Title: Behind Blue Eyes
Author: an-alternate-world
Rating: T
Characters/Pairing: Cooper Anderson/Sebastian Smythe
Word Count: 790
Summary: A collection of Coopbastian drabbles prompted via Tumblr.
Warnings/Spoilers: None.
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with Glee, FOX, Ryan Murphy or anything else related to the FOX universe.

Blaise (coopbastian) on Tumblr prompted a fic which included the line: "Close your eyes and hold out your hands."

Because she was getting married to Allison, this happened.

The moment Sebastian steps through the front door, he's hit by Hurricane Cooper who seems to have consumed sixteen coffees and forty-four packets of jellybeans and he's not sure whether to be wary or terrified. He's not sure whether to step inside the door or turn and run as fast as possible in the opposite direction.

"Hi!" Cooper says, bouncing on the balls of his feet with his huge blue eyes brighter than Sebastian can ever recall. "Welcome home!"

Sebastian blinks and lowers his bag to the floor beside his shoes, unsure if he can even take his eyes off Cooper for a moment in case he vibrates a hole in the floor with his excitement. Even Christmas doesn't get Cooper this excited - although he's seen Blaine at Christmas and that comes close.

"Are you…okay?" he says, his hands moving towards the buttons of his jacket with the speed of someone about to diffuse a bomb.

"I'm excellent." Cooper bounces again and Sebastian revises his estimates - maybe it's forty-four coffees and sixteen packets of jellybeans. "Close your eyes and hold out your hands."

Sebastian opens his mouth to say something but he stops, pauses, and leaves the buttons alone. Cooper squirms on the spot so he closes his eyes and holds out his hands, feeling as though he should be peeking just to ensure Cooper isn't going to squirt silly string in his face when he's least expecting it. Because that had happened before and that shit was hard to get out of his clothes.

He hears Cooper's scurrying footsteps and almost decides to open his eyes but forces himself to keep them closed, inhaling through his nose and exhaling through his mouth because he's not good with surprises and he doesn't trust a manic version of Cooper and-

A warm weight is placed in his hands. It's soft and fluffy and very much alive. He doesn't even wait for Cooper to tell him to open his eyes because they've already snapped open to take in the beagle puppy with huge floppy ears and big brown eyes staring him in the face.

Dear Lord.

"Look at its collar!" Cooper chirps and Sebastian's not sure whether to stare at the puppy or Cooper but he turns the puppy and spots the red collar and…oh.

Oh.

"Marry me," Cooper says as Sebastian's eyes raise to blue, finding some version of the guy he loves returning as the excitement lowers a notch. "Marry me and let's raise a puppy together."

"You know this thing can be harder to train than a human, right?" he says and internally winces when Cooper's face falls and he realises that his automatic sarcasm is totally not called for right now because he's holding a wiggling puppy and attached to its collar is an engagement ring and he's pretty sure it's just his imagination that it's harder to breathe but-

Cooper gets down on one knee and there's definitely, definitely, less oxygen in the room. Even if Sebastian's holding the puppy and the ring, he's envisaged maybe a thousand different ways for Cooper to propose since they wandered past a jewellery store a few months ago and none of them had included a dog.

"I could do the whole dramatic speech and point at you a few times to ensure you understood that I was being serious but I think you'd probably aim the dog at me and wait until it peed on my face just to be a little shit so can you please just say yes?" Cooper says, the words a jumbled mess that makes Sebastian laugh through some of the tears building at the edges of his eyes because holy shit this is actually happening.

"Okay," he says with a small giggle at Cooper's stunned expression. "I mean, I guess if I have to marry you then-"

"You're still a little shit even when I don't do the dramatic thing," Cooper says as he rises and grabs him for a kiss, the dog squeaking a little when it gets squished between them.

"Are you sure you want to marry me?" he teases, managing to get the puppy to the floor before Cooper pushes him against the closest wall to continue kissing him.

"Jerk," Cooper mutters but the glimpses of his blue eyes that Sebastian catches in between kisses are alight with happiness and he knows it's this rhythm, this dynamic, that he's more than willing to hold onto for the rest of his life.

~FIN~