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🌄🥃Wanted (Dead or Alive)🥃 🌄

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Tom ‘Iceman’ Kazansky x Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell

Western au

(Ps: Maverick is not underage, he just got a baby face.)

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Peering down at the small man pushed to his knees, a groan slipping out of his lips from the harsh impact of the dry ground. Slider shrugged when Ice threw him a look. The man or should he say boy—He looks young and doe-eyed—,looks up through his eyelashes and does a terrible job trying to hide his flinch when he sees Ice staring back at him .

Ice inspected him, Top to bottom, from the fresh purple bruise sporting by his eye socket , looking more darker and swollen, the dirty and torn clothes sheen with sweat from the boiling suffocating weather, to the metal collar chained to his pretty neck that rested heavily on his shoulder .

Ice took a guess that they hadn’t taken it off him by the blooming bruises that were appearing beautifully on his collarbone that his ripped shirt allowed to see.

Too important to be locked with other criminals but not enough to keep his dignity having the boy chained like an animal.

“I wouldn’t be asking, but Carole is due pretty soon and Nick will kill me before I can blink if I brought this outlaw to our home.”Slider squints to block out the sun.

“Weren’t the plans for them to move in here when she delivered?” Ice says dryly. Slider shuffles awkwardly as if stunned with the information. Ice refrains himself from laughing, Slider probably forgot.

Ice place is much bigger than the tiny cot that the three lived in , much more smaller now that a baby’s arrival was merely few weeks away. Iceman didn’t like to share his space or be around with people. He enjoys his solitude , the quietness and not having to deal with pesty neighbors .

Tom was no people person or people pleaser and he has let it known. But he found himself fond over the little chick ever since he felt the babe move underneath his palms when Carole had proudly showed her belly. It was the first kick and Ice secretly carry that information proudly.

“Still is, unless you changed your mind ?” Slider grins as he wipes away the sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief. It was an old thing, discolored and worn,(it used to be a deep dark green before it was thinned with use), But the man refused to throw it away since it was a gift from Carole.

He had a pocket knife to match, gifted by Goose.

The people in the town loves to gossip and murmur their unimportant opinions of their relationship. It was unheard of. Two men and a woman together was scandalous and shameful like two men being together.

It only worsen when Carole had gotten with child. A man had dared to open his disgusting mouth to sneer his insignificant and distasteful words to Carole.

Slider and Goose wondered angrily were that man had gone , as if vanished in thin air, wanting to desperately to give him what he deserved.

Iceman just sat there quietly, hiding his wrapped knuckles and sharing a look with Carole who smiled in gratitude.

Till this day, that man was not seen again.

“Besides by that time you’d already have this boy trained and domesticated.” Slider kicks the man back sending him forward, The outlaw hands shoots out to prevent himself from falling quickly before he eats a mouthful of dirt.

He’s weak . Slider had merely use any strength . Tom briefly wonders if he has eaten or drank any water.

“Touch me again I will break your wrist.” The boy snarled but Slider just laughs at the pathetic threat. He bowed his head, in shame or to block the sun that felt it’s job to melt brains— Iceman didn’t know for sure. Ice took two big steps to take a closer look.

Maverick felt a shadow cast over him, And does the mistake of looking up , coming to face the mans groin. His eyes were ready to fall out with how wide his eyes were.

Iceman knew. A voice in the back of his head is saying -shouting- to say no and get back in his house and leave Slider and the outlaw on his knees( a place where he looked he belonged). But he does the mistake of looking into the wide green eyes peering up at him.

“Leave before I change my mind”, Iceman scoffs when Slider promises to do anything to repay him for this favor. If Ice had a list of favors that Slider owes him ; it would be endless.

He watches the tall man retreat leaving him with the kid. He felt sweat pool behind his neck from the unforgiving heat, Maverick; Ice distinctly remembers when he turned him in with Stinger.

Where the kid should’ve stayed. Not with Ice.

Later he will convince himself that he is doing this for Slider, his only friend, that behind his reckless attitude Ron was a man of a big heart and when it came to his family he would protect them with his life, For the unborn baby that need his mother to be calm and safe and Goose not dying of nerves by having an unwanted guess trespassing his home when it should be safe.

