#ARRRR I LOVE THESE GUYS

[jackassbroadcast]

Sketched up guys (what r thoseee!!!!)

[londonspirit]

Avast ye, Monkey D. Luffy! Our Flag Means Death creator David Jenkins has arrrr-rated words for you and the rest of the One Piece-hunting crew that's headlining Netflix's blockbuster live-action version of the long-running Japanese manga and anime series. "We got there first," Jenkins boasts to Yahoo Entertainment about his own fan-favorite pirate series, now entering its second season on Max. "One Piece is jumping on our bandwagon!"

Before you One Piecers send Jenkins some poisoned Devil Fruit, be aware that he's only joking. "There's room for plenty of pirate shows," the writer says with a smile. "It's funny — I was never into pirate stuff before this series. I was like, 'Only 8-year-olds like pirates!' But now I love it when I see people dressed up as characters from our show. It makes me so happy that it makes people feel cool."

It helps, of course, that Jenkins can lay claim to having two of the coolest contemporary comic minds aboard Our Flag Means Death. Thor: Ragnarok mastermind Taika Waititi is both an executive producer and star of the series, playing legendary 18th century plunderer Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, while Flight of the Conchords scene-stealer Rhys Darby portrays another famed seafarer Stede Bonnet, aka the Gentleman Pirate. In real life, the duo terrorized the Caribbean for roughly a year until Bonnet met the Grim Reaper at the end of a noose in 1718.

But nothing so grim happens in Our Flag Means Death. Instead, Jenkins's series offers a fractured fairy-tale version of a pirate's life that makes room for plenty of romance... especially between Stede and Edward. It's no accident that the series has become colloquially known as "the gay pirate show" among its passionate fanbase since its March 2022 premiere. That's an identity that Jenkins is proud to embrace.

"To me, it's just a pirate show, but if you want to call it the 'gay pirate show' or 'the pirate rom-com,' I love it," he says. "Whatever you call it, as long as you're celebrating it and it makes you feel seen, then it's such an honor."

As Blackbeard and the Gentleman Pirate set sail to continue their love story in Season 2, we asked Jenkins three questions about overseeing one of the streaming era's most viral hits.

1. Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi aren't gay in real life — did you have any concerns about casting them in the series amid the ongoing debate over straight actors playing gay characters?

It's definitely something we talked about going into the show. I'm not gay, either, but one of the things we discussed was: "What does the writers' room look like?" And "Are we listening to them?" So I have to credit our writer's room, because they are so diverse and they serve us wonderfully.

The Stead and Blackbeard relationship has always been the core of why I wanted to make the show. Historically, it's clear that these guys seem like they were together [as a couple], but the descriptions of it [at the time] made it seem like they were just hanging out. In making the series, we're able to zero in on those little micro-moments of "they're growing closer!" And the chemistry between Taika and Rhys is is really lovely. They've known each for 20 years now, so that chemistry is very real. When you see them playing a scene together, it's excites all of us and it makes us realize, "I want to see these two people fall in love."

Also, we don't know what spectrum of queerness Stead and Blackbeard fall on as characters. Do they see themselves as gay? Does it matter? You'd have to ask Rhys and Taika how they're playing it. But I think one of the values of the show is that it's less about their individual queer identity and more about their love for each other. I think we can tell these stories, because we all know what it feels like to want someone and be wanted back, and allow ourselves to be vulnerable and scared of being rejected. As long as that's at the core of the show, that's what's gratifying.

2. You've said that you have a three-season arc in mind. Do you think you'll get to tell it?

That's way above my pay grade. If Max feels like they'd like us to hang around and would be kind enough to grace us with a third season, that'd be fantastic. And if not, I think we leave Season 2 in a place that people will be happy with. Nobody owes us a third season — the fact that we go to make two of these is a joy. I mean, we got to make two seasons of a weird pirate show where we put on costumes on played on these sets!

But it was clear to me that this story could only be three seasons, and I was shocked that Taika wanted to do it, because I know he's so busy. What was important for me was to present a very emotionally young couple in the first season and what happens to them, followed by a more mature couple in Season 2 who are learning to ask: "Are we a thing? What do we want to be?"

And then the third season would be about what happens when the couple is a little bit older and maybe they try to run a business together. How does that go? How do they keep the relationship together? Seeing stuff like that in a fantasy setting between these two characters would be great, because there's a lot of naturalistic stories you can do in this comedy world. I want to see them hang onto each other as they movie into a different phase of their lives.

3. Our Flag Means Death has one of the most dedicated fanbases around and they're also extremely online. Do you and the writers ever worry that you're giving them what they want a little too much?

Well, we're all fans of the show in the writers' room, too, so there's not much of a difference. It's funny when people call things "fanfic" because it's all just "fic"! If you're sitting there writing pages, it's fic. So it doesn't feel like we're looking at things online and going, "What will the fans like?" We know what we like in the room and if there's a development we can hit on that we're excited about, we all kind of sit up. We like the world that we're building.

In the course of making the show, I've met fans individually and I think the overwhelming thing I've come away with is that when somebody tells you that they now have the language for themselves that they otherwise never would have had, it's such a great feeling. Or they say that they can watch the show with their parents and enjoy it. That's a credit to our non-binary writers and performers that are able to put that on camera in a way that made somebody feel safe. I almost don't know how to respond to it. I mean, the only response is, "Thank you." But there's no greater compliment than that.

[are-we-really-doing-this]

Draw & Face?

Draw (list of things you like about your fav)

Okay right now Samoa Joe’s the easiest because I can’t get enough of him right now and probably never will soooo in no particular order a few of my favorite things about him arrrre:

his feuds (Bryan, Lethal, Punk, collectively murdering the TNA X Division, Punk 2, now MJF just to name a few)

his chops like holy fuckin shit his chops and strikes and punches good lord

his submissions again holy god fuck

his finisher the musclebuster is probably my favorite wrestling move ever right up there with sliced bread and Bryan Danielson’s cattle mutilation

I could listen to him in promo all damn day the man is captivating and also terrifying

the chants the crowd throws at him are some of my favorites (jgky, just his name, ole ole ole??? come on that’s just awesome)

uuuhhm he sexy, I could elaborate but we’d be here all day

I really like reading his old LiveJournal, he just sounds like a super down to earth guy on there and the stories are fun

he’s fat, plain and simple, and I just think it’s super fucking cool when wrestlers are fat and just fucking amazing and so universally loved because whenever some asshole wants to talk shit about a wrestler’s weight or really any part of their body and say they’re no good because of it I can just laugh and think about Joe and how he’s just simply worlds better than most of the asshole’s twinky favs

Face (favorite/least favorite good guy)

*see John Cena pipeline post*

Nah I’m just playing, it’s MJF. For most and least favorite. Not for wrestler in general, just what he has going on right now. It has its moments.

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

AAH okay promo time 😭😭 I can do this xd

Out here wiping my eyes and stopping screaming to watch the promo (neither of those are true - the first ain't even literal lol)

AAAAHHHHHH CARLOS YOU ARE NOT LOOKING GOOD MY GUY

A A A H

I didnt even RECOGNIZE THAT as TK's VOICE for a second 😯😯😬😭😭😭😭

But y'all the ANGST <3333 ❤️❤️❤️❤️👀👀😍😍❤️

Anyway back to being DISTRAUGHT and IN FEAR

O P E

Oh my gosh

"No one's gonna find you though"yeah that's because you didn't FREAKING TELL ANYONE WHERE YOU WERE GOING!!!!

THE K I T?????

C o n C E R N . jpg ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

Oh no

"Looks like a pattern"?????

A SERIAL KILLER????!!?!?!!!?? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😳😳😳

AAAAHHHHH WHAT THE HECK

AAAAHHHHHH AWW CARLOS 😭😭😭

BRO LOOKS LIKE HE IS GOING T H R O U G H IT

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH "We're not gonna find him alive, are we?" SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP S T O P P P P P EVERYBODY SHUT UP YES WE ARRRRE TK 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I am actually losing my mind

Y'all I just. I swear

Okay, that's the last of my last thoughts. Now it's time for the. . .

REVIEW

*Ahem* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

If you'll begrudge me a very long scream again 😌.

ANYWAY!

I absolutely LOVED this episode!! I thought it was amazing :DD. It had so much DRAMA an ANGST and it was also HILARIOUS at parts xD. I promise that's just emphasis not me highlighting the words lol. Anyway, I loved Owen's storyline, even I'm frustrated over it xD, and I LOVED Iris's :D. Plus the call was amazing xD. The one with he cliff lol. Anyway, I loved it all 🥰🥰. Now, I'm gonna try to keep this short, but we'll see what happens lol - time for the individual parts xD.

First of all - Judd, Mateo, Marjan, Paul, and Nancy. My 126 lovelies 🥰🥰🥰. I was about to just do them four but then I was like nah Nancy gotta join them. I decided to leave Tommy on her own though lol. Anyway!!! As always I loved them :DDD. I missed seeing them much he episode but it makes sense with everything else going on :/ :). Still, the all was great XD (the all did great jobs of course), and the scene at the endddd 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔. Oh my gosh I'm still not over that - I know it's only been like an hour and 20 minutes but still xD. I don't think I'll ever get over it lol. Also, for a second I nearly said just 20 minutes and then I remembered: oh yeah, it's 9:08 (big emphasis on the 9 but I can't capitalize a 9 unless I spell it out lol). Anyway! Gotta shout-out Nancy's acting on the cliff call XDD wonderful lol. "Live!! Live!!!!" XDDD Iconic lol. Also Judd calling Owen out was *chefs kiss* as always. Plus, he's definitely sus, so if we need anyone for anything involving that, Judd's our guy. Kind of like TELLING SOMEONE WHERE YOU'RE GOING- sorry XD. Anyway, I loved them all <33 hope to see them more soon :))). ❤️❤️❤️.

Tommy! I really liked her scene with TK :DD. It was amazing <333. Her being there for him, comforting him :')). Work mom for real <333. And we love her for it (and many other things lol) 🥰🥰. Also, she did amazing with her job as well :DD 🥰🥰. And I just have to mention her acting in the first call XD. Not that she even did much, more just what she was actually doing lol. Girl was just sitting there XD. Like barely blanker than 😌 XDDDD. Icon, lol, amazing xDD. I love her ❤️❤️❤️🥰.

Grace time :). We LOVE OUR GIRL GRACE for being so amazing working out the call :DD. And also she was just so good in that scene in general 😭 - the shock on her face, the near desperation in how fast she was talking to Carlos- MMH, wonderful <33. Anyway, she was an icon all around this episode :DDD, and of course did her job wonderfully <33 ❤️❤️❤️🥰. Amazing, love her so much :'D.

Owennnn! My man. He was wild this episode XD. Like. SIR. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?? XDD. I mean, hey, I wasn't really, genuinely suspicious of O'Brien either - as an overall, at any time in the process sort of thing, Owen was more suspicious of him than I was XD. That was at the beginning lol. But like. STILL. SIR. You can't just go around telling FBI business XD. I just KNOW this I gonna have consequences (obviously), and bad ones xd. Not just in the case but for us, our family/characters. It's gonna be rough lol. You gotta admit though, Owen, and a lot of his scenes, were hilarious this episode XDD. It was a nice contrast to the other plot, the Iris plot, just like last week. Which is wild considering it's a nazi domestic terrorism plot xDD. Anyway lol, I'm excited to see where it's going 🥰. If more stressed, now, lol. Also despite all this I'm wondering, who did he get to play his niece in law XDD. O'Brien, lol - not that that description fits anyone else xd. But like, seriously, who? Is it just another one of the honor dogs' wife or something? Or his (O'Brien's) daughter? Or maybe he's even lying to her, and she really does think he's in there to try to get her husband/boyfriend back. Ah, idk though! Wild lol. Anyway, loved the plot, and yeah, sure, loved Owen lol. Still frustrated with him though xdd.

Now

The moment we've all been waiting for XD

TK and Carlos <3! An also Iris :). So! First let's kinda go over individual stuff. TK first!

My poor booyyyyyy 😭😭. He clearly felt so guilty for like, 80% of the episode xd. All except the call where they found Iris, pretty much, since that was the only time he was under the impression she was kidnapped (which she was but, yk xD). Just- agh 😭😭 xdd. Quick lighter note, amazing acting from TK on the cliff call XDD. Wonderful just as the other two lol, an icon <333. Anyway XDD (gosh that scene was so hilarious lol), TK having to confess going to see Iris in that first scene :((. I wish he got a chance to explain, but he and Carlos were both thinking that could've been the cause, so I don't even think he would've in that short a time. I mean, he just apologized instead of trying :'((. But also, I don't think Carlos would have cared. I don't blame him, but he was emotional and it was something they'd planned not to do, and could've caused Iris's disappearance. It sucks but it makes sense :'(. Also when TK said he wasn't hungry in he last scene I literally wasn't either 😭 xD. I was eating dinner throughout the episode and I'd just finished a bit when I set my food down to watch more intently lol. But I also felt literally a bit nauseous XDD I don't think I was full, I think it was just the drama lol - and THAT is impressive. Especially considering this has to work out lol. Anyway, TK in the last scene was absolutely heartbreaking 😭😭❤️. I really hope he didn't think Carlos's main reason for not coming home was him still being upset :'(((. But I think he probably did <33 💔. Anyway, I love him, he was great this episode xd <3333.

