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“For someone who nearly died, you are in an extremely happy mood.” Skid said the second the group walked into the hospital room that now held their friend. Turbo was in his hospital bed, sipping away at a juice box with not a care in the world.

As if he didn’t split his skull or lose all feeling in his legs.

“How can I not be?”

“Two big reasons.” Smoove replied.

Turbo giggled and adjusted himself so he sat up more. “Thanks for worrying about me but I’m okay. I promise. I mean, I accomplished something huge and I got SUPER SPEED. Isn’t that insane!? I had super human speed!”

“That *was* pretty sick.” White Shadow said. “But you also lost it.”

“I honestly don’t mind.”

“Really?” Whiplash asked. “You’re happier with your legs not working?”

“Okay, not being able to move around kinda sucks but going super fast was fun while it lasted.“

“Your optimism is aggravating sometimes.”

“Weird way to say you find it alluring, Whip.” Turbo said teasingly, winking at his partner.

“Ugh! If y’all are gonna flirt, do it when we’re not in the room!” Burn said, rolling her eyes in disgust. It was no surprise that since the day the two met, they both just clicked… and they weren’t afraid to show it.

“Yeah, actually, can we get some alone time?” Turbo asked.

“Ew.”

“Not for that! I just wanna talk to him one on one.“

“It’ll be one on one, alright.” Skid teased before Smoove nudged him out of the room, scolding him.

Once the room cleared out, it was only Turbo and Whiplash. Suddenly Turbo’s usually confident demeanor shifted into a shy one.

“Sooo… are you proud of me?”

“That’s all you wanted to talk about?” Whiplash asked, raising a brow at the racer and sitting down on the bed beside him.

“No! No. I’m just— Ugh. I’m bad at words.”

“Sure, you can trash talk but can’t have a normal conversation.”

“You know what I mean! Just shut up.” Turbo felt his face warm up and he hit Whiplash on the arm. Whiplash couldn’t help but laugh at his partner.

“Anyway, I wanted to say thank you…” Turbo continued, playing with the end of his shirt. “I never would’ve gotten here if it weren’t for you. Not in the hospital bed, that’s definitely my bad but I mean getting me to the Indy 500 and encouraging me when I was getting killed out there. Literally. I think Guy wanted to kill me.”

Whiplash chuckled softly and smiled, staring at his partner lovingly. Though if Turbo noticed that look, Whip would swear up and down that it didn’t happen.

“But yeah… it was sweet of you guys to help a freak with super human abilities.”

“You’re not a freak. Definitely weird though.”

“Sounds about right…” Turbo chuckled before leaning against the older man’s side. “… So… you wanna make out or…?”

Whiplash looked at Turbo in surprise before laughing, shaking his head. “You’re right, you’re terrible at this!”

Turbo groaned, covering his face in embarrassment. “Forget it—“

“Hey! No no no. C’mere…”

Turbo looked up at Whiplash as he leaned down, holding the younger man’s face and pressing their lips together. This was Turbo’s first actual kiss… and it felt amazing.

What he expected his first kiss to be soft and gentle was actually rough and passionate. Whiplash definitely wasn’t one to give Turbo a second a process or breathe and Turbo didn’t mind one bit. In fact, he loved it.

He wrapped his arms around his partner’s broad shoulders, pulling him closer and feeling his hand rest on Turbo’s waist. They stayed like this for what felt like an eternity before Whiplash pulled away slowly. Despite being disappointed at the kiss being cut short, Turbo couldn’t help but smile like an idiot.

“You’re amazing…” he sighed happily.

“Don’t take you a lot to get you like this, huh?”

“To be fair, I’m veeery new to this… I’m new to a lot of things…”

“Yeah?”

“Mayyyybe you can introduce me to other things…?”

“Don’t have to ask me twice…”

“Oooookay! That’s enough, you two! Back it up.” Chet’s voice snapped them out of it. Whiplash rolled his eyes and glared at him.

“Your brother is a full grown adult.”

“He’s still my brother. I have given him more freedom now but you are still on my suspicious list.”

Turbo groaned and face palmed himself in embarrassment.

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“Turbo, please…” Chet said in exasperation. “You just got that wheelchair, please don’t destroy it.”

“I’m just taking it for a test drive!” Turbo said with a giggle as he zoomed down the hospital’s hallway. He had been doing it for the past ten minutes all over the place after finally being able to leave his hospital bed. That’s not something new to Chet, Turbo was born with the need to move around all the time.

“You’ve taken it for a test drive long enough, calm down a bit.” Chet said, stopping Turbo on his tracks. Turbo pouted and sighed dramatically.

“Whatever you say.”

“Exactly. Cause I’m the older one.”

“But I’m 21! So, HA!”

“A 21 year old that fractured his skull and got paralyzed.”

“Temporarily! Doctor said I can get feeling in my legs back soon.”

Chet sighed and rolled his eyes. “Do you have an answer for everything?”

“Yes!”

“Alright. Well, I’m going to check you out of here.”

“FINALLY! I forgot what the outside looked like!”

“You’re soooo dramatic.”

“I know. You love it.”

