The Major League

Masterlist

TW: Drinking, swearing, food, Jealousy, kissing, making out, start of a relationship, If there are more please let me know!

Baseball Boys meeting and falling in Love

What could go wrong… ;)

Beta:@punkkkkboi

Most Characters belong to: @lumosinlove

 Chapter 7

Turner Terrace, Gryffindor District, Hogwarts 2020

Leo walks in his apartment door with a pile of to-go boxes in his arms and two idiots behind him. Cam and Cecil were staying with him because they forgot to get hotel rooms. Typical. So they were gonna sleep on the pull out couch in the living room. Leo texted Remus this earlier in the night but he never got a response. 

He sets the boxes on the counter and gives his friends the grand tour of the living and bathroom. The open concept of the apartment makes it so the kitchen and living room are the same room. He helps them pull out the couch and scourge up a few extra pillows from his bedroom closet. They get comfortable while Leo goes to check on Remus just in case. 

Opening the door to Remus’ boring bedroom he smiles at the sight. Dani and Remus are sleeping on top of his covers and Remus is still fully dressed. He walks over to the bed, Dani’s little head perks up and she hops across the bed into Leo’s arms. Licking all over his face made him laugh. Which wakes Remus up. 

“Oh, it’s you.” 

“You don’t need to be so excited. Also, my friends Cam and Cecil are sleeping on the pull out couch in the living room and we brought you some food. You usually fall asleep before eating so we brought our leftovers. Come grab some.” They go out into the kitchen and see Cam and Cecil fighting over the tv remote and Remus already knows why those three are friends. Leo watches as Remus takes a box of some form of pasta and a box with desert before hiding away in his room again. 

Leo changes into his pjs and hears the doorbell ring. Confused, he comes out of his room while putting on his sweatshirt. Looking at his friends, they both shake their head telling him they didn’t order anything. Maybe Remus did, either way he’s gotta answer the door. Walking over to the door he opens it fully expecting to see someone in a uniform but is met with.

“Logan?” Leo raises an eyebrow, not only is Logan in what looks like sleep clothes but he also has his cat. “Tortilla?”

“Yeah, my neighbor is having a party and the music is making her go crazy, can we crash here?” Logan smiles up at him and Tortilla is so huge that she is basically hiding Logan behind her. 

“She is giant! You never said she was this big! Come in.” Leo moves to the side and lets Logan walk in. “Have you met Cam and Cecil? Also Dani is running around so we should introduce them.” On hearing her name Dani comes running out from under the pull out bed over to Leo spinning around in excitement with her tail wagging. 

“Tortilla loves dogs and Dani is still a puppy so I think we will be okay. Logan sets Tortilla down and her thick gray fur is still all over Logan’s black tank top. The two pets take a whiff of each other and Dani rolls over on her back, then they just run off back under the bed. 

“Huh… Well that was easy. I don’t really have any other place for you to sleep besides my bed. I can sleep on the floor-”

“We can’t share?” Logan looks up at him and Leo is lost for words for a minute. He looks over Logan to his friends who both have similar teasing looks. 

“We can, I was just headed to bed but I know I won’t be able to sleep with Cecil translating every line of whatever movie they watch.” Leo gestures to his door and Logan goes over to it, walking in and closing the door. 

“Knulla inte för högt” Cam sing songs at him as he follows after Logan a few seconds later. 

“Ja, vi försöker sova!” Cecil yells at him as he rolls his eyes and walks in his room. 

Logan was surprised to see Leo’s room so… middle school boy? That’s the way he would describe it. Not only is it kinda messy but he has cups on his desk and his computer still on, the posters on the walls of video games and music artists he likes. His bed is a mess of red sheets with grey pillows and a blue duvet cover. 

“It’s kind of messy, sorry.”

“I’m not much better.” Logan turns around and smiles at Leo, plopping down on the bed. “How was dinner?”

“It was fun! I didn’t know your sister works at Olive Garden on 32nd street.” Leo climbs on his bed, sitting with his back to his headboard with his knees bent. Logan makes a hum of acknowledgment and it goes a bit quiet between them. Before Logan speaks up.

“Wanna make out?” 

“Yes.”

Logan crawls into his lap and smiles at him. Resting his hands on Leo’s shoulders and feeling butterflies in his tummy when he feels Leo’s hands rest lightly on his waist. They meet in the middle, kisses starting out slow and closed before Logan gets lost in the fun. Their smooches become more wanting, their hands grip tighter Logan’s hands going into Leo’s soft curls and holding. Leo’s arms wrap fullyfulling around Logan’s waist and pull him as close as he physically can. 