Now, a bit on Iris :D. AAAHHHHHHH I'm so glad she's okay :'DDD. I thought it would take a lot longer to rescue her, but this does make the most sense lol :'). Or t least, a lot of it. In hindsight, I see it XD. Anyway, it makes sense, and I didn't think she'd die or anything, but I'm so glad she's okay :'DD. But my poor girl :((((. Also, the thing about mental health is so sad 😭😭😭. Because yeah, seriously, just as I figured (I assume most of us did), they were discrediting things because of her illness. And it was making her doubt everything :'(((. She didn't deserve that 💔💔💔💔. Doesn't, is probably better <33. And I mean, given that there was no one seen coming out of that house, I cnt really blame the detective, but still :/. I mean, I can partially blame her because of the whole in the trunk, and also head injury hing, but still XD. Most people don't automatically jump to secret passages (like me - or, unlike me I suppose) lol. Anyway, I'm glad Iris is alive and physically (mentally too besides the doubting herself and no doubt the trauma from this :'((( ) okay :'DD. Besides that concussion lol. Carlos still needs that annoying little sister :'). That is not the only reason I'm glad she's alive btw XD, I'm just kinda joking. And annoying bc she teases him lol. Anyway <333. I love her :)) ❤️🥰🥰.

Now, Carlos. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! XDD now, anyway lol. Honestly I'm more distraught than shocked xD. We all knew this was coming lol. And I know, I KNOW, that Carlos is gonna be okay (and I also know it just sounds like I'm trying to convince myself of that but like. we literally know lol xD), but it's still scary 😭😭😭. I'm still nervous as heck lol xDD. Just for how everything's gonna work out! Anyways, more organized stuff time XD. More organized as in more than just now. Anyway, poor Carlos 😭😭😭. His heartbreak in that first scene, and then like almost betrayal when TK revealed that he visited Iris - MMH, AAH 😭😭 xd. I was really hoping tarlos would actually make up, especially quickly, but no such luck 😭. I mean, they're no totally arguing, not yk xD. And there's gonna be so much going on (and much more important stuff at that) when we get Carlos back that I doubt we're gonna talk about it then either. Pro tip: get kidnapped to avoid talking to your fiance. XDD Sorry, I know, I'm evil. But it's not thaaat bad lol. I was just thinking about what I was just talking about earlier while I was a few minutes behind/late catching up on the last of the liveblogging lol, and that thought entered my head XD. Anyway lol. Side now, pretty sure this is about as long as Iris's now and I've barely gotten into the plot xD. Anyway! Let's actually talk about this episode, not the next one lol xD.

I loved seeing protective Carlos, and slightly detective Carlos (lol rhymes) this episode. Him going into shift early - we know it wasn't just anger -, going to the cliff, immediately joining Iris's rescue, carrying her out, holding her hand, standing up for her to the detective, hugging her and kissing her head when she talked about how awful it was and the mental illness side of things. Amazing <33. And then he went and did a dumb thing xdd. Whyyyy would he do that without backup 😭😭. I do remember thinking for a split second "he doesn't want the trail to go any colder" and then passing that as good and forgetting about it in the moment, but I think it was mostly just emotions, even if he did try to justify it lol xD. Also, I'm frustrated but not too mad at him for being mad at TK - he was emotional, it was gonna happen. And UGH I'm rushing this bc I worked on half of this and the end of this post for like 20 minutes and I was gonna be able to do it before midnight and then it didn't save even though my wifi was fine when I clicked save to go post it :'(((. And I am really upset about that bc I had to start from halfway through Carlos's section and I tried but I had three minutes and now it's past midnight xd. So I'mma try to get past how upset I am bc it's arbitrary, and just hurry this up. Besides I don't wanna retype all that anyway xd. This is most of it, I can't remember all of it >://. Ugh I'm really upset xd. Whatever. I'mma just pretend it doesn't bother me. OH MY FREAKING GOSH IT DID IT AGAIN. ALL OF THAT. FREAKING AGAIN. I WANT TO SCREAM TUMBLR COULD YOU PLEASE JUST W O R K!!!! U G H H H H H H H H. I want to SLEEP this has taken me an extra 40 minutes and is making me literally cry just WHY. WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME TUMBLR??? I'm literally gonna be saving every two seconds this time and then I'm going to resist chucking my phone across the room. I am going to try and act enthusiastic about this since the entire point of this is so I know what I was feeling instead of just my current rage. This is so stupid I know but whatever.

Anyway, I am so scared for the next episode 😭😭😭. Like VOEUNZUGAKSPB. I don't deserve this :'(((. But like I am so ready XDD. And also not at all lol xdd. It's gonna hurt but I will be LOVING the angst. And dying XD. I don't know how I'm gonna make it through it lol. Because it is going to be ROUGH, Carlos is gonna be going through it xdd. Also, at least they both said I love you at the end <333. That'll make it a tiny bit easier xddd. I will however still be screaming the entire time XDD. Anyway, I am SO EXCITED :DDD. And very scared XDD. Like, I know Carlos will be fine. I'm SURE (literally xD), unless the wedding promo bits (the planning) are with a ghost xD. But I can still be nervous lol. Oh, also! If I don't get to see TK hearing the news, or at LEAST TK telling the others, it is a crime <3. And homophobic <3. Jsyk <3. XDDD But honestly I need it. Anyway, back to Carlos lol! I loved him this episode, he was amazing 🥰🥰🥰. And I am so scared for him next episode xdd. I love him <333.

Overall, I loved loved loved this episode. I am looking forward to regular calls again, though. I love the drama and everything right now and I know it doesn't always leave room for regular calls, but I hope we have them again soon. Though the calm today was great lol. The CPR on the sex doll whole thing was just- amazing XD. Top notch call lol, and amazing performances xDD. Anyway, I loved the storylines this episode! Obviously the whole Iris situation, but Owen's too! Even if I am frustrated with him xD. But, still, I think it's gonna be really interesting, and I wanna see where it goes from here! Also it's hilarious XD. Like it's weird that it has but it has some really funny scenes lol. They've gotta fit it in somewhere xD. I'm cool with it this way lol. And, of course, I loved the Iris storyline :). It was awesome, and I'm so excited to see more. Anyway, I'm terrified of next week, but I'm also so excited :DD. I'm not at all ready, and I am so ready xD. I'll probably just be screaming the entire time. Anyway, I love all of them 🥰🥰❤️ <33.

So yeah! I loved this episode. I really enjoyed the storylines! I'm nervous for the next one. This has been my review of. . .

9-1-1: Lone Star, Season 4, Episode 3: Cry Wolf

What a great episode! I am so excited and also so, so scared for the next one. I'll be back next week with my review of. . .

9-1-1: Lone Star, Season 4, Episode 4: Abandoned

See you next week!

[knowlessman]

bungo no hogs macedonia (jk it's FINALLY bnha bc I googled "when does sasuke show up again" and it turns out he kinda doesn't, it's kinda like if the soul eater anime actually tried to make you care about the 100 witch souls thing but also was eleventy billion hundred years long and every arc went out of its way to remind you about it without actually progressing it) ep1-4 -- (literally looking at a splash screen bc I haven't hit go yet) I'm sure we learn why this boy has grenades for hands at some point

how unamerican or something

oh yeah this is basically if saitama wasn't OP and was Rock Lee instead right

I love that one of the bystanders here either has a quirk or just wandered in from Jojo part 6

they changed the rules so you could get into Sky High without powers? so the Cyclist from One-Punch could get in. (…googles character, skims wiki page …Mumen Rider is good character it turns out. Wish Netflix had more of - …wait a minute… okay, ngl if this loses my attention at some point there is a nonzero chance I drift over to one-punch man)

huh. didn't think we'd know that about All Might so early

…jeezus.

weirdest damn santa clause I ever seen. he doesn't even have a beard

…the fuck is any of this

"walk home, deku. I work alone." okay I do actually wanna know what he says tho, goddammit

anime stop spoiling the next episode after the credits challenge 2023 goddammit I don't wanna know this shit yet have you never heard of a binge watch

anyway next one -- with the mha spoilers that I do know… this should be one helluva convo for all might

wait whaaat, I thought this only came out later in the show :O not sure why I thought that, but this being in, like, literally the second episode is a surprise

…I guess "invisibility cloak" is just a really weird translation for something that should probably be "host" or "disguise," then?

'XD that half-assed analogy. "guys at the pool" -- hm. okay well that's HALF the spoiler that I think I know from this show -- also, well, he did make an effort to let him down easy while being honest, and it technically wasn't a "no." (also obv don't tell him to be a cop, that's for antagonists not protagonists)

some "invisibility cloak"

deku you owe that asshole a punch in the face, not this -- what ARRRR ya doin, tho (sorry my brain auto-associated to Pirates… 3, I think?)

yup. "toughness" and a balsa-wood ego

'XDDD dude. literally anyone could have seen you, shouting at the top of your lungs in a sleepy-ass neighborhood. also are you really not able to turn that off at-will? you have to wait until your body remembers it has organ damage and turns it off for you? -- I think I love this design of all might tbh. he looks like a fucking bionicle. and the hair and the outfit, it's all just perfect. and it gives context to why his face always has shadows all over it, in some way I dunno how to explain

next, I guess, fuck it, it's only half past two in the morning -- …and that's the other half of the spoiler I knew (is dabi also a spoiler? idk, probably), in the third episode

(watching OP) huh. for some reason I thought hand-face-man was from tokyo ghoul

american… good name for it, maybe? bootstrap bullshit that can only fly in shonen

think you're a rooster? you're training to be all might, kid, not goku

I thought Napoleon was, like, a bad guy? googles briefly huh. lot of things, that guy.

buhhh. fourth then. fuck but this show is good at cliffhangers.

Best Jeanist 'XD tf does that even mean

aye, I think I can see the thread from here, the intent of this "obstacle"

…good shit. I was starting to worry she, y'know, wasn't gonna get to do shit.

I wanna like mr stereotypical glasses guy, the pedant. do I get to like him? is he okay?

and here come the ten billion points for griffinpuff, aye?

oh fuck my life I forgot this was about high school 'XD I'mma go to bed

[bluespiritpaintedlady]

Chapter 10 (excerpt)

Notes: Today, Anastasia meets the girls for the first time. She is hanging out with them and doing a “dry run”. Hakkai shows up. Posting this is a bit of a spoiler. But so was the Draken chapter. I want to post things here but you’re also seeing bits of the story that you probably shouldn’t be seeing yet. :) But oh well…I mean what’re ya gonna do, y’know? So, I hope if anyone reads this that they enjoy it. The year is 2011. Anastasia is 22, Mitsuya is 20, Hakkai is 19, Luna is 13 and Mana is 11. Long periods of italicized text represent character’s thoughts.

Excerpt From: Love Endures by: bluespiritpaintedlady on Ao3

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Taking his apron off, he hung it by the kitchen door on the hook and walked back out into the living room to see what the girls were up to. What the hell? Panic struck his heart. Cold black icy panic. They were gone. Where are they?!? “Lunaaaaa! Manaaaaaa!! Anastasiaaaa!” What’s going on here? Where are they? He rushes towards the door only to have it swung open, narrowly missing his face. “Oh shit! Sorry, Taka-chan!” He starts laughing.

“Hakkai?! What are you doing here?” He lowers his voice a tad. “I specifically told you not to come over today because I was going to be interviewing people for the Nanny job.”

Hakkai looks back over his shoulder to where Anastasia and the two girls are playing hopscotch on the sidewalk and points his thumb behind him. “Yeah… “interviewing” huh? Isn’t that the girl that broke yer heart at the fashion show? What’s she doing here?”

He said it a bit gruffly. Mitsuya had to smile. Hakkai gets more upset for me than even I get upset, he thinks to himself and rolls his eyes. “Hakkaiiiiii, you gotta let the things that happen in my life go. I’m a big boy, y’know? I can take care of myself, ok?” “Yeah, well, that’s all fine and good”, he mumbles, “but anyone ever hurts you, I’ll kill ‘em”.

Mitsuya could only make out the words ‘hurt’, ‘you’ and ‘kill’ but the meaning of his words were very clear. “Violence is not the answerrrr, Hakkai. You know that.” “Jussayin is all. Somebody’s gotta watch yer back…especially now that yer basically out of Toman”. Some hurt comes to his face.

“Hey, Hakk, buddy, look…we talked about this, remember? I need to do this. For the girls, for Draken, for me. It doesn’t mean I love any of you guys any less, I just needed to break away for my family’s sake.”

“Yeah, but you have to leave your other family in order to do it”. “Hakkai, I didn’t LEAVE you guys. I mean not really. I’m right here! And I’m not going anywhere, ok?”

He puts his arm around Hakkai’s back, hanging his hand on his shoulder (Hakkai is way too tall for Mitsuya to do anything else) and walks out towards the girls. “Hey, there you guys are! I didn’t know where you went. Heh heh…” He shoots a little look over at Anastasia. She mouths the word ‘sorry’ and shrugs.

“Kashi, stop worrying all the time, we’re fine. Anastasia’s here with us. You don’t have to be so stressed about us all the time. I’m thirteeennn!” “Ok, I know that. But you also know our rules, right? And they arrrre…?” He crosses his arms and waits for them to repeat the directive… “Don’t go anywhere unless we ask or tell you first.” Luna repeats the rule with exaggerated eyerolls. “I know, but…”

“I can’t really be mad at Anastasia because she didn’t know our rule, yet. But now she does so I’m sure it won’t happen again. “See? This is what I’m talkin about, Stasia.” Mitsuya turns wide-eyed. “This is what you’re talking about, huh? Come here you little urchin”, she screams and runs behind Hakkai. “Save me Hawky-san!” 

