((I dont know if tricky and hank have a official ship name like sanmos. I never seen one so plz let me know if they do))

Note-this takes place before the events of madness combat 2

Hank rests on his couch tired, after what happened several hours ago he was exhausted, sure killing 30 men plus 2 zombies and getting away with it was fun but the aftermath is kinda tiring.
He closes his eyes and was about to fall alseep before he heard a knock, who would visit him?
*probably some salesman* he thought, he does not answer the door but the knocking keeps coming back every few minutes.

Hank got up with a frustrated growl and got to his door, before he got to yell at who is on the other side he opened the door to see no one but a pink heart shaped balloon tied to a rock.
Hank raises a eyebrow in confusion, this must be some kind of mistake.
He looks around to see no one or even someone hiding, shrugging his shoulders he took the balloon inside,its something free he guesses.

Since then more balloons show up at his front porch nearly every day, heart shaped balloons,animal balloons, star shaped balloons and more. It was never the same one every balloon was different either by color,size, or shape, nothing was signed and once again hank never sees anyone, they just show up.
It was a kinda sweet gesture but hank just always seemed confused, he knows its some secret admirer kinda thing but why him of all people?
Hes no one special.

After 2 weeks of this hank had finally memorized the routine and finally waited for 10 am to roll around, once the time comes hank held his hand at the doorknob and waited to hear the knocking.

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...

The knocking started and hank opened the door before they had the chance to run off, the otherside of the door was a clown. He has the standard red fluffy hair,white face paint, and blue makeup around his lips to resemble a smile.
Hank knew this clown, tricky was his name.
Him and tricky had often bumped into eachother and talked from time to time, mostly because hank was either waiting for the bus or something most of the time and they talk for time to move faster, to hank they are kinda friends but also not... acquaintances maybe?

Tricky stares at him in shock, not at all expecting hank to answer the door so soon. He began to start looking nervous as hank stares down at him waiting for tricky to give a explanation, in a panic tricky just gave hank the blue balloon and shouted "this is for you!" And ran off before hank can say anything, feeling way to awkward to say anything after getting caught giving secret admirer balloons.

"Weird" was all hank said seeing the short clown run away...
Looking down at the gift he shrugs and goes back inside and places it with the rest, never having the heart to pop them or throw them away once the air gets out of them he kept the balloons.

After the fiasco they did find eachother at the bus station and talked...
"So...why the balloons?" Hank asked the clown "well...i did kinda admire you for a while but uh...i didnt know how to express it" tricky replied awkwardly "oh...ok" was all hank said. "Do you want me to stop?" Tricky asked, hank thought for a minute...something told him to say no...so he responded by shaking his head before the bus came and he got on.

the balloons never stopped coming, eventually tricky even left cards attached to them. Nothing much was written in them just small compliments or a small clown joke, hank began to appreciate the gesture and even kept the little notes in a box for safe keeping.
He never knew why but the thought of throwing them away made him feel awful.

The unspoken relationship became stronger and stronger and it now just became a routine for the two.....until eventually one day...the balloons stopped coming.

((I am very sorry if this is sloppy i made this at 5 am))