A/N: Tori comes home late from a trip and finds Jade asleep in bed with a video game she'd originally said was dumb.
"Jade?" Tori called. "I'm home."
Even though it was nearly midnight, Jade had made Tori promise that whatever time it was when she got back home, even if Jade was asleep, she'd wake her to let her know she'd made it back safely. She had traveled to Los Angeles from New York to visit her parents and sister for a long weekend trip, while Jade had stayed for work and to take care of things while she was gone.
Tori quietly walked down the apartment's dark hallway, her carry on bag slung over her shoulder, neck pillow still hanging around her neck. She couldn't see any light coming from the living room or kitchen area (as expected due to what time it was), so immediately headed towards her and Jade's bedroom.
She immediately saw a faint light coming from their bed, and in its glow she saw Jade was asleep. Smiling, Tori dropped her bag at the door and carefully made her way to the bed, easing herself next to Jade. The gamepad was still clutched loosely in Jade's hands, and Tori had to bite her lip from laughing at what she saw on the dim screen.
The game Jade had been playing (assumedly to try to keep herself awake so she'd be able to welcome Tori home) was the game she'd pointed out on the EShop. She and Jade had been browsing for a new game to download and play on the Switch, having exhausted all their other game options (Jade had beat Tori thoroughly in Mario Kart, island building was going slowly in Animal Crossing, and fighting each other as their favorite Nintendo characters over and over had lost its charm).
They had bought, downloaded, and ultimately went into Untitled Goose Game with no expectations, just to try to cure their boredom. Jade had quickly grown bored of it and had handed the game over to Tori to play, claiming it was stupid. No matter how much Tori had tried to get Jade to play, she'd been unsuccessful, and had finally just given up and played it herself.
Now, apparently Jade had given it another chance, and Tori realized that she'd actually gotten pretty far into the game (even though it was a short game, meant to be beaten in a few hours, Jade had gotten to the final area before apparently falling asleep, something Tori hadn't even done in the little bit that she'd played it). She looked back at Jade's face, still illuminated by the screen, and decided she looked peaceful enough that she had probably been sleeping for a while and wouldn't wake up. Tori reached up and gently took the gamepad out of Jade's hands, taking it into her own hands. She was going to just save Jade's game and turn the Switch off before snuggling into bed next to Jade, letting her wake up next to her instead of trying to wake her and let her know she was home instead, even though that was what Jade had asked her to do.
Her mission probably would have been successful if her thumb hadn't brushed one of the buttons as she grasped the gamepad and made the Goose honk, ultimately scaring herself and making Jade wake up from the sound of her getting scared.
"What the f— oh, Tori," Jade gasped, eyes popping open and head turning towards the source of the noise.
"Hey, babe," Tori sheepishly looked at Jade in the game screen's glow. "I'm home."
"You're home," Jade said, sighing as she came down from her scare. "And you thought you'd let me know by waking me up with that dumb goose game, huh?"
"If you think it's so dumb, why were you playing it?" Tori asked. Jade gave a noncommittal shrug.
"I wasn't really into it, just wanted to do something to try to stay awake to see you and the other games weren't doing it for me."
"You weren't into it, but you made it to the last area?" Tori asked, raising an eyebrow. Jade shrugged again.
"Don't worry about it," she said, before reaching one hand to Tori. "Now give it back, I have to finish the to do list for this area."
"You do like the game," Tori said with a grin, immediately handing the game back. Jade snorted.
"No, I don't. I just don't want to stop now when I'm so close to beating it."
Tori was too tired to argue and simply laid against Jade's arm, settling in to watch as she continued with the tasks.
"Oh, and I'm glad you're home," Jade said, leaning over to kiss the top of Tori's head, before immediately looking back at her game. "I missed you a lot."
Tori snuggled into Jade's arm, also glad to be back home.
A/N: Have y'all played Untitled Goose Game? It's great, 12/10, highly recommended game.
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