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POSTED ON Nov 13, 2022 3:02:18 GMT

Kepler frowns more, even as Ash tilts his head up.

“I don’t want you to have to reshape your entire life just to accommodate me,” he says, mad at himself for bringing it up. He’s mad at himself for a lot of things: mad that he’s being a problem, mad that he can’t just take this for the opportunity that it is, mad that he has to overthink it into the fucking ground.

But he is Kepler Brueshaber and thinking is what he does.

Ash’s admin crack breaks through the clouds, a bit, and he smiles.

“I have full faith in you,” he says, genuine, closing his eyes as Ash’s lips brush his forehead; when his boyfriend lays his head back, Kep rests on Ash’s chest, ear over his heart, listening to the rhythm of it. He hears it pick up and has a belated thought, looking up at Ash with a grin.

“Do I make you nervous?”

It was an almost impossible thought. Kepler Brueshaber, making someone else’s heart flutter in their chest? Inconceivable.

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POSTED ON Nov 13, 2022 8:55:13 GMT

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It's not a problem when Ashley looks at his boyfriend, a sweet smile on his face despite the frowning Kep. In truth, the place was getting too small for all his Pokemon anyways. After all, he just got a Dratini after finding it from Isaac, and there were so many, it would be nice to just... expand. Now that Ash made better money in Rocket, he wanted to pursue.

And so, when Kep smiles at the Admin decision, that settles it. It's all Ash needs to make it his goal now.

For Gavin. For Isaac. For Kep. His love. Love...

The questions exits Kepler's lips, and Ashley decides to enjoy the moment a little longer before he responds. "Yeah. A little. I find myself wanting to be a better person with you." That fluttering feeling in his chest is like a beam, pointed at Kep, a toothy grin, laying there letting his heart beat for his man.

"I don't want to just accomodate you. If I ask you to be with me, to move in, I want a bigger space for us both. You, to be a sexy scientist from home, and me to cook you your lunch and dinner while you work when I'm here. For our Pokemon to run around. That way, I don't take you from the submarine every day. Because I know me, and I would." He's looking him eye-to-eye, giving him those beautiful silvers. He pulls one of Kep's hands into his own, lacing each finger together as he holds Kep there. "Sides babe, I make a comfy bed, don't I?" He's grinning now, trying to make that joke a little light of the topic at hand. If anything, Kepler laying on him like this was addicting.

In truth. It's that loving heartbeat in his chest that wants Kepler beside him each morning he can get.

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POSTED ON Nov 23, 2022 20:09:30 GMT

Kepler’s mouth opened and closed again, completely in shock. “A-- better person?” he parroted, unbelieving. “You-- you’re already a good person. You’re a great person.”

The math was totally not adding up. How could the addition of Kepler to any situation make anything better? if anything, his presence was a subtraction. the figures didn’t fit and, like with every problem begging to be solved, he turned them over and over again in his head until they worried a raw spot in his brain.

but… some parasites do reach symbiosis with their hosts.

still.

He has this horrible feeling that he’s introducing rot into the wound, a sickness into the hive. Ash is so real and good and-- and already planning on rewriting his entire life for Kepler.

he squeezes Ash’s hand when their fingers come together. the panic makes him honest.

"i’m scared, ash. what if i-- what if i’m bad for you?”

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POSTED ON Nov 23, 2022 21:34:05 GMT

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Self-doubt is no stranger to Ash. Hearing it from Kep was heartbreaking. When he feels Kep's hand squeeze his own, he eyes him with his silver gaze. Kep's doubts were like a reflection.

Because he had the same fear. What if Ash was bad for him?

It's relieving that he wasn't alone in that. He tilts Kep's chin upwards, and he smiles. "That's a two-way street, babe." He's worried he will hurt Kep. Now with his desire to rise to Admin status, he almost finds it too possible that it all rips apart.

"Idunno. You feel good to me right now... I feel happy with you." He gives a grin, kissing Kep's forehead, as he lays there. His heart is beating faster again. "Of all the people here in Hoenn, I ran into you. I'm glad I did. You're mine now." Healthy possessiveness has his cheeks heat up. He doesn't believe for a second Kep could be a parasite.

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POSTED ON Nov 24, 2022 15:30:15 GMT

Kepler’s brow furrowed as he continued to puzzle through the equation. Maybe it wasn’t as cut and dry as he imagined-- a bolt of energy into a system. Maybe it was, like Ash was saying, the opening of a system to a flow of energy in multiple directions.

“Yeah. Right now. Everything seems pretty good, right now.”

He could have kicked himself. Why did he try to self-sabotage everything?!

“You don’t have to be an admin for-- for me.” He let his head rest on Ash’s chest, ear to heartbeat. “I just don’t want you to be in danger.” A little laugh escaped him, because, they were in Rocket. They fistbumped danger on a regular basis. “Because of me.”

It was a lot and it was fast. One night and this boy was already planning to re-route the entire course of his life for him. It was intoxicating. Kep felt like a cup that was overly full-- or like a drink carrier with two large fountain pops that toppled precariously to both diagonals.

You’re mine now makes something shiver down his spine and he pushes himself up on his hands to loom over Ash, chest-to-chest, forehead to forehead.

“Yeah. I am. And… and you’re mine, too.”

He doesn’t know where this sudden streak of covetousness has come from bit it’s making him feel stronger, he thinks.

“I’d like to move in with you. I think it will be good to get off the sub. Too long at that pressure does fucky things to a person’s brain.”

They could start there. Sharing space. Sharing a life. And this was, Kep rationalized, competitive inhibition: it could always be reversed. Not that he’d want to reverse it, of course, but--

“I’d lock myself in solitary on that stupid submarine if it meant keeping you safe.”

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POSTED ON Nov 24, 2022 21:23:00 GMT

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His heartbeat was all over the place. If he could be diagnosed with arrhythmia, he probably had it now. But with the little laugh, Ashley looks to the ceiling, holding Kepler. If he doesn't, Kep could fly away. Holding him meant it was stable.

The declaration of becoming an admin was still important, but Kep said he didn't have to.

"I know." His heartbeat races faster. "I want to. For you." He did. He knew danger would come at them at every turn, but he didn't care. He'd survived Kanto Rocket, he'd survived Jayden trying to kill him. He was going to survive whatever mission they had for the meteor. He had a goal in his mind, and Ashley knew so long as he had that, he would be fine.

It's in Kep's response. Ashley was his, that his silver eyes peer from his black hair. Kepler was warmth to him. He could feel it like a hug right to the heart.

"Then it's settled. You're moving in with me."

It's that simple to Ashley. Sure, he's making the choice fast, but he needed to leave anyways. He pulls Kep's head, and tries to kiss him again. "I'll start looking around for deals... anywhere you want to be?" His heart is beating faster. The kiss was making his heart rate quicken, his eyes lovingly on him.

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POSTED ON Nov 25, 2022 14:04:04 GMT

Ashley lets his head fall back. Kepler takes the chance to kiss his cheek, his jaw, his neck. He rises to meet Ash halfway, mouth and lips and tongue.

His breath comes out in a rushed, needy gasp.

“With you. I want to be with you.”

He didn’t care where that actually was as long as they were together.

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