intertwined. // snowbaz

intertwined.

Simon hesitantly uses his key to unlock the door to Baz's flat. He feels odd using it and toys with the cold metal nervously after removing it—with some difficulty—from the lock; Like he's intruding on Baz's life but Baz had insisted that it was easier if Simon had his own key. Simon had been more flustered than surprised when Baz tossed the key on the wooden coffee table with a loud clunk at Simon's flat and plopped down onto the sofa chair with a pumpkin mocha breve, licking the cream off the top with unusual intensity.

They had argued about it for days: Simon insisted that he was already heading over nearly every night and that giving him a key would practically be moving in—which they had decided not to live together after having lived in the same room for 7 years.

"But that's exactly my point! You're already over practically every night, why not carry a key so that I don't have to open the door for you like you're the fucking Queen!"

"Because I don't live there!"

"Like hell you don't!"

It made Simon's cheeks turn red and heat to rise to the surface of his skin. Sometimes, Simon loved fighting with Baz; It almost made him feel like magic again. After everything that had changed in his life, Baz being positively infuriating would always be a constant. However, this was not one of those times that reminded Simon of how much he loves his boyfriend. Instead, this was one of those times when Simon hated his boyfriend for being right—which he often was.

Simon had gone over to his flat every day for nearly two weeks. Being October, their time as a couple was approaching a year, and recently they had been more reluctant to be out of each other's company. Of course, Penny grew quite tired of seeing the two draped all over each other in their flat, so the only reasonable solution would be to move over to Baz's empty one. (Fiona moved in with her new Normal boyfriend in August, although no one was to know of that except for Baz—and by extension Simon and Penny.)

It was clear that morning by Baz's focused stare at his drink that he wasn't supposed to say anything about the small metal key. Simon sighed softly before following this unspoken rule, deciding that even as stubborn as he was, they both knew that Baz would win.

While he saw this coming days ago, he still hadn't managed to calm his mind into thinking that this was not a gesture to signify the growing maturity of their relationship. He wasn't quite sure if Baz himself understood the significance of exchanging flat keys because whenever it was brought up, it seemed to be only Simon that would blush to his ears and make a fool of himself stuttering. Of course, that wasn't normal behavior for Baz when he was flustered, but Simon could recall a few times when he could make Baz stumble over words.

Simon felt frustrated that Baz speaking incoherently is a major turn on for him, but when Simon can't speak he's just annoying. Baz would beg to differ. ("It's flattering, Snow.")
The door unlocks with a loud "click." Simon winces at the sound but presses on.

He's come to understand that Baz doesn't have a routine sleeping schedule like Simon. At Watford, Simon had just assumed that he slept at random times to satisfy his hunting needs: sometimes he wouldn't need anything so he'd go to bed early and sometimes he'd be out late hunting which meant that he would finally lay down when the sun came up.

Now that Simon has Baz buying blood from the butcher shop downtown, he sees that Baz just goes to sleep whenever he feels like it anyways. Now and then he'll stay up late with Simon on FaceTime or watch movies into the morning hours at Baz's flat, but other times Baz is already asleep by the time he calls. While it's an even 50/50 chance on whether Baz is awake tonight, Simon automatically assumes that he is asleep—just to be safe (although he desperately hopes that he is awake considering the grueling day that he's had).