#elimetri

[demetriandelibinaryboyfriends]

S2 Hawk when he dumps his boyfriend ends a lifelong friendship over a Yelp review

[emloafs]

a binary boyfriends au where the house fight on December 19th never happened, demetri and eli never make up in high school, and the universe keeps pushing them back together (Boston college au)

aka I wanna gage if anyone would read this fic..... (it's already almost entirely written)

Demetri is having a shitty morning, so he can’t catch a break. 

Maybe he was moving too fast. Maybe he was in a rush to get back to his apartment and finally attempt the other nine pages of the ten-page essay he should’ve already finished. Maybe the whole thing could be blamed on his long limbs or his natural clumsiness, but Demetri is fully convinced that this guy ran into him. Not the other way around. 

And there goes his second coffee of the day–all over his sneakers, the cafe floor, and the guy who shoulder-checked him at full force. 

“Shit!”

“C’mon, man!” the guy barks at the same time. 

The guy has the hood of his green sweatshirt pulled up over his head, likely doing very little against the weather outside. He’s got wired earbuds in–like all pretentious douchebags do–and Demetri bitterly thinks he must have his music too loud to be aware of his surroundings, hence the collision. His worn utility jacket may have saved the hoodie from the spill but it looks completely ruined now.

Arguably, Demetri is much better off, notably not covered in hot coffee. But, this is his second spilled coffee in a single morning, and the universe is out to get him, so this guy isn't going to hear the end of it.

“You ran into me!” Demetri protests, fuming. 

The guy flicks both his arms a few times, trying to wring out any dripping coffee from his coat sleeves.

Demetri’s never been good at biting his tongue and right now he’s too pissed to hold back. “Maybe if you were actually paying attention to the world around you, and not just plowing in here without a care for other customers or your surroundings, you wouldn’t have ran me over! You know, that’s my second spilled coffee today. I have half a mind to demand you get me a new one-”

The guy finally looks up seemingly to find who is responsible for dumping a medium-sized hot latte all over him. His face is half covered by his hoodie and Demetri can only see an intense side-eye of annoyance as a response to his lecture on the important or personal space. Then, he straightens quickly and narrows his eyes, leaning slightly in to the limited space occupied by a puddle of cooling steamed milk and espresso between them.

“And truly it’s blatantly a matter of safety–”

They lock eye contact and the guy’s eyes widen comically and his eyebrows shoot up so high they disappear above the overhang of his hood.

His voice cracks a little as he interrupts Demetri’s rambling.

“Dem?”

Demetri’s words die halfway through his sentence. Does he know this guy?

The stranger shakes his head roughly and clears his throat. “Sorry, it's just- I…” He looks Demetri up and down and narrows his eyes again. “Is your name Demetri?”

And that's… odd. Demetri inspects the guy’s face as best he can under the sweatshirt hood. He seems sort of familiar, but Demetri can't place it. 

Demetri shifts from one foot to the other, suddenly unsure of how to hold his weight under this guy’s intense gaze. “Um. Yes?”

“Oh my- holy shit!” The guy lets out a laugh of disbelief and pulls out his earbuds, letting them hang out of the top of his hoodie. “This is crazy.” 

He roughly shoves his hood off of his head, and Demetri’s heart drops into the bottom of his stomach. 

He rakes his hand through a thick mop of shaggy light brown hair. Hiding under the hood was a pair of startling blue eyes that Demetri really should’ve recognized. As the not-so-stranger pats the hoodie down behind his neck, Demetri has a clear picture of his entire face. And just before Demetri can come up with a plausible theory on doplegängers, his eyes land on the faint scar rippling from the guy’s upper lip to his nose.

There's just no goddamn way.

So, since Demetri really can’t catch a break this morning, his childhood best friend, Eli Moskowitz, is standing in front of him, covered in his second latte of the morning. 

And Demetri wants to say fuck off or what are you doing here or get out of my city or honestly just walk away, but he’s rendered completely frozen. Demetri feels a little like a cartoon character when their jaw completely unhinges and hits the floor with a comical clang. He’s left buffering like a YouTube video being played with a shitty wifi connection.

He hasn’t seen Eli since high school. Hasn’t talked to him in even longer. It’s probably been four years since they last spoke. Not that Demetri is counting. What the hell is he doing in Boston? What the hell is he doing this close to MIT? Just… what the hell?

Eli’s excited expression falters when Demetri doesn’t respond. He scratches the back of his neck sheepishly. 

“It’s uh- It’s Eli. Moskowitz?”

Demetri notes first that he introduces himself as Eli, not that ridiculous nickname he coined in school.

He says it as if Demetri doesn’t know. He says it as if Demetri wouldn’t recognize him faster than the back of his own hand even all these years later. His hair is long, too long. It’s curling over his ears and nearly touching his shoulders, and Demetri is pissed because it still looks good. He looks older, he looks better, and all Demetri can see is the tiny Eli he met in first grade who was missing both his front teeth. 

Demetri doesn’t know what to make of any of it. This feels like some cosmic joke. 

