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[romanscool]

Im curious on your take for Maxiel with kiss prompt 47!

#47: a kiss because time's run out - maxiel

hi anon! thanks so very much for this prompt, this has made my need for writing angst less intense, so I hope this little thing is what you had in mind!

enjoy,,,

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« I’m leaving, Max. » 

Daniel says it, slow and hesitant, but also so, so happy, somehow. And fuck, Max was expecting it. He has been. Since the beginning of the season, since the words ‘my contract is out at the end of year’ left Daniel’s mouth. He’s been expecting it as Daniel invited Max more to his flat to play FIFA even though he hates it, and even more when sometimes Daniel would intentionally change players ‘accidentally’ and lose at the game. When he’d kick the ball too far off the left and into the public. 

Max has been expecting it since the season started. 

He hadn’t known if Daniel was stupid enough to actually do it, but. Apparently he is.

The room is all purple around them. It’s shining a soft glow on Daniel’s face. Cold. Daniel shifts from his left foot to the right, wiggling his ankle in the same nervous motions he always does when something is out of his control. Before races, important meeting, calls with a sponsor. Before he tells Max he’s going to leave him, too, now. Max will have to know Daniel is as anxious to announce that he’s leaving Max than he is starting from pole at Monaco. He’ll have to live with that and keep on living like it’s not pulling at his heart. « I’m going to Renault. »

« What? » is the only thong that Max can blurt out because it’s really the only thing he can think right now. This and that Daniel is in fact, very, very, very stupid. Stupidly stupid, one might say. « What the f-, »

« They’re giving me a shit ton of money Max, » Daniel adds, hands flying in front of him, « like, a shit ton. Enough to drive a man crazy. » 

And Daniel kind of looks crazy, at least to Max, eyes big, big, big and as round as the beads that made a bracelet Max had once given to his mother for a holiday he doesn’t remember now, big, round, and glossy. Dark brown with a side of fucking stupid.

« That is not very smart, Daniel. » Max is trying to sound very calm, he’s trying not to pour everything he’s been wanting to pour since he first saw Daniel’s finger twitch on the controller and the animated guy on the TV throw the ball way outside the cages, « Renault is not a very smart move, Daniel. » Daniel, Daniel, Daniel. Why are you doing this, Daniel? Why are you being so very stupid Daniel? 

Do you really think so very little of me, Daniel?

Daniel frowns. He still has that mad-man smile hanging on his lips, so very plastered it almost looks fake. It certainly does to Max, but he’s never been good at reading people. His feeling get in the way too often. « No, no they’ve got that-, they’ve got good plans. For like, the near future. Damn it, Max-, » Daniel is walking closer now, so close Max could touch him if he wanted to. Max wants to, but he doesn’t. « they could be competitive in a few years. Like, they have a good chance at winning the championship if they keep up the promises. »

Ah, promises. 

Max remembers those. The one Daniel had told him on a random Tuesday night after he’d kissed Max for the first time. The one that said nothing could ever get in the way of them. Max should have seen it, then, too, the twitch in Daniel’s hand that hinted a lie. The same one that has his little player do stupid shit on the screen. Max has this weird thought that Daniel has been replaced with that little player and that it isn’t really Daniel in front of him. That it’s just a stupid football player from a stupid football team no one except Daniel likes. Daniel always seems to like the losers.

It seems that hasn’t changed. 

Everything else has thought. Promises have been broken. At least one. « You really believe that? » Max asks, and also expects the answer when Daniel gives him a-

« Yeah, Max, I do. I really fucking do. » 

Max thinks for a moment that it is easier to believe promises like these with a really big check to back them up. But, really, he doesn’t get a say on this. He’s got the same kind of check on his own contract. Daniel probably has one similar, one with the navy blue and red logo on the top instead of a stupid looking bee-like diamond. The one that he chose not to sign. 

