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James has recently been getting back into his streaming era. He wasn’t as active as he’d like to be but he was online once or twice a week depending on his schedule. Will would always tune in, hiding in the chat until he would say something outrageous and most likely make James crack up with laughter, or blush profusely. Sometimes he’d get his mods to ban Will, though he’d be back within 5 minutes saying something else.
Whilst James was enjoying his daily coffee run, he was pleasantly surprised by a phone call from his boyfriend.
“Good morning, darling, how’s your morning going?”
James hears a very sick sounding Will through the phone, “Mornin’, Jim, jus’ woke up”. He hears the ruffling of bed sheets and a horrible sounding coughing fit.
“Oh, you don’t sound good, Will, are you feeling ok?”.
“I’m fine, might head down today if you don’t mind?”. Of course he doesn’t mind, it seems all his spare time these days is spent either with his boyfriend or on the phone with him.
“Of course not, but did you want me to come to you? Don’t want you coming so far feeling like shit”. Will never wants to be a brother, James knows how much he stressed about being a bother to his friends and family. Though he’s made it clear many times he would pretty much anything for this man, sometimes Will is just stubborn.
“Nah, ‘s fine, I was gonna come down tomorrow anyways to film, don’t wanna throw you off your schedule, sensory boy”. Will mumbles, James laughs at this, he isn’t sensory boy, or so he says. “Ok, well let me know when you’re getting here, ok, darling?”, Will hums, “Stay. On the phone I mean?”, James smiles, of course in this moment he does feel bad for his boyfriend, but also can’t help but think it’s adorable that when he’s not feeling the best, James is always his go to. “Course, love.”.
Will continues to lay there for a few moments just listening to James ramble on about his morning and literally anything else, finding comfort in his boyfriend’s soft voice. Eventually getting up to get ready and start heading over.
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When Will gets off the train, he’s met with the sight of James, leaning up against the wall. They immediately make eye contact, a beautiful smile stretching across James’s face, as Will approaches him and wraps his arms around his boyfriend’s waist, tucking his head under his chin and letting out a small, content sigh.
It’s late afternoon now, being a Saturday there really isn’t anyone around, meaning there’s less likelihood of them being seen by anyone and the inevitable pictures ending up in TikTok edits.
James wraps his arms around Will, resting his cheek on the other man’s head, rubbing his back to soothe him. He can feel the heat radiating off of him, selfishly putting him closer, using him as a giant heater against the cold Brighton winds. They stay like that for a few minutes before James places a kiss on the back of Wills neck, “Come on, Will, let’s go home”. Will just nods and let’s go, grabbing James’s hand as they make their way towards his apartment.
“I’m supposed to stream tonight, but I don’t have to, we can just hang out”. Will hums in acknowledgment, bringing their clasped hands up and over his own shoulder, moving closer to James’s warmth, wrapping his other arm around his waist and leaning his head on his shoulder. “’s ok, I’ll just watch you”. That’s one of his favourite things to do, just watch James go about his life, doing mundane tasks, or fun ones, either way he just enjoys his company and doesn’t mind what they’re doing.
James pulls Will slightly closer and places a kiss on the top of his head, “Love you.” And Will mumbles back, “Love you too”, as they continue down the road towards James’s apartment.
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As Will enters James’s apartment, Otto jumps up, running of to them both as he starts rubbing against Will’s leg. He moves out fo the way of his boyfriend, sitting on the floor and giving the cat a cuddle. James smiles, locking the door and making his way over to his kitchen, making them both a cup of tea and some toast.
Will is laying down with Otto on his chest, remote in hand the next time James looks over. As he approaches balancing the tea and toast, managing not to spill it, he leans down, pressing a kiss to Wills temple, “Eat what you can, darling”. Will thanks him and sits up, beside his boyfriend, slightly leaning against him as they both half ignore the television program currently playing.
As James places his empty plate next to Will’s half empty plate on the coffee table, he leans back, turning his body to allow Will to cuddle further into him. Will soon shifts, he lays back with his head against the arm of the lounge, opening his arms for James to lay on his chest. “I’m gonna squish you, baby”. “Oh, shuddup, come ‘ere”. And Will pulls on Jame’s arm, bringing him closer. James wraps his arms around Will’s waist, laying on top of him as there really isn’t enough room on the lounge for both tall men to be comfortable next to each other. “You’re like a warm weighted blanket, it’s so cozy.” Will mumbles into Jame’s ear, and James laughs softly, placing a kiss onto his boyfriends’ neck and relaxing as Will holds him tighter.
Later on that night, Will is laying in James’s bed, cuddling deeper into the warmth and calming smell of James, as his boyfriend makes sure everything is ready to go for his stream, ensuring Will is out of frame. Otto comes along and plops down in the crook of Will’s arm, rubbing his face on the man’s cheek. Will giggles slightly and begins to pet him.
“You are adorable”. James says with the sweetest smile on his face.
“I know I am”. Now James snorts, “Not you, my baby Otto”, he leans over and pets the cat on his head. Otto jumps quickly onto his lap and snuggles in. “No, give him back.” Will whines slightly, “You have him all the time, let me have him”. He makes kissy noises, trying to get the cats attention, and it works. “See, he loves me more” Will now has a cocky smile on his face.
