1. Amber
After all the sweat and pulling, Vyvyan's hair isn't so much orange as it is amber. Rick wonders if there is anything fossilized in there.
2. Arctic
There's no heat in the house, whether from failing to pay bills or Vyvyan's "repairs". It's snowing and Neil is hoping there will be enough to encase the house like an igloo.
3. Ash
There's a pile of ash on the bedroom floor from Vyvyan's pacing. Rick has the mind to call the dean, the fascist bastard, to get Vyvyan's final test score himself, or find out how much cash is in the kitty and bribe Mike to do it.
4. Bent
"Vyvyan, why is my door knob bent?"
"Be-cause you girlie swot you don't live there anymore"
A look of nervous fear flitted across Rick's face "and why not!? I paid my share of the rent!"
A smirk trailed across the punk's face as he popped the door to his own room open and Rick's face lit up.
5. Bubble
Mike shakes his head behind his paper, trying to stifle the laughter at the couple in front of him. Amazed that they think they are actually fooling anyone, walls are paper thin in this house. But it won't be him that bursts their bubble, he'll wait for them to tell him proper. And then he's soundproof their rooms.
6. Block
It's been there since they moved in, this block of cheese. Neil refuses to let anyone eat it it, it's just about the only thing that brings him close to violence. He fears what may happen to them if the cheese no longer exists.
7. Comfort
Rick is always taken aback by the amount of comfort he gets from Vyvyan, even before this thing between them started, even before they lived together and Vyvyan picked him up off the side of the road, where he was left beaten by thugs and left to die, those bastards, and put him back together again.
8. Creek
They spend their summer at the creek pretending to fish. It's more like a urinal run off, but after a couple of beers no one cares. And for the first time in Rick's life, he feels like he has actual friends.
9. Dinner
Neil dropped dinner again. Mike has decide he's going to make Vyv and Rick get him oven gloves for his birthday or Christmas, whichever comes first.
10 Everlasting
Vyvyan bought gobstoppers, he told Rick they were for practice. Rick hasn't really figured out yet what that means, except it's left him sticky and aroused.
11 Elephant
Neil likes elephants, he feels like they'd understand him. But he never wants the dancing elephant head to come back. He checks the house every night before locking up to make sure they are safe.
12 Fighting
They don't fight as much anymore. They bicker constantly, but the violence is at a low roar, primarily only foreplay nowadays.
13 garage
Rick was cleaning out the garage. Something they hadn't done since they moved in ten years ago. Hell, they didn't even bother to unpack most of their stuff from when they moved out of their tiny studio apartment, that they had during Vyvyan's residency. When they moved into their house, just shoveled everything into the garage to be dealt with later.
14. Hallway
There's a Rick shaped dent in the upstairs hallway next to the bathroom door that makes Rick smile every time he sees it.
15. Kitten
One day Rick came home with an angry ginger kitten. Neil locked himself in his room for over three hours, until Vyvyan came home and demanded his tea.
"oh heavy Vyv, I am glad you're not like a cat anymore, what happened did you anger a wizard?"
So now when Neil is particularly annoying, Vyvyan will let out a small meow, and watch Neil look around spooked, throw down whatever he was doing and lock himself in his room. Despite the kitten being fast asleep on the couch, much to Mike's dismay.
16 Mess
When Neil and Mike arrived home after a three day weekend away, they weren't expecting the house to be standing. Definitely not expecting it to be clean and full of food. To find Rick with a mohawk painting the lounge, yelling at them to keep their mouths shut because Vyvyan was studying for his final.
17 Money
After his parents died, Rick paid off the house. He never told the guys, and they never seemed to question why Jerzie never came by for the rent.
18 Night
It was the middle of the night, and it has been several years since he had last seen Rick, and he doesn't have the right to call but he doesn't have anyone else. Rick answers on the second ring his voice muddled with sleep
"hello, it's 2 in the morning this better be bloody important"
"Rick..." Vyvyan sighed out not exactly sure what to say.
"Vyvyan? Oh alright, where are you!?"
Vyvyan stuttered out his address and hung up after Rick said he'd be there in twenty minutes. He looked around thinking he should maybe tidy up, but not really having the will to do so, he put on a pot of coffee and stared at his vodka until his doorbell rang and let out a sigh of relief as he got up to let Rick in.
19 Rolls
It took over a year but Vyvyan finally took him on a proper date, and maybe it was only to the pizza place down the block that they went every weekend. But there were dinner rolls, and Rick just pretends not know Vyvyan brought the rolls in with them.
20 Ribbon
Rick awoke slightly bewildered, not having remembered going to bed, or for that matter being knocked unconscious, not that he always saw that coming. He couldn't see much of anything, he appeared to be tied to a bed, with what felt like silken ribbons, and something was glittering across the room off the rays from the streetlight. He tried to pull his arms, but the straps keeping pinned tightened against his wrists, he tried his legs by lifting them up and placing his feet flat on the bed. That's when he felt it, satin sliding down his legs to pool at his waist. Some pervy bastard has kidnapped him, tied him up, changed his clothing and put him in a dress, and not even one of his own, and without even giving him the modesty of his pants. "oh your going to be in for it Mr pervy fascist kidnapper, when Vyvyan gets a hold of you, And let me tell you, you're going to be in a world of troo-uble if you took liberties. Where are my pants?" "I doubt you'll be needing your knickers, you girlie bastard" sigh of relief from Rick can be heard
21 Troll
There was a troll living in bathroom cupboard. He showed up a week after SPG died. Vyvyan claims he doesn't see him, but the rest wish Vyvyan would throw the toilet out the window again so they wouldn't have to use it in there.
22 Unstable
The jello cake was unstable, Rick knew at any moment it was going to fall apart into gelatinous mess. He's still not sure what possessed Mike to want a jello cake in the first place, it's unnatural.
23 Vest
Vyvyan walked into his room to see Rick standing there in his best denim vest. He felt his pulse quicken and then he had Rick up against the back of his bedroom door, hands wrapped around the lapels of his vest, studs scraping his calluses, tongue as deep as it could go in his mouth. While Rick's red booted feet dangled until he caught on, wrapping them around Vyvyan's waist knocking his towel to the floor as his hands wrapped into ungelled hair.