Logan feels someone press up against the back of his thigh and he pulls away. Breathing hard he looks into those light blue eyes and smirks. 

“Are you hard?” Leo turns red dark in the cheeks and even on the tip of his nose. It was cute the way he smiles shyly.

“Yeah, sorry I can’t help it.”

“I’m not hard.”

“You’re old.”

“Am not!” Leo laughs at how upset Logan sounded, feeling a slap on his shoulder he laughs even harder. 

“What did you expect? I’m young, with a hot guy sitting on me and kissing me like he can’t get enough. Plus, we are on a bed and it’s night time.” This time it was Logan’s turn to laugh, resting his forehead on Leo’s shoulder. Sighing once his little fit is finished.

“I don’t want to go any farther.” He lifts his head and looks at the blonde, pushing his hair back from his pale forehead. “Is that okay?”

“Of course it’s okay, I would never want you to do something you aren’t comfortable with.” Leo was staring at him like he was crazy. “But, this means we need to talk about something that will definitely kill the mood.” 

“Do you want me to get off you so I don’t like… Rub against your hard on?” Leo shakes his head smiling, showing off his deep dimples that Logan has somehow never noticed before. 

“I like holding you, and if this is going to happen again I should probably be prepared.” Leo adjusts them a bit so his legs are now resting flat against the bed and Logan’s legs are wrapped around his midsection. 

“Sorry, I don’t want to go any farther… I-”

“Don’t apologize! I wouldn’t even know what I was doing. Plus you have nothing to be sorry about, it isn’t your fault you don’t want to do anything.” Leo cups the long-haired man’s tan cheek and rubs his thumb over the mole sitting on the top of his cheek bone. Logan really was beautiful, his hazel eyes were so bright right now with his hair falling out of his bun. Stunning. 

“You’re amazing.” Logan leans into Leo’s hand and can’t help the smile crawling across his face. 

“This is not killing my boner.” 

“We better talk about something else before you get blue balls.” 

“Logan, that’s not a thing.”

“Really?”

“No, have you ever gotten them before?” 

“No but I’ve only wanted to have sex with two people in my life before.” 

“Well, it’s not real. Can I ask you something?” Logan nods and Leo rests the hand not on Logan’s cheek on the smaller yet more toned thigh and squeezes it making Logan jump. “What is your sexuality?”

“I’m demisexual.” Leo looked confused for a moment and Logan agreed, it took him forever to figure out what was ‘wrong’ with himself. He has explained it a million times, so whats a million and one. “I don’t really feel sexualy attracted to someone until I have a really deep connection with them.”

“Oh,” He was expecting Leo to say something stupid but was surprised. “Like in a video game, there has to be a certain level of romance and friendship before you can do anything.”

“Yeah… that’s actually a really good way of explaining it.” Leo smiles at him, very proud of himself.

“Let’s go back to the questions we always ask in the car.” 

“Favorite drink?” Logan interlocks his fingers behind Leo’s neck and closes his eyes. 

“Easy, saft. It’s like a fruit drink. I’ll make it for you sometime.” 

“I’d like that.” Logan kisses his cheek because he can’t help himself and releases his hands to wrap his arms fully around Leo’s neck. Resting his head on his bicep, closing his eyes once more. This was nice. “My favorite is Mt. Dew, I don’t know why. I just like it. Reminds me of when I was younger.”

“I’ve never actually had it, but I’ve heard it’s terrible for you.” Leo smiles as Logan just shrugs exhaling a small way out of his nose that sounds like a laugh. He could feel it on his cheek. Leo’s arms are resting around Logan’s waist now just rubbing his side and back probably making him sleepy.

“Favorite… music?”

“Funny music, like Lil Dicky and Cupcakke. I genuinely listen to their music all the time. What about you? Let me guess, Mac Miller?”

“I do like him but I wouldn’t say he’s my favorite. I like AJR and Jon Bellion, easy music to listen too.” Calm silence falls around them for the second time that night, both feeling sleepy and warm. Chemically bonded and they don’t realize it yet. 

“We should lay down” Leo says after a while, Logan doesn’t respond. Thinking he fell asleep Leo carefully situated them to have Logan resting his hand on Leo’s chest. Kissing his forehead Leo mentally curses as he sees the sharp hazel eyes blink open just a bit. 

