this is a uni au where iwaoi both stay in japan - iwa studies medicine, oikawa psychology. they study at different universities though, and only meet up occasionally. theyre also not dating yet, stuck in the pining phase…
“I liked what you said today,” Elder Hummel said on the bus ride home. “About how loving things in little ways makes it easier to learn to love things in big ways. I’ve never thought of it like that before. Though I suppose you could’ve guessed that.”
“How so?”
Elder Hummel half rolled his eyes. “You haven’t noticed that I’m jaded?”
“You’re not jaded. You’re just…” Blaine tried to think of the right word. The images that came to his mind were of a delicate garden hedgehog that had caught him by wonderful surprise when it wandered out of the bushes of an investigator’s garden during his second month in Germany, and again of prickly pear fruit with its sweet pink flesh. “Protective. You love things. You just don’t announce it as loudly as I do. Anyway, I don’t think I’d ever thought of it that way before, either. Not consciously.”
“Well, then. We both learned something new.”
“Multiple things,” said Blaine, a vision of Chandler jogging down the stairs and out the door at the end of class coalescing in the back of his brain.
i can’t believe that these were their first words to each other nora was absolutely insane for this
the idea of Andrew just having “fuck you” as his soulmate Mark though after everything else he’s been through, being abandoned by his mom, going from shitty foster home to shitty foster home being abandoned and abused and thinking even his soulmate doesn’t want him… I
