#Bennette Phoenix

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Elimination Chamber || February 18 - 2023 {2/2}

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Cosmic Chaos

Chapter 26

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Stiles eyes find your slumped figure on backseat in Jackson arms, eyes closed the car drive off to the hospital. Just as they reached the hospital stiles gets out the driver seat wrenching open the backseat door taking you off Jackson hands hastily. He heaves you in his arms screaming for help, that's how melissa finds the both of you.

Your limp unconscious body looking drained of life in the hands of equally paled stiles the sight scared melissa more than she likes to admit. She was frozen in place dropping the files the pleas for saving your life from stiles chapped lips shook her too core, the people around them were equally disturbed at the sobbing teenager that just rushed in carrying bloody girl in his arms.

The nurse and Doctors run towards them one of the pulled a stretcher along while another one was taking the girl from stiles arms, stiles unintentionally held on to your body everyone around him was saying something but the only thing he can hear is his loud breathing and heart beat and feel wetness of blood that sticking on his skin, the metallic smell invading his sense.

Stiles sits down the side of operation room with his head hanged staring down the small drop of blood his back hunched, everything around him felt surreal his hands still wet from the blood his thumb cares the necklace, one he brought when you said you give bonnie the necklace that scott give you for your peace of mind, the still hot crimson blood coat the pendent.

A tear joins the blood drop he thing he can hear the sound of tear drop falls to the ground he can hear everything, the beeping of heart monitor, the footsteps of nurses running in and out. He hears your grams and Bonnie's silent tears across from him.

He heard bonnie asking him for what happened but he doesn't able answer her questions he feels as if his body rooted to the chair, it's like he's psychically present but unable to fully there at the same time.

The doctor come out grams and bonnie stands up "How is my granddaughter doing?"

"Is she going to be okey?"

The doctor sighs "She lost quite blood; she is in hypovolemic shock. Though the blood loss didn't cause organ failure. She is still critical condition we are doing our best." The doctor sees the panicked look on their face and muffled sob coming from beside him making him glance at the teen boy sitting defeated. "But...that doesn't mean she is in danger.... she is holding up very well.

Melissa come out the room she glances at stiles with worried eye, frowning when she doesn't see scott. She moves towards Sheila and bonnie. Seeing the doctor awkwardly trying to explain your condition.

Sheila sits down melissa sitting down next her "I want the truth, tell me what's going on."

Mellissa takes her hands in her "it is a little serious, but her vitals are going steady now she just need to hold on longer, then she will be okey."

Mellissa looks at Bonnie "go home both of you, you have school don't you. she is going to be fine. I will be with her."

Before bonnie can protest her name is called, elena and Caroline along with Stefan comes.

"hey" Caroline and elena wrap bonnie in embrace. Mellissa tells them to take bonnie home they do while muttering words of comfort to her. melissa gets called she reluctantly leaves leaving Sheila and stiles alone.

"She gives me gray hair, even though its impossible for me." Sheila says though the words lack humor sighs standing up she walks towards him "Listen stiles, she's going to be fine and I don't need any doctors' words for to know."

Stiles lifts his head, his red teary eyes looking up at her "what if she doesn't" his voice chocked.

"She will." There is certainty in her voice but stiles don't seem to believe it making her look pitifully at the boy perhaps he heard the words way too may time once, that he seems to find it hard to believe her words.

She pact him on his shoulders before leaving knowing that there is nothing will bring him back to the surface from the void of despair and resentful state of mind until you tell him yourself.

Scott and Allison walks towards stiles with hesitant steps hearing Scott's voice call out his name he lifts his head, scott place his hand on stiles shoulders with an overwhelmed look on his face while Allison hand her arms crossed over self, shoulders hunched her eyes guilt stricken.

Stiles stands up point an accusing finger at her "What is she doing?" scott stands in between them his hands taking hold of stiles shoulders holding his friend back.

"Stiles it wasn't her fault, it was an accident."

Stiles scoff at him pushing his hands off him "Well look where it all ended, they don't even know if she's gonna make it." his voice raise "and it's going to your fault you should have saved her." stiles pointed at scott.

Scott looks hunted at his friend's accusation though his mind screams inside his head that it isn't his fault deep down he feels that it might his fault that someone so dear to him in harm, one of his best friends is fighting for life while other who was supposed to stand beside him blaming him.

"Stiles, it's not my fault." Scott voice wavers at the end stiles scoff at him making him frown and anger raise inside of him "It's nobody's fault, it was an accident."

Stiles walks closer to scott standing chest to chest "Well, then where were you when that happened. Oh, I know you were running after your little girlfriend ex to precise, while she was bleeding out from the wound that your girlfriend did!"

Allsion eyes tear up at stiles words scott chest starts to heave his voice rising "I didn't have a choice."

"You did have choice scott, you should have taken her to hospital but you didn't." stiles also start to screams at him.

"I tried okey, believe me I did." Scott snap back their loud voice starts to echoes around the hall making the on lookers to glance at them with curiosity "Why are you acting like she's only your friend, she's mine too. I care about her too and I'm terrified as much as you"

"Well, it doesn't feel like it." stiles muttered looking at scott with resentment making him hurt more, it was quickly replaced by anger as he garbs stiles collar shaking him.

"Stiles, you're taking it too far."

Stiles let out humorless laugh "am I, it wasn't the first time one of us was in danger because of you."

Before anyone can saying anything Noah and melissa walks towards stiles dad's demanding voice fills the hallway calling their name making them turn towards them melissa worriedly looks at the two of them at who is in each other's throat.

Stilienski walks towards stiles pulling him away as melissa does the same with scott. Noah eyes scan his son's face with concerned eyes he glances back at scott who crying as Allison and melissa tries to comfort him he shrugs them off before storming out. Looking back at his son he let out a sigh before hugging him, stile let's his father console him, he finally breaks down in his father's arms.

HALE HOUSE

Derek is quick to come out the shadow when Jackson walked into the Hale's house. A single question on his mind while Jackson wanted bite from him.

"How is she?" he asks crossing his arms his stance was rigid as if he's psychically preparing for the worst outcome.

Jackson slightly relaxed at derek less threatening demeaner "She's going to be fine..." Derek picks up the raised heartbeat narrowing his eyes at him. Jackson panics "look I don't really know okey stiles just take her off my hands before I could do it myself." Jackson exclaimed.

"Now will give the bite.?"

Derek takes a step towards him "After everything you saw, you still want the bite?"

"Of course, it's the only way I can be strong like you. And I don't wanna end like her." the next thing he realized that he shouldn't have said that because now derek claws are chocking as he gets slammed to the wall nearest to him, Derek's eyes red eyes flashing at him as he snarls at Jackson. "I didn't mean like that.... I just to be strong.... You said it yourself you can save her, if it wasn't for stiles she could been just fine." Jackson mumbled out struggling against derek. "Your bite can heal her; I can help you if you help me."

BENNET HOUSE

Sheila checks Bonnie's room frowning when she doesn't find her there, she walks towards the one place where she knows she will be. She takes a blanket with her walking out she makes her way towards the backyard; the half-moon was on its peak shining though the sky was empty of stars there is one start that shinnied brighter than any star on the usual nights. Bonnie's tired eyes strained on that one star.

"Don't you have class tomorrow? You trying to get yourself sick." Bonnie wipes her eyes as grams lay the blanket around her shoulders. She watches as her grams sits down next to her grumbling about how her how cold night it is.

"Are you not scared?" bonnie crestfallen look doesn't seem to affect her as her grams only look at her confused.

"For what?"

Bonnie gets agitated at the question finding it ridiculous "About my sister, what...if."

"She is not going die if that's what you worried about." Grams simply say looking at the star with clam look on her face.

"How can you be so sure?"

Grams takes her hand in hers squeezing her fingers warmly looking at seriously "It's not just my power knowing that she will be, but it my heart as well. She will make it."

Bonnie shakes her head at her "Grams we can't be sure about it."

"I don't think I ever told anyone about how I adopted her have I?" Grams question herself all while looking at the star.

"What does this have anything to do with that?" annoyance sweep through her words though Grams doesn't mind it as she continues all while looking at the star.

"There was Coven of witches that followed certain belief and practiced rituals that defy the rules of nature itself. They would sacrifice children that has power that they could dream of, they would drain them of their magic stealing their power lots of children died during that time people thought it was sick person's doing but it wasn't. Me along with some hunters tried to track down them it was tough as they move around often. And in the end, we did find them but we were too late when we reached the coven."

She turns to Bonnie "The witches were already killed."

Bonnie doleful look turn into confusion her prefect brow raised with a silent question Grams continue "Who did it? We don't know the answer obviously the children couldn't perform such magic that can wipe out a whole Coven. I couldn't sense such power from them but what odd was there was this little girl barely two years old among them with and she had no essence of magic in her eyes or veins but in my heart, I knew she is magical."

Bonnie whispers your name and grams nod "we returned the children to their parents but we couldn't find hers. We agreed on leaving her to a foster home but she clings on to me. It didn't feel right to leave her it was almost like she was choosing me. what I gathered from that day to now, that and now sure of is she has magic within herself that protected her and the children then and it was protecting her all along. I don't think...I know she will not die."

Bonnie nods looking at sky letting out a shaky sigh "when she comes, I'm gonna beat her ass."

Grams lets out a laugh "Give her my share too."

At Hospital

Stiles had just gone to the toilet to change his bloody clothes when he saw Melissa and some of the nurse running towards your room stiles feet also pick up pace with a worried look on his face.

"What's going on?"

"Is she alright? What happened?"

"Can somebody say..." they don't wait to answers stiles question making him more on the edge more, stiles barged in the nurse and Doctors are focused on as they yell over to starts the defibrator. Stile's air gets knocked of his lungs there is all sort of wires and plugs hooked on your body, you face barely held any signs of life, the same feeling of seeing his mom on her last time comes to his mind, the dread he felt, how much he wanted to save her but he was unable to just like this time too he feels like he can't protect the people he loves.

Your name leaves his lips quietly before he starts to yell for you before he can run towards you the nurse pulls him away telling him to wait outside, they close the door.

Stiles hands shake as tears starts flow freely, he turns when he feels a hand on his shoulder scott stands beside with an equally red eye. He didn't leave when Mellissa asked him too, he couldn't bring himself to leave not after making sure that you are alright.

Stiles sniffles looking at scott before he wraps his arms around scott, scott quick to hold him their anger no loner seems to exist. Their fists clinging to clothes as hold on to each other.

