#oc x leon
Lavender Tea and Razz Berries (OC x Leon)
Commissioned by @epicspheal
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“I’m fine.”
“No you’re not, go lie down.”
“Terra, I swear I’m fine, it’s just a little headache.”
“If it were just a little headache you wouldn’t keep grimacing.”
“I’m not grimacing, see? No grimaces here.”
Leon flashed a big smile, though his dear friend Terra didn’t exactly return it. Hands on her hips and still wearing her coat and backpack, her raised eyebrow expressed all she needed to in that the doctor in her was not impressed. The moment Terra had stepped inside Leon’s apartment she had noticed something wrong – Leon’s lagging responses, his attempt to hide those pained expressions, and rubbing at his temples when he thought she wasn’t looking – it all clued into the fact that he had yet anotherdebilitating headache, no doubt caused by the stress of this year’s Gym Challenge.
“Get your ass into bed,” Terra repeated, finally shrugging off her backpack and jacket. “Doctor’s orders. I’ll make you some tea.”
Leon tried to refute her again, only to pause when Terra continued.
“Please, Leon?” she said. “It would make mefeel better if you went to lay down for a bit.”
Leon pursed his lips, paused, then deeply exhaled with a ‘fine’ before trudging to his room as Terra chuckled. Coercion wasn’t usually the tactic she utilized when she could help it, but Leon was a stubborn man. While he usually ignored any ailments if he were the only one suffering, as soon as it bothered another person, he caved. It was an endearing yet frustrating trait of his, one that Terra would capitalize on if that meant the man would acknowledge that he didn’t need to willhimself out of illness and into health. Her medical background certainly helped, as she knew just what medicines would help treat his insistent headache. She hummed to herself as she moseyed about his kitchen, plucking snacks, medicine, and beverages fluidly from the shelves and counters. While she and Leon didn’t live together – as the thought made her blush and scold herself – she knew his home as well as she knew hers.
After prepping a tray of Razz berries, Nanab berries, a bit of dark chocolate, and some lavender tea, Terra quietly stepped into Leon’s room. She breathed out a laugh to see his pout and crossed arms, though it was relieving to see that he was actually resting in bed like she asked.
She set the tray on Leon’s lap, then checked his blood pressure and temperature. Perhaps it was just a headache, but Terra would much rather be safe than sorry if the Champion’s health deteriorated with her sitting right there. Leon took the pain medication, drank some of the water, then started on the snacks and tea that she had prepared. Besides some rolling of the eyes, Leon wasn’t being too terrible of a patient. He finished the Nanab berry and raised an eyebrow at her.
“Temperature and blood pressure?” he asked, his lips pulling into a smirk. “Don’t you think that’s a bit much for a headache? I thought you were off work.”
“I’m not getting chewed out by Rose because the Champion got sick while with me,” Terra scoffed as she put her equipment away into her bag. “He looks like the type to sue my flat ass.”
“Your butt isn’t that flat,” Leon said through a mouthful of Razz berries. It was Terra’s turn to smirk as she met his eye.
“You’ve been looking at my ass?” she teased, eyebrow raised. Leon spluttered a noncoherent response, choking a bit on his Razz berry. He admitted defeat when he refused to respond, instead taking a sip of the tea. Terra chuckled and pat his hand, standing to go tidy up the kitchen while Leon rested. She paused when she felt his fingers curl around hers.
“Would you mind staying for a bit?” Leon asked quietly. “If you can?”
“Of course,” Terra said, offering his hand a squeeze.
“Like…withme?”
“Yes?” Terra asked, watching as his cheeked darkened with a blush. “I said I would.”
“No, like, uh,” Leon mumbled, eyes shifting to the side. “Would you cuddle with me? I think it’d, uh, it’d help my headache.”
Terra chuckled as Leon fumbled with his words and the blanket, and she simply set the tray of snacks on the nightstand.
“Is that a treatment option I wasn’t aware of?” Terra teased, only to give his hand another squeeze. “Of course.”
Leon eagerly made room for her, scooching enough for Terra to fit under the covers with him. He immediately wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her snugly into his chest. The motion was a little startling, but not unappreciated as a blush crept into Terra’s cheeks at Leon’s eagerness. As if they shared lungs, they both let out a deep, comfortable sigh as the sheets settled around them.
The window was open, blowing a comfortable breeze into the room as they lay together. This wasn’t the first time they had held one another (and they both hoped it wouldn’t be the last) but that didn’t mean their hearts didn’t patter a little harder at the closeness of the other. After a moment of settling in, Leon let out a hum.
