#otp: you're my tether

[annemarieyeretzian]

beau hollering “babe, sex!” at yasha from their room,,, (bonus: imogen asking “is that all they got to do? just ‘babe, sex, babe, sex?’” and fjord answering “I mean, yes, that’s usually all it takes.” and laudna saying “I like a little bit more, like a gentler approach.” and imogen agreeing “yeah, I don’t think that works for us.” and laudna laughing “could you imagine me, ‘babe, sex!’” and imogen laughing and then asking “so anyway, you want to?” and laudna saying “yeah, 100%.” 😂)

[terapsina]

I second Hizzie. But may I also nominate?...

[nikkiruncks]

big three + being playful

[raayllum]

me rolling in with my TDP 'stoic' big hearted warrior and goofy sometimes temperamental mage otp like "oh, you want only one bed trope? got it. stargazing together? uh there's multiple scenes, which one? artist drawing his gf? giving her his scarf and weaving her jewelry? yeah, got that too. lovingly watching each other sleep? that's happened like four times. her pulling him in by the scarf? yeah that was just three seasons in. uhh everyone ships it, even the villains who use them against each other? got a punch and battle couple vibes watching each other's backs. your best friend/lover being your core tether to the world, love confessions/affirmations when you think you're about to die, and then even when you're not? him doing everything he can to ensure she gets her family back when she struggles to do things for herself. her doing everything she can to keep him safe, from using her badassery to her big heart. running to each other for reunion hugs and kisses. devotion to the point of destroying yourself and others? 'it was always you'? mmhm yeah. enemies to friends to lovers who are then forced to be enemies again because of possession and getting through to each other? 11+ kisses? yeah. forehead touches too. do you want anything else while i'm out?"

[jamesunderwater]

CHARLES

james potter for the character list thingy 🫶🏼 love you

@deermessrs CELIA, you sent me this ask SIX MONTHS AGO, but I never forgot it and wanted to go back and finish the answer I'd half-written back then... if you still care to read it, here it is!! 😅

Favorite Thing About Them: I just love this boy who (albeit imperfectly) used his privilege for good - to give to others the love he was so freely given, to defend those more vulnerable than him, to actually risk his life to fight for the people he loved. And yes he saw the world in black and white, yes he had a savior complex, yes he was full of himself. But he's just. He's the kid in elementary school who makes handmade valentine's for the whole class, who is SO friendly to and defensive of the nerdy kid that he doesn’t realize he's actually embarrassing them. He is literally reckless with his own heart. And I just wanna hug him about it.

Least Favorite Thing About Them: Not to be a total simp, but I don't know that there's anything I don't like about him...

Favorite Line: In DH, when Harry asks, "will you stay with me?" And he says, "Until the very end." (I may or may not have the words tattooed on my body.)

BROTP: Sirius Black, his canonical soulmate, imo. The two of them are the definition of "you complete me" and "I found my other half." They love each other so much I think that even when it isn't romantic it is still bigger than any romantic love either of them have. It's obviously close to how deeply James loves Lily, but I think there is a tether between James and Sirius that neither of them have with anyone else.

OTP: Lily Evans, if that wasn't obvious xD They're just…I've shipped them since I was 12, before I knew what shipping was, yknow? They created my bby boy. Even though I ship both of them with other people in different contexts, I never see them ending up with anyone but each other.

NOTP: Snape. Who I only ship with a lifetime of cleaning out toilets.

Random Headcanon: He grew up with Marlene McKinnon. It was her brothers who taught him how to fly. They were each other's first kiss when they were like, 6, even though they never really liked each other that way. It was one of those things where you know each other as children but somehow it doesn't translate when you get older and find other friends - until they were in like 6th year and the war started feeling really real and it brought everyone closer. When he found out she and her whole family were killed, he went to a very dark place.

Unpopular Opinion: Er… I don't know if I have an unpopular opinion on him? It also depends on the part of fandom I'm talking to, lmao. The one thing I can think of is one I know some people share: that James wasn't that bent about The Prank. I think he was frustrated, but I don't think it put a rift between him and Sirius in any way.

