#(I'm dying Nate is so fucking lost)

[did-i-do-this-write]

Mission Log

Team: Nate (lead), Reese, Sky, Cara (medical)

Objective: Medical review of potential recruit

Status: Treatment

Report: New recruit was injured in Mythic attack — needs rest for at least two weeks, as per doctor's orders.

Word count: 678

Read the full scene under the cut!

Vision blurred. Head pounded.

Where the fuck am I?

Nic only had a vague memory of the terrium throwing her against a tree and knocking her out.

A face came into focus above her. Long black hair, intense dark eyes. A woman? She reached out to touch Nic's head.

Nic snatched her wrist and stopped whatever was about to happen.

"Who the hell are you?" Nic's voice was raspy, tired, her throat dry and scratchy.

The woman pulled her other hand back. "My name's Cara. I'm a doctor. You were badly injured in a Mythic attack."

Nic's brow furrowed. "You don't look like a doctor."

Now that Nic was taking stock of her surroundings, she realized she was resting on a couch in a house she didn't recognize. This supposed doctor — Cara — was dressed in a long sleeve shirt and jeans. Not exactly the uniform of a medical professional.

"I'm also a friend," Cara smiled.

Nic wasn't buying it. She felt three other pairs of eyes on her. She scanned the room and her gaze caught on one of the spectators — a very tall black man with close cropped hair wearing a tan hennley and dark jeans.

The last face she saw before she blacked out.

"You," Nic accused. "You're the one who brought me here."

The man nodded, "I had some help taking out the threat." His eyes briefly flashed to the girl standing at his side. She was a good foot and a half shorter than him.

Nic had a bad feeling about this. Like if these people helped her she would owe them something.

And she already had enough of a target on her back.

"Why?" she interrogated.

"Why what?"

"Why did you bring me here?"

The man casually rubbed the back of his neck. "Quicker than a hospital. You were injured, but not dying. So I made a call."

Nic squinted at him. Surely this guy knew who she was. It was hard to escape the Hadad name in this area.

Cara stood up, satisfied with her examination. "And I think that call was the right one, Reese. You have a couple scrapes and bruises, which aren't a big deal, but I am worried about your concussion."

"I don't have a concussion. I'm fine," Nic said through the pounding headache that made it hard to sit up.

"Don't be a tough guy. You'll only make it worse. You need two weeks of rest, no screens, and minimal activity. Bare minimum."

Rest isn't really something I can afford. She could barely afford a hotel room. She needed to sell the valuable information she had and get out of dodge, like she had planned.

Staying here was not part of that plan.

Nic felt an intense stare tickle the back of her mind. She looked up and met the eyes of the fifth person in the room. Something about his stare was unsettling. Uneven.

Are his eyes two different colors?

After considering her for a second, the heterochromic man asked a simple question. "What's your name?"

"Nic."

The name fell out of her mouth without her consent. She had to force her last name back into her throat. If these people really didn't know who she was, she wanted to keep it that way.

"Nate," he said. "This is Reese. Sky. And you've met Cara."

Nic kept her stare cold.

"If you need a ride, Reese and I can take you home. You should be somewhere comfortable to get your rest."

Nic almost lost her voice. "I don't have a home."

Not anymore.

Nate nodded, as if he weren't surprised at all. "In that case, you're welcome to share ours. At least until you feel better."

Every fiber of Nic's being was screaming at her not to take the offer. But even the thought of moving made her head fill with concrete, her muscles became heavy as lead.

What else was she supposed to do?

"Fine," Nic swallowed her pride. "Just until I rest up. Not a day longer."

I need to get the fuck out of this town.

[citizensteels]

[TEXT] IM26C4U.

