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Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:31 pm
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The only thing rarer than a day off for one of them was a day off for both. It was honestly like winning the lottery or getting picked for a dream vacation in a contest you never entered. No complaints, Jamie would take it, same way he'd take the extra sleep that had him snoozing next to Shiloh up until the very moment he started complaining like his stomach was eating itself.
"Huh, wha-?" he mumbled eloquently, eyes creaking open, squinting even in the dim light. "What time is it...?"
Rolling over, he picked up his phone and was greeted with a way-too-bright 10:47 am. They sure had slept in. "It's almost lunchtime... we can get something." Not that he was making much of a move, at least not until he heard the chirping. It was somewhere between a bird and a kitten, Jamie thought, and it was a little disconcerting.
"You hear that?"
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:48 pm
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"Sounds kinda weird." Even so, Jamie let his phone drop uselessly near his pillow as he relaxed back against Shiloh. It was hard to resist cuddles, nearly impossible, and he let his curiosity go for a few minutes. It was probably just a bird perched a bit too close to the window. He shut his eyes.
Except it couldn't last forever, not even the comfortable curve of his boyfriend's body could totally banish the wonder at the back of Jamie's mind. With his eyes closed he looked gone to the world, but his mind was very much awake, buzzing with questions, poking, prodding. Eventually it was too much to take. He reached back to Shiloh's hip, his touch momentary and apologetic, before he wiggle-wormed his way out of bed. It was cold, but he pushed past the chill.
"Hey, Shiloh...?" was what he said after a brief moment of silence. His hands were on the windowsill and his lip was pressed between his teeth.
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:21 pm
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"It's not a bird," he said, totally ignoring the dramatics going on down there. It was something he was used to, not because Shiloh alone did it often, but because they both pulled it on each other. They were silly like that. "It's a... Okay, look, you gotta get up and see this. I'm not even kidding." Where Jamie might've sounded calm before, his voice picked up and his body language said he was trying not to get weird about it.
Stooping back to the bed, he shook Shiloh's shoulder urgently. "Shiloh, come ooooon."
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:32 pm
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Shiloh groaned. "Alright, alright..." He finally sat upright (not unlike a vampire rising from the grave) and stretched lazily. He was taking his sweet a** time, his spine popped, his arms popped, his shoulders stretched towards the sky. Finally he scratched a spot on his side before meandering up behind Jamie.
What greeted him was really ******** weird. On the windowsill—rather, like, one of his potted plants (which was now lacking a plant)—was a small... tiny... thing. He realized with a start that he had seen a thing like this in Court, but it wasn't like this. This was small. It looked like a ******** bean and it had these little... appendages that were flailing all over the place. It rolled over and chirped, somehow, because it was sure as hell lacking a mouth.
"What the ******** is that." He said, both nonchalant and urgent at the same time.
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:39 pm
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Honestly, Jamie had been trying to decide since before properly rousing Shiloh just what the ******** it was. As they stood there gawking he still hadn't quite decided, not until that very moment. The words spilled out of his mouth like a waterfall, "It's a bean," he whispered harshly, not knowing they were both traveling the same line of thought. There simply wasn't another word to adequately describe the tiny, pitiful little thing.
"Look at it, oh my god," his voice was somewhere between incredulous and affectionate in the way someone might be towards a newborn kitten who was pretty damn cute, admittedly, but also a wet, wrinkly, kinda gross mess. "Where did it come from??" Now he was back to shaking Shiloh's arm.
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:54 pm
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"It's kind of cute," is what Jamie opted for, a direct contrast to Shiloh's choice, but he had this sneaking suspicion they both felt the same way. It was cute, but also a little disgusting. "Oh no, the poor thing, I wonder if that's why it was chirping so much..." Gently, carefully despite not going directly for the bean, Jamie cupped his hand beneath Shiloh's as if it might add more warmth.
"Y'know, I think you got this, though," he said next after a short moment of deliberation. It was a joke, sure, but it was also an attempt to calm the storm that brewed beneath the otherwise tranquil surface. It would be okay.
"You're like... a plant dad- Wait, do I get to be a dad now, too?"
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Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 7:06 pm
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There was no pulling the logic and reason card when Shiloh got like this. It would've made sense for Jamie to mention how tiny the bean-baby was and how unlikely it was it would be picking up anything, let alone a baseball, anytime soon, but he didn't bother. Instead he opted for the it's okay, boo back rub between the shoulder blades, only stopping when it became apparent that Shiloh wasn't gonna be chilling until he had a bean-less moment to really contemplate life.
Jamie took the bean. Honestly, it was like it wasn't even there, light as a goddamn feather. Its tiny limbs felt like a stray hair did when it brushed past your nose. For a moment he held his breath, afraid exhaling too hard would send the thing tumbling straight out of his hands and to its premature doom.
"I've got it," he finally said, quietly and without much mouth movement. "Hey, it's... it's gonna be okay, you know." Of all the things magic had thrown at them, this was pretty weird, but also not trying to kill them. Yet.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:29 am
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"I'm not gonna squash it," Jamie assured, trying not to laugh at how quickly Shiloh changed his tune when the bean was out of his protection. It would be fine, though, because he was just as worried about accidentally crushing the tiny lump and so was watching his own movements like a goddamn hawk. "Look at it... it's so..." He bit his lip. Those eyes. So small, but so there, reminding Jamie all over again that this moment was very real. Somehow, through Shiloh's plant magic he could only assume, this creature had been created.
Jamie's instinct was to assure Shiloh a second time then, to tell him he wasn't gonna die, but instead he went with what his heart was telling him. "I think I'm gonna die, too..."
He had to sit down. Moving back to the bed, tucking his feet up under him, he settled on the edge. The bean was secure, still cradled and round and definitely warmer than before in his palm.
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Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2017 10:05 am
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"I just..." He sighed, moving to follow Jamie, still hovering over him like a hawk, "I don't ******** know how this happened." He set his chin on Jamie's shoulder, eyes downcast on the rolling bean child. "Actually..." He squinted.
"I was in Court the other day and I saw something like this, but it was bigger." He held his fingers out for comparison, "Like, an inch or so." He made the approximation between his index finger and his thumb. "But it wasn't all... gross looking like that."
Shiloh let his eyes close for a second, the full weight of his head relaxed against Jamie's frame. When he opened them again they were calmer, softer. "Should we name it?"
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