Song I Associate With Them: Oh, 100% forever and always A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me by Fall Out Boy!!! "Cause you're just the girl all the boys wanna dance with, and I'm just the boy whose had too many chances… I'm sleeping on your folks' porch again dreaming, "she said, she said, she said, why don't you just drop dead?" // I don't blame you for being you, but you can't blame me for hating it. So say, "what are you waiting for? kiss her, kiss her." I set my clocks early 'cause I know I'm always late." LIKE, PLS.

favorite picture of them: I went through all the fanart I've reblogged and I think I'd have to say this one by @daiziesssart:

[princesssarisa]

Thackery Binx for character ask

Favorite thing about him: What a brave, loving brother he was to try to save his sister Emily from the witches, even if he did fail and end up transformed into a cat, and what a valuable, likable helper he is to the young protagonists in the main storyline. Also, his grief and guilt over Emily's death, and his own death when his immortality curse is broken in the end, adds some poignancy and heart to a mostly campy and silly Halloween movie.

Least favorite thing about him: Hmm... Maybe that as a human in the prologue, he insults Winifred's age and looks? Though of course I don't really blame him for that. I'm sure if I had a little sister who was murdered, I would hurl every possible insult at the killer, politically correct or not.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I'm devoted to my family.

*I can be rash, as he is in the prologue.

*I was born in New England (though I've lived in California since I was a toddler).

Three things I don't have in common with them:

*I've never been turned into an immortal cat.

*I wasn't born in the 17th century.

*I don't have a sister.

Favorite line:

The insult to Winifred that seals his fate:

"You hag! There are not enough children in the world to make thee young and beautiful!"

After he's run over by a bus and the humans think he's dead, but then he pops right back up:

 "I hate it when that happens."

After talking with Max about Emily's death:

"Take good care of Dani, Max. You'll never know how precious she is until you lose her."

When Dani promises to feed him milk and tuna fish every day:

"You're going to turn me into one of those fat, useless, contented house cats."

And the last line of the movie (not counting the credits), when he joins Emily in the afterlife and she asks him what took him so long:

"I'm sorry, Emily. I had to wait three hundred years for a virgin to light a candle."

brOTP: Emily, and later Max, Allison, and Dani, especially Dani.

OTP: None.

nOTP: Any of the Sandersons.

Random headcanon: Both as a human and as a cat, he prefers to go by "Binx" instead of "Thackery," because when he does try to use his first name, people are always mistakenly calling him "Zachary." Goodness knows, enough real people online seem to call him that! I imagine it's happened in-universe too.

Unpopular opinion: I think the reason why he dies in the end is because the Sandersons are more "truly dead" than they were when they were hanged. If Winifred hadn't cast the spell to let them be resurrected one day, Binx would have become human and mortal again as soon as they died. but the spell kept him alive because it tethered the Sandersons to the living world. Once they die again, this time with no way to bring them back (at least until the sequel), Binx's immortality curse is null and void. I know that some people prefer to think he's freed because the curse was for him to live forever "with his guilt" over failing to save Emily, and helping to save Dani from the witches relieves his guilt and lets him die. But that's not what his spirit says in the end: he says "The witches are dead," implying that their deaths are what set him free. If it feels slightly convoluted... well, all the rules about magic are a little convoluted in this movie.

Song I associate with them:

None.

Favorite picture of them:

As a cat:

And his spirit restored to human form in the end:

[mackmp3]

9th doctor

:DD thanks cath!!

how i feel about this character -

tbh i don't have quite as many super strong opinions on nine, i think cos we don't see him for quite as long, but i still really really like him hehe. he's often portrayed as the grumpy one which isn't exactly inaccurate but also i feel like he gets a bad rap for just not being as immediately likeable yknow? even though he does still laugh & joke around he's far less emotionally vulnerable & quick to get to 'you humans are all stupid', even in his first episode, although some of this is probably a self-defence, having literally just destroyed gallifrey which is, yknow, a massively traumatic thing to happen, & he hasn't had a companion for a bit, & in any case is just a bit more sarcastic than other regenerations. but also you know that feels deeply he just tries to cover it up. but also truly no one is doing it like the ninth doctor, some of the stuff he does (telling a dalek to kill itself) like ten wouldn't say that unless he was really at the end his tether yknow? but also the absolute joy at the end of the doctor dances!! 'every body lives rose! just this once everybody lives!!' and telling the kid 'pop music in 20 years you're gonna love it!' and his smile is so fun hehe he really does just :D & he has some really wonderful funny bits as well hehe. also he has THEE BEST leather jacket

all the people i ship romantically with this character -

imo all the nuwho doctors are some variation on aroace & i really Really don't see him in a romantic relationship with rose (or jack. though the would be a little bit fun hehe) but i feel like nine is the kind of person who, had he been allowed more time in that regeneration would slowly start to feel both romantic & sexual attraction. just that in the situation he's in, The Horrors are kind of more immediate things to deal with. like he just doesn't have time for that. also he probably thinks that anyone who gets to close to him will die horribly which is why he's a bit brusque. but yeah if he'd been allowed more chill time without the Horrors & time to process Everything he would be gradually more accepting of his own attraction to people and willing to do something about that. just where he's at he simply doesn't feel attraction & it doesn't even cross his mind that that's an option.

