This is for henry danger week over on tumblr! It takes place when Drex still worked with him and works with trans ray headcanons (and also the headcanon that ray and Drex went through an embarrassing anime phase together)

Just a warning: Drex does some pretty gross and creepy stuff in here (which I don't condone in the slightest) so read at your own risk
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"So, how was the patrol?" Drex asked ray as he walked in.

"it was good, I'm glad everything is calming down after all the crime lately." Ray replied, his voice disguised by a device.

"Alright," Drex replied and pretended to be interested. "By the way, you should take off that voice thing. It's not good to wear it too long."

"Are you sure you're talking about my voice device and not my binder?" Ray asked, changing back into his normal clothes.

"Both."

"I guess you're right. This voice device is starting to kind of bother me anyways."

Ray took off the device and took a deep breath.

"There we go," He finally said, using his natural voice this time. "Now, listen to what happened to me earlier..."

As ray spoke, Drex quietly let out a dreamy sigh. Ray's at the time normal voice was beautiful to him. It was so high and feminine, he could listen to ray talk for hours. Just hearing that pretty voice in the morning was all he needed to start his day.

She's got such a great voice... he thought, but quickly snapped out of it.

"So, now that crime has gone down a lot and we can actually sleep at night again, want to watch a movie?" Ray asked.

Drex looked up, trying to act like his heart wasn't filled with joy. A twisted, possessive, joy, but one nonetheless.

"Yeah, sure."

"Great! I'll be right back." Ray replied and walked off.

Once ray was gone Drex grabbed some of the pillows off the side of couch and hugged them in a happy frenzy. She wants to hang out! She really wants to! He said to himself.

Drex hadn't been this excited for something in a long time, ray never wanted to be around him too much for some reason.

She's just trying to act like she's not interested, but I know the truth. Why wouldn't she? We both love anime, we both have all our anime stuff dotted around the mancave, and I'm okay with her thinking she's a boy, she'll come to her senses one day! Drex would always tell himself.

And so he waited for most of the day for ray to show up. He went out and bought their favorite snacks and drinks, got out lots of fluffy pillows and blankets, and more, Despite it was ultimately more for him than it was for ray.

"Rach- I mean ray!" Drex called.

"Yeah?"

"Come out here! I got a studio ghibli movie!"

"Which one?"

Drex glanced at the TV.

"It's spirited away!"

Ray walked out in looser and more comfortable looking clothes, seeing the setup.

"Drex! You did all this?" He asked.

Drex nodded proudly. "Of course!"

"Thank you, man." Ray said, heading over to the couch and sitting down right in the middle of most of the blankets and pillows.

Drex gently pushed him away from the comfortable spot and sat there instead.

"Hey! I was sitting there!" Ray said, throwing his hands up.

"Not anymore." Drex replied in a rather nonchalant tone. "I decided I'll be here instead."

Ray gave him a weird look, but decided not to worry about it as Drex handed him a box of pocky.

And from there, they began to watch the movie. It started of as expected, both under lots of pillows and blankets together, but both were interpreting the situation quite differently.

Drex considered it a date of some kind with the 'girl' of his dreams, enjoying a nice movie both liked.

Ray, However, had a rather different outlook. Was it a trap? A genuine request to enjoy a movie together and nothing more? Ray had always been a bit wary of Drex, anyway.

all those times they had gone to Schneider's bakery for food was never ray's idea, it was his sidekick, who refused to take any form of 'no' for an answer. It was quite unsettling to ray, as if there were some kind of darker intentions under it.

However, they could agree on one thing: anime. No underlying motives, no weird schemes, they just both really liked those Japanese cartoons. In fact, both had memorabilia from these Japanese cartoons all over the man cave, shelves covered in figurines, walls with posters plastering them, and more. They would discuss their favorite shows and movies, and watch them together too. It was the one common ground they had.

Unfortunately, Drex didn't care. He would use anything to his advantage to convince ray he wasn't really a man, not even a boy, and get a nice girlfriend out of it.

About halfway through the movie, ray had come close to falling asleep. Drex saw his opportunity, and took it. He inched closer to ray, until he wrapped his arms around his companion and pulled him close to his chest.

Ray, clearly made uncomfortable, tried to get out of Drex's grip, but with every struggle he only tightened his grip. Eventually, ray gave up and fell asleep. He was too tired to keep trying, anyways.

As ray lay there, Drex looked down at him and began whispering quietly.

"God, Rachel," he began, completely aware of the fact that he was using his old name, not his real name. "Why do you have to be like this? Why do you think you're a boy?" Drex didn't care about the truth, if it didn't work in his favor than it's not real in his mind.

"If you came to your senses, I'd be such a good boyfriend," Drex continued. "We'd go out for picnics all the time, stay up all night watching anime, and go to every sushi restaurant we can get to."

Drex continued to mutter on, feeding into his own delusion until he fell asleep as well, his hands on ray's chest in a rather...uncomfortable manner.

The next morning, Drex woke up with a few pillows where ray was, and he got inexplicably angry when ray asked to be left alone for something.

Ray hated waking up the next morning to that. He appreciated drex's company, but such advances made him extremely uncomfortable. He couldn't help but wonder why Drex couldn't understand ray had boundaries, that He was crossing with no regrets.

The next few weeks were quiet. Ray avoided Drex and Drex avoided ray. Sometimes the blond would still ask why ray wasn't comfortable with what had happened, and accused him of lying when he explained he didn't like it.

Once things cooled down, Drex decided to try something else: a date. Of course, ray wouldn't know it was a date, but Drex would, And that's what mattered to him.