"I don't wanna lose her too." Stiles whispers scott nod against him.

"I know, we will do whatever it takes to save her." scott answers his eyes fixed on the door his ears straining for the heartbeat he desperately wants to hear.

After what it felt like eternity melissa comes out she wasn't surprised to stiles and scott sitting along side they both stands up running towards her bombarding her with questions.

"What happened?"

"Is she okey mom?"

"What was that?"

She places her hands on their shoulders squeezing them to ground them and also to prevent them from running inside the room "Boys, clam down she's fine." She gently pushes them down to sit down.

"What happened?" scott asks his eyes pleading for his mother to tell them the truth.

She crouches down on their eyes level "its..."

"Don't lie to us." Stiles says scott nod along with him.

"Mom, please."

"Her heart suddenly stopped we don't know how or why. but she's stable now." Melissa is telling the truth you fine but suddenly how your heart stopped beating doesn't made any sense, the docter made sure that your vitals were normal that you were not in life threatening situation few hours ago.

"Is she gonna be okey?"

She glances at stiles "yes stiles, she is fine. She not in any danger now. We are going to monitor her for a while and I promise you, both of you she's going to fine. You two go home get some sleep."

"What if I leave, something like this happens again?" stiles voiced "can't we just stay?"

"Stiles."

"Mom, please let us stay. I don't think I can leave until she opens her eyes. Please mom let us stay." Melissa tried eyes look at them hesitantly before nodding at her stiles and scott.

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just so ya'll know i'm still thinking about how slimecicle said "bro is so phoenix coded" after arthur set himself on fire from the inside out DO NOT SAY THAT NOT TO ME I LOVE BIRD SYMBOLISM SO SO SO MUCH. GRABS YOU BY THE SHOULDERS DONT TEST ME I WILL GET SO ILL ABOUT AN OFFHANDED STATEMENT SAID BY CHARLIE SLIMECICLE ABOUT BIRDS AGAIN.

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Mini Reviews: Phoenix, Witchblade, The Rocketeer Breaks Free, Biker Mice From Mars, and the Powerpuff Girls!

Mini Reviews: Phoenix, Witchblade, The Rocketeer Breaks Free, Biker Mice From Mars, and the Powerpuff Girls!. 5 debuts this week! #comics #comicbooks

Sometimes, the staff at Graphic Policy read more comics than we’re able to get reviewed. When that happens you’ll see a weekly feature compiling reviews of the comics, or graphic novels, we just didn’t get a chance to write a full one for. These are Graphic Policy’s Mini Reviews and Recommendations. Logan Phoenix #1 (Marvel) – Stephanie Phillips, Alessandro Miracolo, and David Curiel showcase…

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Hm. About time I made one of these

The short summary, voyage-inferno list of available Bennett AUs!

Abyss!Bennett

- A scenario in which Bennett takes a tumble into the abyss. Alone. It wasn't an intentional journey, but what one would find is a Bennett better suited to a life that lacks his familiar supports but contains no less danger. In short: he's a little jumpy, a little feral, and a little off. At least his luck seemed to neutralize?

Phoenix!Bennett

- Bennett had a life he doesn't remember, one that burned away when his new body was reborn in the ashes of his old one. Now older, Bennett was in for a surprise when his wings and old powers came to greet him. Knowing his luck, he can't keep it hidden forever.. but he can try!

Fatui!Bennett

- What happens when a younger Bennett is told there's a chance to cure his curse, using forces that he shouldn't trust? Well in this scenario, Bennett takes that shot in the dark, and decides it is- in fact- worth it. After all, if the gods really cared, they would have fixed him.. right?

Subcategory: Calamity!Bennett

- while not an official Harbinger by any means, Bennett has been raised from his discovery to aim his blade towards Celestia. His curse is something he's learned to weaponize, directing it towards his enemies and causing all sorts of mishaps. And while it was the gods who brought the Calamity down upon Teyvat, it is Bennett, Rota Calamitas, who will seek to bring the apocalypse to their front door.

- a multichannel YouTuber who's slice-of-life vlogs became popular after people began to realize that he's the living embodiment of the "100 or nothing" human durability situation. Yes he can survive rolling down a cliff without serious injury. Yes his ankle broke on a one-inch step. Combined with a cheerful disposition and goofy humor, Bennett exists as something of the world's most positive train wreck. When he's not going on (mis)adventures on or off camera, which include anything from camping to ghost hunting to just rating his favorite restaurants, he's doing basics at the local college and getting his butt handed to him in lazer tag.

Modern!Bennett

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NEUTRAL LEANING MASC NAMES ⌇　abner.　 abram.　 adam.　 adrian.　 alex.　 alistair.　 andreas.　 ariel.　 arlen.　 arley.　 arlo.　 ash.　 atlas.　 auden.　 august.　 austin.　 avery.　 bailey.　 baron.　 barrett.　 baylor.　 beauden.　 bee.　 bellamy.　 bennett.　 blair.　 blaise.　 bowen.　 brayden.　 brendan.　 bronson.　 bryce.　 byron.　 caius.　 caleb.　 callahan.　 callan.　 calloway.　 callum.　 camden.　 cameron.　 carlin.　 carson.　 casey.　 cassian.　 chandler.　 chase.　 cody.　 cole.　 connolly.　 corban.　 corwin.　 cyrus.　 dallas.　 damion.　 damon.　 daniel.　 darius.　 davis.　 dawson.　 daylon.　 denver.　 desmond.　 devin.　 doran.　 dorian.　 drew.　 elian.　 elias.　 ellery.　 ellison.　 emery.　 ethan.　 evan.　 ezra.　 fallen.　 farren.　 finley.　 ford.　 foster.　 gabriel.　 gannon.　 garner.　 gavin.　 gentry.　 graham.　 greer.　 griffin.　 guthrie.　 harley.　 harlow.　 hartley.　 hayden.　 henley.　 henry.　 heron.　 hollis.　 hunter.　 ian.　 irving.　 isaiah.　 jace.　 james.　 jameson.　 jared.　 jeremiah.　 joel.　 jonah.　 joran.　 jordan.　 jory.　 josiah.　 jovian.　 jude.　 julian.　 juno.　 justus.　 kalen.　 kamden.　 kay.　 kayden.　 keaton.　 kellan.　 keller.　 kelly.　 kendon.　 kieran.　 kit.　 kylan.　 landry.　 lane.　 lennon.　 leslie.　 levi.　 leyton.　 liam.　 linden.　 lowell.　 luca.　 madden.　 marley.　 marlow.　 marshall.　 martin.　 mason.　 mathias.　 mercer.　 merritt.　 micah.　 miles.　 miller.　 milo.　 morgan.　 morrie.　 morrison.　 nate.　 nevin.　 nick.　 nicky.　 nico.　 nicolas.　 noah.　 noel.　 nolan.　 oren.　 orion.　 owen.　 parker.　 percy.　 perrin.　 peyton.　 pierce.　 porter.　 preston.　 quincy.　 quinn.　 reece.　 reid.　 reign.　 rein.　 remi.　 remington.　 renley.　 riley.　 river.　 robin.　 rollins.　 ronan.　 rory.　 rowan.　 russell.　 ryan.　 rylan.　 sam.　 samuel.　 sawyer.　 saylor.　 seth.　 shiloh.　 soren.　 spencer.　 stellan.　 sterling.　 talon.　 taylor.　 thaddeus.　 thane.　 theo.　 toni.　 tracy.　 tristan.　 tyrus.　 valor.　 warner.　 wells.　 wesley.　 whitten.　 william.　 willis.　 wylie.　

NEUTRAL LEANING FEM NAMES ⌇　abigaël.　 abilene.　 addison.　 adrian.　 ainsley.　 alexis.　 and.　 andrea.　 arden.　 aria.　 ashley.　 aspen.　 aubrey.　 autumn.　 avery.　 avian.　 ayla.　 bailey.　 beryl.　 blair.　 blaire.　 blake.　 briar.　 brooklyn.　 brooks.　 bryce.　 cameron.　 camille.　 casey.　 celeste.　 channing.　 charlie.　 chase.　 collins.　 cordelia.　 courtney.　 daisy.　 dakota.　 dana.　 darby.　 darcy.　 delaney.　 delilah.　 devin.　 dylan.　 eden.　 eisley.　 elia.　 ellerie.　 ellery.　 ellie.　 elliot.　 elliott.　 ellis.　 ellory.　 ember.　 emelin.　 emerson.　 emery.　 evelyn.　 ezra.　 fallon.　 finley.　 fiore.　 florence.　 floris.　 frances.　 greer.　 gwenaël.　 hadley.　 harley.　 harper.　 haven.　 hayden.　 heike.　 hollis.　 hunter.　 ivy.　 jade.　 jamie.　 jocelyn.　 jordan.　 jude.　 juno.　 kelly.　 kelsey.　 kendall.　 kennedy.　 koda.　 kyrie.　 lacey.　 lane.　 leighton.　 lennon.　 lennox.　 lesley.　 leslie.　 lilian.　 lindsay.　 loden.　 logan.　 lou.　 lyric.　 madison.　 mallory.　 marinell.　 marley.　 mckenzie.　 melody.　 mercede.　 meredith.　 mio.　 misha.　 monroe.　 montana.　 morgan.　 nico.　 nova.　 oakley.　 olympia.　 owen.　 page.　 palmer.　 parker.　 pat.　 paulie.　 perri.　 petyon.　 peyton.　 phoenix.　 piper.　 priscilla.　 quinn.　 raven.　 ray.　 reagan.　 reece.　 reese.　 remi.　 remy.　 riley.　 rio.　 river.　 robin.　 rory.　 rosario.　 rowan.　 ryan.　 rylie.　 sacha.　 sage.　 sam.　 sammy.　 santana.　 sasha.　 sawyer.　 saylor.　 severin.　 shannon.　 shelby.　 shiloh.　 skye.　 skylar.　 sloane.　 sol.　 soleil.　 sterling.　 stevie.　 sutton.　 swan.　 swann.　 sydney.　 tatum.　 taylo.　 taylor.　 tracey.　 valentine.　 vanya.　 vivendel.　 vivian.　 vivien.　 wren.　 wynn.　 yael.

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Laura Bennett Doone is an American-born Penthouse model born on October 19, 1952 in Phoenix, Arizona. During her modeling career, she was sometimes credited as Laura Doone. She was chosen as Penthouse Pet of the Month in October 1974 and Pet of the Year 1976.

