thatfaeriechick:

blithefool:

And then there’s these dorks.

Shatterstar sleeps, but no one’s really sure when unless it’s after a
mission and he’s curled around Rictor. It’s tradition, even though they
all pretend to not notice the two boys slumped together on the couch
and Ric, for his part, can come up with a million excuses as to why
they’re napping together instead of anywhere else. He used his powers
like five times, which drains him, and I made a new crater you can see
from space so we’re just tired and we don’t wanna go upstairs….

Except
Ric sees the flaws in this– for one, Shatterstar has showered and
changed before curling around him. The warrior was fastidious about
being clean, something Ric wouldn’t have figured. It was having running,
clean water at his disposal, let alone hot running water. It was still a
novelty and ‘Star admitted a tad sheepishly that he liked being able to
clean off properly after a battle to get the gore and dirt off.
Mojoworld water came from a trough in the slave pens and left a chalky
residue on his skin and if it was hot, it was because the outside was
murky and humid. And for another, Ric had done the same thing, wearing a
smudged tank top whose words had long since flaked off from the many
washing it received.

And if Shatterstar’s face is half turned into
Rictor’s hair and if Rictor has melded his shoulders back into the
couch (and ‘Star’s torso), then it was only because they were tired and
didn’t want to go upstairs. It had nothing to do with Rictor’s hair
smelling like fresh shampoo and Shatterstar slept soundly with the t.v.
on and Rictor close by. And nothing to do with Rictor not dreaming of
Hodge whenever Shatterstar leaned against him, satisfied and satiated
after a good brawl with an enemy he was free to trounce. They were tired
and they didn’t want to go upstairs.

❤