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val-cansalute · 9 months ago

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PICKING UP THE ———- PIECES -———

ch. 6

ch. 1 ch. 2 ch.3 ch. 4 ch. 5

don’t be a piece of shit

cw - set in jackson with an unclear timeline, no mentions of joel or jj, kind of half proofread, profanities, depictions of mental illness, graphic situations, CUNNILINGUS 🤰, mdni

Seconds, which blur the line between moments and hours, drag by, yet breaths still come in sharp, ragged gasps.

Your chest still feels heavy, bearing the lingering weight of the memories that overwhelmed you, and the stale, dust-ridden air of your old home still churns maliciously within your rib cage though you’re far from it now. Nothing is proving helpful in satiating your ravenous lungs.

Her hand is already soothing tender circles into your back before you can register it and the violence of your inhale softens.

“Shimmer?” you repeat, words veiled by winded breaths.

“Yeah, that’s right,” like it’s second nature to her, Ellie moves her calloused hand so that it’s splayed across your thumping heart to gently ground you and the room stops spinning so frustratingly.

Your focus shifts to her touch, to the warmth that radiates from her palm.

“It’s kinda fuckin’ impressive you managed to go so long without learning any of their names,” as always, her voice is a quiet rasp, intimate and gentle as a smile plays at her chapped lips.

In contrast, your gaze is intense and, somehow, distant. It makes Ellie’s stomach twist with anxiety.

“Wasn’t planning on staying.”

“… Right. Well, you should probably learn them now.”

You’re back in Jackson – not in your home, but in Ellie’s decrepit hybrid shed, which somehow managed to outdo your actual house by miles.

What your home lacked, hers carried in abundance; warmth and soul, with pictures and posters scattered across the dulled walls and memories laced through the trinkets lining each shelf. It was alive with the force of her affection.

Coming back invited the questioning gaze of the townspeople, but your mind was too tired to pay it any mind, or to pay the fact that she was leading you away from your house any mind either.

“The place you went to... You used to live there? I, uh, saw a carving of your name and your brother’s, I think it was, in the fence. Soren, right?”

“Yeah… Me and Soren…”

“… Listen… Why did you do it? You didn’t wanna be there, I know that much. You were... fucked up, to say the least, when I found you. I don’t understand.”

“I don't know… I don’t want to be safe; I don’t deserve to be safe-”

Your heart beats sporadically at the sudden overbearing guilt inside you, the source of which you can’t trace back to a specific moment, and your breath hitches in your throat so you can't meet her worried eyes. There are so many actions you cannot justify at all, save for the fact that there was a massive remorseful compulsion to do it. For Soren, even though you know, deep down, he’d never have wanted this, you know you did it for him. You’ll never fully be able to explain why, or why you ended up going back with Ellie without argument.

“Hey, I'm here." her soothing voice cuts through the dense anxiousness in the air and, for a moment, the fog clears - the sight of her softened face, so endearing.

“It’s okay. I’m okay.”

Her eyes are so beautiful; it's so easy to forget what you were even thinking about when you dive into them.

"You- fuck- you know that’s stupid, right? Of course you deserve to be safe, y/n, how could you not deserve that?"

You’re a fraud. You had everyone fooled, thinking you had morals, but you can’t let her believe in a falsehood. The words burst out like rust-ridden water from a burst pipe; so explosively that she jerks back slightly, eyebrows knitted in worry.

"Because I’m bad person! You don’t know me, Ellie! I killed him! I fucking beat him to death! I am so fucking disgusting!"

"You-"

"Oh my god, Ellie, he was just a fucking kid! And he was terrified! Terrified of what would happen if he let the infection take over and terrified of hurting me! Fuck, and he begged me to do it before he turned, but I couldn't fucking do it! How could I?! And then I beat him to death as soon as he came for me, because I am a coward, and when it came down to it, all it took was a little scare for me to hurt him so fucking badly... God, Ellie, it didn’t have to be like that; it shouldn’t have fucking been like that but I’m so selfish… He was all I had left… Without him, I’m nothing… But I fucking deserve it. I deserve all the shit that comes my way. And I have to take it. All of it."

Somewhere amidst the fire, she grabs your shoulders and pulls you closer,

"Y/N, no. Deep down, you know that's not true. He was just a kid but -fucking- so were you! You were just a kid, and it's not fair that you had to fend for yourself! It's not fair that you and your brother had to live like this! It's not fair that he got infected, or that anyone did, and it is not your fault that your choice had the consequences it did when you were panicked and desperate and young. It is not your fault it happened the way it did. This world... Nothing about it is fair. Even though I can’t replace him, and I don’t know you as well as him, I care about you and I want to be around you. And I know for a fact that you are not a bad person, and I fucking know that. You are not a bad person. What happened back then was not evil, it was tragic, not evil. You can’t forget it, and you shouldn’t! But your brother would never want you to be stuck in this awful cycle. He would never blame you like this. Shit happens, we do things we regret and life doesn't go the way we plan, we lose people we love, but we move forward. We have to. And you are not alone, not while I’m here, you can never be."

Her words are harsh and sharp, to get through to you, nicking little chips at the edges of your iron-strong resolve. For the first time, you let yourself consider it, and the strength of your guilt’s hold loosens up just a bit.

Through pooling tears that threaten to fall and the lump that sits tight in your throat, you reach out your arms to bury your face into the warmth of her shoulder, and push your shaky, cracking voice out.

“I miss him so much… I can’t stop thing about it… I can’t stop feeling like this…”

Ellie immediately collects your draped body into a fervid hold, trying desperately to cling onto the rare openings you allow her.

“It’s gonna be okay. Just give yourself time. Everything’s gonna be okay, I promise you.”

6 MONTHS LATER

The Tipsy Bison’s doors are held wide open, but great gusts of wind are no match for the laughter, clinking of glasses and constant hum of conversation within.

Somewhere amongst the bundles of life, you are sat at a rickety table beside Ellie, Dina, and Jesse, and are fitting in like a puzzle piece beyond all capabilities of your imagination when you first arrived in Jackson.

Jesse’s eyes held fast to Dina, who’s head was thrown back in a wholehearted cackle over something relatively insignificant. You were all slumped in your chairs with great big grins, flushed faces and strands of hair clinging to your clammy necks, in high spirits.

Your heart feels full. For the first time, you can go out and laugh freely without the intense gaze of your overwhelming guilt or constant, racing thoughts of Soren. Panic attacks lie dormant for longer than you’d ever dreamed of.

Ellie’s gaze reaches you, and the way your heart swells with all-consuming affection is mutual. You can tell from the way she looks at you, all warm and admiring.

For a second, the sight of the people behind her falls away and you are the only people left in the room, in the world. Here, you are with people who care about you, want to be around you. Here, there is a sense of belonging that you hadn't felt in a long time.

After a moment, the pink-tinged apples of her cheeks fatten with a sincere, toothy grin, hazy eyes squinting as they flit down to her glass, and you notice that the number of people here has actually dwindled.

“Oh shit, everyone’s gone, I didn’t even realise.” Dina mumbled, scanning the room. Jesse lazily rose from his chair, stretching as he looked back at her,

“We should probably get going too, huh. I'll see you two tomorrow, then.” He nodded over to both of you before huddling together with Dina and drunkenly walking off.

You look back to Ellie; she’s leaning back in her chair, legs spread in a way that brings on certain feelings, raising her glass to her parted lips and her eyes never leave yours.

You watch her swallow the last traces of whiskey and set the glass down before tilting her head at you with a smirk. You’re both drunk, warm, fuzzy, tingly.

Her eyebrows raise before she gets up and leans over, and whispering,

“C��mon, babe,” into your ear.

As you stroll back, you’re met with the refreshing cool night air and you can’t help but feel a sense of contentment, hand in hand with Ellie, watching her ramble on. Your hushed giggles carry through the empty paths.

When you arrive at Ellie's place, stumbling through the door, you collapse onto her bed. This place has become more of a home than your real home; you’re almost never not spending the night. Among the clusters of trinkets and piles of clothes, your belongings have found a place, as well as the acrylic image of your face amidst her paintings.

Candlelight, the room is bathed in the soft orangey glow, casting shadows that dance and flicker across Ellie’s grinning face. You cling onto her dearly, intertwining your limbs with flushed cheeks and gazing up at her longingly, light and airy.

You settle into a comfortable silence with your bodies pressed against each other while she stares up down at her rough palm as you trace, with gentle and loving touches, the lines engraving it, the weight of the world momentarily forgotten.

She pecks your cheek,

“Are you sleepy?”

You look up at her with a sly smirk,

“No. Are you?”

“Nuh uh, you know what I’m thinking?”

“Oh, I know exactly what you’re thinking?”

You rise from your spot, nestled into her side, taking the hand you were playing with and entwining your fingers as you hover over her. The look on her face is mellow yet excited, her hands already reach out for your waist, already making your body feel hotter.

“You gonna show me, babe?”

She pulls you closer so you dive into the soft crook of her neck, sensitive with trails of tingling skin where you place kisses, desperate to feel the warmth her body emits, desperate for her to feel so incredibly real to you, for her to overwhelm your senses. You’ve never been infatuated quite like this before, never felt quite so comfortable with the love you hold for a person. But with Ellie, it’s simple, easy, comes naturally to you. She’s so many things, but, especially a sanctuary. A sanctuary weathered by the storms of your past but still standing firm.

“Mhmm, I’m gonna show you, Els.”

Ellie’s slumped at the head of her dingy bed.

Her body is bare and her muscles are tensing with each desperate, visceral movement, glowing with a thin sheen of sweat and slick,, as she kneads her fingers into the fat of your ass and meets your lips hungrily.

You hold onto her freckled face, looking down at her fucked out, beautiful eyes. They’re just begging for more after giving it to you for so long, consolidated by the sparkly feeling of her grinding up onto you,

“You’re so hot,”

“Oh, am I?” you mutter, pushing her back against the mattress and watching her eyes widen while chuckling to yourself,

“Wha- Alright, jesus fuck,”

You crawl off her lap with deliberate sexuality, pushing her legs apart abruptly. She clambers up onto her arms but you push her back, watching her tits bounce as she collapses,

“Shut up, El,”

“Oh, I see how it is, you aren’t fucking around anymore. No more mr nice guy, no funny busin-”

“Dude, fucking stop, you just, like, made me un-wet,”

“Oh shit, gotta get serious.”

You smack her thigh gently.

She grins and folds her arms behind her head, her eyes never leaving yours as you lower yourself in front of her pussy. Yours narrow ever so slightly when she grabs the back of your head and pushes it into your mouth, moaning at the contact of your lips with hers.

It gets you warm, placing a kiss filled with genuine love on her puffy clit before borderline making out with her pussy,

The sight of her eyes rolling back as her jaw goes slack has you begging for more, so you run your tongue up from her slit before lapping at it like you’re starved and watching her go cross-eyed from the sheer pleasure.

You can’t help but dip a finger a finger or two into her dripping hole, wanting nothing but to make her feel good, for her to come undone on you, slick smeared over your mouth, nose and chin, dripping lewdly down your palm.

You watch her body convulse, mattress cover clinging to her sweaty back as it arches up off the bed and her legs pull you in graciously.

You rest your head on her thigh and relish in the sight for a moment before she’s looking back into your eyes and urging you to come up so she can hold you, and also to stop breathing onto her clit because her “legs might spasm and strangle you or something,”

You laugh and lay your head down on her naked chest to hear her heart thump within her, in the tender embrace of the arms she holds out for you.

“Els?”

“Hmm?”

“Remind me to take those really fluffy socks I have home with me later. So much stuff is here now, I keep getting annoyed whenever Im actually home for once.”

“Sure, I can do that, if I don’t also forget.”

“Great.”

She lulls your eyes into a soft close with the feeling of her stroking your hair, and as she watches you exist, she realises she’d like to do that for longer. So, she leans into your ear and whispers,

“Hey, babe?”

“Yeah?”

“Why don’t you just… bring all your stuff to my place, you know, move in with me?”

You raise your head from her chest (she immediately misses the warmth) and meet her eyes, face slowly morphing into an adoring smile which she reflects, before placing a kiss on her forehead and then locking your lips with hers.

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a/n - last chapterrrrrr ahdgstihaveahugepenisdtyf, banners by cafekitsune and saradika-graphics, my condolences to anyone who has read this bc i kinda hate it but thanks anyways. im not gonna write anything for a while after this (except for this one req thats been sitting in my drafts for an ungodly amount of time) because of the situation in palestine and the upcoming global strikes. i dont want to think abt a game made by a zionist who embedded zionist propaganda into it and donated money to israel most likely earned from the game. upwards of 30,000 palestinians, 11,000 of which were children, have been murdered by israel since october. yeah, for now, it’s only gonna be palestine-related posts. please, please do not buy the remaster, im begging you. its just a remaster, im pretty sure we can all go without it.

