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Part 11 of a bruabba ficlet collection
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Little Dreamers' All-Night Sad Café: Antipasti
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2024-10-05
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embarrassment (a September tiny fic)

Summary:

Pushing yourself to socialise with your colleagues from your shitty job can definitely pay off, even if the shitty paycheck may not make it seem anywhere near with it.

But sometimes, that reward may take a little too long to arrive…

(Inspired by Chelsea’s call centre AU, so it’s a gift for her too)

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

Work Text:

There’s nowhere Leone would’ve wanted less to be than the company’s back-to-the-office mixer—yet there he was, watching the second hand on his wristwatch move millimetre after miserable millimetre. 

Bruno was, of course, running late as ever.

 

Some total strangers from the Japanese branch are in town, shrieking drunkenly with Melone along to EDM so loud it nauseates him. It couldn’t get any worse—that is, until their cocktails land on his shirt.

 

He runs to the toilets, and at last he’s safe. 

Then: he hears the doorknob turning.

 

Bruno waves coyly, rather enjoying the sight.

“Need help getting undressed?”

Notes:

as someone who strictly writes canon-slightly divergent and can count the number of AU fic series I partake in with one hand, this was actually really fun to write and, of course, the original fic (fics in the plural now, by popular demand!) was a hundred times more fun to read.

I’ve never worked in an office, but Chelsea made Leone unintentionally sort of autistic thanks to his near-terminal awkwardness and inability to put together two and two very obvious signs of being fancied by Bruno, so I thought I’d give it a chance! Chelsea, I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope this microscopic gift makes up in even small part for the delayed birthday art I still want to make you ;~;

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