non-romantic otp for this character -

Rose. yes their weird qpr-situationship has it's issues ('i feel awful about my planet being destroyed, to show off on out first playdate i'm gonna take you to see your planet being destroyed') they just work well together hehe. BUT he would be Excellent with donna noble methinks OUGH if only they got to meet. the sarcasm would be tangible

unpopular opinion about this character -

idk really know what the popular opinions of nine are but. he could have been a bit nicer about having accidentally dropped rose off a year late. just a little.

one thing i wish had happened with this character -

honestly i wish we'd got more time to see him develop. like even one special would have been nice. one! just one! i feel like we leave him behind too quickly. it would have been nice to see him & rose do something chill together & not have to worry about dying or the planet dying.

my otp -

idk?? like probably rose but if we're talking romantically i don't think that would really work. idk why it just doesn't.

crossover ship (platonically) -

does it count as a crossover if it's a dr who character from later?? cos like i think he would get on really well with donna noble hehe. but from an actual different thing - nanny ogg & granny weatherwax from discworld, i can just picture the three of them sitting down drinking tea & bitching about some stupid supernatural/alien entity that tried to disrupt their day AGAIN yknow?

headcanon for them -

i think nine would like old arcade videogames. & he'd make a point of maxxing them out so some little kid would be astounded by his prowess at pacman or something. & he'd get mad when he lost as well. idk i can just picture him yelling at an old video game hehe

[legendsofamultishipper]

ashburn || like real people do

[na-sochya-tnash-veh-ashaya]

Idk if other people are mad about the episode but I’m thrilled!

Sometimes, especially if you feel things intensely, you need to recognize that you need time to grow or to figure out your feelings/self. They're broken up rn but I don’t see this as a final thing at all. Michael has a hard time forming connections and, seemingly, an even harder time letting go. I absolutely think she was in the right to give herself time to not only process all the stuff happening but to evaluate whether or not she feels she can grow past the trauma in their relationship. I didn’t like Ash trying to guilt her but I think it makes sense with the desperation he was showing and has shown previously when it comes to Michael. He needs time to grow and actually process the monumental shit that’s happened to him/he’s been a part of and the nature of his new existence in the weird liminal space he exists in as a kind of, and excuse the phrasing here, sci-fi Frankenstein’s Creature of a person. Codependency in interpersonal is a hell of a thing to have to try to unlearn but I believe in him. I firmly believe they’re going to be okay and this isn’t the end of them romantically. Can’t wait to see next week’s episode and how this post ages!

Ok, now I really am gonna attempt writing some fic cause this episode was just too much! 

[terapsina]

“You’re my gravity, Johnny Jaqobis.” - [2.05]

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"You’re my tether, Kendry.” - [3.08]

Ah Dutch and Aneela, you utter smooth talkers you.

(now someone pls make a parallel gifset. pls)

[annemarieyeretzian]

imogen laughing delightedly as braius and laudna talk and then her face immediately changing as braius tells laudna “you seem very interesting.” and laudna laughs and twirls her hair,,, 💔

[banrions]

#can you BELIEVE they did this trope#'I wasn't being cold and avoiding you because I don't like you I was afraid YOU didn't like ME'#everything about this#delle seyah honestly genuinely hurt and humiliated by what she thinks is a rejection and finally putting everything on the line#her face when she's squaring up about *deserving* to be with aneela#and then in the tropiest of ways aneela's beauty and the beast reciprocity#and then the CUTENESS of how delle seyah proves she can still be with her#poor jaq#I looove that they did this with them#giving them this little plot for their reunion#so it's all the sweeter and more romantic (via @booasaur)

Killjoys - 5x06

[elenorgthrie]

All I'm worried about right now is that Aneela won't be back to in time to see essentially her and Delle Seyah's child being born

[dandunn]

Jigen for the character asks?

Why I like them: hngf fffd bark bark

Why I don't: He called Goemon a fairy once and I can't forgive him. He's cancelled. <\3

Favourite episode/scene: I think I said recently that I can't pin down a favourite moment. I'll just go with the scene I'm currently thinking about which is the one in Goodbye Partner where he tries to imitate a magic trick Lupin did once for a girl and fails, adorably. It's really sweet.