“Uh, no, yeah. Yeah. What- What are you doing here?” Demetri finally manages. His voice sounds a little strangled, but the question comes out bluntly and a bit harsh. 

“Uh,” Eli starts, glancing around, and letting out a confused laugh. He raises an eyebrow and shoves his hands in his pockets, gesturing with his coat around the cafe. “Getting coffee? What are you doing here?” he teases.

Demetri really doesn’t have time for this. He rolls his eyes. “Not here. What are you doing in Boston?” he demands. 

Eli’s playful expression falls. He furrows his eyebrows. “I live here.”

And that’s- that can’t be right. Demetri lives here. Demetri just started his second semester of his junior year at MIT a month ago. He certainly would’ve noticed if Eli Moskowitz lived in Boston. Right?

“You live… in Boston?”

“Yeah,” Eli shrugs, looking much too nonchalant for Demetri’s liking. “I go to BU.” He cocks his head slightly to the side and earnestly says, “I thought you knew that.” 

Demetri did not know that. That’s the thing about no contact. Demetri’s had Eli blocked in all forms of communication since their junior of high school. It’s sort of hard to keep tabs on someone when they’re pretty strictly out-of-sight, out-of-mind. 

[bunnybonesstudio]

Cobra Kai Fact #2703

Johnny and the kids all begged Daniel to go to the Erotic Museum in Barcelona for the ENTIRE trip and did not stop until he finally gave in.

Everyone had a fantastic time.

Daniel did not.

[cringefailkralie]

always fucking LOOKING at him you need to stop this nonsense bro

[demetriandelibinaryboyfriends]

Yo, I have a couple!!!

This one's an AU where Hawk never defects from Cobra Kai at the end of S3, and it does in fact make Demetri snap. Also full stop what I believe would have happened in that timeline. Possibly the most fucked up thing I've written for this fandom and I couldn't be more proud. And Chapter 2 is still coming! Eventually!

If you can stomach werewolf stuff and werewolf-related body horror, this is something I'm working on where Demetri's dealing with his S6 Eli and MIT-related spiraling in Barcelona ON TOP OF lycanthropy XD Basically Petty Bitchy Vindictive S6 Demetri dialed up to 100, and also with some murderous urges where we don't know if it's a werewolf thing or if his repressed anger/trauma is just THAT bad 👀👀👀 Eventual happy ending planned, but not before Demetri gets to be a terror!

Are there any like demetri like angst/idk darkside fics??? LIKE I NEED THEM I NEED TO SEE MY BOY SNAP

[greatconsuminglove]

[whitechocolateanti]

have you ever drawn eli and demetri? i would pass away and die for the chance to see them in your style

binary baddies ft. hawk with that one tiktok male manipulator fit

[binary-bfs]

I can’t do this anymore I already miss them😭

[rooolt]

if the writers truly aren’t going to let Eli and Demetri kiss on the mouth, somebody NEEDS to tell Jacob and Gianni because I truly don’t think they know

[gaydramedy]

they're kinda like if those two gays from be more chill could fight

[emotional-moss]

do yall think about how hawk doesn’t look at anyone else like that. he looks at his friends affectionately and lightheartedly. he smiles at them. but he doesn’t look at anyone the way he looks at demetri. he never even looked at moon like that. he always looks at demetri with these big fucking eyes and half smile like that boy hung the STARS !! and even when hawk was a cobra kai asshole he never looked at demetri the way he looked at any of his other enemies. he always looked like vaguely uncomfortable or regretful like he was holding back his real expression. literally every time he looks at demetri it’s like a love confession with his eyes ugh they make me sick

[multifandom-lesbian09]

If I had a nickel for every time the actors shipped one of the most popular ships in their fandom, I’d have a shit ton of nickels, which isn’t weird, it just shows that the writers really do just need to give us what we want

[emloafs]

i really just think cobra kai would be a more interesting show if eli and demetri got together at the last all-valley tournament

like up the tension of them becoming friends again in s4 and navigating that their feelings are actually MORE than friendship

like hawk going to miyagi do to fight after his head is shaved for demetri would be so much sweeter if it was also charged with eli's feelings for demetri

imagine it's demetri who kisses Eli to get him his confidence back right before his fight

the entirety of season 5 is charged with "established relationship" vibes from the two of them

and them both helping miguel with his love life would still make sense but suddenly their reference for relationship advice is each other (and they're entirely dysfunctional so it makes sense why their advice ends up sucking)

season 6 divorce arc would be even more painful with demetri thinking that eli not applying to MIT means he's dumping him....

...and eli being like "no dipshit i want to explore other options" "oh other OPTIONS? like date other PEOPLE?" "demetri no-"

and like just add another relationship crisis to the list with the sekai taikai that's pretty much what had everyone else off their game.....

and then the locker room apology would've obviously ended in a kiss

(bonus points if no one knows they're dating - they're not hiding it, everyone just thinks they're Like That)

[deluludarcy]

binary boyfriends season 6 anthem?

[justanxioustrash]

[cringefailkralie]

“can’t believe they had demetri beat hawk” that’s probably because their fight was predominantly verbal and demetri solos anyone in a bitching and moaning and arguing and complaining competition