“Leo?”

“Yeah?” He pulls the covers further up them and holds Logan a bit tighter. 

“Do you wanna be my boyfriend?”

He felt the world stop spinning at that moment. 

Deathly Hallow Apartments, Hogwarts, 2020

Jackson and Kuny were sitting on the couch pretty wasted, they had just got home from drinking with teammates and friends. Watching Wheel of Fortune, a show Kuny was fascinated by, they shared chips from a bag. They were going to need to vacuum tomorrow. 

“I want to spin the wheel.” Kuny mumbles with his mouth full, crumbs all over his mouth. Jackson reaches over with a paper towel and wipes his mouth for him. Over the past week they have gone back to being best friends who parent each other. Jackson did feel the difference when he was around Kuny though. Almost like they were a married couple. He feels all these mushy things in his heart but it’s almost as though he doesn’t need to say anything because Kuny already knows. 

“You’re so messy.”

“You are too.” Kuny smiles at Jackson and his cheeks are all squished from him holding the Russian’s face. He was so cute he could just kiss him… what if he does? He looks into the golden eyes and smiles. Looking down at his lips and then back up he notices Kuny did the same. 

“Nado-”

“Kuny-” They both lean forward at the same time, Jackson’s hand moving from holding Kuny’s chin to cupping his cheek. 

“Can I kiss you?” Kuny whispers, his breath against Jackosn lips.

“If you don’t, I’ll kill you.” With that Jackson flung his arms around the bigger man and kissed him, Kuny wasting no time in kissing back. It’s aggressive and desperate but they both love it. Kuny’s arms wrap around Nado as they fall backwards so he’s on his back. 

Jackson is lying between Kuny’s legs and has one hand in Kuny’s hand the other is resting on his chest as they play tonsil tennis. He bites down on Kuny’s bottom lip and hears him suck in a breath. Smirking he pulls the lip into his mouth and sucks on it. Kuny unintonally rolls them off the couch so he is pinning Nado on the floor. His hands on the side of his head, both of them panting and flushed but smiling. 

Kuny dips back down, grabbing both of his roommate’s hands and pinning them above his head as he meets his lips again. Sliding his tongue over Nado’s bottom lip and smiles when he does. They kiss for what feels like hours and it was. They end up sitting with their legs all tangled together just locking lips only pulling away for air. 

“My ass hurts.” 

“We didn’t even do anything!” Jackson laughs at Kuny’s annoyed grumble at his comment and kisses him again. “Let’s get off the floor then.” They detanlge themselves after another minute of smooching. They didn’t want to stop. Standing up Kuny stretched his arms above his head and then reached back and rubbed his tailbone with the heel of his hand. Looking at Jackson he laughs. 

“Your hair is crazy! Come here, let me fix it.” He takes the hair tie off his wrist and pulls the other man’s hair up in a single quick motion.

“You’re getting better at that.” Kuny feels hands around his waist and smiles, he looks down at the other man, he liked this change. He chuckles and kisses Nado’s cheek before trailing down to his jaw and biting a bit making his roommate squawk and try to pull away. “Don’t eat me!” They pull away from one another and Kuny grabs the chips off the coffee.

“Funny, I thought you would have liked that.” He walks away to put them in the  pantry, hearing stumbles coming up behind him he smiles. Yawning dramatically he closes the pantry door and walks over to the sink to start washing dishes.

“Hey, pay attention to me!” Jackson wanted to take Kuny up on his offer but the taller man was ignoring him on purpose! He wraps his arms around the other man’s middle like he did earlier and kisses the sides and back of his neck. Smiling when he notices how flushed he has become. He was trailing his hands lower, his hands are pushed off as Kuny starts loading the dishwasher since he finished rinsing the dishes. 

Kuny knew what he was doing, Nado was never one to take being ignored for a long amount of time. He knew once he put the last plate in that Nado was going to jump him, so he took his time. As predicted Nado was being annoying, trying to get attention. He was tossing peanuts that they had in a little bowl on the counter at him, he was saying his name over and over in different ways. 

Eventually Kuny couldn’t stall any longer so he put the last dish in and walked over to the other man, pushing his legs open so he could stand between them. Resting his hands on the counter with Nado between them. The long haired man leans forward, grabbing Kuny’s shirt and pulling him closer so their noses are touching. 

“Hi.” Jackson says, threading his fingers through Kuny’s hair. 

“Let’s go to bed.” 