Favourite season/movie: Uhhh he was great in part V. For like All of it if u ask me, great focus episode with the sniper battle. Obviously his design is amazing in Lupin the First but he's not in it enough for me to warrant saying that, so I'll give the movie honor to Episode 0: First Contact. The beginning of his courtship with Lupin <3

Favourite line: "I was born cranky!" or "If you're gonna pray to God, maybe you should try believing in Him first!"

OR OR: "Haha Lupin, he's comparing you to the bacon!"

Favourite outfit: I'm a fan of part 3, fight me. Idk what special/movie its from but he's wearing a suit that's almost entirely black and I love that. Purple shirt from part IV is also a good look.

OTP: Don't make me choose man, Jigen/Lupin is my go to but I love Jigen/Goemon too, it needs more contente. 😭

BrOTP: Everyone in this show be fuckin. Except Jigen and Fujiko so them ig. Sibling energy, I'm writing a fic where they hang out so watch this space.

Headcanon: He's banned for life from at least 5 bars in the bronx for various reasons and sleeping with various husbands of the owners. Homewrecker.

Unpopular opinion: I like his part 3 outfit? Lmao idk if I have anything more controversial than that.

A wish: Jigen and Goemon focus episode together? Please? They never get to hang out properly!!!

An oh god please don't ever let that happen:

It already HAPPENED! That fucking line in part IV where Jigen says he and Lupin aren't friends and they have nothing to talk about outside of work. YEAH PART IV BECAUSE THEY'VE SPENT THE LAST 50 GD YEARS WITH EACH OTHER FOR NO REASON JUST WORK MATES TWO DUDES STEALING SHIT IN A HOT TUB 6 FEET APART BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT GAY

SHUT UP PART IV!!!!

(I'm sorry rant over.)

5 words to describe them: Gunsmoke, distance, coarse, tether, trust

My nickname for them: Not me personally but I default to 'Jigs' when writing fic about him, mostly said by Lupin haha.

[terapsina]

Yeah but also I don’t see it being a very simple partnership because saving Aneela is now a priority for Dutch but it can’t be the ONLY priority. She also needs to actively move against The Lady (which would be secondary for Kendry and probably something to consider AFTER they get Aneela back because I just don’t think she’d particularly care about whatever other lives were at stake in the meanwhile).

So there will certainly be friction in this partnership. And it will all hinge on whether or not they can put aside that friction in the name of saving Aneela.

And honestly… this is the one occasion where I can see them actually being able to do that. And once they do? Yeah, it will be something to behold.

Also I loved the new layers to the relationship between Dutch and Kendry. Cuz before it was a bit of flirting & a lot of suspicion & power moves. But now Kendry lost her cool as soon as she saw Dutch cuz I think for one brief flicker of a second her first thought was Aneela. And Dutch spent it till the end of the ep avoiding eye contact also cuz of Aneela. And now Kendry's human again & despising it & torn about how she feels about the kid, but focused on Aneela. They now have a REAL common goal

Yes, I love that! 

It’s one of the reasons why I love Killjoys, it does so well with making relationships more layered and complex.  

Their relationship has evolved a lot and Kendry thinking Dutch was Aneela for a second really shook Kendry. And yes, Dutch feeling so guilty because her feeling toward Aneela evolved too. 

I love that both Dutch and Aneela are now united in a common goal, it will be awesome and terrifying. 

[luffysfakebeard]

hi!! i don't know if you're taking prompts (so if you're not, ignore this!!) but i saw a text post a trillion years ago that was like "imagine your otp meeting in a 7am lecture and one of them is pouring redbull into their coffee and looks straight at the other and says 'im going to die' and just drinks the whole thing" and ever since i started watching skam this reminded me of something isak would definitely do. aaaanywayyy, i love your fics, keep writing and being awesome!

The Study Buddy; 2070 words[AO3]

It was Even’s firm belief that whoever scheduled a guest speakerat 7.15AM on a Monday deserved to have hellfire rain down upon them.  Hewasn’t even sure why he said he’d go; when one of his lecturer’s the previousThursday had told the class that there was a speaker on Monday that they mightfind interesting Even had made a note of it even though it was optional.

Maybe he was losing his mind.  He had chosen to go to a 7.15 talk.

He couldn’t even remember what the lecturer had said it was about; just that it could be interestingand might help some of them gain some insight for their film projects.  That had probably been what pushed him to go,because as much as Even loves his eight hours of sleep he wanted his film to beperfect more.

