The first time it happened was by complete accident. Thomas had been yelling at Marie for endangering herself once again, his accent terribly apparent and it had slipped from his lips. He hadn't noticed, but Marie had. Oh she definitely had. It had made her blush and flustered. Too flustered to be mad at Thomas for being mad at her.
"When will you realize these actions have consequences, love?" He'd said and she melted. He'd called her love, in his adorable accent and she was ruined. It nearly killed her right there if she was being honest.
She started to try and make him say it more. She did more experiments that failed… mostly on purpose. And he'd yell that she was careless and that he was worried and if she was lucky it'd slip out between everything else. It made her grin like a goof ball, and if she was just a bit unlucky he'd notice her stupid grin and stop. He'd look at her strangely, more so than usual, and then just shake his head. Those were her favorite happenings.
She wished he'd say it all the time, she realised. She wished that she was his love she realised soon after. She hates to admit that it may have taken her a bit longer than average to realise she was in love with her step-cousin that she'd known all her life.
It had happened again. An experiment had failed, on accident this time, and she'd actually gotten hurt. She'd gotten a bump on her head with a small cut in the center. She'd even gone unconscious for a bit there, too.
"Love, you need to wake up. You have to wake up, love." The glorious words had been what she'd woken up to.
"I'm fine, Tommy. But you can keep saying those things if ya wanna." She had assured him. "In fact it'd be nice if you did." She said a bit shyly.
"What are you talking about, love? I always worry about you" Thomas replied confused, still worried about his crush.
"No,, uh.." Marie was blushing really hard and was feeling really self conscious. "Call me love…. I-I like it… I like you…" Marie replied awkwardly. She'd begun to sit up, wincing slightly. Thomas moved to help her. They both felt so awkward now.
"I like you too…..love" Thomas said smiling
A/N; these are all gonna be hella short tbh