Fics like A Treatise on Epidermal Irregularities (or, How to Fall in Love with a Freckle)

“Why are you looking at me like that?” Kaveh mumbles, without opening his eyes. He’s been reading, too—or pretending to, which is more likely, because the upside-down architectural plans on the table have not moved in half an hour, and his pencil is behind his ear instead of in his hand. “I’m not,” Alhaitham says, too fast. Which is absurd. Of course he is. The entire point of his visual cortex is to perceive the world around him, and unfortunately, the world currently includes Kaveh. Shirtless. Glowing. Freckled. “You’re making that face again,” Kaveh says, one eye cracking open, voice annoyingly smug for someone still half-asleep. “The one where you’re trying to suppress an emotion and failing.” “I don’t suppress emotions,” Alhaitham replies. “I manage them. Responsibly.” Kaveh snorts. “Oh, is that what the internal aneurysm looks like? Good to know.” In which Kaveh weaponizes freckles and Alhaitham forgets the scientific method.

Fics like A Treatise on Epidermal Irregularities (or, How to Fall in Love with a Freckle)

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