When Even walked into the lecture hall at almost 7.10 there wereabout a dozen students scattered around, which was honestly more than he wasexpecting to see.  He chose a seatsomewhere in the middle and slumped down, quickly biting the inside of hischeek to silence the whine he wanted to let out.

The plastic chair was Baltic.  Despite it being mid-November – in Norway– he was pretty sure that the heating wasn’t on yet.  The pipes were creaking and groaning, though,and he realised that the heating was probably only just coming on now to get upto a pleasant temperature at 8AM when normal lecture times start.

Great.  The guy in here after me will probably betoasty warm while I’ll be a fucking ice sculpture, Even thought sullenly. He was pretty sure he could feel his lips pushing into a grumpy pout asthe cold from the chair seeped through his clothes and bit at his skin.

He put his travel mug down on the floor and struggled out of hismittens – it was cold, alright? and everyoneknows that mittens are warmer than gloves Even will defend his mittens with hisdying breath – and was just getting his notepad out when he saw him.

Him being a completely frazzled looking student – maybe a year ortwo Even’s junior – stumbling through the door. He looked like he was wearing about ten layers underneath his huge coat,and Even could see snow caught in the fold of his beanie.  Like most of the students there the boy camein armed with coffee; his hands – which looked snug as fuck in a pair of mittens, Even noticed – were clutching onto alarge take away cup from the nearby coffee shop as if it was the only thingtethering him to reality.

Even picked up his travel mug and took a sip as he watched theboy stumble into a seat and flop down onto it like a dead fish.  And wow, Even had thought he was bad at mornings.  There were probably corpses that woke upbetter than this kid.

Although he doubted any corpse was as pretty as this boy.

Even felt blessed to have seen such a pretty face.  He didn’t feel quite so salty about this bloody early morning guest speaker now.

He watched with interest as the boy set his coffee downreluctantly and wiggled some layers off. Even counted a coat, a scarf, the mittens, and a bulky jumper before theboy decided that was quite enough outwear to remove.  The boy was left in a big hoodie that Evenwas sure was soft as fuck to the touch and probably concealed three more shirts underneath.

The angel clearly felt the cold.

Even empathised.  His asswas already numb from his stupid frozen chair and he’d barely been in it twominutes.  He took another pull from hiscoffee to try to warm himself up from the inside out before the speaker showedup and he’d be expected to concentrate and take notes and all that bullshitrequired of students.

And, okay, the thing is…Evendidn’t mean to watch the kid.  It’s just that he was sat directly in Even’s line of sight and hisface was so pretty that Even just couldn’t bring himself to look around at theother bland exhausted faces in the room or pretend to try to read the leaflets onthe pin board.

So when the guy proceeded to pull a huge can of Red Bull out of his snow dusted backpack it wasn’t likeEven could look away.  He watched as theguy popped the lid off his take away cup and immediately the smell of strongcoffee permeated the air.

Even perked up a little just from the smell.  He drank a little bit more of his own coffee,but what the boy did next made Even freeze in place.

Even watched in horror as the kid cracked open the Red Bull,took a few long pulls from his coffee to make room in the mug, and then pouredthe entirety of the energy drink into his coffee.  He put the lid back on his cup and swirled itaround a little.

It was then that the boy glanced around.

And, of course, he caught Even staring straight at him with a horrifiedlook in his eyes and his lips still around his travel mug.

“I’m probably gonna die. But who wants to live at this time in the morning anyway?” The kidshrugged.  And then, in what Even couldonly assume was a power move to assert his dominance, the kid drank the entirecontents of the large cup while maintaining eye contact with Even who was stillparalysed with shock.

It was only when the kid finished his poisonous concoction andturned his back on Even that Even regained control over his body.  He lowered his mug away from his mouth, forsome reason put off the idea of caffeine completely.  He wasn’t a massive caffeine consumer ingeneral; he was pretty sure his skin was buzzing just from watching that kid neck so much caffeine at once.

It was one of the most disgusting things Even had ever seen.

He’d worked as a barista throughout secondary school and knew hewas a bit of a coffee snob because of it, but the kid’s blatant disregard forhis coffee offended some part of Even purely on principle.

But fuck if he couldn’t stop thinking about it or watching thatboy.  The guest speaker came in and Evenbarely noticed.  All of his attention wason the caffeine addict a few rows ahead of him.

Much to his surprise, the kid didn’t drop dead of a massive heartattack.  In fact, the kid was morefocused than Even was; he was watching the speaker and taking notes and noddinga little every now and then.

