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Yancy being totally flustered and ruined by Illinois calling him pet names is totally valid but you know what’s better? The first time Yance feels comfortable enough and happy enough to be like ‘Aww, Illi, ain’t you a doll?’ and Illinois stops dead because HE does the pet names and complimenting, HE does the charming. No one charms him. But his heart is Bang Bang Banging and Yancy has a 404 adventurer on his hands.

ain’t you a doll // yancy x illinois 

Pairing: Yancy x Illinois

Words: 1089

Rating: General Audiences

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Tags: Fluff | Tooth-Rotting Fluff | Fluff and Humor | Domestic Fluff | Romantic Fluff | just a lot of fluff | Romance | Dating | Dates | Pet Names | POV Third Person | Touch-Starved

Notes (more notes at the end): finally got around to writing something for these two. i put the call out for prompts for yancy/illinois two and a half weeks ago and im finally writing about them. i jsut finally felt inspired and woo boy this got really soft i was dying writing them holding hands. 

@wexeatxthexrude thank you so much for the prompt

edit: fixed the formatting issue, damn you tumblr why do you like to warp my fics. thanks to those that let me know.

Another adventure successfully and mostly safely completed, and anotherpriceless artefact soundly and more than mostly safely delivered to the museum.

This wasn’t the first adventure Yancy had tagged along on, but this was thefirst time he’d come with Illinois to the museum to deliver what they’dretrieved and Illinois felt stupid for worrying about whether Yancy was goingto like it or not. Of course he was going to like it, I mean thisplace had the most complete triceratops skeleton in the world! Okay… that’sone of the reasons he liked it, didn’t mean Yancy would. Illinoisforgot a lot of the time that not everyone found old fossils and relics andremains as interesting or cool as he did.

Luckily, Yancy had been enthralled as Illinois walked him around theexhibits and gave him his own exclusive, honorary tour, that was packed withway more information, and much more accurate information, than the museum’sofficial tour guides could ever offer, and hey he also heard this exclusivetour had the best looking guide.

And also luckily Yancy hadn’t gotten bored or fed up of him rambling andgetting over-excited, he’d just listened to everything and smiled and been sosupportive Illinois hadn’t felt this… it felt too early to say ‘loved’…admired maybe… He hadn’t felt this ‘unnameable positive emotion that made hischest feel warm and tight’ in a long time.

“Hey you know, there’s a cafe next to the lobby in here, and when it’snice and hot like this they sell ice cream, you want to grab any? Mytreat?” He asked Yancy once he’d finally finished leading him around theexhibits.

“Aww, Illy, ain’t you a doll.”

Illinois froze.

What… just happened?

Did Yancy just… call him a pet name?

No, no, no, that was his job, he was meant to be the onefull of compliments and pet names. He charmed people, people didn’tcharm him.

People didn’t… When was the last time anyone had charmed him?Illinois tried to think back and sure he knew when people were looking at himlike they wanted to do something to him, or wanted him to do something to them,but no one really flirted with him unless the occasional confident soul shot afew lines back at him as he winked and smiled.

But no one called him pet names, people didn’t call him pet names, Yancyhadn’t ever called him by a pet name before. Yancy was cute and softer, whileIllinois was stoic and cocky and tough, not that Yancy wasn’t tough but… Theway Yancy had said that…

It was just a pet name, just one word, why the hell was he freaking out somuch? He felt the urge to put a hand on his chest to see if his heart reallywas having as much of a fit as he thought it was. His cheeks felt hot, had theyalways felt that hot? It was fairly warm in here but the museum did have airconditioning but it was the summer so-

Something flashed across his face.

There it was again.

It was Yancy’s hand.

“Ill? I didn’t break yous, did I?” Yancy was a lot closer than hehad been before, when did he move? Oh god Illinois prayed to whatever strangedeity might shine down on him that he hadn’t just been standing here for whoknows how long staring into space.

“No, no,” Illinois cringed and coughed as he heard his voice comeout almost squeaky. “Not at all darlin’ you just, uh, took me bysurprise with that is all.”

“With what?” Yancy tilted his head to the side.

Okay maybe he could get away with pretending this never happened. “Oh,nothing, don’t worry about it, but I was saying wasn’t I that I would-”

“It’s cause I called yous ‘doll’ ain’t it?” Yancy was grinning butthere was an insecurity there as if he was afraid of being embarrassed if hewas wrong.

“I, uh,” Illinois shook his head. “Alright, you caught me. Ijust… didn’t expect the pet name is all.”

“Yous seemed to short circuit on me for a second there. How not used toit are you?” Yancy laughed and Illinois dug thumbs under his belt andbalanced back on his heels as he ducked his head (something he was starting tolearn was a nervous tick of his, not that he got nervous of course). “Oh,real not used to it huh?” And Yancy knew what his body language meant andthat was something unusual but… sweet. Not many people had stuck around(whether by their own choice or… not their own choice) long enough to get toknow him this well.