“You wanna-”

“Not in that way!” He laughs and wraps his arms around the man on the counter. 

“Your room or mine?” 

The next evening they were out at their favorite bar. Acting as if they definitely didn’t make out all last night and maybe a bit this morning. Sitting on one of the lounges together Nado’s arm was over the back behind Kuny. Both sipping on their drinks and talking to some of the Russian’s classmates that picked him out of the crowd. 

“Hey Good Lookin, wanna dance?” A tall woman with big blond hair walks over to them and sits basically in Nado’s lap. Kuny couldn’t help but feel that slight twinge of jealousy. 

“Marlene! How are you?” Kuny watches Nado hug her tightly and laugh with her. This was bullshit. They talk about random stuff that he doesn’t bother to listen to, instead he looks around. Spotting a beautiful very tall woman with dark skin and two puffs on top of her head. She notices him and smiles, her teeth have a gap between her front and canine but it makes her look approachable. He gets up from the lounge and heads over to her. 

“Hi, what’s your name?” He leans his side on the bar just like she is and smiles. Her satin silver scoop neck dress fell beautifully over her curves. She was strong too, he could see her muscles flex in her arms as she lifted her glass to take a sip of her drink. 

“Dorcus. Yours?”

“Call me Kuny… wanna dance?” She smirks at him, looking back over towards the lounge where he was sitting before, he looks too. Nado and that girl Marlene were still talking. Joking around and pointing at the tattoos on their arms, telling stories. 

“Only if it’s where they can see it.” She takes his hand after setting her cup on the bar and drags him over to the floor just in the sight range of the two chatterboxes. He smiles at her when she wraps his arms around her as she turns around. Her back to his chest, he puts his hands on her hips as they sway to the music. Making sure to look back over at Nado every once in a while to see if he was watching.

He was.

“They finally noticed us.” He whispers in her ear, hearing her humm deeply amused as she turns around. 

“Grab my ass, it’ll make them go crazy jealous.” He looks over to the lounge between her puffs and smirks at how jittery and uncomfortable they look. Merlene’s stare looked like it could melt toy soldiers. He rests his hands on her ass and squeezes just a bit, he could tell by the material of the dress that it made his squeeze look way worse than it was. Marlene shot up from where she was sitting and marched over to them. Grabbing Dorcus’ wrist, dragging her away into the crowd. 

Kuny smiles in the direction they ran off in before turning to look at were Nado was.

“Ah! Jebat́!” He feels his soul try to jump out of his skin when he is scared by the fact that Nado is right behind him. “You scared me!” Nado grabs his hand gently and replicates what Dorcus did earlier by wrapping his arm around his waist and putting his back to Kuny’s chest. 

“I wanted to be her.” Jackson turned his head so he was whispering toward Kuny’s ear. Taking the larger hands in his, turning around in those strong arms. “Let’s get out of here.”

Next thing he knew he was pinned up against the brick wall outside the bar, fingers digging into his skin under his shirt. Kuny was kissing him with a ferocity he has never seen before and he fucking loved it. Grabbing onto anything he can, one hand finds the front of Kuny’s shirt and the other is sprawled out on the hard shoulder of this giant man. 

Kuny slid one of his hands further up Nad’s back and smiled at the gaps and slapped on his shoulder.

“Your hands are freezing!” Kuny laughs and kisses down Nado’s neck. Sucking a bruise onto his scorpion tattoo. He feels Nado tapping on his shoulder and pulls away. “Look.” He looks where his flushed partner is pointing and smiles.

“Aw, they are so cute.” Marlene and Dorcus were laughing and sharing kisses as they stumbled over to a yellow slug bug. “Looks like they have the same idea.” 

“Let’s go home.” 

The Major League

Masterlist

TW: Drinking, swearing, food, gross love, mentions of odd media titles. If there are more, please let me know!

Baseball Boys meeting and falling in Love

What could go wrong… ;)

Beta:@punkkkkboi

Most Characters belong to: @lumosinlove

Chapter 6

Marauder Stadium, Hogwarts 2020

Remus was warming up, tonight’s game was one that has always been close to his heart but he would never tell anyone that. This game that they were playing tonight against the Snakes was Pride Night, which means all numbers and names on jerseys were switched from normal black or white or whatever colors to a flag of their choice. Most people just go with the usual pride flag because it matches the sponsored logos on their sleeves. 

Remus and most of their team has the usual, actually recently updated, pride flag for their uniforms. Leo and their center fielder John Stelfer were the odd ones out, Leo having the trans flag for his and John having the lesbian flag on his to show support for his sister. 