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So I’m rewatching the Arlecchino animation and they did something that reminded of a topic I wanted to talk about. I would love for the anime to actually go through how some characters decide to manifest their powers cause from a gameplay perspective it’s tied to their weapon; but any vision holder could more or less do the same tricks as another

Amber in the WEBTOON just uses her hand sometimes or ignites rocks. She even lit Jeans sword on fire which all seems pretty simple, but then in game text talks about how Barron Bunny explodes because she’s using targeted pyrokinesis to ignite the powder inside. How did that thought occur?

At one point did Diluc think “I can throw out a phoenix.” And at any point he can grab a bow if he wanted and do flame arrows. So many moves are teachable to varying degrees!

They can make swords and shields pretty effortlessly. I would love episodes of the anime where the characters just practice doing things because they saw someone else do it. You can’t tell me Bennett didn’t see Jean make a healing circle and think “Hold on…that’s a thing? Can I do that?” If I was Collei the first thing I’m learning is a dendro shield. It’s all fun and games until Sara just decides to lightning punch you in your throat because that’s an option.

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🌈 Queer Books Coming Out in November 2024 🌈

🌈 Good morning, my bookish bats! Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Happy reading!

❓What was the last queer book you read?

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❤️ I Am the Dark That Answers When You Call - Jamison Shea 🧡 Snowed in With You - Reba Bale 💛 Fire Spells Between Friends - Sarah Wallace & S.O. Callahan 💚 Ho Ho Homicidal Maniac - K.A. Merikan 💙 Escape to the Sea - Alex Callan & Angelica Babineaux 💜 She's Always Hungry - Eliza Clark 💛 Phoenix Rising - Emily Hayes 💙 A Flower's Fatal Thorn - Jordan Dugdale 💜 A Sharper, More Lasting Pain - Alex Harvey-Rivas

❤️ The Librarian's Gargoyle - Evelyn Shine 🧡 Dead Girls Don't Dream - Nino Cipri 💛 Of Hoarfrost and Blood - Scarlet Tempest 💚 Judgement - Lucas Delrose 💙 Deadline for Love - Candi Tab 💜 Wake Up, Nat & Darcy - Kate Cochrane ❤️ All the Truth I Can Stand - Mason Stokes 🧡 Celia - Addison James 💛 A Diamond Bright and Broken - Holly Davis 💙 Hexed - Emily McIntire 💜 Hometown Christmas - Laura Conway 🌈 This Christmas - Georgia Beers

❤️ Suite Heart - Jade Winters 🧡 We All Fall - Arden Coutts 💛 Taiwan Travelogue - Yáng Shuāng-zǐ 💚 Pit Stop - L.M. Bennett 💙 The Damaged Hearts Bargain - Sienna Waters 💜 War of Night - Greyson Black & E. Scott Clevenger 🧡 I'll be Boned for Christmas - Katherine McIntyre 💜 All You Want for the Holidays - Quinton Li 🌈 Queer as Folklore - Sacha Coward

❤️ Time and Tide - J.M. Frey 🧡 Ghost of the Heart - Catherine Friend 💛 Flopping in a Winter Wonderland - Jason June 💚 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny 💙 Currency in Flesh - Heather Nix 💜 I Really Do - Emily K. Hardy ❤️ Something Close to God - Erika del Carmen Ruiz 🧡 The Crack at the Heart of Everything - Fiona Fenn 💛 Undeniable You - Chelsea M. Cameron 💙 The Twice-Sold Soul - Katie Hallahan 💜 Always on My Mind - Kelsey Painter 🌈 Interstellar MegaChef - Lavanya Lakshminarayan

❤️ Don't Break Character - Jules Landry 🧡 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar 💛 Remnants of Filth: Yuwu - Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou 💚 Sugar, Spice, and Christmas Nice - Anne Hagan 💙 The Wishing Tree - Barbara Winkes 💜 Love on Moonlight Lake - Adriana Sargent ❤️ Mistletoe Motel - Lise Gold 🧡 The Royal They - KJ Sinclair 💛 My So-Called Family - Gia Gordon 💙 Frosted by the Girl Next Door - Aurora Rey & Jaime Clevenger 💜 The Star-Crossed Empire - Maya Darjani 🌈 A Hard Fit - Jennifer Moffatt

❤️ The Sacred Heart Motel - Grace Kwan 🧡 Leap - Simina Popescu 💛 I Dare You - Regena Mercy 💚 Love Lessons - Mary Ellen Capek 💙 Afterglow - Emily Antoinette 💜 In the Back Row With You - Natasha West ❤️ Make Room for Love - Darcy Liao 🧡 Here Goes Nothing - Emma K. Ohland Just for the Holidays - Micah Carver

❤️ Cookies, Candles, and Cute Butts for Christmas - Cameron D. James & Cali Kitsu 🧡 Objects in Mirror - N.W. Downs 💛 Sleigh Bells Ring - Alyson Root 💚 Real Tree / Fake Boyfriend - Ree Thomas 💙 Out of the Storm - Logan Sage Adams 💜 Hungry Heart - Jem Milton ❤️ A Wild and Ruined Song - Ashley Shuttleworth 🧡 Beneath Her Power - Margaux Fox 💛 Thanks for Listening - Molly Horan 🌈 The Lotus Empire - Tasha Suri

❤️ Naughty November - Anthology 🧡 Hearts and Stars - Phoenix Kathryn 💛 Guarding Her Gangster Queen - Persephone Black 💚 The Shadow Spinner - Eric Kao 💙 Black, Queer, and Untold - Jon Key 💜 Hall of Shadows - Mariah Stillbrook ❤️ The Last Hour Between Worlds - Melissa Caruso 🧡 A Crimson Covenant - Aimee Donnellan 💛 Isaac - Curtis Garner 💙 Vineyard Dreams - Carol Wyatt 💜 Kiss of Death - Bryony Rosehurst 🌈 The Many Mistakes of Amy Love - RA Hunter

❤️ Accidentally in Love - Kimberly Cooper Griffin 🧡 Unwrapped - D. Jackson Leigh 💛 Hot Honey Love - Nan Campbell 💚 Havoc for the Holidays - Jay Leigh 💙 London - Patricia Evans 💜 Fatal Foul Play - David S. Pederson ❤️ The Gift of Us - Abigail Taylor 🧡 Upon the Midnight Queer - 'Nathan Burgoine 💛 The Christmas Pic - Rena Sapon-White & Ella Schaefer 💙 Seducing Scylla - Lex Logan 💜 Fated Winds and Promising Seas - Rose Black 🌈 A Surprise For The Holidays - Anna Sparrows

❤️ Immortal Hunger - KL Bone 🧡 Love and Loyalty - Emily Hayes 💛 A Kingdom of Lies - Ben Alderson 💚 Christmas Dreams - Carol Wyatt 💙 Wrecked for the Holidays - Kerry Kilpatrick ❤️ Not for the Faint of Heart - Lex Croucher 🧡 Phoenix Found - T.J. Nichols 💛 Room for Two - Rochelle Wolf 💙 The Long Winter of Miðgarðr - Edale Lan 💜 A Handyman for the Holidays - Valerie Gomez 🌈 Sundown in San Ojuela - M.M. Olivas

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WINGS AND EMBERS

chapter 1

Summary: You and Bradley met for the first time when accident happened on the base. Bob and Nat had emergency landing, because their plane was on fire. At the scene yours and Bradleys paths crossed for the first time and since then your relationship was full of embers, and planes.

Warnings: 18+ MDNI!! light smut involving dry humping / emergency landing of plane, plane accident involving fire / alcohol / English is not my first language

Pairing: firefighter!Y/N x Bradley Bradshaw

Word count: 7,5k

„Right engine on fire!“ Bob says into his helmet mic when he sees the smoke and flashes of red and orange from his and Phoenix’s plane.

“Bob, Phoenix, make an emergency landing right now.” the dispatcher echoes through their helmet settings. “I repeat, Bob and Phoenix come back to land.”

“I don’t know if we can make it to the runway, the plane is getting out of my control.” Phoenix managed to say before she and Bob smelled the smoke in their cockpit. “I think you should call the fire department.”

That was the last thing everyone heard before loud crash was heard at the end of the runway. Rest of the Dagger squad along with Maverick just watching from the hangar as few men ran to get Phoenix and Bob out of the plane. Preferably in two whole pieces.

Everyone held their breath for what felt like thousands of hours. The plane was fine, just this morning everyone had to do their check up on everything, they had mechanics look as well. No one expected this.

Bob and Phoenix made it out of the smoke show that was going on just a seconds before everyone heard sirens and saw two big trucks coming in the way of the plane that was crushed and too far gone.

Two big engine trucks with number 16 on their sides, blasting their sirens and firefighters already on the edge of their seats to jump out and do what they need to do.

You can do it. Don’t panic. You can do it. Don’t panic. was replaying in your head like a mantra. This was your first call since moving to San Diego and it made you sick. You became part of the station quickly, finding new friends in your colleagues, but you had yet to be on call with them. On call for a fucking navy aircraft being on fire. What a great start.

You knew how it should go, in your head. You were scared how it will be in the reality that was closer and closer as you stopped just a few metres away from the plane.

You saw one of the engines whip the flames, smoke covering the rest of the plane and people desperately trying to distinguish the fire with their fire extinguishers. It looked almost ironic. It takes one person to control the plane generally, but it takes a second to turn it around, needing dozens of people to take over the control again.

You’re not alone, Nathan has your back. You’re not alone, Nathan has your back. Another mantra you tried to calm yourself down with. Nathan is your supervisor for a period of time until everyone, including you, is sure you can handle things alone. You don’t doubt your skills or experience, even though you don’t have many, yet. But you hoped your first call would be something smaller, that you could gain confidence to do call like this, bigger and important ones.

“Y/N, I’m going to be your shadow, you’re the commanding officer for our part of the job on scene. I will step in only if it’s needed. Do you copy?”

“Copy.” oh fucking great was the first thing that you thought after this little exchange with Nathan.

You know you will be thankful for throwing you in the water like this after, but now you were scared. Scared that you won’t know what to do, what to say or maybe just pass out completely.

“Parker, Y/L/N, you two handle your things. Thompson, Collins and Brooks you get the plane from right side. Walker, Hayes and Bennett you go from left side. Miller and Lewis you handle the hoses and back up if anyone needs you. Reed, you go with Parker and Y/L/N and get someone from the base to show you where we can get water, if we ran out of ours. Does everyone copy?” The captain, John Murphy, ended his talk to the whole team and wave of “copy captain” was heard through our transmitters.

