anti-vinsky, an open post

[pillz]

leave me prompts or starters
or simply refer to this as an extremely important reference list
for our future adventures ◕‿◕✿

pothead better driver naps! hyperactive tree, furniture, and church climber cries about anything eerie not dangerous less hairgel!!

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[pillz]

As he watches the other boy's face sidelong, Joe's expression is wry. Happy, but also wry, not in that ironic-almost-sarcastic way that the hipsters of their generation tend to favor. He just looks at Ronan like this sometimes, like he can't believe him, and sometimes it's a bit bad, like when Ronan comes around with new scabs on his knuckles or wasn't in class at all, and other times it's definitely good-- like he can't believe someone who looks like Ronan is talking to him. And other times it's like this, somewhere in between, because he thinks Ronan is so brave and strong. If only he could be happy, too, but Joe will settle for handsomely tortured.

And then Joe instantly begins to look distracted. Not in a sexy way, either. He has an idea! And Ronan can tell, it's like in his brain the gerbil's wheel accelerated faster than his little legs could have caught up. So he stops thinking about Ronan's handsomeness, sitting up. "I know you're hitting on me," he announces, already turning away from what was definitely about to be a moment, "but we could totally do all three. And maybe that'll work. Dude." He leans over, hoists his backpack off the bed, and in a moment there's a laptop up, out, open, on, screen up.

"Look. Boom." He pulls Ronan's -- head, his coarse fingers slipping over the shaven bowl of his skull. He has the Alice in Wonderland movie on his computer. The 2010 one, with Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp in it. It's not a great retelling, and probably more likely to rupture Ronan's mind with its inaccuracies than soothe him with its familiarity, but Joe is excited at the prospect of his own genius, so. "Boom." Well at least it appears he's about to get a backrub out of it.

what fucking nerds >:I

[speedingtickets]

If only Joe had met the Ronan that existed before Niall Lynch's murder. The Ronan that spent more time poking around town with Gansey than drinking his nights away, that sat cross-legged in the floor of the various barns on his childhood property and played with the baby kittens that the barn cats so frequently produced. That teased and snarked at his older brother instead of fighting him with fists and busting his lip. A Ronan that laughed a lot more.

That Ronan is still alive, but buried so deep beneath so much shit that he's likely never coming back. He just has to learn how to move forward instead. Until then, he's stuck. Though Joe is trying valiantly to get him unstuck.

Joe gets that look, and Ronan knows what it means immediately. Another idea. The kid is fucking full of them, always making lists so he won't forget. At least it's probably a better use of his time than, say, drinking himself to death. Though, maybe, not better than allowing their moment and letting Ronan make a move.

He turns his head when Joe pulls at it, staring at the laptop screen. Naturally, the first words out of his mouth are, "Oh, come on. This is the shitty version." Though, to be fair, Ronan will always prefer to have it read out loud than watch any retelling of it.

[pillz]

"Boom," Joe insists loudly. He is definitely going to keep booming until Ronan complies, unless Ronan explicitly says No, which is something that he does respect (in this particular universe). It cannot be all that surprising, however, that while Lynch is contemplating his fate, he is very speedy to move the laptop over onto the other boy's lap. He also scootches himself back on the bed, moves the pillows. Bumps into Ronan's biceps with his knees, amid his effort to rearrange themselves into proper movie-watching backrub configurations.

This is actually inadvisable sleep hygiene, in case the audience is wondering. If you're trying to wind down for the night, you should not be watching movies in bed, never mind with jumpy boys who swing haphazardly between the urge to touch your beautiful body and try Eastern philosophical techniques. That really isn't going to condition the appropriate responses to bed and bedtime.

But now Ronan has a Joe leg on either side of him for am armrest, and a forefinger wandering up the back of his neck. The clouds above the Disney castle glow at him expectantly from the screen. "You're really heavy," he says, squeezing Ronan with his thighs; somehow manages not to sound like he's complaining. "On a scale of zero to ten where ten is you could pass out right now, how tired are you."

[speedingtickets]

Ronan does not, in fact, say no. But he does sigh heavily, roll his eyes, and make a note to find some better adaptions of Alice in Wonderland in the event something like this comes up again, just so he doesn't have to stare at Johnny Depp's face for two hours.

Not that he actually minds staring at Johnny Depp's face. He just prefers Captain Jack over the Mad Hatter.

He allows Joe to place the laptop in his lap, to rearrange the both of them into something more suitable for movie-watching-back-rubbing combos. It's not uncomfortable, despite how bony and angled Joe is, starkly opposite of Ronan's own lightly muscled frame.

"Everybody's really heavy compared to you," he says, settling back against Joe, frowning at the Disney opening on the screen. His arms rest lazily along the other's legs, fingers curling slightly around the underneath of his knees, thumbs brushing over bone through the fabric of his pants.

"I dunno, like--" He squints thoughtfully, his expression visible in the screen of the laptop when it dims to black briefly. "A four."

[pillz]

"That's pretty low," Joe says. He sounds more thoughtful about it than bothered, or possibly just distracted, his mind roaming further afield. In reality, the field is not all that far away. Although he tends to be a creature of numerous and slightly hyperactive ideas!! generation, Ronan has a way of keeping him here. Sometimes by simply needing help, that Joe is all too excited to trouble-shoot. Other times, you know. It's a lot more straightforward than that.

A hand on his leg, hooking underneath, broad fingers warming him through the denim. Maybe Joe should think about the logistics and fallout before he does things like, you know, offer to give a beautiful boy a backrub while they're in between his thighs. But logistics and fallout are really hard to think about when he's on the go.

The Disney castle glitters at them. The shooting star sparks over the steeple. Joe slides his fingers up the back of Ronan's neck slowly, thumbing around the subtle bump of vertebrates, trying to remember what he was thinking about. Umm. Sleepiness numbers. Yes-- a subjective rating scale. He feels for the tension he assumes is corded somewhere in Ronan's musculature. "You used to sleep good, right?"

[speedingtickets]

Ronan murmurs an affirmative without using any real words, but by making affirming-like noises. He's not looking at the screen anymore, because his head is tipped forward, basking in the feeling of Joe's long fingers against his neck. He does not generally let people get close enough to touch him, let alone stay still long enough for them to give him a fucking back massage.

Maybe he should, though. Or, at least, maybe he should start staying still long enough for Joe to do it. Even if he doesn't let anybody else.

He used to sleep well enough. Back when his life was more or less perfect, and he lived on a sprawling farm of cattle and barns, with a Disney Princess mother that cooked breakfast every morning and a father who came and went, but always returned with the most amazing gifts. Back before he found his father's broken body behind the BMW early one morning. Before his dreams were more nightmares than anything else.

He hates sleeping now. He really does.