Even, on the other hand, wasn’t listening to a thing the speakerwas saying because he was transfixed by a curl of golden hair that had escapedfrom under the back of the boy’s beanie.

Curiosity was killing him.

The more he looked at the boy, the more he wanted to know.  Did he have no taste buds?  How tired do you have to be to combine coffeeand Red Bull?  What makes you even consider combining those things?  What was his name?  What was he studying that could be relevantto the guest speaker?  Why had Even notnoticed him around when he looked like an angel?  How had he not blinked once while he made eyecontact with Even and drank that monstrosity?

Even needed answers,dammit!

It was only when the boy slouched down to grab his backpack andthen stood up that Even realised the talk was over.

And he hadn’t heard a single word of it.

At that moment he realised a few things in quick succession.

1.      He got up at 6AM to listen to a guest speaker and instead ogledthe back of a pretty boy’s head for 90 minutes

2.      He had nothing to show for the last 90 minutes of his life.  No notes, no photos of the board on hisphone, nothing.

3.      He needed to do something fastto make it look like he’d actually been paying attention to that talk becausethe boy was looking over his shoulder and Even still had his blank notebook onhis lap.

4.      Impossibly, the boy looked even prettier from the front.

Even slammed his notebook shut and practically threw it into hisbag, almost knocking his half full travel mug over in his haste.  He grabbed the mug as it wobbled beforegetting to his feet, swinging his backpack over one shoulder and stretching hisback.  An hour and a half in the chairfrom hell hadn’t done him any favours he thought as his spine cracked andpopped.

He chanced a glance over at the boy as he finished his stretchand was surprised to find amused hazel eyes staring directly at him.

“Yes?” Even quirked an eyebrow.

“You know I could feel you staring holes through my skull thewhole time, right?” The boy raised an eyebrow right back.

Well.

Fuck.

Even had no idea how to respond to that.

“Aren’t you going to ask my name or something?” The boy promptedand Even’s brain finally caught up with him.

“I normally ask interesting people out for coffee, but I thinkyou’ve had enough caffeine for a week.” He replied smoothly.  Satisfaction welled up in his chest at thepink blush that dusted the boy’s pale cheeks.

“So is this you notasking me out?” There was definitely a little tinge of disappointment in theboy’s voice, Even was sure of it.

“This is me saying that if you have any more caffeine you willprobably die.  How about breakfastinstead?” Even smiled his best smile.  Hewasn’t blind; he knew he ticked a lot of the boxes of ‘how to be good lookingin the west’ and he wasn’t afraid to use that to his advantage if the situationcalled for it.

And getting to know a cute boy definitely called for it.

“Breakfast sounds good.” The kid smirked.  “You probably owe me a meal after all thatstaring.” He added casually as he turned away and walked towards the door.

“You started it!” Even protested as he followed him out into thecrisp cool morning.

“You were already staring at me when I looked around actually.”The boy looked so fucking smug.  Theworst part was that Even couldn’t even argue, because it was true.

He had been looking at the kid since he walked through the door.

“Are you going to tell me your name or what?” Even huffed.  He knew he sounded grumpy, like a sore loser,but the kid just laughed.

“Isak.  I’m Isak.  And you? What name should I be putting on my sexual harassment report?” Isakteased.

“Seriously?  It was earlyand I was tired and there was a pretty boy, I just sort of zoned out and youwere right in front of me.” Even grumbled. He was still turning the name over in his head; desperate to roll itaround his mouth and see how it tasted.

“Do you stare at allthe pretty boys for an hour and a half?”

“Only the reallypretty ones.” Even winked, taking pleasure in the way Isak flushed all the wayup to the tips of his ears.  He hadn’tput his beanie back on and snow was drifting into his hair.  He looked like a renaissance painting.

“Come on then, I’ve told you my name.  Who are you, huh?” Isak prompted and Evenshot a cheeky grin over at him.

“Even.  Even Bech Næsheim.  Your future boyfriend.”

“Wow.” Isak snorted.  “Ican’t tell if my heart’s beating so fast from the caffeine or from your totallyromantic introduction.” He rolled his hazel eyes and Even swore he fell alittle bit in love with this sassy boy there and then.

“Hey, if you have a heart attack at breakfast we’ll probably getit for free.” Even winked.

“I can already feel my heart outside of my body; let’s not jinxit, hmm?”

“I still can’t believe you drank that in one go.” Even shook hishead in disbelief, pushing the café door open and letting Isak in.

“I call it the Study Buddy.”

“You’ve done that more than once?!”