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no ordinary things with you (1/1) (bechloe)

I did this challenge by @ekingston. what a fun idea! And super thanks to @velvetinkkwrites for encouragement and being a co-conspirator.

My "prompt" was: fluff / locked in an escape room / unresolved sexual tension / a hangnail and amazingly, the Bechloe just flowed. I love these dummies.

Summary: Beca and Chloe are stuck in an escape room. Good thing Beca is an extremely calm person.

Word count: 1,000

Read on AO3 or below.

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It’s Amy’s idea.

It’s always Amy’s idea.

And yet–

“I knew this room wasn’t meant to be completed with just two people.” 

Somehow, Amy is not here.

Chloe sighs in response to Beca’s short tone. “Bec, it’s fine. We can just wait it out.”

A familiar flare of a decade-old competitive streak flares up in Beca at the mere thought—something she had thought long dissipated once they left university. Yet being trapped in a small enclosed space with Chloe Beale has once again made Beca’s fight-or-flight instincts rise to the surface. 

“Why would they even allow us to do this room knowing that we’re two people and not three? They saw us walk in. They heard us say that Amy would be late.” She glares at the puzzle before them that clearly requires at least three pairs of hands and not just the two they have presently available. “Now we’re trapped,” Beca enunciates in an extremely chill, not dramatic way. 

Chloe’s voice. “Come on, Bec. We can at least try.”

Chloe’s soothing encouragement and endless positivity combine to make Beca feel like somehow, they’re back in college and maybe back in the stifling heat of Aubrey’s corporate torture retreat. 

Shockingly, not Amy’s idea.

Chloe’s idea, actually. 

God, that had been a time.

Beca glances at Chloe who is running her hands over the surface of the platform in front of them, clear ridges and grooves meant to be manipulated by multiple sets of hands. It’s a spy-themed room, meant to be dark and mysterious. The dim lights aren’t particularly calming to Beca right this second, especially because the lack of light somehow serves to make Chloe prettier, which is, like, extremely unfair to Beca.

It’s kind of the whole reason why Beca’s kind of being short with Chloe, when it’s really the last thing she wants to do, but distance has always served her well. The issue is that distance in a shoebox studio apartment in Brooklyn is kind of hard to achieve especially if she is sharing an uncomfortable pull-out bed with the person she kind of wants some distance from. 

It’s just that…the whole being friends with her ex thing is not working out. Jesse is clearly still bitter and Beca is exasperated, which has never been a good combination. It’s even clearer that they don’t work as a couple now than ever before, now that Jesse isn’t attempting to be remotely chivalrous or protective of Beca’s feelings.

Or his own insecurities, evidently. 

It’s kind of the whole reason that Beca is doing her best to not stare right at Chloe’s lips. Because of Jesse’s bright idea that Beca had long-harbored feelings for Chloe and that was why their relationship didn’t work out. 

She has tried to convince herself that it’s just Jesse’s latest wayward accusation in a string of accusations and his dickish behavior isn’t one that she needs to pay close attention to, but this one sticks.

It lingers and gnaws at Beca uncomfortably. 

So much so that she has been dreaming of Chloe and her smile and her stupidly blue eyes. 

The worst part is, she doesn’t hate it. 

So, suffice it to say, Beca’s running on nerves and anxiety and of course, Amy’s bright ideas aren’t particularly thrilling to her right now. She’s stuck alone in a locked room with Chloe Beale, who looks unfairly gorgeous with her lower lip between her teeth as she puzzles out the clues around the room. And she keeps touching Beca too, with her pretty hands and smiling at her with her perfect teeth. 

“...Bec?”

Beca blinks.

“Sorry, what?”

“You were frowning.” Chloe’s tone is concerned, but she nudges a foot forward playfully. “Not new, of course. Just frowning harder than usual. Is everything okay? Did you figure something out?” 

That I want you.

“No,” Beca answers, groaning internally when Chloe’s face falls at her short tone. “No, sorry—hey. I just…it was a long week at work and-and–” she falters, trying to find any excuse because now Chloe is all perked up and gazing at Beca with such sad, concerned puppy-dog-eyes that she has to say something. Anything, really. “--this stupid hangnail made it really hard to mix because it—”

Chloe gasps, grabbing at Beca’s hand, suddenly. “I told you to moisturize,” she chides.