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elliesbelle · 1 year ago

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ELLIE WITH A SWEET DUMB OBLIVIOUS GIRLFRIEND!!! ELLIE WITH A SWEET DUMB OBLIVIOUS GI- [GUNSHOTS]

ellie with an oblivious girlfriend

there’s nobody else in the world you feel safer with than ellie

she’s your protector and she always looks out for you

and thank god she does

one of the things ellie loves most about you is how genuinely sweet and thoughtful you are

you think of others first, you’re reassuring and kind, you’re a very giving person

however, you can also be ditzy and forgetful, which ellie finds endearing but it also puts her on extra alert constantly

you’ll wake up earlier than her to cook breakfast for both you of you, and by the time she walks in, you’ll be setting out the finished product on the dining table

she walks in with a sleepy “mornin’ babe” and a yawn, and as she sees the breakfast set-up you’ve made, she begins to smile

but before she can praise you, she smells something weird from the kitchen and immediately bounds in to find you’ve forgotten to turn the stove off

thankfully it was just an empty pan on top of it and the burner was on a lower setting

you rush in after her as she turns the dial to “off” and you immediately start to apologize tearfully

“oh fuck, el, i’m so sorry, i can’t believe i keep fucking doing that. i didn’t mean it, baby—”

ellie interrupts you by pulling you into an embrace and kissing your forehead

“hey, hey, it’s okay. no harm done. don’t freak out.”

you let her peck you on the lips before she continues

“we’ll work on it, okay? can’t have you burning the place down. but i’m not mad, alright?”

she places another kiss on your forehead as you whisper a soft “okay”

“now, i’m pretty hungry,” she continues. “whatever you made smells really fucking good. let’s go eat, alright?”

your forgetfulness applies to misplacing things too

whether it’s your keys or your favourite pair of shoes, it’s not uncommon for something to go missing

in the game’s universe, ellie will be knocking on your door ten minutes before you both have to go for a morning patrol

you were supposed to meet up with her for breakfast at the tipsy bison earlier but you never showed

she hears you go, "one second!!" followed by the sound of things being thrown around

ellie's concerned, so she lets herself in where she's greeted by you ransacking your house

"uhh, babe?" she says and you turn to her with an overwhelmed look on your face

"oh! i'm so sorry el, i know i'm running so late. i just can't find my favourite pistol anywhere, and you know i can't leave jackson without it, i—"

you keep rambling and only stop when ellie unzips her backpack and pulls out the exact pistol you've been searching for all morning

you squeal and say, "OH MY GOD, BABE, WHERE DID YOU—"

she chuckles and hands it to you, saying, "you left it in shimmer's saddle yesterday, remember?"

you place the gun down on the table and lunge to give her a hug

"thankyouthankyouthankyou, what would i do without you?" you say

she gives you a quick kiss before going, "go get ready, silly girl. jesse's gonna kill us if we're late."

while you're in the other room quickly getting dressed, she's straightening the room up and putting things back where they belong

in a modern au, you'll be just as forgetful

it'll be a saturday and you're asleep in her arms and you're woken up by her alarm going off way too early

she reaches over to turn it off and you expect her to turn back to snuggle you but instead, she gets up from bed and draws the blinds to let the morning sunlight in

you groan and lift the blanket over your face

"ellieeeee, whyyyyy"

she chuckles and makes her way over to your side of the bed and pulls the blanket down

"wakey wakey, eggs and bakey" she says, giving you a morning kiss

"no eggs and bakey, it is still night-night time" you whine. "close the blinds, baby"

ellie strokes your cheek and says, "gotta get up, pretty girl. you got therapy this morning."

you kiss the hand that she's stroking your cheek with and say, "no, therapy's tomorrow"

"nope, today, baby." ellie flashes her phone at you to show her calendar app which says your therapy appointment starts in an hour

you groan again and say, "can i skip it today and you come back to bed and cuddle me?"

ellie attacks your neck with kisses and says, "tempting, but still gotta go, baby. i'll cuddle you when we get back, okay?"

you pout, hoping it'll convince ellie

but she's pulling your sleepy ass out of bed two seconds later

you're someone who sees the good in others

which ellie admires you for, but unfortunately means that people will take advantage

the worst is when people start hitting on you

whether it’s a man or a woman, ellie gets territorial regardless

she does react differently though, depending on who’s trying to flirt with her girl

with men, there’s a cockiness to her, knowing that you could unintentionally get their hopes up with your sweet and pleasant demeanor, but in the end? they’d have no chance

but with women? ellie is 10x more possessive

she trusts you and knows that you’re not actually flirting; you’re naturally friendly and affectionate

but she doesn’t like when she sees the way other women look you up and down, drinking you in with a hungry expression on their faces

in the game’s universe, you’ll be at the tipsy bison one night with ellie, dina, and jesse

you all share a table together, and when the bottle of alcohol you’d all been sharing runs low, you volunteer to get another from the bar

you expect maria to be who serves you, but instead it’s a guy your age who you’d seen around town but don’t interact with often

as you walk up to the bar, he spots you and flashes a huge smile

“hey pretty, lady,” he says. “what can i get for you?”

you smile back, not catching the obvious flirting in his greeting

ellie’s eyes were on you since you left the table

usually, she just enjoys being able to look at you every second she has just so she can admire your presence

but this time, it was to suspiciously squint at you and the barman you were currently conversing with

you were giving him an innocent smile, one that she fell in love with so long ago

but the way he looked at you like something he’d like to devour? she muttered a quiet “be right back” to dina and jesse before appearing at your side

you’re laughing politely at something the guy is saying when ellie surprises you by wrapping her arms around your waist

“yeah, i’m—oh! el, you scared me!” you giggle as she pulls you close

she gives you a quick smile before staring at the barman straight on with an intimidating glare

he regards the way ellie’s holding you before he meets ellie's angry green eyes

"everything good here, babe?" she asks you pointedly

"yeah! just grabbing a bottle for us. is everything okay? did you guys need something else?" you ask her

"nah, just missed you." she replies, giving you a kiss on the cheek

the barman, who was taking his time getting you a fresh bottle, quickly assesses the situation and guesses correctly that ellie is not someone to be fucked with

he hands you the bottle but ellie grabs it instead

"thanks, man" she says cooly

she leads you back to dina and jesse, but not before she gives the barman one last smug look

in a modern au, you'll be waiting for ellie to pick you up from the train station to take you home after you'd visited some friends

as you wait in the kiss-and-ride area, some sleazeball approaches you and starts up a conversation

you're too nice to say no and you just assume it's just someone trying to make conversation

ellie eventually pulls up and finds you chatting with the stranger

you see her car and wave and immediately grab your bags

"oh, my girlfriend is here! have a nice day!" you say

"oh man," the sleazeball says. "leaving already? can i at least get a hug?"

"oh, uh—" you begin, but he's mostly there already and you concede to give him a half-hearted hug with one arm

you make your way to ellie's car and get into the passenger's seat, greeting her happily and hurling your bags into the backseat

"who was that?" ellie asks after she greets you back

"who?"

"that guy you just hugged."

"oh, i don't know. just some guy who came up to me a few minutes ago and started chatting. he asked for a goodbye hug." you respond, shrugging

"babe," ellie sighs. "you can't just—you can't just let random guys touch you like that."

"he was just being friendly, el!"

"trust me, baby," she says, glaring at the man who was still staring at you from where he was. "he wasn't."

before you can respond, ellie kisses you passionately and you melt instantly

she kisses you because she misses you, but she also wants this strange man to see that you were unavailable and unattainable

as she pulls away, you're flustered at your girlfriend's boldness

you giggle nervously, not noticing as she glowers at the sleazeball who's now scowling

she drives away as she places her hand on your thigh like usual, pleased with herself and making a mental note to make sure to be ten minutes early to pick you up from anywhere from now on

in the game's universe, you'll be coming home from patrol with a new girl that maria had asked you to train

you were assigned to a fairly easy and tame route that day and maria thought that you'd be a good teacher for this newcomer

this newcomer was very friendly and very bold, and when she'd been told she was assigned to patrol with you that day, she was excited and made plans to ask you out afterwards

she'd seen you during her first couple of weeks in jackson and she'd been itching for a chance to chat you up

you hadn't noticed her much prior to your patrol with her, but ellie did

she noticed her the day that she arrived because the second the new girl laid her eyes on you, ellie could tell she liked what she saw

when you'd told her you were training her, ellie said nothing about the very obvious crush this newcomer had on you

ellie trusted you, but that didn't stop her from worrying

she'd made dina come back from their patrol earlier than usual so she could be there when you'd come back from yours (which earned her an annoyed but playful eye-roll from dina)

ellie was brushing shimmer's mane when you came into the stables with your horse along with the new girl

she frowned when she looked up to see the new girl eagerly helping you down from your horse

you gave the girl a smile and a thank you before spotting ellie waiting for you

your smile widened when you saw her and you practically jumped on her to give her a hug

"hi, baby! you're back from patrol already?" you ask as you pull away slightly to look at her better

"yeah, not much action on mine and dina's route," ellie lied. "missed you, pretty girl."

"you saw me this morning, dummy." you chuckle

"and i missed you," ellie reiterated. "can't help it."

you give her a loving smooch, which ellie gladly reciprocates and takes a step further as she lifts you up and swings you around

she smiles at your giggles and your noncommital whines to put you down, smirking internally about putting on a show in front of the new girl

the new girl who looked at the scene, defeated and irritated, and who you also had completely forgotten about

in a modern au, you'll be visiting a lesbian bar with ellie

you both needed to unwind and you were both slowly getting tipsier by the second

she excuses herself to the bathroom for a few minutes, but not before giving you a quick kiss and a promise to return quickly

she's not gone for five minutes before she returns and finds that some other girl is leaning on her barstool and chatting you up

she could tell that you were being friendly and sweet as always, but the other girl's body language told a different story

the girl has left by the time she makes it back to where you were sitting

your face lights up like it always does when you see her

"scoring some dates?" ellie jokes, even if she's seething internally

"oh, just someone being nice, that's all" you reply

"uh huh," ellie says as she takes her seat, handing your purse back to you that you'd placed on top of her stool to avoid someone taking it

"el, not everyone is out here looking to sleep with me." you say to her, pushing a stray hair behind her ear

"really?" she says before lifting the napkin her drink was sitting on to reveal a piece of paper with a number scribbled over it

you look at it for a second and say, "that doesn't mean she was hitting on me!"

ellie rolls her eyes and says, "you are far too beautiful to not get hit on when we're in a lesbian bar"

"lesbians need friends too, el" you reply

ellie pulls out the piece of paper from underneath the napkin and lifts it up to your eye level, revealing the girl's phone number and a note that said "call me xx" right underneath it

you stare at it for a second before saying, "do you think i should call her?"

you laugh as ellie rolls her eyes at you and playfully gets up to leave

"i'm kidding, baby, i'm kidding!" you snicker, gripping ellie's tattooed arm and pulling her back down to her stool. "come back here, silly."

"you sure it's me and not your new girlfriend that you want to sit here with you?" ellie taunts

"is this new girlfriend gonna take care of me better than you do?" you ask, pulling ellie close to you by her collar

"probably not" she says, staring at your lips

"that's what i thought." you say before you lean in and kiss her so intensely that she completely forgets all about that other girl within seconds

author's notes:

sorry for taking a bit to respond to this! hope this is what you meant hehe

oops sorry for going off on this dslkfjsfds

enjoy the header pic of ellie here cause i took that myself in photo mode in my own playthrough of tlou2 a few days ago hehe

also the forgetfulness part is me being inspired by myself because i have adhd and i’m annoyingly forgetful oops

also that kiss-and-ride one was something that happened to me years ago when i was waiting for my gf to pick me up from the station one time lmao

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goddessofmischief · 1 year ago

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AUGUST (SHANKS X READER)

A/N: This is part of this series, which requests are open for! These fics are all one-shots, so they can be read separately. Also, I highly recommend listening to the song linked in the title while you read, and please leave a comment when you've finished!

It took six weeks and a shipwreck to get you into the arms of the man that you loved, and you didn't regret a thing.

Little known pirate fact: the Oro Jackson's final resting place is a little island in the murkier side of the East Blue, far from pirates or Marines or anything at all. Here it lies to this day.

It arrived at this spot on a fated morning on an afternoon in August, when you, Shanks and Buggy were embroiled in the most terrible of arguments.

The tension had not dissipated from the days earlier, when Shanks had unceremoniously declared himself Captain, and Buggy was comfortable voicing his feelings - almost all of his feelings - out in the open now.

Starting with this one.

"We're not moving fast enough," Buggy complained. He had this particular feeling a lot.

"The ship can only go so fast. You know that," Shanks chided, jokingly. "...You've been on it for years."

"You know that's not what I mean. The One Piece is out there and we're supposed to be trying to claim it - now everyone's trying to claim it, aren't they? - but we're still wandering."

"We're preparing for the journey!"

