"I just...don’t understand?”

Pirouette paced, clutching at his hair and pulling it out of it’s neat bun, reducing it to a messy ponytail.

“It’s okay, baby.”

Crux motioned with a hand from where they were sprawled out across Pirouette’s bed, but they shot up when Pirouette pulled his hair free, looking worriedly at him as he marched out onto the balcony.

“Peri, Peri, Peri...” Crux soothed, smoothing the stressed out boy’s hair. “I’m sure the consul didn’t mean anything by it.”

Pirouette focused his blue eyes on Crux, biting his lip hard. “He’s just...really weird, Crux. I caught him arguing with the pontifex, about me! Crux! about me! about how I “shouldn’t be working under” them. I don’t know what I did to make him hate me! I don’t understand why he’s trying to get me fired-”

Pirouette was cut off when Crux pushed themselves up against Pirouette, leaning forward into his back, and using a gloved hand to tilt his chin back towards them, soothing Pirouette’s stress bitten lips with a gentle trace of their tongue.

Pirouette gasped, a flush clear on his face, but the more Crux teased at his mouth with their tongue, the more relaxed Pirouette became, and he eventually leaned back into them, returning the affection with a gentle kiss, before letting Crux tilt his chin to angle his head so they could deepen the kiss.

I may had forgotten that Payton mentioned how Crux dresses in this AU whilst I drew this, and thus Crux's clothes are wrong...oop

Me just showing off that I am very bad at drawing kisses, yup, indeed

Less Valerius wants to get you fired and more he wants to get you transferred to be his assistant because he has a massive crush on you, Pirouette, and he doesn't like you working under Vulgora, because he doesn't know how to feelings, and instead just has an aggresive argument with Vulgora about Pirouette's placing, which may or may not just make Vulgora be specifically mean to Pirouette, because they mad about Valerius yelling at them, and they may actually physcially hurt Pirouette now

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