[text: jenny] what the fuck does this mean

[text: jenny] I’m completely lost and a little tipsy

[text: jenny] are you okay

[frienderbender]

Skwistok for the imagines/scenarios, I'm sorry, I have an illness, there's no cure

send me a ship and i’ll write five short scenarios/imagines

look we always have time for skwistok here. skwistok you will always be famous.

i really would like to write about them during the preklok days. not even romantic, just their dynamic as a whole. because it has to be weird for both of them in some ways, despite how incredible their guitar playing is together. toki is this new guy in this band that’s really starting to take off, he’s replaced some founding member he’s never heard of or met that the guys just kinda talk about in hushed whispers, and he’s got a lot on his plate. meanwhile skwis has to deal with showing the new guy the ropes, teaching him more specific guitar techniques since toki has no formal training, and even dealing with this underlying fear of oh god what if this guy becomes better than me. ultimately them coming together and reaching a common ground and realizing, oh, wait, we really need each other.

another preklok one but i NEED toki and skwisgaar getting lost in florida. they’re dying. they’ve never dealt with heat like this before (it’s 79° outside). skwis has lived in tampa for several years now but he’s always depended on nate to get him from place-to-place, meanwhile toki has no fucking clue where anything is.

final preklok one i swear but. first holidays together. nathan and pickles went to nate’s folk’s place, will went out to cause trouble on his own, so toki and skwis are just left at the shitty apartment and talk about what they used to do during the holidays and how different things are in the states, especially florida. they both miss the snow. eventually they resign themselves to watching old christmas movies they’ve never seen, but for the first time all night, things feel alright.

a fake dating scenario. something something they get mistaken for being a couple by the press but it’s actually boosting sales and they’re seen as like, amazing and brave figures by the media so they decide to stick with it but then…..oh no….they’re developing feelings For Real. who could’ve seen this coming (also if we wanna go for a fake episode vibe: the rest of the guys are like. trying to prove themselves as really cool and supportive allies whilst also doing vaguely gay shit because ofc. meanwhile charles is openly gay and has been for years but whatever🙄😒).

toki tries to introduce skwisgaar to some of his hobbies, like his models and video games but um. shockingly skwisgaar is not great at any of them. skwisgaar does not know how to deal with this meanwhile toki keeps kicking his ass in mario kart :/

[cajunroe]

♫ + one for Ron Speirs, Carwood Lipton, Brad Colbert, Nate Fick, what can I say, I'm greedy :))) as a bonus Ron+Carwood and Brad+Nate, if you feel generous *puppy eyes*

well damn i never back down from a challenge let’s do this

ron speirs:blood on my name - the brothers bright - how could i not do a total dark banger for sparky??? like this man enjoy the thrill of a fight and there’s something somewhat dark that lurks behind his eyes, insidious and not always present but willing to show its face when necessary; there something ruthless about the way he holds himself and it’s almost scary if you don’t trust him or know him; and i think a lot of ron’s personality and insecurities and fault are consumed and hidden away by this thirst for the fight; like i can imagine him in any war ancient or modern or anywhere in between because the way he handles himself is something that kind of transcends circumstance and i just really need to compile all my character studies on speirs into a paper or something; like i realize the way i’m describing him sounds almost non-human but there is something about his bravery that is a little deeper and darker than on the surface; the way this song progress and darkens and heightens from beginning to end just hit his character in the best way possible because there’s something about speirs that borders on a death wish and accepting one’s own mortality and that if you can’t outrun death forever, you might as well get your hands dirty in the process. 

carwood lipton:against the grain - city & colour - if anything stuck out to me about lip it’s his compassion and this song just...idk i can imagine him softly talking to one of the men having a hard time or even a stranger having a bad day, to follow their heart, and god this song just hits me everytime because it’s so beautiful and the lyrics are so real and so raw that i just break down; when you listen to it, just picture lip and you’ll see what i see; his compassion came from a genuine place not because he needed people to go on or do their jobs, the concern was real and his compassion was real and the communicates through his character; the songs reminds the listener that it’s okay to just live sometimes and not search for answers in everything, not everything has meaning and sometime shitty things happen, the worse things in life can happen without any answers and we have to go on without them; “you need not to reach for the stars when life becomes so dark and when the wind does blow against the grain, you must follow your heart.”; even if you have answers, they’re not always enough, trust yourself and your instincts more than anything; lip had an amazing sense of sympathy and empathy for everyone and took care of everyone around him before himself; selflessness and compassion are two traits that are invaluable and he had them both in spades; and the line, “you need not to find a cure for everything that makes you weak” just gives me so much hope during my dark times because it reminds me that i am allowed to have faults and that i can be weak and strong at the same time and that what i’m going through it okay so long as i trust myself to follow my instincts when it gets too be too much and that will always scream lipton to me

please, send me a ♫ + a character’s name or a ship and i will respond with a song that reminds me of them

this is a long post, so the rest are under the cut!