Practicing his wind up and throwing it to wherever Leo’s glove was as the Swede squatted behind the plate. He was feeling good, he was throwing smoothly and easily. This was going to be a fun game, the air was light hearted and the stands were all in different rainbows and flying different flags.

It felt nice.

Sirius was watching Remus’ warm up pitches in the box with a bunch of families of players and his own teammates. Finn and Logan were talking to two people he had never seen in his life before, James was fawning over Lily as usual. So he stood by himself and just watched. Remus’ pitching has always been said to be almost perfect, he sees that now. He wanted to get back at his… Well he didn’t really know where he and Remus’ stood but he wanted to get back at him for the texts he sent at Sirius’ last game. 

He was sipping on his water looking out onto the field when his ears perked up. He heard his name from somewhere over yonder, he tried to listen in a bit more to find out who was talking to him. He heard his name again and turned towards the voice. It was a Man a few inches shorter than him with a really thick well trimmed beard with an Eagles jersey on standing next to a woman with long blonde hair and a Snakes jersey on. They were talking to Logan and Finn, laughing at something someone said. His eyes meet the woman’s and she smiles at him, he nods back and she waves him over. He didn’t want to go over but then Finn and Logan also waved him over. 

“Oh Sirius, we were just talking about you and Remus in the media.” Finn puts his arm around his shoulders and jostles him a bit. “This is Eloise and Wyatt, Clay and Leo’s parents.” 

“Nice to meet you.” He goes to shake both their hands but instead is pulled into a tight hug. He felt like he couldn’t breathe for a moment, taking in as much air as he could without drawing attention to it when they pulled away. 

“Nice to meet you too!” Wyatt pats his shoulder and smiles, his canine tooth is crooked otherwise his smile is basically perfect. Finn puts his arm back around Sirius and smiles at him. Sirius notices for the first time that on Finn’s cheek is the blue gay flag, he looks at Logan and sees a sloppy demisexual flag on his cheek as well. Huh, bold. 

“We were just talking about how homoerotic the media paints your rivalry. Like look at these titles.” Finn pulls out his phone and shows him three titles. 

“Black Stares Deeply at Lupin’s Perfect Pitch…” Logan snorts as he continues reading. “Lupin Comes Hard at Black.” He cringes and reads the last one. “Lupin Spouts ‘Black Can Suck My Fat One’ to Reporter After Heated Argument. Did he really say that?”  Everyone is shaking their head as they giggle and he sighs. 

“You are very adorable and so is Moony so I see why people want you to be queerbait.” Elosie smiles at him, her thick accent making it slightly hard to understand. 

“Thanks?” 

“You’re welcome!” The two Swedes say at the same time. He smiles at them, he definitely sees how Clay and Leo turned out so nice. He hands Finn back his phone, shrugging off his arm from his shoulders. They chat for a bit until two other people who neither him or the other two teammates in the conversation have ever met. He bids his goodbye and goes back over to his spot in front of the box to watch the game. 

He felt the ball leave his hand and smirks a bit as Snape completely misses the ball, giving him his third strike and giving Remus his fifth strike out of the game and it’s only the second inning. He was on a roll! But he knows what’s coming, there are two outs and three people on base for the Snakes. Tom Riddle on first, Evan Rosier on second, and Regulus Black on third. 

Clay walks up to the batter’s box, on the left hand side. Remus knows he’s a switch hitter, being able to bat from both boxes successfully, but he is an actual left handed person so he was looking for a hit. Leo and Clay are both miced up because they are brothers on opposite teams so it makes for great entertainment. 

But the catch is that they also speak Swedish when they talk to each other… so most people have no idea what they are saying. It did sound aggressive when they spoke but Leo told him one night that they make it sound mean on purpose so people think they are arguing but in reality they are just joking around with each other. 

“Siktar du mot staketet?” Leo winks at Remus who can’t help but let out a small laugh as he kicks dirt off his mound. 

“Kanske inte stängslet, men jag vill få hem Reg.” Clay has one foot in the box and his bat is resting on his shoulder as he looks out to the field. Analyzing. 

“Bor ni inte ihop?”

“Han är en riktig snygging vad kan jag säga, alltid vill ta hem honom.” They both burst out laughing as Clay puts his other foot into the box, now that he has two feet in Remus is allowed to pitch. Winding up he hears Clay speak to Leo against right as he is about to let go of the ball. “Titta här.” Remus sees Leo’s eyes widen. Then Clay strikes the ball with a loud crack and takes off towards first as the ball sails over the back wall into the crowd. 