"Oh, sure, like we really need all these maps. The only one that we really need is the map to the Grand Line, and we haven't even gotten it yet."

Shanks had been dispatching the two of you out for maps for the past few months, and many of your efforts had ended unsuccessfully. Buggy was beginning to tire of it.

"We're doing the best we can, Bugs, you know that," you tried, and Buggy cut you off.

"'You know that,'" Buggy imitated, and you and Shanks blinked at him with wide, vacuous eyes. "You two are even beginning to sound like each other, you know that? What, do you two get off on bullying me?"

"Yes," said Shanks, at the same time you said "No, of course not."

"No, of course not," Shanks amended, all too late.

"Fine," Buggy snapped, grabbing his satchel.

"Hey, where're you going-"

"You're not threatening to leave again, are you?"

"No, idiots! I'm going down to the port for a drink. Don't join."

You and Shanks sighed, exchanging weary looks with each other as Buggy departed the ship.

"So... what do you wanna do while we wait?"

...

"Careful," you warned idly, watching Shanks jerk the captain's wheel from one side to the next.

"Sorry, I'm just - I'm still getting the hang of this, I'm not used to steering-"

"It's alright," you assured him. "We're all learning things."

He had promised you there was an especially appealing island close by - something he'd discovered on his own and was anxious to share with you.

"Maybe you could let me try-"

"It's fine, I got it-"

"Shanks, let me steer-"

"I can do it-"

"What are you trying to prove?!"

"Nothing!"

The ship found that island, alright. It slammed right into the rocks in front of it.

"Oh, my God," you uttered, hand covering your mouth. Shanks stared ahead in total disbelief.

The ship was wrecked. You crashed. The ship was crashed. You and Shanks crashed Roger's ship. You and Shanks crashed Roger's ship. Buggy would never forgive you.

It was your fault.

It wasn't really - you would realize this, later on - but in the moment, that's how it felt.

"Shanks?" You shook him a little. He was seemingly catatonic, still staring straight ahead at the rocks.

"We..."

You nodded, grimly, trying to get him alert again.

"Come on, we're stuck. We have to figure something out."

...

Well, at least it was a nice island to be stuck in.

You and Shanks started a fire on the beach, after hours of searching and confirming there didn't seem to be anyone else on the island.

"Can't believe we wrecked it," Shanks mused. "It was the only home I've ever known."

"...Buggy's going to kill us."

Shanks glanced at you, a hint of amusement on his face.

"That's really what you're worried about?"

"Aren't you?"

"I think I'm more concerned with how we're going to get off this island. I'm beginning to realize that we can't. I guess we could try swimming out, but- no, it's too deep."

"So, we're stuck?"

Shanks confirmed your worry with a weary nod.

"We're stuck."

...

You didn't speak to each other again for another four days.

There was enough fruit on the island to live on, enough water stored on the wrecked Oro Jackson. The two of you could barely look at each other, repulsed by the shame of what you had done.

On the fifth day, you began to worry.

"Shanks?" you called out, shouting his name loud enough that he should have heard it. "Shanks, look, we better start making more permanent plans-"

He didn't respond.

"Shanks, come on, I don't wanna fight-"

You stopped dead in your tracks. Your brain couldn't handle what you had saw.

Shanks, flat on the ground under a palm tree.

You realized he must've fallen - the flares beside him indicated he was trying to call for help - your fault again, everything is awful and it's your fault, Shanks was dead and it was all your fault.

"No," you whispered, breath scarcely escaping your body. You collapsed to the ground, searching his face for signs of life, cradling his head in you hands. "Wake up, please, wake up- please, I need you to come back, I don't want to be alone-"

Shanks coughed, suddenly breathing again, and you realized with a rush of relief that he'd only been unconscious. His eyes scanned over you, a little smile teasing at the edge of his lips.

"Are you an angel? Am I in heaven?"

You cried in relief, not even having the energy to make fun of his stupid remarks.

"No, you idiot, you're here on earth with me."

Shanks noticed your hand was resting over his heart, and he brought his own hand up to meet it.

"You were crying over me?" he asked, cockily. You shook your head as the tear tracks staining your face betrayed you.

"I thought you were dead."

"I think I was."

"Did you see Roger?" you asked, almost laughing.

"I don't think I was dead long enough," he said. "I had to come back, you see. Had to be where you were."

As long as you had known Shanks, you had carried with you a indecipherable ache. It was today that the ache finally rose out of you, and today that you bent your face down far enough to connect your lips to his - on purpose, this time. He met them.

"We're still stuck on this island, you know," you murmured, finally pulling away.

His eyes sparkled.

"I'd forgotten."

...

For the next three weeks, your life was a montage of sun-drenched beaches, bare shoulders and tanned skin. Water everywhere, sand in everything. Salt air stung your tongue and infused all your kisses.

You barely felt like a pirate anymore. Life was that good. You felt more like a creature of the sea, tossed by the waves, unbothered by the silly human things that had once so concerned you - what One Piece? What Buggy? What Mihawk? You and Shanks were connected by everything, ebbing and flowing out of each other like it was the only thing that made sense.

Despite this backdrop of love, there was one thing that was clear. You were going to die. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. The water from the ship would run out, and the fruit would run out, and then there would be no more left, and you and he would merely be skeletons left scattered on the shore, then dust.

"I can't even regret it," you sighed, head on his chest. "Not with everything that's happened."

"Do you think Buggy will miss us?"

"I don't know," you said with a guilty pang. "I guess I hadn't thought of him for awhile. I wish I could let him know what became of us. Mihawk, too."

"Could you not talk about Mihawk during moments like this?"

You laughed, kissing him lightly on the nose.

"I wonder how many sunrises we have left."

"Enough," he said, and after that the talking ended.

...

Little did you know, Buggy hadn't slept for weeks.

Okay, hadn't slept was an overexaggeration - he had little winks now and then, just a few, just to keep himself alive. He'd be no good to you or Shanks dead.

He'd been to four islands by now, and had scoured every one of them. What he really couldn't understand is how the Oro Jackson could have gone anywhere unnoticed. The citizens of the island he had been on recalled it in the port, when you dropped him off, and then it vanished like a ghost. The one ship every Marine in the world was looking for, and not one person would admit to seeing it.

It was killing him.

He couldn't imagine what had happened to you - Shanks, too, but he worried more for you, mostly for the reason that he was sure you would never leave him on purpose. It was possible for Shanks to have left, but you, too? Wouldn't happen.

The thought crossed his mind, once or twice, that the two of you had gotten sick of him and run away together, but it seemed impossible after how desperately you'd tried to keep him from leaving. You wouldn't just leave him now.

Maybe you were kidnapped. Or hungry. Or cold. Or-

Wait, was that the ship?

"Buggy!" he heard a chorus of familiar voices call out, frantically waving their arms on the beach. A familiar burst of red hair was immediately apparent amongst the grains of white sand.

"What the... the hell," he muttered, rowing the small boat he'd attained to look for you beside the crashed ship. He'd never realized how absolutely massive it was until it was in pieces. Even now, weeks later, rotted wood planks scattered the shore.

"Buggy!"

He barely had a moment to climb out of the boat and throw his oars aside before you and Shanks barreled towards him at full speed, both locking him in a tight embrace.

"You saved us," you whispered, burying your face in the nape of his neck. Shanks hugged him gratefully, too. It felt good having both of you back again. For a little while, Buggy had feared he would have to walk the world alone.

"What the hell happened?"

"Crashed," you explained, your cheeks flushed from the excitement.

"Did it just... did you not see the rocks?"

You shook your head, still completely overwhelmed.

"We thought we were going to die."

"I was beginning to think you were already dead!"

"You saved us," you emphasized, salt water stinging your eyes. "I could kiss you."

Buggy's face went blank, as did yours. Clumsily, you reached over and gave him a peck on the cheek, and smiled. In one fluid motion, you pulled back, and Shanks looped his arm around your waist. You and Shanks glanced at each other, still grinning, and you rested your head on his shoulder.

That was the moment he knew something had changed. Something was different, since the last time he'd seen you.

"You guys..." he tried to put the words together. "You guys... what, uhh, what did you guys do for six weeks?"

Buggy had a few guesses.

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punkeropercyjackson · 2 months ago

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Percy Jackson fans calling Luke Castellan a radicalist is what happens when grown ass adults get all their politics from fiction.'We need to destroy society from the ground up to rebuild it' is literally a cryptofash dogwhistle,he believed in eugenics('the weak need to be weeded out'),he was a serial pedophile who was exclusively into underaged girls throught all five og books and it's not a 'retcon' his attraction to Annabeth wasn't stated until the end-no groomer tells their targets the full context of what's happening or otherwise it's not grooming and he even murdered a young black man after gaslighting his girlfriend to be a spy for him by taking advantage of her crush on him by flirting with her ever since she was a tween.Oh and them changes to the system he spoke of?Yeah,he never meant them but he can't fall under 'The Radical' trope because that's a term for demonized minorities and literally all the people he hurt were them and he got off scott free with a positive legacy and he did everything as a cishet white allistic physically abled thin man constantly described as fitting eurocentric beauty standards,adored by everyone pre-betrayal and grew up sheltered in a fantasy land designated to protect him.As an afropunk who's done deep dive and extensive research on fascism and anti fascist tactics,i can tell for a fact Luke was doing propaganda as many irl white radicalist leftists do but you wouldn't even need to be part of punk subculture to realize Luke was like that because he was a white man and they're just like That.White male violence is not revolution oh my GOD and y'all calling Percy Jackson himself an enforcer of the status quo kills me because the entire saga is about him doing direct action and activism in both the mythos and mortal worlds his entire life and he actually DID improve the system by demanding the gods pussy up which they did and Percy got martyrd by the gods the exact way Luke lied about happening to him.'Revolutionary'and then it's a white man perpetuating the cycle of abuse.Y'all sayin' 'radicalist king' but don't mean the intellectually disabled punk afrolatino,you mean the pretentious cop-adjacent ahh kiddy fucker.Y'all also be sayin' 'realistically queer rep' and then it's the black punk crushing on the fascist and authority figures he views familally.Just say no boys ever had a crush on you so now you want crusty white dude backshots

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erosjournal · 2 months ago

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꣑ৎ ~ "guys... please... not in the engine room..." (valgrace drabble/shortfic)

~ synopsis: frank hears some... interesting sounds from leo and jason's work space in the engine room

~ tw: sexual themes, well, you'll just see. lgbtq :) . non canon ships. (sorry i didn't know if i should format my drabbles differently, but i sorta like this format.)

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"hey, frank, can you go get jason and leo? they're down in the engine room. i think they're doing some maintenance work?" percy asked, glancing over at the waves crashing onto the sides of the argos ll. frank nodded, and down the stairs, straight to leo's favorite place, the engine room.

as he approached the room, he noticed the door was closed. it was almost never closed. he decided to listen, to see if anything was wrong.

"ready jason?" leo muttered, obviously out of breath. frank widened his eyes, listening more intently. there was some muttering, but then he heard jason's deeper voice.

"y-yeah." he stuttered.

"you sure?"

"mhm. just hurry." he muttered wearily. oh gods. frank couldn't believe his ears. he didn't want to eavesdrop, but it was too late.

"ok. just take a deep breath." frank heard someone breathe deeply, and a thump.

"ow! leo!" he heard jason whimper. he heard leo hush him.

"jason, be quiet! what if someone hears! then they'll think somethings up!" he yelped. he heard more mutters, and backed up. oh gods, he couldn't listen to this personal conversation. but gods, did they have to do... well, in the engine room?

he stumbled, making a loud crashing sound.

"oh shoot. who's there?" he heard leo yell out. gods, frank just couldn't fathom that this was happening, on the ship, not even in their rooms. he felt his face flush, his ears redden. he turned and ran out of the room, running smack dab into percy.

"frank! where were you! i was looking everywhere! what took so long?" he said. he watched frank bit his lip, his face all red. "what happened?"

"i... i can't say!" he yelped, looking uneasily around him. percy frowned.

"you can tell me anything, man." he assured. frank shook his head.

"no! like.... it's not for me to say!" he muttered.

"what do you mean 'it's not for you to say'?" percy said, wiggling his eyebrows. "c'mon man, just tell me! it's not like you walked in on people doing anything weird, right?" he teased. he watched frank's face fluster, and felt himself blush a little.

"oh gods. who?!" he exclaimed. frank looked around sharply, and shoved a finger over his mouth.

"be quiet, jackson! what it someone hears?" he hissed. he pulled percy back onto the deck, breathing heavily.

"gods, i went to the engine room like you asked." he said. percy looked at him, confused, then he understood.

"oh. OH." he smirked. "gods, in the engine room? they are crazy." he laughed. frank kept blushing, still so uncomfortable.

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that had happened right after lunch. by dinnertime, the news had spread to annabeth and hazel. the only people not knowing were coach hedge (who would kill them) and piper (who might also kill them).

"hey, pipes..." annabeth and hazel walked into her room. she was reading a book, and glanced up.