“Soooo, not only are you guys on a nickname basis with each other already, after just a coupla hours by the way, but now you’re sharin secrets?! Wow…well, ok. It looks like I’m no longer needed here. Come on Hakkai, let’s go grab a beer.” “Yosssh! I’m down”, he says and they start to walk away down the sidewalk.

“Noooo, Kashiii! I was just joking!” When he hears the little tremble at the end of the word, he turns around, his heart breaking. “Aww, come here my little kawaii on’nanoko”. “Oniichannnn!”, she yells and runs to him and buries her face in his chest.

“Hey, I was just messin with you. We would never leave you, right Hakkai?” Hakkai vigorously shakes his head. “You know you’re pretty lucky to have not just one amazing brother, but you have Hakkai, too”. “Hey!”, he shouts and punches Mitsuya in the arm. “Ow! Fucker!” He punches him back.

Mana, who is watching the whole thing with a goofy grin on her face starts repeating very loudly, “Fucker! Fucker! Fuuuucckerrr!” “Shit! Sorry, Mana. Taka shouldn’t have said that.” He shoots a death stare at Hakkai. “Shit! Shit! Shit!” Now she’s laughing. “Ugh, I can’t win with these guys”, he facepalms and looks to Anastasia for help again.

She crinkles up her nose in thought and when the idea comes she holds up her finger, as if to say, ‘Aha!’ “Oh Mana! I forgot I had a surprise for you inside. Let’s go see it, ok?” “Ooooh! Yay! I can’t wait.” And they run off inside together. The other three follow closely behind her.

Suddenly, Mitsuya stops, he puts an arm out in front of Hakkai to keep him from moving forward and lets Luna continue on in the house, running after Mana and Anastasia. He looks over at his friend.

“Soooo, I can’t help but notice you’re still here, Hakkai”. He gives him a look. “Ok, yeah, so I know you said not to come today but in my defense I didn’t know she’d still be here for dinner. I mean, what the fuck? Is she moving in or something?” A clear twinge of jealousy ripples across his surface.

“Stop, Hakkai, she’s not moving in and she’s not taking me away from you”. He rolls his eyes. “Things have just been going really…well and so I just let things progress to see how they turned out. This is all a dry-run for her. A test…” “Well, did she pass?”

“Oh, yeah. I can’t imagine anyone more perfect, um, for this position.” He can’t deny the slight blush on his cheeks and Hakkai definitely notices it. “Well, what about me?? I’m perfect too, right, Taka-chan?”

He gives Mitsuya his best puppy dog eyes, trying to cover up his hurt. Mitsuya praises him, and tells him that, yes, he is perfect and it’s as if all the lights in the city had been turned on at once right beneath his surface. He's just like Luna in that way, he thought to himself. “We REALLY need to find you a girlfriend tho, my friend. You’re too beautiful to be single.”

“Well, I agree but…”, he can’t say it out loud. “I’m sorry if I’m being annoying or clingy, Taka-chan.” He hung his head in shame and hurt. “Hakkaaaaiiiii…”

He looked up and Mitsuya was right there. He blushed slightly as much as he tried to keep it from happening and Mitsuya embraced him. “You’re my brother... Will I ever leave those two girls?” “No.” “Then, will I ever leave you?” “No, I guess not.” “And beyond that, you’re also my best friend. That’s for life. I’m just saying that you need someone else in your life that loves you as much as I do. More, actually.” “Ok…”, he says and a smile slowly creeps back onto his face.

And then boom, just like that he picks back up with his typical manic self. “I basically just want to find a girl version of you tho, Mitsuya.” “Hakkaaaiii….”, he corrects mildly and shakes his head. “She’d be pretty ugly, don’t ya think?” “Taka-CHAN! You shouldn’t say such things about yourself. You’re the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen! Women would love to look as beautiful as you…” “Oh yeah? Well, what about you, Mr. Model?” He blushes again.

“Yeah, well, obviously I’m not pretty enough or I’d be winning hearts left and right. “Noooo, we’ve been over this a thousand times, Hakkai. You’ll never find someone if you spend all your time here with us. You gotta get out there and meet people, talk to them, engage in conversations…” “You know I can’t talk to girls tho, Taka-chan. I freeze up, man. I don’t know what it is…” “Ok…”

He knows he has to tread lightly here. “Well, what about boys, then?” An offended gasp is heard. “Nooo, I don’t like boys. Well, except maybe one…” He turns scarlet.

“Ok…” Mitsuya knows who they are talking about now. “And does that boy feel the same about you?” “I…I…I don’t think so. But I keep hoping he will”. “Well… Maybe, you’re barking up the wrong tree with that one?” “Maybe… but I love him so much.” He’s back to scarlet.

“I know you do, I know…” He puts his hand on Hakkai’s shoulder. “…and he’d be lucky to have you. You are amazing, Hakkai. You just need to find someone who sees you the way you see m-uh-him. Right?” “Ok, but again, I can’t talk to girls and there isn’t anyone out there who sees me like that. No one ever could.”

“But, you don’t know that, Hakkai!”, he said with a bit more frustration than he should’ve had. “Because you’ve never really tried to find them. Plus, you were talkin just fine to Anastasia…” “That’s different.” “Why is it different? She’s a girl…” “I dunno, Taka… Maybe because she’s yours and cuz you expect me too.” “Hey, she’s not mine or anything, Hakk”. A flutter flies through his body at the thought, though.

“Well, whatever. She might as well be. I already know she will be.” “How could you possibly know that, Hakkai? We might as well have just met…” “I can just tell, Takaaa. Plus, I know because it’s YOU. You’re amazing and charming and reeeally good-looking and smart, I mean, come onnn, do I have to keep going here? No one can resist you, man.” “Uhhhh, I beg to differ… seeing as I’ve only been in one serious relationship and it didn’t even last 6 months. Nothin to write home about, in the end… Unless it was about how awful it was. Ugh….”

“Yeah, but that’s just more of why you’re so amazing. You put everybody else’s desires and needs ahead of your own. You sacrificed what youneeded in life to take care of everyone else… Luna, Mana, Me… And so you never even gave yourself the time or opportunity to get close to anyone.” “Well, ok…yeah, but…” “But, nothing. You are amazing! And you don’t see it for some strange reason.”

“Hey, wait a minute! How did this turn into something about me? We’re talking about YOU and how you need to meet a girl.” Hakkai rolls his eyes and sighs loudly. “Come on. You need to at least try, Hakkai. Try and talk to someone, anyone.” “Why? People are stupid. None of them hold a candle to you”. “Hakkaiiiii! Oh my God, I’m going to smack you!”, he says and shakes his head.

Oh boy… I’ve really let this go on for far too long, haven’t I?, he thinks to himself. I’m gonna end up having to really hurt his heart in order to get him to move on with his life and I REALLY don’t want to do that. Especially after all the progress he’s made…all the work I put into helping him grow. This is going to be brutal. He tries to push it aside and turns to Hakkai again.

“Ok, look you can join us for dinner but then you have to go home, ok?” “Fine! You don’t have to be so mean, Taka-chan!” Mitsuya chuckles. “I’m establishing boundaries, Hakkai. I’m not being mean…” Yet, he thinks and drops his head. They walk into the house.

[renee-writer]

Chasing Waves Chapter 75

AO3

She sits up with a gasp. A pain, unlike any she has experienced, runs from her back, tighten her uterus so it raises up. Oh! Is this a first contraction? She places her hand over the tightness. Is it like her nose or chin? That is how the midwife had told her to judge it. If it felt like the tip of her nose, it is just Braxton Hicks. Her chin is the real thing. Oh, it is as hard as her chin.

When it eases, she wakes her husband. “Jamie?” He sits up, eyes wide.

“Is it time?”

“I just had my first contraction.” She calmly says. He isn’t calm.

“Okay! Hospital bag, it is by the door right? Right! I will get my shoes and, wait, should we be dressed? I should, right?” He starts to stumble to get his clothes and she stops him.

“First Jamie, remember. They need to ask an hour and be five minutes apart. We have a bit. You time them and I will, rest. That seems the best option.”

“Right, rest baby. I will open the app,” He reaches for his phone and does. The app times the contractions by how far apart they are and how long they last. It can’t tell the intensity. Jamie judges that by the look on her face and the way she squeezes his hand as the pain runs through her. She quickly finds resting is near impossible.

They are sporadic at first. Six minutes, five, then seven, six again. She tries laying down and closing her eyes between them. But laying becomes undeniable. She must be on her feet and she must walk. She rests between, laying her body against Jamie. “Oh God! Oh hell! This huuurts!” A moan as it raises, pulling her uterus as tight as a drum.

“Breath, my love. Pull in” She takes in a shuddering breath. “Good, now out. Again.” They get through that one.

“Five minutes apart for an hour now. Come baby, let me get you dressed and to the hospital.”

But she is suddenly stubborn. “Now, I don’t want to. Not yet. I want to be here and walk on the beach. Can we walk on the beach first? Please.”

For his woman, he would do anything. Seeing the pain she is in, he would try to stop the tide, if that’s what she asked for. “Okay baby.” He helps her to the shore line, stopping twice as the pain immobilizes her. It is early dawn and beautiful. They walk, moving with the rhythm of her body and the tide. When the app announces they are steadily four minutes apart, he starts her back towards the car, where he has already placed the hospital bag.

“Are you sure you don’t want me to ring Geillis or my sister?” At a steady, four minutes apart for five hours, the contractions are wearing on them both.

“No, we, arrrr, can do this. We started him and, holy hell! We can finish what we started!” He presses on her back, applying counter pressure that seems to help some. His mind is full of prayers for her and Asher. Even after being in the room when Jenny gave birth, he isn’t prepared to see his wife in such pain. It tears his guys out.

Pace, press, pant, pray. They move through the room, the soothing sounds of the ocean around them from the music app. The room is calmed by the scent of lavender and vanilla from the infuser. The lights are down as low as they can be and the nurses still do their job. This helps for awhile. Between her husband’s strong arms, the atmosphere and the breathing she learned, she made it through the first seven hours with just a few screams. She mostly moaned and swayed, working with the rhythm of her body.

“That’s it, my love, very good.” He sooths his hands down her raising uterus. “A bit more. That’s it. It is going down now.”

Her eyes are tightly closed. She is the ocean, the waves, the moon that controls them. She will raise above this pain for her child is at the end of it. Sway, breath, breath, sway.

Her eyes suddenly pops open and a wail starts and raises with the death grip her uterus has on her body. “Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ!” She screams out. Pulling away from her husband’s grip, she grabs the edge of the bed and holds tight, an anchor against the agony, though a thin one.

“Claire, baby, you must…”

“You must shut up! You did this.” He reaches for her and she jerks. “Don’t touch me!” A growl then a scream as the pain reaches its peak. The midwife comes in just then and Jamie stops her.

“Something is wrong.” A whisper, “ I think.. I think she is dying!”

“Mr. Fraser, no one making that much noise is dying. Your wife is just entering the last stages of labor.” She walks in and stands by Claire. “Claire darling, I need to check you.”

“Yes, yes, get him out please.”

“It will be soon.” She sooths. She is right. Claire is at seven, almost eight. “A bit more.”

It raises again, the beast that is called transition. She screams, she curses, she won’t let anyone touch her. Jamie is freaked and keeps looking to the midwife for reassure. She reassures them both. It seems to last forever but, in reality, it is the shortest part of labor. Ranging between five to seven contractions.

“Oh I need to push!” She groans out. A quick check and she is given permission. “Help me Jamie.” He is smart enough not to say anything smart but just to position himself behind her as she pants and strains.

“Good, now push as your body tells you to.” She does, pressing down through one of the strongest forces on earth, a contracting uterus. Jamie holds her, whispering encouragement.

“You are so strong, so brave. I couldn’t do what you are doing. I love you so much.”

“Oh God!” A scream as the baby’s head reaches her opening. “Burns!”

“Yes, I know. Push through it. It will be numb in a moment.” The lights are still down, the music still playing and, the room still smelling wonderful. They wanted a calm birth, for their son to entering the world in peace. The midwife sooths oil over the emerging head, helping the head to open up the cervix without tearing. A few more pushes and the head and face is out. Claire is instructed to pant as his head and nose is cleaned out. “A few more pushes. That’s it.” She closes her eyes and bears down as hard as she can. A giving way as he slips out the way he was started. She feels a emptying as his shoulders are delivered and he slips out. A second of silence and then…

“Wah! Wah! Wah!” as Asher Beach Fraser takes his first breathes.

“Oh my God!” Claire whispers as she holds her son tight. He is still covered with the bloody remains of his journey out. “My son. Oh my baby!” Jamie holds them both and cries.

[theroundbartable]

i'd love a time travel au, where Merlin returns to Camelot after moving on from his legacy (like.. really moving on. After Camelot disappeared he knew the Dragon was a bullshit liar)

Like, he comes back from the 21th century with a recyclable paper cup full of vegan bubble tea from the next local store, an iphone with a chibi figurine hanging from it in hand to contradict his lifestyle.

Dressed in joggers and a Game of Thrones merch T-shirt with perfectly white sneakers( actually scratch that Joseph Merlin was the inventor of the roller blades. Give him roller blades), because he was ACTUALLY on his way to university to roast history teachers about their incompetence. He's also wearing sun glasses, when out of nowhere he's popped back into the mideval times. Right in front of Uther Pendragon, who was just about to pass a sentence on the latest sorcerer.

