It's random fluffy and not an old fiction it got in my head and was so cute I wrote it down. Any ways I don't own the characters man on man love and cuteness and fluff warnings here at the start. Please be kind about spelling and grammar I have dyslexia and I do the best I can with the aid of my assistive technology.
Sportacus's gift
(Also known as Sportacus's Kitten)
Part one:
The hero of Lazy town was looking forward to today with great excitement, it was after all his birthday, this usually meant, lots of fun games, sports and sports candy. It also meant a day of peace from rescues as the children behaved themselves for the day and even the local villain had taken to not bothering to cause trouble that day any more. Sportacus couldn't help but wonder if this year like so many others if he would get a gift from his unknown sender. It had all started a few years back, a present wrapped in plane white paper, tied with a blue ribbon knotted with a simple blue bow with no card and thus it had continued every year since without fail. Whoever sent him this gift picked things that the blond man always loved, they were usually different from the other gifts he received but at the same time wonderful. Sportacus often wondered who sent these gifts but despite doing his best to try to find out who this mysterious gift giver was the person had remained unknown to him.
When the note from the kids arrived to tell him that he could come down from the airship for his birthday party the blue clad hero wasted no time in getting there. As always the decorations and balloons were all in white and blue, there was a huge pile of presents waiting for the hero and a birthday cake well a cake made from fruit. When Sportacus arrived all the residents of the town cheered, the blond smiled round at them before settling down to start opening his gifts. From Pixel was a CD of work out videos, Ziggy's gift was a new pair of winter gloves and Stingy managed to give the hero a coin with great difficulty. From the mayor Sportacus received a flower for the airship bread from his beloved Gloria and Bessie's gift was unsurprisingly a mobile phone. Trixie had made him a CD of her best mixes for the hero to work out to and Stephanie's present was a book titled the history of hero's.
The blond hero thanked everyone for their gifts before moving to the last one as always white, with its blue ribbon. Carefully Sportacus opened it, the gift was a bow and quiver of arrows, they were magnificent and clearly well made making the active man wonder how and where his gift giver had managed to get them from. Then the hero noticed that another piece of blue ribbon sat on the edge of the gift table going under it. Curious Sportacus placed his birthday present to one side to look under the table and when he did a pair of blue eyes met his and a cute little mew issued forth from the kitten who was sitting beside all the supplies he would need to take care of grey little creature. Surprised the blond man carefully brought the kitten out from under the table, round her neck was the blue ribbon so this was obviously part of his gift.
It was Stephanie who noticed the kitten first. "Oh how cute! Who gave you the kitten for a gift Sportacus?"
"I don't know the kitten came with the bow and arrows."
"Ah your mysterious gift giver is at it again. It's so cute though."
The hero looked at the kitten again and then back to the pink haired young woman standing before him. "It's a she."
"Aw she has your eyes. What are you going to call her?"
The blue clad man pondered that for a moment at he began to stroke the kittens grey fur. "I think she should be Sky."
The kitten mewed and Stephanie laughed gently. "I think she likes that."
Sportacus smiled himself. "Yes I think she does too. I've always wanted a kitten, but...Well the airship isn't a good place for a kitten."
"Somehow I think Sky will be fine." Stephanie said with assurance.
Everyone was rather surprised when latter in the day the Lazy Town villain made an appearance. As soon as Stephanie noticed him her hands were at her waist and she was glaring at the taller man. "Robbie Rotten what are you doing here?!"
"I haven't come to cause trouble missy as hard as that maybe to believe. I came to warn you all that the weathers on the change, a bad storm is rolling in."
The residents of the town save the hero looked up at the cleat blue sunny sky then to the villain and laughed. "Yeah right Robbie good one." Trixie said to him.
The raven haired man shook his head, shrugged and muttered to himself. "Well I tried." Robbie turned away and walked off back towards his home. Something in Sportacus however made him remotely program the airship for bad weather so he knew his home would be safe if the other man turned out to be right about the change in the weather.
Scarcely fifteen minutes later everyone was running inside the mayor's house as rain started to fall in torrents, the wind howled lightning flashed and thunder shook the town. Hunkered together inside the residents of Lazy Town looked at each other then back at the terrible weather outside. "It looks like we owe Robbie an apology." Stephanie said softly to the others. There was a lot of nodding as she spoke.
"I'm glad something in me made me listen to Robbie so that I remotely programmed the airship for rough weather." Sportacus said looking back outside as parts of trees fell and rain continued to pour from the now black sky.
"It doesn't look like it's going to stop for some time." The mayor said with concern.
Sure enough the storm took several hours to blow it's self out. "I better get back to the airship and make sure everything is alright."
No one argued with her hero as he said this, quickly Sportacus went back to his airship, he was glad to find it in one piece thanks to Robbie's warning. The hero brought all of his gifts up to his home in the sky, he watched with delight as Sky explored her new home. Now more than ever Sportacus wished that he could thank the one who had brought him such wonderful gifts.