Thompson, Travis Thompson, seated in the other car showed you thumbs up from the window that was next to him. Travis and you quickly became friends when you moved to San Diego. You were assigned to one of the flats the station provided for cheap money for the fire fighters. Which was fine by you for the start, but Travis took that as his chance to offer you room in his big ass apartment. He recently broke up with his boyfriend and said he didn’t want to be alone in there, but also you living there with him would stop him from moving another boyfriend in there too soon, again. So you agreed, moving in the same day. You quickly became close and you swear it made your start at the station easier. Showing you thumbs up and mouthing ‘You got it.’ was his way of supporting you, because he could saw the look on your face.

“Okay team, let’s go.” your captain’s words put you out of your daydreaming and back on the ground of hard reality.

You put your helmet on the same moment your feet touched the ground. You looked over your shoulder at your team already in action, with Murphy’s supervision. So you motioned to Nathan and started walking towards the group of people, aviators you assumed.

“Hello, my name is Y/N Y/L/N and this is my colleague lieutenant Parker. Is anyone hurt? Who was on the plane?” you immediately started asking the right questions, finding confidence in your actions.

“I’m captain Mitchell. Two aviators were in the plane, we managed to get them out. Doctor from the base took them in his office, but we didn’t get any information since then. But they’re taken care of.” the eldest man of the group started talking to you.

“Okay captain. You should send the group of people that was trying to extinguish the fire to his office too. Anyone else needs doctor’s attention?” you asked the group, looking them one by one, searching for any signs of discomfort.

Until you met two hazel eyes and caught your attention for a second longer than everyone else’s. Man in his late 30’s you’d say, light brown hair with hint of curls in them and worry in his eyes. You two kept eye contact for what felt like hours, but sadly was just a few seconds.

When you didn’t find any signs of pain or discomfort, you continued with your instructions. “My people are doing their best to handle the situation as quickly as possible, but I will need you, captain, and your people to move somewhere else, in case the fire spreads. Let’s get you in building A3.”

Building A3 was far enough from the runway, looking like the best option for a shelter right now. You had map of the base, which you studied quickly on the way here.

“No one’s hurt, two aviators from the plain are looked at by the doctor, moving rest of the group to building A3 captain.” You spoke to your transmitter to update your captain on your actions as you started to lead the group in direction of building A3.

Everyone was quiet on the way there, still in shock. Some members of the group sat down, some couldn’t keep still as they paced from the window to the door.

You were happy about how you handled the situation so far, but didn’t want to show it too soon, in respect to the group of aviators in front of you.

Everyone kept quiet, waiting for the information from your captain. You watched the big watch on the wall move to show it’s been 30 minutes since you arrived, 20 since you entered this room. The only thing you could hear was loud stamps of the big boots the men were wearing as they continued to walk back and forth.

You searched for the hazel eyes you noticed back at the hangar. But you only found the man’s back, as he was looking out of the window, hands behind his head as he didn’t know what to do with them. He was wearing his khaki uniform, but you could still see his back muscles through the material when he flexed his hands. You wanted him to turn around, just to see his eyes once again. But he didn’t.

You kept switching your gaze between the watch and Nathan. He only gave you a nod and small smile, to silently tell you that you did a good job so far.

“Fire’s out. I repeat, fire is out.” Everyone in the room turned their heads to you and Nathan when they heard your captain.

You could see the relief take over their faces.

“Can we leave this building now?” the blonde one asked you.

Instead of answering him, you talked to your captain.

“Can we dismiss the group we have with us captain? Or do you want us to take them back to the scene?” you asked.

“You can dismiss them to their captain to proceed with the situation furthermore.”

“Copy.” You said as you let your hand down from your shoulder, where your transmitter was.

“Captain Mitchell, you and your people are free to go. Thank you all for your cooperation. We hope your colleagues are okay.” you said in the direction of captain Pete Mitchell.

“Thank you for your service, you and your team. We owe you one.” The Navy captain came to shake your hand.

After that everyone left the room, only the brown-haired man with a mustache stopped by the two of you, to shake your hands too.

“No need for that, it’s our job,” You said while he held your smaller hand in his, looking at his uniform for a search of his name “Lieutenant Bradshaw.” You added with a slight smirk.

You saw the corner of his mouth raise a bit too, pink covering his cheeks as he let go of your hand.

Before Bradley completely left the room, he could hear Nathan tell you ���Good job for your first time kid. Wouldn’t do it better myself.” And when he looked over his shoulder, he saw big smile on your face and Nathan giving you side hug with small ruffle of your hair. He couldn’t help the smile on his face at that sight, guessing you weren’t in this field for long, he felt what you could call proud? Even though he doesn’t know you, he knew you did a good job too.

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“Oh hello there, you bad ass woman.” You turned your head just to see Travis standing in the doorway of your office.

“Oh shut up Trav, I just did my job.”

“I just did my job.” He repeated after you and tried to mock your voice. “But really, I could see the worry in your eyes when we arrived there. I mean it, you did a good job.”

“Thank you.” You couldn’t help the smile on your face. You knew you did good job, but it was nice to hear it from someone else.

“I think that’s a reason to go out and celebrate!”

“And I think that it’s just your way to force me out so you could get laid and abandon me at the bar,” You were very quick to answer, remembering the last time you and Travis went out. He got laid, you got lost and had to sleep in your office on a couch, because you didn’t remember your address yet. “just like you did last time.”

“I’m never gonna hear the end of that, am I?” Trav looked at you with a frown.

“Nop.” Highlighting the p, you laughed at Travis’s face.

“Okay we can go out, but not tonight. When the shift’s over the only place I want to go is my bed. Tomorrow is okay with you?”

Before Travis could give you an answer Matt and Olivia arrived at your office door.

“What’s happening tomorrow?” Olivia asked with a spark in her eyes.

“Liv, I was just suggesting that we should go out and celebrate Y/N’s first call. You two coming?” you both knew what the answer is going to be. Liv is the biggest party animal you’ve met in your life so far and Matt is just so in love with her that he would follow her anywhere.

“Tell us place and time and we’ll be there.” Liv didn’t disappoint.

“Hard deck, 8PM tomorrow.” Trav said with yet another smirk on his face.

“Uuuh I see what you’re trying to do there Travis, we will be there.” This time Matt answered before the two of them left.

“And what exactly you are trying to do here, Travis?” it seemed like you were the only one to not understand what was going on. And because Travis can’t keep anything to himself even if his life would depend on it, he shamelessly tells you.

“Hard deck is a bar next to the beach, close to the naval base. Like very close.” He wiggled his eyebrows at you. “You don’t understand what am I trying to say?”

“No clue.”

“It’s a place that’s filled with aviators every Friday and Saturday. And actually, every other day too. But the point is, you need to get laid, so we’re going to use todays call to make an impression and I’m sure the aviators will find their way to thank you.” Travis continued before you could answer “We’re leaving the house at 7,30 be ready!”

“I don’t need to get laid!” you yelled out so he could hear you in the hallway.

You didn’t need to get laid, but Travis tried to convince you otherwise for some time now. He said you act like his grandma, you work, clean the house or go for a walk. When you two go out you never really flirt with anyone. You’re shy and you’re not the type to do a one-night stands.

But then you thought about certain aviator you met today on the call. Lieutenant Bradshaw. You would like to see his pretty face again, that’s true. But what if he has a girlfriend? Wife? He looked at least few years older than you. Does he have kids? If he does, then he probably won’t be at the Hard deck tomorrow. But what if he doesn’t?

You shake your head and the thoughts away as you start typing in your computer to finish the paperwork so you can head home to get a much needed sleep.

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Waking up at 11AM is not a thing you could do every day with your job, so you made sure to stay a bit longer in the comfortable bed before you got up to make yourself breakfast.

“Good morning.” Travis greeted you in a singing tone, while flipping pancakes.

“Good morning.” You shuffled around him to get yourself a glass from the cabinet. “Can I have some?”

“Only if you leave with a pilot tonight.” He looked at you, dead serious look on his face.

“I guess I’ll do my toast then.” You answered with an ironic smile.

“Of course you can have some. But only if you tell me if the aviators you met yesterday were hot, you can do that.” He knows how to make you laugh.

“Well, I didn’t talk to them, only to their captain. But they all looked hot in their uniforms. I’m not sure if any of them were you type tho.”

“I don’t have a type. I just know when I see.” Sassy answer as always.

“Of course you do. Do they wear those uniforms when they go out?” you asked.

“Y/N, do we wear uniforms when we go to Dean’s?” he looked at you like you just asked what’s 2+2.

“But our uniforms are heavy and big Travis.”

“Some of them do on a workday, when they go for a drink after work. But not when they go out on a weekend.”

“What a shame.” You sighed when a memory of certain lieutenant crossed your mind.

“You’re not telling me something.” Travis looked at you with a look.

“What?” you tried to play dumb.

“Yesterday you didn’t seem interested and now it’s a shame that they don’t go out in their uniforms? Did someone caught your eye yesterday?”

“I’ll tell you only if you pinky promise me, that you won’t say a word about it tonight.”

He offered you his pinky while you started talking about handsome lieutenant Bradshaw. You could only hope he will keep his mouth shut at the Hard deck later.

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“Y/N you look so good.” Liv had smile on her face while checking out your outfit.

For tonight you chose black leather shorts with black tights underneath, black top that you tucked into the shorts, high leather boots and loose leather jacket on top, if it gets cold later at night. Everyone knows your color is black, you rarely wear different colors outside of work. But your personality is nothing alike black color. You decided to curl your hair and wear decent eyeliner with red lipstick, something that’s significant for you too.

“Thank you. Are you two matching or am I drunk already?” you asked the couple infront of you with a laugh. You had pre drinks at home with Travis, but you were not drunk for sure, it was just funny to see big guy as Matt in matching outfits with his girlfriend.

“I had to beg him to wear this shirt, so you better say we look cute or I’ll kill you.” Liv said with a death stare.

“I’ll go get drinks.” You turned to leave the table before Liv could say anything else, you’re the worst liar and you’re also not fan of couple matching outfits.

At the bar you scanned the crowd while you waited for yours and Travis’s drinks. You don’t usually go to Hard Deck, you and all the firefighters have similar place like this, it’s called Dean’s bar, so you don’t recognise anyone’s faces.

Slight frown forms on your face once you realize the one person you were looking for is nowhere to be seen.