Gaius is standing there, almost fuming.

King Uther is rendered speechless. The knights ™ are staring.

Arthur is gaping at him.

the sorcerer is confused as fuck.

Merlin reaches up and lifts the sunglasses because it's suddenly so much darker then it was seconds ago.

"Oh sorry. Didn't see u there.", takes a sip from his bubble tea. Because u know. it's one of those days, so it might as well happen.

"Merlin!", Gaius fumes, and u can tell that he's too shocked to understand what's going on.

But Merlin looks at Arthur, smiles and says: "There u are u fucking bastard. Haven't seen your toady face in over a millenia. U know what, Arthur? Never believe anything druids tell you. Legend or no legend, even a prat like u can't rise from the dead apparently."

"What is this sorcery!?!?!", Uther rages.

Merlin takes a step and skates towards the king, ignoring the guards. "My dude, all this hatred isn't good for your blood pressure. Want a mint?', hold out a pack of mint bonbons to Uther.

"Seize him!"

Merlin waves at the knights. They stop in their tracks and through the sunglasses they can't see his eyes, so they're not sure it was magic or his voice that made them stop.

"I don't think that's necessary. I honestly don't want to be here? I might have to look at one of your hidden magic books, because i have no interest in staying, i have no idea how i got here or how to leave. kay? I'm not going to clean another chamber pot in my life. i swore that when the toilet was invented and i am not intending to break a promise made to the porcelain goddess.

If everything works out, i'll be gone by tomorrow. Sounds like a deal? Neat."

*Skates towards the door*

"Merlin, wait!", Arthur yells, absolutely torn. "Father, he's clearly dilirious! he doesn't know what he's saying!"

"Arthur, he popped out of nowhere looking like.... what the hell is he wearing?"

Merlin looks down on himself. "wow, that's rude"

"Father, it's MERlin!"

Merlin takes another sip, realizes it's the last. "you don't happen to have a recycling bin right?"

"what?"

"uff, nevermind. hey wait a second." merlin grins and pulls out his phone.

the camera flashes and he got a photo of the entire room.

"nice. always wanted one of u guys. After 1500 year... arrrr, you forget a face :3"

"And how do you explain THIS?!?!", Uther exclaims.

"Now now. That's a phone. It has nothing to do with magic. It's science. Okay fine. maybe i helped invent it. Believe it or not, your magic hunting set the world back centuries. I could have had a coffee maker two centuries ago, if it wasn't for this nonsense." Merlin flails his arms at the accused sorcerer.

Uther popped a vein.

"Merlin, stop. You're making it worse."

"oh, shut up Arthur. He can try to kill me for all I care. I survived worse than the pyre. U guys haven't even invented bombs yet. I'm not scared of a little hottness anymore. Also i technically have more money than all of you combined. U can't tell me what to do. Now get me my latté, chop chop. i have work to do."

and with that, he skates from the room and tosses his cup into the next knight's hands.

From the hallway u could hear him cackle.

"just invented the recycling bin. hehe"

[lightningclaw288]

Starry Night

Warning: Alcohol use, mentions of Alcohol, Characters are age up, mentions of cheating/assumption of cheating, Characters are aged up

Pairing: Akaashi x fem reader

Jealous reader, shy reader?,insecure reader? 

Meanings: (f/d) means favorite drink in this case your favorite type of beer, alcohol and that stuff. (f/n) means friend name.

Word count: 2,341

(y/n) Pov

I was nervous. “Hey, Keiji how do I look?” My boyfriend looked at me with a small smile. 

“Perfect. Now come down love. We're just going to meet my friends.” He replied softly.  

“But what if they don’t like me?” I mumbled softly. Akaashi chuckled. 

“(y/n) look at me. You’ve already met most of them.” He did have a point. 

“Alright. I’m ready, let's go.” I replied. We intertwined our hands as we walked out the door. The cool breeze rushed to great us. We walked quietly to the car.  

“Hey (y/n)?” I hummed. “In your dreams do you ever think of us like. You know.” A light blush forming on Keiji’s face. Cute I thought. 

“Think of us like what Keiji?” I asked. Now a full visible blush on his face. Can this man get any cuter than he already is? “Think of us getting married and having kids?” He mumbled. I looked at my boyfriend of 6 years. I blush now forming on my cheeks. How was I supposed to answer this question? I really wanted to scream YES. But If I said yes he could think I’m creepy. If I said no then he may think I don’t love him or I don’t want to settle down with him.  “Y-you don’t have to answer the question if you don’t want” He quickly added. “Yes.” My boyfriend looked at me confused. I continued. “ I do dream of us getting married and having kids” I mumbled.  He sighed softly and continued to drive. 

Time Skip

“Just relax babe and if you need something or want to go home come find me.” I chuckled softly.  “Keiji I’ll be fine. I’m a big girl. Now go have fun.” I chuckled.  Keiji chuckled as he intertwined his hand with mine as we walked into the club. 

When we walked into the club I immediately saw Yukie and Koari by a corner of the bar. There was a table for 3 in the corner.  ( do bars have tables? Idk never been to one. If there isn’t one then plz pretend)Keiji noticed them too and gave a soft nod. I walked up to them as Keiji walked up to his former teammates.  

“Yo (y/n), hhhow arrrre youuu?”. Yukie slurred.

“Hey Koari, I’m good. How many bottles have you had?” I asked, chuckling. 

“That’s her first,” Koari answered. 

“How have you two been?” I asked. 

“We’re doing pretty good.” 

“Have you done the “thing” yet?” I asked. Koari blushed. 

“I have no idea what you're talking about,” She replied.  (Also for this story the “thing” isn’t sex . I’m srry to disappoint you all but it’s not sex. And yes for this story Koari and Yukie are dating because why not. I don’t ship them but I thought it would fit the story).

“Whatsss the “thing”?” Yukie asked. 

“Something,” Koari answered. “Say (y/n)-san did Akaashi do the  “thing”to you?” I flushed. 

“N-no why? I m-mean it might happen-n soon. Idk” I replied.  As I started to nervously play with my hands/fingers. Koari laughed. At my response.

“Hmm I guess Akaashi would have  done it by now conjuring the fact you’ve been dating since college.  Anyway want a drink, I’m going to get one?”.  

“Sure, why not. Can you get (f/d)”/”No thanks, I don’t drink” I replied ( I wanted to add a different thing for people who don’t drink because not everyone does) 

Koari ordered and came back with two (f/d)s.  “ Thanks”. I said as I got my drink from her. I took a sip. “So-” 

“HEY HEY HEY LOOK WHO’S HERE”. A man-child yelled. He had black and white hair that was spikey( I have no idea how to explain  Bokuto’s hair help me and don’t hate me plz). I face palmed. I was going to continue my sentence when I heard a familiar chuckle. I looked to my left as I found to my shock the Akaashi Keiji chuckling in public. I smiled. Guess he was starting to show his emotion a little bit freely in public. I turned around to 

face Koari and Yukie. 

“Who’s that?” I asked. 

Koari answered “That’s Bokuto Koutarou.  He was the ace for our team in Akaashi’s second year.“

“Him and Akaashiiii were reallyy close too. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were dating back then” Yukie added on.  I just nodded. Something started to bother me. A tiny voice just a what if. What if they did date back then? What if Keiji still loves Bokuto-san. What if I’m not good enough for him?

“Hey (y/n), everything ok?” Koari asked worriedly. I nodded. 

“I’m fine.” I replied. I chugged down my drink. I wanted to have fun today and I told Keiji I didn’t need him to worry about me.  I decided to drink away my worries. ( I’m sorry if you don’t drink alcohol I’m going to keep this part. (f/d) normally means favorite drink. I have no idea what a bar sells other than they have alcohol so choose something else I guess).“Hey Yukie, want to see who can drink the most?”. There was no way I was going to win but it would be fine. 

“OI I’m not going to be the only one that isn’t sober and has to keep an eye on you guys.” Koari replied. 

“Then join us.” Yukie and I replied in sync. 

“But then who will keep an eye on the guys and you two?”. She replied. 

“The sky,” Yukie replied. Her lover face pamed.

“Soo are you going to join us or not? I mean we could only drink 3 cups and call it quits.” I said, smirking.  Yukie joined me “ Orr we could drink 3 bottles and call it quits.” Koari put her hands up. Surdering. 

“Fine. Just one cup tho.” She replied. We all laughed. 

“I’ll go get it (f/d).” Yukie called.  

Mini time skip

We all got a cup and poured a  (f/d) in it. 

“3”

“2”

“1”

“Go”

We all started chugging out drinks. Koari stopped after 8 cups. I went to 12 . Which means Yukie won. We ended up finishing the 3 bottles we got. I volunteered to go get some more. It was probably the most fun I’ve had since  my last date with Keiji. 

He had been busy for the past two to three months.  He come home late and went to work early. He’s been acting strangely too. It wasn’t anything big but it did worry me at times. I shook my head. Think positive. 

I was walking through the crowd when I saw Keiji with ex-teammates talking and having fun. Something that stuck out to me was Bokuto had his hands on his thighs. It’s fine. Keiji said Bokuto could be really touchy and doesn't have the concept of person space. I  continued on my way to the bar.  I bumped into someone. I fell to the ground. Baka watch where you're going. I got up and brushed my dress. I got and bowed. “Gomen (sorry).” I replied.  The guy who bumped into was a good looking man around 2 years older than me. Keiji was definitely better. I must have won the boyfriend lottery. So I thought. 

”tch watch where you're going.” He replied. He looked me up and down. I rubbed my arm nervously. “Say how about we get a drink you and me? I mean you did bump into me.” 

“No thanks I have somewhere to go.” I replied briskly and walked away. He grabbed my arm. “I don’t take a no for an answer.” He replied. I tugged my hand out of his grasp. “Leave me alone.” I replied. I was a bit surprised that he let me go easily. Then I saw him talk to someone familiar. Then the guy walked up to me. I quickly recognized him. 

“(f/n)?” I asked. 

“Yo, (y/n). What are you doing here?” he asked. 

“I’m here with my boyfriend and his friends.” I replied “What about you?”   I asked.

“Me and my friends come here often. Also sorry about my friend he’s um a little I guess edgy might be the word.” We laughed. My phone lit up. There was a text from Yukie.

Where are you??

I sighted. “Hey (f/n) I gtg I told my friends I’d grab drinks and be back.” He nodded. I was about to walk away. 

“Hey (f/y) do you maybe want to meet up later? L-like a date or something?”. (f/n) was kind and sweet but he wasn’t Akaashi. And Akaashi is the only man I want to be with. “Sorry (f/n) I have a boyfriend, we could still meet up tho.”I offered. 

“Yeah that seems nice” He replied. “ You might also want to go get those drinks”.I nodded and  walked  to the bar. I felt bad for (f/n) but I didn’t love him. I ordered and paid for  3 more (f/d).  

 I was walking back when I saw something I didn’t want to see. After everything. There was my boyfriend of 6 years kissing his best friend and his ex-teammate Bokuto Koutarou. I dropped the drinks by accident. I just wanted to get out of there and drink more with Yukie and Koari. Talk to Keiji about it tomorrow. The drink hit the ground with a loud bang. 

The two broke the kiss. Akaashi eyes found mine. The first thing his  eyes were the first part of him so show any  emotion.  First fear then worry. He was about to call my name and reached for my hand.  I ran out of the club. I’ll come and clean the mess later. 

I ran. I didn’t know where I was going, I just let my feet carry me. When I  stopped running after some time. I took out my phone and messaged Yukie  an Kaori about what happened. Then I turned my phone off. I just wanted to be alone now. I knew the beach. It’s where Keiji and I went during the summer. I whipped my eyes. It didn’t help. The tears come on after another.

 I felt numb. Wasn’t I enough? Did he not love me? Did I do something wrong? Is it how I look? How I eat? The way I sleep? Do I take up to much of the blanket? What is it? What did I do wrong? I laid on the sand. The only I could hear was the waves and crickets.”It’s starry night isn’t it?Just look at the stars, they are always there at night if you look for them. No matter if anyone can see them or not there. And when you can see them there they are shiny , bright and beautiful.” That’s what my dad would have said. I just looked up at them. I’ll pack my stuff and stay with my parents tomorrow. Till I can get an apartment in Tokyo.

 I heard footsteps. I turned to see my boyfriend. Tears streaming down his pretty  face. He was breathing heavily. He must have chased after me when I ran out. “(y/n) I-” I cut him off. 

“Shouldn't you be at the party with him, with your friends?” I asked. He sat down and tried to hug me. I slapped his hand away. He looked like a kicked puppy. I hated it. I didn’t want to hurt him. Be strong. I told myself to be strong. 

“(y/n) please let me explain.” I looked at him, waiting. “It was an accident. This guy shoved me on to  him. I swear I didn’t mean to kiss him and you come right after. Y-you saw us kiss. I got scared. Please don’t leave-” I interrupted him. I felt like an idiot. I kissed him. It was a nice gentle kiss. It ended too soon for my liking. Why do we need air?

I looked him in the eye “I’m sorry  I shouldn’t have assumed you cheated. I love you” I whispered. He smiled and hugged me.” Come one let’s go back everyone going to be worried. Plus I need to clean up the mess and I need to apologize so Bokuto-san.” I chuckled. I allied on his chest. “5 minutes that’s it” I replied. He smirked. 

