Eli 'Hawk' Moskowitz one shots

(includes: Lavender Haze)

Your favorite color had always been Lavender. When you were little, you always wore little Lavender butterfly clips in your hair.

You've also always been loyal to Eli. The three of you were best friends, and when it came to arguments, you always sided with Eli. You weren't sure how long you'd been in love with him. Since you were a little girl, you were always by his side, when the voices were mean you offered him sweet nothing's, and it was like you constantly appeared in a Lavender Haze.

You saw the world in rose-tinted glasses, you believe in true love, and you believed in waiting. You had grown up watching 'the Notebook' with your older sister, it had easily become one of your favorite romances. You hoped someone loved you so much that they kept retelling the story of how they fell in love with you, and how you wound up together. You hoped that there would always be something so sacred between the two of you, that even if you weren't together, it was the thing you would hold on to. It doesn't have to be a house, but something that represents the feeling of home that Eli always gave you.

"I spy..." Eli started as the two of you walked around his backyard, he squinted as he looked around, trying his best to find something, he was tired, and you were tired, but it was mid-July, and it didn't seem to get dark until 10 o'clock. "Something as tiny as a firefly, and it's your favorite color."

"What?" You resounded, looking around, before following his gaze. Eli gave you a little smile, before shrugging. Your eyes landed on the pebbles that lay in his mom's garden. You found a purple pebble, tiny as a firefly, and picked it up. "Purple isn't my favorite color." You grumbled as he looked down at the pebble.

"It's so small," Eli commented, as you stuck it in your pocket.

"I'm gonna keep it." You mumbled, before continuing to play your game.

You almost forgot about the pebble, but when you got home, you pulled it out of your laundry, before setting it on your bedside table, where it stayed for the next 9 years. So even when he was spending all of his time with Moon, or his new karate buddies, you had it, there right next to your bed.

Hawk was grateful to you, you never judged him, he's been under scrutiny, he's lost friends, and continues to be loyal to people who may not deserve it. But you stuck to his side like glue. You were the one he came to, always handling his problems beautifully, he didn't know how to handle them.

Hawk was in love with you, it wasn't questioned, not when he met you in Freshman year, the two of you clicked right away, and from there the two of you changed and dealt with different things, but you did it together.

Eli had shown up after something happened at the arcade, the moment he stepped inside your house, you knew something was wrong and when you led him up to your room he started explaining what was going on. How he felt pressured to be loyal to Kreese, even though he felt like something was wrong. "I never wanted to hurt other people, I just wanted to protect myself, stand up for myself, not to get pushed around anymore."

You saw the tears before he even realized he was crying, you moved closer to him, wrapping your arms around him as he sniffled and moved into your chest. Even when he felt like everything was falling apart, that the end was coming, you always made him feel okay. Your hands went to his hair, which was down from the shower he had taken before he got here. "You're gonna be okay, baby." You whispered into his ears, as your hands threaded through his hair. "Your hair is so soft." You murmured, as he sighed into your chest.

Eli continued to melt into you before falling asleep, you moved out from under him to go make him some tea, throwing one of your blankets on him with a dash of the perfume he loved. You knew all about his problems, and you knew that he might've not been doing things right, but he had a good heart, and he meant well even in his mistakes. In the beginning, it might've been hard for him to open up to you, he had shut down those emotions, but eventually, he learned how to talk to you, figuring out that you didn't need to be lied to, and his feelings didn't dedicate your feelings. The two of you just loved each other unconditionally, even when you felt like you didn't deserve it.