Prompt: (non trash) Aspar/Tomix for "Just leave me ALONE." :^0


The moment Aspar heard the door of their small apartment slam shut, he knew something was wrong. When he saw his young charge stomp right past him with his head and shoulders covered in stilling neon paint, he knew exactly what was wrong, but not exactly the degree of care he'd need to fix it. So he watched the young man stomp his way to his room and slam that door shut too, without even saying a word. It was when Aspar heard muffled screaming start up that he marked a place in his book and headed to the kitchen to make some tea.

Most would call him crazy for partnering himself with the campus pariah, but Aspar would wholeheartedly disagree. The kid was clearly hurting, and someone needed to make sure he didn't end up turning to unhealthy methods to alleviate that pain. Plus it gave him an excuse to use up his stores of passionflower tea.

He let the herbs steep and then carefully removed the packets to fill their place with honey, milk, and sugarcubes. No sense just making it by the cup, from what he was hearing (the screams had given way to frustrated swearing at this point) his charge would probably be needing the whole pot. From there it was just a quick few yards to the door. He steadied the teapot and cups in the crook of his arms, and gently rapped on the door.

"Go away." Came the muffled reply.

"Come on Tomix, you and I both know that you don't really mean that." He chided into the door.

"Just leave me alone!"

He tsk'ed, and smiled. "Well, alright then," Aspar loudly announced into the door, "I see I have no choice but to come on in anyway." He quickly phased his arm through the door and simultaneously unlocked and opened it from the inside. Normally he would have teleported in, but that might cause him to drop his tea.

He quietly ignored Tomix's indignant screeches of "Get out!" and set the tea on his charge's work desk, pouring out a cup at his leisure.

"So," he said, turning and pressing a finger to Tomix's lips, startling him enough to shut him up for a moment, "why don't you tell me what happened."

Tomix stared at him a bit, then turned away and grumbled something.

Aspar sighed. "Tomix, I'm sorry but could you say that again, louder please?"

"I was walking down the hall and these guys ambushed me!" He repeated. He exhaled loudly, and flumped himself down on the bed, past the point of caring about the paint he was getting all over the comforter.

Ah, well that would explain the paint. Aspar didn't even try to hide his frown, and offered the cup of tea to Tomix, who readily accepted it. Sad as it was to say, they'd gone through situations similar to this enough times for his charge to know that refusing the tea wouldn't do him any good.

"And, I take it you don't know these boys who jumped you?" Aspar said quietly.

Tomix shook his head and held out his now empty teacup, which Aspar quickly refilled.

"Did you get a good look at them? Like enough to recognize them if you saw them in the halls again?"

He shook his head again and Aspar sighed.

"…..Then those boys are probably gonna get off scott free then."

Tomix looked up from his tea, and nodded. "Yeah…"

"Well, maybe not," Aspar continued," I could talk to some of the other spirits, see if any of them were partnered. Maybe we could get some retribution going or something."

He could see Tomix mull it over for a bit, but ultimately he shook his head again. "Nah," he said, "then I'd probably just get in more trouble later. Look, can we just, not talk about this anymore?"

He smiled, slowly, softly, and nodded his head.

"So, what do you want to talk about then? Anything good happen today?"


NOTE: So after filling a few more drabble prompts on tumblr (and the warm reception one of them, Don't, received, I've decided to dump the rest of them here for your reading pleasure. Since this is a prompt dump, it'll only update when people send me things to write, so if you want me to update, send me a line on tumblr and I'll find a prompt list.