A/N: will be the first of many. prompt list is over on DA (made by LooLa-Bean)

This is troy x abed. There are mentions of sex. Not graphic though. Unbeta'd.

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Beginning

When Troy first meets Abed, he does not know what to think. In front of him is a stick insect of a man who is all angles and aggressive blinking. "He's weird," Troy thinks to himself, and yet when Abed asks him to join his Spanish study group Troy doesn't hesitate for even a second before he says yes.

Obsession

Troy doesn't quite know when his obsession with Abed's hands first started. Perhaps it was in Spanish 101, when he could see Abed taking down notes with his long fingers wrapped around a yellow HB pencil. Or maybe it was when they were filming something and Troy would look on in ill-disguised awe as Abed fiddled relentlessly with the camera equipment.

Company

At first it is simply a remedy for the loneliness. Abed hasn't ever really had a friend before, let alone a best friend, and having someone to execute hijinks with is exciting. It's only during a rewatch of the first Kickpuncher movie that Abed realises that he doesn't really need a friend at all, but that he wants to be around Troy anyway. The popcorn changes hands.

Dreams

He considers telling Abed to shut up. He has classes tomorrow and although he doesn't want to seem rude he really does need a few hours sleep. Abed is still talking to himself in his bunk. It's all disjointed sentences and entangled words; slightly muffled by the covers and the darkness. Troy slips out of the top bunk to see what his friend is doing, only to find that Abed is fast asleep. Troy is confused until he realises that Abed is talking in his sleep. Troy reaches forward to shake him but stops suddenly when he hears Abed speak again, "Troy…"

Pirate

Troy suggests that they try making up their own stories in the dreamatorium. "I do enjoy re-enacting Inspector Spacetime, Abed," he explains, "but I bet we could make some awesome stories too!" Abed agrees under the premise that they will do another Inspector Spacetime scene before they go to bed, and Troy rushes off to find his eye-patch and inflatable parrot.

Passions

When they first have sex, Troy finds the entire experience incredibly disconcerting. It's his first time with a guy, and on top of that, he spends the whole time trying to read the indecipherable expression on Abed's face. He worries, almost incessantly, that Abed hates it and that each time may be the last time. It isn't until a month into their physical relationship that Troy figures it out. Abed isn't bored or resistant, but rather, understated in his response. As time goes on Troy becomes fluent in the language of Abed's features. His flickering eyelids and shallow breathing suddenly unlock a wealth of different meanings and Troy never has to worry again.

The First Time

The first time Abed says "I love you" takes Troy completely by surprise. The normality of the setting makes the event seem almost underwhelming (they are watching Cougar Town in their apartment on a Friday night), but within Troy a surge of emotions rush outwards. He is a man constructed of both happiness and terror and a pinch of hysteria but he takes a deep breath and looks right into Abed's eyes as he says it back. And it feels good. And right. And the way Abed looks at him with his big, gentle eyes and blank face which both ooze sincerity, removes any doubt from Troy's mind.

Opposites

Had they both been in high school together there is absolutely no doubt that they would not have been friends. In fact, Troy would never have even spared Abed a minute of his time and that makes him incredibly angry at himself. He has changed though; he's not the boy that he once was. He sees the world as it really is. Out of the two of them, Troy is the nobody, and Abed is the hero.

Growing Up

Growing up is so overrated. Troy would much rather dress up as a fictional character and role play with his best friend any day.

Drowning

Abed can't swim. Troy is determined to teach him but Abed is reluctant. Troy really wants to be able to go to the beach with his boyfriend and do more than just build sandcastles, (although that is awesome anyway). But more than anything Troy hates the idea that Abed had nobody that was willing to teach him. He cannot stand the fact that Abed spent most of his childhood alone; isolated by his own personality and drowning in the darkness of a solitary existence.