Corny, corny, corny. So much Corn.


That very same day Boris and Pierce found themselves curled up together on the couch, with Pierce snuggled happily into the fluffy boa, and Archibald perched on the back of the cushion. Something had been bothering Pierce since earlier, and he finally decided to bring it up in the way that made most sense to him.

He pawed at Boris' arm in an attempt at getting his attention. It worked, and Boris looked down at him.

"Hm?"

Pierce took a deep breath and, with all of the energy he could muster, said only one word.

"Purr!"

Boris jumped at the exclamation, then had a moment of shock followed by utter bafflement, which he ended with the only words he could form.

"What?"

"Purr!"

"Yeah, I got that much. Why?"

"Well, you made that noise earlier when you were all happy, and now I'm happy, so I thought I could maybe do the same thing! Purr!"

Boris looked down at Pierce. He was confused, complimented, curious, and all in all radiating "Geez, this kid is so cute."

Pierce was staring at him expectantly, and Boris quickly realized he was supposed to respond. He really didn't want to, since he knew that if he opened his mouth again He'd say something really stupid. Pierce had told him time and time again that he's sappy, and when Pierce notices what a sap someone is, you know it's bad. One more, questioning "Purr?" from Pierce, and it was all over. Boris couldn't help but say the first thing that happened to come to his mind, which just so happened to be sappier then maple syrup.

"Jeez, if you keep that up I might get a cavity."

Pierce was utterly confused, and showed it very clearly.

"Huh?"

"'Cause, you're seriously too sweet sometimes, y'know that?"

He realized the sap he'd just let slip, but really didn't care at the moment. They were sitting forehead to forehead, and that horrible, corny statement earned a giggle from Pierce, followed by another "purr!", though this one wasn't yelled, just spoken. Boris resisted the urge to say something else horribly corny, and instead just gave a kiss on the cheek before leaning back into the cushion. Pierce settled back down onto the boa, and every once and awhile mumbled a small "Purr…" They stayed like that for quite some time, and after a very long silence, Pierce started fidgeting around once again. Boris once again decided to speak first, instead of just letting the squirming go on for forever.

"What's up?"

"I wanted to tell you something."

"And that is…?"

"I love you."

Boris looked down at him for what seemed the millionth time that day. He'd wriggled around so that he was facing Boris, and was watching him nervously.

"What brought that up all of a sudden?"

"Well, I'd realized earlier that I'd never said that to you. So I thought I should do that. Yeah."

Boris thought for a second and realized that it had been the first time he'd ever heard those particular words directed at him.

"Well, I love you too. Now shush so I can take a nap."

And that was exactly what he did.


Author's Notes:

-Archibald! I missed you so!

-This was actually really, really freakin' fun to write.

-Aha, remember my Maple-syrup sap from the first one? It's baaaack.

Serious Notes:

This was seriously the most fun I've had in ages. This idea was actually why I wanted to do the chapter about fighting. I feel like it might be a bit OOC, but I don't really know what Affectionate!Boris is like. He feels like he'd have to modes, Imma-make-out-with-you and cuddly/sappy/adorable.

Really, I love this. It's really longer then an extra should be, but oh well. Just the images I get for this are too cute for words. Plus I realized I hadn't had Pierce say "I love you" yet. That's sort of important.

See ya with the next chapter,

Ali.