Grand Slam… what Clay was known for. Fuck.

The umpire gives Leo a new ball that he tosses to Remus as Tom, Evan, Reg and Clay all pass home one at a time. Snakes taking the lead by four points. The next batter gets out on first and they switch. Eagles going to bat and Snakes taking the field. 

It was horrendous, it was almost like the Snakes knew everything that was going to happen before it was going to happen. When they got so good, Remus would never know. It was infuriating though. He and Tom have never gotten along, just like how Sirius and Remus have never got along but at least they were working on it for James’ kid. He had no desire to get on Tom’s good side, his freakishly yellow eyes give him the hebejebes. 

They ended up losing the game.

Remus was getting dressed after his shower, Leo sits next to him sighing just in a towel because Leo was always the last to get dressed. He was picking at his arm wrap that was always under his compression sleeves that goes from his wrist to basically his collar bone. Remus never understood why he showered in the tape but Leo was already a weirdo so he never questioned him. Especially not after he found him raiding the fridge one night with three frozen fish sticks in his mouth. 

“We got our butts kicked.” 

“Good observation Leo.” Remus smiles a little at Leo’s offended face and finishes pulling on his socks before slipping on his slides. “Are you going out with your family tonight?”

“Mhm, and two of my friends from back home… and Finn I think.” Leo took the towel from his shoulders and ruffled his hair a bit with it before leaving it on his head. 

“Finn is going? Poor kid is gonna be so confused.” 

“We will speak english tonight, well most of us. Cam will try his best.” Leo starts changing into his clothes starting from his socks and working his way up. Putting on his tight long sleeve last and peeling the tape off after it was on… Oddball. 

“You know you can take the tape off before you put your shirt on… right?” 

“Yeah but I’d rather not, don’t want to show off my tattoo yet.” Remus is one of the only people who has ever actually seen Leo’s tattoo, it’s kind of a creepy one but the way Leo explained it really made sense. It still stunned him when he saw it sometimes because it’s such a rare sight. They grab their bags and walk out together to the lounge and part ways when Leo gets basically tackled by his doppleganger. 

Remus makes his way over to James and Lily, hugging Lily. He was going home after this but was going to chat with them a bit before he left. They start talking about how weird the game was but also how James was barely paying attention because he was playing 8-ball on his phone with Sirius the whole time. Speaking of, Sirius comes out of the bathroom and walks over to them. 

“Did you win?” Remus asks him, feeling tired and probably not looking any better. 

“Win what?” Sirius’ confusion was plain on his face.

“8-ball, duh.” James snorts.

“No, I’m terrible at that game.” Sirius crosses his arms and sighs as James starts fully laughing now. 

“He tries so hard too! I don’t even aim!” Lily rolls her eyes and shares a look with Remus who smiles. 

“Well, I think I’m gonna head home. I’m tired and Leo won’t be there so its going to be like paradise.” He bids them goodbye and walks out to his car, yawning. He wanted to watch something on the tv but he knows as soon as he sits on the couch he’s gonna pass out. So he’ll just watch something in his room. But first he needs to eat, then walk Dani, then feed Dani, then let her in his room so they can snuggle. Oh and give Dani her meds, Leo took her to the vet and found out she has some genetic thing that makes it so she needs expensive medicine and if she doesn’t get it then things can go south really quickly. 

He drives home, annoyed by the terrible traffic but it was after a major sports event he played in so it was in a way, his fault. Parking and getting out he makes sure to block the entrance to the house with his leg so Dani doesn’t just sprint out the door into the concrete jungle to get lost. He sets his bag on the ground and kicks off his shoes before picking up the large puppy and walking to the kitchen. 

“What should I eat, Dani?” She is licking the side of his face much to his dismay but he’d let it slide tonight. Making himself a few slices of toast with butter he decides this will hold him over for a bit before he orders something. They really need to go grocery shopping. Making the mistake of holding the piece he was munching on in the same hand connected to the arm he was cradling Dani with, she snatches it from him as he scrolls on twitter to see commentary of the game. 

“You’re scarily like your dad…” He sets her down and fills her bowl, letting her eat while he grabs her leash and puts on his sneakers. Getting her situated after she walks away from her bowl, she tugs him around the neighborhood before tiring herself out once they get a few steps away from the apartment. They settle down for the night watching some random show on his small tv in his room. Falling asleep not long after laying down. 

