chapter 3

“You didn’t specify how,” Atsushi says smugly as they leave the nursery. Akutagawa hits the light switch as they pass through the doorway.

Atsushi snickers when he tosses Akutagawa down on the bed in Chuuya’s room and receives several jumbled death threats.

“You’re tired, Ryuu. Go to sleep.” Atsushi pauses as he reaches out for the light switch. “And take that coat off before you rip the seams in the middle of the night.”

“I’m not the one that thrashes like a wild animal,” Akutagawa grumbles, sitting up to shrug the tan coat off his shoulders in the dark.

Atsushi takes the coat from him and folds it halfway, hanging it over the chair in front of Chuuya’s vanity. He turns back and stares at Akutagawa. “You can get into bed, you know. The sheets won’t bite you.”

Akutagawa shudders. “They had s3x in here.”

“Mm, I really don’t think you should be as worried about that as the fact that they’ve probably had s3x on our couch too.”

“Oh, you didn’t have to bring that up!”

“I’m just saying. At least the sheets get washed.”

“Shut up!”

Atsushi snickers as Akutagawa shuffles under the covers and sticks his head under the pillow, grumbling muffled words into the mattress. “You’re so cute.”

“Fvck off! I’m going to throw up!”

“Please don’t. I’m not keen on washing vomit out of the bedsheets.”

“I hate you,” Akutagawa snaps, but he doesn’t complain as Atsushi lifts the pillow off his head to grin at him. “Go away.”

“I believe you said you didn’t want me to.”

“I said I didn’t want you to leave. I am perfectly fine with banishing you to the couch.”

“Ha! As if you remember how to fall asleep alone.”

“Shut up,” Akutagawa mutters, with significantly less bite.

“C’mere.”

Akutagawa complies, sighing softly as Atsushi wraps his arms around him and kisses his shoulder. “You are unfairly calming.”

“Sorry,” Atsushi says. There is a blissful moment of silence before he speaks again. “What did that note actually say? You didn’t look like it was just a s3x joke.”

“I mean . . . the s3x joke was there.”

“But?”

“But . . . he also told me to take care of his coat.”

Atsushi smiles. “That’s cute. He left it for you.”

“Don’t say it like that. I’m sure he just means while he’s little.”

“We’ll see when the ability wears off.”

“Mm. I suppose.”

Atsushi sits up suddenly, jostling Akutagawa and pulling forth indistinguishable death threats. “I’ve just had the greatest idea ever.”

“Congratulations. Can we go the **** to sleep, now?”

“Yes, yes, sorry.”

Akutagawa hums happily when Atsushi’s arm slips under his head again.

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Gin wakes up in the middle of her bed as morning begins to turn to afternoon and yawns. She edges away from Hirotsu, who is courteously keeping to the edge of the bed, and faces Tachihara, who is starfished over half the bed and snoring lightly. She kicks him off the bed.

“Hey, ow!”

...To be continued. ...

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