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rainbowfic2021-01-19 08:44 pm
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Warm Light 11, Cool Black 10: long to learn
Author: Kat
Title: long to learn
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Warm light 11 (A language I don't know but long to learn), cool black 10 (because you're mine, I walk the line)
Supplies and Materials: Seed beads, tapestry (seed beads/warm light)
Word Count: 308
Rating: G
Summary: Theo and Hector and Spanish.
Warning: none.
Notes: Theo is Lars' older brother.
Hector speaks Spanish all the time. Rapidly to the family members he still talks to, loudly to strangers heckling him on the street, gently to a lost child in the park, respectfully with the abuelas in his building. Three dates and Theo's heard all of these tones; three dates, and he wants to hear more.
Theo doesn't speak a word of Spanish. He took a year of French in high school and avoided languages ever after. Foreign languages scare him. He doesn't like being misunderstood. He doesn't like sounding stupid. Theo has always been good with words: when they stumble off his tongue, he doesn't know who he is.
But something about Hector's voice when he speaks Spanish, liquid words spilling into one another, purring rs rolling underneath... it makes him want to try.
He gets some books from the library and signs up for some websites. Anna lets him practice on her, and is kind enough to only laugh a little. Once the Spanish-speaking kids at school hear about it, they start teaching him words, some sincere, some definitely obscene-- Theo can tell by the giggling, but he learns the words anyway. The kids are just doing it to make the teacher swear, but he does want to have sex with Hector someday.
Not that the kids he teaches are ever going to know about that.
But he tries. He's never really tried before. He tries, and he's terrible, and the look on Hector's face when he stumbles through a sentence makes him try again.
Theo's never really good at Spanish. His vocabulary is tiny and his grammar is terrible. Hector's family laughs at him, strangers heckle him louder, lost children give him weird looks, the abuelas give him pitying ones.
Hector kisses his cheek, or the nape of his neck, and asks him to keep talking.
Title: long to learn
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Warm light 11 (A language I don't know but long to learn), cool black 10 (because you're mine, I walk the line)
Supplies and Materials: Seed beads, tapestry (seed beads/warm light)
Word Count: 308
Rating: G
Summary: Theo and Hector and Spanish.
Warning: none.
Notes: Theo is Lars' older brother.
Hector speaks Spanish all the time. Rapidly to the family members he still talks to, loudly to strangers heckling him on the street, gently to a lost child in the park, respectfully with the abuelas in his building. Three dates and Theo's heard all of these tones; three dates, and he wants to hear more.
Theo doesn't speak a word of Spanish. He took a year of French in high school and avoided languages ever after. Foreign languages scare him. He doesn't like being misunderstood. He doesn't like sounding stupid. Theo has always been good with words: when they stumble off his tongue, he doesn't know who he is.
But something about Hector's voice when he speaks Spanish, liquid words spilling into one another, purring rs rolling underneath... it makes him want to try.
He gets some books from the library and signs up for some websites. Anna lets him practice on her, and is kind enough to only laugh a little. Once the Spanish-speaking kids at school hear about it, they start teaching him words, some sincere, some definitely obscene-- Theo can tell by the giggling, but he learns the words anyway. The kids are just doing it to make the teacher swear, but he does want to have sex with Hector someday.
Not that the kids he teaches are ever going to know about that.
But he tries. He's never really tried before. He tries, and he's terrible, and the look on Hector's face when he stumbles through a sentence makes him try again.
Theo's never really good at Spanish. His vocabulary is tiny and his grammar is terrible. Hector's family laughs at him, strangers heckle him louder, lost children give him weird looks, the abuelas give him pitying ones.
Hector kisses his cheek, or the nape of his neck, and asks him to keep talking.
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