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It was a sunny hot day, like all days at Scoville. It was a nice change of pace from the sleeping cookies homeland. Wait, wasn't someone else supposed to be sleeping with him?
Oh.
Dark choco opened his eyes, covered in blankets yet a shocking lack of his partner. Just looking at the height of the blaring sun in the sky told him that it was late and Cap must’ve left for his college classes. The staff had blatant favoritism towards cap so it was no surprise that he was able to just chill out in the college every winter, it was nice though, he got to see cap and a better place to stay. But he only stayed the winter, after all the heat in the summer was too much for the ex cacaoan prince to handle, and he liked traveling to an extent.
Plus he didn't deserve to extend his stay longer than a winter.
He finally decided to go do something instead of bedrotting all day, an event that happened a little more than the cookie would like to admit.
He put on a simple purple tshirt, he didnt like scars being visible but they were going to be visible either way. His father made sure of that.
Dressed for the day, he made it out into the wider college. It was likely still feeding time from the amount of noise just down the hall, it would be a good idea to grab something, he needed to gain some fat before he left for the wilds where constant food was a mere hope.
He grabbed some of the grub they served here, it was nice that it was always able to be eaten by most people, which makes sense since there were a lot of fights here so missing teeth was normal. But he did appreciate the fact that even with a constantly somewhat open mouth, he could eat the food. However, it was time to go find somewhere to sit, dark choco had made a few friends during his two seasons here but he did prefer to just chill with cap. It was nice after all, he was nice.
Ah there he was.
He had finally found the loud dumbass in the crowd, hard to miss but missing an eye was a good excuse for being that zoned out.
And it looks like his idiot spotted him too.
“Dark choco!”
The big goof hugged him tight, a big smile on his face. If it wasn't for the fact that he could feel capisacin’s shackles on his chest, he would think he was being attacked. The guy had quite a mighty hug.
“Greetings honey”
Dark Choco still had a bit of royal air to him, something capsaicin never really picked up on other than calling him” too formal” at times, like there was even a thing but to be fair he didn't need to shake everyone he meet’s hand, especially when he has no idea where that hands been.
“How’d you wake up my little prince?”
Cap had picked up that nickname for him, it felt like a little stab every time he heard it, his partner didn't even know a cacao kingdom even existed. It was simply a sweet thing cap called him, and the ex prince really didn't have the heart to tell him to stop. Still nicknames aside he did want to answer the question as it was only polite.
“Hmm it was nice, still shocking that you guys call this a winter, it never even gets close to this warm in the summer where im from. I can handle it for you though, ya big goof.”
The big guy was happy to hear his little wolf slept well, letting out a simple sweet hmm in response to the nice words. Dark choco deserved anything capsaicin could give him after all, though it had to be admitted that the hug was lasting a little long now.
Finally letting go, it felt bittersweet, the two would spend all day in each other's arms if they could.
“So got any interesting classes today?”
Cap laughed before giving an answer;
“Eh same old same old, you know how it goes, but i do have plans to go on a bounty with you sometime”
Well this was news.
“Bounties, cap do elebabroate. Now you got me curious"
a little glint appeared in his darling’s eyes, boy was he in for a lot of yapping.
“Well~ the college put up bounties of all the most famous wanted people out there, only a select few can accept them so we dont end up dead but i qualify of course. They got a lot of criminals, from king killers to mass thiefs, thought it could be fun.”
That last part sent a freezing shiver down dark choco’s back. He was on wanted posters and cap mentioned a king murder. Sure he looked a lot different from then but he still never wanted his partner to know about his vile acts. Even if it was wrong to lie. Maybe he could convince cap against it? Just for now since it would buy him some time to tear down any posters with his name on them. Well sorta his name, he changed his last name slightly to have an excuse to not be the known ex prince.
“I don't know honey, imagine a guy who killed a mighty ruler, must be pretty dangerous and vile. I'm not sure if I want you going near anyone like that.”
Dark choco wanted to vomit, everything he said was right however. He was vile, and if he was cap he would sure not want to get entangled with someone as disgusting as him. It still made him disheartened. His boyfriend looked just as sad, he did seem really excited about this but all the points he made were valid, on top of the fact he never wanted Cap to see anything about him from outside sources.
He had even ripped out pages from the newspaper that dared speak his name, he did get recognized in a town during the summer however, but Cap never even read the newspaper so it was likely safe.
“Aww, you're probably right though, there are some scary people on there. Maybe we’ll give it a shot next winter”
There we go, just like he liked it. His life in the winter and life in the rest of the year were supposed to be completely private after all.