#tarlos proposal

[hufflepuffheaven]

it’s love. the kind you can’t get away from.

[renegadesstuff]

-I think TK would do anything and everything for Carlos.- 🤍

[tarlosbuddieforever]

Tarlos Proposal 3.0 edit🫶

[alrightbuckaroo]

a pretty good team

a 5x09 coda inspired by this post brought to us by the big beautiful brains of @strandnreyes and @tellmegoodbye <3

"What are you trying to hide?" TK asks as Carlos slows the truck down, stopping at a red light. TK goes to adjust the volume but Carlos grabs his hand in his, pressing a kiss to his knuckles.

"What do you mean trying?" Carlos asks after pulling his lips away, rubbing his thumb over the ridges. 

"So you are hiding something," TK points out and his heart flutters as a flush spreads throughout his husband.

Carlos smiles to himself. He's been caught. "How about we grab a bite?"

--

"Boba is barely a bite," TK jokes before dodging Carlos' straw wrapper. "Though, I can't help but notice you brought us back to where we sat down and first talked about, "us "."

"You remember that?" Carlos asks, despite already knowing the answer. He knows this relationship has been a mix of give and take, push and pull; but he loves the moments where he learns TK was crazy about him during the early days too.  

"I remember everything about you," TK explains, reaching out a hand and rubbing his thumb against the back of Carlos’ large, doting hand. Carlos wants the whorls of TK's fingertips stitched onto him. "For a moment, the memories were all I could come home to."

TK’s voice trails off at the recollection before he’s holding a steady gaze with Carlos’ brown eyes. Big, brown and beautiful, just like the night they first met and fell in love. He reminds himself, the man in front of him is coming home. He’s coming home again, and again, and again, and again. 

"TK," Carlos starts, his mouth suddenly feeling very dry. There's a tremble in his heart; but it's a good one. One that he didn't place there himself, but one that's so organically innate. It's the same one he felt when he started reading his vows.

"The last time we were here, all those years ago, even then, all I could think about was how I had all of these feelings." He continues, starting to recount the day like it's not imprinted on his mind. "Feelings for you, for what I wanted us to be, for what we could have been."

For a brief moment, TK allows the past to eclipse the present. He allows himself to remember how he first felt during Carlos' confession. How he wanted to fold in on himself because he didn't think he'd earned such unadulterated adoration.

Carlos clears his throat, and reaches across the table for TK's left hand. He runs his thumb over his ring, absentmindedly. TK smiles to himself, remembering that he is worthy. Carlos always reassures him of that, even when he doesn't realize it.

"It's been years, but baby," Carlos squeezes his hand, just slightly. His eyes are cast downwards. "I still have all of these feelings. For you, for what we are," He looks up. "For what we will be."

"Baby," TK croons, squeezing Carlos' hand back. His voice is tender, affectionate, and knowing. Carlos falls back in his seat, though keeps his fingers interlocked with TK's.

"You already know what I'm going to say, don't you?" He asks with a chuckle.

"Maybe," TK teases, his plush lips pulling apart to show the gleam of his smile. "But act like I don't anyways."

Carlos smiles before it slightly dims, his thumb still rubbing over the ring; reminding him he’s real. "During my time in the hospital, I kept thinking about the day my dad died," He begins, blinking away a muted burn. "For so long, all I could think about was the day I lost him."

"It wasn't until my third cherry jello that I realized he wasn't the only one I lost that day. I lost myself, and eventually parts of us," Carlos can feel that burn return, feeling ten times stronger. "For the first time in my life, something was missing and I had to reconcile with the fact that it wasn't just you."

"Though this isn't the way I wanted to go about it," He continues. "I finally know what it feels like to have a relationship with my father; to understand what it means to be his son."

With red-rimmed eyes and watery smile, he says, "I don't want to rob Jonah of something like that."

"Oh baby," TK ushers the pet name through a loving, and devoted sigh.

"I, I know I was scared before," Carlos offers, wanting to acknowledge how they last left this. "a-and I can't fully promise that I'm not a bit scared now, but this really smart, sexy guy I know said that might just be the risk of letting love in."

"Hm, tell me more about this smart, sexy guy," TK flirtatiously jokes as he leans across the table and plants a kiss on his husband's lips.

"Oh he's the best," Carlos continues, brown eyes shining. "Kind, funny, patient, understanding."

"Sounds like he's a keeper," TK rallies, falling back into a rhythm that he's missed the sound of.

"He is," Carlos agrees with haste. He grabs both of TK's hands into his, Boba forgotten and feelings flushing through. "I know there's a lot that goes into a big change like this, but I want to make this change with you, for him."