“sure.” 

“That can wait.” Keiji replied.We sat there in silence.After ten or more minutes. We heard more footsteps. I turned around to see the rest of keiji’s ex-teammates. “(Y/N)-SANNN DON’t BREAK UP WITH AGGKAAASHI HE LOVES YOU!” Bokuto-san screamed.I chuckled. 

“Don’t worry, Bokuto-san we’re not breaking up, Keiji explained everything. Also I’m sorry I shouldn’t have assumed you two were together.” I replied. 

“That’s ok (y/n)-san. Know can we get more drinks??” Bokuto-san asked. Everyone laughed. 

“You guys go ahead, we'll join you in a minute” Keiji called.

Mini time skip 

Keiji  got up. “Come (y/n) it’s been 20 minutes since we said we’d come.” He replied. I chuckled. He offered me his hand and I took it.  I brushed the sand of my dress. “One last thing before we go.” He got down on one knee and took out a box from his pocket. 

“(Y/n) we’ve been dating for 6 years. You mean everything to me. You’ve been through the ups and downs in my life. So will you be willing to spend the rest of your life with me? Will you marry me (y/f) (l/n)?” 

Extra:

“Keiji did the “thing” FINALLY.” Keep ur head down Koari we can’t see. 

“Did she say yes?”. “Yes Bokuto she said yes.” “Akaashi’s swinging her around. And know their kissing.” “move Kohna I want to see”. “Outch.” 

Author note:

Yo how is everyone? I know I haven’t been able to update a lot and I’m sorry about that. I normally don’t write stuff because the don’t normally do well. I had this idea and wanted to put it in paper. Anyway I hope you enjoyed it if you read this far 😂. I didn’t have a certain age I wanted the characters to be but they could be sometime time from second year of collage to young adult if anyone wanted to know. Anyway have a great day/night.

-Lightning

[beccarooni]

thoughts on potc :eyes:

gjdhdjd it would take a full PowerPoint slide to describe my complete thoughts on the franchise but for now I'll point out a few of my fave aspects

1. The soundtrack

holy hell the score to the first three movies is INSANE levels of good.

The opening scene of jack with the swell of a glorious orchestra and then a pan out to the little tiny dinghy? GOLD.

the sheer devstation portrayed by the crushing organs as the kraken destroys the navy ship? GOLD.

the orchestral version of hoist the colours playing as each pirate raises their own flag in the final battle at world's end? GOLD.

UP IS DOWN???? PARLAY?????? DAVY JONES'S THEME??? NEED I SAY MORE

2. Soundtrack (ii)

This is more of a personal like but the Angelica track in stranger tides absolutely slaps. it's a complete banger, and actually the whole Latin twist they put on stranger tides with the little guitar motifs here and there is just such a good touch

3. Barbossa

I've touched on this in a tag game but the fact that they let barbossa be this snarling ARRRR pirate is just beautiful.

I love jack and how he's cool and smooth and sexy, but I love barbossa even more because he's just such a pirate pirate, you know?

Also every line he has is like poetry, it's so intricate and each word is so good and just - yeah.

4. Will and Elizabeth

Listen. LISTEN. THEIR WEDDING SCENE IN WORLDS END. IS THE BEST WEDDING SCENE EVER. PERIOD.

also I just have a love for how their relationship changes as they each become more pirate like throughout the franchise. they become distrusting but they come together in the end and man it ends so tragically but so WELL

5. Background characters

POTC does background characters like nobodies business.

Each member of the crew has their own personality and vibe, and I just truly love to see it.

My faves are of course Pintel and ragetti, those two are amazing comic relief, but the example that springs to mind is that one guy in the navy who just is always so impressed by jack's shenanigans!

Also the entire cast of the Brethren Court - especially Teague. Outstanding.

Imma leave it here otherwise this would be a meter long but one day I'll make that PowerPoint haha. Tysm for asking!

[angelbain]

The Picnic

(aka a little fluff / crack before I dodge on angst again)

The “extra episode of where are they now” as I picture it. 

Oneshot. Small reference to my fic “O Brave New World” chapter 3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/24252301/chapters/58501732#workskin  in which Catra and Adora visit Entrapta who feeds them experimental cookies. 

A Picnic at the end of the universe

Perfuma’s kingdom, a clear patch in the forest. PERFUMA and a few Plumerians helps stretch a big table cloth over the grass. SCORPIA is standing by her, holding huge baskets full of fruits and vegetables.

PERFUMA: Look, Scorpia, some people are coming! Oooh, I am so happy we are all seeing each other today!

She jumps and bats hands with joy. Scorpia looks at her with a loving eye. SPINERELLA and NETOSSA arrive from the air thanks to the former being able to cast winds.

PERFUMA waves at them with a smile: Here! Here! Come around!

SPINERELLA: Hello!

NETOSSA: We brought some drinks! Is that okay?

PERFUMA: Great! Amazing! Put them here!

She shows a small table. The four of them chat joyfully until a sound of magic glitter interrupts them. Appears GLIMMER and BOW who carries a cake bigger than himself, covered with icing and decorations, multiple-stairs type.

GLIMMER (raising her arms in the sky) Ta-daaa! We’re here!

BOW moans, and almost let the cake fall. It is caught on time by all the characters present, and slowly put in the middle of the tablecloth.

PERFUMA (with an inquisitive tone): Glimmer, what’s this?

GLIMMER: It’s a cake! Bright Moon’s cooks spend the whole morning preparing it! The icing has three different flavours, and the decorative pearls are coated with real gold!

As she talks, the cake seems to shine behind her. PERFUMA gives a concerned look at SCORPIA, who answers with an awkward smile.

PERFUMA: Well, err, thank you Glimmer! I’m sure it will be perfect for a light pic-nic in the middle of nature… But where are Adora and Catra? Weren’t they supposed to come with you?

GLIMMER: Oh, they said they would come by their own means… They should be there soo…

She is interrupted by the loud noise of an engine roaring closer. To all the characters’ horrified sight, a huge motorbike comes at them at full speed. Both riders wear a helmet that makes them unrecognised. They brake at last minute in a loud hiss, and do a spin that throws earth at the face of the protagonists. The back rider get their helmet off: it is ADORA, with a brand-fresh undercut and the biggest beam.

ADORA: GUYS! You will never figure out what I gave Catra for her birthday!

GLIMMER: Let me guess, this motorbike?

ADORA;: Yeah! It is a-ma-zing, right? 

There is no answer. CATRA appears by her side, looking embarrassed, with a box that looks like it has been stepped on multiple times.

CATRA: So err Adora… About the pizza…

ADORA: What’s with the pizza?

CATRA: It has… err… suffered a little in the journey… It should taste fine but…

She opens the box to the saddest pizza ever seen.

GLIMMER: Wait! You disappeared all this morning to do ONE PIZZA? Arrrr!(She holds her head in her hands)

CATRA: No! I made cookies as well! Look!

She opens a box, and get a cookie out that has very vaguely the shape of a cat, that she holds proudly in front of an unconvinced GLIMMER.

PERFUMA (trying to stay calm and speaking as if to a very small child): That’s cool! Put it next to Glimmer’s cake and join us!

CATRA (asides, with her hand at the side of her mouth, pointing at the cake): Wait, did Sparkles do that?

ADORA: Apparently.

CATRA (same attitude): And we’re standing here with our stupid pizza…

ADORA (dry voice): It’s a great pizza. Now stop being competitive and enjoy the party.

They are interrupted (again) by the rush of the river close by which becomes a sudden torrent, to let stage for a wonderful boat… on fire. MERMISTA jumps from it and waves her arms to throw water at the arson, and floods PERFUMA who came closer to say hello.

MERMISTA: Sea-Hawk? SEA-HAWK? Come out now, and don’t forget the food!

SEA-HAWK (from inside the ship): I’m co-o-o-oming darling!

MERMISTA (with a bored voice): Oh, hi guys. Sorry for the inconvenience. He insisted for the fire.

PERFUMA (drying herself with a towel handed by SCORPIA, fake-smiling): It’s no worries! What did you bring?

MERMISTA (proud): We got the best fish and sea-food you guys have ever tried! Bring it on, Sea-Hawk!

SEA-HAWK gets out with a pile of wooden boxes. He opens one to shiny lines of fish. In the background, we have a quick glimpse at CATRA’s face, licking her lips with eager eyes. PERFUMA winces.

PERFUMA: Well… err… that’s great?

SCORPIA: Wait, what do you mean that’s great? Didn’t you say you were vegetarian? Do vegetarians eat fi…

As she speaks, SEA-HAWK and MERMISTA’s faces drops. PERFUMA puts a hand on SCORPIA’s mouth.

PERFUMA: No, no, it’s great! Put these around… (she hesitates and points at a random direction) around here! Great! Now who’s missing?

ADORA: Well, Frosta, and Entrapta, and I think that’s all…

CATRA: About Entrapta, do you guys think she will bring Hord…

She is interrupted by FROSTA, who just jumps from nowhere in her ice armor and punches her. After the first surprise, CATRA gets up, smiles competitively, and punches her back. They start a playful fight that pauses quickly. FROSTA salutes the others.

FROSTA (with her warrior voice): Hello, guys! I hope you waited for me to begin the party! Yea-hay!

PERFUMA: Well, we were just greeting everyone and…

FROSTA: Amazing! I brought ice-cream! Yay!

She draws a whole bunch of ice-cream flavours. GLIMMER yaps in the background and Bow’s eyes are huge from excitement.

GLIMMER: Frosta, you’re just the best! Now everyone’s here we’ll be able to start…

She tends to the buffet but is quickly caught back by BOW. Vexed, she pouts and sulks when the calm hum of an engine disturbs them. A sort of spaceship arrives from the sky, and parks between the boat and the motorbike, dumping the later down to the horrified sight of ADORA and CATRA who puts their hands on their mouth. Without a clue, a giddy ENTRAPTA comes out of the ship, followed by candid WRONG HORDAK.

ENTRAPTA: (talking to her log) Social experiment number #132, I am about to share a pic-nic with my friends. (to everyone) Now hi, everyone! I am very happy to see you all!

PERFUMA: We are happy to see you too, Entrapta, and whoever, I really say whoever you brought with you will be as welcomed as…

CATRA (with a concerned voice): Did you bring Hordak?

At this very moment, HORDAK gets out of the vehicule. He looks around. There is a collective moment of awkwardness where everybody looks around to avoid anyone’s gaze, to the exception of CATRA who jumps on their feet and points angrily at him.

CATRA: WHAT? YOU BROUGHT THIS…

ADORA (hands on CATRA’s shoulders): Calm down please…

GLIMMER (pushing them aside): HEY! What is he doing here?

MERMISTA: Yeah, like didn’t he try to destroy the planet or something? Just sayin’…

FROSTA: YEAH! BAD HORDAK!

HORDAK: I can see that I am not welcome here. (He looks at ENTRAPTA who is puzzled). Let’s leave.

Before they do, PERFUMA steps out and catch them by the arm.

PERFUMA (pulling her best smile and stepping before the others who still look pissed): Please, don’t leave! You are most welcome here, and surely the other guests will be able to (she looks at the pissed group with a side angry eye and especially at CATRA for she holds them responsible for the start of the mess) put aside your differences. So, err, did you bring anything?

ENTRAPTA (joyful): Yes, as it is a custom to bring food to a party like this, I tried to find the perfect flavour! I experimented lots of them – Catra and Adora even tried one – but I need more subjects to try it so I brought you a sample! Here it is!

WRONGIE opens a metallic box. It is full of small grey cubes.

CATRA (aside): My, not again…

ENTRAPTA ignores the remark and piles up the box over all the stuff that is already there: the sea food, the fruit baskets, the cake, the pizza, the drinks, the cookies, the ice cream totter dangerously and start to fall down. Every member of the group jumps to retrieve something, but it is not enough, and eventually the cake ends up falling over PERFUMA who jumped to catch it.

There is a small instant of silence, followed by a cry of rage from PERFUMA, who drops her arms on the floor and yells.

PERFUMA: Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh!

SCORPIA puts down whatever she caught and approaches carefully.

SCORPIA: Hey… erm… are you all right?

PERFUMA: No! My party is ruined! People are fighting, and Glimmer’s cake is wrecked! I’m such a bad host!

PERFUMA begins to cry. SCORPIA holds PERFUMA in her arms and glance at the rest of the group, clueless, when ADORA steps forward.

ADORA: We are sorry, Perfuma. It took you time and energy to prepare this, and we are ruining it by being bitter.

NETOSSA: Yeah, and it’s not like it took us a long time to bring the drinks.

MERMISTA: Nor the sea-food. FROSTA: The ice-cream took me one minute…

CATRA: The pizza took us much longer but I’m sure it’s no great loss. And… I’m sorry I started this.

There is another silence. CATRA nudges HORDAK, who looks terribly ill-at-ease.

HORDAK (after a terrible effort): I’ll do my best to prove the princesses I’m an honourable guest.

CATRA: Hmm, good enough.

PERFUMA looks up, eyes still tearful.

PERFUMA: So you still enjoy the party?

ADORA: What? Of course we do! (looks at GLIMMER)

GLIMMER: And I’m just we can still save pieces of the cake!

SEA-HAWK: And the sea-food! (looks at MERMISTA)

SPINERELLA: And I love mashed fruit! (looks at NETOSSA)

FROSTA: We can mix it with the ice cream!

MERMISTA: Add the cake in it, it would be so cool!