“Chlo–” Beca tries to take her hand back, but Chloe holds fast, fingers delicately running all over Beca’s hands like she’s solving a puzzle. Beca had not thought this through. 

She hadn’t considered the possibility that Chloe’s hands, which were doing sinful things to her in her dream just the night prior, would actually touch her like this. 

It’s not even an intimate touch, not really. But Chloe has a way of making everything she does feel like she’s doing it as her last act on Earth. So now, with Beca’s hands in her own, she is being exceptionally gentle and thorough as she tries to find the wayward hangnail that had apparently bothered Beca so much that she was acting out in a random escape room in a random building in the middle of Manhattan.

Because Chloe Beale is the only person to fix all of Beca’s problems. 

(The entire issue is that…well, that’s probably true. Beca doesn’t want to deal with that right this second. She doesn’t want to deal with the knowledge that everything she wants is right in front of her.)

Chloe lifts her gaze, eyes alight with something that Beca can’t quite place. 

(And this part—the part that tells her in a small, defiant voice, that maybe what she wants…wants her back.)

Fuck it.

A distant buzzer-like alarm crashes through the room, jolting them apart. Beca thinks that if she really is asleep now, this is maybe just all one horrible nightmare because surely—surely—if this were a dream she’d be able to kiss Chloe.

If this were a dream, she’d grab Chloe’s head and kiss her. 

And based on the look in Chloe’s eyes, she’d kiss her right back. 

fin

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I loved this show so much haha

Prints!

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Other things that make me insane about Agatha/Rio:

the fact that Rio has spent the last three centuries watching Agatha age and change from a teenager to a fully middle-aged woman

the fact that they've spent so much of Agatha's limited lifespan being angry at each other

Rio being so in love with Agatha - perhaps more in love with her the more Agatha tries to run away from her and all she encapsulates (mortality, aging, and death) - that she refuses to let go despite the inevitable end that, as the natural order of all things, she's known is coming from day one

the general metaphor they are about not only self-destructiveness (Agatha being in love with Death), but also fear of aging and death (Death being in love with Agatha and impossible to escape)

the incredible humanity of both of them in such different ways, and what it means for Death in particular to present as a woman, practice as a witch, and be susceptible to something as human as love

Are we still insane about them, y'all? I'm still feeling insane. Just wanting to do a vibe check.

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imogen temult x the last of us (commission for @fearnesbells)

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Agatha kissed Rio because she wanted her to be the last thing felt. The last thing she tasted. The last thing she smelled. The last thing she saw. She wanted Rio’s love to be the last thing she experienced before she died.

It was the only way Agatha could say she was sorry and ask for Rio’s forgiveness.

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‘And Death wept for Agatha Harkness,

Done done done done!!! Still not sure how i feel about this but given that i havent painted with acrylics in a while this was fun :3 thank you for the nice response on previous posts love u silly people on my phone

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I just realized something about Agatha All Along. Everyone who walked the Witches' Road got exactly what they wanted.

Jen went on the road to find her powers (both inner and outer), and that's exactly what she got. [She was really the only one who went specifically for power.]

Alice went on the road, not really for answers about her mother, but to end her curse. Her curse ended.

Sharon (Mrs. Hart) went on the road 'cause she wanted to go to a party. They went to a nice house, hung out, and drank wine.

Lilia went on the road, not to get her powers back, but so she could remember herself and realize her full potential as a witch (not relating to magical power, but to the power of identity).

Billy went on the road to find his brother. He found him and made it possible for his brother to come to the physical world.

Rio--yes, she technically walked the road--wanted Agatha's forgiveness. I believe that kiss was Agatha's way of saying she forgave her, even if she still couldn't face her (and Nicky) in death and became a ghost. Some might say she had to kiss her to syphon her power, but I think she could have done it another way. She chose the "kiss of Death" as her way to go. And there is the beautiful metaphor of Agatha "accepting" Death. She accepts that this is who Rio is and forgives her for having to hurt Agatha by doing her job.