It feels a bit like an ending. Daniel is smiling. Max is not. He’s trying to find the smallest hint of fucking joke in Daniel’s eyes, and usually it’s there, but now it’s not, Daniel is deadly serious, and so, so very stupid, but. He’s made a decision. He’s leaving Max and Max can’t do shit about it. He’s going to have to live with that ankle wiggle and that deep, deep hatred for late FIFA nights that involve finger twitches and kisses that are made under promises, he’s going to have to live with that, and eat out of a cereal bowl Daniel has eaten in, and sleep in a bed he and Daniel have had sex in, one in which they have sweat and slept, one in which no three words have ever been said. The ones that couldn’t be out in the open except when whispered in between two clammy and panty exhausted breath. 

Because this is the end. Max knows it. Daniel probably does too, and yet he’s still smiling. « Good, then. » Max says, even though none of this is good, and he doesn’t want to know what’s going to happen, but he’s pretty sure it’s going to involve his voice cracking and his eyes letting tears out, so he accidentally brushes Daniel’s waist as he brings his hand up to his face, and Daniel giggles, probably ticklish, and Max kisses him. This is most likely the last time he’s going to be able to do that. Because time’s run out.

Their time has run out. Daniel is leaving. He’s leaving, and Max is heaving, and he takes Daniel’s hand in his other one and leads them to his badly lit bedroom just to make time stretch a little longer. 

don't hesitate to ask for more (kiss or non kiss related) prompts!! I welcome them with very open arms <3

[crafteeauthor]

Lockpicking youtuber Charles au when

[yumemiyas-wips]

Isn't it weird that America's enemies always seem to associate with the colour red?

The British were Redshirts. The natives (Let's be real, the US absolutely regarded the native people as enemies) were Redskins, the Confederates flew red flags, the Nazis have red flags and armbands, the Communist nations also have red flags, and now the Republikkklans also uses red as their colour.

Absolutely uncanny. At least we've been consistent in crushing them (Whether it's a good thing or not.) Hope we beat this one too.

[obakanosandoitchi]

1/2-09-2023

studying on the road got me fckd up 😮‍💨

[out-of-heaven-and-hell]

The thing with Vaggies mom though is upon meeting any of the baby daddies would make a stern request they marry her daughter quickly

She can accept the gay romance and her daughter being in hell but unwed parents? Too far.

[boyinthevoide]

Chara was from the 2010s therefore they could have experienced Vines.

[whorewideweb]

tomgregs winning is the true tragedy we were all set up against from the beggining, the worse win, a win-loss maybe?

[heartc0ffin]

Self care is blocking someone bc they called ur f/o a theatre kid. Take care of yourself out there ❤

[vivaciousoceans]

The girl so confusing remix did make me tear up, bc that’s feminism guys 🥲

[xanticore]

you know i would LOOOVE to read some billy fanfic bc dacre is so fucking hot but billy would literally spit on my face and tell me to fuck off....( i think it's self explanatory) hsjsjdn

[vraska-theunseen]

DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO WHATEVER UOU WANT WHEN YOURW MAKING ART ISNT THAT WILD

[fanaticalthings]

important family group chat discussions

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[crafteeauthor]

Hey does anyone have any Meeting People recommendations for people just getting into the Having Friends scene?

[ninjasmudge]

thats a red flag narinder, get that crown back while you still can

+ top panel without text below the cut

[prettysweetprettysweet]

eric bogosian seems like the kind of guy that experimented with gay sex back in the day and regrettably unfortunately found himself to be heterosexual and it was one of the biggest disappointments of his life but now he's been given the opportunity to live out his gay dream in a way and he is clearly so stoked to be playing a homo character on the gay vampire show and whenever he does a press junket with jacob assad and sam he's giving vibes of proud pflag dad with his three rainbow kids..actually maybe not kids because one of them is desperate to lick the back of his throat, and with the other two he is clearly convinced they are in love with each other, something which he has tried to allude to in, and this is not a joke or exaggeration, the majority of the group interviews he has participated in

[out-of-heaven-and-hell]

Will kink shame you for everything cause all kinks are equally disgusting to her <3