alexsunmners:

Florist/Tattoo Artist AU based off of this and this from the incomprable @voguethranduil who is the Absolute Best™ and deserves the world

Warren Worthington iii x Reader (everyone is human and happy and yay flowers) (this is so long wtf brain)

• You own a small flower shop in upstate New
  York and it’s doing pretty well
• The lot next to yours has been empty for a while
• Jean and Kurt moved their bakery to a
  bigger location with better kitchen space, and when they come by for a chat
  they bring cupcakes
• You send them on their way with flowers (daisies
  for cheer and yellow carnations as a fuck you for leaving) (flower symbolism
  makes you happy and you think you’re hilarious)
• One day, a ‘sold’ sign appears in the
  window and then a few days later you arrive to open up for the morning and
  large moving truck is parked outside
• You can hear Metallica playing from inside
  the truck and there’s a new sign by the door reading ‘Four Horsemen Tattoos’
  and you have to supress a groan because it doesn’t exactly look like the kind
  of place that’ll boost your business and you think regretfully of Jean and Kurt’s
  picturesque bakery, now firmly entrenched in the next neighbourhood over
• BUT THEN two guys climb out of the moving
  truck and they’re both covered in tattoos, and one of them has a Mohawk and
  facial tattoos and yeah they look like trouble, but there’s something about
  their particular brand of trouble that makes you a little weak at the knees,
  and then the one with the Mohawk looks over at you and smirks and your knees
  are definitely weak now
• You flee to the safety of your shop where
  you try (and fail) not to think about your new neighbours all day
• The day they officially open you bring them
  flowers as a gift (cattail and wisteria for prosperity and welcoming)
• When you enter the shop, the one with the Mohawk,
  whose name you find out is Warren, is at the desk and looks up when you enter
  and w o w you did not expect his eyes to be that blue or for him to look so
  damn good up close
• And then he smiles and you actually have to
  focus on not collapsing, and maybe he seems a little flustered, but you don’t
  notice because hey, you are too
• He twists round and shouts for the other
  guy to come introduce himself and the other guy from the truck comes through
  from a back room, followed by a new guy, with darker hair and you meet Alex and
  his brother Scott, who’s working there for the summer
• A couple days later, Jean and Kurt come by
  to say hello, and they tell you about Peter, the new guy they hired to do
  deliveries for the bakery you tell them all about your new neighbours
• Jean asks you what you think of them,
  eyebrow arched mischievously and you definitely
  don’t flush a little and she laughs
  at you and Kurt looks a little confused, but doesn’t push it
• And when they’re leaving, so is Scott, and
  Jean actually stops, and then it’s your turn to laugh at her because ‘do you
  want me to introduce you? You’re staring’
• Over the next few weeks you strike up an
  easy friendship with your new neighbours
• You take turns getting each other coffee
  from the little shop up the road
• They close later than you, so sometimes if
  it’s a slow night for them, you hang out in the shop for a while, chatting with
  them
• You can feel yourself acquiring the
  smallest of crushes on Warren (okay it isn’t all that small but jfc he’s
  stunning) but more than that, you genuinely enjoy his company and you find
  yourself making excuses to be in the shop while he’s around, and maybe he seems
  to be making reasons to visit you in your shop, but you try not to read into it
• And Scott thinks he’s subtle but whenever
  Jean and Kurt come round, he finds a excuse to head over to your shop so he can
  talk to Jean and when he leaves you tease her mercilessly
• It’s summer, and it’s sweltering (you had
  all your outside stock covered by canopies and had to find ways to bribe
  yourself to actually go out and tend to them)
• But Warren just came down from clearing off
  the roof/gutters and his shirt is not actually on his body, but held loosely in
  his hand as he leans in a window to talk to Alex and your mouth is suddenly dry
  and it has nothing to do with the heat
• And that’s how you learn Warren has huge
  wings tattooed across his back and shoulders and that you are wayyy more attracted
  to your neighbour than you tried to tell yourself you were
• And one day it’s late and you’re in the
  tattoo parlour and Alex and Scott left a couple of hours ago, so it’s just you
  and Warren and you’re standing just outside the door, enjoying the slightly
  cooler evening as he finishes locking up
• You’re looking at the stars, trying to find
  constellations, and you feel him move to stand beside you
• You sort of lean on him a little and point
  up, gesturing to a grouping ‘I think that’s Orion’s Belt’ and he hums in
  agreement and you’re still looking at the stars but you feel his gaze on you
• So you look up at him and o h he’s so very
  close and suddenly his arms are tight around your waist and his mouth is on
  yours and he’s kissing you and you’re kissing him back and nothing else matters
• When he pulls back he’s got this happy
  little smile on his face and your breathing is definitely shaky and he’s still
  so close
• ‘Go out with me’ ‘Yes’ ‘Tomorrow. Let me
  make you dinner.’
• And he does and it’s perfect and he’s
  perfect and you want to exist in your bubble of perfection forever and everyone
  is merciless in teasing you two but they’re also thrilled because ‘God you’re idiots,
  you both had it SO BAD since, like, the moment you laid eyes on each other’
• You start saying ‘I love you’ through
  flowers w e e k s before you actually say it out loud (bellflowers and
  forget-me-nots, red chrysanthemums and gardenia), leaving them in a vase in his
  apartment
• And one day you’re both lying on the couch
  and you’re kind of dozing, kind of watching TV and then
• ‘Most flowers have meanings right?’ ‘Yeah,
  most do’ ‘What do these ones mean?’
• And he points to the small bunch on the
  coffee table and you flush a little ‘They, uh, they mean I love you’ and there’s
  a pause and then he’s twisting you slightly in his arms and kissing you
  absolutely breathless ‘I love you too’