hlvrai x reader book ^__^

⭐ stickers (oneshot)

this was supposed to be completely platonic oneshot but idk it went south lol at least its kinda cute i guess ? this scene doesnt happen in any specific point of da hlvrai lore its all made up by me

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the sound of glass breaking could be heard in the corner of the room, as gordon smashed the window glass of a vending machine into small bits with an old, rusty crowbar.

"everyone!! get the drinks!!" gordon shouted as he watched the rest of the science team run over to the broken vending machine and start sipping and slurping on the drinks like wild animals. the science team was tired from all the walking and fighting and decided to take a well deserved break in a room they found and possibly scavenge for food. that's why the vending machine is now broken.

the only one who wasnt near the vending machine was y/n, who instead decided to look around the room and hopefully find some food or other helpful stuff inside the boxes on the other side of the room. they seemed quite satisfied with the task at hand, looking around with a smile on their face while listening to an ambience of certain 3 men sipping soda loudly and gordon dying of laughter over the slurping cacophony.

oh, speaking of gordon! as soon as he finished laughing and noticed y/n not being present near the vending machine, he looked over at them and sighed. not in annoyance, but rather in a "im so hecking glad there's at least one sane person here besides myself" way. yea, for the majority of the day he had to babysit 3 men babies and benrey (who has been currently missing for a few hours now. not like gordon cares where he is though!). y/n on the other hand, seemed pretty normal, mature even, which was gordon extremely glad for cause.. he really didnt want another careless adult to look after.

gordon then quickly shook his head. no more bad thoughts!! he thought to himself as he looked over at y/n. for now, he just wanted to take a break and chill with them, as they (like previously stated) seemed like the most mature out of the bunch.

putting on a little grin, gordon walked over to y/n and raised his hand in a friendly way, ready to start a conversation!

"y/n, buddy! what's u–"
"GUYS! i found some cute stickers!!"

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what the heck. there's no way. gordon's expections of y/n's maturity immediately all disappeared as he watched the supposdely "mature" adult jump around in a childlike glee, waving with a few pages of colorful stickers in their hand!! gordon face palmed in disappointment and sat down with a groan. how could even such silly items end up in black mesa? and most important, why is everyone so damn happy about it?

because as soon as y/n informed everyone about their interesting find (loudly, might i add), everyone came up to them, visibly interested in the stickers as well. "good job, dr y/n! we all knew we could count on you!" dr coomer said in a happy tone, sounding proud of the younger scientist, to which y/n replied with an even happier "thank you!"

the first one next to y/n was tommy, who seemed the most curious about the stickers , "ooh i love stickers, show me!", he bend down to y/n's height and looked over their shoulder at the stickers, gasping at the cute designs and colors, "the star ones look so cute!". reacting immediately, y/n grinned and looked up at the tall man next to them. they then procceeded to carefully take one of the star stickers and stick it on tommy's right cheek. "tada! now you look very handsome!" y/n said happily, grinning even more after seeing tommy smile widely. he seemed very happy to be called handsome!

the little interaction of the two seemed to attract the rest of the science team, aswell! coomer along with bubby quickly squeezed themselves between y/n and tommy, both demanding y/n to give them some stickers too, to which the young scientist agreed to with a quick nod. "of course!! there's a lot of them for everyone!!"

the room was quickly filled with laughs and giggles as the scientists shared cute stickers between eachother, all of them enjoying the silly, yet fun activity!! soon all of them were covered with stickers; tommy's face was the most covered - with 2 star stickers on his cheeks, 1 heart sticker on his chin and 1 rainbow sticker above his left eyebrow - the 2 older scientists were decorated in a similar manner, except that bubby refused to take any girly stickers (although he didnt seem against putting a kuromi sticker on his chest pocket, to match with coomer's my melody one), y/n themselves picked primarly heart and flower stickers of various colors, decorating both their face and their lab coat with them. needless to say, they all looked very cool and stylish!

unfortunately, not everyone seemed to share the same opinion.. this all looked so silly in gordon's eyes! why yes, he has been sitting there this whole time, watching everyone have fun and exchange stickers! at first, he was quite annoyed at how bizzare it all seemed, playing around like little kids while they were locked up in a huge building with monsters everywhere..

the science team looked so happy though- despite often feeling frustrated because of them, gordon still cared a lot about them. they were his buddies after all! he enjoyed spending time with them, and needless to say, he even slowly started to feel a desire to join the fun. gordon felt his grumpy mood slowly getting better as he looked back at the rest of his team, grinning at the sight of benrey casually chatting with y/n.

wait wha- when did benrey get in here??? his grin quickly fell. noticing the security guard who seemed to appear out of nowhere, gordon immediately sprung to his feet and stomped towards benrey, who stood right next to y/n, asking them for a few fruit stickers to decorate his helmet with. gosh, gordon couldnt stand this guy. "what are YOU doing he-!!" "oh hey bro. hey man. whats up, bro. you- you doing good?" benrey cut him off with his monotone voice before gordon could finish his sentence, not even bothering to look at the taller man with a ponytail as he rather admired his helmet him and y/n just finished decorating. "havent seen you in a while." benrey added with a smirk on his face, most likely intending to piss off gordon even more; which worked because upon hearing that, gordon could feel his temper rise tremendously fast.

sensing the negative atmosphere around, y/n panicked a bit. they didnt want anyone to start a fight, especially not when everyone seemed to be in such a good mood until now! so, without thinking, the young scientist took a random sticker and quickly put it on gordon's left cheek, hoping for it to work as a distraction to cool down gordon.

this of course, surprised gordon as he went completely silent and stumbled back a bit, not expecting such an interaction. y/n looked at him with a sheepish, yet cute smile, letting out a laugh to releave the awkward situation they just got themselves into. lol what a silly clown. for a while, the two just stared at eachother, not sure what to say or do, until y/n finally let go of gordon's face and laughed yet again, this time with much more confidence. y/n just noticed that the sticker they just put gordon's face was the same one they already had on their face, what a coincidence! "cool, now we're matching!"

gordon was totally speechless, unsure what to say or do. he was left confused after the whole sticker thing but he was very certain about two things he just realized; y/n's laugh was the most beautiful thing in the world and he really wanted to hear it again. for now, he just continued to fondly stare at the the smilling, sticker-covered scientist in front of him.

unfortunately, the fuzzy, yet pleasant silence was soon broken by bubby punching a microwave he found in the room and then throwing it on the ground, causing a small explosion-

"GORDON, GREAT NEWS! I MADE FIRE!"
"bubby. what the heck."