“my best friend got turned into a frog and now i’m being the best wingman/woman/person ever by carrying them around to bars and getting hot people to kiss them in hopes of hooking them up with their true love” AU (x)

When everyone still has flip phones and Mark doesn’t have a best friend with $300,000 in his bank account, he works at Widener Library. He does headcounts, checks in books, tries to get away with coding for thefacebook, and eats lunch at the cafe with Erica Albright. Life is not much different when he meets Eduardo – but it is better.

There’s this Mark, and then there’s the other Mark. Eduardo wants both of them.

Chris says, “So. Back to your obvious crush on Eduardo.”

There’s no point in hiding it when Chris is gay and honest. Mostly honest. Well, he’s really gay, too. “Yeah,” Mark says resolutely.

“I’d hit that,” Chris says.

Gay and honesty, right there.

Eduardo isn’t sure if it’s healthy that he compares all these little things Eli does to Mark, but he finds that he doesn’t really prefer one to the other—it’s just that they look so much alike that looking for similarities and differences is almost inevitable.