“Thank you, Terra. I know I can be stubborn, but I am feeling a little better.”
“Good,” Terra said, giving Leon a light squeeze. “What do you think caused your headache? Stress?”
“Oh, I don’t know about that,” Leon said. “Maybe I was… dehydrated? Not sure.”
“Or maybe Rose is overworking you?” Terra said, lightly poking Leon’s chest. “Again?”
“No, no, that’s not it,” Leon said, but his tone wasn’t particularly convincing. “I’m handling everything fine.”
“Leon,” Terra whispered gently. She pulled back enough to see his eyes. “You know you can say no to Rose, right?”
Leon’s gaze flicked between Terra’s eyes until his brow furrowed, and he fell back into his pillow.
“Yeah,” Leon groaned, pinching between his eyebrows. “I mean, I guess I can technically, but you know how he is. He was the one that gave me this opportunity, I owe so much to him.”
“That doesn’t mean you can’t set boundaries,” Terra said, offering Leon a soothing pat on his chest again. “If this guy is overworking you so much that you keep getting these headaches, I may have to have a talk with him myself as a healthcare provider.”
Leon let out a weak chuckle at that, then again curled his arms around Terra. They simply lay with each other a while, the breeze from the open window whispering over them as their breathing began to slow.
“Thanks,” Leon mumbled. His words were a little slurred, as he was certainly on the edge of sleep. Terra didn’t respond, only to lift her head at his next sentence. “I want you to stay by my side forever, Terra.”
She blinked a few times at those warm words, waiting for Leon to follow up with another thought or comment. When he only offered a light snore, Terra’s face started to warm at Leon’s half-asleep slip of the tongue. She breathed out a light chuckle, resting her head on Leon’s chest again, and she offered Leon a promise.
“I’ll stay with you, Leon.”
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As the City Sleeps (OC x Leon)
Commissioned by @lightningnose
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“You’re an idiot for thinking I could love a failure like you.”
The words echoed around him, clanging against the walls, against his head, into his ears like nails on a chalkboard. They shot straight into his heart, sitting there hard and heavy as he processed what she was saying.
“But, Ree…” Leon started, his voice strangled as if his lungs held no air. “You said that you loved me for me, that you always loved me for me. You said my title didn’t matter… that all of that didn’t matter…”
Leon wasn’t sure what was worse – Ree’s piercing laughter, or how she rolled her eyes at him, as if he were some idiotic child too stupid to understand the rules of whatever game she was playing. Her arms were crossed, eyes dark, as she stared him down.
“Who could actually love you after you lost? People love Champion Leon, not whatever nobody you are now. Looks like you’re useless andstupid.”
Leon’s heart shattered yet again, his chest feeling concave as he processed what she said, how she was looking at him, how she was speaking to him.
She was right. Who could love a failure? Who could love a nobody like him? He wasn’t the Champion, so he wasn’t anything. He was no longer the best, and that meant he was nothing. His friends would leave him. His family would leave him. Ree would… Ree would…
His chest tightened at the thought. And finally, with eyes cold, those three terrible words that Leon dreaded finally dripped from Ree’s lips.
“I’m leaving you.”
Leon woke with a start, gasping for air, his sheets saturated with a cold sweat. He whipped his head around, vision blurry, searching for that glare that had been so close. It took him a few moments to realize that he was alone in his Wyndon bedroom, and that the only sounds in the room were coming from the city in the night and the gasps he sucked in. Each breath came fast and heavy, in as if he were desperately trying to make up for the suffocation he felt only moments before. Ree’s sneering face had faded, replaced with his dark room and curtains lightly fluttering in the night breeze. Leon shook his head into focus, trying to think about anything that wasn’t Ree’s scowl that was now slowly fading. He saw curtains, windows, a dresser, his Poke Balls, his nightstand, and his clock that read 2am.
“A dream,” Leon mumbled to himself after a moment, and he again surveyed his surroundings to be sure that there were no more sneering faces awaiting him, and to ensure that experience truly was a dream. It took a moment, then a moment more, before he set his face in his hands, rubbing his eyes and heaving out a deep sigh.
It was just a dream. He was still in his apartment, he and Ree were still dating, and she was still sleeping soundly in the guest room. While they usually slept apart whenever she stayed over, his bed felt much too large and lonely after waking up from that terrible dream. Leon stepped into the bathroom, splashed some water on his face, then quietly padded to the guest room across the hall. With a lit rap on the door, he peeked his head in.
“Ree?” he whispered as his eyes adjusted to the darkness of the room. “You up?”