Chet couldn’t help but chuckle. “You got me there.“

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“I had a dream about you.” Skid said the second he woke up before snuggling up to his boyfriend. Smoove could still hear the tiredness in his voice.

“Yeah?” Smoove mumbled sleepily, eyes closed but still listening to his partner.

“Yeah. I was a vampire hunter and you were the vampire.”

Despite his brows furrowing in confusion, Smoove chuckled in amusement. “Did you kill me?”

“You were too pretty. I couldn’t kill you.”

“Ah. I knew my good looks would save me one day.”

“Yeah. Or maybe you hypnotized me. I think I heard that vampires can hypnotize people.”

“Either way, I’m glad you didn’t stab me in the stomach.”

“Heart!”

“Heart! Right.”

Skid rested his head on his boyfriend’s chest and sighed. “Hypnotized or not, I wouldn’t stab you in the heart.”

“Mm.”

“Usually vampires are mean and chase you around but in my dream, you just stood there and you looked beautiful like you always do.”

“You think I’m beautiful…?”

“Duh. I dunno what happened after I found you but I knew it was nice…”

Smoove kissed Skid’s forehead softly and smiled. “That’s good.”

Skid nodded and yawned. “That’s all I wanted to say. I’m going back to sleep…”

“No more interruptions until morning, okay?”

Skid whined softly and wrapped his arms around his boyfriend. “Fiiiiine…”

“And by the way, I think I’d be more of a siren rather than a vampire. I like music after all.”

“That’s so true. I’d let you drown me…” Skid mumbled before drifting off to sleep.

Smoove chuckled sleepily and followed suit.

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“Just tell him already!!” Burn said, shoving Smoove forward towards Skid who was calming himself down after a really difficult race. Smoove had spent all day trying to tell Skid how he felt about him but it just wouldn’t come out.

Despite Smoove’s usually calm and casual demeanor, he felt extremely nervous.

“But—“

“No buts! GO!” Whiplash said, giving Smoove another firm shove and making him tumble over towards Skid.

Skid noticed and jumped a bit, putting his hands up in defense for a second. “Oh— Smoove! Did you see me!? It was nearly a tie but I did it!!”

“Ye—Yeah! Yes! Yeah, I did! You did amazing.”

Skid giggled I’m excitement though he noticed the stuttering in Smoove’s voice. “You sound nervous. That’s new…”

“Nervous? No— I’m not— I w— I— wow, why is it difficult to talk suddenly?”

“Don’t worry about it. You okay?”

“I’m fine! I just… need to tell you something…”

Skid suddenly perked up way more than before and smiled expectantly. “Oh?”

“Yeah… so… we’ve been friends for a long time and you’ve helped me through the worst days… and the very second we met… I… I fell hard for you… and—“

“Me too!” Skid suddenly blurted out, hopping in one place.

“Wait— what?”

“I’ve liked you for SO long and I’ve been waiting to hear you say that for a LONG while! I even tried to give you hints!”

“Really!?”

“YES! I gave you so many hints I thought I was being obvious, dude!”

Smoove stared at him in disbelief before chuckling. “Wow… so much for me being smooth, huh?”

“Don’t worry, I think you’re cute when you’re all nervous. But lemme help you, Mr. Smooth Guy. Is a movie date okay?” Skid smiled.

“Yeah… a movie sounds good.”

“Good! Friday night?”

“Fine by me, baby…”

“It’s a date, then!” Skid said in excitement. Before Smoove can say anything else, Skid jumped into the taller man’s arms, wrapping his arms around his shoulders and kissing him roughly. Unintentionally rough, mind you, but Smoove was too happy to mind. He just sighed in relief and kissed Skid back.

The kiss was then broken by a loud “FINALLY!!”

The two looked over to see a very excited Turbo. “YOU’RE FINALLY OFFICIAL! You have no idea how bad I wanted you guys to get together! I honestly thought you guys were already a thing for a short while.”

Smoove and Skid couldn’t help but laugh.

“Well, you finally got your wish.” Skid said happily.

Soon, the group made their way back home, Smoove and Skid held each other’s hands and wouldn’t leave each other’s side. Though Skid had a thought that kept on bugging him.

“Niles…?”

Smoove looked at him, a little startled that he used his real name. “You okay, baby…?”

“Yeah! I was just wondering… what made you fall for me…? And why do you like me?”

“Oh. That’s easy, I think about it everyday… I fell for you because you’re smart, you care about all of us, you’re beautiful… to put it simply, I love all of you…”

“… Huh… Even my flaws? You don’t think that I’m crazy?”

“Hm… nah, you’re definitely crazy but why would I care? You can’t control it but you try your best to help people… and you’re still the sweet and very adorable Hiro I know.”

Skid couldn’t help but blush deeply at the use of his real name paired with such a compliment. “Oh… huh… that’s… weird. But a good weird! No one has ever said that to me…”

“Glad I can be the first, then…”

“Mm… also, can you call me that more often? Hiro? But only in private… Sometimes in private… Eighty percent in private.”

Smoove chuckled and wrapped an arm around Skid. “Of course, baby.”