Over the next few days and weeks Sportacus got use to the new feline on the airship, Sky was a happy energetic inquisitive ball of fluff and he adored her. The hero soon fell into a new routine that involved Sky he would get up, make his bed, get them both breakfast and then do his morning exercises while Sky would sit and watch him her little head following his every move. Once this was done Sportacus would then pop her in his sky chaser and leave the airship for his morning jog whilst Sky would wander round Lazy Town for the rest of the day. The kitten enjoyed being petted and played with by the residents of the town and the hero always knew she was safe with his friends.
Today however things were a little different from normal Sportacus had not been able to find his kitten in any of her usual favourite spots. The blond man and the rest of the town were now helping him look for Sky and the more time it took to find her, the more worried the hero was becoming. Ziggy cam running up to Sportacus, he quickly grabbed the older man's hand and spoke to him breathlessly. "I found Sky you are not going to believe this. Come on!"
With a frown on his face the blue eyed man allowed Ziggy to guide him. Sure enough when they came to a halt and Sportacus took in the scene before him he wasn't quite sure he was seeing what he was. Robbie lay on the bench in front of them, the tall man was fast asleep, settled on his chest also asleep was Sky, one of the villains long pale hands lay on her back keeping the kitten safely in place on his chest. The two were completely unaware of their audience and carried on snoozing together their breaths seeming to come in almost perfect synchronicity.
Quickly and quietly Sportacus ushered Ziggy away asking him in soft tones to tell the others that Sky had been found so they could stop looking for her now. Once the young man was gone the hero turned back to the sleeping pair, the athletic man couldn't stop his eyes from roving over the long slender form of Robbie. Even as he caught himself looking at the villain like this Sportacus found that he didn't want to stop looking in fact the hero found that he wanted to touch Robbie, hold him, explore the contours of that long lean looking body. The urge to kiss the other man was so strong that it almost took the breath of the hero away and left Sportacus wondering for how long he had been falling in love with the town villain without knowing it.
As the athletic man considered this he came to the conclusion that he had started to fall in love with Robbie a long time ago it was just until now he had never realized what the feeling was. Considering how much time the taller man invested in annoying the blue clad hero it was hardly surprising to his mind that he would not have realized that he had fallen really hard for Robbie and looking back he could now see that the slender villain also had feelings for him that he had been trying to hide using his evil ways.
For some reason as the raven haired man began to stir from his rest the hero found himself ducking out of sight behind one of Lazy Towns many yellow walls. Carefully Sportacus watched round the side of the wall as Robbie lay quietly stroking Sky for a few moments before speaking to the kitten. "Come missy, you need to be getting up I'm sure you'll have your owner worried by now."
Slowly the grey kitten woke, she mewed at Robbie and he chuckled at her with genuine amusement. "No you can't go back to sleep. I know I've disturbed you Miss Sky but you have to go home now."
Sky gave another mew before batting playfully at the tall man. "No you can't stay here with me. You have to get back to Sportacus."
As the villain spoke his name so softly and in its complete form for once the hero let it wash over him and could almost imagine how Robbie would sound whispering his name to him as they lay in bed beside each other.
The kitten gave out another mew. "No we can't play anymore today but we can play tomorrow I promise." As he spoke the tall man didn't jerk up like he usually did but slowly somehow almost elegantly Robbie sat up before placing his feet to the ground lifting Sky with him as he went.
Carefully the villain placed the grey kitten down on her paws. "Now off you go."
Sky turned she looked back at Robbie and mewed again. "Oh don't give me the big blue eyes it's bad enough when your owner does that to me. The amount of times I've come close to kissing him because of those eyes of his. Now go on you." As he finished speaking the tall man made shooing gestures with his hands towards Sky.
Very reluctantly the kitten padded off towards the airship, Sportacus moved carefully making sure Robbie wouldn't see that he had been there at all. Once the hero was sure he was far enough away he came out of hiding and ran to the meeting point he found Sky there and sighed. "Here you are I was worried about you!" Quickly the blond scooped up his kitten and gave her a pet before carefully tucking her away for the journey home. One thing was for sure the hero thought as he made his way back to the airship he had found out some interesting things today and now he had a lot to think about.
There was one thing Sportacus came to realize as he thought about Robbie, as well as all he had seen and heard that day. This was that he didn't even know when the other man's birthday was, he didn't know anything really about Robbie at all. It was rather galling to realize that despite the fact he taught the kids about playing fairly and treating everyone in the same way the whole town treated Robbie like some form of outcast. As the hero thought this he could suddenly understand why the other man acted out the way he did so often, it was the only time that his existence was ever acknowledged. This led Sportacus to wonder what Robbie might be like if he were included, if someone cared for him treated him like a person rather than a pain. Sure the blond had tried a few times to befriend him but the taller man seemed to shy away from him and the hero couldn't help but wonder if it was because he wasn't use to friendship. Sportacus was well aware that his over active nature rubbed Robbie the wrong way, which led the athletic man to think that maybe when interacting with the villain it might be wise to try to slow down a little.