"oh, hey yall. what's up?" she said, sitting up and closing her book. annabeth had an unreadable expression on, while hazel looked flustered and nervous.

"well, we wanted to talk to you about something, something we think you should know about." annabeth spoke up. hazel nodded. piper didn't like the way this was going, but nodded as well, listening along.

"well...?"

"we think that, um, jason and leo were, um..." annabeth flushed a bit, looking away from pipers gaze. "doing.... things that happen in a deep romantic relationship." she said finally. piper felt her eye twitch. gods, those two get together and after only two weeks decide to get it on?

"WHAT!?" she yelped, throwing her book across the room. the other girls flinched. "ok that's it. move aside, i'm going to talk to them." she muttered angrily, getting up. of course, she wasn't upset about them two being in a relationship. she just wanted to chew them out since 1. leo was like her brother and 2. jason was her best friend. also, she couldn't trust them to be safe all the time.

both annabeth and hazel glanced at each other.

"maybe that isn't such a good idea..." hazel muttered, watching piper push through them. she was already on her way down the hall, knocking harshly on leo's door.

"open up!' she exclaimed. as it was opened, she was met with leo, who was wearing jason's old camp jupiter shirt, and jason was wearing a camp half-blood shirt, sitting on his bed. oh gods.

"what's wrong pipes?" he asked, nervously.

"what's wrong!?" she replied. she entered the room, closing the door behind her. "you two got it on today! did you two even use protection?" she asked. they looked at her surprised, then at each other, then back at her. they were blushing, but had confused looks on.

"piper, what in the hades do you mean?" jason asked, adjusting his gold glasses. piper sighed.

"it's all over the boat! you two were doing it in the engine room!" she said. "gods, you two are only 16. i can't be an aunt at 16!" she cried. they both looked at each other again. then leo burst out laughing, jason frowning.

"oh pipes! me and jason were working on mechanics! i swear! someone probably heard the sounds of me hitting jason's finger with the hammer, and thought we were getting it on. oh gods, that's funny!" he cried, tears springing from laughter. piper relaxed, confused.

"seriously?"

"yeah, leo hit my fingers with a hammer," he glared pointedly at leo, "and it was definitally something painful."

"oh." piper blushed, not from the thought but from the embarrassment of being wrong. "well, uh, you guys should probably tell the others. they, um, still think somethings up." she muttered.

jason flustered while leo kept laughing.

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~ an:

lmao i had this idea for a bit, and rlly wanted to write it. i apologize for traumatizing frank, and for it being sorta random and messy. i hope yall liked it, it was so random. and i barely edited it, but i loved writing it. but coming up with excuses for everything was hard, but eh. love yall :33

#valgrace #valgrace fanfic #hoo fanfic #leo x jason #leo valdez x jason grace #piper mclean #leo valdez #jason grace #frank gets traumatized #fanfic

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yourmommygay · 10 months ago

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Let's trust him.

Idea: This is set just after Liam brings theo back and is set in Scott's house when they find out he's back.

Pairings: theo raeken x plus size!reader, Malia tate/hale x reader (siblings. Malia is 2 years older), Scott mccall x reader (platonic), Liam Dumbar x reader (best friends)

Warnings: swearing, mentions of blood and violence.

Be prepared this is a kinda long one.

Cody christain is just majestic.

Me, malia and Scott had just returned to Scott's after receiving a message from Liam asking for us to come back. As I stepped out of my truck and closed the door I heard my sister growl, I didn't understand why, I just shrugged it off and walked over to Scott who was walking up the path to the front door.

We entered the house and I heard hushed whispers from towards the kitchen area, I identified the voices of Liam and hayden aka my best friend and his girlfriend. As I rounded the corner I saw him, theo. My ex boyfriend standing behind my best friend and hayden who was holding the katana.

"What's going on here?" I asked worried as to why he was here. Liam looked sad almost guilty but still confident all at once. Scott stepped towards Liam with a angry glint in his eyes.

(Skip to later. Also im adding more speach cause its been a while since ive watched teen wolf and i cant find it anywhere as i live in the uk)

"Scott I don't trust him" malia said to Scott and I don't blame her, he manipulated us all, made us believe we could trust him, shot malia, made me fall in love with him just so he could get closer to the pack, manipulated Liam into trying to kill Scott then trying and sort of succeeding in killing him. "I know you don't malia, but Liam thinks he may be able to help us, he remembers stiles" Scott said trying to calm down the situation.

"I remember stiles, Lydia remembers stiles, y/n remembers stiles and so do you. We don't need theo, Liam needs to send him back. He tried to kill you scott" malia rambled getting angrier by the second. "What do you think y/n?" Scott asked looking straight at me, I looked over at theo and saw his eyes. He was listening in to the conversation and he looked scared. "Malia has a point he did try to kill you." I pause. "But so did I and malia and Liam and Peter and Kate and Chris and Jackson and yet you gave us another chance and trusted us. I say we give him one more chance, if he does something we don't like or agree with put him back" I respond.

Scott nods and tells Liam "y/n's right, but he's your responsibility. You watch him, got it?" Liam nods and looks over at me "can y/n help? She's theos weakness remember".

(Flashback to before they sent him to his personal hell)

"Y/n your everything to me, I didn't mean to involve you in the plan. I didn't mean to fall in love with you, at first I thought maybe it was easy but then you actually treated me the way I wanted to be treated, with love and care. God I'm crazy about you y/n, if anything happened to you I'd lose my mind. Your the only thing that keeps me calm and anchored" theo said trying to plea for my forgiveness.

"I can't be with you theo, not anymore. Your not the person I thought you was. If you can change then maybe at some point eventually but right now I'm pushing myself to just talk to you, I don't think I can trust you" I turned and left theo standing there looking like a kid who just dropped their ice cream.

"Fine catherine goes with but if he gets to close to her stop him" Scott and malia both say St the same time making me smirk. I have a feeling they will be together soon enough, there's always been something there. I can tell.

(Time skip again)

I'm walking behind hayden and Liam by theo but not next to him as I see Liam and hayden being a cute couple. Hayden says how she trusts liam I nearly make an audible sound of adoration towards the teenage couple as they kiss theo says "oh do you want me to leave you two alone to have some couple time?" He then holds up the chains "Oh wait I can't" he says annoyed. Liam rolls his eyes and me and hayden giggle at the boys. Liam yanks on the chain connected to the handcuffs on theo's wrists.

As I'm walking theo looks at me. "Hey" he whispers knowing that even though the teenage couple infront of us are talking that if he spoke loud enough Liam would hear him. "Hi" I whisper back. "I heard what you said to Scott back at the house, thank you for sticking up for me" he whispers smiling at me, not a smirk like before, a genuine smile. "I didn't do it as a favor for you." Amd just like that the smile is gone.

"I did it for me, so I can kill you once we have finished with you" I smile and him then jog to catch up and walk next to hayden.

(Time skip again. I'm sorry)

"Scott was right, I'm sending you back" Liam said to theo, we had just returned to the little shed thingy and saw a ghost rider dead in the cage with the gate open and theo sitting on the floor. I hadn't looked at theo yet I just know he's sitting on the floor, I finally look over at theo then turn to Liam and whisper to Liam "leave me alone with him, I'll fine out what happened" Liam looks hesitant but I nod and he and everyone else walks out leaving me with theo.

I sit down next to theo sideways facing him. I cross my legs, sigh and put my hands in my lap. "What happened theo?" I ask. Theo looks at me with tears in his eyes and blood on his face, "my sister would pull my heart out, over and over and over and over again. Then suddenly you appeared and she started pulling your heart out then she would make me pull it out, I couldn't. I couldn't hurt you again so I always had to watch you die." He said catching me of guard. "Theo I meant about what happened here. Is-is that what you witnessed in your personal hell?" I ask putting my hand on his knee. He nods then says "it was uh, Mr Douglas. He came in here, killed the ghost rider. Ate something from in his brain that let him use the whip" theo says then he clears his throat and sits up more, still leaning on the wall.

"Mr Douglas, as in the new teacher?" I ask in disbelief. Theo nods again and I nod. "Theo I have to ask, did you try to stop him?" I ask scared of the answer. "Yeah I did he uh, he pushed me against the wall and then faced the ghost rider" theo said and I knew he was telling the truth cause they couldn't lie to me. I nod and pull theo into my chest hugging him catching him by surprise but he quickly wrapped his arms around me and buried his head in my neck.

"I missed you" I confess. "I missed you so much more and I'm so sorry I broke your trust and I promise I will try to prove myself and change, for you. I'll be better for you" theo said looking me in the eyes. I smile and nod then kiss theo quickly before calling Scott and Liam and the others back in.

I stand up as they enter and say "He's telling the truth, he had nothing to do with what happened here. In fact he tried to stop it from happening but he couldn't. Scott can I talk to you outside?" I ramble, Scott nods and we walk out the little shed thingy. "Scott, he's just told me what he went through down there. I think we should at least give him a chance to be better. To prove to be better. He isn't the same as before, believe me. I was his girlfriend and there is a look in his eyes that wasn't there before." I explain.

"What did he go through?" Scott asks, I shake my head "I can't say exactly as its not my place if he wants to tell you he will but I will say that if anything would change him. It would be what he went through. Can we please give him one more chance and just put at least a little bit of trust in him?" I say.

Scott nods and says

"Okay, let's trust him"

A/n: I hope you like this, it took me about an hour to write as I kept getting distracted. Anyway let me know what you think about this and I'm sorry that I couldn't really remember much from the episodes but I tried my best. Anyway, remember you are loved and you are wanted. I love you and I hope you have a nice morning/evening/night. Bye bye.

#theo raeken imagine #theo raeken #teen wolf imagine #cody christian imagine #cody christian

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daintylovers · 5 months ago

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Young Loves

1.2 Second Chance At First Line

Teen Wolf x Aurora Young (oc)

A/N: this part is going to be way shorter because Aurora just didn't seem to fit in until the end of the episode

Finishing up my make-up test, I start making my way down to the boy's locker room. Practice should be over, which means my ride will be somewhere in that smelly room.

I'm not far away when I hear someone shout, "Get away from me!" But- wait, I know that voice. Scott? Wtf?!

As I start running to get to the room, growling erupts. Oh fuck no

I round the corner and almost come face-first with a fire extinguisher. Stiles is panting just as much as I am, as I breathe out, "What in the actual hell was that?"

His face crumbles with fear, stuttering out, "No, Rory, stay here, please god just stay here." While saying this he manages to start pushing me back from the room, panic etched in every motion his body makes.

"Stiles..." Scott groans out, gaining our attention once again.

The aforementioned boy looks at me and mouths "Stay" before he turns to peek into the room. Once I see his shoulders sag in relief, I come up behind him, hovering over his back. As we make our way into the room, I see Scott hunched over himself on a bench. "What happened?" he questions, not meeting our eyes.

Stiles drops the makeshift weapon and hisses, "What happened? What happened was that you literally almost ripped me to shreds. Alright, dude, that's what just happened."

He continues while pacing around the area, "It's exactly what I told you. The anger- your pulse rising. That's the trigger."

Lacrosse is the wrong game for Scott then, and he quickly realizes it. Saying what Stiles feels too guilty to say, I add, "Scott, you can't play Saturday."

"Rory, I just made the first line"

Stiles finishes, "Not anymore"

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I open my door to see Stiles rocking on his heels, waiting to be let in. I decided that we needed to hang out without Scott, so we could talk about our new furry problem.

Once we get settled in my room, Stiles breaks the silence, "Do you think he'll actually listen to us?"

"For missing Saturday's game?" I question, "No way. He wants to impress Allison."

"My dad might be coming. What if Scott goes ballistic? How am I supposed to explain that my best friend has turned into a cliche movie trope?"

"You could ask him to quit."

"Ha ha, real funny Rory."

"Or, you could tell him Scott's on drugs. That's probably what his mom is thinking anyway."

"I wish Scott was on drugs," Stiles pauses, seeing the confused smirk plastered on my face, "no, not like that. Just that if he was on drugs I would know how to help him. I've never met a werewolf, so I don't know what I'm doing."

"That's fair. Plus you are more likely to die like this, than if he was on drugs."

"God, you are really not helping my anxiety right now Aurora." Damn, not the full name.

I start to apologize but get interrupted by my phone ringing. Allison is calling. Looking to Stiles, I flash my phone screen at him, before answering the call. The girl launches into the latest gossip, which of course I already knew about. How Scott separated Jackson's shoulder during practice, and now he has to play on Saturday. I give Stiles a pity smile, as he helps me up, getting ready to meet Allison. So much for our hangout. I could have declined her, but the tense energy in the room with Stiles was getting to be a bit much. It was clear I was pissing him off, so I figured it would be better to leave him be. Let him sort out his thoughts and come to me later with them.

****

"Tell us what they're saying!" Stiles demands, using Scott's new hearing to our advantage. His dad, and a few others a standing just out of ear shot, and Stiles is eager to be a fly on the wall.

"Curfew because of the body."

Stiles is pissed, "Unbelievable. The dick who actually killed her is roaming around, exerting his free will. While my dad is trying to catch a make-believe rabid animal."

"What if Derek didn't kill her?" I question, which gives me two incredulous looks. "Hear me out, he probably didn't kill her himself. But what if he knows who or what killed her. For all we know it really was a rabid animal."

Scott completely disregards my words, "You can't exactly tell your dad about Derek."

"Well I can do something," oh awesome, they both are going to ignore me, "I'm gonna find the other half of the body." Huh?

****

The rest of my day goes smoother than my two idiot friends. I leave them alone for half a day and when we meet up again, at the freaking Hale house, I hear all about their adventures.

Apparently, Scott found the other half before Stiles could, hence our current location. But just to double-check, they went down to the morgue to sniff the first half. Gross. Then, Scott found bite marks on the legs of the corpse. Double gross.

"Wait- somethings different," Scott says, making my anxiety spike just a little. But he counters his statement by saying, "Whatever, let's just get this over with."

****

It's almost an hour later, when we finally find something in the hole we've been digging. It's something in a sack, that's been tied securely by like a thousand knots.

Being the only one with nails, I begin untying them. Once I get enough leeway, I unveil what I can- then promptly scream my lungs out.

Stiles and Scott are quick to grasp my shoulders and haul me up and out of the hole. We all land on the ground and look to each other for confirmation of what is below us. "What the hell is that?!" I yelp out, my heart bursting.

"A wolf" both boys huff out.

"Yeah, I can fucking see that. But you," I say pointing to Scott, "said you smelled blood. I thought you meant human blood not a fucking severed wolf's head's blood!" My hands are shaking as I accuse him. He doesn't meet my eyes but grasps my hands in his to stop the shaking.

"I said something was different."

Stiles just rolls his eyes at his friend's statement. "We got to get out of here."

Both boys jump into action, as I sit the re-burial out, still trying to slow my racing heart. Looking around, I notice a singular flower in bloom amongst the dirt. Not having it, I call out Stiles' name, and he gives me his attention. I just point at the flower, and he gets the hint, climbing out of the hole and over to where my finger pointed.

"Wolfsbane." That is all he says, which doesn't sound too good for Scott. He starts grasping at the root of the flower, but unveils a rope attached to it. Stiles continues to pull it from the ground, walking around in a circle a few times.

"Guys," Scott breaks our trance. I look at him, then to where his eyes have landed, and shriek again. Stiles is crowded against my back in an instant, dropping the flower/rope combination.

What was once a wolf's head has not become a girl's head.

A human girl's head.

A dead, severed human girl's head, that is missing her lower half.

****

Huddled up against Stiles' jeep, we watch Derek being led away in handcuffs. He looks at us, and I can't help by notice he looks almost disappointed. Not guilty or surprised at being caught, just sad.

I don't ponder it for too long because Stiles wraps a hand around my wrist and starts to drag me away, to the cop car. Where Derek was just put into. Great.

I try firmly planting my feet into the ground, muttering no's under my breath. But to no avail, as he just tugs me further. He opens the door and waits for me to climb in.

Noticing my pleading eyes he says, "Rory, let's just talk to him. Just for a few minutes." He gives me his own pleading eyes, and I cave, sliding into the passenger seat. He walks around the car and gets into the driver's side.

"Just so you know, we aren't afraid of you." WE?! Excuse me but I am deeply afraid of him.

Stiles looks to me, so I can back him up, but I just cower away from his gaze. I see Derek's eyebrow raised mockingly.

"Fine. I just want to know one thing. That girl you killed," Stiles jabs his finger at Derek, "she was a werewolf. But she was different, right? Because she could turn into an actual wolf."

Catching onto his theory, I finally raise my voice, "Is that why you killed her?"

Derek answers back, "Why are you so worried about me, when it's your friend back there you should be worried about? What happens when he turns at that game? Rory," holy fuck he knows my name, "what happens when you're the next body found?"

Stiles head almost pops off his shoulders, but his dad stops anything from happening. He yanks his son from the vehicle, and gives me a stern look, making me stumble out of the car.

Not wanting to be privy to another scolding, I move to stand next to Scott. Noticing my shaken-up state he asks what happened in the car.

"Scott, you can't play in the game." is all I say.

"Aurora," he tries again, "What did Derek say to you in that car?"

Looking up in his eyes, I say, "What if the next body that's found is mine?" I feel tears spring to my waterline.

Scott's face crumbles and I've never seen him sadder. "Rory," he starts softly, placing his hands atop my shoulders, rubbing his thumbs back and forth in soothing circles, "That won't happen. That won't ever happen. Alright, I guarantee it."

All I can do is just nod my head, trying to hid my oncoming sniffles. He pulls me into his chest, cradling the back of my head.

This is getting too real.

****

Of course, our warnings aren't headed, which is why I am currently sat in Allison's car, driving to the game. Where Scott will in fact be playing.

To make matters worse, her freaking dad is coming with us. Her big bad werewolf-hunting dad. Scott is soooo fucked.

****

"God Scott, come on- you can do this," I say under my breath. We are so close to winning, even I can taste it. Scott just has to make this shot.

After I say it, Scott looks up at my position in the crowd- right, werewolf hearing. Duh- cause that's just a normal part of my life now. Then he looks right next to me, where his crush and her friend are holding a sign that says, "Jackson is #1". I refused to help them, reminding my redheaded friend that I liked Scott a hell of a lot better than Jackson.

Scott shoots.... and makes it!!!!! GOALLLLL!!!

Everyone bursts into cheers and I spot Stiles jumping up and down like an idiot in excitement.

I start making my way down to said idiot, eager to be in his presence, and congratulate Scott. But when I arrive, Scott is nowhere to be found on the field.

It's like Stiles and I share a brain, as we both stalk off to the locker rooms. It's the only other place Scott would be.

We walk in and Stiles round the corner first, before abruptly turning around and pushing me against the wall. "Stiles, what the fuck?" I whisper, worried that Scott's having another freakout. But Stiles just puts a finger to his lips, and motions for me to look where we just looked.

I peek around the corner and my heart sinks just a little. Allison and Scott are making out and I feel like the world's worst friend. I must have been watching for too long because Stiles gently pulls me back. He makes a face, sticking out his tongue in mock disgust. I mirror him, careful to hide my fragile heart.

I see Allison pass by us, and I almost think we're in the clear before she greets us. Stiles and I give her sheepish waves, and she just laughs.

"Come on Rory, my dad probably thinks we're making out in here instead of Scott and me," and then she adds, "And maybe Stiles and you?"

I push Stiles off me and wrap myself around her awaiting arm, "As if" is all I say.

#teen wolf #fic rec #dylan o'brien #fiction #fanfic #stiles x reader #stiles stilinksi fanfiction #stiles stilinksi imagine #teen wolf stiles #stiles stilinski #stiles x oc #allison argent imagine #allison argent #teen wolf rewrite #teen wolf fanfiction #teen wolf fic

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angrycloudloud · 9 months ago

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Percy Jackson spoilers episode 8

I'm not joking, i commented everything.

(i'm putting the episode in pause to write everything... So i don't have to do 10000 posts about this episode, so if you are reading this, hold your horses because this is going to be a long post (probably) not edited, from a person watching this in Europe starting to watch this at 3:11 am... And English is not my first language, so...sorry before hand)

LUKE!!! LUKE TALKING?! REALLY?! LIKE... COME ON!!! Don't do this to me... Not me vibing with the foreshadowing just in the begining of the episode.

THOSE WHO WENT ALL "WUAHHH WHERE'S THE TRAING LESSON FROM LUKE?" HERE IT IS!!! YOU REALLY THOUGHT THEY WON'T SHOW IT BEFORE MAKING PERCY FIGHT A GOD?! (I mean, they could have...but come on!... That would have being insane and would have make Percy to op and this works perfectly to remind us the "bond" between Percy and Luke at camp, just before what readers knew It was going to happen)

Oh~ i love the Ares doesn't take well that others think he can't have a single original thought... But i LOVE more that he literally decided to go with the "say hi to your mommy for me" like... Ares my man, god of war, sir... You fucked up so badly with just that... That kid is going to make Hephaestus and his chain-net over you and Aphrodite look like a fun story after Percy "son of Sally" Jackson finish humilliate you.

Aaaaand we got golden Blood + enemy for Life (Where's the curse, sir? Where's the "your sword will fail you when you most need it"?)

Uh! Pretty helmet~ I said it before, and i repeat myself, Hades has good taste in art.

I like the "the last war on olympus caused wwii" and not like the book, i like It better this way, like "everything is the gods fault" because It is. (I'm sure Luke will comment this at some point)

Also, Annabeth clueless because she wasn't there... I'm like, yeah, it's the one of the trio that could catch up just by context, she IS the wise girl after all.

THE NECKLACE WITH HER FATHER'S RING!!! OMG!!!! ANNABETH, DARLING, DEAR... I LOVE THIS, SO MUCH.

(Leah is Annabeth, look at her!!! If someone says something bad about her acting just because their racism... i hope Apollo write their names in the plague list or the bad music for the rest of their lifes one... I hope there's a list for that)

Grover: e-mail? Maybe?

Percy: *nah, it's time those gods know what they are dealing with* what's the Glory on that?

(Walter, dear boy, your face in that moment...perfect Percy moment just there)

OH MY GODS!!! I NEED A TOUR IN THAT OLYMPUS!!! but again...WHY THE FUCKING ARCHES?!?!?!

Okay... Hold on! HOLD ON!!! THEY DID A THING HERE I THINK COULD EXPLAIN THE FUCKING ARCHES...THE ARCHERS MIGHT NOT GIVE ME NIGHTMARES.

(Look behind, there are temples with easter asian architecture and i spot a building that reminds me a bit of Santa Sofia or Saint Peter of the Vatican... So... Maybe they are implying that not only the greek gods are chilling there in olympus? That could be interesting.)

Luke, i'm seeing you...

WoW!! Wooooo!!! Not the Annabeth IS terrify of spiders coming now and from him, Luke himself, just to say "hey! Demigods are small but if the gods thinks you are scary they'll kill you" GODS they are MAKING Luke soooo much justice, like, he needs to be like this if they didn't portrait him like this "big brother figure" it would be incomprehensible that so many Demigods will follow him. He IS a leader. He IS reliable.

Seriously, i'm in LOVE with all that Big city vibe of the olympus... Like... I Understand why Annabeth wants to be architect after seeing all that. (Disney, you better give us something good in the 5th season, and i have high hopes for the laberinth after seeing this)

I'm so sad about the death of Zeus actor... I'm liking a lot how he is acting Zeus, like a fucking CEO know-it-all Who thinks Percy is wasting his time saying things he already know but doesn't want to believe yet. "I will not be weaken by my brothers" darling, Zeus, that's the youngest brother part of you speaking. Shut the fuck up and listen to the kid.

Percy speaks facts.

Oh!!! Daddy Ken, i mean, Poseidon is here, protecting his kid~. (Better solution than turning him into a tree, actually showing up, heh!)

BEG YOUR FUCKING PARDON!? IM ALREADY EMOTIONAL BECAUSE MY OTHER FICTIONAL FATHER FIGURE IN MY OTHER SILLY SHOW MIGHT DIE THIS FRYDAY... WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU MADE POSEIDON SAY "I SURRENDER" TWICE!!! TO FUCKING ZEUS!!! TO PROTECT PERCY?! I FUCKING LOVE THE SHOW.

Hermes IS the FUCKING snitch of the olympus.

Poseidon : "Who knows about father?"

Zeus: "Ares, Hades, you, i... And fucking Hermes so..."

Both: "everyone, then..."

He really asked Mr. Impertinent if he is obedient?! Hahahaha... Poseidon, dear beach daddy, sir... He is yours and Sally's, what makes you think he'll be obedient?!

"Ares IS a moron" sooooo ... Percy speaks facts because he speaks his father language then. Sorry, this is funnier than i thought It would be. Poseidon being an affectionate father for like 3 seconds before the daddy issues kicked in and push his son away with magic...

THIS. This here with the victorius Hero looking at the defeated who even "dead" had safe his life. Because the mention of Thalia's death was enough for Zeus to spare Percy's life... She had save Percy by being dead and make her father feel guilty for that. Also, he left camp making jokes about the tree and Thalia's death, and look how serious and respectful he looks now. Admiring that tree, Thalia, and all what she means to the demigods... (Maybe i'm reading too much into It, but i liked this frames too much)

Did i spot a pair of twins?! I need the second season NOW and i'm not even half way of the last episode of the first one...

SECOND HUG OF ANNABETH TO PERCY!!! AND HE IS SMILING!!! BOY I WANT TO HUG THEM BOTH... MY BABYS...

Oh~ they are going to do this "Clarise IS guilty but we couldn't risk a war here" to the end so the show watchers don't see It coming. Okay... I like how they are doing this.

Luke and Percy alone in the forest while Annabeth watches Clarise... Yeah... This is it.

I like the lights changing colors because of the fireworks but just giving more dramatic contrast to all the scene. Oh~ Luke's face... My gods!! (These kids are making me insane with how good actors they are!!!)

Luke trying to recruit Percy because he sees himself reflected in Percy, with their mothers suffering because of the gods. "This wasn't to betray you Percy. My enemies are the gods." SEE!!! RIGHT THERE!!! THAT'S A BOY ABOUT TO REBEL AGAINST HIS FATHER, TRYING TO RECRUIT HIS FRIENDS BECAUSE HE IS RIGHT BUT USING THE WORSE WAYS POSSIBLE TO DO THINGS!!!

I said it before, and i'm saying It again... I LOVE THE SHOW.

BACKBITER!!!!! OH MY GODS!!! THAT SWORD IS...HAVE YOU ALL SEE THAT!!! IT FUCKING CUT ANYTHING.

"WE is the word Zeus fear most." And again, as i said above, he is so RIGHT and so wrong at the same time. Luke speech is a 10/10

Percy's reaction. PERCY'S REACTION!!! first to Luke's speech. And then when he wounded Luke with his own sword, he INMEDIATELY apologize to him. "Sorry, i didn't mean to..." Because he knows Luke is being manipulated by Cronos, he still sees him as a friend. And that's why he is scared, also because Luke cut him back, but because his friend is choosing to betray him.

WOOOO!!! ANNABETH?! WOOOOO... LUKE'S FACE!!! ANNABETH'S FACE!!! MY GODS!!! THOSE KIDS!!!

Chiron: "Cronos is persuasive"

Percy: "i'm a seaweed brain, stubborn as fuck... I'll be fine..."

I love Dionysus. Like...

Dionysus: "wait, wait, wait... Peter Johnson, why is everyone calling you Percy?"

Percy: "i'm Percy Jackson, that's my name"

Dionysus: "are you sure? You don't look like a Percy to me, Peter"

A seaweed brain, has being delivered and i'm vibing, living, happy...

ANNABETH IS GOING TO DISNEYWORLD AND PERCY SMILING MADE HER WORRY SHE WILL BE IN TROUBLE THERE!!! SHE IS SO ADORABLE!!! I'LL PROTECT THAT CHILD WITH MY LIFE, I SWEAR TO ALL THE GODS!!!

Grover!!! GROVER TELLING PERCY HE IS GOING TO SEARCH FOR PAN IN THE SEA!!! AND PERCY ACTING LIKE A NEPO BABY!!! LOVED IT!!!

Baby coming back to the beach House... Sally!!!!!!!!!!

Nooooooooooo... Fucking Cronos!!!!

Sally: *all worried* "another nightmare?"

Persassy: "grampa"

Sally: *i swear i saw her roll her eyes* "don't call him that"

I LIKE THE END OF GABE!!!! FUCK YOU GABE!!! Sally is divorcing him, change the locks and his first question to his lawyer is if he knows how to pick a lock... Fuck you, Gabe~

He turning himself into a statue because he opened a box for Percy (wich IS illegal) and after he called the head of Medusa gross... Poetic justice.

(i'm ending to watch this and write this at 5:22... My brain isn't braining anymore. So... Tomorrow i'll post a separated part about the thrones of the gods and maybe trying to put my degree in good use and picking all the art references i could and make a post about them)

#pjo tv show #percy jackon and the olympians #Percy Jackson spoilers #pjo episode 8 #seriously spoilers of everything

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jorjorlinks · 9 months ago

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i haven't seen The Lightning Thief movie since 5th grade when it came out so I'm rewatching it before i listen to the Newest Olympian episodes about it and i'm only 2 minutes in and i don't remember any of this at all so i thought i'd make a post of my reactions throughout the movie.

why is the fisherman surprised by poseidon's giant form??? shouldn't the mist cover it??? also why is poseidon walking out of the ocean in giant form???

ZEUS IS SEAN BEAN???????

reading the credits like, there's so many famous actors in this???? i don't remember them at all. rosario dawson??? who does she even play?

why is ms. dodds an english teacher? what?

isn't yancy academy supposed to be a boarding school?

percy hearing his dad's voice is so wild

pierce brosnan as chiron us not bad tbh

some of the casting is so spot on, if only the writing was better

chiron is revealing too much too fast

god i love this grover so much

HAHAHAAH the minotaur being in a cow pasture is so perfect

where is the minotaur's tighty whiteys

the minotaur didn't dissolve?????

why are so many demigods hurt lmaooo

love how all the other campers are the same age as percy. where are the little ones

there's a middle aged man in the background???? who is he? is he a teacher?

logan lerman and alexandra daddario's blue eyes are SO blue

more than one centaur at camp????

whoa whoa whoa whoa what. what. he's already being put in the poseidon cabin??? he hasn't even been claimed yet

chiron is so upfront in this movie it's wild

so luke just takes percy in for capture the flag but isn't his counselor hmmm

"I'm coming buddy, I'm coming!" jake abel is so perfect

annabeth and percy being on opposite sides of the game is so weird

annabeth is acting like clarisse c'mon now

why can poseidon speak in percy's mind

percy is suddenly good at fighting because he touched water? huh?

luke is so perfect

i don't think chris columbus knows how capture the flag works

a balrog?!?!?!?!

hades??? no. no. no. why would hades look like that. why does he look like lucifer. what is happening?????

"you cannot negotiate with hades. he'll kill you and your mother" why is hades evil

are they just not gonna get a prophecy

why would luke know how to get to the underworld

absolutely LOVE that luke is a gamer

also love that luke just said he broke into olympus and stole things. he literally just told them that he's the lightning thief

map to persephone??? "keeps her prisoner" god, why is hades literally the worst in this

oh they are looking for the pearls, interesting

luke has aegis?!?!?

awesome, no prophecy

annabeth you can't just steal from a wishing fountain

glad they kept uncle ferdinand

medusa SLAYS. that leather jacket is so nice damn

cool ipod product placement. kids today would never get it

he can heal other people with water????

oh none of the gods can see their kids???? is there a great prophecy in this or uhhh not

love grover eating a soda can

okay so the mist doesn't cover anything cool

so far two major rules of the percy jackson world don't exist: the great prophecy and mist. can it even be percy jackson without them?

so their dyslexia just lets them read greek letters?

so video calls on laptops don't attract monsters but cell phones do? i can't believe camp has wifi

also why tf is percy wearing the shoes

i kinda like the idea of the hydra presenting has like 5 people

ah, percy is wearing the shoes so he can fight the hydra while flying, i see.

annabeth has so many random weapons and they just sort of appear. does she have like, a bag of holding or something?

so like so far percy has not controlled water at all but now he just sees a water fountain and thinks, yeah i can use that

they're just toting medusa's head along hmm

oh the lotus casino is a stop they have to purposefully walk into, cool

grover how can you gamble? how can any of you gamble? none of y'all are supposed to look 18 or older

okay this lotus casino is significantly better than the show, i gotta say

time for the most iconic seen

love that the lotus flower is just drugs

they're just letting these kids gamble???

ah poseidon is why percy is able to remember

THE PEARL IS BEING USED FOR ROULETTE LMAOO

i can't believe they decided to replace the st. louis arch with the nashville parthenon

no crusty's??? no DOA records????

ooh catacombs

i think chris columbus confused the underworld with hell

are those supposed to be dogs?

oh there's rosario dawson, it's summer, why is persephone in the underworld

why is grover so sexualized

why is persephone so sexualized

oh the bolt is in the shield

"i am going to be king of the gods" alright chill

also just realized that there is no history between annabeth and luke and she's not upset that he was the lightning thief

sally went with them???

WHAT IS LUKE DOING HERE

luke having his own shoes is very funny

huh?

kronos is just not a factor in this movie

luke, you have the bolt, why are you chasing percy

percy hit luke so hard his shoes fell off

how does sally know how to get into olympus

i love how in the books the gods are 10 feet tall and in this movie they're 50

love that they recast hermes for the second movie

he's so tiny, i cannot take this seriously

i think it is interesting that poseidon would have stayed to raise percy if he could. the movie really said good dad!poseidon

percy doing the politician wave to say bye to his mom

grover is not looking for pan at all, interesting

CHIRON SAYUNG PERCY IS HIS FAVORITE IS SO FUCKING WILD there's literally other campers around you

annabeth wears pink because she's a girl and percy wears blue because he's a boy

whelp

that's about as bad as i remember

#now to listen to schubes' reaction #tno #the newest olympian #percy jackson #pjo #the lightning thief

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monsieurboyardee · 2 years ago

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Modern au where lwj and Wwx meet in middle school, and wwx doesn't know how to deal with his crush (who totally isn't his crush haha right he's straight) constantly ignoring his pestering, so one day wwx just throws his nasty ass school lunch straight into lwj's face. and the room goes dead silent. Rice and green pepper slowly slide down lwj's stone cold face, revealing a glare so full of hate that it actually makes wwx take a step back. He can't believe he did that. What the fuck was he thinking oh my fucking god he just threw his lunch into the dean's nephew's FACE oh my god madame yu is gonna kill him--

The entire lunchroom watches, jaws dropping, as the prestigious, twin jade of Gusu middle school Lan Zhan takes his bunny-patterned water bottle full of warm, green tea, and pours it directly over wwx's head, making sure to shake the last few drops out onto his slightly greasy black locks.

There is a pregnant silence in the lunchroom, broken only by the sound of green tea dripping onto the floor. Wwx wipes the tea out of his eyes to sputter at lwj, his jaw almost on the floor. Lwj looks down his nose at him, and the corners of his lips turn up in a wicked smirk.

A voice, awfully similar to Nie huaisang's, yells out "FOOD FIGHT" and the lunchroom ERUPTS into chaos. Food is being flung all over the place, everyone is screaming, and right in the middle of it all is wwx and lwj, literally wrestling on the floor in a puddle of tomatoes and eggs and watermelon chunks, smashing whatever food they can grab off the tables into each other's hair, their faces, their clothes. At one point lwj bites him, literally BITES his forearm HARD, and wwx's resounding yelp is drowned out by the sheer cacophany of a room of middle schoolers with big metal trays and haphazardly fisted food as their weapons.

"WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING" jiang cheng yells to Nie Huaisang, the both of them hiding underneath the lunch tables. "ABSOLUTELY NOT, THIS IS THE BEST THING IVE SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE” Nie Huaisang yells back, absolutely cackling in pleasure.

Eventually lan Qiren and some other teachers come and finally get everything to quiet down. "WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS??!!" lqr yells, his face scarlet with rage. Every person in the room immediately points to wwx and lwj, who are still wrestling in the middle of the lunchroom floor, completely oblivious to the world around them. Lwj finally pins wwx down, straddling his hips with a lil bowl of shrimp in his hand, and is a Second away from dumping it straight into wwx's face when he finally looks up. "Uncle!" he jumps to his feet, back ramrod straight but he's so covered from head to toe in food that he's more reminiscent of a jackson pollack painting than the former pride of the school. Wwx jumps To his feet too. "Uh,,,good afternoon, laoshi?" Wwx chuckles nervously as lqr's face turns purple.

Wwx is suspended for a week. Lwj gets a weeks worth of detention and he is grounded for a month.

("Its bullshit!! Why were you suspended and he wasn't?! You both were guilty!!" Jc fumes a few days later. Wwx sighs. "Cause you can do that when the dean is your uncle, I guess". He replies.)

("This is stupid." Lwj tells his uncle. "If you're going to suspend him then you should suspend me too. I am just as guilty as he is."

He is grounded for another month for Backtalking.)

Lwj lies in his bed, his earbuds blasting. He thinks about how wwx looked underneath him, covered in filth and eyelashes flecked with sauce and tea, but with his silver eyes aflame with the challenge, and his big, loud mouth stretched into a snarl. Lwj thinks about kissing that snarl right off his face.

"Oh no." He thinks to himself.