ENTRAPTA: What if we make it in tiny scoops? (looks at HORDAK)

SCORPIA: And a little cookie at the top of it? (looks at CATRA)

BOW: Yay, cookies!

He jumps and high-fives SCORPIA. Perfuma cracks a smile, and they all laugh.

Ellipse to the end of lunch. GLIMMER is asleep on Bow’s knees, a small chunk of cake still at the corner of her lips. Meanwhile, BOW is showing WRONGIE how to use a bow. PERFUMA is chatting happily with NETOSSA and SPINERELLA.

PERFUMA: … So I sent an invite to this Double Trouble person, they seem to be so interesting, but sadly they declined. They said they got a key role in a play and don’t want to drop that out… I wonder what that is. Something about crime and investigation… I think Mermista would know more about this sort of thing…  

Her words are lost in the general conversation. In another corner, CATRA is leaning on ADORA’s knees. The others are in the background. ADORA is handing one of ENTRAPTA’s cubes to CATRA.

ADORA: You should definitely try this.

CATRA: I’m not sure about it…

ADORA: Come on! It’s completely different than last time!

Switch for a second on Sea-Hawk, who tries to sing a shanty but is interrupted by a flow of water, a pile of flowers and some snow.

CATRA: All right, if it pleases our majesty…

CATRA eats the cube, chokes from it and reach for the closest drink.

CATRA (after drinking a whole bottle of fizz) You idiot! It’s even worse than last time!

ADORA laughs heartily when CATRA jumps on her. They fight like two kittens.

Zoom on the rest of the groom.

They are gathered at a board game that is probably of BOW’s design, because it featues small figurines. ENTRAPTA is examining them all at once, one in each lock of her hair. SCORPIA is trying to read the manual and scratches her head, but tries to explain the rules. FROSTA is sleeping on her shoulder. MERMISTA just looks bored. HORDAK looks miserable.

ENTRAPTA: Bow, did you made these? They’re amaziiiiinnng…

HORDAK: I must admit it is quite a good craft.

BOW blushes. An arrow brushes by his nose.

WRONGIE: Oops! BOW: Wow!

The arrow ends up in a tree very close to PERFUMA, who is pouring warm water in a tea-pot. She jumps, but the pot is caught by a net that allows it to land peacefully in her arms.

PERFUMA (smiles): thank you, Netossa. (turns to ADORA, who raises her head from the cuddle fight that led her and CATRA to be covered with grass). Adora, I wanted to ask, do you have any news from Swift Wind?

ADORA: Oh, haha, hem… He is on a quest to find other talking animals like him. He said he feels a little lonely in his… hem… condition.

CATRA: Yay, and so far he found a frog and they are the greatest complainer in history.

PERFUMA smiles. ADORA looks away, a little guilty. CATRA uses the moment to grasp a chunk of grass and punch it at her face. They resume the fighting. Zoom on BOW, who stands up, with at his feet a yawning GLIMMER.

BOW: Guys, please, can I have your attention for a minute!

MERMISTA: Eeeeerr, seriously, you’re going to make a speech? This is sooooo cheesy!

SCORPIA: Shhhh, he is going to make an announcement. We are all ears, Bow, go on…

FROSTA (who woke up): Are you and Glimmer getting married? (Glimmer blushes)

CATRA (with a smirk): You’ve got to get a proper shirt for that though.

BOW: Wait, we’re not…

SEA-HAWK: I could do the singing!

SCORPIA: Can I be your best man? Please! I’m never been anyone’s best man!

BOW: We’re not…

ADORA: Wait, who’s getting married?

ENTRAPTA: Bow and Glimmer, apparently. It will be a great social experiment, I’m waiting for it. By the way, aren’t you and Catra going to do it with them? (ADORA blushes violently.)

BOW: WE’RE NOT GETTING MARRIED!

A big silence follows. Everyone looks shocked, Scorpia is even almost tear-eyed.

SCORPIA: You’re breaking up? But you’re such a good couple! Please don’t break up! (She kneels down, grabs Bow’s trouser’s leg and begs) Please-please-please…

BOW (sighs): We’re not breaking up, we’re not getting married, and I just wanted to tell you guys that tea is ready and that I made each of you a personal cup to bring back home!

SCORPIA stops crying, and PERFUMA just laughs from the whole situation. SCORPIA looks at her and smiles from seeing her lover be happy. On the back, ENTRAPTA strokes HORDAK’s cheek with her hair, and he lifts his head to look at her. Behind them, WRONGIE looks at the scene with loving eyes.

BOW: So, here is yours, Adora – He gives her a cup full of tea. It is white, with a sword drawn on it.

ADORA: Nice!

BOW (continues the distribution of tea): Catra’s… - A red cup, with cat ears that poke at the edge, and a >.< cat face.

CATRA (doing exacly the same face): Why is mine making a face?

BOW: Glimmer’s… - A pink cup, with a complicated shape and small pearls that decorate it. She just smiles and grabs it – Perfuma’s… A round cup made of natural wood, with a small twig twisted around it.

PERFUMA: Thank you. (She closes her eyes and smells the tea with pleasure).

BOW: Scorpia’s…- It’s a deep red cup, huge, and with a special shape for her to hold: it is thinner in the middle and larger at the top and bottom, and without a handle.

SCORPIA (still tear-eyed): This is so nice from you Bow!

BOW: Frosta’s… - A light-blue cup, all transparent and with angular shape, like a diamond. It has a top cover to prevent spilling because she is impulsive.

FROSTA: Yay! (She jumps with the cup, but it just shakes the content and only spills a little bit out).

BOW: Mermista’s… - A blue-green cup with the handle in the shape of a fish, and a unicorn whale painted on it.

MERMISTA: Ok, it’s a little bit cool, I admit.

BOW: Sea-Hawk’s… - A dark-blue cup with a boat drawn on it – At least you won’t set this boat on fire!

SEA-HAWK: Oh, thank you!

BOW: Entrapta’s… - It’s a set of three black small cups. On each of them are stylised purple faces with hands: one with the hands on the ears, one on the eyes, and one on the mouth.

ENTRAPTA: Oh, it’s tiny! Amazing! (She gives mouth to WRONGIE, ears to HORDAK, and keep the eyes one. WRONGIE looks happy, but HORDAK looks puzzled). Thank you!

WRONGIE: Thank you! HORDAK: Yeah, hem… thank you. (He looks away)

BOW: and finally, Netossa’s and Spinerella! - He gives NETOSSA a cup all squared in black and white, and SPINERELLA a light purple cup with the handle in the shape of a wind spiral. They smile and cheer with the cups. - So, would you join me for a toast?

ADORA: Sure.

BOW (a little more solemn): So… To Etheria (he looks at ADORA and CATRA, who both blushes). To victory (he looks at SCORPIA, PERFUMA and FROSTA who all cheer). To love (he looks at NETOSSA and SPINERELLA who kisses, and then at GLIMMER who just smiles). To adventure (he looks at MERMISTA and SEA-HAWK who look fiercely ready for another). To forgiveness (he looks at ENTRAPTA, who smiles, WRONGIE, who blinks, and HORDAK, who simply nods.). But mostly to say: It’s the best thing so far to be friends with friends.

They all cheer and yay, and the last image is of a collection of cups all clasped together.

THE END.

[stargazer-writing]

Halloween Headcanons for Main 6

Hello all! I still can’t write for shit!

But with the Halloween charms coming out and spooky season almost over, I decided to do something so you don’t all unfollow me for lack of activity.

Asra

Decorates the shop as soon as the calendar reads October 1st

He probably does it to bring in a little more business and ramp up the witch/magician vibe

Faust’s cat ear costume was hand made by him too ^-^

Not so big on the trick-or-treating part, but he would probably host a little Halloween party for you and your friends at the shop

He’d probably likes to have a not-so-scary Halloween movie marathon, like Hocus Pocus, Nightmare Before Christmas, Ghostbusters, etc.

Likes to make Halloween a fun night to be with you and your friends

 Julian

Julian is a hardcore Halloween fan y’all

He always goes all out with costumes, decorations, candy, etc.

Every day is Halloween when you’re emo tho

He absolutely still goes trick-or-treating, and probably hits up a few parties along the way

Wants to do couples costumes with you

Uses pick-up lines associated with his costume no matter what it is 

“Arrrr you free tomorrow?”, lots of ones about ‘booty’, just really bad lines but somehow they’re effective coming from him

Always has candy on hand to give the neighborhood kids

Nadia

She has a more sophisticated taste when it comes to Halloweeen

Hosts big costume parties with Halloween themed food and games and decorations

Her costumes are the most elaborate and expensive

Also makes sure to have plenty of the best candy for kids too

We’re talking full size candy bars here

She would make sure you had the best costume too, and makes sure everyone at her party knows how wonderful you look 

Portia

She’s pretty serious about Halloween too, like Julian

Decorates the cottage as soon as possible, and always makes little costumes for Pepi

Would also be down to go trick-or-treating, and makes her own costumes too

Loves horror movies, has a marathon of classic monster movies with you on Halloween night 

If you’re easily frightened by horror movies, she uses it as an excuse to cuddle you but makes sure you don’t watch anything too scary

Has tons of candy, both for trick-or-treaters and for the both of you to eat 

Muriel

Muriel doesn’t really ‘get’ Halloween all that much

He’s a big guy that people find intimidating as is, so he wouldn’t understand the appeal of making himself even more frightening

You could probably convince him to go out with you, but you’d have to find him a costume cause his idea of one is a sign with the name of whatever he’s going as

Wouldn’t mind going to Asra’s for a small party, but anything more than that would be a little too much for him

He really just wants to stay at the home with you, maybe eat some Halloween candy and tell some ‘scary’ stories

Lucio

This man is the king of slutty Halloween costumes

Loves Halloween parties, especially ones he can get drunk and dance at

Would probably also do couple costumes with you if you wanted

He likes to throw really wild parties, but mostly just crashes other people’s

Lots of flirting throughout the night, has a lot of pick-up lines based on his costume like Julian does

To him Halloween is an excuse to dress hot and party basically, but secretly he wouldn’t mind staying home with you

[aeromuses]

   Ch. 1 Valentine Blues (A Hey Arnold Fan Fiction)

   Notice: This fic takes place sometime between the FTi incident and now. Information may be semi-AU or not fit completely, based on my preferences or an easier “go-with-the-flow” storyline. With that being said, I still always aim to make my stories as canon as possible, or the very least to my standards. Enjoy!

   “Now, now - CLASS...”

   As the school room filled with excitable chatter, Mr. Simmons tried to maintain his importance throughout it all - the large swarms of elementary school children leaning forward in their desks, as he discussed the upcoming Valentine’s Day dance meant to wrap up their very last year at P.S. 118, knowing they would be all too excited, battling the anxious, yet strangely prideful fluttering in his stomach upon the sentimental realization that this would be his very last year teaching everyone. 

   “Class, everyone! Now I know we’re very excited for tonight’s dance, but let’s not forget the importance of slowing down to smell the roses, or oh, say - the snowflakes, since it’s currently a little blustery outside,” There was a light chuckle, until... “OH, who am I kidding? Class is dismissed early, kids! Everyone have a wonderful evening, and don’t forget to pick up your valentine’s on the way out. Wouldn’t want to forget those...”

   “Yeah, yeah...ya-de-ya-de. Valentine’s...sure, right. Looking into MY box is like gazing into the bottom of an empty PRINGLES can.” There was nearly always an almost inaudible muttering at the end of each day, Arnold had noticed, that was Helga G. Pataki, as she marched to the doorway, her voice, however, loud enough to just barely make it to his ears, sure that he could have easily heard past it, if he weren’t the second to last one out the door, observing how it was almost like...almost like she were talking to herself, but hoping someone would acknowledge that she was in the room. Arnold, regrettably, had never even really noticed this, consciously, until the beginning of the year...shortly after-

“Move-IT-”

   With gritted teeth, mind bubble popping like a firm balloon, Helga Pataki was simply standing right behind Arnold Shortman, as if waiting in line, almost resemblant to the way Brainy did, excluding any sensations of her breathing down his neck. 

   “What are you DEAF?”

   There was a hard silence, Arnold’s heart thumping at a noticeable pace, as he tried to shrug off any uncomfortable feelings she had been attempting to instill within him. This was Helga, and the last thing he needed was to admit to himself that she could be a little intimidating, to say the least...not Helga persay, but her proximity, rather, after their last encounter.  

   It had been 4 months...4 months since Helga had spilled her guts out to him, and even though they had brushed it off like it were an accident, Arnold had a hard time looking at her the same again. Deep down, he was just a little...freaked out, to be honest. 

   1....

   2....

   3...

   Seconds passed, until...

   WHAM! 

   And with a kick to his backside, he had hit the floor, hands extending, as valentine’s from his collected box flew everywhere.

   Everything...yet nothing had changed...

   An involuntary groan, and Arnold was rubbing the side of his head, feeling humiliated for letting it happen, again. That is, things escalating with Helga, her usual cackle and sneer as she abandoned him beneath the door frame.

   “See ya later, sucker.” 

   Frowning, Arnold had to wonder...Why did he have to freeze up like that, anytime he saw Helga’s assaults coming? Wasn’t he used to it by now? Would it just always remain the same? Helga, getting away with everything she did? 

   There was a sigh, until Gerald appeared, as if a knight in red hooded armor, always seeming to pop up at just the right moment...or the worst one, depending on how you looked at it.  