Forgetting to ever order his food.

Marauder Stadium, Hogwarts 2020

Clay walks out of the locker to be picked up over Finn’s shoulder and carried over to his family with everyone cheering him on. He can’t help but laugh, being put down in the middle of his friends and family he turns a bit pink from the attention on him. Kissing Finn’s cheek he is dragged into a crushing hug from his two best friends. 

“Cam! Cecil! Jag kan inte andas!” His friends laugh and pull apart, Cma ruffling his hair like he always does. “Has your English improved?”

“Kind of?” Cam’s clunky words fall out of his mouth and Cecil snickers. Cam, not turning away from Clay, punches his Swedish-Korean friend in the shoulder. “I try.” 

“I know. Where’s Leo?” Speaking of the devil Leo walks up to them and a chorus of ‘CCCCLLLLLEEEEEOOOOORRRR’ breaks out from Cecil, Cam and Clay. Leo being the only one in their friend group without a C starting name, has earned himself the title of Cleo but everyone says it in that way that the characters from H2O Just Add Water do. All because they pirated the series back when it was big and watched it together. 

“Yes, yes hello. Can we go? I’m starving!” Cecil pats his back.

“Oh Cleo, aren’t you always hungry?” 

“Yeah? Why?” With that they all head out the door, getting an Uber XL and making their way to Olive Garden, Clay looks over at Leo and notices how… sad he looks. He was going to say something but his attention was turned towards Finn who was basically vibrating out of his seat from excitement. He wanted some fucking breadsticks and Clay was so confused as to why he was so excited for bread. Clay puts his hand on Finn’s bouncing knee to stop it and looks at the red-heads face. 

“Sorry, I’m just excited.” 

“It’s cute.” They share a chaste kiss hearing protests from the back where the three degenerates were messing around. He looks back at them and sticks his tongue out, which he knew was a bad idea because anytime anyone does that in the vicinity of Cecil… they get their tongue grabbed. Luckily he pulls his tongue back in before Cecil is able to grab it. 

Getting to the restaurant Wyatt gets out of the van first to make sure no one trips on the way out because said van was full of accidentally prone people. Clay and Finn were the first ones out, walking into the garden of olives Finn goes to the little stand in the middle of the room and tells them the name that the reservation is under. 

Once they are all inside they are brought to a table secluded from the rest of the restaurant which was a great choice because they are not only accident prone people but also loud. Sitting around the table starting with Wyatt and Eloise on each end and everyone else filling in, Clay ends up between Finn and Cecil. They all got glasses of water and a pitcher that was hopefully not going to get broken. They all stuck with water and the hostess left them to look at the menus. Leo and Cam decided to arm wrestle after finding out they wanted the same dish because it is tradition that no one can order the same thing. 

Leo won, Cam cursed and started looking at the menu again. After a couple more minutes of catching up while Finn looked confused because he couldn’t understand anything besides what Clay would translate for him, their waitress walks in. 

“Noelle?” Finn and Clay say at the same time as she walks over to the table. 

“Hey guys.” She gives them a little wave and then introduces herself with some scripted thing that she was trained to say before taking everyone’s orders. She winks at Clay before leaving the area again and he can’t help but smile a bit. 

“So, I take it getting her and Thomas together is going well?” Finn looks at him with a teasing smirk making Leo laugh a bit, leaning forward on the table Clay looks at his brother. 

“No way, from what Logan told me Noelle would never go for Thomas.” He takes a drink of his water and yelps when a straw wrapper is blown into his ear. “Cam!”

“Cecil said too!” Cecil was silently dying of laughter beside Clay, laughing hard enough that a couple tears streak through his little ace stripes on his face. “No, don’t ruin! Those took me hours!” 

“Hours? For three stripes?” Clay laughs a bit and looks at Cam who just shrugs. 

“It took him so long because I kept laughing at his stupid face.” Cecil speaks up wheezing after calming down from his fit. “It was so funny! Look.” Cecil pulls out his phone and shows Clay the picture of Cam with flared nostrils and his tongue poking out of his mouth. Clay smiles. Cam was the most painfully straight man he has ever met but he was also the most supportive ally he has ever met as well. Always joining the Knut family during Stockholm pride events. They were lucky to have a friend like him. 

