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one week.
one week, have ash and jaron been living together by now. they went from hostility to… somewhat tolerating eachother.
jaron didn’t mean to get caught by the heroes, but when he was off on his own patrolling, parrot had found and detained him.
as for ashswag, he had turned himself in deliberately, to get back at one of his allies. some yellow pissboy or whatever. Prince something.
but, either way, they were both under cuffs for a bit, as parrot and the other heroes decided what to do with the two.
parrot was the one to suggest they’re under house arrest
together.
and everyone else for some reason, had decided that was funny enough to do.
at first their relationship was kind of messy, they split the place they were in into halves. Jaron built his half to be bigger than ash’s, and so ash expanded his. they kept doing this until parrot told them they couldn’t make the place any bigger.
after four days of all that split stuff, ash was the one to waltz into Jaron’s side. Jaron was kind of defensive at first but then decided they didn’t care.
now they were neutral, sometimes they flipped eachother off but it was more lighthearted than out of distrust. neither of them would kill the other.
ash
ash was out today, jaron noted. ash wasn’t supposed to leave but he got his ankle monitor off, and Jaron was covering for him. he’d just say ash slept in late, as the monitor was on the bed.
it was late now, he should be coming back soon…
”JARON. JARON WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU.” there he was. Jaron hadn’t processed the door slamming open and shut, but he definitely processed those words.
stretching up from his couch, Jaron went to greet ashswag. “Here, here. What is it?” he asked, acknowledging the urgency in his housemates tone.
ash slammed something on their table. “I found this cool object,” he said, voice noticeably calmer.
the object was bright red, and looked like a gemstone cut for a ring. “Ooh, shiny.” annnndddd Jaron took it to inspect it.
it was real pretty, but as soon as jaron lifted it up off the table, he felt something.
an electrical wave of sorts went through his body- he spasmed with a gasp, the gem dropping back onto the table. jaron stumbled back a few steps. “What the…”
ash raised an eyebrow. “bro, are you having a seizure or like?…”
”No- no, dude, pick up that gem, it’s weird. Like, hold it.” jaron gestured to the gem, now a distance away from it.
ash grasped the object and lifted it from the table, holding the gem again. Jaron saw how he flinched slightly and how his lip slightly bit, how his free hand dug its nails into its palm. “ow.. what the hell?”
”Yeah, that’s what I’m saying, what did you just bring here??” Jaron questioned, arms flailing in exaggeration of his movements.
Ashswag shrugged. “I dunno. We should eat it.”
”Good idea- wait no I don’t wanna get electrocuted.”
”… BRO WERE YOU ACTUALLY GOING TO??? THAT WAS A JOKE.”
”OKAY FUCK YOU”