“Here you go.” The bartender get’s your attention back as she hands you two glasses with different liquors in them. Beer for Travis, white wine for you. You don’t usually go for wine on a night out, but tonight you felt like the tipsiness and confidence from the sweet wine will be appreciated. The headache tomorrow not so much though.

With a thank you, you turned around to find the table your mates were sitting at and you made your way to them.

“Beer for you my darling.” You used this nickname for Travis a lot it became an inside joke for you two.

One night at Dean’s you made Travis pretend you two were couple, because certain firefighter from different station didn’t take no for an answer so you two played a couple. You called Travis ‘darling’ like a hundred times under the fear and nerves from the man that was trying to get your attention.

The bar was getting more crowded as the night went on, you were on a third glass of wine when you heard Travis go “Is that the man you were talking about?”

And there he was. Bradley Bradshaw in his ‘night out’ outfit that caught your eye. You saw him only in a uniform, so you didn’t know what he likes to wear outside of work, but this wouldn’t be your bet if you had to place one. He was wearing blue jeans that hugged his legs in the right places, white t shirt with a Hawaiian shirt over it.

He scanned the place the same way you did at the bar earlier that night, but once he spotted his friends he made his over to them. His gaze didn’t make it to your table, so he never saw you.

He would be looking for you the same way you were looking for him, but he wouldn’t think of you choosing Hard Deck for a night out.

“It sure is.” You answered Travis as your eyes never left Bradley’s back as he made his way over to a table full of aviators.

“So what’s the plan?” Travis nudged your shoulder with his.

“The plan?”

“Yeah. I hope you didn’t plan on just staring at him the whole night.”

“Well no, but I also didn’t prepare a plan.”

You wanted to talk to him. You wanted to get to know him. You wanted to ask him about his friends, if they’re okay. But you were not the one to make the first move, you were shy.

“Good thing is he just came here, so we have time to make one.”

“I don’t need a plan Trav, this place isn’t that big, if he sees me and wants to talk, he will. I’m not making the first move, you should know that by now.”

Travis tried to argue with you, but there was no point in that. In fact, you were scared of rejection, so even with the wine in your blood the only thing you could do was stare into his back and hope he’d feel your eyes burning a hole in his back.

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“Look who I found.” You, Liv and Matt turned your heads towards Travis, who had a brown haired woman next to him. They both saw confusion on your faces as they started to explain who this woman is.

“This is Nat, she’s one of the pilots from the plane from the call we went on earlier this week.” Travis was never this happy to talk about a woman, but you quickly realized why it changed just now. It was his plan. His plan to get you and Bradley together tonight.

“Oh, hi! How are you feeling? I guess it wasn’t anything serious if you’re here tonight.” Matt asked her.

“I’m good, so is Bob, the other aviator. We stayed at the hospital for 24 hours, but yeah it wasn’t anything serious. But still, I wanted to say thank you, it was scary as hell.” Nat answered with a thankful smile on her face. “I told Travis that you should join us, I’m sure the guys won’t mind. And also I owe you a round of shots.”

You should see the look on Travis’s face, like a child on Christmas morning.

Before anyone could protest, Travis was dragging you all to the other side of the bar where the aviators were seated.

“Everyone, these are some of the firefighters that saved our asses, I’m sure you won’t mind them joining us.” Nat made them bring more chairs for you and the three others to sit and then started introducing everyone.

You were sure you can’t remember that many names and call signs, so you gave up at the second guy Nat pointed at.

“That’s Bradley right there, next to him is Hangman.” You looked at Bradley at the same moment he looked at you. You exchanged smiles and he gave you a little wave. You didn’t listen to Nat listing others names as you and Bradley continued looking at each other.

You didn’t know if it was the wine talking, but you felt something. You felt like if a literal spark jumped from you to Bradley. You two couldn’t help stealing glances at each other through the night. You haven’t talked to each other directly at the table, but your eyes did the job.

When you left the table to go to the bathroom, you felt Bradley’s gaze following you. That’s why you weren’t really surprised to see him waiting for you outside the bathroom.

“Oh there you are.” He said awkwardly.

You didn’t know what was the right answer to that, so you just went with simple “Hi.”

“Hi, ugh, would you maybe like to have a drink outside? I feel like there’s zero chances that we could have a conversation at that table.” Was he shy? It definitely seemed like it.

“I’d like that, yeah.”

And that’s how you ended up at the beach, sitting on a bench with another full glass of wine Bradley got you along with beer for himself.

“So, you’re new here huh?” Bradley started.

“How could you tell? Is it that obvious?”

“I heard colleague saying something about doing a good job for your first time back at the base, so I figured you’re either new here in San Diego or you’re new to the job. But based on the fact I never saw you around makes me think the first option is the right one.” Oh boy so he was attentive person.

“You’re right, I got transferred here just two months ago. This was my first call here. I work for the crisis management, so most of the time I’m in my office, I go on calls only when I’m needed at the scene.”

“That sounds like a cool job. Also a safe one.”

“Yes, it’s safer than being firefighter. When I’m on scene I never really go into the danger, I usually go the opposite way, just like the other day at the base.” Bradley nodded at your answer, sipping his beer. The way his lips hugged the top of the beer glass caught your attention and you had to mentally smack yourself for thinking about the things it made you feel.

“And you? You’re from here or were you transferred here too?” you asked Bradley in return.

“I was sent here few years ago for a mission, stayed here since then.”

“Now you’re the one to talk about a cool job. All mystery with the mission like it’s a day to day occurrence.” That made Bradley laugh.

“It is for aviators. I’m not telling you the details, it’s boring, trust me.” Bradley’s goal wasn’t really to talk your head off with details about a mission you wouldn’t understand.

“Okay, tell me something about yourself then.”

“What would you like to know?” everything, you wanted to know everything about this man that was sitting next to you, currently looking you straight to your eyes.

“Why is you call sign Rooster?”

“Of course, that’s everyone’s favorite question.” Bradley leaned back with a laugh. “My dad was aviator too, his call sign was Goose, so I went from there.” Oh, what a good choice of question you thought, after he answered. You really made him talk about his dad in the first few minutes.

“I’m sorry I didn’t know that, I shouldn’t have ask that.” You were afraid that you opened something that he didn’t want to talk about.

“No you’re good, there’s no way you could’ve know that.” Bradley reassured you. “My turn now. I know I should not ask for woman’s age, but I feel like you’re few years younger than me, so I feel like it’s good thing to ask before something weird happens.”

That didn’t offend you, because he was right, he looked like he got few years on you.

“I’m 27, you?”

“I’m 37. Now you have a last chance to back out of this.”

“Out of what?” you teasingly asked Bradley, knowing what he meant. You both couldn’t help those little smirks forming on your faces, that just confirmed your theory from earlier that there is some spark between the two of you.

“Out of me asking you to come back tomorrow. And then maybe asking you out on a date. Who knows.”

“I think I can handle 10 years.” You were glad that the sun was set for hours now, so Bradley couldn’t see your red cheeks. You felt not only your mind, but also your body attracted to him.

You two got lost in getting to know each other until you noticed your glasses have been empty for a while now, and also the sounds from the Hard Deck becoming quitter every minute now.

“Oh shit.” You cursed when you looked at your phone. You saw missed calls from Trav, Liv and Matt. Messages asking where the hell were you and that they hope you’re not dead.

“Someone missing you?” Bradley sounded nervous, afraid that maybe he overstepped something you forgot to mention, like a boyfriend.

“My friends that I came with, I never let them know where I went. They’re going to kill me.” Bradley was hoping you didn’t see him let out the big breath he was holding in, remembering you came with a group and not a boyfriend.

You started standing up, collecting your things from the bench. For a minute he thought you’re going to run away from him, but then you turned around to face him. “So are you going to?”

“Going to…?” he repeated your question, not knowing where you were going with that.

“Are you going to ask me to come here again tomorrow, Bradley Bradshaw?”

“I am asking you, Y/N Y/L/N, will you come here again tomorrow?”

You laughed at the phrasing of the question.

“I will.” And with that you left Bradley at the bench and run inside the bar to find Travis worried sick about you.

“Please at least tell me you got laid.”

“Oh shut up Travis and take me home.” You took his hand in yours and led the way out of the bar.

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You knew last night that drinking wine will have consequences in the morning, but you still hated yourself when you were sitting at the cold floor in your bathroom, waiting if your stomach will either calm down or empty itself.

Last night Travis really tried to get details from you, but you found fun in the way how his face looked when you told him you’re keeping Bradley as a secret for now. You didn’t even tell him about the plans you made for tonight, because chances are that he would make Matt and Liv go out with him again.

Laying on the bathroom floor you also realized you never agreed on a time you should meet tonight and that you also never exchanged phone numbers. So you could only hope that Bradley will show up tonight.

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You felt like a teenager sneaking out of the house when you tried to tiptoe from your room to the door without Travis noticing. Sadly for you, Travis has eyes and ears everywhere.

“Where do you think your going young lady?” and now you really felt like your mother caught you sneaking out, when you turned to see Travis standing with hands on his hips and head tilted just a bit to the side.

“I am going on a date?” you said more like a question than a fact, because you didn’t really know what tonight meant.

“With who?”

“With Bradley.”

“Oh really?” simple mention of Bradley’s name changed Travis from your mother to your best friend really quickly.

“He asked me to come again tonight. Do you think it’s a bad idea?”

“I think it’s a great idea. Go. Leave. Now. You don’t want to be late. Don’t come back.” He literally pushed you out of the door.

You stayed loyal to your favorite color black, but chose to wear a dress tonight, with a V neck, showing your chest a little, cute ruffles on the sleeves and they ended just above your knees. You let your hair down and did your make up the same way as last night.

When you entered Hard Deck alone you felt wave of anxiety wash over you. You tried to look for Bradley, but you had no luck. You didn’t feel comfortable staying inside just by yourself, so you after you got yourself a drink you made your way over to the bench from last night.

Not even 10 minutes later you heard someone coming in your way, so with hopeful eyes that the someone is Bradley, you turned around. And there he was. His outfit the same, just different color of his Hawaiian shirt.

“I was starting to think you’re going to stood me up.” You let your thoughts out before you could think.

“Me? Never, I’m a gentleman.” Bradley stood in front of you, which made you tilt your head back, so your eyes could meet his.

Bradley’s breath got caught in his throat when he saw they way you look from his height, how your lips are just a bit parted and your eyes are looking at him with a lust.

