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“Munson, what the hell is this?” Jason holds the offending thing with two hands, but he can’t tell which way is up. It’s some sort of knitted… thing. A coat mixed with a blanket mixed with an octopus.
“Courting gift.” Munson mumbles, looking down at the picnic table.
Jason cocks his head to one side. Normally courting gifts are like flowers. Candy. Nesting blankets. Normal stuff.
Jason bites back the acid on the top of his tongue. He has to remind himself that he actually likes this alpha, they’ve been sort of half courting secretly for weeks. “Did you… make it?”
Munson sits up a little, his slender shoulders squaring. “Yeah. My mom used to have these knitting magazines sent to the trailer so…”
Ok, so definitely not something Jason wants to insult. “What… is it?”
Munson squirms, dipping his head so that his face is mostly hidden behind brown bangs. “It’s a nest coat.”
Jason fingers the thing. It is soft, he had to hand that to Munson. Whatever it is, Jason wants to accept it.
“I can… put it on you, if you want.”
“Uh, ok?” Jason says.
Munson approaches him like he’s holding a bomb, not a green fuzzy… thing. Jason stands too, trying to be obliging. He likes this alpha, likes him a lot. He can wear the thing to show Munson how much, and maybe that will be easier than saying it out loud.
He lays it over Jason’s shoulders and helps him into the oversized arm holes. Jason’s pleased to discover that there’s a hidden inner sleeve that fits more snugly, a second layer that hugs him and an over layer that obscures it. There’s a few layers to the body of the coat too, and a weird hood with an attached scarf thing that Munson carefully wraps around Jason’s head and…
Everything calms. The anxiety that sits ever present in the pit of Jason’s stomach stills. The bird calls seem further away, soft and dreamy.
“Wow.” Jason says.
Eddie tugs the end of the scarf things and presses a quick kiss to Jason’s lips. “You like it?”
Jason blinks slowly, feeling secure and soft. The whole thing smells like Eddie. Eddie, Eddie, Eddie…
“God, yes. Thank you, alpha.”