Noelle takes a breath, she does everything she needs to do to get the orders to the kitchen and leans against a table. It was a really slow night, ten tables max… plus the party table that is Clay and his family. It really took her by surprise when she walked into the party area to see Finn’s arm over Clay’s chair while the shorter man whispered translations to the clueless ginger. They were cute together, she wasn’t going to deny they were and have always been really sweet on social media. 

But seeing them all coupley right in front of her, it was weird! She can’t hide it anymore its fucking weird! Finn was and has always been in love with her brother and she was trying so hard to get them together and then Finn just goes off and picks up some Swedish guy who is basically Logan but two inches taller! She has been chatting with Clay over messages for the last few days and he’s an absolute doll. Unlike Logan who is annoying as hell. She knows she shouldn’t get involved but she also felt like she should get involved… Wonder what Thomas thinks about all this? She wants to send him a text but that will have to wait until she is able to go on a break because one of her small tables food is ready for her to take out.

God, she hates Italian food. 

Thomas was at the bar with Logan and a couple of his teammates. He was having a nice chill night chatting away with Benji, their second baseman, about the different types of crystals they have been collecting together for fun, but it kinda turned into a whole informational thing that they now love. 

“Why crystals?” Logan asks between them after finally looking up from his phone. “Like that seems kinda, I don’t know, culturally ambiguous.” 

“Wow, big words for such a small body.” Thomas laughs a bit at Logan’s glare and he ruffles his hair, messing up his half up hair-do going on. “We don’t mean any harm and we don’t try to convert people to crystals. It’s just something we like and enjoy learning about. Also, I think they are pretty.” 

“Hmm, just watch yourself. Okay?” Thomas and Benji both nod. 

“So, I went to go watch your sister’s ballet the other day with Clay and honestly, I don’t see why you hate him so much.” 

“I don’t hate him.” Logan states a bit confused, getting both Benji and Thomas to give him a questioning glance. “What? I don’t!”

“Logan, you talk shit about him all the time. You rant about how annoying and self centered he is.” Thomas watches Logan’s face, he looks guilty. 

“That’s because I didn’t really… want to know him for a long time. Finn just talks about Clay non-stop and it was so annoying that I couldn’t help but pick out every bad thing about him before even getting to know him. I went over to his house a couple weeks ago with Leo, Finn was there too. Watching them together was weird because I’ve never seen Finn act like that with anyone except…” Logan pauses and takes a drink. “Anyway, I ended up having a really nice talk with Clay while sitting on a counter and drinking some hot alcoholic drink that I can’t remember the name of. He was really nice and actually listened and understood why and what I was talking about. I think we are on the road to being friends now and it feels like a boulder has been lifted off my shoulders.” 

“That’s really great. I never thought you’d ever get along with him.” Benji smiles at Logan and pats his shoulder before getting up to go get another drink. 

“I still feel really bad when I talk to him.” Logan looks up at Thomas and he honestly doesn’t know how to respond to that, so he does the only thing he really knows how to. He pulls Logan into a tight hug and for once, Logan doesn’t struggle to pull away. 

“He wants to get to know you, Logan. He wants to be your friend. Just let him.” Logan sighs, sounding a bit sadder than he was earlier. 

“Can I tell you something?” They pull away, Thomas keeping his hand on one of Logan’s shoulders. 

“Of course you can, I’m always here for you… Brother-in-law.” That makes Logan roll his eyes and smile.

“She’s never gonna fall for you. Anyway, So… You know Clay’s brother.”

“Yeah, he’s my teammate. Funny as hell too.” 

“Well, he and I have kinda been flirting and umm.”

“Did you sleep with him? Not gonna lie, I could see you two together.”

“No! We haven’t slept together, but we have made out and I think I’m really starting to like him. Do you think I should go for it?” Logan has so much wanting in his eyes and the expression on his face contradicts that by looking worried. 

“If you feel in your heart that Leo is someone you want to be with, then I don’t see an issue with you dating him.”

“But, I’ve never been with a guy before. I mean I almost dated someone else but I rejected them because I was scared that the media would tear us apart.”

“Well, as we see from Clay and Finn the media doesn’t care and I don’t think many people in the league even really bat an eye at two guys being together. Lucky for us, we don’t live in the early days.” 

“Maybe I’ll go over to his place tonight, just to talk some things over. Also, I’ve never been inside his apartment and I’m curious to see just how Swedish it is.” Logan smiles a little, relaxing enough that the tension leaves his shoulder. Thomas takes his hand off him and crosses his arms on the table. 

“It’ll all work out in the end.”