And not because the small man fluttered his stupid pretty eyes.

Tom is Iceman, Ice cold and no mistakes.

“Get up unless you plan to do something other than stare .”Ice click his tongue , and reached out to the man. One hand gripping his chin and tilting it up just enough so their eyes can make contact.

Those green eyes turned into slits , his mouth twisted in anger , Maverick wince when his voice cracked, ”I’d rather cut my tongue off.”

It brings out a chuckle out from Iceman.

“Don’t worry little one, bratty outlaws are far from my taste . Let’s see how good of a slave you are .” Ice drops his hand and takes a step back. He smirks when Maverick throws him a glare, the kid is threatening as a kitten.

Ice watches the boy struggle to stand on his two feet like a newborn deer. His patience running thin , tensing his jaw , at how slow Maverick was moving. Another thirty seconds go by and he’s ready to throw the man over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

Seeing enough, he hauls the Maverick up by the arms with a soft but firm grip. Green eyes flicker , the boy tried to hide it but Ice can see how scared he was.

“I’m not a housewife, but I will make your life a living hell if you don’t let me go“ He did a pathetic attempt of threatening Iceman. The last part came out weak , Maverick swayed on his feet but remain looking up at him with those green shiny eyes trying to look menacing even when he was the one resting all his weight on Ice and practically rested his chin on his chest looking so small.

Ice feels the dull ache begining to creep up in the back of his skull , annoying him and threatning to lose his last silver of sanity. He clenched his teeth so hard he felt like any more tighter they could break. Ice should’ve made Slider drag this man in the house or let him figure out what to do with him, if the man can handle two energetic lovers he can deal what to do with this bratty small man.

But something about Slider holding Maverick like he is right now doesn’t sit right, his gut turns at the thought and his blood boils. He pulls maverick away, ignoring the latter confuse noise , just enough to put his arm at the back of the man legs to carry him in a bridal hold.

“What are you doing?!,” Maverick squeals. He stays silent. And begins his way to to the door.

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Into the unknown

“Ah, Halloween. It makes the heart happy.” Patton turns the lollipop in his mouth, savouring the sweet taste, before removing it with a popping sound. He smiles. “There’s something about it.” “Oh, there’s many things about it.” Leaves crackle as Janus saunters past him. As always, he is impeccably dressed, a long coat, hat and yellow gloves. He stares into the distance and Patton wonders what he is seeing there through the autumn mist. “Yeah, I guess you’d like it.” Patton shoots a smirk at him. “Everyone all dressed up… disguised as someone else.” Janus spins around, eyebrows contracted in honest disbelief. “How is it that we’ve had so many of these visits and you still know so little about me!” “Uh… ‘cause you don’t tell me anything.” Patton shrugs, his chest feeling strangely tight. “You’re right, I don’t.” Janus’s face is illegible, and full of so many changing emotions that Patton becomes dizzy as he tries to decipher them all. “No one is disguised here. It’s just a little… make-believe.” Janus starts to stare into the distance again, into the unknown. Silently, Patton nods, somehow uncomfortable near a Janus who is suddenly tame and attentive, not sarcastic or sharp-tongued as usual. It is so incredible, so unfamiliar, so not Janus at all, that for seconds it feels as if reality has received a crack, like a broken mirror that can only depict a distorted picture of reality. And as if that wasn’t unusual enough, Janus begins to sing. It’s soft and gentle and Patton feels (against his will) very receptive and exceedingly charmed by so much beauty. ‘It’s exactly that,’ thinks Patton stunned. It’s the soft and gentle underneath the impregnable fortress that makes it so hard to resist him. If Janus were just cold and insensitive through and through, how much easier it would make this whole situation. But he is not. He’s just pretending. Make-believing… Janus lies to the whole world, just as Patton does, because what is their silence, what is their not naming their feelings other than that? A huge lie that piles higher and higher the longer it remains unspoken. “You know, maybe things are going to be okay,” Patton says in a voice filled with hope that is bubbling hot and consuming inside him. “Maybe they aren’t… just a fantasy.” Janus turns to him and a single painfully convoluted emotion glides across his face. “Yes,” he says, sounding softer than usual. “Maybe.” The loveliest lies of all.

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