Sure enough when Sportacus next encountered the villain, he carefully encouraged the other man to try joining in their game of basketball. At first Robbie was rather reluctant, but eventually he started to join in. When the kids laughed because the slender man wasn't very good at the game and got out of breath quickly, the hero was hasty to remind them that they had at one time also not been very good at basketball and that it was not very nice to tease Robbie so. When he had finished chastising the children the blond had turned to find the villain staring at him with wide wonder filled grey eyes. Sportacus shot the stunned man a smile and addressed him directly. "We all take time to learn and not everyone learns at the same speed. Why don't you try again Robbie?"
The purple clad man gave him a nod he tried without success to get the ball through the hoop once again. Robbie let out an aggravated growl, Sportacus walked over to him gently he placed a hand on his shoulder and addressed the man. "You can do it."
Robbie's grey eyes darted to the hand on his shoulder, then to the man the hand belonged to and the villain took a deep breath. "I'll try again."
"Good, the more you try the more likely you are to get it right."
This time the tall man took a longer time to position himself, before trying to get the ball through the hoop and sure enough it sailed through causing Robbie to stair wide eyed with disbelief and Sportacus to hug him. "I did it..." The villain said with surprise, he then froze slightly as the ever enthusiastic hero despite his best attempts not to overdo things hugged him hard.
Slowly Robbie returned the hug and after a few moments the two men released each other both blushing furiously. Quickly Sportacus went after the ball he soon found it and returned it to the other man who was now watching him closely with those assessing grey eyes of his. "Want to try again?" The athletic man asked with happiness.
Thoughtfully the raven haired man bounced the ball for a few moments, before passing it flawlessly to Stephanie, she caught it giggled and then through it to Pixel who passed it onto Sportacus and so it went on. Although this was not basketball it was a pleasant enough game the hero decided and one that suited the villain down to the ground. Soon though the kids wanted to change games, Robbie didn't grumble but let them do so and sat down nearby to watch them play. When it was time for the youngsters to go home Sportacus was glad to see that Robbie was still settled on the bench. The hero waved the kids off, then made sure to walk not run over to were the other man sat and settle slowly on the bench beside him.
There was a long silence between the two men as they just sat side by side looking at the now deserted sports field. Rather surprisingly it was Robbie who broke the silence between them as he said in a soft wistful voice. "Thank you for today. I've not had that kind of fun for a very long time."
"You're welcome Robbie. You are welcome to join in with us any time you like you know." The hero assured him with a wide friendly smile.
Slowly the raven haired man smiled back, Sportacus had never seen the other man smile before it was an expression which rendered him handsome and friendly looking. "I suppose I should really head back to the lair."
"Yes it is getting late." Despite saying this neither man moved. "You know I realized something."
"What's that?"
"I realized that I don't really know anything about you at all."
The villain turned to face the hero. "What did you want to know?"
"Well are you from Lazy Town or some were else?"
"I'm from right here. I'm older than you at thirty five."
"Wow five years my senior I had no idea. When is your birthday? I know you know mine so I'd like to know yours."
Slowly the raven haired man smiled softly. "Tomorrow is my birthday."
Sportacus stared at him for a long moment. "Oh my you should have said something."
"It's alright, I plan to eat cake and spend a peaceful day in."
"That's no way to spend a birthday!" The hero told him emphatically.
Robbie laughed, the athletic man decided he liked the other mans laugh. "It is the way I have spent most of my birthdays."
Sportacus put his hands on his waist and glared at the other man. "Well not this year is going to be different!"
His words caused the villain to raise both brows at the blond. "Oh why is this year going to be different from any other?"
"Because I'm going to make sure you are not alone for your birthday."
"You want to spend my birthday with me?" The villain asked the disbelief in his voice very clear.
"No Robbie I'm not just going to spend your birthday with you, I'm going to celebrate your birthday with you."
The grey eyes widened, the tall man stared at the blond beside him, Sportacus smiled widely at him and slowly Robbie smiled back. "Thank you I'd like that very much."
"Good I'm glad to hear it. So what time should I come to the lair?"
"Around ten in the morning would be best it would give me some time to have woken up and sorted things out for the day."
"Alright ten tomorrow it is!" This said Sportacus bounced to his feet, smiled at Robbie and then flipped off home.
The villain watched the other man go slightly confused but never the less very happy that he was to have some company for his birthday tomorrow. At a much more leisurely pace than the hero had used Robbie got to his feet and wondered home thinking the whole way there what he might have in the lair that the blue clad man could eat safely.