“I got us a bottle of wine you had yesterday if that’s okay?” he said as he showed you the bottle.

You looked at your glass that had rum and coke in it, then back at the bottle in his hand and your head was back in your bathroom this morning.

“I was actually going for a cocktail tonight, after I spent the whole morning in my bathroom, but I guess wine it is.” As you finished the drink in your hand.

“Oh sorry I should’ve asked first, I can get you something else then.”

“No Bradley, I’ll take the wine, it’s okay.” You actually find it nice that he brought something he knew you liked, so what if it you spend another morning with your head in the toilet bowl.

“Are you sure? I can go back and-“

“Bradley shut up and open the bottle.” You ordered him with a laugh.

Bradley did exactly as you said, pouring in your glass first and then in his.

“So, do you have different shirt for every day of the year?” you hid your smile behind the glass.

“Very funny. Just wait until you fall in love with them.” And how you will look in them, he thought. He could picture it very clearly, you spending the night at his place and then in the morning walking around his kitchen in nothing but his Hawaiian shirt.

“We will see, I’m not sure about that though. Your turn.”

“We’re doing it again? Is it like 20 questions game or something?”

“No, it’s called getting to know each other.”

“We can do that without taking turns in asking questions.”

“But it’s fun. Just ask me something, anything.” And Bradley thought about it for a minute. He had things he wanted to ask you, but didn’t know what’s appropriate and what’s not.

“Do you have any siblings?” he asked.

“Two younger brothers. You?”

“No, I’m only child.” You two then shared a look for a moment, probably picturing each other’s families. “Your turn.”

“Do you like it here in San Diego? Can you picture settling down here?” you didn’t want to sound pushy or something, but if his answer would be no, you’d like to know that now. You like San Diego and don’t plan on moving away soon, if ever.

“Yeah I do, that’s why I asked to get a permanent position here. I wanted to settle down and this place felt right so I’m glad everything worked out.” You two then shared another look, probably picturing each other’s future in San Diego.

“My turn.” Bradley said, “Do you believe in aliens?” you shot him ‘are you serious?’ look.

“How does one answer this question?” you asked back.

“I think simple yes or no will do.” Bradley said with a serious look on his face, but you could see right behind it.

“Yes, I think we’re not the only existence in the space.” You gave him your answer, “but I have to fill my glass if you’re going to ask me questions like this.”

You moved a bit closer to him, reaching for the bottle of wine he was holding. When your fingers touched his you felt wave of heat go through your body. You shot him a look, not sure if he felt it too, but by the way he was looking at you, he did.

He took your glass and poured wine into it for you, handing it back to you, your fingers touched again. You felt the mood shift a bit.

“My turn.” You broke the silence, your voice deeper and quieter now. “How many relationships you had?”

“3, all of them lasted between 2 to 3 years. You?”

“Only one, lasted for three years.”

“Why did you break up?” Bradley asked.

“We both felt like we outgrew each other and wanted to try new things, so no bad blood.”

“New things?”

“Yes. It was first relationship for both of us, it was lot of firsts for me, for him too. So we agreed we taught each other what we were supposed to and that it was time to move on. We were more friends than partners in the end. It made sense to end it.”

“Uhm.” Bradley just nodded, his hand moving dangerously close to your body. He hesitated for a few seconds, before he asked another question. “Is he the only person you were intimate with?”

He moved his fingers across your neck, touching you there gently.

“Oh so we skipped the part about what was my dog’s name or what’s my favorite movie?” it was supposed to be a joke, but Bradley seemed very interested in your answer. “No.”

One word, but he got his answer.

“How many then?”

“Isn’t it my turn now?” you asked even though you knew this wasn’t a game anymore. Bradley hooked his hand around your knee and shifted you closer to him. You were now just a few inches from each other, you felt his breath on your skin.

“You’re right. Ask me.” He didn’t mind you didn’t answer him, instead he leaned his face closer to yours, looking into your eyes searching for a permission. When you nodded your head, he lowered his mouth to your jaw while keeping his hand on your knee still.

You really wanted to ask him something, but your mind went blank. All you could feel was his burning skin on your knee and his lips slowly moving from your jaw to your neck.

“Huh?” you felt his mustache on your skin and his nose poking into your neck, encouraging you to ask your question.

“I don’t-“ you let out a noise very close to a moan when Bradley lightly sucked at the skin under you ear, “I don’t have anymore questions.”

You didn’t even realized it, but your fingers were wrapped arounds Bradley’s hand that was on your knee, giving him all the signs he needed to continue.

He gave you small gentle kisses from your ear to you cheek slowly, but then he stopped right before your lips. He wanted you to do it, to kiss him first.

Everything felt like in a slow motion, as you took his cheek in your other hand and felt his scars against your skin. You stroke your thumb across his lips before pulling him into you.

You started with innocent kisses, slow, but passionate.

“Wait,” you parted your lips from Bradley’s as you looked around, “someone can see us from the bar.”

“I have my car in the parking lot, if you’d feel more comfortable there. Or we can stop and I’ll get you home, whatever you want.” Bradley really wanted to take you on the backseat of his Bronco, but he also felt like this could be more than one night stand, so was okay with just kissing for tonight.

“Your car.” Simple answer that made Bradley stood up, take your hand in his bigger one and lead the way.

He opened the passenger door for you and then seated himself behind the wheel.

“You’re not driving us anywhere, right?” panic took over you for a minute.

“Of course not.” Silence took over the car after that.

You two were looking at each other, studying each other’s faces.

“Come here.” Bradley said as he lean over to your seat to cup your face in both of his hands and connected your lips once again.

You put your hands over his as you opened your mouth a bit, giving Bradley access to deepen the kiss.

One of his big hands slid down your body, stopping at your knee as he lifted you a bit. You took the hint and helped him move you over to his seat right onto his lap.

He positioned his seat so you both were more comfortable. You didn’t waist any time and leaned down to return the neck kisses. He let out satisfied breath and moved his hands to your hips. When he squeezed them in his hands, it made you move in a way that reminded you both just how little fabric is between you.

You smirked against his neck and moved your lips back to his just before you rolled your hips again.

“Baby,” you felt his hands slide lower to grab your ass to stop you from moving again. “don’t.”

“Or what?” you rocked your hips against his firm grip, you being the one holding a moan in now.

“You’re a tease huh?”

You didn’t give him an answer, instead you started moving your hips in a rhythm. Your dress rolled up, so now it was only your panties separating you from his jeans covered bulge.

“Bradley” you moaned his name into his open mouth, before you started kissing him again.

You knew you were going to reach orgasm if you don’t stop doing what you’re doing, but neither of you seemed to mind.

“Just like that baby.” What happened to his ‘don’t?’, the truth is you didn’t mind. All you could think about was how to not lose the rhythm of moving your hips and how his hands felt on your skin.

One of his hand stayed on your ass, encouraging you to keep moving, the other one was grabbing your neck, keeping your mouth on his.

You felt how wet you were when Bradley’s hand moved between your legs to put your panties to the side and remove one more layer of clothes to help you get your high.

“So wet and I didn’t have to move a finger.” And he was right. All it took was few kisses and light touches and your pantie were wet. You let out another moan, this time a bit louder.

His hand then moved from between your legs to grip your boob over the clothes. You were wearing a bra, but you felt his thumb stroking your nipple, which sent another wave of pleasure to your body.

“Bradley I-“ you couldn’t even finish the sentence. You were out of breath from all the movement and from the feeling in your lover tummy.

“I know, baby, keep moving.” His words did as much as his touch to you.

All it took for your orgasm to take over your body was few more rolls of your hips and Bradley’s words of encouragement.

“Fuck!” you moaned as you slowed the movement of your hips to ride yourself through the high and let your head against Bradley’s shoulder.

Bradley kept giving you small kisses on the neck while waiting for you to come back from the pleasure.

But then you realize that it was only you who reached the orgasm and wave of embarrassment took over your body. Not only that, but you just dry humped a man you saw for the third time in his car in a parking lot.

“I’m embarrassed now.” You mumbled into his shoulder.

“Why?” Bradley let out a laugh at your sudden shyness.

“I didn’t plan on tonight ending like this. Now I look like horny teenager that couldn’t hold it in and that cares only about her own pleasure.”

“Look at me,” Bradley gently lifted your head from his shoulder “I don’t think you’re horny teenager who can’t keep it in her pants, I think that was one of the hottest things I ever experienced. Okay?” he felt the need to assure you of that, because it was true. Bradley loves receiving pleasure, but he also loves giving it. And seeing what he does to you and your body with little to no effort makes him crazy for what you will do when he’ll be the one in charge.

“Okay.” You kissed him on the lips. You were still a bit sensitive, but you expected him to want to continue, so you slid your hands down his chest and started unbuckling his belt.

“Wait,” he stopped your hands “as much as I’d love to move this to my place and continue, not tonight hm?”

“Why?” he must’ve seen the look in your eyes, hence why he started reassuring you once more.

“I think you’re fucking sexy okay, you should see yourself now. Lipstick smudged all over your face and messy hair just from dry humping me in the car. I’d love to see how you look after more, but let me take you on a proper date first yeah?”

You bit your lip to stop yourself from smiling like an idiot. This ridiculously attractive man is asking you out on a date first, when he has you in his lap, you asking him to take you to his place for sex. What a dream.

“Okay.”

Being the gentleman he is, he called you a cab and made sure to tell the driver to stop at your house first and wait until you got inside.

You exchanged numbers and he promised to text you details for the date as soon as he makes a plan for the date.

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“You had sex!” Travis jumped from the couch when he saw your ‘after sex’ face, he knew.

“Oh god Travis, you scared me.”

“That’s what you get when you go out without me, traitor.” He sent a scoff in your direction “But I want all the details, everything.”

“Okay. I didn’t have sex, that’s everything. Good night.” You send him a kiss goodbye as you made your way towards your room, mentally preparing for the interview you’re going to get in the morning over a cup of coffee.

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[asexualbookbird]

25 in 2025

Sigh. I've been bullied. I guess. I did a big swing and a miss on last years list, but I have a Plan this time. A Theme. A Goal. This will be mostly comprised of my Illumicrate books so I can decide if it is in fact worth it to keep my subscription going until the Alecto edition gets announced. If I don't actually enjoy the majority of the books in these boxes then what's the point, yknow?

