More unrelated drabbles, enjoy.
tresa_cho prompted: red marks. onesided Jake/Tobias
Jake ran his fingers over the three cuts on his shoulder. He knew that Tobias wasn't aware that he had done it. And if he did, Jake was worried that Tobias would stop using his shoulder as a perch. Something Jake was extremely reluctant to let happen. He felt calmer with the other boy there, each squeeze a reminder, any time Tobias would let his head bump Jake's gently. All of it made Jake relax, made the decisions feel lighter. Gave him strength that he was doing things right.
~Were you going to tell me?~ Jake's head snapped to the window to find Tobias perched on the sill.
"No," Jake pulled his collar back over the marks.
Tobias morphed and glared at Jake, pulling his shirt out of the way to run his own fingers over the cuts his hawk-body had left. Jake resisted the shuddered that fought to release, Tobias' hands were warm on his skin. "I wont sit ther-"
"You can still use my shoulder, I don't mind," Jake said quickly.
"How many times?" Tobias gave him the hard look that had come from being a hawk.
"What?"
"How many times have I left marks on you, have I scarred you?" Tobias inspected the other shoulder, leaning in closer to get a good look. His hot breath ghosted over Jake's skin and he did shudder.
"No," he snapped, yanking himself away from the other boy. "You've never scarred me, and you rarely leave marks. It only happens on stressful days." Which caused them to chuckle darkly, there were few days that weren't stressful. "I mean it, Tobias, it's cool."
Tobias looked unconvinced for a minute before reluctantly shrugging. "If you say so, but don't keep things like that from me. I would have made an effort to be gentle."
Jake wouldn't tell him that he wanted the physical reminder that Tobias had been there. "Okay, promise."
tresa_cho prompted: keeping it from Rachel. I strayed here but I was feeling angsty
It was hurried make-out sessions in the minutes before the others would show. It was Jake wondering into Tobias' territory and hiding from Ax, rolling around on the ground desperate for one more second of each others taste. It was fighting side by side.
It was making sure not to shout out the others name when they were hurt in battle. It was not looking at each other when they were in a group. It was Jake saying Cassie when he so desperately wanted to be saying Tobias; and Tobias remembering it was Rachel he was with.
It was hiding and lying. To their friends, their significant others (when they should have been each others, long ago.)
"I can't do this anymore..."
"What do you mean?"
"This! Lying to everyone, hiding from them. I can't do it anymore. It's too hard, we have too much on our shoulders already."
"Then...then we'll come clean."
"We can't do that...you know that."
It was hurting everyday, seeing the other with someone else.