“I, um, you-,” he stutters, and then stops to compose himself. “You look beautiful.”
My breath hitches in my throat. The thing about Colt is that if his words aren’t sarcastic- and you can tell when they are- they’re so, so genuine. And he just called me beautiful.
“I- thanks- so do you-“
Did I really just say so do you? By the smile creeping on his face I think I did.
“I’m sorry, I’m being awkward,” I say with an awkward laugh, proving my point. “But you look really handsome.”
“Aw shucks,” he says, his words slightly sarcastic but the blush on his face very real. “Now cmon, we don’t want to be late?”
“But this romper looks so stupid,” I say, drawing out the last word. And you look so stupidly attractive, I think. What if I just kiss him? What’s stopping me from telling him how I feel about him?
“Permission to touch you?” he asks, ignoring my comment.
To… touch me? Fuck, I’ve read far too many romance books. His stupid voice can turn anything into a double entendre, I swear it.
He raises a brow when I don’t answer.
“Uh, sure?” I don’t really know what he’s up to.
“Great,” he smirks, and before I can realize what he’s done he has me slung over his shoulder, like I weigh nothing more than a sack of potatoes. He shuts my trailer behind him as I hit his back, telling me to let me down, but the bastard just starts humming “Livin’ On A Prayer,” by Bon Jovi.
“Asshole! Put me down!” I yelp, but he just holds me steady by my legs as I flail behind him. Curse his actually useful muscles.
Finally, he sets me down in front of his truck, reaching out to steady me. My hands fall on his chest. His very well defined chest. Which perfectly matched his very well defined back.
Colt’s POV
My hand is on her hip, I tried to steady her. But shit. I wish I could just squeeze it, maybe while I’m…
Puppies dying at the end of a movie, Colt. Dead puppies.
We stay there a moment, in front of my truck. Everything in me wants to just tell her how I feel and press her into that truck with kisses that tell her I’m never letting her go. But now doesn’t feel like the right time. But when is? Why wasn’t it at her trailer?
And I just had her over my shoulder too…
Alright, come on, dipshit. Get it together.
But of course, her small hands are on my chest…
Focus.
“You’ve got two options,” I tell her, removing my hand from her hip and holding up a two to make a point. “We go to karaoke and I drive, or we go to karaoke and you drive.”
I can’t let her not go. She loves karaoke, and she looks beautiful regardless of the lies she tells herself.
“Do we have to go? We could just stay home and watch a movie?” she diverts. A smile is playing at her lips though, so at least I know she’s not uncomfortable.
“Tell you what. You can drive,” I start, which is a great start because she hates when I drive and use my stunt skills. To be fair I just do them to show off and get her to slide into me on the long bench. It’s fun, sue me. “We’ll go, and if you still don’t want to be there after my song, then we’re going to come straight back here, get under some blankets and watch She’s All That.”
She’s All That is her favorite movie, in part due to the main plot but I also think she identifies with Freddy Prince Jr’s sister in the movie. She’s a sarcastic makeup/hair artist in the movie, and who do I know that sounds like that? Yeah, exactly.
“I don’t like how well you know me,” she says, biting into her lip as she pretends to mull over what I suggested.
“You’re right, you love how well I know you.”
“Okay, fine,” she says, fully smiling now. “You were serious about me driving?”
“As a heart attack,” I tell her.
‘YES!’ I’m shouting in my head, because I nailed it! Getting a smile like that out of her is the best prize you could ever get, I swear it.
I think the only thing that could be better is knowing that she’s mine.
But that’ll come, eventually.
***
Reader’s POV
Ten minutes later we’re at karaoke. I truly cannot with Colt Seavers, the only person who could make me feel pretty in this stupid ass romper.
He spent the car ride talking to me about his day, which was adorable, the way his nose scrunches up when he remembers something funny, and intermittently singing along to the song on the radio. I love when he lets me drive his truck, I feel like I can taken care of him for a minute and just listen to him. Oh, and I also don’t feel like I’m seconds away from dying because unlike him I don’t stunt drive. Although, I will say, I don’t mind when he does those stupid circles because it always presses me up against his side, which is never a bad place to be.
Right now Gale, the producer who always seems to be drinking a Diet Coke, is singing Toxic by Britney Spears. She has an incredible voice, and the entire bar is rightfully captivated by her stage presence.
“Hey! You made it!” Jody says, walking over to Colt and I. We’re sitting in a booth, on the same side, both slack jawed watching Gale.
“No thanks to you,” I say with an innocent smile.
“If you say so,” she smirks. “Thanks for getting her out of the trailer,” she tells Colt.
“My pleasure,” he says charmingly, squeezing my arm.
“Alright, I’ll leave you two lovebirds to it. Phil Collins is calling!” she dashes off to the stage as Gale is almost done with her song. She must be cued next.
“I see what you did there!” Colt comments after her. Collins and “calling” sound similar with her British accent. I must be blushing-the whole “lovebirds” thing-, because he looks over at me, amused, saying “What? Do I have something on my face?”
I go to answer, but all of a sudden Jody is singing “You’ll Be In My Heart” by Phil Collins, and I immediately pull out my phone to video. Jody has an incredible voice as well, and I love listening to her sing.
