Pick Up [Part 7]
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esp_dragonFandom: Noblesse
Summary: M-21's a little tired after the spar.
Rating: G
Notes: Maybe I should have wrote this at the end of the 6th part, whoops.
Yet another 'I thought this wasn't even going to be 50 words at most'.
Genre: Family
Word count: 746
Total word count: 5,091
Status: Work in progress
M-21 looked exhausted. Just a little bit. To the point his eyes were fluttering before he forced himself awake that little bit longer. M-21 and Muzaka had come back to the house just as the plates were being put on the table, and seeing how M-21 didn't have a shirt on at the time, Tao guessed Muzaka had been able to at least get M-21 to transform.
"You should go to bed," Muzaka said, tilting his head at M-21 aaand Tao predicted the exact seconds of when M-21 squared his shoulders and pursed his lips.
"I'm fine." Which totally meant he wasn't and at this point, Tao would have been dragging M-21 to his bedroom because sometimes you had to give M-21 the option to refuse, to let him decide on his own, and others you had to match M-21's stubbornness or else he would run himself into the ground just to prove he was 'fine'.
Except Muzaka backed off with a nod and hm, Tao could work with Boss to create a booklet on M-21's tells, or maybe he would let Muzaka work it out for himself. M-21 could react differently to Muzaka so saying how M-21 acted around the rest of the household could mean he was shooting himself in the foot.
They finished dinner soon after that, Regis clearing the table. And as Tao thought he would, M-21 went to the living room rather than further into the house to go to his room. Damn.
Muzaka was there first, throwing himself onto the sofa with a sigh, turning on the TV. M-21 sat down next to him, and – yep, barely three seconds and M-21 was already out, his head resting on the back.
Tao's eyebrows rose when Muzaka reached around and tugged M-21 over so his head was on his shoulder instead. The fact M-21 didn't wake up from either the touch or movement said just how tired he was.
And Tao had been so distracted he hadn't noticed the puppy at their feet until Muzaka huffed, saying, "Yeah, yeah, I heard you the first time, hold on."
Muzaka kept a hold of M-21 as he reached over and scooped the puppy up, holding him up to his face for a few seconds for the puppy to lick his lips and then set him down on his lap.
"Ah…" Tao said, watching what was happening. The puppy wasn't allowed on the sofa, but the puppy wasn't technically on the sofa and since Tao couldn't feel Boss' aura prickling his skin, Boss had to be okay with it too.
Muzaka raised both his eyebrows in his direction and Tao shook his head. He'll tell Muzaka later. Just so long as the puppy didn't need to go to the toilet it'd be fine, and there had been enough talks with the puppy that he understood to go outside now for that.
The puppy yawned wide and curled up in the gap between M-21 and Muzaka's legs. Huh, were all of them going to sleep?
Click.
Tao looked left and it was Boss' master that had his phone up, pointed towards the three on the sofa.
All Muzaka did was twitch his lips in amusement before he started petting the puppy.
When Boss' master turned to leave, Tao followed – M-21 was going to feel embarrassed enough that he'd slept on someone; knowing he'd had an audience would make him feel worse.
Everyone else had the same idea and once the living room door was shut, Tao said, "Huh, I hadn't thought Muzaka would do that." Okay, he did have a grasp of what Muzaka was like in the short while he'd been in the house, but Tao hadn't thought Muzaka would have been open enough to pull M-21 over either.
"Ah," Boss said, humming. "Werewolves have a tendency of sleeping in…'puppy piles', if you will. Though, as Lord," Boss continued, "Muzaka wouldn't have been able to do that in case he was attacked during then."
"That doesn't sound like a lot of fun," Tao murmured, frowning. Hm, maybe he should set something up so Muzaka could sleep in piles with people. He'd have to find out who was willing to first.
He grinned. And it was good that everyone was here already. "Sooo, I've got a question for you all."
The looks he got back said most of them already had an idea what he was going to ask. Heh, good. That would make things quicker.