Agatha, again while saying she wanted her powers back, actually wanted closure. Death would not stop pursuing her. Their history, and Billy's presence, meant that she was continually reminded of her grief over her son. In order to protect herself, emotionally, Agatha had put up walls and hid herself behind a thirst for power. It's why she says in the beginning, she's vulnerable "only physically". On the Road, Agatha became emotionally vulnerable to Billy, Rio, and even the others. And while the last trial was meant to be for the Green Witch, Agatha did it herself. Alone. She was forced to feel that sense of powerlessness once again. The Road taught her that her feelings of vulnerability, of powerlessness, what probably felt like the death of herself, would lead to new growth in the form of a connection with Billy, an understanding and forgiveness of Rio, a true connection to a coven (it was Agatha's encouragement that led most of them to discovering their own truths), and a true surrender to the powerlessness of an actual physical death. So, I guess you could say, she did gain power (the power of vulnerability). It just wasn't the kind she was expecting. But I choose to call it closure, because she "settled" a lot of what was causing her to seek magical power in the first place.

Everyone got what they wanted but maybe not in the way they were expecting.

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KATHRYN HAHN Afternoon Delight (2013)

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something i find very compelling about agatha is that for a self-protective character, she is surprisingly unconcerned with her own redemption. selfish villains usually try to make people see them as the hero, but after being persistently villainized and punished for things outside of her control (her mother trying to execute her, generally living through the witch trials, losing her lover and son bc of things tied their identities), agatha was essentially like — fine, you want a villain? i’ll give you a villain.

she knows that a large part of it is a performance and she lets people believe it because it’s the only thing that gives her control over bad things happening to her. salem seven wanna kill her? yeah, makes sense. every other witch hates her? yep, did that on purpose. nobody can hurt her more than she’s hurt herself.

and like, yeah, she’s still a villain and definitely having fun with it lol, but it really does seem to come from her realizing that nobody is ever gonna see her as anything else, anyway (except for rio, who she’s absolutely fucking terrified of, despite also being madly in love with her) (i would like them to get back together please and thank you)

and idk! there’s something really special to me about a queer person being like, actually, fuck you all, i’m going to be every bit of a menace you told me i was.

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‘Critical Role’ Cast Teases Its Future and a Potential ‘Passing of the Torch’ Photos by Heirlume Photography

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i'm weak

the parasites... they're taking over...

i'm gonna start howling and whooping like a monkey

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I'm still here 💚💜

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i love when tragedies are like —

happy birthday, @elssbethtascioni ❤

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I’ve been rewatching Agatha All Along episodes 8 and 9 repeatedly and every rewatch I just love it more.

Could it be more perfect?

Sure.

In an ideal world where there was money and time, and Disney+ aren’t skittish.

But I’m meeting the show where it’s at, and it’s more than most things we used to get.

Also, there’s so much heart in the show.

I do wonder if people just stop watching after Agatha physically died. Because some of the comments I see in some boards make me wonder if they really think Agatha is dead-dead.

Because… she’s not.

I think part of the issue might be that the show didn’t, as Mary Robinette Kowal said, properly close off one story nesting tag.

(for example:

<Character Story> <Event Story></Event Story> </Character Story>)

Because Agatha committing suicide by kiss, was, in all honesty, not the closing tag of the Rio and Agatha storyline introduced in episode 1.

That felt like an open tag, and episode 9 just opened another tag for the Rio/Agatha relationship story.

Also, still weird to me that episode 5 of a season, is the 'midseason finale' in a 15-20 episode season that's just the show starting to rev up. My true enemy is streaming shows with mandated truncated seasons.

There is a time and a place for a truly fantastic limited series show. But a story like Agatha All Along with such an expansive character with a fantastic, complicated backstory should be deepened.

Alas, this is the nature of the beast of being an MCU property.

Hopefully, we do get a season 2 of Agatha All Along and sooner rather than later.

These 2-3 season hiatuses with less than 10 episode seasons KILL ME.

What do you mean season 2 of The Diplomat is only six episodes on Netflix??? WTF is that.

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Xena and Gabrielle, as well as other characters, acknowledging that they have feelings for each other as early as season 2 💃

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Aubrey Plaza says it was a “dream come true” to play Kathryn Hahnʼs romantic counterpart in #AgathaAllAlong: