#Hmm that was dumb of me because I get easily attached
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I hate being obsessive over someone. I feel like I'm heading there and I don't want to be overly clingy either. Ugh. I don't know if it's a bipolar thing, a possible crush thing, a loneliness thing or a combo of all three. My medicine has been working pretty good so far but I'm a little concerned that someone is taking up a little too much room in my headspace. I like this person BUT I do not want to slide back into my weird obsessive loops like I used to when crushing. That's embarassing and unhealthy. Ugh.
#I don't think I'm quite obsessed yet but I talk to them a lot#We've talked every day since we met#Hmm that was dumb of me because I get easily attached#What would you do bipolar edition#I unfortunately have had obsessive tendancies in the past due to all of those reasons above#This is definitely something for my therapist who I'm seeing tomorrow fortunately but yeah#I'm on a new medicine and this is the first time since taking the new med (Vraylar) that I've crushed on anyone#Not that I haven't been looking or talking to other people since I started Vraylar- I have but this one person is sticking for me#bonus points if you guessed it was my new friend- my demisexual ass is so predictable#dating#friendship#bipolar disorder#bipolar#actually bipolar#Vraylar#Vraylar IS in general better than Depakote because I would already be obsessed and not even questioning it if I were on Depakote still#Sorry I HATE the cringy obsessive side of bipolar it's just gross#mychatter
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ALSO I feel like Megumi has been on this engagement ring secret for a long time. Gojo took him to buy the ring under the guise of âfather & son bonding timeâ and had to DRAGGG Megumi from the house. But once Megs was told what was going on, he took it a lot more seriously, and Satoru couldnât help but be a little bit more serious, too.
âhey, megumi,â satoru pockets his wallet, getting his glasses off the entryway table. âcâmon, weâre leaving.â
megumi, who is sitting on the couch, flipping through some dumb book, frowns. âfor what?â
âa mission.â
âbut i thought you saidââ
âwhere are you guys going?â you ask satoru, turning down the hallway. youâre fixing a bracelet and walking over to him to readjust his buttons (he did it wrong on purpose).
âa mission.â
you raise a brow, lips pursed. âi thought we were saving those for weekends.â
âi donât control the curses, sweetheart,â satoru grins. âyouâre so pretty.â
âiâm immune to your sweet talking.â
âimpossible.â
megumi is slipping on his boots, frowning at the two of you. âyou said nothing until sunday last week.â
satoru kisses your head, stepping passed you to throw his arm around megumiâs shoulder. âthis is a special trip,â he says easily.
megumi rolls his eyes, pushing him off. but he walks towards the door anyway, not bothering to argue.
âdonât be too hard on him,â you tell satoru, giving him a look only he knows.
and you really are prettyâwith your hair a bit messy and your eyes crinkled. the little lines by your lips as you attempt to refrain a smile.
satoru ruffles your hair, walking with his back turned out the door. âwhatever you say, dear.â
âbe safe!â you call to megumi, waving to him.
âbye, mom.â
but as soon as the door is shut megumi turns. âwhere are we actually going?â
âwhat do you mean?â
âi know thereâs no mission,â he say, flatly.
âand how would you know that?â
âbecause itâs down season and youâre a terrible liar. and you wouldâve told me already because mom likes to know before we go.â
gojo hums, considering it. âthatâs⌠true. and iâm not a terrible liar.â
âuh-huh.â
âi need your help with something.â
megumi makes a face. âreally?â
âyes, really. will you stop making that face?â
âwhat face?â
âyour âi know better than you,â face.â
âwell, i do.â
gojo smirks, clasping his hands together as he walks. âexactly why i need your help!â
megumi groans, shaking his head, but he follows satoruâbecause, really, what else is he supposed to do?
and he lets gojo talk the whole way there. about mostly nothing, with a few details about jujutsu that megumi makes a mental note of. itâs only when gojo turns to open the door of a small shop that he finally stops talking.
megumi looks up, then winces. âyouâre not buying tsumiki more earrings, are you? i was the one that had to deal with her crying last time. for an hour.â
âpfft,â gojo holds the door open for him. âiâm saving that for sixteen.â
megumi sighs but walks into the jewelry store, immediately hit with the smell of plastic and burning metal. âwhat are you getting, then?â
âwhat are we getting,â gojo corrects, suddenly looking a bit giddy. âi need a ring.â
âa ring?â
âmm-hmm.â
megumi scoffs. âfor what?â
âyour mom.â
megumi frowns, looking over to gojoâto where heâs perched over a glass case, carefully inspecting an array of cut diamond rings. âlikeâlike an engagement ring?â
gojo only hums.
megumi blinks. heâs known that the two of you were together since he was at least eightâeven if you wouldnât admit it thenâso he shouldnât be shocked. heâs watched you roll your eyes at gojo fondly every time he refers to you as his wife⌠and still.
tsumiki would be on the ground if she found out, he thinks. no way she could ever keep this secret.
though megumi sees how much gojo loves you. he mightâve been young, but heâs watched the two of you mend together like steel. watched your lives combine and your hearts attach.
he couldnât imagine anyone else quite suited for you.
and, though heâll deny it, in the pit of his heart thereâs a yearning for the type of love that you and gojo have. the understanding and complete confidence in each other. youâve made him witness to your story, and itâs not something the boy will ever easily forget.
but he doesnât tell gojo that. only takes a step towards the case, grunting. âtook you long enough,â he mutters, and says nothing else.
they look for a long time. megumi doesnât know a lot about ringsâand neither does gojo. but they both know you, and very well.
they argue over the difference between a pear and oval cut, debating how big the rock should be. megumi thinks it should be more intricate, and gojo only wants the most expensive, eye catching ones.
he frowns at the boy. âmy wife needs the best, fushiguro.â
âsheâs not even your wife yet.â
gojo tries to get megumi to try some on, and when megumi refuses he pouts for about three minutes.
âbut you have such dainty fingers,â he whines, âtheyâre probably the same size as hers.â
megumi almost hits him for that one.
but in the end, gojo is tapping his fingers against the glass counter with both excitement and anxiety, unable to keep still.
megumi might be staring a little bit. but itâs amusing to watch a grown man absolutely fall apart over a ring smaller than his palm.
âdo you think sheâll like it?â gojo asks, eventually, after heâs grown too tired of the silence.
megumi smirks, so small that itâs barely noticeable. âmaybe.â
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â In the City of Wonder..â
kinktober day seven.
pairing: Johnathan Crane x Fem Reader.
tw: kidnapping, pet play, fingering, edging and swearing .
Tears ran down your cheeks as you stood on the sidewalk looking around for someone, anyone! No one was around it was as if the city had gone to sleep. Theres no lights on in any building, no sounds other than the sounds of nature and a train far off in the distance.
How? Why? This was supposed to be a nice little break that you had need, a quiet vacation away from every day life and now youâre stuck in a city you donât know , with no one around besides the Jack ass who had just robbed you at gun point and ran off. You should have just stayed at home.
âAre you alright?â His voice made you jump.
âJesus Christ !â You grabbed your chest in a panic.
âWell no, heâs dead and Iâm here.â The man pushed up his glasses with his finger as he stepped closer to you. âLooks like youâre having a hard time.â You swallowed the lump in your throat. Every signal in your body was telling you to run but fear had made you tense up and freeze. He looked polite enough but even poisonous fruit looks tempting.
âI uh.. no.. I was held at gun point and the loser took my purse!â You spoke softly but he heard you.
âWell could you describe him?â
âWhat are you ? The police?â You felt the anger of the situation rise in you as the man with the glasses tilted his head. You rolled your eyes before letting out a sigh. âIâm not trying to be a bitch , thereâs just a lot of emotions!â
The man put his finger on your lips which made your eyebrows furrow. He moved to close the gap between your bodies. Your eyes looked into his before you felt his hand wrap around your throat tightly. âIf youâre smart, youâll get your purse back! If youâre dumb⌠Iâm sure you can figure out what will happen.â His breath was hot on your face as you grabbed onto his arm to try to pull it off. âDonât fight me little girl.â That made you stop fighting!
His lips formed a devilish smile as he pulled you down the street and into an abandoned looking building. With a quick shove he had you on the floor that was cold against your skin.
âPlease donât kill me!â The tears started up again. He watched you cry and it turned him on.
âNow why on earth would I kill such a pretty thing like you? No that wouldnât be right.â He got down on his knees next to you and grabbed your face forcing you to look at him. He was a good looking man, that you couldnât deny. His hands squeezed your cheeks together making you whine to which he made a fake pout with his lips. âOh look at you, so sad and pathetic baby. You know Iâve been watching you this whole time, whatâs a girl like you doing in a place like this hmm? No one in their right mind comes here for fun âŚâ he took his hand off your face and ran it through your hair.
âHow could you be watching me? I just got here a few days ago!â You yelped when you felt him pull your hair.
âI have my ways. I will say you did seem a bit boring at first. Your coffee order was that of everyone else, but then I realized youâre here alone. No ring on your finger either, truly alone. No one would care if you didnât come back. Thatâs why youâre going to be my new little pet.â
You sat there looking at him with a pout of your face. He ran his hand over your cheek before he stood up and walked away. You chose not to fight because now was your chance. The door clicked shut and you scrambled to your feet before running for the door but as soon as you opened the door you screamed because he was standing there with his hands behind his back.
âWhat a stupid idea.â He spat at you before stepping forward until your back hit the wall. âYou really thought Iâd let you leave so easily? No no, thatâs not how this works.â He waved his finger in your face before you felt him put something around your neck. When you looked down it was simple black collar with a chain leash attached. âPretty little pet.â He patted your head gently before yanking the chain hard enough to choke you. âGet on your knees.â He snapped making you quickly follow orders.
The coolness of the floor provided you some relief from how hot your skin felt. Your hands rested on your lap while you hung your head low because the realization of what he said was hitting you. How could this man know so much in such little time? Your train of thought was pulled off the tracks when the sudden yank of the chain made you gasp and lean forward. His hand tightened around the chain as he pulled you forward. âGood little pet.â He walked with you out of the room and down a hallway but he had you walking on all fours.
âThereâs no need to worry anymore.â He unlocked a door and to your surprise it was actually a very nice apartment. âBe a good little pet and sit.â You did as he said before he walked away and came back with something in his hand. He put the cat ears on your head and it made you confused.
âWhat is your name ?â You spoke softly making him smile. A sweet voice for a sweet girl.
âCrane. Thatâs all you need to know.â He grabbed your leash and took you to the bedroom. He pulled you up onto your feet and within a second your back was hitting the bed making you whine. Crane stood over you dragging his hand over your body before he unzipped your pants, pulled them down and raise his eyebrow.
âFor such a scared little pet when I met, you sure do have a big wet spot. Your little cunt needs to be breed doesnât it ?â His fingers ran over your cunt making you shiver.
âPlease!â You let out a moan as he watched you. You looked so cute , barely being touched and begging for more.
âPlease what ?â
âPlease breed me master !â Did you really just say that ? What was happening to you ? How could one man know all about your kinks ? To be fair he did say he had been watching you but thatâs beside the point. His fingers slipped inside of you making you grip the bed. His fingers were long and a little thick. The sound of your wetness filled the room as Crane sat on the bed next to you fingering your pussy. He took his time going nice and deep wanting to make sure you felt pleasure because soon heâd be using you for his own.
Crane used his free hand to pull up your shirt to which you sat up to help him take it off. The power he had over you made him drunk with the taste. It was pure ecstasy to him how easy in the end you gave up everything to be his little pet. You sat exposed with hardened nipples , rosy cheeks and something like a smile as he admired your exposed body.
âIn the end, you will do as I say and Iâll make you very happy but I dare you to cross me sweetheart⌠see what happens.â His words made you clench around his fingers that had picked up the pace as he spoke to you in a harsh tone.
Your pulse was racing, eyes rolling back and to your own surprise you felt your tongue slip out of your mouth and hang as he made you squirm against the medical table. You looked like a dumb bitch in heat which is what he wanted!
âPlease please please !! Please!â You whimpered as you thrusted your hips upwards to get more friction. The rough palm of his hand rubbed against your clit while his fingers twisted in and out of your wet cunt.
âYou think you deserve to cum hmm?â His tone was cocky and thick.
âOh fuck! Yes please sir!â Tears dripped from the corner of your eye making his cock twitch.
âCute, but after how rude you were before you can suffer.â Johnathan pulled out his fingers without a warning, licked his fingers and smirked as you left you laying on the table fully on edge. If this was torture then bring it on because this was the most youâve ever felt wanted.
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Hello there! It's good to be back, didn't expect to be gone for like I think two whole weeks or three but oh well and hmm! Let's see if you're right about that! I love him a lot and he is, in fact my darling but I do have a trait in me that he would dislike (greatly, even.)
Silas:
Male Yandere characters [most to least]
Pros â Obedient ((just like you, I'm also terrified.)) a introvert and likes to be in my room 24/7 .. would enjoy being in his house more if provided an art room, also I hate being in pain too and I think I'd have a heart attack if I ever tried to escape.
Cons â I have anger issues and get overwhelmed easily+ other mental health problems like my BPD, I might split on him [ a term where people with BPD can only see white ((good)) or black ((bad)) and not in the grayish area or the in-between of good and bad.)) and that probably might anger him and be sent to the basement â ď¸ and I hate pain so much so I'd probably get a mental breakdown and start cursing at him â
Dr Kry: ((suprised he's second?? Unless..))
Pros â I have a lot of similarities with him > loves cooking, gardening, light exercise, reading books and because he's a doctor and my dream job is to be a psychiatrist, I would probably rant to him about the things I've studied and accomplished with my major.
Cons â unless he's giving my break a body and be able to do house chores for some entertainment and stimulation, I am extremely defiant and I don't like really like someone treating me like a hopeless, dumb doll. I don't consider myself smart but I don't wanna be treated like I'm some dumb guy đ I'd only love him truly if he doesn't continue poisoning me and treating me like a naive, hopeless doll.
Would still love him, from afar that is, anyone being his darling and being defiant, just goodluck to y'all đ
King Edmund: [ platonic ]
Pros â you mentioned her shows more of his human side and is less yandere-ish with male readers, I suppose that's the con, interested in his kingdoms history and I guess... We could possibly be friends?? However,
Cons â I am terrified of him. I don't know if it's any different with male readers but if he ends up killing someone because of me, I would consider my friendship with him. I do not wanna be friends with an unstable guy đ
If he doesn't, well.. when he gets a wife, I'll probably guide him with his relationship and if that gets me killed, could be the best ending because would he even let go of a male reader??đ Unsure, I don't really read his stories as often as the other male characters
Female characters [ most to least , also platonic since I'm attracted to men. ]
Hedwig:
Pros â I feel like I'd be the safest with her out of all yanderes, I would love being spoiled by her ((I'll likely get uncomfortable at first but would get used to it.)) and having a friend around with me
Cons â my social battery tends to drain easily and with how clingy she is, it'll drain me more. I also hate prioritizing other people when my social battery is this low unless it's urgent/important (like me being concerned for a friend or so due to several reasons like mental health or my job.) so if I was forced to put my attention towards her, I would get really annoyed and be a bit more forward.
Jerry:
Cons â ...I don't think there's any pros for me, in fact, she's the one I actually fear the most. I wonder if she'd treat me differently if she knows I'm trans, as in ftm, like treating me softer compared to cis guys because I understand being a woman is hard.. especially the periods, god. Her aggressive humors scares me, a lot and if she shows me what she does while working, I wouldn't take it well and disassociate and if I were to form some unhealthy attachment with her or at least a bond, my BPD would get triggered due to how she shows her love and I would split on her 24/7 thinking she hates me and wants me dead.
Well, that took quite the time to write. Let me know if you need more information on BPD, I don't think I wrote it well, it's... 4 am for me and my eyes are as dry as the sahara dessert. I need to use my glasses more when I'm not going out somewhere.
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I am surprised that he is second not going to lie lmao, i really thought that he would be your number one!
it's so interesting to read and see how different people fit the different yanderes since Y/N is more of their own character rather than ourselves haha, it puts things in another perspective! I liked to read this <3333
Edmund isn't less yandere with men, just in a friend way. Like "you are my friend only I will not share you with anyone else, you can only have me as your best friend" and will not accept his best friend spending time with anyone but him, wanting Edmund to be his only friend, kind of thing. He is just as controlling, just as entitled. Be sure that Edmund wouldn't kill any darling, platonic or romantic! You will stay with him until the end of time because you are the only one that knows his real side :D
As for Jerry, I can say that she is the number one OC when it comes to trans/nonbinary etc things. She is the least judging, most understanding. She would most likely treat you like she treats all guys so be prepared for some sudden playfights :D
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Punishment part-2
warnings; - dom harry, wax play, electro-shock play, dirty talk, ropes, toys, bad words, edging,  bondage, whipping. 18+ .........9 years age gap (Yana is 9 years younger) send me requests and concepts please hope you enjoy đ.
Harryâs pov;-
Yana and I had our dinner and right now we are watching an episode of friends. Iâm letting her rest a bit so she can take so much more. She is in my lap, half, she is on my side, head on my chest hand wrapped around my waist, and legs upon mine. She does this when she is tired or when she knows Iâm tired or mat at her.
''Harry'' she said' Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 'hmm'' I mumberld
ââAre you mad or upset with me?'' She asked picking her head from my chest to look at me. the sadness in her voice
ââA little yehâ, but more like disappointedââI said without looking at her. I can see from the corner of my eyes she was holding back tears. Yana is a very sensitive person, she devotes herself to me, she believes in me so much even I donât believe in myself that much. I donât think someone has ever loved me as much as she loves me. Sheâll be all upset when Iâm upset or even when she is sad and Iâm happy sheâll be all happy. In this generation where I thought Iâll never really find anyone yana came into my life and filled me with love, so much love. She is always, always there for me. There is no single movement where I needed a shoulder to cry or celebrate something or needed a solution to some situation and yana wasnât there. She is an old soul just like me, only wants to love nothing else in return. I hope she knows I love her more than anything in this world and I heartily appreciate everything she does for me.
She knows I like control in bed and she trusts me with her soul with that.
ââIâm really sorry harryââshe said with a trembling voice.
ââItâs fineââI was a little disappointed but itâs not like it was so much of a deal. We both know I was just enjoying and I know she was sorry as soon as I asked about breaking my rule. I could see it in her eyes, they were teary but she didnât cry.
ââ I know itâs not fine. and that youâre unhappy too. I should have waited for youââshe was looking at me
ââYouâre taking the punishment for it, arenât you? So itâs ok.ââI said truthfully
ââI know Iâm. But- I- I- Am just sorryââshe dropped her head a little. she never makes eye contact with me especially when Iâm angry she gets scared itâs not that I scare her trust me itâs just she finds it hard.
ââItâs ok love.ââI look at her I know if I donât take her in my arms now sheâll start crying so I took her Iâm my arms and kissed her all over her face.
ââI love you harryââshe hugged me.
ââ I love you more my love and Iâm not upset with yaâ. Alright? Donât feel bad about it. Think about how you took your punishment. My strong girl. Iâm so proud of yaââI said and hugged her tight. We sat like that for another 10 minutes
10 min later;-
ââ Iâm readyââshe said suddenly
ââUm- whatââI asked confusingly
ââ I- um ready for whatever you have in mindââher voice slow like perfect submissive, but I donât want her to feel like submissive I just want control I donât like when she looks down or speaks slowly. I want my girl to enjoy instead of taking what I am giving
ââ Bub why are you talking to me in a slow voice and why is your head down instead of up, youâre very confident, than the way this?I asked rubbing her back for her comfort.
ââ Itâs just i.. I feel guilty. Like Iâve been caught, which I have but Iâm likeâŚguilty.ââShe said looking up at me then immediately she looked down in her lap. I swear I saw her teary eyes and it breaks my heart.
ââNo need to feel bad love. And no need to cry too. You said youâre ready yehâ?She nodded
ââthen go to the red room and wait for meââI said giving her a big smileShe didnât smile backââbub if youâre gonna be like that then we are not doing anything,ââI added
ââ No no no Iâm-⌠I wanna go and see what have in store for me, letâs see what Mr. styles have gotââ she smiled and winked
âAhh- really huh call me Mr.styles one more time I dare you baby girlââI grabbed her taking both of her wrists in one hand and tickling her
ââ ahhh harry no, stop..stopâ'
ââNah- uh uh Iâm not stopping and I was thinking too that what should I add to your punishmentââI started ticking her harder
ââ Ohh sorry Iâm gonna pee harry stop. fuckââshe laughed
ââ Whoah shameless child, youâve got dirty mouth loveââI gasped dramatically
ââ Youâre acting like a child and youâve got a filthier mouth, baby boy. And please stop Iâm really gonna peeââshe pleaded to laugh
ââWe are not even started and you are begging to stop what a shameââI teased she narrowed her eyes and laughed. There she is back to herself finally laughing I love her like this.
ââWeâll see about thatââshe winked knowing sheâll lose as always
ââ Challenging me, my love?ââI raised my eyebrow. She nodded
ââweâll see when youâre begging me to stop and when you beg Iâll do it more so next time when you challenge me youâll think ââshe stared at me. She clenched her thighsââ already wet love?ââ I asked
ââNoââ she said quickly
ââDonât lie bub I saw you clenching your thighsââ
I stared at her she shook her headââso if I undress you right now you wonât be wet? I questioned She shook her head again
ââOhh if I undress you And I donât see you wet youâre forgiven but if I checked and youâre wet youâre in for a terrible one. (Punishment) so again are you wet angel?ââ
ââYes, daddyââshe said I smiled
ââDoes my filthy mouth gets you wet? Without me even touching you? How pathetic.ââI stated
ââYes, pathetic for you daddy no one elseââ she said shyly
ââYeah thatâs my girl, you look so good when you smile Now, let's see how you look when you cry.ââ âânow go wait for me in the red room. Strip and do whatever Iâll be right there in 5 mins maxââ i said she nodded and went upstairs.
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As I entered the room I was shocked she was wearing a sexy linger and was on her knees, Hands-on her lap and face down but not too much jus straight but down type god I love this girl so much. I smiled at her she was being good for me.
ââBub look at meââI said she looked at me not sad or like submissive just yana my yana. The excitement in her eyesââ you look lovely in that bub and on youâre knees tooâI winked at her with a smile.
ââWore just for you sirââshe smiled
ââ Yea?ââShe nodded
ââNow pup get up and get there on the XââI gestured (X means X shaped pillars, the one like 50 shades of freed had I the movie ig but this were thinner than that)
ââOkay sirââshe said and went there I went to get some ropes. I know I can easily chain her and I donât need ropes but I want her to remember this so Iâm not gonna go easy. I lit some candles at the time and put them aside I took ropes and went to her
ââStripââI said she obeyed.
''I want you to feel the rope burn your skin as it tightens around your fragile body. Let me hear your little whimpers, as you squirm needily. Beg me to fuck you, tell how much you want, no, NEED me.â'
Yana was so sensitive to my touch that, even if I touch her neck or kiss it sheâll be dripping. I tied her up with ropes hands on top of X and legs open too. Everything is tied and fully exposed for me to use however I want. And she canât even move more than 2 inches.
''Such a dumb slutty rope bunny, turned on over just a few ropes binding you. Don't get me started on that preciously weak facial expression of yours. So cute and stupid, you just want to be used as a toy. Be goodââI ordered.I went behind her She was all naked for me. I ran my hands through her sides to her arms to her neck again to her sides to her thighs she was whining but couldnât move too much.
ââYou like being tied up bunny? you like when daddy takes control over your body. Do you Like when you are all helpless to daddy? Like being used huh?ââI asked not expecting an answer I know my words get her wet so I ran my hand over her slit
ââyouâre dripping angle. Iâve not even touched you yet and look at you..dripping for meââshe moaned loudly I started kissing her neck. I held her throat with one finger making her look up and the other just resting around her neck. I started kissing her hard leaving hickeys all over the neck. And started rubbing her cilt slowly too She moaned
ââfeels so good sirââ
'âYeah? There might be so much in your stomach because I didnât let you cum right?ââI asked voice dominating
ââYes sir there is a lot in thereââshe said weakly as I drawing a fast circle on her clit and pushed her lower stomach in
ââ So small touch of mine and youâll cum?''I asked
ââYes sir Iâll make a good mess for you please let me cum Iâm so close please please let meââshe pleaded
ââYouâre gonna cum baby girl? Go ahead comeââI fasten my speed
ââ Oh god yes yes Iâm cumming sirââshe said and I pulled my hands off of her clit leaving her unsatisfied. she was a whimpering mess.
"The more you squirm, the more I will ruin your orgasm,âI threatened I held her breasts in my hand both of them they re exactly my hand size. I massaged them a little and went to stand in front of her. Her head was reacting on her shoulder. I attached my mouth to her left nipple sucking it and massaging it with my mouth. She moaned and tried to close her leg. Poor puppy. I smirk on her boob kissed all of her chest parts and backed off. Looking at her she is so helpless. I took oil in my hands and massaged her boob, her chest, her hands, her neck, her stomach, her legs, and her pussy in short whole body. She was shining from all the oil
ââ pup donât squirm much it will get you in troubleââI warned she nodded and stayed still.
ââNow, youâll do as I say right?âShe nodded
ââ Iâm gonna untied you one hand and youâll do as I sayââI untied her right hand
ââDraw slow circles to you clit baby and donât stop, if you stop without me telling you. Iâll give you 3 ruined orgasms do you understand? You stop 1 time to feel relief and I give you 3 bad ruined orgasm. Whatever you wantââI said.
ââ I understand sirââshe said I nodded. I came up with you wax candles in my hand she was shocked âârub you clit bubsââ I ordered. She started rubbing her over-sensitive clit. I dropped wax on her chest and held it there just moving slightly to cover up her boobs with wax. She hissed at burning
ââDoes it burn pretty girl?ââI asked dropping it on her nipple
ââYes sir too muchââshe hissed hand still rubbing clit my both candles were nearly over
ââgood. Move your hands' fast doveââI said looking at her hand. She did it faster
ââSir Iâm close please please sir please let me cumââshe begged I smiled
ââGo faster baby and stop pleading itâs not getting you anywhere, go fasterââ I ordered
ââAhhh ah-uh sirâŚââshe cried
ââI said more faster canât you listen to meââI said voice up. She was going faster and faster I know when she is right on her edge and that she was planning on cumming too.
"It feels so good, though, doesn't it?" I smirk as she nodded she was right on the edge...ââStopââ I said and she didnât, she wanted to cum ââ I SAID STOP SLUTââ I took her hand and tied it again. ââSLUTââ I said shaking my head.
I took all of the candles wax and threw it all over her body except her cunt.
ââAhhhhhhhh sir burnsââshe screamed I chuckled
ââYes baby scream this is just starting so think how much youâre gonna screamââI smiled and she looked at me with pleading eyes. I took some more candles and again covered every single part of her body. She whined but couldnât do anything except taking it. I smiled at her helplessness. Then I took one which was in glass (candle) and lit it up and let it be for some seconds till itâs was is melted a bit. I looked at her and grin her face drooped haha! I brought a candle near her wide open pussy she hissed at the feeling. I moved it around a bit and stooped on her clit a little further didnât wanna actually burn her.
ââThere was so much ice in your underwear an hour ago right? She nodded ââso hereâs a candle heat it up babyââI smiled and drag the candle closer to her clit
ââShit sir burns please canât whole body is on fire from wax sir pleaseââshe pleaded I chuckled and threw all melted part on her pussy
ââAhhhhhhhhhhhhh fuck shit itâs too much sir it burns uhhhââshe tugged to her restrains to feels some relief but bad luck?
ââI know baby girl I knowââI kissed her teary cheeks I again took one candle and lit it and threw all the was on her body parts as well as her ass
ââSirrrrrrââshe cried
ââDonât scream Iâm right here not in another room plus I don't think I'll be done with you anytime soon so donât show me your puppy eyesââI said
ââSir it burns so much itâll leave marks sir pleaseââshe pouted
ââI rubbed oil before it wonât leave a mark but it sure will burn like hell when I do next thing which Iâm gonna do after not right now. Right now Iâm gonna clan your body, but not with my hands of course,ââher eyes widened and I grin at her â
âIâll use some toys for thatââI went to get our thick 20-inch leather flogger I smiled at it.
ââ I want no voices coming from you do you understand?ââI asked
ââYes sirââshe obeyed I took it into my hand and looked at her and hit it on her body with a smile. She screamed without voice. My poor baby. I did it again and again and again till there was almost no wax on her body her body was all red. No marks on her body just red
ââSir pleaseââshe pleaded with teary eyes
''"excuse me? didn't tell you can speak. Iâve to gag you now. wait'â i said and came with a gag and gagged her with a silicone ball gag â
â now you look perfect. SLUTââI chuckled
ââThere is still some wax on your body I think Iâve to cleanââI smiled and took a step back and hit her with flogger all over her body. She was screaming in gad which made me chuckle
ââSul plluzââshe pleaded again something she is doing all night. I was finished with flogging so I thought Iâd take off her gag and I did
ââGood girlââI praised
ââ standstill Iâm gonna blindfold you. Hard time starts nowââI repeated the thing I said when I showed ice in her underwear
ââBut- sirââI cut her off
ââ No buts just shut and take it. You can scream or whatever all you want but donât talk to meââI wared
ââOk sirââ
I put a blindfold on her I went to the kitchen and took the thing I planed when I last came here. Sheâll give-up I guess. I took wet napkins and ducked them into lemon water and put all of them around her body (not pussy) She screamed on top of her lunges
ââfuck fuck fuck fuck fuck noooooooooo shit I canât godddd please please I canâtââ
ââThere is my pathetic whoreââI rubbed the wet napkins I put around her body
ââAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh god god god god pleaseeeeeââshe whimpered For pussy I took' The faux leather spanking paddleâ and sat down on a stool in front of her
ââdidnât wanna burn your pussy tho soâŚâŚââ Ismiled when she shook her head I was gaining to hir heer pussy but it was a bit uncomfortable.I untied her ââ go get on bedââ I ordered the obeyed ''spread your hands and legs wide openââ I said I tied her ankles to upper Sid of the bedpost (headboard) and hands to her ankles I even tied her thighs so she remains fully open I again took leather spanking paddle
ââyouâre gonna count with me 10 but if one is wrong or you miss count weâll start againââI said and didnât give her a chance to say anything, and hit the paddle to her wide open pussy
ââFuck ahhhh hurts 1 one sirââshe screamed a little Again it hit
ââtwoââ ââthreeââ ââfourââ ââfiveââ ââsixââ ââsevenââ
''Does it hurt puppyââI asked as I was tapping on her clit
ââ Yes sir itâs too much hurtsââ
ââGood as it shouldââ
I again hit with full force her pussy was so red
ââAhhhhhhhhh eightââ,
âânineââ ââtenââ
ââHow are ya feeling baby, are you okay?ââI asked her she was still in a recovery zone
ââYes sir Iâm okayââshe gave me a small smile
ââThink you can take more?ââI asked coming hands on her body
ââNot right now but after 15-20 mins yeas I guessââ she said
ââ Thatâs ok pup do you need something? Wanna drink water? Or eat something?''I asked wiping her tears
ââNeed some water my throat is dryââshe said and laughed a little
ââ I bet it is. god, you scream so loudââI dramatically put my finger in my ear and shook it.
ââHaha not funny, shouldnât have gone that hard the I wouldnât have screamedââshe laughed
ââI'm no mediocre babyââ I smiled and kissed her
âânow ya rest in that position cause Iâm not gonna untie you. Iâve still got 1 chapter leftââ
ââUhhhhh harryââshe good I slapped her ass hard
ââowwwâ'
ââItâs daddy to youââI glared
ââOooo Mr. styles got angryââ
she teased I slapped her again on her ass and then her already beaten pussy âahhhhhh fuckââ
ââBehave and shut up Iâll give you water drink and rest for 10 minsââI said and gave her boatel with straw in it. After 15mins;-
ââArey ya ok bubs still tired?ââI asked her she shook her head
ââNah just burns a littleââshe said I nodded
ââOk so this is the last one and uh- weâve never tried this one but I saw itâs safe and Iâm gonna do to you itâs electroshockââI said
ââWhat I- uh- i.. dunnoââshe said
ââOh I know everything and I know you too so donât worry enjoyââ
I kissed her forehead she nodded
I took 4 clips and joined them with wires. I went to her and put 2 clips on her each nipple and the 2 on her pussy lips
ââIâm gonna start the power clench your fist if itâs too much donât screamââ I told her
ââIâll try my best sirâshe added I started the machine she jolts from the first shock but I didnât stop and continued on medium setting I took the vibrator with we used before
ââMeet your friend from earlier bunnyââI smiled when she shook her head
ââNo more edeging pleaseââshe said
''My favorite pass time is listening to your sweet moans, and watching you squirm as I hold your favorite vibrator against your cute pussy. And Iâm free till this shock shocks you up.ââI laughed and changed the setting to a little bit up of electro
ââIâll hold this vibrator to your clit. I'll use you. But you won't get to cum do you understand?ââI raised eyebrow
ââYes sir, I doââI changed electro to highest and she screamed
ââ Donât scream hold it inââI shouted over her screams
ââSir I canât shitââshe can feel shock all over her body I took one clip go her pussy lip and clipped it to her clit and started again. Having shock direct on her clit she jolted
âââAhhhhhhhhhhh siirrrrr mmhhhhhââshe screams but then held them in I started the vibrator on mid-speed and hold it against her clit. After 1 min max
ââP-please sir, I canât take it anymore. Stop it, I wanna câââI smirked and increases the speed she moaned
"you fucking whore, you need to learn to control yourself.âI glared at her and put vibe on the highest"another word and you won't be begging to cum, you'll be begging me to stop."
ââ Sir please I wanna cum please, Iâve held a lot pleaseââshe cried
ââok baby girl let goââ I rubbed her pussy with a vibrator as well.
ââReallyââshe asked I nodded with a smile ââthank you so much godddddââ I didnât say anything
ââIâm cummingââand she came.
''You came? But don't expect me to stop. I'll vibe you till your cheeks get covered with tears, lips bleed and swell, wrists get red from being tied up, eyes roll back in your head and breathing gets uncontrollable. I want you wrecked from top to the bottomââI said and started moving the vibrator fast on her clit. After some seconds
ââSir Iâm cumming please let meââshe asked
ââWho stopped you cum and then cum again cum cum cum cum keep cumming.ââ I said
ââ I canât take anymoreââ
ââ Of course, you can you donât have a choiceâ I laughed
ââSir--ââ Iput my hand on her mouth and stopped her begs then she came again and again and again and again and again and again and again idk at least around 7-8 times,
I switched off everything
I started to untie her
ââlove are you ok?ââI asked and kissed her writs
ââYeah iâs sirââshe teased
ââHey Iâm Harry or baby or baby boy to youââI said kissing her lips
ââYeh baby boy Iâm good just canât feel anything thatâs allââshe replied
ââAre ya hurt somewhere? Did I hurt you or went too hardââI got worried because she did cum many times
ââNah, itâs fine Iâm good you just have to take me everywhere thatâs allââshe laughed
ââFucked the shit out of ya didnât I?ââI smirk
ââYeah yeahâ'
ââHey donât talk to me like that do wanna do that all again?ââI raised an eyebrow
ââNahh nahh god noââshe said and I smiled.
ââGood hope you learned your lesson, ok now Iâm gonna run a bath and put some candles just thy way you like''said she nodded very tiredly
ââOk HââI got off of the bed and filled the bathtub lit candles.
ââLetâs go bub Iâll pick you up common now get upââI said touching her shoulder so she could give me some space to carry her
ââHmmshe replied I took her to bath and set her down climbing back of her I took her In my lap in the bathtub and bathed her and relaxed. I brought her back to the bedroom with a towel around her and got her a fresh pair of my t-shirt and her panties and dressed her.
ââCome love let's cuddle and sleepâ she came to me and wrapped her arms around my waist and I took her head and placed it on my chest. She was all over me.
��âYou took all of that so bravely love gonna be honest didnât think youâll be able to take that much Iâm so proud of yaââshe didnât speak but kissed my chest.
ââWhat did we learn today pretty girl?ââI asked
ââNot to touch daddyâs pussy without his permissionââshe said voice low I smiled
ââGood bub. I love you so so much Iâm sorry if it was too muchââI rubbed her back
ââNahh, Iâm good. I love you more and you know itââshe said. And I know sheâll love me more than anything.
ââGood night loveââshe didnât reply was asleep when I look. My baby.
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Animalistic | dark!Peter Parker x reader
summary: your friend Peter has a crush on you, everybody knows it, nobody does anything about it. except, of course, when he gains new powers and loses control of his affections.
word count: 3k
warnings: smut! (non con), degradation, creampie kink, choking, forced begging, peter overall being a huge asshole, everybody is 18+ but heavily implied to be high school seniors
a/n: okay so this was actually inspired by a scene from an episode of buffy (lol) so if youâre a fan and you recognize some of this dialogue then thatâs why! I pretty much had to write this as soon as it ended because it was so hot jfc
Peter had always acted slightly strange around you. Not all the time; he was one of your best friends, and 99% of the time you felt completely comfortable around him.
But that 1%... when you went to pool parties together, when you asked him to turn around while you changed, when you bumped into him at Homecoming last year and he looked at you in a way that was definitely more than friendlyâŚ
Everyone knew he had a crush on you, they told you constantly. It was pretty much an open secret at this point, you were pretty sure that he knew you knew, and so everyone just knew but never talked about it. Even though it was getting more awkward by the minute as a result, you didnât see any reason for it to change.
What you didnât know was that something had changed, something you could never understand fully but which had transformed your friend completely. He had gained new strength, a new power his body could barely handle; and with it, everything he needed to take what he had wanted and longed for but never before couldâve attained.
What you didnât know was that, while you were cleaning up the AV club meeting room after school, when the building was nearly deserted and the sun was beginning to set, Peter had already found you, and watched you, and waited for the right moment to use his powers of stealth to sneak up behind you. He whispered your name, just past your shoulder, and you whipped around suddenly.
âPeter!â you yelped, stepping back slightlyâ but he took a step closer. When you stepped to the side to get past him, he stepped just a moment faster and blocked your way. It was like a waltz, but significantly more terrifying. Instantly you knew this was not the Peter you were used to. This was not your best friend, this was not the guy who had laughed with you and cried with you and been by your side all through high school. This was somebody else⌠and he was way too close for comfort.
âWhere are you going?â he asked with a little smirk, dripping with the confidence that you werenât going anywhere. When you tried to run, he grabbed you; when you tried to break free, he pushed you to the ground, pinning you by your wrists.
âGet off of me!â you cried.
âIs that really what you want?â he pressed. ââCause I think you want me. I think you didnât want to admit it before, but youâre attracted to meâ and itâs okay! Itâs good. God, Iâve been waiting for so long for you to just accept itâŚâ he trailed off as one hand released your wrist so it could brush across your face.
You swung your freed hand at him, landing a punch; when he raised his hands to his cheek, you managed to squirm out from under him and get to your feet. You hadnât even taken a step towards the door yet when he had already gotten up and stood in your way, shrugging off the punch like it was nothing as he stalked towards you.
Remember what you learned in Tae Kwon Do, you repeated like a chant in your mind, holding your fists up in a blocking stance, stumbling slightly when you backed into a desk behind you. âI donât wanna hurt you, Peter.â
He lunged forward and grabbed you, roughly slamming you against the wall as he pinned you again and you sobbed with terror. âDo you wanna hurt me now?â he taunted. âGo ahead and try, I like seeing you fightââ he leaned in closer, until you could feel his breath against your earâ âand knowing itâs fucking useless.â
âS-stop,â you whimpered, âPeter, pleaseâ this isnât you.â
âBut it is me, sweetheart,â he growled, smiling with teeth so much sharper than you remembered. âDid you really think Iâd wait forever, crushing on you from the sidelines, watching you date all those douchebags who didnât ever treat you right and never taking you for myself? I was just puny little Peter, your dumb geeky friend you thought you were too good for.â
âNo!â you denied. âNo, Peter, I never thought that.â
âYou like âem mean, donât you?â he chuckled, ignoring you completely. âThatâs why you keep dating these guys who treat you like crap. You want mean, you want dangerous, you want strong and brutal and⌠animalistic. I can do that. I can do mean.â
âPeter, please donâtââ
He took a long, slow breath in through his nose, letting his eyes fall shut as he smiled with satisfaction. âYou donât need to be so scared,â he whispered, âbut I kinda like it. The more I scare you, the better you smell.â
You opened your mouth to ask what the fuck he was talking about, but words didnât come to you as he leaned in and attaching his lips to your neck, licking and sucking at your pulse point. A breathless whimper spilled out from between your lips as you shivered beneath him, feeling his smile of satisfaction on your skin.
He kicked your legs apart, slotting his body between them and laughing as he rocked his hips against yours; but he wasnât laughing at that, he was laughing at the fear he must have smelled on you when you felt his hard cock between your legs. âHmm, youâre thinking itâs a little big, right? Youâre thinking âwait a second, how am I supposed to take all that?â Donât worry, sweetheart, youâre gonna love it. Youâre gonna love coming all over this thick, aching cockâŚâ
He purredâ a low, deep sound that echoed through his chest and rattled your heartâ as he started to pull your jacket off roughly, not finding your resistance much trouble at all. Your shirt, though, he ripped through like it was paper; you winced and looked away, unable to stomach the sight of him licking his lips as he tore through your bra, too.
âLook at these pretty tits,â he cooed, reaching up to grab them roughly, twisting the nipples and watching them harden under his ministrations. âYou like that, huh? You like having your tits played with? Is this how your asshole exes did it, too?â
You shook your head, afraid that he would hurt you more if you didnât answer at all.
The relief you experienced when he took his hands off of your chest was short-lived, as his touch drifted down to your jeans instead.
âNo, Peter,â you gasped, your eyes shooting open as he glared back down at you while he unbuttoned and unzipped your fly. âWait, wait, you donâtâ you donât have to do this.â
âI know. I want to,â he asserted as he roughly pulled your jeansâ and pantiesâ down to your ankles. You cried as he instantly dove in between your legs, licking you eagerly, holding you down with a vice-tight grip on your thighs. Every movement of his tongue shot jolts of pleasure up your body, making your head fall back against the wall. âFuck,â he mumbled, his voice muffled by your sex in his mouth, âyour pussy is fucking delicious, sweetheart.â
When you tried to push him away, all you managed to do was card your fingers through his hair, and he grinned before latching his lips onto your clit. You cried out, your hips bucking and quivering against his face.
âYou gonna come, honey? Youâre so close, I can taste itâŚâ
âNo,â you denied, ânoâ youâre wrong, I don'tââ
âYou like it,â he snarled. âYou like how it feels when I fuck you with my tongue. See?â Just for emphasis, he had to thrust his tongue inside you, making the most filthy squelching noises as the wetness of his mouth collided with the wetness your body had produced for him so easily. âJust come,â he encouraged. âItâll make you nice and tight for when I put my cock in you.â
You fought it with everything in you, but with the way he held you down and forced the barrage of sensation on you, it was impossible to avoid. Disturbingly, it was not in spite of the fear that you hit your peak; if anything, it actually made it stronger, mixing with your arousal to create a delicious sickness in your gut as the coil snapped and you gasped his name, falling apart atop his face as your thighs clamped down on his head against your will.
When his tongue broke away from you, pulling back with a come-slickened grin, you shuddered. âWas that so hard?â he faux-pouted. âI knew it. I knew you wanted me. See how good I can make you feel? Well, itâs only gonna get better.â
âW-wait,â you stammered as he stood up, but he paid no mind, grabbing you by the neck and forcing you to spin around and face the wall. He slapped your ass, hard, before you heard the sound of his belt being unbuckled. You didnât see it, you never saw it, but you felt it as he pressed the hot, hard shape against you. You bit back a squeal as you felt how thick it was, tears striping your face as he laughed at you again: cruel, mocking, cold.
âYeah, this cockâs gonna be inside you, sweetheart. Finally.â
âDonât⌠please donâtâŚâ you sighed weakly, just above a whisper.
He pulled your hips back roughly, forcing you to arch your back. You felt so exposed, almost like you were in display for him, as he teased your sensitive clit with the head of his cock. âYou can keep begging if you want, itâs kinda cute.â
You knew you were past the point of stopping him, but you hoped you could at least reason with him slightly, or bargain with him in any way. âPleaseâŚâ you whispered, âdonât make it hurt. Please just be gentle.â
He laughed. And heâd laughed so many times before, but this was different. This time was almost genuine, like it was actually funny to him. He laughed so hard that it sounded like he would lose his breath, until it all came to a sudden stop and he pressed his entire body against your back, growling into your ear: âNo.â
He shoved his cock into you, all the way to the hilt, holding your hips still so he could bury himself in your heat. âFuck!â he groaned, already pulling back and slamming into you brutally. âYouâre so fucking tight, sweetheart.â
The praise made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, even with his warm breath against the skin there. His intrusion stung, made your insides burn with the force of his rough movements. Worst of all was how good it felt, against everything that made you want to hate it. His cock filled you better and reached deeper in you than anything ever had before, and your earlier orgasm made everything more sensitive. His balls were slapping against your clit with each thrust, and as lewd as it was, it was just as perfect as you shivered from every brief-yet-powerful touch.
Your sobs morphed to moans, exacerbated by his hands roughly grabbing your breasts again once his arms had wrapped around you.
âOh, I know you love it so much,â he cooed with a taunting grin. âTell me how good it feels.â
Before youâd even really gotten a chance to shake your head, he wrapped his hand tightly around your neck, cutting off your air as you opened your mouth in search of a breath you couldnât reach.
âYou get to breathe when youâre ready to be honest,â he explained gruffly, âwith me and with yourself. Tell me,â he repeated, harsher than before, âhow good it feels.â
As soon as he released his grip on your pulse, you cried out. âSo good!â you sobbed. âSo good, Peter, it f-feels so goodâŚâ
âGood enough to make you come?â he smirked. âI think so, with the way this needy little cunt is squeezing me so tight already. Are you close, baby? Fuck, I hope so, I wanna see you come for my cock.â
You breathed through your teeth, hoping you could will yourself not to, but at this point was it even worth the effort? Maybe giving into him really was the best thingâ youâd already told him how good it felt, youâd already come from his mouth, youâd already pleaded weakly for him to be gentle only for him to fuck you with a vengeance. How much more dignity could you possibly lose?
âBeg me to let you come,â he instructed, âand then beg me to come inside you.â
Okay, so thatâs a lot more dignity you had left to lose.
âN-no, Peter,â you whimpered, âIâm notâ you canâtâ Iâm not onââ
You were cut off with a choke again, your cries sputtering into silence. âYou should learn to do what youâre told,â he grunted. âIâll keep choking you until you pass out, I donât care. If you want to breathe, donât take that air for granted. Beg.â
You shook your head against the grip on your neck, even with the spots of black dancing at the edge of your vision. Your hands clawed at his, uselessly fighting his impossible strength.
âAre you ready to beg yet, sweetheart?â he whispered. With hot tears filling your darkening eyes, you finally nodded. He let go and a gasp filled your lungs.
âPlease, Peter,â you cried instantly, voice still hoarse and weak from the lack of air, âpleaseâ let me come. I wanna come for you, pleaseâŚâ
âThatâs good,â he encouraged, âkeep going.â
âPlease!â you yelped, repeating it over and over until the word had lost all meaning and just because the noises of your despair as pleasure filled you past the point of no return. You were terrified of what would happen if you came without his permission, and worse, you were sure he would be able to tell since he could feel your walls pulsing and, apparently, smell your fear which was a horrifying thought.
âOkay, baby,â he groaned, pumping into you faster and harder until your hips were slamming into the wall in front of you painfully. âGo ahead and come for me.â
âFuck!â you cried, your legs shaking as you tried to hold yourself up on wobbly knees, pleasure rocking your body ruthlessly and relentlessly. You heard him chuckle softly against your ear, mumbling his approval, but his words were just static in the pleasured haze of your mind, your body limp and drained of all fight as he used your body to chase his own high.
âNow beg me to come inside you,â he reminded you with a growl. âBeg me to fill up this little pussy with my come.â
âI canât,â you breathed, barely audible.
âOh, sweetheart, itâs not that hard. Are you too dumb to beg, little baby? Are you all stupid now that my cockâs in you?â
You whimpered but couldnât muster words.
âAll you can do is whine and cry like the dumb baby you are, hm? Then I donât think you get to breathe anymore,â he frowned, disappointed as he tightened his hand around your neck again.
âWaitââ you pleaded with the last of your breath, feeling his grip hesitate. âPlease,â you gasped, swallowing dryly to try to stomach your own words, âplease come inside me⌠fill up my⌠my little pussy, with your come, please, Peter.â
He grinned, giving you a chaste kiss on the cheek. âGood job, sweetheart,â he praised, âyouâre gonna get exactly what youâre asking forâŚâ
You grimaced as you felt him start to flex and pulse inside you, warmth spreading between your legs and leaking out of you to drip down around his cock.
âFuuuuuck,â he groaned slowly, your name leaving his lips in a sigh as he started to catch his breath.
And then it was just the two of you, alone in this empty classroom, sweaty and panting and sticky in the worst possible places.
The moment he pulled out of you and stepped back, his weight no longer holding you up against the wall, you crumpled to the floor. When he observed you lying there, he seemed proud of his work.
You sort of expected him to just leave you on the floor, but he was gentlemanly enough to help you up and even to pull your jeans up for you, dooming you to a fate of ruined panties as his come seeped from your abused entrance. Your shirt and bra were ruined, meaning you would have to put on your jacket and zip it up all the way to be able to get off of campus without some indecent exposure.
"This was fun," he announced, "we should do it again some time."
"Yeah, no thanks," you scoffed as you started to walk towards the doorâ but he stopped you by grabbing your arm, turning you to face him.
"You can go, for now," he hissed, "but I'm not anywhere near done with you. Understand?"
You nodded sheepishly, and he finally let go. Like you'd wanted to more than anything since he'd appeared behind you, you finally slipped out through the door. You tried not to think about what had just occurred. You tried not to think about his promise that it would happen again. You tried not to think about how he had made you come taster and harder than you ever had before.
Maybe he was right, and you really do like 'em mean after all.
#peter parker smut#peter parker x reader#dark!peter parker x reader#dark!peter parker x you#peter parker noncon
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@midnitedraws replied to your post âFrank what kind of DnD character would you playâ
but what character class? barbarian, ranger, sorcerer, rogue, etc? and would you play an elf or a human or a dwarf or something else?
Hmm. The kind of "character" I like playing is "a person who isn't any of those."
And in my RPG it's kind of all over the place. I don't want the kind of character that most traditional RPGs expect. I would rather not play a fighter or a wizard because I don't want to feel limited by my character class. So what I play is sort of like an "exploration" character: more or less a generic adventurer, with the goal of getting all the way to the end of something I'd like to do, and if there is any particular flavor to the character it's only flavor.
I think the "exploration" character in my system is more of a "lamp bearer" than a "fighter" or "wizard" because I don't have a strong attachment to any sort of "classes" I can easily identify with (there are no classes, really).
I started playing last Friday in the context of an event called the "Toxic Waste Festival." I am not very good at this game. I'm playing as a "dumb wizard" who just wanted a vacation and wandered into this horrible mess. That's all. I'm not even going to try to get any real goals.
At a certain point, the game starts to really get fun. I started actually running some kind of organization here: making sure there was enough water, and a few people actually had the common sense to bring a radio or a flashlight. It was a great bonding experience, the kind of bonding experience you find in an RPG where there is no specific sense of "I'm a rogue," or "I'm a wizard," or even "I'm a person who has certain powers which let me do things." It's "people who get along because we're on the same side of this weird situation." I did a lot of "hiding from guards" stuff, not because I'm a sneaky bastard but just because I can't be seen as an "active" character by default.
I got to a point where I had to choose between playing the dumb wizard and playing the cool "discovery guy" who makes people talk to him. I tried the wizard, who was pretty successful (though he was constantly making horrible choices). Then I gave it up and went into the exploration mode. I went to the town and explored. There were these big wooden towers, which looked kind of like something out of Tolkien. I started running a quest to get back inside the tower, but the quest needed an introduction and the introduction was in another town that was a good way away. So I did a whole "discovery quest" in which I traveled around and saw everything. I ran across a big open field, I climbed a small tree and started talking to a talking bee about the nature of reality.
That's where I went when the festival ended, of course. This was a week ago. I'm staying in a hostel. I've met some people from my hometown who are visiting the festival, and had the same chance to wander around as I did before.
Now I have a goal. I'm not going to tell you what my goal is, because it is "the quest for meaning" (a word I really like) and I think there's something a little suspect about setting "goals" that are "meaning." I've made my goal explicit in order to help me stay in the flow.
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"Alright, what the fuck, Potter?" Draco seethed. This was the seventh house they'd seen this week and it was the seventh house that Harry had come up with some highly ridiculous excuse as to why it wasn't right for them. This time it had been the number of outlets in the kitchen. As though they were even going to be using outlets.
Harry blinked over at him and waved at their realtor who'd already crossed the street. "What?" he asked overly innocently as he started walking down the street toward a place they could apparate from without being seen.
Draco caught his elbow, "Harry."
Harry sighed and scuffed the toe of his trainers on the sidewalk.
"You were the one who said you wanted to move into a muggle neighborhood," Draco reminded him. "You were the one who wanted out of wizarding London." He took a deep breath and forced himself to say the words he didn't want to; being vulnerable had never come easily to him. "You were the one who asked me to move in with you." Harry's head snapped up, brow furrowed like he couldn't understand what that had to do with everything else. "If you don't want to live with me," Draco said, fighting to remain calm, "Just say so. You don't have to keep making up ludicrous excuses as to-"
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"Draco," Harry said, catching his hands in his, "Godric, I'm sorry. I want to live with you. Truly-"
"Then why-"
"The houses. They're not right."
"Harry Potter you don't give a flying fuck about outlets in a kitchen. We won't need them. And you," he added, pointing a finger, "you don't even care about having a back garden at Grimmauld place. And-"
Harry rubbed his hand over his neck, "Can we not do this here?"
"Where would you like to do it?" Draco asked in exasperation.
"At your flat?" Harry asked. "Please Draco? I swear it's not about you," he said earnestly.
Draco looked at him for a long moment then nodded once.
Neither of them spoke on the way, Harry fidgeted anxiously and it took everything in Draco not to reach over, take his hands, and still them with his. Eventually, they reached the edge of the small town and headed into the woods. Draco reached over and gently clasped Harry's elbow, after looking around to make sure no one would see, he apparated the two of them back to his flat.
"Tea?" Draco asked when they landed, heading toward the kitchen without waiting for the other man to respond.
Harry followed behind him and sat down at the island, "I think," he said, voice soft and a bit tremulous, "It's time for me to tell you about the Dursleys."
Draco's brow furrowed and he glanced over his shoulder at Harry, "About your aunt and uncle?" he asked, wondering what they could have to do with anything.
Harry sighed, "Yes."
The kettle whistled and Draco quickly made tea, passing Harry his favorite cup. It was his favorite mostly because it was the "perfect size to drink your tea before it gets cold" but Draco knew that secretly, he loved that it proclaimed, "This is my Bah-hum-mug" on the side. Harry had giggled at that mug for five minutes when they'd come across it in a muggle shop and Draco had found his way back the next day to buy it for him as a surprise.
Harry gave him a little smile as he accepted the mug. "I've gone to therapy," he said after taking a sip of his tea.
"I know that," Draco replied, brow furrowing. "As have I."
"What I mean to say is that the Dursleys, while they still bother me sometimes and while I still have to work against some of the intrinsic things they taught me, they aren't really something I struggle with that much anymore."
He frowned, "Alright," he said, wondering again what this had to do with the houses they were looking at.
"They were abusive arseholes, that's the short of it," Harry said on an exhale. "I don't particularly want to rehash it, unless you think it's important for you to hear it?" he asked, looking up at Draco.
"Harry, I want to know whatever you want to tell me. If you want to talk about them, I want to listen; if you don't want to talk about them, I don't need to know."
Harry gave him a little smile, "I don't want to talk about them. But not because it's you-"
Draco nodded and covered his hand, there were plenty of things that he'd worked through in therapy that he didn't necessarily want to rehash either, "I understand."
Harry exhaled. "Right, so the thing that's important for you to understand is that the Dursleys had a cupboard under the stairs when you came into the house. It was meant to be for coats and things, I'd imagine, but instead they put me in there."
Draco frowned, "Like as punishment?"
"No," Harry said, "Well, yes," he added, "But then they locked me in it. No, the cupboard under the stairs was my room until the summer after my first year at Hogwarts when they were afraid that someone would find out."
Draco could scarcely comprehend what the other man was saying, "I'm sorry," he said, shaking his head, "They kept you in a closet?"
"Yes. And sometimes they locked me in it when I'd 'misbehaved'" he said, adding in air quotes, "Which really meant when I'd done some accidental magic." He rubbed a hand up the back of his neck, "It was all I'd ever known at the time and in the grand scheme of things," he shrugged. "I didn't even realize that they'd been abusive until after the war."
Draco covered Harry's hand with his own and Harry gave him a weak smile.
"It's okay now," he said. "Well, I'm working through it anyway. But I just," he sighed, "It sounds stupid, but houses with closets under the stairs freak me out," he said quickly. "And I know it's totally irrational-"
"Wait," Draco said, mind racing as he thought back to the houses they'd looked at. "Harry, why didn't you say so?"
"Because it's stupid," Harry exploded, obviously frustrated with himself. "It's dumb and it shouldn't matter."
"Did you think it was stupid when I said that we needed a house with two bathrooms?"
"Of course not-"
"Or when I demanded that we find a house with a walk-in closet?"
"Draco, no-"
"Or when I said the house had to have a dining room separate from the kitchen?"
"Babe," he said, "Of course I didn't."
"What about when I said we needed to have two guest rooms in case multiple friends came to visit?"
"No," Harry said, "This isn't about you-"
"No, it's not," Draco agreed. "Because you are willing to give me anything I want, but you're not willing to ask for even one little thing in return."
"It's different," Harry protested. "Everything that you want is reasonable."
"Potter, if I said I wanted to have a house with an attached two car garage, you would say yes and we don't even own cars!"
Harry folded his arms over his chest, "But if we were living in the muggle world we might."
"I could demand a house with an indoor pool and you'd find one," he exclaimed. "Admit it. You wouldn't deny me anything."
Harry looked down at his tea cup, rubbing his thumb along the rim.
"Darling," he said softly, squeezing Harry's hand, "There is nothing I'd deny you, either."
"I know," Harry sniffed. "It just feels stupid-"
"It's not." Harry looked up at him. "It's not, Harry."
He nodded once.
Draco smiled, "Now, let's go look at houses we like," he said, pulling out the laptop that had an extensive set of protection spells in place to keep their magic from frying it. "I wonder if there's a filter for closets under staircases?" he mused.
"Draco?"
He tilted his head up, but kept looking at the sorting feature on the website. "Hmm?"
"I love you."
He looked up and smiled, "I love you, too." After a moment, he cleared his throat, "Now get over here so we can look for houses."
Harry came around the island and sat next to him and they spent the afternoon looking at pictures of houses and imagining the future they were making for themselves.
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Okay I just wanna say that I really love your writing!!! Hope you and chimmy are doing well! Can I request a drabble with merman tae and y/n's a human and they're childhood besties and tae likes her but she's a dumb little bean. I just realised how many 'ands' are in that sentence. If you don't like it then...ahem know that I still love you!!! đđđ
pearl of mine
pairing: taehyung x y/n
wordcount: 5k
glimpse: merman!tae is the reason why tourists canât find any more shells and pearls in the shore, y/n owns more beach houses than deduction skills, and concierge!yoongiâs the hero :D // gif from pinterest
notes: are u kidding me baby i love it AND you!!!! chimmy barks his regards <3
âhmm? whereâs barnacle boy?â
alright there goes your peace and quiet
itâs very nice to know that where yoongi is, translates to meaning that all your peaceful thoughts automatically arenât there
if heâs not manning the concierge, it means heâs there keeping you company!!
annoying you
your ten minutes of bliss of just having your calves dipped into the water is interrupted now but itâs ok!!
after all, yoongiâs ur right-hand man anyways!! heâs the one who keeps track of everything and youâre so close to convicing your dad to put him in the family will too
you canât manage your family business all by yourself!! how exactly are you gonna manage fIVE of the hotels that your parents have put under your care by yourself
five of the seventeen hotels that your family owns..,.,.,
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your dad gives you tOO much trust and he believes in you like actually a lot
a lot more than you could ever trust yourself tbh
he doesnât want you to take charge only when he retires or dies!! youâre his little dove and he wants you to be as immersed in your familyâs group of companies
itâs generous but of course itâs hectic
which is why youâre spearheading the handling of the actual main hotel heâs put under you!!
and the rest of the less major ones, youâve had to go through a long and tedious process for so you could find an actual trustable manager and supervisor that wouldnât commit embezzlement and-
yoongiâs about to scare you again by nudging your lower back with his foot, but youâre ahead of him when you nip his ankle with your nails
â... itâs mermaid man.â
he scoffs out a laugh because what was supposed to be a teasing nudge for your friend thatâs clearly nOT human, turned to your joke instead of his
he doesnât need to look at his watch to know what time it was by then bc heâs practically memorized the skies and the tide at this point
every 5:20 in the afternoon, you and taehyung would meet here!!
you come outside at exactly 4:50 to give yourself some leeway into preparing whatever youâd be giving him or rather, pestering yoongi what you think you should give him for that afternoon
it doesnât necessarily have to be grand! on most days you just make him waffles without the crusty edges (he likes it the most when itâs so hot that it was still soft and jiggly) and the filling would be whatever food he hasnât tried yet
.... basically.......... almost everything
but now itâs 5:23 and he could tell with how the water didnât settle to the wooden platform as well as it did when it was 5:20
yoongi could actually TELL the difference because heâs seen you do this for the four years heâs been working here
the hotel had three wings â the shore wing, the balcony-sturdy-treehouse-type of wing, and the cabana wing
you bounce all around the place because naturally, you aRE the boss here, but afternoons really were just reserved for the cabana wing
where thereâs a staff cabana by one of the wooden paths that lead to it, and one specifically reserved for you and probably yoongi now lmao bc he wouldnât take a nap anywhere else
itâs you just sitting by the deck of your cabana that houses your too-expensive waffle maker, and a cozy blanket then deck pillows outside where you lay when taehyungâs there perched by the wood
you easily have three plates always, and yoongi just goes a lil bit soft that you let him intrude your routine with the merman
but today, all that highLy seems unlikely
âheâs totally not coming,â he exaggerates all in one breath, not having the decency to wait bc heâs stuffing his cheeks full with waffles
everythingâs a hit or miss with mermaid man anyways and yoongi would rather nOT try his adventures of waffles with buttered rice in between no thank u
so thatâs why heâs sticking with his trusty sâmores waffle!!! :D
put chocolate spread in between while itâs STILL in the pan, then tiny little marshmallows with crushed graham crackers and 10/10 u will see heaven
he gets crumbs on your sundress and you barely even grimace because youâre used to yoongi and all his yoongi-ness at this point
âyes he is! weâve been doing this everyday without fail for like, twelve years already.â
you know what.,.,., maybe even longer than twelve years
this oneâs marked on your calendar you can just SNIFF it
what you distinctly remember is your dad picking you up from school then suddenly deciding that heâll teach you the ropes
you knew what everything was coming to because suddenly, youâd take your daily after-school snacks at the hotel
and then your weekends were slowly merging into memorizing names and amenities
... and then sitting by your dadâs chair with a juicebox when he had meetings
then before you even realize, youâre managing five hotels under your name and a particularly large one mainly
it was when youâve had a suckish day at school because you cannot seem to just gET the multiplication table of 7 and your dadâs chasing after you again so you could get to see the fire escape plans as âfun little puzzles!!â
ya know what maybe you should go outside
it didnât exactly click into your young mind that holy shit your familyâs LOADED
all you knew was that people greeted you left and right even if you didnât know them and youâd always be offered stuff you didnât even ask for :D
all you cared about was skipping by the cabanas but holding by the rope on the side bc what if you fell lmao
yet what did fall to the water beside you was your bracelet!!!
:((
a red, single-threaded, string bracelet from your wrist that mustâve gotten loose
itâs something youâve never took off and the sheer panic in your mind was tOO HIGH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
even before you could call out to your dad though, or any of the staff that would literally drop everything to help you, something just shifts in the water
itâs too quick for you to even decipher and the multiplication table of 7 wouldâve been easier to figure out
the moment you crouch by the end of the deck was when you see it aGAIN
thereâs this incredibly pretty boy that emerges from the water, only his shoulders up to his head peeking out
he most certainly didnât look... from around here tho
your attentionâs immediately fixated on your bracelet, the one on his mouth as he only tilts his head when you do the same, an eager squeal breaking him out
hold on
wait a second
youâve seen this in the tv sometimes!!! they were uh creatures that liked being by themselves in the sea
lol which is basically every sea creature
but the narrator said something about them looking like humans???
AND BESIDES
you overhear your dad talking about them sometimes
AND THEN IT HITS
THE HANDSOME FACE!! THE SHINY PRETTY-
up and age???
opened etch????
how do u spell that again
THE TAIL!!! THE PRETTY TAIL LOOKING LIKE THING!!!
âo-oh!! youâre-...â
ât-taehyung...?â
the boy who looks like your age replies, looking unsure of himself yet didnât want to disappoint you either
you meant merman but itâs okay!!
your hands retrieve the bracelet from his mouth, a little giggle at the complexity of the situation
he was completely sold at that
this was his first human!!! his first actual human interaction and it wasnât really bad as what his brothers painted out to be
you and taehyung took off from then and ya know what,,, maybe you even start purposefully dropping things in the water if you feel a little impatient that he hasnât peeked his head yet
and yes yes thatâs a completely iRRESPONSIBLE thing and your dad stopped you before you could possibly throw out a whole backpack into the water
which was weird for him to look at because thereâs absolutely no one he could see in the water
it was a routine that not one of you ever skipped on once!!
even if you were sick and tae thinks that itâs the most pathetic thing because he doesnât EVER get sick??? sue him for having a cold because heâs in the water 24/7 yea
even if one was late and wouldnât be able to see the other, there would be an item placed by the deck as proof that they were indeed there!!
tae sometimes leaves a random conch shell or even seaweed in the shape of a heart when heâs swamped with his arrangements
even if thereâs a storm, which taehyung absolutely loves because the waterâs all cold!!! and it gives him a fun little ride when the waves are all wonky
you leave out a lunchbox thatâs snug in a fixed mailbox (you forced yoongi to attach it) by the side of the deck poles and that would count as your attendance
âyes he is! weâve been doing this everyday without fail for like, twelve years already.â
you are totally UNBELIEVABLE
yoongi snorts, almost choking on his waffles with how hard he did it
âand youâre twelve years dumb.â
ok now you take offense
huh???
âwhatâs that supposed to mean?â
you canât be any more clueless, can you??
as if on cue, thereâs the familar flop and splash that you nudge yoongi to be in his best behavior
taehyung makes his afternoon appearance by outlandishly doing his trick in the air, undoubtedly giving you a splash youâre used to by now
he literally does not care at the thought of anyone possible seeing him
besides, they physically canât anyway because thereâs a spell cast onto the area, allowing nobody to see them besides you
... and yoongi ://
heâs rather grand with his gestures and his words and even before taehyung knew the common lingo on ground, you could tell he was a little more stubborn with his strong expressions
after all, taehyungâs a prince at sea but at land.,.,.,.
<3 well <3
âiâm here!â
taehyung bEAMS radiantly, making you crouch and hold out your hands, him putting his face out immediately for you to squish
âoh, oh! i got you something, y/n!â
he seems to remember out of the blue in the middle of chewing his waffles, yoongi having to suppress another sigh
the prettiest pearl necklace :-)
âtae i already told you that-...â
youâre about to start berating him again with the gifts because what seemed to be so ordinary for him is very fAR from yours
you pout and tae only pushes the necklce to you further, not taking no for answer when he had to squint his eyes extra hard to look for the pearls this morning
to be honest you have sO much jewelry from taehyung
the common theme of it was of course theyâre something you could get at sEA
and whenever people ask you about them, u have no idea how to tell where you got them
todayâs pearl necklace was a little different â something more dainty and smaller and wraps around your neck like a choker would, a little more suited for everyday wear
âthank you!!!â
you smooch taehyung on the cheek extra quick and it takes every fiber in his tail to stop squealing
yoongi watches you two be disgustingly sweet and PLATONIC yet again, and he could only zero in on the pearl necklace around your neck
that is the fifth time this week
that is the fifth set of pearls youâve gotten this week
normally youâd get a pearl every now and then and the often minuature sand sculptures
but this week changes the wHOLE ball game
âdo you want a pearl ring?â
taehyung wiggles his eyebrows, boxy smile on full display and he looks breathtaking in the golden hours that you immediately poke his cheek
yoongiâs eyes widen because thatâs literally-
you donât seem to find the weight on his question because you only let out a non-commital sound and whisk him away on another conversation about his day
heâs long since dropped out of yours and taehyungâs conversation, going back to the concierge because his presence is required
and he still canât shake off how CLUELESS you are
itâs when the night gets a little more chilly and you could see taehyung go beneath the water more often, taking it as a sign that heâs going back and his brothers are looking for him
ânight-night, tae.â
you offer the top of his head a kiss, rushing back to the cabana to put on your coat and right on time, you miss the way taehyungâs eyes are bigger than a goldfishâs
(@_@)
oh my god
oh my fucking god
taehyung really hATES you
he hates you so much!!!!
SO SO MUCH
he resigns back into the water and he doesnât even move at all
just defeatedly sits on the seabed and his aura effectively puts off everything around him
his heartâs beyond heavy and his eyes sting and he never wants to resurface ever again
heâs trying not to get upset too much because his emotions have the capacity of changing the tide and it would literally resonate through the seas if he gets even more sad
taehyungâs trying to rEPRESS everything back in but itâs no use :((
âhey, hey, calm down. whatâs wrong?â
his brother immediately swims to his side at the first slight tremor he felt, having only little trouble in locating him
âi-i asked y/n if she wanted a pearl-...â tae stutters and he has to physically hold his chest to not sOB at your name, an insurmountable feeling of dread at his chestÂ
yeah, you! namjoon knows you
in fact all his brothers know you and youâve met each other multiple times, but not as often as you and tae did
they donât need to see you everyday to know that taehyung is head over tails in LOVE with you
the mention of you and their brotherâs gifts in the same sentence isnât anything new
âokay? but you give her pearls all the time? and-â
â... ring.â
oh
OH
pearl ring
âyeah? and what did she say?â
joon himself tries to quell the distress he feels because taehyungâs emotions are morE than potent to affect to everyone, most especially his brothers
he sees the others swimming to them from afar, worried frowns already on their faces and namjoon doesnât want to panic even more
ânothing!! she said nOTHING!!!!â
jungkook tilts his head, cheeks puffed out as he tries to diffuse the situation
âbut tae, it could mean-...â
ânothing. y/n absolutely wants nothing to do with me!â
taehyung half-huffs and half-sobs, immediately swimming past them that leaves them confused and with a headache
this was definitely going to be a problem
it already is
today has got to be the slowest day ever
the water is so still and timid
oh my god it literally just looks like tap water in a bathtub thatâs untouched
youâve noticed in the first thing in the morning
was it nORMAL to have the water so still???? practically no waves at all??? not even ripples????
you must be losing your mind right
you dragged yoongi from the concierge desk all the way outside
he squints his eyes because the water.... is definitely not supposed to be this way....
âhuh. now thatâs just odd.â
some of your patrons donât seem to mind at all because that just means they could go take their pictures without waves putting their phones at risk
but nO
most especially the swimmers n the surfers and even the lifeguard are all ????
everyoneâs collectively looking at the water
yoongi takes a twig and just pokes at it to go do ATLEAST something, but even the ripples it produces are mundane
the water is too still and it makes you miss the one who makes it all better
you spend the better part of your whole day in your sundress and hanging around the cabana, yoongi scrunching his nose up at the fact that he seemed to be more active than the actual hotelier here today
âtaehyung doesnât go up for another seven hours, yâknow?â
he finds you sitting by the edge of the deck, feet vigorously splashing around the water without any resistance at all that it feels so unnerving
âyea i know that... just wanted to hang out with him.â
you murmur out the last part, making yoongs do a double-take at his boss who was never this soft-spoken
âand thatâs what youâve been doing ever since childhood? sit by the edge then hang out?â
he wants to push a couple of buttons to get you out of your phase of the day today, but he only gets some insistent nodding and nothing more
âthatâs so mundane. thatâs literally a decade-long routine!!â
âitâs a routine i donât mind!!â
and thatâs true
itâs a routine you want to do with the rest of your life because it now feels like the equivalent of showering basically
you feel so incomplete without it and satisfaction doesnât settle on your bones until you do it with taehyung :D
âsurely, there must be sOME reason for taehyung to not get bored from doing the same thing with you, right?â
alright one more nudge
youâre considerably more perky now thatâs for sure
but that doesnât mean any less clueless unfortunately
âmust be the food!!â
oh my god,,,,,, u are so dumb
he leaves you alone and you donât even question it because youâre too busy waiting for taehyung
you expect the tide to change when itâs already noon but really, nothing happens still
5:20 passes and he still isnât there
itâs time for dinner and yoongi has to fetch you aLL the way from the other side of the wings he needed to supervised because youâre spending all your time waiting
you were supposed to have dinner with staff tonight but you donât even think twice in telling him to go eat without you, giving the company card more than eagerly
âdonât you think itâs time to go home?â
yoongi pipes up when theyâve finished dinner and youâre still there
he feels so sorry for you :((
âw-what if he shows up last minute?â
thereâs still hope in your voice and he doesnât want to taint it as much as people
âhey. they need sleep too. you should go get some for yourself too, okay? now just leave a cookie or something,â he has to pry you off the deck himself, not wanting to feel any more sorry for you because youâre starting to tremble with how chilly the air is
taehyung doesnât resurface the next day
or the next
and the day after that
taehyung doesnât show up the entire week.
youâre worried OUT of your mind and youâre tempted to just take your dadâs yacht and sail across the water to try and look for him
or oR maybe you should get one of the divers to try and look for him!!!! but no that wouldnât work, would it??
how about you go and look for tae yourself???
yoongiâs been busy with the hotel bc the actual hotelier of it (read: you) is too busy MOPING
youâve ditched your sundresses and waited in hoodies and sweatpants you could roll up in the morning and roll down at night to wait for him
most people donât even recognize you as the owner and they just walk rIGHT past you when they see you in the hallways
youâve also been stress-making waffles that you reek of the batter and butter, the staff now having an abundance of experimental ones that youâve made
youâre definitely not okay
âuh y/n you really rEALLY need to go to sleep.,.,â
yoongi gapes at you when he visits you at the cabana, clearing his schedule out to go watch over you and bc your dad wonât sit still with how unkempt youâve been
he gestures to the hammock youâve always begged him to put up, but his handiworkâs wASTED because you donât even spend more than five seconds looking at it
you should be screaming with glee by now :((
how in the world could he possibly distract you from crushing sadness and worry
heâs been brainstorming the past week and his headâs even more hollow than the decorative coconuts in the gift shop
... wait a minute
hey this has got to be his most stupid idea but the one with the most promising results!!!!!
11/10 risky but itâs the cLOSEST he could get!!
âhey do you wanna do something stupid??â
your eyes glance at him immediately because itâs the first question heâs ever asked you besides if youâre okay or when was the last time you slept or when do you intend on picking yourself up
yoongi fishes for his tablet and whips up a video immediately, only taking minutes for him to explain and seconds for you to agree
itâs what made you end up this way
itâs the reason in your swimsuit with your legs all the way inside a duvet cover and the corners of it knotted tightly on your waist
you donât know how yoongiâs managed to convince you to race him in swimming with your whole lower body inside a king-sized dUVET cover from one of the cabanas whose guests are arriving in an hour, but here you are lmao
âfirst one to the furthest cabana wins, alright?â
he practically yelps in explaining in an effort to hype you up and a hundred dollars dOES seem to make him excited himselfÂ
youâre buzzing for the first time in the week and itâs the panicked shoves you try to give each other before starting that kicks you off in an eager moodÂ
âGO!â
you immediately dive in and you donât expect the heaviness of your makeshift tail behind you, momentarily cussing yourself because wHY on earth did you get the high-quality ones smh ://
oh my god this is so fucking stupid and oddly enough, youâre ENJOYING it
you canât exactly paddle your legs fluidly like the times when they arenât wrapped in a duvet, and the distance of the last cabana seems so tiring now that u think about it
yoongiâs already ahead and you donât get HOW has he managed to come that far???
also not to mention that the gap between the two of you is large and now youâre just struggling to even move
also doesnât help oNE bit with how good of a handyman yoongi also is because that is one secure knot you got there sir
itâs only dawning in you that youâre NOT well-versed in swimming!!
not even close to an expert!!! all you know are the basics
but the basics seem hard to even apply when youâre dragging a king-sized duvet cover by your legs
youâd expect more skills from someone whose family owns water-centric properties bUT NO <3
youâre flailing almost to the bottom and your eyes sting then your limbs feel heavy
youâre not necessarily drowning either, it just feels so difficult to swim back up
youâre about to try again and boost yourself up by pushing from the floor but then suddenly youâre being HAULED BACK UP
you have no chance to even try and get away because you know that the hand around your waist arenât yoongiâs
âare you out of your goddamn mind???â
you instinctively take a big gulp of air when you come up the surface, legs fluttering now that you have some type of support to keep you up
âwhy would you do this?? who did this??â
the deep voice only registers in you seconds later that itâs taehyung whoâs in front of you and holding you up, staring you down intensely
your puzzlement only frustrates him even more, going back down while keeping his hands on your waist before he untangles the duvet cover by your legs rather quickly and powerfully
he emerges back up and heâs looking at you with sO much stress that you wanna dive back down
ây-yoo-...â
you donât even manage to finish speaking before taehyung snaps his gaze away from you and really yELLS
âYOONGI!!!â
as if he didnât manage to startle you enough, he looks back at you and pats at you all over out of instinct, wanting to know if youâre hurt by any means
youâre more shocked but itâs over the fact that youâre finally seeing him again
this isnât the first time youâve swam with taehyung but this IS the first time in this context
youâve never been this close to him either and youâre out of breath just by looking at him
he doesnât seem to share the sentiment though because he looks like heâs gonna pull his hair out in both relief and frustration
âoh my god! i fucking thought that my soulmate would die in a â i-in a bedsheet!â
you are so ridiculous that it actually makes his heart clench
he intentionally didnât come to see you for a week because he was so hurt over your rejection
he did see you from a distance and he also has a particular someone to watch over you, but he never imagined that youâd be doing THIS
his heart just minutes ago was beating against his ribcage because his soulmate was in danger!!! he physically and literally cannot drown but thatâs what it felt like
âiâm your soulmate?â
your breathless gasp explains it all
:O
oh so...
oh my god how could you have nOT known this all along???
HOW COULD YOU BE SO OBLIVIOUS
taehyung probably acted this way and most especially that way when he ignored you!!!
you vaguely remember yoongi telling you that pearls PROBABLY mean a lot to taehyung even if the tone heâs used on you is beyond certain
the pearl ring was meant for courting!!!
that explains why yoongi gasped and looked at you inrcredulously!!!!
no heâs been courting you ALL this time
you are so..... insuffeable
âiâm so sorry!!âÂ
youâve crammed in twelve years of experience into two minutes of critical thinking, throwing your arms around taehyung and burying your face into his neck
he grunts a bit at that but heâs not complaining at all
âyou mUST hate me,â you frown and the need to cry overpowers you, taehyung sensing it again which is why he immediately strokes your nape in comfort
âi could never.â
the waves come back and even if theyâre present, the water was calming
youâre too entranced with tae and your realizations to even notice that the water felt so much better compared to when it was dead still
itâs when you hear a familiar set of giggles that you sNAP your head in anger
yOONGI????
yoongiâs much more near you now, floating and floating until you make the move to look down and see not a duvet cover, but rather a tangerine-colored tail by him
all youâve been doing this day is squeaking
tae, although still a lil bit mad at yoongi because heâs endangered you, smiles at his informant whoâs helped make him last through the week
âhalf-merman!! iâm sorry if i didnât tell you sooner, y/n. but since taeâs full, thatâs the reason he could only come on land once a month! and since iâm half, i could only come underwater once a month!!â
he grins at his explanation heâs been trying to piece together for the last couple of months
ok maybe years
it probably explained to why itâs no accident that heâs clicked with you instantly and he trusts you with his whole life!! you were truly a gentle human thatâs an all-rounder
also explains to why yoongi wasnât all THAT shocked when you brought him out one day on his first year of working and pleaded taehyung to rise up with only even his eyes blinking up at him
no wonder tae warmed up to yoongi quick even if he did say he had distrust with majority of humans!!
how could you not doubt for one second that itâs the reason why heâs always been really good at swimming too and holding his breath
yoongi chose his day of the month to be today because you were so down in the dumps, and aLSO for the reasoning that he missed the boys so thatâs why heâs going down there in a heartbeat
taehyung pinches at your thigh, a bright grin on your face when you come face to face with him after waving yoongi goodbye
âare you gonna make me wait another twelve years more?â
he pecks your cheek and it doesnât feel platonic anymore, a giddy smile in realization that youâve finally come to your senses
âwould you mind?â
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the teasing lilt in your voice doesnât seem to go anywhere anytime soon hee-hee
âmaybe a little but-â
âno more waiting.â
you kiss taehyung and almost launch yourself at him, savoring the taste of him on your tongue that he has to grip your thighs around his waist a little tighter
yeah ur a little slow but ur spirits are high!! youâre on the right direction!!
youâre definitely worth waiting for
and panicking over
and courting
and loving
:)
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Stark Spangled Banner
Ch6: That Makes Two Of Us
Summary: Things heat up between Katie and Steve as their relationship progresses, but when Tony caches them out, heâs on the war path.
Pairing: Steve Rogers x OFC Katie Stark
Warnings: Bad Language, Smut (dry humping, oral- male receiving) NSFW, 18+. and a VERY angry Big Brother...
A/N: One of my favourite chapters. Thank you to @angrybirdcrâ , its a pleasure to have your edits for the repostings!
Disclaimer: This is a pure work of fiction and classified as 18+. Please respect this and do not read if you are underage. I do not own any characters in this series bar Katie Stark and the other OCs. By reading beyond this point you understand and accept the terms of this disclaimer.
Chapter 5
Stark Spangled Banner Masterlist // Main Masterlist
End of May 2013
âFor the one hundredth time, no, Tony I am NOT coming.â Katie groaned as she pulled up outside Steveâs apartment building âI have work to do.â âBut the damned meeting is in DC!â Tony protested âSurely you can manage to spare an hour! Youâre part of the board!â âYou know full well thatâs only to make sure that Starks maintain a controlling stake!â
âSo basically what youâre saying is that you donât care about our business.â Her brotherâs voice took on a petulant tone. He could be such a child at times. âStop being a dick.â She sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose âLook, Iâm busy with work, I canât just drop everything you know just because you-â âHave you got a man on the go?â Tony asked suddenly, cutting her off âBecause Iâve not seen you for weeks. Do I need to prep a Shovel Talk?â âGoodbye, Tony.â Katie cancelled the call before she stepped out of the car and headed to the lobby door.
In his apartment Steve was reading a proposal and groaning to himself. They wanted him to record videos to talk to high school kids about puberty, keeping fit, being in detention, not doing drugsâŚand he had agreed, just to shut them up mainly, but he was already regretting his decision. With a final wrinkle of his nose, he threw down the document he was looking at and was about to make himself a coffee when the buzzer to his apartment went off.
âHey, Handsome.â Katieâs voice rang over the intercom and he smiled just as he always did when she called him that, a habit sheâd slipped easily into over the last three weeks of dating, which had consisted of early morning breakfast meets on their way into work, stolen lunchtimes away from the office where they could hold hands with a slice or a burrito as they walked around the Mal, three more intimate evening meals at quiet restaurants and one trip to the cinema. That had been Steveâs favourite date so far, not just because it had been his first time in a movie theatre since the 40s, but more so that he heâd enjoyed the feel of her as she leaned into him when heâd put his arm round the back of her chair, sharing popcorn, stolen quick kisses on the lips in the dark as they sat on the back row in between their bursts of hysterical laughter at the film. They had gone to see the third and final instalment of the Hangover trilogy, which Katie had been ridiculously excited about. She loved those films and Steve had to admit he agreed they were pretty good, as all three had made him laugh in places until tears rolled down his face. Movie and TV nights in their apartments had also turned into something special too as they snuggled down together, sharing snacks and personal space along with deep kisses that left him wanting a lot more⌠âHey Sweetheart, come on up.â
He waited for her by the door and felt his breath catch as she emerged onto the landing from the stairs. She was wearing a blue and white LA Dodgers T-shirt, which was tight and finished just above her hips and clung to her chest flashing a strip of her toned stomach, tight grey jeans which fit snug to her ass and black baseball boots. Steve had seen her in all sorts of clothing items- jeans, tops, dressesâŚbut never like this.
And fuck, she looked hot.
âHi!â She greeted him with a huge smile and a gentle kiss, standing on her toes to meet his lips, before she stepped into the apartment and headed into the living room. Spotting the file on the coffee table she picked it up.
âWhatâs this?â She asked, opening it.
âA proposal from Fury. Iâm going to be doing some videos, for high school kids..phys-ed classes that kinda thing.â âVideos?â âYeah, apparently they get Celebrities to do them normally but they thought theyâd use me this time.â Steve shrugged. âYouâre not some kind of performing monkey they can trot out when they want.â She winkled her nose in distaste as she remembered those awful USO videos as she thumbed through the file.Â
Steve smiled at her indignation on his behalf. âItâs only a couple of videos.â he assured her.Â
âHmm.â she dropped the file with disdain onto the table âAnyway, enough about that. You busy?â âWhen it comes to spending time with you? Never.â
âOh that was smooth, Captain Badass!â She smirked and he gave her a quick shrug and a smile.
âWhat you got in mind?â
Grinning like a Cheshire cat she pulled out what looked like two tickets from her back pocket and suddenly it became apparent why she was dressed as she was.
âAre weâŚno, youâre kidding?â Steve couldnât help the childish grin which flickered across his face âBaseball?â *****
âOh what?â Katie cried out, jumping to her feet as the umpire made an atrocious decision for what felt like the 100th time, turning to Steve in disgust. âIs this guy blind or just really fucking dumb?â
Steve let out a snort, leaning back in his seat with his hand gesturing to the field. âBlind, he has to be. No one can be that stupid. I mean heâs been calling bad ones all game.â
Katie angrily dropped to her chair and Steve gestured to the vendor for two more beers. He passed one to Katie who hesitated as she took it.
âI bought the car.â She said, looking at him.
âSweetheart,â he leaned over, kissing her cheek, âridiculously fast metabolism, remember? I canât get drunk. Iâll drive homeâŚâ
He handed over his money, waved away the little bit of change he would have received before he turned back to his girl who was pouting at him.
âThe last time you drove Rainey you didnât respect her. You drove her through a fuck tonne of puddles.â
âDoll, itâs aâŚâ
âEr, she.â Katie looked at him. âShe is not an itâŚâ
Steve rolled his eyes. She was ridiculously attached to her Range Rover. He had to admit, as far as cars went it was pretty damned nice both to be driven in and to drive. White with black wheels and windows, and every gadget in it known to man. Mind you, he expected nothing else from the Starks.
âOk, she is a damned four by fourâŚâ He raised an eyebrow for her. âTheyâre supposed to go off roading, so whatâs a few puddles?â
âOff roading?â Katie spluttered, her eyes wide. âNo! Youâre so not driving her ever again.â
âFine Iâll drink both of these then.â He shrugged, moving to take the beer heâd handed her back, and she moved it out of his reach, glaring at him. The desire to drink and have fun won out over protecting her car from a haphazard Captain who was on the sly a bit of a speed demon and probably never actually completed any kind of driving lesson in his life, let alone a test. She dug into her pocket and handed over her keys.
âOne scratch and youâre a dead man.â She narrowed her eyes playfully.
âIâll take good care of her.â He said solemnly, putting the keys into his pocket.
As the game progressed, despite his protestations that the LA Dodgers just werenât his team, he found himself rooting for them and he was getting more and more frustrated at the current batters method. The guy was swinging it around with more force than Thor wielded his hammer and it wasnât working. But just as Steve was about to let out another cry of frustration, the bat suddenly connected with the ball, and it was a good hit. Both Steve and Katie got to their feet shouting for the players to speed up and go for home. When they made it the pair both let out a loud cheer, and Steve hugged Katie, grinning wildly. At that moment, stood there, surrounded by strangers but with the girl who made him feel so grounded, he had never felt so normal since coming out of the ice, and he loved it.Â
The rest of the innings passed far too fast, but at the end of the game, the Dodgers won, much to Katieâs delight. They joined the throng of people streaming out of the stadium hand in hand and Steve, still grinning like an idiot felt Katie tug on his hand.
âShall we head for a drink?â She asked as he looked at her.
He nodded, tilting the peak of her cap back slightly and giving her a quick peck on the lips. âSounds great.â And it was a great idea. Until they parked up, walked into the sports bar and spotted half of STRIKE in there round a table.
âTurn around.â Katie hissed with a groan and, just as they were about to do so, Rumlow yelled from the bar.
âHey Cap, NovaâŚâ
âToo late.â Steve muttered as Katie rolled her eyes and turned round.
âFancy seeing you here!â Rumlow smiled and Katie shrugged.
âYeah, small world, huh?â
âYou want a beer, Cap?â Rumlow gestured to the bar and Steve nodded.
âSure, thanks.â
âStark, what do youâŚwoah, what is this shit?â Rumlow pointed at her shirt and it didnât escape Steveâs notice that the manâs gaze was lingering far too long on her boobs. He took a deep inhale, his fists clenching in his pockets as Katie let out a scoff. Â
âThis shit just kicked the Nationals asses!â she responded, jabbing Rumlow in his chest.
âWhatever man!â Rumlow shook his head. âFucking DodgersâŚâ They didnât have much option then but to join the rest of the team. Rumlow took the opportunity to eyeball Katie at every given opportunity and it was really starting to piss Steve off. At one time Katie looked up and caught Steve simply glaring at Rumlow, and in an attempt to keep him calm she gently squeezed his knee under the table. Steve was glad when it was his round, giving him an excuse to leave the table, Evans following to give him a hand.
âEnjoy your date?â Thee ginger haired man looked at Steve with a smirk.
âWhat?â Steve replied, a little too quickly. âI saw you and Stark kissing.â Evans popped a shoulder. âOutside the stadium. Donât worry, no one else did.â Steve let out a sigh. It wasnât like they were doing anything wrong, but he knew that Tony didnât know yet and the pair of them were simply enjoying the early stages of a new relationship on their own before the inevitable tornado of interest hit once they did go public. Glancing at Katie who was talking to Rollins and Rumlow at their table, he turned back to Evans and dropped his voice slightly.
âWeâre not deliberately keeping it from everyone, itâs just early days, donât want everyone sticking their noses in, get what Iâm sayinâ?â âSecretâs safe with me.â Evans nodded. âAlthough I suspect it wonât be a secret for much longer if Rumlow keeps eye fucking your girl.â
Steve let out a snort as he took his change from the bar tender. âHeâs a pain in the ass.â âYeah well do me a favour, Cap.â Evans chuckled, picking up three of the glasses âWhen you do eventually snap and beat on him, make sure Iâm there. Been waiting for someone to smack the shit outta him for years.â
****
Later that evening the coffee table at Katieâs apartment sported a number of empty plates, which had previously contained several frozen pizzas, and a good quantity of empty beer bottles. Katie was happily snuggled under Steveâs arm, curled against him and he was enjoying the closeness and comfortable silence that had fallen over them as they watched another âGame of Thronesâ episode. Katie had gotten him hooked on the fantasy programme and promised not to watch any of the latest season until he had caught up on the last two. As the episode finished he felt her stir and he didnât want her to move, thankfully she didnât too far, simply shifting her head slightly.
âSo I never asked if you enjoyed yourselfâ She asked, looking up at him.
âDoll, it was amazing. Thank you.â âWe should go more oftenâ She mused âI havenât seen a game live in years but I really enjoyed it.â
âYou know what I didnât enjoy?â He looked down at her, the soft light from the lamp illuminating her pretty face, highlighting the freckles spattered across her nose. âSitting in that bar with Rumlow watching him looking at you.â
âAww were you jealous?â She teased, sitting up.
âNot at all.â He shook his head, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear as he recalled what Evans had said at the bar âJust donât appreciate him eye fucking my girl.â
She let out a large snort before she looked at him, as her brain registered what he had just said.
âYour girl?â Her tone was teasing but the look in her eyes told him she was anything but, in fact she looked almost nervous. âIs that what I am?â
Steve hesitated, realising that heâd never actually asked her that question before. Was three weeks too soon? He had no idea. To him it wasnât, heâd been waiting to be able to call her his for months now, but was he outside of modern day dating etiquette?
He looked at her and took a deep breath, before he swallowed and spoke quietly, the nerves making his stomach flip slightly. âWell Iâm kinda hoping you wannabe. I mean, if itâs not too soon.â
âItâs not too soon, itâs not too soon at all.â She whispered as she looked back at him, her features soft, eyes alive in the dim light of the lamp. âStevie, I already am.â
And that was it, his lips crashed onto hers and he was kissing her like heâd been wanting to kiss her all day, his arm curling tighter round her, pulling her close. Katie took the initiative, every inch of her body was on fire for him, and she wrapped her arms round his neck and pulled him down as she fell slowly backwards, sinking into the couch. The movement came as a not-entirely unwelcome surprise to Steve and he didnât resist. Automatically his hands crept to her hips, settling just under the hem of her top as she placed both hands on his face, the pads of her finger tips cupping his jaw. She broke away this time to breathe, head laying back on the arm of the couch and he dropped his head, pausing his lips inches from her neck.
âCan I kiss you here?â He whispered softly. .
âGod, yes.â Katie sighed and he obliged, pressing his mouth to her neck. He gripped her hips again and they gave a little jerk of their own accord, pushing up against him and they she let out a soft moan at the feeling of his crotch bumping against hers. At the noise Steve pulled back to stare at her again, almost as if he was needing her permission to carry on. Katie wordlessly answered by tilting her hips up again, causing him to give a little grunt as she did so, before he took a deep breath and swallowed.
âDoll, I donât want to rush you or do anything-â
âItâs okay Steve,â Her voice was low and slightly breathy as she looked at him, her eyes, locking onto his. She wanted this, more than sheâd wanted anything before. She pushed her head upwards, lips pressing back to his and her hands slid under his t- shirt. His muscles twitched at her touch as the sensation of her gently dragging her nails across his stomach sent a spike of desire, like a red hot poker through his entire body. At that point, something snapped inside him and he let out a growl and Katie paused, hands still on his stomach.
âDid you just growl at me?â Her eyes flashed, dark, a smirk on her face. She was enjoying the effect she had on him, and right now so was he.
âYeah.â he nodded, simply.
Her smirk grew wider as she grasped the bottom of his T-shirt. He held his arms up so she pull it over his head, and once he was free, he glanced down to see Katie looking at his chest.
Sheâd never seen him topless before and she was momentarily stunned. She let her hands wander, tracing the lines of the flowing muscles and Steve let out another groan wanting to feel her skin against his. He interrupted her hands exploration by gripping her top and looked back at her, ever questioning. As means of an answer she moved her arms and sat up slightly to allow him to yank it up and off, her hair falling around her shoulders, his lips catching hers as he gently slipped one strap of her bra down at a time placing a soft kiss on each of her shoulders. Her breasts spilled over the tops of the lace lined cups and his groin twitched, the crotch of his jeans now painfully tight.
âYouâre beautiful.â He whispered gently, and then he kissed her again. Her fingers gently took his hands and she guided them onto her, sliding them up her rib cage to her chest and he obliged, boy did he oblige. Gently at first, softly squeezing and kneading the soft flesh and white lace, before his hand slid into the cups, teasing her taught nipples with his thumbs, acting completely on instinct, listening and watching her as she groaned gently, arching her back, her reaction telling him he was doing something right as all the time his groin bumped against hers.
Katie could feel the fabric of her underwear sliding in her jeans with every thrust of his hips against hers, thatâs how wet she was. Steve was rocking hard against her and she buried her fingers in his hair, pulling sharply, forcing his head back, almost violently. As she tugged he let out another low growl and when she let go he stared down at her to see her smirking as she watched him, his pupils blown so wide there was hardly any blue left.
The rhythm of his hips was growing more frantic and their kisses were growing more desperate. âMore,â she moaned into his mouth, and he gave her what she wanted, moving his hips even faster, rubbing against her in ways that had her clutching at his back like her life depended on it. Steve had never felt anything like this in his life. It was so good, so right, in a way nothing had ever felt so right before. This was a first for him, rutting up against someone fully clothed. Making out, Bucky had called it, but none of Steveâs bedroom experiences had ever entailed anything like this, and God, his head was a whirl of lust, desire, and he didnât give a fuck about anything else at that moment other than her as she lay underneath him.
He started to lose his rhythm and he let out another groan as the tell-tale tightening across his lower stomach warned him he was fast approaching his release. This was too soon, he needed to get her there first. Clenching his teeth he desperately fought back the high as he pushed his hips down hard, making her gasp and claw at his back.
âSweetheart, Iâm close.â He breathed. âYou almost there? Tell me your close baby, please?â
He neednât have worried, at his words it was all she could do to moan brokenly and nod and his mouth fell to that spot on her neck which seemed to drive her wild. She tipped her head back as he gently nipped beneath her ear with his teeth and a few more thrusts of his hips against hers and she was done, fingers wrapped around his hair as the lights exploded in front her eyes and she felt the coil in her stomach unravelling as she came hard underneath him, hips bucking upwards, almost violently. Her voice was broken as she gasped out âStevieâŚâand it was the single most beautiful sound heâd ever heard in his life. Her name for him, the name that no-one in this day and age called him other than her, tumbled from her lips and seeing and feeling her fall apart in his arms sent him over the edge right behind her in a pure surge of ecstasy. He fell forward, his arms shaking as he fought to keep his body up, not wanting to crush her under his weight. His head dropped forward, as he lowered himself ever so gently onto his elbows, his face pressing into the crook of her shoulder and she gently ran her fingers through his hair as they both breathed deeply as they waited to regain control of their bodies. Eventually both of them evened out and he raised his head to look at her, to find her smirking a little, her eyes twinkling with what looked like humour.
âWhat?â He managed to ask, his nose sliding against hers.
âI havenât dry humped since I was about sixteen.â she said closing her eyes again with a smirk.
âDry humped?â He snorted. âWhat-â
She laughed âDry humping, making out, whatever. Itâs been a while, Rogers.â
He felt himself chuckle again and she pressed a soft kiss to his lips, one of her hands running up and down his spine causing the muscles to gently twitch at her touch, neither of them in a hurry to move, but Steveâs arms were starting to hurt.
âYou ok?â Katie looked at him, seeing the tension in his muscles and he nodded.
âYeah, just, my arms.â
âLay down.â Her hands moved to his biceps, gently trailing shapes on his skin.
âDoll, I donât wanna hurt you.â
âIâm not made of glass, handsome. I promise you, itâll be fine.â
Steve licked his lips and with a deep breath he lowered himself down gently, shifting and moving lower, pressing as little of himself to her as he could, despite the fact he could have happily smothered her to feel her body pressed against this. He closed his eyes and lay his head gently on her chest as she carded one hand through his hair, the other softly trailing down his neck and across his shoulders. Her touch was soothing, relaxing, loving even, and h felt himself beginning to doze off.
Katie was also growing sleepy, so she gently kissed his head and whispered a single word to him.
âStay?â
It was a question to him, an invitation to stay with her that she was desperately hoping heâd take up.
He opened his eyes to blink lazily up at her. âDo you want me to?â he asked, his voice thick.
She nodded, âLetâs go to bed.â
He made to stand before he remembered his trouser predicament having just shot his load into them like a pubescent teenager and stilled, his cheeks flushing even more.
âI uhâŚI think I need toâŚâ
âThereâs some stuff of Tonyâs in the spare room.â she said, looking at him cutting him off knowing exactly what the problem was because she was also in need of a clean-up âShould be a pair of sweats in there. Might be a bit short on you butâŚâ
With another soft kiss, he pushed himself up off the couch before offering her his hand. She took it and he pulled her up, a little more forcefully than he had intended and she fell forwards, crashing into his chest.
âSteady on Soldier.â She grinned and he apologised, dropping a kiss to her forehead as his gaze once more dropped to her chest. With a certain glint in her eye she turned around, undid her bra and slipped it off before bending over in front of him, picking up his T-shirt from where sheâd tossed it to the floor before heading over to the stairs.
Steve was hard again like it had never left.
After he had cleaned himself up and managed to calm himself down, he thrown on a pair of Tonyâs sweatpants retrieved from the spare room and exited the main bathroom, heading to her room. She wasnât asleep as he found out as he settled down in the bed next to her, and she moved to rest her head on his bare chest tangling her legs into his as his hand stroked her back, gently underneath his Tâshirt, light fingers brushing her soft skin.
âThis is mineâŚâ He teased with a yawn as he tugged at the bottom of his shirt and she moved laying a soft kiss onto his lips.
âYou can have it back tomorrow.â She said, laying her head back down on his chest. As her breathing grew even he felt himself start to drift off too, the warm feeling in his chest made him want to burst with happiness.
*****
When Steve woke the next morning it was peacefully. Katie had shifted positions through the night and now her back was to him pressed as close as she could get, he still had his arms around her, his face buried in her hair. She smelt so familiar and comfortable. As his sleepy brain reminded him of the previous night he smiled and felt a familiar twitch. He was hard, again, which wasnât uncommon when waking up, but suddenly he felt her stir, and then he realised with horror that she was going to feel him poking her in the back.
It took Katie a few seconds to recall the night before, but when she felt a solid, warm wall of muscle pressed against her, a small hum of contentment rumbled in her throat as she pushed back further into him. They both lay there for a moment, silently, basking in the warmth and softness of each other before Katie turned over and looked up at him. Her face was devoid of any make up, not that she wore a lot anyway, but her freckles were more pronounced, clear skin was bright, cheeks flushed and her hair was tousled in waves around her shoulders. He reached out to tuck a long strand that had fallen over her cheek behind her ears, when she looked up at him, her eyes glinting.
He was about to wish her good morning, but before he could she kissed him, hard and fast, tongue tangling with his. And then she was straddling him, his head against the pillow, as her lips began to trail down his chest. By the time his sleep and lust addled brain had caught up with what was going on, she had reached her destination and had flipped the waist band of the sweats he was wearing down, taking his erection firmly in one hand, making him hiss slightly.
His size had taken Katie slightly by surprise, although she knew with retrospect it shouldnât have. She looked up and locked eyes with him before she gave him one final smirk and took him in her mouth. Steve panicked for a second, this had never happened to him before, his hands flying to the bed sheets either side of his waist, but it wasnât for long, as all worry flew out of his mind as she began to work him.
From the noises he was making Katie knew he was enjoying himself. Which was her aim. After a short while, she pulled off of him to suck at the tip and worked her hands over the rest of his length. When she glanced up at him, he had his head thrown back against the pillow, face contorted in utter pleasure. She continued to lick, suck, and when she pulled away slightly to suck at the sensitive tip, working the rest of his length with her hands he let out a loud groan and he looked at her. Her eyes locked onto his and he felt that tell-tale warmth rising in his groin and stomach.
âKatie, sweetheart, shit.â His voice was raspy from desire and the fact it was morning and Katie was beyond aroused at the sound as he babbled the first words either of them had spoken since waking. âIâm gonna-â his words caught in his mouth as she took him in hers again, this time all the way to the back of her throat. At that, he was gone, his fingers gripped her hair tight the other clutched at the bedsheets, noises escaping him that heâd never heard before as he spilled himself down her throat and slumped back completely blissed out.
Katie rolled onto her side watching, as he finally opened his eyes and looked down at her.
âMorning, Handsome.â She grinned and he felt himself chuckle.
âMorning, Gorgeous.â he said, still fighting to control his breathing.
âYou want breakfast?â She asked, leaning over to peck him on the lips. He hummed a response and she smiled once more before climbing out of bed. Steve watched her head into the bathroom and found himself thinking that as far as mornings went, heâd had worse.
She emerged a few moments later, her hair slightly less wild, and she was still in his T-shirt, which fell to midway down her toned thighs, giving him a better look at that intriguing tattoo that adorned her right which he still hadnât seen in full properly. She flashed him a smile, fully aware he was looking her up and down, and then she left without a word, clearly with no intentions of getting dressed fully yet. Which was fine by him.
Katie turned the radio on and set about making coffee, singing softly to herself as she replaced the filter paper. She tossed in a liberal amount of Columbian Roast and was just pouring two mugs when Steve, who was now out of bed, appeared in the doorway of the kitchen. She smiled at him and slid a mug of the coffee over the island where the creamer and sugar already lay waiting and he took it with a thanks.
âHow hungry are you?â she asked and he arched an eyebrow over the top of the mug and she gave a laugh. âSorry, dumbass question. Fancy pancakes and fruit?â
âDonât got to any trouble, Doll.â He began to protest but she shook her head.
âItâs no bother, I can whip up a batter in five minutes.â
Turning away from him, she reached up into the cupboard for the flour and the T-shirt she was wearing rode up slightly giving Steve a perfect view of her ass which was clad in black lace panties. The fraying tendrils of self-control he had been holding onto snapped completely and stood up from the stool heâd been perched on, right hand still clutching his coffee. He rounded the island in three long strides and placed the mug down on the counter beside her, his hands falling to her hips and he gently spun her to face him. She giggled slightly before his lips met hers and he reached down and cupped her ass in both hands picking her up easily and setting her down on the counter.
âSomething got you worked up Captain?â She teased, looking up at him. Last night had clearly unlocked something in the Soldier, and she was liking what she was seeing, and feeling. Â
âYeah, the sight of you wearing nothing but a pair of panties and my t-shirtâŚâ He said raising an eyebrow as he reached for his mug again, taking another drink, trying to play it cool. But it wasnât working clearly, as she simply laughed and slid both arms around his neck as she leaned in to kiss him again. His free hand slid to her thigh, tracing a path up until, just as he had reached the bottom of her panties, they were interrupted by the sound of the lift doors opening.
âHey Kiddo, you in?â Steve and Katie exchanged a look, utter horror spreading from Steveâs head to his toes as Tonyâs voice hit his ears.
âKiddo?â he shouted again. âI can smell coffee, you in the kitchen?â
âShitâŚâ Katie said as she gently pushed Steve backwards, jumping down from the counter, adjusting the T-shirt. Steve was now a shade of crimson pretty much from his neck upwards as he desperately tried to rearrange his pants to hide his once more ebbing arousal. She debated telling Steve to hide in the bedroom but there was no way heâd get across the open plan living space to the stairs without Tony seeing him.
They were well and truly caught.
As she clocked the utter horror on Steveâs face she was suddenly overcome with giggles at how ridiculous the entire situation was. A super soldier and a SHIELD agent, both of them having faught aliens, deadly terrorists and weapons traders, were stood in her kitchen panicking about being busted fooling around by her brother.
âSo, the damned board meeting was cancelled which would have been fine had I not already been on the jet over, so I thought seeing as I now in town with nothing to do we could hang for the day or if youâre too busy at least have breakfastâŚâ Tonyâs voice was getting louder as he walked through the apartment.
Steve looked at her in utter astonishment as she began to laugh now because frankly he couldnât think of a single thing that was funny about this situation if he tried. Her laughter didnât stop even as her brother walked into the kitchen, his brown eyes flashing from his sister to Steve and their various state of undress, a look of utter horror on his face as he processed the implications.
âOh you have gottta be fucking kidding meâŚâ Tony muttered, dropping the box he was carrying onto the kitchen counter. âPlease tell me thereâs a perfectly innocent explanation for thisâŚâ âExplanation yes, innocentâŚnot so much.â Katie said through her laughter and Steve let out a groan. This was not how he wanted Tony to find out. âDonât you know how to buzz Dickwad, before just walking into my apartment?â
âI have a keyâŚâ âFor emergenciesâŚâ she shot back. âStop changing the subject.â Tony demanded his eyes flashing dangerously and Katie folded her arms and tilted her chin up defiantly.
âLook, this isnât a big deal, TonyâŚâ
âNo, thisâŚthis is a very big dealâŚâ he snapped back as he looked from her to Steve, every line on his face was contorted with anger and shock.
Steve took a deep breath and placed his mug down on the side. âTonyâŚâ he began trying to placate the billionaire but he was cut off.
âWhat, you gonna tell me this aint what it looks like?â he shook his head. âThat Captain America isnât banging my little sister? I might be like nearly 60 years younger than you old man but I wasnât born yesterday.â
Steve took a breath, his nostrils flaring at Tonyâs snipe.
âTony, Iâm 29 next week, I can do what or who I likeâ Katie snapped at him âAnd besides youâve no room to talk, the amount of times Iâve walked in on you and whichever bimbo you decided to bring home that nightâŚâ
âThat is completely different!â Tony spluttered.
âNo it isnâtâ she shot back, hands going to her hips.
Tonyâs eyes locked onto hers, before he looked back at Steve who held his gaze evenly, before the dark haired man shook his head and looked at the super soldier.
âCan you go and put some clothes on please, frankly the amount of flesh on show is disturbing me.â âWell I would but your sister is still wearing my shirt.â Steve shot back, his temper rising. Tony gave another growl and then he stopped, open mouthed.
âAre those my sweats?â He spluttered, his voice practically a squeak.
âYes.â Katie replied simply, and at that point she grabbed Steveâs hand and pulled him out of the room and up the stairs. The initial humour she had found in the situation had ebbed away and now she was livid at her brother.
âHe isâŚâ she started, opening the various drawers to pull out a hooded top. Taking Steveâs T-shirt off, as she threw it over the bed to him. âThe biggest hypocrite goingâŚâ
âTo be fair I can kinda see it from his point of viewâŚâ Steve said shrugging on his T-shirt and making a point of averting his eyes as she strode over to her dresser, naked bar her panties.
She pulled on a hoody and narrowed her eyes at Steve. âDonât defend himâŚâ
He chuckled and crossed the room, walking round the bed. âIâm not.â he placed a peck on her lips âBut I do think that I should go, let you talk to him aloneâŚâ
âYeah, probably for the bestâŚâ she breathed out a sigh and followed him down the stairs where he retrieved his sneakers.
âWait, do you wanna take my car orâŚâ He gestured up and down his body, and she took in his trainers, slightly too short joggers and a T-shirt âNah, Baby Girl, Iâll run.â She smiled at the term of endearment that he hadnât used before then, as he dropped a kiss to her cheek.
âIâll call you later.â He promised, before disappearing in the elevator.
Katie took a deep breath and walked back into the kitchen. Tony eyed her from where he was leaning against the counter, mug of coffee in his hand.
âDonât start.â Katie warned him, to no avail
âOh Iâm gonna!â Tony spat, before he paused and looked around âWhere is the Star Spangled Ass-hole?â
âGone home.â Katie folded her arms.
Tony snorted âI bet he hasâŚâ âYou know I donât remember me reacting like this every time you brought a girl home, which from my recollection happened quite a lot.â Katie sniped back, as she walked to where he was stood by the coffee pot and reached round him to pour herself a fresh mug.
âThat..that was differentâŚâ Tony stammered at her back as she walked to the counter for the creamer.
âHow so?â
âBecause, well, itâs himâŚâ he whined âI mean, seriously? Of all the men in the worldâŚâ
âYeah because the last one worked out so greatâŚâ Katie said sarcastically, replacing the carton down with a slightly harsh action, causing some to spill over the top.
The room fell silent bar the chink of the spoon on the edge of her pink unicorn mug as she stirred in sugar and milk. She took a sip of her drink and turned to face her brother who was hunched over the counter slightly, eyes on his mug. Eventually he straightened up and met his sisterâs eyes before he spoke again, this time his voice was softer.
âHow long?â he asked,
âThree weeks, give or take.â
âThree weeks, and Iâm only just finding out?â âYes, Tony.â she groaned, with the air of someone talking to a small child âAnd your reaction is exactly why I didnât want to tell you.â
To be fair, Steve was right. It wasnât an ideal way for him to find out, but she knew the reaction from Tony wasnât about her being caught, it was about her being caught with Steve. The two men got on okay, which hadnât always been the case, but after the battle of New York Steve had spent a lot of time with them both at the tower. Tony was still a little reserved with Steve, more so due to the fact that Captain America was someone their dad had idolised but, whilst the two men were immensely different, there was a mutual respect between them and Katie was hoping now that that was going to be enough for Tony to be reasonable about the situation.
âPlease donât kick off about this. I care about him, a lot.â She said gently, looking at her brother, appealing to his better nature and the fact that she knew he would want her to be happy.
And sure enough, that was exactly what Tony asked as he looked at her.
âDoes he make you happy?â
âMore than anything.â she replied honestly. âI really like him Tony, I want this to work.â
Tony studied her face for a moment before he let out a deep sigh, looking away. âDamned it.â He groaned âI canât believe Iâm going to have to have the Shovel Conversation with Captain America.â
In the silence that followed Katie debated pointing out that Steve wouldnât be frightened in the slightest of Tonyâs various threats anyway, but who was she to rob her brother of his opportunity to try and protect her? Â Instead she placed her mug on the counter and leaned forward, wrapping her arms around Tony who sighed again and reciprocated the gesture.
âSuppose he is an improvement on Agent Shitweaselâ he said, resting his chin on her head.
âThatâs not exactly a glowing endorsement.â she snorted.
*****
Steve was reading a book in his lounge when Katie messaged him later that afternoon. Apparently Tony had calmed down enough to take her for lunch at some Italian place in the Business District following which theyâd had a walk round the city together before Tony had left to go back to New York. Steve was pleased, he knew that despite the fact that he drove her insane at times, she loved the bones of her brother which was why his reaction before had pissed her off. He messaged back, telling her he was glad sheâd had a good time and that he would call her later before he picked his book back up, but heâd only managed another chapter or so before there was a buzz on his intercom.
âRogers, itâs me.â
Steve sighed âCome on up.â
He wasnât surprised Tony was on his doorstep, heâd been half expecting it. And, judging from the lack of stupid nickname, no Spangles, no Capsicle, no Old Man, he wasnât here to exchange pleasantries. A fact that was confirmed when Stark didnât wait for Steve to invite him in, he simply pushed past the door into his flat and stalked inside, glancing around.
âYou can tell Kiddo helped you decorate and furnish this gaff, far too modern to be your doing. Thereâs no Dig for Victory posters or wind up radiosâŚâ Tony said, causing Steve to roll his eyes âHoly shit, is that an original Dekka?â
âKatie said youâd like thatâ Steve watched the inventor cross the room and run his hands across the sleekness of the record playerâs casing. âBut I have a feeling you didnât come here to admire my music equipment.â
âPerceptiveâ Tony turned to face him, his eyes flashing. Steve took a deep breath.
âTony, IâŚâ âNo, you donât get to talk, you get to listen. And you better listen good.â the billionaire cut him off âKatie was heartbroken when Agent Shitweasel did the dirty on her. She came home and I held her as she cried herself to sleep for 2 goddamned weeks before she shipped out to New Mexico⌠â
âTonyâŚâSteve began, knowing already where this conversation was going. He wanted to assure Tony that he would never do what Ward had done, ever. But Tony ignored him.
âI hated him.â Tony said âhe was an absolute dickhead with her at times and she changed because of it.  And then, after New York she seemed to go back to being her old self. She was laughing, socialisingâŚand that was down to youâ Tony looked at the Super Soldier, who cocked his head slightly to the right as he listened, a small smile tugging at his lips â She had a friend, something she hasnât had much time for since my little sioree in an Afghan cave, my bad, and for the first time in ages I can see sheâs over it, you knowâŚâ he took a deep breath and Steve waited for him to finish âBut Katie puts her heart into everything, and I gotta ask Cap, is this serious for you or you just after getting your dick wet?â
âWhat? No, of course itâs serious for me TonyâŚâ Steve said, his temper flaring slightly at his crass tone. âI canât believe you think that little of me that you had to even ask me that!â
âOh get off your high horse, Rogers!â Tony shook his head, and Steve raised his eyebrows âThis has nothing to do with what I think of you, this is about my sisterâŚyou know the girl I brought up from the age of 7.  The girl I couldnât love any more if she was my own. Iâd die for her you got that? Die for her!â
âWell that makes 2 of us!â Steve said loudly, silencing the other man. There was a moment where no sound was heard in the apartment bar the ticking of the clock on the wall and Tony raised his eyebrows slightly as Steve looked down at the floor taking a deep breath.
âLook, I know youâre not happy about thisâŚâ Steve sighed, looking at Tony again âBut do I care about her Tony, more than you know, and nothing you do or say to me is gonna change that.â
Tonyâs eyes softened, but his jaw remained set. Steve took a deep breath and wet his lips before he continued. Â âAnd, for what itâs worth, I think you did a damned good job of raising her. Sheâs an incredible woman.â
âSheâs a pain in the assâŚâ Tony sniffed, Steve was glad to hear his tone was less confrontational âAnd sheâs stubborn, always thinks she knows bestâŚâ
âWonder where she gets that from?â Steve said cheekily
âAbsolutely no ideaâ Tony deadpanned back.
Steveâs face cracked into a smile as did Tonyâs.
âLook.â Tony sighed, âI just want her to be happy and with someone that treats her rightâŚâ
âI donât ever want to hurt her, Tony. You have my wordâŚâ Steve said, honestly.
âGood, because if you do, make no mistake I will fucking kill you, slowly and painfully and there will be no defrosting 70 years down the line.â Tonyâs brown eyes flashed slightly as he stared at Steve, And Steve knew, absolutely 100% that he meant it. He was surprised to find himself slightly unnerved by the threat. Hoping that his face didnât give him away her merely nodded and then Tonyâs demeanour changed completely and he turned back into the Tony Stark that Steve knew, and had to admit quite liked after all.
âGood, this was a good talkâŚâ Tony said, clapping Steve on the shoulder.
Steve smiled as the weight he hadnât even realised heâd been carrying was lifted off his shoulder. Having Tonyâs, albeit grudging, approval would mean the world to Katie, and if he was honest, it meant a lot to him as well. Not only was Tony his friend also, but he was the closest thing Katie had to a father, and he wanted him to be alright with the fact the two of them were together.
He offered the man a coffee which he politely declined, stating he needed to get back to New York. The two shook hands on the threshold of Steveâs door before Tony gave him one last look, raising his index finger and middle finger of his right hand to his eyes, before turning them to point at Steve in an âIâm watching youâ gesture. Steve raised his eyebrows in understanding and felt his mouth tug upwards at the side as Tony turned on his heels and left.
He retreated back to his living room and pulled out his phone.
âHey Badassâ Katie greeted and Steve chuckled.
âIâve just had a visitor.â Katie groaned into the phone as he sat back on his couch
âLet me guess⌠my darling brother turned up to give you the shovel talk?â her tone was exasperated. âNo mention of a shovel, just threatened to kill me slowly and painfully if I hurt you, and you know what? I have absolutely no qualms about the fact he would.â Steve grinned as he spoke.
âDonât tell me Captain America is scared of Iron Man?â she questioned playfully. âNo, Steve Rogers is slightly disconcerted by Tony Stark.â He corrected as she let out a chuckle.
âBest make sure you donât hurt me then aint ya?â âIâve no intentions of doing doll.â He said, honestly before he let out a breath, smiling âI really enjoyed last night.â
âAnd this morning?â
âYeah, another first.â He said, unable to stop the smirk on his face spreading into his voice âIâve never, errr, had a woman use her mouth on me beforeâŚor vice versa for that matter.â
âI like being your first.â she said softly and his chest warmed at her words.
âYou know what else was a first? Waking up next to my girl.â
There was a pause before she replied, and he could hear the smile in her voice.
âAnd you know what else I like? You calling me your girl.â
A shit eating grin crept back across the Captains face. âWell, you better get used to it, Doll.â
**** Chapter 7
**Original Posting**
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For your requests: Lower Decks senior crew meeting when they talk about dumb stuff. I saw the bar stool meeting in moist vessel and honestly, that was favorite part of that episode.
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T'Ana is three fingers into her whiskey when Carol drops into her chair. Stress lines combined with her haphazardly styled hair indicates that she's been dealing with a certain wild ensign again. T'Ana feels equal parts amused and exasperated by the fact that Mariner could so easily get under the skin of their captain, but makes no mention of it.
"Aren't you on duty?" Ransom asks, sitting in his chair backwards like he's William fucking Ryker. Whatever, she's not going to ruin his dreams.
She throws back the rest of her drink. "And what of it?" T'Ana lets a bit of a growl into her voice.
Ransom holds up his hands placatingly. Carol eyes her empty glass longingly.
"Sorry-!" Billups yips, flying through the doorway so fast it almost doesn't have time to open for him. "-I didn't realize we had a-"
"It's fine," Carol mutters. "Take a seat."
Billups sits next to Stevens, who's been making weird eye contact with Ransom.
T'Ana doesn't want to know. She pulls her flask out of her lab jacket and takes a swig.
"Is this about the away mission?" Ransom asks, sighing. "Because I swear I didn't know the Gadaorianzes believed bathbombs were devil worship-"
"It's not about that," Carol interrupts, rubbing her temples. By the look on her face it's clear she and Ransom are going to be discussing that in great detail later.
"Okay then," Ransom glances around the room puzzled. "Then what's-"
Carol mumbles something incomprehensible to everyone but T'Ana. Sometimes having enhanced hearing is a perk.
This is not one of those times.
T'Ana pulls out her second flask from her boot and drains it.
"Uh, I didn't quite catch that-" Stevens begins.
"It's about Mariner!" Carol snaps.
T'Ana flattens her ears and rolls her eyes. "You've got to be kidding me."
Shaxs, who's been relatively quiet thus far, exchanges a commiserating glance with her.
"She's never where she should be, she disregards mission protocols, she sasses her superiors, she's not even adhering to dress code half the time-"
"Just demote her then," Ransom says, looking relieved that he's not about to be reamed out in front of the entire senior crew. Yet.
Carol narrows her eyes. "I can't," she mutters.
T'Ana raises an eyebrow. Or her equivalent of one, anyway. "What, she some bigwig's daughter? That make sense," she snorts.
The Captain's eyes get even more squinty. "What's that supposed to mean, Dr. T'Ana?"
"Oh, you let her get away with waaay to much shit for her to be anything less than an Admiral's daughter."
"I heard she's a spy for section-"
"Everyone knows you can't trust shit from the rumor mill on this ship, Billups."
"I'm saying it would make sense! Do you know how much she can bench press?"
"And she's so tiny too," Ransom says, mournfully.
"Eh-"
"Not really-"
"Actually she's taller than me-"
Ransom, who has about eight inches on everyone present, just scowls at the table.
"Cool, so Mariner's making the Captain spazz out," Steven's says, leaning back in his chair. He clearly trying to pull off casual and suave, but not succeeding due to the fact that you can only lean so far back in the swivel chairs before toppling over. "What are we supposed to do about it?"
"This isn't 'problem solving meeting,'" Ransom hisses, "it's our weekly group therapy session, Steve, keep up."
"Wait that's a thing?"
"How long have you been on this ship?" T'Ana asks.
"Four years."
"And you haven't noticed that Freeman calls us in here at least once a week-if not twice-to complain about her mentee?"
"She's not my mentee!"
"You're emotionally attached to her, just sign the adoption papers already," T'Ana shoots back, earning a chuckle of Shaxs.
"You do get this strangely constipated look around her," he adds.
"Hmm, just like the one you get when you look at Ensign Rutherford?" T'Ana adds, smirking.
"I don't have fatherly feelings toward-"
"You all disgust me," T'Ana says, shaking her head.
"Don't worry, someday you'll find an adorable, wide eyed Ensign to adopt," Carol says, patronizingly, something of a grin melting away the stress in her face.
"So you're admitting that you wanna adopt the problem child?"
Carol scowls. "I didn't call this meeting to be-"
"We are in fucking basement levels of denial," T'Ana groans. She drops her head onto the table and feels around in her back pocket for another flask.
"Just throw her in the brig again and be done with it," Ransom mutters, circling back to the original topic at hand. "It's not as if she can get up to much trouble there."
"Don't say that," Billups moans, probably remembering the last time Mariner was thrown in the brig. T'Ana hadn't been there for it personally, but she knows Carol deleted the security footage for therapy related reasons.
"Can't you just bribe her? Can she be bribed?" Steven muses.
"That's against regulation." Carol's considering expression is at odds with her words.
"Find her weakness and use it against her," Ransom says, filing his nails.
"She doesn't have weaknesses." Carol's face is now intense.
"She has friends right? Surely they're an influence on her."
Carol scowls. "Trust me, I tried that. Her best friend has some sort of loyalty crush on her and the rest of them would sooner break the rules than try and intervene."
"You have only one choice than," Shaxs says, voice rumbling.
Everyone turns to look at him.
"Give up."
"What!"
"Did he really just say that?"
"Shaxs!"
"No no. He's right."
T'Ana grabs the bottle of vodka ducktapped under the table and uncorks it. It's going to be a long afternoon.
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for you, anything | ksj
summary:Â in the popular online multiplayer game, kingdom, you are the top-ranked knight with money, fame, and power. in real life, youâre a graphic design geek whoâs got a very unsubtle crush on her gorgeous coworker, kim seokjin. but when youâre suddenly dethroned from the first place spot in your game, you and your kingdom character embark on a journey to reclaim your title, and learn on the way that things are not always as they seem.Â
{friends to lovers!au, enemies to lovers!au}
pairing: kim seokjin x female reader genre: fluff, comedy, fantasy word count: 21k warnings: alcohol mention, brief and non-graphic descriptions of violence, this is basically two fics in one so you get double the fun and double the word count!! a/n: once again, a massive, massive thank you to @aurawatercolor for commissioning me!! you can find her on twitter as well under @btspresso_!! sheâs the genius behind this enemies to lovers and friends to lovers seokjin fic wrapped up into a nice package just in time for the holidays!! you ever seen a fic with e2l and f2l together? thatâs right, i didnât think so. enjoy!!!
check out the post-script drabble here!
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âOh, shit!â
From twelve feet away comes the sound of these three things in this order: fingers furiously mashing keyboard keys, wheels of an office chair swiveling angrily on the linoleum floor, and a war cry. All of which could either belong to a video game world championships in a big-city stadium or your simple, office of two-floors in a more-than-one-hundred-stories skyscraper based in graphic design and media for small start-up companies.Â
âI canât tell if Photoshop crashed again or if youâre playing that weird online multiplayer game again,â Yoongi grumbles from across the way, where heâs gnawing on a Clif bar in one hand as he mindlessly taps his mouse with the other.Â
âPlease,â Jimin says, carelessly waving a hand. âDonât act like I havenât caught you watching My Hero Academia multiple times this year while we were supposed to be doing work, you absolute piece of toast. But if you must know, I was in fact playing Kingdom.â
âIâm going to tell Namjoon,â Yoongi says with zero emphasis, because everybody knows that Namjoonâs got dirt on everybody in the office anyway (including Yoongi) and that if you try to expose somebody else to him, heâll expose you back. Itâs colleague culture.Â
âAnd whatâs Namjoon gonna do? He already knows you carry a flash drive of illegally-downloaded animes with you wherever you go,â Jimin retorts casually. Heâs not wrong, and you can confirm that Yoongi indeed carts around a USB drive in the shape of a pineapple that has 64GB of anime.Â
âWhat do I know?â
Namjoon comes trotting into view from the corridor that leads to the gender-neutral bathrooms with glasses hanging from the collar of his sweater vest, a clipboard with nothing attached to it in his right hand, and a steaming cup of jasmine tea (he hates coffee and declares this publicly at least three times a day) in his left.Â
âYou know that Yoongiââ
âHas been doing his work the whole time you were in the bathroom so you donât need to worry about him,â Yoongi interrupts quickly.Â
Namjoon shoots both Jimin and Yoongi a suspicious glare, but moves on. Heâs got enough blackmail on the both of them to bury them into the next calendar year, but heâs wise, and he only uses it when absolutely necessary. âJust doing checkups on you guys before Boss Man calls me back into his office and gives me a pile of over one hundred hours of work Iâm supposed to do in a forty-hour work week.â Itâs been obvious from the moment you were hired that Namjoon does the most work out of anybody in this office, including your boss, and gets very, very little from it.Â
âYou donât even have any paper attached to your clipboard,â Taehyung points out rather unhelpfully, from where heâs been drawing hearts on the cheeks of the Surprised Pikachu meme heâs taped up on the wall his desk is pushed up against.Â
Namjoon looks down at his clipboard like it just spit mad fire at him, furrows his brows, and lets out a sigh equivalent to three years worth of pent-up aggression. âShit.â
Jimin cackles from his computer.Â
âWhatever, Iâm still going to do checkups.â Namjoon takes the pen from behind his ear and writes himself a note, presumably to get paper for his clipboard later. âJimin, youâre still working on that website layout for the art critic and photographer. Yoongiâs on coding for that search engine that we all know is never taking off but is still paying us. Taehyungâs on marketing because heâs got the most charming voice and Hoseok and Jungkook are on media production for the indie movie company. Y/N and Seokjin, you guys are on clientele and coding. Everybody good before I go get more paper?â
âYes, Tiny but Large Boss Man,â Jimin says, and itâs enough of a confirmation to send Namjoon scurrying down the corridor again in search of paper as everyone else returns to their prior business.Â
âY/N?â
You turn around from the font website youâve been browsing for about half an hour to find Seokjin standing behind you, an earpiece in his ear and that charming smile on his face. Itâs the same smile he gave you on your first day on the job when he was introducing himself, same smile he gives when he meets clients in person, same smile he gives Namjoon whenever the man is about to have a breakdown. Itâs a friendly, personable-but-universal kind of smile. The kind models need. The kind that Seokjin has mastered.Â
âHey, Seokjin,â you say, only just then coming to realize that Seokjin is much closer to you than his voice originally implied. Youâve rotated 180 degrees in your office chair and he is hardly a foot away from where your feet are. Itâs a lot. Seokjin is always a lot. In the best sort of way. âIs anything the matter?â
âNo, just wanted to check in and see how the project was going for that one guy that wanted a nice advertisement to put on Angieâs List,â Seokjin says, leaning down to look at what youâve been doing.Â
âOh, well Iâve been browsing this font website for ages and I still canât find a nice one for the sub-heading. All of these are too flashy or difficult to read,â you say, beginning to scroll as you and Seokjin both look for one that you like.Â
âHmm, I see what you mean,â his voice sounds like honey and if you had any less dignity youâd let the chills send shivers down your spine. Luckily, you know how to maintain your composure in an office setting. And you also know that Yoongi and Jungkook would never let you hear the end of it, ever. âOh, how about that one?â
âThis one? Rose Quartz?â You ask, pointing to it.Â
âYeah,â Seokjin says. âIt has a nice flair that matches with the font for the business name, but itâs still easy to read. It would probably look really nice with a crisp shadow behind it, donât you think?â
âMaybe youâre onto something,â you say, clicking to read the fair use and copyright.Â
âCouldnât have done it without all the hard work youâve put into this,â Seokjin says, standing up and shooting you another one of his famous smiles. âYouâre the best partner anybody in this tiny media production and design company could ask for.â
He leaves without bidding you farewell, but itâs enough to have you staring blankly at your computer, contemplating existence itself. Sometimes, a little part of you wonders if Seokjin only treats you like this and none of your other coworkers, but then you immediately remember that Seokjin is naturally charming and that he probably speaks to newborn babies in the same way.
Yoongi wheels over to your desk from where his is, smirk lacing his features as he chews on another, different-colored Clif bar.Â
âEver heard of a personal bubble?â You ask snarkily, because you already know why heâs over here, and so does he.
âWhy arenât you asking the same question to Seokjin, hmm?â Yoongi taunts. Heâs know about your dumb crush on your coworker (of all people, your coworker! A fellow employee!) for months now. He isnât being any more helpful whatsoever.Â
âGo watch your pirated anime,â you grunt out, too overwhelmed with the way Seokjin smiles at you to really give Yoongi your full attention. âI have nothing to say to you.â
âSure, but Iâm not Seokjin,â Yoongi says. Then he wheels away and youâre left staring at the Rose Quartz font, whose sample text reads: This was meant to be.Â
At least Namjoon doesnât know.
Itâs midnight on a Tuesday, and youâre just about to turn off the lamp on your bedside table and get some well deserved weekday-night shut eye when your phone begins to blare, a disgustingly ugly picture of Jungkookâs face appearing on the screen.
You stare at your phone like itâs personally offending you (which, if Jungkookâs face is anything to go by, it definitely is) before you turn off your ringer and close your eyes. Jungkook can wait. Very seldom is he at the top of your list of priorities.
Barely five seconds after youâve put your head on your pillow, your phone begins to vibrate, this time even angrier than the last. Aggravated and a little concernedâbecause Jungkook never, ever calls twiceâyou pick up the phone.
âHello?â
âY/N! Something crazy just happened!â
âI hope so, otherwise you wouldnât be calling me at midnight on a work night,â you grumble into the phone, monotonous voice a stark contrast to Jungkookâs easily excitable one.
âHave you been on Kingdom recently?!â Jungkook asks, and you practically see his eyes bulging out of his head in front of you. One of your youngest coworkers, itâs moments like these that remind you why he bears a striking resemblance to a university studentâup late playing video games even on a work nightâdespite having a couple years in the workforce under his belt. He keeps telling you that he wants to go back to school and get a Masters in something, but he isnât sure what yet.Â
âNo,â you tell him like itâs obvious, because it is. You typically begin to wind down your night around ten, which means that anything thatâs happened on Kingdom in the past two hours you are thoroughly unaware of. âCanât this wait? Kingdomâs fun and all, but I really do need to sleep.â
âBut Y/N,â Jungkook says with a whine, insisting that you stay on the line, âsomeone beat you! Youâre rank two, now.â
If Jungkookâs loud voice and jumpy attitude didnât wake you before, youâre certainly wide awake now.
âWhat?â You ask, shocked. âJust now?â
âYeah, like fifteen minutes ago! I donât know what happened,â Jungkook says sadly, lost. âI was dueling with another knight when the horns and banners appeared on the screen and said there was a new top player. Youâve been dethroned!â He cries out like itâs him whoâs lost their place.Â
Youâre fumbling out of bed, making a beeline for your desktop computer across your bedroom. Normally, youâd be ashamed about how high-school youâre behaving around a video game, but youâve invested an embarrassing amount of time and energy into Kingdom, and youâll be damned if you think someone else can outdo you.Â
As youâre logging onto the game, Jungkook continues to wail into the phone. âI donât even know who this person is, I feel like Iâve never seen them before! I mean, they must be really good since they practically appeared out of nowhere, but still! Iâm a decent player so we must have crossed paths. Maybe I just donât rememberâŚâ
Sure enough, the moment you open your screen the horns blare and the banners appear, congratulating a different player on achieving the top rank. You watch helplessly as the celebration fades on your computer before the leaderboard appears in the top left corner, your name a sad second place.Â
âWhoâs JK0901?â You shout into the phone, earning an exasperated sigh from Jungkook on the other end. You scowl at the name thatâs knocked you off your pedestal, before narrowing your eyes to look at it more closely. âJK? Is that you, Jungkook? Are you just calling me to make fun of me for beating me? Donât disrespect your elders, Jungkook.â
Jungkook gasps like heâs been accused of murder. For people that take Kingdom as seriously as you and Jungkook, it may as well be. âNo! What the heck, Y/N, you know that my username is KookieMonster97, for Godâs sake. Accusing me of being the best, how could you?â
âYou should have just taken the compliment,â you frown into the phone, âNow all the girls are gonna know you arenât, in fact, the number one Kingdom player.â
âFuck, youâre right,â Jungkook mutters. âBut itâs not me, I swear. You would have received a very different phone call from me if it was. In fact, I probably wouldnât have even told you and then ruined your day in the office tomorrow. So itâs not me.â
âI canât tell if Iâd be more or less angry if it was you,â you admit.
âWhy, because Iâd finally have something to hold over your head other than my unwavering youth?â Jungkook taunts. Definitely still a university student at heart.Â
âNo, because it means Iâd have to hear the entire office praise you for a day, and Iâd rather permanently pop my eardrums,â you tell him informatively. Jungkook has enough of a head. You actively try to not do anything to enlarge it unless he wholeheartedly deserves it.Â
âI love our coworker chats, you know,â Jungkook says. âWhoever this person is though, I bet theyâre receiving bucketloads of praise for knocking you off the top spot. Youâve had it for like, three months now, havenât you?â
âYes,â you tell him through gritted teeth. âIâve put my blood, sweat, and tears into this game and look how itâs repaying me,â you grumble, staring down the Kingdom home screen.Â
âJK0901 probably did a ritual sacrifice to beat you,â Jungkook supplies unhelpfully.Â
You sigh. Whoever they are, they proved that they are just as good at Kingdom as you are, a veteran player with an embarrassing several years of experience under your belt. In fact, they proved that theyâre better than you.Â
â THERE â
Itâs cloudy today, which means that more of the market stalls are out on the main street. You pass by them on your way to the castle, vendors calling out to you with promises of apples, jewelry, and perfumes.Â
Youâve got money to burn and your responsibilities can wait a couple of minutes, so you indulge one of the stalls and purchase a couple of apples. One should give you a bit of energy now, and the rest can be roasted later for a better meal.Â
âMiss Y/N, off to the palace?â The vendor asks. From how much you frequent this part of the kingdom, every artisan, farmer, and merchant alike knows your name. That, and the fact that youâve amassed quite a group of followers from your daily knightly escapades.Â
âOf course,â you respond happily, paying the merchant with a couple of silver coins and then some, just as a thanks. The extra money helps the farmers raise the quality of their crops and allows them to earn more for their efforts. It also boosts your standing amongst the townsfolk. âHis Majesty requested my presence for further instructions on fortification, most likely. But Iâm just honored to be recognized.â
âAs you should!â The man responds dutifully. âYou are our best knight, after all.â
âPlease, you flatter me. When the work day is done, go home and feed your children well, alright?â You ask, giving a firm nod to the merchant before youâre on your way. As you stroll down the stone-paved path, other vendors call out to you, hoping that you, too, will indulge in their finest clothes and trinkets on your way to the castle.Â
Maybe another day.Â
You take a hearty bite of the apple as you head towards the palace, a satisfying crunch ringing through your ears as the townsfolk nod and bow to you. Itâs easy to figure out that youâre the top-ranked knight in the kingdom, with badges of honor pinned to your torso, ink black armor clinging tightly to your body, and red sashes tied around the black ones on your wrist, signifying approval from the highest ranking military official in the kingdom: the king himself.Â
The guards at the palace gates step aside as you nod to each other, bowing courteously. You repeat this process several more times as you slowly proceed towards the throne room, where the King (and maybe the Queen) are likely to be waiting for you. They had increased their security at every door frame after an attempted assassination several months ago, which you (with the help of other high-ranking knights and castle officials) discovered was a plot orchestrated by Their Majestyâs second-most-trusted advisor.Â
Finally, you reach the golden arches that signify that youâve arrived at the most expensive room in the entire palace (save for Her Majestyâs bathroom, which, though you have never been inside, is rumored to have a golden bathtub and sacred water from the River Blancheur, over two thousand miles away. But you cannot confirm nor deny.), threatening red doors slowly creaking open as the King and Queen come into view.Â
Theyâre sitting on their thrones, as per usual, but they arenât the only ones in the room like they normally are. Instead, thereâs another knight, as equally decked out as you, standing before them, arms crossed behind their back.Â
âWe hope that you can wear these honors proudly and do your duties with pride,â the King says regally, deep, thick voice echoing throughout the room.Â
âI will stop at nothing to ensure this kingdomâs greatness,â the knight says back, just as formal. The knight gives a long bow, red sashes around their wrist dangling towards the ground. If you didnât know any better, youâd think you were being replaced. But of course, thatâs not the case.Â
âOh, Y/N,â the Queen says happily, noticing your waiting right in front of the closed doors to the throne room. âPrudent, as always.â
âI aspire to please,â you say with a bow. The King gives you a warm smile, one youâre willing to bet that this other knight isnât often on the receiving end of.Â
âYour timing is impeccable,â the King says, ushering for you to come forward. You do so, taking calculated steps along the red carpet, woven nearly two centuries ago and maintained ever since. âWe were just congratulating Sir JK on his recent accomplishments in the Black Forest.â
âOf course,â you say with a nod, refusing to turn to your left so you can stare down this Sir JK for yourself. âThe military made groundbreaking strides for our kingdom there.â
âYou are the first person to know this, other than him, of course, but weâve decided to appoint him as the Head of the Royal Knights of the Kingdom of Kalar,â the King says proudly.Â
It takes everything in your willpower not to let your mouth drop open. You blink rapidly, making sure that you arenât in a daze nor still asleep. Sure enough, youâre wide awake and your ears and eyes seem to be working perfectly. The knight next to you is taking over the highest position a knight can hold in your kingdom, one that even you havenât been given.Â
Youâve been replaced.Â
âWhat an incredible honor,â you say, body stiff. You can practically feel the ego of the knight next to you radiating off of him. It makes your nerves twitch.Â
âI think so as well,â the King says proudly. He has, luckily, not picked up on your sudden mood change. âSo, Iâve called you here to appoint you as his second-in-command.â
You bow graciously at his words, ensuring that, despite your bitter attitude, you are still thankful for this opportunity. Mostly. You are mostly thankful for this opportunity.Â
âIâm honored and grateful, Your Majesties,â you say, head facing the carpet. âI would rather die than let down my kingdom.â
âYou two are to work together closely,â the Queen advises, words that make your ears bleed. Oh, wonderful, now you have to work hand-in-hand with the person that stole your favor with the royal household right from underneath your feet? You can think of nothing more enjoyable. âYour cooperation alone will ensure the utmost safety and security of this kingdom.â
âWe shall do better than our best,â the knight beside you says. His words make your eyes roll back into your head, but youâve been a bigger brownnoser in your past. You can forgive that, even if the man next to you radiates an energy youâd rather not surround yourself with.Â
âIâm pleased to hear it. Your training and work together begins now, so do not hesitate to get to know each other.â
You and him take one baited breath each before turning to each other. You both bow out of obligatory respect, which satisfies the King and Queen well enough. And as you come up, you catch a glimpse of each otherâs eyes. His are dark, rounded pupils. Theyâre hiding something.Â
Youâre determined to figure out what it is.Â
âCall me J,â the knight says the moment youâve stepped foot outside of the palace. The setting sun shines dimly on the main road, and many of the vendors are beginning to pack up their belongings in order to head home.Â
âOkay, J,â you say suspiciously. Everything about him unsettles you slightly. Perhaps itâs the fact that behind the armor and the mask and the badges, heâs extremely good-looking. Or maybe itâs the fact that he swiped the top-ranking knight position right from your fingertips. It must be that. âItâs baffling to me that we havenât met yet. If youâve been in such high favor with the King and Queen, then I must have seen you somewhere.â You wonder if he can hear the bitterness lacing your features. You sure hope that he can.Â
âI guess our paths just never crossed,â J says, taking a bite out of a peach he just purchased from a farmerâs daughter, who was watching over the stall as her father haggled with another vendor. You watched as he winked to the girl as she gave him two peaches for the price of one. âIâm more on the ground than you are, am I not? You spend much of your time strategizing in the castle.â
âYou donât know what I do,â you huff out. He finishes the peach and wraps up the pip in a piece of cloth from his pocket before tucking it away. There is no place to dispose of it on the main street anyway.Â
âDonât I?â J says with a sly grin, one that makes you want to kick him in the shin and push him into the grass. âEveryone knows what you do, Y/N. You were the King and Queenâs favorite.â
The way he uses the past tense doesnât go unnoticed by you.Â
âBut, as it seems, being on the battlefield outweighs directing it from above,â J says. He keeps his eyes off of you and his head held high while your gaze focuses in on him out of pure fury, just another way to hold his newfound superiority over your head. Five minutes next to him and he already seems to know how to push every single one of your buttons.Â
âSo it seems,â you say bitterly.Â
âYou and I really must get along, Y/N,â J says casually as you begin to stray from the hustle of the main street. Neither of you seem to have a particularly clear destination in mind, only a path that must be taken for the sake of the greater good. Itâs only the prospect that if you do well enough, youâll impress the King and Queen and regain your favor with them thatâs keeping you from socking J in the face and dashing off, taking his second peach with you. âWeâll be spending lots of time together.â
âDoesnât that sound like the beeâs knees,â you mutter to yourself. For the greater good.Â
âShould it not?â J asks innocently. It makes you want to wipe that smirk right off of his face, that knowing tone in his voice. âI certainly donât have a problem with you, Y/N. Do you happen to have one with me?â
He asks it because he knows that whatever you say will incriminate you. He knows that if you say no, youâre a goddamn liar, and that if you say yes, youâre weak. Weak because youâre admitting that you canât handle spending time with him even though you have to. Weak because youâre showing him that he has power over you.Â
âNo, of course not,â you say, plastering the fakest smile on your face. Two can play at this game. âIn fact, would it be alright if I had that other peach? Iâm absolutely starving.â You can be civil. If he can, at least.
âSure thing,â J says, unwrapping the peach from the woven napkin the farmerâs daughter gave him.
You reach out to take it from him, but in the blink of an eye his hand dangles it over your head, too far out of reach for you to grab without losing all of your dignity in the process.Â
âWhat do we say, Y/N?â He asks sweetly, like a parent disciplining their child. God, everything he does absolutely aggravates you.Â
You take a deep breath and close your eyes. Perhaps you arenât on the front lines as often as he is, but you sure know how to fight. Maybe now is a good time to remind him that you received the same training he did.Â
âPlease?â You ask, just as saccharine.Â
âAs you request, Y/N,â J says with a bow, finally handing it over.Â
If this is what the next several months have in store for you, you wonder if maybe sinking down to a lower ranking might be worth it after all, especially if it means youâll never have to see him and his bouncy hair and dark eyes again.Â
You take a bite into the peach. Itâs sour.Â
Just your luck.Â
â HERE â
When you walk into work the next day, a hush falls over the room.Â
Itâs not even as if the entire office has been quiet so far this workday, not as if the clock struck nine oâclock and everyone decided to start a competition to see who could shut up for the longest amount of time.Â
(For the record, if anyone were to win that competition, it would be Yoongi, who usually only speaks either 1) when spoken to or 2) to let someone know when theyâre being dumb via insult. The first person to lose would be Namjoon, because his job description is to boss people around. And heâs awfully good at it.)
The elevator door dinged on the twenty-third floor and you could hear Hoseokâs loud gasps and Jungkookâs cackled laugh even through the glass door that separates your office from the rest of the companies that take up residence in this particular city skyscraper. And then, as your loafers tapped on the hard linoleum floor and the glass door creaked open, the entire office fell silent.Â
Quickly, you wonder if youâve forgotten someone's birthday or if anybodyâs due for a celebration of some sort. But nobodyâs come to mind and the lights arenât off, which means that this isnât the kind of sudden silence that precedes a surprise party.Â
This is the kind of sudden silence that makes everybody go, âOh shit.â
It feels like youâre walking on eggshells as you make your way over to your desk. Youâre a couple minutes late due to oversleeping (for reasons that start with J and end with -ungkook) so everybodyâs already here, and the office should be as boisterous and rowdy as always. And yet, somethingâs different.Â
Youâre left entirely in the dark in concern with what the reasoning is, so you just decide that youâd rather not be the one to break the tense quiet thatâs befallen your office and settle down, logging into your work desktop and checking todayâs assignments on Slack.Â
Five minutes pass and you canât help but think that, of the many, many days youâve spent in this office with these people, this has got to be the most awkward by an overwhelmingly long shot. Not even the time Namjoon showed up with his hair dyed purple and traces of a sharpie drawing with a certain phallic design on his cheek was more awkward than this.Â
It seems that even Namjoonâs picked up on the vibe of your workspace today, walking in and out without a word. He wheels in a portable whiteboard from one of your meeting rooms and writes down everybodyâs assignments on the board in his handwriting, which makes his Oâs look like Dâs.Â
Ten minutes in and this is the quietest your office has ever been in the history of mankind, probably. Youâre almost convinced that genuinely no one will speak to each other until five oâclock, when Jiminâs end-of-work alarm goes off and you all pack up and go home, and that todayâs workday is an exercise in meditation and peace, two things that are seldom available in your usual office environment.Â
And then, out of nowhere,Â
âOh my God, I canât take it anymore,â Hoseok says loudly, letting out a breath you didnât even realize he had been holding. Itâs highly unlikely that Hoseok spent the past ten minutes holding his breath because he wasnât allowed to talk under your officeâs societal norm of silence, but you honestly canât put it past him. Speaking is essentially the equivalent of breathing to him. âIâve been wanting to bother Jimin for not responding to my email from yesterday for the past five minutes. I donât even know why weâre doing this, itâs clear that Y/N doesnât care at all about what happened.â
âWhat donât I care about?â You blurt out, equally as curious as everyone else also seems to release their baited breaths.Â
Hoseok and Jimin immediately begin to argue about appropriate email-response time between coworkers and Yoongi rolls a couple of feet over from his own desk to enlighten you.Â
âJungkook told everyone that you had been docked from your top rank in Kingdom, and the whole office seems to have taken it very seriously,â Yoongi mutters into your ear, making you scrunch up your nose in exasperation. Is he kidding?Â
âThatâs why everyone was so quiet? Because they didnât want to bring it up?âÂ
âI guess so, but I was just quiet because it was nice to have the whole office shut up for a few minutes in the morning,â Yoongi says with a shrug before wheeling back to his own desk, where an anime you vaguely recognize as Haikyuu!! is playing on his monitor.Â
Immediately, you whip around to meet eyes with Jungkook, who looks like heâs been expecting your furious glare all morning. He smiles guiltily and can offer you literally nothing other than a mouthed sorry because you two are in a workplace environment where shouting is, generally, socially unacceptable.Â
Despite your standing on the game, itâs easy to argue and even easier to prove that your coworkers care much more about Kingdom than you do. The loading screen of the castle in Monetâs art style is Hoseokâs desktop background. Jungkook has a little sword decoration next to his computer, and a couple of his pens are official Kingdom merch that youâre pretty sure he purchased from Hot Topic. Taehyung and Jimin play during their lunch break, the only time in the workday where shouting is socially acceptable, and the both of them came to last yearâs Halloween party dressed as knights. Even Namjoonâs in on the game, though he rarely has time to play and usually has no idea what everyone else is referencing when they talk about Kingdom.Â
Contrastingly, you enjoy the game but very seldom do you actually broadcast that affection in public. You need to have at least some semblance of personal dignity in this absolute free-for-all of a place of employment.Â
So really, itâs no wonder that all of your coworkers acted like it was the end of the world when you got knocked from first place. To them, that would be like having a winning lottery ticket only to drop it onto train tracks and watch as the public transportation system has a field day with it.Â
âWeâre really sorry, Y/N,â Taehyung says as he comes over and hands you a Tootsie Roll from the stash he keeps in one of his desk drawers for bad days. Apparently, this is a bad day. âJungkook told us and we didnât want to put salt in the wound.â
Even if their methodology was weird and slightly unsettling, the sentiment was there. âThanks guys,â you tell Taehyung with a smile, âbut I think you guys took it harder than I did.â
âOf course we did!â Jungkook says with a cry. He is objectively the most torn up out of the lot of you. âWe had the top player in Kingdom in our very office, and now what! You were famous, Y/N! Whoever that bozo is who took your place is gonna feel the wrath of Jeon Jungkook and company.â
âWhoâs feeling the wrath of Jeon Jungkook and company?â Seokjin asks as he strolls into the office, even later than you. To be fair, itâs looking like heâs got a box of a dozen Dunkinâ Donuts, which is enough for anyone to forgive him, even your hard headed boss. âIs it Jimin? Did he steal your Post-Its again? I saw he had a new pack.â
Jungkookâs eyes widen for barely a second before they narrow in on Jimin, who is already skirting away to find Namjoon so he can use him as a human shield. Jimin has quite the history of taking Jungkookâs office supplies only for a second and then failing to return it.Â
âNo, but Iâm gonna deal with him later,â Jungkook says, fishing through his office supplies on the hunt for his Post-it notes, which may or may not be currently in his possession. âWe were just talking about how Y/N got knocked from the top spot in Kingdom by some asshat none of us have ever heard of, and now heâs going to feel the wrath. Of us. Specifically me, but also us.â
âWhat wrath?â Taehyung jokes. âYouâre fresh out of college. Youâre practically as intimidating as a baby bunny.â
Jungkook growls just for emphasis, and it only proves Taehyungâs point more. Heâs always had a baby face. Â
âWell, I brought doughnuts to cheer everyone up,â Seokjin says, opening the box to reveal a dozen doughnuts of varying kinds that is likely to be finished within the next thirty seconds.Â
âOh my God, Kim Seokjin, I love you,â Hoseok says before immediately taking one and a half and bouncing off.Â
âSave the pink-frosted one for me, will you? Itâs my favorite,â Seokjin requests. Heâs not even monitoring the box, too busy putting all his stuff away and getting settled at his desk. Heâs basically asking to be robbed.Â
âAw, I wanted that one,â you joke sadly, already going for the chocolate-frosted one with rainbow sprinkles. The box is nearly three-fourths empty. Even Namjoonâs materialized out of nowhere to take the glazed one to eat while he completes the next fifty-four things on his to-do list.Â
âThen letâs split it,â Seokjin says without missing a beat. Your heart does the exact opposite.Â
âJimin, you wanna split one with me?â Taehyung asks.Â
âEw, gross, no way, I want a whole one to myself,â Jimin immediately rejects.Â
âIâll go and grab it,â Seokjin says, standing up to nab the doughnut for some evil being (by the name of Jimin) takes it for himself. He plucks it from the box and takes two napkins, too, walking over to your desk as he splits the doughnut in half.Â
âFor you,â he says casually, like it isnât making your heart beat out of your chest.Â
âThank you, kind sir,â you say jokingly, taking the doughnut and placing it on the napkin he hands to you.Â
âTell me about this Kingdom thing? You got knocked from first place?â Seokjin asks, making conversation as he lingers by your desk. Itâs obvious that nobodyâs going to be getting any work done.Â
âYeah, but itâs really nothing special. Everyone was making a huge deal out of it, which you should be very glad you missed, because the first ten minutes of this workday were absolutely silent and it was awful in every way that something can be awful,â you tell him.Â
Seokjin laughs, and it warms you from the inside out. âThen Iâm glad that I came late,â he says with a chuckle. âI couldnât imagine a day where Jimin and Taehyung were silent for more than two minutes.â
âI lived through it,â you say, smiling. âAnyway, everyone seems to have gotten over the fact that Iâm no longer the top-ranked Kingdom player. Iâm kind of down about it myself, just because I worked really hard, but whoever it is that took over, Iâm glad for them. I mean, itâs just a game.â
âThat it is,â Seokjin says. âHow about a toast to your Kingdom-playing skills, and to whoever it is that beat you.â
âCheers,â you say, holding out your half of the doughnut.Â
âCheers,â Seokjin echoes.Â
The two of you clink doughnuts, and they squish together awkwardly.Â
âYou should bring doughnuts more often,â You muse.
âIf it means we donât have to work and can just talk like this, then I will,â Seokjin says as he takes a bite, already heading back over to his own desk. He waves goodbye with a smile, and only then do you finally indulge.Â
Sweet. As always.Â
â THERE â
When you were moved to the Military Tactics Unit, the King and Queen pulled you out of military training in favor of you spending more time working on strategies for the Kingdomâs armies rather than sparring with fellow Knights. It was a wise move on the part of Their Royal Highnesses, who feared losing you to a rebel group or warring kingdom, and you didnât mind not having to engage in the physicality of training with those that would be spending more time on the battlefield.Â
And at the time, you saw it as a much-needed break from hand-to-hand combat training for years on end when you hadnât set foot on the front lines in months. But now, that decision has decided to come back and bite you where it hurts.Â
Because as second-in-command to the Head of the Knights, you (and J, both luckily and unluckily) are tasked with the important duty of supervising the military training of the new recruits. This spells doom in various ways, some of which include (and are not limited to):
Having to spend more time with J.Â
Having to spend more time with J without letting all of the recruits know you both vastly dislike each other.Â
Having to spend more time with J in a scenario in which there is constant hand-to-hand combat.Â
Having to spend more time with J without being able to make up an excuse about needing to attend to urgent military business in order to leave.Â
Having to spend more time with J.Â
Attempting to remember how to spar.
So, in essence, youâre screwed.Â
This is the mindset with which you walk into your very first training session in over six months, a few minutes late, of course. Recently youâve been attempting to calculate the maximum amount of time you can spend either being tardy or leaving early from events that involve J without you facing any repercussions. So far itâs been working out well.Â
When you walk in the door, before you can greet any of the recruits or even offer J a slightly sarcastic wave, he says, âLook whoâs finally shown up,â loud enough for all of the recruits to turn to look as you stroll in tardy.Â
âI got held up by a vendor on the main road, my apologies,â you lie like a liar. Itâs obvious that J does not believe you whatsoever, but it satisfies the recruits, who return to their business as usual.Â
âWell, youâre just in time for warm-up,â J says, false positivity radiating throughout every single word.Â
You walk up to where he stands at the front of the room, wearing much less of his official armor than he normally is. Right now, he stands in front of you in a plain tan cotton shirt and training pants, similar to the rest of the recruits. Itâs really quite jarring, to see him dressed so differently from what he usually wearsâdark armor and scarlet red sashes. It makes him seem⌠almost softer.Â
âThought you might have bailed on me,â J mutters into your ear as the recruits begin to stretch.Â
âHave a little more faith in me, for Godâs sake,â you grumble in return. You may not like him, but you arenât about to abandon your responsibilities just because of a little bit of distaste.Â
âDo you wanna take warm-up, or should I?â He offers, motioning to the recruits. They all look so nervous, so desperate to prove themselves on the first day of training. It reminds you of yourself, like youâre looking into a mirror and a time machine all at once.Â
âYouâre the boss,â you say, unabashedly letting the bitterness seep through your tone. âYou choose.â
Unsurprisingly, J decides to let you handle the warm-up session, something that is just a precursor to the main event and therefore, not as important. He takes a couple of steps back and follows your instructions as you go through stretches and basic movements in combat, allowing all of the recruits to get a feel for what knighthood is really like in the Kingdom of Kalar. Warm-up was always your least favorite part during training, so boring in comparison to the sparring and hand-to-hand combat that you would engage in soon after. Sure, it was necessary, but when you were a wide-eyed, overeager trainee, you were willing to risk a pulled muscle if it meant you could beat someone up sooner.Â
With this in mind, you wrap up the session in a fairly timely manner, letting the recruits do their own stretching after everything absolutely necessary has been covered. It also means that you can sit back and let J do most of the heavy lifting, which, while youâre bitter about him getting all of the attention, is better than having to do it yourself based solely upon memory. You remember combat well enough to handle yourself in the battlefield, but the technicalities of training have completely slipped your memory by now.Â
J and everything else about him may leave a sour taste in your mouth, but you have to admit that heâs a good teacher and an even better morale booster. This must come from his experience out in the field, on the front lines, where raising his troopsâ spirits came as a necessary quality to develop when times were tough.Â
He speaks slowly, explains everything in enough detail to cover all of the bases without losing attention, and frequently opens up the floor for questions. And as per usual, the recruits already begin to cling to him like vines, desperate to soak up every ounce of knowledge that he doles out.Â
J doesnât need the ego boost, thatâs for certain.Â
âNow that Iâve gone through everything, I believe that the best way to learn how to spar is just to start doing it, even if you havenât the slightest clue what youâre doing. Despite what you may think about me, experience is the best teacher,â he says with a smile, earning a laugh from the crowd.Â
You roll your eyes.Â
âUm, sir?â A timid recruit raises her hand, her body curled in on herself. You take one look at her, and know that sheâll come out of her shell soon enough.Â
âYes, a question?â J asks.Â
âWould you mind giving a demonstration? Just so we can watch. So we, well, donât injure ourselves or each other while weâre sparring.â
A demonstration? You blink, having awoken from the trance you had placed yourself in one J stepped up to take over the training session. Doesnât a demonstration mean⌠well, you and him?
J seems to come to this realization at the same time that you do, and grins wildly, giddy. He knows exactly how much youâll hate doing this, which is all the more reason to say yes. âOf course, weâd be happy to. Y/N?â
You hold in the sigh youâve been wanting to let out for about five minutes now, taking a deep exhale as you turn to face J. Youâve been in close proximity to him before, but you are about to get a whole lot closer.Â
âIf you say so,â you say with a shrug, trying to keep this as lighthearted and casual as possible. Though, both of those things are likely to be tossed out the window now that youâre about to spar with your worst enemy.Â
J grabs a mat from the side of the room to lay down on the floor in front of you, and the two of you step onto it. Instantly, youâre transported back to when you were still in training, bouncing up and down on your feet with your fists raised in front of you, ready to take on the next recruit. You had always been quite good at sparring, back then.Â
Now is a completely different story.Â
âAre you ready?â J asks as you face each other in front of a crowd of recruits, all of whom are watching you with hawk-like intensity.Â
âGuess I canât say ânoâ, can I?â You joke, though if J offers you a way out of this, youâd gladly take it, shame and dignity be damned.Â
âWell then, do your worst.â
Heâs an open target. Youâve never been given an opportunity to sock him in the face before now, and youâd absolutely love to take it, but this is a sparring session, not a revenge session. That can be saved for a later date. Instead, you bounce on your feet like a nervous, excitable recruit, and aim for his neck.Â
He easily dodges, but you expected that, and counter his attack with your leg. It goes back and forth like this, as your muscle memory kicks in and you remember exactly what sparring was like back in your training sessions. For a few seconds in the middle of it, you genuinely think you and him are on a pretty level playing field.Â
And thenâ
One punch gone wrong and heâs got you lifted up off of the ground and onto his back, having grabbed your wrist at the perfect time to hoist you over his shoulder. You gasp in shock, body not necessarily remembering this part, and thenâ
He slams the both of you down onto the mat, your back hitting the cushion with a thud as the breathe gets knocked from your lungs. You definitely havenât done this part in a while.Â
You know the recruits are all watching you intently, but you refuse to lose like this, even if this is normally the part where the person pinned underneath the other one surrenders. With both of your arms and all of your force, you attempt to shove J off of you by using your elbow to punch him in the chest. If you go down (which you most certainly will), you will go down with a fight.Â
He sees your move coming from a mile away, and immediately pins both of your arms above your head with a simple swish of his hand. The other one is holding up his body by your head as you both stare at each other, breathing heavily. His leg sits in between both of yours, resting up against your thigh, and his head hovers a very dangerous less-than-three inches away from your own. If a particularly near-sighted person were to stumble upon the both of you, youâd be absolutely screwed.Â
The both of you gaze into each otherâs eyes for a second, the wind knocked out of you. You never quite realized what his face looks like up close. His cheeks are bright red. But itâs a second too long because the recruits have gone silent, refusing to applaud or do anything else to signal that the sparring match is over.Â
And then, it feels like a million years pass as J slowly removes himself from on top of your body, standing up and dusting his hands off before leaning down and offering his hand to help you up. Too floored and absolutely speechless to reject his extended palm like you normally would, you grab onto his hand and let him hoist you up, unable to speak.Â
âHow was that for a demonstration?â J asks the recruits, who are all blinking like theyâve just witnessed something far too shocking for their liking.Â
Another trainee, a boisterous young man who walked into todayâs session with his energy fully up and his eyes on the prize, raises his hand. âCould you show us again?â
You and J take one look at each other.Â
No. Way.Â
â HERE â
Because your office is both tightly knit and also uncannily resembles a cast of grown adults playing various high school stereotypes in a Hallmark movie, every year you do Office Superlatives. Office superlatives are basically an excuse for everyone to come up with a way to insult each other 1) while getting paid to do so and 2) without facing any repercussions whatsoever.Â
For three years in a row, your office has designated you as âMost Likely to Spill Coffee on Someone Really Importantâ, a superlative that came about because on your very first day, you spilled your coffee on the one and only Kim Namjoon, who you then mistook as your boss, and thus ensued the most embarrassing one minute and thirteen seconds of your entire life in front of a bunch of colleagues you would have to see every weekday for the foreseeable future.Â
Thankfully, you havenât spilled your coffee on anyone important since then, even if you do regularly knock over your pencil cup and send every pastel-colored highlighter flying across the hardwood floor. It became such a frequent occurrence that, for April Foolâs Day last year, Taehyung and Jimin taped every single thing on your desk to your desk to see how long it would take you to notice.Â
(It took you over three weeks, but thatâs besides the point.)
âI know that the saying is âthe customer is always rightâ, but this client Iâm working with right now is literally wrong,â Taehyung says with a sigh. He collapses back in his office chair, mindlessly playing with the fur of the stuffed Pomeranian dog he keeps on his desk, staring down the email on his desktop. âLike, Iâm not Squarespace or Wix. Either you pay me to design your website entirely, or you do it yourself. Iâm not a drag-and-drop of a person, and I donât get paid to be consulted on every font choice.â
âDidnât you write on your resume that you can identify every standard Microsoft font without being told the name?â Yoongi asks with a frown from across the office. Heâs making the most of his gigantic desktop computer, and has a tab open with One Punch Man right next to a Photoshop logo design heâs working on.Â
âYes, but that doesnât mean I want to do it,â Taehyung says with a frown. âI need someone who knows how to let people down easily.â
âJimin?â Hoseok pipes up unhelpfully, earning an eraser to the face from Jimin, who is notorious for going on a bunch of first dates and very, very seldom going on a second one. You donât even think that for the entire time youâve known him, heâs ever gone a third date with someone. Ever.Â
âDo not make fun of my lifestyle choices!â Jimin shouts out defensively. âI just like meeting new people.â
âYeah,â Hoseok says like a white girl in a Disney Channel Original Movie, âand then never meeting them again.â
âThatâs where youâre mistaken,â Jimin tells him pointedly, already beginning to stand up from his office chair to attempt to further convince him that serial-first-dating isnât all that bad. âTwo weeks ago, I saw this guy that I had gone on a date with last year and he told me that his friend was starting up a small pet barbershop business and needed help with the graphic design for his company. Now Iâm designing this guyâs logo and backsplash for his wall.â He says matter-of-factly.Â
Hoseok frowns. âSo, what Iâm hearing is that you saw a guy you had gone on a date with last year, and what you got out of it, was more work.â
Jimin opens his mouth to say something else, but he flounders. Hoseok cackles to himself, shaking his head because Jiminâs just proved his point further.Â
âIâll ask Seokjin,â Taehyung says with a sigh. âHe could tell me that Iâve lost my job and that Iâm getting evicted from my apartment and I would thank him.â
Amen.Â
âHey, where is Seokjin?â Jungkook asks, spinning around in his office chair for the most efficient way to scan the entire office in search of the man. âHe was just here watching One Punch Man with Yoongi.â
âI didnât even notice he had gotten up,â Yoongi says, turning to the empty spot next to him where Seokjin once was.Â
âIâll go look for him, I need to grab something from the printer, anyway,â you volunteer, pushing your chair back, standing up, and avoiding the gazes of anybody in the office who happens to have knowledge of your not-so-secret secret crush. This means that you are staring down at the lines of the wooden planks in the floor as you walk over to the back hallway, because every single person in the room currently has at least⌠well⌠some insight.Â
âHeâs all yours, Y/N,â Taehyung wolf whistles, making you roll your eyes as you head down the hallway. Â
Too busy counting the planks that make up the hardwood floor and hoping that youâll maybe be able to identify Seokjin by the shoes heâs wearing rather than anything else, you donât look at where youâre going as you make a beeline for the printing room. That is, you make a beeline for the printing room until you crash right into an unsuspecting colleague.Â
âOh, shit!â Said colleague cries out.
Oh God.Â
You look up to find Seokjin standing in front of you, a nearly-empty cup of low-grade office coffee in his hand, and a growing brown stain on his pale blue dress shirt. One look on the floor and thereâs a puddle of coffee gathered at your feet, wet splotches on your flats and his loafers.Â
âY/N, are you alright?â Seokjin asks, eyes wide and apologetic as he immediately searches for some place to put down his coffee to avoid any more casualties. He looks right at you, making you want to curl in on yourself, before his eyes train down to your torso.
Only then do you realize heâs not shamelessly staring at your chest, but rather at the massive brown stain on the front of your blouse, quickly seeping into the fabric, the scalding temperature of the coffee having gone right over your head the moment you realized who exactly it was that you crashed into.Â
âUhâŚâ you stammer, brain crashing as everything thatâs just happened in the past thirty seconds catches up to you all at once.Â
âOh my God, Iâm such a mess,â Seokjin says, fumbling awkwardly as he finally finds a trash can to toss his sad lump of a coffee cup into.
No youâre not, you want to tell him, but the words donât come out and youâre left standing there, looking sort of like you blame him for everything, when in reality, you just have no idea how to function in front of him.Â
âCoffee stains,â Seokjin says, hands fishing through his seemingly bottomless pants pockets (he could probably fit an entire Nintendo Switch and its dock in there) until he pulls out this measly little thing that vaguely resembles your orange highlighter. âHere, I have a Tide To-Go pen.â
Before you can tell him that you can just deal with the stain and wash it in the privacy of your own home where you donât look like a bumbling idiot, he grabs your hand and pulls you into the gender neutral bathroom nearby, locking the door as the light flickers on.Â
âHere, do you need help?â Seokjin asks, holding out his Tide To-Go pen as he wets a paper towel made of entirely recycled materials and begins fruitlessly dabbing at his shirt.Â
âIâm alright, really,â you insist, staring into the mirror and trying desperately to avoid the fact that Seokjinâs shirt becomes transparent when itâs wet. Maybe quitting your job and moving to another city doesnât sound unappealing after all. âI can just get it out with OxiClean at my apartment, Seokjin, seriously.â
âAre you sure? Thatâs what the Tide To-Go pen is for,â Seokjin says, holding it out towards you again as a final attempt to get you to use it.Â
âNo offense, Seokjin, but I donât know if the Tide To-Go pen is even going to make a dent in the stain on my shirt,â you chuckle, the only thing you can think of to get him to stop offering the thing to you. The Tide To-Go pen is meant for when you accidentally get a bit of ketchup onto your jeans as you move the french fry from your plate to your mouth. Not when youâve got a giant coffee stain on the front of your shirt.Â
âGod, Iâm so sorry, Y/N,â Seokjin says, unbuttoning the top two buttons of his shirt to try and get a better grip on the fabric as he relentlessly scrubs at it. God help you. He may as well take the whole thing off at this pointâthough you really, really hope that he doesnât. âIâm such a klutz.â
âNo, itâs my fault, I wasnât looking where I was going,â you tell him. You still know that you passed by 107 wooden planks before you crashed into him, because that is what you do when you donât want to look anyone in the eye.Â
âSeriously, though, I had the cup of coffee. I feel really bad, I could pay to get it dry cleaned for you?â He offers, eyes wide and in search of some way to make it up to you.Â
âNo, no, thatâs not necessary. Iâm can handle a stain, Seokjin. Iâm an adult. I live in my own apartment and everything,â you say firmly, refusing to accept anything else from him. God, if he paid for your dry-cleaning, youâd never be able to live that down. âMaybe Iâll finally stop being voted Most Likely to Spill Coffee on Someone Important,â you joke, trying to make light of the fact that youâre standing in the tiny gender-neutral bathroom together, Seokjinâs practically got half of his transparent dress shirt unbuttoned, and you both have massive and very conspicuous brown stains on your tops. All wonderful, wonderful things.Â
At this point, Seokjin stares down at his shirt and, quite frankly, just gives up, smoothing out his shirt as best as he can and tossing the poor, now-coffee-colored paper towel away.Â
âI suppose itâs high time we give you a break for always knocking over that pencil cup of yours,â Seokjin jokes back as he opens the door, motioning for you to leave first.Â
âWe should invest in some Velcro for it,â you suggest, making Seokjin chuckle as he shuts the door behind him.Â
âUh⌠what the fuck?âÂ
The two of you are stopped in your tracks by a particularly suspicious Taehyung, who just witnessed the two of you walk out of the same bathroom with both of your clothes fairly askew.Â
âItâs not what it looks like,â you immediately tell him, eyes wide. Count on him to get the wrong idea.Â
âOkay,â Taehyung says, eyes narrowed. âSure.â
âTaehyung, come on, I spilled coffee on the both of us,â Seokjin attempts, but Taehyung is absolutely not having it.Â
âThatâs what they all say,â he says cryptically, nodding as he heads to the printer room with his eyes still narrowed. He glares at the both of you until he rounds the corner, out of sight, and by then your cheeks have heated up so badly you think you might actually start sweating.
âNow the whole office is going to think weâre dating,â you say, somewhat jokingly but also somewhat seriously. Thereâs no way Taehyungâs going to be able to keep his mouth shut for any longer than the next five minutes.Â
Seokjin laughs, looking at you and shrugging. âThere are worse things, right?â
Are there?
â THERE â
âOh, Y/N!â
You inhale.Â
Of all of the places in the Kingdom that J has not yet infiltrated and ruined for you, the small cafe on the edge of the kingdom borders has to have been the last one. You discovered it while you were on night watch as a baby knight, a task given to those too dedicated to the job to release but not yet prepared enough to fight on the front lines. Itâs a quiet place, open more hours of the day than closed, owned by an old lady with no other family to take care of the business. Youâve already promised her that after she passes, you will immediately begin funding the cafe yourself, too much money on your hands and not enough wonderful places like this to spend it on.
When days are loud and hectic, when the King and Queen and all of their military advisors are stressed and have been snapping at you all day, this is where you come. The old lady keeps her door open especially for you (at least thatâs what she tells you), always with a steaming cup of jasmine tea and a wise old story to tell you. Sometimes, youâll get to tell a story back, and you exchange words of wisdom from a knight at the highest ranking in the kingdom and an elder with many years of experience in the kingdom behind her. She always tells you, âkeep your eyes wide and your heart open, because things can only enter it if youâre looking out for them.â
Youâve held those words close to your soul ever since the first time you heard them.Â
But when your eyes are wide and staring down a certain knight in the kingdom who seems to have stumbled upon your one sacred place, youâre a little bothered, to say the least.
You exhale.
âFancy seeing you here,â you say sourly, the scalding tea burning your tongue as you take a sip.Â
âIâve never seen this place before,â J admits helplessly, already bowing to the old lady who runs the place. He introduces himself handsomely, and much like everyone else bewitched by his good looks and unrealistically charismatic personality, she immediately warms up to him.Â
âI wish it could stay that way,â you mumble to yourself, far too quiet for anyone except you and your tea to hear. âItâs far away,â you say to him as the lady ushers him to the seat next to yours, already promising him tea on the house. You sigh. âWouldnât expect you to go hunting for a nice tea place when there are so many wonderful places in the city.â
âI guess itâs nice to branch out,â J says with a shrug. âI have to say that I donât really go out to cafes all that often. Too busy.â
âYou know I understand how that goes,â you tell him honestly. For once, itâs something you can actually relate to. âBut I think that itâs important to take a break from our duties and just relax. We donât have much time to do that, you know.â
The lady brings over tea, and J insists he pay her for it despite her insistence for him not to. She shuffles off into the back before he can even get out some coins.
âTell me, where can I leave this? I feel terrible not paying,â J asks you. It catches you off guard, really, mostly because he seems to be the kind of person who walks around the center square winking at every vendor in the hopes of receiving free merchandise.Â
âOh,â you say, embarrassingly speechless. âWell, I suppose I could take it and give it to her. If we left rather soon then we could simply leave it on the counter for her to find. Itâs likely that she wonât come back out for a while, since I have company.â
âAm I your company, Y/N?â J asks, almost teasingly. It makes you want to chuck your cup of jasmine tea into his face.Â
âDonât think too much of it,â you advise him, a warning to tell him to knock it off. âWeâre just here together.â
âLucky us,â J says, holding up his cup of tea for a toast. You indulge him (begrudgingly so), letting your glasses clink together as you both finish a much needed warm drink on a chilly afternoon.Â
Too soon, the respite of the cafe is broken by a knock at the door. You both turn to find a messenger waiting patiently outside the cafe, motioning for J to come and speak to him.Â
âIf youâll excuse me,â J says, scooting back his chair and heading over, shutting the door behind him.Â
The moment the door closes, the old lady reappears from the back of the room, collecting your finished cups as you both listen intently to the murmuring outside.Â
âThat young man mentioned that the two of you spend lots of time together,â the muses, cleaning the cups with a wet rag. Sheâs got a knowing look in her eye, like sheâs picked up on something the both of you seem to have overlooked.Â
âWeâre both knights,â you correct. Itâs important to you that she knows that you donât spend time together out of personal preference. Itâs merely obligation. âSo we see each other quite often.â
âIâve never seen him around before,â she says pointedly, âbut he seems to know quite a lot about you.â
âOh, not really,â you insist. How could he? Youâve barely known him a month. Still, itâs clear that the lady doesnât believe you.Â
âAs you say,â she says, skeptical.Â
Youâre about to open your mouth and reject her notions further, but then the door opens up again, and J looks terribly apologetic as he walks inside, joining your side. âWeâve been called in.â
As per usual, the Kingdom appears with impeccable timing to ruin the rest of your afternoon. It has a striking tendency to do that.Â
âFor what?â You ask, exasperated. J doesnât look much happier.Â
âCriminal hearings,â J says, and the words make you you toss your head back and sigh.Â
Criminal hearings and its many, many procedures are quite possibly your least favorite part of being a top-ranked royal knight. With your knowledge of the ins and outs of the military and the kingdomâs inner workings, as well as with you being an advisor to the generals and the King and Queen, you are often obligated to attend these, just in case there is a desperate need for the technicalities of military crimes that no one else can provide. It is, admittedly, extremely boring, since you canât really offer any sort of insight or opinion on the actual criminal and their crime at hand.Â
âFine,â you say, suddenly much less energized than you were approximately thirty seconds ago. âI suppose that weâll have to be on our way.â
âMaâam,â J says, attracting the attention of the old lady behind the counter. He holds out some coins, palm facing up. âPlease accept this from me. I couldnât leave without paying you for your wonderful tea and service.â
âOh, pish posh,â the lady says with a shake of her hand. âAny friend of Y/Nâs is well-deserving of some tea. You both work very hard. You should take any opportunity that presents itself to relax, and enjoy being young.â
âPlease,â J insists, placing the coins in her hand, âa token of my gratitude. We shall return soon, right Y/N?â He gives your shoulder a nudge, making you look up at him. Return? Youâd be blessed if J forgot about this place entirely, though you know that heâs bound to come back soon.Â
Perhaps there are worse things than losing your favorite cafe to him. Perhaps, you can simply learn to enjoy his company, instead.Â
âOf course, how could I resist?â You say, waving goodbye to the lady at the counter. âWe really must be going, but I shall see you soon.â
âTake care of yourselves, the both of you!â She sees you off with a smile and a wink directed right at you for a cause you arenât too keen on picking up. Old ladies are always so vague.Â
When you walk outside, youâre surprised to find yourselves alone. âWhereâs the messenger guard?â You ask, looking around to see if heâs found a tree to take respite from the sun under.Â
J laughs, warm and hearty. âI sent him off, told him we would be able to make it ourselves.â
âOh, alright,â you say with a shrug, already beginning to trudge the familiar path towards the castle.Â
You take six steps before realizing that J is neither next to you nor following you, still standing on the porch of the cafe as the sun makes his hair glimmer a dark caramel in the light.Â
âArenât you coming?â You turn around to ask, an eyebrow raised as you tap your foot on the cobblestone road.Â
âHave you ever skipped a criminal hearing before, Y/N?â J asks, and the very notion of bailing makes your eyes go wide.Â
âSkipped?â You clarify.Â
âThatâs what I said,â J confirms.Â
âNoâŚâ You trail off, feeling more and more like the try hard you once were while training, wide-eyed and eager to prove yourself. Standing in front of him, rocking back and forth on your toes and twiddling your fingers as he steps off of the porch, taking long strides to reach you, makes you feel so nervous. With every step he takes closer to you, your heart begins to beat faster, faster, faster.Â
âWell,â J says, reaching out his hand to take hold of your own. âWould you like to start?â
When you were stationed on the Kingdomâs borders, you thought you had explored every nook and cranny of Kala. You had wandered through forests, across rivers, and into small edge villages with goods you had never even heard of before. You thought you had seen it all.Â
Clearly, you were mistaken.Â
J pulls you off of the cobblestone path and immediately takes you into the woods that surround the cafe, weaving past trees and ferns and grass alike. This time of year, the forest is ripe with greenery, right when summer is coming to an end but the leaves have yet to begin to fade to brown. Even without landmarks or a path to guide him, J seems to know exactly where the two of you are going, like heâs taken this road a million times before. And still, you had never seen him before this.Â
Itâs a wonder that the two of you missed each other for so long.Â
âWhere are we going, J?â You ask, laughing as the exhilaration of skipping your duties in favor of a fun day in the forest begins to flow through your veins. Youâve never done this before.Â
âJust wait, youâll see,â he says cryptically, taking you down a large hill. You must be out of the Kingdom borders by now, with how far youâve been going, and yet, no one had ever thought to place guards in this area.Â
Five more minutes of travelling and youâre near convinced that J is about to take you to some cave in the floor of the forest and murder you, when he tugs you up a hill to revealâ
Itâs a clearing with grass so green youâd almost think it was enchanted. The leaves of the trees whisper to each other, voices flowing with the wind that breezes by each and every one, saying hello to the branches as they rustle. Tall grass and ferns grow on the edge of the forest, disguising the clearing to anyone who wouldnât bother to keep looking, make their way through the overgrowth and into the oasis.Â
Never in a million years would you have been able to find this place on your own.Â
âWhat do you think?â J asks excitedly as he pulls you into the middle of the clearing, where the leaves of the trees have left an opening for the sun to shine through, a halo in the middle of the forest.Â
âIâIâm speechless,â you say, eyes wandering from every piece of bark to every blade of grass. Youâve always loved your Kingdom and its beauty, from the extravagant castle to the little shacks on the border, but this is more than that. This isnât just beautyâitâs magic. âHow did you find this place?â
âStrayed from the pack during military training outside,â he says guiltily. Clearly, skipping out on responsibilities has become a habit of Jâs.Â
âUnbelievable,â you say, fingers tracing along the wildflowers growing close to the forest floor. You take a seat in the middle of it all, letting the sun stream through the leaves as the flowers open their petals at your touch. Itâs as if every single living thing has been enchantedâlike none of this could exist naturally.Â
âDo you like it?â J asks, taking a seat on the stone next to you. He reaches down to run his fingers through the grass, letting the soft dirt gather on his skin.Â
âI donât think I have the words,â you tell him. You thought you had found a hidden respite from the hustle and bustle, but he has found not just a respite. Heâs found a home. âWhy would you show me this place?â
âWhat do you mean?â J asks. He finds a small yellow flower, a buttercup, and plucks it from the ground, twirling it between his fingers.
âI mean, why would you bring me here? Wouldnât you want to keep this place all for yourself?â You inquire, curious. Certainly, thatâs what you would do.Â
J pauses for a moment, staring down at the buttercup in his hands. Wordlessly, he hands it to you, watches as your fingers touch his own, taking the buttercup from him. You twirl it between your fingers, and wonder what all of this means.Â
âNo,â he eventually answers. âBecause a place like this deserves to be shared with the people that deserve to see it.â
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[You have 5 unread messages]
Jungkook (5:53PM): Is it still acceptable to talk about Kingdom at company dinners? Jungkook (5:53PM): Is the ban that Yoongi instated last company dinner still going? Do you think heâll be mad if I talk about how I just got a bunch of gold from solving the mystery of the time capsule?
Yoongi (5:55PM): If I have to sit through another company dinner where everyone is talking about Kingdom and nobody is talking about anime or my dog Holly I will lose it
Taehyung (5:57PM): Youâre coming, right? You mentioned having a thing that ended pretty late this evening so you werenât sure youâd make it
Seokjin (6:03PM): Excited to see you tonight! Promise I wonât spill anything on you tonight haha
Your officeâs annual company dinner is the one and only opportunity you, as employees, get per year to talk about whatever you like in front of your colleagues, all while getting a meal paid for by your wonderfully unassuming, hardheaded boss. It is both a celebration of camaraderie and, of course, being employed, and a chance for your personal group to talk about Kingdom for two hours straight without repercussions.Â
Needless to say, many of you are looking forward to it.Â
To Jungkook (6:07PM): Yes, but only if we get to talk about how Iâm still the best at the game out of everyone To Jungkook (6:07PM): Also, donât forget to talk to Yoongi about My Hero Academia I know that you secretly love it
To Yoongi (6:08PM): Bring earplugs? Or maybe a manga book to get the conversation going?
To Taehyung (6:08PM): Yeah, Iâll be there To Taehyung (6:08PM): Probably be late though To Taehyung (6:09PM): Save me a seat!
To Seokjin (6:10PM): Not sure if I can promise the same thing! Fingers crossed we make it out tonight unscathed by scalding hot liquids
The company dinner starts at 6:30, which means that it really starts at 7:00 by the time everyone arrives, but even still, youâll probably be late because you are actually doing last-minute laundry, and not attending a special event like you had told Taehyung. Sue you. Your clothes were dirty.Â
Standing in the middle of your apartment wearing the slouchiest clothes you own, you wonder if itâs even worth going when you know that you will probably 1) be late and 2) have to endure two hours worth of Kingdom talk and other things that leave you thoroughly embarrassed, like your nonexistent love life.Â
Youâve never skipped out on a company dinner before, but then again, never have all of your colleagues been so on top of you about your very insignificant, not at all soul-crushing, extremely minimal, super unimportant, tiny little infatuation with a certain coworker, so thereâs that to consider.Â
Not to mention the fact that your entire office genuinely believes that the two of you hooked up in the gender neutral bathroom during the middle of the workday, which is a circumstance so improbable you have no idea how Taehyung managed to convince everybody that that was actually what happened. Itâs not as if your coworkers didnât see the ridiculous brown stains on the front of your and Seokjinâs shirts, or didnât smell the office coffee stench all over the both of you.Â
So, for once in your life, you are genuinely considering just staying at home, finishing your laundry, and eating the frozen veggie burritos you bought from Costco two weeks ago. It sounds very tempting.
This thought is immediately combated by the fact that you usually have some of the most fun during the year at this company dinner, and a free meal at a nice, upscale restaurant is something that you would normally never pass up. But then again, Seokjin will be there and he will be dressed very nicely, and the rest of your coworkers will also be there, and they will be relentless.Â
Jungkook (6:33PM): Tae said youâd be late but please come soon! We canât talk about Kingdom without the best player present!!!! Jungkook (6:33PM): Oh no Namjoon sees me with my phone
And out of every possible text you could have received that night, that one is the one that convinces you to pull out the same dress youâve worn to the company dinner (itâs not as if anyone else will remember) every other year, tug it on, and head out. Your Costco veggie burritos will have to wait for another stay-at-home night.Â
You arrive fashionably late as always, walking into the restaurant and just asking for directions to where the âbig group of loud office workersâ is, a term easily identifiable by the scrambled hostess with fifteen different tables to seat all at once. She points you to the back room, where you can already hear Hoseokâs laughter from outside in the main dining area.Â
âYou guys are loud,â you say in lieu of a greeting, everyone letting out cries of âY/N!â and âYou made it!â as you look around for the last empty seat.Â
âHere, saved you a spot right next to me,â Seokjin volunteers helpfully, motioning to the empty velvet chair next to him. In the seat next to that sits Taehyung, who is grinning guiltily, like he didnât just dupe you into thinking he had saved you a seat next to him and someone else other than the person you were hoping not to embarrass yourself in front of.Â
âThinking of me when Iâm not even here, how thoughtful,â you say, walking over and sending a glare Taehyungâs way as you take your seat, the glass at the top right corner of your placemat already filled.Â
âHow could we forget about you?â Seokjin reasons, and he says it so casually but it makes your heart flutter all the same.Â
When Seokjinâs finally started talking to Hoseok and Jimin on his other side, the two of them attempting to explain the inner workings of Kingdom to him (to little avail, as per usual), you round on Taehyung, who is every bit the best wingman and the worst friend in the entire world.Â
âHow could you do this to me?â You hiss at him, trying not to attract the attention of the man sitting on the opposite side of you.Â
âI said I had saved you a seat!â Taehyung says defensively, clearly enjoying himself way too much.Â
âThis was not what I had in mind,â you tell him pointedly.Â
âObviously, otherwise I wouldnât have hidden it from you,â Taehyung says. He motions to Seokjin, whoâs laughing at something that Jiminâs just said, eyes crinkled into half moons as the waiter places the cocktail heâs ordered down in front of him. âYou know, itâs not so bad having a crush on him, right?â
âHe is our coworker and way out of my league, of course it is,â you remind Taehyung.Â
Taehyung shrugs you off with a wave of his hand. âGive yourself some credit, Y/N. Youâre hot. Embrace it.â
âI will not, thank you very much. This conversation makes me want to hurl,â you say as normally as possible, blinking to show your discomfort to Taehyung.Â
âYou need to stop being so afraid of what might actually come out of this,â Taehyung says, a reassuring hand on your arm. âYou never know what might happen.â
âWhatâs definitely going to happen is that Iâm going to feel too cold from the vent above my head, and weâre going to switch seats,â you say. You immediately make to stand up, but Taehyung grabs onto your wrist and looks up at you like a child begging for candy in a supermarket.Â
âPlease, Y/N? Just give it a try, and if you hate it by the time the entree comes around, we can switch. Alright?â He asks, a simple compromise to get you to sit back down.Â
You sigh. You suppose it wouldnât hurt to shoot your shot, no matter how terrible your aim is.Â
âI didnât order any soup, so hopefully we can last through this dinner without ruining more of our clothes,â Seokjin says, an icebreaker to ease the obvious tension between the two of you. He breaks down your walls so easily, carves out a path in the side of it to waltz right through.Â
âI donât know,â you say sarcastically,â you better finish that cocktail soon or we might both be in big trouble.â
Seokjin chuckles, warm and full, and takes another sip of the fruity drink for good measure. âDonât know how you keep getting crowned Most Likely to Spill Coffee on Someone Important when Iâm here, a walking coffee volcano.â
âWhen the superlatives roll around, Iâll petition the court and see if we can crown you instead,â you promise.Â
âIâm honored. Iâll cherish that title for as long as I live,â Seokjin jokes, bowing to you just for good measure. âThis is nice, you know.â
âWhat is?â You ask, peering down at the large group menu. Everything looks awfully delicious and awfully expensive, so you just go for a classic pasta dish and hope that Taehyung orders something different, so you can try each otherâs.Â
âSitting next to you,â Seokjin says like itâs obvious, making you blink at your menu like itâs just offended your entire family ancestry. âI donât think weâve ever been paired up like this at a company dinner.â
âWell, thereâs a first time for everything, right?â You ask hopefully.Â
âItâs nice,â Seokjin says. âI feel like we donât get to talk very much at work.â
âYou said youâd bring more doughnuts,â you remind him. Seokjin has held up on his promise, actually, and since the first round of doughnuts, heâs brought on two more occasions to brighten up everybodyâs day.Â
âI think I need a better excuse than doughnuts,â Seokjin says to himself. âI canât keep going to Dunkinâ right before work, pretty soon all of the workers will know me by name and that is a level that Iâm not sure Iâd like to reach yet.â
âDonât feel bad,â you tell him, a hand instinctively coming to rest on his shoulder as comfort. âSome of the Costco employees recognize me even when Iâm wearing my sunglasses inside.â
âYou wear your sunglasses inside Costco?â Seokjin asks with a laugh.Â
âSometimes I just forget to take them off when I walk from my car into the store!â You say defensively. âItâs really bright in there, sue me.â
âNo, no, I think itâs cute,â Seokjin assures you. âMaybe being recognized by the Dunkinâ employees wonât be that bad. At least they probably wouldnât know who I was if I had my sunglasses on.â
âIâm being attacked, Iâm pretty sure,â you say pointedly.Â
âOnly affectionately. Youâre still ridiculously endearing.â Seokjin says with a chuckle, smiling at you as Jungkook calls your name to tell him something about Kingdom that heâs forgotten. But even as Seokjin gets tugged into another conversation and you get pulled into your own, your brain canât help but replay the sound of his voice in your head, over and over.Â
Youâre still ridiculously endearing.
âHey, Jungkook,â Jimin asks over a mouthful of complimentary bread with olive oil. âDid you ever figure out who knocked Y/N from the top spot in Kingdom?â
âNo,â Jungkook cries out, suddenly thirsty for justice. âIt makes me so mad that I donât know who they are, especially since theyâre getting all the in-game brand deals and Y/N gets nothing,â he says pointedly as he motions to you, clearly exasperated for a cause that wasnât even his to begin with.Â
âJungkook, itâs not a big deal, itâs just a game,â you remind him, the table too wide to reach over and pat his hand comfortingly. âI still get a lot of things in second place.â
âWhatâs Jungkook talking about?â Seokjin asks, motioning to where Jungkook seems to be on a rampage as Jimin and Namjoon listen in.Â
âOh, Kingdom, like always,â you say fondly. âHeâs determined to figure out the name of the person who dethroned me.â
âIs that so?â Seokjin asks with a laugh. âHeâs got his work cut out for him. How many people play Kingdom?â
âHundreds of thousands, probably,â you say. âMaybe millions.â
âMillions of people, and somehow we ended up with the second-best player in the game right at this table,â Seokjin says with a grin. âWe should be honored.â
âItâs just a game,â you remind him, even though the sentiment is awfully sweet. âI think I much prefer the real world, donât you?â
Seokjin smiles at you as the waiter comes around to offer him another cocktail.Â
âAnother one, sir?â
Seokjin looks down at the cocktail, then at your unstained clothes, and he shakes his head, laughing to himself. âNo, Iâm alright, thank you.â The waiter nods, taking his empty glass and moving onto another coworker. He looks at you, and his eyes are swimming in stars. âI think that I do, too.â
Dinner ends with Hoseok and Jungkook gobbling down everybodyâs leftovers, your boss paying the bill without even glancing at the check, and you laughing alongside Seokjin, who keeps your end of the table entertained with fantastic stories about his past job at a luxury department store and less-than-fantastic dad jokes that he prides himself for coming up with on the spot.Â
Taehyung had nudged you when the entrees had come around, motioning to the vent above your head, but you hadnât even noticed the cold.Â
âUgh,â Jimin says with a groan as the group of you head outside once everyone is finished, the chilly night air hitting your skin as you open the door. âI hate that we could only schedule this for a Wednesday, because it means we have to come into work again tomorrow.â
âWhen else are we supposed to schedule it for?â Yoongi asks with a frown. âDid you even look at the When2Meet? Nobody had any free time for the rest of the month.â
âWell, if everyoneâs cleared their schedules just for this dinner, anyone want to keep the celebration going at my apartment? I just bought a box of wine from Trader Joeâs,â Jimin asks.Â
âOn a Wednesday?â Yoongi says, nose scrunched up in disapproval.Â
âYeah, when else would you drink boxed Trader Joeâs wine?â Jimin responds like itâs obvious.Â
Everyone begins to either disperse back to their cars or get Jiminâs address so they can get wine drunk on a Wednesday like youâre supposed to, leaving you and Seokjin out of the crowd.Â
âAre you heading over to Jiminâs?â He asks you as you begin to walk towards your cars, taking a step every five seconds as you watch Jimin tell everybody his exact address, loudly and slowly enough for any burglars and axe-wielding murderers within a three-mile radius to also hear him.Â
âNo, I think Iâll just head home for the night,â you say, checking the time on your phone. Itâs nearly ten, already. Where did the time go?
âAh, then I guess I will, too,â Seokjin says. âOh, hereâs my car.â
âYou parked close,â you comment.Â
âI thought that Iâd be late because I arrived at 6:45, but I was the second one here,â Seokjin tells you, making you laugh.Â
âSounds like our office, doesnât it?â
âI guess. Weâll have to do this again sometime just to see how late everyone shows up,â Seokjin says.Â
âPromise Iâll be early next time,â you say.Â
âNext time, then?â Seokjin asks, already opening his car door and beginning to step inside. You stand on the sidewalk in front of him, watching as he pulls the door shut and waves to you through the windshield. A next time sounds awfully nice.Â
âNext time.â
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The King and Queen never do find out about your truancy, though you have to admit, you were never really worried about that in the first place. Not when J was grinning as he told you he had sent the messenger guard off, laughing as he dragged you through the forest, smiling as he twirled a buttercup between his fingers. He had done it before and heâll do it again, and look where thatâs gotten him.Â
Maybe you could learn a thing or two from him.Â
Still, despite your high ranks, the two of you canât avoid your responsibilities forever. Eventually, you will always have to report back to the castle, get a new assignment, and start the cycle all over again.Â
âAt least theyâre letting us go together,â J reasons as the two of you nod to the knights standing guard at the border of the kingdom, by the main forest that leads directly to a kingdom with whom your relationship isnât all that strong. No wars have broken out between your two lands in years, but never has stability been one-hundred percent earned, which means that both kingdoms must be on high alert. You never know when a rebel group will attempt to invade the land.Â
âLike Iâd want to spend any more time with you,â you joke, giving J a nudge in the side as you stroll along the forest edge. In the middle of the day with the sun high above your heads, neither of you are particularly worried about being attacked. It would be foolish for an enemy group to do so, especially at a time when the kingdomâs guards are the most awake.Â
âAm I really such awful company?â J asks, and heâs smiling but he asks in such a way, itâs almost as if he means it. The two of you have never been on the best of terms, but youâve found yourself growing out of the competition-fueled rage you once always found yourself in whenever you were near him. No longer is regaining your first place your most important priority. Rather, itâs doing your job and doing it correctly, upholding the duties that the kingdom has entrusted you with, regardless of whoâs by your side.Â
(Though, even if youâd never admit it, J makes quite good company, most of the time.)
âNo,â you insist, a hand reaching out to rub comfortingly at his forearm. âYou arenât.â
âYou think so?â J says with a laugh, almost bitter. âI must say, youâve never been that fond of me.â
âYou may have charmed your way into the rest of the kingdomâs hearts, but I needed some convincing,â you remind him, reminiscent of how he would tease you constantly, dangle his promotion right above your head like a trophy youâd never be able to reach.Â
âDid I do a good job, then?â J asks, hands in his pockets. Itâs a quiet day, today. Even the birds have begun to murmur.Â
âYou did quite alright,â you say, nudging him. âThough I must say, I absolutely hate how all of the vendorâs daughters fawn all over you and give you free items like fruit, and jewelry. Iâm never given that treatment.â
âYou just donât have my naturally charming, handsome, soft looks,â J says, posing in front of you as the two of you walk. The obnoxiousness of it all makes you almost want to chuck the apple youâre about to eat right at his face.Â
âWhat do you mean? I can be charming,â you say with a pout. You pretend to flip your hair, just for emphasis.Â
âYou and I are different types of charming,â J says casually. âYouâre strong. You speak loudly and clearly and you donât ever flounder. You always know exactly what you want, and know the best way to get it. You arenât afraid of anything, and are always willing to take on any challenge that comes your way. Itâs⌠itâs different.â
And even if he thinks you never flounder, never stumble over your words or stutter, for once, you canât think of anything to say. Youâre walking along the forestâs edge with a knight you had convinced yourself that you would never befriend, and heâs just told you all of these wonderful things about yourself you never would have known heâd thought otherwise.Â
Jâs right. It is different. This is different. And you can hardly remember when it started to be like this. Only one day, it was just like this, and it never stopped.Â
âDo you really think all of those things about me?â You ask, staring down at your boots as you walk along the dirt path, kicking small pebbles as you go. They go flying off into the grass, never to be seen again. But sometimes, you come across one you had kicked a few steps back, and you try again, earnestly hoping to see how far it will go with you by its side.Â
âI mean, wellâŚâ J says, stumbling. âI donât just think those things about you, you know? Theyâre facts, arenât they? Those are things that, well, I suppose, everyone would think about you. Right?â
âYou know what I think?â You ask, looking up at him. His dark hair shimmers in the light, like reflects of gold have been sprinkled amongst the ink black. âWe are different types of charming. Youâre charismatic and friendly, always willing to listen. You accept things graciously and are always grateful for what you receive. You pay people back whatever theyâve given you, even if itâs not the same item, even if itâs just the thought that counts. You always want to do better, and then you do. You work hard for each thing you get, and you never take it for granted.â
J grins down at you. âBut you donât actually think that, do you?â
âNope,â you say, shaking your head. âJust facts.â
âJust facts,â he echoes.Â
When did talking to him become so easy? When did it all start coming to you naturally?
âDid you ever hate me?â He asks you, curious. He knows, he must, that thatâs not the case anymore.Â
âNo,â you admit, perhaps more to yourself than to him. âI think that I just hated that you were better than me. But⌠like you said, itâs different now. Now, I donât care if youâre better than me. That sort of competition makes me a better soldier. You make me a better soldier.â
âReally?â J wonders, genuine. His eyes are wide in surprise, shocked at such a candid admission coming from you. To be honest, youâre surprised with yourself, as well. âI had no idea.â
âKeep it up, then. You knowââ
A taut string let go.Â
The wind stopping in its tracks.Â
And an arrow headed right for your heart.Â
âOh my God!â You shout quickly, unable to do much except alert the man next to you that the two of you are in imminent danger.Â
Before you can even blink, close your eyes and wait for the tip to pierce your heart, J is pushing you out of the way, sending you flying to the forest floor and he pulls his bow from his back, sending a steel arrow flying in the direction of the woods. You both wait there, only a second but itâs a second too long, until you hear a thud on the ground, a final breath, and thenâ
Silence.Â
The moment youâre both positive the assailant is dead, J turns to you, eyes wide. âY/N, are you alright?â
âIâm fine, Iâm alright,â you assure him, telling him (and yourself) over and over as he pulls you up from the ground. Your heart is racing and you canât quite seem to catch your breath, but youâre alive and so is he, and thatâs all that matters. âAre you?â
âYes,â he immediately says. âAs long as you are.â
You look behind him to find an arrow stuck in a tree, but what alarms you more is the sight of blood on the tip. Immediately, you turn back to J, only to find the side of his arm covered in blood, bleeding right through his armor.
âOh my God, J, youâre hurt,â you cry out, fumbling for something to stop the flow.
âIâm alright, Y/N, really,â he insists, placing a hand on top of your own, rubbing the back of it with his thumb for good measure. âItâs just a graze. Iâll be fine.â
âWe have to take you back to the kingdom,â you push, already beginning to head back towards the gate.Â
âIâve suffered worse injuries, Y/N, seriously,â he tells you, hoping to ease the pit of worry in your stomach. âIâm a top-ranked knight who prefers the battlefield over anything else. Iâve broken bones, gotten stabbed, and nearly died. This? Itâs nothing. Really. Please, donât worry.â
âWe still have to get you back to the Kingdom and patch you up,â you insist firmly. âEven if you say youâre alright.â
âWhatever you say, Miss Y/N.â J goes with you obligingly, lets you walk him back to the kingdom gates.Â
You urge him into the local medical practitioner, sit him down on the bench and watch as the doctor bandages his wound, reminds him not to engage in any strenuous activity while itâs healing. He sits patiently, glaring at you slightly and rolling his eyes any time the doctor speaks, which is fairly frequently. Itâs clear only one of you wants to be here right now, and itâs the one of you without a scratch on your body.Â
When the doctor leaves to tend to another patient, you get up from where youâre seated and sit down next to him on the bench, resting your head on his shoulder.Â
Working for the Kingdom makes you stronger. Sitting in the cafe makes you think. But being with him, standing by his side, it makes you wonder. It makes your heart race and your mind clear. It makes you feel safe.Â
âI think you saved my life,â you whisper softly, clutching onto him like a lifeline, like if you let go, one of you will drown.Â
But thatâs not the case. Neither of you will let go. Not without the other. Never without the other.Â
âReally?â He asks. He already knows the answer.Â
âNo, I know you did,â you tell him. Things are different now, but maybe theyâve always been like this. You just never noticed. âBecause in a heartbeat, I would do the same for you.â
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âI have not seen Seokjin all day,â Jimin comments loudly one day, making everyone immediately turn to Seokjinsâ desk, which looks practically untouched. His computer is asleep, his chair is pushed in, and his desktop is empty. The only thing that suggests that the man is even here in the first place is the messenger bag resting against the desk drawers, though it doesnât look like itâs even been opened today.Â
âProbably too busy avoiding you,â Yoongi deadpans, earning a âzing!â from Hoseok that makes you feel even more like youâre standing in the middle of a high school movie made by people who donât know what high school is like.Â
âIs he even in today?��Â
âHe is,â you pipe up. âHis bag is here.â
âOf course you would know!â Taehyung teases, and he earns a highlighter to the face for his trouble.Â
âHeâs probably just trying to get his work done in a place that doesnât consist of screaming and constant insults being hurled across the room,â Jimin says with a sigh, turning back to his work. Itâs a fair statement, especially when the environment in your office is most often distracting, loud, and not at all an ideal work environment. Itâs an absolute wonder that any of you manage to get your work done while youâre here.Â
âY/N, wanna go hunt him down?â Taehyung suggests, sending a wink your way as your eyes widen.Â
âNo, absolutely not, no way. I will not be tricked by you again,â you say, very reminiscent of the last time you went to go look for Seokjin and ended up with a coffee-stained shirt and a group of coworkers who thinks the two of you hooked up that one time.Â
âIf you say soâŚâ Taehyung says, voice trailing off as he turns back to his work.Â
But for once in your life, Seokjinâs absence is more noticeable than ever. Heâs become a fixture in your everyday office life, always stopping by your desk with a second cup of low-grade office coffee for you (with a lid, of course), sending you emails complaining about Jimin and Hoseok when theyâre being loud, asking you for help on every one of his difficult font decisions for logo designs, drafting emails to clients with you. Itâs a sort of closeness that you never really had beforeâsure, you worked together and often got paired up for projects, but itâs different now. Like you jumped ship on being just colleagues but instead of drowning, you began to float.
Five more minutes pass and you pretty much resign yourself to getting back to your work, knowing that Seokjinâs probably just grabbed his laptop and found a place where he can work in peace and quiet without Hoseokâs shrill voice interrupting his thoughts. Youâll have to ask him what place heâs discovered.Â
When there are four minutes left in the workweek and you are finally beginning to close out of the fifteen thousand tabs open on your Google Chrome window, the door busts open.Â
It doesnât actually bust open, so much as Seokjin comes flying through it and it slowly goes to rest on the padded door frame like itâs been designed to. His tie is loose around his neck like heâs been tugging on it all afternoon, his laptop is clenched carefully between his arm and his torso, and heâs got a flurry of papers freeballing it in a stack in his hands.Â
âOh my God, what tornado did you come from?â Jimin asks as Seokjin rushes over to his desk, cramming everything into his tiny messenger bag that definitely isnât meant to fit a laptop and a stack of papers that thick.Â
âSehun just dumped an entire project on me thatâs due on Sunday at noon with no warning, and now I have to pull together fragments of a crumbling magazine label before their final review on Sunday afternoon,â he says, terribly out of breath. Heâs scrambling to gather his belongings, crashing into anything within a two-foot radius of him.Â
âDude, what the heck? Iâm gonna tell Namjoon to kick Sehunâs ass,â Hoseok says with a frown, nose scrunched up. âDo you need help?â
âNo, no, Iâm alright, I can do it,â Seokjin insists, rubbing a hand through his hair as he leaves before the clock has even struck five.Â
âAre you sure? You look like you want to jump out of the window,â Hoseok asks again, just for clarification. Heâs not wrong. You donât think youâve ever seen Seokjin become so stressed in such a short period of time before. âAt least let one of us help you get settled back into your apartment.â
To your right, Taehyung whispers into Jungkookâs ear, who then does this sort of weird hand movement to Hoseok, who nods understandingly. It looks suspiciously like they just plotted someoneâs murder.Â
âI canât,â Jungkook says with an obnoxiously fake yawn, suddenly speaking much slower than usual, âIâm deadbeat tired.â
âMe neither,â Taehyung says, coughing in the way people do when they just want to get out of something. âI think Iâm coming down with something.â
You whip your head around as everyone besides Yoongi comes up with an absolutely bullshit excuse not to accompany Seokjin to his apartmentâJimin says he has a date right after work and Hoseok says he needs to feed his puppy before he gets too hungry, leaving only you and a Yoongi that hasnât been listening to the conversation whatsoever to vie for the spot.Â
âYoongi?â You ask, somewhat desperate not to be the one to accompany Seokjin to his apartment. You turn to your head to glare at Taehyung, who shamelessly coughs again when he meets your eyes, smiling guiltily.Â
âHuh?â He asks, turning around.Â
âFine, you know what? I can come with,â you say with a sigh, already grabbing your belongings as Taehyung and Jungkook high-five next to you.Â
âOh, really? Youâre a lifesaver, Y/N, you know that?â Seokjin says, and even when heâs stressed itâs like the weight has been lifted off of his shoulders once you volunteer, and you suppose that there are worse things that can happen than accompanying Seokjin to his apartment for ten minutes.Â
Seokjin gives you the address of his place so that you can drive to it yourself, the both of you pulling into the parking garage underneath his apartment complex at the same time, waving to each other from adjacent parking spaces.Â
âI really, really appreciate this, Y/N,â Seokjin says with a smile as he brings you into his apartment complex, nodding a friendly hello to the security officer in the lobby. âI know that itâs a Friday night and everything as well. Youâd probably want to be doing something else.â
âAh, yes, you know me, I frequent all of the clubs and bars in this city,â you say sarcastically as you walk into the elevator. Seokjin hits the button for the seventh floor and laughs. âSeriously, itâs not a big deal. It was a dick move of Sehun to drop this on you when itâs due in, like, thirty-six hours.â
âTell me about it,â Seokjin says, exasperated as he leans back against the steel walls of the elevator. âI thought I would just get to go home this Friday night, pull up Netflix, and have a one-man movie night, but now I have to spend the next thirty-six hours doing this.â
âWell, you know all of us are just looking out for you, wanted to make sure you didnât injure yourself from stress before you got back to your apartment,â you say as the elevator door dings. Seokjin leads you down the hallway to his door, sticking his key in and jiggling it until the door pops open.Â
Admittedly, you have never been in Seokjinâs apartment, but you it was like you had already painted a picture of it in your head from his personality traits alone. You thought it would be fairly minimalistic, clean and neat, not too many flashy colors or kitschy items but things like photographs and magnets to make it feel like an office and more like a home. Pictured it as a sort of very simple, modern home, like the ones that celebrities live in because they can afford to keep their belongings clean all the time, because Seokjin looks exactly like a celebrity, gorgeous and put-together.Â
Instead, Seokjinâs apartment is almost a hodgepodge of everything he could think to find to decorate, a stack of photobooks on his coffee table, slouchy leather couches wrinkled from wear, various kitchen supplies splayed all over his countertops. Itâs the kind of place you can imagine him being in, existing in. You can see him standing behind his kitchen island with all of the ingredients and supplies for this wonderful dish heâs making littered across the counters. You can see him curled up on the couch, leaning against the corner of it to find that perfect spot, watching television.Â
Thereâs a difference between owning a place, and living in it. Living in it makes it feels like a home, like itâs real, and not just for show.Â
âWow, your place isââ
âItâs really messy right now, Iâm so sorry, I wasnât expecting guests,â Seokjin says, letting his messenger bag plop down on the ground as he scrambles to make his living space nicer for you.Â
âNo, I was going to say itâs lovely,â you tell him. âIt feels exactly like you.â
âDoes it?â Seokjin asks genuinely, a soft smile lacing his features. âWell then, thank you.â
You wait around in his apartment awkwardly, not really sure if stepping past the front of his couch is socially acceptable since youâre just âvisitingâ and he hasnât officially invited you inside yet. The main objective of accompanying him to his apartment has already been accomplished: you made sure he got home safely and that he can do his work in peace. Finished. But even still, youâre hanging around, wondering when heâs going to kick you out for being a weird, unknown fixture in his home.Â
âUm, would you like to stay for dinner? I made soup last night and I have way too much for me to eat on my own,â he offers, opening up his fridge and taking out an enormous pot. It clinks as it hits his countertop, the metal sound echoing throughout his apartment.Â
âNo, I wouldnât want to intrude,â you say, taking this as your cue to remove yourself from the situation before you do anything else to make an absolute fool of yourself.Â
âI insist, please,â Seokjin says, stopping you in your tracks. âI may have a whole project to finish by Sunday, but we should at least spend this Friday night together, right?â
You look down at your shoes before looking up at him, meeting his eyes from where he stands behind his counter island.Â
âThen I will,â you say, removing your flats and padding over to where he stands, coming to a stop on the other side of the counter island. âBut only if you let me help you with the project, too. It was asshole-y of Sehun to dump it all on you. At least let me handle some of the graphic aspects.â
âY/N,â Seokjin says, reaching his hand out over the counter, âyou have a deal.â
This deal mainly consists of you eating some of Seokjinâs homemade soup on his couches, your laptops on his coffee table and that ridiculously thick stack of papers spread out amongst you. Seokjin already has a fair bit of information about the project at hand, but he still has absolutely zero progress since he received the assignment four minutes before the end of the workweek.Â
âSo, basically, what we have to do is re-organize the magazineâs overall design and aesthetic before their final review on Sunday, because if they donât appeal to the publisher, theyâre getting tanked,â Seokjin says, paging through the papers in search of a sketch.Â
âSo weâre their last hope,â you summarize.Â
Seokjin nods. âWeâre their last hope.â
âGreat,â you say, not at all enthused. âNo pressure at all.â
âI know. Iâm so relaxed right now,â Seokjin says, clearly not relaxed.Â
âYou know whatâs making me relaxed? This soup,â you say, finishing the last of whatâs in your bowl. âItâs delicious. I didnât know you cooked.â
âItâs just a hobby of mine,â Seokjin says with a shrug. âI picked it up when I moved to college and didnât know how to make anything except toast.â
âYouâre a very fast learner, then,â you say. âIâd pay you to make all of my meals, honestly.â
âWould you like more? I have a ton, so we can eat it all if youâd like,â he asks, already standing up and reaching his hand out for your bowl.Â
You hand it over, shaking your head as he makes his way back to his little kitchen, ladling more soup into both of your bowls. âYouâre too nice, Seokjin. Seriously. How am I supposed to pay back this kindness?â
Seokjin lets out a warm chuckle as he warms up your next serving in the microwave. âBelieve me, Y/N, volunteering to take on this project with me with a due date in less than thirty-six hours is more than enough. You really donât have to do this, you know.â
âNo,â you tell him. âI want to. You deserve someone whoâs willing to help you with big things like this. You shouldnât have to deal with it all on your own.â
Seokjin grins as he returns, handing you your bowl of soup as you get back to work. âI donât deserve you, Y/N.â
What was supposed to be a couple of hours spent grinding out a project over a shared pot of soup turns into a nightâs worth of work, scribbles on paper and the redoing of the same logo fifteen different times on your computerâs much slower, less-updated version of Photoshop. The application crashes on three different occasions, causing you to nearly slam it into the wall, but you just try to look on the bright side. Find the silver lining. Of which there are none.Â
Seokjin doesnât seem to be faring any better than you are. Youâve never seen the man under such pressure before, not in the office and certainly not while youâre out of the office. Heâs tugged on a crewneck sweater over his dress shirt and paces around his apartment in bright pink slippers, brainstorming aloud as you bounce ideas off of each other in a panic.Â
âWhat if we rebranded them?â Seokjin suggests wildly. When you turn to look at the digital clock underneath his television, it says 11:17PM. Youâre surprised he hasnât collapsed underneath the pile of work heâs got on his plate.Â
âWhat do you mean? Do we even have the authorization to rebrand them?â You ask, pulling up a new tab on magazine marketing techniques.Â
âThe project description says requests for anything that will keep them afloat,â Seokjin says. He immediately opens an old photobook, buried underneath your laptops, sketches, and papers, flipping through before he sits down right next to you on his slouchy leather couch. âWhat if we gave them more of a minimalist kind of style? Theyâre trying to jump off of this super quirky, very basic Urban Outfitters kind of aesthetic, but I think it makes the magazine too young, you know?â Seokjin suggests. âWe could do something more grown-up, attract their market audience.â
âAre we allowed to do that?â You ask, thoroughly interested. Maybe Seokjinâs onto something.Â
âWho says we canât?â Seokjin responds, and itâs good enough for you to hop on board.Â
Sitting in his apartment like this, brainstorming different ideas and collaborating on logo designs, magazine layout, and website design together, you are more productive than youâve been in a very, very long time. Even as the night stretches on into the early hours of the morning, as you watch the clock turn from 1:00AM to 2:00AM to 3:00AM, the two of you are wide awake, the only things illuminating his apartment being a floor lamp by his television and the blue light of your laptop screens.Â
âItâsâŚâ Seokjin yawns when itâs nearly four in the morning, pen slipping from his fingers, âso late.â
âI know,â you say back, feeling your eyelids beginning to sink. âIâm surprised weâve even stayed up this long.â
âHavenât been up this late since college,â Seokjin says, smiling hazily at past memories. âAlways had code to finish for my class the next morning.â
âAt least we get to sleep in now,â you joke. Even if you still have to finish putting together a brand new image for this magazine thatâs about to go under, tomorrow is still a Saturday.Â
âThank God,â Seokjin says, resting his head on the back of the couch cushion, letting his eyes flutter shut. âI feel like we did a lot tonight.â
âWe were very productive,â you agree.
He yawns. âWe work well together, donât you think?â
âHmm?â You ask, leaning over to move your computer from your lap to the coffee table, exchanging it for a sketchpad to keep brainstorming.Â
âI think,â Seokjin begins, and it must be just the sleepy haze his brain has entered rather than anything else that could spur him to express this, that makes him say, âthat you and I make a perfect pair.â
You sit up straight at this, looking over at Seokjin as the pencil in between your fingers falls onto the sketchpad before rolling onto the floor. It looks like heâs fallen asleep, exhaustion finally overcoming him as all of the work heâs done catches up to him. In the dead of night, the only sound in the room is his soft breathing, chest rising and falling slowly as his mind begins to wander. You watch him, eyelids heavy, and think that he couldnât have possibly thought that. No way would he say such a thing to you if he was perfectly cognizant, wide awake. After all, youâre the one with a crush on him, not the other way around.Â
You lean back, pondering why a man like Seokjin would ever invite you into his home, offer you soup, and shower you with subtle compliments that couldnât just be friends being friends, and before you know it, your eyes fall shut.Â
It is nearly one in the afternoon by the time you wake up, the sunlight streaming in from the side of his apartment. It forces you to finally open your eyes, groaning as your blurry vision begins to clear.Â
That is when you register these four things in this order:
This is Seokjinâs apartment.
This is Seokjinâs apartment, in which you worked on a project with him last night.
This is Seokjinâs apartment, and you fell asleep on his couch.Â
This is Seokjinâs apartment, and he thinks that youâd make the perfect pair.Â
You hear a clink from across the room, and turn to find Seokjin, still wearing the same thing he was wearing last night, standing in his kitchen, pouring two glasses of orange juice.Â
âMorning,â Seokjin says. He pauses, then corrects himself. âAfternoon, actually.â He walks over to you, handing you a glass of orange juice as you rub your eyes, waking yourself up.
âHow long have you been up?â You ask him, too tired to thank him out loud for the glass of orange juice.Â
âAbout an hour,â he says, checking the time. âI didnât want to wake you up. You looked so peaceful.â
âI feel awful, I didnât mean to intrude on your apartment for, like, an entire night,â you say, rubbing your forehead as you try to smooth out your hair, make yourself look less like you fell asleep at four in the morning in your gorgeous crushâs apartment.Â
âNo, itâs alright, really,â Seokjin insists. âIt was nice having company, for once. And I think we got a lot done.â
âI still feel bad, I didnât mean to stay so long,â you say, looking around for your belongings as you try to gather your bearings.Â
âItâs fine,â Seokjin reassures you, sitting down on the couch next to you as he begins to clean up the absolute mess of the coffee table. âBut your phone has been ringing nonstop, so someone must have missed you.â
You fumble around for your phone before finding it having slid in between the couch cushions, pulling it up to see three missed calls from Taehyung and two missed calls from Jungkook, as well as a slew of texts from the both of them.Â
âOh, itâs just Taehyung and Jungkook,â you say with a shrug, deciding that now is not the time to bring them into the conversation. A quick scan of the texts gives you a rough summary of what you would have heard if you had answered their calls instead.Â
Taehyung (9:35AM): Y/N Taehyung (9:35AM): HELLO Taehyung (9:35AM): ARE YOU ALIVE??? Taehyung (9:36AM): YOU NEVER SLEEP THIS LATE ARE YOU OKAY??? Taehyung (10:03AM): I WENT BY YOUR APARTMENT AND YOU DIDNâT ANSWER IS EVERYTHING ALRIGHT Taehyung (10:04AM): TEXT ME 1 IF EVERYTHING IS OKAY AND 2 IF EVERYTHING IS NOT OKAY Taehyung (10:05AM): LAST TIME I SAW YOU YOU WERE GOING HOME WITH SEOKJIN DID HE MURDER YOU??????? Taehyung (10:18AM): oh Taehyung (10:18AM): oh wait Taehyung (10:19AM): OHHHHHHHHH Taehyung (10:20AM): ;)
Jungkook (12:18PM): Kingdom just started a new event! Get online with me and letâs crush this thing pleaseeeee
âJust want me to play Kingdom with them,â you say, ignoring Taehyungâs text messages and pretending like they donât exist.
âYou really like that game, donât you?â Seokjin asks.Â
âOh, they like it more than I do, really, I just try and keep the obsession to a minimum,â you say casually.Â
âBut they always talk about how good you are,â Seokjin adds. âYouâre ranked second, arenât you? Thatâs a big accomplishment.â
âYeah, but itâs not that exciting. I mean, itâs just a game,â you shrug it off.Â
âBut you like it, which means thatâs important,â Seokjin says. âYou shouldnât be ashamed of the things you like. They matter to you.â
âYou think so?â You ask, smiling at him.Â
âI know so. Tell me about Kingdom,â he urges, nudging your side. âPlease? Iâd love to know.â
And for once, you donât just shrug it off and brand it as a game you play occasionally. You let yourself love that game, for all itâs done for you and your friends (even if you arenât the best anymore) and your happiness, and you tell Seokjin about it. About how you started playing it when you were bored one day during work and saw a forum on it. How you got the rest of the office hooked on it as well, even if they were much more obnoxious about it than you are. How you go home after a long day of work and log on, letting yourself relax as you weave your way through the rankings and quests, finding solace in the familiarity of it all. You tell him why you love it, and why you probably wonât stop playing it for a long time, no matter what becomes of your ranking.Â
âIt was nice being ranked first, but I actually donât mind whoever it is thatâs taken over,â you tell Seokjin honestly. âJungkook wants to hunt them down, but I think that, whoever they are, they deserve that spot. You know, I used to hate them because the top-ranked player gets all of the best rewards, but our characters have recently started to spend so much time together that I feel like theyâd probably have fallen in love by now.â You chuckle to yourself. If life were a movie, everything would always work out perfectly.
âYou do?â Seokjin asks, eyes wide.Â
âYeah, of course,â you say. âThey spend so much time together. Who wouldnât, right?â
âI suppose youâre right,â Seokjin says, smiling. âI also have something to tell you.â
You shake your head. âDonât tell me youâre obsessed with anime, please. That is where I draw the line.â
âDonât shame us,â Seokjin says, a hand on his heart like heâs been personally offended. Your eyes widen. âIâm kidding,â he says, laughing as you exhale, relieved. âI actually play Kingdom, too. I just wanted to ask you about it.â
âSeriously? All this time and you just pretended like you had no idea what it was?â you say in disbelief. Heâs been hiding this from you for how long? God, the rest of your office is going to have a field day with this information.Â
âI just wanted you to tell me about it,â Seokjin admits sheepishly.Â
You shake your head. âYou could have talked to me about other stuff, you know.â
âI know, but you never talked about Kingdom and I could always see how much you loved it. It was nice, listening to you tell me about it,â he says.Â
âIâve been betrayed,â you say dramatically, opening up your laptop to pull up the game. âWhatâs your ID? We can add each other.â
This is where Seokjin goes silent. âActually, I think you might already know who I am. Iâm above you in the rankings.â
Your mouth drops open.Â
âYouâre JK0901? Are you kidding me?â You ask, absolutely floored. All this time and you had no idea that Kim Seokjin was a Kingdom expert. âWhat does JK stand for? I was convinced it was Jungkook and he was just lying to my face, but in reality, it was you who was lying to me!â
Seokjin lets out a chuckle. âJin Kim. Iâm surprised you guys didnât figure it out earlier.â
âI canât believe this,â you say, practically speechless. âHow long have you been playing?âÂ
âNot that long,â Seokjin shrugs. âI picked it up because I wanted to impress a girl I liked.â
âReally? All this effort for a girl you like?â You ask, still in disbelief. You suck up the way your heart is sinking at the thought of him liking another person, but then you remember that it wasnât like you had ever made a move on him anyway. Smiling, you ask, âWill you at least humor me and tell me who it is?â
Then, Seokjin looks you dead in the eye, and says, âYou.â
He doesnât give you time to respond. Instead, he wraps a hand around your torso and pulls you into him, pressing his lips firmly on yours as you gasp into his mouth, body tensing up before you melt into his touch.Â
Itâs a quick kiss, nothing too crazy, but it overwhelms you nonetheless, leaves you gasping for air like youâve been underwater this whole time and have finally surfaced. When you part, you look up into his eyes only to find that theyâve turned into crescents. Heâs grinning down at you like heâs finally gotten it right.Â
âYou did all of that for me?â You ask. âHow did you even know?â
Seokjin looks particularly guilty. âYouâre not necessarily⌠that discreet, Y/N.â
You close your eyes, the heat already flaring in your cheeks. âOh God, you knew?â
âIt was fairly easy to figure out,â Seokjin admits. âBut the good news is: I felt the same way. So, no harm done.â
âIâm so embarrassed,â you say, curling into his chest so you donât have to look him in the eye.Â
âYouâre incredible, Y/N, you know that?â He asks, pulling you away from him just so he can get a better look at you. Heâs standing in front of you, looking at you like this is what heâs been waiting for. Like all this time, heâs been waiting for you. âIâd do it all over again if it meant I could end up with you.â
âYou would?â You ask, pulling him in for another kiss. Thereâs plenty more where those came from, but youâre already feeling greedy. Why wouldnât you? If life was a movie, then wouldnât this be the happy ending?Â
âIn a heartbeat.â
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EP 1:
âI have a favor to askâ
Ramshackle Dorm
???: Please excuse me.
Grim: Hmm? It looks like someoneâs here. Hey, Yuu, Iâm gonna check it out!
Foyer
Azul: Yuu-san, Grim-san. Pardon the intrusion.
Grim: GegeâAzul! Whatâre you doing at Ramshackle dorm?
Azul: Oh, you don't need to make such an unpleasant expression there.
Azul: Iâve not come today to collect any debt. Iâve come to earnestly request your assistance.
Choice:
Request? Â
This can only end up badly.
Azul: May I ask of you to assist me with Ortho-sanâs maintenance?
Grim: Orthoâs maintenance?
Grim: Why would those guys at Ignihyde come to you from Octavinelle for that?
Azul: I am a member of the same club with Ortho-sanâs elder brother, Idia-san. In the aforementioned club, a discussion arose.
Azul: He mentioned, âIâd like to swap out a part of his body to upgrade his performance, but I canât do it alone.â
Grim: The idea of Idia asking you a favor seems pretty recklessâŚ
Azul: It is because he is acquainted to few others. The thought of him bringing it up to me must have took a considerable amount of courage.
Azul: But he was determined to break out of his shell for his precious younger brother.
Azul: For Idia-san to work do his best to support that âyounger brotherâ Ortho-san with a machine for a bodyâŚ
Azul: It was a pleasant tale. The beautiful story of brotherly love had struck me to my very core.
Azul: Wouldnât you two also consider offering you aid?
Grim: Â Not at all.
Azul: Oh, straight to the point there.
Grim: This has nothing to do with me! Why do we have to help anyway?
Azul: Oh, Iâve misjudged youâŚor not. I expected you to express as such.
Azul: Incidentally, Grim-san. The other evening, what were you up to?
Grim: The other day? The other day you mean⌠Ah! Y-YouâŚ
Azul: I felt it would be rude to come empty-handed, so Iâve brought a gift. Itâs a photo I took in the staff room the other day.
Azul: It displays the disorderly state Trein-senseiâs pet was found in following your quarrel in the staff room.
Grim: N-N-N-N-No youâre wrong. I-It wasnât me.
Choice:
Thatâs a sorry excuse.
Photographed right on the act.
Grim: But⌠But itâs Luciusâ fault. He took my bread for dinner and just ran off!
Azul: Ahh, how troublesome. It seems Sensei is now seeking out the offender as well.
Azul: Iâm just so shook up worrying about Ortho-sanâŚ
Azul: I might carelessly drop this photo in front of Sensei you know?
Azul: But if I could have help with Ortho-sanâs situation, Iâm sure Iâd manage to keep this a secret.
Grim: Of course, weâd love to help you!! Right, Yuu!?
Choice:
Iâll be a poor supervisor.
If I can be of help, of course.
Azul: Ahh, wonderful! Then letâs leave for Ignihyde at once.
Ignihyde Dorm â Lounge
Idia: W-Wel-WelâŚcome.
Ortho: Everyone, thank you for coming here for me! Onii-san is very grateful as well.
Azul: Oh no, we must help each other out in times of need.
Idia: Azul⌠Is this really okay?
Azul: Fufufu. Did I not say to leave this to me?
Azul: Now, time is money. Letâs get started with the operations. Idia-san, have you finished the preparations?
Idia: Ready when you are.
Grim: What are we supposed to do?
Idia: Y-You two will be the operation force⌠Youâll be doing stuff like preparing, removing, and attaching Orthoâs part.
Grim: If thatâs all, would you really need us to be here?
Idia: Ah, I-I-I will be doing the programming and motion control⌠Orthoâs framework is very complex andâŚumâŚ
Azul: Ortho-san has a number of parts, doing the work alone would be impossibleâŚis what I think heâs trying to say.
Idia: Y-YeahâŚthat.
Ortho: Iâve been really looking forward to this new update. I look forward to working with everyone!
Azul: Fufufu. I look forward to working with you as well.
Azul: Now then, would you please lie down. We wonât do anything excessive.
Azul: Changing out parts is similar to surgery, is it not? If anything happens, that would be dreadful.
Grim: That Azul is acting really nice towards Ortho.
Azul: Iâm kind to everyone though?
Azul: To both Grim-san and Yuu-san.
Grim: Says the guy who blackmailed me with a secret photo he took!
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EP2
Ignihyde Dorm â Lounge
Azul: âŚIâve entered the specified code. What should I do next?
Idia: Right now Iâll turn the system off and detach the external lock on his back⌠When Iâm done, Iâll give the signal.
Grim: âŚHey, Yuu. Do we really need to be here?
Grim: Azulâs taking care of the complicated parts for assembly, and heâs good with his hands so thereâs no problems there.
Choice:
Weâre probably more in the way
Maybe he didnât want to do it alone
Idia: âŚThe systemâs turned off. Itâs open.
Azul: Now Grim, Iâve kept you waiting! Itâs your turn now.
Grim: Wha, me?
Azul: The exterior of his back has been opened. Please peek around inside.
Grim: sniff-sniffâŚ. Ortho really is a machine. Itâs all metal and cords inside.
Azul: Towards the very interior, thereâs a blue glowing part right? That is the part we will be replacing.
Azul: I ask of you to remove this part and insert the new part within its place.
Grim: T-This seems like a really important role⌠Why donât any of you guys do it?
Azul: Â Idia-san is in taking care of the programming, and I need to insert the new password every 15 seconds.
Azul: Unfortunately, both of our hands are tied up.  âŚItâs a very strict security protocol.
Idia:  I-I didnât want my dear Orthoâs contents to get stolen, so I thought to up the security⌠heh.
Idia: I upped it too much and canât operate on him alone! It needs improving.
Grim: You look like youâre having fun⌠Weird guy.
Azul: As we work on our tasks concurrently, Grim-san, you just need to quickly swap out the parts⌠Simple, yes?
Grim: Well if itâs just that much it should be fine. âKay, Iâll justâŚ
Azul: Oh. Be sure to not touch any other parts that arenât being replacedâŚat all costs.
Grim: That sounds kinda fishy⌠What happens if I do touch them? I wonât get shocked will I?
Azul: Ahaha! Why of course not. Hey, Idia-san.
Idia: Yeah. If you touch it, you wouldnât get shocked. ButâŚ
Grim: But?
Idia: The protection software will register you as a âthreatâ and youâll be attacked by a high magical energy output is all.
Grim: Thatâs not okay at all! Â Thatâs putting my own life on the line!
Grim: I absolutely want no part in this. I absolutely wonât do it!
Azul: Ah! Iâm so shocked at your refusal I might just drop that âphotoâ in front of Trein-senseiâŚ
Grim: GrrâŚ. B-But getting attacked by that magical energyâŚ
Azul: âŚI might just feel so grateful I may even pay you with a âhigh class canned tunaâ.
Grim: WhaâThatâs a great bargain! Iâll hold you to your word you know?!
Choice:
Heâs so easily persuaded.
Heâs powerless to canned tunaâŚ
Grim: Itâs important to put in great attention into detailed work. âŚAlright! Here I go!
Idia: The part came out  easily. Good. Next isâŚ
Grim: Here!
Azul: Splendid. Now simply toss in the new part⌠Ah, no, itâs installed.
Ortho: âŚ
Grim: âŚ
Ortho: ââŚConfirming new media attachment.  Now loading.â
Idia: Alright we got it!!! Now we just gotta show what itâs gotâŚ! (1)
Grim: Haaaaah~~~! I was so nervous.
Idia: It gives a 10% increase in processing speed, so it should allow for heavy programs that were impossible before⌠Eheh.
Grim: That Idia is not listening to me at all⌠Show some appreciation here!
Choice:
Good work
You were cool.
Azul: Yes good work everyone. I will be taking the old removed part then.
Grim: Hey, you donât need this dumb thing.
Grim: On top of that, Azul. We worked really hard here. You better get rid of that picture.
Grim: Also, that canned tuna! Donât think Iâve forgotten about it.
Azul: Of course. I am a man of my word.
Azul: I will properly dispose of the photo and give you the canned tuna. I will absolutely not leave you with any resentment for today.
Azul: âŚI cannot allow this to cause trouble in the future,  so would you please sign this?
Grim: Yeah! Iâve fulfilled my role, so you best not forget either.
Azul: Yes. We have an agreement.
Grim: Nyahaha. Heâs gettingâ rid of the proof and I get my paws on canned tuna. It was a great deal.
Ortho: -------Reboot complete. Program updated with no errors.
Ortho: âŚEveryone, thank you so much for today!
Grim: Yeah. Be grateful.
Ortho: To be satisfied with just one tuna can⌠Grim desires so little, heâs so nice!
Ortho: If Azul Ashengrotto sold the old part he was given, you could eat as many tuna cans as you liked.
Grim: Huh�
Azul: Certainly not. It would be foolish to simply sell the famous genius Idia-sanâs handmade magical parts.
Azul: I plan to utilize it under best conditions to increase its value.
Grim: Huh? Huh? With Orthoâs parts⌠H-How many tuna cans would it be worth?
Ortho: Who knows? Perhaps enough to fill the entire gymnasium with tuna cans?
Grim: Wh-What!?
Azul: Donât underestimate it. If it was me, I could bring forth at least twice that in value.
Grim: Azul! You put me to such dangerous work, and just took the biggest prize for yourself!?
Choice:
He really cheated you thereâŚ
Arenât you happy about getting your canned tuna?
Azul: Thereâs no harm. We both signed that splendid deal right? Alright, hereâs your one can of high class canned tuna.
Grim: G-Grr~~!
Azul: Ahh, Iâm so please to see you accept it with such pleasure.
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Note: Idia uses an expression č
ăŽčŚăć which is similar to âTime to show what youâve gotâ. Heâs mostly just expressing his skillset here.
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Word find tag catch-up
Catching up on my tag games, so here we go -
I got a few tags and some of these excerpts are pretty long, so I'm putting these below the cut:
TWs for swearing, food and drink, alcohol, blood, needles, vomit, death and violence, mentions of sex, and a slight reference to body image:
Tagged by @thegreatobsesso to find shine, shade, trust, and life:
Shine
âYou should try exercising, Caz,â she said, switching to her other arm. âYouâre not going to stay young and thin forever.â
âBelieve me, Amelia,â he replied from underneath the blanket. âMy body is not going to change much for a very long time.â
âWell, it may help that you donât eat anything.â
He poked his head out from the blanket.
âI eat,â he said.
âI never see you eating, Caz.â
He grinned.
âWell, I guess thatâs because, when Iâm with you, Iâm only hungry for -â
âIf you say youâre only hungry for me â or a certain part of my body â Iâm going to kick you,â she cut in. âAnyway, I should be back in at most 30 minutes. Hopefully itâll be sub-20.â
âEnjoy the sunshine,â he said, ducking back under the blanket and falling asleep.
Shade
âJuni,â Caz said weakly. âDidnât think Iâd see you again tonight. Back for more?â
âIâve had my fill,â the prince said.
âYou sure about that?â
âWhere is it, you bloodsucker?â Juniper demanded while turning a shade of emerald.
âUm, where is what?â
âDonât play dumb, itâs not that cute.â The prince gritted his teeth and continued, âWhere is the armband?â
Trust
âYouâre a vegetarian?â Jade asked.
âYeah, always a little weird growing up on a farm and not eating meat, I suppose.â
âI donât know why people would care, but then, Iâm used to people with weird diets,â Jade swallowed. âNot that I think your diet is weird!â
Violet laughed her tinkling laugh again. âYouâre fine.â
âIs it bad if I still order the chicken panini?â
âNot at all. Though Iâm sure all those chickens that died might mind,â Violet stared at Jade.
Jade didnât say anything for a moment. âOh shit," she finally said. âYouâre messing with me again.â
âYup," Violet grinned. She handed Jade a sandwich wrapped in wax paper. âYou want to try our mango juice with that? Grew the mangoes myself.â
âYouâre messing with me again, you canât grow mangoes here,â Jade said.
âI have a greenhouse.â
âStill, you couldnât easily grow a mango tree.â
âTrust me, I can grow anything,â Violet said, her eyes flashing the same way they had the other night. She poured a pitcher of the bright orange liquid into a plastic cup and handed it to Jade.
Jade took a sip. âGood as always. Which reminds me, I still owe you for the lemonade.â
âConsider that paid for by keeping me company, if only for a short while. In fact, consider it the same today.â
Life
She turned her keys in the ignition. The engine sputtered, but refused to start.
âWith double the pay, you could save up for a truck thatâs not a piece of shit,â Caz retorted.
Jade turned the keys again, this time revving the gas until the engine roared to life.
âThis is a good truck,â she said. âI just need new spark plugs.â
Tagged by @pertinax--loculos to find travel, needle, depth, weather and save:
Travel
Marie and Caz were huddled around a phonogram.
âI canât believe you have a recording of Buddy Bolden,â Caz said. âI thought there were none left.â
âI managed to hold onto a few records after I left New Orleans,â Marie said.
âSo you were in New Orleans right when jazz was taking off?â Caz asked. âWow, I shouldâve come to America a lot sooner than when I did. I didnât get to New York until about 20 years after Bolden was around.â
âYou were in New York during the heyday of jazz,â Marie said. âNot to mention where a lot of great minds were meeting then. I wish I had been there.â
âI figured you would have traveled there yourself.â
âWell, I stayed in Haiti for a bit after the revolution,â Marie said. âBut I went to Florida to help the Seminoles in their fight a little while after, and then New Orleans. I just kept traveling around the south and west after that.â
âIâve never been to Haiti, actually,â Caz remarked. âThe closest was when I went to Cuba a few times for, uh, work reasons.â
âItâs a beautiful island,â Marie said. âI miss it a lot.â
âYou grew up there?â
âI did.â
âHow old are you exactly, if you mind me asking?â
âJust about 250 years old.â
âHa! Iâve got you beat by about 350 years,â Caz said. He rubbed his neck, narrowly missing a hanging plant with his elbow. âUm, guess thatâs not really something to brag about.â
âWell, you are blessed with being forever young,â Marie smiled softly. âWitches eventually do age, albeit slowly, myself included.â
âTrue,â Caz sighed.
Needle
âYouâll sleep upstairs with the other girls, but letâs get you outfitted first. Iâm interested in trying a sample of you myself.â
Renner tied off her left elbow and began searching her arm for a vein.
Jade felt the sting of the needle and looked down to see it attached to a vial not too different than the one that had been sticking out of Arravichâs arm in the hospital. Renner attached a long winding tube to it, placing the end of it in a wine glass. He pushed down on the vial, sending a dark red stream through the tube into the glass.
âJust a small amount, Renner,â Valfierno said. âI donât want to overindulge.â
He began to take a sip just as a knock was heard at the door.
âGo ahead, Renner, Iâm curious to see who would be at our door at this hour.â
Renner opened the door to reveal a shocked-looking Caz.
Depth
âWhat was up with you and that one kid, anyway?â
Jade realized Caz was talking to her.
âWho, Matt?â she asked.
âI mean, he was alright to look at, but,â Caz paused to hiccup. âHe had the depth of a â what do you call it in English? â ah, right, the depth of a tide pool.â
Jade tried to track Caz in the mirror, but he had leaned down to slurp loudly from Derekâs neck.
âI just figured,â he continued, getting up to lean against Jadeâs seat like he was maneuvering on a ship at sea. âThat you preferred someone with a little more class and maturity.â
He proceeded to belch almost directly in Jadeâs ear.
ââScuse me,â he said in a swinging tone. Then, as if realizing the irony, he burst into high-pitched laughter as he fell back into his seat.
âWhat is wrong with you?â Jade snapped. She wrinkled her nose at the acetone scent on Cazâs breath. âAre you â are you drunk?â
âNo, Iâm just,â Caz paused long enough to answer Jadeâs question. âIâm just a little bit buzzed.â
Weather
In his six-hundred-and-seventeenth year of being on this earth, Casimir Jozef Mraz had come to a realization.
He was absolutely, hopelessly in love.
Of course, Caz fell in love at least once every decade. But this time was different, he thought, as he lay in bed, not used to trying to sleep at night. It had to be; he couldnât find a damned thing wrong with this girl, even her name.
Amelia.
It was old-fashioned, and he liked that. Speaking it felt warm and familiar on his lips.
Lying next to him, Ameliaâs eyelids fluttered for a moment, before going still as her breathing evened out and she fell even deeper into sleep. Caz heard her heartbeat slow to steady rhythm.
He leaned closer, cradling his arm around her, taking care not to catch the gold strands of hair that seemed to change texture with the weather, curling up in wiry spirals.
Caz watched a shadow falling across her ski-jump nose twist and morph as she shifted slightly. She looked almost like porcelain now, blue veins painted on her neck and chest like delft tile. She sighed again in her sleep.
So many people he had been with had wound up dead or forgotten over the years. Caz was determined this time would be different.
Save
Jade had gotten herself lost in a thought, again.
Usually this occurred when she was at her kitchen table, trying to piece together a spell; or when she took apart her laptop so it no longer sounded like a jet engine. It wasnât supposed to involve Jade charging forward into the next room of a crowded party, ignoring all instincts to run outside and take a deep breath of cool night air.
Maybe it was hearing that someone else could get hurt. But that didnât make any sense. Donât try to save the world. Just focus on the next step in surviving. That was what she lived by.
No, she realized. For the first time in a long while, Jade was actually afraid.
Tagged by @diphthongsfordays to find space, scream, soft and scare:
Space
He jumped to his feet and ran towards the space between Jade and the alleyway.
Then he was falling to his knees and dry heaving.
âWhat the hell?â he gasped. He looked around at a circle of white surrounding him, a series of sigils carved into it by Jadeâs knife. âWhat is this?â
âTable salt,â she said. âCombined with a few wards. Vampires are pretty susceptible to threshold magic, arenât they?â
Caz choked back some bile and rose unsteadily to his feet.
Scream
âLila, you seem to have calmed down a bit,â Caz said, stroking an ear larger than his hand.
He held the wolf back by the nape of her neck and leaned towards the other vampire.
âSai cosa, Giuseppe? Non avevi torto riguardo alla tua supposizione,â he said, a small, wicked smile playing on his lips.
He released his grip on Lila.
âMa devi capire quanto fosse stupido ferirla se mi sentivo in quel modo.â
Caz walked away from the alley, a strange and familiar feeling of satisfaction growing in the pit of his stomach as he heard Valfiernoâs screams behind him increase in pitch and desperation. It was a sensation he hadnât come across in years, and it felt good. He looked up at the full yellow moon and grinned, his teeth flashing in the light.
Soft
She looked up at Violet.
âDo you think we could each carry one of them?â
âIf you can maintain a levitation spell for the whole length of the walk back,â she replied. âBut your arm looks pretty bad, Jade.â
âHmm,â Jade furrowed her brow. âI vote we leave Amelia.â
âNo,â Caz whined softly into the stone. âDonât leave my girlfriend behind.â
âCaz youâre currently bleeding out from where she carved into you. I donât think sheâs your girlfriend anymore.â
Scare
She was getting closer to him. Caz could smell that scrape still bleeding from her wrist. He was already faint from hunger. He needed to get her out of here.
The best method, he decided, was to scare her.
âSo what if I am?â he asked, before smiling his widest and sharpest smile. âAnd if I am, may I remind you youâre currently backed into a corner by someone much stronger and faster than you, Jade?â
Mistake. You made a mistake, you fool.
He knew it as soon as the words left his lips. Donât ever piss off a witch. His left ankle left the ground first, carried upward by a root looping around it, followed by his right.
Tagging, if you'd like: @drippingmoon, @authortango, @author-a-holmes, @avian-writes & @faelanvance to find calm, lake, ivory & estimate.
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hi ! i said this last time but u said requests wasnt open so im submitting again! can i request a brat tamer!doyoung smut where he manhandles you also with humiliation and degradation kink (non verbal as well) , sorry if its too much âŁď¸ also if you could , please dont use toys,, thankyou đđ
dood i could have sworn i wrote this already but i guess iâm just big dumb đ thank you for sending it in again! iâm glad you got it in while requests were open :)
dynamic: doyoung x female reader
warnings/tags: smut, brat tamer!doyoung, bratty sub!reader, doyoung manhandling reader just a lil bit, degradation, rough sex, penatrative sex (female receiving), reader gets marked up, all things consensual as always
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You stuck your ass in the air like a little brat, almost tempted to stick your tongue out just to really work Doyoung up. He was incredibly hot when he was rough, so different from his soft persona and so sexy. Doyoung clenched his jaw, grinding his teeth down as dark eyes roamed over your naked figure on the bed. You were alone with him, finally, and you planned to take full advantage of an empty house.
âWhy are you being so annoying?â He sighed. You giggled, biting your lip as you rolled around on the bed teasingly. You so badly wanted him to just grab you by the waist and toss you on your stomach, maybe slapping your ass once or twice before fucking you. Doyoung was the perfect dominating partner and it was like he couldnât even do it unless you got him so fed up that he couldnât stop himself from being rough.
âBecause I know it irritates you,â you smiled innocently. This time Doyoung didnât try to calm himself, instead grabbing your hand that was wandering down to your bare core and holding onto it so tightly it hurt.
âWell it sure is working, sweetheart,â he growled. You grinned, satisfied but not quite ready to give up the attitude.
âLay down on your back,â he commanded. You pretended to think for a moment, tilting your head to the side and placing a finger on your chin to be dramatic.
âHmm...no,â you smiled. Doyoungâs jaw worked again as his grip tightened even further, pulling a small gasp out of you as he threw your hand down.
âFine. You want to be a brat? Then you get to take it like a brat,â his voice was low and gruff. It made you want to smile but you knew better at this point. Still, instead of moving into position like he clearly wanted you sat still, daring him to do something. He cursed under his breath, scooping you up with little effort and turning you around, pushing the back of your head so that you ended up on your stomach (like you had wanted) with your face pressed into the sheets.
âYouâre so fucking annoying, you know that? You donât even deserve my cock.â A rush of panic ran through you, your eyes widening as you attempted to turn your head to face him.
âNo! No, wait! Iâm sorry. Iâll be good, I promise. Please fuck me,â you cried. The frown on Doyoungâs face morphed into a satisfied smirk. You groaned, he broke you so easily with just the threat of leaving you unsatisfied. He had done that beforeâyou had been too much of a brat and he left you crying and begging for him to come back, a ruined orgasm teaching you a lesson.
That would not be happening today, though, as Doyoung sliding on a condom and squirting some lubricant onto the palm of his hand. He slicked up his length and your core, a shiver passing over you at the slightest touch of his fingers. He chuckled darkly, leaning down to nip at the flesh of your neck before pushing himself inside you. You were already so turned on, stretched out from fingering yourself in desperation earlier so the slide was easy along with the lube.
âShit,â Doyoung groaned. His long dick pressed deep inside of you, the sensation of him taking you from behind adding to the filthiness of it all. You whimpered, hands grasping at the bedsheets as he started to rock faster into you.
âAlready so desperate, hmm? Youâre such a little slut, teasing and teasing until you get what you want,â he panted. He leaned his body over until his chest pressed snugly up against your back, hands on either side of your head as he pounded into you. You cried out, nodding at whatever he said and feeling the waves of pleasure crashing over you. Your core was so sensitive, every drag of his cock against your walls making you clench tightly. His smooth skin felt so good against your own, the toned muscles of his chest hot against your back. You cracked your eyes open, looking at one his hands placed at the side of your head. The rings on his fingers glinted in the dim light, veins standing out on the back of his hand with long bony fingers attached.
Doyoung sucked hickeys all along your neck and back, the sting of it just the perfect amount of pain mixed with pleasure. He was fucking you so hard now that you could feel his balls slap against your core, just barely hitting your clit enough for those extra sparks of stimulation to affect you. Doyoung grabbed a fistful of your hair and yanked your head back, lips attached to your neck as he bit down even harder.
You cried out, jerking your head to the side before he pulled you right back.
âStay still,â he demanded with a hoarse voice. You bit your lip, nodding and barely able to get out a moan. His tongue licked a soothing patch over the bite mark, his lips pressing a sweet kiss there to calm you down. The contrast of the gentle action and the way he was still pounding into you had your head spinning, your orgasm fast approaching as he fucked into you as hard as he could.
âDoyoung, I-Iâm gonna come,â you whined. He released your hair, letting your head fall back into the mattress as he moved up onto his knees to get a better angle. It only took a few more thrusts with the new position to make you shake with pleasure, tumbling over the edge as Doyoung gripped your waist tightly. You arched your back, loud moans falling from your lips as you came down disgracefully. Doyoung came a minute or two later, spilling into the condom as he cursed a long string of profanities.
The two of you huffed and puffed as Doyoung collapsed beside you, pulling your body close to him after stripping the condom off and cleaning the both of you off.
âIâm sorry I was being a brat,â you murmured, the pull of sleep luring you in quickly as you struggled to keep an eye open. Doyoung chuckled, shushing you and holding you tight against his chest.
âDonât be. You know I love it,â he smiled. You grinned lazily before sleep took you under.
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Denki Kaminari as a Boyfriend
Pairing: Denki Kaminari x F!Reader
Summary: t  h  e  t  i  t  l  e
Warnings: a pinch of angst, fluff, kaminari being a memelord
BF Scenarios Masterlist
BF Scenarios Tag List: @thedreadthreadanomalyâ , @seiiblueâ , @bean-queen-606ââ
im sorry but this is the gayest and hottest thing iâve ever seen
LOOK AT THAT FLOOF
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Love-at-first-sight kind of guy â he saw you and knew heâd found the princess of his dreams
Denki is a morning person; he wakes up super early gets dressed for school, then shakes you awake because he has so much to tell you even though heâs only been awake for 10 minutes
Itâs rather nice to wake up to his happy grin every single day and then proceeded to be peppered with kisses until you finally roll out of bed
During the night, Denki moves around a lot in bed which makes a lot of static and mornings are usually filled with shocking each other and giggling until Bakugou bangs on the wall and yells at you guys to shut up
His hair is so fluffy and cute AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HUGE procrastinator
âCome on babe, just one more round before we study/ start a project weâve had three months to do/ be productive!â Your boyfriend begged, pushing his headset around his neck to talk to you. When you shake your head, in come the puppy eyes and you canât resist.
âFine. But only one!â You blush, pinching the bridge of your nose.
*six rounds later*
Youâre asleep on the floor next to him and Kirishima, Sero, Tokoyami, and a few other randos were patiently waiting for him to join the game. Denki didnât want to wake you sooooooooâŚ
âAlright guys, letâs demolish this course!â
âYEAH!!â
Denki makes fun of himself to amuse his friends; self-deprecating jokes for laughs, but wonders if his friends actually like him or if they just tolerate him
Cloud watching from the classroom
Likes to zone out and live in his thoughts for a little while (usually during one of Aizawaâs lectures)
VERY affectionate
He just loves being around you! You make him comfortable in his own skin, make him smile, you tell him that he should stop making those mean jokes, how smart he really is, and how handsome and compassionate he isÂ
Lots of cuddles, hand-holding, bad puns, zap battles (see who can generate the biggest shock to the other person using nothing but static), and piggyback rides, except Denki is usually on the receiving end
He is tactile and respects boundaries; Denki flirts with literally everyone, but if he sees that it makes them uncomfortable, heâll stop
Is super proud to have such a beautiful woman as his girlfriend
You teach him how to be comfortable in silence, he doesnât always need to be talking and trying to make people like him because he is well-liked! Denki tries way too hard! Your presence allows him to relax and be himself!
Arguments⌠just⌠donât⌠happen. Heâs too easygoing and he would never cheat on you. Plus, he just canât keep a straight face when he tries to be serious
That being said, he can be serious. I wonât name circumstances, but it is a possibility
Very in tune with his emotions, gets attached to things easily, and is very emotional and clingy once he knows he can trust you
You canât judge him. Youâre the one who agreed to be his girlfriend so you canât start judging his adorable quirky ways
Denki struggles with his confidence since he has lost many battles (sports festival with Shiozaki, final exams, etc, plus, Jirou is always making fun of him)
Your affirmation is more than enough to make him feel like the most loved person on this planet. Youâre always there to cheer him on, encourage him, and comfort him when heâs at his low
Itâs hard for him to fall asleep, so he talks to you until he does
Denki is actually pretty self-conscious because when he first developed his quirk he couldnât control it so people stayed away from him in fear of getting zapped or having their phone fried
If you guys walk or drive through an area with a lot of radio/electric/transmission towers and/or signals, he gets a little nauseous
Denki is surprisingly good at math, doing division/multiplication/addition/subtraction equations quickly and correctly
Denki is also flexible; one day he was being dumb and he tripped, landing in a perfect split that made everyone cringe in wait of a scream from the blonde. When he got up and brushed himself off, linking arms with you, everyone was surprised he wasnât screeching in pain
Writes you love notes that are really cheesy and dumb
Dearest Y/N,
Your boobs are the best
XOXO,
Denki
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I found this corn flake and it reminded me of you
Love,
DenkiÂ
(enclosed was a heart-shaped corn flake)
April Foolâs Day prank wars
You two trade memes like baseball cards
âHmm⌠I dunno⌠My meme is pretty fire Y/N, you got anything better?â
Denki likes to be read to because it helps him calm down a little bit and he enjoys discussing characters and possible relationships and outcomes with you
The waiter outfit from Two Heroes gets me every. single. time.Â
Iâm sorry Kaminari, but you are the only âhigh-voltage hottieâ I can see right now đđ
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