brad colbert:bad habits - fidlar - this song is a bit “showy” for brad but it’s such an absolute “i fucking do what i want and your opinion isn’t needed or wanted or should even be thought” type song; his issues are his own and brad is unapologetic about not opening up or sharing anything and it isn’t from a scared position or anything else, he has emotions and he’s not afraid of being vulnerable because he knows it’s not a weakness or a fault, he’s just genuinely so private that only those closest to him see the real him; he has his bad habits but they’re HIS, no one else’s and he doesn’t need help or anyone to chime in on them because he’s at least acknowledging the fact that they’re there; he knows that anyone who truly loves him will stick around and support him despite these bad habits and they do; anyone else who “can’t handle it” wouldn’t be someone he’d want in his life anyway; the line “i don't care if i'm damaged, honestly, i just think i'm bored” hit me because i always see brad as someone who feels like he should always be doing more and “reaching his full potential” for no other reason than the fact that he likes to keep busy and enjoys all that life has to offer; so bad habits are easy to pick up because he gets bored easy and “idle hands” and all that; not the song i think describes brad perfectly but one that makes me think of him...and ray, every damn time. 

nate fick:seein’ red - unwritten law - there’s something that always stuck with me in gen kill and it was leadership, like it was a main consistency running throughout the whole thing; and nate’s leadership especially was a big point for me because they’re adults but they’re also still relatively young and something about their leading just will always remain impressive to me; especially nate’s and this song is just a real anthem for him and never fails to make me think of the “don’t fuck with my men” scene and i get chills; but it also reminds me of nate always feeling like he had to play catch up or that he was failing even when it wasn’t his fault or when he wasn’t failing, which i think we can all relate to;  like “i confess, i don't know what to make from all this mess. don't have much time for sympathy, but it never happened to me. so follow the leader now.” there’s something about gen kill that forces you to see them as superficial and emotionless until they’re in the thick of it and the reality comes through and all nate wants is to get his men home alive because that’s what leaders do

speirton:life me up - mree - okay so...i like to think that there’s two speirs; pre-lip and post-lip and while he’s still the same, there are significant differences between the two because i really feel like ron “death wish” speirs unconsciously (or consciously) does have a real (small??) death wish before he meets lip and while his recklessness is just as much brave as it is illogical, there’s one person who isn’t scared or him or in awe of him and that’s lip; he jokes with ron and no one “jokes” with ron, he’s easy to talk to and understands the severity and harsh realities or war but unlike ron he doesn’t let them diminish the soft parts of his personality, if anything lip’s compassion and dedication thrives because it is a scarce but highly needed resource in the war and lip gives it freely and without question and ron is in deep before he knows it; lips softens him and you see a lot of ron’s hard line dissapate the more he’s around lip, he wouldn’t have given two shit is someone was sick or about promotions but lip had both and ron was happy for the promotion but worried about the pneumonia because anything could kill them out here and ron would die just to find lip and yell at him for dying from pneumonia; okay i digress but post-war when all is said and done, ron finds himself in a new world, he’d gotten so used to houses with singed wallpaper and missing roofs, that when they’re in a warm home, wrapped up in one another, with only the sound of a ceiling fan and the crickets outside that ron feels like he’s missed a step somewhere; lip came in and changed his entire world and ron didn’t even notice and tbh he can’t even be upset because he’s never felt so content and settled and happy in his life before; lip lifts him up and ron can only try to do the same for him for as long as they’re together

icefick: past lives by børns - something about icefick that always makes me think of them is not realizing you’re in love or being surprised to find that you’re in love and for these two that is on mf POINT.; like they’re so oblivious but in tune with one another that it isn’t until they’re deep in love with one another that they realize what’s going on and by then it’s way too late to do anything about it; they’ve lived so many lives between there and her where they are now and now that they think about it, it was only a matter of time but it’s still surprising and they find all these different moments where it couldn’t have been anymore obvious that they were supposed to be together but they missed it completely; i especially love the lines “past lives couldn't ever hold me down. lost love is sweeter when it's finally found. i've got the strangest feeling, this isn't our first time around.”; like they’ve been circling one another for so long that it’s almost comically it took them so long, but it’s so much sweeter that they discovered it so late because it gave them more time to know one another so intimately and intricately that it’s impossible to part