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This part wanted to end here, so I'll pick it up later. X3
Summary: M-21's a little tired after the spar.
Rating: G
Notes: Maybe I should have wrote this at the end of the 6th part, whoops.
Yet another 'I thought this wasn't even going to be 50 words at most'.
Genre: Family
Word count: 746
Total word count: 5,091
Status: Work in progress
M-21 looked exhausted. Just a little bit. To the point his eyes were fluttering before he forced himself awake that little bit longer. M-21 and Muzaka had come back to the house just as the plates were being put on the table, and seeing how M-21 didn't have a shirt on at the time, Tao guessed Muzaka had been able to at least get M-21 to transform.
"You should go to bed," Muzaka said, tilting his head at M-21 aaand Tao predicted the exact seconds of when M-21 squared his shoulders and pursed his lips.
"I'm fine." Which totally meant he wasn't and at this point, Tao would have been dragging M-21 to his bedroom because sometimes you had to give M-21 the option to refuse, to let him decide on his own, and others you had to match M-21's stubbornness or else he would run himself into the ground just to prove he was 'fine'.
Except Muzaka backed off with a nod and hm, Tao could work with Boss to create a booklet on M-21's tells, or maybe he would let Muzaka work it out for himself. M-21 could react differently to Muzaka so saying how M-21 acted around the rest of the household could mean he was shooting himself in the foot.
They finished dinner soon after that, Regis clearing the table. And as Tao thought he would, M-21 went to the living room rather than further into the house to go to his room. Damn.
Muzaka was there first, throwing himself onto the sofa with a sigh, turning on the TV. M-21 sat down next to him, and – yep, barely three seconds and M-21 was already out, his head resting on the back.
Tao's eyebrows rose when Muzaka reached around and tugged M-21 over so his head was on his shoulder instead. The fact M-21 didn't wake up from either the touch or movement said just how tired he was.
And Tao had been so distracted he hadn't noticed the puppy at their feet until Muzaka huffed, saying, "Yeah, yeah, I heard you the first time, hold on."
Muzaka kept a hold of M-21 as he reached over and scooped the puppy up, holding him up to his face for a few seconds for the puppy to lick his lips and then set him down on his lap.
"Ah…" Tao said, watching what was happening. The puppy wasn't allowed on the sofa, but the puppy wasn't technically on the sofa and since Tao couldn't feel Boss' aura prickling his skin, Boss had to be okay with it too.
Muzaka raised both his eyebrows in his direction and Tao shook his head. He'll tell Muzaka later. Just so long as the puppy didn't need to go to the toilet it'd be fine, and there had been enough talks with the puppy that he understood to go outside now for that.
The puppy yawned wide and curled up in the gap between M-21 and Muzaka's legs. Huh, were all of them going to sleep?
Click.
Tao looked left and it was Boss' master that had his phone up, pointed towards the three on the sofa.
All Muzaka did was twitch his lips in amusement before he started petting the puppy.
When Boss' master turned to leave, Tao followed – M-21 was going to feel embarrassed enough that he'd slept on someone; knowing he'd had an audience would make him feel worse.
Everyone else had the same idea and once the living room door was shut, Tao said, "Huh, I hadn't thought Muzaka would do that." Okay, he did have a grasp of what Muzaka was like in the short while he'd been in the house, but Tao hadn't thought Muzaka would have been open enough to pull M-21 over either.
"Ah," Boss said, humming. "Werewolves have a tendency of sleeping in…'puppy piles', if you will. Though, as Lord," Boss continued, "Muzaka wouldn't have been able to do that in case he was attacked during then."
"That doesn't sound like a lot of fun," Tao murmured, frowning. Hm, maybe he should set something up so Muzaka could sleep in piles with people. He'd have to find out who was willing to first.
He grinned. And it was good that everyone was here already. "Sooo, I've got a question for you all."
The looks he got back said most of them already had an idea what he was going to ask. Heh, good. That would make things quicker.
This part wanted to end here, so I'll pick it up later. X3