“I suppose I’m used to being the charmer but not the charmee,”Illinois joked, or at least tried to, it must have not worked considering theserious expression on Yancy’s face. “Yance? That’s not… weird, right?How I reacted, I mean.”

Yancy’s eyes stayed serious but he smiled. “Oh not at all, doll.I'ms just thinking what I can dos with this information.” And he smirked,Illinois hadn’t even known Yancy knew how to smirk. “So, what was thatyous were saying about getting us ice cream, sweetheart?”

Oh no. This was bad. This was very, very bad. Yancy had too much power.

He his face heating up had nothing to do with the room temperature thistime. His hand found it’s way up and tugged at the collar of his shirt.

“Yeah,” He tried to shake the feelings off. “I’ll lead theway.”

Yancy, shyly but slyly leaned into him as they walked and brushed theirhands together. Illinois almost jumped, but pushed his hand back into Yancy andhe saw how Yancy’s face lit up from the corner of his eye. Something like thiswas a big step for both of them, both touch-starved from their time alone, butYancy was also so used to people touching him because they were hurting him.Illinois was making sure that never happened again, and was trying his best notto mess things up.

Yancy smiled and held his hand and squeezed it and just looked so darn cutethat Illinois turned his head to the side and slid his hand over his stubbleand over his mouth.

“Yous alright, Noisy?”

“I’m fine, Yancy.” Illinois sighed and dropped his hand, failingto fight the smile off his face.

“Alright,” Yancy cocked his head and grinned. “Doll.”

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[czeitgeist-blog]

if I send you asks as Charlie am I the worst sort of person

Cain covers his ears, very much pretending not to hear you.

[juju-on-that-yeet]

I've been meaning to read your Yancy and Illinois story when I have the time. It sounds so heartbreaking but so good at the same time! Do you know any other Yancy and Illinois stories to read too? Ship or platonic wise?

Aaaa, that’s so sweet! https://archiveofourown.org/works/21653974/chapters/51636610

[chokedonhisrage]

my qpp ( @wexeatxthexrude ) spoiled me this christmas omfg,,

look at how gay they are look at all of this shit

thank u so much my b,, i love you so much ahhhhh i hope you like your gifts once they get there ;w;

[xxxrayvin]

yes hello I see you've now seen the episode. welcome to hell. B)

don’t you mean HELLATUS

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wexeatxthexrude replied to your post: Why is it with the Daedric Princes that every...

I always liked Molag Bal. I’ve been dragged into the nonsense anyway at least let it be in service to a daedric prince of human sacrifice or whatever and not some weirdo from the street

See, I don’t mind his mission and I’m quite fond of his mace, I just find him to be kind of a prick. Although, saying that, he’s a lot easier to deal with than Hermaeus Mora from what I remember. I think I started Mora’s quest and noped straight back out of it as soon as I could. I mostly remember being really annoyed I couldn’t then take his book out of my inventory.

[czeitgeist-blog]

Cain please be gentle with me I’m your number one fan

“Darling, I don’t know the meaning of the word.” His tone is almost amused, the corner of his lips tugged up into a smirk. “I certainly won’t say no to a little worship, however. Shameless humans are a delight, even if they don’t last long.”

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One vote for the superior team. Red team.

ah you dirty reds

blues: 2freelancers: 1reds: 1

[chokedonhisrage]

*wiggles eyebrows* are you blushing yet

/w\ my b pls you’re the outlier i blush whenever u even exist that’s not faaaiir

anonymously try and make me blush!

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FRIEND YOU ARE DEFINITELY GONNA HURT BUT IN THE BEST AND WORST WAYS AT THE EXACT SAME TIME :D

OHGOD OHNO I DON’T THINK I CAN TAKE IT

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We all now have the most feels possible and six episodes and one book and one radio show to cope with that shit

There was so much anticipation for the show and now it’s happened and it was awesome and now we can just go back to the things and flail and the feels. We have feels, the characters have feels, there’s so many fucking feels just bouncing around and how can this possibly be contained?

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isn’t it so fucking good????

It’s fucking awesome, I can’t even.

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wexeatxthexrude replied to your post: wexeatxthexrude replied to your post: ...

I mean that’s fair. He is kind of a prick. But I’m also kind of about it oops. No one and nothing is worse than fucking Meridia and her beacon.

Oh, Jesus. When you’re just innocently looting some chests and she starts screaming at you. Every single time I’ve found her beacon it’s been on Clavicus Vile’s quest, too. Either at Haemar’s Shame or when I’m dealing with Sebastian.

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Cain, why is someone so evil so beautiful?

“How sweet. But flattery won’t lessen the pain any, love. Best to save your breath.”