   “Aaar-nold, you know I love you man, but WHEN are you gonna STAND UP to the MAN? I hate seeing you push over to her like this. I oughta...oughta-” 

   Raising a hand in defense, there was a harmless shake of blonde hair. “It’s alright, Gerald. Really, i’m fine.” He wasn’t the one who saw Helga that summer ago, after all. It was he who had to live with that burden, not Gerald. “It only makes her-”

   “-look bad. I know, I know. I’ve heard it a hundred times...” A red sleeve wrapped around the boy’s shoulder, as his best friend pulled him in, so they were now shoulder to shoulder. “C’mon man, let’s get out of here and talk about somethin’ else.”

   “Slausen’s?” Arnold would smile at his invitation. 

   “Slausen’s, and then it’s game on!”

   Arnold frowned however, knowing what that implied. “You going with Phoebe?” 

   “I’m sorry, Arnold! Hey, it’s not like you don’t have time to ask anyone! What about Ruth or Lila or, or-”

   “No, it’s okay. You know what Gerald? I think I may actually head straight home...thinking of taking a nap, or maybe just forgetting the dance all together.”

   Besides, Ruth was graduated already by now, and Lila was only a friend. Arnold had gotten over her a while ago, and Gerald knew this. He couldn’t blame his friend, getting excited and going desperate measures. After a pitiful silence, Gerald spoke up once more.  

   “A nap huh? Are you...sure Arnold? I mean sure-sure?”

   “Yeah, i’m sure...” Forcing a small smile to convince his friend, Arnold began going his separate way.

   “Maybe you do need a nap.” He smiled, and then Arnold smiled back, waving goodbye, only to hide the indifference on his face as he turned the corner, a distinct look of apathy there, as his eyelids draped down halfway, displaying a new expression.

   Man, they sure do spend a lot of time together...

   Losing Gerald to Phoebe had been hard for Arnold, who had been feeling especially isolated lately, another sigh escaping him. He missed his best friend. The funny thing was though, he knew that if he told him, he would happily cancel plans. He supposed, deep down, that was about the worst part of it all...

   Arms stretching out wide, Arnold let his lithe frame collapse onto his bed, as he entered his room in the boarder house, rolling to his side only to set an alarm for an hour or so before the dance, in case he decided to show up.

      And before he knew it, there was his alarm, going “Hey Arnold, Hey Arnold!” signifying it was already time to hop back to reality. 

    MEANWHILE...

   Gosh, i’m so stupid, so hopelessly deranged, so horrible to that football head. How could I do something like that to the guy on Valentine’s Day? What’s wrong with you, Helga? Miriam must have had something slipped into her drink before I was born, for cryin’ out loud! What did I DO?

   Arms flailing out in every direction of the bed in desperation, as Helga lie in her adolescent bedroom, nearly kicking the covers right off and onto the floor, fists clenched, as tears were nearly welling up in the corners of her eyes. 

   “How dare I...must I...” An emotional sigh, turning into a scowl, however, as the young girl was interrupted. 

   “HELGA, how many times do I have to tell you not to lock this door!?” There was a loud rattling coming from the other side of the room, growing increasingly more aggressive, until Helga’s face had no other option but to go deadpan. 

   “Well jeez, he actually got my name right, the one time I don’t want to be noticed...nice goin’, Bob...” 

   Feet hitting to the floor lazily, Helga gets up like a zombie, slumping herself to the door. “Cripes, it’s not my fault these doors are busted! Weren’t you or Miriam supposed to call that one in or fix these or somethin’ - OUCH!”

   With some rattling of her own, the door finally busts open, Helga nearly pinching herself, on who knows what, as it swings open full force, just barely missing her head.

   “I don’t know, but things are going to start changing around here, young lady...” Bob walks into the room like a ‘friggin’ dictator’, for lack of a better word from Helga, noseying around the entire room.

   “Yeah, okay Hitler.” She rolls her eyes, as he begins popping open draws and scrummaging, eventually swinging open the closet door too, causing Helga’s eyes to pop open wide. “Hey, what gives!?”

   “HELGA, what is this mess!? Rotten watermelon? You better clean this up pronto! I’m looking for the remote to the TV! Thought you might have been hidin’ it up here.”

   “Dad, since when do I watch TV?” A whine, only ever emitted in the company of her parents, or when she was in the presence of something really scary, such as a sewer rat, suddenly vocalizing across the room. She couldn’t help it - Big Bob and Miriam were irritating!

   “And for your information, BOB, I don’t have it! I’m getting ready for a dance, actually, so if you would just EXCUSE yourself this way, rrrrrgh!” With all of her force, Helga tried pushing him back out the door, only causing him to turn and growl in more anger, harmlessly swinging at her pink bow. “You gotta go, dad, and you gotta go now! I don’t have much time to get ready and impress Arrrr, uh-uh artichokes!” 

   Artichokes! That was a good one! Why didn’t I ever relay that code name to Phoebe?

   And before she knew it, all she could hear was her dad’s mumbling about nut jobs, before something came crashing down abruptly, hitting her dead in the face, like your typical Helga G. Pataki epiphany.

   “WAIT a minute - did I just say impress Arnold? No, I can’t do that! Not after that stupid confession! He knows WAY too much. I can’t have the spotlight on me. That would just overwhelm us both! I gotta come up with a plan! Something solid...something...” 

   Eyes widening, scanning the room, stopped at the stand in closet, where all of Helga’s different outfits were kept, gasping to herself. This included disguises, of course.

   “Phoebe?”

   A squeak emitted from the other line, indicating her best friend and trusty sidekick had picked up.

   “Keep your eyes peeled, because tonight Cecile is making an entrance at the Valentine’s Day Dance.” 

   There was a smirk, and that was it, before Helga Pataki hung up the phone, leaving her friend to peice out the rest. 

[glmtwnbrtz]

“I just ate a piece of Satan” “I like gods but I don’t like rules” “I’m Satan” “No I’m Satan” .. “Fine I’m the Satan of the gay hell” “WHAT DO YOU WANT” “money”.. “ok that’s fair” “I’m gonna memorize every word in the alphabet” “You have the Satan meat” *pulling on shirt* “I need my top!” “No you don’t” “I have my gay shirt” “I’m gray and gay” “I heard murder and was immediately interested” *eating a lollipop* “This tastes like nail polish”.. ”Oh wait this is watermelon” *playing chess* “Oh no I can’t castle” *teacher to student playing chess* “I just want to kill you” *playing chess again* “W-wait I don’t wanna win yet” *other dude wins* “Now I get to flip the table” *flips table* *teacher notices* “Hey only I get to flip the table!” “Why are you scrolling through Instagram that’s not very French class of you” “Yay murder!” “Change taxes I AM NOT THE GOVERNMENT” “This is your child” *throws plastic bag* *pops it* “NO YOU KILLED IT” “Wow (Redacted) spanking (redacted)?” “AGAIN??!!!” *blocking door* *pushes door open* “Literally.. just die” *wacked with rainbow glowing stick* “You have been gay-ed” “Your long son” *pops plastic bag* “NOOO” “I’m getting big brain” “Bouncy Ben” “Get murdered” “I don’t like homophobist” “Oh no gay” “McZucc” “I feel like stabbing today. You wanna get stabbed buddy?” “Nani the fuq?” “She’s taller than me she’s not gonna get scared by a small rat” “Do you have any disgusting pepperonis I could have?” “I am the disgusting pepperoni” “Yummy” “All these kids are gonna die” “So are you” “Fricc” *smacking table in unison* “Is this a cult ritual?” “Yes” “Is the bear high?” “Got too much shrooms” “They’re private!” “Pirate? Arrrr, ho ho ho” ... “Wait no” “Is it socially acceptable to jump out a window?” “Ok go do it!” “What’s wrong senpapi?” “I have Jesus on my shir- OH MY GOD” “(Redacted) peed himself!” “That’s scarring” “Why are you peeing on the floor (redacted)?” “HELP HE’S HARASSING MY SON” “Her illegally adopted son” “Oh no” *slowly getting pushed into closet* “Wow never thought I’d be in here again” “Two, four, six, eight, why do people still think think I’m straight!” “He’s Shrexy” “Yeet her out the window Shrek” “Oh I was thinking he’d roundhouse kick her and jump out the window” “They’ve been Jesus-ed” “Shrek is Jesus confirmed” “Is this a cult ritual?” “Shrek’s lookin thicc” “Awww! Now he commits murder” “He looks like my dad but white” “NANI??!!” “Shrek is your dad” “He used logic in my murderous plot” “That white guy is good at blocking” “The Grinch is dummy thicc” “If the Grinch can get someone, I can get someone” “You’re short!” “No I’m not!” “I’m sad!” “Hiya high rabbit!” “Let the gays be gays” “You can’t go wrong with a little bit of Hannah Montana” *putting a pillow under someone’s head* “What are you doing?” “Oh just making you comfortable on your death bed” “I’m so evil that I almost killed an entire civilization” “that’s the spirit!” “Why are you blowing on a wiener- that sounds wrong” “Your water bottle is peeing on me!” “I’m sorry I hurt your wenis like that” “Ow my knee!” “I ate them” “Nooooo!!” “Munchie munchie” “Your spine is mine!” “My water is running out of water” “I hear kazoos in the distance, oh no” “Oh no he’s gay too” “I started an epidemic” “You started a cult, that’s what you did” “What do I hear about hiding a body?” “Nothing nothing, don’t worry about it” “That’s how I peaked academically, the graphite in my head powered my brain” “Never give up on your dreams, keep sleeping!” “She’s eyeing my pepperonis in a way I don’t like” “Id love to be murdered by Ms (redacted)” “What why?” “To say I got chased by Ms (redacted)” “Sorry I don’t speak dumba**” “I want to learn how to say eat a frickin toaster in Japanese but it’s too hard” “Hello fellow gays” “Hello my fellow homos” “I may be straight but you guys are great” *tugging on friends sleeve* “I don’t get paid enough for this” “This tastes interesting I’m scared” “You should be” “Ariel left the ocean to get some d**k” “I strangled Winnie the Pooh” “You’re all gonna die, especially you, and you. You’re gonna die a slow and painful death” “The law can go die” “What’s one of my gay quotes” “Aww someone erased the gay” “I am being threatened” “What is the threat” “He’s threatening to shove his balls in my pants” “Where did the gays go? They’ve disappeared” *one minute later* “Oh there’s the gay, I’ve missed you guys!” *two minutes later* “I lost the gays again! Wait never mind there they are” “I can’t speak anymore since I got kabonked” “I don’t like you anymore since you kabonked me” “You are banished from this unholy planet earth” “How dare you turn the devil into a furry” “You two are banned from living” “He doesn’t deserve the wee wees” “Math with Alabama hammerman uwu” “We wouldn’t have to this now if you crackheads just listened to me!” “I am not crack-I’m not crack *laughs*” “I’m high off my own thoughts I’m sorry” “You sound like a hyperventilating cat” “I love cracking bones” “Do you wanna know why there’s green on their hands? They killed Shrek” “I-“ “We do not need to go to the cult corner” “Stop being mean to each other or else I’m gonna steal your thumbs” “You juiced the pencil”

[ingoldentent]

Umineko Quotes Meme 2

“The day after Christmas isn’t Christmas. It couldn’t happen.”

"...Stories of love are truly timeless. I never tire of them. However, I do find that expression of virgin disgust on your face even more charming..."

“I hate to say it, but I find guys who act too polite... a bit creepy. It's like they're virgins trying too hard or something..."

“I started to wonder why I couldn't get a lover if I was so gentlemanly, and I eventually came to the conclusion that all the women in the world had no taste, and started to hate all of them...”

“I may not look like it, but staying up late is one of my specialties.”

“Is being stepped on a pleasurable feeling?!”

"I'm all for gender equality. If someone's a waste of space, I'll smack 'em no matter who they are."

<Hhhhhhappy Halloween!! And trick-or-treeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaat!!>

“......For the sake of my honor and justice, I’d like to point out that I don’t suffer from some strange disease that makes my lymph nodes itch until I scratch my neck open and which can only be prevented by rubbing breasts.”

“Put your mind at ease, for there is nothing remotely terrifying about their severed arm.”

“...There have been many murders, and I don’t have a clue how they were carried out.”

“Go to heaven before me and do your makeup. I’ll definitely come and talk you up.”

“I am borrowing the two corpses for the ceremony. I will return them later, so please pardon me.”

"...[X]'s nearsightedness must've gotten pretty bad. With astigmatism too. To fall in love with you, of all things."

“You know, you’re straining way too much. Your ass’ll burst.”

“They’ve pretty much gotten all the specs. They’re annoying. They’re pathetic. Most importantly, they’re a pervert. It’s almost too much for one character.”

“I don't even have a crumb from that croissant you ate this morning's worth of responsibility to please yooooooou!!"

“However, these sweets weren’t sweet.”

“Doing four people at the same time... is pretty... tough...”

“...I’m sorry. I’m totally lame, aren’t I?”

“If I stood up right now and said ‘Leave it to me’, my popularity would surge and I’d probably make it to the top 3 in the next character ranking contest.”

“It's pretty impressive how you managed to find all the worst bets and lost your money so quickly."

“At least I remember to tie my shoes."

“This isn’t a cookie we’re talking about.”

"...So I'm <cute> now, *cackle*! You're too polite!"

“ That had probably also... looked like a venomous spider. A disgusting spider crawling over the outside guesthouse wall during a storm...”

“There is no helping it. The rules do say that you have to tidy up before going out to play.”

