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Regect and Ze didn't get along, never did, and never would. That was the fact of the matter, so they thought.
For a while, Regect had been feeling different about Ze. Closer, more affectionate, scared of losing her. She was the one person it wanted to see every day, and the idea of not getting that broke its heart. It had always felt warm around the human, but that had only been amplified within the past few weeks. God, caring for a player this much? Its father was already disappointed, this would surely get it disowned.
The usual argument had been ensuing, it had started with something trivial the duo had both forgotten at this point, but the attitude had stuck. Ze was working on stuff for her classes, refusing to talk to Regect, while it just watched her work, cycling through different tabs and applications out of boredom.
The entity glanced over, and Ze’s focused gaze caught its eye. Leaned over the desk, the woman was intently writing some bullshit essay on something or other, glancing at the notes on her desk and back up at the screen, clear lack of sleep disrupting her process. The way her hair framed her face, the crinkle of her eyes as she squinted at the screen, how she propped herself up on her arms in her drowsiness, Regect couldn’t help but stare through the webcam. Rustling slightly at a frustrated sound that left Ze’s mouth, it sighed, “You are stupidly pretty.”
The other jumped, “The fuck did you just say!?”
“I said that you’re stupid, fucking bitch! What did you think I said!?”
“Don’t lie to me, dumbass!”
“Oh my god I hate you.”
“Well I hate you too! Might as well get out of this bum laptop and strangle you myself—“
“You’re bluffing.”
“Am I!?”
“Prove that you’re not, right now.”
And then Regect appeared on screen, grabbing either side of the frame, and climbed out clumsily. Half of its torso was out when it looked up at Ze, who screamed and jumped back in her chair. The entity leaned down close, and licked Ze’s face. She stared in disgust and confusion, making the other immediately look down in shame, before shoving itself out of the laptop further, eventually settling on the desk. The woman looked Regect up and down, still reeling from the fact it could just… do that. The entity looked right back, neither quite sure what to do.
“You got any food?”
“Fucking fatass you just got out of my laptop and already wanna raid my fridge!?”
Somehow, eventually, after nearly wrestling each other to the ground in the kitchen, the duo ended up sitting together with leftover chinese takeout from the fridge. Regect was digging through a box of noodles while sat on the counter, as Ze stood next to it, picking at some fried rice.
“So why did you never tell me you can do that?”
“Never came up.”
“And it never occurred to you that that might be important for me to know!?”
“No I didn’t think it mattered– of course I did! But think about it, how do you bring that up!? ‘Oh hey man by the way I can just hop out of your laptop whenever’ ‘oh sick do that right now so I can kiss you on your hot mouth–’”
“HUH!?”
“Exactly my point!”
“You’re a fucking freak, you know that right?”
“Yeah but you’re so into it.” Regect leaned down to its human counterpart, their faces barely an inch apart, resulting in a hardy shove from Ze. The entity landed on the counter face-up, groaning slightly. It pushed itself back up, before leaving the kitchen, dragging itself back to Ze’s room.
“Where the hell are you going!?” Ze threw down her food, chasing after the entity. Upon slamming open the door to her room, she found Regect curled in her bed, clinging to a pillow and wrapped in the best blanket Ze had. She was pissed and flustered at the same time, the contrast and intensity causing the human to throw the other out of her bed, getting cozy in it herself before Regect could climb back in and hoard it. The entity whined, the most pathetic sound Ze had ever heard, before climbing back into the bed, wrapping itself around the other rather than the pillow from before, full body weight on her. Ze groaned, reluctantly wrapping her arms around Regect.
It was… warm. And safe. It was the most contact either of them had had in years. Ze was studying Regect. It was tall, and fluffy, dressed in gold chains. One around its neck, more adoring its torso in a rib-like pattern, not to be confused for Regect’s actual ribs and spine, which could be seen through the gaps in its torso, matching with the many, many piercings on its face. Eyebrows, septum, lower lip, all adorned in the yellow shine. Regect really liked gold, huh. Ze was annoyed though, the way the entity’s pointed ears kept poking her.
When moving the other’s head slightly, to not get impaled on the pierced ear, the woman found its soft, long hair, which was in a bun. Ze stumbled, but eventually found the tie keeping it up, and took it out. She stroked Regect’s hair. It was invisible, like everything else about the entity’s head, excluding its eyes and mouth, but it had a certain shine in the moon peering through Ze’s window, and it was stunning.
Ze kissed it, hard and deep, full of love neither of them were ready to admit. Regect jumped in its skin, before grabbing her face and reciprocating. Neither wanted to let go, competing for who could kiss the other the best, until tongue got involved, going down each other’s throats, seeing who would claim the most.
Once let go, Regect couldn't tear its gaze from the other. Ze was so, so beautiful. The contour of her body, her admittedly greasy hair, those eyes… the entity would never be able to put it into words, it could barely try. Mostly because it had its eyes closed, just letting itself be held. It hadn’t been held in so long, since it was little. It curled more into Ze, seeking the warmth and contact, burying its head in her chest.
——
Regect remembered the last time it was held like this, as it always did at night, it haunted it. It was 7, and had just been suspended from school for punching and biting a kid after he had kept bullying it. Its father was proud, he wanted Regect to be violent and formidable, the ideal successor for its cruelty, so he treated the small entity. Daemon laid back on the couch, the child Regect clinging to his being, much to his annoyance. They were watching some cheesy princess movie that the leech of a child was uninterested in, it only cared about getting two whole hours with its father, who usually didn’t spare it a minute! All of its father’s love went to its cousin, Ptolemy, but it didn’t matter now, its dad was here! Just for it!
As the movie ended and credits began, Daemon went to get up. Regect tugged on his sleeve, “Dad it’s not over yet there’s still a bit more!”
“The credits are rolling, child, and you’ve taken enough of my time.”
“But Dad, if the credits didn’t count, why would it be part of the movie time?”
Daemon sighed and sat back down, not sparing the small child a glance. When the credits ended, Regect had asked–
—
Snoring. Really loud snoring. Right, it was sharing a bed with Ze. That was maybe 15 years ago. It was an adult now, a pathetic one at that. Regect shifted, settling in bed against Ze a bit more, before the snores eventually rocked it to sleep. The two held each other close through the night, neither letting go.
When awoke, they made a silent pact to never speak of it, and that lasted till they finally confessed their love. After that, it was one of their favorite stories.