#i had to replace a lot of the food from when I originally wrote this #bc i wrote a lot of american foods in and then got embarrassed as i was copy pasting this #points and laughs at myself the american cant use google images to look up chinese school lunches #anyway hopefully its better now #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #wangxian #nie huaisang #jiang cheng #lan qiren #wei wuxian #lan wangji #modern au #middle school au #food fight #tw food #copy pasted this from my twit #ace’s archives

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( girl send me whatever you want I am at your mercy kaksksksk )

18.song hasn't even started yet and it's already so good najdjjd chills literal chills

Just a man is that song that when you first listen to it you're like " wow , that really hurt, surely it can't get worse than this" but then SOMEHOW every reprised is worse :) , hurray for suffering I guess

HOW COULD HE NOT BE HAUNTED HE KILLED A WHOLE ASS CHILD IN SUCH A HORRIBLE WAY WHILE THINKING ABOUT HIS OWN SMALL CHILD HE LEFT HOME AAAAHHHJSKKSJSJS

Polities' part hurts so so much but realizing he died believing the open arms mentality somehow hurts SO MUCH MORE , WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED BUT STILL BELIEVED THE SOLUTION IN LIFE IS BEING KIND??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT HIS DEATH IS ONE OF THE EVENTS THAT MAKE ODY LOSE FAITH IN THAT KINDNESS??? AKSKKSKAHJA

aaah Ody's voice changes when saying polities- * sobs*

The part of Ody's mum is already criminal. You listen to it , cry your eyes out bc there's no other acceptable way to react to that , drink some water and that should be it BUT THEN you find out that's Jorge's mother and at that point you're a goner, you'll never stop crying and you need to accept it. Good to know your eyes are teary, it means you're human

Also I can't even imagine how hard "I took too long" hits for you I'm so sorry that your loved ones are all so far , missing people sucks :(

OOOH the scream after bye mum is so akdkdkmans AAAH THE ANGUISH THE PAIN IT'S SO RAW IT HURTS SO MUCH AKSMSNB MY POOR LITTLE MEOW MEOW ODYYYY

Elpeneor's whole thing is honestly hilarious bc it's so random I'm so glad jay cut him bc it would have been too funny LOL

19.*taking notes * check out... more animatics ... Tiresias is... hot ... in them

Alright we can proceed now

WE SHOULD DANCE TO IT TOGETHER PLEASE ( I do not know how to waltz at all but that's besides the point )

This song is my absolute fave after rember them so I just can't think straight when we talk about it bc I love it so much!! The prophecy!! His voice!!! The way he sings !!! The music !!! Too amazing mskskskmssn ( also for "I see you on the brink of death" I always think it's about when he goes to Calypso's bc I remember from Percy Jackson that heroes get to Ogygia when they are on the brink of death but since my source it's Pjo and not the Odyssey I could very much be wrong )

( "i see your palace covered in red, faces of men who had long believed you dead" I'm in love with the way he sings this line and the picture it paints with all the suitors , super chill in his palace cause they think he's dead and him ready to slaughter them all asaandnnsnsnsn )

( The fact that this fandom was able to come up with this many memes it's honestly astounding I don't know how these people can even think through the angst but I love them so much for it )

Lol I missed the chorus completely I thought it was just people making noises I had absolutely no idea there were words in there, but it's nice to know no one can understand them either way

20.again you're so right why didn't I think about that??? My man is not sleeping and feels like he's going insane nooooo

( Can't imagine him not being afraid of Poseidon tbh, as a sailor you are completely at his mercy at all times and you have no way to escape him that shit is scary you're helpless all the timeee)

OH GOD YOU'RE RIGHT HE WAS SO HAUNTED AFTER TROY THAT HE WANTED TO BE BETTER AFTERWARDS "we should try to find a way no one ends up dead " and then desperately trying to keep this mentality " I still believe in goodness , I still believe that we could be kind" HE WAS TRYING SO HARD NOT TO BE THE MONSTER SKSMSNNS

"Everyone but us" at this point I honestly think 'us' is him and his family but his men don't know that and think he's gonna save them too (which I mean, maybe he wanted to save them a little but , as we know, it was NOT his priority )

Ody embracing ruthlessness HITS SO HARD but like we have followed his journey so closely, suffered so much by his side that I was immediately like " YEAH BABY KILL ALL THE GODS AND THE MONSTERS YOU WANT YOU DESERVE IT AS A TREAT SLAAY BESTIE" I support Ody's rights but also his wrongs

( I'm so excited for Telemachus too!!! I did not know anything about him but then I stumbled upon an animatic of legendary and now he's my little cutie patootie I WANT MORE )

Can't form any coherent thoughts about the vocals and the music it's all soooo good just assume that I agree with everything you said ( bc definitely I do )

Welp, I think this was one of my longest yet ? Love you so much for reading all my ramblings and can't wait for the thunder saga bc I love your ramblings!!

Im finially homeee Im finially freee

Lol I missed the chorus completely I thought it was just people making noises I had absolutely no idea there were words in there

so fairrrrr at least now we know the first part sings "siren song, scyllas throat, mutiny and lighting bolt.....and i think one of the last lines is semi-confirmed to be "kill for love" lets start with the thunder saga... 21. Suffering i tried sooo hard to avoid the title spoilers for them, but i failed because literally the first three posts i saw when opened tumblr the day they got leaked (two days or so before the release) were about them...but alas it told me..nothing AND THEN I STAYED up well no i didnt stay up, i went to bed early and put my alarm for 3:45am and then i woke up at 2am....for the livestream at 4am and then we watch the first act and then act two starts and its THIS???? I DIDNT EXPECT IT BECAUSE, GOOD JOB JORGE; YOURE A LIAR ahem anyway THE BEGINNING?? the siren...noises?? i was so shook when they sang penelopes name and then SHE STARTS SINGING I love her voice so muchhhhhhhhhhhhhh btu i was so confused bc i was so sure sirens werent in it so what else was this supposed to be??? Is Ody suicidal and hallucinating penelope? is this a flashback? nah that didnt make sense, it was 5am and i was so confused but Jorges vocals omgg theyre so niceee "you know im afraid of the water" CONFUSED ME SO MUCH, BUT ITS HILAROUS that he would say that the duet between them is so gooooooooooodd the way ody tries to explain why he doesnt jump in the water while pretending to get along with her.... and then Ody: "fineeeeee" (finially) and penelope: "of course!! :D" (finially) so lets say i was on the run or hiding....yes, very hypothetical questions youre asking ody penelope: oh nyo :o (just ask the question already boy) I looveeeeee how the vocals in penelopes reply "is sailing wheres scared to roam, oh its through the lair of syclla" (*beat drop*) "No-" (ODYS MASK FALTERS) "this is your only way home, the lair of syclla (such beauuutttyful vocals) "but syclla has a cost" HE KNOWS, HE KNOWS HE HAS TO SACRIFICE MEN IN ORDER TO GET THROugH THERes nO WAY He CAN GET EVERYONE ALIVE THROUGH IT "now jump in the water :D" (getting impatient, but smiling) MY FAVORITE LINE IN THIS MUSICAL "Penelope Why, you know im too shy and terrified" THE SMIlE IN HIS vOICe, this SLEEK MAN is liYIng THROUGH HIS TEETH; THIS IS ODYSSEUS; KING OF ITHIKA; THE MAN WHO TOOK TROY, AND HE SAYS heS SHY "Oh for you I would die but cant you let me stay dry?" wonderful ryhming ESP BECAUSE in this song hes not JUST lying, no hes also using this as a way to cope and letting himself induldge in a flicker of believe that hes acutally talking to penelope right now, theres a handful of comments that are clearly not lies, this is one of them. (sigh) "the things i do for you" (talking to/about real!penelope again), so good. beautiful voice acting i love it so much I love my short little liar kings so much (Ody, Neil, but esp Ody rn) Im going to do this song by song here rn, because im afraid that the posts will be too long again siegsegj

#LeyAnswers #epic the musical #leyrambles #suffering

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Release: April 16, 1996

Lyrics:

All I want to say is that they don't really care about us

Don't worry what people say, we know the truth

All I want to say is that they don't really care about us

Enough is enough of this garbage

All I want to say is that they don't really care about us

Skin head, dead head

Everybody gone bad

Situation aggravation

Everybody, allegation

In the suite on the news

Everybody, dog food

Bang-bang, shock dead

Everybody's gone mad

All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us

Beat me, hate me

You can never break me

Will me, thrill me

You can never kill me

Jew me, sue me

Everybody, do me

Kick me, kike me

Don't you black or white me

All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us

Tell me what has become of my life

I have a wife and two children who love me

I'm a victim of police brutality, now (Mhhm)

I'm tired of bein' the victim of hate

Your rapin' me of my pride

Oh, for God's sake

I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...

Set me free

Skin head, dead head

Everybody, gone bad

Trepidation speculation

Everybody, allegation

In the suite on the news

Everybody, dog food

Black man, black mail

Throw the brother in jail

All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us

Tell me what has become of my rights

Am I invisible 'cause you ignore me?

Your proclamation promised me free liberty, now

I'm tired of bein' the victim of shame

They're throwin' me in a class with a bad name

I can't believe this is the land from which I came

You know I really do hate to say it

The government don't wanna see

But it Roosevelt was livin', he wouldn't let this be, no, no

Skinhead, deadhead

Everybody, gone bad

Situation, speculation

Everybody, litigation

Beat me, bash me

You can never trash me

Hit me, kick me

You can never get me

All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us

Some things in life they just don't wanna see (Ah)

But if Martin Luther was livin'

He wouldn't let this be, no, no

Skinhead, deadhead (Yeah, yeah)

Everybody's gone bad

Situation, segregation (Woo-hoo)

Everybody, allegation

In the suite on the news

Everybody dog food (Woo-ho)

Kick me, kike me

Don't you wrong or right me

Songwriter: Michael Jackson

All I wanna say is that they don't really care about us

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thevoidbutwithselfesteemissues · 6 months ago

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Season 1 Episode 1

My thoughts throughout

Mmm cars

PUPPIES

Oh Scott hello

Lmao nerd boy

STILES!!

HE'S HERE!!

Lol body of water

Ah as any normal teen does. Let's go look at half of a dead body totally not nightmare inducing

Lmao stiles so snarky I love him

And Scott is so golden retriever coded I can't

"Everyone should have a dream. Even a pathetically unrealistic one."

Scott is giving the same energy back with dissing stiles planning good.

This is accurate friendship.

Oh right he has asthma

But only wheez when you say that and don't even use your pump.

Good job.

Oh never mind he did.

Lmao get caught

Ah the sheriff. He's great.

Dude really should have just gotten into trouble

Like you're asthmatic and just lost your ride home.

Spooky forest.

DEER

bye bye asthma pump

Oh God your phone light would do nothing to find things

OH DEAD BODY

IT'S THE UPPER HALF. MAN THOSE ARE INDEED GUTS.

Lmao fall. Get a concussion.

OMG THAT THING LOOKS SO STUPID LMAOOOO

where's your asthma now???

Oh wait you got bit. Did it infect you immediately?

Howl.

Hello title screen.

American high school.

Something I know nothing about

Thank God.

Jackson's side eye lolol

HOW EXCITED STILES GETS OVER SCOTT FINDING THE BODY!!

Ah Lydia Martin

And stiles being a simp

I have to say I can't see stiles having a crush on her

SCARLETT NERDED WHAT??

Stiles that wink and snicker was so queer

Idc that it was about a bead body.

That was just so queer of you

I love stiles' facial expressions

Just amazing

Oh God sensory overload

How is he not having a break down??

Scott being a creep

Allison is so pretty omg

I'm so gay

Women <33

SCOTT YOU ARE SO CREEPY

That smile-

E w

Let her ask for a pen

She looks so creeped out

Ugh hallway

OO SASSY GIRL HII

and yes stiles you are right.

That's so creepy Scott.

Also I want to know what stiles and sassy girl are talking about

They're so animated about it.

I need to know.

Coach you're great

REAAAALLLL ON THE WHISTLE

HEADSHOT!!

THE SHOCK!

Also stiles immediately going "yeah!"

He's so excited for him!!

Why is this so intense??

Lmao yeah Liydia you Sass him

Your joke of lycanthropy isn't that far fetched my friend

Stiles would do well in drama

He gives drama nerd vibes

I wanna kiss him

Ah yes the cost for things that are a necessity

So annoying

DEREK!

Don't just stand there

Like a creep

The eyebrow speak.

Stiles reaction to him

Like just shock.

Also that lore drop felt so odd.

:0 HEALED???

Angry kitties.

Angry pup.

Glowy eyes.

CREEP BEHAVIOUR CREEP BEHAVIOUR

Good doggo tell him off.

SCOTT

SCOTT THAT JOKES SO DUMB.

the dog should sue you for that joke.

The dog is sleeping huh?

That eyelash thing was so awkward

Why'd she agree??? TF???

BOY HAS NO RIZZ??

Leaf.

River.

Fog.

Can he put a shirt on.

Ew.

THE FUCKED UP LIL GUY!

I can't get over how the thing looks.

How tf did Scott end up in a pool?????

JACKSON ACCUSSES GOLDEN RETRIEVER OF DOING DRUGS

GOLDEN RETRIEVER IS CONFUSED

LMAOOOOOO

"Oh you mean steroids! Are you on steroids??"

He should have sworn then

Also just trauma dump on your bully yep checks out.

AND HE DOESN'T BELIEVE YOU LMAOOOO

also what is up with people calling eachother by their last name?

I've never seen that happen.

That felt pretty gay.

Oh lacrosse tryouts.

Eugh.

TEAM WORK SCOTT YOU ASSHOLE

Stiles is so confused.

THE HYPERFIXATION!!

Research those werewolves

SCOTT

The werewolf joke is not a joke guys!!