“I may be an uninvited guest, but please welcome me!!”

“People who aren’t honest about their feelings, such as you, [X], ...what was the word again, I learned it from [Y]. That’s right, they call them ‘tsundora’.”

"Shut your mouth!! You don't understand anything about money or business or economics!!”

"A spouse should be satisfied with doing housework! Don't speak!!!"

“......Just try laying one finger on [X] in front of me. I’ll show you just how lukewarm the hell you came from is.”

“You aren't saying that you're embarrassed, are you?"

“So tonight, until you get sleepy, let's have fun the whole time. Let's eat jellybeans and try to guess what color we'll get next. Let's split open peanuts and try to guess which half is the Grandpa. Let's search for treasure in the closet.”

“Oooh!! Don’t say that, mystery fans are scary!”

“...So furniture doesn’t eat sweets?”

"I wonder if I can be cruel in my own pop, cute style?!”

“Please, stop, please let me go!! No, stop it already, don’t put it... in my mouth...”

“You’re a real degenerate, [X].”

“Here's a present from meeeeeee!! I'm warning yoooou, it's so cuuuuute!! Such a waste to give it up to you♪"

“I'm starting to think that thinking's pointless, so I should just stop...!!”

“[X] won’t forgive the insult of calling a maiden a MILF!!”

"...You're willing to pay rolls of money to get an un-cute person like me to read your manuscript?"

"That's rude. As if I'm not totally cute as it is."

"...If I told you that I was a real witch, would you believe it?"

“My pet theory from my few experiences with women is that they are all witches."

“Pweease, look at thiiiiiiiiiisss!! Whhhaaaaat arrrre theeeesse?!"

“There are three ways to hurt a woman. ...Let me teach you them. One is to hurt them with a blade.”

[cameronspecial]

The Marriage Games (Ch.2)

Pairing: Prince! Tom Holland x Reader

Summary: (Y/N) (Y/L/N) grew up in the palace with her brother and the royals; her and her brother are practically apart of the royal family. The Queen decides to help her eldest son find his own queen by inviting ten female suitors to live in the palace. What happens when through this process he finds love with a woman that is not one of the contestants?  

Word Count: 2 704

Disclaimer: This series is inspired by The Selection by Kiera Cass and Yellow Roses by @h-osterfield.

Y/N woke up in Tom’s arms, which was not an abnormal thing to happen between the two friends. She looks up at Tom who was still fast asleep and looks at the time; she sees that breakfast was in a half-hour, so she decides to wake him up by gently combing her hand through his hair. “Good morning, you div,” she whispers to him. “Hmm, five more minutes darling,” he begs as he moves tightens his hold on her just a little bit. She shakes her head and gently removes Tom’s arm from around her waist. She picks out a blue flannel with a black and white striped spaghetti strap shirt. She picked out some jean shorts and black converses. She grabs her stuff and heads towards the bathroom, “I am going to take a shower then get ready. You have a half-hour before breakfast, so you should probably get ready soon. Remember that all the girls will be eating with us today so you can’t just show up in your boxers or in just jogging pants like you normally do.” Tom groans and waves his hands towards her in a fashion that tells her to just go; she sighs knowing that he wasn’t listening because of the fact that Tom was not really a morning person. She heads into the bathroom and turns the shower at a decent warm temperature. Once she was pleased with it, she strips and jumps into the warm shower to start cleaning herself up. A few minutes past and she hops out of the shower then starts to dress. She braids her hair nicely to look a little presentable and heads out to her bedroom.

Tom was no longer sleeping on her bed, so she assumed that he had made his way into his own bedroom to get ready. She makes her way out to her brother’s room just to bother him because that’s what sisters are for. She doesn’t knock and just barges into his room singing Last Christmas by Wham! “What the hell!” Georgy screams as he tries to cover his naked body from his sister. “Oh calm your tits. I helped change your diapers as a child. Nothing I haven’t seen before,” she informs him as she flops on his bed and plays with Tessa, who happened to be there. Georgy finally gets his boxers on and glares at his sister, “How would you like it if I did that to you?” Y/N shrugs her shoulders showing her brother that she wouldn’t care at all. “We used to take baths together. Nothing you haven’t seen before baby bro. Isn’t that right Tess.” “You know that Nella chick?” Georgy starts off then continues, “She’s pretty cool! We were talking about Doctor Who last night at dinner, which you guys didn’t show up to. It was really cool because normally I can only talk to you about it and it’s nice not to have to talk to you all the time.” Y/N laughs and pulls her brother to lie beside her, “Aww, does my little brother have a cruuushhh?” He just shakes his head and tells his sister to come to breakfast with him.

They arrive at the dining room area, where most of the girls were already getting settling into their own seats. Y/N makes her way over to her seat at the end of the table beside Tom’s seat. Tom was not here already and all Y/N can do is shake her head at her idiot friend. A few minutes pass and everyone is already seated, so breakfast starts without Tom. Today’s breakfast is egg and cheese soufflé served with a mixed berry salad; as a drink, a peach-mango smoothie is severed to everyone. Everyone digs into the delicious meal and half-way through Tom comes walking into the room in only his boxers. All Y/N can do is shake her head at how her friend did not look presentable at all. Tom sits down and digs right into the food; Nikki and Dom just look at their son with disappointment on their face and they note that they have to talk to him later. Normally this behaviour would be fine because that is acceptable with family, but they had guests and he should be dressed. Although his family were not to please with what he was wearing, most of the guest were staring at him like they were starving. The room had gone awkwardly silent, so Y/N coughs awkwardly to break the silence, “So how did everyone sleep?”

“It was really nice. The bed was really soft like a cloud. It reminded me so much of home that I could fall asleep the moment I hit the mattress,” Lalia chimes in, she sees the awkward look on Y/N’s face and wants to help her. Y/N didn’t know why, when she saw how all the girls were looking at him she couldn’t help the jealousy bubbling in her which she hides with an award look on her face. “That’s great to hear! If any of you need anything from home or to remind you of home, please tell one of the staff members,” Nikki informs everyone as she takes the last bite of her soufflé. That got the conversation flowing around the table. Soon breakfast was over and everyone heads back to their rooms so that they can get ready for the day. Y/N was almost to her room when Lalia stops Y/N to have a conversation with her. “You aren’t very good at hiding your jealousy,” she says to Y/N in her nice Greek accent. Y/N’s face flushes and she immediately denies it, “I know it could have seemed like that Lalia, but it can’t be farther from the truth. Tom and I are just best friends, and I know he knows that he shouldn’t have walked into the dining room like that. I was embarrassed that he did that even after I told him to get dressed.” Lalia gives her a yeah right look and they walk towards Y/N’s room together, “If you want to keep you like him a secret, then that’s okay. I promise I won’t tell anyone, but if you do like him you should probably tell him before he goes and falls in love with someone else. Now, let’s talk about something else. What do you have to do today?”

Y/N invites Lalia into her room and tells her to hold on a minute while she checks her agenda to see what she is doing today. “I have class from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 a.m. then I am going to the Children’s Home, to play with some of the children with Tom, his brothers, and Georgy. What are you up to today?” she notifies Lalia. “Well when you are in class, Tom is going to hang out with all of us today. We are supposed to go golfing, which we all know he loves. At dinner time, Tom is supposed to ask one of the girls to go out with him to dinner. We can do whatever we want when you guys are out at the Children’s Home, so I am thinking since it warm that I am going to go swimming,” Lalia tells Y/N. They talked for a few more minutes before she had to make her way to class, but Y/N felt that she is going to become really good friends with Lalia. On her way to class, Tom walks past her with worry written all over his face, so she stops him before he can get too far. “Hey, what’s up?” she questions him with worry now written on her face. Tom stops and gives her a small smile because, on the walk here, nobody noticed that something was wrong. “I am just a little bit nervous that I am going to screw up this morning. I mean I am not used to being surrounded by women that could possibly be my wife and then the fact that you aren’t going to be there to help me. It just makes me even more nervous. I don’t want to hurt anyone because I am stupid and said something wrong,” he confides in his best friend. Tom got so nervous that he started to tear up at the thought that Y/N couldn’t help him. Y/N sees that and pulls him close to her, “Hey, it’s going to be fine. Believe it or not sweetie, you are great at talking to girls when I am not around. You and I both know how many girls you can get by yourself, so you have nothing to worry about. Now, wipe those forming tears and go show those girls how charming you are.” She rubs his back gently and wipes his tears for him; she gives him a kiss on the cheek and he smiles warmly at her. “You always know what to say to make me feel better and you never judge me for feeling a certain way about something so petty,” he says as he pulls her back into a hug. She assures him that it wasn’t petty at all and that really helped him. She smiles at him and they head in their separate directions.

Tom stayed at the end of the hallway and made sure that she got into the study room okay. Once he sees the last hit of her Y/H/C hair, he smiles and turns around to start heading to the golf course. He couldn’t help but be happy at the fact that she knew, she knew that something was wrong and she helped him. By the time that he got to the golf course, all the girls were already ready with their own golf clubs. Tom grabs his gear from the shed and hops into his personal golf cart, while the girls share two golf carts. Five caddies hop into Tom’s Golf Cart and he leads the group to the first hole. Tom remembers the first time he walked on the golf course. Little four-year-old Y/N was walking in front of him with a golf club in her hand which she used as a sword. She ran around the golf course screaming Arrrr at every person she saw. Tom remembers giggling at his best friend and chasing after her to play. He recalls not paying attention to the Golf instructor because Y/N was not interested at all in golf and even though he might have been; he felt that he needed to keep her busy. So he chuckles at the memory of his first Golf course as he goes back to paying attention to the conversation the girls were having. “Tom, would you like to go first?” Adalyn questions Tom. Tom nods his head and goes up to Golf Tee; he swings the club and it goes flying through the air. Everyone around him claps for him and he smiles at all of them. The morning went by super-fast for both friends and when both finished what they had to; they ran off towards Y/N’s room to have lunch on Y/N’s balcony.

Y/N sat reading on the bench, waiting for Tom to come join her at lunch. She had been waiting for about an hour when Tom comes running through the doors screaming that he is sorry that he is late. “Its fine, Tommy. Let me just ring the kitchen and tell them that we are ready for lunch,” Y/N tells him before picking up the landline and calling the kitchen. Tom and Y/N sat at the table and recounted stories about their mornings. “So yeah, before I went to class, I had this nice conversation with Lalia. You know the Princess from Greece and that’s basically it. Class wasn’t very interesting, how did your morning go?” she informs her best friend. Tom stopped staring at the girl and responds to his friend, “All we did was gold and that’s basically it. I talked to the girls and I know you are going to ask if any piqued my interest, but to be honest it’s too early to tell. They all seem nice though.” Y/N nods in understanding of how her friend felt, but she couldn’t care on the conversation because there was a knock at the door. Y/N tells the person they can come in and in comes one of the maids with a cart full of food. The maid quietly wheels the cart over and starts placing their food in front of them. Today’s lunch is fish and chips with a salad on the side. Tom and Y/N eat their lunch as they gossip and retold stories they heard. Once their meal was finished, they cleaned themselves up and went to the front hall to wait for their siblings to join them.

Their bothers come to join them after a few minutes, and before they knew it they were off to the Children’s home. Y/N requested to make a stop at a toy shop, where she had bought some toys for the children. They make their way to the home and when they got there several children were waiting on the driveway. When they stepped out of the car, the children immediately crowded them in wonder of what the royal family looked like. “Hi, everyone! It’s an honour to meet all of you,” Y/N says with a big smile on her face as she lets the children lead her inside. Tom smiles at how good she is with children and notices that a little girl, around the age of three, was still standing near him. She smiles at him and extends her hand towards him; he smiles down at her and gladly lets her lead him inside the house just like the other children did to the rest of his family. “What’s your name, darling?” Tommy inquires the young girl who had stopped walking to ask him to pick her up. Tom picks her up into her arms, not before noticing Y/N smiling back at him from the doorway of the presumed living room. He gives her a shy smile and walks through the doorway and into the living room. “My name is Madelina,” The young girl says to him. Tom sets her down on the couch beside Y/N and sits beside Madelina, “That’s a very pretty name.” The manager of the home made a little speech then said everyone can go play. Five girls and five boys lead Y/N and Tom to the dining room while the other boys were lead to the backyard to play ball with the rest of the children.

“Will you have a tea party with us, Prince Tom and Lady Y/N,” a seven-year-old girl timidly asks the two friends. They nod their heads and seat at the long table for twenty. Madelina comes up to the two and place crowns on their heads, then she climbs up on Tom’s lap to sit with him. Tom is surprised with how comfortable the girl is with someone she barely knew, but he was okay with that. The small girl places her own crown on her head, “You be King, Y/N be Queen, and I am your Princess.” Tom blushes at the thought of Y/N being his Queen and them having a child, but he tries to make it go away when he sees one of the older girls come in with a tea set. They play with the children for a few hours before it was time to go. Y/N is handing out the toys she bought to the children and when she got to Madelina, the little girl said something very unexpected. “Prince Tom loves you, you know. Thank you for the dolly,” she informs Y/N in a matter of fact tone before running off with the doll in her hand. Y/N was so shocked as to what the young girl said and she couldn’t help but feel her face rush with heat. Nikki always told her that children noticed things that adults couldn’t, so all she could think is ‘Is that really true?’ as she finishes giving out the toys and waved the kids goodbye while she watches them get smaller and smaller through the back window.

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