So here's this years color key:

Green - Carry over from last year (not carrying over every missed book, which probably means I should just get rid of them huh)

Purple - Illumicrate books

Blue - I own these in physical form, but they're not from Illumicrate

Labyrinth's Heart by MA Carrick

The Faithless by CL Clark

The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

City of Bones by Martha Wells

Witch King by Martha Wells

After the Forest by Kell Woods

Voyage of the Damned by Frances White

Of Jade and Dragons by Amber Chen

The Phoenix Keeper by SA Maclean

A Dark and Drowning Tide by Allison Saft

Until We Shatter by Kate Dylan

Mistress of Lies by KM Enright

Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto

A Sorceress Comes to Call by T Kingfisher

The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart

The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso

The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal

He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker Chan

All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault by James Alan Gardner

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

In the Ravenous Dark by AM Strickland

A Conjuring of Light by VE Schwab

PHEW. Okay. A fw things to note. A Dark and Drowning Tide is an Illumicrate book, but I didn't pay for it. A friend gave it to me after I skipped that month because she wasn't interested. I always look up book spoilers and skip if I'm not interested and if I'm uninterested in any of the stuff I'll skip even if the book seems neat. That month the box was full of fandoms I didn't care about, so my friends said "here, take my copy" and I said "yay! Free book!"

The Last Hour Between Worlds I think was also an Illumicrate book? They do fanart for it so I assume it was at some point. I did not get it. This is not the IC edition. I was not thrilled about The Tethered Mage so I was going to get this out of the library. Then my mom bought it for me for the holidays. So yay! Free book!

I think I would also like to keep track of books I purchase this year. I'd like to cut down on buying books that I won't love. So I'd like to utilise my library more. Win win, I think! And that seems easier than a full out ban since yeah sometimes I do enjoy little treats! Books purchased for other people do not count, obviously.

There are also some books I'd like to reread this year, mainly The Bone Maker because I've been saying that since I read it the first time. And honestly, I've been chasing the same vibes and haven't been able to match it (Godkiller got close!).

As usual, I reserve the right to pretend this post doesn't exist, but I think I've set myself up for success here :)

I don't know who hasn't done this by now @logarithmicpanda ? Have you?? Consider yourself tagged >:3c

oh right I was bullied tagged by @bigcats-birds-and-books

[rhea-ripley]

Royal Rumble || January 28 - 2023

[aloneatpeace]

Cosmic Chaos

Chapter 15

This is it; this is how you’re going to die more specifically; your murder being mutilated by scary monster that supposed to be a myth to scare children from misbehaving and for being disobedient. Speaking truthfully, you were never afraid of dying, there is shouldn’t be any because it is the ultimate truth right. There were times when you lay down in the middle of the night thinking about death thinking how it would be better if you just didn’t exist you don’t know why you would feel like that at time to time and that’s even made everything worse making you feel like an ungrateful person the feeling of losing something that you didn’t even know is hunted you long ago. You never know how the overwhelming feeling came what was it source maybe you will never will. 

While everyone frozen in fear derek fast enough breakaway and pull you away from the creature quickly the creature snarl back in retaliation the claw that hold your hands cut through your skin as derek pushes you into scott and stiles, bonnie behind them.

You all watch as the werewolf circle growling with eyes gleaming with feral glint to hut, derek snarl back standing firm. The werewolf moves in the speed of lighting claws extended aim for swift fatal swipe. Derek who lacked the appearance but matched with level of strength and swiftly move away kicking the werewolf away. A vicious growl escapee its mouth as with great aggression it lunches towards derek slashing him and throw him.

Derek head hit hard as he hit the ground stiles nod bonnie to check on him, stiles curse and goes check on him as he weakly lay.

Scott growl at creature moving away from you towards “SCOTT NO. WAIT” you yell but bonnie pull you by the waist preventing you from holding back and starts to run towards the school.

The creature snarl at scott as scott lunch at him with his claws out it grabs him by his neck scott claws at it hands but that does not seem to affect the it.

You pull against bonnie as you see the creature extend his claw on other hand while he slowly crushing his windpipe. You tore yourself from bonnie run towards scott screaming for his name making stiles curse as along with wounded derek as you break free bonnie hold dashing towards scott.

What no one didn’t expect to see a burst of orange yellowish energy waves comes out your body hitting the alpha with a great force the waves surge through the air like it has its own mind as does not harm scott, the waves narrowly avoid scott hitting the alpha sending the beast yards away a pained yelp leaving the creature’s mouth.

Hastily halting in your place with heavying chest you look at your friends with confusion, wide eyed scott glance back and forth to you and where the creature with a lost look on your face. “Was that you bonnie?” you ask slowly turning to her.

Bonnie stands jaw dropped “No” she wheezes out.

Stiles drop his hands that holding up derek making the said male stumble, stiles run towards your hands throwing in the air with excitement “NOPE IT WAS ALL YOU BABY, IT WAS AMAZING” he embraces you tightly. Taking your arms in yours “I know it’s a lot to process but we have to go before the thing come back” stiles hastily voiced

As if it heard it growls yards away it glares at your group viciously, “okey time to run” stiles exclaim and starts run towards the school dragging you with him. You take bonnie hands when you reach her. Derek groan at the three you as you run off to your own safety.

“Hey” derek snarl at scott who was blotting after his friends making him stop and look at derek in confusion, derek give him a bitch face.

“Oh, my bad” scott smile nervously glancing at his wounded body taking derek hands throwing it on his shoulder and running towards the three of you.

Stiles almost close the door before they can get in making derek giving him a dirty look “what we don’t have magical healing, you’ll survive”

“Shut up”

Stiles frown at derek “Don’t be such a sour wolf”.

Bonnie walks away from the door while scott set derek down and come up beside you and stiles looking out the glass window. “Is it gone?”

“I don’t know scott. We don’t have night vision like you come look at it yourself” stiles snap making scoot frown at him.

“he’s scared scott” you answer while looking out the window “seems like he’s hiding or something” you turn around to glance at bonnie and derek. “Oh. Hum” you walk slowly towards bonnie.

“What was that Y/n?” bonnie hiss her whole body shaking

“Oh, that is the alpha” stiles answers

Bonnie scoff in disbelief “Oh my God, I mean what you did back there how did you do that?”

Stile’s mouth open nodding his head remembering what he just saw back there “yeah how did you do that?”

“I don’t know….” you mutter looking down at your hands exhaling you nervously smile at bonnie “Look at the bright side I’m not doing drugs” you exclaim not knowing what to tell.

Stiles perk up “we are doing drugs now! Since when!”

You sharply turn to stiles “NO we’re not doing drugs, stiles. shut up” stiles mumble a small okey at you pouting at your harsh look that you gave him.

“What do we do now” scott asks

“Well, you first quit your job scott” stiles pipe up

“That’s not Alan” you shook your head stiles frown at you confused

“How do you know it’s not him?”

You shrug “it didn’t doesn’t feel like him, enough of that this is what we’re going to do” you turn to bonnie “you’re going to stay with derek, we will distract it make it follow us while you derek gets you out”

Stiles tap scotts shoulder whispering to him “did she say as in me and you”

“I guess” scott whispers back stiles mumble a great under his breath

A prettified look shadowed his face “maybe we can all get out let derek fight it again?”

Stiles shut up when he sees derek glare at him “he’s right I can take him”

“Yeah, I am not leaving without you?” bonnie said

“You both need to listen to me. it wants scott and we’re disposable to it and we made it really mad but it will still go after scott and you can get out with derek and derek you can’t really do anything now and you know that if you go back, you will be shredded alright and I’m not leaving scott.” You state firmly leaving no room for arguments.

You can sense Bonnie’s reluctance your eyes find derek giving him a pleading look “I’ll get her out, stay hidden. I come find you”

 “Thank you” you take Bonnies hands and hugs her “it’s going to be fine, please just trust me”

Scott and stiles walk towards you nod at bonnie scott hold your hands in his while stiles turn on his flashlight before living derek gives worried look but it’s gone there no lingering as he sharpens his sense ears trying to pick the presence of alpha and your heartbeat as you move.

He tenses when he hears the alpha but as you said its steps seems to follow “it following them” derek said looking at bonnie. He hears scott heartbeat skip likely he heard what he said. “We wait few minutes alright?”

Bonnie nods, after waiting for few minutes derek and bonnie leaves, they reach outside of school.

“You know I’m offended that you didn’t ask me if I wanted to leave with them?” stiles narrow his eyes at you.

You let out a small laugh “I don’t need to ask. I know you won’t leave; you love us so much to do that” you pinch his ear and scott take few steps back when he sees that. “And call me before you do something like this alright?”

“Sorry…sorry” he whines a little. “How did you even know we are here?”

You give stiles your phone “a creepy text” stiles

“Guys focus” scott whisper looking around for the alpha.

“Scott someone unknown texted her about us being in danger and are we really going to ignore what she just did to that thing? How did you do that. I mean your adopted” stiles take your hands and shakes a little observing it he lightly nibbles to see if the psionic wave come out making you slap his hands off you with an annoyed look on your face.

“Really stiles”

Scott stops for minute and sigh “whatever it is it really saved you, me, all of us. he could have torn us apart”

Stiles nod he look outside and goes stiff when he sees the alpha on the roof stalking them with bright red eyes glowing.  “Maybe we should run” stiles mutter

You sand scott glance at him confused and look in the direction he was looking, gulping you and scott prepare yourself heart beats faster “second that”

Right as you three starts to run the alpha hunts after you crashing through the windows the sound of glass shattering and loud thud make you three runs faster. You yelp suddenly making scott and stiles yell at you run faster.

Stiles and scott pants heavily when they reach the “are you okey y/n? “Scott asks but there he get no answer stiles and scott lift their head “stiles where is she?”

Stiles call your name he looks around him and shake his jacket looking around he glance around the room his face pale when there is no sigh of you, his eyes find scotts sweat dripping down his face as he whispers your name quietly.

You only felt its large hands wrapping around you and next thing you know that you’re in-class room and the alpha stands right Infront of you. the bright red eyes pinned on you waiting for you make a move. The soft thud of its foot on floor make you gulp hands shaking you take a step back. You can feel your heart beating and your sure it can hear how afraid you are to.

The dark is illuminated with red glow it getting brighter you look down at your palms which was source of the glow the alpha eyes also fall into a moment. A sound erupts from the creature’s chest almost like disapproving whine making you flinch at the sound but you stand your ground. Slowly the creature starts to walks towards you pausing few feet’s away 

“Stay here”       

With that the creature leap out the room without wasting a second, you stand bewilder at your place the glow dims out and darkness fill the room. Your legs feel jelly making you stumble once taking a minute to collect yourself you.

