Work Text:
[ to SPOUSE CHAT 💍 ]
- 11:02pm -
Bowser
- ughhhhh I don’t want 2 go 2 meetings 2morrow
Peach
- Why are you still up?? Go to BED.
Bowser
- U R still up!!!
Mario
- vacation privileges
Bowser
- Oh shut up U arent special
Peach
- I know. 😭 I wish we could have taken you on this vacation too!! But Luigi’s tickets were only valid for this weekend.... And you have your meetings...😔
Bowser
- Stupid meetings
Peach
- Next vacation for sure!! Either you go or we don’t go at all!! 😤
Bowser
- Thanks
Peach
- Until then I promise I will keep you updated and take pictures!
- That way it feels like you’re here too. 😘
Bowser
- Promise?
Peach
- Yes, but you have to SLEEP
Bowser
- Fine 🙄
Peach
- 💗Good💗Night💗!
Mario
- gn ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Bowser
- 🧡
- 7:15am -
Bowser
- morning meetings R THE WORRST... Who let me schedule this thing this early
- Anyway hope this woke U 😈
- 10:29am -
Bowser
- Wow OK really appreciating the vacation sleep in privileges huh...
- That’s fair that’s fair
- Welp... Back 2 boring meetings 4 me
[ to FAMILY CHAT ]
- 11:05am -
Junior
- cannot BELIEVE you guys are still asleep!!!! Where are my vacation photos i’m so BORED while papa is at work
- next time you should take me too even if papa can’t go
- 11:57am -
Bowser
- U know what JR has a point
- take UR kid with U next time guys
Junior
- lol
- 12:14pm -
Bowser
- Wow it’s quiet in here
Junior
- must be enjoying their vacay i’m SO jelly
Bowser
- Jelly???
Junior
- it means JEALOUS papa omg
Bowser
- OMG???
Junior
- no i know you know what omg is mario uses it all the time
- mario help papa’s bullying me
Bowser
- Mario can’t help U now I guess 😈
Junior
- UGH
[ to SPOUSE CHAT 💍]
- 5:33pm -
Bowser
- OK meetings R done and it’s really weird U guys haven’t said anything
- U good?
- U didn’t end up accidentally going on an adventure did U
- 5:43pm -
Bowser
- OMG
- 3 missed calls from Bowser -
[ to RIVAL♥️🔨 ]
- 5:57pm -
Bowser
- OK cmon Mario I KNOW U look at UR phone all the time while U R on adventures
- I have selfies 2 prove it!!!!!!!!
[ to PEACH🍑💗 ]
- 5:59pm -
Bowser
- Mario isn’t just napping right
- U DIDN’T GET KIDNAPPED BY SOME 1 RIGHT
- ITS NEARLY 2020
- I WILL THROW HANDS
- 2 missed calls from Bowser -
Bowser
- Peach 4 real U guys R worrying me
[ to LUIGI🔨🎷 ]
- 6:01pm -
Bowser
- Luigi plz tell UR bro 2 pick up
[ to RIVAL♥️🔨 ]
- 6:02pm -
- 1 missed call from Bowser -
Bowser
- Come ON my rival my beloved pick up
- I know U hate phone calls but can U at least text me back?
- An emoji... Just 1... So I know U R alive
- Even a read receipt would be nice???
[ to LUIGI🔨🎷 ]
- 6:15pm -
Bowser
- OMG even U aren’t answering my texts???
- Luigi... PLZ... Help...
[ to GROWN UPS ONLY ]
- 6:17pm -
Bowser
- 4 real U guys R stressing me out and I don’t know what 2 tell JR
- He’s gonna flip
- I’M gonna flip
- 6:20pm -
Bowser
- Could 1 of U PLZ just answer UR phone
[ Calling Luigi...... ]
“H- hello?”
“Finally, one of you picked up! Peach and Mario won’t answer their phones—”
“Oh.”
“Is everything alright over there?? I’m starting to get worried. Like, no one’s even returned my texts? That’s unlike them, but that’s especially unlike Mario!”
“Er... Well you- you see......”
“Yeah?”
“......”
“Luigi... Come on, what aren’t you telling me?”
“...the hotel was haunted?”
“SERIOUSLY!?”
“K- King Boo—The- The ghosts... Sorry... It’s- um... Sorry...”
“No, take your time.”
“King Boo turned- turned them into paintings, so, it’s probably a little- um, difficult for them to look at their phones...”
“Oh, yikes.”
“Yeah.”
“What about you, though?! I’ve been texting you and group chats you’re in all day—”
“Muted all my texts, haha. T- Turns out ghosts are pretty good at mimicking notification sounds. Got sick of my phone going off and- and I didn’t actually have a text- but my back was turned so a ghost jumped out at me—”
“Okay, you know what, that’s fair. That’s totally fair.”
“Yeah, haha.”
“Do... do you want me to come help?”
“No way! You’re busy, you’ve got... meetings, or whatever.”
“If Mario’s in danger—”
“I’ve got it.”
“W- Whoa. Coming on a little strong there, huh? I was just offering help, you don’t have to get snippy with me!”
“I mean it, though. I can handle this.”
“You sure? I don’t mind postponing—”
“I can do this by myself!”
“......”
“......”
“...Whoa.”
“Sorry... D- Didn’t mean to snap, there, heheh...”
“Nah, it’s alright. But man... *sigh* You Mario brothers... ...For a pair of guys who literally get super powers from teaming up, I do not understand why you are both so insistent that you don’t need anyone’s help.”
“What...?”
“You don’t have to prove yourself to anyone, Luigi. It’s okay to need help.”
“......”
“I’m not saying I don’t think you can do it alone, now! Of course I’m not! I’m just saying... you don’t have to do it alone.”
“......”
“...Luigi?”
“I know that. I know. ...But I’m going to do this by myself, anyway. Heh, if you came to help, you’d probably also get trapped in a painting, and then what would I tell Junior?”
“RUDE???”
“Bowser, you are clumsy, and easy to trick. King Boo only didn’t grab me for one of his eternal paintings right away because he wants to see me suffer.”
“......Uh.”
“Anyway. Thanks. I’m good.”
“Just... call me if you need anything, okay?”
“......Actually...”
“Yeah?”
“Do you think you can stay on the phone with me for a little bit? The power’s out in this hallway and it’s kinda scary. Be- be nice if I had a distraction.”
“Yeah, alright. Sure thing, green ‘stache.”