Her body was silhouetted under the blankets, but she made no movement. Leon whispered her name again and she started to stir, filling the room with the soft rustling of sheets. Leon’s heart squeezed at the sight, and he gripped his shirt in his fists, stomach still a little queasy from that dream.
“Mmng,” Ree mumbled, pushing her hair out of her face as she turned to him. “Lee? ‘s that you?”
“Sorry to wake you, love,” Leon said, quietly stepping into the room. “Mind if I join you?”
Ree nodded instantly, flipping the covers as an invitation for Leon to slip in too. He did, and was soon enveloped in the warmth and calm that his girlfriend was always so good at supplying.
“’Skay? I mean - you okay?” Ree mumbled, slowly adjusting to being awake. She lifted herself up onto her elbow to see him more clearly, though her eyes were still a little puffy from sleep and the lines from the pillow were gently pressed into her face. “Did something happen?”
“Nightmare,” Leon replied with a sigh, running his fingers through his bangs as his brow furrowed. “It was pretty bad, you, you um…”
He trailed off, his stomach dropping again at that terrible image of Ree’s scowl. It was nothing like the expression she held now in reality, full of concern and love, but that didn’t mean that nightmare’s glare didn’t flash every time he closed his eyes. Leon scanned her face, sucking in an anxious breath before continuing his sentence.
“You left me,” he said. Immediately as he said those words, hot tears began to prick in his eyes. It was as if saying the words aloud stitched them into reality, and Leon didn’t realize how hard he was clutching the blankets until he felt Ree’s hands slide over his own. “You… you left me because I wasn’t Champion anymore. You said that… that I was a failure, and that no one could love a failure. So you left me.”
Just as his last word waivered, so did the tears in his eyes that were threatening to fall. His eyes stung so he squeezed them shut, hoping to keep the hot tears from spilling over.
“Oh, Lee,” Ree breathed, lifting her hand to cup his face. She brushed away the tear that had fallen with her thumb, and Leon held his hand against hers, pressing her touch into his cheek. “It was just a dream, okay? I’m here with you now, and I love you so much. There’s no way I could ever leave you.”
Leon nodded. He knew Ree would never lie to him, but there was still a part of him that was so raw, so beaten, so vulnerable, that he couldn’t stop his next sentence from slipping out.
“Even though I’m not the Champion?” he asked, searching her eyes. “You still love me?”
“Yes,” Ree said, breathing out a laugh. “Leon I love you, then, now, and forever. I don’t care if you’re the Champion or chairman or a garbage man or if you didn’t have a job at all. I love you, not your title, no matter what it may be.”
Leon nodded again, not sure what else to say. Ree leaned in a gently pressed a kiss to his forehead, then laid down and held her arms out for him. Leon quickly accepted the invitation and laid his head on her chest, breathing out a deep sigh as he felt the thrumming of her heartbeat against his ear. She ran her fingers through his hair, gently brushing his bangs off his face, then combing through the hair by his temple.
“I know this is hard for you,” Ree said quietly, still lightly running her fingers through his hair. “But I’m here for you, okay? This is another part of your journey that I want to help you with. You’re learning and growing, and I am so so proud of you. You’re doing such a great job.”
Leon nodded, his eyelids fluttering closed at the soothing feeling of her hands in his hair. He wrapped his arms around her, curling her as close as he could.
“Thank you, Ree,” Leon breathed, giving her a squeeze. Leon’s eyes were closed, so he didn’t see the dark blush that stained her cheeks at the gentility in his words. He felt a sentence start in her chest, only to pause, then she finally breathed it out, as soft and soothing as the light breeze that whispered through the open window. Just as the wind brushed and curled around the curtains, her words curled around his heart.
“I love you,” she said again. “I’m… I’m here for you, okay?”
“I know,” Leon hummed, leaning up to press a kiss to her chin. “I love you too. Thank you.”
She responded by leaning down and pressing a kiss to his lips, a motion which Leon gratefully accepted. She started to pull back, only for Leon to capture her lips in another kiss.
“I love you,” he mumbled again, still hovering above her lips. He could now see the flaring blush in her cheeks, and such a cute sight drew a chuckle from him.
“I love you too,” Ree repeated, face warm from the insistent blush. “Why don’t we get some sleep? I’ll be right here when you wake up.”
Leon nodded, resting his head on her chest again as Ree adjusted the blankets over them. The sound of her breathing, the feeling of her arms around him, and the lingering taste of her kiss helped Leon finally drift into a peaceful, calm, and dreamless sleep.