He's figured it out!!

Scott straight up not believing him.

And I mean fair.

But.

Think about it.

Dude. I-

Intense.

Don't hit my boy.

Also sorry does like.

Jackshit.

CLAW MARKS :0

Car talk not the safe sex talk. SCOTT.

Eugh. Party.

DEREK!

Don't stand ominously at a teen party.

Jumpy wolf?

VIDEO KILLED THE RAIDOO. STAR.

Don't kiss. Please.

What are you doing looking at Lydia for.

STILES IS THERE??

Oh poor girl.

Derek that's creepy.

WISH YOU'D HAVE LISTENED NOW HUH SCOTTY BOY??

The fingernails are so gross.

Scott's way too invested in a girl he just met.

Why is stiles in a suit.

Like he's hot but damn.

Derek you are so confusing.

"I don't want it"

WHY ARE YOU REAPING ALL THE BENEFITS THEN??

Derek. That's the worst thing to say in a time like this.

STILES!!

"You say Allison, I'm gonna punch you in the head."

REAALLLL

Dude should not be thinking about a girl he just met when he is now a werewolf!!

"Am I going to regret this?"

"Probably."

HIS FACE LMAOOOOOOO

#teen wolf

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it was a march we made towards ruin and despair (but we held hands all the while)

Percy has spent years trying to convince himself he's in love with Annabeth. But she has been too - after all, she just asked for a divorce. And Percy accepted.

percabeth divorce fic! this has been sitting in my brain for a while but here it is! i actually wrote 93% of it today in one sitting. the other seven percent was like when i first had the idea three days ago.

anyway.

trigger warning divorce i guess???

read it on ao3!

“Percy,” Annabeth says, late at night, after the kids have gone to sleep.

Percy’s surprised. Annabeth barely talks to him these days. “Yes?”

She sighs, and takes in a deep breath. “I want a divorce.”

Percy’s surprised. But he feels strangely… relieved? “Okay. But what about Andy and Alex?”

“I don’t know. Percy, all I know is this isn’t working for us. We don’t make each other happy. We barely speak!”

Percy sighs. “You’re right.”

“I am?”

There was a time when she would say ‘of course I am’ or ‘I’m always right’. Not for the first time, Percy wondered where those times had gone.

The answer was that they had been lost somewhere between now and then, of course.

“I suppose.”

“You’re not… angry.”

“Did you expect me to be?”

Gods, this is the longest conversation they’ve had in months, maybe years. How did they ever let their relationship become like this?

"A little," Annabeth admits. "We don't really know each other anymore."

"You're right," Percy found himself saying.

"I wish I wasn't."

«»

"The war's over!" Annabeth shouts. "We can do anything!"

Percy laughs. "We can. What's first on the schedule?"

"Let's try to finish senior year with no more complications, huh?"

"You know I can't promise that, Annabeth."

"Well, we'll just have to come as close as we can."

Percy grins at Annabeth, and she grins back.

"I love you," he says.

"I love you too."

Maybe if he keeps saying it, 'I love you' will stop feeling like a lie.

But that doesn't matter, because someone remarks on them being a perfect couple and Percy's smile seems a little more forced, a little more fake. He reaches for Annabeth's hand anyways.

He loves Annabeth. He does.

(And he ignores the part of him that wants to say that's a lie; he wants to stop drowning in guilt every time he says he loves Annabeth)

«»

It's most difficult to tell Andy and Alex.

Andy, full name Agnodice Chase, named after a famous doctor who stopped the killing of educated women in Athens, is a daughter of Apollo. Percy and Annabeth adopted her after Leo had told them Apollo had a daughter whose mother was unstable, and she needed a home.

Alex, full name Alexander Chase, isn't named after anybody in particular. Percy was a little worried about bad luck, because anyone named after Alexander the Great might be destined to die young and glorious, but Grover laughed at him for that because 'names don't dictate fate' and Percy had to believe him.

Alex's a son of Demeter anyways.

It's decided that Percy will be the one to tell them. He drives to their middle school and asks about their day before breaking the news.

"Your mum and I are getting a divorce."

"A divorce?" Andy asks right away. "Why?"

Percy sighs. "I don't know if you two have noticed it, but your mum and I don't talk anymore unless it's about you two or finances or travel."

"Don't you love each other?" Alex asks.

"Not anymore, I don't think."

Percy ignores the part of him that says they never did. He also ignores the part of him that wants to protest at being so frank with his children. They deserve the truth.

"Oh," Andy says.

The drive is scarily silent the rest of the ride back.

«»

"You're one of the first people to never let me go," Annabeth concludes, smiling in her beautiful wedding dress. "I love you, Percy Jackson, and I want you to know that for the rest of our lives."

People make little awws and Percy's pretty sure Thalia, who is Annabeth's maid of honour, is crying.

But it's his turn to say his vows.

"Annabeth Chase, you've been beside me since I was twelve. No matter what happened, I knew I could rely on you. No matter where we are, no matter whatever circumstance, I know you'll be there. You're my best friend, and the love of my life. I am so happy to be marrying you."

<s>Percy ignores the guilt settling in on those lies.</s>

He keeps his eyes trained on Annabeth. This is his future. It has to be.

They love each other. They do. They have to.

«»

"What about custody?" Annabeth asks.

"Switch every week?"

Annabeth nods. "What if you're off on one of your shipwreck-finding trips?"

"We could probably figure it out. Maybe I can take them on breaks to see the wrecks, and you can see them during the school year, or..."

"Maybe I should keep them during the school year," Annnabeth suggests. "And you can see them all the time during the school year when you come back. Otherwise, breaks can be more like switch every week or something?"

"We can figure it out," Percy says.

"For the kids?"

"For the kids."

"And lodging?"

"You keep the house," Percy says. "Your architectural job needs that anyways, and if you're going to have the kids most of the time..."

Annabeth nods. "And you?'

"Maybe an apartment? Big enough that I can keep Andy and Alex if they want to stay over, but I don't want anything too big, especially if I'm not going to be there most of the time."

Annabeth nods. "What about medical care or tuition? I'm thinking on me. My job covers medical. We can split the extra medical costs along with the tuition."

Percy nods, then freezes. "How are we going to tell everybody?"

Annabeth's eyes grow wide. "Oh, no."

She takes a deep breath. "Let's plan it out. I'll tell Piper and Thalia, and Leo. After that-"

"Leo will tell Hazel and Frank, but I want to tell them first."

Annabeth nods. "And Grover?"

"I'll do it. Reyna?"

"I'll tell Reyna."

"I'll tell all my cousins, actually."

"Anyone else?"

"Rachel?"

"You do it. You're closer to her. I'll tell Clarisse and anyone else who comes up."

"And they gossip."

"Yeah, they do."

"What about Sally and Paul and Estelle?"

"Oh. Oh."

Sally loves Annabeth, Percy knows. She was so happy during the wedding. Because her son was getting married to someone who might as well have been her daughter. Not in a weird way, of course.

Percy makes a decision. "I'll tell her and Paul. I'll tell Estelle on Saturday when I call her next. Can we wait to tell everyone else after I tell them?"

Annabeth nods.

And it's the end of the conversation. It was long, longer than the other one. It's funny, Percy thinks distantly, how they're only talking because they're planning on not.

It'll be a change, but it feels like a step towards a fresh breath of air.

«»

"Love you," Annabeth says quietly.

"Love you too," Percy whispers back.

It's a lie, but it's a lie Percy's been telling for years. If he closes his eyes and doesn't think about it too much, it's almost true.

«»

Percy visits Sally a day later. Paul's out, because although Paul is great and wonderful for Sally, Gabe still hangs over like a weed, and Percy will never be quite able to tell Paul everything.

"Percy!" Sally exclaims like usual, before looking around. "Where's Annabeth and Andy and Alex?"

"About that," he says.

Sally looks at him, before clocking in his emotional state. "Come in."

Less than a minute later, Sally and Percy are sitting on their old couch, across from each other like they used to.

Percy takes a deep breath. "Annabeth and I are getting a divorce."

He looks down, expecting her to be angry. Why would she not be?

"Okay," Sally says. "And Andy and Alex?"

"They'll stay with Annabeth during the school year."

Sally nods. "You're figuring it out?"

"Yeah."

"We're not angry, you know," Sally says, reaching forward to hold Percy's hand. "If you two feel like a divorce is the healthiest action for your relationship and Alex and Andy, then we're glad you're getting one."

Percy nods. "Can I tell you something?"

"You can tell me everything."

"I don't think I ever loved Annabeth."

Sally moves forward to hug Percy. "And why's that?"

"I don't know. I just keep thinking about how I've never been comfortable saying that, and although we were great friends, we weren't good as... as romantic partners."

Sally smiles, he can hear it in her voice. "Sometimes these things are hard to tell. But I'm glad you're getting a divorce now rather than never."

Percy lets out a breath he didn't know he was holding. "Okay."

«»

"Wow, you love each other a lot," Rachel says over the phone, upbeat and friendly.

"Yeah. We do," Percy says, swallowing back the hurt from that statement.

"I'm happy for you," Rachel says. "How's married life going?"

"Great."

Rachel looks like she's about to question that before changing her mind. "Can I tell you a story of the stupidest thing I've ever done in art class?"

Percy grins. "Can't wait to hear about your embarrassing escapades."

«»

Estelle and Percy call ever Saturday at three o'clock pm.

"Percy!" she almost yells into his ear. "What's up with you?"

"Hate to put a damper... but Annabeth and I are getting a divorce."

"Oh," she seems surprised. After all, Annabeth and Percy have been together for longer than Estelle's been alive. She's never known a Percy that doesn't come with Annabeth.

Most people don't.

"Did anything happen?" Estelle asks.

"No," Percy says. "Annabeth came to the realization that she no longer loves me, and I realized that I don't love her either. We're not... there's not anything big, Estelle."

"You just fell out of love," she surmises.

"Yeah. Don't worry, we're still communicating and you'll still get to see Alex and Andy."

"Obviously."

"But enough about me. How's university?"

«»

"Yeah, so Lester has a daughter," Leo says. "Apparently she's in the foster care system now."

Annabeth looks at him, and Percy nods.

"We can take care of her," Annabeth says. "It'll be nice to have a child."

Leo smiles. "I'll tell Lester. Her name's Agnodice, Andy for short, and, well, I'm glad that she can get a home with loving parents like you two in it. Some stability and two parents who love each other might to wonders for her."

"Yeah," Percy says listlessly. Two parents who love each other.

«»

"Annabeth and I are getting a divorce," Percy says for what seems to be the seventeenth time.

Hazel and Frank were both surprised, like really surprised, but ultimately supportive, and Hazel told him that he could always stay with her in New Rome just in case.

Nico was surprised, but he didn't seem to find it so sudden like everyone else. Maybe he can tell dying love. If they even loved each other at all.

And now Grover. He's the scariest to tell, honestly.

"Okay," he says. "I'm a little surprised, I have to say. But if that's the right decision, then it's the right decision."

Percy smiles.

"You can always count on me, okay? Plus, what kind of best friend would I be if I didn't support you through this?"

"A bad one?"

"Exactly."

«»

"Mummy! Daddy!" Andy yells.

"Yes, Andy?" Percy says.

"I want a baby brother," she says, assertive of her own ideas.

"Really," Annabeth says.

"Yes. A baby brother."

"We'll see about that."

«»

Annabeth and Percy are officially divorced a few weeks later, in the middle of summer when both Alex and Andy are at camp.

"Happy divorce," she says to him in a dry tone.

"Happy divorce," he replies, and he breaths in a fresh breath of air like no other.

«»

Three Years Later

"Percy?" a familiar voice asks. He hasn't heard it in person for a few years now.

"Annabeth."

"It's nice to see you again," Annabeth says. "Actually, I'll admit, I kind of missed you."

"Really?"

"But from before we were dating. You know, being best friends?"

Percy smiles. "Yeah. Want to give friendship another shot?"

"Yeah. By the way, I don't think I told you, but I'm a lesbian, apparently."

Percy laughs.

"Sorry?"

"No, I mean, I figured out I'm aromantic a year ago."

Annabeth stares at him for a few moments before bursting out laughing. "Comphet."

"Comphet," Percy agrees. It feels good to laugh with Annabeth again. Maybe they can resurrect their friendship after all.

"Anyway," he changes the subject, "dating anyone?"

Annabeth blushes immediately. "Yeah, this woman I met. She's mortal, but she's like Rachel."

Percy nods. "And, as I'm sure you're guessing, I'm not dating anyone."

"Wow, we really did fake-it-until-we-break-it with the romance thing, didn't we?"

"We totally did. But for one, I'm glad we're here. And, well, we got Andy and Alex out of it, so it couldn't've been that terrible."

Annabeth laughs. "You know, it's funny that all we needed to slot right back into friendship was divorcing."

"I guess so, huh?"

#percabeth #percabeth critical #annabeth chase #percy jackson #pjo #hoo #toa

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