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1) At first there was only mistrust. Fuze was interested in Jäger, and regarded Bandit with suspicion every time he interrupted them or tried to direct Fuze to talk with him instead of the engineer. To be fair, at the beginning Bandit was only messing with Fuze because he found his reactions funny, and because he knew Jäger was already seeing someone else, so he was doing the Uzbek a favor by preventing him to make a fool of himself, right?
2) After a time, it was common to see Bandit and Fuze being around each other, bickering, sparring (aka, an excuse to hit each other), and watching each other’s movements with too much interest. Fuze used to say he was acting on principle of keeping his enemies close, but that didn’t explain why he actively angaged in Bandit’s shenanigans, since Fuze was well known for being not very talkative, or why he sometimes laughed and smiled at whatever Bandit was saying.
3) Their first kiss was a mistake. They both were drunk, they snuck away from the New Year’s party, and ended making out in the first empty room they found. The awkwardeness that followed the day after was legendary. Fuze kept avoiding Bandit, who was displeased by that and in turn teased Fuze heavily about how he melted in his arms and moaned just with some kisses, which in turn led to a huge argument and Fuze yelling at Bandit that he was a degenerate trying to corrupt him. As always, with them it’s one step forward and two steps back.
4) While avoiding each other and being Officially Angry™, Fuze was surprised to discover he actually missed having Bandit around. Not all the time, but still he found himself waiting for Bandit to appear, hear his awful jokes and innuendo, his insightful comments about almost anything, how he would casually point a new idea that helped Fuze in his project a lot, etc. Eventually, after taking some time to process everything, he decided to apologize to Bandit for some of the things he said to the German. However, once he saw him trying to apologize, Bandit clapped him on the back and they spent the night drinking on the rooftop of the base, which was the perfect move to get Fuze to work his way to what he wanted to say, slowly and awkwardly as he always did.
5) When it comes to sex, Bandit was expecting more of a fight for being the top, but Fuze turned out to be more adaptable than he expected, not that Bandit’s gonna complain. They sometimes switch, but even then it’s pretty obvious Bandit is the one calling the shots, presumably because he’s the more experienced one.