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♡"Midnight Meeting"

𝙰𝚏𝚏𝚘𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚘 𝚡 𝙲𝚕𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝙲𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖

𝐒𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐝

~~♡~~

It's been a long night for the consul. He genuinely just wanted to rest, but no. Life was completely against him!
First, his dad began pestering him about some family shit again (..Even blamed HIM for his mom's affair with another woman, how the hell did that even matter?!)

..Then, Elder Oyster chose to give him fuck tons of papers and things to sign, which is all still piled up on his desk.
(..AND his cat was angry at him cause he accidentally stepped on her tail whilst cleaning off his desk..)
..Overall, it just sucked.

His dad was terrible, and sometimes, the Republic itself was terrible. The citizens expected to highly of him, yet he couldn't handle the stressfulness.

Even worse, they began pestering Financier too, asking if they would get married and have babies together- It was weird. Old people in general are weird around here.

But, Clotted could never expose the two's secrets. They've been friends since their teenage years, afterall.
The secret though, isn't what you'd expect. It was simply things about their sexualities.

Only Clotted knew about Financier's love for women, and only she knew about the whole 'everyone-is-hot' thing.
And, only he knew about her 'little' crush on that one lady from the Parfedia Institute.

Unfortunately, the consul had nobody to crush on. Seriously, Valentines day fucking sucked. Everyone being all..Lovey-Dovey, whilst he's stuck, signing papers.

(god FUCK even the elders had partners, and they're old as hell..!)

Overall, it just sucked.

He sighed, listening to his father screaming about some soul-jam stuff again, poking his food around with a fork.
~~♡~~

The midnight hour was always peaceful. Everyone sleeping, their porch lights and streetlights being the only things that illuminated the streetsides..
It was amazing, and a bit beautiful, if Clotted had to admit.

He actually adored this time. Nobody in the Republic shared that interest (..Except for Espresso, but his reasonings weren't due to 'parents never shutting the fuck up during the daytime'..)
..And he loved it.

After about 5 minutes of admiring the horizon, and illuminated streets, Clotted sighed, pulling on a coat and some sweatpants (..Listen, there was no reason to get all dolled up to just sneak out for a walk..), and carried his backup shoes out to the front door.
Opening it as quietly as possible, the consul slipped through the door, closing it silently, then pulling on the shoes.

He shivered a bit as the cold air blew. The nighttime was usually pretty cold, especially with how close the kingdom was to some other colder areas.

Clotted could see his breath in the air, but he simply chose to ignore it, and pay more attention to the lights, and figure standing in the dar-

..Wait.

He stopped, staring at them.
The Republic never had weirdos, other than the occasional weirdo visitors.
But this?
..This was plain out creepy.

"..Excuse me?"
He called out, watching the figure turn around, then smoothly walk a bit more into the light, with careful strides.

The moment he caught a glimpse of that purple shade, he knew who exactly it was.

"..Affogato..?"
~~♡~~

The mentioned man only smiled, walking closer. Obviously, things had changed a bit. Affogato broke free from Dark Enchantress now, and pretty much just roams the city at night, staying cooped up in his son's lab all day.

"Yes, yes, it is me..No need for casualties, consul."
He purred out, raising a sleeved arm over his mouth, with a smooth chuckle.
The other's voice seemed warm, and honestly a hug from him seemed warmer and- Oh sweet Divines he's now heating up.

Affogato chuckled, his catlike pupils examining Clotted carefully.

"..Now, why exactly are you out, in these parts, at..1 in the morning, sire?"
He asked, now a bit closer.

"I..Just had to think. Er- Father has been quite angered, yet again."
Clotted replied, glancing away, watching a stray cat scatter away instead.

"Ah, Elder Custard, yes..Quite the cruel man sometimes, correct?"
Affogato's grin never faltered, even widening a bit after a while.

"..Yes, yes..True. But, he is my father, I must..Follow his commands, no matter how cruel."
The consul said, with a sigh. He watched the breath disappear into the cold air.

"True, true. We do not want you in trouble now, do we..?"
"..You seem quite uptight, consul. We may walk, if that is what you truly desire."
The ganshin offered, reaching a gloved hand out towards Clotted.

He held back a fluster, taking the other's hand in his own, watching him smile.

They walked around the Republic, and sometimes they even stopped to check something out. Most of the time, it was just an animal, like a raccoon, or cat.

They walked for what seemed like hours, Affogato eventually leading the consul back to his home.

Clotted had been quite flustered the entire time, really only thinking about the other man. Whenever he would speak, Clotted would just nod along, mostly just staring at his face.

But, Affogato definitely wasn't a dumbass, and he knew those signs.

'..So this, is how he feels..Quite interesting choice, for a consul.'

"..Thank you for walking with me, Affogato..Er- it really did help."
He muttered, hesitantly letting go of the other's warm hand.

..But, Affogato only grinned, reaching forwards to leave quite a few kisses on the other man's face.

The consul was extremely flustered by the time he finished up, ending it off with a kiss to the lips.

With a chuckle, he said a simple goodbye, seemingly disappearing into the darkness, with a lovely wink to the other.

..Clotted felt around, knowing that he was fucked with trying to get the lipstick stains off.
(..Better pray to the Divine that father doesn't see it..)

(..Update: he saw it, Clotted ran the FUCK away to Financier's house to vent about his sudden feelings toward Affogato..)

~End~

hey guys, hoped you enjoyed this :)
was very fun to write tbh, but jesus fuck is clotted difficult to characterize
anywayss, i wanna thank you guys for getting this funky lil book to over 1k reads, im literally so happy abt this, so tysmm :))
(also oh god pls give us some reqs and PLSS give prompts oh god my braincells are shrivelling up and dying)