Once she’s done, she runs over with Sheila in tow, who must’ve just got here. They lift me up out of the booth- I’m starting to get sick of being man handled- and push me towards the stage against my protests. Colt is laughing- jackass- but all of a sudden “Any Way You Want It” by Journey is playing and I’m singing.
Now, I have a mediocre voice, but the thing about karaoke is that you could sound like a rabid raccoon, but if you have a song that everyone knows, you’re the shit. And also, I don’t really care what anyone thinks of me, so I just went for it.
So naturally, I was the shit. Everyone was singing along, and I couldn’t stop looking back at Colt, who was smiling so big as he sung along. He’s so, so cute. Finally the song was over, and I gave a dramatic bow. Colt met me by the stage, holding a hand for me to grab as I jumped down.
“You were incredible,” he compliments sweetly.
“Thanks,” I say, looking up at him, my hand still in his. His touch is electric, I can feel his heartbeat. His lips are ever so slightly parted, and I’m sure mine are the same… if he would just lean down-
“Is there a Colt “See-aye-vers” in the house?” the emcee asks into the microphone, completely mispronouncing Colt’s last name.
“Fucking Jody,” he mutters. We both turn to see Jody literally cackling by Sheila.
“Your turn!” I say gleefully, pointing at him so the emcee can see him.
“Mean,” he pouts jokingly, before going up on the stage and taking the mic from the emcee as I Was Made For Lovin’ You by Kiss begins to play.
And he’s staring right at me as he sings it.
Well shit.
That’s the thing- apparently all of my coworkers are extremely talented singers. Maybe it was a requirement? Who knows.
Colt is no different.
And the thing is, I’m severely attracted to his voice. The gravelly, yet low and softness of it. I love listening to him talk. Like, he could read the nutrition label of a soup can and I would be completely locked in.
His singing voice? A whole other story. Between the rasp and the range, I could literally lose it right here and now. He sounds incredible.
And he’s looking right at me as sings about being made for lovin’ someone and about that someone being made for lovin’ him.
And I don’t want to assume, but by the way he’s looking at me…
I think that someone is me.
Colt’s POV
Kiss?! Are you shitting me?! That’s the song Jody picks for me?
I should’ve kissed y/n right then and there, I’m thinking as I head up to the stage.
And then there it is. A Kiss song. Not just any kiss song, the Kiss song.
I can work with this.
At this point, I don’t think I can handle her not knowing how I feel anymore. Not knowing if she feels the same way. Fuck “eventually.”
So you know what? I’m going to do my grand romantic act, just like in the movies. And I’m going to sing this damn song, to her.
And if she still doesn’t notice, I’m going to go down there and kiss her until we can’t think straight. Asking permission to before, of course. I’m not a jackass like Ryder.
So I sing the damn song, and my eyes are on only one, singular person. My one, singular person.
And she’s mouthing the words right back to me, her gaze never leaving mine.
I don’t even hear the applause as I jump down the stage, Tom Cruise style, landing right in front of her. “Hey,” I say, trying to sound cool.
Naturally, my voice comes out as a squeak instead.
She doesn’t say anything, just takes a step closer.
“I, um…”
Of course now is the time I decide to choke on my words. Not when I’m singing in front of thirty people, literally never before. But now. Damn it, Seavers. See-aye-vers. Fucking adhd. Shit. Wait.
“Colt?” she says, her voice only loud enough for me to hear. I’m all too aware of the beginning of “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” behind me.
“Yeah?” I whisper. Looking down at her.
“Kiss me?” she asks, and it’s the last straw. My lips crash against hers before I even realize what I’m doing, and it feels like fireworks. Like the whole world could end but it would be fine because her lips are against mine.
***
Reader’s POV
This isn’t happening. There’s no way this happening.
Those are the only thoughts running through my head as I look at him. That song… it was electric. Coming from his voice, as he stared into my soul? I can barely think.
I don’t notice anything, nor anyone. Nothing at all, except for him.
So when he jumps down from the stage in stuntman fashion, looking me in the eyes up close… I can’t help it. I can’t wait any longer.
And now his lips are on mine, as Jody sings more Phil Collins, but I don’t even hear it.
I’m sure we’re going to get teased for it, but I can’t help it.
Not when the only thing I can sense is his soft lips on mine.
So when we finally release, there’s no question about what’s going to happen next.
“Colt..?” I breathe.
“Yeah?” he asks, parted lips already puffy and pink from our kiss. Gorgeous.
“Can we go outside?”
He doesn’t even answer, just grabs my hand and starts walking to the door. Thankfully we didn’t buy any drinks, and have no tabs to settle, because quite honestly I don’t think we’d have cared.
Finally, we stop in front of his truck. I’m smiling like an idiot, and he’s smiling right back.
“Colt, I really, really like you,” I tell him.
“Y/n, I really, really like you too,” he says.
And that’s all that needs to be said as he crowds me against the truck before pressing a kiss to my lips that leaves me giggling.
“What’s so funny?” he teases.
“Everything,” I tell him, before threading my fingers through his hair. He shakes his head bemusedly before kissing me again.
I couldn’t ask for anything more, anything more at all. Because in the words of his favorite song, this is a Love Story and baby, I will always say yes.
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