Daily Drabble 49

[coffeebuddha]

Title: Pies, Fries, and Frau Blücher
Author: coffeebuddha
Rating: PG-13/FRT
Characters/Pairings: Javier Esposito/Kevin Ryan, Jenny
Word Count: 927
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me.
Prompt: "continue the French Girls verse -- since I'm pretty sure that everyone would love to see them finally kiss what happens next." Requested by theslashbunny.
Notes: Part of my French Girls verse. Follows Meek As I Am.

 

 

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Jenny and her boyfriend break up approximately seventeen minutes into Javier and Kevin's second real date. Seventeen and a half minutes in, Kevin's fishing his phone out of his pocket, going from happy and smiling to concerned and a little scary in no time. Javier watches his open, friendly face grow tighter and darker for about fifteen seconds, then motions to their waitress. While Kevin is indignantly squawking, "The bastard did what? With a what?" Javier arranges to get their orders to go, impulsively requesting an extra large order of fries and, after a few seconds to think back on how his sisters had acted after their breakups, an entire chocolate pie. It takes another handful of minutes before their food arrives, neat in its little styrofoam boxes, and Kevin alternates between looking like a fierce mother pitbull, ready to tear the world to pieces for his pups, and shooting Javier small, anxiously apologetic glances that Javier waves away.

Javier's dorm is a little less than halfway between the restaurant and Jenny and Kevin's apartment, and, in a last minute decision, Javier leaves his car idling in front of the building's main entrance and races up the stairs to grab something from his room. Kevin barely even glances up at him when he slides back into the driver's seat--"Are you fucking kidding me? I swear, Jenny, if he gave you syphilis even a little bit, I will make him eat his own dick!"--and then they're off again.

Between his cell and trying to get the keys out as fast a possible, Kevin doesn't exactly have a hand free, so Javier carefully stacks everything up and does his best to balance it while he trails behind Kevin into an apartment he's never visited before. Jenny's in Kevin's arms almost as soon as they're through the door, babbling something about hookers and sangria and a goat, and Kevin's stroking her back and glaring at someone who isn't there, so Javier figures he has everything well in hand and wanders off to the kitchen to scrounge up some plates and forks. 

Jenny's curled up in Kevin's lap on the couch when Javier comes back in, her make up smeared across the shoulder and collar of his polka dot covered shirt. He shuffles over next to the arm of the couch, wondering if he should just leave, and holds out a plate of fries and a slice of pie like an offering. Kevin arches an eyebrow at him and Jenny's nose wrinkles in confusion, so he quickly says, "Kevin said you liked the fries when we were getting our food and my sisters always demolished anything chocolate when stuff like this happened to them, so I figured it couldn't hurt. I brought this too," he adds, whipping out a copy of Young Frankenstein. "You said you hadn't seen it at the Halloween party and it's one of my favorites when I need to be cheered up."

Javier shrugs and tries his damnedest not to shuffle in place while Kevin and Jenny have one of those completely silent conversations with just, like, their eyebrows or some shit, and he can feel sweat prickling under his collar, because there's no way this isn't going to go to hell very, very soon.

It's possible, he decides a little over an hour later, that he might be just a tiny bit too pessimistic. The fries are gone, pretty much destroyed by Jenny during the first ten minutes, there's only about half of the pie left, and Jenny's curled up on her side with her head in Kevin's lap and her feet tucked under Javier's thigh. The movie's a hit, if the way she occasionally lets out a small giggle is anything to go by, but the only thing that Javier can focus on is the feel of Kevin's fingers against the back of his neck.

He wakes up to the smell of pancakes cooking and the feel of a warm body draped full length over him. When he manages to blink himself awake, the first thing he sees is Kevin, his hair a wild mess and his chin pillowed on top of the hands he has clasped together on Javier's chest. Javier can't keep himself from running his fingers through Kevin's hair, and Kevin smiles, leans into the touch, and asks in a low, sleep roughened voice, "Can I keep you?"

Javier's heart stutters, then picks up speed to make up for the skip. "Yeah," he breathes, skimming his thumb over Kevin's cheekbone. "Yeah, of course you can."

"Good, but if you're ever found in a cornfield with a prostitute and the school mascot, you aren't allowed to press charges for whatever I do to you," Kevin says with a decisive little nod. 

"Agreed," Javier says, because that seems reasonable enough to him, and then Kevin's wriggling the rest of the way up his body, warm and pliant all over, until their noses bump and Javier can feel his breath against his mouth.

"Agreed," Kevin echoes and closes that last tiny distance, brushing their lips together in a soft, chaste kiss that only lasts a heartbeat before he's pulling back again.

Then Kevin's up and striding toward the kitchen, where Javier can hear bacon sizzling and Jenny singing along with the radio, and Javier's left sitting on the couch with a throw pillow clutched in front of his junk and a goofy smile stretched wide across his face, because he's pretty sure this means Kevin is officially his boyfriend. Which, you know, cool.

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