"Hey, ray?" Drex asked.

"Yeah?" Ray replied, bringing in a few more bits of anime merchandise he had recently ordered.

"Since crime has been so low, want to come to montego's to celebrate with me?"

It was quiet for a moment, anticipation in the air. Drex awaited a reply, completely ready to make sure he got what he wanted, even if ray refused.

"...alright. How about next week?"

Drex paused for a moment, genuinely surprised he accepted. She wants to go! Maybe I'll show her it's not so bad staying a girl!

The next few weeks were spent in quite different ways for the two of them. Drex spent countless hours thinking of a perfect outfit, and exactly how he should go about it.

Ray, on the other hand, was trying to figure out how to tell drex what was coming in the next few months. It was a highly anticipated event on both sides, but for wildly different reasons.

Finally, the day came. Both dreaded and longed for.

Drex walked out wearing a pair of jeans and a white shirt along with a fairly expensive looking jacket. Formal enough to be worn on a date, yet casual enough that his 'friend' wouldn't suspect a thing.

Ray, however, simply walked out wearing a naruto t-shirt and cargo shorts.

"Drex? That's an oddly fancy outfit."

"It's all I have clean right now." Drex lied, hoping ray wouldn't suspect anything.

He narrowed his eyes, but decided to believe the blond. "Alright, same here. Let's go?"

Drex nodded and there they went, a feeling of triumph in him.

The dinner was fairly awkward on ray's part. He didn't talk too much, like he was trying to figure something out. Towards the end, ray took a deep breath.

"Drex, there's something I've been wanting to tell you." Ray said, shifting a bit.

He was filled with anticipation. What was ray going to say? Was ray finally going to give up and detransition?

"Yeah...? What are you — what are you going to say?"

"Drex, I got my results back from an endocrinologist."

"...and?"

"I'm starting hormone replacement therapy."

Drex's blood turned to ice. His breath stopped short. It took everything in him not to take his steak knife and try to slit ray's throat in the middle of the restaurant, screaming about how ray had ruined everything.

"...Drex? Are you okay?"

Drex, grabbed ray by his arm and pulled him in, Getting uncomfortably close to his face.

"You're not going on T." Drex began, in a theateningly low voice. "I like your pretty high voice too much, princess."

"But-"

"And no top surgery either, you know I like these too much."

All ray could do was sit in silence, fighting back tears of fear.

After that, they paid and went home, ray immediately going to his room and not coming back out.

That night, Drex took ray's phone while he was asleep, and cancelled the testosterone prescription. Ray wasn't doing that. Not on his watch.

The next few weeks, the two were barely around each other. Even to fight crime, ray would go by himself and leave his sidekick alone in the man cave. Drex was never sure what ray was out doing, but as long as he didn't do anything against his wishes, he didn't care. All he knew was he had to start being a lot nicer to him, and so he did.

Drex would leave bouquets of flowers and boxes of pocky in ray's room while he was out. He would try to get ray to play the infamous pocky game with him, but he was always met with a shaky 'no' from the brunet. Ray lived in constant fear of Drex, the romantic gestures certainly didn't help.

"She's just playing hard to get." Drex said to himself one day as he made breakfast. That's what he told himself all the time, today was no exception.

"Ray, come out! I made breakfast!" He called, hoping to hear his beautiful voice as he put everything on a tray.

Ray walked out, clearly having just woken up.

"You made breakfast? I'm surprised." He said, his voice significantly lower.

Drex stopped dead in his tracks. "Was that you?" The blond asked, trying to mask his anger.

Ray nodded and went to sit down next to him, and began telling his sidekick about a dream he had. As he went on, Drex only got angrier and angrier, until he finally exploded.

"What the hell did you do to your voice?"drex suddenly shouted, standing up.

"Nothing...?" Ray lied.

"No, you clearly did something! It sounds croaky as shit!" Drex replied before spotting something in the pocket of the shirt ray Thew on. "What's that?" He asked.

"It's nothing! It's an old box of pocky." Ray replied.

"Bullshit! Give it to me!" Drex shouted and shoved his hand in ray's pocket.

"What are you doing? Stop!" Ray begged.

Drex pulled out the empty box anyways and read the label, almost shaking from anger.

"YOU WENT ON T?" He screamed, his grating tone feeling like a monster running it's sandpaper tongue over ray's ears. "Why would to ruin your body like that?"

"I'm not 'ruining my body', Drex!" Ray suddenly retaliated. "I'm a boy, it's time It reflects that."

"No you aren't! You're just living in a fantasy world."

"Do you even know anything about transgender people?"

"Yes, but you're not one of them!"

"We both know that's a lie."

"No, listen to me... Rachel." Drex suddenly spoke softly, not caring about how he deadnamed ray right in front of him.

"My. Name. Is. Ray."

"No, listen. Is all this really worth it?" Drex continued. "Like, what if nobody wants to date you because you're trans?"

"That's the least of my wor-"

"The only person willing to even be around you despite this is me." Drex spoke once more. "Why did you have to transition? If you stop now, you'd have a great life."

Ray tried to protest, but Drex quieted him down.

"I'd be such a great boyfriend, you know. We'd spend all our time having picnics at night, going to every anime convention we can afford to get to, and so much more. Please, give me a chance."

Ray narrowed his eyes and pointed to the nearby elevator.

"Get out." Ray said, fighting back tears once more. "Don't come back either."

"Fine." Drex narrowed his eyes and punched ray in the throat before storming out, never to return.