“Right, well that’s just rude”. But he leans down and leaves a kiss on both Will and Otto’s foreheads. Continuing to make sure everything is correctly set up for his stream.
Will just lays there with Otto and listens to his boyfriend talking, singing, doing his thing on stream for about an hour before he start drifting in and out of sleep.
James doesn’t realise this and is pressured by his stream to play a horror game. He isn’t too good with horror games and one particularly unexpected jump scare makes him raise his voice slightly, jumping back in his seat, and kicking the table leg.
Will and Otto both wake up suddenly, James looking over as he hears Will grumble slightly, and Otto jump up looking around. “Oh, darling, I’m so sorry”. James feels horrible to have woken up his boyfriend. He goes to mute his microphone as he leans over, one hand reaching out to soothe Otto and the other cupping the back of Wills head. He leans down and places a kiss on his head, “Sorry, Will. Go back to sleep, baby”.
As he places a final kiss on Will’s cheek, he leans back over to his screen going to unmute, but he sees the chat moving so fast, faster than he’s ever seen.
WILL??
WillNE WILL?
who’s will?
WILL AND JIM WILL AND JIM WILL AND JIM
I KNEW IT, WE KNEW IT
WILL IS BABY, BABY IS WILL
james… what do you have to say for yourself?
And his heart drops, he honesly could cry with how stressed he is in this moment, looking down to see the very solid red light on his microphone instead of the blinking red light that it displays when the microphone is muted. “Fuck, um guys, calm down, yeah, I’ve gotta go tho, don’t, please, um”, he’s stumbling on his words and his hands are shaking as he runs them through his hair. “Fuck, yeah, I’m sorry guys, I should be back soon, yeah.” And he ends the stream right there.
“Fuck!”, he removes his glasses with a large sigh as he rubs his face and places his head in his hands, pulling roughly at his hair, bouncing his knee, “I’m so sorry Will, I, I thought I was muted.” His voice is cracking, and Will is now sat up, reaching out to place his hand on his boyfriends bicep. “It’s ok, hey, Jamie, it’s not your fault”.
“Yes, yes it is, I didn’t check, I’m a fucking idiot. Fuck, Will, I’m so sorry”. He can feel the tears in the back of his eyes, he feels so guilty, people knew he wasn’t straight, but Will? He hadn’t even come out to many of their close friend.
Will pulls James’s hands from his hair, “Hey, stop that, you’re going to hurt yourself” he’s now sitting on the edge of the bed facing James, pulling his chair closer as he brings both of his boyfriends’ hands into his own, squeezing them, “Deep breaths, darling, come on, you’re ok”. James is in full panic mode, feeling even worse that he’s caused this when Will was already feeling so shitty. “I’m sorry”. He chokes out as he clenches his eyes closed and tries to breathe.
“Hey, none of that”, Will brings one hand up to rest against the back of James’s neck, bringing their foreheads together, “Look at me, come on, open your eyes, baby”. And James does, Will’s eyes full of love as they stare at each other, Will slowly breathing, asking James to match his pace. Will places his boyfriends open palm against his own, exposed chest, as James’s other hand is gripping his wrist. “You’re ok, everything will be ok, yeah? It was inevitable that it was gonna come out somehow, it was a mistake. I’m not mad, I’m not upset with you, accidents happen, Jamie”. James just listens and tries to control his own breathing, every so often whispering an “I’m so sorry”, Will softly shushes him, continuing to try and calm him down.
After a few minutes, James can finally get normal breathes in, he isn’t shaking as harshly as he had minutes prior, and his shoulders are slightly more relaxed. “Come ‘ere”. Will pulls him up onto shaking legs, as they both lay down on his bed, James tucked under Will’s chin, desperately puling his boyfriend as close as he can. Will speaks in a soft voice, and he cradles his lovers head, playing with his hair to further soothe him.
“It was going to happen eventually, I know you didn’t mean it, you wouldn’t be this upset if you did, yeah? And I was going to tell everyone this week anyways, I love you and I want everyone to know.’ James still feels so guilty, knowing how scared Will probably is for the response of everyone who’s not already been notified. “I just feel horrible,” James moves his head to get a better look of his boyfriend, “I didn’t mean to, I promise-“ Will silences him by placing a kiss on his lips. “I know,” placing a hand on his boyfriend’s cheek, caressing his cheek, “I know you didn’t, I promise it’s ok, yeah?”.
“Ok, I’m still sorry, I know, I know, you’re going to say don’t say that but just know I feel horrible Will, I should’ve made sure.” James shakes his head, leaning back to bury his head into his boyfriends neck.
“I love you, Jamie, and I want people to know. Yeah it’s scary but everyone already makes us edits, imagine how many more they’ll be now, eh?”, he does make James laugh a litte, pulling him impossibly closer, laying with his whole body now wrapped around Will.
“I love you, Will.” James mumbles, placing a kiss on his collarbone.
“I love you too, darlin’”, Will places a kiss on James’s temples, bringing his hand up to play with his boyfriends hair as they both lay there, content in each other’s arms.