TK is silent for a beat, but his eyes give him away. They're dancing with joy and brimming with pride. Pride for his husband, but pride for himself. For giving himself a future he never thought would be possible.

"You're the best thing that's ever happened to me," TK offers. "You know that right?"

"Maybe," Carlos teases back. "But I'll always pretend like I don't if it means I get to hear you say it."

"Baby I'll tell you as many times as you want to hear it," TK promises and God, it sounds like a promise. One that's unbreakable.

Carlos smiles and kisses TK once more. He frees both of their hands and takes a sip of his drink, pushing out a sigh before saying, "We're about to be in over our heads, aren't we?"

"Oh yeah," TK agrees. "It's okay though, we make a pretty good team."

[guardian-angle22]

This or That: Tarlos Edition -> Soulmate scene or proposal?

[lonestardust]

SOMEONE CALL AN AMBULANCE I CAN'T DO THIS

[hazeystar]

every moment that we're not married is a wasted moment - tk 3x18

VS.

every second I get with you is a gift, and i'm done wasting it - carlos (presumably 5x5)

[bibewilderedandbuck]

You can see the moment Carlos realizes that this scared chaotic bunny of a man is actually proposing. He’s not catastrophising, he’s not panicking, he’s not even a little scared. He’s planning. TK the chronic spontaneous leap before you look disaster is planning his future. And the one thing he knows he wants, the one person he sees being there for the long haul? It’s you Carlos. He wants to be with you. Forever.

[strandedbuckley]

1.01 -> 4.18

[rosedavid]

I’ve been thinking about the proposal scene (again) and how even with Carlos’ initial hesitation, TK doesn’t falter. It’s so different from his planned proposal for Alex. You could feel the tension radiating from TK at that restaurant. But when he proposes to Carlos, he’s so at ease and confident. Because he knows the strength of his relationship with Carlos. He knows how much Carlos loves him. He can be vulnerable with Carlos, tell him anything.

So even when Carlos doesn’t immediately say yes, TK doesn’t run away; instead, he stays and explains, holding firm because he’s no longer scared of love and commitment. Carlos changed that.

He has no doubt that they’re meant to spend the rest of their lives together.

[alwaystiredneverofcarlosreyes]

"No one's gonna find you though..." - Creepy kidnapper/serial killer guy to Carlos.

He does not know how mistaken he is. There is a TK Strand out there who stole a fire truck just to search for his dad. Also the same TK who was close to death but decided eh better wake up because my man needs me and I need to tell him to breathe. He does not know that TK Strand has went through hell and back and is still standing... and he'll do it again for Carlos. This man will be on a mission to be reunited with his heart.

[renegadesstuff]

-A thousand times yes.- 🥹🤍

THIS LINE WAS IMPROVISED BY RAFA. 😭 AND THAT MAKE THE SCENE EVEN BETTER. 🥹❤️

[carlos-tk]

it’s LOVE ❤️

the kind you can’t get away from 😖

😭😭😭

[reyesstrand]

seven-ish sentence sunday/inspiration weekend

thank youuu for the tag @carlos-in-glasses <3 we’ve gotten to the point of me posting extra bits of snippets i’m certain i’ve posted before but ideally i can try and finish the food fic over my upcoming days off and we can move onto a different wip ajdnsjdnsn

TK kisses his way back up Carlos’ body until he can sit on his lap, knees splayed out on either side of Carlos’ torso. He’s got a little far-off smile on his lips and Carlos reaches up to wipe at the corner of his mouth before TK promptly takes his hand and brings Carlos’ thumb between his lips.

“I love you,” Carlos finds himself saying in one shaky exhale as it all hits him that this is forever; as he suddenly imagines a ring on this man’s finger, glinting in the morning sunlight. He wonders if the thrill will ever dissipate, and silently hopes it never does.

TK grins down at him, eyes a little shiny. “I love you too.”

He laces their fingers together and presses Carlos’ hand down by his head and does the same with the other, until TK’s staring down at him, bathed and illuminated in the golden morning light. Carlos gives himself the moment to take him in—the lines of his body, the softness of his hips, the thin trail of hair from his navel downward, the pinkness of his cheeks when Carlos flicks his gaze back up to his face and he realizes TK’d been watching him. TK’s necklace dangles between them as he reaches down for a kiss, and then another, and then another.

“So,” TK says, keeping Carlos happily pressed down under his weight, their noses still brushing, “you brought me donuts?”

no pressure tagging @alrightbuckaroo @strandnreyes @paperstorm @chaotictarlos @freneticfloetry @beautifulhigh @rosedavid @theghostofashton and leaving this as an open tag if anyone wants to share! <3