When you try to open the door, it doesn’t budge at all you push the door with all your might but it doesn’t open at all. You kick the door few times but it still doesn’t open.  Banging on the door you call out stiles and scott but no use.

Running your hands down your face you curse silently; you glance at your palm and then the door few times. “This is so stupid”

You shake your shoulders “okey …. this is not embarrassing at all” you thrust your palms towards the door nothing happens. you shrug your shoulder “alright come on do your thing” you thrust your palm again and nothings happens.

Huffing you pace around “come on do something” you shake your hands yet again nothing happens suddenly you hear a blood curling scream hurriedly you walk towards the door “stiles? Stiles.? Scott scott!” the scream soon dies out making you panic you bang on the door. The fear of something happening to them, losing them stir something in you.

Derek who came back for you three pick up your phone that was fall from stiles he hears your voice calling out for them. Derek is almost fully healed, hurrying towards to get you he stops and shield himself when your door flies open with a great force and glass shattered on the floor along with pieces of woods mist of red fading away the door falls on the ground. You step out the room seemingly no scratch or wounds looking at door breathing heavily.

 Derek utters your name making you startle your head turns to him and sigh in relief tense shoulders dropping.

 “derek” you exhale running towards him embracing, his arm quickly wraps around yourself other one cradle your head. You let your body weight on him sighing in exhaustion. Derek just holds you tight glancing down at your face laying on his chest.

 “Are you alright?” he whispers to you nodding you back away “bonnie is safe” he states before you can ask.  “And that’s not them”

You tilt your head at him “didn’t know you could read mind”

He shrugs starting to walk past you “I can read you” he mumbles without you hearing. You hurry after him.

“Did you...?”

“Yes, I’m fully healed, I can fight” derek finishes making you look at him creeped out.

“Please don’t do it again” you state walking beside him now.  he grins without you a cocky look on his face clearly having plan on not stopping you roll your eyes at him.

He goes still for a moment looking at the dark hallway a silhouette person stands Infront of you the person walks Infront of you.

With a furrowed brows you watch the man revel himself “Stefan?”

Derek suddenly gets pushed to walls as someone comes from behind you and derek, Stefan speeds taking hold of your hands.

“Let’s see what you are?” damon smirk at derek his eyes and fangs coming out derek snarl back at him.

“Oh my god what are you idiots doing here?” you yell at them “Stefan get your hands off me”.

Stefan frown at you tightening his hold on you “we’re trying to help you.”

Derek kick damon off him throwing him away “let her go” he hisses out to Stefan before he can do anything damon speeds to him punching him.  Stefan moves you away from them.

“Hey asshole leave him alone he’s my friend” you yell at damon squirming in Stefan hold thrashing around. “Stefan let go me. You don’t know anything”

“Trust me I’m trying save you” he turns you him hands on your shoulders “you don’t know anything about creatures like him” Stefan looks at you with worried look in his face.

Derek and damon stop fighting when the shrilling sound of howl vibrates through the school along with pained screams.

“scott” you mumble, you glare at Stefan “hands off” Stefan body stiffen when he sees the red hue on your eyes the next thing, he knows that he was thrown off away from him.

Damon stands confused as he watches you run off towards the source of sound derek snarl at him before following after you.

“What hell was that? Did you know that she can do this and what was that sound?” damon asks once he look at the direction you and derek run off.

Stefan grunts standing up walking towards him “I don’t know damon. I don’t know a single thing”

Scott who is now fully transformed into his wolf forms stalks towards his friends like a blood thirsty animal.

He ears pick up harried footsteps coming from behind him a low snarl leaves his lips “scott” he lips twist into a snarl when you and derek come into his vision.

Derek takes hold of your arm “its not scott know” his eyes find the door the heartbeat of your friends reaches his ears.

Derek takes hold of your arms “hold on tight” you give him unsure look derek flash his eyes at scott and slowly take a step back making you follow.

Scott growl at you and him taking a threatening step towards you two, derek broke into a run pulling you with him behind you scott let out snarl following you after.

Derek throws you over his shoulder running in inhuman speed you catch scott bright yellow eyes locked on you running towards you he tightens his hold on you and jump out a window landing perfectly on his feet.

He put you down you look at him in daze “a warning next time” derek says nothing looking at you for a second before pushing you down just in time scott jump on him snarling at scratching him in his face.

You curse when you hit the ground, quickly standing up you watch scott and derek fight each other. Derek throw scott away.

Scott whine in pain when his slide across ground huffing he stands on his paws turning towards you “scott” you softly call out derek stand up wiping the blood on cheeks with back of his hands.

Your eyes find scotts yellow orbs pinned on you “scott I know you’re in there, you need to control yourself. “

Derek glare at the Salvatore brothers when the come behind him “don’t”

“It will kill her” Stefan state.

“No, he wouldn’t “derek recounter watching you talk to scott. Stefan and damon give each other a look of confusion.

Scott snarl lowly at you “scott we’re you’re friends, I’m your friend scott”.

Scott slowly stalks towards you, a mist of blue aura glow around you slowly it reaches scott who glance at with suspicion. Scott remembers the aura as the same when he was once in his headspace. The image of you and stiles talking and dressing up fills his mind the memory of stiles and you bickering laughing flashes through. The memory of Alison also rushes in his minds.

He let out a whine when he realizes he was just about kill the people he held dear to him just a seconds ago.

He hung his head down in guilty when he reaches you who now kneeling on the ground, he let a sorrowful whine nudging his nose against your “it okey scott” you smile at him beside you derek smirks at the you while the Salvatore brother stand dumbfounded. Scott licks your face “okey that gross now”. scott whines and lightly push you down into sitting and lay his exhausted body on you. you let out a laugh running your hands on scotts fur.

“I guess it all sorted out now” you glance at up to derek seeing his scratches healing now giving him a smile. Scott lay unbothered on you feeling clam as your run your hands through his fur petting him.

Your smile falls when you see the Salvatore brothers you tilt your head at him with a glare “Now. what do we with you two?!”

Series masterlist

[the-bi-library]

Bisexual books coming out in 2024!

Let me know of the books I didn't include!

Here is the goodreads list link. You can add books to this too!

Books listed:

Dear Bi Men: A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure by J.R. Yussuf

Breaker of Fates by Vaela Denarr, Micah Iannandrea

Fake Dating a Witch: A Magical Summer Solstice Romance by Brigid Hunt

The End Crowns All by Bea Fitzgerald

Rupture in Total Eclipse by Sem Thornwood

The 7-10 Split by Karmen Lee

Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris

Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher

Better Left Buried by Mary E. Roach

Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar

The Afterdark by E. Latimer

Truthfully, Yours by Caden Armstrong

The Only Light Left Burning by Erik J. Brown Don't Be a Drag by Skye Quinlan

Digging for Destiny by Jenna Jarvis

Exes & Foes by Amanda Woody

Under All the Lights by Maya Ameyaw

Off With Their Heads by Zoe Hana Mikuta

An Education in Malice by S.T. Gibson

The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett

Lavash at First Sight by Taleen Voskuni

Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco

The Loudest Silence by Sydney Langford

Practical Rules for Cursed Witches by Kayla Cottingham

The Sins on Their Bones by Laura R. Samotin

Mewing by Chloe Spencer

London On My Mind by Clara Alves, Nina Perrotta

What Is Love? by Jen Comfort

Late Bloomer by Mazey Eddings

Hearts Still Beating by Brooke Archer

The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean

Road to Ruin by Hana Lee

Rise by Freya Finch

The Dark We Know by Wen-yi Lee

Truly, Madly, Deeply by Alexandria Bellefleur

Honeybloods by I.S. Belle

The Girl in Question by Tess Sharpe

Saints of Storm and Sorrow by Gabriella Buba

The Phoenix Bride by Natasha Siegel

The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste

The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist by Sophie Gonzales

One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

Lulu Sinagtala and the City of Noble Warriors by Gail D. Villanueva

Redsight by Meredith Mooring

Finally Fitz by Marisa Kanter

The Last Love Song by Kalie Holford

Trouble by Lex Croucher

Playing For Keeps by Jennifer Dugan

Something To Be Proud Of by Anna Zoe Quirke

[docgold13]

All The Jokers

From the best of the best to the not so best of the rest...*

1). Mark Hamill

2). Heath Ledger

3). Cesar Romero

4). Frank Welker

5). Jack Nicholson

6). Alan Tudyk

7). Joaquin Phoenix

8). Zach Galfinakis

9). Lennie Weinrib

10). John DiMaggio 11). Kevin Michael Richardson

12). Jeff Bennett

13). Cameron Monaghan**

14). Troy Baker 15). John Kassir

16). Jason Spisak

17). Larry Storch

18). Brent Spiner 19). Michael Emerson

20). Michael McKean

21). Jeff Bergman

22). Barry Keoghan

23). Lloyd Floyd

24). Jared Leto

*Agree, disagree; have I left anyone out? Let me know what you think.

**Cameron Monaghan did not specifically portray The Joker in the television show Gotham; but rather a thinly veiled alternative due to licensing rights or some such matter. Yet The Joker and Jerome were essentially a difference without a distinction...

[depressed-simmer]

Jack in the box 🍔🍟

I was inspired by the DECO BUILD of Jack in the box made by @scodeeyodee.

Thanks to all the creators that made this build possible, especially Scodee Yodee and Sierra The Simmer for making Jack in the box’s CC.

CREDITS: Depressed Simmer | Littledica | KKB | Veranka | Syboulette | Around The Sims 4 | Veranka | Syboulette | KKS | PralineSims | Severinka | NICKNAME | Peacemaker | Mutske | Sloxsims | Ravasheen | LeoSims |  SIMcredible | Yourdorkbrains | KKB | MTQ | Soloriya | Mincsims | Bean's Builds | Flirtyghoul | Bill L | Daria Phoenix | Dreamteamsims | JCTekkSims | Mel Bennett | NynaeveDesign | SIMMIN MY BEST LIFE | Sims41ife | Simdoughnut | Wondymoon | PixelHeaux | Noir and Dark Sims and more.

My gallery ID is "TotsNChildren"

❌DECO SIMS BY @lazysimmies and @someone-elsa NOT INCLUDED

😍💖 Feel free to donate as a sign of appreciation or support. If you can't, liking this post also can boost my confidence. 😊

DOWNLOAD HERE (Public Access: 08/27/24)