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here it come, that heavy love (someone's got to share in the load)

Summary:

Apollo is dating Steve. This is news to no one (except Ryan).

Notes:

sooo this was inspired by a few things - the main one being how funny I find it that nl watches dan (gheesling)'s stream while on the peloton without the ability to turn it off so he just has to be there watching whatever shit dan is doing, my enjoyment of nl and apollo's friendship & the fact that I really miss supdog.

the title is from shell games by bright eyes

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"Would you like to tell me why on Dan's stream this morning you were gushing about Steven Suptic?" Ryan asks, barely making it past the loading screen.

"Well, first of all don't call him Steven and definitely don't call him Steven Suptic," replies Apollo, already sounding annoyed at whatever this conversation is about to be.

"Pray tell, what should I be calling him?"

"Just Steve, man."

"Well according to my very excited chat I should be calling him your boyfriend."

"That works too but just like I use Kate’s name I would assume you would like to do return for him."

“It is way too early in the day for you to be acting like this. You do know that I am streaming right?”

“Just like Dan was streaming even earlier in the day when we were talking about Steve,” Apollo pauses, assuredly for dramatic affect, “My boyfriend.”

And it works. Ryan’s stream is going mad and he can only assume Apollo’s is as well. Although from the casual way he and Dan were talking about it this morning he can only assume most of them already knew this information.

“May I ask how the whole world apparently knew this fact apart from me?” Ryan asks, trying to not sound heated because really it isn’t a big deal, but also it feels big and important in this very moment.

Woooow, feeling very self centered today, are we?”

“You’re something else, you do know that right?”

“I may have been told that once or twice before.”

Notes:

I know the ending is Nothing but I'm shit at ending a regular fic, let alone a snippet of conversation from a fic that will never be written, so it just had to end there, the brain can't find a more natural way without writing way more of the conversation lmao.

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