#macau fantasizing about training homing pigeons to fly rude messages to tankhun

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I appreciate the concept of Vegas and Pete adopting a new hedgehog or a kitten post-canon and Vegas pretending to be prickly about it but falling for the little creature very quickly. It all fits into the theme of recovery from abuse cycles and exploring what the VegasPeteMacau family unit looks like post-canon, but with lower stakes than oh fuck they just handed us a human baby.

I would like to raise you: whoops, we barely have our own shit together but we have acquired a full-on menagerie.

Because sometimes a family is a teenager, his gunshot-riddled older brother, the brother’s human-pet-turned-boyfriend…three rats, a poison dart frog, a ball python, a leopard gecko, a tarantula, several pigeons, and a cat.

The playroom has been fully converted into a critter space. It’s an unwieldy arrangement, but with Macau in and out of there constantly and the gecko staring at them every time they start something, Pete firmly nixed Vegas’s multipurpose room concept and insisted on moving the ceiling chains and the sex swing into the bedroom.

(Yes, they both get off on danger. No, the possibility of knocking over the tarantula tank in the throes of passion is not the kind of sexual thrill Pete’s seeking.)

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#kinnporsche #vegaspete #fanfiction #yes soft huggable animals etc etc that’s why there’s a cat #but also #animals that squick people because they’re ‘dirty’ or ‘creepy’ or weird #animals that require knowledge and specific care to keep correctly #snake guy vegas #pete with a rat on his shoulder #macau fantasizing about training homing pigeons to fly rude messages to tankhun #and being told to follow his dreams #(i am working on a few unhealthy/twisty vp stories atm) #(but i am also a sucker for like. recovery via expanding what success and care and love mean) #(feeding the parts of yourself that you never allowed to see the sunlight) #(love as intentional effort) #(love as change) #(love fostering family and family fostering love) #fleet post #fleet fic